Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 11, 1878, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE wo had fmported $800,000,000 of foreign manufactures at & profit of £400,000,000 to foroign labor shows the extont to which the frenzy of lhefieonlo of Pittaburg hns reached. The average rate of duty on the dntinble imports during 1877 wna 42.80 per cont in gold, to which must ho added profits, insurance, premium on MONDAY. FEBRUARY 11, 1878, ment, directly or indirectly, as roward or compensation from any importer, Of these crimos thero are thousands of persona con- fessedly guilty; and they are mombers of the first gocinl and commercial ofrcles; for laboring men, the howors of wood and drawers of water, do not travel in Europe. It may ba claimed—it {s clnimed—that these ed to demonatize silver or abolish the silver dollar as a logal-tender. 3, The billa wero never rosd to oither House, but this practically made no differ- onco, because no ons of them ever con- tained a line or a word demonetizing silver. Tho debates, so far as tho coinaga of silver dollara was concerned, were in rclation to position of society is that laid dawn by the witty Arrnoxse Karn. When Messieurs the murderers loave off killing wo should leave off Lianging—not before, paying some of them the valne of Spanish milleq dollare {n gold or siiver. This Spaniah milted doliar was the queen of the carrency. and by it evervihing was measnred ang valued, | 1tis A significant fact that. white the wholo United States dabt of 100, 000,000 wn pay- able in terms in_Bpanish milled doilare, 8o rocas rooted was the chacacter and alanding of that eofy that the first Congress, with three sswions, nover d & Iaw touiching the cofn. It wan notunti fivo years after the adoption of the Constitas tion, that Congress passod & law on the sbject 1 4 Mr. Cnrrrexpes into making a speech of m”v @r‘bu‘x ’c that kind. His contemptible nllusions to the L ® | dobt of gratitude which Chicago owes Now York for the liberality of the TERMS OF BURSCRIPTION. latter in donations of relief ot the timo of tho great fire of 1871, and which the people of Chicago onght now to ropay by the surrender of their convictions THE NEORO AND SILVER. In the pending debate upon the Silver bill, Benator Jouxarox, of Virginia, touched TT MATL—IX ADNVANCE—POST) ally Edition, one year, ariaof & yhdr. net moi and the sacrifice of their vital intercsts in | gold, commissions, and importers' profit, | offonsoa aro veninl; that the goods so | the polioy of coining auother sized dollar, | upon one phose of the question which has | and then it placed tho ailver dalinr as tho standerd in‘;'\\'r(n ¥, o8 " reference to the remonctization of silver, re- mfld‘ng probably & total protection of 58 pe; brought into the conntry in violation of law | which suggestion at a lnte day took form in | not hitherto beon sufficiently considored, :r‘-j:‘llcfa"l‘ltw‘r‘l' ;:&nfiog:'i‘nn;:lfi “x"v'h'&‘.“"‘(file",‘.ih"{‘g‘ AHEGf & YERr, poF mon cent, and still, with this high protection, two-thirds of the famaces and milla of Ponn. sylvania are closed, and an immonso army of hor workingmen are idleand nnemployed. Three-fonrths of the operators of the carpet and other factoriesin Philadelphia have been practienlly nnemployed for meveral yonrs, though tho 8tate has been coverod by a high tariff, which we aro assured * guaranteea” prosperity to the workingmon. The resolutions adopted betray the same Wall., mm‘I ec, 0, 1 United Blates Stat., 248, declares: from thme to thma struck nnd cofneg 3 coliis of gold, sllver, and cunper. Fagy e Yalno of BIG, efe, Dorsans ox irwer o bs uf the value "of ' Spanieli nijied IAP, A8 the dame 18 now eurrent, And to contain 871 BraiaRof pure AllYer (n standard never changed aro souvonirs of travelj that they mre not intended for sale, nnd that they, therefore, should escape seiznre, and those who bring them escape punishment. Wa deny all theso propositions ;- they are wholly viclous, and worthy only of instant condemnation, The cnme of evading payment of duties npon a trunk full of bric.n-bac is of preciscly tho same nature as that of cheating the Govern. ment out of duties npon n cargo of pig-iron, Both the moral and the legal codes 80 define the authorization of what is known as the Chinese trade.dollar, 4. Instond of tho country being advised and informed that the bill demonetized sil- ver, we vonture to assert that not one of the men who lave attached thoir names to this string of falsehoods knew st tho time that silver was demonetized, or oven read in any newspaper that the bill domonatized silver. It thay did have such knowledge, then it Is fofr to assume, in view of the gen. WREKI flect discredit only upon himself nnd tho e copy, por yeu on District ho represents in Congress. Itis no R cimen coples ot Tove: " | new thing for Now York to assume to con- Glve Post-Oftico sddress In fall inclaiting Stateand | trol the politics ond finances of the entire N ancen may e mada either by dratt, exprem, | country, but It was not until Mr. Crrrrex- Post-Office order, arin sepistered letters, atonrrisk, | pEN made his speech that Chieago wos nware TERMS TO CITY SUNSCRIBERS, that she had been mortgaged body and sonl Datly, Aelivered, Funday excepted, 23 conts per week. b Datly, dclivere, ey tacinded, 0 conts per wack, | by tho acceptanca of New York's fire contri- ddrees TIF, TRIMUNE COMPANY, butions. Corner Madison and Dearborn-sta., Chiesgo, il e = Orders for the delivery of Tits Tntnwxz at Evanston. e " e it frade Putk I 1a the countiag-room | - Bfuch of tho the ridicule and contumely namely: the attitude of the colored popula- tion, espeoially in the Bouth, with regard to it. In speaking of tho value of silver to the colored peoplo of the Bouth, hio said they knew nothing about the value of gold nnd did not appreciato the paper, ** Remonetize silver and muoh of it would bo absorbed by tham, Philanthropiata and Abolitionists, who had freed tho negro, ought to consider what they should do for his practical benefit. Give the colored people of tha Bouth the ol 419 wif The Iasuc of United Statea notes in 1876.'07 4 the Civil War called for the pavment of **dollaps, ‘fhe United States Supreme Coart says (8 Wall The doliar-note fa an engagement 10 pa e HotTar IoLende 10 e Amed oNRE of son aed Blaten 8 cortati puautiey In weight and fine oraliver, suthienticated as such by the siamp ernment, Willrecolve romet attention. thot rosulted from the indorsement of the | . coein ot tnocnetiones” 10d Incoherency. | it. But thore is anothor view to bo taken of | eral ignorance on the subject, that | money they want nod it would maka them | Thete was nogold In circulation In this country ] wo-called ** Manch-Chunk Miracle” by Fathoer A’tm declaring their “,feu, “that one of | the enso. Tho laxity of practico in regandto | they lad knowledgo of tho conspirncy | botter citizens. Thoy would have some- FR cotnn, and Ik womd b 5."-’}'3’.%?23'.‘2?.:’: TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES. Timwax, the Catholia pricst in charge of that | 4 prinelpal causes of business dopression | tho 1mportations of returning travelers opens | to demonetizo silver. That conspiracy failed | thing to work for, and it woula encournge i Fo AR50 thers was bat Bittle, and then, for the Tnx Cn Trinexe nas estabiished branch ofices | parish, will be removed by the vigorous and for the peesiptof aubseriotions and advertiscments 33 | unequivoenl action of Archbishop Woop in follows: the premises. Tho silly credulity of the 2 -1 4Bt Buildlog, F. T. Mc- i ek bislaty ocal priost In swallowing the plons fraud PAIUIR, FraneeNo. 10 Tuo do 1a Grasge-Bateltere. | and vouching for its genuineness bafore tha B Akt ARCOL eriean Exchange, 44 Strand. | world was caloulated to bring contempt upon firsh tinie 1a tho history f America, eold ' becs a5 comion aa stivor, awing principaily to the Ca o Batat T mako ts, that, for 172 ¢ botnt T mako fa, that, for oa 100015360, when wi spiniat Htertin] anabegan the fssne of legal-tender notes ang bonde, there was no time when silver payments wero not elther the exclusiva or the eqnaflenL {endors. Tho Colonial Mstory scem 10 Indreats wide the doors to frauds of far greator mng- nitade, If the ploasure.travelor can bribe the Inspector to pnss his trank fall of arti- cles of virtu free, the lace morchant, the jowel morchant, the dinmond therchant, the watch dealer, and a hostof other commercial in 1873, becausa the act of that yoar did not demonetize the silver dollar; it only discon- tnued its cofuago, leaving it still a legal-ton- der as before. 'Thedemonetization was only completed in 1874, when, under the pretense that the laws, ns reduced to a code, contalned industry.” The position taken by BSenator JonrnsToN is not only sound, but he is to be credited with moro manliness than moat of his follow-Southorn members possess in taking it. The wishes of thia large indus. trinl eloment of tho South bave hitherto in this country has beon tho too frequent radical changes” in the, law, thoy protest ngninst the change *in o law which an ex- perienco of sixteon yonrs has shown to bo advontagoous.” A chango in the tariff once in sixteon yenra can hardly be claimed to bo he sxciunive ttue of aliver, and In Decomber, 1823, Hexar F. Gritg, Agent. the Church, and it needed the sovere rebuke { 400 frequent,” espocially sk f thi: i1l find hi) all: thing but the I 1t stood bef the | been studiously ignored. The financiers of b ary of the Treas! 3 & =5 y since that sixteen | travelers of this stamp will find him equally | nothing but the law as it sf lore, the the Becretary Trenanry reported (o Congresy R EIA i, el TR WS Jg of the Archibishop, in the form of a lotter years lnc?nden’twolgo years of pence follow- | ready to bnrter away tho rights of the Gov. | dollar was both abolished as a coin and the Wall streot, the philauthropists of Now | that thero was no gold In the countey, AMUSEMENTS, which Father Hervan was compelled to read n o e ing war, and sixteen years of taxation such | ernment he protonds to sorve, but conatantly | logal-tender character of those outstanding | York, nnd tho Abolitionists of New England In all coutroversics with goldites it ts = to Lis own congregation yeaterday, donounc- | 1.5, othor civilized peoplo have aver en. | botraye. .| reduced to sums of five dollars, have alike paid no attention to their wishes, |\ o 10”00 "ond keop constantly fn m‘;m&': e e apd gy (o8 16 wholo cmaltec, 1 the. ntrongoat Jane | acse] It s o bumiliating roflection that the Amor. | 8. In view of theso facts, known to the | nor hiavo they shown any disposition o con- foct, which they are so anxious o blink, thay g o 5 considered morae bareface: an the direc staudard from 17 T4, wlien ailver wag ooley’s Thentre. an nss, and o deserved to undergo tha hu- oven ngitation, the disorganization of busi through Europe, whers ho has spent bis 3 of a long and bloody war to give them their civil and political liberty, but whon their industrial interests aro at stake, they turn n deaf car to thom lest their own selfish greed for gold may bo endangered. The blncks, ns & people, aro almost a unit in favor of silver. They can appreciate it and com. prohend it. They can feel it and handlo it. The gold dollar is to them a myth ; the silver dolph street, between Clark mnd LaSalle, and notorious falschoods set forth by Mr, Conentaf the Brakosch Opcrs Troupe. **Mig. | milintion the Archbishop inflicted upon him. Grogoe 8.Coz and hisassociates? Who would think that, for the sake of compelling the publio to pay thom in dear monoy for the cheap money they loaned, these men wounld put their names to o paper so glaringly and shamofully false? The failing merchant or specnlator, in an hour of fronzied despair, who would attach his name to n false clandestinely dropped. The fight Is to restors to its old place the wrongfully-ejected sliver unit, viz.: the 8713(-zrain dollar, The Evening Journal pretends that It fs in favor of silver remonctizatioh, But howl Why, it would bite off from a silver bar chunks each worth a dollar—{n what! Why, gold! and esch chunk it would call a dollar until gold Ouctuated and went higher, and then it would call n al tho outstanding pleces, aud bite off larger ness enterprises, tho great depression, the hardships and severities inflicted upon labor, the poverty and distress of the milliona of unemployed, the closed furnaces and mills, the docline of all values, ete., ote., they in- pist upon maintaining *‘a law which an ex- perience of sixtoon yoars hoa shown to be highly ndvantageons to the welfaro of tho nation, and to have been the largost factor in money roynlly, kissod the Popo's tos, and Uacked out of Queon Vicronm's drawing. room, oxtromely proud of himself and his conntry, signalizes his return to his native land by confederating with a thieving In. spector of Customs to rob his Government of its just rovonue on tho laces and silks in which his wife may soon appoar at a recep- tion of tho President of the United Btates. " The mortsl remains of Prus I_‘K wero yes- e et House. Fomge. | terdny oxposed to viow in tho Cathodral of K ftoberts' Pantomime Troupe. '*Humpty- | St. Poter's, and the crush wos so groat that the services of a company of soldiers wero llnverly’; g‘h-b-:rr. e necessary in order to regnlate the passage of Monroe street, corner of Dearboru, Enga % ety anehant The Daites,® | the vast crowd. It is ald that the Pope McKee Itankin and Kitty ianchar ho Danites, Sook eFiok to it Ykt Miisms” ropersd. & Colienm Novelty Thentre, pontifical mondato rolativo to the proceed. | tho dovelopment of our resonrces.” Putting | *‘How long, O Lord! how long,"” will the ::!"k to 1:310‘ m‘:lflqyb"" ’;““"“ m;‘ from :l;::f;c::flu;m‘:; :::::,uuhvz:‘ z ";,:; :\h:x::::: :llll;:;'fln%:: ntth l:n:n::‘:nl:ll t'::‘r. ':: )‘:.: (Gl s, oppaita Caurt-ouso. Varlety .3¢r* | ngy of tho Sacrod Collogo in tho evant of | the case mildly, thoso Pittaburg pooplo wore | Ameriean pooplo rost contont under this [ ruln, would justly bo denounced ss s and silver wero clrculating n cqual abun. | U boiot in tho casc. The old Epaoish milled forger, liar, and thief, and be consigned to disgraco and prison; but tho moralist will vainly try to discover any moral distinction between tho sct of ultenng o false check to get monoy and the uttér- ingof a number of false and fabrieated writ. ten statoments by ns many Bank Presidenta in order to secure the right to plunder other persons of more money than they rightfully owe. Tho signatures of those bank officors cannot redoom this writton statoment of its turpitude, though the turpitude of the state- ment ought to disgrmce tho mon who, for such a sordid motive, put thelr namos to it. 08 dazod ns they wero lnst July, Tha bill now pending in Congress {s by no ‘means a bill to repes] protection, It is a bill which porpetnates protoction. It may slmplify the law and render the collection of revenue more cortain. Assuming that 156 por cont of the present dutios on imports aro lost in New York by fraud, the now bill, by brenking up these frauds and securing the collection of thnt much more ravenue, really odds 18 per cent to tho oxisting pro- tection, 'I'here ia nothing in tha Woop bill to displeass Protectionists, howover much it fails to give any rolief to consumers, grievous lond of shame and disgrace? bis death, and authorized o doparture from MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1878. eatablishied usage, but did not spocify any new rules for tho government of the Con- QHIOAGO MARKET BUMMARY. clave. Tho College will nssemble to-day ‘The Chicago produce markels wera irreqularly | and formally constitute itself s permanent steadler saturday, with less doinz. Mess pork losed G@TH4e por bl higher, at §10.27@10.90 | COngregation for tho election of a now Pope, for March and £10.424@10.4 for Aprll, Lard | Withont waiting farther for the arrival of ‘closed 7%c per 100 Ba higher, ot $7.30@7.323% for | the foreign Cardinals, all of whom, with tho :hrch nnds“S';-(;lUfib'-}inflD%mf‘flf'A»flL- :lt‘lllfl 1':;“" cxooption of Cardinal McCrosxey, aro ex- rmer, 8t $3.60 per or boxed shonlders o 55,80 for o Ahort elur. . Whisky wan steady, | Pected to reach Roma to-day, at §1.03 per galion, Flonr was in falr demand. e Wheat closed X@!§c lower, at 81,04 for Februsry and §1,04% for March. Corn closed steady, at B03ic tor Febraory and 42%c for May. Oats closed firm, ac 234cwpot and 20%c for May, Ryowas stendy, atdlc. Darley closed tic lower, ot 405¢ #pot and 47c for March. Hognwere firmer, 883, 05 @4.00. Cattle were firm, common to cholco sctling Sheep were dull, at $2.75@ 1 Chicago has packed 2,101,000 hogs, againat 1,470,757 in the eame tlme one year presipusly. The packing of the West todato Is es- timated ot 5,450,000 bead, 38,2 per cent of which hua been done In thiv clty, Recelvedin Chicago last week, 74.057 brls flaur, 742,420 bu wheat, 579,021 b corn, 17, 707 bu_oats, 15,067 bu rye, 4,541 bu bartey, 14,001 dresscd hogs, 130,000 1ivo hiogs, and 17,63 cattle, Exported from New York lust week, 42,330 brin flonr, 010,737 bu “wheat, 403,702 bu corn. Inspected Into atore fn thin city Saturday morning: 101 cars wheat, 107 cars corn, 34 cars oats, O cara rye, 30 cars barley. ‘Tatal, 350 cars, or 162,000 ba. One hundred gol- Jara in gold would buy 9102.00 fn gresnbacksat the close, Dritish consols were quoted at 05 11-16 ond steriing exchianvo at 84,5714, dollar of 871% gralns was a standard dollar and unit of value in parts of this country from 1600 to 1775, when the Continental Congress adopted 1t as the standard dollar on which to borrow money to carry on the Revolutfonary War, That war debt was fncurred in dollars of that exnct welght, The Revolutionary debt was pald fu silver dollars of cxoctly that welght. The debt of the second war with Great Britaln was fncurred and afterwards pald in sflver dollars of that exact atandard. If anybody had called that money **a Di-cent dollar,” hie would proba. bly have been rotten-egged for his slauderous mallce. dancs, the blacks would prefer the white money. ‘The great majority of tho planters, farmors, workmen, ond laborers of tho Bouth are blacks, Thoy are the indnstrial clnss, The whites, as a rule, are tho em- ployers. Their employes number five mill- fons of freomen, who have intorests in tho soil, in property, and in the futuro prosper- ity of their section, Thore are more black workingmen in the South in favor of silver than there aro white men in the wholo coun- try opposed to it. Theso men are citizens and voters, They have oqual political rights with the whites, Thoy cloct 88 many mem- ‘bers of Congross, nlthough they are not rep- resonted by as many. They have na deep and abtding an interest in the South as tho whites. Thoy have tho same right to have their intoresta roprosentod on tho floor of Congress, and yot neither Layan, Hiwp, nor Kerroaa have spoken & word for their con- stituonts. Though the colored race is in o large majority in Georgin, Misslesippi, and Toulsiana, and is in favor of silver, not ono word has been spoken for them excopt by Benator Bnuck, one of their own race, who has received the thanks of the Democratic Legislature, which ia tantamount to an em- phatio condemnation of Senator Laxmas, for dofying the sentiments of o majority of tho peoplo of his Btate, It would bo well if these Abolition gentlemen of New York and Now England would give some rosson why thoy pay no cunsideration to the black man's interests. If ho docs work, he has as good o right as the white moun to eay in what monay ho shall bo paid. If ho runs in debt, ho has the samo right to say in what money Le shall make payment. Thoso who pro- duce the woalth of tho whola Bonth have some rights in the premises, and their senti. ments are entitled to consideration. And yot mot one Abolition Bonator, excopt Braing, has spoken a word in their favor, nud it 1s loft to Bonator Jonnston, a white yonn, and Senator Bnuck, a black man, to roproeont their interosts, while the Eastern Abolition Senators speak and vote agninst them. Therols an injustico in all this which ig in striking contrast with thelr pretentious rogard for the black man's intorosts, ————— THE REW YORK BANK MEMORIAL. Tho New York bankers, after having con sulted with bankers from other cities, have momorialized Congress against the ro- monetization of silver. Among other stato~ menta made in this memorial is ono which may fairly challenge by its dircot and in- dircot falsity any other paragraph of the same longth writton on this subject. Wo give tho statoment in full, with tho signn- tures which we find attachod to it. It reads: (1) Neatly threo years olapsed from the Intro- duction of the proposition demonetizing sliver until ita final passnge, During tho wholo period overy possiblo’ means was rosorted to to give it pobileity, and to invite whatever opinion or criti- cism could ald In_coming tv s wiso and temporate concluslon, () 1t was cunstantly aud ewpuatl- cally nieged by the Secretary of the Treasury, The il 'was cons[dored at lengih by the Finance Com- mittes of tho Senate and thoe Colnage Committon wf the House during five difforent sessions of Con- ear, (3) It was repeatodly read in full in both Tousce. 1t wae printed In full, with tho smena- incnte, by orler of Congress,' cloven difforent times, mad twice in_addltion, in tho re- ports’ mnade by tho Deputy Cowmptroller of the Currency, (4) Tha dobatos upon the DIl n tito Senate acoupy stxiy-slx columns of tho Congresstonal Globe, und tnoso In the liouse soventy-eight columns, During this Jeclod, overy Rhade of apinion, oth 1a and ot of ‘ongreas, was invoked and challengod, (5) Never wan o measure moro fully, Intelllgently, consclen- lluull{. ond gxhaustively considercd, ~ Can any- thing bo mora’ incredidle than that, in the face of his, tho nesertion conld bo fabricated, and per- hiaps belloved by the greater partof oar peopic, that the Uil in quostion wae the result of & cone suleacy of canita] agatnat Inhor; that it woa gotten up ond aurreptitiously worked ' through Congress, Aivantage bothg nken af tho confurlon and inco- herenco alwaya incident to the close of o scasion; that it waa & inoustrous outrage upon poputar 1ib. t it restricted the people in the use of 1heir natural money, and that thoy have a right to demand, and_should demand, that the sfatus in 40, which oxisted nrevious to its passage, should fe fully and complclelfimllurcd. xonur 8, Cor, e i, 3. D Newiaer F, D, TArpes, Committee on behalf of banks in New York, TAMES [T, BraL, Fuanxuix lavey, TiouAs Laxa, Committee on bebialf of banks {n Doston. Cuancen 1L Roozus, Jonzri PATTEnsoN, Enwe Lzwis, Committeo on behalt banks in Philadelpbla, Hexny A, Tuoxrsox, Exocnt Prarr, Hexnr Jaxxs, Committeo on behalf of banks In Daltimore, 1. In the first place, it ja asufficlent anawer to all tho statements wada in this paragraph to say that no bill for tho domonctization of silvor was ever introduced in Congross, ox- copt a bill roported {n 1808' by Benator Snenvan, which bill was g6 effectunlly de- molished by Benator Monoax, of New York, that it was never heard of again, The blil by which the further coinage of tha silver dollar was prohibited did not directly or indireotly domonetize silver; the LIl simply forbade ' its colnage,—not in words or direotly, but by omitting it from the list of silver coina law. ful to be coiued. During the ** years which olapeed ” from the tine the bill was intro. duced the bill in no partof ita language, in no provislon of any secction, nor {n any other form, proposed the demonetization of silver. ‘The word demonetization was nover used In the bill, nor by euy speuker, nor in any reports, The bill was propared outside of Oongross by gontlomon professing to bo experts in tho matter of mannging, and con. trolling, and rogulating assay offices and tho mochanieal, and sciontific operations of mints, These exports wero not legislators, nor statesmen, nor politieal oconomists, nor was 1t their business or duty to advise or recommend any change in tho monotary sys. tem of the United States. Thoy represented that the lawa for the governuont of the mint and the regulations for its mechanical operation were contaigod in scores of laws, gsomo of thon couflloting, and scattered through various volumed of statutes, Thoy asked that all tho laws relatiug to the mint should be reduced to onej that tho new law should be mado conslatent inall its parts, snd bo modified in such respects as might bo euggested by experieuce, the juvention of new machinery, ond by such scientifio dis- coverics ns had & bearing upon the matter, The bill was non-political, so far ns its title or languagu exprossed its purpose; and the roader might as well have expected to find in the charter of a medical collego a provision demonetizing silver as in this bill to reduce into one act all the then laws for the regula- tion of the mint. 2, 'This bill was extremely long, contaln- ing seveuty or elghty sections, and supposed to relate exclusively to technical, mechan- ical, and scientific matters, sud it was this which caused tho long doloy in its passsge. ‘The attention of members could not bo ob- taiued for the bill. Ouly a few persons ever readit. There was no particular objection to it, but whonevor tho DLill was taken up members loft. . It was passed by one or the other House soveral times, no werious ob. Jection boing made to it, all assuming that it was the innocent, harless tuing it tho pretonse of protecting the Christlans rosident thero is o gamo two can play at. It was hardly to be snpposed that Russia would quiotly stand by and seo England take pos- session of the Turkish Capital without so much ns an effort to prevent so uncqual & distribution of tho advantages of position ; and it now travspires that Gonrscnaxorr has sent a note to the Powers giving notice that the Russian Government contomplates the occupation of Constantinopla by land for tho samo .purpose that England pro- fesaos to Lavo in view—tho protection of Christians. It now becomes an interesting question, which will get there first, and ‘whetler Russia’s {nfluenco over Turkey will Lo ablo to secure a rofusal by the Porto of England's application for permission to send hor fron-clads up the straits and through the Bosplorus in front of tha city. THE ECARE AT PITTSBURG. Pittsburg has had a drendful attack of hysteria. It is on industrial city, Every mon in the city ia directly or indirectly in- terested in manufactures or mining, and perhaps as many a8 20,000 of such porsons in the city and in the ndjoining districts are now and have been for o long timo, if not out of work, working on half or one-third time and nt groatly reduced wagos. In this respoct tho condition of the miners and 1he operativos in the iron and othor mauu. factnring indudtries of Pennsylvenin Is generally tho same as in Pittsburg, and it los heen estimated that no less than 100,000 workmen, all representing families, have been practically out of employment sinco 1875, ond many of them driven to grent wnnt and sufforing. Tho subject of rovising tho tariff i beforo Cougress, and these good poople, rendored jdesporate by their condition, struggling, ns they are, for Lread, have gone wild over the suggestion thut the change in tho tanll would bo to their injury. Wo will not say that these people wero domented; they were shaply torrified, and in thoir wretchodness belioved what they wero told, that to roduco the tarift would be to beggar oven the few who have work, Under thoso circumstances the Pitts. burg workmen turned out in procession on Boturday, corrying Lanners bearing, amoug others, the following strangely inconsistent pictures aud mottoes : A high tarif guarantees vrnnpolrlly thronghout the country, A bauner with a piciire of anail- foedor, ragged and on a trnmip, Just passing s post on which wae lattered, +*0ne ‘Milo to the Poor- Housc.” Wo want bigh tari@s and prosperity, ‘This, in tho face of tho notorious fact that for sixteen years and more thero has been a # high tariff," higher than any tariff imposed in any country in modern civilization, The closed mill and the ragged workinan, pictures familiar all over Yennsylvania, furnish the fit- ting reaponse to the statement that * a lugh tariff guarantocs prosperity,” This high tariff ia now in full operation, and has been since 1801, and never in the history of the country haa there been such general povorty, distress, and suffering na thero has beon during sev- oral yeans, sud this enforced idleness Is get- ting worse every day, ‘I'wo other mottoes ara worthy of notices Put tea aud coffes on the free ilat, Lut protect our bome fudustey. Frotection to the manuface tarer menus prosperity to workingmsn, I'ea and coffee havo been on the froe liat since 1872, and home industry has beon pro- tocted since 1801, Tho mauunfacturor has boon protected since 1801 with such *pros. perity” to the workinguman as s furnished by 100,000 operatives idle in Pennsylvania nlone, and a8 many families in actual desti- tution. ‘The spoeches, though made by professedly intelligent mcn, were in keeping with the wottoes on tho baoners. Ono of theso speakers ia thus reported 3 Postmuster GEoux il AxvEnsox, who sddressed ——— We have patiently and perseverlogly labored to secure a lodgment in the Journal's thick skull of tho sinplu and undeniable fact that this country always had a double monetary standard of silver and gold; that the silver dollar {s tho oldest standard; that it was adopted at the Continental Coneress as far back as 1776; that It always contaloed 871y gralns of pure silver; that ita welght has never been changed; that the old Bpanish milled dollar s the cofn this nation nidopted ot its very birth o8 the unit of value. Wa have Jabored i valn to make this Idiot understand that the sil- ver dollar of the old weight has as much con- stitutional right to circulnte na legal-tender ss the gold doilar; that it s the elder brother,— the senfor coin. The trouble with the Journal Is, that it thinks there never has been but one metalllc standard, and that gold. It regards sllver as an slien, an Interloper, an intruder, s stranger trylng to thrust ftself into the moue. tary systom of Amerles, and no amount of srgument, demonstration, or proof has the slighteat effect {n oponing its eyes to the actual fact. Hence wo have concluded that the con- cern was an {diot, which meansa simpleton, ors belng destituto of the ordinary {ntellectust powers of man,~a sort.of mental malformation. It was more churitable to ascribe its conduct to that causo than to the pecuntary blandishments of the Wall street gotd-bugs. “ HOW LONG, 0 LORD! HOW LUKG 1" The recont seizure, by the Collector of Doston, of thirty thousand dollars' worth of wine, china vases, Turkey rugs, bric-n-brac, and articles of virtu, bronght into that port by the officers of the United States sloop-of- war Kearsarge, furnishes a striking illustra- tion of the gencral demoralization caused by the Inx ndministration of tho customs sorv- ico in Now York City. Itisat that port that nearly all foreign pleasura-travelers land, and n great mojority of them deliberately intond to, and do, defraud the Government of tho revenue due it upon groater or less quantitics of dutinbles wares contamned in thoir trunks, Evory dutinble articlo of tho collection above referred to is as legitimate o source of rovonto aa an invoico of silks en- tered by an importing morchant; and tho offense of tho officeras of the Kearsarge is more flagrant than that of an ordinary trav~ oler, because they are sorvauts of the Gov. orument, aud bound in honor nat only not to do it an injury, but, so foras thoyaroable, to sco to it that it suffers no injury at the hands of others. It haa become 6o fashionable for foroign tourists to smuggle goods in trunks through the Now York Custom-Ilouse, by bribing In. spectors, that tho offonso has ceased to be rogarded as a crime, and como to bo looked upon as a thing to bo chuckled over and re- Inted to friends ns o good joke, wheroby money hes boen saved.. ** Travoled " tour- ists give themsclves no uneasiness on the sabject. When thoy approach the harbor they provide themselves with some gold coins, more or less numerous, drop one or moro of thom into the hand of the compli- ant, corrupt fuspector of Customs, and their luggago is **cleared " withoutn word, With the travelor making Lis first roturn trip the caso is differont. Ko has, perbaps, nover stolen anything in tho whole course of his life. As tho steamer ncars the dock he be- comes nervous; but the trick of robbing the revenuo {s so notorious that ho also has saved a coin or two for the occasion. When the Inspector renches hls trunks the inex- perienced * fmporter stammers out some- thing to tho effoct that he is in lnste to go mshoro; that he would like to get hls luggage cleared imme- diately; that he has nothing of con- soquenco dutiable; blushes ot the lie he has told, and exposes to view an eagle or doubla eagle. This the Inspeotor seizes with avidity, and the thing is done, ' The trunks are * chalked,” and the fresh travoler Las completed the commiasion of his first crime. He i8 ashameod until he gots into his hotal, but when he goeth his way ho boasteth, That this practice is almost universal nmong travolers is beyond dispute a fact. Comparatively fow of the persons who ro- turn from European pleasure-jaunts land on our shores without trunks full of forelgn merchaudigo lfable to duty, but scarcely any of thens pay any duty at all; thoy bribe the Tuspectors to violate their oaths of oftice and cheat the Government out of’ its just dues; and they silence thoir consclencos by the mental declaration that it ia not their fault if the Government employs thieves and scoundrels to represent it. ‘Wae hiave charactorizod tho act of travelers in securing the freo clearauce of foreign goods, justly sabject to duty, as a crime. For the benefit of those persons who have Litherto regarded it as n good joko, wo quote a portion of Bsc, 8,085 of tha United States Revised Statutes, as follows: I any person shall frauduluntly or kunowlngly import or brini futo the United Statos, or asist in #0 doluy, any merchandtsocoutrary tolaw, . . such morchandive shall Lo forfelied, und the of- tha mouting from the Ohlo stand, reviewed st | fendor eAall be fued in any aum uot ‘esceeding fve longth the events of the W lr‘ ond showed that ous | tAowaund dollura nor less than Afly doliars, oF be reason of tha great prosverity then was the nleh ( dmprisoned for any time not ezceading two years, protective tarl@ which the gold prewium tmposed | or dola. ot !:{:nlf: gfiifi‘l"éi.'xeh‘e"?uf.i' '!3“,12‘:5.::‘:4‘:‘.'."‘.’&:‘ It follows th:: when the forcign traveled M SR one-alf | gentleman (?) rolates his exporience in secur- uf which repreaented the putn 0 foreli workuen g the freo clearanco of dutiablo goods by OQUR BCAFFOLD STATISTICS, .. The statistics of tho scoffold which we published yostorday aro not without their sorous significance, especlally when thoy are read in connoction with the list of mur. dets presonted daily by tho press. Even aftor making all allowances for crimes the perpetrators of which cscapo, for the inofli cioncy and reluctanco of prosecutors in places where political influences hamper the odministration of justice, and for commu- nities which, through a mawkish sontiment. ality, havo abolishod the gallows, tho fact remains that but a small percontage of tho mon who desorve hanging are hanged. Ninoty-six executions in o yoar must bo sald to bo a considorable number; it looks evon larger when compared with the statistica of othor countries. England, with her excep- tionally sovers administration of justice, haugs only soma thirty men a year. In Franco last yoar only fifteon of fifty-three capital sentonces wore carried out. Bat from our total of ninoty-six o large deduc- tion must be made bacause of tho sudden soverity of tho oxecution of tho laws in South Oarolina, and tho sucocss of BMr, Faaneuy B, Gowen in hunting down tho Ponnsylvania Molly Magnuires, that wo must take less crodit to ourselves for our en- forcoment of tho laws. Capital crimes nro probably more numerous than in cither of the Furopean countries men- tioned, ofthor positively or relatively. A lsxer administration, and tho almost universal prootice of carrying murdorons wonpons, may nccount for this, But aven aftor admitting all that we may, the fact remaing that the proportion of murder. ers haoged to mon murdered is lamonta. bly small, What with logal technicalities, tical influence, tho puklng of {uries, or the uq:uugnmm of honest jurors to infllot thoYloath punishment, and the power of such Judges 08 MoArvutsTzn, it may be safely as- sorted that not more than 0 por ceut of the men who should bo hanged ever rench tho gallows, and it may bo addoed that the men who are hanged are usually the least deserv. ing of that distinotion, In America wa are atn further disadvantage 8s compared with Furopoan countrios, Horo n conviction ac- ocompanied by a rocommendation to morcy, or n commutation by the Exeoutive, moans, in tha groat majority of cases, an imprison. ment of not wmore than ten or twelve years; it mny menn only five or aix, whereas in En. gland ponal servitude- for life means ponal servitudo for life; and in France the thirty. cight murdorers who, in 1877, escaped tho guillotine through the fondness of the juriea for circonatances extenuantes, will never come out through the prison-doors that have closed behind them till they come feet foromost in cheap coffiug, 'f'wo points ednnot fml to atrike the care- ful reador of our nows articlo of yestordsy : tho absoluta nbuence from the list of mur. dorers on whom Justico laid hor heavy hand of that most déadly, deliberate, and desploa- blo slayer, t#8%rofessional abortiontat; aud the great rarity of executions in the great cities, where the criminal classes are most numeorous, and murders aro most frequently wrought, 'We cannot remember when one of the Rozexzweias or Davists who ply thoir butchers’ trade in every town of the 1and was brought to tho gallows to have his {hroat stretched by righteous hemp, and, as for urban exccutions, they live only in the traditions of the Bheriff's office and the local voom, While last year the murdersrs of New York furnished the Coroners with forty corpaes, the Bherif contributed mot one. Chicago, Bt. Louis, Boston, Brooklyn, Jer. soy City, Cincinnati, Louisville, Buffalo, Washington, Cleveland, Kansas City—but why turn this article into n catalogus of American citioss ? In not one of these great centres was execution done upon a singleone of tho masy men who staned their streets with blood. ‘The record is a divgraceful one for civilization. We ssy ** for civilization,” for though we have no desire to go back to the * hanging daye " of our forefathers, it is equally cortain that the present atate of things cannot be allowed to continue. Where In New York on EntunTny_ groonbacks euled at 98@ 984, The specch of ex-Senator DooviTTLE before tho Wisconsin Legiulature, n fow evenings ngo, on tho silver quostion, will bo found in thismorning's Toisune, It will well repay perusal, as it is stroug aud clear, and well fortified by facts. ‘Tho noutral zono which separaten the Rus- slon and Turkish forcea to the northward of Constantinople is twelvo miles brond, but wo cannot conscientionsly advise anybody sxcept onr Turldsh readers to undertako to stato fu casunl conversation the exact boun- To the Editor of The Tridune. Chitraco, Fob, 9. —Ploaso decide s question which has arisen, DId the Government recelvs greenbacks nt par in payment for bonds lseucd dure ng tho War? Pleavo anewer In your paper. Yours truly, XPREN. From the day the grcenbacks were first Lisued under the act of Feb, 25, 1862, until all the War bonds ware sold, tho Government received nothing but greenbacks in payment thereof. i — e darics of the Two sormons of nnusual interest aro given In our columns this morning—proachod, as 1t happons, Ly thoso utual frisnds and ad- 1mirers, Prof, Parron and Prof. Bwixa, The former has for hix theme * The Bille as a Rovelation,” and the lattor's romarks aro es- pecially dirocted to young men. ——, Queen Isannria was inclined to cut up rusty whou the Papal Nuncfo told her that tho Pope would sanction the marriage of the youny rogat lovers of Bpaln, but the official satd, **Let us have no nunclonce about thia!" aud so ale didn't forbid the baus. o —— ‘The white whale fu an Euglish aquarium bas been selzed for debt, Yerhaps, however, tbe proprietor can regaln It by suing out a writof habeas porpoise. * poc A PERSONAL. Neal Dow has mot & defeat in tho Malne Leglslatuze, the Tempemnco Committes reporting legislstion inexpedient on his proposed law to cone #ne dropksrds in Jail unt!l they discloss whers they purchased thelr llquor, The father of Charlio Ross aaid tos re- ‘Thiis makea 375 boya T have been called or have beon written about, and my bus- dreds of fallures to {duntify each waif as my owd have tanght me to entertaln nolesngulne hope. 1 supoose [ shatl continue golug to see Loys tll 1 die, but 1 don't expect to fud Charlle i any of thom. " Mr. Spofford, the Librarian of Congrest, has complled & world's alinapac for ue In the Uulted Btates, 1t 18 derlgned to combine the best oclemonts of the **Stateaman's Year-Book, s»Almanach de Gotha,* and **McPherson's | Book of Politics.” The title of the work I s¢American Almanac,” No nowspaper ofice ca3 afford to be without I, ‘fhie Washiugton Star aoys Mre, Hayes has gone over to the enemy in the watter of dress, and % camo out on Baturday in 8 maguidcent tollet of goruet allk and velvet, with aparkling threads and glinting of guid Interwoven in the rich draperys and the change ls In every sonse a success. effect of the ragal robe was, indeed, finc, sud M= Hayes never looked as well or made o better Ime pression. ™ An 0dd figurs fu tho ceremony of the Bar- nots-Shoomaker wedding at Daltfmore was thst of the bl traln-bearor, This was **Msmof Gracic," an anclent colored woman, who has cared for tho youngeters of thres generations lu the Shoemaker family, She inarchod proudly up ibe alslo with & new bandanna handkerchief of #or° geoun colors’on her hosd, and when the part? reached the altar Mamuy Grace took her 83! bealde tho Frostdent of the United States. An eplourean correspondent of the Globe- Damocrat writes from Havama: 1 dlsap- polnted in the Cuban womeu. 'Thelr nough, but thelr complezions ur pale an 7. Invain you look for the damask ross hu of (04 waidens of Spain, whose wmelting and luzuriss faces and forms would warm the Lieast of a gbost. 1 may bore romark that | preferthe Mobsmmelas's Ttoaven In one respect (o the Christian's. 1prefs te soft, rich brauetta of 1hg Honl to tho cerulesd bluadea of the Churci.™ ‘I'iere wad o scandalons scene in tho Fflflfl: Chamber of Doputics recontly. It i thus deurib'“ by Mr. Edward Kiog, the Purls correspondeot the Boston Journal ; & e e abous 1he Minlstry, Grevy kuocked ou the tabie Vi, I *Fiionsteur De I8 Ko upt agei, or § st The Ttmes uced not bo afmid to flon, 88 gizantic flope bave hitherto been perpetrated on still shiorter notles than the Zimes has had, For example, during the recent French polftical campalgn an ovpponout of tho Parls Dedals waunted to show that that puper was not always conslstent, so what did It do but turn back to the filcs of the Debats for 1815, when NaroLeox returncd from Elby, aud uncarthed probably the grentest flop the world has cver ecen. Asa matter of histurlc intereat aud by way of en- couragemont to the Zimes, we vroceed to show how gracefully the Debats flopped: Debdate, March 20, 1815, i Debate, March 21, 1815, "The partisans of tyran:| Tho ® boalevards are ny who see In tho return crowded with throngs of thelr biaster o chanco-linpationt for the arclval for plilago uud wmurderof the urmy and the Hero thlnk that Franco willt haw regslued, Alfthe let Lersolf bo invaded by|French forces, national o Corsican _advanturer, jonce more, have rallied accompanied by a hand-jto the eagles, arc march. ful of strange’ brizands'ing boneath the standard and some bands of do-'of wlory und fatherland, wertors, This second.The Ewmpororhastravers usurpation 18 only thoed 220U lesgues In the coupde main of B des-jmidat of & poople Alled rate robber chicf whoo with gladcess and hopes ustice woeks and will'of gladness . . . Such surely overtake , . ,'ls the picture of this 8 merciless tiger ', . llmarch—rather lgt ue say The great Frenchuation, triumphal progr which has _ triumuhed (Lafer.) The Emp over the world, will' not'hawarzived at the Tulle sce ita_glory defled by tes nmnid the wildest ac- the littlo lond of & listle!clumations of Vire I Kun- Mediterrancan luland, | pereur From Fon. who left his shores ag ajtxlnebleau to Purls, the fugitive and tanded onthrong was o dense that onrsas o brigand, Bet-'his Mojesty had to yro- ter nothingness forleeed at a foot's pace. Franco than the shame of The rentea which ‘were again falling under the yuoted n-urdn; at 08 eXvcrable yoke of herary to-day up to 78.80. butcher. " ‘That was & pretty good flop for one of tha dowi-troaden serfs of Europe two gencrations g, but in this age of progress, in this city of enterprise, 1t can be outdone, What maa hag flopped, mau can flop. A Thiladelphia dispatch reports the areest of Wrniour & Sons, tho largest shipping firm in that city, and the seizure of their books, npon a chiarge of defrauding the Gov- ernwent to the extont of $200,000. In un- Iertoking to competa with New York cus- loms frauds Pliladelplin {s obvionsly ot a disadvantage; Now York onjoys o monopoly In this sort of business that cannot bo dis- putod with impunit; ‘The New York Sun will have to try again, Its latest achiovement in the manufucture of sousational slander against Prosident Haves proves to be n fizzle. The Hon, O, B, Fan. weLL, of Chicago, who s represonted to havo negotisted o lonn of &20,000 for ox-Gov. Krrroco with tho Union Natioual Bauk of this city for the purpose of buying aflidavits for usa before the Returning Doard in New Orleans, pronounces the story false 1 every cusentinl particular, " Tho suthorities of Kahoka, Mo., aro sald to keep a prisoner confiued in a dungeon bolow tho surface of the grouud, which has no light, no floor, and in which puddles of wator stand during rainy weather. The castles of Joun Bunyan's glants frequently presonted borrors of this kind, but it has been contrary to goueral credulily that such barbarity should find & foothold in reality, n:lu\l awony people laying claim to civiliza ou, e —— A correspondent asks us why we give so marked a preferenco to the afiver dollar of 871 gralns of puro silver and refect the proposed ¥ CrrisTIANCY dollar," or the *“BLaine dollar," or the Trade dollari Wo shall not usdertuke now to repeat or restate sll of them. But the first reason ls, that tbe dollur of 871 grains pure silver has boen the 1nonetary standard or unit of value in this couutry from 1680 until 1874,~a period of 181 years. It!stho ancient, uuckiangeable dollar of this country. A legal correspondent polnted outin the columus of Tus Twinuxs recently that the Bpanish miiled dollar was the origival staudard {n this couotry, wado so by thorst Continental Covgress. We quote from bisarticle: Coogress daring tho Revolutionsry War lesued more than thres hundred willlous of Lil's of credit, ‘The frst tssus was in 1775, aud the Confederated Colonles were xlt‘duud for their tedenption. The furin of thoso firet Lesusd wus 8a follows: “This bill entitles the o nul'r.-—- lvn.rlll‘l MILLED DOLLARA, oF thy Yalus theruof Lo wold oad ol Ver, according Lo thie Hcsolutious of Cogreas. The lsat emiwlon was made in 1750 uoder the rautee 0f Congress, snd wus Iu the following It appears urkoy is not willing to accord to Monteuegro tha termns upon which the urmistics was concluded with Russia— which provided, atong other things, for the occupation by the Lostile army, pending the negotintion of o detinitive peace, of the ter- ritory and positions occupled at the time the srmistico was sgreed upon. The Monte- uegring claim the right to draw the line of dearcation on this basls, but the Porte objecty, and a renowal of hostilities between tho Turks and Montenegrins i said to be immivent. In Greoco tho action of the Governmert in withdrawing the troops sent to Epirus and Thessaly has excited. popular indignation, and there is a prospect that the Ministry moy be driven to a policy that will still further complicate matters with Turkey. ‘The weight aud lmpar_unu of the silver dumonstration of last December in Chicago country reschied annually $500, 000, oud loss to the Americau pocke! "I'he total value of all imports duriug the | paying an Inspector $10 or §20, the joka thus year 1877 was $480,000,000, of which about | told to his admiring friends is a confession $150,000,000 was in tea, coffee, bresdstufs, | that he is guilty of a crime, which, if prop- sugar ond inolasses, and gold and silver. | erly punished, would subject hiw to impris. ‘The industry of Ponnsylvania can bardly be | onment and the forfeitura of his righta as an supposed to lave been injurod by the im. | American citizen. Nor is thisall: our trav. =5 mallgt. wad_seid. sternl l|:.=|'a:m-1l Livito you ot 1o 1 04 Lo Urder. portation of these articles. The main | eled gentloman (?) is also guilty of the crime | profssod to be. ‘The Treasury officers, | the law s not adequate to the punishment | furm: :Pixloc'.‘.‘:fll? ;fl‘l‘g,",:fi:.,"‘ ,,b{,‘;',f‘,""‘"" :.?.'.';"“_f.'& roceived o lefthauded recogoition in tho | osticles of Ponnsylvania industry are coal, | of bribery. He has hired a customs officer | in their reports, urged its passage, and the | of ovil-doers, the people will take the law e posscasor of this Lil shaitbe pald o BraXtod :qllwvmr'.ahui wiiioc Tet wny o Ul 083 e spocch which Mr, Cusrrexex, of New York, | iron aud stecl, glassware, aud woolon cer- | to violate his oath, an oath that he is ro- | few Bonators and Reprosontatives who were | into their own hands in extreme cates and | fefess in itk uancy st 106 Falo f 8 por costby ity el o delivered in the House on Baturdsy. Noth. | pets, and the entire importation of all theso | quired to take as a preliminary to the pay. | enlisted in behalf of it occasionally recom- | desplee it in all others. It isa very unpleas- | thustate o 1he — day of —, 1760 " m‘n’f%u‘wu(n'-g:x'"".nnnuaumy.un oack ing less irritating thau the consclousness thet the intlucnce of the silver demonstra- tlon in Chicugo has far outwuighed that of tho Now York goldites could hiave provoked orticles during 1877 did mot exceed ¥17,- | went of his monthly salary, Tho Treasury 000,000, and that is the extent to which | regulstions require that customs officers foreign trade interfered with Pennsylvauia | (before thoyreceive pay)shall swear orafinm industry] ‘The extravegant sssertion that | that they bave not received auy gift or poy- doresment by Congress was, ** Tho United |€- payment of witbia bill,* etc. Y that the crediiom of tha American d of the American Lepublic of 1770 80 payment except in Spanish milled ugh toe Uovcrument bad the optivn ot wmended it. The bill at no time attracted the attention of anybody outside of Congress, and no newspaper in New York or elsowhere over kuow or announced that it was intend- ant thing to bave to hang a man, but it was a very unpleasant thing to his victim to be killed, and murderers and their friends, from Boves down, sbould understand that the ool eauld be Just to sek M. Gaumbetts 10 1 tosro baa been auy Lusal 1 would sotB aut by e Uit inous, or tbe Housa vi Leprsscutashieb could iohiacs, T5o