Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 20, 1878, Page 4

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You_are herchy tiotified to Inect At our Asylum, Buaday, July 21, at 10:30 8. m, Toaltend the funerd) of our Jate SIr Knight Janies D, MeRay, SirKnightsof sister Conumanderies cordinily invitea'tojoin with us. JOHN 8. WHILE, K, C. CHICAGO DATTALI 1, 0. 0, ¥.—The members wiil meet fn uniform at 3:30 o'clock aiiarp in Excelsior it coruer of Washlukiou uod Clark-sis., to-day, iy, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1878, Greenbacks at the New York Stock Ex- change yesterday closed at 993 ‘The weather has ccased to be the reigning sensation in the West, although there is atill enough ou hand to furnish material for com= ment in numerous localities. 8t Louis is euconraged at tlie prospect of tha arrival of & Polar wave from the West, Sho has not exnctly got wind of it yet, but hopes toin a day or two. New York was having a taste of a wave from the opposite direction yes. terday, and the exodus to the sessido water. ing places Liad already been soriously felt in trado circlos, A vast amount of uunecessary fuss would scem to hnve been mnde about rulvation by Chinesa cheap labor on the Pacifio Cosst, according to a atatement soon to be submit. ted to President Harrs by Col F, A. Bx#} of Bnn Fruncisco, attorney for the Chiness Bix Companics. He proposes to show, as tha result of a careful search among official recorda and statistics, that for the past two years death sud emigration have exceeded immigration by about 500, and that the en- tiro uniober of Mongolians on the Paciflo Const does not-now exceed 6,500, 1t nbw’ " for rals in tho Dritish Pariinment to do what thoy can to- ward disturbing BracoNsrizLp's enjoyment of tho dizzy hight of complacency which ke haa roached by woy of the Berlin Congress sud the ncgotistion of the Anglo-furkish treaty. The Marquisof HarTinaTON yestor- day gave notice of the programme to be followed by the opponeuts of the Govern. mont in the House of Commens in the form of a resolutlon shortly to be intruduced and dobated. Tho plan i to attack the Minwtry upen the policy of neglect and indifference pursued toward the Greeks by England in the Congress, as well aa to criticlze the terms aud liabilities upon which the acqulsition of Cyprus was secured, upon the ground that grave rosponsibilities hava been incurred without the previous knowledgo of Par. liswent in the undefined engegements rela. tive to a better sdministration of the Asiatio provinces. Whils tha Premier is quita cer- tain to carry the day in both Houses, it will not bo without recelving some hard knocks in the eourse of the fray. After long delay, and many diplomeatia notes botween Bt. Peteraburg and Constanti.- nople, and lastly when tho Congress at Ber. lin has issued its fiat, the fortifications at Shumin and Varna are belng evacusted by the Turkish garrisons which beld out against Russian demands so long as there was any prospoct of succesaful resistance. ‘The Batoum problem, although passed upon by the Congress and considered virtually set. tled, has yet in itan elementof danger ‘which may or may not davelop into a serious cumplication, The inhobitants of the city aro xald to bo determined to resist the pro- poased occupation by the Xusasians, On the otlier Liand, it fu reported that a lsrge body of Russian troops isnow en routs from''rebi- zonde to Uatoum, the object being to force compliauce with the provisions of tho Berlin treaty. Ad moral suasion bau little effect on the aversge Turk, the Russians msy yet have to treat tho Batoumians to a little dose of Plevaa, The Mayor on Monday eveuing nominated Capt. Bravey, of the Wout Bide force, to be Buperivteudentof the Chicsgo Police Depart- ment. The selection ought to give satisfac- tion to every oitizen who wants & competent publio ofticer in that important office. Capt. Beavxr entered the policr force eight years #go a5 a patrolnan ; his ability and fidelity so0u attracted sttention, aud he rapldly won the rospect and confidence of Lis superiors, Step by utep he advanced, owing all his pro. motions to bis own merit. 'The Mayor, after consultation with ex-Superintendent Hicxry, and upou the strong judorsement by the lat- ter, nominated Capt. 8xaver because of his loug service, his great experience, bis ability, and his genera! fitness for the office. Hioxxy cowmends his succeusor ms one who will prove to be one of the best oficors in the TUnited Btates. As the Council, while conceding the many good qualities of Hicxey, and bis long and faith- ful service, refused to confirm bim, on the ground thot s pew man was neuded to add even to the prosunt cfficivncy of the force, there ouglt to bo ud Lesitation or delay in coufirming the nowinvatiou of Capt, Sravey, a thorough disciplinariun, und pensonally free frow wll tue wrangles aud joalousies of past yours. Belected because of his fitness, and wet because of auy solicitation by him or #1308 538 Giye Post-Utice sddresa In full, {ncluding Btste sad *Plak Deminoes,” ‘colns—probably the $1,.82.50, and $5 ful service and of tried ability. good and competent office State law, and {he comments of the Bouth Carolina press, indicate an equally firm determination to resist what is regarded ns an infraction of the pet doatrine of State's Rights, even to tho extentof meeting force with force, should the United Btates Marshal and his possg nn. dertaka the execution of an order by the Federal Court for the transfer of the indict- ed revenue officers to its own jurisdiction, If the South Carolina Bonrbons carry ont their threats of resistancs they will discover for the scoond time sinco 18G1 that the United States is a nation and not a league. Three waeks ago the prospect for a mag- nificont crop of wheat in Minnesotn, Wise consin, and Iowa was exccedingly geatify- ing. There has been n serious change, how- ever, within that time. The henvy winds, severo storms of rain and hail, followad by tho unprecedented hot suns of the last ten days, have are mainly the only which the wheat crop had boen gecured. Tho grain has been flattened, and lodged, and tangled nndor the excessive rains, and the excessive hoat has produced smut and rust to an extent that Indicates n heavy loss. Tlus ungathered portion of the wheat crop, Liad nothing Lappened to inter. fere with it, would have measured not less than 50,000,000 bushels, and wmost of it of the choicost quality. How much of it will bo lost cannot yet bs ascertained, but the percentage is estimated at from 20 Lo 80 per cent, ropresonting that proportion of many millions of dollars, Even the wheat thnt way oscape the amut and the rust will hove mostly to bo barvestod with the scythe, and, despite the great demand for employment, there iu a scarcity of farm.labor, aud the tramps domand large wages. The cost of gathering what fasaved, and the lossof that portion deatroyed, will bo a serious calamity to those who have had such promising ex- pectations of an unusually Jarge crop of superior quality, The whent crop genorally of the country was Larvested befors the happoning of this unfavorable weather, and the pgenoral yield of the Northwest waa expected to bo lnrge. Tho estimato of the whole will, howevor, have to bo reduced by theso serious losses in the distriots we have named. It will take some days yet to nscertain the full extent of the loss. PROGRESS TOWARD RESUMPTION, Washiugton advices seem to agree that the chief lnw-ofticor of the Government will not assent to Bocrotary Suxnuan's authority to redeom gresubacks on demand prier to Jan, 1, 1879,—the dote fixed by the Itesump- tion act. Attorney-Goneral Devens Las not yot delivered any writton oplnion on the subject, but it is undeistood that he has verbally expressed himsolf to tho effect that resumption cannot be legally effocted in an. ticipation of the date fixed by law, We aro cnrions o kuow what coustruotion of the Constilution or laws proveats tho financial agont of the Governmont from paying a debt due on demand in the absonce of an express prohibition from the National Legislature, Wo cannot understand why the Secretary of the lreasury may not honor a nou-interest- bearing promise-to-psy on demand when he is constantly payiog off - iutoreat-bearing obligations that have not matured. It is not unlikely that the Attorney-Gen- oral's opiniou, when published, will en. counter legal criticism that may establish the contrary, Nevertleles, it Is probable thiat the Cabinet, including the Socretary of the Treasury, will be governod by this opinion, and that thore will be no formal an- nouncement of resumption earlier than Jan, 1, though the ability of the Government to begin the redemption of gresubacks in coin at once, and to maintain the Government notes at par, cannot ba doubted by any in. telligout person famillar with the present coudition of the United Btates Treasury, und the law enabling tho Heerctary to sell bonda and greenbacks for coin. It is mailifcatly the purpose of the Hecre- tary of the Treasury, however, to do every- thing in his power, short of an actual procla. mation of resumption, to pluce greenbacks at par with gold aud silver legal-tender, and there Is reason (o believe that Le may wo far succeed as to bring consideruble gold coln, as well na the legal-tender silver dollars, ioto circulation wlougelde of greenbacky before the meetlng of Cougress jn December moxt. Evon this advance would render it extremely difficult for the anti-resnmptionists to flnd & single valid excuse for urging the repeal of tue Hesumption act. Alresdy, we believe, in. structions have been sent to the Bub-Treas. uries to psy out thesilver dollansin exchange for $1 and $2 greenbacks and National-Bauk notes, snd to introduce them into genersl circulagjon by using thom in payment of wmall suws instesd of paying out notes, The next step will be to pay out small gold pleces—in many cases of coin disburvements (such as redewption of coupons held at home). This will open the road to the cir. culation of theso small gold coine, particu. larly as there is & good deal of complaint in businesy circles of an insufficlency of the 1 and 82 notes, Along at fint, these gold coins will be kept as pockot-pleces, as wos the case when the silver was first subati. tuted for the fractional currency. But this manis will last only a very short time; the gold coins will begin to be w0 common as Lo no longer be an object of curi. ouity, after which no one will think of hold. ing them in preference to » $1, $2, or $5 note, There will be no more temptation to hoard this gold coin than there is to hoard wilver or greenbacky, for it will command uo premium in the ordinary transactions. Four- touths of 1 per cent is & wery pomiual dis- tinction in small sumy, and will rupidly dis- sppesr in the aotual contact of gold and giecubacks, On a 1 and §2 trensuction it hir friends, his nomination onght to be promptly approved. The appointment, all other eonsiderations being sufficient, is com- mendable, also, a8 heing in the line of pro- motion,—an honorablo recognition of faith~ To rojeot the nomination of auch n man will be.an- justifiable on pnblic considerations, and must lenvo the inference that the Conneil is gov. erned by private ends and purposcs, and not by o desiro to secure for the publio rervica n The case of disputed jurisdiction which has arisen in South Carolina relative to the indictment in n State court of four internal revonno officors upon n charge of munler was Yestendny considered at n Cabinet moeting in Wnashington, and it was determined that firm and vigorous mensures bo taken to as- sert the supromacy of the Federal over the The defiant tone of Jidge Kra. smAW's decision in refusing the applleation for a transfer of tho defendants to the jurisdiction of the United States Conrt, in Western and BSouthern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and in Northern Jowa, wrought immenes damsge to all gralo, but especiclly to wheat. These distriota in not bother with the transaction. into geueral circulation. ment {n this manoer will be rapidly awollen vate sources. or the subsidiary silver now in circnlation. their hiding-places, the old bed.ticks will be ripped opon, or the old boxes brought forth in nll housebiolds whore gold has been hidden away for years. doposit their gold recoipts along with their groonbacks, aud the banks will begin to pay the desire or couvenionce of their customers. In this way tho promium on gold may dissp- pear entirely even before actual resumption shall have been annonnced, for thers is not yoars to come, any demand for gold for export, The channel of gold will be in the dicection of the United States in payment of the balances due on acconnt of exportx, which exceed im- ports at the rato of 220,000,000 annually. ‘The forgign bond-holders have already tired of sending back the American Governmeat socarities, for they can find nothing equal to them in safety, stability, and profit. They ‘will send gold here inatead of taking it awny, The American mines will contiuus their con- tributions, The volume, constantly onlarg- iug and onco in notnal circulation to the ex- tent that business will employ it, who will dare to proposs snother and indefinite sus- pension of specie-payments by repealing the Resumption act? Who will dare to propose n contraction of the currency by driving gold out of circnlation sgain and returning to paper-mouey alone ? DISRAELI'S EXPLANATION, The happiest’ mon in Europe is Lord BeacoxsrieLp, 8t. Petersburg is somowhat disgruntled over the results of the Congress, The Grecks are growlig loudly. Tho Roduanian Ministers weut to Bucharest dis- gusted because they had to exchange Bessarabin - for other territory, The Hervians are alarmed af tho pres- ence of a new avd formidable power in Dosnia, Italy is joalous of Austria, aud France looks with a sinister eyo upon the English occupation of Cyprus. Turkey of course would complain if it would do any goad. Dissarcr, however, utters not a word of complaint, but, on the other hand, rubs his hands snd smiles complacontly as ho contemplates the action of the Congross, evidontly regarding himself ns tho Deus ez machina, Beiug in that frame of mind, it was mwot remarkable that the young Vitien Grey who rojected the seat st the lower end of the tableof siatesmen, and boldly took one at the upper, should have folded his hands with moro than ordinary suavily, should have adjusted his eye-glasy with moro than ordinary nicety, and shou!d have made an address with more than ordinary plausibility and self-satisfuction, setting forth what he and lis colleagues Lad accomplished ; for, after reading the synopsis of the address, it would appear that Bis- MAncx, (GORTACHAEOFY, ANDRASSY, WADDING. Ton, and the other Plenipotentiaries, were playing second fiddles to Disrarra’s and Bar- 1snuny's firsts, Making all allowsuces, how. ever, for the somewhat natural complacency and jubilation of tho Premier, there are many interesting points 1 the upeech, One of these {s the now light thrown upon the Grecks. From the very outset, the doscendants of DruostrENxs sud Prito have not appenred in a vory dignifled hght, and it is evident that, had not their cause Leon championed o a certain exlent by En. gland, they and their claimswould havé been shown ont of the back door long ago. Notwithstanding their historical associations and poetical interests, none of the Powoers seom to bave regarded them with any degroe of sympathy, or to bave considered them as entitled to uny particular cousideration, In his recent interview with the correspondont of the London Z'{nws, Prince Bismanck oyale. ally remarked that ** undoubtedly the Greeks wero & very interestiug lot of people,” but he did not see why anything should be done for thom on that account, Dumare: went a little furtlier, and placed them before the world as & pack of svariclous, greedy, grasp- 1ng Bhylocks, who so for misappreliendud the objects of the Congross as to look upon it s a gsog of pirates divid. ing booty, and comseqpeutly put in 8 clan not only for Thessaly aud Epirus, but also for Calgtantinople itself, several proviuces in tha.iuterlor, and some large islands in the Archipelago, Crete smong tho number, In other words, not Laving lifted a finger to help Russia or her- well, who proposed to come in and take the whole of the Turkey, with the exception of & fow feathers, In view of the greediness of the Gruek, it is perhups a fittiug punishment that what she in reslity receives is a promise of the Porte, upon the recommendation of England, that it will consider the question of rectifying the Grecian frontier, Unless, however, the drift of the war has brought about a change in the Turkish heart, and directed ita attention to the necessity of tell. ing the truth snd keeping its promises, the collateral security which the Greeks have for any inorease of their territory is about as valuable as a title to swamp-lands in the moou would be, unless the indorsement of some of the Europesn Powers is on the back of it. With rogard to the oconpation of Bosnis by Austris, Disaaxcs makes a very plaucible statement. Tho anarchical condition of Bosnia he regurded as oue of the principal obstacles to the re-establishment of the Bul tau a8 au iudependeut authority, and that any effort upon the part of 'L'urkey to preserve order there would have euded in her ruin, Consoquoutly he snd bis colleagues had earnostly recommendod Austria to go in aud / will ba impoesible to demand au allowance of the preminm, sines it amounts to only 8 fraction of o cont, which is not represented in onr carrancy. On a $5 transaction the present premium wonld be abont two conts, ‘Who wonld ever think of dsmanding adiffer- ence of two cents for coin pnyment instend of greenbnckn, or who would hoard the coin because nobody would allow this difference? Four conta in a $10 transactlon, and eight cents in n $20 transaction, would bs equally insignificant ; therais not one man in a thou- aand wjo would take the time and troubls to look u¥ A broker in order to realize a differ- ence of two centa if he had a $5gold colu patd him, ora differenco of four cents ona$10 coin, ora difforence of sight cents on a $20 coin; and snch a search, indeed, would scarcely bs rowarded with findiag a broker who wonld 1f the Govern- ment pay ort small gold coins, then, there is no donbt that they will come immediately But the amount put ont by the Gavern- by the contributions of gold coin from pri- This atock of gold coin, honrded in many instances simply becauso gold con is not in genernl circnlation aud uot by reason of any superior value, is much largor than most people suppose. It will cense to have anyspecial sanctity nssoon asit shall become ovidont that gold ia passing from hand to hand as freely as greenbacks Then the old stockings will Us taken from Business-men will begin to ont part gold and part greenbacks, and suit now, aud there is not likely to be for tako possession im order to protect Turkey. This theory, howover, proceeds npon the assamption that it was Russia's design to disintegrato Tutkey and to extingaish her as an independent Powoer. It does not tally with this, however, that Russia long sgo suggested to Austria that she should ocenpy Bosnia,—a proposition which violently in- censed the Hubgarians, The aggrandize- ment of the Slav interest has always been a favorite idea with Russia, and she made no onposition to the occupation when it was nuggested in the Congress. 1f, therefore, the occupation is intended for the protection of Tarkey, thon Russia has shown herself as hearlily in favor of that protection as England. In one portion of the speech we get an official definition of partition, or, rther, of what partition is not. Turkey has been protty thoronghly plucked, bat the parts she has Jost are only divisions by conqueat,—that is, the Pawer going to war takes the risks of war, recoiving something if she wins, and nothivg if sho loses. ¢ All great wars,” said Disrarrt, *‘ aro followed by a redistribution of territory, but that is not a partition.” Btill, Austria obtains ¥wo Iarge Provinces withont going to war, which smacks & little of ' partition.” ** Russia, aa strictly and completely as others, came to the unanimous conclusion that the best chance for the tranquillity of the world wos to retain the Bultan as part of the Europenn syatem.” From this we may infor that the partition of Tarkey could only have boen mado in theshape of a hugesteal,—that is, the reprosentatives of the Powers woulld have ont it up into slices snd made off with tho whole of it, each Power taking as much a8 it conld carry, Grecco being kept out in the cold beesuso it wanted the whols, With regard to Armenin, Disnaznr's trampet is not so ringing. His statement does not tnke the form of Lold and exultant assertion, but is somewhat apologutic. Upon thia point he says: llussia, having obtained only Nesanrabla In En- rope, naturally fooked for s roward to hor co q’:mu In Armenfs. 1t was unfalr to argue though tho negotlation rolutive to Armenia haid Deen for the conclnsion of peaca between Lugiand und Russia, Tarkey had by fhe Treaty of San Stefano alresdy given up Kars, Patoum, ete. If Enwiand had gone to war to recover them, the war would liave been long snd _exocnsive, and prova- oly, like most wars. wonld have en ed 1n a com- Bl e Rasmoner . Womld Barhaimees have s tiwned n war in order to restore it to Tarkey that Russis might take 1t agam when the noxt misun- derstanding arose, or to prevont tne ccasion of Latoum harbor, which is barely capabloe of holding aix ahipa? The (Jovernment thoughl it advisable not_to begrudge these conquenis to Rusla, cs. neclally aficr ubtalning the restoration of Bayazid nud the district, With regard to the proposed reformns in Asin Minor provided for in the Anglo-Turk- ish treaty, Umsnarrz did not commit himself further than to intimate that they were in the interest of civilization, and would not necessitate any rupture of the peaco botweon England and Russia, The speech appoars to have been very well received in Parliamont, and if the Opposition shall challenge his policy, and the Governmeat decides upon a goneral elaction, thore is little doubt that Victan Grey will receive o new official loaso of lifo, with **the King alone above him."” local managers, of the districts in which thoy are elected. ba greatly improved. ited than it is in this conntry. of any Parlinmentnry District in England, Ireland, or Scotland may elect any porson in the Kingdom to represent them, and it is notorions that the ablost, most experienced snd distinguished statesmen of Grent Britain are chosen to Parliament from districts in which they do not reside. The same rule exista in France, and it so happens that dis- tingnished men are often ochosen from soveral different coustituencies,—the ob ject In bath conntries being to enable the people to havo the ableat reprosentatives in every case, The ruleof local residonce within the district is highly favorable to medioority ond {oferiority, and to ignorance and inex- perience, The ablest men in a State may reside in distriots which are politically ad- verse to thom, and, under the rule of resi. dence, they can never be elocted to Con- gross, nor cau the people have their services, Itis time the rule, absurd, pernicious, ille- gal, and hostilo to the beut inlerests of the whole conntry and of the sovoral States, should be sbandoned snd brokea up, and the nction of the Republicans in the Toledo, 0., District ought to find frequent and gen- eral imitation in all parts of the country. Bays the pewter ass of the T'imes: ** Are not Utah, and Arizonn, and New Mexico ! intogral parta ' of our national establish- ment? They, as well as Colorado, Nevadn, and Califorain, wero Moxican ¢ States.’” No, sir, they are not ** mtegral parts ™ of our Union, oud never have been; thoy are only Temi. tories, which wmeans portions of a country not incladed within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as States into the Union. Thoy have no voice in the Goneral Govornment, and can't eloct or seloct their " own Governors or Judges. They can't frame their own fundamental law ; thoy operate uudor an organic act from Congress; thoir legislative ncta are subjoct to rovision of Congress ; they are in a condition of politi- cnl childhood. An * intogral part ™ of the Union is an organized, sdmitted Btate, which T'orritories most agsuredly are not. The word * intogral " moans: lacking nothing of complotenesa; a complote entity, whole, entire. Tho powior ass of the Times is ig- norant of the signitication of common words, nod ignorant of the differeuco between a Stato and a Torritory. The pewter ass says that Utah, Arizona, end New Mexico, as woll as Colorado, Novads, and California, were Mexican ' Slales.” This is o false- hood, but an unintentionol ono, as the pewter ass didnotknow tho facts. Upper aud Lower Californin, at the timo the United States con- quered the former, wers both Mexican Ter- ritories, and not * Btates,” and Lower Oalifor- nin atill rotnatus a Ferritory, Now Mexico ‘was also a Torritory when taken from Mexico, Utah and Novada undor Mexican rule be- louged to Upper California, and consequont. 1y wero nover Mexican * States,” Colorado was carved out of New Mexico, Utah, Kan- sas, and Nebjaskn; and, thoreforo, it never was & Mexican ““Btata,” Ouas half of it nover wns Mexican territory. The whole vast domain token from Mexico in 1846 was called Upper California and New Moxico, and both wero merely Territorias whon soized. The former contained about 260,000 square miles, with one inhabitant to siz square miles; the other neatly 400,000 square miles, and ono inhabitant to every J¥en squaro miles. The preseut aronof Mex- fco 1 not wuch larger than those two prov- inces or Torritories which we took from it; but it contains nearly ton milllons of * Groas- ors,” whoreas tho annoxod provinces had at that time but 70,000 “‘Greasers.” Almost tho whole conntry wasthen open to Ameri- onu settloment, land-entry, and pre-cmption; but tho lauds of Mexico' ars now all owned by the Ureasers, 'The pewter asy of the TTmes appears to be profoundly ignorant of all these facts of history, geograply, aud of politics, and tho question arises, By what moral right does so illiterate a person set Limsolt up a8 & public iustructor? Is mot the role of foulanvutlied bluckguard sufll- clent for his ambition? DISTRIOT REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS, The nomination of Mr, Ouanves Fostzr by the Republicans of the Toledo, O., Dis- trict for Congross furnishes a proper occa- slon to point out a custom which has dona sud still does great injury to the coun- try in the matter of the Congreasional rep- resontation. Br. Fosrzn lives in Foatorla, Seneca County, 0. The villags is located on the lino dividing Sencoa Connty from Wood County,—Fosren living at his house within the lino of Sanecs, aud not more than half a mile from Wood County: In the Congros- slonal apportionment in 1871, after tho lnat consus, the Tenth Congressional District was formed of Erie, Hancook, Huron, Sandusky, and Beneca Conuties, while tho Bixth Dis. triot was composed of Fulton, Henry, Lucas, Ottawa, Williqms, and Wood Countics. The last Logislaturo of Ohio remodeled somo of the districta so as to give to five which lad Tepublican Representatives Democratio ma- jorities, The Tenth District was thus made overwhelmingly Democratio,~—one point sought being the defeat of the popular Fos- TER, The Republicans of the Sixth District have, however, nominated FosTzn as their candidate, and the objection ia raised by somo of the disappointed local politiclans that Fosren is a non-resident, and s a car- pet-bagger, and should be defeated, This district system is wholly unrecog- nized by the Constitution. The Consutu. tlon requires, in order to bo eligible to Con. greas, merely that the person elected shall be a citizen of the Stale at the time of his election, The distriot residence require- meut s purcly a custom, sud @ very per. niclous one, and which ought to be broken down on every occasion whou the public service will be promoted by it. This case of Foarea's Is on jllustration of the absurdity, Fosrzr has been eight years in Congress, representing the people of Ohlo, and of invaluable service to the country because of his exparience, his ability, snd his integrity. By a mere change of tha line of his district, without any change of his own residence, where ha was born, this custom domands that ho shall retire from Congress, and the peaple of Ohio aud of the country lose his services, ''he Re. publicans of the Toledo District have done thomselves honor and credit by repudiating this illegal and unwarranted custow, and, through their action, the country msy have the valus of Mr. Fosrxas ability and ex- perienco in Congroas. ‘The distriot systgm of electing members of Cougress was not intended by thosa who framed the Constitution, though it was not probibited. It owes its growth (o the senti- ment that the minonty of the people slould be represented in Cougress, as well as the wsfority. Undoer the old system of eleoting mombers of Congress by general ticket in each Blate, it was in the powerof tLe strong- eat party to elect alt the members, This rule or practice was kopt up in somo Htates until leas than forty years sgo, and then Congress Ly law provided for the election of members by districts. Ths legal requirement, how- ever, never extended to having the person elected & resident of the district. The peo- ple of any dlstriot may elect any citizen of the Btate, without reference to what part of the Btate he may reaide in, to ropresent them in Cougress, aud it is grest misfortune that nominating conventions do not oftener go outside of their districts to find caudldates. The Btate of Illinois bas ninetesn Represent~ atives chosen by distriots, which diutricts are generally fashioned by the Legislature in the intersst of local and ambitious politicians, ‘The modera wvention of illegally requiring caudidates to reside in the districts from which thoy are slected;is, after all, a roatrio- tion and denial upon the choice by the people, which iv far mors objectionable than any mere oxclusion of an individual. The intervention of tlus rule bus deprived the country and the Htates of the wervices of mauy of the ableat citizons. It dogrades the Messrs, Portes and Burien should put their hoads together and dovise somo means to call the Louisiaun Sub-Committee back to Washington, or send them to their homes, or, at all events, broak up thelr official scs- slon. They are doing nothing but demon- strating beyond any question that there isn Democratio conspiracy, based on the Tirpxy ides of the efiicacy of monoy in politics, to bribe witnessvs to perjure themselves in or. der to sustain, the provious perjury of Ax. pruson and Wrskn, There have beon three uea before the Sub-Committes up to this time who have sworn that they had been appronched by Weszn, and offered money to recaut thewr formor teslimony es to Intimidstion, aud to corroborate Lis latest testimony on ihat subjeot. First, there was Durs, who gob $50 of the Democratio bribery fund, and was promised 300 as soon as he would giva the desired testimony. Dura seems to have been iaclined to yleld to the bribery in the first instance, bub thought better of it, and ex- posed the scheme, Then came Orinxy, fornerly & Recorder of Mortgages in East Fellciana Parish, who testified that Weurs offered him $176 fn money aud a Domocrstio office wortlh $756 a month if ke (Crapxe) would testify as Wenea diotated,—that is, corroborate Wxsex's lying statements before the Comumnittes. Thon Bwasxy, formerly a resident of the Weet Feliciana Parish, testi. fied that Wenza bad spproachied him for the same purpose, but refused to revest the details of the bribe. From the testimony of theso three persons, this much is certain: The evidence taken by s Democratic Com- mittca to prove that false atfidavits of in- timidation were corruplly securod by Hopublicans is simply the result of bribery and purchsss, Wurnzs, by his owsn confession & corrupt politician, dealing in bribery and bluckwail, lells an improbable story in direot contradiotion of & previous story told undor oath; o is not the sort of man to do this for nothivg. [Lhen thery is credible evidence that, 1u threv ingtances at loast, this ssme Wesxs attewmpted to bribe wen to similurly convict themdolves of pro. vious perjury in order to conflr Lis Hes, Wanes would nover bave evtered upon auy such undertukiug of his own motion, If Le bad doue s0, be bas not the money where- offica of Reprosentative, takes fromthe peo- plo their right of chioloe, and remands popu- lar represontation to the controlof a few It shonld naver bo forgotten by the peopls of any district that thero is no Iaw or war- rant for rostricting the choics of Represent- atives to persons residing within the limits The voter can vote for any man in the State, and if, as in this case in Toledo, the voters would seck 6 representative becauso of hia fitness and ability, and not because of his residence, the charactor of Congross wonld In England, Germany, and Francethe right of the people of any district in leas lim- Tho voters "neas of thu United States now than in 14681 By Decrease of Interoat-bearing bondy.§ 42! body with money i behind him. not know. Dat ono thing they do know, viz.: that the evidence which they aro tak- fng to mnke ont thoir ease is perjured, and that it has been obtained by bribery. Know. ing this, it is high time that they should abandon the disrsputable work at onco, and pat no farther disgrace upon the politics of the country. ———————— The passazs een Lord Savtanuny and Lord Lord Sarisnuny sald Lord Drmay wa harp. 7 WA very sharp. Jord Denny was constantly maxing revelations. ‘was his third apeech since he laft the Cabinei on each occasfon he had one Installment o samo fatal tale, Like Dr. UATES, he said, Lord Dxnny did not know how mnch the noblic would endure, #0 fio gave his story in broken doscs. So far an his (Tord SaLiAnURY'A) memory served, Lord Drnny’s statement was not true. *On being ¢alled to order, Lord SaLiancny sutatitnied the term **incorrect® far ‘*not tene, " and disclaimea any Intention to impugn Lord Dennt's veraclty,— Cublegram, It §s not obvious to the ordinary human understanding how Satisnurr could pro- nounce the statement of DenoY uotrue with- out “impugning his veracity.” Veracity means the state or quality of being veraclous, and veracious means truthful, or observant of truth, Now, ILDxnpx's asscrtion was false, If his selzure-of-Cyprus rovelations were not true, how could BALIsRURY pronounce the state- ments false, and at the same tima bo able to dlsclaim any intention to impugn Dznnr's veracity? BaLiseuRr, ln coarser English, called Denny slior, an! then disclaimed any inten. tion to Impugn—that is, tu contradict or call in question—the truth of his statements, To o man up s tree, it Jooks 1ko a caso of pistols sud coffee for two, ——— Gronrae W. Prck, the professional humorlst of Wisconsin, delfvered the oration on the glo- rlous Fourth at Fond du Lac. 1ie brought dis- grace upon the Anmerican Eagle by uttering the following awinl apostrophie: You live on mice, Yoo srea nice old bird for a trade-mark, you old cownril1 You sit on a rockand walch a peaspnt woman hanging ont clothes, snd, when aho gous Into the house to turn the clotness wringer, you, great Llrd, emblem of freedom, Jou rapresentative of tho Iand of tho freo and tha omo uf Lhe brave, you awoop down on tha plenta- tion and crush your talons in the quivering flesh of hor little baly, take him to your home Wirh in heaven, plck his funo- cent llitle eyes oat. d have becn selected an the emblem of our count the bird of patlence, forbearance, persovcran and the bird of torror when arouscd. s the mul We are o nation of uncomplaining liard worke We plod slong doing as we woald be dono by, aro wiuw to angor, Asa pation we uccasfonally stick onr cars forward and fan fties off of our fore- Bend. But when any natiun aticks spura Into our flanks and tickics onr bicels with & airaw, we come down_atif-logged in front, our eara look to the beantlful bovond, onr volce iscut loone, and fs stiil for war, and "auf subsequent end plays the snare-drum on anythi ot ots in reach ol us, e ———— To the Edilor of The Tribunss Boscogkt, Wid., July 17. —~How uiuch more, if any, {s the intercst-bearing (or bonded) indebted- answering the sbove you will confer a favor on muny of your readers here. You oro the only ou- toority on such matiers In this scetion. Yours, Jous D. WiLsox. On the 1st day of November, 15 the debt beari: in inte 2,107, 677,050 114,610,000 222,000,050 On the 30th of June, 1878, the debt benring coln futcrest was,.,.$1,780, 733, 650 Ditto bosriuyg currency luterest... 14,000,000 Tolalrsssases o suvsncres von ‘Ine guarauteed bonda of the Pacific Ratlruads are omitted frum both statcments. They wero about the sawmwe at each perlod. e —ett——— The Rov. Dr. Hansox, the sble editor of the Universallst organ,—tho New Covenanty— who ucver lets an occasion slip to make a point in fayor of his pecullar religlous tenots, ought %o tinprove the preseot occasion to demonatrate the wickedness and cruclty of a bellef in fire and brimstone, He tnight cite the present ter- rinle condition of 8t. Louls, and compare it with the beat conception of Gebenna that Joun Carvin or JoNATIAN EpwaAups ever cuter- tained as & place of torment for the impenitent " domined, Indeed, that city might now be aptly quuted as & place where the worn dicth not and tho fire Is not quenched, and where the heat of thelr torment asccndeth up forever mud ever. Dr. Hansox should uot neglect a great oppor- tunity like the one that is now offered to bring the Intensity and too great severity of tho old belte! into disrepute.” L —— The Vicksburg Jerald turns aside from tho dlscussion of political vrobloms long envugh to say that the crop prospects are alarmingly bad in that part of Misslesippl. It says that, with the exceptlon of a few favored localities, the crops of that State and of Loulsjany are fujured very seriously Yy the wet weather, Cotton- planteraclaim that pothini tlke theweather thay they had in June, and are having now, wus ever experienced in that latitude before, The heavy ralns have repeatedlv overflowed the valloys, aud so forced tho growih of wceds shat the crops bad to be abandoned, Cotton bas becu 0 forced that therv ls much Joss fruit oo tho atalk than usual, and soma cornlleldsare totally ruined. ‘lhe Hera'd hears of few planters who claim that they will make over halt & crop of corn and cotton, aud somo say they will fail almost wholly. e — . This tstheveryseasonof theyear, O conalderate and humuue reader, when you should not think of packing your truok sud golng off to visit soine of your vverworked aud tired-out country relations, Itis hotter somewhere else than it fs where you are now, aud as nice as you are to have about, and as pleassnt s it is at the propor timc to have your company some other time, just now you will bo voted a nuisance, it you go, Everybody tinds existence a good deal of s burden about these days, eapeclally the female portion of community who are com- pelled to bake, and brow, and cock, and wash, and dust, and provide for the houseliold,—so it you waut people to risu up aod call you blessed, do not add to their work by your uusolivited preseuce, 11 go you must, stop at a hotel, whero they want your compuny and your monoey. e ——p—— S The Cinclunatl Guzelte says that tho City of # Cincinuatl has spent large suns of monoy for the purpose of securing reservolrs that would filter the river water, but the work progresses s0alowly that the present geucration will prob- ably have asscd away bofors full benefits witl be derived,” And yot Deacon Suizu, of the Guazelte, utters a sarcastic Jeer whenover ho reads our article on * Chicago as & Summer Resort," wharelts the purlty, excelience, sud medicinal qualities of Lake Michigsa water, without filter- fug, snd without moncy snd without price, ars duly sot fortn, Thero is & story {u the Good Dook about a tan who awoke in a bad placsand called for help for his brethron, but was tuld that they had Mosss sud tue prophets, and, It thoy would not hosr thei, they would turn & deal ear If ono arose frow the dead, e e— The Vickeburg Hera’d(conservativeloys) Dem- ocrat) te baving rather a lively thoe with some of its uoreconclled Bouthern coliesgues over the speoch recently dolivered by dury Davia. Bome of the papers deuy that it was a secesslon speech, whercupon the Hera'd produces thisex- tract from thie address aforesaid : Permit wo to say of the controverted question of secession by & Btala from by Uniun, of which 18 wus & lowber by compact voluntarly made, that my faith In (Bt right as an iohoreut sitzibute of State povereigzuty was adupled early injife, was coufirmed by ‘tho study sud obseivation of late eure. amil has passad, unchunged snd unsbakes, hrough $ho sovers urd eal ? which it has been sub- Jectea. The flera'd Is quite certain that it isuot s Uunion sentiment which Davis gave expression 0 un that oceaslon. > ———— Gen, GARPIZLD bias & Bue farm duMentor, O., whera is fauwily reside in euwner, aud which Lo bas raken much pajoa to fmprove sud adoru. A cerrespondent who went down from oue of tho Clevelund papers to interview bim suys that be found bim fo the bay-Ueld with a guue of wen, weaning u 20-cent cip bat, pants aud veat, glving Qirectlons ubuut the burvestiug, as i be with to bribe others to do likewiso, Soms. We don't know who this somebody is; perhaps the Democeratic mombera of the Committea do hnd been & matural-hdtn Granger. ' Nop, his Washingtan frlends, should thep seo pot driving a voke of oxen in tho brolling sup 4, emphasizing with a gad the stentorian Almuun *Geel’ ‘Haw! and *Whon, Buck!' wy, it which no oxen seem able to do & proper lrx-u,‘,mlt of work, wonld have suspected that the brwn: shouldered, sun-burned farmer under the chiy hat was the famous Reoublican chie, ey from parllamentary victortes on the floor o Congress,” When Brnas WRIONT was a mem, ber of the United Btates Bcnate, his nelzhy at their annual town meeting, thought {5 P & practical joke on him by electing him tq m{ office of Overseer of Highways, The Senatop promptly accepted the office and took & hang o holding the scraper and drlving oxen with the other taxpayers of the district, sod in they way dignlfied labor. ——————— The death of the Hon. DAYID Noaots, o Janesville, Wis.,, s anvounced. 1o way gg years of age, and was ona of the frat scttlery fn Rock County, Ho served a term in the Rryq Leginlature, one term us Circuit Judge, angyy, 1808 Prosident Gnant appointed him Chiey Justice of Idaho Territory. He was 8 man g fine personal presence, and posacssed extragy. dinary natural abilities, but lacked the grace of & thorough education, 1le was father-lu-law ty the Hon. CmantEs G. WiLrLiaus, the nresen Representativo in Congress from the First Wy, consin District. ———— Now up rises old Fog-Horn ALLEN once apty and laysclaim to inventing the term **fign, money, for which he filed a caveat over threy yosra ago, It {s @ term he howled on thy atump three yosrs ago, that it 1a tho Govern. ment stamp that maukes money,—no mitte whether that stamp {s pat npon paper, leather, sllyer, or gold. These Indison people may imagine they have struck a ncw Idea, but they have been simply revamping o motlon thy Sweet WiLLlAM wors threadbare thireo yean &0, ——————— The Boston Herald, says Gov. RicE has noap. preheusion ol any trouble arlsing from the com. Ing ot DENNIS KRARNEY, the California Com. munistic leader and agrarian blatberskite, Xo doubt but that Gov. Rics looks at Bex Burey and says, " If our folks can stomach such sty 23 hodeals out to them, they must bo proot against any sort of Bocialistlc heresy, comne from what source and in what shape it may.” Ricy belleves ia freo speech and fair play, but, It i comes to ridting, ho dues not hold to firiog blank cartsldges. . The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicls makes no apole. gies for Jrrr DAvis' 1ato pro-slavery, sccassion, and Lost-Causc address, but raps the Vicksburz Tierald and other conservative Southorn papen over the knuckles as follows: We venture to_say that Mr, Davia® speech huy not rmed the Deniocratic parly ane particie, 1t will not serve tho canse of Radicatlsm a jot, and we do not heatats to add tuat, vory far frum heing the *‘raving of a lunatic,” 118 fioble_expositiv of truo principles, without which this Goverumens must ulttmately petish, The heated term has brought ono reliel ay least. Tho blatherskito politicians hiave been sllenced all over the land for the timo belng, TuURMAN s notss much of & Presidcotial candidate as ho wns; Toxd Ewino has beea obliged to succumb; DAx Vooniuees has been compelled to take to the shada of & tall sycs. more ou the banks of the Wabsah; and all is quict about here oxcept the mild chirpy of little DooLITTLE, aud tho wolflsh howls of Brick Pournox. ——— Nenator CoxrrinNg's home organ, the Utia Republican, saysthat *If there was any doult before about the party being o unit, the treach- erous aud deflapt act of tho Presidont in sus. pending ARTiUR and CoRNELL has consolidated it ngalnst the Adminlstration, and it will ba eager to givo expresalon to its indignationina platform that [IaYEs can understand as readiiy as King Geonan could read the signature of Lold-handed Jonx Haxcook." ————— The Philadelohla Zimes says that Bcnator CoNKLING vot up on ‘“an uncomfortably tong. Texized pair of atilts, 'and now that they haws Ueen knocked from under,him ha fecls baaly. Jhurt in spots. 1t he dldn’t climb, g0 high ks wouldn't have so far to fall." Who'a llke & monkey on 8 pole— Tlo hicher un tua more the sule OF hiafoot b ween? Lpon the whole, Itmay be CoxktiNg, ———————— ‘The Fond du Luc Commonzwealth scnds fn this very reasonablo roqusst: Let us kindly ho pormitted to spend our eternit in tho company of others than thuse who are jeal- ous and cold-hearted enough to send finvaxr- piire, simple, thoughtful, bouest, kind, fattbful- to Hell, and the vile hrate who repents on the gale lowa or guillotine, to Heuven. Tbose who know Mr. Kuromix best will not ralse a singlo opjection to this potition beinz granted. —————— ‘The 8t. Louls Republican (Dem.) admits that the bulk of the talont in the United States B«ne nte {s with the Republicans, and that Braig, ConEkLING, EDMUNDS, MoRRILL, DAwes, 1losg, Frany, MaTTusws, ANTItONY, llows, and otb- ers, are not matched by the Democratie phalant 1 that body, Its call on the Btate Leglslatures with Democratic mujorities to bring forward their best men. many fatal sunstroko as "Clucinnatl, I the town by the Iake pleass take in hor sign. ** Attractive Bummer Itesort * 1—Cincinnat) Gazetts, No. Of courssnot. According to the popu- Iation of the tio citics, thers have bovn at least two fatal cases of sunstroke in Clucis. to oos o Chicago, Hesides, sunstroke up hero by the 1ake does not acem to hurl & man as It does 03 tho Obfo River, Fact! ————— Concerning the nomiuation of littie Dooui 718 for Cougresa, the La Crosse (Wis.) Leder 1e conatrainod to say that, *1f tho boy Is any- thing Hke tho *old man,' the Dewnocrats should keep an oye on the boy, for Lo Is just asaptto Ret over on the Republican side before tho cam- paign 18 closed as he is to remudn with the party by which be was nominated.” ——————— For a long time some of the capltalists of 8t Loufs have haid under consideration the proous sltfon to rebulid the Bouthern flotel, but the recent beated term has lod to its abandonment.-/ 1t they will locate It in Chicago, and fili & evory summer with guests from that torrid zone, it would bu a grest relief and save many Uves. - ——————— Owlng to’ the latense heat of Weduesday, 6 was jmposalble for the Balthnore Awmsrican W tuka the neccesary and accustomed reckonlog; consequeutly the prozress made towaras the White Honse by * tho mop on horseback * cane not be detlnitely stated. * e ——— Mr. WATTERAON admits the truth of Postmas- ter-Ueneral KEY's remark that the Porrza in- vestigation has developed 8 **rascally crowd.” But WatTansoy * developed" Hzwirs, whom he considers the worst plll ln the box. e—— e Up to the timo of golnz to press, the New York Sun bas not beea peceived at this office and weare thercfore uuablo to explalu to & pauting and eager public cho exuct status of the third-term scare or of fraud. e The £-0.-U. dou't want to bear sny unseem!y lovity sbout Tophet, cven fu this terrible weather, not so much ss by way of comparisuns because it i3 *“thluking ob de ola fulks 28 bowe.” ————— Gen. GRAXT writes to a friend [o Wasbivgtod that bio bighly spproves of the ‘rocunt Repub- lican Cungressious! addreass, and thivks it o= tained tho Figbt doctrine for the pariy to stend by, e ———— itis saidthesols su eifort waklog amons sote of the pruminent Democrats of Delaward to el+an out Scuator Bavaun nest winter. 1 15 not wagnete cuough o wake trlends. Cowe, uow, Desxg1T, no skulkloz. 1f you really fuvor kittis DooLirrix's Cougressiv aspirations, wiy don't you say sel