Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 2, 1878, Page 4

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Hxxxy F, GiLL1a, Agent. BAN FIIANCISCO, Cal.—Palaco Jiotel. AMUSEMENTS, Hooley’s Thentre, Tandolph street. between Clark and Lafslle, Engagement of Itobson and Crano Combination. ** Our Biachelors.” Afternoon and evening. MeVicker's Thentres Madison #treet, between Ftate and Dearborn. *'All the Rage.” Afternoon and evening. Tinverly’s Thentre. Monroe #treet, cornerof Destborn. Engagementof Milton Nobles. **The Phanix." Aftcrnoon snd even- 1ng. Colisonum Novelty Theatre. Clark street, between Washington and Randolph. ‘Variety performance. Now Chicago Theatre. Clark sireet, opposite Sherman House. ** From the Altar to the feaffold™ and ** My Mother-tn-Law."” Afe ternoon and eventing. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1878, CHIOAGO MARKET SUMMARY. The Chleaga produce markets wera fairly active yesterday, In tho nggregate, and irregularly casier. Mens pork closed 7i4c per brl lower, at $10.70 @10.7245 for March and $10.8714210,00 for April. Lard cloaed o shade casler, at $7.32%@7.35 for March and $7.4214R7.46 for April. Meata wero casier, at §3.0214 per 100 1bs for boxed shoulders ic for do shortribs, Whisky waa steady, ot $1.03per pallon. Floar was in falr demand, Wheat closed 1c lower, at $1.02% for January and $1.03% for March. Corn closed ¥c lower, at 30c spot and 41%c for May. Oata closed e lower, at 2234cspot and Zl5c for March. Rye was firmer, af G0c. Darley closed dull, at 40c for Fobruary and 40}je for March, Tlovs were dull and G@1lUc lower, closing weak, at 33.70@2.00. Cattle were activo and strong, with enlcs at 82,25@56.25 for inferior toextra. theep were unchanged, The visible supply of grain In the Unitod States and Canadas 18 reported at 10,260,000 Lu wheat, 5,878,000 bu corn. 3,477,000 bu oats, 755,000 bu rye, and 4, - 603,000 bu barley The number of hogs packed in the West during the past thrco months is nearly cqual to the nomber packed in the four months ending with last Fevruary. Inspected Into store in this city yesterdsy moming: 03 cars wheat, 133 cara corn, 37 cars oata, O cars rye, 30 care bar- ley. Total, 308 cars, or125,000 bu. Ono hundred aollars in zold would buy 8101.87% in groenbacks 8t the close. Dritish consols were guoted at 0513-10 and steriing oxchange at $4.88). Greenbacks nt tho New York Btock Ex- change yosterday closed at 98. —e The snow-storm which resulted in no especinl inconvenience to travel or traffic in Chicago and vicinity scoms to have dovoted itself particularly to the Eastern and New England States. Tho dispatches this morn. ing tell of a most serious blockade of tho railroads and of general havoo by the storm and wind in those less-favored localitics, —_— Tho silver mon of New York City tried their hand at a popular demonstration last ovening, and in the vnst crowd of people at Cooper Imstituto wero successful in proving that o very strong olement of the business community dissent altogother {rom the goldito tone of the prossof that city. 'The resolutions favoring the romono- tization of the silver dollar wore passed with 08 much enthusiasm ss n Western audience would mauifest on the samo subjoct. ——— Warlike advices from some of tho Turkish provinces aro contained in tho ocsble dis. patches this morning. Greoce, better lato than never, has concluded to strike for freo. dom {rom Oltoman subjection, and orders havo been given by the Hollenic Government for the occupation of Thessaly, Epirus, and Macedonin by an army of 12,000 men, The preservation of order and tho protection from massncreof the Greek Christions in these prov- inces is the purpose of the movement ns stated in the ofticial bullotin, but the action is none tho less a doclaration of war by the Greck Government. Bervia, too, {s likely to organize o war movement independont of Runsin, whoso terms of peaco are rogarded in elgrado ns au abaudonment of Servian interests. It is thought probabla thnt hos. tilitics will bo continued until the wholo of 0ld Servia is vecovered. While Dox Peoro was absent from Brazil on kis cxtended tour of the world, matters at Lome wera not in au entirely satisfactqry shape. Binco his roturn the Imperial trav- eler socum 40 have undertaken a vigorous ovorhauling. with the rusult of discovering and reforming an extended series of scandal- ous practices nmong the members of his Cnbinet. Cotacire, the Minister of Fiunnee, appenrs to bhave panned out a sort of Droziban Brixvar, Favors in his lino wore bought outright, the middle man, or more properly, the mid. dle woman, of the tranunctions being o courtesan, who recsived tho bribes and pre- sumably pocketed a big commission. In tddition, the Finance Minister waas shown to lmv«: been rogularly in receipt of o share of the proceeds of rovenue frauds perpetrated Lysn importing firm of which he was a member, ‘Cheso and other scandals belng brought to the Emperor's notice, he has dismissed the entire Cabinet and organiz a now Ministry. o N —— * The utter inefliciency of the Government Life.Saving Service of the Atlantic coast bos beon onco more demonstrated with ter- rible conclusiveness by the wreck of the steamship Metropolis Thuraday evening off Currituck beach, North Caroling, nesr the wens of the destruction of the United Stutes steamer Hurgn a fow months ago. The agonizing episodes of the loss of the {luron have been repeated with remarkable siwilarity in the cass of the Metropolis, of shoss passengers and crew 102 aro now be- deved to havo perished within a stone's- throw of tho shore. Wherever the blame belougs,—whether with the ineficiency of this particular life saving utation, or with the niggardly policy of Congress which bas refuscd to voto the means whoreby this im- portant brauch of the service could bo mado of say uss in saving hwman lifo,~—the awful THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 187%—~TWELVE PAGES: fnet remnins that over 100 persons have per- ished for lack of suitable nssistance and appliances for their vescne. Whother tho steamer was in a fit condition to encounter the porils ot navigation at this stormy sea. son is yot to bs shown. In any event the time in ripo for some American PrntsoLt to come forward as tho champion of those who go down to the sea in ships. S ——— The Journal attempts to explain why the Assistant Troasuror at New York refnses to recelva trade-dollars on deposit from thoe Postmnstes, It qnotes nearly all the Revised Btatutos, and finally decides that * it is im- possible to detormine from the statute whether the trade-dollars now in domestic cirenlation are in use lawfully or not.” 1If the information of the Journal had beon faller, it would not have made so foolish n statemont, The Bubsidiary Bilver Coin law of July 13, 187G, says : ** The {rade.dollar shall not hereafter bo a logal-tendor.,” Until that act, the trado-dollar had been logal- tender, under the law of Feb. 12, 1873, to the amount of #5 It is not now legal- tonder for any amount, e The Domocrats of the Iouso seem fated to incur ridicule and odium in conmection with their choice of a Doorkeeper. Frrz- nuon, the incumbent who was **a bigor man than old Gnaxt,” was succeeded by Jomx W. Povx, of Missonri, whose influence with members of the House, according to his own story, s oven more potent than that of his garrulous predecessor, and whoee manip- ulation of tho pay-rolls of his office is charged to have been dishonest and fraudu. lont, Our OAnTzR hss finally gol a chanco to meake good his promise to show that the Committee on Civil-Bervice Roform ns ot present constituted is somothing more than “a d— barren ideality.” The charges ngainst Dodrkeeper Porx, preferred in duo form by Mr. Baxen, of Indiana, and supported by sworn affidavits, haye beon re- forred to OantEn's Committes, whoso Chair- man has long yearned to show what he can do as a Civil-Servico reformer. and the Man are jointly at hand, and the country will nwait with Intercat the result of the unusual combination. Tho Hour Tho Hicxe-Lonp scandal in New York has reachod & phase which makes two or three conclusions very apparent. senior, is a doting, susceptible old gontleman, who has fallen into the handsof a Brcky Bnane. Novortholess, he is willing and ready to Lestow his fortune upon her in con- sideration of her taking good caro of him through the remainder of his unimportant life. ministoring his money judiciously, be onght not to have it, ing secured tho old gontloman, although she is willing to nurse him until she comos into full posscssion of his ealato by his demise, ought not to have the monoy. children, apparently being able-bodied men, who have obtamed their living thus far by genteelly dend-beating their father, ought not to have it. As the cnse now stands, the children by throatening lettors were socking to blockmail the widow, who in ler turn waa soeking to wheedlo the old man with hor seductivo wiles, who in his turn fell nn casy victim, the widow coming in ahead of tha whole crowd. If such an affair had hap- pened in Utopia, it would have been easily sottled by a law soquestering the whole catate for the bonefit of some prominent charity. Firat, Lorp, Being in largo degree incapable of ad- 8econd, Beoxy Bmarr hav. Third, tho S——e—— Debato on tho supplementary vota was ro- nowed in the Houso of Commons yosterday, the Liberals continuing to dispute the oxist. enco of any nocoasity for or justification of tho passnge of the grant. A notable feature of tho discussion was a statcment by Mr. Bounx, Under-Becrotary for the Foreign De- partment, to the effect that if he wore to speak withont resorve ho was sure thoro would not be a single opponent to the vote, The meaning of this romark was in a mons. uro disclosed by his snbsequent reference to tho danger of the total destruc- tion of the Turkish Empire in Europe as the rosult of the poaco conditions impoaed by Russla. If the Undor-Secrotary had *‘epoken without rescrve” to tho extent of announcing that the purpose of the sup- plementary voto was to enable England to provent the disruption or impairment of the Ottoman Emplre in Europe, and that the Government wos flrmly committed to this policy and was determined to euforce it by a rosort to arms if nocessary, ho would simply havo declared what is very generally belioved to be tho truth; but tho expectation of unanimous support for the vots as the ro- sult of such a declaration would be likely to fnll far short of realization, as there are plenty of Liberals in Parlisment who be- lievo that the intorosts of Ohristianity, civil. jzation, and progress would bo promoted by the perpotual banishwent of Ottoman rule from Europe. THE REAL DANGER OF REPUDIATION. Theroe is practically no himit to the dishon. esty of the gold clique or their paid sdvo- catos. Thoy began by eliminating silver from the Americau monotary system without tho consent of the prople, though it was n step that should only havo been taken after the most thorough canvasa of the question and the most decided expression of popular will, They have since rosorted to the moat desperate offorts to maintain this device for cxacting in the paymont of debts moro than tho debtors ever sgroed to pay or tho cred- itoraever expectod to recelve. They have denonnced every mon who has resiated this unlawful and unjust exaotion as a cheat and aswindlor, And now they are frantically endeavoring to hoap ocontempt upon the silver movement, and follow a forlorn hope for ita defeat, by treating it aa a step in the divection of ropudiation. The following extract from n recent article in the Chicago ZT'imes will llustrate the purpose: It s simply ono of the metamorphle manifesta- tlons of & repudiation parly in the process of de- yelopment. Hehind all Ite chunyes of appesrance, thie axcntlal and ultimate proposition 18 ihe same, and its advocates are the same. The proposition 1 the saune now that 1t was iu_ 1868; 1tlsa propos sition 10 repudiate »omo part or all of the uational obligations. And the mode of dolnz it proposed niow is the saine In fact that was proposed "then; it 1a to repeal the Hesuwption act, to refuse payment tbut increass the amount) of the outstanding Treasury notes, and ** poy * yublic and private crediturs by forclug thewm to reeeive.the natiou's dishonored paper. * Arvund thls programue thero hias been for ‘ever siuce tho War,a powerful po- litical party; Its ultimute perty of repudigtion. purpose has not beenn openly depiared; os quhnul not boen clearly percoived by sRy but the Jeading wpirits. But it 1s not tho lesa plain 1o thosa who uuderstand what thoy ata about, It ie not the loss perstatent on account of previous defests. The defeat of the PExDLETON programe in 1868 did not. prevent.the carrying forth of the **Granger" pro- wramme in 1874, ‘Yhe defeal of the Uresuback srogramume of 1870 did not provent the careylig orth of the **dad's-dollar™ progrumue In 1878, ‘Thleir victory in tus vart of their undertsking will do morw to consolidatyand invigorate the party of repudistion than suythiug bitherto bas dunu, From this vantage ground they will press oo to- wand tha end. Thelr next step, 34 already an- uounced, will bo the repeal or aullidcation of the Resumption act; thelr uoxt. tho boflomless and endlees greenback de roZremuie, whoss finslity s repudiation, not relatfvo but abeolute. Aduwitting that there still lurks a formida. ble seutiment in tho country in favor of an wnlimitud inflation of irrodeeiasble paper currency ; admitting that thers is still o Iargoe faction of the Democratic party which looka forward to a partial repndintion of the national debt on tha Pendletonian plan, so vigorously advoented by the Timesin 1868; admitting that this dangor must be met by the country,—then it is manifest that the restoration of the silver dollar is the surest, snfest, and most permanant check that ean be put npon any such inclination. If some of the persons who have beon infected with such financinl heresics havo joined n the movement for the restoration of tho silver dollar, it is an indicatton to s certain extent that thoy aro rendy to abandon their ex- tremo inflation schemes, if thoy can bo as- sured oo adequato supply of real money. If others havs joined the movement with the ,hope that the success of silver ro-establish- ment would assist them in atteining an inflation of irredesmablo currency, they have been uttorly illogical in their moth. ods of roasoning, and will find themselves sorely disappointed. There is nothing in common between silver remonetization and greenback inflation. One'is hard money, and tho other soft money. The movement in bohnlf of the one is designed and calou- lated to shnt off tho other, The men who shall attompt, after silver remonctization, to nrge an indefinito postponomont of resump- tion, the flooding of tho country with groen. backs, or the payment of the national debt in an irredeemable ,onrrency, will find more opponants than ever before,—for the restorn- tion of silvor will deprive them of the only plausiblo excuso thoy have over had for rc- sisting tho roturn to a hard-money baais, 1f it is trno that the fallacies of nnlimited inflation of irredeemnble currency, and the repudintion in part or in whols of all debts, still have n strong hold in this conntry, then there inmore ground for assoclating this dan. ger with tho desperato movement for resump- tion in gold alone than with any othor possi~ blo condition of affairs, The Chicago Z'imes furnishes in its own case an indieation of tho danger nhead. Now n rabid advocato forn singlo gold standard, it was in 1868, and for #ome time aftorward, as strougly in favor of the PrxpreroN repudiation scheme. Only recontly it explained that it ndvocated that schomo at the timo because it belioved the resources of the country were inadequate to tho paymont of thodebt, andannonnced that it would feel justified in assnming tho rame attitude under similar conditions. 1If, then, resumption should bo enforced on the basis of gold alone, nnd the gold resonrces of the country should prove inadequato to tho un. dertaking (and who can donbt it?), the vory condition which once justified the ndvocacy of repudintion, to tho mind of the Z%mes, wonld recur, and it is not unlikely that the Times would be o lender in n renctionary movemant for an indefluite postponemont of resumption, unlimited inflation of the frre- decmable groonbacks, aud the paymont of all debte, public and private, in this kind of “Inwful money.” Tha surest avoldanco of such renction will bo to constitute hard monoy for resumption just what it was when-specie payments wore saspended, and thus remove ot onco the tomptation and excuso for theso dangerous heresics. Tho restoration of the silver dollar will onablo the country to resume payments in real money on the original and historical basis of tho nation. It will restore the ‘“‘option” to pny in gold or silver, which always was aud still ought to bo the right and privilego of thoe nation and the individaal, Tho failure to restors the silver dollar will foreo an attempt at resump- tion without any such option, but on a con- tracted nnd still contracting singlo standard, on which tho croditors linye alroady got up “cornor.” Buch an effort will not only bo n foregone falluro, but it J¥ill bo attempted, if at all, undor o chango “of the original con- tract, which will bo o precedent full of dan~ ger. The reactionary party will swell jta ranks, and cito this change in tho contraoct 08 n movement for nuothor change in the opposite direction, Then indefinite post. poncment, unlimited inflation, and practical ropudintion will stare the country in the face. It will thon be too Inte to offer a ro- turn of the *“option,” of which the peopls have been robbed. After that, the flood, DOMESTIC TROUBLES, The Democratic party scema to be all **tore up " in n party way anont the silver question, We priut elsewhero a couple of articles that throw some light upon tho trouble. Ono is a lotter written by Avausr Beruost to the Now York newspapers, ani. madvorting soverely upon Guv, Hexpnioxs for recent expressions favorablo to silver re- monotization tho other is an extract from o Now York lotter written by a Democratic correspondont to tha Philadelphia Ledger, in which ho describes the frantio offorts that Tammany is making to avert an open rupt- ure. Of courde, thero has been more or loss rancor botween the Eastorn Democrats and the Westorn Dewmocrats ever since silver remonetization hos beon porsistontly urged by one section and as persistently resisted by the other, A common intercst in the next effort nt spoils-grabbing restrained both fac- tions for a timne from opeu hostility, But the fight waa fairly begun when Avousr BeLuont, one of the moneyed Moguls of the New York Democracy, iutroduced Prof. Bumyen for an autisiiver lecture fn Now York, and took occasion to ex- press himsolf with a great deal of frecdom sbout *ignorant or designing dom. agogues” among the Western Democracy. Therenpon the Cincinnati Enguirer Lroke out with characterlstio vohiemence, and soma other Democratio newspapers in the West followed tho example. ‘I'io Eastern Bomo. corats wero told plainly thot Wall street was nolougerto bo allowed to run the Demo- cratic party, that it will be tke object of the next National Convention to make sure of ourrying the Western, Bouthern, and Middle Btates vatber thon New York, and that the Eaat would be read out of the Democratic party if ¢ the agonts of the IloTuscmirps in this country” should undertske to dictate the financial policy of the party, Bnt while Tammsuy bhas been endeavoring to pour ofl upon the troubled waters, the Brooklyn Eugle, soaring st a dizay hight, bos poked its beak into the quarrel. The Kagleis as saucy aud viralent ns the Enguirer, and says that Eastern Democrats believe in just one kind of monoy, and that when the Western Dom- ocrats cut loose from this, New York and Now Euagland will loso all interest in what is called the Domocratio party. **‘The East and North,” are its words, ** will stand by oue currency aad one standard, and by all thelr cougoquences; the Democrats here will eapecislly do so0.” It fouts tho Democratic proteuse at the West that the South will be equally solid on this question, and gives notice that tho East is eutirely for a per- manent breach at any time the edict of ex- comtnunication may be jssued. An futeresting incident 1n Yhis domestic row is the savagoucss with' which BevLsoxt sustaing his sido of tho fight, and the par- ticuler pleasuco he fluds in picking out Mr, Hexonicks for attack. Ho says that Hex- DRICKS can't possibly be one of tho *!silver Innatics,” becauss in 1874 (aftor the practical demonelization mensure of 1873) he declarod in his speechios that the Government was fally committed to the payment of its obli- {tions n gold, and that it could not honor- ably roceda from that position. Itis manifest that the purposa of all this i to convince the Western people that Hexpnicks is really in favorof the single gold standnrd, and that his recent ntterances favorable to silver re- monotization have beon drawn outof him Ly popular preasure. We shall not nnder- tako to decide botwoen Messrs. Beratont and H:mmxcxg in this dispute, Cortainly Mr. ITexpnicks has nover been ronowned for his sincerity in political matters, nnd gonerally sits natride a fonce till ho has made np hus mind that it {s aafo to jump on one sido or the other. At tho samo time, it is only fair to remomber that 3r. Hexpnicxs is the most conspicuous Western candidate for the Dom- ocratic nomination for 1880, and it wonld suit Mr, Beusont's purposo to broak him down in the interost of Sasmty TiLpex, who claims the nominntion ns a right. We think, however, that Mr. Tipex and his friends will bo obliged to aban- don" this claim long beford the time for nominating shall come around, and they may ns well give Hzxpnicxa a fair show with Voonrners, Tnurmax, Pxxorrrox, Tox Ewixo, nnd other Western candidates for the Democratic nomination. The sectional fight in the party would undoubtedly nssnmie the goneral nspect of an extensive Donny- brook Falr, if it wero not for the strong probability that tho actual remonetization of silver will put nn end toitat a very carly day. Nevertheless, so many hard words hava already passed botween the disputants, and sectional and personal feolings have beon given such free play, that it may not bo casy toclose the brench, It is cortain that the Domocrata of the Bouth and Wost have an infinito contempt for the Eastorn Democrats, since their oxporienco with Tir- prx, and tha Eastern Domocrnts genorally naro disposed to * rnle or ruin,” ———— CONSTABLES AS EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, Tho trinl of Miss McKer for manslaughter in killing a Constable who had entered hor hauso to take her property undor an . oxecn- tion for rent cliscloses some of tho fonturcs of tho administration of law in Justico Courts, especially by Constables. In this caso tho defendant ronted a house and oc- cupled it, pnying the ront up to tho timo she moved ont. The landlord subsequently got out a distress warraut for rent of tho vacated premises, and tho Constable aud his as- sistant'seized and carried off from her now residonce furniture amounting to fonr times tho amount of rent claimed. This furniture was taken away, and said to be sold for the sum of $40.05. Tho amount of the execn. tion wns $58 and costs; after deducting the Constable's costs, the sum of $19.40 was entored a8 n credit on the judgment. The woman was subsequontly got away from homo on somo falso excuse, and nearly all that remained of hor furniture was taken, supposed to Lo by burglara; and then o second lovy was made. Entrance was ob- talned by fraud, and, once in, the offcer and his nssistants proceeded to soiza and corry off snch furnitura o was on the promises, which was varionsly estimated to bo worth from $50 to $75. While engaged in this businoss, the woman, who was alone, got into an nltercation with the officer, and ahot him with a pistol. From the time of the burglary she hid kept o pistol for her por- sonal.defonse. Wo do not intend to discuss the MoKzz case of itsclf, excopt so far as it discloses tho practices of Constables.and Juatices, It may not beout of place to say, without ruforence to the deceased officer, that, while there have boen and are now men holding the office of Constable who are honest men, and men having somo respect for tho rights of individuals and for the law, it is notorl- ous that a large portion of them are dishon. st and disroputablo scoundrels, who violate the law, and violato private right and decon- oy, and who, in their official dealing with women, or with men {n humble circum. stauces, resort to brutality and robbery under the cover of their authority, The law of distross for rent in this Stato anthorizes tho landlord to issuo his warrant of distress to the Constable, who, without any judicinl judgment, may seize Jroperty to satiafy such warrant. Ilo must, however, filo an inventory of the property taken with a Jus- tice; the Justica thereupon issnea & sum- mons against tho tenant, and, pon hearing the cnse, may give judgmeont for what rent may be due, and ssue cxecution therofor ngainat tho property scized, which may then Lo eold. There is also a law, howover, which reads ¢ 11e LR, Al 50 Seomog Tromsopenetloahed b atinchment, and dlstress for rent, viz. : Flrat, tho necenssry wearing apparel, Dibles, achool-books, ' “und family picturce of gvery porson; Rnd, sacond, $100 worth of other praperty to bo selectod by the debtor. and, In udditlon, when tno debtor Is the head of o family, and restdes witn the same, $:00 ‘v’v:;g.hol other property to bo salected by the ‘the same law (May 24, 1877,) provides that the debtor agninst whom euch execution, at. tochment, or distress warrant Is issued shall make o schedule of all his personal property and deliver the sama to tho offlcer, signing and swearing to tho samo; thereupon the officorshall summon threo hiouseholders, Who, after being sworn to fairly appraise said’ property, shall fix a fair valuation upon each article contained in the schedulo; and the debtor shall therofrom telect from such schedule the articles ho may desiro to retain to the nmount exempted by law, and deliver the romaindor to tho oficor. The law fur- ther provides that any officer taking or seizing any articles of property cxempt. ed 'shall be liable to the party injured to twice the value of the property taken. This is the law. How many of these Con. stables evor comply with the law? How many of them arc aware of the rights of tho debtors? Iow many of them, whother serving an execution or a distress warrant, have tho property appraised by sworn house- holders, or permit the debtor to select such property as tho law exempts from seizure and sale? ‘The practice of thess Constables ia to tako carts and assistants with them, snd in the absence of the head of the family, to use thelr own phrase, *gut the house” of every- thing movable, in utter contempt and disre- gord of law. The practice is to ascertain whea the head of the family 1s out of tho house, and to tako that time to make the levy, and to hully and terrify tho wowen and chil. dren, and to take away everything they can lay hands on. What do these Constables caro for suits for trespass? Of what valueis such a remedy sgainst such irresponsible mon? What becomes of tho property taken by them wmay be gueased by the record in the first lovy in the MoKk case: Judgment, 58; property taken, $200; salos, $40; nstable's costs, €21; crodit on judgment, $19. In no port of these proceedings, whether in the first or secoud lovy, does it sppuar that the officer ever recoguized that the lnw exempted the property of tho dobtor to a certain valne, to be ascertained by ap- praisement of the property, and that it was not Iawfal for him to touch an article nuntil tho defendnnt had mnade the solection. The praclice in the MoKes case was not oxcep- tionnl; it is tho general practice of Con- stables, and, considering all the circnm- stances, aud the genoral brutality of this class of officers, the surpriss is not that an officer was shot, Lut why dozens of them have not boensimilarly treated. The officer in this cass probably never rond or heard of tho law; he was noting possibly in profound ignorance of all things portaining to the businoas excopt that he was a Consta- ble; that he had a paper purporting to be an exeontion ; that the dofendant was a de- fenseless woman; and that onco in the house bis'authority was uniimited. Tho idos that the Jaw exompted tha little furniturn on the premises no mors ontered his mind than that the terrified, fronzied, and plundered woman might raise an arm in her own defonse. The public peace should bo maintained. Homicide, ovon in self-defense, should be tho last resort. Dat violations of the peace and homicides in defonss of the humble household chattels of tha poor ave directly provoked and invited by turning looss nupon the community n gang of ignorant, irrespon. sible, and it may be dishonest, brutal men, armed with o sort of legal anthority to cn. ter family residonces, and, in utter disregard of tho requirements of law and the legal rights of persons, seize the scanty furniture and bedding and carry it off, not to satisfy a debt, but to be consumed in paying thoe costs of tho Constable and his asaistants, It should be the duty of the soveral Jast- iceain whosa courta theso Constables do bus- iness to inform them that tho law exists ns well for debtor aa for croditor, and for pri- vato citizons ns well ns for Constables; that there is a limit to the authority of a Conata- ble, evon when he {s armed with an execn- tion, and that an officor himself violating tho law cav claim but littlo if any sympathy if the victim of his oulrnge shall resent that ontrage at the momont of its infliction, It would be woll if every Constable doing busi- ness should carry n copy of the act of 1877 and o copy of the McKex trial in his hat un-, til such timo as o cloar and distinct knowl. edgo of his dutics, and of his powers, nud of tho rights of debtors may have reached and impressed itsolf upon his mind, Then there will be no more shooting of Constables, be- causo thoro will ba no moro provocation thersto. BURRE AND CHANDLER. Probably but fow people have rend the Bunke-Cuanpren correspondence, and prob- ably very few peoplo care to read it; but we hiave no question that a groat many poople regard both men as political Micawnens and party parasites, and ropresentatives of n class whoso ontiro elimination* from our political system would be of incalculable benefit, The two mien, nlthough one isa Domocrat and the other a Repubtican, aro as like as the Siameso Twins, barring tho conneoting link, ortwo pensin opod. Without any recog- nized or well-defined position in cither party, they mnke thomselves conspicuous by per- sistent agyressivenoss, and in a certain man. ner necessary by their officiousness, There is certain small party work necessary to be done which larger men do not like to tonch, but which these men aro always roady to perform for o consideration, and when thers is no work on hand they ean cut out some by an ingenious system of gossip and rumor, or by an elaborato plan of sotting their su. periors by the ocars. As waiters, thoy will fetch ond carry. As political commission. aires, thoy will run errands, night or day, from Dan to Beershoba, and magnity their errarids on route. As necessary inflic- tions, thoy have tho universal entree to every political cancus and conclave from n ward- committee meoting to n National Convcn. tion. It ia raro, however, that they nppear on the surface, They work under ground likes moles, or boro boneath the water like a worm in a ship’s kecl. - Onco in awhile their paths cross nnd there is tronble. Tho col. lision of Maj. Bunxe, of Now Orleans, and Wirnian E, Cuaxpres, of New Hampshire, proviously unknown to famo, has Lrought them to the surface, and both mon suddenly spring into publio notorioty from one end of the country to the other ns the actual pivots of the controversy over the Eloctoral count, ‘Whyoither of them should have had anythiug to do withi the Electoral connt, or with any other phase of national politics, ia one of thoso mysteries which ** no fellow can find out”; but they did, and they scem to have had moro to do with it than the Louisinna Btato Government, the Returning Board, Congress, and the Eleotoral Commirsion combined, Men of this class usually regard each oth- er from a corrupt standpoiup, and oach ono looks upon everything done by the other as necessarily corrupt, The correspondenco botween the iwo men gives us the only.in- formation we shall probably ever bavo con- cerning thom. The pioturcs they draw are quite sharpand realistic, If wo are to be- lieve Mr, Cuanores, Maj. Bunxe, when Gov, Nicuorrs was casting about for some one to go to Washington to represent his Govern- ment, deliberately suggested himsolf as the only proper porson for that business; that when ho arrived in Washington he managed to nasess tho TiroeN mdd $100 per weok for his sorvices ; that his sorvices conalsted vory largely in botraying the Democratio secroty to the representatives of Mr. Haves; that ho has in his posscssion an agree. ment which ho drew up, and which was signod by leading Administration men and Bouthern Demoorats, by which the Ad- miulstration desorted the carpot-baggers in considerdtion of socuring Democratic sup. post for the Electoral count, Mr, Onaxpres, being a Northorn political tramp, of ocourse would sympathiza with a Bouthern carpet. bagger, and hence lays their misfortunes in alarge part at Maf. Busxe's door, Let us reverse the picture. If we are to beliove Maj. Bunrxe, we must infer that Winam E, Cuanprxs in 1808 corruptly participated in the spoils of Bupervising Treasury Agents; that in 1872 he conspired with certain Re. publicans of Louisiana to impeach the Gov- ernor and seize the machinery of the Govern- nent to carry the election of that year; that in 1878 he earned aud received a foe of $8,000—a larger sum than the Major ever secmms to have had—from Kziroca; that he disfranchised 12,000 citizens of New Orleans by dragging thom before Federal Courts; that in 1876 hg aasured Krxirogo the whole power of the Administration would bo used in behalf of. the Returning Board; that he manipulated frauds in Florida; and, lastly, that */ he has of late been vainly seekiog to stir up the hell-broth of sectional hate and fou! his po- litical nest to the disgust of decont citizens, North and Bouth.” Buach are the respective pictures, as drawn by the {wo men who are most competent to do the work, and who probably are the only two persons in this conntry that know nnything abont the mat- tor. As thore nre no good gronnds at pros- ent for disbelioving oither gentleman, it leaves us in tho unfortunate predicament of an obligation to believe both, and we pro- sume the majority of people will tako the same view of the Bunxr-Caaxpren imbrog- Ho, and henrtily wish that tho olass of Amer ican politiciana which they so conspicuously represent was extinet. Political tramps are hardly lessa nuisance than thoss who travol fum; Placa to place soeking to live without work, SBENATORIAL BRIBERY. Tho New York Journal of Commeree,iniis i8auo of Jan, 20, impenches tho integrity of tho Amerioan Sonatoe, and doclares that legis- Iation on tho Bilver bill can be controlled by monoy. Ilore is what it says: It 1a not In the employing of writers And spenkers to Infinence public opinion in behalf of the BLaxn b that we snall look for tha apcration of bribes, but in the buying up of Sonatorlal votes. ' There 18 the real danger,” A nnmber of Bonatora ar **on the fence™ aato the sifver queation, Tacy hava abstained from voting, and they talk two ways, Theso men may bo walting for further expressionn of the pabiic will, of o reflect on the dif- fiealtics "of the rubject. Rat after thoCredit | Mobilier revelationn wo haro ceaned to confide in tno pretensions of Scaatora or other publis men to spotless pnrity of motive, Wo have acen a pume Ler of aa-callcd *‘stateamen™ favoring tho Silver bill evidently beeatne i1t wad popnlar among thelr snbporlers, and for no athor reason. May thero not Le Senatora of n more veonal type ready to take o liberal briba from tha silvet men, and waiting foritt If any money han been act apurt to holt on the Silver bil), the Senato Chamber is the place whero it will most likely ba disbnraed, With Tavish bribery added to the other Impulses toward repudiation, e may well fecl alarmed nt the pros. neclbnfld redoublo our exertions to dofeat the Bil- ver bill. G 1f thioro bo Senatora whoso votes can be purchased, then for n consideration the same Bonntors will vote whichever way they may be paid for voting. Tha statoment wo have quoted reads very much like a suggestion that it the Bilver bill is to be defeated it mast be by the purchase of Senators to vote ngainst the wishes of their constituenta, After this frank “notice, that thore are Sen- ators whore votes msy bo purchased, the country will serutinize oarefully tho yeas and nnys on the Silver bill, and, shonld there be nny Senators voling in defiance of the wishes of their constituents, the Journal of Com- merce will bo consid.rod a8 having furnished tho proper explanation, In regard to the futimations that tho de- manetization of silver will add immensely to the profits of the silver mines in this conntry, it is only nccessary to say that the Amercan minea produce oro which ylelds &5 per cont silver and 45 por cont gold. If silver ho domonotized and gold made the exclusive metallic monoy, the effect will bo to add 20 per cont to tho value of gold coinpwhile silver bullion will be reduced 10 per cont in value, Now, how will this af- fect tho American mines? OF ench million of dollars’ worth of metal thore is 360,000 ailver and $450,000 -gold. Demonctizing silvor reduces the silver portion of this million product to 405,000, while it will in- creaso the valua of gold product to $510,- 000, moking a total of 31,035,000, As tho quantity of gold is annually grow- ing leas, the increasa in the valuo of the gold product will go on, aud furnish an enlarging compensation from any decline in the valne of silver bullion. As an exact flnancinl oporation the demonctization of silver will be no scrious loss to tho owners of the American minos. The goldite organ figures up n heavy losa tn the huldera of currenoy if the old silver dollar be remonatized. It ciphers out the problem thusly : The amonnt of greenbacks and bank-notes now outstanding s <BI40, 110,424 2, G0 3 000, 740, 114 Thy irat efect of the Braxn blll; 1t it becomes a Intv, will be to destray 10 per cent of the value of all this paper. That s, ita offoct will be to anni. hilato nearly $67,000, 000 of valuo now in the handa of tho pouple, On this sophism the Bhylock orgnn rings the changea through a whole column of mis. used editorial space, but finishes the article withont oxhibiting the other side of thoprob. lom, which wo aro obliged to supply. The dropping of the silver standard from the money of tho country lhas onhauced all debts far more than 10 per cont, nnd re. duced the valuo of properly, products, and Iabor twica to thrico 10 per cent since the timo silver was domonotized. But in order to provent objections lot us assumo that debts have only Leon enlinnced 10 per cent, how, thon, stands the account? Let us esti. mate it approximately: - 1,700,000, 000 200, 000, 0K Total... . 6,700, 000, 000 On tho gold hasia 10 added to the above 070,000,000 Or a sum equnl to all the paper currency in the United States. The singla gold standard has incroasod the welght of those debts nt the exceedingly low estimato of 10 per cent by the sum of 670 millions, This increasa is o wrongful one, and is the result of bad, wicked legislation. Dy striking out sllver from the logal-tender mouey of the couniry, gold haa boen artificially enhanced in voluo as compared with property and labor, as it iy now compelled to do double duty, and tho people havo boon deprived of their long-onjoyed optional right of paying debts in either gold or silver, The Eastern monoy-lenders who havo obtained this unfale adyantage over the rest of tho community are desporatoly opposing tho repeal of that claudestinely-snaoted law, and are fighting tooth and noil agoinst reatoring to the peo- plo their anclent right of two motal monoys, and thoir anclent option of paying their debts in either coln, But they fight in vaire; the stolen option must bo ylelded back to the poople, ‘I'ho Loulsville Courler~Journal continues to waste fts spaco and strength In foollsh argu- ments to show that the Federal Government should Jevy 100 millions ot tuxes, less or more, on the people of the Unlted Btatcs, and spend the money in protecting bottom lands of private ndividuals slong the Misslssippt River from overtlow | Therc is no hint orintimation that the lands of the private fndividuals which are to bo kept dry at public expenss sro to be tsxed for tho reimburseinent of the outlay, It fs uot pro- posed to have the Qoverument condemn thoss lands and pay the present owners the small triflo which the Cour,-Juur, says they are uow only wortl, snd, after protectivg them by a vast systown of lcvees, scll them to the highest bid- ders for repayment of outlsy. Nothing of the kind {s proposed. The acheme, stripped of dis- guise and sophistry, is to lovy taxes on the Americau people to the smouut of not less than 100 mfillions, and give the muney to the owners of tho damp bottom lands to enablo them to bufld levees to protect thelr private proporty sgainst tho overfiows of the Missis- sippi! A pretty cool proposition, to #ay the least. Bome of the reasous given for this gigantic subsidy to private iodividuals are unigue, and Lo other paper except tho crratic 0./, would ever bave thought of thew. Thls is one: The region which L is proposed to protect by permancat lovced vinbraces an arca of over 32,000 squaro milee, or 20,480,000 acres. Oni r0- cisim, by & permancnt system of proteciion, the Brolitl Tands of tho Misaiseppl Valiey, and 1t ion Jears tho cotton expurt of ho Uniicd Slatcs would 6 doubled. Ln this alluvial soil the labor of the colton Kiates can be fntrvachod, snd 1t can successs fally contend with all Chrietian and pagn 10 campote with this conntry in the proneere™ catton.” Thera hattams are capahlo of wa. from 1,600 to 2,500 ponnds of aeed corjon' i} scre. arid In tho climatio’ comiitions necessary & 0 RTOW of s groat staple have the world, " 2 Hoequally This I8 a very remarkablo inducement 1o hotg out to the other cottun-Erowing scetlons of 1, Bouth for taxing them miany millions 1o llc\'e: op the cotton lands of their competitors, those bottom lands can doublo the crop, much a pound will cotton bring in Ly, How much will the American planters realiyy therefrom? Onedouble erop would knock «u,.,. the price per pound at least half. After !hz: tho ather cotton-growers would mostly Tetiy bankrupt from such disastrous competitj, ‘The peoploof the United States, acting througy Congress, will bo slow in furnishing the 10 milllons of dollars to build up the llhnh!lp cotton-planters upon the rains of all the oth, cotton-growers in the Unfted Btates. The oy, crs of the bottom lands must look to '.lmlrm;, resources and those of the counties and Statey they control along the river to provida the mon. ey which will enablo thewm to cut wuder ang oft all the other cotton-ralsers in the Unjiey Btates, They nced not look to Uncle Say furnish the cash for any such cuulnroncg.m oty om of ————— ‘The mighty importance of every man in P10y OF the Aduniateation: shekTon R e rain or shine, {8 insisted upon. 1t was ono of 13y atroeiuns offonnes charged nzainst Me, Lonyy, that he went ngllo Albany to_attend a State (o, yentlon, \Weo observe that Me, Wi Burrit, Collector af Chicago, fa In Washinston burlncss connected with the Weatern Ancoeiey Presa. Ve hava nodoubt his mission Ia inpustan and that he will inake needed nhnn]zc- 111 tho paty, erng and distribotion of news. lint wo Cangoy bring outrelves to see tho Justice of making o une and fowl of another, If Bxitit can gy gy ‘Washington, why not CouxreiL to Albany? We find the above In the New York Tribuy, erealted to the Cincionatl Times, It ina soary ing paragraph, whoever wroto t. It 1y tpy, hat Mr. Sxtrent looked into somo defeets in 1l Press-News Scrvico from Washington to 1y Wost, na was his duty; but ho visited 1b, Capital also to confer with tho ‘Ureasury partment people in regard to Custom-logy matters. o was serving both interests betye during the few duys he was In Washingion thy 1t ho had remained at home. flo wasnot ‘Washington attending a political 8tate Conyen ton, cither as a delogate or n lobbylst, and wy nelther making or breaking slates In the fntey. est of any Ecnalor or other fanctiovary, ey was there on proper and legitinate businugsiy tho linc of his duty. N — A '*Down-Eost" correspondent, who seems disposcd to favor tho idea of lssuing Hmltley Irredcemable scrip to “pay" off the bonds, fo docently asks Tue TripUNE this question: Wouldn't you connlder & man dofnit bustaensoy A 850,000 eapital, paying no intorest, eafer thany man doing businces on tne same amonni, grd whoso Interest was about or quite cqual to by profita? It the 850,000 belongs to the “man, g should of courso say Yes. If somo rich nmiy or parent Jet him have the use of the m freo of intercst, then Yo prain, But if hehe got his bands on somcbody's moncy, and vy y fratd or legal quirk, whereby lie Is able tome it without paying any interest, then we mos say No, for wo should rezard him as o dishonet rascal, and not o “safe’ man with whomts Lavo uny business transactions. Our tone spondent ean make the application of the s posed case to the public creditors at his lefsur, ' T —— e The Dean of tho Faculty of Medlcine in Puis states, fn answer to an {nguiry from the De of the London 8chool of Medleine, that sisy 1805 thirty-two women have entercd the scliul. Ot this nutbor, nino havo ubtalned diplomu and twonty-three are still at thelr stusdles, T natlonality of the students was: Engtish, six; Russian, twolve: French, five. Oue of th' graduates, Miss PUTNAM, now Mrs. Dr, Purus Jacony, of Now York, was an American. Ta Dean says that the conduct of thess ladiessd their devotion to their studics have been blazy less. —_—— To the Editor af The Tribune. llAm-m(\ Wis, 3L —\Vhy does o *fokt rerolution ™ of Congresa require the Presideats signature, while a **concnrrent resolution” dou not? [ have reen it atated, but do not now renen: Ler the difturenco, or how tha dilference or & tinction was first urawn. Very respuctfully, T. A joint resolution has the samo force and e fect asa law that a bl nlen duly cosdet has. A concurrent resolutlon bs not a law,nx has It tho force of lnw, excopt whero It fs a joit rule of Congress, and Congress has by the Cor * stitution the power to cstablish fits own ruld of procecdings. ———— In England the whola natlon {s thrown foly intonsc oxcitoment over the proposition to vois an extra credit, while in Franco the Forein AMinister nanounces his intention to ask adiz- llar grant, and nobody makes a row about b ‘The Britush llon acts very much like o Britkh baby. S ——re The Washington Post snys that n ncwapaxt lias been discovered out West which favors 1 removal of Scuunz from the Cabinct audibe appointment of JonN Loaax fu his place, sl adds: *We are sorry to say that tho named this interesting journal has escaped sur mivk” et ——— Roumania, having borne-the brunt of b flzht, Is now to be rowarded with the loss ofs lurgo portion of Moldavia, Wa scem to, han some doubts about the justico of this prr cedure. — PERSONAL. Thomas Thumb is said to be growing btk headed. Grace Groonwood will sail for Europe it the spring. Ex-Mayor Havemeyer, of New York, lefta fortune of $4, 000,000 Mrs, SBwisshelm does not pant for fans On the contrary, sho dofames pants, The Duke of Connaught 15 to marry b Princesa Loulse of Prussis, unlcss her paps 8t she Connaught, Half the Londoners don't believe thers i any such word 8s **obolisk.” Thoy have scarchtl tho Il's In vain for fit. , The Philadelphin Pulletin says it hoa bes & frightfully costly victory for Russia,—** evea bt Qrand Duke {a Nickol-loss, " It was a Boston young lady who refosed 10 wear the fashionable clocked hosa until thedt ascertained that tho clocks had no hands. Mra. Myra Galnes has a claim :gnlnlln“' timore for $55,000, but has offersd to compronlt for $35,000, Her liberal offer has been rejecid: Mr, Walt Whitman is proparing & D‘: book contalning proso and postry, which " rumored, he intends to call *‘Farand Neat 50, Meisnowin his 50tk year. Mr. Andrew Greon, of New York, 0n¢ o the partics In & divorco-suit, testified Thmdvz that ho had been obliged to keep his halr sbort order to prevent his wife from pulllog it out- The peopla of Nevada have mado & vi: appiication of the proverb that what is ssuce l" the yoose is sauce for tho gander, Wife-bests aro heroafter to enjoy & fNogging as ono fealard thelr punishment, Horace Greeley's eslats, " ventoried at $206,000 shortly aftet hid dcath.7!e d 1ittle more than $20,000 on the fnal scitlents In tarning over to Burropato CoMin somo e stock that the founder of the Zridund held 8b time of bis death, xccutors say that itLs! market valuo ant not be sold, and the betrs, hoplng that the Triduae stock may Nfu" sslablo 8t & remote dats In tho fulur®, T elocted to bold them. Tridung shares cannot " depreciato any furthor on thelr hands, — N6 Sun. @ Mra. J. G, Bwisshelm writes “Iltho‘ 4 some »lme sgo uvonted and patonted & we s supplying pure alr to furnaces by bringing l‘b i & considorable belght, auch s the topof # 00 Ing. 'Thoe system mat the approval of sl % oo who exsmlned it, but uo oue eogaged l'uylr ting up furuaces could bo Induced to try 163 .‘ i variable reply belug that *¢People don’ ‘h"‘- what kind of alr thoy breathe 80 long 84 it “1 et Tho gencral apathy on tho subject of l“\.u unquestionably, and thers cen bu little dafll jers the atatement of the furnace-Btters cusrect!y reacnts tho popular view, which was & HLLIAM Heypy -