Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 18, 1876, Page 4

The Tribwwe, Sa—— TERMS OF SUBSCRIMPION. WAYANLE IN ADVANCR—I'OSTAGE I'REPAID AT i TS OFFICE. { Dati mlnn, postpatit, Jyear 2.00 t3'arta ol & year, permontis. . L 7tailed to ane sddsess four wéeis 1 Lo Literary mid am et pated, 1 yea 5. 0 © WAPKLY LDITIOR, VOSIIAID, y 150 L o e year L €I nf Ave - S0Iub of trent 20,00 A#ipechinen coplos Meht frea. {" 'To picvent dalay and mistaken, be anreand glve Poste . ©Officn sadzess In fuil, lncluding State and County. Remiitances may betnade either hy draft, express, APea-Otice ordet, or in rexistered lotters, at our risk, E FENAMY TO CITY SUBHCHIBKRS, aily, delleered, tanday eavepted, 23 couts per week, fiy, deilsered, ay Anclude cents perweek I COMPANY, e TUE i Cojuer [4adlam wnd Dearboracata., Chicago, Ll 3 TILDEN'S RECORD. %L i A ARYAT CAMPAION DOCUMENT, « Therecord eonclmivaly proves that ha was— ' 4. A_SECESSIONIST, AND OPPOSED 10 THE ISTATL FOR THE MAINTE) OF TIHE UNION. } 2. A ROSOM FRIEND OF o2y TWELD" AND 8 BKMBRR OF THE TAMMANY GANG. lA“ WILO REDGCED NO Uil T 13 BY HIORACK G 1t OF SHINPLASPERS TO HOR- N REGIONS OF MICUIGAN, TAILROAD SHAREK, Wil0 DEVOURING WESTERN E ADS IN FINAN ROUBLE. * | Thts mreat Camnpalgn Document fills four pages nt i Trinuxxalze, A cony thereaf shonid be placed in the ! Diatids of every vater i the West. d Wheeler Clube ovorywhers should order or distribution, OF THE RECORD, or oxpress, With charges patd, L ) £ **Tilden's ltecord 1t w1l he xent o the following ters Iy the 1,03 raples, spec Bind orders lnuncalately for T L 1.0n . F. and A, n||‘t‘-fl 4 unleation this 7 5. A prai Ut W by 1y order of Secretary, Adeinhi Thestre, Monroe street, coraer Dearborn. Varlety pesfora. nce. New Chilu Clark stroet, belween Lal *tey's Minstrols. Thoatro, ke god landolph Tloo- Haoley's Thontra. Randolph atreet, etween Clark and Lasalle. ** Oar Doarding- Uouse. \ Exposition nul)dln't‘:. S alzn Shore, fuot of Adanis atrest, Promensds Cons ,L‘”‘n Ihy ke Genwan Military Band. Atterooon and evening. FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1876. Greenbncks at the New York Gold Ex- change yesterday closed at $5]@90. In nccordancs with the provisions of the &Leopislative, Judicial, and Mxoeutive bill, the “Presidont Ly ordered the consolidation of Tntornel Rovenno Districts in varions States, Tho effect of tho consolidation is to dispense + with tho servicos of thirty-five Collactors, A letter from our correspondent with Gon. Trany's expedition, dato of Aug. ¥, is printed “Ahismorning, 'The column broke camp on the morning of tho bth, and moved south along the Roscbud River in the direotion of Gen. Croox's command, the purpose boing to form o junctiou with the latter, The Centenninl Cowmissioners from New South Wales, Australia, are exhorting the Canndiaus to trade more liberally with their grent insulnr country, The Board of T'rade of Toronlo yesterdny formally considered the mutter. Tho low tariffs of Conada and the nbsenco of all tariffs in Australia groatly favor the movement. Gen, Suresax will at present issue no or- der relative to the lccation of troops in tha Houthiern States, but will furnish offieers in commnnd of detachments with copies of tho Dresident's ordor on that subject for their information and guidance. Mensurea for the enforcement of the Election law in all pavts of tho United States aro undor considerntion by the Department of Justice, und nothing will be left undone that will awist in tho prevention of {rand, violenco, or intimida. tion. —— Tho "Tall Sycrmore of the Wabnsh wishen fhe world to understand that, notwithstand- ing TiLvex's winplo ability to raise tho wind, ho rewning unkbuken in his houtility to the nomines of the Kilkeuny love-foast held Jocently nt St. Louis. But Mr, Voonners impresses tho honesty of his principles wpon tho world by going round the country Jaranguing soft-money Ropublienns in the nume of Peren Cooren and the irrodeemuble groenback forever, A quality of conduct re- dounding less palpably to the intorest of the Albany Railrond-Reformer would straiu bet- tor in the eyco of the fow people still relue- tant to condemn Danren W, Vooruris us o duplex domagogus, Yesterdny's conference botweon the City and County Cornmittees on the subject of the Court-Houss stone was not uttogether barron «of results, ulthough us a conferonco it was o fuilure, tho county conferees showing no disposition to recoguize the right of tho city representatives to any voice in the seloction of tho rtons or the awnrd of the contraet. A victory for the tas-payers was gained in the moditleation of Wargzu's bid 92 cents per foot, and in tho veductions cortain to bo made by other bidders, who will also claim the privilege of altering their propossls. It is not difiicult to detoet in tho proceedings yestenlday indications of the pur. pose of the County Ring to pick a quarrel with Mr. Eoay, the architact, with a view to ansting bim nnd puttivg in sowe one who will enter into the carrupt entorprises of the . Ring. No higler compliment could be paid Mr. Eoav thau is implicd in the ¢cnmity of dlcCarrury, Jol ‘Tho Chicago produce warkets wero lovs act- ive yestorday in the oggregoto, Provisions ware casicr and breadstuffs firm, Meas pork closed 20e per brllower, at $17.20 for August or Beptembor, and $14.80@14.85 seller tho year, Tard closed 15¢ per 100 ibs lower, at §10.45 cash or Septcmber, and §9.30@9.85 seller the yenr, Meats were steadier, at 7¢ for boxed shoulders, §jc for do short ribs, wud 9o for do short clears. Lake froights waro uctive, ot 1je for cornto Buffalo, lail freights were unchanged. Highwines wore waticr, ut $1.10 por gallon, Flour was less wetivoand i, Wheat closed a shado essier, o4 B34c for August, and 8640 for Beptember, Corn closod {e Lighey, at 44)o cash and 44ic “for Beptember, Oats closed je bigher, st S0§e cush and 80%c for Beptember. Ly wos quict, at ;58¢, Varley was a shiado easicr, for September, Hogwwere active, &t L@lve desline, with the bulk of sales ot $5.7546.25. Cattle wero in good demand and were firin, Balea wore reported st $2.25 @5.12). Bheep were nominal, at §3.00@4.50 for common to prime. One hundred dollara in gold would buy %$111.12} in greenbacks at tho close, e ———— We print olsewhere a statemont from Whashington to tho effcct thet the books of the Union Pacific Railroad Company contain the record of the payment fu ome chock of $26,000 to 8axver J. TiLprw, shortly aftor the Credit-Mobilier transactions, and hias re- coipt aleo for that amount. It is a matter of common notoriety that T1Loex adviged OAnzs Amzs and Lis assoviatos how they conld ac. complish that litle oporation by which the stockholders of tho road were awindled out of $43,000,000. After the Credit Mobilier com- tuenced its robbery, Tinprs's name does not appear a3 & stockholder, although it hnd be. fore. That ho bnd some connection with the robbery, howaver, is svident enongh from this $25,000 check and hia receipt therefor, What was tho consideration renderod ? All the way from tho Pacifl c Const comesa valuoblo contribution to current campaign litorature, Yho Oskland (Cal) Transeript publishes a lotter fromn Col. A. Rrpstose, showing conclusively that in 1862 Troauss A. Iexonicss, Damocratic candidato for Viee-President of the United States, wos an active member ‘of the sccrot treasomablo order of Kuights of tho Golden Circle, and as such was a participant in the plot to seize Camp Morton, liberate the Rebel prisoners, ansassinato Gov. Montoy, and give ovor the State of Indinna to tho Southern Confed- eracy. 'Thodetails of this plot and the man- nor in which it way frustrated, ne supplied in Col. Rensroxe's lotter, will be voad with intorest at this timo. The Ttepublicans of Kansas have nominat. ed Col. D. R, AxTitony, of Leavanworth, as their candidato for Governor, anl propose to oloct him by 25,000 majority, Col. AnTmONY took a veory active part 1n tho struggle against the Missouri *border-rafiians," in 1854.'5,and contributed ug muck as auy man in Kansas to boat back the pro-slavery banditti, and make Kansas n frow Stato. When the Rebollion brokaouthe drew hissword onthe Union side, and did not sheathe it while a Rebel remained in arms against the Govarnmnent. For reveral yonrs past he has published and edited tho luading Ropubliean paper in Kaoaas, A yoar ago his lifo was sttempted by a ruffian, who inflicscd what was bolieved to bo a mor- tal wonnd, but, to the surprise of everybody, including his doctors, he survived, and lived 10 bea candidate far Governor, with a moral cortainty of election by an immense majori- ty. Ho is a man of remarkable onergy, rosolution, and courage,—a porfoct specimon of Kansas grit and go.abead. BOUTHERN VIEWS OF THE CANVASS, . Banxwern Ruerr, Jr., a Sonthern poli- tician of tho irreconcilable order, and editor of the Charleston (8. C.) Journal of Com- merce, hos writton & lotter to tho New York dlerald, stating his rensons for supporting Tuoex and Iesonices, and Col. Jomy S, Aosny, tho ex-guerrilla chicftain, has also writton a lotter to an ex-Confoderate friend, atating tho reasons why ho supports Hayra and Wureren, Both thess men wore violent Robely during the War. Tho one used his utmost ondoavors with tho pen and the other with the sword to break down the Govern. ment and disrapt the Union. Then they stood on tho eamo plane,—now on widely diverging lines; and, as thoy havegiven their rorsons for taking theso dificront ronds, in- stead of travoling together, a sketch of their tostimony will provo of intorest, ns showing the coudition of tho canvass in the South, Mr. Ruerr brings forward uothing now in his letter, but, on the othor hand, rehearses tho stalo stuff that tho Domocratic party ia tho only party that can presorve the Constitution, and give peace and har- mony to thosa living under it; that it is the only Union party, and that, unless it bo anc. cossful in the pending elaction, it is the lnst chnnco for good and stable government in tho United States. This is identleally the samo view of tho situation that Mr. Ruerr aund his fellows in the South held and ut- tored prior to Mr, Lincoun's election. Thon, #3 now, if the Democratio parly were not nuccesuful it was to bo the end of good gov. crnment. 'That party was not muccessful, and Mr. Rurrr, in common with the rest of tho South, sought to maka goud the prophecy by attompting lo overtinbw tho Govern. ment, in which they miserably falled, thoro- by bringing upon themselves the disaster nnd misery which hove sinco cnsued. He further states, as o reason for supporting TipeN, the old exploded heresy of Stato Sovoroignty, in the operation of which he arrayed bimself ngainst the Government during the War, and advocates the Democratio ticket becanse ho hopes, in the event of its succoss, to sco thig infamony doclrine re-established, with what ulterior end in viow it does not need a prophet to foresee. Lastly, Ar, Ruerr howls for reform quito as lustily ay Slippery Sax himsclf, and urges this ay a rewson why ho is going to voto for him, Upon tha negro question ho is not quite os esplicit ns ono conld wish., Ho is willing ‘“to let thom reach freely thoir own proper lovel.” What is My, Ruerr’s ides of the propor lavel of o negro? What is the Sonth. orn idenof that lavel? Wao noed not answor tho question. Pending the negro gueation, Lo shirks tho responsibility for the SBoutLern outrages in the following manner : S0 far ¥e outrages nro concerned, thers fv no more orderly or Jaw-ubiding peoplo in the Unitud E1ates thun those of Sonth Caratiua. In proot, lot me recall that in 1852, when two white men named MorLry and Biackienak, the former s man af soma family influeuce, met u runaway negro near Purker's Ferry, on the Edfsto River, 40 miles trom Charleston, and killed bim by & blow on the hesd a3 b tried to oet away, nithuyzh the name of the negro was unknown and also the name of is mase ter, theae men were tried, condemned, and hong at Walterboro, At that thne law existed for the pro. tectton of oll, and, with Democratic govornment, it will be s0 aguin, Yes, but does not My, Rurrr remember that the negro whow the two white men killed was o chattel, and that in destroying him they destroyed some handreds or thou- sonds of dollars worth of property, which was 8 grove offunso in the eyes of the South- orn sluveholders? Are white men hanged uow for killiug nogroes? 1as any one been hanged for killing negrocs in Mississippi aud Loulslaoa? Ins any onu been hauged for killing the uegroes ut Hamburg in Lis own Stato-—negroes who had been guilty of no offense and who woro murdered fn cold blood ? Col, Mosny was a soldier during the War, and wo mny thorefors anturally expoct more manly utteyances from Lim thun from o pol- iticlan, and such proves to bo the cnae, Mo probably bad no knowl- edge of Mr, Ruerr's lettor when ke set forth his remsons for supporting Harrs and Wieeres, but his letter is us per- fect un answer to Ruxre’s pencralities as i ho had undoriaken exprossly to refute thes, Ho ¢xposes the fallavy of Buxir's view of THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE I'RIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1876, State sovereignty, hy showing that *the sectional unity " of tho Bouthorn people has been the governing idea and bano of their politics, and tiat, so long ns it continucs, “the War will be a controlling clement of politics, for any ery in tho South that unites the Confedorates re.cchoes through tho North and rekindles the War-fires there.” 1o disposes of tho nlleged hostility of tho North towanls tho South as followa: ** You speak of the bitter hostility of the North townrd tho South, Well, four years of hard Bghting iu not calcalated to make men love oach other; neither Is an everlasting re- hearsal of the wrongs which onch side imagines it Lins suffered going to bring us auy nearer to a better understanding. Peaco con only come wilh oblivion of tho pust.” He puuctures the nbsurd huo and ery of ro- foru, aud exposes its sballownoss nnd bypocrisy in the following words : Hut the Democrate arm golng to rebulld every- tUing §f they get porscsalon of tho Government, they eay. Hinve you ever known a party out of power that did wot promise reform to gel int Haa there heen one single abuse exposed for which the Democrata hnve nat establishied o precedent? Do you think that a higherstanilard of morality would prevail In publiclife by transferring the Infuence of ‘Taminany llali to Washington? 1lae that been s proper achool to educale reformera?, T kuow nothing of Gov, TiLsN except that he' has lang been the leader uf his party in New York, whose colossal robberies have lioen the opprobrium of American politics, When Gov, TN Las purl- tied politics in his own Stato it will ba time cnough Ahen to turn his attention to the National Adminiy- tration. e condonses his veasons for snpporting TLaves and Witertes in the following forci- Dble statoment : 1f you wish tn know, then, the gronnid of my sup- port of larea, it Is this: Any good ' which the Southern poople wight derive from the eclection of Tiwoes would equally result from thelr snpport of Mavre. ‘they can vote for HAves, but they can't elect Trunex, But 1auw far from thinking that the election of aDemocrat, even if such a thing were possible, wonld Le nn unmixed blesalng to the South. On the contrary, 1 fenr it would open & TPandora's bux of evils. ‘The very remote prospect I aleeady arcited hopeaand expectatlons that ean never bo realized, 1f such a thing shonld ocenr 23 the clection of & President by s onfted South rombining with a mere fragment of the North, [t would simply roviva the old contlict of the sections, A transformation by takea place in the state of pacties, The Republican now ropresents the prine ciple of consersatinn, while 1 can concelve no woree form of radicalism than the reactlonary movements thet would full onn Honrhon restora. tion. No ane denlrex more than | do that the South should get its full share of the bunafits and exer- cire n juut inneuca fu the ndministeation of tho Government. But thls canuot bedous by voting for "TILLRY. . The differonco Listwesn thasa two men is the differance hetwaen a soctional partisan who scos in the alestion of Truoen the re- ostablishment of Houthern control and an opportunity to reassert those Houthorn dogmas which have eaused so much misery in tho pnst, and A manly, straightforwnrd soldier, who, having done what he conceived 1o ba his duty during the War, is now con- vinced of his inistake and is doing what ho couceives to be his duty ss a Union man. THE COURT-HOUSE STONE. The vory first step taken by the Ring members of the County Board whon the stono contract presented itself was to vote that the Court-Fouse shonld be built exclu. sively of limestone. This was for the pur- poso of narrowing down the compotition, so that it would bo easier to lot Mr. Warznn in with his ontrageously high bid, and it did in fnct exclude all the sandstone bids, the highest of which, we believe, was lower than the lowest of tha limestono bids. "T'ho out- rogeous chractor of this proceeding wes rendorod the more glaring by the fact that sandstono is admittedly saperior to tho qual- ity of limestono that can bo obtained in this noction of the country. The exporienco of Chicago poople with limestons previous to tho fire of 1871, and its roady yielding to the flames in that conflagration, led to a moro general adoption of brick, iron, and Lake Superior, Michigan, and Ohio sandstones, in preferonce to tho limestone. Uho limestono #cales and discolors rapidly under exposurs to the weather, and crumbles nnd fnlls quickly undor tho heat of a large firo, Tho sandstone, on the contrary, having n atronger basis in natural formation, is materinl that, properly constructed end surrounded, will last foraver. It is ovident that the County Ring counted upon tho support of Mr. Eoaw, tho Court-Ilouss architect, to bear them out in their professod preferencoe for limestone, which was rerlly only preferenco for o Ring contract over an honest contract. Ar. Eday, as an employo of tho Board, was naturally disinclined to antagonizo it, and it wasonly yesterday that, forced to declare himsolf, he gove the Com- wmitteo n written opinjon, in which ho snid, with rofcrence lo the compnrative qualities of gandstone and the limestono of this region, that, *“with respect to fire-proof qualitios, sandstono is undoubtedly botter material”; and Lo added that ho considers ¢ the Am- herst nnd Berea sandstones to be fully equal to any stone oxcept granite,” and furthor, that “for absolute safoty from scaling and disintogration tho Amborst stone hes advan. tages over the Cook County limeatone,” The Aldormen who were presont ut the confor- enco gonerally ngreed with thid opinion, ns will nine monont of every ten whohave given the subject any attention. Only McCar- roey, Cosny, Crriny, and Jonxson—the Warxzs men—adhered to the limestono. At tho very next mooting of the Bnard the houost membery should make an effort to ro- peal tho infamous resolution limiting tha so- loction to limestone, which really contines tha county to tha poorer quality and the highest pricea. 1f tho Ring rofuse td recede from this resolution, it will bs evidont that they have not abandoned their denigns, ond it will ba nccoptod as o warning; if they con. sent to recode, thore will bo something gain- od in the iuterost of an honest contract. ASSAULTS ON TILDEN., Bomo of tho Democratio pupers ara already beginning to fecl solicitous abont the ameni- tics of the canvass, and deprocate the He- publiean attacks wpon Tiroey, especially since Gov. Hayes bas not been attacked by the Demoocrats, 'Fhe reason why Gov, 1aves hos not been assailod by the Demo- crats s because he ig invuloerable, and there t4 no spot on bis privato lifoor publio career, So far as the psssultsupon Trenen's charactor are coucernod, it should bo rewemmbered that they originated in the housv of his own friends, It was tho Chicago 7¥mes that be. apattered him with mud, aud applied to him every cpithot In tho vocabulary of its Bil. llugsgute. It was the Cincinnati Enguirer that prodicted his Adminjetration, if he ! should huppen Lo bo elected, would b tho | most corrupt ever known in tho history of this conntry, It was tho Cincinunti Znquirer, also, that exposed him as a shinplaster finnn. cier. It was the New York Krpress that tirst published his dealings with the Teve Haute, Alton & St. Louls Railroad. It was Democrntio nowspapers that bestowed npon kim tho namces of **Blippery Han,* * Rail- way Bhark,” *Shinplaster San,” eto., eto. " him. Moum, Avaustus Scrziy, Avovst Brrxont, Judge Cucrc, and othars, who neoniled him nt Lhe outset. 'Tho Kopublicans Lavo criticised bis public career, as thoy hnd the right. The Domocrats ariginated the nassaulta upon hix personal charactor, and fixst exposed bim to the country in his truo light as a corrupl politician, a Lnllot-box manipulator, and a railrond shark, It does not como with a good graco, thereforo, for them to complrin of Ropablican treatment of their caudidate, o far as hls public aots aro concerned, the peopls have a right lo know their charncter, that they may voto in. telligontly. A candidate's carcer is and al- ways shonld ba subjected to the most search- ing eriticisms, "Thore is no sefety in any otlier course, and ueither Tiniy nor his supporters have nany reason to com. plain of it. Bo far as assaults upon his privato eharactor aru concorned, the Repub- licans hinvo not yot medo any strictures that wero not first mado by his Democratic frionds, who aro now supporting hi MORE TRANSFERS OF TAXES. Now wo have n judicinl decision refusing Judgmont for taxed lovied for Lincoln Park. "I'he nesessment was made by the Asssessor of North Chicago and tho other town nuthorities, and the Court bolds that theso officors could nat have been legally author- ized to do any such nct, which sliould have been done by some other officer. e people of North Chicago havo been excoedingly fortunnte. 'The greater port of tholand in Lincoln Yark was the gift of the city. It cost North Chieago nothing. ‘The additionsl lands lave renderad tho park donbly valuable, and the expendituro on the shoro drive, and the improvement of the park itsolf, havo been of immenso value to all North Chicago. It hns given the people of that district one of the most healthful aud delightfal resorts that ean bo found in the country. It hias drawn to tho North Side o Inrgo and wenlthy popnlation, and led to permanent improvements of n style and of a cost not surpnssed in uny other city in the United States, ‘Ihe valne of tho park and of its sarroundings is exhibited in the Inrge addition to tho value of every foot of taxable land in that division of the city, 5 Notwithstanding this, somo half-a-dozen owuers of property in that division hava ob-. jected to paying any taxto pay fortheso ben- efits, and the Court has decided that as the sssessment was mude by the wrong ofticer, therefora thevo half-dozen porsons shall pay uon tux, and the Court, in substanco or in effect, gives judgment that the $:300 claimed of these persons shall bo lovied npon aud be paid by the other persons owning property in thut divigion of the city. And this is tho offect of all these anti-tax judicial docinions, 1t is not the mero exemption of the fuv from taxation; it is tho judicial hnposition of ona mou's taxes upon anothor. Theso $600 of the payment of which thess men lhave os- capad are, by tho forcu of this decision, to be lovied upon the other residonts of North Chicago, and extorted from them. 'The $1,300,000 of taxes which the Court sot aside not long winco was not merely the release of o fow hundred persons from the payment of that sum, but it wea the lovy ' of $1,300,000 of theso porsons’ taxes upon the olher tax-pyers, As we naid yosterdsy, the success of theso technical cscapes of one man from taxation i au outrage upon all others, because it does uot destroy tho liability; it merely transfors the paymont thercof from the men who actually owe it to others who have alrcady paid their tax. ‘Pax-fighting, therefore, is n weasuroe wheroby one sob of men appeal to tho Courts for an order to have thoir taxes paid by others, As amatter of justico, tho Courts might a3 well, when A and B aro sued for their grocory bills, make an order that tho Lills shall e puid by G nod D. ‘I'hat is what this tax-fighting business comes to in tho ond, and that is whore tho judicial decisions exempting persons from taxs- tion end. Whe nction of the Courts of this Stalo during the lost fone yeara hava redulted in a deficlency in the rovenuo of this city cqual to $3,000,000 ; and this deficioncy, with all its intorest, ing to bo paid by a tax, not on theso who have not paid, but npon thoso who have already pald their full share of taxes, Wo are not criticising tho legal correctnoss of Judgo Warrace's deeisions; wo nro commenting on the policy of the Courts of this Btate, which policy for nearly forty yonrs has boen to treat o tax 18 an attemnpted outrago upon tho citizen, and one to be proveuted and do- fented by ovory possible means and on any possible pretext by tha Courts of Justice. ‘Tho result of this policy has been to build up 8 code of jndicial intorpretations nnd re. quivements which render it impracticablo for tho Logislature to frama any law under which the necessary rovenuoc of Government can be collocted. Eithor tho Courts must yiold, or Governmont in Iiinois must fail for want of mesns to support it, STEWARD, THE ARTFUL DODGLR. Tn one reupect, at least, old man Stiwanp, tho joint candidate of the Decatur Green- buekers und the Springtiold Bourbous, moy bo et down na o success, viz.: in the role of Artful Dodger. It tuny be that he has other accowplishmonts. He is an export in the use of profane langunge. It is snid thet ho tolls obscene wtorics with great gusto, o scems to have understood how to get vich off tho farmem by solling them agricultural im. plements. Tle certainly has ** cheek™ in put- ting Limself forwanl for tho firat placo in so populous and intelligent a commonwenlth ns tho State of Ilinais, But all those attaips ments seom to poleand grow dim in the Jight of tho sublime impertinence with which ho treats all efforts to axcertain hiy offuion on tho political issnes of tho day. (' t appears to bo omu of those things, fhnt no fel- low can find ont. Ho haf rosisted alike tho entrenties of his politidal friends undthe bullyivg of his political oppouents; he has avou risen superior to tho blandishments of the most insinunting of roportarinl inter viowors, and leg\'eu tho poople of Iilinols in tho most bllmjml ignorance of his views on thefinancinl find political issues of tho day, as well as of his intention in regard to voting tor Pregidential caudidates. ; 0 Mr, Brewany was placed in o rather awhward and embarrussing attitude by the doublo-barreled nomination conferred upon With an ambition far beyond his ca- pubility and fitnoss, o wants to be Governor of Illinois, and 50 ho resolved to avail him. self of all the chances. Ho took all the nom- inations ho could lay his bands on, and is ovidently waiting for more. 1t may be re- marked, psrentbetically, that ho will need more. First he linked bhis fortunes with the fanatics who met at Decutur, and who declared vapturously in favor of a money with no intrivsic vulue, but plenty of it. ‘Lhen Lo set Lis strikers and blowers to work on the Democrats, aud they adopted the old political foundling. Mut they proposed to sct this rag-laby on a hard it wes wuch Democents a3 Hozavio Sex. | platfee?m They udopted tho resolutious of tha Bt. Louis Convention, iucluding the declaration in favor of resumption, nad they intimated very distinctly that they desirod old Mr. Stewanp to toll them whether or not he cuuld stand upon that platform. Indeed, o Comnmittes of the Deniocratyaddressed Lim the folluwing oxplicit lottor ¢ Cineano, July 3L.~The HHon, Lewis Steward— Dean Sins tho undersizned, a Comtnittee ap- pointed for that purposs Ly the Democralle Cone vontion of the Stato of Nlinols, of 2Z5th July Inat., respectfully inform you of your nominn tion by sald Convention to the ofice of Governor, and communicata the following resolutlons adopt- ed hy tha Convenlion, with tho platform or decla- ration of ynlnciplea thereln reforred to, and ask your response thureto, Yours respectfully, Jony C. Ricunxne, Jdonx I, OnERLY, B. 8. IAvRs, Joux A, McCrensaxn, Committec. But Srewanp has proved to be tooolda bird to be caught with chaff, e hnsn't pald the slightest ‘attention to the grandilo- quont McCrzryaxp and his associntes, but liaa gono on *‘cussing, and telling dirty stories, and fleecing the farmers, in wrapt inattention to the cxactions of the Demo- cratio politicians, He talls the interviewers that the people don't eave anything about his perronal views, which is undoubtedly true on the theory that it iy not expeeted le will ever be in a position to apply thom or mako themn of suy consuquence, When asked whother he intends to vote for 'ILpey or Cooren, he reminds the intorlocutor that the ballot is secrot, and he falls back on the highest privilego of the American citizen, Mounwhilo ho *has the Domocrats and tho Greenbackers writhing in the mgonies of despair, both gradually coming to tho con- clusion that they have caught a Tartar, and ench harboring intentions of unloading him on the other, We must confess that, in view of old Unclo Stewanp's tircless roticence, n drendful suspicion has boon forcod uponus. Wehave ondeavored to dismiss it, but have found it 80 compatibla with tho principlo of retribn- tivo justico, and so entircly in keeping with hin ominous silence, that we are almost com- pelled to adopt it aa the truo explanation of Lig conduct, It ix that old Lew Srawan is, in point of fact, a Ropublican, and that his real purposa is to volo for Hayrs and Woeenen. We advanco this theory, of course, with a untural disinclination to ae- copling the party fellowship of so impious and vulgar an old follow na the Chicago 2%mes represents 8rewano to be, but then it is so plausible that we suggest it in the in- torest of trath, aoud recommend that the indofatigablo reporters and onter- priging committoemen who are sook- ing to ponotrate the mystories of his political belief shall proceed upon this theory in thoir future investigations. Of courne, if it is true that STEward really in- tonds to vote for Hares and Wuzrren (an action which would atone in part for his manifold sins), it can bo readily underataod why he canuot declare himsolf either to the Democratsor the Gresnbackers withoutlosing the nominstion of both. And honce hiy silonce, FAIR ELECTIONS IN THE BOUTH. Peoplo with folso ambition which they hopa to work out by doception and fraud raroly fail to blunder. The Scorr Lorb res. olution introduced into tho House a fow days ngo is o porticular instance of this gon- eralization. ‘Tho resolution will bo remom- bered as reciting the purpose of the Fif- teenth Amondment to the Coustitution of tho United Statos, the authority of Congress to enforco it by propor legislation, and the rumored supprossion of the right of suffrago among the negroes of the South by fraud, intimidation, and violoneo; it then proceod- cd to give expression to tho sentiment of the Tlouse that all auch violations of {ho amend- ment should be met with * certain, condign, ond offectual punishmont,” It is just possi- tlo that Scorr Lonp, beinga Northern man, wos prompted to press this resolution upon the Confederates from o sonso of justice, thongh it is more prob- able that it wus suggested in tho political interest of Mr. ‘[1Lbex at the North, At all ovents, ha did not dare to submit it to the Confedarate cauous, where it would have boen promptly suppressed, bnt took his party unawaros and made the Confedorates faco the music beforo the entiro country. ‘I'hero was & pafuful exhibition of writhing ond sqoirming among tho_Confederates, It was o bitter pill, aud they could scarcely mako up their minds to swallow it. ‘Thoy filibustored and dodged os long s they could, ‘I'hoy refused to voto on it until tho rula of tho House was enforced cownpelling every mombor presont to vote unless espeeially exeused by tho Houso, When they could no lungor avoid accepting or rojecting it, they did not dare to follow thoir inclinations, but passed tho regolution, some of the Democrats not daring to goon the record st all, but only two of thom voting against it. i Notwithstanding the exigencied of the Prosidentinl campaign, and the hecessity of alloying ns much as possible the Northern approhiension of the Confederate desigus, it is umot probable that the resolution would have been permitted to pass bad not tho Confederates in the Houso beon assured that it was meaningless and would be practi- cally inoperative. It was by repenated nasar. ancea of this kind that the Northern Demo- crata Induced tha Confoderates to acquiesce. fhoy woro told that tha resolution had no other purpose thon to deceive the people of the North. Rut, whilo this was very likely tho only dosign of the resolution, it hay been aecepted iu good faith by the Pmnlduntl and acted wpon sccordingly. ‘Thus the tables bavo been complotely turned upon the Southern Confoderutes and the Northern doughfaces, ‘(e Presidont is not at liberty to assume that tho great doliberative body of tho nation has passed a resolution with- oyt n meaning, or mervly with the purpose of decoiving a largo part of tho people. 'fo do 50 would bo to impata dishonorabla mo- tives to Congress and confess a national dis. grace. Unless ho did this, howover, it be- camo nocessary to givo an Exocutiye applica- tion to the Congreasional exprossion, nud this hag now been dono by ordering that so much of tho army as is not actually erployed agaiuat the Indians on the froutier, or cn- goged in guarding Government forts and property, shall Lo held in readinesy, subject to the call of tho proper legal authorities, to protect all cltizeus, without distinction of raes, color, or political opinion, in the free exorcise of their constitutioual right of suf. frage, and to assist in tho *certain, condign, and effoctusl ‘punishment” of all who ehall attempt to prevent ** by force, fraud, tarror, intimidution, or otherwise,” tho free uxerelss of thatright. The Demacrats caunot rea. sonably object to this ewployment of tho Umted BStates troops not other- wise engaged, (1) because justica and the Coustitution demand it, and (2) becansa the Dewmocratic majority in Congress buve ex- prossly exacted it, thus intimsting that tho P'resident bas of lata been dorchict in his duty, ‘Thore aro ive Btates south ot MasoN aud Drxon's line, the aloctoral votes of which will undoubtedly bo cast for Hares and WitzzLen if the full Ropublican vote—black and whito—shall bo pormitted to bo polled. 'They aro Soutl Caroling, Missiasippl, Louisi- ann, Alabame, and Florida, ''here is no rea- sonablo doubt that the Republican volors ure largoly in tho mnjority in every one of these tatos, But neither is there any doubt but that in all of them, oxcept porhnps South Carolina, a very largo portion of tite Republicnus, and especinlly the negro \-.‘u.m, will bo kopt away from the polls by the torrorism oxercised over them by the White-Liners, White. Leaguars, and othor banditti, who have taught them that it is as much ns n man’s lifo is worth to voto the Jtepublican tickot or attend & Republican moss.mooting. The negroes aro a timid race, and in many of these States already under such abject submission nud tervor that it is doubtfal whother even n show of protection will porsuade them to s- sort their rights, But it ia not'tho less the duty of tho Govornment to give such n pledgo aa it may that thoy shiall not ba vio- lontly or fraudnlently ‘prevented frowm vot. fug. The effective way to do this is to distribute judiclously in the five States named all the troops nol actnally needed at tho frontivr. Tho nuthority for filling up the cavalry rogimonts, ro unwill- ingly granted by Congress, may render this plan foasible, Tha liconse alrandy given to the Confedorates in the Houth is conalusive enough that thore is no dispenition to use thesa troops for intimidation, but only to counternct the terrorism practiced by the ‘White-Liners, and to demonstrate a willing- ness and s powor to enforce tha I'iftoenth Amondwent, which has bean o flagrauntly overridden, If, after this, tho negroes have not the pluck to insist upon and nowert their political rights, thoy will'drserve to be do- prived of thom. The Burlington (Town) Fa.wkeys complaing that Tz TrusuNe misropresonts the faots in intimating that the law abolishing the silver dollar was surrcptitiously pnssed. Tug T'r1puxn has published all the facts concern- ing the bill. Thoro i no complaint concern- ing the bill gonerally. It was n long bill, It consolidated all the acts of Congresa con- cerning the cstablishment and regulation of mints, designating in gront detail the duties of tho various officers, und prasenting tho processes by which thoe workings of the mints aud assay ofices should bo earried on, But the part of the bill whick is now in dis~ cassion attracted no nttention, and was not discnuesed in cither Houso, nnd, so far as we know, was nover discussed in the public pross. Tho rection domonetizing the silver dollar was not framed in & way likely to at. tract tho sttontion of any person not in. formed of the change proposed. 1t did not in terms abolish thoe old silver dollar; it made no montion of that coin. It enmcted that the following silver coins shall hercaftor be goinod, and then gave o list, in which the silvor dollar, es it kad been known, was nol wmontioned. Thoe fact mny have hbeon Lnown to thoss membors of Congress having the bill in charge, but it was not known to tho country, Wo nre certain that to tho vast majority of tho American people tho fact that the silver dollar hod been aholished in 1873, ond silver demonetized, was not known until within tho last six months. Wo repeat, howover, that the schemo to make gold an oxclasive standard Las long been urged by Brilish and other European finan- clers, Tho demonotization of silver has besn ‘thair special object for years, That thase men foresaw tho increaso in silver produc- tion, and the falling off in that of gold, and the cousequent searcity and incroaso in the valuo of the Intter, can bhardly $bo doubted. Wo havo disclalmed any charge’ inoorm;r tion in the passaga of this demonotizing act; wo havo mercly suggested a wAp’ f fore- sight on tho part of thoso who ara¥rosponsi. blo for this mmfortunate logisiation. Fach act of demonetization of silysr” aroated an additional demand for gold, and henco tho domonotizntion act of the United Btates and tho lata action in Germany precipitated that advance of gold, as measured by gilver, which has added 10 to 15 por cont to the monoy value of all bonds and debts payable in gold. Tho nomination of Gen. J. D. Cox, ex- Beoratary of the Intorior, for Congress in the Tolodo Distriet, is tho hest and wisest thing tho Republicans eould possibly have done. 1lo is very popular, very able, and can bo clacted, and whon clected will make & first-olass Ropresontative, 1lis vaics, vote, and influence will always be on tho sids of right, roform, and purity in politics. Ha will take high rank at onca in Congress, and sot an oxample to other mambers which can. not fail to do good. Would that thero wero wmore such mon ag Gen. Cox in Congruss; it would bo better for the roputation of that body aud for the good of the public. Tho Toledo District i o doubtful one at best. It was carried in 1872 by the Repub- licans by only 1,065 majority in a vots of 26,000; it was lost in 1874 on an equally Loavy vote by 1,837 majority, with 875 votes cast for n QGranger candidate, ‘Tho Mepub- licans will mnko o united rally for Gen, Cox, and thore s strong hopo that he will be elected. Tho new law governing all * honest men* in their commoreial transactions is thus illus. trated : “If Abayof Bund pay for 1,000 bush- cls of wheat at &1 perbushel, deliverablofu ton days, nud if at the ond of ton days whent bo worth $1.10, A ia to pay $100 additional ; if, howevar, tho wheat shall fall to 0 conts, thon 1 i3 to pny buck to A 8100, If A buy of Iy cofieo to the amount of §20,000, aud give hisnoto for thirty days, and if, when the nota is payablo, coffeo hus advanced 10 por cent, A must puy the note with 32,000 oxtra. If, however, the price of voffico shall fall 10 por cont before tho note bocomes due, then hoisonly to poy $18,000. 'Chis reform in commercinl contracts i3 to be made iu onder to correspond with the demand that a debt payable in silvor can only bo honestly paid in gold, or iu silver to o valuo equal to gold. For some thne past there has beena very sharp struggle golug on in the Peoria-Gulesburg District for member of Congress, Tho present member, Maj, R. Il WinriNg, wos o candldate for re-clection. Tnomas R, Boyp, of Fulton, avery strongnan, was a vandidate, and J. H, Lewis, of Knux, wus also a formidable candi- date. During the balloting GRASVILLE Bakxzrn and 3, STARR wera also put in nominution, The coutest {s deseribed as belug very exdting, Un the eleventh Lallot the vote stood: Hoyvn, 27 Wminno, 293 seattering, halfa- dozen. On the twelfth aud finol ballot the result was: Bovp, 83; Wurnixa, 81, There was great disappolutinent on tho ono side, und equally great exuliation on the uther, but such {8 thie fortune of politics as well as of war} one side must lose If the other wins, Maj. WiniTiG has beenn hard-workiug and useful member of Cougress, The ery of % whisky- rlugster * rafsed uiatnst hise, {u ouropinlon, was ot founded on fact, ‘The gentleman noml- nated, however, 13 o talented and exeellent tman, well liked inthe district, and will probably be —— . mora scceptable to the Ropublicans than ap; ofher person who tontd kuye hoen named, Ty, Alstrict was fownerly repeesented for suvcr:l terma by Enny ¢, TxoRrsortt, brother At iy Colonel. e win succceded fn 1530 l,: B. N. Srevess (Dem), who heat 1o, sour. pretty budly, notwithstawlig Iiapegy County wus then i e dlutrlp, IntBR2GRANVILLE Baurunu (Rep.) beat Wonrg (Dem.) by 1,800 mujorlty, Banrunn Ferved ung torm, and tas succeeded in 1574 by Ma). Winp. NG, who bent Ross by the smalt ujority of 200, WitiNa fu turn fa_suceeeded by oy, wha will pretly certalnly be elected by 1,000 1) 2,000 mojority. Local feeling was remarkahly exemplified In the tast election. Fulloy County, which s Demacratic on a fair vote by 350 msm’ Kave Rosg (Dew.) over WIITING 1,75 mojority] And Peorla County, which Iz Democratle ahaug ns minch a8 Fulton, gave Wiiring (Rup.) 1408 majority, and elected him, as Knox and Sturk aid not grive bim n quarter of thele Repullng majorlty. ‘The Leoria-Knox Is 1 ano-term dige trict. Since 1968 no member lus doen re-electod, ‘They believe in rapid rotatiou, turning thewy canlldates over quick cnough to maky theip heads swim. —eet— Th the Kditor_af The Tridune, Eiu Cuamr, Aug, 16,—Can you inform me whether silver was a Tegalitenter fur more than §3 atthe bhepinning of the War? "My Impression f that it leal-tender guallty was ‘confineil to sume Teas than 35 b{ the nct of T837 and ot by thap of (BT, Upon (hls quention linges, ar It niipenrs e, the ultorlor queation whethier'the United States can liouneatly pay the bonded debt i silver, L. Janrs, [The stlver dollar was a legul-tender at the beginuing of the War for any amount. The five-dollar lmit only applicd to the subslilary llver colng—the dbnes, quarters, halyes, ete, which were of less relative valtie thun the doje lar. Between 1637 and 1873 not a great Inuny wilver dollars were struck nt the Mint for the reasou that they were worth morethan the olik dollar, and would not elrealute fn payment of dehts, but were exported aud sold a8 bullion a 103 to 1065 or were picked up by sllversilths amd melted and manufactured Into wares. Hug #f, at any time, the silver dollar had declined to the value of or alittle below that of the gold dollar, there would have beenan instant demand for them, and millions would have been Struck off cach year and used fn puymnent of debta— Ep.} One of the evenlng papers yesterday repib- Hsbed from the Courier~Jouraal what purported tahe an authentlo story of the life of Mrs, Monron, known in this city as Louise Ilaw- THORNE. 1L 18 proper to suy that the story is fulec. Mrs. MORTON was never a Mrs, Dopog; she never ran away from her husband; never had anything to do with Geonree W. Nonrox; and we doubt If ahe ever played In Loulsellle at all. Her carly Itfe has always been well knowa to her friends in this city; ber father lved In Connccticut; hier hueband was 3 Mr. Montox, who played utility parts at Hooley's Theatre, und possessed ns well as exerclend the legal rights of o husband. Even if the story wers true, its publeation at this time would stlll he cruel and unnecessary, aml, ingsmuch ns it Js false, it can only be characterized as cahunny of the baseat kind. g ————e—— We find the followiug paragraph going the rounds ol our Republican exchanges: Extract from o recent specch of ZEnoLoN I, Vaxce, the Gubernatorlal candidato of the Democracy of North Carollna: 1 8m sorey that I 1id down my arma fo 1865: 1 am in favorof re-enslaving the negro, and, if that canant be done ot once, ray fiea tu to adopt a plan which will briug atiout auch a conditlon of things. T would aeprive the negro of educational privileges; 1 would pay him low wages; T would prevent him from acquiring real eatata;'T would deprive him of nrm’.anmmun lon, stock, und agricultural luple menta. We are asked by o eubscriber whether it s true, and reply that we do not know., Wil some exchiange paper or person who knows the facts state whether VANCE wade suck a speech, aud, If so0, where and whent L e ———— The Troy Press (Democratic) scems toglory fn theshame of 1ts party, It saya: *“The Demoo racy did oppose the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendinonts, beeause they thought it wuuld be detrimental to the luterests of the tountry. ‘The cnactment of thess sinendments was detrimental to tho ioterests of the country in & hundred different ways, und we are to-day reaping the beneflt of that error.” —_—— In s recent speoch, ZenuLox B, Vance, the Gubernatorlal candidate of the Democracy of North Caroling, is reported to have sald: 1am sorry that T1aid down iy arins fo 169; 1am fo favor of ro-euslaviiug Lhe nogro, and, (f that saunot ba {lon ot once, my [don 11 to adopt s brtue alout sucha condition of thinge. -1 wouid du- prive the negro"of cducation' privticus: 1 would var i Tow wugca; §wuid nrcecis Wi Trom neairlig al estatas 1 would deprive B of urins, s Wock, aud agrIcultural HApreMEnes. vt OBITUARY, | TNOMAS ASPINWALL Col. TnoyAs AsPINWALL dled In Boatoa on the 13th'Inat, ot the ripe ago of 80 ycars, He was barn Jo Brookline, Muss., In 1386, and grad- uated at Harvard University in 1504, Ife stwdied law and practiced In Boston until the War of 1813 broke out, when he was appointed 3ajor of the Ninth United Btates Infantry, The samne year he recelved the brevet of Lieutenant-Col- onel for wallantry at Fort Erie, aod of Colonel for bravery In n subsequent sctiou In which' he lust his leftanm, At the close of the war bo was appoloted Consul-General at London, & position from which he was removed hy Preate dent Pizxen. In 1515 he married Louisa Evtza- BETI PO1UNAUD, by whom ho bad seven chil- dren, of whown ouly two survlve, o daughter, the wife of WiLLiax DaNviLLz, of Eugland, and the Ilon, WiLLIAM ASPINWALL, the well knowu luwyer, On his return from England he vetived from active life and devoted Wuiself to literature, one of the last works of his life be- fug the compilation ot two volumes of 1,551 pages contadning auclent historical papers, XARL SIMROCK, The London Acadeny publishes s notlee of he death of Prof. Kann Siunocs, the eminent Uerman poet and schiolar, writtén by Franz Hupwyen, from which wo gather tho following iuteresting focte: g e wans born fn 1804, at Bonn, where his father bad founded @ large muslcal publishing firm, Ho studled jurleprudence at Bonn and Uerlly, and fu 23 enfercd the public sorvice as accultator, 108 ro hours wore dovoted to the study of old wan philofogy and MNtoputuro, then Iately ro- vivad by the works of the brotliers Gaism, Liacus= HaEW, and othors, Ile slsw became knnwn sso translator, and sy an original poet of considergdly merit, The ¥rench Hovolutton of 1630 lugpsead bilm with » song, the Jiberul tendency of which wiss tho cause af his dlemlssal from the Governmers sorvica, * ¥'rom that time ho wholly devotod hime welf to his favorite puraults of poetry and philol- ogy. Lx. 1850 he obfalned thu Chair of Old Gornisn Ldterature 1n the University of Ionu, which he oc- cuplud L1l Lls death. As a poct, Bixnock waa the leador af a croup of sifted writers genorally known aa the ** Rhenish uchool, * of which tie and WoLp- uaNg Mureen, of onitawlnter, were tho best known mombers, and of which ALESAN: vEE KAUPNANY {o the solv surviving ropredents tive, Old Gennan traditions, and capeclally the vopnlur storles and sungs of the Mhluelund, drean fuportant element in Sinock's iostey. —uf the Intter storice, cithor in thelr oriplnal form o ia modern voreiona by blusolf and other yocts, Biste 1ock published u “collection entitled ¥+ Rhelnsae gen,' which has lbocome deservedly popular, Bixnock wus utill more remarkahle van translator than ax un orlginul poct. Hisattempts at metrical roproduction are exceedingly nuwerous, and ex- toud ovor th whole range of old Teutonlc literar ture, from the **Edds, ' *‘Boawnif," und the ilivh: Gernun ** Helland, * down to the ** Heldenbuch, **Gudrun, ' and other productions of the latel mediieval poriod. Tin irat, and yerhape his beaty tranelation wan that of the **Nibelungenlled” (1827), the soventeenth edition of whicl was pub- lished about ten years ugo. This book Iy smopg: the Tow reproductive works which uccupy a pesuatient Place in Hicratare, 1L ranks with Ciaraaxs *Homer nnd DELILLL's ** Aineld." Buunock's *¢ Nibelungeulled ™ ki t tho gamie time, large). cantributed {n sproading the intereat Ln medluy 1iterature amony the German public, 4, BELLA MAUTIN. ‘The Rev. J, BELLA MaRTIN, tho colored oratory whose death at New Orleans from an overdoic of laudanum has been already Hoticed, was burn iu North Caroling, sud first became prominent in politica fn TNinofs and Michigun fo 1850, In 1500 Ls becams the pastor of the Joy Strect Buptist Church, Boaton, and svon after wassent to England as 8 wisslonary by the Frecman'd Ald Soclety of Ohio. In 1860 he went Southy speaking i Alabama aud Misstssippt. 1o sue ceeded Fiiep DoucLass as cditor of the Awe Nutlonal £rg fu Wusliugton, and Lus sluce buld