Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 19, 1877, Page 4

THE CIIICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY- OCTOBER 19, 1877. Tye Trinune, TERMS OF S8URSCRIPTION. RY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID. {hny Fdition, ong vear, . 812.01 ‘srts uf A yesr, ver month. 1. Funda Litera Touble Mheet... Entarday bAttion, ke 1-Weekiy, nne year. 'artaof a venr. per mi WREKLY BDITION, POSTPAID, Ore copy, per ye: CRRoTTar Hreclnen cop roe. Gire Post- Utice address n full, Inelodlng Btate sod County, Tlemittances may be made efther by draft, express, Tost-Ofice order, or tn regtatared letters, at onr Hsk. TERMS TO CITY SUDSCRIDERS. Tily, delivered, Banday excepted, 25 cents per week, Tiatly, delivered, Butday Included, 30 centa ber week. Addren THE TRIDUNE COMPANT, Lorner Madison and Liearborn-ats,, Chfcago, Nl Orders fof the deliveryof TRE TRINUXE st Kvanston, Englewood, and Iiydo Park left in the cvaatipg-rovm wiil receive prompt ttentlo Eadiiton: and shrewdly with refarence to tho futura. MeVicker's Thentres Madison strect. letween £tate and Destborn. Fne gsgement of John T, Raymond. ‘*‘Rlsks’ Mes- dames Don, Stoneall, ete.t Measrs. Raymond, ete, [ 11oley’s Thentre, Tandoiph street, between Clark snd LaSalte, “Eardanapalus.” Mesdames Tianchett, Letoamneur, etc.y Mesars Morton, Morrls, ete, woakening. e ———— Wooil's Museum, Monroe street, hetweon Dearborn and Atate, *Bumpe ty Dumpty.” Specialty Ollo, New Chicago Thentre. Clark strect, opposite Sherman House, Engages ment of the Campbell Comedy Combination, ** low Women Love.” Meniames Rand, Datcheider, ete.) Blessrs. Narrie, Lake, etc. oured & judgment agalnst the. State Sav- ings. Judgo Witrtams held that the caso was not one of contompt, but that the Court would protect the property in tho Receiver's hands, and sccordingly granted an infunction ngainst the taking of any further stops toward enforcing the judg. mont already obtained. The justice of this ruling s obvious; it is that eroditors mnst sharo and sharo alike in the distribution of tho assots realized by the Roceiver, and that no ereditor shinll be permitted to take proc- edenco over another in tho onforcement of bhis claim, Thero is somo political significance in the Sennto vote taken yesterday on the roferenca of Srorronp's credentials to the Committeo on Privileges and Elections. Tho Demoorats hoped to be able to securo his adinission without roference; and, bad they been ntle to doro, it might have indicated that the Scnate would Lenceforth bo virtunlly under Democratio control. But among all the Sen. ators of Republican or Indepoudent attitude upon whom the Democrats counted, Davis, of Tllinols, waa'the only one who voted with them, Boorn, Cunistiancy, Coxoves, Mar. TREWS, PATTERSON, and Srexcen, all of whom have boen credited for one renson or nn. other with tho futontion of voting with tho Democrats on the Louisiana and Sonth Cnrolinn cases, voted with the Tepublicans in favor of referring Srorronp's credenttals, This does not indlcate with certainty that thoy will voto to mimit Kerroas, bat it shows, ot lenst, that tloy aro wot yet pre- pared to give up totho Democrats. Tho cese, in brief, standa thus: The original Lonisiana Legisinture, which was composed of members holding Returning-Board cer- tificates, split in two foctions, but the Re. publican Legislature was tho only one that hod n quornm of members holding certifi- cates, and while having a majority on joint ballot the Republican Legislature clected Kezzoda. After the compro- miso, when the Demoeratic faction secured a quorum of members bolding cortificates, Brorronp was olected; the Ilopublicans mado no effort to clect in the Fusjon Legis. Intore, but claimed that tho qnostion hed al- ready been seftlod by the election of Keuroao. As tho Constitation of Louisiana vested In the Returning Board the: power of dotermining the prima ficic clalins to seats in tlio Legislature, the Leginlaturo made up of a majority of those holding the Roturning Board's certificates was tho only Ribuual which could with any show of authonty pro- ceed to elect a Scnator, dnd the choice of Kriaoas by that body gives him a title by vrecodence whicl the subsequent eloction by the Fusion Legisloturo can scarcely vitiata; at all ovonts, the referance of Srorromp's cas0 shows that the Ropublican Sonntors aro not yet convinced that tho socond election hoa even a prima facis claim, Smmne————— 3 80ME TORICAL LETTERS, * Wo print this morning a number of lotters written by SauMon P. Cuask and recelved by him fromn suck owminent men ns Lixcory, Cray, Sranton, and Gen. Winrizwp Bcorr, Thoy aro interesting fn themsolves, and hove a historical valuo in revenling the political juflnonces aud parposes of the timo when they wero penned. As private and, for tho timo buing, confidential communica. tious, they aro woro trustworthy indicntions of character and wotivo than any public ut- terances could bo. Tho most interoating letter from Onase's haud dates back to 1841, when ho was a youug man struggling at his profession to pay his debtaand earn a living; but oven then ho wes actuated by an earncst hostility to the spread of slavery, and con. fident of the ultimate growth and suc- cess of the nuti-slavery mnovement to which ho afterward contributed so much vitality ond forcs by his personal inftuence, ‘This letter, in conncction with the two lot. ters written by Lixcon to Cuase as late as 1659 (after the fumous debate botween Lin- oarx and Douoras), abow vory conclusively that the aim of the Republican party, from the carly fuception of the anti-slavery move- mont to the very cve of Lincown'a election to the Presidency, was to confine the institu- tion of slavery to the limits whero it alroady existed, and not to compasa its total aboli. tion by either stratogy or violence, Tho leaders of the South alwaya affeoted to dia. crodit this purposo, and insisted upon charg. ing the Republican party with waking war upon their * peculiar [natitution" and sesk. ing to uproot it. Had such been the ambi. tion of the Iopublican party, it would have sppeared in private and con. fidential cowmunieations betweon such men 08 Ouas and LiNcoLN, But, even in Lis lettor written in 1841, Mr, Ouase drow the unusual political distinction betwesn **gholition ™ and ' antl-slavery,” said tho former was *‘not a political object * (thut s, an eud to be worked out by political means), and defined the latter ps hostility to the spread of a power autagonistio to fres labor. To this end he maistained that slavery was *‘an institution strictly local,” from all rosponsibility for which the Gen- eral Government should bo completly de- liverod by driving it back and restrioting it within {ta legal limits. That this was still the creed ond tho uim of the Republican party in 1859 and 1860 is shown by Lix. CoLX's lotters, in one of which he rojoicas that the Republicans of Ilinois msds the fight on * Douglasism,” even at the €xpense of his own defeat, *‘Douglasism" wau the ingenious and deluiive doctrine of Adetph) Thentre, Monroe strect, corner of Dearborn. Engagement of Eatle Putnam. “'Old Carlosity Shop,” Mesdames Putnam, Myers, etc.: Memsrs. Diatadell, Plerce, etc. SOCIETY MEETINGS. HOME LODGE. No. 308, A. F. & A. M.—Regalar cemmuzleation this (Friday) eventn. st 144 Twenty. serond-st. Work anil husiaess of (mportsace. Visitiog rewren cordially invited. By order of the Maater. it 2. HERRICK, sec'y, AL LUDGE, Xo. 33, A. F. and A, M.~Tal alie-at, * Kiated Communication ihin (Friday evenitig, fuF biistnens ARG Isiruction In work. - By of+ der of the Sastcr. E. N. TUCKEIL, Sec, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1877, CHICAGO MARKET BUMMARY. The Chicago prodnce markets were frregular Yeaterday, with more dolng. Provisions were very weak early, but afterwards atronger, Mess pork closcd unchauged, at $14.20G14.26 for Octoher and $12.02;@12.05 for January. Lard closed steady, at SH.43@8.50 cash and $8,25@8.27% for January. Meats wero easler, at Bige per th for loosc shaulders and 7lic for do short ribs, Lake freizhts were quiet and ensler, at 4%cfor corn to Tnfialo, Whisky was unchangod, at $1.08 per vallon. Flour was quict and firm, Wheat closed E ¢ lower, BL8L07 for October and $1,04% for ta cloxed e higher, at 424@42%5¢ i4214 for November. Oata closed nd 204c for November, Lyo waa steady, at 52i4e. Darley closed dull, at 60t4¢ cash aud 60Yc asked for Novembur, Hops wors fairly active, at 15@25¢ decline, closing at $1.0025.%5 for common to extra. Cattlo were unchanged, with sales ot 22,00@3.30. Sheep wero dull, at $2.75@4.25 for poor to cholce, ‘There waa inspected into siare in thistity yeater terday 130 cars wheat, 288 cars and 2,200 b corn, i cars onts, 14 cararye, and GO cars barley, To- tal (704 cars), 25,000 bu. Ono hundred dollars in rold would bny $102.75 in greenbacks at tho close, chango yesterday closed nt 97} As ndditionnl particulars are recoived of the battlo of Monday last tho magnitude of the Russian vietery and o discstrous extent of tho Turkish defent become apparent. It is now estimnted that the Rusaluns eaptured thirty-two battalions of infantry, four brig- Gades of artillery, 100 officors, and 2,000 horses, besides an enormons quantity of mil- itory storcs aud provisions, Tho Turkish loss from ull sources is stated at 16,000 men. r—————— Bpeaker RaNvarn embraced tho carliost opportunity after his eloction to slip out of ‘Warbington and thus avold tho importuni- Lies of the Committeo-seokers. Hia depart- uro for Philndelplia for n thros-days’ ab. seneo wia o oro disappolntment to n large pawber of Democrats who expoct firat places on the fwportant Commitices, ad who would bave given him mno zcst ‘had Lo rowained to faco {he tremendous pressure. Philndelphin fs o eofe and efficient rotreat for tho harnssed Bpeaker, who will Lo able to hold uninter. rupted communion with ‘fon 8corr and the hightaritf Domocrats, and return to Wash- ington with tho Commitioa slate made up in accordance with the important intorests with which Mr. RANDALL i3 generally Lelloved to bo intimately indentified, 'Ihie respectable Domocrats of New York Lavo rebelled ngninst Jonx Kerwy and Tam. many, and resolved to co-operato with the Republicans. 'Tho reapeetabls Domocrats of Clieago will do welt (o jmitate the oxample, No good citizen con afford to support bad nominations simply because they are mado by his purty. Sivce it appears that the Dewocratic leaders in Chleago have sold out 1o the Ring, the Democratio property- owners are' in duty bound to abandon the porty organization for thls clection, If the Lepublican prty leaders hsd wade n similar corrupt hargain, wo would advico the Repub. lican property-owndrs to g0 out of their party for relief. ‘The main question in this clection is not whether this or that varty shall succeed, Lut whether tho hauds of the tax-cuters shall bo taken out of the pockets of the wxpayers, Tho wet weather is tolling severely upon the condition of the country roads in many pluces, and the natural consequence is that wany farners eanuot now deliver thoir grain to iuterior buyers, It is widely feared, too, that the present kind of weather will be the rule through this month, which wonld naturally diminish the volumo of receipts at luko ports. Two or three wecks more of fine weathur would have enabled country Lolders to dixpose of a larger proportion of their wurplus before the closo of the season of uavigation. The result may bo, however, a reaction in pricca. Deliveries have been so reo Litherto {hat, though the grain has all been taken readily, the British markets 8ru now weakeniog in view of tho fact that it is moving towards the United Kingdom 1 Yast volume, while the people of Groat Britain are expecting tho winter movement Berv 10 be a hieavy o ———— The Central Committes of the Working. men’s Industrial party last evening voted to xeject the fusich proposal advauced by the Democratic Cuntral Comuwittee, and similar- 1y disposed of the proposition of tho Green- backers, It is said that the spirit of ‘the meetivg, which was largely attended, was one of hostility to coalition with w0y other political organization ; that the Workingmen Lave no iutention of eerving as the fulcrum which is to help the Democratio party into power in Cook County, but will Presorvo their organisstion distinot and spe. cifio, bolding themsslves at liberty to make such nominations as thoy shall think proper, and t0 10X up & tisket of halr owa choos ing. If such is the spirit and determination of the Indastrials. it is greatly to their cred- it, and if they follow it np with the nomina- tion of a thoroughly good ticket that shall bo an ecarnest of their desire to secure an honest and economical administration of county affairs, they will have acted wisely The Paris Temps ventures the prediction that the MMaoMinon Cabinet will resign in consoquence of the vordict of the nation of Oct. 14, and says there i3 reason to balieve that such a step has alrendy been rosolved upon, and the notification thereof will be made on the &th of November, the day fol- lowing the elactions for Councils-General, Nothing has transpired since Sunday last that would scem to give color to thia belief ; onthe contrary, the expressions of prominent Consorvatives indicate n purpose on the part of tho Government to maintnin ita attitndo of hostility to tho Tepublican majority in the Chamber. The Francais, somi-ofiicially au- thorized to speak for the Oabinet, nunonnces that the prosecution of Radical orators and journals for ntterancos distastefnl to Mac- MaroN will continue with unabated vigor,— which can scarcely bo construed as a sign of Considerable troubls and expense may ba avoided by savings banks’ creditors by acting npon the hint conveyedin the docivion of Judge Wrnirams in the caso of an attorney cited to answer an application for a mle to show causs why ha shonid not be punished for contempt on acconnt of having pro- “1sts tramped all over tho State, ritory. lntion was introdneed without provoeation. tive-Slave act. lnst Congress which created the tribunal for passing upon tho Electoral roturns, and provided tho manner in which the Eloctorn] votes should bo connted. The Constitution provides that the Eleoloral votes *‘shall be counted,” but omits to say whoshall do it; it was, therefore, tho right and duty of Congross, under tho samo argu- ment, to say by whom the votes should bo counted. In view of this expression of opin- ion on & totally different subject, it may be fairly concluded that Lrxcoww, if ho wore alive, would believo with the venerablo Arexaxpen H. Stxenevs that Haves' title to the Presidency is better than that of any of, his prodecessors, bacanse bio obtained it by force of law, while theirs was only prima Jfacie, Thia is an illustration of how im. portant private lgiters from eminent men who have passed away may becomo in their {ufluence even upon current issues and dis. cussions. - The lotters from WixwreLp Scorr and Epwrx M. Sranrovars not so important, though8cort's letter justifies him from overy suspicion that he ever doubted the sacred- ness of tho Union cause, or ever hoped for tho triumph of tho Iobel armics. SranTox's lettor revenls a warmer porsonal feeling than ko ls over been credited with cherishing toward any one, though it is not freo from his characteristio bitterness whero he spenks of nowspaper statementa as ** all lics, invent- ed Ly kuaves for foola to foed on.” It {s a pity that STaNToN's contempt for nowspaper statements has been inherited by some pub- lic men who havo not his strong character, his peraistent self-relinnce, and his boundiess patriotism to snpport them in their profes. tion of contempt for thoso things which they can neither deny nor explain. A FEMALE-SUFFRAGE CATASTROPIE, In {ts discussions of tho woman.suffrngo folly, Tur Cmicaco ‘Taroune has froquently maintained that the most satisfactory and praatical mothod of rettling the question of its ndoption would be submit it to n dircct vote of tho people. 'Tho experiment hos been tried in Colorado, and the result is that woman suffroge in that State is a9 over. whelmingly defoated as was MurnTan Pasha in Armenia the other day. It is routed, bhorse, foot, and potticosts. The peoplo of Colorado, by a voto of over two to one, have decided that they do not want it and will not have it, and have been so emphatio in their doclaration that it is doubtful whothor they will ever cloct another Logialature that will authorize a voto upon tho question of suffrage. Tho bottlo was not fought with- out a vigorous campnign. - For weeks before the day of tho cloction, tho woman-suffrag. Massnchu. satts sont out a raft of colporteurs in pants and pantalottes, with Saratoga trunks and band-boxes, with bustles and without them, headed by Mr. BracxweLy, who pnys Lrcy Srome’s millinery bills, 'Thoy flooded tue Stato with documents and tracts. ‘Thoy stumped the Btato, and thelr voices were beard in corner grocerles, in lycoums, in churches, and in publio halls, The Pueblo Cllieftain does not hesitale to say that thoy subsidized mny of tho newspapers. ‘l'he people listencd to therm quietly and deco- rously, and then wont and voted ogainst them, and squelched thelr hobby so thoroughly that it has gono to grasain Colorado as unfit for further riding, Mr, Bracrwzty, the standard-bearer of fo- malo suffrage, bas been reviowing the con. test In the Woman's Journal, and sceks to pount out the causcs of the defeat. e finds that the intelligent American voters were in favor of snflrage all the time, and voted for it, and instances tho new towns of Qrocley and Longmont, inhabited mainly by thritty Americaus, which gave u mafority for it. ‘The foreigners, howover, woro ** forninst " the right of American women to vote, Ar, Bracxwees says that the foreign-born miners voted agaiust thom, He adda in‘a plpintive way that 95 per cont of the colored men votod agsinst them, which goes to show that the colored wman fu GColorado has a large de- groe of good sense, Thero is evidontly no color 1fno iu Colorado, siuce 00 per cent of the Boutherners votod the same way as the colored men. Mr, Bracxwews finds furthor- nioro- that *“ the entire saloon and brothel interests; Oatholio and Protestant bigots, lod by Bishop Macurswor and the Rov. Buiss, who preached sgainst it; the very young wmes who think - wom. en don't kuow enough to vote ; und soveral thousand Mexicans, most of whom can neither read nor speak our lan. gusge, who plow with a forked stick sad livein a sewmi-barbarous fashion,” ull voted ogainst femalo suffrage, If his stalements e truo, they will be accepted by the large wajority of people es conolusive evidence that the good senso and intelligence of tho now Btate are confined almost exclusively to the minor, colored men, Southerners, Mexi- can greasers, and that large clags whom My, BricgwaLu intemporately and angrily styles 4 Protestant and Cathollo ligots.” Ay, Braczwzrt ssys that the Americans who voted for sufirsge were intelligent and thrifty, and lived in Groeloy, Longumont, and other new places. It is somewhat notorious that thesv now places wero ocolonized by poopls from Massachusotls, who carried with . popular sovereigniy, which proposed to per- m:t the peoplo of cach Territory to organizo tho Stato as a freo or a slave Stato by popu- Iar vole, and, in antagonizing it as the groat danger threatening Ropnblicanism, Liscorx showed that the real purposo was to rosiat the encroachmant of slavery on now ter- A [further confirmation of this may bo found in Lixcorn's letter urging o sup- prossion of thoe plank in tho Ohio Republican platform which domanded the repeal of the Fugitive.8lave law, and holding that such a plank in the national platform would prob- ably prove fatal to the party, No such reso- into tho uational platform of 1860, and theso interchanges of confidenco between Crasz and LixcoLy serve & good purpose in the historical confirmation that the Bouth was a victim to ita own rage, groed, and disloyalty in the war it waged 'Tho interest of the other letters in tho col- lection is chiefly porsonal, exeept that a curi- ous parallel 18 suggested by Lixcory's opin- fon ns to the constitutionality of the Fugi- His viow was that, as the Constitution provided that the fugitive slave *shall bo delivered up,” and o it did not ox- pressly sy who should deliver him up, it waa the province and duty of Congress to carry out tho behest and provide the tneans. **Whatever the Constitution says *shall be done ' and has omitted to say who shiall do it," Mr, Lixcotn continued, *‘the Govorn- ment ostablished by that Constitution, ez ©f terming, is vested with tho power of doing, nnd Cobogress is, by the Constitution, ex- prosaly ompowered to mnake all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into exccution all powers vested by tho Con- stittion in tho Goverument of the United States.” But this same argument, without the chauge of a word or a syllable, would ap- ply with oqual force to tho approval of the ia & nuirance, greaser don't want Or woman anyway. them those peculiar ideas and notions for which Massachnsotts has mado herself a very unploasant reputation. mises, Mr, BLACKWELL nrrives at the goneral conchitsion that the defent of womnu sulfmgo in Colorado ia due to tha opposition of the rodicalism of a new State. Thoro is undoubt- edly n great deal of truth in his deduction, but why does he not follow up his dedne- tions to a complete rosult? If he woro not a3 blind as a bat, ho would find that, while the Western States, which are radical and progressive, oppose female suflrage, the Eastern States, which are conservative, also opposo it, In other words, the very yonng follows of the West “who think woman don't know enougl to voto,” as Mr, Bracx- WELL fays, aund the very old fellows of tho East who knoto that women ought not to vote, have the samo opinion, classes, combined with miners, gronsers, col- ored men, Bouthernors, and ** Protestant and Catlolic bigots,” make up about the entire malo population of tho Ubited States, If Mr. Brackwrwy, therotore, had the oppor- tunity to submit the question of adopting female suffrage to a popular vote in the United Biates, he would hava the consola- tion of ascortaining that nine-tenths of the popuiation wonld vote' it down. If Mr, Brackwewrr wero not sn adamantine bigot, ho would have discovered before this that ho I he i simply seeking pub- Ho notoriety, he can find quite enough of it atnying at home fighting lis taxes because Lvoxr Broxz can't vote, want woman suffrage, and won't have it. Thoe moen don't want it,and tho women don't want it. Even colored men and greasers will lave nothing to do with it, and what n isn't fit for a white man GREENBACKS AND THE DEBTOR CLASS, ‘We have hierotofore pointed out the probn- ble effects of the passago by Congross of an act authorizing the lssue of - $50,000,000 ad- ditional greonbacks annually for five years, nnd contrasted them with the probabla ef- fects of o law authorizing the cofungo by the mintsof o like amount of silver dollars an- nually for the same namberof years, In tho ono caso we would havs inflation and depre- clation of paper currency; in tho other wo would have n stable currency of gold, silver, and paper interchangeablo at par. The demand for paper inflation, how- aver, is persistont. Tt is not based upon any hopo or desire for improvement of the cur- roncy, or any wish to give it stability, It does not want greenbacks to bacome as valu. ablo as gold, nor doos it want silver made oquivalont to gold. Iis aim is to oxclude motallio currency altogother, It does not want n redeemablo paper eurrency. It seoka ou exclusive paper monoy, and wants that paper money depreciated to the lowest point of valuo. Tho lower its value, tha moro nc- ceptablo would bo the paper curroncy. Of necessity, tho man who wants inflation ond chonp greonbacks 1n as much op. posed to tho silver dollar a8 ho is to the gold dollar, nud n greonback worth 100 cents on the dolinr fiuds no more favor from him than the coin. Tho object of o deprociated currency is an obvious oo ; it is not politie for tho individual to confess it. Tracod toits inspiration, it will bo found to rest on the fallacious idea that it will help tho dobtor claus by ounbling them to pay their dobts at tho rato of 80, (0, 50, or 40 centa on tha dol- lar. Thero i3 no cceasion for denying tho truth, that the end sought, and tha only end songht, is tho debasomont of the currency for the purpose of paying dobta with as fow conts of valuo in the dollaras possibl, Leuving out of discussion the morality of this niotivo, lot us sco if this plan of paying debta by short.cut expedionts is any mores promisluy of success than any other inven. tion of that kind, and whether tho invention may not, boomerang fashion, roturn to plague tho inventors. Tho greenbacks are now worth 07 conts on the dollar, One thou. sand dollars’ of that currency will pur. chase §970 in goll. To ensct o a law providing for an incrensa of this out- rency to the eoxtent of throe or four hun- drod millions of dollars, it that were constitutional, would have the effect, oven before the notes were issued, of depre. clating tho value of tho prosent out. standiug notes to 80 cents on the dollar, and, 08 tho ndditional notes wero fssued, that value would fall lower and lower, Buch law could not bo passed without tremon. dous struggle, agitation, aud alarm, Buch sgitation would imperil the wholo credit system, In anticipation of such alaw, and after its onactment, thero wonld be no cred- its given payable in the uncortain currenoy of the futnre, Tho man in dobt would be 10 bottor off thun bofore, Ilis applitation for a renewal or extonsion of o mortgage or tho renewal of nnote would bo mot by a point-Llauk refusal, The alteruative would be payment or foreclosure, or suit, judg. ment, and exeoution. The only terms upon which any creditor wonld extend an old debt or make a new loan would bo wunder & contract that principal and interest shall be payablo in gold. ‘The man who should have the greonbacks might pay his dobts, but un- lesshie Lad the whole sum neoded ho could not borrow the groonbacks, nor obtain an ex- tousfon or rencwal of the debt, except by mnking a new contract, payable in gold, How many debtors, who need cheap monoy— dollars worth 50 conts each—to onablo them to pay their dcbts, are now prepared to pay what thoy owe, or aro propared to pay off their mortgages, or will be able to sccumu- late within tho lifetime of these mortgages enough of groenbacky to pay off the whole of their dobte? ‘Tho serions result of the poasngo of sucha law wonld bo that it wonld practically suspend crodit, excopt on tha gold basia, No man could get credit on mortgage, or uote, or bank account, except ona contract to pay in gold, and with the groenbacks he could only purchase at their volue in gold, wilth a margin off to cover fluctnations, In point of fact, the ** dsbtor class” would bo far worse off with the moncy of the country reduced to 50-cent dollars than they are now, The depremiation of money wonld visit & terrible loss on the dobtor class and the wen of snall means, or to whom creuit is essontial. The working class, or thoso who liva by daily, weekly, or wouthly wages, would suffer directly and’ continuoualy, The creditor class, the men of cupital aud of means, on the contrary, while bearing a portion of tho goneral dls. tress aud loss, would have within their own Lands tho means of protocting themselves, and of throwing the dircct loss on tho un. fortunato victima of this greenback-watering delusion and fraud. ‘The very class of men who lend willing at. tention and approval to this icheme of pay. 1ng debts in lawful money worth 40 or 50 cents on the dollar are, exoupting those in actual baukrupicy, tlie very*inon whose inter. ests and prosperity are bound up in havicg satable cwrenoy, with a rovival of credit and of industry, With & zestoration of From theso pro. These two The people don't nency o the curroncy. will* not That money tion and depreciation of the currency. worth 40 cents on the dollar. currenoy, T — AN OLD STEAL REVIVED. It ie ovidont that cortain schemors in tho Bonth still cherish tho hopo that the cotton tax levied in the years 1865, 1866, and 1807 will bo refunded somo day, and it is op this acconnt that they koep the subject nlive by spnamodio ngitation. A desporato offort was made to secure n recognition of the juatice of the demand from the rocont Constitution- al Convontion in Georgin, but tho subject was droppod, after some discuselon, partly because the Convention sensibly concluded that it hnd nothing to do with the matter, and partly becanse they folt that no hondway could be made with tho present Congress. But thia ravival of the subjoct has given cer- tain Southorn newspapers (tho Mobile fegir. ter among others) an exouss for urging the legitimacy of the olaim, and thers is little doubt that it s one of the projeots which await a solidifieation of tho Domocratie con- trol of the Qovernmont for persiatent pres- sure. It willbo wise for tho people of the North to keep it in mind as well aa tho peo- ple of tho South, in ordor that the former may fight it as obstinately as the latter may advocato it, The schemo is nothing moro nor lesa than an effort on tho part of the Cotton Btates to plunder the National Treasury at the ox- ponse of theNorthern taxpayars, for tho claim is urged as a Stato nffair nnd not in the intor- ost of the men who raised the cotton during tho period when it was taxed. Tho propo. sition is lugonious in that it nsks that the amount of the tax bo refunded to tho Statos in which the cotton was grown, oud divided up as an educational fund for whitos and blacks, in proportion of two. thirds for tho former and ono-third for the latter. Tho appeal to the sympathy of tho North and tho dosire that superior educational facilities bo given to the blacks in tho South, is entirely specious, It does not odd to nor take from tho Injustico and importinonce of the clam, Tho refunding schemo {s nothing more nor logs than n raid on ‘tha Northorn Btates for $100,000,- 000, moro or less, and the infamy of the raid is not relisved by tho faintest plon of justico in the claim itsolf, The cotton tax wns no more unconstitu. tional or illegal than any othor War tax. It 'waa the only tax the South ever paid (if, in. deed, it can bo said to have paid that) on ac- count of the War which it brought upon the country. Any argument of law or oquity which npproves the rofunding of that tax wonld likewiso approvo tho rofunding of nil the special taxes pald by the North on nc. count of tho War, ‘The manufacturers who paid special taxos on their products, the transportation companies that paid on their carnings, the merchants that paid on thoir gross reccipts, and tho macses who paid on their incomo from whatover source, woula swell the claim for rofunding to o thousand 1nillious if tho South were awarded o hun. dred millions on account of cotton alone, Bnt tho fact s that noithor the Southern States, nor aven tho Southern planters, can .bo eaid to have pald the tax on cotton. It is tho consumer who pays tho tax, as a rule, and this was eepecially true of cotton during tho period when it was taxed ; tho demand was large, tho cotton waa udld readily at high prices, and tho North was a largo con- sumor of cotton. Tho tax was included in tho prico asked and collected in tho payment, so that it was refunded to tho producors at tho time, The South is a small fraction among the consumers of cotton; so that, even if there were any justice In rofunding the tax, there would be no justice in refund- ing it to peopla who did not actually pay it, But, aa tho Mobile Register intimates, it ia rathor persistence than justice which shall make tho refunding scliewo succeed ; bat, ovon in this viow of the case, the Bouth will liave to wait for a Democratic Prosident, and s very large Democratio majority in both Houses of Congross, before persistenco will bo of any avail. TEE WEST CHICAGO PARK COMMISSION- ERS. The West 8ide Park Commissioners—Lirx, Hovoex, Mriap, and Muvs—have refused to vacato or surrender their offlces from which the Governor has removed them, My, C. O. Boxwey has written,an opinion on the subject, in which he advises the Board that tho Governor had no powor to romove them ; that the members mny therefors con- tinue to exercise all the lswful powers of Park Commisaloners, including that of om. ploying counsel to defend them, and paying such counsel out of the publio moneys in their hands. 'This legal opinion of Mr. Box- uxyis indorsed by Judge O, B, Lawsxxox, and the opinlon thus jndorsed has baen printed spd circulated. Despite tho high _veapect duo to the opinlon of Mr. Bonnex aud his “associate counsel,” taking n . tional viow of the subject, we fail to sce any force of reason or justice in the srgumonts, ‘To us the argument of AMr, Bonsex secms to be mads to order, to mect the exigencies of tho case, and to give a sort of pretoxt toa gang of official dead-beats to hold on to the offico 60 long s there is a dollar of public money to be used in their defonse, ‘The Conatitution of Illinols provides: #The Governor uhall have power to remove any officor whom ho may sppoint, in case of incompetency, neglect of duty, or mal- foasance in offico; and he may declare his offlce vacant, and fill the same as is horein provided in other cases of vacancy.” The oftices of Park Commissioners are of the class which under this provision tho Gov- ernor may remove. The Governor, in mak. ing the removal, placed on record the lolh.:v. ing statement ; 1 sm fally eonvinced that U, O, P. HoLpzyw, A, C. Murizv, Craxk Ly and J. P. Avoira Muus, membire of ik Loard of Weab Chicago credit, thers will be a rednction of interest, an inoreass of moncy secking investment, and n goneral ense in the money markot, and to these things the dobtor class must look for that reliof which is impossible nnder any depreciation of tho cnrrency and do- struction of tho credit system. For two yea:s or moro tho money kopt idle and un- omployed hns boon waiting the es- tablishment of mome degres of permna- Lo lonned out so long as thera ineven a remote probability of an infla. Be- foro men will lond money, they want to have it sottlod what kind of funds they will re- colvo in return. Dobtors cannot borrow monoy worth 87 cents on the dollar with the privilego of paying tho debt in money 'The result of issuing such deprectated currency mnst bo to suspend ol credit, nnless the contract ro- quire payment in coin. Tho very. urgency with which tho inflation of greenbacks is de- manded tends to weaken crodit, and tho ac. tual ndoption of such a policy would pro- duce at once a practical restoration of gold paywonts in all transactions,—the vory ro- sult which thp Greenbackers sssume thoy can postpone indefinitely by watoring tho Park Cormissloners, do not poseess the Xind of qualifications which are mecersary fo the dischargs ©F the dultes of aaid office, and that the snccessfnl ndminlstration of the parks of West Chicago de- manda their removal. 1, therefore, etc., ete. Mr. BoNney argues that to rcoita that a publie officer does not posseas tho kind of qualifications which nro necossary to the dis- chargo of tho dnties of his offica is not equivalent to rociting thal hoisincompotent, ‘Wonld the Governor's recital have hoen auy more oxplicit had it said the Commissionera wero incompetent to tho discharge of thoir dnties? Does not the Governor explicitly declaro that hoe has become convinced that the Commissioners nre not porsonnlly gualified or competent to perform the duties of their offices? And yet Mr. DoxNer argues that the Govarnor, not having romoved the Com- missioners bocsuse of * fncompetancy,” bas oxcoeded the power vested in him by the The Governor may romove for incompaetency, malfoasance, or neglectof ‘Whon tho Governor makes tho re. moval becanso the men are porsonally inen- pable of understanding and thereforo in- capablo of performing tho datios of their of- is to Lo nssumed that of necoeaity the dntles are neglected, and therefore, Leoing unnble to perform thedatios, and the duties boing neglected, it will bo difileult to make out that no legal suthority 1t Mr, Box. Nex, ns o leading member of the Dar, shonld asserd that a porson holding the office of Cir- cuit Judgoe did *“not possessthe kind of qual. ifications which aro necossary to thedischarge of tho duties of eaid office,” would he strengthen the imputation by sdding *‘and Constitution, duty, office, it was fnrnished for the removal, incompotent " ? Thera is no power givon in tho Constitn. tion to reviso or overrulo the action of the Exccutive in mattors placed within his dis- crotion. The Constitution prohibits the in. torforenco by any branch of the Govern- ment with the duties and powers of another branch, His notion is final and complote. Even if the Governor bad not placed on rec- ord n statement of the reason why he romov- cd thoe Commissioners, the presumplion of law and of fot must bo"that he removod them for a suficiont and logal cause, Mr, Bownsey argues that to remove a man for incompetency * nevessarily involves serious consequences to the roputation and happiness” of the person removed. This is Dot necossarily the case. Judgo Bnersz, of the Suprome Court, If appointed to the Su. perintendency of an insane asylum, wonld promptly confoss his incompetoney for that offico. Even Mr. BoNNeY might bo removed from the Presidenocy of a medical colloga on the ground of incompetonay, and would not suffer in hisreputation or happiness, * In. compotency” in tho sense used in tho Consti- tution means ** want of ability or Stncss to discharge the required duty.” That is just what the Governor found to bo the fact in tho cnse of theso Commissioners. Thoy waated the kind of obility or fitness to dis- ohargo the duty requirod of thom, Tho Gov- ornor, howover, did not act bhastily or unad. visedly. This wholo question hns been de- termined by tho Courts, and ho removed theso mon, knowing tho extent of his powers in snch casos, % Tho Commissioners, through their coun- #el, claim that tho Governor, before remov- ing thom, should have given them a trinl, and heard witnosses and counsel, and that thoy aro ontitled to bo tried by thelr peers. This is oll nonsenso, Xt would destroy the power of removal from office, and enablo in- compoetent and corrupt offlcers to hold their oflices to the loss and abuso of the publio interosts, in spite of tho spoclal power placed in the lands of tho Governor to re- move them summarily. In this caso the nt- tempt to hold the offices by, these Commis- sioners of itself shown that thoy are not tho kind of mon. who should Lo in power. What do thoy want with the office? The offico of Park Commissioner ought to Lave no profit attached to it, It is an offico from which any citzon having au honost way of ecarning o livelibood would natnrally ask to bo rolloved. What doos Mr, Horoen or any of Lis associatos want tha offico for? I8 their patriotiam 8o extraor dinary that they forao their servicos, nnasked and not wanted, upon the public? Can it be that there is money in the business? 1t so, tho sooner there is a Board of Commissioners who will put an end to the monoy-making department the better it will bo, In their rofasal to surrendor the offices from which thoy have been dismissed by tho Governor, tho Commisaioners will have no cympathy {rom tho public, The moment a man insists upon having o legal estato in an appointive offico Lo sinks to the level, in public estima. tion, of the professional office-seekor, THE BAR!IN NEW YORR, The Now York Court of Appeals has modi. flod {n some important respects tho standard of ndmisslon to the Dar of that State. Hore- ufter candidates will be required to pro- sont certificalos of throo-years' clorkship before becowming nttorneys, and two years' practice as attornoys before being recognized a4 counselors, Tho last number of the Nation calls attention to this reform, and show that it {s & symptom of a healthy re- action from tho old democratie theory that ous may, all things cousidered, is s good aa anothier, ¢ Man ns man, in the simple char: acter of o furless animal,” hos gohe out of fashton. Wo have learned that mind s nos 6n universal birthright; that integrity is not to bo taken for granted unless the contrary is proved; and that acqusintance with a tochnical soience oun be scquired in no other way than by experience. . The democratio worship of Man was st its beight in 1840, when the New York Consti- tution was adopted. Previous to that time the Judges controlled admission to the Bar. A clorkship of sevon years was required of persons - desiring to become attorneys, with un allowanos of four years for those who had pursued a courso of “‘regular classioal studies.” The minimum clerkship for at- tornoys, howover, was three years, and three years ndditional were demanded of candi- dates for admission as counsslors, Under the Constitution of 1846 nearly all the pro- visions ngainst fucompetency were removed. Male citizenship, a good moral cliaracter, and ¢ requisite qualifications of learning and ability,” were established as tho sole con- ditions of sdmission. The *requisite qualifications of loarning and ability wero . sscortained fu a loose and ir. regular manner. A number of law-schools were uuthorized to grant diplomas which should admit tho Lolders of them to the Bar without examination, and, as these institu- tions had & direct pecuniary interest to in- \crease the numbar of lawyers, their conrves of fustruction became ineflicient and narrow. From 1846 until 1671 thorv was practically 1o examination for admission to ths Bar in New York. In the latter yearthe people discovercd that the syatem bad borns fruits, baving placed o BauNawp aud a Oaspozo on the Bench and filled the ranks of the pro- fossion with dishonest and incompetent men. Even tho lawyers of integrity and sbility, who of conrre were not fow in thy City of New York, woro poworless to go. cnro the impeachment of the corrupt Judges. The reform movement eventnally did not spring from them, but from the pop.. ular fecling aronsed by the exposurs of Twren's rascalitics. The law giving anthor. ity to the Courtof Appeals to make naw rules wag passed in 1874 ; it has been suppla. monted by a body of rulos, ndopted this yenr, under which the old distinotion botwaen ate torneys and counselors is ro.established, 'The priviloges herstofore accordad tho Iawy- schools have been withdrawn bya recent net. Tho benefita that nocrue from an educatod Bar aro well stated by the Nation, Soclety obtaing n double protection from n body of Inwyers properly sclocted. Thore is, in tho first placo, o botter assurance againat injury arising from ignorance ; and, aecondly, g Bar thus conatitutod is a strong check upon tho Bench, Barxanp and Oarnozo wonld nevor have been possiblo if the Bar of Now York hied boen what it onght to have been, ‘The faot that the Dar did not protest againast their intquitiea is o roproach upon the whals body of lawyers in Now York City, and in 1t self asufliciont condemuation of the old sys. tom of admission, Thero is anothor word to be said in thia conneotion on general acconnt, 1t i an true, in a limitod degres, of the Bar outside of New York as it usod to bo of the Bor within that Biate, that the standard of admission is too low, There has lately been an {mprovement in this rospect in linofs, but thero is room for a groat doal moro, The organization known as the Bar Associntion in Chicago is n silent protest against the qgualifications of cortain porsons authorized o practice law in this oity. While our Boneh remains purs, and the character of the profession hore is 88 good na that of any Bar in the conutry, there Is atill nood of 1mora rigid examinations, and patticalarly of the distinction between attornoys and conn. solors, which is 80 essontial a feature of the now rules in Now York" [ ENGLISH AGRIOULTURAL BTATISTICS, « An loteresting and cxbaustive report of the ngricultural aspects of Great Britaln and Ire- tand for the year 1877 la furnishcd by Mr. R, Give, of tho Btatistical and Commerclal De- partment of the London Board of Trade, based upon-the returns of 556,003 occuplers of land and 5,835 live-stock owners, with comparative estimates of such districta as have not yet been beard from. The report shows the cultivated area of the wholo United Kingdom 1o be 47,203,000 acres, exclusive of heath und moun- tain, pasture-land, and of woods and planta. tlons, For England, Scotland, and Wales, this 18 an Increaso of 160,000 scres since 1876, while in Ircland there I8 an apparent decrease of 207,000 seres, resulting from o change In classi- fication. Tho tables st forth fully the extent to whichcrops of all kinds are under cultivation, but the totals arrived st will furnish a clear fdea of tho agricultural results accomplishod. The coroal acreage of the United Kingdony, including the lsle of Man and the Channel Islauds, is ro- ported at 11,103,190; .,7een crops, or roots, 4,001,001; clover, eainfoln, and grasscs under rotation, 6,450,404; permanent pasturo or grass not broken up in rotatlon (exctusive of heath or mountain land), 23,003,814; fax, 180,840; hops, 71,239; bare fallow, or uncropped arable land, 053,405, Tho wheat crop alone reached 8,831, 000 acrea, an fncrease of 6 per cent over 1870, but an appreciablo deerease from former years, In live stock of all kinds a satisfactory o crease Is reported, though through the Intorfer- encuof steam cultlvation there is a slight de- creaso o agricultural horses. Brood murcs and young horses preaent an {ncreaso of § per cont over 1870, occasioned by n materlal augmenta- tion of imports from abroad, which amounted 040,763 In 1876, and 24,57V during tho present year, whilc tho British exported were respect- ively 2,700 and 1,470, In horned cattlo the fgures have dropped off. Bince 1878 the do- creaso bas been 1 per cont in cows, 6 per cent In other cattle abovetwo years of age, and 1 per cent in young eattle, reachiug a total decrease of 23¢ per cont lu cattle of all kinds. The causcs nsalgned for the reduction are scarcity of Dbeef, foot and mouth diseasc, aud fear of cattle plague, together with the late restrictions upom [mportatlon and removal, ‘The stock on hand may be summarized: Horses (locluding poolcs), 1,804,123; cowa and heifers in milk or In call, 8,744,647; two ycars of ago and over, 2,318,210; uuder two years, 8,038,674, a total in horned cattle of 9,781,807, B8leep, one year old aud over, 20,719,027; under ouc year, 11,501,040, a total ot 082,220,007; whilo pigs reachod a total of 8,084,447, e ——— A Buckeys Republican derives comfort from the past poltileal history of Ohlo, ‘Tho.State is In tho habit of lurching suddealy to one side or the other and changlug back at tho next elee tlon, Herc is its record of tha past forty years: 1834, «Whig (Liarrison) 1838, Democeatic., e 1, Ut i A2 ublican (Fremont, 14,023 HopubHican ((Clmu). 1,481 epublican publican (Denals 1880 epublican (Lincoln) 44,478 1861 +Jtepublican (Toa), 2 ':'_l;:,l 20 .}nmocnnn saeen 80,000 * Indus €3 WETU codly four out ot flve betng abatracted from the dis satisfied Republicans, —— The people will be catled upon at the ensuing election to voto a spacial tax upen themselve to put half a millivn of dollars ($331,712) 1u the hands of JAox® Busn & Co. to cxpend (in ad- dition to the three and & half mililons) for finsl oruamental work on'tho State-House. The fol- lowing ls the law for the vote: - He il enactea, lc.: Bc. 2, At the next general election ta bo held lo tas State ou the firat 'x‘uud-; after the firet Monday in November, A, D, 1897, the yuestion sball be submisted to tho legal votera of thls Stato whelher or not they are In favor of the -rnmpfl- atiou, a8 provided In Section one (1) of this act In the notices fur election required to he furnlahi by the County Clerk In Sectigu forty-alx i)y Chapter luu{’--lx w)J. «elections, of the Reviau, Siatutes uf 1474, in addition to the soversl otbices 1o be dlled, be will aleo 1nscrt the words, ** Alsg to vuts for the sppropristiun fur the State-Houss, oF Afalpst the wpprobriatiou for tha Ktate-Houte, ‘Thoae In fovorof such appropristiun wball Lsve wnin or printed, of pnlfy writton aud partly printed, on ‘their ballots: ** bor the $3u1, 712,13 gppropriation s thowe oppated, “**.igaliui the 1,712 18 nflnrvflriullnu. » Sxc. 8. 1¢ shall be the duty of tho judges of slectiou, in wmsking s canvass and return of the ¥otes cast ut such elcctiou Lo the County Clerk. in adititiun to the returus for the saveral vficers yoted for, lnc-.-tul‘y o the whole number of votes cuab in such election precinctor dlefrict at satd electivn; 2180 10 certifly W the whole number of votes cast in fuvor of such l&wmurhuun. wolch returne, when #0 madu 10 tba County Clerk, shall Le abatractad by the proper ulicers aad forwarded directly to tho Becewlary of Suui v&n:}ln ?u u:n-‘;-n [ |h’- x'x:’n‘n.:; Ber ks Dow fequired by law, in tho cass o caat for luwugnun vea to the General Auscmbly. e — The Washington Capital,edited by Doxx PrarT, & roaring Democrat,—tho same person who ad- Vucatpd the sssassination of Presivent Harss last spriog,—thus describes Bam RANDALL, thy pew Democratic Speaker of the Houscof Rep- rescotatives: x iy g lonal is & his ! votes Mfl‘lf%‘lfi?flnuhm."nb: “dry.o -'cm of speeches that degrade pollilcs to the level of Lhe sawple-roow. 1f the bonorable Speaker ever ui- tesed » senlence cootaluiog an thoughs o8