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Mautre, Agent, LONDON, Eng.—American Kxchsage, 410 Btrand. Bexav F. GiLtia, Ageat. BAN FRANC AMUSEMENTS. Hooley’s Thentre. Pandolph atreet, between Clark and LI!I“!‘:‘ Mngagement of Hiarey Webher. **Nip and Tuck. Afternoon and eventog. Hrverly’s Thentre. Dearborn strect, corner of Monroe. Fogagement of ths Colvllle Folly Compsay. **Our Clinderelis.” Af- ternoun snd evening. MoVicker's Theatre. ‘Mnadisou street, betwoen Dearborn and State. Dl plomacy." . SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1878, Greenbacks at the New York Stock Ex. change yestorday closed at 993 * The railroad assembly at Baratogs yester- day adopted a resolution looking to the im. mediate establisbment of a pooling arrange. ment which skall include all the trunk lines leading from the seaboanl to the West, with a view to maintaining uniform rates and an equitable division of the busincss. Honace Wmite, of Chicago, and CmanLes Fraxeis Apams, Jr., of Massachusetts, wero the wituesses yesterday before the Con- greasional Labor Committee, tho former dwelling Iargely upon the injurions effocts of aprotective tariff upon the interests and welfaro of the Iaboring man, while Mr, Apaxs' expression of views had referonca to the question of Federal control or super- vision of railronds. Mr. Epsox is not withont honor in his own country. His reception yesterday by tho American Association for the Advance- ment of Science, in session at Ht. Lonis, was ns flattering ns the enthusiastic and upre- strained admiration of the leading scientists of the United States could mako it. 1fe was hailed as the practical man who had found science too slow for hisneeds, and had quict- ly proceeded to do kis own discovering, Yesterday at tartford, Coon., must fur the present stand as n red-letter day in tho aonals of the American trotting turf. Tho threo heats_accomplished by Rarus in 2:15, 2:134, angd 2:18] bave never befors been equnled, and, ocenrring on the same day and track with the mile trotted by Edwin Forrest in 2:14), in which the Lalf-mile was done in 1:054, and the half-mile trial of Hopoful in 1:00}, make up a comblination of nnexampled exhibitions of speed worthy of special notico o showing tho great progress miade in the Lreeding, development, and training of the Awmerican trotting horse, —— Our dispatchos this morning from the va- *rious localities in which the yellow.fever rages tell a gloomy mtory of suffering and death upon an appalling scale. At Now Or- lenus the discase hins ceased to confine itself to particular localities, aud is sprending over the city in all dircctions, Memphia in forced to acknowledge that tho fever bas Dbecemo epidemic, nud a wholesale desertion by all who are physically and financially ablo to leave will soou take place. ‘The wituntion 18 no less pitiable at Vieks- burg, where over G00 casea are reported, and the difficalty of securing proper medical at- tandnnce snd nursing adds to the mournful aapect of the situstion. There seems to bu no longer nuy hopo that the spread of the plague cva bo stayed until the advent of cool weather shall drive away the horrid visliant, The London Zimes contains a tabulated statewent of the results of the German olec- tious held July 80. It appears that there wera 833 completed elcctions, at which Dop- utles were definitely eleoted, and sixty-four cases iu which thero was no choice, necossi- Aating supplementary elections, the Gorman law providing that when a candidato does not receivo au absolute majority of all the votes polled n supplementary election must be held, in which the voting {s conflued to the two caudidates who nt the first eleotion received the highest numnber of votes. In thie following smnmary, showing the distri- Lution of Deputies, the Couservatives, who will sipport Bumuanck, juclude Conserva. tives proper and Imperialiuts, and the Cen- tro includes the Ultramontanes 051 Alantlan Protest party 12 3 D1]Aleatisn Autonomiste n; Commuulats. .. o Poilsh part; Particulariats, :’ ‘Total yet elected. , . Ouo of Bau Canr's stock asscrtions iu hi. Aichigou Lorangues {s *that the waking of the 5.20 bouds payable in colu added F500,+ YU0,000 to the public debt, and the demon. etization of silver added $300,000,000 more to the debt,” If that Lo so, the remonetiza- tion of silver must Lhiave canceled that 8500, 000,000, and Bam ought 1o give the silver men credit for paying off that wuch of the debt at stroke of tho pen. As to the clain that the 4-2J bonds wero originally puyable in greenbacks, Bax conveniently forgets to wention the fact that the greenbacks were originally fundablo jnto those same 520 year bonds, at the pleasure of tho hold. ers, 10 that law had not bLeon repealed, Low maoy of tho greenbacks would now Lo outstanding? How many would Luve beon in circulation a year after tue War? Not ome. And he manages to forget another fact, viz: That the groenbacks ure, and alwsys havo been, paysble in coiu, How, then, would the Government have saved $300,000,000 on tho 5-20 bonds it hes purchused by paying them in greenbacks? Hut suppose greenbacks had been tondered to the Lolders of the 4-20 bonds to the extent of the Government's surpluy revenue, bow would that have saved $500,000,000 7 ‘The wholv amoust of such bounds called in ..llizm g THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY. AUGUST 24, 1878—TWELVE PAGEN) bonds. Porhaps Saws idea s, truth, law, and facts, ment was an unexpected ontcome, Burzr elicited evitable result ns Ropublicans in both Houses of Congross, Benator MorTox waa expected to make a speech in support of this policy, and un. doubtedly would have done so had his life been spared, as the authorized publication of his views by the Indianapolis Journal aban- dantly proved. Buries hind no intention of cliciting this line of testimony from Maj. Burxks, but the latter became nnmanageabla when Durrea tried the browbeating plan, nnd contributed rome history of interest and valne, KO BEVEN-THIRTIES WERE EVER LEGAL- TENDERS, For the purpose of making ont that there bas been an enormons contraction of the currency, the ** Nationals ” include the issuo of 7-10 bonds in their statemonta of currency outatanding for tho year 186¢ and subso- quent yenrs till funded into 5.20 bonds. A Chicago newspaper, professing to bs Repub- lican in politics but published largely in the interost of the * Nationals,”endeavors to sus- tnin this practice, and alleges that there were 400,000,000 of theso interest-beariug notes or bondsiu circnlation as money ! The year 1864 isnot so long past but that the memory of business meu may bear teatimony as to the general fact of circulntion. 1If thero wero 800,000,000 of 7-10 boada in **circnlation na money” at that time, the fact conldnot now bs a matter of contraversy ; in that case, thess interest-bearing notes wonld have been ss common then as greonbreks or National Bank notes are mow. Can any reputable bustuess mou, or any number of men, in active business in 1864 to 1808, nssert that 70 bonds were pnssing currently from hand to hand ns money ot that time or any Inter period, or that they were in any sonso in goneral circalation as money ? Bat tho fact is, tho 7-30 Troasury notes were in no sense and at no time lawfnl money ; for thoy were never legal-touder, nor demand notesredeemnble in legnl-tender, and bearing no interest liko tho National. Dank notes,—nll assertiona to the contrary notwithstanding. The concern in question assertn that 2:14,000,000 of theso notes were legal-ender. We chargo that this is falso, and challenge the prodnction of any evidence to show it to be true, It i im- possible, nnder the lawa authorizing the {rino of theso 7-30 notes or bonds that any such nmovunt of notes should have been mnde legal-tender. There wore just three scta relating to this issne, and n brief ab. stract of theso nets will slow that $2:0,000,- 000 of legal.tender could not have been law- fully issued, 3 The act of June 80, 18G4, authorized an issuo of Trensury notes bearing soven and three-tonthu per cent interest, not erceeding tico hundred millionsof dollars, 'Thero was o certein coudition nndor which these notes might have been made a legal-tender, for the law provided that * such of them as shall bo wade payable, principal and fnterest, at ma. turity, shall bo a logal-tender {o the same ox. tent o8 United States uotes for their face value, excluding futerest.” Under this act it would have boon mnecossary to make tho eutiro fsae ** payadle, principal and interest, at maturity” in onder to Lave $200,000,000 of legal-toudor. An act was passed Jan, 28, 1865, amending the act of June 20, 18GE, which provided that, in lion of the louds nuthorized by the act of 1861, ““the Bucratary of the Trensury may issuo, under authority of sald act, L'reaaury notes of the description and char. acter authorized by tlic second seotion of sald act,"—that fs, 7.30 notes. DBut this smendatory' not of Jan, 28, 1805, further provided (Seo. 2) *“That this act shall not bo 50 coustrued as to give nny au- thorlity for the issue of legal-tendor uotes, in auy form, beyoud the bLalauca unissued of the amuunt anthorized by tho sccond section of tho act {o which this i au amendmont,” Bo the legal-tender 7-30 notos could not have boen fucreased boyond the $200,000,000 in auy case. The third act (that of March 3, 1803,) authorized the issue of bouds and Trensury uotes to the amount of §600,000,000 ; under this nct, the notes could not Le of smaller, donomination than $30, and it was exprossly provided *‘that nothing herein contained aliall be construed as authorizing the issue of legal-teruler notea in any form.” It is perfectly clear, then, that there conld bhave beon uo lawful {asue of $230,000,000 of legal-tender 7-30 notes, as is asserted, for there was no act which, by any construction or under any condition whatever, authorized en lssuo of such legal-tender beyond the amount of $200,000,000. But wo believe tho fact to be that none of these notes were over legal-tonder. The only condition un- dor which they could Lave acquired that fugction was wheu they wure mado poyable, iutereat and priucipal, at watarity, We Lave mot yet seen any evidence that auy of tho notes were iwsued in that way, but believe on the contrary that the Becrotary of the ‘freasury exercised the discretion given him and mado the inter. est payable sewi-annually in every case, Mr. Rurus Froaixa, of Aun Arbor, who has closely investigatetl the subject, in a recent communication to Vur Cuicaco Tribuxe, made the positive statement that **all of the 7-30 notes autborized by this act [the act of and redeemed by surplus revenue has not amounted to 8500,000,000, Most of the 5-20s that have boen called in have beon paid for by the sale of 5, 4}, and 4 per cent that tho Government shonld have manufactured greenbacka to the amonnt of the 5-20 Londs, and forced the holders of the bonds to sur. render them and take the greerbacks, and that snch enormons volnmo of notes would depraciate £500,000,000, and the Govern- ment wonld thereby mako that amount Ly breaking down the valua of 1ts own notes. Was that sweet Sasvzr's idea? If so, there stood in the way two obstructions, the first being that the Government could not con- stitutionally make such an issue of forced paper, and the second, that it could not compel the publio creditors to aocept such specially mannfactured notes and surrender their bonds. We suspect that SBia Oany knows all this; but, as he is ont playing the lying demagogue at $50 a speech, Lie ignores It has frequently happened that Burizs's attempt to injuro the President throngh the Porren inventigation have had a precisely contrary effect from that intended. Such wns the case yesterdny in the continued examination of Mnj. Bonge, by whom Bur- Len songht to show that, with the exception of his Olio friends, the conrse of the Prosi- dont toward Lonisiana was not approved by the lending men of the Ropnblican party, to whom the collapse of the Pacxanp Govorn- 8o far from proving this, Buriss's bullying of the fact that the in. to Picxarp was fully understood by all parties, and that the policy of withdrawing the troops and leaving Pacgano to fight his own battles was well known and gencrally indorsed by tho tached.” not one dollar was Government money. their circulation at par with legal.tender, greenbneks (within ten days after their is- est. Not being legal-tander, tion of bank currency; they could not be tondered in payment of debts, nor conld they be converted on demand into legal-tender currency. Honco they had none of the nttributes of money, but all the attributes of a bond. There mny have been individunl transactions in which these notes wore passed and nceepted by mutual tended that the $112,000,000 of 4 per cent have inflated the currency as to contend that the 7-80 Treasury notes, with interest pay- ablo semi-annually, onlarged the volume of money during tho period when they were is- sued. Tho latter s aa deliberato a misrapre. sentation as the former would be. MR, MATT H. CARPENTER. The gentleman whose name adorna the head of this article served ono term ns a member of the United Btates Bonato from Wisconsin, but was defeated when a candi- date for re-election, and Avavs Cimznox (Rep.) electod 1n his plnce. After his defent, in 1875, he immediately took mp his resi. denco in Washington City, where he has since practiced law. Recontly he visited his old home in Wisconsin, with an observant and longing oye out, as is nlleged, after the soat now occapied by Senator T, O, Hows, which will nced refilling aftor the 4th of next March, A vory brief allusion to Mr. Canvesren's late visit West in the columns of Tar Tnisusr, morely s a matter of current nows, has in- cited that gentleman to turn aside from the pressing ongagomonts of his ardnons profes- sion long enough to nddress an *‘opon letter " to the editor of this paper, which he tokes tho pains and the exponso to tolegraph tothe Ohicago Times. Just why Mr. Can- pexTER shonld seek the columns of the Z'imes tomake his personal communication public is not apparent, unleasitis beoause, when he wad in deep trouble some yenrs agoof o personal nature, the Zimes was his mbst persistent accuser, and pursued him day aftor doy with o vindictivoness that knew neither decency nor limit, That hoe should tnrn to it now, is merely a mattor of taste, Mr. CanreNTER labors to justify himeelf for appearing befora the Elgctoral Commis- slon in bebalf of TiLpex and the Domocrats nnd put ting forth all his powors to effect the defeat of Havesand the Republicans, He excuses his perfidious conduct on the ground that ke was working for a living, and that Wirtax M. Evants, ten years bofore, defended Prosident Jouxsoy in the Impeach- nient trinl, As ‘Tne Temoxe had merely said that QAnrENTER'S nttempt to defoat the seatiug of the Republican Presidential can- didate had given grent offense to the Repub- licans of Wisconsin, which Is a fact, it is not necessary to consider the respective merits of his trencherona act and the professional asslstanco Lawyer Evarts gave President Jomxsox in the groat tiial. Baym Trupzy bLired Matr Oanrextes for the political jn- fluonce he might bring to boar in defeating the Republicaus. Jouxsox employed Evinrs for lialegal ability aloue, precisely as Breon- &8 did In the T'rzoN caso, That thd Repub- licans of Wisconsin were naturally greatly inconsed against him for his unjuatifiable conduct in throwing his Influence against thom in tho crisia of *the gront strugyle for the Presidency, is not strange. Neither is it strange that the ex-8anator shonld now feol anxious to excuse himself to his former constituents for having adopted this ques- tionable method of * gottiug a living.” It what he got out of Al TiLpe's * bar]” will compensate him for the loss ho hag sus. tained in the good opinwon of Lis old party triends aud former supportors in Wisconsin, it is woll, ‘The second point to which 3Mr, O, iu. vites our attention 18 his cemphatic disavowal - of intending to becoms **a compromise candidate for the Benate, to be supported by Democrats and personal friends among Republicans,” Tho gontle. wan knows very well that all Tae Trisung #aid on that subject was to allude in two or three brie! sontences to two leading articles that recently appeared in the Milwaukee Daily News, tho oldest and most widely-cir- culated Democratic organ published in Wis- consin, in which the probability and expe. diency of such a combination of factions to elect Mr, OanreNTER Was urged in all the forme of rhetorical aud classical treatment kuown to the modern Demooratio journalist, ‘When two such leading editorials sppear in a professed: Democratic orgen, at stated intervals on Bunday morning, when its issue is twice as great as ou any other day, aud when they are kuown to be inspired by the principal propristor of the organ aforesald, who is kuown to be & warm personal frioud and admirer of the late Senator, the infer- enco is legitimately drawn that such a coali- tion amoug Democrats, Greenbackers, and ** Canpgytzs Republicins ” is not improba. In the last sentbnce of his injudicious let. ter to us, Mr, CinreNTER gives utterance to bis foar that **it is & great indiscretion to enter into a controversy with an editor"; but we hasten to set his mind at rest that Lis controversy is not with Tux Cmicico I'nipuxe, but with the Republicans of Wi- consin, who are displessed with his record 1864] were made pavable three yeara from | as a Senator and his attempt to se Ang. 15, 1864, with semi-annual coupons at- We havo scon no contradiction of that statement, and if it were not true it would be easy to show the contrary, There- fore, Instead of thers being $230,000,000 of thess 7.10 notes legnl-tender, not one dollar of them possessed that fanction, and henca Nor can it besuccessfally argued that these notes, not being legal-tonder, corresponded In character to the cironlating notes of tho National Banks. They bore two marks of distinotion, either one of which wonld have provented their general circulation as money, towit: (1) They were not redeemablo on demand in legal-tender, and (2) they bora interest at the rate of 7 3-10 per cent a year, The former condition wonld have prevented oven if they had borne no interest; and tho Intter gave thom the charncter of bonds. Had the interost on the 7-30 notes been made payablo at matarity, and had thoy thus ac- quired the legal-tender function provided by law, we can understand that they might have circulated as money for a considorable time,—perhaps as much as two years, hav- ing three years torun; but as the interost was collected every sir months, the 7-30 Treasury notes had a highor valuo than sue and over afterwards), and they wonld naturally disappéar to nwait the accumula- tion and collection of the semi-annual inter. they conld not gorve ns bank reserves for tho redemp- consent, and there may have been spurts of cirenlation on the’ first issue of notes, but the assertion is preposterous that they were circulated gonorally or to tho extent of $500,000,000, just as the other assertion is falso that $230,000,000 of them were legal- tonder. It might jnst as rensonably be con. bonda that have been rocently sold for par Prosident. BOCTALISM—POLITIOALIS, write and talk about it. ¢ liberalism,” doctrine of men who wonld of the Journal a much more favorable defl- nition. Ho says that Socialism hns for its creed that the State las a daty to fulfill of special protection of the poor membora of society, espocially of those who work with their hands for day wages, and that the most important part of this dnty is insuring them their fair share in the goneral product of in- This writer disputes the statement Tarers mado in his will that Boctalism had dnatry, disappeared in Franco, That is so, if by Bocinlism i8 meaut, he says, the dootrines of the violent schools that preceded 1848; it is not so, if it means that the belief has been given np by the peoplo that it is tho duty of the Government to better the condition of the poor. A great deal has lately been writ. ten and spoken in this countryabout Socialism —much moro probably than it really deserves 8s an American topie. It can now be defi nitely scen that, so far as it appears hare, it is & political, not a social, question. It isa question of Government; the dispnte fs, whether the Government of tho United Btates should confine itself to the simple dnties of the protection of life, liberty, and property, 88 prescribed in tho Constitution, or should wnader into the wildernoss of at. tampting to ameliorate the personal fortuncs of its individnal citizons by laws. As the question has been developed here, it is not one of Bociallam, but Politicalism, and that is abhorrent to American good sense, DISPROPORTIONATE PRODUCTION. ‘The Iewrrr Congressional Committoe on tho Labor Question, nfter having Mstened for weuks to n hotorogeneous collection of Labor Reformers who hiave no iden of whit they wnnt, snd of fanatics and idiota who Liave no usofnl idens of any kind, have at last hoard 8 witness who is compotent to testify on this question, and who has some idens nnd knows how to stato them, Prof. Bussen, who teaches Political and Hocial Sciunce to the yonng men in Yale College, apponred before the Committeo on Thurdday, sud gave his opinion asto the canses which have tended to produce (he present stagnation of businessaud consequent distress of the laboring classes. Ilo directed attontion to tho faot that during the last few years tho large incrense in the means of transporiation and commu- nication, the great ‘improvementa in machinery of all kinds, and the operation of tho toriff, ** which has con- gested people in some distriots where they conld not otherwise have been attracted,” had tonded to expand the production eash yoar far in excess of the demand. While Prof. Buvzr onunciated this as an important: genoral principle, he did not look upon it as the primary cause of hard times so much na “ disproportionate production™in certain lines of business, which has resulted in atagna- tion in thoselines. ‘Tho market having been glutted, the surplus men havo had to be dis. oharged, and, there boing no other demand for labor, the price of wages has fallen off, Trof. Bouwen did "not specify the lines of business in which there bas been dispro. portionate production, but it does not require a long search to flud them. They aro chiefly cowprised fu railrond construotiofl and the cognato branches of business, iron manufac- ture, and conl mining. From the close of the War, in 1865, to the panio of 1873, a perlod of cight years, neorly oue-half the railroadsin thls country wore constructed, comprising au entire length of #6,000 miles, and represonting in atock, bouds, and mortgages a sum equal to the national debt, The construction of such an immeuse work naturally stimulated tho iron Lusiness and produced an inordinate demand for iron products with which to build and stock the roads, To keep tho mills and shops in oporation and to run the new roads oreated an immonso demand for coal, Such au enormous and sudden dovelopment in these three groat lnea of business corre. spoudingly influenced city busiuess, and avery one commenced branching out not only in mercantile operations, but in building and real-ostate investment. New railroads were extending out everywhere, aud the mnarket was filled with their evidences of indebted., ness. The rolling-mills, furnaces, and machine-shops were runuing at fall blast, ‘Tho conl mines wore crowded with laborers working night and day. 3lerchants launched out in heavy investmentsin goods. Every one speculated in real estate, and the forests of the North could bardly be cut down fust enough to supply the demand for bullding moterial, What was the result? Thore was an ex. cess of certain kinds of production ; s dis- proportionate excess in railroads, iron and coal, and building, snd growing out ©of it came a panic, which stopped the coh. struction of ruilroads and baokrupted many of those which were finished. With the stoppage of railroad construction the iron mills closed ond the coal mines were idle. ‘The surplus of men had to be discharged, and down wont the price of wages to corre- spond with the demand for products, It re- acted on all other branches of industry which bad sympathized with this inordinate sud disproportionate production, and at last la- bor was stagnant and prices declined becausa the markot was glutted. . It is doubtful, as Prof. Bouvzs says, TILDEN and defeat the Ropublican ecandidate for To give A good definition of Bocialism would puzzle a good many of those who 'The word itaelf was made 1n 1838 by Prenre Lerovx, who used it as tho opposite of the selfish dootrine of individualism thon in vogne. Lenoux meant by Bocialism tho organization of labor, but the word has had as many different sanses as or *“philosophy.” The oole- brated Rasparn sald in 1849 that Bocinlism was ‘‘the ncessant and disinterested study of avorgthing that conld ameliorate the mornl and physical condition of human so- cioty.” As the word is of French origin, and the thing has been acted and described more in France than nnywhere clse, it shonld be found successfully defined in the lending French dictionaries, But tho Dictionary of the Fronch Acadomy has nothing less vagne than that it is *‘the change nnd reform the eondition of socicty upon an ontirely now plan,” and Lrrrre doos not do much better for nd in saying that Socialism is the * system which, subordinating 'polit- ical reforms, offors a plan of social roforms.” Garnten, in an article in the August numbor of the Journal des Economistes, aottles down on two siguifications of tho word as those most in use: thatof tho economists who class as Socialistic all systoms that deuy the principles of property and competition, and invent tho State with extraordinary powers to subvert thom; nnd that of the politicians who use it to desiguate any popular aspira. tion for change, good or bad. Gansizn is hostile to Bocialisni. Lixtousty a well-known Fronch cconomist, gives in the snme number whother legialation can accomplish anything to relieve thia atagnation. Every one must wark ont of it as best e can, and wait pa- tlently until the oxcess is consnmed and an equilibrinm is restored. The busiuess body of tho conntry Is sick, jnst as tho Luman body is. We grow sick becauso the waato of the vital forces is in excess of the repair, and naturoe ro-eatablishen the equilibrium which wo oall health, The buniness paralysis will be enred in the same manner, and i is ques- tionable whethier any legislation will hasten the cure. Fiat and other quack experiments will, on the other hand, tend to delay the oporation of that infallible romedy which is always found in the inflexible law of enpply and demand, BOUTHERN POLITICS, The -ontlook of the Congressionsl cam- paigu in the North {s enconraging, and thero is a ronsonable hope that tho Republicans will gain handsomely. * They are enrly in the fisld and are working hard, and na a rule have put atrong men in nomination, In Colorado, Vermont, Town, Kansas, Min. nesota, and Maine the nominationa nre fnll. In Ohio, the nominations are rnde in cight- eon of the twenty districts. Illinois has nominated thirteon of her nincteen, Indinna nine of her thirteen, and Michigan seven of hor nino, During tho next throa weeks nearly oll the nominntions will have been mnde, and the eampnign will be fairly apen. In the effort of tho Republicans to regain their mnjority in the Tonse it is alzo not un- reasonable to hopo for some lelp from the Sonth, or at lenst from some sections. In Alnbama and Mississippl the prospect is hopeless, although the former State: has n Ropublican majority on a fair count, and the Intter 25,000 majority. The shot-gnn Domocracy of those Slates have so complete- ly overawed the blacks that thoy dare not vote. A single instance of the Mis- sissippi plon as it was carried ont in tho recent eloction in Alnbama will show how impossible it is to poll & Republican vote, In Mont. gomery County, tho Republicans registered 6,000 voters and tha Democrats 2,100, 'The election roturns gave to the Democrats 4,100 votes and the Republioans 2,600. At the last Congressional election, when there was fair play, the vote was a fraction over 2,300 Democratic and about 6,000 Republican, which corresponds with"the recont registra- tion, Even if tue Republicans shonld do tho voting in any part of Alabama the Demo- orats will do the counting, and the same will be truo in Mississippi and some portions of Georgin. 1In South Carolina, the cavalry companies and rifle clnbs, which now turn ont at overy Democratic meating, ave relied upon to in- timidata Ropublican votes. Tho sameé game hns beon attempted in Arkansas, but hoa been frastrated, temporarily at least, by tho action of the Governor in ordering the dis. baudment of the riflo cluls, which wore organized and armed to prevent Ropublicaus from voting. The Ropublicans may hope, Lowever, lo gain enongh from the South to offset the lossos that may be incnrred by Democratio gerrymandering in Ohio and Missouri. Tho indepeudent candidate is sbroad in somo parts of the South, and thare are Conserva- tive candidates of considorablo strength who will oppose the Bourbons, Besides theso, there in the dark horse of tho Nationals, which is o much darker animal {n the South than he is in tho North. ‘I'he National party Sontly, though it calls itself a Greenback party, and carries a greon bauner in Virginia, Tennessee, and Toxas, is not a fiat-money porty. It does not beliove in having a dol- lar of any less value than the greenback I8 mow. It can bo much more truthfully desoribed as o party that ropre. sents hostility to Bourbonism, and it offers an opportunity for thousands who have not sufficient moral courago to incur tho odium of boing called Radicals to ntray themselves sgninst the Bourbons. Wheraver the Radi- cals ave wiso they will unite with the Nation- als, and this they aro doing in some places, with the prospect of making thomselves felt in the election, It fs the logitimate effect of the abolition of the color line long ago indi. cated by Tar Crioado Tomune, Tho Natlonnl Greenbackers, Independents, and Conservatives of tho Sonth aro all signs of tho gradual disintogration going on in’ the Bourbon ranks, They are floating, disor. gonized clements at prosent, but are destined eventually to eryatallizo into a strong opposi. tlon party. While littlo can be hoped from them this fall, it is none tho less true that if they disturb auy political caloulations it will bo those of the Bourbons. It is not impos- sible that the Ropublicans of the North inay receive reinforcomontu from the two Florida distriots, and from some of the Tenncsse, Louisiana, North aud South Carolina dis- tricts, With this help they can recover their majority, Even without it, it is not iinpos- wible, if the cutire party casts its vote, The campaign will bo characterized by tuat elemaut of danger and demand for duty that is calculated to call out overy Republican votor, "The latest Enclish papers were stil discussing Lord Briconsviern's “epigram™ on (irap- BTONE, a8 thoy call it, tho full text of which differs a little from the cable version. Ho was much surprisea, hao sald, to bear tho Anglo- Turklish conventfon called an “1usane conven- tion,” Me did not protend to be ns good o Judge of Insanity as his opponent, but be would ask which was most likels to enter fnto an fnsane conveption,—“a body of Eugllsh geutlemen, Twouored by the favor of thelr soverelzm and the coofidence of their fellow-subjocts, maneging your atfalrs for four years, I hopo with prudence, and not sltozether without success; or'a sophistical rhetoriclan {nebriated with the exuberance of hils own verboaity, sud gifted with an egotistica) Imagination that can at all times command an interminable and nconslstent scrics of argu- ments to walign an opponent and glotify bim- sel{l" Tho Spectator vetorts that * the fumes of London's saulation are mounting fnto thae keen, cold, bizarde lmagination of Lord Ba- coxarisLD's, and vulgarizing all the sources of lts former power. As It s, the polley of the (overument has been s policy of obscarity en- livened by sarcasin.” B e— Geo. Roprur Toouns, of Georgla, who once declared that he would call the rolt of bis sluves under the shadow of Buuker Hil Monument, but whonever was quite eble to- parry the threat luto execution, Ia still as active and de- moustrative 88 in old - pro-slavery thnes, wheu he and other Southern planters lorded it oyer thefr political assoclates in tho halls of Cougress. (icn, Bow was receutly fnterviewed on political affatrs In Georgla, and what kLo let out s oublished in the Atlauts Constitution. ‘The zeporter asked Mr.TooMus * who saved the State,” when bu made the fullowlng raply : **That's rich. " he sald, when be could control his m"l'l-lxm"'{k oulls paiiern s Orisutal—gor- seone, Lt koo tall cau, bols you mich Hitt, *bave bocu quarrellng over it, and | don't want toget mixed up fu . Tam vetting tuo old to b disputing. " [ amn growiug eradually converva- tive. 1don't hike to divpute with lawyers upbosed 10 8 casc. You msxed e who saved tho lathe Biate really maved? Weo must wait Ilere ls snotlier clemeat of conservotlam --patfe Ut they ury really dlspution about Iy, who broks down thy ltagical parly bo Greorslu, ALEX suys Lls resolutions uld 18, and BSxx suys by did{t with s Conventlon and lifs Notes on the Ritantion.” Maybe they outh did it: hut. in my omnion,® eontinnea _(en. Toowas, with ons of his judescribable cestores, *“ons of me o old o ahotebags full of | allver was worth mora In thowe dags than ten cartionda of resolutions nnd votes and conventions, . . . Our_only safety waa in intimidation and bribery, We had elther fo do thst oe let the Commonwealth o Lo the doze. Tt was not what the Radicals eall the argument of the rhot-gnn that I ueed in my district, but the argnment of the ahot-bag. It waa nnanswerable, An old neero named Isaac nelp: me ont wonder’n"r when [ first used tho shote bag. fsaac had belonged to me, and ho was will- ing to do whatever 1 told him, . . *'Inever yet saw a negro. continued the General, laughing, *'hat wasn't in favor of sound currency and hard money. fint I’ 100 early to be talking nbont who faved the State, Tne Republican party was de. feated by the man who stood atthe jiolls early and late, and browught order ont of chnos with bribery. Ye, sir,—bribery pnro and simple. [ ray ¢ wan right, It doean't mako any diferenco Who saved the State, The blagest of us wwon't ore than an oonce when Timo boils na the avowed object of returning him 1o iy Benate, and they have diseovered that the jon, s not an caay onc. Tho ableat Demoerayy, journal futhe Btate, the New Albany Ledyer. Standard, never has liked Vooruzes, and i 1y unable to reatrain ftselt from mfng £0 Ny Tight in the heat of the vontesat, 1t saya thg, It the campalgn is to bo condneted for the henefly of Voonnrxs, the party “might ne well magq preparations for an_ingtorious defeat," ol pe. marks with a zood deal of feeling that « things are becoming most infernally usting In ll;u, direction thus early In the canvass,! ——— The Qreenbackera of Texas, according 1o the New Orleans Demoerat, clalm already to hare 500 clubs organized In the State, only Feventy of which are colored, ani expeet to pol 0,000 ex. Democratie votes. They expect much asejt. ance from the Republicans, who are POWerlesy in their own behalf, The Texas (lrueulmkm clalm to be In favor of & paper doliar equat value to coln. That fs the testimony of Gen, Tooxns In re- gard to the method adopted In Goorgla to ‘' break nown the Republican party* and *save the Btate,”” When s Democratic wit ness wasln tratning to appear befors the PorTen Sub-Com- inittee In New Urleans, and was asked why he perjured himaelf on ano nccasion, hie Innocently asked: “If aman should come to you with a roll of greenbacks fn one hand and a knifo In the ather, what wonld you doi” And we can Imagine tien. Toosns and his former * chattel golng about his district clectloneering among the colared folka for the Democratie ticket,— the darkey carrying shat-bag filled with bogus sliver voln and the Generat rrying that good oll Democratie persuader, n double-barreled shot-gun, to enforce his arguments. It Is cer- tainly a new and siznificant way of stumpinge a county, but it may be a more successful method than any we have vot adopted In the North. —— —e—— . V. B. Honrox, whom the Renublicans ar the Tenth District of Ohlo have nominated for Con. gress agalnst (Gen, EWING, served two teryg in 1854-57 and one In 1880-'01. He ia 70 years ol and was a member of the Peace Congrogy ||; Washington just before the War of the Rebel). fon. Wo fear this man Is too old to make thy riffte. ———— ‘I'he New York Sun. speaking of the prongy o send Mr, Evarts tothe UnitedStates Sengyy in ptace of Mr. CONRLING, says that there arg Just two things Io the way: ono is that My, Evants (loes not want to go to the Senate, aud the other is that he coulid not 2o It he waotej to. Of course the Sun knows all about jt. PERSONALS. We have olten wished that It might be so— that our old friend Gironam Fnaxcis Traiw could have Iiis haiter pulled off and be turned foose {n n crawd azainst that windy knave and blatherskite, Drsnis O'Keanyey, Well, our prayer has heen answered at last, for not long. azo (ixonar FraNcis did talie a rattlo at 1es- N8 in tho followlng characteristic atyle: You ateack ¢-lecherons honaholders, and then choore ane af the mast ofticicus of s order s yuur white-feathered champion of Navarre, You call the Inweyers the **hell-hounds of scum,™ and then_ gclect the worst enr m_the pack s your siandard-bearer. ~ Was not BUrLen tho Ades- Atkv-Dintox Credit-Mobilier attorney iIn the Pa. DIl ne not ignaminionsly fzuro in the Javxe molety awindle? Was ho not the chief enok and bottle- washer of the fraudulunt SANBORS cote tracin? You eall the saluzy-grabbers **cnt-throsta aud nunfong of well, ™ and” yo the member who foreed that infamons bill through Conurers In your candulate far Governor! You shout, ** Ilang tho capitalistal” when Burien donld not bave heen alected to Congrews oxcept by caplial, baeati he was 8 moneyed mant Yon **damn the nonop- Qilata * In thio #amo breath that you call for cheers ft‘lnhglmunt corrupt of tha *‘corporation shy- rters’ Remark by Leote: Too much Ising hay made me mad, B Until more new towna are staked off Sam Bard cannot start 8 new paper, The family of the late Hnrry Montagny will recelve 815,000 life Insurance, Will the Pottor Committes chargo the ex. penses of Leele's insanlty to the peoplo? Any person suspected of work {s humed;, ately bonnced out of the Workingmen's party, Kearney's trip throngh the Fast wan profit. able. and be returns to his sand-lots with lute of sand, Tha present style of Indies’ dresses izey narrow In the skirt that ono woald not conces) Jeg Darla' boots. Qneen Victorin hins sent 860,000 to Quebes with which to bulld the **KentGste" o thy memory of her father, Edison Las been in the Yosemite Valley, and he is willing to admlt that he can't lvent 3 botter valley than that. 3 Nothing has been heard of the American navy for soveral woeke. Thoro are fears that it hy been devoured by & shatk, Mr. Leete was crazy while befors the Commitiee, but his insanity was not noticed among #0 many {rreclalmable lunatics, Charles Francis Adams pays an aonml tax of §3,130, from which It wonld appear that he 18 8 **lecherous bondholder, " Mer. Tilden and Mrs, Tilton keep them. selves befora the pnblic by the same method, Both declare that tney are gullty, The pienic custard-plo now adhoreth to the young man's pantaloons, and the wreath of osk-~lcaves ontwineth his straw hat, Kenrney's atatemont that he would ot let 8 Chinaman wash his shirt s producing the erro. neous Impression that he wears one, Mrs. Woodlall, who is 1 London, cally this an ungrateful country. Surely it will not be ungrateful {¢ shie will keop out of 18, —— Sinco the death of Dr. Rarnow , late Presl- dent of Vassar College, the question of filling the vacancy has caused conelderuble discusslon in the newspapers and among educational peopie all over the country, The New York @raphic saya It {s a painful and surprising fact that, while Vassar Colleze hns graduated young women who have hecome acceptable teachera and ndinfrablo wives and motbers, sho Las not produced one who has becoms well-known na o scholar or on author, as a poct, acientist, of artlat. In fact, in no department of intellcctnal effort, cither by the manifestatlon of strength, skill, or taste, has a graduate of Vaossar made herself known tothocountry.” It saysthatthero are women jn the country that are admirably aunlliled for the position of Prestdent of Vassar College, and names ANNig C. BRACKRTT as one of them, Tt savsthat st hns succceded in doing several very creditable things fna very eminent manner, and that she posscsses both the technfcal tralning ond tho practical business ability 1o assume such a trust and discharge it admirably. extract: @, advertiscd fact that the proprictor was sucl an posed to the Chincse movement. His two snng “they stated to mo that, whilo the Louso was os. tenstbly opposed to the Chinese because of their underseliing and underworking the white laborers thers, yet thoy did not hesitate to, and in fact did, buy largely of thom after night- JSall, when thelr cotrance by u side door with thelr wares would not bo observed.” e — Ex-Gov. FamcuiLp, late Consul at Liver- pool, sends somo carelully-prevared statistics to the Btate Department relative to the wages now paid farm laborers fn England. In some countics the avorage wages are flftcen shilliugs n week, but this fs ontv a part of the pay a man gets, he having fn addition to thu money ro. celved certain perquisites, such as mllk for his children, extra allowances of food aua beer in larvest time, and often o small pateh of ground on which to raise potatoes and othor garden vegetables, Raliway men do not receive ono- half as much pay as the same class of persoas getin the Unlted States. Encincers are pahd 81.50 tho first ycar, $1.07%¢ thie sccond, and $1.75 afterward. Firemen begln with 874¢ cents per day and incrense. Conductors receive from §5.12)¢ 10 $3.73 per woek; switchmon, 83.50 to 85,755 mcchanles, $3.50 per weeks laborers, 86, A week 8 filty-four hours, Dricklayers and masous recelve 18 cents an hour, In France the pay of rallroad emploves very ncarly cor- responds with that received by the samo class fn Eugland, —— A ran is under sentency of death forburnlog abarn In South Caroling, as by the statutes of | that Btate arson s an offense punishablo by death. In the summer of 1803, a8 an’ exchango tells tho story, when the Statg was still ln the chaos caused by Sieisan's destructive march, abamn belonging to Jrssms M., SuxaLy was burned down., CoooLen, o respectablo citizen, was suspected of the crime, ‘The matter end- ed, however, In whispers, snd for thisteon years SuEALY and Cooarzn lved noar ucign- lors, and seemingly wot on unfriendly terms, Last suring o disagreement avose hetween them, and 8nsary procured an indlctment aurainst CoogLen for haviug burned bis barn, Coouren was convicted and sentenced to be hanged. ¥ive or six thousand persons bave signed a petition asking the Guvernor to co; mute the seutonce on the ground that tho evi- dence was fnsufliclent. e —— Some of the more ignorant breed of tramps, Baciallsts, and Kzaunxy disciples pretend to Leltove that labor-saving machinery stands fu tho way of good times, and toat its universal use [s a detelment rather than o blessing to laboring men. Bat hero conies C. D, Pakkni, mongrel candidate for Congress on the What- do-you-call-it ticket In the First District of Wisconsln, who I3 extensively cogaged fu the mauufacture and sale of the aforcsaid labore say'ng agricultural implements, A e —— ‘Tho Greenbackers of Vermont malutain.the consistency of thelr party by nominating for Congress 8 nan who 18 tho President of a bank, formerly & wall-contractor, and whose name fizured unvleasantly fo fudion Ring ond Poat- Ofllco straw bids. Up In Malne they sre run- ning s lecherous bondholder and a mau who has got rich by grinalug the face of the poor and taking usurious lnterest, e e— The New York Star says that an old 1ady re- ccutly died fn Brooklyn who desigusted in ber will as executors Hesxy Waup Bzecusgand lxyur C. Bowsx. It she bad ouly pamed Furaxk MouLTox to act as the mutual frisud of both, the travsaction would bave been com- blete. e —— The Indians Dewocrats are on the rsgged edze of & paole. Thelr principsl trouble is Yoomuxkes. They are making the cawpaign for ———— Concerning our prophecy that Devyrs Kean- NEY was running about the country emancipat- tugs labor chiefly for the amount of money that was poolod into his own hat, a vorrespondent senda ua a note from which the following fs an « Somo months ago I was in- formed by a gentloman dirces from San Fran- clsco thot Keanxny was at that time, to his peraonal knowledge, under pay from a larze re- tall house there to influence tho workingmen to buy of this speclal firm because of tho whlely- especial friend ot theirs and was bltterly op- were at the time In the emoloy of the firm, and "A 1ady in Richmond (Va.) gave birth to s litter of five children the other day. Mr. Denals Kearney ndvlsea her to pool her fsaues. Dennis Kenrney declares that he mide himsolf, and we ara truly glad that the responsibile ity bas thus been fixed whore It belongs, Robert Bonuer's frionds aro urging him to ron for the BMayoraity of the City of New York, end perhape ho would be & turf man to beat, Bimon Cameron i at Atlantic City, aod the Widow Oliver hopes thera la some shark in that vicinity who Is man cuough to take her part, *Jonnie June" says the young mon of the veriod do not marry asthoy should, Evidently Jenulo thinkethoy should marry ¢*for keeps." At any rato nobody oan convict Leote of belng n Loulsiana witnoss, Tlo wax crasy, aod must, thercfore, bo acquitted of this vile charge, The Princo of Wales has accepted an honorary membaershipin the ** Daston Anclentand Houorable Artlilery.” Mo is regarded as It big~ geat gun. ¥ The report in circulation that Webb, IHayes, the President's oldest sun, Is soon to marty an Ohlomirl s not trae. That Webb has caught no Rirkas yet. Thero ia no yollow fover in this city, bnt there is a phonograph acrosa the street from this offico which can play **Whoa, Emmal™ in fmitatln of a French born, The alphabat had a hard time of it during the Turko-Russian w nd it 1e now getting ter ribly shaken up with the numos of places and e in Austria and Uosnia. A faghion paper eays that striped stock Ings ore worn again. Our streots have not bees wmuddy cnough recently, howevor, to enable oneto verify this Informatlon, John B. Cough is in London, anithe | number of men in that city who do not drink a1 Leou fncroased from 307 to 308, Thus the grest causo of temperance moves on. Gen. McKinzio completely anbjugated sev- eral stray mustang ponles in Mexlco, and we trust thot this wiil have the effect 1o prescrye pesct with that country benceforward. Leste, the unfortunate witness in tho Pat- ter luvesigation, was driven crazy by attempting to alscover whethor Uen Dutler was looking at bia or at a grocery atore around the corner. Salisbury, we aro informed, wears hi¢ garter on his breast. At first glanca this looks pecullar: bat verhaps Sallsbuary’s extend furtber up than thoso of the ordinary plebetun. Presiduntial tours of tho conntry are good things. Theyare calculatod to convince the Chlef Exccutlve thut Washington {3 not the United Stater, and that the Prosidont lanot the people. The Washington Pust roealls tho literary fact that Miltou recelved bat $2i for **Faradise Lost™; and the gentlemen of sporting proclivities wonder why he got snything, as the puir o dice lost. A merobant of Milwaukee avenuo put & conple of eraply dry-goods baxes outside hi¥ doo? ho other day, and before might they bhad bfl.fl' whittled up by mnembers of the Workingmen's party. Hob fngersoll's new lecture is entitled, +¢Tho Mistakes of Josoph." The manacr In which Joa treatea the late Mrs. Potiphar was, to say the least, alittle cecontric, and we are glad his cose duct s to ba shown up. L) A sudden depression of the earth and an upheaval of the occan lko a tidal wave wers noticed on the Pacide Slope tho othor day -whed thie lumonet of the New York Times atevped of the eastorn edgy of this country sud embarked fof Europe. Mr, Murphy appears to have abandoned the tomporance cause. We have heard notbing, from bim for sometime, 1lls converts are slrcady putting less sud ioss walcr in thelr whisky as (b0 reault of this relaxation of his vigilaace. A 8t. Louls girl's feet are rather too much for even tho ablest snd most enterprising shark. A bello from that city, while batalag av Look Dranch tho other day, was atticked by one of thesa voraclous monstors of the deep, which seized her by the foot, She lost 'ber small toe. but the unforiunate animsl was choxed to desth while ir7° fng to swallow it down whole, ‘The lLand-organ is a plessing iustrumest, but we beliove nothing can equal tho bewilcling melody of & puonograph tbat can produce the toued of a ¥rench horn. A phonogruph of thls descrip- tlon, tooting unccasingly ail dsy long, teaches 3 valuable teason of application and persoverance t0 the young wman trylog o masierthe French hords and couvinces bim that be can ooly becowe u skl ful performer by assiduous practice.