Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 3, 1878, Page 4

2 AT s 1 e ey T ] : i TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. ~FOSTAGE PRETAID, kg £t 6.0 et ol 5] peciinen cupies sent free, tiive Fost-Utllce address ta fall, including State and County. Fiemittances may be made eithar by draft, express, Tust-Uttice order, ot In rogistered letter. st our rlak. TERMS TO CITY SUDSCRIBERS. Daily, deltvered, Sunday excepled, 28 cente per week. Daily, delivered, Sunday focluded, 30 cents per week. Address THE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Comer Madiron and Dearborn-sta., Chicago, 11 Orilers for the delivery of Tie TAINUNE at Ky Englewond, and Hyde Far feft {n the countin willrecelvs prompt attention, "aily Fdition, arteof s sen Fundny ki Py £ corg. bt yeur. —————— TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES. TNE Critcano TaInTxe bias established branch offices for the recelpt of SubscHptions &nd advertisements ad follows: NEW YONK—Room 20 Tribune Bulldiag. F.T.3Mo- Favpex, Manager. FALIS, France—No. 18 Rua de Ia Grange-Datellere, 11 Manren, Agent. LONUON, Kng.—American Exchanze, 449 Strand. UxsRY F. GiLLio, ARent. BAN FRANCISCU, Cal.—Palsce fotel. TASLUSE? PreVicker's Theatre. Madison street, betwaen Dearborn and State. whl. Plomacy.™ ilooley’s Thentre. e Randoiph stiect, Letween Ciack and f.afalte, Eugagement of Jolo T. Raymond. *Tha Glided Age.” % Hnverly’s Theatre, Dearbiorn strect, comer of Monroe. Fngagement of the Colrilie Fully Company. ** liobinson Crusoe.* New Chleagn Thentre. Ctark strect, between Randolpl and . Engage- sieat of Tony Denter's Pantomime Troupe Thite Htocking Park. Laka Shore. fout of Washington strest. Champlon. #hip gamo hetween the Providence and Clifeago Clubs 'FUESDAY, BEPTEMBER 3, 187 Groenbncks at the New York Stock Ex- change yesterday closed at 99). According to the monthly Treasnry report tho decrease in the publie debt duriug Au- gust was £6,475,405, Tho decrease in tho privato debt of tho country has not yet been computed, but the sggregate must Le con. siderably larger than the sum stated above. "Tho orrival to-day in Chicago of President " Haxes, and tho great procession of firemen from all parts of the country which is to form the opening foature of tho Firemen's ‘Tournament, together furnisk an occasion of great publio interest, as is shown by the presence in the city of crowds of, visitors, while other thousands will arrive on tho trains this morning. The capacity of Chi. cago to comfortably entertain o big multi- tude of sirangers will ba tested this weelk na it hias never been bofore, and we think it ean be safely promised that the visitors will bave no reason to complain of the extent or char- ncter of the accommodations provided. - Tho failure of the Canadinn peopls to build the banaun railrond across the stoppes of British Amorica aud over the snow.rifta of tho Northern Rockies has so embittered tho British Columbinns that they sigh for the soparation politically from Conadians which they now posscss to so perfoot & degreo in n physfeal sense, and an {mplorn. tion for speedy divored from their recrennt. fellow-provincials east of the great lakes has boen laid before the FEnglish throne, It would scein that the recent costly visit of Lord Durrenmv to the Pacific coast had not cemented relatiovs cnough to get back ex- pevses, Tho rates at which some of the printing contracts were yestorday awarded by the Commissionors of Htate Contracts are euch o4 to raiso the susplcion that the swards have not been made 10 good faith, snd that in the end the State will be the loser aud some favored contraclor the gainer by e re- award at largely-increased ‘ratos. With an Lonest menasuremeut composition eannot and ought not to bo done a8 low as nine cents per 1,000 ews, and the 8iate Cotmuussioners know it, sud it must follow either thut the coutract will be thrown ap aud handed over to somebody olse st a higher rate, or olse that the contrustor expects to make up the differenco through favoritism fu the meas. urement. ‘The thung has & arooked look os the face of it, The Govormment of Quebeo hns basen openly defled for u whole week by = railroad contractor, who, upon an alleged fuilure by the Government to pay him for lis wark upon the railroad in controversy, ssumed tho receipt of the income of the buwuens transacted on that portion of the work which bad been finished, and refusad to turn ovor the propurty to the authorities by whom he had been ompowored wd cou. tractor. Yesterday the military force of the Province was called upon, aud the road was seized without a single Kauuck singing lus duuth-song, although for afortuight the feel. ing bad beon goneral that the testy con. tractor would wush out tho culverts of his tramway with the gore of the oppreusor ure Lie lot go. ——— It will be fouud as time passes and the need continucs that there s almost no limit to the ways and means that will bo adopted in Chicago for increusing our vontributions to the ycllow-fever rlief fund. Yesterday o base-ball game Lotween the Chicago and Boston Cluby, both of with douated their services, uetted $681 for the fund, and various other projects are uoder way for cowbining smusement aud charity 50 ag to keep up Chicago’s end of the work. 'fho Citizons' Committee has now on Liaud the sum of 18,000 to be forwarded ac- cording a3 occasaon shall require, It willall be needed, and much niore, as there s no likelibood that the Soutbern scourge will abate beforo the 1at of Oclober; so that thero should be no cegeation in the effort to obtain contributions. : The suggestion that ycllow fever should bu treatod by reducing the temperature to a degreo in which the genns of the disease, whatever they aro, will not_survive, is re- ceiving o good deal of attention. We do not know whether it is new or not. A gentle- Juan wlo incorporsted it in & communication to TueTuizesy, on the Gth'of last month, seeins o thivk it is, and that jt origivated With Lim; snother—a physiclun—writes of it in couneetion with tho water treatment, as though thoe principle were well known to the medical profession, and b likowise approves it. Dr, Cuorewy, of New Orlosus, tried it 1o one instance by sprinkling the patient with ice-wanter; thero secmed to be temporery relie! and iwproyewent, but the paticut subsequentiy iod, It is true ' Tiye Tribuae, that, tn this cnse, the victim wiliing to try the treatinont, for haman life is A matter that oven ductors don't Kke to treat experimentally. Tt is to ba hoped, how- ever, that the trentment, which {8 baged upon A theory that the samo temporatnre will kit which generally provents the discase, will recelve as fnll trial 28 may begivon it with- out endangeriug human life, If there is anything in theory or seience which will siay tho ternblo plagne at the South, the united voice of Lumanity will bless the dis- coverer. 1t is belioved that the actual extent of the prevalence of the yollow fovor in Now Or- loans has never been made known, and that many thousands of cases of a mild typo have not heon ruported to the healtl authorities, T'cople in that city acom to Lave largely re- covered from the econsternation which at first attonded the appuarance of the diseaso, and to have made np their minds to take things as thoy come, trusting to cool heads and unwearying vigilance and attention to olleviate the distrcss ns far aa possible, It happens fortunately that thers is no lack of nurses to be employed at the modernte ‘wages of $2 por dny to take caro of the suf- forers. Thue postilunce has fallon far more hoavily in proportion upon the smaller citios and towns, such ny Memphis, Vicks- burg, Grenadn, and Port Gibson.. At the latter placo there nro 400 cnses, while at Grenada thero aro but three of tho original denizens who remained throughout that have escaped tho fevor up to this time, TRE CAMPAIGR IN THE S0UTH. Tha Congressional eamnpaign iu the Sonth, 80 far ns it has developed itxolf, is not with- out somo signs of encouragement from tho Republican point of view; that is, it muy bo possible, it the IRepublicans hold their own in tho North and recapturo seats stolen from them, (o enve districta enough in the South to overcome Demooratio gorrymandor- ing in the North, ¥ At the ontset, however, it mnat be conced- ed thnt in nt lcast four Sonthorn States— Arkansns, Missizsippi, Alabama, and South Carolina—the Democratio delegations will be ulected solid, ns the Republican majority will Lo stamped ont, if not by Inir means, then Ly foul. To such an oxtent 1s this spparent that in the first threo States the Republicans lave made no nominations, and 1 South Carolina but two candidates have nppenred, Rarsey I the First Diatrict and Suarzs, the negro pilot, in tho Fifth. Although the former snved the records of the Ilast Congress from ntter confusion hy doing his duty in the midst of general inebriety, and was elected by over 500 mnjority, thero ia little Lope for him thistime, In 8yarsa’ cose there is still leas clinnce, a8 trumped-up criminal ¢harges are alrendy held over him ns a mennce to pro- vent him from running, In Arknusas the Minnissippl plan hns beon adopted. Tho modus aperandi in Phillips County will serve ad o type of the mothod all through the State, In that county the Democrats had two problems beforo them to solve, 'The first of theso was n Ropublican mnjority whieh, ever since 186G, has averaged abont 2,000, and tho second wna the fact that the Conuty Judge,who is o Republican, and undor the law appoints judges of election, wonld not under any circumstances put a Domocrat. ic majority on the Bonard of Election Jndges, They solved the problem, however, in a very simple way, by bringing two six.pounder guna from Memphis und forming an artillery company. ‘Then they formed & rifle com- pany, wnd thon o shot-gun company, and kept on organizing until overy Democrat in tho county wus under arms, Having dovo this, o committes of *prominent citizena” waitod upon the Connty Judgo and uotitled him that tho climato would not be Lealthy for Lim if he failed to uppoint n atrictly Democratic Board of Judges., It ho refused 1o do it, then the militia can got in its work by suppressing the Republican vote. 1t ho sppoints & Democratic Board, tho sorv- ice of the wilitis will not be uveded, since auy Democratic Board of even ordinary in- dustry can with 1,000 voters get more bal. lota into & box than 3,000 voturs can who are not Damocratic. Of course, under such cire oumstances w4 these Plullips County will go Dewocratic, and the other Arkansas districts will bo carmed in . similar wauner, Weo nved not dilate npon Misstasippl sud Alu. bamn, »s no ltepublican votes will be cast in thoso two'tates, though Loth of them have Turgo Tepnblican majorities, The ** Plun”® oritoated in the former State, wnd wun ndypted by the Jutter two yeurs ago, und in ench it works perfectly. ‘Lue two States, by their patent process of destroy- ing Itepublicsn majurities, will re. turn fourteon Democratic mewbers of Congress without any vote to spank of aguinst them, except thy fow that may be cust by the Natiouals, and hery und thoro a scattoring Indopondent, the Independoutin thusy twe States us a ruls being more Numo-. aratio thnu tha regulat nomiuce. In Houlh Carolius, the campaign wus opened n few waoks ago at Bpartanburg. The speskers waro all military men,—Gon, Hauproxn, Gen, Mouwr, tiuu. Maaoon, Gun, Gaxy, sud Capt. Ticuarosos. ‘fho audionco was a military ono alw, Thore wero the Jevkrve Riftes, the Bprtan Rifley, the Buries Covalry, the Gonpow Nungors, tho Lvina. Troop, and twelva other organization, ‘I'hese were not militia eompanies organized undor tho laws of the Htate, but armed Domocratio clubs, the aggregate of which {s known as the * Ited-Shirted Damocracy.” ‘The purpose of this organization may be inferred frow the declaration of the Charleston News and Courier, that *if the negro doeu not vots with the Déuocratio party he must not vote at all,” and from a still later utterance, that if the Radicals sbould run s ticket, their meatings cun ba broken up or their leadurs cap be clapped into jail. ‘While theso four States may be considered bopelessly Dewmocratic, under the shot-gun polioy, thero are other Btates that present somo gleams of hope. , In Tennesses, Vir- ginia, and North Carolina the National Urcenbackors fu allisvce with the Republic- aug and dissatisfied Democrats way make & break 1 the Bourbon ranks. In Tenneasee, the Republicans will hold the Becond ('l'uony. suzou's) District and parbaps oge other, and oy posaibly carry one or two in North Car. ohina, snd ono In Loulslans, and hsve good prospects of capturiug Loth the Florida dis. tricts iu which CoNovau and Bwses are the Ropublican candidates. Nothing can be pre- dicted of Gporgia, except thut whatever of loss there may bo will fall most heavily upon the Bourbons; pwing to tho Independent dic vervion and tho genoral uplit-up of tickets. Io every district of the Btato, oxcopt the Eigthth, in which Avexasoen H. Srerurys, who 4 not o very rlinble Bourbon, bulldozed the Demucrucy into nomjuating Lim with tho threat that bo would run ja. wae nimost dead when tho exporiment was tried, but it is probably only in cases where hifs 18 utterly despaired of that physiciana will be oy A iaka CiiCAGO T aeil RIBDNZs APV dapendont, there will be three nnd some. times four candidates running, representing Republicnns, Democrats, Independonts, and Notionals, In the Third, Faurth, and Fifth Districts the Demncrats have held Conven. tions, and, failing to nominate after taking nearly 300 batlots, have adjourned to tdy it over, with tho certain prospect that tho regular nominee will have to meet rome dis. appofuted candidate as an Indopendent. With such seattered help as the Repnblicans may get in the Bonth, and recapturing sents stolen in the laat Congress which belong to tliem, thero is good reason to hope that: with hard, carnest work, they mny hnave a mnjority in the Forty-sixth Congress to off. ret against tho certain Democratic majority in tho Senate. OUR TRADE WITH MEXICO. Daring the present week the Ambassador from Moxico to the United States, Don Mav- VEL DE ZAMACONA, Will viait Chicago, tho guest of tho Manufncturers’ Association of the Northwest. Ho comes as the ndvocato of a larger, more dircct, and moro general trade botweon the United Btates and Mexico, and especially Lotween Mexico and the North. western States, of which Chicago is the gen- ornl contre. On Thursday ovoning the Asso- ciation will have a reception at Iorshey all, at which thero should bo a full attend. ance of business men, to greet Don Zasaco- Na, an accomplished and progressivo states. man, ongnged in n mission of such largo and fmportant interests, Thero i8 no more resson why Mexico should not eatry on a trado with the United States than thero is that Louisinun, or Texus, or California should atart off and deal with European nations, Mexico is on our border, 8ho is part of Republican Americn, and hor destiny, as the homo of n-freo and in- dustrious people, is closaly connected with our own, Tho peculiarity of trade in Moxico is that it is not govorned Ly avclent tica; h intercourso between Mexico and Spain is limited. Tho foreign trade of Mexlco is carried on through English and (lerman honses. We Import largoly from Mexico, nud instoad of paying therefor in Awncrican manufactures wa pay for them in gold bills on Loudon, where the monoy is exponded in buying cotton nnd other mannfactures which should have boon prrchesed here. For the year 1877 our total imports from Mexico wera about £15,000,000, of which 10,000,000 was in silver and silver coin aud §5,000,000 in morchandiso, while our exports wera only £4,600,000. Tho total imports of merchan. dine into Mexico fn 1876 wns 223,500,000, and of her exports $25,500,000. Iere are 410,000,000 of commodities exchanged by Mexico with all parts of the world, all of which trade might bo carried on with tho Uuited States instead of being distributed among the Statos of Europo. What is truc of Moxico 1s trne of all Spanish Amorien, Tho statemont is made, we believe from offi- cial fnets, that tho foreign trade of Bpanish America—ihe West Indies, Mexico, Contral Amerien, and South American States—ex- ceeds $5600,000,000 annunlly, and that of this sum oply about one-fifth, and that princi. pally with Cuba, is doue by the United Btates, Closs, direct, and hberal trade relations with Moxlco and the West Indin Islands nnd with Central and Sonth America would secure to this country not oaly all this trade, but would add largoly to its volume. Commer- cial relations on a broad, reciprocal basls would ensble the manufacturers.of tho United States to sell theie wares In Moxico in exchango for her silver, her dyo-stufls, barks, sugar, and hardwoods, thus not only enlnrging our own market, but giving a fresh stimulant to the indnatry of Mexico, "I'he annunl export of Mexico, now only §5,- 000,000, conld, nnder the oncouragement of nn exchango for American mannfactures on lib- oral torms, bo doubled or quadrupled, and, iu- stond ofending there, as we do now, less than 85,000,000 of our products, we could furnish that country with a full list of exchango commodities, to the mutunl sdvantage of Loth countries, and to the promotion of the induslry of both peoples, who wonld bo broughit into closer and more amicable social aud political relations. While all thia exten. sion of our trade, cspecially in mauunfactured goods, 18 truo as reganls all tho Americon Btates, it is capecially true of Mexico. The United States are especially juterestod in baving a stable and enterprising Govern. went firmly ostablishod in Mexico, Tha o8t certain way to have such n result in to vucourage industrial production in Mox- ico. When Mexican lubor aud industry cun annually add to the value and quantity of the surplus products to bo sold, thou tho goueral prosperity of the country will grow with vigor, To socurs this increase in AMex- tean {ndustrial progross theroe must be a murket in which Mexican silver, " wne hoyany and barks, splces, juto, dye-stnls, voftes, lndes and skins, and sogar can Lo exchunged for cotton aud woolen clotha, for potrolenm and othor oils, for manhiuery, for iron and steal, for glass and oarthonware, can- dles, breadstuffs, toolw, fire-arms, leather, pa- per, provisions, seeds, wonp, Inmbor of oll kinda, aud all the varivty of prodnet fur which American ingenuity is remarkoble, 1'he visit of the Mexican Ministor to this eity v n striking illnatration of tho progressive virtue of commerce, Hure, in the Loart and contre of the gront North. ern Republio, is the roprescntative of tho Mexican people, asking Ior an interchauge of commodities, the establishient of a new aud onlarged commorce, aud with such come merce ths ostablishment of fro, liborul, and frieudly relutions betweon the peoplos of the two vcountrivs. Tho ostublishuugnt of such irade with Mexioo will be but the forerauner of like commercial rolations with the West Indies, with Coutral America, with tho on. lightened Ewpirs of Brazil, with all Bouth America, uud oventually to tha Eagliali. speaking Htates of the Bouth Pacifio. The merchauts and manufacturers: of the city should prosent themselvea at Tlorshuy Iall on Thuruday oveniug and give to Uou Zax. Acona the greeting which befits o represent. ative of & foreign nation visiting Chicago on such a frieudly mission. Bonator CoxxLiva's lotter to his next friend aud admiror, Mr. Avoxzo B, Corxevr, is pervaded by a spirit of pariotism aud well-abnegation that Is really refreshing and encouraging in theso doys of uclfishness and 1mesn smbition, and filly ouc with hop:s for tho fature. Poople havo been looking for **the greatest effort of Liks life " for a long time, aud Lope #o often deforred s made the public Leart sick, and it this lettor (s not such an effort it certaiuly hay sowe chsracter. istica that moko us respoct the great Senator more than wo ever did before. Sonator Coixrixg has always boen looked upon as'd proud, imperious, dictatorial, hanglty Lind of & personoge; who was oo wmuch fuflated with bis own importance to properly eonsider the rights of other people, aud to fairly estimnte the relations that existed be. twecn himsclf oud tho other noble werks ot tho Crenator; butin this letter thoro isa streak of relf-abasement and humiliation The grent Ben. ator secma to havo taken alook at himeel? m the glase, and then went to his desk and wrote that * Certainly the time ix fit for the Repnblicans of Nes York to comoe togother in earncst harmony, ignoring personal and minor issnes, and joining benrt and hand in one jnst and high purpose to preserve security ond honesty, and to protect human rights." Tiug Trinuse bas repeatedly spoared thia idens at the Itepub. licans of Now York, fo.wit: ‘That tho inter- este of thy Kepublican party of the Empire Htate and of the nation nt large wore n Al of more cousequence than the porsonal interoats of Senator Ros- coz (oxxrivg, aud that it wonld be well no- cnsionatly to subordinate Covutaxo to the reat of mankind. The Scnntorand his friends havoe entertained tho opinion for a long time thnt they are tho Republican party of thoe Htate, or at least that thoy aro all there is of it worth preserving and porpetuating; but a TUESRAY, EEPTEMBER 3, 1878, that does one gond to rond. national tritlo grenter vory large number of good and trus men have not shared this opinion with them, and uow the Bonator humbly acknowledges the error incidentally himself, 'Tlie simplo trth is that Cowktaxa hias been Shonared and pro- moted by his fellow.citiz:ns far above his ddeserts; and against the unity and success of the Republicon party of New York he welght any longer. willing to come down from his high horso. THE BARKRUPT LIST. Yesterday' wo closed the list of applicants for relief undo? the Bankrupt lnw, which law expired on tho 81t of August, The list secus moro formidable than it is in fuct, The great mnjority, it not all of the appli- eants, sincs June Inst bave been persons whoso fnsolvency hiny been of long standing, and whose formal potitions ns bhankrapts carry with them no significance. ‘They merely make that of judicial record which s long been o woll-known fact. 8till tho list is numorically formidable, and ou paper ropresonts a lurga nominal sum of debt and n woall nomiual sum of sssote, ‘The reeson that such Hst ts longer hero than clsowhero is readily cxplained by recalling certaint peculinr circumstances not oxisting elsowhere. About seven years ngo this city was swept Uy fire, which within twenty.four linurs destroyed $100,000,000 of proporty over and abovo all salvage aud collected iu- surance. Under tha impnlses of the thoh delusivo inflation of credit, Chicago was promptly robuilt,—~the competition in the work of rebuilding—tlo hasta to begin ngain on anow and grauder scale—leading to much extravaganco in expanditure, and adding im- menscly to tho cost of ruconstruction, Tho cost of Inbor and materlals was groatly in. cronsod, and the styloof building as woll as aron covered woio unnecomsarily exaggerated, The Innd we had, but wo borrewed $100,. 000,000 at high rates of intcrost to robmild mul restora tho porsonnl proporty destroyed, The city Lad progressed in this work of ex. peuditure nonrly two years whon the paute of 187 prostrated the wholo business of the conntry, and fell with extrnordinary sevority “upon Chleago. Ieal ostate hero, a3 real eatnte all over tho United States, became un- salnblo, and co that cxtent valuneless, Duild. ings erealed at largo cost wero either mot rented or rented ot rates lons than tho taxes and mortgages, A result was that tho inter. cat on mortgagoes could not Le paid. Hun. dreds of persons who, otwning the land, had barrowed money to erectthe now buildings, or who had bonght improved and nnimproved property on epeculation, or who bad Lor- rowed monoy with which to bny stocka of goods, have heen struggling and hoping ever ainco for that restoration of 'better timos which hos never come. During the yonr just closed perhaps 1,200 persons thus sitnated have taken refugo in bankruptey, Had it tiot bean for tho five in 1871, or subsequont. ly tho panic of 1873, Chleago, despite the genoral hard times, would not have suffere.l that distrens and embarrassment which this long list of bankraptcies would weem to fu- dicato. Durlug tho Interval einco the fnancial broak in 1873 this clty Los enjoyed an al. nont oxceptionnl prosperity in trade. There has been w0 rotrogroasion. Aunnually, thoro s Leen o lurge tucreuse in the voluwme of trnde wnd in tho productions bought and old, and, notwithstauding the greatshrinkage in the prices of utl commoditios, the nggre. gate valng in vash of the business transno:ed Las exceedod oach yeur that of the proceding yoar, Outside of thosa who, under tho oir. cumstancos o have described, were canght by the punic fu 1878 in dubt and burdoned with usuproductive und vuavailable real es. tato, ull othera have gonerally proapered durtug the five years. Property mow is mostly .in solveuy hands; these Dbank. ruptey procoedings will disontangle large mmounts of property, and muke it freo for malo at real Justead of iu- Mated values; and a fow years lence the offectis of the firu and of the panto will bu ¢ffaced, nud tho two calamities will he re- mowbered meroly as historical events, Many, If not most, of the bankrapts will take o fresh start, aud prosper. ‘Iho vital springs of Chicago's lifo nea untouched, and unhin. paired. Individuals have been burt, weak. oned, and somo overwholwud, but the pros perity of the city s uninjured; onterprise and industry continme ns active as usual, and the over-incrensing volume of commercy that flows into aud out from Chicago gows on unbiroken and with eulargiug vigor, Tho proceedings in baukruptey appenled to during the last wook will sottle mny large and extonsive cstales, and will ro. luase much real vstote that*is complicated ond embarrnssed. Noarly wll the bank. ruptcics during tho last montl wero pro. duced by roal estato oporations. Thus, whoro land was bonught on specnlation at fancy prices, and where land and buildings wero mortgaged to cover 10 por cont of their valuo at tho time, Al this land has been uwsalable, and the acourmulated principal, u. terest, and taxes are fur fo exsess of auy im- mediately prospeotive prios offering, Bnr. rendering the land to tho mortgagee would not relense tho dubtor ; the wmortgagee would not take tho laud in satisfaction of (ho . morlgage, excapt wbon buying in tho property ot & unowinal price; ho would also take judgment for the balance agalnst the mortgogor. Thus the dobtor, losing tho land aud property, would find bimself burdoned with o judgmant at inter. ext for the dubt, These’ proceedings in bankraptoy will bring all these cstates lo o sottlansut, Mortgages will be fureclosed, «ud the proporty will pass to the mortgagecs, aud be for salu ut pricas sowmethiug liko real valuos, ‘Tho upplications for bankruptey during the last week wore maluly of persons embarrassed with property which the mortgugees would not take in entisfuction of their dobly, but wddd subjoct to fore- should not bo allowed to have n feather's The humble touo of this letter wo like, becanse it looks ns if he seos himuelf ny othera sew hiwm, and that he closure a8t auy care tho time, Insolvency of tho sncceeding calamity of the panie, closed their books, nnd fears no distress or baunkruptey. try, could revert to the free mintage of silver. This, and not a gold staudard, wns her gosl, metals,” ported by the eablo: Lrox 8av, French Minister of Pinance, auld the monctary question would remain o _odscure for Lrance to take sides so lonie ne tiecmt #derable stock of sllver which she c tipon (he market of France, 1le, however, . praved of the jaitiative having been taken by tho nited States. ad acon- nld throw guilty of a gross falaifiontion, out by the Conference, gathorer. the cable during tho receut war, ‘1t 18 a shane,” writes an esteemed corre- spondent, *‘for you newspaper men to occupy ro much space as you do with that brainless that are worthy of the attention of intellizent men This rebuke, so well administered, is well deserved, perdaps; but that depends slto- uether upon tho view one takes of it, or the stundpoint from which ke makes tho observa- tion. On blsownaccountsimply, Mr. KEARNEY is of no conscquence whatover, but as the rep- resentatlve of o creat clement of our popnla- tlun, and as he is constantly coming bofore the footlights In that roe, he must bo dealt with as thotypeof lils classand as tho spokesmannf thoss whonre back of him. Our correspondent will observe that we dally devote a very Jargo space to accounts of the ycllow fever. not that wo Tovu it, but because it is raging} and so DeNNis Kranser is tho Yellow Jack of the socfal fuver for which we are trying to Invent or discover o pecifie. Thero Ls still anothor polut fn the caso that wo beg our correspoudent not to lose sight of. It Is this: Dexxts Kuansmr has done more to bring his slda of the question into dis- reputo than any other ten men that have yet turned up In the discussion. His profavity, vulgarity, and ignorance have disgusted the work{ngmen uverywhere, and ho is belng zeu- crally repudiated and Ignored by the repectable, thinking, intelligent nortionof them. Krannzy Is an uleer that must be kept running, and Tur TrInuNE'8 luficet comes in play oreasfonally. e et— o~ The following Btate Conventions have been called fo wasemble during the wonth of 8cp- temuer: 1, Minnenota v'rohibition,\Wasecn, 4. Minnesota Ropublican, . Pauf, Kanwun Democratic, Loavenwarth. 6. Minnesotu Domocratic, St. Paul. New Hampshire Natlunal, Manchestor, New Hampstire Itepublican, Concord, Massachunetis Prolubition, Worcester, . Now Iampshire Democratic, Concord, Loulsiana Hepublican, New'Orlu Connceticut Demaocratic, New b . Sassuchusutls Democratic, Worcester, Maswachuscits Rupnbiican,’ Worcostor, Nevada ltepublicun, Euroks. Louisiana Natlonal, New Orieans, Novada Dawoeratic, Carson. Connecticnt Repubilcan, Hartfard, 25, New York Democratic, fi;rncn-o. Qu the 10th the Republican State Committeo meets at Nashvlile, Tenn., to decide upou some course of actlon,—Mr. Emerson Etherldgo, the uomineo for Uovernor at the Btate Couventlon held on the 21 ult,, having declined. Ou tho 23th, the California Constitutfonal Convention meots. e ——— One would hardly belleve that, fu the woll- hehaved aud prim old City of Philaasiphia, tney would need a Bociety for the Protection of Children agaluat the Cruelty of Thelr Parcats, Teachers, and Quardiaus, But such a soclety uxista; und the other duy Its agent took a girl 13 years old out of the hands of her stepmoth. er, on account of inhuman treatment. The girl showed the Court tho scars whero she had been burnt with hot irons, and her arms and back horo marks of scourging, while Ler scalp was disfigured from the effects of having her hair torn out hy tho roots ln handfuls. The Judge gave the child inta the custody of the Bociuty, and hield the jnluinan stepinother to answer in tho sum of $300, ——e— Mr. Bratn, the Chinfrinan of the Indlana Re- publicin State Coutrul Comuitice, bas writien a letter Inpwhich ho ways that * Thy prospects In that State aro most encodrazing; that he will euarantes o Republican Leglalature, which will subatitute a Ropubliean for Vosungxs, and that tho Republicans stand an eqnul chance with the Democrata for the State ticket; that with outside help the electlon of Hixarax, tho Ite- oublican nominee for Congress in the Fiest Dis- triet, now represented by Furten, Iy boyond all guestion ofdlonbt.” Tue peopleo? [ndians have lost all contidence, ho says, in Dewmocratle rile, owing to the exhibition of fmbeellity aud polit- ical herosles o noloriously displayed by tha Democratic House, ————— Tho Richmond Why (cruzv at-Bourbon) says TuukMaN's nnstake was not in golng back o his hard-money rezord, but fu tryiuge ta vindie cate his action In so dolng. It saya that ** 1he worahlp of gold I8 one of tho oldest and strang- est superstitions that over gaiued coutrul over the human soul; but that’s no reason it should hold its banefal sway forever.” The IVA Yy lkes ‘TULRMAN'S speech beeadso ft proves he s on the moye—that holsmaking progress, and adds: Ile reallzea She fact taal wome otbur watorial o g pood, I not a botler, currency 1kan specie: and, Whils' be would not Ureus awiy ¢ titely frow the o)d and bereditary dul, e Is uwal fy the izt and truth of & Row and subliuer su v 1ation, . e ——— To the Edilor of The Tribuns. PAvETER, [0, Aur, 31.-Wi you viease anawer the followinz guertious i yonr daily snd e n ust (1) Whut b the paver-woney of Franc upon? (2) Is {U redcemable in goid sud and, if 80, fn what wasnert Yours truly, A Svnscnisn. (1) The paper-mouey of Fraucu 1s exclusively 1ssurd by the Bank of Fratce, and fs not 8 logal tender, (2) Tho bank-notes ure redecinable on “demand by the bauk fu guld or stiver, at the optivn of the bauk. The bank paper 1a gener ally of lasge duvominations, pous Lelnk tesucd for less than 20 francs, squal to about $4. e e e tiver, 11 our ANGELL ratber weut back oo Lls nama sud did a naughtv thing such as sn angel shoulda’, i§ Is refresiing tp hear of s wau whoss patrosyuilc-does not bels bis carcer. Advices from Juals by overland mall record the death at Bombay, July 24, of the eminent Parsce bauker, 8ir COWa3JEE JENANGILREADYNONET, Eoight Commander of the Star of lodia, whose In neatly overy applicant had long beon known, and was traccable direetly or indireetly to the firo and to ths Hardly any of the cases wero of a commercial char. actor; aud it i supposod that all of tho speculntive real estats operators have now The regular, legitimate, and ordinary commerco of tho eity and of ol its mannfacturing entorprises are in no wire embarrassed, but are onjoying to-day n prosperity aud activity which know no faltering, no distnrbanoe, no ombarrassment, The position taken by France in the Mon. otary Conforenco was misrepresonted to the yeoplo of this conntry by the reporter who prepared the cablo dispatchos to thia coun- In tho Parls correspondance of tho London Times of Aug. 21 we find that Leox Bar made the important statemont in the session of Aug. 20 that **The policy of France was to await the moment when she and the Conference should recommend tho various Statos to legislate o ns not to inter. 1036 any obstacle to the free mintago of both M. 8av's remarks were thus re. 1t will Lo seen that the reporter has beon I'ne declara- tion made by the Freuch Secretary of the ‘Trensury wes tho most important brought It proclnims that Frauce, the most snceessfal in financo of all the Eurapean nations, has the kame viows and the snme purposes with rogard to silver n8 this country has. Tho four millions of American readers of daily nawspapers were mnde by this cable dispateh to beliavo tho opposite of the trufh, The reporier, who- ever ho is, has committed o gravo offenso,— the graveat that can bo commilted by a news- Tho same systém of falsifying the tiews in Dritish futoresd was carried on over 1diot and ass, DENNIS KEARNEY, who has no Idcos worth a fig upon any subject whatever pihlicbenefactions readhed the aum of 21,000,000, Ready money was no misnomer with thie good man, wnd no geeat public enterprise In South- western India lacked nia counsel and assistance for mare than n quarter of a century, and the magniieent charitles of Bombay beas witnesa 10 the catbolielaaty of bis beneficence. Whe i 10 1560, he was Knighted, and {n 1872 was mads n Commander of the Star of India, it was feit that the Queen's couneciors had honoreit them- refves more than him by thelr hapny eelection of araclpient lor those distinetions, i L New York ity hassct a noble ezampla in her donations for the tover-steicken districta of the Sonth that uther eities will Jo weil to finltate, Her contributions already anount to $70,000, aml the donstions continue in'a steady stream, ‘I'he openiue of numerous boxes fur the recen- tion of nfekels has made the thing popular and eversbody is giving. 30 sueh gellow lever boxes were opencd 1n Chicagy, thy poorer peo- Pl would glve buudreds ol dollars cvery day. WASHINGTON, The Cincinnati Whisky Problem Still Puzzles the Ravenuo Qificlals, An Agent Wiho Has Been There Glves ltls Yiews ou the Subjeet,’ Aand Has Muuh'to Say About Hot, Cold, Shrinkage, Etc, The Greenbacksrs' Story Absut Gsven. Thirties Offteially Ezploaed. WHISKY, MOW TIHR CISCINNATI DISTILLEIS MANAGE 17, Suecuat Drepaten o Ihe 1) tonne. Wasnisatox, D. C., Sept. 2. —~Revenue-Agent Mitchell, who s investigating Lhe charges made by the Chicago distilers agalust thuse of Ciy. cinhati, has furnistied the Department with 4 preliminary report, recelved to-dav, witeh shows that Mitchiell 19 ot tine oplnlon that the Cingh,- natl rectifiors pay for the additional walion 1y each burrel, and canaflord to do 80, for the; reason that they are allowed a rebate by the distiilers of two cents on every zallon pur.» chased. In other woris, tha Cincinnat! rectiliers* are allowed some 18 conts' niore dvawback thay the cost of the additional gatlon for which they have to pay in compersation of volume, Uniten BTATES INTRERNAL BRVEXSE CoLLteTon'y Orricy, CtxciNsaty, Ang, 31, 1878, —fue i, Green I, Taum, Coninasioner of Interal Itccr, nue~Stn: [ am tully satisfled that the reculfiers i, this disteict pay far the npparent contents uf caris, 'Thut 18 0 82y, GURNZ Lhe AUTMMET MINTHS Hig (]1y- Qiller ix enabled without violation of tas regnls. tome 10 presont winies or wpirits At such n temperas tary that thora will be auation to_ substrace fur currection to volumn. 'The wines, a3 o tule, nre delivered to the rectifier on the mame day that they are withdrawn from tho recolving cleterne, an Yofore the temperniure has declined. ‘Tho ool are sald un the Judument of the commercial ur free Uanger, wha finds the casks full, ond makes 1o allowance for correction of voluuie, 1 do not onderstand that the Government ( defranded by (hls means, asswming the correction table i tiy manual Ia rorrect (which I do not doubty. The net eontentn of the caske, If regauged at u) Fahrenhuit, wonld e found aubstantially. as cut on thy bung elavos. As regards the fractlons of per cent of proof of volume guined in this city, | would eay Ihat thin district 18 no exception to the rule tnat provails in - alt splirit-uro. ducing istricts,~tkat s, all intellizent disinlers are driven by the sharp competition of trado to so adjust the capicity of their vasks and proof of #pirits a8 10 get Lie full advantage of o1l fractions peemiseable nnder tha faw and regulations. Tun fractions t3us oitalned are of no benoit to the rectitir, ashe buys on the commerclil gauges and pays for agarocute fractions, Tao_question 1y usied nolabiy by tbe Chicago trade: Is it poasibie that the Cincinnatl rectiier 18 80 ignorant of niy Dusioess as to pay more than ho getsr Kelative 1o thls, 1 would say that Cincinnatl. recthilors ara - able to “boy wined two centy per n o lers than the Chicawo guotation, It 1s o thelr advantaze to boy Clncin- natl wines, and aliow the volnme, rathier than to Yuy Chicngo wines and to deduct the correction, Again, It may be that the peactico Is followed as a maans of keeping the quotation loss here taan other spirit-veodiicing distriats, in hopes thae by 1his menns buvers will ik tuls murcat, 1 may add that the bulk of the ts produced here arg reciiied hero; thus producers are cnuvled to put Eninta into buyer's hands fn nearly tho vama con- Hitlon in which they lofs the recolving clstern, . a4 [understand 1L, 1s not tno cuse In_ uther larye oroducing districts. and therefore tne shirink- age tacident (o the declina 1n toniporatare, nusury- ton of casky, aud leakage, whichoccurs oefuretas I.h’!llvtrly‘jli #0ods, preciudes sejlingon the capacily of caa THE SEVEN-TIIIRTIES, CONCLUSIVE BYIDENOR TIIAT THRY WERE NEVER USHD AS LEUAL-TENDERS, Rpectal Dispaich 80 Tae Tridune. Wasisatox, D. C., Sept. 2—Tie Green- backers still fnsiat that the 7-30s were leal- tonder, and the nttention of the Trensury authoritfes has been called to the followiug section of the Revised Statutes: 8.xc 3,000, Treasury notes lssned undor the authonty of the net of Mare 8. 1813, Chap. 74, and Juno 80f, Coap, 1,879, whail Uo lopul! tonder to tho snmo 'extont as United States notes fur their face value, Including Intcerest, Applieation having beent made to the Treasury to explaln that law, the offlclals to-day roturncd _ow answer, the terms of which were as follows: ‘*The See, 0,500 of the Itevisod Btatutes by fts tenor excludes the 600,000,000 of 7-20s which were ssued under the act of June 80, 1865, It apparently includes the 8200,000,000ssucd under the act of Juno 3, 1864, Thists only apparent, however, from the fact that the Reviscd Statutes ot the lmitation upon 7-80s, whichalone could make them legal-tender. This lmitation pro- vided that such 7-80s might Lu legal-tender o8 wero made prinelpal and Interest payable at maturlty, No7-30s wers so lesucd, but nll wera coupon-notes, intereat payable semi-unnu- ulty, This llmitation wus omitted from. tho re- vislon, but even [€ the revislon could Lo cun- stried to apply to tus 320,005,000, the Section 18 inoperative, as those notes nad all been re- deemed or converted seven years before the Heviscd Btatutes were onncted, nud by the verv sume clausy of the revision itsclf at the end of the Revised Statutes the apparent change n tho law could not affect acts which had been accom- plisbed, or richits which had acerued before the The presence in Chicazo of the Hon, Cnantes G, WiLiass, who as so truly and abiy repre- sented the First Diatrice of Wisconsin in Cou- £ress for six years, makea it In the lino of oue duty to say that if the Republicans of this eity arc anxious o bave the campalgn opened with o rousing spcech, Mr. WiLntams is the man’to do it for them. He ls one uf the tnost efective aod cloguent stuinp-speakers In the West, and always pleases an dudience Immensely, ———————— Not content with the * Ohlo lilee," the editor of the Roanoke Valley comes forward with o Virgina ldec, which Is for Congress to autlior- izo each Blate to lasue money enough to pay oft its indebteduuss, such money to be lezal-tender. 1t that editor will nceept of an umendient, 18 somo one suggest that Congreas mako black- Verrles and perstmimous o legul-tender. It would save paper, ————— Gen, Jo Jounsrox, of Conlederate fame, has finally been nominated for Congress, but iL taok two duys of hard voting to dv I8, Afterhe ‘was nominated, a motion was made to mako 11 unanimous, ns Is the custom, but it met with so much opposition that it bad to be abandoued. LeR being dead, Jousstox fs undoubtedly tho most conspicuous soldier alive of the old Rebel army. ——————— The coprazeof the New Yark Mail Is sub- lime and Ttefreshing in thece days of despond- cncy and half-hearteduess among Republicans. It lnys out a good fall’s work for the boys In tho Btate of New York, which fs to elect a He- publican Legislature and to galn six Republlean Congressien. It I8 an object worthy of a trlal, —————— Gon. BTEEDMAN hos taken the stump mz!lm: Frasg Hurp, the Democratic nomince fa tho Toledo (Olio) District, BTeEpMAN snoke on Baturday night to a Jarge crowd, declaring that hewould Jefeat Hunp it ho could, and would assume the rosponsibitity of itafter It waadone, 1lta speoch hurt Hono, ——— 1t 48 satd thut DExx1s O'Resnser is anxious to have all the workingmien ** pool their lssues ' into his hat, heause it will cuable bim to own a yacht like Bex Bournen. o ———— When we read the Kansas and Towa Repub- lican platforms wa gladly recollect that Mr. HavEs agreed to confine Lilinsel! to ona torm. < — PERSONALS, Col, Forney will return from Europe in the fall. Augustin Daly -is going to Europe for his Health, It scoms loncsome without the .Potler Committee, Yon Moltke hos spproved tho telephona for army uses, Mrs. Tilton's new book in to be entitled **Tales of the Elizabathan Era,* Mr, Hayes must not blame us. not Ohlo men, but we conldn't help i1, Beecher is in Ban Franclsco,—on the rag- ged edge of tho continent, as 1t were, | Tho Moxican Greassr i n slippery cunss, Gen, Mackenzia can't catcl any of "om, . LotThomns go. I'll' make musia encugh for you before leny, —Sumuel J. Tilden, . It s not sonr-mash but the summer vaca. tion which painteth tho noss red, O yeal This city gave Tildon 5,000 majority, but we hopae the President will not be displcased with us to-day. Qath throatens to pit down hard on some. body pratty scon. Gath must avoida concussion of tne brain. p Theodoro Thomns doesu' care so much for Clnclnnatl and a blg salary, but he longs to be an Ohlo man. 3 Thero's o land that is furrow than this, An Alsbama farmer has plowod the samo fleld for Wao are sixty-two years, ruvmxlm, muld nmd 08 !Im-llhccn cot- verted or redeemed, 50 that the appurcnt New York wlll .bo obliged to aceept of change in _the reviston whleh, nyp the Gllmoro a her muslcal tooter, now that Thomaa [.omisston of the hudtation 8 to the goes to Cincinnati, Indiann, wo are told, pridos herolf upon bor vigllance committues; bub we ubsorve that Tom Hendricks is at large yet, Julia Ward Howo {3 going to Egypt, aud now tae Sphinx will bo obliged to own up and telt all ho knows or bu talked to death, The Workingmen's party is belng gradnally woakoned by tho withdrawal of mon who wre golog to work to Keep from starving to deuth, No, my boy. Tho Thomau cat is musical, bat it was not named arter Theodore Tuoinas, Yot have fallen Into a very natnral ersur, Smith Ely, an ex-Mayor of New York, has boen convicted of writing poetry, but bis wealth and soclal influenca may secure an varly pardua, Thoe' number of bankrupts in this oity thrown out of cmployment wil doubtlcss rewuit in the onznization of & good mauy new saviuge banks, Don Carlos, his Alde-de.Comp, and his brother-in-law Count do L'acls, sut us from Parls recuutly fu & balloon, Intonding to lsnd somewhure 1o Gerinany, a According to the Builalo Xrpress, 8. J. Tilden says ha hopes to gracions that when A. G. Thurman trivs to gt 0ver toe fonce agut be will 1ear bis panialvons, Touton will have nnother haby.show next manth. This ls dunbiless the efluct of Keamoy's visit to that elty. 1ls tuid them down then to ** puol thelr lesu Now it is explained that Kearnvy sup- posed **lecherons™ o mesn **resembiing tho leach” He whould bave said **(Le Gluuge sukerous bondbolaer. " An cxchangs says that the leading Now York ladivs keop missionaries fu their cmpioy, "The principal work of tLese misstouaries siould be amony thwir employerd, ‘The peach-braudy crop of Dolaware will Lo very large this scason, and souichow this ape pears to eucourags the belivf ia su fucreased Democrulic majurity this fail, . vrinelpal and {ntereat: belmg pavablo at matu- rity, made the leenl-tondor vlause Inoperative as to e smaller fasuos of $300,000,000, and, of course, has no spplleation whateyer to tho {ssue of E4I0,000,000 made under anthority of the act to which tuls revislon docs not refer, and which act by its tenns provided that no 7308 fesucd ander (b could be lepal-tenders untll they wero made interest and principal papable at matuslty. ‘The seetlon which uikes bev. 3,600 Inoperutive us to even the §200,000,00 1s Boe, 5,007, NOTES AND NEWS, SOUTIL CABOLINA LAMD DUCKS, Speeial Disnateh 1 Tha Trisune. WasiNarToN, D, C., Bept, 2.—Earl, of South Carolina, who has been cinploged in trylng rey- cuue eaes there, is hero'to-ni2lit. Speaking In nerul upon the South Cavoling sltuation, he saya Gov, Lawpton s not dlscouraged at bis Tullure to secure Kimoton in Massachusetts, and et hie will puraue hlin wherever he can bo found. | As to Seuator Patterson, Earl says that Uoy. Hampton will eatertain no compromise, and that he will sccuze lils return to tho Siate, after the expiration of bis Senutorlal tevi, Murch b pext, if not before. Barl also says thae Humpton will e almodt unwubinously cleeled s the suceeasor of Pattereon, THE PUBLIC DRITSTATEMENT. 10 the Wealerie sseclatid £'resn. Wasnixuron, 1. G, Bepl, 4=—1{he public debt stalement 14 as futinws Eivpercant hands Flveperceat i, Fuurwid Bal perceul Wiide 2 Fous pur cout biads. 3 of Rl Eractludal cupni Culiwud eii¥os cert B2 450,700 EXte When Theodors Thouas takes up his vosi- e taom denco in Clactonath, 0o piz will. be allowed lo laciics squesl oft tho Key, and there must ba no discords 40, don0m 1n the clinkiug of beor-glasec, 1 ” Totalls Tressury..,, #The monmment ovor the grave of Thomas Debt 18ss cash in the Treasury Jeferson,* says an exchanzo, **wilf b radee Teas duriva AU Ign of which Le bimvelf was the antbor, A lons, | IeCEERMASS Jurs B Ikt @ very long, thae after, wo fear, I:"n'f"‘ wigres payalue ta lawiul ot A Virginia man bas written to the Treaan. s.e2a. 501 ry Dopartment fora losn of $150 10 buy 3 pals of B i wiules, 14180 Feprosch o Lo Goverament tuat 16 2709 Lias never eatabilubed @ malo bureag, 2 You 1nust not ask the young inan about to BLEEIN .be marriel who ure biv spiritual conzolers, and if o bas wade bis posce with Lis Maker, It sounds tvamuch like s refszence 1o hanglog. £ Viov-Prestdeut Wheolor hns appoared at Eizabethtown, N. Y. ile declarus that Zimers wan bimself never know tha solftade, tle deep, unbzoken solitade, of the Vice-Prosidency. Mr. Bouner wust not aceept tho Mayor- sity of New York until Lo extricates the hero of bux lust ramance, who has becn cavglit by tho weat of bis puntaloousou the limbof atree, leavig bim uncomfortavly suspendea bulf-way dows a ureclolee 10,003,060 feet bizb. SECRETAKT MUIL Secretary Sherman reaumuid b Ile expruasps bimee:f oy mun: | reception T Oblo, 1u reply wa question cerning e truth of the stat veuple of Toledo did woy want #ays that fulerruptton inir ut the Opeia $lop. five bersous (o the gallery, avyay b, Oiarwise There was o o 1or complalar. wnd the trwsmdingy pu:ic cuilv.