Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 9, 1878, Page 4

o L ; THE " CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY.” JANUARY 9, 1878, ; ¢ . amounting within fonr and five votes respec- | it. Wherover he may go within tho \ @I 2 @x'lhu‘x 1, | tively of Pexoueroxs mecertained effctive | Btates of the Iatin Union or in & | strength, which ia at present placedat thitly. | the German Emplire, 15} ounces of silver three, the necessary number being forty- | coin, legal-tender, is equivalent in value to 1 is romarkable, however, that he had nothing to ray about the lending of ** little dollnrs,” which he says wore worth only 856 cents whon loaned, and then refusing in payment tarif, making the prico of raw material | bers of the Board who voted to rescind lower, and giving fo labor the advan- | this order know what they have done tages of cheap food and oclothing. | or comprehend the rosults that must If this were done, and American prod- | inevitably onsus from their hasty and ill. turing that some ons was bolng murdersq inside. The polica made inquirtes, however, and 1t was found that the shricks were uttered by a young Engllsh servant-girl, who had beeg lected f the wi 1 the Ambas TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. seven. onncoof gold. Tho purchasing power of.| tho biggost kind of dollars known to the | ucts wore placed on & level with British | advised nction? They havo issued a publio :f‘;'“‘l: n::‘:;‘r:fi o !:r"l:fe.;\)lkh ;:om;“r. l:‘::‘{?:; At AB AR08 e legal-tander silver coin farnishes the only | Iaw, and demanding thot they bo made still | products in price, thera would bo no diffi- | invitation to ail the loafers, vagranta, dend- T M 1 5 were belng **jellifled,” and brought dawn to the size required by Chinese etiquette. The sensy. tlon created in London social circles by thess developments. may bo imaglaed, Boclety wrestled long with the probler? of how to treat the Ambnssador. They-might have forgiven his exceasive, though perhaps yardonable, in. dulgenee fu wives; but that he should sclect g servant-giel was tuo much for the delicate sen. aibflitics of the temale aristozracy. Honceforth the gorgecusly-arrayed Ambassador will be vigorously suubbed An Omaba telegram informs us, on the proper test. The values of gold or silver ns anthority of o prominent Union. Pacifio | bullion are not pertinent to the issue whathier official, that Ja Govep says: *If the Union | {he two metals, as legal-tender, can bo mafn. Pacific comes ont of the presant Congres- | tained, Silver in all nges and in all coun- WEEKLY XDIT! ¢ sional fight without a scratch, he will build | tries hias maintained the grenter permanenca gnacopy, peryear. A% 100 miles of rond toward the Diack Hills this | of value ;.it bias been far stoadier than gold ; Krecimen copleg font 1rce, - yonr." This is o onphemism meaning that | it has fluctanted but little sinco 1703; and Qire Font-0mce adiress tn fail Including tatesnd | if Mr. Gourp is allowed to continus win- | tho so.called decline in the valno of silver O ances maybe made elther bydratt, expross, | QIing the Government and the public bere- | bullion in 1875 has beon confined to a do- Port-Ofcoorder, orin registered lotiors, at ourrisk. after as horetoforo, ho will apply a portion | cline in its value as an exchango for gold. TERMS.Z0/CITE SUBACRINARS. of the proceeds of the swindle to the im- | For all other purposes its purchasing power f:fl}::i::::::,SZ:Z:{?::?:&:Zfifi:::;’:IZi:- provement of hisown propert; now is more than equal to what it was in 1873, 'Tho 13} onnces of silver Address THE TRIDUNE COMPANY, of to-dsy is worth now as bullion more Corner Madiron and Dearhorn-sta., Ch! The question of adopting means for pro- Orders for the delivery of THE TRINUNE S than the one onnce of gold was worth prior to tho panicof 1873, The demonetization & ‘ tecting from tho action of the waves the i’f.’n‘f&??féfi?&flfi?'fii‘élfi"'“ 18- Satnrsieny Take.Shore Drive that forms the eastern of ‘silver has created an incrensod demand for gold to taks its place., Gold fa growing’ larger. Prof. SuMwtr may have satisfled himeelf, and his patrons, and his gold friends at the East; he may have enjoyed his opportunity of telling tho nnenltured peoplo of the Wost bow much mote hie knows than other peo- ple; but of all the delivernnces mado on the subject we confess his was the weakest and shallowest, This, howaver, may be dne to the fact that, while ho songht' to impress Lis hearers as a philosopher, ho was really speaking ns an advocate for a subsidy, or specinl bounty, or other special advantage to the money-lenders, demanding somothing more than either law or good morals justify. culty in finding transportation for'them to | beats, nnd Communists of Chicago to supsiat China or ®eru, or even to Indin. Whore | upon the connty for two months, and the {hero is a profitable trade to be done, thoro | invitation will be nccepted with n rush, Its aro always persops to do it. This wonld bo | operatign will not bo confined to Chicago tho simplost and easiest solution of tha | andthe county, ‘It §s a notifiention to the problem. It would be taking hold of the | army of trampa thronghout this Stato and question at the right end, allowing nntaral | the West that thoy con march into Chicsgo lawa to work in their own mavner, and re- | and live two months withont work at the lioving Government of duties which it ought | publio expense. It {a o public natifieation not to perform if it could, and# could notif | to tho authorities of othor aities aud towns it would. The United States would thus | that wo will take thoir able-bodied loafers off regain their foreign commerce by abandon- | their hands, and they will not be slow o ing tho pernicions commercial aystom which | ship them hore on froo passcs. It grants deprived them of it,—which is, on tho faco | every able.bodied man in this ity whois of it, the wisest and most honorable course | too Inxy to work full permission to invito all to pursue. Tho best subsidy the country | Lis relatives hiere for a coupls of months to con have is the unloading of taxes, so far as | live free of personal expense, and thon got u possible, from every form of industry, {res ride homo ngain in the spring ou County ily Fdition, one year. ariaof A yesr, Derm Bundas kdition o Siicer. TEVNOT B year, per monih Thore was a timo when Augxaxper Havn. TON'S opinion on finance carried welght, nnq when he was looked npon ns high authorty, This is what ho sald when the question of tag single or double standard was up for settiem.ng in 1702: ¥ 1t seems to be advisable not to attach the unjt exclugively to elther of tho metalsy tiecanee s cannot be dana effectually without deiroving tag boundary of Lincoln Park has for some time STEAMSHIP SUBIIDIES, past serionsly ongaged the attention of the TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES, The Pocific Mnil Stesmship Company is Park Commissioners and of citizens who aro nring & wvoin force nupon Congress e Agent's tick As the first 1t of this | vttice and chiarncter of ono of them as money, wnd ‘Tar. C1cAGO TRINTXE has establiahed branch offices searcer under the incrensed demand and de- | Preparing to mniovo in 8 B B S e gent’s tickets. . o first result of this | ¥ '{:ly‘ ;:z recelptof subscrintions and mu.uu:menu as :&niumed an (t!:e :nlntcnnnct:i ol‘d :ll“b be:\;:- cline in the production of the gold mines, | 8% soon ns it assombles, Besides engaging A FEW BRRORS CORRECTED. infamous loglslation, the County Agoent's ’.’“{.‘;‘:’;‘,‘"'f‘ cl'l: ‘;o l‘i':: ;‘.“::L";l‘fi! g:::i':?.,i::,‘“{.’fi“},‘;f;, NEW TORK~Ttoom 20 Tribune Buttding, ¥. 7. dtc- | 101 resort. It Thias boen ' dec y tua Br. Kinx Hawes opened the debato Satur. dny night in the Third Ward Club on tho sliver question, The chief points of his alargo and influential lobby, the Company has caused to bo published a pamphlet on- titled ¢ Oar Merehant Marine,” which, whilo proposed from dilferent and very respoctable quarters. but which would probaoly be g greater exil than occaslonsl variations in the nmt, from the fnctuations in the relative valuo of the and consequently all property measured by it bas fallen in price, and contlnnes to shrivk, Prof. Suxyzn makes himself tho office will not only bo Lesleged by a moh of onr own, but it will be reinforced Dy n steady stroam of tramps and vagrants Fanprs, Managor. Park Board not lo undertake the costly PARIR, France—No. 16 Rus de Is Orangs-Datellere. | project of constructing n breakwator about !l. .\h'llLll gent. 4 tol ztally 1f care bu taken to egniate th SDON, Eog.—American Exchange, 440 Strand. | 800 feot from tho shore, but to adopt some | 3coeate of the reducod volume of metallic | it professes to bo nn unbissed statemont of lflg:fi}‘llm:":;fln :‘}';‘:?:'lig::o:mfi:dfl::l;d from outside, who will for two months find fié’:&lfi,i"&fl;‘:’m 9;.;5:‘ ‘:q“_::'s,,',": EZI":“Q::‘EL;E Rop B GuusAret. o i, .| plan equally effective but lesa expensive. monay, that gold may have an incroased | facte, is fn reality n special plea for a sub- | ool or'0L0 Rlied Biates iniiver, Mr. Harwes was | tha opportunity to carryout theonepurposeof | ciVker of 1he metals as money 18 €6, aPridge. (ne sidy to the Paciflo Mail Company. The ar- | asilver mdn. The bonds st forth on their quantity of circulating medium, and is liable to The asertion is mado by the National Re- | Y2Iu0: and hio insists thab the prosperily of their life, to live without work by subsisting co — iat th ble 3 dard eein of thes 11 tha ubjections which arlva. £ 1 AMUSEMENTS, «blican. upon what is claimed to be excel. | th0 country and of all classes of tho people | Gumonts to this end aro arranged under b‘;um"s::?z: e 1, e o ithie | upon thoso who do work. There ara hun. | F fhe boacatont Thiey Arbo fom by o7 & soanty R i A will be best promoted by having one metallic | threo heads, First, it is clnimed that tho | patlence with men who could not sco the legnl | grods, if not thousands, of men who.aro too | circftation. HHoolea’s Thentre, lont. nuthority, that the Prosident is con- Qoverninent has pubsidized rallronds and | Fi8hitotender aiiver tn payment of the bunds, for Prof, Busnzn comes In the dead of the winter Ttandolph street, between Clark and ail the way from New Iaven to convince tha e, wpel” e CArk g, Lasul: | vnod tha the busineas Interest and a st | (510701 800 PR, (P 8 D0 Witernoun, **La Fillo da Mad. Angot.” Evening, | 3n0jority of thepeoplo of tho United Statos y o lllz"“ doliar eas thostamiaracoln ot tiat tme, Inzy to work, and will not work when they e bu ew wliat Jio was abo e tim Jent 't money. AL America was & borsowims | Bove the opportunity, All this clnss will mudo juternal improvements on a large 2 people of Chicago that their interests would by he West will accept or adopt. People do not | sealoto the neglect of ocean commerce: | nutlon, and wher the bonds becameunathey would | live off the connty, There are of course | nomored by annulling the vae of one of the LuCentVll:l v.l = ;:lrll:a:lg l'lix:?.l?: :'l:‘li 1':;::;:‘0:‘1 :r; ::lsl;:: daul;a to do business J:r"" ¢:‘n a “‘U“‘Bl ::c“?;::,n :h:: It:;::u:mu‘:lf“g:n: ‘B::T;;\ wls l:;::n:gl gg:finm-;r.n. ""..‘“.:”33&?‘.:.’3"‘..'.';."1;.‘3-|.'3- men who are willing to work and men who | precious metals as money,” and that ‘1o MeVicker's Theatre. : marke!, when wmoney bacomncs doaror nn R a mattor of businers, to fnsist on paring the | have exhausted every possibility of labor, debt at {he rate of U1 or 12 cents on tha duilar? 17 ail the mints wero set to work to-marrow thuy | #nd wio noed help, but whero there is one Madison street, *Teue Woman " and auridge thequuntity ot the lrculating medium en State and Desrborn. | whenever it shall have been passed by Con- would fmprove thelr credit and their means of the Good:for-Nothiog." | croge, Whilo it doos mot npper from our aid to acean or international sorvice; third, that the decroase in our commorco sinco property cheaper, and idle men more numer- conld not cotn mwore’ than $24,000,000 in a year. | of $hom thers 'aro hundreds of loafers and | payment, and benefit the Ishor classes, To Tinverly’s Theatre, Washington dispatches that thisstatowent by | °%* —— 1860 is due to tho want of subsidized steam- | 1t ;gfig;f:;-,t;-;;g-;,-gg;r;;g;:;;;g};{,};-g;;: vans | great hulking vagrants who are parasites on | What extent he succeeded In infusing these Monron recty carerof Beartom. ““‘"m'i'“ the Republican is based upon authoritative in- SUMNER ON SILVER, sbip lines. The first two points can be | in America ehould bo 05T T, Bromo woulel somd tho community, and are determined they | SFFOF Into the minds dt his hearers remains to Ihellufll)g Bl Combinatlon. **May Cody; or, Lost formation; it ishy nomanns iny ble that it Prot, § ¢ Yale College, was invited # . allverover here and get gotdVin excnange. It was s Yy lpbe seen, but it was probably not to any dangers and Won." Afternoon and oventng. 3 ¥ poss rof, Boanen, of Yale ego, n shortly disposed of. The expénditurs of T per nioney wouid alwaya | will not work so long s thoy can beg, dead-. well known that the chea griroont tho dearer, "y coln miver Uoliara of | boat, or stonl o living, It {8 offering should be trae that tho President has deter- | to locture in Chicago on tho silver question ; New Chlcago Theatre: g 2 4 [ns anddecreo that they snould be equal ous degree. CIark street, apposit tho Sherman House. Cllen mined to yleld his fndividual convictions to | he bas delivered his lecture, and the silver money in land subsidies {8 no reason for —— the foolish oxpendituro of monoy in water Among the Incidents of the Widow Hicky ie gold dollsr of 25 8-10 graine, which is by | premium for improvidence and laziness der's Georgla Minatrels. Aftornoon and evening. the voice of the people when it shall come | question remmns unsottlod. Prof. Susyen { gubeldies. If the approprintions for ipternal | statine l‘um standard of tho Unitcd sum“ would | oion are alwaya the indontives to crime, | career in London, nccording to vopular rumor, Colenm Novelty Thentre, to Lim in the form of a bill passod by a | was introduced as a man who was master of | jmprovemonts havo been worthily made, | 5ol dstin. and, .fi"’f‘u‘w{"fi 3,:1’.;}'::.‘.’;' Uheons | tls lovying an_onerons, unjust, and wicked | Va8 her enzagement to Lord Hesnr LEsKox, Clark atrcet, betweon Washingtan sad Tiandolpt. | 18780 mafority of both Houses of Cougress. | the subjeot; and, on tho principlo that if & | they do not necossarily justify sppropris. | ver would appreciate, 1t Would nevor get above 00 | yor ‘von the {ndustrions, It compels tho | brosherof the Duko of Richmand aud Gonlon Varlety performance. e man wanted a good dinner Lo should omploy | tions for oconn-service; if unworthily made, | saltt the. cobuiey by the pavisse of the Bssw | conomicel, hard-working man to holp | (YHom an American luds. ignorant of titles, — Sccretary Scnunz, urged thereto by the.} un gducated cook to prepare it, so it was ad- SOCIETY MEETINGS, developments contained in the report of the gk Tcmc,\uu dull‘l\rrzllir. :1].‘;:77.“11.X A.mu.‘.‘:w Indian Burcau Board of Inquiry, has de. Tewdny ayen '.{_:.‘;‘nvcl’,ffl, 4(,,‘":.', ".,’:{‘".,'(w{‘,. tormined to lay the ax dt the root or roots of O ot e o . Mereiary. | tho great evil which Lias long rondorad th bt puscd o Houre vatld bo very it | upport Lis lozy, shiftloss nelghbor who earns a doliar, who will not work. It dovours the Itis botter perhaps to correct somo of the | gubstanco of the copnty devoted to the ervors contained in tho above extract, lest | worthy poor, the really unfortunate, the Mr, Hawes may commit the mistake of re- | aged indigent who cannot work, and the peating them befora a larga audience. widows nnd orphians who have been left deu- 1. Mr, Hawes concedes that the bonds are | titute, 1€ squanders tho relief without dis- pryable lnsilver. Au s lawyer, ho was una- | criminntion or investigation. It sots n fro blo to dony it, and felt bound to concede tho | lunch for two months at the exponso of the fact. DBut wo were o borrowing nation, he | taxpayers of Cook County, and invites all the said, nnd thoreforait waa better to submit | world to it without making nuy conditions, to an extortion of 8 or O por cont | specinl indycements beiug offered to able- rather than offend the bondholders! This ia | bodied entors and drinkers, who will pour in o sort of advice ho would not Le likely to | without stint, il elbowtha really doserving givan cliont who owed anoto, The United | poor to one side, in’ their engerness to gat at States cau suroly borrow silver ns ensily | the publiocrib, Incidentally, also, it throws as gold, nnd with tho silver the Govern- | thodoors wide open for allsorts of frauds and ment con redeom tho bonds as thoy | rascalitfes. ‘Tho County Agent is left with. {all duo o number of years honce. Tho bond- | out any discretion, nud powerless in the Loldors had no hesitation in shaving the | premises, He must Lelp overy person who Gpvernmont 40 to 60 per cont in Luying tho | comes and anys ho has no work, without the bouds. Thoyhave beon raceiving in gold 10 to | privilegs of nacertaining whethor he is an 12 por cent on their original investmont for | able-bodied loafer detorfiined to sponge n ten to fiftcon ycars, and have been | living without work, or an unfortunate man so profusely ropald for their kindness that | who would work it ho had the apportanity. capitalists ganerally will not be bndly scared ‘When the peoplo throw ont the lato corrnpt by secivg the bondholders pnld off in hard | County Board and olocted the present merm- white money, worth something like twico as | bers upon the platform of ‘Roform, they much as the goft groon monoy given for tho | locked for somothing better than this unwise bonds. . legislation, this reokless squandering of 2, The United Btates has consed to be 4 | monoy, this infamous pandering to Com. Lorrowing nation"” iu the sonse of incroasing | munism, loaferdom, nnd vagranoy. They {ta dobt. Since the close of the Robellion | will now demand that the membors of tho it has paid off abuut 800,000,000 of iis in- | Board roscind this rcsolution ot once, and debtednoss, and the process of liquidation is | reatoro Order No. 4 to practical operation. going on quits s rapidly as is proper or | If the County Agent is competont for his nocossary, ond rathor fastor than is good for | position, ho ls compitent to ascortain the taxpayers in hard timoea. . | whothor an applicant is deserving of rolief, 8, Dr, Lixpznuan admits that tho mints | and will #ot turn nway a person in aclual can coin twice the amount per annum of that | suffering and destitation from fnnbility to stated by Mr, Hawes, viz, ;: $50,000,000 por { obtain work without help. Even fu indi- year, and their capacity can ensily be in. | vidunl cases, thero is mothing womo in its creased to any desirod oxtent. If Congross | effocts thou indiscriminato otinrity. It fos- wants one hundred millions a year of silver | ters idleness, encourages improvidence, and colned, it haa only to give tho order and it | lends to erime, In thi case, the tield opened will be dono. by the Couuty Board is of such unlimited and 4, In the Latin Union gold stands in tho | unguarded dimensions ns to amonnt to o ratio of 1 to 15}, and not 1to18, aa Mr. | publio danger and to immensely increaso tho Hawzs is reported as asserting, olrondy crowded ranks of pauporism, It °6. European sllver, if sent over here to | tnxes the industrions workingman, it robs get gold in cxchango, is not legal-tender, | the deserving poor, and it invites to this and would be purchased only at its bullion | city a mob of tramps and dissolute, lazy value. On those terws it may be sent. over | vagrants from every part of the West, ta hore now and exchanged for our gold; o | swell o own hords of similar characters, thero is nothing at all in that objection. Tho people of Cook County will look to the 6. 1f Fraoce can coin weversl hundred | Bonrd to repeal their hasty and mischiovons millions of silver dollars, which ss com. | resolution at onco 3 pared with Fronch gold monoy contain 8 por cont leas silver than our dollar, and keep them ot par with gold, andjf Italy, Bol. gium, and Bwitzerland can do the unwe with their silver, and if Germany ean moko 15} ounces of coined silver clrculato at par with one ounce of gold, why caunot our Govern- ment make 16 ounces vnl silver circulate at par with ono ounce of gold? Demonstra. tion that a thing can be doune, and is done, must cortainly bo more convincing thap any theory or assertion that it cannot bo done, 7. 'The Latin Union and Gernany make 16} ouncoes of silver coin an equal logal-tendor with one ounce of gold voin, and the result is that hundreds of millions of dollare’ worth of silver clroulate at par with gold on that matio. In this country we have.furty or fitty millions of subsldiary silver containing only 15 ounces of silver to ono of gold, and worth as bullion but 85 cents in gold, circulating freely at o purchasing power of 07} conts in gold, becauso it {s a logal-tender for o small amount. In faco ofall thoge notorious and overwhelining facts, it is very remarkabla that Mr, Jawes would ventarg the assertlon that full Jegal-tender American pilver dollars (containing 8 per cent more metal than the Latin Unfou and German &il. ver colns as compared with their gold) would only be worth 91 per cent of the gold dollar. 8. A laboring mau would infinitely prefer tobeset at work earning silver dollars than tostarve waiting for employment on a gold Lasis, Leave thequestion of remonetization to the workingmen of the United States, and they will vote sflver dollars back into ciroulation by a mafority of millions, e ———ena RELIEY YOR ABLE-BODIED LAZINESY. Bince tho 1st day of July, 1874, thero Las been an order in force at the County Agent's offica that relief shall be coufined to aged, indigent porsons, indigent widows and orplans, and old and decrepit perions who are unable to work, and that able-Lodied persons who are able to work shall not be supported by the county, ‘This order was rescinded for the two months ending Feb. 28, by a vote of 11 to 8, at the last wevting of the County Board, and the doors of the Agont's office are thrown wide open to the whole community with carte blanche to come inand take possession of the rellef funds and storea, County Boards before this have opened the doors to fraud and rascality, but the industrious portion of this community will regard with surprise this reckloss, nu- daclous, and mischievous legidlation by s Roform Board from whom better things were espected. Do the eleven mem. once nalvely addressc! by letter as Messra, Ricusoxp & Goroos). Juat why that engege- | ment was broken off fs unot gonerally known, although it {s shrowdly surmised by somo to be for tho reason that tio such engagement cser existed; but the latter suppoaition fs mani- festly unfalr, as inarriages between American women and titled forclgners are by no means uncommon nowndays, The Duke of Marlbor- ough Is related to us by th& marrlugo of Lord Cuuncuitt, and Miss Jerous, of Now York, and the wifeo? Viscount Manprvitus, son of the Duke of Manchester, was formerly Miss Consur¥d YzwAua, of New York, Mad WanpINaToy, whoso husband s -a leading member of the ¥French Minlstry, isan American, Infact, the list of these alllances mignt bu ex- tended Indefinitely. Tho only idea governing tho scleetion ot apouses’ scems to bo expressed in the Logdon popular’song: 1ol Brown's danghter {8 a propet sort of gyurl, Hold Brows's daughiter is a proper surt of gyurl, Wish Hi wure Lord Mayor, a Murlv, or a lear), Wouldn't 1ti maery old Buiows's gyurl ! e —e— Asan ovldence of the growth of the cppasition to Jlavo in the Nbrihwort, o Republican member of Congress to-duy recalved o lotter from the Chairman of the Repnblican 8tate Comuitteo of Wieconin, in which the following Janguags Is u ‘on must go on Inthe fgbit agalnst ITav; Krery Republican b onr Stale i with you, 11 has brougght our party tu the birink of ruln, ond we want_no mote of hum, "~ IWashiaglon Speclat to New York sun, . It tho New York Sun was not so reckless In its atatements, there might Lo some probability that tho “Chalrman aforesald made sucha statcment {n o letter to a Congressmau. But to say that “*cyery Nepublicanifn Wisconsin is with you ngzainst HAves” Is so false ns to be absurd. The questlon to which the Sun refers 18 the Civll-Serviee nud patronage Issue, Does the Chairnan of the Ropublican Btate Com. mittee asscrt that the whole Kepublican party of Wisconsin are opposed to the Cinclunatl platform and tho Constitution of the Unlied States In rezard to appointments tu ollicel Weo should be pleased to hear from tho sald ** Chal man * in regard to the allezed letter, e — ‘Turkish ctiquetts hias many nice distinctions, A correspandent called, not long ago, upon the Ayan of oue of the interlor towns, and, ol . though he was rocelved curtly and told that there wero alreudy too’ moby *pasidjis - writers—in the army, Lo was treated fo coffes and clgarettes. Thore is o great lloe of de- murcatfon in this question of refreshinents. Any street-porter may call upon a dignitary and will be offered a cup of Mozha, but he will not be fnvited to smoke unless he fa entitled to respact, and he will certainly not have a spoon- ful of glyko—rose-leaf jam—unless he be & tearing awell. At leust so saya this reliable cor Fespondent. they area good argument ngainst any ex. tonsion of the system. Tho examplo of Groat Britain is also an insufficlont reason for | the United States to engage in a similar policy. ‘This country hns shown somo por- varsity horetofors in adopting tho cconom- ioal errors of Great Britain and clinging to them oven after Groat Britain has acknowl- edged thnt they wore orrors. It would per- haps be in strict keoplug with the traditional poliey of the United States, but nono the loss o blunder, for the Govornment to bogin subaldizing stonmships just as Groat Britain is witldrawing her subsldics, Tho best argumont that Lus been mado in favor of subsidizing ocoan steamships is de- rived from tho supposed intluence of lines thus established in extonding forelgn com- morce. In this conuection tho advooates of tho subsidy system sy : From being the foremost nation in foreign ton- nage In 1800 we liave fallen antil we hardly catry 26 per cent of our own forolan commerce. ln 1800 Amorican tonnage vxceeded the foraign on- tered at onr ports by 3,507,374 tons, In 1870 the forelun exceeded ours by 7,600, 416 tons, Thls s merely a summary of the direct loss. Tho conse- quent. losses entatled upon onr farmers, miners, manufacturors, and morchants, through lack of Ameriean factilties for carrying American exports and Imports, cannot be easily concelved. It alio 1s n loss of omployment to 350, 000 American ses- men. . This nrray of figures is suggeative, but tho truo inforeuce from them is not that which is nttompted. The reason why foreign ton- nnge oxceeds Amorican tonuage onterod at our ports is not tlat the former is subsidized and the lattor mot. On the contrary, dis- eriminating measures in favor of our own shippiog virtually create o subsidy in its bo- half. Thero is no instanco of a subsidy pald by a forcign Governnient to n line of vesscls trading with tho United Stdtes. Our author has conscquently proved too much. The decline in Amerioan shipping must bo at- tributed to othor cansea than those nssignod by him, The canse is the enhanced cost of building Amcrican ships aince 1860. Tho shipbullding interest has boen gaxod out of oxistenco by a high protective tarif. Our merchant marine, entered under foreign flags during the War, waa not restored aftor- wards, and .tho shipbuilders who hoped to supply ita place bhave bLcen ungble to do so. Foreign vessols, imanned by foreign snilors, representing for- eoign capital ond camning foreign profits, have absorbed tho corrying trade simply bo- causo they have been able to do it cheaper than American vessels. It waa a question of open competition in the markets of the world, and artificinl prices for material and labor were in this instance, as in cvery other, & disadvantage to tho United States. The Pacifio Mail champion has hopelesaly confounded two distinct questions—one cou- cerns the positlon of the United Btates as competing for a sharo of the carrying trade, and the other the rclation of tho commerce of this country to that of foreign countries, It ia conceivabla that wo might not be able, or might not desire, to carry our owa: prod. ucts to markets, and still might bave prod. uots which we could sell at n profit abroad. Buch fs the condition of our present trade in brondstuffs with Great Dritaln. But the prodbets which we would like to sell in Houth America, the West Ingdies, and Obinn, wo aroc uuable to sell, not for want of vessels to carry them, but because we are continually undersold in those markets by Great Britain and France. The reason why we are undersold is not, as the Pacitic Mail Company contends, that we bave no subsidized linos of transportation, but that the first cost of our products at home is higher than that of the aame or slmlar articles in other conutsics. The cost of pro- duction establishes the sdlling-price of overy article that is made and sold abroad. While it is true that the ocost of transportation enters {nto this cost as an elewent in the foreign ocountry, itis not usually the main or the chief eloment. Thisis the price of the labor employed n tho work of produc- tion. When the United Btates resolved, therofore, to incfonse arbitrarlly the price of all kinds of production in this country, it in effoot agreed to surrender all its foreign com- merco, and it has becn held to the lettor of its bargin by laws more powerful than those which auy human Government can enact. . It Government were to furnish transpor- tation freo to all ports of the habitable globe for all kinds of producty, it would no doubt increase the market for many Aryeri. can producers, But it might attain the same object in amore logical way by paying boun- tics directly to the producers. There is no reason why the steamship companies should act 85 middlemen between the Government and the people. Much better have a law that every shipper shall draw & rebate on his freight from the National 'Treasury. There is a still simpler way of introducing Ameri. can products in foreign markets. Instead of reducing the cast of transportation, Govern-’ wmont wight with profit to itself and to the banufit of the whole people reduce the cost of production by sreforming tho present visnble that information on an economical question could be more cartainly obtained from a philosoplier like Prof, Buaxen. The Indian Seryice a stench in the nostrils of th :;’fi::;';:“.‘i,":i,“,?,d::,:“,’,’;,‘;’fl;‘;‘:’;;,‘;‘,.,';‘i WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1878, people. He proposes to go to the vory bot- | gaily announced that no one knew more tom of tho whole business, nnd rid the sorv- | gyt it thian he did, was about the weak- A QUESTION OF FAIR PLAY, ico of a hordo of suckers who have bled the | gt nnd thinnest soup aver got up by a profes- Complaints aro frequently and numerously re- | Treasury for years, and whose nots bave | yional cook. Tho lectura was sritten celvod st this ofica from pacties liring along the | not only cost the Government immonse sums and spoken in dogmatio stylo, the lines of rallway leading out of Chicago to the effect | of monoy, but have beon instrumental 1n | ynthor assuming that ho know all that they are often unable to procure Tite Tuisuxs | provoking frequant warswiththe Indian tribes | phout-the question and that his hearers know from tho train-boya un whom they depend for thelr | in which much blood has been epilt in | yothing, and that his assortions wero to be dally papers, but aro offered the altesnstive of tak- | vain. It is Intimated that the lightning will | 4coepted s conclusive. Teking this leoture Ing either the Tunes or Jnler-Gcsan of none atall. | soon begin to exhibit ituelfin this Bureau of | ¢ embodying all that can be sald in favor of From the extent to which this prctico Is carried | the Interior Dopartment, and aithough it demonatizing silver, the very wonkness of - onitls belleved that 1t is tho result of a regular | ;ngy not, as s genorally bLelieved, striko | thq caso presented b‘y th mon wiio A8cdnred eystem of forcing the salo of competing papersand | gwice In the same place, it is likely to find | b had made it n lifa study nud know it all o Tonre | mony Victima in. positions not. vory widely | will probably confirm tho frionds of silver in i 4 may 5o promplly | geparatod,” the justice of their cause, taken for the suppression of this conspiracy, if any. ————— i The first polnt made by the learned gentle. hall be she to exiat, we o nhiall be shown to exist, we request thatall persons Prof. Bumxzn, na far a5 it was poasiblo, man from Yalo was that. tho lsboring clastes who from this or similar causes are prevented from | cavefully ignored the fact that the Bank of recolving thee Trnuxea regularly wifl in each tn- | Franco has resumed spoclo paymenta on the | Weroall croditors, that ench one of thom waa stance communicato the facta aud detafls 1o this of- | silvor nnd g 1d donblo standard, and that | Croditor for his current wagos, and thoroforo fco by letter or otherwise. the Fronch people ara condueting specto | ¥2° espectallyinterastod. in hiving the dear. payments on the bl-motallic basis. He care- cat nnd best dollars that conld be had, and CHIOAGO MARKET SUMMARY. fully-ignored the faot that not loss than 800,- they shoald all be on the sido of having noth- Tho Chieago produce markets were rather anfet * { ing but gold dollars. The question with tho yeaterday and ateadicr, cxcept inwheat, corn, and | 000,000 of full legal-tonder silvor five-frano I i 1 b Meas pork clostd o | pleces aro in circulation in France withont i;;':““:zu“ ;:“m;u"""bn':m:!’ ;:;h;r .32 for Fobruary and | erowding out go! 4 b A it out/gold_or beingexpelled by:st, wmont,—one of getting work for which 1§@11.45 for March. Lard closed a shade lower, 81 87,4254 per 100 lbs for February and Hacarefully guored dlia fnot tiah thly milver they onn got any dollars, large or small ‘While the locturor waa advising the working $7.0002.624% for March, Moata closed stendy, | MOREY clroulates on tho ratlo of 15} ounces at $4.05 per 100 Ibe for boxed shoul- | t0 1 ouuce of gold, and is therefore in- o tand fi & il ders and $5.75 for do short ribs. Whisky was | trinsicnlly worth 3 per cent less as bullion | 63508 to stand firm, to tonch no silver dol. ateady, at $1.05 per gallon. Flour was dull. | yhan tho American sllver dollar, Ho carc. | /&% but to wait until gold was increasod in value, tho ook County Board was in session and voting that for the noxt sixty days overy Wheat closed tic | 1.07; . .,":mf ;;fns;z",;";."c'h:::, n‘:‘:,‘;:::";e tully failod to consider tho samo phonomena ablo-bodied man out of employment in Chi- cago should bo malatained ab the publio ex- higher, at 42¢ for January and 4114e for Februsry, | B0I0g on in Germany, whero 250,000,000 of g;;- c)ole‘: ,';'chlzh:r. ‘;t 2484 for January and | silver legal-t?hdor thalers continue to, do 243ic for February, yo was quict, at WQ t: daty'as moyiey,on pae; ik, gold anl tho ponso. Prof, Sumnen advised theso Iaborers to wait until thoy could be paid for work in dear gold dollars. £ tulie, Darlay closodcasy, al G75@D8¢ epot and G7Xc for Folruary. logs wero acilve, and closed | %00 Fatlo of 15} to 1. Why did Prof. ‘Tho remonctization of silver is not nsked that dollars moy bo cheapenod below their steady, 8t 5@10c decline, at $4.00@4,10. Cattlo | BOMNED, after coming so far to instruct o ‘wn:;u .‘"él" '.:“h;‘g"‘ :, 04 an;u-p wero | benighted Chicego audience, omit to men. n demand, and sold st 82, 8734 nstore In | tion L nstructi u_corn, 1 a osty, 03,122 ba rye, ropor value; it is asked that the value of through L tallio ¢ prop i rong 4 smonuotallly Wisoedd) Tt gold shall not be unduly enhanced by mak. ing it the exclusive metallic money. Undor tho shadow of a gonoral resumption of spocie pryment §n an exclusive gold coln, the and 637, 844 bu barley, besides 2 would seem £0. value of all proporty, lands, buildings, live ki bu corn, and 561,087 bu oal bor. Inspected into store in this city yesterlay SmTITEm—— According to reports now enrront in Wash. atock, and all tho products of* labor is declining, fadlng away; the mneans ;inn"“n“: lsulgnn nncbn.]uo u’;- corn, 7 cars onts, care ye, 10 cars borley, Total, 180 cars, o, m':u. Dtiahnudre dl' aaiiare i gl d“"u"'; ington, and traceablo to authoritios usually buy. 8102875 In grocnlacks at tho close, Dritish | 3ccopted s rolinblo, the war of tho Implaca- comuols were quuted at 03% and aterifng ox- | Lies upon tho Presidont is likely to mssume change at $1, 8224@4. 85, the extraordinary phase of an investigation set on foot by Republicana for the purposs [ ©f lving are *dwindling, production of challonging the titlo to the ofiica of n Ro. | {8 arrested, labor aud mackinery are publican President. It is eald that Mr. | idle, and the pauper and the tramp are Coxzrva will causo to bo introduced in the | taking the place of tho thrifty, industrions Sounton resolution looking to an official in. | workmen. While tho gold dollar is rising in value, the acgumulations of labor are sinking in value, Iow long is the nation to atand still under this process? Bhall we ‘walt until the country becomos ono goneral quiry into the facts comnected with the Eleotornl count, aud that Gen. DBurien will officr o similar resolution the in House, Curlously ocoincident with this rumored intention of thu Republican Implacables | alms-house? Until every acro of land, every ';i city lot and building, evory article of prop. erty, shall have been taken under foroclosure to pay dobts in gold dollars of exaggerated values? Or shall the people who aro perish- comzes & howl of auguish from the Bourbon Implacables of Maryland, with Moxraouzny ing under this systom insist that thero shall be no annulment of any portion of the Bram, late connuel of the Unsucceusfnl Usufruct, as chief howler, in the form of a proposed memorinl to Congresa to bo adopted by the Maryland Lagislature, in which is ro. stock of mietallic money; that the rise in the valoe of gold ghall be ar. rested by tho restoration of tho - silver dollar; that the men who borrowed cheap vived the old cry of fraud and corrupt bar- goining, apd a dewand {s mado upon Con- gresn for such legislation as is noeded to ns- cortain judicially who was elected Presldent “*and to give effect to the will of the peo- | paper dollars shall have tho privilego of pay- ple.” The large vote by which o motion to | ing their debts in the coln which was a legal- tablo the Buatx memorinl was nogatived, and | tonder when these debts wore contracted ? ity reforenca to tho Committoe ou Fedoral | They inslst that the Government shall no Relations, wonld seem to iudicate the | longer maintain the policy of depreciating probability of its adoption by the Mary- | the value of proporty and of enbanciug the lond House of Delegates, aud that | valueof gold, of adding totho burden of the President’s Republicau cuemies in Con. | interest and principal of dobts, aud impover- gress will bave tho opportunity of uniting | ishing those who have to pay their debla, with the Demoeratio sorcheads in the vigor. | ‘Fho riso in the value of gold and the dopro. ous proscoution of tho movement {0 harass | clation of othor proprty can only bo ar. Hares and gratify Tieozx, and of slaring in | rested bythe inoreass of metallio money, and tho odium which will attach to every man | meoting the very contingenoy which in 1792 avhio participates in the maliclous resurrec. | induced Hamirox and Jevrensoy to adopt tion of anissue long siucs decided to the | both mnotals as coin, and thus provent the in. satisfaction of the American poople, Jury to the country by the sudden fiso of ST——— eithor, With this check to the fall in values, with the oxpausion following the inorease of coin, there will be ryevival of business, au focreass of production, the employmont of labor, the distribution of wages, and the laboring classes will receive dollars of the sizo and to tho number which their labor may demand. Glve the meu employmont, put the wheels of industry in motion, cxoate the demand for labor, and the workmen will have no difficulty of adjusting thelr wages to sult the occasion. Thelearnod gentleman who announced that howevor smart and intelligent others might be, no one knew more on this subject than hodid, said the American people were al. ‘ways borrowing, aud when they wanted to borrow they waated big dollars, snd then wanted to pay In littlo dollars, and he dis- coursed eloquently on the depravity of this conduct, ‘The assumption that the object of silver monetization is to pay little dol- lars in exchange for big dollars borrowed, waa both gratuitous and false, and if uttercd by a common nun wight be attributed to ignoranco; but, coming from one who knows somuch, it must bo attributed to o nogligence of truth or a carclessncss on matters of fact which sy or weynot Lo comwou af Yals, It S —— Greenbacks at the Now York Stock Ex. chauge closed at 97}, el Gen. Jony O'Nerwy, the Fenian leador who took & prominent part in {he novement sgainst the Queen's Own In 1806, dicd on Monday nt Omaka. Hoe had recently suffered & stroke of paralysls, b S ————— Immigration statistics compiled at the port of Now York show that 54,630 fmml. grants came to this country vin Now York during 1877, a number 10,729 less than that reached in the provious year, aud a decronse from the year 1860 of 178,882 sculs. ———e—— ‘When that prolific writer of fiction known a3 “Oulua” undertakes literary work, her first move 18 to lot down her back halr, thus allowing a frecr vent to the overflowing emotions that are vexing bier passtouate bratn, It fa related of Mr. Arynep TENNYSON that, when engaged upon a new poem, he does net exactly pull down his vest, but prefers to tako olf altogether thut article of apparel. 8o, too, the Sweet Sluger of Michigan has her idiosyncrasies, among which may be mentloned a hablt of golng about the house fn bare foet. We do not montfon this as at uil reprbhensible. It 1s a question that les sololy between hersel? and the weather, The question of baving a smaller gold coln than tne half-suveroign bas been discussed in Kogland and negatived, on account of the poor, hard-workiug mang,whuse hands were said to be tuo horny for him to bandle them properly. But just let o poor American workingman get his horny haud on oue, and sco how quickly be can get away with it The extremely gratifylng announcement is mado that Gernany bus resolved at the eleventh hour upon participating In the International Exhiblifon at Parls. As long as thoe MacManox policy was ‘uppermast inthe Government of France, Germauy looked upon every act of her rival with distrust, It was understoud at Der- lin that the Marshal represcnted thint cluss of Frenchmion whose chict ambltion wus to wreak .yengeance upen’ thele nelghbors across the Rhing, whils the Timzns party wera rightly sup- posed to take a calin aud reasonable view of the situation,and todovote theirencrgicatothebuild- fug up tho Kepublie rathor ‘thau to the rencwal of hostilitics. Hence, during the domnestic political struggles of France, Germany stood by, swonl {n bund, prepared for the sfruggle which might havefollowed thotglumphof the Marshat’s volicy; ond, undor tho clrcumstunces, there would bave been lstlo‘use fu taking steps towards participating ‘In tho Exhibitlon, But the clection resulted fn the ® victory of the Republicans, and, after Tepeutod and obstinate ottemnpts tc form o Cabinet favorablo to bis policy, MaoMaitox was forced to yield and allow a Mintsiry of tho Laft to be, formed, Thus the susplcions of Germany huve been disarmed, and the Qovernment has pronipt- 1y decided t8 bo ofticlally represonted at the comfug Exhibition, It {s rather late to com- mend moking srrangements, and. it (s not probable ttat the Gernan departineat wlii be #0 lurge and attructive as it was at Philadelphia, but even & poor cxhibie is better than nons atall.: - ——— From the tone of thy New York City pagers: one would be led to suppose that tho people of that Btate werq almost uuanimous against ro- mouetizing atlver, sud all clamorous for gold- resumption; but this fen very great mistake, There is Yttle doubt that, left ta populsr vote, alarge majority of 1h&peopls of the Emplre Btate are for sllver, lero (s & signideant struw; New York kas « statute for resumiog payments | n gold vext Junuary, As soon asshie Leglsla- gture met last Mondsy a Reoublican Scuator fo- truduced o bill to repeal that act, Ro sald if the questiou was submitied to the farmers of his district the rupeal would be voted by a inajority of 20,000, - e ———— ‘Whilo the cccentricitics of Au 8ix and Hor Lixa wre affording wateriul for pocins and para- ursplis by the huworists of this country, tho propriety-loving English are horritied by the actions of a Celestial of high rank in London. ‘The Chincse Ambasgador waiutaine great state iu one of the Huest resideuces on the fasbiona- ble street known as Portland place, snd has been welcomed at all tho gatherings of the aristocracy. But recently s portion of his do- mustic srrangements was revealed to the pub- ‘liey thereby causing intense scandal smoug the society of the West End. One eveulog un- carthly shricks were heard proceeding from the bouse of the Awmbassador, sud & crowd of pass- era-by soon collected on the sidewalk, conjecs It Is bolieved that another railrond war is imminent in spite of the efforts of the East. eru managers {o stave off a rosumption of Lostilities until tho opening of uavigation, At Indiauapolis yosterday the rate on grain to New York was cut 7} cents below the comn. bination figure, and shippers coufidently an. ticipato a gonoral break-up of the pool. —— To the_Editor of The Tribune. ———— Citoago, Jon, 8,—A bota B that hiagrandfather, ‘being bara in the yoar 1800, waa bora iu too nlue: teenth century. s he correct or got? Y. He s not. The nineteenth century begao Jan, 1, 1801, acconding to tho ot learued mathematiclaus, some of whom have eveo proved that Cunist was bora tu the year 4 B.C. ‘The recolpts from pramiums and ronts at the aonual sale of pews at Mlymouth Church last eveniug show » devroass of about §10,. 000 a8 compured with Inst year. Whether this zesult is due to the hard times of tho predent or to Mr, DBrecuen's beliof in the eaxy times OF tho fature is a question which & g Tha Wesleyan Fomale Collega of Cinclunati will be variously viewed. having gone futo bankruptey, 1t is suggested that the contents be disposed of at auctlon. + ——————— PERSONAL. Gov. Geary's grave at Harrisburg Is sadly neglected. " A life-sizo bust of Tilton is being cut io ‘marble for his daughters, ’ “The eflort to idtroduce New-Year's calliog a3 Richmond was a fallurs, 1t is said John Morrissoy Las settled lung discrse, and will hardly recover, $ Henator Blaine's health has been much im- provod by his trip to the kot 8prings. @D'Donovan Rossa, whoss * skirmishing- fund " now amonnts o $4,372, hints darkly 18 tho Jrish IForid at the maoner 1a which be will expend it against England. e talks of dynamite and gun-cotton.’ [d Tho vesson generally assigned for 3r Jawes Gordon Beanett's sudderf dotermination (0 abandon husting fn Eoglsnd 18 & very bad fal which it 14 831d L received while out with the Bel* volr pack ou the 10th uit. The New York Herald's storm-predictions Bave boen fosud useful on toe European Atlapté cosasl. The coatractor for bringlng Cleopatra® Noedie to London reccntly aeked for special 8- vices from the Harald oftice. Charles Napler, an Boglish clentist, says 8 vegetable diet Lo & remarkablo bolp to the cur? of drapkenness, lie mentlous the case of a0 man whose constitation had buen shattered by 1* . peated attacks of delirium trowmens, and who w8 cured of bis appetite for liquo Lo seven months bF dlspeasing with muat. ‘Tho firat Lallot for Unitoed Statea Seuator was taken yesterday in the Kentucky Legis. lature, Awmong the threo Democratic candi- dates tho votes were divided us follows: Witrtaus, 50; Linpsay, 40; McCnzany, 24 i whils Boyp, the Ropublican candidato, re- ceived 14. Procron KNotr coutinues to bo tho dark horse—so dark that notbiog hes been seen of him %o far. Trof, Svsnen read the following from Tur Trinpie: ‘Tako an aanco of gold coln in Oermany, France, Bwitzeriand, Belgluw, or suy country on the msin ot of Eusupe, (o a broker's L0 sxchangu for ailver, oud hu will give precisoly 154 ounces of silver coln for 1t, sud uo 1wure; take 1543 ounces of sllvercoln o oxchauge for guld colp, and he will give preclscly ouo vunce of gold forlt. The cifect of making shiver coin legul-tondez in this couutry would be vreclely the same, unl yunwuetization should 50 mach enha; of sliver bullicn s to render the ellver dollar wosth mure than the gold dolisr st the rato of 16 to 1, when It inlghit ba uecessary 1o adopt the gen- esal Europeun siandard of 155 10 1. Ilis comment on this was s flat denial, Wa repeat tho statement, Iu the German Empire and in the Btates of tho Latin Union tho legaltendor silver can bo oxchanged soywhere for gold with as little difculty aud at no more cost than gold can be ex. chavged for silver. Gold can be had at the Bank of France for legal-tender silver; and baok checks, for any reasonabls sum, ure paid in silver or gold, at the ‘option of the bolder of tho chock, For travelers' pur. poses, bank bills command o alight charge or nouminal premium, The silver thalers of Germauy are yet a logal-tonder, and cizculate and are cxchangeablo on s par with gold. It Prof. Buuwks does mot know this fact, then it is time he should learn ‘TLie cable dispatches concur in the report thut England has addressod & noto to the Porto advising the accoptunce of {ho pro- . posul contained in the Ru-sfan reply—that of consenting to negotiations for an arpistico conducted by the ltussian and ‘Purkish com. mandery in the Sald. In Coastantinople theplan of imwmediately arranging an armis. tico with a view to making peace iy sald to mest with great favor. e —— At Columbus, O., Pexprrrox's men are full of brag that their standard-bearer will be -electod United Statcs Henator to-morrow on the firet bLallot, but this confidence is sup- posed to be a purt of their political copital, sud it is believed that Pxxprrros s at pres- ent certain only of the defeat of wny singlo eandidats whom bo, iu tho hour of possille delcat, woy centro his forces sgainst, Hoth Ewiva and Moxea control o large following,