Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 4, 1878, Page 4

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No. 33, A, F. & A, M.=Tiall Sallewst, - VIsitors fraternaity and cordlally tn- Stated Communleation this (Friisy) evenlog at 7:40 'clock Tor business and worg on the i Degree, Iy order of ihe Master, K. N, TUCKELL Sceretary. WASHINGTON CHATTEIL No, 4% T A, M= Regular Convoeation thin (Friday) evening at 7:0 X . Butineas of mportance and work. Viriing nlons” cordially, tnvited, "ty order, of the M. k. CIANLES T, WRIGHT, Secretary. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1878. . Greenbacks at tho New York Stock Ex- chango yesterday closed at 995 Thoe latest from Colorado gives the Btate to the Repnblicans by an averago majority of 3,000, while Mr. BeLronp, candidate for Congress, runs about 800 nhead of his ticket. The Legisiature, which eloots a United States Senator this winter, is Repub- lican at thoe rate of four to one. A ccusus of the Town of Greenville, Misg., furnishes a aad chroofclo of the awfal ravages of the yellow fovor, The figures show originally a population of 1,350, of whom 260 are dead, 112 sick, and 657 con- valoscent, leaving 823 who aro yet to bo at- tacked unless the reign of the scourge shall Lo cut short by frost. —— ' The Democrats of Ohio aro playing their usual game of Liufl, expecting to gain pres- tigo by protending unbounded confidence in the result Ip the Cougromsional districta. They claim fifteen of tho soats ns sure, ad- mit that two are doubtful, and concode threo to the Republicans. Nothing conld bo more transpareat or absurd than this exbibition of beng. Tho dullest observer of the drift of politics in Ohio wonld recog- nizo the claim by the' Domocrats of \fteen Congressmen aa simply proposterous. The Republicans wisely rofrain from making themsolves ridicnlons in this manner; they Xuow a trick worth two of that, which is, to work woro aud brog less, 'T'he favorito pol. fcy of Joux G. I'toxrrsox, Chairman of the Domucratic Btater Centrdl Cotnmittee, is to clnim overything,” It didn't work in 1876, and won't work this year, Mr. Cnancies Keny hea been again nomi. nated for Sheriff of Cook County ‘by the slkin of his teeth," aud tho lining of his wallot too, if reports arc to be believed that wero openly currout at yestorday's collection of disordorly Democrats, 11issuccess in the Convention was not 80 overwhelming wa to ive promise of the united support that will Lo necossary to elect him, the diusatis- fuction with the result being s0 bitter and energetic a8 to indi- cato the probability that an inde- pendent Democratic candidate will tako tho flold againet him. A similar feol- iug exista among the Greenbackers, whoso nomination Mr. Kzny obtuined under cir- cumstunces which rendor ¢ uncertain oven yot whether he is thoir candidate or not, and bis cauvess for s re-election opens with a peculiar combination of strife and ill-feeling which i likely to seriously impair his chances of succoss. ‘The Ntepublicans have swept Colorado by 2,500 majority, which, in proportion to tho Voto cast, would be the xame s if they cor- vied Illinois Ly 50,000, At the Presidontial election two years ngo, after a desperate con- test, tho Hopublican majority for,Governor wus only 838, and for Congressman about 1,000, But thoe partisan bulldozers In Waal. ington refused to let Judge Briroup take his sost, and gave it to T, M, Patrenson, who was defuatod Leyond dispute, This partisan scoundrelism hod sometbing to do with ronsing the Republicans of Colorado, but the viniu thing was the iuflation flat madness, which alarmed the people. The Nationsls boasted they would cut the Republican traces sud divide the offices botwoon themselves and the Democrats; but their performancoes present & ridiculous contrast -with therr boasling. ‘Thefr whole vots iw only 1,000 ufter all their nolse and clstter. And the Ropublicans have 8 sweeping wajority over Loth, Colorndo has thus efuctuslly wat down upon Fiatism, Bourbonisin, and sest- stealing. Gov, HaurroN, of Bouth Carolina, has re- peatedly promised absolutefreedowm of polit- ical actiou to the Republicans of that Htate, und Loy guarauteed to all protection aguinst iotimidation sud viclemoe. Acting upon these pledges, the Repuldicans have under- tuken to conduct s campaign, but bave beon bulldozed and maltreated very wuch after the fashion which prevailed Lefore Gov. Hlasteton Legan to proclaim the cra of freo upeech and free politics, Judge Lez, of Somter County, recites an wx- pericnce of outrage at tho bands of the Dewocrats and of treachery aud cowardice oa the part of Gov. Hamyron which domoustrates the insineerity in the latter’s profeaious of a desire for reconcilistion gud THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: I'RIDAY, OCUOBER 4, 1878 _._—-—-———-————-———————————* fair play. Judge Lxz was compelled to de- nist from conducting Republican meetings, was seized by a mob of Democrats, among them an officer on the Governor's staff, and rubjected to porsonal indiguities, and when the matter was brought to Gov. Haxeron's notice he agreed to proceed to Bamter County nnd denonnce the outrage. .filled A part of his promise; that is, ho went to Sumter Connty and made a speech to tho bulldozers, but, Ao far from rebukisg them or in any manner alluding to their ruffianly conduct, he told them that the Democrata conld and *must carry the connty"! Upon the significant hint con. tained in the whols procedure, the Demo- crata will nndoubtedly sce to it that the connty ia carried for ** Haxrroy and Recon. ciliation.” xey, porhaps the most notable contest with tho sculls ever arranged: in America, took place ot Lachine, Ont., yesterday, over a five.mile course, and resulted in a victory for 1antan by two boat-longths in time vari. ously stated at 84:45, 85:30, and 36: accounta whioh we print this morning, that of onr special correspondont and that of the Associated Press roportor, unite in deserib- ing the race as a torriflo struggle from ond to end, and as in every way worlhy of who wore cngaged. So far roports at hand fail to furnish any ground for tho suspicion, frealy expressed in New York, and publicly stated by a lending sporling journal of that city, that tho race was & ** put-up job, " ma. nipulated by gamblers to floece the uniniti- ated. The long odds offered on HanLAN give color to such a susploion, whilo the details of the race ftself, the intonsity of the strug- gle, and the fast time mnde, point directly tho other way. torest of a nobla sport that such a question hns been ralsed—all the more ko becauso of the dificulty attending any definite and con- vineing sottlemont of the question. called National party and tha Democratic. party in the iuterest of **cheap and pasty " 1money have been very Ingenious in their ef- forta to concenl the renl purppse of the move- ment. 'They have brought forward a varety of side issucs and have fomented uscless dis- cussion on collatera] matters in order to di- vert attention from the central and single design on the currency of the country. aim of Fiatism, whatever form it takes, is to open tho way for men who are in debt to swindle their creditors. Tho man who fs both debtor and creditor, who owes one man wmoney but has money coming to him from another ; the man who is out of debt and ing nn fncome from business, salary, or wages; the man who lives within his income in n cormeroial hustness, whether large or small, conditions of trnde. None of these peaple, therefore, should be misled by tho protense of the Nationals and Fiat Democrats that they intond to accomplish anything elso. stance, about the taxntion of Government bondr, bat merely with the design of deceiv. ing tho non-bond-holding class and gaining their support. understand pretty weil that the Government bonds now poy a large tax, which is col. lected by the Government in ndvance, and withont cost or tronble, by the rewmission of at least 8 per cont interest. stand that the principles and necessities of Qovernment do not permit tho taxation of Government securities by States and cities ag private securities may be taxed, and that such a tax could not be collected. They know that a change from the present system would burden the people with now taxation to pay increased intorest on the bonds, if it waro made lawlul to tax them directly. est in tho proposition to wubstitute green. backs for National-Bank notes, except in so far os it ay opoen the way for huge issuea of an frredeemable kcrip, aro merely playivg upon the projudices of those who bave boen taught to belleve that the Natfooal Banks ere monopolies. They knoyw that it will not be Inwful to vxceed the limit pledyed by Congress for tho 1ssue of Goverament legal-tender paper, ‘Thoy know that the substitution of ‘Creasury notes for bauk.notes, whethor the former be made’ legal-tender or not, will not make them more easily attainablo or reduce the rate of inter. est on mouey, Such a chauge of itsell would not iucrcase the volume of the cur. rency, nor benefib the mortgaged olasses aud workingmen in any way ; bat it would help to defeat resumption aud bring wbout au- other depreciation in tho paper currency, and this is in the direction of tho ** cheap aud nasty * monoy which the Fiatists waunt. tion and the loguRtender quality of the 7.:10 notes is merely another devico for confusing the mnain issue, The demmagoguos are well awaro that there wos mever anything like $1,800,000,000 of curroncy in the country; that men did not in 1865 carry around §50, 8100, or $300 bonds in their pookets as money aoy mors thau they do mow; that the 7.40 notes were never logal-tender during the perlod of their existence, and heuce could not serve as monoy; and that there was no contraction, but a steady ex. pansion, of the currency during the five years preceding the panio, and an enormous inflation during tho first year after the panic. Knowing all theso things, they maintain the contrary merely to encourago the dolusion that the bard times wers the result of con. traction, and tlat iuflation will bring about good times, % likely that England will discover she hLas sncrificed thonsands of lives and atill further impoverished India to prevent what is only an English nightmare, namely, a Rusaian in. wasion of Tadin. Her readiness to go to war wiih an independent nation morely becauo ita rnlcr has vefused to recoivo bor Embassy shows, however, the insnuity of ber jealonsy, nnd the mortal fear with which she reganls overy forward atep taken by Russin, VAL A trying to gather figs from thistles, When silver is wedided to shoddy it must bo ex- pecled that silver will go as shoddy directs, amd thers is nothivg in the worll that vatélien the eyo of shoddy ro quickly ns the dinmond, It does not bave to ho stwlied. 1t does not dopond upon any formulas of criticism. It daes not requiro any onltnro to appraciato it. It does not need any lenrning to explain it It s simply n matior of dollars nnd eents, aud shoddy is a matter of dollars anid conts. No onvions person can disputa its valno or eall it n copy. It ehines. ‘That iw all thereis to it, and shoddy likes any- thingthatabines. There was n Mes, TlovaNza once, who, upon being informed by her daughter's ;nusic-teacher that the young lady did not got on in har stadics beeauss she Incked tho eapaeity, roplied that it that was tho only requisite her fathor shonld buy one, 1t is not reported that tho old gentleman ever fonnd the reqnisite, but his scarch wns no mora absurd than the expectalion that taste isdug out of a silver mino. II taste wore an invariable accompaniment of wonlth, and is now practically at par with coin, The great Lok of debts now ontstanding wero contracted and the money advanced ona basia approximating par in coin. The de- sign of the soft-money and irredecniablo- scrip movement is to raduce the valua of the currenoy g0 As to emablo the mortgaged classes to eseape a part of their fndebted- ness, and perhaps open up a way for Iaying thetr hands on currency which (hey eanuot got hold of so long na it is a thing of receg- nized value, Now, aa wo have suggested be- fore, there onght to be some way of permit. ting these people to earry out their design withont creating genera! havoo in the busi- ness of the cauntry, \if it shall become probable that they will bo able to carry their schemes throngh Congress, They might eonact, for instance, that every doliar ahould be two dollars for the payment of all dobts contracted prior to n certain date. Of courso the ereditors would ba awindled by thia sort of fiat, but not nuy moro than they will Lo pwindled by flal creating an *absolute money,” ropresenling nothing, redeemable in nothing, and intrinsically worthless, This plan would at least hava the morit of leaving tho current commercinl transactions undis- turbed, and of permitting people to mako contracta oxtonding into tho future with some confldence that thie purchiasing valueof tho money would remain the same. It would La amore direct aud hionest maans of accom- plishing a dishonest purposo than by dragging the country throngh a long period of uncer- tain values with the inevitable coliapso at the end. It would also present tho fiat issue on its own merits, and the peoplo could decide whether they nro in favor of this mothod of *' sealing ™ debts or not, He ful. TIE ENGLISH ELEPHANT, The Euglish people aro getting their eyos open more and more widely to the imprae- ticability, it not the absurdity, of Deicovs- FIELD'S ** peaco with honor.” HHaving headed off Russia by taking the Bick Man under patrounge and protecticn, the Sick Alan refuses to follow their praseriptions, or tako their advice, or Jdo as ho is told in any dircc- tion, Having been ondered to give up lios- nia to the Auatrians, he delays the conven- tion upon overy poesible pretext. It was months ngo that the Treaty of Borlin was signed, and the Austro-Turkish convention might have fixed n plan of ocenpntion and roforni n weck afterwards; butl no agreemont has yet been reached, and never will ba, as it is evidently tho design of the Turkish Gov. erument that the ocenpation shatl be made Ly force, and then, the Anstrians having taken possession without oftleinl sanction, the Turks will not violate any agreement if they foment insurrcclions and keep the province in confusion in the future, ‘The Hick Man is even more obatinate in the Greok business,—nbsolntoly refnses to awnl- low the doso, and sols tho doctors at defi~ ance. Instend of complying with the Berlin recommendalions, or even recoguizing the Groek request nud coming to some agruce mont, he refuses point blank to rectify the frontler, which is the polite term for amputaliog a slico of from hLis own fron- tier. If Grecce over gets the territory whicht wnas promised her by England and suggested by the othor Powoers, sho will have to got it with the aid of those Powery, and, a8 there I8 not one of thoso Powera that would contribute a dollaror n man to help her, ler prospecls nro not very flattering. Agnin, the Bick Man sita supinely by aud sees not only the Bosniana but the Albaninns nnd others of the mongrel races in Boulhern Turkey opposiug the exeoution of the treaty, and refuses to lift a finger to provent it, or aven to protest in tho intorests of ponce, ‘Worss than all, the Sick Man displays not only n masterly {nactivity, but o masterly in. diupovition to adopt auy of the reforms which aro necessary to tho rostoration of his health, Tho English Governmeut tock him up and nssnued the care of him upon the bnsis of roform. DBracoxsrirLp rode to London up. on his gorgeons hobby of roform. Tho most that can bo got out of him is an indefinito hiope that thore may bo reforms at somo fu- turo day, A Turkish -gentleman of high of- The boat race betweon IaxLAN and Count- o0 Both drup one useless horse ont of his overcrowded atable and Leep Tuzopone Thoxas in New York, If the lovo of art kept pace with tho accnmulation of money, there aro men in Chicago who could put by one weok's eavn- ings aud build nn oporahouse or A music- Lall, 0 that artista who coms lere would not Lave fo sing in an underground cetlar, It would probably relieve the ssurprige of the Imes it it wera awnre that ‘in this country the npprecintion of art and the disposition to help it aro very largoly coufined to o lot of poor devils who couldn’t purchase the caskot that holds Mry, BoNan. za's dinmonda; that the less monoy n man lina the moro cultnre ho possesses; and that the 1ost gonerously disposed patrons of nrt nre those who have mothing with which to bo generous, If woney conld buy taste, thoy might improve their circumstances by selling somo of thoir stook, the two nunappronchable oarsmen THE ANGLO-AFGHAN COMPLICATION. "Tho recont flles of English papers bring ont n new phaso in the Anglo-Aghan com- plication of more than ondinary futorest, aud that is the doubt exprossed a3 to tha loyalty of the fondatory States in the northiwastern part of India, in case of n war between Eugland and Afghanistan, The Tudian Ewe piro rests upon an army of 200,000 men who ara good soldlors, aud whose loynlty has biéen tested more than -once in timo of mutiny ; but theso fondatory Slates, nnitad, havo 800,000 very warllka trovos under arins, who aro neither paid nor officared by En- gland, and who owe their allegiauco ouly to their native Princes. It becowes nn juter cating question, therefore, whether these foudatory troops are an elomont of strength or weaknoss to India, and whether, in cosa of a goneral war, they wountdewell the ranksof the Dritish army or, withont takingany nctive port on the side of the enemy, nevertheless tend to embarrass England. The London Z'{mes, in discnssing this now pliase of the sit- uatfon, isin astate of donbt. It finds thatthe Rajpoots have always beon brave and loyal troops, bat is not suro that their awmbition Tt is unfortunate for the in- ‘WHAT WE BUY AND BELL Tho following is tho account current of our jmports And oxports for the cight mouths of tha year unding Aug. 31, 1878, compnred with the nccomnt for thu corresponding months of 1877, It will be seon that our THE REAL AIM OF FIATISM, The demngogues who aro running the so+ surplus of males for 1878 promises to oxceed aven the unprecedented surplus shown jn 1877 o OH,ULL N2 1,0 77, anestle, .8 41,748,110 § UBl, i KU The Kxceas of exports. 8 3,451,052 For 8 montha emding Aug, 31— Exporta—Doestic, Forer Excess of exports decent sort of way and dreads the dangers of | would bo arousad cxcept in cass of a war in- | fieint w-‘i"o‘nv \le!l'fll;:’sl:neflT\gpou tho | o SVy" tioaris... § 34,051,005 §143,501,067 wpoculation ; the mau who onrna living by | volviog the whole peninsula. Bo far as | subject of roform byn London Times cor- | fuxports—tiumiestlc. 15,005,531 his profession, or ho who does a legitimate | Nopaul nnd Cashinero ore concorned, it | respondent, langhad at tho idon of Turkish Focelgu...o 1,300, 1202 thinks it will bo tha fault of Anglo-Tudian | Pashas abandoning | thelr” Juerative po- 9_‘{'.;'_7:‘-"""“‘, $ 3t 01, G4k % no interest in diluting tho curroncy, dis. | diplomacy i they do not co-opuiato with | sitions, forgottiug,) fhoir = rivalries, and i | U0, 100 turbing prices, and unsottling all healthful | Eogland, ‘When it comos to tho Nizam and working togother. ifor the common S0 Pn xcors 'r expgru.s 5, $ 621,983 " " good of their luhjudgn, who have beon sys. tomatically robbed and persecuted for con- turies. Great wars ‘whually produce grent reforms, but tho Tugk, like the Dourbon, never forgels nuything, snd nover learns anything now. The'Hiiltan would not intro- duco reforms if ho could, and it is just as apparent that ho coukl not if ho would. Moral pressura is a'fpfce unknown to him, and physical prossuraamght cost him his liead. Tho despair *8F tho eltuation is that reforms riquire uvq',.,‘duaonuul conditions tho one is houeat inewiko carry them out, and tho otler is plenty of mouoy to keep the whools ranning. As Yo Turks have neither mongy nor honest anen at their con- trol, it I hordl’ to bo expooted that they can iuvklitute roforms, A great deal of money ln!,s baen hitherto lent them with which to,innke roforms, but it has always been squandered upon luxuries. England s boon tls chiof loser by this gigantio confidence, game, aud rofuses to the Mahratta States, howaver, it is in doubt whother it can classify them as loyal or dis- loyal. It says: *The Nizam arms 50,000 soldiors, and the threo Mabratia States be. twoon £0,000 and 60,000, In addition, Bompran has borrowed tho policy of SreiN, and is passing through his army of 22,000men the whole miale portion of his three million subjecta. It is still hanging in tho balance what should be the head under which to clasaify them.” Looking the situation dl- rectly in tho face, tho 7iimes snys : When they countenance the expendituro of na» tive resvurces on furcea which ore utierly ueclens w0 Jong as Great Britain guarus the poaco of Indi, 1t )8 not necessury to assumo that thoy are inedie wnting an assault npon Brtish tule, It s beileved that thoy are in fact Jooking forward to a possible occasion when British protection may Le no longer available, and when tlia present foudatory States uwy ba left directly confronting one anutiier. To Enplishmen the prospect inust sppear vigonary, Symptone aro, happily, altaesher wuntiug in fuvor of asusplciun that the adunnieteation of Indla s dropping from the grawp ol Eogland, 1t might bo wreeted out of Engrileh hahds by wain force, and England would survive the joss, as she bins enrvived the seceuslon of her North American colonies, Sha would not survive the iistless abdication of such epecie— Exports wreeeese 410,224,001 Tmporta..s PO Tt T A T Exceas of exports over | k) niouths S 04,415,548 AH1, 140, 404 107,418,044 The Fiat demagogues talk freely, for in. 5180,122,370 * EXPORTS OF MANUPACTURES, The export of ‘Amorican productions be- youd bresdstuffs, provisions, cotton, aud potroleum is generally increasing, and, while the increaso Iu slow, it {8 becoming guneral. Qur oxports for 1877 were, as awhole, groater than in any preceding yoar, and it is expocted that tho total values for the prosent tiscal year will bo still groator. It mnybo of iuter~ et to point out somte of the ilowu which are beginning to assume respectable proportions in polat of value in ourlist of exports. We give tho figures for the seven monthsof the present calendar yoar,—that is, to tho end of July, 1878,~as compnred with the oxports of tho same articlea in the same montha of 1877, Wo give the values: The demingogues themselves They under- lendid trust a8 that of ber lndian Kmplre. | lond any more, and ouly recontly suggosted 1877, 1878, Thoy dwell on (his subject merely to gain | &shlsndid euss e that of o Inilan, Rmple, | lo Tu,,‘,f'y upon hor domand i m’:,finy to | Agmcuitural tmulements,§1, 450,000 ~ §2,315, 000 some additional strongth for the real purpose | Disxn Rao wust kuvw, would be far from gain- % Iicer, alo, und nort 74,000 U, 00 of the movoment by deceiving and inislead. | € independence vy the furclblu subatitation of | juvest in reforms, that sho must go Into tho | Booky, pamphlots.... 000 a0, 000 ¥y 8 islend- | 20orhar forelgn sceptre for that of Great Kritaln, feet and got It Under such b linwn : BULGOD .« 4790000 ing « large olass of people who are inclined | On tne otuer hund, they are strangely deceived It | Opon market and gob it.” Under such clrenm- 6, 180 to rogard the boudholdors ss a privileged nn-ly ulx}nk é:;:t ‘13; |:nlc-hg;|;\-v;gn ‘rll‘l:" g::;a;xor;c:l’o“u stances, it is not romarkablo that tho London 1.4};u.m 8 o - | i 2 clasa, a‘fae‘fl‘ ineteduty 10 devilol tho wiliary”an they {lellna,‘lwhux over :P/':r flold, :;uilsu inhtho 25tk o be uther resources of thule countries. Anahlo | following manuner: e we driven, then, 164,087 Int i . | Sl i v Jaitl] 8o the Fiat demagoguen have no real inter- | Minlster of a feudatory State, In proportion to hiw to' boliove: that ‘In Asis Minor we linve D5, 600 consciousness of his own capucity, Is Hiely, with. out any deflnite calentation of Uritink cclipse, to regard aa more or lews accidental the cunncction with Engfand which Englishmen naturalty wold to be essential, Mo udministers hls State, ¥o far as he way, as if 1L were not so much independent as seif-dependent, What he would deslre most 1o encoarave sinong his Irinco's subjects ia a ssure of pationality; uod an_eficient sty b one awoug the means Lowards thls end, While the English Governmont rospacts this sentiment, it is very evident that it does wot intond to encoursge it. It is motin favor of nn indetinite increnso of troops aud » general arming of the population of States that do not owe auy allegiance to it, but are freo to turn this way or thut, nocording to their own caprices. The Z¥mes givea'voice to this sentimont in & very emphatio man- ner, It assumnes, what 18 very evident, that Tudis, in her presontimpoverished and bank- rupt condition, is already tasked sufficlently Dby tho chargo of 200,000 troops in tho Gov- eroment service; nad that, while these Htates pay thelr own expenses, the expond- jturo of so much wealth upon armies adds to tha general burden of India, bocauso it entails an abeoluto loss and {mpoverishment upon the Jand., It thoreforo takes tho ground that these native Princes must Lo invited to suggest mesns by which their wilitary resources shall he made to con. tribute to the general plan of defending India, and it puts this iuvitation in the fol. Jowing somowliat compulsory shape ; ‘The Gna) choice of the feudatury States moat be bolween no army sud one which shonld b & wing of the confedurate ludion forces, Ofcered Jolutly by ustives and by Bnghishmen, and mancuyered o pruper occasions s Lart of un linpenial army, oi- tive forces wlghl. perbaps, be luude a now wurce of internal strenyth to Iudia, At present they are & motive and & nucteus for disturbing conjecturcs snd delusions, which njure nune 3 than the T'rnceaand populations wliose FE80BICes Bro squan- dered upon theas. Whichever way these native Princes mny turn, the doom of Afgbanistan is sealed un. Jess Russia actively wnterfores in Lor behalf, which is not very probasble, as it is not Rus. sia’s way of operating, 'That the Ameer will uakae s desperate fight may be iuferred from the following savage message hu sont to the Embassy: * Ihave seven crores of rupees by me, every rupee of which Iwill hurl at the head of the British Governmeunt, and I will roll the border tribes agalnst them like blasts of fire,” The Ameecr, Lowever, will need something more than the seven crores of rupees and the border tribes, mavy of whom are friendly to the Euglish, to seuist the powerful forces which the Fuglish Government will huwrl upon Liw. It will not repeat the fatal misman. sgement of the ELPUINSTONEZ campuign of 1840. The question of the future is not vo much tho relations of Englaud to Afghanistan as of England to Russia, iu case she conquery and occupies Afghanistan. It will bring thew nearer together, Lut whon they coufront ench otber it i3 woiu thun Ialr .. Iats, cnps, bonnets... . Hemp. v, e Indinrubber g fron manufsctur undertaken an impracticable task? We shoull bo sorry“to thivk that our mow hopes must bo abaudoned fo speedily. ‘Wo stand committed, it is truo, W noth- ing more than o baro tender of ndvice. It our suggestious aro not listened to, we may absolve ourselvos it we 8o please fromn all further responsibilities,” This would b a very clever way of avoiding the responsibil. ity; but; if Turkey declines to do avything nad England backs out, what becomes of thu #homor ” that BracoNsrierp brought with him from Berlin as the pendaut of his 4 poace™ ? g erea—— SHODDY VEHRSUS CULTURE. The Loudon Tines vecently devoted ono of fts ponderons leaders to some moral and tonder reflections upon tho want of taste displayed by the wife of one of the bonanza kings of California who recontly invested, 2,500,000 in diamonds and other jowelry in Paris, and In the course of its Lomily sald: ‘We mny regret that a sudden inheritance does not urng woud laste. Velus of shiver coough to pave Europe with ilorine and half-crowna might iave made of_California 8 home of loarning ang refinement. Tha wenlth wis o new product treo from suy clalme or murlrmfl-.'n liko the niches of Europs. " Kurope might liava buen drained of its treusures of urt in favor of San Francisco, as # correspondens compluined the other day 14 the fute Eugiand te now undersuing in favor of France and Germany, New resvurces uilzht hav fed new arte or revived old f san 1Y chaco dullghited In puntousl oruaments, b miht have collected the wondrons gems which have de- scended from the sncient o the modern world, oe it might havo coloniapd Calltornka with Tuscan i Koman engravers, liut 830 Francisco not vunata. rally loves (o ‘lwmd 0w mathons un teell oud fur s own delizut, 1t ducs but care fur urt sad learning: it hfi' 10t beon cducatvd Lo scu beauty lu o bi- tuglio, ‘'ho caso a3 stated by the L%nes iy sunl. ciently gad, but we do not exactly sce how it cun by helped or how it could bo otherwiso, It Mrs, BoNaxza doos not know o masterpiece of Raruars from o daubd by Joux 8xurru, and hias 1o more taste for plotures than the Chl. naman who helped dig ber silver, of course she Is uot golug to invest in them. Fven if she were so disposed, it would be absund for Ler to do it, for, nssoon 8¢ it was known that she had 92,600,000 to invest iu paintings, the mavket would be flooded with wmanster. ploces by Raruaee, Madonnas by iy, Holy Fauwilies by ltunkns, and landscapes by Qravpe, and she would bring home s ship- load of rubbish to the great delight aud sub. stantial emichuent of tho picture-factorica in Italy and elsowhero that furn out old wasters by tho cart-load. ¢ Mra, Boxawza does not kuow the Greck Blave frow the Gladiator, or the Venus de Medici from the Laocoon, and has so little upprecintion of tho carves of beauty that whe would proba. DIy hide them with breoches and petticoats when she got them home, why should she epond ber woney forthenn? The Limceis Hero agaln they 1. Thero iy o reduction of suveral mlllinn'n in the valuo of tho fire-arms exported,— the Russo-Turkish war baving collapsod. ‘There is, however, n goneral averago in. cronse of nearly 10 por cout inall tho arti- cloa not included nnder tho head of ngricul. tural productions. ‘L'heso embraco articlos properly rogarded as waoufactures, Thus the exports of wool and mauufactures of wuol for tho seven nouths reach 231,000, ogainst 183,000 for the snmu months in 1877, and the xiuo exported in 1878 wns valued at §1G8,000, agninet 109,000 in 1877, Thoe unenumerated articles of mauulacture exported n 1578 count up 51,600,000, agaiust $1,324,400 in 18377, Therois a liko Inerease in staveh, wholubono, wearing ap. parel, wutches, varuish, mubrellas, tin goods, seulos, wvysters, platud ware, stationery, paints sud colors, outlery, edge.tools, steameonges and machinery, lee, gloves, gus fixtures, blacklug, and Lells oud Lol wotad, An the cost of production of Awecrican muuufaoturcs declines, the possibility of well- ing these products in foreign wmarkoty im. proves, and gradually onr uunufacturers are learniug tht it is Lottor to Jeop lubor, aud mnchiugry, and capital employed fu produc. iug goods to bd sold sbroud than to bave thaso standing {dle, 'The abllity of the United Hiates, with the resources of row watarial, invxbaustible fuel, oheap trauspor- tation, and abuudance of food, to becomo a groat moanufacturing ustion, ought not to be quostioned, Tho polivy of limiting Ameri- cau manufacturca to the supply of the 45,000,000 {vhabitanis of our own soll is too uurrow to b much longer perpotuated. The question of tho food supply bas at last terml. unted Engloud’s manufactuving supromacy ; tho cost of food erters ns directly iuto the cost of prodaction o3 does any other item, Labor must be fed as woll as'clothed, aud the prico of bread must always mark the minimum of wages When Englaud cannot pay her labor the wages that will pur- chase food oud produce mauufactures in competition with other couutries, then she 1must sureouder the warkots whick she bas so long alwost mouopolized. 'ho growth of our exports of manufactured goods marks the progress of tle deliversnce of our manufac- turiug industry from the fetters which have so loug limited its productions. ‘Fhe fanoer who would Jimit the production of. grain so 88 to fall within the dewands of the home warket would be voted & simpleton. Why should the wunufucturer close Lis will thres The discussion about the allegod contrae- ‘They practice the most barefscod decep- tion in their dealings, with the working classes, 'Thoy know thlf*no phase of Fiat- ism and that not a singlo proposition they advocats is calculated to benetit the work. ioguwau, ‘They kuow thatundor a new fufla. tion of the currency there will be o rise in prices which will be chiefly burdensome upon the poorer classes, ‘They know that wages will be tho-last to fecl the jufluence of an inflated currency, and that au sdvence of ‘wages will alwoys fall short of the advancein prices of wll the laborer conyumes and uses. But the working classes furnish voters by the thonsands, and thoy are easily deceived by fulsowe proinises aud specious grguments. The rcal and only aim of Fiatism is to ebeapen woney for the assumed benefit of those who are in debt. It is a movewent to swindlo creditors, The greenback hau been worth wore thau 90 cents for svoral years, Wittian 1L Vaspermiir wonld probably '+ Now, a4 you and Mr.PARKEn are Lol months in tho year leat ho might produce something beyond the howe demnnd nud have something to sell in other markats ? Tho New York GZraphic publishes n Wash- ington specinl containing n statemont, which it mays waa prepared by Assistant-Sccretary Frexcy, of the Treasury Department, show- ing damago-sHowanco drawbacks at various ports, The abjcct of tha statemant isto mako aut that the per c:né allowad tn Chi- eago exoceded that allowad in New York and sumo other placos ; and hore s the tablo Mr, Farxon sonds forth to satablish that point: NAMAGR ALLOWAXCEA—1874 T0 INTL, INCLUALYE, dmtyon Pereents Amount orianal ana of nliowed, allanl";‘l. W0 3 |5 New Roston, v Jadelphia 1 Daltimore, ... 103, 540 0 Ban Fruncisco HE3, 10 + BUINLTY 0 Uhieago, 17 * Bt Lons K i Cinciunal T 3,080,020 817,00%108 10,4 It appears from this tablo that the amonut of damage.nllownnece drawbacks in Chicsgo were the insignificant amonnt of 15,50 per annum. On a total importation of more than six millions of dollars, damngoe was only allowed .on reventeon thousand wortl of goouls to tho {riflingamount of $1,652, And yot this man Frexcs bas the check to come paro it with the damago allownnce of New York, where the Appraisors allowed nenrly nine millions of gnods damage-drawbacks! ‘The point fu the ense is that nearly all thosa goods In Now York wera nob damnged in the ulightest degree, but wero corruptly nllowed drawbnekn out of the I'reasnry, Tho aver- age per ceut can be mnade fo seem low by al- lowing only G to 10 par cont on millions’ worth of sound, undamaged goods, and this is the way the “damage™ trick hns Leen played in the Now York Custom-tonse, Tho Obicngo Customn-House can be held up aan model, where in four years only 0,652 of drawbneks were sllowed, and which wero in cnses that cloarly eamo within the command of tho law, Coutrast that with tho obviously corrupt exhibit of Now York, The Hon, C. G, WirLiams, of Wisconsin, in his letter to ex-8enator DoornitTLe, reminded that geutleman that the provislon of the fiacal laws excluding greenbacks for duties was in- serted ot the Instance nud on'the motfon of Senator Dooritrte. ‘The Sonator, it ecems, now advocates some patent schicine of making the duties payable fn s paper currency convert- fule lnto a 4 per eant bond, ami lias consplred with the tiat-shinplaster candidats, PARKER, to tpxeept M that propusition. Mr. WitLiams says in his letter to Mr. 1. You know awd uced not be told that th ronosltion on which you hive pliced Mre, s disnicteienlly oppesed, botl B prineil essence, 10 the fiest proposition on which s own dreenvack Convention placed him, and’ vou ha been too long nnd honnrohiy connected with all the vurlons paiitical patiiesof tuts conntey put (o know | that neither one of these tlirve provusitions on wiiich b now statds b sound Democratic ur Jtos pubtican doetrine, It strlkes ae the very foundas tion of our mest excellent systom of fuouce, which you yourself kad the honor first Lo propuse in Commitiee of ine Whole of ‘the Scwate, and wted by the Semate upon your sug- gestion, naw that thy dutlesun inpo; o patd'in coin [seo the Conaressionut G flewt, Aecond session, Phiety-scvonili vongeess, page Tid), which e good, sound Iepublice an’ o and - Dowweratle finance. Whig - les piblicans “are willing that thess dutics wnonll bo payable ih paper converltblo Info cofn at the ontion of the holer, you and Me. Panxen ropuse that they should bo paid In paper converils qu luto b ver cent cotn Lotida, do not nsk Tiim tue queation 1 money for business investment whioukd, under the revival of tmde, o 0, 7, or B per cont, sl theso bonds should depreclato hetow par in_the market, whether the certificates convertible mto them wonll be cqual to com. Now, Juidge, you nre a frank, honest, and practical mnn. You have nlways itted that, In your Ietterto Mr, Pankest younsaured himthat he, dirlog Tils whole life, liad been a frank, hon and prace tienl business-man, sud ho tacitly adwmitted it. frang haneat, and bractical men, and want to keep (he paper of thy Governmout atall thnes equal ‘in value whin coin, I appeal 10 yon to know 1f thera {4 any more avenightforwird, “frauk, and houeat methol of dotng that than to make It convertivle into cotn at tho will of the nolder. e e— . The people of \Wisconsin aro Intorested in knowing just Lo what extent ex-Senator Doo- LirTLE intends to meddle in thele political af- fuirs. I ho intends to *run' every Fint Junatic thst Is up for Congress, 03 ho hus Panger in the First Distrlet, bis will have hia bands full, ond if he comes out of the countroversy fn each caso as badly warsted as he did with Cuaniuer WinLsany, he will Lo as destituts of wool as the Dovil s suld to have Leen when he sheared the hog. Doorirriy, instead of helping Panksn, has forced him futo the position of o prevaricat- ing Idioty who [s now the lunghiog-stock of every thinking man of ull partics In thu disteict, unlcss the fecling of pity dominates that of contempts First the Grecubackers nonnnated him on the roftest kind of a sott-money platform; noxt the Bourbon Detmoerats nominated, or * indorsed, ' or “adopted” him as thelr candidate, ond passed a platform wholly antazonlstic to the platforms which the Ureenbackers had forou- luted § tien DooLITTLE takes M in hund, gives it anothier tury ou the Ohantiul epit, und he chiwutrus front ouce wiore. “The result of Loo- LAFTLI'S mbisionury Inbors in the First Wiscon- sin District Is, that PARKER {8 su mysittfed that Lie doesu't know whether he [8 uloot or on borseback, and thio wajority for WILLIAMS, the popular and couslatent Ropublicun candldavs, wiil be larger thau cver. e e The 1.-0.-U. #got 1eit" in the publiestion of the report of the Spocial Commission uppoluted Lo dnvestiyate thie [rauda o the custons revenne. 1t makes up tor its lack of enterprise by devol ing wout of o column to casting fusinuations upon those whom it pretends to belleve wers purtles to procuring the report for publieation, Amone other things (b sayss “Tlie document in the Teeasury, the Hocrctary (o satistivd, Las not boen diturued, e fecls ware thal iy two ollier copies of the ducuient sro extant—one i the b Lo % L¥rTER, Enige, 8 “mwmnber of 1he Comnnesion, wnd the othes iy the hantla of Sy leAgens Minom, Mre LESTRG be o hanurable zendemsy, aod the Secrewary feels cons tdent o woull not ive it oul for publication sud A0 3r. Hixng bas done i, olf gues bis heuds Huw does the J-0.- U, kuow ** there are ouly two other coples of the document extant 4 As n matter of fuct, thers wero eight to ten coples of the document n the hauda of us vy per- s008 ever alucy the rapurt was fled fu ke Yrous. ury Department, Jad 1t not been that the mora enterprlelng pewspapers expocted the Secretary would himyéelf auihortas the publica- tion of the document they would have done so wmonth souuer, sud that, too, without the knuwledge or consent of L. Z, Leirgy, Eaq,, or Speciul-Agent [LiNps, The grapes would not be nearly so wour tu 1ho A0 ¥, 1L ft had been uble to jump high enaugh to reach thew, whicl waa n o i Popular cducatlon in Virginla I likely to sutler 8 bad set-buck frow the fuct that therols not a doliar ab the prescut moment in the State Treasury that can be approoristed to the pay- meut of thelr cxpeuses, and 10 usscssment o autlorized by law by which monevcau bo rawed, ‘tho teuchers ure clumoring for their pay, and in some cases the publie sctiools witl not be opeped unty) the teachers yeceive thelr arrcaruges. It 18 clulined that the taxes that were lust collected for the use of the schouls have been diverted to other uses, priucipally to pay the cxpevses of runpivg the State Uovernment. Guv, flouLi- DAY bus mado applleation tu the banks of Jtwh- moud for-a loan 10 be used fur the benetit of the schiools, but the baukers do not. thiuk' the loau would bo authorized by law. - ———. The Russlsn Governmnent bas developed an idea In fts cavalry servico which [t would ba well to utroduce fu our own, It bas made the dragoou the principle of its cavalry, ratber than tbe wounted soldler,—that iy, & suldier who, though be rides, is mounted solely so that be can move with greater rapldity from poiol o point, careyiug the wost etfective woapous, sud tsmounting to fight on foot. Tue Rugstine view the horse slmiuly as & means of trausporiu- tlun fur the acklier, sud wake Hitle peconus vl ‘exlst. == ——— cavalry charges, It s clalmed that Atrnxay. prr, HANNIBAL, FAEDERICK the Great, Ny rowxoy, Pree the Great, and all the leadjn.. Generaltof the warlil, have always stiiven 1y renltza the fdea of the dragoou. Gen, SKkongr, mxE, 1 prominent Ruasiaa olifear, arzues gy, “now that modern fmprovements in fircary,y havo g0 lurgely increased the defensive powp of traops, It will frenuently become of ity imnurtance to promptly selze positions, fr,, which #t would by extremely diflicnlt o o lodea an enemy were the lulter allowed to weenpy them, For mgy, menty, however, which luve to be rajadiy cxecutesd, eavalry must he employed, but sneyy cuvalry sent on in advance o 80620 busitiogg 1wust he able to defend them by fire, or even by the bavonet if necessary, and therefore It .t conalst of dragouns, vl men tratued to thrit o, foot and using thelr horses shnpiy a8 a nicany of fncreasing’ thefr mobiity,” The Russiy argnments apnly with cqual fores o our awsy cavalry mervice, especielly with reeand o g4 effectivencss in fighting Indians, I our cayy).. ryen, instead of Nghting ou horseback wiry horse-pistols and sabris, wete atnred with re. peatlig rifles, and prepared not ouly to inoye with great rapidity, but to dismount and tight, there would soon pe s cuange i the resuity of our Indtan campaigns e e —— The other night in Boston Sonator Ifosn helped Henator Br.aixs over o hard soot iy very grocelul manner, DBLAISA had siolien of the late election Ip Matwe, and the divuster which fell upon the Hepublicans in that Siagy as a battlo that had becn lust. HOAR (ollowed Braisg, aod safd: Our distingutshod friend from Malne the conteat 1n which bis Blate had heen o axa losing battle, 1 think Wls antazoniat o, Gauk did aiter tho Buyker I vie. ttAnother suen yictory will be the rofy of toryt me, . No, my friends, the Amerleans a1 Linser Tl were driven ont of Lhele futrenchments, iy true, ne the Ilepublicans in M driven forn brief perivd ont of #e il tuey taugnt the cutire ‘captinent that the wpirkt, G contaye, the faith, the intetieet. tho inteliizney of New Encland woro enlistod In o death stia on the side of llncvlg. ‘Pl people of Mati taught a larcer and broader contment to telligonce, courazn, virtne, faith ot New ureenhisted under hig lead (poloting 10 Mr. INT) ina death stricgle to vreserve the fahof tny people. And I mizht, perhavs, carey this pasaliel a little farther. ‘Tho next great battie of tnt war Wwaa one 1n Which the pouple of Massachuseits toog & consuderable part, 0 Dave' ) ooy Gen. GrasT 18 haviug greater honora pall bint In the Ol@ World by the erowned Lieada aud offleial ond Utled digmtartes than wero evep accorded to an Amcrican citizen before, A cable dispateh from London- to the New York Jierald suys that therg Is to be a gramd reeen. tion by the Slamose given to GraNT il ho visits iritish fndfs, as 14 now propused. A privaty letter datod Bangkok, Blam, July 14, says tuat King KuouLALONKoORN prowmises to wmect the ex-President at Sivgapors, and to accompany him thenee to Bangkok. The Kiuz has already Lrought the subject befure his Counncil of Miniaters, and Sunt Woxas, Minister of State, will prepare an address of welcome, Tho fes. tivities ut Banglok dunng Gen. GRANT'S sty in **The Land of the Wilts Eleataut” whil by on the orandest scale. All the foreizn resi denta urc anxiously looking forward to his are vival, and, witbous alstinetion as to uatouality, will tulo pard o the pLion. - —r— . The New York Jfera'd, which la o consvieunus and ornamental habitue of Newpord, I, L, dur- fugr the watering season, 18 palued to leavs that sotne of the taxpayera have secured an fnjunc. tion from the Supremno Court restralning the City Government from paylng the oxponses of u recont bail given to the oflieers of her Majes- ty's ships Bellorophion, Bivius, and Argus, As a large proporiion of the taxpayers of Newport are debarral from attending the fusblonable follies of that place, and would not be allowed to danco at such a ball {f they wanted to, not Lelonging to tho creme de lu creme, there ls ap- parently no good resson why they should be burdencd with taxes topay for tho amusemnent of those who aru well uble to toot the tilis themselves. It strikes us asa little meon fur the sportiug buttertlies to ask the toling graos to do anything of the kind, Those who dance should pay tho piper. Lonl Durrmniy, tho Uovernor-Ueneral of Canada, tellvered his farewell speech to the Canndtans ut Tuconto on the 24th, upon the o canfon of the openingzof the Provinelal Exhibition, ‘The speech, 1ke the conventional valedictory of the collere gruduate, was futl of cood wishes for everybody, In the vourso of his compliments e sent the United 8tates a bl one, us fotluws: 41 would exhort you to cultivate the must Iriendiy omd cordial elotions with the great Amoriean people. A wobler nation, a peupls mare gencrous or more hospltable, does not Ta have learned to underatand and sp- wreciate them Desteem us not the Jeast of the many advantares L have zalned by cuming to Cunada.” Constdering the flsh business aal the retuliatory taritl, this {s very haudsome. It i3 pleasant niso to note thal the Caundlung have no fll-feelfngs towards us, as they vochierumly wpplauded Lo Doprenin’s scntiments. e Half o dozen swindlers fromn Now Yoik have boen operating recenlly fu Western Missourd mil Kustern Sansas, pretending to be German furiners, horse-dealeesy und hog-drovers, play- iz thely parts so well that they are thuuelit havo made $50,000 1o $0,000 In u fuw motths by setling imlsecuble, brokou-down hacky s (rste .clugs wninsals, by dlsposing of spoiled grafn for . soudy by forging titles to real estute, und by gottlng tusurance on worthicss property, Under varlous disgulies they have reappeared (o uew - churavters i the satmy towns aud nefghborhioods where they had fust fieceed people, without ex- cltinge the sliubteat suspleiou, Their very audac ity haw holped thew and onabled them to elude arrest, ‘They hava Luoen such depredators of the public that il they are cauit In thut reglon they wiil Le very apl to be tiled by Judge Lynel. A ———— At last ndvices the momentous questlon re- ‘wainy undutermbned whetner Pankea, Fate shinpiaster vandidate for Cougrens fn the Jaues: ville, Wis,, District, his aceepted or uucul_u'«l the hard-money Democratie nomiuation. The Jlon. C. G WILLIAMS suys thut he has, sading in proof, i his letter to ex-Bonutor DOoLLITLES "I'acre can be no misinke about this, becavae vd hu Suth uf Auguat L wok eecanton tu uddeeas Mo FAURKSA letter, o which § stated that | paanued that he nceepred the Dewocsatic pludtorm witioud nay qualification orreserry whatever, and he, 18 bis ruply, made po Genial of tie fuct, ‘Thy Mudisou Jourual says that Pangen X cepted " It, not knowing the difference in the mcaniug of the wurds, which fs nut unlikely, a3 e caunfussedly secs nune between good woney amd bud, and thinks that flat shinplasters would he aa gowd s golds The people of that el trict will ¢ exeept * the servlces of such a wabs ————— everal reasons cozspire bu imake the election 1u Penusylvania this Jall the most jmpurtas one politically that bas occursed In the Key- stune Biate for & long thoe, Iu fuvolves the cantrol of the Cummonwealth for vy yeard to'come. A (luvarnor s to be elected for four. years, sud . Legislature 16 to be’ chosen which Wil vloct & United Siates Sepagor fu tho plue of Dox Caugkoy, thereby deciding the late of the CaAMBEON dynasty In that Stales Chief- Justice AGNEW'S retirement from the Supreme Bencn leavea b with slx Judgges,—three Do crats and threo Republicans,—anid the clection of hly yuccessor will determine the political compleston of theCoust for she next four yearts Added tothls 1s the oloction of Conzressuicty aud taking it ltogether the present cawpaigs ¥ oue of unusual futerest aud lmportance, ihhbeatabihsyiiiia The New York Sun I8 naturally very Indi- naut to think that the New York Domucratic State Convention did nat adopt s resolution denunciatory of the Electoral-Comutssion Lill. It sduitts that this wits bub done beeatise 1B wing of the party which iu the man controited the Covyention™ was fearfal that if such? resolution was passed Mz, TiLpey wisht Lo »0_fur identitled with it 0é 2 leud to bis renoms Iudtion u 18307 And ratber than to wd Nt TiLLE'S pruspects fur auuther putalyation 1he New York Demacraey lu Convention wsszmbied resolutely blink @ gveat duty to the pronic, ™3 tho optofon of 3 DANA, Oiler pouply wdl