Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 13, 1877, Page 4

1 Tlye Teibune, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DT MAIL—1N ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID. v Edittan, one rear. ui.oo a gedr. ner montl R 30 e copy, per ye R recimen coptes ent tree. Give Post-fi:ce sddress In fall, fnclading Btate and County. Kemittances mayho mado elther by draft, express, Tost-Ofilce arer, orin registered ietters, at aur risk. TRRMS TO CITY SUBSCRINERS. Dally, dlivered, Fundsy escented, 25 cents per week, Latly, delivered, Sundsy included, 30 centa per week. Addres THE THIRUNE COMPANY, Loryer Madtson and Desrhorn-sta., Chicago, Iil. Orders for the delivery of Tix TRnux s at Evanston, Engleweod, and Hyde Park leftIn the counting-room willrecelve prompt attention. . A McVicker's Thenires Madiron street, hetween Ftate and Dearborn. s1gerions Famlly,” snd **Mr. sad Mrs, Peter White." Hnalcy’s Thentre. Tiandolph street, between Clark Engagement of Fryer's Opers Troupe. Dutchman.” Naw Chicago Theatre: Clark atreet, opposite tho Sherman fouse, Camp- bell Comedy Combinat he Virgintez, * and Lasalle, *'The Fiylng Haverly’s Theatre, Monroe strect, corner of Deatborn, Engagement of Bam Deyere. **Jasper.” . Collseum Novelty Thesatre. Clark street, between Randolph and Washtagton. Tiarry Wood's Femsle Minstrels. Afternoon and even- g, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1877, CNICAGO MAREET BUMMARY, The Chicago produca markets wera nctive yes- terdsy, and brendstufls were stronger. Aless poi closed 5@10c per bri Jower, at $12.20@12.25 for November and 312,00 for January, Lard closed easler, at $7.00 per 100 lbs cash and €7.0° “or Janmary. Meals wers 4e per B low- er, at Gjc for boxed shoulders and Glc for do short ribs, Lake freights were quict and finn, at B3(c for carn {0 Bulalo, Whisky was steady, at $1.00 per gallon. Flour wns Grm. Wheat closed 1@%¢ lugher, at $1,07% for November and §1.00% for December, Corn cloned % higher, ot 43¢ canh and 44%5¢ for Nuvember. Oataclosed steady,at 243c cash and 241;M24Nc for November. Rye wan Hendy,nt 34c. Darloy closed at i8Y¢ cash and 5014c for December. 1lowm were nctive, at 15c de- cline, closing weak at $4.40@4.%5 for common to cholce. Cattie were dulland unchianged, with ralos on n basls of 82.755,00 for common to cholce. Sheep were dotl, nt $3.0024.25. Tho cxporta from the scabonrd last week Included 48,413 bris flour, 1,147,183 bu wheat, ‘1,185,177 ba corn, 22,984 bu oata, 153,430 bu rye, 65,480 bu barley. TInspected fnto storo [n this clty yeetorday mornine: 230 ¢ara wheat, 363 cars and H,600 Lm corn, 01 cars und 1%, 500 bu oats, 20 cars and EOO ba ryc, and 72 cars barley, Total (748 cars), {118, 000 bu. One bundred aollars tn gold would buy $102.75 in greenbacka ot thc close, Greenbacks at the New York Stock Ex- change closed yesterday at 074, " moy bo said to depond upon the plentiful. ness of game in the Pyrences. Bevoral par- ties, armed with rifles, have been sighted in that region, and they wore observed to bo traveling townrd Avroyso's renlms. Tocta concerning the engagement of a Dnso-ball nine to reprosent Chicago for tho senson of 1878 nre given in aunother column of this issue, It is worthy of remark that in no instanco does the suspicion of didhon- cxty ntlach to tho playors under contract—n circumgtancs that will.go far to commend tho tenm to popular favor, It fa also pro- posed to obtain from ‘the Common Council permission to use a portion of the unocou- pied lake-front a4 a playing ground. Tho Chicngo T'imes has begun its old busi. nesy of urgivg tho publionot to pay taxes, on the ground that the city has mo right to make nny expenditure for which the money 1 not on hand ot the timo, The rovival of this old warfarc is mado In order to defeat tho collection of the back taxes, amonnting to necrly §2,000,000, of which the city has been deprived by the tax-fighters for soveral years. The city hns no paper outstanding to which under any circumstances thero is the Ieast legal objection, Stoals aro getting thick in the County Board as the time approaches when the pres- ent Ring must give way to a reorganization in which itis earnestly hoped that honesty niny have the upper band, The wecks aro ‘few which romain for fixing up the Bxxron aud Wazxen jobs so that the retiring mem- bers of the Ring may continue to realize dividends aftor their official carcors have closed, and, judging from yestorday's pro- ceedings, the ringsters are determined upon making hay while the san shines, ‘The report of Judge Or1s, Receiver of the Btate BSavings Institution, which was sub- ..itted yesterday, holds. out the gratifying prospect that the depositors of that col. lapsod concern will realizo about 40 per cont upon their claims, Judge Or1s has exorcised groat care in tha collection of the scattered rempanta loft behind by Brexcen, and his well-known reputation aaa prudent, cautious business man justifies the expectation that Lis estimate of the value of the nssets will prove to be in the main correct. Tho depos- itors havo roason to bo thaunkful that the case is no worse, as it might easily have been in tho hands of a Roceiver leas capalle and economical, The Army bill haa finally passed the House with nearly all the imperfections engrafted upon it in the Committes of the Whole. The clause with regard to extra pay to stad oficors who should perform duties in poai- tions above thelr vank was strickon out at tho last moment by the solid vote of the Re- publican members roinforced by the votes of nine Democrats. The most dlsgraceful pro- vision of the bill, that which specifies the number and character of troops to be used on the Texas frontior, thus encroaching upon the prerogatives of the Commanderin.Chief and General of the Army, goes to the Senate, where it will be quite certain to meet the fate such an sbsurd and proposterous proposition deserves, Duriug the present sosslon of Congress many meinbers of the House have taken oc- casion to anuounce indirectly that they have - during the recess omployed their time largely in, brushiog up their kuowledge of English history. No matter what the subject nuder discussion may be, their arguments aro for- tided by liberal quotatiozs from Macavray, Gippoy, and other promincut English his- triographers. For instance, when My, Ket. Lxx, of Pennsylvania, wished to portray the wwiul consoquonces which would resuls from the prematuro resumption of specie poy- weaty he drew upon bhivknowledge of En. glish Listory, citiug o case in point in the ad- winistration of the younger Prer. With this shot Mr, weat, peal from such & procodent. Again, deliberately and circumspectly, ernment, Yhrough the Dnke Dz Broowi, hias Kxiixy resumed hiy natizied that thers was no ap- THE CHICAGO, XRLGUNG: LULSD duritg tho debate in tho Howso yesterdny upon the Army bill, Mr. Hewrrr, quoting from his English primer, went on to prove that Secrotary McCranr had been guilty of & gross breach of authority becanse Gen. Snen- 31a% had anthorized tho enlistment of 1,000 nien for sorvico on the Pacific Const withont express anthority from tho Democratic ma- jority of the House. O history, how many blunders are committed in thy name! ———— A contest over the will of Commodore Vaxpxnbirr was yesterday begun in the Sur- rogata’s Court of New York, which bids fair to develop into ono of tho most sensational and interesting cnses of the kind on record. A married danghter of the dead hundred. millionaive, Mrs, Lz Bav, who was cut off with a pittanca of $500,000, now comes forward to nssert her clnim to an cqual division of the enormous entato, the bnik of which was bequeathed to Wirtiast H, Vaxperoirr, Tho lady has for lier counsel Scorr Lorp and JERR Braock, and it ia certnin from the procecdings yes- terdny that a fight is on hand which will bring into plny some ugly weapons in the shapo of facts not hitherto made public. It is evident, from the “initial proceedings of the French Chambor of Depnuties, that the orderly clement in that body is deter- mined to do nothing rashly, the object being to deprive the several Monarchical factions of all protext for urging their claims befora the people a8 ngninst the frionds and promoters of Republicanism, Even in the investign- tion of the elections, where it is claimed that there wero grent abuses of power on the part of tho Government, the Deputies of tho Left aro inclined to move slowly and act The Gov- invited tho closest serutiny in this direction. M. Grevy, the presiding oficer, has been voted extraordinary antliority to enable bim to preserva crder during debate. Mr. CoxxLine, from his sent in the Senats, has deemed it proper to disclaim certain ob- servations vegarding the President and his Cabinet imputed to him by a certain Bohe- mian who is nlways so fortunnte as to secure a lodgment beneath thoe tables of great men when conversations of national importance aro in progresa. mita that poasibly.in casual conversation he may have made remarks in which the words put in his mouth by tho correspondent mny have formed a part, but the Sonator is cer- tain that thero 18 80 much in the pretended Thoe Now York Senator ad- “collation " that he never heard of beforo that the story ns o whole may bo character- ized as the basoless product of a highly- wrought brain whose attendant conscienco had been lulled to sleep by a ** higher dntys.” It i gratifying to know that Mr. CoxgriNg is nsbsmed of what Lo didn't say. THE “NATION" AND THE SHYLOCKS. It wea not to bo oxpected that the press of Now York, represonting the Wall street Shy- locks, should regard with favor the remoue- tization of silver as n legal-tender, be expected, howaver, that a paperof the standing of the New York Nation, presumed to bo unpartisan and professing to hold itself aloof from politics, would discuss the ques. tion upou premises which ot lepst hod a grain of fact aud falmess for a bnais, comes out, however, in its issuc of tho Sth inst. with a degreo of sophisiry and with a reckless disregard of truth that surpass even tha utterances of tho New York daily press, and show that it is desirous of Lelng recog- nized as tho organ of the Shylocks, if not as their retnined nttorney, It wasto It The rockless charactor of the Nation is shown in an article, *The Exccutive Dar- riers Against the Silver Bania," in which it disbusses the romonetization of silveron a doliberato perversion of facts. It argues the wholo question upon the implied assump. tion that the croditors of the United States, and of ench ‘ State, municipality, corporation, their amount of their claims, and that for all obli. gations, publio or private, the creditors paid over, not silver, depreciated greenbacks, or bank notes, but gold of one hundred centa on tho dollar, and henco, having paid in gold at the full prico, the croditors holding theso obligations ars entitled to ropayment in gold. Upon this basls of perversion, the Natfon argues, in a vindicative, malicious, and abu. aive manner, that the remonetization of sil- vor ia an attompt to swindle the creditors by paying them back in an inferior currency to that which they gave. If the promises wera true, wo might accept the conclusions of the Nation, excopt in tho case of national bonds plainly negotiated on the repayment of cofn and not of gold. The premiscs, however, being false, of course the conclnsions fall to the ground. We meet the Nation with the agsertion of fact that contincts were not made (only in exceptional cascs) upon any such bosls, The creditors did not loan gold or its equivalent, but lonned depreciated pa- per. with greenbacks worth a goneral average of two-thirds of thoir face in gold loaned to solid gold to the and individual, debtors ‘Tho Federal bonds were all purchased As to nll the other debts of States, munioi- palities, corporations, and individuals, with a few cxceptions, tha monoy recelved by the debtors was depreciated, irredeemable paper, and tho promisq of repaymont i in ¢ lawful money,” whatever that may be, whether grocubacks or coin, at the optlon of the debtor, Whatever ropayments are called for in gold ave by speclal agreement, and don’t amount to more than 1 or 2 per cent of all tho debts, Tho Nation knows all this, but attempts to blink it out of sight, The debtor claws received for their obligations money worth 60 or 70 conta in gold on the dollar, for which, oven at the present price of silver bullion, they would receive coin worth 93 ceunts 'on the dollar, What money was worth when these obligations were made is shown by the gold premiums before the panie, On the 1st of January, 1860, the premium of gold over greonbacks was 44. In 1607 it was 82, In 1868 it waa 83, In 18G9 it was 88, Iu 1870 it was down fo 10, weut as high as 02 on *Black Friday," and rauged ‘at about 33 the rest of the year. In 1871 it ranged from 117 to 111; io 1873 from 108 to 110; apd in 1878 from 112 to 120, 'Thesa fgures show tho value of the money that was recoived since the close ot the War and before the panic. In 1874 gold was.113 to 116,' In 187510t ranged from 111§ to 117}, and in 1876 from 115t 107, Ttisonly this year, 1877, that it has gone below 107, during which time comparatively fow mortgages have besn made or debts incurred. This shows clearly enough what the money was worth which the debtors recoived. Bilver to-day is worth more a3 bullion in gold than the greeubacks were in which the debis of the people were contracted before this year. Silver bullion is worth more this year aud now than green- backs ever were since June, 1862 If the puople pay back their debts, incurred before 1877, iu silver, aud the silver doos not in- Convontion, againat the Constitution andits sevoral parts, just as the voter thought proper to make it. crenss n value but remains at its present worth of 93 cents on the dollaf; even thon the creditors will recsive mora, and a majori- ty of them far moro, than they gave their debtors; more than they expeoted to get when they made their contracts, and more than,is mornlly duo them. Bo far from its being an infnstice or cheating the oreditors, they will bo repaid in better money than they paid out, and- botter money than they expectod to receive back, It adds materislly to the fores of this truth that tho creditors gavs their debtors depre. ciated money, ns compared either with silver or gold, but loaned most of it when property of all kinds was dear, and the purchasing power, even of gold, was comparatively small, becauso prices were enormously in- fiated, and money did not represent tho amount of property it does now, by a great deal. i It in not creditable to a paper of the ex- alted pretensions of tho Nation that it should concenl all these facts ani assort the vory re- verso bf fruth as thebasis of argument upon this subject, which is one ‘of tho most important questions now ngitating the American people. It is not creditable to its sagacity that it should proceed upon the ns- sumption that it renders are iguoramuses who will swallow these statemonts withont perceiving their fallacy. But the worst feat- ure of the matter is the enormous, dominat- ing influence the Sfylocks of the East have acqnired over the opinions and statements oven of the independent class of newspa- pers. THE ITATE-BOUBEL%PBOPBL&'HOR BAL- The petty fraud attempted on the eve of the late election in this city, by having all the Demoaratioc aud Republican tickels printed with the line ‘ For the $531,712.18 appro- priation” for the State-Ilouse,” and tha line * Agninst” the same approprintion sup- pressed, has attracted general attention. The Democratic Committes admit having sold out for tho sum of %200 reccived from Springfleld, but the amount pald the Re- publican Committee, it any, has not been mnde public. Taz Tomuxe has persevered in exposing this attempt by some members of the party committees to betray the public into voting to indorse the profligacy of the State-House Commissioners. Oune of the newspaper. organs of anything in which thero is money or rascality, and ona which thinks any frand which is paid for is justi- fiable, has ventured to justify the rascality of mutilating the tickots by citing the form of tho ballots used at tho election for the adoption of the Constitution in 1870. The Constitution itself provided that tho submis. sion should ba in the following form: For the new Constitution, and for all the articles and gectlons which are nol canceled with ink or pencll on the following ticket, and agalnst the new Constitution and such articles and sections s are s0 cancelcd thereon, viz. : For the now Constitution. / For article entitiod ** Rarlronds," For articlc entitled ** Warchouscs,” For article entitled ** Counties.” For lllinole Central Railrdad tax, For minorlty represcatation, ete., ete, The parts of sald ticket which are not canceled by the clectors shall be counted and returned by tha Jndges of alections as cast for this Constitution and t:l: the articles and scctions scparately sub- mitte: 'The Secrotary of Btate was charged with the duty of proparing a uniform rystem of blanks and uniform form of tickets for eleo- tion, and forwarding these blapks and ticketa to the proper officers of oll the coun- ties, which was done, 'Tho Constitution it self, logether with the form of submission, was published in all the nowspapors in the States, and great numbers in pamphlet form in woveral foroign languages, as woll as in English. + . 'That was tho form of ballot adopted by the Tha ballot of itsolf was for or In the case of the Btate-House approprin. tion, the act of the Legislaturo submitting the question to tho peoplo providea: the notices for elootions required to be fur. nished by the County Clork, otc., in addition to the soveral offices to be filled, he will also Insert the words: **Also to voto for the ap- propriation for the Btate-Ifouss or against the appropristion for the BStato.House.” ‘Those in favor of such appropristion shall havo written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, on their ballots: tho 9531,71£,18 oppropriation”; those op- posed, * againat the $531,712.18 appropria- tion," Tt will be seon that thelaw prescribed the form of the ballot, * for ® or ** against,”" as the voter might determine, contomplated that every votor would voto one way or the other, and that the baliot was to contain ‘‘for" or *‘agaiuat” the sppro- priation. Outalde of Chiongo, all over the State, except in o fow instances, the ballots were printed in both formns, and the-negative In * For The law ballots were goncrally voted by the people. 14 thiscity the vote polled for the appropria- tion was largely due to the trick that the ballots were printed, contrary to law, only in tho affirmative form, and were deposited by many voters lnadvertently, The point we made waa that the law prescribed the formof the ballot to contain * for " or * against” the appropriation. Printing the ballots with “for” only on them was a deliberate at. tempt to swindle the voters, and $200 to each Committee was gmall compen. sation for such contemptible business, Of course mewspapers that think $200 enough to compensate for any trickery, especially for any effort to got money out of the tax. payers, look upon tho violation of tha law as & matter of no importance whatever. The best rebuke to the wholo Lusiness is the popular voto of the Hlate, which is almost unanimous against the expenditureof an- other dollar by the presont Btate-Houso Commissioners. The.money sent out from Springfleld to #fix”the form of the tickets contrary to that prescribed Dby law has been wasted,— absolutely thrown away,—and the Ring ed- itors who are now Qefending the attempted swindle simply place themselves in the at- titude of disappolnted kuaves before the people, Tax Tlflv_l'l has alroady noticed the dis. turbance among the Bouth Park Commis- sioners, and that &% the last meoting there was & general interchange of rough accusa- tions, The Juter-Occan of yesterday has the following tosay : The Inter-Gcean inalsted for many months that thero was something in the mansgement of tho Bouth Pazk that necded exposure, 1l saked for & Leglslative Committee to 0nd out what that some- thing was. Tus Tainuxs and FYues violently op- posed the investigation, and fought the proposition 80 desporately that susplcions were aroused that thoy bad a porsonal luterest la suppressing the facts. But the Commitive was sppoluted in spite of them, sad in its brief sad necessarily incowm- plete investigation made several astounding dls- closures. . Bo fur from Tax TeIBUNE opposing the in- vestigation, this papor urged thst it should be Lad, sud that it should be thorough and comprehensive, in order that, if there was any wmisconduct, the guilty should be ex~ ing with Benalors votes in o grave judiclal case, January, 1877, posed and the Commission purified. ~ What tho Presidont will bo found in the fature, a3 Tre Tamoxe opposed wna tho attémpt to ho ‘has been found in ‘the past, :a stahoh Jegislato the present Board ont of offics decausa ;. Ropublican. they had refused to purchase certain moamp- ktnds from tho real-estate Ring at several times ita valne per acre, and to have s new Board of Commissioners who would possibly mako that purchase oy the Ring's terms, That waa dishonest legislation, having for its purposs the robbery of the public, and, being nach, of course the Inter.-Ocean favored it with all itamight. To defeat that legisla- tion for that corrupt purpose, Tae TrinuNe favored an {ovestigation in which the plans and the schemes of the real. estate Ring and the aiders and abettor of tha job wonld bs exposed and the taxpayers saved from robbery, The investigation took placo, lasting many wecks, It was thorough and searching. Evory charge, rumor, or suspicion was probed. All the testimony was made pnblic, and the General Assombly learned overything, and that was thoend of the whole job. The Ring took mnothing by their motion, and the Legislature refused to remove the Bonrd of Commissioners. The pres. ent disturbance among the Park Com. missioners is,%except in relation to Mr. Siowar's knowledge of Bowex's defalention, nll new matter, nover mentioned or heard of before, Tho Bowex matter was fully ex. plained by Sipwax before the Invostigation Committee. - The other mntters now agi- tated may have nothing substantial in them; but tho fact that the accusations are made by Commissioncss against ench other, and that the language used is so denun. ciatory na to exclude all prospect of harmony in the Board, suggests that the pablic servico would be bottered by the resignation of gomo of the members and the filling of their places by now Commissioners, POSITION OF THE SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS, ‘Tho report which comes from Washington that certain Southern Democrats have sub. mitted an *‘ultimatum” to the President is almost incredible, * Among tho Senators in- cluded in the alleged caucus at which the plan of aclion was mntured wers Gorooy, Hiwy, and Laxaz, who, whatover thoir other deficiencies may be, have never becn found wanting in ordionry common sense, Yet they are now accused of dictating terms to tho President; of threatening him, and of insulting him with the suggestion of a cor- rupt bargain, Their proposition is said to be, in brief, that the Presidont shall use his (official and personal) influenca to secore the admisaion of the claimant Srorrorp to the Senate as Beuntor from Louisinna, n return for which thoy will vote to confirm the Pros- ident's nowminations. This ia n proposition which 1t would be shaweful nliko for the Southern Domocrats to make and for the Presidont to listen to; and wo do not beliove as yot that it is serioualy entertained by the Domocrats thomselves. But on the supp si- tion that some of tho hot-heads among them, who have derived their notions of states- manship from the coda of ethica that used to prevaill among slave-drivers, may have thoughts of such an arrangement, it will bo profitable to inquire what the results of it would bo, Tho moment the President is approached by the Democrats with a bribe, whichan offer of this character would be, he will Lo compelled to show them tho door, Hia self- respect demands that he shall be nbove the suspicion of interferenco with tho admission of members to seats in Congresu; for his own polioy with referonce to the Civil Service can be justified only on the broad ground of the indopondence of the Exccutive Depart. wment within its own sphere. 'The President would be indeed in & bad way if he wero scen nt tha ssmo tme tamper. to influence their A and resenting even the advico of those Senators in the making of sppointments, Insin. cority would bea & light chargo to mako against an Ezecutive who should do this; but, light as it is,.it ja a charge that wonld destroy the confidenco of the people in the Administration and bring it into universal contempt. If expediency wera the only con- sidoration, the President would be oBliged to reject such overturcs from the Domo- cratic Benators. His ncquiesence in such a dishonorable scheme would defeat itself, for it would produce a popular revalsion in feel- ing that would overwhelm him, affairs have not come to this position yet. There ia no occasion to speculate atlength Happily, a3 to what wonld happen so long as thers is no probability that the contingenoy on which all tho actiou depends will ocour, Brorronp and Kritodo are laimants for one of the vacant seats of Louisiana in the United Btates Senate, the purposes of the present discussion, which ono of them was olected. Tho Benate is the sole judge of the clection and qualifieations It is immaterial, for of its members. It is the duty of ihat Lody to determine, without rogard to the opiuions or desires of thePresident, whether Kxrroaa waa legally olectod by the Legislaturo that met at the Bt. Louis Hotel on the 10th of It the record and evidence shows that ho was elected by a logal majori. ty, befors any Republican members had been enticed away, the Senate should seat Lim as o matter of course; if it shows (hat ho was not elected, the claims of Brorronn will then come up for conaideration. It is idle to0 maintain, as some of tho Confede- rates do, that the election of Sporromp and his admission to the Benate aro essential parts of the *Louisiana compromise” ar. ranged by the visiting Commission, The Commission had no right to nake any such unlawfal compact, and the Presi- dont would be powerless to enforce it 'if it wers made. We do mot be- lieve it was made, or that sny sgree- ment of the sort was entered jnto. Kxi. Loaa’s elaims stand outside of and above the jurisdictiou of the Fxecutlve. They are be- lieved by many lawyers to be sound, and, speaking mercly from a Republican stand. point, we hope they may prove to be good. The mistake the Domocrats are making about President Havzsisin assuming that ho is not as good a Republican as he used to be; not asdevoted to the party as thie ma- chine-men, like Coxxriva and Qorrspy, and not as anxious to protect its interdsts. ‘Fhese’ are vulgar errore. Tho Presldent likes the party so well that ho has undertaken to work out its salvation; and he has adopted in the opinion of many the wisest policy to saje it from defeat in 1880. His endepvor, as we understand it, is to make an Administrationso excellent that the people canxnot afford to disapprove it, or to reject the party responsible for it at the polls. It this pa treason to Republicanism, the Taplacableés aud the Democrats msy mako the mostof it. Thoy will have equal dificulty in persusding the poople that a Reform tion must vocessarily be anti-Bopublicap, or that the Democracy csn gain in the lqug run morely by the discon- tent of intrigying politicians. On all ques- tions of p""fwm. and party welfare | i I - THAT OONKLING INTERVIEW. . For the information of those who hava not time to wade through it, the following sum- mary of the Herald's alleged interview with Conkrina is furnished: ln:emom:r—un you get any Democratic sup- port Conkling—Thare were some of the mors lotty and gentlemanly Democrats who mado it apoint to resent the attack upon Me. I went down to the polls last Tuesday to vote. Interviewer—Was it & surprise to you that you carrfed your own district? Conkling—tardly, It has giveri as highas 4,000 for me, Tammany Hall threw money Into My district to carry it arainst Me. Besides, the weather was bad and country people had to ride twelve miles to vote for Me. Interviewer~'What ticket did certaln gentle- men (naming them) votel Conkltng—They voted against Me, They have nlways been opposcd to Me. The whole Hares intorest voted agoinat e, Intervicwer—How could money have been ralsed to be thrown into your district? Coukling—It was put up by the rich and poor alike for the purposc of beating Me. My tickets were thrown Into the canal, Interviewer—Who threw them in? Counkling—>Me; oh! aht beg pardon; it was done by some ono who opposed Me. Interviewer—What do you think of the Presl- dent's volicy? Conkling—Ever since the Administration camo In,-its principal labor haa been to defcat Me. Evanrstold s man that the Reform move- ments of the Administration were to break up chieftainahip, Chicftainsbip means Me, Interviewer—Did tho Administration fnter- fere with the election? Conkling—Yes. The principal officeholders In New York were removed witliout consulting -Me. That was on Interference with the elee—— with Me. Interviewer—What do you think of the Mas- sachusctts clection Conkling—I have not yet mado up my mind whether or not It is an fudorsement of Me, Intervicwer—Is there any good reason for disbanding the Republican party st this time? Conkling—I{f there bas heen any time within tho past ten years when Ihave been worth preserving it is Me,—or, I should say, it is now. Interviewer—President HAYzs bas been criti- clsed for withdrawing tho troops from the 8outh. Doca that amount to ainything? Conkting—Not a thing, sir; nothing at all, T have made no objoction on that score. Interviewer—What do you think of the Cab- inett Conkling—Worthless; absolutely worthless You do not ece Mo fu the Cabiuet, I appro- bend. Interviewer—Have you read the President's spceches? Conkling—I have; but 1 don't see that hwy anywhero allude to Mo, Interviewer—DId you not have somo respect for TiLDENT Conkling—I certalnly did, for I made speeches and pulied wires and did the best I knew how toelect blin. Now what waa the consequence? TiLpEN carrled tho State by a large majority. ‘That {s largely referable to Me. Interviower—Mr, CoNKLING, W]l you kindly outline your present position In politics? Conkling—Certalnly, (Sings) *Pit, pafl, poufl, ta-ra-pa-na poum, dJo suls mot, le Ueneral Boum," ————— Mrs. JuLia A. Moons, derisively termed by {rreverent paragraphers ¢ Tho Sweet Sloger of Michigan,” seems to bellke that * humbloer poot, whose songs gush from his heart like ratn from tho clouds of swnmer, or tears from tho cye- ldsstart,” and not a cool-blooded, premodi- tated weaver of fne fancies and tuneful rhymes. 8hie has lssued n palr of explanatory couplets, showing how it camo about: And now, kind felends, what I have wrota 1 hope you will pass o'cr, And nut criticlee as sonie have done » Uitherto herctofore. 1t may seem strange (v you— 1t scems vary sirange to e sometimes, 1t waw nataral for me to compose And put words In rhyme. Buch s sweet, confiding appeal for a general let-up, by attributing the whole business to fo- expericuced Naturc, muat havo ta ¢ffeet, and it 1s ouly left for hicr to shoot off something like thu following to sccure a universal contribution of tho rest sne foudly slgns for: 31 you think heads mast criticise ‘'hu poutess, then damn hor Lincs, but don't you poke no fan At her spellin’ or her grsmmer. —e— This ces 'ard.” The New York Times gocs alightly Into the history of the Hon. Buw BPRINGER i i Ehber ot Tiiole, Reprersntative: Srwinun s gumy of petty larceny. us woll asof ootalning a rlef under fulse preicnasce. 'Thy ndament to tho Centeanial Appropristion b U cuuwed the (iovernment to yo to law, and gave Mr. SrunuER 8 job 10 the Snpromo Curt, wia the une fortunate Korx'sown, Naxnsaw It on BoEn's table, commitied it to mewory, snd ran off and broaght It before tho llouse rflclum Enes could catc hls breath. EDEN asieris thatif SPiunoss had not dropved out & few words os he wens away with bia siolon thuuder, the amendment wonld huvo been nmple for i) {ntended purposes. tha faituro to amcnd the bill yproperly brought much Tischlet. but tien SERINGED aa had R e tunity to bring tn a bill of $10,000 for hls Vllgnb services, —————— + Thus does the Augusta (Ga.) Chroniclsoutline tho atylo of praycr to be used Thanksgiving Day: We aro too much attached to the present Unfon over to dream of scuking now wpnortanities for sccession. We are more than satlsflud with **our fathor's house, " and Intend tw remain in it perma . nently. Itis truo that the men who sought our deutruction did not anticipate that mo’y wero really bestowing upon usanew leass of life anda tra- mundous sdvance in our destiny, But Gob Las so ordsiaed it, in spite of the niachinations of our enamies, and we accept tho providuntial boon with due hamllity, and with a pecfect knowledge of {ta peculier blesal ————— Mr, Bowwxs, of the Springflold Republican, in- dorses Bon InozROLL; Col, Bos Inuxasorr, of Illinols, talked of for the (.Mrnmn mission, would bo ry faiz appolint- ment, orator, the most aggressive ) n ihe country, but an carly ond cathu- alastic couvert to tue Haves policy, Uratory scems ta bo hls etrength, aud he is open to the wuspicion of embracing thuse couvictlons wnich wiil ‘make the wost teliing poluts oo tne stump. This fowlo will not acriounly damage our relations with the Fathotland, wnore tha Colonol wil} doubtives en- livon the Crown Princess Vi 1a's Radlcal Club with 8 dash of pratrio Itls & shame thata city the slzo of Cincinnati aiauld bo without Ighe suficient for b gt 10 #oo thulr way at nigt. Fool-pads could do & turiving busloess In the Parls of Awerica if they chove. 1 thocity cannot pay mwmm. out up gasollue or candles. It nothing betier sugvests, Rive the boye permineion to indulge i the luxury of bonfizes, * Light, the city wauts Light!—Cincin. nats Luquirer. This howl for refork arises from the fact that at o recent dog-fight * held * In that city the audience had to furalsh their own. candles and lauterns. o ————— The way the local GaxBsTTA Of Des Moines put it to the Mayor of that balliwick was, * So- ber up or resigu,” and he has handed o hls roaigpation, to take effeet the noxt thme he gots drunk. ———— Thoe Springfield Kepublican credits Gmoros Avruzp Townsxnp with the ConsLiNG fnter- view, which renders Mr. Conkiing's denisl of 1t eotircly supertiuous. e ——— * We do not care to pile up this monument of stupldity and malice auy higher," 1s the Juler~ Ocean'’s excuse for not Boisbing s blundering editorial. ——— 1t 10oks as If ¢ would take four full regiments to keep the Tezas Hepresontatives on ono side of avy question for two consecutive days. o eeet— Hold on, you army reductionists! Srrrrxo BuLy is coming back, e says, evenif be hag to come alone. Go slow for a day or two. e et—— Sinco the Msasachusetls eloction Mr, Wax- DELL PRiLLips Las changed his mind sbout lactusing o close 10 Boston ss to get In every "night.” Thers 1a no oceaslon for his remnintng 80 close to the * Capital, and ho will accep$ env gagemonts for any part of tha country. 5 plimsdh il b ; . . PERSONAL. Stanley {s expected to reach London in & fow weeks, o Paganini nsed to give music-lossons at only $400 8 sitting, Y Beuator Voorhees has canceled all his Enastern lectare engagements. e Archibald Forbes, the famous war corre. spondent, hae been invited to Balmoral, Scotland, by Queen Victoris. \ Pongo, the gorilla. in England, recently had a call from Mr. Darwin, who gravely handed bis card to the royal ape. Bir Edward Thornton will return to Wash- Ington tho latter part of this month, His wifo and danghiters will remaln {n Englund, Tho Boston Advertiser intimoies that Conkling Ifes when he rsya that Davens was ale ways recognized as 8 Democrat in Massachoselte. Turgnenef’s Iast novel, * Virgin Soil,” hns ‘been received with such a storm of derislon by the Tasslan critice that he declarea it will be s last book, The Young Mon'a Christian Assooiation of Burlingion eay that the report that Col. Ingersoll has been invited to lecture bofare thom ls **simply tdlone.” The November nnmber of tho Contempo- rary Review contains sn interesting paper by Prof. Dain on the **Civli-Servico Examination Scheme, ™ The New York World describes Logan's famous declaratton in Washington—'*1 don't amount to s row of pins here now '*—as A beief but beautifol specch in favor of the Administration. A correspondent desires to know how many eons President Lincoin had, and whether one. of them did not die fa Washington. 1le had three aons, and oneof them, Willlam, did die In Wash- Ington. Alexander Delmar hins improved his namo into Del Mar, which tho Springficld Republican in- terprets into ** man of tho sen,” Hence tho diver- alon into Moses 18 approved. But the joke Is rath. er lavorlous. The assortion that ex-Gov. Coburn, of Maine, ls the largest “land-owner In the United States Is disputed In favor of Wilson Waddingham, of New York, who owna 005,000 acres In one lot on the Canadian River in New Mexlco, and enongh mora I other parts of the same Territory to make atotal of 1,350,000 acres, or more than twico an many s are claired for dir. Coburn, Mr. Junius Morgan, of London, who ia nowaon a visit to this country after anabsence of twenty-threo years in England, was complimented by a dinner in New York Wedneaday, Among the participants were Qov. Rice, ex-Gov. Tllden, ox- Qov. Hawley, dov. liartranft, Tom Qarrett, Tom Scott, A. J. Droxel, ex-Postmaster-General Jewell, ex-Secretary McCulloch, and others, ‘This is o specimen of tho average Novada 44 porsonal™: Our cltizens gonerally will ‘be glad toknow that Miss Trowella, who last Chrlstias broke both thigh bonea and her Jaw by falling from a swing, on the Divide, 1s now ablo to walk without crutch or cane, and todo the housework at home. Notwlithatanding all the drawbacke In the case, thoattendant surgeons have made a good job of it. Bothlegsareof exactly the samo longth.” ‘There are now on oxhibition at tho rooms of the Mcsars, Leavitt, in Now York, tiwo romark- nble collectionn, Ono fa the luteJohn F. Konsett's private collectlon of about soventy-fve forelgn plctures, accompanied by shout ffty landscapes Ifrom bis own brnsh. The other is o collection of arme, armors, medals, and cofns, lately on exhi- bitlon &t tho Metropolitan Museam of Art, and offered to that Institution for §18,000, which was considered a low price, The engagemont is announced nt Roms of Miss Antoinette Polk, of Tenncasce, a daughter of the late Mr. Androw Polk, a nleco of Dlshop and Liout. ~Gen, Polk, anda cousln of Dr. Meckienburg Polk, of New York,to tion. Baron do Charatto, who commanded the Papal Zouaves at the batile of Castel-Fldardo, @en. de Charette was bomn In 1828, snd was married a number of years ago to an Irish lady, Mie. Fitz-dames, who dled not loog afterwards, bearing him two children. Honry Holt & Co,. will publish very short- ly **Dita,” a now novol by Lady BMargarct Majondle, authorof **Glannctto,” The lutior. had ita scene Iafd In Italy, and, probahly for that reason, did nut have a noticeable success. Its style snd quality, however, gave it o place {n the Lelsuye Tlour Sorles, and attracted the favorable notice of thebest critica, Ja hor, forthcoming noval the writer has not only rotained tha chars.'and power. {. of tho Grst ono, but shows eviduncs of exporlence. ‘The scono this time is laid principaliy smong the upper classes of Great Dritain, ‘The Springfeld Republican opens an ed. ftorial thus: **A New Enzland teacher of many years' exporience recently lssucd io the annual cataloguo of his suminary a list of all the wumen who had graduated from his charge. It was s sig- nificant fact thiat of tho whole number about one- halt still retained tueoir malden namea. Tuls was aatnking avidence of the effect of education in emanclpating woman from what has bocn assumed 1o be ber ‘destiny,'—married lifs, A man gocs into the world to makp hls under cqual ad- ‘vantages, whother married or single. - Mr, Conger, the witly Congressman from Michigan, has & love bistory which lsquite remark- able. 1is present wifo washie fAirst love, bus they” quarreled and each married. Twonty yesra af(er- ward, he, a whiower, was in Coogross, snd ahe, & widow, sat fn the gallery and llstened to him speaking. 1t wss the Orat iime they had met sluce they had thelr lovers' quarrel. Sho sent her card and Invited him to call on hor, which he promised to do If he might visit her as ha used In tho days of tuclz youth. Her consent was caslly obtained, the old Jove revived, and they wore scon martled, Dr. 8. I Russoll,f one of the prominent muon of Bell County, is an infidel, Tho other night he was taken from his bed to o wood by & company of mensad to boled by membors of a Baptiat church, stripped, and addresacd thus: ** you are an honest man and a good phys) wo will tolerate no indds n Uell Counyy; 80, by e help of dod, we wil p your carcerof infl- delity.” A hunated Jashos were the Id upon hls naked back. Iewas thon freod, snd & notice posted on the troa that horeafter Infdelity in Boll Connty will bo panished by the Lwrch and halter. In his sermon in Boston Sunday morning, the Rov, Nobert Lalrd Colller #ald: **To-doy & nation mourne oue of tho greatest statesmen of I remembes in the old War times, Inthoss hard days when hearts were knit together over sons 1n krospitals or Iylog in unknowa graves, I remember that pooplo tarned toward tha great, strong, unsullicd name of Mor- ton, whosa courage had won him & place. And ido and the oier alde, 1 do nut think sn enemy canaccase bim of & ,moment's want ,of patriotlsm toward bhls conntry or integrity toward socloty, ' Prof. Christlieb confided to & recont American visitor that ho had great fears for the futureof out nation, because ho svint of Christ was not here, Pressed to explain bis mesning, he did not cite any of those finsuclal orsoclal scandals that make us uneasy, bot **serlunsly declared that on mate than one occasion he bad hesrd an Amer- lcan married woman say to her husband, "*Dear, will you Lriog me my ahawi?' and the husband had brought 1t1" And further, that be had scen a msn come home snd fod his wife alttlog In beat chalr in tho parlor, and not only did she not rism to *get his dressing- wown and slippers, but she dld not rise atall, snd let him Bud his own chalras well as other comtortst ‘Theas were tua thlugs that this profound Frofessor, named afterthe **love of Christ,” found to evl- denco & dangerous lack of that article n the United Btates. yé e ———— OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, Naw York, Nov. 1%.—Arrived, Btate of Georgia, frons Glasgow. Barmixons, Nov. 12,—Arrived, steamahip Leipzig, from Bremen, ! BosTox, Nuv, 12.~—Arrived, stesmship Minne- sots, from Liverpool, Fantuxr Porsr, Nov. 13.—Arrived, Circas- alan and Quebee, !;om‘hurpool. ! NDoN, NoY. 1d.—Arrived, Buevis, from N Aaior, Nov. 12— Arrived, ateamehip LAsgow, Nov. 12.—Arrive of Vinguls trom New York. oo ship State z e ee—— OBITUARY, ATLAXTA, (s, NoOv. 13.—Foster Blodgett died this morafug. Evoty, 111, Nov. 12 —Edward Adams, one of :lha flal‘:fl 'fmte"v'e nn‘nd hl&n&;’ mauy xekllnivu 0! ast e card. vu’;‘gun:nu: lumu!.:l..‘ J e - FOREIGY Heavy Fightifg Again Rg. ported In the Vicinity of Plevna, Great Mortality Caused the Russian Artillery Fire, g The Turks Said to Be Buflg. ing Interior Fortin cations, French Ministerial OrgansDe. mand a Republican Cabinet. The Deputies Begin the Tagk of Investigating the Elm tions. Conflicting Reports Concerning thy Pope’s Condition, TITE COMBATANTS, TURRISH LOSSES AT PLEVNA, Lownpon, Nov. 13—5 a. m.—Osman Pasha'y losses aro estimated at 200 t0300 men dally from the concentrated fire of the Rusalan artillery, Osman Pasha Is bustly constructing fresh for. tfications, which secm to point to his holding out long s possible rather thanlo attempts sortle. - Prisoncrs and deserters state that tho Turks bavo six wecks’ provisions. i THE MONTENEGRINS, after their domoustration agniust Todgoritzs, commenced bombarding a Turkish fort cyme manding the Scutari and Amtivari road, SERVIA. A Belgrado correspondent Prince M presided at the cxtraordinary Cabinet Councit ou Baturday. It Is stated that the participation of Bervla in the war was decided on, and s proclamation to the army has nlregdy been pre- pared. " A COSTLY SURPRIAR, LoxDoy, Nov. 12.—A Russian official dlspateh dated Boyot, 11th, asya: The Turks last night attempted tosurpriso Gen. SkobelelX's position, The Russans were warned, and allowed tho ‘Turks’ approach within a hundred paces, when thoy recelved them with a heavy fire. Tho Turks retreated to an fntrenched position, and maintained o violent firo until 3 o'clock (his morning. ¥ A MEFORT, It 1s reported. that heavy fighting, favorabla to the Turks, lias been progressing at Pleyna the pust two days. GONE TO ACHII'KA, Chevket Pasha has gonctoBchipka. Meliemet All will tako command of the divisiona at Orchanie. EXEMPTION FROM DUTY. Tho importation of rye and flour is exempted from duty by Turkey unttl March 1, 1873, . JOWN DOWN, CoxaTanTINOTLE, Nov. 12,—Reout Pasha tel- egraphs tue following: *Tho Russlan supports rom Gabrova, en routo to Schipka Pass, being obliged to pass within our rauge recently, lest 500 killed. Our losses were teifiing, but mnclude Lesmann Pasha, Commaudant of Arstlilery, killed.” AS1A MINOR. * Mukhtar Pasha telegraphs under date of Ban- day: **The Russlans are entrenching them- sclyes In the nelghborhiood of Doye-Doyun. According to Intelligence I bavo recelved from Kars up to, tho 4th inst., the forco Investing thint place 18 not very nuwicrous. The principa cfforts of the enemy arc apparently directed ogaloat Erzeroum,! v s - BUSBIAN LOAN, Benuin, peared of a noew Russian “B-per-cent loan of 75,000,000 rokibles, which s to be fssued for sub- glpuon n. Berlin, Amsterdam, and Parls at 4 APTER THE BATTUS. Correspandence London Dally News, CaMP Kanradar, Asia Minor, Oct. 2.—The staft followed the zigzags of the road which the Turks had recently mado for the convenienco ot tho garrison on tho summit of the Great Yagnl, On the hlllsde, as we went up, lay a young grenadier, moaning as he tried to litt ls bead. Higler up a dead Turk strotched across tho nar- row track on his face compelled us to makes clreuit. On reaching at last the level top of Great Yogni a ghastly sight struck our oycs. All the pits and ditches around wero filled with the corpees of Turks. The dead were almost all shot through the head, because the remaln- ing parta of thelr bodiea had been sheltercd by the parapots, Hero they lay as they tell, on thelr backs or faces, sido by slde, or ono sbove thootlier. A negro with grivning teeth huvg right across a whits soldier, and his long arms stretchied out over the rocky abyss. .8ome pro- served the feroclous exprossion which had anl- mated them when oth) allve, and lay with clenclicd fsts and distorted limbs; others, culm und qulet, Jooked like stono. ius E“' opposite each other, sas two softas. Though In the uniform of soidiers, lbu{ wero eaally recognized asreliglous students by the whito musliu band tied around thelr fezzes. Howe hundred dead bodies incumbered the trenches; others lay strewn, over the lillside, When we camo ug o thu top thie Russlans bad already buried their own killed, mud naj ro- moved all the wounded and | risoucrs. About 140 Turks liad been takenalive, Wo learned from & soldier that the famous Kara Fatma, tho Turklish berolne, had met with » 1atal end. They sald that sho lay in one of the captured tents, shot through tho heart. .Together with an officer I sought her all over the hill, but I ,did not find her; but some insisted that, on the ersistent entreaty of the ‘Turkish prisoncrs, sbo bed heen buried imwediately by coopasslonate Russtan soldlers. TUE POPE, s 1LLxEss, Pants, Nov, 13.—1¢ {s reported here thisafter noon that the Pope is dead. Thoe report ob- tains credence 1n consequence of the unsatls- factory character of the latest reports of bis coudition, LATER. Nzw Yomrx, Nov. 12.—A Rome special says the Pope passed a restless night, but always awakenedin full possession of his facultics, and was conscious of all that was golng on around him. The phyalcians say ho caunol recovery though he may lioger for a week. PLECAUTIONS, Tho Italian Government basalready taken the precautlon Lo station a stroog guard arvund sll the approaches to the Vaticau to prevent svy gllhgln: that mizht follow on the death of tho ‘ops belug mada public, LATRST. Roxs, Nov. 12.—~The Popu's condition is not aggravated. ‘FRANOEH, POLITICAL FROBABILITIRS. Paris, Nov, 12—When Caillaux, Minister of Finance, introduces the budget, a Deputy of the Right will propose that the four princpal direct taxes be yoted (mmediately independently of Lhe budget. Olber fuformstion 1-that the beiit prevalls that the refussl of the Deputies t0 vote these four taxes will be foliowed by ars quest for a vote of dissolution In the Henatés aod {f granted the President intends to dlisolvo the Chamber sud submit tho question of bis resignation $o the couatry by a sort ol plobis- cite. The MacMabonites claim that the Scoate will yute dissolution by fiftcen or tweaty m3* Jority, but this 18 not gensrutly belteved. DEMAND A UBPUBLICAN MINISTRY. Al the late Ministerial orzuns in the Or lesuist and Coustitutional luterests uow dor Nov. 1%—Tlo "prospecthis’ Lis 'ap-++ -