Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 7, 1877, Page 4

. 4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUN FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1877. certain to bo converted into political de- monattation. The Government is said to havo resolved upon repressing at what ever cost or peril nny ‘manifestations of a political character, and has ordered 4 larga military force to be in rendiness for emergencies. The crisis ro long feared may be precipitated by the burial of the vory man who was relied upon to bring tho Re. public safely through its dangerons difficul- ties, Dye Tribuie, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, RT MAIt=-IN ADVANCR—POSTAGB PREPAID. mone yen ea een “BB WEEKLY EDIT! uid 25 The Finance Committee of tho Common Council, being so advised by the Law Do- partment, report that there is no nuthority for the payment by the city of the members of the Firat and Sccond Regiments for the services rendered during the recent riot jatroubles. This form of compensation being impracticable, the Council might at least harry up the payment of the sppropriations alrendy made for armory rent for the two regiments, So much ia due as 4 recognition of the claims of the First snd Second upon the generosity and good will of the people of Chicago, ‘The season is now sufficiently advanced to admit of an approxitantely accurate ostimate of the probable yiold of corn in Iinois for 1877, From the reports forwarded to the Slate Department of Agriculture it appears that the continued scarcity of rain during the past fow weeks has damnged the corn prospect somewhat, ond that the yicld throughout the State will be nbont three- fourths of au avorge crop. This, it will bo remembered, ts & vast improvoment upon the gloomy outiook in June, when it looked very much as though the corn crop for this year would be an rbrolnte failure, —— Ciubof twenty. OU Epeclmen copies rent tre ‘Toprevent delay and mistakes he ante and xtve Post- On.ce adurees $n full, Including State and County, Remittances may be made either by draft, expresy Tost-Onlice order, of tn registered letters, at our risk. TERMS TO CITY SUNSCRIDERS. Daily, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week. Dally, deilyered, Sunday tnctuded, 90 cents ner week. Addrers THE TEIUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-stt,, Chteago, 1h Orders for the delivery of Tux Tenens st Evanston, Englewood, and flyde Park left in the couating-room ‘wili recetre prompt attenti Thedtres Madleonatreet, between State and Dearborn. ** Bas ‘hy. Mesdames Ton, Stonealt, Maye, etc. ‘Mesars. McVicker, Whectock, Pearson, ete. Hoolry'n Theatres Randolph street, between Clark and Lasalle. **For- Didden Frnit.” Mesdamca Newton, Myers, etct Meas, Robson, Crane, U' ete. Adetohi Theatres Monroe riremt. corner of Dearborn. “The Fiagof Tlonor.* Grand Daler, led by Bites, Rose and Le ‘Tournaure. Cotton's Opera-Honse. Montoe street, between State and Dearhorn. First- clase varicty, John Reilly, Thatcher and ume; diss dulla Walcott, ete, * New Chicago Theatre. Clark street, opposite Sherman House. THaverly's ‘Minatrets, Mears, Add Ityman, Billy Carter, Moran, etc, ‘The windy domagogne, Buanrow Denoan, has tarned up in Chicago, prosccuting his scheme for utilizing workingmen to the ad- vancemont of his personal intorests, Ho made aspeoch last. night, im which he de- scribed himsolf as the apostle of the, atardy Yeomanry," for whom he proposes to start a paper hore if they will pnt up the money for it. What particular interest workingmen can have inn man like Duyoay passeth ol) understanding. He. makes a bnsinces of polities, and uses any movoment or any measure he thinka ho can control for tho sggrandizement of Braxton Duxcan, and hia identification with any any party iso suff. Expoattion Baltding. Michtgan avenue, opposite Adams street. Bato Industrial Exposition, Day ai SOUIETY MEETINGS, MENTAL LUDGE, No. 33, A. F. and Ac MicTtally 1 UTA tea Communication, tate (Friday) evening at 7:00 o'clock, for business Ad work, [by ore der of the Master. E. N, TUCKER, Bee. HOME LODGE. Now 50, A. F. #& A. MomRegular Communication thie (Friday) evening, at He wenty> wand-st. WorkanF. C. Dextec, Visiting brethre Ty order of the Master. fe Corvin Ines ik. Z. HRIMUGR, Se0'y, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1877. * jtis rumored that the subject of mediation OHIOAGG MARKET SUMMARY, ‘The Chicaga produc markets wete frregular yea terday, but generally firmer. Mcva pork closed = shade firmer, at $12.574@12.40cash or seller Oc- tubor, Lard closed 24@6c per 100 Ibs higher, at $8.521¢ cash or acller October, Meats were firm, at 5%¢ for looso shoulders and GX for do short riba, Lake frelghts were easter, at 24u@ De tor corn to Buffalo, Highwines were steady, at $1,00 per gallon. Flour was in good demand and etronger. Wheat closed 4@i%c lower, at $1,075 @1.07% tor September and $1.03N@L 03% for Ocwuber. Cor cloned Ke higher, atadwGiske for September and 444 @1be for Octnber. . Osta Cloved firmer, at 24140 cash and 24ic for October, Rye wae tc highor. at Sie. Barley clored 140 higher, at O8c cash and U5!4@O0c for October. Hogs were actlveand weak, at 6@10cdecline, Sales were at $4.00@5.45. Cattle were activeand unchanged. Bheep were steady, One bundred dollars in gold woul buy $103.60 in greenbacks at the clos, roenbaeka at tho Now York 8 chango yesterday closed at 964. Ex. Robinson Wednesday, died at midnight, aud hia body was handed over to his people. This disposes of ono chieftain who, though notas gifted as his brothren, was a dangor- ons warrior, and who, with a better head to guido him, wos o power in battle. Forsome timo he has been a bitter encmy of tho whites, and thore are but few, except among his own tribo, to rogrot his tnking off. Thoro is every indication that tho state- ment of Mr, Heyrr Gaeexenaue has excited no littla apprehension among his fellow-mens- bers of tho West Park Board, At tho moet~ ing yeaterday, Commiastonera Lire and Hot. DEN managed to display their dominant char. acteristics by ondeavoring to meet facts with vituperation,—a course which fs better calcu. Jated to indorag Mr. Gnrenenscy's position than any other those gontlomen could orig- inate, ——_ Conaldorablo iuterost is excited on acconnt of tho forthcoming conference batwoen Trince Bisuank and Count Anpsassy at Salz~ burg on tho 12th and 16th inst, Speoulation is rifoas to the object of the meoting, and betwoen Russis and Turkoy will be dis. cussed. In Berlin, however, this surmiao fa rejected, ond no idea is entertained that peace proposals will result from the confab: of tho Premiers, ‘Tho long-cxpected revival in business is reported as having made a satisfactory start at Baltimore, Southern and Western buyers ero flocking to the town, and are buying for cash, having the monoy to pay, Tho Balti. moro Nun credits this atate of affairs to the restoration of confidenco and tho excellent crops, and estimates that from 50,000,000 to $100,000,000 worth more of grain will be exported this year than in 1876, financially bunellting the United States to that extent, Fint having refused to receive Hronery os Alderman fcom the Seventh Wart by reason of his conviction as— whisky-thief, the Common Council now proposes to clinch tho matter by admitting auother man to the vacant seat. Itioupan undoubtedly received a mapprity of the votes fairly and logally cast in the ward for Alderman, and aubstan- tial justice will be done if the Council con- curs in tho report of the Committee on Elections declaring Rioapan to be entitled to the weat. Corroborative of Mr, Wasunvan's statemont that Brzxcea and his family left the train at a Cavadian station, comes the report of the aleoping-car conductor and porter that a man, lady, and child, presume. bly the absconding artist in banking and hig wife nud daughter, got off at Heniiton and took the train for ‘Toronto,’ It ia not im. yrobuble that ho is now in the Dominion, oud the doubt entertained of his extradition makes it posaible that he will remain until the thing “ blows over." ‘Turrud funeral will not be conducted by the Government after all Madame Turzas dnsisted upon being allowed to arrange tho order of tha cortege, doubtless having in viow the share the Republicans should have in the obsequies of their lamented leader, and preferring that the remsins of her husband should be followed ta the grave by his friends, without the restrictions certain to be imposed in case bis enemies had the exclusive management, The Government Tefused to accode to these conditions, and annulled the decree ordering a State funeral. Beyow! the military honors to which Tunas is entitled ax a dignitary of the Legion of Honor aud a former Chief Executive of tho Hepublic, the Government will take no part in ihe fuveral, which takes place to-morrow, ‘YLere aro spprebensions of trouble in con- ~estion with the aJaiz, which ia thus quite cient garantee that only Duncan will bo loft to mark the gravo. Another winter of Iswlessness and terror- ism, perhaps the most appalling aver known, in tho gloomy outlook in the anthracite min- idg regions of Pennsylvania, Unlesa some adjustment is offected between tho strikers and the mine operators work, willbe ontirely euspended, and the vest armyof the un- employed turned loose upon the commn- nity. compromise on a sliding scala of wages pro- portioned to the prico of coal, but thia proposition ia looked upon with great dis favor by the miners, who sre unwilling to abide by the inevitable resalt of such on ar- rangement,—an incroase in the coal product and a corresponding decrease in wages, They are willing ty share in the profits, but not the losses. The compsnies have offered to Among tho othor remarkable things accom. plished by the Moxican war voterans, of whom the Illinois branch is now in seasion in this city, was the destruction of a regular old-fashioned, orthodox ficld meal, dished up in faultless commisahry style at tho Grand Paciflo yesterday, pork, and cold water constituted the menu, and, afters sort of intellectual cocktai) pur- veyed by eloquent speakers, the relicts of Cerro Gordo, Buenn Vista, and Molina del They deserted for tha nonco their roast beef and pudding for the retrospective contem- plation of s campaign dinnor, this cheerful way of roviving tho recolleo- tions of old discomforts, the Vots have con- aldered considerable basiness, and thoir re- union has been marked by pleasant features, chief among which might bo enumerated tho brevity of the speeches, Hard-tack, beans, Apart from ‘Twren was taken befora tho Aldermanic Committee on the investigation of the Tam. meny Ring frands yesterday, and Induced to tell his little story of how it was dono. From his statemont it appeara there sero | two. visors, established in 1860, and the secon after the Toard was abolished, and formed in 1870. Tho two Ring were entirely sepnrate, the « first of Mayor Joux A, Horruar, troller Bazynan, Street-Commiscioner Con. west, and Twerxp, Twrep, Mayor A. Oakey Hatt, Comptroller Coxnors,ond Street-Commissioncr MoLeax. At Girt tho meetings were for soci! and po- litical purposes, but the natural bent of the minds engaged soon gave them o thloving cast, and the Ring weat in for all it oonld inake, develop richly before he geta through. ings, the first in tho Board of Snper- composed Comp. and the second of It isnot unlikely that Twrep-will Tlaving sntisfactorily—to themsclves at least—performed their fanctions of figuring ont, from no very definite basis, the amount the depositors will recoive, tha Committee appointed to investigate tho affairs of the Btate Savings have xettled down fairly to the business intrusted to them. ‘They haven't done anything, but they have con. cluded to commence, and Mr, Dayix, tho ac- countant, has beon instructed to make a wyatematio investigation of the books, Ex. aetly what he will find is not now made pub- lic, for the obvious reason that nobody knows; but Tux Temone choerfully chron. {cles the statemont of a reliable and experi- enced reporter to the effect that Mr, Davie has boon heard to chuckle,” Precisely what this somi-cachinatory effort of Mr, Daviy's portends isa profound mystery, bnt the fact that he has “chackled" does not admit of doubt, and may convey limitloas comfort to the swindled depositors, ——— Ex-Treasurer Sprunze wrote. as follows to the Chicago Journal of Commerce: Mouawx, Aug. 17, 1870.—Deaz Sine: Your Jetter of the 15th has been received. In answer [ have to say that that tho 7.40 Treasury notes {bonds} were intended, prepared, {saucd, and used as currency, Very respectfully yours, P, B. Srixwen. ‘Thero wero outstanding at one time $472, 610,400 of those bonds, During the period the Government was selling them at par for greonbacks, they were frequently used as money in payment of debts and purchase of yroperty. Dut they were deemed so desir- able as an investment that she vast mass of them were hoarded for the sake of the large interest they bore. The banks seized upon them very greedily, and piled them sway in their vanlts, never paying them out when it copld beavoided, Everybody who could afford to keep them “salted them down "; and thus they were quickly absorbed and disappeared from view. The Government, in the got au- thorizing their issue, reserved thy right to reodeem them at tho end of three Yours in greenbacks. or fund them into 5-20 bonds, Secratary McCoxtocn, not having surplns rovenno with which to redeem them, offered tho other option to the public, and they wero rnpidly changed into 5-203. Tho banka and tho depositors in the banks owned perhaps 95 per cont of tho whole issue at the timo, nnd they converted them into those bonds with. out nny delay, as 6 per cont interest in gold was worth more nt tho timo than 7.30 in papor, when gold won quoted at 140 to 168 whilo the funding was going on. Thoro were othor forms of currency-bomsis, bearing various rates of interest, that performed tho fanctiona of froncy ton limited oxtent dur. ing the War,—snch as ‘temporary ten-day loans,” one-year certificntos of indebtedness, ‘Treasury-noles payable in two and threo years, compound-interest notes, etc, Sec- rotary Citase was obliged to. resort to all tho fiseal devicos ho could invent to raise enough money fo support tho prose. eution of the War, and he omitted every vatlaty of paper, All of it, except tho greenbacks nnd bank-notes, was intorcat- beariug, and fandablo into 5-20 bonds. None of this stuf! was needed as money, as there were abundance of greenbaoks and Dank-notes in circulation, ond thoy were charmingly cheap,—gold rapidly ranging from 176 up to 275, and down to 125, in quick succession; in other words, the our- renoy was worth as high ns 89 canta whon a campaign or great battle onded favorably, and as low as 37 conta whon the campaign ended disastrously, though the goneral aver. age Was 0 toG6 cents. Those wero tho glorious days of stock-gambling, reckless yontures, sudden fortunca, and shoddy supremacy, ‘Thoro aro plenty of people who are hankering after a roturn of them; but they will never return. REMONETIZATION OF SILVER. Tho subject of silver coinnge in all ite bearings was liborally discussed at tho meating at Saratoga of the Social Science Congresa, Among those who rosd papers on this question was Mr. B, F, Nounsz, of Boston, a gentleman who has discussed the demonetization of silver ropoatedly in the public journals, Of course he thinks that tho demonotization of silver was 9 wise poli- cy, but he is willing to rotnrn to the nse of silver when al) the nations of tho oarth shall unite in an agreement as to the relative valaeof gold and silver. Until this wholly improbable event shall take place, heis for adhering to the single or gold standard, Ho nimits that, as the Jaw now stands, tho re- sumption promised on the Ist of January, 1879, will be a resumption in gold, and, while ho keops out of sight the fact that the redemption of groonbacks in gold will be an inalgnificant work compared with the entire indebtedness of the country, municipal debts, corporation debts, and private debts and mortgages, he rejoices that the day and hour of this golden payment are so noar at hand, and that its glory is not to be dimin- ished by the employment of silvor to any ex- tent. This Mr. Nounsr, who argues the sub- ject after the manner of a paid attorney ar guing tho desporate case of a desperate client, tells us that the wholo civilized world is anxions to demonotize silver, and is only waiting to sce what this country will do, Ho then makes the following astounding state- ment: ‘The prenent aspect faof continued demonetiza- tion of silver in Europe. Upon the bypothusts that France and the other States of tho Latin Union will proceed gradunlly to adopt tho gold standard, Enuropo can spare $700,000, 000 out of ita present atock of standard allvor, especially if recalving gold in exchange for {t, and then rotain anample stock of subsidiary sliver, But the proposition contom- wlates that our demand will arreat the demonetiza- ton of silver ana restoro ft to tte former valuo. Granting that our demand shall raise the price of Ailverastongas it shall last, what sam wonld Europe spare at or under 68d per ounce, which is 3444, or neatly Bper cont, over the present price? ‘Thoro is not any evidence that tho States of tho Latin Union will demonotize ailver, presently or remotely. Thore is no one of: them at this timo prepared to’ meot thu cost of such an undertaking, and no one of them which finds the silvor standard in tho loast embarmesing or, inconventent, Tha point made fs, that thia country, if it make silver fn logal-tender, will bo deluged with $700,- 000,000 of ailvor, shipped lifther by tho nations of Europo, Let us sco where this surplus nilver is to come from. England how agold standard, but navortheloss has possi. bly abont $200,000,000 of silver in her sub- sidiary coin, That being worth moro as English coin than as ballion, and being no more than the country needs for its basiuess, there will bo no shipment of British silvor. Russia, o State of 80,000,000 of poople, bas allvor as the logni standard, but owing to the immense volume of depreciated paper—nlso ® legal-tondor—thore js neither silver nor gold thero in any such quantity as to furnish a surplua for exportation. Italy, a nation ‘of 80,000,000 of people, makes silver a Jegal-tender, aa docs Austria, with » populn- tion of 30,000,000; but the currency of both conntrias is _n depreciated paper, from 6 to 10 por cent disconut, which has expelled tho coin, leaving no poasible surplus In eithor for exportation, Hollaud, Belgium, and Switzer. land are small States, having comparatively but a small sum of silver above what is nead- ed for the chango, or subsidiary silver, The noxt State is France, where tho double stand. ard ig maintained, aud under which France thas on several occasions reapod the great ad. vantage of using the cheaper coin. After the groat additions to the supply of gold from the discoveries about 1850, there was a fallin gold, France then hoarded the more costly silver, aud paid dobta with the cheap. or gold; and, since the decline of silver in 1875, the moro costly gold has been hoarded and tha chesper silver haa been enfployad to pay debts. ‘fhe silver coin of France has been always tho popular coin, and it will nevor be wurrendored. ‘Thero ia no reason why France should repeal the double stand- ard, whilo there is every roason why it should be retained. Though the ailver bas boen cheaper sud in general use since the decline, there has beon no scarcity of gold in thot country; it ig kept in banks on deposit, while debts are paid in silyor. It is not like. Jy, therofore, that Franco will buy up her immense uilver oolnage, replacing it with gold, for the more purpose of shipping it to the United States to be wold os bullion at tho current * price. Germany has remodolod her whole coinage syutem, A large part of the silver has been tecoined as subsidiary or change coin, and will ao remain, Thoother has boon taken up and sold for gold. . The placing of this larga amount of silver on the market to be ex- changed for gold caused a change in tho relative values of tho two metala, An in- creased demand was created for gold, and an increased supply of eilvér was put on the snarket, and a natural consequence was that the value of silver, in exchange for gold, declined, The stock of silver held by Ger- many is not yet exhausted. The great bulk of what has been sold bay found its way to India, and the demand from Obiue has been largely increased, Gradually all tho silver put on the market by Garmany will find ita way to tho Orient, whither silvor has hoen going from all timo, and whence the atronm novor roturns. It ia not likely that famine. strickon, desolnted India will, in her distrers undortake the work of sclling bor vnsi stock of silvor at a sacrifice to buy gald,—s coin never used by the immonso populations of the Enat, Whero, then, are the $700,000,000 of dis. canted silver with which this country is to be ruined to coma from? Tho statement that Europe can spare that sum in no acl. evident nntrath, flatly contradicted by avery circamstance of condition, of fact, and of theory. Such a atatomont is s puro invention, nawarranted by any probability or ponsibili- ty. To gather that sum of silver in Europe and send it to the United Strtes wonld pro. dance notonly a Ananaint but political revo- tion thore such as never been witnessed. Bat, even taking this wild statemont of thia irvesponatble sciontiat na trath, whit wonld bo “tho effeot if all Europe was to combine and send hither $700,000,000 of silver? The silver would come hither by the ton to be converted into American dol- lara, ench dollar to contain 371} grains of puro silver, What are thoy to do with the dollara when they have boon, ooinod ? In whotway 18 this immense aupply of moncy to ho used to ruin tho United States, destroy thoir production, impoveriyh- Inbor, and gonerally smngh things? laving brought thoir doliars here, to what nae can thoy pat them? Can they do anything with thom excopt purchase the procecds of the conn- try? If thoy pnrchase beof, pork, wheat, corn, hides; if they buy cotton and tobac- co; if they purchase our manufactured cot- ton, wool, Jeather, iron, stecl, and copper; if thoy oxperid the 700,000,000 ilver dollars in agricultaral, mineral, ond manufactured productions of this country, and supply ships with which to carry off their purchases, how will this impoverish the country, do- atroy trade, reduce Inbor to wailt, and gon- erally ruin the Republic? We are now scll- ing to Europe our products to tho value of $180,000,000 9 year in oxcess of what we bny. If, in addition to this, Europe shall, in ordor to ruin us, send over$700,000,000 In silver to buy up Amorican notions to take home, why | ationld we, by word or not, try to prevent them? Let us, on the contrary, rejoice that they have so much money to spend with us, and hope that thoir surplus coin moy nover be exhausted, but may continuo, and bo sent hither annually forever. Did it ever occur to Mr, Nounss what would be the effect on Europe of draining it of silver? Suppose that our excass of ox- porta, amounting to $18,000,000 last year, had to be poid for in silver, and that tho stock of that motel in London had to fur- nish that sum annually, does he supposs that tho price of silver in Europe would ro- main at its presont rate? How long does he auppose Earope could stand that drain upon. ita stock of metal? How long would it bo before nations having a silvor standard, in- eluding the great bulk of mankind, would find thero was a scarcity, and the demand for silver would become general? Does he not know that asurplus here would produce n scarcity elsewhere, and that the surplus would naturally and promptly find its way to shoro thero waa a demand for it? Cpn Str, Nounsz point ont any rational condifion of affairs throughout tho world where there can bew goneral surplus of gold aud silver, or the likelihood of either existing in oxcoss of tho world’s demand? : PENNSYLVANIA AND THE PRESIDENT. A conple of months ngo it was confidently anuounced that the Casrnon clan would in- struct the Pennsylvania delegation to sit down upon President Hares, hia Southern policy, and his Civil-Servico polloy. Tad the Convention met at that tho, it is not unlikely that these instructions would have Deon issued, and they might havo been obeyed; at all ovcnts, it le probable that tho same non-committal conrae would have bosp taken ss that which governed the Iowa Con: vention in the faco of acknowledged differ. encea in the party, Duta faw wooka havo worked so decided o change among those who were disposed to bo discontented that the Gasenon clan wisely refrained from in- structing a condemnation, and the Pennayl- vania Convention would have rofused to obey such instructions if they bad beon is- sued, The oxtont to which party sontimont has changed is fnirly ropreaonted by ‘a com. parison of tho resolution of indorsomont of- fered and the one finally adopted. The ono offered but not adopted way ns follows: Resolved, That wo heartily indorse tho honost and earnest offorta of Prealdent Maree, in the face of numerous sad acricus obetacies, gto reform our clyilaervico, and to restoro our whale natlon to the condition uf harmony, fraternity, and pros. perity, And, white wo may aos individnals alifer In opinion with him as to the feasibility of the mathud ctuployed or the main detatla of execu. Hlon, yet we have implicit anid ablding confidence in hia sincerity, capacity, and patriotism, and pledge to bim a constant and activo sympathy and support In oll measures conducing to the rapid furtherance and specdy accomplishment of these highly-Importaut and much-desired objects, The resclution on the same matter re- ported by the Committee on Resolutions and adopted by the Convention was; Resolved, That, while we recognize and reepect the diference of opinion osleting smong ne ay to tho course puraned by Preaiient Hayes towarde the South, we ore heartily In accord {n honoring the patriotic motives which have guided bim, aud Jn hoping that the reaulte of thia policy wilt be peace, good-will, and complete recognition of the equa} rights of oll men In every section of the country, and ta the offorte of bis Admiulatration to carry into effect tho principles of the platform upon which ho waa elected we pledgo our hearty and coniial support. Both were resolutions of indorsement, but the one adopted is a little milder In tone than the other, and leaves moro room for eacapa in the event that the President's policy shonld result os dissstrously as the Implacables affect to believe. Hada couple of montha more elapsed before the holding of the Penn. sylvania Convention, there is little doubt that the firut resolution, or one even stronger an terns, would have been adopted instead of the cautious commendation actually awarded the President, Itis worthy of note, too, that in the resolution adopted there Is an Omiusion of the indorwement of the Civil. Bervico Reform policy, which in the other was asatrongly commended as the Bouthorn policy; thig illustrates pointedly a fact ‘Tax Tarouwx bas always ivelsted upon, viz.; that the offense to the Implacables and malcontents consists rather in the determina. tion to destroy the ‘‘ machine” In politics than in the pacific attitude which the Ad- ministration has assumed towards the South. orn States. However, the progross has been, ao décided toward the fair treatment of the President that there is every reason to be satinfiod with it, and to cherish s confidence thst a few montha more will so fully reveal the wiadom of bis policy as to make a thor- oughly united party and sttract to it large scovsuions from the moderate rnen ‘of the opposing party. ee : The Peunsylvania Convention of this year was aw vovelty in that State. There is no Btate in tho North where the “ machine” haa had more complete control of caucuses andconvaations, Unt in Wednesday's Con- vention thero was n conspicnons absonce of tho Collactors, Postmastora, Penston-Agonts, and othor Governmont officials and their sub- ordinates. ‘Tho miaterlof tho Convention || was n most practical recoguition of tho Prosidom. a Civit-Sorvicoonter, forbidding tho Govornmat omployea from using the Gov- ernmont’s time and tho Government's. {nflu- enco to maniputate convontions and run campaigns. That the official class consented to keep thoir hands off was nndoubtedly due in alorgo menmre ton porsonal preference for office over the privilogo of running tho “machine "; bat the presmre of public sentiment aleo had something to do with it The pablia sentiment in favor of the miforcement of this order will b> stronga” than over sinco tho Ponnsylyania Conven tion has beon heli, It in shown that an orderly;, harmonions, and efficient Convention can ba orgnnizod with. out the active intorferonce ot’ tho officohald. ing clasa, and tho action of m'ch 9 Convon- tion carries more weight with xt, becanso it nore directly represents the people, It can- not now be charged, on tho one hand, that tho indorsoment of the Administi'ation was dictated by iis officcholders in ordor to save their heads; nor, had tho action beon precisely tho reverse, could it have been contended that the old ‘mnahine” 2907 had used their patronage to break down’ the Prosidont’s efforts ngainsty their favorite ay8- tem. Such o Convention necessarily oon + mands greater respect for honesty and sin cerity of purpose, ond it cau scarcely ba doubted that Prosident Hares’ theory of party politics will stoadily grow in favor, ON. The concurrent tastimony of tho French Republican journals has hitherto been to the effect that the Republicans wonld elect n larga majority of tho Deputies at the forth- coming election, How far the sudden death of M. Tnrens will affect this result rematus to ba sven, as well as what may como from tho crafty designs of the Government in as. suming tho control and the expenses of the fanoral for the sake of making. it a Btate pageant. That tho Republicans, howovor, are thoronghly united, is shown by tho fol. lowing statoment recontly mado by the Temps: ‘No second Republican candidate hss appeared to contest any of the acats rop- resented by the 963 Deputies who voted con- sare of the coupof the 16th of Mny. Do- sides this, tho Republicans will contost 166 other constituencies, and there are not mero than five of those where thoy aro not agreed upon a single candidate.” A Paris dispatch also stated recontly that the Republicans ara moro advanced in their preparations than tho Government, having only forty conatituen- cies unprovided with candidates, while in thirty of the anti-Repnblican departments tho list of offleial candidates ie atill nnscttled, aud in eighty the Government candidate has a rival Conservative. It was to coun toract this tendency that MacManon made his recont tour, accompanied hy the Duo py Broatsze and several of the Goncrals of the army. The tour, howorer, was not a satisfactory one. In some places thoy were not accorded an official reception at all, and too often thoy recoived very cold comfort, barely smomnting to civility. Mennwhile the persccution of Republican newspapers continues, and tho Governmont does not leave a stono noturned in its effort to muzzle every organ-of Republican opinion. Ina ainglo issue of a recent Paris newspaper it is stated that the proprietor of the Union Liberal e¢ Democratique has been punished for offensive articles on MacManoy; that tho editor of tho Censcur at Lyons has beon fined for offending the Prefect; that the publish. ors of the Finistere at Quimper havo been punished for refusing to insert a communi- cation from tho Prefoct; that the sale of all Republican nowapnpers hasbeen prohibited at Moulins; that the publisher of the Impartial at Saint Germain hag been imprisoned; that tho Jtereil in Algiers has beon suppressed ; that tho Petit Journal in Paris, 9 cheap Republican newspaper, has been nearly squelched ; and so on to the end of tho category, Nevertheless, tho Ropublicans still hold their own, and scom to be imbued with tho spirit of M,. Gaamerra, whon ho sald at tho Toone banquot + : In apite of thelr suppression of pnbilc meetings for polltical deliberations, prosecutions of the press, the protubftion uf the aate. of Journals ant pamphicta in oublic placas, and the renioval of Kepublican Prefecte, they will falt; and despite all tho repressive mcaaures the Government can omploy, the 36,000 communes of France will aguln send @ majority of Mepublfeans to the Chamber. 'Yho brunt of the campuign now falls upon tho ahouldors of M. Gasunzrra, who already Pprotiscs to be one of the most ominent men Franco has yet produced, . Although a rnd- {cal in political opinion, ho {a cool and con- servative in action, and hag already given na proof of his clear-healedness by atbntitut. ing M, Guevy, ‘tho ex-Presidont of the Clam. ber of Deputies, in the place of M. ‘Interns asthe prospective candidate for the Prosi. denoy in case of MaoSfanon's rotiramunt, PENNSYLVANIA AND SILVER, ‘Tho Republican State Convention of Ponn- sylvania waa essontiatly n pooplo’s Conven- tion ns distinguished from an offfecholders’ Convention, For this reason, and becauso Penneylvania is au Eastern State, tha out. spokon and unequivocal declaration in favor of the renonetization of the ailvor dollar has fn poooliar significance, The language of the resolution in which this demand is expressed ty a9 direct, forcible, and comprehenalye that we roproduca it, and commend it for porusal as ehowing in Itself the justice of the demand; Resoleed, That the longand successful existence Bnder the laws of Congress of the double-coin standard warrants us In demanding sn early repeal Of the legistation which demonetized silver and cotablished an slmout exclusive gold’ slandard; and wo, therefore, favor a return ta the free uso Aud unrestricted coinage of the dollar of 1708, and ta reatoratlon to the position It held as legal- tender during cluhty y: of out national exist- ence, thus preserving tht ality Of the commer- cial value of the silver dollar with the gold dollar, keeping both in circulation, If the silver rosolution of the Ohio State Convention had been equally blunt and in. telligont, there would not now be the donbt of the Republicans carrying the Stato which in feltin some quarters, ‘The Obio resolu. tion would havo ,been equally explicit in terms if the active politicians of that State had fnterfered as little with the Convention as did the politicians of Pennsylvania No candid person will deny that a fair and direct representation of the people of Ohio would have produced the most emphatic demand for the restoration and free coinage of the silver dollar that could be couched in the English language. This is what the Penn- sylvenia resolution does. It exacts that the silver dollar shall be placed on a full equality with the gold dollar, not merely in restoying to it the character of legal-tender, but ix providing “ unrestricted colnage,” as in the caso of the gold dollar, History, justice, aud the great commercial interests of, the coan- Ponnaylvanis, a3 an Lastern Slate, has thas givon the lie tothe assertion that the East {a solidly opposed to the romonetization of tha silver dollar, Though on Esstern State, Penusylyania js not controlled hy the Shy- docks, It ian producing State rather than & money-lending Btato. It is identified with tho industrial and commercial interests of the country, and interested in their reenpera- tion and advancement a good deal more than in the repnymentin gold of money loaned ontonas silvor and greenback basis, Tho penple of Pennsylvanin are in A potition to ‘underatand that there can be no resumption of «apecio paympnts on an exclusive gold basis that will not paralyze industry and com. merce, They know that the vast indebted- ness of this country oannot bo repaid in gold nione,-the $1,600,000 of national bonds, the $1,000,000 of nuneipal bonds, the 2,000,000 of railroad bonds, tho $375,000,- 000 of State bonds, the $70,000,000 of greonbneks and National Bank notes, tho 600,000,000 of doposits, the $900,000,000 of loans and discounts, and the untold millions of private mortgages, ‘These aro Mr, Cor. yax’e estimates, and they are nét far ‘from sorrect, To undertake to readjust thie vast systom of debt on $2,000,000 of gold at tho outside, tho value of which is fictitiously kept up by the distinction of law in its favor, is simple madness, It occurs tono jntelli- gent peoplo in this country outside of New York and certain Now Engiand States, whero judgmont ts warped and patriotism destroyed. by the solfish interest of the money-lend- ere, Pennsylvania bas a formidable Republican delegation in Congress, which will scarcely “gnoro the explicitners of the State dectarn- thn in favor of the historic silvor dollar, and the indispensable requisite of the donblo stanctard 8s a menps to resumption. Tho Demosratio members from the samo State will noy be tardy in apprehending and re. sponding’ to the drift of public sentiment which this‘ resolution plainly indicates. So the West dares not stand alone in Its call for justico in the matter of the domonetization swindle; it will have poworfal reornits from tho East, and a Dearly united sentiment from the South. The restoration of the double standard ja a popular demand, and it cannot De resisted, — THE GEORGIA CONBTITUTION. To the Editor of The Tribune, « Gnaxp Rarins, Mich, Sept. .—In your synop- ats of tho peculiar provishins of the newly-pto- posed Conetitution of the State of Georgia, you did not atate what action, if any, was taken by the Convention on the State-Huhts or Secession hero. ey. Tits was one of the points named by Senator ifina in hin apeech giving renagna why tha Convene tlon should be called. “It will be Interesting to know what the neaple of Georgia now think of a principle for which they have contended so bit- erly, but which no sane perron would think of conceding, even If wo wero all now engaged In making s Federal Constitution de novo. Youtm ‘The Constitution of Georgia, so far as wo have discovered, contains no assertion or afllr- mation of the doctrine of Secession, or of “Stato Sovereignty’ os defined by the ultra- State-Rights moa befor and since tho War, The Bill of Rights is sbout the same us like provisions ts the Constitutions of Northern States. It rocitea that the writ of habeas corpus shall not bo suspended. Freedom of specch, of the press, of petition, and to bear arms, ia secured. All citizens of the United States resident In Georgia are declared cltizeus of that State, and are to be equally and fully protected by law. Tho Uonstitutfon contains the following paragraphs: Legislative acts in vi n of this Constitution of the Conslitutlon of the United States ara vald, and the Judiciary shall ao declare them. ‘The people of ‘this Stato havo the inberent, sole, and exclusive right of regulating the internal gow: ernment and the pollco thereof, and of altering and abollehing their Constitution whenever it may vo neceezary tu thoir safety and happiness, Wo believe these paracraphs contain all there Is in the Constitution on that subject. ————— To the fidstor of The Tribune, Bnoonsry, N. ¥., Sept. 4.—In a late Is inake some comments on Gen, Watao: ‘RBB'S proporition to bring Areonbacks up to par sith Fond by making them tucelvable for import dt Yon remark that tha plan $a **old out here," that several eminent men whom you name have been pounding that drum for years, and that Tie ‘Tianune would help them to pound tt if any one would auswor tila question, iow f« the Govern. iment to pay the Interest un the natlonal debt with the greenbacks received for dutiest ‘The question Appenrato me to be & non sequitur because the proposition 16 that the greenbacks veing rece rable or dutics, will be interchangeable with gold at par. . Tho writer of this ducsn’t seem to know what hes fe talking about. There would be no “ Inter- changeable with gold” in the case, The Treas- uty would take greenbacks for duties, and after- wards sell thom to the Wall street apeculatora fur gold, and with the gold pay tho {nterest on the public debt, provide for the sinking fund, ete, The price of the greenbacks would be jn that caro just whatcha speculators would give forthem, and that would be less thau the im- porting merchants obtain, Tosay that the pub- Mt: creditors would accopt greenbacks for Inter eat or principal of the bonds, simply because the Government had received them for dutics, is not only a von aequiddur but an absurdity, Of course they would do nothing of the sort until after the Government redevins [ts greoubacks in gold on demand, 1 think n wore pertinent qnestion,and one which T would like you to answer, is thle: How can the fogal-tonder pavor of the Government, Hmtted to volume av itie, if receivable for dutica, by below par with gold, while at the pame time (he 30-year currency pet cont bonds of thy Government aro worth 20%, percent preluai in the open market? We fall to aco gny particular * pertinence” or importance tn this question. With tho greon- back worth 06 percent tn gold, 8 percent in currency would be equal 10554 in guld. Now, if a4 per cent guld bond fs worth pur In gold, how much fea bond drawing 53 percent of gold intorvst, and having twenty-one ycars to rug, worth? The auswer would certainly equal 3 oper ocent premium. = We have observed a desire cropplug out among Fasteru importing merchants to baye yreenbacks re- celyed at par for duti¢s, as it would ssye them the payment of tbe premium and throw tho Joes on the Government. Sy long as the inter- est on the public debt bas to be paid in gold, elther the importing morchante must scl their Rreonbacks for gold with which to pay the duties, or the Government must scl) she greon- backs for gold to pay the interest ou the debt. One or the other side muat sell the notes to procure the gold and stand the shaye. Which ahall {t be, the Importers or the Governmentt No Latin talk about "non seguitura" can re~ inove this necessity. ° Now that Osan Pash: man who in- Sicted so scyerc a defeat on the Russians at Vlovna—is sattafacturily accounted for ag Re Chay Cnawsoun, of the Ilinols Sizty-fourth Regiment, and a native of East Tennessee, tha question recurs with forty-horse power, Who the d—I {s 8uLsimay Pasha,—the man who ran the Russians out of Roumelia, and bas so nearly atormed the Bchipka Puss? Is he not the veri- able wild Irishman who used to run the Chica go Tunes in its palmy days of scnsatlonalism? Where is Col. Kuevam,—be that whilom was a “Diver man "than old Story? For a cam palgn, he pushed the fortunes of the " Vaufruct for President; fora scaslon, he bulldozed Con- greas aud the Electoral Commission. He then rushed across the briny deep, at the breaking out of the war, on two steamers. At Cork bo plunged England into war with Busela; aod, on teaching London, telegraphed back whole pages of the fiercest fulminatsons sgainst the bloody Muscovites, Ho rose to & @azzling helght, lke « rocket, and then suddenly dissppeared; snd neither his partues, Stousy, nor sorrowing friends, baye heard of the feroclous Mussulmen atace. Where can he have gone but to Turkey; aod what less command would he accept than an aray?t Hes not Osmam Pasha, for thst ts H Ciay Caawrorp; be isnot Vatuuring Bags, for be is Anglo-Saxon, wheress Kuswax is Celt; be is not Munger ALI, for}he isa Ger- mau; end the Turkish General tu Armenia isa you Hungartan. He must, therefore, be Buneinay Pasha himacif. No ono but the quondam edt. torof the Times would have had the andacity to slaughter hls army In the Schinkn Pass. What Strengthens our beliot In the Kessan hypothe. sis {sa fate dispatch, which atates that epi Pasha and Agout. Kenia Paslia, with the ex. Commandants of Scutari, Sistuva, and Schipka, and ten other officers, have been bantehed te Lemnos till the termination of hostilities,~the Commisstoners sppointed to try them being at present engaged in other dutics connected with the war. ‘These banishments would naturally make room for other appointments; and, on the unorring law Of supply and demand, Keay. aN would supplyan spplleant, and demand 9 place, Sunmimse must ha Kegzvan. All the signs pointto him, Hurrah for Crawronp and Kagsnan, tho two great Turkish Generale! a The women of Wyoming now havo a sep. Brate voting-place in a hotel reading-room, and ‘on election day the entire mate population gath. ers about £0 sce how they vote. ‘There is a pop. ular impression that the muscular organization of the sex requires woman tu deposit a bailot in a peculiar way of ner own, just as stic exerts something like a horse-power to throw a smal} stone; but, boyond folding the ballots in three cornercd ahanes, and marking small hearts trans. fixed with arrows opposite the names of favor. {te candidates, ny evcentricitics ar® observed. a Fronence NiattrixgaLe says an Indian fam. ine la worse than @ battle-fleld, worse cven than a retreat," and she is sure there is not an English man, woman, or child who would not give “out of thelr abundance, or out of their economy,” if the full extent of the suffering + were realized. Tho fund has reachod }ess then, $300,000, which {8 a mere drop in the bucket, ‘There seems to be no medium course between large Government ald and the application of Malthustan doctrines in their sternest mean. ing. a. / The Russians have disconcerted the foreten editors of American newspapers by getting whipped when they were put down for victo- ries, and winning battles whun they had already been given over fordead. Only avery barbsr- ous nation would fight In this manner; modern wartare doce not contemplate the doing of any. thing unexpected by cither side. ‘Mrs. Capy Branton thinks that a girl who can bear tight-lading, high heels, hairpins, and buaties ought to be ablo ta endure the physical wear and tear of a college course of study. But the question {s, Will they endure both bad dressing and hard study? They will not of ‘| course consent to sacrifice any prerogative of the sex, a Wo daviated so far from our rule in regard to shonymous communteations as to print one, recently, signed “Inquirer.” Since then the writer has been sending in more, and demanding toknow why they nfunot Inserted and answered Ho {a fnformed they have gone into the waste basket, inciuding tho Jast. one. a Dr, SonuEMaNn's rubbish, taken from the excayations, has covered one of the walls o! the Mykenalan acropolis. Whether the rabbis) hehaseent to Englund will have os bad a effect on the British Muscum remains to be seen. 7 There is a disposition on the part of the St. Louis Globe-Demoerat to abusc Chicago general- ly because none of {ts bank and insurance Prost dents areaons of United States Senators, It will be better for the G.-D. to shout when it ts out of the Boa(r}. | a It was all very well for Briattas ‘Youna to request thatno outward display of monrning be made over his dvath, but ANN Extza will plunge into sackcloth and ashca ss she thinks of her sharo of that $2,000,000, Perhaps tho Znter-Gcean's fafluence with the Postmaster will jnduco that gentleman to Fran their letters hereafter, and allow the paper to uso tha money in payment of its aebts. ‘The reports of the Bfttish Association printed In the Londot papers wera diagracefully fnad- equate, “Annexation scetns to bo'tha only rem * edy for tho slowness of British journalism, An ndvertisemont in tha New York Times to the effect that Moncey will buy my motber-(o- Jaw" ls apt to induce reflection among thoss who are ready to unload gratuitously, | Great tuss is made by the Inter-Ocean over tho atount.of its Poat-Oflico bill. 1t would not stoop to oxplain that nine-tenths of this post- age was on lotters asking for loans, Another chance for tha Mra. R. B, HHarzs Temperance Society. A sculptor has induced tho Prosidont to aubmit to a “ buat." | | It will be noticed with untyorsal approbation that no Obio man was appointed on the Sitting, Bot. Commission, | AMilssourl editor has named his boy baby Brsrrosiva, sorgetting the more appropriate Duarason, c PERSONAL, | Earl Ruseoll colebrated his 85th birthdey last month, Thomas Nast bos heen proveted from working by a lame arm, but is now recorerod. Tho Spectator says the sasulon of the Brit {oh Association at Piymouth ‘* was the dullest evet bela.” ‘There is n rumor of Father Hyacinthe of Sorin himsclf asa candidate for one of the Paris arrondissements. . - Mr, William F, Poole, of tho Chicrgo Pablis Tibrary, ta tn Boston on his way ton: glapd, where be will attend the Bnglish Conter once of Librarians, “Vrigham Young,” remarks the Philadel- phia Times, **atarted with onc wifo and no fore tans, ond managed (a eave up $5,000,000 or $+ 000,000 and nineteen wives," The novel, “A Your's Lettors," printed in the London utter, and attributed to ‘Bite Horace Mannose, sald to be Mr. Swinburne’s first attempt at novel-weiting, Dr, Holmes thinks of the thro wittl oat Hoston sayings le thia: ** After all, the feeling that sho fa well-dressed brings a poace of mind to & woman which toligion cannot give,” “Doyou know me, father?” inquired one of Brigham‘s sone tenderly as tho prophet wat about tobreathe his last. **L should think I ought to," responded ihe pareat with energy. A Life of ‘thomas Carlyle,” which was hegun in No. 1of the Biographical Magazine, bas, atthe requeat of Mr. Carlyle, been discontinued, and the magazine bas consequently suspended pud- Meatlon. E. 1, Davenport and Dr. Chapin were friends fn boyhood, snd continued on intimate tormsnntil theend. At one time they planned to make thele dabat on the stage together, but Chapin thought better, or worse, of It, snd withdrew. _ Berthold Auerbach dictates his storios to 8 shorthand writer, and never allows the Grat draft of bis manuscript to goto press. Iie weeds out nearly one-balt of the origins! dictation, and the thal copy delivered to the printer ta entirely tn bu own handwriting. A number of critics bewail the absence of eigaity from the new North American Berlew. "The Hevisw 1g certainly less diguified than under the old management, dut it 1s far more interesting? and as between dignity and vitality’the American ‘people seem to chooses the latter. ‘Liast wears & dusty old abbe-cost, bis hair falla on his shoulders, and bis pate, thin face} disigured with warts, whichtéo uot appear in tr photographs of him. Waguer te a mastked con trast to bis father-fn-law, short and stardy, wie a Sine smile on bis open countensuce. Don Carlos waa unsbly to obtain s com mand in Russie, because be was not familiar with the language of the common soldiers. All the oftcers apeak French and Gervian a2 well bs the Rasess- Don Carlos remains es on amateur looker-on- He ‘was in the thickest of tbe dghs at Plorna.