Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 10, 1877, Page 5

THE CIIICAGO TRIBUNE: I\YONDAV. DECEMBER 10, 1877. BILVER. Yewitt, of New York, and Hill, of Georgia, State Thelr Views. The Former Upable to Tolerate Any More Bliver than Is Now in Clrculation. The President’s Plan for Utilizing Eilver Ho Regatds a8 of NoPraoti-- cal Value; pab Thiaks tho President Soond en {he Ba- _ ered Duby of Paylug the Bonds in Gold, Senator Hill Has Ko Faith in Bcoretary Bherman's Theory Regarding 8 Resumption, The Payment of Bonds fn Silver Not n Question of Right, but of Expedloncy. An Ilinois Farmer Pays His Respeots to the President's Pinan- " clal Views.. Other Expressions of Opinion on the All-Absorbing Topic of the Day. . INTERVIEWS WITH CONGRESSMEN. From Our Oun Correspondent. ‘WasnixaTox, D. C., Dec.0.—With greatdin,s prodigious amount of shouting, and portentous clashing of arms, the clans aro gathering for the shock of contest over the financial question. As {n & varlety of otlier Instauces, tho Eastern De- mocracy rally to the support of Hayes’ silver rec- ommendstions and affect to sce In thelr adop- tion the ouly saivation of our distracted coun- u"fhu flon, Abe Hewltt, of New York, reflects the ylews of his sectlon, and vour corresponds «ent has induced him to divulge his opinions at length. ¥ In his message,’ says Mr. flewitt, speaking of the Presidont, *he means to make tho silver "dollar worth a dollar in gola, ITu proposcs to ' put as much silver in ono dollar asa gold dol- lar will bay, practically 470gralne, Tho trouble is that. tho ratlo between gold and aliver flactustes [causcd by demonetixation], and to- day we Liave no buyer st a fixed rate. Now, if tho United States stop In as purchasers and fix * the rate, you will sec that all tho surplus sliver {n the world will gravitate to Americs, wihen it cannot find a market at bottor rates elsewherc, (The more of {t tho merrier.] Ina short timo we will be {n a position that France found her- acif, She began tho purchase of silver, and found hersclf swamped under the load, It mustbe plaln to any man that wo must sell this surplns allver, and then we will fiud that we mustgellat a loss. This state of aflalrs will certalnly come about unless the nations agree upon & common ratio between gold ana sfiver, and, until that ratlo s established, tho achemo of a doublo standard hore must be givon up, ""Now, the Presfdent scems to favor the 1double standard at fixed rates, butit isapparent that this recommendation is of no value, unless be can commit the other commercixl nations to t. Ils alternative suggestion {s to marely lo- wease the subsidiary com, but wo have already oY enough, and no more can boe floated than ae law provides for, The only way it can bo alarged {8 by the withdrawal of all bank bills * o denomination loss than $5. An that 1y $100,000,000 might posaibly bo employed, - it it wittlil bé atan exponee of an cquivalent raount of bonds which might be devoted to the msumption of specls payments in gold, agd lTefeat the resumption of Jan, 1, 1879, 1 look upon his recommendations aa to util- 1zing sllver as of no practical value, but I con- cur fully in all be says about payiog the public debt and {ntorest in gold. Now, at the time the debt was cuntracted, though silver coln was | suthorized, nooo was colned, for tlio reason that silver was high, and a siiver dollar was worth $1.03. Nelther party to the contract coutemn- platea tho silver dollar as & mecans of payment, certainly not the Government, for it was not prepared to pay threo cents on o dollar more tban tho contract called for, If the Uovern- ment ahould Surn arvund now and Insist upon H1s riglt to pay fn sllver at the present value, sco how rank an _Injustice it would bo to credit- ors. Idon't deny the legal right of the Gov- emment to do this, I think such payment ‘woula be lawful, but it would be unjust to pay & debt contracted whon silyer was at a pretmfum with sitver that bas fallen to o discount, 1f the United Btates sbiall determnineto vay in stiver, It s value caual to tho “standard of Rold.t Upon the resnmptlon question Mr. Hewitt has equally advanced views: “It 1s evident to mo that Juhn Bherman kuows ot last what Lo s about. Hc lios mado more blunders than auy other man who has over held the Treasury portfolio, but lis Jast repart shows that he Las finally mastercd tho laws of finance. It Is a romarkebly adroit docu- 5 2 e ment, aod Shiermanu {s catitled to credlt for it. o ahows that he knows as well as any wun that the act fixing upon Jao, I, 1 a8 the daty of resumption fu utterly luadequate to effect that result. It {s true that, so far as commer- «<al prosperity is concerued, tho country is neasurably in'a condition to resuwne, but not <ntirely sy, and My, Bhoruan in no Wway reaponsible for tho improved con- dition in which he finds the country, It ts true we are shipplog abroad, bat tbat is in consequence of tho war,—an clument bt Mr, Jubn Sherman connot charge himsclf With baving established. But that 1 not enough 10 prepare us. llsreport shows that theamount of gold un uand i utterly luadequate to the redemption of the currency, and ho rmpou:l to atart out on & redemption "schicuio with the un- deratanding that ho can stop whea ho finds that Le can't go any further. In other words, he Et.:golel to try the experiment, and, a8 soon asit mces apparent that it won't work, ho wanta rmlsalon toshut off. For one, I dou't call bat statcsmanship.” Aud hero the worthy Representative branched oft upon silver ngain, On* this question of requmption the Demo- <rats are a littlo tender-hoofed. ‘It won't do tor us torepeal theact,” said Benator Ben HIIl to me tofght. “Tha 8t s platform fs an indictmient agalnst tho Ho. ublican party for not having done something ward resuming, and it would not 4o for us to Upset what Jitule thoy have douve. The law as it stands will nevercnable them to resume. There is at preseut no preparativa for ft. Wo 78 not In & condlition at present, aud yet, It we ¥ act, wa take the respousibliity of ing practical repudiation, There's where and, with a bad law on one side sud disas- teron the other, Iam in favor of lettlug Mr. rman go ahead and eee hiow he'll come out.” + . * lu your judguient, Benator, what would be the p‘_ropcr course for preparation{®” “Tho best plan that suggests Itselt to mo 18 10 making the currency fuudable, ‘This would, ‘0! coursg, briug the gy of contraction? arou our ears, but what 276 wo to dol Here we pro- mlo take up $700,000,000 of currency with h000,000 of gold, aud it occurs to mo that 1Bere must ba s0me contraction somewhero or 6 goid won't cover it. The fact 1s, we arenow inavretty bad place.'” Of the sliver plunk of the President's mes- 8age the Scnator fuds himself 8 unit in warm Spprobation. * Why, my dear air, {t. fsn’t a_question of le- ity this payment of tho dett in siiver. No oue questions t! rlfh: of the Uovernment 10 m‘k.n such myn:an .bu: J“‘m loa‘):qn;! lllt(“np\- o rei to take our bounds af T cent, if we will 7 ke them iu gold, while, If wo ¢ them p.lu le in silver, they want B or 8 cent. Bhall wo not save this ditference to taxpayersi Iam not. nor s the Dewmocratic darty, 'wlklnfi fur the bondholder, but for the ple, sud, { the boudholder i3 collsterall + 38lped, hods to be congratulated, but that B3 our object, It 1s not a question of the Gov- G;quenr.'l right to pay in silver, it Is a question SLeapadiency, sud Iy pertectly wlain to e 4 1L It coata s less to pay in gold than fn sll- ‘¢fl 1t 1s our duty to pay &“gul » Ted po the qucstion whether or not & truce had Pn" eatablished Letween Conklivg and the “lhlenlhhu poudercd loug and retlected deoply, o N b replied at leugth, “there iy no Wruse, aad there wili not be ady, Thers 1 o necensity forone, Conklog Is flushed with his fpparent suceess, but they are only apparent, In the end hie {& sure to e whippeds 1 can sce that from the action of the Fenate In exccutive gesslon to-day, ‘The President has sent back the New York appointments, umd uli he has to do {3 to remain fion, ond Mre, Conkling's defeat Iy merely o matter of tune, The quarrel hns not heen patehed up, and In thelr relative attitudes thexe two men are ns bitler as they ever were, bt Conkling witl have to succumb. T have the Lust of evidence to that ¢ffect.)” And this seems to he the general Impression here. Conkling’s primal burat, and the surface Indicationa that he might triwnph in the end, cotpletely turned his blonde head. A fow of the inoro ilnber-backed gentry In the Scnate were Inclined to slde with him, but upon his prospects heestablished such a degree of pre- sumption and nrrogated to himsell such a toplofty manner that he diezusted even those who were fnclined to ald him, His sudden ump into national greatuess through that Mac- th trap kuown s the Roclicater Convention almost. deprived Lim of hisswits, Assuming the propricturship of the State of Now York, he proposed to Lake it vut from under the cun- tro] uf the Adininistratlon, crown himaelf King, and buitd up u_sort of offenslve aristocracy around him, Without stopping to culculate liow miuch ho depended upon the gas ha had generated,or how thin he woull cvine out when punctured, he n'!‘mmd the battle, und in the surprise engendered by the first onslaught he was o littlo ahead. But now he guakes. His erand and mlFIAy alr of superiority has given way to a snapplshness and a snarling nanner thut make him personally more offensive than he was in his role of Duke of York. He is not a Thurman, and has no resources in defeat. o turps pallid at “tha alght aof tho first drop of his own bloml. He ropresents no prinelple whose rulns would make n monument for him, Iis strugzle.is merely for his personal agurandizement, und fallurg is death to him. And Le hOTIIn tu fecl this keenly, There Is o troubled look In his oyes, [ohas based himacll on Lhe questlon, 1s Hosceoe Conkling the most powerful muan {n the country{ And a negative answer will not even leave him the advantace of comparisons it vele. gatea him to almost obscurity. Yet he i a man of talent, and had he founted his ambition upon some pflnclplo that, however wrone, would have gloritied hin 1n end beer glorifled by hia adyocacy, his defeat would not huve affected him, sinco It would have bLeen referred to_the weakness of his causegnd not limeelf. But, standing as he does, prolonging a scltish con- test, the first dlsaster s his ruin, A man makes a mistake when lie uriogshils own luportance into question, 8. 1L A FARMEIVS VIEW OI' IIAYES’ MES- NAGE, To the Editor of The Tribune. Cmamratan, Il Dee. 7.—I started last cven- fng Lo rend President Jayes’ inessage, and rend through that portion relating to fnances, when I threw down the paper {u dlsgust. I'could not belleve §¢ possible that a man whose immediate ancestors had braved tho hardships of clearing and settling n .new couutry, and who himsclt must know something of what Western people have had to contend with, should deliberately ‘bavo abandoued that large class, aud have yleld- cd himself to the control of tha inoney power. It scems, then, that the blandishments of the money men of New Yotk, and Boston have had their effect. It would certalnly scem that this moncy vower, which has controlled the Government in all its branches sluco 1805, fs dotermined to drive the West to destruction, There Is o great crv frequently ralsed by thess men that the West repudiates its bonds, if any Tegal plan can be found by which they canbe avolded. Can an fnstancs bo foind when anv Western State has passed a law, ufter the lesuo and sulo of bonds, Pumnlrlnz thelr sohdity? O no, for that can’t be done: the Inw forbids it.. By what means, tlen, can the Inw be chang- ed by which_n farmer who borrowed Eastern caplfatan 1873 or 1878 In greenbacks, say at 744 cents, 18 now compelled to pay 8714 cents, and in 1870 witl ve compelled to pay par'in gold { ‘Tho case of the bondholder who took his bunds at from 45 tn 60 cents n greenbacks, and who now demands gold, Is atlil’ more inexpifeable. May It not bo the tact that the Eastern cupltal- ists are teaching Western people these quas) re- udlation fdensby thelr grasplug spirit,—that that 1t 1s no nore than righit to avall oneselt of ull legal defcets, wien they can be usod to defeat the payment of bonds lssucd by mualels pal corporationsl It is no secret now that capl- tnlists have united in procering leglslation from Cougresa that has added miilions to the debt of «'Eslum people. Is it any wunder, then, that Western peoplo should, when they can lnwfully do so, avold the payment of a mu-. nleipal bond to one of thess capitalistal Tho ln'jurml buyet of bonds makes o great outery, of course; talks of the moral daty of payiniz, whether the collectionof the bond cau bo legally anforced or not, In my opinlon, all bonds talrly issucd, for a valld conslderalion, and found {n tho hands of an innocent holder, even if legally defective, should bo pafd. But I spprehend that the present evident doterinination to ruin ‘Western people will produce such o sentiment of hostility that every and all means will be re- sorted to to prevent the cxtortion when the least prospect of auccess §s presented. And, should this fecliug wrow and finatly result In such o atate of affuiras ns predicted by Bland, who would s most (o blame! One thing s very certalu: the Iaboriig class of this country (and mean by laboring class all who have to work) will naver conscut to o money aristocracy growing up to becomo n privileged class; That thing bas been done in otlier countries, bat it never cau be dono ere. Presldent Ilayos says o speedy resumption of specle payment will especlally “hielp ail persons recelving” salaries, Of courso 1twill. 1t will ncll) to augment the purchasing power of that little $4,106,83 per month _which the Presldent himaelf regularly deaws. It will also capecially lielp avcrY other scrvant of tho Covernment from Cabinet ofllcer, Collcctors, Asscssors, Judgcs, and every other omulofiu down to tha luwest, The President, with his .suug lttle salary of 860,000 per annum n ficld, and all his Cabinet offlcers, withw their salarles in gold, re. celved beyond lability of loss by fullure of cropa or reduction by hlgh freights, can seeurely enjoy everything that mouney can buy, whilst the farmer, the laborer, tho railroad employe, must forcgo the pleasure of buylog cven o calico dress for his witu. If it be said this s overdrawn, [ say it §s not. By tha time the farmer of Illiuols bus patd 10 per cent fnter- est Ingold on his morteages, sent his corn to marlet ot present prices (33 cents per bushel), or pruspective prices, lived on the plainest food, and deprived himself and family of every lux- ury, snd perhaps even suitablo clothing snd nec- essarlcs, “what, If nu)'lmmf. will theii Do leftl These Westorn peaplo wiil inevitably notlce that President Hayea will, during tho coming winter, gflvc grand ehtertaluments, ns Uen, Urant aid efore him, when dismonds will flash and royal apparel will flaunt iteelf. No matter it thou- sauds are ground to powder by the pouderous monsy power. Tho Presldent says that the resumptlon of specle paymcats {n 1870 “will doubtless lead to slfght distress,” - What would our **Great Fa- ther ” call greatdistress? Is he perfectly calloust Has he no fecling But some one will say, it Tilden had fllled tho oflice of President, would we bave been any bet. terofll {frecly admit not a bit; and most Tlkely worse, As long as tho people will allow theniaclves 1o be contrutled by the words ** He- publican ? and “ Democerat,” 80 loug will these moueyed men control both partles; and never, il thie people clect o Congress and o President of thelr own,will they bo in'a position to danaad and enforce their rights. They elinply ask for Jrumcu. and less than that they will not accept. 'hat the wmussagre fe unfalr, and fuaccurate i its statements of the law, as to tho lssuo of the Londs coustituting the public debt, Tus Taiy- UNB haa miost cleatly shown, It glves me great satislaction to seco the wauly way In which thls whole l}uutluu has been treated by Tus Trin- ‘'uss, Tt ls very evicent that none of the blandishiments of other uieans resortod to by thicso men have rendered The TrIsUNE dlsloys] to the great industrial clusevs of the Wnti LY, GOLD ¥OR TIE RICII AND PEWTER 1'0OR TIE FOOR, 7o the Editor of Ths Tribune. €n10400, Dec. 8,—Whon the person occupys fog the highest uflice In the gitt of the people, Iu his ofilcial communicatjon to Congress, leaves the broad paths of honcst statesmanship, and fudulges ln speyial pleading on beball of & par- ticular class not forming s one-thousandth part of the population of tho country; when such pleadlng it acquiesced in by Congress will work Intinite wrong sud Injury to the poor, and miil- fons of tho widdie classes, it bohooves the great Journals of the laud that mold public opinion to so presunt the matter befors the people that they may Instruct thelr serv- auts In Cougress o no uncertaln toues to do the will of the pecople, and that, fn the event of thelr fallure so to do, their per manent absence from thelr respective districts will conduce to the comfort and heslth of all coucerned. Ifeel certain that tho course of Tus TuIBUNE on the silver question is approved by alae-tentis of all the poople of the United Stutcs outalde of madhouses and thelr miority, In view of tbe well-known and fearless course f Tus TRiwUAE In this matter, sud the (ta put it very mildly) fuaccurate statements of the Preskfent In his message to Cungress, 1 venture to place before your readera the following facts und figures, in tho hope that they may tead to rouse the people to the fact that they are being robbea of hundreils of millions of doltars by neana of unjust feglslatfon: ‘Tng TUBUNE of the 2th of November con- tained an ealtorial, wiso and well timed, on the value of Wistory. In consllering this financinl qnestlonlet us’turn to history, and let its pages be our teacher, Almost on” tht first page of written bistory Is presented the faet that stiver was used as money. Certainly it waa so used in tho Orst real-cstate transaction of which we have any record,—the purchare h]y Abraham of u burial-place for hta wife, On that page these words occur: ** My Lord, hearken unto me; the land Is worth four nundred shekels of silver, What fa that betwixt mo _nnd thee, bury there- fore thy dead."—(fJen., 23-5,) Bacred history fnforms us of the use of silver as money throughout neariy the swhole period coverel from the creation 1o the crucifixion, which cru- clfixion was brought about for a consideration of thirty pleces of sllver pail to that eariy financier, Judas, It js truc that “tistory re. prats Itaell.” Let us take warning aud gvold tho golden rock which wrecked the Jewish sintion. Let us quote alittle more from lis- torv: ‘*And all Kinz Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, nid all vesacls were of gold, and all the vesscls of the house of the forest of Letanon were of pure gold; none were of silver,—{t was nothing accounted of tu the days of Solomon.’—(/. Kiugs, tvili, 21.) Againt “The King mada_silver to be in Jeru- salem ns stone.—(7, Aings, 18.) Why was silver o8 stoncs? The auswer fs, It had been demonetyzed. No student of history can doubt tha fact, nor can any student of history doubt the rosult of demonetization of silvee In this country, The wrongs and umonluns of the Jewish natlon are only now being re<nacted and experienced hy our own people, _The relgn of Bofomon was a zoldenone, *The King mado sflver to be In Jerusalem os stonew.” ‘That {s to say, by deeree of the King silver was rendered valuefess as n currency medium. What was the result under Hotomon's suve cessorl Let history speak and tell usof the want, poverty, and'distress of the people, and tinal division of the nation. In the light of his- tory and in the very noontideot clvilization, will the people permit. the unjust conduct of the ancient Kings to be repeated? Wil they per- mit the public creditor in his rapacity and greed o scize In payment of his demand that whicts the Government never contracted to glvel Not- withistaading the stateinent made by Mr, Huyes It his message to Cungress, the fact remains that the United Btates bonds heretofore issued were made payablo in coli,—those Issucd under tho uct of ‘March B, 1965, werv made pay- nble in coln or other lawful money. This i the law under which the honas were Issued, and all purchasers of such_bunda were bouud to toke notice of the law, Besides the bonds ou thelr face, 03 a part of the contract, disclosed the fact that they were made payable in coin uf the standard value of tho United States {n force at the time the law autborizing the {ssulng of the honds was avproved. What peculiar (1f any) fofluctces, and how mnv{)' ot them, wers brought to licar by the New York and Boston _ bankers' -delegation tomold the Bhylocks’ shield known ps the President's Mussago can only remain o matter ol conjecture, It bears upon its faco thy ovidence that the good of ovnly one class of the community §a sought,—the money-lender. Now, the facts in regard to the Incurring of our bonded debt are about a3 follows: Tho bonds authorized by Congress to be {ssucd were, ns hefure remorked, made pavable in coln dollarr, of which we hod at that time, and until the pas- sazo by Congress of Johin Shicrman's and Seyd’s bill In 1873, two kinds, gold and sllver—sfiver largely produminating. . The Londs wera sold whien they were only worth n gold on an aver-' age about GO cents per dollar par value. The Londholder Immediately on his purchase buing mnde becamae entitled todraw seml-annual in- tercst in coln on 100 cents, wheo he had only In. vested about 60 centsg thus drawing fnterest un nearly double thu wmount snyested. What next! As I understand the matter, ho cotisuits Mr. Beyd, of Loundon, who comes to Amerfcn and sccures the co-oporution of our present Secretary of the Treasury, then in the Nenate, who works o bIll througii tho Scnata bv which more than one-liall of our means for paying the natiounl and other debts are swept away, ‘The case presented Is precisely as though Bmith had contracted to pay the legal holder of hiis bond 1,000 barrels of tiaur—tho kiud of flour not belog spucdficd. The creditor concludes that bie will take wheat flour, 8mith bas many other outstanding coutracts of o slnis lar character to the onc mentfoned, and the creditors concludo that it will ba to their andvantags to all tako wheat flour {n payment of their dcmnml-‘ they there- fora procure Beyd and Sterman to * snatch " a bill through Cougress to prevent the inntiufac- ture of rye or any flour other than wheat, What Is the resultt ~ Wheat flour s scarce and mostly held by the creditor. 1oor Bmith, the debtor, must have the wheat, True, hls contract was to ooy {u flour, but Congress hay taken away tho means of procuriug any flour other than wheat, Kye, when the contract was inule and when Congresa passed the law pre 1ts manufacture, Sinith hnad fn abund; could have tendered {t in payment of the o By reason ol tho law rye s no longer merchant- able,—by reason of tho law there is an extraor dinary demand for wheat flour, which, i pur- chased by excbange therefur of other property, can be had (as compared with tho intriusle vahia of sald other property before the passage of said law) unly at ‘a’ ruinously exorbitant rate, In other words, by the passago of the law the rye flour, which could have been tendered and which was {n Smith's storchouse, becaine worth- less. For the King had mado Jiye to be fu Je- Tusalem as stones. Money Is but a reprcaentativo of labor in some of 1ta varlous forms, aud {t s eminently unfust that when a person contructs to pay in property gencraily (and property Is also but roprescutative of labor) that Congross shall step in and prohibit the pavment of the debt in Buy vroperty save one kind. A thousand men in & county vach contract to give 1,000 horscs. They hava the horses to niako tho payment with, but ‘befors the cuntruct Is futtllled Congress coacts that none but black horsos shall bo re. celved In payment of the debt. Bomeof the creditors have o few blacl horses, others none, Each debtor had horses enough n growth in his ‘pasturc to pay his debt, but the color does not come up to the requircment of the law. The creditors demand black horses, snd the poor debtor, bg roason of thu scarcity of black orscs, nust Elrn at Jenst two horses cqually as good as tho lack horse for such an ono as the law, enactedd: after the debt was created, enabled the creditor to demand, It is capable of mathematicul dewonstration that, in property, the law demonetizing silver to the creditor more than doubled tho valuo of every debt outstanding at the time of its euactment. Public, municlpal, corporate, and private debt by depriving the debtor, the Government, the {udividual ot inoro than one-half the means of fiquidating the same, By this law, currency became valuclcss,— dear whon purchased vy the exchange of other property therefor, Thu President holds that thu owncrs of the bonds should be pald in gold “or other money of equal value.” " This is an admisslon that tha bonds are not payablo fu gald alone, but muy be patd i other money. 1f we mlmll that there lsno muuufi acluad savo coln, and that tho bonds may be pald not in_gold alone, but fu othor money of equai value, {t will appear that tho bonda inay be patd fn silver, as tho Coustltution of the United Btutes pruvides that Congress sliall have power Lo colt money, regulate the valuo thercof and of (umlgnnflxln, aut fix the stundard of welghts and meafures,” The Con- stitution having nx}nrculfi' clothed Congress with this power, ft {3 ditficult to perccive o reason i [aw, moruls, or the Constitution upon which the President eav hingo a veto. 1t would be tntercsting to know what particular juter- est avy forelgner bad In renderlug silver valucleds in our country as currency. Is it poselble that tho paupers of the Old World sent an agent bere for that purposol Is It not tnore probable that the holders ‘of our {ndpbieducss sbroad scnt such an agent? If ous was senf was ho seut by the bondholders in the mteres! of tho poord “Ifsv, caoltal has displayed moro consclence than It was ever before suspected of ssessing. However, the question answers teclf,—the bondholders belleved demnnetiza- tion 1o bo to thelr iuterest, beneo thelr action. liuculoul of expedicncy vught not to eater fnto the natter. As o nation, we oughit to by above nrcdwm-y merely, The Presldent 1s of the opinion that by paying fn gold thu debt can bo placed at 4 per cent, thereby urluf lor3 per cont. 1le omits to take note of the fact that our unatlonal debt is but a mnall partion of our debts ss & people and as " {ndividusls, and that by pnyln‘f 11 gold all thess debis, fnclud- fug the natioual one, become doubled, at tho -east, s wa have heretofgre shown. Accordi) 10 tho President, we sbould save two cents sn lose 100 or more. ‘This Is economy ou the Bher- wanplan, . ‘Thoro can be but little doubt thst the at- termpt to demonctize silver i the Old World a0d the New Is but the result of a wnlplm& of the money-kings to double the value of their secarities st the expense of the debtor. How loug will the people-slumber? How long ere thoy will dewsnd of Congress, at its Lalls, if need be, that silver sball that the will uad futercate of she peonle shat e recogoised by the people’s servants in Cou- Keessl Hespectfully, J. W. Bracu. . —— THB ALL-ABSORBING TOPIC, 79 the Edilor o The Tribuns, Ex0x0x, Is., Dec. 7.—The remonctization of tho sliver dollar fs the absorblug tople i the rewooetized, and publie mind, and, although 1t has heen worn threadbare by discusston and argument In the newspapers, it has not loat Its Intercat, as It Is the ¥ital question In the present condition of the country, The matter has heen ably elucl- dated {n your paper, and those who havs care- fully read the numerous articles you have pub- lehed with an unprejudiced mind eannot, T think, avold the conclusfon that interest, polley, and justice demand the restoration of *the dol- lar of our fathers "—the slver doliar of 4123 grains of ninc-tenths fine—to ita original place In the currency of our country as the unit of value, without limitation or restriction. 1ad- mit that | have been converted Lo this bellef re- luctantly—or, rather, agalnst my preconcelved Ideas and oplnlons—by the arguments I have read and my own reflections during the recent acitation of the subject, Being mysclf a bank officer and stockholder, ns well 1 o member of @ firm whose princpal business fs the toaning of money, and having larze sums die, and owing nothing, I might be dusizuated as one of the creditor class (not Lo ts¢ B more opprobrious term), and theretore in- terested to keen the staudard of the currency at the higheat point, and thus realizé the grest- est value for my lnvestments. Be thisasit may, I have alwags during my e, whether acting as a private citizen, business man, bank- er, or leglslator, subordinated my private fnter- eat tothe publie good, belleving that In the end such a course I not only the best for the many, but for mo nlso. And soin this case I bellove the remonetization of sftfer is not only just and honest, but {5 also the best policy for all con- cerned, The sdoption or continuance of the single g standard meana unlversal bankruptey and ru'n. With our extended eredit aystem and vast ndebtedne:s it (s 1dio to talk of the mass of the Ju,.oe paying thele debts. The mengeity and enhanved”valua of mones, and the eonsequent. denreciation of property, will render It impossi- bie fur the debtor class to pay their Jinbifjtics. L insumbered provesty whl go to the ham. will be foreclosed, Every ased {n whole or 1 part on ced. Al nulls wnd manu- ‘I'hls [a Incvitable, ‘Then where will the creditor bo 1 e will. have pleu- Ly of warthiess paper or equally worthiess prop- erty: plenty of lands and houscs to pay taxes on, which lie can neither sell norfrent for any udequate compensation. With a fittle gold he will be a nabob in the mida of an inpoverlshed and bankrupt people, Would it not be fur better for the m:tlu.ur to be uble Lo collect the principal bart of his debty, even I curreney orth 63 ceuts on the doliar only, than to e uble to collect only o small molety In a currcucy worth par ¢ How mueh better for the debtor nod the coun- tryt 1t §a my deliberate u{plulun, however, that, A sitver bu restored o a full 1egal tender as be- fore 1873, not one year will elapse before it will be withina fraciion of a cent of gold. need ot argue this polnt. It has been suth- dlently explained i your columns, It {s pre. posterous to suy that silver, the recognized mensure of valus of the world, with gold, from thme fminemorial, with the stanip of the Goy- ernment tipon it, aud now futrinsteully worth &) centa ns bulifon, wil not e ns goud us worth- less paper with the sane Imprint, Jell-meaning and scrupuious people sk, * Would it be fair and houest to restory to sllver Its former functions?” Why not! Who can complain? Under the pretense of doing another thing, the staud: dollar was by the act of Feb, 12 1873, surrcptitiously droppad it of the Tist of colns Lo Ly lenued, and, Iy the general revision of the Btatutes in 1874, It was—probably fnadvertently—provid. ed that only the colus named fu sald act shiould be a legal-tender, ‘This was done by Coniress without any valuabloconsideration, and withuut the reguest or consent of the creditor. Why may not the snie power restors the low to lts former provisfonal’ ‘Tho bondholder cannot complaly, for every United Btates boud issucd since the passage of that act contalus upon its face n provision that 1t slall be paid In coln of the United States ot the same weizht and value authorized by Juw on tho 14th da‘y of July, 1890, With sliver seaionetized, tha policy of tlie Hove eroment settled, aud coln coming graduslly— perhapi rapldly—into circulatiou ss n basls” of sound currency, we may hope for the carly ad- yent of gencral prosperity, Without It, we may only oxpect disaster and rufu, % 0. C. Have, COLGATE LETTER OF JAMES B. & 3 p New Tork Timee, Dec, 5. * The following s a copy of a lctter sent by Messrs. James P. Colgate & Lo, on Munday lust, to Sccretary Blierman In responso to the answer ho gave last week to the proposition of the firm to purchase a large number of 4 pet cent bonds for silver: Nxw Yonx, Dec. 3, 1877—The Ilon, Johu Sher- an, Secreturyof the Treusury—Dean Sin: Yours of the Jat Inst, 18 this day received. “As |t wos pabllshed in the evening fonenats of Saturday last, a copy waz donbtiess prucured from your ofice, from which source aura of the 20ih ult. probably obtained fis publicity, un we furnlvhed no copy for the press. cnlmps!nqulm(l of you whetheryon would uccepl our offer “for **$150,000 Unlted Btates 4 per cont bonds, interest and principal pay- abls fo silver dallars of 41245 ‘grains etand. uences, and we to dewoslt lu the United atcs Asxay Ofice an swount of aliver hullion which wonld produce the sum required to be patd 1 auch wilvor dollars at par."* Wo look for s sim- nla answer-—yes or 10, We were 8t a lovs to know what ulterfur ends you had to serve in replying to our latter {n such an extraordinary manner, and so early furnlshing a copy to the press, Wo thank you, however, for the calculation of eciunn an 1t {s, ‘which Jou supposs w wou 0, provided our offer had been accepted. Wethink it, huwever, entirely uncalled fur, un it Is generally conceided we are fully competent to WAKY uur oWl eaiculations, As one good torn de- sorves unother, will yon ploase sxcuso ns i wo mako o supgeation how the ‘Prensary could profits ably uro the 150,000 silver dollars we offerud In ‘paymem? These sllver dollars, from the jear 1807, at which thne (he Government gan frecly to issue r cent bonds, were always at & premium nbove gold untl) they were dm;» ed from the lat of suthoriied coine lu 187474, and st which timo they woro worth about pur 1w gold, Wo wugzent that the Treasury co)d now uwe the 150, or dollare, aud niako from it 3160,5881,02 waheidlary coin and dis. poss of it to the peaple st par in carrenc nmu‘y inaking u clear prodt 1o the T'reasury of $10, i1, 04 but wa wound uak, Do you +* thisk tia ale and hounst?' Thu 'Treasury has galned millions of doltars the past fow years minting subwldiary coin sud selling t 8t parin currency to tha p cuch 81,000 of whichi welzhig 3555 ouncen I n 31, 0 of thy hscredited dollar of aur fathers, and wa would ask, Do you **think this fair and Loresty Why uot Insuv a silver bond? We have about $04, 000, 000 of currency bonds, Iuterest nod &I"I.'n- yablo [n currency, and about 31,700,000, - cipal of bands, intereet and nrincipal payable In coli, now gold, becauws tho sliver dollar ls demonetized, und why not bave bonds pryable fu silver? 'Thie Cou stitution uf vur country has deprived the several blates of the right of mlnn'gu und makes gold aud witveronly alawlul tonder, Thls being so, wo woula, with_all ‘dus_respect, tuguire why onemsu who diye 31,000 of gold from the earth should have the product of hiv labor wnade into coln withuut ex- pense, and snother dizs 81,000 of silvor, and the product of his Iabor bu reviled, stiyumatizedas a wwiudle, and refused coinage? Do you *‘thlnk this fair or honvetr Guar proposition was distinct, that the principal and Juterées on tho bonis yhoald be paid in sllver dotlarv, The intlination, froon wo high un suthar- ity as yoursell, that tae Uovernment might reduce tho valud of the dotiar, and might nd this cxpo. dlunt to pay a chicaper dollar so **convenient that 1tnight think it better to adopt tho Laun ™ ratie, 155 of silver (o one of pold, and colna dullar *raf 400 gralns with which 1@ pay you," Or it wmigbt thiuk *<asubsldiary dollar mnhluhfl‘ 3 graiog i good envugh ‘to pay a boudbolder,'' This Intlmstion is exceedingly painful (o us, ss it must be to uthery, We should not have written the above bad you sinply declined our offer, but as vou lacnched vat into nra:lu, ;;lm\l’\"ih hunn‘ly. (‘h.“ vl‘l d)ermud It proper to reply. Wi reat respect, Lruly yours, e ¥ Snm- B. CoLuate & Co, —— NO EXPLOSION, S # 70 the Editor of The Triduns. Cntoaco, Dec. 9.—Tur TRIDUNE of to-day contalus a paragraph to the following effccts A boller exploded In the passenger deput of the U, & R L R R at 4 o'cduck yesterday mornfug, “with a loud detonatiun,” *No damage done the bullding,” cte. No explosion or aceldent resultiug from the use of steam has occurred In that building or auy other witbin tho lmits of this city for tho past ten months., Joux D. Muneur, City Boller Inspector, ———— Upouy the Health of the Toeth dependa the purity of the breath. Prescrve them llnihmhhld by tho use of the famous Sozodon! tag perfoctly barmiess vegelable preparation, au you will nover regret It o — Rupture of an artery in tho right arm. Tried tho 1noet prominent surgeons fu this city without benedt. By accldent bieard of Dz. (iles' Linlment lodide of Ammonis, It acted like magic, Am w well, W, Brsos, Mas, Doc., orgeulst Church L. ¥rancls Xavier, Sixtecuth streat, Now York, ¥or sale by all druggiats. e —m—— Doz't trifle with a sore throat, or s bad cough or cold, whea s rewedy as sure, prumpt, and (hor- ougn a4 Dr. Jeyne's Expectorsnt can be readlly obtalged. ——— 1f you need o harmlesy stimulant, take Sanford's Junasica Utoger. WELLIGOTT. The Result of the Shot Fired by Miss McKee at the Constable. Death of the Wounded Man Yes- terday Morning. Constable James McElligott, who was fatally wounded hy Mles Allie McKee, died yesterday morning at five minutes hefore 4 o’clack, at his honie on Ifslsted street, Unlon Stock-Yards, ‘There were around his bedside wihen he breath- cd his last Dr. Marley, Frank Miner, Esq., Po- licc-Bergt, Thomas Geelan, and Peter Mitchell, Those genttemen were untiringin thele efforts Lo asalst the wife of the deceased In attending 1o hiin sfnce he was taken homoe on the day of the sad occurrence. Theunfortunate man voin- fted cvery few minutas Baturday cven- Ing until 9 o'clock, but after that time he did so less frequently untll mid- nizht, At 12:30 ho suddenly sprang from his bed, and before the attendants could prevent him ha reached the doorway lending Irom the bed-chamber to the parlor, and sald hio wanted to go and get a good drink of waler and some fresh alr. But tho cfects of the terrible wound told upon him qulckly, nnd before he could cross the threshold he began to faint, and In that condition was placed 1u bed again, fle rallied 'shortly afterward, and was rativnal for an hour or mare, but at the end of that time 1E BECAME DELIRIOUS, o and remalned so untii i 8. m. Ho ravdd about matiers connected with Lis business, and_ apoke in disjointed and jucohierent phirases, ‘Then he grew rutional azain, and conversed a little with his friends untll 3:30, when he asked fora drirk, which was given him. e moaned and drew his hreath with difficulty, aud was In gereat patn. For twenty-five minutes more he lived, gradually sinkligr every moment, aond every moan beeomning fainter, and each’ succceding breath shorter, until #:05 o'dlock, wien ho quielly passed away. 1ils wife, a paticnt and scneible flymmg wotnan who Las remaiued at his side and administered uithfully to his wants during Iis sufferings, came into the bed-chamber three or-four min- utes before her busband explred,’but was not then nware that bis ¢nd was so near, When avqualnted with the syl fact she boro the In- telifgence with becoming fortitude, though nearly exhausted from her unceasing vigils, At 7 o'clock ycuem;,y 0 InUssage was sent to thu city aud Coroner Dlctzach notified of Me- Elligoit's demise. Dr. Holden, County- Plysician, was also apprised ol the fact, and Loth offleials procecaed to the late bome of the deceased, where they arrived at noun. The Corouer 2 INFANELED A JURY coraposed of the following persons : Judd E. Busby, foremanj Thomas Ilolland, William Thompson, Jobn McKillopp, Patrick - Tlerney, James Willlaing, Thomas Harney, Jay Stough, John H. C, Bruling, W, Sweeney, Phllo Alico, and Ch, Hoffwan, The Jury is sald to be un intelligent one, composed mafnly of busincss wmen at the Btock-Yards. They were sworn {n, and, after viewing the body, ae required by law, were dismissed by the Coroner until ‘tucsday alternoon at 3 o'clock, at which time he notlfied thiem to be_at the Town Hall, ready four the fn- Quisition. But, & the funcral takes place on the day and at the house thentloned fur the fu- queat, It [s Jikely that the fnvestication willnut begin until Wednesday forenoon ur afteruoon. Dy, Holden beman the post-mortem cxan - tlon at 12:30 o'clock yesterday alternoon, and occupfed an hour. After aprotracted scarch, L was unablo to find the buliet,but denon- strated tho fact that the abdominal cavity was fitied with blood, which, hc sald, waa sutlicient to conse death. The larger intestloes wers verforated so that the facal matter had escaped foto the abdontnal cavity, aud thero was 0 Inrge nccumulation of pus thraughout the bowels, and an extraordinury amount of {n- fammation. Mortification bhad “also set [n fu the lntestines. Other portions of the body, such ns tho llver, kidneve, heart, Yladder, ete,, were in a healthy condition, ’l‘hu left lauwge, lowever, was found ndlicring to the ribe, show- {ng that the doccused had been nmlgm! with pleurisy at some time of s life. The ball had evidently lodged n the mnscles of the lower part of the body, after coursing through the in- testines, 8 ioscquent to bis fatlure to find the Lall, Dr. Holden was nsked by one of the firlen&l of the decensed {f death had been pro- uced X BY ANY OTHER CAUSE, and ho” sald omphatically that nothing had caused death but the wound, ‘The post-mortom exasmination over, the body was prepared for burial. The coflin, contalning the remalns, was placed In the parfor, where tho face of the dead _ofticer was viewod h{ o larae number of fricnda, who thronged the honse all the afternoon and evening, McEtligott had béen a resident of the Unton Stock-Yards tur twelve years, and was well ond [uvorably kuown by uearly cvery resident in the place, Much sympaty was cxpressed for the bereaved widow, who has refrained fron suy remarks about the woman who fired tho fatal shot, aud thus depriv- d her of lier best friend und aupporter. Mrs, McElhgott tms two nteresting anu pretty chil- dren, ono of whotn Is nearly 4 yeura old, and the other but 6 weeks. Last Thureday afternoon tho Rev. Father Carten, of tho Church of the Nativity, visited McElltzott, and gave him the sacrament of Su- preme Unction. e called azuln the next day—when the patient was ablc to receive ft— and adminiatered the Holy Bacrament to him. McEHigott made his wlil Thursday night, Mr. Frauk Mtuer, his attorncy, drawing it up and seating it In the prescnce of witnessus, ‘The sympathy of the Unlon Btock-Yards peo- vle Is stronely in favor of the decensed oflicer. McElligott was considered o carcful and falth- ful oicer, and they ussert that he was luath to make the levy on Miss McKee, nnd did so sim- gl_v In the discharge of hls Tne Btock- Yurds populutivh has never boen 80 excited and interested In a simiinr caso, aud, liko uvela'lmd clse, are curfous to kuow what the trial wift bring forth, A8 ALLI® M'KEE spent a qulot Bunday lnw!:ll, seciug no one but hier slster and her physiclan. To reporters stie vontinues to bo luvisible and fnaccessible. A ‘Twinun R voprescntativo catled at the fail in the neighborbiood of 8 o'clock in tho alternoon, snd was told that she bad givew orders to adiit no- body but the membera of hor family atd her rhvnldm. The only unInF left to do wus to nkito s polite note, inyuiring how she fclt, and communieating the intelllzence that, white Me- Elligott was atill allve, the probability was that ho would not lust longz, ‘To this the lady re. lied Ly messenger that the reporter would ave to excuse lier from asylng anything, If the public care anything about the sticr at all, they owu it to themselves to thank the oforesald messenger for the lutelligencathat sho was foeling t the sawc as sho did Sat- urday, her weakuess snd bervousncss not havs ing descrted her. " DU DAVIS, To the Editor of The Tribune. Cnicaao, Dee. 7.—Iu to<lay's revort of the shoating of Constablo James 8.' McElligott yes- terduy, your reporter gives It as wy proguosia that tho wound was * necesearily fatal,” In Justice tomyself, as well as fo the wounded man, 1 desire this correction to be made: 1 gave It as my opiufon, alter examinatlon, that the wound wasnot necessarily fatal, althouzh very gruve, and I gave a hopeful prognosis from the fact that bo gave no evidence vf suvero Internal hemorrbage or shock, such as would have beop prescut tn caso of movers or nceessarily fatal injury to the oerituncum, fo- teatines, Jor important vessels, from which ;numu 10 thess Injurica we expect tho greuteat anger. A 1 deslre hero to enter my protest azalust the reckless manner (u which the safety of danger- ously fnjured persona s often jeopardized by the reparters * writlug them futo thle graves' b‘y gbastly head-llues and exaggerated descrip- tlous of their injurfes. In the vresent cuse Cons stalle McElIgutt wasa plucky man, aud your report, whicli has doubticss ero thls reached lim, will probably izake ltile differeuce fu the Wsud but Lad he beew o weak, nervous man, in poor health, it might havo fastened u dewrcsslon upon hlin which no subsequent eftust wuld remove, aud theroby have so futerfercd with the after counse of the casyas tu basten o fatal fssug, when sn equally pronouunced fuvorably one would Lave buoyed up his nrlflu. seinforced tho thread of )ife, and turued tho doubtful balance {n his favor, Thesa resuls can oaly bo wbtained by tho papers inalstiug upon greater accuracy in reporting tho vital facts in these cases, aud py giving the jnjured onca tho hbpetul benedt of all doubts thelr condition, ‘Frusting thls matter will recelvo tho attentlon its gravity so often dewands, 1 remalu respeetfully yours, ® CuARLES K, Davis, M. B —— Robbery of Jewels. An Eu‘{lhh Countess has been robbed of her jewels during ber honeymoon. Lady Aber deen's drusaing-room at Halstead Plave, ueur Seunoaks, was entcred by thioves one evenlug, 8 fortnight ago, sud ber “fuwels uud weds presents, worth $25,000, were stolen. About o'clock in thy afteruvou her wald went to the dressiog-room, but Bodlog the door locked sud Learing somcbody wovlug sbout fuside, sup- posed that Lady Aberdeen did not wish to be disturbed. An hour afterward she Again went up stalrs and entered an adjoining room, which she faund In great disorder, drawers being open und thelr contents scattered nbout the floor, Ble then hastened to the dreesing-room, and, finding the door atill locked, eave an alarm, whien fe was ascertolned that the drawers amd jewel-vasea had Leen raneacked and emnptied, One box contdining jewels worth £20,000 had esvuncd the notice of the thicyes, A ladder had been pias el azainet the balcony and an entrance effected through a window abavo into n spare room, swhenco the robbers gained access to the dreasing-room. BHE FARM AND GARDEN. Pruning the Vine—Number of Bunclies— How to Prune on an ArhoreCulture— Tmposed on by Tramps=Feople to Niame eltefuse Them Ald—Exterminating Rata— The Deat Apple—Ureen CropseComing Meetings, Fram Our Owrn Corrtspondent, CtiaMpaioy, Til., Dec. 8.—Grapevines should he trimmed during lefsure weather thls month; and, If desirable, the prumed canes may be taken down from the arbor, trelils, or stake, and ho lightly covered with sofl or other mulehing. Vinoyardists of experience do not necd 1o look to “Tho Farm and Garden' for Instruction as to the proper season and method of duing this work; hut there are thousands of farmers, who have from one to & dozen vines, ‘who really know nothiug of the modus vperandi. Before cutting off any of the canes or branches from a vine, It I8 cssential that one sliould remember that the groxth of last year, only, produces grapes. Each bud throws out a shout, from which the fruit fs vroduced,— oftentimes six or efghit bunches to a shoot? if the vine fs strang and healthy. It s not advisable, lhowaver, to permit more than two, or perhaps three, bunchies to rematn. Having these facts Inmind, we can make some calculation as to the amount of woorl that should be left to bear trult next year. A good, stroug, healthy vine should produce . FORTT OR FIFTY NUNCIIES, A vine on a trellis or arbor may, of course, be expected 'to produce many more; but vnc fault with pruning such vines i3 in leaving too much wood, aud thatof so weak a character that the bunchesarcsmalland the frult infedor. The vire-cuituriat, whoso object Is to grow as many pounds of fruit for market as possi- ble, and as Jarge as It can be made to Krow, secksto gainthe result from afew hunch- s ; and, thercfore, keeps his bearing wood a8 near the crown of thevinous posstvle: In fact, it fs hardly practicable to grow large, fine bunches apywhercclse. Then, If your vines are trained to single stakes, you should seloct two canes of as nearly cqual sfzo.as possible, and have them rtart at the surface. The first three or four buds do not generally produce frults therefore, thoy need not be talken futo consideration. Now, f a cane Is five feot long, and contalns two buds to the foot, there will be ten Luds. Usually there will be double that number, but ten will give us a3 least thirty bunelies, and perhaps fitty} thercfore, TEN GOOD PRUIT-BUDS ARB ENOUGH. ‘The second cane should be reserved in caso rome accldent should befall the first one. All other wood stiould be cut offand removed out of the way. Lay the trimmed canes down, aod cover a3 before directed, In trimming the vines upon an arbor or trelils, the number of bunches desired should be taken Into conslderation, aud the catting be done ac- eonlingly. A viuegard alivays repays good caro and cul- tivation.” 1t should receive an annual coating of manure, and wood-asties witl add greatly to its productiveness, A few hours' wurk sutne afteruoon will put the vineyard lu good shape, If these directlons are followed, A great many farmers comoluln that they are IMPOSED ON DY TRAMPS, especialiy durfme bud weather, when there fa no work to ‘be done. fn this respect, farmers arc no worse troubled than the peuple of cities, These tourists tlock to the towns and villages when real cold weather upproschus and hang around the depots, station-louses, and lock-ups gaining a precurfous living by lu-z;zlu‘g an steallng, The people are to blame for a wreat deal of tuls trampiug. It Ia a well-settled nxiom that no man long follows o busiucss that does not afford bim o lsine, A tramp's lifo may not bu the most. luxurious; but those {cllows, or the wost of them, have cut louse from [riends and famllies, and travel and bex for a livivg, They are lost to ull senee of shame, and not one in"ten would work 1f it wero offered Lim. ‘There is ono way to put un end to this intolerable nulsunce, and that i3, to REPUSD AID OF ANY KIND toastrange bergar, Wo Pny taxes to support our local poor; therelore, It i an Is unable to eupport b mnui!, Jet bl reinaln where hie has residence, aud aooly to the local nuthoritics, It 1s wrong for houvst, hurd-working peopls to bu compelled to wive {u charity a purtion of their carnfugs to support a set of thrlftiess varu- bonds, who upenly bosst that the world owes them livime, and, 1t the world does not offer it. voluntarily, they propose to take it wherever it can be found. . ; EXTERMINATING RATS, In some localitics, rats arv s great nulsauce, and, i fact, an vverons burden to the faruser, A healthy family of rata~nnd we never saw nuy but healthy ones—will consume a groat desl of curn in a year, 1ow shinll we get nd of them( is aguestion. A fow yeura ago our fari wos overrun with the ** varinints.” We tried shoot. ing them, but their numbors did nut appear to grow much less, - At last we procured o black- and-tan rat dog, and scon hod the place freed from thelr presence. Wheueyer the doz hod & rat In.a holo or under n pilo of rubbish, wo assisted in dipcing hiw out. It took some time, but the rats were beaten, and wo have vot had a rat on the fann for soveral years. ‘Traps are of but little avail; polsun 18 dangerous; but o cood dog fs sure. ‘he cribs and pens ardund the place should Lo ralsed from tho earth enougn to permic a do to ran under them; and, whenever a rat bur- rows, tho dog will be sure to simell bim out. : THE BEST APFLE, Wo nro asked to name the best nrnln for this or that lowlity. This wo are not atwuyatblo to do, because wo cauuot tell just how different’ solls affort the bearing of tha truy, or the keuvpe fng qualitics of the frult, During’ the winter a nutaber of horticultural cocleties will hold meetiugs, and, If tho mombers will discuss this sublect of varieties, lnllcn\l of listening to longgwindod essays on * Geology of Holls,” or s Meteorvlogy fu Relation to Hortleulture,” or somu such such snbject, —which hus not now, nor never had, any practical bearlug ou the sub- Ject ot Horticulturs—they will develop some- thing useful. This discusafon should nut be linlted to o few, who uvuemll} do al] the talk- fug, but yvery member should be called vu by name to tell just Low much value there §s In cerlaln variety In his locality,—at the suuw time clving locallty, soll, vxposure, ete. If there ure any obléctions, Jet them be mado known, 'The samo coursy should be pursucd with rvgand to small fraits. The modest men- bors often kuow all about a vuriety; but, bear- {ng some onu clse frum o different lw.\llt{ Te- lato un cxrcrlcneu stmllar to thelr own, they keep sttil, thinklwe §t s all bt They ought to speak, for the reuson tlat people hving o thelr county, in rending roports, fall to see the Varlety under discussion spoken about by any otic whow they kuow, and areut o loss whether it would do well with them or uot. The whole Lst nued not bo Zone over, }m’hlly thuse varictles which are universally of no account, GUEEN CROPA. ‘The time 1s not far distant when wo shall have to look for sumethin twill sup ly a wreater ainount of green lved, snd, ulso, more fuidder tu the acre, than suyt we now have, Awuug tho now -forage-plants, the Prickly Cowfrey I8 beglnuing to attract some sttcution, ‘Ihe Jtural New- Yorker says ol it The valuc of Prickly Comfrey I highly spoken of by M, A. Goflart, “fua work va by “*Cultiva. tlon'and Hystem of Eusilagu of Malze aud Other Grven Crops, " lately published at Varls, Last April bhe obtained W0 wets, wnd, ot the dute of wrlting, the plunte had not obtained thelr waxl- mum yield, whick will uot ‘take pluce untli uext year, - Last Augusl, however, M, Uoflarg bad ale Feady cut two cros, and tioubt & propable ho would cut two vioru by the cnd of the xeasun, The vield increased after cach cutting, aud the plauts oniarged continually, 'The mitrogeuous watier lu them he fuds uearly double the swmount fu_ maixe, snd be cousiders the two plants not av givals, bot ihiuks bt esch s rendered more useful by the wother, restly Lo tho advantage of Agriculture, **Com- rey,” Lo adds, ‘*by ite mode of growin sad coutingous yicld, commeuclug with the spring snd ouly Ouishing with sutuwu, appeans to me to be erpecially adsplod to amall farin-toldings, inw~ niuch we un thesy wore attention cau bo glvea to tuo peculiantics of the pl nd tho rel long thae fequired from day to cut tho leaves can by more esslly spared." This lsonly E LS ris with regard 1o o Vo BSiae 10 our Botico, froin diforaat, yasia of ik country and Europa. Thu Loudon Aariser, 000 of the wost diveriminating of oor exchanges, xives e Judorvowent ot an lusestion In its columns to M, Gofiari's encomivi, The Industrial University has a fow of these plants growiug, and we shall kuow moruof iy noxt year COMING MB¥TINGS. The Jowa Flog Btovk Breeden' < one smong quite a lur ¥ Ay will hold fts fourth annual meeting at Marshalle o intts Sate Horticultural Bociey st T nois Btato Horticultural Bociely, at Tpavs Fuiton County, 11th, 12th, 18th, l|¥l‘ le;l :" December. Meeting of the Northwestern Dairymen's Assoctation, and the first Annual Fair of the Ameelcan Dalry Associatlon, In Chicago, Der ls,r} )y and 20. hese mcetings will bo Intercsting to thora enzegtd in spectal Lronehes, and should be well attended. unaL Jr, ———— f Boosy Britons. Landon Corressondence New York Times, At » meeting under the Presidency of tha Mayor of Londom, called with s view " of estabs Hlishing an industrial home for, tho reformation of women who are halntusl drunkards, some startling facts were promulgated. There is an alarming Incrense of drunkenness fn metropolls, 08 much amon2 womenas mon, 1674 the pol were committed to the Westminater Prisol) for drunkeaness, and ovu:(y vue of them had been ropeatedly committed and punished for yihe eamne offense, Klzity per cent of the general committals to English orlsous arz canded hy drinl. A report from the Gorernor of _Antring Jail was quoted showling that out of 10,000 cuine raittala to the prison for drankenness within a given period, ¥,000 were females and onlw 20 males, The Ordinary of Newgats atated that out of twelve persons con- victed of murder at the OId Baily I o year, only ong vasc wam nnconnected with drunkenness. No question about_ (t, drunken- ness §s the curse of Englund. You will sen more examples of intovication In one evening's walk in the back slums of Londun thau you will even find i New Yorkinu month. (ine atid whisky nre as frecly drang fu London as Jager-beer’ In New York, and the resuit is an augmentation of dlscase and erime appaliing to contemplate, The Increase of restaurants, gin- pnlaren, cafes, bars, and all Kinda of apirit and wine stores, I soinething enormous. Englandt ir the nost drunken nation under the sua, and the touner the Legislature settivs down'to work' on that fact the Letler, Since Mr. Giadstons scattered wine Heouses uroadceast over the coune try private Uppling on’ the part of ladiva has largely: Increased. They drink ot the confec- tionerics or candy stores, and they can procure sl‘drflu at the crocery storcs. My Gladstons thonght that If drink could be got :.ull‘y overy- wherc the wmiptation to surreptitious #llquor- ing up" would diminish, He was wrong. Ho: tried to chieek the growlng sin of drunkenness Ly the early closlng of publle houses, but the, glant evil wiarches on_ through the land ke o uatlunal blight, rulning more people than fall, in & commercial crisls, slaying more people than a pestilence. 4 In ico statistics show that 4,490 women ——— That Indox Expurgatorius. : Mr. Dryant's “ Index Expurgatorius,” for use in newspaver offices, has been pablished in the « Jondon journals, and a skower of communlca- - tions to the editor on the subject of Amerfean~ fems s the resull. For Instance, “T. Y. wishes to kuow what objection there can bo to the word *asplraut,” which he finds In one dic-, + tlonary, Todd’s Jolineon, and which ho 1s confl’ dent hay Leen used by respectablo writers, It- comes fronf tho Latin, he aavs, but so does. *candidate,” and one s as objectionable as the : other. Thun, ngaln, .*Interred 7 was. used by Hhakspeare, Dryden, -and Aildlaon, and the . poel-cditor, ta whom {t 13 disrastetnl, 1s quictly ecolded for belng bypereritical.” The (iobe re- marks that the malority of -the worda In tho “Index Expurgatorius’ are distinctly yulear, and filustrate the two matn evils of nowspaper English,—the undue uso of abbrovisted iorins aud the adoptlon of technleal terms whera come. mon words aro cqually expressive. While the editor shuiders ‘over such shominations as ** pants,” “gents,”” and ** sozesh,’ and sces no. reason why *tapis,” "dchu%"- “artiste,” and “role" shiould appear In an English paper, he- thinks that Mr. Bryant ridcs his hiobby too far whon he oblects to * banquet,” * rald,” tele- gram.” and “issuc,” for which lie would sub- stituto “dinner,' attack,” *“dispatch,” and “question.” The English editor also congrate ulntes lifs readers that they nevor seo ln tueir newapavers the word *‘casliet” (for *coflin ), sl ,mr *“autumn V}, and “travspire " (for *uecur M), IIIED» AL, . IMPORTANT LETTER From a Distinguished Physiclan, Nu tiagla dlseun has entalled more snfering or lisalened th b of Uis consiiuni! then Catartis, Tho A of liearing, \Ba lions and .onmfiuln Al n truc Viuce, et chon the system stacks every vital force, i brenky np the most Tobust of constitations. ored becatuso but little nnderstood by mostph v.‘lnm.lmpnh-mlrnllnl'wn by quacks and charintens, those eifering frow: 1E'have Tittlaliope to he felieved of it A1} of thugrnve, Itintinin, then thntilie popning treat. manut o thlsirsribla dlssano b within the resch of all pnsoud, and trustworihy, ‘Yhae naw and I method adaptad by Ur, Banford In $ho preparation OF 8 [Raea L COUBE hos won 1y hieart lzpv»vll 1 bolieve It likcly 1o succued when afl ¢ les fatl, becnuse it strikes wt the root of tha idifled blod, whlle 1t hasls the embrane by direce mrplication to the s, liaaction 18 Dasert o certain fixed unicss tha vital farcea are 0o far ex. d, mast, In tho great mujority of cascs, fech > acure, QED. NEARD, M. D, NomsoorT BLocx, B0, FRAMINGUAN, UCL |, nma SANFORD'S RADICAL CURE BIAY safely emui tabaone of the few W’m'i e esreg by of S ntlomet, who, in privats, nof o e . . Eienis T2 bt nse. I 1 Hcks Pomitied [o preareace 73 ;-"’I :nl.mn Ppreparations ususlly prescribed by *You ar0 awaros*said a distinguished clity phy. sfelan, *Ho8 lny Cbligationa 1o 1he hess. Hodics Boclaty Arasuctithat § cannot pablioly recouimeny Itudical Cure; butsincel rec from tiio usy of it m"f"' of tiio oagal remedies, { lnve o ised 118 ine, and presume L have sent to lg‘g‘r‘ Slore nu lessthan one hundred of my patients . UNIVERSAL BATISPACTION, ENTLEMEN, — Wo hava dold S4x7osn's Ridts oat- Coi for nenriy oo year, sud aan eay | findiuly tat we nevor sold a afullsr preperation {uat wava sach ualversal satifuciion. Ve liave 10 leatn thie rst complalat yet. Ve ara Rot In tho bl of Tacommendiog pat- et mdiclues, bot.yonr preparsiion yueets th wants of thousands, ‘wud we thisk thoso amicte ahanld bo convinced of its 80 thiatih suflering will be rulioved, Leen {n Qiug bublncss for o past twel conatant 200 sold exarythini for Catareh, bk yoursleads Lo rest. “If 33t bud Proper You'caD Use thia lat or any part d. it that you wish, Very truly yaurs, 1; BALDWIY & CO. v , D). ‘Wholesals ugd Hotall Dealers fn Drage, Buoks and ‘iatiohery, W a1hi0g1od, 1ada Febe ), 1it: Fach package containe D, Banford's Improva: m-nuf“ ol and Ml diructions for use 1a Al cascs. Price, §1.00, fflrlnlfl by ali wholesal ratall drogeists and dealers throaghout the Lates and Canad WEKES & POTTER, Agents and Wholesale Druggiata, o8, EEH00LLINS VOLTAIG PLASTER An Eleqtes. Gatyapte Datigry comblucd Fas et P " ELECTRICITY ind curstive and restorative agentisnot ||rlhyfllm!ulnlmudlrlnuIn o histor) allog ars, Unlos tha vital spark hus e dy resforation by meana ot eloctricity 1 pos 1 ti last 7esort uf all physiciane aud sur. ina reacued Uousands, snparendiy dexd; i untimely grave, whe ‘other Laman sency conld liave surcebdud. TLL bn tholeading curativs cloment a this Plaster, BALSAM AND PINE. ‘Tho keallag prn‘rllrilu of our own fragrant bal. s andjins aid (ko gums of the Exst 76100 well of th thio o own 10 Tequite dusceiption. Thwlr grataful, beallug, boothing, and sirenginenlng properiics sre 320wn 10 thowunde, When combluod 2 u accurds ance with Jata aud importsnt discoverics In phane wuacy, thelf heallng aad sirengthening proparties sre Incronded tunrvld, Iu this respect our Flastcr da tho best In use witbous the ald of slectriolly, - TWO IN ONE. - leal Thus comhined we have t'? arand ageats 1 one, each o Which perforing L and unltedly producu niora cures than ment, lotlvd, wash, or pisstur ever Ll unded o tho Litory uf wmediclue. 108, 33 Crarts, a1l Wholesale and Retall Drug, . & 107 sald by rhout the Unlted 6iates and Canadas, al WERES &' BUTTRI 1Upristare. Bovions bas. 8 comn Tiy ous. . DERS MEETING, BTOCKHOLDBIS' MERTING, . FE NN TL B A% D Oy ot 32_‘1 Slction o Direciars ot the ssulad yesk, wil e e 08 Tuesday, Jau. & 167ek bepweei tho boure of 8 aird 4 ISA, h P, Cashler, Cuicauo, Dea. 4, ld’fl.Auu LUHI&LV £ . SUALES, : L FAIRBANKS' STANDARD . < 50 S ©F ALL winbs, v FAIRBANKS MORSE & 0. 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