Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 29, 1876, Page 4

s o S i S e o A b A B 8 2w 1 H ¥ 4 K TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATES OF STEICRIPTION (PATABLE IN¥ ADVARCE): Postnan Prepnid al e Oftlce. Dally Rdttien, post-pald, 1 yea s itreseee 813,00 Parts of yearal zame rate. dress vlthllnflvr. 3.00 600 Tarts of year at yama rats, LY XDITION, POSTFAID 81.50 e 18 Clab of twenty, pe: . ‘The postage 1s 15 cot yoar, which wo will propay. Bpecimen copies sent free, To prevent delay and mistakes, be sure and give Poat-Office address in full, including Stateand County, Kemittances may be mado either by draft, expross, Poat.Office arder, or in registored letters, at our risk, TRAMA TO CITY BUBECRIDERS, Dally, delivered, Bunday excepted, 225 centa per week, Duly; delivered, Bunilay {nciuded, 30 conts per week, Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Maditon and Dearborn-nts,, Chicago, Iil . AMUSEMENTS, ACADEMY OF MUSIO—Hnlsted street, belween Madison and Monroo, * Tha Two Orphbans’ Afters noon and evening. ‘WOOD'S MUBEUM—Monros street, hotween Dear- melml State, “The Jiidden Hand,” Afternoonand evening, McVIORFR'S THEATRE—Madlson street, between Deatborn_and State. Engngement of Jiea Minnie Palmer. * Laughiug Eyes.” Afternoon and evening, TIOOLEYS THEATRE—Randolph streot, between Clark and Lagsile. * The California Minatteld,” After- noon and svening, ADELPHI TOEATRE-Dearborn _strest, corner Monros, Variety perlormance. Afternoon and evening. TKION PARE CHURCH—Iccturs by Bayard Tay- r, Bubject * Literature as n Azt ‘McCORMICK MALL—North Clark streel, corner Rinzle, Concort by tho Germsn Military Eandat2 P.m. EXHIBITION DUILDING=—Laks Shors, foot of Adams Mret, National Eshibition of Poultry, Pige eons, ang The @hieage Tribme, Baturday Morming, Janusry 29, 1870. 0Old Prob’s predictions for to.day smack of {oinoss and creaking signs, change yesterday closed at 88}, Accounts are conflicting as to the results of tho recent fighting between thé main armies of the opposing parties in Spain, BFrom all that can be gathered no decisivo advantage hns yet been gained by cither sido, A fresh batch of indictments was returned yosterday by the Grand Jury of the United Statea District Court, Eleven distillers, con- founded with Loth the intent and the deed of defraudiog the revenue, were added to tho long list of defendants in tho whisky-frand caged. An analyria of the recent somi-annunt re- ports of the Lako Shore & Mickignn Southern Railway Cowpany, prepared, as will be per. reived, by an expert in tho reienco of sifting ‘cowplicated sccounts and renking them tell o story that can be readily understaod, is given clsewhere in this igsue. The tigures pre- sonled and the conclusions drawn Lberefrom will not fail to atteact considerable attention, The famons GEemax lnw, which Las proved a troublesome thorn in the side of ths Ohio Democracy, is now numbered nmong the | things that wero, and are no moro—at least it will bo when Gov. Haves shall have ofiixed his sign-manual to the bill repealing tho law, which was passed in the House last week and in tho Scnale yesterday, The Republicans did it with their littlo majority., Tho announcemont was wada in Congress yesterday of the death of the Hon. Hexny H. StapeweaTHER, Representative of the Third Congressional District of Connecticut. Mr. BraRgwrATmER Wod o delegate to tho National Conventions which nominated Anna- ma3¢ Lvcowy in 1860 and Gen, Grantin 1868; was clected to Congress ns a Republican in 1867, and had, scrved continuously up to the timo of his denth. o was 50 years of age. Canada has received an unplensant notifi- cation that sho is not yet out of leading atrings, and that she is incompetent to take care of her own concerns. A short time ago, sho erocted a High Court of Appeals, and al- lowed litigants to take their cases thers as o court of last resort, instead of appenling to tho English Privy Council. 'This was done by law, and Tier dajesty bas refused to rati- fy tho act. * So Canadn, having taken o nota- ble step towards independence, must draw back again. This makes her forward move- ment about 0s absurd as the King of France's historic warch up a Lill in company with ten thousand e In another column will be found n full nbstract of the final decroe entered yesterdny in-the foreclosuro suit against the Hockford, Tock Island & St. Louis Railrond Company. It will be seon that the holders of the first mortgsge bonds get a littlo less than 10} cents on the dollar, while the holders of what aro callod tho second mortgagoe bonds only got about G per cent of the amount invested, “The road has only been in operation n few years, and no gigantio fraud has been shown in its management, yot over $10,000,000 Lies boen sunk in it. Tho report of Mr. OstEn. 3500, the purchaser, is encouraging, as it elows that le is nlready paying expenses, though ko has hod possession bat' a little Qer two months, Pucmnack's stock 1s looking up, and his hopes of taking his scat and drawing his ‘bok.pay w Benator from Louisiany havo beg.n to wonr a rosicr hue. Tha Sen- ate Commiteq on Privileges and Elections yesterday rejorted thut thero is uo vacancy in the offiue of Senalor from Louisians, Poiommack bavng been clected thereto in January, 1873, uid recommended that tho papers of Eostis, sho Democratio claimant, be laid ou the table. Tha latter clauso of the ceport was agreed to, wd, us one-halt of tho question is now disposiy of, it is probable that the other Lalf —PiNwpacn's right 4o the seat—will wmcet an early gettlement. Tho Eriends of the colored aspirmt aro confident of securing for him n miority of frowm three to six votes in the Senata, The Chicago produce - marketa were again Irvegular yesterday. Mess pork vas ugloxa sctlyo, snd e per brl higher, cluing at B19.80 for Fobruary and $19.60 for Murch, Tard was in good demand nud bo pes 100 s highor, closing at $12.02)@1%.05 for Pebruary and $12.20 seller March. Ments were in falr demand and firmer, ot 7Jo for boxed shoulders, 10jo for do short ¥ibs, and 10§ for do short clears. Highwines wero loss active and unchanged, at $1.00 per gallon, Flour was dull and easier, Wheat was woro active and {@lo lower, closing at 08{c cush and 0840 for February, Corn was quiot and 49 lower, cloalng at 41jo cuh and 410 sdllst Pebroary, Osts wers more sctive, but 4@1e lower, closing at 8le eash and S1je for March. Rye was quist at 67@GTie. Barley was quict and stoady, closing at 79}e cnsh and 76e for February, Hogs wero net- ivoand 6@10¢ higher, but closed wenk with o downwnard tendency. Sales were at §7.50 @7.60 for common to choico packing grades. Chaitlo were nctive and a shade lower, clos- ingwenk. Bheep were dull and lower. Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy $112,87} in greenbacks at the closo. The movement innugurated by the Demo- eratie Central Committeo of Cook Couunty for the nbolishing of tho detestable system of township organization, under which tho tax. payers gronn and bring injunction suits,” has tnken definito and practical shape in the prep- nration of n form of potition to tho Bonrd of Counly Commissioners to submit the question to a voto of the peoploe at the next general election, The means thus afforded for cseape out of tha preasent wretched condi- tion of affairs in Cook County should be ongerly accepted, and it is to be hoped that our citizons generally, without regard to party, will interest themselves in signing and procuring signaturos to the petition. Mensrs, HALE, of Maine, and Cox, of Now York, measured ench other's powers of rep- nrteo in tho Houso yesterday, and the small huzzing inscet whom Butien brushed into Insting ridicule had his wings scorched ngain. Cox was nettled juto the use of retorts con- sidered unparliamentary even in a Demo- erntic Congress by tho keen sting of Tave's arsertion of hisslaviabiness to Confederate dic- tation, and brought upon himself a sharp ad- monition from tho Speaker. The scrimmage grow ont of the debate on tho West Point approprintion, and before tho subject was dropped for tho day the fact bhad bLecome mnnifest that the solid Republican opposition to the petty scheme of cutting down the pay of the military cadots will bo augmented by the nequisition of not n fow Democratic votes, GOVERNMENT CURRENCY. We print another letter from Mr, DeNsLOW, in which he labors arduously to maintain his coniradiction of the assertivn mado by Tux ‘I'ninuse, that no Government had ever beon able to furnish a country with a paper cur- rency and mnaintain it redeemablo on demand. He rashly denied this, and cited Austria from siomo time aftor the fall of Narorron nutil tha revolt of the Huvgarians in 1818, and Russin from 1810 to 1853, when the Crimean War liegan. In his second letter Lo incontinently ropped Austria, but clung to tho ** Russian Dear," and in hig last communication, after summaging through all the old magazines ho can find in the City Library, still sticks to TRussia. e ingists that Rusais began to re. deem in 1840 an issue of Government paper monoy of 311,000,000 roublas (his first as. sertion was nearly twice that volume), which it continued to do for fourteen years, ending with the Crimean War in 1853, and during all that time redecmed its notes in coin on demand! And to this he ndded that * what Austrin aud Russin have done successfully under given circumstances, the United States may do in like circumstauees.” The citation of Jlussin s au example of extrnordinary financial credit was unfortunate, that Gov- urnment being notorious for the constant def. hicits in ite receipts of rovenue, and conse- uent cxcess of expenditures, which excess iu represented by an annual addition to the debt. Russin, like Italy, does not feel called on to reduce expenditures so a4 to bring them within the income. The policy of the Goverument iy somothing liko that of Mr. BovrwrLr,—to wait until the conntry “grows up” to the point of paying its way. ‘Tho cunscquanco is, that thero is o considerable unnuol addition to the public debt, and the accumulation hns now become enor- mouy. It would have Doen remark- nble, indeed, if Iussin bhad been suc- cessful in nn oxperiment in which ull other nuntions, including the wealthiost, hed failed, and whose credit had been do- stroyed by the issuo of paper inoncy a cen- tury previous. In 1815, Russian paper money rtood in relation to silver in value of 44 to 1, —that is, ono silver roublo was worth more than four paper’oncs. 'Ten years later, by withdrawing o large portion of the notes, tho remninder advanced to three paper to one silver rouble, Tho troublo continued, and in 18433 the Government withdrew all its paper mouey, and there wns substituted therefor bank-notes, guarnuteed and made legal-tender by tho Government, But this currency was issned by tho beoks aud borrowed by the Government just ns France during thoe last five years hns authorized the Bank of Franco to isauo legnltender wnotes, the Covermment borrowing the same, The currency, however, was not o national cur. rency, any moro than is that of the Bank of England or the Bavk of France. Nor wns it ot par with coin, though it had an im- proved value as compared with the Govern- ment currency which had preceded it. Binco the Crimean War, the banking and other credit institutions "have been made constitu. ents of nn Imperial Dank, organized in 1859, ond thoe paper money fsyned by this general bank ig, like that begun in 1643, the paper money of Russia, It is practically tho only money iu cirenlation, and is at a discount. This monoy in called Bills of Credit, and 750,000,000 of roubles are in eirculation, ‘Tho Uritish Slatenu'’s Year Book for 18753 says distinetly, sperking of the depreciated *greenbacks” of the Russian Governmout ¢ Alter ton years of fmproved Uuanelal mwanagement, there remaiued, however, stil]600,u0,000 {roubiles} of nutes, cireulating at tho Tale of thireo paper rouble to ono wiver soutle, As & final remedy, tho Impertal Qovernment withdrew, In 1543, the whiolo of tho old 1aFor moucy, Introduclug, 1u its stead, & new fura of bank-notis, with forced currency [legal-tender), My thesa and othier mesus, particutarly e eatablisliment of the Htate Bunk shove mentioned, the nowminal value of the pajer money, called Lills of Credit, was consld. orubly raived, 0 0410 taud only at from 30 0 16 per cent discount, Ar, Drxsvow, having a potent of his own for regulnting tho uatioual finunces, hns no other uso for facts than to twist them futo o support of his own thearics. 1o resorts to numerous oxtracts to show that the currency for fourteen years before tho Crimican War wasat par. We havo shown that, in 1843, all the Government paper which was then de- precinted was called in, and,was succeeded by u uewspaper currency issued by the Janks, and made legal-tender by the Government,— asort of partnership afair, Mr, Dzxsrow, however, insists that it woa exclusively a Gov- emuental currency, ‘To that assertion ho udberes without any autbority. In onme of the quotations made by him from a French poper in 1853, just before the Crimean War, the floancial ewbarrasumonts of Russia are stated, including {he Government credit given to various banks and other fnstitutions, which, it is s0id, Is ** a guaranty whick es lablishes & complate joint responaibility betrween the eredit of those eatublishments and that of the State This is exactly the * partuer- ship " of which we spoke. The banks issue wmoney whish the Goveramint borraws, and THE CHICAGO TRIBUN SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1876. tho banks and tho depositors nre accured by | n tho recent elections the Arroxsst Govorn- the pledgo of the nationnl eredit, We must fuvite attention to the very graphic description, quoted by Mr, Dexstow, of the schomo resorted to in 1837, to bring paper money—legal-tender—up to par. This whs to redeem the depreeiated paper at its current valua in coin, and to advanco the rato of redemption progressively until the paper was equal to par, This is substantial- Iy Mr. DExsrow's own plan, but the attempt to executo it disnstrously falled. Just £ oon ns the Government ccased to redeom the currency, it foll back to its low valuo na irredecmablo paper, The Russinns redecmed in coin, whilo JIr, DExsLOW proposes to re- deem in paper. 'Thatis, to take up n noto with 85 cents in coin witha new noto for 83 cents, tho lntter being redeemable on de- maond in specie, and to be refssued, but how is not explained, Tho statement that no Government has ever‘been able to maintain o non-intercst. bearing paper currency at par is sustained by the whoto history of Iussinn finances; that Governmont at last having been compelled to cnllin all jta paper money, and to delegato to tho banks the nuthority to issue bank notes, innid of which tho Government lent its cradit; and even this device hins not been equal to place those notes at par, becauso tho Gorvernment has borrowed too much from tho banks. The entire citations of JMr, DxxaLow conflrm the universal experienco that Gov- ernments cannot keep & paper currency in circulntion at par. If it redeem it in coin, there i3 no way in which the enrrency can bo rot out again except in payment of expenses, nnd this adds to the debt. And if it be not redeenuable in coin, it is necessarily at a dis. count. Mr. D.'s assertions all hang on tho construction ho placos on a paragraph from n French newspaper in 1853.4, Butthat flimsy nuthority docs not pretend to aflem that tho Russian Government began to redeom its notes in 1840, and kept it up until 1833, ‘There is mo hint or intimation as to how nany notes wero redeemed in each or any year, or whero the silver was procured for that purpose, and the whole nssumption must be set down rs apoeryplal. The ouly thing that seems clear from the authori- ties o cites is the attempt made in 1862 by the Russian Government to do what ho says our Government can easily do, viz.: to ele- vate her legal-tender to par with coin, which proved so lamentable a failura that the Rus- sian Government has never ventured to re- peat tho ahsurd nnd costly experiment, Tho fact is, it is only tho private capital of o country which can issue notes, redeem them in coin, and keep them in circulation. PROHIBITION IN MAINE, The probibitionist fanatics of Maine are at it ngnin hammer and tongs, and are now bo. sieging the Legislature for a now law to take tho placa of tha old ono which they connot enforce. The new legislation which they nak will be decidedly sweoping, if they obtainit., The first two sections of the bill prohibit the manufnsturo of intoxicating liquors within the State undor very severo ‘penaltics. One exception, however, is made, evidently with the view of concilinting the Aaine Graugers. Any one can manufacture cider from apples grown in Maine and sell it in quantitics of a gallon and upwards. The exception to an outsider will scem n very inconsistent one, unless the pro- hibitionists can devise some monns of legislating that temperanco spples alone shall grow upon the trees, yiclding a juice that no cider-mill in Maine can mako intoxi- cating. ‘The cider from Maino apples hith- erto has b2en quita ns intoxicating as that from Massachusotts or Iilinois apples, and wo do not 5ea how the farmers of that Btato ara going to roisa tectotal apples or con. stract mills that will extract cold water from tho fruit. It looks as if tho prohibitionist *‘manjacs” wero afraid of tho rural districts, or clse that they are speculative and seeking to get up o corner on Maine cider, which is about the poorest cider in tho world. I'ho probibitionists do not stop with this, Their bill provides that liquor may be soized at any time or in any place, and destroyed at once, ~vithout any process of law or any proof, and no action to recover damages iz permissible, ‘[he penalty forselling liquor isasseverons that for manufacturing, and a second conviction involves imprisonment. All clerks and ns- sistants of persons who sell liquor are to bo tronted na principuls, The fifth section of the Dbill declares thot sny perron who shall keep asign or notico of any kind upon or within any part of his premises indicating thnt intoxieating liquors are sold thorein shall bo adjudged a common seller, and fined ag such for each ond every day which said sign ha3 been upon the building. The past prohibition legislation in Maine has been notoriously o failure, and the peti- tion of thess prohibitionista for additional stringont legislation is one of the strongest ndmissions that suchis the case, If the pres. ent prohibition legislation were practically oporative, they would not pppeal for any ad- ditional law. If the Logislature of Maine, however, shall be so shiort-sighted ns to forfolt the personal rights of every man in Maine nnd hand them over to o haudful of rabid fanaties, it should further legivlate with view to the speedy failure of the now luw that thoge fanntics moy shoot at sight any person found manufscturing, selling, or drinking liguor, even if it be wino at the Sacrament or cider in the family, made from the miser- able sour-npple trecs which flourish among the rocks of that cold, bleak, barren Stato, Gen Neaz Dow wight bo made Genernlissimo of the furces, and require gvery farmer from Skowhogan to Eastport to swoar ho will raise nothing but temperance apples, othorwise #hoot him on tho spot. There aro raspber- rios, elderberrics, whortleborries, choke-chor- rios, hops, spruce, and dandelions growing in the State of Maine, and sodn and salokatus aro brought into the State. 'There is danger lurking in all thess articles. Becr ts mado out of them, and it may be intoxicating, and people who live npon red herrings aro always thirsty, Theso things should be looked after, for oternul vigilance is tho price of sobriety in Maine, Two important dispatches, touching tho couflict between the Vatican ond the tem. poral powers, appeared in our foreign news yestorday worning. The first of these ny- serts that the Catholio clergy and laymen in Germany Are using their influence with the Popo to obtain Lis sanction for their formal submisgion to the FALck laws ; that ono of tho most promivent Ultrawontane losders, Heir REIcHENSPERGER, has nlready issued pamphlet preparing the way for such a com. promise ; and that the Bavarian Minister of War has been commanded by the Govern- ment to discontinuo the exemption of priosts and theological students from conecription. The second dispatch affirms that the Popal Nuncio at Madrid, whose recent arrogant dictation to the Liberal party of Bpain will mant was compolled to accopt the allinnco of the defonders of religious liberty in order to secure o religious victory, Theso dispatches nre significant ns showing that Ultramontan. jsm {3 weakening, and that slowly but sure. 3y it is proparing itself to accept the inovita- hle, CHANGE OF TARIFF VIEWS IN NEW EN- GLARD. Wao reviowed, tho other day, nn article from the Springfleld Zepullican, which showed liow public opinion in that important section waa drifting far away from the landmarks of protoction by tazation, and turning steadily townrds tho truo Amerienn doclrino of frec- dom of trade, 'The Boston Free.Trado Club, an active and aggressive body, lins issued an nddrers, from which we quote these stirring. prssagen : Wo boltese that tho highest right of property fs tho right 4o freely oxchange ft for other properly: and that any system of law which drufes o restricta this right for the purpose of aubscrving privato oc class fne tereata reathrms tho principlo of slavery, We beliove that o muan who confesses thiat ho can't st an honest livlug by hia own exertlons, and there- faro calls upon {be mmm}nuy 10 tax themsalves fo lielp support him, fs » pauger in every renze of the worid: and that the time has come to stap talking about panper labor abroad, and ser If wo cannot get along without pauper 1abor at hume, Wa believe that tho system of protector taugt and cartied ontsn the United Htates, only In villainy to the system of American slavery as §t existed prior to the Rebullion, And 80 belloving, wo pledge oureclves aaa Club, in the Intereet of abuniance, human comfort, and Lap. pinesa, and in_opposition to reatriction, ncarcity, pov- erty, and discomlort, to do all i our posor to advence the recognition and uatiousl adoption of tho priuci- plea of free trade, Note the saying sbout * pauper Iabor,” 1t Lits the nail on tho head nnd drives it home, ‘I'he Boston Z'ranseript, in an article on this Club, says: The brek (among tho protectiontats) really occurred #ome time ago 10 New Engiand, among Jeading manne facturers who found that the protective tarif, by fue creastug tho cost of thele raw materials, thelr dyen, aley, more than counterbatanced tho protoction of iheir completed fabrics, and this specific fact, brought homo 10 them, led tha way to the generalzation that manus factures, perliapas, after all, would stand ua good n chauce 63 nuw if ovurything entering Into thelr mate- 1al weere untazed, whilo certaluly tho peopin would jtatn the beuclit of the best prices fo ba oblained in the markets of the world, Adding to thoro thua con- verted from practical consiilorations thoso who go for frendom, Juatico, sud equality fn all things on * gen- wral prineiplos,” and hold that protection protecta voly the favorud fow at tho expenso of tho great body of thie people, snd frea trads isa already a pretty reapect ubla foothold in New England, »The English market is opening to New Englund manufactures, Tho latest news on the subject way published in our dispatches of yesterdny, "Cho agent of ono Fall River mill has just returned from Engliand, after receiving orders for 25,000 pleces of cotton cloth per weok. 'This is a great gein, It hns been mado possible by the ‘hard times, which have so cut down prices and the costs of pro- duction that our manufacturers, despite the terriblo burden laid upon them by the higheat tariff in tho world, ean undersoll foreign com- petitors, 'Their oyes aro unow being opened o tho fact that they could much better do this if they were not heavily tazed upon their raw materlals, their machinory, their build- ings, aud their transportation, Going outside of Now England, wo find #igng of the samo rovival, At tho annual meoting of tho Sheflield (Eng.) Chamber of Commerce, last Wednesday, the Prosident said that that city and Birmingham could never again control the world's mnarkets ns thoy bhed lately, American competition, in consequence of her chenper food, is again begiuning to be felt in the manufacturo of cdged tools. Now wo must import the stoel noeded for these edges. Oro it for ita pro- duction is not found within our borders. It is imported from Sweden and elsowhore, Con ooy one Lo so bhnd as not to soe that lowering tho presont- high tarif on this steel would cnable us to mnke edge-tools cheaper, and, thereforo, to export thom moro largely? A year ago, testimony taken beforo a Ifouse Committeo thowed that ono of tho largest Amorican anufscturers of axds, cliiscls, otc,, hiad lost, on nccount of the'high tarill, tho large for- ¢lgn trade ho ouco enjoyed, nud was serionsly thinking of moving his works from Central New York ncross tho Canadian frontier in order to get cheaper stecl and so regain his old export trade, Illinois is prepored to indorse at the ballot- box the most” sonsible of tho resolutions udopted at tho lato ** Independent” Conven. tion, held ot Bloomington, to-wit: Tho protectiva systom, whetbor of tarffe or pate ents, having been perverted 1o subserva private futor- eaty rather than promoto pullic welfaro, ahiould be vigorously reformed or abollatiud, ‘F'his question comes up before Congress in ahopeful way, BIr. Burcuanp, of the Ways and Means Comimittee, has had passed aveso- lution caling upon the Secrotary of the ‘I'veasury for information ns to tho eof- fect of the nddition of the - 10 per cent to tho tarill a year ago, “This resolution,” says the telegram, *‘is based upon information that the repend has resulted in o material reduction of revenue,” Thero can bo no doubt of this, Secrstary Bristow shown it in his Inst report, and no ono has yet boen boldly ignorant enough to contra- dict him, The addition to the duties was, in fact, n swindlo on the country. Cougress found the Government in need of revenue and the national industries in o lauguishing state. 'The remedy wos a plain one. "Phe purely rovenus duty‘on tea and coffeo should have boon re.cnacted for tho sake of revenue, and a further roduc- tion of nt least another 10 per cont in the taxes on consumens should have been made for the sake of lightoning the load which was crushing life out of our manufacturca, What was doua? Just the roverse. No revenue taxes wero leid, sud an additionn! burden of 10 per cent was clupped upon the consuming public, which reduced thicir ability to buy goods in similar proportion. ‘The result Lins been that mills have stopped production; men have been thrown out of work; and business bas languished. ‘Churs. day’s dispatches onnounced that the coal- wine owners hove decided that no coal shall bo mined in Penusylvania from Feb, 7 to March 11, This fint throws several thou. sands of men, with numberless women and children dependent upon them, out of em. ployment. Wbhy? Bacause general busincss in 50 lax that continued production of coal would overstock tho warket. Tho mills ara producing so little aud the railrouds are emrrying so little, that the demand for coal is comparatively smaull. Buppose the right remedy had beon applied. Buppose the tea and coffee duties hiad beon relmposed, ana tho gencral tariff tax on tho peoplo had been lowered, The first would have given the Government all needed woney, and the sgeond would have started into operation many sn jdlo mjll. Goods would have been produccd more cheaply, and thereforo ex- ported in larger quantities, The idler would Lave been employed. 'The mincs wonld have boou stoadily drained of their black diamonds, Business, and with it confidence, would have tonnial year prosperous nnd atrong. Thisls no idls fancy-sletch, Tho stato of things which it pictures has been and will be. Wo hnve the power to monopolize the world's market, ns far as somo great staples aro con- cerned, for no othar nation on the face of tho aarth hea such nbundant and suchchenp food, | and forco, and raw mnatorinls, Tho West furnishes the first and lam in houndless profusion, and our wnst’ coalbeds, our myrind water-powers, provide the sec. ond. For the cotton mannfncturo wo Tive overything,—tho raw materfal, the jron for machinery, the water and coal for motivo porwer, tlo labor, the food to feed the labor, In the near future, when the barbarism of protection by excessivo taxation iy abendoned to barbarians, we shall ntilize theso forces, and our mechanies will unito with our farmers in bringing about the golden ngo of wommercinl froedom, when tariffs are framed for rovenue, not for specinl interests ; for tho vast many, not the greedy fow. ) 0] A few days siuco wo had an articlo com- menting upon Me. Hexpnicrs as the proba- blo Domocratic-Confederato candidato for the Presidency, and exposing him ns the Ameri- cou 'Frinmer and Oily Gammon. In the course of the article wo alluded to a speech which he mado nt Shelbyville, Ind., in Feb~ runry, 1863, to an nudience of Southern sym- pathizers nnd Copperheads, whivh ho com. menced without tho knowledge that therowns a reporter of the Cincinnati Gazctle it attend- ance taking down his ulterances. As soon a8 this fnct was brought to his nttention, lio im- miediately changed his tack and censed his Copperhend Innguage. ‘The Gazelte having noticed the atticle, Lina reproduced thoso por- tions of the speech which ho delivered while ho supposad he was not reported, and was talking to his secession sympathizors alone, and e reprint it elsewhere. Wo call the at. tention of our readers toit, in testimony that wo did not misstato the facts in the ease, and that they may be convinced of the malignant hatred of the North and of the Government that this man expresked who is now looming up as the probable Demomatio candidate for the Presidency, After Mr. Hexoricss hnd rung the changes upon the ald slcreotyped lies that the North had provoked the War, lo procoeded to ‘“fira” Copperhiend hearts in tho approved atylo then in vogue in the South. IIe laid down before his secesh audienco the Sonthern dogina that the office of tho Constitution wes to conserve and porpetunte slavery ; that slavery was the corner-stone of the RRepublic, and, in fact, the Constitution itself, and with. out slavery that tho Government was not worth preserving, In his own language: “You msy hear prayers in our churches, your sous may go out to the Latle-fleld, but our country in not to bo restored ns it was until Abolitionisi is buricd never to bo resur- rected,"—that is, untilslavery is ro-cstablished and perpetuated. This speech wns mnde after the issue of the Ewancipation Proclamation, of which ho said: *‘But when tho procla. mation of Jan. 1, 1863, is issued, and ho is told that he shall mnke it his business to fight to make.negroos free, whero has the pride of tho soldior gone? Can lio fight such a battle as that? 1lo cannot do it.” Beforo Gov. Mespnrcns discoverod tho presence of the Cincinoati (azette reportor ho passed o tho Colored Enlistment bill, which he proceeded to denounco with the most venomous malignity, his andienco join- ing in the chorus of “Kill off ali the d—d niggers,” o defled the President to send [ndiana troops into baltle dopending wpon negro troops for support. He incited his hearors agninst tho troops, and his ** hearors” re-cchoed his sentiments with demonino yella and thrents of violonce. Upon the subject of general enlistmont he did not advisa any- body to enlist, * beeause ho was not going bimself, and wouldn't recommend any one to do do o thing ho wonld not do himself.” With regard to deserters, said Ar. Hex. prices : **If anybody, howover, comes into your neighborhoods without law and pro- poses to tako anybody away by forco, that is & matter without law, and you had best attend to that gentle- man ot once,” to which his nudience roplied with shouts : ““Wo'll attend tothem, old follow.” Upon tho subject of acom. promise hie demanded ihat the Emancipation Proclamntion shonld bo Zuken back / and that tilnvery should bo restored to the South. In his own langungoe: *I am ready to say to the poople of the South : ¢ Cowo in again and wo will secura to you your constitutional rights (that is, slavery), and if you desiro them, ad- ditional gunrautees.! If thero is nny man who desires to continue fighting and spend- ing tho people’s money and lives, I do not sywpathizo with him.” Iow much farther the great American Trimmor wouldhave gone with his secesh wmalignity had ho not discov cred the Gazette reportor, it is difMenlt tosny, Wo commend theso extracta to our renders an showing tho real mnimnus of the mnn whom the Democrats proposo to honor with a Presidentisl nomination, Of one ihing Mr. Henbnioxs may be assured. Just a8 he discovered the Gasetle reporter at Shel- byvillo wkon ho commonced his secossion #poceh, ho will discover the Tnion soldiers and tho Union peoplo of this country when he commonces his Presidential campaign, Thoy will not forget his vonomous and treacherous attack upon them in the. tryiug days of tho Rebellion, " ottt S— PRIVATE NOONAN'B BREECHES. Privato Nooxay, of the Fifth United States Infantry, Company G, has a romarkablo pair of lreeches, or rather had a remarkable pair, for én Jan, 23, 1875, they underwent cremation, Whethor he has bnd broeches since that time wo know not, ns the record iu significantly eilent; but wo can afiirm at least that ho has not had the remarkable pair, There was n soldier who requested tho *fhoo fly not to bother him,” becauss ho belonged to Company @, but Privato Nooxan's breeches hava bothored him, 'They have bothéred the wholo army, bothered Congress, snd are liablo to bother tho whole people in this Centennlal ycar, On the 23d of Jaunary, 1873, thera wns o firo at ort Loavenworth which consumed YPrivate Noownan's breechies, nnd thoir soul has been traveling on ever ‘since, and fs still traveling. On tho 10th of February, Pri- vote Noovan came to the conclusion -that, s ho Lnad lost his breeches in the servico of his country, his country ought to givo him a'now pair. He accordingly applied to the Post Adjutant, Tho noxt day the Licuteuont of the Fifth Infantry indorsed his lotter, and the broeches went to the Captain of the Fifth, who indorsed them, and, throe days later, forwarded them to the Colonel.of the Pifth, who indorsed them, oud sent them on to the Chief Quartermaster of the Depart~ ment, who roturned them to tho Assistant Adjutant-Goneral, who returned them to the Commanding Oficor of Fort Leavenworth, calling attention to * Goneral Ordor No, 18, requiring o Board of Burvey to bo appointed. The brocchos had swung round their firat circlo, On the 6th of March the Board was appointod to murvey Private Nooxan's breeclics, and, ns tho First Lieu- tonnut of tho Fifth had negleoted to indorse tho brecches, ho placed his fist alro npon them, Tho Boord surveyed tho breeches and made a roport, snd onco niore the breeches commencod to travel. . "I'ho report wont on tho 16th of April to tho Assistant Adjutant. Goneral of tho Depnrtment of Missouri, and the A. A, G. of tho D. of M. fivo days lator acat it to Brovot Maj,-Gen. Jonn Pore, who aont it to tho Adjutant Genernl of the Army. Tho brecches had awung round their seeond circle. Moanwhile o fragment of the brecches had beon swinging round a eirclo of its own. On tho 19th of March, at which tino tho Board of Survey was bolding an in- quest upon the origloal breeches, n lottor from Privato NooNax nsking for tho appoint. ment of tho Board starled on its travels. ‘[his satellita of the original broeches went to the Acting Assiatant Quar- termnster on the 20th, ‘T'wo dnys later ho returned it to the Post Adjutant, who sont it to the Board of SBurvey on tha 23d, who sent it back again on tho 27th to tho Post Adju- tant, who handed it over to the Post Quarter- mastor on the J0th, who returned it to the Board April 8, plastered all over with indorwe- monts, This was the only journey made by the satellite, but the original breeches wero not idle meanwhile, On the 24thof April they renched Gon, Sueroan in Chieago, who re- ferred them to tho Adjutant;General of the Army. No grass was growing under Privato Nooxan's breeches, On the 28th, the Adju. tant-Gonoral sent theni to tho Judge-Advo- cato-Gonernl, and, on the 30th, he sont them back with his compliments, and on the 3d of May the Adjutant tonderly handed them over to tho Quartormester-General for examina. tion, Mo examined tho hreeches, in. dorsed them, and sont them back, On tho 19th, the Adjutant-Geueral sent {hem to tho Becrotary of War. There for a time tho breeches stopped traveling and the weary were nt rest, Thoy could temporarily get no farther, Iow Privato Noowax fared until the following December without broeches wo do not know, nor do we like to iuquire too curiously, The wind was probably tem- perod to the shorn lamb. ‘When Congress assembled, the breeches commenced to travel agaln ay merrily as over. On tho 81st of December the Secre- tory of War sent them to the ¥ouse of Rep- resentatives, nnd on the 12th of January, 1876, o resolution nuthorizing the issuo of a new pair wns referred to tho Comimittee on Military Affairs, and tho documents, costing more than the original breeches, havo been printed. It is sad to reflect there must- be o doubt in Privato NooNan's mind whother ho will got his new breeches even now, for the House Committee must roport the broeches back to the Ilouso. Our Cantsr will have to lot his onglo fly ngnin, aud Private Noovax’s bluo breechos flnunted in the faces of tho Confederate Brig- adier-Generals will rovivo unplensont mem- ories and open up old rores, and there will bo no and of eloims from unbreschod Confed- orates in the Sunny South, and Bey Hivy will undoubtedly scok to establish the fact that Fort Leavenworth in a Paradise, and that Privato NooNax has no more need af breeches than Avax had in % Paradise. Even if Private Nooxan's Dbrecches should cseape theso contingeucies, they must enconnter the spirit of Democratic reform, and if o Democrat bates anything it is o Fed- cral uniform, especially when it has a soldier insido of it. But oven if the breoches should go through the ITouss, thoy must go through the Senato and the Presidont must sign them, ‘Thon and only then can Privato NooNax get Iig now breeches, upon which we suggest that the thirty-threo indorsemonts of theold pair bo printed in full. We hope he will bs succcssful. fe lost his old broeches in the gervico of lis country nnd deserves a now pair. The interests of the national economy have been subserved. There iz no job, or stenl, or'subsidy, or Credit Mobilier in the old pair. Ropublics should not be ungrate- (ul. But whether Privato NoonNan gats his now breechies or not, Lo mny console himself with the reflection that nover before was mortal man so twisted, woven, tied, nud wound up in red tape before, not even in the British Circumlocution Office. Ho will go down to poaterity side by sido with Dicxens’ Anroun CLENNAN, and his bréeches will be as famous as thoso which Heove's student saw in tho Hartz Mountain A Washington dispatch on * Our Foreign Bervice,” published in 'I'mz 'Pomuna of Wednesday, scoms to have givon some per- sons o wrong impression 08 to tho salnries of Consular oftivens. Tho dispatch quoted from tho rocords tho roceipts of o number of Con- sulates and failed to stato that theso went, not to the Consuls, but to tho Government. ‘The fact is that members of the diplematio sorvico are paid stated salarios, almost with. out exception, and are mero accounting of. ficers for tho foes they recsive. ‘The only ex- ceptions, we believo, to this rulo aro in a fow of the cases in which the roceipts nro less than, or rjust about equal, the salary which would be puid for the servites rendered. It is absurd for the Democrats to talk of cutting down the presont Consular salaries. It moy ba that the honor of ministerial positions will induce men to tako them for less pay, but the scant honar of a Consulate will not atone for oy greator rink of starvution than tho averago Consul now runa. A meeting of Wostern men interoated in the trottivg turf has just clossd in this eity, and tho gathoring &id not dispareo without adopting cortain resolutionn and spproving cer- tain plang for tha bottor represantation of Weet- orn juterests in tho National Asaociation. That somo causca for complaint havo oxixted will not ba quostioned, bat that the Westorn turfmen have improved the situstion as tho result of deliberations is far from cloar, Tho fast that somo of the prime movera lntho Convention just edjourned, are partion whose per sonal stauding fs not alove reproach, and whoso record in turf matters will not bear closo inspaction—this fact alone will and abould greatly detract from the weighit and in- flucnce of tho action taken by the Coovention. ‘Tho boes mon {n tho Convention wero not, as often bappens, the most potent in shapiog its courws ; the best-men united in the formal ex- preeaion of dlssout trom the most important feature in the proceediogs, Tho dwsenting mi- vority inclades Gen, BinarkTow, and Meusrs. Nzrrey, Baxoens, Maysus, and others of equal prominence,—turfmen whoso viows will nok fail to command tuo respociful cousiderstioun of tho Natiomal Association, That body s probably not dluposod to elighs or injure the interosts of the Weat ; 14 could ill afford to dise criminatolf it deaired to do so. The trotting turl neods m national jurisdiction; the enforce- mout io Dlinois of a daocree, penally, or sus- ponalon originating in Msine, und vice vorsa, A ooufllst of authority would breed coufasion snd frustrate the attempt to punish fraud and coms tion, and this it ean obtain Ly selecting as ity reprerontatives men who have no axes to prind, and whose lionesty, compstenoy, and high atana. fog will compel attention and reapsct OBI1UARY, TPPOLYTR DUASARD, The French statenman, Hirrontre Dussinn, died in Parla on 'Iuoaday lnat. o was bora in tho yoar 1708, In mu‘ ho was ano of tho ed. itors of tho Reper{oire'de I'Indusirie, a paper do- voted to mechanical invontiona. Afterwardshe contributod somo notable papers on economly subjecta to the Revue Encyclopedique, the Dul letin da Ferrusae, and tho Temps, In 1842 he published & wwork on **'The Financial Conditlon of England, and the Measures Proposed by the Whigs and Torice.” In 1843 he was madg chiel oditor of tho Journal des Economistes, which position ho held threo yonrs, and he alag sunotatod tho works of Tuncot In tho * Colles. tion of the Principal Econvmiats.” In 1848 he woa P'rofoct of the Beino, and was also elocted & membor of the Council of State by tho Constitu. ont Assombly. 1io waa one of the fow political aconominta in Franco who supporied the Repub. lio in 1848, OTHER DRATHS, Goen. Joaquiy Tirto, tho Carllat officer whose death was reportod on Woednesday lnat, was edn. | cated for servico in the Royalist army of Bpain, and in 1860 commanded nnd did wervico in the ranks of tho Carlise insurgenls. Upon tho fail. uro of tho insurrection, ho was captured by the Toyal troops, and owod to Queen IsAnzLiA's clemoncy hus lifo, which bad beon forteited by law. Nows lias boon recoived fram Padus. of the doath of Bahator Fraxcrs Minwscarcnt Enrizzo, o famous Orfontal acholar sud suthor, s well za translator of worka on Oriental literature and goography. "HengN ErizA BexsoX, the wifa of Wrnttax Lrovp Gannison, diod at Boaton Highlands, Mass,, on Wodnoaday last, {n hor G5th yoar. —_—— Bomo of tho prisonors in the Dotroit House of Corroction havo issued an addresa ywith the viow of *‘promoting the causo of temperanco;® which address **most carnestly prags that tha citizenn of this and other Btates wlll bo ploased to take such messures aa will wholly suppreas tho Hquor-trafioand beor-bouscs;” and “chnrges tho rum-shops and liquor-dealers™ with, among othor things, **dopriving us of freodom.” Now, temporsnca {8 & vory good thing, and any ra tlonsl effort in its bolialf is descrving of domw mondation, But fsu's it a little unreasonabl( that these prieoners phould lay tho entire ro. sponsibllity of thoir crimes upou the shouldent of thoso who sold liguor to them, and thus utterly divest thomeolvos of ol blame on account of thoir own malofao tions? That crimo very frequontly resulta from Intoxication, {aa fact thatcannot bo gainsaid; but, in ordecthat intoxication shall be produced, somothing more is nocoesary than tho selling of tho liquor: eomebody hns got ta buy it apnd drok it; and, notwithstand. ing tho nssortion of tho Dotroit con. victs, the fact cannot succossfully bo impeached ihat tho buyer and drioker 18 at leagt equally responsible with tho soller for the evil conse- quences resultiog from the inebristed conditlon of tho former. However opinfons may differ a8 to tho bosat modes of promoting tomperance, tho Dotroit convicts may rost assurod of one foct ; and that s, that the public generally wilt hold sll persons to a thorough individual re. sponsibility for overy criminal nct committed white under tho intinence of liquor; and will yield noassent to thoe aoctrino that intoxics. tion I8 a proper ploa in abatement of punish. wment for wrong-doing. —_—— Thoero s & faomiliar sonnd about the wordi * Black Hilla.” We remombor to havo hoard of those happy rogions before., With tho begine ning of winter the news from tho Black Hills are rived less froquontly and was lesa preciso whor it come than doring the summer months, By and by tho Black filla bocsme a porfoot blank ; nothing was hoard from thom. Notwithatanding, tho Hills aro atul thore. Thoy stand like Jacon in tho garb of Esav, waiting to bo blessod, and foarful lest thoy may bo cursod. If wo may bo- lievo the roports from Choyenno and Omaha, thoy aro likely to bo blossod. Tho nousually mild winter has allowod tho oponing of com- manications, aud wo hear of several expeditions from Choyenne to tho Hills, ‘These are perilons ventures, for o mild winter, aftor all, i8 & com- parative torm ; and tho weather which o mild «minter bringa on the plains is not to bo snoezed at. The oxpoditiona from Cheyotne have vir- tuslly taken their livos in their hands in thotr stiempt to make the journoy across the plaina. It {a excecdingly doabtful whether they will find gold onough to pay their oxpensos, to say nothing of tho oxtraordwnary riska which thoy ngsume. Tho nows from Owaha i8 that arrango- monts bavo been made for the opening of & reg- ular stags route belweon Choyonne and the Hills, Operations will bo begun in April. Alto- gethor, thore ia rensou to say ghat tho Hills still oxiat in tho sonso that they are atill supposed by a large numbor of peovle to bo the place of do- pouit of inoxhauatible woalth, —_— Not l;)m: ago tho Atlantio Monthly published an articlo in bobal? of the speclal-interest policy which is delusively called *‘ protection.” It was by 3r. Joskrn WiAnToN, who is—of courso—of TPonusylvanla, Whon it was published, yo rofer- rod to tho fact thal the nutbor was legally plun- doring the American peoplo of a largo eum of monoy, every yoar, by meansof the tariff on nickol. Wo wero unable to give thafigures at the time, but have them now. The duty is 30 conts per pound ! ‘Tho revonue to the Government is $8566 por annum (rom the import of nicxel. The yleld to Mr. WimarTon ls about $250,000 a yoar. Wo lhavo hore a caso of partnership—one of many—betwecn a Pennsylvanian and tha Gov- ornment, Tho latter lovies a tax which coats the pooplo of the United States 250,856 o year. It contents itself with tho €850, and gonerously allowa J. W. to grab tho other §250,000 of the poople's money, This ia pleasaut, no doubt, for Wuantow, but what do the paeopls think abont {s? Old Joux Apiua wes sound on tho carrency queation, a5 will ba showa by the following ox- tract from lotter whioh ha weote to Col. Joazru Wanp: 1t will be etornally In valn fo talk of public credit nntil wo turn to a pure, nnmixed clrculatiun of slnd- urd gold und sliver, There cun never Le & govorus anent of laws in monay matters without a tixed, philo- sophical, and mathematical standard, Oontricts can nover be tnviolable without & stable’ staudard, En- land sud [Holiaud have bewn modais in this reapect, will youtuze (o eay thure 18 not & villaga in the saved provinces in whicl this subjecs i mot better undor- a100d Wiun §8 18 i any part of Amorica, There 1s nok n Murgomsster, Penstonary, Coynaslor, or Holepen— aud thiaro are BOAT 8,000 of tlieni—who doea Doy under- stand this wubject better than Haxtnvox didj and who hias not a more mscred Togxcd W the scieatite principles and standard of it Old Joux Avams' views, 8a exprosscd above, grow out of the experionca of the country with reference to the wruiched and worthless Contl nootal currency. 3L P'aspELOUT, tho famous Parslan orchiestral leader, rocuntly wrota to Lho great violinist Wirugiay, whom ke had pogaged, but on soo- ond thonght discngaged, *' on scoount of heart~ broken Fraoct," that ** for a loug thne to come, no musiclan of your country can be sccepted.” The sbsurdity of M. Pispcrour's seatimontal patriotism 1s sbown by tho fact thay the pro- grammes of his Concerls Populaires aro coms= posed almost exclusively of Wianxs's, BlozanT's, Hixpxn's, Breruoven's, snd Menprrssoux's music, Iftho Psrisians can listen complacontly and aven enthusisstically to Gernian muslo, it 1 diticult to comprehend why thelr patriotiam should e offended by shio presenca of a German musiclan, There is evidently s Jarge amouat of fiddle~de-doe in French musical patriotism, The supply of centenariana continuos to in=- erease ab an alaming rate. Vermont vilaged sre produciag about two per day, and asbey sz all golng Lo the Centannial, (4 s fesred thad l;nl hooesty, The West Is entitlod 40 ao agual v by sunsmbered, has otified the Vatican that olos in dks ssausals of the Kasonal Amocts- ravived. We would have entered on our cen. | War Dspariment, Comunizsary Bubastency,” thers wilt be oo doutd ko Rluladelphis fer Sage