Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 17, 1878, Page 4

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SBATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1878, — e Greenbacks at tho Now York Btock Ex- change yestorday closed at 993, The views and plans of the United States Government for the establishment of o com- mon relation between gold and silver in the markets of the world wore yesterday sub- mitted to the International Monetary Con- feronco ot Paris by Mr. Groespeog, and wero debated by the English, Italian, Bwed- isli, and Bwisa rapresentatives, To bo a polica fuuctionary of the Crar of Russin iz attended with disadvantages which, in the light of receut events, ought to diminish the number of candidates for this kind of preferment. Only n short time ago Gon. Tnerorp, the Imporial Chief of Police, was shot and nearly killed by Vera Bassurrtom, whose success in es. caping punishmout seems o have encouraged others to nchieve distingtion in the seme “line, Gen, Mezextzow, Chief of the Crar's Privato Police, was yestordny assassinated by iwo unknown men, who escaped arrest. The woundod man soon aftor died of his injurics, It ia to be regretted that the Fire Commis- sioners of New York City hava dotermined not to send o representative to the great Chicago Tournament next month, Not that the deprivation will greatly dotract from the intorcst of the affair, for thers will be enough to mako it the grandest of the kind ever wit- nossed in Ameriea; but it wonld bave been interesting to compars the skill and eficiency of tho Now York and Chicugo Fire Depart- monts. New York might havo spared two or threo of her crack companios without any very dangerons reduction of her working force, and the Chicago boys would have done their best to make the trip both agrceable and profitable to the visitora. "To add to the difllenltics of tho situation in Bosnia, the namo of ona of the principal Austrian commnuders is Gen. Szapany, whicli the averago reader, unacoustomed to . wrestling with Ilungorinn consouants, will bo quite certain to temporize with by ealling it Sarsaparilla. Anyhow, Gou. 5. bns been having o hard fime of it with the insurgents, who, strengthened Ly tho aceession to their ranks of thirty Turkish battalions, have been able to interposo a most effective resistancoe to the advance of tho inveders. A convention has just been signed by Austria and Turkey, whereby the consent of tho latter Is given to the Bosnlan occupation, but it remalns to be seen whetbier tho Kultan will be able to call off his dogs. i 3 ‘The British Parliament was yesterday pro- rogued by the Queen uutil Nov, 2, 1878, Her Majesty's spoech from the throne was of the usual pattern of folicitation at the faith- {fulness of ber subjects and the peace and prosperity of the nation. In spesking of the part borne by England in the settlement of the Eastern complication the Queen took oceasion to allude approvingly to tho policy of Lonl Bescoxarizry in the importation of Asiatic troops into Europe, by a significant ontion of the nssistance rendered the Home Government by “the proud desiro of tho Indian urmy to %o reckoned smong the de- fenders of the Dritish Empire,—a desire justified by the soldierly qualition of the force recoutly stationed at Malta.,” Refer. enco was also wada to the gratification felt + at thy spoutancous offers of troops made by the Nativo Goveruments of Indis as an evi- denco of the loyal devotion of the barbarian contingent, ‘The death-warrant of Euiz. Hoxoer, who attempted tho assassination of the Emperor , Wirrna in the Aveaue Under the Linden on the 11th of May last, bears date of Aug, 8, but it was virtually signed and sealed by the shot fired Ly NoszLiNg from o window aver- looking the same street a few weeks later, But for this second attempt it is doubitful whother it would have been possible to over- come the Emperor's rcluctance fo order HHorepre's execution, The kind.hearted old monareh was loth o punish by death the wretelh who biad sought bis life, but yielded ut last to the irresistible popular demand, not alope in hif own Empire, but In all the civilized countries of the globe, that a tersi. ble exumple should be mads of the would-bs regicide. Abd’ the egecution wes of the most terrible descyiption—a big two-handed sword wiclded by a muscalar melzger of Barlin, sud the bead of the kneelipg msn struck off at a blow, Thus be s ever with Bocialist assasuing ! ST mee— A theory. in relation to infectlon: from yellow fever is advanced by Dr. WoonwoRTH, Burgeon-General of the Marina Hospital Bervice, which, if proved to be correct, shows tkat the severe quarantine system now e forced against loculjties whero the discase is provalent is, in a greal measure, noedless. Dr. ‘Woopwourn maintains that it ia the ciothing augl effccts of the patient, and not his per- son, by which the infoction is communicated, and sustaine this view by citing the fact that attendants bava not contracted tha disenso in hospitals whero tho clothing nnd effects of patients have been: burled or thor- oughly disinfected before the patients were admitted. o thereforo concludes that, inasmiuch as fbe period of inenbation of the disenso lasts but from two to rix days aftor exposure, all well porsons whosd eloth- ing and cfects hava beon disinfected may be considered harmloss after six or seven days Linvo elapsed sinco the time of their leaving tho infected locality. Tho letter of onr Milwaukeo correspond- ent, which is printed tnis morning, will be entertaining reading for those who take au interest {n tho politioal affairs of Wisconsin, Tho nomination of the Ifon. Painervs Sawyen for Congress in the Bixth District rs the Republican candidate against ‘¢ Dirty- Shirt” Boucs, the present Democratic in. cumbont, would be a judiclous movement, ns it would nndonbtedly result'in Mr, Saw- ¥en's triumphant election and the gain of ono Republican Congressman, Sawrer has nlready represented that district ten years in the House, and is known in Washington as n clear-headed, indefatigable, and industri- ous mau. 1o is just now rupposed to stand in the way of T. O, Hows's re- clection to tho United States Benate, al- though Bawyes bhimself publicly gives out that he will in no case be a candidate for the Benato as long as Benstor Howz re- maing in the flald, Another interesting fenture of tho businoss is the probability of “*Boss” Kxryes becoming the ‘Repnblican candidato for Congress in tho Sccond (Madi- son) Distriot, instead of the Hon. I. B. Caswrey, the present incumbent, and sup- posed to Lo an aspirant for another nomina- tion, Mr. Keves, aa is well known, affeated with o very strong purpose to be Senator Howe's siccessor. Just at tho present writ- ing, Keves and Sawyen are regarded as the 1most active and conspicuous candidates that hiavo yet nppoargd agafust Howg; and, if the Benator can sucesed in getting them both clected to the House, or oven nominnted, .3t must certainly be regarded as a fine bit of political strategy, and, a8 our correspondent. observes, it will greatly simplify tho Senp- torial contest in that Bilate next winter, which, at the present moment and at this distance, looks soj bat complicated. FIAT PAPER AND POSTAGE STAMPS. %0 the Editor of The Tribune. Cricago, Ang. 10.—In your answer to a com- munication from Canvix D'Worr, of the 10th sust., on the question of fiat money, unwittingly or otherwizo yor make usesof the vary argument which the fiat-moneylats have always urgedin favor of thelr financlal theory, Yoo may: Mr. D'WoLr filustragen his ldcs of fiat money by & florescar LoKet: oulier Aatiula Uo tho satac by uieans of the postage.atavip. | liut: singularly enuugiy tiie one Lveripoks 1he fact that tho vaiue of the ear-iieket H t_redemption on demand by lorse-car. e aciual seryics cunsiitar tion ki maked it cusrent, and not an: the companics, TH0 postaxc-stamy peryuns olio fail to JSreive: for some reason, (Bt tho stamp is fedeemed by carrying the letter to'ita destination. Thisequals 1 VAluE 1l noncy pald for the stainp,und the stamp (4 enulvalent to thie_ioney on the uno alie, asd the serv- Iee af cacrying the letter on thie uther. The Satistado not Jose sight of the fact that the servico rendered on presentation of the car-ticket and tho carrying of the letter by tke postage- stamp constitute the complete aud aatisfactary ro- demption of each. They are as lully redeemed as if the ll-umg or ticket hnd been firat oxchanged for gold, and the latict paid to tho sirvet-car company for s ride, or io Lhe agenta of the Government for carryiog a letter to its destination. ‘Tlo fiatists demand that the Cnited States ahall issna an abevlute mnnfldv. which shall, by the au-. ibority of the United States, bo declured a legal- tender for s} debta, puvlic and private,—which shall be recelvable by the Government for dutles on importe, When the tiovcrnment has reccived a dallar of thiv absolute money In payment ot a cialm duu thersio by @ clitzen lor taxes, this dollar inea fally and ‘offectually redeemed as the street. ear ticket swhen o rido_has been given therefor, or the postage-stamp wher it has faifliled ite misslon by carrylng a letter Lo ita destination. The car- tickot was uscd 84.a medfum of exchangy only by common conrent of the veople of Chicago, 'Thers ‘was nothing belind 1t to compol a cltizen to take it In paywent of a debt or take uotnine. **Fiat™ money must have the power of the L'nited States at Ita back, with the declaration that it must bo re- celved any hunored b‘y -u? Citizen as & full legat- tender, 1t I8 not cialwed that thts money woutd carry with 1t any purchasing power further than would be glven {L_by common consent. by reason of I power to liquidate the deht of one citizen_to” another or to the Government it- suif, Purchasiug power cunnot, by a free Gove eraient, be glven to sy form of moncy, whothier' 1t_be of gold, aliver, nickel, or papcr, There o no purchasiog powertna plece of gold ax Iario 81 8 hotiwe, Whetheratainped of unstaimped, oxcept such power as may be given it by common consent. It ta no srgnmunt azalust dat moner, thetefore, 10 #ay, that it can LAve no purchasing power derived frof the Government, 1f [ ows my nelghbor & hundred dollars which T deelro to vay, and own a hores which I can aell for u hundred dolltars, It matters not to me wheth- er 1wl fur goid representing a hundred doilurs in value, OF I paper money fepresenting tne vame amount, provided bath aro a legal-tender; for § can pay my uelghbor with ono e woll 8s the other, The purr!uilllli power of my customer's guld is no areater than bls paper, becauve eacl answersthe wame purpose 1o me, Ilence it 16 thas purchasing power will be given to an absolute At paper moncy by the cummerelal world by common consent and not by the pawer of the Guverument. The power of the Uovernuiont ta fusuc thiv much-talked-of fat money In another questlont but,.at the samu time, @ queston, 1 think, which samiteof Jittle argument.” The pow. or ol # Governweut 1u_sccond ooly’ to that of the Almlzhty, and certuinly can nnl{ bo Hmited by tho wishes of the people of whom it 1e composed. I tho Comatitutun 1 In the way, {he Conatitution can, ut the command of tho people, b cnanged, as has herclofore been demonstrated, If the Conetl- tutlon forbide the Javulny of wuch mouey as the people require, It musl, aa tho creature of the peo- ble, bo made ta ylulit it consent, as 1t did when e prople demanded that the negro should be al- lowed 1o exercise all the rights of a frew cillzen, Aualawyer, 1 wive bumble oplnion, fres of charge, 1hat the Government bas 1ho power to fs- auo an absolute legal-tender fat mosey not roe decmable n com, V'be next question wy ** Ua tho people wantity' Tsauau Fuuate, nsrLy, It is well this ‘lawyer” fixes at noth. ing the voluoe of such an opinion, vs that is exactly what ‘it iz worth. It 18 very certain tbat the Government has nov- er ottewpted to make irredacmablo tiat paper **an absoluto legal-tender” between citizens, and It 1 also very certain that if tho flat.ab. solutists obtain coutrol of the law.making power of the natiou und pass such an act, the business publio will protect themselves by the immediate sdoption of the California custom of coin contracts—wmnking all debts poyable in coln. No man would give trost, loan money, or sell property, to be paid for 1 the future in iat scrip, regardless of what It might happen to be worth when the note felt due. But we shall not stop hers to ar- gue' the constitutional power of Congress to ake jrredeemable, fiat scrip an” * absolute legal-tender,” 'The copy of the Constitution used in this offico confers no such autbority on Congress, which-Is a legislative body re- stricled to the exercisa of powers conferred upoun it by that ivstruwent, ‘Tho only sanc- tion for {ssuing greenbacks (which are noted redeswable in coln) was ¢ war necessity,”— the same kind of necessity ‘that authurized tho Government to seizo o man’s body hy conscription aud foree him to chsrge a n en. emy's fortiications at peril of belng killed or marmed in the uet. Alr, Fuoats very ridiculously thinks that Tue Trisvse's description of the ecar-tickat aad postage-stamp appliss exactly to flat serip made legal-tender between wtizens. But be gives himselt away completaly whea he sdmits that his legal-tender Ba§ movoy *¢ would carry with it no purchaing power farthorithan ihat ‘givan it ‘by ‘cimmon consent, by reason of its power to liguidate the débt of oue qitizen to abyther,-ar to the Government itself.” But-would it havo by common consent the samo purchasing power aagold and silver monoy P—that is tho crucial point. Mr. Fuuate does not venture to claim that it would. He suys tlat the purchasing powor of gold and ailver in given 10 them by common consent. Tho oivilized world give them snbstantially tho samo par- chasing power in each nation, allowances being mado for cost of transportation, densi- ty of population, cffeot of tanffs and taxes, commorcint disturbancos, ete. The tondency is always towards'an equilibrinm of purchnsing power of gold and allver money mmong tho nations in close commervial rela- tions, and the more they deal with oach other and exchango products the niore equal the relative purchasing power of coin bo- cowes. Amoriean * fiat " paper’ money would not circulate outside of the Unifon; it would bo a legal tender nowhers clse; no othor no- tion would receive it for taxes; it would havo no'iotrinsio or bullion value; it could notbo recoined. Tho purchasing power of gold bulllon in this country is tho samo 08 legal-tender gold ‘coins. Gold bullion all over Europe Lias equal purcliasing power in each country with the legal gold coin of thoso countries whero it is a tender, nnd it buys on o par with silver in those conntries whero silver is tho sole legal-tender. Irre- deemnnblo fiat serip, though an * absolute Jegal-tender,” would bave no such world- wide common consent to support ita pur- chnsing power, . In thocasa of car-tickets, tho companies sell them for cash and limit the issua to tho actnsl purchasors, Thoe holders can prosent them for redemption in" rides at any hour of tho day or night whon the cars aro running ; henco they are always redeemablo on de. mand of any holdor, and are canccled as fost as redeemed. If a horse-car company would pay ont car-tickets in large quantities to its creditors'and employos, leaving them to dispose of tho tickets, they would immedi. otely depreciate in proportion to the excess of tickets thus issued over the ordinary legitimate consumption for car-faro purposes, Bo likowisa of postage-stamps; if they were thrust upon tha publio faster than the postal consumption they would dopreciato in tho hands of the holders just in the propor- tion of the redundancy. The Government restricts their issne to tho actual orders of the public aconmpanied by the cash, No moro are in the hands of the pooplo than aro absolutoly needed, and as fast as they aro stuck on the envelopes and wrappers they nro immedintely canceled by the Govern. ment and not reisntad. What preserves their value §n tho hands of $hie publio at par with their cost is instant redemption on do- mand in postal service, immediate cancella- tion, and the close restriotion of their insue to tho nctual needs of the publioc ns ascer- tained by its voluntary purchases. If thoy were {ssucd on the plan of making postage- stanps cheap and plentiful, their value in the hands of the holder would quickly suffor im. pairmont, and no ** flat” conld prevent it. It is redemption on demond -and close limita. tion in issue that proserves them from de- preciation. ‘There i8 no similarity percelv. sblo.betwoen postage-stamps and fiat scrip; they are uttdrly unlike. The way of putting **flat” into eircnla- tion would not bo to sell it for coin money and limit the issne to so much as would thus e purchnsed. It would not be redeemed at the pleasure of the holder in coin or any- thing elss, It would only bo redeemed for Federal taxes. Not onaman in a hundred pays any taxes directly to the Governmont. Ninoty-nine per cant of the people conld not get rid of it for Federal taxos, because thoy do not owe any. The classes who pay Fed- eral taxes aro the fow imporiers, distillors, tobacco-manufacturers, baukers, and some others, A mon who lind 1,000 of “flat” paper and owed the Government $20 for & liyuor-license, for example, could pass off 220 of it on Uncle 8am, but' who would redeem the remnining Y80 for him? What could he do with tho rest of Lis M flat™? Pay debts, says one, Buppose ho did not owe any dobts, and wighty few people would geot trusted to pay for the goods or groceries in such *flat.” What purchasing power would it have? That i a nolter, Mr. Furoate concedes, would have to- be determined by * common consent.” Yot the reprosentative meoting of the * Greenback Clubs " of Illinois, that mot in this city re- cently, solemnly resolved that the fiat-absoc- lite irredeemablo paper money should **be protected by tho Government as at par with other lawful money in gold and silver,” 'I'he Migsouri Fiat, Convention * rosolved” tho samo thing; and most of the Fiatista insist that tho Uovornment can do it, but they never explain how. We must rogard than a8 properly named * Fiat fools.” It tho Govornment embnrked in the **flat" Lusiness, the question of how much purchas- ing power its absolute scrip would have as compared with coin would depend in a large degree upon tho quantity issued. As the Government would give those who owed it taxes or oustom dntien the option to pay in “fint” or coin, i only a fow millions of “flat” were lssuod the demand for it for taxpaying purposes would uudoubtedly raise its purchpsing powor to an approximation with coin; but-just in proportion ay the fusue incrensod the tendoney would bu to declino Lelow tho value of metallic money, This valug the fiat scrip would possess whother it wero a legal-tender or not, if it were reccivuble for tuxes and customs, Bo long as the quantity issued was limited ton small amount it would have considerable purchasing power; but make the iasuelarge, ond in spite of its legal-tender quality the irredoemable scrip would sink down lnvalue. Qur international commoerclal relations are trausactod on the coin basly. ‘Tho interest ou the natioual debb is specifizally mada payable fn colu. The Goyernment would therefore hiave to sell ils irredcemable flat paper money to the brokers for coin to the amount of $80,000,000 or 295,000,000 a year. How much would the New York gold-brokers give the Government for its irredcemable fiat? Tho prico would 8x its purchasing power. All renittances to Europe for goods ; for interest on Btate, city, and railroad bonds; all divideuds on American atocks of oy kind held abroad ; all travelfog exponsos of Amer. ican tourjsts, would have to bo pald forin gold or foreiga exchauge, and the fiat would Lave to besold to the Now York gold-brokers for what they would give for it.. These transactions, and the Govarnment purchases ‘of gold to pay the pledged coin interest on the national debt, would each dsy fix the value or purchasing power in coin of the flat paper. ‘The Fiatist who shuts hls eyes to this inuvitabla touchstone of value acta like the silly ostrich which thinks it conceals itsalf by Liding its houd in the sand. As the Fiat demsgogues would howl for pleaty of ¢leap monoy to make wages soem high and prices boowing, it would be lisued with 0o niggerdly band, and with an effect on its purchasing power quite essy to fore seo. The more that would be issued the greater tho depreciation, and then more would bo needed to wmake up in quantity what was lost in purchasing power. The ‘¢ Brick * Pouxzovs, the Bxy Burryzs, the Bas Carys, the Dax Voonurzary, the Tox EwiNos wonld ponr it ont by the billion as fast s paper mills and printing presses conld run it off, until the conntry would have such n mnrfeit a8 wonld cnre it forever of the fint folly. 1t wonld finally sell, not by tho pieco bt by the pound, like rags, and the ton, liko atraw. We can't seo much resemblanco be- twoen such stuff and redeomable postage. stamps. THE YELLOW FEVER PLAGUE, The terrible progress of the yellow fover nalong the Misslssippl River gives to tho his- tory of that disenso in this country a new jolerest, Tho close relations which exist botween nll parts of the country, sud tho facilitics of transportation and communicas tion are such ns to lead to very natural spprehensions that tho scourge may be transplanted from ono locality to another. In thoreporta and papers of the American Health Association for the year 1873, pub- lished by Heap & Ifovontox in 187576, theto i n comprehensive Listory of the yollow fever epidemic of 1873, nud au inter- esting paper by Dr. J. M. 'TosER on tho dls- tribution and natural history of the disease ng it occurred at difforent times in the United Btates. Avcompanying this papor is amnp on which {s located every point at which there have aver occurred cases of yel. Jow fover between 1668 and 1874, Theso locations extond from Corpus Christl, at the mouth of the Rio Grande, along the const of Texas and np the rivers of that State; all over tho Btate of Loulsiana na far west na Shreve. port, and up the Misslssippi River to Cairo, Tho Btate of Mlsswssippi has boen visited At numerous places, a8 has also the Stale of Alabams, reaching s far north in that State ns Sclma. Florida has hnd several visits ; Qeorgin, principally at Savanoah; South Carolinn st Charleston, North Carolina at Newborn and Wilmington, Virginia at Nor- folk ond Portsmouth, Baltimore has had froquent visits, Philadolphia was at one time o greator sufferer than oven New Or. Jeans, At varlous timoes it hos renched New Jersey, New York City, Albany, New Haven, Providence, Boston, and Portsmouth, N. IL It is but just to stato that tho visitations of yollow fever to points on the Atlantle nosth of Norfolk have been at comparatively re- moto dates, and that Memphis has marked tho northern limit of the.discaso in tho Mis. sissippi Valley. Dr. ToxEer ‘gived much woight to the the- ory that disenses hinve geographical arens snd limits, modified, somewhat by latitude and by topographical' features and condi. tions which may determine the types of dis. onse a8 do climate end elevation the fauna and flora of localiti Dr. Draxe, who has become an suthority as regards yollow fever, fixes tho limit of the disonse in the United Btates at on olovation of 400 foet; this view agrees withobsorvationsin Gubs, At Xalapa, in Moxico, on tho same parailel with Vera Cruz, 4,330 feot abovo the son, yellow fover is unknown. A doubiful case (in 1802)is enid to have occurred at Winchester, Va., at on altitude of 700 feot, and in 1871 a person on his way North died at the same place, supposed to be of yellow.fever. Casea at Cincinnatl in 1871 and 1873 were strangors who contracted the disease before reaching that place. Whatever be tho force of the theory of clevation, yellow fover hna never reached in this country, in an epi- demio form, au_ clovation of 500 feot. Tho conceded home of yellow fover is the West Indies and the Bohamas, with.a por- tion of the adjacent Continenta of North and Bouth America. * A square formed by the 4Gth and the 100th degrees of longitude, and the 85th north and Sth south latitudo, will include the favorite region of this dis- easo.” It is odded by Dr. Tonen: ‘Al though originating within the square nsmed, history shows that it may provail on the sea- coast {n any locality within the tropics, north and south of the equator, when malnrial fevors prevall, and the dhily averago of the thermometer s over ‘76 or 80 degrees, with a high dow-point for wecks or months togothor.” 'The discaso 'is controlled in its poverity and checked in ita spread, or entiro- 1y arrested, by storms, hoavy rains, and most effectunlly by frost. It is a disease of cities rathor than of rural districts, and of villoges rather than of scattered country dwellings, Its appenrance is genorally colucident with tho season of billous intermittonts, and the f.rat casos are sald noarly always tooccur near the.water, in the lowest and most insalu. brious places. The bistory of the yellow fever at various polnts has epocial interest. Wo havo room ouly for tho leading towns, Thus it has a record at Moblle, dating in 1705, Its highest annual mortality in that city waa in 1839, whon the deaths were 240, and in 1853, when they wero 1,131, It ap- peared in Hartford and'New London, Conx., in 1708 ond in 1800, ond in New Ilaven fn 1743 and at futorvals as lato as 1819, From 1798 to 180Y, it visited various towns in Dolaware, In Penlupla, Fla., it dates in 1746 and continues at intervals un- 4l 1873, Bavannah,'Ga., had it in 1839, and jn 1824 the dentha reachied 480, and the latost visit wag in 1858,. In 1873 Cairo had 17 deaths,—cascs brought from bolow. The first date of yellow fever in Now Orleans is in 1700 ; tho number of deaths 18 not stated before 1817, In that year it begon in Juno and lasted to Decembey, the deaths reaching 800, In 1819 the deaths were 2,100, The visits wero alwost annual. In 1847itlasted until Decomber, and the deaths were 2,250 ; in 1858 the discaso lasted from May till Decenber and the deaths wers 7,070; in 1854, 2,423; In 1836, 2,670 In 1888, B,889; in 1807, 8,093; in 1873 the deaths were only 245, Shreveport, which was o ter. ribly scourged in 1873, hLad been visited previously bht once, in 1453, Baltiwore, 3d., was regularly visited by tha fever from 1794 to 1822, and Boston from 1691 to 18193 kow Bedford, Salem, Newburyport, and otber parts of Massa- chbusetts had occaslonal cases from 1741 to 1708. There were no less than 259 deaths in Nantuckét in 1763, ; Thero is no mention of any fevar at the town of Grenads, Miss., now almost depopulated, in the past records of tho discase, Natchez seewms to Liave been o frequent resideaca, for tho disesso. In 1854 and 1855, some deaths from yellow fever took place at 8t. Loals, but the persons had Leen brought there ou boats. One hundred dpaths from yellow fever Look place at Ports- mouth, N. IL, in 1798, No oases have been koown fu New Jersoy siace 1811, Forty-five persons died at Albany in 1740; in 1702, no less than 570 persous died in Now Yark Oity; in 1795, 730¢ in 1798, 2,080; in 1803, 700; inp 1822, 230. Bince then the cases Llave. all been at quarantive. Phila. delphia, in ecatly days, sufféred seriously. In 1699, the deaths were 220; in 1793, 4,041; in 1797, 1,300; in 1708, 8,600;. in 1799, 1,000. After that year the diseass nover ex- isted but in amild form, and from 1820to 1853 there were no cases. In 1870 there were 18 cases at quarantine, In 1864, 700 destbs took place at Newbern, N. 0. From 1793 to 1805 nearly all the towns of Rhode Lilaud ‘were visited annually, In Charleston, 8. 0., the fever wns a somowhatregular vis. itor from 1649 to 1871, the highest mortality in any ona year being 717 in 1858, The visits to Memphis were in 1853, 1 1868, nud in 1873,—tho denths in tho latter yoar being 1,244, Thongh yellow fover hasex. isted In varions pnrts of Texns, Galveston hns been the grentost sulforor,—in 1807 tho denths renching 1,150, Norfolk, Va.,clalms acquaintance with the yellow fever sinco 1743, 1In 1850 the deaths wero 1,807, and at Portsmouth, an adjoining town, 1,000, It will bo seen thnt all these points whero yellow fever hns prevailed in this country are Jocated nlong the coasts, or on tho rivers entoring the ocoan, and all at a slight elova. tion abova tho sea. any explapation given or offered why the yollow feverwhich, eighty andahundred years ngo, wos o virnlent in the North Atlantio cities, {8 confined now, nnd has been for fifty yenrs, to tho cases intercepted at quar- antine. I3 this duo to rigid qnarautino .and sanitary regulations, and was ko disease in former dags intraduced from abroad, and then naturally propagated In the absence of sanitary care and precautions ? Dr. Jonx M. Ersging, in his roport on the yellow fever at Memphis in 1878, states that on Aug. 11 two persons brought to the cily on a boat died. The casea wero supposed to be malignant bilfous fever. From the cabin where theso died the diseaso spread and bad gnined a firm footing before ita trus charac. ter was recognized. Tho local conditions of the part of the city whero tho disoase Legan is represented to havo been such as might have originated any disense, and especinlly ono of the molignant character of yellow fover, It wns not until Septgmber that the yellow fever was recognized as an epidemle. Dr. EnskiNg pronounced the diseaso to be infectious an@ nol contagious, **I1t began at the water's edgs of tho city, and required a month to (ravol over tho -distance of o gquartor of o mile, before it had acquired sufficient momoentum ' from ils accumnulating materies morli to diffuso it- self ovor tho northern balf of theclty. It obeyed the law of gradual extension, and spread from houso to house nud street to streat. After thia it began to appear in dif- ferent contres at variable distances, and in which no contact or even apparent ressonn- nble probabilitles of exposure existed. Frosts did not destroy it entirely ; it demanded ice tokill it. During the prevalence of the fo- ver all other disenses seemod lo hiave beon entirely subordinated. Malaria was de- throned and overwhelmed.” Another statoment reprosents that the dis- enso sprond at night ns if from house to houso ; that it attacked premises wholly free from exposure to contact; and that, of the thousands of persous who left the city sn tho afternoons and returned In the day-timo dur- ing business houra only, no one was attncked. It did not extond boyond the city., Itis supposed to extend in some form of malarin near the surfaco of tho earth, and tho case is montioned that the public jail, belng sur. rounded by ahigh wal), escaped the infaction, The nows from Memphia and New Orleans indicates that the spread of the disease at this time is without precedent, and flight from the locslity, In viow of the probable length of warm woather, is the wisest moas. ure of safoty. 8 . RAISING Bi N NORTH. Some days ago Tae Trinuxs directed the attention of its yoaders to the Minnesota claim that o certaln variety of the Indian corn had been raised in that State from which sugar ean be made and granulated that compares favorably with the Cuban prod. uct, Tho cxperiments which have been made on a large scale {n two counties have proved sufliciently succossfal to encourage a couple of gentlamen to ercct machinery at thq Minnesota State Fair, which will be held in 8t. Panl early in September, with which they proposo to manufacturo and granulate sugar in tho presence of the public, and from stalks of thew own raising. This will cer- taloly bo a practical test, and there in n special renson for antioipating succoss, sinco Gen, Lz Duo, United States Commis- sioner of Agriculture, discoverod at the Min. nesoto Btate Fair a yoar ago some granulated sugar maoufactured from oorn-atalks ralsed in Minnesota, which first directed attentlon to the subject, Another ronson for prediot- ing success ia that eimilar but independent oxperiments have been mado by a sclentifio agrioulturist in Westorn Pennsylvania with equally favorable results. In both cases the bost sugar-psodacing stalk Las boen one ralsod Irom seeds thal were brought hero from China, which nppears to thrive equally well in the Minoesots and Pennsylvania climates, Tha Penusylvania experiments aro thus deseribed : 111s experiments scem to warrant tho beller that the yleld of sugnr from this nource may be made by a‘careful llvmm of maoufacturo to equal per nacra of wround plantod nearly the average of sugur wow produced from the sudar.cane in Loutsiana, aud that the American people could easity render themeelves independent of forelsn nations and tho caprices of the forelgn sugar trade by growing and manufacturiog their own sugar st comparatively small cost. The same system of manufactaring the sugar from the dorgbum applics Lo the manu- 1acture of sugar from the cornstalk, Results like thie have never been clsimed before, aud, If these ciaima by catablished ne facta during the coming season, Lheir imporiance nnlnnl{ 10 this country, hut also forelgn nations, 1s well worthy of tho most careful (deration, and ts almost beyond estimato, * Th aricties of sorghnm which are el Knowen 16 have Tleled heretafors onlya crude tablo mirup, espeerally the old Clilneso sorghum, B¢ n0W ta be considered as Amang our moat valu- able varleties, ylelding a sugar not only of the best qualily but in the gre abundance, The Peonsyivania gentleman menting snd lavestigatiug aver ce 1802, and under nis rocent discovery he saye that wu-fl- Jar Chineds caue 1 Weatoru Pennsrlvants yields 400 yatlons of airup por acre, and thato 5011 300 gallons per acro lu claloied to ho af ble, By the application of gypeuoi, phosp! and other puperioe manuros and good cultivatio cight pounds of suyar from corn and te ds of llllfll Crom ae um-cAne may be ealion of de county In the lanta caunot bo succesafully grown, atatemont should be proved, toen it fa demonstra« blo that I vne acro in Uity of the area annaally devoted to the growth of Indian coru in the United States be appropriated 10 the grawth elther of corn or sorghuim, for sugsr, and properly worked up, the producs’ will smuly supply our present home demaud, Blowell's Evergrcen sifl the Chinese 0 Ba upition, sand at \e head ot rocchive apecies, both 6 productivenes qualiiy, but uo epecial preference for wiccl rickuers by Lo bo given toany one of tbe oid Tisbied voricticn above thu rests If tho prowise of thess experiments be realized, aud it ahall be possible to produce from maizo, or sorghum practically as good a quality of sugar as we now import, it is dif- ficalt to exsggerate the benefits that will fol- low. It willeave the country at least a Hun- dred millions o year, for the peopls of the United Btatve have been importing sugar sad molassvs to that aniount per annum, aud. that, too, from the West Indics, which are provented from buying from this country iy exchauge by the discriminating tariff laws imposod by Spain. The Amerleans have coustitationally & swoet toath, and it iv grat. . ifled move thun any other ome appetite. Jt ia safe to usy that duriog the past twonty years tho average amounst paid for the Importation of “swects™ bay ex- ceodéd the smount realized on tho sale and exportion of breadstuffa, No statement could more clearly sut forth the vat saviog that can bs wade by an sdequate homs pro- duction of sugar. The fact that Frauco Las been able to rafse its own sugar Las Thore is not, however,’ probably contributed more than any other cltcumstance to the continuod and independ- eut prosperity of that nation in times of universal depression; it 1 n great national cconomy. But none of the expsriments in growing the beot-root {n this country for the manufacturo of sugar have mot with suf- ficient Fuccess io encouraga n hope that we can nttain this economy in America through tho rame means as France. But the climato of the Northern Btates 13 as pucnlinrly and favorably ndapted to the growing of the In. dian cornstolk aa that of France is to the growing of the beet-root, and, it the formes can be mado to yicld the samne resulta as the lattor, Amerioa may proclaim a new resource n8 enduring and unlimited as ita sapply of breadstufls. AROTHER ANDERSON ON THE BTAND. The country certainly needed no new evidenca of the depravity of Lonisiaua politics, and that wes nll that the tostimony of ono Jomw A, Leere before the Porrsn Committee was calculated to eatablish, Wo do not know whother this fellow professed tobo s Republican or a Demoorat, but thero isno question alout his being a thorough Loulsiaup politician,~a knavish adventarer, on the lockent for blackmalling opportuni. ties, and ready for anything that might turn up, from bribery to murder. We Liave riever hefors heard of Jonw A, Leere, but this judgment is made up from his own evidonco; indeed, it is a mere tranmcript of hisown sintoments, Dlessrs, Porrer and Borren did wall to'summon this fellow, for he 1s o conn. torpart of Axpeason and Wreszn in offrontery, and the Committee had ‘thus maintained cousistency fu endeavoring to cstablish n case exclusively on the evidenco of perjurers aud rogues, It scems, how. ever, that even Porten found Lurre too ready to confess himself a rascal, for, when the latter asked permission to go still farther into his own recurd, Porren choked him off, and said that it was his testimony and not bis record that was wanted; but enough of his record was revoaled to invalidato his tes- timony. The only point made in LreTe's rambling statement, composed for the rest of personal opinion and ‘the expression of personal preferences and prejudices, waa that Axpes- sox had told bim after the election was over that he (ANpEnsoN) had carried out the pro- grammo proviously agreed upon betwoon himsolf and Kzrroaa, viz, 1 That the colored Ropublicans shonld be kept from voting in Easat Feliciana Parish ns a basis for throwing out tho entire vote of tho parish, This wns the story told by AnpersoN before tho Com- mittos, and of eourse it is not a difleult matter to find one or 1ore porsons, especially in Louisiana, who will testity, in considora- tion of having thoir exponses pald to Now York or anywhore else, that AxpersoN had privately told thom the samo story. DBut there is just one cireumatanca which will alwaye euffico to impeach this statoment, oven if athonsand such witnesses ss ANpDER- sox and LxeTe should swoar to it a thonsand times over. There was o legitimate Ropub. lican mafority of 1,100 in East Fellciana Parish, and if Mr, Kerroao and othors Iind orgonized & conspiracy to withhold Ropublican votes in order to have perishes thrown ont by the Roturning Board in the interestof tho Ropublican party, thoy would have selected parishes where thore Were Democratic majorities, but ver. tainly no parish whero there was so large o Republican majority as in East Feliclana, It wnd obviously more in the interest of the Ropublican party to have a Ropablican ma- jority of 1,100 in East Foliciana (as there would have been in an honest election), with which to offset Democratic majoritics in otber parishes, than to have the eutire vote of this parish dropped, out of the count, Henog Axpnsox's original atory snd all statements’ purporting to confirm it must be 8ot down a8 manufactured lies in the face of the faot that such a conspirncy as hie charges would be like two or moro men conspiring ngainst their own lives and property, All the restof this fellow Lzxra's teatl- mony simply goes to show what a miscrabls creaturo ho is, and this is not of much im. poriance, since ho lives in Louialana, He aald that Kerroae wanted him to manufac- ture afidavits, but that he never did wrong in his lite,—a statomont that brought ont o guffaw of laughtor from tho whole Comumitteo aud oll who heard it. This assertion of scrupulous rectitude was certainly rather funny alongside of hia other statements. For instance, ho advizsed Anpersox to with. hold his protest beoause he had the Repnb. lican chiefs In a poaition where ho could “mnke them his slavea for the reat of thelr political lives "; that is, he wanted AnpEason to go into the blackmalling business, in which it is safe to guecss he him. self would havo had some share. Lerrz was 50 much disgusted when he found Axprenson had made the protest without get. ting terms that he began to ¢ work Anpen. sox,” as hie pats it, in order ** to got enough evidonce out of him to expose the whole thing, and make a sensation and iy fortune.” Leerse's impgination led him to overcstimato tho possibilities of the case. **I cac't say," he goes on, *‘what I would have done if sowe one had offered me $100,000 to keep quist.” Nevertheless he Las kept quiet all this time for nothing, and the inference is that he has only opened bis mouth now fora bribe; but, if he has been paid mors than Lis expenses, the purchasers of his evidonce have been very badly awindled. Indeed, the Porres Committes could have afforded to pay Leers wall (o continue Lis porten- tous silenoe some years longor, The Chairman of the Btate Centrs! Commit- tee of the flat-money party in Maloe is 8 rodel sort of & retormer, if all that ls sald of him s true, The Augusta Journal says that be bas ac- cumulated @ tortune of $200,000 by leodivg moey at usurlous rates of Interest, and calls bim the champion mouvey-tender of the Kenne- Dec Valley, It charges **that he had almoat completed arrangements for startiog a National Hank at Gardioer two years ag0, When hy dis- covered that e could get » larger per cent for bis moner in otber ways, snd absudoned the profect.” 1t siso ssys * he habjtually charges 8 aud 10 per ceut fnterest, LoIds a Jarge amount ol Qovernment bonds, 13 a Trustee of & savings bank, and lives io the most clegant Louss fn the City of Gardiner; yet this mao, who has noquir- «¢d a fortune by usurious moncy-lendiog, sigos s circular denounciog money-lenders sud boud- holders.,” And yet to select such a man for the Chalrman of the State Commlites and to cun- duct thelr campalgn s not voe wiit more facon-, sistent aud absurd thin mauy other proceed- Iugs on the partof the iutistionists. 1t is as funuy & DATLY A3 vVer was orgaulzod. e ——— Some foteresting fucts were recently elicited by a New York Tines Washisgton corresoond. cub who iuterviewed Congrcasman ¥osimk, of Ohio, who wus temporarily acting in GoRuAN'S place 8s Chairwuan of the Natfupal Republican Committee, The buildiug where all the work ol the Cowmittee ts carrled ou ts tirst Qescribed 10 an off-band way s follows Ou teeet wlands & paudsome old brick and stone dwelliug—turee storics, Lavemicul, aud ut- nc. In its day it was 0o Of toe wusl commodious and elegud tuansions ou the wuce fealiunibie atreet, It ke uow the besdyuartens of tbo Kepuos e == —— liesn Cangreasional Cammiitree, AT th foy af 4, FTANtiLe Atepa AItA & comfartahti fookin s Wha keeps tho flice ont of it sty 1 anewering the frequent questions 'nf g Tho baseinent “belaw b4 @il i cari-londr of docuinents, and o doren Aorea' tablen are foldimg toem, dire 1o rm‘kl“l{"lflm away. | . o n an envelope and fiears th fran or Senator, wrilien by fame clerk fedl o, the purpose, i the fl0or, Alove. 11 1w 1, purlurs, Arethe fles of nowspapors Trocr, ‘e Rinto in the Union, and half & kcora of lazy are weated ot tho taoles. '‘fhe = occipled by the secretary mittes and nis immediate clerks oo ane clerk 1 Luening over (e officiil directory containing tne and salary of it e 0+ Wt the clippings from newspapors, By Concerning assessmonty for eampaley g, poses, Mr. Fostau let out the following iy, watlon: *4\We have afeendy cot memuch nu catire amount collecled 1n tho cam iy nud tho, you Know, eacn fellaw was expic vay ¥ pes cent on hta ealary, ™ *4 And then you fiad the condert aut co-opeitiny of the _Presiaent and all the heads of tho Depr: mentar : 1\ o e tearing. tributimgr” **No, ho ia nat, frand ns people thin'c he1a, He's n.prstty oy, | fellow, and we'ra gettinz o gond deal of inggey from iho Interivr Departiment. 't o+ Hus Scnvuz glven anytying himselfy S+ cannot answer certatuly, oty ey, In he har, and thnt all the Cabmot offiters hys contrlbuted. " J doiw't KnOW how maaeh saca ane glven,” Souun In not anch n aawnsy ¢4 The Prealdent han not been aesessed, nir by anybody else, { wish you neweonper feliows wanly ket that out of your heads. Wo uon't axioe agy. vody. We simply ask poopie to give what pleare, We huve aske.l no percentare, 10 1o way Indicated the amount expocteu source. °1 went o feu tho Prosident s ago, and he said he tnfended togive hiverally, o] 1 havo no doubt he will do so, and he will 4o Itiy hisown way, 1know he intends 1o heip Mekis. Loy, inthe Caston Distelet. und [ have no donsy be will helo Tn Oblo 1n other waye. Tt [ fuyy taink be has given anything yuttouisr Commiites, ™ rt—— In his spcech accepting the nomination for Congress for the fourth term, the Hon, C. 4, Wirttans, of the First District in Wiscunsin, apoke of tho methods by which tho nomnation came to time 1learing something thi tlclans, " of pullers and workers, " nt the adjourhment of Con- gross Lrotnened 1o my home and rematned there, and if any oo fian heard or known of or doing, or wnting anvthing incousistent propositlon that my nominution must co comu At ail, by year at **machine pall. ttellgues and ringe.™ of i tho freo ana voluutary choice of the people, untampored with nnd unsolicited by ine, he fs nt liberty to declaro It LAvolaue. | 1 miention this that it may 0o known huw noaifna- tlons are made in the Flest Bistrict. 1 hopy tue rulo may not be cnauged, but that whoever whall recelvo It herenfter may receive it, as L have dong thus far, nahamnered by a plodge, tustackled by A promide; and that, in return, he may have the bonor to remewber and the mantood to ucknowl. edue tho deep sensa of obilgation under Whict such generusity places him. Thero scems to be a very good rulo of Civile Bervice reforin In voguo fu thaf e e— Before Mr. TAURMAN gets through with the flnancial question he will realize bow foolish & thing he bas been gafity of n golng back upon his well-carncd record as e hard-mouey mau, When the fullatforf craze first began to pene trate and permeate the masses fu Olto, evers bLody sald and expected that Au.eN Q. Tuva. MAN would stand firm against tho lncommg tide. Hedd so stand for a time, but with the Presidentlal mageot {n hia Uraln, and the kope of catching the vate of the rcpudlationists, by repudiates and abandons his own former posl- tionon tho currency questfon. It ls the most serions mistako of his public life, and as cow- ardly sa [t Is unfortunate. As WirTrien wrots of the great Wenstan after the latter had con- plete]y surrendered to tho Pro-Slavery \Whiz purty, 80 THURMAN'S Buncst-mouoy friends may Walk backward, Witn averted gazo, to itdo e — iame, Tt looks now as If ArzxanNper I BrerarNs waa tho coming man for Vice-President on the next Democratic ticket. That candidate will undoubtedly bo taken from the Boath, and un- til recently all eyes havo been directed towards (iov, WaDs 11a3TON, of Bouth Carolna, #sa Lghly probable cholce. DBut the gallant can- vass that STRrHENs has Leen making this fatlin bis own Btate, with fta probsble Lrillinut re suits at tho polls, will push bim Iuto proml- nence aod favor again at Washington, where “ thers Is nothing so successful as success," und perhaps pave the way for his nomination in 1880, Another guod and suflictent reason for bis belug preferred by the Democrata Is that he was a lttle more couspicuous a Itebel than Hawmrron, and would therefore be a little more acceptable to the ex-Coufederates and Copper- heads, of which the Democratie party 13 chiefly composed, ——— * Benator Tiunsax's suddun flop on the cur rency question has been o great aurprise to his Iriends. When he wos speaking on & currency question In the Henate in 1874 bo satd: “ Ull- mately his discussion wilt bo reduced to a sin- Rle question, In my humble judgment; a q tlon between a sound currency or ag frredecina- bl currency for all time to come. Lot every man take Lis stand one way or suother, and lue him bida the reault; and if ne takes a stand which Lls consclence shall approve, althoulh ho may bo condemned and may fall, ho will at loast have the satisfuction of having duns bis duty." Scuator TuukMAN has concluded noj to enjoy that * satlsfsction ”* any longer. Io is now running o race of flat knavory with Tox Rwina, Bax Cagy, and BirL ALLey, sud all of them wili distauce him, He hLos forsaken his old frlends and will not galn now ones to re- placa thun. y e — ~U. secma to bo angey becauna the 's policy is likely to urouss wu indes pendent movement in the South that will sub- stantially resurrect Ropublicunism, In North Carolins, for example, that promises to ba the result,and the Democracy are very much torn up and distracted by the recent mantlestations In that direction. The bulldozers thought they had the South solid, but they are now asking it such things can overcomo them lku a summer cloud without thelr special wonder. ———— Hun Buties finds 16 uecessary to repudlate his triend Dexxis Keagxer, aud he not only takes palns todo it but to have it telcgraphed all over the country. But that is too thin, aud i3 & mean, shabby trick on BUTLER'S part, after Dexniscsme all the way from Callfornia ou purposo to help make Lxn Governor of Massa- chuscits, But BUTLER is too good & judue of buman pature not;to see that the Celtlc blath- erskito ls & bluckguard, fraud, snd bumbug, Lence ho goes back on him, Of course MATT CARPENTER'S personal organ, tho Milwaukee Daily Murphey, 18 heart-broken because Tum TIBUNE “ls pursulog the rigut courss to see Matr H. CABPEXTER represent tho State of Wisconsin lu the United Btates Senate.” Nothing so grieves tho Daily Murphey 28 to hear of something being doue that will promotetbe forlorn prospects of it idol, chief, and owaer, and hencs those e ———— Four Western Frestdentisl candidates ars slrcady ruled out of the noxt race, numely: Ex-Uov, AuLes, Gov, Bisor, and “Gentle- man" Georax H. Psxpizrox, all of Ohlo, and ex-Gov. Iaxoutoks, of Indisna. It uothing but TUURNAN now fu the West and 1aany sectlons of the South, and it will be noth- iog but TuusmAY lu tho sweot by aud by, e — — Tt 1s really too bad, st & time when there Is & Qearth of onlinary sensations sud custowary scandsls, that the war with Mexieo should turn out so poorly. Those newspapers that cauglit &k it 24 8 drowoing mau does ot B SLraw, Or s & hiscd-pustied correspoudent grabs at the latest account of & sea-serpent, ‘ars (o be comwls- eruted, % —— A coumisslou firws In Milwsukee, with uou- sual facilitics for gaining that kiod uf fuforwua- tive, cituuates that thu wheat crop this year will exceed iy crop of 1877 by at least 15,000+ V0 busbiels, The average quality, however, will full beduw that of last year.