Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 16, 1876, Page 4

;e road by the Lord High Clancollor, THE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1876. The Tribaswe, "TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. TAYABLE I ADVANCE—~TOSTAGE TREPAID AT TUIS OFFICK. afly Faitiay. postpaid. 1 ye 12.00 °Ar1a 0f & yCAr, pernonth. 0 Aatied torany Rrern four wesks Tor. ] g 4 Teoligi +5 g oRipAld, 1 FOA oo T Sy % Y EBITI Specimen coples rent free, To preyent deiny and mistakes, bo sureand xive Post- Office nddross tn ful), Including State and County. Tlemittances may bo muda elther by drafl, express, Tost-Olice order, or in regirtcred lettors, at our Hak. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCIUBERS, Dally, delfvered, SBunday excepted, 23 cents per week. Dally, deitvered, Gunday Included, 50 cents per weok Addresa ‘THE TRIBUNE COMP'ANY, Corner Madizon And Dearhorn-ria., Chicags, it A GREAT OAMPAIGON DOCUMENT. The recerd conclusively proves that he was— 1. A_SECESSIONIST, AND OPPOSED 1O THE "WAR TOR TIHIE MAINTENANCE OF THE UNION, 1 2. A TIOROM FRIEND OF '*RO3S TWEED™ AND 1\ MEMBER OF THE TAMMANY GANG. 3. A DOGUS REFORMER WHO REDUCED NO 2 FCTIONS, CHARGED UPON HIM I'Y HORACE GREELEY, 5. AN TASUER OF SHINI'LABTERS TO LABOR- ING MEN IN TIIE IRON REGIUNS OF MICHIGAN. 6. A MONSTROUS RAILROAD' 8HARK, WHO AMASSED MILLIONS TIY DEVOURING WESTERN RAILROADS IN FINANCIAL TROUBLE, This great Campalgn Document fills foor pages of Tainuxx eize, A copy thereof should be placed {n the hinnds of every voter in the West. - TIayes and Wheeler Clubs everywhero should order YTilden's Record " for distribution, €o4T OF THE NECORD. It will be sent by mail or express, with charges pald, m the following terma 'er 100 coples. For & dozen coj ngle copy. Ty the 1,000 coples, special rates will be charged. Sond orders immediately for **Tilden's Record.* ‘TRINUNE CO., Chlesgo, 1,50 4 11 AMUSEMENTS. Adelphi Thentre. Monros street, corner Dearborn. Varlety performe ance. i Newr Clilenga Theatro, Clark atreet, hetween Lake and (tsndolph. Hoo- ley's Minstrols. Afterngon snd evening. flaaley’s Thentre, Tandolph atrcfl, ‘Letween Clark and LaSalls, '*Onr Voarding-House," Afternoon and evening. Dxnestiion Mallcox, 3 f Adsma sireet, 'romenade Con ..E:‘:.E,El‘g;'ci‘;m Slilttary Dand. * Afternoon sad Evening. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1876, Groenbacks at the New York Gold Ex- thange yosterdny opened at 80§, The bill for recruiting the cavalry regi- mezts in the Sionx country to their maximum sirength by the enlistment of 2,600 men was passed beforo Congress adjourncd. and will undoubtedly bo approved by the President. The worst fears of the Eastorn Democrats have boen realized by the sucooss of Tox Ewma in defeating Warrive for the Con- gresgional nomination in the Twolfth Ohio District. What troubles the hard-money Tildenites is the prospoct thst the vots for Ewma and the vote for Truoex will show a dirarepancy in favor of the former, and that tho missing vote will be found on the tally- shoet of the Cooren and Oany electoral tickat. - Itis alleged that*Disnaczs will hold the Promiorship only during the recoss of Par- linment, and thot on the resssombling of that body Lord Densy will succeed to the post. Parliamont was prorogued yesterdny with the customary specch of the Qnoen There Ia littlo of interest in the spesch aside from casual reforences to the Eastern difficulties and the extradition controversy between En. gland and the United States, Ex-Queen Isacrrua has not forgotten that ho onca held absoluto sway at Msdrid, nor has sha forgotten the persons who, in 1870, helped on the work that colnunated in hor doposition. Ter return to Madrid ia the sig- nal for war upon cortain membors of the present Cabinot, which body is now on the veorgo of dissolution. Commencing so carly after her enforced banishment of six years, there is every reason to fear that the ex- Queen's preacnco at tho Capital will remlt In gerious conscquences to the reigning King. No reliable informntion is yet at hand which removes the uncortainty and doubt concerning tho rumored battle with Sirrova DBurr. Gon. Suennas isin receipt of partial coufirmation by way of Red Clond Agency, but his advices are byno meaus authoritative or definite. The Captain of the stcamer Western, which left Fort Benton on Bunday, was told by Indinns at Fort Peck that a heavy cugagement had taken placo between Tenry's command and tho hostiles, wherein the lutter were defoated with a loss of 700, whilo 800 of Tzury's men, were killed. This tn tho extont of the information contained in the dispatches thus far recelved. The prominenco given to a breach of faith on the part of Mivron Savren, Spesker pro temn., by Mr, Paag, of California, was the cause of o scene of great confusion dur- ing the last hours of the House, It ap- peared that the acting Spenker iiad promised Mr. Paax and Mr. WoobnurN, of Novada, that Mr. Kasson should be appointed on the Chineso Immigration Commission, but that the specch made by Kasson on Monday, wherein TiLpzy was 80 unmercifally flayed, had so angered tho Demoornts that they wore driven to the petty revengs of breaking an agreement to appoint Mr, Kassox a mem. ber of tho Commission, Ilence the indigna- tion of Mr. Pior, whoso keen tlrust at Baruen was well-deverved, if mot wholly parliamentary, The Chieago produce markets wore genor- ally casior yesterday, provisions being active sud grain quiet. Mess pork closod U6o per brl lower, ot $17.25@17.30 cash or seller Boptember and $14.90 aeller the year. Lard closed 800 per 100 1bs lower, at $10.50 cash nnd §9.80 soller the year, Moats were §@}c per b lower, at 6o for boxed shoulders, 830 for do short ribs, and 94c for do short clears, Lake freights were tame, at 1o for cornto Buffalo. Reil froights were unchanged. Highwines were quict, at $1,104 per gallon, Flour was steady, Wheat cloced o higher, at 850 cash and 88}c forSeptember. Corn closed {olower, at 41jo cash and 44o for Beptem. ber. Oata closed stoudy, at 800 cash or seller Beptombor. Rye was stronger, at 52@C30. Barloy wes casler, at 72§@780 for Septom. ber. Hogs were in fair domand, and under o light supply prices ruled firmer, Bales wero principally at 86.00@06.25. Oattle were Jn demand at & amall advance over last weck's prices, selling at $2.00@5.25. Shaep wore steady, st $2.20@4.50. Last Baturdsy sveuing thore was fu store in this city 1,236,467 bu wheat, 1,278,723 bu corn, 86,695 bu oats, 124,161 b urye, and 828,287 bu barley. One hundred dollars in gold wonld buy $111.37} in greenbacks ot the closa, g : Previous to the finnl adjournment of the Honso yesterday, Gon, Baxxs read a tele. gram from 8peaker Krns, dated 5:48 p. m., a5 follows : My conditfon {g very critical. No change since morning. M. G Kenn. Aftor a foeling alinsion to the sorrowful prospect of approaching death, Gen. Baxgks moved, and the ITouse unanimously adopted, & rosolution exprossive of heartfelt sym. pathy, and of hape for the recovery of the Speaker's health. A telegram from 3Mr. Kznn, datod Rock Alum Bprings, Va., 7:17 p. m., conveyed intelligenco of a character no more encouraging than that communi. cated to the House, and at a late hotir this morning nothing had been roceived to alter the molancholy conviction that recovery is altogsthier hopeless, —— A letter from our correspondont twith Croox's command, dated at the Camp on Gooss Creack, Aug. 4, records tho nrrival of Gen, Mennrrr with the roinforcoments nee. cssary to warrant & movement in forco in the diroction of Srrrmve Duit's headquarters, wheraver this may prove to be. The oxpe. dition s roinforced and reorganized consists of 2,145 fighting men, and a more perfectly- equipped and formidable body of soldiers for. the work in hand was probably never collect- ed in one command. Gen. AMennr's travel. worn troopa had scarcely oxchanged groet- ings with their faturo comrades before & council was held, the diffieront subordinate commands assigned, the plan of march de- tormined, and preparations for the forward movement woll ander way. The period of ‘waiting has passed with both wings of tho Sionx expedition, and long before this reaches the eye of the render the campaign sgainst the hostiles will have actively begun. ‘Wa publish in another column a commu- nication from Erviorr ANTHoNTY, Esq., show- ing moro plainly than it has ever boon done bofore the diffeultics in the wny of the au. thorities in attempting o collect tho taxes levied for the support of the Government of the city, county, or other municipality. The ohief hindrance, it willbe perceived, is tho de- termination of tho Courts to rofuse to allow thecorrection of arrors in descriptions of prop- erty or in the amount of the tax. This nullifieation of the Iaw, which allow snch corrections to bo made, has all the more sorious results becauss, owing to tho costly and unnocessary multiplication of tax-books, mistakes mnst in- ovitably occnr, It is the dosire of Mr. AN- TRONY to 80 amend tho law &3 to do away al- togother with the interposition of a Court, and malke the system of tax-collecting in i~ nois similar to that which obtains in other Btates. The causes which have led tothe popularity and successfulness of tax-fighting, together with the manner in which the Iattar is conducted, are set forth by Mr. AxtuoNy with grert cloarness, and fully justify him in his demand for s modification of the presont method of collacting taxes. THE RECORD OF THE DEMOCRATIC-CON- FEDERATE CONGRESS, Tha Dewmocratic-Confedersto Housa of Répresentatives haa closed its nine months' seasion, and what Las it dono? It must be re. membered that this party is now asking that it bo intrusted with the full control of the Government,—the" execative and legislative branclhies,—that it sy govern tke wholo country according to its policy. For fifteen years it was excluded, and whon it got con- trol of the House of Representatives it promised that the Houro would show the country what the party would doif it hnd the fall power. Tho conatry will be curious to know what tho House has done during the nine months it has boen in session. ‘It hias had thirly or moro partinan . investi. gating committees at work scraping the ken- nels of politics, sccking tho material for n campaign document against the Republican party or somo of its members. In that so- ries of investigations it brought to light that the decensed wife of Secrotary BeLgwar had received .money from sn office-holder, and that, upon ber deccase, the corrupt contract was ' continued for her child, and that afterwards it wos continued to hor sister, who also beeamo tho wife of tho See- retary. They discovered this fact, nnd warned Berexar thatif he did not resign ho would be impeached, and, when he dil ro- sigm, impeached him thut he might be ne- quitted beoause he had resigned! But in tho hunt for Beuxyar thoy brought to light another distinguished gentleman,—Gronar H. Pexoreroy, of Domocratio fame,—and besmirched him in some respeots as badly as they did Brrenar, For nino continuous months two separate Committees hounded Bocretary Roneson, and 1nquired into every matter public and privato in which ho Lind over been concerned. As o vesult, after taking evidence oqual to a thou. saud printed papers, the Committees, mainly composed of lnwyers, wero unable to stato that he had done auything criminal, and they recommonded that another Committee inquire if ho had committed any offanse, aud what; nnd whether Lis offense, if any, was impenolinble or not. .Another Committee, of which Chicago Banney was tho ohiof, for severnl months wonned around the Department of Justico, and for i while bonsted that they had dis. covered tho uso of £80,000 by orders of the President for corrupt politieal purpores. Vislons of an impeached Prosident aud At. torney-General, himself the leading manager, danced beforo Bannrex's eyes, but further in. vestigation disclosed that the $30,000 Lad beon used acoording to law to doteot and provent fraudulent registration and ballot- box stufing in Now York, and that the ex. penditure had reduced the Democratio ma- Jority 80,000 in New York City. Wheroupon, the bottom having fallen out, exposing noth- ing but Democratio obliquity, there was no fmpeachment of the President, and the in- vestigation was dropped, Banngy dropping with it, ‘While these investigations have becn going on in the name of reform, the House has from time to time been compelled to inves. tigate itsel?, Its own ofilcers, choson by iteelf, have ono after another proved faith- less, incompetent, and have required to bo dismisged, showing that if the Democratic House of eprosentatives, in the appoint- mont of s comparntively small numbor of officials, bas selected 8o many who have proved incompetent, dishonest, or unfit, ‘what will be the reavlt of placing at the dis- posal of tho entire civil servico of the United Btates, Bo with the rest. Of the thirty or more investigutions, the not result is the smirching of Bruxyap and Penvrrrox; all the rest is the more raviug of disappointed and bafifed. partisan malice. The Democratic-Confeder- ate House, ropresenting a party that has bioon' Lowling for ten years over tho avils of oxces- 'States on n snbjoct npon which he did not sive taxation and hard times, spent nine months in continuous ression, Rnd nover re- duced or proposed to raducs taxation to tho amount of apenny. Under the Conatitation, the ouse was oxclusively authorized to orig- innto bills to reduce taxolion. Armed with this absolute nnd exclusive authority, the party which hns boon weeping so many years mbont the woight of taxation under which the people are groaning prom. jsod much, but what has the party done? Br. MonnisoN proposed o bill, pro- pared outside of the House, to modify some portions of the taxation by the tariff, and the Ilouse for aight mouths refused to considor it, refused to take it up, rofased even to havo it rend or dobated. No other bill holding out oven a faint promise for the reduction of taxes wns ever proposed or hinted at. Under the Republican reforms institated and excented by Socrotary Dura- Tow, tho collection of the rovenuo had so improved a3 to promiso a Iarge incrense, bt thoe Democratic-Confedornte House inter. posed, and has 6o wenkened the machinery of collection as to threaten a loss of revenuo. In nnother article we have discusacd the claim that the Honse has reducod expondi- ture, but, even if this shonld prove to Lo true, the motive probably is to appropriato tho mone thus claimod to be saved to re- fund the tax collected during tho War from cotton, or to pny Southern claims for losses caused by the War, Nor has the Democratic-Confedernte Houso been any mora successful in denling with the .currency or providing a remedy for hard’| times. During the nine months of session the cnergy of the body has been dovoted to proventing a voto,being taken on any propo- sition concorning the currency. Even on the motion fo ropenl the Resumption act nearly half the Demoeratic membars ran nway, dodged the vote, and refused to go on the record cither for or ngainst the repeal. On the subject of the silver coinage, the samo cowardice and imbeeility ruled sn- prome. Tho bill suthorizing that coinage was never permitted to comse to a vote,— was choked off ; thess men aspiring to rule the nation dared not vots in favor of restor- ing the honest coin dollar which had beon snrreptitiously mpealed. ‘What, then, has the Democratie Confed- erate House dono during its nine ‘months’ continuous session? It has passed tho ap- proprintion bills, but, to its disgrace be it said, failod to pass one of them until after the fiscal year had begun, loaving tho Gov- ornment without moncy, and compelling a Tesort - to temporary bills overy few days. No such disgraceful incompetency was ever shown by auy pravious House in the history of the Government. This is the fall and complete record of the Democratic-Confoderate Honse, which, with its B0 to 100 mnjority, failed to enact one monsure of reform; to even proposa the re. duction of one penny of taxation; whick lott the currency, banking, and silver ques- tions untouched, and which hes closed its labors with the mere pasasge of the appro- priation bills, which might have been done in threo months, THE RIVER AND HARBOR APPEOPRIATION The message which tho President sent to the House on Monday last, announcing his approval of the River and Harbor Appropris- tion bill, although a vory brief one, is ncat, pertinent, and omphatic, and doen credit to the Prosident’s good judgment and common. senso viows of economy. Ho has nigned the hill, but he has stripped it of all possibilities of jobs, He has approved the matter of the bill, but the manner in which he proposed to carry it out set tho Democratic Roformors into a fine frenzy. They originally passed o bill appropriating six millions, mostly for jobs. The majority of the appropriations wore of a purely local charncter, not even rising to the dignity of a State, much loss na- tional, chnrnoter, Thero were appropristions for mill-ponds and horse-ponds, for gooso- creeks and duck-basins, for rivers whoso bull. heads and mud-turtlesaro never disturbed, for harbors whose waters wore never vexed by a kool, and nover will be, nnd for mill-dams erectod for tho bonefit of some solitary miller. Every Democeratio Reformer wns bent upon gotting bis hands into the Treasury and aponding soma of the public money in his district, rogardless of tho public necessity, so that ho might pave the way for ro-olection, The bill passed by the intensely Reform Houso wont to the Senate, and that body cut down tho sppropristions and sent it back, The Roformers clung to their mill. pond and goose.creok stenls, rojocted it, and then the Senate added to it, and the House adopted it. The Preaident has now ap- proved it and sent a mossage to tho Houso to that effect, but no Democratic Reformer will, on that acconnt bo ennbled to spend monoy on the duck-basing of his rural homs, or tho stagnact waters of his uncommorcial maritime abodo. The Presidont has indeed approved their bill, but he has madoe it an economical measure by the use of the dis. crotion that is vested in him by the bill itaclt, Tho money appropristed will only be spent whore it is actually needed, and where it will subsorve the publio advantage. “Undor no cirownstances will I allow ox- penditures not clesrly national,” was the pororation to this littlo menangs, It~ was o red rag shekon boforo tho Domocratic bull, Forgpetting all former protestationaof roform and cconomy, the bull was on the tampago. I'ho Roformers had set up numborless little jobs for the bonefit of themsolves and spocu- lators and coutractors among their con- stituents, The Senate had passed their bill, ‘The President had signed it, and yet all thoir littlo gamo wns spoiled. Thoy aseailed the Preaidont with all the fury of robbers cheated of their booty. Ho had violated the Con. stitution. He had deficd the will of the people. o had announced his determina- tion not to oboy the law. Ho proposed to nullify the will of the American Congress, The American Ropublioc was the Gorman Empiro, and the President was n Ozsan, After tho first ebullition of their fuss and fury, Republican mombora showed that the policy proposed by the President was warranted by the vory langunge of the bill, and Mr, Howman, a Domo- crat, sont o moro disastrous bomb- sholl futo tho ranks of the Reformers than tho messago itself, by poluting out the correctness of the Prosidont’s position and asserting that it Lad always beon good Dom- ocratio dootrine. The fuss end splutter of the Reformons showa that they were hit ina vory tender spot. While some Democratic members will miss the little appropriation with which they proposed to commend them. selvos to their constituonts, the whole coun- try will rojolcs that the President so prowpt- 1y aud thoroughly ‘put his foot upon this Demooratio extravagance and stamped {t out. New York llerald interviews at the best ara to bo accepted only with seversd grains of galt, and when it comes to formal. iy intorviewing the President of the United caras to appenr bofora the Congressional Comn- mittes having it in charge, it is only fair to assuma that the Jferald hns employed one of its imnginative writors rather than n short- hand reportor for the service. It is just pos. sible, howover, that the reportod interview with President Grant rolative to tho whisky prosecutions {8 a journalistio claboration of certaln eavesdvoppings, partly right nnd partly wrong., We have no doubt that when the DPresident is made to say that instoad of requesting Seoretary Bris. Tow's resignation he repeatedly rofused to accept it, but provailed upon the Socre- tary to remain longer than ho desired, itisn correct statement of the caso, Mr, Brisrow hns naver said or intimated anything to the contrary. But when the Presidont in roport. od ns saying that ho finally conclnded, from 1atters which cams under his observation, that Brisrow was at tho hoad of a ¢‘con. spimcy ” to mnke bhimself President, wo fancy tho eavesdroppings misled the roporto- rial listener, or ho supplied from his imagl. nation what was lacking in the mnterial at band. The facls are all the other way, and evon tho provious assertion pul in the Presi- dont's mouth, viz.,, that Lo insisted upon DBristow's remnining in the Cabinet, shows that he (the Prosidont) nover belioved Mr. Brispw was using his position to securs the nominstion for the Presidency. 'Che two stories do not hang togethor. RELATIVE VALUE OF SILVER AND GOLD. Elsewhore wo print M. P. C.'s communica- tion on tho relative value of silver and gold. 1t shows how dnngerous it is for one not familior with his ground to undortake to bandlo financial statistics or deduce conclu. siong from calculations tha bearings of which ho does not comprehend. M. P. O. secks to prove that silver is worth much less than it in, hoping in this way to mnke o point against tho demonetization of tho silver dol- lar. Mis only facts aro n borrowed table of the world's production of gold and silver which ks been publishied hundrods of times, and from it he deduces the ridiculous con- clusion that the ratlo value of sil. ver bullion to gold bullionis actuaily 88 46 to 1. M. P. O, has correctly copied the tablo ho gives, but, whore the origi- nnl table contains two estimates, ho has takan pains to omit the one loast favorabls to his argnment, Forinstance, the estimato he gives of the product of 1873—gold, 97.5; silver, 72; total, 160.5—la the ono mado by tho Journal des Ilconomistes, but the best in. formed consider 1t at least 810,000,000 too low for silver and considarably too low for gold. This alons produces a vicions miscal- culation in our correspondent’s cyphering, ML, P. 0. has mnde & very groat mistake. The preposterous variation of his ratio (46 to 1) from the ratio (164 to 1) that prevailed between gold and silver for the two hundred years before the American and German do- monetization of silver should have aroused his suspicions that he was in grave orror, and saved him from a mortifying ‘poblic exhibition of igmorancs, His whole assumption, that the relative valuo of gold and silver dopends on the relative amonnt of their recent annual production, is unfounded. Ho has utterly overlooked the immenss stock of coin on hand in the commercial world. According to the best authorities, this hes been and is as follows Stack of colnin] the ‘commar- clal world. Authority. $1,445,000,0001acob. 1 687,000,000, Gerboux, 2,500,000, 0001 McCulloch, +| 3,600,000, 00{Ernest Seyd. 4,000, 000, 000 Of the $4,000,000,000 of coin in existonce in 1876, Enxesr Seyp ostimntes that at lonst $2,800,000,000 are in gold alone. Not far from one-third of the annnal production of gold and silver is consumed in tho arta and for domestic purposos, and by wear and friction. The othoer two-thirds pass into ciroulation ns money—say, $100- 000,000 annually. The addition to the stock of monoy is, thorefors, only one- fortieth of the whole, while tho in- creasod demand for more coin by renson of Increascd population alone roquires most of this annual accrotion to tho stock of the precious matals, Tho chango in the relative value of gold and silver sinco 1858, based on production, can only be o slight one, for the relative gain in the quantity of silvor as compared with tho wholo stock on hand of the two motals in the world is but a small per cent. Ceriainly it will not account in any apprecinble de- groe for the sndden fall in silver or rise in gold whioh has occurred within the last six or cight months, Gorman domonetization and the sudden throwing on the Euglish markot of hundreds of tons of silver and the equally sudden absorption of gold to fill the vacuum accounts for tho phenomenn. Itis trne that the rslative walue of gold and silver varles, but bow much? In the first 1650 years of the Christion ern the fluctuations wore botween the limits of 113@ 18} of silvor to 1 of gold; in tha succeeding two conturies down to 1872 the rolation of silver to gold was 14.74@15.83 to 1, and the pravailing average was 164 to 1. In the period since tho domonetization in Germany and the United States, the ratio has ranged from 15.0@17.82 to 1. These ratios nre os- tablished by tho actual markot-value of gold and gilver in the markets of tho world, and not by any such ohimarieal oyphering as A, P. 0. has worked out. The experienco of all countrics and hundreda of yoars demon. strates that the amount of labor and eapital that will produco 1 ounce of gold will produce 15} ounces of silver, 'The poouliar durability of theso motals, the universality of their uso, and the fact that the conditiona of produotion and congumnp- tion show only slight aberrations, make it likely that their rolative value, when silvor {8 romonotized in this conutry, will continue to bo about what {t has boen, We conccive it to be a matter of vital importanco to the cowmercisl world that a relation, besio to all enloulations qf vnlue in trade and financo, establishod by conturies of use, not by theory, and not substitutable by any other, should bo maintained an nearly intact ns possible, and withs tho least possible political inter. fercnce, For that ronson wa favor tho his. toric double-standard, which is but the cx- presalon In monoy of the marvelons stability in relative value for thousands of yenrs of gold and silver, whick consequently constituto togother the best omrrency, f. ¢., the best mensuraof valuo and modium of exchange tho world can have Year A. D. It would not bo strange it the announos- montof tho death of Speaker Kzan would be olmost coutemporaueous with the ad. journwment of tho Congress over which he wos olectod to preside. Ifis ambition was far beyond his strength, aud his bad henlth hes permitted him to bo of littlo wser- vico to Congress or bis party, IIsd ko been in full vigor, itia probable that the Confed- erates in tho Houso would have beon saved from come of thelr extibitions of deplorable partyism and inordinate groed for power, which have been encournged undor the tom- porary Chairmauship of the doughface Cox and tho indolent Bayrrm. It is not prob. nble that Mr, Kinn, in auy ovent, will sur- vive to take his place when Congress meots noxt winter, and the Democrats will have ono mors epportunity to wrangle over tho olec- tion of n Bpeaker boforo they relapse into their accustomod minority. THE BH UZZING AGAIN, Tho littls Bhoo-Fly that Bry Burnen brushed away so contemptuously was buzz- ing agnin in the House on Mondny lnst, and was onco more swopt out of sight. Mr, Kassox seoms to have stirred” up the pest, and Mr, Hoan succeodad inbrushing it awny, "Thio dobnte on the Senate il to incranse tho cavalry forco for service in the Bioux war very naturally nssumed a political charactor, innamuch a8 the Democratio members had mado stronuous objections to any mensure thot wonld incrense the army., Having as. rumed n political charncter, it gave Mr, Kasson an opportunity to review tha rocord of TiuoeN, which ha {mproved to the fullest extent by showing his opposition to the Union cause during tho War of the Ile- bellion, and bLis“intimato conncotion_with Boss Tweep in the dsys of Democratio ballot-box stuflog in Now York City. The Reformers wora not in the bost of tempor for Kasson's onslnught. They had just boen on the rampago over tha Presidont's messsge on the river and harbor appropri. ation, which had cheatod them out of numor- ous little jobs, They hnd et up for theim- provemont of sundry goose-crocks and duck- ponds, and they had not entiroly recovered thoir equanimity when Kassox pouuced upon them, horse, foot, and dragoons, with re- freshing chapters from Stirreny Saamy's record. Tho ouslaught upon Kassoy, how- ovor, was not remarkably savagos, Senivorn struck ont in o weak mannor, and was soon floored amid the lsughter of the Houso. Lurrneuy followed ap Sramoen, and was rominded of the support ho had given' the South during tho War, and then he went to grass bodly demolished, Other Reformers enmo to the front, and went down one after the other bofors the victorious Kassow, Things . wors looking desperate for the Roformors, I{assoN was making an offl- cinl record for Trmoey which was to go befora the whole country, and Suirpeny Basory had no champion on tho floor who could dofend him. Then the 8hoo-Fly buzzed throngh the ITouse, At the risk of mixing metaphors, it may ba stated that the Shoo- Tly was bent upon » sensation, He crossed rapidly ovor to the Ropublican side of the Houso. He shonted * Liar!” to Mr. Kassox, There was wrath in the eye of the Shoo-Fly. His nrms wera brandishod about like flails in tho bands of lusty threshers. Ho strode down tho alale as tho lordly Sontherners used to stride whon they sought to over- come the Northorn mudsills, but he did not brandish cane, pistol, or bladgeon. He florcely flourishod a piece of paper which he said was Surerery Saste’s donial of all thesa baso charges. Thore is no knowing what the dangerous Shoo.Fly might have done, what atrocitics he might have com-' miited, what sangninary thrusts 'he might have mads with that pioce of paper, had not Mr. Hoan brushed him awny by proposing that he bo rebuked for approaching the Re- publican sido in a threatoning manner! The 8hoo-Fly's remarks were not continued, e had had his little buzz, and was brushed awsy. Dut Kasson's charge remained un. angwered, THE GOVEBRNMENT APPROFRIATIONS, The roal purposo of tho Confederate House in soverely cutting the appropriations for the expenses of the Government hns boen made spparont*in the mpeochos of Mossri.. Ravpany and others, in which an oxaggerated stotement of the amount saved iy put forth as o Twopex and Hesonicns campnign document. The trick is not a now one. In fact, Presidontial campnigns usnally bring the party in controlto a roalization of the necessity of putting the expenscs down to the lowest notch. Thus, the Republican Congress of 1808 reduced the appropriationg to $159,000,000, and, as prices ranged from 25 to 83 por cent higher at that time than now, that figure was really muck lower than the $147,722,210 now fixed by the Domo- crats. But the Repnblicans in that your placed the appropriations too low, a8 the Democrats have donma this yoar, and the following year there was a Inrge deficiency to make up, The same ox- porionce wjll be ropeated this yoar, but, as the deficiency will not becomo apparent un- til after the Presidontinl election s over, it is o mattor of indifforenco to the Domocratio managors, Wo deniro, novertheless, to approve the policy of rotronchment, oven if diotated by unworthy motives, to the extent that it has been honoestly practicod. But tho Democrata in this, as in moat statemonts mado up for campaign purposes, aro claiming too much, 'Thoy sot out early in the session with tho assertion that $60,000,000 conld be saved without erippling the publieservice. Then Mr, Ranpavry camo down to $40,000,000. Final- ly he reprosents that thero has been an po- tual saving of $29,000,000, We shall show, howover, that the roal saving isonly botwoon $18,000,000 nud $14,000,000, aud that this bas boen attained not by dropping the superfluous appropriations, such as for cor- tain river and harbor improvements, but by impniring the rovenue, army, navy, consular, and diplomatio aervice. 'Tho saving, then, Lins beon but about 10 per cont, though the City of Chicago has recently, nnder Repub- lican administration, mode n- general reduc- tion of from 25 to 50 per cont in municipal exponses without making any noise about'it, Ar. Senivarn’s statoment of the redudtion mude by the prosont Congress is aa follows: Appropriations, This year, ¢ year, .\Junf} Acad- yer, Lottyger 200,003.00 § 1184, 740.00 29,553,500.00 ~ 30, 000,000,00 diplomatlc 8, 670, 60 1,374, 085,00 850, 000.00 . 3 Fartitications 5,000.00 Logislative, ex+ ccative, " an I"hnllc:lll.. 15,373,000.00 18,002,230,00 vora and Bar- arn.. A 0,040,517.50 1,703,000 18 32,5621,561.00 st 2 27,033,830, 00 0, 644, 350.00 147,722, 210,83 §177,303,280.71 1 , 210,85 Last year ovor this year.,.......8 . 40,581,007,70 This s deceptivo by reason of omitting to eredit tho provioug year with the deficlency made up nud the” unexpended balaucws, A fairer statement is as follow: Actual expenditaros in 1875, Appropriutions for 1670, Apparent saving.. 23,807, 033 But, in order to arrive at the actual naving, there must further be deducted from this apparent saving soveral items which do not uppoar in Mr, Seminaer's statement, though appropriated, oud others for amuunts that will have to be paid aud are simply post- poued, aud so do uot apyear in tho presont $171,820,R18 17,727,210 yosr'a list. Following aro some of the itoms, lonving many others probably of which wo are not informed + Centenninl eppropriation. ... .. 1,500,000 Jidzment of Court of Claima 2,000,000 Ponslons unprovided for, 500,000 Tenppropriation (unex 4,000,000 Warliington mannnient, 200,000 Ttevairing Pennaylvania venna 200,000 Lreor In Seninaxu's footlngs, discovers el by Mr, l'osTen, 43,040 Totaliuvesnees . .$0,443,040 Deduct this $10,000,000 (in ronnd figutes) from tho apparent saving of $23,807,688, ond it loaves tho r2al saving what we have stated it be, viz.: botweon 18,000,000 and 314,000,000, or abont 10 per cent of tha entiro amount finally appropristed. If tho Democratic majority in the House conld only aurtail 10 por cont aftor starting on} to reduce about 40 por cont, and in view of the much larger shrinkage in prices, then it is a pretty conclusivo testimonfhl to the econom- ical administration of the Republican party during tho lnst yonr. If the temptation to mnke capital for tho Prosidentirl campaign did not accomplish more than this, then it in certaln thal tho Democrats did not dore to cut deoper, nnd hrd to nc- knowledge that the Republican party hod heen running the Governmont ox- ponses 03 closely as possible, The ro- duction, nsn matier of fuct, docs not coms paro with that made yenr after yenr, when tho extraordinary oxpenses of the War wero atond. The following ntatoment will show the decronso of cxponsos for soveral yeara aftor the War closed,—the cost of the last year of the War boing the enormous sum of $1,217,704,199: Frpenditures. 5, 054, 791 047, 7! Thus the Republican party brought about an averago reduction of sbout 15 per cent por snnum on the provious year, from tho timo tho War closad up to the year of the panic, though those were days of gencral prosperity, lively speculation, and high prices; yot the Democrats, after working ton months at the job, have not beon able to mako & rotiuction of moro than 10 per cont, though prices generally have declined some. thing like 25 per cent. It is n confession that the Ropublican party has been running tho Governmént ns economieally ng 1t could bo done. Even this savingof 10 per cont (whick oannot bo nbeolutely counted upon till after tho doficioncy bill of mnext yoar shall bo made up) has beon bronght about. by violation of contracts, cutting down & more skeloton of an army, postponing appropriations for works that must be complated sooner-or later, dropping Mintaters to cortain nations and Consuls at certain important commercial cities, and crippling the rovenne service 5o as to endnn- gor tho collection of taxes, while voting the usual Congressional steals in the River and Harbor bill. Morcover, there 18 but a feablo promise of making this reduction of appro- priations practienl and permanent, inasmuch s there has been no effort mado to reduco taxation in proportion,—a circumstance which looks very much as though the Demo- crats intended to *‘gobblo” the money in one way or another, if they shall be permit- tod to obtain control of the Gevernment. At all ovents, while pretending te reduce ex- penses, they require that just a8 much money shall be collected from the poople in taxes, ‘What do thoy propose to do with the differ- ouco? GERMAN MANUFAOTURES, Tho American Centennisl Exposition has brought a cruol nnd useful mortification of the spirit upon Gormany. That nation in the first flush of national life has looked at horself with the fond confidence usual to very young persons, and sent hor goods to the Centennial with theexpectation, probably, thnt thoy wonld challenge the admiration of tho world. If on American aritic had run connter to this opinion, Gormany would haverojeoted his judgment as vociferously and viciously ns the Amoricans scoffed at the caustio censuros of Dickens, But when Prof. Rravneaux, the chief' German Com- missioner to tho Contenuial, writes homo that the apparent anim of Ger. man manufacturera is to produce goods “chenp and nasty,” and that they succeed to porfoction in doing it; and that Ger- man industry is steoped in utter servility to the polltical personages of the Empire, repro- ducing Brsmancx statues, lted Princes, aud thelike, in every matorial from gilt-bronze to common sonp; whon the Professor, with genuino German roughness, says Phis, his fellow-countrymon are foreed to admit that ho must bo right. The most intonse exoite- ment has boon aroused in the Fatherland by bis ptterances, embodied in a somi-oflicial lot- tor the National Zatung of Berlin, and they are likely to have serions political results, particularly in logislation to regulate labor and industry, 'The Betlin correspondent of the London TYmes ratifies the judgment of Prof. Reavreavx, and gives this description of the causes that led to that relaxation of commercial and socinl restraintawhich lies at the root of Germany's industrinl deteriora- tion : A perfeet cornucopla of Iawa was enacted, atimn- Tating thele pupular tendenclos, Poor wen wero euabled to leavo tholr restdencesand go where they listod. = Artirana and apprentices were practicaliy allowed lo desert thelr masters at 6 moment’s notice and break engagements with impunlty, Marriages wero piacad within (he reachiof the vinallest putso, and relief was granted to paupors on cavy terme, An wu indlepensable suppleinunt 1o theso sweepin, wmeusures, joint stock companies wore emancipules from Uuvernment control, and the cxerclso of yvery spccies of trade, whethier afngly or by a combina- tion of porsons, wus made cxclunlvury dopendunt npon tho will of tudividuals. These altcrations wh)cldlng with a porlod of colnmnorelul proaperity &l over the world, great was the comnmotion occa. sioned by them In every partof the land, The Tower classes eapccially were solzed by o vehement Jouging to belter thomaelve \mfi the law no longer impeding thelr movewents and capitaliste ateadily demanding lands, journeymen laborers suddenly found It pooslble to exact Bigh wacas and arlopt a more libural stylo of lifs, 'The influx af the fumous five milllards after the last campaign cunsed this movoment to reach au excosaivo helulfi. Fora year or two lnmends wisgod wero granted— Wwuges to uemrlll‘y which 1t wlll be sulicient ta any that, according to & decision given by tho Her. 1in Clty Court, & man carrylng bricke In & hod earned 158 & day {n this Copltal, A, D, 1672, The rivo In the prico of rent -mr Rmvl-lona consequent upon this in due time drow the middio classes into the vortex, mnking an increased income w neces- sity, and inducingupeculation and enterprise where thoy wera formerly whunned, Add to this that whilo tho neccasarles of 1ife became woro expen- sive, the luxuries indulged In by the rich anathos that iad formerly been puor—the junrueymen Ju- Lorers—had & tendency to infuct the unpretondini ntddle classes, sad you will underatand the gen- wral craviug for muney thut suddeuly set tu. . Cone trary to uhat had jorvinarly been ike caae in tiers muny, where o {rade was consldered @ calling to which o man clung with ull Als heart, i now be- cume awneans df making money, Soclalists did thelr ‘beat 1o ageravate the feefing. In this mor- cunary aplrit ks the old excellence of Uerman worlinanship been lont for the presont. Whilethe German vperative cousilons himself a wronged in- dividual and will take but littlo Intercst in )fl- svork, 10 achool of Industry will restare tho manu-. facturers gt Lhis country to thelr focmor fame, ‘I'his condition of afiairs is not peculiar to Gernny, Tho same debasement of the standard of work 1y visible here, In the cfortsof laborers to ruach s juster equifib- vlum in thelr relations to their employers, the pendulum has beon swung too far on thelr side. - Tho regulations of labor-unions, {he laws procured from Legislatures by the political influgnce of workingmen, have been iu many instances unjust and absurd, Lhey — havo not beon leasso than the ngpressions of omployers in the proceding years when lntng had no defensive organization, The unfons have beon shortening houy, reducing the number of l\pN’En!icm: intorfering with proper discipline, Attemnpt. J| fag to dicato bo employors, A wpirit of Tests lessness nnd discontont hoa been oxolted thnt Lias insidiously found expression in the work done, Insubordination expresses itaolf in shabby production, discontent ia ravealeq in imporfectionn arid woakneas. Workingmen bave not stopped with mecking to shorten hours and inercase wagos, but have Aought to give less by giving what was worthless, Auy ordinarlly obsorvaut man who Lag watched the constriction of buildings, care. fully oxaminod any number of gy, ufactured articles from a shoo {0 , pisno, or hns looked at a body of men. at work, can supply & hundreq proatical illustration of theso remarks, Had the inflation and delirinm of the \\'nr-pcrlml, with ita rising prices and sudden fortunes, continued much longer, it would fnally hayq becomo impossiblo to find any one willing to acknowledge himself a workingmau, The crash and long prostration have dono goodd work in industrial circles as woll a3 among the commercial classes. In the Iatter, the vicious extension of credit and reckless croc. tlon of mountains of debt have been arrested, and thronghout tho country business men arg again settling down to conservative methody, The same compression of tho hard times iy rolioving the lnboring classes of their gascous viows about high wages, minimum hours, and dietation to eapital, When tho compression i comploto, tho hard times will be over, Ona of the things now noeded to rostore prosper. ity is a return, on all hands, to the fashion of hard work. A Congressional spology, coming espe. cinlly from n mombor of Sunset Cox's calibre, can searcely bo regarded as worth waiting for all night, and yet the House did not adjourn till 6 o'elock yestorday mom. ing, but spent tho entire provions night in fHlibustoring after Cox had ealled Mr. Kassoy aliar, Tho fact ia that Mr, Kassoy got in such tolling blows on the Democratio candi. date for President that tho Democrats did not dare to lat his spoech pass without soma attempt to break its force, But tho Repub. licans would not let Cox reply beeauss ho began by vigjating all tho propriotics, 'As n truce, Mr. HewrTr wna permitted to take up the gauntlet, and so the Democrats will linva tho Inst word in the stump.oratory of Con. gress. They certainly necd it, but we doubt very much whother it will do them the good they ovidently anticipate from it. Unfortu- nately for Truory and his party, tho rocord bears ont all the charges that have been put upon his disloyalty, and donials now will not help the mattor, i T TTT—— The Prosident, in a recent interviow with a correspondont of the New York Ierald, stated thot he had always rogarded M, Bnistow with the fullest confidence, good will, and respogt, and that he had nover questioned Lis integrity or probity. In con- clusion, the President said: “My frionds Jaughed at mo when I gave it finnlly ns my opinion, from the facts and information brought to my knowledge by persons whem T thought relinble, that there was a conspira: cy on foat, in which he took part, portain- ing to the Presidential candidacy, and I re. gret the conclusion forced upon me that thore * ‘was more than seeming truth in the supposi- tion concorning himself.” ,The very qualities of character with which the Presidentin- ° vestod the exocretary should have con« vinced him of tho groundlessness of his sus. picions. Tho escape of the Fenfan prisoners from Freecmantle, Australin, on the New Bedford whale-ship Catalpa, st tlie whole colony by tha ears, The ncws of the dellvery was hailed with delight by the people, while tho authorls tles grimly mado cllort to retake the convicta. ‘The latter bad put to seain o whale-boat, and the police-boat and tho Catalpa opened i lyely race for the possession of {t. The Amecrlean ship had the advantage, and ewooping down gathered up the prisoncrs and put to sea. Next dny tho Georgette took up the pursult, and, ovorhauling tho Catalpa, SBupt. 8roxe demand- ed tho return of tho six escaped convicts to the Governor of Western Australla, The Maater of the Catalpa raised the Amerlean flag, and uttered notes of deflafice. Bupt. 8roN® poiuted tos man standing with a lighted match fu his land, at the side of his gun, and nnuounced that, unless the prisoners wero givon up, he would fire into the American ship and sink or disable her. There was no aign of capltulation, and Supt. 8ToNE, remarking that his Governi- ment would communicato with the authorities at Washington, blew out his match and wens Lome. ——— At the little Town of Ogallala, sltusted on the Pacliic Rallroad, between Ogden and Omahin, o man jumped futoa Pullman car and hurried into n berth. No one Lnew him, and he at- tracted but lttlo attontlon, Atthe next statlon the car was boarded by a number of cuttlo men, who, after a thorough search, pulled out the stranger from Ogallala. Ho refused to leave the train, when o fight ensued, and tho afr wis filled with the muslc of whistling pistol-balls. Curtains were torn down, the aflrighted passen- gers sprang froul’ the car, and the pralrle was llumined with tho dancing night-gowned Sgurcs, ‘Tho object of the search was fually taken out, mounted on & mule, and driven back to Ogal- lala, whero ho was recognized 88 a gambler who, through the (nnocent fustrumentality of o “brace game,” had Schenckedthe honvet cattle- dealers of that baillwick out of from $8,000 to $10,000, 1Ile had cacaped from thelr wrath, but ‘was recaptured on o telegram. ———— Tho formal report of A, Roupainry, made re- cently, sccins to set ot rest any doubt of tho feasibility of cnguiting the desort of Alglers In the waters of the Mediterrancan 8ca. M. Rou- pame, whols e Captain on the French stafl, hos made 8 Me-study of the geography aud comiercial devolopment of Algicrs, Afteran exhaustive explorationof the old basin, he becamo satisfled that the faland sea or gulf which ex- Isted somo twenty centuries ago can be reatored, ond that by turning tho waters of the sea upon the desert the result would exert no juconsid- erable fnfluence upon tho commerce of the clv- flized world. The bed of the proposed gulf i3 850 kllometers in length by 60 {n breadth, or 210 by 28 miles, nearly the size of Lake Michigan. The expense would be from 80,000,000 to 100, 000,000 francs, of which tho Tunistan Govern went s wiiling to Lear its share, i — Col. J, 0. BLaox, who was recently nominaw ed for Congress on tho Independent and Cone federate tickets at Champalgn, has gone to Col- orado. 14 (s Intbnated in that vicinity that the Coloncl has abseuted himself tocscape somuvery inconvenient catechizing during the campaign. A wan who is ridiog two horses golng in dif- fercut directions might find it troublesoms to satlsfyaperson curfoustoknow where ho was go- inz. Tha Colonel, having accepted no:ulnations upon a hard-monuy and a soft-tnoney platform, fuds it necessary to aveld tho proximity of In- quisitive persons, & e ——— Among * Letters from the People ? was ono published a fortulght sgo, which eriticlied Mr. 8. F', Cany’s demugogical speech at the Cingin- nat! *bread-or-blood” meeting, and alleged that his futorest fu thoe laboriug classca was sim- uluted, a3 he performed no manual labor hime sit - Ono sentence wus averlooked by the copy-