Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1878, Page 4

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Clark srcet, opposte sherman House, Engage- ment of Mise toso Wood. Afternoon, **Miss Multon.* Evenlug, ** Frou Frou,* Haverly’s Thratrs, Montoe sireet, corner of Dearborn, Engagement of Colville's Folly Company, **Dabes fo the Woods.' Afternoon and evening. Coliseum Novelty Theatre. Clark street. opposlts Court-louse, Varicly per- formance. Afternoon and evening, S ————— BOCIETY, MEETINGS, TAL LODGK, NO. 23, A, F, and A, M,~Hail kRl Sl E.N. TUCKHIL’H!CNI:I". 4 WAURANSIA LODGE, N Rpecial Communication th o'ciock aharp, for work on Degrea, u Fin who can arc earnestly requosted 1 be’ present. lteguiar Communication at p. m. = Work on M. o, Degree. Visttors coralylly vt 'éfi'on i J. C. HHOWELL, Sec'y. e FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1878, —_— CIOICAGO MARKET BUMMARY, The Chicago produce markets wero moderately ectlvo yesterday, and broadstuffs were strengthoned by additlonal fears of foroign complications, bat closed casler. Meas pork closed 735c por br higher, st £10.50Q10.92 for March and £10,47%@ 10.50 for April. Lard closed 24c per 100 s bigher, at $7.30 for March and 87,40Q@7.42 for April. Meata wero steady, at 83,6255 per 100 Ibs for boxed shoulders and $5.375 for do short ribs. Whisky was steady, at $1.04 per gallon. Wlour was quist. Wheat closed %c higher, at $1.00% for February and 81.00%@1.07 for March. Corn closed qulet, ot 413c for February and 43%c for Muy. Outs closed K@ic higher, at 24%c for Fobruary and 27%c for May, Rye was firmor, at 5itic. Darley closed dall and steady, at 40c for March. Hoze were dull ond avoraged G Jower, closingut 81.65@3.00. Cattlo woro dull and weak for common to good grados, and irmer for extra, Hulosat 82.40@5.23. Sheep nold at 83,00 @4.75. Inspected into storo Ia this city yesterday morning: ¢4 caré wheat, 140 cars corn, 21 cars ©nly, 2 cars rye, 24 cara barley, Total, 200 cars, 0r 104,000 bu. - One hnndrod aollars In gold would buy 810200 1n groenbacks at thuclose, Dritish consals were quoted at 03 6-10 and sterting ox- chango at §4. b0, —— Groenbacks at the New York Stock Ex. change yesterday closed at 984, England is once more exercised over a re- port that the ontire ‘Turkish flect is to bo surrondered to Russia, aad that tho process of turning over the ships has alroady bo- gun. Whatever moy bo tho truth of this or other dlsquioting reports, it is cortain that military aud naval proparations are golng forward vigorously in England Becrotary Buemaan embracos the sarliest opportunity to declaro that ho will executo the Silver Lill {n the spirit in which it was passod. If ho doca that, ha will got every wmint in the country to work turning out whito dollars, and make them run night and day if necessary to reach the maximum of $1,000,000 per month, ‘That's the splrit in which the Bilver bill was passed, —ee The throo Judges of the Circult ana Buperior Courts, Leforo whom was argued the application for an injunction to restrain tho collection of the personal property tax in the "Town of Bouth Cbicago, on tha ground of tho illegality of the assessunent, yesterday grauted the application, and de. ¢ided that the uction of the County Board {n incrensing the South Town assessmant 20 per cent was illegal, and that the complain. ants are thereforo ontitled to be relieved of tho obligation to pay more than five-sixths of tho assossment as altered by the County Boyrd, e — Late yesterday afterncon the slnewy jaws of the lawyers at Galesburg, IIL, failed them, and the oral cyclone which has howled in that region for so muny days died down, The Judge thercupon ijustructed the jury, sud that raro dozen of men were locked up together to find out whether they could sgree that Frank Ranoe deserved to bo hauged. At 12 o'clock lust night they were still dis. cussing among themselves, and from this strange fuctit was apprehended outside that their narrow cscapo from being talked to death by the attorneys had so dulled their 80150 of justico a4 to reuder the outlaw’s es 02po from his just duey at thoir hands quite possiblo, Tho zelative proportion of goldites snd silver mon fu tho East and West is shown in the negative vole on tho Bilver bill in the Houso yesterdsy, Of the soventy-two nsys but one-eighth woro Western or Southorn mon; the Enastern and Now England States furnished the other seven-cightlis. Tho TRepresentalivos outsido of those money-lending soctions who' rofused to executo the almost unanimous commanda of their constituents were: Disnez, of Flor. idn, Republican ; Davis, of California, Detno- crat ; GARFIELD, of Ohio, Republican; Gin- ron, of Louisians, Democerat; Jonoxxsox, of Virginia, colored Republican; Lzoxasp, of Louisiana, Republican ; Soxrxiones, of Tex- a8, Domocrat; Srewart, of Minncsots, Re. publican; Wittiaus, of Michigan, Demo- erat. There ia reason to believe that matters be. tweon England and Russia in reference to Constantinoplo are not in a satisfactory posi- tion, na is set forth in Tae Trinuse's special cablo dispatch this morning. The agree- mont between the two Covernmenta that neither shonld occupy any polnt along the Dardanolles seemod to give prom- ise of a complote nnderstanding; but Russia objects strennously to the continued anchor- ngo of tho British fleet oven so noar os forty miles from Constantinople, and may conclude to move the Grand Duke's "forces into the city unless tho iron-olads vacnto the Sonof Marmorn altogether. Their presonce not only throntens the Russinn com- munications by way of the Black Sea, but has resulted in stiffoning the backbono of tho Turkish plenopotentiarics conducting the treaty megotiations, and secems likely to bring the peaco preliminarics to a full stop. England has intimnatod that the entrance of the Russions into Constantinoplo would be tho knocking-off of the chip supposed to have been on her shonlder for the past two wecks. Sho may yet find the chip displaced, and berself undor the necessity of choosing somo other position to back down from, —— Bisuancs’s recont speoch in tho German Toichstag, althongh by gonoral inferenco oontaining many rescrvations, scems to bave plonsed all tho Powors concerned, and non more than Austria and Russia, whoso rocont correspondence has indicated that thero wero many points upon which the Cabinets of Vienun and 8t. Petorsburg wore ns wido nsunder ns the poles. The German Chancel- lor, with the warrant which the striotly neatral attitudo of his Government gives him, has had an opportunity to display those romarknblo perceptions which have so often distinguished his administration. Tho fact that ho nssorts and reiterates tho conviction that thero will bo no general European war may not scem to the other Powers anything more than an incidental prodiction uttered without deliboration. Btll it may be barely possible that tho German statesman intendod that this declaration shonld carry with it a decper meaning, if the necessity for enforoing that moaning should arise. The additional fact that Bimurcz in his utterances (to which ho knew the whole of Europo was an ottontivo lstoner) claimed that there was nothing in the terms domanded by Russia which should canso tho slightest uneasiness, is evidenco that the mind of tho great diplomat is not so unfavorably impressed by the attitude which Russia has assumod as to call for any unfavorable comment on his part. It is possible that at the coming Con- foronce the German representative, prompt- ed by WrnLiaa's Prime Ministor, will have a govorning influence in many of the impor. tant questions to be discussed. —eeee A GREAT POPULAR VICTORY. By an overwhelming vote of their repre- sontatives in both Houscs of Congress the people of thoe United Btates bave decreod that the silver dollar shall be restored to the coloago circulation of tho country with all tho qualitios and attributes as a full logal- tonder ond n standard of valuo that it pos- sessod prior to ita clandestine demonetization in 1873, 'Tho Silver billis now alaw, so far s tho votes of a majority of nearly throo-fourths of the National Legislature can make it alaw. In spito of tho captious opposition of the ultra-groonback elo- ment, induced in great part by a de- siro. to postpone romonetization and loave it an open question on which to con- duot another political campaign ; in spito of the throats and nbuse of the Eastorn monometallists ; in spite of all that the en- omica of the honest old dollar of 412} gralus could do to provent it, the Bilver bill was yosterday passed in the House precise- ly as it came from tho Benate, and now lacks only tho signaturo of tho President to becomo o law of the land, The motion of Mr, Brermeys, of Geor- gla,—who waa invested with tho honor and reaponsibility of the loadership of the silver men in the parliamontary struggle of the day, —that the Houso take up and pasa the Silver bill, waa met at the very outset by an attempt at filibustering by SrniNaes, of Nllinols, who undertook to enforco a technical point of order which, if sustained, would have in. terminably prolonged the debate and illimit. ably oponed the door to amendments, The point was overruled by the Bpeaker, who, upon an appeal, wad sustained by a vote of 223 to 26, 'This gave Mr, Brxeoxna the command of the situation, and he used his power with consummato tact and ability, The various amendments attached to the bill by the Senate woro conaiderod soparately, and all concurred in by majorities considera- bly in exccss of two-thirds, Tho test, how. over, of the strength of the silver movement in tho House was the vote on Br, Hewitr's otlon to tablo the bill. Here was a motion that every goldite could snd did vote for, Lut it was also a motfon which the inflation malcontenta of tho Ewmna and Spamvorn stripe did not darc tosustain. Mr, Hewrre's motion was dofuated by a voto of 204 nuys to 72 yeas, and this is virtually the majority which the bill recelved upon ita finel passage in the House,—the msjority which confronts the President in the consideration of the question whether he will approve or veto the bill, Many sincere friends of the silver dollar ‘were opposed to some of the Senete amnend: ments, and would gladly have voted for a bill moro in accordanco with their views, But they wisely perceived that the issue was not, Bhall we Lavo the bill we wanut? bat, Bhall we pass & Bilver bill at oll at thiy session of Congress? ‘They accepted the Benate bill as the best that could be had at present, and now bold themselves free to make such improvements and changes as time msy demonstrate the expediency of. Tho country has reason to bo thankful that the bill has passed, aud that in the most memorable non-political struggle in the his- tory of the United States Congross the mn. Jority hns ruled and the right has provailed. “THE EXPORTERS." Of nll the many devices practiced by thoso clasaes of men who seck to livo upon the National Tronsury by what they cnn get from bogns claims, speeinl bounties, subsidies, epeoial legislation, nnd other dishonest and disreputable pauperism, the late Convention held in Washington City, calling themselves *‘the Exporters,” was the most barefaced that has yot boen attempted. The Conven- tion professed to ba eallod in the interests of tho producers from the forest, tho sail, the mine, and the mill, who it is represented aro now cut off from the opportunity of export- ing thelr prodnets to Europe, Asin, China, and Japnn, the West Indies, Bex- ico, and Sonth America, becauso of tho want of ships. This Convention cinimed to represont the productive industry of the American people, and in their name to demand that Congross shall tako steps to onabla the farmers, the miners, the lumber- meon, the fishormen, nnd the manufacturers to produco fo their full capocity, and ship their surplus to the peoplo of other lands. This waa tho avowed object of the Conventlon, but the real object of all this parade and flapdoodle wns nothing more than to memorialize Congress to vote money out of the Treasury to enable a shipbuilder in Philadelphia to run a line of steamships to Brazil. That is the ontcomo of thisgrand National Convention to promote the expor- tation of American products, A beggarly device of the lobby. An appeal in belialf of the great Americau system of pauperism., A kind of gentaol stenling, or free-luncling; anything to get money from the public without labor and without consideration. Bubsidy, subsidy; subsidy for stoamships, subsidy for railroads, subeidy for iron, snbsidy for steel. The Convention had no thdught of incroasing prodnction that products may bo oxported, Thero was not n man in the Con- vention that wanted a ponnd of stecl or of iron produced beyond what ho could sell at homao at the highest prico that could bo ex- acted under n prohibitory tariff. This whole Convention nad for its fundamental princi- ple the manufacture of goods for the home market at prices only attainable by tho ox. clusion of the products of all other conn. tries. It was nsolemn, but nevetheless moat supremoly absurd, farce for theso people to style thomselves * exporters,” or for them to protend to have in view the oxportation of American products, They protest against an export trade. They protest agninst any such reduction of the tariff as will pormit the oxporta- tion of manufactures, and they olaim that to so reduce tho tarif that their prod- ugts moy bo oxported will destroy overy manufacturer in tho United States. The iron operators in Pennsylvania managed thia Convention of ‘‘export- ors of tho products of American indus- try.” Thoe wholo export of iron during tho calendar year 1877 did not equal in value the export of the very ordinary article of “tallow.” Tho exportors of the United Btates aro not secking subsidics to bnild oconn stenmers, nor to build rnilronds. Thoy produce not meroly to supply the wants of the United States, but to export to forolgn coungries. Thoy aro not protected, and they ask no protection. They aro pro- ducors who sell the products of their own labor, and inslst upon the right of buying what thoy want wherever they can got it the choapest, and without paying tribute or Lounty to any pauperized class calling them. solves producers or oxporters. That our readers may kuow who aro the *‘exporters,” and distinguish between tho real producers and the eubsidy beggars, we give a list of tho unprotected products oxported during the calondar year 1877, It roads oa follows: Amimals, lving Breadatufts Cotton, ra ruits, Fars and skin Glold and sil¥ Miides and ski Tewin oil cak @, .. Lumber, o Usmenufactured coppe Tota) XPOMELcass vrenrioraness Tho producors of theso articles, tho prod. uct of tho forest, the soil, and the 1mine, bavo no protection; they are intercsted in bLaving the widest trade with every part of tho globe, The wholo export of the Unitod States of every kind in 1877 was valuod at 2034,000,000, of which tho above list con- tains $578,000,000. Aund yot these subaldy jobbers, the men who insist upon voting millions for ocoan steamships nund for bank. rupt railroads, resolve themselves into a con- vention professing to represent the produ- cers of the country, and tho exportors of tho products of tho forest, the soil, and the mill, to domand n subsidy for somo Impaecunious shipbuilder on the Delaware River, THE INDIANA DEMOCRATS. The people of Indiana are devoted to poli- tics in a greater dogroo than any other com. munity in the country. It is only thiy thoory that can axplain tho unusual and hazardous experiment of holding a convon. tion, framing o platform, aud making nomi. nations wmore than seven montha beforo the day for tho Btate election. The Democrats must think thunselves prepared for a long fight and a strong one, and we dosnot envy the non-combatahta of tho Btate the strife and turmoil of o soven months’ campaign, But Indiana men are florco partisans, tho two groat parties are closely matched, and the rosult of this year's strugglo involves the eloction of & United Btatea Bonator to suc- oced for six years tho late Souator Montox, Auew Congressional apportionment of tho Btato moroe favorablo to the Democrats is ono of tho fsaucs, and undoubtedly the victory will bo closely contested. Tho ticket nominated by the Indiana Dem. ocrats is conceded to bo a strong one, though it s composed of Leterogensous elowonts. The candidate for the most important ofiica —S8tate Treasurer—1ia Wirrtan Frramg, tho editor and proprietor of the Fort Wayne BSentinel, which kas been a bard-money jour. nal of tho McDoxarp school, whilo the can- didato for Becretary of State is Joun G. Braxxuy, the editor of the Evansville Conri- er, which is for soft mouey aud is a strong adberent of Voonurzs. While the latter is probably wore in sympathy with the sonti- monts o! the Dewocratio party in Indiana, 3Mr, Frzumva is a political power in the Btato, and it was probably felt that his weight could not be spared. Tho most seri- ous weskness of the Indinna Democracy in the proseat caupaign s that they will be obliged to ighit the baltle for Voonuzes, and directly in the fntercats of his caudi. daturo for the United Btates Bunute. There must bo o good maoy sensible men smong the Democrats of Indiann who will not care to attach them- selves to Voonn_za’ personal fortunes, nnd subseribo to his wild lunacies on the car- reucy quection, and somo of these peoplo will rosent running the eampaign for his benefit, In this rospoct the Republicans of Indiana will ocenpy the vantage ground, for they will not be bound to any ono man ns tho succes- sor of Senator Mortox, but will command tho unitod strongth of all nspirants for the placo, nnd leavo the sucgession open for tho strongest after {ho fight shall have boeon mado and the battle won, Tho platform adopted by the Indians Dem- ocratio Convention contains a8 mnny incon. sistencies nnd absurdities na it would be pos- siblo to contain in a document of the samo length, It starts out by indorsing ol of tho Voonnera fallacios ; domands the retiremont of tho National Bank notes and tho substitu. tion of greenbacks thorefor; nsks that United States notes (greonbacks) shall be full logal-tender,—except in payment of bonds,—which would make them reoeiva- blo for onsfom duties; and exacts the *immediate and unconditional repoal of tho Resumption act.” Aftor evolv- iog such a programmo,® what in the namo of common senso was the use in de. manding the restorntion of the silver dollar? 1f tho volume of gracnbacks is to be fmme- dintoly doubled up, thon to boe waterod in- definitely by new issucs thereof, as it shall bacome nocessaty to purchase coin fo pay intorest on the public debt, and finally to bo divested of overy prospect and promise of redemptlon in speclo, then it is obvious that the silver dollar will not circulata by the sido of such curroncy any moro than will the gold dollar, and tho remonetization of silvor will fail to contributo the substantial and intrinsic onlargement of the currency for which it has been mainly advoented. Thers aro othor features of the platforn which aro equally ridiculous, For {nstance, Congressionnl legislation ia demanded to au- thorizo tho Btates to tax United States notes ; Lut the States already have authority to do this, and‘ we think the law of Indiana actually requires ita citizens to return thoir monoy for taxation (including greonbacks) among their other porsonal property, If this fs true, then the inforonce fs that the Domocrats of Indiann are in the habit of concenling their money, and thus defrauding the State, when thoy moke roturns of their personal proporty. Another absurdity is the demand that the Governmont shall distributo the refunding bonds throughout the United States at 6 per cent instend of abrond at 4 per cont. Still another was the wild demand for pensioning the soldiers of tho Moxican War (which would possibly juvolve an outlay of o hundred millions of dollars), whilo pre- tending in n general paragraph to denounce o1l clnss legislotion and subsidios. Bat it would require too much spnce to follow out oll the absurditica promulgated by tho In. dinnn Democrats, particularly as tho country is protty woll accustomed to follica from that quarter. Ex.Gov. Hexoniora prosided ovor the Con- vention in the capacity of Democratic candi- dato for the Presidency, and nctuslly permit- ted himself to bo introduced as tha presont Vice-Prosident of tho United Btates. All this is puarile, and scarcoly loss 5o was Mr, Hexpnicxs' d-fouse in the spooch.he mado of tho prosccution of the Loulsiana Return- ing Board, on the ground that they ought to be punished for not giving cortificatos to the fraudulent TiLpex ond Hexonicrs Electors, But Mr, Henoniczs ought to know that the prosscution is not based on this ground, but on an alloged forgery of one of the smaller roturns, which did not affect the Presidontinl volte oo wny or tho other. On tho financial question Mr, Hexonicxs trimmed os closely a8 posaible, but leaned moro to the inflation- {sta than he Lina ovor done before, It §s vory evident that tho Indiana Stato campaign, on the Democratic slde, is to be run entirely in tho interests of Voonurrs as next United Btatos Bonator and Hexpnicks as noxt Prosi. dent. ‘WHERE THE INDECENCY I8, 1 deny that silver way demonctized to favor tho Government creditor, At the date of demonetiz- ing, th doltar of 4123; gralus was worih moro than the gold dollar, and the upparent effect of denion- ctization, so far as any man coufd then forcsec, was to compel the creditor to take hix pay in the cheaper vf the two metals. Now that silver has so fallen, by tho vast production of siiver and in its demonetization elsewhere, to remonetizo it at a volug Toss than th gold dollar, and pay the public credlior in it, savors of Indecency .~ &'rom Senator Sargent's apeech againat the Siicer bill, "The Governmont always had the right “ to compel the creditor to tako his pay in the cheaper of the two motals,” It is pure bosh to oy or intimato that the apparont offeot of demonetization waa to compel him to recofve gold beenuse it wos then the chonpor of the two motals. Thoro waa no cffect npparent of the kind, and no intention of thesort. It was a plot to take away the right from the QGovernmont and tho citizens *‘to compel the creditor to take his pay in tho cheaper of the two motals," Instond of to confer it, Mr. SinarsT says it savors of indecency to nsk the publio eroditor to take silvor ainca it has bocome of losa valuo than gold, DId it not also savorof the sume kind of * jndo- cenoy ” to **compel the public cruditor” to take gold when it was cheaper than aiiver? ‘Why is it ““indecont"” ta offor sllver when it is cheaper than gold, and not indecent to offer gold when it is choaper than silver? ‘I'lie gontloman from California did not stop to oxplain, Perhaps the reason was he could not, becauso the Governuont had always practiced that sort of indecenoy from the tine of the Revolution down to 1874, Beforo tho demonotization schome was clandestinely slipped through Congrous, the ‘German Government had determined to throw out the bulk of its sllver monoy and roplace with gold. The sharp.eyod bond and mortgage holders of Now York and New England were swift to foresea the offect of this action upon the relative value of gold ond silver, They porcelved with unerring instinot that silver would bo beaten down and gold ralsed up thercby when Germany began tounload her demonetized coin in London aud to buy gold. They saw that the valuo of gold must, in the nature of things, bo immensecly enbanced and the value of property correspondingly decline, They kuew thatthe Government and the people had the option to pay their debts in the choaper of tho two metals,+-always Lad it,— and that just es soon as the sale of demon- etized Gorman silver advanced the price of gold tho Government would recommend the coinage of ailfor, and would tender silver dollars to the bondholders, sud that every. body who had coin contracts outstanding would do the same thing. In 1872, silver, under the * influence of the contemplated enormous sales of German thalers in London, hnd declined 1} to 2 per cent. It was well underatood among bullion bankers in Berlin, Frankfort, London, New York, and Boston what wes going to result from the discarding of 800 millions of Ger. 1many's silver wonoy, and the absorption of an equal amount of gold from othor markets to fill the void. Houce the velvet-bawed perseverance with which old Hooren, of Boston, pushed forward his volnminous bill for the codification of tho Mt acts, in tho bowels of which, and far out of sight or suspicion, waa tho littlo joker which dropped the coinnge of the old silver dollar. The stealthy and elandestino manner whic old Hoonen, the Boston conpon-clipper, slip- ped his innocentJooking bill through .lhu Houso, i3 woll illustrated by tha follow.ng colloquy in the Stnate on the pnssago of the Bilvor bili : Mr. Drarxx soid he had recelved numerons in- quirles npon & polnt that had Loen magnided into importance, viz. : the question whether the Lill of W7 wan rond, and 4210 tint the officlal Grobe eatd the reading of' the bill was begun, and, Iater, MeCotuicx called for the readlng of the elghteenth roction arain. A dispateh in the New York Trib: une said the bill wan read, consuming on hour.and the files of the Washington Zepubilean and the CAroniele, in thoir reports, said: **The bUl was read af lenntA, and thon passed under & suspension of the rules." 1t wonld be found that the subject wasnot as well underatood thon ne now: thesll- ver dollar was not in clrcalation then, and no oneé e the effect of the act. 1t would bo quito i well if they ail acknowledged thelr Ignorance, Ile de- nired that no stain shonid rest npon the name of one now In his ive, who, when in tho i{ouse, Wa# 1he peer tn financial matters of any gentloman In tho House, [This was an attempt to whitowash old Hoorzn, who claudestinoly and stealthily worked in the clauso dropping tho silver dol- lar.]) Mr. Voonnzxs, of Indlans, asked if tha Senator from Malne, who was then Speaker of the Ilouse, knew that the Uil demonetized tha eliver dollar. Mr, Braine—I did not. Didyou? l‘lr‘ Yoonuzes eald ho would' frankly esy he ald 0. v Mr. Trunsax, of Ohlo, ssld thie was a singuiar catechism. One Sonstor asks the other If he knew the bill demonstized the siiver doilar, both being members of (he 1lonse at the timo, and the reply was: ‘' No, did you? and tho other uays Nelther knew that tho bl demonetized ver dollar, becansa it did nof. [Laughtor.] It was in this way that ono of the most injurlous ncta ever passed by Congress got nto tho statates, and when the raseally act was discovored an almost universal outery went forth for ita abrogation, But tho de- mand for ita repoal has boen met by the most frantic rosistance of the whole Shylock brood, from Maine to Californin. Having loaned small, choap, * short-logged " dollars, they now cry alond with one voico to be re- pald in big, dear, long-logged dollars. They havo thewr attornoys and agents in both ‘Houses of Congross, who withhold no in. vectivo, stop at no misrepresentation,. and spare no efforta to retain for their clionts the privilege of fleocing the American people, THE PRINCETON COLLEGE ROWDYISM. Bome able-bodied young rowdies in at. tondnuce at Princoton College, ostensibly to ba educatod to fill prominent positions, have disgraced themselves by conduct towards fellow-students which falla little short of boing as brutal as it was cownrdly. Tho offenso of which thoy have beon guilty and for which they have boen expolled from the University is that of hazing. The doparturo of tho oxpelled was accompanied by man- ifestations which partook very largely of tho nature of a riot, Tho mob which sought to nssanlt the viotims of expulsion at the dopot wag armed with clubs and rovolvers, and, had it not beon for the courage and resolu- tion of tho athletic Collego Proctor, tho demonstration might hiave resulted in blood- shed, if not in loss of life. The whole difii- oulty, with which tho Presidont and Faculty are now grappling, grow out of tho obnoxions and ungontlomanly practico of hazing,—a bolsterous nnd somowhat brutal oustom handed down from old times. Though at one timo rogarded as an exousable feature of overy collogo curriculum, sanctioned by usage and precedont, it has of late yoars beon more honored in the broach than in the observance, It takes various forms, nnd is usunlly rogarded ss a prerogative of the Sophomore, to bo oxarcised to tho dotri- ment nnd personal discomfort of the Froshman. Themodes of torturo aro various, | To break into a studont’s room at midnight and pour buckota of cold water over him, to’ invade his premises, close doors and win. dows and fill the room with smoko, to smash his furniture in his absence, to broak his windows, to bosmear him with gresse, to overpower him and partially shave his head, and gonerally to poster and aunoy him and make him an object of public ridicule and coutompt, are among tho favorite forms of this sophomorieal amusement, If the viotim has manhood enough to protest agalnst it or rosent it in any manner, o is thon maltreat- ed, Studonts of the retaliating kind, how. over, nro not generally sclooted. The pecu- linrly disroputable nature of the practice grows largely out of the cowardice which charactorizos it. The victim selocted for this manly amusement is young, homesick, green, and timid, and one who is not reso- Into enough to resent such barbarity, and s ignorant onough to supposa ho must accopt tho punishment ns a part of his col. loge duties, "A studont who s plucky enough to dofend himself, or who hos tho roputation of being & good shot, {s not usually molested, The more timid the viotim is the more he iu molested, and, as the odds are usually about ten toons, the attack- ing party is safe from any puonishment as tho result of ita cowardly work, In the Prinooton College case the usage was re- vorsed, and Freshmon sought to haze Sopho- mores, Inpromptly dismissing them, tho Faculty only did its duly, but, upon our presont information, the decision to oxpol those who wore attacked seoma grossly un- just, especially in the case of the student Artzanuny, who fired a blank cartridge at hiu essailants. His sotlon was not only propor in the promises, but he would have been justified had ho usod cold lead in pro- tecting himself from hilswnssallants, Tho disreputable ocourrence in all its as- pacta suggesta thst it would be well to estab- lish a now department at Princeton Colloge which should be dovoted to the ancient and hounorable calling of teaching young men to be gentlomen, It is & dopartment which is more lmporatively needed at that seat of learning than those of tho languages, mathomatics, or philosophies. Theso latter branches nearly always cease to have any practical use or influence after graduation; but the personal habits formed in the first four years of a young man's freedom from paternal restraint too often follow him when he leaves the seclusion of the ocollege clols- ters, and mixes with the busy world, and in. fluenco the habits of his future aud the charsoter of his intercourse with men, The department shonld be devoted to teaching young men that; while a fair, stand.up fight with fists, man to man, may be s manly thing to do, an attack of ten or & dozen upon one, and that one porhaps wesk and timid, is characteristio only of the meanest sort of cowards, It should teach respect for superiors, and reveronce for age, and manliness, courtesy, snd chivalry in their intercourse with tholr fellows. And j¢ shounld illustrate ita toachings by showiog that men in after life, who sustain a reputs. tlon for being gentlemen, and who have en- Reged in disreputable practices of this sort, look back upon themselves with regret if not with contempt. Having established the department, the chair should be filled by Govorx, the College Proctor, and his only toxt-book should bo hiv brawnv fists and the club which ho earried to the depot, and which inspired so mnah rocpoct on tho part of the mob of students, Io should have full authority nnd absolute power fn his department, and shonld be allowed at his discrotion to use both fists and club in caso any of his pupils shonld fail to como up to tho ordinary standard of manliness. The fear of Gowprz's club wonld have moro offect than any amount of oxpulsion or ruatication, It Gotpiz wero invested with absolute power to put down hazing, ol et armis, tho obnoxious practice would soon conse in that college. ODJECT OF THE LOUISIANA CONSPIRACY. A great deal hiaa boon written obout the prosecution of the Roturning Board in Lou- 1siana and the beat conrsa for tho Adminis. {ration to pursuo in viow of it, but compnra- tively little attention has beon given to the conspiracy of which it is only n faint indica- tion. Tho trinlof Anpensoy, it is evident, was not undertakon for the purposo of pun. {shing bim. Ho is n membor of n great party, and thoe attempt wasmado toindict it through him, The conspiratora hope by convicting him to convict tho Ropublican party ; and they desire to conviot the Ropublican party not because they Lave any notlon that tho cnugo of nbstract fustico would thoroby be advanced, but bocause thoy hope to come into_ tho estates of tho accused If theso facta bo constantly kaopt in mind, it will be onsy to underatand tho conduct of the con- spirators oud to charnoterizo tho prosecntion a4 it dosorves, The first noticeablo quality of tho prose- tion fa its vindictivenoss. Mapison Wenrs avers in his lotter to tho Now York Times that tho Grand Jury, though repeatedly urged to bring in indictments ngainat the Returning Board, refusod to do so. Proceedings wora flually takorf on tho information of the At. torney-General, n most unusual stop. The exorcigo of a vindictivo spirit by the officors of the law is incompntible with tho adminis- tration of justico. The simplo fact that the Attornoy-Goneral, after failing to obtain nn indictment, procoeded separately on lis own nccount, shows that he was dominated by such o spirit. Moreover, he was uncom. monly zoalous in conducting the prosoen. tions in the court, using every effort to ob- tnin o packed jury, appenling to tho proju. dicos of tho prosiding Judge, and exoluding all testimony which might havo tho effeat of palliating the offonse. 'The conviction of AxpensoN was finally procured, on o technic. ol point. It is ot alleged that his conduct, for which he now stands sontenced to tho Penitontiary, changed the rosult of the Presidential eloction, or that he scted with criminal {ntent, Tho prosecution was intorested. All the officers of the law concorned in it, and all but two mombors of the jury, wero enger partisans, and na such had tho highest motives to convict, They all folt, ond had roason {o feel, that by bringing in a verdict of guilty ngainat Ay. ERsoN thoy would bo entitled to tho grati. tudo of their party. Notonly this: thoy had additional nud preuliar renson to beliove that by impeaching tho title of Prosident Hayes thoy might establish that of Sauze J. Trupex; and, though thoy had no hopes of scoing bim mnde Prosident this timo, thoy hoped to procuro him a rocomponse at tho hands of the American people in 1880, Thon tho gratitude of tho Demooratio party might find oxpression in rewards, and smong tho first to claim rewards wovld bo the men who inspired and maintained this trial in New Orlonns, Besiden bolng vindictive and intoroated, the prosecution has been in violation of solemn pledgos and contrary to publio ‘morals. There Is no reason to doabt—in. doed, the Domocrata in Now Orleans do not deny—that the political prosecutions agalnst the Roturning Board were formally nban. doned at the timo of the rccognition of Nicnors and the Logislaturo at 0dd Fellows' Hall, The revival of the charges, or rather tho judicinl inquiry now for the first timo made into them, unsottles tho torms of ponce and tho pence ftsolf. It fnvitos a ro. nowal of the old policy of forco which tho present Administration abandoned, and which tho people of Now Orleans, whatover thoy may any of it now, respected as long na it was in existonce, 'Tho fact that tho pres. ont Administration will not ensily bo tomptod to renow thia policy is no rosson why tho Domocrats of New Orleans should brave it. Thoy have many rensons, suggested both by an honorablo regard for their compact and by thelr business intorests, to avoid a con- flict with the Federal Government ; and only tho most powerful motives can bo concelved a8 having induced thom to take a contrary course, ‘These motives are tho promises of rowards mado by Tioxx and his assoclates to those who may help to carry the country for tho Domocraty ot the noxt election. Mr, Gan. vixup mado this fact very cloar during his speech in Congreas on the subject. He showed that thero ad bogun the procoss of laying tho koel for anothor Presidontial cam. paigu, and that, on this account, orders had gono forth to Loulsiana to open upon mem. bers of the Returning Board. The abject of the conspiraoy is thus proved to Lo worth the puing that have been taken fo “make it successful, The punishment of Anprmson and Wzrrs would not, ovon to a Domocratic mind, justify the villainy that has beon usod against them, but the injury of the Ropub. lican party weems to the Democratic loadors not too dearly bought, however it may be proocured. Thoy will bo sevorely disap- pointed, no doubt, it they have their trouble for their palns, Yot this will probably be thelr oxporionce. ‘Thus far nothing has been proven to the injury of the Republican party or the prejudico of President Iavzs; and the illegal, unjust, and malevolont proscou- tion of the Rteturning Board only establishes its charactor In a better light. For, if they can only be convioted by such means, fair- minded people will naturally say it must be they have done nothing which descrves con. viction. THE OASE OF MI83 SUSAN DICKIE. Bix yoars and » half ago Miss Busax Dicxix way committed to the Bloomingdale (Now York) Lunatio Asylum. Two roputablo phy- slcians signed the certificate which nuthor- ized her imprisonment. 8he was pronounced incurable by tho oflicers of the Asylum, She remained there uninterruptedly until last month. Her rolatives, who desired to obtain oontrol of her property, then sought & Com- mission of Inquiry, and counsel was sppoint- ed to ropresont her interests, He discoversd that she was sane, threo physicions moro eminont than those who condemned bor cor- tified to her sanity, & jury confirmed the verdict, and Judgo Baipy has just awarded her absolute liberty. The case may well be described, in the language of the Judge, as 44 divgrace to our boasted civilization, in. telligence, sclence, and justice,” 1t soctns to be taken for graated in recent procoedings that there are degross of insani. tv graduated in proportion to the amount of proporty a person may possess. In the caeg of Commodore Vaxneanirr it was As3umed Dy counsol for certain of the ohildron, if ot by tho Court, that the simple fact of hig having n large amonnt of property when ha diod, and disposing of it by will, wag an avidonco of an nnsound mind, Bo the Intg proceedings against Mer. Trosas Lono, By, 5 havo restod upon the nssumption that be- canso he was old and rch, and songht ¢ control his own porson and property, Lie wag crazy. The children maintained this theory violently ns long as ho insisted npon doing 08 he ploasad, but ng soon as ho surrendereq hiawill to thoirs, submittod to their diets. tion, and ngreed to doed his property to thom, thoy gave him n bill of Loalth. Misg Dicxiz had inhorited property worth 8150, 000. The more incontestible hor title ¢ that sum of money nppeared, the mare sat. isfled wero hor affactionate rolntives of hor unsound mental condition. The more regy. larly her duos of $20 per weok waro paid to tho Bloomingdale Asylum the more positive did the physician {n charge become that she could never get woll. Now, Miss Dicxr, like Mr, Lonb, was not to tho ordinary and unassisted human undorstanding insano at all. Blo conld remember wilh cloarness evonts that had ocenrrod bofore, during, ang aftor her imprisonmont. Bho was peaceable in disposition, cohorent in convorsation, and only eccentrio in her manner, Bhe was only an uncomfortablo person, and chiefly un. comfortable to or relations who coveted hey property. In viow of the recont devalopmont of fdeay with regard o tho proper discovory and trentment of insanity nmong the wealthy, it becomes o serious question whother they should not have the advantages of soparata institutions, Asylums for uncomfortables would fill a place in our social economy the need of which Las hitlerto been moro felt nnd imngined than described. Among the uncomfortables would be placed tho parents like Mr, Lonp, who, having lived the allotteq time, and ncquired the poasession of vt woalth, neglect to dio and leave it to their children. Next might come tho pooplo of Miss Dicgie's olnss, who refuso to share with doserving rolatives whatover thoy mny have rocoived by inheritance. Lower down in tho list would ho the obstinate porsons who resist the claims made upon their bonoro. leuco and patriotisin; who will not Ysten to the blandishments or threats of beggars; who contribute nothing to forcign missions or to the campaign fund, and tonst thoir pampored logs by soft-conl firos whila thou. sands of their follow-croatures aro compelled to forego the luxuries of Jifo, In thesp samo asylums should bo placed tho men who will not indorso mnotes ‘to accommodate g friend,” or go on bonds “meroly ns a matter of form,” or writo recommonda. tions to office, or sign potitions for par. don, or “holp a fellow out" with a small loan, Then thero ara the tailors, the butchers, tho bakers, and the gas-mon, who constituto the bulk of the Intter-dny aristoce racy in Amorics, An asylam for uncom- fortables would bo incomplote if they wero not rostrained of thoir liborty. The whining wives and idle daughtors, dissipated sons and fothers, tyrannical old uncles and de. sigoing aunts, might bo disposed of in the same way, 3 It must come to this, or thoro must bo an amondmont of tho laws. It i not fair that one uncomfortable porson can be put out of tho way s easily as Mius Dicxiz was nnd not anothor. 8ho hind nevor done moro than t¢ say that her fathor was ‘“ a hog,” which may or may not have beon an oxact atatomont of fact, but whioh in any evant could not have harmed him, since ho was dond. Thore are porsons who havo gald much worse things thon this who have never scen tho inside of lunatic asylums. Indecd, it would bave been impossible as it wos that Mies Diomm should havo Leon Imprisoned for such an offenso in any enlightonod community. The practico s in Hiinols to roquire tho verdict of o juryand an examination in open court boforo n per- son can bo pronounced insane. It is only in Now York and othor Btates whero the laws liave not kept pace with tho growth in the population that persona who are only uncom- fortable can bo senl to a mod-house on the cortificate of two physicians, Bo long as it is possible to imprikon one such person, wa hold that it should be possiblo to imprison all; and the experiment ought to ba mado In Now York or somo’ other Stats, whore the practico is loose enough to admit of ita bolng tried. 2 ditor of The Tribune, o the s 21, —Your theary us (o the mflu ky Citicago, Fol of ‘free calnaze would ba corruct if 200, 000, b0 of silver dollars cauld be excnanged at ence for bulls 1om, or aven within a month; but as it ls not pos sible 1o coln thom &t & greater rato than s1y 88,000,000 per month, I am of the opinfon that the fizat lnrl( or 8ty million of siiver dollars, ve- ing receivable for customa dutics uflnmly with gol, will therofure zank ut par with gold, and be use: exelustvely for that purposs. 'Thoss holders vt ballion who wure fortunste cuough to be first in the Oeld would recelve 100 cents In goid for cach dollar which ns bullion would bo worth say 03 cents, as 1L le not possible that the whole mase of silver throughout ihu world wiliat once, or within a fow monthe' time, riee tofid former value in gola, [ am in favor of tho Silyer bill and of resumption. I also favor the retention of our prosent groenbucks, making thum recelv: able for cuutomns duties, redeewable in cofu, aud cuin alvo exchungeablo for greenbackeat the Treas: ury or any Bub-Trvasury of the United States, tbe Uovernment paylng out crisp uew bills, and do- stroying disty, ragged oncs, §am, rn;‘;,u“un;. L &, WeaT The mistake of our correspoudent s in suppos- ing thut tha recelpt of sliver dollars for customs will give those dollars the purchasing powerof & gold dollar, and tho silver aollar rematy worth ouly % cents in gold. Uold, Laving no louger un exclusive use, will elther fall to tho value of the stlver dollar or be withdrawn and held as bullion. If we had frce colnage, the 8TIX grains of silver would bu the dollar, and would purchase as much gold as bulllon as it wou'd o coln, and uo wore, Making silver legal-tender will bave the efect of rulsing tue value of sl ver as bullion. During the twelve mont nding Doc, 81, 1677, the values of the fnports and the domes- tlc vxports of the United States thus compares 1870, 1877, 01,818,400 8504,013,000 Imports... . Increasc of i) 4 aasees 44, 104,401 . ts, gold value, 024,707,508 014,071,028 e 21,203,003 £Xports.. xports 1n 140,001,020 101,891,007 e —— A curlous {nstance of the duclina and death of a whole induatry Is brought to mind by tbe statistics of imports and exports during the past year. ~ Hoop-skirts, tho mauufacture of whlch onge kept numerous large factories constantly employed, hud alrosdy fallen so for out of fashion in 1878 tbat only §10 worth were ex- ported, and 10 1677 this small sum danlnished to othing. — Notwithstandlog ber naval stations in the Moditerravean, with thelr facllitics for sustaio- Jog troops, it Is doubtful if fo sn ewmervency Eozlaud could raise over. 6,000 men, of whih 4,000 would como from Malta and 2,000 from Gibraltsr, Tbese could bo landed at Gallipoll in three days from Malta and four days from Gibraltar. ———————— e Trivune. ; 1o Now York (4 0ld for $1.20 in gresabacks. wba{ e e P T RHie, Tiuki the dollar of 415 xraise worth 000