Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 22, 1876, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY., AUGUST 22, 1876. et e e e ————————————————————— ' Thye Trtlbwre, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPLION. FATABLE IN ADVANCE—TOSTAGE TREPAID AT THIS OFPICE. Fdition, portpald, 1 year.. B Tr e e, « Postage prepald. Bpocimen coplcs rent free, To prevent delay and mistakes, be sureand give Fosts ddress in fnll, Including State and County, emittances may be made cither by draft, express, Tast-Ottice order, or n reglstered letters, at our rak, TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIDERS. Daily, delieered, Sunday excepted, 35 cents per week. Daliy, delivercd, Sunday included, 50 cents per weel Adiress THE TRIBUNK COMPANY, Corner M d Dearborn-sts., Chicago, Ik TILDEN'S RECORD. A GREAT CAMFAIGH DOCOMENT. conclusvely proves that he was— 1, A HECESSIONIST, AND OPPOSED 10 THE WAR FOR THE MAINTENANCR OF THE UNION, 2, A NOSOM FRIEND OF * B038 TWEED" AND A MEMDER OF THE TAMMANY GANG. 3. A BOGUR REFORMER WIIO IEDUCED NO TAXKRS, REFORMEDNO CANALCORRUPTION, AND MADE NOTI BETTER THAN HE FOUND 1T, OF TIR BALLOT-IOX, AND . SSUEIR OF SHINPLASTERS TO LAROR- ING MEN 1N THT IRON REGIONS OF MICHIOAN, 6. A MONSTLOUS RAILROAD BHALK, WHo AMASSED MILLION BV DEVOURING WESTERN TRAILROADS IN FINANCIAL TROUBLE. This great Campalgn Dorument Olls four pages of . A copy thercof should bo placed fa the cvery voter In the West, ¥ Wheeler Cinbs everywhere should order *T{iden’s Record ™ for dlstribution, COST OF TIE RECOND. Tt will be sent by mall or express, with charges pald. ©on the followlng ter Per 100 coples. . For » doze Singls copy TAMUSEMENTS, Haverly's Tho 3 mnamlm street, betweon Clark sod Lasalle Calie Torula Minstrels. MeVicker's Theatrs. ‘Madison strect, between Desrborn and Btate, *'The re0 Guardsuien. Woad’s Munenm, Monroe streat, between Dearborn sad State. **An- tersonviie” Adelph$ Thentres m)lnnme atrect, corner Dearborn, Varlety perform- . IHaoley’s New Chlcngn Thentre. Clark street, between Lako and landoloh. Hooley's Minstrels, | e e———————————— e ———— TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1876, _——————= Greenbacks ot the New York Gold Ex- whiange yesterday closed at 90} Our Conadinn dispatches announco that fhe congregation of ‘'Irinity Episcopal Ohurch of Montreal will extond au invita- tion to the Rov, EDwAnp SuLnivay, of this tity, to become tho Reotor of that parish, Small Canadian towns seem to be peeuliar- Iy tho prey of **diro combustion" this year. Following the burning of §t. Johns, nenr Montrenl, not long ago, comes tho intelligenco of = conflagration destroying $100,000 worth uf property at Brussels, Ont,, yestordny. Sly Lew Srnwanp has boen issuing an 2dition of his views for limited circulation, What tho Demotratic State Central Commit- teo failed to get in good English, has been given to the world in o forcign tongue, and it turns out that tho crafty old Grangeris a bloated bondholder nnd a hnrd-money man in disguise. 'Tho editor of tho Post, n Ger- man weekly papor published in Bloomington, hios succeeded in obtaining from Stowanp a declaration of principles intended for Ger- mans ouly, and prints the substanco of a couversation in which 0ld Lew came squarely out for specio resumption, also expressing his contempt for ¢ temperanco simpletons,” Mr. BinraNos, President of the Wost Sido Gas Company, disputes the position taken by the Common Council, and backed by the opinion of the Qorporntion Connsol, that the city is not bound by tho contract of 1869, covering o poriod of ten yoars, and hence disputes the right of the city to censo taking gos altogether nud substitute ofl in the street-lnmps. It is held by the Law Dopart- ment that the Common Council of 1869 had no power to execute a contract binding its successors for ten years ag to tho price to bo puid for gas, and this position will doubtless ‘e maintained by the present Qouncil in spite of Mr. Birinas’ threat to go to law abont it His offor to furnish the city with gesat $2.26 per 1,000 cubie feat is in the nature of a compramlse, but, as this figure is 756 conts in excess of that agroed upon by the Commit. tee on Gas, tho proposition is not likely to mect with favor in the Council, P The noble red man whoso traits were so vividly depicted by the late J. F. Coorer hasg, it is our mournful duty to soy, fow de- scendants among the tribes that ronm over tho Western plains in senrch of the stray traveler or the congregated buffalo. It is ovident, howover, that the Governmont still chierishos tho hope that thero is yeot in the hoart of the genus Uto o latent spark of honesty, or it would not {rust its proporty to his keoping, This hope has, alss, boen sadly blastod by the patriotic savages of that tribe who wero liberally supplicd with arms, emmunition, rations, and clothing, that they might assist in the great work of punishing tho treachicrous Sioux for the many sing of commission with which they aro credited. The Indians took tho outsit, indulged in much drinking aud dancing, devoured their provisions, and had a general plenic for sev- ernl days, when they concluded that tho Great Futhor still had a good stock of tho articles ‘whicl lind boen furnishod them, and having no written contract with the pele-faces, and being besides well stocked with that com. modity which constitutes tho better part of valor, they quietly elipped away into the boundless waste, being careful to leave nouo of thoir trapa behind them Ihe Chicsgo produco markets wers gen- crully steady yosterday, with o foir business doing. Mess pork closed 150 per brl kigher, &t 817.45 for Beptember and $15.15 seller tho year. Lard closed a shade firmer, at $10.55 cash and §9.85 seller tho year, Meats ‘ware quiet, at G§c for boxed shoulders, 8jo for do sbort ribs, and 9}o for do short clears, TLake froights wero stronger, at 20 for corn to Buffalo. Rail freights wera unclhanged. Highwines woro steady, ot $1.10 per gallon. Flour was quiet and firm, Wheat closed 15 @?}c higher, at 8930 for August and 9140 for Beptamber. Corn closed J@fo higher, at 44fo for cash or seller Soptomber. Oats closed fe lower, at 80jc cash and 80jc for October. Ryo was firmer, at 630, Darley closed at T2jo for Beptember and 700 for October. ‘The hog trads was active for light weights ot Lo advance; heavy grades were dull und unchanged, sales principally ‘nothing by rushing ot £5.75@0,36. Onltle wero aclivo and firmer, with sales at 32.60@6.17}. Sheep were in good demand and n triflo higher, quoted at $2.00@L.75 One hundred dollars in gold would buy $110.62} in greenbacks nt tha close, ——e A con‘omoTulent‘ writing from Indeponid. enco, In., asks whether the Resumption act of 1875 repenls tho law whicl makes greene backs o legal-tender.. And whetlier the holder of n note falling due after Jan, 1, 1879, can onforce payment in gold. ‘The Tesumption law docs not ropeal tha Legal- "Tonder Inws, nor otherwise chahge tho ohar. ncter of the groonback. All it daes is to do- clore that on and after Jau. 1, 1879, tho United States will pay coin in exchango for the greenback on demnnd. Supposing *it porsible that this declaration could be car- vied out, the groonbnck after that date will De n legal-tondor, but worth 160 couts in coin, instond of 80}, us now, But Congress has never anacted tho additional logislation which is essentinl to enablo tha Treasury to ex- chango coin for the greenbacke, aud henco tho declaration is a barren one. The Court-1{c &8 Zone !mbroglio grows sploy andinterestiu . Apoworfulandstubborn minority opposes the Warren-MoNetn Cook County Limestone Ring in tho Board of Commissioners, and was yesterday. suecessful in postponing final action on tho contract question, It is not, however, by any means cortnin that this opposing forca will mot prova to bo in tho majority whon the full Bonrd is nssembled. Comuaissionoer "Canon, who was absent yestorday, is claimed by the Ring as one of their number—an im- putation which his constituents and friends confidently nssort to be false, There aro poveral considesations which should, con- strnin the honest miembers of the Bonrd to make haste slowly in the selection of stone and the award of the contract, Tho Com- mon Council, throngh Ald. Vay Osper, Olihirman of the Committeo on Public Build- ings, aud Ald, Surrm, & member of that Comnmittee, yestorday put in a demand for n hearing before tho matter is decided; and the quustion of tho authority of the County Board to issue bonds for the construction of a Court-House, without first being submitted ton vote of the paople in.the manner pre- seribod by law, is one which sliould recoive cavoful nttontion, Iu viow of these im- portant collnteral issuos, the Bonrd will gain the slone-contract through in a huwry, TILDEN AS A RAILROAD-WRECKER. ‘I'he story of TinprN's conuection with the 8t. Louis, Alton & Terre Tauto Railroad is complete, Now that his answer to the suit brought against him hag been filed, wo have both sides of tho_case. 'The owners of the rond are fairly ropresented in n roport re- cently made by a Committeo of Investigation appointed by the stockholders, who have nscortained the fnets as well as they could whilo ‘I'TLDEN withheld from them the old books nnd accounts showing in datail the work of reorganization of which e was the legal adviser and one of the Trustees, This investigation, begun June 8, 1875, was tho basls of the Inwsnit instituted ngninst Trupen and his associntes after they refused either to givo np the trust funds which they hnd wisappropriated to their own uso or to ub- wit tho caso to arbitration; and it is this lawsuit which has recenily called forth Mr. ‘I'1LpeN's answer. It beeame necessary—in 1862, wo believe —to placo the 8t. Louis, Alton & Terro Hanto Ruilrond on anew basis, 'Che process consisted, we prosume, of wiping out somo of the stock and othor indebtedness alto- gother, and offering new bonds and stock on a different seale for the bonds outstanding, Mr. TiLDEN was an oxpert in this business. Indeed, ho was a professional rcorganizer of railroads. ‘The matter was trusted into his bands, aud ho nssociated four other gontle- mon with him. That it was o trust s evie dent not only from the nature of the trans. notion but beeause one of T1LpeN's assoointes -=Mr, Jont G. RicuarpsonN—resigned nnd transferred his duties to the others, and in doing #o signed hinsolf as trustee. Mr. TioeN aud the remaining threo (Cmannes Burren, Russert, Sacx, and Ronenr Bavanp) also reccived 230,600 in fees for thair ser- vices, which were purcly nominal and covered » spaco of mnot more than six months,—which further shows that thoy rogarded themselves ns agents, at- torneys, or trustees, and took pay—good, sound pay, too—for thoir services in that capecity, 'Lhey wero, in fact, a purchasing committee, their duty being to buy in the rond at o Marshol's salo and then reconvey it to tho new corporntion on a new basis, dis- tributing the new bonds to the old hondhold. ors pro rata, Thoy themselves invested not o penny, sssumed no obligations, and did no work roquiring ecither gront ability or time, Tor the convonient distribution of the now bonds, and in order to govern the exnct proportion to bo allottod to ench of the croditors, n Iarger amount of bonds were printod and nuwmnbered than were requived. After distributing the flrst-mortgage bonds and salisfying nll. the creditors whoso claims to this class of - security wero valid, there remained 131,000 of these bonds undisposed of, This onount of bonds was hold in trust and 6s a surplus till 1870, when Rosent Bavann, nct- fug undor tho advico of Mr, T'tLpry, as hio himsolf says, divided them equally between Limself and Lis threo associates (of whom T1LpeN wos ono), and also divided among the samo partics the interest that bad accrued on them since July, 1862; sinee that time Tir- pex and the others hiave hield these bonds as their own porsonal property, and drawn (Lo interost thercon with the samo regularity ns bona fide bondholders. 'There are also somo of tho second-mortgage bonds, and sowe pre- ferred and edmmon stock, not sutisactorily accountod for; but, ag M, TiLveN refused to give up the books, it was not possible to trace them. The appropristion of the $181,000 in Brst-mortgage bonds is known definitely from Mr, Baranp's admission of the facts, Now 03 to Mr, TiLpen's answar to this state of facts. 11e does not deny, but claims that be and hia mssociotes did nol actus trusteos, but bought for themsclves and sold what they Lought. * The difference,” he says, * between what we gavo and what wo sold for is $284,000," Thon, if this was o speculation on the part of Mr. TiLpey, in whick ho and his partners realized nearly o quarter of million of dollars in six months without investing a penny, what right had he {o chavgo the stockliolders $36,600 for his servicea ng trnstee or attorney? While re. ceiving pay as trustee, what right had he to 4 gobble” &131,000 first-mortgago bonds, which, being a surplus over all just claims, should have been eanceled for the benefit of the other Londholders aud stockholders? Either Mr, Tioex betrayed o trust and swindled the rond out of $131,000 while activg as its attorney, or, hav. jug gons iuto a speculuon on his own account, ont of which lhe made a large amount of monoy, he forced the creditors to pay him $:6,600 nudor the falso protonro that ho was acting for them. In tho ono caso it was a botrayal of trust and in the othor obtaining monoy nnder false pre. tenges. Thin in precisely whera his answer leaves him, TitoEN scems to understand 1his, too, for ho virtually plonds tha statute of limitations when ho says: ** Why, we have beon collecting the interest-conpons for thirteen yonra. You have waited too long. You have acquiesced in the appropriation.” This will not do, Mr. Tstoey, for you only distributed the bonds five yesrs ngo, and then collected in bulk the intorest for eight years previous ; and you coneenled tho whole transaction ns long ns possible, Besides, tho plen of tho statute of limitations is little else than a confession of guilt. If the Republicnua had been unfortunnte enough to nominate a man for President who proved to have beon implicated in any such trausaction na this, ho would have buen promptly forcod off the ticket, Alr. Braiss, amoroe brillinnt aud useful statesman than TinoeN, failed to get the Republican nomi- nation because he was simply suspeetod of having dabbled in railrond stock speonlatious. DBut in Mr. TiLpEN'S caso tho 8t Louls, Alton & Terre Iaute transaction leavos him beforo the poople, by his own admission, as cither having betrayed a trast to the amount of $131,000 at least, and perliaps more, ot having obtained $3G,600 undor false pre- tonscs. And tha Alton & Terro Hanto trans. action 18 only one of a series of railrond ro- organizations in which Mr, TiLpEN soted o similar part. But Mr. Tiuoey will not bo put off the Democratic ticket, nevertheless, for thero is nobody clse who has o ** bar'l of money " and is willing to spend it. SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRACY, Tho Rebel Democracy of South Carvolina aro ovideutly of the impression that they are wilhin sight of the promised Jand, and that they nre going to have a good time with W11~ pEY, or {hey never would have nominnted that irrcconcilable Rebel, Wape Hamrerox, for Governor, lleretofore they have pro. fossod to bo satisfled with Gov. Cuaamen. LA1N, since hie bas purified the politics of the State and taken s fair and manly position botween races aud parties, and have inti- mated they would sapport him. Now, how- ever, that they fancy thero is a prospect of guccesa with Tmoex and l{espuoks, they desert CnasoerraIN aud bring Wape Hase- ToN to the front upon o weak, worthless, and hypoeritienl pistform, The carger of Wane Hasreroy is woll known to the people of this country. Leaving out of viow his military record, ho ig the wan who, ou Lis rotum from the Tammany Convoution that nomi- noted Sexsovn and Bramr, said in a apeech ¢ ZTyleld 1o none in devotion to that ** Lost Canse™ Jor tehich we Jought. Nevey ahall I ndmit that the caquse {self ruiled, and that the princivles which qave U life were therefore wrong, Never ahall 1 Lrand the men who upheld i¢ 0 nobly as +* rebela™ or ‘‘trailors,” . . . lathere one true wman in the South who would not prefer to meet defeat on the Democratic platform rather than to secnre success by placing himscit on the platform of the Tadicals? Sponking of the Democratio resolutions, Gen, Haxrroy, who was a member of the Plaiform Committes, snaid: **¥ said T would take the resolutions if they would allow me to add bat three words, which you will find ombodied in the platform, I added this: b snd 1ea declare that the Reconstruction acts arevevolutionary, unconstitutional, and void."” With regard to the negro vote he waid: “ Agree noug yourselves, aud act tirmly on this ngreement, that you witl not employ any one who votes the Radical ticket, Usa all the wcans that are placed in your hands to control this element.” And in conclusion : q Whether kind fortune permits me to spend tho reat of my duys futhis fulr Jand T have loved so well, or adverse fortune forces me to wage the battle of Hfo under other sklea—wherover I may be, shonld this dear o}t mother of aurs call her sons tugethor to defend her altars, £f 1f¢ and rolltlon are lest to e, none will respond mord cheerfully or promptly than myself, . On the 21st-of October, 1818, he published a lotter dofining his position, containing the following passage: Tho main Issues involvod inthe War wero socea- slon and alavery—the et the primary one, the late ter brought In at a later perfod. In regard to these Tudopt fully and without reservation the principlon annvunced by the lata Natlonal Democratic Con- vention in New York, . . . Woregard tho Re- construction acts as unconstitutlonal, but wo look for thelr overthrow, Aftor ronding such utterances na these, can any sane nman doubt that the Rebel Democracy of South Caroliua proposo to sweop that State ny Miusissippi and Alabama wore swept? Can any sano man doubt what their intentions aro if Tipex and Hex. DRICES are clected 7 HENDR MULES, The Cinclunatl Gazetle has been to the troubls of hunting np tho documentary ovi- dence in the metter of tle ITatt-Hesnperson mulo-olnim, aud is ropaid for its ulorts by tho discovery that Henpricks' defonse of this franduleut clnim is in flat contradiction of tho records, 'Fhe substanco of this ovi. denco 1ny bo stated briefly s B, A. Ssurm, of Ohio, on the 4th of April, 1863, contracted to doliver to tho Govornmont 800 mules at §87 por bead on or bofore tha 24th of April, but aftor delivoring ninety dropped tha con- trect, the Govornmont being compolled to complete tho contract in opsa market atn coat of $97,000 above what it would have paid Ssrre had ho fultilled his contract, 'I'he contract stipulated that in cnso of fail. ure the Quartermaster was to supply the de- fielency in open market ot the contractor's expouse, but, in the faco of ;this stipula- tion, Ssutn filed a claim for $7,830, the contract-price of the ninety mules, which, of course, was disallowed, Pending this ap- plieation, SaTu and o follow-contractor, Cuantes W, Iy, of Indisnapolis, woere sentenced to the Penitontiory for gross frauds, nod this mule-clnim was assigned to 1laL, who in turn nssigned it to ‘Lnovas Hexpensoy, of Indianapolis, o cousin of Mr, Hexpuicks, 'Tho lattor undertook to collect it. Oo the12th of March, 1847, he called at the offico of the Quartermaster-Goneral and wrote o long upplicution for the settlement of tbo clnim, which he signed ** Wonniam Hesvenson," It is o peculinrity of this case (hot, altbough the collection extended through four years and was soveral times beforo the Departments and Congress, sfl tho documents ave in Hexvricks' handwrit- iufy, with the signature of HexpensoN also in his writing. Threo doys after the applica tion, Hexpuicks was informed by the Quar- fermuster-General that the claim oould not Le allowed. Othor papera about this datein the Quartermaster-Gouoral's and Third Audi- tor's offices show that ho had bLeen ot work upon the cese during February and March, prior to his receipt of the letter disallowing the claim, Henvuics next went to Secretary Sran- To, snd in a lettor dated April 3, 1867, com- plained of the Quortermaoster-General's de- cision, and ** in behal? ofwy constituent” (1) roquests that the claim may be sent to the Board of (lnira, ho Board made u mn[ oxamination of the caso but failed to recom- mend the payment. Bafiled in theso two quarters, o next undertook to manipulate tho claim through Congress, and on the 22d of January, 18G4, wrole n potition ‘signed by IeNpERsoy, which was Introduced by Hone ator Vax WinkLg, for the payment of the clnim, 'Tho Benate Commitleo of Claims, howaver, failed to allow it, and his term of servico having fn the monnwhile expired, Hexpnicrs made applieation at the War De- partment Dee, 4, 1870, to havo the claim ro- constdered. 'The request wns granted, and Hexonicss, Honn and Ilespricks then en- tered the ense nas atlornoys, tho ex- Sonator heing the chief fugleman, His porsiatency was at lnst rewarded, The Burean of Military Jnstice in 1871 made o favorablo deelsion, upon which the Second Cowmptrollor of tho Treasury ollowed pay- ment, the Auditor protesting ngainst it. The final sottlemont papor wns indorsed ns fol. lows : * This seitlomont was made by tho Hecond Comptroller alono, the Auditor hav- ing docided adverscly.” ‘There are two points cstablished by (hero records,—first, that Br, Hexparcks, while®s United States Seunator, wns for two yenrs the actual attor. noy of Hexpensox in collecting this claim ngninst the Government ; and, second, that it was a claim in which tha Government had auffered loss four times greator than the nmount of the claim proforred, The Gazlle 0dds to tho history of the claim tho follow- iug instance of Iexpnicis’ operations na n pnvdon attorney ¢ ‘There Js another departmentof this basiness in which Mr. UrNnntera figures to Nttle advantage, In fact it waa his firat step In it. Some time after Hari's conviction of tho gross frawls mamed, HsxonieRs Interposed to sccare his pardon, and succeeded in baving his sentence set aelde on the technlenl gronnd that Eav was only o silent part- ner of Suimit's, aud 5o wis not a contractor within the meaning of the Inw which authorlzed the telal of defranding contractors Ly n wilitary court. While thete was doult of tho justice of the convic. tlon, Judge IforT held it to be better {hat one guiity inan should escape than to have It even seem that punishment had been secured by n forced construction of the law. Ou this ground tho ros misslon of MALL'S gentence was ordered, and formal notice of the reendt sent to his nttorney, Senator IENvRICKS, n8 appeara fram the indorsc. ment upon the papers at the War Department, Next fn regular order, und séine time afterward, came the assignment of Haii's mule clofms to 1lExoEuxoy, and the nttempts of Mr. IlzNpmicks to collect it. Sovernl Democratic candidates in Tndinua hava been withdrawn from the State ticket for cause, Thore nro others ngainst whom suspicions aro resting so strong that it is probable they will have to be withdrawn also. Iuit not time that this Indiana candi- date on tho Nationd Domoeratic tickot shiould also maka way for some ono who has not such a fraudulent burden to carry? Most certainly if Mr, Wazzrer wers in the posi. tion of Mr, Ilexprices, and had n frandn- lent claim resting upon his record, he would be promptly and summarily withdrawn, T'ho least that Hennnicks can do is fo cover back the money iuto the Troasury which he taok from it unlawfully and unjustly as tho nttomny of “my constitnent,” IleNprason, Lis cousin,, THE USE OF MONEY IN INDIANA, It is » mattor of notoriety that the Indiann Democrnts aro strong beliovers in the spoils system of politics and nll that it implics. It carries with it the theory of spending monoy in order to got the oftices, of buying votes in ordar to lay hands on the plunder, and of re- sorting to the most disreputublo practices of political campaigning. 'The exposures of the Woorzy lotter show that largo amounts of money were used in the Stato in 1868, and erployed In patt to import some 10,000 voters from Kentucky, In 1872, money was froely usged fo clect Mr. Hespniors in Octo- Uer, but therenftor the prospect of carrying the Stata in November for Gnecrey was so bad that no more funds could be ‘procured for that purpose. 'This "year the Indi. ana Democrats are mnking n very rich houl, They aro in a position to* die. tato terms, and they have a Presidontial candidate who is advertised ns ready to spond $1,500,000 to secure his clection, Ponnsylvania having dropped out of the Oc- tobor elections, and the offortof carrying Ohio against Hayes being hopeless from the outset, Indiana lins become the wmost im- portant battlo-fleld for the Democrats, To logo that State in October, with ITkxpnioks, the Governor of the State, as o eandidate for Vico-Prasident, und with the State and local oflicos in possession of the parly, is recog- nized 08 a contingency from which the Tir- DeN party conld not recover, I'ho Indinna Democrats undaerstand thelr nidvantage rnd are jmnking tho most of it. "They lLiave al- ready bad o good deal of mouey, and are cry- ing for more. 'They ure determmed that, as Mr. TitpEN s rendy to bleed, ho wmust be bled muinly for their honefit. All acconats ngree that the Domocratic politicians in In. dioua sro muking the eanvass o vich aud golden Larvest for themaelves. It is on this state of facls that s corre. spondent of tha New York 7imes bases au appenl to tho Ropnblicans, and ospecinily to tho National and Congressiounl Committees aud the monoyed men of. the East, to come to the rescuo, nud to mect money with money. - Wo are forced io condemn the morality of this advice, and alko to question it feanibitity, Tt is in useloss to deny that good doal of money waa sent to Indiana in behulf of the Ropublicauns in the compaigns of 1868 aud 1 Wo think it was nsed le- gitimately onough, but tnvishly aud foolishly, While the Democrats have purchased votes and imported voters from Kontueky with thoir funds, the Republican funds have gen. erally beou used for protting up oxeursions, paying tho expensos of meotings, aud stump. ing the Stuto. On both sides, howovor, thoro iy Jittle doubt thut a good doal of money stuck to tho fingers of the politicians and hangers-on ta whom it was given for le- gltimate chnpnign nses, 'This hos undoubt- edly ereated o cerlain oxpectatey and groed among the bummers, and the lavish use of money on the Democratie” side furnishes the Republiean potiticians with thé opportunity to demnnd c¢qual lavishnoss from the mon- eyed men of the Republican party, We think this clnss of politiclans ave doomed to disap- pointment this year, ‘Y'lie money will not be forthcoming ns freoly as herotofore, ‘The times are too hard, for one thing; for anoth. er, tho elements of the Republican party most anxfons for the election of Hpves and Wuzerzn do not belleve in making money the chict agent in cawpalguing, The New. Yorkers ueed what money they can com- mand to bear the exponses of the campnigu intheirown State, ‘I'he Ropublican candidate for President, unlike the Demooratio caudi. date, has not been a ruilrond-wrocker, and has no vast amount of money to contribute; nor would he contribute it if he had, singe he iy nuot a believer in that kind of politics. ‘The Lepublicay politiciuns in Indisus way as well undorstund from the fivst that they will not roceive tho same amount of asalst. avce from outside in the way of money con. tributions as in former campaigos, and they veed vot wait for it. They will probably bo rlentifully supnlied with speakers and caw. 1 pnign docmmments; they are already well orgnuized in all the counties of tho State; their communitier nre compact, and there s abundant rnilroad communication; their eandidate for Governor i3 a popular man, and the Congressional nominations ko far have been strong; thoy have n United States Senator in view, and nll tho intorests that can bo involved fna goneral State and natlonal election. Undor these cireumstances it s their duty to help themselves, Raither than demnnding monoy from the Republicans throughout tho coun- try, thoy should bestir thomaalves to seo that the Tirpry funds are not corruptly used, {liat tha Democrats do not corrapt the ballot- ‘boxes, aud that voters bo not imported from Kentucky. Vigilanes and the importance of tho issuo should be the guiding impulses of tho Republfean campaigu in Indiana. Prop- orly applied, these agencles will accomplish mora than Tirpex's * bar'ls of monoy."” ” 3 BUTL] Dey Burnen is once mora on tho stump, urging the clalms of Gen. Bexsazuy I, Bur- 1en s n eandidate for Congress from tho Soventh District of Massachuselts, driven thereto Wy o petition from the Mayor nod 2,14 others " of Lowall, his old homo, that he should undertake the cauvnss, Tlo hns written n lotter to the Mayor and the 2,145 others, informing them that hie will not de- cline tho honor to which be would ** scarcely have dared to aspire.” 'Uhe more than moidonly coyness and shy timidity of tho words wa have quoted eharncterizo tha whole lotter. It shows that during his nbsence from. Congress he hng been ohastened in spirit, and thnt his furions nature hing hean subdued somewbat, o is apparently n better mon and hns Lad a change of heart. Like all couverts, he manifosts a dispo. sition to keep on (he back sent and reslrain the natural man. He is 1o longer floree nud belligoront, but roars a4 gently ng n sncking dove, 11is nose is not carried ot its ;usual elovation. Ilis sinister aye beams o gontle lght instoad of flnshing fractious and furious fire. His platform, ns declered in his letter, is somowhat conglom- erate aud hotorogoncous, hut it will de, Ile hopes to boof sorvice to hisdistriel in revising the tariff laws so that they shnll not bo bur- densomo. Again, ** For one [ shall not be content until the laws of the United States aro #o framed and excentod that the hum- Dlest citizen can effectunlly nppenl to his Governmont for rodress sud protection from wrongs done him whenever his State, or the community in which ke is found, refuses or noglects to give him such redress or pro- tection,” Upon the curroncy question he i not so strong for shinplasters as he was, o allows the public to overrule him, and ex- presses himsolf rendy to accept a currency with coin behind it,—a currency based upon something convertible and substantial. He ie n little afrald resumption may be iminous, but he is willing to ty it In point of fact, Lo is willing all the way through his leiter, Tle has been Lrought to a realizing ronss of the nocossity that the public will must be consulted, If we may boliove tho mild-mannoredand sooth- ing words of his lotter, he will not goto Congross to roprosent Burren, but to ropre- sont his donstituonts. Accopting hin decla- rations as sincere, wa hopo hé will bo elected. So long as lie does not mount the high horse aud caracols, through the Mouse with a froe lance, recklessly smiting friond and foe, ho is a man of power and ability, capable of do- ing important work, We trust, howaver, that when eleoted, as he probably will be, upon the strongth of such sweet and gentlo prom- ines, hie will not backslido snd becomo n Ma- lay, but that he will continue in his present chostencd and cherubic disposition, and de. vote himself to tho real work of logislation, instond of the gladintorialshows of thearenn, SILVER AND THE GREENBACKS, Congresa at the lato session passed a joint resolution providing for s Commission of thres Seoators, three Ropresontatives, nud threo experts to be solectod by them, who aro to inquire and take evidenco— First—into the change which has taken place In the relative value of gold and silver; the causes thereof, whether permanent or otherwise; the ef- fects thereof upon trade, commerce, finance, and praductive intercsts of tho country, and upon the etandard value In this and forelga countries. Second—Into the pollcy of the restoration of the doublo standard in this country; end, {f restored, what the legal relation botwoen the twa coiny, ail- ver und gold, should be. Third—Tnto the pollcy of continuing legnt-tender notes concurrently with the nictallic standards, and tho cffects thercof upon the labor, {nduatries, aud wealih of the eountry; and, Fourth~Into tho best means for providing for facititating the reaumptlon of specie payments, And safd Commission is authorized to employ stenographer, anil ehall report on or before the, 15th day of January, 1877, with the evldenco taken by them, and such reconmentations for leglslation av they iy deey proper. The Congressional part of this Commis- slon is composod of Sounators Jowes, Bour- weLy, ond Boay, and Ropresentatives Gio- soy, of Lonisinua, Brawp, of Missourl, and Wirtanp, of Michigan, 'The experts have not yot boen selectod. At least four of this Commission staud committed to the restora- tion of silver currenoy as a legal-tender, and M, Ginsoy is in favor of o restoration of the old dollur as a legaltender to o limited amount. Mr. Bourwer, perbaps, stands alone in favor of maintaining the exclusive gold standard. The Commission, howover, will, if they apply thomselves to tho busi. nosy, beablo to furnish Congress and tho country with valuable inforation on the subjoet, of which information the average Cougressman stands sadly in need. While wo think Congress might well have remon- atized the silvor dollar at the late seasion, novertholoss, at tho next session, when the fearn of candidates will no longor exist, membors will be propared to act intelli- gently, aud to act with divect referonco to the wnerits of tho'quostions uvolved, In the meantime, the silver question is un- dorgoing in one sense a decided change, Bilver, which a fow weeks ago was quoted in London at 47 pence per ounce, roso on the 16th of August to i3} pence, At thls price tho silver dollar of 412} grains, coin standard, waa worth about 90 cents in gold. '{'he small silver coins belug of less weight wore worth some 84 cents on tho dollar, The demond for silver hias sat in. 'The bauks of Portugal have been allowed fo suspend specle pay- ments, because of the silver famine provail- ing thore,—the suspension heing to give them time to procure silver, The Germon dewon- otization of silver hos boen arvested—post. poucd for o time. Fhere is a pause andn partial recovery from the panic in silver. Jnst bere thero is o now danger which threatens American silver coinage, Oursub- sidiary coinago—all that under n dollar— Lins nover been sinco 1853 worth within 6 or 7cents s much ss the dollar, Thatisto say, the two silver half dollars hiave not been worth over 5 or 96 ceuts in gold, while the silver dollar has been worth 102 to 104 in gold. As silver advances, it is met directly by the greenback, Two silver Lol dollars are worth mow 83 to B4 cents, while tho grea®bnck In worth 89 to 0 in gold. Tt requires hut n alight additionnl ad- vanco in silver to bring this subsidinry coin to par In greenbnekn, What then? Assoon after tho {ksue of groonbacks as they declined below the valna of silver tho silver coin dis. appenred, and way lost to sight from 1862 to 18756, Tho Govornment has provided for tho coinngo of fifty millions of silvor coins. It will take two yonrs or wmoro to have thin amonnt minted, If, however, e silver .shall bocoms worth moro than the logal- tande: paper dollar, tho silver coln will dis- appear trom sight and bo sold as bulllen. To maintain our silver coinage in ciroulas tion wo must (1) get rid of the groenbacks as we have of the fraational currency, or (2) tha greenbncks must ndvance in valuo to at lonst 05 conts in gold, Bo long ns we have tha greonbneks, and thoy aro of loss ‘value than even the dobased silvor coin, so long will tho mints coin in vain, and so long will tho silver bo bought aud sold ns bullion. A yonr ago the peoplo Lad some silver put in circulation; to thousands who had been born or who had grown up sinco (o coin hnd been in gonoral cireulation it was o novelty. But it ywas welcomed by all, There was nn univorsal acquiesence in tho wilthdrawal of tho frac- tional currency, nudn vory gonoral willing- nesn oxprosrad for the sabstitution of silver for tha greenbncks and for bank noles of small donominations, 1t wns, howevor, with groat difienlty thnt Congross could boin- duced bafora the clection to consont oven to the cuinngo of silver oxcept in actunl ox- ,chnnge for the fractional curroncy. The main issuo involved in ke qnestion of tho substitution of silver for groenbacks is that presented by ono school of politiciaus, Shall we have n permanont papor money issued Ly tho Government? ‘fhare can be but ono outecomo of such a policy, and that is n permnanent paper currency, irredesmn- Dble, and of course at n discount, Wa know that thoro are those who claim that a papor monoy can bo kept at par in tho abrouco of any redemption, but this is nogatived by the Listory of oll nations at all times. 'Tho oc. ension for the greenbreks has largely passed away, and if Congross could be induced to pass the Braxp bill, which allowed any per- son to doposit gold or silver bullion with the United States and recoive therefor notes of tho United States redeemnble from the gold or silver thus deposited,—theso noter Leing o lognl-tender reccivable for all Govern- mont dues,—thers would be no oceasion for greenbacks for commorcinl purposes. The country would have & silver coinago in gen- oral uso for all purposes, and theso mint notes representing bullion or coin in sums of 3100 and upwards would answer for all largo iransactions, Tho dual standard of gold and silver being restored, we would have the silver or gold coin as a circulsting medium, occording to the rolative valucs of tho two matals. Xow aro theso greenbacks to Le disposed of, tocnable aroturn to a silver currency, orto ennable tho country to rotain in circulation tho silver currency alrondy ordered to bo coined? Tho original design aud the contract waa that thoy should Do taken up with bonds. The Government is now offered a loan at 4} per cont with which to take up outstanding 6 per cents. A 3 or 3} por cent. bond offered in oxchange for greoubacks would readily find takers just o8 fast o3 the uses for tho legal-tenders would expire. ‘I'heso bonds, in order to pro- tect tho dobtor class, might be made legal- tonder in payment of any contract which would be payable in the legal-tonder notes. ‘Tho other altornative is the possibility of advancing the greonback to a par with the subsidlary coin, This must be done or the greenbacks got rid of, or the silver will naver got into circulation, At presont tho silver is solling at 58} ponco in gold. This leaves our subsidiary coln about 83 or 84 conts. When silver advances to 8 penco, the subsidlary silver cofn will be worth as much ii gold ns tho greonback. When, however, the silver shall excood the paper in value, it will disappear, and the country will be left ‘without silver and without small change of any kind. It is, thorefore, o grave question, at any moment likely to be forced upon us, how wo are to retaln possession of the silver ocoinage without taking soms steps to relicve the country of tho depreciated paper, which of necessity must remain doprociatod and prevent the circulation of any motallic monoy. TILDEN'S WAR RECORD, Tho heaviest burden which the Demo- cratic parly is now carrying is the record of Trokn o4 ou advocate of tho right of seces- sion. Industriously as they seck to expuuge thin rocord and to prescat their candidafe be- foro the country as an original Union mean, the proofs to tho contrary accumulate faster than thoy ean meet them. In a recont speochi deliverod by the Hon. Banvxt Snerra- nanaen, at Dayton, O., another chaptor of TitoeN's record is exposed, which ia moro dnmaging than anything that has yot ap- pearcd ‘touching his advocacy of the mon- strous doctrino of Statesovercignty. In the personal diary of Mr, Russzin, the ‘corre~ spondont of the London Times, rocorded in March, 1861, in a private journal, whete there conld be no motive for misroprosenta- tion, ho writes tho utterances of Tipey at publio dinner s follows According to tho Constitution, the Governmont conld not employ force to provent secession, or to compel the States which had seceded, by & vote of 1lie prople, to acknowledge the Foderal power, In- fact, according to them, the Fedoral Government was a mero machine, put forward by a soclety of soyerelyn Btates asa common fnstrament forcertaln ministerjal acts; more particularly thoss which af- fect tho external rolations of tho confoderation, ‘There was not a man [and Tilden wns ono of them] who msintalned that the Government had any power to cocrco the peoplo of a State, or to forcoa Stato to remaln fn the Unfon, In addition to this explicit declaration that socossion cannot bo mot and resisted by war, and that a dissolution of the Union by a vote of nBiate cannot bo realsted by the nation, Mr, Bnrrrananoen brought forward other corroborating testimony, showing that his actlons were in consonance with his utter. ances. Shortly after this dinner, Trioen was invited to bo present at & meeting in Union Bquare, called for the purpose of ex- preasing devotion to the Union, and refused to participate, with the deolaration that he felt **no sympathy with the object of the meeting.” In l'ebruary, 1803, in tho vory darkest hours of the Ropublio, he asaisted to orgauize **‘The Boclety for the Diffusion of Uscful Political Knowledge," whose publi- cations were his own letter, which waa cal- culatod * to persuade the country that the moasures of the War wero porilous usurpa- tions, and that liberty and the Government wera perishing smid tho follies and faults of Apmamanr Lixcorn's Administration"; the traitorous speech of Turrix, of Indiaua; the specch of Beyumous, that produced the draft riots in New York; tho defense of slavery from the Bible; the spoech of Puon in de. fense of VaLranpiaiay; and the domand of tho Albany traitors that Varraxpiomas should bo suwrrendered. Following these m——. publientiona came the resolution of the N,. tonnl Domoorntie Convention, reported by tho Committee of which TrLDIN was a mem. Der, declaring tha War a failuro, and de. manding an immediata cossation of hostilj. tios. Mr. Snerransnozn has not only dong groat Aorvioe to tho people of this country in prosonting TiLoEN's rocord a3 a Coppen liead, but ho hias omphasized it with the fo). lowing statoment of the conditions and Limg in whiclh he was denouncing the Governe mont and ita soldiors : Remember, moreover, that when Mr, TiLoey re. ported this resolutionsnd his Conventlon adopted 1t,1t wan the snme aupremo moment when, as we g, now assured by 1L 11, Stuwant, ot Stanton, hie had beon summoned, by o letter of dunay p, Bexsauty, to go, by way of Nawsan, to Cunada, with $9,000,000, fo thero overato’ on prom, Inentmen ‘! incroatinga pence scntiment at the Nortl, " and he was not requized to fuenlsh vouch. oraforany of the $,000,000, Temember that, Besidea 11, I8, StEwaRT and his §3,000,000, Davry had also et that same ally. Mr. VALLANDIGIAN, ~—whoao battles Mr. TtLoEN'S **socloty™ was fighy. ing in Now York,—to thesame place, and on {1 namne identical misslon, to-wit (a8 Stewanr ex. presicsit): **Tocreates peaco sentlment at tuy North." And remember that, Just then, Mr, Typ. nxn's Committeodrafted, and his Conventlon adopt. ed, that resolve which demanded a sarrender of, the Hepubllc. Remember theae (hings, and alsg that, durlng that four years of confllct with thig trearon, no word or act uf cheer ever came from tuo lips or lifo of Mr, Trtpex in ald of our armies or thelr great caune, and (hat Lo hos never dis. avowed tha doctrines he ullered to HNussriLy,—ute tered through e ** Soclety for tho Diffusion of Usofnl Political Knowledge, " This is the wman whom tho Democrats are now sceking to present to the peopla of this . country as o patriot, and who makes such hypooritical pretenses of roformiug the Goy. ornment which he attemptod to ovorthrow by conveying aid .and comfort to Southern Rebols at the most critical period of the War, ‘The Couventlon torevise the orthography ot the English languape, at present assembled o Philadulphin, has discovered that *the present English alphobet Is madequate. It has only tweuty-slx symbots for moye than forty sounds. It is redundaut ns to C, Q, and X, and certaln forms called capltuls. It s contradictory, *a? representing no fewer than nine sounds, ‘e Beven, ‘1 five, ‘o' nine, and ‘n’ eight, The so-called Jong sound of euch of thego letters 18 represented by wore than fifteen different letters or combinations; ‘e’ nnd 't each'by ten, and other letters fn so nany different modes that for forty sounds there sre more than 850 equivalents. The system {8 the out. growth of ignorance and chance. CixToN's workmen were Dutchmen unable to write cor rect English. Words wero clipped or length. eoed according to tho space which it was cone venfent to give them In arranging the printed lincs, Fanciful deyiationa have been erabodied and perpetusted {n the blunders of printers and transcribers; until tho graphy of words is no rellable guide to thelr history, cven wero such history more Important than o phonetlc pleture of our language as spoken from time to time." ® ———— ‘When Congress was about adjourning, the usual resolution of thanks to the Spenker wos offered by Gen. GAnpisLD. It thanked Speaker Kann and Protem. SayLER. It is the custom to have such resolutions offered by a polltical op- ponent. An exchange explaine how the pestit- erous, unfair, partisan Pro tem, 8ax Cox, who had been omitted, came to be included in the thanks: Mr. Buackauny, a Rentacky Confedorate, arosa and asked Gen. GANPIELD to include In the resoln. tion the naine of Cox, who was Speaker pro tem, befaro he went to tho St, Louls Conventlon, at. the order of Boss Krrly, Mr. GARFIELD, belng thus asked to Include Cox's name, and being arked by & Democrat, apparenily as 8 favor to that party, clyilly replied'that lic had personally no abjection (though the nmission of Cox's namo until ita inser- tion was thus asked for wassufticiently signidcunt), and, if nobody elsa _chose to object, tho numo might be Inscried. Nobudy was uncivil eaough to rise and openly obfcct, and a0 Cox’s namo was jne sorted, by rcgml‘ in tho rosolution. This 1 why wa laugh,* e Prof, BERLYE, of Massachusctts, beesme dls- satisfled with Graxt's Adininistration, and con- sented to run for Congress in 1874 as an Inde- pendent candidate. Ho was elected in the Tenth District over CoanLus A, 8rnvens (Re- publican), by 450 majority, by a combiuation of Independent and Democratfe votes. He has sat among the Confederates and Democrats for cight and a half months, and the contact has cured him of all his dreams of reform nud purl- fleatlon from that source. Ho now supports Harzs and WozszLen, and openly proclaims that the election of Tipnx and HANDRICKS would bea national calamity. e glves It as his sincero opinfon that it would be s most dangerous thing to allow the Government to fall into the hands of the Coufederates and doughfaces. —————— Tho clection of Buax TILDEN President would merely bo an extension of the Administrationof Jixt BuctANAN of infamous memory. TILDEN wotild begin whero Old Buck left off, and prob- nbly land the country in another civil war. Ho is as vivulont o Copperhead s ever BUOHANAN was, Thero never was a drop of Unfon bleod fn Lis withered-up old veins, —— Boston s gonvulsed by the information that it 18 necessary to bleed calves to produce white veal. Mr. EMErsoN has been applied to, sud saya that the sole amelloration lles in a total ab~ stinence from the mastication of the genus, which I tho ead will essentially result {n the proper cnsanguination of the product of the critter. ————e The next President, Gov., 1TAYES, {s delighted at tho nomination of Gen. J. D, Cox. i tho To- 1¢do District for Congress, Upon recelving the nows of his nomination, he sent Gen. Cox this CoLumnus, Aug, 17, 1870.—Gen. J. D. Co: ‘The country 18 to bo congratulated on your nomins- tlon and acceptance yestorda; . Haves. L Long Island nuthorities arc arrivingat the conclusion that the outrage and murder of the Aittle glrl near Jamalea were not the work of & man but of’n woman, who, after the death of the gir], muttlated the remalns to cast suspiclon upon one of the other sex. - e e+ “TiLpER and Reform™ cut down a Republic on flag-pole and burned the liouse of the Repub- llean who raised it, In Ulster County (New York) onthe17th. 1f itis possible to reeve a noose in that vicinity, it might bo usulructed to some advautage. ‘The Prince of Montencgro is 85 years of age 6 foct 4 inches {n height, and is acknowledged to be the strongest and most muscular man fu bis domlnions, 1lis face {8 open and frank, snd ‘wears an aspeet of siugular gentloness, | } A prominent Demdcrat writes from Logwm Couaty (111,) to the Brooklyn Argus that uever having heard of TILDEN a8 a reforier until the St. Louts nominations were made, lie declines to support hit, The trial of Jack McCaLy, at Deadwoud, Black Hills, for the murder of Wild BiLr, re- sulted in a verdict of not guilty, | | The South Carolina Democrats hava fssueds notlce that they will break up every Republican meeting Leld fu the Btate, é ‘The English stemper King Arthur, of Lone don, s at New Haven, Conn,y loading with cart- ridgges for the Turks, 4 A Kentucky paper has dlscovered that AsRA- 1A LINCOLN was born in Wasbington County, {n that State. Ex-Gov, Panis C. Dunnixg, of Bloomingion (Ind.), for mavy years n Demncerat, has declared for Haves and WuEzLER, ‘. e E— The quiet patience of the Servians under most horrible sutferiugs I8 attrusting the sttcution of correspondents, Muugled wen manifust & Bosd