Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 5, 1878, Page 4

» THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY. - Thye Tribane, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. RY MAIL—1N ADYANCE—TOSTAGR PREPAID. e vty and Raifions Danbis OAr, per i Qe cory. Club ot 1o, Fpecimen coples sent f . Glive Post-Ofice address lo fnl, Including State and County. Remiftances may be made elther by draft, express, + Pest-Office onler, ot In registered letier, at onr risk, TERMA TO CITY SURSCRIBERS. Daity, deliverrd, Sundny excepted, 23 centa per weok, Dally, deltrered, Sunday Incladed, 30 cents per week. Aditrem THE TIIBUNK COMPANY, Corner Madteon and Dearborn-sta.. Chicsgo, Til. Ordrgs for the dellvery of Tus TRIRUNER at Evansion, Fnglewood, and liyde Park feft fa the countiog-roow Wil recelve prompt attentdon, TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES, THE Cricano TRINTH Y. has established branch efficen for the recelpt of subscriptions and advertisements as folinws: NEW TONK-TRoom 29 Tridune Rutiding. F.T.Mo- Fanexy, Manager. PARIE, France—No. 18 Rne de la Grange-Ratellere, . MauLer, Agent. LONDON, Kng.—American Exchange, 449 Strand. Arxay F, Girtio, Agent. BAN FRA AMUBEMEN! McVicker's THeatre. ftton street, between Dearborn and Ktate. ** Lost foLéudon aad *'My Turn Next.," Afterooon and evening. - Iooley’s Thentre. Tacdolph rtreet, between Clark and Lasalle. Rice's Fvangeltne Conthination, Afternoon, **Kvangeline." Eveulrg, ** Conrad the Ce " 44e Hnverly’s Thentre. Vearborn atreet, carner of Monroe, **The Danites.” Afternoon aud evenicg. Hamlin's Theatre, ’ t,opposite the Conrt-House RRzagement anfran. **Kit." Afternoon and eveuing. Clark st of Frank New Chicago Thesatre. Clark street, upponite the Sherman Iiouss. mau‘s Toechter." Afterndon and cvening. Academy of dfusic, Talsted otrect, hetween Madison and Monroe. Vae rlely estertalnment, Afternoon and evening. . Exponition, Lake shore, foot of Adame street. White Stocking Park, Game between the Miiwaukee and Chicago Clubs at s p.m, ol to realence, theoe O Graceinnda otliing should Ve wurn, Vhit- ing bretiren (raternally invige: ‘ULM McDONALD, W. M, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1878, Groonbacks at the Now York Stock Ex- chango yeslerday vlosed at 993, ‘Ul illness of Scoator ‘I'munsan has ws- swmed @ typo of billous fevor o severe as to oceasion nuxiety vegarding his prospects of Tocuvery. Anather ntracious murder s chronicled in tur locel reports this moming. A policeman was sliot and killed by n thief in charga of » vagon londed with stolen goods, and it s sing to add that while the property iiptured the marderer mado his escupo. distr ‘The negro poputation of Santa Oruz, one of the Danish West India lslands, is in o elato of insurrection. ‘The Mown of Fred. ericzalmlt hina beon enptured and entirely, destroyed by tho iusurgonts, w\:&um be- beved to havo funalcred nll white people in. diseriminately who havo fallen into their Linds. ‘Lwo United States war vessels, be- sules others Lelongiog to tlio French and English Weat India squadrous, bave beon orderedd to the nceno of the massacre, e Tho continned influx of roturning refugees has snggested to Memphia the uccessity of estublishing n sirict quarantino ageinst both «citizens and sirangors 0s a neans of catting short tho supply of materlal for the fover to vork upon. Persons who have passed the period of their absenco in tho cooler latitudes of Notthern cities are doubly liable to attack upon returning to the plaguo rugion, and 1t sooms likely that a systom of compulsory banishwent will bo nocossary at Memphis and other citles where tho fever atill rugus. —— An aggravating hitch in the warfars sRaiust the stench nuisance Las boan caused by a decisivn by Judge Rogenx to the efact that the order for abatement should have Leon onterod st the time of conviction, Frush indictment aud conviction must now Lo bad beforo the order can be enforcoed, All this necessitatos delay, but there is no veason why the stink.makers in the south- western part of the city should not saon be compelled cither to turn out a better amell or shut up shop. No time should be lost in yatting the watter in thi ‘Tho Atbaninns, althoughnot in open rebell- foz against tho Porte, have yet a way of ex. pressing thelr detestation of ths ‘Purkish Vovermnent, Bat ashort time since MY MeMET ALy, one of the most promi- uneut of the Turkish envoys iu that proviuce, wus rossted to death with Liu escort of twonty soldiers. Intelligaucs iu uow received of 4 massacre on a much larger scalo, wherein Hatp Gyroex Pusha, with 166 officers aud men under his cominand, wera sot pou and killed by the excited populaco of Podgoritza, because of the announcement that orders bad besn raceived to surronder tho place to Montenegro, ‘The Becret-Service detectives engaged in briuging to justice tha gang of Kentucky counterfeite recenlly captored went through a series of hardships and experi- €uces trying to the paticnce and endurance oven of « detective. During tha Progress of their secret work & robbury was committed oud they were arrested aud put in jail on suspicion, Lut subsequently discharged. ‘'his affair, howaever, involved thew in an- other dilemma; they were again srrested sud indictud iu consequence of the discovery of & supply of counterfeit mouney mmong their effeccts. To have explainsd would have roveuled the object of their mission and provented its accomplishment ; so they again gsvo bail and continuod their work until the seal counterfeiters Lad been captured, alter which they were of course able to explain matters und go on their way rejoicing. e TT——— ‘The hostile demonstration by the reuc. gedo Cbeyennes in Western Nebrasks bas faruisked the troopa in that region with plouty of accupation, After leaving their uservation at Fort Reno the Indians crossed tho Kuusay Pacific Kailroad ou Sunday lust, and made their way northward, Rilling all tho whites they encountered, and swahug borics wherever thoy could find them. Yesterday afternoon they had reache ed awl crossed the Union Pacific at Alkali, five wiles exst of Ogallula, sud were burry. Jug on with their plunder, evidently making for the new Red Clond Agency, whore their acrival in advance of the troops now in hot pursnit wonld greatly jncreass the gravity of the situation. Thers is, howevor, a gratify- ing prospect that tho erring red brathron will be intercepted and captared, and a fine opening presented for some bhanging by wholesalo, The second and closing day of the Cook Connty Democratio Convention was pro. duative of no results that are likely to allay the dissatisfaction of the Irish Democrats at the manner in which MoDoxarp, their oan- didato, was defeated by Kery for the nomi- nation for Sheriff, The failure of the effort to induce McDoNaLp to restora harmony and 8id in securing a viotory for the parly by ac- cepting the nomination for Coroner proves how deeply incensed his supporlors aro ab what they consider o defeat Lrought about by dishonesty and tho use of money to cors rupt delegates. They will hardly be nap- peased by the nomination of two Irish- men for Connty Commissioners, and it is very doubtful whether they will give to the ticket as constituted a hearty support. Neither Murrox nor CLEARY isin any Eensoa representativa Irishman; to call them sneh would be a libel on tho intelligence and good citizenship of the Irish-Americans of Chi- cago. The record of both in the County Board s as bad as it counld woll be, Thoy bave uniformly voted and acted with the corrupt Ring that has virtually bankrupted the county finances by its legislation in the interest of Ring contractors, and-their re- nomination is an additional evidonce to the taxpayors that honesty and reform in the County Board are not Lo be looked for at the hands of the Democratio party. They ought to boe baaten if the Republicans exerciso care in nominating honest mon as their oppo- nents, and they will bo beaten if tho taxpay- ers keop in view tho fact that the only way to break np.the County King is to prevent thio ro-eloction of its present members. THE NATIONAL PROSPERITY. The change in the foreign trade of the United States ia assnming the character of o rovolution, becanse, while that change can- not be expected to grow with tho increasing power tbat has marked it during the last three yeara and now continue, it is pretty certain that the now relatiofl us to production aud importation will becomo more or less permanont. From the condition of a por- petunl borrower, with evor.increasing in. debteducss, with being a heavy purolnser on cradit, with the disadvantages of trading un- dsr wuch circumatances, we have bocome a prudncer of such magnitudo that our snles of surplus products have recalled tho evidonces of aur indebtadoess of formor years, is fill- ing the land with cofn in such abundance as has never befora been witnessed, and las al. ready alarwed the flusuciers of Eu- rope, lest the plethora of gold in America ray bu attended with o famino of tho metal in Europe. During the twolve months ending Aug. 81, 1878, the valua of tha Ameriean oxports in oxcoss of the im. ports was $289,629,16¢. While tho great bulk of our oxports was of the producta of the tiold, there is n stendy inerenso in tho quantity and aggregate value of manu. factured urticles. ‘'I'ho trade of, the country, therefore, i8 oxpanding not only in the sale of raw materials but in that of finished pro- ductions, aud really there is no resson why we may not oxtend the latler traffic as woll a3 tho tormer. Tho same roasons which Innit the production ot lead to the increase in production of ona line operate largoly in tho uase of theother. Tho governing prin- aiple in hoth casos is tho coat of production, Wien the time elall come that it will cos} tuore to produce brendstuffs in tho United States than can be obtained for them m other markets, then their salo and their prixjuction mast be reduced. 71'hore are but faw things the prices of which can bo flxed by tho producer, 1ls must as o genoral rulo #ell for what hio can get for them, This bo- iug true, theroforo, Lo that can produce at the least cost can also produce the largest quantity, and can enjoy the largest return for his labor. 7 It 13 therofore a olear mistake to suppose that & return to high prices is conducive to goneral prosperity. Anything that adds to the cost of production of nocessity limita consumption, and this reacts on the pro. ducer, The efect of an increaso in the cost of prodnotion s illustrated by the effocts of a reduction of tho cost of prodnction, In e latter caso consumption increnses, call. ing for greater production, and the groatar production the groater tho profit of the pro- ducer, ‘'There is greater profit in producing 1,000 balcs of cotton at a profit of $25 @ bale than there is in producing 200 bales at $76 balo. It is ostimaled, and assumed as a fact, that a differonce oqual to ono-half o cent per square yard in the cost of producing cotton elath will enable the country having that advantage to control tho eale of coiton cloths in the markets of the worll, Siaall things are of huportance in trade. Fruc- tions of o cent in itoms of the cost of pro. duction sssuma au Jmmense magnitude when aggregated in the total cust of supplying waokind. That country must govern in trade which can prodnce what the world needs at the least cost. There In always about the same aggrogato means to purchase “distribated uinong mankind. When any one article of goueml use becomes too costly, mankind secka a substitute, and so, when maukind, accustomed (o got 8o many yanda or co wauy pounds for a certain sum of money, can get ono-fourth, one-sixth, or oven onedonth more yards or more pounds for the same money, they will purchuse of the man whé makes the best offer, But when the case is reversed and the price sdvauced they wnll reduce the quantity purchased or find some other thing a8 u substitute, of mankind beon systematized that profita now are made up of large sales at minuto advances on the cost of production, Tho greater the quantitics produced tho loss tho averago cost of production and the less the price at which the product sy Le sold at & profit, Tho surplus products of the farms are sold abroad ; they largely ropresent the profits of dhe total production, The less produced the greater the average cost of pro- duction and tho less the profit,—the world and not the producer fixing the price, ‘Ihe prosperity of the country, its immenso aunual accretions of wealth, 'its steady ad- vance in production, and widely extended markets, are the result of a cheapening of the cost of production. The time for high' rates of intorest on money has passod away, For fifteen years Lorrowing and lending woney Las been n gawme of chance,—the lender and the borrower taking tha chances as {o tho value of the moncy when tho loan would bo due. In such & Lusiness tho bor rower has hud to pay & rato of interest one- third or one-half greater than he would Lave bad to pay bad there boen no uncertuinty us to the woney of the future. Under the restoration of the currency to substantially Bo thorouglly Lins (he trade par valuo intereat has fallen, and, were there no craze on the snbject of another ern of depreciated paper money, moncy would not now command over & per cent. Cotu con- tracts can now Lo negotinted at that rate, and if there be any danger of fiat money no money will hereafter Lo loaned except on coin contracts, A return to high prices will of necassity rtop tho present rapidly increasing trade, which brings to ns an addition nonually of fifty or sixty millions to oursales of surplns prodaets. We cannot sell at a profit if it costa mors to produce than we oan get. Unablo to sell, wo must stop prodneing. Tho mines, the factories, the iron-miils and furnacos, the workshops, and all industrial employments, must coniract, reduco, nnd limit production; they must only produce what they ean gell, and only employ labor as they want it. Instead of producing the largest qnantities, and making profita from small advances on n large number of sales, giving employment to the greatest mumber of porsons, they must endeavor to employ the least labor and produce the lenst quan- Lity for sale, and generally bring all things as near a condition of famive ns possible. The United States have at last emerged from tho darkness and dosolation of clvil war, of internnl strife, of political discord, of commercial disturbance, and flasncial dis- aster. It has taken almost 8 genertion te guido the country throngh all its dificnlties. 'To.day the country has moro monoy, count- ing the * dollars ” both by number nud value, than ever bofore; it Las at Inst the samo kind of money for tha rich and for the poor, the employer and the employed, the work- man and tho bondholder; thers 18 no priv- iloged class in monay matters ; no chartored monopolies to increase or reduce the amonnt of monoy at will; the mints ave tarning out from flvo to oight millions of gold and silver coin monthly; and every steamer blears to our shores remittances from other lands to purcheso the products of our labor. Thouse of tho nations of Europé who are not atrug- gling with the plaguo of paper money nre threatened with o transfer of their trado to our shores, and are laboring to check the flow bLither of their wealth to purchase of ns tho things noeded by their people; and day by day, month by month, there are added to the genoral wealth sach stores s havo nover been drawn hither before, Shall wo arrest this prosperity? 8hall wo intervens and put o stop to this tide of prosperity now setting on our shores ? Shall wo do this nnder the miserable delusion that wo can bolter thingsby throwing away trade, - commerce, wealth, industry, produaction, and Inbor, and print flat monoy ? A CHARACTERISTIC CAUCUS ERROR. Ono of the most sorivus defocts of our politienl syslem is illustrated by the refusal of tho Republican Convention of the Fifth Massnchusetts District to renominnte Gen. Bawzs for Congress. Ilo was defented by tho close vote of 61 against him to 60 for him, and the man preferred over him 18 said to have had but little experionco in public affairs, and to stand a small chance of carry- ing the district. Gon. Danxs, on the con- trary, hns gcrved in Congresa long and creditably ; his integrity hins nover beon im- penchied, nad his influcnce has almost nlwaysd been conservative and benefleial; ho was onco Spenker of theIlouss, and is thoronghly versod in the routine of pnblie bnsiness which is so cssentinl to cfticiont servico. | Notwithstanding all this, o party catious re- fnsed him an. opportunity for re-clection, and probably for uo botler renson thau that tho gentleman who has been nominated is ambitions to go to Congross, and hans pulled the wires to control the Con- vontion, Whether regarded from n partisan or a national point of view, such an oveut as this is to bo depreeated, A party always courts dofeat by dropping an old and faithfnl sorvant who has repeatedly been successful in carrying his district; ‘the nation always loses by the enforced rotire. mont of mon’ who huve become proficient through experionca and whose integrity hns beon thoroughly tested. The personal in- justico of wuch a case is obvious. Thore is little opportunity for gaining o competency in honestly sorving the public in any po. sition. The member of Congross draws o salary that is just nbout enough to support n family and maintain apposrances in keeping with his position. The man who devotes many yeasrs of his life to Congressional servicea losea his capacity for privato busi- ness, or falls bohind in his profession, and he in scarcoly ever prepared to go out in the world and earn such a livelihood ‘s he Las Loen accustomed to oojoy. Publio life has Little attraction for able mon so long es good service is likely to be rewarded at any timo by o defeat in caucus; and the able aud solf-respocting men oro mot usually of tho kind who ar willing to do the dirty work which s 80 often necessary to procuro a nomination, ' The Euglish system, adopted also by the French, affords o better proteotion than ours sgainst a cancus-defeat such as Gon. Banks has just suffored. ‘The caudidature for Par- liament is not restricted in England or TFrance to the district in which tho candidate wmay happen tolive, In the case of A man like Gon. Baxxs, if defcated in ong distriot, the candidato would b fuvited to stand in some other district. Whon & man has at. tained high position in Parliament or the loadership of a party,—such a paosition, for instance, s GLansTONE occupios,—it is usual toruu him in several districts in order to make sure of lils eluction; if chosen iu more than ouo district, the successful candidate then sclects tho constituency he wishes to roprosent. By this means, each party may always keep its bost men in Paclia- meut, and an cfllclont mewmber may couut upon retaiuing n sout as long as bo desires it. But the rulo of publis scrvice in Buglaud is just the reverss of that which obtains in this oconutry, whether in or oat of Parliament. The peoplo take a more practical and busi- noss.like view of the functious of Goveru. wout ; they keep good men in office for the sawe renson that employers retain capable and well-behaved clerks or servants,—be. canso it is in the Interest of employers to do 80, In fact, provisions arc made by mneans of promotions and peusions to encourage good aud able moen to remain in publio service who might do better for themsclves in private business, With us, overy offico, high and low, is regarded as g prize to be grabbed for and intrigued for at every recurring electionms Loug and faithful servico sooms lo be vathor 8 disad- vantage than an advantege when election time comes around, because the general dis. position of our poople is to think that the officeholder has had enough of the publio pabulum, and that he oughti to give way to soums new mau. Solong as this disposition prevails (and rotation in offico is a part of the spoils doctrine), the public service is sure to uffer by reason of frequent sud in- judicious changes. 1f tho pohtical parties of the United States wore founded more upon OCTOBER 5, 1878-;TWELVE PAGE the pginciplea which ostensibly bind thom togotber, and less upon the scramblo for the offices, party organization would be atronger, party leadership mors capable, and party sorvice Infinitely more wsefnl than now, The failure of Gon. DBawxs to receivo n ro. nomination in one district in Massachusstis, on acconnt of some personal disagreement or to gratify the personal ambition of n new man, may result in the loss of the district to tho Ropublican party, and posmbiy the loss of what might othorwiso ba n Repab. liean majority in the National House of Reprosontatives, Any system Is necossarily defective nnder which the supremacy of a groat national party may be put in jeopatdy at tho mere whim of some local faction; and ingratitude, thongh snd to bo charactor- istic of Republics, is short-sighted and inju. dicious, ns well as mean-spirited, when it governs parly cancuses, THE COLORADO ELECTION. Tho result of the Colorado election, now that the returns are all in or nearly In, is not only fall of cnconragement but {s very sig- nificant. Tho Republicans have earried their Btate officors, the Legislaturs, andtheir Congressman, by an averago majority of 8,000 in the State over a full Democratic and Greenback ticket, being & gain of over 2,000 upon the vole of 1876, which may fairly be cousidered n remarkablo incrense of Repub- Jican strongth in so small a total vote, Tho succosafnl candidates ara G. W, Prrxin, Gov- ernor; I1. A. W, Tanor, Lientenant-Govor- nor; N. IL Meronuy, Secretary of State; N. C. Curves, Auditor; I. K. 8rimsoy, Trensurer; C. W. WnianT, Attorney-Goneral ; and J. O, Buarruck, Superintendent of Public Instrue. tion. The last Legislature was Republican in the Iouse by 81 to 18 and in the Senate by 19 to 7, thus making the Repnblican mn- jority 25 on joint ballot. As the Legislature will now be Republican in the proportion of four to one, the election of aRepublican United Stntes Benator, cics Jenome B. Onar- FEE, whose term expires March 4, 1879, {s agqured. The most satisfactory feature of thisro- sult is the olection of Julge Brrrorn to Congress over Parrensoy, Domocrat, and CuiLps, Greenbacker. Judge Betrorp car- rics noarly every county in the State, and lias moro than donbled the vote he recsived in 1876, when ho ran for both the short and tho long torm. By the help of tho in. famous partisan majority in the IHouse, Pat- TERSON, his thon compotitot, was ennbled to taka advantage of o wiscrable quibble and gent himeolf in the :Housz, althongh he had boon defeated by 1,100 majority. The peoploof Colorado have now oxprossed their opinion of that infamous ontrage in no un- cerlain manner, Thioy have robnked the Democratic branch of ,Congross and at the anme time the man. who stola Judge Ber- Forp's scat in n way that both will be liko- Iy to remomber for a long time to come, The Colorado election was also an over- whelming sot-back to ‘!tho Fint folly. The issue in this election was fairly mado be- twoon honest hard money and au irredeem- able currency. Tho.Republican platform demanded ** honost national monoy, sufficiont for all the lcgltimdo;'nacdu of the country, with gold, silver, and paper .cqnal in valoe,” The Domocratic platform called for an {ufla- tion of the curroncy, {ho ropeal of tho Re- sumption act, and the substitution of green. backs for National” I;nuk notes, and the Groanback plntfnrm:V,'p to such an oxtont a photograph of the Democratic that one plat- form wightbaveusw}itd for both. Both wera slanghtorad., nud , honest ‘monty triumphod; The defeat of the Damncracy was a crushing rebnko for wn nct dl’,’iulnmy by which the. majority of the ponpfl of Colorado were left unropresentod in the! Forty-Afth Congross. . Tho defent of tho fiat'fnntics shows that the greeuback crazo is uog as deop-seated as its leaders supposed aftér tho Maino election, nud thoro is no snch ,thing ns a continnous growth of this absurd:dolusiou, It isin all respects a cheering regult, and it should have a reassuring influence upon the Republicans of Indinnn, Iowa, spd Ohlo, and inapiro them with a fresh dotormlnntlon to over- throw the Democratic-Groonback allinnce next Tuaosds; {4 e s 000D SENSE 'IN NEBRASKA. That it is the apecial mission of the Re- publican party to combat the flat-monoy oraze, and that the Rapublican party intonds to be true to their mission, may be conclud- od from the nction taken by the Nebraskn RNopublicans, It hes boen contended that the now currenoy craze has made as much headwayin that State ns fu any other scotion of the country. The Domocratic party yielded readily, and we presume willingly, to the indications that the jla¢ dootrine would be popular enough to swoep the State, and there was a fusion between the Nationalsand Domocrats, which was equivalent thers, ns in Massachusetts and Towa, to the surrender of the old party to the new party, This con. dition of things, unless tho hold of the Jlat craze on the people of Nubraska bLas been exaggerated, was cortalnly a temptation to the HRopublican managers to give way be. fore the popular delusion and pander to tho crazo. Inatead of doing this, the Ilopublic. ou Btata Convention has made a bold declara- tion in favor of honest money awl common. “ensa money, and hLas oxprossed itaelf ig torus that wonld do credit to an older com. muuity, We hava seen no party platform that more intelliguntly sets forth the roal status of the {ssus than do the following resolutions : Sixth-We hall the ansplcious trade and Industry, sud congratu tha ncopie upon this practical evidence that the debrovsiog which grew out of the Bnanclal disordurs forced uvon us by tna Rebelliou is uulu‘ place to ro- lurning confidenco and permanent prosperity, which ean rvat alune on & Axed woney standacd, l;l\l'er{ values, aud full security ana cerlalnty for the futre, Secenth—The greenback shall not be dishonored or depruciated, shall bo 00d 8¢ honcet culn; the laborer's dottar shall niean a real dullar, the uncertaiaty of iis vaiue which robs toll ung -purslyzee trade shall coas nd our currency shall be the best currency, 0, whether paper or cuin, ILaball be eyuivalent, convernible, secure, and steady, Eleventh~We luvite all good citizens, of what. ever previous politica) ties. to unite with the ke publicun party, the auly efectual bulwark against Batlonal repudiation snd disgrace; the only o mnkulon capable of preserviug tho uailonal nor. This great ulzent{ appeals lo all Jieoub- licans to risa to 1(s hizh obligation and join hesrt and havd for lrlum[-ln of the principles upcn which thowecurily and welfaro of the ltepuniic depend, W'ho wholv story iy told in this brief space. 1t was not currency expaunsion alone, and certaiuly not currency coatraction, which brought on the hard times; they were the natuzal and inevitable result of thedestruction of Wealth incident to war, and the dissipa. tion of wealth incident to the extravagauca and speculation that ways generate. * Hard times " is simply the name given to the period of recovery from previvus excosses, This period has nearly expired; there are everywhere notable wigus of improvement. ‘The conditious of our foreign trade sro ospacially favorable to the rovival of pros- perity. Our national credit has beon con- stautly growing stronger, and the people have been rupidly posseasing thewselves of their own Government, bonds. 'Thu bank. rupteies have been wostly adjusted, and ! reviving 5 mortgnge debts are now largely on a basis conforming to ths real valne of property. Thore has been a steady growth of confidence, and the currency has reached a point whoro thers will beno more vacillation of conscquence unless its status be changed by a'repeal of the Resnmption act and by new issues of irredeemable nerip. The prospect ahoad is that of a material and substantial expansion of the currency by bringing gold and silver coin into activo cir- culation alongside of the Government and National Bank notes, jnst as soon ns resump- tion shall be nnnounced under the law, advocntes of the ** Ohlo ides™ are fighting agninst this natoral and healthfnl expansion of tho cnrrency, They want coln kept out of circulation aud the curroncy circulation practically contracted at tha same time, since its purchasing power will shrink from the moment {t shall bo announcer that resump. tioh has been indefinitely postponed. The Nobraska Republicans have the good sense to understand all this. They knaw, too, that itis to the intereat of an agricnltural community, and of every other community whers men Inbor for a produot of any kind, that a dollar shall always be the thing it purports to be,— not 90 centa to-morrow, and 80 cents next week, and the Lord knows what in n fow months, They know that profits ou sales or wages paid for labor can bave ng deter- mined and relinble value unless paid in o currency which, ' whether paper or coin, shall be equivalent, convertible, sccure, and stendy.” They wero wise, niso, in inviting all good citizens of their State to join them without regard to provious political entangles menta in this effort o rescuo the people from a delusion that will prove disastrous if fur- ther encouraged; and all good citizens: in. sido and outside of Nebraska with sufiicient intelligence to comprehend the situation should begin to underatand that it {s only through tho agency of the Repnblican party tuat this delusion can be dissipated and dofeated. AN UNSAVORY WITNESS. The Vaspennirr will case is becoming as complicated and puzzling a8 the Brrcuen. Truron scandal. It will bo remoemborod that on tho 27th ult, one Mra. Liriay SBrobparr, olaiming to be the widow of Dr. OuanLes A. Stoppart, 8 clalrvoyant physician, took tho stand, She teslificd that she hnd met Commodoro Vaxpznpinr at a Spiritual meeting in Boslon, and afterwards had interviews with him in the offico of the Doctor. Subsequently, according to her testimony, Wintaam H. Vaxpespirt en- tered into & conspiraoy with herself and hus. band by which, in consideration of a cortain sum of money, Dr. BropparT was to make the Commodora believe that ho was in com- munication with his dend wife, who would domand of him that he make a will in favor of Wirru H, Vaspeanivr, and to impress upon Lim that all the rest of his children hated him, 8he testified further that Wirz- 1ax paid hor husband the money, and that they had a meance with the Commodore, in attendanco at which the puorported spirit of lis wifo appeared and nrged him to make Lis will in favor of Winriam, as ho waa the only ono of his children competent to man- nge his business and the only one who loved him, According to the witness, the Com- modore was very much excited, and declared ¢ WrLrzax shall have all,'®nd subsequently notified Mr, aud Mra. Stoppart that ho shonld make the will as dircoted by the spirit, 5 Upon the cross-examination, tho woman STonpAnT appeared to decided disadvantage, not only developing a very peculinr personat record, but so contradicting herself on mate- rial points that tho counsel for the defonse moved that the Court should commit the witncsa ot the close of the oxamination to await tho notion of the Grand Jury on a chargo of porjury. 8o far as the personal ‘record was doveloped, it showed the nlleged Mrs, STopDART to have been an adventuress of bad repute who had lived at various places under various namos, and whenever she changed lodgings usually changed husbands, and bind been so careless in the choice of temporary husbands that soma of them had been rascals of high degreo, among themone Eb Havry, a forger, and ono BexniNa, who had boen a Rtate Prison convict, B8he Lad been a clalrvoyant, a Spiritaalist, o seam- strees, o boarding-honse kooper, a wife, n widow, everything by turns and nothing long. The dramatic surprise of tha cross. examination was tho sppearance of anothor Mrs, Brovpant in the court-room whom she acknowledged to be tho legitimate wife of the Doctor, As there cannot bo two women entitled to tho Doctor’s name at the samo time, and as the clairvoyant 8toppant ac- knowledges the other to lave boen the Dootor's wife, tho inference that she is bogua is of course inovitable. ‘Whatevor result the case may take, or whatover decision tho Court may render upon the perjury motion, the groat public outside the court-room can hardly come to any other conclusion than that the ovidence of this mauy-allased woman of the worldls not trustworthy. ‘The counsel for the de- fonse riddled hor testimony, Adventuressen, s a rulo, are sharp and cunuing, but 1t fs not every one who can undergo scarching cross-oxamination at the hands of experi- ouced lawyers and come out of tho ordeal unscatbod. The manunor and bearing of the wituosa in quostion baotrayed a desiro to imitato Mry. Jexks, but, av she had uot a tithe of Mrs, Jenky’ ability, it was a wreteh. ed failurg,—~so wratched that it now looks a1 if the contestsuts had given away their case. Judze L. F, Fuany, of West Bend, Washiog- ton County, whoim the Republivans of the First Wisconsln District havo uominated for Con- &ress, is a gentleman well known In tha political circles of our netebboriug Btate, b was the Republican candidate for Attorney-Ueneral ju 1873, mud, although reslding iu & county that gives o never-failing Dewmocratic msjority of 2,000, Judgo Bitisny’s personal popularity was such that ho carrfcd bis county by a handsomo wajority, ‘Tuis was & hich campliment paid to hissterilog (ntegrity aud high professivnalabitity by those who had knowu bim for twenty ycars, Heis agentleman of fine personal presence, a lawyer of extensive aud successful practice, aud in all respects just such aan as would be s credit for any coustituency to send to Washing- ton, Wo aro only sorry that there s no show for so good & man to get clected fn that frre- deemable Bourbou Damocratic district. e — ‘fho books that TiLDEN'S agent stole at | Marquette tho other dsy were not ‘kept fn cipher, as is generally supoosed, but by tue ordinary methods ot Lookkecping, When TiL- DEN wishes to wroek o raliroad, cheat the Gov- ernment, or run & minlog compauy, he does it by *“fguriog"; put when ke has & poltical jou ou paud, lke that of Oregoa or Florida, he does the business by “ciphering.” ——e—— Qzorox WiLrian Cuaris delivered an ad- dress on Civil-§ervice Reform before the General Conferenco of Uultarians beid recently at Sara- toga. Although we cannot exactly sce what relation that subject Las to religion, it is likely thut Alr. Cunmis thinks thery is & woral sspect to it, aud in that Hght it {s worthy of the atten- The,| 13 tion of roligious people. Certalnly thers fs one view of the cass that furnishes an excuse for a Conventfon of professcd religionists giving soma thought to the subject, to wit.: that our scandalons politics are bad coongh to need the pravers of ail plons men for thelr renovation. Dut Mr, Cuntis did not discuss the question generally, but only that branch of it which we have named. A report of his remarks snys: In & few words thy speaker showed the Inznry of living under & nfanjican’ Qoverament when 1t comes to gathering In pulic dnes. Figures ahow that revenne coliection coats fivé timea as mach in proportion in the United States us It does in Great Iritaln, four times as much as in the German £m. ‘pm. and three times as much as In France. Oue 038, even, 18 tivice a8 much as the net revenus of tlie German Empire, 1t s undoubtediy truc that our fathers in- tended to establish a plain, simple, economical form of government, and beeause it was *re- publican in form" they deiuded themsclves with the fdea that thelr work was complete, But it is an open question whether thelr efforts in this resocct hnve not been a parttal fallure, 8 all human cffort comes short of the ideal, Our system of taxation {s rapable of Infnte ex. vansion, and our republtcan fcrm of govern- ment—with universal suffrags to back it and vole assessments on other people's property— Is capable of adapting itself to any cxpense a menerous people pleases to insur, Instead of & cheap Government, ours is notorfously s very expensive one, and under a system of taxation levied for tne support of highways, schools, and courts, snd to defray town, city, county, State, and natfonal expunses, direct and indirect, it has been estimated by carefut statlsticians that every man pavs the full value of all hls prop- erty Into the Lublic Treasury onco in twenty- five years, oy ————— OLIVE LOOAN, who 1a,always interested in love storios, has prohably inventea this one concerning young MONTAGUE, Who was adver- tised to appear {n "' Diplomacy at McVicker's In this city carly In the season, but the arrange- ment was prevented by lis eudden death. Ina letter toa Ban Franclsco paper she says: At his very earlicst appearance | he seen and loved by 8 charming English gicl, The oppor- 1anity for a mecting was found as guickly by her 24 by ek love.craily prodecossor in Lo tale of Ve- rona. DBut there wére grenter Impodiments in the way of marriage betweeh this now fomeo and this new.fullet than & mere family dispute, MoaTauuz was not only poor In purse. but In social standing —well, ho was on the stage; with somo people that was enough. Tue lady, on the other hind, was rich and noble, tho daugliter of one of the proud- est Earln that treads ancestral acres in Enpland. To broach the subject of marriage to her hsnghty parente, horyoung ladyship knew would ba m-d! neas, 8o, sadly, but not despairingly, the lovers concinded to meparate, Moxrr ™ to co (1)l his cngngoments In Amer: unill such time as hie required to amnss & cortain amonnt of money, when he was to_return to England, oston. sibly unly to see his mother, and after his vieit ter- minated 8 certain person would bo found at Liver- ool walting for him, and they were to return to Awerica tozother, Boveral suitors have presented themnelvea” during the time MoxTAGtE was In Americs, but as the Iady I still **o'er young to marry her rofnsnl of their offers has not ex. cited nMcn sarpriso: but the ather day at a conne tey house, when & larys company had gattered in the drawing-room, waiting {o go into dinner, an afticar of th Coldstream Guani, wao bad arrived from Loadun in the nfternvon, told the party ha had heerd at the clubs tho night before that young Mostaarz—who used o play the lovers at the Frince of Wales, you know—waa dead. A blanch. ed check, a low nvan, a kirl falating tn’ the arme of the howless, who entered tha door Juat 1n thne te catch her beforc ahe feil, tolt tha stary of love and hope deterred, now never to ba rekindied. —— . Tho dclegatea trom the First Ward to the Benatortal Conveutlon aro spending too much timoanfl breatli arguing techuleal polnts to Justify their bolt. Why uot "tell the truth and shame thed—1"1 Lot then come down to tho bono of tho thing and confess that they withdrew from the Couvention to prevent the party In the ward belug committed to the nomination of Gronar E. Witk for an office which he1s totally unqualified to fill, and be- cause they well knew that he would ba over- whelmingly defeated at the polls, just as he was befora when he ran for the same office. Did they wot withdraw to save themselves from the censure of the ward club for belng partles to so disreputadlo & nominatton? Was It not done In tho hope that same comprotise might herealior be effectod by which a candidate would be agreed upon that could.be . clected, sud, tho seat in the Senato saved] What s the usc in putting forth tech- nical rensons for getting up and walking out of Winira's packed Conventlon, when they kuow that they acted right and for the best Interests of the party? Let thero bo no more halr-split. Ung contraverslcs over parliamcentary polots, ‘The veal reason {s the one to offer aud stand by—that they would not bs passive parties to the nomination of su individual for Beuator whosc overwhclming defeat was dead certaln, . ———t— From a financlal atandpolut, 16 would blave been the wiser course fur CnarLEY Kxns to step down anid out st the end of his firet than totry to bold a second term. ile has already spent & beap of money to procuro his nomina. tlon. Somoof the delewates whose votes were purchased away from McDo¥ALD on Thursday were costly fellows, snd it took a heap ot green- backs to persuado them that thelr principles should correspond with thelr {ntereats. From now ou till the night of the clection Keax will bo made to bleed at every vore; the profits ot his offico for the past two years will rapldly alip from his flogers, ft {s questionable If be will have a dallar of It leit at the close of the polls on Nov. 5. If ho should be re-clected, ho can meke up most of his losses, provided the Counly Commissioners are liberal in allowaoces for boardiug vrisoners and other things. But supposs he 1 defeated, of which there Is an even chance, he will bo pooror than befure he was A candldate two years ago. ilence 1t I8 wa expresa the opinlon that his true policy was to step aside sud be content with one terin, and save what b has made. But men let their 2reed ana ambi- tion run away with fhelr judginent, avd only pereelve thelr folly when [ s tou Jute. “I'his will bo Kzux's case. ——r—— An unreconstructed Nehel paper down jn Mis- slsslppl, whose editor would have been glad to bave died In the last ditch It the opportunity had anly heen glven him, fs still unbappy over the resatts of the late unoleasantness, It sars: The South wili dictate tha **terms™ herself, aui the Narth will by glad to baw down 10 tier befors wo kre through with hee yet, - To use tha words of Gov. Wabe Haurrox, we ropel that threat “with indlinaut scoru.” Wo hurl it back fu bis teetts, We crawm it duwa bis throut. Wedefy tho tyrant. *Uive us lib- arty or give us death." ¥ - e . Ex-Scnator DoOLITILK s bzen s member of weveral polltical parties Inthis couuntry, if oot more, aud has been Known 8s u surt of Jumplug-fack fn that Mue. ln this respect Cianter Wintuans, of Wisconsly, hits the Judge ucatly lu Lls receut letter printed in Tug Tuisuse, when he says, adlrousluz the drag tingulshed ex-Senator: *“You hiave been tow toug sud honorably vonnected with all’the various palitical partics of the couatry, ete., ete, A shot s tho buli's eye, or, ratbuc, In the Judge's eye. ' e To the Editor f The Tridune, Caur Potxy, I, Oct. ik ~What, fa roand sem- bere, 18 the dobt of Frauce? DId she pay her debi oa the fat-money plan? Fome persons mssers 1hat Frauce 19 out of debl, ehe haviug paid off ber dent in paper money. J. M. Svaui. The latest ligures |u the A'manech ds Goths put the debt of France al $LUSGG00,000. The debt of France, like thas of the United Biates, s held alnost entirely at home. It hss nos been pald iu paper, l.nll the futercat is always maet in 0. — " Bufficlently explicit information bas been re- ceived fruim & variety of sources lu Wisconsln to establish the fact that the disreputatie wan- agerof an alleged Hepublhan newspaper in Mllwaukee {s dvmanding from Republican can- didates of the Legislature, as the Leyms upoa which they will be excwot frow the opoasition and abuse of the alleged Republican newepaver in question, that Loy sball pledge tbemselves uuder soy sad all circamstances to vote agalost certaln prowiocnt Republicaus who are mea- tioned as sspirants to the United Biates bBeoa- torship. Bo vidous s course by & uewspepes which makes the remalus of soy pretensives to % claim upon the confdence and subpors of Be- publican readers bas acercely cicr been witnessed. It 48 8 spides of Llacamall “Keny s just that kind of a ST on Reppblicas caniidstes whi-h fs ow meaner and more imnatent than thar scene guitersheets are fa tha hatdt o on thelr unfortunate victina. Tne A votere of Wisconsin o1ght 10 knnw 11, & Milwaokee newspaner whicn elaim port the Repudlican party 1s 3 tort these terma from Reiu® 1 au - Tt s a fortunate event that he I, able and respactabls Reputli-an net Milwaukee, fe 10 bo ruinlen ot e devartment by the Hon. Hogur that 1t wiil give no uncertain atteray people of that State in tha sutout o lican measures and the candalates wii, Republican measures. —e— Wisconsin [s getting & verv t » up politically. Scmatar tiome Wittiaus, llazreroy, Cosseo, 1t and Povxp, candidates for rreie ti House, are on the stump. 2nd they a0 slsted by the lion. E. W. Kerzoany Groras W. ALLEy, of that St Winoox and ANELL 6] R. G. Fenews, 8. L. Woopsoan, of . and others. e While TRURMAR quletly smiles a the piatform adopted at Byracuee | York Democracy, sod sees no alis- Electoral Commission as the nor any Indorsement of SamvgLt Ty quite the reverse, Mr. Tiivrvsm he reads the sound financial plaaks vlatform, and remembers TaiaMax flop, and thioks of 1850, e et — . Duriog the month of Rejtemtcr th debt was decreased $L/00LAL Trons (lencral Government keep sieal st music of Honesty, Reform, ani F.or ninety days more resumption will b fact, and the country will take a new Ing her feet pinnted on 8 s0'ed basie crazy fatist howl, and his dishonest ally grumble, C TRy OPTIES T R Y 8 CRIIX TN Benator BLAIxXE delivers the £ of political addresses ln lilinuia in Monday evening. Of coarse t demand for this distlnzalshed tor tn sll parts of tle State, but we w that the State Central Comnittre b, designated the polats at waich Mr. 151 apeak, and that no otder application consldered. e — James V. Jowxs, of Oshkorh. who | nominated by the Republicant of the %, consin District In opposition to Giane ¢ & prominent and well-knosnatiz+u of who is every way qualified to repreeent trict in Congress. He ls 8 merchant, man, and atrue ttevudlican. e w.ll exceedingly lively for Bouci - — Milwankee feels big becanss Mr. Piri has just been elected Governar of was formerly & practiciog sttorney in o Milwaukee secins 10 be 8 good | emigrate from. Canl 8cuvez once Iaw thiere, and tien. Patsc, oo Comt of Patents, Aid likewise. And thcn 3 TRENTER ouce ressdal there, Keax, In Teutoule vernacular, meazs asa frult-atone or pipe A peach hern ugly thing to zet into onc’s Lutos'. oie o throate of 1he Irish Deinucrate, wiy & ° tend to swallow him ang fartneraf: . help themsclves, but wil eyl b tro @ throats If possitie. ————— 3 Mr. 8peaker RaNDaLL wants ¢ taa question of the “hizhiet prexie. tell hin whetber he witl be 1o elsed wress over the cumbined effurts ol i backers and Repubtisns, who bavs u defeat nim. It ¢ aaid that tie .. azainst him. We hope so, - ———— The butnmers who ran the Firet Dt publican Couvention banded over torla) nofmination to & Rinzster ot eratie Teuts Wand, and the two 1 tions to the Nuth Wara. The Fir. told to take s back ecat, but § wiit Tittle gume a back-set. Bince WATTER2ON f8 luukinz fur 1)+ tlon as Vico-President oa the ti ket wu 31X, ho has lost all Interest i Mr. [n bis quarrels. He regerds Ticonx av st anold sweetheart 1hat be Las dis o5 wunders bow he cver bewawe inter il old thiog™ at all e — 5 It aa long distame frue i) plague-stricken tegions of tie 1L will be pleasant tor thore who dust walch in Memphis and New Uricas lst the cround bas been fruzea at fa that cooler weather will Dot macs locge fayed, e t—— The Flstists In Colorado a1t 1ot sho strengih tn the Iate electin beld an ta Thcre 15 100 much colif and silver 1 % st ber peoule should gu asiravo doemable gaper luuscy. Toe Maine & nOL repeatod tu the Uenteui.al Mo grest extent. g sy £ mayztg T. Aak v B ; . ¢ . e Ia Californis you can't evesget s bare i woere miihout E1VIBS BIm dww wite 4 o Tut with tw o it They voatiese Heyt~Grawisc. Yew for e Gre fon Fosl, You dowt ges ** BiiA Jou gL ~Free Teon, You uever will untll you bet yoar 1 dollsr. e e— Beostor TRURWAN b Ul —vo 11 that e speak azain dunag the «xigucu. A newspapoer saggeats (Lat it wochf Lisis goud thiag for his reiatation it ] taken sick some time telure bie 2 S —— The Natiom wmaldly observes that M1 PEXTZA'S eLUIVRAULL, LOG- Vtiwtial | Lis perecasl adaiirers twarenting 1 e date fur the Neaate, wusbi fo e ot desest bim *without pefricuce to Loy i Judge Cornenex, wbhu was u Cougress b e Third Wisousiu ). chaes to run. The Deise rais w Seicept ™ Kixg, the Ureibbacher, 33 didate. - ———— The Sberiffaity tn the Demortatic v turaed chiefly vi Batienating. Tu D¢ Gerwans scwsped the Iroa 1o, o.e aud rung (o KEs o them fora e - i 2 i Becanse we printed the fatber's pall B, 1t MAst Bt be taleTred trat tore tu tavor of Lhe election ol Doousrrig to Lomgress. Not st ot 4 e e Binwe it tures out thet Julze Davin | oaly worth & wmilliom, the Natisasls bat back o him. As s worbicgaau's catin willout da Mw pe 18 Loy sall, - —— The Natists In Colorase wade o M- Carthy re of It Iast week Ouiy Lh 9 alitold Tomgue Lasdiug wut. care I and distancrd Lhe first Leal < o ee—— “Jt you must have pa;er snis. £9'd and sdives fur ballast. by b e - Uiseiting,” 218 Coburado to Maiie e i Colorado toMaine: Ho' there. Dow ) why did you st the Fod on tlegaz Loy 5 Juu sshamend of yuurse'veal E 7 — P The Brpadbihams can ele-§ tbe neit * 0 they let 8 litale o sgacuty Kosein fucs a0 selecting 8 camlidatr. et Toe Democracy of e Thita oo Tuas our Haxsex He caarun lac i but be cas’i ol P I B o S AR e e " Y -~ » &5 B B o s i R The Cularsde Moft-mooe; lisaiss ! bear from Maine Lo scatvs. - — Culorade dbi ot want axy bers ———— Away with your Bast bambag ' says (o e