Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 25, 1878, Page 7

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: I'RIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1878, 7 ITALIAN ROYALTY. Victor Emmanuel, and” His Sons Humbert and Amadeus. gketches of Them from Personal Knowl- edge of Their Appearance and Character, fialy Eatitled o More Credit than She Mas Re® ceived for Her Parl ln the War of 1366, tollowing paper Is from tho pen of Mr. yg;t?s Colton, of UGalesburg, Ill, for several sts United States Consul at Venlee, who, from lis ofiiclal position, had nn apportunity of scquiring Intimato knowledge of tho subject of which ho treats,.—ED. TRINUNE.] A few hnsty sketclics of the lato King of ftaly ond hls successor may be of Interest at (bis moment. My first personal knowledgo of Victor Emmanuel was in November nfter the patticsummer of 1868, In which the Kingdom of Ttaly was extended to tho Adriatic. The King eame to Venleo to take formal possession of Venetia as his portion of the spoils of the Prusso-Austrian war. The city was WILD WITH DELIGNT AND ERTHUSIASM when the gallant King came up the Grand Canstlnap open gondola, that Bunday alter- poon, to the old palace of tha Doge Foscarl, where he was to witness the grand fetes in hon- orof his coming and the successful termination of tho war, Tho Koyal family took thelr posi- tlon on the balcony adjoluing the balcony of the palace In which I resided. The King was dressed [n o plaln black dress-suit, with the conventlonal eilk hat. i Leld his white kids {n his great red hands, as {f he licld a sword in that firin geip. His faco was red and sunburned by a summer of constant exposuro in the hot plalns of Northern Italy with bis army. Victor Emmanuel was cvery Inch n soldier, and alwnys remained with his army In all it campalzns, suffering with his soldicrs every fatigue aud dis- comfort of camp-life. 1o alwaya detested apy- thing like parade and display. On this oceasion, {t was only at the positive recommendation of ts Ministry that he consented to appearin Yenlce 08 a victor. Ho always declared it was 1118 FIARDEST TASK TO “ PLAY KING." Even then ho refused to glove his handsin white kids, but would carry them fn his hand out of deference to his suite. 1lis plain appear- ance in citizen's dress was In strong contrast with the gorgeous uniforms of the military and diplomatic crowd around him. The festivities lasted several days, durlng which the people went :tl‘lid with enthusiasm whenever the King "%: appearance of Victor Fmmanuel in pub- Ie resernbled much that of UGen. Grant. lils faco cxpressed nhot one emotfon, and nover re- Jaxed a musclo, no matter hiow much excitement was extilbited {n those around him. s figure, though quite stout, was creet and commanding in every line, Ho was flnlu‘ the historle fdeat of ong of tng old soldler-Kings of medieval times. PRIXCE HUMDERT, the present King, rescmbled much his father, lacking ouly oge o make quite a Kingly ap- pearanee; while the younger brother Amadeus late King of Snnll:l. is quite slender and boylsh n appearance, aud Wil never alter greatly, Buth the Princes uamed were i Venice, whero I et them at the Royal Paluco on different oe- caslonsand formed a very good den of their fodividual characteristics, ~ Amnadous spent the tirst winter niter the cesslon of Venetla fn Vene fee, and wos very fond ot social xfi'etlu. No one who lind an opportunity orfi: zing of his qualitics was dlsappolnted whon ho afterwards 1=/t the throne of Spain for lils nutive luud after g0 short a Kingship. Ilumbert, on the contrary, will ba likety to rulc nslong os bis fathier beforo Uim, 42 lio lives to his age, Victor Enmanucl spent most of hfa time dur- Ing peaco {n the ‘chase. His huniing-lodzes were reattered along the Tyrol, Ile always en- joyed Lls retirement from public dutics In these eduded aputs among the mountains, When the true history of the Prusso-Austrian war of 180018 written, tha part which Italy took 1n that terrible conflict it L RECRIVE 138 m:lxl: cuzpin. i ws far justice has not been done Italy, s bl her Lombardo Vonerian Biaiad: in North Italy, by forco of an armed and forti- Oed possession. “The finmensa “(flmdrllnlcml" fortitications excecied In strength and propor- Alons any In the world, Atthe sudden outbreak of the war, this Quudrilateral was garrisoned by 13,000 Austrian soldiers,—tho flower of the Austiay army,—with an Archduke ns Command- erond Vjceroy. Tho part Italy was to takein the war was to lold this great armny in Italy, whilo Prussis could destroy the Austeian army north of the'Tyrol. It was o herculean task, and was accomplished at an immense socrifice of menon the part of the Itallans. Imagine aa army throwlog itsoll hopelesaly sgninst inpreg- nabfe fortregses thne and again, without even hupo of euceess, and aliwaya sure to b Leaten and decimated,—a fact which would demoralizo, oy army except Italian soldlers, with thelr’ Houwhearted King always with them to cheer Shem In their defents. 'The army of the Arch- duke must he occupled by constant atsack, or ¢lso it would force Itself out of Italy, and form 8 junctlon with tho Austriaus north of tho mountains, Whnenever nlb{ part of the Arch- duke's army camo out of thy fortitications tho Lalians wonld fight them to desperation; so desperata were the Itallans that they would MARE A WAND-TO-HAND PHINT of it, actually grappling with tho Austrian gol- dicrs, man to man, as {n auclent tmes; and it {s telated that so tieree wera thelr persomul con- flicta (it the Itallan soldiers would often Lite’ opoa the throats of their antagonlats. Quite u larzy goctlon of the Archduke’s army made its feapo to the mountains, but thero they were met by the red-shiried boys of Garlbaldi, who fought thows so desperately In the 0! of tho ‘Tyrol that {ho me’finm’ though nomfually victors, wers - obiged 10 retreat to tho Quadriluteral azain, Tl for three long, hot months, <did \'5!.0:- Emmanucl i Priuce Humbert eheer thelr bravo soldicrs to huld out niainal this graud urmy of Austris, i, by fores of persanal obstinacy, succecded In holding them from a ilmcllun With tho Nortly Tyrul arnry, which, i€ ellected, would, beyond sy doubt, have overwhelmed Prussfa, and to- day, instead of bete u gereat Embire, It mizht ave been what it waa before the day of Fred- erle the Great, an untinportant Duchy, Viewed 11 trs light, the ltatinn defeat at Custozza be- vomnes a grand victory, Uno of the greal sicmenta of -m:n{:lh in the character of Victor Emmanucl was his willlug- 1255 to aceept the counscls of 1 advisers, and s ublitty for choustng mien of discerument for bLts a visurs, COUNT CAVOUR AND DARON RICASOLI, at different tines his Premiers, were two of the alest *dip omats of tho century, Without ien his Majesty might have fonght bravely und died the Dukogof Savoy Instead of the King of all fraly, 1tYs father abdicated after Gacol his greatest buttles. It 1 tohd of Rticasoli ud the King that, after a very Leated contro- viray, fu which the Primo Minister took his verclin to task ' for ‘:runmlncn murganatic warrfage with a Jady of low rank, the King sald Ricasoll, **itemember, sir, you are dictating to your Kingt " The proud reply was, * Your Majesty will bear In miud that the' Barons iasolldate some centuries prior to the white. Klumuzl Dukes of Hlvu{l " The Kiug bouored s Mintster for his boldness and honesty, and mm hit, but privately warried his fady- The King, although be lived and died a Cath- Oliey way always tolerant of other meu's opin- i, Among bis bravest supporters, when ho Hist bewan s battlo for tho freedom of Ituly, ¥rre the ofd Waldenses of the Alpiue Valley, ::'rl::ln all Protestants; sud he alwuys after- s HIOWRD THEM TS CONSTANT PRAEXDSLIP, Dunng m{ restdence fu Vealee, I purchused an o Venolian paluce for o vative Protestant 8:out aud chavel, It was finally concluded by e promoters of the movement to give the fodee to the Waldenslan Church, but it was fund that, by tho Italian law, wo church. Soclety ‘exeept the Romun_Cathollc could hold Droperty, The case was submitted to the Klug, ke Imuwdlutcl{. Ly his l{o{)‘vl Drerocative, ¢ ed o decree Tuvesting the Waldensfan lhurcn with the ownership of the palace, and 1€y have since been In peaccful occupsuey of & pronerty, Svou aster the war of 1660 the Kiug secmed Iu lecl that hig mission was neurly completed, 'rg-luuimd o abdicate, , He frequently con- fi’m\l lawiliarly with 3y Marsh, Cnited Statcs b u.htur at Florcuce, and often reverted to his ';Iwmlnmlnu to guit **playing King,” as be woesed it fic suid bis greatest ambition now o ko tp Amerea and 1 HAVE A BUFPALO-UUNT ON TTIE PLAINS. e slways spoke suthusiastically of It fn con- Uireition with Mlr. Marsb, aud juguired purtie: sy about all the detalls of such » buut with o uuch futerest and pleasure a4 & youud, ro- inike hunter coutd evlice, Wy Jurrisie of Princo Humbert was & mst- o B WUich the Klug was particularly utercet- o ¢ seemed to fecl that it would have a uencs ou the Priuce-Roval, whio, il wis fenerally understood, had aome untoward ways. The Princeas Marguerite, who had been sclect- ed as & wife fur the Prince, was deserved. Iy popular throughout Ttalv. 8he was not; only benutiful fn nerson, but even more so n her charining character, Bhio had been on verv In. timate ferma in Lhe family of Mr. Marsh (United Btatea Minister) and studied with his nloce, Any one eceinr the two girls together wonld tnvo taken them hoth for voung Amer- ean Indiea. The King loved the Urincess as & dauchter, and for once nn_ expreesion of satisfaction and Intercet shone through his imgianslve features ns he gazed upon lier fn the [mllre-l'nlonns durlng the feattvitics followlg he marthge-ceremontes, Tiis mental photograph of the King Ia stil Sividin mv wind, and {s the more satisfactory as ot that time att 1IS Q00D AND HEROIC QUALITIRS were depteted In_forin und visaze,—the man, the soldier, the Kine, blenided in one uu\}nnflc, nohle being—a aplembid model for the historle nrttet, The penclt wonld hardly suit the sub- Jeet. Marble or bronze wonld be the nobler taterial to perpetnate such n klmil)- forn, The unity of Italy was ordalyed by Providence a8 one of the most remarkable events of this century. Victor Emmanuel, Duke of insignifi- cant Havoy, was likewise ordained by - the samo 'rovidence to accomplish this end, Not aRinginall Europe Lut onposed the Iden. Eyery” Continental potentate had some eelf- Ish Cinterest fn sustaining one or more of the dezen petty Wingdomns and Duchies of the ftallan Peninsuln. ‘Add to this, the Tomish Church, and its supportera throughout the world, stood tn the way s a Chineso wll, to block the nrogress of the daring young Duke. The revolution of 1848 was the urporumlly, and Yictor Emmanuel was equal to the opportunity, For a quarter of a century thercafier, and not until broken Itsly wes united nnd the * Eternal City ™ its Capital, was the good #word of Victor Bmmanuel sheathed ana hung up in its last resting-place in the Quirinal In Jome, in whose sflcnt balls the King lles mo- tlonless whils 1taly—all Italy weeos, * The Klog is dead—Loniz live the King." ——— EL PASO. The Ilotred of tho Gremser for the Gringo =—Another Verslon of the Balt Lako Troubles, Correspondencs Si. Lauls Glabe-Demoerat, YaLETA, El Paso Co,, Tex., Jan, 2.—~Allow the subscriber to state a few fucts fn connection with telegrams regarding the Ei Paso tronbles contained In the columus of vour valunhle pu- pet at various tincs. Capt. Blair sintes on the 1ith that only Mr. Ellls, & ranger, had bren killed. Ellls was not s ranger, but a very re- spectable merchant, and was killed carly on the evening of the 12th. Eergt. Mortimer, ouf tho ‘State force, was shot down qn Thursdny morning at O o'clock while walking on the strcet. The offielal information veceived at military headquarters, Chivago, Dee. 17, wna fulse, because evershody hero knew that Mexl- cans from tho other side of the Rio Grande were engaged In our troubles. Capt. Blair was told ro to his face by a Mexlean subject on Wednesdny evenlng, when he wus not yards froms the rangers' quarters, with a detachinent of United States cavalry, Ho was ordered by the mob to return, which onder Lo respectfully obeyed, Jeaving a pack anima), gne harse, and ong of his troopers fn the hands of the niob, On the same dny an express reached Capt. Blair from Lleat. Tays, notifylng him thot subjects from Mexico wers at San Etlzarlo. ‘The flrst ald from Uncle Sam urrived on the 20th of December, too late to save :the lives of our murdered fricnds. Gen.' Hatch arrived ot EI Pago on Dee. 21, and pushed on at_once to Ban Elizarlo, 8herl{T Charles Kerber following with our rearmed rangers and twenty-soven voluntecrs from Bfiver City, N. M. “At this lxlnm: the Sherlfl arrested two of the mob, In- cnding to muke theso scoundrels dig the graves of Howard and bis murdered compantons at Ban Etlzarlo, ke put them n a wagon Sunday morning_unl started them off fu charge of guard. They had procecded about a mile when tho prieoncrs jumped from the wagon and en- deavored to escape In the dense chaparral, The guards fired on themn with fatal effect, both Greazers Leing kitled at o distance of about reventy yards. from the romd, The bodies were “carefully placed by the rond, and covered up that they might ho recovercd when the possc returncd. On entering the town of arto, threo miles south of Yslota, ono of Kerber's rangers recelved a ahot from an adoho house. His inen returned the fire, killing one Mexican and alightly wounding a woman. ~ Ker- ber then ordored one of his deputles to arrcst Jesus Teller, Captaln of the mch, and the white-llvered coward who ran his sword through Judgo iHoward's body after he was dead, Thls Inafer resisted arrest, sud was killed, ns well us snother Mexican who lad dred ot the ran- pera, {ien. Hateh then came up and advised the Bherlil to return to Yasleta till reluforve- menta could arrive, he having seon ut least 200 well-arined Mexicans on both sides of the road in the choparral. The Sherill followed tho General’s advice, and on his return here his pickets reported a troop of scventy caval- rymien crossing the Rio Grundo from” Mexivo, and_they were allowed to procced that they inight get fur cnough from the river to cno- ble us to cut them off. Ou Friday, Dee, 28, Sheri Kerner sguin started to ziva bis mur- dered friends adecent burlal, The bodles of lloward, Atkinson, and McUryde were found about three-quarters of o mile “east of 8an Lt zarlo, nude and mutilated, ‘They were discov- ered fna deep hole to which they had been draggzed by means of a rope hitched to the pomn. mel of o saddle, What do our Eastern friends think of such acts of barharisin, perpetrated by apeople claled to be Christians, axd all that 18 good und peaceable, Nelther (en, Hutch or Bherlff Kerber donbi that Cupt, Dialr is cven now well satlefled that It was not alons El T'aso County peaple who committed the recent nmur~ ders, but that they were assisted by at least 250 or 800 Mextcans from Mexico. Tlhu Balt Lukes wera only a protext. The hatred of the Greas- crs for the Gringo, the Kdea that the United Blatca Is afrulit of Mexico, and the futrigucs of an old Catholie pricst, driven from this county and now livingz av Guadaloupe, wero the cause ol our troubles. ————— AN ADVERTISING FRAUD, 4o the Fditor of The Tribune, Ciicago, Jan. 24.—I om an admirer of your «couree on tho wilver question it 1 open, frank, aud fearlees, Tho public good i your watchword, And In another respuct you huve earned the thanks of that ueually non-appreciative body, You bave successfully exposed many of tho dead-beat games whicl belng daily engineervd by unacrupulons Topucs to swindle the nususpecting Qranger, Did {tover occur to you that the merchants, manufac. turces, and tradora of this great city Luve been swindled year In and year out by dead-beat nows- vaper and advertlsing achemes! There {8 the *¥ programmer " who boasts of a elrentation of dvo 1o seven thousand, when in reslity be printe from 200 to 500, And the impecunlons Indistdual with » wesknoes for "dna{:uulu > the thualros, atarle a papee ansouncing that ** thery av long beon fult i this clty the want of o newapaper which would honestly and couruguous- Iy criticloe the dotuye of the Thespisne, . . . It Willbe the wtu of the publishors and editors to make this journal @ high-toned tamily oue, and thusren- der It un unequated mivertising wodiuw, " Lo traye cis from atore tuatore, and Juvariably claims fo s paper & wuarnnteed ciroulation of at {mul 4, 0o, *ttaken by tho beat funulics tn - the clty, ™ ' there #re th lows whu got up doctom’ diracto. rles, merchant Ill‘wlnx Kuldes, travelers® guldes, and sluidlar publicativng, which they protend to is- #ue weekly,—all arrant on ascendlug the will | fud near swindles, A laader of ficti; the Juty the Wilkins Micawber of journaliew, d toen, the top rrowing from betor to pay Faul, aud vics veiss, tuaig bonds biere aud there, sud turning liself Juride out, wherein tho creditors of the congern get loat In the mu;igle, und are nover ulterwards able 1o cole I dollar, dn!umu WO years ugo | was fna busi- 1 of the paper wd, accurdiug to the aworn statewcnts of fts vianagers, from 18,000 to 20,000 datly. On the faih of theso igares I fn. Sedted a1iudo 1 printer's fuk, but afior 3 wouth's trlal | discovercd no recompense save the slght of 1y name in moderately-larce type. Wit Iuforest 1 7ead the exauination of the buviness nisn ibe concern, as printed In your paper of Tuew Taking the balance-shoet therelu, showlng business of the coucern for the Arst ten months of 187 BEWspaDer expert, 1oL NOW i the busl~ nees, Tasked him (o fgure out tho **dally " clicus lation, He did so. with the followlug reault :;l«llh' becribers, datly, o 3, b0 oine diffcrenca betwecn the actusl daily ion and toat clatmud by the advertisning canvas- sers,—{ust the difference between ons dollse aud four, “Ibv udvertiser who inveuts 31 in (Lis cone cern, on th basls of the circulation claimed for It, getea dividend of sbout 33 ceute which s » uat er of & dullas mioro than will ever bo realized by tho creditors of the Juder-Ucsan Company, = Ex-ALVERTIER —— A Baok’s Death froms 0ld Age, Ltica Republican, There is something touching and sdmirable in the death of the Chenuugo Valley Savings Bunk. It bas run an honorable carcer, {3 out of debt, and comes to sb end because of the death of so many of its Dircctors and the great old age of tlo survivors. Mr Berry, in (ke Asesbly oo of Tuesday, moved the immediate repeal of its charter, 1o made a Hitle speech, in wiifely it s reported that he sald the hank owed nothing, Lt was unable to secure a quorizm of Trustecs owlug to the death of slx out of thirteen and the great age of theremaining seven. They de- rred, therelore, to go out of existence a8 n bank. Ile askeid that the bill he paseed now, which was done. Wnnt a contrast Is this to tho usunl reports of the winding up of savings hanka! 1a there no elixir of life which will pro- long the earthly exfstence of the surviving DI- rectors, that tlicy may he passed around atl rhotrn 28 samules of what bank oflifala may bel We fear we ne'er aball look upon their like again. The report of the conditfon of the bank rhowa that its resources arc 819,000, of which £15,000 I» cash an | £4,000 county bonds, schea- uled nas follows: “Cost, €4,000. Par value, £4,000. Estimated market ' value, = §4,000, There is 8 surplus of $130.65 on hand. This balance, though small, is on the rignt side. R B TIIE CURRENCY. UNCHAINING THE TIGER. ‘Wo have keenly felt that onc of the worst re- sults flowing from the Shylock demand for the single gold atandard of payment was the repu- dintion epirit It would evoke and arouse in the country, The course of the moneyed men of the Esst in molnteining hard times and finan- ¢ial distress in order to magnify tho valus of Ahelr loans Is the moat short-slghted folly finag- Inable. ‘Tho writer of tho subjolned communi- catfon eimply gives utterance to sentiments that are harbored n the breasta of multitud men who have not yet reached the point of openly avowing themn or acting upon them, The cure for this alarming sort of fecling Is to change the financial policy of the Governmnent and arrest contraction of the mouney valus of commodities and real estatg, stop the fulling market that fs killlug oll busioeas men and mavufacturers, and thereby removo the des- peration which men driven to the wall fecl. HOW BMALL THE HONDS BE PAIDT To the Editor af The Tribune, BrooMINaTOX, [11., Jan. 22.—Inconstdering the present depressed condition of husiness, the de- preciation of property, distress among the peo- Ve, poverty and hunger among the laborers, and the searclty of mouer, it may be well for the advocates of an exclisivo gold basts, and the admirers of herole fluauce, to look ahead nad {nquire, How will the bonds of the nation, States, ang municinalities be paldd There s o muuntain of debt on the shoulders of Amerivan lavor which must be patd, sealed, or repudioted, The national and almost tho entire amount of all other clusses of debts In the United States were contrteted on the basis of o paper currency below coin value. Our municipal indebtedness Isiucxcess of that of unyother eivilized natlon in suwsnt, sud bears an aversge rate of inter- est more than double that of the public corporaLions {n oy of the commercial natfons of Europe. ‘The sgercgate taxation fs enore mously ubove the surpius vroduets of the labor of-the peaple. ‘The catire volume ol the cir- enlating medinm 18 annually absorbed by the local und natlonul taxzutherers. The wrave question of the of the preseot, How shall the houds be puld1 has a graver signlifcunce than is imagined by tho bondholder demanding gold, It mgnifles o vertons and well-grounded doubl of abil- ity to pay, The rate of taxation necessnty fo de- {ray the extravagant cetlmates of Clty Governments, together with the hich rates of interest on our bonded debts, Is above that of any other clvillzed puople, and it con only be a quasilon of tme, un. der present conditions, when property-owners wiil Acck protection clther by an appeal to thy law. making power to llmit suffraze, or an appea) to the clectors to cast from thelr shonlders the griovous burdena thoy bear for thu benefit of men who pay o laxes. Capitalists andd thielr sotained champlons should have o care to furnluh the poople with no plauslble pretext for the destruction of vablic eredit, It s difficult cnouzh to prescrve ?nbllu credit even under favorable condlifons of prosperity, T nationai fnancinl poliey hax been for ten yo Jast, without oxceptlon In the inkorest of dealera in nda nnd gold, awl bas effected the detriment and deatruction of all ather clussen of property and the dogeadation and pauperization of labor. Debis payable tn legnl-tender_notes have been dectared payable in gold alone. Vested with the power to cuin the uwilun» mietals, and nowhere uuthorized In the Constitutlon to prohibit their colnave, tho Congrers, at tho dictation of hondliolderr, hae monctized aliver and prohibited fia free'e ‘Tucse oppressive acts are not only unjust, but dangerous, heing aluied at the undermining of pob- e credit, Public credit rests on public virtue, the lionor of the people, and ability to pay, These acts have wrecked thoitsands of fortuncs, closed hundreds of banks, aud taken food. snd <clothing from a miilion of our people, and, with the Insldious fatality of & malignant epidemic, are !Krfl\llllll discaso throughout the body volitle. Ho the nPIulhlv, In whose Intercets thoae lawa wero passed, suppose that men with pinched siomachy, oan and huugry, haunted by the crion of starsing children and ragwed wiven, will contintie to voto tases upon themaclven ln order to lm{ thelr cheap srecuback debta {n dear pgold? Dy they sunposs that the bankrupt merchint, the {mpoverished farmer, und the unfed mechanle will be tenderly sentimentasl abuut tha mllulcicll or natlovsl bonds, when they have no monoy to buy meat and bread? Unless the peouls vote tho taxew, the public dobts wlil not be pald, hero might be some hope for public credit if our troubles were ovor and better times were aliend. But we are just on tho verse of the wateni. Thera ia abaptism of bankruptey and he)l just beforons. The present stagnation in hnafuoss will becomo thie ealm of postilence, Fam- ine und voverty, linked hand {n hand witl unfed Iabog, will walk through our silent factorles aud Razc with hungry cyes through the thin plates of slana that ataud octiveen them and food und cloth= Tho Idle bands of Inbor will dual In deds pf mfschief. Tirend' rlota and revnes of blood afd violence will enane, osin Encluul Aty years agu, when that natlon Wad prepared for resumption, ns we have not. Durdeued with dubt, and crazed with calamities, tho American puo- plo “whl saceiice publo credit on ° the sltar of public necesnity, sud thelr bonds will goto an oternsl protest,” This will be the fn- eviiuble result of tho pulicy lnauguruted by John Hharman 1u violence of all hls public pledgcs,—at war with the Industrics of his country, und" as the most {nsldious eneiny of te crodit, In anewer to the chlrfio of dishonesty and repudintion, §t wil} Lo uugrily s11d 0 the hoiders of the brotested Lontls, **You Joancd us greenbacks and refuscd to rocelve eitlor greunbacka or sliver In payment of your detta; you corrupled Congresa to legielate in Juur Jutcresty, end that legielation liss bankrupted he country; we luvo no woney iid we cannot ation of tho destroyed yreent chaunela of trade muy svest the troubled ahend, but thesa essntca Of roliof aro upposcd by tho wen whoare wore than «ll others Interoated in thole epaciment, ** Quein Deus vull perdere, Drivs deny entat,” C. Suackeeronn, HUGH M'CULLOOCIU'S FALLACIES, To the Editor of The Tribune. GnAND Havips, Mich., Jau. 22, —The fallow. inz extract from Sceretary McCulloch's report n 1805 set forth the coutraction polley In fts most alluring form, It hos been carrled since Into practico, with the results we now sco and fool: ‘The rapldity with which the Government unotes can bo wlthdrawn will depand upon the ubility of thy Socrotary to diapose of secarities. The fuily- enceaof funding upon tho money warket will auni- ciently provent thelr too rapid withdrawal, ‘The Becrulary, however, belleves tuat a decided move- mont toward a coatraction of the curroucy s not ouly a public noceasity, but that {1 will epcodily disstpate the upyreheusion, which tery generully eriata, that tho "effect of auch a policy must neces- sarily'be Lo make money scarce and to diminish (he prosperity of ths country, 1t 16 a well-atabiisted Tact, which has not eacaped tho sttention of ult ju- telligent obsa, , that the demand for muney - creascs (by reasun of anadvanca of prices) with the supply, and that this demand is uot unfrequently most presaing when the volume of curruncy is the largost and infotlon hus rexchod the culmlnatiog point. llan-( beint o very unprotiiable articls (v Bold, very Tithta ta. witnheld fron aciive ‘ase, and in propoftiou to s increuse prices advance; oa the other hand & reduction of 1t redaces prices, au ricus arv reduced the demand for it fulls off; ¥ IMI‘I paradoxical sa it way seew, nutlou of the currency may fu fact Jacre luxplv of it. ‘or naed ikere be any apprehension that u reduc- ton of the currcncy, unlvss It be a violenl une, will injuriously ailect real proaperity (1), Luabor sa R great sgurce of watlonal wealth, sud fndustry invariably decliues on au tuflated nnmn:v(?. ‘The valus of money depends on the waunor fo which it is used. If “1t stimulates produciive in- dustry, It is & beaefit, ' If, on she otber, it imin- ndustry, and (o the extent It dimluisbes i1, ovil. “Lven in the form of precivus imetal n Dul prove to be wealth to & uation. fdea that & country is neceasanly rich in proporilun Lo the swonut ulfuld or sltvor Which it pusscesvs fs @ cummon and natural, but su crronecus, oue, hila thie oplalon that res! prosperity le advauced n incréasy of paper money beyund what s edud &3 & medluts of exchauges of v totally fallaclous that fow sane en unlertaln It whoss Jucguient Is not clouded by the pecultar duanclal slmosphers which an fufla- tiou k4 s0 apt to produce. An irrodecinably paper curroncy may bo & uocessity, but Ii can scarcely fail, it'loug comtiuued, to be & calawity to auy pevple, Gold @ud silver are (Ae 0Aly proper mease ures of walus. They have been madd 5o by thetacit agrecient of aatlons, and are the Bucessary royus Jator of trade, the medium by which velues &ro settled botween different countrics aud Letween scctions of e sawme coantry. o umiversal Wieasure of tulus, they dre @ comsmnercial nieces- aty, ste. - Hero we have the poli~y urged and the predic- tions made as to beuctits to be derived from the polley. We are now in a conditivn by gclual ez- perience to gudnmul the bevetits uf the ‘)ollcv; and also a8 to the correctness of Lhe prophecice. ‘Were the spprebeuslons that then generally ex- lated disetpaied, sud did ot tho facty fustity the apprebensiousi Has o reduction of the cur- rency benefictally affected real prosperity! Has It promoted the lutercst of labur uud udustry, whicli he saye fa the ereat foures of uatlonal wealth? Contraction of the currency was only the entering wedge of a polley that was carrled ont by his kiczessors, the demonetizing of sfl- vor baing the crowning act: the end of swhich nomancanas yet forctell the conseruences, ‘That last article of ¢ P T. T. square on the head, The present liver bill Iy the demand of the eountsy for the aurrendering biack to us the financlal Fort Sumter, which was taken by trickery and fraull—by watered stocks, huge lind-grants, and_excluslve priviieges to tlasses, We have tn the conntry a powerful combination. Do you fesr thelr power? This #{lver bill {9 the test, I this bill docs not pass, the yoke 18 secarely fastencd wpon your necks, Woe unto yon poot plodders when it shall sult thelr Interists to prod you with their Conzres slonal goads. Micnaax, THE BUTLER ITALF-AND-ITALF NUMBUG, Ta the Fiditor of The Tribune, Critcaao, Jan. 2.—Why not acttle this cur- reucy quesifon by paying our bonds obligations one-half” In gold sud of sitver, romething after the following: Witenzas, The United Btates of America lave ol:‘llnndlng cortain oblikations payadle in coln; an Witrngas, At the time rald oblications were d cofn Included both guld and siiver; and WizrEan, Atsaid sime goid and silver dollars were abott equal In value: and Wirnear, Owing to cireuin nelther party to said oblixation trol, tho relative vaiue of silver therefore, Lo it Mlesolred, 'Thal nald obligation ar agreement Lo pay in coin shall bo taken 1o mean onc.half goid aud onc-lall sllver coins of tho guality and fingnesn at the time #ald eblizations were mndo. Wo think something like the above would bring about !Fu-lc payments in an easy and Bealthy way. Tho demand for gold, for profly merclv, beliz offset by the diseount on iver, whiic the erecnhack, on secaunt of convenienen 1n handling, woulid be preferred for aclreulating medinm, Agaln, it would enable us to utilize our stlver pruduct, and lost, but not Jeast, it gives usus a nation an ooportunity of befng Just, which Is o duty, without being generous, which su large a_portion of our community can- notat present afford to be. Very teuly yours, L Anp 8, [On the contrary, we rezard the scheme pro- nosed by (len. Butier in the silver caucus as no solution of tha monctary questiun at all, and as unstatesmnnlike and absurd. Tts adoption would feail to endless trouble and confusion, and satiefy melther debtors or creditors; it would tend to prevent rather than to nromote cen over which hnd any con- changed; now theestablishment of an equilibrium of volume be- tween the to metals. Dut a fatal objectiun to the schieme s that it destroys the debtor's op- tion W pay In which of the two nctals be pleases, The debtors had always enjoyed this tight of option from: the foundation of the Gos- crnment down to 1574, when It was clandestinely When the sllver dollar 1s restored to the cireulating mediuny, tho debt- It s his taken away from them. or's option must be restored aiso, right, snd must ot Lo surrendered. His gelf- proteetion requires it. o is now suffering the ovll consequeuces of being cheated out of It No {all-and-'alf " arrangement will do. But- ler's achetnc §s not practicable nor falr, ns it pro- pozes to deprive the debtor of balf his ancient oution right of payment, That option must be restorod iu its entirety,—En.] 1S TIIE OLD SILVER DOLLAR STILL ENDERY Cnicaao, Ja 21,~—Seerctary Sherman stated, fn o recent letl er to the Burlingion Hawkeye, grulns way that the old siiver dollar of 412 this morntn I find o states ourulzed in 1874 as full le; duties by the Treasury Department. Tue ‘CutnuNg stated editorlally u few days ago that tke old eilver dollar wus legal-tender to the amount of §5. have o legal friend who argues that the siiver dollar s not now Iezal-tender for uny mnount. He suys: The Revised Statutes, which by act of Conzress supersedu all the eencral (uws of the United Btatea ln_cxistence up to Dee, 1, 1873, declare that the silver colns of the United States shall be a trade-dotlar, n half-doltar, 0 guarter, and dtine, and that sakd coing shall bo a legal-tendar for €5, Hence the old_sllver dollar {3 oot a a)i- ver cofn of the United States, und connot be legal-tender, Now, who s right, Secretary Bherman, Tie TRIBUNE, or the lawyer? C. [Tt is possible that Scerotary Shorman snay bave assumed that the question wan n Hawkeye Joke, aud unswered accordingly.—Ep. | THE EQUITY O THY, MATTER. To the Liditor of 1% T'ribune, Cepan Favrs, In., Jan. 22.—The creditors of the nation sold their coln for depreciuted paper money, and with that paper money, worth from 5 ceuts and upwards, bought ut var the honds of the Government, unon the faco value of which they bave received coln interest. With this depreciuted papermioney the Governe ment pald the soldiera from €13 to 816 per monthy thus it will be seen that the solifers at one time recelved less than 85 per month, Now lovk ot the equity (1) of the Guvernment In this matter. ‘To the creditors from whom this deprecluted mounyr wos recelved, It has agreed to puy in coln. To the soldier, who was compulled to receive It in payment for services fu the field und the privilese of iyiug fu Libby and Andersouville, no return hus been offered, As goldiers, let us demaml that our wages bo mado goud Iu gold, aswe were the nctunl losers, AN 1801 VoLunTess. e —— CURRENT OPINION. It an Tndependent onn earry the Oity of Memphls againat the regnisr Democratio candidate by a majority of 1,100, how large o majority ought Judge Jey, tunning on an Indepeudent, nntl- Repadiation ticket, (o raceive fu the blate &t Inrge?—Cinclunaté Gazetts (Rep.)s ‘Tho President will probably pign the Bil. ver bt In epite of John Sherman, N it passcs by a govd maloeity, If the bill becomes & law, Sher- man shonld reeign at once and emlzrate to Ger- many, whero Ihemarck mizht be foulish cnough to emuloy him on the tortured finances of the Empire. —Loulatitle Courler-Journal (Dem.). ‘Wo hopo our Democratle friends will tnke notlce that M. C. Butler, of Bouth Carolinn, yoted with tbe snti-siiver men {n the Senate, and will remember that he s & resumptioniet of the worst kind. A wan who will trade with Patierson will aell ont to tha bondholde; hylocks, sharks, n'n‘I;I m’onapallm every time, —~leoria Democrat em.). We are glad to see an effort to popularize tho 4-per-cent Joan, Tiut the Lartern vriters who havo been charzing that silver remonetizaiion (s repudiation know that by the terins of the le- funding act the 4 por cents aro payoblo in miver, “Thero 1u no doubt aboat it. Tho wuy 10 popularize the loan 14 to Lel} the trath atout silver.—Cincin. natl Commereial (Ind, Rep,), ‘I'ho fact is, the President s guining friends among the people dally by hls straightforward couree, aud his obious attempt to have au bonest sud well-admlnlsiered Giovernment. v effurte to Lift public aalre out of the political ruts into whicl, without the 44 caro, iy aro suro 1o drift, meet the warmeat uppreclations of the peo- e, however wmuch the political leaders, who have orelofors had contral of the entir imachine, ana ru it o thelr own personul benedt aud agurundize uient, oy scold aud make up faces,—Montpsiier (V6.) Walchman und Journal (Kep. ), We have uo special admiration for Mr. Bchnrz, but we bellove that In this matter ho has wleoly aud fustly, Thore are great number ubtle and dangerous rascale whose busioess It is 1o plunder the Government snd the Indlsne: and tha officlals will nevar be ablo to defvat theie villalufes, and conducl the buslness of the Bureau Louestly aud eMclontiy, i the Liead of the Depart- ment 18 40v tendor-hearted (2 rewove av tneapable subordinate wlio can vlcad fn his defense thit ho was honest snd meant to do his duty, bat the Ia’un) were (oo sbarp for bitw.—Worcater Spy " A The Southern peoplo, we bolleve, wero perfectly wiiliog to goto any exiremity, vot even exceptiug thut of war, for the purposs of seating the man whom thalr votes Lad boiped oo largely to clect. The couneels of caatlon came from Mr. Tilden himseif, and from Mr, Hewltt, who way suppused o gepresent bim: and were heartily cursed by the Soulhern peuplé, Nor was there any fescntment on b part of any Boutheruer Whom we ever heard wueak on thy wabject tuward Jr, Tidva because of bis letter on Southern claii. Nor was thcre any fecliug tuat local covernmeni was of mora impoftance taan a Democrutlo Federal Adwinistration. 'The South espected o guin both together. Nor waa thero suy beart-buyolui ubout Mr. Tliden's nowinasuon, s the Jndes-Appeal, which opposcd It to 1he laat mouient, ought 4o know.—Leteradurg (Va.) Index- Avpcul (Dea. ). Wo hoar that the bankers sud capitalists of tho East ha: oed to make po wore ludus to the people of the West aud South, except in gold oad on thelr promise 0 pay gold. Wo sincerely Lopu this i true; for, if true, it ds the beal news wu hiave heard for msny s day. in s far s thls combinatlon IHI{ tend Lo restrict Eeouk from bor- Fowiug, 1t s of The greatest beneht; that is Lo say, overy dutlar tho people of tho Weat and South dun't borrow 14 Just s0 much In \heir puckets soouer of later. Ut oven this i3 uub whole boaet t0 the couubryi . fur Ll wew rale whl stimulate the peopls sho raise tho corn and pork. the becf, twool, tobacen, and cotton, th demand gold for thalr prodnce from the ennenmern of the East, 1f there 18 1o bo a sec- tional quarrel over this nuestion of enrrency, an we hare long feared, lot the people who supply the world witn fond and clothing, and with the great Inznries of tobacca, suzaf, and splrite, make the mortof it. The Silver bill will pasn, and pive all {he heopie e snecie.cnmmoncy; @t let un bave tha gold standsrd In all srctional edchances, Now, Iet the prople of New York get 8 new form of tnortgazes and truat-deeds printed, with gold ex- preescd bi them in the hizg-st kind of letters, se #00m ag possibies tmt Jet thom remember that gol st come for the corn, And wheat, and beel falsed In 1477, fiest. We rathor expect the gold will come West for fond befora it zoes East to psy dente, ‘Rah for the gold combinatlon,—Soring- JEd (L) Reaister (Dem. ), In Boaufort, in (leorgetown, and in Bum. ter, where special clections have recently been held, the Republicans, on s strictly party lenae, e0 made by them, elected their candidates, The elec. tlon In Besufort was for Stato Senator. So faras weknow, the election In not even contested, and the Henator elect took hir seat when ha nresentod bim- #elf yesterday. In Georgetoren the election was for certaln county officers, There te no conteet, and the oflicers-clect will be commiseloned when they give the bonds required by laws framed and pasred by Republicans, In Sumter the cirction was for membern of the Leginlatnra. Af+ ter the election, rome perrons. undountedy Deta- ocrats, broke np or carried off enangh bailot-hozes and hallota to leave the Democratic candidate o mafority of the remaining batlots, ‘Thero bar pre- vinualy been a count af the vote which shawed that the Republican candinate wan #lected, The fom- missloners, in the abeence of an offclal enunt, made no roturn of the election: but, npon the statements made, the Tioasa of leprescntatives, on Totirsday, admitted the Repoblican (Johnston) tn h1a seat, @ having & prima facle title. Join to thera factn the furtlicr fact that & majority of the Managers of Election At every precinet, and of tho Commlnsioners of Election in cach county, aro Democratr, and nothing further ix needed. wo thin, 10 prove that there I8 frovdom of clection in Kouth Carolina, and that Republicans who are elected to officoare not subject Lo any conditionn or reatrictions other than those fmnused equally upon Al citizens of (ho State.—Charieston (8 C.) Nerrs und Gourieg(Dem “WOMAN'S RIGILTS.” Mra, Bwisshelm Expresses Herself In Regard ta the Leaders of That Movemout. To the Edttor of The Tyibune. 8wissvaLy, Pa., Jan. 22.—Keports from Wash- ington say that, at the recent annual presents- tlon of petitions through the Woman's Rizhts Convention, Senators behaved in a most undig- nifled manver,—laughing, coughing, jesting, keeping upsu sside-plsy of ridicule, ete.,etc.,—ns thouch they had no fear of laay-reporters be fore their eyes. Scnator Oglesby is sald to have becn particulorly offensive in his demoustra- tions, and has been “acalped by more than onc feminine brave. One reporter of the Sen. ate scene says: “A female lobbylst In bangles would have commanded more respect than did the petitious of thousauds of respectable women of Iiliuols.” This 18 a grave chargo. It seems unaccounta- ble that Atnerican men should te disrespectful tn womnen, or that the Scnate should treat any legitimate petition: with lovity and contempts and, for the sahe of the land I luve, 1 beg leave to make an explanatfon, Bome eight years ago, a colerle of women ap- pointed themselves representatives of the wuinen of Awncrica, guardiaus of thelr Interests, and redressers of thelr wrongs. Thev rushed to Washington to berin thelr labors and reapan tmmediate reward of glory. and openied the ward a8 the Comine Womau; the gowng-to-be Prealdent of this Republic: the woman who was to be lifted ou the shoulders of Woman-Suffrage to sit with Victoria of Enzland, ete., ote., cte. ‘Through thelr combined efforts, and by claim- ing the right to speak and act for women who repudiated and desplsed them, they won this representation of their cause o Senatorial recog- nitlon, the memory of which may well bring o blust to the chieek of any Amerivan Scuutor. Even when hier character was known, they con- tinued to aflllate with licr, and Mrs. Cady Stan- ton, President of this lusulted Convention, In furtherance of the Woodhull doctrine lectured atl over this country in favor of makiug divorce as casy as marriage! Eveu the ehaste and noble Susan B. Anthony, uader the influence of that Woudhull fnfatuo. thon, urged lml»llcl)‘ thie dufy of decent women aliliatiug with the other kind, becauso men had supported and bonored Henry Clay and Danfel Webster, knowing thelr Hves to bo impure, In other words, they have openly sivovated the throwing down of the only dike which holds hack the incoming flood of soctal pollution, for the reasou that 1t fa the ouly oncl Vil men ars udmitted to places of bonur and rmm: therefore, say these social ‘rhllwophcrs. vile wo- nien must also bo admitted to places of honor and proiit, that we may nll et on the broad phu)nmx of good, level cquality ! This leading principle they have fndustrlonsly weided to the deniand o1 “universal Womau- Builrice, and have so united the fdea of a wouman'a right to vote with a prostitute’s right tu soclal recognition and the general discuption of marriage-obligations, that, In the minds of the great tnass of reading people in this and other lands, & \WWoman-Suffrugist incaus a Free- Lover. 10 turtherance of their plans, they have gone annually to Washlngzton aud held burlesque Cuonventions; Conventlons which bear about the samy retation to deliberative bodies that « mio- etrel *Hlamlet " does to the legithaate drama} Conventions In which the Presilont ts always the principal speaker; Conventions in and for which rules are made and programmes pub- lished for the express purpose, it would appear, of being disregarded,~s0 that, if one wauts to know whut fs not golng to be done, one need only read the ndvertlsements, or hear the an- nouncements from tho Chalr, of what is to po une, "I'hia coterle of women, clalming to represent the sex, have, in the condfuct of thelr Washing- ton campaigns, shown a shameful disregard of moral and lvgal obligations; have detied mn- metpal law and police regulations; have gotten up wobs fn the Capitol-bullding, and rows on their own platfori, which called for the inter- vention of the police. Indeed, 1t {s conimon for hoys amd rough nien to attend, in bupe of wit- necssing & scene, And, while toey have thus been behaving like rowdies, they have demand. ed 10 be treated as lndl u8Y, a8 the solf-sac- riticing emancipators who gwere throwing them- selves between tyrannical Congressmen and the wives und muthers who were represented, not by thelr busbands and sons, but by thess Free- Love mobovrats! The very contral iden of thelr appearance In Washington is that of the feinale lobbylst. Jt was by the overwhelming influence of their per- sonal presence, by thrusting themasclves toto Committeo-rooms and Congresalonal halls in all the glory of elegsut tollettes and winning sinlles, backed by fattery, and tho eloquent reading of specches, that they hoped to carry thelr point, I have seen a good deal of lobby- Ine, but have no knowledee of mors artful ap- veals 10 personal vanity, on the one side, and display of persoual charms, on the other, than have ~characterized thls ~Suffroelobbying. Murcover, tuese lubbvists have uscd Woman- Sullrage as & lever by which they buped to pry open the doors of the Public Treasury snd et apurovriations for very doubtful scherue Il wotnen of distant localities pleass to themselves and thelr petitions to become the catspaw of these *‘fair’ Treasury-rabbers. tney have 'uo rignt to cowsplaln of any rebuff they may recelve, . ‘I'wo years ago [ went to Washington to apply for a patent for my ventilativg furuacs, and was surprised to ud & fricud ready to go to the Wousn's Rights Convention, of which I had noy heard. My friend was very cnthusisstic about Mrs, Barah 8pencer, s womsn who was running a tiit aguinst the Soclal Evil; who bad visited all the houses of inc, learued thelr secrety from the lutnates, and carri of the public men fuher V the wauy discoveries she b was then preasing Congr to start o * Reform Sch From the instances glv a school, § could not quite make out whether it was most ntended to protect seducers trom the wruth of fudignant ntuunior to save fheir viee tus from further crime. Reachiog b8 hall, we “foumnd & large mvctiig retber badly managed; and the woman n the chalr explained that the Prestdent of tuat Conventlou had goue, with Mrs. Spencer, toweet a Congressional Commit- tee and urge thut sppropristion for that school. 1 could uot seo what a National Woman-Suf- fruvo Aseoclation had to do with that Reform Sehiool, but was suxious 10 ses tho women then talkiug with a Committes ol mew on su delicate asubject. Dpletured thew us grave aud sev- erend vrandwmotlers, selected for their diguity sod whwdow; und went back fu the evenlog to sce thew, and bear Fred Douglass, who was advertised to lecture. Wuat was iy surprise when Hnfifuencu was poluted out l—a youny, baudsome, tall, graceful wowan fu a pullback aod long trali; withe brilliant comwplexion, looklug us If it had come from sb spothccary-shop; the jauutlest bat I ad seen that winter, aud il tho'uther accesso- rice ul @ fusbilonable tuilotte! Then that Presl- deoti—s Iarge, raw-boned, squasv-shouldered wouwal, with yellow balr, dressed s la Pompa- dour, Wigh clicek-boues and very red chiceks, eluse-Ottiug, fushlonable custuuie, of mixed 5 ad 1nade, aud who s for an npx:mpthuon for (lirls, 1 of the need of such campain by tbrusting Victorfa Woudhull for-, colora,—the very personifcation of an over- dreascd servant-gir] | When I thought of those two women repre- senting the feminine deifcacy of America, while closeted with aret of men to comfer on the soclal evil,~well, my face burns and my blood tingles to-dav at lhuughl of the Inault thus of- fered to the women of this country! The Con- greestonal Committee which fatled to show them the door, and bow them out of {t un- heard, wero derelict to duty,—the -lulf they owed to all those women at a distance who had Innocently and Ignorantly committed their cause to” euch advocates. This very-much- dressed, and befringed, beflounced, and he- powdered President soon aroee to embrace her opportunity, By sdvertisiog Dourlass, she hald brought a full house to sce Licr oml cothes aud hear the sprech she had prepared for the even- ng. Thia she procesded to dellver. Btanding first on one foot, then on the other, she rocked slowly fromn side to side; and, tn a stog-song, monotouour tone, with s strong nasal twanu, and In very bad English, she relfeved her mind for a full hour of a bundle of plati- tudes which the sudience ondared with what patlence they coulil, waltlng for Douglaas, who was on the platform’ but, when she wuun up and sat down, there was another harungue, urnhonl the same style, then another, from two other women. Finally, at 10 o'cluck, this windy President saaigned the (inor to the orator of the evenings and O hut Fred did ekin her and the other **eloquent ladies " who had used him to bring an nfifium and liold it whilethey talked, Hut he might as well have whipped the wind as try to wound them through their impenetra- ble psnoply of eclf-conceit! They took thelr akinning as voolly as a frox does Lhe druwing off of Win old drawers, Even then Mra, Prestdent was not throngh; and after Douglass had closed, she hegged the nudience to remaln while she exhibited herself in the role of o smartyr, There is & muuicipal law In most citfcs, re- quiring a llceare-fee frum al) assamblics collect- g a feeat the door. She bad resorted tun trick to wet an sudience? the fee b lected; now she was not eolng | NotabitofItl Slie was goine to aod going to bea martyrl Mrs. Lockwood, a sworn attorney of the Disteict, and in fact the Conventioniats without a disacnting voice, sus- tatned her in this herole resolve, and she pe mitted the peaple to lcave while she congratu- lnwlhllerw fin having achigvod & graud tri- umph. Last winter's Conventlon was professedly couducted hy Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony, and showed “the eame indifference to nrinted programines, advertisements, and established tules. Tho Preeident tolked—talked—talked in tho time previously asalgned to other speakers by vublish anhouncement: and {x'nmud entfsfsction because the peoply listened 0 hier. They advocated unlversal soffrage for woman and Hmited suffrage for mauw, on tho acoro of equality!~got up & row om the platform, throueh a total disregard of thelr own rules; had the audience in s tumult, and brought 1n the potice. ‘Ihis year they proposed to get up another mah, and take forcible porsession, not only of the posrage-waya of the Cavltol-bullding and a Committee-room, s they did before, but of the Senate Chamber fteelf:” and now, when tliey have et the \'er{ milid reproof of & little Ben- atorinl rdicuie, they calt u[mn all the women of the country tu eapouse thelr quurre!, and each orie to look uvon the Scnatorlal laughiter as an Insult to hersell, and an outruze on the cause of humat frecdom Bince the Scnatora chiose to use ridicnle as a meaus of reproof, they ecrtalnly appiled it very sparingly. If every Senator bad broken luto o guffaw, “lain down, rolled over and laughed, thrown up his heels, held his sides and roared, 1t could scarce lave expresscd more ridicule than the case required; but it would huve been much better had they refused to present the petitions, at least whilethe lobbyists were pres- ent. 1t was undignified for them to play the part assigned to them by these schemers fu the clap- trap theatricals which have been acted and re- acted winter after winter, of the slinultancous presentation of petitions under the eye of a sct of female lobbylets In bangles and dangles, and whatever other sccessory Iz most Hkely to add llu their personal influence with Congress- men Away with such trickery in any cauee! If the women of 1luols, or any portion of them, want to petitlon Congress for the ballot, let then send their petitions to the Member from their district, or une of thelr Senators, aud not aliow thetr names to be used as un excuse for procevil- fugs which should make every woman's cheek burs with shame, and put cvery mon on his wetal to defend thoes dear to him from such degrading associutfous. Those women who per- mit themsclves to be used by such o clique of Congressionul lobbyists deserve to have tielr Iwuumu spurned, and I trust Cangressmen whl have the coursze and good senee ta apurn them. . Auy anovement for udding to the present number of lznorant, {mprovident voters is sin- gulurly Inopportune, if ft were nothing worso; and people who have su Hitle scnse as to usk Congress to double the num! of voters, while giving evidence that the ne aupprl‘)' is ta have even less sensc and less morul principly thau the old, are better fitted for luuatic asy- luws than the conduct of polltical aflairs, We have too mauy drresponsible, Iguorunt, non-tax- paylug voters now, sud want no more of thom, 8 tu the superior sense or morality of wom- en over men, facts fall to suetuin assumptions, Mrs. Speucer, last winter. tn a prellminary mecting, stated that of 10000 women wio bad signed thelr Constitution, bindipg esch 1o pay €1 per annum Into the treasury, only 100 had Pkl the dollar; and she was Sceretury or Treas- urer uf the t‘m-lcla'. Now, If sue.told truth, thereis one woman, and only one {n o thousand of those asking to be enfrauchised, to whoi it would by safe to extenid that trust. The (49, who bave so lttle sensa of honor, or of the obllgation af a written contract, had better keep on at the nld busiuess. of wushing distes, and signing aud procuring algnatures to temperance-pledges, to be broken ke cluy pipes. It Mrs. Spencer slandered her Aasociation, it cannot blame Senators for treating with ridl. cule a Society represented by such oflicers; uud it Senator ualuuz, Or aby other man, can cons trive any way to cear the Capitol of that nest of lobbylats, he will deserve the thanks of every sonslble woindn [ the land. JANK GREY SWIssuELN. ——e— MICHIGAN PIONEER SOCIETY. Avecial Inawaich ta The CAtesao Trvhuns, Laxsing, Mich. Jun, 34—At the coming meeting of the State Ploncer Soclety, Feb, and 7, the followiug Intereulp pagers will ba read: Bketch of the French Bettlements in Michigan, by J., V. Campbell, of Detroft; Sketch of the Early llistory of Lenawee County, by Jon J. Adsms, of Tecumsch; Sketch of thy City of Jackson, by Michuel Bhoemaker, of Jackson; litographical Notes ana Incidents of the Ploneer Lifo of Mrs, R. B. Norris, by her Rragd-dangliter, L. D, Norris, of Grand Rapids; on the Jleceut Discovery of the Loug-Loal Grave of Pere Marquetts at Polnt Iguace, by Dr. George Dutlleld, of Lansing: Incidents Connected with the Early History of Nottawaslppi ruirie, 8t, Josepi County, by 8. C. Colfinberry, of Constantine; The Ploncers of Micbigan, Telr Devotion to Fdueational in- terests Historically Ilustrated, by F. J, Litgle- johip, of Allegan; Bettlement of S8hlawusseo County, by 8. B, O, Willlaws, of Owosso: dur- wey of the Biate Road from Suginaw to Macki- naw, h‘ the saine; History of Inghum County, by O. M, Barnes, of Lanslug; Memulr of the Hon. A, N, Hart, by members of his famfly; Early Banking {n Michigun, by A, Felch, of Ann Arbor; Orgaulzation of Bay Couuty. by Isaac Marston; Early Reminiscences of Mlehfgun, by George C, Bates; Lewanee County Ploncer Boctety, by F. A. Dewey, of Cambridie; Life and Times of the Rev. Abel Bingham, Mtission- ary to the Sault Ste. Marle, by his daughter, e et~ - EASTERN AND WESTERN INDEBTEDNESS. To the Editor of The Tribune, Cuicaco, Jan. 24.—For several months past, many Esstern papers buve been busy making state. weats disparaging to the West and {ts enoraons {ndebleducss, which It was anzlous 1o pay I cheap mopey, —I. ¢., silver st ta original standard value, It ls probably true tLat o one clreum. stauce bas caused s0 many people o examine the question of remonetizing silver, carefully and In. tellizently, thereby adding strengih to & varty, as bas the manuer of treating 1t by portion of the Esstern proes sod bsnk intereste. The specics of bulldozing In which they bave in- qulged has made this a proper occasion for look. ing into this debt question sud sscertalning what the condition of the Wesl veally iu In comparison with the Eust, Iludlng statistics ie at Dest dry aad dull work, but io this lustauce It s ecesssry fur au fatelligent comprebension of the facts. The following table sbuwe the estimaled true value of real and personal D'B%flfl’ in the States of New York, Maseachusetts, Jlinols, and lowa, » -gun by the United Btatcs census roporis for 870 1 been col- that feel AT R trethis illinols IR lowa... LTI Thoe total 5tate, county, town, snd city delbts of theae Statos 1u 1870, a4 shown by the same tables, woro: Now York. #1604, 234 Mussacnusel o 31 Jlinoda 2iatem wa 50 134 u that the valus of peresual ooty 1u Mazsachuselis i 1570 was 20, and real In New Yurs 4y, tu Illigols 47, aud lu luws 80 timen greater than thelr respective State, conaty, town, and clty debia, 1t will probably be admltted that, since 1873, tha Staten of Illinnia and lowa, of which the weaith Is for the most part in agricuiture, have fared far bet- ter than New York and Massachuaotts. The shrink- 226 In the value of farn proporty in the formes haa been & mere nathing In comparison with the shrink- age fn the latter Statew of merchandise, manufac. tirres, ity and town resitice, ralironds, hanks, and mieslianeoun atocks, 4 By reason of the new conmtitational Jimitation, the nublic deht of {1linols has been decreased alnca 1870, but he public deatsof New York and Massa- hoon largely Increased, the State debt of Maswachnsetts and ¢ity doht of finston amounted to §70,470,851, or 210,000,000 mare than the total State, county, ¢ity. and town debit of the State in_1870; and the Etate deht of New York and the dobt of New York City, in 1877, wan $177,080,243, or $20,000,000 greater than the Hiate, connty, city, and to fiebtof ihe eotire State in 1870, '(Ses Poor's Manual, and lorter on Municipal Debta, Galazy, September, 1877, 18 lmpasaibte to aseertain the amount of per- sonnl fndehtedneey, bntit1s 8 notabla fact that nearly all th loan avencies have been withdrawn from over twenty counties In_Mlinols since 1870, for the rearon that th Joeal capital had becoms sufficient to aupply the demand. The cireular “of Dun, Harlow & Co. for 1877 throws mome light 'on the relatlva _con- ditian” of bunineas In the East and Weat. Thelr eircuiar auates that in the Enst mistorcuna had come ta one buaincas man oot of every hirty- {hree. with laniitlen Mvcrazing $10,381, fin&l{n ¢ Weat to ong In every elghty-four, wi abill- ticn averaging 820,347, While New York and Massachuretts have already developed the greater pact of thelr sgricnitural 2lility, and must depend for their futurs increase ou the accretionn to capltal aiready sccumalated, and o the profita on hasineas which is liable 1o chango from one locality to_ snother, Weatarn States, like Tlfinolx and lowa, hava just begun to dovelan their azricnltaral resources, and aro sharp competitora of the Esst in manufactaring and gen- eral hnsiners, Follow the question of wealth and Httic further, and it Is fonnd that gold, as well as silvor, 1e prodaced in tho Far Wesl, and that the cofton, graln, and provisions for export, which brinz gold in retarn, aro produced {n the Weat and Bouth. The fourteen great grain-growing snd gald-and-sflver producing Western States,—Ohlo, Michigan. Indlans, Kentucky, Tliinols, Wirconsiny Minnesuta, fowa, Mixsonrl, 'Kanesa, Nebi 3 Oregon, Nevads, and Californts,—with an ares of 1,000,000 mqusto _milcs, and which had in 1870 [roverty valiied at 812,000,000, roduction & ,000 and & Dopuila~ fon of 16,000,000, owed an azgrexato State deot in 1877 but 10,000, 000 greater ihan that of %0 a sachosctte, which has ‘an area of bat B, sanare milles, and AL the ssmo dates iad property valned at £2,132, 148, 741 and 8 popuistion of 1,600, 000, The debt reporta include the public debt’ incarred In hnilding ralironds, and & comparison of ths cunnl(. city, and town debta of the East and We: wili show that In proportion to thelr comparatl: tenl wealth the Weet 13 by far the better off. Wos ern, like Eastern, rallronds ars badly in debt, and Alareo amount of money invested by municipalitics tosccare thelr constrietion s lost, but tho rosds sro belng operated and furnish facilitios for trans. porting Trelaht and powsenvors. Nallroad debta are matters that princlually concern those ownlog the atuck and bonds, and ara nat of special impor- tance In thle connection. The Weat will not wiil- ingly connent 10 have thelr property depreciated invalue by matlonal Iczisiation, And whenever New York. at the dlctation of thelr money- changers, declde that they do not wish to do busi- news [u the Iawful money of the country, and that the monuy that the farmer §s willing to receive for the labor of bis hiands and the nroduct of his soil s not mutiafactory to them, the Westorn producera will try 1o find some ottier outiot, and same other depositary for what little eurplas money they may have lef over. o ——— KANSAS. Spectal Correspondence of The Tridune, Forr 8cotr, Kan., Jan, 21,—Wo have had o very wet winter so far, The roads arc now {m- passable, and of course no grain can come to market, and the dealers arc nfraid to ship what they have on hand, as it would doubtless reach ita destivation tn bad order und Inspect rejectec —torn being the only eraln b hand at present. Busiuess uf every kind 1s extremely dull, and, unless we have @ cliange In the weather, will continue sv. e e—— Whent from High Latitudes, 81 Pt Pronees Preas, ‘There was brought tnto the City of Winnlveg, in Munitobu, last fall, o lalf-bushe! of wheat, 8all to have been grown 1,500 miles north of that point, The bearer was uhall-breed Indlan, who had come from the far north to Winolpeg to trade, and the grain was brourbt with him to exchiange for other commodities. It was re- wurded st the time as quite a curiosity, and wus passed around from one to anotber for trial in tho spring In that locality. A few grains of it fell Into the huuds of o ‘ventleman trom Min- nesots, who waz in that city at the thne, and wua brought home with bim'on his return. At our solicitation It has been presented to Prot. Lacy of the State Agricultural College, who huslaid it away tll tiwe for sceding, wlen ha will give it the muost careful culture, and en- eavor to prove whether. thera is any virtuadn itornot. “The berey In_very plump amd bright, and we supnose {rom the very high latitude in which it was grown must he hard enouch to satlsfy thu most fastidious miller. 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