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

a THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1877-TWELVE PAGES, which bronght that gentleman into na- { fondenire to ree Ited honnuntzn'mr;nry‘.‘ !: ¥ ; 4 i i Insnres & i foundation kn time of need. hnt m B @ribltzi,c tlonal motice was deliberately plauned § (08 EAL UL OO e ‘ot amaething ® land cxncuted with the purpeso of { saar pas o atandard of ralue e world solidifying the Democracy of South Carolinn [ orer. Stirer nas tris, and {f e once TERMS OF BURSCRIPTION. et back to that ont steldes toward a higher appre- clation of onr currency will be rapld. Onrnines Are now praducing almost onlimited amounta of rilver, and 1t (s becoming & qnestion, ** What shall we do with 1t1"* 1 #nggest here a solation that will anawer for nome yeats, and_snggest to yon bank- ere whether you may not Imitate it: To pat it in rircaintion now, keep it there nuntil it is fixed, and then we will find other markete. The Sonth and Central American eountrics have asked ns to coin their silver for them, Thero has never been aa- thorlty of faw to do eo, [ trust ft will now bo piven. When it is given, it wil) bo more than the equivalent of becoming expotters of articlea of mannfacture which were previously articles of import. Ordera will come for large amonunts of coin. 1t will bo ali in allver, while payments are not necesearfly 80, We become the mannfactarer of this currency with a profit, and will propably £ecure a portivn of our pay in the more preclous metal. It will be seen that the President wns not merely content with coining $200,000,000 of silver coin for our own use, but ho was aux- jous to become the mnnnfacturer of silver coin for the States of Soulh and Central America, POLITICAL BITUATION IN SOUTH CAR- OLINA. Tho Inst number of the Atlantis Monthly contains anarticle on the political situation in South Carolina, the writer of which secms to have a thorongh knowledge of the sub- for the campaign of 187G, and thns to avert the danger that Gov. CraMBrRLAIN'S popn- larity might secure his renomination by both the Republican and Demaeratio State Cou- ventions. Ilow well the plan succeeded is now amatter of history; the detaila of its inception aud execution are yet to Le sup- plied. BY MATL—IN ADVANC! ally Fdition, one year.. 'Arta nf & yPAF. DeTm Fanday Wariton: - Titerary aod iteliio Tri-Weekly, one year. Fanisof a vear. ver monih. WEERLY EDIT ©Onecopr, prrsear. Cluh o For Frecimen copien rent tre Glve Port-Umice address fo full faclnding State and Connty. emiitances may e made either by dratt, express Tort-Ofice order, or In regslered letters, &t our risk. TERMS 70 CITY SURSCRIRERS, Datty, delivered, Runday excented, 23 eenta per week. atly, delfvered, Sunday incinded, 30 cents rer week, Addrem TIIE TRINUNE COMPANT, Corner Madison and Dearborn-sta.. Chicago, Orders for the dellveryal Tre TRINGXE at Evanston, Engleweod, and Hydo Park left In tho counting-rooin willzecelve proinnt attentinn. et s TRIGUNE BRANCH OFFICES. Try. Cricano TRINT X% has catablished branch oficen for the recel)tof subscrintions and adveritsements ay folluws: NEW YORK-Room 20 Tyibune Buliding, F.T. Mc- P In the report of the Superintendent of the Ilijnois & Michigan Canal attention is callad to the damnge to the caual resulting from the oporatlon of the Oapenx and WrxtworTi ditch, and the necessity which oxists for the removal of that long-stauding nuisauce. It appears that the remedial measures adopted Ly the city anthoritics have been a detriment to the canal, aud that the deposits of mud from the ditchi and the Lronkages iu the banks have nlready cost thio State more than £75,000, It is an estab- lished fact that tha ditch is n costly nnisance, the abatomont of which ahonld be under- taken without delay by tho Canal Commis. sioners. 0, Cal.—Palace Hotel. Cramizs Manager. nce—No. 16 Ttue de 1s Grange-Natellere. £, Aenit, LONDUN, Eng.—Americsn Exchanxe, 440 Strand. Jizxrr F, GiLtiv, Agen! The Pruh_lenl Is said to lnvn— rocently ex- pressed quilo freoly his views with refer. enco to the trans-continental railrond de- TAMUSEMENTS, manded by the South, Of course he favors g the profect, and is disposed to oncouraga it | Ject, and the spirit to tell what Lo knows Farwel in every legitimate way, but ho is not favor. | Without fear or fasor with dreadful plain- 1 . . Madison strest, between Clark and Lasalie. **Moth- erUoose,” At2p.m. MeVicker's Theatre. Madison street, between Siate and Desrborn. #'Bldonle.” Afternoon venlng, Maoley's Thentre. Tandolph sfrect, between Clark and LaSaile, Engagement of the Jless English Opers Tronpe, ness, ITe atrips off the wrappings in which partisan juterest or raco projndice has con- conled the trath, and infisrtially judges the President's policy as tried by its results in that State, Many of the lotter-writers who have ably inclined toward the proposition to loan the creditof the Government to pay for building the road. He thinks that if itis needed it should and will be built by private capital, and he prefers to wait and sce what the prospects sro of the construection Aftermoon, **Mohemisn Giri." Eventog, *Tue | of a Bouthiorn ine to the Pacific conat before | Mttemptad to describo affairs in the recon- Chimes of Normandy. committiug himself to any scheme which | structed Btates bave beon influonced by Tinverly's Thentre. contemplates a guarantee of ‘bonds by tho | partisan considorations. Even when they Monroe streer, corner of Dearbarn, Eogagement of D. M. Barking, ** Sack Cade,” Afternoon and eventng. have endeavored most earnestly to get at the real sontiment of tho people, as too many of them have not, they have fallon into the hands of ignorant or designing men and beon deceived. The writer of the Atlantic article is not liablo to error of this kind. Be- ing n citizon and native of South Carolinn, he knows whereof lio writes, and lie casti- gntes Loth parties with such good will that weo cannot suspect him of improper motives. He possesscs, in short, the two main quali- fleations of n good witness,—iutelligence and impartinlity,—and his testimony is conse- quently entitled to specinl attention. Tho first noticonblo resnlt of the Presi. dent's policy in South Carolina is said to be the docrensed oxpenso of tho State Govern- ment and its 1ncreased purity and efliclency. The salaries in 1876, under CHAMDERLAIN, amounted to $264,418; legislative oxponses, $142,185; printing, 878,187, Tho appro- printions for 1877 undor Ifaxrroy, for the same purposcs, aro: For salaties, %143,000; leglslative oxpenses, £105,000; printing, §10,000. The total tax-levy for 1876 was abont 13 mills on the dollar. This yesr it 14 10 mills, and would bo smaller Lut for deficiencics for the preceding flscal year. ‘Tho cutting off of threo wmills moans the reduction of the annual taxes Ly about 350,000, 'The approprintion this yenr for educational purposes is only abont one-third of whnt it used to bo under Republican rule, which is bad, nlthough wuch of it, he snys, was wasted or stolen, Under Hamrrox, legislntive corruption bas censed, and In overy branch of tho Governmnent, from the State and connty administrators down to the Peaco Justices, thers fu greatly-increased cMciency, 'The appomwtees uro mon of in- telligence and standing, and aro above temptation. A socond result is a great decronse of crime and divorder, n marked increaso of mnterial prosperity, and a striking renowal of public, social, nnd military spivit among the whites. 'I'io State i quniotor, with fur less violation of law, than at any other time since the War, 'Tha crops, by reason of hoarty’ work nnd unwouted security, bave been unusually good this year, The fall trado js Drisker than since 1860, The railroads are doing well, and overy brauch of industry seems to be thriv- ing. 'The tuxes have censed to ba a burden, the sealing of the debt by the Legislature of 1873 hoving reduced the total Louded obli. gation to $4,000,000 or £5,000,000. The socinl gayeties of the summer Lave rivaled thoso of ante-bellum times. 'Thore has been noend of visiting and hospitality, teaveling nnd attendnnco on watering-places, pacties, bLalls, public entortainments, etc. Associn- tions, fairs, parades, military hops, and othor diversions have enlisted tho wympa. thles of the **aristocracy,” which was for many years bowed down and brulsed by the Ttebollion. ‘Thirdly, the tepublican party for the pres- ont has been extinguished, and there has been arevival of the old politieal intolorance. The Democrats havo shown themselves willing to uso tha election wachinery now in thoeir hands to achiove victory, aud did so as flagrantly in tho first olections under JlaarzoN aa the Re- publicans did in their prime. Tho lattor sce that it would bo of no use to gain votes. The negroes, dependont on the whites, ure now wado to understand that to cast a lte. publican ticket means discharge, proscripe tion, aud starvation. Thereforo, perhaps a third of the colored men now profess Do- mocracy, Advertisoments may be seen before the slops of negroes like this: * Patronlze Bo and 8o, the only colored Democratio bar. Ler [or shoemaker) in town.” 'The young white men who remain at the polls **to sce falr play,” while they do not molest the negroes, cortaiuly do frighten them. Ac. cordingly, every olection has gone Demo. cratlc, ‘The Republicans havo,not only lost Government, It is to bo presumed that the President would sign a bill that did not con- tain tlis objectionable feature, but it is quite certain that ho is not so enthusisstic in his friendship for the Texas Pacific bond- subsidy schowo as the friends of that mens- ute had expected he would be. — Colinrumn Novelty Thentre. Clark street, opposite Court-lfouse. **Dark Work." SOCIETY MEETINGS. APOLLO COMMANDERY. No. 1. RNIGUTS TRM- FLAR-FUNERAL NOTICE-Mefnhers ot this Come imaery are reoiested o rendesvon nt Asyluss. fuily equipped, 1n tatunday) mornini, AL % oeloek harp, 10 attenl the funeral of vur It Frater, Frederick Jenry Garfieid. by seclal train lo Waukean. Ev ofiicer [+ exgected 1o be present, At 4:5, promot, thono oarticioating In the, Siweyiics Wil (ricced irom Arylum by staues to deput of Clileag & Northwesiern Jialt Train will leave depot profmpity mt 10a'cloek, arriy ukegin at 11:10. Detientog, Wit leave Watlkegan at 2:41 p. m.. areiving at depot Tn this ity at 4 clock. where metibern will o wiet e staes anit gonvered 6 Awyium, Menhorsuf sthcr Commanicries wre caurteninly Juvited to Join with us, 1y order o the Commander, P A0 DTNLOE, Hecorden. The Barclay strect catastrophe in Now York City did not unfold ita true proportions yesterday, Awlis generally the case during the first day alter a calamity of this kind, tho search for the dead was ill-organized and unsuccessful. Beyond fnmbling around among looso bricks and haudling suporficial debris over and over, the workmen, who were watched all day by thousands npon thousands of anxious and curious people, dia nothing at all. Two extra victiws, overwholmed during a casual passnge throngh tho dendly thoronghfare, were picked up at day- light, but no corpses were bronght out of the rulns. Tho Coroner thiuks thers would be few, if any, found, but it is almost inconceivablo that the demolition of n build. ing so sudden as to ingnlf a runuing nowsboy in front of it would lold out a better fate to all of 200 people coopod within its crunt- bling walls, sud immadiately snrrounded with billows of the most farious flame, The disnster is now known to havo had its origin somowhere clse than in the boiler, as the steam apparatus of the factory is found to Do still intact, It now looks ough the Republican members of the County Boanl till bonble to ogreo upon candidates for tho variows county officors who will not subject themn to the suspicion of forming another Ring, or yielding to the dictation of one or two unfit men for the purpose of mailutaining thoir majority in the Board. Tho sgroement is said to have beon reached by the mutual concession of Commlssioners Seorrono and Tanos, the latter dropping his favorite, BMuianzap, on the condition that the former would give up McGeatit, 'The concession was proper on both sides, as personal pref. erences should not bo permitted to iutorfere with the public good, and the resalt is eapecially gratifying as it in sald to have led. led to au agreement toappoint Mr. I'nvspeLy, the Superintendent of the Relict and Aid So. cioty, to the position of County Agent. Mr, ‘TnuspeLl i8 the man of all others for the place. It was nnder his supervision that the great fire-fund was distribnted so judiclous- Jy. 'lhere is no man in Chicogo who knows s0 well how to discriminate botween the descrving poor and the dead.beats 5 his personal integrity is abova all suspiclon, nnd thore will bo no counivance with contractors #o Jong ns lio passes upon the quality and welight of supplics; he will be ablo to save thousands of dollars o year to the connty na long as ho shall servo thoe public in this ca- pacity, The selection of Hinas Banpes for County Attorncy will also be satisfactory, as ho is admitted to be nn able lawyer and ostimablo gentleman, Thers is o hope fn all this that the power of the old Ring may yet Lo broken without setting up & now Ring; and if o majority can be maintaiuned long enough to insugurate the proper reforms, there aro twa or throa other members of the Board who will bo likely to strengthen this najority, and assure it ugainst the possible defection of ono or two of the now members who have given somo reason for a suspiclon that thoy are vacillating. OEN, ORANT ON BILVER, President GranT opposad the act of Feb, 12, 1875, in which all provious laws concern- ing the regulation of the mint wero consoli. dated and vevised. In re.enacting the lst of cotus to bo thoreafter colned the sllver dol. Inr was omitted, thus abolishing that coin, ‘That law, s it passod the House of Repre. sontatives, was never cven read, except by WILLIAM I WARR| LODGE, NO, 200, A. F. & he Twenty-1hird Annusl Cominunicatfon of this fLodee will be hed at hall, 74 10 34 Mourou-at., Ahia (Saturday) (VI‘YI,“P 7:30 ©'clock, for the rlection of olilcers, payment 0! cs, and teausaction of other lmw;nflx;fl bvu 'L Ffi;rrmfl'lll;fllln llnl‘ll"lvlr 18 re- Sestad (o be presvt. BY orde e . # T DUNEOR, Secretary. SATURDAY, DECEMBEX 22, 1877, CHIOAGO MARKET BUMMARY. The Chicago produce marketa wero modorately activa yesterday, ond somewhat frregular. Mess pork closed The per brl Jower, nt $11.524@ 11.75 for January and $11.R714@11.00 for Febru- ary. Lard closed » shado earfor, atS7.724@7. 76 for January and $7. K0@7.824 for Fehruary. Meats wore easy, at 415c for bozed shoulders and 80,00 per 100 1bs for do ahort ribs, Wilaky waa easler, a181.05@1, 00 pergullon. Flourwas quict. Wheat closed %c higher, at $1.00% for December and $1.00% for January. Corn closed }@%c bigher, at4%Yc cash and 42%c for January. Oats closed stendy, at 24%ccashand 2ic for January, Ityowas unchanged, at e, Harloy closed 3(@1c lower, ut L74cepot and 5¥c for January. 1loge were dull and fic lower, closing weak at 84.00@4.10. Cattle ware In light demand and unchanged. Sales woro at 81.65@4.05. Sheep ruled steady, at $2.75 @4.25. Inwpected Into atoro {n this city yestec- day morning:, 148 cars wheat, 57 carn corn, 14 cars oals, 8 cara rye, B3 cars burley. -Total, 282 carn, or 100,000 bu. Ona hundred dollars (n gold ‘would by in grecnbocks at the close, Greonbacks at the New York Stock Er. chango yeslerday closed at 974, Pt Sidndanl N President Haves and party were hnnd. somoly entertained last evoning in Now York City at an informnl reception tondered by the Union League Club. No nddresses were made, the occasion being rather of a social than political character. Macdanoy has once more succumbed to tho ingvitable, e hns ordered tlnt all prosecutions agalust editors, publishors, and nowsboys, for alloged iufractions of the pross lawe since May 16, bo dismissed. ‘There are yot some hopes for the liberty of the press in Franco, The peace party in Conatantinople begins to nssumo a magnitudo which must of neces. sity command attovtion. They propose to introduco in Parliansent a resolutivn of a pacificatory vature, with the hope of secur. ing an armistico, whereby the terms of peacoe can bo arranged in a cler atmosphore. —— Russis is ovidently not at all disturbed at tho turn affairs have taken in England, The Golos, which spesks from a point in the near vicinity of the throne, says that tho issuo of this % political episoda” will bo awaited without anzioty Ly Russia, who will quietly coutinue the work 8le bos begun, confidont that her ultimato triumph will be in uo way hindored by Brit. ish intngue, Topular demonstrations in the interest of the silver dollar are taking place in various parts of the West, and tho intense earncst- nees of the people in this matter is chown by the invariably large attendance called out nud tho strong speeches delivered and reso- lutious sdopted, Meotings at Princeton, 111, and ‘Toledo, 0., are roported in tho dis. putchos this mnorning whereat the emphatic demand of tho people was expressod ju a manner that will compel attention and re. spect. its title, and the fact relating to the discon. | many nfl flw‘:d "“fl"l-’ b“‘u:h" h{' umr E " inuance of the silver dollar was not known | lost thelr leaders. By (he refusal of ‘Thers {8 another thorn in the aide of Tar- | * Ley,—under the second Jolot, as it wore, Tuo | Xc0P%10 the fow in and out of Congress who | the Democratio wajorlty to sost Le- publicus elected to the Legislature, by impeachinent and criminal prosscution, and by renson of the difficulty of negro Repub. licans in procuring bonds, most of the offices have passed into the haudsof the Democra. cy. Nearly all the Republicans in the State who bave ever beld office aro under indict- went, are already convicted and punished, or bave fled from justice. So palpable is their guilt generally that even thic negroes on the juries are cowpelled to find true bills or ver. dicts of guilty, It is notorious, both in Columbin and the counties, that not a few white Democrate Leing implicated in some of the corruptivus their investigation has beenpromptly dropped fo sbield thess Demo- crats. Trosecution is not confined to official malfeasancy, 1n one county twenty orthirty prowinent Republicans are charged with perjury for baviug falsely sworn lo financial responsibility in crder to be accepted as sure- ties for friends who bad been clected to oftice, A colored legislator iv among them, were in the secret. The Presidont did not koow of the watter, though it is probable Hecrotary Bourwein did. Eight months after ho had mgued the bill, the President, in aletter to & New York banker, discussed tho question of silver coinage in happy igno. rance that the dollar kad been abalished, and thiat silver had ceased to bs a **standard of value the world over.” He had not loarned, even they, that (e Goverument had sdopted tho gold standard, sud repudiated silver as legal money, Hore [a what he said on the subject of silyer: Wasiuxotos, Oct. 8, 1893, ~My Diar Ar. Cow- drey: ‘The yanic has broughl greentacks atout to a par with silver. I wonder ibat siiver isnot alieady coining tnto the market 10 sapply the defclency tn the circulating medium, When It does como—and A predict ihat 4t will soon—wo will have made s sapid strlde towards specic payments. Curtency wil} never go below sflver sfter that, The clreulas tlon of silver will bave oiber Lenedclal efiects, Ex- perience has proved (hat it tukea about forty mll- ivne ot fractiunal curreucy to make the smali ckacge neccasary for 1ho raneaction of tks busiess of the Crotons nre ju o ferment of discontont, and propose to inaugurate o puerrilla war. fare. For this purpose the various vil- lnges bave held town meaetings and elected their Chiefs. 'Tho Porte, with aa eye to the possibility of future complications and the intervention of Greece, Lias sent an Envoy to the islanders promising veforms, ‘They decline thoe proffered amelioration and loudly dunand anuexation to the land of Avol- DIADES, ‘The movement for the suppression of the €alo of liguor to wmivors Is rapidly gaining strepgth und fnportsnce in Chicsgo. The law aa it slands is udequate for the punish. nent aud prevention of this gross crimeo #gaiuit publio moraly, and what is now veeded is that ity thorough enforcement be dcuanded by a publiv seatiment too strong to be resisted. ‘The mass-meeting of lost evening at the First Congregational Church wes au excellent sample of the kind of ef- e £ try. Bilver will gradually take th lace uf 0. fort that iy newded 10 buck up tho worle of | iy cursency, sni furiber, wit tecome hs ianss | Avoiber colored leghlator lay Leen the Citizens' Losgue, ordef 1aive, which will te buarded fn » sma | 360t to tho Peuitentiary for bigawy. m— way. 1ecafunato that this will covsume from two | Others sre in straits about froudu. Lo three hundred milifons, in time, of thiv specicn of out circulating medium. 1L wil Ieave the paper cartency fres to pestarm ‘the legithinate fuuctions of tzade, and will tend to bring us back where we miuat comy 8t laat,~10 @ apecte basis, 1coufess Yho Republicuns of the Benato are gotting ready to give Hamburg Burrrs's antecedents s thorough siring. They proposo to show that the waseacre of colored Hopublicaus lent breaches' of privato trust. On the re- sssembling of - the Legislature thiy wmonth bardly a score of Republicans responded to the roll-call. ‘Khere has also bova a relent. less cffort to get out of the way all thosa negroes who, withont holding ofllce, make themselves obnoxions or dangerons, throngh vindictivenoss or crime, to the whites: * But hundroeds npon hunidreds of negroes, acansed of participation in the arsons, the burglaries, tho larcenies, the riots, and the murdersof tho Ropublican rule, and especially of the Inst canvass and tho dnal months, have been and aro now being prosecuted in the Btate courts by the justigation of either Grand Juries or individnals, Civil businoss is rare. 1y reachied, ko crowded is tho criminal side of thecourts; nnd even on the criminal nido the docket is rarely cloated or n jail- delivery mnde.” The gniltof the nogroes in most instances is appnrent, but there is a color sids. to thoir prosecntion, since whites guilty of similar offonses during the clection oxcitement have not been Lrought tu justice. Fourthly, the whites have rénewed thelr interest in Federal affairs, They look npon their connection witl the Union as some- thing resembling the connection of Irelnnd witli England; but they have lonrned by the War that the sitnation, such as it is, must be made the most of. ‘They have learned that soparation from thesUnion is a thingattended with diffienlty and dangor of such magnitude that nothing horentter, cxcopt tha absolnte certainty of success nt small cost and unnt- tonded by risk of invasion, could induce necossion. Zeal for the Confedoracy has not ofte whit abated. TRauk: in the Confederato abmy is atill esteomeds.: Thera i3 a vory sig- ‘fllflmnt roluctanco nmong;she white military 'fo march or parade .under the United Sinteg fing. In spito ip,{ it all, however, everybody is full of ‘apprehensions as to how the South can make the most out of its sitnation .in the Union. Some hops to elect a Sonthorn President, gain control of both ‘tfouses of Congress, and thon got overything possible out of Lhe Union in tho shapo of ofilecs, in- ternal improvemonts, or war losses. It may Lo this eud will bo songht through the ad. misslon of more Southern States from Mexi- co and Spain, or by dividing Toxns into four or five States, 5o ns to acquiro mora votos in the Seuate. All aro aware that the solid South is jenlously watched by tho North, and are consequently likely to act with modoration, undertaking nothing until they hiave earcfully ascertained its practica. bility. They will undoubtedly elaim the man. agoment of tho Northern Demoeratic party ; but they may cowe to look upou both partics alike—with n feoling compounded lialf of aversion and half of cageruess to got oll out of them that is possible. At present, South Carolinians aro very enthusinstio about tho President, and grateful for hisaction. e might huve protracted their sufferings, Thoir flea ia that of Iato] yeara the North has been swayed by fanatics, demngogues, and speculators, and thero is immense reliof to think that practical, consorvative, and cultured men from a better elomont have como to the front. Fifthly, tho negro has been banished from politics and his materisl prosperity thereby greatly enlianced. Oaly threo negroes have been killed by whites since March, and there has been a marked absenco of beatings and affrnys. Ono ronson is that the negroes are “lying low.” Anothor is that violonco towards nogroes who do mot aggriove whites is at present discournged as impolitie. Tho individual prosperlty of tho negroos has of courso beon incrensed by the brisker times; ‘‘and-itis positively s fact,” thiuwritorays, ‘#dhat il o plebiscitnm could o held in South Carolina to-morrow, it Is questionable whether negro votes would not defent tho Rapublicans.” It is smusing to ‘hear how many of thew voted for IaxpToN, ‘This bos led to s ronewal of many kindly ro~ Iations long severed. Whites are scen at- tending the funcrals of thelr servants, alding black children in their yards to loarn by heart thelr *‘upeeches” for Bunday-school colobrativns, or the girls to dress, and even taking peeps at colored festivities, ‘The di- vislon of the nogroes on political questions also hns resulted in the tremendous falling off of crime among thum, as crime in previ. ous years had beon comparatively safe, from their dotormination not to tell on or convict thefr party associates, Tho whites do not now think of or desire tho re-cnslavemont of the negroes, but would like to have their libertles restricted and their free.school edu. cationn! privileges curtailed. This latter foel- ing, howover, is losing ground steadily, The writer of tho articlo of which we bave hero furnished an abatract ex. presses his privato viows in on odd con. clusfon, thus: “ Readers of this papor may find themselves loft in some doubt as to tho sentimenta of the author on the policy whose rosults aro recounted. Nor should they be charged with a Jack of discornment. Over the first and socond results stated, the au. thor is inclined on the whole to rejoico, In tho thind, fourth, and Afth results described, whilo he finds some things to approve, ho porceives much to doplore. Cousequontly, he knows not what to say at present, Iily mind ls not made up.” CHICAGO AS A WINTER RESORT. It has for many years boun the custom of Tae Cuioaco Tainung, whon the summer days approached, to presont the claims of Obicago as a place of summer rosort. The condition of the season now warrants us in briefly and modostly stating her claims as a place of winter resort, aud to nssnme that in winter as in summor slie presents unrivaled attractions, ke air is mild and balmy, Ihe skies are blue and genisl, The sun pours down & cheerful warmth, The nights sre perfect. 'Iho florists' alores are Iaden with flowers, Ilyacinths ¢an bo bad in pro- fusion, and violets are in blossom in the open alr. The Ludded trees are resdy to burst into leaf, and the grass grows green by the roadsides, and robins and blue-birds are pip. ing merzily, Tho lake slumbers peacofully, with nothing more serious to disturb ils rest than the whadows of the passing clouds. The streets are filled with vast crowds making thelr purchases for the bholi- duys, and tho shawl-strap men, the juwpiog-jack men, the gold.watch men, the fine English pin.men, and the chromo. men and otber curbstono merchants are do- ing a brisk business with the country cons- ins, The hotels are crowded, and the ta- blesoffer nearly all the luxaries of summer, The avenues are goy with equipages, and lady equestrisns enjoy the balmy evenings, Wiuter overcoats and furas are laid aside, and there is un area of high thermometers, The theatres are in full blast, and of musio thers 13 0o end. Soclal fesilvities are at their height, and tho youug are daucing, marry- ing, and waking merry. There are melan- choly rows of skates festoouning the hard. ware stores, nod heaps of sleds in the toy stores, but no one calls for thom. The prospuct now iy - that, it SBauta Claus comes this Cbristioas, he will bave to come in a liuen duster snd straw hat. The snow snd frosted pancs, the icicles sod drifts, the jiogling bolls sud romring fires that nsually characterize Christmas will probably be wanting this year, and tho josous nnniversary might be celehrated with an outdoor picnfo withont the slightest inconvonience, Invalids havo no need to go to Florida or Colorado , for we have & temperature as gratofnl as those resorts, and all this on the 22d day of Dacember, an- niversary of the dny whon the Pilgrim Fath. crs landed on the blenk shores of Nuw En- gland, amid snow and ice. This is one episode of our winter, and it lias come like a benison lo the poor. They can congratnlate thomselves that at lenat one month of the nsully cold, biting, stormy, digngreeable winter has gone, and that tho senson may be that much shortor, But there is another side to the picinre, ‘While {hese bright skics and warm daya in- crease tha trado of the denlers in kmick. koncks and holiday gifts, thay are paralyz- ing grent industries. Pork packers aro din. tremsed over the unseasonnble weather for their business, - Fur mon are in the dumps as tho crowds pass their shops and do not enter. Conl denlers say §t was nover dnller, Clothing denlers find anlos failing off. L'ail- ors in vain hinng out tho stylos of over- coats; and what are we to do for fce noxt summer if last snmmer hangs on in this way? The conntry folks find it fmpossible to get through the muddy ronds luto town. The budding fruit trees ond vines are liablo to be biasted Ly some suddon cold snap. It is grateful to tho onter man to havo July inserted in Decembor, but whnt doos it forotend? When the next chauge comes, aro wo to be buried in snow ? Are blizzards to' tako the place of these balmy breozes? Will winter come next spring? Ias thero been some great natural convulsion that haa rovorsed the order of the scasons ? Are we to entor upon a season of epidemics and fovers in the spring, a4 the re. sult of these summer days in winter? Will they breod pestilence and famine? It thoso who dance must pay the fiddler, Low much havo we to pay fu tho futuro for this bland wenther? Whero aro Prof. Tice and Old Probabilities in this donbtful emergoncy ? ‘Why do they not speak out and let s know what s coming in the rear of this season of delight? Meanwhile our ndvice is, In time of calm look out for the storm, and proparo for the possibility that when winter does come it will spring upon us with an intensity and bitterness that will make up for lost timo, A MONEY-CHANGER IN THE TEMPLE. The Eastern Shylocksare apparently subal- dizing every ngency and opposing it tosilver, moncy. Not content with insidiously gaining over somo of tho religious weeklios, which, from their credulity and ignorance of flscal affairs, have frequently become advocates of wild-cat schiomes based on faith alone, it wonld scom that theso sharps now have de- signs npon the Eastern pulpit, and propose, artiticially, to enhance tho value of the dol- lar, oxact from their dobtors moro than they agreed to poy, and to swindle the people for tho bouofit of financial pawnbrokers, Ly cunning perversions of Scriptural texts, and by the iufluence of that spiritual authority which pertains, not to the relntions Letween dobtor nnd oreditor, but to tho rcla- tions bolweon mnn and his Gop,~—not to the Fonr Silver bill, but to the Gospel. The conclusion s an unwel- como one, but it is difienlt to avoid it aftor resding » sormon upon the “ Braxp bill,” delivored at tho First Unita. rinn Church in Buffalo, by the Itev. Frep- eniog Frotmnonax, on Sunday: last. Tho entiro discoursa of the roverond spenker was devoted to nbuse of this righteous bill, and in it he rehearsea the stalo arguments of creditor sharps. The arguments of the Frormxonax's frothy sermon have been re- futod and knocked to pieces over and over again; but the manuer of Mr, FroTuno. uax {8 discroditablo to n ministor of the Gospel, discreditabla to the pulplt in which ho proached, discreditable to the Louse of Gop in which hie serves as a ropreseutative of the Most High. We print the following oxtracts from this so-called “sormon" ss portinont illuatrations, not only of the un. fairness avd nbsurdity of tho man, but also of tho low and even disgracefal plane that a mimster may reach when lo lends himself to worldly interests of monoy-changers, and forgets the sanctity of the placo in which he standa: It la s plcture of robbery, a picture of rascality, apicture of corruption, making of every dentor who & himeelt of the unlioly opportunity created by thia bill athief. Ah! {s not this a sor- rowful purposo to which to put so fairsnd so nobte s motal avsliver? 1 have epen It dovoted to the creating of etatacs of tho great and good. 1 hava known It naed to portray tho concopilon of art. Who of us s not famiilar with it as a recog- nltlon of public service and an expression of private affection? Every day it I uscd as tho meaus o portraying the features of thoxs neur aut desr, bt it now 18 brought before us ue & vehliclo of dishounor; disbonor private: dishanar loval: . . . y we not well cry, Awnke, O arm of the Lord! wako, O Church of the living God! Awake, every ona who foves hlscountry! Awake, all who cara far honesty and tenth, ~Cry siond, Denouce the treacherans Inlquity, Call upon your leglalators and your Senutors to lay aslde thelr seltish squabbles and et thomaelves o save snow their country. Then, when thla iniquity is stayed, shall you have causo Indeed taslng, 4 Glory 10 God (n the higheot, on earth pesce, good-will to man." As wo have sald, Mr. Frotuinamaw's frothy arguments are not worthy of consid. eration, for he only repeats, parrot-like, the threadbare sophistries of the Shylocks, We would rather treat him from his own stand. point. He profosses to be & ministor of the Gospl, and the dutles of a ministor, aa gen. erally understood, are to expound the Boriptores to men and to seek to reclaim them from sin. Will Mr, FroTnincuax ex- plain what connection these oflices of the minister have with the Fomr Bilver bill or the psyment of the bonds in coin, or by what authority he can take a text from the Bible and make it the theme of an elec- tioneering document in tho interests of Eastorn money-lenders, seeking to fleeco tue people? In looking over the Bacred Word for his text, it jsalittle surprising that every page of it dld not oonfront him with a rebuke. DIa it not occur to him that Carist overturned the tables of the money. changers in His temple snd scourged themn out of jt; that Tidoray declarod money to be the root of all evil; that Jou warned the rich man that *He shall lie down, but be shall not be gathered, ho oponeth his eyes and be s not"; that Boroxon declared the merchandise of wisdom ss better than the merchandise of money, and that God's revenuo is better than silver aud gold? Did he not abserve the warning of Amos that the transgressors shou)d ba punished because they wold righteonsneas for gold, end Peren's indignant rebuke {0 BiMox, the sor- cerer, **Thy money perish with theo because thou haat thought that the gft of God mny bo presched with money ”? Was it possible that he overlooked that ost solewn of all the texts in the Scrmon on the Mouut: “ Lay not up for yoursclves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt sud wheroe thieves break through and steal; but Iny up for yonrselvos trensures in Hveaven, whers neither moth nor rust doth corrupt snd where thioves do not hrenk through nor steal; for where your troasure is thers will your honrt be alno " ? It {s ovidont that the Rev. Mr. Frotaixo- naw's heart is whore the troasure of the Bhylocks is, nolwithstanding that **God's revenne is botter than ailver or gold.” Ner- ertheless, does it not oconr to him that he s commissioned to preach the Gospel in the interosta of sinful men, and not fnancial ossaysn in the iInterosts of bond- holdors and distress.warrant holders; that, while ho is meeking to fur. ther the selfish and greedy designs of the sharps by prostituting tho pulpit to their purposes, tha lighwaya and Lywaga are filled with crowds of suflering, sinful, and dying men and women; that, while he atandw up in the sacred deak and pleads with all his might the cansa of greedy, rapacious usnrers, thoro are the poor who want help, the suffering who want consolation, the weak who want strengthening, the careless who want admonition, the reckless who want warning, and the sinful, whose con- sclences might be awnkened with the elo- quence which he utilizes in the interest of thoso who nre striving to mako monoy searce and dear in order to fleaca their debtors ? It in nsad spoctacle, this of n ministor of the Gospel Lecomiug the mouth-piece of usurers, seeking to further their avaricions schomes under cover of the ministerinl clonk, and blasphemously calling upon Gon, who at best is a vaguo identity in Mr. Frorrivaman's mind, to bare Ilis arm and smite thosa who differ with the goldites, be- cause, having abolished IHell long since, there is no otertnl limbo to which he ean conkign thoso who aro in fuvor of restoring silver a4 a legal-tender. ARE BILVER DOLLARS LEGAL-TENDER? Craxugnnnyns, Pike Co., T, ieo. Rearye Knapn tn Tara of 4123 grals It penulre logal e RaaWer I yune paper, Hilver ol amunot, ender quall- 17, The actof 1873, Falled the Demonetizing act. did R atrietiy demonestzasilrer, ar takn awsy the legals tender quality from sflver dollara then and now In ex. Iatenco; (¢ merely took away from the mints the it thorlty to sotn such daiars, and w1 thern are very fow of thum ta he hisd/ the ctcet of the act 18 to practically demonotize sllver, since the minor coin, that is. thore 1o leaul-tender only for debis of $3 and Lyuls Reuublicap, 18th, In one sense It Is very surprising that so well informed a journal as the 8t. Louls fepublice un coukl fail Intv such an error. It docs not. scem Lo nave got into tho head of that paper that the demonctizing villsiny was perpetrated In two lustallments, as it bases its oplnion on what was doug In the act of Feb, 12, 1873, which stopped the colning of wilver dollars. The statute revisers put {n tha fuishing touches which kllled *the dollar of tho daddies,” Wo call the attention of the JHepublican to Chap, 30, Sec. 3,530, page 712, of the Reviscd Statutes, approved June 22, 1874, which reads: *The silver culns of the Unlted States shall bo a legal- tender at thelr nominal valug for any amount not exceeding tive dollars In any one paymect.” ‘The preceding section, 3,583, reads: “The gold colns of the United States shall be a legal- tender In all payments at thelr nominal value ete. The mnext soction restricts the legal-tender power of silver coins to fivodol- lurs, aud the next following soction mokes the nickels anid coppers legal-tender for twenty five centa in any ona paymoent. The act of Feb, 12, 1873, simply dropped the coinage of the silver dollar, without declaring It demonetized, It provides in Sce. 3,513 that *“tho silver colns of the Unlted States shall ba a trade-dollar, n half- dullar or fifty-cent plece, a quarter-dollar or twenty-tive-cent plece, a dime or ten-cent picco, and the weleht of the trade-doflar shall Le 420 grains troy, the welght of the haif<lollar shall be twelye grams und onc-half of a gram,” and the smaller coins in proportion. It will be observed that tho old silver dollar is omitted from tnellst uf colns recognized by law. The effect of this little arrangoment was not perrelved by ndozon members of Congress when the il bassed; fndeed, it would not ho aafe to name more than two who were fully inftiated Into the sccret by the authors of tho scheme, viz.: Jouy Bugnuan in tho Senate and Sam Hooren, of Buston, in the Tlouse, who made the cleven-pago apoech about the Mint bill, and never once referred to tho lttlo Joker under the other thimble. But it required tho rascally fraud perpetrated by the statute-revisers in 1874 to complete tho slaughtor of the old silver dotlars, wnich they accomplished by Scc. 8,596, sbove quoted, Docs the Kepubdlican see it nowl —ect— The Cbinceo Bix Companics have lssued in pamphlet form thelr answer to the memorial of the Califurnia Btote Benate on the subjoct of Chincse Immigration. Tbey quote from the evidence adduced beforo the Congressional Committog to show that tho Chincse Imml- grants aro above the average of thetr country- men over the whols Emplre fn onterprise, ahility to read thelr own Isnguage, and skill (o mochanies, 8, WeLrs WiLuians, Becretary of Logation at Peking, und for forty-one yearsa resldont of China, sald on this polut: ** [ con. sidea the Cantonese, from which class the im- migeants wro aknost vxclusively deawn, as the superior portion of the Chinesa race, or ot Jeast superlor to those of the northern provinces." Becondly, the 8ix Companies assert that the tinportation of ‘degraded fomals Chinese has heen peremptorily stoppad by the action taken by the National Congress during 1873, Thiraly, the Chiness have Leen compelled to pay more than thelr ust proportion of taxes by the ap- eration of discriminating laws. The law of 1652, which was unt declared unconstitutionsl unill 1873, Imposod a per capita tax of $10 upon every Chinaman brought {uto this country. This tax was paid Ly tho (mwmigrauts, either dfrectly or as a Jen upon the lirst woges earned by them. ‘The vumber of Chinamen landlug durlng this period was 152,850; ut $10 per head they pald 81,578,800, which was unconstitutionally exacted from them by officurs of the State. Juthesame manuer, the forelzn miners® tax, which was not pronounced {llegal until 1843, took 83 to $4 per month from each Chinaman landing durlng & period of ten years. The uumber of tmmigrants wus 87,48, 1€ hall thls number paid the tax,— a Jow estimate,~thoy were nulcted in the sum of $31,807,250. Tho Chinese Lave lkowise been comoelled to pay a poll-tax of 83 for thesup- port of achools to which they bave uo access, and exorbltant lcense fecs for peddliug, selling Jiquor, and keeping snop. - Fourthly, in answer totho chargo that the Chivese hava abstrasced $180,000,000 in earnings from this country and scnt this sum back to Chins, the Bix Companies show that the grand total of the precious metals scnt back to Chins, In payment of commoditles, sluce 1840, does not excecdd $80,000,000. ¢ It fy supremo folly to assert that %9,000 Chineso— yieldirg the polnt that they are all Jaborers— have forwarded $120,000,000 more in the satae thme than was forwarded o equallze the cutire Chivess commierce with Califorula and the Pucitic States and Territorles.” The memorlal- ists atso show that tho Chinese have. becn amenablu to Cliristian fuflueces, many of $hem having jolned the church; that they have not cutercd thescliools or become naturalized becuuse these povilezes wre denled them by statute, snd that they have not their fair proportion of inmates fu tho criminal and reformatory fustitu. tlons. The statemeonts of the Benate Commit- tee are cxamined gpecifically, and each ove dis- proved or coutradicted. This rald upon the Chiucse, it was clalined, was commenced by the servant-girl sactlon. It did not exlet Io 1850, wlhen the Clugese were luvited to takes prom- Jucnt part in the Fourthof July celebration. “HBefors Chiness scrvauts wers vecelved foto familics the monthly wages paid to girls ranged from $35 to $90 per mouth, und peopls of mod- orato mcaus could not afford to eogage ln wed- lock with the faintsst bops of golog to house- keeplnz. That which at first waslittle more thana ' tempest n a teapot’ was eagerly avaiteq of by partisan bucksters, and used by tnscrupy. Tous newspapers, to acquire a very queationable popnlarity among certain classes, The prools of these statements abound on all aldes, and one of the most consincing {s fount In the mna. lcious, one-stded, ez parfe, and filogical contenty of the legislative clrcular from which wo haye quoted.” —— The New Orlcans Times, in o recent article, combats the theory that cut-offs will better protect the Misslssipp! low-lands from overflow than tho proposed embankment scheme, which will cost 211 the way from $30,000,000 to $100,- 000,000. 1t contenda that the diversion of the water through tho crevasses that are broken open lcads to a deposit of sediment that con- verts these offshoots into marshes and increases the danzer of overflow by Mling up the bed of the river, and ft cites some Instances ns followa: Uonnet Carrs prodiced a shoallng In the hed of the river, belaw the break, of nineteen feet fn thiree weeks, The capaciiy of the reguiar cliannel o earry the fiood wan thia greatly reduced and thie danger of orerflow remaing as fmminent s before, The great river re. Jecta thess *outlets,” Ita conatant endeavor ia 10 heal them up. The **Jumj re plaln roofs of thix habit, Hoth these outleta aro breaks through the nat. ural banka theough which the water finds the rea level twenty to thirty miles above the mouth, Nutss 00N A8 tho water reaches the sea level lte curpent #lackens, 1t aprens out tn & thin layer and drops enor- mout quantities of sediment. Thls tapldly forma el 140n which gram and wiflow spring up. These shosls apecdity increato amd break up the chiannct of the ot let, untll finalty It is closed by the operation of natarat Inwe, In front of Cubit's Gap, where, four years auo, was the nalt water of the hay, thers are now hindreds of acres of grass and willow swamp. Hoth tho Jump anil Culiit's Usp have nassod thelr maximum andare now healing up, Thus the river fiscif protests agalnat **outloeta™ and closcs them up, Tt must le kept in mind, however, that the outlets layo always beon permitted to taka their natural course, and that little or no means has been taken to maintaln thelr usefulness as outlets, Engineering skili caused the Chlzugo River to run up hill so engincering skill may be better directed to putting the natural out- leta into tho shapo of canals than to undertako the embankment of 1,270 wiles of river, Tho Times |s not accurate n denylng that this acheme contemplutes an embankment from tho headwaters at 8t. Paul to the Gulf of Mexlco, for, while tho Southern peoole aro only asking that the Governinent shall undertake the work from Cairo down, the . people of the Upper Mlsslesippl are ngitating the samo scheme, and whl equally fnsist that thelr end of the rviver ashall be slmtlarly cnred for by the General Government, and with Just as much right as thelr Southern brethren, ‘Tho cost of theembankment scheine, which, in Its entirety, 18 simply beyoud catimate, Is tuo appailing to bo scriously eontemplated; so the Bouthern people Interested will do well to con. sider the enginecring ineasure whereby the out. fets can be made to do permanently the service thoy do for the time belne when the water first breaks through —— THt® TRINCNE and the Inter-Ocean, In clting the £act that the subsidisty atiyer hatves and avariers now uo, to prove that by making {full welght silver doilars] le thelr valuo 18 thereby necesarily largely enbianc et that the fractlonal paper currency also passed ot par, 1without being legal-tender at all, ilow can our eone temporaries linrinunize this fact with thelr theory?— EceningJournal, What abject has the Jonrnal n trifling with its readera {n this way? Why does ft thus per- slst In {t3 attempts to decelve them? Inatead of making the statement of whichthe above ex- tract 1s a sample, why did it not quote the Inw on the subject? On Thursday ft declared that the minor colns—nickels and coppers—wore nnt legal-tenders, but wero lifayal colns, and it nada his false ussertlon with the statute rlght under ita pose declaring them to be legul-tetderal It mulics o shuilar assertion now i regard to tha fractional paper currency, and dishonestly con- ceals the Juw In regard thereto, This Is what the luw says about the Iractional notes. Ro- vised Statutes, page 710, Sec. 8.574: ‘The niotesof the fractlonal currency , . . shall be exchanged by the Aslstant Treasurles and dosignat- ed deposlturies for United States notes in sums not loan than threo doliars; and shalf bo recelvablo for postags and rovenuo atatins, aaid for all dues to the Unfted SLates, excent custome, {n sums not over fiva dollarn, andahall be redecmol on presontation at the Troasury of the Usited States fn such sumasnd under such regulatiuns as the Secrotary of the Trossury shall prescribo, Most people will be apt tocali this pretty good legal-tender. The fractionals are ex- changeablo on demand for greenbacks; recelva- ble at par for postage and revonue stumps, and forall ducs to the Unlted States In suins not over fivo dollars, and redcemable at the Treas ury of the United States In a8 large sums as thy 8ecretary of tho Treasury may provide, which perinits thousands of dollars tobe presented ata time, Notcsof this kind are equivalent to legale tender, beeause they are exchangeable for legal- tender on presentation, and ure legal-tender for the various important purposes speclfied. The Journai hias allowed itself to deift Into u wrong position on the silver question, and {s foollahly trying to defend it by erooked, untruthful as- sertions and spurlous arguments. Tao sooner it backs squarc out of its indefensiblo attitude the fewer disgraceful perverstons it will ba obliged to resort to; but perhaps this well-in- tended advico may boe Nko casting pearls befors swine,—using its own flzure of speech. et — The work of substituting subsidiary silver coin for [fractlonal notcs was commenred in April, 1870. It will bo remuembered that Cou- gress fixed tho volumo of fractional dollars at. $50,000,000. In making up this sum the frac~ tional currency known to buin existence must Lo counted. - When this law was passed, it wos assumed that thero would bo $40,000,000 in fractional curreacy sent in for redemption. ‘This, with the $10,000,000 authorized to bo saued for legal-tenders, would Nl the maxi- mum fNxed by Congress as to the volume of swall change., The strict lotter of the Iaw docs wot alluw the Becretary to payaut sliver coln, excopt for fractlonal currency and for legal tender obligations, up to $10,000,000. Blurtly alter Congress adjourned, the authoritles at Washington consulted as to the meaning of the act, avd wore not long arriving at the conclusion that at leust $3,083,673 of the nominal amount of fractionul currency outstandivg must have been Jost, snd thut It was perfectly legitimato to {ssue silver In payment of Jegal-tender obll- gativus against tbe Government 1o that extent, On the Ist of November the amount of silver coln and silver bullion In the miuts, Treasury, and Bub-Treasurles was as fulluws: ol This to X been pald out to that date. Iucluding old sub- sldlary colvs, there must now be in circulation | &b jcant $43,000,000, and every dollar of jt has & purchasing power of U7 cents In gold, although quly worth a8 bulllon 83 cents. 'Lhis is a polot which tho gold bulls canuot get aver, through, or around. 8aum Cary somettmes changes his mind very auddcoly, When ANy JounsoN was playing Presideut, It appears that the blatherskite had becn In Washington on av ofice-broking mis- sion, and, immediatcly on reaching home, tele- graphed as follows: CIXCINNATI, Oy AU. 3, 1868, —Frasidens JoAnson Tiowe safe, Mors thaa ever convinced that Gen. Hus- BRING 6 the mau for Commisaloner of Inlernal Rove enue., }ils appulntoieot 8 great pessonal favor, which can never forget. 8, ¥, UaRY. ‘fhres or four days after, Gen. Cary didu'¢ sccin to think it was so much of a great * per- sonal favor "’ after all. Ho telegraphed: CINCINXATI, Uy AUR. 7, 1065~ Py esident JoAnson : 1.8, upon examinstion and cunsultation with frieads, that Ebave becn deceived into & recommendation of Gen. Buaoaipus. 1 desirs to withdraw my recome mondation. 116 Ls not my cholce. B, ¥. Canr. To Gen. TobLEuRYN, the old hero of Bcbasto- pol. belonge s largo share of credit for the fall of Plevoa. Now that tho stronghiold s taken, be bas been trausferred to the commaud of the orwy ot the Czarowitch, and will briog bis re- morscless slege guus 1o bear upon the fortresses of e Quadril —————— Mr. WespaLL PriLLIPs sod Mr. E. L. Prsacs sro both lecturing about the lats CuaxLzs BuMnag, and curiously enough have referred to the same facident of bis collego carcer, but give