Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 16, 1878, Page 4

4 The Tribane, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BT MAI~—~TN ADVANCE—! STAS FREPAID. WEERLY BD! Y et Bpecimen coples sent free. Glye Post-Oftice address in fall including State snd County. Itemittances may be mada either by draft, express, Fost-OMee order, or fn rexistored letters, &t our risk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIDERS. Datly, deltvered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week. Datly, deilvered, Sunday incinded, 50 cents per week. Addrens THE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-ats., Chicago, 11l Orders for the delivery of T TRInTNE st Evanston, Englewood, and Hyde Park leftIn the countlag-room Wlilreceive promot attention. TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES. ‘Tnz CRiCAnO TRINUNK has establlshed branch offices forthe recelpt of subscrintionsand advertisements aa followa: NEW YORK-Room 29 Tridune Bullding. F.T. Ma- FaADDEX, Manager. PARIS, France—No. 16 ue de Ja Grange-Batellere, 10 Manver, Agent. Eng.—American Exchange, 449 Strand, Agent. 0, Cal.—Palsco Hotel. MeVicker's Thentre. Madleon etreet, between Dearhorn and State. ""The Two Orphsns.™ Afternoon snd cvening. Hlaoley's Thentre. Randolph street, between Clark and LaSsile, Engagement of Mis Fanny Davenport. Afternoon, *'Plque." Evenlng, ** As You Like It," New Chicago Thentre. Clark street, opposite Sherman llouse, Engage- ment of Haverly's Minstreis, Afternoon and evening. Tinverly’s Thentre. Monroe etreet, cornerof Dearborn, Csbln.” Afternoon sad cyening. *Uncle Tom's Colisanm Novelty Theatre, treet, opposite Court-House, Variety pere SATURDAY, MARCII 16, 1878, Gmnn.bnnkn at tho New York Stock Ex- chango yosterday closed at 98], Consent to tho consecration of tho Rev. Geonoe F. Brrmour, D. D., Bishop-elect of the now Dioceso of Springfeld, Ill, has boen given by all the Bishops and a majority of tho Btanding Committees. Tho Honest-Money Leaguo of tha North. west wns organized in Chicago yesterday, and an address ndopted briefly setting forth the principles governing tho nssociation, Its object is to oppose and demonstrato the in- jurious consequences of the doctrines of the inflationists who aim at an unlimited issue of irredoomable paper currency. A fooling of satisfaction and reliof will bo ovorywhere experionced at the knowledge that retributive justico haa ot last overtaken tho flendish murderer and ravisher La Patoe, whose horrible butchery and matilation of Jostr Lanoyarp while on her way to school ot Pombroke, N, 1., in October, 1875, is yot remombered. La Patoz was hanged at Con- cord yostorday, having first made full con. fession of this awful atrocity, as well as of the murder, the year previous, under similar circumstances, of Miss Bary, a school-toach- or at 8t. Albans, Vt. In accordance with that section of the 8il. ver bill providing for the creation of nn In. ternational Monotary Conference, Secretary Evants has addressed to the varions Minis. tors of the United States at Europenn Courts n lettor requesting that the subjeet bo at oneo brought to the notice of tho Governmonts to which they are respectively nceredited, with o view to tho appolutment of Commissioners to tho Conferonce. 1lr. Evants in his lotter refers to tho “vory great majorities” by ‘which tho act remonetizing silver was passed in both HMouses of Congresa as conclusive evidence that the policy of tho United States in support of a bi-metallic cugrency may be counsidered as decided, —— ‘The taxpayers who furnish the money to carry on tho Wost Iark syatem will very generally approve of the vigorous sotlon taken yesterday by Commissioners Woopanp, McCnea, Besyerr, and Brexocx in roorgan- izing the Board by tho removal of the old ofticers and the election of new men, The fact that the first stop of tho reorganized Boord was to cut off about $6,000 a year of expenses will go far togonvines people that the merita of tho case are with the now Board. ‘Thoro ought to bo no serfous difl. culty in maintaining tho firm attitudo taken, Mr, Houpew's torm having expired by legal limitation March 1, and the Governor having appointed Mr. Bnenocx to fill {he vacancy, a working majority in favor of closa retronch. ment is sccured. Evidently Howoen must atep down and out. Thero 18 nn ond to all things—even to the ability of Honokx to Lold office. A hot contest in the courts is expected to follow, nnd for ouce it is to be Jioped that the law may Lo found on the aide of tho suffering and over-burdened taxpayers, o Hon, Joax E, Lroxanp, Representative in Congreas from the Fifth Louisiana District, hos had a sud. den aud melancholy termination, a telegram baving been received yeaterdny ot thoe Btato Department convoying juformation of his death of yellow-faver at Havava. Judge Lrowaup hnd beeu sclected as the special agent of tho President to investigato The subject of nogro kidnapping alleged to have Leen carried on between Southorn and Cuban ports, aud it is said he was also about to warry o lady residing in Havaoa. The an. nouncement of his death produced a shock in the House, where Judge Lrosanp was highly esteemed, both ou account of his ability and soclal qualities. He waa a native of Chester County, Pa., and o graduate of Harvard Colloge in 1867, settling thereafter in Louisiaua, where, after a successful carcer o5 8 lawyer, he was appointed a Judge of the Buprema Court of the State, and in Novem. ber, 1876, he was elscted to Congress, being the only Republican wmember of the House {rom his State, T ——— Mr. Joax W. Porx, who bay served the National Iouse of Itepresentatives in the capacity of Doorkesper for & ygar or more, is about to coms to great grief, A’ Commit- teo of tho House has beon sijtivg upon his caso for severnl weeks, and thy dispenser of fat things to the impecunious bas been found wanting, not ouly in s proper discrimination in the lavishing of his favors, but in unlaw. fully maltiplying those favors g4 the behest of Democratio members who tickled the cars of the Doorkeeper with promises that the great Democracy would see that the moucy was appropriated to meet all the bills. Porx may not be a ‘“biger” man than Firzuvou, whose official stature was blazoned to the world from the Doorkseper's desk in the days of Gen. Graxz, but he has certainly fallen in with the style of economy which bas been in vogue sinca the Democracy took possersion of the Lower Housa of Congress, and for his aptncss as a student in the school of retrenchment and reform ha is to be cast ont upon the cold world with all his grent schemes for the good of the party unaccom- plished. ¢ It would certainly bo an inexcusable abuse of publio confidence if the city anthorities shonld fail to take an appeal from the Land Commissioner to the Sceretary of the Inte. rior within the sixty days allowed by law, in the matter of the VaLexTINE serip. We pre- | sume the Law Department is preparing the necessary papers, and will file them in ample time, nnd we mention the matter becauso the absence of an appoal has been noWced in ‘Washington, and the fact noted in our dis- patches that the time has nearly lapsed. Of conrso tho owners of the VALEnTINE Ecrip aro walching to take every possible advan. taga of neglect or technieal error, and the city law.officers should give them no such opportnnity. Thereis renson to believe that o proper presentation of the ease to the Sec- rotary of tho Interior will secure a reversal of the Land Commissioner's decision. Tha roinforcement of the British fleat in the Sea of Marmora by the pnssage of two large iron-clads through tho Dardanelles has given rise to a genoral feeling of un. ensiness regarding the prospeot of a peaccful solution of the complications by tho Berlin Congress, Tho fact that Ministor Lavanp asked and obtained of the Porto o firman permitting the passago of tho two additional ships through the straits is regarded as an evidence of a disposition on the part of tha Porto to cultivate friendly relations with England, and it is said that a still closer investment of Constantinople from tho north and west has becn ordered by the Grand Duke. The Russians ara ap- parently too woll located with referonco to the complete command of the wator.defenses to suit England, and the lalter is reported to have demanded the withdrawnl of the troops to n safe distance as a condition pro- cedont to her participation in tho Congress, If puch o domand hns been 1nade it will doubtless Le rofused. Russin is not likely to relinquish any advantageous position at England's command, Becauso the municipal corporation is in n muddle, and the Common Council is at loggorheads with the Mayor, it does not follow thnt Councilmen neced act without cither renson or semsc, The resolution passed at tho last mooting requiring the Corporation Counsel to report at the noxt meeting whother the cily aathorities aro obliged to extend police and fire protection to those who refuso to pay their taxes-was unworthy of a body of men supposed to possess common senso, and will not oceasion tho Corporation Counsel any great loss of time in making a reply, The resolution is absurd on ita foce, because, even if such n discrimination were legal, it would be im- possible to make it. To give tho matter a home application, suppose that Ald. Cur. rentoN's next-door neighbor was a tax. fighter, and that the latter's honse shonld tako firo, would tho Alderman compel the Fire Department to lot the burning building alone, and thereby endauger his own prop- erty, merely because his noighbor rofuses to pay taxes? The rosolution is silly and puerile, and ahiows that our Councilmen in their holy indignntion ot tax.fighters are losing what little sense they have left. Tho Now York JFlerald, which has consti. tated itself the champion of the Govern. ment o sgninst the oxorbitant Fishories claim, has made two new points in the dis. cussion. It diicovers, from a study of tho treaty, that our Governmont is on record as mot admitting that ouy compensation {8 really due for the fisheries priviloge. Tho twenty-sccond arti- cle begina in these words ; * Inasmuch nsitis nsserted by the Government of Lier Britannic Majesty that the priviloges accorded to citi. zensof the Unitad Statosunder Article XVIIL, of this trenty nre of groster valuo than those nccorded by Articles XIX. and XXL of thiy treaty to the subjects of her Britannic Maj- esty, and this assertion is not admitted by the Gocernment of the United States, it is fur- ther agreod that Commissioners shall be ap- pointed to determine,” eote. Tho consent of the Dritish Commissioners to tho inser- tion of the words printed in italios shows that, in their opinion, -the compensation, if any, ought to bo moderate. ‘Tho Hali. fax Commission was not, like that ot Geneva, nppointed to ostimate an admit. ted damage, but to ascortain whether there had beon any damsge. Anothor point is that the Northwest-Boundary question was referrod to the Emperor of Gormany as arbi. trator, and his decislon was final, 1If it had been intended that the declsion of the Hal{. fax Commission should nlso be binding by o mnjority voto, thoro would have beon no reason for depariing from the precedent sot ju,tho Boundaries dispute. One arbitrator would havo boen suficient, This view gains strength from the fact that tho article relat. ing to tho QGeneva Commission expressly satipulatod ' that a majority vots of that body should Lo binding, The ZMerald well re. marks that we bave n year given us 1o con- sider whether we will pay the award or not, and thera is no harm in cousldering this im. portant question, The Waskington dispatches roport a strong opposition to the clause of the Woop Turiff Lill which provides for free ships, This is probably the most important and valuable item of tho bill. Tho remaindor of it, in. deed, is a villainous compromive with tho high-tarif people, and made up more in the intercsts of special classes than of any cou. sistent revenne reform. Hut froe ships are 80 necessary to our commercial development and prospority that the siuglo article provid. iug for them wounld almost justify the pas. sage of the bill. The effect of our barbarous navigation laws may be perceived in the fol. lowing table, just compiled by tho Bureau of Btatistics for periods of five years, and re. produced by the New York Pust: Amount Amount Percentage carried in carriedin carried tn Amarican Joufl'n American veaschs, Tedsals, 14,438, 203 3 15,174,203 i Sa ke ‘These figures show what has become of the carryivg trade. When it is understood that nearly all of tha American vesselsaro en- goged in the coastwise traffio, from which foreign vessels are excluded, the decadence of our merchant marine will be fully real- ized, The causcs of this decadence bave THE CHICAGO been often stated. They are not the want of subsidics, but the result of too many anbsi- dies, Snbsidies in tho shape of taxes on Inbor and on nll the material used in ship- building, except that which can be imported under the drawback system ; subsidies to the ship-builder, which the shipowner and buyer ia compelled to pay ; and subsidies to foreign vessel-owners in freight pntronage given to the cheapest bidder, The way to cure thesa ovils is not {o grant more_subsidies. The Ameriean merchant marine will revive when American merchants aro permitted to buy slups where they can get them cheapest, It ill not revive till then, If Congress con- sidern the feeble shipbuilding industry more important than the carrying trnde, it will continne tho present system of tariff spolin- tion; if it thinka otherwise, it will remove tho restrictions now resting npon American citizens, and grant a registry to ships owned by them, whorever bonght, NEW ENGLAND AND THE WEST, A Doston papor,—the Gazetle,—~represent. ing the culture and intelligonce for which New England is so characteristic, comes to us with an appeal in behalf of a botter and a closor union between tho West and Now England. After reforring to the part that New England took in the War, tho namber and bravery of the iroops, her eapital, and especinlly ** those jdeas that were at tho bnsis of tho War,” it is admitted that the ‘West was loysl to New Eogland. Until Intely 1t was deemed impossible to detach the West from Now England, because the influs ential class in tho West were from that sec. tion. And this is explained that, while **it was not tho most numerous in all the West. orn States, but in intellectual power and in moral purposo it was so snperior to those with whom it nssociated, it obtained a weight among them beyond what its num. bera warranted.” This gratifying ern, in which the West wonld be no moro disposed to desert Now England than * a gratoful and sympathetic child would be to repudiate its own mother," continned until the recent differenco based on the ““heresy " favoring tho restoration of silver coinnge. The evil which i3 foreshadowed is that the West and the South may unite. How to provent such n union is the purpose for which the Gazetle makes it oppeal. By way of preliminary it states: ‘The Weat {8 poor and In debt, Despito ita recent blessinga in abundant crops, It fecls the hard 1imes wmoro severcly than do the older scctions of the country. Tll{l makes its people mneasy. Men who are unfortunate and unhnppy do not readily ause to reason, They accent a plansible panacea ot thelr fits, withont estimating carcfully its efect in all its bearings, The West haa been mis- Ted on this potnt. 1t looks to Government for ro- licf that it {s out of the power of Government to farnish: nay, worso, it accepts doctrines in po- litieal economy that are positively perniclous, ‘Tho Sonth is ready to take advantage of its want of appreciation and of foresight in this respect to impair {ts confidence tn Now Kngland, and tu sup- plant our ucction in its favor, It will bo seen that the assumption on which the whole articlo iz based is, that tho peoplo of the West aro poor, and ignorant, and in dobt; that they aro suffering dread- fully from tho hard times; that, belng un. happy and naturally uninformed, they do not roason; that- they look to the Government for reliof ; that in their ignorance thoy adopt the most pernicions doctriues,—heresies; ond that tho South, knowing better, but maliclously disposed towards New England, is trying to divert tho West from ita anoiont allinnce with thoso who have superior **in. tellectunl power and mornl purpose.” It is proper to sny that this article in this Boston paper ijnot a burlesquo, nor is it an sttempt at humor, but is & grave and serions appeal to New England nnd the West to maintain their old relations, and tlat, while Now England cannot for an instant tolerate or sauction such loose morality as tho Bilver bill, still Now England - should speak goutly nnd kindly to those at the West who are poorly Informed on questions “of political economy, * and should, by superior **intellcotual powor and moral force,” endeavor to educnte the inhab- itanta of the log-cabins (nll writers in Now England assums that the people of the West live in log-cabing), and assuro them that in spite of their poverty, indebtedness, and starvation, Now England will still stand by them. It hns not been very long sinco a learned Professor from a Now England col- lego visited thia city to enlighten the rustics on tho silver quostion, Speaking the gon. cral sentiment of his peoplo, he began his address by informing his audience that, how- aver tmuch thoso presont knew, they could not pretond to know as much on the silvor quostion aa ho did. The rosult was that the gentleman got credit for far more pretension than intelligencn, and even thoso who agroed with him on the silver question expressed & thorough contempt for his arrogance. 1t is about tima that that kind of cant should terminate, and when New England proposea that tho West shall place its intercsts in the keeping of tho superior * intellectnal power and moral force ” of Now England, then tho protectorate may bo considered as ready to be dissolved. The recent action of the coun. try in remonetizing silver mnst bo recog. nizad, sconer or lnter, as an emphatic declara~ tion of indopendence from any further con- trol and government on questions of na. tional, and especially finaucial, politics by New England and that school of political economists. Thoy have had their daysof absoluto rule, and that rule is now broken finally and forever, If the restoration of silver was a political heresy which New Eogland can never tolerato, oven though the Western people are poor and perni. clously ignorant, the West proposes to ad- bero to ite heresy, and brave tho fires and the tortures which may be in store as the appropriate penalty. In the first place, the West is not * poor " in the senso of poverty, Asa whole, and outsido of the unemployed in large oities, the Westorn peoplo aro as well to do us the same numberof peaple are in any part of the world, They are producers, all of them, They produce all that is needed for their own support and hiovo large surplus of their own products to sell. 'They nre, as & whole, comfortably surrounded with the blessings of this world, and aro large readers of polit. ical ns well as moral philosophy, Esnjoying larger and better surroundings, they have long sinco discarded the cant of New Eopgland, and hava a thorough contempt for the claltn of * superior intellectual power and moral force™ so peraistently put forth by and for theNew England people. The Western people are in debt}; but not morae so propor- tionntely than tho people of othor parts of the country, Their municipal indebtedness has reached ita maximum, and is steadily on the decline, and will in due time be paid in full, Not a dollsr has beon lost on farm mort- gages duriug the five years of general finan. cial distress,and any Western Legislature that would jnterveue to prohibit asy bank, cor- poration, or individual paylng his debts on the plea that it would embarrass bim to do 50, would be dissolved by popular tumult. ‘The silver **heresy,” howerver, is not the only one which promises to be troublesome, The Uaelte adviscs kindness rather than TRIBUNE: SATURDAY MARCH 16, 1I378—TWELVE PAGES, nbuse towards the ignorance of the West, saying *“nur strength is as mach now in our intelligeneo and independenca as ever," It then procceds to sound tho alarm: ‘The Weat {8 onr natural ally, Onr Interests are really identical with her own, Her people are tha rodacers from the roll, We are the manafactar- ng And the commercial agents with whom they interchange prodacts, and wno nct aa their factors in their relatlons with the Old World. Natnre has putusin this attitndo toward each other, and a nataral harmony of thonght and of eentiment has done much to make closer the connection. It anght not tu be dissolved. It will not be if we are mindful of onr oblizstions and our interests, Wa cannot afford to change union into antagoniem bere. Our daty to the nation and te onrseives for. bids it. If wesacrifice onr prerent advantages, And tnrn our hest friends and allien over to 8 South- ern connection, we commit & anicidal act, and the m;on;: by no means ends with its eflects upon our- seives, All of which means that the East must not provoke the West into arepenl of the tarif. On the same prineiple that induced the Sonth Carolina carpet-baggers to decline leaving the State because thero was still an- other yenr's atealing left, so this Doaton or- gnn objecta to qnarreling with the West o long as the tariff affords its wholesale robbery and scandalons frands upon the West. The theory that the products of the soil need any factors to havo them sold abroad is nbsurd, nsls tho policy that the producers of tho soil shiall pay 40 por cent more for their cot- ton and woolen goods, tileir lenther and linen goods, their women and children's dress goods, and GO per cent more for each piece of ribbon, or necktie, or bonnet-string, or silk dress that thoy may buy; or 40 per cont moro for every narticle made of iron or satecl, for their knives nand forks, for their carpots, for their glass and earthen waro, and for every article pertaining to the comfort and convenlence of thoir lives, The so-called agency of Now England in behalf of the producers of tho soil takes 40 bushels of grain out of every 100, 40 hend of eattle ont of every 100, 40 barrels of flour out of every 100, 40 barrels of pork out of overy 100, 40 pounds of butter and cheese ont of every 100,—which is pretty good plunder,— without the slighteat consideration. No wonder this Boston organ claims that the Wost in n natural ally, and that the interesta of tho robbed are identical with those of the robbers, Bo long as the ignorant people of tho West aro willing to bo thus plundored by New England, tho intorests of the lat. ter should be to cultivato friendly relations and givo to tho West the benafit of snperior ¢ intellectnal power and moral force.” In- stead of Naturo having placed the producers from tho soil in this vassalage to New En- gland, the rolntion is most nnnatural, The ‘West is indopondent. It asks no bounty or subsidy. It deponds on no soup-house do. vices to encourngo American industry. It protests, and in due timo its protest will ba effectual, ngainst the continuancoof that sys- tom which levies a tax of 40 per cent on tho producs of tho soil to malutain a system of pouperism and genteol robbery which is dis. graceful to civilization and a reproach to tho intellectual power and moral forca of tho nation, A MINT FOR CHICAGO. Dr. Lisprnaa, tho Diroctor of the Mint, testifiod beforo n Congrossional Committoo 1nst woek thnt two ndditional mints, besides the one at New Orleans, would bo required to donbls the present eapacity for the coinnge of tho silver dollars, There are now in oporation minta at Philadelphbia, BSan Fronoisco, nnd Carson City, Those have n combined capacity of 2,500,000 or 8,000,000 silver dollars per month. Tho Now Orleans mint can be put in working or. der for 850,000 to 875,000. Ils capacity is $1,000,000 per month, This, added to the colnnge of tho other mints, wonld make $42,000,000 to $48,000,000 per year, Six or olght years would be required, at this rate, to coin all the silver dollars that are mneeded. It is obvious that the facilitiea for coining money aro not equal to tho demand. A new mint, with a capacity of 2,000,000 silvor dol- lars per month, would pay for itsclf in the rolief it would afford the people in two yoars. It would, morcover, supply a con- stant and over-increasing want if it wero placed somowhero in the North- west, which at present is unprovid- od with a mint of any deseription, The froight charges annnally jncurred in shipping bullion through the Northwost and bringing it back in tho shape of coin are a gerious expenso. These charges for the ter- ritory between Omaha and Pittsburg and north of Mason and Dixon's lino would pay the rununing oxpensca of a mint; and the building and fixtures, as a pormanont invest- ment, would bo at least as valuable ns thosa alroady in operation, Bupposa that n mint is to bo established somowhore in the Northwest. Thero are varions good rensons why it should bo eatab. lished in Chiosge. This city is as near as possibla to the contro of wealth and popula- tion of the torritory to be benefited. It is itself by far tho most important monoy cen- tro in the territory, baving thirteon National Danks ng compared with six in 8t. Louis and six in Cincinuntl, It is the most important railrond centre, renching by direct lines Mil- waukeo and 8t. Paul on tho North; Mem- phis, 8t. Louls, and Cairo on the Bouth; Deuver and Omaba on the West ; and Pitts- burg, Claveland, Detroit, and Omeinnati on the East, It {8 obout equi-distant in time from the principal pointa within the deserib. ed territory, and is, for all practical purposes, its geographical contro. Apart from ita favorable position, Chicago has economio advantages which recommend it for the loca. tion of the new mint, It has three smelt. ing-works of considerable value, employing acapital of $170,000 and thirty-six labor. ers, Italso has commercinl and manufac. turing industries of moro than double the valuo of those in nany other Western city, TIta produce trade last year reached an aggre. gato of §212,000,000; wholesalo trade, $270,600,000; manufactures, $204,000,000, In tho manufacturing industries alono there wero ewmployed $76,000,000 of capital and 63,200 laborers, ‘The hog produots for four months of the presont year excocded in valuo those of Milwaukao, Indianapolis, 8¢, Louis, Ciucinnati, and Loufsville combined, We quoto these figurea not in a spirit of boastfulness, but to show that Chicago is, in renlity, the metropolis of the Northwest, and, in conscquence of its manufacturing industries, able to supply labor for the new mint at lower rutes than any of its compet. itors, All the arguments that have been ndvanced here in favor of the choice of Chicago for the location of the new miut are simple statements of facts which mewbers of Con- gress ought not to be iguorant of. There would not be any danger, under ordinary cir. cumstances, that tho Committes wonld over. look the obvious advantages of Chicago in this respect; but it appcars a number of other cities anxions to have the mint are represented in Cougress by powerful delega. tions, oud no one has yet spoken a word in favor of this oity, It is to be hoped that our reprosentatives in Congress will not neglect the interests of their constituents in this im. portant compotition, If tho clalms of Obi. eago aro properly urged, and only the best interests of the counlry aro considored, the new mint will certainly come here. REINFORCEMENTS ARE COMINGI In n Washington special telegram to the Cincinnatl Commereial, In relation to tariff discriminations jagainst interior ports of en- try, reprinted in Tax Trizvxr of Wednes- day, oconra the following paragraph: By the roling of the Apprafeer at New York, higher raten of dnty aro imposed apon certain Im- ported goads than are required by the rulings of the Appraiser at Chicago, It has happened that theee and similar diTerences of conatrnction npon the tarif Jawa wero upon goods which are exien- eively, and in fact almost exclasively, used in tha interior, and, a8 a result, the importers of the intetior have arrived at the bellef that int¢entional discriminations are made against them, ‘The italics aro our own. of the paragraph conflicls with the last, Thae word ** higher " in the first line of the paragraph should evidently be ¢ lower.” This rending harmonizes the paragraph. It thus becomes a charge of discrimination by the Appraiser at New York against all the interior ports,—a charge that that official passes merchandise nt less than logal rates. The samo telegram states that tho merchanta of Cincinnati and 8t. Louis are disposed to join the merchants of Chicago in the contest ngainst New York Custom.Ionso frands in- nugurated bv the customs officials hero, and prosocuted during the past two months by Tar Trinuse. This is as it should be. The interest of one city of tho Woat is the in- torest of nll, and tho evil of customs-frauds ot Now York i so strongly intronched that it will requiro the combined exertions of the ontire press nud all the importing merchants and all the public men of the West to tear it up by the roots nnd cast it out ns an unclean thing, ; ‘Tho same tolegram nlso states that some morchants blame Beorotary Suzraan be- causo ha bas not already ornshed out the ovil of which thoy justly complain; that they ox- poctad much of him, not only on account of his exporlonce in public affairs and high charactor, but because ho is a Western man ; and that thoy are becoming disheartened at Lis faflure to afford relief from tho effects of n gross abuge, We beg all such to remem- ber that Rome was not built in a dny. To be snre, theso abuscs are not as old az Rome, but they aro nearly half as old as the Conati. tation of tho country. As the Journal of Wednesday well remarked, in sub. stance, the prosecution of tho Whisky Ring wns mero child's play to the labor of prosecuting the Customs Ring of Now York City. Tho distillers attacked by Secretary DnisTow weore as n class without reputation cither social or otherwise. They were nlways suspected, and the communi. tios 1 which tlhiey livod woro ardent in sup- port of their prosecution from the first, Op tho other hand, the Oustoms Ring combines in its memborship merchants of cnormous wealth and social standing of tho first order. It is the keystone of the political arch in the Btate of Now York, and has ita representa- tives in tho National Congress. It will not do to underestimate the power of this Ring. Whoover commits this blunder by toking o step in advance of adequato proparation will be shattered in ploces. If Becrotary S8azrMAN moves slowly, it is doubtless because he fully appreciatos the power of the Ring with which ho is abont . to grapple. Ho cannot afford to fail, bo- causo if ho should fail the Ring would pur- sue him to his political death, Hence tho most careful proparation is absolutely esson. tinl, That Secrotary Buenaax is detormined to crush out customs frauds at New York City we firmly boliove. Wo say, thon, let him have amplo time to forga his thunder. bolta, BILVER IN POLITICS. Wo are advised that the Democratic mana- gors throughout the Western States are claiming tho passago of the law romonetiz. ing tha silver dollar as a Domocratic triumph in order ta mako capital for the spring and fall eloctions. This is n preposterous claim, A fair statement of tho agitation and discus- sion which procedod tho passage of the law would leavo the honors protty evenly divid. od, sinca neither party in Congress conld havo passed tho law over tho Presidont’s veto without matorial help from tho other, The Sonnto has o Ropublican majority of only throo or four in a membership of soventy- six, and the Houso a Domocratic majority of only thirteen in o mombership of 203, I the Silver bill bad been a strictly partisan monsure, it would have failed originally in one Houso or the othor. As n matter of fact, it was conoedoed from the ontset that thoro was no party politics in tho question, It was more o sectional than o partisan matter, though the final result domonstrated that tho section which opposed tho passago of the bill waa a very small portlon of tho Union, It is well known that there was a disposition on the part of some of the Democratia poli- ticlans to retard the final adoption of the bill which passed, for the p urposo of keeping the question open for the next Congressional aloctions, in order to throw the reponsibility for the defeat upon the Republican party under tho cover of the President's veto, Tho .force of public opinion deterred the Demo- cratio schemeru trom carrying out this vicious programme, as there was danger that. it would react upon the Democratio party, The present offort to mako it appear that the suce cess of tho measure wos dus to the Demo- crats will be equally futile, More Democrats voted for the bill in the Houso than. Republicans, partly because the Democrats are a majority in the House, and partly because their majority is made up mainly from tho Wost and Bouth, where the meagure found almost unanimous support from both parties, Thero are sixteen Demo- cratio mombers of Congress from New York, and twelvo of theso voled against the paa. ago of the bill ; it would bo as falr, then, for the Republicans to allego that, because two. thirda of the Domacratio delegation from New York voted agalnst silver remonetiza. tion, the Democratio party is entitled to no credit for the trimuoph. In the Senate, twenty-one Republicans voted for the bill over the Prosldent's velo, four others were paired in bebalf of the bill, snd two were absent ; among the Democrats, twenty-four voted for the bill, two were paired in favor of it, and none wero absent, This {s about as close a division as could well be made be- tween the two parties, and shows how ridic- ulous it is to claim .f Democratio prestige on nccount of the res@it. In avy dispute’ as 'to the relative party credit for the remonetization of silver which the Democrats may chocss to force, during any campaign, for party purposes, it will not be difficult to show that Republican influ- ences carried more weight than Domocratio joflueuces. The father of the movement moy be said to have been Senator Joxs, of Novada, whoso work was the most indefatig. able, whose rescarches wero tho most ex- haustive, and whose speeches and reports were by all odds tho ableat that were made. The bill originally reported in the House known as the Braxp bill was really the bill drawn by Mr, Foar, a Republican member The first branoh | from Illinois. The bill which finally passed was on ingenfous compromise measure framed by Mr. Axumoxn, Republican Benator from Jowa. We belleva it is universally admitted that the most effi. cient ontside influenco in favor of romonetization wna exerted by Tns Ontoaco Taisonz and the Cinclnnati Commercial,— both Republican newspapers, We mention these circumatances not for the purposo of Ralning for the Republican party any more credit than it is entitled to for the rostora- tion of tha ailver dollar, but merely to show how preposterous any Democratio claim is to exclusive or even {o supenor oredit for tho passsge of the law. The only fair and intelligont view of the matter ia that there was no party polities in the question. It was a struggle of the peoplo ngainst money monopoly, and the people won the fight. Any porson who secks to gain mere party advantage out of the result will not fail to ncquirs the reputation of a demagogue, and, it tho Democrats have no other means than this for incrensing their party vote, it will nowhere bo Inrger than usual THE FRESIDERT AND ILVER BILL. The Albany Journal, which complained that President Hayes did not use his power in the way of patronage to defeat the Bilver bill, takes it unkindly that we suggested that this meant the uso of patronage to buy votes, which, howaver consistent with the code of morals recognized at Albany, would have boen denounced by the whole country. It says it did not mean that; but how the Prosident could havo controlled votes with- ot the uso of patronago it does not explain. It mays: President IIayes should have ssserted himself not merely as the Chlef Magistrate of the nation, bat ss the head of the Repuhlican paety. He should have made his Allmrnlnrnlmn A positive political force. Ile ahould have boen in friendly relations with the recognized Republican repre- soutatives, as Lixcotx and GRant wore, fad he oliserved thesa ordinary dictates of poiltical and administrative wisdom, he smight have guided snd molded the eilver movement in {ta catller stages ‘without a single dishonorable step. All the gentlomon—** the recognized Ro. publican lenders "—who have rofused to support the Administration vigorously op- posed the Bilver bill, but thoy wero very weak, notwithatanding thoy had the support of the Adminstration, OonkrNg, &ud Bramr, and 8iraexT, and Haaran,—the rec- ognized Republican lesders,—proved to bo n lond rather than a lelp to the anti-silver faction, Tho mistake of the President was in not making the romonotization of silver on Administration measuro, and in so doing ho would havo rallied, to his support four. fifths of tho Ropublicans who voted for him. The iden that he should have made opposi- tion to the Silvor bill a test of Republicanism might have controlled a fow officoholdera, ‘but would not have changed tho vote of any man in either House pf Congress who bed the slightest respect for tho wishes of his constituents, 8enators and Represontatives, ontside of New York and New England, rep- resent Btates and people, and not Custom. Houses alono, He could not, it he had tried, have made opposition to the Silver bill a Republican mensure, ond, had he tried to do so, then the party would havo ro- pudiated that policy as promptly s thoy did the voto. The Albany paper, after somo plous obgervations concorning mon who ¢ propose to cheat creditors out of 10 per cont and palm off 90 centa’ worth for a dol. 1ar,"” * national dishonor,” and othor whole- somo and doubtloss rofreshing objurgations, adviscs Tur Tnmunz to sot up for a Dick Tosewy, Turpinism has ceased in New York, thero boing bettor stealing in the New York Custom.House, which is under the special patronage and protection of some of the *‘recognized Republican” statesmen who havo not been called to the Cabinet counsols of the Proaident. To the Editor ar The Tribune, Axuenst, N, 1., March 11,—Why ts it that large ‘.1“‘"““" of amsll denominations of Govern- ment 4 per cent bonds are taken by Weatern par- ties, when your bankera are advortising to secure money Lo loan on improved farms a0 asto net lenders from 8 to 10 per cent? If this plan is aafo boyond a doubt, I cannot understand why your lendera are content with only 4 per cent‘:nlare-t‘ The answer s a plaln one. The time has gone by when farmers ask for loans at 10 per cont. Money is too abundant and the sccurity too goud to justily raying 10 per cent inteiest. Many farmersin Illinols have been accumulating their means to meet outstanding mortgages in ‘whole or In part at maturity, Theman who has $100 saved up to pay interest, or has $300, or 8500, or $1,000 put away to mect a maturing mort- gage, can find no wiser or safer disposition of it than to put it fnto natlonal bonds at par. ‘There is another convenlence for moncy Invest- cd in bonds. The cily population, protty well plucked by so-called savings banks, van purchase thess bonds st par, and hold them, so loug as they havo no occasion to spend the money, in convenlent form and always available. If need be, the bonds can be used as collatersl for loans, Our correspondent must slso alsabuse himsclf of the too common ides In New En- gland that the people of the Western States hiave no money sud no capital of thelr own, nnd that thsy would be all llviog in log-houses It the Eastern people had not sogenerously loaned them monoy at 10 per cent, This i3 all a mis- take. Tuere is an nbundance of wealth,—the accumulations of labor aud of Industry inall parts of tho West,—and tho population of the rursl -districts live not only comfortably, but in all that pertalns to cultivated taste have more general prosperity than fs knowa in New En- gland. The time fs rapldly aporoaching when the municipal indebtedness of tho Weat, which has long since reached fts maximum, will be held In the Weat in the communiti:s who owe the money, When tho reverend and other apos- tles who preached the crussde against allver speak of the *lgnorance’ of ths denlzens of log-cablns, aud of tho dishonesty of tho men who produce all they necd and have s surplus to scll, they simply exhibit the malice which too often s called upon to take the place of argu- ment. e — To the Editor of Th Triduns. Cri10aa0, March 14. —(1) Is it the punigln n‘l“lg: ST una yo piial chTs"Te iroa et theto wit 0 $1 an 4 b’ ore $1.or 43 bi d by the United 8 N T (3) Waa the Crrter 51 By saewering 1o doao quesions. ou Wil obiige ond who ber leves in tha aficacy of the REEXBACK, (land 9) The law provides only that after re- sumption of specic psyments no Natioval Bank notes smaller than 85 shall be lssued. The Bocretary of the Treasury has recently denied that ho bas been withdrawing the $1 and $2 legal-tender uotes from circulation. (8) The Sliver law was passed to make greenbacks re- deemable in silver dollars as well as in'gold dotlars, but not to take the placs of greenbacks of sma!l denominations. At a recent bagquet of conciliation given by s Misslssiopt edltor to the mewmbers of the Legis- lature, the megyo leglalators * wers scattered amopg the wufl- withuut any attempt at dis- crimination,”” When one reflects upon the faey that under a pro-cxisting condition of things the white members might Lave becn shooting the hon'ble gemmen of color full of holes in- atead of asking them to pass that bysh plcktes, one cannot but acknowledge that the President’s Bouthern poliy has mot been altogether a fatlure. ————— An esteemed correspondent writes to TuB ‘TRIBUNS to ask the origin of the phrase. * Car- ry the news to Many.” Wo will tell him. It dates back to the Elizabethan age. The alleg- ed Virgio Queen baving resolved upon the exe- cution of Maxx, Queen of Scots, communicated her intentlon to the assombled courtlers by fiinging a halter to the Attorney-Ueneral, saying with & conrso oath that was untortunately hut in keeping with the age, *Carry the nooso 10 MaRr.” The Attorney-General, however, rop. rescutod to the Quoen that the prisoner, as not being of plebelan birth, had » right to be be. headed, and this accaunts for the hapless Many haviog her heaa blocked whils ahe waited. PO e The Governor of Ohio fs senfor partner Ina grocery firm of Cincinnatt, and ¢t fa renorted that be Is using the facllitics of his office to ag. vance the intercsts of his business. Our djs. patches nonchalantly relato that *friends of Gov. Bisnor, who have him in training for the Presdency, aro indignaut at this attack npon nts honor.” We do not know which to admirg the most, the plcture of the State Executp peddling his own groceries to the Btate Instin tions, or the cold cheek of Ohlo men tralning a Ohio man for the Tresidency. The probabiify is that neither of theso wicked slanders hay any foundation. ———— There has been republished in an old-foxy New York newspaper the onco celebrated ** Description of Jasus by PusLius Lantutus, Prestaent of Jndea in the relgn of Tinrnivs CxsAR.” Many years ago this literary forgery went the roundsof tho pross, oxciting & vast deal ot wonder and comment, until somo learn. ed ant{quary stepped in and showed that there never had been such an ofllcer as the Presideny, of Judea, and that the lotter had undoubtedly been written by somo Latin writer of the fif. teenth century. In the facs of theso facts thers 18 no particular credit In revamping the atory as an actual truth. = o The New York Sun fs very much dlsgusteq and surprised at tho result of the New Hawmp. shire election, jand safth: “What might have been done with a mors vigorous canvass on the Democratic side, It Is uscless to consider.” Procisely, but, as—it belng expected that thery would be alight vote—the Democrats brought out more voters than over, it Is not so clear how 2 more vigorous canvass" could hays been made. ——— 8auiver Cox on ITargs' Clvil-Service Re. form! Well, well! When wo think that only Just twelvo short months ago 8AMivaL Cox way trying to got Mr. IIAYZS to appoint Grorax i1, Butear, the Hoodlum of Egypt, to office, w In short, our feclings overpower us. And sl ngain wo say, **BAMiveL, our boy, bovaro of the record I 7" —— Horatio 8eYmoun has declined to have g street In Albany named after him, flo alwayy * declines; but it the Strect Commissioncrs had stood on tho benches, und pounded the floor, and tossed up tholr hats, and yelled * 'Rah for Brymourt" ho'd havo reconsidered his declston, ——— A dceply-fnterested public walts to hear from Pope Bamuxt's Camerlingo, Cardioal Brack, what is to be the noxt stop towards quating Mr. Hayes, Cardinal Brack and Mr. DAwa should ot somo one to help them let go of tho bear, ————— Bo great 1s the Interest taken n the celebra. tlon of 8t. Patrick’s Day this year thatall the banks and public offices will bo closed, and serv- fces will even bo held fn all tho Orthodox churchee, It comea on Sunday. — From the Now York Sun of Inst week: "The only question now lo New Hampshireis as to to tho slze of tho Democratic majority." ‘Wha' did yc so-oy? ——————— Mr. LLorp Puxxix, of New York, has just launched o costly new yacht. ‘This will be a case of the PUENIX rising from his hatches. —— ‘Tho reault of the New Ilampshiro electlon has been disastrous to Mr. Witriau E. CuaNDLER, who will now retire to a noble obscurity. ———————— EUROPEAN NOTES. A London correspondent notes that among the passengers on board a steamer recently, bound from Liverpool to New York, were “The Tion. Epwanpa Piserzront and valet." Onr Euoglish couslns were also apprised of this ane nouncement, and have been diggiog each uther o tho ribs and making numerous sly remarks about Republican simplicity, and all that sort of thing, you kuow. Between Victon EMMANUEL and the Countess MinarioR: there was no civll marrlage, and the Itallan law docs not recognize religious ceremo- ules; henco the morganatic wifo of the late King 1s dependent upon what his successor may chooso to give her. A London corresponent says that to such an extent 1s she degpised by the Court and the natfon that hor son 18 scarcely recognized In any soclety, and 1a black-balled in any club he trica to enter. It must be admitted that England has some Rrounds for fearing that thero aro socret ar rangoments botween Russia and Turkcy. It may be remembered that there were secrot pro vislons in the famous treaty of Tilait betweet Narovzox, ALEXANDER, and tho Sultan. By the open treaty It was agreed to restore the Danublan principalitics to Turkey, but the sccrel treaty entercd fnto at the same timo pro- vided that Russiashould take the whols of Wal- lachla and Moldaris, and that the Britiah Am- bassador should be expelled from Constantino- ple. It was not uutll tho Conferenco of Jassy 1 the following year, 1800, that England lear ed ail the facts in the case. 1t is this preceaent undoubtedly that the Dritish Cabinet now has in miad in demanding that every article of the treaty shall bo submitted to the Congress. ————— PERSONAL. ‘Willlam Lloyd Garrison will, on the 18th of October next, celobrate the auniversary of bls apprenticoship to the art prescrvative at Newbury- port, by setting up some type. Horatio Boymour bas in his library Daniel ‘Webater's old oftice-chalr; & chair which be- longed to Blshop White, used In the fnt Continental Congress; also, an old deed signed by Peter Stuyvesant, and the aword of George Clins ton, Airst Governor of New York Stats, Lopez, the precious dventurer who in. duced & weak-minded New York gir] to marry him 80 that he could extort money from her relatives, when acnt to the Towbs for perjury, sald, in reply ta the usual question, ** Are you married or sin- glar* **8in; my marelage has just been ane nofled.” The price of s kius in Virginia appoars to ba dependent upon the demand for vegetables, A wife in Harrison County recontly, belnz in wsnt wont {nto & neighbor's gar- 7 three heads of cab- bage, and her brute of s husband is now sulng for a divorce. Harper's Weekly takes the troubla myste- tlously to afirm that **Miss Consuclo Yznags ls not ‘Irens Mazilticnddy,'™ the author of (ue **Tender Recollections® in HBlackwood, It lsn't 8t all tmportant, bat Jarper's ifeskly might a8 well havo gone on and sald that Mr., Lawrencs Oliphant is the suthor of that drocAure. Tweed took a ten-years' endowment polioy fa April, 1808, in the Knickerbocker Life-Insue- ance Company, snd now his dsughiers have to e tbe Company for the $10,000, which the Company refuses to pay on the gronnd that the insarer fore feited all bis rights by golug on that momorable trip te Vigo, Bpain, in 1876, without notifyisg tbe manAgye. B3quetary Evarts’ daughter is described by 80 ep\husiastic Wesningion correspondent aa just lovely, with a very pure complexivn fsintly rose: tinted, just enough of tho Evarta nose o give character to hes face, and Juzurlant, satiny blonds bair, brushed smoothly back and done up in & Greek knot, festoned with 8 tortolse-shell combd. 0, we forgot: She moves with willowy grace, bas an undistarbed qulct in ber starsy eycs. Mj. Powell Tucker, of New York, is dé- scribed as the monumental donkoy of the age, He infested Egypt, snd carried with him a pot of black paint snd & big brush, with which hs dsubed in glant lelters on all the obolisks, and temples and pyramids, and things, **Powel) Tucker, Ne? York, 1870, 1f the Kbedive can calch bim, M. Fowell Tucker 18 likely 10 be impaled, snd atuck up 10 dry om the sammit of the Pyramid of Gbk zoh.