Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 5, 1878, Page 4

& THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1878. ye Tribwne, TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. BY MAIL—IN ADVARCE~—TOSTAGE PREPAID. Datly Editton. one year. 813.00 ATIa OF A yeAr, per mon anday Kditlon: Literar bhee! b raturday Faition, twi X drl-Weekiy, one year. o Yartaof & year, per WEKKLY EDITION, POSTPAID. i cony. o o 388 Fpectmen Glse Post-Offica addresa fn fall, fncluding Btate snd County, Remittances may be mAdn either by draft, express, Tost-Ofice order, of In reglatered letter, &t our risk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Dally, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week. D@y, delivered, Bunday include, 90 cents per week. Address THE THIDUNE COMPANT, Curoer Madison and Dearborn-sta.. Chicago, 11, Orders for the delivery of Trx TRIDUXE at Evanston, Englowood, and 1lyde Parx teft In the counting-room will recelve prompt atcentfon. . " TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES. Tng CricAGO TATIUNE has established branch offices dor the recelpt of subscriptions and sadvertiiements as follows: NEW YORK~Room 20 Tribwne Bullding, ¥.T.Mo- FADDES, ManAger. FARIS, France—No. 16 Rue de s Graoge-Datellore, 31, Mantxr, Agent, LONDON, Fng.—American Exchange, 449 Strand. - Eizngy F. OQiLLio, Agent. AN FRANCISCO, Cal,~Palace Hotel, TAMUSEMENTS, ITocley’s Thentre. Tandolph street, between Clark snd LaBalle. Engagement of the Majercnts, **The Old Corporal.” Haverly’s Theatee. Dearborn trect, corner of Monros, Rngagement of the Colriite Folly Company. _**iabes In the Wood." ALY I 00t MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1878, _ In Now York on Baturday greenbacks sulod steady ‘at 99} conta on the dollar in coin. . ——— Miss MArY AxpEnsoN, the young American actress, arrived in Now York yéstorday on Mor return from a non-professional trip to Turope. During a storm in Philadelphia yestorday afternoon lightning struck a tont in which Hunday-school oxercises wore being copduct- cd, instantly killing a little girl of 11, and fatally injuring threo other children. The complets roturns of the Garman aloctions show the result to havo been the roturn to Parlinment of 93 Conscrvatives, 110 Liborals of various shades, and 96 Ultra. wontanes, In sixty-six cases sccond ballof will bo necessary, T Nopeuxg, tho would-ba nsssssin of tho Emporor of Germany, prefors death by solf- destruction to the cortain and ignominions cxecution at tho bands of thelaw which awaits him. A poir of scissors carelessly left with- vn his reack furnishod him o chance to cheat #ho hangman, and he attempted suicide yes- ‘¢ordny, but was unsuccesaful. A cablo dispatch announces reported ne- gotintions betweon France and Turkoy for the cession to the former of Rhodes and 8eio, two important Islands in the Grocian Archipelago, near to the west and south- ~west const of Asin Minor. Rbodes has an area of 420 square miles and a population of 30,000, and Bcio an aren of 508 gquare miles -and a population of 62,000, The provalenco of yellow fever at Now Or- “eans hos isolated that city almost as effectu- ally 0s though it wera loecated in nnother themisphers, Towns in Texas and on the Mississippi River aro onforcing quarnntine regulntions with such strictness as to imposo sbsolute non-intercourse with the Crescent City. At Vicksbnrg a New Orleans man who persisted in landing from a steamboat wos fined $260 and forcibly ejected from the city. Tho demands of the Vatican upon Ger- anany are so exacting that there s very little likelihood that the: negotiations now in progress at Kissingon will como to a sucoess- ful termination, Nothing less thon the ab- rolute repeal of tho anti-Jesuit Iaws in forco throughout the German Empire snd the granting to the Popo of the unlimited con. trol of clerical patronage will eatisfy His THolinesa—concessions which will probably uot bo granted, In their spcochies on Baturday, on tho oo~ casion of their receiving the freedom of tho City of Loudon, Earl Beaconsrizroand Lord Harisnouy paiuted the good rosults to follow the Aunglo-Turkish Convention in assuring the peaco and independence of Europe and iu securing good government for the Chris. tiaus in Turkey, To (he latter alm Barms- BuRy announced that the Government would especially devote its cflorts, having resolved to fully avail itself of the right of interfer- ‘enco confarred by the convention. ter from a correspondent at Hartford, Conn., relativo to the political situntion in that Btate. It will bo seen that a vory active campaign {5 to bo condacted this year, both for members of Congress and ghe control of the Legislature, the latter having the elec- tion of a United States Senator s the suc- cessior of Mr. Banzuy, whode term expires in March next. From presput appearances, the Republicans seem lkoly to unite upon Geu, Jor Hawrey ns their candidate, and with an excellent prospect of success in this contest, us well as in tho' Qongressional dis. tricts. e — Bomehow the ducla which get a good start in Washington always fall a little sbort of coming off. 'The discussion in the nowspa- pers ot the Copital of the ¥rze Jouy Ponrten rehearing , bronght out some acrimonlous expresslons on the purt of Gen, Bevenny Jounsow, ex-Confed. crate, which wore thought to be aimed at Gen. T. L. Burr. ‘The latter prompt. ly availed bhimself of the judgment und cxporionce of Gen. Mossy as a *friend" in cases of this sort, and Geu. Jounson wos fuvited to epecify the individual be had refercuce to, and if it provud to be Gen. Burta to name weapons, timno, place, cte. But it didn't prove to be Gien. Suiyi under those conditions, and the “‘olfuir” fell through, T —— T ‘I'te quostion of - the paymant of the Btate debt is tho rock ou which the Democratic purty in Younosseo iy likely to pplit. . Post- wwgster-Geperal ' Key inclines to . the bellef thet thy policy of repudiation which is up- perwost iu Dewocratia conusels will result iu thoe slicuation of s large and influential clusa of mien who ara opposed to thy sacrifice uf the Lonor and credit of tho State by a re- fusal to provide for the weeting of its finan. cial obligatious, It is o favorits arguinont with the repudiationists of ‘Tonnesseo that the bonds aro held by Nortbern men who were their encmies in the War of the Ke- bellion, and for this reason ought not to bo pald. Judge Exr confidently anticipatesa serions division in the party on this fssne of repudiation vs, honesty in this tall's elections in Tennessee. The sermons reporied in our columns this morning are those of the Rev. Z. M. Hox. raazr, of Cinclonati, at the First Prosbyte- rian Church, on **Curiosity” in matters of religion and faith; of the Rev. Dr. BarTrNg, of Newark, N. J.,"at Trinity Methodist Chnrch, relativa to the approach of the hour when Canist shonld be glorified ; and of the Rov, Dr. Stxeuxnsoy, of Montreal, at the First Congregational Church, on the subjsct of “TRest.” In addition will be found an nocount of the intercsiing sorvices yosterday at the Lake Blufl camp-moeting, whero Bishop Merrits preached a sermon. mm e e SPECIE-PAYMENTS AT HAND, - Beoretary Suzrian's prosent visit to New York City has for ono of its objects tha adoption of o general plan to put gold and silver in circulation, Under the law as it stands, the Seoretary cannot recoive green- backs in oxchange for bonds, the law de- manding coin,~the bill anthorizing the oxchange of 4 per cent bonds for coin or paper which passed the Senate last March having laid over unacted on in the Demo~ cratic House until the close of the session. Up to tho 1st of Angust no less than $118,° 000,000 of tho new 4 per cent bonds had been {ssued, and during the montha of April, May, June, and July $39,000,000 was taken, roaking $43,000,000 of those bonds taken on private account. In July tho sub- #eription amounted to $19,000,000, and on tho 24 of Angust $7,000,000, nnd on the 3d $7,000,000 wero takon, mak- ing nearly $12,000,000 for tho first throo days of August. All thess subscriptions have to be made in gold, creating a special demand for coin, which keops it at an aver- nge premium of one-half of 1 por cent. The result is the croation of a special market for coin, every man having the money to buy bonds having to exchange his paper at half a cont discount for coin. 8o long ns thore is & demand of from one to five millions of coin a dny for a purposa that cannot be accomplished with paper, so long will the coin be held for sale, and not permitted to posa into general use. The cffect of this is topilo upin the Tressury a mnss of coin, which is daily incronsing and strengthoning the premium on coin. The Secrotary now visits New York to ‘urge upon the bankers the policy of putting the coin into circulation by freely paying it out whenever wanted; in overy case whore & man wants coin to purchase bonds, let the banks give him the coin at par for his groenbacks, and thus sponge out tho half por cont premium now collectod on all such oparatiors, When-the gold and silver coin can bo had for greenbacks at par, thon the gold and silver coin, being no longorata prominm, will pass into genoral circulation. The accumulation of coin in tho Treasury, without the ability to pay it out, s a prac. tical contraction of the curroncy, and, if the 4 per cont bonds continue to be taken at the rate of from $20,000,000 to $£40,000,000 a month, the accumulation will not only bo largo, but rapid. Unloss the greenback be put at par, the whole matallic money of the country will be absorbed in the purchaso of 4 per cont bands, and all bocome lodged in the 'Troasury, As the money ro- colved from the salo of 4 por conts accumu. laten in the Treasury, notice is given to the holdera of the 6 per cent bonds that at the ond of nhety days such bonds will be re- doemed; but the coin has to remain in the Treasury during these ninoty days. If the greonbacks wers at par, and woro' paid out and receivable at the banks and by the ‘I'reas- ury in exchange for coln, the accumulation of coin in tho Treasury would coaso, because as it is paid in it would then be paid out ogain, and greenback would be exchangea- ble for coin anywhero and every- whers in the country. The Becrotary proposes, if the banks will co-operate, to pay out gold in tho current expend- ftures of tho Government, and in pay- ment of intersst sud in payment of 6 per cent bonds; then gold will be so far in oxcess of the Jdomand for it that it will be impossiblo to sell it at a premium. Being then, like silvor, loss conveniont for largo transactions than the paper, it will find its way first into general circulation, and then be deposited with the banks, and be obtainable, whonevor wanted, aa freely as paper, ‘The onc-half per cent differenco betwoen coin and paper {s all that stands in the way of epecio-payments, genoral and universal, ond if this can be ovorcome in the way indicated, then the resumption on the 1st of January next will be disconnted of all its perils and horrors, and tho country at that timo will bo in the enjoyment of some elght bundred and more millions of dollars of currency,—gold, sailvor, and paper,—overy dollar having an ejual value and purchasing power, and equally legal value for all pur. poscs,—n larger smount of currency of coln value by one-half than was over held in {his country at ono time in its history. MORE OF CARTER HARKISON'S BUP- FOONERY, Oanren Hanrisox has achieved some repu. tation in his littlo day ns the saviog of the Marino Band of horn.blowers, as the manip- ulator of the American Eagle, and as the genoral clown and mountebank of the House of Reproscntatives; Lbut wo doubt whether in the future he will be 8o well known by these achiovemonts as by tho record for colossal. check and adamantine and unadul. torated egotism which be has now mado for bimself. ‘Tha record of his own account of Limself, given to his constituents at Aurora Turuer-Hall on Saturdsy evening last, pos- sesses 8o many shining instances of this stu. pendous egotismathat it alinost makes ono regret that ho had not dovoted his talents to thimble-rigging or three-card mounte, where his capaclty for cioek would have had & wide fleld for operation, and made for himself a world-wide reputafion, In oxamining Mr, Oartes Hagmison's ad. dress to his disgusted coustituents, we find it full of surpriscs. At the very ogtsot, he starts off with a stunner that must have made them rub their eyes to see if they were awako or asleop, How little credit he gives them for ordivary intelligence is shown by hLis golng beforo them and claiming to be the futher of the Lake.Front bill,—a 'bill that was introduced two or three years ago, and which bo has kad neither the ability nor tho influence to move since. All this bosh about squatting on publio lands was uttered slmply to prevent the credit dug o MIr. Awomion, Mr. Larazor, Corporation-Coun- | 66l Bowrizry; and Tex Omgico Tripue, who mads .the argumonts agalnst the Var- znTve sorip. e follows this up with so- other crushier i claiming the Fosr bil} for the repoal of the Besumption sot as hisown., This is ono of those displays of bombastio egotium thet takes away the breath. Thare is no answer to it. He moy claim'to be the author of the Declaration of Independence, or of Magna.Charta, and it will not secm any mors surprising, From the Forr bill, Mr. Oanten Hinnison passes to tho bill for widen- ing and deepening tho Ilinois Canal, and once more troats us to another romarkable blast from his personal hom. He aska: ““ Have the people of the West Bido over heard of it?” We may ask in reply, Have the West-8ide people ever heard that this bill was advocated by I. N. Anxotp years ago, aud that he once got it throngh the House? Have they beard that noth. ing has been done sinco then? Hava they heard of anything that Mr, Oar. rxn HAnnsoxn has done, and, if he has done anything, whoro does it appear on the rocord? Have they heard of a $200,000 ap- propristion that Mr, Pounn procured for the Fox River and Wisconsin Improvement? Have they sver heard of a dollar that Mr. Oanten Harnmsox has seoured for the Illinols & Michigan Canal Improvement ? “But the bill on which he based his hopos, if he shonld sit in Congross again, ‘waa the one providing for a progrossive in- coms tax. He was the firat man in America that ever proposed it, and the first one who aver wroto on the suhject, being 'ahead of the Communista.” What is this bill upon which Mr. Canten Hangisow, claiming to be the original Communist, bnses his hopes? It ia a bill which provides that the more men an omployer can employ, the heavier shall bo his tax, 8o ns to ent down his wage-fund. If » man omploys two mon, it will enable Lim to discharge one. If Lo employa fifty, ho can discharga five or six. If Lo omploys 500, ho can disoharge 100, and so on in like ratio, Mr. Canten Hannisox's progressive income bill is the conception of a doma- gogue to benefit his Houthern brethren, to play into tho hands of the Communists, to ““corral the employera and then grind thom, G—d d—n them." Every dollar of this tax levied on the West is n dollar taken out of the wago-fund. That Mr, Canten Hanntson should stand up bofore workingmen and claim that such a tax, that robs their own pockets and takes away their work, is going {0 help thom, shows either that he himself is an ignoramus not to see it, or n knave, who is taking advantaga of others whom he be- lioves to bo ignoramuses. The money sc- cruing from this tax Mr. Oantez Hannisox gonerously proposes to use in tha cheapen- ing of whisky, so that the discharged work- man may be able to drown his sorrows. There is ons featurs of Mr, Canten HAnri- soN's record that Is apologetio in character. Wo now learn that he helped to kill off Gon, Sumsios and put in his Rebel consin a8 Doorkeepor of the Iouse, becauss he thought Gen. SmELps would be insulted by such an appointment? Docs OarTER HaRRI- soN actuslly suppose that he can bamboozlo his constituents with such transparont hum- bug as this? They know a8 well ns he that tho Doorkoepor of the House Is in reality tho assistant BSorgoant-at-Arms; that ho has the protection of the House in his keep- ing; that tho offico is an honable and lucra- tive one, andthatit carrios with it great influenco and patronage. Why did he not give his constituents the real reason, and tell them that if tha stanch old soldier had been elected ho would have chosen wounded Unfon soldiers for his nsaistants, nnd that ho (Hannsox) helped §o kill him off becausa the Confedorates were alarmoed ? Gen, BmreLps would have boon glad to have had the place, and would have filled it with honor and dignity. CanTes Hanusow, having ono of tho largest Irish constituoncies in the Unitod States, will have to hold a great many more meetings bofore he will convince the Irish that it would have insulted Gon. Surewos to bave made him Assistant Bor- | gosut-at-Arms, Wo need not follow this remarkable mountebank any farther in his ridiculons capers, We lave no faith that anything wo might eny will have any influence upon a mon go puffed and awollen with egotism ho cannot see that ho {s making himself ridiou- lous, or that tho peoplo of his district are graveled with shamo at his periodieal ex. hibitions of buffoonory, As they have the means in tholr hands, thoy will put a stop to it at the first opportunity. THE WORKMEN'S TESTIMONY. At the New York investigation into the cnuses of labor troubles, Mr, W. A, Cansey, & bricklayer, appoared on Saturday. He oxplained what, in his opinion, were the avils, and what the remedies should be, 1. Tho public-school systom wasbad because the achools did not teach mechanical trades and urts. This gentleman did not oxplain why it was that the Trades-Unions refuse to allow boys to learn trades, The right to learn a mochanical trade no longer exists ; the number of porsons permitted to loarn a trade I8 limited, and in some trades confined to the children of workmen. Tens of thouy, sands of boys would annually become ap- preatices to mechanical trades if the Trades- Unions would permit thom. 'Trades-Unions in this country aro mainly recruited from immigrants, while boys born in the couutry aro rigidly excluded, 2, Ho demanded the abrogation of the contract system and the employment of labor diroct by the Govornment. Wo bave bad a striking illustration of this kind of basiness in the Chleago Custom-House build. ing, which was paid for by days' work,— at eight hours a day, Though the building is not yot cowplote, thore hava been one million of dollary paid out for days’ work not performed, and for bad work and dishouost work,—the stealing belug done. by all the persons omployed, with fow oxcoptiona, There was throughoyt Lardly one day's faithful work performed. 8. Ho cowplained that the contract sys- tom pormitted the omployment of Cliucse ond other swarms of foreigners to drive out/| native American laborers, Mr. Canszy will flud that tho great majority of the men who ‘domand the expulsion of the Chinoso, and all the Communists, from Dexnis Kzanney down, aro men of foreign birth, and if he draws a line botween those of native and foreign birth, aud insists on the oxclusion of the latter, ho will find the rauks of labor in thia conntry largely thinoed out. Does he want to drive every man of Europesn birth who asks for work gut of the couatry? 4, He wants a large system of fnternal improvements, and tho issue of paper money to pay for them. If the paper money is to be redeemed, thea his scheme is to tax two-thirds or more of the pcople to give wages to the others; if the monoy is not to be redocmed, then to hire moa and pay them with worthless monoy is a fraud anda deluglon, K . A man pamed Mippox, sposking in the csuse of ‘‘humanity,” wants *fourtcen thousand millions of dollars” of notes to be expended in docks and -other works in New York, and proportionate sums in other parts of the country. The testimony of all these men, who rep- resent various branches of industry, is so wild and inconsistent that it raises the pre- all In vaini outllow, coaxing, tho Treasury Department bas sctually sncceeded in getting rid of $73,000 In silver dol- etandard dollar 1imes, gold ond tho Govornment notes. shrowd poople allow nearly the whole mnss of ailver dollars to lie idly in the Govern- ment vaulta if thoy had only a valuo of 89} conts apioce? Would thoy not ecek to pos- sesa themsolves of thoso cheap dollars and use thom in tho discharga of their dobts, It is at once absurd and malicious lo continue to de- nounce the silver dollar as a debasod coin becsuse it will not circulate, : debased coin it would circulate, becauso the baser ourroncy always eoxpels tho better. ‘That 1t doos not circulate is the best proof of its superiority over the common cir- culating medium,—the paper dollar, the silver dollar must be on a complete par with the gold dollar is ovident from .tho fact that it is so superlor to the paper dollar it wiil not ciroulate, and the other fact that the paper dollar is within ono-half of ono cont of par value with the gold dollar. It the anti-silver nowspapers had beon honest in their opposition to the remonetization of the silver dollar, opposing it because they bolieved it would not have an equal value with tho gold dollar, thoy would now be willing to acknowledye thelr error of judg- mont, and censo their attacks on %those who favored romonetization, sumption that thera is but a limitod ¥nowk edge among them, both ns to the rossons why Iabor is unemployed, and as to tho rem- adios nooded. They all have an idea that the ismo of fiat money in unlimited sums would help them, but how, they do not kmow, Thoy do not seom to ovor ssk thomselves whars the Government in time of pence can find the power to ecize their persons, and tako their labor, and * pay” them in paper worth only o mnch on the nominal dollar As any person may choose to give for it. To “pay * labor in money which will buy noth- ing is a fraud so glaring and a deception #o transparont that the wonder {s that thess men refuse to sea it. In striking contrast with all tho other workmon who have tostified, waa one, who 8 thus roportad : Jasns O'DoNrects who announced that he rep. resented only **his sovarcign self, ' 2ald the non- sense of Immmn #peakers the past two days had nined bim. He wanted neithor groenbacks, nor “ommunlem, nor an Kight-Hour law, but ho did want somio_satlefactory manner of arbitration be- tween naster and man, & restriction of the rights of patentees, and the right to work wherover and whenever he could get ity and foe ss many hours as he chose, Ho probably is a man whom the average Communist wonld like to kill. CIRCULATION 0F THE mvfn DOLLAR The paternal dollar obstinately rofuses to leavo the Treannry vaults. Every posslble effort s made to force thia coln ot into the hands of a business community luprolcd to be clamaroas for it. Dut it linzera undisturbed, Usnally, the inward flow of mliver doliars is about cqual'to the Hut, after three weoka of pushing and lafs in excess of receipts, . This ought to be cone sidered a great vicory for tho advocates of *'the asa'stdble carreucy.~New York This s a samplo,jpf,tho sneering com- menta which are mada by the organs of the gold-cliqno relative standard silver dollax, matior of course, follows in tho same line, and says that tho Trensury Dopartment has been unsuccessfal in trying to got the silver dollar into cironlation (implylog falsely a special effort in that dircction), and adds that thoro {s “‘little or no demand, oxcept nt porta of entry, " Dut may not procisely tho same commont be made upon the gold coin? Might wo not say that, after nll the ‘' pushing and conxing,” there ia no gold in activo circulation? Jihe status of the .Tho Nation, as Might wo not with eqnal trath point to tha faot that the gold dollar * obstinately rofuses to loave the Treasury vaults”? The Inat Treasury atatoment shows that some- thing ovar $200,000,000 of gold are piled up in tho Governmont vaults,—na larger amount than is on deposit in any one place In the world, oxcept, perlaps, in tho Bank of France, Is that oroason for smoering at gold coin as money? Yot it is procisely for the same ranson that both gold and silver sock the Treasury vaults and atay there. It Is because the silvor dol- Iar is worth just as much as the gold dollar, and bocause cach is worth more than tho legal-tendor paper dollar, that neithor can be coaxed into ciroulation, coudition which tho anti-silver newspapors always prodictod nover conld be brought about. The offort to remonetize the silver dollar was denouncod as a wicked conspiracy “to enable debtors to swindle their oreditors by paying 90 cenis on tho dollar. The Nation in cvery numbor quotes comspicne ously the bullion valuo of the silver dollar, and in tho last numbor tells us catontationsly that **ono of theso dollars” is only worth £0.8955, American peoplo aro such jackasses ns to re- fusa to uso 89 cents forn dollar to pay dobts whon they may lawfally do so? But 1t is this very Aro wo to infor from this that the The silver dollar is n full legal-tonder, like Would It it wero o That But it is their spleen at failing to rotain o singlo gold standard, whereby to grind tho debtor and give the creditor a higher value than ho was entitled to, that now prompts their continued misreproscntation, Tho renson why the standard eilver dollar docs not circutats s because it, like the gold dollar, kna & highor value than the paper dollar; when tho paper dollar shall be fo- deemed on demand iz the gold or silver standard dollar, then gold, and silver, and papor will all circulate togethor. AULT, The last number of the New York Nation draws the following %’X‘" but faithtul, pen. ploture of the demagogye Keanyky ; ‘The reception of Kmanwzy, the Californis agi- tator, in Boston by o crowd of workingmen, tno caretul reports of his specghes by the nre-l. and the vditorial comuients on Lim by aif the leading faners, form altogethur o vpectacio that must do- gt Tuouxas CauLyis, If Lo still pays atteution to contemporary politics, for Kxanxky s probably the lowest typo of demagogue that has' yet ap- rllnd in bistory. Al bis predecessors of which hero [ any record have lald cisim to some of the T::“llu which are supposed to distingaish i civillzed wau from the savuge, but Kranney makes no ureignse to anything which the reading, thinking, aud remembering uman race hos bitherto consldered redpuctable, o staply dues what the naked Bushman d curdes, calla nawes, and theeatens death. N theless, ho has in une of tho foremost communi- tles of the modern world a cunsiderable folluwing, and Is au ubject of fnterest, and even of duference, tomoat of oar politicluns, e 18 worth study be- cuuso he fo s kind of snimal for which nelther American politics nur jusnners have made as yot b uliglitest preparation, aud becuuse he s the firet to wascrt & clalus which has beon long In thy alr, viz. ; tho claioy not simply of the poor man to rulo tho State, but of the brutal, !’uunml, blas- phemiog rutisn to have his way'wilh the frugal, ndustrions, pradsut, and rellgigne; wnd ausuredly weo bave not sevn the last of his kind, 1iad the Nation stopped ot this point, it would have commended itsolf to sensible and fair-minded readers; but, in the ve next breath, we flud the following wick snd malicious fling at the colored men of this country s Lot ¢ add—sad without any wish to ralse & uestion of party politics—that the moral and re- iglous people of the North, In using thoir jufia- ence and the force of the Fuderal suthorily 10 peocure and maibtain for several th govern= ent of great civillaed communities st the South by the :lu‘l? lfuullnl portion of the Fa ulatio and to discredit the futolligent portion for pulltic pur 18, havo buen suwing the ssed frum wiic! he KgaRXEYS 4pring. Thero will not fail’ to be a very genoral focling of surpriso at this double insult— first, to the woral and ‘religious people of | the North, and, second, to the colored men of tho Bouth—Ly the Nation ; and two ques. tions at onco will be asked: firat, what has como over the Nation, which favored tho smondments to tho Conatitation and the onfranchisament of the negro, that it shonld back on its own tracks and eat its own words; and, second, what has the negro dona that he shonld be exposed to such a bitter, malicions, and gratuitouns assault? If it bo the correot policy to keep tho black in astato of jgnorance and debasement, andtleprive him, aftor making him a oitizen, of allthe rightsof acitizen, thenthe Nation's nssumption is correct also; but we have not yot seen such & policy ndvocated, except by the worst, most {nflammatory, and most troasonable Bourbon papers 1n the South. After making the negro a free man, it wasan inevitable nocessity that he shonld ba armed with tha ballot, to maintain his fraedom and save himself from lapsing again into siavary, Even with the ballot, he has barcly saved hiniself from such s fate in some sections of tho Bouth, where the malignant cunning of Dourbon lnw-makers las devised statutes which have approximated hia condition as nearly ns possible to one of sorvitude, with- out actual violation of the Coustitution. But for the measuro of protection which the bal- lot nasurcd him, tho descent would have boen complete. How have the blacks misused their froo. dom or their right to tho ballot, that they should be exposed to such nssaults as those made by the Nation? In tho North the negroos have always votad with the batter class of citizons; and, so far as the ballot indicates it, thoy have used their influence in favor of order, horesty, and good govern- mont. To this oxtont, thorefore, they have strongthoned the botter class, and helped to ndvanco the interosts of morality and politic. ol purity. In many placos,—for instance, in one or two warda in Chicago,—ihey have lield a balanco of power, and have defented vory bad mon and elected good men. In the Bouth the cnse Is even stronger. There hns nover boon an instance in all Listory whore raco, hold in human elavery for yonrs, and sunk in the lowest depths of debasement and ignorance, has been suddonly frood and onfranchised, and used its now privilegos with such good sense and discrimi- nation as the Bouthern blacks,—and this, too, in the face of bulldozing, ostraclsm, and tho revenges of brutal force. If the Nation would disfranchise the negro on account of illiteracy, what will it do with tho white trash of tho Bouth, who are evon mora illit- orate than the negro, and aro lower down in the nctual scals of civilization? Is it pre. pared to disfranchise three-fourths of tho wholo Southorn population, and leave the governing power in the hands of the remain. ing ono-fourth ? The nogro race, in its new condition of froedom, has produced no Krannzys; but it lina produced mon who have held office with honor and honesty, Congressmon who Lave filled tholr seats with ability, and at lenst one Congressman whoso ideas of proprioty and personal conduot saved the record of the last Congross from confusion, and who did not forgot to Lo a gontloman whon some of lis .whito poers were making brutes of themselves. The mnogro race does not produce the Communists, It did not sup- ply the ronghs and thugs who last summor burned and destroyed proporty. It does not soud agitators about the country, urging workingmen to * corral the employers, and then grind thom, G—d d—n them.” Itdoes not boliove in leveling down, but up, Its natural inclination is to imitate tho whito raco, aud it sclocts the better class. It does not bollove in killing priests, for it is strong- ly religious as a class, Its ambition to be oducated, and to hold an honorable place in socloty, is strong. Its sympathics arg with tho better class, and it votos and works with thom, and thus far is bottor ontitled to the ballot, and has made botter useof it, than the mob of bummers, loafers, and demagogues whom Kzanrnxy rapresents, That the Na- tion gljould descond to such a venomons and unprovoked attack upon the blacks ns a race, does not argue very well for the fair- ness and manliness of its conduot. In strik- ing at Keanner eo sharply, it cchooes the sentiments of all respectable and Iaw-abiding poopla; but, when its very next blow is de- livered at a class which does not follow him, which has no sympathy with him, and which faroady to join hands with the better olsss in opposing him, ita conduct 18 malicious ns well as cowardly, The political campaign {n Ohlo is bocoming a littlo personal. Thoe Democratle papers have been howling **fraud ** and talking wildly sbout the * stealinz® that wont on during GRaNT'Ss Adminlstration. The Republicans reply by pointing toDemocratic practices at home,—right inthoState of Ohlo, The Democratic * re- formers * ara groatly shocked and dlsgusted by the array of preof. [lere is the tablo as correct- ed by rellable data gathered 1n the several couns tles: Gowil .Dc:llnn;lanc Av‘na’unl ounties. majoriy. atolen. Allen, 1,047 $ 15,000 Ashlan o] . Aulaiza’. § 000 iSelmant, 1 Yrown, 1 Hutler, 1,030 220, 000 1,500 Records burned, 171 ,000 10,000 4,000 The Ducyrus Journal Iurulshes its readers with a brief history of the defalcatlon In each county, the whole filling nearly four columaos, and from the details gencralizes the followlng resultss Democraticcounties in tho Stato(average). 40 Number of Democratic cauntl ich there are defalcations . a1 ‘Total amount of defalcal of Uiese twenty-oua countles, $047,503 Awmount recovered thus (ar, 67, 300 Lows to the people o 509, b33 Number of defaaltel 2% iu tho fow cases where the defaulters havo been brought to answer, the senteoces of punishment have beon of tho lightest kind, In Brown County, the Troasurtr, ALPRED PAuKER, was sentenced to ong year in the Penltentiary by a Democratic Judge, who at the sams term of court scnt up for three years 4 neuro who stole seven dollars’ worth of hams from a smoke-bouse. It would be Intercsting to go through the record that is furnished by the twenty-one plundered counties, —————— ‘The Hon. T.O.Pounp, Representative In Congress from the Eigtth Wiscousin District, passcd through this city last week on his way to Washington, where ho bas important busi- uoss (0 travaact with the Dopartments. Gov, Y'OUND has made such a stralgnt{orward and conalstent record for hfnsclf during his Srat tern In Congress that there is uo serioys oppo- |, sitlon to his renvinination, and his ro-glection te theretoro a8 probable as slmost any other future eveut. His dlstrict comprises nearly one-half of the geographlcal territory of Wisconsiu, run- niug quite acroas the Btate Lrom the Aligsissippi River to Lake Michigan, gud embraciog io Its area some of the most vi and jmportant re- sourcesand jnterests,—Includiog tho products of the vast plueries, mines of iron, copper, snd sll- ver, and other sources of wealth to % be found in sny distriet In the Unite@ Biates. Reférenca to the River and IHarbor act of the last Congress dis- closes the fact that Gov, PounND was on baud with his lttle bill of particulars for the Eighth Wisconsin District when those **llbersi appropriations wers made. Thus, the bill aforesald containa & provislon for the survey of the head-waters of the Bt. Crowx, Chippews, and Wisconstn Rivers, **to determino the cost and practicabllity of creating reservoirs for regalating the volume of water o these streams, and thereby Improving their general navigatioh and thas of the Upper Mississippl aswell.,” Under this provision Lhe Necretary 3 War has already detsited Mag. J, C. Ay to superintend the work, it being considered by those who know nothing about it to be too fmportant to be referrcd to the local en- gineering forcel Persons famillar witn these streans need not bo told how utterly visionary and tmprovident such a schemo s a8 is lero contemplated for *'the improve- ment of navigation® on these rivurs, and It beantifnily llustrates the oconomy and wisdom of the 1ast Congress as shown by the passage ot that River and Harbor act. That bill also ap- propristes $10,000 to complete the jettics and wing-dams at the mouth of the Ubippewa River, and $10,000 for the improvement of tho St. Croix River, by whicl it Is claimed that naviga- tion from Btillwater to 8t. Croix Falls will be vastly benefited, and that catfish and ,buliheads of Jight dkaught will bo able to make frequent excurslon-trips to thoe latter point durlng the scason of spring freshets. The other (tems of the bill relatiug to this district are 50,000 to improve the Harbor of Refugo (why not tall it the Haven of Rest on the Beautiful 1sle of Utopla?) on Lake SBuperfor; $3,000 to jmprove the inlet to Buperlor Harbor; $10,000 to Improve the Menominco Harbor at Marinetto; and $250,000 to continue the Fox 'and Wiaconsin River humbug . project, much of which will be thrown away inslde of (ov. Pouxn's district. GQov. Pounp Is o popular aud industrious Representative; but wo must be atlowed to obscrve that he was a littla too Industrions, for the zood of the Treasury Department,when the items in the Harbor and River Appropriation bill wera agreed upon. . ——— A correspondent at Ottumwa, Ia., writes us requesting avlexplanation of the parties In Ger- many,and F ce, thelr objects and strangth, and what partios composo the Right, Left, and Centre in tho latter country. So far aa it Is possitle to gbt o clear idea of parties In Uermany, Tor TrRinuNE has olready answered its correspondent In a recent articlo upon the Uerman elections. In France, there are four promiuent partics,—thc Legitimists, Orlcanists, Impertaliats, and Hepublicans. The Legitimists udvocento the claims of the Bourbon Comte pE Cuasxnonptothethrone. The Urleanists would restoro the Comto px PAnis, grandson of Louts Pisiers. The Imperialists would bring Qack the Empire, with Prince Narotreox, sonot Louis Narotroy, as Ewmperor, The mission of the Republicans is typifled by tholr name. 1n the French Chambers the various parties occupy scata which are designated by their pusition with referonce to the Chair. The Right is mado up of Logitimists; the Right Ceutre, of Im- yerialists and moderate Orleanists; the Ex- treme Right, of the extreme old Bourbon Mon- archista; the Loft, of the great body of Repub- llcans} the Left Centre, of conservativo He- publicans, including somo Orlesnista; and the Extreme Left, of radical Republicans, including the Communists. e m— e ‘When politics gets to be & sclence in Balti- more, a8 Mrs. JENKS says It i in Loulsiapa, the Gazette will not be compeiled to tell as many 1les 88 it now docs. In its offort to bolater up the PorTer Committee and make tha country belleve that it has really accomplished some- thing worthy of its efforts, it says that ** the {frauds, forgeries, aud perjurica® which were wrought, lu order to *chieat TILDEX out of tke Eilcctoral vots of the 8tato of Loutslana,” were done *‘with the knowlcdge and mssistance of the confldential fricuds and ageuts of R. B. Hares,” and that Mr. Hares rowarded all these men with important appolutments. An old Quaker in a dry-goods storu, atter listouiog to the chatter of a voluble clerk for lalf an lour while ho expatiated upon the value and desirableness of the articles for sale, qutetly re- marked that “It fs o pity that lylog ls a aln, because it sectms to be so necessury to thy businsas,'" The Gasette can make the applica- tion whero it will Qo the most good. o ———— Some time when the thermomster {s resting quietly at 03 degrees in the shado, with an up- ward teudency, when the dust aud heat of the city are absolutely stitlng, and when an occa- slonal zephyr cumes from Dridgoport that strongly sugeests cholera and yellow fever, how provoking it is for your wite, who has been teaalng to go Into the country with the children, to take up Tna Trinunx and read aloud to you this extract, cut from a California exchange: Lake Tahos, a favorite summer resort of Calle fornians, {s one of tho wonders of the ‘world, Ilore you have s aca of pure, fresh watar, 1,500 feel doup, cold as snow, aud bluer than tho sky, Foutloy [ 3 vast, mionntain-basin eluvated. more than feet smong the crests of the Slorra, Al around 1t riso mountain slopes, clothod with fragrant forcats of pinc, dr, and Cedar. You row out inw skift 8 hundred yards from shore, rest on oar oars, and look over tha side to find yourself filnslnu. (ke a featner in empty space, wlfi. aixty fuct of watur bolow you, transparent us the alr —————— A Baratoga correspondent of tho Now York World presents the following sketches of the railroad magnates recently in scasion theres Mr. VAXDENBILT was the most nestly dressed, ways plain and without vstentation or attampt at slways nccosslblo and ready for conversa- rouds, the merits of Horses, or busj- Tal Col, Bcorr was more demucratic in his goneral nppearance. Wheu on the plazza of tho iotel e duvarlsbiy carled a cotton, uibrella, wore a biue-flannel sack-coat and a broad-brimmed, turned.down Panama b er portion of ‘his fa timos frank and courteous, snd, when ques- tloned In reference to the Lusin ! the confer- euco, answerad clearly and conclscly, snd ina manner that carricd thia conviction that he was the master mipd of the couference. Mr. JRWRTT wis 1nore staiely and austore, and, while ready to gn- swor all queations, left the impression that ho felt ho was confersing » great favor by so dojng. Joux Kixo, of the Baltimore & Oliv, was verhapa the most reticont of all, e 1¢ & short, thick-set man, dressed In a gray suit, and wouid be taken in & awd farmer, e ——— The New York Aun has a story that Jay GouLp is very much embarrassed Anaucially, aud that receutly a loan of his for $200,000 was refused at the banks on account of the insuffi. clency of the collaterals, It fs well to keep in mind, lowever, that all stories sbout GouLp that originate with Mr. Dana's Sus are to be taken at a loeral discount, for two reasons, namoly: (1) That the Sus, like the Chicago Times, has the facuity of economizing the truth 10 a remarkable degree, sud makiogalittls of 1t stretch over an Lmmense amonnt of territory, and (2) that Mr, JAY GouLD owns the chief in. torest fo & newspaper: that Mr. Dawa once *inanaged,” and which is noW one of the priu- cipal rivals and corpetitors of the Sun, e ———————— The Democratic State Treasurer of Missourl is another official that seccins to posscas the modern Democratic fnstinct about the duty of those intereated with public fuuds to feather their own uests. Mr. GATzS is now accused of cheating the Btate out of the suug little sum of'$250,000 by deposlting twice tbat amount ln the Natioual Bank -of Missourl just before it ‘collapsed, and getting back only 50 cents on the dollar, The Presldent of this defunes bank ls ouo of Gates’ bondsmen. Benator ABMATRONG s another, but It 4 now clalmed the boud was frregularly snd loosely drawn, sod ts therefore iuvslid, and the Btate is likely to be out just so uch. Moralt Don't trust your money in Democratic hands for safe-keeplog. A Now York dispatch says that * WarLtes H. Biivys, editor of the Adsoculs, and one of the National Greenbsck party leaders, has filed bis petition in baukruptcy, showing labilities at $60,328.58; asscts ak $857, Slncs ho waas thrown out of the Natlona) 8iste Conveution st Syra- cuse, SUPE bas had hard luck, both politicatly snd flusuclally.” This irredcemable Fiatist claims that bis Weekly ddvocale has sitsived s ciroulation of 850,000 cuples. The subscription price 1s 25 cents & copy per annuw., The whita hiding the great- He “was at sll crowd for & paper alone costs 40 to BOcents 8 year: the post. age, which must be psid In advance, about 1y cents. Then comes the expense of type-actting, proof-reading, press-work, malling, and editing and, tn addition to all these, rent, fuel, iz, taxes, insurnnce, wear and tear. The uetitfn in bankruptey shows the result of publishing 4 newspaper and sellingtha fssues at hmif wiyy, they cost for white paper and postage. Tp, loss does not fall on the Fiat-knave Suvep, tyy on the people who werc atisurd cnough ti, Liberta farnfshes an example for the Natioy. alists that they will do well to heed. ‘That Gy ernment Issued “absolute ™" mouey very hiber. ally,—ihdeed, so liberally that it went down ay ] down until It was only worth ‘15 cents on 11, dollar. For awhile they followed the miy.co of auch fellowa at Sax Cany and Tox Ewrxg, und lesued more flat money * to supply the (. mands of trade,” until It became alnot oy sorthless as It was plenty, But the Liheri saw the point at last, and begau to contrat )y takfbg in the paper for custom dutles, withong relssuing it. Thelr dollar now fs within [ cent of gold, 3 S 555 The Baltinora Gazelte (muderate Bourhuy bas been making an examivation, mud as 1o sult of its observations * falls to find the firy Republican who expresses a sense of fear or ox. Dhibits signs ot terror when Mr, TILDEN Is mey tioned as n Domocratic candldate for President,” It therefore cancludes that, {f the Demacracy want o frighten the Republleans with it noq. ince, It mutat select some nmiote formibdable ayy vopular nan as ite candidate than the sly litsly fox of Gramerey Park, The Gasclte seems to think it a good rule in politieal actlon to iy out what your oppunents waut. and thea do tug contrary. o —— . It was probably due to the unsclfish and pa. triotie labors of JAMES (. BLatxe that all refr. ence to President Harns was kept out of tie Malne Kepublican platform. For the beaedt of readers who lave no encyclopedia within casy reach, we will say hero that Mr. BLaSt way somewhat conspleaous bimsoll 03 a I'resldential candidate before the Cincinnatt Couvention; thiat bie was put fu nomluntion by Col. Bon 6. InoERsoLL 1 o mapnificout speechi thut s made a splendid Mollio MeCarthy run for the frst mile or two, but that lie suddenly broke down and lost the race, — A London letter to the New York Jimes sayss In It lurprllln*l that QrapsTosn hates hiw ‘*Tho People's WiLLiax™ bites his Jips in tiy shadow of & permanent unpupulurity. baska in the sunahine of an imperis] fau 1A EwanT (LADSTONE. with Trlah _adveuturors The Right Ilonorable the Farl of Bracos the guust of mosniarchs, ana oxerclsca the po Liings with the caltn ‘magnicenco of a horn Ein. peror. But the wogdman ol Hawarden, they nay, isaharoening nls ax, By and by he will, **have at theo, moat redoubtable Rarl.” In the mean- time, all goes well with the Premicr. Not his mnodt ambitious hopes could havo soarcd to tho dazzling hight upon which he seems to staud *4fitm aa the rock ftacly." An attorney named McLavonwixv, at Little Rock, Ark., had an account of 325 for profes. slonal services roodered against o tman by the name of Onr, who disputed the clalm, and, be- cause MoLauvanrin would not throw oil some- thing, OxR shot him, It is undoubtedly easfer to kill a man than it is to pay him $23, espectal- Iy i you are propared to kill him aud are st propared to pay over the moouy. Life seems to be clicap and monoy scarce fn Little Rock, ———— . “*Dizzy W The Vicksburg Iferald s of the opinfon that, it tho Ropublicans nominate Gen. GRANT, the Houth will request Gen. Uancock’s nominatlon, That will not be fn sccordance with the old Copperhead Bourbon eentiment of thie North. Home of that crowd would much prefer to sup- port Gen. Jo JounsTox, or even Jore Davis, e — A Boutbern newspaper thinks that Mr. Br.atng, of Maine, has still hopes that there (s aboleof lghtning somewhere in reserve for him. Possibly that Is the reason why Jist chier- {stios such hoatllity toward the lightning-rod peddlors. Ho wants that stray bolt to have o falr chance if It ever gets ready to full. . —— WIOSKY JUDGMENTS. Efforts of the Government to Got Kemo Money 0ot of the Delinquent Distlllors— Westormann and tollector Merrina, Bpecial Dispateh to Tha Tridune. Pexy, 111, Aug, 4.—Some additional facts have been dug out in conncction with the Inves- tication which Is makioz here by Revenue Agents to dlscover something upon which to lovy under the judgments obtained by the Uovernment agalnst the crooked distillers und thelr bondsmen, Nothing has been developed which reflects upon the Integrity of Collector Merrlam, directly or indirectly, Westermunn has certalnly lald down, and, It is underatoou, has. given foformation which implicates sume prominent politiclans. Who they are cannot now bo learned, At the time he was arrcuted, threo years ago, & package of papers dlsap- peared mysterfomaly frotn & box which hu turoed over to the Uovernment ofticiala. Thoss docutments are now in the possession of Deputy- Collector Somerville, to whom tho * squeal ™ was made, bie having at last gotten what he bas been after for years, The giving of thein to un officer who belongs in the Chlcago district s expluined by tho fact that s bitter fecling ex- istabetween Westcrinann and Merriam, the for- mer haviug been at work for a lony time to have tho latter removed, ‘Their quarrel began when Westermanudefeated Merriam trom goiog to Conaress. When Merriam beeame Colictor ho found out Westermaan was running # crooked,” aud followed Lim up closely, Westermaun, consequently, doesu’t like Mer- rism. . Two or toree real-catato transactions which look s llitlo off oo their face hnve been unearthed. The Government has Leon cheated through tho shrcwdness of the rascals here, though its offlcers acted in good faith. One parcel of $0 acres in 8ce. lw 7, Tazewell County, an 80-ucro tract and acres of swamp land in Mason County—land bought b§ Relsinger two or three days before judgment was rendered agaiust him—was boueht in hg the Unlied Buates Marshial for 84,500, the whole 460 acres being worth about §1,000. It seems that sotuo parties, at the present time unknowo,‘mado aflldayit that the land was worth 830 an_acre. The Tazewell County property was bid fna secoud Lime by the Marshal, ho’ having gotien mixed, and belng upaware that he had levied on it before. Another vase is this: Collector Merriam sold uuder gaseasinents ngainst C. J, 1. Rupert, two lots in Block 46 and one lot in Block 47, Town of Pekin, aud bid then in’ for 810,000, They were worth $15,000, but it wis subsequenjly ascertained that thero was a mortzage for $20,000 on them. It s wld, however, that $3,000 0f the lucumbrauce has been paid off, but that doesn't appear of record. Merriam i3 uot a Jawyer, aud, while an cxaminatlon of the records might bave shown the cxisteuce of the mortguge, no blame attaches to him be- cause he didn't look over the books. Bou far as ho'ls concerned, the fuvestization ehows that be has acted with fidelity, and collected all he possibly could under tho judgmeats, About are yet dus’ In Taze- and sl of it Harper's adwinistration. 1t18 doubttul Uf much s collected, aithough the men who owe the money are prominent here, and lrpmnllyvml- perous. The truth is thot nearly all who had roperty have sransferred it, 80 as to defeat the lovernment. An effort will perhaps be mads to Ale bills of discovery in the courts, and it is belleved that much fraud {n getting rid of as- sots can bo uncartbed §f Dlstrict-Attoruey Con- nolly will do bis whole auty. ——— FINANCIAL Nzw Yoxx, Aug, L—James Reld & Co., Im- porters and wholesale dealers in liquors, No. 41 Brosdwsy, have made un asgigomeut. Liabili- tes, $200,000; assets, $100,000. . Oscar B. Dilke, of tho late firm of ‘Townsend, Olluch & Dilke, Pearl strect, has gove Into vol- untary baokruptey. Lisbititics, ~ $151,000; no assats, Bpacial Dispaich 1o Tha Triduse, IspuwaroLis, Ind., Auy. &—Petitiops fn hnnkmcguy are comiug o Irealy, but noue ary of wuch nportance. Merchants expect s good fall trade, apd think the repeal of the Haok- rupt act one of the most imvortant factors in the looked-for return of prosperity. 81. Louts, Aug. 4&—It is usotficially stated thas the labilitics of the Masten Bauk at Kuu- sas City are $1,000,000, and the sisets nominally ubout the same. E