Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 27, 1876, Page 4

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Afternbun nnd evening, SBouth Park Pavillon. Corner Thirty-nintt stroet and Cottage Grove avenue, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 187G, —_——————————— Greonbacks at the New York Gold Ex- change yesierday closod ot 803 e Cloudy wenther, areas of rain, and alight shanges of temperatare may bo expected in tho Upper Lako region to-dny. — According to a Vienna dispatch to the Paris Temps, the muniapal authorities throughont Anstria have been instructed to prepare for the mobilization of the army at o moment's notice, An odor of sulphur nnd snltpetro can bo detected in this aunounce- ment, Azzay Tavron Carrnroy, United States Senntor from West Virginia, died in Wash- inglon yeuterday of o disense engendored by the recont sovero hented term. MreCaren. oy took his seat in the Benate Mnrch 4, 1875, and his term of service wonld have ex- pired in 1881, Ho was n member of the Confedarnto States Senate up to the close of the Warin 1805, and died at the age of nearly 66 yesrs, AfTairs in Ronmania are rapidly appronch- ing o crisis, with every indication that this powerful provinee will soon cast ita strength on tho sido of the insurgents. 'Che cable anuounces that 25,000 Roumanian troops are masaed on\the Danube frontier in an atti- tude so threatening as to have drawn a large forco of ‘Tnrka to guard the opposite bank, The impossibility of preventing n conflict between these opposing armies is too evi- dont to admit of n doubt that before many days clapse tho Eastern war will have ps- sumed o mora serious phnse than herotofore. Alrendy the integrity of Roumanian territory Tina been violated by small partios of Turkish pillagers from tho main army, and a general engagement is apprehonded. The argnments in the impeachment trial wera concluded yestorday, and the case now rewnins for the final consideration and action of the Senate. From the tenor of Mr, Oan PENTER'S argument it is ovident that D xNAr's hopes of acquittal, or, more prop- erly speaking, of n, failure to con. viet, arc based upon the probability that many of the Senntors who voted with {he minorily on the question of jurisdiction, and who took tho ground tlnt tho Scuate could not impeach an ofllcer whose resignation had beon tendered snd necepled prior to the. adoption of articles of jmpenchment, will for that roason rofnse to vate on ths quostion of guilt, and thereby prevent the two-thirds vote nccessary to conviction, This result is considered not at sll improbable. L Advices from Gen. Cnook's camp on the Bouth Fork of the Tonguo River are recvived up to July 23, 'The maiu body of the cneiny is belioved to have taken to tho Big Horn Mouutains, about 30 or 40 milesfrom Cnoox's present canp, Thot officer will not await tho arrival of Teary's command before mnking an attack, but.with his force - of 1,100 men will probably move on the Indisng as soon =28 Temny s mear ecnongh at hand to be in rerdiness to co-vperata and follow up, the presumption being that the Indlans will make o stand agninst one of the coluwns, while they + would be likely to retreat before tho united forces of Crook and I'znny and thus avoid decisive engagement, The death of Mr, L. P, RiomanpsoN, o corrospondent of the Springfield, Mass., Republican, is announced from Cheyenne, ‘The body was found sealp- od and riddled with bullets, * Tho subject of the town nssessments was ngain brought into prominent notice ycster. day by menns of o conferenco botween the Committes on Equalization, the County-At. tornoy, the South Town Assossor, and a aumber of bankera, The matter has been thus far laid beforo the Committee only in the form of complaintsof oxcossive nssess- ments so for a8 the banks are concerned, the only complaint of insufficlent nssessment being lodged sgainst the West B8ide Gas Compony, The Committeo wero advised by the County-Attorney that in the abscnos of complaints that ppecified assessmonts aro too low the valustion could only be increased by throwing out’ tha en. tiro return of the Assessor and ordering the work done over again, and the Commiites discussed tho proprioty of this course re. spectiug the Bouth Town. Itds intimated that complaints of inadequate aasessmonts in the cases of the capital stock of wseveral Danks will bo filed with the Committee to- doy. Tho Chicago produce markets were moder- atcly nctive yesterday, and moat of them wero steadicr. Provisions were dull. Mess pork closed 16@200 per brl lower, ot $18,46 for August and 818,67} for Beptember, Lard closed unchanged, at $10.77} for August ond $10.90 for Boptember, Meats were uteadier, at 730 for boxed shoulders, #c for do short ribs, and 100 for do short clears, Lake froights were dull, at 140 for com to Buffalo, Rail freights were unchanged, High- wines were quiet, at $1,104 per gallon. Flour was more active. Whoat closed 1o lower, at V0je for July and 91jo for August. Corn closed jo higher, at 4G]o cash or seller Angust Oats closed joliigher, at 2930 for August and 2930 for Beptember. Iiye was quiet ut 64 @b%. Barley closed firmer, at 700 for Beptember, Hogs were fairly active, but claxed weak. Bales were reported at §6.15@ G.85, There was an activo cattle market, THE CHICAGO with snles at $2.23@6.20. Sheep wero firm at $1.00@4.50. Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy $111.87} in greenbacks at the close. Tho murdér of a police officer yesterday by ono of a gang of burglars who weto ap- prohiended in the proseoution of their work, in tho northwestern division of the city should oxcita the police force and those in charge of it to the most vigorous efforts in following up the thieves mow in Chicago, 'The dangevous classes, well known to tho Buperintendent of Police and many of his subordinates, shonld be prosccnted and hnrassed by constant and repeated arrests for vagrancy when no moro epecific charge can bo brought against them, aund they should receive no considerntion at the hands of tho Polics Magistrate.” Tho amount of burglary and house-breaking, as woll as the operations of the snoak-thieves and the pil- laging of unoccupied houses, have incressed materially duning the last few months. Crimo is bred in hard times, and tho incrense can only be provented by an incrensed vigilance on the part of those intrusted with the pro- tection of tho public safety, Yesterday's trogedy serves to show how desperate the thioves have grown, and it onght to induce the Judges and officers of the Criminal Courts to enforce the soverest penalties pro- vided by law for all offonses comrmitted against life and property. ¥ Tho Common Council yesterday completed its work of retrenchment in tho mattor of salaries, tho result being the adoption of a schedulo of reductions, applying both to the compensation and to the number of em- ployes to be retained, that will go for to re- store confidonce and place the financial affairs of the city upon a moro satisfactory Lasis, The reductions as finally agroed upon cut down the expenses of the various depart- monts a8 follows: Firo Department, 25 per cent; Polico Department, 25 per cont, of which 15 per cent is taken from sal- arics and 10 per cont obtained from thoe dischargo of & portion of tha forco; Board of *Public Works, 50 per cent, to bo mnde in snch manner a8 the Board shall dotermine ; Toard of Education, 25 per cent iu salaries, besides dispensing with the teaching of music and drawing in the publie schools ; Publie Library, 80 per cont.in salaries ; and corresponding reductions ave made in the salarics of omployes in the Compiroller's office, of the Police Court' Justices and Clorks, and in the entire abolition of the useless and expensive ofiicesof City Assessor ond Tax Commnissioner, The thoroughness and impartiality with which tho majority of the Council havo prosecuted the work of re- tronchment ave worthy of sll commendation. A e —————— That strangely incongruous gathering at Springfield has a8 yot dono nothing in thae way of harmonizing the many opposing elo- ments of which it is composed. There is, any way, an immense amount of magnanim- ity Lubbling up from the heterogencous mnss, which is wondorful when wo consider tho poverty upon which it is all bused. The Indopendent-Greenback-Inflation-SiNorEToN crowd slap their pockets proudly, and offer to deliver up thair 75,000 votes to the Demo- crata if tho lattor will adopt their State ticket,—tho rag-men liberally agreeing to al- low the Domocrats the exalted privilege of voting the Cooren clactoral ticket. Butthis astounding liberality is- mot looked upon with any degree of favor by the straight-ont Northern wing of the Confoderates, They even go so far ng to hint that the offer of voturs tendorad by the Softs is nothing but a straw bid, and that tho Corporal has not yet been born who would deem it an honor to command tho small following which the Greenbackers can “draw up. 'Thero is, at lenst, great uuanimity in one diroction, and that is m the line of willing candidates. The war-horse sort don't seem to take worth a nickel, and so they have hit upon several now converts, among whom are ex-Gov. Pataen and Gen. Fannswonr. The former waa taken up in solemn caucns, held to view for a moment, aud dropped for ob- vious reasons. Farvswontit is said to still hold his head above tho tide, but what change of cirenmstances may take placo to- dny it is impossiblo to foretell. At present, looking over the whole field, it seems most probable that the Convention will leave the Bofts to their own devices, and nominate & stralght-out ticket, Two things are certain, and these are, Stewanp will not be swallow- ed by the Democrats, nor will the latter give the prico sct upon the Inflationists’ mon in buclkram, THE SILVER-COINAGE QUESTION, Mr. Kxruey has a bill beforo the House of Representatives providing for the recoinnge of Amorican silver dollars, and declaring them n legal-tonder for any debt, public or private. ‘The Committeo on Mines and Min- ing hava a bill also before the Housa which provides that, on tho doposit at the mints of gold or silver bullion, gold or silver notes may be iesneil to the dopositor, the gold to be computed at its colnago valuo, and the silver at the rato of 420 grains standard sil- ver to the dollay, less the ohiarges for coin- nge. The coin or fine mint bars shall be kept at tho mints and Bub-Treasuries to re- deem theso notes on domand; that these coin notes shall bo receivable for all dues to the United States, aud the coin (gold and pilver) sholl be n legal-tender forall debts duo tho United Btates, except where gold is specifiod. Vo are not aware that thero are nuy debts due by the United Blatos spacific- ally payablein gold; the requiremonts are that they be paid *in coin.” 'Che new & per cont bonds are, on their face, made poyable #in coin of k6 standard value of the United States on July 14, 1870, with interest in such coin,” A brief.atatement of the history of American silver coinage may aid in under- stonding the present status of tho wholo subject: H In 1792 tho sllver dollar was made the unit of Foderal money, and was to weigh 416 graing; of 801100 finaness, the smaller colus all in proportion, 'This remained unchanged until 1887, when the Frenoh standard of fine. ness, $00-1000, was adopted for all the gold and sllver ocolns; the weight of the silver dollar was then changed to 412} grains, and tho lessor silvor coins in proportion. In 1853, gold and silver belng thon Loth legal- tenders for any amouat, the relations of tho two metals stood sbout 156§ to 1, and our ullvor coin was in tho proportion of 16to 1, and was worth moro as bullion for cxport than it was for coin, Congress then, by aot Feb, 21, 1853, fixed tho weight of tho silver half-dollar, reducing it from 200} grains to 192 grainsg, ond the smaller coins in propor. tion. The mint ceased coining for individ. ualg, and the profit on tho coinage was re- ceived by the Government, It then made this fractional silver coiu a legal-tender only to the nmount of $5, The silver dollar, however, wns not ochanged, cither as to woight or a8 a legal-tender. The silver dollar way, at the value of silver at that time, worth as bullion over 7 per csnt more than M two half-dollars. But the coinage of the dollar, for obyions reasons, cersed. Tho American silver dollar, of the weight of 412} grains, continued a legnl-tender for all debts, publio aud private, nntil Feb, 12, 1878, whon the Coinage acts of tho United States wére consolidated and revised. This act provides that the gold dollar, weighing 25,8 grains, shall bo the unit of value, The ‘other gold coins contain a proportionally greator weight, and are all legal-tendor to any amount. The silver coins nre-n ** trade dol- lar,” weighing 420 grains; a lalf-dollar, weighing 192,0 grains; and quarters and dimes, proportionate in weight to the bhalf-dollar. The old American silver was theroby dropped from the list of Ameri- can coins, and all coing save thoso enumer- ated are prohibited. The silver colnagoisa legal-tondor only to the amount of §5. It will be soon by this that the Amoricnn sliver dollar weighing 412} graius was a logal-tonder for all amounts from 1702 to 1878, or over cighty yoars. 'Thero was no particular reason in 1878 for demonetizing tho standard silver dollar, and thero were but fow porsoms in the country who knew thot snch an act had passed, until the subsc. quent declino in tho value of silver; and thero is no reason now why it should not be restored, nod mado a logal-tender. The walue of silver per standard ounco in'En. gland in 1861 wna 61 ponco; it ranged from G1 to 61} ponce until 1859, when it stood at G2 pones, It fell to GOF in 1860, and closed in 1872 at 60}, Binco then the prices have been: 1878, £0}; 1874, L8}; 1875, 4Gl Since Jannary Iast it has boen ns low at times as 49 pence, and is now at 51, The bills before Congress provide for tho coinago of dollars ot the old standard of 412} graing, or ot tho incrensed weight of 420 grains, and to make them legal-tenders ns dollars, A few dnys ago we commented upon the statement of Gen. Ganrrzrp that to make silvor a legal-tonder to discharge tho interest on tho public debt in silver at the present standard of coinage as dishonest, and wo 8o think now. When Congress, in 1853, debnsed the silvor coin, it vary properly took away from it its provious character as o legal-tender. But it left tho standard dollar o logal-tender ns before, That dollar had been o legal-tender for sixty-eight ycars be- fora tha War, and every dobt, public and private, contracted between 1792 and 1878 waos legolly payable in dollars of that standard, In looking over the various sets croating public dobts, there is no provision for the payment of the dobts of tho United 8tates, or the interest theroon, in gold. In every instanco tho contract iz to pay **in coin” of the United States. We repeat what wo said o few days ago, that it would bo dishonest to compel creditors to accept in payment of debta money not known at tho time of tho creation of the debt, or not then, because of its Iack of value, n logal-tender. But the Amorican silver dollar was the unit of value from 1702 to 1878, covering the whole period in which the Governmental debt of all kinds was contracted, snd was a legal-tonder to any nmount during the same period, We see no wrong, morally or'legally, in restoring the silror dollar in its ancient weight, or to the incrensed weight of tho trade dollar, and making it a logal-tender, ns it hasbeen since the foundation of the Gov- ernment. Of courso we do not think it either ndvisablo or honest to make the present sub- sidinry silver chango o legaltender boyond the sum of 35, ‘The valuo of silver is not likely to rpmnin otits present decline, The Prosidont has wigned the bill direcling the coinage of 250, 000,000 of the smaller coins to sorve an chiange in place of the fractional currency. This whole sum, and probably $80,000,000 more, can bo readily absorbed by the coun. try. 'This fact nlono will have a tendenay to incronse the valuo of silver. It will' equal more . than one year's produotion of our mines. 1If, in addition to this, $he coiyago of ailver dollars of an incrensed weight and mede o legal-tender be authorized, its offect on_the value of silverwill bo decided. In 1850, when gold declined in value in pro- portion to silver, Franco, which thon had an abundance of silver, purchased the deprocinted gold, made it nlégal-tendor, and reaped the large resulting profit. It {s more- over Liardly possible to demonelize silver un- lesa it be dono universally. 8o long as one, two, or half-n<lozen nations ndhere to it as tho standard, or ns o joint standard, the demonetization must be more or less in- complete overywhore. Silver is now a Inrgo Amerleon product, whose production may possibly bo extended boyond its present lim- its, We also produce gold; and produce it in connoction with tho silver. A partiol suspen- sion of tho product of silver, and an incroas- «ed product of gold, will at auy time bring the rolative values of tho two nictals neaver their standard avorago proportions of 16 or 15} to 1. In this view, the legislation of Con. gress on this question, should either of theso bills pass, will have o material effect in in- crensing tho value of silver’aud romoving tlio objections Lo its being o legal-tender, NEWS FROM UTOPIA. The capitalof the Intost political Utopia thnt has been discovered is located at Flora, in this State, and the spostles of the now scot have organized under tho name of ¢ Log- Ttollers.,” Thoy have modified somewhat tho original Utopla discovered by Sir Tuoxas Monyg, where the Government owned all the property, and the inhabitants endenvored to divide the lnbor aund happiness of lifo on oquitable principles, and merely proposo that tho Government shall ndvafico them money enough to lift their mortgages and'free thom from debt, This is not so * unrensonablo as might appear at firat, since they are willing nnd desirous that tho Goverument should monufaoture the money to be ndvanced to them; the only expense, thercfore, that the Government assumes {8 tho cost of making tho greenbacks, This boing a Government Jor tho peoplo, the schemo would be o very gracious and gonerous act toward that por- tion of the population who are enjoying tho benefits of other people's property and money, and want to be retloved of the naces. sity of returning it; but, a4 thisis nlson Goverument dy tho people, who sooner or later have to contribute all the money it spends, those people who Lave loaned monoy and those who are out of debt may not de- velop the maguanimity to contributo the necessary funds for paying off the debts of tho others, These latter-day Utopians, like all their predecessory, havo no time, of course, to run down thelr dootrines and idess to'a logical result, - If they could do thia they wonldn't bo Utoplans. It may be a kindness to do it for thom, They proposs that tho Govern- went shall lift all mortgages on private prop- erty, not exceading $10,000 onch, that were mado botween 1801 and 1871, and manhfac. ture tho greenbacks for that purpose. 1tis also proposed that tho monesy shall be ad- vanced for ten yuars at £ per cent intereat, und that the greenbacky shall be conyestible TRIBUNL: THURSDAY, ioto 8.65 bonds. 'This, it must bo sd- mitted, would not be a vory profitable transaction for the Government (that is, tho people who aro out of dobt and pay tho taxes), sinco it would ba lending money nt ono rato aud then borrowing it back at n rato nearly donble. Nor can any goodreason boad- vanced, even by Utopians, why the advances of Government monoys should be limited to $10,000, and the morigages made in the ten yoars botween 1861 and 1871. The faot is, that the greatest distress is felt by those who owe more than 10,000 and those who have beon tho speoiat'sufferera since the panic of 1873, It will not do, then, to limit these Governmeont benefits.- And, indeed, so long s the money is to ba manufactured for the purposs, a few millions more or less cannot o counted as of much importance, To carry out the Utopian solution of the prosent financial probldm, it will be nacos- sary for the Government to issue, wo will say, nbont four thonsand millions of dollars, or considerably more than donble the pres- ont national dobt. When this money shall liave been put out, nnd tho Utopians who are now In debt shall lave thus honestly nnd manfully discharged their ob. ligations to the men whose property they lold, they will be as free'and buoyant as mountain air, They will not eare to burden their minds nor contract their resources by pnying 2 per cont intereat to the Govern- ment, or by ropaying tho principal which the Government will lave advanced, Infact, it would be unreasonable for the Government to expoct anything of the kind, sinco it only manufactared the stuff in the first placont a comparatively 'small cost, DBesides, n very natural solution of the difficulty presents it~ self at this stage of the procéedings. The poople to whom the monoy was originally advanced will not have it to return, and so, 88 it will have passed out of the hands of those for whose benofit it wns mannfaotured and issued, the Governmont will bs perfeotly justified in repudiating it ; tho justico of this conrse will be the more apparent from the fact that the greenbacks will by that time be worth about thres cents a bushel, so that, if anybody sliall accuse the Govarnment of bad foith, ho cannot say that there was very much bad faith, or chat any very serious loss resulted thorefrom, Tho net result of the Utopian schoms, then, is to place the debtors aud creditors on an oqua! footing. In this way an embnr- rassing distinction will have been gotrid of, and we may all begin even again with a fresh start ‘and on cqual tevms. But cannot this result be sccomplished more speedily and diroctly, saving much needless legislation, oxpense, and tribulation of spirit? Will it not bo better, on the whole, that Congress posa an act declaring all existing mortgages null and void on and after the passage of tho bill? And why stop ot mortgages? Will it not bo better still to declare by act of Con- gress that all outstanding bills receivablo and bills paynble (since they probably balance ench other in the aggregate) shall bo sponged out instanter? By this meanas the Utopian aim and purposo will have been attained without waiting for soveral years, aud, in the meanlime, bothering both debtors and “creditors with financial complications. * Just how many peoplo in this country sub- seribo to the Utoplan plan developed by tho “ Log-Rollers,” wu aro junablo to say, The creditors, as o class, will. probably be selfish enough to opposs it; but then they aro too much interested to give it an impartial con- sideration, Wo do uot seo any reason, how- ever, why it should not receive the approval and earnest support of oll those who are in favor of an unlimited issuo of greenbacks. One plan ja not any moro dishonest than the other, and both lead up finally to the same end, viz,: the repudiation of all public and private deb! EDUCATION A§ A SOUTHERN CIVILIZER, Mr, Wneren, the Republican candidata 1qr tho Vice-Presidenoy, has struck at the very roat of the disorder in society and the staguation in material progross at the Soutl, in the following extract from his lotter of ao- ceptance ¢ There will be & good doal of unavoldable feiction which will call for forbearance and which will have to be relleved by the temperato and fostoring care of the Government, Ono of tho most patent, if not indispensable, agencles in thiadirectlon, will bo the dovising of some system toald in the cduca- tion of the masscy, The fact that there are whole coantles in Loulsiana fu which tygre iy not a soll- tary school-honse, 14 full of suggestion, The importanco of Mr. Wanerren's ntate- ment connot bo overestimated. Its truth is suseaptible of clesr and dircot proof. We presnme in this day of enlightonment and civilized progress, no one will dony the gen- eral position that education tends to dimin. ish pauperism, vice, and erime, to ingrease the valuo of labor, and to dovelop the mate- rinl resources of any country, and vice tersa, that ignorance is one of tho most active cuusos of socinl disordor nud matertal deterd. oration of every description, Thoapplication of this general truth to tho present condition’| of the Bouthorn Btates is borne out with sur. prising acouraoy by the educational statistics contained in the Southorn school-reports. ‘The six Southern States in which murders, corruptions, mob.rule, sacinl disordor, and stagaation chiolly prevailare Arkausas, Missis. sippi, Loulsiang, Texns, Alnbamna, aud South Ogrolinn, 'The stdtistics show that eduen- tion in the South is at its lowest cbb in thess Hitates, In Arkonsas the wholo frec-school systen s paralyzed, In Mississippl most of tha schools are closed, and ong-half of the children of the Btate do not go to school at all. In Louisinua only one-fifth of tho children wore eoven corolled in 1874, nnd thero are no school- Luildings in the State worthy of the name, outside of the City of New Orléans. Mr. ‘Wugeren himself, who has had unusual op- portunities for acquaintance with the condi. tion of Loululana, bears testimony that there aro whole countiea in that Btate without a school-house, In Toxas the school funds have boen misnpplied, and there is no provis- ion for the rohiool organization of countica and towns, Educational faoilitios ave mainly confined to those localities sattled by North- ern oolonists. In Alabama the common schools have been suffered to go down and the school monseys have been diverted to de. fray genoral Btate oxpenses, In Bouth Care olina not n ponuy of the appropriation of 1870 reached the schools, and in 1874 thore was a large deficlenoy. Buoh statistica as thess, conmsidered with roforence to the conditions of tho Btatea and placed iu contrast with thoso from the peace- fuland prosperous seotions; are confirmations * gtroug as proofs from Ifoly Writ " of tho truth of Mr. Waeeren's statoment, Eduea- tlon in the South Is tho grent question that must be solved before it cau have permanont order aud seourity of life aud property, and before it can make any dealded advance morally, sociglly, or materially. 8o loug as tho massos vemain in their prosent dense iguorance, ther cuu bo no barmony between the two vacos. Tho muster-race will impoie upon, hunt down, pud ma~sacre tha weaker, whenover {6 refuses submision to its JULY 27, 1876. socinl or politieal dictation. Bo long as ignorance provails, demngognea will use the lower clnsa of whites ns thoir sorvile instru- mouts by slirring up their projudices and clnss-hintreds, and barbarities like that at Hamburg will continte, The old oligarchy of three or four hundred thonsand ox-slavo-hold- ors aro bitterly hostile to education, beeanso oy know thnt they cannot use the low srhites nor influenco the negroes it thoy are cdneated. They know vory woll that if the negroes loarn to read and write, o that thoy can dofend thomselvoa throhgh the papers, they cannot oppress them without both sides boing henrd. Now we have only one side. The pross of the Bouth s o feoblo institu- tlon, controlled by the cx-slave-masters, whichiechossonly thoirsentimonts, and gives only their version of theso barbarous porse- cutions of negroes. Thoe nogro can only ba heard indireotly throngh tho correspondenco of Northern papors, in the majority of in. stances not at all. Mr, Waeeuen, therofore, is right in prominently sctling forth the nocessity of solving this question. Until it is solved, thore can bo no pence or perma- nent order in the South. There can be no harmony betweon tho two races. There can be no socurity for the life and property of any man who differs politically with the old slavo.-masters. Thoro can. bo no develop- ment of nntional resources, since Naturo novor surrenders horself to ignoranco, ‘Wo are surprired to find n paper like the Louiavills Courier-Journal, which makes rome pretensions to humnnity, to intelli- gence, nnd to progresaive thought, sacking tosupportund justify thé Hamburg mossacre. In a recont article it compnres it with the re- cont Nowark tragedy, and says tho Ham. burg *“alfair” was no worse, ** except that it grew out of the Radical policy of placing the bottom of secicty on top, aud of sustaining and onforcing this unnatural situation by the in- famous appliances of partisan opportunity.” There can only be one meaning to ihis, namely, that the Ropublican party has emaneipatod the negroes, invested them with citizonship, and given them tho right of suf- frage, nnd that as tho negroes have not oxer- aisod that right upon the side of Democraoy, thorefore it must bo expected that the De. moeracy will 'kill them. The Lonisville Courier~Tournal is near enough to the North to know botter than this, It knows thatin the North, when the bottom of soci- oty outvotes the more intelligent class,— as, for instance, when the Demoorats outvote the Republicans,—the latter do not retalinte with murder and magsacre, In New York City, the bottom of socioty has been on top for years. 'Tho roughs, plug-uglies, bummers, and shouldor. hitters of that city, whose. vates have been manipulated Ly ench politicians as Truoen and I'weep, have been on top of .the honest ond intelligent and law-abiding peopla of that city for years, and. have kept that posi. tion by brute forco and dishonesty and bal- lot-box stufling. The Republicans, however, Linve not, on this account, infamons as the griovance has been, mado it tho oceasion for rotalintion by violence and murder. Crowds of New-Englauders have not flocked over into New York Qity and seized upon a squad of Domoorats aud shot them down in cold blood. Violent and bitter as the Couricr- Journal may feel towards the North, its in. telligenca ought to have prevesnted it from such a wenk display of logic, and from the enunciation from such an infamous dootrine ng this, Wil the Courier-Journal inform us what there is unconstitutional, unfair, or un-Ameriean in protecting the citizens of this country in all their rights and maintain. ing tho equality of all mon bofore tho lnw ? Tho Chatleston (8. 0.) News and Courier, having been repudiated by certain Sonthorn Democrats for having denounced the Ham. burg massacre, renews the attack, denounces the mnssacre ns *“a horriblo crime,” and courts repudiation from all thoge **who wink at such doods as ihe killing of unarmed and defonseless nogroes.” Finally it describes the massacre as follows: * There was no earthly doubt that the whites, withonut authority, undertook to disarm a lody of colored mien, and that, when the fight that ensucd 1caa oter, five of the captive negroes, unarmed and defenseless, tecre killed in cold blood. These fucts stand uncontradicled to this hour, and upon these fucts, and ione other, e based our denunciation of the crime.* SBuch language a8 this ought to put to thablush such men at the North na Cox and Cocnnane, and other doughfaces who tried to belittle the affair and laugh it off in the intorest of thd Confederates. If every Bouthern Domo- oratio nowspaper would speak out in torms s bold, there wonld soon be an end of the Darbarlam at the South which has disgraced it over since the closo of the War. Unhap- pily, tho Charleston News and Courier has itself noknowledged that a Domocratic news- poper at the South cannot even denounce o massacre of negroes without being consured by Democratia Conventions and cut off by Confederato reade The Domocratic newspapers, somewhat inconsistently, continue to assort in one brenth that there is a coolness botween Gaant and Hayes by renson of the latter’s fuiluro to refer to the former's Administra. tion, and in the next breath to say that Hayes' olection *“ would menn a third term of Grantism under anothor vame,” It is not necessary to dwell upon this contradiction of torms, but it :may bo said that. if tho Re. publican party were in favor of what is called *Grantlsm" it would have renomi. ndted Gnant, who was not even named in the Convontion. It is generally believed that ho would have acesptod, and it 1§ known that many of his personal friends desired Lis npomination, If the Ropublican party were in favor of what s called ¢ Grantism," and foared to nominate Grant himuolf, then thoy would havo takon CoNELmiG or somo man favored. by Guant, aud likely to carry out his policy. T'he fact is that tho Republican party looks with disfavor upon a certain rulo of patron- oge which has been characterized s * Grantlsm," nnd henece dotermined that it should be abandomed. ‘fhey desire a thorough purification of the public service, aud thorefore selected a man who has given the most outspoken, and most sincere, and most practical pledge of yeforming the olvil service that has ever boen uttered in this country, - There is evidence that the English. people do not approve of tho abrogation of tho Ex- tradition Treaty betwoon Great Britain and the United Btates by refusal of the former to abide by its conditions, The Pall Mali (Jaze(te now exprosses the opinion that the liberation of Winsrow was a **soandal,” and thinks it might lmva_hann avoided had & different attitude been assumed by the Brit- ‘fsh Qovernment. Very likely, The attitude actually taken was @ threat. The English Ministors said to this Government that they would discharge Amorican prisoners appre. hended . abroad unless the United States woiild give certain guarantces as to thelr trial which are not included in the terms of tho treaty under which wo had the right to domandtheir surrendor, Of coursa thoro was no opportunity for a calm considerntion and discussion of tha principle involved whon this dictatorial position wna assumed. All tho United States Government conld do, in justlea to itsdlf, wns to, insist upon the surrender of the criminals as provided in the treaty, and, whon England absolutely ro- fused to do this, to annul the tronty. And then, a8 tho English pross sdmits, the wholo responuibility attachos to the English Ministey. o A Mr. Pangen, who a speech a fow nights ngo at n Trwoex mooting in Moline, Ia., endeavored to follow the absurd doctrine of the Olicngo Z%imes that TiLpey s not & Domoerntic candidate, He is roported ns saying that the Democratio party is dead, and thatanow party, “cagor for reform,” and re- sembling the dofunct Bourbon concern in no respect, hns nominated My, Trroex. It must require a very hopeful nature to imngine thnt this sort of fwaddlo is going to decoive anybody., If Trupex is not o representative Democrat, rock-rooted and mountain-bute tressed, then it would be diflenlt to fiud one, and if the St. Lonis Convention was not of the old, original, Simon.-pure Democracy, then it wns a horrid dream, nnd a shadow very like a disagreonble subatance. Wa pre- sumo Mr, Parker must have addrossed his romaiks to Ropublicans in the hope of get- ting some of their votes for Trrpex under falso protenses; for if he should talk to Dem- ocrats in thisstylo, and convinco them of the truth of what he. said, thoy would drop T~ ry more genorally than they did Gnrzeney, If Tuoes is not a Democrat, with all the namo implies, thoy don't want him; what thoy are aftor is not roform, but tho spoils. TILDEN'S REGIMENT, The Democrats of the more reckless sort, hav- fng eearched In valn for any patriotic nets of Gov. TiLpexInald of the war against the Bouth- ern Democrat{e disunion Rebels, hnve boldly in- vented the stofy that during the War lic armed and equipped o regiment at his own cxpense, and sent it to the front, 1o was rich enough, haviog made *“bar'ls full”’ of mouey ot of tho rallronds which he disembosweled, but he neyer, spent any of It In raisfug a reghnent to fight his Demacratic Rebel friends fn tho South. Iowever, alter the regiment story was de- nled, and the numeof it belngealled for, another Democratie paper renewed the claim in p modi- fled form, nsscrting that, instead of o whole regiment, it was a battalion of four companles thet TiLpEN induced to volunteer, and that ke armed end equipped them at his personal ex- pense. The New York Zimes puts its foot on this patriotic yarn, ns follows? The Domocratic papors are printing tho follow- ing paragraph: e Oy iy Lmen, Fams i G i ulpped, ¢y take oy Soianton o SOW Lotk voluntoer sotdlems This 12 a lie made out of whole cloth, Who started it fs more than any one {a likely to ind out, but the aupposition may well he entoriained that it was put Into the pussession of‘the Western editor by sume one of TILDEN'S agents. Probably it is the first of nscrles of pungont llttle liea that are ta be circulated in Nr. TiLbux's bohalf by BaTss & Lockg, or,some other advertising agency. Ilow- ever that may be, the statement 1a a fulsahood that could not advantagoously be clrcalated in this part of thecountry. 1t was donbtless sent Westward wlith ordors for its extensive promulgation in ob- scura parts beforo it could comato the kuowledgo of thove abla to contrudict it. Mp. Z3den never armed and cquipped: o alngie soldicr, much less Jour compunies of volunleers, Ileiwas never known to o anything lo help on the WWar, oither by assist- ing tho soldivrs themselves or by minisiering to their familics during their nbxence ar after thelr deaths, On the conlrary, he is knoten to have re- Jused asslstance on many occationa, For (Le sake ‘of example, thie following well-nuthenticated cano may bo ktated: Early tn the Wara young man of excallent family nud” superlor charactor snd at- talnments was desirous of ralsing a :ompmnl{. lie walted upon. Mr. TiLDEN, With whom he had an acquaintunce, and asked him to give him a letier of recommendation to certaln State officlaly. Mr, ‘FiLnEN's reply was In substance as follaw **Young man, you ficed not come to mo fo such loltor of reccommendation; this War ix a per- Jeel outrage, and I will lend no asslstunce whate ‘crer to ita pross u'ton.” e et — Pray, who wns responsible for the local Sunday {Smw 10} lnw which was, and fs, and wiil forever , objectionable to the Gormans? If Republicana wore not rewponelble, who wera? What party was responaible for that law if the Republican party :s"ll':;‘r;‘yuu' Who muade tho objectionable lawt—1fr. The objcetionable Sunday Iaw of Chicago was cenacted by n Democratie Legislaturo in 1853-'8, which was some years bofore the Republican perty was organized. This would scom to set~ the the ‘“responsibility * for the law. But Sun- duy Liquor Jaws are not of Chicago orIilinols or American origin, Thoy are not Puritan’ fnven- tions. Thelaws and customs of *Germany for generations lavo prohibited the vending of liquors on Sunduy, untll’ after the hour of church serviee, say 1:80 o'clock p. nx After that hour the people may visit the ‘beer-gardens and quaf? thelr favorite boverages, There {8 no agitation In Germany, so ifar as known, In favtr of the repeal or abrogation of the Sunday Limitation Liquor laws. In Ircland the Sunday Limitation laws aremore stringent than those of Germany. The tippling shops arc oot permitied to open until about 8 o’clock p. m., and thoy must closo soon after nightfall. Thoe Irish members of Parliament, at the fn- stance of the clergy and people, are demanding tho passago of an amendment to the Sunday Liquor Inws of tho Island still moro restrictive nsto the time “public houses™ may be open ou Sunday. —————— The Washington Chronicle is afrald that too many of the ald, able, and exnerienced Repub- lean members of Congress may be dropped by thelr constituents fu obedienco to the rule of rotation and the *shricks of locality,” aund thereby weaken the party in the next Congresa. It says: . 5 Tha Republican Congresstonal Conventlons yot to moot should carofully consider tho question whetlier they can aftord to grutlfy tho smbition and Jealousy of aspirants for Congressional hunurs under lKfl *+ two-term ** rule, which, unfortunately for tho country, prevails too excensively in the Nogth and Wt with respoct to Congressional sory- feo. Tho noxt llouss will be close, with a small majority ofther way, anit it Lebooves the Repub- Ilcan party to keep 18 beat mon In the Iouse, It canoot afford, ufier losing Messrs, BLAINE, Mo- Cnany, and WukELrs, towpare any ‘more partln. muntarians, and euch men us Kasson, J, WiLson Hosxis, 1, U, Hutiouan, and Conoxs shonld, Ly “ell means, bo returucd to tho Vorty-ffth Congreas, ——— Bomebody has discovered fn an old file of ‘Tun Coioago TrisuNs o letter wiitten by the Hon. WiLriax A, WnErLER, twenty years ago, in which ho sent §100 fnnld of tho suffering Kansans, and sald: “Tosce Leroin tho resl- denco of Dougras such u breaking away from party trammels, such n spontancous aud hearty outburst of sympathetlc freedom, aud of deter- mined realstance to oppression and wrong, makes oue inore hopoful for ti future, and is an encoursging indication that the Northis at last aroused, and will assort and maintain fts Just rights utho Govermnent, Now that the banner Is thrown to the breezo there will bo no faltoriug in its support. Kausas will Inovitably beeome freo, Blavery has made its lnat stride,” e Chlcago Is tho market at which the products and supplics of Nebraska are oxchunged, aud tho muterial prosperity of that Btatufs there- fore gratifylng in a speciat sense to tho people of this city, Wa notlco that o census has re- ceutly beeun taken, which shows an increase of # fraction over 4 per cent In population durlng- the year 1876-'70, ‘fhe population in 1870 waus 122,003; 14 18 now 257,747 ————— . TLoxpox, July 20, —8ilver figmer, and advanced to 50% pence,~Aesoclated Prese Dispatch, ‘This advance isin counscquence of the news renching London that the Presldent had signed the Bilver bl wuthorizing: the ssue of fifty millions of subsldiary coln, When it becamo probablo that the Bilver bill would pass Con- gress, the price of silver n London ceased to decllne, and began to recover. Now that the bl 4 a law, sllver has advanced from 49 peuce per ounce to 50X, or a little more than o cent. The advanca will probably continue unti the sliver dollar is worth several per cent muy‘. than it s yot. Bilver must be worth G0 pengy per ounco befora tha dollar s at par with thy value of tho gold dollar, A rumor has prevalled thronghont that At & cancun bf tho Itepnblican manpesiii] Senators, this {yosterdny| morning, 1t was gy fa kil tho Kiver and Harbor bill, on accountf g Isteness of the seanom, and the Imponsibitity o making the contemplated improveiments befon cald wenther begins, The Senators thomsclye, ort yery roticont 85 to' what transpired, but one' 1 reply o o dirct question, ealid that nothing 13 conrequenco was done,— I¥ashington dispateh. Thot would be tho wisest thing which couly ba done, and would save tho Government Do tween six and seven millions. The bill 4g tul of uscless ftems; in fact, 1t 18 8 log-rolling, ro, ten contrivance, and should be treated oy swindic on the publie. Ona cditlon of the Chirago Times, speakin {tself, soys: “Of newspapers u\ltra‘ldc ::: York, the’ Chicago ZVmer stands fimt for Baxon strength,” Then *Baxon sirengthn is synonymous . with the Billingsgate of the fish-market, tho slang of the aaloon .tho argot of tho alloys and slums, e pet names of tho bawds, and the technles desigmations of all tho moral depravity wigy which its columns are fllled from one year's end to the other. ————— The 8t, Louls Westliche Dost says: Never, slnce Lincow’s first election, have the an.i Germans been as true Republicans, as unap. mous, as resolved and rendy for the combat, ay at this moment. The strength of the Germay vote of Bt. Louls to be cast for RuTnznrosy B. Harzs will exceed by far tho late dreams of the reactionary party." S ————— There was telegraphed to the London Papen Bararp Tarron’s Natlonal Ode complete, appeariug fn thelr columns on tho morning of the Gth of July. Some of them speak weli of iy 850 poctical and patriotic production; other find fault mildly, PERSONAL The Babcock cottage at Long Dranch Is nnoe. cupled at prefént. Albert Blerstadt, tho artist, is now fn Newport, Tater In the senson he will go to Lake George, A famlly named Sypher as feft Aroostock County, Me., inan emigrant wagon for Kansas, The ex-Empress Kugenle and hor son recently vieited Queon Victorla and remalned over night of ‘Windsor Palace. The three leading acholars in Massachusetty politica are Prof. Lowall, Prof. Seclye, and Pres. fdont Chiadbourne, Prosident Elfot, of Tiarvard College, owns s yacht and 1s a good snilor, - He was in Portland, Me., Sunday, on a crulso to the eastward, Edward 8, Stokes, the murderer of Flsk, | roughly treated in Aybntn prison. He Is employed asa packer In the collar-shop, Lord Uonghton contributes an artlcle, ontitled ** American and English Socin] Rejations, " to the new number of the Guarlerly Reviet, Tho Doston Post brings tho rcasduring Intel. Jacnce that Dot Carlos, although he has refused to fight tho Indians, hua aignified hits willingnesa to publish a fow proclamations on the subject. M. Renan, in his_now book, says that thonght centrallzed in somo Superior man is the only endof nature. It 18 necessary that mllilona should suffer, work, and dlo In order that one great man should appear, ‘ Although o long o time has clapsed slnce thy 'world lina recelved tidings from Stanley, it appean that biv progross has Leen very alow, he hayiag made only tho distance betwoen Ujiji and Ukik, which Is, of course, the ndjoining station. ¢ Aneditorial writer In tho Now York Zribume, presumed to bo Mr. Bayard Taylor, Inquires whother modern poeiry !s not pasaing throughs period of teansition from tho coldly philosophicl school of the beginning of the century to a free and more genulne Insplration, 8. L. Jewett, who for many years was employed a8 sn artist by Ilarper Drothers, shot and Lilled himself In Jersey City Sunday. o wasasonol Mr, William Jowett, tho celobrated ~portrait painter, from whom lie inherited a large fortune, most of which was spent in debauchery, A Mr. Mecklenburg was drowned at Commnnf paw last week, The firat information hin wife bt of the accident was furnlshed by hor child, aged 7 years, who had been to the beach and retumed with hls fathor's clothes, saylng: ‘‘Papa wu drowned, and I brought his clothes home. " The New York [Vorld maintalns that Daros Grant s a typienl American, and not a typia) Englishman at all. If his performance in cour, in his own dofense, were put In ono of Bardon't plays, no Parlsian play-goer could fafl to recognin him as a characterlstic product of Amerksan civill: zatlon, The prafaca to the third and Inst volume of Victor Ilugo's poetical works opens thus: **Thit trilogy—* Before Exlle," *During Exllo,’ * Aftet Yxilo '~1s not by mo; it Is by the Emperor Napo- leon TII. It fs he who hae divided my life in thit 3 let him have the credit of {t. Iiende hat which belongy to Bonaparte, A man named Berry died latoly near Marion, 8, C., and left Instructions for tho burning of hit body. He had a greathorror of burlal, caused by his having scen the exhumed bodics oftwo of it children in process of removal from one cometer to another, Mr, Berry's body waos placed on funoral pyro of pltchpina logs and lightwood, ané reduced to ashes, [ | It scoms that Amherst Collego has & fund of 825,000 left to it in trost, to bo uscd for tho mals tenance of a colloge-pastor. Falling to uwe it fa thia purpose, the Trustoes are to return it to cer tain heles of the donor. Prof. Seclye does not be Ueve in having a collego pastor, ond, it is hinted, has made the return of tho money to tho hein cundition of his acceptance of the offica of Fred: dent. The reason of the retiroment of Miss Jeanettt Dennetttoa convent Is sorrowful, anid romsniic, and all that sort of thing, .if tho mysterious New York correspondents mny be belleved. AMeanwhile, we_are glad to say, there is ground for belleviog that the story is untrue; atany rate, Miea Bennetl {a lead!ng a gay life at Newport, apparcutly enter Ing heartily into tho apirit of soclety, which, bysll reports, sho a well fitted to adorn, The Munich correspondent of the’ Cincinnat! Commercial saya that the King of Bavaria ls 20 longer tho slonder youth whom the Empress Lugenlo kisacd §n 1807, with highly spleltual coun- tenance, lovely locks and upturnod eyes, as repros sented in the world-wide photographs of him. Thero le now another picture, He I still myste rlons and poetical, nodoubt, but, alsa! the truth uast bo told, he has become shockingly fat! The Parls Fine Arts Exhibition of the presem yoar contained two curious pictures: ¢ A Vassol Violeta” and **Dafsles and Chrysanthomums,” mgned Louls do Schryver, The owner of that namo is a boy of only 1215 yeagsold. A few dayd Vefora taking his plctures to the Salon ko went 10 ask the advice of 3. Pillippo Rousscau, - ** 8ir," snfd he,showing his twocanvases, **Do you think the jury will consont to fecelve these?" *¢ Find of all, on whoso behalf do you como?** **On my own." % You, however, ‘did not paint these! 441 beg your pardon, 8ir, Tdld." And taking up the brusf and palatto of tho master, ho in & fe¥ minutes sketchdd off a flowor, The two peced wera dul |p¥rnv=d Fy the judges, ond tho paluter “hos adopled tho youns artist, who, without ovef Daving had a losson, Fulnlud well ¢pough to gald ndinissfon to the Salon at an age when boys peti= vrnlly prefer a game ut marblos to studying the ar of palnting. OTEL ARTIVALS, e—Tho Yon. . 8, Rydor, LeRoy, ol, . 1. Whitey Sherman 1ot V. 3 J. A, Bralun, Petorubul L Yoide Fort Wayno; the' Mon, E.' D, Bweenel, Rock ll{nlld; J. M. Doon, Fort Wayne; the _Hon. . [ a1l Honoluldi the Hon. James Xaukin, Manltowoc: M 1, Davls, New York, V ll\'llllw. Loston; the Jo tho fon, J. N. Canverso, Lincoln, andor Kaston, Texas; Ssmuel Brown, 8 Mich.; George O. Marcy, Philadelphl Montanug A Barutogaj G, H. d. B W and Dr. B, Q, Imer llouse—J, H, Perrine, Q'Sullivan, Toronto; B, 8, Wadde! N. Y. 1 D, b 8t Louls; Haron von Bulow, Gormnany; Joby J- E. L doi [ Kuox, Washington; Chlttondon, Kot Wayne; H, L. Lewls an leans; 1. A, Taylor. ludeon, Wis. Newall snd J, D. Bherry, Australi: dlouse—~1), ¥, Natlck, Bandusky; 8, Now Yorki P. K. IReyoolds, Washinzto Sloanand 'G. K. Wileon, {mana; f. kridge, Coldvuluri C. J, Ferrln, N. Y.; P. lrown, lnlnflu; 1. Morton, Ui, ; ‘Dewitt Davls, Milwsukee; d. Lanllnubutf; N, Y, J. Burr, Auderson, Ji Grand Facifie—T. 8. lug‘gamv apr!fi:h "Windsor, Des Molnes; 8. 1, Velio, Moline: 11, Baldwln, Wisconsin; Josoph Callett, ‘Ter! Hauto: W, J, Meek, Pittsbusyg; L. E. € Nebraska; J, ‘L. Jobnston, Quebeoi J. Parvous, Hoosick Falls, No Y1 John Darboso Philadelpbla, J. “Digg, New O [ , Jud.