Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 25, 1876, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, RATBA OF BUPACRIPTION (PATADLE IN ADVANCE). Postage Prennid at thin Oten. Dally Rdition, postoald, 1 7688 cusiissssrureresens B13.:00 Tarta of year at same rata, Malled to any addrees FOUR WEI 1.00 SEhea. ) 3.00 Tet-W 600 WREKLY RUITION, POSTPAID, o AT oo Tob of Hrcpor 0057 Qlul enty, Por oo} b el twe 1bs ;ultlnll 10 conts & year, whioh we Spocimen coples sent froo. To pravent delay and mistakes, ha snre and aive Yost Offce address in foll, including Btate and Gouniy. Temittancos may be mads sither by dealt, oxpreas, PostOfica order, or In roglatered lotters, a4 our risk. TERMS TO CITY AUBACRIRERA. Daly, deliverod, Bunday exceptod, 23 centa vor weck, lly: detivered, Bunday tnclnded, O rgaa e Bunday A Corner Madison and Dearboras A00LEY'S THEATKE—Randolph etreet, between Clark and Lasialle, Engageniont of Eatie Putnam, ¥ Littls Barsfoot.' MoVIOKER'S THEATRE—Msdison street, between Pearborn and Siate, *' Hamlet.” ADELPHI THEATRE—Monroo street, corner Dear- horn, Varlety entertainment. WASTIINGTON CHAPTEIL NO. 43, R, A, M.—8ps- elat Convocatlon this (Tursday) evening at 7:00 a'clock, for work on the Mark Degrec, Vintitig Companions ‘ordinily nviled. " Tiy ardor of the M. b I, 1 CHAS, B, WRIOHT, Secretary. The Ghiengs Tribmre, Tuesday Morming, April 25, 1878, Groenbacks at the Now York Gold Ex- shange yesterday closed at 88, Tho Common Council hes entered upon tho canvass of tho vote cast at the late muni- cipal election, which will probably be com- ploted this evening at tho adjourned mect- ing. No disposition is shown by tho rotiring Aldermen to unreasonably postpono tho in- duction of their successors. Tho announcoment y pension of tha City National Bank of Chica- go produced o temporary excitement in com- mercial circles, but nothing which could be regarded ns more than a finencial flurry. Confidence is felt that tho losses will fall mwainly upon the stockholders, and that the resources of the bank are sufficient to pay dopositors nearly, if not quite, 1 full. Berxyar's finnl rejoinder to the replication of tho Houso manngors of the impeachment proceedings sots up 8 curious plea to the of- fect that his reaignntion ns Secrotary of War was in pursuance of an agreement or pledgo on tho part of Cryams, tho Chairman of the Tuvestigating Committes, that if BeLgNap would rosign no impeachment proceedings would be instituted. This ngreomont, it is urged, should estop tho Houso from prose- suting the impeachment. fhe newspaper troubles at Minnenpolis still continue. I'he unwalcome St. Poul peo- plo have got their proporty in their own hands at last by means of an injunction, and publish tho Minnenpolis Z'ritune this mom- ing, but all yesterdny hired persons triumph- e in the streots, blowing through the mellow horn their pensive souly, and trumpeting the popular indignation. Lnst night a muss. mocting was held, and the municipal heart is now fired with the ugly rosolve to go with- out news rather than aceept it at the hands of ‘he Philistine: The County Board has voted to adrertiso for proposals for the publication of tho de- linquent tax-list, instead of uwarding the job 24 & sort of gift to somo favored newspaper, as Los been tho practico heretofore. The plun is a good one, aud will doubtless result in o saving to the tax-payers; but why stop with tho tax-list, and why not include the publication of the proceodings of the Board a8 well? Why does tho gentle and incor- ruptible McOarFrey single out the Post and Muil os the organ of the Bourd to priut the proceedings without competition? This s not the only paper that has stood by the bummers and rings through thick and thin. Givo the rest of the apologists for corruption chiance, The suspension of Mlessrs, Scmnorper, Linpprom & Co., of Milwaukee, is undoubt- edly o direct consequence of the wheat-cor- ner whigh that firm engincered in the latler part of lnst year. ‘Lhey controlled the Blil- waukeo market, and put up the price so high a3 todraw in upon them vest quantities of the grain, which, at tho winding up of the corner, was left on their hauds, They “ car- riedit " all throngh tho winter, hoping to find n higher warket for it this spring, but failad to discover it. ‘The corner excitement enabled many farmens to obtain 1auch better prices for their wheat than they could other- ‘wise have done, but the cornering firm was swamped wltimately by the transaction. 'Ehis is the natural outcomo of nincteen out of avery twunty corners fn produce, aund it is surpriking that men can yot bo found Luxdy enough to attompt tho operation, s S A ——— Tho Committee on Expenditures in the Poat-Ofiico Dopurtmont has, after a thorough invostigation, concluded that Alr. JEwELL knows how to keep o Post-Otlico and wmnn- 8go tho business of mail transportation this eido of tho Mississippl River at lenst, Some- bow tho credulous Democracy hnd lenrned through & disappointed contractor, whuse failure to imposo upon the Department had greatly affocted hig sincority, that tho threo great linus from Chicago to Omuhu—ilo Northweatern, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and Mock Island—had each been pnid monthly for doing the same service, the alleged schome buing simply that of alternating, one rosd earrying the mails ono month, the other another, and 50 ou by regular rounds, After hearing much testi- mony and reading stacks of documents in the Depprtment, it has beon discoverod that some one has exaggerated, touss a wild term, asno such custom has ever existud, aud thut the Departmont records in this respeet fuil to give even a hint of any fraudulent trausnc- tions, What windmill will the Quixatic Con. federates waste their prowess upon next? ——ee— The Chicago producemurkets were unsettled yeatarday by the fino weathor, and news of outside failures, Mess pork was active and 20@25¢ per brl lower, closing at $21.65 for Msy and $21.90 for June, Lard wes less active and S@We per 100 lbs lower, closing at $13.274 for May and $13.45 for June, Meats were in moderate de- mand and easy, at Bjc for bozed shoul- dars, 126 for do short ribs, aud 1240 for do short clears. Highwines wers quict and firm, at §1.07 per gullon. Flour wus quiet and teady. closing al $1,01} for regular und 3 for dag. Gorn waanctivennd tolowes, clusing at vis tup Apeil and 48jc for May, Outs were qniet nnd o lowor, closing at 82fc for May and 32]e for Juns. Rye was dull at G6e, Barloy wns more active and 1@1}o lower, closing at f8jo for May and b3o for Juno. Hogs wera in good demand, and prices were firm, snlos making ot $7.70@8.00 for com- mon _to prime. Cnttle wore innctive and wonk, Sheep wero nominally steady. Ona Lundred dollars in gold would buy $112,62} in greenbacks at tho closo, Mr, Bratkr yesterday ol for tho purpose of making his statoment in oxplanation and deninl of the numerous alfe- gations and charges which have gainod pub- licity of late. Io was listened to with pro. found atlention, ond the full report of his apocch which we print this morning will be rend with absorbing interest throughout the nation, Tho address was a mnsterly defense, deninl, and explanation, and, 1t is sald, car- ried conviction of its truth to the minds of thoso who henrd it. It explainas entisfactorily the eircumstances under which Mr. Buamve becamo the owner of certain Fort Smith & Little Rock Rnilroad bonds; it denics the assertion that ho received $61,000 or any other sum from the Union Pacific Railrond ‘Wheat was active and HQ?‘:O lower, Compnny, and that he ever sold any bonds or veceived any monoy from the Atlautic & Pacific or tho Missouri, Kansas & Texas Rail- yonds, ‘This is comprohensive so far nas it oxtends, but it hardly covers the whole ground. No allnsion is made to Mr. Hangr- #oN's oction in Inying tho matter of the $64,000 beforo the Governmont Diractor's ; thero is nostatement from the Ion, Jaxes F, WiLson, of Jown, n Government Director, to show that Mr, BLaiNe's name was nob con- nected with that transaotion by rumor or by testimony in {ho investigation that was held: and, more imporinut still, in testimony or explanation from nny officer of the Union Pacific Road turowing any light upon tho matter of tho payment of tho $64,000 which Mr. ITAnnsox insisted upon inquiring into. It would have grently strengthened Mr. Brae's explanation and donial if ho could bove submitted facts showing precisely to whom aud for what purpose the sum of $64,- 000 was paid for somo worthless Arkansns raitropd bonds, and it is to bo regretted that Alr, Bramxe did not supply the missing link. CAULFIELD'S MARE'S NEST, Now that the evidenco beging to come ont in tho matter of the corruption in which Bansey Caunrienp rocently captured tho Presidont, and which he has sprend abroad with so much circumstantinlity aud oxaggern- tion through the Democratic nowspapors, the real merits of the matter nppear and show that it hingos upon the fact that s Repub- lican Administration uncarthed the most ntrocious corruptions the country has ever known, = #lie ntory of tho corruption may be bricfly told, and will bo of interest. In 1868, Presi- dent Gnant was in the very height of his popularity, and the Republican party moro poworful than it had over been beforo. It had commpnded itsolf to the whole conntry by its supprossion of tho Rebellion, by its work of roconstruction, and by the passage of the constitntional nmendments, and yet, to tho utter astonishment of the mnation, Grant was defested in New York by 12,000 majority. The country districts had given him the overwhelming majority of 50,000, enough to overcome SkYMOUR'S ma- jority in New York City, if thero had been an honest vote, including Brooklyn also with its majority of 13,000, and yet it was mot in tho city with a Domocratic mnjority of 61,000, thus giving the election to Sexxoun, although the Republicans had cast tho Inrgest vote that had over before beou given for nny of their eandidates, It became npparent to Congress that Gravt hind carried the State by thirty or Torty thousand majority and, undor tho nuthority of the Constitution, it passed alow to provent ballot-box stuffing aud fraudulont voting by appointing Doputy Maxshnls to superviso the voting in nll lnrge citios whero they might bo sent. The law was framed in tho interests of honmesty and tho purity of clections, and against revolu. tion, for ballot-box stufiing is as clenrly revolutionary oy o coup delal. The object of the law, therefore, was good, aud the expenditures under it were warranted and lawful, In carrying out the provisions of the law in New York City, on Supervisor Davexvont’s methods, during the yenrs from 1871 to 1874, thero wero expended at tho highest estimnte §33,000, 60 that the Trens- ury was drained by these drendfil conspirators & tho rate of $8,7i0 a yenr! Thisisthe whale sum snd substanco of the marc's nest which Bamyey Caveriern las discovered, and about which he is making such a hul- labnloo. This is the atrocions infamy of which the New York World says, iu a burst of pathos and bosh ; ‘The most melancholy news whiok it Las over foilen 10 our lot tolay befara the public, hardly excepting the asanssinatlon of Preald:nt LINCOLK, I8 that which we publiali this morolng reciting the politicul and moral aulcidoof President GRaNT, . o o Not BELKNAP'S crime euvelops tho Administration and the Hepub. Hoan party in 80 hlack an lufamy. A fow more vlection tigures will throw ad- ditional light upon this matter. At the next cloction Mr, Kenxay, now United Status Senntor, and one of the most popular men in Now York, ran for Governor on the Demo- aratic ticket ngainst Gen, Dix. KenNaN re. cvived 77,915 voten, and Dirx 6,200 ; mojori- ty for Kenwaw, 21, This was the ut. mont the Democracy counld do, with the strongest and most popular man in thoe State on thair ticket. Four years beforo, the Dom- ocrats hind returned 108,316 votes, to 17,348 for tho Ropublicans. Tho comparison shows that in four yeurs, notwithstanding the natural increnso of tho voting population, .the Democratio vote hud slrunk from 108,316 to 77,915, or 40,401 votes, which is just the numbor of frandulent votes that were stopped by tho law. 'The Ropublican vote in these four yems meanwhilo incrensed from 47,338 to 56,290, showing o natural and heulthy purty growth, The wholo cost of stap- ping this atrocious ewindls was not much over 75 cents o vote. It was a trifling amount, but it was effoctunl, aud the Domo- crats have uot recovored thoir majority of baltot-box stufting days, sinco, at the clootion Inat full, the united Demceratic and Liberal voto for Biokrow was only 79,274, against 49,614 for Bewasp, Republican, They had the united voto of all the fuctious, lammany, unti/Tammany, and Liberal, and yot failed to poli one-half the vote that was cast for Bev- soun. Davesvont's work of registration by blocks, s explained in his testimony printed in Tug Tusune of yesterday, struck a fatal blow at the Tween Ring, which, after steal- ing the property of the city, then deliberately stolo the vote. ‘I'he Twxen Ring buve beon compelled to deliver up the stolen property. They have also boon compelled to disgorgo the voty, ond this is just whero the shos pinches Basvey Osurriein, his Committeo, the New York World, wud the Democracy generally, It i the occasion of a second very dismal and Jugubrious wail that this woney was THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1876, taken from tho Beorot Scrvice fund. This drendful aconsation s ensily met. 'Tho Seeret Service fund wns established to ho ured in * the dotection and prosacution of crimon ngninst the United States,” to bo ex- pended under tho dircction of the Attorney- General, no provision being made for the preciso manner of cxpenditurs. Fraudulent voting has alwaya been recognized sa a crime against tho United States, and has been pun- ished as such. Supervisor DAYEXPORT Wna invested with authority to doteot and punish fraudulent voters, aud Attornoy-Generals Axenyan and Winriams directed the monoy to ba paid. That s all there is to this matter, This Ropublican corruption which Barvzr Cavrrierp has onearth. od, and nbout which bhe s making such pe hullabaloo, therofore, sums itself np in tho fact that it was on effort to stop Dom. ocratic fraudutent voting. The Demaocratio investigating committces have spont thou. sands of dollars to discover Republican delin. quencies, and now they aro all in holy horror beeauso thoy have run across a Republican effort to discover and defent Domocratio ms- calities, and becase it hns cost $35,000 to do it. If it had cost millions of dollars, instend of thia triflo, it would have boon cheap, Tho peoplo of Clicago have recently beon worked up to a dogrea of indignation bordering upon fronzy, ami suggestive of lamp-posts and hinlters, beoause & fow bummers stole the town offices, the wholo stenlings of which would amount perhaps to $100,000; but hora was n stenl involving tho highest offices in the land, an immonse patronage, and untold thou- sauds of money,—n steal perpetrated year alter year by tho most infamous ring in the Democratic records, which disfranchised the voters not ouly of New York City but of the whole State; and because it was a Domo- cratic stonl, and a Republican Adminiatration spent the trifling sum of $35,000 to break it up, we have ths spectaclo of tho whole Demo- oratic party howling at once, aud raising the absurd aud ridieutous hue-and-ory of ima peachmont | ATOLISHING TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION, In Sunday’s TriBUNE wWas a communication from Mr. R. M. Eppy on the subject of abolishing township organization. The writ- er takes n mistakon view of tho subject. Mo assimes that if township organization be abolished in Cook County, that such aboli- tion earries with it the present County Board, and nocessitates the election of a now Doard of threo Commissioners, makes the Trensurer Assessor, and thoe Sheriff Collactor, eto., olo. The Constitution has made special provis- jon for the governmont of Cook County, which government is difforont from that of all other counties, whether under or not ander township organization. It is a clnss of countics of itself. Tho Constitution provides that the affairs of Cook County shall be gov- erned by a Bonrd of fiftcen Commissionors. When this was adopted, the old machinery of township organization was in force, and tho Legislaturo provided only for so much of tho change as aubstituted the County Bonrd for tho Bourd of Supervisors. 'Tho vote this foll to abolish township organization will have tho effect only of gotting rid of tho remainder of the township mnachinery, It will then remain for tho Legislature to pro- vido such machinery for tho government of the county, in addition to tho Board of fif- teon Commissioners, as may be considerad advisable. The Citizens' Association, through its counsel, framed o bill for this purposo at the last session of tho Legislature, which pro- vided for the election of n Connty Assessor, and moking the ‘Lrensurer, as now, tho Col- lector. DBut this bill was clioked off and defented through the influonco of twe agen- cies,~—the Town Boards, which were then stealing an aggregnto of $100,000 a year, and the Park Commissioners of tho North and Weat Towns. 'Tho town officers wero of conrsa tho class of men who control primary meetings, nominating conventions, and who stuff ballot-boxes. The average politician gerving in the Legislaturo of courso yiolded to the demnnds of this clase, Tho Park Commissioners of North and West Chicago did not want to break up the township organ- ization, bocnuse sll park taxes for these towns must be voted by that monstrosity in govermnent known as tho town meeting. Wo understand that tho Park Commissioners of North Chicago have alrendy got a ‘Viegal opinion" to the cffect that township organ. ization caonot be abolished, and that this opinion is hawked sbout town soliciting sig- natures. In duo timo it will be published as arcason why there should be no voto abol. ishing township organization 1 Cook County. But the vote will be taken, and the peoplo will take pains to oleet men to the Legisla- ture to provide tho necessary county: mao- chinery, even if it bo necessary to omit for ono yenr tho levying of o special tax for park purposes in North and West Chieago. IHR PROPOSED TREASUMY INVESTIOA- TION, Democratic sensationnlism scems to have nttained its summit in the recent promulga~ tion from Washington that thoe United States ‘I'rensury bas been robbed of Londs, gold notes, certificates of indebLteduess, greon- Lacks, and fractioual eurrency to tho amount of RI8T,000,000, or about one-fonrth of the national debt, The ‘Ireasury ofileials ars said to have posscssed themsolves of this colossnl sum in the courso of yuars by issuing bonds and notes which thoy roported ny de- stroyod. If there were four puople ongaged in this systom of plunder,it hus yielded them over $120,000,000 apiuce ; if forty-eight peo- ple, about $10,000,000 ench ;, and if 487 peo- plo (sud cortainly there wnfdu'l have been moru), then & cool million for every oue of thom, It was not known that the Trensury hud turned out so many Cnasuses, It will probnbly Lo nows to Gou. Brines, who “possed” the job for a number of years, and who remained o poor thut he is be- lioved to have made frequent appeals to his friends to muke good certain amounts’ that woro stolen from timo to time for which ho was responsible, Were thedo stealings fairly distributed among the different Htates ace cording to the recognized rulo of appoint. meunts? If wo, did Illinois get its proper shary, which would gwount to sowmething "liko $50,000,0002 Who ure the gallant sony of this Stato that cujoyed part of tho plune der? Tho extravagance of this chargo is such ns to defent itself, ‘The Dewocratic sensutions nlists havo overrenchod themselves. 'They Liave taken up an old story and ulaborated it Leyond thoe limits of probability, But we bLope they will investigate it all tho same, It is as woll that tho suspicion of wholesale robbery in tho Treasury, growing out of tho printing uud handling of the money, should Lo sot at rest, Of course thore have been individual cases of theft. A dozen of them, involving thoe loss of mors or less money and bonds, hove been discovered. Thers was one of §25,000 a short time before Gen. Srryven ret.red. But the very ezposure of theno thofta scoms to be a tost of the thor. onghness nnd excellonca of tho system for kooping track of the money, If the checks on the monay, 08 it passes through the varie oua dopartmonts, oach contributing but a small part to its manufasture and issuo, wore inadequate, the thefts wonld not have boen discovered, and thoro might be moro reason to suspeot a gigantio shortage. But the promptness with which every thoft becawno known to the Tronaury officials, and the ability shown in tracing the theft to.those who comimitted it, induco thoe boliof that nothing like goneral and undiscovered pilfering has boen going on, Btill wo are disposed to en- ocourage the most thorongh inveatigation, and will oven favor a detail of Domocratic Con- grossmen to count the monoy—if somo trustworthy persons be placed on guard to watch them during the operation. The goneral charge, which {s absurd enough in itsolf, becomes more absurd by renson of the partioular theory upon which tho oxtraction of nearly $500,000,000 is ac- connted for, It hns Leon stated that the monoy hns been stolen by the failure to do- stroy what has been ordored burnt, Yot it is admitted that mutilated, vors, or defoctive onrroncy ordered dostroyed was burnt under the supervision of n Committeo, tho mom- Lers of which worn froquently chang- ed. Dut, bofors it wns consigned to this Committeo, tho rojected ocuroncy or tho cancoled bonds passed through various stages of cancellution, including the checking off by stub-books, In fact, an amonnt of mwoney has always beon charged agninst the Treasnry equnl to that which could be manufactured from the smount of paper made, and this charge dates from tho moment the paper leaves tho mill. It is neccessnry, therefore, that every serap of the papor should be accounted for, whoth- or it bo finally issued ag money or not. Dnr- ing tho various processes of prihting, stamp- ing, sorting, counting, numbering, oto., cvery pieco passos througly- ditferont dopartments, onch ncting as n check upon tho others. The numbering alone would defeat any effort at wholesale robbory, and lead to tho detoction of isolated enses. The numbers are consecu- tive, and aro aflixed ns tho ocurromcy and bonds aro finally issuod. Any currency or bonds stolen or not destroyed whon o or- dered would be duplicate in number, and this alone wonld soon load to thoir doteotion in passing through the hands of bnnkers and roturning to the Treasury, With this systom it s unreasonable to supposo that thors has boon & general and systomatio robbory of the publie moneys, or any thefts of a considora= blo amount which have not been discoverod. Novortholess, wo hope the investigation will goon; for, though n costly proceeding 6na froil basis, it will be worth whilo to ostab- lish the fact thus publicly nnd officially that thore is & systom for manufacturing and handling tho oney and bonds which does not admit of robbery, THE NECESBITY OF BILVER DOLLARS, Tho new coinnge of tho United States has boen gratefully received by the Amorican people. At lenst one-third of the peoplo Lave ottained adult age sinco silver disap- ponred from airculation. Gold coinngoe has been far more familinr in busincss than sil. vor during tho last fifteon years. The sub- stitution of silver for the fractional currency will prove of great bonofit, provided that the policy thus bappily begun shall. be main. tainod. The silver coinage is a curiosity, in one soneo, to thousands. As it becomes dis- tributed thero will be alargo amount of it put awny in emall sums, and not paid out agnin until tho last fractional noto has disap- peared, Tho highest sum of frne- tional currency ontstanding at any oue time wns forty.six millions of dol. lars, and this includes all of that ourrency which has been lost and destroyed sinco tho firat issue in 1862 and 1863. But the demand for small silver will far oxceed that which hns ever oxisted for the fractional paper ourrency. It will require nearly twica as much silver, becauso a large proportion of the Iatter will bo honrded and put ngide, until it has been issued in such large sums as to have it in general use, nnd in such abundance thnt it can be ensily obtained whon wanted, The bill which has passed Congress author- izes the isaue of silver coinage in redemption of the fractional currenoy. Of this thero was in circulation on the 1st of last Febru- ary $42,000,000, aund of this sum over $10,- 000,000 are of the enrlior issues, Tho issue of 30,000,000 of silver coin will be wholly inndoquate, nud the fact that its issue ix al- together insufliciont will result in its boing promptly bosrded. : In wise anticipation of tho popular do- mand of the country for silver, and fora largo amount of it, the Finance Committeo of the Senato bas reported o bill providing for tho continuanco of the silver coinnge permanently, that tho growing preferonce for the coin may bo satisfied. Thoissue of thirty willions will, if it be ascertained that no moro is to Lo issned, hardly satisfy thbse who will put it awsy to keep in suma ranging from 2 to $200, and the wholo value of the silver schemo will be lost, 'There ik, more. over, no tational protoxt for coining silver unless it bo to furnish the publio with silver currency, 'To coin only to the extent of ayp- plying the demand for hoarding, is to produce n contraction and a great public inconven. fence. Tho coinago, to bu of any conven- ienco and bonefit to the public, should con- tinue so long as there was o dowmand for it, and 5o long as the public shall be willing to give puper currency in exchange for it. The present comparatively small issuo will only serve to familiarizo the people with the coin, and to induco them to such a general exchango of paper thorefor. Silvor coinage is tho grentest of all oxploders of inflation. Tho man who recelves and handles silver will never moro ask or favor the issue cither of poper #*monoy " or paper prowmises, unless thesa promises bo redecemable on demand in the coin. 'Thosilvercoin sliould therefors con. tinue to bo issued until the cduntry wau so supplied that thero would be no further de- wmaud for it. But the colnage should go on o long o4 the domund may exist for it. The Sonute bill provides for the coinage of silver dollars of the standard weight, of which none have been coined since 1853, and these are to bo o legul-tonder to the amount of $20. 'I'hess silver dollars will have a valuo of some four conts greater than tho small coing, “When this weight was established for gilvor dollurs, it bore'the then oxisting pro- portion to tho gold dollar that silver did to gold. Bubsequently silvor advanced, and our coins Lelng worth mero as bullion than coin wero melted and shippod. For this reason thy weight of the small coins was reduced and tho colunge of dollars discontinued. Now the value of silver in gold has fallen .to such an extent that the dollure may be safely coined at their old stendard and be worth more as coins than as bullion. The Senate bill authorizes the exchange by the Treasury of theso silver dollars for greenbacks, The immodiate effact will Le to put the greenbnc! and tha silver dollars on an equality in value. 'This wonld produce no contraction, becauso thero would be a silver dollar put in circula. tion for évery graonbrek given in oxchiange, and the exchange would bo mndo only to the extont that the publio desired or preforred silver to paper. Thero is no serious danger to bo approhendod from thoe fall of silver. The pauio in the silvor market has had its run; and, thongh silver may nover again reach tho prico in gold it once brought, the causcs leading to its sudden decline have compnratively become exhausted, From 1833 to 1851 tho price of silver in England maent, lot I$ find somothing more to the poiot than that they do not do soms othor kind of work than that in whioh they engage. —————— m?ws‘r-nrnon EXHIBIT, A vory Interesting tabls of statistica has re- cently boen sont to the Sonate from the Post- Offics Departmant, sbowing the recaipts and ex- ponditures at difforond poat-ofiicos tn the couns try for the yoar 1875. ‘The largoat roceipts aro, of course, from the Now York Post-Oflice, whioh wero lost year noarly €3,000,000, The expensca woro 27 por cont of the rocoipts, Philadelplis comes next, Boston uoxt, Chicago next. and 8t. Louis fifth. The following table reprosents the prinaipal offices of the country : Louinvillo, Ky, millions of dollnrs ; and this amouht of sil- | Mjiwauxc was 69 ponco por standard ounco, It then | FT advanced, and in 1859 commanded 62 ponco E |3 i1 por ounco. In 1862 it decliued to 613 pence, | Kame of omcs snd 3§ iii— aud in 1873, when thoe German Govern- Blato, 8 |Falg% mont nnnounced its intontion to demon- 3 g" notizo silver, the prico fell to 58 pence, i [ g; i and since thon hos fallen a3 low 08 52} | | 2o HE LR penco, A ronction hns begun, and that it | AeT N Yo, st Y advance to 564 or 55 ponco is probablo, | Bioominglon, 12,118 31 | 14 Whatevor fluotuation may take placo in the | Bosiee: M e ) R valuo of silver will ba slight, and tho silvor | Bummslo, 3, 20 dollar will always bo less exposed to combi- gfifm%fi'&" a8 nations in the market than the paper dollar, g§"=1;'"l"v 20|18 and, being exchangeable for tho latter, will n:::"-;e;'o fi H m give to the greonback a stability it hns never gml,m;é Ia 2 | n yet possossed. Tho cxchange wonld noces- | Dubuque, I a1 sarily bo gradunl, boenusa limited to the | Xort Wayne, il i a1 18 means of the Government to purchasa silvor | Indianapolis, In 16 bullion. Tho nnnunl contribution to tho | Facterce yo ‘,'}g sinking fund hos Inthorto been about thirty Leaveuworty, ars g Wi ver coinage would in timo furnish the people ;“"W‘ polla, l}flufl u with oll tho silver monoy thoy will nesd, | New Yorx a. ¥ n taking tho place of tho ssmo amout of papor, | Smek, o i and advancing the value of tho latter to that | Pniladeiphin, Pa..! 2 of tho silver dollar. The necessity of the }; continuance of silver coinage so long as tho 17 country has uso for it and prefer it to papor, o is obvious, It is popular, it is snbstantial ; %p{l_l:‘un‘(’;dv m., 10 it has a valno which cannot bo changed by | T2 Qe ] Whio Chicsgo stands fourth on the liat of receipts, sho is but a faw thonsand dollars be- low Boston or Piiladelphis, snd more than doublo that of 8t, Louia. New York, of courso, standsalono. Beston, Philade|phis, and Chicago bolong to the same group of cities whose ro- coipts excead 8900,000. 8t. Louls, Cincinnati, and Baltimoro belong to a group yieldlug mors tlao $335,000 and less than 3450,000 of racoipts. Pittsburg, Now Orloans, Cleveland, Dotroit, and Brooklyn bolong to the fourth catogory, Pooria atands at the hoad of the Illinois citica of the sccond class, Ban Franeisoo doos not appear in tho table. tho operntions of a single market, It will not only be non-fluctuating itsolf, but will give cqual permanenca to tho greenback. The people, themselves, want the silver, and 80 soon as thoy get it the voice of tho infla- tionlst will become silent, and the roar for .moro greenbacks will bo heard of no more in the land, — e In order that the significance of the para~ graph in Tae Toawune's dispatches of yoster- day relntivo to Mr. Fraxoms B, Haxes' sniling from Boston to Europe may bo understood, the alléged relations betweon Mr. Haves and Mr, Brame in tho Fort 8mith & Littlo Rock bonds, should bo explained. The chargo is that Mr, Branve sold Mr, Hayes some $76,- 000 worth of these bonds, which he is alloged to have received in considoration of Con- grossional servicos in eocuring sn extonsion of tho Fort Smith & Little Rock land-grant. It is said thot Mr, Hares paid Mr. Brame about par for these bonds, though they wero comparatively worthless at the time, The reason nssignod for such purchase is that Mr. Haves, at that time Presi- dent of the Atlantic & Pacific Rail- road, was interestod in securing logislation from Congress enabling his Company and also tho Missouri, Kansas & Toxas Railroad to en- tor upon their lands by tho abrogation of n prior Indian claim to which tho lands wero subject when Congress made tho grant. It will bo seon that Mr. Haves was an important witness in the Brame charges, since his ad." mission of the allegations would show Mr. Brame to have boen in posscssion of a largo amount of Fort Smith & Little Rock bonds, ond also that ho must have expected some service from Mr. BramNg in roturn for his purchase of & lot of worthless bonds nt par. Haves' doparture, undor these circumstances, was certainly unfortunate, and the more so aa soveral Now England pnpers, including the Bpringfeld Republican and the Boston Herald, notified him that he would be expeoted to give his teatimony on these pointa. 1In caso it sholl be dotermined to investi. gate the charges that have been mado ngainst Mr, Bramg, the witnesses who have thus far ‘oen referred to as having knowledge of tho transactions are as follows : Mr. Jonx B. O. Hanmson, Government Dircctor of the Union Pacific, who is said to have moved an investi- gation in the Board ; E. H. Rotrins, tho Trens- urer of the Union Pacific Company, who is gaid {o have stopped this invostigation; Jaues F. Wison, of Iown, also n Government Di- roctor of. the Union Pacifio, who is said to have boen informed by Mr. Braine that tho lattor sold the bonds for a friend; and Mr., Faanos B. Ifaves, of Boston (who loft 80 suddenly for Europe), who is said to linve purchased 375,000 of the bouds from Mr. Brarye. Wo bave also been informod thnt AMr, Mirratip, another Government Di- reotor of Union Pacifio, overheard Roz- ving’ glatemont to Hanrison, In the alloged tranafer of Konsns Pacifio bonds to Mr. Brag, the witnesses would bo Jostrm B, StEwanT, the Washington lobbyist who is eoid to have made tho transfer of the bonds; Judge Bropre, Stewant’s purtnor, who is said to havo beon cognizant of the trauafor; and Joux D. Pesny, the Prosidont of tho Konsas & Pacitlo Railroad, who is supposed to bo in possession of BrawAnt's lottor sot- ting forth tho transfor, If Mr. Brame's statemont louves any voom for doubt. ing the intogrity of his Congressional caroer, it would seom to be an ensy mniter, by the summoning of thoso witnesses, to arrive at the oxact truth. —_—_— Tho ors of Congrossional inveatigations that will find ont the true-inwardness of thinga fn- voatigated is evidently drawing to a close undor the investigation mania that has soizod upon the Domocratio House, In the caso of HALrerT Krunouny, it was practically decided that the Houso could not compel a witnosa to toll moro than ho chose about anything, nor to produce documentary evidonco in bis possession aftor the witness clatmed to bo of opinion that the documenta wers privato property and not ovi- dence. In tho 3cnexcx mattor it has beon do- monatratod that anything other than tho roal point of inquiry can boinvostigatod by the wook ; and in numberless instanoces, last of which fathe departuro of Mr. ¥, B. Haves for Europe, that therapositorios of most desirable information are singularly liablo to ombarkon forsign tours at the preciga tima whon the Committoes waut to pos- soss thomsolvos of that information. The quory which it all suggests is, What ia the nas of invos- tigating whon witnessos cannot be compealled to anawor, aod when, 28 in the Credit Mobilier, and Dacifio Mail, Little Rook Railroad bond notes, and other Investigations, the witnesaos who know somothing and might tell it simply go abrond until the thing blows over ? Tho excep- tional cases ara thoso whereln somebody atro- clously liboled, llko Booretary Bmisrow fo tho Mary Morritt mattor, forcos hia assallants to ox- poso npon what slander foundation in fact their slanders wora based, by requiring thom to fotoh forward thoir witncsses, that tho testimony of those may be met. For the rost, a Congressional invostigation seoms tha sureat modo of getting out of tho way all material testimony sa to the aubjact of {nveatigation. ‘The obataclos to Gov. TrLpxN's proposed plan for deopening tho Kris Canal, 50 as to glye an “ nonent 7 feet of wator * along the entire line, are sot forth by the New York Canal Commls- sloners in their report to the Legislature upon the rocommondations of tho Governor's mes mage. They etate that thero is no difionlty in pavigating the canal with bonta of G feet draft aud 240 tons burden, bat that to deepen the channol one foot additionsl would require an altoration of all the locks, aqueducts, and cul- vorts from Lockyort to Albany, which could only bo dons st on enormous cost. Thoy also urge that tho canal for long distances in many placos was dug through porous, sandy soil, which hed to bo poddics, snd that, wore it deoponod, the loss of water by absorplion aud percolation would be 8o great as to sorfously reduce the volume unloss tho work wero ngain puddled and the bauk stropgthonod, which would Involve a vast oute Iny. Instead of deeponing, the Commisslouars recommoud rafsiog the banka one foot, in order to guin the additional foot of wator, nud estimato that $2,000,000 would do tho work, Including tho cost of raleing bridges. The iudications sro that, in the discussion ea to Low it aliall be accomplinhed, tho great work of iucreasing tho cupacity of tho canal will be deforred until the furthor diverslon of the graln trado of tho West and Northwost from Now York to Daltimore, Boston, and other Atlantio ports, ahall drivo tho Now York Logislaturo to do somethiug besides talk bout improving the Erie Canal. The Loodon 2imes of the 7th inat. containg ansecond installment of tho dojnils of the new Domesday Book, some statistics from which on land-ownorship Lave atroady been printed in Tue TnpuNe. The following additional figures will be of interesi: 'Tue highest rental' por acto [s 36 shilllugs, aud oloven counties rauge from 30s to 23s. In England snd Wales, with a poputation of 19,458,009, thore aro 3,811,854 in- babited housos snd §72,833 ownors, The num- ber of ownora of .ons acro and upwards Is 269,547, and thero are 703,230 ownors belew ono acre, The immonee proporty of the threo larg- ost ownors is howa by the fact tunt they own 423,210 acres, the aggregate rental of which {s $3,061,005, ‘Tho hundred largest privats owners in England and Walew hold 8,852,000 acres, which s one-teuth of tho entiro arcs, The 1aud-hotders of Beotland, which has a total acre- age of 18,040,634, mnmbor 182,230, Summed up, one person in overy twonly of the popula- tion o Englend is & land-owner, avd one in evory twonty-five 1o Beotland. Ono housechold- er in every four in Englaud {4 » land-ownar, and one In avery three in Sootland, ——— Tho ludlcrousncua of tempestuous donuncla- tlon of Chincse immigration, bocause it fur- pistioa thom with chosp aud therofore profita~ ble labor, has dawued upon the Californiane, and thoy now objsct to tho Celestiala becauso they don't buy farms Iuatead of working in the cities and in the minos, Tho Ban Francisco Dulletin, which Lag kindly undortsken to en- lizhten Tug Tumuse upon that eubject, makey this oxplanation, It eaye thore wre 80,000,000 sores of laud in Californis waltiug sotblers to convort these [nto fruilul farma, aud that what California wauts is somebody who will do that, Tho Bulletin omits mention of the trifling cir- cumatanco that the bulk of thoso lands bave Loen grabbed by ratirosd aud groat propriotors, whoso eatates aro messured by the league, sud who for landa that cau ouly be made productive by irrigation demand twico what the beat lands fn lilinois, Towa, Kaness, sod Nebrasks can bo bought for, The Bulletin further explsina that the Chinecse do mot buy farm lauds becauso they aro sorvilo laborers,—that is, are owned by the8ix Companies, sud, anyhow, the Californiaus don't wans mlavery in their Btate. Cerlsinly not, But if the Chinamen are held ju slavery Tt has always boon s mooted question where and how the black race originated. In oue of the Targums a monsion 'is made of men being creatod black, white, and red, but the most ox- plicit statemont is contalned on oue of tho re- contly discovered Aeayrian tablots containing the creation legends, Ono of theus tablols bas she following lines: **Miay ho establish and may Lits will ot fail In the mouth of tho biack taco whom his Lands have made.” On another tablet tuore isa bymn to tho god Manopaca, in which ocours the following passsgo: * Among mankind, even the men of tho black race, tho supportor of all lifo whose namo Is proclaimed on eartl,® As theso tablets contain legunds ap- portaining to their creation, our colored breth- 1on are warranted in tracing themselved quito as far back s« any uf the rest of us, whatever our ocolor may be. —————— Maseachusests Is sbout to lose another venor able tres which has poetical sssoclatiovs., It i tho identical **sproading cheatnut tres " in Cam- in deflauce of our laws and Coustitution, why nos, through the courts, nake an end of that slavery, matead of exterminating tho alaves, ma the hoodiums of she Pacifio Cosst pant to do? The California courts have smple power to froe every enslaved Ohipamau; why don't they do so? The pretext is, to putis in tho curront alsug, too thio. There fau't & Chinaman In Californis who doos not know that slavery i probibited in this country, nor we bellove one who i not his own master snd pockets his own earuings, Whou the Dullelin agawn oasts about for some excuses for tho barbarous caste preju- dice agatost the Chinase, which s becsuso they work chesply, aa they havo todo to get employ- bridge under which the * villaga smithy ® atood, It s to be aut down, but & portion of it will be prosorved 1n the form ot s chair, which ia to be presontoed to LoNarrerow, who sent {he smith and smithy down to A rocant cate in a Parla court developa cone siderable looseness {n the marslage relations in Rome, oepecinlly in bigh quarters. Iiappears from Lhe evidence in the caee thot a nophew of Cardinal AxtoNpult married » Miea Ganoia, whoso fathor waa ennobled as one of the inol- dontn of the coromwony, and who aubsequently died aud loft his foriune, a8 was supposed, to his daughtor ss only helr. Dut, as har often happaned beforo, numerous other GAnctae turnod up, childron.of negro women in the ‘Woet Indios, whom tho old gontloman had loved not wisely but loo well, Tho nlece of Anro« NELLI #8t up tho olaim that thesa dark-complex- foned obildren wora illogiltmate, snd sherofors had no claim on the proporty. Thereupon the tropical claimpula proved in the courts that the nicco of Cardinal ANTONELLI was tho daughtol of an sotress to whom itbe old gentloman was married long after Misa Ganora's birth wasin saribed In the public records. FPERBONAL. A littlo Rosa ITorsoe was born on the Oth insk, The richest Chinamanin Californis is Li Po Tal, s physician, Ho owns $75,000 worth of real ostato, Mra. Nolly Grant-Sartoris {a to pass tho nexy season in London, and be prosented at Court as an Lnglish~oman. Miss Lotts, the actross, has rented Mr, Patter Palmor’a cottage at Nowport, and will take pos- session oarly in June. The Lycoum Oommittes, of Lawrsnco, Masn., declined tho risk of offering Mr, Boeober $300 fora locturo., Hla price used to bs $1,000 to 1,600, Mr. James Gordon Bonnett will soon publish in pamphlet form hia powerful artioles on **The Pon-Crop fu Toxas " and *‘Tho (lensaia of the Roloy-Boley Asaocistion.” Madamo Bonaparto-Patterson, of Baltimore, whose sovera illuces was mentioned a fow dsya 8go, Is now recovoring. Bho long sgo sssorted that sho would resoh the age of 100 yoars. Tho London Times, & fnal authority in the premidos, sags, in its fesue of the 22d insk. ¢ ** Wo cannot acoopt, nor can wa bollova any En- glishman will socept, Signor Rossi's Hamlel as in any senso the Hamiet of Bhakupesrs,” Misa Mollio Btockton, or Novads, recently thrashod a schoolmsator, and, n axplanation of .-~ tho transaction, sald : “ Xam well awere that, the poor fomale ia too often trampled Oawp! without just cause,” The Now York Zerald slates, evidently on an- thority, that sir. F. B, Warde, now acting with Mr. Booth in this city, has made no ar- rangomeonts for noxt season, The report that ho had engagod with the Oslifornia Theatro iy pronounced srronoous, Doan Stanloy gave fresh evidence of hls libere ality by officiating at the unveiling of tha tabls{ erected in Westminster Abbey to the momary of . Johin Wosley and his brothor Charles. Tho Lone don newapapora spoke of the ceremony as unique of its kivd—** unprecedanted in the bis. tory of that or any similar eoclealsstioal edifice.” Dr. J. B, Sylvestor, one of the most distio= Ruished mathematioians of England, iately spe pointed to the Chairof Mathomatics in the Johng Hopkins Unlveraity, has made a discovery which 18 pronouuced by Horbort Bpencer as prognaut of momentous consequences in scienco as thas which gave ronown to the nams of Isaso New= ton, . It is stated that whon Secrotary Boutwell vis. ited tho late Mr. Btewart to consult him in re- gard to our nationa! financos, the lattor, aftor s fow minutos’ conversation, said : “I under- stand that you are about to buy new carpeta for tho Troasury building, and I wish to roming you that wo are in a position to furnish them cheap~ er than any other houso." Tho quarrel botween the Duke and Duchoss of Edinburg haa become a matter of international importanca. Mr, Smalloy writes : ** The visit to Potersburg, fbr which tho death of tio Ducheas® eunt furnlshed & conveniont protext, was really a polite moans of effocting a separation. The Czar’a love for his daughter is one of tho strong passiona of lus life ; what may ho not do to avenge the fancied slights which she bolfovea sho hina had to boar 7" The Rev. H. R. Haweis, whom Moncure Cone way dogoribos da *the always self-willed ors- tor,” tias proached o sermon in which ha declares that be boiloves in no such thing aa arch-fiend. ‘T'he opinion of ominont counsel {s bomg taken 2a to whether Mr. Hawels may not be snccessfully prasocuted; for, in dotermining that & man may e given tho sscramont withont belleving in & devil, tho Privy Councll has not decided that & clergyman need not believe that dootrine. BSpurgeon doos not agroe with Moody em church falrs, Moody saya the devil is in them. Bpurgoon says it is belter to give money ot~ right than to raleo it by a fair, but thar when cash donations cannot bo obtained a fair 1 the next boat thing. Ha ulso says that church fairs bring out the talont of the sistors, and that he fools suro tliore is not an article offerad for salo that liss not been prayed over, as tho mother of Dlogeu {s said to have prayoed when sho mado hus cradlo. The marrisge about to tako placs in Paria be~ tweon Mile, de Gontaut-Biron, danghtor of the Fronch Ambassador at Borlin, and Count Tallsy- rand-Porigord, Lioutenant in tho Lanoers of the Ttoyal Prussian Guard, has excited much fndig« nation, Tho Count is an apostate Frenchman, liaving gouo ovor to Prusals ten yoara sgo and fought against bis native eountry in tho lete war. ‘ho fatlier of tho lady opposed tho match with all the moeans st his command, bub she, ‘being 30 years old and full of grit, sent him & poremptory logal domnnd for his oconsont by & tiputall or bailiff, and he was obligoed to ylold. Mr. Weston, the podestrian, has contributed , somethiog to the goneral atook of informatiom in England, Inquisitive medical gentlemon who watched bim daring his public oxhibitions dis- covered that he used *coca™ habitually as & stimulant, * Cocs "—which ia a totally differens thiog from cocoa—Iis a plant jodigenons to the high lands of the Andes. It iswoll known in Poru, whero the dried loaves are chowed by all clssaca, s tobacoo s here. Tho symptoms of intoxication prodaced by it comprise heightoned tompersture, quickened pulso, strong desire for sctivo locomotion, With lncreasod mense of strength and agility, followed by apathy sod slosp, from which the patient wakes without de- bility or uuplessant feelings. LOTEL ABRIVALS, Patmer Ifouss—Bamuel Bolton, Archibald Taylor, ¥, O, Holbrook, New York; G, M, Whitney, Odell; 0. I Higgins, Fort Wayne; Samuel Brown, Noston; J, B, Burton, Gensva Lake (Wis) Herald; @, MoD, Powmao sud James E, Davy, Now South Wales ; Hear ry Hornby, England; J, Carlyle, Bydney, N, 8, W, A. ¥, Bullard, Grand Rapids; W, Bullsrd, Buffalo; 0. J, Irlsb, Racine; J. D. Cady, Pittsburg,...Grand Judge lum—.vum avid Rarer, Burllngto John_B. A Des Molues; the Hon, Lorenzo New York; ex-Gor. Bamuel * Merrill, Iow ; Johu 11, Byl jana b, raimer, Diattaaoutl A1, L, H, Owen Dinver : Lewis Ik Cloveland T, A. Moyscaburg, St Louls; J, I, Me Farlano, 830 Prancisco; J. K, Jonos, Quinoy } Caitrill, Milweukes, ... framont vuse—Hugh'Dariice, Torontd; Edward Wilson, New York; J. A, Closs, D, Clark, 'Now ~Yorki thio Hon. 1. M. Bpringer, Yorkrille Albert K. Jockford; Gen, W, G Jows, Bostan ; AL 0. Dickes; Cloveland's the Hon. Bamuof Loonsrd, Kew Badfornd § 1. gsin 7 O k¢ : Meraread tho Hod, O artfurd; the 'Jrhxulfi:l. Ciacinoati ; E, Wheaslor snd B viot H, Swaige, Huntsville, Ala.:J. We Dennls snd J, k. Ouilmita ‘Tsaderson, Baliimare. B Mrs, Lowds, N Baltimore; 3. W, e