Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 29, 1878, Page 4

THE CIINCAGO TRIBUNE: DNESDAY HMAY 20, 1878, N = anco in paymont of customs duties. Tha bill was passed by & more than two-thirds voto,—Feas 41, and nays 18,—and ail amend- monts or substitutes designed to changa its provisions wers voted down in the mame decisive way. Iis passage puts an end to all farther currency tinkering by the prosent Congress; it stops the months of the Inflationista of all parties, who will probably not be hoard from agaln, while it 'was moro acooptable to the hard-money mon than anything clsa that has beon offered. In the Honse the Senate amendments to the ropoal of the Bankrupt law wore conenrred in, and the repeal is now completo, to take effect Sept. 1, 1878, investigation of alleged Domocrntic buildoz- ing. If it was desirablo to cxposo Repub. lican frands ns n monns of proventing them in the futuro, then it was cqnally desirable to expose Democratic bulldozing ns a means for preventing it in the future, But PorTrER and his cabal refased to include in the fnvos. tigation Mississippl, SBouth Carolina, and Alabama, whera the bulldozing was so large. Thye Tribure, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. T MATL~IX ADVANCE—POSTAGE mr;m. inquiry to the alleged frauds in the retarns of Lonisiana and. Florida, Thus the pra- Give Post-Oftico address fn fal, ineluding State ani Connty. 2 Hemittances may be mads elther by drafl, express, Fost-Offico order, o In fegistercd letters, &t our ik, TRRNS TO CITY AURSCRINERS, Iially, Aelivered, Runday excented, 24 cents per week. 1.4y, delivered, Eanday Included, 50 centa per week. Addrers THE TRIDUNE COMPANY, (Corner Madison and Dearbora-sta.. Chleago. Tl Orders for the deliveryof Tz TRInUNR &t Kvanston, Engiewoud, and Hyde Park leftin the counting-room wilireceivs nrompt attention P — TRIBUNE BRANCI OFFICES. the movement., We direct attontion to an article we ro. print elsowhare from the Nashvillo American, HOW TILDEN CARRIED ALABAMA AND MISBISSIPPL Bpenking of tho “ Frand-Hunt” of the ‘“ Greasors” for the purposa of ousting Harzs, rominds us of some curious eleotion a Bonthern conservative newspaper, Itisa calm but vigorons protest against the Porrza acheme of rovolntion. Tho opposition is based not merely upon the conservative de- piro to avoid tho troubles sure to grow out of the agitation, but upon tho brosd consti. tntional ground that tho proceeding is revo- lutionary and will load to the destruotion of the American Republie. The position is im. preguable that any interfersnce by Congress with the present tenure of tho President's ofico except by impoachment is unconstitu- tional and revolutionary, and the American adds significantly : * The logical result of such absorption of the funetions of Govern- mont by the popular Assemblies is either fickle popular goverument or oligarchy ; the refugo at lnst sought from elther is one-man power.” 'The American ovidently hasit in mind that tho people of this country will profor to turn in such a crisis to a man like Graxt, whatever the rosult may bo, rather then risk the perils of indefinite anarchy, Tne CAICAGO TRINCXE N eatablished branch ofitces forthe recolpt of subscrivtionsand sdyertisements ss follows: NEW TORR~Tloom 29 Tyidune Bulldlag, F. T. Me- Fanorn, Hanager, PATIS, France—No, 10 Rue de 1a Grange-Datellers. searching with any great geal or enorgy. The Ropublicans carried each of thoso Btates in 1872 and were ‘* bulldozed™ ont of them in 187 by tho majorities horo given. The vote of Arkansas for President in 1872 was as follows Grant (Re wase siane Greeley (Dem. and Ind.), ReP, MBJ.ovnrniansiens o 3.140 The samo Slats voted in 1876 as follows: ‘Tilden (Dem, b Hayes (Rep. Dem ma)eicersens serens cnvsersannaness 10,402 When the number of Republicans had in- crensed nt least 10,000, it is very extror. dinary that the Republican vote decreased in four yenrs 2,404 and the Democratio vote LOXDON, Eog. Tizxar F. GiLLie, BAN FRAN Cal.—Palace Tiotel. AMUSEMENTS. McVicker’s Thentre. Madiron rireet. between Dearborn and Biste. “Uncle Tom's Cabin." Tlooley's Thentre, Tiandolph street, between Clark and LaSalle. Pare Theatrs Company. Afiernoon and evening. *'Harricanes.” Haveriy’s Thentee, Monroe street. corner of Dearborn, Rice's Extrava: sy mbination, '*:Conrad Ihe Conule:t Afus: toll how that curious result was offeated. v Tako Alabama noxt, In 1872 this was the vota : POTTER'S UNFORTUNATE LETTRR. Lottor-writing is o dangerous practice in New Chlcago Theatre. Clark street, opposite the Sherman lousa, Varlety Qrant A Ollo._Atternoon and evening. politics aswell nalovo-affairs. Mr. Cranxsox Greeled e wnd Tnd.).con N.Porren, in deflance of this well-established TRop. ma, WEDNES! 9, 1878, p. ma). ¥ DAY, MAY'"20,. 1818 foct, haa not moraly written a latter, but Dt in 187 rusbed it into print. Tho well-founded charge of rovolution brought against the Porrer investigation has aronsed so much popular approhonsion that Mr. Porren folt the nocossity of doing somothing to qulet 1t. 1{o has made a lamentable failaro in resort- ingto the subterfuge of addressing a lottor to on unknown friond and handing it to the Associntod Pross. That lotter, intendod to docoive tho public, cunviota the conspirators, It is In overy particular n confession of the ruvolutionary. project on hand, while pro- fessedly disavowing the intont. It doprives Mr. Portsr of overy claim to fairncas, con-, sorvatlsm, and patriotism which his friends havo sot up on his bohalf. 1fe atauds forth now, not ns an innocont and uususpecting ngant of designing men, but na the ambitious lendor of a Congressional cabnl determined Tilden (Dem,) Hayes (lep.) Dem. maj.. o 43,772 Tho bulldozers got in their work to perfec- tion. They wiped ont n Ropublican majority of nearly 11,000 and substituted a Domocrat- io mnjority of almost 44,000 The Repnb- licnn voto which should bave exceaded 100,000 was omaciated to 68,230, Did 22,000 Repablicans dio off In those four years? And whore did tho Domocrats obtain their 22,557 new votes? Terrorlam and obstruction nccount for the Ropublican decrenso, and coorclon and ballot.box stufiag explamn the Democratio increaso, and that is the way Alnbamn was carried for Tiupey, Bat Minalssippi knocks the persimmons. In 1872 the Prosidential vote stood : Grant (Rem, ).... Greenbncks at the Now York Btock Ex- chango yesterday elosed at 983, Earl Russenr, died lnst ovoning in Lon- don, and the biographical sketch which was prepared several daya ago upon the proma- ture annonncoment of his death Is printed this morning. 'The Dioceso of Bpringfield, Iil., has once more clectod Dr, Sexmoun Bishop. It will be rememberod that ho declined at the last momunt to accept tho office, althongh con- sent to his consceration hnd boon obtained from the requisite mnjority of Standing Conumnittecs. This tine Dr. Hexsmour ne- copta unequivocally, and appoints a day for Lis consceration, The Bocrotary of the Tronsury and the At | upon overturning thy Goverament, melery Do Al _.flf torney-General appear to differ widely from | Mr.,Porten donies any purpose of intro- i b o 1,725 "The uext year, 1873, there was n Governor to clect, and tho Democrats ran Arcony, pophlar man, who drow off soma Republicnn votes from Gov. Ay, who was unpopnlar, with this rosult : Ames (Rep.} .oe Alcorn (Dem,) Rep. maj ..u,0 +000021,403 At this clection aid their ““lovel best,” and the Republicans were not fally united, as the vota shows; still tho Htate wont over 21,000 Ropublican. The colored Ropublicans alone constituto more than 20,000 majority in Mississippl. Tho Ku-Klux and shot-gun companies took mattors in hand in 1870, and made the fol- lowing returna of the result in that State : ‘Tilden (Dem,) ... 112,173 Hayew (Rep.) oo 52,0803 Dem. m8Yseueerens 49, 608 There must have ly work done to contract the 82,000 Republicans into 52,600 and to oxpand the 47,000 Democrats into 112,000, Is it any wonder that tho Por- TER fraud-huntera did not want tho iuvesti- gation extonded to Misaissippl and Alabama? Thoy assume n virtuous amazement and {n- dignation at tha alleged pioayune frauds in some precincts of Florida, while they wore gullty of polling or counting more apurions votes in Mississippi than the wholo voto cast in Florida. " Nothing oan be plainer or more certain than that Haxea was conntod out of tho ten Eleotoral votes of Alabama and the cight Electors of Mikaissippi by the Domo- cratio bulldozers and ballot-box stuffers who are now bawling * Fraud ” at the top of their lungs. Judges Davumonn and Broboert s to thoe duty of the Government townrd that sec- tion of the Chicago Whisky Ring known ns the *First Batoh.” It hea been decided by tho Attornoy-Genoral that the Governmont 18 not bound to extend immunity from civil prosecution, and accordingly tho suits sgninst theso distillers will be pushed, ——— ducing the Moxican Grensor plan, but imme- diately procecds to justify the right of Con- gross to pnas a law providing a quo warranto procoeding for tosting the validity of Mr, Hlares! title and ousting him from the oftico of Prosident. Thix iu a distinction withoat adiffcronce. Tho process openly advocated by Porren is simply one of gavoral variations of the Moxican plan. Tho elec- tion of President is & prorogativa of the people, strictly defined ‘and lmited by the ‘Constitntion, The constitutionnl function of Congress 13 to count the votes and doclare the result. Congross hna done this in the case of Mr, Haves. Its judgment may have beon right or it may have been. wrong, but thero the mattor resta. Wo know of no human tribunal whose rulings .are in. fallible, Lut society is bound to .submit to tho judgment of a final tribnnal agreed upon in constitating the organic law of tho nation. Congress having exhausted its constitutional function, any further action is necossarily of a rovolutionnry character. To overturn or disrogard the Constitution is rovolution, no matter what tho agonoy may be. It wonld bo revolutionary for the Su. prema Court to attempt to depose a Prosi- dent by any process whatevor, beoausa the Constitution provides tho single method of ‘imponchment a8 & woans to that end. It would bo revolutionary for awould-be Prosi- dent to assame tho functions of the offica in deflance of the Congressional declaration of the result of an cloction, or to rotain posses. sion of the office boyond the constitntional term of four yoara. Bat it will be equally ravolutionary for Congrass by rosolution or statuto to vacate the offico of Prosident cxocpt in pursuance of the constitutional fonn of impenchment and conviction, Tho Porres scheme, by Mr, Porren's own confesaion, nims nt the passage of a spocial law to get rid of Mr, Warxe by a guo war- ranto procoeding. He has adopted the Movrdouesy Bram plan. But he might just 8s well advocate Iavxs'removal by menns of & joint or concurrent resolution of Congress, Congress hns no moro rights in the one case than the othor; both processes are in violation of tho Constitution. The peoplo, not Congress, have the sole right to amend the Constitution, When Congress shall undertake to vote Mr. Haves out of offico by law or by resolution, it will bo a rovolutionary assutaption of power not less dangorous than if an occupant of tho Prosi. dontial chair should assume tho attitude of Dictator to override and broak down tho supreme law of the land. An oligarchy fs perhapa oven moro menaclvg to a ropub- lican form of government than an gao. tocracy, bocause It sots up A protense of a ruls by the majority ropresenting the people. The succoss of a Congrossional cabal in %ecuring popular submission to an unconstitutional arrogation of power would bae a pracedent that could never bo sot aside or broken down. Therc would Lo a sucoos- slon of similar attempts,—avery party await. ing its own opportunity,—and the resnlt would bo anarchy, as in Mexico, or & refugo in & monarchical form of government, Mr, Porren's cabal can no moro conceal the fact of rovolution under the form of an ar-post Jucto procecding of the guo warranto nature than by nerely passing a resolution doposing Hares and recogoizing Troey. Aud this, he deolares, only depends upon tho result of o one-sided, partisan inquiry which threatons to work out {ts ends by corruption, bribery, and perjury, 4 v ‘T proteuss of Invastigating the alleged frands as & preliminary to their prevention in the futuro is a palpable decoption. If this were the honest and singlo purpose, there would not have téen en obstinate limitation put wupon the investigation. Yorren accounts for {he ‘original acquiss couce in Haves' clection by ssying that the impression provalled that, if the Democraty Lad been cheated in their returns, * they had bulldozed the negroes so badly that the sccounts of wrong word about equal.” Rut this impression oxists to-dsy to as great an. extent o8 it did when Congress countod in Iaves, If there was ony reason for o fur. ther investigation of alloged Reopublican fraudy, thero was equal roason for a furthor 74,707 004 Judgo Key is out in an open letter to the peoplo of tho South denouncing the Demo- cratio attompt to introduco Moxican mothods into tho affairs of the United States; and Avzxaxpen IL Steenexs s out in a letter re- plying to that portion of the Porten address which intynated that the vonerable Georgian undertook to doliver 8 number of the votes of Southern Democrata to aid- the Republic- cans in defeating the Porren resolution, Tho prosont Grand Jury of the Criminal Court havo united in alattor to tho Common Counctl, setting forth the evils arising from tho presont looso and inadequate regulations govorning tho junk busness in Chicago, and urglug upon that body the importance of adopting measures which shall facilitate the recovery of stolon property from the shops of second-haud dealors, and which, st the . samo time, shall tond to diminish tho safoty with which petty thefts aro committed and tho plunder disposed of under the preaent system. It is a subjoct well worth the at- tention of tho Common Council. Nobody seoms to like to tako the responsi- Lility of ontering a nolle pros. in the {ndlot. ments against B, F, Aney, A large num. ber of persons havo Intercsted thomselves to siecaro tho exerclse of lenlancy toward this glfted but unfortunate Anancier, to tho ond that no portion of his remaining days may ba pnssed in such Penitentiary as the United Statos District Court may designate, The assont of the Attornoy-General of the United Btates Is necessary to this proposition to ox. ompt ALtz from the just poualty of Lis of. fonses against the laws of the land, and somchow the Attornoy-General fails to per- cive auy reason for such an exception, At all events, he doclinos to order a dismisaal of proceedings against ALLux, — A WORD WITH THE CUSTOMS COMMISSION. Tho assumption of tho Chieago Z'imes that the “labors™ of the Customs Sorvico In. vestigating Commission *‘are about com- pleted” is utterly unwarranted, The Cow. mission has been soting.in New York with. out special direction. Tho Bub.Committes, |conslsting of Mlessrs. Binauax, Menzorrm, Hnos, and Leuiten, are in Washington, as stated in Tun Tavows dispatch of Sunday, to consult with the Becretary of tho Tress- ury as to the scope and extent of the future of tha investigation, Doybtless thelr visit nlso acconnts for the proposition of Fxn- ¥anpo Woop to appoiut a sub-committes to consult with Secratary SoenMan with a view to the proparation of a supplemontal seotion to the ponding Toriff bill providing for n specific duty on silks and kid gloves. A dis- pAtoh states that this course * Las boon do- termined upon at the suggestion of Now York merchanta.” It ls mach mora likaly that the suggestion comes from Mr, Leiren, of Cllcago, who I8 known to bo of opiunlon that frauds by undervaluation cannot bo stoppod except by thosubatitution of specifio for ad valorem dutles, There bave beon several indications of late hat the Commis- sion is drifting awny from'lts truo mission, which Is to inquire whethor certain abusos of sdministration oxist, oxactly what they aro, and, this being discovered, to suggest methods for the strict enforcement of tho law as'it s, The views of Tus Tamowe on the existing tariff ara well kyown, as are also its views of the so-called Woon Tarift bill, These noed not Le reiterated here, Tho Brxamau and Hixvs Commizsion was not constituted to make o new tariff, but, as wa have already said, to inquire whether the exising tori? s honestly administer. ed. If it whould find that the ex- isting Tarff laws are nowhers faithfully executed; tlat great percentages of loss oc. cur through them at all or a mufority of the ports of eutry in the countey the conclusion would bo well nigh irresistibly that they are not susceptiblo of faithful cxecation; aud this fact would doubtless oporate powerfully. with Congress toward a complate change of the tariff system. But if the Commission should fiud that the oxisting Tari? laws aro substantially foitbfuolly executed at all the ports of the country, except that of Now York City, no such conclasion as that above statod would necessarily follow, ‘fo find that stealing the customs revenucs can bo effoctunlly provented at every in the country except that of Now York, but that it cannot be stopped thero without cutirely romodeling tho tarift There now appears to be a sottled convic. tion at all the Enropean Capitals that a Con. gresa for the settlomont of the prominent voints in the Eastern problem will meet carly tho coming month, In fagt, it ia gen- erally conceded that most if not all of the treaty Powers lave informally sig- nifled their intontion to - be repre- ented nt the coming mooting. Austrin alone appears to bo foarful of the result of the deliburations of tho Congross, and is tak- ing cxtraordinary precautions In the way of strengthening her frontier gasrisons and otherwise evincing a determination to socure tho scceptance of hor views upon points af. feoting hor vital interests oven at the ox. penso of a resort to arma. e — Against tho outrageous Injustice of the Halifax award and the trickery by which it ‘wassocured the Sonate Committes on Foreign Relations placs on record & vigorous protest, doclaring that in all futare negotiations the (overnment of the United States will refuss 16 recogmze tho award as affording a prec- cdent to determina the valus of the inshore tiabery privileges. Buch s protest, formally sud deliberately approved andadopted byboth Houscs of the American Congress, would amount to a notification to Great Britain by the peoplo of thig country that they con. #ldor themselves robbed in Leing comwpellad to pay tiao award, and that they will nover submit o it again. They would not submit o it now if their wishes were consulted in tho matter, but would demand o mow deal and & Commission not organizod to favor the Canedian sido of the dispute, F—m L Two ‘{mportant bills were Jeaterday en- acted into laws, and only lack the signaturo of the Presudent to become such. The Ben. 4lo passed the Foar bill, which the IHouse passed a month ago, forbidding tho further retirement or coucellation of legal-tender votos, and directing their reissue by tho Buecretury of the Treasury and their accept. ly practiced, but insisted npon confining the tonse of investigation for public good i oonfessodly frandulent, and the purposo of revolution stands alone as the direct aim of roturns in Arkansas, Alabama, nnd Mississip- pl, for which the **frand.hunters” are not incronsod by 20,144, Tho bulldozers could, system, ia to nrrive at a very humilinting conelusion. This concluston is humiliating beenuna it ia in substanco an admission that tho New York Ring of customs thieves is stronger than the 'Trossary Dopartment. The Commission should beware of com- mitting itacl? to tho proposition that & cor- tain law oan bo onforced in one part of the conntry bnt not in another. It should also beware of committing itself to the proposi- tion that tho customs-servics abuses oxisting in New York can only ba cured by an act of Congross. For, in the event of failuro to securo the desired legisintion, tho abuses, oxposed and continning within the knowl. odge of tho whols people, and rondered doubly conspicnious thereby, will constituto n gross and shametnl scandal, reflocting nddod disgrace upon the (Jovernment. Onr dispatches stato that tha Commission is unanimous in its opinion that the charges mado ngainst the New York Custom.Houso by Chicago merohants and Collector Sar aro entirely substantiatod. If this be truo, the Commission should hnsten tho conclu. sion of ita labors and give its report to tho Presidont and Becretary of the Treasury, If it shall appoar from that report, and the evi- denco accompanying it, that the oharges of Ohicago merchapts are sustained, then it will becoma tho duty of the Presi. dent to remove peremptorily and sum- marily all the chief officials of tho Now York Custom-House establishment, And the work cannot be done too soon. It tho charges are true, the Weat has suffored from New York Oustom.House nbuses quite long enough, If tho charges are truo, it is high time to stop the resulting robbory of tho revonues, If the charges are truo, it is time to prosecute somo, yes, all, of tho scoundrels who lLave been robbing tho revonne, whethor they bo in or out of tho customs service, On roport the Commis- slon daclaros that the charges aro true ; that they are nmply suatained by testimony in its possossion. If this roport be true, and if the Secretary of tho Tronsury has been so in- formed, then it {s time for him to act in the matter of advising & complete reorganization of the New York Custom-Houso, THE ARMY AND DOMESTIC TRANQUIL- LITY, Ex-Gov, Parxca approves Tur Trinunz's nrguments with roforence to overflowed lands in IMlinols nnd the Houthern Bites, holding, a8 wo do, that the Government Lus no right to nppropriato public money for privato imn- pravements, Ho socks also to oarry the dis- cussion ono step farthor, and to show that tho Government hna as littlo right to use troops for the suppression of domostlc vio- lenco aa it haa to uso money for the reclama. tion of wasto lands ! - Thora is, however, an important differenco botween tho firat kind of Government nid aud tho second. Nothing in the Constitution warranta tha oxponditure of public monoy for tharodiatribution of wator ou the farming land of tho Uunited Htates. It isnot provided by the organic law that the Presidont shall supply stoam-pumps to tho Btates nlong the Mississippi Rivar, or that ho shall send rain cqually upon the just oud tho unjust in’Colorado, California, and the other Stntes that neod irrigation, On tho other hand, it'fs oxproasly stipulated by the Constitution that— ‘The Unliced States shall guarantee to overy Stato in this Unlon & revublican form of government: and aball protect eachof thom against fnvasion: and, on application of ythe Leglalature, or of the Executtve (when the irquluwu caniol be conn vened) againat domeatiq clolence, Tho Coustitution ,was ordained, s the preamble recitos, *to insure domestic tran. quillity and promotg tho gonoral wolfare " ; and these purposes. wero not tho least of those that justified tho Union. Withont the assurance of domestio tranquillity the Union would bo worthloss, If we counld dispenso with that part of tha Constitution, wo might do without all thoe rost. Mr, Pazaer desires to have tho citizons of onch tato place, their dependonco exclu- sivoly upon their militia. Tus Tnipuxe will not be placed in tho position of antagonizing tho militia. It approves and encouragoes the growth of suoha force. But whon the militia, for any reason whatevor, is insufliclent *‘to insuro domestioc tranquillity,” Taz Trisvwz advocates n requisition upon the Geueral CGovernment, nuder the forms of tho Consti- tutlon, for troops. The nse of tho national troops, under such circumstances, is not moro wrong thau the use of the militia. No principla of self-governmont that is violated by tho intorferenco of omo kind of troops s rospected by tho other. In oue instatico the call I mado upon the Goveraor ; in tho other upon tho Prosi- dent. In both instances tho troops are sup- ported in part by the citizens who uso thom, in both thoy may come from a distance, and in both thoy are likely to be under comrmand of persons not selpeted by the citizens, Tho logio of Mr, Pirwen's argument, if it has any logle, roquires him to maintain that the peoplo of any city or town must not go outside of thelr own limits for aid to sup. press riots or insurrootions, It would bo s groat an offonso ngainst tho prineiplo of local solf-government for the people of Clicago to ask aldof the other towns in Cook County n to request It of thoGovernor of the State; and it would bo sy wrong to ask Lim for militia as to ask him for rogular troops. Yot it is monifestly truo that the whole country bas largo interests in tho continuod ex- istonco, pence, und prospority of Chieago, The' wholo country would coutributo largely in mon and monoy, if necessary, for tho preservation of the city, What can bo tho obfection to taking coutributions already made for emergoncios of this descrip- tion in Ilfinois and from ull other parts of the Union? Binco the army exists prinoi. pally *“to insure domostio tranquillity,” why should it not bo used for the purposo which Justifics its oxistenco? Tha rogular army usod as juter-Btato polics fulfills tho provision of tho Natlonal Consti- tution whick inaures domestis tranquillity to tho sovora! Btates, Tho srmy thus used, it will bo valuablo for Mr, Paiazs to observe, is drawn from the peoplo, supported by themw, and will oventually returu to thom and bo absorbed. It is recruited -frowm the citizous of the Btates about in proportion to population ; aud the taxes which fcod, clothe, and move it are paid in nearly tho same proportion. The situation which arises when auy State, through its Governor, calls on the Prosident for aid, is murely that of housoholders who call in the polics to preservo law and order. 'The inter-State police are theirs, and the Presidout sonds them on order of the Goveruor pro- cisely as the GQovernor would sond militis on order of the Bhoriff, or a8 the Bherill would summon & posss on order of the'Town Coun. oil or tho Maygr. Tho effoct would be the same, excopt slower in its oporation, if thor wero no Nationa} Governmont, but if the Stateq wero at peaco aud harmony with each other. Then in case of domeostio violence in Tlinois, Indiana, being & mear peighbor, a8 o matier of comity, would send in per. Leps 1,000 men to suppress the disorder; Michigau wight send 600 ; Oblo, 800; Penn. -that {4 possessed by coin, sylvanin and New York oach s regimont; Kentuclky n fow lnndreds; Now Orlonna her * Tigers”; Mussachusotts hor Ancient aud Honorable Artillery, and so on through- out tho length and breadth of the land. This plan in the long run might ba offective, but it wpuld be very slow, cumbersome, and exponsive in operation. It is vaatly better to havo tho troops provided, so that the citi- zens of other States may not be distracted from thelr businoss, That is why Tne Taip. uNg Romg tlme ago ndvocated tho incrosse of tho army to 0,000 men,~—a proposition which ex-Gov. Paruen hns strangoly confounded with tho uso of any number of soldiers, undor any ‘eirdumstances whatever, without the requlsition of tho Governor of n Btate. Each proposition stands on its own merits, and Tz TRInuNE prefers to argue ono at n time, 1t has shown protty conclusivaly, wo think, ~—s0 conclusively that Mr, Pavatzr constantly ovades the lssne,—that the uso of tha army to insuro domestio tranqguillity, on the de- mand of a Stale Government, is enfoined by tho Constitution of the United Btates, LABOR-SAVING MACHINES, Mn, W, G. Mooy, of Boston, read o paper on the ** Displacemont of Labor Ly Im- provoments in Machinery " beforo the Social Bclonce Convention at Cincinnati Friday, It woa a remarkable produation only because it had the eanction, and in somo sonse the au- thority, of a body protonding to besclentific. True Science is liboral towards errors of opinfon ; but it does not, if wo understand its function eorrootly, ocenpy itsclf in propn- goting error. Its businoss is to ascertain the things that aro most cortainly belioved omongst na; and when thesa things have onco beon nacertained and fixed beyond n rensonablo doubt, it does not again submit lhnm‘ to tho nttacks of gross ignorance, Cor- tain things have beon so well established that thoy havo become the foundations of' scientific faith. If now Belonco is required to go back nnd establish them anew on the order of ovory ignorant man who has not percoived the truth,—if it must convineo the Rov, Mr, Jasren that the carth does move, ond Mr, W, G. Moopy that machinory fs a good thing,—it will make no progrens, ‘The pith of tho controversy in rogard to' labor-saving machines is to Lo found in two cconomical nxioms, First, that men possoss, besidos naturnl elemonts, precisely that which they have produced; and, sccondly, that thoy have nover yot in the world's his- tory posscssed more than thoy desired. Iuman desires are olastic nnd boundless. The monns of gratifying them are limited. Houco the danger is, not that production will got ahead of tho wants of the race, but that it will fall to keep pace with thom. This is tha genoral answor to Mr. Moopy's absurd argument ; aud, for all solentific purposes, it is complote. But it is possible to be more speoifie, It con easily bo shown tHat overy fmprovomont in inachinery has oventu. ally givon moro omployment to labor, or made moro valuablo the labor whicis had proviously boen employed. Con- slder tho cnse of the stemmn-engine, which haa pat to work more hauds in steamors and rmlroads, factories, and mines, tonfold than it s displaced, The produots of improved ma- chinory, moreover, have made other kinds of labor mora valuable, Thus a week's labor on tho farm would in formor times scarcely pay for a day’s labor on a pair of boots; but will now pay for several pairs of boota bottor mado than tho old kind. The proportionate goin of labor in the selling prico of clothing, owing to tho invention of the power-loom and tho sowing-machine, further illustrates tho subjeot. Genorally spesking, the nggre- goto rosults of tho improvoment of machin- ery are benoficial to labor, becauso they make labor iuoro valuable as mens. ured in ol the products of machinery, Thore moy be casos of individual hard- ship; but when the redistribution of labor is offected, all classes are bottor off after the invention of machinery than beforo. Con- sumption Increases in moro than the exact ratio of deorenso of cost of production, So- claty s optly said to bo arrauged in rospoot to ita purchasing-power liko a pyramid, only tho very fow having tho capacity to purchase at tho highest pricos, but a much largor pro- portion Loiug nble to buy at the next lower figures, nud 6o on down taq the bottom. Bo n docrenso in prics of anything but the ac- tunl nocessaries of lifaincroasos consumption in more than tho ratio of decronso, Mr. Mooby's paper aboands in falso stato- ments and absurd deductions, as when ho Lolds that the invontion of machinery has ‘wado agricultural life less nviting, or that tho farmers’ wives aud daughters nre worse off for not boing compalled to make clothing for their familics. The sufficiunt answer to him and other unsclontific writors liko him {is, that lsbor always can flud employment except in periods of financiul panio, distross, and busincss deravge- mont; ond these poriods are due, not to tho invontion of tha labor.saving mmn- chines, but to tho profligato oxpenditure of labor and capital {u seasons of prosperity, OREENBACKS AND THE GREENBACKERS The Groenback party fnsists, with gold at 100}, that greenbocks shall ba yvecefved ot the Custom-Ilouszs for duties, and this iy considered of such prime importance that in the latest platforms the omission to have thom 8o received is included in sn indictment agaiust the Ropublicau party. The domand for the recorpt of greenbacks for customs- datios cither has a purposo or it has not. ‘What is that purpose? Is it to improve the valuo of tho grecubacks, or lsitto depreciato them? Itis sdmitted and concoded that since tho Public-Credit act of 1869 the prin- cipal aud interest of the publio debt are pay- able in coin. All the bonds fesuod sinco 1870 aro all specifically payable in coin. If the object be to advanco the greenbacks to the valus of coln, that object is alroady nearly attsined, sud on the 1lst of Jan- uary they will be at par with coin, and be payablo to and from the Government uot ouly for duties, but for all other pur- poses. '[ho Nepublican party has thorefore provided by law that on and after the first of January next greenbncks shall be ye- ceived and pald out st par with gold, be recsivablo for dutics, and payable for Intereat aod principal of tho public debt. The old coutract to pey coin exclusively will bo over- coma by making tho greonback equivalent to coin, giting §¢ tho smne. purchasing power Until the remone- tization of silver, gold alono could be em- ployed .to poy intergst on tha debt, This exclusive uso for gold gava to it an extraor. dinary valyd, which cessed as soon as the silver was permitted to ba used 1n its stead. This was nover possible, however, In tho case of greoubacks, They were not coin, nor re- deemod in coin. The only coin income of the Govornment was from customs, and until tho greenbacks could be made oqual in value to coin the Governmont had to insist on cofn for cpstoms or uell grocubacks at a lovs {o purchase coin, ‘Ibis is o old story that has been ex- plained over and over again. The Greon. backors, while demanding that greonbaoks should bo reccived for enstoms, linve at the anma timo atrenuously opposed all measnros to mako them equal to coin. While silver was demonotized, it was impossible to put {hie gr:enbacks on an equality with comn by redeeming them in coin. Bat tho rodemp. tion of groenbpcks in coln having become possiblo by resson of the remonetization of silver, all serious difficnlty {n making green. backs roceivable and payable in all Govern. montal transactions is romoved. After the 15t of Januaty next the Government will bo in a condition to pay out graenbaoks for in. torost, pay off old bonds with greenbncks, and mnke any aud all payments that can be made In this country in greenbacks, which will then bo equivalont to coln, and for many purposes bo proferred to coin, Is this, however, the end mought by the Greenbagk party? If that be the end, then it is provided for by law, and will take offect seven months honce, and the grent griovance Bat do the Groonbackers dosiro that the groonbacks shall bo equal in value to coin, and circulato freely in ox- change for coin? Do thoy not want quite s different ssate of things? Do thoy not want first to deprectato tho greenbacks by depriv. ing thom forevorof all promise of redeem- sbility? Do they not want to practically abolish the usa of coln, and substitute therefor a fiat papor which shall never be re- docmable in anything? Thoy want s “new monetary systom,” with coin money left will be romoved. out, with papor monoy rodeomabla in coin left out, and paper, which is not n promise to pay and has no fatrinsio valuo, and which is called by them *“flat money,” substitated, The schemo {s not confined alons to groenbacks, bacause groonbacks redeemable in coin are s objectionable to that party as the ¢oln itsclf. They want to domonetize all coin, and all redoemable paper, and subati- tute for these o shinplaster without intrinsio value, redeemnble in nothing, having no cortain purchasing powor, but legally a legal-tendor in payment of debts. Having oxhausted its faculty by sponging ont all ex- Istiug dobls, tho money will purchasé noth- ing nnd will have no valuo save as material for tho paper-mill. A much shortor process, and fully as honost and as creditable, would bo to fix a day of national jubilee, on and after which all debts public and private abould ba doclared ** off,” and then the country could begin again with a clean sot of books, and bo free to go back to tho use of coln, There can be no use for fiat money anvo tho enforcod payment of debts, and, as flat monoy will have no othor value, why not save time and tronble by sponging out the dobts directly nud nll at once, aud lot the dobtor keop the croditors’ property ? Tho remonctization of silver hins oponed to this country an abundanco of tho precious motals, Not confined to either gold or sil. vor, and not affccted materially by tho searcity or abundanco of either, or by tho comparative riso or fall of either motal, we are colning at the rate of $100,000,000 a yoar of both; wo aro making our purchases and paymonta abroad with our crop exports, and drawing hither tho surplus in coin or bonda ; wa are rapidly acoumulating a coin basis so abundant and so continuons in itaincronso ne togivo a pormnanont valuo to all our curroncy. The greenbacks will in due timo be supple- monted by Treasury cortificates of gold and silvor doposits, and these cortificates will uswell in amount until they will equal the sum of tho greenbacks, and togothor furnish the country with a paper ourrency which for atobllity and security will excoed that of any tountry in the world, Thisissomothing different from what tho Groenbackers want, They want valucless money, and all thoir nofse sbout hoving greenbacks mnde ro- colvablo for customs dutles is vaporing, —na more decoption,—bocause groonbacks which are equal to coin are in tho yes of the advocates of fiat moncy ns obnoxious as coin itself. ANOTHER CHANGE IN THE MAP OF EUROPE, Thoe London correspondent of the New York Herald, in & rocont lotter to that paper, announces tho appronching marringe of Princo 1lexnz of the Notherlands with the Princess Many of Prussia, daughter of that gallant fightor, Princo Frenesicx Cranves, and anticipates some vory important political changos which will grow out of this Royal allinnce. Boforo commeuting upon thesc changos, it fs necessary to state some points rolative to tha high contracting parties, Tho present Kiog of Holland is Wrnrzass IIL, who has two sona, WirLiaw, Prince Royal, Lorn in 1840, and ALezaNDER, born in 1851, The expectant bridogroom, Prince Hxwny, fa brothor of the King, born in 1820, sud is a widowor, his wife, Auzria of Elsenach, having died rocontly, Ife bas no brothors nnd Lut one slster, Bovnie, born in 1824, The bLride, Princess Many of Prussin, is tho oldest daughter of Princo Fuepenick Cnanves, having been born in 1833, Hor two aistors, Erszavkre and Louws Man. ovenrre, were born reapoctively in 1837 and 1800, Both the King of Holand ond his oldest som, the Prince Roy- al, are habitual absontoes from the Oapi- tal, and spond thelr timo mainly fn Paris, pursuing pleasurs in tho Bouffes Parisicnnes and other such resorts until both of them have resched a fnaucial climax which in private life would be tantamount to bank. ruptoy nud ruin, and in addition to this hava 80 far alionated the respoot and nffections of the Dutoch poople that a large pension with a haudsome bonus will be sufiiciont to induce them to abdicato all claims to the throne. 'I'he second sou, ALxxaxpen, is a hopeless invalid, who can live buta short time and bins no political aspirations. The rond to the throne is a short and sure one, tharofors, for tho Prince of the Notherlands. DBut the Prince is already an old mau, and in the event of his death the Princess Auny be- comes Queen, and, in case she has a child, sho becomes Rogeut, In either case tho Dutch dynasty would be at nn end, and Hol. land would be High-Gormanized. ‘That the hand of Bisuazox has mranged this marriage does not admit of questiou, as it has long been no secret that Germany has had covetous eyes upon Holland, and there £re many stroug ‘reasons why it should be onnexed. ‘The Holland coast, by nature and goograplical position, is Germany's coast upon tha German Ocoaz, and its scquisition would mako ber at once the maritime com- petitor of England. Once lot Antwerp pase iuto German hands, and Germany and En- gand would bo but a fow miles of water apart, and Autwerp would confront London slnost face to facs. ‘In the race for com. ercial supremacy, aud for dominion of the soas in timo of war, Gennany would not be Lamperod as she is now. Agaln, Holland is kin to Germsny by race and language, and in case the time should ever come whon she noeded protection she must lean upon Ger- wauy rother than Eugland ‘Ihe corre- époudent of tho Iferald, bowever, indicatos that the Dutoh will never cansont to givo np their independenco, their wealth, and their flourishing colonios without s dosporate re. matanco, in which they would bo sided by Joalous rivals of Germiny, and he forconsts the following relations botween tho two conntries as probabla : Supnosing that Tolland should ba ruled hyg Princc’of Geeman fennings and German education, who would be nt the enme time Grand Duke nf Luxemboure in his own right—that is to sny, Dachy which has hieen nart of the Uerman ( eration from tha foundation uf the latier in 14 o s alesolution tu 1RGK—suppusing (hat wuch King of olland should be the finshand of & Priy. ceas of Hohenzollern, the ncheme woulil natarally suggent itacll of n closa allfance hetween terman and the law countrics. Hollanid might e Adinitie into the Zolveretn, or comulercial nnion of Gernay Btates, accopt, connaquontly, the latter, —leginla: tion, customn, dutles, weights, meastres, nii moneyn. Would not the advantage bo manifest to the Dutch trado? 18 not tho exsmple of Wartem. berg, 8axony, and Ravaria closeat hand? Then why'not _contract a military convention, cqually unofal for both countries, Holland binding itacif on cortaln pointa of vital Interest for its vawerful neightor, and securing in return the desirable pro- tection of the German army?’ Therc would ho no fons of independence, no annesstlvn or conquent, only the clone unton of two brother peonies, thelr mutal Insurance against risks and assoclution for profita, There is ona contingency which this cor. respondent bas not taken into consideration, ond that fa the French ns well as the English antipathy to such an annexa. tion, There ia plenty of ovidance, however, to show that Bismancx has con- templated this contingency, sand that the silont but effectiva oid he rendercd the Frouch Ropublicans in the rocent eleotion hed a bearing upon the annexation not only of Holland but also of Denmark in tho near fatare. Thero in ovidence to show that ho bns intimated to the French they may have Lorraine back, which is peculiarly a Fronch province as compared with Alsace, and that QGormany will make no objectfon to her nunexation of tha Franch part of Belgium, which includes the larger and richer part of that diminutive Kingdom. There ean bo litile question that the northwostorn ns woll ns southeastern corner of tha map of Europo is tobo changed 1 the not distant future, aund the marriage of Prince Hennzof Nnassau to Faxpeniox WiLLiam's granddaughtor looks liko the firat step towards tho now partition of tho Netherlands., Certnin solf-satisfled journals, amongthem the Nation, have professed to discover in AMr, Porren's personal charactor and con- servative tondencios » guarantoo against an attempt st revolution. DBut a obain of cir- cumstances now point to this man as a do- Hborato and viclons schomer. The Hartford Courant—a woll-informed nowspaper—says that Porren was the nuthor of tho scheme concoctod pending the count of the Electoral vote to have the House declare TiLnex Prea- idont, let him toke the onth of office ot Gramercy Park, and then proceed to rocog- nizoum. That wasrevolution, Ho was the man cliosen to' present tho resolution of in- quiry which he now coufessen to o rovolu. tionary in its aims, and certainly no man could havo been more obedient to the dic- tatos of the caucns or moroe intolerant of tho rights of tho miuority. Ho hns bocamo the Clairman of o committes organized in defl. ance of all parliamentary practice by dony- ing tho right of the Republicans to chooso their own membors on it. That Committce consists virtually of eight Democrats and only throe Republicans. Finally, Porrea an- nounces that the result of this Committoo’s work, prodotermined by its charncter and purpose, will be the warrant for a procecd- ing that is nothing more nor less than ravo- Iution and will load to anarchy, PorTer Lias chronielod himsolf ag the héad dovil of this ravolutionary villainy, The paper-money clrculation of Great Dritaln s a8 follows, accordinz to the last ofiicial reports: Tho circulation of the Bank of En- cland and the privato and jotut-stock banks was $150,832,725; that of the Scotch banks wus 827,403,430; and that of the Irlsh bauks was 835,472,000 Total, $223,800,085, The paver wnoney ontstanding in the United Btates ot this timo s $043,300,003, oxcluslve of fractlonals, ‘This 1s moro than thres times the smount of the Euglish puper-money clrculation, and on tho ba- fs of popolation more than double, The aver- arre atock of coin and bulllon hetil by the Bunk of England {n both dopartments was $119,073,- 4205 aod that in tho Irfsh bauks, 814,904,000; ana fn the Beoteh bunks, $19,208,7X),~making a total of coin In the resorvos of $154,%01,310. The ¢oin in tho Treasury of the United Btates ou the 14t of May last, according to the officiul ropart, wus 8150,807,230, which exceods by mora than two milliona tho rescrves of coln tn the British Lunks at tho same tiine, It s truo thoro is othicr gold and aflver in circulation in Great Britaln, but so there 1s In this country. We have now §50,000,- 00 of subsidiary silver in aetive circulation, and on the 1st of May the banks of Californls, Bus- ton, and New York held about fitty milllons ofe gold. As soon as rusumption takes place the hard money will bo lct looss, when currency will becomo very abundaut, and the times will rapldly tmprove. . ¢ A Journal reporter Las Leen interviewlng the Hon, Joun WENTWORTH, who Is ruported as saylug that helu just now “so busy with lis farm down at the Bummit that he has not time to think sbout the proposition that ho shoull douato a block of land ou tho Bouth 8lds for & vark." This statement of Mr. WasTworTu's 1s equivalent to a promiso that he will go sarfously at 1t as soou s lie has the time. Wo thiok it will be entlrely safs for the residents of the Bouth Diviston to conault Mr, Wayr- WOLTIl as tohis proferences in regard to the statue, and procecd with it do as to have It ready to unvell on the very day of the dedication, There f{a every wrobe sbility that he retains the single block batwcen Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth strects, and Michigun and Wabash uveaucs, for this purposo and no other. He wponds his Suu- days in Chicago, and will probably devote that good day, after church, to thoughts of the goxd deed he has In contemplation, ile is entitled to tho personal satisfactlon of thluking it eyer tor soveral Bundays Lofore annonuclog it to the pablic, though we have no doubt he will admit st onca that it would be impossible for bim to make a botter disposition of this particular block, ——ee— The Now York Sun denvunces tho * abomina- ble doctrines” lald down by the Pennsylvuuia Democrats, who, while denouncing the count- lug In of Presldcnt ITayss, declsred aguinst any rovolutiou, auy at{empt st ousting him, and pitches fnto tte Philadelphia Lublic LZedger for holding the following opinlon: Even If tho Committes can procure proof 1o show taa mathematical deusovstration thst the whole Republican vote In Florids and Loulsiana was falsely and fraudulontly returned snd copmied, tuat wonld not effect tiio title uf thu FPresident to :h;d'wullh( ©of the minutest fraction of & graln of al Tho Sun's indizuation hecomes it admirably, and it 1s tobe regretted that through a provoking typographical error the Sun should havo sald, on the 241 of November, 1576, *The certsinty that thero are such frauds cannot affvct the lcgally cortifled eloction. Mr. HAYES must be inaugursted and sckuowledzed as FPresident, even If the legal result fs so taluted with fraud that honest men rovolt at tha very thought of what they must submit to.” ——————— Purely In the interest of ecovomy, Bouator Canzxox of Wiscousin hss fotroduced a bill to establish a custom-house at LaCrosse. The tlmes sre hard and money {8 scarce, and D0 e2- penditure of publlc money should be wade as a mere matter of favoritism to soy mewber of Congress or to soy particular locality; heuce weé coucluda that & custom-house s very much eeded (1)tu thelittle villagy whers Senator Cax- Buox resides. Tho rafts of logs, Jumber, aud abiogics that dallytioat down the river past that