Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 25, 1876, Page 6

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A0OLEY'S THEATHE—Tacdolph sircet, between Olark and LaBalle, Engsgermont of Eatle Putnam, % Little Barefoot.” MOVICKER'S TIIEATRE—Madison strest, batweon Dearborn snd Btate, * Lamlet,™ ADELPIHI THEATRE—Monroo atrest, corner Dear- thorn, Varicty entertainment, WASIINGTON CHAPTER, NO, 4, R, &, M.—8no il Gonvocation this (Tueaday) avening nt 7:20 a'clock, for work on the Mark Deyroc, Visitinig Companions ordially invited, Dy ordor of the M, E. 1L, I, GI1AS, B, WRIGHT, Becretary. The Ehiego Tribune, Tuesday Morning, April 35, 1876, Greenbacks at the Now York Gold Ex- shange yesterday closed at 88, Tho Common Council has entered npon tho canvass of the vote cast at the late muni- cipal olection, which will probably be com- pleted this evening at tho adjourned meet- ing. No disposition is shown by tho rotiring Aldermen to unrensonnbly postpone thoe in- duction of their successors, Tho announcoment ycstordny of the sne- pension of the City National Bank of Chica- go produced s tomporary excitement in com- mercinl circles, but nothing which could be regarded 03 more than a finoneial flurey, Confidence is felt thet tho losscs will fall maiuly upon the stockholders, aud that tha resources of the bank are sufficient to pay dopositors nearly, if not quite, #1 full, Brrrxar's final rojoinder to the replication of tho ouso managors of tho impeachment proccedings sota up a curious plen to the cf- foct thnt his resignation as Secrotary of War was in pursuance of an agreement or pledgo on tho part of Cryaes, the Chairman of the Tnvestigating Committeo, that if Beugvar would resign no impeachment proceedings would be instituted This agrecmont, it is urged, shiould estop the House from prose- suting the impeachment. 1lie nowspnper troubles at Minnenpolis still continuo. 'I'he unwaolcome 8t, Paul peo- plo have got their property in their own bands at lnst by moans of an injanction, and publish tho Minnenpolis Z'ribune this morm- ing, but all yesterdny hired persons triumphe od in the stroets, blowing through tho mellow horn thelr pensivo souls, and trumpeting the popular indignation. Lnst night n mass- maocting wos held, and the municipal heart is now fired with the ugly resolve to go with- out news rather than accopt it at tho ands of ke Philistines. The County Bonrd has voted for proposals for the publication of the de-’ linquent tax-list, instend of awarding the job a4 n sort of gift to some fuvored newspaper, 88 has boen tho practico herctofore. The plun is & good one, nud will doubtless result in n saving to tha tax-payers; but why stop with the tax-list, and why not include tho publication of the proceedings of the Doard as well? Why does tho gentle and iucor- ruptible McOarrrEY singlo out tho Post and Mait os the organ of the Bourd to print the proceedings without competition? This is not the only paper that has stood by the bummers and rings through thick and thin, Givo tho rest of the apelogists for corruption s cliance, The suspension of Messrs. ScmmoEDpER, Lixpuron & Co., of Milwaukee, is uudoubt- edly a direct consequence of the wheal-cor- ner whigh that firm engineered in tho latter part of last year. They controlled the Blil. waukeo market, snd put up the price so high 8s to draw in upon them vast quuntities of the grain, which, at the winding up of the corner, was left on their hands, They * car- ried it ” all through tho winter, hoping to find n higher market for it this spring, but failed to discover it. "Tho corner excitemont enabled many farmers Lo abtain 1much botter prices for their wheat than they conld othes- ‘wiso have done, but the cornering firm was swamped ultimately by the transaction. Khis is tho natural outcomo of ninetecn out of every twonty corners in produce, nnd it is surprising that men can yot bo found Lurdy enough to attompt the operation, pltsian A ey Tho Comuntteo on Expenditures in the Toat-Oftice Dopartmont has, after a thorough invostigation, concluded that Alr, JaweLn knows how to keep o Post-Otlico and man- ago tho business of muil transportation this side of the Mississippi River at least, BSomo- how the credulous Democracy lind learned through a disappointed contractor, whouo failure to impose upon the Department bad greatly affocted his sincerity, that the threa great lines from Clicago to Omshu—tlo Northwestern, Chicago, Burlington & Quinoy, uand Rock Island—had esch been paid monthly for dojng the same gervice, the alleged schome being simply that of alternating, ono road carrying the mails one month, the othier another, and so0 ou by regular ronnds. After hearing much testi- mony and reading stacks of documents in tho Department, it has beon discovered that some ono has exnggorated, touso a mild term, asno such custom has ever existed, sud thut the Dopartment records [n this respect fuil to give even a hiut of any fraudulent transac- tions, What winduill will the Quixatic Con. foderates waste their prowess upon next? pubhcihiabtit S ‘The Chicago produce nurkets werc unsettied yesterday by the fine woatlier, ond news of outslde foilures. Mess pork was active and 20@250 per brl lower, closing at $21.65 for May and $21.90 for June. Lard was lesa sctive and 6@10c per 100 1lbs lower, closing &t $13.27) for May and $18.45 for June. Meats were in moderate de- mand and easy, ot Bjc for boxed shoul- darw, 120 for do short ribs, and 12§c for do’ short clears. Highwines were guict and firm, at 1.07 per gullon, Flour wus quiet and stoady. Wheat was active and 1}@2c lower,’ dosing st $1.01) for regular and $1.024 for dlag. Gaorn waaactiveand lolower, closing at vie tw Apeil and 8{c for Moy, Outs vicre quiet and §o lowor, elosing at 82§0 for Mny and 32}e for Juna, Ryo was dull at GGe. Barloy was mora nctive and 1@1}a lower, closing at i8jo for May and Bse for June. Hogs wora in good demand, and pricos wero firm, salos making at $7.70@8.00 for com- mon .to prime. Cattlo wore innotiva and weak. Bheep wero nominally steady. One hundred dollara in gold would buy $112.62} in greenbacks at tho closo. i e Mr, Bramer yesterdny obtained the floor for tho purposs of making his statoment in oxplanation and denial of tho numorous alle. gations and charges which have gained pub. licity of late, Ho was listoned to with pro- found nttention, sud tho full report of his apocch which we print this morning will ba read with absorbing interest throughout the nation. Tho nddress was a masterly defense, deninl, and oxplanation, and, 1t s snid, car- ried conviction of its truth to the minds of thoso who heard it. It explaina satisfactorily tho circumstances under which Mr, BrnaNe became the owner of certain Fort Smith & Little Rack Railroad bonds; it denies the assertion that he received $61,000 or any other sum from the Union Pacific Railrond Company, and that he ever sold any bonds or zeceived any money from the Atlantie & Pacifie or tho Missonri, Kansns & Texas Rail- ronds. This is comprohensive #o far as it oxtends, but it lardly covers the whole ground. No allusion is mado to Mr, Hanr- soN's saction in lnying the matter of the $64,000 beforo the (overnment Director’s ; thero i nostatement from the Mon, Jases F. Wirson, of Jown, n Government Director, to show that Mr, Braine's name was not con- nected with that transaotion by rumor or by testimony in the investigation that was held: and, more important still, in testimony or oxplanation from aoy officer of the Union Pucific Road throwing any light upon the mntter of tho payment of the £64,000 which Mr, ITanntsox insisted upon inguiring into, It would bhave grently strengthened Mr. Brawe's explanntion and denial it ho could bove submitted facts showing precisoly to whom and for what purpose the sum of $64,- 000 was paid for somo worthless Arkausns railropd bonds, and it is to be rogretted that AMr, Brarvg did not supply the missing link. CAULFIELD'S MARE'S NEST, Now that the ovidenca begins to come out in tho matter of the corruption in which Banvey Cavnrienp racently captured the President, and which he has spread abroad with o much circumstantiality and exnggera- tion through the Demecratic newapapors, the renl merits of the matter appear and show that it hinges upon the fact that a Repub. lican Administration uncarthed the most atrocious corruptions the country has ever knpwo. 5 Blic story of tho corruption may bo briefly told, and will bo of interest, In 1868, Presi- dent Gnaxt was in the very height of his popularity, and the Republican party more powerful than it had over boon beforo. It had commpnded itself to the whole country by ita suppression of tho Robellion, by its work of reconstruction, and by the passage of tho constitutional amendments, and yot, to the utter nstonishmont of the nationm, Grawr was defested in Now York by 12,000 majority. The country districts hind given him the overwhelming majority of 50,000, onough to overcome SkrMOUR'S ma- jority in New York City, if thero had been nn honest vote, including Brooklyn also with its majority of 13,000, and yot it was mot in the city with a Democratio majority of 61,000, thus giving tho election to Seroun, although the Ropublicans had cast the largest voto that had ever beforo boon given for nny of their enndidates. It became npparont to Congresa that Graxt had carried tho State by thirty or Yorty thousand majority an d, undor the nuthority of the Constitution, it passed a lnw to provent ballot-box stufling nnd fraudulont voting by appointing Doputy Maxshals to superviso the voting in oll largo citles where they might bo sont. The law was framed in tho interosts of honesty and tho purity of clections, and ogninst rovolu- tion, for ballot-box stuffing is as clearly rovolutionary a8 a coup datat. Tho object of tho law, therefore, was good, and the cspenditures under it were warranted and lawful, In corrying out the provisions of thelaw in New Yeork City, on Supervisor Davexront's mothods, during the yenrs from 1871 to 1874, thero wero exponded at the highest estimate $35,000, so that the Troas- ury was drained by these dreadful conspirators & tho vate of 8,730 a year! Thisisthe whole sum nund subatanco of tho marc's nest which Danxey Cavekierp Las discovered, and about which he is making such a hul. Inbnloo. Lhis is the atrocious infamy of which the Now York World says, in e burst of pathos and bosh : ‘Tho most melaucholy newa which it hag ever fallen 10 our lot toly befors the public, hardly excepting the assassination of Presidant LiNCOLN, is that which we publish this morning reciting the political and moral aulelds of Tresilent GraNT. . . . Not BELKNAP'S crime envelops tho Adminjsteation and the Hepube tican party in s Liack an lufamy. A fow more vlection figures will throw ad- ditionnl light upon this matter, At the next cloction Mr. Kenvay, now United States Henntor, nud ono of tho most popular men in Now York, ran for Governor on the Demo- oratic ticket ngainst Gen, Dix, KErNAN ro- ceivad 77,916 votes, and Dix 5G,200; majori. ty for Kenxax, 21,225, This was the ut- most the Democraoy conld do, with the strongest and mont popular man in the State on their ticket, Four years beforo, the Dom-= ocrnts had returned 108,316 votes, to 47,348 for tho Republicans. 'T'ho comparison shows that in four yours, notwithstanding the natural increnso of the voting population, .tho Democratic vote hnd shruuk from 108,316 o 77,915, or 80,401 votes, which is just the nutmber of fraudulent votes that were topped by tho law, The Ropublican vote in these four yewrs menunwbile increasod from 47,338 to 56,200, showing a natural and healthy party growth, The wholo cost of stop. ping this atrocious swindls was not much over 75 conts @ vote, It was a trifling amount, but it was effoctunl, and the Domo- cruts bave not recovered thoir majority of Lallat-box stufting days, since, ot the eleation Inst full, the united Democratio and Liberal vote for Bioxrow wns only 79,274, against 19,614 for Sewanp, Republican, They had tho united voto of all the factious, ‘Fammany, unti-Tawmany, and Liberal, and yot failed to voll one.half the vote that was cast for Sey- souvn. Davenront's work of registration by blocks, a8 explained in his testimony printed in Tux Trisuxe of yesterday, struck a fatal blow at the Tweep Ring, which, after steal- ing the property of the city, then deliberately stolo tho vote, "The Twzen Ring bhave been compelled to deliver up the stolen property, They have also bean compelled to disgorge the vote, oud this is just whero the shoe pinchos Basvey Osurpiern, Lis Committee, the New York World, und thu Demovracy generally. It is tho oocasion of a second very dismal and lugubrious wuil thot this woney was THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1876, taken from tha Beoret Borvice fand. This drendful acousntion s ensily mot. ‘Tho Secret Sorvico fund wns established to bo usedt in ** the dotection and prosscution of crimos ngainst the United States,” to be ox- pended under the direotion of the Attornoy- QGeneral, no provision being made for the precise manner of expenditare. Fraudnlent voting has always beon recognized aa a crime against tho United Btates, and has been pun- ished as such. Supervisor DAVENFORT was invested with autbority to doteot and punish froudulont voters, and Attornoy-Generals Arenaan ond Wrtaus directed the monoy to bo paid That is all there is to this motter, This Ropublican corruption which Barvgy CavtriEtp hss unearth. od, and nbout which he is making such n» hullabaloo, therefore, smms itsell up in tho fact that it was an effort to stop Dom- ocratic fraudulent voting. The Democratio investigating committeea have spont thou. annds of dollars to discover Republican dolin- quencies, and now thoy aro all in holy horror because they have run acvoss a Ropublican effort to discover and defent Domocratio ras- calitien, and becauso it hins cost $35,000 to do it. If it had cost mllions of dollnrs, inatead of thia triflo, it would havo boen chonp, Tho pooplo of Ghiengo have recently beon worked up to & degree of indignation bordoring upon . frenzy, and suggestive of lomp-posts and Dnlters, because o fow bummers atole the town offices, the whole stealings of which would amonnt perhaps to $100,000; but hore was & steal involving the highost offices in the land, an immengo patrounge, and untold thou- sauds of money,—a steal perpetrated year aftor yoor by the most infamous ring in the Democratic records, which disfranchised tho voters not ouly of New York City but of the whole State; and because it was a Domo- cratio stenl, aud a Republicnn Administration spent tho trifling sum of $35,000 to brenk it up, wo have the spectacle of the whole Demo- aratio party howling at once, and raising the absurd sud ridiculous huewnd-ory of im. peachment ! AROLISHING TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION. In Suuday's Trinonc was a communication from Mr. R. M. Eppy on the subjoct of abolishing township organization, The writ- er takes n mistakon view of tho subject. Io assumes that if township organization bo abolished in Cook County, that such aboli. tion earries with it the present County Board, and nceossitates the oleotion of & now Board of throe Commissioners, mnkes the Tronsurer Assessor, and the Sheriff Collector, eto., clo, The Constitution has mado special provis- jon for tho government of Cook County, which government is difforont from that of all other counties, whether under or mnot ander township organization. 1t is a class of countios of itself. The Constitution provides that the affairs of Cook County shall bo gov- erned by o Board of fifteen Commissioners, When this was adopted, the old machinery of township organization was in force, and tho Legislaturo provided only for so much of the change as substituted the Couniy Board for the Board of Supervisors. The vote this foll to abolish township organization will have tho offect only of getting rid of the remaindor of the township mnchinery, It will then remnin for the Legislature to pro- vide such machinery for the government of the county, in addition to the Board of fif- teen Commissioners, as may be considored advisablo. The Citizens' Association, through ita counsel, framed o bill for this purposo at the last session of the Logislature, which pro- vided for the eloction of a County Asgossor, and making the Treasurer, as now, tho Col- lector, But this bill was clicked off and dofeated through the influsnco of two agen- cies,~the Town Bourds, which weroe then atonling an nygregate of $100,000 a year, and the Park Comumissioners of tho North and ‘West Towns, The town officers were of courso tho class of men who control primary meetings, nominating conventions, and who gtufl ballot.boxes, The avernge politician serving In the Legislature of course yielded to the demands of this class, Tho Park Commissioners of North and West Chicago did not want to break up the township organ- ization, because sll park taxes for these towns must be voted by that monstrosity in govornment known as the town meeting. Wo understand that the Park Commissioners of North Chicogo have already got a *““legal opinfon ™ to the offect that township organ- iz n cannot be abolished, and that this opinion is hawked nbout town soliciting sig- natures. In duo timo it will be published as areason why there should be no vote abol- ishing township organization m Cook County, But the voto will be taken, and the peoplo will take pains to elect men to the Legisla- ture to provide tho necessary county’ma. chiuery, even if il bo nccessary to omit for one yenr tho levying of a special tax for park purposes in North and West Chicago. 1HE PROPOSED THEASURY INVESTIOA- TION, Demoeratic sensationalism scems to have attained its summit in the recent promulga- tion from Washington that tho United States "lrensury bns been robbed of bouds, gold notes, cortificates of indebtedness, green- backs, and fractional eurrency to the nmount of $487,000,000, or shout ouc-fourth of the national debt. The Troasury ofiicials are eaid to have possessed thomselves of this colossal sum in the courso of yuars by issuing bonds and notes which thioy roported ns do- stroyed. If thore were four puople ongaged in this systom of plunder, it has yicided them ovar $120,000,000 apisce ; if forty-eight peo- ple, about $10,000,000 each ;, and it 487 peo- ple (uud certainly thoro confdu’t huve boen wors), then & cool million for every one of them, It was not known that the Treasury Lud turned out so many Cnasuses. It will probably bo news to Gou, Seinnen, who “bossed " the job for a numberof yenrs, and who rvemained so poor thut he i be- lisved to have wnda frequent appeals to his friends to muko good certain amounts’ that wero stolen from time to time for which ho was responsible, Wero thede stealinga fairly distributed among tho different Htates ac- cording to the recognized rule of appoint- menta? If so, did Ilinols get its proper share, which would muount to sowmothing *liko $50,000,0007 Who are the pallant sons of this Stato that enjoyed part of the plun- der? Tho extravagance of this chargo is such as to dofent itself, The Dewocratic sousutions nlists havo overrenchod themselves. ‘Thoy have taken up an old story and claborated it beyond the limits of probability, But we hope they will juvestigato it all tho same, It is os well that the suspicion of wholesale robbery in tho Treasury, growing out of tho printing and hundling of tho mouney, should Lo set at rest. Of course thoro have been individual cases of theft. A dozen of thom, involving the loss of wmore or less money and bouds, have been discovered. Therv was one of §256,000 s short time before Gen. Seivnen retred. But the very exposure of e theso thofta seoma to be a tost of the thor. onghness and excollenca of tho systom for keoping track of the monoy. If tha chocks on the money, 08 it passes through the vari- oua dopartmonts, oach contributing but a Amall part to its manufacture and issno, were jnadequate, the thofts would not have been discovored, and thore might be moro reason to suspeot n gigantio shortage. But tho promptness with which every thoft becamo known to the Troasury ofiicials, and tho ability shown in tracing the theft to.those who committed it, induco thoe beliof that nothing like goneral and undiscovered pilfering has been going on. Btill wo are disposod to en- courage tho most thorongh invoatigation, and will oven favor & detail of Domocratic Con- grossmen to count the money—if somo trustworthy porsons be placed on guard to watch them during the operation, The general charge, which is absurd enough in itsolf, becomes more absurd by renson of the partioular theory upon which the extraction of nearly £500,000,000 ia sc- conntod for, It has boon stated that the money has been stolen by tho failuro to do- stroy what has been ordered burnt, Yot it is admitted that mutilated, vorn, or defectivo eurroncy ordered destroyed was burnt undor tho supervision of n Committes, the mom- bers of which woro frequently chang- el Dut, boforo it was consigned to this Committeo, tho rojected ourency or the cancoled bonds pnssed through various stages of caucellntion, including the checking off by stub-books, In fact, an amonnt of money has nlways beon charged agninst the Treasury equal to that which could ba manufactured from the amount of paper made, and this charge dates from the moment the paper leaves the mill It is necessary, iherefore, that every scrap of the papor should ba accounted for, whoth- or it be finally issued as money or not. Dur- ing tho various pracesses of prihting, stamp- ing, sorting, counting, numbering, oto., evory pieco passos through' differont dopartments, onch acting as a check upon tho others, The numboring alone would defeat any effort at wholesale robbory, and lead to tho dotoction of isolated onses. The numbers are consecu- tive, and aro afiixed os the currency and bonds are ' finally issued. Any currency or bonds stolen or not destroyed whon 80 or- dored wonld be duplicate in number, and this alone wonld soon load to thoir deteotion in passing through the hands of bankors and roturning to tho Treasury, With this systom it is unronsonablo to supposo that thore has ‘boon a genoral and systomatio robbery of the public monoys, or any thofts of a considora= ble amount which have not been discoverod. Novertheloss, wo hopo the investigation will goon; for, though A costly proccoding ona frail basis, it will be worth whilo to ostab- lish the fact thus puldicly and oftcinlly that thore is a system for manufacturing and hondling tho money and bonds which does not admit of robbery. The new coinage of tho United States has been gratofally raceived by the American peoplo. At least one-third of tho peoplo bave attained adult age since silver dissp- ponred from circulation. Cold coinnge hos becn far more familiar in business than sil- vor during the last fifteon yenrs, The sub- stitution of silver for the fractional curroncy will prove of groat benefit, provided that the policy thus happily begun shall be main. tainod. The silver coinage is a curiosity, in ono sonso, to thousands. As it becomes dis- tributed there will be alarge amountof it put sway in small sums, and not paid out ngain until tho last fractional noto has disap- penred. ‘The lighest sum of frac- tionnl currency outstanding at any oue timo wns fortysix millions of dol- lars, ond this includes all of that currency which has beon lost and destroyed sinco tho first {ssuc in 1862 and 1863, But the demand for small silver will far excecd that which has ever oxisted for the fractionnl paper ourrency. It will roquire nearly twico ns much mlver, becauso a larga proportion of the Intter will be hoarded and put aside, until it has been issned in such large sums o8 to have it in general use, and in such abundanco that it can be easily obtained when wanted. The bill which has passed Congress author- izes the issue of silver coinage in redemptibn of the fractional currenoy., Of this thore was in circulation on tho 1st of last Fobru. ary $12,000,000, and of this sum over 10, 000,000 are of the enrlior issues. Tha issue of 330,000,000 of silver coin will be wholly inndoyuate, aud the fact thot ita jssue iy al- togother insufliciont will rosult in its boing promptly hoarded. ; In wise anticipation of the popular do- mand of the country for silver, and fora large amount of it, the Finance Committeo of tho Sonato has reported a bill providing for the continuance of the silver colnnge permanently, that the growing preforouce for the coin may bo sntisfied. Tho issue of thirty millions will, if it be ascertained that no 1more is to bo issued, hardly satisfy thbse who will put it away to keop in sums ranging from %2 to $200, and the whole value of the silver schemo will be lost. 'Thero is, more- over, no rationnl protoxt for coining silver unless it bo to furnish tho publio with silver currency. 'To coin only to the extent of ayp- plying the domand for hoarding, is to produce n contraction and a great public inconven. ience, Tho coinage, to bo of nny conven- jenco and bonefit to the public, ehiould con- tinuo o long es there was a' demnnnd for it, and so long as the public shall be willing to give puper currency in exchange for it. The present comparatively small issno will only serve to familiarizo tho people with the coin, and to induce them to such a general exchango of paper thorefor, Silver coinago is tho greatest of all exploders of inflation. "I'he man who recelvos and Landles silver will nover mora ask or favor the issue eithor of papor #“mnanoy ® or paper promises, unless these promises bo redvemnble on demand in the coin. 'Thesilvercoin should thereforocon- tinue to bo issued until the country was so supplicd that there would be no further de- maud for it. DBut the coinage should go on o long as the demand may exist for it The Sanate bill provides for the coinage of silver dollars of the stondord weight, of which nonoe have been coined since 1853, and theso are to bo a legal-tonder to the amount of $20. These silver dollars willhave a valuo of some four cents greater thau the amall coins, “When this weight was established for silver dollurs, it bore'the then existing pro- portion to tho gold dollar that silver did to gold. Subsequently silver sdvanced, and our cofus bolng worth moro as bullion than coin wero melted and shipped. For this reason u;‘q welght of the small colus was reduced and the coinage of dollars discontinued. Now tho valuw of silver in gold has fallen.to such an extont that tho dellurs may be safely coined at their old standard and be worth more us coins than as bullion. The BSenate bill autborizes the exchange by the Treasury ot theso silver dollars for greenbacks. The immodinte effoct will be to put the greanbacks and the silver dollars on an equality in value, 'This would produce no contraation, because thoro would be a silver dollar put in circuln. tion for évery groanbnek givon in exchangs, and the exchange wonld bo made only to the extont that the public desired or preforred silver to papor. There is no sorious dnnger to bo apprehended from the fall of silver Tho panic in the silvor market has had its run; and, thongh silver may nover ngain reach tho prico in gold it onco bronght, the causes loading to its sudden decline have comparatively become exhausted. From 1833 to 1851 the price of silver in England was 69 penco por standard ounce, It then ndvanced, and in 1959 commanded 62§ penco per ovnco. In 1862 it doolined to 61} pence, aud in 1873, when tho German Govern- ment announced its intontion to dumon- notize silver, the prico fell to 58 pence, work (han that {n which they sngage. i s THE POST-OFFICE EXHIBIT woro 27 por cant of the roceipts. comos next, Boston next, Chicage next. and 8t. Louls fifth. principal ofMcos of the country : =] | £ Nams ns afice and| 5 *snjpuadse [voL| ey wwo_jo 3o s3] ,more greenbacks will bo heard of no more in and since thon hos fallon as low as 52} pence. A ronction has begun, aud that it will advance to G4 or 85 penco is probable, Whatover fluctuation mny take placa in the valua of silver will be slight, and the silver doliar will always be less exposod to combi. nations in the market than the pnpor dollar, and, being exchangeable for the latter, will give to the greonback a atability it hns never yot possessed, The oxchanga wonld noeces- sarily bo gradual, beenuse limited to the means of tho Government to purchaso silver bullion. The annual contribution to the sinking fund hins hitherto bLeen about thirty millions of dollars ; and this amouht of sil- vor coinago would in time furnish the people with all tho silver money they will need, taking the place of the same smout of paper, ond advancing the value of tho latter to that of tho silver dollar. Tho necessity of the continunnco of silver coinago so long s tho conntry hos use for it and prefor it to papor, is obvions, It is popular, it is subatantial ; it has a valno which ecannot be changed by tho oporntions of o single market, It will not only be non-fluctuating itsolf, but wiil give equal permanenco to tho groenback, Tha people, themselves, want the silvor, and 80 soon a8 thoy got it tha voice of the infla- tionist will become silent, and the roar for Albany, N, Y. Baltimore, M Bloominglon 191,935 EX ) 11,637| 8 lifl,fll i Indianapolin, ind. Huusws City, Mo.. Layfayetto, tnd venwortl, Louiavillo, Ky Milwauxea, Wi l‘ll:lbmuhl'l. B Fodion: S 8, Louis, Mo, 8¢, Paul, Min: Springold, Il ¥ Toledo, 0. 20,088| While Chiongo stands fourth on the list of recolpts, sho fa but & few thousand dollars be- low Boston or Philadelphis, and more than double that of 8¢, Louls. New York, of courso, standsalone. Boston, Pliladelphis, and Cbicago belong to tho wame group of cities whose re- colpts excood 800,000, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Baltimoro belong to & group yielding mors than $335,000 and lesa than $150,000 of receipta. Pittaburg, Now Orloana, Cleveland, Datroit, and Brooklyn belong to the fourth category, Pooris stands at the hoad of the Illinois citics of the second class. Ean Franelsoo doss nob appoar in tho table. tho land. In order that the significanco of the para. graph in Tne Towune's dispatches of yester- day relative to Mr. Faaxoia B. Haxes' eniling from Boston to Europe may bo understood, the alléged relations betweon Mr, Hayes and Mr, Bramve in the Fort Bmith & Little Rock bonds. shonld be explained. The chargo is that Mr. Brame sold Mr, Hares some $75,- 000 worth of these bonds, which ko is alloged to havo roceived in considoration of Con- grossional sorvices in securing an extonsion of the Fort Smith & Little Rock land-grant, It is said that Mr. Haves paid Mr. Brame about par for these bonds, though they wero comparatively worthless at tho time. The reason nssigned for such purchase is that Mr. Haves, at that timo Presi- dont of the Atlantic & Pncific Rail- road, was intorested in securing legislation from Congress enabling his Company and also the Missouri, Kansas & Toxas Railroad ta en- tor upon their lands by tho abrogation of n prior Indian claim to which thelands were subject when Congress mado tho grant. It will be seon that Mr, Haoyrs was an important witness in the Bramne charges, sinco his ad-* mission of the allegntions wonld show Mr. Brave to have boen in possession of a largo amount of Fort Bmith & Little Rock bonds, and also that he must have expected some sorvico from Mr. Bramve in roturn for his purchasa of a lot of worthless bonds at par. Haves' departure, under these circumstances, was cortainly unfortunate, and tho more so 08 goveral Now England papers, including the Springfield Republican ond the Boston Herald, notified him that ho would bs expeoted to givo his testimony on these pointa. —_— Tho ora of Congrossional invostigations that will find ont the truo-inwardness of thioga in- vostigated 1a ovidently drawing to a close under the investigation mania that has soizod upon the Domocratic Houss. In the case of Jarrerr Kmoouny, it waa practically decided that the Houso could not compel a witnoss to toll more than ho chose about anything, nor to produce documentary evidence in his possossion after the witnoss clalmed to bo of opinion that tho documenta were private property snd not ovi- dence. In the Somexcx matter it lias boen do- monstrated that anything othor than tho roal point of ingquiry can boinvoatigatod by the wook ; aud in numborless instanoea, last of which fa the departure of Mr, P, B, Hares for Europe, that thoropositorics of moat desirablo information are singularly linblo to cmbark on forelgn tours at the precise time whou the Committess waut to pos- soea thomeolves of that information. Tho quory ‘which it all suggosta 18, What {s the nae of invos- tigating whon witnessea cannot be compelled to answor, and wheo, 88 in the Oredit Mobllier, and Pacific Mail, Little Rock Railroad bond notes, and other inveatigatious, tho witnessos who know somotbiog and might tell it simply go abroad until the thing blows over ? Tho excep- tional cages nre thoss whorsin Bomobody atro- clously lboled, lika Socretary Brusrow fu tho Mary Morritt matter, forces his assalianta to ox- poso apon what alonder foundation in fact tholr slandera wero baged, by requiring them to fetoh forward Lhelr witnosses, that tho testimony of these may bo met. Far the rest, & Congressional investigation seems tho surost mode of gotting out of tho way all material teatimony as %o the subject of investigation. ‘The obatacloa to Gov. TrLnen's propozed plan for dooponing tho Erie Canal, 8o as to give an “ nonest 7 fcet of water " along the entire line, are a0t forth by the New York Canal Commis- sionors in their report to the Legislaturs upon the rocommondations of tho Governor's mes- sage. They state that there is no difficulty in pavigating the canal with boats of 6 feot draft and 240 tons burden, but that to deopon the channe! one foot additionsl would require an alteration of all the locks, aqueducts, aod cul- vorta from Lockvort to Albany, which could only bo done &t an enormous cost. Thoy also urge that the caoal for long distances in mavy placos was dug through porous, ssody soil, which had to be puddlea, and that, wore it deopened, the loss of water by absorption and percolation would bo so Rreat a8 to enrfously raduce the volume unless the work were again puddled and the bank strooglboned, which would {ovolve a vast out- lay. Instead of desponing, tho Comutssionors recommand raising Lhe banka one foot, in order to gain the additional foot of water, and cstimato that 2,000,000 would do the work, includiog tho cost of raleing bridges. The indications are that, in the discussion as to how ft shall be accomphiehed, tho great work of Increasing tho capacity of tha canal will be deforred until tho further alversion of tho arain trado of the West aud Nortbwost from Now York to Baltimore, Doston, and other Atlantic ports, shall drive the Now York Logislature to do something besides talk about improving the Erio Canal. kbl i The London Times of the 7th inat. contains anocond installment of tho dofails of the new Domesday Dook, some statistics from which on tand-ownorship havo alroady boen printed fun Tue Tnioung, The following additional figures will be of interest: The highest rental” por acto {s 80 ehillings, aud oleven countics rauge from 908 to 23s. To Englend and Wales, with o poputation ot 19,458,009, thore ara 3,641,854 in- labited housos and 972,833 owuners. The num- ber of owners of .ons mcre and upwards ia 209,547, and there are 703,230 ownors belew one mcre, The immense property of the threo larg- est ownora iv showa by tho fact that they own 423,210 acres, tho aggregate rental of which is 22,001,005, Tho hundrod largest private owners in England and Wales hold 8,852,000 acres, which Is onc-tenth of tho entiro aren. The Isnd-holders of Scotland, which has & total acre- age of 18,040,694, mnmbor 182,230, Summed up, one porson in overy twonty of the popula- tion io England I8 » land-owner, aud onein ovory twonty-five 1n Heotland. One housshold- or fn evory four in Englaud fs & Iand.owner, and one in every thres in Bootland, In caso it sholl be dotermined to Investi- gato the charges that have beon made against Mr, Bramxe, the witnesses who have thus far been referred to as having knowledge of tho transactions are as follows : Mr, Jory B. C. Hannson, Government Dircctor of the Union Pacific, who is said to Lhave moved an investi- gation in the Board ; E. H. Roruins, the Trens- urer of the Union Pacific Company, who is gald {o have stopped this investigation; Jases T, Wiison, of Iown, also a Governmont Di- roctor of. the Union Pacific, who is said to have been informed by Mr, Brame that the latter =0ld the bonds for a friend; and Mr, Faanxors B, Iiaves, of Boston (who loft 8o suddenly for Europe), who iy waid to hove purchased $76,000 of tho bonds from Mr. Brarve. Wo have also boen informed that Mr, Micnanp, anothor Goverument Di- rector of Union Paciflo, ovorheard Ror- viNg’ utatomont to Hanmison. In the alloged transfor of Kansas Pacifio bonds to Mr. BLuNE, tho witnesses would be Joskrn B. Srewant, the Washington lobbyist who is #nid to have made the transfer of tho bonds; Judge Biopry, Srewant's partnor, who is said to have been cognizant of tho transfer; ond Joun D. Peany, the Prosidout of the Kansas & Pacitio Rallroad, who is supposed to bo in possession of BrrwAnT's letter set- ting forth tho transfor, If Mr. Bramve's stotement louvés any room for doubt- ing the integrity of his Congressional carcer, it would seom to be an ensy matter, by the summonipg of theso wituesses, to arrive at the oxact truth, Tho ludlcrousnoas of tempestuous donuncis- tion of Chineso immigration, bocauso it fur- nistios thom with choap aud thercfore profita- ble labor, has dawaoed upon the Californians, and thoy now object to tho Celestials becauso they don't buy farms instead of working in the cities and in tue mwes, The Ban Francisco Bulletin, which hsa kindly undortaken to en- lighten Tux ‘Tuisuxe npou that subject, makes this oxplanation, It enys there are 80,000,000 scros of Isud in Californis waltlng sotilers to convort these into frustful farms, aud that what California wauts is somobody who will do that. ‘The Dulletin omits mention of the trifling eir- cumstanco that the bulk’ of those lands have boen grabbed by rallrosd and grest propriotors, whoso eataten sro measured by the league, and who for lands that can ooly be mads productive by irrigation demand twice what the beat landy {o Illinois, Iows. Kansas, sod Nebrasia can be bought for, The Bulletin furtber explaius that the Chincss do nos buy farm Isuds becauso they ato servile laborers,—that is, are owned by the Bix Companies, aud, anyhow, $ue Californisus dow't wans slsvery in their Btate. Certainly not, But if the Chinamen wre held in slavery Iu defisuce of our laws and Coustitution, wby not, through the courts, make au end of that slavery, instoad of extorminating the alaves, as the hoodlums of the Pacific Coast pant todo? The California courts haye ample power to free every eoslaved Chinamau; why don't they do s0? The pretext fs, to putit in the current slaug, too thin, There lin't a Chivsmsn in California who does not know that alavery fs probibited in this country, nor we beliove one who is not bis own master and pockets his own earnivgs. When the Bulletin again casts about for some excuss for the Larbaroua caste preju- dice sgainst tha Chinsse, whioh ia becsuse they work choaply, a8 they havo to do to get employ- It haa always beon s mooted queation where and how the black raco criginated. the croation legends. tablet there ism hymn to the god Mxropaca, portaining to their creation, our colored bre oolor way be. i A, men, (ot # find something more to the poini than that thoy do not do some othor kind of A vory interosting table of statintion hae re- cantly boen sent to the Honate from the Poat Office Dopartment, ahowing the receipts and ex- ponditniros at differont post-ofiices in the coun- try for the year 1875, ‘The largoat roceipts aro, of courso, from the Now York Poat-Uftice, which waro last year noarly 3,000,000, The expoenscs Thiladolphia The following table reprosents the In one of the Targuma & mention 'ia mado of men belog croated black, white, and red, but the most ox- plicit statemont I contalned on oue of tho 76~ contly discovered Aesyrian tablots contafning Ono of theas tablois bas tho followiog linea: **May ho eatablish snd may biu will mot fsil in the mouth of the black raco whom his bands have made.” On another in which oocurs the following passaga: Among mankind, even the men of tho black raco, the supportor of all lifo whose namo is proclaimed on earth. As thesa tablets contaln legends ap. 1on are warranted in traciog themaelves quito as far back as sny of the rost of us, whatover our Massachusests is about to lose another venor- able treo which bas pootical assaciations. 1t fa tho identical * ppreading chiestnut tros " in Cam- bridge under which the * villags smithy * stood, 1t 1 to be out down, but a portion of it will be prosorvod iu the form ot » chair, which in to bs presentod to LoNarrrtow, who sons lhe omith and smithy down to fam e e A roosnt caso ju & Parin conrt developa cone nlderable loosensss in the marriage relations in Rome, especially i high quarters. I$ appears from the evidonce in the case that a naphew of Cardinal Axroxmizt married a Miss Ganora, whoso father was ennobled as one of the inol dontw of tho ceremony, and who subsequently died sud loft his foriune, e waa supposed, to his dsughtor s only heir. DBat, as has ofton happened before, numerona other Ganciae tarned up, children,of negro women in the ‘Woat Indios, whom tho old gentleman had loved not wisely but ioo well. Tho nisce of ANToe NELLI a6t up tho olaim that thess dark-complex foned obildren wera illegittmato, sud shorofore liad no claim on the proporty. Theroupon thy tropical claimants proved in the courts that th nicco of Cardinal ANTONELLI Wwaa tho daughter of an actress to whom (he old gentloman wat marriad long after Miss Ganoia's birth wasfov aaribed {n the publio records. PERBONAL, A littlo Rose Hornos waa born on the Oth Inst, The richest Chinaman in California is Lt Po Tal, & physiclan, Ro owna $75,000 worth of rea) cstato, Mrs. Nelly Grant-Sartoris {s to pass tho nexy -senson in London, and be preaented at Court s an Englishwomsn, Mias Lotta, tha actross, has rented Mr. Pofter Paimor’s cottage at Nowport, and will take pas- seasion oarly in Jane, The Lyvcoum Oommittes, of Lawrenco, Mass., declined tho risk of offering Mr, Doecher $300 fora locturs. His price usod to ba $1,000 to #1,600, Mr. James Gordon Beanett will soon publis) in pamphlet form hia powarful articles on **'The Poa-Crop inn Toxas " and *“Tho Genosis of the Roloy-Boley Association.” s Madsme Bonaparte-Patterson, ef Baltimors, whoso sovers ilinoss was mentionod a few days #go, {8 now recovering, B8he long sgo assorted that aho would reach the age of 100 years, ‘Tho London Times, a final suthority in the premigos, aays, in ita fssue of the 22d inst.t **Wo cannot agoept, nor cao wa bollove any En- glisbman will socept, Bignor Rossi's Hamlet s in any senso the Llamlel of Shakepesre,” Misa Molllo Btockton, 0t Navads. recently thrashed a schoolmaator, and, tn axplanation of . tho transaction, said : ' Iam well-nware that, the poor fomsle i8 too often trampled Qawp without just cause.” The Now York Herald siates, svideutly on au- thority, that Mr. F, B. Wards, now aoting with Mr, Booth in this city, has made no ar- rangementa for noxt season. The report that he iad engagod with the Oalifornis Theatro is pronounced srroncous, Deoan Btanloy gave fresh evidance of his liber- ality by officiating at the unvolling of the tablet erected in Westmineler Abbey to the momory of | John Wesloy and higbrothor Charles, Tho Loa- don newspapors spoke of tha ceremony as unique of its kiud—** unprecedonted in the his. tory of that or any similar ecclesiastioal edifice.” Dr. J. 8, Bylvester, one of the most distine Ruiatied mathematiolans of England, lately ap- pointed to the Chiirof Mathematics in the Johné Hopking Univeraity, haa mads a discovery whioh Is prononuced by Horbort Spencer ss prognaut of momentous consequences in solence aa thay which gave ronown to the nams of Isano Now- ton, ¥ It in atated that when Becrsiary Boutwell vis. ited sho late Mr. Stewart to consult him in re- gord to our national financos, lattor, aftor s fow minutes’ conversation, said : “I under- stand that you sre about to buy new carnots for tho Troasury bullding, and I wish to reming you that we are in a position to furnish them clieape or than any other house." The quarrel between the Duke and Duchoas of Edioburg has bocome o matter of intorustional importance. Mr, Brmalley writen : ** The visit to Potersburg, fbr whioh tho death of tho Duchesa' aunt furnished & conveniont protext, wsa roslly a polite means of effecting a separation. ‘The Czar's love for hia daughter is one of tho strong passions of lus life ; what may ha not do to avengs the fancled slights which she balieven sho hisa had to boar 7" The Rov, H. R. Hawels, whom Monoure Cone way dotcribes ds ¢‘the always self-willed ora- tor," bina preachied a sermon in which ho declares that he bailoves in no such thing sa arch-fland. The opinion of eminaut counsel {s bamg taken ag to whetler Mr, Hawols moy not be snccessfully prosecuted; for, fu dolermining that x man may be given tho eacramont without believiog in & devil, tho Privy Councll has not docided that & clorgyman need not bolieve that doctrine, B8purgeon doos not agree with oody em church fairs. Moody saya tho dovil fs in them. Bpurgeon says it is better to give monsy ont- right than to raieo it by a fair, but that whea cash donations cannot be obtained a fair 18 tho next beat thing. e also sayn that church faira bring out the talent of the sistors, and that he {oola aure thore is not au article offered for sale that bas not been prayed over, as the wmother of Moscs {s aaid to have prayed whea she mado his cradle. The marriaza abont to tako place in Paris be- tweon Mile. de Gontaut-Biron, daughter of the Fronch Ambassador at Borlin, aud Count Talley- rand-Porigord, Lioutenaut in the Lancsra of the TRoyal Prussian Guard, lins exoited much indig- nation, Tho Count is an apoatate Frenchman, liaving gouo ovor to Prusala ten yoars sgo and fonght against bis native country in tho late war. ‘rho father of tho lady opposed tho match with all the means 8¢ his command, but she, boing 80 years old and full of grit, sent Lim a peromptory legal domand for his copsent by & tiputadl or bailiff, and he was obligod to yield. Mr, Weston, tho pedeatrian, has contributed , gometling to the goneral stock of informatiom 1o England, Inquisitive medical gentlemen who watched him daring his public exhibitions dis- covered that he used ‘‘coca ™ habitually as & stimulant. * Coca "—which ia s totally differens thing from cocoa—is » plant indigenous to the bigh lands of the Andes. It iswelt known in T'orn, whoro the dried leaves are chewod by all clasace, ns tobacco {8 hera. Tho symptoma of {ntoxication prodaced by it comprise heightoned tempersture, guickened pulae, strong desiro for active locomotion, with incressod sense of strength and agllity, followed by apathy sud slesp, from which the patient wakes without do- bility or unpleasant feelinge. TOTEL ARWIVALS. Paimer Houss—Bamuel Bolton, Archibald Teylor, E. 0, Holbrook, New York; G, M, Whitnsy, Odell} 0. R. Niggins, Fort Wayne; Samuel Brown, Doston; J, E, Burion, Geneva Lake (Wia) Herald; G, MoD, Bowman snd James E, Davy, Now South Wales ; Hone ry Hornby, England; J, Catlyle, Bydney, N. 8, Wi A, ¥. Dullard, Grand Raplde; W, Dullard, Buffalo; 0. J. Irish, Raclae; J. D. Cady, Piltaburg., ., Grand Tusyle—Judge David Rarer, ‘Burlington; Judze Joha_B. Millar, Dea Motnea; thia " tHon. Loredzo Dow, New York} or-liov. Samuel ' Merrill, Iows ; the Lon. Jobn 1. Sypulr M. C, Louialanaj il . Palmer, Tiatamoutls, Neb.; Judgo G, 8. Midridge, Ottawaj L. 1, Owens, Vermillion, D, Tj 1L J, Brediinger, Denver ; Lawla Yellaun, Now York; W. J, MoKinuoys Cleveland; T, A, Mloysonburg, St, Louta; J. M, M Farlano, Ban ¥rancisco; J. I Joea, Quisoy; W, H. GoUtER Milwatkers;. ranions dioude Hugh Bartos, Toranlo; Edward Wilton, Now York; J. A. Close, Lako Huperior; D, Olark, 'Now ~Yorkj the Hon. It M, Bpringer, Yorkvilla: Albert E. Hmith, Luekdord; Gen, W, G. liowe, Boston ; A, O, Dickesy Clovelaid'; _the Hon, Bamuof Loouard, New Badford { ok’ B, Oberly, Cairo (1) Hulletin; . ¥ ¥raucly Hatheway snd R N, Tuntloy, Iudisnapolis. .., Sherman louis—d, Now York ; Oal. J. . Wyatt, Fond dn Lacs ¥, K, Dison, 1L’ e tion, €. @, Tultley Goansaticut; a. B 1, Landon, Hartford; the Hoz, G. Ko ne, Wis.: J, Kufght, Cincinnatl ; E. L YorX.... Gardner Hotss—Oaor, gers, Cincluni Mra, liorace L, Wheeler and Ve Tk Wheeloe, Groes Bays Mra. O, H. Swaie, Huslavilie, Als3 J. ¥ Towts, New York 8, W, Deunty and J, . Gullmara Taitimore; J, W, Hendersom, Ballimore.