Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 10, 1877, Page 4

; THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY. AUGU 10, 1877 what is claimed to be the chenper and better plan of drying upon and shipping direct from their premises, instead of inenrring the expense and vexation contingent upon the uso of Chicago as amarket, and the proponed strike of the ‘shovers,” to go into effect Monday, seems to have suggested to somo of of its policy, While the Republican party can only be held to be committed by the doc- Inrations of 1ta Conventions, the Nation is equally at fault in ite ref erence to the letter of Mr, Hares. Inhis letter of acceptauce Mr. Hayes nsed this langnage: 5 It is my conviction that the feeling of nncertain- We, e TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, BY MAIL—IN ADVANCE-—-POSTAGE PREPAID. Dally Faltion, ons year. $12.00 Parinct ayenr, pee month su se Lie Inmon Fable trona leeeimemahles shee Garren Matted toany adres Cou nM ‘ y Ineeparabte from frredcemahle paper enrrency, ‘i Fee ee Lats and eoleenr: ci || ene dealers: new grounds: for suanconlhe with ite duetuations of value, i one of the great 3 Beale sheets ‘a 3:50 | Chicng>, and leaving their discontented eta- | otptacies to tho revival of confidence and bnainicar, skis y, one year. Gon | ployes to shift for themselycs, andton return of prosperity. That ancertainty. H Parisof a svar. per month. mit ’ can be removed in but one way—the resumption of specie payments, Prt the longor the Inetanility of onr money esstem Is permitted to continue, tho greater wil be the Injury inflictea upon our eco- noniical Interests and: alt clasncs of society, If elected, I ehnil approve every appropriate measure tuaccomplish the Wesired end, and shall oppose any atep backward. Gov, Hares, it will bo soon, naver re- ferred to the Reswmpiion act; ho did not then, any more than any other person, re- gard that net ns eapablo of being carried into execution; on tho contrary, he asserted that it would be the duty of Congress to legislate on the subject of specie resumption, and he promised te co-oporate with Congress tothat end, ‘Tho Republican party has noven been committed to the exceution of the Resump- tion Inw, aud therefore is not open to any ” s WEFKI. ne Cony, per ye: : Cloned tance Club of tweni peclinen ecples rent tree, To prevent delay and mistakes, he sure and alive Post: Ofice address in (all, Including State and County. Kemfttances may bo made either by draft. express, Post-UMve oder, or in reglatered letters, at our risk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIDERS, Dally, delivered, Sunday excepted, 24 cents ner week. Dally, detirered, kundar Included, 39 venta per week, ddrens THE TRINUNE COMPANY, Corner Madtaon and Dearborn-ats,. Chleazo, Hl. "0 Orders for the dellyery of Tux Tainusy at Evanston, ren Canada ia anxions to afford the United States every possible facilityyfor the imme- diate extradition of Citizen Srrmxa Bury, who is now an unwelcome sojonrner in the Dominion, . Very naturally the United Btates ia in no great hurry about it—noth- ing like such nhurry as Canada seen:s to be in. * Citizen Bucs is said to meditate a coali- tion with Citizon Joszrn, with a view to making things in the far Northwest what Lenin fea er iat a in the Counting-room | tho market reporters would quote as “ active : ences and unsteady.” AMUSEMENTS, Mr. Ronson will long be remombered by the officers of the navy; indeed, present in- dications are that they will never forget him. ‘Tho. money which should have heen paid . MeVicker’s Theatre, . ‘Madteon rtrcet. between State and Dearborn. ‘Ser. aphine." Mesdamea Meck. Mage, Price, ete,; Messrs Wheelock, Hamilton, Pe ete, * them for April, May, and June is not to be ‘ Hooley’s 5 9 Mays ; i Randoiph street, between Clark avd Lagalte. Ene | found, having been diverted from the pur- | charge of bai faith if that act be modified gagementof the Unloa Square Company, *smfke." | nose for which it wasapproprinted in accord. { by tho repeal of the date uamed for resump- Merdamea Heron, Jewett, S5ivester, ete} Messrs O'Nell, Parsclle, Jennings etc. tion. The fact that lending Republican pa- ance with Secretary Roprson’s pecnliar poll ac ¥ earn pers are opposingthe enforcemontof that act of making good ono deficiency by creating Adetph) Thentre. Monroe street, Larner bt hee. The kanca | Another, ‘The peculiar hardship in this case | Md deinanding its repeal scoms to th No. “ thire Lave." Meslamvs ttigat, Stone, French, ete.t | ia the uncertainty whothor the ofticera will } “ov to be perfidy on the part of those papors Moers: (aitaay_Wlaladell, Welle en over get the averdae pay,and the consequent | !0 the Republican party. | All the Domocrats SOCIETY MEETINGS. extortionn they aro compelled to submit to | 8nd the Democratic papovs in New Yori: and by brokers who advanco the money and take | Other Esstorn States that supportod Mr. ‘Tit HOME LONGE, No. 4 bait As Mec Rervlar the chances. pen and opposed Mr. Haxrs are clamoring fEriday) evening, Aus 10 at 8 ofeuctes tual of ———e —ewe for the enforeemont of the Resumption act, tebrescats By ordevof tae stamens = arected 19] kb Convent, Naval Officer of Now York, | and for tho establishment of an exclusive i. 2 HEILBICR, See'y, . 100, A. F. and A. 3 (iuldegy evening: at 6 Monroe x Ft, Dey thren cordially invited, fi gold currency. avo these become nivo- vates of a Republican party menstre? or aro they not, as tho Neion is, tho organs ofa rpecial intercat,—tho attorneys of tho 4 lock class? s RAILROAD EMPLOYES IN FRAN( Yesterday we gave 4 record of the meas- ures adopted by an Austrian railway com- pany (which havo beon in successful opera- tion for nearly twenty years) for improving the condition of their employes, attaching them more pormanently to the service of the Company, avd providing assistance in caso of illitess, and pension in case of death or incapacity from long service, The Eastern Railway of France, one of tho great corpo. rations of that country, which las receipts amounting to $20,000,000 annually, has a system eqnally thosough and admirable, which ia described in 8 pamphiet recently issued by tho Railay Guzetle, and mado up from cortain lectures delivered by tho Man. nger of tho Eastorn Railway beforo the French School of Bridges and Highways in 1867, ‘Tho Eastern Tailway system begins at the beginning by recruiting its employes from among men whose provious career has shown thum:to be sober and ‘in- dustrious, and then making promotions, as vecancies occur, according to eficloncy and term of service. This system is now in op- eration on all the Fronch railways, ‘Ihe em- ployes aro graded, and there is never an ap. pointment to a higher grade of a person who has not been in ths employ of the Company in some inforior capacity, ‘The admission of new employes ia thus confined to tho lowest grades of the servine, so that the railroud bnsiness is learned thoroughly by all to whom its administrntion ia intrnsted. Tho plan ia the moro feasible bocanso of the prac- tice of nolecting the new employes, os far a4 possible, from the children of the old om- ployer, while thoy aro still yonng men; many of them, indeed, be- gin os moro boys in the capacity of mneasougera’ or attendants, The judicial records of France assist the Company in protecting ituelf against vicious characters, sinco any pravious b ad conduct cau be {raced immediately whon pplication for employ. mont is mado, Women oro lurgely om- ployed as ticket-sellers, and they havo proved themselves quick, accurate, and po- lite, Tho wives and daughtors of railroad employes are given tle pro.screnco; and, in the caso of tho sinaller stations whero the train-master acta also aos ticket-scller, an ox- tra allowanca of from 360 to $140 o year Is made (o his wife for autsting him. Women and Chairman.of the Republiean State Com- mittee, isa unit on the proposition that ho iso 'biger man” than tho Prosident. He says he will not resign cither office, but pro- poses to hold both untilrelieved. ‘This chal- lenge affords A, B, Consens nn opportunity to bring himself temporarily before the gen- eral public, which heretofore has manifested. 8 perfect indifferonco as to whether ho liked. the T'resident's order or not. ‘Che old story of tho bull and the locomotive, rather than tho familiar legond of tho bull in the china shop, is brought to mind by Mr. Cornrur’s rumored intention. WAUR Regatar FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1 CHICAGO MARKET SUMMARY. The Chicszo prodace markets were generally atronger yesterday, with o fair volume of businesa. Mere pork closrd 223@25e per bel higher, at 5 for September and 313,25 for October. Lard closed 714¢ per 100 Ibs hixher,at $4.70 for September and $8.75 for October, Meats were : steadier, at 4 2c for luose shoulders and 6c for do tribs. Lake freights were active and firm, at ic fur corn to Buflalo, Uighwines wera une changed, at £1.08 per gallon, Flour waedali aud irregular, Wheat closed 1'¢ higher, at $1, 09% for Apgust and $1,0t%3 for September. Corn closed $3¢ higher, at 46%¢ for August and 45340 for : September. Oats cloaed enslor, at 24346 far cach uml 24%4¢ for September, Kyo was firmer, at G6e, Barley closud firm, at G7e for new No. 2 aclier September. Hoge were moderately actlyo and lower, closing rteady, at S1.75@5.25, Cattle were qulct and ateady, with santos at $2.5005.70 me for puor to extra, Sheep were drm, at $3.00@ 4,75. One hundred dollara in gold would buy : 3 in greenbacks at the close, ’ Referring to tho recont expose in this paper of the villainons enrect of the Protec- tion Lifo Insurunca Company, wo desire to say that recent Investigations prove tlint a caso of mistaken Identity led to conclusions on the partof this paper not warranted by tho facts, On Saturday ovening, Moj. Ronent ML. Woons, of tho Insurance Departmont, called at Lhis offica to give certain information for ‘which wo had telegraphed to the Anditor, anil was mistaken for Martin Ryan, tho Ace tnary of the Protection Life Insurance Com- pany. Qur present inforination justifies us in saying that no blame should attach to Maj. Woops on acconnt of any delay in tho prosecution of tho Compauy, and thut bis course in reference to it meets the honrtiest approval of the Auditor aud all connected with the caso on the partof the Dopart- ment. Greenbacks wero worth 912@95 cents on the dollar in Now York yestorday. Five thonsand dollars havo been promised by the leading railroads to tho Committca en- GI in raising funda in nid of tho Second Regiment. ‘Thu interest manifeated by tho comununity in tha welfaro of this organiza- tion is a compliment well deserved by the boys. . —— The Maine Republican Convention has como and gone, sud Mr, Braine’s plan of operations for tho Presidential campaign has beon outlined. ‘Lhe Implacables were in the ascondency, and the gospel of sectional linto, so ubly expounded by Maizo's political Mes- sian, was nccepted na the orthodox standard Of fuith, Mr. Busts was not so foolish as to Lite ont # plece biggér than ho could sub- sequently chuw, aud so he directed his Con. vontion to abstain from monking an open doclaration of war upon the Southern policy of tho Administration; neithor wonld ho permit anything which savored of indorse- ment. Ho wanted peace for the present so. far as Pregident Harta is concerned, and therofore tho Convention contonted ftrelf with salling into the South on general prin- ciples, together with o casual allusion to the currency, land-grants, subsidies, o protective tariff, ete, Tho timo has gone by whon tha Presidency could bo climbed into upon such a ledger os thie, THE RESUMPTION Act. ‘The Nation, ina recent artlelo, endeavored to hold the Republican party of the United Secretary Surnwan is understood to have fixed up for early delivery his Ohio spocch onthe currency question, Nobody knows now what. ho will have to say, and theye jaa ’ possibility, suggested by the currency plank in tho Ohio Repyplienn platform, that upbody: . will know any more about it after be has i mado the speech, 7 ’ OF course the County Commissioners ‘pro ‘ at liberty to build thelr hal€ of the Cayst- Housv dome, and raise 9 split dongbnut gart of w monument to their imbecility pnd avarice. But the Council cay the matfer inust stop thero, and (hat undor no clreynie stances rust the mnuicipal linlf of tho doughnut bo raised to the aggrandizemont of the Ring and the despoiling of the taxpayar, —— ae Apprehensions aro felt in the Past-Ofllco Department of a general strike among the engincers and firemen some time during the present month, Informetion of such an ine tention has been recelved from various sonrces, and assurances to tho coutrary by ; also employed as gnto-koopars nt street- : railrond officials aro not regarded as entivoly iLilat: phe F pellkhies ~ 4: hnal Woot demipeatzatea r thee BStutes to n rexponsibility for its non-support | crossings ou the grade, and the trackmen's of the Rexnmption act aya party measure, Among other things It salds Now, without golng back to tho origin of the Ro- ataption act or questioning the motives of ite framers, It must by ddinitied that tt was th ewt polntin the Itepuvilcan position last y: in true thatall mention of it was deliberately ex- eluded from the platform, and that the alluslun to the duty of roturning to specie payments was very vague and Sndelinite, tut Mr. Haves was vory outspoken tn hile letter of acceptance, and the Ro- publicen press Was no less so as to the solemn duty of resuintng on the day named, ‘This is ultogethor unwarranted. Tho Ie- publican party bas never indorsed tho Resumption’act, nor has it indorsed or wlopted any dato for the rexnmption o! specie payments, nor hay it indorsed an modo of resumption—vither the funding o! grecnbacks or thelr redemption with gold, On all these subjects tho Republican party is uncommitted, ‘Tho party las declared that the debt of the United States, including the greenbucks, is a national obligation which must not by disregardud, aud that the no tonal faith ia pledged to ils payment in tho join of the country, It fs also committed in vor’ of a return to epecio payments ag soon asthe samo can be done without damage or wiveu are generally nelected, Owing to tse varintion in the oxtont of business, the employ‘es are divided tuto two classes, viz: tho ‘‘coimmnissioned mon," who aro regularly and permanently attached to tho service, and they “ordinary men,” who aro engaged by the «iay, week, or month. ‘This establishes a rewird for yood behavior end carnest application from the first, as tho hope of o commission, a uniform and per- manent tonure, inspires every man who on- tera the tomporary scrvico, ‘This system of reward is kept up in various ways. Thua the foromen and under-f.oromen, the station gang-men, the switchmers and under-switch- men, aud’ so on, are divided into several 8, with a difference cif $10.0 yonr in tho of cach class. ‘Tho sa.mo wystem entends conductors, train-agonta, clerks, and othor haployes, Economy is promoted by a cer- taln money-allowance for station-supplies to the agonts, train-sepplics to the conductors, atationory, pencils, otc., to the clerks, out of which they can provide what is necessary and ‘moke a small saving for themselves’ if they ure caroful. Some differonce in pay is also mado botween those who live in largo * ruilrond manogers den’t always know when u strike is about to happen, By tho ndoption of w resolution directing the Corporation Counsel to enjoin the build- ing of tho city’s portion of tho Court-lHouse domme, tho Council Livi tomporarily paralyzed the County oud. It is plain that the City . Treasury is not in a condition to assist in auy stent that will draw heavily on its rov- enues, and in striking at the root of a hugo expense in the buil.iug of 9 costly and airy nothing, the Council lus done n most execl. lont pleco of work, An effort to destroy the most valnabt e perquisito of the Alderman, by depriving! ” im of the right to establish his friends aud > constituents in office, has failed most miser- ably. ‘The Judiciary Committeo of the Council reported in favor of punishing any momber who should recommend a man for official preference, It was promptly dis. « powed of a4 on endeavor to, as a member ex. proséed it, ‘make preachers in long-tail coats out of Aldermen.” = Maturbance to the business ny 1 al F By a cl E and gen- | cities, whare tho cost of living is more con- ee fava a tedie ys. teeter ieee eral interests of tho country, ‘ho widerable, and those who live in the smaller to Mr. J. H, Havenuy, undor ‘cotta reatrice Catan Convention which mot at | towns, ‘Employes are alno given advantages tions which will aid rather than retard the Cincinuuti iu 1876 bad this sob- | in comrautgtion-tickets for thelr families ject directly before it, ‘The whole Con- vention know that the so-called Resumption act was incomplete; that when It pasgod it was purely sentimental legislation inteuded to direct public attention to the subject of specie resumption. It was known at Cin- cinnatl that when the act passed it was the purpose to supploment it with additional leg. islation, and that until such legislation was hod, the act was impracticalle,—incapable of being carried into execution, So, when the platform was considered, no mention of wny kind whatever was mado of the He- sttuption act in’the platform, nud it was in uo sense regasded ay a mensure of tho Ite- publican party, or to be advocated as a party aneasure. It was as strongly opposed by some Republicans us it, was supported by others, ‘I'he Convention, therefore, ignored it altogether in the platform, Ono of tho dclogates, however, unwilling to submit to this contemptuous treatment of a subject in which be had considerable interest, moved to strike out the fourth resolution and sub- stitute therefor the following : Laolced, That it ts the duty of Congress to pro- vide for carrying out the act known as the Resum| tion act of Cougress, to the end that the resump- tlun ‘of apecle payments may not be longer de- layed. ‘This resoludion was rejected by an almost’ z efforts of that gentleman to establish an ox- cellent theatre, In leasing the premises for 4 paying amount to a respousible tenant, the i { Hoard have, under the circumstances, acted. + wisely, the city being in uo position to under- t tuku the expense of fitting the building up fora publio library and for tho use of the # Board. and reduved rates for tho transportation of their supplica, . Reasonable allowance is wide for the repaymuut of counterfelt nioney and for indemiilfying those who han- tile largo amounts of :uoney, It is also the custom to fasue monthly orders, in which tyecial avts of probity and duvotion to the Company's servico aro publicly acknowl. eclged; rugular gratuities aro granted every yaar to those who havo not Leen punished daring that. time, und upocial gratuities free quently mado for exceptional services or Wreat energy in case of a ‘blockade, fire, or other accident, All the employos ara uniformed; the Company assuines two-thirds of tho expeuso of the clothing, and 3 per cent of tho ‘wages iy re- talned for tho yomsinder, Thuy in 1865, 4,696 tnen wero-uniforioed at an exponse of $99,034, of which the employes paid 231,001 and the Company :$67,973. A certain leave of absence iv granted covery year, and pro. vision made for tha wllowanco of pay and part-pay during ilinusy, according to tho time of absence from work. athivg-hoiwes, the furnjahing of coal at a fixed and low price, the furnishing of cold drinks in summer and het driiks in winter to the loboring mon, and # monthly indemuity when the price of ‘bread rises to on extmordinary point, aro ‘The Council Committee on Judiciary have 4 reported the obvious fact that there is no a law authoriziug the borrowing of money for hn an increuse of the police force, and have x offered the innocuous substitute that the or- dinance providing for the increase take effect after the woney is raiscd, or when public a spirited citizens sro ready to defray tho ex- at pens. ‘Phis measure will unquestionably develop the whereabouts of those gentle. = nen who have been ready to subscribe tho Fa mount necessary for the arming and mouut- F ing of a prodigious corps of police. ‘Uf, as stated by a correspondent, the Jum: ber manufacturers seriously contemplate the .’, distribution of their lumber dircet from their X mills, instead of, av heretofore, drying aud cd swelling in Chicago, the “shovers” have themselves to congratulate, aud they cannot oye visite of their misfortunes to oth. orshoulders. Jt is claimed that the high | unauimous vote. Tho Convention thus do. so fer of tho system, Fates of dockage, insurance, and labor have | cideWy and emphatically refused to mo edu that ns oa desezibod 80 far iy done attracted the attention of the merchants to | tho enforcement of the Resumption sct ‘part | by the Company itself: the further pro- visions in case of sickness and infirmity are farnished by the joint efforta of the Com- pany and the employes, ‘There is n't Provi- dent Fond” and a ‘Pension Fand," For tho Provident Fund, the employes pay monthly 1 per cent of thoir salary, which nay be increased on extraordinary occasions, ‘but must never exceed 2 per cent; the Com- pany always, pays into this fund an amount equal to the nggregate arsessment on all tho employes, Qut of the ‘Provident Fund" a sick or disabled omploye receives haif his wages, beginning from the timo when the Company censes to pay him fall wages, which the Company pnys dnring the first two months of illness or disability. This half- pay, the medicines, physicians, and nursing, the hospital expenses, expensos for trips to watering-places, funeral expenses, aud con- tributions to families of docensed mombera, form the chief drafts npon the ‘Provident Fand.” Of couree, the administration of thin fund {is protected by strict regulations, under the immediate supervision of the officers and physicians of the Company. ‘The * Pension Fund” fs distinct from the “Provident Fund." It is mado up by an assessment of 2 per ss on tho salarica of employes and acontribntion from the Com- pauy equal to the aggregate of tho Assess. ments, Tho minimum nge of a ratiring pensioner is 50 years, and the iniaimum period of service 20 years. ‘The funds nro disponsad on tho ‘Tontino plan, A ponsion- cr's proportion of the fund is determined by ividing tho sum of salaries earned by him during his whole term of service by the sum of tho salaries received by the. whole force daring the samo tern, aud multiplying the result by tho amount in the fund, which yields the amonut on which an annnity is paid. Tho'annuity must nover exceed, how- ever, the sum of &1,200a year; and if tho settlement shows larger sum than this, the urplus reverts to the fund. Tho pension applies in tho case of death after ten years of servico; it is thon so divided that the widow reecives one-half and tho minor chikiren one-half, or, in case of the denth or second mnarringo of the widow, the decoased omploye’s childron got the benefit of the annnity till they severally come of nge. When employes nro dismissed on account of tho abolition of their positions befora’ tha term of service expires which entitles them to tho ponsion, they aro cntitled to the restora tion of what they have paid into the fund, but when they are discharged for cause they have no claim on their contributions, Tho fund is administered by the operating officers and tho Dircotors of the Company, and an necount is rendered the Council of Adminis- tration every three months, M. Jacury, the manager of the Eastern Mtailway, bas furnished tables showing tho term of servico in the various dopartmonts and branches, which prove that this syatom has exerted a direct influence on the perma- noncy of the staff, The great majority of “the train-masters, conductors, posuenger and freight, brakemen of both classes, fore- anon nnd sub-foremon of engino-houses, engineers; and firemen have been in the employ of tho Company over five ycara, nnd their torm of servico ranges from that to moro than twenty-five years, ho entire corps feel identiflod with the wolfaro of tho road, and tho system is worthy of the atton- tion of our loading railroad managers in Amorica, THE ATTACK ON SECRETARY S0HURZ. Mr, Janes G, Buarne, fighting the Admin- jatration bohind the cloak of * Gam Han. stoy,” has been reinforced in his attack upon tho Hon. Gann Sononz by Mr, Winttas IT, Kesar, of Philadelphin, tho author of that precious achome of corruption which hag bo- come infamously famous as ‘Addition, Divia- ion, and Silence.” ‘Tho formor rohoarses with tiresome garrullty through threo or four columns tho old played-out campaign canards that Cann Scnunz made his political speeches for money; and the Inttor takea about equal apace to establish the irrolovant fact that Mr..Scnunz recoived pay for his services in the Pennsylvania campaign of 1868, during ‘which time ho was a candidate for Unitod Staton Sountor, Thoro is no use in wasting space or time to discuss with oither of his malicious assailanta the question whether Mr. Scrunz received pny for hin political speeches or not. Grant that he did, what then? Is thero anything wronginit? Ia there anything corrupt in it? Is it not a mntter of business, conduct- ed openly and fairly? Was not tho Inboror worthy of his hiro? If Mr. Scuvaz om- ployed his timo, his labor, nud hia brains to get a gang of Ponusylvania politicians into office, ought they not to pay for it? ‘Thore ts no allogatioh that “Le did not perform his -part of the contract, that ho did not work intelligontly, ably, and powerfully, or that he did not meet tho ox- pectations of those who engaged his xervicos to the vory letter, Wo presume thoro was o campaign fund in Ponusylvania, What was tho purpose of it, if uot to pay for political sorvices? If tickot-peddlers, musicians, aud othor employes necessary to conduct an election wore paid, why should not every speaker who was too poor to give his tine and Inbor for the beneflt of officeholders bo paid also? ‘Thero ts no corruption in this, ‘There is no gale of principles, There is no scheme of ‘ aldition, division, and silence,” such as those with which this precious Philadelphia corruptionist is familiar, ‘Lhe insinantion that Mr, Scuunz was o candidate for Senator at this time {sas mean as it is malicious, Mr. Bcuunz was not a candidate for Senator from Pennsylvania. Ho was a citizen of Missouri, and therefore all the moro dosorving of pay, in that ho was away from hoe and noglecting bis own interests to subserve those of greedy ofliccsseekors in Pennsylvania, Admitting all that his malicious enomios alloge, Mr. Sonunz has been guilty of ro- ceiving pay for services publicly, opouly, ond fairly performed according to contraut. It is just as woll known to thesa cowardly nawailanta as to cvory one clse that Mr, Scuvaz was poor and had o family to sup- portat the time when ho performed these services, Hu could bave madv s handsome living by lecturiug; but the Republican party demanded hig services, campaign after campaigu, in suet» an imperative aud per- sistont manuer that he felt obliged to give them. ‘They called upon him so often and so vociferously, from one cad of the coun- try to tho other, that his tine was almost wholly absorbed in stump-speaking to aid office-seokers, Ho gave the party infinitely more thau it ever gavehim, Did any one expect that ho was to contribute his timo to accommodate others, bis own income meane while being cutoff? Why do uot those enc. inies of Mr, Scuunz refor to tho fact thot ho has never sold his principles, and that he has never been engagod'in those pe- culiar operations of “ addition, division, and silence,” by which such corraptionists as Kewmie can make money? Why do they not refer to his battle oguinst Grantism, in which ho fought for his principles and re- should not bo lost. fused to tak ao cent from the D. moernts, preferring to pay his way ont of his own lean pockets? Why do they forget his great work in Ohio in 1875, for which ho refused totake pay? The attack upon Secrotary Sonvnz is not only illogicnl, but malicious; not only malicions, but dishonest. Admit. ting all thoy allege, thoir shafts fail short of the mark by their own feeblencss. ‘Tho as- sult is only tho nttompted revenge of cor- ruptionista who waxot fat under Grant's Administration, nnd now find thoir avenues for plunder endangored by Civil-Service Re- form, It does not lessen the manness, malice, cowardice, and dishonesty of this revengo that it is impotent. THE SON-IN-LAW’S CATTLE, Tho correspondence betweon Biur Jnana Winuiase and tho President during the recent trike showsthe buttornut-broeched Governor of Indiana to be a politic man, When rnil- road travel in Indiana was completely sus- pendod and evorything was in posscesion of the mob; when tho freight of Western mer. ‘chants and the produce of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Blinnesotn was forcibly de- tained at ‘Verro Maute, Fort Wayne, In- dianapolis, nnd other finportant railroad centres,, by riotors with whom Brur Jeane was in sympathy, and the community began todemaud that the embargo should bo raised, -und that freight and pnssengers should be -ollowdd transit through the State, the crafly mobocrat and riot-sympnthizer sought to do -# double stroke of business,—firat, in silenc- ing. the popuinr demand, nnd second, jy making a point against the General Govern. ment for future referonce, On the 20th of July he sent tho following dispatch to the Presidents: ; Inptanarots, Ind., Joly 20,—To the President, Washington, In view of the threatoned Gomestic violence growing out of the railroad strike, I request that authority be at once given to ihe conimandant of tue araenal to render mo all the atd possitle in preserving the public peace. Jaure D, Winttans, Governor of Indiana, Of course tho animus of tho crafty Biux Jeans in sounding this informal dispatch was to commit the Administration to tho charge S of sending United Stntes troops into Indi- ana without, tha authority for.so dqing that is conferred upon tho Adiministrat.on by tha Constitution, and then making political cnpi- tal out of 1t 14 o gross violation of conatitu- tional provisions aud of tho rights of States, ‘Cho President ro errod tho document to the Secretary of War, who quiotly throw it Into tho wasto basket, and then miministerod no Ogurativo kick to Bux Juans in the follow- ing dispatch: Wastuncton, D. C., July 20.—Gov. James D, Witiams, Indlanapolta, dad.: Inthe absence of A formal call upon the President, under the Couati- tutlon and atatutes, for tnilltary ald In euppressing domestic violence, the Federal troups enn only be used in protecting the property of the United States and enforcing the process of Federal Courts, Gronur W. McCuauy, Sccretucy of War, ‘Thero Is a little opisode in this affair that Buve Jeana has a son- in-law, and st tho timo of the strike the son- in-law had o train-lond of cattle rosd-bound uear Indianapolis by Brive Jrans” friends, Alarnied for the safety of iis cargo, tho son- in-law apprisod Brus Jeans, who at once, liko a dutifal father-in-law, gave him a paper curlifying that ho was his son-in-law, and expressing tha affectionnte hope that the strikers would allow him to take his cat. tlo to St. Louis, Armed with this document, his eon-in-law waited upon tho ringleaders, who at onco allowed him to go on with his cattle, From this it apponrs that Bion Jzana hod no sernples in detaining the whole trafflo and traveling public of the Weat that go through Indiana, provided his son-in-law’s business was not interfered with, Having Inid himself undor obligations to the mob, of course he could not turn round and show bis ingratitude by ordering: out the militia to protect public property which waa considor- ed by them as fair plundor, from which it appears that ho was not averse to selling himself out for a train-load of cattle, ‘The son-in-law must bo provided for, even if tho whole interosta of tho West had to suffor and its morchauts loso thousands upon thousands of dollars, Even the sov- croign rights of tho Stato of Indiana may be invaded, but the son-in-law's cattls must go through to 8t, Louls. Millions for the Bive dans cattle-train, but not ono cent for the merchants of the West, Men, women, and children, oagor to got to their homes, muy bo forcibly held in Indianapolis by a mob, but the gon-in-law's cattle must go through, For all this thero must como a day of reckon- ing. Whon thot timo comes, the people of Tudiaua will remember how in tho timo of danger and disaster thie pusillanimous sym- pathizer with rioters iutorposed no protest againat the destruction of property, the de- tontion of travel, the waste of produce be- longing to Western merchants, the menuce to society, the invasion of porsonal rights. ‘They will romomber that in all that time he interposed no objection to the action of the rioters ‘after they had allowed his sou-iu- law's cattle to go on undisturbod, A correspondent of the Thiladelphin Tinea writes from Scranton of the strike of tho miners: ‘Tho threat that grase will grow in tho mines and water flow from¢he mouths of the alatta befure work {e resumed at tho reduced rate uf wages tu freely indulged in, aud the heart would be cutlous tndeed that could not in a measure wympatnize with theso imen for a peaccable roslxtance after vlaltlng their homes and hearing the stories of the wudlerings which they and thele little one endure even when they are ot what ly culled work, My eyes (I) with Leara as I write when I recall tho wretchelness which encountered mo on every hand to-day in o miners’ acttlement which £ visited, weut of this city, 'Yhere is very little doubt that the condi- tion ot tho cual-mincrs at Scranton, aud in the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania gon- erally, is vory doplorable, but how is it to be Dottered by the destruction of tho mines? ‘There aro too many coal-miners for tho de- mand, ‘Lhe consumption of hard coul has fallon off heavily within 8 fow yoars; till. fous of tous lezs are now consumed than be- fore the panic, ‘he demand fdr anthracite coal for naking iron and steel hax fallen off greatly, and for many other purposes (he consumption has been reduced. «In the moanwhile the number of iminers has not been reduced, Thoy still swarm through the authracite regions by surplus thousauds, If the companios were. to set all those men ut work, thoy could uot sell the coal dug ont, and consequently could not pay the men. What are the coal companies todo? They hiro overy wan for whose cosl production thoy can find sale. How can they or thy miners compel people to buy more cou) than is needed? Who shall judge of the amount needed,—tho consumor who buys or the producer who seliv? Aro the community to be forced to purchase more coal than they cau use? Supposo the striking coal-niuors at Scrauton destroy the mines or fll them up with water so that they can probably never be pumped out or worked again, then what? Their imaginary onomy, “Capital,” will then bo killed. Will that so- curg employment to the Scranton coal-dig. gers? The coal mines destroyed by the workmen, who will give them work and wagea? Tho depth nnd groseners of ig- norance those conl-strikers exhibit im making such threats is most amazing ; it Is a ricken- ing spectacle of barbarism in the Intter quarter of tho ninoteenth ‘contury, and in a Jand dotted over with school-honscs. SOUTH CAROLINA'S MOSES. We prosmmne it will no longer be regarded ns disloyalty to the Repnblican party to treat naan acknowlodged fact that severnl of the Southern States wore outrngeounly plundered by many of tho men who used tho Republican party merely to secnre the negro vote and gain control of tho offices while a Inrge proportion of tha native whites wera still diafranchised. Wo may even go so far now as to snggest that tho greatest political unkindnesa ever done the negro race since its emancipation was done by tho men who wore elovated to offico by their vote, and then proceeded to bring tho Republican party, and especially the blacks, into dis. graco ond political defeat by a system of plunder, Indeed; we ventura even the ex- pression of a gratification that somo of the mou engaged in this disreputable and crim- iunl business may yot bo brought.to justice. ‘The conntry needs some more examples of the fact that punishment of officint thieves is possible under our form of Government, and it had better como late than nover. ‘These thoughts ara suggested by tho ar- rost in South Carolina of ex-Gov, Moses and somo of his former associates in tho Stato Governmont, who are now under bonds to await trial for varions misappropriations of the public moneys, ‘The crimes of Moses, if ho be found guilty, cannot be directly charged np against the carpot-baggers, os he, like his father (former Chief-Justico of the State and recantly deceased), were nntivo South Carolininna ; but all the crimes against the Southern States and the taxpayers under the continuance of tho Republican party's rule wera indirectly the outgrowth of n sys- tematic emigration to the South to trade upon the votes of the negroca and use them for personal gain at the cost of the taxpay- ers, There is no way in which the Re- publican party can so quickly rid itself of tho odium thut followed those public abuses at the South under the covor of ity name a by encournging every fair ond Inwful offort to approhond and punish the individuals who wero guilty of thom. é 'Tho clinrge against ex-Goy. Moars is a very clear one. It is ailoged that, when Speaker of tho South Carolina pexembly, ho issued twonty-four warrants on the the State ‘Troasury for the payment in all of 911,455, tho persons in whogo favor they were drawn not having performed tho, services or fur- nished tho supplies specitfied,, Mout of theso warrants wero in favor of mon said to be clerks, messengers, and porters in the om- ploy of tho Sonth Carolina Assembly. If Moses was involved in amy gunoral system of official “plunder, it is probable that thoso warrants were merely incidental, and have bean selected Lecatise thoy are more enty of proof than other cases,’ It is only fair to Moses, how-ver, to state that be mado no ef- fort to cxoape arrest, but on the contrary professed himsclf anxious to havo tho in- vestigation which will follow, Among the uther ex-oMsinla of South Car- olina who aro eithor fugitives from justice or under bonds to await trial nro the following: Jones, who was Clerk of tho Lower House at the timo Moses was Spenker; ox-Sponker Lex (colorod); Wiirtemone, the cadct- broker; Lesziz, formerly Land-Commission- er; ox-Troasurers Parken nnd Canpoza; the Jost four havo all fled. ‘Chose recont arrests and prosecutions aro the result of tho inves. tigations of a committee of the South Caro- linn Lugisloture which bas been engaged in looking into the old abuses, TERMINAL CHARGES, AND FACILITIES IN NEW YORK. About the only thing of which Chicago and tho Northwost havo now s right to com- plain in tho shipmont of Western products, via New York, direct to Europe, aro the charges for handling them in that city. Tho warnings of ‘Tuy ‘I'ninunx for many years past, oud the loss of trada which the Now York merchants have beou forced to admit oa tho result of oxtortionnte frolght-chargos, and tho sharp competition of other cities, and of tho railroad lines leading to them, have brought tho mercantile and commercial classes of Now York toa ronlizing senso of the dangors that throaten to weaken, if not to destroy, thelr commercial supremacy, The exorbitant tolls on the Erle Caual havo bo reduced, aud, for other reasons not uccos- wary to spocify hers, freighta to the seaboard for several months past have ruled at very low figures,— lowor thun over before, and lower, perhaps, than avy one over expucted to soa them bo- fore the Welland Canal is enlarged, and ves- ‘sels of 1,200 tons can para froely by that route to the ocoan. By Inke-and cauul, in- eluding clevator-charges hero, the range for corn has been from 8} to 18} cents; and, by all ruil, 18} to 19}, Aocording to the figures ado by several of tho beat-informed Rail- way Presidents for us some years ago, those rallway-charges aro about as low as they claimed frofghts could bo afforded on ao double-track freight-roal, builtin the most «rect and substantial manner, from this city to NewYork, Hence tho farmers and busi- ness-public have not much more to expect from # furthor reduction jn tranmt-charges, and they will bo fortuuate if they can be muintained at about present figures. Milligns of dollars litorally have boen saved to our people by the low rates of freights which have ruled for the past fow months, The commerce of New York in Western products has long since outgrown the facili- tios for handling them, Hence o system of expansion has gradually fastoned Itself upon that community ; and so long and so re- morsolesaly has it wen carried on, that the classes who coutrol it neem to think they huve acquired su inalienable right to live and fatten upon it forever, Ald, Cowztxa, in advbate on 9 petition to the. Common Council of New York from the Cheap ‘lvans- portation Association .and several loading vommercla! bodies, to have freight-cars run on the Belt Railway by team dummies from Y o'clock in the evening tu 8 o'clock in the miorning, stated that ‘The truckmen ju- cruasod the tax on the commerce of New York not less than $20,000,000,—that being the extra cost for hauling freight under the preasnt system.” Not less than 30,000 mer- chants wero represeuted in tho petition from the Chamber of Commerce, the Produce Exchange, the Importers’ and Grocerw’ Doard of Trade, aud tho Cheap Transporta- tion Association ; aud, with such a body of men, thoroughly impresse.. with the necessity of relieving their trade from the $26,000,000 of extortionate charges onthe handling of their freight, it may ronsousbly be boped that soine means will be devised to effect so large a saving to the buwness of the country, ‘That many of the citizens of Now York understand this subject, as well as Western shippors, is provod by tho arguments they uso to effect n reduction of terminal charges, ‘Tho Cheap Transportation Association, in an address to the Board of Aldermen, dated July 17, says Iigh rates of cartago at this port have diverted, andare consiently diverting, thansands of toneof merchandise to Philadelphia and Maltimore which, under equal’expenee, would come to this port and furnish employment to Iaborera fn handling them, Many New York firms, toour knowledye, ore con. Annalty tmporting goods destined forthe Wert through the other ports named solely on this ac. count. Tn the debate on tho subject in tho Conn. cil, Ald. Cownra snid truly : Imported artictes conld he bonght cheaper in Chicago, Baltimore, and Boston, than in thie city, because of the injury to New York trade caused hy poor tesminal facilities. ‘The city had been toring {ts commerce year by year. Ald Hownanp said: New York was behind every other Inrge city in tho Union in this matter, The Metrupusix inast re- tain its commercial supremacy or become a eegond- rate city. It has not been tho fault of Tue Cutcaco Tame that these focta have been ignored for yonrs past by the merchants and leading mon of Now York, We havo tried to mnko them understand that’ their extortionnte terminal charges, Custom-Honse stenlingy, and tho interest on thelr vast debt of moro than @160,000,000, stolen mainly by. tho Tammany robbers, would in a fow years more drive tho commerce of the country to rival senboard cities, Now that freiglity have been so reduced that somo profit is left to Western proiduecrs and shippurs, let the other obstacles to tho trade and prosperity of New York as far .ns pos- sible boa removed, and sho may regain niuch, if not all, that sho las confessedly Jost, Wo hnve read attentively the objec. tions in the report of the Committee againat tho uso of tha, Belt Railway as desired by the petitioners, and it must be conceded Unat somo of them have great force; bnt, it they must control in the matter, somo other menus must bo dovised to save tho commerce of New York from tho oxtortionnte terminnl charges which now Ilo liko an inenbus upon it. ‘Lhe country will not for any considera ble period tamely subinit to throw away ab least $26,000,000 yearly upon her truckmen, without auy correaponding bonefit, Now York must stop this, or the West will surely seck an ontlet for her comuerco through other seaboard cities; and, when her su. premacy is onco lost, it is gono foraver, ‘The Detrott Post undertakes to defend its at- tack on Judge DausMonn because he was nut more severe {fo his sentenves on tho rallroad- atrikers. It says: Tux Cicaco Trinexe apparently thinks that the State law of Ullnols, parsed last winter, whica fixes the lightest puntehinent fur preventing tho rduning of # rallroad train af one yeur ut band labor in the Penitentiary, with a fine in addition if the Court aces tt to ho order, cruch Inhuman, sud mavaye; and it wants that Stato low repented rizat of. We judge so, because Pir Cricauo Tnincsd aeealls us for intimating that Judge Divxxonn's rentences of two to thtee months’ linprisunment, without hard labor, it wecommon jatl, and tue Hane dnc of 850, wos too light a penalty fur tho ollense of riot and stopping of rallrusd train, Asitdefends dude Davustoxn'’s Hzht penalties, it innat condemn the four or five times inure scvere penalties of the {ilnois State law. The Lost docs not appear to know cnough to know the difference betweei a contempt-of cuurt cage and a trial under a criminal statute upon Indictinent. Hut the oat fs equally fz- norant in regurd to the “Stata Jaw of Lilinuls possed last winter,” affixing penalties for ob- structing mulways, We ehiall enlighten tte ig. norhnee by quoting tho law: Sac. 3. If Gwo or more peraous sball willfully and mallelously combine or cunspire together to ovustruct or linpede, by any net, er by means of intimidation, the regular Speparian ak ‘conduct of the business Of any railroad company, ur any other corporation, flem, or individual In Impede, binder of obstruct, except nydus process of law, tho regular runing of any lucomotive, engine, freight, or passenger tralp on any railroad, of the fabor of ‘business of any such corporation, firm, or individual, such persons shall, on conyice tou thereof, be puntshod by dine not less than $20 nor moro than $20, sud contined in the County ait not love than twenty days nor igure than ninety 8 78, Instead of * the lightest penalty being ove yeartn the Penitentiary, with a fine in addi tion,” the new law punishes obstruction by “not less than twenty normore than ninety days In fatl, with o fine of 820 to $200." The second section attaches the sane penalty to the act of individuals for obstruction. The Sret section relates to engineers of locomotives who ibandun their engines at any other pulnt than the regu- lar scheduio-deatination of such locomotives, and aflixes the sae penalty asthe third seu tion. Juage DrumMOND's sentence on the ob- atructors who Interfered with tho traius under the protection of his Court was quite as sevra us the [iMnots statute for tho same offense. If the “particular editor” of the Post who assails Judge DuumMoND was not a donkey, both in regard to cars and bray, he should be denounced for his muliclous abuse of oue of tho ablest aud t-uninded jurlets iu the United States. a Mir. E. V. Sxtacter in tho New York Tribune refates his understanding of tho struggle In the Platform Committee of the Ohio Convention. Gen, Ganvigi.p was Chairman of the Conven tlon and sppolnted the Committee, Mr. Suan LBY say: On the silver question, the Committee wat Jazgely for s dectaration In favor of the restoration of the old milyer dollar, and it ta due chivily to Gen, Uanrixto's offorts Unt sts purposs was 6 fur modified tuut in the end it acceptod what iqin essence unly an fndursement of the theory of a bl- tnetallic currency, with coluayu so udjuited thut both gold aud ‘silyor shall circniate atthe amo tine. ‘Thiw resolution, uleu, came from a sub coinmittce appotuted by Gen. Gatrienp, who was Chatman of thy General Committes, ‘It la aup- posed {hat he drafted it. If Gen. Ganvigun drafted the sliver plank of the platform, the duty will naturally develye oo hins to explain it, for no Buckeyo appears to bo smort enough tu coimprehend the meaning and effect thereof, If ever language was’ succese- fully employed to conceal idvas, the construe tlon of the sliver plank is a striking illustration of the success with which ft may be dove, Tho last sentence fs plain enough, viz3 We de- mani tho remonetization of ailyer’g but who understands the meauing or application of the pretatory or qualifying plirasest Gen, Gan- risen ie a candidate for United States Senator, the seat now held by Braniey Marrugwa; nino of cveryten Republicansof Obto are unqualificd- lyin favor of remonetizing the silver dollar without “ifs or “buts.” They want it put right back as & full Jegal-tenier, where It was befure 1s73, when tho cratty rascals who maulp- uluted Congress had i¢ demouetized, and Gen. Ganrieen will be afforded the pleasure of ex- plaluing what the qualifying clauses of iis all- yer-plank resulutlon really means. ‘They will fusiat on Auding out the true inwardness of it, sa "Tho bitter hatred in whleb the police are neld by the lawless element of Chicago roclety was illustrated at the Inquest upon the body ot Com- niunist Tesean, Tuesday, Though e dozen men aaw the deceased full at the viaduct, bead fug bis sectiun of the mobgwitha pistol In his hand, his friends endeavored to prove that bo was murdered in culd blood at the Turucr-Hall fight, and that he perished while innocently at- tending a mectlng to which le had a right to ga The fact is TessMan was one of the most dangerous leaders of the “Thursday mob," and his activity aud jotluence over his {cllows, 1 The Eventyy Journal says: ‘There ix a clause iu ec, WOuf the City Inco: pora thon act of 1673 which gives authority to the t:om- anon Councll, by a two-thirds vote, ** tu borrow & sudiclent umount to provide for the expense neces: sary to be tncurrea ju making any wiproseneants, the necessity fur which ty caused by any casually or accident bappening after such sunual sppropria= tion fa wade. We were well aware of this clause of Sec. 90 of the Charter, but we fall to sec what applica- tlou it bas to the inatter of increusing the policu- force, Adding au additioual policeman cao hardly be called “making Improvements, we necessity for which {s caused by casualty or ac ia Kuta, oe tu: