Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 31, 1877, Page 4

/ s i . THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY. DECEMBER 877 The Tribwne, TERMSB OF SUBSCRIPTION. TY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PTEPAID, Paily Edition, one year. Paria of n yrar. onth. & aturday EAIion, iwelve 1i-Weekly, one year. "attaof & vear, perm YERRLY EDITION, POSTPAID, p Ulve Post- UMt Connty. Tiemittances may be made efther by draft, express, Tost-Office order, ot in rogistored letters, at our risk. TENMB TO CITY SUDSCRINENS, Dotly, delivercd, Runday excepted, 25 cents per week, X ally, delivered, Kunday included, %0 centa per weck. Addrens THE THIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Maiison and Dearboru-sta,, Chicago, Il Orilcrs for the dellyery of Tux TRIRUNE a¢ Evanston, Engleweod, and liyde Park left In the couuting-room »lilrecelve prompt attention. ——— TRIBUNE BRANCII OFFICES, Tx Citteaao TRINCSK has established branch ofifees for the secelpt of subscrivtions and advertisements as ol 5 NEW YORK—Room 29 Zvidune Bulidiog, ¥, T. Me- Fanprx, Manager. 118, France—No, 10 ua de Ia Grange-Batellere. ., Agent. N, Eng.—American Exchange, 440 Btrand. pij3 GiLLta, Acent. BAN FIIANCISCO, Palace otel. "AMUSEMENTS. MeVicker's Thentres Madlion steect, belween Htata and Dearborn. **Heauty and the Deast,” and **Simpson & Co.” Hooles?s Theatrr, Rendolph sticet, between Clark snd Lasalle. Zugsgement of Joseph Murphy. **Maum Cre." nverly's Thentre. Monrue street, cutuer of Dearborn. **Our Noardinge Houee,™ @ Coliseum Novi Clark street, opposite Court-lfouse, Vartety Ollo, — b New Chieags Theatre: Clark strect, onposita the Shierman Iouse, Callen- der's Georgla Minstroiz, g — SOCIETY MEETINGS. N1 LODGE OF PERFEC. lar Amennly un Thuenisy the Foui il as n EILL, Go The Chicuvo produce warketa were only mod- erutcly artive Saturday, and trrovalar in price. Musn pork closed 5@ 74c per brl higher, at 811,50 for danuary and $11, 0215601165 for Fobruary, Lurd closed u shade firnicr, at 87.60 spot and 87,05 fo* Ferruary, | Meats woro firmer, at 43c for hused whoulders ‘and £, ek 100 1hs for do shorl ribe. Whisky was steady, at 3100 per gallon. Flovr waas dall, * Wheat elosed 13¢ lower, At S1.05Y for December aud 21,08 for Junuary. Com closd 16t tc lower, at 4:2¢ cash and 4205¢ fur Januar) Oatr closed f@lic lower, at 2ii4c : for Vebrunry, Rye was steady, closed (e higher, at 374e for Jautary wnd i¥e for Februuty, 1lozs were Sruner, per 1001w, Cattle were steady, 00, Sheep were qafef, ot 1,000 Thu exporta from New York last week in- 375 b wheat, and bitcorn. Heceived in (his city 1ast week, ) bels flour, AL b wheat, 124,320 b HE, U0 bu oats, 5, 0BE b rye, 119,117 b bare loy, 405, 42 live hogs, and 13,055 cattte, Tnepected into etore I thiv city Satuntav morning: s cars 1 41 carn corm, 2 cars wats, 7 carm ye, 21 cars . Total, 138 cars, 0r 30,000 bu. Ono han- dred aollars in zold would buy 810255 In green. backe ut the close, = In New Y aturd r;y greenbacks ruled at 97} Detectives, arrived ot .Omuba yesterday baving in custody n mau believed to bo ‘Tttostas Nizoy, one of the band who sccomn- plisked the heavy voblbory of gold on the Union Pacitic train some weeks ago, Ilo was arrested Chivistmas night ot bis home in Texay, nnd will bo taken to Ogallala, whero the question of hix ideutity, which hLe strenuously denies, will ba determined. ‘The relation of lovsand tho law viewed from a theologinal standpoint was the sub. ject of the scrmon preached yostorday at the Becond Preshytorinn Chureh by the Rev. Dr. McCovit, President of Priycoton College, Prof. Bwrva hd for his lopic the intelleetual power of Cuni.t, whose claint to bo con. sidered ns great {n Droin-wisdom asin the milder nttributos of divinity is supported with mueh carnestness. An iuterosting skotch of ths Railway Mail Bervice of the United Htatos iv given ehie. whiero in this poper. ‘The ndmirabla syston’ to which this importaut branch of the service lina been brought and the splendid efficiency of thoamuy of clerks, messongers, and ngents employed aro little known and appreciated by the poople who get the benufit of u postal sorvics notb surpassed in auy country in tho world, p m— ~ ‘The insuranco lottor which we print this moruing from our Now York correspondent, “ Nemo,"” hies to do with a variely of matters gerwune to the general subject—such ns the interest with which tho annual statoments of tho companios are lookod for, the upward tondency of rates, statlstics of losscs for the threo years ending with 1877, the discrepancy Lotween book valuations and markot quota- tious of Insurancs stock, the searcity of divideuds, and other items of fact und gos- uip aliko interenting to fuvarers aud usured, To-morrow morning Tux Tuvse will print {ta Anuaal Review of the Trade und Commwmerco of Chiengo, cowpiled {n tho samo waunor os Its provious reviuws, which have golned on envinblo roputation throughout the country, The exhibit made this year, whilu it dous not show results as positive as l:x times past, Is yot most gratifying. It records a swall increaso in the voluime of Lusiness ovor 1870, estimating on a fold basis, Any increwse durivg the present period of tluancial depression iy au evidence of comparative prosperity, Tho Heview this year is thereforo an cxcellent testimomat of the growth of the city in commercial im. portance, aud as such should be widely cir- culated: Copies for mailing can be obtained ot ‘Lux Tuisuse counting-room on the day of publication and therenfter for a reason. oble time, According to the Wasbington Chronicle, the receut visit of tho Presideat to New York bud for its purpose something more signiticant than the acceptauce of the cour- tosies of the Union League. It is stated that, Jjust previous to the holidsy adjournment, tho Lostile Ropublican Benators submitted to tho President their ultimatum, which was that tho policy of the Administration must be made to conform to their views, or clso the President must look to the Democratio party for wsupport. This belligerent protocol is sald to bhave detenmined the Prosident upon the KNew York visit, with o view to ascertaining whethor it was truo as repregented that tho Republican party of that State regarded the Adwinistration with djsfavor, and the course of the Bunate implacables with uz- quulificd spproval. He is snid to have satis. ! fled himselt beyond question that his courso was sustained and not censured by thelarger portion and the best elements of both par- ties, and to have rotnrned to Washington re- solved npon refusing the disqraceful surren. der demanded. If tho threat of Lis enemies is enforcad and the Administration mainly loft to tho Democrats for support, it is ex- tremely probable that the implacables will find tho situation less satisfactory than it wns when the New York nominations wore re- Jjected, and that the next time Mr. Conxrixa marshals his hobts he must reckon withont the Democratic contingent which oamo to lis assistance on that oceasion. The indica- tions are now very positive that horeafter thio Domoorats will, with the exception of Alr, Eatoy, of Connocticnt, vote solid with Sonatora Dawes, MHoan, Bunvsior, and Marrnzws to confirm the President's nomi- nations, 4 great maes of people ? “We have yon by thd throat,” say the not praposo to loosen onr hold nntil youn pay us, not merely what is due us, but all wo de- mand. Tho law is technically on our side, and we don't propose to listen to any of Four twaddle abont justico or fairness. You are scoundrels and horse-thioves, because yonu aro trying to repeal a law which will onablons fo exact from you 20 or 25 per cent mors than we advanced to yon. It doesn'’t make any differenco to us now how that law was passed; it exists, it serves our purpose, and we intend to enforce it in spita of your protests and your sufferings. ‘Wo havea lien on your property; pay us 20 por cent moro than wo loaned you or wo will nell yout out. If your property docsn't bring all wo demand, wo shall hold a jndgmont over you for tho rost, and you must pay it some day or go into Lankruptoy; that is your affair, not ours, We advanced you paste; wo want real dismonds in return, Wae gave you cheap monoy; we want dear money. We lonned you n medi- um of exchango and measure of values that would purchase a certain amonnt of prop- erty § we demand in return o medinm of ex- change and measure of valnos that will pur. chasg twice os much property, It is of no concern to us whethor you shall be obliged to sacrifice In order to pay us twice as much properly ns you were ablo {o acquira by the kind of monoy wo loaued you. We've gotthe law fixed so that yon must pay in pold alone, though you wore led to expect that you could pay in gresnbacks and silver ns well ns gold. We won't discuss the justico of this phaso of tho case, We won't deny or admit the chargo of extortion, Wa won't explain or excuso our demands, Al we'vo got to say is that the law s it now stands enables us to take this advantago of vou, and we propose to keep it 0. Now, what are you going to do sbout it ?" The above i & fair statoment of the posi. tion taken by the money.lenders and bond- holders who exact payment in gold alone to discharge obligations contracted in green- backs on condition that, in caso of a return to specie payments, the debtors sball have Loth silver and gold wherewith to pay, It is a fair statemont of the attitude occupled by the money.lendors’ newspaper orgaus, which persistently and obstinately decliue to consider or refor to tho iujustice and extor- tion of the scheme, They call names; they impute dishonest motives; they chargo swindling upon the very people whom they are helping to plunder, but have not ono word tosay sbout the infamy of working out a deliberato policy of extortion under the cover of law. Russinn journals are discussing with groat carnestness tho possibilities of the situation na latterly presonted in consequence of En- gland'a attitnde. Upon one point there !u but one eoxprossion—that medintion is not possible noless solicited by both partics, and that Ruasin, whilo at nll timos willing to receive peace proposals from the Porte direct, has not invited and will not favorably reccive medintory vffices from any source, As to the reported threat, couched in the diplowmatic and uncertain torms which the British Gov. ernment fnvariably affects, that public opin. fon may render uecessary certain ** procnu. tionary mensures,” the Russian jonrnals plainly announce that if by this is meant the occupation by England of Gallipoli, Con. stantinople, and Batoum, such action wonld be equivalent to n declaration of war upon the part of Great Britaln, Obviously the present temper of the Muscovite is not favorablo to England's interference. The efforts to lat light in on the dark mys- tery which surronunds the assnasination of Jases O'Ner, the locomotive engineer, upon the stroets of Bloomington, IiL., in the mid. dlo of a night of last week, have culminated in the arrost of CumanLes Wreatow, yard- mastor of the Chicngo & Alton Railroad at Iiloomington, npon whom suspleion reats so firmly as to justify his dotention under a capital chiarge. It is Lelioved that WireaTox killed O'New for. suspected or known “intimacy” with Mra, WaeaToy, his wife, If the homiclde shall be flxed upon tho man thus arrested, it remains to bo seen in what manner the goneral pub- lie will discriminato bolween tho case, on the ouno hand, of the aggrneved husband who, with the suenking {inatinets of Corsicn, murdering his man at night, tries to bury the secret with the victim, and, on the other hand, of the emotional hus- band who, delivering his fatal fire point. Llank into a crowd, takes the lifo of the man who Las either thought too much or too lit- tlo of thie wife of tho slayer's tompestuous bosom, 2 ERGLAND AND EGYPT. Whatever may be the outcome of the Earopean war or whatever retations En. gland may nasumo towardsit, there can be no doubt that in tho final division of spoils, or perhaps oven sooner, sho will claim Egypt o8 her share of the general loot, and that she will do this as part of hor general programmo to establish an empire In Africa ovon grentor and richer and more ensily governed than the empire she has founded in Asia, tho ade ministration of which has proved such a dis- tracting problom. The people, the pross, and the Government of that country area unit on the necessity of absorbing the land of the Pranions, and doing it specdily, be- enuso France; the only Power in Europo that would be likely to objcet, {a not in a pooition, elther political or domestic, to sustain her objection. Franco has hod: a longing for Egypt over sinco the days when Narorzoy conquercd and lost ¢, and that longing is now all thé mora intenso since the consnm- mation of that poculiarly French iden, the Buez Canal. While, howover, the canal has prodnced this effect in Franco, it has also intensified the determination of Eugland to absorb Egypt, innsmuch s in case of war in whichh England is n belligerent it would bo a very onsy matter for any uation to closo up the canal with obstructions or permanently iujure it, and thus cut off hor short four. weeks' routo to India, leaving hor only her old four-months' route. In the prosent dis. turbed and unsottled condition of France, England can takoe Egypt and oceupy it, and forco the Fronch to part with their canal jn. terests, without any risk of war or any risk of objection from any other Power, An. other stroug inducoment for this acquisition enn be found in the financial rolations of Egypt and England. Egypt is virtually wmortgaged to England to secure loans of throe or four hundred millions of dollars, and, warned by her experiences with Turkey, her only security lies in speedy forecloanro, Tho sacquisition of Egypt will bo the first important step iu tho founding of an Auglo- African empiro of prodigious richness and dimensions, aud, fortunately, no one will assert that such o scheme will not be in the interosts of civiized Lumanity, na noPowerin the world has shown such ca- pocity as England in civilizing, governing, aud anieliorating the condition of the black racas, even including tho lowest and most dotestablo classes of caunibals, Many stops liave already been taken in this direction, English wmissionarics hiave already penetrated as far o the great African lakos, Every de- partment of Egyptian administration 'is al. ready undor Euglish control. English arms have nearly supprossed the slave trado in thoe interior. English merchants ara alrendy os. tablisbed on the enst aud west consts, and sho bas aotual posscssion of 600,000 square wiles of South Africa. If sho can obtain possession of Egypt aud the, Red Sen, and penstrate Africa by the Nile on the one hand and the mighty Congo onthoother, traversing adistanco of 4,000 miles and capablo of sup- porting vast populations on its banks, she will grasp ono of the richest trades in the world, for the possession and enjoyment of which she will never hays & rival. It may Lo looked upon, therefore, as morally cor- tain that as fost ns Russin advances upon Coustantinople Eugland will advance up. on Cairo, aud thut, whother Russia moves beyond the Balkaus or not, tho auanifest dostiny of Egypt is to pass into Eogland's bands, and that she will be the stopping-stoue to English supremacy in Africa. ‘The London Spectator, although persistently hostile to Turkey aud a warm friond of Rusala since’ tho war commonced, takes the most radical position with regard to the acquisition of Egypt, bases it upon tho broad ground that the Cape route to In- dia {s insuflicient, and says: ** Wo must have an alternative routo through the Mediterra- nean, and the ouly one of any value to o wantime Power possesscd of stations like Gibraltar, Malts, and Aden lica through Egypt and tho Buez Canal. ' Any other route, bowover advantageous in other rospects, must le ab the wesey of the Powers through whoso termitorics a railroad would pass, aud could not bo defonded without aland army.” It contends that thero can be no sccurity for Eugland in Egypt ax!ops in the possussion of tho country, and that Evgland has mo THE DISHONEST GOLD MOVEMENT, There is a most ingenious avoldanco on tho part of all the newspaper organs of the wmonoy-lenders of the real issna of tho silver controversy, viz. : Whether it fa.fair or hon- ust to compel the payment of debts fna money, or measuro of value, which ropro. sents au cnormously-increased purchasing power, and is proportivnatoly more diffficult to obtaln, than tho money or property originally convoyed which croated the in- debtedness. The grent Lalk of the Ppresent indebtedners of the country was contracted in groenbacks when they wero dopreciated oud the prices of all property correspond- ingly inflatod; when ropayment on a specio Losis waa contemplated at all, it was sup- posed that both silvor and gold would be availabla for that purpose; the payment of tho Government bonds was ordered in coin, which mieant at that time both silver and gold. Now, however, by meaus of a twist in the law, brought about without tho con- sent of tho people and without the knowlodge of 939 mon out of av. ery 1,000, the men who loaned greon. bocks ot o depreciation, and thoss who purchased bouds payable in silver and gold, nro enabled to insist upon repaymont in gold alone, which has acquired an arti- ficial valuo by rensou of tho coruer they wuc. ceeded in gettingon it. By this procoss the onny-lenders and bondholders expoct to re- cuive all tho way from 14 to 25 per cont more than they ndvauced; for thoy insist on an oxclusivo paymont ‘in gold which Las a pur. chinsing value from 17 to 25 per cont greater than tho mounoy they loaned. This is their only interest in tho maintenance of the *singlo standanl.” If thoy woro to bo the losers by tho operation, or if they were to guin nothing by it, they would uot contend o duy lougef for thoir “single slandard,” but subwit to tho demands of the people witiout a struggle, It fs the means of ex- tortion which tho prosont situation affords them that induces them to battle vo denper. ntely for tho **singlo staudard.” This is o fact patent to every man intelligent enough to make his mark for a signature. Tho money-londers understand it, and the debt. oms understand it Yet it has not beon pos- siblo to extract from any of the Eastern organs of the mouoy-lenders sn admlssion of the fact, nor ovon adenial, They persist. ontly evade ull roforouce to this singlo issue of the controversy, but endeavor to hido it by general charges of bad faith, dishouesty, and the dosiro of the debtors to payless than they owe, ‘o Naton bos hoen one of tha mout in- dustrious of all tho Eastern journals inthe dlscugsion of the silver question, but it bas uever ouca boon drawa juto an argument over the fact that it is tho opportanity for extortion which underlies the whole strugglo for resumptlon on a single gold basls, ‘Why does it not deuy thy chaxgoe if it is not truo 7 ‘Why doca it not traverse the argument, and endeavor to dumonstrato that the money- lender's demand for woro than bo advanced Ls houest, just, and fair ns woll as tochuically legal? Why doos it pervist in mefutaining inflexiblo siloeuce on this wost vital point in tho whole lssue? Instead of argument, jt continues to demounco the West for protesting ogainst this extortion, and constantly reiterates the falschood that peoplo aro secking to pay loss than they owe. Its latest offort in this di- rection is to put the blame upon universal wuffrago and the politicians who pay any re. uqut toit. It was uot by universal suffrage that the monvy-lenders aud bondholders ac. quired their unfalr and despotic priviloge of exacting a ropayment of wore than they advanced, and uviversal suffrage would un. doubtedly wrest from them this opportunity for extortion. Is this tho reason that uni- verial vuffrago {4 4o hateful, pornicious, and conscienceless? Is universal suffrege in. fomous simply becausa it will not aid and abet the money-lendurs in their desperato fight to obtain from their debtors moro than is due them? Is univerul suffrage to be oondemued because it will not sustain class. interesta that involve the dofrauding of the monoy-lenders to the people, ‘‘and wa do improvement her rule will produce, To snch an acquisition there will bo no objection in indirect result of tha present war, Egypt passes nnder Dritish control, ns the Spectator says, ** there is no human being not a Turk who will not benefit by it.” THE BENATORIAL BPOILSXEN, It {s very ovident from the publication of tho Bt Omasprer manifesto, from the statement that it was submitted to and npproved by certain of the * Implacable” Benators before publieation, and from vari. ous other indications not necossary to restato, that it i tho deliberata intention of a spoils. grabbing faction of Ropublican politiciana to ronew tho war upon the Administration after thio holiday vacation. It is intended tbht Prosident Haves shall be confronted with tho altornative of snrrendering his con. stitntional prerogative of making appoint. ments to tho Senators, or, in case of con- tinued resistance, boing doprived of the support of the Republican majority of the Benate. In other words, ho is to be com- pelled to relapsa futo the old patronoge #pails systom under the threat of being read out of the Republican porty, The inevita. ble result of such an nssault will be that, it lLie refnses.to submit to thae dictation of the Aachine element, he will bo forced to look for his support to the Democratio party, nssisted by such Republicans ns may resont tho nttacks made upon him and prefor to follow him in his enforced political de- parture, It hna occurred to us that this plain state- ment of tha logical sequence of evonts shonld Lo mndo as o warning to those who scem to imngine that tho war upon tho President can Lo kept upwithout auymoro serious political cotisequences than havo rosnlted thus far, It is proper that the Implacable loaders and thoso who snstain them should bo made to forasco tho full catastrophe which they aro likely to precipitate. i . Wo havo bad in' our political history three 'couspicuons instances of & breach betwoon n Presidont and the party that clected him, though in all these cases the President succceeded to his position from thatof Vice-Presidont, and by ronson of the death of the President originally olocted, Tho first was Jonw Uyres, in 1841, In his caso the grarrol arose from a proposition of tho Whig Congress to rovive tho old National Bauk, sud a bill to charter such an institu- tion wna votood by Acting-President Trrer, The fight, under the leadership of Hexny Cray, was o Dbitter one, aud Tyren was practically read out of the party. He went over to the Democrats, with whom ha hind had & former political nssociation, and gradually turned over the Govornment into their bands. The next caso was Vico-Prosi. dont Firruone's, who succoeded Zaox Tar- ron. Ha challenged the hostility of the anti-slavery wing of the Whig party by sign- Ing tho Fugitive-Slave law and sanctioning tho so-called Compromiso measures, Tho breach wad novor henled, and he, too, sought sympnthy and support from thoso who had been his political opponents, Tho last case was ANpDy Jonnson's, The Ieconstruotion policy wns the ground of dissonsion in his oxperience. This was the most stubborn fight of all. 'The parly which had clocted him Vico-Prosident pursued him with fm. penchment, and all but convicted him, Their majority agninst him in Congress was so overwholming that #he 'Tennro-of-Offico nct was pasved to provent his manipulation of the patronnge, and ho was embarrassod and horassod in every concoivablo way. In spito of it all, JounsoN found a party, and sncceoded protty woll in revolutiouizing the public sorvico and sceuring tho officos in the intorest of the Democrats, Thero aro two important differoncos to be noted botween tho onscs cited aud tho throat. ened Irreconcilablo bronch botween the ruling cloment of the Republican Sennte and Presi. dent Haxzs. Ono of thom is to bo found in tho fact that, in each of the proceding cases, tho contest nrose from o consciontious dis- agracnient asto somo groat national polioy, — in ono caso the rochorter of the National Bank, in another tho troatment of the slavery question, in the third the means of reconstructing aud reatoring the robellious Btates to their former status in tho Union,~— while in the warfare waged upon President Haves there Is no provocation oxcopt the low, unconstitutionnl, and indefonsiblo am. bition to make Lim subsorvient to the dicta- tion of certain politicians in the distribution of official patronago. The other important differenco s, that whon Tyren was read out of tho Whig party, and Jouxsox out of the Republienn party, the expellod President was confronted with a formidablo wajority ngainat bim {n Congress whenever ho should nlly his fortunce with his former political opponents, while President Haves has the prospect of o Congressional mnjority on his ‘sido if kLo should Lo driven to sct with the Domocratd, 'Tho House has alroady a clear majority of 14 or 15 Demo- cruts, nnd claims that it roprosents s popu. lar majority ;<$he Sonate Republican ma. Jority hinuge upon tho slouder tenure of ocue or two corrupt carpot-baggers who have the Ponitentinry staring thew in the face, cven it a further defection among Ropublicun Benators may not bo expectod In casa Presi- dent Ifayzs b thrust out of Lis party by the spolls-grabbing mombers. Another differ- ence worth noting is, that the former Prosi. dont who joined hands with the Domoerats though elocted Ly the opposiug party, had formerly hiad Domocratio afilliations, while Presidont Haves whom thae spoils . faction aro secking to drive out of the Ropublican party, has never becu a Domocrat, but was an original Anti-Slavery, Union, and Radi- cat Hepublican, Now, what bag the Implacable clique to gain by this expulsion programme? It has bocowe morally certain that President Haves will not yleld to intimidation; he 1oy possibly be forced to the other extrem. ity, if ho encounters nothing but opposition from {hiosn hio expocted to be political friends, and aid aud comfort from those he kad ro. gardod as political onewics, Buppose, then, Losball e forced into an attitude similar to that occupiod in turn by Tyezs, Fiir- Mozz, sod JoussoN,—qui done? The cabol that shall have brought it about will not be able to justify thomaclves by auy dovotion to a great national principle; they cau only cite Prosidont Hares' refusal to ncquiesce fn the unconstitutional demand to tgra over the appoiuting power to thom as the provo- cation for thoir conduct, Will the people stand by them or by him in such an issus? ‘Will the Repablican party not have to boar tho odium attaching to a warfare wagod for 80 baso a purpose ? Aud will the future de- feats of the Ropublican party furnish evy componsation for the effort to break down Frosident Havzs and the Oiuciunati plat. form? Suppose that Haives should ulti- mately lot the **0ld Avax " provail in him, twa upon his parsuers, and retaliste in right to possess it without governing it, thus compensating it “for foreign conquest by the the civilized world, nud if, as the diroct or kind; supposo, having the House with him, TyLzs, FiLtuone, and Jonxsox did bofore him,—would the defeated Sennatorial cabal off, and feol nny particular satisfaction at the work they had accomplished ? In estimating the probabilities of a per- the faction of politiclans who are secking to drive him ont of the party, the fast must not be lost sight of that, in leaning on the Dom- ocrats for support, Prosident arzs would only bo following out the cardinal principal of parlinmentary government ns it prevails in all constitutional Govornments oxcept our own. It 18 the vory essence of responsl. ble government, as nnderstood everywhore except in the United States, that the policy and personnel of the Execntive branch shall conform to tha majority nentiment of the popnlar branch of the Parliament or Con. gress, bocnuso the lattor dircetly ropresonts tho peoplo. It fs known that President Hares has a strong inclination to this repab- lican theory of governmont, Hois restrained now by the traditions and customs of this country, and the ties of parly, butit s not likely that his conscionce would trouble him if-ho wore forced to nbandon party usages ond traditions and yield of nocossity to such an ncqulesconco as Marshal MacManox has beon forced to make in Franco against his will and in spito of n majority on his sido in tho Bonate. It is o qnestion for the Im. placable cabal to dotermine for themselves whethor they aro not likely to push their warfaro upon the Administration farther than ia wise or safe and produce results whioh, disaatrous to themselves ns partisan spollsmoen, may be the boginning of an im. portant revolution in the Americau political systom, THE NATION'S CONFESSION, Wo find thisIn Tiux CriicAno Tnisuxa: ** Hav. ing for nearly a year donled the secrecy of tho de- monetization job, ths Natlon now confusses it, raying that it was not neccssaty to lct tha public know anything about it t the time It took place. ** The untruthful asscrtions of Tus Trinuxe about the facts of the sflver question have bgen tolerably shocking during the past year, and have farnlahed thonaln portion of the supoort it has given 1o the traze, but no other paner could sparo tho space or timo to follow them up. The above Yeference to the Nation, howover, calls for aufiiclent attention fromus tosay tbatit 1s wholly and ingenlously false, Tt containa two propositions each of which could only be properly charactorized by tho late Iamented Gnxeney, Wo have no doubt whatever that the editors of both Tute Triauxz and tho Cin- cinnatl Commerelal will live to b ashamed of the part they aro taking in this wretchod agitation, but thoy onght to make their mischiavous activity as decent as possible.—7%e Nation, Wo thought we put the Nation's confes- sion, that the domonctization of tho silver dollar was unknown excopt to thoso inter- ested in it, very mildly. Wo folta sort of pity for the organ which, after such a long and insolent deuinl, was at last compelled to confosa the truth and its own shame, and therefors wo reforrod to the fact, omitting all comment that might mortify a high- toned person confessing undor such circum. slances, Moroly to put ourselves right, we givo the Nation's confession in its own laugnage. Commenting on Dr. Lixpen. MaN's explanation of the circumstances at. tending the logislation of 1878, the Nation said Thls, then, gives onc, and the principal, roason why but littlo attention was patd to tho sctof 1873, 1t [the blll} was not folked of outslde sclentiftc clrcles, orthe circle of those specially Intereated in coinage, JSor the simpls reason that it made no changs'in anything that people used or wers de- pendent on, 1t recognized oxleting facts; it cm- bodied usage In Jaw; but that was all, Dr. Linpzusan did not eny this, but the Nation, nfter ronding Dr. LiNpEmMaN, an. nounced that tho * princlpal reason” why the sct of 1878 was not gonerally known woa that it wes only talked of in scientific circlos, and by thosa epoclally interested in coinnge, and that it was not nccessary tha: it should bo discussed by any others, because * 1t made no change in anything " that other peoplo were concorned in, The argumont of tho Nation was, that as no porson then used eilver, no porson was intercsted whother silver was demonotized or not, so all disoussion, nnd even kuowledge of the proposed legislation, was confined to * sclen. tiflo circles, or tho circld of those specially interested in colnage.” Having mnde thia frank confession that tho law was pnssed known only to a limited number of porsouns, and that it was not nocessary to advertise it to the gencral public booause tho‘genoral public did not then uso silver, the Nation had botter adhora to that story, Repoated rocantations do not improve confidence in the recanter’s veracity, MPESSRS, EVARTS AND BOHURZ. The inslnuation which Mr. Evarts has al. lowed to go to the pross, that Mr, Sonunz, aud not himself, {sresponuible for tho * blun- der” of the Now York sppointments, has probably tlus foundation and no more, that Mr. Scnronz has boen, i8 now, and will con- tinuo to be, n Civil-Bervico reformer, carnest, thoroughgoing, and straightforward, whilo Mr., Evants is nelther a Olvil-8ervico reform- or nora politician, but {8 trying to bo the Intter with lamontable fll-success. ‘The only “blunder” mado in tho Now York appoint- ments wes 08 to the time and manner of 1making them, and as to tho ronsons nssigned for thom. Mr, Havea wont into office with certain pronounced viows on the subject of Oivil-Service reform,—viows with which the New York Custom-1{onse organization, from top to bottom, from inside to out. elde, was at deadly war. The spontang. ous welcome which the people of both political parties oxtended to the President's policy gava him sufficient moral power to havo swept all tho Oustom-Houses on the seabonrd, if necessary, in order to plant the soeds of a *‘thorough, radical, and ocom. plote” reform of the Civil Bervice. HBo marked and overwhelming was the course of public opinion on this subjoot that Mr, Axntuus, the Collector of the Port of Now York, if wa aro correctly informed, tendered his resignation in an informal manner to the President vory soon after the 4th of March, Mr. Astaus, we may rewark, is a porson of gentlemanly inatinots and good behasvior, in- capable of & meax action, but also incapable of sloughing off his environment. IHis environment consists of tho incrusted obuses of mnearly balf a century of Civil-fervice mismanagement, commonly koown and described as *‘machine poli- tics.” The New York machiue i now controlled and operated by Senator Coxx- uivg. Bix or eight years ago Mr. Coxx- rixa, by dexterous management, aud what tho profossors of the fistio art would call *“a foul blow," dispossessed his collesgus, Senator Fentow, of his share of the machine con. trol, and from that time to this he bas run it to suit himself, This is Mr, AnTHUN'S en- vironment. He can no more get'rid of it than of hisekin. Ho probably does not de. sire to get rid of ft—wonld consider it in some senso dishonorable to be anything else than what be 18 so long o8 he remaing in and probably tho Senate, ho shonld revo- lntionize the Administration service ns look nbout over tho scattered romains of their friends whose heads had boen lopped manent breach botween President Harzs and office, but would have proferred at the bo- ginning to be ont of offico rather than to ro- main thero against the wishos of tho Presi. dont. For rensons which we are unable to fathom, his informal rosignation was not ac- cepted at the timo, but it i safo to sny that Mr. Bentwrz was not to blame for that. ‘The “‘blnpder," bo it grenter or less, was mado here, in not accepting Mr. Antnun's resigon- tion when it was at tho Prosident's disposal, and in not removing the sccond grade offi- cors—tho Surveyor and Naval Officor—it they neglacted to follow the Collector's example, Whether Alr. Evants was one of tho coun- solora of dolay wo have no means of know- ing, but thero is n go:d donl of ovidence ac. cumulating to show that he was concerned not merely with sccuring Clvil-Service reform in tho New York Custom-llouse, of which, indeod, he seems to hinvo little conception, but aimed also at abolishing Conkrina's **chieftninship " in Now York politics. Thia was an unworthy motive, and waa suro to waaken the Prosidont’s policy in the Sonate and in the couniry. Widely ns Mr, Coxx. iNa and Mr. Scuunz differ from each other a8 to modos and ideas of governmont,—and they diffor .0s widely as possiblej—iwo are persnaded that Mr, Scnurz has nover ontor- tained the thought of ““breaking down Covr- 1180," excopt 5o far as tho disestablishment of tho machine should have that tendonoy nnd effect. That is to say, personal hostility to CoNrraNG has nover beon n considerntion with him as n momber of tho Cabinet, If Civil-Servica reform conld bo carried forward without displonsing Conxrixg or wonkening him' in his own State, howonld prefer to carry it forward in thot way, loaving to tho New York Senator all the advantagos which Lis talonta and personal influence might en- nble him to acquire or rotain. But, as it can only be carried forward in tho face of Conx. 1aNa's opposition, his iden avidently fs that Mr. Covxuina should bo overcomo like any other obstacle, Thero is something intelligible in this, and we can understand how Mr. Evanrs, to whom Civil-Borvice roform is ns groat n mystory as the political machine itself, might have got the iden that Mr, Souunz was ro- sponsibla for the blunder of the Now York appointmon{s,—moaning by the word * blan. der” the sending in of nominations whicl woro rojected by the Senate. Wo will not comment on the impropricty of one momber of the Cabinot giv- ing curroncy to rumors touching the responsibility of another member for acts porformed by tho Administration as n wholo ; but if circumstances compel the drawing of distinotions inside the Cabinet circle, the judgment of the candid publio will be with Mr, Benunz a3 one who thorouglly boliaves the doctrines which he professos, and has well-defined ideas for carrying them into ex- contion, It has been common for news- papors and politicinns to couple Evants and Benvunz togother na ropresentativos of the ro- form olement of tho Republican party, and Evants, Bcnunz, aud Key togother as objocts of suspicion and animadversion. Mr, Evants has shown what his idens of Civil-Sorvico re- form are by his handling of the English, German, and Bolgian missions, They aro cortalnly not the idens of Mr. Scuunz, or tho idens of the Presideut, What his political idens ara it would Lafllo tho nrts of necroman- oy to flud out. Thoy scem to consist in the repeatod nssertion that he hns nlways been n Ropublican, 'That Messrs Ey. ants, Bononz, and Kev are osch and oll obnoxious to the machine politicians is undoubtedly true, but for widely different roasons, Thoy objoct to Mr. Scmunz be. causo ho is o Oivil.-8crvico reform.r, and thereforo against thom ; they object to Mr, Ker becauso ho ia a Bontherner, and theroforo ngainst thom ; thoy objeot to Mr, Evants be- cause ko is melther for them mnor against thom, and beosuso thoy don't know what ho wilt do noxt. 'The retire- ment of Mr. Evanra and of Mr. Bonunz from tho Cabinct would menn very differ. ont, things, That of Mr. BScuuvsz would signify the definite abandonment of Civil- Bervico reform, and the surrender of the President to the machine politicians, That of Mr. Evants might signify unything else— ns rogards Civil-Service reform, it would signify nothing whataeves A very Intelligent gentleman of Galesburg, and a leading man fu that section of the State, takes Tue TxIBUNE to task for publishing so much lu regard to the broken banks of this city. Ho says; The effect of the present policy of the Chicago papers 14 tnurlng; Chicazo and the wholo country, Tho weagh- erisdopresslug, and add to this & constant publication of fallurea and bankruptcles, hss created suchi a fever- {sh stato {n the (nterior that th banks will not discount, hut hoard tholr monoy for fear of further disturbancs tn tho financisl Aairs of Chicago. Now, it any such fullacy prevalls, the sooner it s disslpated the better. We publish the news in relation to these Lroken banks for the reason thatthero is Intense anxiety on the part of the public to know what progress thero !s making fn the winding-up of thelr affalrs, and how mnch dupositora aud stockliolders are likoly to realize from their asscts, But tet no ono supposs there 1s mny want of sound banks—somuv of them probably the strongest fn the whols country—in Chicago, There are a dozen Notlonal Banks, and suveral privete and other institutlons, and Luafniess of all kinds is transacted just as quick- ly and successfully as if our weaker concerns bad not been swept away by the storm tnat bas prevolled fu all parts 'of the coun- trve In tho crash of 1878 many of the Chicago banks dld not waver for s moment. They wet every demand upon them, while all the banks tn New York, and nearly atl the other citles East aud West, were suspended for many weeks, They can do It agan 1f need be; but as soon o8 the cold northern blusts freezo up tho mud, aud produce begins to move lvely, our Udlesburg fricnd wilt forget all about the leaden skies and blue times that have paliled the busl- ness and depressed the spirits of the people for wecks past. —————— ‘That Bpanish adventurer, Don CAnros, has of late years scen 8 great deal of tho world, It wus not long agu that ho visited Chicsgo and atalked about our streets as if he ‘were tothe Nicatson puvement born, Next bie wus beard of in Parls, whore ke was somothing of a lion on a minor scale,—enough so to attract atten- tion as be lounged in front of the Cafe Richo drinking dock or fuspecting the Exposition Butldiugs on tho Champs de Mars. Then he leard the roar of artillery afar off, and rushed uto the fray os an attache of the Russian head- quarters’ stufl. It sevmned that he evow tivedof camp-life after the second Flcvas Yattle, and hied back to Bucharest. Now cowes o little waif of a divpateh scross the great waters uud the two broad contiocnts sunvuncing that the ' frrovres~ siblo Don bas eloped with the wite of & Rou- wmauian noblemun, What next? . Cuicaao, Dee. 20.—Tho Internal Hevenus statistics for the year sading Juas 30, 157, the last oficlally yes Fuported, aliow that the Stato of HUnols paid $3,%, - 00 wore in tazcs thaa the wholo country between Laka Michi¢an aod the oceen. We pald $23, 003 wx), o ore than §3, 000,000 muro tian Mickigan, New York, and the six New England Etates all put togetber. Aud duriug tha frst pino Wwouths of 1670 tio fallurce 1o Lilte 5ols wers only $13,000,U, and those of New Vork $AXUAL00U. Esatern caplialists say thoy Lye lo s dif- ferent stmospheru frow that of tho West. Quite true. Butthe contrasi suxgeate (e Own lupresaive Hareli We cannot quite agres with our correspond- cut lo bis concluslons us to **who supports the Govervwent.” It may be true thst uearly tweoty-four wlllions of interual reveuue wers colleeted fn Niinots Jast year, but {t .does not follow that the people of Illinols patd it. Most of the money consisted In the tax on highwincs, ‘To the extent that the people of Iilinols con- sumed those highwines, they pald the tax, The consumer pays the tax—that ie the genctal fact, ‘The excoptlons to the rule are few and far be- tween, Nearly all ot the revenues of the United Btates are derived from four sources: tarlff on imported zoods, exclse on liguors and tobaccos, nail-postage, and bank taxes. - The people who purchnse tho imported goods bay tho dutics therecon; the peopla who- drink the Mquor snd smoke or chew the tobacco poy the exciso therron; the peoplo who mall letters pay the postage thercon. The East and South refund to the [Hinols dis- tlilers the whisky tax to the exact cxtent they consume IHinots whisky. Each State, come munity, and family pay Federal taxes to thoex- tent that they purchase foreign dutlable goods, or consumu lauors and tobaceo, or employ the post-ofice in thelr correspondence, or own bank shares, or draw stamped checks, or light stamped matchos. Itwill thén bescen that Federal taxation Is distributed over the natlon pretty equally, and varies chlefly in proportion to the wealth and abliity to purchaso and uso the taxed wmmodities, Steady drinkers and profuse smokers among men pay inore than thelr per caplta share, and among women those who Indulge thelr vanities most In siiks, laces, kids, and cosmetics contribute unduly to the revenues. But theso thingsare not bounded by State lincs. ——— ‘The Eastern papers are oublishing with great Dleasure tho letter from JAMES MADigox to the Director of the Mint, dated May 1, 18, recom- mending the colnage of half-dollars fustead of dollars fn siiver. Maptaon's Idea wns that Dhalilollars would net be esported as freely as wholo dollars, although two of them cone talned oxactly the amount of fine sliver in & wholo dollar. MaDi30x's suggestion was qeted upon, and full legal-tender half-dollars were colued from that time until the beginning of thelight-welght colunge, into which we dnfted because they would export even our half-dol- lars, In 1853, —fuil welght Lalf-dollars belng colued to the amount of $70,735,810.50 In tho following years snd sums: 1800,.... 830,570 1829, IR, DU N 300 nono of the goldite Eastern papers havo published tho above table of half-doller colnago of full legal-tender sllver, amounting to over seventy millions of dollars. Weeall the attentlon of the New York and Boston papers to the foregolng colnage table, e — Young VAxDERBILT has testificd that ho bor- rowed 840,000 frum Horace QuRELEY at onotime und auother, of which amount he never returu- ed onecent. This' was deadbeating extraordl- nary, and the wonder is how he managed to so worm himself Into Mr., Gnzausr's confldence. It Is sald that the elder VANDERDILT, when ho heard of this escapadu of hishopeful son, kindly went to Mr, UnzeLzy and warned him not tolend any more noney to that young mau, and that the Tribune editor resented the interfercnce, Consldering this repulse, it s certaluly ta the credit of the dead Commodore that ho subsc- quently pald Mr, GreeLuy's helrs, 810,000, al- though not legully bound to do so. e — e 5 ‘Tho most prominent candidate for tho 8peak- ership of the New York Assembly is Gen, J. W, Hustep. No opposition at all was anticipated unt!l Gov, ALvonD sent his letters through tho Btato announcing that he was o candidate. But his chances aro more than doubtful, now that it has been learned that ho is not to be supported by tho orch-intriguer CoNKLING, ——e———— Tho New York ZTimes finds fn the death of tho Galazy a text for s gloomy dlssertation upon the state of Amerlcan literature. Itsaya: This condition of things s a reproach not only to ourt writers, but to our publishiers and our publfe, 1t can- nutbo that the lterary faculty fa 8o dead among us that ‘with proper cultura aud manipulation it would uot pro- duco tnare aud better crostiva wurk than it does now. ‘Thiero le still room for tho coming magazine, ———— A hermit was discovered the other day fn Central Park, whero be had erected a temporary hobitation of brush-wood and logs. Wien nccosted by o police ofleer ho stared pro- phetleally into $he future, and *murmured, “What do you soy1’ and thus was a Herald sensation nipped In the bud, ———— ‘Whether or not the Versallles of Kentucky. 1s equal [n eplondor and bhilstorfenl nssociations to lts namesake In France, it is pleasant to ro- late that during the Dolidays the former village has been afllicted with only two cascs of drunkenness. — The slow-golug Virgiulans gaze with sour vie- ages upon the preparations for the fnaugural ceremonics of Gov. ITALLIDAY, They regard tho proposed disploy aa a * Yankee innovation.” ———— Philadetphla hopes to become a seaport on the strength ot having two steamship lines run hetween that city and Liverpool. Tho new ouo 1s the Allan Liuc, ———— ‘The Mormous like to begln the new year with zood resolutions and a freshs wife. The awear- ing-oft process occurs with thom on the second week of Junuary, e ——— PERSONAL. Misa May Aloott fs meoting with good for- tune as an artist in London, Benator Edmunds is traveling in North Carolina In search of health, Miss Terry, of Fifth avenuo, is ongaged to Baron Albert Blanc, Envoy Extroordinary and Minlster Plonipotentiary of Ttaly to the United Btates. Mr, Rodfield aays that no man living is able to write at the rate of a columu an hour,—the ratu prescrived by Mr. Forbes as necessary for & succeesful war correspondent, Manton Marble is living happily in New York, devoting his time mainly to studies In po- ltical economy. o says he ta glad to get out of Journallew, and will never return o it. ‘When tho Prince of Wales writes his suto- graphin full be adds fo his other titles that of **Citigen and Mercers and Grocer and Flshmonger ond Goldymith snd Merchant Tallor sud Cloth- worker.* Tt is velated of Col. Ingersoll that, being sharply ssked If he could mention one law of Na« ture thot {u bis puny wisdom bo could chango for the Letter, he aflably replied: . ¢ would make health catchlog, justead of disease.” The London Z'imes had the misfortune to get a dispatch from Philadelpbia about the Chicage sllver meotiug, snd made sad work of the uswes by inserting commas where none were requlied, thus: **Mesars, Emery, (Storrs, Willlam, Cross, Leonard, Bwett, and others spoke.” Ben Hill, on being asked to address some editors, suswercd: **Ircslly desire to 8 press association, because there 1s no power In this country so capable of doing so much goud. aud really dolng so much evil, as tho press of this day.™ ‘fhe Providence Jouraal says sbont the debt- ralser: *‘It mover was, and never will be, .in ac- cordance with tho worslity of Christ to take ad- vantsge of 8 momentary Craze to obtaln money to puy dedts usclessly snd wantonly {ncurred. Mr. Kimball and bis method are as f as they are Bow o the Church. ™ Mr. David AL Stone, editor of the New York Journal of Cosunerce, is & member of the Central Cougregutionsl Church iu Brooklym, of which ths Rev. Dr. Heaty M. Bcudderis pastor. ‘When Mr. Kdword Kimball, the aebi.raisor, as- cended the palpit of that church last Sunday, Wr. Stone loft the building. Mr. Btone wentout, he says. simnly because bo felt that be would violate hls conscience by romaining, sud furtbermors he ‘wanted to avoid being coerced 1nto qivlag by sub- scription, 8 wethod thas is zevolting to blia.