Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1877, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1877, ’ Chlifornia Senstor is a member and has sub- seribed to the oath of a soclety having for {ta object tho expulsion of the Chineso from tho Pncific const. It is greatly to bo regret- ted that the Mortox report should have been lost, mislnid, or misappropriated. The Indi- ana Sonator had given tho question careful attention and investigation, and his views ought not to be lost to the world. @ in this conveniont and bloodless fashion; there are fow men with sufficient dignity to quarrel np to the verge of a duel, who can- not count a couplo of good-natured friends smong thcir acquaintances who will apolo- gize for thom. Evon in those cases of personal disputes whero tho antagonists are mors bloodthirsty thau Messrs, Conxting and Gonpon have proved themsolvos, wo sce mo ronson why business, Tho United States nover, di- rectly or indiroctly, undortook to guar. anteo that tho gold in tho gold dollar should be worth as much as tho silver in tho silver dollar, or cice versa; it declared that these weights of goid and silver should be legal dollars, Tho assumption that the QGovernment in any form ever guaranteed that tho gold dollar shonld always purchaso tho silver dollar, or that the silver dollar whays, and her prosperity wonld Lo far from tho stago of dovelopmont which it has ainco renched. Whito Iabor could not and would not have pushed tho Southern Rond over doserta nnd mountaina out to Fort Yuma, or been so important a factor in the construc. tion of tho Ceatral Pacific. What is truo of the railronds is trmo of irrigation and all other works on a largo scale. Tho fifth main employment of the Chiness has boen sonal appenls to Lord Derny, and in reply ha snnbbed them all, impartiaily. They in- formed him that Russing intrignes in Af- ghanistan hind disaffected fifly millions of the Government's eunbjects in Indin, and ho ropliod” that the statoment was absurd, They fnformed Lim that the true line of communication with India was throngh Ar-' monin and tho Euphrates Valley, and he re. plied that he saw no dnnger in the Russian The Tribme, TENMS OF SURSCRIPTION. DY MAIL—IN ADVAN POSTAGE PREPAID, Exinrdny ¥e paged. T1- Weekly, one year..... ‘artaof & year, per monih 200 a4y == Tre TRIUNE'S npeei—nl elbl;——dhp-tch this . WEERLY RDITION, POSTPAID. tho samo thoory may not be carried ont in the | should always purchaso as much flour as the in domestio service. Women for the kitchon | occupntion of Armonin, as tho trua line was Sogeopy, por year, 1:30 | morning conveys the intelligence of the re- | actual appenl to arms, Sappose Gen. Gor- gold dollar, Is wholly fallacious. The legal | aroscarce in Ualifornin, and the number of | tho Snez Canal. They informed him that Erectmel by ported death of Osian Pasho, and the | nox had refused to bo appessed by the | action of tha Government began nnd onded thoso who are nblo and willing to | Aostrin would aot with England, and he re- c“t:x(,:"!y o ddress o fall including Stateand | ymmor {s partially confirmed by the Asso- | apology of Benator Cowkirxa's two friends, | in declaring how many graina of gold shonld | do housework is oxirsmely limited. | plied that Austria would do nothing of the cinted Press dispatches. Advices from Con- atantinople, to the effect that tho hero of Plovna bad telegrapbed his family that his wounds were progressing favorably, seem to discredit the former report, though it is not impossible that the Intter should havo been true nt the timo it wag written, and that an unfavorable turn in hia coudition rubsequently occurred. The Mussnlman dread and horror of amputation is said to have so worked upon the mind of the brave Pasha that ho took poison to avoid the mutilation necessary to save his life. The world will sincerely hopo tho rumor is unfonnded. Jemittnoces mayho made elther by drafi, cxpress, Fust-0flice order, orin registered letters, at our risk. TRRMS TO CITY SUDSCRIRERS, Datly, deltvered, funday excepted, 25 centa per week, Latty, delfvered, funday Included, 30 cente per week. Addrers TIE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Corner Madieon and Dearhorneste., Chicaso, 1t Otders for the deliveryof Tiux Trinuxrat Evanston, Englewond, and Hydo Park feft in tho countlng-room willzccelve prompt atiention, or thot Benmator CoskLivo had rofused to consent to the recording of o misunder- standing. Then wo will assumo that a duel would be unavoidable. But, oven in this cose, the affair might still be sottled to good advantago by proxy. Benators Covzuiva and Gomrpox aro men whom tho comntry s mot prepared to spare, Both aro protly good specimons of public men, nand cach hasn raison detre which their frionds may prop- otly demand that they respect. Mr, Cong- 1r1xa’s Now York friends do not want to sce bim killed, wherehy they might loso thoir Governmeont places; Mr. Frrzansons ond other office-holders and offlce-soekers in Georgin aro similarly bound np in Gon. Gor- Do, and have tho right to protest agninst bis throwing his lifo awny, Then, if worst maka a gold dollar, nnd how many grains of silver shonld mako a silver dollar, Thewr valuo relatively, or in other property, was entirely boyond tho duty or even powers of the Governtnent. When gold coln ia issued from the mints it issues under no guaranty from tho Govornment further than that the coin contains tho oxact weight of puro motal and alloy that is fixed by law, Tho Govorn- ment stampa it * One Doliar,” or * Ten Dollars,” not for the purpose of gnarantecing that it shall have any value In other commodities, But simply to denote that the coin contains the legal num- ber of pgraina of metal. Tho silver dollar from 1834 to 1873 was worth from 1 to 3 por cont mora than the gold dollar, nnd then gold, being the cheaper motal, was in general use. Ind silver boon the cheaper Thoy demaud higher wnges than porsons of moderate means can afford to pay, and they nro less ngroaabla aa sorvants, say the Cali- fornin ladios, than the Chinamen, beeauso less doollo, indnstrious, and thrifty. No donbt tho best and most influential frionds the Chinamen have in Californis are the womon who omploy them in housework, and wounld e at n loss to arrange thair domestia econo- my without them. It may bo sald, in gen- eral, that all the employing classes find their ndvantago in Chinese chenp labor, and would be reluctant to give it up. Tho irrepresnible conflict in Canlifornis, thon, in the some which hna been enrried on for so many hundred yonrs in so many parts of tho world,—namely : the conflict betweon employers and trades-unions. Tho tendency of employers to pay as low wages and of kind, Thoy informed him that the country wanted war, and ho told them that there wera somo who also wanted England to in. torforo in the Amorican and Franco.German wars, who were now glad sho did not. They informed him that tho fleot ought to be sent to Constantinople, and ho roplied that he did not consider Constantinople in any im. mediato danger. They went nway impressed with the iden that that they had listened to o semi-official Lut very emphatic declaration of noutralily, There was nothing to indicate that England would make any effort towards interference excopt in the contingency that Iinssin occupied Constantinople, That con- tingency, howover, is in no ways related to tho subject mattor of the Turkish Noto, and hns not yet prosented {tself in wuch a shape Taw Ciiteaco TainvNe for the recetpt of subscriptions and sdvertiscments as follows: NEW TORK~Room 20 Tribune Building, F. T. Mc- . €O, Cal.—~Dalaco ilotel. Cramtzs Manager. ance--No. 16 1tna da Is Grange-Batellere. 0 M LONDON &.—American Exchange, 440 Btrand, Haxuy ¥, GiLuia, Agent, The new French Ministry hava scarcely settled into their seats before they ara called upon to undo rome of the tyrannical work - that England ean make {t n subject of dip- ANUS of their predecessors. Thoy will be nsked at | gnould come to the worst in these affairs, tha | motal, ns it was prior to 1834, it would lave | employes to got na ligh wnges ns | lomatic inquiry, It will be timo for Turkey MeVieker's Thentee., onco by the Ropublicans to grant a general | gigtinguishod principals onght to select un. | remnined in goneral use. o groatly was [ possible Ia always and evorywhero | to ask for medintion by the other Powors Madlron strect, botween Etate and Dearborn. amnesty for offenses sgninst the press laws “Rldonte.” committed siuce May 16, and for the rein- statoment of the Mayors dismissed by the Ds DBrootir Cabinot when the rosolu- tion was formed of tnking completo pos- reasion of the clection machinery for the purposo of seeuring the overthrow of the Republican mnjonty in the Chamber. Al roady DE;MarcEne, Minister of the Interior, lins removed tho rostrictions which De Fountou placed npon tho sales of nowa- papers, and it §8 said the Govornment will shortly introduce a bill making tho consent of the Ciinmber n necessary preliminary o tho proclamation of o state of sicge. The lessons of the past soven months have not beon learned 1 vain—moderation, prudence, progress havs boen taught in Franco gs thoy wero nover taught before. important proxies to fight it out. Thero ore hundreds of hard characters in every city who would undertake the job for a reason- abla consideration, and socioty would be rather benefited than shocked or throntened by tho fact that such lives were put in jeop- ardy. If, in snch a coso, Benator Cong- 1180’s proxy—say & Now York *‘knuck”— shonld bite the ground, Benator CoNxrwa's honor would bovindicated just as thoroughly a8 if he himself had received a bullet through the heart. If Gon. Gonbon's proxy—say o ropresentative Georgia ** ornck- or"—sghould fall in the encounter, Gen. Gonpox's insult wonld bo ns effectunlly avenged ns if ho himself had sought and achioved death, And' in both cases society would have renson to rejoice not only that two excellent publie men had been saved for futuro usefulnoss, but that at least ono and porhaps two disroputabla characters hnd boon put ont of tho way. This now code of fionor—npology by proxy or ducl- ing by proxy—shonld reccive the prompt and hearty indorsomont of all our public mon; in this event, personal disputes and hard the silver in excoss in value of the gold coin that Congresa in 1853 was compolled to sns- pend tho coinago of the fractional silver coins, and snbatitute n choaper coin, such as is now in use. If thoso who make this objoe- tion will considor the matter calmly, they will understand that the right to use the cheaper coin, in ease of fluctuations, is the particnlar point of advantage and protection which inducea nations, and which espocially induced this country, to adopt tho double standard—the legal-tendar of both' gold and silvor. 'Thus armed, the nation is pro- tectod ngainst any sudden or extemsive chango in the relative valuos of the two metals, the some, nnd always will romain so, Tho peculiar manifestation of it in California ia due to tho faot that a sep- arate non.voting Asiatio raco presonta itself 08 breaking down the .Inbor market, and thereby nrrays against itaelf the projudices of theEuropeanrace. Thoquestion the General Government s called upon to decide is whother theso diffigtonces of raco are Bo radical that fair competition, under the circumstances, is jmpossible or nndesirable, 1t 1t shiall 5o docide, it will formally nban. don one of tho fundamental principles of tho Government, It will at tho samo time deprive the country of the bonefits of chonp Inbor, which all exporicnca demonstrates is an incalculable blessing. Cheap labor does not mean impoverished labor, or plenty for tho capitalist and scarcity for tho work- ingman, or comfort tor tho Mongolian and starvation for tho Caucasian. It means prosperity for the whole couuntry, of a simi. lur naturo and duo to the same causes a8 that produced by labor-saving machines. Chenp Inbor deprives dear Inbor of employment only in tho rame manner and degreo as the steam when Russin knooks at the gates of her Im. perial city. Hooley’s Thentre. Tnndolnh Atrect, between Clark and Tasalle; Engegoment of the flcss Engilsh Opora Troupe, +* Loheminy Gir" THE Thoro is somothing more than appoars on the surface in the situation nlong the Rio Grande. Affairs aro going from bnd to worse, Raids of United Btates troops upon Mexican territory havo provoked similar in- vasions of Texas by the Mexicans, The fight ot El Paso may be, ns the dispatches state, o loeal matter; but it ia partioularly unfor- tunato at this tine, when publie fecling on both sides is rnnning high. Tha complien. tions are incrensed by the absenco of o defl nite diplomatio nuthority with which the United States might troat and arrange torms. Though D1az is firmly catablished, and the Lenpwsr power represonted only by strog- gling insurrectionnry bands, our Government lins not consented to rocognize either of the parties, While wo thus enfoy the privilege of keoping ont of intornal disputes, wo aro at the samo timo deprivod of the advantage of having a responsiblo power with which to doal. The most delicato diplomatio functions as be- Taverly’s Thentres Monrae sreet, corier of Desrborn, Fogsgement of D, i Harkins, **Jack Cade.” Colioum Novelty Thentre. Clark street, oppostte Conrt-llouse, **Dark Work." MONDAY. DECEMBER 17, 1877, OHICAGO MARKET SUMMARY, Tho Chicaco produce marketa were moderat¥y actlve Saturdny, and generally easter. less pork closed Ge per brl lower, at $11.75@11,80 for new and $1L87H@11.00 for Jannary. Lard clored 2tje per 100 1hs lower, at 37.74 cash and 87,775 @ 7.£0 for danuary, Meata were easier, at 41{c for boxed shoulders and Uc for do short ribe, Whisky vas ateadler, at §1.00 per pallon. Flour was dull, Wheat closed 3(¢ lower, at §1.0714 for Decemnber and $1,07% for January, Corn closed M@3c lawer, at 4dc cash and 41%c for Januury, Osats cloxed g Jower, nt 243ge for December and H4L@ 24%¢ for Junuary, Hyo was ateady, at50c. Bar- “ley closed 3tilc fower, ot U03ic cash and Olc for Jannary. Mogs were active and stoady at $7.000 CHINESE CHEAP LABOR, The Chincse quostion has como up in Con- gress again, and is pressed with such vigor by tho Pacifio Gonst influenco that some set- tlement or action cannot long be postponed. Gov. Inwiy, Senator SinoenT, nnd nearly every politician of note in the Btato, assert that tho conflict is irropressiblo, nud that it can only bo terminated by the oxclusion of THE NEW CODE OF HOKNOR. Persons are, atter all, much mors interest- ing, if not more importaut, than things. The squabblo over tha admission of DBurren and Kriroos to thoir scats in the Sennte was sufticient to divert the interest of the whole 5 ; g - t th b Moxi z 1’0. nc:h)cn:,n::.c mL:ln‘:‘n“fin‘:lmrl::lffll"; :t‘fiog;r: :‘c::;x:l;s; ‘!lx;;;ng l::flinpaifi:;yr:;fiogzlmfi words mny happen without disturbing tho tho Chineso from our shores. These viows | angine supersodes horse-power; in bolh weon tho United States and Mozico have of Iato beon discharged by tho army; and the nrmy is not a good ngent for this pur- pose. 'Tho training aud habits of thought of the officors unfit them for diplomacy. Thoy profer the herolo trentment for all ir- regularitics, and in this manner ofton mako their romedy worse than tho diseass. Tho army, too, has an immedinto porsonal in- terest inwar. It would much rather have war than not. In no othor way can tho of- ficers gain their promotions and gratify thelr smbition for glory. Ninoty.nine officers out of every, hundrod would like to sce the find expression in a memorial prepared by & Committeo of tho Scnate of California, and addrested to tho Congress of tho Unmited States. Tho memorinlists represent that the Chineso in California number about 125,- 000 adult imales, or one-sixth of the total population ; that they are the offscourings of tho inhabitants of China; that they pay in taxes $12,000 per annum less than the sum required to support Chineso criminals in the Htate Prizons; that their wantof a moral sense and our jgnoranco of their langusge tend to wesken tho authority of since 1st November, 833,871 hogs. Received in Chicago during lant week, 70,515 brls flour, 362, - ‘180 bu wheat, 225,611 bu corn, 173,100 bu oats, ‘18,803 bu rye, 111,L01 Lu barley, 243,851 llve Loy, and 14,057 cattle. Inspected fnto store In * this city Saturday morning: 200 cars wheat, 200 cors corn, 28 cars oats, 12 caes rye, and U0 cars barley. Total (41R cars), 160,000 bit, Ono hun- dred dollars in gold would buy $102. 6214 in groene ‘bucks at the close. country, and oven a mors froquont rocur- renco in the futuro will not ba a subjoect for regret. OBJECTIONS TO BILVER REMONETIZATION. Wo print this morning a mass of lottors and communications on tho silver question,— being, howavar, only a part of what we have rocolved. There are two poluts in this con. trovorsy which are zealously presented, and in good faith, by somo of thoso who aro op- posod to the roemonetization of silver, to which we dosire to call attention: casos enorgy is rolonsed from ono kind of work to bo used in anothor, and aa tho op- portunitios for lnbor arc incronsed, so aro the means of paying it. The white mon of Cali- fornin as a wholo will, in tho long run, gain moro than they can lose by tho introduction of Chinese cheap labor; for, by monns of thoir superior intelligonco and strength, they will make tho Chineso contribute to their comfort and prosperity. noss of tho extra session. Bo tho personal sltercation betwoen Souators Covzrixa and Gonpox arvested the public attention that lind been absorbed in the silver discussion and tho Civil-Service controversy, nad fixed it upon these two gentlemen. Certainly thero ara not two gontlemon in American publio life who aro moro consplcuous repre- sentatives of chivalry, as weo uuderstand it nowadnys. Gen. Gonrpox wos an officer of distinguished porsonal bravery in the Con- fodernte servico,—ono of thoso gallant fel- ——— In New York on Baturday greonbncks wero worth 97{@07} centson the dollar, THE TURKISR NOTE TO THE POWERS. Tho Porto has at last dispatched a Oircular Ar. Bercuen hns beon cracking tho cars ) lows who won the admlration ond | . Tho statemont is mado that to remone. | our laws and to paralyzo the power of our | Noto to tho signors of tho tronty of 1871, | country involvedin n war with Mexico, not 2:11:1?::::::;: :‘{"3‘;’:‘,‘;‘1‘:’!{:’ :;:: ::&1‘:;:‘ love of his follows. It was this qual- | 4354 gilver is to degrado tho currency, and to | Courts; that the Ohincso fomalea in' this | askivg thom to interfero in the war botween | ocauso Moxico dosorves to be troddon npon of tho poriod. In a sermon yesterdny ho “y- ity moro than any other thel gavo | {ueug choap dollars worth but 92 conts, and | coantry are depraved; that the mep, when | Turkey and Russin aud *“acespt a peace,” Just now, but because war would Lo & good him public prominenco after thes War was ‘over. Henator Covkuing, thomgh lo never went into the War, has alwayn shown himself fenrless in tho oxpressiom of his opinions, and is of o bearing and claracter that ontitle him to respect for Yersonal gollantry. Whon it was understoodl in an indefinito way that the lic had beens passed iu tho Senate Chambor botween two such man, the occurrenco was protty sure to test tho question whather or not tho dusllo still romalns the firat resort of gontlomen in an frreconcilable disputo of a personal nature, 1t {s a motter of some serious congratulation that such an altercation may bo satisfac- torily and honorably adjusted without an appeal to arms; but it s still evi. dent that tho codo was the dark back- gronud of the picturo, and that it was the resorved tribunal iu tho ovent that m sottle- ment could not be reached without it. Gen. Gonpox bolongs to a class of mmen from whom a voluutary abandonment of the codo can scarcely bo expected; it is not unlikely that Lo himsclf is n believor In its justice, ond jtis certain that Lis constitucnts and frionds would have condomned any dlsposi- tion on his part to evade tho issus of a duel. But Senator Coxzrixa occuples n differont position. Ilo himself is reported to have oxpressed a proper contompt for dueling as a rolio of barbarism, and he makos hils home awmong a people who would glady have the practice condemned ns at onco unworthy of o gentleman and of civilization, It is to be regretted, therofore, that Bonator CoxxiiNg did not take the position from tho outsot that, whatever other result might follow, he would refuse to Lo drawn into a duel which 1iid conscienco and the custom of his peopls coudemn. Buch an utterauco would have bad anexcollont moral effect, while hia in- thation of yielding to the code in caso of extromity leaves this maiu question as much in disputo a4 over, Novertheless, the mode of settlement in tho CoxxriNg.Goznox affalr may set a proce- dent, by resort to which o duel may always bo avorted between reasonablo men. There was o misunderstanding; this, in fact, is almost jnvariably tho occasion of a quarrel botween intolligent men. Xut, ' notwith. wtanding au sdmitted misunderstanding, it would have been impoasible to induace either of tho parties to confess it, and much leas to make a public apology. Henator ConxLiNg would not have apologized to Gen. Gonpox for tho words he used, becsuse he would have subjected himsolf to a fatal suspiclon that ho bad yelded to the terrorism of o Southera fire-eater, aud it would Lave caused him jofinite mortification among his own frionds and constituents, Gen, Gompox would not have apologized for provoking tho offensivo words used by Benator Conx. Livo, because he comsidered himselt the oggrieved party, to whom an apology was due, Here was apparcotly a dead.lock, as thero'uvaally is in affaiws of this kind, .\ was at this point that the brilliapcar ug of & mutusl spology by proxy '* “rd to somebody. 1t acted likon chl"gs‘;.,““‘flflu wero Benators 1laxuix and Hows, friends of Henator Conxeina, who had not been of- fonded and who had offended nobody ; they would just as leave spologize s not. On the other haud, there were Senators Raxson and McDoxaw, friends of Gen. Goxpow, who occupled a sitnilar position; they were en- tirely willing to explaiu and to sccopt an ex- plavation, Bo Messrs. Haurix and Hows apologized for Mr. Covxumvo, and Messrs, Raxsom and McDoxaLp apologized for Gen. Gonpox, the apologies were vpread on the record, and the offensive words withdrawss, without the direct intervention of eithor of tho principals, each of whom can claim thee hoe Ls recoived proper satisfaction from his antagonist. There is no good reason why similar dwputes should not uiways be seitled that this is dishonest and will provo a loss to tho wholo wagos class, who will then got paid in dollars worth only 02 conts, where thoy now got poid in dollars worth 97 conts. This is the objection. We havo at present o poper currency and two kinds of silver coln. Lot us meco what they aro worth, The trade "dollnr-contalna. 420 graing nine-touths fine, or 878 gralns 6f pura* silvor, . Two holf-dollars of the subsidiary silver coln contain 347 grains of pare silver, The old dollar, if coined, would contain 871} grains of puro.silver. These colns haye n valuo s metal in gold: Trade dollar, 93} conts; two half-dollars, 86 conts; ond tho old dollar, 92 conts; the paper dollar has no intrinelo valuo whatover. Tho paper dollar, being o legal-tender, though it has no intrinsic value, will purchaso 07§ cents of gold; the trade dollar, not being a logal- tender, is worth only its valuo as motal,—03% conts. While the tiwo Lalf-dollars of the subsidiary silver, though worth ns motal only 88 conts, bLeing logal- tender to tho amount of §5, will purchase to that extent as much ns tho paper dollars, Now, will these gentlemen explain, if paper dollars, which havo no value whatever, npon Deing made legal-tender become exchange. nble for 97 conts gold, and two silver half. dollars, worth only 86 conts aa motal, become, though only o limited legal-tender, worth ns much as the paper dollar, why tho sflver dollar, worth 92 conts na metal, being made & logal-tonder {o a higher degree than the pa- per dollar, should not have aa great n pur- chasing power as that paper dollar? Will theso gontlemen explain why the eilver trade dollar, worth 03} conts as metal, is not worth as much s money as the two silver half-dollars, which are worth as motal only 86 cents? Tho paper dollars are not full legal- tendors; they are not aud canuot bo mnde legal-tonder in payment of interest or prin. cipal of the public debt; but uilver hns boen a legaltonder without limit, and can be mado a legal-tender now on an equality with gold; and if o valueless ploco of paper can e mado equivalent to 07 conts gold by belug made a legal-tonder for certain limited pur. poses, the silver dollar, which is now worth 92 conta in gold as metal, whon made alegal- tondor for all purposes for which gold can bo mueed, may hope to have at least ms groat #a power as mouey a8 the irredoomable paper dollar, Those who are 60 solicitons that the wages class will lose five cents on the dollar if sil- ver be monetized may save themselves all trouble on that score. The losses to be ap- prehended ‘on that. point are so remote aud wo improbable that it 1s uscless to weep over them g o presont calamity, 2. It is argued that the Government, when it made gold and silver legal-tenders, of ne- ceasity undertook that the dollars in each metal should be of equal valua; that there- fore the right to pay debla in the cheaper metal does not pertain to the Governmont ; and that, whea either gold or silver sball de- preclate, the Government is in duty bound to incroase the quantity of pure metal in that colc, and raise it to the value of tho other. This argument vests upon a misconcoption of the whole matter of coluage. The French Government bas gold and silver both legal-tendors; the frano is tho unit, and the silver frano weighs fifteen and a half timos a3 much ne the gold frano; the number of grains of gold in the frano being fixed by law, the gold and silver coins are made legal-tenders, the silver coln to weigh fiftcen and s half {jmes as much a8 the gold coin of the same donom. ination. The unit of our coin is the dollar, Tho United States doclared that 871} grains of puro silver should constituto the silver dollar, and that a certain other numbor of grains of puro gold should comatitute the Awerican gold dollar, That is the wholo not criminal, como into painfal ecompotition with tho most noedy and deaserving of our people; and, finally, that tho wholo of the $180,000,000 earned by them during their twenty-five yeors' rosidonco in this country has beon abstracted from the Stato and ox- ported to Chinn, *thus nbsolutely impover- isbing,.instand of enriching, tho country ,af., fording them aid GsylEtd." For theserensons, thoy recommend the co-operation of Groat Britain and tho United Btates, with a view to the abrogation of all tronties permitting Chinese emigration to tho United States, Tho huc-and-ory against tho Chinese pro- ceods primarily from tho whito laborers of Californla. Thoy have tho sympathy and sapport of the wage-raceiving class through. ont the country, and of all the politiciana who court tha favor of this class, The Cali- fornia laborors are brought into competition with the Ohinamen in many kinds of work, and posaibly believe themaclves to be injured by this competition more than thoy in reality are. Nine-tenths of tho laborers who object to the Ohinese because they aro aliens aro themeolves of foreign birth, but, n8 most of them have the advantago of boing naturalized citizens, they claim the special favor of tho Government on this account, The-Chineso aro aliens not merely by reason of their failure to naturalizo, but in sympa- thies, habits, associations, and. religion. Thoy como to this country as adventurers, and leave it, dead or alive, in the same ca- pacity. Thelr carnings aro sont home. "Tholr families are left in tho Celestial King- dom. If they dle, their bLodica are returned to Chiua for harial. They want nothing of this country but a share of its wealth, It is true, alvo, na the opponents of Chincse im- migeation eay, that the Chinamen are not good citizons in othor respaots, Their stand- axrd of morality Islow, Petty theftis a con- stitutional habit with them. Their women in this country are, us a rule, prostitutes; and bLoth soxes havo far more than their just proportion in the State Prison, None of thess facts oan be denied. The question is, whothor thoy constitute a sufllclent reason for reversing the traditional policy of our Government with referouce to immigration, The Chinaman hns his most powerful frionds as well aa his most unreleating eno® mies in California. First, there are the large landownerd, who find Chinese cheap labor indispensable in thoir agricul. taral oporations. Without it, on account of the onormous distance to forcign markots, they could not competo with other wheat- growing nations in the markets of the world, Having now to contend against the disadvan. toge of 10,000 miles of extra transportation, they cannot abaudon tho advantage they pousess in cheaper labor than their competi- tors. The grapo and fruit growers also find the Chiness as handy and more efficlent than women in the proparation of the crop for markot, and poy them less. A second class of employers who appreciato Chinese cheap labor are the manufacturers of California. In a new country, with wages at high rates, manufacturing would be out of the question but for the introduction of a class of cheap workers, The woolen menufactarers of Cal- ifornia could not, it 18 claimed, exist without “Chinese cheap labor." A third class of em- ployers of chesp labor are the mine- owners, who use % in working lean ores that would not pay high wages and a falr profit besides, Hero, a8 in the other cases mentioned, the Chineso do not come into competition with white lsbor, while they add much to the wealth of the country. A fourth important industry in which the Chinesa have been found usoful and almost essential is railroad- building. But for the presence of this frugal and industrions race in the ocountry, California would not pow nor for many years be covered with a network of rail. thing for the army. ‘There is no dissent from this opinion smong the young men, who now look forward with discontent to the prospoct of dying Captains nnd unknown to famo. Thoro is another class of porsons almost 08 nrdontly desirous of war as the army, sud .this is mado up of the wpoculators recently deseribed in Tne TnmuNe. The mon who own mines or railronds, or shares in them, or hiope to becomo interested in some nun. known bonanzas at & futuro day, - would be glad to have soveral of the northern prov- incos of Moxico anncxed to the United Btates, They cannot hopo for protection to their commercial intorests whilo the country romnlns in ita prosont unsottled condition. A class that sympnthizes heartily with thom i3 composed of native Moxieans who would be plonsed to transfer their alleglance to somo country that wonld have the ability to veward it. Othor mombors of the war party nre the ‘Toxsus who covet their ncighbors' housea and lands, those few who, aro honestly aggrieved by the depredations of thievish Mexicans, and the usual following of adventurers in all parts of the Union. Bome advocato a war beoause they bellove it would draw off the surplus labor of the country, It might do so, indeed, and givo temporary rellof to the conntry by adding $100,000,000 to the public dobt; but the day of reckoning wolld onl, be postpoued, not avoided. . A war movemeont always hna some strangth without referanco to the merits of tho dis- pute. If tho proposltion woro to go to war with Canada, or Great Britain, or the Sand- wich Islands, or China, or the moon, or any other power in hoaven or earth, there would immediately bo found alarge mob ready to jolu in tho entorprise. Itisprocisely thisstate of fooling which the Government has to guard sgainst. The men whoso volce ia still for war, and always for war, hove a way of making themsolves leard; and they often give tho impression that they aro moro re- spectable in intolligenco and numbers than they are, If the Govornment will put down {his small affair on the Rio Grondo with the strong hand, it will hear no more of tho war party nnd it will have the thanks of good citizens, Meanwhile, Benator ConxLmvg and his nssoolates who havo organized a Commit. toe to antagonizo tho Moxican policy of the Administration will do well to think twice befors thoy form o factious opposition. The situstion {8 now too grave to be trifled with. 1t should not bo used for personal ends aven by the distinguished Benator from New York, but with the most earneat purposo to bring both countries honorobly and peaceably to on understanding. Ste——— The cxact scrvices of & match- maker bas never been asecrtained or fixed by aoy statute, excupt, perbaps, in the almost ob- solete Stato of Nuw Jersey, where they bavos great many thiugs that are totally unknown to the uelgboring United States. In Kentucky however, & sult has recently been brought to re- cover salary for the above-mentloned kind of services. A Covington taan had the misfortuve to lusc his first wile, and, in order to soothe bis distracted feetings, bis bousekeeper fntroduced to him s yousg uad vivacious lady, who soon thercafter became the sccond mistress of tho bouschold. It was then that tho housekecper demanded recompense of the whilom widower for procuriug bim auother spouse, snd, on his refusing to pay the sum demanded, en- tered suit against bim in & Justice Court, clalmilng $100 for scrvices ren- dered. Just how the intellizent Judge and jury would have decided thecasse cannol be gucssed with aoy degrec of accuracy, for the de- fendant, unwliling to exposo his domestic af- fairs to the world, compromised by the pay- ment of $0. o —ect— Poor old Jacon GrAU s no more. Afteryears of suffering, be fs ut vest. He bad been a hope- loss invalld sud paralytic so long that his name was almost forgotten, especlaliy as other Lo | pressed n scmi.contomptuons indifference regarding tho doctrino of tho Trinity, while on tho subject of future punishmont he do- nouncell in language vivid with startling hyperbolo the current Calvinistic thoology with reference fo Heaven and Hell, which is tantamount to asking them to de- mand n peace, The grounds upon which this appenl is based aro, to aay tho lenst, uniquo and curious, if not slightly audacions. Were tho situation not so griwm, tho Turk might almost be set down ns o confirmed humorist, Tho world is given the rather | atnrtling atatemonts,.over officlal signature, first, that Turkey did nothing to provoko war; socond, that it has dono everything to avold it; and, third, that it does not nuder- stand Russia’s motives in the present cam- paign. These throo propositions are start- ling onough of themselves, but the argument that is built up on theso premses is colos- sally impudent, According to the Note, the Porto is deslrous of and actually engaged in making roforms, and that *‘n stato of war simply rotards such reforms, and is dispstrous to tho country geuerally, destroying agricultural intoreats, killing in. dustry, sud ruining financial reorganization,” The argument of the Porto possosses just that characteristio which is ironieally atiributed to “thoinjured innocent,” Originally, the Turks carriod their systom of oppression to such an extont of robbury, and even munssacro, that their Bclavio subjects revolted, and tho cause of their revolt was considered sufliciontly grava to occupy tho attention of the Great Powers, They demanded that Turkoy sliould institute certain reforms, to which she agreed, but failed to carry out her agree- mont. They then met in conferenco at Con. stantinople. Ilussia, warranted by hor closo rolationehip to the Sclavs, made a formnl demnand for reforms, which tho rewmsining Powers whittled down to a minfmum, Russla acceptod the minimum, and an- nounced that, if Turkey refused it, it should bo enforced by the sword, With the full kuowledge that the refusal would be a canse of war, Turkey contemptuously declined to accept the ultimatum. The representatives of tho Powers thereupon withdrew and left her to hor fato, When Russia declared war sho distinetly aunounced that she had drawa the swond for Belavio independénce, Until that is accom. pliskied thoro can bo uo hopo that auy of tho Powers will interfere. BSo long us Russia confines the war to tho establishinent of tho complete autonomy of the Sclavic proviuces, no juterests aro involved oxcept those of Russia and Turkey, and there iy no consider- ation, moral or political, upon which Eu. gland, Germany, Austria, Franco, or Italy can intorpose to stop the war. ¢'I'he submis. aion of Turkoy to the Russlan demand s its ouly limit, Whenever Russin shall enter upon any system of territorial aggrandize. ment, or shall show a disposition to make ihe war one of conquest, in directions that menaco the interests of other Powers, then we sy expoot to see the war transferved to the srens of diplomacy, but that time has not yet come, and the Note of the Porte does uot contemplate any such contingenoy. Takiug the Note upon its prosent basis, §t is evident that the Continoutal Powers will not give it favorable consideration, and the only Lope the Turks have is that Eogland masy act upon it. How far England will act in tho promises a8 set down in the Note, wohave a precodent for discovering. On the 80th of November, a deputation of prominont representatives of the English Turkophile party, including in tho number some members of Parlimmuent, walted upon Lord Dxusr with s memorial, which was almost an exact duplicate of the Turkish Note, ssking big to use diplomatio effort in behalf of Turkey, beforo Constanti. nopls is ocoupled, and urging that ** tho Sublime Porte is bleeding, sponding, haz- arding & national existence for the interest of Europe, which, in splte of engaguments the most solemu, withholds co-operation from her.” The memorialists not only pre- sented thela document, but they made per- An nrmed mob ontored the county.town of Oaceoln, Mo., Friday night, proclaimed “aatate of sicgo,” ransacked tho Court- Iouse, and boro off tho tax-hooks for this yenr and past years, A railrond-grab lhnd been fastened upon the county, and an oner. ous tax to satisfy judgments against tho un- fortunate community led to this act of insurrcctionary repudiation, It is thought that au atteanpt to reeapture the tax-books will precipitate gravo disturbanees, Hungariau bntred of Russia and sympathy with Turkey has taken the form of a publie meeting ot Pesth, attended by about 8,000 people, and the adoption of o resolution that the Governmont of Austro-Huugary should resiet, with a resort to armed ' force if neces. sary, the further extension of thoe powor of Russin, The growd which carred the de- mand of tho meeting to the Presidont of the Ministry mot with a chilling recoption. They were looked upon as disorderly, and Lol to retire ingloriously before the clubs of the forco of policemen who were ordored to clear tho stroets, Tt Is veported that Italy's reply to the cir. cular note of the Porte, asking tho mediatory oftices of the Powers, was quite friendly and conciliatory, expressing a disposition to join st once with other Governments in taking tho steps desired. Fino words aro as cheap in Italy ns in other parts of the universe, snd as valueless too, as Turkey will probably discover if she walts for Italy to innugurate a movement toward intervontion, The Porte will do well to hoed tho hint aaid to have been dropped by Russia—that the more me- diation thero is, the harder the torms Turkey 'wiil oventunally havo to nocept. A big moruing's work- must be recorded for the Fimt Presbyterian Church of this city. Bomething over a month ago an ef- fort was made to wipe nut the church dobt, oud §35,000 wos pledged, which, with the value of tho former building site on Wabash avenue, ecstimated at about $83,000, loft 15,000 yet to bo ralsed. A long pull and a strong pull did tho business, and yesterday the church could look forward to a future frco from debt. An achievoment equally areditablo is noted in the case of Ada Streot 1. E. Church, which last ovening raised wough monvy to discharge its liabilitics aud wotain o clear titl 1t i thought the outbresk botwoen Conz- vixo and Gonpox was the result bt ill-feeling engendered in connection with the fight over the New York nominations, The Georgia Benator undertook the task of securiog a so0lid Dewmocratic support of the Presidont, aud, having worked like a beaver to accow. plish it, was uottled ot finding that Conx. 1150 had stolen a march upon him and ap- propriated enough wmaterial from the Demo- cratio sido to insuro the defeat of the noml. notions. CoNkLiNg, on the other hand, re- sented Goupox's iuterference in what he re- gurded as o strictly ltepublican rumpus, and 50 when the time for cxplosion ceme Loth Benators were ready to bo touched off, Inguiry s dirscted to the wheresbouts of a report on the Chinese question said tohave been prepared by Bonator MostoN & few weuks provious 1o his death, snd fu which he took strong ground in favor of protecting the Mongols in California snd sgmnst their persocators. ‘fhe report is now nowhere to Lo found, and & colucidence is observed be- Iween this circwmstance sod ko fact that & presarion have sprung up and taken his place, In the palmy days of Itallan opera he shared famo, fortune, and popularity with Max Manrer2eR, who Is now lending an orchestra for Mr. Fitren, manager, who was then a tlelot. seller. Mr. MAx Btramoscn, who was for many years Mr. Grau's ndvance-a-ayt, 18 also now an impresario, and Mr. Mau: BIRAR oscit, who was one of Mr, GRAU'S attractions rs o solo planist, after having been stranded over aud over agaln, {8 oncs more trying his Iuck with ApsLINA PaTTS. It is to Mr. Grag that Chieago owes her. flrst real acquaintance with Itallan opera. Ha brought us such nrtlats ne Parobt, CoLsox, Zucct, LAGRANGE, Uaze ZANIOA, BRLLINY, Svaing, BrioNont, and Axo- D10, and ho opened the Crosby Opera-Houss - with remarkable britliancy. When tho tide ran in bia favor, Jacon was the happicst of men, and shono resplendent in the whiteat of ties and gloves, and the glossiest of bhats, and always stood by the entrance to tho auditorium, beam. ing upon the crowds that pourcd in. When business was bad, however, he went down into his hoots, Leeame seedy, and declared that ail the worla was hollow. For a manager, hie was nfalr man. He had his fanits; but, as a whole, 1t will be a long time before the public will find 8 better or more consclentfous catorer. e e——— - Life In the South is diversificd by numerans Incidents which, If they were not of such an ex. tromely practical character, would doubtlces still further Increass the air ot romance with which that favored reglon has been invested by popular novelists. In Miselasippl City tho other day four men were playing cardsin a saloon, when another man who hnd & grudge agalnat one of the players happened in, The newcomer, Gen. ADAMS, immediately on sco- inz his enemy, drosy o platol, and, with trug Bouthern hilarity, began firine at the groun. Ho succeeded in feiling his man, but not until the latter had likewlso drawsn his weapon and fired a bail into themiast of the vanishiog coate tails of the saloon-keeper. Dy this time all the avallable doors and windowshad been emploved by tho bystanders, who manlfested a singular roluctance to witnessing the progress of the affray. Asgoonas SwaTMAN wasdead beyond a doubt, the vallant Geueral surrendered hime sclf to the Sherll and gavo ball for his appear- ancoat the next terin of court. Perhaps he can employ tha interval to advantage by shoot~ Ing down a few more gentlemenof his acquaint- anco who may have stirred up his Bouthern blood by some untoward word or act. ——— Our grammatical contemporary, the New York Etentng Post, hauls Mr. HAves over the couls for some of tho grammar of his messages, Our grammatical contemporary is, perhups, correct, but we have not as yet scen in any of Mr. Hares’ messages such n sentenco as this, which wa take from an cditorial articlo In the Post on the sllver questlon: * Nelther of theso are stufl- ed clubs,” cte, To judge by that sentence, we should say that the “Parsco Merchant,” that accomplished gontleman who “writcs and speaks all the modern languages with cqual fuency and inaccuracy,’! na was said by a witty Now York journalist, was o regular contributor to tho Lost. O shame, Mr. Brranrt! “Has oll your nico precisences come to thist" i e The Holy Alllance of BLAINg and CONKLING can bo accounted for on the hypothesis that, much as Mr. Br.arvg disliked Mr. CoNKLING, ho distiked Mr. Faves still more. It Is about twelye years since Messrw, CoNkLING and Buaing had thelr spat, and not quite cighteen months since Mr. Hares scooped the Clnan- natl nomination that Mr. BraiNs had fondly looked upon as altogetlor his own, ——— Like the Empress Evornie, Senator Coxi- LING was born under a lucky star. o lives to fight anothor day, ——— CoxkLing has found that it {a a bard rond to travel over GORDON. e —— PERSONAL. Jaunty English girls have adopted the now fashlon of raising theirhats when accostod, Gon. Banks proposes to have thie Goddesa of Liberty on the dome of the Capltol reullded. “Whon n public singer named Green," remarks tho Noston Jerald, **ecalls himaclt Verdl, it {s & proof of his verdancy." Col. John W. Forney, who sailed for Eu. ropo Thursday, Is to tako chargo of the Europesn department of the Philadelphia Press. Tho Now York Z'imes doos not bolievo dir. Conkling's resl for Civil-Scrvice reform ls any more real now than It was whea he was running +*{he machine, " Mr, John Bennett, lato of Lambeth, sent Mr. Longfollow a benntiful vase In acknowlodz- ment of the pleasure dorived from reading the poem of ** Keramos.™ There is an odd rumor that Dean Stanley is working on an ccclesiastical novel which will bring Into prominence some of the lesdlng ovents {n tho Dean's personal history, Mark Twain introduced William D, Howells at the latter's loctare In Hariford Wedncaday even- ing with tho remark that It was unpecessury to speakof his literary reputation; he waw meraly thero to back up the moral character of Mr, Howells, The Inte Charles F. Briggs, in an rticlo on Pos rocently prluted in the adependent, malds 4110 loved no one, though the objectsof his hatred were many. His biograpber might hava glven somo stertling evidencos of the contempt which the poet entertalned for porsons who trustingly bollevod thisy wore beloved by hifh.* The Now Havon correspoudent of tho Tarttord Erening Poat saye: ** The managers of the Hippodrome in New York City have offered the Yale football team a $1,000 cup and gold medal tosll the team on condillon that thoy give two of thres exhibltion games st that place during the coming vacation. O, 1f they will play at the Hip- podrome with auothor team, tho offer {s 3500 to ecach sido and expenscs, Both offere will of course be declined.” Nast has ono of bis very bost cartoons in the Iaet number of Marper's Weekly, The subject is the Fishery Award. Jonathan Is reprosented sested at tho table and looking intently at one fishe ball, which Is & large one, and labeled 85, 500, 000, The Belglan umplire looms up to the right.us o servant. In the background te portly Juha Bull, the Hon! Jonathan, with a look of ansiely on his face, says ta tho garcon: ** You don't give bresd with—"" The toxt bolow notes tho fact that the Lundon 7imes doce ot accept the present sward a8 completo, but hopes It way pave tho way to a final understandiog. Thoso who are inclined to sncor at the achicvements of Mary Anderson may be plessed (o read the followlng from so bigh an sathorlty New York Tridune; **3ss Anderson le su ex- traordipary girl, and the purpose to honor kior young smbition and to evince a thoughtful gratls tude for tho good that aho I8 Lo the stage snd to the public |s nstoral, sultable, a: Miss Anderson {s 30 greala refreshment {0 thi that it 1aay be sald that vhe comes upon thia tired period ik tralo of rich music ln the middle of the night, & long timo sinoe the stage has m uch an acquisition, She may not be able to act this part wel), oz that part complotely, or the other part at al utshe 18 su sctress by usture. Inalmost all buman beings therels s desire for dramatic expresalon; It s an fnsiinct of the Reneral beart; In this girl tho facuity is nnited with the Qesirs, aud both are luvested with sdequate organs and physical beauty. Miss Anderson ls au fnter proter." Qale, the pedestrian, wont on a upree after the conclusion of his last great feat; nevertholess s day luter the doctors found him well, without 8 Jaded sppearance, his oyes elear and brigbt, and bis sppetite sad algestion zood. There is not about Gale ona single charactaristic of the athlete. He is short and small, without & broad chest or & wall-developed muscle; even the muscles of the calven of bis legs sre remarkably lax, tlaccld, sod wanting iu toniclty; nor cau he by any volantsry offort wake them 50 bard to the feeling ws many «can who are far inferior (0 him in power of endut- snce. Gale's caso, tho Medical Press thinks, io jnstractive and cspocially **reassuring to thoso who, becauso they are not blesscd, as they think, with sy of tho usual charsctorlstics of wirength ood powers of endurance, bave little coufd thewselves, fall to gauge the actual extent of thels abllities, snd, from sheer ignorsnce, allow onsr= §les to Mo dormant which might be made (9 ARsWSS 80010 uselul purposs, " 5