Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 28, 1876, Page 4

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A BOGUS REFORMER WHO REDUCED KO TAXES, REFORMED XO CANAL CORRUI'TION, AND MADE NOTHING BETTER THAN HE FOUND 1T, 4. A CORRUPTER OF THE BALLOT-BOX, AND A LEADER IN FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS, A8 CIARGED UPON HIM DY 1IORACE GREELEY. . AN 1SSUEIL OF BHINPLABTKRS TO LABOR- ING MEN IN THE IRON REGIONS OF MICHIGAN, 8. A MONSTHOUS RAILROAD BHARK, WHO AMASSED MILLION DY DEVOURING WESTRRN JLAILROADS IN FINANCIAL TROUBLE. This great Campalgn Document Bils four pages of Tninuseaize. A copy thereof should be placed In the hands of every voter In the West. Hayes and Wheeler Clubs everywhera should erder #1Tiiden's Record ™ for dlstribution. COST OF THE DECORD, 1t wil) bo sent by mall or express, with charges pald, on the following termi Ter 10 cople: $1.50 For a dozen coples. 25 Bingle copy. ... 5 Tiy the 1,000 ed, ! Bead orders tmmediately for ** Tilden' TRIBUNE CO., Chlcsgo. MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1870. —— At tho New York Gold Excliange on Satur- dny greenbacks rulod ot 90} conts on the dollar. —————e—— Tioex's chief adjutants ot the campaign headqunarters in Washington stond nghast at the perjury indictment, and even the usual- 1y-complacent quartermasters, commissaries, and sutlers in the grand army of place- hunters glare into the future with gloomy forobodings. Slippery Baxt is ratod to bo in & dilemmn which he must either take square- 1y by the horns or elsc be butted off the ticket in disgrace. 1t lias been definitaly decided by the Ohlo ® Domocratio State Central Committee, after diie doliberation and maturd consideration, though not without] strong opposition from & minority of the Committee, to accopt the proffer of $260,000 from New York and Thiladelphia, and use the money for the purchass of votes in Ohio at the October oloction. 'The Cleveland Leader makes this statoment editorlally, and holds itself re- sponsible for its tru! The question of the Bible in the schools, 88 viewed by the Rev. Jaes AMACLAUGILAN, of the Firat Scotch Presbyterian Ohurch; a sormon on * Spiritual Progression,” by the Tov, L. T\ Caausenzary, of the Now Eng- Jand Congrogational Church; the farewell sormon of the Rev, H. N, Parxres, of the Cnmpbell Park Presbytorian Chureb; and accounts of interesting camp-mesting oxer- cises nt Desplaines, Rockford, and Lafayetts, Ind., are given in our collection of religious matter this morning, L — _ } Unelo Jrumy Witsians, having been talion to task by Dhis Indiana constituents on ac- count of.iis course in voting forScorr Lonn's rosolutidn calling for protection to colored Republicans in the South, explains that ho was sbsent when the matter came up, and voted in theaflirmative without knowing what it woas all sbout. Having beon trapped into n commendable action,—made a mistnke aod donme tho right thing for once,—the Ioosier Congressman and candidate for Govornor is ashamed of it, and attempts to plead ignorance. The fact is, ho know all abont it, and it would be far moro to his credit to own up that ho was forced into it 38 o measure of party nocessity. Tho peoplo of the Tenth Ohio Diatrict, and in fact the peoplo of the entire country, aro to bo congratulated upon the renomina. tion of Gon, Jaxes A, Gauriep for Con- gress, and his acceptanco thercof. The fact that he was nominnted by acclamation shows that the support in his District will again be united and enthusiastic. Since Mr. Brave has gono into the Senate, Mr, Ganvierd mny bo fairly regarded as the londer of the Rte- publicans in the Houso, and it is highly im- portant that he should Lo roturned. His large cxperionce, his intimato knowledgo of the appropriations, his ability ns a speaker, aud tho fearlessness with which ko does Lattle against the Confedorates in Congress, ronder his re-olection a matter of national concern, . Mr. Truoen's abjuration of his true income in 1862 has brought moro terror to tho souls of “tho unterrified” than any number of railrond-wrecking scandals could do, It is urged, ond with great pertinacity, by the auxious party mansgors that this income charge; being brief and simple, is doubly - dopgerous, since it is compreliended instant- 1y by the commonest understanding, ‘and thus, as old Mr Sromex would say, “jumps nt once into universal ciroulation,” Where is grave uneasness on this subject among the Democratioc sachems in Washington, who ore far from being renssured by the extremoly diaphanous ex. planation given ont by Tiroen's Secrotary— viz.: that the $20,000 of income omitted from the sworn return was uot oarned in that year, They aro constrained to daclare that in this instance & poor exouse is worse than none,—that it no bettor defonso or explana- tion could be furnished, absolute silenca would have been the wiser courss. Theal. tornative of a more satisfactory refutation of the perjury charge, or of TiLpxx's withe drawal frown the ticket, is being seriously en- tertained in Washington. The Chicago produce markets were mod. erately notive Saturday, and generally finn except corn and lard. Moss pork closed 100 per brl bigher, at §16.40 cash or seller Beop- tomber or Octobor, and $14,92) seller the year. Lard closed 100 per 100 ths lower, at $10,10@10.12} cash, and $9.02}@9.95 for October, Meats wera firmer, at Gjo for ‘boxed shoulders, 8}o for do short riby, and 840 for do shiort clears. . Lake freights were sotive, at 2@2{o for corn to Buffalo, Rail freigits were unchanged. Highwines wero steady, at $1.09 per gallon. Flour was quist and fine, Wheat closed §@3o highor, at91}o for August sud 02}u for Beptember, Corn closed }o lower, at 48jo cash aund 48c for Beptomaber, Oats closed firmos, t B2a oash THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY., AUGUST 1876 ) and 81}c for September. Rye was stronger, st GB}@GGe. Barloy advanced 2i@do, closing ensy at 780 asked for September, Hogs were in good demnnd and were firmer, soll- ing at §5.70@0,40 for common to choice. Cntlle were fairly activo and firm at Fridny's quotations, Bleop were quiot and steady. One hundred dollnrs in gold would buy $111 in greonbacks at the cloke, et Wo print this morning a most interosting and valuable colloction of facts aud figures rolativo to the manufacturing interests of Tllinois, and their exteat, condition, nnd prospects, To many of our readers the in- formation embraced in this article will be now ‘and surprising, proving, as it does, that Tt nols, in spite of three yoars of great financinl dopression and stringenoy, has mado rapid and sitbstantial progresa as a manufacturing Slate, and that hor natural resources, facili- tiss, and advantages must inevitably place Tier {n the front rank at some 'not far distant day. In the requisite essontials of coal, water-power, railway communieation, cheap food, ote,, the fifty ocities and towns from which statoments are given offer rare induce- ments to eapital and enterprise. An fnteresting lotter descriptive of the politien! situation in Indinua is given in our columns this morning. Just how farand in what degrea the Indepoudent third-party movement will affect tha October olaction is nt prosent a mutterof considerable uncor. tainty. It scoms to ba ndmitted on all sides that the inflationists of the Coorrn-and-Cany stripe, acting upon the theory that their votes will besr fruit in aftor years, though they prove to bo barren so far s imme- diate victory i8 concerned, will mnke a formidable showing in the canvass, snd draw largoly upon the voting strength of tho State at large. Whether this divergenco from the rogular party lines will most soriously encronch upon the Demo- eratio or the Republiean ranks is a matter to be delermined chicfly within tho onsuing month by tho conduot of tho campaign. Senntor Montoy, who is oxcollent authority upon Indiana politics, is confident that the main issuo will not be the question of more or less greonbacks, but that it will be the question of more or less sccurity ngainst the threatened dangor that the party of Copper- heads and Confederntes may obtain the su- premacy in national affnirs, — THE NEW REFORMERS, All agrao that the crying necessity in our ontional affnirs, at present, is for reform. Methods of politienl economy aro always of importance ; but evon these, based though thoy may be on the national lawa of indus. try, trade, nnd tariff, which caonot be vio- lated with impunity, must yet yield in im. portance to mensures of moral reform which go to the bottom of all prosperity. For be- hind economic methods must be moral prin. ciple, or mothing can save a nation from the doom that niways follows corruption. Of what use is it to havo a fall Troasury, but a dishonest Treasurer? It only gives the lat. ter the opportunity which he covels, without benefiting the Government or the public. Where wonld be the gain of general elec- tions through the land, and of a change of party-character in the Admjnistration, if thereby one set of corrupt men were simply exchanged for snother? It would be the restloss but vain shifting set forth in the rather prosaic lines of WarTs: As when & rging fever burns, From slde to 8 the enflerer turns, And "tis a poor relief to gain, To change the place and keep the pain, The Democratic party counsels the people to put the Ropublican party out of power, and to install itsolf jn the high place of authority, This is to be tho panacea for all the ills of the day,—for bad times, for unpaid debts, for grasshopper depredations, for Grantism, for Southorn massacres, for In- dian wars, for dishonest officials, for Credit- Mobilicr operations, for municipal *‘rings,” ote. 'Tho hope is, that, as tho list of evils is long, and the promise of relief is loud and oft-ropented, the people will ba induced, in shoer desperation, to make a spasmodio effort at roform, accopting a change of party s equivalent to o cure of the discases of the body politic. The lenders belicte iu sud- den rovolutions of publio opinion, and in popular gullibility, But we Liave not yet lost confidence in thy intolligence, and especially in *‘ the sober gecond thonght, ” of the American people. Otherwise wo should despair of republican institutions. If general education and a free press, added to roligious influences, and re- inforced by the bitter experience of a civil war, cannot onable thom to seo that tho Democratio party is not to bo trusted with political power, at least in this goneration, and until the old manngers are doad and for- gotten, wo must loso faith in oll that consti. tutes the bope of patriots, Whon the au- thorsof the worst evils which aftlict the na- tion ask to bo allowed to cure them, it must ‘e upon the principle of the snying, ‘'Seta thief to cateh a thiof,"—n policy which moy answor & tomporary turn in minor police ar- rangertents, but cun hardly bo elovated into ameaximof State. I¢is too much like put- ting incondiaries in charge of tho Fire De- partmont, on the ground that those who kindle fires must bost uuderstand how to extinguish them; or like glving bank premises into the ohavge of burglars, as these claim to have made & special study of doors, windows, vaults, and locks. Tho fashionable world used to bave an adage, supposed to embody tho wis- dom of ita oxparienco, that “* A reformed ruko makas the best husband,” Tut results did not always confirm its safoty, as a practi. cal rule, for the guidauce of mothers and daughters in their matrimonial schemes. 'The heretofore ruke was n difiicult character to denl with in the way of roform, Nobody could tell whan that work was accomplished iu him. It was certainly wise to put him on s long*probation. * And oven thon ho was apt to backslide when the novelty of marringo was over. 'The difficulty was, that he could not stand temptation, He full before the frst protty face. It required very little se- duction to overcomoe his mow-born virtue, And so the trostful mamma and the confid- ing daughter who accepted such o husband weraapt to coms to grief, ‘Woe fear it would be a similar dlsappoint- ment were the peopls to put fulthin the Democratic party, It is too old » sinoer to ropent ensily, We fear it bolongs to a class deserlbed by thie 1lebrew prophet: * Can theEthioplan cbange his skin, or theleopard his spots? Then muy yo alsodo good that ave acoustomed to do evil,” Thore ls a good deal of tho Ethlopian about the Democrats, much a4 they profeas to abhor * the nigger.” Both are black, but in the oue case tha blacknoss isoutsido, andin the othor fuside, und the Jatter is the harder to wash away, Itis amusing to think of the position inwhich that party would find itsclf, if ouce aguin in powor, under a promise to carry out Civil- Hervice Reform. Thero would be all the fat ofilces weiting for the leadérs, and all the wiuor ones standing opposite the huugry ‘4vworkers.” There wonld be the ancient doctrine of Axpnew Jacrsox, *To tho viee {ors bolong the spoils,"—adopted stendily ns the ruls of practice since 1828, And then there would bo tho ab. solute necessity of providing for the future, fo that there would be somebody to look after the primaries and run tho machine. Alns! to place sixty thousand ofiices before thot party, and oxpeet it to abstain from usingthom for political ends, would be to place sixty thousaud femnle beanties bofore s re- formed rako and within lis power, and to oxpect him to remain continent. No such maral miracle is likely to occur. But we must not forget that Mr, Tiunen 18 tho atandard-beaver of the party, and thal he bonrs aloft the inkcription, **Reform.” Perhaps he is n kind of Paul, converted from the bittersst porsocutor to the most zenlons npostle. Ons of two (lhings cer- tainly must bo dono : it must be proved cithor that he hns ever boen a statesman of pure loyalty and unspotted integrity ; or else that he is so thoroughly repentant a Rebel and corruptionist that he may bo trusted to ferret out and bring to justice his fellow- rogues. The Iatter is a very lonest way of putting things, if the supposition applies; but the former sounds botter, and is decidedly more respectablo, It has {lie objection, however, that it is a more dif- cult atatement to sustain by adequate proof. ‘Tho penitent dodge would be comparntively ensy. Tho sing are all at hnnd, ready to be described and attested. In fact, tho Repub. licans have saved much trouble Ly cata. loguing them. It would only remnin to make the penitence manifest, which might not bo without embarrassmont, yet could be man- aged with n suffloiency of words. But it hns been thonght wiser to undertake the more difficult but respectabls rols ; and so Mr. TiuoeN steps forth, and says blandly, “Thave washed my hands in innocency.” His faoco wears a complacent smile ng he sprends out his hands befors the public. e wears gloves, however, and tho impudent Republicans insist upon pulling them off, Then one finger is seen to be defiled with years of handshaking with a dirty Democrat cnlled Twerp ; another with printer's ink from fraudulent ballots, counted in New York State clections ; a third with filthy lucre grasped in dealings with railroads ; o fourth with the impurity of followship with tresson in tho .Civil War;. and all the rest with some similar soil of contact with political pnd pecuniary corrup- tion. It is, indeed, a singular sight,—a pro- fessed reformer, with his name in hundreds of party newspapers as the onomy of rings and fraud, and, ot the same time, on the docket of a court asdefendant in asuit for dishonest appropriation of the property of stockhold- ers of a railrond] And n still stronger sight is throatened, wo are told; that of a candi- dato for the Presidency of the Unitod States under a criminal charge of having falsely sworn to his return of incomo, in order to ss- capo his just war tax in the struggle to save his country! Alng! for the now reformers and their boasted leader! They scem to for- get that pure work must be done with clean hauds. The Republicans msy congratulate themselvés in having a candidate against whom not oven party malignity can invent sn accusation, and who noeds not to take the defonsive in this important political cam- paign. ME. TILDEN'S “DEFENSE.” After ignoring for several days the serious charge made against Mr. TrpEX by & com- parison of two sworn statoments contradict- ing each other, the Democratio nowspapers seem to have agroed upon & line of defense, Tho ease against him is clearly set forth as follows ¢ On_ Dec. 26, 1803, In hls answer lo the My, TiLpex awcore to aicomplulnt in the Clreuil return_ under oolh, in|Court of the United wwhich he sald ¢ {States, i the rutt of the 1 herchy certity that!st, Louls, dllon &: Terre the following s & tryellaufe JRaliroad Com- and fafthful statement of pany aqalnat Almaelf and tlic gains, profits, or_in-‘others, wAlch answer was como of SaxvrL'S, Ti-lled recently, Mr. TiLvex DN, of the City of Now #icors under oath us /e - York, and County of fows: New York, Stata of New} York, whether derived,vices the dofendant, TiL- from any kind of proper-'peN, mado a chargs of ty, rents, interests, divi- §10,000 againet vaid sec- dends, snlary, or from ond-mortgage bondtiold- sny vprofession, _trade, jors, and the aald charge employnicnt or ocation [wed pald by ot on bohulf or from any other source of sald vecund-mortgage hntever. trom 18t day hundholders on (o 17in of January to 318t day of uf Octobor, 180: December, 1842, both that the defend. days inclus eN, for o part of hla et to un Income tax un-'servicea aforesaid, also der the Exciao laws of the made o charge of the like United St Tnconie sum of $10,000 on ac- rofessionsl crs ond the Receivers, \whicl was paid to hilm by the mald *Azautan O, I1.A00, 5 and (which payment appears under date of Nov, 1542, In o statement ans nexed to tho first Teport laforeeaid, as having been recoipted’ for by the sald ILDEN, ‘on account of urofeaslonal services.'™ * The conclusion forced upon any impartial render i8 that BIr, Trroex sworo falsely in one case or the other. ‘Lo only nnswer that we can conceive of as eficctive would be to show that one or the other of the two state- ments was never made and sworn to by him. "Thin, it seems, it is not possible for Mr, T1. DEN to do, nnd a defonse s attemnpted which was suggested by Mr, TiLpeN's private soc. ratary, and has boen taken up by tho Demo- eratic newspnpers with somothing like the desperation which prompts a drowning man to clatcli at & etraw. Mr. Tripex's secrotary says that *“a lawyor might work for a long tima befove he got his foe, and a couscien- tious man would, of course, consider the work he had done from year to your as a case progressed, and that tho feo, though recoived in one year, was not.his income for that year; it had been, in fact, carned each year during tho progros of the case, ‘I'hat was all thore was about tho matter,” If this ia all that is to be sauid in explanation of TiLoen's contradictory statowmonts, itihad bettor not have been eaid atall, Tho law roquired him to retnrn his actual income within the yoar,—that is, the 1monoy recoived from all sources,—and it had baen decided by the Courtsoverand overagain that the law required just this, Mr. 'PrLocs, a lawyer himself, could not have been igno- raut of it. Besides, if he had been earning this feo of $20,000 in previous years, did he velurn any part of it as his income before he received it? Ho could scarcely have dono this, a8 it was not an income until it camo into his hands; but, it not, then there wasa part of his fncome on which he paid no tax, 'That is exactly tho point. e swindled the Governmont and “swore to » fulse return in ordor to do so. Mr. Tizpen's *defonse” seems also to be based on the assumption thatin tho year 1802, whon he swore hiw. income was only $7,118, he hud received nothing but this siugle fee of $20,000. ‘This will soarcely do. Did Mr. Tioex get no othor focs for a whole year, notwithstanding his large practice us a corpo- rationlawyer? Had henodividends, interest, rents, or othor resources, notwithstanding le bad alroady smassed alarge fortune? Jtis wore probable that his income for the year t*That for much eer-” 1802 wan $100,000, tha $20,000 having beon but a single item; but he swors that it was only $7,118. Tho theory of Mr. TiLDEN'S “defenss® would enable any man s0 disposod to whitlle his incoms down to insignificance, Tho professional man might with equal proprioty maintain that Lo ronlly began to enrn his incoms of this year when ho was a school-boy, as it was there he began the eduction which subse- qnently socured him his income, This is the reductio ad absurdum, 'The simple fact is that s sworn statemont hias been found in which Trupen admits that in the yoar 1862 he recolved $20,000 for services to one client alone, and another sworn statement {n which he claimed that his entirs income for that yoor was only $7,118. And, to mnke the matter worse, one of these sworn statements was made for tho purpose of swindling the Government out of its tax ata time when its necensities wore greatest. Yot the Domo- cratio party atill desires the people of this country to eolect this man the Chief Magis- trate of this nation, * ENGLAND'S RESPONSIBILITY. The war betweon Servin and Turkey rapid- 1y draws to a closo, and, notwithstanding the apparent ropulge of the Turks at Alexinatz, the Princo Mirax isreported as making prop- ositions to the Sublime Porta for a cessa- tion of hostilities. In seeking for the causes of this suddon failure of the Servians—tho war has Iasted but six wecks—the impartial obsorvor will not fail to attribute the victory of Turkey to tha moral aid and comfort she has received from England. It is not so much Tnrkey ns England that has once more crushed the Christinns and returned thom to the horrors and porsecutions of Tuarkish {yranny, and sho has sacrificed thom because sho has fenred their hberation from Turkish rulo might be disastrons to hor Eastern poli- cy. The infamous conduct of the Tory Gov- crnmont, not only in not speaking the word that might have prevented this struggle and compelled tho Turks to treat the Ohristinns like human beings, but also in resolutely Ignoring the fiendish atroc. ities of the Turks, will be condemned by the whole civilized world when this war is over. It is gratifying to observe that the better class of the English press is alrcady holding Mr, Disrazist and his party responsible. The Spectator calls attontion to the fact that the Bufgarinn rtrocities wers first announced in the Daily News, having been forwarded by ita correspondent, for whose good faith many of the mombers of the House of Commons vouched, and that his reports were corrobo- rated by Mr. SoruyLER, the American Consul- General, who waa traveling with him, In sddition to this, the correspondents of the T'imes and other London papers sent similar roports, and these in turn were confirmed by the reports of the corrospondents of Paris, Vienna, and Borlin papers, and by the state- monts of foroign Consuls. When these facts were Lrought to the attontion of the Government, Mr, Disrarrr not only would not entortain them, but treated the whole af- fair in a joonlar mannor. The papers to which wo have reforred, however, are not in- clined to allow this sstonishing action of Disnaext to pass without comment, On the other hand, they do not hesitate to apply the lash, The Spectator snys: Tt ia not levity with which Mr. Disraxit is charged in Lhis matter, though he has been guilty of it, but with leaden-heartedness, with careless- ness allke of human sufering and English honor, when neglect of elther makes it easler for him to carry out a policy on swhich e hias set hils heart, and which, the moment thess **anub-nosed Sax- ons," as he caile us in *‘Conlngeby,* have re- turned to thelr hames, he will pursuc s tenaclons- ;y. !ln apite of the rcvelations now certaln, asat rat. The Saturday Review says : Al the Serviana can do s to fight on, ‘amidst un- told miscrics, but relying on the sufforing which winter will inflict on Asiatics, until elther Rusala eatehes firo, or the overthrow of the bad Guvern- ‘ment now controlling English foreign policy allows Great Britain ance more to show herselt the frlend of tho outraged2yd oppressed, A Carlist war, with a Kuropean war®at the end of it, would be a fine concluslon to the pollcy which Mr. DisnaELt wishes tocnd In & restoration of the Turklsh afalus guo, and which Lord Denny deslres shonld resnlt in a **pacification, " brought about by English moral Influence, and nearly certain to endure at least elght months. Ithas been reserved for Mr. Disrare: to closo an otherwise brillinnt career ss leader of his party in the Honse of Commons with a deed of shame and infamy that will forever tarnish his name and famo, Tho Promior of o great Governmont, who, for the sake of party policy, conld deliberately withhold tho information of these atrocitics from tho THouse, and, when they were forced upon him, troat thom with levity, is in offact as crucl as tho Turk himself who inflicted the atrocities upon dofeuseless women and little children, It is apitiful commentary upon Tory grood and timidity. JUDGE OATON'S LETTER INDORSING TIL- DEN'S LOYALTY, The renders of T Omtcado Triuune have undonbtoedly read Judge CaTon's letter corti. fying to the Unionism of Slippery Saat Tz~ pEN during the War, and have also undoubt- edly come to the conclusion that the good Judge has been wadly imposed upon by the railroad wrecker. Tho Judge himsolf was un " ardent Union m%n and War-Demoorat during the Rebollion, and he did all that he could, although it wns an oxiremoly dificult task, to got other Democrats up to his atandard of loyalty, He followed sacredly the maximy and precopts of DovaLAsaafd lie used avery effort to make the War a success and to help the Admimstration suppross tho Rebellion,, Ihero is no doubt of that. Judge Catox nevorthelesa is a strong Domocrat, and, he disliked to sea the feeling of disly,. .y that waos manifested by his own party, he was, notwithstanding, charitably disposed toward jt, felt like condoning ity faults, and was at any time ready to mccept lip-protestations of fealty a4 honest sentiments, Judge CatoNn, how- ever, is tho 1ast mnu in the world to whom T'1LveN would unbosom himeell froely or ex- press his honest sentiments in conversation, Ho was sharpenongh or sympathizing enough uot to outrago the Judge’s feelings by telling him ho wus not loyal; on the other hand, it was easier for him to pretond, to disseblo, and to conceal his real sontiments, 1n aod- dition to this, it must bo remembored that the Judge in his lotter only produces his gen- eral recollection of a private copversation hold fifteen years ago in which YiLoex ae. quiesced in.what the Judgo was anxious to find out,—in other words, while the good Judge talked and talked, the Slippery TiLoey winked and wivked with hia sinlstor eye, and the good Judge took it all in as law and gos- pol. This is all there is to Judge CaTon's loiter. His dosire to save Tivex is credita- ble to his good heart, but it is not creditable to his intelligenco, His lelter is notin ac. cordance with the facts, ‘What are these facta? Mr, TrLDEN is best known in New York, where he has figured in politics for half u ventury. We leavo out of question his rallroad-wrecking businoss, in which he has figured for about the same length of time all over the country, to the damnge of stockholders. In the State of New York thera is mnot s human being, friend or fos, who can put his flugerona single loyal act of TiorN performed during the War, a single loyal specch, or a aingle loyal remark, He hns no record that shows what be na done for the Union, no record to show that he ever sympathized with tho soldier, or that he ever aided the Governmont in any manner, On the other hand, it lias been shown—nnd not disproved by his best frienda—that he made violent Btate-sovereigu- ty speochos in 1800, justifying the right of mocession, It has boen shown, and not disproved, that he was & member and one of the founders of that infamous Soclety for the Diffusion of Political Knowledge that flooded the country with treasonable litora- turo when the Union cause was in its most extrome peril, It lins beon shown, aud not disproved, thac he refused to attend the grent Union Bquaro meoting in Now York City that wastealled to encourage and aid the Government. It has Leen shown, and not disproved, that he was a member of the Com- mitteo in the Democratio *National Convon. “tion that framed the resolution declaring the Whara failure, It was not until after Smen. AN had made his march to ths son, and Grant had been victorlous in Virginia, and the Union fleet had been successful, that he proved himselt a hypoorite and coward by crawfishing nnd deserting his former friends in their adversity, All of his public scts showed him to ba on the side of the cne- mies of the Government, and to such an extont that, when Mr. Kasson mndo this charge ngainst him, Mr. Hewrrr, before replying, falling to get any informe- tion from TirvEx's friends, and knowing nothing himeelf, was compelled to telograph 1o TrroeN himself, recciving in reply a dis- patch stating that there was no doubt as to Trupen’s position daring the War. And this dispatch, mesning ‘neither one thing nor the other, being capnblo of a double construe- tion, is all that the Chairman of the Demo- cratic Natiounl Commitiee can paradeaso certificate for TrLoen's loyalty, The certif- icate, of conrse, is worthless, as it would answor equally well for Varranpiomay, Lee, or SroNewarl JioksoN. In view of such facts s these, the lotter of good Judge Oaron is s pleasant outburst of charitable sentiment, but, beyond this, throws no light upon TiLpen's loyalty, If TmpEN was a loyal man, why does not gome one of his numerons blowers and strikers put his finger on one single act showing that loyalty ? THE BRAVO POISONING MYSTERY, ‘While Parie from ‘time to time develops the most revolting and blood-curdling of sen- sational horrors, London scems to haven specialty of mysteries in its criminal record. The Bgpavo poisoning case has been so well worked up that its fame bas spread abroad throughout the world. It is said that it would bave besn passed by, like scores of other cases, without attracting particular at- tontion outside of tho immediate neighbor- hood whers the parties lived, had it not basn for an enterprising nowspaper,—the London Telegraph,—which resolved to make a sonsa- tion of it, and dorived its profit therefrom by ruoning up its ciroulation to 120,000 copies during the twenty-three days of the Coronor's inquest. Indeod, the first Coro. ner's jury who had the case passod it over lightly, and docided that Bravo had commit- tod suicide. But the relatives of the de- ceasod caused it to be rcopened; another Coroner's jury was impanel. ed; ominont counsel reprosented the Crown, Mrs. Bmavo, Mrs. Cox, her intimate friend and companion, Baavo's relatives, Dr. GurLy, and all othors nenrly or romotely interested ; a lorge number of wit- nessos wereoxamined, and subjected to arigid- nessof cross-oxamination entirely unparalleled in a Coroner's inquest ; and, after a month of inquisition, the Grand Jury brought in the following verdict : ¢ We flnd that Mr. Cuantes Devauner Tonnen Bravo did not commit suicide; that he did not meet his death by misadventure ; that ho was willfully murdered by the administration of tartar emetio ; but thers is not sufficient evidence to fix tho guilt upon any porson’br persons.” This verdict is as remarkable and mysterious as tho case itself; and, in view of the charnoter of the testimony taken, we can sea no other provocation for it than o desire to prolong the mystery. It looks simply as thongh the Coroner's jury did not want to spoil a good atory by afilrming what nppsars to have been simply a case of suicide, ad- mitted before death by the deconsed himself, Beavo had married A Mru TRioarpo, who, during her widowhood, had contractod & criminal intimaocy with one Dr. Guyy, a man double her age, who seoms to have been o successful quack, This inti. maoy was fully confessed to Bravo bofore marriage, and ho on his part coufessed to slwiler Uaison with another woman. Tho marriage was contracted with the under- standing that both should mutnally forgive and forget, but Mra. Bravo's tostimony, cor- robornted by others, was that Baavo was un- equal to the self-imposed discipline, and that he was jealous of Guiny coustantly, though it does not appear that the intimacy betyeen Guiny and Mrs. Bravo was contin. ucd after the marriage. On tho ove of Bnavo's denth Le hiad also romonatrated with his wife about drinking too much wine,—a fault to which she was addicted. On the other hand, there was evidence showing that Bravo'sconduct durlng tho day previous to the suicide was not different from usual, though this, we should say, would be found to be the case in nine out of every ten suicides among persons of the better classes, T'he ovidence tending to establish a oass of snicide was fornished mainly by Mrs, Cox, who was the companion of Mra. Bravo, Awxtia BusnNeLy, one of Mra. Bravo's sorve ants, and Bir WiLLtax Guiy, one of the surgeons called in before Bnavo's death, Mrs, Cox says that whon she went into Bna- vo'a room, when ko had called out in suffer. ing, Lie exolalmed : “I have taken poison, but don't tell Fronence,"—Mis wife, Mrs, Cox roused the house, sent out for medical aid, and told tho doctors what Bravo had said to her, which seemns to show that she hiad no desire to couceal anything, I'wo of the pbysicinug, Dr. Jonnson sud Mr, By, ropeated to the dying Bravo what Mrs. Cox had told them, and he replied that he did not remember having said anything about polson, but told them he had rubbedhis gums withelaudanum, and might Lave swallowed somo of it ; but, as the poison subseqiiently found in the stomach was autimony, thia would not be intelligible, except on the theory that he did not want his wife to know he bad committed sulcide, This theory gnins strongth from the fact that, a short time after, when he and Mrs, Cox were again alono, he sald to her, * Why did you tell them? Doca Fronenox know I poisoned my- self?” Bir Wiutaw Gurw's testimony was that he said to decessed, ** This is not a case of digoase ; you are dying of poison”; to which Baavo replied that ho ‘‘took it him. ‘what right had Mr, +Pizoen to clarge solf,” but maintained aftorwarda that he had taken nothing but laudanum. It {a not at all improbable that Lie Gelioved he Had takon Inudanum, while he actually took tartar ematio, it having boen brought out in the testimony that tartar emetid Jad been pur. chased by the conchman to kill rats. Auetia Busnneiy, a servant, testified that, when Mra, Cox ssked Bavo whera ho got what had made him ill, he replied, ** Out of your bottle, Fromsnoe,” and that he ropented to 8ir Winttax Gurr that he had talien laudanum, but added: *'If it wos not laudanum, { do not know what it wna.” Thore was nothing in any of the ovidence which pointed to anybody as having doliber- ntely poisoned the man, and, had it not been for the confosaed irragular morals of the fam. ily, it is not likely that auy such conclusion would have been renchod. , As it was, the jury could find nothing which direetly con- nected any one with the willful poisoning which they concluded was the work of some- body besids himself. Bo the myatery romains 2 mystery still ; and it has now attained' so much notorlaty that many porsona will prob. nbly bring it up from time to time in order toshare this notoristy, and even add now suspicions aud complioations by their own perjury in order to gratify a morbid ambition in that direction. THE OPERATIONS OF THE TARIFF. A correspondent in Iowan writes to us as follows concerning the tariff': 7o the Editor of The Tridune. Croan Favts, Ia., Aug. 23..~1 am a constant reader of Titg DALY TRnuNE, and am well pleased with the able manner in which most Important questions are dlscussed, particularly the silver and the tari®® questions, Strong advocates of a high protective tarl(f in thls scction nasert that tho price of all domestic goods, auch as woolons, flannels, cottans, American silks, pig-Iron, Bessemer stecl, etc., otc,, I8 leas now than it was In 1800, Isthla » fact? And, If so, aro not the same goods corro~ spondingly cheaper in foreign countriea? Coull wo not now purchase most gooda abrond chesper than in New York, or from home manufacturers? CONSTANT READER. The general prostration of industry all over the world, and especially in this coun- try since the panic of 1878, has matorinlly reduced the cost of production., Consump- tion has declined so Iargely that a reduction of prices is n matter of necessity. This falling-off in pricos of !l manufactured com- moditios hag beon more mavked 1n the United Staton then elsewhere, because prices had been so much higher hera than elsewhere. Bince 1860 thore havo been great improve- ments in machinery, and these had tho effect of reducing the cost of production, During the period from 1862 to 1873 the United Btates wero cursed with a proteotive tax, which deprived the American peoplo of all the blesaings of incrensed and cheaponod production. During the. same poriod ail mankind ontside of the United Stntes en- joyed the blessings of wools and woolen goods, of iron and steel goods, of silks and linens, ohesper and in greater abundance than at any provious period. The American people alons were denied the benofits of this abundance and this cheapness. Thoy were taxed to the utmost limit of endurance. Tha panic of 1878, however, had a rorions effact on this condition of affairs, Our manu- facturers made goods for the homo market exclusively ; thoy bad nothing to sell. When they had bad a surplus, thoy susponded pro- duction until they had worked off their old stocks, The panio was followed by such o stringency and such a retrenchment of ex- penditurea as to take from them ono-half or mors of the ordinary consumption of tho home markoet. The prices had to fall, and the fall of prices had to be precaded by a re- duotion of wages and & reduotion of tho whole cost of production. Manufactures wero prostrated. To insist on the protected pricos was todestroy the eala; the tariff ex- cluded competing foreign productions, The manufacturers did the bost thing pos- gible. Our fron manufacturers sent thoir iron to Canadn, where it was sold in compe- tition with British iron; tho policy of pro- tection was abandoned ; and iron has sinco been sold in this country at such reducod prices that foreign iron would not have com= peted had the tariff boen reduced one-half, Our cotton manufacturers, instead of re- lying on a protsctive duty'of 40 per cont in gold, hiave bogun making goods for export, and have for a year been solling Amorican cotton gopds in England aud Germany in succossful compotition with British cottons, They have begun to seil thelr cotton cloths to other countries, of course at prices in com- petition with the cheapest. They have ro- vived home consumption by the large reduc- tion of prices, and at a sale of prints loat woek, in New York, the prices at which tho goods gold did not exceed the duty loviod on the same goods by the tariff, 2 In one of the lata reports of the woolen manufacturers, it was stated that American woolen goods were now produced and sold nearly as cheaply as the same goods in other countries, and that, if the tariff tax on wools was reponled, our manufacturers conld ex- port thoir woolen goods and sell them in other countrics. In the face of all this, the duty on cotton goods romains at au average of 40 per cent, and on woolen goods it ranges from 45 to Y0 per cent. Tho tariffat this time is oporating 1o the oppression of the manufacturera. It cuts them off from cheap raw materinl, Tha manufacturers of England lave the whole world from whioh to obtain their raw mato. rial, while onr manufacturers are compelled, under their own protective tariff, to pay atax of from 80 to 50 por ceut for many indispen- sable articles, T'he tariff nolonger protects; except in a limitod numbor of articles, but it prohibits revonue, and it now retards home production. Tho revenuo' from tha tariff is declining heavily every year. As the prices at whioh goods are sold at home and abroad docline, the lariff becomes more and more prohibitory, TImports falloff, and therois a deficiency i the revonne, During 1874.'5-'6, there was a large and annually increasing do- ficienoy, It is estimatod that the deficiency {or 1877 willbe still grester, and yet Congresa cannot be induced to give the least consmder- ation to the necessity of modifying the tar. iff, and reducing it to a vevenue atandard. . The Nation makes a rather wenk dofenso of Mr, TipeN's conncction with the 8t Louis, Alton & Terre Haute Railroad, and sustains Mr, Truoxn's position in the matter that tho present owners and managers of the yond have mo suthority to inquire into the case bocause ke and his associates made the purchase for the purpose of reorganization ou their own account, and not as T'rystecs for the old stockholders and creditors. But there is one poiut which the Nation strange. ly ovorlooks. If Mr, Tipey and ‘his nesoci- ates did not act as Trustées, but bought in tho road on their own account and legiti- mately made $284,000 by the transaction, the Company $48,500 for services as attor- noy or 'Truspee while acting eutirely for himself ? Was not this, taking 3y, Tie. DeN's and tho Nution's own view of the mat- ter, obtaining money under false pretenses? . And while tho Nation ia inclined to doprecaty tho charges that have beon brought againgg Mr. TrLpxN, we aro curious to know what it will hiave to say in regard to the oxposition of TiLpEN's sworn income roturn for the year 18062, In that yonr Mr. TiLpEN sworo tha( ‘his income waa only alittla moro than 37,009, but recently, inhia answor to the Alton § Terre Houte Rinilrosd suit, he hns swory thnt he recelved during the year 1862 ¢ sum of $20,000 from this Company along, Doos the Nation think that this contradiction ot dvorn rtatements ought Also to have been suppreased ? Wa can scarcely boliove that iy will follow the oxample of tha Deinocratic press, and ignore tha case altogother. — The Democratie Congressional Conventioy that met st Austin, Texas, recently, went inge business on a large acate, Discoverlng that the prepondersance of Democrats in the Lone:Sty 8tate would make o vigorous canvass unneces sary, tho Convention ect up & job to expory TiLpEN mon to Loulsfana to vote. and vety often, and to see that Republicans shall ng vote at all, It is a pretty scheme, and we shaf) hearbefore long ot * Radlcal outrages fn which the honest voteraof Loulsiana will be slqf down like dogs by the emigrants from Texas, . ——————— After weighing tho subject thoughttully, IIALSTEAD naks: All things consldered, wouldl it not be advissble far the National Democratic Fommittee 10 jnvty Mz, TiLoex to step down and out, and then sub., tuto the name of Pxrrn Coortit on the Preslientiyl ticket? Though a lfttle wild on the currcncy g tion, Mr, Cooven ia an honest oan, who hasnot mado i3 fortune by wrecking dilapldated rallross companics, and no investigation, however acarch. ing, wonld stiow that hodld not pay hin income tax during the War like an honest man willingt, Dear his proportion of the burden of the great struggle for natlonal lite, ——————— A man named JULIAN was driving & wagoy lond of glant powder along a 8t. Louls red, whon he discovered fire In the bottom of thy vehicle. One box had just caught, when g coolly turned and threw it out. Finding he could not extingulsh the flames, he drove thy wagon {nto s ditch, and, unbitching the horse, drove them o short distance away before the er. ploslon came. People were thrown downaal, houses wrecked, but the plucky driver got awsy with bis uninjured horsea. e A Charleston (8. C.) man named NIXON hy orlginated o novel entertaloment, to which the Charlestoninns are bldden ut o fixed rate por capla. He proposcs to be serewed In a coflig, and burled under 6 feet of closcly-packed earth, from which sequestered retreat he promises to work hls way {n an hour and abalf. Th Charleston peoplo fuslst that the first nct in the performance shall be succeesful, but they gen erously offer to excuse NixoN in the event of ¢ falture to resurrcet himsolf, - 01d 8ham TILDEK has ucarly reached the ent of bis sixty-seventh year. Col. INGERSOLL eag Tie has uo more flesh on him than an old um brella. ‘The New York World, however, fuslsy thas hels notssold os Bit ALLEN, and the the ladies ought tobe thereby encourazed to work for “TiLpRN and & wedding in the White House.,” A rag baby could, in that cnsp, sap the Commercial, be supplied by HENDRICKS, aud the happy family would be complets. — ———— The death of M, OLLIviER, the famous French duellist, in n recent passagRat-urms with & noyvice, M. FRUILURRADE, resulted in the di covery that M. OLLIVIER was not the brave man he pretended to bo. e furced the combat on Lis opponent, and was run through the chest on the third rally, After death it was dlscor cred that he wore a culrass, and, o far from go- ing out In & blazo of glory, hls mewory h heaped with obloquy, Tt tho statute of limitations does not prevent it, there {s o strong probability that the Repub licans will land 8ax TiLDEN in the Penitentlary for perjury and swindling the Goverament fo making his ucone returns beforothe Demnovrat can get him into the White Heuse, where bt would be able to pardon himselfjout. It is1 pretty close race as to which place he will read frst—with the Penitentiary a little aliead. —et————— The misfortune of CanL BuRg, who wa robled in his sleepon & New Haven steamer, and then thrown overboard, has brought. out another victim, whowrites to a New York paper on the subject. e clajms to have heen drugge and robbed, somo time ago, nud says that hii experience and that of Cant Bunk are notal all exceptional. There scemsa to bo something wrong on tho New Haven boats. ———————— The Master of the schoouer Newport, bound from New York to Windsor, reports that le spoke & 10-foot boat out at sea, whose Captaln k claimed to bo bound for England. Fhero wass § lady on board, snd the Captain admitted that it was a case of clopement. They were steering wild, aud the Master of the -Newport thinkt they went to the bottom before his arrlval I¢ port. A contemptible voward named IToracx Cox stood by while a negro beat & white womun to death near New Rochelle (N. Y,), the other day, refusing to Interfere because the murderer ond his victin were madand wife. The unfortunate woman called on Cox repeatediy for help, but ho declined to asslst ber because bo did not Witk to becomo ‘“*mixed-up * in her quarrels. et - Wecan think of nothing where reform s s0 necessary a4 in 843 TILDEN'S mode of making his Income returna under oath, What sort of 8 qualification {s it for President for the candidate to make false Income returns on his war-tax and swear to the falsehood? TILDEN possesscs thit quallfication in & high degree. —_———— . The letter of Pope PrusIX. to Jarr Dav, recognizing the Southiern Confederacy, lins just turned op in the Richmond archives, It st formidable document, writton in Latin, and congratulates Japr that he was animated with purely plous feclings of peace and guuqullll.y. ‘The Neptune Iouse, on Rockaway Beach (L 1.), was bullt on a quicksand, and last week the guests found it was sinking, aund deserted it Hotel proprietors have been stnking money all along the scashore this season, but this ia the firet report of & house golng after the capital. eg————— A New York lawyer, named WiLriau ITenat COTTERILL, has taken & change of yenuo it London with $40,000 which ho swindled hit clients of, PERSONAL. Madamo Sophle Goldsmith has been made a Fb D, by the University of Zurich. Anna Dickinson may be expected Weat somo timd 0 October witl her aew aud original piay aud scte ng. Nilason has had a tromendoua reception In Bwe: den. At Stackhoim no hall proved suffclentl) large, and the Cathcdral was mado & sacred opers® house, TRutherford B, 1a, ver tossed tho glrlest achool and studlous), hewed apit-bal Thewt ara tho least of varlous good qualities recently dis covered by a campaign blographer, Col, ligginson has Incourso of preparationd **Young Folks* Book of Amorican Explorers” which will be a compauion yvolume (o hia ** Yound Folke' Llatory of tho United States.” The Now York Commerclal Advertiser acluslly confounded the M. do Tocquevlile rccontly report ed dead wilh tho suthor of **Democracy In Amer® fca." The latter dopasted this life in April, 1859, Miss Ellen E. Drow, of Boston Highlsodt Jumped overboard from her boat in & rough sca an! rescued a child that bad fallen from snothier bosh whose wanagers wers 100 much frightoned to wes? about. 1t hisa been noticed that all the prominent bo morlets In the couutry sro Republicans. The/ 8nd thele material for ridicule in the Domamflf party, and prefer (0 vote with tha party they dua't ridicule. ' Gen. Low Wallace is wrlting a new novel, It 4+ Fair Qod" was 8 good denl talked about fn thé newspapers, but seldom callad for st the buok: utores. Tho scrious atatemant, therefors, that It Laa reachod & sixth edition rewinds ous Of Reribe®