Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 31, 1878, Page 4

a THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY. MAY 31, 1878, The Teibwe, defonding himselt by the aid of counasel is both cowardly and atrociously unfair. He has been singled out in the prenmble of the resolutionandopted by the lousa sud charged with the commiasfon of a crime affovding TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION, r.'r}!x’"" grounds for impeachment, and yet i not to Yarteol bo permitted to know who his aconsers are Bunday Edit Touble Shert.. Saturaay Baltlon, t W reKiy, une ye: Attuof & VOAF, Der monih. . o WERKLY EDITION, PONTIAID. reopy, GrnS ol vole. pectmen coples sent tree, Give I'ost-Ofee address in fall, Including Btate and County. iemitianeca may be made elther by draft, exoress, Tout-Qffice arder. orin regtatered letters, a1 our risk. TEKMS TO CITY AUBSCRIBERS. delfvered, Bunday excepted. 23 cents bee wweek. deltrered, Sunday tncluded. 20 conts rer week, B THE TRIBUNK COMPPANY, ‘otner Madisna and Dearboru-ste., Chicago, Tl Qrders for the deliveryof Tix TRINUXE At Evanston, Ergiewood, and liyde Park lcftin the counting-room Wisteecive iomet attenti and what their testimony is to ba; ho fs de- nied tho right of cross-sxamination and de- fense, and ia to be found guilty, i at all, by means of suborned perjurars and a packed jury. 'The sense of justico of the American pooplo and their love of fair play mill not tolerate an outrnge of this kind withouta very omphatis exprassion of disapproval. ] PARTISAN FOLLY 1IN PLATFORMS. Partisau political literaturo lins certainly not improvad of late yanrs. 'Thorowasn time when platforms were looked for with some interest and commanded attention and rospect s authoritative statementa of party doctrines and nims, The national platforms set forth the national {ssucs and pledges ; Blate platforms concerned themselves mainly with State matters, and local convontions rought favor with tha people through some Jocal concession or promise of reform. But most platforms of the present day have en- tirely lost their old.time fanction and with it their valuo, - Tho most snlient fontura of TRIBU IRANCH OFFICES, Tnr Cntcann TRIRTXK haa catablished branch offices for the recelpt of subrerintionsand sdvertisetments as "ORR-Toom 29 Triduna Rullding. ¥. T, Mo- M et nce—No, 18 Rue de Is Grange-Nateitere. M. Manirr, Agent. Ameriean Exchange, 448 Btrasd, e lotel AMUSEMENTS, the averago party platforn of to.day is the — kv_'_‘;h indictment of the opposing party, and in st L ) i t of ten this indict 4y te. | nino cases ou nEaH Fams Eaga, 5o Dearbera ol mont I8 made np of reckless slandors Slooley's Thontre. that loso oll forca by renson of Tandolph sireet, between Clark and LaB Park Theatre Company. ‘‘Hurricases.™ Tinvoriv's Thentro, Monror street, rorn Deatharn, Rtice's Extrava: ganza Combination, 2d the Corvair.” thelr untrutbful or oxaggorated character. It is rogardod 8a easiest sud safest to nrray tho opposing party for all the crimes in the colendnr, becouso this plon enablos oach porty to avoid fulure respousibility for pladges to which 1t might commit itself in statemont of principles and purposes. A striking oxamplo of tha new school in plat- formn literature tany bo found in the resolu. tiona adopted nt the Towa Domocratic State Convontion of Wednesday, of which tho fol- lowiug is the most conspicuons : 2, We bellove that the financlal systemof the Tepublican party has been une of favor to maney- d monapolies, of unequal tasatlon, of exemntiuns of cluas, and of remoraciees contraction that h destroycd_cvery eutarpeise wuich gave emolo t to labar, and, therefore, e genounce snree and its men oa respunsible fur the 1 al distresy, the misery, and the want which now afllict ihy nation, ‘Iia absurdity of such n promisonous and wholessle n slander ns this bocomes appar- ant whon we thiuk that any party that had Leon guflty of such enorinous crimes against the uatlon ought to bave beon crushed out yoara ago, nnd its leadars ought to have boen shot or sont to tho Penitoutiary. The Amorl- con people justly claim a high dogree of civilization, the most successful oxperienco in self-government, keon iutelligenco and a livaly sense of justice, It is not possible to conceive that any combination of men ina political party shonld have deliberately * de- stroyod every onterprise which gave employ- ment to labor” without incurring pinish- ment aod sonihilation from the wrath of such a people. ‘Uhot the party thus indicted still disputes the control of national logisla- tion and is Intrusted with the ndminiotration of national affairs, is pretty conclusive evi. dence tlat the Iowa platform-makers have simply strung togother a rorios of liesso pal- pablo and glaring that thoy will not deceive nor influence a singleintelligont wan 1n the conntry, Certaiulynot aven o temporary ad- voutago ean bo gaiued through slanders which recoive no cradit, but thoy must react to tho injury of those who utter them, TPerliaps it may help to correct this com- mon vice in party platforms it wo show how utterly groundless are tho charges mado in the single paragraph we lave quoted. Tho first charga is that *¢ tho flunncial system of the Ropublican party has boen one of favor to moneyed monopolies.” 'This is evidently futonded to apply to the National Danks, which aro the ounly moneyed instilutions which tho Govervmont could favor. Now a monopoly means the exclusivo enjoyment of o privilego by ono person or class of persous, and tho prohibition of this privilogo as toall othors, But the Towa Democratic platform lies in maying that tho Natiunal Banks ate monopolics. Tho luw oxprossly enubles New Chicago Theatre. y m?llrk street, oppusite the Sherinan House, Varlety 0. SOCIETY MLEETINGS. OMITKTAL LODOR No-m0. 4. F. & AL M.—Tial} 122 Lasglle st, * Sperlal unlcation (hin lrrhln{i ='rxnlll:r.llxj§ ifi"n‘r"il‘i’;{g’“m’&wm Viitors cordiaily avied: ! i 1 N TUCKEIL Socretary. FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1878, f—————— Latest roports concerning the condition of Witniak ConreN Bryast, who sustained & sovaro Injury by concusvion of the brain in Naw York on Wednosday, are not encourag- ing. 'Tbe venerable poet was in a most erit- jeal utato last ovening, and grave apprehen. wions wero folt lest the shuck and injury should prove fatal, The awful cyclone which devastated a por- tion of Wisconsin last week is to be investi- gated by Prof. W, W. Daniers, of the Cluir of Agriculture, Chanistry, aud Meteorology of the Univorsity of Wisconsin, e will moke a close inspection of tho gronnd tra- versed by the tornsdo, aud Prof. Cmamen. zA1N, the Btato Geologist, is also getting ma. tarials together for a scientific report. The Mexican plan is not popular among New Ingland Dewmocrals, a8 appears from tho adoption by an uuanimous vote in the 1ihode Island Benate of o resolution nffered by s Democratic Henator, declaring that the qnestion of tho title of Prosidont Haves haa bLeen frrevocably seltled by » competent au. thority, nnd deprecsiing any action by the Congressional Committee which coutem. plates n distorbance of the Presidential tonure, ‘The Presidont whila at Gettysburg yestor- day consented to talk sbout the revolu. tionary sthome now in process of oxecution Ly tho Porren Committeo. Bo is repre- sented a8 oxpressing with clenrness and vigor his cstimate of the dauger- ous charcter of the conspiracy, and in language not to bo misundarstood statod that any sttempt to disturb his pos- nossion of tho Presidentisl orfice, save by impeachment in the form and manuer pro- seribed by Inw, would agsuredly fail; in other words, that he did not recognize the possibility of disturbaneo or romoval in any other way. Decorntion. l;ugo.fiwu observed ny in a8 o general }.olh]ny, nearly all branches of any persons (o ostablish snd con- trade nud busiooss Lelog suspended. Naturo, [ gyet ws many Naotionol DBaaks, and in full sympathy with this beoutiful costom [ jgug as *much cirenlating currency, of grateful poople, supplled A day of such raro perfection as to brivg all the world out into the sunshine, Whilo the soldiors’ graves in tho cometerics were au usanl ornamented with floral offerings, tho fine military parade through the streets of tho city served ns a romfoder to andded thonsands of tho day that was being observed thronghout the land; and it also sorved ag & gratifying ox- bibition o the numerical strength and ad- mirable appesrance and training of onr local wilitary organizations. To the greater num. ber omoug ull who witnessed the purads of yesterday It was a complete revelation of tise extont nnd character of Chicago's equip. ment of citizen soldiery. In other parts of the Union tho day was observed, the c¢hiet intarest centoring in the cxercises at Gettys. burg, which ware attendoed by the Presideut, the Cabinet, und Benators and Representn. tives in lurge numbors, who sholl comply with cerfain provisions for the wsourity of ihe publlc. That the systom ia tho vory revorso of a monoply is ovident from the fact that the luw {8 known a3 the Free Banking law; it extonds tho priviloge of baoking to all men who dusire to fuvost tholr capital in that business, and the Towa Demoorats can start & huadredorn thousand new banks in thaeir State it they bavo tho means nnd desire to do so. Ihis univorsal privilege was voted by a Ropublican Congress, snd the law was signod Ly & Ropublican President. ‘I'he second chargo is that *‘the finaucial syatem of the Repnblican party lins buon oue of unaqual taxation,” AllFedernl tagation is somprohendod in the tariff snd tho interoal reranup raived from the (laxvs on whisky, tobagco, tatchos, ond banks, The tarif cannot e wald to be un- 4qual ms betwevu the Governwent aud tha poople, because ita operation is not confined to suy one class, aud does not azompt eny one claxs, It there are fuequal- iticw in the tariff wystem, wo may romind the Towa Dumoorats that no proposition in ever made o voforin them thst dves not rolso a bue and cry frowt ull the Dowocrats eaot of tho Allegliony dMountalus, nud these Domocrats hnve ulways succeeded in defont. {vg every cffort to sgrew upon a tarill for revenue only, Tho foxes on whisky and tobacco are neither uuequal nor cxcessive, As o matter of fact, the inequality and In. justice of Federal taxation fulls muinly nipon the very Nationsl Banks to which the Dew. ocrats are so jnimical, and through them upon the people who borrow noucy, 'The war taxes on banka are rotained alone among all the spacial taxcs levied on aczount of the War, ‘Flio money und deposits in the hands of tho banks ars taxed, but not the money the haunds of soy otber class of money. lenders, ‘This is unfoir dixcrimination ccr- taiuly, but tho moment tho Ropublicans sug- gost releasing the buuks from spocial war tax- ntion the Democraty ars upin arms to oppose it, in ignorant disregard of the fact that the burden falls upou the Dborrowiug clusves ‘who have to pay the banky a bigler rato of interest by reason of theso war taxea, #Exemptions of class™ and *vomorsoleas coutraction " avo alio charged upon tho Re- publican party, Wo do not know what the Towa plutform-writers wnvan by * exomptions of cluss," unless reference bo made to the exvmption of Uulted States bonds from taxa. tion, If that is it, the Jowa Dawocrats shwply charge tho Republicans with saviug couutless willions of dullars in extra iu- terest on the public debt which the Government would have boou obliged to pay iu order to sell bonds subject to tax- stion, This is an offcuse which will be ap- proved by intelligeut peoplo. As to *re- morselesy contraction,” it wey be meutioned that tho Bepullican wajority in Coungruus | brought to notive fu Cincinnati by the dis. covery thnt the rewalus of Joux Hcorr Hauvsoy, buriod ot thoe North Bend Com. otery on Wednesday, hud been stolen from tho family vault and taken to the dissscting roow of the Obio Aledical College, where the body wau found yesterday, It hod been removed from the vault within a few hours ufter the burinl services, and’ was dis. covered s o purely aceldentul wanner by a Bon of the deccased, who had joined a purty of neighbom and friends 1u the search for the body of n young man whose rifled frave wus firat noticed on tho ocoasion of tio funceal of Gien. Hanusox, The work of the resurrectionist in its ordinary phases {s n erimo most revoltiug und exmsperating, but the desceration oud snutilation of the ye. mains of theron of a Yresident of tho United Blates and oo hooored citizon of & great Stato hing ereeted a furory of popular indig- ueticn that will be likely to result in o more determiued effort than has hieretafors bieen wudy to trace ont the counection of intercst wud culpability betweon the grave-robbers aad the wedical colleges by whose patronage Lo hoarid trafile i kept up, Porrer aud bis co-couspirators are court. Ing tho contempt of all doewnt puaplo of tho Uuital fitutes by tho plan of investigation they have wmarked out, ‘The action of the Desocrstic msjority of tho fraud-huating Comuwitteo in deciding to conduct their in. quiry in sceret, und 1z refusing Secretary Bugsaax his request o Lo represented by a counscl, is a confession at ouce of cowardice and weaknosa, The it is an fusult to the peopls of the United States, who are thus denied the privilege of judging for thom- sclves the character of the witnesses to bo cxammed, the crodibility of their testiwony, and in goeueral of the werity of the wholo case. The refusal to ulow Bucretary Buxusay tho privilege of to decry his efforts Liold that the South hada vastly inforior military force; thut the able- bodied men of the Houth wero exbiausted before tho ond of the War, aud thut the vic. tory was due to this fuct rather than to any courage or morit on the part of the North, the Genaral to his futerviewer, * whers wero all those able-bodied mon of the Bouth during the War? 1l wa are to beliove history, not many of them wers to bo foundin battle. It alwaya strnck mothat Isawenough of thom in evory engagoment, and that I hiad but little ad- vantage in force,—none if you cousider tho fact thot the Southern men wore nenrly alwnys bohind works on tho defonsive." ‘This is not the first time Gon. Gnaxt bas expressed this opinion. tion horatoforo ho hns gonainto thesubject more in detail. Hlis calimates were ubout as White Rebel papalation Northern Iepublicen Capperhead populatio Totul population abou of tho Rtebol whitos, only provided for a limited contraction of greenbacke by providing at the sams time for an increase of National Bauk notes inn proportion of §100 of the latler to $80 of the formar. It was a Republican—ForT, of Illi. nofs—who drew the bill'for remonectizing silver, which oxpands the currency, and the bill forbidding further retirement of greeu- backs, and providing for their roissue after redemption, and it was a Ropublican Beuate {hat passed these two mensures. Thus the reckloss charges fall to the ground oue by one, lenving the exnggerated slander that the Republican party * has de- stroyed avery enterprice which gave omploy- ment {o labor ” to ba disproved by the actual condition of things fu the Btale of Town. The population of that State is chiefly em- ployed in agriculture, and the farmers, con- sidoring the relative prices of what they pro- duce and what they purchnse, were never better off than they are now. If there Is more than usual suffering among the Inbor. ivg clnsses In cities, it is in common with the same classos all over the world. It is folly to charge npon avy party in this country tho rosponsibility for a commencial distress that extends over two hemisphores and which in accounted for by natural causes operating in tho usual way; but whon a sot of men, maeroly for the purposo of injuring their po. litical opponents, further chinrgs nu ontire destruction of all enterprises employiug la- bor (which Las never occurred), they convict thomsolves of unrcasoning habits which must deprive them of confidonce and respect. ' THE FIRE IN THE REAB. Gon, GuanT haslately iu Paris accorded an interviow ton Zferald correspondont, in which he undertakes to show who was responsible for the campaign of the Wildorness, sumes the responsibility for it with outira freedom. Lirvcors and StaNTON, hossys, know nothing sbout his plans, committed lo his disoretion. was specially requestod to kecp his plans to himsolf, because, ns STANToN good-naturedly soid, *LivooLy isapt to confide in many poople.” Gnawt nssumed this respousibility with more readingss, wo prosums, becauso o Lolieved that the and justified the means. "Tho resulls woreo such thiat the rosponsibility for them ontwelghed inglory the responsibil. ity for the losses in the Wildorness. quite rightn thinkiog that there nre fow men in the country who wonld not be glad to be held guilty of all Lis various misde. He ns- Evorything was Btill more: ho e is mosnors in and about Richmond in 1804 and 1865, An interesting point is mado by the Gen. oral in Lis atatemont of the relative power of tho North and South, Persons who attempt 4T gomotimes ask,” romarked In private couvords. follows: 0,000,000 Southern uegrocs 000, 000 "Total Rehel forco. War Democrat population . . ‘Tolal U'alon force. The two items in this estimate (hat need explanation aro thosa rolating to the Bouthern nogroos and the Northern Copperhoad Dein- ocrats, Moth furnished Inmense ald to the South. Tho noyroes wero availablo for labor on tho plantations, aud sbops, and railroads ‘fhoy supportedarmics in tho fisld by thelr work on the farms nt home. For throwing up intrenchments and for menial rervices hoy wera better adapted than Itebel whito soldiers, because moro uc- customed to labor of that kind, Thoy never rose in insurrootion or created a firo in tho rear on tho Southern armles, as the Coppor- heads of the Nortlidid iz tho rearof tho Northern annios. ‘I'ho negroes were, as Gen, Guant says, ** o materlal reserve forco, o 1ot impartant reserve force, iu o fighting nation,” The Northern Copperheads were also a reserve forco—for the Houth, They disheartoned tho soldicra at the frout by voting ngafust the Administration and the prosecution of the War, carrying Btates like Indiana, Ponnsylvania, aud New York. They made disturbauces in New York City, Indiana, sud Ohio that required 40,000 to 50,000 Uulon soldiers to be sont back to protect the rcar, Tho Copperhead pop- ulation of 6,000,000 in the North pro- fonged tbe War by fully two yeat, and it was in {hoso two yoors that two.thirda of the lives wore Jost aud two.thirds of tho tronsure ¢xpended. ‘Fhey wero, it id true, bad allles, for they only mnde tho punish. mont of the South more savera and her ex- banstion more complofo in the end; but their value au part of the oppasition to the Unlon armies must not bs overlooked in an eatimate of the forcea on cither side, 'he Bouthern soldiers gonerally fought bo- hind intronchments, wulting there until thuy wore *fired out™ by the Union ar mies, Inn coutest of Lids description foure taen to mino i not unequal odds The Rteboly, excopt at the close, had uo rear to protect, no communications to keap open, and no base of supplies to provide for, while the Unlon armics were compolled o ocoupy every inch of territory they conquercd, tu gorrison posts, guard railroads and supplics, and detach largo forces to nssist in trans- portation, The Norlh also mmintalued, as Gon, GraNT has noticed, all its fudustricl pursuits, while the Bouth devoted all its on- orgies to tho prosecution of the War. 'The revult of (his policy would ordinarily have been fatal to tho Houth, in the lovg run, through the oxhaustion of hor resources; but theso were supplied, as we have good reason to kuow, by Euglish sywpatbizers. It was no lack of guns or ammuunition that defeated the South in the end. No Uanlon men at tho Narth—and par- tioularly uot those who fought in the War of tho Rebellion—will seek to dopreciate the courago of the Houthern soldiers; but it is simplo misstatoment of facts to malntaln that they were belter men than their North. oru opponents, 'Thiere wero at the oud more Northern soldiers thau the South could con- trol, but tho disparity in numbers was due thenmore to the previous successos of the South und the promiso of victory than to soy other cause. Tho Northern Copper- hoads who did most to provent tho successes of the Union arwmivs are the ouly persons who are now inclined to wake light of their may he said to bo ¢ ovon now at a discount in Now York, condition of our trade with Earope may be sald to Lave assumcd a permnanency of ox- ports over imports, not likoly to be disturb- ad for soveral yoars to come, of an sbundant barvest in ell parts of the couniry were nover move flattoring, and the probabilitics of a large increséo of oxports over thoso of last year may be nccopted ns a certainty, ports oqunl to §100,000,000 may be con- sidered 03 equal to that much gold in LEuropo subject to draft. During lust year, the gold value of our exports exceeded the gold valuo of our {mports by nearly 115,000,000, Juno to bo greater tham last year, and thore fulling off in tho yoar to cowmo, nn effoctual protoction ngalust any domand for gold for cxportation, chango ou Europo can bo purchased in Now York for less than the freight on coln, tho coin will not bo oxported. It may be ns- smaed, theu, thot tho coin in the country now, and tho ndditlons by lmportation, and the product of the ines passing through achiovements. The brave misguided mon at the South who fought against the Northern armios ave not now disposed to claim that they contained inferior fighting material; and Gen. Graxt finds omony them, a8 soveral Bouthern Bonatons recently took ocenalon to avow, soma of his most anlent admirers, WHY POSTPONE SPECIE PAYMENRTS! The point has been ronched whick lcaves no doubt of the ability of the Secretary of the Troasury to redeem all the greenbacks that are likely to Lo prosented for redemp- tion In coin. 1t is no longer open to any doubt whether ho wiil bo able to do this in Jannary next; on the contrary, it Is o ques- tion whethor he will not be amply propaved o resnme spacie payments ns early as the Fourth of July. It bo may legally do so, why should he not on that day announco that payments in coin or greoubncks, at the option ot the payer, hy the Government, will aftor that day be made atthe Treasury ? Can that poliey be maintained successfully ? The contract for the delivery of $50,000,000 in eschango for the 4} por ceuts is now come. plote, aud the temporery mdvance in the price of gold is doe to the withdrawal of gold from the bAnks to mnke paymonts on that contracl, ''he gold and other coin, however, if not in the Lnuks, is in the ‘[ronsury. The condition of the U'reastury at this time Thut the T'roasury has at this tinie n round sum of $100,000,000 in coin avnilable for redomption purposes; that tbo mint is colning an nverage of silver and gold equal to $7,000,000 a month; that the condition of trade {u such that this coin fs not exported, but romains n the conntry, and must be evontually available for rosumption; that onr excess of fmports fa sv groat and so continuons that exchange on Buropo is in fuvor of this country to such an extent that the importation of coin may ba expected to bagin at any day ; and this lmportation of coiu, togetlier with the regularcoiunge at the mints, will serve to rendor the virvulation of coln atparwith greonbacks a matter of course, oven if tho I'ronsury Department shall not ofticlally establish specle paymentas, The valus of gresnbacks dopends on the probable cortainty that they will be chango- able for coln-on demand. that if the "[rensury had $350,000,000 In coin o band, payablo on demand in oxchange for an equal sum of greenbacks, thut thoro would be any domond for that amonnt of 1t does not follow coin, The greonbacks will bo to o very large oxtent for many purposes preferred to the colu, All that is needed to mako thew equal to coin is the cerlafuty that they may be excunnged. It is safe to asammne that the utmost which the Treasury must noods pro- toct 18 $100,000,000 of groenbacka, to be ione with the coin if paid out in ax- ohiauge for groenbacks? It cannot be export- ed, because wae have such n balance duo this couutry in Europe on morchandise account What is that exchange on Europo can be bought Tho The prospecta A surplus of oxports over im- and for' the year onding B0, 1878, the oxcoss promises Is° uwo renson to anticipate any All thiy ta Bo long as ex- the mints ot the rate of noarly £100,000,000 por yoar, will romain in the country, and will find naturally o safe deposit in tho Troas- ury,—the T'ronsury certificatos doing servics ax eurrenoy for all large transactions, Who are to demiand coin for greenbacks? Will tho banks? The bank.noto circulation is nearly oqual to that of the greeubacks. It tho Lanks send In greonbacks for coln, thou thoy must be In a condition to redeem their own notes in groonbacks or coln, Any attompt by tho banks to make a run on the Trensury may be promptly ohecked by tho assortment of hauk notes, and a domand Ly the ‘Uroasyry for thelr redemption, The bauks will Lo os doeply interested as tho Tronsury Dopartmont in koeeping the green backs from being prosonted for redemption, Lven If thero bo a run upon the ‘Ureasury for coln, the Becrotary will havo a large supply of sllvor dollars to mucet that dowaud, amd can exhaust that supply be. fora touching his roserve of gold coiu, It this twonty to thirty millionsof wilver bo forced back ou tho Trens. ury in paymout of dutlos, it will bo jnstant- 1y svailuble, and erch wouth o a largor sum, to meot the demand for the redemption of tho grecubacks,” Bo long as the 'fresury Departmont cau give sssuranco that it can vedoon the gruenbucks o the amount say of $100,000,000, aud the flow of coin to the country is continnous, andtho export met by n lurgo surplus of exported productions, thy demaud for redemption will not only be «uite dimited, but will bo short-lived, Why presont grooubucks for coin whon the green. backs thomsclves will bo recoived at the ‘Treasury for customs, and for sll other pur. posca for which the coln cau be employed? fuo anuual product of the wines of tho country will findcoiuago at tho mints, and thus daily, weekly, wonthly, and aunually tho supply of coiu in the country will ba ju. cronsfug, . whilo ot the same thwme our exposts of provisious, breadstulls, petroleut, cotton, and tobaceo, and, it {s to be hoped, of our mavufuctures, will coutivuoe to swell the bulance to our crediv in foreigu lands, after puying for our purchoses. Nuver was thero & more favorable cowmbination of cir. cumstances than is now presonted foran fin. mediate resumption of specie paymunts by the Government. We bave tho coln; tho maxiwuw sum of the grocubacks has now been substantially determined, and their de. preciation is an impossibility so long s the coluage of silver dollary coutluues, aud, with a coustaut iuflow of the precious motals, aud a rogular export of morchandise in excess of our payments abroad, therd cau be no reason for longor deferring the day of declariug the greonback cqual to coiu, and no day could be mozo appropriste than the national Loli. day,—tho Fourth of July. ‘Tho presont Congress might do much to facilitate tho perinaneut restoration of tho greonbacks to coln value if it would pass the Bounte bill now pondiug in the House authorizing tho Becretary of the Troasury to exchange 4 por ceat bonds at par for grean- backs, snd to issue auch bonds in denomina. tions of $20, nnd muitiples of thnt sum. While greonbscks oan bo exchanged at par for such bonds, there will never bo any dan- ger of tholr depreciation to an extent to em- barrass the Govornment 1a thelr redemption, and {n the meantimo the reduction of the rato of intorest on the public debt will be progrossing, THE PHONUGORAPH AND IT8 FUTURR. The phonograph which ju nowon oxhibitlon in noarly all the Inrge citicu of this conntry, oud will make its debut in San Francisco, this weck, has thus far attracted less atten- tion in Uhicogo than in any otlier piace. Chicago pouple ave sometinmes slow to move ; when they do move they go en massc. Thus far it haa drawn upon scholarz, stu. dents, and scientists, 7Tothem it ia & matter for iuvestigation, 1If for no other resson, it should appeal to the general publio as a ouri- osity or & seusabion, i The phonograph is a queer animal. Your volce comes back to you vory much sa it it were visible nud yon wers looking at it through the large louses of o lorgnette, As a musician, It will not posa striot eritical muster, In roproducing the scale it sharps oach note ascundiug, and by the time it hes reachud tho last note of the octave, whers of course the vilrations are much more rapid, it bhna violatsd nall the musical csunous, In dosconding, ita tendenoy is to flat, buat also, by soms ocurious law of compeusation, by the time it gats bnek to tho first note it {s all vight again, A duet, 8ay of tenor and bacitone, returns a curious jumble of shrill soprano and alto; what it would accomplish with a quartelte we can- not imagine, but it is vory ovident that, us it now stands, it would be an unsafe basis for the construction of counterpoiut. 'L'he pho- nograph prefers a perfectly clour, pure tone, like n whistle or tha svund of a cornet, which it will reproduce with adwmirable fidelity. Probably n vivliu tone, if it could bo foreed into tho fuunel g0 as to strike the diaphragm, would be absolutely reproduced both in quaatity and quality of toe, Its roproduc- tiou of o pure tons is best shown in the case of a whistle, Buppose that the ordinury tones of speech, singing, Iaughing, and coughing lsve been fudeutod upon the foll, thon whistlo over the same surface and re- vorse the phonograph. 'Lle spesch, sing- ing, laughing, aud coughing will be reproduced in n confused din, while the whistle will Lo heard through it all, perfuctly clear and distinct. ‘I'he pho- nograph Lias some odd preferences, 1t likes what is bizarre aud out of the common, It will giva back imitations of aniwals, such ss theonckling of hens, crowing of rovstors, low- ing of cows, barking of doga, nnd mowing of cats, mora faithfully than it will the ordiuary uttorances that mako hawman speech, 1t has not yet succoeded inreproducing the qualitics porfoctly that distinguish oue volce from another, oxeept that it indicatos very clearly the distinctions of the imle and fsmale volce; bLut it must be remembored that tho phonograph is yot an fufant, and that the fustruments uow on exbibition are thoso which Mr. Enwox's fertile ganins first sug. gested, nud only illustrate tho prinoiple of vibration. His improvemnts are already so for sadvanced that its power {1 greatly iucremsed, sud thoro can bo no doubt that he will not only grently intensify tho tone, but will reproduce ita diffcrent qualities, while the upplication of clock-work to tha rovolutious of the cyl- linders will secure n uniformity of specd that canuat ba obtalned by thehand, awd will thus pitch the sounds upon tho nataral koy and rotain that pitch, When that is done, music may be reproducod as correctly by the phozograph as tho face is Ly the photo- graph, Yo make the phonograph of practical valuo it Is evidontly nocessary that some instru. ment shall be devised which can be used with it, to magnily sounds, Mr. Ebison, in his latest invtrument, has sucoseded In @rontly increasing the power, but, according to the current foreign scientiflo journals, Prof. D, B, Huanes, of Loudon, las sue. cooded in intonsifying tono so that sounds which aro inaudible to the naked ear bo- coms as palpable a5 objects appenr to tho naked oye whon placed under the micro- scopo, which svo otherwise invisible, The multiplylng spparatus is described as fol- lows: ‘Tvo pleces of charcosl, heated to a white heat, aro plunged Into mercury; they are thon placed fn # gliad tub und pressed end fo‘end, makiog o pars of sn eleetric chreuit; 3f u tolephone bs inisoduced in the clrcait, and & svund {8 went through the two viocen of charcoal, 1 cuinos wut ot the und of the clrcult greatly Jucreasod In voluwe. Ilvot, light, sonnd, and eleetrl ro supposcd by muny physis clta Lo by interconvertinle. The prababllities nro 1hat :!vu bave here & couversion of electricity luto sound. It is stated thnt by the use of this clec. trical process the lightest touches of a feather's cdge of a camel’s-halr brush on the wonunding-board of the teleplione produce #'a crackling unolse of which the lutensity was almost painful to the ear,” while tho footstops of o Louse fly wulking soross the sounding-board become distinotly audiblel ‘With tha sppheation of this discovery to the phionograph, no one can forceast the pousl- bilitics of Mr, Epison's tavention. ‘The priuciplo of the phonograph Is so simple that it Is remarkable no one had ever lut upon it befure, With the application of Huoues' sound-multiplier, the prospect broadens &0 that alinost any ouwe cau concelve some now thing tho . phuno. graph may sccomplivh, U makes the possibilitles whioh Mr, Ebisox onun- clated iu his article fa the North American Reviewo seem modest as compared with the reulitics, Thore is no reason why the pho. nograph should not siug, read, talk, and preach for us, do our Jutterawriting, aud ultimately rovolutionize telegraply so that a morchant fu Chicago may talk to o merchaut in London as clenrly and froely ns hLo talks to # olerk In his oflee. 'Tho possi. bilities of the phonograph, when comblned with the mlcrophone and telephoune, are vastly greater than wero those of Warts' ten. kettlo or Monse’s crude Instrument with which he frat sont words from Baltinore to Washiuglon, for Mr, Epmox will not work alone Iu perfecting ft. A thousand busy bralns will investigate and belp bim joprove upon and prac- tically apply the principlo ho bas worked out, The little phonograph which is' now working in Chicago may yet becomes an in- estimable blessing to the human race, and in future yars be looked back upon as one of the stepping-stones intho world's prog- reis, just a3 wy now look back upou tho discovery of priuting, gunpowder, the com- pasa, steam, aud belograpby. We adviso overy reader of TuE Tmisenz to sce tho fo- strumont uow ju operation iu the Methodist Church Block, uot only ss & curlosity, but as the gurm of future possibilities no wan can Yot messure. To-niorrow one of the most important of mod- ern art-salce 13 to take place at CUKISTIR'S fa- wous Art-Rooms fu Loudow, su eveut, ludeed, Which puascadvs lutcress Sur wvery ast-lover fu the world. Two undoubted Rariiarsaro then to bo sold, **The Virgin with the Candeiabra® and ¥ Cho Virgin with the Legend,” or, as it is mometimes called, »The Virzin of Novar! Both pletures betong to a dead collector of fame, Huan Moxno. The “Usndelabra® he hought in 1841, from the Duke of Lucoa, who ot it of the Queen of ETnuriA, who got It of Ltcizx BONATARTE, who obtsined it from the Borghese Palace, where It was probably placed Ly Pope Pave V. The bullding of the Palace was begun 1a 1300, sevenly years ,alter Rapmage's desth, and ft fs supposed that this plctura was (o the possession of the Church fu the Interim, surviving, fortunately, the sack of the Kternal City by the Constable de Bounnon. The picture takes Its namno from o many-branched candlestick oo either side of the central tigure, and was painted by the great niaster ju 1316, just befors he created the * Sistine Madonna ! and ** Teanafig- uratfon," fo tho swne ycar as his * Madonna of the Chalr® anc “Saint Cecilia.” The othor pietura belooged to ilear VIIL, then to Citanees I, nfter whose exceutfon it and the other Royal pictures and statues were ordered to bo sold, save such as contained the figuro of e Virgin: such ware to be destroyed at once. CrouweLL's fnterforenco stuoped the sale and saved the plcture. The Lnglish Government is Mkely to purchass st least one of these Raritanss for the Natlonal Gallery, It goes without saylog, st a high price. e —— Tha case of Enst Feliclana Parish, In Loulelana, 18 ane of thoso which the Porrzn Commiltiee, it 1s #aid, will most carefully Inveatigate, and it was of that parieh that Jaxes E. Axornsos, who pi teuds to have received a letler from Secretary SuruMAN, was Supervisor of Ileglstration, —New York Meratd. ‘Iho use the Creasers proposs to make of Jaxes . AnpEnsow, formerly Supervisor of Elections, Is to attempt to prove that the Ro- publican leaders of Loulstans purposcly ar- ranged beforeband that the colored voters of East Feliclana should abstain from votlog the Republican ticket; that no tickets were sent to the parlsh nor auy orgunization elfected; and that the deliberato daslgu wus tuus to mako a prima facle casc of gross and wliolessle {utimidation {o order to throw out’ thls ss wall as scveral other Republican parfshes. It 1s really extraordinury that such palpable nonsense should be offered to the pub- Hie to account for the total abscaro of Republic- an votes fu that parish, Buar ip mind that Enst Follclana was n strong Ropublican parish. ‘I'hers wers rezlstered lu 1870 as legal voters 1,00f whites and 2,127 colured. Iu 1872 the vots of the parish was as follows: Qrant (Rep.) oo vseiiss o Ureeley (Uem. and Ind.). Republican majority... In 1874 the vote was: Republican, Demnucratic. Tepublican majorlt wines The reglstered voto of 1870 showed a Re- publican mujorlty of 1,128 votes In the parlsls, aud that ts what lares would unudoubs- adly have recelved had the election been (ree and falr. But tho actual voto cast was: Tilden (Dom. ) ... Hayes {lop.) Tilden's majority.. . 11 the plan of the Republicans was to abstaln from voting on thoallegation of ** intimldation " {u order to give ths Returuing Board an excuse for turowling vut the vote ot the parlsh, why in the name of common scuse aid they sclect parlsh whore they would sacrifice 1,100 mujority by #0 dolug? Idlots would not do such n thing, By tolling thelr men to atteud the clection aud yute, they were perfoctly certaln of pollinyg mure thun 1,100 majority for Hayms. Would not thut be manifestly better policy than to thruw out the vote ot the parishif Notwithstuuding the actlon of the Returnlog Board lu throwlog Lt out, tho Republicans lost 1,100 mnjority In East Fellclava to which‘they were entitled by reason of thelr undoubted strength, They demous strated at the Prestdential of 1872 that they had more than 1,000 majorlty in the parish, and they proved the same thing at the desperately- coutested Btate election two years later fu 1874, With a perfectly reliable wnjorlty of at least 1,100; why should the Republican ieaders doatre to render nugatory the electlon fo that stroug- liold of Hepublicanlsm{ None but knavish fools will aticie thut the Republfcans could subserve auy partlsan purpuse by willfully sacrlticing thelr 1,100 majority ju Eust Fellcluna, A we have stated, the registered Democrutic vote of tha parish la 1870 wus 1,004, nod no Republicaus voted. How did it happen that TiLnEx recelved 1,506 votes! Adwmit thut tho total Democratic vote was polled. Yet the number rcturned for TiLpEN was T3 more than the whole number of Democrats {n the parish, and vo Republicans voted! The truth is, the TiLoeN bulldozers stulfed 73 bogus votea {uto the bullot-boxus of that purish and counted them for TiLory. Tho shot-xun compauies went around the parsh be- forethe clectlon and notified the Republican leaders to keep thelr men away at thelr per- sonal peril, Negro-killing was golug on pretty freely at the time, and the pour timid blacks were 80 scared for thelr lves that, under thy advice of their preachors and leaders, they abe senged theamsclves from tho polls, aud the bull- dozers took udvantaio of thelr sbseace to stufl the ballot-boxes. - Thls is how It lappened that tho strung Republivan parish of Eust Fellchuna Ravo HAYES no votes and TiLDEN T3 more thap the totsl Democratls sirength, and the ey who committed these rascalities are now howling Fraud! frauat ———————— ‘Tho Iuwa Democratic platform charges the Republican party with having *‘enforced u ro- worscless contraction that has destroyed every enterprise Which gave cmployment 1o labor, und, therefore, wo dunounce it, its measures, ond its men.” Tnis style of wrillog 13 the kind that falls under the bead of *looss expectoru- tlon of h!? Lot us compurc the currency in actual virculation at the closo of the War und 8t tho present time, according 1o tho offctul fgures, suy August, 1565, und May, 1878 1% 1803, otes of 1841, Poalal currenc; 41,807 . T .$. 472,601 432, UST, o 1,113, 108 Feactlonal curs 13,000, 420 National Bauk note; . h, 000, 000 Btate dank notes. wers 82,000,000 111005708, 160,307 8 Total servees avers u Dewsnd notos of 1801, tircenbacks,. . 02,342 40, 081, hkl Nativnal B4ok pol Silver colus of all ki Totaliies corennenereers, It 1 ditculs to percelve the *remnorscless contraction” that hos taken place, and (L Is hard to belleve, even upon the sasertivn of the lowa “Greasers,” that su actusl expansion of 27 millions of currency sfuce 1845 cun bosucha contriction as to have ¢ destroyed cvery enter prise which gives employmeut folabor.” If the Ropubllcans of Jowa were not & peaccable, pa- tient, forgiviog, Christian veople, they wuuld probubly be provoked into rotten-egeing the authors of those lying sad walicious charges. s eip—— ‘Tho Sun hus dlscovered that Mesars, THUR- MAw, Bavagp, lizxpricks, McDonatp, Haw. cock. McCLELLAN, ad some thousandy of uther prominent Democrats, are dolug all they cin *to preveut suy investigation juto the fraude fu Florida aud Loutsians,” thelr motive being * jealausy of Mr, TiLDEN, and fear that he may become tho caudidate of the Democrstic party 101850." The Sus las dlscovered what cvery ather mewspaper {u America kuew some time sgo; tndeed, uis cousciousness of the fact is the only thiug which has louz ensbled Mr. Haves toslcep soundly at uights. Not that the Dewmo- crats love HAYRY more, but TILDEX less. A woman {u Maiuo the other day got her srm dislocated o & Bght with bher husbaud, avd, not kuowiug lu her puin what she was duiug, reeled 27083 Lho roomw, feil down stairs, and landed on tho bouse-dog, who, fuwping up, pitched her into another room agaiust tho stove, sctting ber ®rm 60 thut it was us good as mew. It will, however, occur to the Lupartial cbsrver that it would biave been wmuch simpler fur bher Bob to have had ber arm dislocatod at ail fn the fiyg .place. Tt will also aoora to him that this cage stroogly reacmbles the action of the Democracy a8 detined upon his bonor by Mr. Porrar, dis. Jocatini the country and hurllog it down stairs, and upon dogs, and across rooms, and avee atoves, with the net result of leaving everything as it was at fArat, phis TRECI *'1 mat threglwhent apeculators,* writes ¢ Perking, " from Lincoln, Neb., ** who, atter tray ing all over tha Northwest, extimated the grow, crop of whest in the different States a¢ followa: ¢ Btates for bread and sced Is about six bushely ver juliabitant, Tho population that wiil eat this year's wheat {s ot least 43,000,000, The domestlc consumption will therefore ba 250, 000,000. This would leave a surplus of only 41,000,000 of bLushels for exportation. It s doubttul If soma of the Btates named will produca the crop estimated, but we think Itlinots will zo five to tenmtitions higher, And Callfornia and Oregon will add perhaps 25 or 80 mitlions to the exportable surplus. e e— 1t has generslly been nssumed that President 1aves, 1o puranng hisanomalous couree. has been well-meaning and honest, 'This ia probably n fajr assumption in the sbaence of any prool lo the contrary, But who would Jike 10 malutaia g now, 1t tho face of Iater and faller developments? —Utlea Republican. This page trom Mr. Conkrixa's pocket-pistol w0 strongly conflring what Mr, CoNKrLING sald Inthe Worid tuterview shout siaking the Ag- ministration in [nfamy, that wao shall expect Mr. CoNkLiNg, whenuver the Pottering Com- mittee gets to worl, Lo sit up all night, 8o asto be on hand bright and carly on the mornlng of the Brst day with a budget full of d——ulng facts. ——— Mr. CoNRLING I8 hot concillated enough, and rizan, the Utlea Republican, growls that * the esolutions of the Republicans of Vermont ln rezard to the President’s Southern polley ore the thinuest kind of milk-and-water.” Perbaps the President had better throw o tub of Cus- tom-Iouse appolutments to the CoNiving whale. And yet it would seem as If there were noy 8tate where the Republicans, betng diseat- istied with the Prestdent’s policy, could afford to denounce it, Vermout, where the porty’s majority Is biggee than the Demovratie vote, would be about thu State. skl yricthes -1 AESENEPCR In a murder trial in New Jersey the Court has ruled out, as fncompetent, cvldence to ahow that o medical witnesa wus 8 quack beeause ha advertised. 'L'iore s, therefore, at least oue precedent In fuyor of the daerlug Intovators whont orthodox M. D.'s everywliere deciare o be gullty of unprofessional conduct wheuever they let thelr sober wishies for pudlelty steay beyond a cool, sequestered doer-plate. S e pp— €2 Tho Memorlal Diplomtique, of Paris, fn an cditorial on the Porcse resolutlon, decdares that that measurc esn have vo vther effect than to revive, usclessty, tho political passions which arg properly viewed with alarin by all imnoderute men, 1t colucides 1u the ovlnfou cxpressed by Augxaxpen £l Srarnnys, that the right of Mr, lares to the Prestdency Is morc solidly estublishied Lhu that of nny uther President, e e — Not only in Washlugton, whero vital statlatics aru roported. thers hus boen 8 great increase In the death-rate of the cojvred people slace they wars thrown upon thelr own ree sources, — Waekington Post, Yes, aud in the rural distrlets -of the South, too, Lead polsunivy, throurh overdndulrencs 1 shot-guns, and hickory-troe dibhtherks siept them uway by bundreds every fall. et ———— + but In all the cltics ‘The Davenport (fa,) Guzelte says: There {8 not & oor man vatuly xecking emplo; here 13 ot & mannfucinrer o Ts busingas; thete 1s not i me revival of trade; there le nol or cowmercial interest [ the countey but must sufler, uud sbat ssvorely, fram tbe pallifeal revoluns tion_now inaugurated by the Demucratic Tliure aud ecrotly fostared by its Communlatie silles In the lurga citlud sud townd, ‘The Democratic party has done what 1L was feared the Republican party could not do of {tsclt,—brought ull the facttons uf the Repub. Heap party duto line and under vve leaderahlp, y. o fune fos Brastws Prstonrious, ex-priest and murderer, Is todie, It Is suoic satisfuction to reflect that his pame will die with him. ——— PERSONALS. Bishop Burgess, the newly-clected Bishop of the Diocose of Quiucy, 1., ls 8 sintely gentlos man, In hight an Inch over slx , and of com- munding presence, Ile ls now 50 yeurs old, Mr. lorocs White will make the angual address Lo the cudets of the Pennsylvania Military Academy at Uheater, &t the ¢lusy of the scasion in Juue, Subject: **Respousible Uovernment, " Bdward Cablill, of Now York, lLas been acnt to the State 'rlsvn for three and & balf yoars for aneestog in church, Hv commitiod the ofunio in th orgun, where ho hgd 'bidden bimsulf after robuing the poor-bog. Chlef-Justice Wulte has buon holding court #4 New York. Mo {s the only Justice of his rank who has uver sat 1n courl fu that city, ana he was asslgued to the meanost, smaliest, aud worst-vens tilated room tn the Fudural Courts, Jiw Benuett is trying to induca Mr. Mn- pleson Lo take tne Nuw York Acadetny of Musie, but it {s not likely tbat suy ona will venturo on such an experiwout whily theew aro 200 unproducts rehividers’ austs lu the bast part of the Soringe of Arkanras, whero he appears to bo ex- tiemely popular among the Invalide thero assom- bled. 1o avoide all public demonstration, but is wmentioned as being casy und amiable fa Lis tread mient of everybody, At Pattorscn, N. J,, tho other day, Mr. Weard got slightly hurtina miil and wus laken homo Ina carziage. llis daoghter, Mrs, Green, seeing hln brougit homu thas, falnted and fell down stalrs with a keitle of bulliug wilk in Ler band, scalding berself badly. Helon Westorn's mother Las sued William L. Habelton for $4,000 for necessaries furnlubed to hee dead yaugbier's culld, alleging that he was warried to the actress Ofteon years ago. NHabeltun denles Ihat he was ever marrlod to bar, or fhat he fived with bos, declatiog that bor husband was quite suollies person, AMr. Stanley Waters, of Chiesgo, hai been dollveriog & coarse of loclures ou Porcelsin and Potiery lo Indiauspulis with dlstlugulshod wuce cess, Hoberta Vark Church hss weversl limes been flled wilh largo sud appreciative sudivuces 1o hesr him, Mr, Wators has svld o largs part of b collectlon to resldents of Jndianapolis. *4§ shall not lve Lo see the finit train ruu on the Weat-8lde track, " sald John Psiten, of the Pacific Hots), Qreeuwich atreot, New York. 10v was yue of {be must vigorous and pers b ope punents of Raptd Tranalt, and fought the Klevated: Nalroud schemu 33 Jong as he could, then gEvoub, despating. Bix boure ftyr bls doatl the Oist car Ppasesd oyer the fuit complesed track, Charles Brown, o bandsowu oud prepos- sceslug youny man of 10, wbo bad been looking valuly fur work in Chicago, Bt. Louis. Clucinuatl, Coluwbus, Cleveland, snd New Yurk, has stlsdt committed burglary in the last-moentloncd city so a6 to ket foud and lodging. Wheu ssked why Lo bad oot applied for admlssion to the ssyluw, bo sald tbat be bud 00 desire (o assoclatu with puur pors, Late Netberland journals mention, s a rc- markable fact, tbat tha degrse of Doctor of Medi- cine as been coulerted upon Lo Alelta Jacolds snd that §¢ e the Oret fostance ju which a wowan has Loen 80 honored Ja 1ho Mitle Kiogdom. Tey sdd that her duteation 1 10 practice fn Awsterdaul, und scom to 1nthnato that Uolland should recelva speclal credit for this advancea movewent iu beball of womsn. Thé lauds of thu Old World are still disputing whotber woman sball be allowed Lo co thie of that, and the Urcat Republic 19 nut withoud copluss ugitatlon on the suwme subject.