Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 23, 1877, Page 4

( Jhye Tribae, TERMA OF SUBSCRIPTION, BY SAIL—IN ADVARCE—POSTAGE FREPAID, Tally Editlon, one ye: $12.00 Farisof & 1.00 i, |welVe Bnges. Tri-Weekly, one year. Yartrot avenr. pet oy WERRLY DI ¥, per yes R ey ¥recimen coples eent tres, Give Post-Office nddress 1a fall, Inclnding tate and County. lemlttances may bo maide efther by draft, expreas, Tost-Ullice order, or{n resintered letters, st our risks TERYS TO CITY RUNRCRINERS, Taily, delivered, Eunday excepted, 25 conta per week. 1 delivered, Funday Inclided, & cents per week. Addtes TR TRIBUNE COMPAN Carner Madison and Dearbort-sta,. Chtcn, s Orders for the delivery of Tux Tainuxeat Evaaston, Engleweod, and liyile Park left n the countlng-roons willrecelve prompt attentton. TAMUSE TS, MeVicker’s Theatre. Msdlron street, between Staie and Dearborn. Ene Fagement of John T. Raymond. *‘Ilske." Mes- dsmes Don, Stoneall, vic.; Messrs, itaymond, Learock, Woond's Museum. Monror street, between Dearborn and State, **Hamp- 7 Dumpty." Spectalty Ollo, New Chlcago Theatre. Clark street, oppesite £herman Mouse, Engage- ment of the Campbell Comedy Combinatfon. ** Liow Women Love,” Mcodames Kand, Batcheider, etc.s Mesars. Norrts, Lake, ete. Adetnhl Theatre, Mourne street, corner of Dearboru. Engagement of Rubert's Pantomime Troupe, **Humpty Dumpty.” Collseun Novelty Thentre. Clatk strect, opposite the Court-Jlouse. ** Wild Bitl, the hing of the Burder Slen,* nyt Strik iy order of the Ji TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1877 GRICAGO MARKET BULMARY, d okt of them were steadler, with . Mew pork closed stundy, at October and $12.60 for Jan- eteady, at $4,40@8.45 Y for dunuary, Meats were ac per b for lovse shoulders and Thc et rihs, Lake frelzhts were wery dull,at 4¢ for cornto Bulialo, Whisky was wichanged, at 1.0 per mallon, Flour was quictaoe firm, Wheat cloetd frm, nt S1LUHor October nnd 1,051 ) Corn tlused ‘nfiZlae lgher. Cats clused Hoja were active, and closed A Hales principaily o3 83, 005 0, r demand nad frner, with rale B Sheep were quoted nt §2.77 + - The exporty from tho seaboard last woeek fucluded 60,080 bria tlour, 1,70 bu wheat, G4, 001 hu coru, 70,320 bu oste, (4,261 b bar- Urls purk, S,B80066 lbs lard, 405 lbe meata, There was n- rhccted futo store o this elty yesterday ‘M1 cars wheat, 156 cars and 10,200 bu corn, 25 cansand 2,000V u o, 8 rve, aud 50 cars ourley, "o- tal (UL earsy, GO0 bu. Une hundred dollars in gold wonld Luy $103.00 In greenoacks &t the close, . Greenbncks ot tho New York Stock Ex. chango yesterday closed at ¥ A — e o L Ligh Blantyre, awvillage a short distance from Glasgow, Scotlaud, waa yesterday tho sceno of another fearful mino explosion, which Llotted from the roll of theliving tho' names of soma 400 holploss creatures im- prisoncd in tho bowels of tho earth. Tho shock of the explosion is sald to have been 1most calnmitonsly effective, but ono person in thomine at the time escaping theréfrom, —— ‘Tho attack made by tho Roumauisvs on tho wecond Gravitza redoubtt at Plevna on Friday last js said to have beon of n very deapernte character, ‘The nssailants in the finit attempt wore driven back with heavy loss Lefore reaching tho work. Ia tho second nsault the Roumanian force, consiat- ing of two Lnttalions, succooded in reaching the Purkish trenches, where n foarful hand- to-hnud encounter onstied, which lasted for an lieur, At the end of that time the asanil- anle, becoming liatd pressod, wers obliged to retire with o loss in killed and wounded of mioro than half of their number, —— e Speaker RANDALL id said to bo making up Lis committess, Ifo is alio wald to have Luilded all hiy ccmmittees, Neither of theso wsertions is Lucked with reliabla authorify, und thurefors the patriotic wass of repre- sentative Demsocracy fs il at case, and DOs- sossed with u spirit whose cravings for light Lkoow uo bounds, ‘The gravitation largely tends towand tho Ways and deans, und fitty eager and iwguiring noses aro waid to ber pointing fu that dircetion, But Mr, ta. vaLL 4 not at all unewsy, and bears up under the weight of his socret with remarkable fortitude. o — An editorial article of Importance and sig- nificauce, which will to-duy be printed in the Indianspolis Journul, is given to the couutry through tho medius of the Associnted Press, I'ho article may bo said to express the senti. ments of Senator MonToN in vefereuce to the duty of IRcpublicans in Congress toward tho Presidont, ag- it was snbmitted to Mr, Mosnzox, and by Lim indorssd and approved, It is what he would say if ho were physieally able to tuko part 1n thy couusels of the Buun- tors und Representatives ut Wishington, snd the purport of it ix: *‘Bland by the Prosl- dent 1" e, An ovidencs of Ruasia’s determination to carry on the war until ‘Wurkey is crushed or Lrought to terms is uforded in the aunounoce- ment that tho Russian Govermmnent hins de. cided to uudertake at once the construction of o rilway system in Bulgeria to aid in the forwurding of troops sud supplice. A contract hns already Luen eutercd igto for tho impediato building of u roal from Bistova to Garny Studon., It is propoed to adopt the American plan, and complcte the connection aoross the Danubo by the estublishment of a Yerry upon which several railway cars can be trausporled at ouce, Bo fur 05 could be nscertsined last oven- ing from swoug the mass of unpledged delo- gated clected to the Republican Convention to-day, the contest for the nomination for ‘Treagurer seems to have narrowed down to Bleaurs, McCuza and Haxmosp, Other can. didates wjll of counse reccive complimentary votes and o show of support so long as 8 pousibility of sucoess remuins, but it appears likely that the issue will soon resolve itsele into o trial of strength between the two lesding candidates mentioned. As to the probable result with reforence to the other oficss, it would be impossible at the present writing to undertake 80 much as & guws. An uvusually largo vote was cust ot the primarics, and the faet that ,cunses of discoutent and conceal the third, tion, THE CHICAGO TRIBU TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1877. Lave organized for the spoila. large acale. senson his influence with Congress will be such as to induce that body to fall in with his schemes, sition on tho part of the Senate Elections Committeo to bring the con- tosted caso of Ketrooo and Srorromp ton spoedy conclusion. A report, written by Benator Morto just prior to thelast session, | but not presented, is now in the hands of Senator MircaeLy, acting Chairman of the Commiittee, and it is thought will be adopted by the Republicaus ns tho majority report of the Committes. It decides in favor of Krr- 100G 83 having Leen olected by the then Jegnl Legislature of Louisiana, It was yestordny detormined unanimously by thoe Cotnnitteo to receive such documentary evi- denca bearing upon the difficnlties in Louisi- aua ns oither of the contestants may desire to submit, the Committee reserving the ques- tion of its admissibility until after the evi- denca shall have boen presented. ‘The propo- sition to go Into this branch of tho case came from Krivooo, and appears to have been promptly acquicsced in by Srorrorn. S —— Tho ‘Lurkish defeat in Asin grows largeras fuller reports come in. The prisoners enp- tored nnmbered 18,000 men! and besides thoso there were forty cannon and a vast quantily of sinall arms nnd material of war, Cho ‘Turkish loss in killed must have been novoral thousand, aud the. total loss of tho "Purks not far short of 25,000 men. Mugu- TAR'A army was almost annihilated ; and this nccounts for the sudden change of tone on the part of the Ottoman Government from luughty to humble. Tho Porte is now anxious to kave the Groat Powers mediato between tho Turks and Russians. Tholatter anny not be anzions for peaco until the fol- lowcrs of the Prophet have been routed at Plovon and put Aors de combat in tho field, Tire Aslntio victory of the Russinns places them aud the Turks in about the rolative con- dition of tho Union and Robel forces nfter Grant eaptured Vicksburg, Tho parallel will bo completo after Kars surrenders, and the Iatest reports atate that negotiations are goiug ou with that end in viow. —— THE BECRET SORROW OF THE IMPLA- CABLES, The mnachine polilininx;l in Congross, in their contlict with the Presidont, profesa two which Is the real ono. To this extent thoy rro dishonest nud factious in their opposi- 'Thq first ostenaibla causo is dissatis- Inction with the Presidont’s Sunthern palicy, which 15 no eanso at all. Tho Southera pol- dey is an nccomplished fact and long past dnio. It ennuot be roversed, It mustatand, whwther tho Presideut rotraces his steps or nct. Thero Is no power compotent to change it without. a ‘disruption of the country and the precipitation of an eraof disorder and atmrchy, to which the peoplo of this country, Just beginning to enjoy tha fruits of peace tnd order, will never submit, The Impla- enblen in, Cougress know this, and therefore wro uot honest in nssigning it as ono of their priefs. Tl second alleged causo of griof is tae President’s circular forbidding office. Llders from slate-making and packing con. ventions, In this action the average Con- grossan professes to see o violation of his personal rights as a soverelgn, and therefore gres to war with the Dresident. Uhis {8 us far ns they go In s signing remsons for their attitudo tewards the Adminiutration, and ostensibly thielr tenrs are flowing for thesg two griefs. ‘Lhera is, however, something behind all this, Wo hinve already shown that the Southern policy is mot sufficient for this sorrow, ucither §s the President’s Civil-Bervice order. ‘Lhera is nothing in that order that interforcs with their rights os citizens—nothing that provents officeholders from taking part ina enmpaign after a Convention has nominated candidates nod a ticket s in tho fleld, It wad only imporative on ouo point, namely, that Federal officcholders shall not pack conventions or dictate cundidates on State, county, and city tickety, There was nothing in it that debarred an otfccholder from toking part in o campaign or doing any- thing legitimate in advancing the success of regularly nominated candidutes, This is but fair und right, and thero s nothing in it to cuuse such » manifestasion of griet, or, if there were, thers iy wuo reason why a compromise could mnot be effected. Tt is o minor matter in which the principle of non-intervntion fu local politics by Fedoral ofjeeholders hus been cxaggerated for purpose, The real couse of tha grief of theso Iwplacables hng not been stated Ly thom, but it i time that their constitucnts should know It {8 neithor the Bouthern polioy nor the Civil-Service order that has arrayed them against the President. Itie potronage that has made all the trouble, and it is the prospective loss of patronage (hat bas brought about such & remarkable out burst of lamentstion. The Presidentin his inaugural stated that Lo would uot be o party to tho surrender of his constitutional night to mako appointments to members of Cougresy; that ho would not give up the Executive ' functions' to the Logislative branch; that he wouhl not apportion the appolnting power among 150 or 200 men, assigning a gection of terrilory to each man in which he would be absolute in wmaking appointments and removals. Ho had wno idea of allowing these wmen to be Presidents in their own baoiliwicks, and running the inachine in the intorests of those who make up slates and bargain and sell with office-secking bummens. This is the real grief. If the Preuident bad said last March, or should say now, that he would aliow Scnators and mem- berd of Congrews to coustitule thowmselves ths sppolnting and removing power, aud if 80 many of the delegates go to the Conven- tion free to nct for the best interests of the entire ticket, as well as the fact that the various wards have chosen an exceptional avernge of good men ns their representatives, gives promiso of aset of nominations that will be n credit to the party and a harbinger of success nt tho polls. It now rests with the delegates themsolves to dotermine whether Cook County shall bs honestly gov- erned, or whotlier the taxpayers shall be plnndered by tho tax-cating clements that Gen, Fnianis's narrative of Gen. Frianre's negotiations with the putative President of tho Mexican Republic is tho busitcss-like story of A man who primarily, or ns the agont of others, has an eye to speculation on a The General is eald to have found Diaz in an exceedingly liboral frame of mind, indnced thereto by the ono great want of his Administration—recognition by tho United States. Mining priviloges, rail- road grants, border regulations, all these and more will President Draz pay for the privi- lego of having his representative officially admitted to the White Honse. Yet Ponrito is said to bo a cantious man, and makes theso promises on his own responsibility, fecl- ing nssured, however, that in n brief he would abdicate his constitutional right, except so far as to be A registering clerk with no authority, discretion, or will, having only the powor to sign such appointmenta and removala as Cougressmen might submit to himn,—thess Implacables would instantly beconio warm supporters of tho Southern policy and onsily compromiso on the Ciril- Service ordor, It is the threatened disrup- tion of the old spoils system, inaugurated by tho Demoorats in Jaoxsox's time, that hasled them to the determination it shall not bo disturbed or modified.: Take awny patronage, and you take away that npon which thoy live and thrive. The Democrnts stand Lehind theso Republican Implacablos, patting them on the back and encouraging thom with the declaration that, when they have thoir President in 1880, he will not in- terfere with' patronaga and its fat retarns. With & few Lonorablo exceptions, the Con- gressmen of both parties in Loth Houses are in lengue to snatch away the appointing power from the President, which belongs to Lim of constitutional right, that they may cnrich themselvos a8 of old in the apoils of placo, and revel in the plundar to ba derived from bargain ond sale with office-secking bummers, If these Implncables wore honest, they would tell the people that the threatened 10ss of potronagoe is the canse of their grief, and stop suiveling about the Southern policy and the Civil-Servica order. As they are too modest to mnke the announcement, we Lave niade it for them. or both of the metals very materially, United Btates recelves gold for them. the specien of money, or the natare of the conside eration received by those who Issue It. what It Is aold for, other construction thana similar bond s0ld nt 50, services, The promiise, and not the conelderation, gover 11 it were really trae that what s re- ceived for bonds dletermiines what they promise, the holders of a majority of the outstanding bonds of the United Staten would be in 8 much less favor. able poeition than they now occupy. debts in silver coin of 412} grains weight in thedollar, and, hiaving Lhat legal and equitable tion, or national dishonor in so doing, cspecinlly as tho decline in silver will bo temporary. free coiuage of silvor dollars, it is possible that, in nddition to our stock of national coin, wo wonld have from 100,000,000 to 150,- BILVER AND THE PUBLIC DEBT. Tho only material objection that Lss been aver urged againat the romonetization of the gilver dollnr is that sinco 1873 the value of gilver has declined, and that to recoin it and make it a logal-tonder at its present ratio with gold would be an Jujuatico to the pab. lic creditor. Upon this point have been rung the chauges of bad faith, repudiation, and violation of national honor, There is, however, nothing in this objection. The recoinage of fhio silver dollar and its restorn- tion &s a legal-touder will violate no contract, axpressed or implied with the public credit- ors, or with any other persons, oven if such ailver dollars sliall happon to bo worth less in gold than they wore in 1873, Iuthe first place, tho contingency spoken of is not likely to happen, and, oven if silvor should bo less than its former value, it will remain so but for a ghort time. The passnge of a law re. monotizing silver and nuthorizing the free coinage of the silver dollar will at oncs, by opening & new market, limited only by the capacity of the mint, have the effect of rais- ing tho valuo of tho metal to 8 polnt where the silver dollar will be oqual to the gold dollar, It is not necessary that silver shall rench tha valuo por ounce that it had when tho coinage of the silver dollar was abolished. Then the silvor dollar was worth over 103 conty [n gold; when silver shall reach that value agniu, tho coinagoe of the silver dollar will ceass, or its weight must bo reduced {from 15,98 of silver to 1 of gold to 15.6 of silver to 1 of gold, which is tho French standard, The question, however, at present is tho mornlity of coining silver dollars of tho old standard weight, while silver na a motal is worth less than it was when the dobt wos contracted, All tho dobt of the United States payable in motallio monoy is by ox- prees atipulation payable in coinend not, as is supposed, in gold, That gold bas been tho coin gouerally in use in tho United States ns o legal-tender i true, becauso the gold dollar was worth leas than tho silver dollar, oud was thereforo the cheapor or inferior money. Prior to 1834 silver was the cheaper money and in general use. In that year Congress debnscd the gold cofn by reduoing the woight of puro gold in the gold coins, aud gold becamoa the cheaper coln and super- seded the silver, Congress then adopted the practice of every nation of the carth under like circumstances, and paid its debts in that coin which was tho lenst valuable, aud which it had by law reduced below the value of the other. Gold continued to b the cheaper coin from 1834 until 1875, and was the coiu gen- erally used by the Governmont and by the public in all transactions requiring payments in cofu, ‘When the public debt was created, Congress, however, reservod the option to pay in cither gold or silver, In 1870 that roservation wna written fn the Funding act, aud is printed on all the bonds, that the United States should pay the samse in the gold or silver coin of the United Btates, of tho weight and fineness as provided by tho laws of the country in forco at that date. ‘Tho law in 1870 required the gold- dollar to contain 25.8 grains, nino-tenths fine, of gold, and that the silver dollar should con. tain 412,56 grains of silvor of the same fine. ness. That was tho contract with the creditors. The debt was to be paid in dol- lars of thoso woights, The Government could not lawfully pay the debt with silver dollars of less woight, nor with gold dollars with fower grains of gold, but it rotained the option to use eithor or both at its pleasurs, In making thia con. tract it did not stipulate that gold should not fall in value, nor that silver should maintain the valua in gold it then commanded. It did not guarantue purmnanency of value of either matal. Al it promised was to pay gold or silver dollars,—the dollars to contain tho quantity of pure metal thon provided by law, 'The coutract began nud ended there. ‘The fact that silver had declined in valuo as compared with gold does not change the con. tract, ' If silver shull before the maturity of the bonds recover its value, and tho silver dollar shull agein be worth 103, that will not take from the Government gl privilego of payiug the bonds iu gold or tho cheaper dollars, The Socnate Committes on tho sil- ver question thus diuposo of this matter: . The promise of the Unlied States to the par- chascra of bonds under the act of July, 14, 1870, isnot to pay money, but to pay ‘‘coln™ of (he then *‘standurd value," meaning of the weight oud finenees of the gold aud sliver dollars thea be- ing colued at the miat, Both parties took the risk of the Huctuations of the mctals. The United States received no guarsntce agalust theiz rise, Fuve 1o guarautee agalust their fall. The aseuwp- tlon that the agresmeut of the United States way tyay cows of the then warket or cowmercisl voluo Iy to tho last degres abeurd. The United Slates agrecd to pay a speclde thing, not a specite value, Thero 18 no tribunal so determine What tha chinges are In the market or commerclal value of dollars. No prudent Goveratwent or ludi- vidual would gire on obligation so shadowy and Indefinite, and no prudent capitalist would accept such ag obligation . In ueulug bonds under the sec of Jaly 14, 1870, the United States touk the plekof & rise in the valug of bothtbo metale. Tho parties accepting the bonds touk the opposite risk of & fall fn the value of either of thewm, 'The chances sgalust the Unltod States were waru snd political disturbances in the wining countries, such as causcd u decrease iz the production of guld and silver Letween 1800 ond 1848, orthat the mines would be from wy other gause less productive, or that countries not uslog gold or silver might decree thelr use o monvy, and thus wi sew demand for them, or that » change of R might Increase the con- sumption of the metals in the arts. Either of thess circumstances, orall combined, might ralve the valuu of tho metale very malerially. Untheirpare, 1hose who sccopted the bonds tovk the risks of sn {ucressed production of either or both of the metals by the discovery of new gold aad silver mincs o silver would have long aince recovered its former relation to gold. SITTING BULL. A Commission of civilians and military men, organized upon a scale commensurate with the Court of an Emperor, haa been view nn unbreeched Indian who hss been robbing, plundering, and murdering at his own sweet will for two or threo years past. A great denl of time and money has been whasted, and all to no purpose. The Com- mission met Mr. Sirrine Bovw, officially got down on ils kneew to the donghty Chieftain while ho squatted npon his hams and smok- ed his pipe, aud they read an address to Lim, much in the maunera burgomaster would read anaddressto aKing. 'Theysentimental. ized on tho blessings of peaco, expressed a firm conviction that the Great Father dida't want to fight him any more, offered not to pnnish him for any of his past atrocities if ho would givo himself up and go on a reser- vation, aud suggested they might kil 8 fotted calf, put’ o ring on his finger, and array bLim in purple and fine linen when that interesting event took place. After the address was read to Lim, the stenogrnphers sharpened their pencils in roadiness to report s beautiful flow of In- dian oratery, and the Commission propared itself to recaive the Prodigal Son with open arms. There wns no flow of oratory, how- over. Sirrive Buwn's reply was ns terso, sentontions, and nlmost ns brief as 'Cau- nnoNNe's roply to the Eaglish at Waterloo. Botween tho whifls of his pipe, ho quiet- Iy remarked that tho Commission that had como to intorview him might go to hell Ha did not waste any words about his Groat Father, the Groat Spirit, the whispering winds, the red doer, the pale flowors, or indulge in auy other Indian tropes and motaphors. He just expressed himself briefly and empbatically, and, baving done 80, went on wsmoking his pipe os unconcernod as if the whole Commission had gone to the undesirablo place ho indi- cated, It ovidently struck the Commission ltkko a bombshell, explodiug with such’ offect that it even out the dispatohes short off ih the middle, Tho denonement, howover, is satisfactory, and not without cortain dramatic effect and fitness. Meanwhilo tho situation auggosts ita own remedy, The Govornment slould send no more Commissions to treat with this gontlo savaga, but capture him ns speedily as pousiblo, and when this Bury is eaptured, whether ko bo sitting or standing, wasto 1o time or monoy in placing him upon a reservation, bat dispatch him to that region indicated in his roply by as short a routo as pasible, and without unnecessary delay, TO-DAY'S CONVENTION. The responsibility which rost upon the Re- publican Convention that meets to-day to nominato candidates for the connty officos is more importaut and urgont thau any that has contronted a local political body for some years. Thesituationis peculiar. ‘Tho adminis- tration of county affalrs s in the hands of a woll-organized Ring for plunder, which is resolved to maintain its opportanities, it not through the prosent agents, then through succossors who will not interfere with the system. The nctionof the Democratic man. ngers thus far has crented & genoral impres. sion that their party will pander to this com- bination by the selection of candidates who will sywipathize with tho lavish expenditure of publio moneys, It is by this means that tho Democratic mansagors Lope to securs the solid vote of the scum of the city, and a lurge part of tho so-called Workingmen's vote, which they regard as an important factor in the campaign, 'l'o further this oln, the County Board has resolved to sub- mit an issue of $500,000 in bonds to be voted ns nn additional expenditure during the next year. Thoro is not oven a pretense of & disposition to retrench among any of the political factions outside of the Repub- lican party., 'The ouly hope, thon, the tax. payers of Cook County have for protoction ot presont is lodged in tho Republican Con- vention, Tt is felt that the nomination of a county ticket which whall command confi. dence in the good intentlons, the ability, aud responsibility of all the candidates pre- sented will mlly the property-owners, busi. ness mon, and respectable voters in auch uumbery a8 to overwhclm even a combina- tion of all the other clements. The nomination of such wen as will leave little or mno choice between tho tickets may lead to the formation of an indopendent movement, The nowination of what might be callsd a nogative ticket, not objectionable enough to lead to an open bolt, aud not strong enough to secure the enthusiastio support of the respousible ele- mont of socloty, will bo received with such cold indifference as to render the success of the opposition very probable, Under theso circumstances it is evident that the Republican Convontion has the pow. erto assure & victory, or render defuat in some shape or other inevitable. ‘The dule- gates have already boon sclocted and the char. acter of the Convention to a certaln extent dotermined. A portion of these delogates will go tothe Convention more inclined to the interests of particular candidates than to the general good But it is not too lato to subordinate all special inturcsts to the public welfsre; no pledgo to any one candidate or to any combination of candidates is so sacred as the implied pledgo to the public which every dolegate makesin consenticg to sit in the Convention, by the more vigorons working of ald mines, or that commerclal countries might demonetize one or dotA of the metals, ar that great amounts of xold or slle ver might be liberated by the suspennion of apecie payments in fmportant countriey, or that the habita of the warld infght be so changed that lers amonnts of gold and silver would be ured for other purposes than ns money. Either of these cicenmstances, or all combined, might depreciato the value of one It fs romctimen raild that the more recently-" Isencd bonda should he paid in gold, because the ‘The obliga- tions of a bond are not governed by the price, or They are Roverned by the terms of the bond, and not by A bond suld at 105 can have no and 8 tond rold for gold can have no other cone struction than a similar bond sold for sitver or sreenbacke, or given In payment for suppiles or We do not imagine thnt therais an intalli. gent man who questions the legal and equit- nable right of the United Btates to pay its right, there can be mo immorality, repudia- Hnd the mints been open to the 000,000 of silver dollars, and tho value of traveling soveral thonsand miles to inter. givo way to this law in the present iustance, trayal of .both its party and the people. Lias been wisely decidsd to givo precedence to thonominationsfor County Commissioners and Judges ns positions in which tho public County Commissioner is virtually an ansala. ried offico, and ono that ought not tobo songht after by anybedy. It should be tho nim of the Convention to select two of tha leading aud most trustworlhy citizens of the ‘Wost Bide, two mors of tho same charactor from the North Side, and ono equally satie- factory from tho country district. Every one of thete men should bo so wall known na to leave no doubt of his fituess, aud s to command the nctive support of all who are concerned In the work of reforming county nffairs, Wo can searcely conceive of the Convention nomiuating unfit men for the Boneh, but particular attention should be Paid to the choico of the candidato for the Probate Judgeship, For the nettlement of estates, and the protection of the rights of widowa and orplians, not merely tho strictest integrity, but n fund of patience, a capacity for application and industrions habits, are requisite to the proper ndministration of the FProbato Conrt. Az to the positions of County Troasurer and County Clerk, it must be kept in saind that they aro regarded as the most important offices of tho county; that thoy will head the ticket, nnd will exert moro influonce in determining the result than any of the others, Becauso theso placea aro the most romunerative and bocauso they havon large patrounge attached to them, there has been porsistont individual efort to acouro them; but it must be remembered that individnal effort to obiain office is by no means tho highest recommendation for office. Noithoer of these two oflices is one that ought to be given to a politician and place-secker by pro- fession, a8 such an incnmbent is pretty sure to uso kis patronage and subordinate the ad- miniatration in the intorest of Limself, his frionds, or his party in preference to that of tho public; and, in the presont situation, tho professional’ and persistent place-hunter is not tho kind of person to command goneral confidence or to excite the taxpayers aud business men to special activity in the cleo- tion. The duly of tho Convention, the in- terost of the Kepublican party, and tho ne- ceasities of tho public, all demand alike the best and strongest ticket that can he nomi. nated. ] SEPANISH COMMERCIAL RELATIONS. Tho pretended ignorance reported from Bpain of tho causes that have led tho United States Government to impose n differential chnrge of 50 conts a ton upon Spanish vos- ecls trading in American waters, is vory ab- surd. Every official conncoted with the Spanish Government, and every Spanish merchant who deals with . the United States or Cuba, underatnnds the situntion thorough- ly. It fu notorious that the Spanish Govern- wment has nlways pursned a discriminative policy towards the United Stntes with rofor. enco to trado with Cuba and Torto Rico, A deslre to avoid forcign complientions has in- duged tho various Administrations to sabmit to Bpanish cxtortion and discrimination with o mookness of protestthat has been almost pusillanimous. It is possible that the Amer- ican War of the Robellion, and tho do- mestic complications growing out of it, havo postponed a reckoning with Spain, but it is tine thoro should be ono. We hopo the imposition of extra chargo upon Spanish tonnage in American waters is the first stop in a new departuro which shall barass Spanish commerce in every way within tho power of tho Amorican Government till a fair and impartial treaty of commerce shall be concoded by Bpain. Tho Bpauish talk of retaliation is buncomnbe; the retaliation is on the American side, and Spain can injure Amorican interests no moro than sho bas beon doing in the past without inflicting great damago upon hersolf, If she sdopts the policy hinted, of malking such charges upon Amorican vessels in Spanish waters a8 will praotically excludo Ameriean bottoms from the Cuban trade, her weapon will prove to bo a boomerang; the Spanish Government, with all its parasites, excesses, ‘wars, and vices, is mainly supported by tax- ation on Cuban products, and the bulk of Cuban products aro exported to tho United States. To strike at tho exportation of the West Indin staples from the Hpanish posses- sions will be to weakon Bpanish rovenues in & manner aund degree ‘which tho Home Government cannot afford. To the oxtent that American shipa be excluded from the ports of Cuba and Porto Rico, they will seek the other West India islands and the South Amerioan coast in search of sugar and coffee. The United Btatea will turn its atton. tion to the beet-rcot sugnr of Europe, and cultivate more at home, Spain, in its gresd, has already squeezed the West Indian orange 50 dry that It caunot risk any moroe oxtortion or discrimination, elther for purposes of roy. enue or rutalistion, ‘The United States Gov. ormment has tried tho policy of forbearance and conciliation so long, and with such un- satisfactory results, that wo have nothing to loso and everything to gain in weeking to co. erce Spain wto n recoguition of commercial cquity which slio will not graut voluntarily, Bpaiu bhas olways sought to wake Lor possessions in the West Indies contribute the cost of hor wars, extravaganoce, and folly at homo, and to this end Ler policy hirs been discriminative. For more than 200 years the Island of Cuba was permitted to trade only with the Qity of Boville, Afterwards the otlior Bpanish ports were thrown open to hor, but it was only in the early-port of this century that foreign trade was adiitted to Cuba ou auy terms. Spain slould have losrned the greater value of commercial libe erality from the fact that this concession, ovon hampered ss it was by extortionato taxation, fpcreased Spanish trade with Amer- ica enormously, Buat Bpanish greed aud Javarico kept up the palioy of disorimination, aud os lato as 1862 scarcoly a barrel of Amer- Ican flour was scnt to Cuba except by way of Bpain. Bome concessions bave boen forced {from Bpaln, but the export and import dutios bLavestill boen maintained at the most thievish rates, TheUnited States is the nearest man. ufacturing neighbor of Cuba, and the latters most important patron. 'We produce, make, and transport nearly everything which Cuba buye abroad much more cheaply than any other nation in the world. Yot American meal, flour, meats, furmiture, agricultural implemeats, clothes, oto., are taxed double and treble by Spain before they are admitted into Cuba, aud the most oppressive export tax is levied upon all Cuban products sent to the United Btates. ‘This policy is pursued in the face of the fact that frowm 70 to 75 per cont of the Cuban exports are sent to the United Btates. "Tho effect of the policy upon American trade may be fully described in the single statement that, while the United Btates imports sannually about §80,000,000 to the effoct that he will use his influence in behnlf of the public welfare. Allcliques must or tho Republican Convention will risk a bee It ‘intorests aro most involved. The position of to Cubn amount to only 15,000,000 annu- ally. 'The United States, in justico to ite own interests, can no longer submitpntiently to this discrimiuntion. Coaxing has accom- plished but little, Forbearance, whilo 8pnin hina been nt once barbarous and imbecile in denling with the Cuban insurrection, has earned no gratitude or consideration. - Tho timo has como when the United States Government must shotw somo capacity for rosistance and solf-defenss. It may be that o differontinl charge ngninst Spanish ship. ping in American wators mny Le n surprise to Spanish merchants and the Spanish nu. thorities, becanse tho United States Govern- ment hns beon eo supine nnd endured so much without retaliation; but it is only fecblo imitation of the Spnnish policy toward American interests, nnd wo are con- vinced that a vigorous pursuit of this policy will bo the specdiest way of bringing Spain to terms. “ WHERE APFROPRIATIONS COME FROM, ‘I'he raids on the National Treasury this winter promino to be moro nerlous in number and character than ever hefore. The hard times, which ought to be a roason for the strictest ccononiy, have been mado the pre- text for o hundred schomes involving tha wildest extravagance. By some process of thought, which tho average man cannot Liope to understand, it ins been assumed that the Governmont ought not to respoct the busi- ness principles which provail will private citizenn ; that, whercasthe Intter must al. ways spend less than they carn, the former can with safety give itself a large margiu of exponditure nbuve its annnal income j and that periods of finncial stringency, when all other business is conducted on the mest con- servative bnsis, is just the time whon the Governnient ought to be lonst careful of {ts money. Advoeates of libernl appro- priotions go so far as to eay that it is not only the priviloge but the duty of the Gov- ernment to engago in large schemes of in- ternal improvement st this time, bocause, they claim, the unemployed labor of the country can look for relief to no other quarter. A good deal of obscurity may he removed from this discussion by n consideration of tho question, Where do the appropriations come from? Thero is not auything mys- terious about Govermnent as we find it ex- isting amoug us to.dny. It Is an organiza. tion for the protectionof the people—ngainat thomselves and agninst foreign pations, Its power is derived from the people, and re. turns to the people agnin. Its money comes sud goes in the same way, Government is but o human iatitution; it does not pousess supernatural powers; it cannot create some- thing out of nothing, or mako woalth with- out Iabor. Govorument, indeed, is not n prodncer, but n consumer,—n tax-emter, aud, wers it not for the protection which it offords society, sn intolerable burdon. When the Government appropriates, it distributes money which the people have earned, and which they have ylelded up in the form of taxes. ‘Tho people, in fact, make the ap- propriations in a gross sum, and the Gov. ernment divides them among the varions departments. It comes to the samo thing whather tho appropriations are met Ly an ex- tra tax or by un addition to the national dobt, A national debt, instend of being as some- body has claimed s national blessing, is o nationnl mortgage; and the mortgage is neoured by the wealth, the labor, and the faturo of the people. Although theso prin. ciples aro-plnin, the Tronsury.robbers con- staatly ignorethom, This or that mppro. printion is urged on the ground that it * wiil. dovelop resources” and ‘‘set peopla to work ”; while the fact that another kind of resources must be developed and another number of people set to work to pay the np- propriations is concesled. The' Trensnry- robbers proposa to take from Pxres to pay Pauw; but they suppress the first and most {mportant branch of thoir proposition, ‘The schemes now befors Congross which contemplate the robbery of the peoplo in ono form or another are the most monstrons that have ever Loen brought forward in a sioglo session. The enumeration of them would bo a long task, and not a grateful one, ‘They include such undertakings ss the build- ing of tho Northern and Bouthern Pacific Railways, a froight railway from Obicago to Charloston, . aud s rllroad to the Black Hills; the rofunding of tho cotton tax; the paymout of Rebd ponsiona; the eatablishment of a miut in the South; the repair of the lovees of the Mississippi; the subsidizing of steamship lines to Brazil, Chins, and Europe; tho improvement of “rivers and hiarbors” throughont the re. remninder of the Union and the Btate of Michigan bosides; and the settlement of countless *‘claims” springing out of overy war the Nvpublic has beon on. goged in. Nine-tenths of all thesa schiemes involve fraud in one shiape or another; aro pushed for purposes of private gain ; and de- pond upon the corruption of the Governmont for their success. Of ‘those that remain, nearly all are unnecossary, or can be batter accomplished by privato capital than by the National Lrensury, How preposterons it s, {from any standpuint of common sense, that the Government should be nysin asked to rg- love the veteransof the War of 1812; or that the Itebels who attempted to destroy the Union shonld be paid for their treason; or that the iniguities practiced by the prowmot. ers of the prosent Pacitio Railroad should bo twica repented ut the cxpense of the peopla | Yet these are éxactly the schoies which are pressed with tho nost wrgency; and, as a rule, it will be found that Lills which con. template the greatest robberics of the Na- tional Treasury have the most powertul sup- port, for the reason that tho motive which abides in spoila is always present in thom, ‘The conflict between the Tréasury-robbers and the taxpayers has becowmo so serfous that every good citizen nust take part in it Every voter owes It to himsclf to scrutinize the votes of his Representative in Congreas, sud discover whether that Representative is acting as tho agent of a robber or mot, It will not do for members of Congress to as- sume thit tho people aro caroless or iguo~ rant of tho jobberics that are practiced at Washington. © Tux Tasune will attempt durivg the coming svssion to illuminate whalever ignorance exists on this subject, and it will have on ils side every enlightened nowspaper in the country and every houest vote. Tho demand of the hour—the de- mand that Will be paramount in the nest National cauvass—ia the Reduction of Taxa~ tion, Every momber of Congress who fails toshow a clear recopd when this question comes up for discussion before the peoplo will bo held to a strict account. Speaking o-l GaurieLy's u;:l-n-mnn of the Obio defeat and bis disposition to Lase it on the . paratyzing influence of the Clvll-Service order, which kept politicdans out of the fracas, the Cinciunatt Commercial observes: ‘Theso statenents, if true, show to what ex- tent our pulitics buve Lecums debsnchicd by the olicoholdess, nd Justify the Prusidunt's coirag worth of Cuban products, the American saloa | 1 the ends for which parties are organize of raMcient fmuoitanca to enlit the '?eh'::.”:‘ the people, and hring them ta the Polls on el day, withont texing the inteilocts hnd - packers 53 Erieral aficers, |t ia tine the pnrtive Uhnanie) The ohject of ‘the Premdent I8 sitapty o oo PAte the people from the political cont clans, al L retieve onr focal canvaa: prardnee of Vedera) Intrefor Rttent to thelr proper odicin) dut Ix of the npinlon that the yicople t willfig to Jook after their'owh bolitical tongern) e — Mr. W. W. Nrvix, who succeeds Col, Fonngy Intho contral of the Philadelphla Pres, 1y defines his position as a fence-stead-ller: e do not stand committed 1o the sy, Administration of “national atfaira ‘b preeiih Itayes, neither are wa committed azainet it we do not stand committed 10 the suppuet of the Ag ministration of Gov. LARTIAXPT |0 the Commnn. Wealth, nor ave wo committol against {1, e do not atand commitiad o the SUEUOEL OF the Yunie). pul Adminiatration of Mayor STokiEY, nor nre we committed nzainst it And he adduces as the reason of this straddle **the independence of positive conviction and the freedom from the embarrassing control of capital, or of indlserect political or corporate afliliation.” “The Court which Is o try the South Caroling ting-thicves met at Columbia yesterday, ang there is every prospect of falr dealing, the pre- siding Judge being a Republican, while the Petg Jury consists of nineteen negrocs 1o zeventeen whites, and twenty-one Republicans 1o fifteen Democrats, Ex-Trensnrer PaAricer will tnrg Btate's evidence, and there sceins to be enougt testimony avallable to wurrant a number of m’n- victlons, uniess political celmes are regardeq by the average Juror in South Carolina in the 1amg light as political crimes In this city, In thay casa the Intelligent and patriotle jury wilt ro- turn verdicts of ucquiftal without regard to cone fesslons of gullt or the amount of proot. - —tg—. The Virzinla Stute debt roadjusters, aliy repudiators, have aucceeded in finding n caudy dato for Licutenant-Governor to run apalnst the too honest Gon, Warker, Tho name of the new man Is Col. Ronenr A. RiCitARDEON, and he 1s spcaking fromn the same platform with Gen. WALKRR. Judging by the applause, the readjusting gentleman gets closer to the hiearty of the voters, aud s liable to receives Kood many ballots, ———— Peath 15 convulsed over a recent duel which resulted fn the death of M. DR Pritczr of the hands of M. WaaNgR, o Professor of the Polytechnie School. ‘The casus belli ls a mys. tery which even tho father of the cotpse, who Is a Hungarian Minister of Justice, faila to fathom, but tlie affair fs poluted to ds demon. strating the ability of the pedagogues over thy young idea fn the shooting line. ————— The Journal says that withina few yearss nerson connected with Tnx TRIBUNE ‘(now a Journal ofliccholder) was n Kepresentative in the Legislature; and, we may add, made a good member. But since the Journal went into ofices grabbing as n business, Tue TIMBUNE stepped aslde, and no one .counected with it occuples any ofllcial position, o —— Inanswer toa correspondent who demands the couplot beginniog “ Lol the poor Indian,* the Loutsville ConrierJournal cvolves the in formation: Lo, the noor Indlan, whose untntored mind Accepts his pay inshooting-irons rusted, 6 beads, brass rings, aud trinkete of that kind; And, worst of all, fn Cincinnati bust-head, | The policy of aending an Irlshman to Wash ington as correspondent will roccive a promp indorsement from all well-regulated newspapers, The 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat learus from Mr McCuruacit that *the rapprochement between the President and the Repubtican party begins to assumo the appearancoof an entende cordinte, 4 Gen, McCrELLAN, the cosmopolitan candl date for Governor of New Jersey, has estab- lished his politieal headquarters in New York City. 'This docs not ralse .the yuestion of citle zenship so much as {t provides a refuge for the baskets of fraguents that will Lo swept upafte tho election. P f An exchango observes: When the subsidy and {nflation questions drop upon the Larmo- nlous Democracy in Congress, the perty . will discover a cloud or two in the political heaveus, with faint lutimations of a cyclone by 1880, e et~ - A Boston Soclety for tho Advaucement of Clvllization discovers that business is plracy, Government coerclon, and churches brother- hoods of thieves, The ‘‘advaucement of civil- lzation " on this basls probably mcans the per petuation of idiocy. f ‘The Republican Convention to-day will make & spoon or spoil a horn, By which observation we mean that they can nominate u ticket that will be elocted, or they may make ono that will crush their party n defeat. ———— In order to kecp up with the march of jublles events, tho various gentlemen through the country under sontenve of strangulation pro- Dose acentennial celebration of the deathol Ma}, ANpuE, 1In theso times of political complications peor ple will not be surprisod to learn that Crrantr Ross converted bimself Into a dark horse torun for the State Senate In a New York district, f f Ouo could svarcely expect much of civillzed treatment from an Indizn who appeared before a Commission from “the couucll of my s tion wearlug ** a quiet, fronicat smile.” | 1t is by no means unfair that New York should reciprocate the Khedlve's prescut of a shuy uenument, and send over Sunset Coux. PERSONAL, M. Qrevy is the best chees-player in France, Joaquin Miller's play, *Tha Danites," ‘has made a hit lo Boston. Mr. Jossph Cook's *‘lackof clearness” 1a sald to be growlug on Lim, Joln B. Gough {ssald to contemplate s lecturlog toar o Great Britaln, Putti is now goiug the rounds of the En- gllah cities, prior 1o kier doparture for Milan. Elizabeth SBtuart Phelps' now uovel, * The Btory of Avis,” {s said 10 be the work of her life. AL Oudinot, the distiuguished French astlat, has determined ro remala in Boston during the coming whnter, Qroen's ** History of tho English People” —the library work into which he nas expanded his **Sliort Llistory "—will be comprised in four volumes, of which two will be publisied tbis Acason, Itis only two montha since the death of the milllonalre’ Blanc, director of tho great gam- bling establishment a4 Mousco, and now comes the aonuuncenent that ble wiccessor, Btewley, hat fust died of apoplexy, Messrs, Roberts Drothers have alresdy been obliged 10 go to press with & accond editlon of Mr. Plerce's **Mcmole and Lettors of Charles Sumper," which will not be pubiished, probasly, before the firet week In Novamber, An Oregon uewspaper contains this pars- graph: **A great lot of young ladies welcomed Ucn. Sherman at Albany. The old warrior weub right o and kissed the whole of thein, while bis son, & cowardly young fellow who bad nover besd througli the ware, stood back aug loked sheoplabs |, on" ‘I'he Boston Publio Library Trustecs are making Lut slow progress in the choomng of 8 suc- cessor 10 Librazin Jostin Winsor, Ssmoel Eliok decliues the odice, and awmong the nawcs men- tioned s1e Prof. Johu Flske, of Harvenl; Me Spofford, Coogreesional Librarfan at Washlogtoui ¥. B, Banborn, James 1. Fields, aud Ifcary Cabob Lodge, late of the NortA American lieziaw, A correspondent of the New York Pat wrlites of tho word Jympathic: ** As expressive of insanity, 1t wag largely used by the Latin wrniters. ‘Thls use of tho word has never oblainod fu Englisk Mtoraturo except among a few Latinized writers, sad the sonso of *watery,' * charged wilh squeous huwors,’ bas alony been proserved. From this phystologlcal fdea bas arisen ths wentsl spplica- tionof ‘slow,’ *dull,’ neasly allied to ‘whley; watic,” ths reverse of ‘nervous,' ‘aciiw talerk' " 4