Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 25, 1876, Page 5

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, BATAS OF AURSCRIPTION (PATADLE IX ADVANCE). Postage Prepaid at thin Oitteo, Daily Edition, postoaid, | year Parts of years Mailed o ang sddrees TR WENKS for, 1.00 Buniing Kdltiont iverasy aud Reglons Doasie Bhingt...p.o. .00 Tei-Woakly) 500 Parla ‘WREXLY RDITION, POSTFAID, 0Py, ar.. §lrn.bo 'E-‘:.l"wlflu lub of \webty, per capy. “The postage s §5 ceni Bpecimen caples sani froe. ‘To provent delay and mistaken, he snrs and give Yost- Offce address in full, inelnding State and County. Remittances may be mads either by draft, express, ‘Poat-Offioa order, rogiatered lottors, a4 our risk, TERMS TO OITY SUDSCRITERS. D::ly, :0“ ?’. Honday uuvmr:’. %".) centa por wrfikl, oll , Bundag included, 3(* cents pot wack. Lre/ e T SASY ” RIBUNE QUMY Goruer M B Cuieaco til. om and Dearborn-1 AMUSEMENTS, AOOLEY'S THEATRE—TRaodolph #ircet, hetween Olark and LaBalle, Engsgemont of Kalle Putnsm. ¥ Little Barofoot." MoVICEER'S THEATRE—Madison atreet, botween Dearborn and Stato. ** Hamlel,” ADELPHI TIHEATRE—Monroo strest, corner Dear- thorn, Varlety entertainment, SOCIETY MEETINGS. - WASTIINGTON CHAPTER. NO, 4, R, A, M.—Bpse elal Convocation this (Tueeday) svening at 7:10 a'clock, for work on the Mark Degroe, Visiting Companiona ‘ordially insited. - iy dor of the A kI I, §AS. B, WRIGHT, Secretary, The Ghiengo Tribune, Tuesday Morming, April 25, 1876, Groenbacks at the Now York Gold Ex- shange yesterday closed nt 887, The Common Council has ontered mpon tho canvass of thio vote cast at the late muni- cipal olection, which will probably be com- pleted this evening at the adjourned meet- ing. No disposition is shown by the rotiring Aldcrmen to unrensonably postpone the in- duction of their successors The announcement yesterdsy of thoe sne- pension of the City Nntional Bank of Chica- go produced a temporary excitement in com- mercial circles, but nothing which could bs regarded as moro than a financial flurry. Confldence is felt that the losscs will fall mainly upen tho stocklolders, and that the resources of the bank are sufficient to poy dopositors nearly, if not quite, @ full, Beeryar's final rejoindor to the replication of tho Iouse managors of the impeachment proceadings sots up & ourious plea to the ef- fect that his rogignation as Scerctary of War was in pursuance af an agreement or pledgo on tho part of Oryaren, tho Chairman of the Tuvestigating Committeo, that if Brrrsir would rosign no impeachment proceedings would bo instituted. This agreoment, it is urged, should estop the Tlouse from prose- quting the impeachmont., 1'he nowspaper troubles at Minnenpolis still continue, 'The unweleome St, Paul peo- ple have got their property in their own hands at last by means of an injanction, aud publish the Minneapolis Z'rilune this morn- ing, but all yesterdny hired persons triumph. edl in the streets, blowing through tho mellow ‘horn their pensive souls, and trumpeting tho popular indignation. Last night n mose mocting was held, and tho municipal Leart is now fired with the ugly rosolve to go with- out news rather than accept it at the hands of *he Philistines. The County Board has voted to advertiso for proposals for the publication of tho de- linquent tax-list, instead of awarding the job a4 o sort of gift to some favored newspaper, as las been the practico héretofore. The plun is a good one, and will doubtless result in o saving to tho tax-payers; but why stop with tho tax-list, aud why not include the publication of the proceedings of the Board a8 well? Why does the gentle and incor- ruptible McUarrrey single out the Post and JMail 08 the organ of the Bourd to print the proceedings without competition? Tiis is not the only paper that hos stood by the bummers aud rings through thick snd thin, Give the rest of the apologists for corruption » chanco, ‘The suspension of Messrs, Scrnorpen, Lixpurom & Co,, of Milwnukee, is nndoubt- edly u direct consequonce of the wheat-cor- ner which that firm engineered in the Iatter part of lnst year. ‘They controlled the Xlil- waukee market, and put up the price so high as todraw in upon them vast guantities of the grain, which, at the winding up of the corner, was left on their hawds, They * car- ried it " all throngh the winter, hoping to find n higher wmarket for it this spring, but failed to discover it. ‘Lho corner excitement enabled many farmers to obtain much better prices for their wheat than they could other- ‘wiso bave done, but the cornering firm wus swampod ultimately by tha trausaction, ‘his is tho natural outcomo of ninetevn out of every twenty cornors in produce, and it is surprising that wen cun yot be found kurdy enough to attompt the operation, Tho Committce on Expenditures in the Post-Oftice Depurtment has, aiter a thorough investigation, concluded that Mr, JeweLt kunows Low to keep a Post-Oilico and mou- 8go the business of mail transportation this sido of the Mississippi River at lenst, Some- how tho credulous Democracy had learned through & disappointed contractor, whese failure to imposo upon the Department had greatly affoctod his sincerity, that the threo great lines from Chicago to Owmlm—tlo Northwestern, Chicago, Durlington & Quincy, and Rock Island—hnd oach been paid monthly for doing the same sorvice, the alluged schame beiug simply that of alternating, one road carrying the mails ono month, the other another, and so on by regular rounds. After henring much testic mony and reading stacks of documents fn tho Department, it Las beon discovered that somo ono has exaggorated, touse a mild term, asno such oustow has evor existed, aud thui the Department records in this respect fail to give even a hint of any fraudulent transnc- tions. What windmill will the Quixotic Con. federates wasto their prowess upon nuxt? The Chicago prouticemarkets were unsettled yesterday by tho fine weather, and news of outside foilures, Meks pork was nctive and 20@250 per brl lower, closing at $21.65 for May and $21.90 for June, Lard was less aotive and G@iUe per 100 lbs lower, closing at $14.274 for May and $18.45 for Juns, Meats were in moderate de- roand and essy, ot Bjc for boxed shoul- ders, 120 for do short ribs, and 12§c for do’ short clears. Highwines wera quict and firm, at $1.07 per gullon, Flour was quiet and stoady. dosing at $1.01} for regular und $1.02{ for dlag. Gorn was activeand 1o lower, closing at et dpeil and ¢4jc for Moy, Outs viere ‘Wheat waa active and 1§62c lowoy, quiet and e lower, elosing at 82fo for Mny and 32jo for June. Ryo was dull at 6Gc, Tarloy wne moro active and 1@1jo lower, closing at 8o for May and Gie for June. Hogs wera in good demand, and prices were firm, snles making nt $7.70@8.00 for com- mon to prime, Cattle woro innctive and weak. Sheop wero nominally steady. Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy $112.62} in greenbacks at the clos Mr. Bramn yesterdny obtained the floor for tho purpose of making his statement in oxplanation and deninl of the numerous alle- gations and chnrges which have gained pub. licity of lnte. Ho was listened to with pro- found atlention, and tho full roport of his spoech which we print this moming will be rend with nbsorbing interest throughout the nation. The address was a mnsterly defense, denial, and explanntion, and, 1t is said, car- ried conviction of its truth to the mindsof thoso who heard it. It explaina entisfactorily the eircumstances under which Mr, Brame became the owner of certain Fort Smith & Little Rock Railroad bouds; it denies the assertion thnat lio reccived 361,000 or any other sum from the Union Pacific Railroad Company, and that he ever sold any bonds or received any money from the Atlantic & ‘Pacifle or tho Missouri, Kansns & Texas Rail- ronds. This is comprohensivo 5o far ay it axtonds, but it bardly covers the whole ground. No allusion is made to Mr, Harnt- HoN's aotion in Iaying the mntter of tho $64,000 beforo the Government Director's ; thero is nostatement from the Hon, Jaues ¥, Wisson, of Iown, a Government Director, ta show that Mr. Braing's name was not con- neeted with that transaction by rumor or by tostimony in the investigation that was held: and, more important still, in testimony or explanation from any officer of tha Union Pacific Road throwing any light upon tho matter of the payment of tho $64,000 which Mr, Iannsox insisted upon inquiring into. It wonld have greatly strengthened Mr. Braine's explanation nnd donial if bo could bavo submitted facts showing precisely to whom and for what parpose the sutn of $64,- 000 wns pnid for somo worthless Arkausas nilroad bonds, and it is to bo rogretted that Mr, Bramve did not supply the missing link. CAULFIELD'S MARE'S NEST, Now thnt tho evidence bogins to come out in the matter of the corruption in which Banvey CavLrierp rocontly captured the President, and which he has sprend abroad with so much circumstantiality and oxaggera- tion through the Demecratic nowspapers, tho renl merits of tho matter appear and show that it hinges upon tho fact that a Repub- licnn Administration uucarthed the most atrocious corruptions the country has ever knpwn, : #lio story of tho corruption may ba briefly told, and will bo of interest, In 1868, Presi- dent GnanT wad in the vory height of his popnlarity, sod tho Republican party more powerful thau it had ever boon before, It had commpnded itself to the whole country by its suppression of tho Rabollion, by its work of reconstruction, and by the passage of the constitutional amendments, and yet, to the utter nstonishment of the nation, Grant was defented in Now York by 12,000 majority. The country districts had given hime the overwhelming majority of 50,000, cnough to overcome SkyaouR's ma- jority in New York City, if thero had been an honest vote, including Brooklyn slso with its majority of 18,000, and yet it was mot in the city with n Democratio majority of 61,000, thus giving the election to Senoun, although the Ropublicans had east the largest vote that had ever before boon given for nany of their eandidates. It became apparont to Congress that GeaNT bad carried tho State by thirty or Yorty thousand majority nnd, under the authority of the Constitution, it passed o lnw to provent ballot-box stuffing and fraudulent voting by appointing Deputy Masshals to supervise the voting in all lnrge citios whera thoy might be sont. The law was framed in the iuterests of honesty and the purity of clections, and sgainst revoln- tion, for ballot-box stufing is as clearly revolutionary a8 o coup delat. The object of the law, therefore, was good, and the exponditures uudor it were warranted and lawful, In carrying out the provisions of thelaw in New York City, on Supervisor Davexront's methods, during the years from 1871 to 1874, thers wero expended at the highest catimate $35,000, 5o that the Treas- ury was drained by theso drendful conspirators @ tho rate of 58,750 n year! Thiyiathe whole sum nnd substance of the mare's nest which DBanygy Caverienp has discovered, and about which ho is making such a hul- Isbaloo. This is the atrocious infamy of which the Now York World says, iu a burst of pathos and bosh : “The most melancholy news whioh it has ever fallen 1o our 1ot 1o Iy befors the public, hardly excepting the asaassination of Presidaut TaxcoLy, Is that which we publisb this morning reciting the political and moral suleldeof Prestdent GraNT. , . o Nol BELKNAP' crime euvelops the Administration and the Iepube lican party in 8o Llack an lufamy. A fow more election figures will throw ad- ditional light upon this matter, At the next eloction Mr, KenwaN, now United States Senutor, and one of the iuost popular men iu New York, rau fov Governor on the Danio- aentic ticket ngainst Gen, Dix. KenNay re. ceivad 77,915 votes, and Dix 56,290 ; majori- ty for Kenxaw, 21,225, ‘This was the ut- mont the Democraoy counld do, with the strongest and most popular man in the State on their ticket, Four yeurs befors, the Dom- ourats had returned 108,316 votes, to 17,538 for the Republicans. ‘T'ho comparison shows that in four yeurs, notwithstanding the natural increnso of the voting population, .tho Democratic voto had shrunk from 108,316 to 77,915, or 30,401 votes, which {8 juat the number of fraudulent votes that were stopped by tho law, 'The Ropublican vote in these four years menunwhilo incronsed from 47,338 to 56,200, showing o natural aed healthy party growth, The whole cost of stop- ping this atroclous swindle was not much over 75 conts u vole, It wns a trifling amount, but it was effectual, and the Damo- erats Luve not recovered their majority of ballot-box stufiing days, since, at the election Inst fall, the united Demceratio and Liberal vote for Biaerow was only 79,274, against 49,614 for Sewarp, Republican, They had the united vote of all the fuctions, Tammany, snti-Tommany, and Liberal, and yot failed to poll one-half tho vote that was cast for Bev. sovs, Davenront's work of registration by blocks, as explained in his testimony printed in Tux Tnisuxe of yeaterday, struck a fatal blow at the Twezn Ring, which, after steal. ing tho property of the city, then deliberately stola tho vote, The Twiep Ring bave beon compelled to deliver up thu stolen property, They have nlso been compelled to disgorge the vote, sud this is just where the shoe pinches Bausey Osvrrienp, his Committeo, the New York MWorld, und the Demoeracy THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1876, taken from the Secrot Bervice fand, This dreadful aconsation i ensily mot. 'Tho Sceret Sorvica fund was established to bo ased in * tho detection and prosscution of erimon ngninst the United Statos,” to bo ex- pended undor the dircotion of the Attornoy- General, no provision being made for the precise manner of cxpenditure. Fraudulent voting has slways beon recognized ea a crime against the United States, and has boon pun- ished as such. Supervisor DAvENronr was invested with authority to deteot aud punish fraudulont voters, and Attornoy-Genornls AxenyMan and Winnrams direoted the monoy to be paid That is all there ia to this matter. This Republicas corruption which Bagysy Oavnvierp has anearth- ed, and about which be is making such a+ hullabaloo, therofore, Aums itself np in tho fact that it was an effort to stop Dom- ocratic frandulent voting. Tha Democratic investigating committees have spent thou. sands of dollars to discover Repnblican delin- quencies, and now they aro all in holy horror becauso they have run acrossa Republican effort to discover and defent Domocratic ras- calities, and because it hins cost 35,000 to do it. If it hnd cost millions of dollars, instend of thia trifle, it would have boon cheap. Tho people of Ohicago have recently boen worked up to a degres of Indignation bordoring upon . frenzy, and suggestivo of Inmp-posts and hnlters, because a few bummers stole the town offices, the wholo stenlings of which would amount perhiaps to $100,000; but hora wasn stenl involving the highest offices in the land, an immense patronage, and untold thou- sauds of mouney,—a steal perpetrated yoar aftor year by tho most infamous ring in the Democratic records, which disfranchised the voters not only of New York City but of the whole State; and because it was a Domo- cratio steal, and a Republican Administration spent the trifling sum of $35,000 to break it up, wo have the spectaclo of the whole Demo- aratic party howling st once, and raising the absurd and ridiculous lue-and.ory of im. peachment | ATOLISHING TOWNBHIP ORGANIZATION, In Sundny's TrinuNE was a communication from Mr. R, M. Eppy on the subjuct of abolishing township organization, The writ- er takes a mistakon view of tho subject. Ile assumes that if township organization be abolished in Cook County, that such aboli- tion earries with it the present County Board, and necessitates the olection of o now Board of three Commissioners, makes the Trensuror Assessor, and the Sheriff Colloctor, etc., oto, The Constitution has made special provis. ion for the govornment of Cook County, which government is difforont from that of all other counties, whother under or not under township organization. It is a class of countics of itself, Tho Constitution provides that the affnirs of Cook County shall be gov- erned by n Bonrd of fifteen Commissionora, Wkhen this was ndopted, the old machinery of township organization was in force, and the Legislature provided only for so much of the change as substituted tho County Board for the Board of Suporvisors. Tho vota this foll to abolish township organization will have the effect only of gotting rid of the remainder of the township machinery. It will then remain for the Legislature to pro. vide such machinery for the government of thie county, in addition to the Board of fif- teon Comunissioners, as mny be considored advisable. The Citizens' Association, through its counsel, framed a bill for this purpose at the lpst session of the Logislature, which pro- vided for tho eloction of a County Assessor, there thofta scoms to b test of the thor. onghness and excellonce of the system for kooping track of the monoy, If the checks on the monoy, na it pnsses through the vari- ona dopartmonts, each contributing but o amalt part to its manufacturs and {ssno, wero inadeqnate, tho thofts would not havo been discovared, and thoro might he more reason to suspect a gigantio shiortage. But tho promptness with which every thoft becamno known to the Troasury ofiicials, and tho ability shown in tracing the theft to.those who committed it, induco the boliof that nothing like goneral and undiscovered pilfering haa and moking the 'Crensurer, as now, the Col- lector. But this bill was choked off aud detentod through the influcnce of two agen- cies,—tho Town Bonrds, which were then stenling an aggregnto of $100,000 a yenr, and the Park Commissioners of the North and West Towns. Tho town officers wero of conrso the class of men who control primary meetings, nominating conventions, and who stuff ballot-boxes, Tho average politician serving in the Legislature of course yielded to the demands of this class, The Park Commissioners of North and West Chicago did not want to break up the township organ- ization, because sll pnrle taxes for these towns must be voted by that monstrosity in government known as tho town meoting. Wo understand that the Park Commissioners of North Chicago have alrendy got a ‘“legal opinfon” to tha cfficct that township organ- jzation cannot be abolished, and that this opinlon is hawked nbout town soliciting sig- natures. In due time it will bo published as areason why there should be no voto abol- ishing township organization in Cook County, But the voto will be taken, and the peoplo will take pnins to olect men to the Legisla- ture to provide tho necessary county ma- chinery, even if it bo nceessary to omit for one yenr the levying of a specinl tax for park purposes in North and West Chicago. 1HE PROPOSED TREABURY INVESTIGA- TION, Democratic sensationnlism scems to have attained its summit in the recent promulga. tion from Wushington that tho United States I'vensury bng been robbed of bouds, gold notes, cortificntes of indebtedness, green- Lacks, and fractional currency to the amount of $187,010,000, or about ouec.fourth of the national debt, The Treusury oflicialy are said to havo possusded themselves of this cologsal sum in the course of yuurs by issuing bonds nnd notes which they roported us de- stroyed. If thoero wero four people ongaged in this system of plunder, it bus yidided them over $120,000,000 apives ; if forty-cight peo- ple, about 10,000,000 ench ; ond if 487 peo- ple (and certainly thero couldfit have been moru), then & cool wmillion for every oune of them, It was not known that tho ‘Ireasury had turned out so mony Crasuses, It will probably be news to Gou, Brinnen, who “bossed” tha job for a numberof years, and who romained so poor that he is be- lisved to have wnde froquent appeals to his friends to make good certain amounts’ that wero stolen from timo to time for which ho was responsible. Weve these stealings fairly distributed nmong tho different $tatos nc. cording to the recognized rule of appoint- ments? If so, did Ilinois got its proper share, which would pmount to something "like $50,000,0007 Wkho are the aatlaut sons of this Stato that enjoyed part of tho plun. der? Tho extravagancs of this charge is such as to defent itsclf. 'fho Dewmocratic sensution: slists havo overreached themselves. Thoy have taken up an old story and claborated it beyond tho limits of probability, Iut we hope they will investigate it all the samo, 1t i3 as well that tho suspicion of wholosale robbery in the ‘Frensury, growing out of tho printing aud handling of the money, should Lo st ut rest. Of courso there have been individual cases of theft. A dozen of thewm, involving the loss of more or less money and generally, g It iv the occasion of a second very dismal and lugubrious wail that this wmoney was bouds, have been discovered. ‘Thers was one of §25,000 » short time before Gen. Beixnes retred. But the very exposure of been going on. Btill we are disposed to on- courage tho most thorongh invostigation, and will ovon favoe a detail of Domocratic Con- grossmen to count the monoy—if some trustworthy porsons be placed on guard to watch them during the operation. The gonoral charge, which is absurd enough in itsolf, becomos more absurd by reason of the particular theory npon which the oxtraction of nearly £500,000,000 is ac- countod for. It hns beon stated that the money has been stalen by the failure to do- stroy what has been ordered burnt, Yot it is admitted that mutilated, Worn, or defective curroncy ordered destroyed was burnt under tho supervision of a Committeo, the mom. bers of which woro froquently chang- ed. Dut, bofors it was consigned to this Committeo, tho rejected ourency or tho cancoled bonds passed through various stages of cnaucellntion, including the chiecking off by stub-books. In fact, an amount of money has always been charged agninst tho Treasury equnl to that which could be manufrctured from the namount of paper made, and this oharge dates from the moment the paper leaves tho mill. It is necessary, therefore, that every scrap of the paper should be accounted for, whoth- er it be flnally issued ns money or not. Dar- ing tho various processes of prihting, stamp- ing, sorting, counting, numbering, ote., every piceo pusses through differant dopartments, onch acting as n check upon tho others. The numbering alone would defeat any effort at wholesale robbery, and lead to the dotoction of isolated cases, The numbers are conscou- tive, and aro aflixed ns tho ourrency and bonds aro finally issued. Any curremoy or bonds stolen or not destroyed whon so or- dored wonld be duplicate in number, and this alone would soon lond to thoir doetection in paasing through the hands of bankers and rolurning to tho Treasury. With this system it is unroasonablo to suppose that thore hna been a genoral and systomatic robbery of the publie moneys, or any thefts of a considera= blo nmount which have not been discoverod. Nevortheless, wo hopa the investigation will go on; for, though s costly proceoding ona froil basis, it will be worth while to estab. 1ish the fact thus publicly and officially that there is a systom for manufsoturing and bandling the mouey and bonds which does not admit of robber; THE NECESSITY OF BILVER DOLLARS, Tho new coinage of the United States hos been gratefally received by the Amorican peoplo, At lenst one-third of tho people have ottained adult nge sinco silver disap- peared from circulation, Gold coinago has been far more familinr in business than sil- vor during the last fifteen years, The sub- stitntion of silver for the fractional currency will prove of great banofit, provided that the policy thns happily begun shall be main- tnined. The silver coinage is a curiosity, in one sonso, to thousands. As it becomes dis- tributed thero will be alargo amountof it put away in small sums, and not paid out ognin until the last fractional note has disap- peared, Tho highest swmn of frac- tional curroncy outstsnding at any one time wns fortysix millions of dol- lors, and this includes all of that currency whioh has boen lost and destroyed sinco tho first issuc in 1862 and 1863. But the demand for small silvor will far exceed that which has evor oxisted for the fractional pnper currency, It will roquire nearly twice as much silver, becausa a large proportion of the latter will be hoarded and put aside, until it hos been issued in such large sums 08 to have it in general uge, nnd in such abundance that it can be casily obtained when wanted. The bill which has passed Congress author. izes the issue of silver coinage in redemption of the fractional currenoy. Of this there was in cireulation on the 1st of last Fobru- ary $12,000,000, and of this sum over $10,» 000,000 are of the enrlior issues. 'Theo issue of 30,000,000 of silver coin will be wholly inadequate, aud the fact that ita issuo is al. together insufliciont will result in jts being promptly Lioarded. ; In wise anticipation of tho popnlar do- mand of the country for silver, and fora large amount of it, the Financo Committeo of the Senate has reported a bill providing for tho continuancoe of the silver coinage permanently, that the growing preferouce for tho coin may Lo satisfied. Thoissueof thirty millions will, if it bo ascertnined that no 1nore ia to bo issucd, hardly satisfy those who will put it away to keep in sums ranging from $2 to 2200, aud the whole value of the silver scheme will be lost. ‘Thero is, more. over, no rational protext for coining rilver unless it bo to furnish tho publio with silver currency, To coin only to the extent of sup- plying the demand for hoarding, is to produce o contraction and a great publio inconven. ience, Tha coinage, to bo of any conven- ienco and bonofit to the public, should con. tinuo so long as there was a dewmnnd for it, and go long as tho publid shall bo willing to give puper currency in exchango for it, The presont comparatively small issue will only servo to familinrizo tho peoplo with the coin, end to induco them to such a general exchange of paper thorefor. 8ilver coinage is tho greatost of all exploders of inflation, ‘I'ho man who receives and handles silvor will never moro ask or favor the issue either of poper #*mouney ™ or paper promises, unless these promises bo redeemable on demand in the coin. ‘Thosilvercoin should thereforavon- tinue to be issued until the cduntry was so supplicd that there would be no further de- mand for it. Tt the coinago should gv on 5o long a4 the demund may oxist for it, The Sonate bill provides for the coinage of silver dollare of the etondard weight, of which nono have been coined since 1853, and theso are to bo a legul-tonder to the mmount of §20, 'These silver dollars will have a valuo of soma four cents greater than the small coins. “When this weight was estoblished for gilver dollars, it bore the then existing pro- portion to tho gold dollar that silver did to gold. Bubsequently silveradvanced, and our coing belng wortl moro es bullion than coin wero melted and shipped. For this reason tho weight of the small colus was reduced and®the coinage of dollars discontinued. Now the value of silver in gold bas fallen.to such an extont that the dollars may be safely coiued at their old standard und be worth more s coins than as bullion. The Benate bill authorizes the exchange by the Treasury of theso silver dollars for greenbacks, The immodiate effect will b to put the greenbacks and the silvor dollars on an equality in valne. ‘This would proditco no coutraction, becauso there would be a silver dollar put in circula. tion for évery greenback given in exchange, and the exchango would bo mnde only to the extont that tho publio desired or preforred silver to papor. Thero {8 no serious danger to bo apprehended from the fall of silver. The panio in the silver market hnas had its run; and, though silver may nover again rench the prico in gold it oneo brought, the cnuses loading to its sudden decline have comparatively become exhausted. From 1833 to 1851 tho price of silver in England was 69 penco por standard ounco, It then advanced, and in 1859 commanded 62§ pence por ovnce. Ig 1862 it declined to 61§ pence, sud in 1873, when tho German Governe ment aonounced its intention to dumon. notize silver, tho prico fell to 58 pence, and since thon has fallen as low as 62} penco. A ronction has begun, and that it will advanos to 54 or85 pence is probablo, ‘Whatevor fluctuation mny take placo in the value of silver will be slight, and the silver dollar will always be less exposed to combi- nntions in the market than the paper dollar, and, being exchangeablo for tho latter, will give to the greenbnck o stability it has never yet possossed. The exchange wonld noces- anrily bo gradual, becnuse limited to the means of the Government to purchaso silver bullion. Tho annunal contribution to the sinking fund hns lutherto been about thirty millions of dollars ; and this amonht of il ver coinage would in timo furnish the people with all tho silvor money thoy will nesd, taking the place of tho same amont of paper, and ndvancing the value of the latter to that of the silver dollar, Tho nocessity of the continuance of silvor coinage so long as tho country has uso for it and prefer it to paper, is obvious, It is popular, it is snbstantial ; it has & value which cannot bo changed by tho operations of o single market, It will not only be non-fluctunting itsolf, but will give equal permanenco to the groenback. The people, themselves, want the silvor, and 80 soon as they get it tho voice of the infla- tionist will become silent, and the roar for . more greenbacks will bo heard of no mors in tho land. In order that the significance of tho para. graph in Tne Tnsunr's dispatches of yostor- day relative to Mr, Fraxors B, Hares' eailing from Boston to Europe may be understood, the nlléged rolations between Mr, Haves and Mr. Buamvg in the Fort Smith & Littlo Rock bonds should be explained. Tho charge is that Mr. Brame sold Mr, Haves some 375, 000 worth of these bonds, which Lo ia alleged to have received in considoration of Con- gressional servicss in securing an extension of the Fort Smith & Littlo Rock land-grant. It is said that Mr, Haves pald Mr. Buame about par for these bonds, though they were comparatively worthless at the time, The reason nssignod for much purchase is that Mr. Haves, ot that time Presi- dont of tho Atlantic & Pacifio Rail- rond, was interested in securing legislation from Congress enabling his Compnny and nleo the Missouri, Kansas & Toxas Railroad to en- tor uponi their landa by tho abrogation of a prior Indian claim to which the lands wore subjoct whon Congress made tho grant. It will bo soen that Mr, Haves was an important witness in the Bramve charges, since his ad-* mission og tho allegations would show Mr. BrAE to have boen in posscasion of a large amount of Fort Smith & Littlo Rock bonds, ond also that ho must have expeoted some sorvico from Mr. Brame in roturn for his purchasa of a lot of worthless bonds at par. Haves' departure, under these circumstances, was oertainly unfortunate, and tho mors so as roveral Now England papers, including the Bpringfield Republican and the Boston Herald, notified him that he would be expectod to give hia testimony on these pointa. In caso it shall bo dotermined to investi- gate the charges that have beon mado ngainst Mr. Braivg, the witnesses who have thus far boen referred to as having knowledge of the transactions arc as follows : Mr, Jony 8. Q. Hannrson, Government Director of the Union Paeific, who is said to have moved an investi- gation in the Board ; E. H. Rorrins, the Tr2ns. urer of the Union Pacific Company, who is said o hnve stopped this investigntion; Jases T, Wirson, of Iows, also a Government Di. roctor of. the Union Pacifie, who is eaid to have been informed by Mr. Bramne that the Iattor sold the bonds for a friend; and Mr. Faanors B. Ifaves, of Boston (who loft go suddenly for Europe), who is said to hiave purchasod $75,000 of the bouds from Mr. Brawve. We bave also boen informed that Alr, Mirzatp, another Government Di. rector of Union Paciflo, ovorheard Ror- LiNg' statomont to Harnisoy, In the alleged transfer of Kansas Pacific Londs to Mr. Brameg, tho witnessos would be Josten B, SrEwant, the Washington lobbyist who is said to have made the transfer of the bonds; Judge Dioore, Stewant's partner, who is said to have been cognizant of the trauafer; and Joux D. Peany, the Prosidout of the Konsas & Paciilo Railroad, who is supposed tobo in posscssion of BrewAnt's lettor sot- ting forth tho transfor, If Mr, Bramv's statemont louvés any room for doubt. ing the integrity of his Congressional carecr, it would seomn to be an easy matter, by the summonipg of theso wituessses, to arrive at tho oznct truth & Tho ludicronsncss of tempestuous donuncia- tion of Chincso immigration, bocause it fur. piahos thom with chieap sud therefore profita. ble lsbor, has dawned upon the Californians, and they pow abject to the Celest because thoy don't buy farms fnstead of working in the citiea and in tho mines. Tho Ban Francisco Bulletin, which hae kindly undortaken to en- lighten Tue TRinuNE upon that subject, makes thiy oxplanation, It eays thero are 30,000,000 sores of land in Californis waitlug setilers to convort theso Into frwitful farms, and that what Califoruia wauts is somebody who will do that, The Hulletin omits meution of tho trifling cir- cumstance that the bulk' of thoze lauds have been grabbed by ratlroad aud great propriotors, whoso eatates aro maasured by the league, sud who for lauds that cau ouly be made productive by irrigation demand twice what the best landain Hlinois, Iowa, Kaneas, aud Nebrasks can bo bought for, The Bullelin furtber explains that the Chinoss do not buy farm lauds because 1hey sro wervilo laborers,~that is, are ownod by the 8ix Companies, and, anyhow, tue Californisus don't waus slavery in thoir Btate. Cortaluly not, But if tho Chinamen are hold {u elavary In deflance of our laws and Couatitution, why not, through the courls, inake an end of that ulavery, wstend of oxtorminating tho slaves, as the hoodlume of the Pacifio Const pant tado? The Californin courts have awple power to froe every epslaved Chinamau; why don't they do so? The pretext is, to pulit in the curront slavg, too thin. There lan’t & Ohivaman in California who doos not know that slavery is prohibited iu thls country, nor we believe ouo who fs not his own master aud pockets his own earulngs, Whon the Bullelin sgain oasts about for some excuse for tho barbarous casts preju- dice sgainut the Chinsse, which is because they work chesgly, a8 they have todo to get employ- # find something more to the point than that they do not do soms other kind of work than that in which they engage. —— THE POST-OFFICE EXHIBIT. A vory intereating table of statistics haw re- cently been sont to the Honate from the Poat- Offico Dopartment, showipg the recoipts and ox- ponditnres at differont post-ofiicos n the coun- try for tho yoar 1876, ‘The largest roceipta aro, of courso, from ths New York I'ost-Ofiice, whioh woro last year noarly £3,000,000, The expensca wero 47 por cont of the rooeipta. Philadelphia comos next, Doston noxt, Chicago next, and 8t. Louis fth, The following table reprozenta the principal ofMoos of the country : F] 5 [2zad 8 Name of offics snd| 3 i-igo Blato, 5 1Fel8 s = Slan ilgt g OLER Albany, N. Y. L8 1910388 71,0370 38 )18 Baltimore, Md 851711 136,834) 23 | 17 Bloomiugfon, I 3 oaton, M 1|1 Drookt 3| @ Buflo, bk Burlington, Is. 2|13 Thieago, 111, 3| 41 | 14 Cluclunatt, O.. 20 | 15 Cleveland, 0. |18 Davenport, 136 1 18 es Mo ;38 | 12 Dotrolt, Mic PR Dubuguo, Ia, .. 3 1L Yort Wayne, Tnd, w0l Grand Hapids, N @i Indianapolin, In i |s Kansw Uity, Mo, 43| 19 Layfayette, Ind, & |18 Leavenworth, K: 4113 Loulsvillo, .0l 22 1 18 Milwauxe 200 21 | 17 Minneayolls, o1 40 | 14 Now Urlon, La, 7059 | 19 New York, N. ¥, 17 [ 13 Oumaha, Nob 20,019 44 | 11 Peoris, 1il, % w | 16 Poiladeipin, 0|2 Piaburg, Da.. 76300) 21 | 11 Quiney, 1, |17 8t, Josanh, 30,0000 6|12 84, Louis, Mo, 1637 27 | 21 St. Paul, Mjna, .. STl angwr W |1 8pringfold, L 267301 122:3! 36 | 10 Toledo, Outvuocreraseeel 78,9381 ai0as] 18 | 14 Whilo Chicago stands fourth on the list of rocoipts, sho fa but & few thousand dollars be- low Boston or Pbiladelphia, and more than doublo that of §t, Louis. New York, of courso, etandsalone. Boaton, Philadelphin, and Chicago belong to the same group of cities whose re- coipta oxceed $100,000. 8t. Louis, Cincinnati, and Baltimoro belong to & group yieldiog mors thao £335,000 and less than 2450,000 of rocelpts. Pittaburg, Now Orlosns, Cleveland, Detroit, and Brooklyn belong to the fourth category. Peoria stands at the hoad of the ILllinois citios of the second class. Ban Franeisco dosa not appear in tho table. T e Tho ora of Congressional invostigations that will find out the troe.inwardness of things in- vostigated ia ovidently drawing to a close under the investigation mania that has soizod upon the Domocratic Houso, In the case of Hatrerr Kinounw, it was practically docided that the Housoe conld not compol s witness to tell more than ho chose about anything, nor to produce documentary evidence in his possossion aftor tho witnoas claimed to bo of opinlon that the doouments wore private property and not ovi- dence. In the ScneNck mattor it has been de- monstrated tbat anything otbor than tho roal point of inquiry can boinvostigated by the wook ; and in numberlesa instances, last of which ist departuro of Mr, P, B, Hares for Eorope, that thoropositorios of most desirablo information are singularly liabla to ombarkon foreign tours at the precige timo whon the Committoss waut to pos- #o8a thomgolves of that fuformstion. The quory which it all suggests is, What is the uas of inves- tigating whon witnosses cannot be compelled to anawor, aod when, a8 in the Oredit Mobilier, and Pacific Mall, Little Rook Railroad bond noles, and other investigatious, tho witnessos who koow somotbing and might tell it simply go abroad until the thing blows over ? Tho excep- tional cases aro those wherein somobody atro- clously libeled, liks Booretary Dmistow in the Mary Merritt matter, forces his assallants to ox- Poeo apon what slonder foundation in fact their slandera wora based, by requiring them to fotch forward their witnoases, that tho testimony of those may bo met, Ior the rost, a Congressional invostigation seema the surest mode of gotting out of tho way all matorial tostimony as o the subject of inveatigation, The obstaclos to Gov. Tr.pEN"s proposed plan for doopening tho Eris Canal, 0 a8 to give an “nonest 7 feet of wator ™ along the entire line, are 8ot forth by the New York Canal Commis- siooers in their report to the Legialature upon the rocommondations of tho Goveruor's mes- eage. They stato that thero is no dlffioulty in navigating the canal with boats of 8 foot draft aud 240 tons burden, but that to deopen the channel one foot additional would require an altoration of all the locks, squeduots, and cul- vorta from Lockport to Albany, which could ouly bo dous at an enormous cost. They also urgoe that the canal for long distances in mavy placos was dug through porous, sandy soil, which had to bo puddloa, and {bat, wore it deoponed, the loss of water by absorption and percolation would bo Eo Rreat as to woriously reduce the volume unless the work were again puddled and the bank atrongthoned, which would iovolve a vast oute Iay, Iustoad of deepening, tho Commssionora recommond ralelng the banks ona font, in order to galo the ndditionnt foot of wator, sud cetimato that £2,000,000 would do the work, including tho cost of raleing bridges. Tho indications are that, in the discussion as to low it uball be accomphehed, the great work of increasiog the capacity of the canal will be deforred until tho furthor dlversion of the erain trado of the West and Northwost from New York to Baltimore, DBoston, and othor Atlantic ports, shall drive the New York Logislaturo to do momsthlug besidos talk about improving the Erie Canal. G i Tho London Times of the Tthinst. containa s recond Installment of tho dotals of the new Domosday Dook, some etatistics from which on land-ownorship have alroady hocn printed in Tue TxiouNe, The following additianal fgurcs wlil be of interest: Tue bighest rental por acia s 38 ehillloge, aud elevon counties range from 30a to 33s. In England and Wales, with n poputation of 19,468,009, thore aro 3,841,954 in- Liabited houses and 872,833 ownors. The nnm- ber of owners of .ono acre and upwards is 269,517, and thero aro 703,230 ownors belew one acre, The immonse property of tho threo larg- ost ownors ls Bhowa by the fact that they own 423,210 acres, tha nggregate rental of which fa £2,061,005. Tho hundrod largest private ownors in Englond snd Wales hold 3,852,000 acres, whioh is onc-tenth of tho entiro aron. The 1and-holders of Bcotland, which bas a total acre- sge of 18,040,604, nnmbor 182,230, Summed up, ono person in every twenty of the popula- tion in Eugland s a lsnd-owner, sod one in every twonty-five in Beotland. One household- er in every four in Evglaud is a land-owner, and oue in every three in Scotland, s dabct it bl s It has always boon s mooted queation where and how tho black race originsted, In cue of the Targume & montion ‘is mado of mon being croated black, white, and red, but the most ex- pliait mout ls contained on oue of tho re- coutly discoversd Assyrian tablols containing the czeation legends. Ono of these tablots has the following lines: * Aiay ho eatabllsh sud may his will 0ot fail (o the mouth of the biack raco whom his hands have mado.” On another tablet there iwa bymn to the god Mzropach, in which ocours the following passago: * Among mankind, even the men of the black race, the supporter of all lifo whose naweis proclaimed ou earth.” As theso tablets contain legunds ap- portaluing to thelr creation, our colored broth- 1eu are warranted in traciog thomeselves quite as far back a8 auy of the rest of us, whateyer aur color wmay be, R Massachusetts is about to lose another vener- able tree which has poetioal mssocistions, It is {lo identical * spreading chiestuut tree " i Cam- bridge under which the * villags smithy ® atood, It 18 to be out down, but a portion of 1t will be prosorved 1u the form ot » chair, whiah i to be presented to LoNarrLrow, who sens (he omilb and amithy down to 8. ——— A rocant eass in a Paris court davalops con. sidorable locaeness (n the marriage relations in Romo, especially In bigh quarters. It appears from the evidence in the onse thad a nophew of Cardinal AxtoNgutt married a Miss Ganom, whose fathor was ennoblod na ono of the Inoi. dentn of the ceremany, and who aubscquently disd and loft hia foriune, 88 waa supposed, to his daughtor as ouly heir. Dut, as has ofton happened bafore, numerona other GAnaciae turned up, children, of negro women In the ‘Wost Indios, whom tho old gontleman hed loved not wisely but too well. Tho nisce of Anros neLL aat up tho claim that thess dark-complex- foned cbildren wora illegitimato, and Shorofore Lad no claim on the proporty. Thereupon the tropical claimants proved in the courts that the nleco of Cardinal ANTONELLT wna tho daughter of an actress to whom (be old gentloman war married long after Miss Ganoia's birth waslns acribod in the publio records. —_—- PERBONAL, A littlo Roes Hormos was born on the 0th Insk The richost Chinaman in California is Li Po Tal, & physician, Ho owna $75,000 worth of real ostate. Mres. Nolly Grant-Sartoris is to pass thio nexy senson in London, and ba presented at Coutt as an Eogllshwoman, Mins Lotta, the actross, ban rentod Mr. Potter Patmor's cottage at Nowport, and will take pos sension oarly in Juso. The Lyceum Committes, of Lawranco, Mass., declined tho risk of offering Mr. Boecher $300 fora locturo. Mia prics usad to ba £1,000 to $1,600. Bir. James Gordon Bennett will soon publist in pamphlet form his powerful articles on * The Poa-Crop iu Toxas " and *Thoe Genesis of the Roley-Boley Asaociation.” . Madamo Bonaparto-Patterson, ef Baltimore, whoso wovere illnces was mentionod a faw days g0, I8 now recovoring. Bho long ago assorted that sho would resch the age of 100 yeara. Tho London Times, & final sutbority in the Premises, says, In ita {esue of the 224 inak.g ** Wo canuot agoept, nor can woa boliove any Ene glishman will sooept, Bignor Roeal's Hamld sy in any soneo the flamist ot Bhakspeare,” Misa Mollie Btockton, ot Navads, recently thrashed a schoolmaator, and, in axplanation of . tho transaction, said : “Iam well Swere that the poor fomale is too often trampled Oewn without just cause.” The Now York lierald states, evidently on an- thority, that fr. F, B. Warde, now aoting with Mr. Booth is thia city, has made no ar- rangomonts for noxt eeason, The report that he hiad engagod with the Oalifornia Theatro is Ppronounced erronoous, Dean Btanloy gava fresh evidencs of hls Jbere ality by officiating at ths unvelling of the table( erected in Weatminater Abbey to the momory of Jobn Wesloy and hiabrothor Charles. Tho Lon- don nowapapors spoke of the ceremony am uoique of its kind—* unprecedonted in the hise tory of that or any similar ecclealastical adifics,™ Dr. J. 8. Bylvester, one of the most distioe guishod mathemasiolans of Engtand, lately sp- pointed to the Chairof Mathematics ia the Johnk Hoptins Univeraity, has made s discovary which 1s prononuced by Horbort Spencer as pregnant of momsntons consoquences in solence as thay which gave ronown to the name of Issao New- ton. ¥ It ia ntated that when Bocretary Boutwell vis. ited sho Jate Alr. Btewart toconsolt him in re- gard to our national financos, the latter, aftor s fow iminutos’ conversation, sald : “I under- stand that you are about to buy new carpets for tho Treasury bullding, and I wish to reming you that wo are in & position to furnish them clisap. cor than any othor houso,” Tho quarrel bolween the Duke and Duchess of Edinburg has bocomo a matter of iuternationsl fmportance. Mr, Bmalloy writes : ** The vislt to Potersburg, fbr which tho death of tho Duchess’ aunt fornished s convonient pretext, was roslly a polito moans of effecting & separation. « + « TheCzar'a love for hia daughter is ona of tho strong pasafons of lus life ; what may ha not do to avenge the fancied slights whioh she baliovea sho Lina had to boar " The Rov, H, R, Hawels, whom Moncare Goos ‘way describea s ' the nlways self-willed ora- tor," Lias preachied a sermon in which he,deolarss that bs bolioves in no such thing aa arch-fiend. ‘ho opinion of ominout couneel {s bomg taken aa to whether Mr, Hawois mny not be succesafully prosccated; for, in dotermining that & man may ba given tho sxcramont without belioving In & devil, tho Privy Council has not decided that & clorgyman naed not bollove that doctrine, Spurgeon doos nol agroe with Moody em chareh falrs, Moody eays tho dovil {a in them. Bpurgoou saya it ia botter to give money onte right than to rafuo it by a falr, but that whon cash donntions cannot be obtained a falr 18 the next best thing. e also says that churoh fairs bring out the talent of the sistors, and that he fools aure there is not an article offered for eale that bas not been prayed over, as the mother of Moses is said to bave prayod whea she mado his cradle. The marrises about o tako placs ia Paria be- tweon Mile. de Gontaut-Biron, daughter of the Fronch Ambassador at Borlin, and Count Talley- rand-Porigord, Lioutenaut in the Lanoers of the Toyal Prussian Guard, has exoited much indig« nation. Tho Count is au spostate Frenchman, liaving goue ovor to P'russia ten yoars sgo and fonght aguinet Lis native eountry in the late war, rho father of tho Iady opposed tho match with all the meana at bis command, but she, boing 30 years old and full of grit, sent Lim ® paremptory logal domnnd for bis consent by & tputall or bailiff, and he was obligod to yiold. Mr. Weaton, the pedestrian, has contributed , somethiog to the general mtock of informatiom in England, Inquisitive medical gentlemon who watched bim daring his public exhibitions dis- covered that ho used ‘‘coca ™ habitually as & stimulant, * Cocs "—which is a totally differens thing from cocos—Is a plant indigenons to the high lands of the Andes, It is well koown In Poru, whero the dried loaves are chewed by all classcs, e tobacco is here, Tho sympioma of intoxication prodnced by it compriue helglitoned temporsture, quickened pulse, strong desiro for active locomotion, with increasod nense of strepgth and agility, followed by apathy sud sleap, from which the patient wakes without de- bility or uupleasant foelings. LOTEL ABRIVALS, Patmer Ifouss—Bamuc) Bolton, Archibald Taylor, E. ©, Holurook, New York; G. M, Whitney, Odell} 0. R, Diggins, Fort Wayne; Bamuel Brown, Doston; J. ¥, Burton, Genera Lako (Wis) Herald; G, M Bowsman and Jamea E, Davy, Now South Walea ; H ry Mornby, England; J, Catlyle, Bydney, N, 8. W.§ A ¥, Dullard, Grand Tapide; W, Dullard, Buffalo; 0, 3, Irish, Racina; J. D. Cady, Pittaburg, ,..Grand JFucyle—Judye David ~TRarer, Burlin; Judge Joha_B. Blillor, Dea Moluea; the Hon, 3 20 Dow, New York; ex-(ov. Bsmucl *Merrill, Iowa ; the Hon. Jous AL Byphlr M. O, Loulssnaj I Plattamouth, Nob, ; Judge 4, 8. M, L, i1, Owens, Vermilllon, D, T 1L J. Deénver § Lewla Yoliaua, Now York; W, J. Mok(nuoy, Cloveland; T, A, Moyscoburg, Bt Louls; J, I, Mes Fatlano, San Francisco; J, K. Jouw, Quinoy: W, i1 Coltrill, Milwaukeo, ... fremont Huuse—Hugh Baruos, Toroutd; Rdward Wiison, New Vork J. 4. Closs, uj Lako Huperor; D, lazk, 'Now ~York tho lton. B, M, Bpriagaf, Yorkllla; Albert B Simiis, ackford; Gen, W, G, Howo, Boatoni M. . Dickey, s Hon, Bamuef Leouard, New Ladford § Clovalan gol. John M, Oberly, Cairo (IU.) Bul Now Orle, S s, Now Orleana Tudlsnapolis, Hu! polis [ 1, 3. C. Wysit, Hond da Lao; F, K, Orvis, Hon, Cozncicnts Maji \uos, U, B, ‘the Mon, Bamuel Hmith, , Mow York; the J. ‘Rogers, Appaton, Wisi' tha Hou, M. Redmond, New ¥arks Ocl, J, N, Ray: mond, Now York ; thie Lon., M, B, Beether, Dola 2 1IL.; Col, 0. W, Fr. Taxh, New York 1 8, W Deniale and J. &, Oal Balimore; 3. W, 'nuama-,nuumn