Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 15, 1876, Page 4

i ] TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, RATXS OF SUBSCRIPTION (PAYARLE IN ADVANCE), Tostage Prepald at this OMee, T'aria of year at ssine rate. WREKLY EDITION, oy, por year. gfis W Rrbepdres ub of twohty, per coj ‘The postage 14 15 conts &y 8pocimen copfes sent free, To prevent delay and mistakes, be rure and give Post ©ffica address In full, Inclpiing Btate and Connts, Remittances may ba mado ofther by draft, express, Post-Ofco order, of In registered letters, at our tisk, ' INRMS TO CITY SUNSCRINERS, Dafly, delivered, Bunday excepted, 25 conts per week. Patly, delivercd, Sunday ncluded, 30 centa per week: ress THE TRINUNE COMPANY, Corner Madfson and Dearborn-a ¢ AMUSEM 1.1 ar, which wo will prepay. Now Chicngo Thentre, Clark street, between Htaudolph aud Lake. Tooley's st o e 5 Tlonles’s Theatre, Tandolph street, between Clark nnd, LeSalle, Eo- Sugoment of FIIT Avente Company. o Kque. ¥ « MeVieker's 'l'hl‘mrel. i leon stroet, hetween 8tate and Dearl ):'e“mvnlol tho Mitggle Mitchell Troupe, BEAR Do, En- orle, or ” Adelpld Thentre, | Dear strert, corner Monroe, Variety entertaine T e Welfs of Now wor Yeey \Vnnll’llmuwmn. 2 rog street, hetween Dearhiorn and Slate, s The Ry n Atter. Evening: John Thoinp- soc TINGS. ODGE X0, 303, A, F. & A, M.—Meets this AL7:00 at thelT Halt, 73 "Monroe-at., for, work Degrie. VDILG brethiren of sfster lodged Inthad{sbapment, - C. W. O'DONNELL, Sccretary, * = e Téibane, MONDAY, MAY 15, 1870, Y N At the New York Stock Exchango on Sat- urday greenbacks mlgd at 881@8Y conts on tho dollar. Accounts ara reccived by mail of tho terri- blo scones attonding tho destruction by fire of tho Thoatre des Arts at Roucn on the night of April 25, and now tho cablo brings the intolligenco that suspicion has fastened upon M. Gourcitanne, the managoer of the theatro, as tho incendinry. Il has beon ar- rested on the charge of embezzlemont and of laving set firo to the theatro, — We publish n card from Jir, PrrvprvmLie, Prosident of the Bonrd of Public Works, con. voying the valusble assurance that tho largo engine nt the Water-Works sustnined no so- rious lnjury by tho blundering accident ro- lerrod to in Sunday’s Temuse., Mr, Prin- pivinie alko takes ocension to denonnce as malicious falsehood |, the information upon which tho article was bnsed, though ho does not deny that o most deplorablo loss of life and iujury to the building might bave ro- sulted from the ignorance and recklossnoss which caused the accidont. the Peoria Presbytory ‘Mt tho church at Ienry dispenss with the pestornl services of GLeNpexive has beon met with o flnt refusal by the adherents of tho obnoxtous preacher, ‘They will eleave to Lim and forsaka the Prosbyterian body, sioce thit"iv tho alternativo presonted. It " will bo a gopd riddance of bad rubbish for tho Presbytery mid the denomination nt largo. A society of professed Christians ‘who would tolorato tho spitunl winistrations of GLENDENNING enn only reflect luntro upon tho Presbyterion Church by being kicked out of it The inflationists are vexed hy the unclenn spirit of specie-resmnption belioved to bave takon possession of tho ponderous propor- tions of Judge Dawis, whom they had looked upon with favor ns their candidata for the Presidency, but whom they must now drop beeonse of his Lard-money heresies. Coudidates who ecnn woar the infintion collnr with grace and dignity aro not so plenty but that oven Ben But- Ler may yet bo invited to como to the fore 3 the Moses for this occasion. . Ho is talk- "ed of, and it is something for tho Essox statesman to be talked of forthe Prosidency, if only by the greenbackers, ‘What to do nbout the Diplomatic and Con- mulnr appropriation entanglement, is a ques. “gelling ot $0.80@7.60. Cattle wore in mod- erato domnnd nt onsy prices—common to choico quoted at $3.60@5,25. Bheep wero ecarco and firm, One hundred dollars in gold would buy $112.50 in greenbacks at the closo. The Iate Cily Treusurer, happening o be in Now York, has caused himaclf to bo inter. vlowed under the name of the *Ilon.” Day O'Hana by a reporter of tho Now York Times, o took ocension to say one or two good words for ex-Mayor Corviy nnd n great many good words for himself, Wa have no objections to Mr. O'Ilana’s adver- tising himself at the expenso of indorsing 3r., Qorviy, but wo must protest against his leading nstray the New York Zimes, axd throngh it the people of that city, by a misstatemont of the oaso. Ho told tho reporter {hat ‘*‘the troublo wna largely nttributablo to the hostility of the * partisnn presa’ to Mr, Cor- v1v," though the fact is that Corvy hns had the constant and servilo support of a morn. ing newspaper and an evening newspaper, and pnrt of the timo of o German daily, Mr. O'Hana also told tho Zimes reporter thot, Judge Dickry having declined to pnss judgment on account of his provious position a8 Corporation Counsel, ** threo Judges wero in favor of and threo opposed to Mayor Cor- vi¥ bolding over.” Blr. O'Hana knows very woll that the Supremo Court Judges. never oxpressed themsolves ono way or the other asto n proforence for Mr, CoLvIN or opposi- tion to him, and that they never had an op- portunity for such an expression. Threo of them doclined to favor compelling the Com- mon Conncil tocall an election before the Council had refused to doit, and this was tho ontiro case. MMr. O'HArA seems to an- thorizo the announcoment in the Times that ho will bo the caudidato for Bécrotary of Stato on the Democratio ticket of this Stato noxt fall, and probably n delogate to tho Na- tional Democratic Convention nt St. Louis, Perliops the State Democratic Convention will Litve somothing to sny nbout all this, and Mr, O'Hara will probably not help on his ambition very much by misreprosouta. tions in bohalf of Mr. CorviN, —— HOW BRISTOW CAN EXTEND THE REPUD. LICAN PABTY. Tho Ropublican party when organized, twonty.odd years ago, was, of neoessity, lim- ited in its memborship to the non-slavehold- ing States. It wns truo that in Delaware, Maryland, Keatucky, aud Missouri, thero were o fow brave men who dared to oppose tho overruling power which slavery exerted. In Maryland and in Missouri thd’ Braie fam- Hly was nvowedly Republican, ns was the Brisrow family in Kentucky, The union of the slavelolding population and tho forma- tion of the Republican party was o necossity, The Union olement at tho South, at a Inter date, was much greater than the Republican party. Practically,, it was in the majority in Delawnre, Maryland, Kentucky, Tonnesseo, ond North Caroling, all of which had been old Whig States, and, until tho combination to protect slavery, had been s strongly op- posed to the Democratie party as were Ver- wont and Massachusetts. Sinco tho War thero hns been a Ropublican 'organization in all tho former slaveholding States, bLut botween the intensity of the Democratio- Confederato sentiment, nided by the dis- roputiblo conduct of o many of tho carpot. bag adventurers who havo robbed the peoplo ofutho South, both white and colored, in the name of Freedom and Equal Rights, the .grent s of the nativo white populntion mny bo said to bo, voluntarily or involun. tarily, noting with tho Demoeratic party. 'Thoro aro excoptions, In Marylaud there is alarge native white population which is netively and avowedly hostilo to tho Demo- eratio party. In Kentuoky, under tho lead of tho Union-Republicans, a large whito population, embracing many of the nblost and most respectablo families of tho Stato, is enrolled a3 Ropublicans, and toa similar oxtont tho same thing is truo in West Vir. ginin, Eastorn Tonuessce, and in scctions of North Carolina; so in Delaware there aron good any white Republicans, but not enough in any of them to constitute, with tho aid of the colored vote, o msjority at the polls. 3 Slavery, with oll ita nppondages, has passed away, and with it whatever nocessity may have origitally oxisted for tho Ropub~ licun party tobo o **soctional” party in n geographieal sense. Tha old, inbom opp.osi- ton which the President now has under so- rious consideration. The hostilo purtisnans of the Democratic mnjority hava voted to ap- proprinto for the maintenance of the Govern. mont's foreign ropresentation an amount so small a8 to sorionsly eripplo the servico; while the Sennte hias refused consont to theso xeductions’on tho ground that they aro below the amount fixed by existing laws. Confer. enco committecs have becn appointed, but thoy are at a dend-lock, and the prospect is that after the $0th of Juue, the end of the fiscal yea?, tho Ministers and Consuls will have to forego all mnlary or olso resign and coma home, leaving tho Govermmont wholly anropresented nbroad. An igsuo of veracity is raised betwoen Mr, Jaxces Goovspren, oditor of tho Jolist Re. publican, and Penitentiory Commissioner Bourawouri. Tho former printed n state. meat that au sttempt had been made to sccure the support of his paper for Bevernar by tho offer of tho Penitentiary printing or the payment of moncy outright. This was deniod in writing by each of tho Commis. sloners in turn, whereupon Mr, Goop- SPEED relurns to the chargo in an aflidavit duly sworn to, in which ho deseribos tho circumstances under ‘which the bribo was offered, and hwears to Commissioner Soutitworrit o8 tho man who offoredit. 8o far, the editor has tho best of it, having mado Lis statoment under oath; and, moreover, proffers of patronnge or ex- tion to tho State-Sovereignty Demoeratic par- ty prevails among tho peopls at tke South ag it did in times whon the Bouth gave a8 nany ‘Whig votes for Presidont as it did Domo- cratic. The color-line in the politics of tho cotion States lins reduced the Republican party thero to a small haudful o2 whites and the negro population, aud the ascendency of these laving loon overlumed, they aro rapidly folling under the politienl control and influenco of their white Confedernte States-Rights noighbor. ‘Though thero have been some 800,000 colored mien added to the roll of votors, and the mass of these reside in tho old slaveholding States, there is at this timo but ono of theso sixteen States which can bo oxpocted, under oven the most favorable circumstances, to give an olectoral voto for any Republican candidate for Presi. dont cxcept Batsrow. After tho next Prosi- dentlal cleotion tho Governors and Legis. Intures of all theso Statos will bo Democratic- Confedernte, and oach of theso States will be reprosented by two Stato-Boverelgnty Senators, These Southern Statos have 181 electoral votes, cxcluding Bouth Carolina, aund wo submit whother it is wisdom, or whethor it ean bo wholly just, for the Ropub- lican party to pursue such o polloy as will causo theso Btates to rewaln in antagonism to Ropublicanism and an unfailing source of prodigious Domocratic strongth, The Republican party is now nhont to nominate a candidate for Presidont, and it is prossions of willingness to ¢ chip in" and holp run newspapers are electioneering ox. pedients quite in tho Brvenar fashion, It will require some tall swearing to remove tho improssion that somebody has lied, and that it 8 not the Joliot editor eitlie ——— ——— ‘Tho Chicago produce markets were irreg ular Baturdsy, Provisions were quiet and firm; grainsctive and lower, Mess pork slosed steady, at $20.90 for June and $21.12} for July. Lard closed 100 per 100 s highor, At $12.60 for Juno and $12,60@12.62} for July. Meats wero firm, at 7{o for boxed houlders, 110 for do short ribs, and 1140 for 30 short clears. Lake freights woro dull, at o for wheat to Buffalo, Ltail freighta were more active and unchanged, lighwinos were quiet, at 31.07 per gallon. Flour was in light demacd and fire. Wheat closed 10 lower, at $1.03} for May and j$1.043 for dune, Corn closed 4o lower, at 46} for May and 450c for June, Oats closed Btondy, at 8040 for May and 80jo for Juno. Ryo was stronger, at 63}@04c. Barley closod 4o lower, . 8t U740 for May and 580 for Juge, Hoge were active and 5o higha, inferior 40 extrs immaterial what rosolutions Ay ‘be passed, the people will nccept tho candiddate ps em- bodying uad indicating the polioy of the party in the future admintatration of the Governmont. The condidaty fu to be the | platform, It Mr, CoNgLrga or Mr, Mooy ba the candidato, it will require no resolu. tions to_asauro tho peolo that the Southeru Btates ara to bo ruled by foruo, and that the rule of the bayonet raust be continusd 3 that tho carpot-bag sdve nturers aro to be protect- od In their plundor. of the country, and that tho whole whito *population {s to be forced in self-dofenso to remain in opposition to the Ropublican pm gy, Is thero not a bottor policy than this? At following the closo of the War, there was & soason when the Ku-Klux of X ntucky car- ried on their upernllum_nlmont‘gmmulwm. ‘Tho lives of uogroe.s were held no more sacred than if thay were witd beasts, and voting on tholr par'; was o perilous undertak- iog, Lhe United ftatos had a lw oficar, o native Kentuckiy D, a life-long radical Repub- iiz;":";? .III( uDl;jM cl-Attorney ho mnde wer on the monutayy THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY. MAY 15, 18T down, prosecuted and convicted them, nnd, in a brief time, Ku-Kluxism disappoared from Kentucky, and to-dny black men can vote in Toulsville with more anfoty nnd lass futorference than thoy can in Indianapolis, A stroug white population has been gathored into tho Ropublican party, and lito and lib- corly, peaco and freedom in the oxorelse of all politieal rights, arg securo and unassailod in Kentucky, though that Stato hos never been put under martial law, or its Governors inducted by armed forces. Tha people of the Sonth of all porties re. spect Mr. Bnistow, Thoy know him to ba brave, nble, and honest. Though a Union eoldler and n Republican, ho is known to them to have nover had tho lenst sympathy with *State-Sovercignty,” seconsion, or any of tho theories of tho ““lost canso.” Ho has been opposed to them infloxibly from tho first, nnd hns never pretonded to have any viows in common with thom. Thoy know his ability nnd his integrity, and, should ho bo nominated at Cincinuati, it would fur- nish the immediste oceasion for Rtho division ©of the white population of thoso States on tho old Democratic and auti-Democratio lines, and the consolidation under tho Ropublican organization of a pow- erful white opposition to the Domoeratio State.Sovereignty party, Many of tho old Whig party, and all thoe Unjon sentimont, Including some of the old Democratia parly, would in all probability support Bnistow at tho polls, becausa he is essentially a beliover in the supremacy of the law, and who can bring to its euforcement vigor that can disponse with martial lnw and carpet-bag robbery, The peculiar position of the Ropublican party at this time is significant. Itisina political minority in fifteen of tho prosent sixteon States which were slaveholding whon tho War broko ont. Theso States have 131 clectoral votos, leaving the Democratio party undor tho necessity of obtaining but fifty- four ndditional votes to clect thoir Presidont. It probably compels the Republican party to carry all the largo Northern States or suf- for defeat. It scenres to tho Democratic party from one scction of the Union more than one-third of the membors of the House of Reprosentatives, and thirty votes out of tho seventy-four in the Sonate. Would it not be botter policy to have a Ropublican pumty in these Stato,—n party of native whites who, uniting with the bulk of the colored men, would break up the exclusive Democratic supremmey, would afford the blncks the fullest protection, and wnke the Republican party ns widospread as tho limita of tho Union ? Is thero any candidate except Brisrow ‘who, while stronger than avy otler at the North, can reach 'so deeply into tho con- fidence and support of tho anti-Democratic cloment in tho South, or who can doso much. to build up a powerful white wing to the Ropublican party in the South? Such an or- gouization can be securod in the South with Brisrow for lender, which for all tima to como will constituto n breakwator to the Democratio flood in that section, ——— THE MAYORALTY ISSUE. 1t pooms now prolty cortain that ex-Mnyor Corvix's legal adviiers will apply to thoe Cir- cuit Conrt for o -writ of guo warranty, in- quiring by what arithority Alayor Hoyne: ns- sumies to exorciso ftho functions of his oftice. ‘This is & proper proceeding if Mr. Cornviy thinks he bag beert unjustly and unlawfully ousted, and it is tho only logal and orderly way in which he can seck n remedy or re- cover tha office. - It is a mistako to presume, howover, that this proceeding is brought sbout by nny sort of -back-down compromisoe on tho part of Mayor Horxe, or any conces- sion that in tho denst.sncrifices the intorests of the people whom ho roprosonts, or bolit- tlon tho ofleo to which ho was elected. Mayor Howxe has, wo supposs, agreed to contest ns dafendant any suit that Convix may bring against him, and this he would do 03 o matter-of, right and, duty in any ovent, It may bo, too, that MIr. Iloyne has ngreed not to appenl the cnso if it Lo declded ad- versely to him in tho Circuit Court, and such an ogreoment fa’ entirely proper. If the judgment of tho Court shall bo that thero was no vacancy in the offleo of Mayor, that Mr. Ilovnr was not properly clected, and that tho Council had no right to canvass his voto and daclara him Mayor, it would bo uscless to appeal, for oven tho term which Cowuviy claims would expiro beforo o decision from tho Supromo Bonch could bo obtained. “All thnt Mayor Hoyne can agreo to is to defond his right to tho office as ngninst any claimant or protend- er, and to nbido by thio decision of the Court liko a ponceablo citizon, ‘This is all that the people havo a right to expect. ‘We cannot conceive that o number of in- tulligont, legel gentlomen like the five Ji ndges of the Cirouit Qourt of this county will do- cido that Mr. Corvixhasany nuthority to hold tho office of Mayor cightoen months boyond the term for which ho was olected in the fuce of a constitutional prohibition of the ox- teragion of official terms, or that the failuro of tho Council to coll an eleotion can vitiate' a1 clection properly conducted, or that the T weoplo have not a right to chooss tho chicf « 1xocutivo offlcer of the city at a general cloc. tion after tho expiration of the term of an officer proviously alocted to sorve a specifled > time, But if the judgment of tho Court shall give o legnl indorsement toe Mr, CoLvix's pretensions, thero will bo no disposition on the part of } Mr. Hovse or his friends to sotit nsido, Thero will bo no effort to intimidate Corvix by the use of a police force, Thers will bo no packing of ward moetinga to browbeat Corvix's advocates in the Connbil. Thero will be no resort to any of tho bravado and bullyragging which Mr. Corvix hay adopted toward Mr. HoyNe and his supporters, The continuation of CoLviy in offica for another year will be a serious blow at the credit and prosperity of the city, and will seriously de- lay or impedo the work of rotronchment and reform which the people havo determined and entered upon; but, nevertheless, thoro will bo a quict submission, and Mr, CoLvin can take such satisfaction s he may in hold. ing onoffico against tho wishes of the pdo. plo another yeor after his time Iy out. Moauwhile it will be woll for the city of. o3ry and heads of departments to rocoguize tho real significance of this proposed guo warranto proceeding. 1t {4 on acknowledg. nient for the time being that Mr, Hoyng ig acting a8 Mayor, and it ls an Inquiry by what warraut be so sets. Pondivg this in. quiry and awsiting a judicial decision, Mr. Hoyne is the Mayor, and s eutitled«to the allegiance and co-operation of all those who are engaged i the city's sorvico. The judg- meat in the case will probably be rondered 0 prowptly that there will be no oceasion for u collision botweon tho two claimants ; but, if any question of authority arises, Ar, Hoxxr i3 the Mayor until a competent Court shall havo set asido Lis claims. ‘This will ux; ho followed them to | have boon ncknowledged on all sldes as soon 3, pursued and Lunted them [ as M. Conviy shall bavo spplied for his writ, ond no _city official or omployo “shonld undortako oither direotly or indirectly to dis. pute it. e — THE SILVER QUESTION, The Now York Nation suggests that thero is dangor that the silver smnll-chango issuo will prova abortizs for any practical, permn. nont good, for two rensona: 1, That silver coin {a likoly to fall to n valuo in gold loss than that of the greonback, in which cnso it will bocome ** roguos’ mouoy *; 2. Becauso it may rigoabove greonbacks in valuo in gold, in which caso it will bo hoarded or cexported, 23 it s supposed n largo amount of it now is, Tho subsidlary silver cofns (thoso less than a dollar) of the United Btates have a coin value at tho lowest rate to which silvor bullion has fallen, of over 10 por cent mora than bullion, and thorefore are in no dangor of being’ox- ported. Thoy way be hoarded, to somo ox- tont; bnt there can bo no question that their preaenco and circulation oven in limited quan- titios bas broken the once rnging fovor for an unlimited issuo of irredcemablo greon- backs, The actual aight and handling of the silver coin, something which was wholly un- familiar to more than half the presont goner- ation, lins largely destroyed tho Lallncination that a stamped picco of paper not ,redcema. blo at any time or plabe was botter than coin, Tho tangiblo, shining metal, has ex. ploded the shinplaster dream. There is no question that if silver will buy more gold than greonbacks, the silver will only circulate in the absenco of ths pnper. The fractional currency being retired, the small silver coins will of necessity be tho ox- clusive currency in all payments of lcss than a dollar. There aro no coins of the old standard American dollar now issued, nor havo there been for over twenty years, There is no rondon why the silvor coinage should not includa tho standard dollar weighing 412} grains, of tho regular fineness ; sand thero is 1o reason why, instend of hoarding in tho siuking fund, tho Intter may not, at tho rato af thirty millions of dollars annually, bo pat into silver dollars, nnd paid ont in oxchange for greenbacks to whoover might want them, This would have tho double offect ofkooping tho greenbacks at par with tho standard sil- ver dollar, and put an énd to tho double fluc- taation of silver and groonbacks, Tho do- eline in silver was the result of a panic, and alroady thero hns beon a partial recovory, It may not advance to the prico in gold it had in 1863, which it maintained until 1871, but that it will ndvance boyond the prosent rate thaero can be no question, An incrense in the demand for gold, a slight falling off in its production, aud nn {ncrease in . the pro- duction of silver and its demonotization in Germany, created a disturbance in thoir relativo values which has already bogun to sottlo down to something like apermaneney, ‘We hova oocasion fora comprrntively largo sam of ailver for token currency of all the denominations less than one dollar, We think the country can readily absorb, and is prepared to do so, silver dollats of tho standard weight equal to at least holf tho amonnt of tho groonbacks, and even to the oxtent of superseding all tho small notes of the banka. So long as this coin is put forth at tho rate of aay thirty millions of dollars n yenr (tho amount now put annually into the sinkiug fund), thoro is not much likolihood of there buing any such conflict between it sud paper as to produco any alarm or dis- turbauco, nor is there any dangor of tho country gotting tired of it. It bns contrib- uted largely to the cura of the greonback or rog-baby fever, and should bo continued until thero is a comploto recovery. —_— CONNECTICUT'S CHANCE, It it wero tho custom to hang out truth- ful signy from publio edifices, there would davo been displayed from the Connecticut Btato-House during the last month n Jegend to this offect: *TForsalo: A United States Sonatorship, Torms, part cnsh, part prom. ison of offices. To bo sold withont reserve to the highost bidder.,” Tho sale is-over, and the office is to bo handed to-morrow to Mr. ‘WirLian H. Bannuy, highest biddor, whose only compotitor was James E. Exorisa, Tho wranglo betwoen theso two was n long and bitter one, nnd tho Now York 7'rdune throws tho following light upon the manmer in which tho contest wns carriod on : This mAch scers beyond dispute, that Mr, Bonn had sundry interviows with Senator Exatas, tho result uf which was that the latter visited Hartford ashort time before the election, and paid down $10,000 for the use of the. State Committes fu thie approaching clection, which amount was subsc. quently doubled, making hls conteibutlon $20,000, Mr. Bansus was to meet his rival.tn the prosence of Mr, Bunt, Lut falled to do s0, yet managed to transfer o l(ke sum of $20,000 tu the coffers of tho Committee. Mr. 8. F, Browy, the nominal dls. eneer of thia enug little sum, udmits that ho kuew at that timo that Mr. Exorisi was laboring under & deluslon, bnt Insists that his buniness was to carry tho State, taking the 40ols wherovor ho could find them. He has been sinco quito prominent in urging Mr, Banxus's cluims, nnd Is charged withs laving everywhere represcnted 1o the ** workers " that it was **BanNus's money ™ they wers hund- oy, Althongh both contestants came down with tho sawo amount, it is ovident that Mr, Bix. Nua's contribution was most judiciously ox- pondod, for hio has obtained the nomination, and now ho expeets again to use his Sonn. torship for tho proteotion of his business interosts in Connoctiont, Itisn matter of cowmmon notorioty that his only appearances at Washington lave beon when there was chanco to draw pay. His distriet has always beon nureprosoited save on the Treasury nccounts, Ho hos represented mothing but his monoy, aud he has never been in his seat savo whon it was necossary fo vote to pro- toot Liis business, Thore {4 now ono great chiance for Connec. tiout. The dissatisfied Domocratio miunority Lavo an ndmirable procedent for bolting. In 1872, whon tho Ropublican caucus nominated Gen, Hawrer for Senator, the minority Joined with the Democrats in ro-clecting Son- ator Fruny, Cnunot tho minority of the dominant party now join with the Republic: ond fn placing in tho Benato some man in tho Btato who bas gome reputation as o states- nan and who s honest? 1f the 756 Democrats in tho caucus who voted against Bannuar aro willing to unite with the Republican ninor- ity, thoy can seleot u statesman who will rep- rosont the intorests of their Stato infinitely better than Bannua, There 4 Gen. Haw- LEY, for instance, who would honor tho Stato 4n the Senato, 1f1ho fs too rodical a Ropub- lican for the two minorities to unite upan, thero {8 Davip A. WerLs, ono of the ablest and purest wen i the country, who is not o partisan, and who would act for the best in. toroats of his Stato and the whole country, upon whom thoy could compromise, There &ro many others in Conucotiont upon whom they might unite, who would represent tho Stato with more honor and usefulness than this war, Bannuva, The passago of tho Irisk Sundsy bill in tho English Parllamentis & matter of moro than ordinary interest. In 1867 alaw was passed by which all whisky shops in the rural distriots of Ireland were closed on Bunday foronoans snd unfll 2 o'clock, aad thon oponed until 6 o'clock, when they woro ogain closed for tho night. In the large citiea thoy wore kept opon untll 8 p. m. ‘This hina boen the law for tho pnst eight or nine years,aud it has had the npproval of the bulk of the poople and of the wholo clergy, who are vory powerful in Ircland. Tt hns been obeyed in good faith, nnd thero has been no attempt o resist it. It is in faot con. sidored disroputable in Ireland to Iny round whisky shops on the Sabbath, Tho bill which ling just pnssed was on nmendment providing for tho closing of tho liquor shopa oltogotlier' on Sundny, - The Irish mom. bers of Parliomont, twithout regard fo party,—Conscrvatives, Itadicals nnd Llome Rulors,—voted nlmost solid for it, and with the nid of tho English and Scotch Liborals gave it 224 votes, whilo 167 English Torios voted agninst the resolution. Tho Governmont was thus badly defented,—tho tirst defant the 'Torics have sustained sinco coming into power; and, what is not a little singular, on nn issue to open tho liquor- shops in England and Scotland more hours on Sunday than tho law allowed at the time, The London Z%mes exprosson its nstonish- mont nt tho refusal of tho Tories to concede tlio roqueat of the roprosentatives of all par- ties in Iroland 1n tho following strong lan. gungo: *‘An carnest hins been given of fair treatmont of the Irish local focling, which mny bo trusted to bear good fruit, nnd it is only nstonishing that the Government should havo wantonly exposed thomsolves to defent by throwing away so admirable an oppor- tunity for reconciliation.” Perhaps a moroe nstonishing featura of the bill is its sharp contrast with tho sentiments of tho Irish in this country. In Chicago, Now York, and other cities the Irish avo in favor of keoping opon the whisky-shops all dny Sunday, and all night Sunday, and very other day in tho wecly e THE SLANDERER BOWEN. Tho Rov. Dr, Tavron, of Now York, hina shown eminont good senso in declining to bo tho ropository of what Mr. Bowen knows aboutthe Beecnzn seandal, It will bo re- membered that at tho recent interview of BoweN with Plymouth Clurch ‘ho madoa proposition to tell Dr. Tavron, in Mr. Bexen- En's presenco, nll that he know abont the scandnl, and that the church unanimously accoptod tho proposition, evidently knowing that Dr, Tayror would decline auy such in- vitntion. Buch appeara to bo tho caso, and it might havo been anticipated. The propo- sition was absurd nupon the face of it, and no one but an idiot would bave made himsolf n porty toit. It would have sottled nothing, inasmuch as it was stipulated by Bowex, and tho stipulation way accepted by tho church, that aftor Mr, Tavron had been made tho safo forthokeoping of Bowes's gossip,ramors, and slanders, then tho safe should bo locked up; in other words, Tavron wns naver to montion what lie had heard. Such a propo- sition would not only close Mr. Tavron's month ns to what was confided to him, but would also dobar him from ‘expressing any opinion wpon the case. Mr, TAvron says, vory portinently: ‘It in my carnest dosiro that Piymouth Church moy soon see tho ond of ita trinls ; but a responsibility which may be properly and constitutionally nssumed by a mutual council should not bo laidupon any one man, and therefore I nin constrained to declino tho roquest which has been mado to mo," Tho public will not only eommond Mr. 'Pavions comwrse in deelining Bowza'y, proposition, but it will also arrive at tho conclusion from Bowrn's squirming and ovasions that he knows nothing, and lag for somo timo been playing the rolo of a hypocritical broggart. It is impossible fo nrrive at any othor conclusion from Dowrx's manner aud actions. An honest, atraightforvard mau, possessed of facts sufflcient to oxonernte himself from serious charges ngainst his roputation and to save tho suspicion of being a common slanderer, would find some way of placing his defonse beforo thoe public in such a mannor O‘hnt the public could judgo of its sufficicncy,’ A man who states n slandor publicly, boasts that ho knows it to bo trus, and thon rofuses to prove it when tho opportunity Is offered him, is no bettor than a slanderer himsclf. Tho edueational oxcitom¥at in Franco still continues, and that our readers may keop up with onch stop in tho movément, we noto the foct that AL Wappinarow, the Minister of Public Tnstruction and author of the pend- ing cducational bill, delivered recontly an ad- dress at tho closing meoting of the delogatos of tho learned sociotios of the Sorbonne, in which lio oxpressed some idens upon Second- ary Education, 1o laid down o4 one featuro of the Republican programmo tho doter- mination to remedy in tho Dapartmonts the insuflicioncy of scholastio institutions, and also announced that much attention was be- ingpud to drawingand design. As to the question of Primary Education, M. Wapbmva. ToN Bnid Many scnsihlo people are casting about toprofit by the experlgnce of other countrivs, In the hope that France may be able to derive somo advaniageous hints from hur nefghbors, Wo whall certaluly do somothing to complete our primary system, but we shull sdvance prudently, To go so far as to do- creo compulsory cducation at once wonld be not only,n foolisl, but a delusory stop. It would ba to oblige the hesd of o fomlly to send hix children 1o school withuut providing thomeans of his dolng 50. Weo must perforce walt until new vitaliby and the erention of now schools pluce education at the door of all, Then, indeod, may Instructlon bo rendered compulsory, the parent having no longer an excuse for refusing Lo bls child ments) any more than bodily sustenanco, Both the Journal Officiel and the Repubd- ligue Francaize have warmly indorsod tho ad- dress, nud tho Inttor speaks of ita author in the following eulogistic strain Wo have long known M. WabbINaToN to ho ful- ly alive to thio importanc of the dutics which do- volvo upon & Minlster of Public Instructlon fun Tepublican country, e Lina now ehown that he iy fully competent to discharge them. Tho Governe “meut of the Repulilc, he says, 1a resolved to maln- tain therightsof the State, while reapecting all that 1s sacred to the rollglous conscience of the nae tion, Itrespectaat one and the samo timo the 1obo of tho profussor and the cassock of the peloat, This {8 & Republican Minfster's trae language, which France will applaud. Francobas confidence, to ue tho words of M. WADDIXGTON, that the Tto- public of 1873, vur dear and young Republic, will endow the country with long years of prosparity, of glory, and of greatnees, —ee Weo presume that there is no partioular point in tho Government counsel's making nny spocial effort in the trial of the Munw case to elicit from the witnesses the exact amounts of money thoy contributed to Messrs, Rems and Ilestyo, but wo caunot seo tho purpose | of these wituesscs in undorcstimating theso payments, Mizxen, for fustauce, * thought Lo had paid Hesixo and Reust about $20,000 or $25,000," while his partner admitted that tho amount may have been as high a8 $80,000. Now It secms to ho gonerally undorstood that this firm paid: the black. mailors 347,000, 8o with tho lrm of Roxrre & Junzen, One of them admitted that tho flrm had robbod the Governmeont of §100,000 and perhiaps $200,000—a slight discrepancy— while tho goneral impression, from what is known of the operations of the Ring, is that tho sggregate frauds in which this frm was intoreatod woro inthonelghborhood of $600,- 000, Thero ia also an impression that of thia tha blnckmnilers got about $160,000, while TorLLe testifloa that ho paid Izsrxa $10,000, nud Juxken siys that ho pold Renst $25,000, In nusworing goneral questions, and estimnt. ing gonoral amounts, there ought to be (for tho eatisfaction of tho public) some effective monns of sharponing up tha momory of theso distillors and rectifiors. It maynot bo noces. sary to make out the Government's case, but it will be woll, novertheless, that tho public sball know the full oxtent of {ho operations which wera carried on for throe years undor tho nuspices of the londors of tho People’s Party in this city. ‘THE FUTURE OURRENCY RUPPLY. ) the Editor of The Tridune. Cricano, May 12,—A gentlemnn Iately vialting hero, wlo accupiesn prominent position In tho financial world o the result of n superb talent and continuon unswerving adiicrence to ho trio prin- clples of fiduclary management, nccumlngn ront ronic {n the banking world, expressud his opinion in favor of thio rotentlon of thogreonbackas u per- Inanent part of the clrcilating modium, which Tio watild hava to conalstof greenbacke, Natlonal Bank notes, and gold, the groonbacke’ redeomable b Washington, e Nntjonnl Hauk notea at. the plac of {ssuc, The specle necessary to Lringini tho greenbacke to par with gold must bo accumulatad until that fs renched; but should the process occtipy an unrensonatié tme, this would Indicato a rodiindancy of the lssuo, and reductions in tho voltimo must be made unt!) par Is reached, as has Been dono in France. Tho hanks should keop one- holf of thelr roscevo nlway in prcenbacks, wiich wauld practically bo a conibination of tho strength of the Governinent and tho Lanka to give tho highest posaiblo creditand accurity to tho paper porlion of tho currancy or circofating medim until 8 mare perfoct rytem fa discovercd. A fow friends who llstencd to th views condenned above will feel obliged by your ndding this brief stato- ment 1o your suple fecord of o Snanclal discus- slon. If our correspondent has.glven the views of the “ prominent financier correctly, wo regret to say we fall to see thereln n rational meastre of reform, The plan of n mixed currency of gold, greenbacks, and bank-notes fs what we linve had for years. Wo bave had also a bauk- redemption in greenbacks. There has been no trouble on that score. Tha only thing new fs the redgmption of greenbacks at Washiugton. Redemption in what 1 If the greenbacks are to be redecmed in gold, how fs the Government to obtaln fts gold 1 To levy taxes to rafse gold and lay 1t sway ‘dle, Is equivalent to paying 6 per ceut Interest on the amount hoarded, If gold be obtained by the sale of bonds, then that 18 equivalent to borrowing the tnoney at inter- est, Inwhat Is that Letter than funding the greenbacks dircetly In bonds 1 If tho green- backs when redeemed in gold are to be pald out again, ow 18 the Governwment to get them into circulation unless it be to buy gold, or buy bonds; and if as fast as they ars put out they are returned for redemption, where fs the gold to be obtained, unless it be to sell bonds or greenbacks 1 ‘There is no troublo about the bank-note cir culation; that is sccured by an equivalent of 8108 in gold for cach $00 of notes. They can be redeemed at any moment,—~in the frredeemable greenbacks, Our correspondent overlooks the Iact that it s Impossible for any Government to keep a paper clrculation of its own rates nt par with gold. It has never yet been done, and our Government fs not likely to prove an exception. ‘The currency in France Is not a Government currency, -The Government borrowed bank- notes of the bank, and authorized it to fssuc notes In excess of its ordinary circulation. As the Governmont repays the loan in installments the banlk destroys the notes, and the certainty of their redemption aud retirement within a fixed dato has kept the baukenotes practieally at par. The whole Govermuent debt will bo repald In 1878, and tha bank wiil then resume speele payments legatly, ns it hos nlready done practically. 8. MACOMD, Macoun, the son of Maj-Gen. , Macoms, who preceded Gen, Scorr ns Commauder-in-Chief of the United States Army, died suddenly in Now York City a {fow dnys ogo of beart disense fn the rooms of the Unfon Club. He entered West Point at the age of 16, graduated In 1835, and entered the service as Brevet Sceond Lieutenant of the First Dragoons, Ile served in frontier duty at Fort Leavenworth from 1835 15 1837 ns Adjutant, From 1837 to 1810 he was Aide-de-Camp to hia father. In 1841 hie resigned his position. IHe marricd Miss Keanney of New York, a alster of Qen, Punn Kzarxey, and leaves tvo children, the elder of whom 18 Mra. FRepERio FANE, the wife of an English army oflicer. HIRAM GANRETTSON, OF CLEVELAND, A dispateh from Cleveland, dated May 8, an- nounces the death of it GARRETTSON, the evenlng before, of heart discase. Mr, GARRETT 80N wus o prominent busluess man of Cleves land, and at the time of Iis death President of the Second Natlonal Bauk, Ilis uge was 69, In 1873 ho was appolnted o Commissioner on the part of the United SBtates to the Vienna Exposition, aud upon the removal under & cloud of Chief-Commissloner Van DBuney, wna chosen to succeed him. e was the leading American in Vienna at tho time of tho Exposl- tion, and his commanding appearance made him one of the most remarked. He was one of the delegates from his district to the Republican Natlonal Convention, to be held in Cincinnatl next month. s place in the Convention will be taken by Dr. JuLius C. SCHRNCE, his lter- nate, OTNER DEATHS, Among other denths recently reported are thoso of the Yon. Sternex D, Lzoxanp, the founder of the Oswego (N, Y.) Gazfte and # ropresentative in Congress four years; of Tueobore C. PrTens, who was formerly an ngrieultural writer for the New Yorle Tvibune nnd State Assessor of New York for ten years; and of Joux A, Beaninag, who represented the First New York Dlstrict in Congress in 186405, ——— . ‘The ladies, blesa 'em, of tho Women's Unton of Cambridge, Mnss,, do not clamor for female suffrago, and yet they have entered tho political fleld animated by the true nisslofinry splrit. All, of course, becauso of this belog the Coen- tennfal year, they have been conning Colonlal history, and comparing the country ong hundred yeurs ngo with the country of to-day, the which Iins moved them, ns aforesald, to enter the po- ltteal fleld, They have made thelradvent there, after the manner of politleal misslonaries from thine out of mind, by lssulug an address reciting the evils that have erept into our political BYys- tem, and proposing their panacea.- The cvils they very clearly percelve and designate, to wit: ‘The machiue system, an lrredeemablo paper cur- reney, o tarlfl inposed for speclal private bene- fit, and Governmental abuses in certaln Southern States, ete. Tho remedy proposed, however, i3 tho feature of the address. Everybody with bulf an ey can point out evils and abuscs In our political system that need correction, but-how to correct them fs the conundrum that staggers thewisest and best. That Is the problem for the statesmen, which secrps to have oceurred to these putriotlc ladies when thoy had done edta- loguing the evils to be remedied. 8o fnstead of elaborating tho remedial programmno them- selves, thoy hit upon the plan of fuviting the statesmen to do that same. Accordingly thoy lave mnade out a list of Nving Amerlean statos- men aluiost oy completo s the Congresstoual dircetory itaclf, fucluding men of the most irre- concllable differcnce of views, Gov, TILDEN and Cuanves FRANCIS ADans, President Woorsny and Bpeaker Keng, Wapa IfameroN and Canv Scuunz, Qe Jo Jounston and CuanLes 0'Conon, and s0 on dowyg to some very small people, The Cumbridge Women's Unlon does not appeal to them dircetly, but to the women of Bostou, to joln with the Women's Unfon in fuvoking theso statesmien, *‘lrrespective of parties, tomect n tho namo of potriotism, fu cons ference, as soou a8 possible, on the stato of the country, and after due deliberation to unite on such a declaratlon of priuciples as may serve for a guldu to all those sceking political truth, and possibly as o new departuro for the political conventiona themselves.! The wonder is that nobody ever thought of it before, and that it remalned for ladics to prescribo that e —————— sovereign specifie for our political fils, a cone vufilou of statesmen. By all means lot it bo c] Cinclnnatlans have been furblahing up thetr reminiscences of Mr, memm,,umugh what they rako up from out the pust reflects little lustro upon themn. In 1857, It appears, ho vislp. ed that smoke-befogged town to cngago in g great law-sult, In which Lo was opposed by Reveupy Jounsox. In homely Western ph Mr. LINCOLN was “no elouch of o lawyer, ng the older members of tho Illinols Bar can Lestifys In fact was not only o great ndvoente, but really o great Inwyer, possessed in the highest degreq of the close, analytlc power, and the faculty of seizing firmly upon the maln point involved, and refecting extrancous motters, ‘which, by thq way, are the distinguishing traits of tho Breat lawyer everywhere. 1lts homely manner, which, as the world now recognizes, was but n comblna. tiorf of matlve modcsty nud Western franknees, without a partlelo of rude brusquerle, was last upon the fat-witted folk with whom ho woy brought into contact there, and he was elbowed naldo and anubbed s o Western pettifogger, Two years later, after his memorable canvasy with DougtAs had made him one of the most prominent figures in national affalrs, he was in. vited to Clncinnat! to address o great political guthering, and was recelved with consideralyle celat. Bt even then he seems to have failed to make eufficient impression upon the Porko. politans to assurd him sgainst shabby treatinent by them. In'Juna following, after his noming. tlon for tho Prestdency, he reecived from the proprictors of the Burnet Houso tho following dunning epistio: Cmcmn&'lvl’,-lnnel‘;.lmo.-—ni Iion, A, Lincoln— DeanSin: We nre oxtremely sorry to be under the neceussity of cllllnf yourattentlon'to the inclosed il dllrlnf Jyoursojourn at the Burnet in September lust; but it appeara there {s no remedy loft us other than toadvisu you of ita nover having beon paid, Werelied upoii the Ttapublican Commltteo, but as ct hava not been able to find any ono wiling ta ko tho rcaponalbiiity of paylng same. Conse- uontly sdvise you In tho premises. Very Fespect. ully yours, Jouxsox, SAuNpERS & Co, The inclosed bill Is as follows: Bunxer Housk, Cicinsaty, Sept. 10, The Hon. A. Lincotn {oJohnaon. Sauniern Board and parlor, self and famliy. Extra suppers, 85,60, wincs, I i igurd, $7.060.... be as Occupancy of Room No 15, 1850, Co. cvesenenrs 850,60 cn, even ot that ere, seem to have been as expert In the net of mak- ing out big billans their programmo for tho approachiug Convention showa:them to be, The smount of the bill sceras to have rather startled Mr. LincoLy, whose Labits were of the simplest sort, and he thus wrote o friend at Cincinnat! about it, fucloatng the bill: Now, this may Le right, but I havo n. Alight sus. rlc(on of 1t for two or three reasons. Firat, when left I called nt the oflice of tho hotel, and was «then distinctly told tho bill *‘wan settled, ™ wax *all right, ™ or worda to that effect, Secondly, it seema a little stecp that board and parlor from Hate urday, 74 p. m., to Monday, 10% n. m., for a man, woman, and ono small chlld should bo we had no extra supper, unle having ten In our room the first evening was such. Wo wore {n the house over the time of five meale, threc unly of which we took In the house, \Wo did not onco dine In the house, As to wines, liquors, and cigars, we had nonc—absolitor Iy none. These Inst may have been In Rtoom 15, Dy order of Conunlttee, but I do not recollect them atall. Please look fnto this and write me. I can and will 84‘, It1f1t fw'right, but T do not wiah to bu Mtdiddied.” Please do what you do quictly, hay- ing no fuss about it. Yours, very truly, A Lavcou, A little Inquiry clicited the interesting infor mation that the Recoption Committee's drinks, clgnrs, parlor, cte, hod been charged to Mr. LincoLy personally, besides his own Lill, at the cxorbitant rate of about 310 per day. Clnclne natians, howover, about this timo had begun to discover that Mr. LINCOLN was many sizes lurgger than the rural pettifogger they had taken him for, and that hotel bill was suddenly set- tled before Mr. LiNcown could bo drawn upon for the amount justly due, ———— ‘The Lost Cause survives lustily in North Caro- linn, to judge from tho specches delivered in the Confedernte cbuctery ut Charlotts on the 10th fust., being thelr memordal day. The orator of the oceaslon was the Rev. L Tavron MARTIN, who, fn recalling the “issues of 1860-1, safd; ‘The South s to-day ruled over by the miserahla theall of Yankeedon} but they canuot muzzle oir chivalry and patriotic devotion fo the Lost Cause. ‘We fought for bur rights, but in Uod'sdispensation e are now vanquished but not cowed. That perhnps wos no less than was to have been expeeted of those who had only surrene dered thelr cause at the polnt of the bayonet and whon it was hopelessly lost. That natural pride which prompts men to vindieate thelr past naturally prevented eny edwmnission that the Loat Causo was n wrong cause. Referring to it over the gravea of thelr own dead, who had fallen In behalf of that cause, extravogant dulo- gy of it and of them was of course tv have been anticipated. But the orator dld not stop there; referring to the future ho declared : Slavery was o divine Instltution, and we must bavo tlint [nstitution or the Bouth will ever by h&llkru}’ll— Theoy lrelll: of our cnuse as the **Lost Cause,® ¢ mo,” shull it bo lost forovert Nol A new generatlon lan “prung up, and at n not far distant day thero will bo *¥Stars nnd Bare" foat- Ing proudly over our susny Sonth. In the next political campulyn we must, oyen if i the minor- ty, Bupport u Southorn mai who will butld up our Intorests und hurl the Yankeo plckpuckets from our mldst. Weare to-day united to the Purltanicat Lost by an artificial tlo; fut we are o distinct peo- rle, and God and the right will enablo us to show hie world the truth and tho equity of our claims, Our atateamen now fun Congresw nra the cream of that body, and aro the only element that reflects credlt on the United Btates, Is it not better to hang on totho ** Lost Cause ™ than to atayina Goy- ermment of corruptiony It Is gratifying to learn that to this latter query a few fn the erowd responded -+ No,» while the rest maintained an omiuous sffence. Al evidently felt that the orator had sald tvo 1nuch, and yet at last probably ‘he only ex- pressed the sentiment of nine-tenths of his Learcrs, but which they feel it s foollsh to avos bueause hopelessly chierished, There is nothing alarmisg about such utterances us these; but they seem to reveal more clenrly tho truo sentl ments of the constituency represented by the Coufederntes In Congress, whose utteruuces, through such men a8 BeN Hivw, so startled the country, ——— Tho Union League Clubof Now York, through the malice and petty spite of a small hondful of its mewbers, has displuyed the excerable tasto to blackball Becretury Buistow, whose neme had been proposed as an honorary member, ‘This disreputabla actlon docs not refleet upon the Club as a whole, however. There ary about 2,000 members fn the Club, but at this meeting there were only 124 membera present, 118 of whom voted for the Sceretory und 12 aguinst hlm. If tho whole membership hod heen pres ent It {3 hardly probablo that the uegative vote would have been fncrensed 13 more. It Is evi- dent that the blackballing of Becretary Bristow arose from ono of two sources, It was either o wean and petty way of giving expression to partl- san anfmositics by the CONKLING faction, ur, 89 1 mory probable, ho was blackballed by members of the Custom-Houso Ring, who are enguged In smuggling and swindling the revenue, and took this oceaston to revenge themselves upon him for his cfforts to breuk up thelr croaked busl ness. Whatever tny have been the ubject, it cannot reflect any discredit upon Secrctary Bristow, but it does reflect diseredit upon the Club, n 1ittle handful of whoss members have thus secrctly vented thelr apite. Not ono of them would have dared to voto openly sgalus) him, Not one of them now bas sufticlent cour 8go tostate that he voted ogainst him. The people of this country will not place it to his iscredit, but will rather regard it us an uddl tional testimontal to his honesty and efiiclency, that he has aroused the wrath of the New York Custom-House Ring. ‘The nomination of Bauxux (uot the show man) as United Btates Senator by the Conuneo ticut Democratic caucus, is spoken of by the Enstern papers 0s one of the most corrup! transactious that ever occurred fu Now Evglaud It secms to have been ona level with the eleo tion of Benators by carpet-bug Legislatures Is tho South. The cautlous-spoken New Yorl T aayei x and ExaLis. ¢ o 2 and i Ay ‘b‘:l’lk\:fu‘:x' e saam was purel ono of caxh pald o7 not pald. - Dausux claimy tha Lo g\ er 0ok Ais bid, and the Seualorshl) e Engetad doun 1o Ruis iy wilh s o of Justice, Cotsplalas that hit bid Waa uot 1o tic 0| 8 E.?&Zfi. u':«'\m:\‘m"mmyww as 4ood as Ue