Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 29, 1877, Page 4

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Manvrn, Agent. LONDOY, Eng.—Ameriean Exchange, 440 Strand. . Agent. 5CO, Cal.~Palace Hotel, "AMUSEMENTS. MeVicker’'s Theatre. ‘Madison street, between Etate and Dearhorn. **Doauty and the Tesat," and **Simpson & Co." Afe, ternoon and evenlog. Hooley’s Thentre, Tandolph strect, botween Clirk and LaSalle, Etwgement of Joseph Murphy. ‘' Kerry Gow." Al ternoon and evening. Tinverly’n Theatre. Monroe sireet, corner af Drarhorn, Engagement of Tome Eyttnge. **Antony and Cleopatra.” Afternoon and evenng. 5 Colisenm Novelty Theatre, Cinrk atrect, opposite Court-lome. **Masonry Ex- posed. New Chicago Theatre: Clark street, opposito the Bherman House. Callens der's Georzls Minstrels. Afternoon and evening, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1877, CHICAGO MARKET BUMMARY, The Chicago produce markets were generaily weak, and provisions were more active, Mesapork cloed 2214 @25¢ per brl Tower, ot 811, 42%@11. 45 for danunryand $11.5674 for February. Lard closed Ba@THie por 100 b lower, at S7.6TH@T.60 for Jonunry and $7.65 for Fehrnary. Meats were carfer, ot 4%4¢ for hoxed shoulders anid 25,8753 per 100 Ibs for do short eibe, Whisky wan steady, aL 81.05 pergallon. Flour was qulct. Wheat closed #iclower, at 81.00% forDecember nud $1.00% for January. Comn closed %@%c lower,at 42%¢ cash and 424c¢ for Jannary, ~Oatsclosed K@ '4e lower, at 243(ccash and eeller danuary, Itye was ateady, at e, Darley closed Jic T v, aL iy eash and 60t4c for Jannary, Nows er: dull, and 1015 lower, closing at $1,05 attle” were falely acliveand a shade lowel Sheep were quoted at §: G2 Inspected In- to storo n this city yesterday moming: 61 cars wheat, 40 cara corn, 24 cars onte, 4 cars rye, 11 cars barley. Total, 140 cars, or 57,000 by, Ono hun- drod aollars n gald would buy $102.73 In green- Tacks at the clore, Groonbacks nt the Now York Stock Ex- change yesterdny closed nt 974, Another membor of the * fighting family " of 3cCooxs lins jolucd the ranks of tho si- lent mnjority, Gou. Gromer W. McCook, of Ohio, dled yostorday in New York at tho rosidence of Axsox G. McCoor, ——— Tha heaviest trausaction in mining propor. ty that hins yét occnrred in the Biack-Fills country wms completed yesterday in tho sale to Californin capitnlists, for tha smmn of £400,600, of the four mines Lolonging to tho Goldon Gate Mining Company, T S a—— Jndge Brovarrr, in deciding n somewhnt celelrated baukruptey case yesterday, lald down tho wholesome principlo that bank. rupley courts have the power to disnisy proceedings thet have been ifustituted for the purpose of vexntion or to gratify feellngs of revengo. S — It is positively assorted by the Post, the Democratic nowspaper organ fn Washington, that the Republican Implacables in the Sen- nto will receive no more aid nnd comfort from the Democrats in the war upon the Administration, and that in tho matter of Executive sppoifitments the Democrats will support the Presiden ‘Tho Nationa! Tressury is just now letting ' looso o vast volume of money for the pay. meot of current and accrued oxpenses. The officers and meu of the army, whom Demo- cratic * cconomy” deprived of their pay for several months, have recoived the greater part of £30,000,000 since tho pussage of the Army bill, and tho Tronsurer is now engaged in paying oat over 324,000,000 in gold on sccount of the interest on the public delt, which fulls due Jon. 1,—moking a total of aver 263,000,000 put in ciroulation within tho past six weeka, e —— ‘Thera is no louger any room for donbt that England hay connented to necept tho office of peucemaker, and will undertako to bring about an adjustment between Russin and Turkey, It would appear that in addition to the circular note of the Torte, asking the Powers to use their influenco in behalf of peace, o epecial request was made that En. gland should move in the mutter, even though tho others should dechns to take the initiative. Nuither Italy nor 1ranco, though expressing a willingness to further such an endeavor, scemyed disposod to npprouch thy Czar upan the subject, and it is well known that both Germany and Austria declined to take sny afllrmative action. ‘The aunounce- ment is now made ofliclally in the London Adgertiser thot the Britlsh Government has scceded to Turkey's request, and will try what can lyp dono toward prevalling upon Russia to negotiate terms of peace, N A large number of gentlemen who were at the time in o position to know whether the usertions in WirLim E. Cuanpren's letter aro true deny emphatically that anything in . the nuturo of a bargain or an understhnding was had whereby the Southern Democrats were to support the policy of pesce in Wash- ington in return for the Predident’s support of the policy of pesce in Louisiam and South Corolina. Imxvar Gissow, of Louislana, dcelares that all of bhis kvowledge and juformation s con- trary to Cuanvirs's assertions; Becretary McCuagr deuies that any bargain was over rande, implicd, or thought of ; Col. W, H. Rosenrs, of New Orleans, denies that thers was any corrupt or fuproper means employ- «d to influence the policy of the President. elect toward the Bouth, nnd states that the objuct of his visit to Colunbus was to ascer- tain the views of Gov., Haxes, sud that no bargain was attewpted ; Becretary Surgamax contrudicts Cuanprzn iu every stotement concerning Lis part iu the matter, avow- ing that he voted against and op- posed the very men with whom he is charged with bargaining; snd Judge Lawsxxcz, of Chicsgo, in an ioterview THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY DECEMBER 929, 1 TI—TWELVE PAGES. 4 with n Txipuye representative yesterday, completely exposed Craxpren's mendacity in claiming that the relenso of Renm was granted in return for services rendered on the Lonisiann Commission. Cmaxprer has evidently made a bold stroke for motoricty, and he is likely to get it in n shape lln\} will not bo of advantage to his political aspirs. tions, or to hia reputation for truth and veracity. MaoManox is now extromely anxious to wipe off the slate and lot hygones ba by- gones. Ile has been concilinted, and' he wants everybody elso to feel ** clement and nmnestieal.” - The canse of his anxiety i the threatenod prosecution of somo of Dx Four- Tov's Profects who undertook to manipalate the elections in the intercst of tho Govern- ment candidates, and who were undoubt- edly guiity of gross violations of law and doconcy in enarrying. out tho inatmetions of the master-machinist. The Republicans show a disposition to tront the Marshat with duo consideration, having dstermined to prosecuta n Sub-Prefoct who, in his letter of rosignation, described MacMarnox ns'**a Mar- shal of France who was wanting inallegiance to his sworn faith": but it is donbtfnl whether they will consent to forego the sat. isfaction of punirhing thoso of their political enemies who made thomselves particularly obnosious while they had the upper hand. Tho goldites talk perpetunlly about the gold dollar, and turn up thelr noses at tho silver dollar or American unit of money values, Thoy do not geem to be aware of the fact that for fifty-saven yearaaftor the coinnge Inw of 1792 thero was no such monoy nsn gold doliar. It wna not until after tha not of March 3, 1840, that the first gold dollar waa colned. It'nover was made tho unit of +valne, but the silver dollar was; the act of 1792 made it the unit of monoy of nccount. Smaller money were parts of this silver unit of value, Larger monoy wero multiples thereof, but all coins swuug aronnd the standard silver dollar, as satellites around a sun, Who asked Congresa to strike down this nnit of valua? * Who petitioned forit? In what clection was the proposition to demonetize It an issne? Who wers clected to Congress on that issue? Whnt newspapers urged Congross to pass such an not? What citizens did so? What State Legislatura instructed their Senators to sup. port such a bill? Will the Nation, or New York T'imes, or Ja¥ Gounn answor ? A BARREN SEARCH. ‘The Chicago Journal of the 27th, in pub- lishing a two-column communication on the gilver question, thus mentions the writer: . ‘Wo pabilish to-day a communication from one of Chieago's most intelligent, able, and practical businesaemen In reply to ‘Tus TurnueNe's exagge- ated and repeated statemonta In rofercnce to the act of Congress demonetizing the sllver dollar, The writor thus dosoribed informs tho public that hie has examined the files of Tur Cnicaco Tnipuxe earcfully,—all its edito- rinls, nll its tolegraphic dispatches, all its solectiona from other papers, all its news and correspondence, it feems, from 1870 down to 1875,—in order to find ont what was pub- lished in this papor relating to the demone- tization of the silver dollar, and to prove that it was fully known to the publie and to Tne TripuNe at tho time. Having per- formed this laborious task, this ** most fn. telligent, nble, and practienl business man " gives tho publio whot ho finds, Tho first thing i thus statod : May 28, 1872, Tue Tnmuxe publishes the fol- lowing from ita Washington special, undor dato of the#7th: **The Mint and Coinage biil which pavsed e Totno this afigrnoon s substantially Identienl with that reported and discussed at lenzth carly in tho scasion, and {e intended as a complete and thorough colfleation of all extatin atatutes relating to the subject. Tho Senate eome time since paseed a similar bity, and fs expected to agree tothis without much change." f Wo submit to the public whother ther was in this statoment of the pnssage of n bill ** intended s o codification of all ezist- ing statutes " relating to the Mint anything that would notify any lwnan being that Congresa was prohibiting - the further coin- ngo of the silver dollur, or demouotizing sil- ver. The fact that the bill was roprescuted to be and waa in fact a codification of all previous legislation on the wsubject of the mints excluded avy idea that In sucha LI wonld be atteinpted such an important mens- ure s the domonetization of silver and the establishment of an exclusive gold atandard, and the revolution of the whole coinage sys- tem of the country, The sccond discovery in the columns of Tae Trisuseof a knowledgo that silver was to be domonotized is found in the fact that Tue Trinuxe, on Doe, 3, 1872, published the aunual report of the Beorotary of the "I'rens- ury (Bourweey), in which that officer usod this langungo In the last ten years tho commercial value of sllver has deprectated ahqut i per cent us compared withzold, and ite usc ws 8 currency has been dls. continued by Germany and by somo other coun- tries. 'Tha financial condition of the United Stutes has prevented thouso of sllver ux currency for mora than ten years, and 1 am of opinfon that upon ence to the subsidiary silver, then only o legal-tender to the amount of 25, and took the gronnd then that if that subsidinry silver (the minor coins) was made a fnll legal- tender for all anounts, it would enable the Government to resumo specie payments withont the nse of gold. As greonbacks wero at that time approximating to the valno of subsidinry silver, no reference was mads whatever to tho standard silver dollar of 412§ grains, and Bourwewy's rocommendn- tion to discontinue silver coinage, except in the form of & new commorcinl dollar, was opposed becanse tho coinngs even of sub- sidiary sitver, and making it a fall logal-ten- dor, wonld aid in the resumption of specie payments. The next discovery in the files of Tax TainvoNe of a knowledge that silver was to be demonetized is thus stated : In October, 1872, the National Nloand of Trade, Atita seeslon in New York, had under connidera- tlon the eabject of the colnage, and recommended anamendment to the then pending bill in Congress by chanxing the sliver coinage to correspond with the French five-franc plece, & vory slight alteration of the welght from that proposed In the bill as it then atood, Thie Tur Tiinuxe, on Oct. 25, In- dorscd as helng & **sensible" resolation. That amendment was adopted and {8 now the law. That nmendment was not adopted. The silver dollar was not changed to correspond with the French unit of valne, the five-frano plece, which is their dollar; nor has Con- gress changed the sweight or value of the subsidinry silver coinage for twenty odd years; nor has Tur TRIBUNE'S quoted sug- gestion the slightest referonco to demonatiz- ing silver nud adopting the single gold standard. This in Abont as blank a rocord in favor of abolishing the silver standard as was ever exhibited. This is the ompty record which is laboriously produced to sustain the falso accusation that ** Tz Cnioaao TrinuNe in 1872 had full knowledge" that a bill was pending and had passed to prohibit the coin- nge of the old silver dollar, to abolish the dnal standard, to make gold the only metallic cnrrency, and to demonetize the standard wilver dollar which had been o full legal. tender for more than eighty years. 'Bhe long Inbor of the man who mnkes this publication is evidence of his industry, but tho publica- tion of hislack of discoverirs does not indicate n very brilliant intelligence. Tho nbsedto of any record on this subject in Tz Tninuxe {s not peculiar to this paper. The New York papers, . the Natwn, 2'ribune, Times, and others, have been challenged to produce’ from their columns of 187234 any record that o bill to domonotize silver sud confine legal motallic monoy to gold was ponding in Congress, or had passed that body. Not ono of these blatant, vociferous gold-bug sheets has pro- duced nny such record from thoir files. In fact, as tho Nation Inat week candidly ad. mits, oll knowledge on tho subject ‘‘was confined to n fow sclontific persons.” | It yos not until 1876 that the frand and the outrago which had been committed on the peoplo of thio United States becama generally known. Then the ery was raised which has boen kept fip ever since, that, ns silvor is demone- tized aud below par at prosent in London ns bullion, why rovive it? Submission to the outrage on the people porpotrated in 1873-4 is demanded in tho name of *‘honesty,” * national foith,” and national integrity. Tho rights of tho wholo people have been stolen, and submission to the wrong is do. manded on the grounds of honesty! Lot tho wrong be undone and silver reatored to its old position ns legsl monoy, and then we will talk about the policy and advisability of discounting silver and adopting the single gold standard. THE LATEST IMPLACABLE “YAWR! Tho arraignment of President Havza' Ad. ministration by * Hon.” Wirtiax E. Onano- ren ia just what the New York Iferald calls it,~—** Buch n frothy, unsubstantial document. that its effcot wonld be harmless even if it had a more important suthorship.” It oma. untes from a source entirvly unworthy of confidence or respoct, and contalns not a line nor o word that will pass for proof of tho general charge of a cormpt contract in the Loulsiana matter. This Now Hampshite Cmaxprzn was o subordinate and insignifi. cant tool of o -certain clique of politiclans who nssmined the mnnngement of the Prosi. dentlal campaign, and came precious near compaasing tho defeat of tho Republican party by doing so. Aiter it becama apparent thint there was to be a dispute over the re- sult, thows persons, for selfish purposes of their own, nssumed an aggressive attitude and thought they would be able to lift Mr, Havesinto the Presidential chair by lond talk and bluster. After Mr. Haves was de. clared clocted by competent authority, the cliquo claimed the oredit for the resnlt, nnd counted upon a recognition of their servicos in the privilegoe of diotating appointments and otherwise “ranning” © the Administration. DBut Mr. Haves vory properly refused to submit to their arrogant terms. e declined to ac. grounds of public policy no attempt should ve.}, knowledgo that hls insuguration was due to made to introduce It, Lut that the coinage should be lmited to commerciul purposcs, sud designed exclusively for commorcial uses with other natlone, « v+ Therefore, In renewing the recommenida- tlons heretofura made for the paasage of the Mint bill, T euygest such alterstiuna as will probivit the coluage of el for circulation in this country, but that suthority be given for tho colnugo of asllver dollar that sbiall be as valugble as the Mesican dollar, and to be furnishod ut Its nctual cost.s Mr, BoutweLr's reports, which were little hueded, were much given to specinl nos- trums dovisod by that gentlemau, but the reader will fail to discover even iu this re. 1ort o recoiamendation of $he Secratary that silvyer whould be dumouotized. The wilver dollar was then at & premium in gold, and was not extensively coined; and the Secre- tary had in his mind the coinago of an addi- tional light-weight or commercial dollar, such as subsequently was made heavier and became the trade dollar, to be coined for ex- portation to China. That experiment was subsequently tried. The man who searched ‘Tux Tninune Ales statos that the only refer- ence in this paper to this part of the Treas- ury report was in the fluanciatcolumn, Here is what the Journal msn says: Oun Dece, 11, however, {ts financlal editor, In an articte of nearly 8 half columu, discussce this rece ommncudation, It ssld: **The recowmmendation of the Socretary of the Trossury, that siiver be praciically demonetized by prohibiting Its coluago at the Mlut except for cxportation, has & mure ime poriant bearing on the question of specio resump- tlon tlan would sppear at Arst glance.” The artl- clo pruceeds, ufter alluding o thy activn of Gur- wauy and Hotland {n respect to silver. to predict a still furtbier decline la silver, probably to the then luvel of greenbacks mpared with guld (about BYcents), sod asys: *'If tho law were changed %0 88 to wake allver cola of thu United States a lu- gal-tender for any sum, instead of being restricted tosmull amounts ss now (1), wo could resumo speclo payments In sliver coln without materially changing the present premiuns on gold over grecn. backs, " and concludes: **The premium on gold Over greenbacks would remals fxcd st the dider- vuce between the commercial values of gold und siiver." ‘Uhe reader will fail to discover anything which the **fiuancial column™ stated that pointed ‘out the legal demonetization of sliver. Tho writer was speakivgin refer- their Lravado and fustian, as it was not, but "claimed that tho office was awarded to him by law, as it was, 1la conceived it to be his duty to abide by the pledges ho had made in his lotter of accoptance, nnd as the first atep in this diroction he disassociated himself from the most pernicious influences that had surrounded the preceging Administration, This course necessitatod the retirement of the Ouanpren family, and the Now Hamp. shire Lranch bottled up ita wrath for the time being, only to pour it forth nowin a disjointed, illogical, and frothy tirade which lins uo morw significance than the mutterings of the most obscure, disappointed office-seek- er. ‘Thiais the true version of the affair, The *‘charges” made by this blowhard OuaxpLrg (not the great CHaNDLER of Mich. igan, but, we belicve, a nephew of his, or somothing of that kind) are o vague that they defy oxplicit definition, There isan insinuatlon, howaever, that Mr. Hares, after the election, but before the count of the votes, employed certain agents o treat with Pacarp and CoaxBxaraiy, and to stiffen the Returning Boanls of South Carolina and Louisinua to the performance of their duties by pmmlut that they should be sustained sud rowanled. Secretary Buzawan, whom Cuaxores sots downas one of these agonts, hay alroady made a sweeping denial of this charge, and branded it as a lie, though it was searculy necessary to do so, as the allegation was made by nobody except the wind-bag Cuaxoren, who had not a single corroborat- ing circumstauco to cite, much leas avy di- rect proof. ‘This charge is supplomentod by & rovival of another charge (already sbun- dantly denied by parties on both sides) that President Havry afterwards entered into a solena compact with the representatives of the Bouthern people in Congress, binding himeslf to their biddiug in the event that they would advocate a concurrence in the de. cision of the Electoral tribunal. Notonly has there never been any proof of this, but the gentlemen on either side alleged to bave wade the coutract bave demied that their conference ever was of sich a nature, and that President Havrs wna over cognizant of sny interchange of views that passed between them. Finally, Mr. CitaxpLER charges a be- trayal of the first contract and a conspiracy to carry out the socond by the action of the informal Commission that proceeded to Louisiana, and succooded in doveloping n condition of order aud Inw out of the political chaos they found there. Ho secks to fasten A eorrnpt purpose upon all these gontlemen by alloging that they have all been rawarded, ‘which Ia not true, only one of them having recoived an appointment, and that a jndicial ono for which he is eminontly qualified.. To show the utter rocklessness of Cnaxprer's misstatements, it may Lo mentioned that he charges that Judge Lawnence, of Chicago, was rewarded for his share of the work ““by tho relenso of Jaxe Rems, the great whisky conspirator and dofragdor of the tbvenue.” Now it happens that President Hares did not **relenso " Jaxe Rewst, whore ense wasdisposed of before Judge Lawnence, who chanced to ba ono of Remu's counsel, went to Now Orloans, and before Presidont Haxes had any anthority to nppoint a Com. mission of any kind, The *‘relense” wns tho work of Presldent Gravr, It is fair to presume that Cmanpren's other statements are on A par with this. The people who nara still endoavoring to blacken President Haves' titlo to his office by the outery of *fraud” mny be set down simply as idiots, ‘The number has dwindled down to vory small proportions on the Dom- ocratio sido; oven Mr. Hrxpnicks, the Dem- ocratio candidate for Vice-President, has abandoned the cffort as puerile and absnrd, and thero remain only Tipex and the Now York Sun that croek away ns harmlessly as a couple of superannuated ravens, On the Republican side there are only n handful of disgruntled machiue politicions, of whom this Onranpren is a falr sample, and who will do the conutry infinitely less harm by lying and grumblingthan they would doif permitted to run the Governmont ns thoy desired. , The public understand perfectly, and estimnto at their proper value, such eomptyings as Cuaxpren hog poured out. No harm will coms to the Administration from theso vapid protests from tho machino men. ‘The only injury douo to the Adminisiration has arisen from opportunitics furnished by the Admin. istration itsclf in thoso cnses whero it de- parted from the rules it had laid down In re- gard to the management of the Civil Bervice. ‘Whorover the Implacables can fairly chargo inconsistoncy in the Civil-8ervice policy, and o violution of rules for political advantage or porsonal preferment, then they can appeal with some forco to public sontiment, and the only aim of the Administration should be to koep in such o straight path aa to avoid these embarrassmonts. 1If Prosidont Iaves can do this, the clemonts of disappointed office-seckers or snubbed office-brokers will not avail againat him. - i ', THE RIBBON MOVEMENT. Tho various Ribbon temperance move- ments, which, since they wero ngitated in this country, have assumod various hues, among thom rod, white, blue, and purple, bave without donbt accomplished a groat deal of good. Like Father Matnew's cra. sade, theso Ribbon crusades had their origin in tho Old World/ have crossod the water, taken root in tho East and rapldly sproad ‘Westward, meeting with their moat conspicu. ous success in Ohio, Indiana, and Iliinols. The Ribbon.mon,and avo gatherod intho hurd dritkers, sod, plicing them on thelr feet and clothing them in their right minds, have sot them up as shining examples for those drinkers who were on the road to excess through lack of solf-control. They have wisely refrained from {nterfering with the Germans in their devotions at the shrine of Gambrinus, allowing thom to quaff their flowing beer without comment or protest, and have oxtonded thoir influenco and labor upon the moro nervous Irish and Americans who fire themselves up to the verge of ox- plosion with whisky and the various flery polsons that pnsa for whisky, Their succeas in this direction has boen very marked. Thnl bave rescued thousands of ‘dmnlmiq from tho vory verge of ruin, They have saved millions of dollars from going into tho rumsellors’ tills, They havo reduced tho aggregato of human missry whorever they have labored. Thoy hava filled darkened homes full of sunlight again. 'They have made men more manly and women and children happler. The whole moral atmos- phere has been purified wherever thess good men aad women have laborad, and thozsands of women and children will rise up and call them blessed. - The most striking feataro of thiz great movemont ia that its beneficont results have been compnased without resort to any law oxoept that of moral suasion. Thoy. have not resorted to penal statutes. They have not employed policamen or oconstables as their agents, They have used no coercion, or threats, or political prebsure. Drunkards bave not been pounded with clubs nor dragged into police-stations apd fined in Justices' courts,. They have 'vuled by the law of love, and havo omployed 10 other agents than conscience and moral influence, and bave worked quietly but nono the less powerfully, Thelr wopderful suc. cess i3 a conclusive argumeni against the folly of the recent short.lived crusades and all those moasures of temperance reformers which are based upon the law of force, and which sock to stop a man from drigking by telling him he shall not drivk, and by legis. Iating him jato sobricty with pongl statutea and policemen’s bludgeons. Gratifying as this success hns been, and devoutly as all good men will pray that it may continue, there is an alarming danger ahead that the Ribbon mes, flushed with their success, may not see until it istoo late, and yot it s a danger which has ulti. mately wrecked every temperance 'move- ment in this country, aud one to which emotional and sentimental movemeats are peculiarly exposed. Just ag soon as the sentiment engendered by ths Ribbon sgita- tion takes root and comimencas to grow in a community there will arise s class of im. patient fanatics who, not content with trav- eling the old slow but suro yoad, will seek to reach the same results by a short out, and of scheming politiciaus who will seize upon the temperance organization to further thelr own selfish intercsts, The former will throw away tho spiritual aod take up the carnal weapons, and recommence tho old warfare of force, and threat, and ooercion, The politiclans will . use the organizations to got themselves int office, spd to make money, and to magoify themselves. ‘Thus botween these two classes the movement will be ulti- 1woately killed, and the good that it has ao. complished will be more than offset by the bad that will follow. Of course all moral means will bo suspended as fast a8 coercive means are adopted, and the whols movement will finally degenerate to that moat absurd of all postulates onthe part of thoss who profess to drink nothing that 0o one elss shall drink, whether temperate or otherwise, Thus tue movement will break down. Man is rn obstinate animal, and, when told he shall not drink, hia firat instinet is to go right off aud drink, not becauso he wanta to drink, but out of pure determination todo what he is told he sball not. Neighborhood quarrels will begin, drmnkenness and atrifo will in- crense, thousands who now sympatiiize with the movement will grow cold in their inter. est, and tbousands of reformed drunkards will relapso into their old ways, and their Iast condition will bo worso than their first. Thesa are the dangers that threaten the Ribbon movement, and they aro the same that ultimately rined the Washingtonian movement, They mny not happen in this cnse, but the experionce of the pnst goes to show that they will if the Ribbon manngers nnd those in authérity allow it to pnss into- the hands of politiclans and coercive Pro- libitionists, BOUTHERN PACIFIC V8, TEXAS PACIFIC. It appears from the Washington advicea to the San Francisco Chronicle that the bill recently introduced by Mr, Moxer, of Mis- sissippl, providing that tho land-grant of the Texns Pacific shall bo transferred to the Southern Pacifioc Rond, and virtually binding tho latter to completo the rond with- out n money or bond subsidy, is not an inde- terminato or irresponsible moasure, but has beon introduced at tho specinl instance of Mr. C. P. Hostpvatox, the managing man of the Sonthern Californin, and indi. catos the readiness of private capital nnd enterprisa to undertake the building of the road. Under this bill, Mr. HoxTixaToN does not ask that JMr, Tox Scorr's Con. struction Company shall abandon auy rights they have nacquired, but only that his (HuntinaTon's) - Company shall have the same privileges oponed to them, and thnt ench Company shall procoed, one working from the east westward nnd tho other from the wost eastward, nntil they shall meet, each availing itself of the land- graat alrendy made to tho extont that it shall build the railrond. Mr. IfuxTixaros further proposes that his Company shall bollmumlcn to completo nv least 100 miles moro of the rond within two years after the pnssoge of the act, and thathe will roach El Paso (the crossing of the Rio Grando, where Tox 8corr's road shonld meot him) within six years; if tho Toxas Pnoiflo shall not meet his line at that point, ho desiros the privilego of pushing on still further, and it issaid that ho hns already formed alliances with cortain Bouthorn railronds. now building, whereby ho will have connections with New Orlenns, Mobile, Galveston, and Houston, Thisisa practical proposition to conatruct as rapidly a8 possible n Southern Pacific routo with- ot asking tho Governmont to re-enter upon tho dangerons and limitless polioy of losning its credit and granting subsidics for entor. prises of a private businoss nature, ‘I It is difficult to see how tho Sonthiern rep- resentatives in Congress can consistently or 'ronsonably objoct to Mr, HuxtiNaToN's prop- osition. Thoy have claimed nll along that noither they nor their people have any intor. 'est in Toxt Bcorr or hin Construction Ring, but that all they desiro is to have the con. struction of a Houthern Paciflo railrond ns- sured to thom. If tholr object can ba ob- tained without cost o} risk to tho Govern- ment, they cannot fairly insist that an offer to this offect bo rojocted in order to squander all the'way from 60 to 100 millions of publio money 'on cortain spoculators who do not prom{ss to do. any more. Thoro is More reasdn why the Southern peopla shonld trust HunrixoTon to do the work ko is willing to undertake than why they should place their confidence in Scorr's Construction Com- pany, becanse HunTiNatox's Compnny Laa already demonstrated its good [faith, resources, and officienoy by constructing sov. eral hundred milos of the road as far as the Colorado River, or as far as ita chartor en- ablesitto go. The Sonthern people will enjoy very decided ndvantages with a road construoted as a private businesa enterpriso over ono constructed by the Lelp of Gov- ' ernmont money, and plundered by a con- struction ring after tho Credit-Moblier kys. tom. They will have n batter road, built more economically, from which they will get more favorable rates as well as superior accommodations, Another resson why tho Southorn reprosentatives should unite in support of this proposition is becauso they can then eount upon tho co-operation of sufliclont Northorn mombers to oarry it through, while any other proposition in- volving a grant of money or bonda will be rosistod to the Inst by the Lonest and thoughtful men of the North. 1T OAN PASS OVEE THE VETO. Jay Gourp s anxiously canvassing tho question whether tho BSilver bill can be passed over a voto, Ho figures the thing down to a fine point in tho paper ** founded by Homaox Gnezixy,” Ho admits that it turns on the aingle voto of Benator Kzirrona, of Loulsians, snd the caiting vote of Vice- President Wizzres, of Now York, whoso votes Jay Gonrp claims will be againat sil- ver, Al thoss who are opposod to'the ras- cally demonctizing act of 1878 GovLp calls repudiators,” becnuse they repudiate that act. e snys: The fricads of the blll hape that Mr. Evaris, of Loulsiana, will vote with the Dewocratic wajority at tho Bouth. and that Mesars, CoNovan and Brex- cxzn will olewith that party also; that Messrs. Bitanon and Groven will both bo prosent and voto for tho L1, and that Mr. Camkron will runk him. solf with Mr, WaLLace a8 & repudiator [of the demanetizing swindie]. Ta that case, classing tho Middlo States, Maryland, and Delaware with the Hast, In all having twenty-two Benators; classing Missour} with tho Bouth, In all twenty-c1ght Son- stars, and classing the Pacic States with tho West, in sll twenty-six Senators, the azpected vote for and sgalnat the bill will bes epudlicans, Demacrats. far, Jresiicasy famaaate, ForTGuinat, qute e Aoegen 1 % 3 5 2 EY 1 20 5 3 IR %5 % Even In this case the bill will fall to passoveras veto, but Mr. Cauxuow, Mr. SrswcEn, Mr. Cox- ovew, and Mr, Suanow will have tho honor of classing themaselves with Democratio repudistors {of tho demonctizing fraud]. The Southern Dem- ocrata will then stand Len (o one for revudiation [of the swindlo], snd the SBouthern Rupublicans will have only the vote of Mr, Kriicuu to save them from as great a degreo of shame(t), The ‘Wesiern Republicans and the Southern Democrate will then stand side by side to nssall tho Unlon {of Eastern Sbylocks). Dishonor wil thus bo averi~ €d, not by tha manly fdelity of any party, but by the persunal integuity of #fteen out of thirty-nine Hepublicans, and cloven out of thirty-seven Dem- ocrats, and ull that the Nepablican party can claim of honor 1t will derive frows the courage and truth of ls Pyesident. Docs Mr. Canxuox or Mr. Brsy- k% wlah to strengthen this slliance of Wéstern repudiators [of the fraud} with Coufedersto Briga- diere 1 Are thero not Republicans at the Weat who are wrongly claimed for this uaboly allisnce? Jax Gouwp, in the same article, couuts on six ‘“Confederatea” in the Semato to help the Bhylocks continue the pléasant work of **bearing " real estate and * bulling™ gold ; of increasing the weight of debts and reducing the wages of labor; of enhancingthe parchas. ing power of gold by preventing the use of silver; and of skinning the industrial classes for the emoclument of wmoney-lenders. An allines of the *Confedernto Brigndiors™ of Marylond, Delnware, and Georgin with East- ern Republicans and Eastorn Bourbons to rob the producing clasaca is n **holy alli- anco” in the pious estimation of the benev- olent Goutn; but it in an * nnholy alliance for any of the Sonthern Brigndiers to vote with the Western Republicans to * ropu- dinto” tho remonotization rasenlity, and to undo the fenrfnl mischicf it is cnusing | solld rock, thronghont tho West and South, Govrp, it will he obaerved, concedes that twenty-five Western Ropublican Senators will vote to ““repudiate ” the awindle and re- atore tho aucient siiver standard dollar to the plnce from which it was romoved by frand and deceit. Twenty-five Western Sonators mnko up so respoctable n body of gallant and patriotic mon that the twonty Honth. ern. “Brigadiors” need have no hesite. tion in joiuing auch good company in so righteons a chuse, If Lastar and it have any regnrd for tho sentiments nnd intercsts of nn enormons majority of the voters of Georgin nnd Missisappi they will also be found in the society of the twenty-five West- ern Senators on the final vote. GouLp con- cedes that thoro aro five Soutliern Republican voten for theo restoration of thaancient silver dollar, and sets down Krr.roaa, of Lonisiann, on the sile of the Shylocks. In this, GovLp will probably be disappointed. Tho chauces aro that Kriroao will vote in nccordance with the sentiments of ninc-tenthe of the State ho represents, The demand' for remonetization of silver ia a growing sentiment, n rising tide, bound lo swoep overything bofore it; and the “donbtful” Bonnters will scarcely venturs to oppose nnd «lofy it when the decisive moment arrives. Wo do not belfove that the Prosident will voto the Bilver bill, as he nevor was hostile to silver, and never was known to sympathize with Bhylockery, His own State is enormously for the silver dollar, and both her Senators are working hard for romonotization, Butif the President should bo eaptured by tho Wall strect sharps and sliavers, and voto this people’s bill, it will be trinmphantly passed over his opposition, and become n law in spite of him, Mark tho prediction, OAUSE, DUEATION, AND NATURE 0P THE SUN'S HEAT, Scientiic men have demonstrated that tho heat of the sun s not caused by combustion, If tho phenomenon wero simply that of a world comnposed of carbon of the size of the sun on fire, it would be of brief duration, ‘The supply of fuel would, it fa computed, be oxhausted in little more than 5,000 years. But tho structure of thecarth scems to show that It must have sustained its present relations to the sun for many millions of years, and during all that time have heen heated and Hahted from that source, and kept fu motion and protected from colliston fn the sume manner os it is to<day, “‘I'iero have been many theories as to the orlzln of the sun's heat. Tho two which have survived criticlsm ond assault aro the meteorie theory and tho contraction theory, both of which assume tho force of gravitation ns tho first cause. The me- oteoric theory has of late years fallen Intp disro- pute, and been gencrally sbandoned by sclen- tista. The vontraction theory, advocated by HrLunoLrz, s sucelnetly stated by Dr. JAnEs Crott in a recent number of the Quarterly Journal of Science, who,though he ncknowledges alarge Indebtedness to previous authorities, and claims Mttlo credit for original rescarch, makes now and valusblo contributions to tho dlscussion. It the sun originally existed as a nebulous mass, filling tho cotire space at present oceu- pled by the solar systom, and extending indefl- nitely boyond Noptune or the outermost planct, the amount of force or “work" performed by gravitation in solid!fylng the mass, measured in foot-pounds, would be 108,700 multipifed by 10 rajsed to the thirty-sixth power! The amount of heat thus produced by gravitation, according to the doctring of the correlation of forccs, would suffice for twonty millions of years (20,237,500). ‘This Is not incomprehtnalble when it Is understood that s pound of coal falling into the sun from the nearcst fixed star would pro- duce by Its concussion moro than 6,000 times the amount of heat that would be generated by ita Bombustion! But gravitatlon alone, It is alloged, could not have vrovided the stors of cnergy which has been converted [nto heat at the solar source. Thero {s here a conflict bo- tween the accepted teachlogs of Geology and Physics; and the princioal effort of Dr. Crotr—an cffort in which, it must-be confessed, hio has been scomingly successful—hns been to roconcllo tio differences cxisting at this point. Geology shows that the carth must bo more than 20,000,000 years old; physica that the suo, 12 its heat wers derivea from gravitation alone, could fot have main- talned our globo at its present temperature for moro than this perfod. The enorgy, couverted {nto heat, necessary to maintain the temperature of the carth boyond 20,000,000 years may have been derived, Dr; Crowt thinks, from motion in space. If the sun were formed by the unfon of two hodics, each having ona-half of the present mass, and each toving with an original velocity In addition to that produced by the force of gravitation, there would be generated at,tho moment of concussion enough to supply 50, 000,000 years' heat. The veloelty required for this purpose would be 476 miles per sccond. More than one-half of this would be aerived from the mutual attraction of the two bodles in thelr spproach to each other. The orginal or iprojected velocity would consequently only need to be 203 miles per second. I the orginal velodty was 676 miles per sccond, the amount of heat generated would sufiice, It 1s tomputed, for 200,000,000 years at the present rato of radiation from the sun. 1n answer to the question, * Where did tho two bodies get thelr motion?” Dy, CioLy suys 1t is just as easy to concelve that they al- ways oxisted in motion as that they always existed at reet. ““In fact,’ he adds, “this is the only way in which onergy can remain in a body without disaipation In space.” Wa know noth- ing voncerning the absolute motion of bLodics in space. Thero may be bodles moving in relatlon to our system with {nconcelvable volocity. # Kor anything wo know to the coutrary, wero one of these bodles to strike the earth, the shock might be sufficient to generatean amount of heat that would dissipato ths earth into va- por, though the striking body might not be heavierthan acannou-ball.” It is true wehave no expericace of bodics moving with anything like 000 miles per second; but the objection from this source is met by tho answer that we arc not fu a position to be sble to percelve bodida moving with such velocities, No body, moving at the rata af 460 miles per socond, conld remale 8 member of our solar system. Nor can any welght be attached to the similar objection that an event of the uuparsileled maguitude of the formation of a now sun by the collislon of two Independent baodles Lns never been observed from this plavet. u order to account for the existence of all the fixed stars dowu to tho seventh ‘msgnitude— below which rank the stars aro not visibie to the naked eyo—it Is only neccasary to concelve that such 8 event should take place onco In overy 15,000 ycars on the averaie. The bistoric period, which stretches over- barely 4,000 years, way well havo passcd without the occurreuce of such an cvent, ‘Tho origin uf the sun being thus concelved, its aye remalos to bo determined. The solutlon of tuls problem can only be spproximated. ‘The suu caunot havogivenout lightand heat leasthan twenty millious of years; but no data that hu- mau knowledge posseases cau suflice for a caleu- lution os to how much luoger than the babitable &lobe the subs bas been fo exwtence. Al that van be sald positively is that the sun must have heated the earth as Jong as tho lstter body bas been able to sustain life. Geology shows that 1t wust bavo bad tlus capacity vrobably for 40,- e e 030,000 years, aml perhaps much longer. Tho process by which the ace of the earth fa com- auted is simple, and as precies as the operation of the laws of nature. The facts of denudation —which I8 another name for tho slow wearing away of the earth's suriace by attrition—show moat convineingly the antiquity of our globe, Raln, anow, fec, frost, chemical actfon, wind, ete, arc the ngents that hove carved out vallevs, cut mountains out of the and regulated the distribu- tlon of water an the facc of thaearth. The high- st mountains do not represent solely theresults of aubterranean upheavals, but includesubacrial denudation. However much thrown up, they are left standing in consequence of the barder substances which entered into their composition as compared with tho surrounding country, Varlons * faults,” a8 geologists enll it, which have been found to Walcs show that mosses of rock, varging trom one to three miles {n thick- neds, have been denuded from the surtace of the copntry, and the same phenomens are pre- sented, under different circumatances, in every part of the examined world, This denudation, morcover, docs not represent all, or even the ereater part, of that which has taken place since the globe became habltable. It is mercly the denudation of a geotogical epoch, taking place botween the formatlon of two successive rock stratifications. Tho present rate of de- nudation {s ascertained by estimating tho rate st which materinls are carried off the land into the sca. The rato is measurcd by the sediment carried down by rivers. Taking the Misstasippl as the hest river tor the purpose, Its annual sediment {s found to be oqual in 4,507 years to one foot of the entire surfsce drained by it. Making proper allowancgs fur apccifie gravity, the amount removed Is equal to one foot of rock 1n 6,000 years, Asswning, to cover all pussiblo sources of crror, that the rato of dedudation i only about half of this, or one foot in 3,000 years, about 15,000,000 years would be required to remove one mile in depth of rock in this mnn- ner. Three miles of rock, in some parts of the world, have been removed sinco the old Ked Handataono perfod, for which 45,000,000 of years were required, and at least as inuch, it is claimed, must have been taken awny before that perlod; this will give us 00,000,000 years as the age of the stratifled rock, . Dr. Croiu hss, however, falled to make proper allownnces for the enorinous raintall that must have ntteuded tho carly age of the carth, when thoprocess of coollug was atill incomplete. Denudation under thoso circumstances ‘would he many tiines more rapld than at present, and his calculations correspondingly Inacurate. Dut it 1s not claiming too much to say that the known denudation—both that which took place before and after each now stratification—could ot have beon accomnlisned In less than 20,000, 000 or 30,000,000 years; and the aguof the sun {s thus approximately fixed as lonzer then this period. . An inquiry Into the nature of the sun's heat wonld bo Incompleto withont at lcast a baro statement of an hypotliesls which tha present author neglects, and which has never beon euf- ficlently attended to by sciontific men. Tho heat of the sun at the carth’s surface may bo produced by a correlation of forces different from that which Dr. CroLy, hos Imagined. It the Imponderabio cssence which is emitted from the sun as light can bo concelved as travel- ing with a veloclty of many hundreds of miles per second, it mny, on reaching the lower strata of tho atmosphera and the sur- face of the earth, relense a degree of heat proportionate to tho cnergy represented by its rapid motion. Thls theory Is supported by the well-known phenomenon of s decreasing temperature In the higher-air stratas, bearlng o certain rolation to the rarity of the atmosphere, which, In turn, {s measured by elevation above the earth’s surface. If tho heat fs produced by 8 tranaformation of the energy contained in tho ether, Dr. Crotvr's theory {s amplified and com- pleted. The correlation of forces thus accounts not only for the origin of the sun, but for its continued operation as a source of vital in- fluences; tho samo action which formed it is mads to oxplain Its beneficent functions, and the whole schoms of natureis simplified byn reference of all its forces to a stogloFirat Causc, ——— ‘T TRINUNE and Inter-Ocean, in thelr rettitogging advocacy of a 01-cent doliar, have now Leen forced to the pitiful expedient of attempting to question the valueof “*the cont.” They want to know of us, if 100 centsmakes & dollar, what kind of cents we mean,— Journal. The Journal thinks that by idiotic rejteration of the *‘Bl-cent-dollar ™ nonsonso it is making an srgument sgalnst remonctization of silver. Anybody but 8 fool knows there is no such thiug as a “Ol-cent dollar.” Anybody excopt au Incorrigible donkey knows that it takes 100 conts to constitute a silver dollar. The act of Congress approved April 2, 1792, which gu- thorized the colning of monoy of account n comformity with the resolution of 1780, pro- vides that this money of account shall be ex- pressed in “dollars or units,” dimes or tenthi centa or hundredthis, aud milis or thousandths, Tho mct further recited that the colnsto be struck at the Mint wero to be of gold, silver, and copper, glving the denominations and val- ues of tho same, with wolght and finoness pre- scribed. Among thess colns so authorized was the “sllver doliar or unit, to be of the value of a Spanisth nitled dollar as the same 1s now current.” The welght of the dollar was fized at 871X grains of pure silver, and that welght has never been changed, and that dollar continued to bo the unit of our money forclality years. Tho act ot 1703 aforcsald provided for gold colns to bo called eagles, of $10, half and quarter cagles; but no provislon was mado for a gold dollar coln until March 8, 1840, Thus for fifty-sevon years there was no gold dJollar and no other dollar coln except tho standard sllver dollar beforo described, which was the unit of American moncy. Thoe law says that a **cent is the hundredth part of a dollar," and for eighty years it declared that the silyer dollar was tho unit of value. Tgspeak of & allver dollar of 01 cents {s gibberish of the Intellcctual standard of amonkey., The cent is a coln compased of 05 per centum of copuer and b per cent of tin and zinc, welghing forty-clght graina. Ouc hundred 0 these pleces are mudo by law equal in valuo to one dollur, and befors the demonctizing act + of 1878 that dollar was silver. What ineflablo trash it is then to keep repeating night after pight that s aliver dollay fs 9L cents! If 1t ls votstopped, HALSTEAD and hls stuffed club may Dbave to bo brought {nto requisition. ——— It isnot likely that Amoricans will ever for- Rget the sncer of the Edlnburg roviewer, 4 Who veads an Americsn book!™ But peoplo can af- ford to Jaugh at it in this geueratlon, when the novels of our best writers are translated Into half a dozen Janguages. And it {s pleassnt to learn that even tho iubabitants of far Australia are growing to be eager purchasers and readers of tha literature of this country, The Jlus trated Addalds Naws, of New Bouth Wales, sn- nounces that the demand for American mag- azines aod scientific publications has been steadily on the increass for the last eight years. IChas asked fts subscribers If thoy read these periodicals, and the moswer has beeu, from one and all: **Yes, we do resd them, be- cause wacan get from them ‘wrinkles aod re- ceipts? that can bo had frgm no other source.' i Whether the preliminary sketches taken by a portrait pafuter romain his property, and whether ho can disposs of them at will, bas beon adjudicated upon by tha ¥Freoch Courts. A few ydars ago the artiss INoExs executed a portrait of the wifcof AL MoiTassixi, & Paris- {an gentleinan of fortune, and, as is usual, mado anumber of sketches of his subject before ob- talulug a satisfactory plture. After his death bis executors offered thcso drawings to M. Mot rrssing for 8,250 francs, but the latter brought suit to cojoln their sale to other pastics. The Court decided that tho sketches were the prop- erty of the painter, but could not be sold. L Instances have becn beretoforo reported of erratlc young women puttiog thewscives up at auction in the watriwontal market, but these have generally been tsolated vascs, or, a8 might ba better described ln suctioneering vernacular, single packsges. The {dea of offering young wouwen (n job lots would scarcely have occurred