Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 9, 1876, Page 4

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Single copten, only § Tun WeEKLY Tutuse Is the best and cheapest newspaper for Weatern peopte in the United States, For thirty-ona years Tir Cineavo Tuinuxge has been the leading Anti-Slavery, Auti-Seccaalon, Anti-fourbon, and Antl-Corruption nevipapor in the Northwert, It han steadfnstty advocated the doctrine of Na- tional Sovereignty, becauss it belleves this Union 48 Nation, and nota Lengue deriving Its powers from local State Governments, ns taught by the Temocratic leaders, Tux Cntcauo Trinuse wes nmong the enrlieat advocates of the principle of purication and ro- form within tho party which hus had Gov. iHayes for its standnrd-bearer, 1t will contindo to urge on the attentlon of the country the absolute neces- ity of Civil-Service Rteform, withoot which there cannot be Retrenchiment, low taxes, honeaty in adminlstration, locnl ar national, or permanence of our free institutions, On tho porplexing cucrency questlon Tie Tnin- UsE will continue to Inslst upon romonetizing the Amerlcan Sliver Dollar, and giving every man the privilege of baving Lis silver bullion colied freo of cost, Thereia not enoughof gold as o basis for currency and credit; tho stock of stlver lsalso needed. Nothing will more powerfully contributa o a mycedy reatoration of good tines and general prosperity than tolet the people put the product of onrailver mincs into circnlation. This is a kind of **inflation " that will harni uo interest, but ben- eilt nll branches of business. Tir WeEkLy Timuns s n complote newapaper fn all deparhaents of Journallsm,—such a8 news, polltles, markets, nzriculture, honachold economy, Iiterature, ert, avention, and sclence. Every la- eue §s o complete history of the week, prepated In the mort Instructive und intereating manner, T'ue Tanrss, while feerlesr, independent, and candid in dircnssion und criticlsm of all public matterd, SUPPONTH TIHE TRINCIPLYA OF THE RE- PUMLICAN PARTY, Lelieving them to bo the beat calealated to promote the public interest und hu. 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Lne £ oot the teorse iy Tyler troage, ** Humigty ora | and State, e, Floreice, The Mighty wning, re. o s Moprue etreet, cwrner Dearby **The Lucky ¢ BtanY Aficruouh aud ¢ \ Acndemy of Musle. Tlalsted atreet, hetween Madiaon and Monroe, ey & Co.'s Sew York Btleke Afterugon uid eveniig. Wond's Huseunt, s Pearbort ad State., * Unclo g, Manroe seee Towm's Cab. it SATURDAY, Greenbuelis at the New York Gold Ex- i chauge yesterday closed ot 094, e P A complete list is furcished by telograph 2 this morning of the names -of the persons iiwho perished ot the burning of thoe rook- Theatre, ko fwr ns the remning i been idonfified. In many in. istances tho destruction of the bodles iwes 50 nemly complete us to render ‘Apossitive identifiention impossible, Ar- {{ixuugemunm have been made for conducting fe.;um funcral of tho vietims in o manuer in DECEMBER 9, 1876. 3:koeping with the ciroumstonces and chirac- i Per of this sad event, und also for the eroe- Ziltion in Groenwood Cometery of a suitablo \monument. ] Not a little astonishmont, mingled, no Idoubt, with somo chagrin, has Lean creatod u the miudg of Northern Demccrats fu Con. Yigress by the fact that their brethren from 2 3 ‘il the Stutes Jately in rebellion show o dispusition to take up grma tafor Tous, It must bo sald, "q‘]' 10 tho credit and pratso of the Southern Con. \fizresamcn, that their voica is for modsration nd peace, and thut they present o united Prposition to oll the talk of jm. v;Peachument, violence, urmed reslstance, te., that hos been hnd in caucus. The effect of this firm stand’ ngainst (ne folly of 3 }Jghung for something not worth fighting ‘about s shown by our dispatelies to hava g most salut®y, A botter fouling sprevalls in Washington, aud the i ipossibility of a compromive is now 4 hdmitted for the fimt time by the o ‘'bo House Judiciary Commit. ifee yesterduy ngroed to report favorably lan for a Conferonce Committee to adjust rescnt differonces and agree upon some tourio in regurd to:the canvass of ‘the Eloctoral vote that will bo fiual and accept- !lgmu to overyhod, A :f[)umocmts. X Y " "}: The Oliicago producs markets were nctive E yesterday ond leans steady, Mess pork closed 140 per bnl higher, at §16.05@10.70 for De. ember and H16.77) for Juwumary, Lard dlosed 2o per 100 1bs higher, ot $10,15@ 110,173 for cash and $10,17§@10.20 for Janu. pory. Meats wore steady, at Gjo for now \v{huumen,‘ Loxed, 8jo for do shurt-ribs, aud Mo for do short-clenrs, Higlwines were ‘g«lnodnrnlely active, at §1.06) per gallon, Jrflour waa quict aud steady. Wheat closed (fmo lower, nt $1,18 cash and $1,18¢ for Jon- ‘{n(uty. Corn closed irregular, at 4570 for De- Hewber and 40 for Jnnnary, Oats clossd N@4e lower, ot 38§e for Dacembor und 8ilje Syor Janany. Lyo wasuteady, ut T2y@7c, "Barloy closad 1o lowr, at 674 cash cnd 050 1,%'0: January, Hogy wero active aud 10@15u s, higher for hieavy grades. Sales wero n @6.25 for common light to extra heavy. Onttlo, were .dull and wenk, with sales at $2.00@5.62}. Bheep wora dull and lower. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $107.87§ in greonbacke nt the close. ——— e, Itistho misfortmo of tho taxpayors of Cook County that they aro compelled to submit to the outrageous maladministration of affairs by tho County Bonrd without re. lief or remedy from the conrts, bocause the ringsters, grown wary and olover with long practico, nud aided by the legal advico of ono of their number, nsually manage their corrupt joba so as to avoid the appearance of any fraud that would bring down upon them tho interforence of official author. ity. Contrnctors who pubmit proposals in good faith nnd seek to onforco their rigits through thoe courls are also met with the discouraging decision that no fraud hins beon ghown that wonld warrant intoer. ferenco,. The old Ring in the Board was eapecinlly successful in so concenling the nb- soluto proofs of corruption as to cscape un- ploasant consequences, aud the new Ring, if wo mny judge from il progress thus far, will not be long in nrriving at equal proti. clency. Not nutil the whole people of the county aro by lIaw permitted to deolda as to ench and evoryone of the Commissioners who are to spend their money withont reviow or appenl will there bo any safeguard ngainst tho recurronce of theso jobs aud ateals, — A question of parnmonnt jmportance in counection witli the settloment of the Preai- dentinl disturbance was decided in the Scnate yesterday. The Democrats of the House have with great pertinacity maintained that the rule known as the Twenty-sccond Joint Rule —thnt by which the Ilouse is enabled to re- Ject the vote of n State in the canvass of the Electornl returns—is utill in foree, while tho Republicans of both Senate and Houss have held that the rmile died with the Torty-third Congress, and, not having been ndopted by the Forty-fourth, is no more in forco than a8 though it had never boen euncted. The question having come up in the Sonato on the proposed Con. stitutionnl Amendment offored by Mr. Ep. Muxps, Vice-Presidont Feany promplly de- cided that none of the joint rules are in force. An appenl was moved by Mr. Mennt- Mo, of North Carolina, and, after an ex- tended debnte, the Sennte, by o vote of 50 to 4, sustained tho decision of tho presiding ofticer, elovon Democraty voting iu the afiirm- ative. This eflectually settles in the nega- tivo the pretousions of the Housa majority to the power to throw the election of President iuto their own hauds. ‘I'ic Electoral votes will bo opencd and counted, and the result declared by tho President of tho Sonnto and lic aloue, just a3 hins been the practice for tho Inst cighty yonrs, In the face of this do- cision tho House Dowocrats will bo power- less to interforo in any manner with the fair and lnwfal canvass nud declaration of the restlt of the Presidentint olection. PRESIDENT HAYES AND THE SOUTH. The Honthern States Lave occapied o prominent part in the late election for Presi- dont,—a much mora impostunt part than at any time for Lnlf a century, Before the Ro- Lellion, tho South was ontitled to repre- sentation for ouly throe-fifths of its slove population; the emaucipation of" four millions of slaves Los added two- Aifths of this number to the reprosontative population of the former slaveliolding States, To that extout the Elcctornl vote of the South hns been incrensed sinco the War, as it also has been by thearention of tho new Stato of West Virginin, theroby gainfug two Senn- tors and two Electoral vaies. Thirteen of thewo Statos gave their Electoral votes for ‘L1pex, nud the Damocratic party insist that nothing less than fraud has kopt them ont of the votes of the othor three uaturally Ropnblican States, No matter what may be the final ontcome of the Presidentinl elcction, these States will remain a wourco of utional anxioty so long as political parties thero remain substantially divided by the rnco aud color of the voters. Ono of the most hopeful promises to result from tho olection of Gov, Havesto the Prosi- denoy was thut of a peaceful, national, and pormanont chango and settlement of the politics of the South, In his letter of nc- coptance Gov, Ilaves pointed out to the Southern people the true voad to penca, union, nud prosperity, snd promised them the nid of the Goneral Government, so far ns it could be extonded, in seouring lhonest and competent Stato Governments, Hove 13 what he said in that letter: The condltion of the Santhiern States attracts the attentlon and commands the sympathy of the whole Unton, In their progresaive recovery from the effecta of the War thelr first necessity 4 an intelli« gent und honest admbutstration of government which will proteet nll elasses of citlzond m thelr politieal and private rights, What the Seuth moat needs i **peace,” and peace depends upon the supremacy of tho luw. Thora can be no endaelng peace iF the conwtitutionu) ri; of any portion of tho peoplo are habltually divrerdod, A division of political parties resting merely wwm sectlonul-lines lv always untortunate, ami may he diewtrows, Tho weltare of the South, Hke that of overy other part of the country, do- pendaupon the attractlons 1t cun offer to Jabor and nnnlyration and to enpital. Wut luborors will not #0 and eapitul will not be ventured where the Cone dtitution and the Jaws are set ut deflance, and,dls- teaction, apprehension, and alarn tuke the place of peace-lovingund law-ubiding woelal life, The moral amd materln] prosperity of the Southern Stuted can be most effectually ndvanced hy o hearty and genorous recoguition of the rights of ull by all,—a recognltion without reserve or exception, With such recogultion fully wceorded, It whl e practicable (o promote, by the fnltuence of all le. gltimute ayencles of the Ueneral Govornment, the efforts of the people of thuwe States ta obtuln for thon he blessings of honest and capuble lo. ent, If elected, 1 shall conslder it not ouly my duty, but 1t wHl bo my urdent desire, to labor for the attalnment of this end. Wo suppose it is hardly a secret thut Gon, Haves hos never shaved the extremo views with regard ta the politicnl control of the Southern States that have beon keld by many of the conmplenous loaders in the Jtepublican poarty. In caso of his elaction, it was woll understood that ke would incliue to a more concilintory uud liboral Southern polioy, such s is judicated in his lettor of acceptauce. Undor that policy the system of carpot. bugging, sustained by military forco agoinst the wishes of the permanent resident classes, would fall into disuse, to the grent uatistuction of the whole country. It cannot Lo denied that the policy which has been | forced npon the Republican party, of msine tuining u sories of State Governments in ope. ration Ly orders jssuing throngh the War Dopurtuient, has beon a source of weukness to the Ropublican party, Woara not deny- ing that this polioy was originally a national necensity; but its continuauce, while it has kept o uumber of wnpopulur officiuls fn power, lins weakened uud injured the Ropub. lican party at tho Norih, sud baoy practically dostroyed it at the South, "There is no legiti. mate reason why thero should not b u white Republican party inall (he Southern Btutes as well ns in Deluware, Kontucky, Marylund, Lust Tenuesieo, North Coroling, aud Mis. souri, aud wo never had o doubt but that Gov. ITAvzs, during M term of offine, wonld sea tho organization of a Republican party in all the Cotton States as brave and fearlens as that which oxists in North Caro- linn, whero there is but little violonce or in- timidation, and where n colored man canvote in compartive safoty. To nccomplish such n desirablo result ns this would probally lead to the withdrawal from the netive sup- port of his Administration o number of prominent politicians whe have always nd- voeated the maintennncoe of certain Republic- ans in control of Stato Governmonts by the g0 of troops ; but, even if the lessof the support of such persona should be the con. soquence, we have no doubt the Repnblican party would survive, if not be grently im- proved, by the supprossionof a prominence which has become Inrgely offensive to the country, Cortain it is that Mr. Haves ns President, in dissolving color-line politics at tho South, and rallying to tho support of his Administration the substantinl and modernte classes of thoe white population, intent upon rebullding the materinl interests in the South, aud by restoriug such pence and con- fidence a8 would }invite immigration of capl- tal and incrense production, would be doing more good to the wholo country, and confer anoro blessings on both blacks. and whites in the South, than all® the carpet-baggers and political ndvonturers who hava despoiled the South” and made clvil governmonts # mockery nnd n sham can accomplish inncentury. If Gov. Haves could give a peace of this kind to the South,—and it can ouly be done by building up n white Repub- lican party in that section,—he would have nothing to fear from tho defection of aspir- ing and disappointed rivals at tho North, or tho suppressed ndventurers who would fall from plnce at the South, The comutry wants peace; it wantia order, and tranquillity, and Lonest govermment, and, if to secure this will excite tho war-ory of demagogues, the country will hear it with contempt and in- difference. ‘We lave nover had any doubt that the South had moro substantial and pormnnent Dbenefit to oxpect from the cloction of Haves than it hod from that of Tinpex, If Tinory wero clected ho would be powerless for any benefit to the South not voluntarily conced- ed by tho Republican party, But with Hares ns Prosident thers isn direct pssur- ance of such n policy towards thoso States as will at once assure them honeat local gov- ornments, ndministered by honest men; an assurance of an fiinmediate recognition of the materinl wants of these Statos; the estab. lishment of permanent peace betwoon the races; and the organization of parties on the Lasis of promoting the welfare of those States, with white mon and colored men aot- ing togethor according to judgment or inter. est, just ns unatives aud foreigners at the North act. Wo ropest thal in our judgment the ‘South” has in the late election voted against its own best interests, and against the moroe certain means of restoring penco and prosperity, ‘Those States have voted ngainst the national peaco.and national welfare so closely bound up with their own. Practienlly, the South has more to loso by the election of Tirpen than the North. Tripes cnn be of no direct or permancnt benefit to the South, nchpf., a3 we have said, with the conourrence of the Republican party. ‘The mere eloction of ‘T1LoeN would be of no serious injury to the Republican party; it would cnable that party to shuke off some of its material which, of no strength or value to the parly or the country, is an injury to both, and to got rid of which offectunlly can Lest, perhinps, be nccomplished by defeat. In case of Gov. Huves' election, the line sepnrating the post and the fature of the party will bo drawn so broad and so deep, and the result bo so pro- ductive of peaco and the prosperity which can only attend penco, that foremost and conspicuous in tha support of thoe Adminis- tration and its policy will be tho ability, aud the wisdom, and thesocialand moral strength of the bestmen of that * Solid Sonth " which bas struggled so zealously to elect Tripex, ——— THE GOVERNMENT BUDGET. The original purpose in a constitutional Government of submitting to the logislativo body n detailed estimnto of the exponses for the next fiscal year wuy to gnido tho logis- lators in determining the amount of taxes to bao raised, and the proper distribution thersof among the roveral branches of the publio sorvice, The recent estimates made by the Departmonts and submitted to Congress would seem to indicate that this purposo is forgotten, for they nre so largely in oxcess of whut they ought to Le and of the nppropr'. ations which may bo expooted, that they seem caleulated rather to confuse than to nssist Congreas in making up the appropri-t atious for the fisenl your ending Juno 80, 1878, The cstimatos in gross are as follows Lezislutivo establishinient Excentlve ertabllshment. Adudirial establishinent.. Farelgn interconrs MUitaey establishe Naval estubllstiment Indiun uffals, }‘eunlonn “en #1000, 0kt 47, 0N L 450 ) 00 culture.... .. 3 Dupartmentof Justico, Tostal servico, Miscelluneous, Permanent appropriations (including , 501, 00U Tor siuking fund) TOtL st vee srne ares X T'his includes, of conrse, the full allow. auco for the sinking fund, Lenving out the siuking fund, the Seeretary of the Tronsury hind ade bis estimato of thu total ordinary exponses for the next fiscal year to bo §243,. 350,701, which is %21,000,000 less thun the nggregato of the Departwent estimatos, The uet exponditures for the year ending Juno 40, 187G, wore $238,459,797, and the esti- mated expenditures for tho year onding June 0, 1877, made upon the basia of expendi. inres of the first quariar, will be #2u7,048,. 738,, 'Tho Departmeont cstimates for tho uoxt year are, thorofore, §41,000,000 in excess of the actunl expenditures for tho yoar ending June 10, 1870, aud $03,000,000 in oxcoss of the probublo expenditures for the current fls- cul yoar, ‘Ihis differouce is so enormous that the estimates must be regarded as with. out any speoinl value for the object forwhich they were origiually instituted, A reduction iu the ordinary expenditures of the Govermuont for the next flscal yoar moy be ressonsbly expected as compared with the expenditures of the lost fiscal year, 'The aunual interest account has been con. siderably reduced by tho ‘puselinse of bonds for the siuking fund sud the redemption of U per cent bonds with now 5 per cots; and any inereasod dewmwands on uccount of the § growth of the country and tho exteusion of cortaln brauches of the publle service ought to bo fully ofiset by the retreuchment which a general contraction of jrices should fusure. The National Government wmust, Hike local Governments and fudividuals, adopt itself to the storn neceusity of coutrasted resources. The Government roceipts from SATURDAY, DECEMBER cuntoing for Inst yenr were 221,000,000 moro thau the probablo raceipts of the current year, based on those of tho first quarter, and $18,000,000 moro than the estimated ro- ceipta for tho next yonr. There will bo an incrense of about $4,000,000 this yenr over tho intornal revenns recoipts ® Inst yonr, nnd perhaps as much more the next year. But this increase is far from balancing the loss of customs reccipts, Wihen the President, in his recont message, congratu- Inted Qongress in the showing that our ox- ports exceed our imports, he neglected to point out how much of this is due to the de- crensed imports fustend of incrensed exporta, ‘The prospect is that, with n continuance of tho hard timos and tho maintenanco of the presont tariff, the customs receipts will con- tinue to diminish. Thoe expenditures must be reducod in proportion, Tho most bxaggerated items in the De- prrément estimates are $2,228,000 for forti- fleations nnd other works of defense, and $18,220,100 for river and. harbor hnprove- ments, As to the fortifications, only enongh money should be appropriated to keep them in order; no now works should be under takon, . As to river and harbor improve- raents, the degand for over 18,000,000 is slmply proposterous. The npproprin- tibna “for this ftem for tho current year wore only sbout $5,000,000, and President Gimant, regarding oven this sum ns excesaivo, hns wiscly permitted an ex- penditure in proportion of only about one- hnlf of the aum appropristed. The allow- anve for noxt yonr should bo still smaller, As to the public buildings in course of con- struction, Chicago having gone without any forone yoor, the same rule might Lo ap- plied to other cities in turn. ‘The requirements for the sinking fund for the noxt year will be -£85,891,000; it is 060,705,800 for the current year., This sinking fand grows enormously under the provisions of the law which roguires not merely tho pnrolinsa of 1 per centof the outstanding bonds, but also the application to the reduction of the dobt of all the inter- est accruing on the bonds already redecmed for tho sinking fund. 'The timos scarcoly warrant the carrying out of this provision, especinlly ns tho Government hns already re- deomed $228,144,011 more of tho debt than was required in orderto conform striot- ly to tho law, from tho date of its passage in 1862 up to tho presont time. The scale of toxes should be made ns low 08 practicable, but it wonld be much wiser to dovote so much surplus ravenue as there may be for somo years to come in tho purchase of sil. ver for the redemption of the fractional cur- rency and Government notes of small de- nomination up to $80,000,000 or $100,000,- 000, ‘This would be in complinnce with the spirit and intention of the Sinking-Fund Inw, for the redomption and cancollation of the greenbacks wonld be the reduction of the nntional debt, of which they aro o part. Preliminary to this course, howevor, would be tho reatoration of the silver dollar and provision for its free coinage. At oll ovents, whatever tha ways and menns may be, 8 material reduction will bo expected in the appropriations for the next fiscal year, not only below the Dopartment catimates, but below the cstimato of tho Beorotary of tho Treasnry and below the expenditures of last yonr, And this expectn- tion will hold good, no matter which party may assumo tho responsibility of the Gov- ernment for the next four yoars, THE SAFETY OF AUDIENCES, In the multiplicity of suggestions which have beon made ns to mothods of protecting theatres from the dnngor of fire, thoro is one which shionld receive immodiate consid- eration, aud thatis the crection of staud. pipes from the streot mains, four-inch pipes for instance, conneoting with a smaller pipe running neross the topof the ataga, and per- forated thickly with fine holes which wonld ullow a fine spray to be thrown all over the stage. The mere turn of a wheel nt the bage ef the stond-pipes would instantly dronch the borders and sconery, and in faot- tho' whole stago, withh water, Hose mighé also be connected with the stand-pipes, which could be used in other parts of tha house, Another suggestion which has been made is timely in this connection, nawmely, tha om- ploymont of firomnen as regular attnches of tho thontre, If thero Lo wator convenient of nccoss, appliances for its use, and intehi. gent firemen to work theso appliances, .it wonld gives feeltngof security to an audience which might pravent a panie, and there is no reason why tho firo should not be extin- guished in its incipioncy ns other fires are oxtinguished by firemon. The use of tho perforated pipe is not experimental, It has been tested in cotton fretories and other large buildings in tho East, and has worked with success, and it is comparatively inex- pensive. With such precautions ns these nlways at haud, and o rigid onforcement of tho lawa s to 1neans of exlt, methoda of construction, and the uso and location of seats, nudlonces would feel mors socuro sud there would be loss linbility of panle, which in tho primary cawe of the drewlful fatality that has attonded so any oatastroplies in this country liko that in Brookiyn, Wo lhave laws enough on the sub- jeot; mow lot them bo enforced, and lot the publio itself domand that they Lo enforced. The Mayor of Chi. cngo hing done well in ordering the Building Iuspeotor to examine the thoatres and pub. lic halls of tha city ; but of what use will it be if, supposing that the Inspector finds de- focts of construction and oxit and open vio- Iations of the law, tho ordinances aro not rig- idly enforcod, It ling long boen'n notorious fact that several of onr halls and theatres are unsafe, nnd offiinl reports have boen ‘made to that effect, Lut what stops lhave been tuken to compel tho proprietors to remedy theso defeets und maka their buildivgs us seoure os 8 possible. The public itslf shiould now dermond that 1ts snfoty must bo regorded. If it remains silont, thero s no prospect that property-owners will do any- thing, whilo if 1t makes the demand and ab. solutely refuses to putronize unsafo places they will be corpelled to protect their pa. trons, In oaso thoy do not, the nuthorities wonld be warrantod in laboling such places agunsafo or even holdiug thom legally re. sponsible for damages as in the case of a rail- road corporation where -an accldent occurs through carclessnoss or wanton violation of the statutes, T'ho fact that Mr. Wane Haueroy’s crowd in Houth Caroling hay at last succoedod in buying enough colored Ropublican membors to make up a quoruw for his rump Houso of “Representativos is not altogothor plensant to contemplate, But, in view of all the eir- cumstances, it is far from warranting tho conclusion, offhand, oxpressod in certain quarturs, to the effect thut tho negro clenient is golng to provo the largest, and therefore the most dangerous, nddition to the corrupt purchusable-clewent in our politics. Many of the colored members of the South. 9, 1876—TWELVE PAGE Carolinn House, it s well known,—~ns was gleefully nunonnced by the Democratio organs whon the Legislature convened,—had not monoy enongh to pny for n night's lodging. After romaining in session all night, in order to guerd agoiust .any attompt at ‘their exclusion from the Hall, thoy had no nssurauco of being ablo to got their brenkfasts, All this time not & man of thom was there who was not perfectly woll awaro that le hind only to name the sum for which he wonld sell out to sccura his prico. At tho samo timo thoy were subjected to all the blandiskmonta which the wenlthy and influential whites could bring to bear, and, between poverty, flntlory,‘cnjnlury. and bribery, it is not sur. prising that a handful of thom doserted and went over to Hamrrox's rnmp Loglalatare, Equally tempting inducoments hold out to the avorago white leglslator would, it is safo fo nasumo, just about ns quickly bo nccepted inalmost any of tho Staten. The Sparian virtuo that could withstand snol golden bait is unfortunately lacking elsowhere than mnong the colored members of the Bouth Carolina Logislature, T — THE WINSLOW CASL. The English Government has had the cournge to acknowledge n mistako by back- ing aquarely down from ita position in ro- gord to the extradition of the forgor Wins- 10w, and nccepting tho Awmerican interpro. tation of the treaty. In some mysterious mauner Winsrow received intelligonco of the dnnger which threatened him, and mado good his escape; buf this does not nffect the gonoral result, except in 80 far as it gives oc. casion for regrot that the English Govern- ment did not take the prosent view of the treaty when it hnd Winszow in custody. Upon the principle, ** botter lato than never,” howaver, there is room for congratu. lation that it lias at last tho candor to ac- knowledge it was wrong, and the courago to dotermine that England shall not be an asy- 1w for folons. It will be romemmbared that whon the Gov- ernment of tho United States originally de- mandod Winsrow, under the extradition trenty thonsin force, the English Govern- mont placed o forcod interprotationupon the Iaw which our own Government could not nceopt, aud, rather than yield, the.Euglish allowed the treaty to drop and no longor possess any binding force, so' that no crim- inals could be givon up. Tho position which the English Government virtually took was that, if o prisoner were taken home upon one charge, he could not bo tried upon any other, sinco in that caso he might bo arrest- od upon a charge of felony and tried for n political offanse, which wonld violate the right of asylum, The United Slates Gov. crumont on the other hand held that it Lad the right to try n man for nuy folony ho had committed. For fustance, a mau engagod in embozzlemont might fiy from this conntry to England. Delivered up under tho oxtra- dition troaty, ho might be triod at home for embozzlemont and csenpe conviction, If it should thon nppoar that hio had been engngod in counterfeiting, tho United States claimed it hnd the right to renrrost him and try him for tho lntter offense, ‘This point has now beon admitted, and the English Governmont has candidly concedod that o prisoner sur. reudored for ono offonse may, after n fair trinl for that offonse, be at once renrrested in, the conntry to which ho hns been deliverod up, and put on his trinl for any other crime for which hie would be linble to extradition under the ‘treaty., The indications are now encowraging that both Governments are in ngreement upon tho terms of the treaty, inasmuch o4 tho President aunouncod in his mossnge that he would woun mako a specinl communmication to Con- gress on “the questions which Iately arose with Great Britain rogarding tho sura ronder of fugitive criminals,” Coincident with this, it was also aunounced in the cablo dispatches from England that- tho Crown offleors woro ot work amending the tronty of 1812, Again, it is Lardly possible that the English Government would order the remrest of eriminals who lind escaped by the failure of tho treaty had not the new terms beon secopted by our own Government, The now position of affuirs, therefore, is very encouraging, and nffords n well-defiued Liopa that eriminals will no longer find an asylum in England or in her colonies. Asn ruly, tha extradition trenties with the En. glish colonies aro oven more stringent than that with England, aud the smne interpreta- tion of thelaw which the Ifome Government lins now aceaptod will probobly also bo the rule in tho caso of its colonies, SECRETARY MORRILL AND THE SILVIR QUESTION. The conclusion reached by the Bocre'mry of the Treasury rolntivo to the restorati on of the sltver dollar to tha position it alwaymsheld prior to the lnw of 1873, whon its coinnge was dropped, leaving silver to ba vmed ouly in subsidiary colus and u logal-tender to the amount of only 5, ix stated in hin roport as follows ; It I8 respoctfully submitted that the coln piy- mont to which the fith of the nutson was plodied 16 1860 was gold, and not silvor, nnd that uny other viowof it, whatever tachnioal construction *the Tanguage may bo susceptible of, wonld he regnrded as of doubtful good faith, anzt ity probable effect prefudicial to the public eredlt, The reasoning by which this conclusion wad reached {8 pursly sootimontal, and finds no confirmation in law or cnstom. '"he Beerotary says that, when the law of 1850 wos passed, pledgiug the natiounl faith to the payment of the Unitod Stetes bonds in coin, thero was a gonornl conviction that the pledgo was for payment in gold, That may bo admitted without concoding that it wonld bo bad faith to pay in gold and silver, At the tino the nct was prssed the country liad, s it always had, o bl-wmetallic enrrency, The wilver dollar was still the unit of value and a legal-tonder to any amount, If thero was n general improssion *that the nct of 1800 meant payment in gold, it camo entirely from the fact that silver was then worth more than gold, and nobody droumed that the United Btates, any mors than an in. dividnal debtor, would choosa the dearer metal for discharging its obligations. It a slmilar not wore passed now under similar olrenmstances,—that Is, it the silver dollar wero logal-tondor as well o4 the gold dollav,—any pledge to pay in coin would ocreate just na geueral an impression that the payment would proba. bly bo in sllver. It is alwnys expected that A debtor will chooso the cheaper metal for poyiug his debts whersver ho has o lewful choico between the twe, and there i tom. porary dufferonce in value, JIad gold Leen tho deavor of tlie two metaly in 1864, when tho luwful curreucy of the conntry inctuded silver as well a3 gold, and tho relntions be. tween gold and silver hLad sines changed so that sllver were now the demrer, wa scarcely think that Becrotary Monxiny would maine tain that the Governuont weald be guilty of bad faith m using gold for the payment of interest and the purchuso +f matured bouls; l l yot this position wonld Le pracirely the snme that hio taken with regard to silver, As to tho law of 1878, which faited to pro. vide for the coinngo of silver dollar, and limited the debnsed silver subsidiary coinnge to a lognl-tender of only ®5, it may be stated that all the rights of tho Governmout wern reserved, and that thero was nothing in tho law fo provent n fustora. tion of the silvor dollar and the bl-metallic curroney at any tine its intorests might sug- gest o retnrn to the old standard. Tho demonctization of the silver dollar wns not projudictal to thae interests of anybody at that time, sinco silver wna the dearer matal, and neither silvor nor gold wero in general ciroulation, Is remonctization now would simply bo an assertion of molf-interest, for- bidden Ly no Inw or custom, nnd merely availing onrselves of the system of bl-matnllio aurroney which way in vogue at tho timo the bonds wero sold. Nor would the bond- holders be injured through nction of the Govorument ; .any loss thoy might sustain throngh a temporary depreciation of tho bonds until tho values of silver nnd gold uhould again be equalized wonld simply be their proportion of the general loss incident to the temporary deprecintion of silver. No act of tho Unjted States Government could have averted this deprocintion, and it is sontimental folly to maintain that, in the ralntions Letween the United States Governmont and its creditors, the former shonld bear all the burden of n universal misfortune and the latter shonld be released from all sharo of tho common calamity, ‘Tho Secretary arguos also that the restorn- tion of the silver dollar, and ils use nlong with gold in pnying the intorcst on the national debt, would cause a depreclation in the United States bonds, and defont the prospect ‘of funding tho debt at some future day in 4 per conts, whoreby moro than §25,- 000,000 could bo saved annunlly in intorest, ‘This ronsoning leaves ont of nocount two im- portant probabilitics, In the first place, the romonetization of silver in this couniry, and thio resumption of specie payments which it would nccelerate, would offsot the de- monetization of silver in Germony, and Iargoly operate to restora the cquilibrium of values; nnd whenever " silver should bo equally valuablo ss ourrency with gold, the depreciation of United States bonds, because paynble in silver, would cense, Again, if & por cent bonds paynble il gold can be fund- ed into 4 per cont bonds payable in gold, then 7 por cant bonds payable in silver can be funded into 4 per cent bonds payable in silver, This would be precisely the situa~ tion. Upon the rostoration of the silver dol- Iar, tho outstanding bonds wonld be payable in gold and silver, instend of gold nlone as tho Inw now stands; then, if the monoy mor- kot permittod of fimding at a low rato of in- terest, the old gold-aud-silver bonds could bo frnded imto now gold-and-silver bonds as well ns the old gold bonds into new gold boads now, If Secrotary Monnrn is as devoted to the Tesumption of speoio payments Jan, 1, 1879, a8 ho expresses himsolf to be in his report, the grentost practical assistance he can give that project is to persusde Congross to sus- pond the Presidential excitement long onough 1o pnss a Inw rostoring tho silver dollar to its ol place, and providing for the free coinngo of both gold and silver. The silver dollpr meens, of course, a certain amount of silver corresponding to the value of the gold dollar, estimated by the avernge relative values ex- tending overa fong period. M. Cenzusonx believes the. proper relation to bo 134 to 1, that is, the silver dollar to weigh 15} times a8 mueh nas the gold dollar. The free coinnge of the silver dollar, nlong with tho rostoration of its logal-tonder character, would rapidly. bring it into genexnl circulation and commercial use, and thes time would not be far distant when the 0’sl equilibrinm between gold and silver could, be restored. 'T'his we concelve o much foir o proposition, taking the question of good or bad faith, than that made by Sce- retary Monenoa, viz,: that $80,000,000 of the subs idinry silver coin be issued and be logal-te ader to the amount of #10, which would give groat relief to tho public, who aro i flering for a suflicient supply of small chau o ; but, in addition to that, the interest of 1 50 country requires freo coinago of silver doll ary, to Lo legal-tonders for overything. No Miug short of this will fill the public Wi nits, ‘WAILING FOR “WAH" St The party wich " wails for * wah” is heard from. In that mildly-beaming orb, so tc: speak, the Wilmington (N, C.) Star, it s thint tho aforesald party wails forth that wail, 1. is not that they nre spolling for a fight down about Wilinington, Far from it—so {1:x, indoed, that there will be no fighting there nor thoreabouts, The mattor of the Star, and that which exercises it somewhat like audit of colic, is, that the pooplo of the North aro not rending their nother garmonts in the cffort to bring about the * wah ” that iswished for. Says tho Star, with all the fervor of true Southorn rhetorio ; 1t Ia very painful to think that the Northern poo- ple heve lost so much of thele Jove of Hberty and attuciament to a demncratic forin of government, 1f thib weru not so, there would have beon such a howl of fudignation from Muine to Californla that the \Washtngton tyrant and his accursed satraps wovdd hace slhuken In thelr boote and stopped thelr hellish work of plunder, and fraud, and usurpo- tlone Amd then to awaken that howl of indigna- tion,—that is, to make tho tyraut aud his satoups tremble in their boots,—tho Stur telly W oo it i must do the business and furnish tlse corpses for this gront and glorious ‘wah " Only @ united, atrong, angry upris- @y of the whole North can save the country." Axd that nprising the Star frautically appenls to the North to make in such sauguinary phunsoe as wag surpassed only by the bloody- ‘minded Keenaw, editor of the Chicago Zémes, in his dispatches to Now Orlesns Domocrats Descoohing them to gloriously do and die. , Itis onsy enongh to comprohend why the .gory oditor of the Chicago Z'imes, with his feroclous thirst for blood, should have ex- horted people cight hundred miles away to .rush in and got killed. Hut wherefore does the Star uppeal to the United North to an- ' grily upriso? Chere is nothing for them to -uprise against, according to the Stur'a theory, except in tho event Havzs ba declared clectod. Now, it happens that & majority of nearly 300,000 of the voters of the North voted for Haves, Bhall thoy now shoulder muskets and go out to feed on hard-tack and got shot, if Haves, the man they voted for, be duly and vegularly declared elected, or if it bo that TwLoEN is not eleotod P There is a well<letined improssion ‘throughout the ‘North that the country cau survive the Presi- doncy of oither Yiaves or 'l'inpry, as shall be- decided by the final canvass of the vote, The people of the North are uot preparcd to fight for possesaion of tho offices, Though north of the Ohio River office-scekers also abound, it would Dbe fwpossi- Llo to rally any cousiderable portion cof tho people to flght to get offlco +fortanybody-—particularly auybody else ; rad wé enn't all hold office, oven :Jln counted in, Besides, ho regular blood-tubs, the kuow, have daclured (ln‘:ir bolnsz'l; nl:fi“\l hava therofore nothing to fight .(or T wouldn't striko n **blarsted blow » th'u'm'I the Star should until next Rummer nppnnlllffh thom to go out aud dia for ey, TIU ;S;(«r l'md nlll other wailers for “wnix " lm.s 1erofora hotter' save thy their porridge, ele B 1 o But more bloody-minded thy Star is tho Cincinunti Enmu’re:.n fiv::‘n:lcw or Denth ™ is ftg watchword ; aud, \thl‘e\':: others may do, speaking for itself pg to th inauguration of Havrs, the Enqutrer lu-i«:le tlingly declareas ¢ or our own part, 1|;x(} speaking for ourselves, we do not, intend l’a subd. mit oit” Tho news shonld be borne to Wilmington to sootha the porturbed Star » *‘Fear not; it is Trroex or death ; the Cin’. cinnati Knquirer 8AyA 80, and will never, no, never, submit to the Innuguration of lh;m " And tho Enguirer tolls why it will )mvc.r submit: “Tho party that lins by a popular- majority of nearly 200,000 doclnred Bastuer, J. T1DEN to be its cholce for Prosident, must seo to it that ite represontatives nn; sustained,” Of courso tha Enquirer, whicl, will nover submit, will fight it ont on thay lino §¢ it takes ll summer, ana Tue: Tatnyxe, woulda't spoil the fun by interfering, Doy whon the Enquirer mentions TrrokN's 300, 000 majority, it should have sdded, for tb’n oncourngomont of its roaders, that that mq. Jority wns rolled up chiefly by the Deni. cratio minoritles in Missisaippl, Louisinun, Alnbama, and South Carolina by the wap. pression and bulldozing of the Republiean majority, to which tho minority wonlg not submit. The same is substantinlly {ry, of Georgia and Toxas. Deduct from Titoes'y 800,000 tho majoritics thus sceured for lim in tho States named, and then deduct from what ho haa left tho majority that on g5 fair clection would have boen cast for Hayey, and TiLoen's 300,000 will disappear “ by :;. largo majority.” Nntwithamnding, of courge, tho NVews will continue to wail for wall," and tho Enguirer will nover submit. Ax;:l Yot thero ig blesaed prospect for pence, ud, whether it e Hayves or TILDEN, the rest o; the country will not only submit, but would make romarkably short work of whoaver at- tempted suything looking liko * wal," ———— should Typppy the fighting Tuen, THE GREELEY MONUMENT. * The hust of Homace Greernsy which wag unvelled in Greenwood Cemetery Monday was 2 memorinl planned by Amerlean printers and accomplshed througl their efforts, It wus pro- Jected-four years ngo, immediately after the death of Mr. GnesLey, by the printers i the composhig-room of the New York Triiune, They nsked thelr fellow-eraftsmen throughout the country to contribute to the monument the proceeds of the setting of 1,000 vins each, and the proprictors of printing establishments to forward old type metal s materinl for the atatue, The result - of this appeal was about $1,000 fn moncy and 1,600 pounds of old type. But the familiar saylug that it fs the practlee of Amerieaus, after having resolved to bulld a umonument to a distingulshed man, to abstain plously from building it, was in this Instanco orzain to recelve a partial fllustration. No fur- ther steps were taken fu the mutter for fiftcen months, In Juue, 187, the profect was revived in the International Typographienl Con- ventfon which met that yearat St. Louls, A vommittee was appoiuted and u conslderable sum ralsed by subscription, but the nggregate was still insullicient for the purpose. An appeat was made tothe employing printers of York City to make good the defleit. They re- sponded gencrously, The money obtained from all sourcea wus not, however, dnough to carry out the original ambitious design, A bust wis aceordingly substituted for o monument In the new plan, und It was inade of bronze, fnstead of type metal, which 1s fess durabl e bust 1y tour fect in heleht, and rests upon o pedestal of granite having o buse four feet square and rising ten fect from the ground. Upon ane slde of the pedestal s o tablet bearlug this Inserlption: “Homacs Greruer, bom Feb. 8, 18113 died Nov, 29, 152 Founder of the New York Zridune' On the other slde {a nnother tablet in bronze, representing Mr, GnECLEY us 8 youne compositor standing at his framo and setting type. On the thinl - side thers Is carved b the gyanlte o plow, wnd on the fourth u seroll with a pen, * The cercmony of unvelling the bust was wit: neesed by ubout 600 porsvus, many of whom were intlmute friends of M. Gureptey. Most conspletous among those present were: Mis GAnuELLE GREELEY, Miv, Ssurn (Ips Gree: LEY), Tnuntow Weenp, Ciarues O'C Sincramr Tousey, Joaquix MLz, WaeeLer, lIaviLron WexpzLL Bnituies, C. Buvast, G 1 McCrenay, Hesny Wann Beecuun, 30 We Fonrney, G. W, CuiLps, W. D, HoweLts, J. Q. Wiitrigr, S8ypNey flowann Gay, Chld- Justice Waire, Munar Havsrein, Georen WiLLiAM - Curmis, and many other el nent men, were read, Mr, wWiitiax £, Bop. WELL mindo o presentation address on bebalf u‘( the International Typographical Unfon, Mr. E. C. BTEDMAN read u verv beautiful poetn, which flluminnted the character of Mr, GuEELEY by 9 vivid light. The doctrine of the poet, although not of a nuture to meet with the hearty concur- renco of orthodox clergymen, woukd probahly have been nccepted without hesitation by hiin on whose behalf it was uttered, The most striklug portfons of the poem are the last stanzas, which are as follows: What mora I8 left, to keep our hold On hiim who wu s0 truo and strong? Thiv emblance, tfsed nbove the mold With oiferinks nu!:ullor ‘(‘lunlll and eous, [ teach, B afterthne, v e subos viared the featated Of oun whose 11fe wun niude sublime Dy weevice fur Wls brother crentures, And lnst, and lordllost, his fame,— ‘A stntson b tho starry o f heroes thut have left & nume phure with,—u pluce divine, Since, In the world's cternal plan, Tl)lhl'lnil)l' li‘ell Is ;!{l\‘[un it it who ives or dles for 3 ‘Al 100Ks withiu s wout for Heavete Mr. Bavanp Tavrou detivered the oratlon o tho day. 1t wos o slmple and unaffected (rlu\‘lll to the character of the dectused by one who Ienew him Inthnately, and who was indebted o il for valuable counael and ussletance fu curl‘)l Nfe. The opeaker said that Mr, (reuiey coul liave desired no more honorable mentorial, stne thia was n token of admiration und love erectet by printers to a printer, by workmen to a x}m’k; wai, by Ameriana to the representative ;'l Awmerlean honesty, indepondeuce, und orleinalk ty.. It was well, too, Mr, TaxLon sald, Ihutl{n! completion of monument to Honacs UREELEY should have been delayed until nows: i When ha way Inld to reat, four sears ago to-daye asharper blust thai that of the ope " L blew over s grave; bul the miscancept! chupeter v meitsd away us the siow mongd, W fresh estegnn and eeveren Tudded and blosouted above b tomt w2 icy liko the “The klmwm!fiu thiat thoussnds that shade it };“r"\:h)nm wnd with whom he lad et I yrars—whoso conslderale respect, ot }un N > A right o elufin—woen sugelly ulichated from btk cant'n durk und tragie pall over the clming dags 57 N flfe, und deepencd thu gloom whish setilec iy on bis cmpty pluee, But time swiftly repa i njustlces and these few years which, Jot i lpes y eavin, buve ulrearly place : A ii':}'r’.’:’d:fi"m:'uly oteaty o hiivelislinas of bis whole life, g e Thy orator proceeded to analyze the (hn)r:‘f:. : of Mr. GueeLET, speaking of his mn-! e candor, Wi atguointance with the u-m(ln.l:“wl disposition of 1he Ameriun |n:uplu, I"lk"" of deallng With popular urvjudm»la‘; 'm:iuu" ; and senthiments, his stroug individuality, et ubored o i u\y" mural und intellectual, his lcln!uru;sa :‘::::L::‘li crostty, aud the fnfluencs of lei fe ‘lenld e Quy wl generation. He e orator, *'aat only In the m il wl ore soin purer und raudor fyri of W