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

= » THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY. OCTOBER 5, 1878—:’I‘WELVE PAGES, ‘ - The Tribune, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BY MAIL~IY ADTANCR—TOSTAGE PREPAID. \!.81‘ 1530 .‘fi H s 3:88 Give Post-Ofice address in fnll, ncinding State and County. z Remittances may be made either by draft, expre: * Pest-Office order, or In registerrd Ietter, ot our Hiak. TRRMS TO CITY AUBSCRIAERS. Danly, delivered, Bunday rxcepted, 29 cents per week. Datly, delivered, Bunday inchnded, 30 cents per week. Address TIUE TIINUNR CUMPANY, Corner Madison and Denrbora-sta., Chiesgo, Tl Ordegs for the delivery of Tng TRIBCNZ at Evanston, Fnglewood, and i1yde Park ieft ia the counting-room il recelve prompt attention. m—— TRIBUNFE BRANCH OFFICES, THR Cm1CAQ0 TRINTXE had patablished branch offices for the recelpt of subecriptions snd sdvertisrments as follaws: NEW YORR—Tloom 20 Tribune Dutiding. ¥.T. Mo+ Fanvey, Manager. TARIR, France—No, 16 Rue dela Grange-Bateifere, 3. Manizr Agent. 1.ONDON, Ki Mzxny F. Giivio, Agent, SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.—Palace Hotel, 3 b 1 -American Exchange, 449 Btrand, TAMUSEM ENTS. BcVicker's THentro. Magivon street, between Dearborn and State, ** Lost faLdudon™ and **My Turn Next." Afternoon snd evening. FHonlex?s Theatre. Rérdolnh street, beiween Clark and L geline Comblnatlon. Afiernoan, ** Kreolrg, ** Conrad the Corsalr,” o Tinverly’s Thentre, Dearborn atreet, carner of Monroe, '*The Danites.” Afternoon aud eventcg. Hamlin's Thentre. ry Clatk Mreet, opponite the Conrt- House aérment of Frank Chanfran. '*KIL" Afteraoon and eveuing. New Chicago Theatre. Clatk atreet, upporite the Sherman House. echiter.” Afterndon and evening. Academy of Music, 1lalated atreet, botween Madison and Monros. Va« Ficly enteriaiument. Afternoon and evening, “Hase Exponition, Lake shore, foot of Adsms strees. ‘White Stocking Yark, Gme between the Mliwaukee and Chicago Clubsat :15p. m. CLEVELAND |¢lfuv. Memters aronotitS 8.9 2 oclock: Tirottier Jolio o Crueclans Pork dathing shou g breciren fraternally invied, MALUULM McDONALD, W. M. 6. K. REED, Secretnty. 1A F. & A M= i) o Sainrda, Oct, onr L SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1878. Grocnbacka ut the New York Htock Ex- changa yesterday closod at 993, Tho illness of Senator I'munMax hna us- #umed a typo of bilious fevor xo sevoro as to oceasion anxiely regarding Lis prospects of roeovery. Anather ntrocions murder is chronicled in cur locel reports this moring. A policeman was shot and Killed by n thief in chiarge of w wagon londed with stolen yoods, and it is distresstng to wild that while the property W captueed the manderer made his escape, ‘Tho negro population of Santa Cruz, ono of the Danish West Indin Islands, is in rtato of ivsurrection. Tho Town of Fr crickstadt lns beon enptured and ontiroly, destruyed Ly tho jugurgents, wl:g-ra be- lieved to howo ninalerad all white people in. diseriminalely who havo fullen into their Linds, ‘I'wo United States war vessels, be. sules others belongiug {o tho Froneh and Euglish Weat India squadrons, uave been ordered to the nceno of tha mawacre, Tho continued influx of returning refagees bas suggested to Memphis the uecensity of establivhing n wirick quarantine against both «citizens aud wlrangors as o monns of cutting short the sapply of material for tho fover to viork upon. Persons who have passed the period of their absonco in thio cooler latitudes of Northern eities sro doubly liablo to attack upon returning to the plague region, and 1t soomns likely that a systom of compulsory Lanishuient will bo necessary at Memphis ond other citles whera tho fever still mges. ———— An pggravatiug hitch in the warfare against ko stench nuisance bas boan causad Ly a decision by Judge Roarxs to the effect that the order for abatement should have Leon entered at the time of conviction, Fresh indictment and conviction must now Lo had beforo the order can be enforoed, All this necessitatos delay, but there is no Tenson why the stiok-makers in the south western part of the city should not woon be compelled cithor to turn out & better smell or shut up sbop. No time should be lost in putting the matter in this sk ‘The Albanians, although not iu open rebell. fon against tho Porte, Lave yet a way of ax- Dresuing their detestation of the ‘Turkish Goverument, Bot a short time sinos Ms® MEMET ALl one of the most promi. ucut of the Turkish euvoys iu that proviuce, was rossted to death with Lis escort of twenty soldiors. Intelligonce is uow received of 4 massacre on & much larger scalo, wherein Hamp Geroex TPasha, with 156 ofticers aud wen under his command, were ot npon and killsd by the excited populace of Podgoritza, because of the announcetent tLat orders hod been raceived to surrendor tho place to Montene ‘The Secret-Burvice detectives engaged in briugivg to justics the gaug of Kentucky counterfoiters rocently captured went through o series of hardships and expen- ences trying to the patience und ondurance even of & detective. During the progress of their secrot work a robbery was committed wud they wore arrested aud put in jail on suspicion, but subscquently discharged. I'his affair, howover, involved thewm in an- otlier dilemmn; they were aguln arrestod aud indicted in consuquence of the discovery of & supply of counterfult money amoug their effects. To have explalued would Lave reveuled the objoct of their. mission and prevented its accomplishment ; so thoy agam #ave bail and continued their work until the yeul counterfeiters bad been captured, after which they wero of course able to explain mutters aud go on their way rejoicing. ‘The hostile demonstration by the reno- gede Cboyenues in Western Nebrauka has furuished ke troops in that region with plenty of occupation, After leaving their Juscrvation at Fort Reno the Indiany croased tho Kausus Paoific Kailrcad on Sunday last, und mado their way northward, Lilling all tho whitos they encouatcred, and stealing honies wherever thoy could find them. Yesterday afternoon thoy had reach- «d wud crossed tho Union Pacific at Alkali, five piiles oast of Ogallula, sud wero, Lurry- ng on with their plunder, evidently waking for the new Red Clond Agency, whers thefr arrival in advance of the troops now in hot pursait wonld greatly increaso the gravity of the situation. There is, however, a gratify- ing prospect that the erring red Lrathren will be intercepted and captured, and o fine opening presentod for some hanging by wholesale. The second and closing day of the Cook County Democratio Convention was pro- ductive of no results that are likely to allay the dissatisfaction of the Irish Democrats at the manner in whioch MoDoxarp, their oan- didate, was defeated by Kery for the nomi- nation for Sherifl. The failure of the effort to induce McDoNaLD to restore harmony and #id in securing a viotory for the party by ac- cepting the nomination for Coroner proves how deeply incensed his supporters aro at what they consider a defeat bronght abont Dy dishonesty and tho use of money to cor~ rupt delegates. Thoy will hardly be np- peased by the mnomination of two Irish- men for Connly Commiesioners, and it is very doubtful whether they will give to tho ticket as constituted a hearty support. Neither Murroy nor Creany iain any sensoa representativo Irishman; to call thom such would be a libel on the intolligence and good citizenship of the Irish-Americans of Chi- cago. The record of both in the Connty Board is as bad as it could well be. They lave uniformly voted and acted with the corrupt Ring that has virtually bankenpted the county finances by its legislation in the interest of Ring contractors, and their re- nomination is an additional evidonce to the taxpayers that honesty and reform in the County Board are not (o be looked for at the hands of the Democratio party. They ought to be beoton if tho Republicans exercise care in nominating honest men as their oppo- neuts, and thoy will bo beaten if tho taxpay- erg keep in viow tho fact that thy only way to break up.the County Ring is to prevent {he ro-cloction of its preseut membors, THE NATIONAL PROSPERITY. ‘Tho change in thu foreign trade of the United States is assuming tho character of o rovulution, because, while that change can. not be expected to grow with tho increasing power that has marked it during tho last threo ycars aud now continue, it is pretly certain that the new relatiofl us to production aud importation will hecomo mors or less permanent. From the condition of a per- putual borrower, with ever-incressing in. dobtedness, with being a keavy purchaser on credit, with the disadvantages of trading un- dsr wuch circnmsiances, we have bocomo producer of such magnitude that our snles of surplus produuts have recalled the evideuces of our tudebtudaess of formor yonrs, is fill- ing tho lnnd with coin in such abundance as has never before been witnessed, and lins al- ready alarued the fluauciers of Eu- rope, Jest the plethora of gold in Amcrica iay bo attended with a famine of tho wetat iu Europs. During the twelve months ending Aug, 81, 1878, the valne of thn American exports in oxcess of the im- ports was $289,620,158, While tho groat bulk of our exports wag of the producta of the tiold, there i n steady fncrenso in the quantity and aggregato valne of mann. fuotured urticles, ‘Flio trade of, the conntry, therelore, is expauding not only in tho sale of raw mnterlals but in that of fnished pro- ductions, aud really thero is no reason why wao may not oxtend the latter traffio as well us the tormer. Tho same reasons which bimit the production or lead to the increase in production of one line operato largoly in the caso of thoother. Tho governing prine uiple in hoth cacs is the cost of production, Whon tho time shall come that it will ¢osl muro to produce breadstuffs in the United States than cau bo obtainod for them 111 other markets, then their sale and their production mnst be roduced. T'hore are but faw (hings the prices of which can be fixed by tho producer, He must as o genaral rule sell for what ho can get for them, This be- iug true, thorefora, ho that can produco at tho loast cost can also produco the largest quantity, and can enjoy the largest roturn for Lis Iabor, % It is therofore s cloar mistake to suppose that a veturn to high prices is conducivo to goneral prosperity, Anything that adds to the cost of production of necessity limits ronsumption, and this reaots on the pro. ducer, 'Tha effect of an incroaso in the cost of prodnetion fa illustrated by the effacts of a roduction of the cost of production, In tho latter cago consumption increasos, call- ing for greater production, and tho greater production the groater the profit of the pro- ducer. ‘Thero is greater profit in producing 1,000 bales of cotton at a profit of §25 @ balo than thers is in producing 200 bales at 70 & bale, Tt is ecatimated, and assumed as u fact, that a differonce equal to onc-half o cant per uquare yard in the cost of producing ootton cloth will enablo the couatry having that ndvantage to control the sale of cotton cloths in the markets of the world, Small things are of importance in trads. Frac. tious of o cent in itoms of the cost of pro. duction sasume an imniense magunitude when sggregated in the total cost of supplying waokind. That country must govern in trade which can produce what the world neuds at the lonst cost. There is always about the same aggregate means to purchase “distnbuted wwong mankind. When any one articla of geueml use becomes too costly, maukind seoks a substitute, and so, when wmaukind, accustomed to got so many yards or o wauy pounds for a certaln sum of money, can get ono-fourth, one-sixth, or even onedenth more yards or more pounds for the same money, they will purchase of the man whé makes the best offer, But when the case is reversed and the prico advauced they will reduce the quantity purchased or find somo other thing 88 u substitute, 8o thorouglly Las Lhe trade of mankind been systematized that profits uow are made up of large sales at wminute advances on the cost of production. Tho greater the quantitics produced tho less the average cost of production and the less the price at which tho product may Le sold at a profit. ‘The surplus products of the farms are sold abroad ; they largely ropresent the profits of the total production, The less vroduced the greater the average ocost of pro- duction and the less the profit,—the world and not tha producer fixing the price, ‘I'ie prosperity of the country, its immenso annual accretions of wealth, its steady ad- vance in production, and widely cxtended markets, ao the result of a chespening of the cost of production. 'The time for high rates of interest on money has passed away, For fifteen years borrowing and lending money has been a gawe of chance,—the lendor apd the borrower taking the chances a8 to tho value of the woney when tho loan would bo due. In such & Lusiness the bor- rower has Lad to pay a rate of interest one~ third or one-half greater than he woald have bad to pay bad there boen 1o uncertainty ag to the mouey of the future. Under the restoration of the curreucy to substantially par valuo interost has fatlon, and, wers thers no eraze on tha subjoct of another emn of deprecinted paper money, money would not now command over 6 per cent. Cofn con. tracts can now be negotiated at that rate, and if thero bo any danger of fiat money no money will hereafter be loaned except on coin contracts. A return to high prices will of necessity stop the present rapidly increasing trade, which brings to ns an addition annanlly of fifty or sixty millions to our snles of surplus products. We cannot sell at a profit if it costa more to produce than wa oan got, Unable to sell, wo must stop producing. Tho mines, tho factories, the iron-mills nnd furnaces, the workshops, and all indnstrinl employments, must contract, reduce, nnd limit production; they must only produce what they can sell, and only employ labor ns thoy want it. Instead of producing the largest quantitios, and making profita from small advances on n large number of sales, giving omployment to the grestest number of parsons, they must endeavor to employ the least Iabor and produce the least quan- tity for salo, and gencrally bring all things as near a condition of famine as possiblo. The United States havo at Inst cmerged from tho darkness and desolation of civil war, of internal strife, of political discord, of commercial disturbance, aud flasncial dis- oster. It has taken almost a generation te guide tha country throngh nll its diffienlties. ‘To-day tho country has méro monoy, count- iog the ** dollars " both by nnmber and value, than ever befors; it has at lnst the samo kind of money for the rich and for the poor, the employer aud the employed, the work. man and the bondholder; there i no priv. fleged class in money matters ; no chartored monopolies to increase or reduce the amonnt. of monoy at will; the mints aro turning out from fivo to oight millions of gold and silver coin monthly; and overy steamer bLears to our shores remittances from othor lands to purchrse the products of our labor, Thoso of tho nations of Earopd who aro not strug- gling with the plagno of paper money nre threntoned with a transfer of their trado to our shores, and are laboring to check the flow hither of their wealth to purchase of us the things noeded by their people; and day by day, month by month, thero are added to the goneral wealth such stores ns bave nover been drawn hither Lofore. Shall wo arrest this prosponity? Shall wo intervene and put a stop to this tide of prosperity now sotting on our shores ? Shall we do this under tho miserable delusion that wo can botter thingsby throwing away trado, commerce, wenlth, industry, production, and Inbor, and print flat monoy ? A CHARACTERISTIC CAUCUS ERROR. Ono of the most sorivus defects of our politionl system is illustrated by the refusal of tho Repnblican Convention of the Fifth Mussnchusotts District to renominate Gen. Bixgs for Congress, 1lo was defeated by tho closa vote of 51 against him to 60 for him, and the man preferred over him 1s said to have had but little experionco in publio affairs, and to stand a small chance of carry- ing the district. Gon, BANxs, on the con- trary, has scrved in Congress long and creditably; his integrity has never Leon im. penched, add his influenco has almost always been conservative and beneficial; ho was once 8pesker of heIouso, and is thoroughly versed in tho routine of public business which is 5o cssontial to cfliciont mervice, | Notwithstanding all this, n party cavious re- fased Lim an. opportunity for re-cloction, ond probably for no botter reason than that tho gentleman who has been nominated is ombitions to go to Congress, and lLas pulled the wires to control the Con- vontion. Whother rogarded from n partisan or a national point of view, much an ovent as this is to bo deprecated. A party always courts dofoat by dropping an old and faithful sorvant who has repeatedly been successful in carrying his district; ‘the ration always loses by tho enforced rotire. mont of men who bhave become proficiont through experionca and whoso integrity Lina beon thoroughly teated. Tho personal in. justice of such a case is obvious. Thore is littlo opportunity for gaining a competoncy in honestly sorving the public in any po- sitfon. The momber of Congross draws a salary that {a just abont enough to support o family and maintain appearances in keoping with his position. The man who devotes wmany years of his life to Congressional services loses his capaoity for private busi- ness, or falls bohind in his profession, and he 1s scarcely ever propared to go out in the world and oarn such u livelihood as he has boen accustomed to enjoy. Publio life has little attraction for able mon so long os good service in likely to be rewarded at any time by a defest in caucus; and tho ablo and solf-respocting men are not usually of tho kind who nru willing to do tho dirty work which is 80 often necessary to procure o nomination, ° s Tho Euglish system, sdopted also by the French, affords a botter protoction than ours sgainst a cancus-defeat such as Gen. Bawzs hos just suffored. ‘The caudidature for Par. liament is not restricted in England or Trance to the district in which the candidate may happen tolive. In the caxe of a man like Gon, Baxks, if defcated in one distriot, the candidate would be invited to atand in some other district, When s man hns at- tained high position in Parlisment or the leadorship of a party,—such a position, for instance, a8 GrapstoNE oceuples,—it Is usual to run b in Juveral districts in order to maks suro of Lis election; if choson in wore than one district, the successful candidate then selects tho constituency he ‘wishes to ropresent, By this means each party may always keop its best 4nen in Parlia- mout, and an - cfficlont mewber may count upon rotaining a scat as long as he desires it, But the rulo of public service in Bugland is just the roverse of that which obtains in this conutry, whether in or out of Parliament. The peopla take a more practical and busi- nesa.like view of the fanctious of Govern. wont; they keep good men in office for the same reason that employers retain capabla aud well-behaved clorks or servants,—be- oanse it is In the interest of employers to do 80, In fact, provisions are made by means of promotions and pensions to encoursge good snd able men to remain in publie servica who might do better for themsclves in private business, With us, overy ofiico, high and low, is regarded s ¢ prize ta bo grubbed for and intrigued for at every recurring election Long and faithful servico seems (o ba rather a disad- vontugn than an advautage when election time comes around, because the general dis- position of our people is to think that the officeholder has had enough of tho publio pabulum, and that he ought to ;ivo way to some new man. Bolong as this disposition prevails (aud rotation in offico is & part of the spoils doctrine), the public service is sure to sufler by reason of frequent and iu- judicious changea, 1f tho pahtical parties of tho United States were founded 1ore upon the pgjnciples which ostensibly bind them together, artd less npon the scrawble for the offices, party organization wonld Lo stronger, party leadership mors capable, and party eorvico fofinitely mors weeful than now. Tho failure of Gon. Baxxa to roceivo a ro- nomination in one district fn Massachusetta, on acconnt of some porsonal disagreement or to gratify the porsonal ambition of a new man, may result in the loss of the diatrict to the Republican party, and posmbiy the loss of what might othorwise bLe a Repub- lican majority in the Natlonal House of Reprosentatives. Any system is necessarily defactive undor which the supremacy of n great national parly may ba put in jeopatdy at the more whim of some local faction; and ingratitude, though smd to bo character- istic of Republics, is short-sighted and inju. dicions, ns well 89 mean-spirited, when it governs parly cancuses. THE COLORADO ELECTION, Tho result of the Colorado election, now that tho returns are all in or nearly in, is not only full of enconragement but is very sig- nicaut. The Republicans have oarried their Stato officors, the Legislature, andtheir Congrossman, by an averago mafority of 8,000 in tha Stato over a full Domocratic and Greenback ticket, belgg a gain of over 2,000 upon the vole of 1876, which may fairly bo considered n remarknblo ncreass of Repub. Jiean strength in so emall a total vote. The succossfol eandidates are G. W, Prrxix, Gov- ernor; I, A. W. Tasor, Lisutonant-Gover- nor; N. I JMeroruy, Becretary of State; N. 0. Curven, Auditor; E. K. 8riusoy, ‘Treasurer; 0. W, Wrianr, Attorney-General ; and J, O, Smatruck, Superintendent of Public Instruc. tion, The last Legislature was Republiican in thie House by 81 to 18 and in the Seuate by 19 to 7, thus making the Repnblican ma- jority 25 on joint ballot, As the Legislaturo will now be Republican in the proportion of four to one, tho election of n Ropublican United States Scnator, cice Jeroxe B, Crar- FER, Whose torm expires March 4, 1870, is mgmured. Tho most Ratisfactory featare of this ro. sult is tho election of Judge Bsurozn to Congress over ParrensoN, Democrat, and Curups, Greenbacker. Judge Benronp oar- rics nearly every county in tho State, and has more than doubled the vote he received in 1876, when ho ran for both the short and tho long term., By the help of tho in- famons partisan majority in the Iouse, Par- TERsON, his then compotitor, was enabled to tako advantage of a miscrable quibble and seat himsolf in the \Houvsg, although he had boon defeated by; 1,100 majomty. The pooplo of Colorado have now oxprossed their opinion of that infamous outrage in no un- corlain mauner, Thoy have rebukoed the Democratic branch of ;Congross aud at the rame time the man. who stole Judge Brr- Foro's scat in & way that both will be liko- Iy to romamber for a long time to come. Tho Oolorado election was also an over- whelming sot-back to ,11!!0 Fint folly. The issue in this cloction was fairly mado be- twoen hionest hard money and au irredcom- able currenoy. Tho, Republican platform domanded * honcst national money, sufficient for all the legitimago’heeds of the country, with gold, silver, and paper .equal in value,” ‘T'he Democratic platform called for an fufla- tion of the currencyf, tho ropeal of the Re- sumption not, and the substitution of groen. backs for NnUnnu)." l}nnk notes, and the Groonback platform fija to snch an extont & pliotographi of the Democratio that ono plat- form might baveanswhtid for both. Both were slanghtorad, aud * hongst 'mongy” triumphed.” ‘Tho dofent of tho Damocracy was a crushing rebnko for un act of/infamy by which the. majority of tho paupfo of Colorado were left unrepresented in the! Forty-fifth Congroas. . The defeat of tho flat'funatics shows that tho greenback crazo ia nok as deep-seated ns its leadors supposed lfgll‘l; tho Maino election, and thore is no such.,thing ns a continuous growth of this absurd: delusiou, It isin all respects a eheering regult, and it should have o reassuring influence upon the epublicans of Indisna, Towa, spd Ohlo, and inspire them with & fresh gotormination to over throw the Democratic.Groenback alliance noxt Tuesds, % 600D SENSE 'IN NEBRASKA. That it is the apecial missionof tho Re- publican party to combat tho flat-monoy coraze, and that the Ilo'pnbllcnn party intonds to be true to their mission, may bo conclud- od from the sction'taken by tho Nebraska Topublicans, It has boen contended that the new currenoy craze las made ns much Leadway in that Stato as in any other section of the country, The Domocratic party yielded readily, and we presnme willingly, to tho indicatious that the fla¢ dootrine would Lo popular cnough to sweep the State, and there was o fuaion between the Nationals and Dermocrats, which was equivalont thoro, os in Massachusetta and Yowa, to the surronder of the old party to the new party. This con- dition of things, unloss tho hold of the Jlst crazo on tho peoplo of Nebraska has been exaggerated, was certainly a temptation to the Ropublican managars to give way be. fore the popular delusion aud pander to the orazo. Instead of doing this, the Ilepublic. au Btate Convention has made a bold declara. tion in favor of honest money aud common- sonso money, aud hLas exprossed ftself in toruis that would do credit to an older com. munity, We have seen no party platform that more intelligently sets forth the real statua of the issus than do the following resotutions ; Sixth—Wa hail 1he auspicious signe of reviving trade and industry, congratulate tho ncurm uuou 1bis practical ovideuce (hat the eprcustou which grew out of the financial disorders forced uon us by tne Rebellion i giviag placo to re- turging confidence an: rmanent prosperity, which ean rost slone on & Azed woney staodard, l:llll!d valaes, aud full security ana certainty for the future, Secenth—The greenback shall not be dishonored or deproclated, shail ba wag: 004 s huncet coin; the laborer's dollar shall mesn & resl dollsr, the uncertsinty of |is valua which robe toll and .l(llrllyu" trade shall conse, sud our currency shall e 1ho beat curceucy, because, wihether puper or cuin, {tsbiall be equivalent, converiible, secare, and steady, Kleventh—\We lovite all good citizens, of what- ever provious political tice. (o unite with the le- publican pasty, the ouly edectual buiwark avejust nationsl repudiation wnd disgrace; the ouly or- anliation capable of proserviug’ the vational nor, 'I'ble great exiy n:{ appeals Lo 31l Heooo. licans to risa to ita hixh obligation aud joln heart aud haud for triumpl of 1he bnnciples upcn which thesecunty and welfare of the Jiepuoilo dopend. ‘o whols story iy told in'this brief space, It was nol currency expansion alone, and certainly not currency contraction, which brought on the hard times ; they were the natugal and inevitable result of the destruction of Wealth incident to wur, aud the dissipa. tion of wealthi incident to tho extravagance and speculation that ways generato, ¢ Hard times * {3 simply the name given to the period of recovery from previous excosses, ‘This period bas nearly expired; there are everywhere notable signs of improvement. The conditions of our foreign trade are especially favorable to the revival of pros- perity. Our national credit has beon con. staully growing stronger, and the people bave been rupidly possessing thewselves of their own Government, bouds. ‘The bank. ruptcica kave been mostly adjusted, and mortgnge debts are now largely on n basis conforming to the real valus of property. Thore has been a steady growth of confidence, and the currency has reached a point whore there will be no more vacillation of consequence unless its status be changed by a'repeal of the Resumption act and by new fssues of irredeemable serip. Tho prospect aliead ia that of a material and substantial expansion of the curroncy by bringing gold and silver coin into active cir culation alongside of the Government and National Bank notos, jrist as soon ns resump- tion shall be nnnounced under the law. advocntes of the ** Ohio ides” are fighting agninst thia natural and healthfnl expansion of the currency, They want coln kopt out of circulation aud the currency circulation practically contracted at tho rame time, since its purchasing power will shrink from the moment it shall be announced that resump- tioh has been indefinitely postponed, The Nobraska Republicans have thogood senso to undorstand all this, They know, too, that itis to the interest of an agricultural community, and of every other community where men Iabor for a product of any kind, that a dollar shill always be the thing it purports to be,— not 90 centa to-morrow, and 80 cents next weck, and the Lord knows what in a fow months, They know that profits on sales or wages paid for labor can bave ng deter. mined and reliable valua unless paid in o carrency which, ** whether paper or coin, shall be equivalent, convertible, sacure, and stendy.” They wore wiso, nlso, in inviting all good citizens of their State to join them without regard to provions politieal entangles ments in this effort to rescue the peoplo from o delusion that will prove disastrous if fur- thor encouraged; and all good citizens in. ride nnd outside of Nebraska with sufficiont intelligence to comprohend tho situation should begin to understand that it i{s only through tho ngency of tho Repnblican party that this delusion can be dissipated and dofoated. AN UNSA' ‘WIINESS, The Vavpresirt wiil caso is becoming as complicated and puzzling as the Beecmes. Tiurox seandal. It will be rememboroed that on the 27th ult, one Mrs, Lir1ix Broppant, claiming to be the widow of Dr, Caanres A, SroppanT, 8 clairvoyant physiclan, took the stand. She testified that sho had met Commodore VaxpennsiT at & Spiritual meeling in Doston, and afterwards had interviows with him in the office of tho Doctor. BSubsequently, according to her testimony, Wintsax II VaNDERBILT en- tered into a conspiracy with herself and hus- band by which, in consideration of a cortain sum of money, Dr. SToppanT was to make tho Commodora believe that he was in com- munication with his dead wife, who would domand of him that he make's will in favor of Wirtiax H, VaxNpennirt, and to impress upon him that all the rest of his children hatod him. Bhe testified further that Wiz~ 1AM pald hor husband the money, and that they had a seance with the Commodore, in ottendanco at which the purported apirit of Lis wifo appeared and urged him to make his will in favor of Wirr1ax, as ho was the only one of his children compotent to man. nage his business and the only one who loved bim. Aeccording to tho witness, the Com- modore was very much excited, and declared “*Wrax ghall hava al},'Sad subsequently notifled Mr. aund Mrs. Sroppart that ho shonld make the will as directed by the spirit, % Upon tbe cross-examination, the woman Stonpany appeared to decided disadvautage, not only developing a very peculiar personal record, but so contradicting herself on mato. rial points that tho counsel for the defonse moved that the Court should commit the witness at the closa of the cxamination to await tho notion of the Grand Jury on o charge of perjury. 8o far as the personal ‘rocord was doveloped, it showed the nllogod Mra. SToppaRT to have been an adventuress of bad repute who had lived at various places undor various. names, and whenever she changed lodgings usually changed husbands, and had beon so careloss in the choice of temporary husbands that some of thom had been rascals of high degree, among themone Ep Hawry, a forger, and one BexNmNo, who had been a State Prison convict. Bhe had been a clairvoyant, a Splritualist, a seam- strees, 8 boarding-house kosper, & wife, o widow, everything by turns and nothing long, The dramatic surprise of tha cross- examination was tho appearanca of another Mrs, Broppant in the court-room whom she ackunowledged to ba the legitimate wife of thio Doctor, As there cannot bo two women entitled to the Doctor's name at tho same time, and as the clairvoyant Stoppant ac- knowlodges tho other to have been the Doctor’s wifo, tho inference that she is bogus is of coursa inavitable, ‘Whatever result the case may tako, or whatover declsion tho Court mny render upon the perjury motion, the groat public outside the court-room cun hardly come to any other conclusion than that the ovidonce of this many-alinsed woman of the worldis vot trustworthy, ‘Che counsel for the de- fonse riddled her tostimony. Adventnrossos, a3 a rulo, are sharp and cunning, but it {s not every one who can undorgo searching croas-examination at the hands of experi- euced lawyers and conie out of the ordeal unscathod. Tho manucr and bLearing of the witness in quostion botrayed a desire to imitate Mrs, JrNES, but, as she had not o tithe of Mra, Jexks' ability, it was a wrotch. ed failure,—so wrotched that it now looks as if the contestauts had given away their case, Judze L, F, Futssr, of West Hend, Washing- tou Couanty, whom the Republicaus of the First Wisconsin District have uominated for Con- @ress, is a geatleman well known In the political clreles of our neighborlug Btate, 118 was the Republican candudate for Attorney-Gencral in 1573, aud, sithouzh reslding in a county that eives a never-faling Democratic mujority of £,000, Judgo Futsuy's personal popularity was such that he carried bis county by a handsomo majorlty. ‘Tuls was & high comnpliment paid to bissterliog Integrity and high professional abllity by those who had knowu him for twenty years. He s agentleman of fine personal presence, s lawyer of extensive and successful practive, and in il respects fust such & man as would be s credit for any coustituency 1o sead to Washing- ton. We are aaly sorry that there is no show for 50 good & man (o get clected in that frro- dectnable Bourbon Democratie district, e —— ‘The books tuat TiLDEN' " agent stole at | Marquetto the otber dey were not 'kept fu cipher, as 1s generally supuoscd, but by tue ordinary methods of Lookkeeplng. When Tit~ DEN wishies to wreck & rallroad, cheas the Gov- eroment, or run & mining company, he doea It by *‘fguring”; put when e has & political Job on nand, liko that ot Oregon or Florida, he does the business by *ciphering.” —ee——— GxoRos WiLrian Custis deliverod au ad- dress ou Civit-8eryice Rolorm befors the General Conferenco of Uultarians beid recently at Sara- togs. Although we cuunot exactly sce what relation that subject Las to religion, it is likely that Mr. Cuutis thiuks therv Is & woral aspect toit, aud o that light it ts worthy of the atten- The, tion of religions people. Certainly there s one viow of the cass that furnishes an excuse for a Convention of professcd religionists giving some thought to the subject, to wit.: that our scandalous politics are bad enough to need the prayers of ail plous men for thelr renovation. Tut Mr. Cuntis did not discuss the question generally, but only that branch of t which we bave named, A report of his remarks snys: In & faw worils tha npeaker shawed the laxury of living under a rfunlican Government when it comen to gathering In punlic daes. Figures show that rovenne coliection costs iva times as much in proportion in the United States as It daes in Great Hritaln, four times as much as in the German Em. ,||lre. and three times as much as 18 France, Oue 038, cven, 16 twice aa mnch as the nct revenno of the German Empire. It is undoubtediy true that our fathers fn- tended to establish a plaln, simple, economical form of government, and beeauso It was “ro- publlean in form" they deluded themsclves with the fdea that thelr work was complete. But It Is an open question whether thelr efforts in this respect have not been a partisl fajlure, as all human cffort comes short of the {denl, Our system of taxation Ia capable of inflnico ex- vansion, and our republican fcrm of govera. ment—with universal suffrage to back It and vote assossments on other people’s property— is capable of adapting Itsclf to any expense a zenerous people pleases to insur. Instead of & cheap Government, ours is notorlously a very expensive onc, and under n systetn of taxation levied for tne support of highways, achools, and courts, and to defray town, city, county, State, and natlonal expenses, direet and ndirect, It has been estimated by carcful statisticians that every man pavs tha full value of all his prop- erty into tho Public Treasury once In twenty- fivo years. - e OL1vE LooAN, who 1s.alwaya interested in love storios, has probably fnventea this one concerning yourig MONTAGUE, who was ndver- tised to appear in ** Uiplomacy " at McVickzn's in this city carly fo tho sonson, but the arrange- ment was prevented by bis sudden death. Ina letter ton Ban Franclsco paper she says: At his very earlicst appearance here ho was soan and loved by a cnarming English girl. 'Tha oppor- tunliy for a mecting waa_found as quickly by her 01 by her love-cralty predeceasor in tho tale of Ve rona. But there wére greater impodiments in the way of marsinge botween this now Zomeo and this now./ullet than & mero fanily dispute. MosTaouz w18 not only paor in purse, but In aoclal standing —well, he was on the atage; witl somo people that wasonough, Tue lady, on the other hind, was rich and noble, the daughier of one of the prond- cst Earln that treads ancestral acres in Enpland. To broach the subject of marriage to her Laught; paronts, hr young ladyehip knew would bo mad. foas, S0 adiy, bue mot despairingly, the lovers concluded to separate, **MoNTY" to £o flll his cogagoments In Amcrica until such Tino as hie roguired to amaas a cortatn smonnt of money, when ho was o return to England, oston- sibly only to see his mather, and after his viait ter- minated & cortaln person would b found at Liver- pool walting for hitny, und they were to roturn to Amicrica togotber, Soveral suitors have presented themselves during the time MoxTaor® was in America, as the 1ady Is atiil **0'er young to marry et, " her refnsal of their offers has not ex- cited nMcn sarprisg: but the other day at a con- tey house, whon & larye company had gatbered in the drawing-room, walting tu go info dlnper, an officer of thy Coldstreain Guard, wao had arrived from London In the afteruvon, told the purty he hnd heard at the clubs thy night before that yousny Moxtanve—who used to pluy the lovers at the Erince of Wales, you know—1was dead. A blanch- el chieck, a low nioan, A kir] falnting in the arms of the howtess, who entered the door Just in tine Lo catch hier before she feil, told the story of love and hopo deferred, now never to ba rectudlod, - - The dclegates trom the First Ward tothe Benatorial Convention aro spending too much timo an® breath arguing technleal points to Justify their bolt. Why not “tell the truth ond shame the d—1" Lot themn come down to tho bono of tho thing and confoss that they withdrew from the Conventlon to prevent the party In the ward being committed to the nomination of Georax E. Wiirs for an oftice which heis totally unqualificd to 011, and he- cause thoy well knew tnat he would ba over- whelmingly defeated at the polls, just as ho was before when he ran for tho same office, DId they not withdraw to save themselves from the cemsure of the ward club for bLelng partles to so disreputable s nomination? Wids It not dono In the hope that sape compromise might hercalter ba effected by which a candidate wouid be agreed upon that could.ba , elccted, and tho seat in.tha Scnato saved? What s the use In putting fosth teche nlcal reasons for getting up and walking out of Wiira's packed Conventlon, when they kuow that they acted right and for the best Interests of the partyl Let thero be no more halr-split. ting controversics over parllamentaty polnts. ‘The real reason s the one to offer and stand by—that they would not be passive parties to the nomination of an Individual for Seuator whose overwhelming defeat was dead certaln, ————— . From o financlal staudpoint, it would Lave been the wiser course fur CriARLEY KERN to step down and out at the end of his first than to try to hold a sccond term. Ile bas already spont o beap of money to procure his nowina- tion, Some ol the delexates whose votes were purchased away from McDoNALD on Thursday were costly {ellows, and it took a heap ol greon- backs to persuade them that their priuciples should corresgond with thelr interests. From now on till the night of the election Krny will bo made to biced at every pora; the proflts of his oftico for the past two veara wiil rapidly alip from his flogers. [t 8 questionable If e will have a doflar of It le(t at tho close of the polls on Nov. G. If ho should be re-clected, ho can make up most of his losaes, provided the County Commissionors arc liberal in allowances for boarding prisoners and other thiogs. But suppose he 18 defeated, of which there is an evou chiance, he will bo poorer than before he was a candldate two years ago. llonce it Is wo express the opinion that his true policy was to step aside sud be conteut with ono terin, and save what he Las made. But men let their groed ana ambl- tlou run away with thelr Judwinent, and only vereelva thelr folly when it 18 too late. 'I'his will bo Kzun's case. An unreconstructed Rebel paper down fn Mis- slssinpl, whoss editor would have been glad to bave died in the last diteh It the opportunity had only been given him, {s atill unbapyy over tho resutts of the lato unpleasantness. [t says: The Sonth will dictate thy **terupe™ herself, unil thio North will bu glad to bow duwn to tnem before wo are through with hee yel, - To use the words of Gov. Wane Haurrow, we repel that threat “with indiznant scoru.® We hurl It back fu his teeth. Wo cram it down his throat, Wedefy the tyrant. * Uive us lib- epty or mive us death,” G . ———— . Ex-Senator DooLITrLE hus ben s mumber of soveral political partles ln this country, It oot more, anid has been Known as o surt of Jumplng-jack In that Mue. In this respect Cuaniey WiLLiaxs, of Wisconsiy, Lits the Judge ueatly in his recout letter printed in Tus TmsusE, when he say tinguished ex-Senstor: **You liave been too tong aud houorably connected with all’the various political partics of the country,” ete,, ete, A shot iu tho bull's eye, or, rather, In the Judge's eyc, : PorTe e Edtor o) r Potxr, 1., Oc bucr;-‘l.‘"ul:r‘m dobt of Fraicer 1 Vrauce 1 ous of dest, she havia pard of pu In paper musey, Jo M., Srauw, Tle Iatest izures In the Almanach de Gotha put the debt of Franco at $4,605,600,000. The debt of France, liko that of the United Btates, s held almost entirely at bome. It has not been nd the (nterest ia always met In —e—— * Safficlently explieit fuformation has been re- ceived from a varicty of sources lu Wisconstn to establish the fact that the disreputabls man- sgerof an alleged Republicau newsbaper fo Milwaukee ls demanding from Republican can- didates of the Legislature, as the Lyms upon which they will be exemot from the opposition and abuse of the alleged Republican newspaver fu question, that they shall pledge themselves under any aud all clrcumatances to vote agalnst certalu promineot Republicaus who sre men- tioned as aspirants to the Unlted States Bena- torsbip. Bo viclous s course by a uewspaper whbich makes the remalus of soy preteusjons to a claim upou the confideace and support of Re- publican reagers has scurcely ever been witnessed. It 18 s epucies of Dblackmail on Reppblican candidates which fs consideranly meaner and more fmnudent than that which or. sceno rutter-sheets aro in the hable of levsing on thelr unfortunate victims. Tho Republioay wvoters of Wisconsin ought to know the fact. thay a Milwaukea newspaper which claima to sup. port the Republican party fs attempting to ex. tort theso terms from Republican candidatea, It1s afortunate ovent that the Wiconen, nn ablo and respectable Republlean newapaner oy Milwaukee, s to be reinforced in Atx editoriy deosrtment by the Hon. TIorsce Runtee, and thiat it will give no uncertain utterance to the peoplaof that State in tha aupport of Reonh. lican measures and thecandidates who represeny Republican measu; e ——— ‘Wisconsin ls getting a very thorough shatiing up poliically. Benator Howe and Messrs, Wirstass, HaztgroN, Caswenr, Honenn anid Pounp, candidates for re-election to t)g House, aro on the atump, and they arc ably as. alsted by the Ilon, E. W. Kerzsand the ilgp, Gronaz W, Aurey, of ihat State, and Renator Winpost and Mr. Doysert, of Minnesota, I'raf, R. @. Ecniees, 8, L. Woop7onp, of New York, and others. ——— ‘Whilo TnuRMAN quletly smiles a8 he reads the platform adopted at Byracuse Ly the New York Democracy, and sces no alluslon to the Electoral Commission as the * Great Frayy,» nor any Indorsement of BAmires J. Tinoes, bt quite the reverse, Mr. TiLDEX snlles also ug he reads tho sound financlal planks In the agja vlatform, and remembers TAURMAN'S receut flop, and thioks of 1880, : ——————— During the month of September the natlonal debt was decreased $2,000,000. Thus does the General Governmeut keep steady step to the musle of Honesty, Reform, and Fconomy. 1y ninety days more resymption will be o fixed fact, and the country will take a new start, hay- ing her fect planted ona solld basls, Let the crazy Natist howl, and ‘his dishonest Bourbon ally grumbte, ——— Senator BLAISE dellvers the first of o serics of political addresscs in Illinols in this city next Monday evenlng. Of course there fs a great demand for this distingalshed Republican ors- -tor lu all parts of the State, but we understand that the State Central Committes has alrcady deslenated the polnts at which Mr. BLAINE (s to apeak, and that no other appilcations witl Le considered. R — Janmes V. Jonws, of Oshkosh, who has been nominated by the Republicans of the Sixth Wis. consin District in opposition to GAng Bouck, Is o prominent aud well-known cltizen of the State who [s every way quallfled to reprosent the dis. trict in Congress. He is a merchant, an honest man, and a true Keoabllean. He will make 1t exceedingly lvely for Bouok, i Milwankeo feels big beeauss Mr, Pirkin, who Las Jjust heen clected Governor of Colorade, was formerly a practicing attorncy In that city, Milwaukee secms to bo a gmood vlace to emigrate from, Cani. Bonunz once practiced luw there, and Gen. PAINE, uow Commissioner ot Patents, did likewise. And then Matr Cane PRNTER ouce reskled there, e —— KEnx, In Teutonle vernacular, means kernel, asafrult-stone or lp. A peach Keroel Is ay ugly thing to et futo onc’s throat. CranrLey “Kean s just that kind of a ‘*stone? in the throats of the (rish Doinoerats, who don’t In- tend to swallow him any farther if they can help themeelves, but will elect him from thelr throats If possfule; Mr. Speaker RANDALL Wauts some one to rise ton question of the *hizhest privilege,” and tell hiin whether ho will bo re-clected to Cone greas over the combined cfforts of i cen- backers and Republicans, who have uuited to defeat him. It is sald thut the chunces aie agufust him. We hope so. Pt sy e The buinmers who ran the First District Re- publicun Couventiou handed over the Sem- torfal tofmfnatlon to 'n Ringater' ut thy Demo- cratic Teutih Ward, and the two Houae notina- tions to thy Ninth Ward. The Fivat Ward was told to takon back zeat, but It will give Lielr little gama a back-set. ———— . Bince WaTTERSON f8 luoking for the nomina- tlon a8 Vico-Prestdent on thu ticket with Tnun- AN, ho has lost all Interest in Mr. TrLvuy aud hils quarrels, He rogards TsLLEN a8 0 man docs anold sweetheart that Lo has discarded, aid wundera how he ever becatne interested i *thy old thing” at all, e D— Tt fsn long distance frum Dakota to the plague-stricken reglons of the South, nud yeo it will be pleasant for thoss who must walt and watch in Memphis and New Orleans to kuow that the eround haa been frozen ut Farzu, aad thut cooler weather will ot il longer be - layed, e t—— The Flatists In Coloradodid not show much strength in the late clectfun beld {n thut Staie. Tuera is too much wold andl sfiver in her mincs tust her people shuuld go astray on the irre: duemable paper lunacy. ‘The Maluo Hasco was not repeated {n the Centenulal Stuts to any great extent. ——— In Catifornia you can't even get a horso tu ko un; where without eiving bim two ults,— Huston Lo Tut with two bite they dount “erent W HeyY—trayhic. = Yeu, for the first quorter,—Hui- fon Post, You don'sget **lull " the apeed outof bl you wlght. —Free Lress. You never will until you bet your * pottom " dollur. ¢ e ——— Bunator TRURMAN 18 §11,—s0 111 thatlie will not speak agalu during the cawmpuign, A wiciked uewspaper suegeats that it would have been 8 good thiog for his reputation {¢ he had beeh tuken afck some thne Lefure he Hupped. petsbpiiais oo inbalnny) The Nution witdly obscrves that Matr Can- PENTERS equivocating, uou-ronunittal letter o his pervonul adilrers covsentisg 1o be a candl- dats for the Hewate, ought (v be sufiicient to duleat bim % without reference to bis past sius” st et s S “Judge CoTnEREN, who was nominated for.. Congrees fu the Third Wiscunsiu Dutrict, de cliovs to run. The Dewocrats will probatly except” KiNg, the Urecnbacker, s their caus didute, i e — The Sheriffaity ip the Democratic Conventlon turned chietly un satiosality. Tue Demosratle Uermans scooped the Irisn Domocrats waln, aud rung ln Keas on them for u sccond teny. . ——— Bocauso wo printed the father’s puil on the san, 1 wust not be {nferred that wu are thero- adiirossiug the duag | fore fu favor of the election of *little " JiN DooLirrLx to Congress. Not a bit of it R . Sinca It burns out that Judze Davin Davis s only worth & willion, the Natlonals huve guno back on bim, ‘As s worklzgman's candidate b will not do. Mta plle is too small, a— The Piatists in Colorado made a Mollle e Carthy race of it Jast week: "Onty 1,0 votes alttold. Tongus haugiug out, cars drooplng aod distauced thy first heat e “If you must have paper salls, we luslst o0 gold aud sliver for ballust, to keep the boat front upstttiug,” savs Colorado to Matoe. Colorado toMalne: Ho! there, Down-Easters, why did you st the fool un the rag-bavy! Alu' you ashamed of yourselves! The Republicans can elect the next Bherkil, If they let Jittle s gacity govein thele sstion 10 selecting s candldate. TR 0 The Democracy of the Third District can't Txes our Baunss. 1o can ruo like lightuii but tie can’t cliwb, et ‘Tus Colorado soft-money lunatics did ok bear from Maluc ln svason. e — Colorado did ot want any Flat nonseaso 12 hers. et Away with your Fist bumbug! says Colorado