Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 13, 1876, Page 4

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Sm—— AMUSEMENTS. + Tloaley’s Theatro. Randolph strect, between Clark and LaSatle, **Con« science.” Woodn Muemra, bet: irhorn tate. e T e o Tom RIDR. RYeRing, 166 I¥ehen pyon 1% SOCIETY MEETINGS. : {CIL OF TIINCRS OF JTRUSA: L LA, GO s resuar convention of Vrinces of . -Vur\uflow thifs Thursday evening at half-past 7 v'clock * Sharp. Workn the "'§01?§ e * %D GOODALE, Grand Becreiary. —_——— * THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1870. Groonbacks at the Now York Gold Ex- change yesterday closed at 893. — % The Houso yesterday unanimously adopted ‘i the resolution oconsuring Bomexok for his """ conncotion with the Emma Mino while sarv- . ing es Minister to the Courtof 8t James. There was no debate on the resolution, 5 i —— The Orangemen of this continent yester- dny “walked” to their hearts’ content. With the oxception of a small row at Mon. treal (such as would be likely to happen any- whore or on any oceasion), they suffered no molestation whatever. . —e Yo one will bo surprised to loarn that Presidont Graxt intends the removal of Er- MeR WasnnunN, Chief of the Wreasury Se- cret-Servics, and that Sax FeLxer ian prom- % inent and promising candidato for the placo. "' 'The removal of the onoand the appointment of tho -other would moke a very complete ' jobof it E ™" Qutof a total voto of 80,072 cast nt tho .+ specinl election for Mayor yesterday, Moxnos ., Hearm, the Ropublican candidato, received % a majority of 14798 over Jrx McGnaw, Domocratio short-hair, and 11,613 over Mang Knmarn, Democratic swallow-tail, Mr. Heata's majority over tho combined voto of his opponents was 8,250. —— Tho causs of honesty and decency in tho - Qommon Council was the gainor yesterdny by the clection in the Soventh Ward of Mr. Cmantzs TarNow, 8 respoctable and intelli- + gont Ropublican, in place of Hionern, tho YDemocratic blatherskito and crooked Ganger who waa compelled to rosign. 1t was n Re- publican dsy all around in Chicago yester- day. ' ‘The prosecution in the impoachment case closed yosterdsy, Witnosses oxamined for tho defenso testifiod to BerrNar's intogrity # ' " inhis administration of the War Offlca; also “ . to tho fact that the Seccrotary issued. the proper orders to carry into effect the law Jooking to the suppression of certain ovils connacted with post-tradorships, Mr. Oan- reNTES seoured the introduction of testimony going to prove that Mansn's contract was with Evans only, BeLinar's counsel seom to placo much confidonce in the ovidence that :, Evans will givo. They twice endeavored during the day's proceedings to sccuro an od- journment for a fow days, to allow time for this witness to arrive, but the Secnato was disinclined to grant the request. ¥ ) rm— ¥ = a—— T8 result of yesterdny's municipal cloc- tion proves tho folly of non-partisan ex- periments at a tine when party epirit is at fts hoight. Tur Tniouxe has steadily main. tained that there was n general desiro among the Republicans of Ohicago for & straight » Republican nominntion for the Mayoralty—n : general feoling that this wos s good year to .+ eloct as Mayor a Ropublican candidate for . . whose adminlatration, if eleotod, the Ropub- » Hean party would hold itsclf responsible. The vote cast for Moxnox Heatn yesterdny . ia an evidence of tho corroctness of this view. Tho Ropublicans camo out solid for tho party nominee, and hissuccess is indisputably i . & parly victory. Chicago is o Republican city, and, a3 the Ropublicans nominated the best man, they deserved to succoed. Benator Eoumunps, of Vermont, bas a Yabit of speaking right out in meeting, and 1t frequontly happens that the brethren on " his own sido of tho house are not espeoinlly comforted by his remarks, A cnse in point pecurred yesterday in the dobate on the Honso bill to compel the Pacitic Railronds to poy what thoy owe tho Government. Mr. Eosonos opposed tho referance of (he bill te the Xailrond Committes, intimating plajnly that thera waa littla prospect of got. ting from that Comumittee a favorable report on any measuro pot in the intorest of the Pacifio Rallronds, Messrs, West and Mrron- 2Ly undertook to dispute this assertion, but woro slfencod by Mr. Epuunps' quotations from a previous report on a similar question, t The Vormont Senator is occasionally found wvoting with the minority, and be is generally found on the sido of right and justica, i The Ohicngo produce marketa wera steadlior yesterdny, and several of them were stronger, with a fair businoas doing, Mess pork closed £00 per brl higher, at $19.60 for July, and T« 819,66 for August. Lard closed 10c per 100 o g 1bs higher, at $10.00 cash, and $10,02} F i @10.05 for August. Meats wore firmer ‘a1 . at8fo for boxed shoulders, 10§c for do short = yibs, aud 11¢ for do short clears. Lake # .- ¢ froights were dull, at 1jc for corn to Buffalo, & ' Rail froights woro unchanged. IHighwines ware unchanged, at $1.10} per gallon, Flour was moro nctive, but weak, Wheat olosed o 43 lower, at 960 for July and 08jc for August, Corn was firmer, closing at 46§c for July, and 46}o for , t. Qats closed dull t 28}0 for July or August. Rye was nomi. 2l at 6@G650, Barley was quiet at G8c. [ bulk of the sales at $0.40@0.50. Oatile . Wwere in active demand, and averaged 100 ¢ higher, selling at 82.50@5.10 for inferior to oxtra-he shecp mackot wes pteady at | of Hayes and Wiursren were not on the suc. { was, and by that sign we conquered. The and private right allke trodden down, and the ma- turlal prosperity of the conutry casontially lm- lowing lotter: Unlon by war,” ete. all stages, refused to agreo to the reeolution, ana sent & message by me to Gen. McCLELLAN, advin- und s correetly cited by tho Cowrler-Journal, 1 and all mncetingy of the Committee in the ndjolning portant fact, tho record falsifies Mr, Man- nue's lettor and commits Tinpex to tho reso- lution as we have printed it. shows that on the socond day of tho Conven- called for, Mr. Gornme stated it was not rendy, boing in tho hands of a sub.commit. teo for revigion,. but that the General Com- mittes wero unanimoug in thoir views, and Mr, Tripen followed Mr, Gurmnie in the declaration: ‘I wish to add that, upon the adjournment of tho General Committee, us, Javor of peace, and the only differonce of Hogs were active and 100 higher, with the | $2.60@4.60. One hundred dollars in gold tegrity of tho nation crowned with suceess. would buy $111.62} in greonbacks at tho close. Progpects for an agreomeont on tho im- portant appropriation bills have , brightoned materially within the past twonty-four hours, and there {n roason to expect that the wide differences will bo ro narrowad and bridged ovor as to admit of the passago of tha billa. Thero have boon larga concessions on both sides, notably from the Iouse Demo- crats, who have evidently concluded that their mulish obstinncy and lofty arrogation of the lion's share of wisdom and economy have not improssed the country 60 profoundly as to alford on. couragemont for continued offort in the same dircetion. Mr. Raxparu has vaeated his post at the hoad of the Confaronce Committeo on the Army bill, and it {s understood that the House will walvo ita clause in the SBundry Civil bill for tho repeal of the Election law, 80 that there is a likelihood of agreoment on theso billa. W. Haxna, of Torre Hauto. the War, tho IHoosler ponco npostle, dr. HANNA, roso in his white robes and waved his palm-branch as follows : Jesolved, That the War now devastating our be- loved conntry fa of tself tho greatest evil in iho oyes of the American people, and that the inhuman barbarities, so often taking placo on both sides, #ro of theniselves & noceanity to the conflict; that & mere change fn the modo of conducting the War will not ovarcome the evil, and the perpetuation of onr Goverument requires tho sncody ending of the War, Par nobile fratrum! Haxxa and TiLoes ! The cordiality with which thess two veter- ansg, who fired 50 courngeously in the rear in 1864, will meot each other, may be imngined. In the light of such resolutions ns these, it is not difficult to understand the support of the Chicago Z'mes, 1f Henonioss had been nominated it could have howled louder for him becauso ho was in favor of secession. It con support TILDEN ns 8 poace man without auy dificulty, sinco Tmorx and the Z%¥mes oc- cupfed the same ground during the War. Thoy were both of tho opinfon that, aftor “four years of failure,” the North should yield to the South, and that Liostilities should cense, and thay both fired into the rear with {F Chicago has fired the first gun in the Pres- idential campaign, and has hit the mark squarcly and with tolling effect. The names cossful ticket, but the word **Republican ™ Democrata brought out their full astrength, and wers ignominiously beaten, They trotted out Kiuparn for the swallow-tails, aud McGratu for the short-hairs, expecting Ly tho non.partisan aud eminently-respoct- sble dodge to draw off a considerabla support from the Republican nominee, and thus to ennblo tho rogalar short-hnired wing of the Democracy to run in Jixw MoGnaw, whose dlection thoy wounld havo claimed a8 8 Democratio vietory, The Republicans blocked this game by voting straight for their nominee and elect- ing him by a rousing majority on o light vote. "Thoy carried overy ons of the eighteon wards for Heatn, who in almost overy in- stance recoived moro votes than his two op- ponents combined. Chicago did this yester. day because sho wanted a Republican Mayor ; aud it is indicative of what she will do in November, when she waonts a Republican President. As veterans of the Copperhend campaign in the rear of tho Northern boys in blue, they underatand each other perfectly, and che T'imes' support is logical and consistent. THE PROTECTIVE POLIOY, The newspaper organ of tho system of doing business by tho aid of bountivs im. ngines that it is sovore and crushing when it prints paragraphs like the following : As regards the value of the protective system to this country, the editor-in-chlef of Tng Tunune long ngo truly said: ** Every timo this country has tried free trade it has been followed by a disastroun financial convulsion; and every timo it has trled protection it has enjoyed commercial prosperity and rapld growth in national wealth, completely refutingnll Frea-Trade theorles on the subject. We pit that Joglc of experiment agalaat the oppo- site view cxpressed by Tng Tnisuse a few days TILDEN'S PEACE RECORD. Tt will bo well remembered that, at tho time of the gathering of tho Democracy of this State at Springfield to elect delegntes to tho 8t. Louis Convention, the Chicago 7%mes —then opposing TiLpeN, and declaring ho could never bo clected, if nonunated—mado the announcement that Trupen was Chair- man of the Committee on Resolations of tho Ohicago Convention of 1864 that promul- gated, as one of the planks of the Demo- cratie platform, the following infamous res- olution: Zlesolved, That this Convention does cxplicitly declare, as the senye of tho American people, that, after four years of fallure to restore the Unlon by the experlment of war,—during which, under the pretonse of military necessity or war power higher than the Constitutlon, the Conatitution itself has been disregarded In every part, and public liberty ago. Had the person referrod to ag the writor of the above quoted langunge had before him theoxperienceof 1873, and tho yoars that have followed, he cortainly would have written no statoment go lamentably deficient in thelog- io of experimont. The protectivo system has been in full blast evor since 1862, and in 1867 raceived its final perfection, In 1873 camon prostration and paralysis of business, pro- duction, and labor, such 88 the world lhad never witnessed. This prostration’and par. low tariff, or to any Free-Trade theories. For six yonrs- preceding tho panio tho United States had a protective tarilf unequaled in magnitudo and success of its protection by nny tariff proviously known to civilization. Tho artificial wealth it bnd engondered, the seductions it had offered capital to withdraw from slow but legitimate produetion to on- gage in manufactures in oxcoess of the limited morket, the speculative mania it had en- couraged, had all produced an unnatural con- dition of aflairs. Short-cuts to wenlth be- camo the general rule, while the broad rond of thrift and toil was abandoned to tho fow. ‘Then came tho crash, Tho bottom fell out of speculation. The mill. ions of fictitious’so-called securitios consed to have any value; ten thousand and more miles of railway, built and operated on credit, so far as thoy were productive became fncum. brancos on the Iand thoy oceupied. The in- substantial disappeared from sight, and pro- tection was illustrated in closed mills and furnaces, in the enforced idleness of a half- million of operatives, with a snspension of wnges, poverty, destitution, and want, fol. lowed, as Mr. Kerrey states, by foroing the hardy laborors and mechanics to take to the highway and become tramps, preying npon the property of other mon, and desperately seizing food where thoy could get it. This is the logic of experiment, in the matter of protection, Tho reform of this groat ovil is near athand, It is one of tho nbuses which will be reformed underthe chango of Adinin- istration,—whon under Haves' Administrn- tion the whole system of tariff and finance will be sottled not a8 mere party questions, but 0s questions of nationol intercat, Tho whole bounty business, which hns become a grent national abuse, will have to be roform- od; the parontal system will have to bo ex- tirpnted, and the commerce, and production, anad tha labor of the country must bo discm- barrassed of class rogulations and special ro- strictions, oxcopt so far as the demands of the nation for revonue may require. palred, —justice, humanity, liborty, and the pablic welfare derand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of boatilitics, with & view to an ulti- mate Convention of the Statcs, or other peacenblo ncans, to the cnd that at tho carliest practicable moiment peace may bo reatored on tho basis of the Federal Statos. ¥ Assoon ng the statemont was made publio Mr., Muntox Mannrg, one of TiLpen's strik- ers, mado hnate to contradict it in the fol- Now Yonk, June 22.—Perry I, Smith: Your tolegram has been shown me. Gov. TILDEN was not the Chalrman of the Platform Committee of tho Chicago Natlonal Conventlon In 1864, Jaues Gurunig, of Kentucky, wns, Gov. TILDEN op- poacd, In commlttee, that portion of the resolntion saying: **After fonr ycarsof fallure to prescrve the o got it struck out, and even refused to agree to the resolution us amended, 1t waa then {rregularly restored. Gov, TiLbeN, at ing bim to Alscard it in hls letter of acceplance. Gov. TiLpEN, morcover, made & specch in the Now York delegation agalnst an armistice, which was briefly reported by mo In tho Now York World, was personally present In the Now York delegation, room, (Signed) MaxToN MannLz, The publication of tho above latter hns led to o closer cxamination of the records of that Convention, from which it appears thut Manrox Mansee was right in one particular, namoly, that Titper was not Chairman of the Committeo, the Chairman being Mr. Gurnng, of Kontucky, Boyond this unim- ‘The record tion, when the report of the Committoe was that they belioved poaco could be maintained. THE DELKNAP IMPEACHMENT, Prof, GoLnpwix Bantu, in a rocent lotter which he published in England ou American thore wns no dissent smoug tho mom- | affairs, recommended among other things bors,” Mr. Broww, of Delawnre, ono | tuat trinl by impenchimont for ofiicial erimes of the Commwitlos, sald: * There s | shonld bo abandoned in favor of a law moro mot the slightest dissenslon among [ explicitly defining offielsl and political Wo have been a unit frouf the first.” Mr, Weneen, of Californin, eaid; *'I'he Bub-Comumnittee have agrecd upon the only portion of the plutform which by any possi- Dbility can divide this party. Weare all in offenses, .and providing trial and punishment os for other offenses against the law., The force of this recommondalion iy very aptly illustrated by tho large nmount of time ex- housted in the preliminary arrangemonts and pending trinl of ex-Sccrctnry of War Brr. xNar, Tho pressing publio buainess of the nation s loft to walt and auffer whilo seveaty- four United States Senators, sitting as n High Court of Iinpeachmont, and soveral members of the House acting ns Afanagers, aro dovoting thomsclves, ot 8 cost of soversl thousand dollars o day, to ftrylug & mon who virtunlly confossed his guilt when it was fimt brought home to him, and who is undor indictment befors a criminal court for his acceptance of a bribe. Following n French proverh, ¢ The game is mot worth the candle," All that couviction by the Court of Impeachment can do in the prosont cose is to disqualify Drrexar from further holding offico, and 1ho likelihood of hia ever obtalning any more political honors must bo conceded to be very romoto in any ovent! Had he clung to his ofice and insisted upon impeachument asa means of vindicatiug himself in the most conspicuous mannor before the country, there might have been some excuse for the present trial boforo the Sonato; but, when be voluntarily resigned his placo, resisted impoachmont all he could, and is only out on bail to await a common criminal prgsecu. tion,—~being now s private citizen in nof very good standing,—Iit is excoedingly doubt. ful whothor all tho expense, and trouble, and attention are not wasted upon such very wsmoll game. If he had beon an oficor of the Government, elocted by tho people, whoso removal could ouly be compassed by this means, the caso would again have beon a different one; but he was a subordinato of the President, sub. ‘opinion is as to the phrascology to bo used in making that doclaration.” Mr, Sarra, of ‘Wisconsin, ndded to the general testimony upon this poiut, as follows: *‘Thoreis no dif- forenco in tho Committee, except upon mero matters of exprossion.” Mr, MoKeon, of New York, oxplained the cause of delay as originating with Alr. Vanuanpromas, who wanted tho langunge of the resolution changed, not bLecause it was too strong, but bocauso 3t was not strong enough to suit Lim. Finally tho resolution was reported in the shapo in which wo Lave printed it from the Bub-Committee to the Committeo, nud from the Committeo ta the Convention, and was adopted without the dissent of a single member of tho Committee; and it was not until the indignant wrath of the people all over the North had seared him, that TiLoes advised MoCreLLaN to reject it, as Mannre olloges,—if he over tendorod McOLeLLAN such advice, ‘The official record of the Convention com- mits Treoey to this infamous resolution, which he, as one of the Committee, in- dorsed. Ho says bimself, *Thero was no dissent among the members,” Slippory as he may bo, Lie canuot squirm out of this by his own slimy offorts or by ManroN Max- BLE's applications of soft soap. 'The resolu- tion holds him as tightly as a vise. Ie stands upon tho ryocord s conspiring with Varvanviouam et al. to oppase the war and convey aid and comfort to the encmies of the Qovernment at a timo when our gallaut of- ficers and soldiers wera beginning to seo their efforts to waintain the honor and i~ 1t i in kooping with the tonor of this in. famous resolution thnt, wheravoer it was prac- ticable, the Copperhends of the War have been seleoted to carry the nows to TinpeN of lisnomination. A shininginstaneo of this fit- noss of selection may be found in tho porson of the Indinna courier to TrprN, Bavtess At the Demo- cratio Convention held in Indianapolis in 1864, about tho samo time that TiLpeN waa potting himself on record in opposition to all tho industry of which they wera capable.® alysis cannot be in any sense attributed to o ject to immedinto romoval if ho had not vol- untarily stepped down, and nlso eubject to criminnl prosecution,—which, indecd, wns promptly bogun againat him, Thera seoms o bo little doubt that the Houso Manngers will have mndo ont a caso agninst Berrwar, though the ovidenco on his behalf is yot to bo heard. Mansu's testimony Lefore the Senate is the samo as ho gave bo- foro the Honse Committes, and the corrob- orating circumatancos nppoar to be conclnsive that Berryar used his appointing power for porsonal profit, MAnsm testifies that there was no understanding between him and Ber. xxap that ho should pay the latter for his ap- pointment, but that he did pay a part of the procecds to the first Mrs. Brtanar, nlso to the second Mrs, BELRNAP, wns Becretary, Tho ciroumstanco that there wns no explanation made by Mansn whero the money cama from, or what it was paid for, is about as conclusive against Brrxxar a9 if the two had gone over the matter every timo tho money pnssed hands, The infer- once is that Berexar knew what the monoy was pald for, and did not need to ask any questions. T‘m other ovidonce with refer- onco to the general managemont of the post-traderships is a further blow ot Bet- xxAp which his defense will scarcely bo nble to counternct. But the results of a convie- tion will hardly componsate for the dreadful wasto of time and money it will havo re- quired. The disgrace that Berxwar will suffer from this conviction will not be ns much punishment to him as confinement in a common jnil or Ponitentiary like any other felon, and the warning to fature officials not half so effective ns the other punishmont. ‘Whatever may bo theissno of the case, it should suggest o the next Congross (the time left to the present Congreas being otherwise pro- vided for) to pass a law defining official mis- feasance more strictly, and providing for its prompt punishment or conviction in the courts; and then to limit trial by imponch- ment t2 the President and Vice-President, and the United Btates Judiciary appointed for life, The process ia too slow and costly to serve for nll mannor of officinls, TILDEN'S SPEECH. The speech of TILDEN to the Committeo which formally notified him of his nomina- tion wns in one sense ndroit, but was of- fonsively egotistical, Ho nssumed that his porsonal charactor and nbilitics had left the Convention no other course to follow than to nominate him, and he accopted the nomi- nntion s a personal tribute nnd ns & recog- nition of his superior merit and qualification. In his remarks ho more than once congratu- Iates tho country upon his nomination. Of courses, ho would not be Titpex if ho did not remind the country that ho was an experiencod reformer. 1o states the issuo of the election to bo administrative reform, and with characteristio modesty claimed that the Convention had, in nominating him, -meroly declared *in favor of the adminis- trativo reform with which ovents had asso- cinted Mz in the public mind,” Proceeding still furthor, tho old man's vanity again broke out in saying to the Committee, “I am not without experionce of the difficulty and labor of effecting adminiatrativereform; " nnd again that tho routine duties of his office have been light compared with his labors to reform the State Government, *‘of which I have boen the Exocutive head.,” e gravely tolls tha country that, if elooted, it will not bo a holiday for him, but the assuming of great labors as a reformer. 1 ‘Thero never waa a more unblushing pro- tonse than that Tirpex has been or attempt- ed to be & reformer in New York. When he was olected Governor he was porfoctly famil. inr, by long porsonal and political associntion with the Canal Ring, of tho robberies and frands which for thirly yoars had been com- mitted upon tho peoplo of Now York, He know who wero the guilty mon, and knew where he conld put his hand on tho evidence of their guilt. Tfe published a history of the caflnl frauds, oll of which had beon writton over and over again ; Sax Tinoey told noth- ing new, but ho promised to put all the guilty men in the Btate's Prison, sct aside all tho illegal contracts, and maoke those who had robbed tho Stato pny back the millions they liad taken. Now, what has ho done in this work of roform? He appointed Commis- sloners and specinl counsel, to whom ho has paid out of the State Troasury 100,000 Money recovered, nons; suits to rocovor, two,—one of which was dismissed, and the other has never been tried; con. tracts sot asido, none; guilty robbors tried snd convioted, one. Tha total rosult of tho administrative roforms with which he has been' identifiod ia the conviction of one dis- lioneat contractor, of tho name of Lonp, a Democrat, The conviction of this man has o history which illustrates ‘I'moeN's notions of reform, Tho Lonp family is a lnrgo one, oxercising groat political power inNow York; is all Democratic, has beon in the ecanal frouds a long time, is very rich, and, from the father down to the sons and the collaterals, has always been porsonally op- posed to Tiuoey, TiLpeN, who might have convicted s scora of persons, selocted one of tho gona of the voteran Domoeratic lender of Westorn New York, and had him convioted, No sentence Lias boon passed upon him, and ho is at largo, and the opposition of the Lonp family to TiLpex has been silonced, and will romain so while T1LpEN is a candidate. How many othors made their peaco with Tirpen boforo conviction wo cannot say, but no one has ever boon brought to trial except young Yonp, the son of L'iLoen's veteran Dowo- cratio enomy. That is tho boginning and ong, the sum total and substance, of 'iLoeN's greut ‘¢ administrative reforms in tho Governmont of which X am the Exeoutive.” Tha whole criminal law Of the State has been usod to crush out and silence the opposition of a sin.’ gle Democratic family, and the conviotion is held over that family to jusure its silence until afterthoolcetion. And Titoen bad the faco to claim the charactor of an experi- enced reformor upon this siuglo result of two yoars’ arduous labors. This false roputation saa reformor, and which Tizoen knows personally to be false and wholly undeserved, aud resting oxclu- sively upon a trick s disgraceful to him as an Exooutive as it is base and malignant in him a4 on individual, s the enfire stock in trade of Bau Tiuoey, o lins uscd bis office ex- clusively to compel men to give him a polit- fcal support, using for that purpose tho whole machinery of the criminal law, and his ontire reform is confined to this one purpose. No greater abuse of Executive power was ever commilted by any man, especially in the name of Iizrora, If Mossrs, Snxruan, BovrweLy, and Boay, on the part of the Benate, and Mesars, Rtan. DALy, Lawness, and Payng, on the part of the House, could agree ona Silver bill, we o not aeo why the two Houses may not do 80, 'Tho bill, which has only boen briefly outlined in the dispatches, seems to have boen mads up in part from both Ar, Ranparr's and Mr, Payng’s ] and also to Berrxar himself while tho Iatter original bills, It* providea for the purchase ont of surplua funds and the issne of 20,000,000 in silver, providing, however, that not moro than $1,000,000 slinll be pur. chased at any one timo. This is really adding 920,000,000 to tho curroncy of the country, but it gooms to b justified by tho urgont nocessitios of the country for more amall monoy, and, s it will necessarily como out very slowly, tho offect of tho inflation will not bo perooptible. Indeed, in the long run, since tho bill Hmits the total fssue of silvor to $50,000,000, including that which shall bo exchianged for fractional currency, and 88 no mora fractionnls can bo issued, it is probable that the volume of money will not exceed what it has beon. Bilver will be the small ohango of the country, snd tho fractionals not exchanged therefor will woar out and disappenr. So, probably, the best thing Congroess can do is to pass the Bilver mittes, —e OUR EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS. An interesting fenturo of the first day's proceedings of the National Educationnal As- sociation, now in session In Daltimore, was the portion of tho opening sddress by tho Prosident of tho Assoclation, Wituiax B, Purrrs, of Winona, Minn., dovoted to a com- parative statement of educational progress during tho past hundred yenraof our history. Arcsume of his statoment will bo valuablo forroforenco. In 1776 therowera but nine col- leges in the United States; now thore aro 400 colloges and univeraities, with 67,000 studonts and 3,700 Profostors and teachers. ‘Then littlo or nothing wns done for the education of woman; now there are 200 female som- inaries, with 28,445 students and 2,280 teach- ers, At that timo professional schools were unknown now thero aro 322 professional _pchools, with 23,280 studonts and 2,100 tonchors, Then thore wgge no normal schools; now thero are 124, with* 24,405 students and 965 tonchors. Then there were no commercial colleges ; now thoreare 127, with 25,802 students and 577 tenchers, The secondary and proparatory schools wero almost unknown then ; now there are 1,122, with 100,698 pupils and 6,163 teachers. The school population of that day is unknown, but at prosent it is moro than 18,000,000, and the achool onrollmont now amounts to 8,000,000, Tho total incomo of the public schools at present is $82,000,000; expond- itures, $75,000,000; value of property, $105,000,000. The figures abovo given are very oloquent as showing what has boen ac- complished, but the following extract from the roport 18 quite as eloquont in showing that much yob remains to ba done: before tho whole fiold of education is fully occupiod ond developed. ‘Tho raport says: Tho number of {iliterates by the cenana of 1870 above the nge of 10 years was, fn round numbers, 5,600,000. Of these more than 2,000,000 wero adults; upward of 2,000,000 moro were from 16 to 21 years of age, and 1,000,000 were betwoon 10 ond 15 years old, Of the number between 15 and 21 years, It in estimntod that about ong-half have ‘passed tho opportanity for education, aud, since it 1awellunderatood thata large proportion of thochil dren in this country leave tho schools perhapsat an average ago of 10 or 12 yoars, the concluslon Is fe- reslatible that tens of thousands of thoso who aro reported ng Hlliterates between 10 and 16 years of nge will forever romaln eo. Of the 030,000 flit- orate persons hetween 16 and 21 years of age who have pssed thelr oppartunitics for (nsteuction, 147,000 are in the Northern States, 16,000 In tho Pacific and 778 000 1n the Southern. The gront majority of illitorato porsons in the Bouth—over three-fourths—emphasizos tho point so often mnde by Trmm Cmioaco Tamune of the influence of ignorance in rostraining the material growth of tho Bouth and continuing the anarchy and disorder that have provailed in some soctions since tho closo of tho War. Going still furthor into details, tho cducational reports from the South, nsummary of which was printed in tho Juno number of the Atlantic Monthly, showed that the lowest standard of education provailed in Louisinnn, Arkansas, Mississippi, Toxas, and South Carolina. It adds to the force of the argument that these States have been tho principal locality of blood- ghod, terrorism, and anarchy, and that , their industrial and pgeneral mate- risl growth lss beon excossively small, 88 compnred with the other Southorn States, where some attontion has been paid to oducntion. Thereports from Goorgia showher educational standard to bo the highest. Her moral, socinl, indusirinl, and commereial standards oro likowise the highest. The Bonthern social philosophers may find food for thought in those oducational statistics, e REGULARS OR RANGERS, Gon, SueruaAN i8 roported as having ex- prossed an opposition to the schemo already favored by many Western Congresasmen for nccopting tho sorvices of volunteer Rangors to nasist the srmy in tho war against the Bloux Indians, There aro certainly somo se- rious objections to tho plan, though the Tangers would make a quick and effective campaign against Birrive Borx and his mur. derous savages. Ono of these objections ia that the Government would have another war logacy on its hands, which would last forty or fifty yoars after the Sioux had been whipped and the war ended. Every man who i8 now anxious and eager to have his servicos accopted for o specitied sum of mon- ey would horeafter becomo clients of the claim-agents. Boon after being mustered out . the claim.ngents would organize a campaign ngalnst the ‘Ireasury for land-sorip, and next for unpromised bountics. The widows and rolotives of tho men who would happen to got Lilled or dio in hospital wonld come in for pensions during thoir lives. For tho next scoro of yaars, as fost as the mon thomselves lost their health *from any onuse, the claim.agents would pro- oura for them physicians’ crtificates that the failing health was duo to tho hardships en. counterod in the Bioux campnign, After the lopse of a certain poriod, the claim.ogents ‘would bully and wheodlo Congressinto putting all the survivors or their widows on the pounsion list for the romainder of thelr lives, By thoss and similar dovices, the original cost of, say, 810,000,000 for Rangers for fighting the Siouxwould swell to §40,000,000 or $60,000,000 before the country would see the end of it, This has been the experionce of tho American people in all former wars, ‘Wa have just nbout got through settling up the claims of the Revolutionary War, although we aro celobrating the end of the first contury, We haven't yet exhausted the stock of pensioners and claimuuts left to us by the War of 1812, The * veterans" of the Moxican War are in their prime, and thelr wives, children, and rolatives are as tho sands of the sca-shore. Of course, wo have only bogun on the War of the Rebellion, and suother Centonnial will be celobratod bofore the United States glall bo done with the swolling bountics and ponsions growing out of it. ‘We can scarcely afford to add to the stock of claimants several thousand Rangers, unless it uhall become absolutely necessary. It will be much cheaper to fill up the regular regi- ments, which have only ono-half their full force, It ia tho policy of the Government to bill agroed upon in the Conforence Com.. maintain {n time of peace tho organization of tho regular regimonts with about ono-inlf the full numbor, with a view to filling np on an emergency liko tho present. 1If four or five of the cavalry rogimenta should bo im. modiately roornited for notive sorvico, and roms of the infantry regiments filled up to oconpy the prosent quarters of troops that could bo made servicenblo against the Sionx Indians, thus adding perhapa 5,000 men to the regular troops, the nrmy would be in ox- collent condition to bring the presont Indian war {0 a spoedy termiuation, Tho actual paymont and support of theso troops would comprchend all the cost of the war, and there wonld be no future land.grants, bounties, and pensons to drag out the noxt fifty years on account of it. The St. Potersburg correspondont of the Edinburg Scotsman mnkes a vory remarkablo statomont touching the corruptions of Rus. sinn offfelalism, from which it nppenrs that cotruption in that Empire is not character- istio of this or tlnt branch of tho Admin. iatration, but pervades tho whole public sorv- ice,. All classes are demoralized by it, and Princes of the Ioyal blood, g well ns the hLowers of wood nud drawers of water, practice it openly, The customs officers mccopt bribes and relenso Linlf tho duties. The postal officials will not deliver lotters punctually unless thoy are pald for it. University Professors will not grant tho cortificates, which shorton the term of army sorvico, without pay. The Russian infantry soldiers are compelled to give balf their pay to tho Captnins, and o proportionata bleeding of officors occnrs through all the geades of tho sorvice, This correspondent assys: ‘‘Evory one who has denlings with Russis knows that for money ho can buy any concession whatsoover, and at any prico ho may choosa to put on the results,” The differonco botweon Russia and other countries in this regard is, that in the former corruption is looked upon as legiti- mate, and, as there is no punishmont for it, it 18 universnl. It is moreover conveniont for the Govornment, which can reducp snlaries to the minimum, sinco tho officinis can raise thoir own salaries by drafts upon tho popular pocket. Apparently Russin would be a parndise for TwzeD. They don't scruple about lynching men in Texas, But they are partleularly scrupulous nbout it that thie Iynching shall be all regular; aud, if there be any point more than another upon which the represcutativo Texan is super- sensitive, and which it would be Hable to prove unhealthy to discuss with him, it is as to the regularity of the impromptu hangingsthat from thre to time, and pretty much all the time, come off in that State. The latest of these oc- curred a few days slnce near Gonzales, whero McELroy and thietwo CAMPBRLLS were hanged, 08 to whichdhie Gulveston News made somemild strictures to the offect that the men, no matter what thelr erlmes, should have been left to be dealt with regularly by law. The cditor of the News wos too remote from the scene of the mob-urders for thosc who took a hand therein to engage him in o ** personal discussion,” so thoy wero drlven to the alternative of arguing it with bim, which they did in the following communication, which speaks for itself: Gonzatus, Tex,, July G, 1870.—rde, Newa: T send yon Ia-dn{ bb( mall tho noos from the rope with which Stuant CAxrnesy was hung on TPench Creele. It was Lrouglt liesy yestorday by o gentleman living near where the hanging took lace. My object in sonding 1¢ ta to show you that he hanglig wae not done in harte nor in's bratal manner, but after tho fashlon which the law di- rects, Cool, delibernte, nnd determined men, thoe best in this nection, were in the crowd, Timo way glven the murderers for prayer, ete. Tho kuot Is o regular **hangman's knot.” The three weromade to stund on horses, which were led from under them, Tuckenr CAurnki and MeEtioy's necks woro brokon, whila Stuanz Caxrupiy died by strangulation. SaLzuin Upon tho reeelpt of this the Galveston editor caved—everything having been regular about the hanging, even down to the regular te in tho hangman’s nooso. —_————— 01 WILLIAM ALLEN has ngaln risen up, but only to sit down again, This tlme he has sat downupon 8ayy TiLpnx. It s natural thatold BirLy shouldn't ltke S8anay, There is a great discrepancy in thelr ages. Considered apart or with refercneo to most mankind, SAMMY {8 him- sclf an old man; but, ascompared to old WiLt- 1AM, ho hasn’t outgrown bis adolescence. Old Wirtian naturally looks down on 8AMMY a8 an immature youth, who has grabbed the prize which he—old WiLniax—has been tolling for these many generations, and e very properly regards SAxMuy's conduct 08 so reprehensible that even extreme youth cannot extenuats it. 8o old WiLLIAN, regarding BAMMY a8 o 4d—d barren ideallty,” has told a reporter of the Cin- ciunat! Enquirer that he does not intend to tuke “any dectded stand {n support of Mr. TiLDEN,” though hegenerously addsthat he will not use anylufluence hemay bave agalnst him. WiLniasx thinke Ohio can only be carried by adliering to his policy uf inflation and repudiation, and ad- vises fighting it out on that line without any re- gard to the St. Louis platform or candidate. 1o enys that, if the Ohfo Congressmen can be elected on that basts, ho s willing It should fnure to the benefit of TiLDEN, But,as for the venerable WiLLiAM himself, ho has concluded that he has had cuough of politics, and an- nounces his retirement “forover and lrrevoeas Uiy, e will probably not Le disappointed. ——————— BTANLEY 18 once more lost. The last that wua beard from him was in April, 1875, and then hio was on the cve of exploriug the Albert N'yanza Lake, from thence passinginto the'Tan- ganylka, through the connection the cxlstence of which hie has always maintained. The Royal Geographleal Bociety of London, .however, hns recelved the Intelligence that Col. GonboN hus succeeded in placing & small steamer on the Albert N'yanza, and clreumunavigated it, find- fugg it to be d°lake 140 miles in length and 50 miles wide in the widest part, sud also dlscov- ering that there s no connection between it and the Tanganyllin. The most fmportant news which he cominunicates {s, that he found no truces of BTANLEY, and the announcement has caused grent uncusiness among bis friends. ‘Those who think that e Js still alive arc confi- dent that, fiuding there wasuo connectlon boe tween tho two lukes, ho struck across the coun- try 400 miles to the great Lualaba River, aud will deacend, via that river and the Congo, to the west const, II this wero bis route, it would bo some time yet before any tidings would bo heard from him, Every ons will hope that tho fntrepid explorer will reach a safe haven at tho mouth of the Congo, but the prospect Is a gloomy one, when it {8 remcmbered that his route would lay through a region filled with hostlle tribes, and that he would bo exposed to tho fatul discascs of that part of the country, ——— ‘The Chicagoer FHlandels-Zeltung,devoted to com- mercial and Industrial Intercsts, and printed fu this city, at Nos. 78 and 70 Ashiland Block, by the German Publishing Assoclation, of which E, A. 8itri0 {8 Prealdent and C. A, WENBORNE Bucretary, appears withits contents printed (n Roman type. Wo belleve this is the only Gere man newspaper o tho United Btates that has mado this new departure, and we are glad to be fnforwmed by its proprictors that the change from the old Gotbic to the Roman type is mecting with great favor among the Germans, and that, siuce tho change, the subscription-list {3 ropldly Increasing, In Germany, the use of the Roman letter 18 becoming very fre- quent, especially in pamphlets, programmes, posters, and scientlfic works,, and u move- ment 18 now on foot to introduce it fn schoolbocks. It s only the old, conservative newspapers in that country which adhere strictly to the Germun type, ‘The Handeds-Zeitung has done well to break loose from the old fashion, and will undoubtedly reap 8¢ rich a reward that other German pupers will follow its example, The Romao typy 18 more pleasing and leas trying to the ita use will commend u«:g\mf nnwap«:fi, :ml the German langunge to hundreds it noy umnua sands of Americans who aro now mummj away from It and turn thelr attention to Frnn:b. . Lecausc of the type In which it Is printed, T Jandels-Zeltung deserves success in overy .“ tieular, 1t 18 n Inrge, handsomely-printed plfm" octavo form, printed weekly, and 18 filleq v:(&; excellently written editorlal watter, as wel & aiscriminating yet comprehensive selectlon | 1 nsticles and news of Interest to merchants, n‘, handsomely-filled advertising columns Aiow that our Lusincas-men uppreclate its value a medlum of communieation with the Uurmun: ————— Among the deaths recently reported are of Mrs. Eriza Z. EspAiLLe, lhcpouly uurv‘l‘:?;‘ daughter nnd firat ehild of BRELLEY, the lmfla by his Hi-futed wife, Hanmigr Wastonoo; of Ezitgiet, Wensten Dyaosn, the Professor of Chemistry fn the Negy Hampshira College of Agriculture and Mechnnle Arts; of Bexaauny Buzeenwy, an old printer in Pittsburg, Pa., who was long cotnnected with the Philadelphia Ledger 18 pregsman, aud for many years past has ey State Printer at Harrisburgy and of Epwanp Youna Pansoxs, member of Congress frop Kentucky. Mr. PArsoNs was born at Middle town, Ky., In 1842, and graduated at the Upp veraity of the public schools of Louisville fy 1800, fle taught at the University for some threc years, and graduated at the Law School of Loulsville in 1805, 1o practiced law at Hen. derson, Ky, for some time, but finally sctileq down In Loulsville, where he was etected to thy l’-’a‘rty-(nurl.h Congress by an almost unanimouy vote, —— The sham battle fought in the bay at S Franclsco on tho Glorlous Fourth was not wholly bootless In fts results. It eerved to demonstrate to the citizens tho rellance that might bo placed upon the navy In case that clty was attacked from the sea. The thren United States men-of-war which are stationed there to guard the Golden Gate tralned theje §uns upon a scow, moored at short range, and banged away nt it with shot and shell all day, without once hitting thelr marl, and that scow still floats to attest tho prowess of our squade ron on the Pacile Coast. And now the San Franclsco people nre anxjously discussing nbout what protection those men-of-war afford the city anybow, and whether it isn’t time some gunners were placed aboard them who coulidn't fircall day at o target at short range without once hittlng it, when that target was a good. sized scow, 4 —— Mesers. ALexasper, Emperor of all tho Russlas, and Vicron EMuanugy, King of Italy, have added their congratulations to those of Kalser Wisuery on the celebration of the Amerjean Centennial, As the German Empe- ror was enterprising enough to send his com- munleation on promptly for delivery on the Centenninl Fourth, he recelved exclusive credit fot histhoughtfuluess and good feeling. But, us the intentlons of the Russian and Italin rulers wero Just as good, and their nssurances of good fecling just ns fervent, it is proper that we should make due acknowledgments. Perhaps the whole matter can be best disposed of by ex- pressing the hope, ex cathedra, that the friendly relations between the United States and all tho rest of the world may continuc undlsturbed until the next Contenniul celebration shall camo around. , Wihen the Chicago Times—both dnlly—sup- ports the dandldate or ticket of Tus Trivune, it is pretty nearly alwaya on the victorlous . slde, After the fight is over, it cgotistically claims tho credit of it. For the purposo of demonstrating to the community the vast in- fluence it wictded, and showing Tuz Triouxz that it had none, the Times—both of them— pitched fnto Tue Tuisune’s candidate most furlously, and turncd over to Mank KisMsaLy thelr whole fnfluence, and elected him by o tre- mendous majority—to remnin at home and at- tend to his own business. 0Old Stoitzy would tnake money golng around taking contracts to elect candidates by the ald of his two papers, both dally, and defeat those supported by Tus TRIDUNE. ———— Mang KivpaLy, the Democratic nominee, lives in the Third Ward, That ward voted fur Mayor: Mang Knimas, Muxnor IEaTit verr o Jot McGramir, bununer candidate, lives In the Fourteenth Ward, That ward voted for k] 1,018 The new Mayor livea In” the Eleventh Ward. That ward voted for May Juxt McURATH,. Jix McGraTit has asplred to the Mayoralty for scveral years, In 1872, and agaln In 1873, while an Alderman from the Fiftecnth Ward, he sought to be clected Mayor pro tem. by tho Council, but was “sat down upon,” and his ambition was sadly crushed. Waiting for a fa~ vorable opportunity to tuke an appeal to the saverelgn people, ho at Jast found ft. 1To made s appeal, submitted his clalms, aud challenged the admiration and support of the sovereigns, If Jist McGramie will carefully examine the returns of yesterday's election, ho will learn the estimation in which ho Is Leld by the citizens of Chicago. Mang KiMpawy received adouble nomination, —first by TiLpeN and Hexpricks Democrats, seeond by the Cltizens’ Reforin organization, e was aleo supported by twonewspapors, both dally, viz.: themorniug cdition of tho Telegraph, edited by one MarresoN, and the evening cdition of the Z¢mes, yun by old man STouRY, The powerful influcnco of thoss two organs uf the ¢ putrid reminiscence is strikingly ex- hibited In the numbor of votes recelved by the candidate they supported and urged upon tho public confldence. ——— J1m McGrati boasted beforethe electionthat he would carry his own ward—the Fourtcenth— by more than 2,000 mujority. When the bal- lots were counted, jt was found, on the cone trary, that ho was beaten by nearly 800 majority fnhis own wardl And he caw’t lay the blume on Maik Kispaiy, as HeaTit recelved moro votes ln the ward than both of them put toe gether, f business-hours yesterday, the lIIAv:r‘?!:l S:.:.fwnm. 72. 60 cents h’l gold; I{d the greonback dollar was worth 89,48 cents, or 10,88 cents more than **tha dollarof the fathers. ¥—Cin- cinnatt Enguirer, But it was worth 11 per vent las than ‘‘the dollar of the motbers,” who always want tho full aud complete dollur, equal {n valuo to 1IN cents ln the yellow stufl. ~ e ——— Yesterday Chicago fired the flest gun of the Presidentinl campalgn, clecting Moxnon TimaTh, straight JTaves and WizgLER Ropube lican, by 11,818 majority over Mank KimdoarL, TrLurN Hord-8hell Democerat. Then 8,803 votes were cast for Jid McGraw, mostly by ¢ greens Luckers, as hie was *gofter " than elther of the other cundidates by considerable, e gt It was seen yesterduy before noon that Mce GRATU hud no “show? of wn clection, wheres upon the Democrats, from then till night, voted sulld for KiusaLy in the hopes of runnivg bim Iu by the aid of ¥ Citlzen Reform ™ Republlcan votes, But the offurt falled badly—=MAnk wag nowhere, — Jin has been awako at night thinking what he would do when elected Muyor, ITu muy amusc hlmself tho residue uf his Mfetime In the same way, 88 ho is not the atyle of wan peopls wan) for that oflice e —— Manx KiMBALL s 8 very docent citizen, and 8y ardent TILLEN Democrat. Ho is held Inca- timation by the citizens of Chicago, but not for Mayor,~neither Is TiLDEN for President. paalenieecadaribls For the past two or three weeks Storsy has ubused and led about the mew Msyor, Mr Monnos Heatn, in the most scandalous mao ner, through the columns of histwe nowspape: s, both daily, Iis sin and intention wese to