Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 22, 1877, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE:,K MONDAY. OCTOBER 22, 1877, Thye Tribuwe. TEIRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. one copy, per yea Elmor tomrr Erecimen coples sent tree. (ive Post-Ofice aldresa n full, Including Stateand Connty. Remittances may be ninda elther by draft, expreet, Tort-Office order, or fa registered letters, at our risk. TERNS TO CITY*AUBSCRIDERS. T'afly, deflvered, Sunday exceptel, 25 conts per week. Tatly, deilvered, Sunday Included, 2 cents pee week. T THIBUNE COMP tner Madlson and Deartiorn. ! Orders for the delivery of Tur TRINGNE at Evanston. d Hyde Park loft [n the couutios-tvom MeVleker'n Thentres Madfson siract. between State and Dearborn. Ene gmeement of Jobn T, Hapmond. *‘Risks.” Mes: unmes Lon, Stoneall, ete.3 Messr, Raymond, Learock, e Haonley's Theatre. Ttandolph street, beiween Clark and LaSaile. *Sardauapalus.” Mesdames Hanchett, Letourneur, 4 Mesrs. Sorton, Morris, cte. ‘ould's Museam. et, between Nearbora and State, ' Homp- Fpectalty Ollu. 15 Dumpty, New Chiengo Theatre, Clarke strert, opposite Sherman House. Engnges ment al the Camplell Comedy Comblnation, **low Women Luve, anies liand, Batcbenler, ete.s Messry. Norris, Adeln rntre, Monroe street, coruer of Dearborn, Engagement of '8 Pantomimo Troupe, **Humpty Dumpty, " MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1877, CHICAGO MARKET BUMMARY. The Chleago prodnce markets were rather une rertled Snturday, with less doing. Mesa pork closed steady, a1, 00 for Getober and $12.62%; for dan. vary, Lard closed a shade firmer, 5 cakh and $8. 1ie Lake froights were very dull, at dc Whisky was unchanged, at lour was quietand firm. Wheat wer, ot $1,U8% tor October and §1.05 per gallon closed 1,6 % £1,05% for Ny for November. Oats clored 3¢ cash and 23%c for No- t SIRI0Yc. Narl . Sheep wero Inacte The exporta from Now ring the week Included 14,745 brls flour, B, 700 bu wheat, and K30, 005 bo corn, There was fuspected nto store in this city yesterday 2336 cars whent, 17 cars and 8,000 bu cors, 34 carsand 3,000 bu o4ts, Gearsrye, and GO cars barley. To- 181 (501 curs), 202,000 bu. One hundred dollars u proid would buy $102,873; In grecnbacks at the tlove, Inn Kow York on Sr;n;finy greenbacks wero worth 974 centa on the doliar, Scnator Dramve has been suddenly called to bis homo dn Maine by the sad intclligence of nserious accident to his daughtor. o baa paired with Seaator Kenway, of New York, who, according to the Indinnapclis Scntinel, hns thereby disfranchised n vast constituency, An occasion of marked interest to tho con. gregatton of Centenary M. E. Church was tho dalivery there yesterday morning of tho fimt zermon by the Rev, 1L W, Tnrowas sinco his nssignment to that church by the. Rock River Confercnce. ' Centenary Church atd the Methodist ministry in Ohicago have reason to rejoice at the acquisition. ——— Onr Carten wout to Washington fairly bursting with iucipient legislation for the good of thy glorious country which boasts tho celsbrated englo flight of last winter's gession. Ho had in his pocket and wiil shortly disgorge bills for tho repeal of the Bankrupt law, for regulating the count of the Lcctoral vote, for the repeal of the date naud the redemption featares of the Resumnp- tion nct, and for tho restoration ns full Jegal tender of the old silver dollar of 412§ grniny, In another column 1 given tho lst of pluces et which the Ropublican primaries aro to Lo held to.day for tho election of dole. gales to the County Convention of to-morrow, ‘The way is clenr to seenro the nominction of a ticket of such unexceptionable strength aud fiiness thot its clection is a foregone con. elusion. Let overy Kepublican go to the primarics and look after the eloction of the riglit kind of dclegates, In this woy mis. takes ean bo correctod boforo they are made. e Senntor Davis, of West Virginia, is cred. ltod with the intention of renowlng Liu of- forts for u genernl investigation into the ac- sounts of tho United States extending over s torm of yours, actuated Ly the suspicion that thero have been “forcod balances,” and that the public hes boen robbed. He brought this matter bafora tho last Congress, and it was then explined by tho Hecrotary of flio Ireasury that the apparent discrop- aucy in the accounts as they appear in dif- {erout official reports for the samo year arisa from a donble systom of Lookkeeping, undor which the same amounts are nover shown on the sawmo dates, but aro credited and charged a3 they pass through tho heads of the differ. ent departments. If this explauation was not satisfactory, and an uxamination did uot reveal an actual agrecmont of accouuts in spite of the scoming disagrecmont, wo Lope the investigation will be pursued in fuir und judicious wanner, Elsewhero is given tho concluding lot- ter of the series in which Mr. O, 0. Gous, of thix city, has ombodied tho investigatious and obsurvations incident to the tour madoe by bim as Tz Trisune's special convmisalon- erto obiein and furnish information to our readers relative to the agricultural possibili- ties el attractions of Arkansns and Texas. It i: not claiming too much to mssert thet feels of equal relinbility and of equil value, on account of their comprehensiveness, bave not heretofore Leen published in this saction of couutry, Atter Laving found out and communicated, svels to the smallest dotail, the things that ar¢ esscutiul to be known by the thousands suxicts wnd yeslved to loave the over. srowded citics aud better thoir condition by striking for cheup homes und frosh start in iife, Mr. Guuns concludes his labors by call- ing uttention to the risky attending the pur- thass of laud from dishonest spoculators, wd by poiuting out the way to avold the swindlens. This lotter, in coujunction with “he recent exposuro of ‘Lexas land frauds on 3 gigantio scale, should suffice to put every. Yody upon his guard, s oo————— Wo print this morning sowo extracts froip the report of the Silver Commission. The teport is oo voluminous to be exbausted in we day or soveral days, and we shall con. linue to prescnt ité more jmportant state- mentd, arguments, and conclusions from time to tiwe until the whole invostigation aball kuve becn brought falrly before our incurred; two motals, whether gold or silver. The re- ver mines of tha world bave been grossly oxaggerated. The silver product of the ouly $19,000,000 a yoar for the past six yenrs, and in 1876 it was only $28,000,000 instend of £100,000,000, ns circulated by the Germnn nuthonties. During the lnst twen. ty-cight years the aggregato incrense to the stock of both gold and silver in coin and barg hnas been 138 por cont, while the in. creaso of gold nlone in coin and bars has Deon 208 per cent, showing that the stock of gold has increased in nearly double the pro- portion of the two metals combined. ‘Whenever {t is desired to set on foot leg- islation obfoxious to the public feeling, and to get tho measure under headway bofore its chiaracter and object bocome generally known, it is cnstomnry to affix a title or desiguntion which tells no tales. This was domne in tho clandestine demonetization of silver four years ago, and Sonator Mennt. stoy, of North Carolina, has adopted n sim- ilar expediont in the matter of the schemo 1o securo the payment of pensions to Con. federate soldiers, Such s the purpose, and snch would be the effect, if passcd, of tho bill introduced Inst Friday by Mr, Mzr- nnstoN, by unaninious consent of the Sonate, to repeal Sec. 4,716 of tho Rovised Statutes, It appoars thint nobody at the time thought it worth while to inquire what law it waa that the bill proposed to ropeal ; but on ex- nmination it alko appears that the scction unmed s a peromptory bar to the payment of tebel ponsions. It has been denied in some of the Southorn fournals that tho Democracy South had any intention of urging -such legislation. Perhaps some- body will bo kind enough to explain the circumsiance so obscarely hinted at in the record of the Benate proceedings last Friday, Bomo light on the subject is neces- sary in order to disputs tho inferenco that, with o Democratic President and a Domo- cratic majority in both Lranches of Con- gress, nud with a solid South holding the balanco of power in such an event, ono of the first measures to become o law would ba Benator Mernistox's bill to opon the Treas- ury vaults (o the surviving nrmy of Rebel soldiers and the widows, orphaus, and bheirs of thoso that nre dend and buried, THE. CIVIL-SERVICE CONFLICT. The politicnl sky in Washington, grows cloudy, and thero nre nnmistakable signs of nn approcching storm, It {8 too carly to forccast the naturo or oxtent of the dinnster it mny cause, Tho most that can be doue at present is to watch its progtess, aud hopo that it will blow over, Tho outlook, how- over, is sufficiently grave and threatoning to rrouso at least gloomy forebodings, audmako the spectator anxious as to the eventyof the near future in this confliot between the ex- ccutive and legislative departmonts of the Government, The President still remains the representativo of the Republican party, Ho still stands upon the principles enun. clated in the Republican platform and de- claro ! in his lettor of acceptanco, snd those principles aro ns soundand just £a over; Lut hdw long ho will remain at the head of, the party,—of tho party, ntleast, ns ropresentodin Congross,—or Low long he will have any party in Congress nt his Lack, s nlready beginniug to bo an open queation that is cousing un- casiness in tho publie miund and avxioty nmong the rank aud filo of tho party that winh him well in his efforts to reform the Civil Servico and root out the vices of tho spoils system. However much gho Demoerats mny ap- plaud tho Prosident's Southern policy, ho can oxpeet nuo backing from them on Civil- Servico reform. The leopard cannot chango his spots. To indorso tho President in this dircction would bo to remove the corner- stono of Democracy and tumble tho wholo structure down. 'Ilereln lies the difficulty, it wot the despair, of Mr. Haves' situntion, e caunot tind support on the Demberatio sido, nod it looks o4 if tho men on the Re- publican sida wora too old in the iniquities of the spoils systom, and too accustomed to the old ruts, to follow tho Presidont and lend tho parly into new paths, Tho ma-. ching politiclans have run in the old grooves too long to * try and build up a syatem of ' government that Is botter thau tho people who live under it," as Mr. Coxkiang, the cogineor of the machine, puts it. 'Thus there e room for scrious approhonsion at lenst whothar cithor side will support him, Tho groat mass of the Republican party wonld bo glad to see tho presont racqof mnchino politicians and ofiiceLoldera forever out of business s slute-makers and spoils- purveyors, Thoy sympathizo with the Prosident in bis effort to rohabilitate the party and Jift it out of tho doughs of corruption. Undoubtedly thero aro thousands of hLonest Demo- crats of the uon-otiiceholding class who would e glad to give himn & moral support, aud would rojoico at the success of Civil. Bervice rofonn. It was but the other day that the Presidont exactly defined the nature of lus Civil-Bervice order. to Ropresentativo Hauues. It s not designed, he suid, to do- prive officobiolders of rights conjoyed fn vom- wmon with other citizons, but to affect that closs of politiciany * who bave held offices for political ends only, and have brought dis. crodit and dissousion into the party, and havo united in efforts to intimidate conven. tions, aud forco them into support of par. ticular individuals.” In this direction there is no doubt that the people are with him, but thoy aro not heard. They do mnot make speechies -nor framo policies in Washington, T'hiere is equally no doubt that the vflicchold- ers i Washington are not withhim, and that they are. so shaping - ovents o cither to compel him to modify Lis policy, or ba left alomo without a, party, aotogonizig the wholo legisla- tivé department upon the issue of patron. age. reLp, Dexwisow, Havrz, aud FosTs rofuso to indorss non-intervention of nmcel_loldins politiciags in local pohtics, who is to sup- port the President? Certainly not the Dem- ocrats, They expoct to cowe into power in 1880. They don't want zeform. They want & clean sweep of all Oivil-Servico regulations, 0 that they may distribute spoils after the Dewocratio precodents and traditions of forty years' standiog, Thoy, want the old-fashion. od machine politics which give rewards for partisan servics,—the dirtier the servics the larger the reward,—ond which poys off tho readors. We direct attention to two fentures of tho report, The ona is tho conclusion that tho Government has tho right to dis- charge its obligations in silver as well ns gold, on the ground that the double standanl wna the lawfnl standard when the debt was that the ereditord wero amply informed thoreof, and that the Gov. ernment, 08 nan nagont, must be just to the peopla of the United States in avniling itself of tho privilegs of paying the publie debt in the cheaper of the port also shows that the product of the sil State of Nevada, for instance, has avernged When such men ai Cox of Ohio, Gag. | crativo oftice. abate its rigor. tentha of the Republicana to do so. relf without n party. strugglo with painful anxiety. every Republican who has tho best interasts politicians will place in his way. “THE ACQUITTAL. question that the conspiracy wns not carried 08 to whether the proof waa sufliciont to connect the particular persons on trial with tho othere. There was probnbly no man in tho court-room who leard the trinl, or out of the court.rcom who had informod him. self of the facls, who had the slightest doubl s to the guilt of the persons on trial. Two, of the conspirators had confessod thoir ogency in tho nction, deliberately told wind explained . tho modus operandi of the robbery by them, with tho othors, of the public. 'The private books of the lending person of tho consplracy re- vealed not only his own dishonesty, but con- firmed the truth of thoso who had confessed, and nlso furnished importast ovidence ngninat others. Here was a case of public fraud carried on successfully for nearly threo yoars, in which there were ten or twelvo persons necessarily connectod, shar- ing the proflts, and porsonally and oflicially cognizant of the whole business, and yet nobody is guilty! All are innocont,—all are praieworthy, public-spirited citizens, who have beon outrngeonsly and infamously libeled and abused. Six months or more ego ono ** batch ” of the accusod wero tried aud acquitted; now tho second batoh is nequitted, including one person who on oath volun. itarily confessed not only to his own share in the crima, but related his specifio denlings with the othors. Ie is now acquitted, while his sworn confession remains on record ! ‘Without in any way impoeaching the integ- rity or Intolligenco of the jury, collectively ot individnally, wo think that this caso is an- othor instanco tending to establish the fact that no man can boconvietad in this county of any crime committed ngainst the public. For thig verdict thora aro many precedonts. Even in oxtrumo cases whore persous have pleaded guilty of auch crimss, tho Executive pardon bay taken the place of the jury, and dis- charged the guilly. Nothingso marks tho general demoralization of the day ns the practical recoguition of tho immunity from all legal punisiment which is onjoyed by all persons who commit offenses ngainst tho publis for plunder, cspecially in cuses involy. ing forgery, perjury, and bribery, A man who robs a bank ora warchouse, or who picks a pocket, or carrics off the hats nnd coata of n hall-way, is easily convicted, and is promptly and. soverely punishod. ‘There are now 1,000 prisoners at Jollet who aro ‘thero for ntealing horses, overcoats, pocket. books, and committiug other vulgar crimnes. In tho whols 1,000 thore is not probably ono mon who, lolding an offico of trust, has robbed tho public. Thers are no public Treasurers, Recordors, Colloctors, Auvessors, Aldormen, Mayars, - Coup- trollers, Bupervisors, or Commissioners, who have, under the opportunity of their offices, takon bribes, have bought and sold contracts, voted moneys, approved dishonest bills, converted public monoy to their own une,—aud oll corruptly and dishonestly, In all such cascs the crimes are flogrant and self-ovident; the facts, as in this Commis- sloners cnse, may be notorious and con- fesacd, yet tho porpotrators go unpunished, loss nothing in social ecutimation, aud osten. tatiously display the wealth they have'thus obtained. It is impossible to offer n grenter or more direct inducement to ofiicial trime thon is furnished by this immunity from punishment. To it wo may trace the multi. plicity of candidates for all kinds of offices in which thero I3 an oppértunity lo make Jarge acqulsitions of money without labor, sud only involving rank dishonesty, and per. haps some forgery of perjury, Tho man who would forge tho namo of Lis neighbor, or swear falsely to an sccount ,agninst that neighbor, or take that neighbor's money, might be declared criminal and be punished; Lat the public officer who forges aud swears to <falso vouchers, and takes what money ay be in the Tressury, is not held to be oriminal, is not regavded s com. mitting an act of ‘moral turpitude, and any attompt to prosecute him by indictment and trial is promptly and indignantiy rebuked by the verdict of an intolligent and upright jury of his country ! Boclety in this is encouraging ouoof tho most insidious and destructive of all the ngoncics in the matter of general na- tional demoralization. Of what avall is it to preach honesty, and morality, snd fidelity, when fu the front seats of the church itself are men who have amassed riches by official dishonesty? What an ozample to the wass of mon who toil day after day struggling for tho support of themselves and families, and who cling to honesty a4 something entitled to the Lonor and respect of men! Juries aro but buman; they cannot be ex- pected to rise above the moral seutiment by which they are surrounded, ‘When society nccepts and approves the the- ory that it is not immoral for any man holding publicoffica to rob the Government, national, Btate, city, or county, nor iinmoral to 80 use his opportunity in office to make all the money ho can, by whatever means he can employ, thon society as strongly invites pub- Lio offlocrs to act dishonestly as it could do if londest-monthed bummer with tho most In- Therefora they stand by and qnietly sncer and chuckle, giving the Prosi- dent no moral support, which only embold. ons the Republican mnchine politicians to continne in their opposition to the policy, with the hope of foreing him o at lenst If the Democrats should support him, it would compei at least nine- The conflict is already o sharply outlined that ‘Civil-Service roform bss becomo the iesuo of the sossion, and the question which now most seriously concerns the poople of the country is, whether the machine politi- cians will sneceod in breaking the President down, recovering tho spoils, resuming the right to dictate appointments and to force conventions to nominate their particular can- didates, or whather the Presilent will frmly persist in his policy, and evontually ind him- The people of this country who do not hold offlces, and do not want them, but who do want honesty in offico and purity in the party, will watch the Every good citizen will sympathize with Mr. Haves, and of his party at henrt will wish him success 1n carrying out his policy of Civil-Service re- form, though fully rocognizing the sorious dangers that throaton him and the formida- blo obstacles that a Congress of machine The jury in the case of tha several present and former Connty Commissioners tried on the chinrgo of conspiracy with Pentorat and ‘othiers to defraud the county in the years 1874, '5, and ’6, at midnight ou Saturdny rendered a verdict of acquittal. Tho case waa ably tried by the counsel, the Court was fair ond_just, and the verdict, it is enfe to be assumed, was not because of any doubt 08 to the fact of tho conspiracy, or any out to tho great robbery of the county, but was duo to s liberal and strained misgiving law, ally prononnced a fool ? the conduct of the accused to be s crimo. for at all. The Iaw and facts wero clear, but the Iaw was ngainst common right ; if that law was to boen- forced, whio would acceptofico? Who would spend £5,000 to got an offico the lawfnl emoluments of which was only $500? To onforco the law would bo to deprivo those who aro to follow of the official rights of those who have gone before. Moreover, all these mien, and all othors in offico, had beon clected whon it was the accepted doc- trino that a man was cntitled to make all ho could ont of his place. It wna persecution, therefore, to prosecute theso men when such o long list had preceded thom and had nover beon questioned. The law and the facts, therefore, were impotent. The moral sen- timent of the community opposed the prose- cation, nnd tho jury, being only human, said *¢ Not guilty,” THE PACIFIC-RAILROAD DERT. Instead of schowing to grab $0,000,000 or 0,000,000 from tho United States Troas- ury to turn over to tho Toxas-Pacific specu- Iators, Congross should givo ita earnest at. tontion to dovising menns whereby the Pacific Railronds which have already been constructed out of publio moneys shall be compelled to pay tho interost on the bonds advanced to them., Theso roads aro nbout $£28,000,000 in arrears on Govornment inter- ost, and have made no provision whatover, for lignidating the Government indebtednes: of #64,000,000 advanced to thew, thong thirteen years have elapscd since tho creatigh of the indebtednesas. If permitted to go in the fatare with the same reckless disrog: of the law as in tho past, and computing tw payments made by Govornment on their sceount at compourd interest, they will have abstracted about $250,000,000 from tho pub- lio funds at the ond of tho thirty years,—~the period for which tho Governmont crodit was loaned to them. ‘Tho Pacific Railrond ncts have been over riddon and violated by the speculators whd obtainod control of the roads from the very beginning of their construction. Tho Iaw required tho construction of the ronds to be at a reasonable price, but the Credit-Mobilied rovelations showed that, through tho agency of construction companios, the cost was af loast double what itought to have been, They Inw required that the stgek subscribed should! bo paid in fall iu installments, whoreas only about 2 per cent has been paid in all, Tho Iaw required that the ronds should pay 5 per cont of the net profitsa to npply on the dobt for Unitod Btates bonds, but the oarnings havoe beon diverted into tho hands of parasito companios formed by tho stock- holders, g0 that it Las been impossible to cotimate tho not earnings. As tho cnse now stands, tho Government hns given the roads to tho nominal owners (since, after ndvanc- ing $64,000,000, it enabled the companies to borrow o8 much more by making tho Gov- ernmont claim a socond “mortgage). and, in nddition to this, about 60,000 square miles of publiclands, which tho companics have been sclling out from undor the Government mortgage and in utter diwsrogard of Govorn- mont restrictions. Meanwhile the roads hava bocome enor- mously profitabla to the men who never in. vested a dollar in them, aud the Government in left to whistle for its money. It is Ligh timo to call halt on their further progress in this direction. Sonator TuusmaN mado n dotermined effort to socuro tho neccssary legialation in tho Inst Congress to compel the companies to pay tho interost on their bouds; and propare for the lquldation of the prinoi. pul of thelr indobtedness, but in vain. Ho has ronowed this offort in tho presont Congress, s bill providea for cstimating tho met carnings Ly deducting from the groas awount of earningy the neocssary and actual operating expenscs, but not the interest upon any portion of their judsbted. nesy, and that the wholo amount of compon- sation due tho roads for servicos rendered the Goverument shall be withhold, ono-half of which shall be applied to the liquidation of interest and one-half to a ainking-fund of United Statos bonds for tho paymeut of tho railrond bonds at maturity, The sinking. fund §s to Lo furthor augmented by the au- nual payment of an additional sum of §1,600,- 000 by the Union Pacifio and Uentral Pacific ench, $75,000 by the Central Branch Union Pacific Company, $100,000 by the Kioux City & Pocific Company, and $350,000 by the Kanans Pacifio Company, or such parts of these respectivo sums as may be nocessary, along with the componsation for Govern. went services, to make up 25 per cent of the not earniugs of the soveral companios. In other words, it is provided that no dividend shiall be made, paid, or voted until each com. pany shall have made an annual payment into the United States Treasury of 25 per cent of it not ocarnings, 2} per cont of which is to apply on futerest account, aud 22} per cont on tho principal. Any officor declaring, or auy stockbolder roceiving, such dividend, while in default to tho Governiment, iy made peruonally lable for the amount ; and overy person who knowingly becomos & party to the making of such dividend may bo prosscuted criminally, and upou conviction shall be punished by a fue not exceeding , $10,000, and by imprisonment not exceeding one year, A, Tavuuan's bill provides, nevertheless, that, if the 75 per cont of net earningy reserved to the roads be not sufficient to pay the interest upon their other obligations, the Becretary of the Treasury may romit 50 much of the 25 per cent taken by tho Government as may be necessary to pay tho intorest on other oblige. tons, ‘There is nothing unfair to tho Pacific Com- panies in this proposition, which should bo given procedencs over the quack propositions of the Directors of the road forpayivg merely & part of tho interest, 88 it comes due, and charging the Government with componnd intorest on such psyments until tho eutire indebtedncss be liguidated. ‘Ihe mominal such practices were dirocted in the written Why should juries convict such men, when society applauds thom in proportion to the maguitude of their stealing ? aud how enu honest local governmont be secured or promoted if the publie ofMcer who, hnving the opportunity and does not steal, 18 gener- The Commussionars’ trinl was an attempt to prosecnte notorious gnilt, which was de- fondod by publio sentiment. Prarorat did not pick the pockot of Bumrrm; ho only pluttdered the County Treasury; what cared Banrn for that, except to regret that he was not in Perrorar's place with the same op- portunities ? Never wagn case noro ably presonted or managed than was the proseen. tion by Stonns and MiLrs; the defonse was ably conducted, but tho strength of the de- fonse was that public opinion no longer held It wna not a trinl na to whether tho mon wére guilty or not; it was a trial whether gotling money out of the Connty Treasury to ba dis- tributed among thoss in office was a matter for which citizons honored by the suffrages of the comninnity should be beld to ruswer tho telograph compnnics, Governmeont shonld be givon some show for getting its money back. This ts all thet is exacted by Thore 1s no doubt that, come due, the Taunamax bill, cious management, the Pacific Itonds ean pny tho intorost on all thoir obligations and still thoronds. Thisiscartninly generousenonghin view of the fact that the stockholders invest- od only 2 per cent of the nominal eapital stock. If the present Congressis disposed to protect the intereat of the poople, it will pnss this bill promptly, and certainly before consanting even {o listen to propositions for more Pacifio subsidies. The Wmmg(on correspondent of the New York 7'ridune says that the Ohio elec- tion haa wilted tho'auti-ITaxzs Republican wembors. They charga the whole blame of to their theory, it waa Hayss' Bonthern and issue Republicaus to desert their party aud voto for the Workingmon's candidates, aud 5,000 to throw away their votes on tha Pro- hibitory Liquor ticket. 'Theso machine mombers refuse to recognize tho infinite mischiof that Smeraan's Mansfield spoech inflicted upon the Republicans, ‘That gold. resumption speech disgusted thomsauds of Ropublicans to the degreo of causing thomn to stay awny from the polls, and caused other thousauds to support the Industrial. Greonbnck combination ticket, and not o few to voto the Democratic tickot out. right. The Obio Republican platform blun- derod on the silver-romonatization question, and wenkened the ticket, Secretary Bozraay rofused to show tho slightost symptom of favor to tho silver dollar, aud e rofused to explain what was to be done with the green- backs when redeomed,—whether they wero to bo oancoled, or reissued, or what. He failed to show where or how the Governmen was to get enough gold to redeem $360,000,- 000 of grocubacks on demand, and he neglect. ed to cxplain what was to take the placo of| the #£315,000,000 of bank-notes which would Lo rotired ns fast as the greonbacks wero ro- doemed, and porhaps faster, How tho busi- ness public wore to stand this enormous contraction was somothing so far beneath his notico that ho did not delgn to consider it. After the Hecretary had planted ks resumption-contraction harpoon in the vitala of the ticket he returnod to Washington to wateh the effeot of tha stab, Ho bad only to wait until the 9th of October to find out. '‘Che machine politicians, who nro exasperntod st tho Presidont on nocount of higiuterferonce with the spoils system of potronage, chargo tho loss of Ohlo to the Prosident's Civil-Sorvico *ordor and his Sonthorn-conclliation policy, woll knowing that thoy had about as muoh to do with tho defont a8 tho ukases of tho Russian Czar; but tho defeat gives thom n splondid opportunity to lIay tho blame on Ha¥es, Thoso gentlomon conveniently forget that in 1874, when the machine men had full charge of the campaigu in Oblo, they lot tho Domocrats carry the Stato by over 17,000 mnjority, and clect two-thirds nl‘ the Oongres- slonal delegation. If the spoils gystom and ‘“bloody-shirt" politics are so wonderfully’ popular in Ohio as the machine men would have the country beliove, how happened it that thoy allowed the Domoorats to sweop Ohio as rocontly g three years ngo? Thoy ‘don't oxplain it. It is casior to forget it, aud mako a scapo-goat of tho “polioy” now to necount for o defent caused by anti.silver, contraction, and rosumption, There is n disposition {n some quartors ainderrato the sorvices of Uen. -Howarp in the Nez-Porces war, Lo is entitlod to as largo n share of credit as any of tho other officors concerned, hardly cxcepting Mires himsolf, It is no wmall nchievoment to fol- low o band of bhostilo savages ncross n thou- sand miles of country broken by mountain. chains, doop stroams, and canons. Howanp, moreover, labored undor tho disadvantages of an inferior equipment, His troops wero hastily called togother, and ho had no fresh supplies of horses. Tho Indians, on the other hand, could wount every man, woman, and child, and lead horses for a chango, In spito of this differcnco, HMowarp pursued them so hotly that he, with & small escort of his command, was in at the death, If ho Liad not beon & generous man, Lo might kave takon the ‘aurcls which have sinco been awardod to Geu. Muxs. Tho motive for tho various small and malignant attacks in the newspapers upon Gen. Howarp aro not far to seck. Ile is * n Bible-chiof,” or, in other words, a Christiag; nnd it s the fashion among many of the younger men of the nowspaper profession—tho cluus who try to be * smart "—to presume that no good can come aut of Iiracl. Wo believe in awarding honor whore honor is duo, and that honor is duo to Gen. Howaup no candid man who bas read the Listory of the campaiga can doubt, Tho fact that Chie? Joseru ro. fused to surrendor to the ** Dible-chief " at last is not evidonce that the latter was an unworthy enemy, but rather high testimony. to his persoverauce and success in driving thq Indans into .’ net whence thoy could not escape. IHowarp may bave made mls- takea in the early part of the campaign, but ho did not prove himself deficlont jn cournge or determination,—the highest quilities of & soldier, A cablegram reports the number of votes cast last Sunday tu France at 7,7U3,000; that the Rte- publican vote fell off 43000 frow that polled In 1874, whercas tho Royallst vote incremscd 650, 000. The population of Fraucu is at least six millions less than that of the United States, bug the votu cast exceeds ours fu proportiou to pop- ulation. The two compare thi America, for President In 187¢ France, fur Parliament 1o 1877, American wajority... 018,139 ‘The vote was uot & ful uth Jaat a1l by at lcast 200,000, us tnat mauy colored men refralncd from voting 1o such Statesas Georgla, Mississippl, Alsbama, suod Texas. Even {n Tllinols the wholo vote was not out by fully 50,000. ——— Bays the Cinciouatl Commerclal: “Were it not for the lwl that the total vote of Ohio {falls off over 100,000 this year, and that 84,000 votes were fooied away on tho Probibition, Urecnback, and Workingmen's tickets, .there wmight be reason to justify the sssumption that the Republican party iu Oblo has guoe to the dempitlon buw-wows, aud thst the State has been handed over to tho Democrats, thelr , 411,130 3, 000 ownors of theso Pucific Roads have absorbed millions upon millions of dollars under the dirguise of conslruction companios; they have grbbed other millions in the shape of transportation companies, coal compnnivs, bridge companies, ote, ; thoy have divided still other millions in profits over and above all theso grabs, Now it s time the Not anothier dollar shonld be divided among the stockholdors under any form or pretext uutil provision has beon made for paying thoe Government intorest and establishing o sinking-fund which shall bo adequate to dischargo the Government indobteduesa when it shall be- under its torms and with honest and jndi- divide a reasonable profit on the actual cost of tho defoat upon the President. According Civil-8ervice polfey that causod 20,000 side- heirs and assigue, for all time to come. The vote cast for Bisuwor (Democrat) s 31,047 less than was cast for Winnias ALy (Democrat) I 1875, and 49,084 less than were cast for WiLL- 1AM Bruy (Democrat), for Secretary of Bate, in 1870, and 62,040 less than Tinnes (Democrat) recetved fn Ohlo in 1870, The vote of Wrst (Repnblican) Is D151 Jess than Ohio cast for HaYEs for Preatdent. Deducting the ene tire vote cast for the irregulars, Boxp, Trour- 50N, and JoliN4ON, from the diference between the votes of Wrsr and ITaves, we have 57,02 votes left, or 15,130 niore *hnn tho plurality of Bisuor. The difference fn the falling off of the vota of WEsT from Lhat of ITayrs,and the falling ollof the vote of Bisnor trom that of TILLEY, 18 23,404, The total stay-at-home vote ms com- pared with Oatober, 187, Is 08,157, and as com- pared with November, 1670, Is 134,860, And yet there are & lot of * machine Ropubticans in Washington who are blubbering and bavhoolng liko bauies, —————————— 'The people of St. John, N. B,, are in s partic- ularly sad and virtuous frameof mind since the JiaxLoN-Ross boat-race at Toronto, Hev- oral hundred St. Johunles sccompanted Ross to ‘Torouto and bet thelr money on him like little men. Rossgot in the same day as Hlannow, but for all practical purposes he might as weil have camped out, and now the wooils of On- tarlo and Quebec are full of* water sufferors, painfully making their way liome towards New Brunswick, All the 8t. John pa- pers, tuo, ‘contaln articles condemn- fng boat-rneing, and advising people to give up the sport, on account of its gambling and demoralizing.” Strange that the wicked- ness of boat-racing never struck them when tho Parls crew and Ross were winoing. . B e — ‘The result of tho eclection in Olo foots up as follaws: Bistior, Democrat, for Governor, .. West, Republican, for Goveruor. Biawor's majorlty Joussoy, Indusiriat Hasb. Endasirial. ‘Trioursux, Probivition. .. Total of the factions. 34,238 Four-fifths of this vo from the Repub- licans, who always furnish the bulk of the boit- cra, Aorc-leads, and side-issne mien, while the Deinocrats stick to thelr ticket, and “go the whole hog " trol wut to tail, e —— e A Parlslan cabby, Fraxcots CoLtxt, who drives 6,608, has been soleninly eulogized in the offlcial journals for reporting to the pollce twice in cight months the fuding of large sums of money in s hack, which were thus restored to thelr owners, If thia practice wero introduced fnto the United States, It wouldy’e be tnore'n o week or ten days before every hackman would have a confedernte josing n sawdust package of Rroenbacks In his hack, and bo getting a pufl gratis in every issue of the ofticlal Journal, And yot strangers would bo charged &4 for riding 1@ the Central Depot to the Massasolt House tho sawe ns usual, e — CnanLes Francis Apaus, and the statesmen of Tammany, and the other Irreconcilables who are talking about the braud of fraud, and 80 on, should remember that they are not orlg- {nal, since the late A. WanDp, in his famous in- terview with an octoroon, was informed by the benevolent straugzer (who subscauently took hils pocket-buok) that she bad the brand of CAIN on her. Mr. A. Wano thereupon replied that she had better stob drinking CarN's brandy. When Tammany talks sbout the brand of Cary, the. ople had Letter look out for thelr pocket- books, » ———— The Romans have a ‘auperstition that Cardicals always die in threes, cven as the peo- ple on the Mississippt always belleve that one fatal steamnbont aceldent will jucvitably bo fol- lowed iu o few days by two others. Tho death of Cardinal CaravTi, followlng closeutpon thuse ‘of Cardinals PATi1zt and Rianio-Sronza, will go along way to confirm the beltef, espeelally ns it 13 noe 8o long sluce ANTONELLL dled, to bo fol- lowed to the grave by Dz Axasuis and Br- ZARRL A man named 8xow, while walking through a baliny Connccticut fleld with a Miss TorraN, was astounded to sce her thrashing around and yelling Mice an Indlan, Faucying that her gyra- tlons wore tn a teasure attributable to a snake, hu seized a fence-rall and succeeded in scoteh- ing the scrpeut, though he broke one of her onkles in thy endeavor. 8he sued him for as- sault and battery, aud the New York Sun finds in the Incldent another argument againt otice- holaing by Fraup, ——— To paraphraso an anclent adage, * When the devil was well, the devil a mook would boj when the devil was slek, the devil o monk was he” The *Ilermit of Lenman” (New Jersoy) has lived for over forty years in a cuve, refusing to abandon his loneliness for civilization. Hee cently lie fell out of a chestnut tree and broko arib or two, and now he Is nnxious to go back to Connecticut, if sonicbody will kindly patch nhn up for the journey. B —— e 1t is really deligntful to seo the Imperlalisty of France striving to suve tho holy causo of the Republlc from the Republicans, and sven moro delightful to reod the annouscement that the Government of Franc Intends to punish most severcly all papers and pordbna that were guilty of offcuses aiainst thio Election laws wherever such papers aud persons are found—to be Ru- publicans, . S N * Btill suffering from the strika amoug its comne positoin, the New York Zvibuns obscrvest The Labor vole, 80 far ae this can be identifed aua dlstinct force'in New Jeruvy politice, bo crystallizing into very emphatic oppo Gen, SMoCLELLAN. This 18 a year whien cluialfied voter is llable to whow himaelf so nuwer. wusly at the polls as to confuse the regulurs, and the Demucrats of New Jersvy are beginuing to fesr that tney whil ind (¢ dificnlt lotllruy them- sclves after tho Lullots aro vorted and couited. % skl Woopix, the last of TweED's $40,000 * Re- publivan ' allies, lus withdrawn from hls rove for tho State Scuntorslup, which is well, though it is o plty ho was over nominuted ut all, or elée that he dld not withdraw while thero was a chance of saving the scat. - e —— ‘Tho bunded {ndebtedness of Cincinnat! at this thne is $23,008,85). The larger part s for aid {n bullding the Cincinuatl & Bouthern Rallway, which s yet far fromn completion, ——t—— A reformed Civil Bervice, as understood at thu Evening Journal olles, 1 a Clvil Servico com- poscd exclusively of Avening Journal vditors. gt o ersta it . The New York Suau is In favor of veducing the army to 10,000 men, 8o were Jevy Davis and FLoyD about scventeen years ago. e ——e—— — PERSONAL. The Mobfle - Regiater says the naval stores trade of that port supports fully £0,000 peopls. A promising book announced in London 18 Dr. Doran's **London fu the Jacobite Times." Nast's thumb is botter, and Gen, MoClellan bogins 1o feel it "I'ho Milwaukee 7%mes says that the yeport of the mysterious disappearance of John' M. Bincke Joy was & cruel and senseloss hoax, Mr. Loogfellow will contribute & poem called ** Kerainos™ tothe December number of Harper's. 1t will occupy, with the llustrations, fourtcen pages of the magazine, James Collins, of Whitley County, Ky., was prosecuted in the Whitley Circuit Court for solling his vote. Ho was found guilty sod dis- frunchived for life, This {4 the frst case of tho kind on record. Prof. Bwing'y lectare on ‘The Novel in Literature™ I3 described by the Philadelphis Tunes 88 & besuuful lecturo badly delivered. **The lectuze would delight the reador, but with- out better delivery would bore the Listener." At a queer kind of couvention, called the ‘¢ Antl-Death Couventlvn." held o Boston last Sunday, Ar. E. H. Hoywood offvred a set of resojutions, of which thia is o specimen: **That, as ‘nesr the Church is far from God," so all ays- tems and opinlons, rested in as Gualitics. are forme of relicions dry-rot, the moral death o those syho suppore themse'ven slive; that ren; uatry, mareinge, the polltical and pecnnlary gat. Jection of women, war, taxation, all invasive and murdorons customs, Indlcate Tack of fafth in lige to ontgrow this tragic represaton callod society, " It s unid that Mis« Jennio Jorome, who married Lord Randolph Chnrchill, has glven hee husband rome Yankee notions, *'1f you want to getrid of what in called obstrnction,™ kg Lord Randolph recently, **glve Ireland back her Parlig. ment.* Mr. Halstead waa in Philadolphin Thurg. day, on hls wayto New York. Ile stald oyer night at the Continental, for the pnrposs of meet- ing his son, wha I8 at school at Chester, TMe treats the Republican defeat In Ohfo philosophically, snying that Bichop fs atit] In 8 minorlty of 5,000 of 1,000 sotes, hnving recelved fower than old iy Allen kad when ho wae beaten, The nnpublishied lifo of Gen, Grant, writ. ten by his father, Mr. Jesse T Grant, fa In the wossession of the Connecticut Stato Librarian, This manoecrlpt glyes h new verelon of the way 1 which young Grant ot his name of Ulgesce; jt anys that the nanre was one of a lot draw from 5 hat when his parents wore devating what to eall him, King Alfonso has ordered at Paris n caskot by way of a betrotlial preacnt to bls futare wits, the Princeas Merceden. Itis Inlapls-lazull, monated on fonr llon's claws, alxteen tnchos high, aud thirty square, vrnamented with garlands of goldenu roses which are miracles of dellcato workmanship. The hues of the flowers are all falthfully vresented, The key 18 a golden ross fall blawn, The Interlor of the caskel In lapis-laznlistudrded with tiny nafly, dismond headed. The casket is Intended to holg the lovera' love lettors, but it goes to tho Princess in the first place with but ono noto and & necklace of elght rows of pearle, A number of Philadolphia journalists mot in the oflice of the Prese Thursday 1o uay goo by to Col. Fornoy, 5.Col. Forney, epeaking to thase around him an ** gentlemen of the Press, friends, and co-workers, " aald thal if they were surprlsed by his endden retirement they did not surpriss him by the expression of their attachment, *o1¢ I have been Indulgent to your faulte," ho con. tinned, '*pleanc recollect bow you have forgiven mine. You are mistaken when you say that I hiave forwarded your interests to the sacrifice of my own, for I should liave been a fallure long ago it we had not nlways heen knitted together In broth. werly bonds. 1know that your resolutions are sim. ply the thrubbings of your hearts, and bellevo me, my frionds, thot thoy are indellbly printed on my own," P Thoe London Atheneum saya: * We un. doratand that M, Lo Verrler'spame had been pro. posad for the Copley medal on the ove of the long vaeation, a proceeding by which the Council of tho Royal Soclety manifested theie high opinion of the merita®of their- distingulshed foreign momber, ‘The Instances in which tho samo medal, and that tho highest honor inthe Society's elft, has been twice conferred on the same iudividual are rare,~ Stephen Gray, Dr, Dessguiiers, who by the wny lind the medal threo tfines, Sir John Horachel, ané Faraday, The Copley medal wus awardeato Ly Verrler in 1840, and had he lived nntll the Royal Soclety’s anniverenry meeting, on St. Androw's day next, o would have been warmly wolcomed to a rovatition of the hionor.” ‘Tho London Academy bhaa the following Item: of Intorest concorning the late Mme, Titlepa: ** Her last benefit concert was At tha Itoyal Albert 1181, on the Hth of July, 18703 her final appear- anco on tho stage was on Saturday, the 10ih of May, 1877: the opera was * Lucrezla Dorgla.' She falnted twice during tho performance, fin her dressing-room, but sho would app knowing thot she had toundergo s painful oporation on the following Tevaday. *1fIam todle,'shesaldtoa friend, *1wlll play Lucrezia once more.' And sho did play tho part, Those who heard hor wil) always recall herrendering of the despalring cry after Gennaro's death. UBetweon 1 and 2 o'clock ou Wednesday morning tho dying artist called fo° a glass of milk, which she drank, fell back,and ex plred."” The Philadelphin 7Zimes says: * Thi ’ Wobaterlan modo of spelling s another of Mr. Greeley's crolchots that bhas Leen quiotly dropped by the New York Tribune, under ita present man- agement. The 7ridune peopla now speil theatre and centra like other people, and swear by Worces. ter {n all things. It was the last great newspaper o this country to renounce old Noab nnd his works. Mr, Reld tells how and when it was done inn letter recently ivritten so this city, 1o says: *Aftor onr rocent strike wo inade the change to Worcester as our authority In spolling, chiefly to hring ourselves Into conforinity with the accepted usage, a3 weill ns to gratify the desire of most of mcloding such gentlomen as Mr. Dayard r. George W. Bualloy, and Mr. Jokn R. Gone to meet Protection 10 Awori- can Induatsy " The wifo of Pero Ilyacinthe was bornin Richland, Oswego County, N. Y., and her malden name waa Butterflold. She, however, grow up fa the backwuuds of Ohlo, became a school-toacher, married a Mr. Merrlinan, and, Ueing left a widow with two clilldren to support, took to fooenalistie work for a living, 8ho wrote up Lincoln's inaugu- ral ball for the Now York Zimes, dy which paper sho waa sent to Parls, whero she was convorted to Catholiclem by the preaching of Pather Hyacinthe, When he took his **now departure ' she followed him, snd is now his wife. Thelr baby is » folly- looking little boy, with blg black eyes, a atrong 1love for porridge, and an absolute indierence to tho riss and fall” of Popedom, Mme. Ilyacinthe- Loyson is a fine linguist, and Is now dolng a great amount of translating, for which slic scems to Lave a apeclal faculty, The ‘London Athenaum says: * Whal they do with the old rhinoceroses has often been subject of thought by thoso visitors to the Dritleh Muscum who know that the stalf of the eatablish- ment Invariably obey the act of Parlfament which renaers It impossible to remove anyshing from Great Hussell strect. Every oue knows that s stuffed rhinoceros will, In course of time, become unpreacatable, nor can tho tougheat elephant Lide nlways keep the straw lintug from appoaring In & vory objoctionablo way, All who remember the old staircase of Montagu Ifouse havo felt that thery s 8 1lmlt to the exhibition of & giraffo which hai' beon recolved at o poriod so remoto that 1t was do- scnibed as a * cameleopard,’ Tho difiiculty {s go over ina way creditable to the {ngenuity of the sclentific utaff of the Museum and honorable & their sense of obedience, They atul® tho old rhi uocerosca Into the new once; thoy lue now ele- phouts with the nnpresentable remains of thelt forerunners; In the bow of the last giraffe I tha rolics of bis prodeccesors, This boats the scll- ing of Puaraoh for balsams, " The Enarl of 8haflesbury has just been making, fu s specch addressed to a Young Men's Christlan Assoclation in Glasgow, some curious revelations of an autoblograpbical character. *‘In catly life," ho sald, **I was passionately devoled to sclence, 80 much 80 that I was almost disposed 10 pursuo science to the exciusion of everything clse, ‘It passed nws; d T betook inyself (o Jiterature, hoptng that I shoild oot only equal bus rival many in.mental accomplishmengts, Other things were bofora me, and other thinge passcd away, because, do what I would, [ was called to anothor caseor. And now I find myself, at the end of along )ife, not a phllosopher, not an suthor, but simply an old man who has endeavored todo hia duty 1o that siate of lifo to which it has ploascd God to call bim." *¢Dut for certain circum- stances,” ssys the London Ekaminer, *'Lord Shaftevbury might have deliversd Prof. Tyndall's lato address at Birmingham, or even have written ¢ Ecce Howo,’ which he once describod as in effect the worst Dook uver *beiched from the mouth of hell,* I that case whers wonld the world, Exetor Evangolical rolixion, and Christian young men all over the world bavo beca?” * William H, Vanderbilt was a groat smoker {a ble youth. One day tn 1833, as the family wors on thelr way to Bt, Petcrsburg, on board the steam- yacht Northern §tar, the father aod sou wero walk- iugondeck. 'The latter was pultingaway his aftere dinner ciger. **1 wish you would give up that smoking batit of yours, 1'llgive you $10,0001f you do It," uaid tho Commodore abruptly, *'You need not give we any mouey. Your wish {s guite sutliclent,” answered the sun, throwlug the cigar overbosrd. And ho has never smoked siace, The command whish Willlsm H, hos always had over ‘bimselt in matters of thia kind is quite remarkas Vle. ilo was, for example, llke bis father, very fond Bt & gaisie of whist, and, like him, considerod blmself to be one of the bestof players. Whon he had removed to Now York and becamo connect- ed with the Harlem Ralirosd, he used to spend three or four ovenings s week at the Union Clud, But he noticed that tobacco amoke snd midaight hours interfured with the clesruess of his head the pext worning, and ne et ouge gave up both clud and whist, 0 samo thing bapponed with wine. Ho likes 8 glass of champagne, but having discov- ered or {magloed thut hle hosd {eit It noxt dsy, be never loucml-l:d:ny wlno“ &‘fi'o:‘{f'fln:‘. .pubhu ucts r 3 aa“-qplrlu. they wcrup:lwnxl out of the questiom with bam,