Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 26, 1878, Page 4

15, revoku tho TIIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, JUN 26, 1878, The Tribmwe, TERMS OF SUNSCRIPTION. him to withhold his vote ax n Haves Elector. blanket on the Democratic case. TT MATL: 'POSTAGE PRETAID. S ik < Fn::{ll:;lll:l;- X X Probably no Btate in the Union presents n Fanin r Jidition :M more interosting mspect at the present mo- £a #y Edition, Tri-Weekly, vne year. Tartrof Riear, per month,. pa WREKLY BDITIO! e capy. pe PRI eclmen coptes senf tree. Give Post-fiee nddress In fall, fncluding State and County, Tienifitances may he made efther by draft, exnress, To-0Blce order, orin reglatered letters, al our Fivk. TERMS TO CITY SURSCRIBERS. Telly, delivered, Eunday excepted, 93 cents 1 sliy, dellvered, bunday included, 3 centa Aderers THE TRIBUNK COMPANY, ment from the political standpoint than the neighboring State of Wisconsin, and we print this morning a concise and intelligent reviow of the situntion from our well-known Milwaukee corrospondent. The nvowed hostility of Seantor Hows to tho President’s policy seems to be shared to n limited extent by every Wisconsin Repnblican Congress. man, inclnding Scnator Oastrrow, and this feeling, according to our correspondent, is sympathized with by the rank and file of the party, And yet there is astrong party in the Btato, led by Gov, Suurn and Honiox Rupree, Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, who are warm adliorents of Mr. Haves, and will lend him a cordinl sud onergotio support. Under these eircnm. stances, the election of a United States Son- ntor next wintor in placo of Sonator Howe is invested with uncommon interest, and this intorest is considerably augmented by the number and prominence of the Senatorial candidates already in training for the race. THE 80-CALLED SHERMAN LETTER, As Mrs. Cnpt. Jexgs' testimony befors the Torren-Burer Committeo relates almost on. tirely to the so-called Suenyman lotter, and as that apocryphal document was the very basis of the present investigation, we roproduce it for alittle further consideration : Nrwv Onurasa, Nov. 20, 1870.—Nessre, D, A, Weber and James F. Auderson—GORNTLENEX? Your noto of even dato has just been recelved, ‘Neither Mlr, 1iavEs, mysell, ‘tho gentlemen who accompany me, or tho conntry at large can ever forget the obligations nnder which you will have placed us should you atand firm in “the position ¥ou have laken, From & long and intlmato ne- fualintance with Gov. 1layrs, Lam justifed in ruming the responsibility for promisea mad will guarantee that you will be provided for arter thie 41k of March as may bo practicable, an in puch manner a8 will enavle you both to leave Loulslnna, should you deewn 1t necessary. Very Aruly yours, Jony BUERNAN, Sinco Mrs. Jexks has given her testimony, it has becomo very cortain that Socretary SnERMAN never wrote this lotter, and a good many people wonder that he did not give a more oxplicit denial of tha authorship at the time ho appeared beforo the Committeo. Secrotary Burnuay himsolf explains this fully and satisfaotorily. Ho says that his donial was as emphatio as any honest man, anxious to tell nothing but the truth, conld have given under the circumstances, When he appeared beforo the Committes, he was iguorant of what Axnersox had testified ; he was confronted with the fact that the Domo- crats claimed to havo tho original lotter, or at loast photographic copies thereot, which would smonnt to the samo thing; he found in the lotter soma things he would naturally have said; he hnd the strongest conviction that he nevor wrote any such lotter, and so oxpressed Limself, but would not go further under onth at that time. It was a careful and proper position to take, and one that will be understood by men of affairs. But supposo it had turned ont that Mr, SnenyaN hnd written the very lotter which the Democrats have been 60 anxious to prove upon him? Does n careful reading of the document, nddressed to two men who, ay Buemaayn thought, wero anxious to do their duty but feared for their lives if they did it, indieato any corrupt molive on the part of the writer, any connivance at fraud, or nuy attompt at bribory? Ton't it a lotter that Burnyay might properly have writton under tho circumstances? . There are just two points in the letter, In the flrst place, it urges these two men ‘‘to stand flrm in the position they bad taken.” That is, they had wworn to a conditionof things in Esst and Weat Feliciana which Suenyan believed to bo true, and which he now says ho can prove to be true. Was it strange or wrong that ho should urge them to adhere to the truth in spite of threats or bribas? In the next place, hie expressed tho opiuion that the Presient woulil provido for them *in such Cotner Madiron ard Deathorn-sts,. Chicago. It Ordees fop the deltvars of Tits TRISUNEAL Evanston, Fngicweod, and Hyde Park left ln the countinx-room Wanrecelve rrombt TRIBUNE BRANCI OFFICES. Ty Cittcano TRINCXNE has eatablished hranch ofices fertherecelptof subscrintionsand advertisements as ONK-~Room 20 Tribune Bullding. F. T. Mo~ Manager, France—No. 10 Ituo de ia Grange-Dateliere, H. Mans.xr, Agent, LU 1 1O , Eug.—American Exchange, 449 trand, TAMUSEMENTS, MeVicker's Thentres adison strect, beiween ilearborn and Btate, **Uncle Tom's Cabin." Afiernoon and evening. Hooley?s Then! Mandoirh streef, between Clar) Tnton Bqusre Theatrs Company. Case,” Afternoou and ovening. and_lasalle. **The Celebrated 1inveriy’s Thentre. Monme sirect, corner of Dearborn. Adah Riich- mond's Gpera TloufTe Company. ** Chow Chow.” Af- tersoon sud evening. = Hershoy Music Hall. Madison strect, opposite MoVicker's Theatio. The Aldgets. SOCIETY MEETINGS. iY LODOE. NO. 271, Au tion “fhta (Wednesdny)' cvening. mt 8 Jall"3e Monroest: Visiting brethcen cor- ited, GEOIGE GARDNKIL, W. M, F. & A. M. ~Stated ‘WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1878, Greenbncks nt the New York Stock Ex- change yostorday closed at 99, Crop roports collected in Bt. Paul, from numerons localities in Miunesota and Wis- courin, represent that the outlook for wheat in Minnesots is oven Dbetter than it wns lust year, both ns to acreage snd yield. 1t is now discovered that Tiupey is at the Dottom of the Hewrrr-WatTenson uuplens- nntncss, and that the charges of dishonor against Hewrrr ore inspired by the venera. ble . sorehiead of Gramercy Park, who has ndopted thig vicarious method of aveng- ing himsclf for what ho hns been led to beliovo was a botrayal of his interests upon Hewrrr's purt in connection with the Elect. ornl dispute. Hewnt advanced $100,000 toward tho campnign expenses, atd TiLDEN i3 now repnying it in installments, as per ‘WATTERSON'S open lettor ** of ovon date,” Gov. Mrupnioks nover mado a shrewder jump from off the foneo ho is so fond of titraddling than when he made up his mind that the time hnd arrived to sit squarely down on tho investigation instituted by Tr- DEN, as an aid to his nspirations in 1880, He is roprosented ns having expressed to an jn. terviewer “great disnppointment” at the achisvements of tho Porrzn Committec,—an expression which does not necessarily imply that Gov. Hexpnicks ever had auy expocta. tion that the fraud-hunt would result ndvan- tageously to the Domocratic party. He now considers it a dismal failure, and has no hes. itation 1n eaying it ought never to have been undertaken. Cnusldcmi}lu’c.);ngrin Wiy tul{nmung tho House Democrats ot the development of n primn fecio caso of corruption in tho en- grossment of tho Bundry Civil bill, in which | monuor ns will cwable you both to the law providivg for tho continnance of the | leave Louisinun, should you deom it lubors of the Iot Hpriugs Commission was | necessary;” that s, if this pro. omitted from the bill. Itisof jmportancothat | test placed thoir lives jn danger or the work of the Commission should not fall throggh on nacconut of this evident con- spirncy among the ougrossing clerks of the Houso to defeat the law, and tho members of the Confereuce Commitico of both |Houses fnd both parties hava united in a request that the President direct the Commission to taka the necesssry mensures to protect all partics in their righits und proserve the pres. sut status, the request being uccompanied by 3 pledgoe that the omitted law will bo re-en- acted at tho winter sesnion of Congress, and nn order to this effect has buou fssued by the Bueretary of thy Interfor. brought down upon them the wrath of the bulldozers to an extont which should prevent them from earning n liviog for themsolves and thelr families in ‘Loufsinna, then he would guaranteo that theyshouold be provided for elsewhiere, Wo should say that it would bo crucl to refuse themn Governmont support under such circumstances, and Mr, SrERMAN would have judged Mr. Iaves harshly if he hind noé dared to promise this nuch in case they shoulill endanger their livos for trutl's suks, Ono of the Lwo meu was subscquently murdered by tho bulldozers before he could Le provided for elsowhoro ; the other of the two (Axprnson) forfeited his claim for pro. vision by becoming an adventurer, bluck. mailer, nud forger, or revealing his charactor if Lie had alwnys been wuch a man, Whather Mrs, JeNks, Wenen, ANDERSON, or anybody else wrote this lelter, it would fuil fn its purposoe of convicting Becretary Burzuaax of dishonorablo action, even it his alleged authorsbip theraof hind not been dis- proved. Now it is time, as Hoeretary Snxn. MAN savs, either for this Cowmittoe to dis- band or to enter upon tho task of proving the two Feliclana olections to have been free and fair; and, in this attempt, Becretary BugnuaN is ready to confront thom, ———— PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME. ‘We print a letter this' morning comment. ing upon some remarks mado ju this paper upon tho necessity and justico of importially ouforcing tho law for the puuishment of crime. The popular improssion among the friends of the two young men who suffored the death-penslty last woek was, that if tho men had money they would nover have boen exocuted, and that impreasion seens to pre. vail among large portions of the community who are not properly to be classed as friends of criminals, The question of the rightcous. ness of the punishment Is ignored, and the question of woney or no monocy is regarded as doterminiug whether crimo shall bs pun. ished as the law diroots, or whether crime shall go uppumshed. No more unfor. tunate Impression could exist. That it does exist, and espocially among the criminal classes, and among those contemplat. ing criwe, there can be no doubt; and it furnishes a direct encouragoment to crime by holding out the promis that exemption from' punishwent i3 obtaiuabie for & pecu. niary cousideration. Itis almost useloss to contend sgainst wuch a demoralizing public opiuion that crime is punished or uot pun. ished sccording to the means of the criminal to purchase exemptiou with mnoney, The point made by Tur Tuwuse in the case of the late oxecutions was, that the cer- tainty of punisbment bad more power in deterring men from crime than any number of atatutes. The law dufiues the crime, aud prescribes the penalty ; but this of ftself does not deter 1meu from crime 8o Jong as in nine cases out of ten the guilty wau escopes pun. ishuneut, I tbe probubilitics of punishmenut ———— Aunotlier victory for tho olfactorics of tho community over the sulllsh groed of tho stink-mukers who refuso to introduce appli. ances for doodorizivg the noxious vapors which the southwest wind brings s rocorded in o decision of the Illinois Bupreme Court filed ou Monday Inst. A cuse on sppeal wus takennup by the Chicago Packing & Provision Company for tho purpose of testing the power of the city autborities to jmpose a licenso upon rendoring or packing houses within ous mile of the oity limts, and the decision of the Court affirms the right of thoe city to impose such regulations by ordi. uance, Under the declsion the wmunicipal umuthorities cun doal with a stink-factory just n thoy deal with a disorderly saloon,—that liconso if tho evil com- plained of is pot abated, aud 1mpose a hieuvy tine uponestablishments which persist in dofug business after their licenses have been rovoked. Tho ruling of the Bupreme Cuurt, together with the recent couvictiony of stivk men iu tho Criminal Conrt, promises s wura remedy for the outrageous jufliction endured by the peoplo of Chicago these muny years, Any vxpectation by the Democrats of ald and comfort through the testimony of ex. Murshal Pirein, of Louisiana, was speedily dissipoted upon the appeurauce of that gen- tlemau befory the Porres Committes yester- duy, Ho fur from corroborating Anprnson iu uny essential particular, he fled u still grester load of iufamy upon that already overburdened falsifier. He testified that ANDEusoN's movements in Now Orloans were such 0s 10 excite the suspicion that ho was negotisting for a sell-out to the Domocrats, and that s close watch was sc- cordivgly kept on ANDEBSON'S movementu. It was on this account that grest care was taken to sce that Asprmson's protest in reference to jntimidation end violence in Eust Feliciana was drawn up in legal form, und duly sworn to, aud the statement of Prexin in this conunection confinue the proof ulready takey that Asvemsox committed de. liberate perjury when Lo swore that he never made outh to the protest. Asto the Bueksan luiter, Piters uever saw it, snd hiud wo confidenco ju the stories be beard of the existeucy of wuch a document. He cor- roborated Judge Levissee's narrative of the offer by the Democrats of $100,000 to indues On the whole, PiTrin's teatimony was a wet wero that even in only one onse ont of two the guilty man escaped, the chances of wonld be considersd great onough to roh the law of its terrors; but whon the number of perzons commiiting murder who are exe. cated does not exceed ono in ten of those who aro notoriously guilty, the uncertainty of the denth-penalty offers to the crim- inal an invitation to gratify his deadly or malignant purpose in defy ronal security and safety which tho law ngainst murder is intended to afford. We are not discussing any particular cosej the fact wo have mentioned is notorions, Nor aro we suggesting that our judicial or other officers are, however remotely, corrapt or undoly influenced by the use of money or other inducements to falter in tho perform- ancoof thoir duty., But the execntion of the laws for tho punishmont of crime is weak, and is 80 wenk and so nncertain that crime has such a contempt for the law that it is never doterred by the statnte.book, The conviction and execntion of two men for murder, however calculated to disabuse the popular impression that the lnw cannot Le enforced, to have auy lInsting effcct must be followed, and tho law be as rigidly en- forced 1n all other casos, so that it sliall be established ns n moral cortainty that who- over commits murder in this county shall be hanged, and that jurics, prosecutors, courts, and exccutives will show tho samo firmness and fidelity in the interost of jus- tico as havo been shown in these lata cases. Any rolaxation of justice, any loose ndminis- tration of the law in the future, will natural- 1y be nccepted asa confirmationof tho theory that these men were hangad because they had no money with which to defent the ends of Justice, The weakness in the execution of the criminnl law is due to mnany canses, and first, it is due to tho construction of the law which excludes'intelligence from tho jury, and com- mita the trialof criminals to stolid ignorance. The law of criminal procedure is abused to ronder conviction for crime as nearly impos- sible ns humon ingennity can devise, In the first place, it provides for delay. The longer tho delny the lcss certain is the testimony, and loss certaiu the attendance of wituesses. Tho lapse of time lessens the horror inci- dental to tho offonko and the publicin- terost theroin. Witnesses dio or move away, or their absenco may be purchascd. Instoad of (he trial following the homicide, when the factannd circumstances are fresh in tho minds of witnessos, the trial is postponed, for tho murderor who bos suonoy, until such time ns tho sccused may feel it safo for him to take tho chanco. The selec- tion of a jury s practically committed to the prigoner, If he canuot have o Judgo of his own soloction, he demands nohango of vennes to somo other county, and galus perhinps snother year's delay. If he fall to haves jury gelocted by himself aud packed to acquit him, or fails to corrupt oune or two jurors, and thus securos o non-agrecmont and more delsy, and is convicted, then he resorts to the supersodens. This is grant- od in nine cases ont of tem, not upon any failare of the rocord to show that the man was guilty of the criine, but upon some von-easential technicality in tho pleadiugs, orin the admisslon or exclusion of sowo «question or nnswer not really nffocting the snbstantial morits of the caso, This involves moro delny. If the Suprome Court grauts tho superseduns and orders a new trinl on the general theory that no man shall be convict- ed even upon the testimony of rovelation, if one of tho jury resd a newapapor, then there s anothor yonr's delay, and thus the caso drags on uutil witnesses lhave passed away, evidonco is destroyed, and the wholo matter 50 passed out of mind that the mur. derer not only escapes, but considers him- sell s having been outrnged by the delays ond coat to which ho hns becn subjected. Thess proceedings to delny and dofeat justice require the professional mervices of lawyers who command large fees. The louger the cngo the largor the fees, If the oriminal has monoy, or his frionds aud assoclates can pro- cura it, he can obtain tho legal sorvico which 18 necessary to befllo justico nnd eventually defeat it; and it is due to this fsct that crimionls of every degroo, and especially murdoroers, rogard the question of punishe ment or uo punishment s a mero question of money or no money. ‘Tho sdminiatration of the law which per- mits such trifling with justice {s defective. The OCourls which cncourage and foster such trifling aotually encourage crime by affording the means of escape from jts legal punishment, The law to punish crime has for ita objact the protection of soclety; that punishimoent must ba certaln, or the law s o foilure. ‘Thae criminal codowas not supposed to be devised for the support of the legal profession. Ita ponaltics for the guilty and its protections for the innocont were not made dopendent on the pecuniary means of eithior gnilty or innocent tp employ cunning counsel todefent juatics by anabuse and por- version of tho forms or procedures of the law, Crime hos become so deflant, aud so confident of the impoteucy of the law in all cases whore counscl can bulldoze or bamboozls the courts into all manner of delays and oventual defeat of the law that, 1l the man contemplating nssassination pru. dontly provides Limsel¢ with monuey enough to cover three or four years’ litigation, he sy then commit the crime, disdain flight, avow tho homicide, and laugh at the statute which provides hanging as the punishmout for murder. Y'ho executions of last weok do not vindicate the law from this reproach, be. cause the convicts were penniless; wero un. able to bribe even a single juror; were not nble to got up 8 bill of exceptions on which to obtain a supersedeas, or even an argu- wmeont in favor of une, and they were hanged, To muke that execution effective ns n de- torrent of crime, and 84 & warning that mur- der is punishable with death, thero must bo other conviotions and other hangiugs, whore the sccused are not penuiless, aud are able to employ the sharpest counsel to work all the tricky machinery that usually defeats punish- maut and acquits red-bauded guilt. TILDEN AND coimuno. ‘There is trouble in New York politics on both sides. Necither party can determine whether It Lad better hold a State Conven. tion or not. Innsmuch es ouly ons State officer is to be nominated,—a Judge of the Court of Appeals,—it would not seem as though this question ought to seriously dis- turb the harmouy of either party; neverthe- losa 1t does. In each case thore is a mystery, —not sy profound as that wkich Mry. Capt. Jesks hos served up for the BurLes Com. mittes, but evidently as perplexing. The newspapers and politicians on both sides are all ““tore up” about it, and great evonts are expected to rewult from this scowlngly insig. aificant cirouwmstance, Witls the Dewoerats, Mr, Tiozx is the resl sue, '[iLDEN is the sclf-appointed Douoeratio candidate for the Presidency in 1830, ‘Fhere was Bowe vigorous opposition in New York State to his nowioation in 0 of that per- 1876, and this “opposition has gathered strongth in tho Democratio jangle that has grown out of his dofoat. The Tinnex fac- tion demand his ronomination on the ground that ho wns ‘defrandod of the nont after having fairly bonght and paid for it. Tho anti-Tizpew faction op- poss his nomination on the gronnd that he was reaponsible for tho defeat in 1876, Local dissensions fu the party in- creass this factional strife in New York State. Mr. TiLoex himself appreciates the necessity of beginning his campaign st once. Tho New York Afercury, a Demooratio or- gan, annonnces that he fs disposing of his large interest in the Now York Elevated Railway (held in the name of his nophew, the somowhat notorious PrLtox), and other- wiso arranging his private affairs, so that he may devote all his time and monoy to his political interosts. He will begin the work in his own State, and eondenvor 1o raconcilo some of the londing Democratic politiclans who aro now opposed to bim, It in at this point that the quostion of holding a State Convention bacomes important, The mnjority of the present State Committeo is opposed to Tivex, gnd thereforo refuso to call a Biate Convention, Thoir pretense is that it is & useless exponse and trouble to onll & Convention for the purpose of nomi- nating a einglo officer, but their real objec- tion is that thoy fear Tipex and bhis agonts may manipulate anotber Convention 80 a3 to secura A majority of the State Com- mittea in bis interosts, aud thus be able to make decided progress in his Presidential race, Mr. Trupex sud bis frionds sre mok- ing the most desperate efforts to havo n Con- veoution, and have even gone 8o far as (o propose that n minority of the present Com- mitteo shnll organize and call the Conven- tion in defiance of the majority; the mnjor- ity, howover, contend that no Convention shall bo held unless it become ovident to them that Mr, TiroeN will gain nothing from it. Tho Ropublicans of Now York are in very much the same predicamont; with them Mr. Coxrrivo ia the issuo. Whethor or not .an Assembly shall be elected that will roturn Conguna to the Sonate is declared to be tho **pivot™ of this fall'scampaign, Tho holding of a Btate Convention for tho simple purpose of nominating ono Judge of the Court of Appeals might injure Conx- z150’s interests ns much as n Democratio Convention might help Tiupex's inter- esta, All the machinery on the Ropub- lean sido is admitted to bo iu the hands of CoxELiNg, as it was sot up by the Jast Con- vention, in which he was the conirolling spirit. Hig frionds protend to bo confident that they will be ablo to rotain the control, whother o Convontion be hold or not; at the snmo time, it will be safer for them not to hold a Convention, and thoy 8o understand it. A faction of tho Demo- crata I8 sald to be thoroughly enlisted in CoNguiNa’s success, The Albany KErpress, a Democratio organ, adwmita that thore aro a good many Republicans who will vote tho Daomoeratic tickat in the face of Mr. Coxx. Lixa's daclared candidaturo ns tholending Re- publican fssuo, but adds that ** enough hon- est and intelligont Democrats, knowing that Mr, CoNxLING I8 an able and faithful ropro- sontative of Lis State in tho United Btates Benate, will voto for candidates for mombers of Assombly who are pledged or will vota for him in the caucus, to upsot oll the disaffoc- tlon there may be in the Republican rauks.” This looks like a declaration by authority that Conxrina has already arranged with the vote.brokers for a certaln faction of the Democratio votes,—onough, as he thinks, to secure his re-cloction, Can it bo that TrLoey and Coxxtivag have formed nn alliance, offunsive and defensive, for controlling Now York? Thuir ambitions do not lie in tho same dircction. CoNkuiNg, after his experlonco in the Cincinnati Con- vention, knows very well that he Las not the ghost of a chanco to be nominated for Presi- dont, but ho wants to go back to the Scnate. o could ausist Tiroen, therefore, ns ho did asslgt him during the last eampaign, withont intorforing with his own ambition, if TiLoes nnd his frionds would lend him (Conkiana) Democratic assistance in elooting a Coxx- 1180 Logislatare, ‘The mutua!l intercsts aud ondonvors of thesa two politicians iu work- ing up a case aguinst Haxes may havoled to an undorstanding of thiskind, But how will the Domoorats and Republicans of Now York State view any such compuol as thia? Will the Democrats, a4 o class, ba any more friendly to Mr, Trepen if he shall adsist In koeplug aRepublican in the Unlted Btates Henate? Will tho Rapublicans, as a class, bo any wore friendly to Mr. CongriNg if his ro~ olaction to the Bonate shall ouly contribute to thie strength of the noxt Domocratic can~ didate for Prosldont? lessre, TiLDEN and Congrive mny dlscover, beforo iley got turough, that thoy are treadiug on vory dangerous ground. ADSOLUTE-MONEY PLATFORM, 81, Lovis, June 20.—The Committcs on Plat. forin of the Grevnback State Convention, In sca. sion ot Bedalla, Mo, after efzht hours' labor, Teported o declaration of welnciples thle morning, cwbracing uincteen resolutions, It provides it the party shall be called the *'National Lavur Ureenbacs " it demanda the repeal of the pecle leanmption act, aud thy fndae of gbsolute nioney in ureenbiacks equal to gold and silver: that all bonds now subject fo redomption be lmme- dl:my‘rcuuucmrd in spevlute woney equivalent to colu, ete. A curious hallucination posseuses the minds of many well-mouning persons touching the power of Congress to cronte values by some kind of mortal flat. 'Thoy think that men seut to Congress become endowed with magic power -similar to tLat ascribed to the fablod Aladdin's Jamp, 'Tha alohemists of Spain only sought to discover a supposed secrot of Nature which would enable them to transmute base metals into gold. But the gonuine *flat" Greenbackor belleves that the political corporation kuown as Con. gross can easily cclipse all that was clalmed for the occult sclunce of alchemy by changivg & mixture of lampblack aud straw into s money superior to silver or guld. This Congreusional.fiat money is not to be like the greenbacks, redeemablo in colu, aud uot like a uote, a promise to pay some valu. able thing . to the holder, but it is to be an absolute substitute in purchasing power for the precious metals, with coln utterly ban. ished out of sight forever. The Missouri “Laboring Nationals” demand that Congress “gligll {ssue absolute money in grevnbacks equal to gold and allver " in value, and iu volume equal to the bonded debt. To be sure au * sbaolute groenback " is & contradiotion in terms, as a groenback Is & Treasury note promising to pay the bearer in coin the amount of its face_if prescuted at any time after tho 31t of Decomber next, But ** ab. solute” scrip is not & note or s prom- iue to pay anything at any time to anybody. 1t s simply a piece of paper calling itself a * dollar,” The comprehension of the ordivary mortal finds itself jo s hopeless condition of imsgination wheu striving to conceive the form of incantation thut Congress must em- ploy to maku thiy irzedocraubloserip * equive nlent to gold and silver” when il Ia nover to bo redeemed in coin, and coin is to be totatly eliminated from the curroncy as the invention of effote barbarism. Bupposs that Congross shall {ssna this absolnte paper *“money " of the usual donominations in tho goneral form of banke. notos, except that the slips are not redeem- able in coin, or bonds payable in coin or anything, the question arises, What would those sorlp slips with dollar-marks on them represent? What could n ** dollar” in such currency mean? The accepted dofinition of a *“dollar” s a piece of silver or gold of cortain weight, or a paper promise lo pay that weight of procious metal, 8ince gold and silver ars to be banished as useless, pornicious barbarisms, what 1dea of valtie will attnoh to ono of those groen pieces of paper? Iiow can one denomination be worth more than another jn the way of ex- chinugeable value? Iow many bushels of wheat, corn, or onts will o picce of paper marked $10 purchase? What reason is there for supposing o slip of paper with the sign $1,000 printed thereon will purchaso more cabbage, conl, or ecloth than n similar parallclogram stamped with $6 or any other figuro? Those slips of colored poper aro not to be redecmable in gold or silver, or any commodity possossing in- trivsio value. They are not to be measured by nny tangiblo thing ; they are simply idenl orsentimental “ monoy "; but asilver dollaris o tangible piece of matal weighing about ono ounes avoirdupois, and it bas cost something like adoy's work to oblain it. The difficulty with the proposed * abso. Inte"” money is, that no known standard of oxchaugeable value can be applied to it, It has no intrinsic or commodity worth; it oan- not bo used in barter, A slip printed with the figures **$1,000" is worth no moro property and is redeemable in no more valug than a slip with 81" printed - thoreon, be- cause the $ mark means nothing tangible, Dissassoointed from all conncction with gold and silver values, the pntenl-pnper serip must establish n'new relation to com- modities of its own. What shall that relntion be? How is it to be measured or ostimated? How much wheat will a farmer givo in ex- chango for a picce of serip marked “$1"? 1t o bushel to-day, why moro than a guart to-morrow? What reason is thero for offor- ing more than a single grain for any piece of serip, no matter what figure is printed upon it? How can prices be fixed in such money, when one picco of irredeomablo scrip is in- trinsically worth no more than another? How con there be any prices roported in such ourronoy, whon it possesses no intrinsio value itself, and is redvemnblein no substance or product having any valua? If it bo said that it will bo a legnl-tonder in the payment of dobts and taxes, and thus some valuo will attach to it, tho reply is, that nobody will sell property on trust to be paid 1 such currency ; no debts will be mado payable in that kind of poper; and no Government can bo maintained on rovonues of that worthless sort. Nobody would sorve the Govern- mont, or soll supplics to it, and take such valueloss stuff in payment. An attompt to introduce such currenoy would immediately result i the adoption of a general system of barter, nnd exchange of commaodities, and in apecial contracts for the payment of debts in products, or in silvor and gold, Thus, in apito of all tho laws that could be passed in favor of abaoluto scrip, the exchango of eqnivalents in value would renssort and re- ecstablish {tself, nnd the country, after con. fusious and convulsions, would swing back 1o ihat motaliic monoy which is both 1 meas- ‘l‘rl.:o and an equivalent of commodities and abor., GEN, ONALMERS ON THE NORTHERN DBMO- ORATS, Brig.-Gen, Crrarssns, a Confederate member of Congress from o strong ** bluck " Repub- Jiean district of Misslssippl, expresses extreniu disgust with the treatment his soction recetved at the hands of the Nurthern Domocrats in the late Congress. Savs the Memphis dvalanche: The Northern Democratic londars wers untrie to the North during the War, aml have praved them- selvos untrio to both ections since the War. This 1 thetr record, and it 18 8 question for every hon- wat 1nan 10 the South to decide for himaelf whother he whinll permit purty names that uo longer mean anyihine to afand botween him and Justico to hiv people and soctlon. den, CHALMEnRS ba right. By vlind adherence to tho party, for tho sako of old aoraclutions, the South s belist starved to death, And in cominending his apeach the Vickvbury ler- alit 1n righit in suvine of the Northorn Democrate, that **if they contlaue to turn 8 deaf ear to the denisnds of the South for an equal sharo in the baneflin of the Government, #ho will be justiied in *solidifyinit® in another direction, and sacrific. tng sentiment to Interest,™ ‘An cxtract from Gen. CuaLMERs' speech will conyey an fdea of ftall: 1 bavs loved the Democeatic narly (rom my youth up, and what I mald o Northorn Dewocrits waa MGre In sorrow tian in anger; but, sir, 1 betleved whot 1 sald, and 1 usually sy what I beliove. Wlen a Southern man remembers the gross In- canality of tiovornment nid in tie nast, and whon Tt weos that neqaniity ubont to bo re-vnacted; whon e sees n ruduction of the truck down in the Demoratic House 3 when ho s Deniocrutic Bonalor fram Now York opposing o sabsily to o Hrazilian steumship line for Now Orleansaftor milll- {ons have beun expouded for Now York; when he sees thy Northern Pactfic bill, granting a subvsidy in lands cqual to Nty millions in money, passed by Nuetheen Democratic Senators, Withoat a diaent- ing voice, while they refusv even (o x & tune fo connidor the Tezas Pacific; and when bo roes Dumoeruts 1o this House opposing the Tezas Pacltic, s yot voling u subeidy 1o the Northorn Pacule, he buzine to nsk Wtmself why he has ferad a0 long sud endurca so much for the Demy cratic party? It s truo that Northern Democr have suifered many things for us, and I honur them forit; but, sie, we have endured Lenfold more for tiem. Tliere never waa a day nior an bour when all of our p:}rltcllunn! would nut bave ine W utly ceased, §f we had joined the Lte- publican party. Bat wo loved the name; wo loved the hallowed “awsociations; we loveu the suctent glory of the Demucratic party, snd we have eis dured for it palus, penailies, snd privatione a8 rol thuse which BT, PauL sullered for the Eiistian eeligion. We resistod svory tempiation and cluug to the Northern Uemocracy. ‘They have indocd hodped ua, but wo have holped them as much, \we lifted thom up from veing 1 desnlsed minority into & majority -in tbls Houss and i the Union. And 1 warned them in my Texas Paciic speech, and 1 now wain thew agatu, not Lo drive us from them by rofusing to do Justice 0 our srcil We love the pariy, but we cannut allord to be starved to death by it e s ‘The businces of the Buez Caual for tho past yearappears to bave been s success. Altbe general meeting of the shareholders, held In Yaris June 11, the report ou the geueral situa- tiun of the Company showed that thio total ex- penses for the year ending last December were $5,847,742, distributed as follows: Inutercst, $2,531,03; admimstrative axpeuses, $227,2003 charges ol the domalu, $35,405; traosit and navization aervice, $333,070; repalrs, $456,007; interest on coupons, $340,000; uterest ou share copital, $1,003,450; and sowe smaller ftems. The revenue amounted to $6,705,139, of which tho receipts from usvigation wers §6,500,501. The surplus was §047,543, from which, deduct- fuz the statutory reserve, $47.809, thers remain $U00,216 as net profite. e e —— Of the 145 membors of the louss of Repre- scntatives who voted for Mr, CoNaua's cousti- tutional ameudment probibitiog the payment of Rebel clalns, unly four were Southern weu, and threo of these were froi border States; of tbe sixty-one members who vdtod agsinst that amendment, tity-ive were from the Bouth. Thls louks as I the Bolld Bouth kunew what it waated—and as If the North knew i too. e ee— The Boclsitsts of New York vight before Jast commemorated the Revolution of 18i5by amass- meeting. The dispateh says: * Resotutions werp adopted declarlug that the fodustrial voudition of the United Statve to-day is simillar to the soctal coudition of Franco in 1348; that the Buclalists witl continue ta propagate thelr fdeas, sud will educate the workiug people to bave re- sard to their dutfes, rights, and powers, and to remember that, whon oppression has reached its hight, Insurrectlon agninst tyrsnny It tho most sacred of rights.” This, belng translated, means that the Communists i the United Btates rezard bustncss as very dull, and that when it becomes a little dulier §t will he the duty of the workingmen to strike and of the Communlsts to pillage and burn and commenco an indiscriminate warfare ngalnat soclety and property. Bohold how good and pleasant o thing it is for oditorinl breghren of the reltgious press to dwell together In unity. 1t1s cven aa the dew on Mount Washington, and as the ofl struck by “Coal Oll JonnNv." The JIudependent says with vigor that the Christian Standard 1s **the most dishonest paper, as it is reliziously the most voncelted,” an its Iarge exchange-iist, and remarks that the Rev. JusTin D, Furton *had better allow his corpso to stay burled.” Like #s not one of Brother Bowzx's encmies will come back at him with the remark that thoe n- dependent mada its moncy by Inducing widows, orphans, and poor clergymen to nvest In worth- 1ess rallroad bonds, and thus the beauties of the Christian character and profession will b signally exemplified. e ——— e A section of tho Sundry Civil Appropriation il ns passed by the recéns Congross provides for the construction—under the dircctlon of the Secretary of War—of a military telezraph ling from Dlamorck to Fort Eliis, via tho Missourt and Yellowstuno Rivers, connceting Forts Bu- ford, Koogh, and Custer, and from Fort Sully to Dendwood. Flity thousand dollars sre ap- propriated for its construction, and the line is to be maintained at tho expense of the army spprooriation. Private dispatches may be sent over the line when It Is not ueeded for the pub- lic servico at reasonable rates. There 1a atav an anpropriation of $5,000 for tho construction— uuder the orders of the Bevrotary of Wur—of & military wagon-road from Ojucaliente to Fort Wingate, New Mexico, and from Conocjos to Parrott City, Col. e ——— Judge JlieTox should put the rallway man- sgers of Eugland Into the box to give ovidence as to tho truth ot his asscrtion that women would rather suffer the aflliction of boarding- house hash with the male children vf men than enjoy tho pleasures of n firat-class hotel In se- cluslon. The experiment of lndics' carriages, for members of tho femalo sex cxclslvely, has been tried In Fngland snd fafled, the women preforring to take thelr chances of a male com- paulon who might smoke to thelr certaluty of smokoless solitude. bt e —— The New York IHerald scems to have **soured on" the Paris Figaro ever stnco the Frenchy Journal began to give it away so pitilessly as to fts **cablo speelals,’’ and says fn one of those sama contributions to untelegravhied history: All the crowned heads and Rtoyal Princes visit. Ing Paris have to go through this prdeal (visiting the oftica of Le Figaro), They afe rewarded oy v aconcurt of Bohomisns and s cold bito from the nearest restaurant. The uscful and perennlal Herscnxs V. Jonx- gON I3 tho cundigate whom the implacable Democrats of Georgia threaten to trot out sgolnst Arexanvsi H. Steenens. Weo are sorry—that Is to sny glod, that we do mnob think that Mr. Jouxsson will—as Mr. LogAn once safd of Mr. GuanT—*run ke hell witha tin-kettlo tied to its tafl.’ e —— With the chivalry of Virginia getting bolllng drunk and wanting to commit assault aud bat- tery on the floor ol tho Houss, and tho chivalry of Loulsfans getting bolilug drunk and wantiog to commit indecent assault in a restaurant, the good old days seem coming back surely and by 1y means slowly. e ——— 1t Brother WaTrERsON 14 golug to keop up his animated correspondence with Mr. Hewirr much longer, ho should ot least have tho busl- 2ess tact to tag on A littlo announcoment i postacript, giving the induccments offered to advertisers In tho CourlerJournal, and the premiums for clubs, e — The flem of HEwITT & WATTERSON, whole- sale and retall dealers In statements and se- crots, threatening to break up, the junlor and Journalistie partner proposes a friendly arbitra- tlun by means of o Commission. We thought Mesars. H. & W, hod had enough of Comumls- slons. ————— Thls {s about the sizo of the Kilkenny kitten- fizht now raglug botween Lord Anitast Unwirr aud Don ENmiQuo ¥ GUATTERSONIAS WATTERSON soyn lizwiTT's 8 traitor, 1LEwITE pays WATTEIRON'S Wosai Which of the twain sycaks tho truth Nobody carutls 8 cuss, e e—— No one should blawe the peopls of Lonlstana for scudiug & man llke ACKLEN, the woman-in- sulter, to Congress. They didn't, Spouker RanpaLL and the Denocrats counted bim 1o, et — PERSONALS., Tho Duchess Dowager of Montrose won $32, 600 vn the Derby. Bossle I'nrner is playing the soubrotte part of Martha in **A Celobratod Case ™ st Nib- 1u's, Now York, * Morsclivl V. Johason is the candidate tho implacavle Democrats of Georgla threaten to sun agatust Mr, Stophons. Mry, Elizaboth Mason Viaton, who died last weok ot Irooklyn, N. Y., was & daughter of Purty, the hero of the Iske. Bricks from the Moody and Sankey tabar- nacle st Boston are belng nicely polisticd by ma- chinery, unud will 2008 be otfvred—10, 000 of them —fot sule us telics, +¢ Buckingham Palaco” is the name of n new $80, 000 dance-house and brothel that has just been ttted up in New York, und ts the resort of the local politictuns, Prof. Fawcett, tho blind M, P., rides cleverly to hoonds on a swart hanter, a friend keeping noar his side to dircct him, skates, rows, aud ls an entbusiastic deherman. ‘I'be Pope is far from well; his digestion Ia bad, his food dlsagreos with him, ho cannot eat meut, and, uniess he gels a change of iz, hals not likely to Hve through the summor, The Dramatis News says cordiully of the ‘man who writes the ** Personal Intelligance ™ for she New York lerald thal bo would bave had brain-fever loug age If Leuaa bad sny capital fo begin vn. Cora Pearl, though in the broad daylight her face plainly shows 1! e of tim d dla- wipation. s, &l least when slie 18 on horseba the Sgure of & ghrlof 20, with sloping shoulders sud & gracefully-archied neck, Dio Lowis has not lived in vain, for the Eureka (Nov.) Republican says: ** It muet make Dio Lewls inad to be stricken down in his old a; in Oakland, Jike & hagghty vegelable, when ho boeu lving for years ou oatmesl. " Of a large nudience assemblod at tho last meetlog Ia Plymouth Church, onlya comparalively smull number voted on the proposition to expel Mrs. Talton. All voted **Aye,” aud oeatly all 1he hands ralsed wero those of women. Baltimore s prepared to put down her mobe without asslstance from 1 Govornment; he 5 d 10 H0O 1wen, wh d whih breoch-luaders, and the Fifth Reginment hae its ranks full,sod is In & siate o marked etficloncy. Elizabeth W. Tuchech, daughter of the man who was execused ln 1844 for an stiempt apon'ttio ife of Frederick Willlam IV. of Pruse ala, Mves in New York, s divorced womau of 63, whose only companion: o drove of cats that share with ber & meso and desolsto bat, Capt. Bogardus® challenge to any man in Europe to vboot 100 pizeons for $2,000 s side was accopted two wonths sgo by the famous Eoglish shot, Mr. H. Cholmoudeloy-Fennell, who now writes that as the Capiain hasnol put up a forfelt ba will take no furthot notice of the challenge. ‘Ths beat picture in tho Americau depart- mentof the Parls Esposition art gallery—s por- tralt of Mlss Eniily Schaumberg, of niladelpbia ~bias been withdrawn, because it was hung bestdo the picture of & fasy wowan very much decollette —below—smoking & cigarcite and sipplug &5 & §luas Of obawnpagaa. FOREIGN. The Bulgarian Question Vir- tually Settled by the Congress. A Corps of Gendarmerie Will Maintain Order in Roumelia. France and Italy I'aver an Exe tonston of Greek Tor« ritory. The Turks Opposed to the Granting of Autonomy to Epiras. Fifty Thousand Russians Sick in the Balkan Peninsula. Dircouraging Reports from the Wheat Harvest in Great Britaln. TII CONGRISS. YLSTERDAY'S SE3SION. DeruiN, June 25.—At to-day's sitting of the Congress Prince Gortschakofl was not present, but received reports every quarter of an hour, and sent written remarksto the Russian plenipo- icntiarics. Farsseanck will Immediately communicate with the Greek plenipotentinriea concerniug participation in tho Congrers. Ureeco will ho admitted torepresent the Ureck element in Bulgaria when the organte zation of Bulgaria is discussed. EPIRUS. TIn private conversation the Turks strenuously oppose grauting autonomy to Epirus, especinlly 8 regards Jauina, The Greeks Inv particular stress or. the (ireek nationality of Janina. The Turks declare they will not ,evacuate tho fortreases until the treaty of peace is ratificd by all the Powers. TOUMANIA. Visxna, June25.~A dispatch from Bucharest reports that the Roumanlan Government {n ad- vised from mauy sides, particularly from ltaly and Frauce, to coma to an agreement with Rus- 8ia at any price. A Borlin dispatch states that according to the preseat arrangements the Congress, provided ‘Furkoy does not raiso diflicultics, will havo sot- tlod the moln points by the middle of July. The scttlement of uctails will then be Ioft toa conference of second plenipotentiarics, and the Congress will meet agaln in Septembor to ratl- 1y thelr acts. BEACONSFIALD AND DBISMANOR. The Timea' Berllti correspondent reporta that Lord Beaconsfield, in a conversation with Princs Bismarck, who urged him to make coucesslous, sadd, * 1 dld not come here to yleld." BULOARIA. Loxpox, June 20—b a. ni.—A dispatch from Berlin reports that in Monday's sittlng of the Coogress It was declded that tho Russlans sliould withdraw froin Roumella i six and from Bulgaria in nine months., After thelr with- drawal mixed European troops will temporarily oceupy the Proviveo. Russia has orderced Mon- tenegro and Bervia to arrsugo a compromiso with Austria relative to thelr clmma. The Bulgarian question may be regarded ns solved, There only rematn some points of de- tall, which it is beleved whil bo settled in the aitting of Wednesdny, At Tucsdays sitting the French Plenlpotentiarics, who have been intrusted with romodeling Russian amend- ments, which England refused to accept on Maonday, refntroduced them 1o a form ACCEPTADLE TO ALL PARTIES. According to the French proposal the Ports will have the full right to occupy the line Lotween Bulgaria ahd Roumelin with whatever number of troups It decms necessary, but tha troops st bo exclusively regulars and inust fn wo cose be cantoned’ mmongst ¢ thu' inhab- ftants or in tho luterior. The maln- tenance of order in Rowmelia will Lo intrusted to acorps of gendarmerfo. It was Iikewise nereed on the proposal of the French Plenipotentaries that thefnhabitants of Buliarla and Roumelia shall enjoy comblete civil and religious liberty. 1t was decidod on the propusal of England and Austria that no change bu mude In the exlsting commerclal relation without con- sentof the Powers, Russiun occupation is to Jast nlue nonths, after which three montbs witl be allowed for the withdrawal of tho troops. The opinion is gaining uround that the labors of the principal Plenipotentiaries can Lo cone cluded by the 10th of July. It 18 said that tho Greeks have secured TIB BUIIORT OF FRANCE for a frontler Mno frow Olympus to Avilona. As tha Turks, however, will not cede Batoum, they arc atill less inclincd to malie such u con- cession, VARNA. The News' Berlin dispatch says tho Turklsh delegates at Tucsday’s sitting of the Cougress consented to the ovacuation of Varna. A Berlin dispatch reports that France, Italy, and Uermany warmly support the treek clahng for an exteusion of territory. TIM DOUNDARIES OF HOUMALIA, A Vieuna dispateh soys Rusaia gave her con- sont that tho boundaries of Rouwmclia sball be the Egeau Sea or approach toBalonies, depend- ent on the cession of Varns aud the rest of the Quadritateral to Bulgaria. 1t seewas that thls will be ultimately agreed to. BASTERN NOTES. RUNSIANG DUYING STEAMERS, Lowoox, June 26—b 4. m.~A Uerlin corre- spoudent states un good autbority that the Rus- sisns withiu the Jast fow days havs bought of Hawburg three steamers bulongingto the Ham- burg American line. I RUSAIAN SICK. Lonpon, June 25.~The Kussians have 62,420 sick Ju the Balkan peniosuls, und of the recruits ralsed Ju 1877 for the Arnenlan campuign, 5 per cent are dead. FOREIGN GRAIN TRADE. WEEKLY HEVIEW, LonpoN, Juue 23.—The Mark Lane Ezpresa says: Duspite the somewhat conilicting pa- tuse of the agricultural advices, the proseut dit- uation of the cercal crops s nighly critleal. Nothing but 8 continuance of normal weather can prevent anotber uddition to tho successton of unproductive and unremunerative scasons. Vith tho excentlon of France, whers the wheat plaut has suffered ahnost as much as in this country, Contineutal advices promise a fulr sverage yleld; but in Eastero Kussia thou- sands of scres of graln have been cut to pleces by 8 succession of unususlly beavy ball-storms. Deliverica of Eoglish wheat at the All’lln:ll‘\ll provincial warkets bas sbown & declded falling off. The offerings at Mark Lane sre also light, which tend to prove the dopletion of stocks ln furiers' hauds. Depressed by heavy present and prospective supplies, and Dooded with coutinued offers from Auterica and Hussia, the forcign whicat trads bas beeu reduced aliost to staguation. Prices receded fuily w shilliug on beat, with ooly the inost }imited cousumptive demaud st that. The Coutinental demand for cargoes of wheat ol she coast hins been the most nutewurthy feature of the week's trade. Malco steady. MISCELLANEOUS, TUB $PANISH QUEEN. MaDRID, Juns 25.—Thedatest official bulletin showa na improvement (u the condition of the Queen. It says that considerable loss vt Llood eudangers her life. Map Juue 25.—The coudition of Qucen Mercedes is still serivus, but she passed a guict nigbf, No fresh hemorrhage hus occusred, sud the physiciaus bave uot lust il bope. TWO YEARS. Brruw, June 25.—The Euglishwsu, Bishop, charged with briblug olicials to oblain Lus