Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 14, 1877, Page 4

i THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JULY 1877—-TWELVE PAGES. per mont rsa font weoks fur, 8 So fent ire dviny nud triatakes, be aura and give Port- E Tull, Including state and County. ances may be inade elther by deatty capes ice order. or in registered letters, at our rlak. TERMS TO CITY SUNSCHIBERS, conus per week. ferent: Adeiphl Theatre. Monroe street, corner of Dearborn, Three Fest | Men," Afternoon and evening. Cotton's OpernHonne. Nonroe street, between state and Dearborn. dersonrilic."” Afternoon veniog. Ane Exponttion Tulldings Lake Ehore, foot of Adame street. Thomas" Sam- mer-Niwht Concerta. Afternoon and evening. Mase-Hall Park. Btate and Twents-thind streets, Champtonship game. between the Chicago and Hartford Clube. ———— SOCINTY MEETINGS. WM. Th. WARREN LODGE, NO, 20% A. FA! A Hiegular Conimunteation thts (saturday) ev M urluck, prompt, at hail 72 to 7s Monroe-et, Tortiens al work, A full attendance te requested Viatore welcony LOP, Beretar, ND ine JULY WU, 1877. CHICAGO MARKET BUMMARY, The Chicaze vroduce markets wore active and strovger yesterday, Mere pork closed 22t¢¢ per brt Disher, at $10.U51.071 for August and $13.75 @l 14 far September, Land closed 10¢ per 200. Tos higher, ut $:1.171§4¢0. 20 for August ant! $0.25 @1. 2744 for September, Meats wero firmer at 4c per Ib for Ioome shoulders and 7c for do short ribs, Lake frelehts were lens Active, at 2c for corn to Unffalo. TWizhisines were steady, at $2.08 per gallon, Flourwae steady. Wheat closed 8¢ higher, at $1.4 for duly and $1,204@1,20% for August. Corn closed Je higher, at 48%e for July and 48%¢ for Anguat. Oats closed firm, at 31%¢ for daly and 2c for August. Rye wae firmer, at Otc cash and Soe for Auguat. Barley was nominal c for new seller September. Hogs were active and firm at 10@16c advance, with the balk of the trading at $5,005.15. Cattle were in good demand. and were strong, Sheep were ilrm, rell- ingat $3,005.00. One handred dollars in gold would buy $105.25 In grechbacks at tho cloee. — Greenbacks nt the Now York Stock Ex- chango yesterday closed at 943. rons ‘Tho popular subscription to the now 4- por-centa has oxoooded the limita of the first offering, $30,000,000. Over. 85,000,000 wero disposed of yesterdn: A great deal of growing apprehension will be allayod by the nows that while tho Mexi- can Gon. Canares thinks Sccretary Snzs- Cs acan’s order to Gen. Onn disrespcotfal to tho Diaz Government, he will waive the point, and refrain from compelling the United Btates forces to wipe him off the face of the osrth, Moxrran Pasha, looking a long way ahead, is already mpking arrangements to hibernate. Ife proposés to perfect his intrenchments around Kars, revictual the placo for the win- ter, and ret himself down to calm and placid contomplation of the struggling Muscovites, who, at a distance of 4,000 yards, aro drop- ping shells into his bailiwick at tho rate of 2,000 per day. es Favornablo weather for harvesting, aud equally favorable weather for nll tho crops set growing, seems to be the burden of our crop-reports this morning, It is certain that tho warm sun and clear skies of the past fow duys have been worth tillions of dollars to thu spring whent, tho oats, barley, rye, and corn in the Western States, and the prospect foran immense yield continues to bo most Mattering. In the establixiinent of n Provisional Gov- oromontin Bulgaria, and making the Rassian langunge tho ofticial liugo, English journals find anothor canso for war, ‘These same Journals found no couse for war in tho kind of Government which oxisted:1n Dulgaria provions to the war, and under whose benign adtninistrations atrocities wero encouraged. aud stimulated that made the blood of the civilized worlt run cold with horror, When the average Minuesotian turns out on aiman-lint, he expects ample remunora- tion, At tho time of the Northfeld bank robbery, half the population of tho district through which the marauders pasued, wtarted in porauit, and after they got hack théy con- covted claitns for expensod and services al- mont unparalleled in tho history of anch ex- cursions, A conunidsion was appointed to ecunine, and they have just reported on 15t cCluins, allowing tho thief-takers $2,802.76 for their trouble. At its xesnion yesterday, the Oabinet de- cided that it was tho imperative duty of the Government to promptly suppress tho Tndlan uprising in Idaho, and to this end ft waa de- termined to authorize tha Governor of Waxh- ington ‘Territory to enlist and equip 500 volunteers and dispatch them ta the front as speedily as possibla, A skeleton tegiment, recently stationed at Atlanta, Ga, has been sent to reiuforee Gen, Howaup's comimand, but it will be two weeks before thelr services ean be made available, a It is paying the Mayor of Montreal too much respect to spend ony tine condemning him, Almost without regard {o party or prejudice, the people over whom he exercises the functions of the Mayoralty denounce hig criminal negloct of his duties Friday, tho Council have posed a resolution of want of contidence, aud there is a gonoral demand that he vacate hia office, Perbaps tempo~ rary rclicf could be found by the’ citizens of Montreal in a right smart application of somo warm tar and feathers. ‘To the potency of British influence is ascribed the uction of the Greek Chamber in adjourning without taking measures looking to un active participation in tho Eastern war, Tuo stroug popular feeling in Greece in fuyor of crobrucing the present opportunity to throw off the Turkish yoke led to the formation some inonths ago of a Ministry with Cavauis at its bead, and committed to au energetic policy, aud it is argued that only tho most powerful pressure by England could have succeeded in preventing the turther complication of affuira by tho partici- pation of Greece. ‘Tho wer correspondent of the London News duvelops uo thoory as to the future of the Danubian campaign which is at least prvbuble, and which, if carried out by tho ‘Parks, would certainly involye England in the war. Ho is of opinion that the ‘Yurlai, ufter making as serious resistance ay Possible to tho Russian advance, will draw oft their forces, leaving small garrisons in their fortresnes, and retire before the Rus- sians nntil they reach the ontor defenses of Constantinople, thus compelling ther to ns- rault tho city and provoke English inter- feronce. Thoattempt to secnre an ally hy compulsion of this sortis rather ignoble, but it ia not improbable that the Turks may choose to force England into a rupture with Ttussia rather than risk enconntora in the open field ; and the necessary slownoss with which the Russians must advance, ns they gotfarther and farther fron their base of supplies, would facilitate the movement. + It would neem that the case of Cnocarm is one in which an exception might properly bamade to the rife prohibiting tho reton- tion of more than one meniber of the same family. Crocai is an employe of the Treasury Department, and for many years has been the custodian of about €400,000,- 000 in bonds deposited by National Banks. He has a brother in tho service, and, under the rule, would be removed. ‘Che banks, however, have taken the matter in hand, and have expressed their willingnoss to pay Crocarn’s salary rather than have their bonds in the custody of anybody else. —_—_ ‘The silk manufacturers of Paterson, N.J., have taken the bull squarely by the horns. Recently thers was n strike among the wen vers, who, despite contracts to finish their warps in the ovent of any diffloulty, loft their work incomplete, Actions wera com- monced immediately by tho manufacturers on tho contracts, and two of the strikers have been arrested and locked up to answer the suits. The bowildered weavers propose to meet nnd ‘'resoloot,” but thera reems but little hope for them, as they aro Hable on their contracts, and their old employors aro thoroughly in earnest. It has been loft for Axtxun, at present Governor of New Mexico, to fix tho valne of aconvert to Mormonism. Whon he arrived at Salt Lake to assume the functions of Gov. ernor of Utah, tho Mormon Couneil took him in charge, and through the pious medium of 90900 worth of feed, washing, and whisky, convinced him of tha error of his ways, and that salvation lay only through prompt adoption of the Mormon, faith. It is not improbable that he will lore his official hond, and as he will then be of- no more uso than any other individual, he will porhapa not be surprised to learn that the creed contom- plates tho paymont of futuro whiaky-bills by the contractor thereof. Friday's row in Montreal appears to havo been bat tho beginning of the end. Tho Orango Society yesterday parsed resolutions donouncing the Catholica for breaking the pledges upon which tho Orangemen agrecd to forego their parade, and announcing their determination to “ procosh” horeafter and rotect themselves, to the full axtont of the implication of that terin, against all invaders upon their rights, Mfondoy thoy will attend in foll rogalia the fnneral of the murdered Hacxerr, and every preparation has been made for nn attack and a bloody fight. On behalf of the Catholic societies, the usnal boah about irresponsible men ontside the Order is promulgated, and the world at largo notifled that the sociotios will not hold them. selves liable for the bloodshed thoir action precipitated. ‘Wo print a letter from the Hon, Henny G. Muxxzz, in which he suggests that the Coun- ty Commissionors, in awarding to Hanus some $34,000 in excoss of the allowances mode to him under his contract by tho archi- tect, have only done what a jast propristor would do under similar cirenmstances, whero the equitles aro strong. Mr. Minton omits to say that tho contract made the architect solo arbiter of what sLould be paid for extra work. ‘The County Commissioners aro not “* proprietors,"——they aro more agents of the public, required by law ond equity to disbarse public money honestly and legally. Tho allowance they made to Hanus was upon tho theory of disregarding the whole contract, ‘This they had no power to da, and they could ouly pay what the con- tract provided shonld bo paid. Bonator Buatnz iy certainly*doomed to moro disappointinents than a wise statcaman ought to attract. Itis only a fow days since ho misused s Fourth-of-July celebration to paint the horrors of a war with Mexico, out of which was to grow the worse horror of annexing more Moexicm territory and creating new “ Rotten Borough” States, . All this, it will bo remembered, was to result upon the President's order to pursue tho Mexiean bandits beyond the Rio Grande, if necessary. Unfortuustely for Mr. Buatne’a sensation, thia order has brought the Mexi- can Government ton realizing senso of ite respousibility forthe border raida, and has Induced President Diaz to instruct his com. manding officor on the Rio Grande to co-uper- ate with the American troops in suppressing the raida and apprehending tho brigands, In consequence of thesa Instructions, Gen. Oup and the Mexican General have hada consultation, in which amicable co-operation hos boen agreed upon, and Mr, Bratve’s son- ation has been prematurely nipped in the bud. Ayoung man of’the romantic name of Poworxten Epwonpson was hanged at Bloomfield, Mo., yesterday fora crime which, through its surroundings, is one of the most remarkablo in the annals of murder, Ev Monpson, who Lad a mother, two siaters, an idiotic brother, and a wife, was charged with killing one Saaw, who had, previously knocked him down with abrick. His mother and sisters swore he wasin bed and asleep at the time of the homicide, but the jury convicted him, While under seutence hig brother died, and the rest of the family swore that on his death-bod he confessed to the murder of Suaw, excnipating Pornpextes. Upon this statement a re- spite was granted, and Pompgxren was culogized through the country oa a hero, roady to die in his brother's place. But the death-bed statement could not be substan- tinted to the satisfaction of the authorities, and the sentence was carried out, ‘The con- demnod man niaintalned hiv innocenca throughout, though there was no reasopablo doubt that the penalty was justly inflicted. If serving no other good purpose, the stench with which a south wind incvitably floods Chicago is valuable as fertilizing the resources of those responsible for it in fur- nishing excuses for ite existence, An espe- cially bad amell, like that of Tuursday night, Govelops straightway a reporter, @ bushel or two of quotation-mmarks and interrogation. points, a Health Commissiouer, and suveral barrels of roasons why the stench should have prevailed at tho exact moment when it was*most offensive. In point of fact, the Health Commissioner cousiders a stench from thessme standpoint that a meteorologist contowplatos a cyclone, —taking 12 its aspect with much precision, and rather welcoming it aga study of great importance to scientific research, Health-Commiasioner Dx Wonr may ba looked to for an exerviso of the fonctions of his office in putting down the nulvance when the Signal-Service Barean shuts down on storms. A horrible stink is part of his stock in trado, and since the Board of Iealth succeedot in demon- atrating that itis not positively unhealthy, he does not propose to oradicate it until compelled. For years this nuisance has aflicted Chicngo. Every variety of plea for ita existence haa been put forth by those en- trnated with the work of exterminating it, and it is high time for the Council to tako charga of the matter, and in some why re- lieve the citizens of Chicago of the foul ainells that now poison the south wind. ——_—_—_—_— In commenting upon the President's con- struction of the recent Civil-Service order which excepts tho officeholders who are also members of the National Republican Committe, on the ground that they will not be called upon todo any political work for throa years, tho Hocning Journal of this city takes occnaion to esy a word for tho machine politicians as follows: We wonld respectfully eugzest that, wete the President to reconaldte: Tate oriter, and let Fed- eral officeholders dona they please, tho same ae other peopte, in matters of politics, xo long asthey shail nut neglect the dutlee of their offices arabure thalr positions to the actual detriment of the #erv- ice, he would doa wise thing. The Civil Service needs reform, bnt not that kind of reform which would abbreviate a citizen's political privileges etmpty becanao ho happens to be wn Officer in the public service, The Republican National Plat- form hte the nail more completely on the head, by requiring Senators and Representatives in Con- gresa to keon hands off Inthe matter‘of appoint. ments to the Federal Civil Service. The coutrol of oficial appuintinenta by members of Congress what demoralizos tho Civil Service by making the later a mcre machine forthe grinding of the axea of afew men, Has it never ocenrred to the Journal that tho suront way to broak down Congressional interferenco with tho President's appoint- ments is to prohibit those appointees from scheming and wire-pulling for the ro-elec- tion of thetr Congressional patrons? If tho officeholders are not permitted to pack conventions and dictnte Congressional and Senatorial nominations, there will no longer be the same temptation for Senators and Congressmon to turn Heaven and enrth to got their blowora and strikers into office, where they can no longer bo useful in running tho political machine. Besides, it is evidently nsmach an obuse of political power for officsholders to nae the patronago and influence of the Govornmont to manipu- late local politics as it is for Congressmen to dictate the appointment to Washington clorkships. We fear the Journal bas herein betrayed an insincority in regard to Civil- Bervice roform which 1 particularly dis- creditablo to it just now, because some mem.- bors of its stall have recently shown a strong disposition to hold office, REDEEMING AND REISSUING OREEN- BACKS, Wo do not agree with Toe Trinoxg In the opin- Jon that the reaamption polley means, or would ro- ult, in wiping out the grecnbacka, ** The Govern- ment," it eays, ** cannot majntaina papor cirenta- tion at par, because tt cannot redeem {t on demand and relasne it without azain suspending specie re- sumption," If thia were true of the Gavernment, it wonld be ofa bank. ‘There ia no good reason why greonbacks and gold abould not bo convertible the samo as any other pat paper moncy. The law of interchange Ie not afiected in the least by the difference, If resumption means the retirement of the greenbacks, then it would be of the drat Im- portance to make adequate provislon for aupptying thelr piace. The law is somewhat Indefinite. The bara possiblity of it {a depressing in the extreme, —Journal, * ‘Tho editor of the Journal has probably not studied this question as closely as its gront importance dqserves, The Resumption act of Jan, 14, 1875, among others, contains thia provision: On and after the tst day of Jannary, 1870, tho Secretary of the Treasury shall redeem in coin the United States legsl-tender noten thon outstanding on thelr preeentation for redemption at the ofice of the Asnistaut Treastrer of the United States, in the City of New York, nauns of not less than $50, ‘bere is nothing said here nor in any other part of the act permitting or requiring the roisstie of the Iegnl-teuderk after they hava been redeemed jucolu. Senator Scnunz put the question directly to Senator Joun Snen- MAN, who reported the Dill, whother it waa intended or wnderstood that the notes wera to be reissted, but he could extract no nuswer to tho in. quiry, although he pressed Saensan hard, No other momber of the Finance Committes nor any Senator answered it, Alt replios wore evasive and equivocal; they all dodged the question. Senator Scuvuz wanted to know how the notes were to be reissucd,—for what they were to be paid out if the inten- tiou was to reissue them, Tho regular in- come of the Government from taxes, lp poluted out, dofrayed all of its expenditures, including interest on the debt and something for the sinking fund; hence the redeamed greenbacks conld not be reissued in Hquida- tion of the ranning expenses of the Govern- ment. ‘lhe Iaw provides for procuring the coin with which to rodeem them by selling any nuthorized bonds, viz: fifteen-year 4)s or thirty-year 4 per cent bonds at par for coin, When the Governinent be- ging to redeem its notes on the tat of January, 187, it must be prepared to furnish at least §175,000,000 of gold each year, becauso thednties will require $10,000,000 to 140,000,000 per anuum, and coin remittances to foreign countries will need 840,000,000 to $50,000,000 more, The importing merchants who must procure gold will not go to the brokers aud specu- Jators and pay afpremium for it, but will take the yreenbacks to the Sub-'Trt for redomption, and draw the cold coin, and this coin will not find its way baok. into. the ‘Treasury in a shape to be available for a re- redemption of notes, because it will have to be paid to the public creditors as gaterest on thg bonds, orto merchants to bo exported abfoad for balances on imports. Lot the Journal reflect a little, and it can. not help perceiving the dilemma which will environ relssuing tho redeemed notes, We can think of only two ways by which the Government might reissue the redeemed notes without increasing the national debt. Tho first ls to buy gold with those notes, But, if the rodeemed notes were reissued in purchases of gold, it would be absolutely necessary that uo premium be paid for the gold, becanse if the notes were sold at a dis count the purchasers thereof would imme- diately tura round and present them for re- demption in gold, for the purpose of making @ profit equal to the discount, and as often as tho notes were reissued by selling them for gold tho speculators would play the samo trick, The» other method .of reissuing tho redeemed groenbacks is to buy bonds with them at whatever price the holders may demand. But while the Government was thus purchasing bonds, in order to reissue its greeubecks, what: would it do for gold with which to redvem its notes that would necessarily keep pouring in at the rate of throw or four millions pes week? Is woula ‘kupplied with water pure ang simplo,. But have to turn round and sell for gold tho very bonds it was buying In for green- backs. This shuttlecock fort: of business wonld not work, as the speculators would skin the Government right and left, Tho Government would have to sell ita bonds cheap and buy them ‘back dear the noxt day. The fact is, Senator Snzran and his Fi- nance Committeo percoived all those diffignl. tios, nnd well know that a reissue of the greenbacks would be impracticable; but, as they were exceedingly anxions to secure the passage of the Nesnmption bill, they were Afraid to confess, in the hearing of the coun- try, that the greonbnoks, when redcemed in coin, cannot again be putin circulation, but must be canceled nnd destroyed, ‘Tho Journal seems to think that because the banks can maintain rpecie-payments and reissue their notes, the Government can do it. We have shown the reason why tha Gov- ernmont cannot reissue them, and ovorybody knows the banks can, The Bank of England and the Scotch banks have not fail. ed to redeem in coin on demand and reissne their notes for fifty ycara, ‘Tho banks oan do it because they have capital and are operated to make profit. Thoy lonn money, shave ppper, raceive de- posits, discount bills, buy and sell oxchange, collect notes and checks, take collaterals and securities, and ara every day being paid by their cnstomers and replenished by deposit- ors and debtors, and receivo interest. In short, they do smonoy-denling-making-bank- ing business, with their own and their cus- tomers’ capital, which the Government, boing merely an officcholder and tax-cator, cannotdo, Itcan ‘‘shin,” but not do a banking business. It can borrow and spend, but it oarns nothing, and has no capital or resources of its own except by reaching its long fingers into other people's pockets and abstracting whotit needs for debt-payingand devouring purposes. Does tho Journal un- derstand it now? A PRACTICAL REFORMER. Mr, Faaxcus Munesy, the Irish temper- ance-roformer, himself a brand plucked from the burning, having beon through tho larger part of his life an bobitnat drunkard, and therefore knowing whereof ho spenks throngh bitter experionce, is to be commend- ed for the practical and common-sense man- nor in which ho doala with tho ovils of in- temperance. It is refroshing to meet with a temperance lectnror who%s nota fanatic, a reformer who in nota bigot, a zealous work- er for humanity who believes there nro bot- ter ways of appenling to o man’s senso of right than with a policeman’s club or legal compulsion. It adds to the forcoot his ar- guments that ho speaks from expericnce, Having been ohief among ton thousand drunkards, he knows the way of the drank- ard and the avenues that most directly lead to his conversion, If wo rightly apprehend the snbstance of Mr. Muneny’s addross ot the Lake Bluff camp-mocting on Thursday, ho acts upon the broad principle thnt- every man ‘should abstain from intoxicating liquors and on- courage others to abstain, but that, if he must drink, itis better to drink boor than whisky, os the loast of two avils, ‘Toonforco this point, ho contrasted tho drinking of whisky by the Isish'and Americans with the drinking of beer by the ‘Germana, and char- actorizod the Inttor as not half so bad as tho former, Upon this point Mr, BMonrur is eminently sound.. A quick, impulsive, norr- our, irascible people like the Americans ond Trish should never drink whisky. Thoy are notin heed of n stimulant so much as a sedative, In their normal condition they are themost impationt pooplo in tho world, and barely nble to endure crossing or con~ tradiotion, When filled with whisky, they explode upon tho slightest provocation, Nerves strang up to the highest tension and heated brains need something cooling, and to pour into tho stomach the various fiory compounda manufactured from rum, whisky, gin, and brandy, is sa sure to explode the victim os o nintch is to set off a keg of gnupowder. For such a people, tha ‘cooling, quicting narcotic bevernge of tho Gorman is better to allay their excitement, cooloff thelr brains, tona down their nerves, and ake them phlegmatic, stolid, patient, quiet citizens like the Germans, who can drink without, getting drunk, wrangle with- out getting angry, and enjoy themaclves socially without abusing their families, squandering thelr property, besotting their brains, destroying thelr stomachs, or lying ing gutter over night. Mr. Munriry says: “The Germah can go to tho beer-garden and come home perfectly sober aftor drinking all day, He iz really the most seusible drinker in America.” No one will diapute the atate- mont except that class of total-abstinence Digola who dispute everything. A caso in poiut may be found at the summer-garden concerta now in progreas at the Exposition Dnilding under the auspices of Mr, Tomas. Here assemble overy evening an average of nearly 2,000 people, mainly Germans, Irish, and Americans, Intoxicatiug liquors not being allowed on the promises, beer is the beverago, snd it is most gencroualy patron. ized by Iadies ond gentlemen alike, This has been gofng on every evening for four weeks, and yet no one has been drunk, boisterous, or quarrelaome, and no disturb- ance of any kind has interrupted the musical meditations of the most pronounced probibi- tionist in attendance, The audiences could not have been more propor if they had been suppose that whiuky wore doalt ont as frocly as beer, and that the hot-beaded, nervous Americans and Irish in attendance partook of it, whero would the Tuomas concerts be in a short time, unless a atrong police force wore provided? With this main principle of Mr, Moxrur, Tax Tarpune cordially agrees, Itis better not to drink at all; but, if you must drink, choose beer, and, if you don’t like beer, take the light wines which are used in countrics where intoxication is comparatively unknown, ’ ‘With another of Mr, Muremy’s arguments Tus Tamuxx is also in hearty sympathy, He says: well as any of wy hearers, and they have virtuous wives and daughters the same as any other men. Thefy are honorable men amorg them I woull trust to take my daugh- ter to England if necessary. The saloon- keepers are meu, and they must be treatedlike them, and not be ridiculed or roviled.” ‘This is the position which ‘fgz Tarmuwn has always taken in its arguments with the Prohibi- tionists, and it is glad to seo this great apostle of temporance occupying the same ground. He recognizes what the narrow-sighted Pro- hibitionist cannot or will not see, that compulsion never yet produced reform; that you cannot legislate what or how much aman sbali drink, any more than you can regulate his daily bill of fare by statute; that the tninority cannot cut off the por- sonal rights of the majority by force; and that policomen’s clubs, warrants of courts, imprisonment in jaily, and threats of vio- | Lenco never yot stopped any one trou drinks “‘The Uquor-sellers are men as’ ing. On the othor hand, compulsion only ronses the old Adam, and men drink the more. Mr. Munrnt, having been a drank. ard himsolf, knows the utter abaurdity of trying to stop n man from drinking by tell- ing him he shall not drink. It is his method to make n personal appeal to the drinking man; to reason with him; to point out the evils of drinking and tho injnry the man is doing to himself and his family ;. to present hin plodge to him nnd indnce him to sign it: If such a conse cannot sayo A man, then his case is hopoless, and all the compnision in the world will not help it. ‘That Mr. Monpnr’s system is a good one is shown by the remarkable success that has crowned his efforts in tho Enst, where he bas hitherto been laboring. If wo had moro such carnest, practical, common- senso reformers in the field, the humbug of temperance in law and politics would be speedily oxploded, and we might hope for an ern of sobricty and order in our large cities, with less drinking and leas crime than now cbarncterizo them. GOOD NEWS FROM MISSISSIPPI. Tastice sometimes takes the most curious trenks to work out its compensations. Who would ever have thought of the Implacables and machine politicians of the Republican party boing rebuked by the Repnblicans of Mississippi? Yet thin is just what has oc--| curred. The Republican State Committes have met and resolved not to presont any candidate at the coming Stato oloction, but. virtually abandon tho State organization for the time being, Thoy have taken this action in the faco of tho conviction that the State has o Republican majority of 80,000, and assign as 4 reason (which will not be ques- tioned by observing anid impartial men) that the Republicans of Mississippi have beon diefranchised by frand, intimidation, and violence, Hnd thoy stopped horo, what n glorious opportunity the Implacables of the North would have bad to arraign Presi- dont Hares! Wonld not this surrondor have served ne an example of the constantly reiterated charge that Hargs hos slaughtered the Republican party? Wouldn't it have beon pointed at as a fatal instance 6f the workings of his Southern policy? Wonlda't the machine mon, who resent his Civil-Sorvice order, have shricked thomsolves hoarse in denouncing him anew for his dosor- tion of the helpless Republicans of tho South? But the Republicans of Mississippi did not stop here. Having given the true reason why they have abandoned the strng- gle for tha Stato with the consciousness of. large majority, they proceed truthfully and foroibly to exonerate Prosident Harzs of all blame for the wrongs pat upon them, and to recognize in his conduct the only hope they cherish for regaining thoir rights, Here is what they say: In bia endeavor to clevate the politics of tha country toa plano of true patriotiym and atatos- manahip, we tondor to Prosident Mayer atl wo have to give, —our prayerful eympathy and carnest goad- will,’ Wo would respectfally entroat thoso of our Northern as well as Southern prethren who, under tho Influence of personal griovance and other canecg, tnconsiderately complain of ins ‘*Southtrn policy," to remember that the political condition which we now deploge oxisted Icng anterior to his neceasion tothe Pre®ideacy, and the course which we now adopt had become a necesslty before he was ever nominated to the high ofice which ho now holds, ‘To this fact we would direct the apectal atgention of those who ara now most activo in sowing the reeds of strife against the President, but who, we well remem- ber, neglected a¢ tho proper tlme to adopt tho means for preventing the calamity which the present Administration, with Hmited means, seeks to cure. We have confdence and wledom in Preaident Hares, and, paralyzed and powerless a6 Weare, We profoundly regret any effort, com- ingfrom any quarter, to weakev hia arm, oF which might tend in the slightest degrea to ronder unanccessfal the high experiment Instateemansbip which he le now making. ‘To obliterate the color- line In politics, to enforce the laws by the civil power, toreconcile hoatita acctions, and to bring Into one harmonious national brotherhood all the conflicting alemonta of ouf common country, isan enterprise av grand tn Its conceptighs and so hoiy fn ita porpone that It rhould, and we trust will, command the admiration and united snpport ofall good men, without regard to porsonal or partisan considerations, ‘To appreciate the fall force of this, it must be remembered that it comes from Southern Republicans, the very men in whose behalf the Implacables of the North havo pretended to resent the Prosident's policy. It brings up the whole history of Republicanism at tho Bonth. At the very time the Democrats ‘soized Misslusipp!, the same class of poli- ticians who sre now nrrayod agninat Prest- dont Hares were in full possession of the Government, Thay controlled all the Gov- ernment offices and dictated o policy to Gon. Gnant. They were in no wise hampered in the disposition of patronage or the manipu- lation of the United States troops, _ Yet thoy permitted the-Ropublicans of Mississippi to be defrauded of their rights by intimidation and violence, and to lose control of a State whore they had an honest majori. ty of 30,000 votes, Responsible themselves for this ontrage, they have howled at Presi. dent Hares for refusing to use the army to sustain Packarp in an improvised State- Honso, when not evon the semblance of au- thority remained to him in any part of the City of New Orleans or the State of Loulai- ana outside of this State-Houso, Having themsclyes deserted the Republicans of Misalssippi when they had all the means and power of the Government behind them, these same Implacables affect a virtuous in- dignation becauso President Harzs, con- fronted by s Democratic House and refused supplies for his army, did not imposo by force upon Lonisiana aman who was Gov. ernor only inname. The rebuke from Mis- siasippl is pointed and timely, - But Missisalppi is not the only Southern State which the present Implscablos allowed to go over to the Democrats in tho same cowardly. fashion when they had the power, if they had used it properly, to enforce the rights of the negro voters. One by ono, Georgia, Virginis, Arkaneas, North Carolina, Texas, Alabama, were ali doscrted under the reign of the present Irreconcila- bles, and before Harzs had been named as a possible President. Thon followed South Carolina and Florida, where the Democrats had obtained power before President Harzs was inaugurated; for, in South Carolina, the Supreme Court (Republican in politics) had declared that Harrow had a majority over Cuamozatarm, though Hares had a majority over Titpzn, In Florida tho Bupreme Court had likewise ordored a re- count which gave tue Democrats control of the State, though it was too late to reverse the Electoral vote. There remained, then, as we have said, only tho temporary Stato- House, claimed by Packanp, which alone Harrs, as President, could have defended if he had chosen to fly in tho face of tho inevitable, and to risk tho dis- bandmont of the American army, For ro- fusing to take thiy reckless course, he has only been denounced’ by the poltroons who neglected to protect tho negro vote in the dozen Southern States which had alrcady been passed over to the Demoorata. And now the Hepublicans of Misulaudppi, really the victims of those men at the North who aro loudest in thoir protestations of friendship, find their only hopo for future emancipation in the very policy which the wisdom of President Harxs has inaugurated. They cannot struggle meceasfnlly in tho subjection into which the machine politi- cians of tho North botrayed them, but they may find an alliance with the conservative native whites as svon as the latter tire of tho dictation nnd arrogance of the Bourbon faction. ‘The opportunity may come in Mississippi long before it wos expected, Whilo. there is not a singlo man in the State who desires to bo the Republican candidate for Governor, thero are five prominent men who are scrambling forthe Democratic nomination. Is it un- likely that there will be rival Democratic candidates? If the Bourbons and Fire-Ent- ers prevail in the Democratic Convention, is it not probable that the Conservative Domo- rata will organize an opporition and run an indepondent candidate of thoir own? And if they do this. will not the Republican voters of Mississippi, with 80,000 majority, hold the balance of power? Will not the Conservative Democrata seo to it that the black voters have protection which the machine politicians of the Republican party failed to give them? And will not this bea practical and permanest obliteration of tho color-tine in that State? THE REVENUE FROM CUSTOMS, The revenuos of the Government for the fiseal yoar ending Juno JO, 1877, though not definitely ascortained,—-soveral reports from remoto districts yet to be receivod,—are esti- mated upon actual and approximated fignros to bo os follows, as compared with last year: 1877, $150, 430,41! Customs... Internal re 118,438, 270 Miscellancons 22447080 Total secevene $271,325, 078 These figures exhibit a decline in tho yoar of $16,156,360 in the total revenue, while the falling of in customs dutics is noarly $18,000,000. Had it not been for the large reduction made in the exponditures, caused by the forced economies of the public serv- ico, thera would have beon 9 serious de- ficiency in tho revonne. Tho appropriations and consequent expenditures for the fiscal yoar beginning on the lut of July, 1877, aro considerably reduced from those of Inst yor, and, though the rovonne will be reduced, it is probable that a deficiancy will be avoided. ‘This falling off of rovenuo from customs ia aatriking ovidence of the gront neglect of Congress to remedy the tariff. Tho rates of duty which wero adopted during and soon after tho War—war toxex—have beon con- tinucd until they now amount in many cases to prohibition. A glance at the figuros of importations and revenuo from duties during sovoral yonra will tell tho story : Vatue of imports, B75, UO. Duttes. $459, 19: 4 44 ob 81,105 1n4, 020, O41 100, G84, OS], 7 505, 8U5, 756 147, 050, 118 > 1870 450,200, 7 1877 (cloven months) 442,220, US ‘Tho revenue for 1877 is, for tweive months, tho valuation of tho importa only for olovon monthe. It will be sce how seriously tho rovenuo has doctincd—$80,000 a yoar—since 1872. Ourexports are largely in oxcoas of our imports, but, instead of receiving other goods in exchange for thom, we are receiv- ing back railrosd, municipal, and other bonds and seccuritios, Unable to soll us goods in oxchange, our customora oro com- pellod to sell us these Amorloan securities. Thoy sro uoloading them npon this country, and monoy which inight be invested in pros. ductive industry in the Unitod Statos is tak- ing refuge from idloness {n theso bonds and securities, This is not profitablo commerce, If wo oxport 600,000,000 of our producte, and receive therefor othor goods which aro worth here $700,000,000, tho profit of the transaction is clear aud unqueationable, Tho profit of the trade is visible. Bat whon wo receivo for these exporta paymont in bonds and securities, the valucof which is largely speculative, and the capital put into which is withdrawn from productive pur- sults, the profit of the transaction is not evident ; itis more seoming than renl, ee pectally as none of the corporations which have issued theso bonda givo any indication of an ability to pay or reduce their indebted. ness, Congress, however, cannot much long- er neglect this businoss, It must reduce the tariff dutica so as to admit of importa. tions which will produce revenue, and it muust restoro 8 amall tax on tes and coffee, or there will boo defictoncy in the rayenuo. of the most serious character. Tho Dritie ingly with the French and derman policy. Bier iw strip of country on the border of those two lands which te really German lerntory, but during the dalf-century of Frene occupation of Alance aud Lorralne the people Frenchy in thelr notions and syrupathies, treatment won them uver. —vVadrnal, Tho mistake the Journal makes la in suppos- Sng that Alsace and Lorraine hsd only beey In French occupatiun half a century! Loos XIV. seized them A. D..1081 from the Germana by surprise, and by the peace of Ryswick, made im 1607, the cossiort was ratified. Thus the French had possession of the stolen territory for nearly two centuries; anc, while the inhab- Itants became finally reconciled to French rule, the Alsace part of them would never adopt the French language, but continued to speak Ger- mau asthe mother tongue aud read .German newspapers snd books, The reason of thelr be- coining so rapldly reconciled to German rule Is simply because they are Germana by race, lan- guage, literature, and traditions, a came entire) Kini Tho Now York Jerald rovently intarvicwed lawyer who at ono time had been of counsel for Twexp, and, while giving his views in full, sup- pressed the name, Tho lawycr was Joun GRanam, and the reason for not using bisnams was a threat made by Guauam years ago. The Herald bad attacked Gaauam, who, meeting the old man Bennett on the street, knocked hin down and admonished hin then and there that if tho Zferaid ever published his namo again in any connection, whether good, bad, or indiffer- ent, savo to notice his death after bo bad passed. froin this world, he, Grauam, would cowhlde him, Bsxxerr, untll he died. Bayxart has beou gathered to his fathers; but the fight wad the threat made a lasting impression, and Guauam bas never been mentioned ta the paper sluce, Ferlodically ho is interviewed as a “ prominent Now York lawyer,"” but every man on the Jerald force shrinks from even writlog tho name of Joun Granax, i On the ground that cumulative sentences are legal, Bos Fustouge proposcs to yank Jorce, the whisky-thief, out of@ho Penitentiary to-day, ‘Then the fur wii ty. Jorem has plenty of eneniles to punish and few friends to reward. McDowan stood by him,.but almost all the rest of the gang “ wont back” on him, and, as the convict bas salted away at Icast balf @ mill- jou dollars to keep bim whilo working out bis vengeance, any quantity of fun may be expected io Missourl for some the te come, Through bis Imprisonment Joxcx loses his citizenship, so be will bave no political aims to bother him, and. thefe ts uo little quaking {a 8t. Louls among some very emlacyt men, as they coutemplate the prospect. a They have gol ttle lawyer dows fn St. Louls, named Frank Bowman, too amall to. whip and too sharp to be beaten. =A fow ycars 9g0 he pepped into sudden favor by taking up tho fight of the Bt. Lots Republican agains Briton Hutcnins, and for atime the quarro} was bitter, Three or four challenges to mortal combat were passed between the holligerents, and thefr friends, but finally the matter faded {ntoasort of smoldering fire, It was lately fanned into life again by the discovery, that Bowsan's practice in relation to a Iife-Insur. ance company was no better than ft should hare been. An Investigation waa ordered, and, dur- Ing a recent hearing, every human being in tho court, from the Judge up and down, called every other human being presenta liar. Thero wag no particular reacntment on tho part of the chivalry, who flvally joined tn proving the Troporter of the Globe-Democrat to ba a constitu. tional Har, because he was the smalieat man tn the crowd. This seemed to settle the question at laaue tg the-satisfaction of all hands, and the venstettatumbore again. ———————————— The New York Bulletin, commercial organ, speaking of remonetizing allver, saya: * Conceding that there should be a remonotization of allver, the firat thing to be Malated npon in enance of that step fé, that tho relative ynine of the two metals shail nut be legally determined unttl the market talue of sitorr hus deen aetiled to a atahle basi, What the future settled value of sliver bullion may be it Je Imponsibie now to jrdge, ‘This Idiotic sortof talk Is about on a par with the order of the mother to her son forbidding him ever going into the water until ho had first earned Lo swim. How is the valacof silver to be Improved so long ns the Jaw prevents {t from being used ss money? Tho valuo of a thing de pends upon the demand for it. There ts a do- mand fn this country for at least two hundred, Perhaps three hundred, millions of silver dot lars. Let us sec what offoct filling that big do mand will haye on the value of silver. We think it would bo healthy. Let us havo an outpour- Ing of the “dollar of the daddics.”* ————— A Paris paper describes the table-scrvice at 9 recent farewell dinner to Minister Wasitnunns: Apast from a rich dinpiay of mansivo allver, tho most nutavle objecta were the plates, which wore wenuines Sevren, the patterns bordor of gold ara- beaquea ona black ground-work, with ah extorior Wreath of minute leaves in Rul’ most exquisitely fininhed, ‘Ino dessert gervice, plates, finger- howls, and decanter-stands, were in silver, with opon- Worked borders, richly-qilt, the pattern paynion flowers and leayes, and on cach plate and how! was tho monogram of the owner in gilt lottere, The bandles of tho dessert knives, forks, and epoons wero vf xold, with the owner's monogram stamped In open-worl® at the end, a marvelous pices of delieate yoldamith’s work. ‘Tho sugar for ho after-dinner coffee was handed round ina chased silver casket of tho reign of Lovis XV. a firs Kingston, N. Y., has Just lost, in Untar .SAUNDENS, a man who was tho hero of 500 lav~ suits. So thoroughly was he fascinated with the intricacies of legal practice, that he wreckod his fortune and found pastime only in suing his nelghbors. Ono of his suits agalnsta fellow. townsman named Bos Hanven jasted for twenty years, and was brought up standing by the latter's death. Then Unsai took to his bed, said he was “going to nicet Bon,” and dicd in the blessed hope that the suit would be taken up in eternity where it left off on earth ———————— Onc Bans, of Now York, Is threatened from Texas. For some timo he hne been advertising a cure for upium-cating, and was applicd to by Mrs. Greens, of Montgomery. He sent her a box of pills, with directions, which she followed, ond in forty-clght hours she was dead. From every part of the Lone-Star State comes a sell for vengeance on Beers, and itis not improb- able that Texos will send a requisition for him. Beers clalins that bis remedy was cfcacions, ea the paticnt hasn’t taken any opium siuco taking the pills. : ae Glyen a strect-railwey corporation, anil progression and enterprise are gone. ‘The Bixth Aventte Horac-Car Company, of New York, has beon a bitter opponent of the clevated rallwsy. Ils manager built a double-decked car that wouldn't go un- der the higher track, anit now coolly denounces the latter an impediment to trafle. But tho Common Counel bounced tho two-story and basement car asa violation of the Company's charter, and ordered the manaard shaved off, —— After all, King Auronso of Bpain ia to marry tho Duke of Montponsler's daughter, much to tho disgust of the Queen, who, ecelng the control of her son slipping through lier fingers, has determined to leave Madrid for Paris. The girl, who ls described as unnoves- sarily beauti{al, is modest and retiring in her habits, peculiarly sensitive and shrinking fo her naturo. Her chief amuscinents are bull-fights, ————————— Ono of our Western oxchanges very correctly observes: Tho diacuanon of the silver qnestinn fe rapidly takinganew form, The monomectaliiets discove> that they are beaten in argument—that the nutempe to deatroy the money character of allver In an ine flated and debtor cuuniry, with a view to resump- fon, Ie a caso of financial suicide, and that thors feno porelbility that the people wilt submit to such & policy when it 1s fairly presented. ae In reply to the snarling at Harms of the ma- chino Implacabics, one of the Cincinnati papers says: Ifthe Republicans of Ohlo propose to carry tha Etate thin Peal they have Jot only to inderse Hares, but to doit witha yell, oo Criminal returns of tho London police for 1870 show the arrest of 76,214 persons, of which 5Q,011 were males and 26,203 females. . Of tho professions, f{ty-elght were lawyers, twenty- seven doctors, and threo clergymen. a Tow often must we notify people thst anony- mous communications cannot be {inserted in Tuz Tuinuns? About a peck a week of them ne. tae the waste-basket unhonored and un- ————— PERSONAL. Senator Morton's son, it is observed, had been appolnted a Government agont to watch the Alaska Fur Company in thelr operations up North, Bob Ingersoll has stirred up a formidabla antagonlatin San Francisco in the person of the Roy. Dr. Thomas Guard, and the paperssay tho clergyman is getting the better of the controversy. Miss Elizabeth Johnson, who was rojected as post by theSenlorClass of Wosleyan University, at Middletown, Conn,, because ahe waa & woman, wou the prize of $100 for the best sassy, all the work belng submitted snonymously, Sho hee aince been appointed s Professor In the female college at Wollesley, Mass., at a salary of $800 ond board, The New York Dramatic News lately pub- Mabed thlaeatoundingitem: ** Mr, Willlaai Carle. ton is undoubtedly the beat baritone now alnging tho English languege, with the sole exception of Mr. Sankoy." Some ef the wonder may be remor- ed from thi tence by substituting Santley for Sankey, Santley has grown old jn London, an? the favor ho has enjoyed there will justify som enthusissm on his bobal?, .. Fredorick William Von Hacklander, whose death was recently announced, was fn the front rank of German humorous and romantic writers His storica, tales, and novels have boop widoly circulated in Germany. His literary caroer begat in 18$1, and extended up to hie death. Hw works in 1874 were published in scventy volumes. Bosldes his novels, he wrote many military sketch- ¢6, books of travel, and comedios. E In consequence of the sudden doath of Prot, Sanborn Tenney, the Willlants College Sci- entifc Hxpedition has disbanded, and the moem- bers have returned to their homes, The oxpedl- tion wae composed of ton os twelvo students adda fow outelders. They met here by appulotmons, and wero to have started for toe Kocky Mountains thisweek. The death of Prof, Tenney was asad blow ta all of them. Ho wm to have deon the leader of the Expeditios It owed Ite existence to bie suggestion and active sympathy. course, Impossible, if it bad been de ent, to fill his place on 80 abort # not Tn one of his letters from London to a friend in the United Btates, Dr, Vranglin remarked: **You do woll tu avoid boimg concerued in the pieces of persons] abuse so scandalously common in car newspapers, that [ am afrald to lend any of them hore until I have examined and lsld seide euch as would disgrace us and subject us strangers to a reflection Iike that usod by miso in & coffve-housy tu twa quarsclers. who, aftr a mutually free use of the words rogue, vil- lalo, scoundre), ctc., sccmed as it they would refer thelr dispute to bia. ‘I know nuthiog of you or vuur aflairs,* sald be, ‘I only perceive that you know one anoiher.*"!