Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 26, 1876, Page 4

*this (Frhdny) eveni * and will give hin her solid vote, 82, on the THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1878, $6.25mB.40 for poor to primo,—n decline from Wednesday of 10c. Cattlo wore dull and weak, with salos At $3.00@4.90. Shoep were firm, One hundred dollars in gold would buy $112.62} in greenbacks at tha close. @l Tribane, TERMS OF SUBRCRIPTION. Tho Committee of the Houss on Foreign Affairs, while acquitting Gen, S8cnExck of any #fraudnlent intentiona” in tho ewindling Fmma Mine rpeculntions, novertholess unan- imously agres upon a verdict of censure, fivat, beonuse it was not proper for an Ameri- can Minister to connect himself as a Dircctor with the Emmn Company; second, that his relations with the Company were such a9 to bring suspicions upon his motives and ex- pose him to unfriendly criticism ; and third, beeanso *“his speculative dealings in tho shnres of the Company were incompatible with his diplomatie station and the main- tonanco of his usefulness at the Court to which he was nceredited.” The indictment, which is agreed upon both by the Domoorntin and Republican meinbers, is A sevore and sweeping one, but it reflects the gencral opinion of the public, PATABLE 1¥ ADVANCE—POSTAGE TREPAID AT TII18 OFPIC Datly Edition, roupnm. 1 year, PaFiR of yeqr At Malled to any addrees four weoks for. Sunday Pl Ehedt,, Wrl-Wesl .50 arle ol year RLNRIRE FRie, WLEKLY EDITION, VONTPAT T year.. Hb of twenly, por Sopy: 118 The postagn 12 14 cents o year, which wo will prepsy. Bpecimen coples sent free. To peevent delay and mistakes, e snreand gise Post- Ofce address In full, including £tate and Lounty, Rtemittances may be made either by draft, express, #ost-Ofice brder, or In rrgtatercd letters, ut vur risk, PTUMB TO CITY SUNSCRIDENS. atly, delisered, Sunday excepted, 25 centa per week, ally, delivercd, Sunday included, 30 cents ner week dddrees THE TRINUNE COMPANY, ‘Corner Madizon and Dearbarn-sta., Chlcago, 1k e s New Clicago Thentre, Clark strect, between landolphand Lake. Iooley's Minstrels. tonley’s Thentro. & = . Sanidotphs sireet. herween Cark ant Tasanie, ko, | Gen. Jaums IT, Daxee, of Minucsots, ex EA¢eLaeat of DAly's Fifth Avenuo Conijany. +*bique.” | Commissioner of Pensions, an intimate, por- sonal friond of Dave BrLakeny's, disclaims auy knowledgo of tho Intter's bargain with Miss SWEET up to the time when it bacame known that her accounts wero short, Then, for the first time, the Commissioner heard of tho shameful imposition practiced upon that Indy Ly the raddling of Brarkny's dobts and deficits upon her. Miss Sweer had re- ceipted for $10,000, but actually received 37,000 from Draskuy, and Gen, Baxen states that he kept the shortage secret until MeVieker's Theatve, Madison strect, between State nud Dasrhorn. Ene gngemment of Maseto Mitchell. ™ Tlio Lady of Lyons™ and ** Eaty O'Sheul.” Wand's Museim. i Monron steest, hetween Dearborn nnd ftate, After- poon g nviaibli rince ing, Frank B. Alken n *“Bert or, Ocean o Gecar DEARBORN LODGE, i’ mn, i, welick, Wark on Ui fen Masnrs degrec. ” Menbersf the (mfernity cordial- Iy tavited. DILN SUTTON, W. M. #he could make it good., It docs not scem ORIENTAL LODGE, 73, A. F. & A, M.—Holl | to have oceurred to him, after ascortaining m "‘i»... AN i i) | tho cheat practiced upon Miss Sweer, that Lol s e brashor i not sho but Brageny ought to have been E, N. TUCKER, Sceretary. | compelled to square tho nccount ; on the contrary, tho matter was hushed up in order, a3 Gen, Baken exprosses it, that the Govern- mont night be protected against loss and Miss Sweer have timo to pay tho doficit handed down to her as o condition precedent to hor appointment aa Pension Agent. BLAINE STABBED IN THE PLATFORM, The Illinois State Convention was a large msemblago of enthusiastic people, taking things upon general faith, and leaving plat- form-making to the fow. Tho few in this enso were unfortunnately loas than ordinarily scrupulons, and the result is a malicious be- trayal of the populnr sentiment of the Con- vontion. 'T'he Convention intended, and, so fur a8 it lind knowledge, did appoint, forty- two delegates to vote at Cincinnati for Brarsg, and this tribute to tho statesman from Maino was cheored to the ccho, But what elsa did the Convention do? or, moro properly speaking, What elso did Mr. Brave's secrot onemics do ? They packed a Committea on Resolutions which declared in favor of the *' Rag-Baby” and the “ Dloody Shirt.” Was this backing up Mr. Truxe? Among all the atatesmen who have been proposed or nnmed for tho Presi- dency, Mr. Braivehas the least questionnble rocord on theso two questions, and, while the Convention was overwholmingly for Braig, the agents of tho adversary were preparing instructions that are a libel upon his intolli- g3neo and an assault upon his patriotio record. The second rosolution declares os a fact “That the policy of leniency by tho Repub- lican party toward tho people recontly in ro- bellion against Federal outhority having re- sulted in death by violenco of at least 5,000 Unionists, white and black, sinca tho com- 1moncoment of the present policy of recon- struction ; nlso in placing in power in tho Tower House of Congress a political party dominated by ex-Confederates, and finnlly in relegating back into the control of dis- 1oyal whites nearly every State reconquered to Federal authority by the Foederal armies.” In whoso interost is this perversion of truth? And why was so slanderous an spersion cnat on the Republican party? By what right did a Platform Committes nndertake to ar- raign the “ policy of leniency” pursued by tho National Republican party? Who authorized them to call that party to account for its policies, or to donounce it in belalf of the Republicans of IHinois? The peoplo of this State mout assuredly have not con- ferred that power upon them, Who is it that hos opposed tho policy of leniency, of peace, of harmony ? 'Who has opposed the aholition of the color line, and the division of parties at the South on other than a line of hatred and extormination? Was it DraiNe,—the man these forty.two delegates are directed to vote for,—or was it somo other man whose rocord las been that of vindictive hatred and a government by the sword? Whose platform has been thrust nndor Brarxe's feot? Who is the “un. knawn " whoso friends on the Platform Com- mitteo have propared the way for an aban. donment and betrayal of Braxe at Cincin- nnti? The resolution asserts n falschood when it doclares that the policy of leniency has pat the Demoeratic party in power in one braneh of Congress. Did the policy of lenicucy elect Democratie mombers of Con- gress in Massachusetts, in Connecticut, in Now Hmnpshire, lown, Wisconsin, and Michigan? Did the policy of loniency give tho Demoernts a ranjority of tho Ieprosenta. tives from New York, Now Jersey, Pennsyl- vania, Ohio, Indiana, aud Tlinols? Was it not something elsa? Wiy it mot the dishonesty, fraud, and corruptions, which wero notorious and wide-spread, and FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1876. Greonbncks at tho Now York Gold Ex- ehange yestorday closed nt 5. Wo are pr;;x;l;;d -ufi;,rmly warmer wenther, with possibly occesionel showers, in this region to-day. Mr. R, G. Dynenruntit, of Chieago, prin- cipal Examiner in the Patont-Office, who was charged with liaving accepted a feo for the yorformance of a service in connection with Qis officinl duties, has been exonerated by the Commission appointed to investigato the =harges, 3r. Mornisox made hisspeech on the new “Tariff bill yesterdny, and was listened to with snorked nttention. There is littlo prospect, however, that the bill will be passed in its present form, or that it will bo brought to o wyoto nud n record mnadoe prior to the St. XLouis Conve: Tho California Democrats indorso nand yompliment TrLoeN, but send their delegates without instructions. Their platform is for .bard money and the absolnte prohibition of ‘Chinese immigration. The Kentucky Bour. ‘bons, on the other hand, have nothing to say about the importation of Celestials, but are ecidedly soft on the currency question. The surprising statement is made from de- ‘dartmental authority that tho total expenso “f tho gigantic prosecution of whisky-thioves -tonceived and executed so far by Secretary Bristow hos not exceeded £25,000. The pmannt recovered from seizures, assens- ments, fincs, and forfoitures ngprogates +3bout $3,160,000, of which $G00,000 in cash “hos alrendy found its way to the Lreasury. An impudent attomnpt toobtain by trickery what has beon denied by the voiceof the peoplo and the decres of thecourts was made yesterday by Ep Pmurrirs, the ousted South ‘Town Assessor. Armed with a writ of ro- plevin issued by n Justice of the Pence, whosa knowledge of tho law nnd sensoe of propriety were equally limited, Paruuies un- dertook to get possession of the Assessor's boaks, but was happily prevented from car- Tying the plan into effcet, The State Bunday-School Association yes- terdny closed a session of several days' dura- tlon at Jacksonville, I Tho beautiful lit- tlo city was packed with workers in tho re- ligious education of the young, aud the pres. onca of colebrated evangelists gave the gathering oxceeding intercst to the secn- “ur populace. Mr. Baxgey is left sick on his “back, the final reckoning of threo yeors of vearly unparalloled overwork, Tlia physi- -ginus apprehend no obstacle to his return to Yenlth after proper rest. Recent important accessions of strength encournge the frionds of Mr, BraNe to be. Yiove that ho will be nominated on tho firat orsecond ballot. It is caloulated thut Now England will bo nffected by the lxrge support cowming to Mr. Braine from other sections, first ballot, Tho latest estimate in Washing- ton gives Mr, Braine o send-of of $G¥ wvotes, or 15 less than o mnjority of the Con. vontion. 1lis frionds are moro confident than evor bofore, and regard his nomination a3 assured almost boyond s doubt, Tho Naval Iuvunugmnp; Cemmittee got old of the tarred ond of tho stick yestordny Ju the examinntion of Swirr, the live-onk sontractor. When nasked whothor he had | which were practiced under tho garbof a ‘paid any money for political purposes, ho | specinl loyalty snd under shouts for begged the Committeo not to presa the ques- | more bayonots? Was it not salary-geab .Yon, stating thut ho was o loyal, life-long | and back-psy,—the author of these Democrut. Being forced to answer, ho dis- soncorted his inquisitors by testifying that 20 hnd paid darge sums of wmonoy Jor politieal purposek, but every dollar of it Jor the success of Democratly candidatos,— 410,000 for the election of James Bucnanay, “§500 for the TyLpEN campaign in New York, wd §500 to help out Gov. Excramu in Con. deoticut. This was not exactly the kind of ‘nformation the Committeo wero in quest of, and thoy changed tho drift of the examina. tion quite hurriedly, resolntions having his &5,000 grab still in his pocket,—with the general scandaly incident to Pacifio Mail and othor corrup. tions ? Was not Mr. Brame by his own act su excoption in that groat salary-grab swindle? Did ho not iusist in the open 1Touso of writing on the faco of tho buok-pay swindlo that the incrense should not apply 1o tho Speaker ? and did he not thereby re- ke tho starvoling boggars who now on committees of resolutions stab him with buse insinuntions 2 It was Butlerism, and Bag-Tnbyism, and official dishonesty, that ompted the Ropublican House of Represent- atives and filled it with Democrats, "The insinuation that Buaive by his Com- itteen —the Wureres Committeo in Touisiuna uud the Poranp Committeo in Arkunsns—rolegntod these Bt tes back into thu control of disloyat whites, is & calumny, no mattor in whose intorest it may have beon uttered nor by which of the cliampions of theiloody Bliirt it may have been suggested. ‘he whola country hiss applauded, approved, ratified, and wanctioned the sottloments made by theso Braive Committoss, and tho man who for any purpose would seck to disturb thieso arrangements or fncite civil strifo in theso Btates should forfeit the respect of his countrymen and of Lis race. Illinois with ono voico will repudiate such a caudidate. Mr. Brawe has borne himselt in all his publio life with woderation, with courage, The Chicaggo produco mavkets were irreg- ular yestorday. Provisions were less nctive, Mesa pork declined 160 per brl, but closed finn at §20.05 for Juno aud $20.25 for July, TLard declined 12J@16c per 100 tbs, closing BArm et $11.85 cush ond $12,00 for July. Meats were easler, ut 7o for boxed shoulders, blo far do short riba, and 104c for do short cloars, Lake freights were loss active, at 2} for wheat to Buffalo. Rail froights woro dull and unchanged. Iighwines were firm at $1.09 per gallon. Flour was in light de- mond and steady. Wheat was nctive, and closed 1{o Ligher, at $1.07§ cash and £1.073 for June. Cornwaa active and firmer, closing at 48}c for May and 46}o for Junc. Oats were }@{a lower, closing at 30jc for Bay orJune. Iye was tirm, at GI§@704e. Barloy was §@1¢ lower, closing at 71c cash and 59 for Juns. JYlogs wers active, ot \ and with vigor. He has not heen a rolont- less and nnforgiving man. 1lis has beena higher statesmanship than thot of Iate nnd Revenge, He hag supported all the mens- nres necessary to give all legal protection to every class of people in all parts of the land. Ho haslabored toro-establish aGovornment of law, resting on popular confldence and sup- port, the only Government conaistent with Amorican liberty, e was not in favor of the Bloody-Shirt Forco bill, becanse o be- lioved that its enactmont would do far more mischiof than good ; that it would oceasion moro harm to the negroes than benefit; that it would tond to embitter the races towards onch other, and porpetuate the color line. Henca ho opposed it ; thereforo ho is stabbed in this platform by the malignants who framed it In tho great debate which marked the opening of the present session, AMr. DuaNve wny nn advocate of leniency, peace, recon- ciliation, and fraternal unity. He offered to vote amnesty to evory unpardoned man in the South with one excoption, and this ex- ception was not bnsed on the treason or re- Lellion of the mian, but on the gronnd that Davis had forfeited all grace by his cruclty ond inhumnnity to prisoners of war, ‘I'he resolutions demand that there ghall bo nn Excoutive whoss publis lifa is a guarauteo of the alacrity and fidelity with which he will dischnrgo the grent public trusts, This is ndnatardly reflection upon Presidont GravT, against whom no fair-minded mnn has over charged a want of fidelity in the discharge of all the dutios incumbent upon him in the mntter of reconstruction. Weo suppose that this regolution intimates that thero is an Ex- ccutive who may be selocted who would have liad o standing army in possossion of every Southern State, and the clectoral vote thoreof dictated by the bayonot. Having put into theso resolutions all tho suggeations and malicious innuendoes which the scurvy politicinns of Tonusylvania are now giving to justify tho transfer of tho voto of Pennsylvania from Braive to Conkring, tliore is a covert assault upon Mr. Braine for his recent speceoh in favor of specle pay- monts, In that specch, which hns nover yot Veen nanswered, nud which is worthy of s man aspiting to be the Chief Executive of & great nation, Mr. Buaiye, among other things, emphatically said : The honor of the National Government and tho prosperity of the American people are alike men- nced by thoso who demand the perpetuntion of an frredeemable paper curroncy. If the people of the United Statea were fully awake and arouscd to their interesta, nnd conld sy things s they are, Instend of increasing the power of Congrees over the currency, they would, by the sliortest practicable process, divorcs the two, com- pletely and forever. And this can only be done finally, efectunlly, lereversibly, by the resumption of specle payment. ‘We have ruffered thus far in perhaps as lighta degrec as could be expected under the clrenm- stances; but once adopt the Insanc ldea that all currency shall be Basued dlrcctly by the Govern- ment, and that Congress ahall be the judie of the amount demanded by the ** wants of trade," and sou havo this country adrift, ruddorless, on o sen of troubles, shorcless and soundless. In any event, Mr, Chalrman, whatever wo may do, or whatever we may leave undono on this whols financial question, let us not delude ourselves wath the bellef that wo can escape the specie atandard, 1t rules us to-day, and bas ruled us throughout the whole legal-tender perlod, just an abeotutely ay though we were paying and recelving coln dafly. Our work, our fubrlcs, our commodl- tics, are all measured by it, and ao long a8 wo cling to lrredeemable paper we have sl tho bar- dens and disadvantages of tho gold standard, with none of its afds and gatnsand profits, **The thing which hath been is that which shall be.” The greot law-glver of antlquity records in the very opening choptera of Goenesis that ** the gold of the Iand of Havilah is good.” And, with another precious metnl, It has maintalned its rank Lo this day. Nonatiun has ever succecded In establishing nny other standard of valno; no nation hoa ever made the experiment except at great cost and sor- row: and the advocates of {rredcemable money to- dny are but asking ua to travel the worn and weary road, traveled so many times before,—a road that has always ended in disaster and often in disgrace. Agoinst the author of theso sentiments this platform of Illinois, adopted by a Con- vention which was supposed to bo sending forty-two delegates to vote for Braine, ro- solved that our systemm of papoer money— one-half irredecmable, and tho other helf ro- doemable only in tho irredecmable paper—is the * beat that wns ever dovised”; and all Iegislation is to be deprecated which might by any possibility cause a return to any sys- tem of paper currency which will be re- deemable in coin. Think of the forty-two men going down to Cincinnati to vote for Hard-Money Braing on arag-baby platform ; on a platform in favor of perpetunting an irredocmablo curroncy for ever, and of re- manding spocie payments to the indefinito fature ! T'hig platform is ont of placo in Illincis. It ean command neither tho respeet nor the support of this State. It was a fraud upon tho Republican party, who support Braine upon his own noble record, and not under the Bloody Bhirt, or bayonet mle, or rag- baby policy of any of his rivals, Let Re- publicans in other States not do the Repub- licans of this the cruel injustico of suppos- ing that thoy indorse the moustrosity or countenanco tho stabs it inflicts on Brawe. AN UNRUFFLED GOVERNOR. Perhaps tho most laughable fenturo of the Springfield Convention wna tho offort of Gov. Bevenmoe to play tho rale of Mark ‘Parrer, nnd convince tho publio that he hng been jolly all tho time, that Lo is jolly now, and is bound to bo jolly hcreafter. Baid Gov. Brveripar: 1 eatered upon this contest with the fixed dotur- mination to entertaln no bitterness In it [ood], and with the tixed determination to keep my tem- per under all conditions of servitude, race, or sex [whatever that means], Not even the papers who hiave assallcd mo character huve rultled my temper, und 1 preserve’ my good spirts to-duy towards Tus Circavo ToisuNe aud Jostvi Mee B ava ot atiaed or Acbuseilot belug & temper- ance man and a Methodlst, and I glory in the acci satfon, T lavo been accuscd of befng an intem- perate man, snd one man Inquired of my fricnds whether Gov, DBEvemae war not golog the way of & poor, respocted, beloved Governor of Niinols, [This wan a fling at poor Gov, Yares.] I subinlt to you, my friends, whethor my appearnce indicatea nny such poesible resudt, {Cries o **No, no." A delegate—** You don't look to me ke you had been deinking. ") 1rejolco In one thing: No mutter what has been wald agalnst we; no motler what hias been heaped upon mo; no matter what they have called me, even a nix-footed Methodist, —they have not accuncd nry sdmintstration of any curruption or dishonesty: they have not accuded me of being cruoked. [This wus o filng ot Cuowe Lox on account of thie A SuiTu slunders,] In regard to the allusion to the editor of ‘g TranoN, it is handsome, and shows o good Christinn spirit, in which wo aro de- tormined not to be outdone, 'The editor of Tux Taiouxe lkewiss bas *“kept his tempor unruflled,” notwithstanding the assaults which have been made upon him by Gov. Devesiok through lns orgnns. ‘Ihe defense of the Qovernor, us ho wollknows, has cou. sisted mainly of personal abuse of (e cditor of ‘ue 'I'mmunk, and this abuse, s ho also knows, has Loen gross, contempt. ible, and false. Novortheloss, the oditor of Tue TnouNe magnsnimously overlooks it all, and forgives the Governor ay freely and fully s the Goveruor forgives him. Tho honors being easy, therefore, the Governor may bocuriousto know why Tux Tunsone opposed him. That opposition was based not upon tho fact thathe inn ** Methodist, "— a **six-foot-Mothodist, "—for a good Mothod- ist is n good thing to bo; not upon the fact that ho is A temporate man, or that ho publicly drinks beer or secrotly drinks rour mash or cold wator in moderation, but upon the ground that his renomination would not conduce to the hest interests of the Btate. It waa n dissgreenble duty to porform, but wa felt compelled to do it, and did it conscientionsly, reluctantly, and with great moderation, and the enormions ma- jority that was cnst ngainst him shows that the Convention and tho publio were of tho samo mind as Ti Tnouxe. Weo presume, thereforo, that the Governor includes both the Convention and the public in his genernl proclamation of amnosty and forgivenoss. ‘I'ie Governor will bear us wilnesa that Tue "I'nrouse has nover doubted his deconcy and respectability ; has never made auy assault upon his porsonal character; hos never ques- tioned his religious bolief or his vital plety. Nor hns nny one else. For this reason we do not see why he shonld have lugged in the gratuitons statoments about his * Mothod- jun.” No ono doubts tho sincerity of his rectarianism, No one doubts, and lenst of all Tur Trinung, that Mothodists wro Chrix. tinns, that thoy nro patriotic, intelligent, pious people. 1t wonld certainly have been indelicate for Mr. CuLrox to havo arisen and boasted that he was a Presbyterian, or for Mr. Hanrow to have gloried in his Episco- polinnism, It was equally out of tastoinn political gathering for Gov. Brvemnae to Lonst of his Methodisin, which had not been «questioned. Wao hopo ho will continue to bo o good Methodist. 8o long as ho remains a rood Mothodist 1'me Tripuse will have nocrit- icism to offer ag to his orthodoxy or hin piety. His Mothodism, however, we regret to sy, should have suggested to him not to cnst that unnecessary slur upon the memory of tho dend War Governor of Illinois, or to make the unnecessary fnsinuation of *‘crooked- ness,” ro-cchoing thoslanderons rumors which woresetafloatagninst Mr, Corroy. With theso excoptions, wo are glad to benablo tocommend the magnanimous spirit of the Acting-Gov- ernor. We accopt his forgiveness, and tender our own withat lonst equal sincerity, Mr, Bev- Entoar has beon well treated by the people ; has been handsomoly rewnrded with fat offices and high honors for his services, and has no causo to feol unkindly towards any one. 'The editor of Tiz Tninung, being in the same happy frame of mind, freely for- gives tho Acting-Governor, Shuke! OUR CARTER REDIVIVUS. Onur Csrren has beon and gone and done it again, and BanNey CAULFIELD once 1nore suffers an eclipso at the hands of his col- lesgue. It will bo rememberod that Banvey started in abend of Our Canrer by his prep- arations for moking anew Constitution, nud to this ond ho filled his sntchiel and trunks with amendments, which he proposed to empty out upon the floor of the House at tho fimt opportunity, 'The opportunity never eame, however, and the amendments nra still nt bis boarding-house in their orig- inal packages. Menuwhile, Our Oanten let his magnificont engle, which was * no com- mon bird,” fly from the Atlantic surges to the sprays of the Pacific, snd so dazzled Congress and the country with the length and broadth of his flight and the dimensions of his squawk that nothing moro was heard of DBaryxey. Our Oan- TER's triumph, however, was short-lived. His magnificent poultry nover reached the sprays of the Pacifie, but, flying too high, scorched his wings, like Icanus, and camo tumbling down somewhore among tho Westorn prai- ries, sprawling ingloriously in the mud. Danney perceived his opportunity, and wont. in partioularly strong on the iuvestigation business, while Our CAnten quictly subsided and put up Lis eaglo on his perch. Banvex got along swimmingly for n time until he ran across & fow obstacles like Bnistow, the Presidont, and little Jonxyy Davesront, which left him floundering about in pitiful shape. Hlis Democratic friends, perceiving that Banyey was letting tho Democratic tigor throngh the looking-glass much too freely, hauled him off, and now Our OanTER once ‘moro comes up swmiling after his long silonce, Mis first appoarance was after tho manuer of Parrrox Hznny—a good ways after; he now appears as tho IMurlequin of the House, gives odds to Cox and discounts Procron Kvorr. 'The subject which brought out Our Caz. Ten from Lis rocont obsourity was brass. band musie, Lewis, Democratio member from Alabama, having offered an amendinent to reduce the strength of the Marine Corps and abolish the Marino Band. Our Canrenr did not earo partioularly for the reduction of tho Marine Corps, but the proposition to hush the duleet strains of the Marine Band, to abolish tho uational drums, trumpets, ond trombones, and to forever silence tho tootings of the national horns, was too much for him. Our Oanren is an exccllent wmu- sician, 1o knows an allegretto from o scher- zando, and cau tell a crescendo when he soes it. Tloisreputed to bo n good fiddler,— in facr, thoro is a good doal of fiddle-deo-dee nbout every thing ho docs, If he were et toit, howould construct a work on counter- point that would be moro ubstruse than Hauer or Riouren, and we have no doubt that if Mr. "'nomas wero willing ho would go to Philadelphia and lead the Waa- ~ru Centenninl March with the serone con- viction in his own mind that ‘Trioxas himself could not surpass him. Being such an ox- cellent musicion, ho rushed to the defenso of tho Marine Band against this Southern Dem. ocrat, who could not brook *Hail Columbia" and the “‘Btar-Spangled Banner” blown from Northorn horns and pounded ou loyal drums. ‘The flight of the caglo was tame compared with tho paces throngh which he put Porx- nyuNia, and theso paces werono more ro- markablo thau tho paces throngh which he put the English langunge. Ho said from first to last just what ho did nat mean to say. Mero accuracy of stato- ment, however, is nothing to n man who is truly oloquent, Geunius, when it is on tho rampage, bursta all bounds of sonso and pro- pricty. It flows and overflows and carries overything beforo it, and just as his esglo, which was no common ono, swept all the swallows, sparrows, and jay-birds beforo it, so did the mighty crescendos and climaxes of his musical specch overcome and beat down tho English grawmar and rhetorio, until the torrent of his cloquence found its outlot nnd was lost in an ocean of nonsenso, The Iouso evidently was in n genial mood. It dropped tho rag-baby and the Lloody shirt and the inveatigation of the Baistow mules, andgave itselfup to tho spell of the wizard of Chicago ns ho sounded bis wmusical periods sud beat hig tom-tom, The House laughed, and the worst of it is tho Iouse laughed at him ; but Our Canreu was sublimely fndif. ferent to thot unimportunt foot. o was willing to eacrifico himsclf provided he conld savo tho Marine Band, and he did so. He throw himself upon the altar of folly nndJ called fur the knifo aud torch. They touchod im off, and tho Marine Band waa aaved,[and Danyey CAULFIELD onco more goea into eclipao. ‘The Marino Band owes ita snfoty to Our Canten, And every horn.blower in the band owes it to him that he ean continuo to toot hia instrument and wear his searlot raf- ment. If it were not for the fact that it might provoke another spoech, the band ought to sorenade Our Oanten, with ** his foot on the bnluatrado and one of his Parla- gas botweon hia lips.” . ILLINOIS AND BLAINE. 1t is well, perhaps, that our Enstorn frionds should undorstand just why the Illinols State Convention selocted adelegation of forty-two men to the National Convention at Cinoin- uati who, though uninatructed, will vots ae n unit for Mr. Brarve, 1Iad the Hlinois Con- vontion boen held ton days ago thero is every renson to beliove that tho delegntion to Cin- cinnati would have been protty evenly di- vided between Brane and Bristow. It cor- tainly would have been, if it bad fairly ropre- sented tho division of sentiment botwoeen the Ttepublioan volors in Illinois. Butthe reason for the sudden unanimity in favor of BraiNe i to bo trnced directly to the appointment of Doy OaatsnoN ns Becratary of War, 'I'hat appointment hns bLeen interprotod and sc- copted in the Weat ns an intimation of nn agreement that the Pennsylvania delo- gation shall be transferred to Conrrixe; aud, in order to combat this now cloment of strongth in Covkuxa's belalf, Illinois re- solved to unite on one eandidate, and select~ ed tho one who, in the judgmont of the Con- vontion, would start out at Cincinnati with tho greatest strongth as opposed to CoNk- uixo. We ara very much mistaken if sovernl other Western States havo not Dbeen in- fluonced in much ths same way, and if all tho Westorn delegates do not join Illinois in uniting solidly on Dramve as the surest means of defenting the nomination of Conk- rivg. It is nn unfortunate turn of affairs for Mr. Bristow's frionds; and those who believe that his nnme, nctively identified with practieal roform, would guarnntes the Ttepublicans victory, have roason to regret it, but they will not complain if it shall be- coms necossary to drop Bristow in order thint Coxrrixa shall not bo nominated. 1t is algo ns woll that our Eastorn friends shonld understand why tho epposition to Mr. Congrixo is so goneral in the Wost, In the first place, the Westorn Ropublicans waut 4 somo show for their livea.”” Thoy have no ambition to encounter certain dofeat. They do not want to rush inte the breach with a eandidnte who caunot carry Ohio or Indiana in October, nor New York in Novembor, be- cause tho loss of theso two Btates in Octo- ber means the cortain dofeat of the Repub- lican party at the Novomber Presidontial clection. In the next place, the Republicaus of the Wost aro opposed to all such bargaina and trades as that which appears to have boen brought about by tho Caszzon family, pere et fils, They do not propose to give this arrangomont their countenance and support. 'Thoy have nover boen very anx- jous to have such men as DoN CauenoN in tho President's Onbinet, and cortainly their hearta are mnot Bo sot upon it Ag to obtnin this ravo privilego at the cost of Conkraxa's nomination for the Presidency, and the immninent defeat of the Republican party. They have not been ablo to stop the trado; indeed thoy wero not consulted. Dut they will do all in their power to defeat the consummation of its avowed purpose, and thoy conceive a united adherenco to MMr, Bramveto be the most practical means to this end. ‘Thero will be no difficulty in got- ting up a gonuine and hearty enthusiasm for Brarxg, to whom a largo part of the Repub- licans are alroady strongly inclined ; but wo cannot concoive it possible that Coxzrine will over stir the poople out of a passive lethargy, amounting almost to indifference ng to tho result, if Tinon bs nominated ngninst him, Thoso aro the reasons why Illinois and the West aro now for Braxe, and the Ropublican party cannot afford to ignoro them, —— HOW MISSISSIPPI WAS LOST. Tho lotter of Attornoy-General Hanmus, of Mississippi, sheds o flood of light upon the canses which transformed tho Republican innjority of 24,000 in that Stato into Con- fodorate majority of 30,000, and assures tho electoral vote this fall to tho Democratio candidntes, no mattor who thoy mny be. "TI'his letter, written just after the cloction last fall, was sent the President in roply to inquiries made by him of Harms, a5 o lead- ing rolinble Republican, touching tho condi- tion of affnirs in Misaissippi. Thoroin Mr, Haneis does not deny nor oxplain away the ‘White-Line torrorism, but does show unmis- takably that the Stato was loat through other causes, without which the White-Lino programmo could not have succceded and probably woulduothavabeenattempted. Gov, Axtes, ng Mr. XManus recalls, was inaugurat- ed under pledges of honest cconomic ro- form, upon faith in which not a few of his political opponents had voted for him, while they all stood ready to aid him in carrying theso out. Ie began by build- ing aud running the machine, Ile mado the Btate Printor, Raysonn, the first engineer, and eaw to it that the printing job paid not less than %80,000 net per annum, besides which Rayaonn was mado chief clerk in the offico of the Btate Tronsurer, whero thero waa aplondid opportunity to turn honest pen- nios to tho tune of 820,000 a year in dis- counting ‘l'reasury warrants, using the funds of the State to do it, and pockoting the mar- gin, leaving nobody to bo the wiscr for it. Noxt, Ames, pursuing the ordinary mu- chino tactics, prostituted his power of ap- pointment to judicial office. The twonty Chancellors of the Btato were appointed by him, ‘I'heso places he bostdwed upon men who woro uot lawyers, and who had never had n case, but for whom liconses as mem- bers of the Bar wero speclally procured to qualify them to hold the office, the sole con- sidoration beingthat thoy should work the ma~ chinoinlisinterest. Onoof these appointecs, o son of Chief-Justice PryToN, of the Su. premo Court of the State, Amrs had the shamelessncss to remove because of a de- cision of the Chlef-Justice againsta hench- man of the Governor's; anothor was re- moved becauso he rofused to bail a political striker on charge of murder; and another was appointed for the manifost purposo of provonting an _investigation of a dofalcation of an Amus ofilcial. Thon Awmes votoed the bill outting off the publio printing steal ; ve- toed the bill abolishing the useloss office of County Superintendent of Public Schools ; vetood the bill providing for bisnnial scs~ slons of tho Legislature, which would have saved tho Btate about $100,000 a year; and by lobby pressure, in order to inoroase his power of patronsge, had bills passed croat- ing oxtra Htate and county oflices, to be {illed by his appointment. In short, Gov, AMes exhausted the whole power of his Administration in work- ing tho imachino; to make it more efloctive, corrupted tho Legislaturo and judiciary, and filled tho offices with incomype- . e e tont and thievish appointeca; and the mn- ohino waa workad solely to oleot AmEa to the Unitod States Sonnte. Whoovor refused to work the mnchine in his interost waa ruled out of the Republican party and donounced to the negro votors as a Demoerat. When the White-Line movement, which tha shame- less corruption of bis Administration had hastonod and exasperated, came, thors was no Repnblican party in Misslesippl. In its #tond was only Ases' machine .rottenness and imbecility, and ovor these the White. Linera won an easy triumph, Missirsippl waa loat beennso of tho substitution of the ma- chiino for the Republican party; bocnuse of the alienation of all Lonesty and intelligence in that organization by its conversion into an agency of thiovery simply, It will bo loat this fall, too, beeauso the responsibility for the machine will be charged to tha party. Tho mnchine only did for the Iopublican party in Mississippi what it may do for the party anywhere, which at last is tho only practical moral to be drawn from the loss of Mississippi. v It isreported from Washington that a test caso will be brought before tho United Btates Bupromo Conrt to nscertain whothor tha ro- newnl of greoubacks is a constitutionnl exer- ciso of the powor conforred by the Supreme Uourt in a former docision, which meroly in- dorsed tho privilego to issuo paper-money and moko it legal-tendor as a war right, when the Governmont may oven go so far 88 conflacation to protect its own intogrity. Thia question is not unlike that involved in our city cortifieates, Tho legal-tonders are certainly notes of the Govornment, the issuo of which must be confined (accord- ing to the Bupreme Court) to the nocessities growing out of war. Dut o now note lssnod to-dsy does not fully comply with thia rule. On tho other hand, it is morely tho renowal of a deobt lawfully created in the first inatance, and the renowal is mainly for the purposo of convenionco and cleanliness, go long as no greonbncks are is. sued excopt to take tho place of thoso can- celed and destroyod. This is the view that the Buprome Court will probebly take of it. In the case of our local city certificates, how- over, they ara mero drafts agninst cortain specifiod tax-lovies, and must bo paid ont of thoso particular funds ; thero is no authority for their renewal oxeopt when an sppropria- tion i# made for that purposo. The documents lall before Congresa by the Scerctary of State, In response to s resolution of inquiry, clear up whatever mystery there was about BTRINBERGER'S mission to Bamos. From theso documents it appears that STRINBERGER'S missfon was no misslon at all, and that he hod no authority to act for our Governiment, or to mako engagements for it in any regard. As carly as the swinmer of 1872, it uppens, on the beach at Long Branch, 8TEIN- pereER succeeded in Interviewing tho President upon Samoa to the extent of obtalning n refer- ence to the State Department of his (SrriNnen- aen's) application to be permitted ot his own expense to visit the island, “under the mantlo of authority * mercly, and to report his obser- vations. .The upshot of it was, that STeiNDRR- gen's {rresistible yearniug to be scnt, theso strange lunds for to sce, was gratifled. He was commissloned to sce what he could see nnd re~ port accordingly; and, upon his glowing ac- counts of what splendid opportunity there woa for the establlshment of o« naval statlon and protectorate there, instead of going at his own expense, actually sccured an ullowance of $3,000 to cover these, and sailed from Ban Franclsco for Samoa in June, 1873, returning fn September of the same year. The results of this voyage were that marvelous literary production, Breix- BERAER'S report, and the dodo. The report, as cverybody kuows, was telegraphed and printed all over tho country. What became of the dodo, —that sacred bird with a full sct of teeth, and long sluce supposed to ba extinct,—nobody knows. The latest oflicial advices about the fowl aro contained In the dispatch of BTRIN- BERGER from St. Louls to Secretary Fism, ask- ing what flnal dlaposition sliould be made of the dodo, “now allve and well.” e someliow se- cured o renewal of his misslon, which, as before, was simply of observation. But he proceeded, under this shadowy mantle of suthority, to sct up n Government, peddle out exclusive trading rights to a German firm, and negutlate for a protectorate. The offi- clal correspondenco shows that at no time did Secretary Fisu approve of BTRIN- BERGER' projects, or authorize him to maoke any engugementa In behalf of our Government; and that StrINpERGER'S Whole etock In trade was simply cheek. Ifow le rose, flourished like Jonau's gourd, and collapsed, Is tiow a matter of history. Ifow he talked big to the native chicfs, probably we shall never know. But the oxtraordinary result of that big talk is manifest from tho fuct, as appears from Brain- vERGER's “ofliciul " dispat-lics, that the native chiets, through him, made n presentation to the Tresident of *“tho Bacred Fly-Flap,” recelpt whereof was duly acknowledged by Bcerctary Fisi. And now the solo vemaining mystery in connection with the Samoan busincss {8 us to 4¢ho Fly-Flap,~which 11 not to bo confounded with gymnastie flip-flaps, nor gastronomic flap- Jucks, though nobody knows what it s, but ns to whicli the great public will never be satistied until the mystery s dispelled and they know precisely what I8 the Sacred Fly-Flap.” Dy wl means let the Democratic House appolnt a Committee to fuvestigate tho mystery of **tho Bacred Fly-Flap.” Mr. BtpNeY LaNiEn hus rushed to the rescue of lls cantats, *Columbin’s Meditation,” fne duced thereto by the unfriendly criticlam of al- most the entire press of thoe United States. Tlo oceuples nearly two columns of the New York Tribune in an explanation which 18 sometimes as wbscure as tho cantata itself. The general drift of his explanation Is to the effeet, first, that he wrote for the whole orchestra and not for the human voles as a solo {nstrument und for the orchestra na o subsidlary one; sccond, that o cantata should conslst of one general Klea and of subordinate related ideas, cach of which should be the central ldea of a separate stanza, theso central {deas not running into cach other, but beginning and ending abruptly; and, lastly, that * when the nature of the orehicstral cffect desired s that of o bLig, munly, and yet re- stralned jubllation, the poem ought to bo main- 1y of Baxon words, rather than the smoother sounding Latin formsof our langusge. The Just polut 18 a good one. Tho first two polnts are only a rather confused cnumclation of Waa- NER'S theory of the production of intellectual conceptions by orchestral tones, and of the ro~ lutions of poetry to music. Tho schene, how= ever, might have worked more sutisfactorily It Mr. 8toNey Lanien had Waonen's genlus in preparing toxt for musle, and if Mr, DupLey Buck bad WaoNER'S genius In setting muslc to text. Waongn's theory 1 a dungerous one {o any other hunds than Waonen's, ————— Mr. A. B. BrockwsLl, erstwhile of Wall street, where, after o brief, dashing career, Lo was finally cleaned-out on Pucttic Mail, has turn- ed up on the Engllsh turf In & uew role, his explofts in which have astonished tho British turfinen. In partnership with s notorious gambling Lord, Stockwsin cntered fur the Iato great rave for three-yoar-olds horse which tho book-makers and betters with oue accord put down us certain to como out sccond fn the race. llaving staked moderately on thelr nag, SrockwELL and his purtner bought the fuyorite, o Potrureli,” carofully letting the fact leak out, to creato the mpression that they meant to Bave their bots on the other nug by having ¢ Po- trarch" ridden to loss the race. Thercon the knowlng ones, who knew 8TOCKWELL'S reputa- tion on this side the water, bet heavlly sgainst thu favorite, runuiyg the odds up to 25 to 1, which BrockWaLL and his partuer quietly took, = aa————————————— entoring tho favorito to win, which ho Mid. They nre reputed to havo cleared an immenso suny by tha trick, which the English, strange s mny acem, haven't got donc wonderlng st yoty while, fu Wall street, whero BTOCKWRLL was g’ casity cleaned-out, tho wonider fs, that thero ary men on the English turf, or anywliere else, why are such lnuocents as to be taken in by him, ——— Leading Democratic organs continue ta g dreadful frame of mind over the Ohlo rag-baby repudintion platform, with the ancient Arizy upon {t for President. The Cleveland Plais Dealer, which represents the hard-moncy elo, ment fu the party, plainly declares that it repy diates the platform, and that Its reafMrmatioyg and putting forward for the Presidency the very man who as it figure-head was defented, ‘“Jouks 1iko lunacy that dvrerves a atralghy facket." Tho Bultimore Gazelte, tho lending Demoeratic journnl of Maryland, avows thy utter hepelesanees of reasoning at therag-1oney manfacs, and announces that the time has come to treat them ns would be treated horses wity tho eplzootie or dogs with the hydrophoblg,— “put them In quarantine ns sick, plaguc-strick. en, eplzootle, hydrophobie, howling lunatics, driveling Jmbeclles, and (diots.” Tho Louts ville Conrfer~Journal treats the questiog even more gravely, and tells the Ollg rag-repudintionlets that for them to go tq 8t. Loula to eapture the Conventlon and de mand everything, ns advised by the Cinclinay Engutrer, will b fatal mndness, as * the Demo crutle party dare not follow the lead of Ohlo while the approaching Presidentlal campalgn V) an affair of 1fe and death with the Democraty; party. The Courier~Journal, while avowling g determination to support the nomince, no way ter if he be Aniew, exacts from the rag-baly factlon a simlilar pledge, to which the Clucinoal Enquirer, the great rag-huby organ, respond that 1€ the St. Louls Convention “agrees upor & Western candidate for the Presldency, ong platform, not wholly repulsive to the greenback. ers, no more will be heard of the ALLEN mnove ment. Bliould they nominate Bam TILDEN on o hurd-money basle, then, indeed, will thedrean of the Courler~Journal be realized, and a Demo cratie ticket Ne, 2 bo in the fleld,” with AvLiex a8 the Independent Democratle eandidate for the Prestdency, Altogether it fs a pretty tight us {¢ stands, and In order to make an approhch to harmony the Democratic managers on efthe side will have to purtake of more crow than they did in 1872, ————— Mr. HAvEs continues to mourn over the loy which the city has sustatned In his removal and refuscs to be comforted. Te is advertislug a8 largely o8 he can that the new City Govern ment {a for repudiation, and predicts that the clty hus gone to the bow-wows because he hy Leen removed. He sald to a reporter: 1t )lnyo\‘ Hoyxm, who, it was underatood, s e favor of repudiation (2. rhonld Lo decided Ly the Courts to hinye the firat clalm to_the Mayoralty, ng rnpcr could be put upon the market U1l the end of ils (1Toyxe's) term of ofilce, except at a great sac. rifice and at rulnoun mtes, On the other hand, It Mr. Cotviy, who, it was well nnderatood, wus In favor of on bonest poyment, hould be declared the legal Mayor, with the assistance of a good Comp- troller tlio public businesa of the clt{ could be re. sumed, and paper conkd bo pnt on the market at & rengonhble rato th] auch time asa_further step to improvement could be reached. Tt was truv that In New York oy~ waa regarded ns for repudia- tlon and Colvin for payment, If Hovse wia de- clared the legal Mayor, ho wouldl defer the lm)~ ments for years, but would otherwie appropriate. If Thad confinued in ofiice,” maid Mr. 1Ay, **Tam contident that tho city employes would have been pald within two weeks (1], I mado applica: tions to several banks here, and would have got 81,000,000, or more it needed, in o shiort tinie, Then 1'wonld have had no trouble to pay the vm. ployen with the proper loans.* That is just the trouble. Of Iate Mr. Havrs was always jast sbont to do something. Like the consumptivo sick man who is always golng to be better, Mr. Haves has just discovered a new medicine, a new plaster, a new cough sirup, cod-liver oll, marc’s milk; something to change and Invigorate tha blaod, bring back hiealth, and yet things were getting worse every day. He was just about to get a million. Last winter Le spent months shinnlug in New York, and was overy day telographing back that hic was golng to got millions. The newapapers worrled hitn, and the peopla wanted to know the law. Then Mr. Tayes was golng to get some more millions o3 soon 13 he could gat & declsion from the Court showing that tho newspapers were wrong, and then, when the dociston was got, the millions somchow did not come, and would not have coma if CoLvix and ho had remained In oflice longer. Tho deal was played out and the gamo lost. ———— ‘The people of Boston are being severcly de- nounced all over New England for allowing the Ola South Church, which 1s onu of the only two bulldings left in New England of genulne rovo- lutionary {nterest, to bo torn down. The otber 18 Funeull Hall, which has been repalred and cnlarged so many times that it 18 no longer the old hall. ‘The OId South, however, has always retalned its severe stmplicity, and it stood thero In the busfest apot in Boston, a precious relic of the old time, whero the tido of 1ife lows most swiftly. The Springfleld (Mass,) Republican thus scverely but deservedly lashes the Bos tonlans for allowing it to be destroyed: We blama the Massachusctts Historlcal Soclety, which hias not ralsed a Gnger, #o fur au wo avo noticed, for tha prescrvation of this living memo- rlal of history. "If tho Socloty were anytiung moro than an cany-galng club of reapectabliities, chielly occupied in Honlzing and bolng lonized by alk the great people who pass Its doors, 1t would summos tho wenith of Boston to rencue this trophy of '3 from destruction, We Dluue Boston, In this L‘yflnr of 1876, that it has not the patriotle spirlt and the fuventive genlus to save a building which could huve been made ao uscful in ita two-fold ruligloud and hintorical character, und which was xo ennobled Tty what bllud old Evirus, in tho anclent tragedy, cilled, "+ uderings, orlgly, - and long-loveling e, " e ——— In this connectlon It I not fmproper to eay thot the malignant warfure of Tue Ciltcaso TRIDUNE upon Gov. Hrvenmak wasthu sublectof genural e+ mack at Springfeld yesterday smong the friends of all the candiilates. Mr. Curion's frlends especially denounced the course of Tux Taisuxe, and de- clared thut fts unwarrantablo attacks upon BEvey- 1nax actually weakened thelr favorite, —Heceridge's personal organ, Itis very “improper” tosay *‘thata mild, temperate, judiclous opposition was a inallgant warfare.” The good of the party and of tho State required an ubler as woll as adifferent sort. of mun to head the Republicun ticket nud}hu Exceutive Chalr, und it was the duty of Tue ‘TRIBUNE to eay so and point out the ressons therefor, and tho vote of the Conventlon, viz.: For BrvEripaE, 143; agalnst him, 478, shows that the Convention and those whom they rep- resent had generally come to Tie TRIDUNE'S opinfon. CusLow’s friends will get over thelr indignation, us he was not _run very close; and 1f ho was % wenkened by Tur TimsuNe's course B's friends onght to thank 1t for what it sald about him. But, according to his organ's logle, ¢ Tom Triwuss had remoined neutral how 1many votes would its advocacy have seeurcd for tho nowmluation of BEVERIDGET ——— With all the labor-saving machinery that hat beeu fnvented to reduce the cost of printing, nothiing bias yot been devlsed, though the ut tempt hus often been made, that would perforim the work done by the compositor In type-scttlog and distribution, That work, though in s cer- taln scnso mechanleal, hus nlways seemed of the sort that could only be done, not by machines, but by bruins, But, after the numerous fuflured In type-setting and distributing machines, now from tho Far East, ¢ven trom Tukelo, Jupaty comes the announcement that thu type-dis tributing machine that will work hus been ine vented by au Englishman resident there. The type hius to bo speciutly prepared for the mue chine, which can bo done &t o cost, it 18 stated of one penny per pound; which done, ono mud with g single muckine can distribute the typd forming & pogo of the London Times inout Tiour, which it would require ten good printers todofn the same time. These are blg state- ments to make fo behalf of o new muchiue; but, if they sro true, it will prove one of the biggest fuventions of the sgo in the way of lubor-saving. ———— The Bupreme Court of the United Btates ba decided, by & curlous process of reasoning though doubtless sound techuieally, that a1 sgent in tho Becret Bervico of the Governmen cxunot bring sult to recover pay fur bLis scrvice as such. The point wes ralsed io the caso © Froro's administration, decided & fow day