Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1876, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. BATES OF SUBCCRIPTION (PATANLE TN ADVANCE). Tostaxe Prenald nt this OfMce. Dalty Edition, post-patd, 1 yo Parts of yearat Mafied to any addrers YouR wEEKS for. 1.00 Honday Kditloar Literary and . 8.0 TV X i 1 Partsof yeat at WERALY EDITION, POSTLAID. Onn ooy, per Joar, Club ot hivo, por esp) Club of iwenty, per ‘The postage Is 15 cants a yoar, which we will prepsay. Hpocimen copirs scnt frec. To grevent delsy and mirtakes, be xure and give Poat-Office sddress In fall, iucluding Stateand County, Temittances may Le made ellLer by draft, oxpreas, Poat-Office ordor, or in registered letters, &t our Fisk. TERMA TO CITY QUDSCRIBERS, Daily, dellvered, Sunday excepted, 213 ceuta per week, Daily, delivered, Sunday included, 30 centa yer weok. Addzens TUR TRIBUNE COMPANT, Corner Madlson and Dearborn-sta., Chicago, I ADELPIT TIEATRE~Destborn atreet, corner Monsos. Varlety performance. Afternoon and eveniog. MCVICRER'S THEATRE—Madicon street, between Dearborn aud State. Engogement of Ueorge Bigaold. “ieary V" Afteruoon aud eveniog. KEW QHICAGQ THRATRE—Clark street, between Rangolph and Latie, Engagament of Frank FPraynos Oombtnation, * Bi Biocum,” Afiernoon and evening, HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolph atreet, between Clark and Lasialle, Eugagement of the Rellogg Opera- Troupe. Afternoon, * Martba’ Evening, “The Bobemian Giel." WOOD'S MUSEUM—Monroo strast, between Dears Porn and Hiate, * Pochahontas” ~Aftcrnoon and avening. The Ghieage Tridume. Baturdsy Morming, January 33, 1870. WITH SUPPLEMENT. Greonbneks, at the Now York Gold Ex. change yesterday, closed at 88}, Vico-President of the United States, wero passed in the Sennto and Houso yesterday. Tho party in Washington who holds the clemonts in his hands, so to spenk, prog- nosticates a slight riso in temperature, with snow or rain, in this region to-day. In the Lower Houso of tho Obio Legis- lature yesterday, the bill repealing the famous GronaN law wns passed by A party voto, re- colving the support of the Republicans with one excoption, and the opposition of the Democrats solid. A new fenture in tho Religious department of Saturday’s Trunoxa has recently boen in- augurated. It consists in n plain and readily comprohensible clucidation of the Suoday- School Lesson, ‘which will be found com. venient and interesting to teschers, and gen- erally instractive ns well. 1t is beliaved that the House Committes on Military Affairs is not favorable to the pro- posed redaction of ‘the pay of army officers. The Committee believo that officers in active servico now receive no kigher compensation than they aro justly entitled to, though a re. duction in the cases of those not on duty may be recommonded. And now, following np the action of. Ger- many and Franco, Russin is also incrossing her army and navy. A letter from St. Petors. burg in the Borsen Zeitung says that tho Qovernment has decided to increaso the strongth of the army and navy contingent by 80,000 men, 8o that it will consist of 180,000 instend of 160,000 ns heretofors. This will aliow the placing of the active army and re- serve troops on n war footing at any moment, And now they eny *‘crooked™ whisky is distilled from stalo beer, and that the malodorous elops of tho snloon as well ag the regular wastage of tho browing process ars Interconvertible with prime sour mash, The nverngo tippler has maintained his equanimity In the face of fasel o1, plug tobaceo, cay- enne pepper, etc., but the thought of imbib. Ing the product of flat lngofPmust givo him pouse. This bronch of the fllicit trade thould be suppressed for various reasons, Tho population of Ilinols is the poorer, but justico and tho public weal are the richer, * for {ho infliction of the extremest ponalty of the lJaw uponm two murdercrs,—HENRY Ja- cous, the Jalict wife-killer, and Minsmarn Caaxx, the Willinmson County nssassin, In both instanoes full and fair trials were had, and of the anurmity and absolate cortainty of guilt not the shadow of & doubt could be raised. Graphio and interesting accounts of {he exccutions and of the crimes committed are given in-our dispatches, The trialsof Mr, Wrintiax McKre, senior proprietor«of the St. Louis Glode-Democrat, upon an indictment charging him with conspiraey to dofraud the Government, proves to be ono of the most in- teresting of ‘the St. Louis whisky-fraud cnses, Tho testimony for tho prosecution yesterday woa given by Msonvz and Frrzroy, whose damaging statements the defense expect to rofute completely, District-Attorney Drzx, on the other hand, expresses confidenco in his abity to sustain the indictment and ob- \in a conviction, 8t. Louis Convention to wait upon the Prosi. dent and presont him with copies of tho res- olutions and proccedings of that body ful. Blled thefr mission yesterdny, and President GraxT ig reprosented ns saying that he would like to seoc a competing lino to the Pacific constructed; but he did not say what Tox Bcorr's Committea would hava rejoiced to hear,~—that ho would like to sce such a com- peting lino constructed at Government ex- pense, or by a Government guarantes of bonds, which amounts to the same thing, The developments in a csse befors the ‘Lord Moyor of London were such as to com. mand at once the admiration and envy of the whilom manegers of the Cook County Na- donal and Franklin Banks, late of Chicago, fhe prisoner at the bar waa the proprietor of he ¥ Co-operative Credit Baok,” an inatitu. fon which bad received deposits to the umount of £40,000, but whose available as. tets were found to have dwindled down to 11 ihillings. The day beforo the axposure the #DBank" took from a lndy a deposit of £700, and, as they call this swindling in England, the able fAnancier who conducted the institu. $on was arrested aud arraigned before the Lord Mayor, who rofused bail and clapped Al into prison. The Chlcsgo produce marketc were staadler yesterday, Mess pork was lesa sctive and easiar, closing at $19.16 cash and $19.22§ for Pebruary, Lard was active and 2jo per 100 tbslower, closing at 912,13} oauh and 813.17} ©12.80 for February. Moals wers quiet dad slaady, o 740 Los shoulders, boxed, 10je for' LH o short ribs, and 10je for do short clears. Highwines woro guiet and unchanged, at $1.00 per gallon. Flour waa dull and un. chinnged. Whent was active and 1o higher, closing at $1.02 cash ond $1.003 for Feb- mary. Corn was quict and_atendier, closiog at 43}c cash and 42}o for February. Oats wero guiet and firm, closing at 30jo cash sud 310 for Febrary. Ryo wes quiot at G7e Barley was quict and firmer, closing at 813e for January and 78e for February, Ilogs were quiet, and closed eosy, at £7.00@17.85 for com- mon to choica, Cattlo were in fair demand and wero steadier, Sheep wero sctive and firm at $4.00@5.50 for common to choice. One hundred dollars in gold would buy 113,00 in greenbncks at the clo A fresh contribution o the Brooklyn scandal i made by tho New York Sun, which pub. lishes what purports to Lo some recently- discovored testimony, Tho statement is that, on Dee, 14, 1870, iwo weekn before Frayg Mourtox know and confronted Mr, Beeonea with the chargo, Prof, Moszs Corr Truen, mow of the Michigan University, was by Oriven JouxsoN informed that Mr. Trrron hind discovered the crimo between his wife and her pastor. DProf. Tyirn s said to hiave made known this fact, and others cor- roborativo in character, when visiting New York on the 2d of January, 1876, and to have intended to repeat them beforo the Mutual Council if that body had not failed to exist. Copies of tho correapondence betwoen Seo- retary Freu and Minister Cusarya ond other foreign Ministers of tho United States woro yesterday transmitted by tho Presidont to the House of Representatives, Tho corre- spondenco chiefly consists in a rescript of the note to Mr. Ctsni¥a, tho tono of which does not materially differ from that of that part of the President’s mensago relative to the Cuban question, Nothing is given of tho replics received from Europenn Governments to the advisory “circular forwarded by Secrotary Fienr, and no allusion is mado to any corro. spondence with tho Spanish Government di- rect since Nov. &, 1875, the dato of the note to Mr. Cusnm THE REAL AUTHOR OF THAE ANDERSON- VILLE HORRORS, Weare now leaving tho War of the Re- hellion so far in tho rotrospect that we can begin to view it dispassionately, and reach docisions having historical value and truth. Among the episodes of that War one hns nl- ready como into publio notice, nomely, the relations of tho ex-President of the Con. federacy, JerrEesoN Davis, to tho Ander- sonville prison-pen and its horrors, and for the seko of history those rclations should bo tolly undorstood. When the Rebellion collnpsed in 1865, 8 multitudo of new and strango events crowded upon the Ameri- con people, and, notwithstanding il that had been eaid and written upon the dread- ful horrors of Andersonville, the public at- tention waa not especially concentratod upon them. There was ro much todo, and think of, and to say; thero was such widesproad and loartfelt rejoicing that the misary, suf- fering, and borrors of tho internecine strifo were ended; thers was such o general jubilee over the return of peace, and so much to think of in regard to reconstruction, that peopls only glancod at Andersonville as a dismal droam of ‘the past, that wasnow at an end. When JereEn- sox Davis wea captured thero was a goneral fecling that ho should be punished with |. death, not particularly for his connection with the atrocities practiced at Andersonville, but because ho had ‘beon tho embodiment of trenson and tho very head of the Rebellion, —a rebellion which had inflicted so much sorrow and misory upon the country. Itwas not gonerally known then to what oxtent ho had been guilty of tho crueltics practiced in Bouthorn prison-pens, ‘The only proper form of trinl, however, the! by court-martial, woz Inid aside, and Jerrzpsox Davis was turned over to tho courts and lawyers, snd, ns in tho cases of tho majority of prisonors turned over to lawyers and courts nowadays, the ends of justico wero defosted. Xr. GrexLey, in ona of his sentimental moments, wont bail for him. Constitutional objections and technicalities of every sort were cun- ningly thrust in the way of the Governmont, ond the caso never came o trial. Since that time reconstruction'and reconciliation havo occupied the attention of the people, and so absorbed have they been in this great work that Jereznsox Davis had alwost dropped out of recollection, and Andersonville had becomo o cloudy memory of the past. The people had well nigh forgotten it, Taking advantage of the apparently popular forgot- fulness and indifferenco, the Confederate mewmbers of the House, aided by Northern doughfaced Domocrats, ran iu a bill of gen. eral smnesty, cunningly including Jerremsox Davis, to whom they tendered the right to come backe to the United States Senate without humiliating him to ask for pardon or take an osth of allegiance, Thoy bogged him to acoopt full political privileges. They got down upon their knees, #o to speak, and urged it upon him. They deliberately pro- posed to wmako this embodiment of treason an exception to the conditions of grace, At this juncture Alr, Draig stepped in with the {acts of history, and blocked the gamo of the Confederates, by charging Lim with being the author of tho brutalities at Anderzonville, and this was followed up by Gen. GanvzzLp, who crushed every Confederate reply and pinned thom and their doughfaco friends down to that record which hiag sont sucha thrill through the country, as people realize the atrocitica of Andersouville for the flrst time, and for tho firat timo become aware that JrrrensoN Davis was chiefly responsible for them. And now what is that rocord? Wo have already printed two documents that throw all the light upon the subject that is needed, —first, the testimony of Mr. Riomanosow, who was o prisoner there, and, second, the speech of Mr, Ganrrerp, with ita accowpany. ing Confsderate official documents, 3, Rionanpson eatablishes tha fact that iu this pen of Andersonville there wes neither building, sbed, tree, shrub, nor leaf. Lvery treo had been felled. The tebels woro com- fortably quartered oulside in tho sbady woods, A dead-line ran around the fnside of, the inclosure, 20 feet from the fence, and to opproach it, or cross it, meant instant death. ‘This woa Bew Hu's paradiso | The stream of pure water of which Mr. Hirs spoke s thus described s 1t passed thraugh the stockadeden, from west to sast, sfler baving first paasod through the lebel carmp, The reader may kuow whet that meanss The excrameut and refuss of thet camp waut 1nto ths Uitle brook, and then passed through the dan,—and this vils, disesss-liesding, losthuome stutf wes all that the Tulon saldiers had to drluk, end all that they Lad to wasb §a; aud to spprosch this they wera obliged to ‘wade (krough 100 fost of miry bog, of marsby gronnd, which lined tha brook, sinking 1o thelr koees neazly atovery wap. How our troops suffered, 2r. Riomarpsox thus daseribest Durisg Juns, 1844, 1) raloed iwediyaeven daye, The ahowers Ware fcllowed Uy Lho Rasee kaslad the CHICAGO TRIBUNE burnlng yw followed? The poor follows who wers barefooted and half-nsked aaw thelr skindraw upllko parchment— orack ofen gangreno setin,and the loathsomo ail- iment ate off Aingers, toes, fest, and lege, No medical attendance—not even a little shade to hide the awollen, bilstering, bleeding, mortifying - bedies from tho ucorching sun | Men whoss fest ware Awollen to double size, snd craoked with the parching sun, used to aitall duy loog with mstifp of cloth oranold cost (1f they could getit) thrawn over thelr feet to ward off the blaze. Mr. Hiwy claimed there wero shado-trees in this den. Mr. Riomaspsoy, coufirmed by numerons others, Bays: Thero tsa 1ot ona branch or twlg in the entles in- closure. In order {oget any of thoss “troes ho spasks of, the soldfers dug Iotothe earthly fest to sccure little roots to cook muls-fieshfo eat, bokeep from starving? { ! Mr. Ricuannsox’s statements are confirmed by D. T\ CuANDLER, tho Confederats Assist- ant Adjutant and Inspsctor Genoral, who submitted a report to the Jerr DAvis Cabi- net after inspecting the Andersonville prison- pen, and testified to its truth on the Winz trinl, Among other things, Lo reported to tho Jere Davis Cabinot 6s followa ¢ AwpsmsoNviLLY, Jan, 5, 18%4.—Cotoxnrn: Having, in obedlenco 0 instructions of the 25t ultimo, care- fully ipspected the prison far Pederal prisouers of war and post at this piace, T respoctfully submit the follows ingroport: The Fedoral prisoners of war aro con- fined within & stackade 16 feet high, of roughly-bewn Ppine logs about 8 inclies in dlameter, inserted 5 feet into the geound, inclosiog, in:luding the recent ex- tension, an ares of £40 by 460 yards, A rslling sround the ineide of the stockade, and aboot 20 fect from ity conatitutea the **desd ine," boyond which the pris cucrs sre not allowed to pass, and about 33 acros near the contrs of the Inclosuro sro 1o marshy sa to be at present unnt for occupation, reducing (he availabls preseat arca to about 28y scres, which gives some- what Jess than 0 square feet to each prisoner. Lven tlia s being constantly reduced Ly tho sdditioos to thelr number, A small stresm pansing from west to et through tho inclosare, at about 130 yards from its southern limit, furnialies tho only water for wash- ing accensible to tho prisoners. Some regiments of the gusrd, tbe bakery, and the cook-house, being placod on the rixing groundn bordering the streams be- fore it enters tho prisou, renders the water near’y nnfit for use befors it enters tho priton. + . o D, T, Caaxptas, Ansistant Adjutant and Inspector-General, As Gen. GinrrELp romarks : Tlero 1n an officlal oxhibit of the manner In which the officer detsiled by Javr Davis chose tho place for health, and rusmning watez, and sareeable shade, Hs chosa s pinco of forest ground that bad s missmatie marsh in the beart of £ and » small siream running through it but the troops stationed outaide of tho atockado weroallowod to deflo fta purs walar Lofore 1t could resch tho stockade, and then, as if tho very rofinement of cruclty, as if to make s mockery of tho ordor quoted by the gentleman from Georgls, ho de- tafled men fo cut down every tros and sbrub 1o tha fnclosuro, leaving not & green leaf tn show whero the forest bad been. And subsequently, when the burn- ing sun of July was pouring down ite flery heat upon the heads of thesa mep, with but 6 ‘square fect of ground to & man, a piteoun petition was made by the Pritoness to WINDZR to allow {hess poor men to ba detatied to go outside under guard and cut pine from the forost to make arbors under which they could alicltor themsolves, and they wers answered, with all the loathsome Lrutality of malignant hate, that they sbould hava no bush t0 shelter them ; snd thus, un- der the florce rays of the Southern sun, they misor- ably porished. A Confederats planter named Axnnosx Srevcen, who resided near Andersonville, thus testified:s . Betweon the Ist and_16th of December, 1843, T went tup to Andersonvllo with W. &, Woipxu sud four or five othier gentlemen, out of curiosity, to sea Low the prison was golngtobelald out. . . o Iasked lim 1t bo wan golng to erect barracks or. sheller of any kind, Herepliad that he was notj that the damned Yankees who would e pnt in thers would haveno need of them, I asked him why Ls wea cutting down ull tho trees, and suggestod that they would proves shelter to tha privouers from the heat of the sunat least. iTo made this reply, of something aimilar toft “That s Just what I am golng todo; 1sm gologlo bulld & pen hero that will bill more dsmned Yankees than can be destroyed in the front,” Thoso sra very nearly hus words, or'equivslont to them., Col. Cnaxpren subsequently made another Teport to the Rebel Cabinet, in which he rccommonded the removal of the monster Gon, Wixnen, the commandnnt, in the fol. lowing words: ANDEBIONYILLE, AU, 5, 1804.~Cotoxer ¢ My duty requires me raspectfully to recommend a chauge in the oficer {n command of tha post, Brig.-Gen, J. IL Wimen, and tho substitution in his place of rome oue who nnites both encrgy aud good judgment with ome foaling of Lumanity and cousidorstion for the welfare and comfort {50 far 8 {s consistens with thelr nafo-kecptug) of the vast number of unfortunates placed under blv coatrol ; some one who, at least, will not advocate deliberately and fn cold blood the pro- Priety of loaving them in thetr present condition untll thelr number hias been sufficlantly reduced Ly death to maks tho present srrangement for thels sccommo- dation; Who will uot consider it & matter of aeif-lauds- ton and boasting that ho hiss never been inzids of the stockado, & place the horrors of which it ia dificult to duscribe, and whieh 18 » dlsgrace to civillzation, the condition of which he miaht, by the exerciss of a Hittls encrgy snd judgment, oven witls the imitod moans at 1ls command, Lisvs conalderably improved, D. T. CuANDLES, Antstant Adjutant and Inspector-Genoral. This report took its usual courss of pas- saga from one official to another, until it renchod JesrengoN Davis. Did he remove the miouster Wriprn? Far from jt. Ie mnde him Commissary-General of all the prisopa and prisoners in the Confederacy, The Confederate Secrotary of War had pro. viously relieved Winpez of his command. Did JerrersoN Davis judorse this action? Far from it, He wroto on the back of it: “Thig is unnocessary and uncalled for"!! Lot us cite one more ovidence, Dr. Dnaren is calm, thoughtfal historian, not a politician, Ho soys in his * Hiatory of the Civil War": “8o atroclous is the erime perpetrated at Andersonville, that it is not for msn to deal with it. None but God ean justly measure its enormity ; none but God can adequately punish it.” This ia the crimo which Hrut tried to jus- tity ; whioh Cox laughed and joked about; which induced Cavrrzin’a sowarkable for- gotfulness; and which led CanTer Hannison to rush iuto the arms of the man who sought to justify it. In the face of the over- whelming evidenes, thoso who doprocata the opening of old sores, those who sontimen. talizo about forgetting tho past, thosa who prata about the Coutennial yoar, know that thoy ore talking twaddlo, The bill of amunesty ewbraces 740 Rebelsy all of whowm tho people of the North are ready to forgive but one, and BMr, Brae and Mr. Qarrrerp hove given good reasons why the people of the North will nezer for- give that infernal man. He was not only the embodimont of treason, the head of tho Re bellion, but ho was tho nuthorof the inde. scribablo miseries inflicted upon 30,000 help- less prisoners. Yo waa personally responsi- blo for thy dreadful bratalitios of Anderson- villa, o rowarded the infamous ncts of ‘Wixpen by promotion and atill greator power to tortura and kill, Ginoe the days of Nzno, tho world Las not kuown a more inhuman monster than JevrznsoN Davia. It I too lato to sentimentalize, The wrotch is con- fronted with history. It would be an un. pardonable act of infamy to forgive hiw, sven it ho got down upon his knees and begged forit, 'Thers can be but one compensation for his action—trial by coort-martial and death. Wiz and Woipzs were not tha real urderers st Andersonville. 'Fhoy wers but tools. JerrkmsoN Davis is the murderer, ond to pardon him would be to insult the memo. ries of the 18,644 victims who perished of his oruelty, and the £0,000 poor fellows who survived his malica to drag out the weary yoars with broken conatitutions and destroy. od vigor untll death calls them hence. We are willing to preach and prastics forgiveness SALURDA» and reconciliation as far a3 human nature can go, but to clasp Jrrr Davis to our bosom, to tender him full political privileges, and praparo the way for his retarn to the United Btatos Sonato, s asking a littla too much aven thiz Contennlal year. To he Rditor of Ihe CAftngo Tribune: Mator Crry, Iil, Jan, 18,—Will you republieh (he financial bisl of Iast wintor, kuown as the R:sumption bill2 - 1 cunnot find & copy here, and all oppesod to 1t take particular pafue 0 misrepresent it Theysay that tlie Legal-Tonder set fs ropesled, and that re. sumption ntecns redemplion, and that the greenbacks will il bo rettred, and that wo will Lave nothing but goid, and the conntry will be bankrupted. I sked the Inter-Oceanto republish it, but thoy refured, be- oause they sro opposol to honet moncy, Wil yon plesrs publish it in your Saturdsy editlon sud ex- vlsin what it means, #o that nuo need err? You lave no ides of the different underatandings the peo- plo have of the bill, and if all who sro fn favor of lionest tuoney would publiah the bill it would woou bring about botter state of feeling over the country. R.J, Onavors, In nceordance with the request of our cor- respondont, wo republish Lerewith tho text of what is known as the Resumption bill of Jon, 19, 1876 ¢ Jte ot enacted, ats., That the Secrolary of the Trean ury s horaly shthorized anid roguired, sa raplaly ws practicable, to causs to be coined at tlin minta of the Unfted Btafes silver colns of denominations of 10, 25, and 50 ccuts, of standard vatud, and to {ssus them o redomption of an equal numYer And Amount of frac- tional currency of similar denominations, or, at his Qiscrallon, ho may fvate snch sliver cols {hrongh the mints, Bob.Tressurlcs, publio depositarien, and Porte Otticos of the Unitedl Stntes, and upon such ixsue ho iy Dereby sutlorized and required to redeom an equal amount of such fractional currency until the whiols smount of such fractional curseucy outatanding shall be redoemed, Brc. 2. That s0 much of See, 3,534 of the Revisnd Statutes of the Unlted Btates 24 _provides tor a charge of ome sixth of 1 per cantum for convorting standard gold bullion (nto coin I boroby reposled, and haroafter 10 cliarge shull bo made for that nervice, g0, 3, That Sec. 5,737 of the Rovised Blatutes of the United Blater, Hmiting the sogregate amouut of the circulating nofes uf National Bankiug assoctatlony, bo, and s, bereby repeaied, sud each oxisting banking as- sociation may {ncrests lis circulating notes in se- cordence with tho cxisting law, without “reapct to said aggregate limil, and new banking ossocistions nay be organtzed in acrordanco with the oxisting law, without reapect to sald aggeogate limit, and the provisluna of the law for the withdrawal snd redistrivution of Na- tional-Bank curreucy among the several Statcs and Territorics are heroly reieiled, snd whenaver and so often ns circulating riotes shall’ bo [ssued to sny such bauk asnociation, so jucreasing its capital or olrculating notes, or 50 newly organized a» aforceatd, §t alall ba thia Auty of tho Seeretsry of tho Troasury 15 rodeein ths legal teuder United Btates notes in excess oply of 00,000,000 to the amount of 80 per centum of tho sun of National.Dink notes so fesued to nny auch banking assoclstion, s aforessid, mud to conttnue such redomption 'ss auch circulaiing notes aro fanucd until there aliail be outatanding the sum of $00,00,000 of such logal-tender Unicd Statea notes, and no tore, And on and aftor tho 1t day of Januae £y, Ao D. 1879, the Socretary of the Treasury shall re- deem {n coln {ho United Statea legal-teader notes then utelandiug, on thetr prosentation for redemption =t tho oftica of tho Assistant Treasurer of tha Uuited Htatoy In the City of Now York, {n ttma of not less fhan 330, And (0 enable the Secretary of the Treasury 10 prepare and pravide for tho_rudewption in this act, auttipiized snd Tequired, Lo ia suthonzed to uss sny surplus revennes from time 1o timo ia thio Treasury, not olherwiss sporagristed, ond to tasmo, ol end s poso of, at not leas than par in coln, efiber of the de- scrlptions of bouda of the United ‘States deacribod tn @ act of Congress approved July 14, 180, entilied, ¥ An act o suthorize te Tefunding of the national debt,” with I{ke qualitles, privileges, and esemptions, o tlis extent necoutary Lo carcy ild' act nto ‘effect, snd {0 1s thio procecds tirereol for the purpoves atare- said, And sll provisions of law inconsistent with tho provisions of tnis act are hareby repoaled, The meaning of this ect, as far ag it is re- vealed by tho text and its operation, is, first, that the Secretary of the Treasury shall re- place tho fractional paper currency by silver ooln. * It is not belioved, by those who have studied the subject most deoply, that it will bo possiblo to keop thia silver in circulation, if it is put out befors the appreciation of the greenbacks to par, or nearly par. Tho Seo- retary of the Treasury is understood to con- sider the lsw mandatory, and has, in com- plinnce with its provisions, bogun to accuma- lato silver. The socond scction removes the charge for coining bullion at the United States Mints, and makes it froe, as it is in England and France. *The third soction removes the limitation of the National-Bank currency to $354,000,000 ; ropenls ‘all provisions of law for the geo- grophical distribution of Nat{onal-Bank cur- rency; provides that, whenever new issucs of National-Bank notes aro mnde, groenbacks shall be retived to the extent of 80 per cent of such now issucs,—<. e, if $1,000,000 of ndditional Notional-Bank notes bo issued, £800,000 of legal-tenders shall bo oancelod but this retirement of greenbacks shall not proceed after tho legal-tonders have boen ro- dueed in volume to $800,000,000 ¢ it fixes Jan. 1, 1879, ng tho day on which tho Seere- tary of tho Treasury is to resumo specie-pay- menta by redeeming in coin all legal-tenders presented in sums of moro than 350 ; and, finally, it authorizes the Secrotary to got the gold needed for redceming the greenbacks from the swplos revennes, it any there bo, and the residus from the sale of 4 or 4 per cent bonds, which must be sold at par for gold, which they ecannot bo, 58 & per cents only sell at por; and this roquiroment will defeat the Secretary in carrying the Resump- tion act into effect, unless Congresi onncts some amendment to the law, The Director of the Mint, in his last re. port, stated that he had accumulated §10,- 000,000 of silver ohange for the redemption of the fractional ourrency. The operation of tho froo-banking clauses of the thind section, and of that for the retirement of legal-tend. ers, hod been as follows up to the 1st of No- vomber Inat: Amoagt of Natlonal-Dank noles outtland- 0 350, 14, 347810 0enes enenen 8 Amotns of Nationai-Bank hofes A0 n, 14, 187 Nov, 1, 1615 Amount of period.... 10,786,675 e $ 274,818 Amouot outatanding Nov, 1, 1875,.... §343,688,202 per Not amount of decresss, .. Legal-tendor notes reiirod, Leing §0 vent of circulation tssusd from Leqal-tenders romaining on deposit in reasury far_redemution of Natlonale Bank notos, Nov. 1, 187 20,219,612 The decreass in National.Bank currency wns not caused by the Resumption aet, but by the act of June 20, 1874, which permitted any National Bank to retire all but $45,000 of itu circulation, which many of them have done, Under the final provisions of tho Ro- snmption act for gotting gold by accumulat- ing surplus rovenuos and selling bonds, little has been dono. ‘Tho condition of tho Trens- ury has been such that thero have been vir- tually no surplus revonncs. A large part of tho last report of tho Secretary is occupied with recommendations for now legislation to cunble him to resume spocie-payments at the date fized by the Resumption sct. The dis- cussion of thess plans would carry us beyond the purpose of the present article. Capt. Doumans, who was stationed at the Flmira prison-camp, denles every one of the charges made by Confederate HiLyu as to cruelty and bad treatmont of prisonera. He asserts that thero wero at ono time as many 25 16,000 prisoners there, who, 83 a rulo, were bettercared for and better fed than the Union troopa in tho ficld. Capt. Dudazs nays : All the Larracks were comfortably heated duriog the cold weathar, sad all the prisonors woro suppiisd with sufictent biankots and clothiog 10 kewp shewm warm, “The barracks wers sept clwn and the grounds were egularly and thoroughly policod wach dsy, . . . “The rations consisted of fresh and bard bread, froeh and ealt eat, pork and beans, potutaes, onfons, soup, ete,, stid thove who helped In yailclng the grounds, s, or worked {n the bakery or cookt lowed estra ratiozs and coffes, AUl who By kind wers allowsd a atated sum each day, which they got arsdit for on ths sulles’s books, and wsed up 15 bUyIng such artisles &s they deaired, Thowsands of dollazs’ werlh of goods of all kluds wee dlsposed of o the prisoners in {hfs way by th sndat falr prices, too, The 00, Weta allowed to make woodon fans, gutta-perchia ringe, and other ar- tclea, which thoy sent out of csmp and sold, netting many of them handsome roturna, Dasiden, they wers constantly {n receipt of mousy, olo:liing, provisions, #tc,, from their friondeat home, which they werasl 1uwed 10 uso au thoy pi Thus, ono nfter the other, Bax Thir'a in- famous chargea are hurled back upon him. Not only have the horrors of Anderonville been entablished, even from Confederato nources, but every ono of his charges of crnelly to Robel prisoners in the North have beon refutod from official sources. In view of this fact, was not our impulsive Carten 8 1ittle hosty in rushing into Hirt'a ombrace with congratulationa ? —— H0-CALLED PARMERS' CONVENTION ARD THE CORRENCY. In the procession of the scosons, {lere is nothing moro cortain than the assembling of Mr. B. . Ssurri, W. M. Hoorow, aud o fow other decayed politicians, and the holding by thom at Bloomington of what they style 4 5 Convention of farmers and workingmen," in which plans for the governmont of man- kind and the amelioration of the condition of the human family are prepared and pub- lishod. The Intest of theso Conventions was held a few days ago, as usual, at Blooming- ton, and among the other proceedings was tho adoption of a series of resolutions and & memorial to Congress embodying a plon for reforming tho national flunnees. Of course thoro is notbing now in ail this; the Con- vontion and the plan of finances, and Mesars, 8. M. Bsure and W. M, Hootow, and all that, are familiar to tho peoplo of Ilinols, and the criticiem wa propose to moka s but sropotition of what bas been sald on numerous provious occasions. The Convention of two- score persons ** demanded” the withdrawal of tho National-Bank circulation, and the substitution therefor of national notes, mode legal-tondor for all purposes, except principal ond interest on tho public debt, and inter- cliangenblo for bonds bearing 3 per cent in- terest in gold. They nlso adopted n momo- il to Congress, which recited that the whole country was “‘boing ruined by the financial system now in forco,” and, therefore, Con. gress i3 askod to repeal the Resumptlion act, to issue in place of the National-Bank notes legnl-tender Government mnotes, interchange- oblo, cte., which pnper monoy shall be re- ceivable for ¢ all Government dues,” nnd be opplicd to the immediate redemption of all bonds heretofore issned and now payable which by their torms nra not payable in gold. The ** Convention” hns not improved in knowledga of or respect for law or facts, and both are os coolly ignored in the foregoing memorial as if there woro no logal or moral objections in the way. Wa aro prepared to admit that the present fnancial system is fast bringing the country to ruin, and that, unless there bo a changs by legislation, one will be wrought by the break- ing down of that system and a general and national bankruptey. But the ** Farmens' (?) Counvention " propose to remedy the cvils of the present system by increasing them and making them perpetual. Tho evil of our finances is, that our legal and actual standard | of valoes do not agreo, snd that there isno stability or permanency in the differonce bo- tween them, Tho papor dollar is not only depreciated, but the doprecintion fluctuates from day to day. Syrrs, HooroN & Co. sk Congress to double and perpetuate that cur- rency, and to mako its deprociation greater by declaring tha currency to be irredeem- sble. ‘Tho proposition is to issuo a total of about $770,000,000 of paper dollars and make them logel-tonders in payment of all dues to the Governinent, duties on imports included, ond that theso notes may be funded in 8 per cont bonds,—interest payable in gold, ond principal in currency. Tho effect of in- crensing the irredeomablo currenoy from $420,000,000 to B770,000,000 is either not considered by thio so-called *Farmers,” or is considered by thom an sdvisablo one, bocause it will reduco the valuo of ihe paper, and make woney *chenp.” No pro- vision f8 mado for redemption of tho cur- rency, aave in interchangenble bonds; per- muoment irredeemnbility is intended and pro- posed ; no regard is sbown for inovitable fluctuations, no matter how violent, nor for depreciation, however great. Tho scheme proposes payment of duties on imports in gresnbacks, but makes no pro- vision for obtaining the gold with which to pay tho interest on tho debt or payments into the sinking fund. We assume, in charity, that the persons who run theso conventions are not awaro thut the United Statos Govern-- 1ment ig under pledges with the publio credit- o8, that (with tho oxception of a temporary loan in 1863 of (350,000,000) tho issuo of legal-tender notes should never exceed $400,- 000,000, nnd that the act of February, 1862, suthorizing the issuo of 5-20 bonds, stipulat- ed that all daties on imports should be paid in coin, and that the coin thus received should bo * get apart as a special fund, and shall bo applied a8 followa: 1, To tho pay- mont i coin of the bonds and notes of the United States. 2. To tho purchase or pay- ment of 1 per cent of the entira debt of the United States to be made within each year.” 3. The residuo to bo pald into the Tress- ury. Usnder tho requiremonts of this act, about $185,000,000 of coin, collected from custows, ero required annunlly, That ia the contract mado with the pablic ereditors; and all the bonds of tho United States cx- prossly stipulate that the interost is payable in coin. Our pseudo-**farmers,” if they know of this contract, snggest no way in which the coin to make theso payments is {o bo obtain- vd. Thoy leave it to be inferred that the contraot is to be disregardod or repudiated, or tlat tho Governmont is to purchase that smount of gold snnually, The currency bond proposed to bo issued drawing 8 per cent in gold will be worth mora than the cur- rency; tho latter will necemsarily find its way into the Londs for sake of the intorest. As- suming that only $700,000,000 would be thus bonded, the Government would bhave $21,- 000,000 of gold added to its apnual payment for interest, making o total of jnterest of $156,000,000, which would have to bo par. chased with greenbacks, which would be srorth from 50 to 75 oonta on the dollar, and which greenbacks would immediately go back into bonds bearing 3 per cont intercat in gold. The plan of the ** Farmers®™ is ad- mirably devised toadd from $20,000,000 to $50,000,000 annually Lo the interest pnyment of tha United Btatos, and from $500,000,000 to $750,000,000 to the principal of the public debt, The * Farmers” proposes that the Treasury *shall uce the greenbocksio pay off the debt represonted by bonds whose principal is not roquired to be paidin coin. With the ex- ception of the bonds {ssued to the Pacific Railroads, which will not be due until after 1894, thero aro no outstanding bonds of the United States which have not been distinetly dealared by law to b payable, principal and Ioterest, in ooln, We are inclined to fhe JANUARY 22, 1876—-TWELVE PAGES., ler, | opinion that tho Couventlon which proposed this memorisl to Congress acted in ignorgnee of the fncts and of tho law, and We aro con- firmed in thia opinjon bieeauso it voted spacinl + thanks ” to tho gentleman who announced himself a9 tho * suthor” of the momorial. But the farmers of Illinols and of tho West have long since cut loose from 8. AL Suitir, Hooton & Co,, and take no gtock in their vislonary schomes and fgnorant plane {0 perpotunte tho nbominntion and fraud of a depreciated, fluctuating, and irre- deomable currency, The Turkish Ambassador ot Paris is evi- dently not afflicted with that gravity said to bo charscteristio of Orlentals, if we may judge anything from the following note, which he hns recently printed: Pants, Dec, 0, 1875.—A sensible fall having for somo days ocenrred fn the quotations of Turkish funds, the Imperial Government has been forced to seck the causo of it It rasults from the Information collected that tbia dopreciation proceeda from rumors wpread through li-will, according to which the Jsn- uary coupons would not Le paidl. Thess rumora ore entirely Incorrect, A formor communieation lad already contradicted them, butin view of their per uistancy the Ottoman Timbaeny declares afresh, by or- der of the Sullime Porto, that the ssid rumors are destitute of fountiation. Tho note is only humorons from the Turk. ish point of view. The creditors aro com- plaining, not that the Turkish funds havo ‘been fnlling for severat days, but for ssveral months, growing out of the fact that the Grand Vizior has reduced sbout G0 per.cent tho interest pald by the Porte. Tho holders of Tarkish bonds cannot extract any humor out of the sitnation, THE ENOYOLOPZDIA BRITTANIOA, Na description of the immouss work which bas been undertaken by the projectors of this new Enovolopmdin~—-tho revised edition really Jonerves to ba called now—can lead to 8 propor appreciation of its magmtade. We must refor all readers spacially mterested in tho snbject to the volumes thomselves, of which three have already appenred. Tho firat volume—A to A N A—has beeu noticod in Tue Toipuscy tho seo- ‘vud—A N A to A T H—and tho third—A T H to B O I—aro now at hand. Tho sccond velumo contains the following notable srtlcles s “ Anchor,” Thomss Mariey: * Angel” Prof. W, Hmith; * Anfmal Ringdom,” ¥rof. Huxloy; Anturopology,” Dr, E. B. Taylor; % Ape," Prof. 8L George Mivurt; ¢ Archrology ** (ureblitori), Prof, Danlel Wilnos Archaalogy ¥ (clasaleal), A, Btusrt Mureny; “ Architect Prof, 'C, Isyter Lawia sod @, Edmond Aristophnri “Ariatotle,” Hir Alozander Grant; Athanaslun? the Tlay, Principsl Tulloch; b Arh” Prof, Bydney Colving Aryan,” Prof. Msx Mauller ; Astronomy,” Richard A, Prostor, The third volume Laa the followingz among other important contributions 1 Athone,” the Tev, . L. Hicks: * Atlaptlo and * Baltio,” Dr, W, B, Carpeuter; * Atom," Clerk Max. well; +Banlang,” . If, Courtney (ane of the principal leader-writers on {hia 7 imea)s * Batlle,” Col. Clicsuey: * Deaumont and letcliez, A, C+Bwinburne; * Doothoven " ond * 1ioo- choclo,” ¥, Huefter; * olla,” I, R. Hawals; * Bante lay,” the Ttev, M. Pattiron; * Bible,” Prof. Jiohertaon Smith; * Biology,” Prof, Huxley snd W. T. T, Dyer. Tho obovs lists of writers, incomploto na they sto, ombraco many ot the lendivg names ln En- glish litorature ; aud thoy show thiat tho publish. ersof the Enoyclopwdiu have santed noither tho discretion nor tho means to engago compotent bauds for each special kiud of work that thoy requirad to hsve dose. IF tho volumes yet to bo issued shot tho same exact mothod snd liberal sxporditurs of money, tlo completed work will be & monumest to the industry and the wisdom of the raco; tho Encyclopmdis itoolf will bo & atorchouso of infurmation mexhaustiblo ia its resources; and tho uames of the persoca con- pocted with it will not gain their loast dintino- tion from their honorable assoziation with esch otber. Tho Chicogo agents of tho Enoyclo- prdis ste Mesars, Janany, AloCrune & Co. FERSONAL. The New Yotk Jerald ssys Gon, Sheridan in o tho Indisn Territory. He is in Chleago, Reverdy Johnson prrived in Now York from Liverpool Wednesdsy. Sothera fs now on the ocenn coming wost. The Parlsixn critics are bogloning to say un- kiod things of Schnolder, the divine Duchess. Bbo has committed the unpardonable siu—grown fat. " Presldent Btoarns, of Amherat College, thioks the prevent system of education iy injurious to tho memory, the chief fault being the muitiplic. ity of subjects prosontad to tho scholar. Franclaque Savcey, the noted theatrioal oritla of Paris, has dellvered a locture on Taine'a new book. He fears that, in the noxt volume, M. Talne will take a hopelosa viow of the resulta of tho great Revolution. The Baltimore.American observes that noarly overy prominont journslist in this country 1s an excaptionally good aud large-hoarted man, All thoso who are oot prominent will ploass under- stand that they are not goed. Tho eatate of Timothy Kirby, Donn Piatt'a fatber-lo-law, is eetimated to bo worth £400.000, instend of $1,500,000 aa previouely reported. The *sdopted " cbildren aro not extravagantly provided for on this reduced ecalo. Tho New Orlosns Republican informs mothors that thoy can koap littlo boys from wearicg out the knueos of thelr pants by & simplo measuro of pracaution. They cau lob the horse-cara run over tha little boye, ot thiay can give the pants away. Honry Varley, the rovivaliet whose death bas {uat been announced, was in exrly life a butchor. Iie thrived {n busivess and in spintusl growth, snd oventually bocama paator of the Lapiist Chepel, Deumort Xill, London, built maluly by tunds contributed by himself and relatived. A correapondent from Mlan saya that bacause s Milsneas Jady will not walk tho sireets unsc- companied by & near relative, and becsuso oer- tain Americsn girle,” while stodying muslc o thiat city, ara indiscyoot {n thoir anuers, an Amarleau tady cau nover Lo froo from insulting approach by Itallan gentlomen, The London Acaderny rofors in terme of the highest prafse to a disaortation an * The History and Devolopment of the Engtish Verb," pub- lished Jast year by Emil Schwertferger, s student ‘of Cornell University, bacoly 18 yoars of sgo. 1t says: **‘Tho result [a ono of which a vetoran phitologist need not bo ashamod™ Gen, Low Wallace's succoss as & soldler, & poli- ticisn, & noveliat, an orator, and sa_artlat, siirs the adiniration of the New York Sun. But hls success i auy one direction {s ot onough to wartvel ak; aod wa uuapect tha editor of tho Sun i# langhing qulatly somewhere—ssy in tho baso- mentof his bran—at Gen. Low Wallaca aad his works, Thepubliebersof Scribner’s Monthly bave boen fostrumental in calling attention to & buat of Blilton which has beeff”stowed wway at Cbrist Collegs, Oxford, for mapy yoars. The osst was taken when Milton was aboui 48 yearsof ago, Iils porbaps the best likencss of tho post ex- tant, Prof. Masson considess i3 a genuice dis- covory of grest valul Mr, Charles Lyndo, of Now York, has offered & donation of 5,000 to Princaton Collega to stita- ulate colloge-debating. The money might be wuch better dovotod to the establishment of & class in danciug. Oollego debating encoarsges hasty thinkiog and conceit, whsreas the walta ouly affects tho hLeols, disaseminating fdiooy ln thie Joast vulnerable part, A corseapondoat writes to the Boston Globe on the subject of ** Refurm in Opera Doufis.” He thinks the fleld Is too rich to be left only to care~ less or wicked cultivators, * Tlow nice It would be,” continuex the corsospondent, **if Miss Kele 1ogg could be persusded to relax from ler pro- dery enough to wdit spew some lively opers bouffe and then sing it to the world, True, she might bave to deacend a step fiom hor high es- tate of maldenly decornm, but would aotiue 4051008 bo 8 WOKY 020" We aliould ady dee cl@edly not. Mlss Kellogg Is dolng sdmirable work in & higher flold than opers boufT The Neow York correapondont of tha DBoston Journal refera young businoss mon of tho aeo ond gonaration, who svond the money that ous ors made, to tho old English refraint A hundred yoars ago, Theodors Tilton rash'y bocamo responsibla fo tho atatement that thoro wero wines and liquors fu tho car which conveyed tno body of Vico-Prosi dent Wilson from Nuw York to Boston, and thal somo of tho gontlemon whio mccompanied thy body drank froely, The Committea having thy atter fo obargo deny ompbaticatly that thers is wny tenth (n 3lr, Tilton'n statement, It wonlg have boen, indsed, aa insnlt to tho doad If wina. bibblog had boon permitted over the romaina of ono of the mo:t disingulshed tomperance sdyo. cates In this country, HOTEL ARRIVALS, Palmer Howne—E. W. 8:olt, New Yorki G, R, Talmor, Massacliusetts; W. P, Plerce, Toston; G, 0, iriggs, Grand Rapida; Chauncey Doyls, Bt Louls; g, L, rul, Toulaville s Tiabort Mitehell, Montroal; J, 1, Brown, Youngstown, 0.; 8. 1L, McConnell, Bafinglon, Ja.: Willlam Viwnkinton, Milwaukes; I1. O, Huslings, Thifladoights : J, I, Wickiter, Atlanta,” a....Grand Jracile—Gsorge Sioner, Genoral Buperintendent ., R, I, & 8t, L. B, K. the Hon, E, W, Enelyn, Dufhaio} Namuel 8chock, Gouoral Superintendent M. 1, &0, - I W, G Swan, Bt Panl; W, Wright, Ditroit; D. O'Dell, Now York'; the Hon, Tichard Diakesley, 8t Paul; B, 9. Caed, T, 8, Army: Gen. H. Hblird, Sprinafeld; Tn AL Miller, Olevofand; J. G, Digqatty Tioston; 8. A, Hatnes, New York; A, B. Blone, Clers: 1and; £, W, White, Salt Lake, ., Tvemont [Honse, B, Turaer, Oc'itornin; J. J, Fagerman, Milwankes; Higbeo, 1. Pasts Gen. W, W, Uorian cd Bhumway, Doston: “Rassell 81g+, Js, G, B, Ttogors, Detroit: David Preston, Detroft; . ‘Wilcox, 'CQonnectient; Hetry At waler and D, 3, Basseft, Jones, Oheyemno...,,Sherman House—The Hot. & arrefl, Hastings, Mino.; A T, Wil A, Breliman, Providence; L. B, Young, Ciovctand} Mazx Zocllner, New York, agent for Yon Bnlows Col, 5. Dutley, Connecticut; george ilier, O'ncionat, A ilon, {1, L Slasson, Reuosha; Gen,'S. V. worth, 8, Charles; J. W, Newman, Hos Wiyns, Cinclunatts’ T. P, Reasler Indisus, ner liouge—Yv. P, Golston, Puliman Palace Oar Com. panyy €, E. Jacoba, New York; Jamrs Anderson, Gran Bipido; Mazshall Berry, Joliot: W. AL Bl ond wife, snd Miss Bates, Uatitord; D, Sparker and Muss Dayls, Boston; Qeorge Crooke, MoGrogor, In, POLITIOAL NOTES, Binco Benators Slaron and Jones stiil abgent themaelves from thefr placas in.the Benats ith suspected that the Bauk of Califoruia has run away with them. A privato latter from Wasbington to the Cin. cinnati Commerclal eays: * Banks mado & very favorabla impression upon the Houso. What he said didn't amount to snythiog, but his mannar was adaicablo.” ‘Tbe Now York Tribune, withont much snthor ity, esys there {u & pouoral obiectlon to calliug on Congresamen to sarvo as dolegates o the Nee .tiooal Bopublican Couvention. Blalos is strong with Republican Cougressmon. The [odianapolls Journal (Senntor Morton's orgau) says tho nomination of Ar. Fish for the Presidency by Harper's 1Weekly is * the Lroadest joko of tho season.” ** Let s langh,” adds the Journal, Ou which sidlo of 1ho moath ? A Now Orloans man wants Willlam Orton, of tho Westorn Unlon Talegraph Company, for Pres- tdent, and pays him uo oad of compthuonts for ability and intageity. ** All without exceeding tho trath, efther,” adds the Springfiold Repude tcan, Orton ia in a posiion to ** pull wizes ™ for tho nomination. Mr, Oharles Nordhoft's book, embracing bis tatters from tho South lo the New York Herald, ia dodicated to President Grant. Tho author ss. sumes that, if tho Prosident imd beon sblo to give we much altoation to Southero sifairs in 1874-'Gas ho did In 1805, his Southern policy would bave beon very differout. Benator Conkllng's strongth among tho nows- papers of New York fs not messured by the pub- lishied atatemont that soventeon out of twenty~ four heard from are in favor of an unpledged delogation to tho National Ropublican Coaven- tion. The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser sayh that many of the pavera which ave opposed to pledges of any doscriplion are docidsdly In farer of Conkling. President Eliot, of Harvard Colloge, {5 an sd- vocato of compulsory elomontary oducatlon, sud of an enforoed reading aud writtng tost for the allot, * beeouse, although educstion alons will not praserve froo tostitutions, dlffused slemen- tery eduontion {8 one of the cesential conditions of the formation of that soond national chare acter npon which the safoty of our politioal ins stitutions daea absolutely dopend.” The TWorld suys that tha editor of the Cincin. a4 Enquirer refuses to publish advertisemonts for guldfish thongh greenbacke may bo offered 10 pay for therm. Wa believa it {a the custom of the Enquirer to publish advertisomenta for noth- ing, and tho tender of greonbacks in the case re- forred to was doubtless resontod ad an attempl at bribery. The goldtiah in bis native element {8 8 beautifal similitude of watered curroncy. The selection of Cincinnati gives groat satls faction to the Indisnapolis Journal. Alr. Mot tou's fifonds at Washington alao profess to b dolighted. Indecd, $hoy claim that M. Morton Aid it all himself, with Lis carpet-baggers and nis lttlo proxies. DBut they have s woll-devele oped senee of Dristow notwithstanding, aod wish he wore * furibier,"—geographically ss well 2n figurativoly, Kentucky Hes * quite conven- jent" to Cmncinnati,—Springfield Republican (Ind) The Inot attack on Gon. Schenck comes from Harper's Weekly, which saya it has hitberto re- frained from commoating on tho Emma 3fice scandal becapsa the factd were 80 imperfectly known, Itpow rogards the publication of the original contraot between Gen. Bolenck and Afr. Trenor W. Park, togethor with the facts em- bodied fn Mr, Raverdy Jobnson's lottar, as con- stituting = suflicient reason for holding that Qon, Bebenok in at loast guilty of an Indiscretioa aufilciently gravoe {0 autborizo and roguire his recall, Thore is nothing statesmanlike fo the ltls apecch of acceptanco by Benator-eloot Beck, re ported fn yesterday's paper. Thero i sometuing fndelicate in bls allusion to tho Benatorial cat- vaea aa **s raco" apd **astruggle,” DBook was opoeoly charged, In tho canvaga immediataly pro- codiug bls election, witl having used money frooly to procare his election. Ho 19 an oxceeds 1ngly davgerous man,—an origins! and nooom- promisiug advocate of Btate Rights, and & wille iug instrumont in the banda of tho tobsoco asd whisky merchanta of Kentucky. The truth sbout Eustis, the Bouator-elach from Loulelans, appoars to ba that ho is soclally at agrooabla map, and wonld bo readily sdmitted toaseat in the Benate if it wers posalble fot Sonatore to eatiafy thelr private proforenced. Plookback haa been excludod boosuse he has the miufortune to be married tos bisck wife with whom the wives of tlo honorable white Benators decline to aasociato. It has beon suge gosted that all cause for doubt would be remofe ed if Pinobback stiould xill bis wife, get s die voroo, or masry Another woman without & & yoree. The editorial apace of the Milwaukes Sentintt not employed in dofendlog the Milwankd Whlaky 2ing s chiefly devotsd to abusing tbe Hon, E. D. Washturne, The Milwaukes Wis consin takes a difforent view of that of bim as follows: sssuming proach o Ketional Couvention, Le i1 sn bonesh atraightforward, true man, who must command & wpoch from every ons whom he mests, Ie 14 4D ube conquersble ensiny of corruptiou and extravagunce ta every form, sud la ss thtmm(hly Ropublican 1 all bif Tastincta se s man can ba. (e hud ocasion to sesd ood deal of B, B. Washburne during the slege and the Comwune of Paris, and we cams to the conclusiod that hu {8 0na of the few publio men of the Unitsd States who rigidly preserve the primitive vistues i3 the mosd exaltod poalilon. We regret thiai the Sentindd whauld pranounce this man s trickater, for we think that hoe hse reslly less trickery in his compoaltion than sny publio wan we bave ever met, Lo bas wrlt- fen to this country that he doss ol care to be 8 40% didate for the Fresidency, aud we jmplicitly ballers s, for bis dutics as 1he Ambasssdor of s grestod o0, 1 the mosd chariaing Capiial I Lhe wosld, U 1} bas Lot fully satisfied bis suldtion, ab beest bas U0 rmdmd discontaut aud unrest anda faveriel Anll“-‘ m'u et Lonath K D) Washlnana b 2k o = e