Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 23, 1878, Page 4

Ry 1 2HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, AUGUST uy, 1578 cauntry, The Pacific roads have now plenty of coal, water, nnd provisiona all along tha lino; the wagea they pny are no larger than those pnid by other railronds; their locomo- tives and rolling stock and track re. paira cost no moro; most of tho tor. what took placa expected to make n ‘sonsa. tion. 'The plot was apoiled by Mr. Iiscoox, who, growing disgnated with the thing, at Iast broke out with tho statement that Hows was performing a part arrangod for him at o conference with Burrn the night before, The Tribmwe, | TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. » AY MAIL~TN ADVANCR—TOSTAGE PREPAID. 1ly Editfon, one year. . 12.00 Borae put in an equivoen] deninl, but Mr. | ritory they traverse ia on a dead onag s T {toraty o Hracoor reiterated tho charge, and sent a | lovol, and the grades nocessitated by !h,c Kheet.. * telogram to Gov. Yovno requosting him to | mountains do not incrense the cost of haul- 52’,‘:}"’}‘:’&’,”:‘&""{;’:’:;:::,"“1 gfi releaso Howx from his prefended obligations | ing any mors in the aggregate than they do on the Baltimore & Ohio or Ionnsylvania Contral Ronds, Ifthe amonnt of their bust- noss is comparativoly smaller, it is only be- canss they have discouraged it by oxcessive ohnrges, In all fairnoss and justice, to the Pacific companies as well ns the publie, their rates shonld not bo higher than those of ronds running enst of Omaha, Unless the Government shall baable to se- cure some conceasions from those Pacific railronds through the action of the Governs ment Directors, it will be in order for Congross (o proceod at tho yvery next sos- slon to sdopt some heroia treatment for theso pnblio cancers. It all othor mesuros fail, it will bo botter for the Govornment to WERRLY EDIT! of secrecy, 1t is #afo to prediot that Hows will refuse to bo released, or else that his disclosures will provo ns harmless as those which Bovtos BARER, another Toxas witnoss, made 80 much ado about. ¢m copr. Clubof fo Fpecime Givé Post-Of County. Remirtances may e made eliher by draft, express, Todt-Omee order, of n reglstered Jetter, at our risk, TENNS TO CITY BUBSCRIBERS. Dilty, dellvered, Bunday excepted, 35 centa per week. Dally, delivered, Snnday Included, 30 cents ver wask. Address THE THINUNE COMPANT, Corner Madison and Dearborn-sta., Chicsko, 111, Orders for the delivery of Tnx Trinuse at Evauston, Englewood. and iyde Tark teft in the counting-room ‘wiltreceive prompt sttention. dreesIn fall, faciolng Blate and With the examination of Maj. Bunxe, Brrrer's last hopo of finding avidoneo to convict President Haxes of complieity 1 n corrupt bargain must have disappeared. It there was any such bargain, Borex, as the accreditod ngent of the Nicworts Govern. ment, wonld haveknown of it ; if there wero any wrilten compact, ho is the man of all others who would be able to produce it. ‘The affair stands just whero it stood before St t— TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES. “Tn® Cnicaco TRIUNE has estabitshed branch offices for the recelpt of subacriplions snd advertisoments a8 "’L’”&’mn 0om 20 Tvfdune Bullding. F.T.Me- | the Porten Commiltes was organized, and | take possession of the ronds and assume the ,:’:rl,l'l:'.;‘;m "No. 10 Twue do1a Granke-Bateltere, | Dofore Burren undertook to make out o casa | first-mortgnge dobt than to tolorata the for tho Democrats,. Busge wns in Wash. ington, and satisfled himsolf from the ns surances of those who were friendly to "Maxzs that the laitar would carry out the spirit of his lotter of mo. ocoptance, and would pnrwue the policy of non-intervention to which Gon. Graxr had already agreed. Iaving ratisfled Limself of this, ho communieated it to Ntomorza, and it is not nnlikely that the con- fidenco in tho sincority of Hayes' nnto-clec- tion promises, made beforo the popular vote for Electors, had somo influonce with South. ern Congrossmen inrostraining thom from nct- ing with the filibusters, who proposed do- flanco to the decision of tho Eloctoral Com. mission. In other words, they preferred peaco and home-rule to rovolution nnd anarchy, Buties will ind it protty dificult to persunde tho Ameriean people that thero waa anything like a corrupt bargain in all that, Ho will havo to furnish better ovi. denca of it than can be fonnd in the denial of Bunke or the empty mvings of & poor de- monted fellow like Lert, — PACIFIC RAILROAD EXTORTION. Tho recont action of tho Paclfie rnilroads in doubling their charges on froight has ns- sumed o national Importance. It {s an ont- rage for which the Govornment s partly responsible. The Pacifio milronds woro built under 8 national charter; they wero paid for out of bonds loaned by the Gov- ornmont ; tho Government is nominally rep- resented in thoir Board of Managera ; they aro in default to the Government on the payment of interest; thoy resisted tho first cffort to colloct this iuterest by withholding tho amount due tho railronds for sorvices rendered. Thoy will probably refuso to com. ply with tho law passed at tho Inst seasion of Oongress providing for a sinking-fand ; and now thoy propose to pmotico a double oxtor- tion upon the people by Increasing rates that were already too high. Iu ono word, thesa Pncifio railronds, which are tho creatures and debtors of the peoplo, nssnme o rob the poople. It present system of plundering the peoplo. Oneof the results of the extortion on the part of the Union and Oentral Pacific Roads will eertainly bo to enconrnga thedisposition togrant aid to the Northorn and Sonthern Paciflo sohonies. Those roads can bo built— both of them—for the sxmo nnonn’.of monoy which the Governmentnalone advanced toona- ble the construction of the single throngh lino that now exists, and eithar of thom for half that money. If tho presont roads take such advantago of their monopoly as to ronder re- liof desirnble at nny cost, and if Cougress fail to assert the restraint which it mny exer. cige, thore will be a popnlar domand for the construction of the now routes, and the nv- orage Congressman will casily yleld to this demannd. W, Manvrr, Agent. LONDON, Eng.—American Exchange, 449 Btrand, Mxxgy F. Gintto, Agent. BAR FRANCISCO. C AMUBEMENTS, Tooley's Thentre. Pabdoiph strect, between Clark and Lasale, Mogsgoment of larty Webber, **Nip snd Tuck." -Palace Totels Finverly's Thentre. Dearborn strret, comer of Monroe. Engagement of the Colrille Folly Company. ** Our Cinderelln™ NTAT, LODGE. No. 33, A, ¥, & A, W.—Tlull 'l?oflnl.l;RS\;;‘;tfi!LLuflnrtrlll ln:flllllilllAn“.llIM thia (’flllllr) .Vl!lllfll' :h': .l:'lf",?h.n for work on F. U. Degree, iy D " __F.N. TUCKER Brcretary, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1878, BEN BUTLER'S GRAB. A littla investigation in the offico of the Fourth Auditor at Washington by a curious newspaper reporter haa doveloped the cer. tainty that for porsonal moanness, solfish. ness, hoggishness, and hypocrisy, Ben Byt~ vrzn may challenge comparison. This fnvestigation was given { dotail in our last issue, and may be bricfly restated. Some workingmen may have falled to read it; if 8o, wo commend their attention to it. 8ix years ago, Borien eongincered a bill through Congress which onabled the Bupremo Court of tho District of Golumbia to adjudi- cate tho captare of Now Orleans na n naval prizo, and undor this authority the Court awarded $000,000 as prize-money to be dis. tributed among the officors and snilors of Admiral Farnaour's flect, As ol the prizes captured at Now Orleans hind beon turned over to tho Government, the prize-money camo ont of tho Treasury in buik, With n strango disrogard of propricty, to say the lonat, the Conrt appointed Burtes himself and ono Wirsox ns tho Proctors in the dis- bursal of this largo sum, Tho work to bo parformed by them was purely of n rontine kind that could have beon done by any whipster ot tho Bar. Practionl Iawyera say that 5,000 would have Groenbacks at the Now York Btock Ex- changs yesterday closed at 993, The Tenuesseo Republicans yesterday nominated the Hon, Emensox Erneawox, of Memphis, ns their candidate for Governor, Thoir platform takeg high ground in favor of honorably fulfilling the financial obliga. tions of tho State, and against the Dem- ocratic doctrine of repudiation, —— The elaborate celebration of the silver wedding of Lerorowp IL, King of Belginm, ood Quoen Mamra Ievamrra, who were marriod Aug. 23, 1853, wns begun yesterday nt Brussels, aud will occupy four days, end- ing noxt Sunday. An interesting acconnt of tho notable event is givon in our dispatchea this morning. Food for 40,000 personn for one day has been shipped from Chicago to Memplus for tho reliof of the yellow.fovor auffercrs, by order of the Commissary-Genoral. This con. tribution comes out of the army stores ' for the year, and will of course create a deficion- cy unless provizion is mado by Congross at its next moeting, which will be done nan matter of courso. ———— Toxt Young, who auccceded to the Obio ja high time that the Govornment | boen too large n foo for their servicos, It may Governorship when Gov. Hares went up | ghonld adopt some atringent measures | intorest workingmen to know that these two Ligher, was yosterday nominatod for Oongrons | 4 sepress the rapacity of the | gentlemon grabbed #142,000 of tho total by tho Republicans of the Sccond Oincinnati District. Ho had ardently hoped to haro Gon. Baxnva for his Domocratio opponont, but will not have the plonsure of boating tho ominent Neformer who owed his elec- tion in 1876 to Ern Horrawp'a sccomplish. nicnts as a ballot-box strategist. Gov. Youxa was never in his lifo dofeated for nny publio offico, and ho considers himsolf too old to bogin now, An offective blow at the shot-gun polioy in Southern Democratio managament has been delivered by Gov, Mirren, of Arkansas, who bas taken ofilcial cognizance of the prepara. tions mado in Phillips County for « persuad- ing"” tho colored Ropublicans by moans of the organization of campaign clubs upon the military plan. Tho Governor hias caused the ssuing of an order by the Adjutant-Genoral dircoting that. such organizations bo imme- diately disbandoed, and charging Col. Axpen. 10N, commnanding the militin in that county, with the execution of the order. ——— speculators who have gained control of theso roads. 'Tha practico has prevailed long enough of nsing privilegos, lands, and money granted by the people In order to defy and oppross the people. Thoso ronds havo been managed from tho boginning in such a way as to defraund tho Governmont, to which they owe their oxistence, and to pay cxorbitant dividends on nominal eapital atock that doos mnot represent tha nctual investinent of ono dollar. The rates for passengors nad froight have alwaya beon ex- tortionato, but now that they are deliberately doubled at a timo when tho expenses of operating the roadsarn at the minimum, tho action indicates a dogreo of nudsaity on tho part of thenominal owners and graaping managers that can only bo resisted by the most oxtromo moasures. The chartors undor which these Pacific milroads wero construoted rosorve the gon. el right to aller and amend. Tho strict construction of this law enables tho Govorn. mont to take the practical manogement of the rosds. This Is what should now bo done. ‘The Government should proceed to fix and rogulato tho charges, The Suprame Court of tho United Statos has hold that the States mny individually exercise this power in tho caso of railroads organized under Stats laws, and even when such right is not oxpressly reserved In tho charters. It will scarcely bo denied, then, that the United States may do o4 much in the caso of railroads organized undor a nationul chartor in which such rights wero rosorved. ‘The mode of procedure shonld bo to pasa a law requiring the Pacifio roilronds to regulate thoir charges for through aud way freight and prsaengers on tho same genaral basis ns tho othor firut-class roads fn tho country, and tlen to enforce ohedience to this law by mandamus in tho Unitod Statos Circuit Court, But 1n order {0 reach this comprehonsivo measuro of relief, a sossion of Congress must be awaited. Is tho public to be plundered with impunity in tho menntimo? What ure the Government Dircotors of the Pacifio Railroad doing? Do thoy imagine that thoy bave no rvesponsibility in this matter? Do they thiuk that the law provided for Gov- ernmont Dircctors mozely for the purpose of furnishing them with officos and salaries, and not with noy view to proteoting the interests of the public? Mr, Faency, thonow Rallroad Commissionor, has called upon these Gov. ernont Directors for information, but can got no reply from them, Thoy evidently know nothing about it, or 'elso know too much, and havo too much personal interest in the matterto disturb tho present arrangement, ‘They will nob even hold a meeting, Under tleso clronmatances, tho President whould lop off the heads of these Government Di- reclors and sppoiut otheérs. who will show sowmo coucern for the publio intorast. If the Government Commissloners would got to- gotlier and mako a full report on the condi- tion of tho roads and the scoundrolism of thelr managoment, they could farnish an fin. polus for the expression of a public opiuion that might briug the Jax Gouwps snd Hon. yaTous to tenns without waiting for n law of Cougresa. 1f the present Commissioners will not do this, let the President fiud others who will, There is absolutely 10 merit in the exag- gerated cliargos ardered by the wansgers of these Pacifio rallroads. Tho rates that ex. isted before were exorbitant, 'This {3 suf- ciently attested by the fact (that they bave served to pay large dividends on the great pilo of fictitious stock, in addi. tion to the gratuities to tho parasite companies that live.upon the wain organizations. The cost of operating the Pacific railroads does not now differ wach from the average ox- vuuaces of ruillrouds in other pasts of the amount, the most of the work having boen done by a fow cletks, who wero pald trifling amounts for taking testimony. There are no vouchers to show how tho remainder of this money was digbursed. ‘There aro no receipts, evon from Burres and Witsox, for the money thoy grabbed away from gallors’ familics. ) This man Boreen la the bloviant kumbug who hns the nudacity to addross Iaborers s ‘*fellow lnboring won and womon”; who hires tho 8an Francisoo hoodlum to boleh his obsconity and profanity in lis intorests; who argues .for n fair division of the profits of labor; who says, “*Tho amount a man hns got wrongfully out of the public should be redistributed to the publia,” WIll Lo.redix. tribute tho $142,000 he has taken wrong- fully from Fanzicut's gallant soflors to thoir fawilies? Aro workingmen o ignorut that they cannot sca through the transparont humbuggory of this miserable demagoguo and his hireling Kranvzy? When Bew Burizn next presumes to ad- dress workingmen upon the rights of labor ick foll yosterdny in tho Court~ Touso Bquare, but no one was killed, the telegraph-wiros arrcsting the fall of the apar until everybody coald get out of the way, ‘Tho attontivn of the County Board hns beon ropaatedly direoted by tho architect to the danger nrising from the use of inferior holst. ng apparntus by the Court-House contract- ors, but for rome renson—porhaps becauso the money expouded fn safo nnd suitablo derricks wonld reduco tho rogular dividonds distributed awong the members of tho Ring ~tho Board hag steadily refusod to order the change 5o mauifestly in the intorest of pube Tio safety, — Prof. Suusen, of Yalo College, appoared Yeutorday before the Congressional Labor Committec, and submitted at some length his vlows regarding the canses of tho presont industrial dopression and the romedles which should bo applied. He belioved that the troublo way not so much ono of over-produc. tion as of disproportionate production, the operation of the tariff laws having congested populntion In distriots to which it would not otherwise b attrncted. Mr. Winam E. Donae, President of the National Temperanca Boclaty, expressod the couviction that indul. gence in intoxicating liquors was ono of thoe roots of the labor diflicully. ———————n Washington Court to pay him §142,000 bo. longing to sailors’ families for a little job not worth one-twentieth of that amount, Lat them remembor that he is one of the *‘lech. crous bondholders,” and one of those man. ufacturers and capitalists whom Keanxxy wants to * corzal and grind.” In the light of such a disclosaro as this it does not scom romarkablo that a man who would take 142,000 belonging to the wid- ows and orphans of Union soldiers and eail- ors would take unwarranted Jibortios with Confederato spoons and jewelry. To grab all ho can’and koop all he gets scems to bo tho practico of this model lnbor-reformer, who I8 just now nolsily asaailing the employ- ing class and prating of the rights of labor and the distress of the employed. Crawled out of the Democratio parly into the Republican party, and sneaked out of the Republican party luto the Lubor party, it ia now tme for the workingmen to kick him out of thoir party down iuto the Comununists, i there bo no lower political dopth. It s an insult to their mankood and worality that ho should prosums to be thele leader with bhiw pockets filled with woucy filched from the widows aad orphans pf Fammiour's sailory, ——— UUR MEXICAN POLICY, At lost the Administration has adopted what may bo called a vigorous and positive policy with regard to the difficultios with Meaxico on the Rio Grande border, nnd bas sent justructions to Gon. Osn whick give him a very wide Iatitude in his efforts to ar. rest and punish Mexican thioves, Accordiug to theso instructions, Gon, Ozp will pursue them with increased vigor whenever tliey retroat to Mexican soil, and if (he regular Moxican troops interfere in their behalf, he will uot avoid a conflict but puaish them also a8 accomplices, and then roturn to the Auerl- can bank of the river. Whilo nothing which may occur in carrying out these justructions will be looksd upon by the Goverument us a causo for war betweer the two countries, our troups acting simply as police to punish thleves and incendiaries, aud not meaning any offenss to Mexlco, it is nevertheless an- uounced that if the Moxicsn regular troops shall cross the river in retalistion, then & casus belli may bo construed therofrow, This policy is explicit and just, It does not menace AMexico or interforo with any of the righls of its Government or citizens, It simply declares the intention of our Govern- went to pusish depredations upon the lives sud property of its citizens, committed by Haugs of Greasors, over ‘'whow the Mexican Uoverumont by its own coufession has no ‘The movement in Chicago for the for- wardiog of rellof to tho plague-stricken dis- tricts of tho South hea token defimite mnd practical shapo, tho leading morchants and busiaess men having organized for tho pure pose of pulting their charities on a BB tematic basis. A meeting was held last oven- ing o take action in tho matter, aud from Jtbo choracter of tho attondsuce aud the spirit of geusrous sympyathy manifested it will bo scen that tho movement is in the Lost of Lands, and that Chbicago will do hor part—and a big part 1t shall be—towan! re. liaving tho wants and sofferings of the un- fortunato victims of theyellow-fever scourge, Bures's poculiar chsracteristics s a law. yer received anotber illustration yesterduy in tho experience of the Porrx Committce with ono W. E Howz, & Texas politician who had beon suwmmoned su a witness, Knowing that a refusal to answer & question is geverally regarded as oquivalent to an ad- missiou that the answer, if given, would be of a damaging nature, Burixs had arranged with Howe, who iy likewiso a luwyer, that ho latter skould full back on his professional prerogative and decline to communicats jn- formation gaived while acting fn the capacity of legal adviser. Howr claims to have bad seversl Interviews with President Harzs, in pursusuce of au arrangeent with Gov. Yousa, of OQbiv, sud Ly refuning to tl) let them remember liow he manipulated a- control, 'These dopredations have been car- riecd on for years, and the vietlms have had no redross. Miilions of ilollars’ worth of proporty has been stolen and many lives have beon snorificed at the hands of these thioving rascals, who have always fotnd a anfo harbor on the Mexiean side of the rivor." ‘The Government haa beon long safforing, and hos Always acted npon the policy of not dis- turbing tho frlendly relations between tho o ropublics, Now that the Moxican Gov. ernnient has shown its impotenco, and ita ropresontatives declaro their inability to stop tho depredations or punish the Greasers, our own Governmont has undertaken the task, In ndopting this vigorous policy the Gov- ermment has followed tho procedents ostab. lished by other nations; For offonses which appear trivial and olmost insignificant as compnred with the Moxican outrages, En. gland threw o large army into Abyssinia, conquered tho country, and exnoted sovers retribution, For morely interforing with the rights of a handful of travelors, sho has punished the tribas of Bouth Afriea and takon their territory nway from them, and miated out swift ponaltics upon the peopls of the Sierra Leono coasty, the bushmen of Ans. tralin, the natives of Hindostan, and the Chi. neso and Japaneso pirates. In like manner, Russin for slight oausos has visited Ler displensure upon tribe after tribo inthe Cau. casus, and swopt over the plains of Tur. kostan with doatruolive wrath, In nimost overy instanze of this kind, England and Ltussin hiavo not only severely punished the offouders, but have taken away thoic torri- tory. France not enly punished the Alge- rines, but roducod their country to o prov- ince. Thero is not another first-class Power in the world which, if placed in onr position, would not long ngo have punished the Mexi. cans, taken possossion of the couniry, and been justified in the nct: As compared with tho past, tho policy of tho Government is rigorous, but as com- pared with the policy of other Governmonts, under ciraumstancas aven loas exnspornting, it is comparatively mild. Nevertholess, it {a a Policy which will commend itself to tho poople, and espocially to the people of Texns, who have suffored 8o long, who have rooson {0 be thankfal that, nlthongh Democratic malignity has crippled our little . army, it has not so far par- nlyzed it but that 1t bas strongth to punish these outrages ns they do- sorve, and, if necessary, to crush tho regular troops of Moxico if they intorfers in bobalf of the Groasors. It is n policy which should ba carried out to tho very lotter, regardloss of all other considerntions. The peoplo of thia country do not want war with Moxico, They wauld rathor be at ponco with hor and dovelop the conditions of commerco and in. dustry, but if this continual aggreasion upon tho righta, and proporly, and lives of Amer. ican citizons cannot be atoppod without war, tho contingenay will not be sufficiently grave to bo avoided. Tho situation may bo summod up in avery fow worda.s Theso bordor raids must stop. As Moxico cannot stop thom, the United States will, and all other considerntions must givo way to this accomplishment, If Moxico looks upon it 08 & casua belli, po much the worsa for Mexico. b THE TRADE DOLLAR, "The lotter wa published yostorday, writton by the Acting Dircotor of tho Mint in de. [ fonse of the ropudiation of tho trade dollar, f¢himont that adds diserodit to the "amply discredited Mint Dopartment, ' IE defands g transaotion dishonopsblo to the Government ' and Injurions to the' peoplo. Tho trade dollar was in its inception a trick to blook the way of remonstizing the stand. ard silver dollar, and all the offorts of the authoritios Liave apparontly beon directed to make the trick sucoessful. This superfinous coln was authorized by tho nct of Fob, 12, 1878, nud wna emitted by the Govornmont as a legal-tender in paymont of sumsof 85 or less. It was ostonsibly coined for circulation in China; butof the $24,581,300 colned up tothe close of tha fiscal year 1877 many millions went into ciroulation in this coun. try. The bright, inudsome sllver pieces wora anovelty to this papor.money genoration, and the legaltender quality given them made them a groat convenience to the peo- plo in small paymenta, Dut aftor 816,418, 450 liad been coined, a Demooratio 1fouse of Representativos originated the law of July 22, 1870, abrogating thelegal-tender function of tho trado dollar, although the coin bad beon distributed by trade in all parta of the country, After it had gained ourrency through tho action of the Govornment, those who bad taken it in roliance on the faith of the Government wore informed that what thoy had recelved sa legal-tondor they ocould not usa as legal-tendor, and that what they hind taken as Government moncy they could disposo of only as bullion, Viewed from any aogle, the courso of tho Mint in regard to the trado dollar looks very tortn- ous, Tho Mint authorities forced tho trade dollar out of Congress on the ploa of making o market for Amarican sflver, although overy ono acquaeinted with Chineso trade knows that silver money ciroulates thero only as bullion, Wo are informed that the trade dollars that go to Chiua now are melted down, Tho oxtenslon of the market for Amoriean silver could have boen safely loft to American bullion produccrs, ‘The very fact that the trade dollar weighs more than tho Mexican dollar would pravent its oircu. latiug in China. The law that poor money crowds out a betler monoy is as truo in Chinn a8 anywhero olso, Dat though the Mint failed in supplanting tho Mexican dollar in Ohiua, it succecdod in putting o snag in the channel of the standard dollar in America, ‘Tho subinus is tho uamo that was oxhibited by tho Mint authorities when thoy rofused, in the face of urgent appeals, to meot the hos. tile legislation of Gernany ngainst ailver in 1871 by any counter demonstration. §, Dava Hontox said truly, in his addreas be- foro the Hocial Bcience Uougrous, that *for five years, ever siuco demonctization began, tho monetary mansgors at Washington have been more or less servicoable to tho moneta- ¥y managors at Berlin.” Instead of coluing moro sllvor, they should have given chock to UGermany by coinjug less or mnone, so that her market would bhavo failed hor, and Ler dewonetization have Lroken down, DBut tho Mint, having cuabled Ger. many to sell two-thirds of ber silvor at a fair price, now devotes itself to fastoning a loss on the American community of $93 un every $1,000 it Liolds of tradodollars, that boing the differenco betweon the present bullion and the legal-tendsr valuo of tho coln. Fuabliv opin- ion wilt not tolerate this. Tho trado dolary that wero emitted as legal-tender for 35 be- tween Feb, 12, 1873, and July 22, 1870, ean- not rightfully bo deprived of their legal-ton- dor quality, Congress must provido fortheir redewption in standard silvordollarsor green- backs, and pendiog their redemption must sllow them to circulato as legal-tondor to the amount origunally fixed. Cougress must vo further. It wust extend the re- e e demption and ciranlation to all the trado dol- Inrs in enrrenay, and thon must rotiro them a3 rapidly as possible in favorof the standard dollar, The tradoe dollar muat be abolished. It canio from n bad sourcs for a bad pur. poso. Its partinl repudiation has confused and ombarrassed the people. Tt atands, s was fntonded, in the way of restoring the silver dollar. It should ba strmok out of tho list of Amorican coins, With it shonld dis- npponr tho offictals wha concelvod It, and who nare charged in the administration of their oftico with frickery by wholesale and corrup- tion by retail. : — INOREASE OF THE EXPORT TRADE, The total valuo of goods exported from Now York Iu the month of July just past, ex- olusive of specio, was $28,80,207, The value of tho exports for the snme month last year was 822,850,693, The galn in 1878 was thus about five and a half millions. The Now York Journal of Commercs remnrks on this showing: * Thia {a & vory Iarge total for midsaummer and is quite remarkable, con. sidering the diminishing fmports.” Tho im- ports st Now York for tho month of July wero lass than for any previous July in seven years, excopt in tho summor of 1876, when this trade was almost ot a atand, "Tho fignren for the first soven months of tho yenr aro still moro remarkoble, The ex- ports from Now York in this period (exolu. sivo of specio) nmounted to $200,223,500 in 1878, to B160,815,101 in 1877, and to $149,. 201,890 in 1876, Tho Incroase in 1878 over 1877 was thus over forty-threa millions, and over 1876 abont fifty.ono millions, * These figures, in their magnitude,” continues tho commorcial pspor above referrod to, “are without any procédent in our trade,” New York asuntly imports two.thirds of tho for- cign gooda Ianded in the country, and ex- porta about 46 por cent of the shipments, Assuming this ratlo, the balance of trade in our favor for the siigls month of July Is noarly twenty-six millions, while the balanco for July a year ago was only elaven and a quntter millions, Foe tho firat soven months of 1878 tho balance in our favor was about onog hundred and cighty-soven and A lalf millions, and for tho corre- sponding porled of 1877 only Torty- four and a half millions, The inerense in tho cxports of the whole country for tho first seven months of this yesr ns compared with the same period of Inst yoar ia about ninety-four and a third millions, and the do- creaso in tho imports is only forty-sight and o half millions; so that the incrense of the balanco of teado in our favor fa about two. thirds due to an increnss of exports nnd one-third duo to a decrease of fmports, The additional exporls of this yoar as compared wilh Inst yoar are, of conrso, principally in broadstuffs aud provislons, though thero are gratifying indications of a slight fucronso.nlso in the cxport of manu- footured products. An {ntoreating article in the New York Times dosoribes some of the curlositlos of onr oxport trade, and showa that wo export beef aud plum-pudding to Eugland, potatoos to Ireland, toys and lager- boor to Germany, and oatineal to Seotland, Our prints aro sold at Manchoster, and onur ironwaro at Birmingbam. A fiem In New York City s started o faotory oxclusively for the making of olgars for oxport to En. gland, Our oxportof cheese, which forty yoars ago amountod to but 411,338 pounds, Inst year reached tha enormous aggrogate of 107,864,600 pounds,—70 per cent of which was made in Now Yorl, and most of which was sont to Gront Britain. A warohouse containing 2,000 coffins of Amoriean mako was recently opened in England, The ox- port of olive-ofl jumped from 281,000 gallona in 1870 to 1,705,000 gallons in 1877, American fewolry gocs everywhors, and Amerl- can watches have nearly, if mot quite, driven Buwise and Engiish made watches ont of thelr own markets. ‘The Britlah Government purchased 200 ston-windors in Dircemoer for tho nee of conduc. tors and cngincars on ona of the Btato ruflrotdw in Inula, aud fa Fobrusry an agent of the Rotherham Watch Company, of Kngland, visitod this country and vrdered o uumbor of sots of tho tools nnd mna- chinery used here, A Nowark, N, J., wash and blind “manufactnrer filed o largo arder for ship- ment to Turkey in June. A Troy boll-founder hus Tecently fittod out churches In Constantinople and Boangkok, Amaerican locomotive tnanufacturors aro hard at work fllling orders from lusais and Huuth Awerlea, Our carriages, strecl-cars, and vehicles of all sorta are bolog sent in il directions, QOur rmlmlunnl hahts the world, Statuary snd intings are n-unlm}y cxported from this countey R;I:urupn. Think of 1t1" Among other Important {teins of export are books, sclentific Instruments, wines, pinnos, caruets, furnitn ro. toll fino and cunrso bouts and shoes, glassware 3 stovow, loathor, mmm'l inks, ., 8, piny, and toulsand machlnery of ali kinds. And tho best of It s, these thinge sell on_ thelr werite, and not on accuunt of ¢l Ir‘:nunpnell. Tho writer in tho Z'¥mes, whille recognizing the groat ndvauces made by American com. merce of lata ycars, deplores the fact that it hes not entirely regained lost ground. Amerioan entorprise has been handicapped, ho snys, by six sorious drawbacks; thess are Inck of means of trausportation, high rates of intorest on capital, high ratesof marine insuraaco, carclesaness in packing, waste of matorisl, and an *‘omission to make con. cosslonsto tho loeal projudicos of outside Larbariang.” 1t is steango that fn mnking a list so complote ne this is Intended to bo there should be a failure to notlice the most Important causo of all of the slow revival of American commeroe, nnmely, the existenco of an exorbitant tariff ‘which has put Amenican manufaoturcrs ot a disadvantage ng compared with thoso of all other countrios. Dy increasing tho cost of liviog, and by adding to tho price of raw material, machinery, eto,, the tarl® has in. cronsed the cost of production, and prevented froo compotition betwesn American and foreign mnade goods, If this disadvantage Lins boen in somo instances ovorcome, it has ouly beon beoause of the immense superiority of American labor and uatarsl agouts over those of other countries, Our export trade in manufactured goods 11 by no moans what it altould bo, sud is still inconsiderablo as compared with our exports of breadstufly and provisiona; and, such o3 it s, it has rison abovo tho most dlsadvantageous legis. lation that could be conceived for it. If the tarift were roduced to the rovenuo standard - there would e as great s bound forward in the export of manufacturod goods as there L been fn raw matorials, A Boston lecture bureau has been In corre- spondeuce with the Rev, C, I, Srunazow, with a view to gt bim to come over to this country aud dellver o fow lecturcs uuder the auspices of their society. Mr. B#URGNOX writes 8 lengthy reply, in which ho says that he never Las Lad any futentlon of visitiog Amorica, 11 I should do s0," he goos v to ruuark, “1 could not preach or lecture for mouey, Exccllent as your seryices doubticss are to those who need them, they could ‘not possibly be needed by me. I should rewerd it as an utter prostitusion of auy g1fLs 1 pusiess 1t I wors, a4 a servaut of Uoo, to use them to mako woney for myscl! In the way in which lecturera vory properly'do.! - ——— e Conceruing Cuamrxs Suunmg's unhsppy wmerriage but Nitle ls kuowc, sud that Mitle mostly based on rumor. But recently, Mr. (ixouas . WiL.1axs, 8 colored wan who bas scquired some local fome as an orator, bas kiwen toa reporter for the press sowe biuts of the troubly that existed betwoen Mr Busxun and bls wife. Mr, WiLLtass entercd Mr. Svne HEW'S law ollice just after thy close of the War, where ho remalneda for several years. It was shortiv after he entered Mr. Sussen's office that he (Sumngn) was marricd to Avton Hoop- ER, a widow of tho sonof thelate SAmurr 1looran, late nember of Congresa from Maesa- chusctts, WiLLIAMS' acrount of SBunNEn's matrhinonial Infolleities aro intoresting, as show- ing the nnnoyances to which even the greatest of men nre somotimes subjected, The narrative proceeda: Men. Susxen wad & vivaclons, alteactive woman in rociety, but the cold, acdate, and dignified de- meanor of the Nenator rendered them 4¢ uneon. dtenlal ae Alr. and Mra, Hombey. Nho was fund of evening patties, and ho would woon lire of thelr gayotioa, Finding no uno who could con- verae with or ilsten intahifaently to him, he wenll fetira In quict 1o one elde, and wait solomaly tho rlu-umuf hislady, Altimes he would hecome mpationt at hee detay, and would make specinl reinests for her departure, They wore grantod usually at her pleasire. and thelr return homo nt euch timey was slwavs conspicuons from wilenco, — Mes, Sustnen had ~boen acenviomed probatly tu many (ndulgences by her firat husband, and Jlked to have the man. agement of hier lousohotd afairs, 'The aerango. nients of her hushand sufferod from tuls, ‘Iho clippings hio had made trom booke und new-rn- pees, and aystemntically arranged in tows on the wall, fastenra by pins, did not escane het senso of oeder, *'Why," suld ha one mormng to Witt.- 1AMA, pacing 1 evident perturbation fhrongh his office, *‘my hns sivept sl my clippings Into {ho wante-basket.' They did not rematn together Jong. Une o [ euxeicame to his office with darker cloud than usual on s vrow, A littlo e ter hild wifa's father came In, and, 10 Lonos balf of alarin and half of Inquiry, exclatiied, ** ALICE bas gunel™ b yed, sir, Peafd Me, Nuusgn, in'n voice Of tragic sternnesd, '** ALick has gone': and altop- watd Lo only reforred to her from necessity, " t— 1n old-fashloned times 1t used to be constder- e a commendable thing for people to be {ndus- triote and saving, to get ahend, If they could, by huneat toll, aad not only keep themselves and famllies out of thu pour-house, but tu lay sup & amall surplus for the demnnds of old age or juisfartunc. A thrifty, fodustrious man wlo paid his debts nnd contelbuted from his wecumulations to the vrosperity and dovelopment of the country was not regard- ed a8 n publio euemy, nor looked upon as B *lecherous, hell-bunnd thiel," as the brute Kranxzr would calt him, but rather ns a good cltizen whose example was well worthy of fmi- tation. But uuder the teachings of the Boclal- istic and Communistic fanaties overy man who wears o clean shirt is a public nuisance, and overy man‘s woalth, no matter how honestly obtalned, s considerad prima fucle evldenco that heis a thief and a robber. As the Boston Jourral much better exprosses it: * When the school-houses shall be torn down and teachers tarred and feathored, when tho press shall be muzzied and the country ruled by such men as Burnzr, “ Brick " PosEenoy, SAx Canr, and that class, when those who save aro regarded 83 publie encioles, then the malignant and blasphemous uttorances of Dexvis Keannsy will be genoraily applauded, and politiclans of tho Burr2i stripe wiil run no risk in doing bim ‘homage. ———— To the Editor f The Tribune, Warnasy, Allegan Co., Mich, , Aufi. 19, Wil Fou pleane give in "Tiun Tuwnuse: (1) The proscnt natlonal debt of Keance, ormany, Kngland, ttaly, A\mrln{ and 8pain? Alsa tho specte value of thelr paper If 1t 1a kinown. (1) Has the Unltod States @ Sluking Fund law in operation pertalalng tu our natlonal dout? ) 1T a0, how doos It provide for tie liquidation of our natlonal nhllz*lnun Yoire tealy, C. ¥, Davisox. (1) Thonational debts of tho countries named are, viz, Franco,. Germany’ {m Rland. , ¥,0:13, 80, 000 The population of tho United Biutes fs ning miltions greater than that of France, thirtoon mitlons greater than Ureat Britaly, vighteen ereater than Italy, elehit milllous greater thun Austrin, nud nearly three times thae of Spatu, ‘Thospecle valuo of the paper ol France, Uer- many, snd Eogland is par with gold, Tha cur- roucy of Austrin is nt o discount of 6 to 7 per vent, and that of Italy 6 to 8 per cont, That of Bpain, wa belleve, is at par, but are not sure, (2) Yesa. () 1t provides for tho llquidation bt 1 per cont a year, with futoreat thurvon com- pounded. : Tho ITon. Joun RaxvoLr 1t Tucker, of Vir inia, fn nn address recontly delivered at the opening of thy Miller Lavor Hchool of Afton, Vu., expressed the follpwiug sentiments that were loudly applauded: I you Nind In the hands of your child o hook that tonches hun that It, K, Lrn was o perjured rascat becauso he oboyod tho vaice of his mothor Btate and went with haland of is birth, while U, 8, UnaNT i onv of the world's imuorial heroes boe and succeadud at last in compoliing Lex to * yield to overwholming numbers and resources, ™ burn the book and take your child away from that schoul. Or, it you find your child with o book that teachies that the peus Ple of 1o South wore traitara In zesisting Fuderal sgaression and defending thelr soil Frou inyaxion; oF which falaifios the history of our great struwla for coustitutionul freedam, burn the bouk und tuke your child 1rom the school, for thy teacher who w%m put such o book n his hands 16 not o waso Ruide. 1 cauno Lo stdod with s sectlon Mr. Jonn Rannonru Tucksn fs evidently one of that unfortunate claas of Southern men who will nover bo divested of the den thut the Bouth was invaded by Mr, Lixcoux's hirelings, The old scceasion virus'has so polsoned tho blood of soma of those zentlemen that nothlug but slx feet of sulld carth above them can over oxtract it. ———— To (e Tiditor et The Tribune, Ciiicado, Auj —\Will Tuk Tnisuse, through the dnily, glv cribor {nformation 'ad Lo the Jaw autborizing the redemption of tho greouback Dutes (0 Intereat-vearing vonds! Whun aud how doru $twas in uporatlon, whetlier auy Lotes wery Tedoemoa under 144 provlsiond, aud the reasous far ite repeal? L K. b, ‘The tirat lssuc of legal-tonder greenbacks, and cauvertible Into 6 per ceut bondsat tha pleasure of the holder, was uoder the act of July 11, 1803, and authorized the fsenc of 160 mtlious. Another 130 miltions of the samo dort of grecu- backs was authorlzed by the act of Jun, 17, 1883, Tho rigut of the holder to convert fnto O per cent bonds was withdrawn by the act of July 1, 1803, How many uotes wera redesmed under tho operation of the twah acts 1s diticult to tell, It equaled, of coursc, tha purchase of 6 per cent bunds between Jduly 11, 1804, and July 1, 1803, sand amounted, perhaps, to 250 millions; but tho COovorument was obliged to relssus the greenbucks thus cone verted fnto bouds ns fust as recelyed. The reas son for repeatlog this right of the bolder to con- vert them fnto bonds we have Jorgotten, but thiuk the legality of tuelr relssus was doubted by some lawycrs, and that was probably a chlel reason for withdrawing the option. e e ——s 40 the Editar of_The Tribune. Hock Paiis, ith, Aug. 10.—(1) I an laeuo of Goyernmuent notes (net lezal-tender) syual Lo the resout National Bk circulution should be wade tho Uoveramont, could iuot o keut at par with coln o easlly a8 the presunt lugal-tender and Natlonsl Nenk cursency? () Would wuca lsuo be constitutioualy (4) If ‘w0, what ab):uluu would there be? M. Loc. (1) Such wn fssue of Treasury notes could un- doubtedly bo kept at par with coly by redemp- tion on demand fu coln, or at psr with greey- backs Jf redeemed in tho latter, (3) Yes, (8) The ouly objection we can think of would be tho possible difficulty for the Qovernment to usiutaiu at par 80 lario o 10ass of votes—ueas- Jy 100 illions, Btil it could b doue, snd if the Flatists would discard thelr nonsensical proposition and advocate the tesue of reducm. ablo Tresaury notes us & substitute for bank uotes, the musses of the people of the West would probably joln them lucuforciog the meas- uro on thu attention of Cong: —e— 1t will hardly be clulwed by the most enthu- slustlcadmirer of Dzxyis O'Kmanxay, {f Lo Las auy foolish fricuds to aduiles blim, that the diguity of lubor that we hear so much talk sbout Is ut all represcuted iu bls person, character, or specches. Cowpured with ELuiw Bussirs, fhe learued blukemith, or a Whousaud otlier famous sous of toll, Kzauxsy sppears the plgwy and alrty Slackguard tust ho 5. Justegd of adding dignity sud respectabliity to the cause of the luboring uisy, te disgraces (b by susuw- g its chawplon: - ———— Chlcazo people, who were so generously aided Uy 16 1uost hiberal coutributions frow all over the world after the great fire, should pot and Wil sot furzet the call for hels that uow vomes tous frow cyery breexe thae blows from the fever-strickes Sauth, Thy ulacue hea assuiucd an unusual malignity, and the fatal cases o, proportion to tha total nuwinber aMicted are oug of all proportion when compared witl it ray. anes in provious years. It s rapldly mreading Into new districts, and the pevple are Panfe. stricken. Insoma loealitles the dying angd the dead are alike déscrtod, and the firat thoueht of all f5 to flee from tho scourze as raplaly 48 possible. Of course tho firat Promoting of humanity suggests the sending of Nurses and physicians at oneo to the Infecteq districts, but that 18 impossible and Injudiclons, for tho reason that the unacclimated pereon, are generally tho firds to fall victims to yejtyy fever. The best atd that the North can rend them now must bo In the shape of mouey angq medicine, and they should be sent at onee, The casels urgent, tho peril lmminent, and the all fmperative, Let no ona hold back, e —eap— L A letter from Parls, dated Aue. 0, to Mz, Gzonos I1. Buies, of this city, states tha {y the French Exposition Mr, EptsoN has carried off the Government prize for Iuventions, having celipsed all other Inventors of the world, The Graud Prize s awarded to him on secount of the Carbon Telepnone, the Quadruplex Tele. araph fustrument, the Phonograph, and gy Electrle Pen. The snnonncoment wiil be e celved with a feeling of pride all aver this coup. try. 1t Is not oniy a desorved personal trlvute to Mr, Episox that ho hes been awarded the Tauret In this congrees of the world, ut alty reflects credit upon the voungest of the natlons for taking tho lead fn those inventions whicy tend to advanco the blessings of civilization ang improve the conditlon of humnnity, It addsy, the congratulation his countrymen will sent him that Mr. Epison wiil wesr Ms nonbe gracefully aud modeatly. ———— Tho Domocrats of the First Congrosstony’ District in Wisconstn met at Raelne o Tucs. day and procceded to adopt C. 1. PARkxn ax thelr candidate fur Congress, PAnken had heen in the field somo time, having Leen nominated bytho Fiat fuols, The tall azaln waus tny dog In that district. PARKER 18 engazed in the manufacture of reaperaat Belolt, and fs well kuown to the peoplo ot his ddistrict ns a husj. ness man, He was a Republican unul the Fiat craze broko ont. Kince then he has heen one of the most zealous of that crowd of lunatics. In point of ability hols vastly fufe rlor to hia brilliant opponent on the Repub. Tiean sldo, tho Ilon, Cianies G. WiLniays, who will sweop the district by 6,000 majority, g The Boston Journal compiles somo statistics in regard to the number of workingnen who have held geata in the Massachusctts Logisia. ture, and tho fnvestization knocks the hottom out of some of the Sociallstic arzumants that aro to the effect that the laboring men have had tuolittle representationin the halls of legistation, The Journa! finds *“that from 1863 to 187, in. cluatve, thero were elceted to the Massachusetts Leglslature 8,080 men, of whom only 810 were lawycrs, bankers, cpltalists, or professional politiclans, the remawing 2,610 having been workingmen." 1t the workingmen have ot been well represented, it fa $helr own fault, ki ssisi ol A well-dnformed gentleman, who resides fn Central New York, has assured a correspondent of the New York 7vibune thnt the Republicans enn cuslly carry tho Legislature this fall if they will # pool thelr fasues," quit quarreling among themselves, and go heardily into the convaas, The advice 1s certalnly good, and some of Lhe Republicans tn that Btato are beginulng to think that thelr party has another missfon to perform Lestde contributiug sulely to the political ambi- tlon of Senator CONRLING, —————— Tnn Trmusn long ago predicted that Dex. N1s O'Keansey would turn out to bo the fat, enpty-headed, windy blathorskite and faliuro that Lo hos since proved himsclf, aud now we record onother gucss about him, namely, that the fellow {8 n dishonest seamp and fraud, who Is urging tho workinzmen of the country to “ pool tholr 1asues ' maluly for the reason that DixNs OKeAnrnex is moking a good thing In woney out of lis knavish ond profone ha- rangues. ———— Boma surprisc hus becn cxpressed because Mr. Warrgisoy, of the Loulsville Courier-Journal, should applaud Mr. TRURMAN'S late flop un the curreucy question, but the enthusiasm of the frollant Kentuckian Is not much of o mvstery, Mo nud THURMAN agree,'t suys WATTERSON, Aud 1leNny 18 satd to bu n candidate for Vico- Prestdont ou the samo tcket with TuURMAY, e ——— ‘The arbitrators in the wheat coruer case fn Milwaukea bave decided in favor of McUroci, who held the noses of tho boys to the grind- stonc o firnly in July, It was declded, after lengthy arguments by counscl on both sides, thad wheat wua worth $1.30 on the last day of July,—that bumne the fletitious price which was bid for it by tho butls at that time. ——— Mr, MarT I1. CanvexTRR secks the congouls! colwnua of the Chicago 7imes to defend him- self for appearing before tho Electoral Comimis- slon ns un attorney on the alde of 8auves J. TILDEN, ‘The cxtrome foollshnoss ot the de- feuse ot thls tugo of tho game is only excued: ed by the sutcidut folly of origivally espousiug tne side of the lost cause, ———— If wo kuew just how much money Dzxxis O'Kpanner cacried away with bim, wo might be able to judgoof his satisfactlon with his visit to Chivago, Certaln it Ia that the wori- Ingmen of this city aro asbamed of the sand-lot orator and Paclfe Hioper, o —— - Tho Richnond Stafe Is of tho opinfon that Benator TRURMAN **1s an abject of comumiscra- tou"—all by reason of his lato extraordinary flop on tho tinancial question. BTANLEY MATTNEWS will have to fly around lively it hois held {n greater contempt by the Porrer Committes than the country cutertalus ot it — O'KEAnKEY wants oll tha law-books burued. Tl gratuniars ure wore of & rebuke to DuNNIS than BracksyoNgand the Revised Statutes. ————— ‘The son of the Court-House Ring—**The 8weet Buy-aud-Buy," e ——— PERSONALS. Jack Frost is a bigger man thau Yollow Jack, Lemark by Dennis Kearney; Tha rights of the loafer must bo guaraateed, \ Is Mnj. Burke trying to exhumo Uncle Bammy Tilden by the Burking proccss? ‘Tons Hendrioks is sald to bo very foud of music. Iiis favorite opera is Straddel-a. No, you are mistaken, my son. Oyprisns are not the chlof product of the lalend of Cyprus. Sitting Bul dosires to Lury the bLatchet, but thore ls no white man's hoad baady to bury 0 . . Disrneli is & great novel roader, and be imitates averybiody slse and resde all novels but bis own, ‘The sharks at Long Branch ara increasing lnnumber. Joy Gouldsnd Jim Kecno are there unow, Nobody was hart, and it appoars that Qen, McKenzle's oxpodition Ioto Mexico was uob losded, Young mav, if you would see your girl as she rcally ls, obeerve her as she emerges from tho anef, Iu connection with Massachusetts politics Beu Butler ovideotly regards bimself as the cock- ©yo of tho walk. Rarus and Haycs will bolh sppear at tho Miuncapolis falr, lorsumon assort that Larus Lius she bst record, Au Eastern psper proposes s tralniug- achoul fur diars. Wu nominate James E. Andese w00 to bo Preslduat. Woere is Jobn Nussell Young? Gen. Graut basn's sald anythlng for tbo Now York Ler- ald for weverul duye. Asbiautos is duscribed o3 a migerable couu- 125, aud it must be 1udeed, fur ils eutize popula- vk lives iu Adbantes