Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 7, 1878, Page 4

THE CIHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1878, Jlye Tribuwe, 1138 TERMS O NY MAIL—IN ADVA ally Edition, one yesr, et mont + Epectmen cupics sent frea. Glve Post-Uflice addresa fn fall, luclndiog Stata and County. Remittances may bamnde either by draft, express, Tost:Uilice order, of in registered letter, at onr risk. TRRMS TO CITY SURSCRINRRS, Dally, delivered. Sunday excepted, 23 centa per week, Daily, deflvered, Sunday Included, 30cents ner week, Address THE TRINUNR COMPANT, Corner Madleon anid Dearhorn-sik.. Chicago, 111, Orden far the delivery of Tnz TRINTXE at Evanston, Englewood, and Iiyde Park eft lo the counting-room will receive promplatiention. TRIBUNT. BRANCH OFFICES. TrE CricAno TRIRUNE has established branch offices for the recelit of subscriptions snd sdvertisenients as follown: NEW YORR—Toom 29 7ritune Bullding. ¥.T.Ma+ Fanou: anager. Fane, nce—No. 16 Rue de Ia Grange-Batellere. . ManLER, Ageot. LONDON, Ei merican Exchange, 449 Strand. MeVicker's Theatre. Madison street, between Dearborn aad State, ' The *Two Orplians.™ Ilooley’s Thentre. Tandolnh sirect, between Clark snd LaSalls. Koo €agement of Lawrence Darrett. ** Richellan, Tiaverly’s Theatre. Desrborn street, roraer of Monroe, Engagement of Joscpl Murply. **Kerry dow." Hamlin's Theatre. Clark street, apposite the Court-Howe, Engagement of Dowminick Murray, ** Facaped from Sing 8lng.” Academy of Atnsle, Halrted streat, hetween Madison and Monroe i3ty entertalnment. Va-, Exposition, Lake shore, foot of Adams street. MEETINGS, DRUGGISTS! ASSOCTATION. ~— ction of ofiiers will be held Colley ‘avas! and Jackson-st. IDSON 8, JACOBUS, Sec, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1878, In New York on Saturday greenbacks ruled stendy at 99§ conts on the dollar in gold and silver coin, @ . It is only necessary to remind the people of Ohicngo that the Hon. James G. Brarmve delivers a politicnl nddress nt the Tabernncle this uvening in order to insure for the famous orator un auditory to be measured by the containing capacity of the big building, Mr. Braise eould always draw an immense crowd du this eity, but-thero nover was'n time when one of his superb speeches would excite a Iarger degree of interest or do more good than now. Freprrier ‘Tuesiaes, .Lord CnerMsrorp, #x-Lord Chancellor of England, died yester- day ot tho ngo of 84, Ie was appointed Attorney-General by Sir Ronerr Peeu in 1444, and reswined that post in 1852 uuder Tord Deney's first administration. e avas appointed Lord Chauceller, with o Peerage, in Lord Derny's sccond administration, in, 1858, and was again called to that high - position by Lord Deasy in 1866, rotiring two Yyears Inter, —— The fight in tho Fintist Convention over thie nomination for Sheriff was not ended when that quarrelsome gathering adjourned, but was rencwed yestardny at o meeting ovi- dently held for tho purpese of ““having it out.” Tho row was of the character com- monly known as “red-liot,” and, from tho hard nuines aud uncomplimentary epithets passing to and fro, it would seem that there is searcely anybody but **dofaulters,” *po. litical prostitutes,” or some other sort of disroputablo scoundrel in the Fiat party in Chicago. Tho race botween the bad Cheyennes and Col. Taonxpunan's command was still unde- cided at last accounts, with an excellent prospect that thoe vigorou storn chaso will soon bring pursned and pursuers abreast of cach other, The Indians wore losing gronnd by roason of the lack of water in the country tirough which they were passing, and, in- cumbered as thoy aro with their squaws and papooses, it is lhardly to bo expected that they eon retain their lead. Fxpectation is ‘wrought to a high pitch by the news recelved by courier from Col. Tronxsuran, and by the certainty that a bloody battlo is imminont, ‘While tho North s giving without stint Tor the relief of the suffering, and reports of death and distress cccupy publio attention, thero is littlo thought taken of the real nature and oxtent of the terrible ealamity which hins overwhelmed the fover.atricken portions of the South, The ruaterial loss that will bo sustained by the aflicted people s something appalling to contemplate. Careful estimates placs the sum total ut §200,000,000, but even this proba- Lly does not include the indirect or ‘consequential damage that will be felt for yoars to come n the arrest of dovelop- mont and growth in tye distriots within the fover-belt resulting from the partial, if not eutire, stoppage of immigration, When the {future is considered, toguther with the im- mediate loss to tho cotton and Sugar crops for tho yeur, the aggregato Injury to the Bauth becomen almost boyond cowputation, —— The influence exerted by the example of ° Canist whilv on earth upon modern clviliza. tion, alike in matters religious and in mat- ters eathutic, was the themno of Prof, Swina's sorinon yosterday, which wo print this morning. The occupation of Lis pulpit by the Xov. Ronert Corryzn yestorday for the first tioe sivce his return from w visit to Tluglaud was an event of unusual interost to Uuity congregation; and the Rev, Dr, Joux Teppie, lateof Philadclphia, presched hin first sermon in the Second Baptist Chureh, the pastorate of which he has recently assumed, ‘I'ho now Eplscopal parish of 8t, Thomas' Church, formed Ly the consolidation of Bt. Jubu's and Atonement, was inavgurated yesterduy with & sermon by Bishop Mc. Lausey, The new Jackson Street AL E. Cuurels was also organized “yestordsy, and hteps were taken toward the formation of & Cburch of which the Rov. Jauzs Kax Arviesee shall bo the pastor, and which shall mect rogularly for worsbip at Hooley's ‘Theatro each Sdaday. The situstion in New Orleans, as calmly Tuviewed and faithfully veprosented by the leading business men of the city, is auy-’ thing but encouraging, In respouse Lo a re- quest from the Cabioet at Washiugton, Col. lector Buity, of Now Orleans, has forwarded @ report wads up of facty aud estizontes given at a mesting of reprerentatives of tho varions charitable associations of that city, who, after full dircnssion and considerntion, reached the conclusion that for soma weeks to come £0,000 persons must be more or lesa de- poudent for food npon varions formsof chanty, and that, in nddition to all the means of relief on hand or available, 500,000 rations will ba needed to carry thess peoplo throngh to the close of the apidemia and the resump- tion of the businesa and industrial pursuits in whole or in part suspended in consequenca of the scourge. Our dispatches this mora- ing are confirmatory of the estimate that the call for charity 1s as urgens as ever, tho ro- ports from nearly every quarter showing that the fever hns taken & fresh hold, both in respeat of deaths and new cases. — The New York Krening Post continues Dinrping away against silver remonetization, and it even opposes the retontion of redeem- able greenbacks in the currency! Nothing’ will satisfy that Shylock sheot but an ex- clusive gold standard aad n return to the State-bank aystem of paper circulation, It ia thie sort of Bourbonism in finauce that farnishes the ammunition for the Fiatists and repndiators who go to the opposite extreme. Snure's Adoocate is ona pole and the Keen- irig Post the other on the curroncy question. ‘We abserve that the Post frequontly inter- views Snurs and conspicuonsly insorts his crazy vogaries, and that Bruee ropays the complimont by copying impracticable, renc- tionary nonganse of the Post, and holding it up as the doctrine of the Republican party. Thus do they knavishly play into each othor's hands. THE NATURE OF MONEY, One offcct of an exclusive paper currency in the Unitod States for the pnast six- teen years Las been (he confusion of popular thonght nnd expression on the subject of money, 'The people have been so long acoustomed to think of a substitute for monoy a8 the thing itself, that they have for- gotten the meaning of the word. It was taken from Juso MoxrTa, in whose temple the coins of the Rowmans were minted. The first application of the word was to coin. In those days a paper curroncy was unhenrd of and inconcoivable. The use of paper sinco then as & subatitute for monoy has not made it monoy. Paper is not a plece of metal stamped by authority of Govern- ment, and marked with symbols of ita weight and finenecss. Blrictly speaking, no paper- currency is monoy. Itisa promiss to pay money, and its value depends on tho pros- pect that this promise will be redecmed on demand, True money, or coin money, came into ox- istence morely as a “vehicle of exchange. Bovauy Price, the Professor of Political Economy at Oxfory, and a very clear writer on {his subject, calls it repeatedly *‘a tool” to effect exchanges. It is this and something | more. It not only fixes values 80 that they may be compared, Lut it is an equicalent of talues. 1t ia a common denominator in which all values are expressed, and n valua- blo article itaelf, It mensurca the value of all other commodities, and all other com- moditics mensure its value. The cssence of the action of money les fn the guarnntee it glves for purchasing other goods of eqnal value for those given for it. When o mnn parts with goods for gold, it is becanso the latter is worth to iim as 1anch as the former in eoxchangeable value, Gold and ailver, then, ars property, valuable property, the world over, and unot promises to pay proper- ty, bnt the absolute thing itself, without any Government fiat or forcing process. A study of the origin of monay helps to explain its nature. In tho earliest times, overy man tried to satisfy all his own wants, This was possible whon the wants of men were fow and simplo. Dut as desifes in- cronsed, aud the means of gratifying them bocame moro abundant, the eystom was found to Lo wasteful. The Jack-ntall-trades was good at none, Each man thon teok up adifferont kind of employment, and sgreod to supply certain wants of his neighbors on condition that they would supply such of his wants a3 he could not provide for himself, Thus barter began. Tho man who was skitlful at making clothes made clothes fora wholoe community, and traded thom off for things he did not make. The man who grow wheat, the miller, the wenver, tho swith, and the tent-maker work- ed in the same way., Dut this systom also had its disadvantages, The supply of coats, or corn, or flour, or cloth, or weapons, might be in excess of the de- mand, or tho article which any man par- ticularly wanted might not be offered in ex. change for anything he mnde, though it might be Lad for something else, A man might be compelled to take somothing he did not want in order to exchange it for something Lo did want, A good deal of time might be lost in looking around for ex. changes, and, while this waa going on, the commodities might loss all or part of their purchasing power in his hands. A com. modity which waa in general and steady de- mand, and not likely to lose ita value, thus Locame & favorite for purposes of oxchiange, Buch a commodity wis found at first in cat. tle and flocks, whonco we have the Latin word pecunia, derived frowm pecus, a herd, After. wards, different forms of currency, such as aalt, hides, shells, and prooious stones wers adopted. DBut the aocient world, sas long ago ma the days of Ammamaw, settled down on silver as an excellent commodity for purposes of exchange, and gold was after. wards associated with it as possessing the same advantaga, ‘The reasons why gold and silver are tho bost money are: (1) Becanse the supply of them is ocomparatively constant. IHenco thoy flnctuate little in value. It is important that the equivalent of values should itself bhave a steady value. (2) Becauss tho supply is limited, and considerable labor {8 requirod to got them. They aro worth a great deal comparatively in other commodi- tiea. A small quantity of silver or gald rep- resents a largo quautity of almost everything elss. lence, as money, gold and silver are moro portable than any other motal, (8) Be- cause they are in sullicient supply, If plati- num or any other rare metal were used for money, a sufficient quantity of it could not be obtained to purform tha exchanges of the world, {4) Becuuse they aro easily divisi- ble, ‘Thuy cun Le mintod and coined at com paratively small expensc, These are only somy of mauy reasous why gold aud silver wmako tho best mnoney, Auny of the golitical vconomists will give a number of others. 1f we exumine now the use of money in actual experience, wo shall discover its true nature. Hero, agaln, we refer to Bonauz Puice, who mukes clear the following poiuts No nan acquires 8 plece of wetallio curren. cy, of wmouey, except by giving forit its full value in goods. **In the estimation of the two partics to o purchase, the coin iy worth the property, and the property the coio.” Whoever has obtained a gold eagle, whether on the sale of goods or in puyment of & deobt, has given $10 worth of property to aequire it. 1t has cost miners §n dletant regions, and nnder eircameiances often of ereat dificnltr and frial, 8 large amaunt of jabor and a heavy expenditure for majutenance and toaie to estract it fron the howels of the earth, They can afford to part with it only ov tho same gencral conditionn an tnose on which iron or tin mincragiva their mefals to the community. They mnat bo repaid their expenaes, and recoive an adoquato reward for {lio acrvices which they render rociety, Tho guantity of gold won is small compared with the cost of working A culd-mine : goid coneequantly In vainadle. A amall nartion af It will feteh in exchnnoe a larze amonnt of ather rommunlities, Thin antlafaction mnst be rendered to tho mincrs or the cofn will nnt be pro- ced: and every one who acquires that coin in cceanjon, execiit as a glit. has been ohliged to re- Hore to the porson from whom he got It thoe gost ariginally pafl to the miner. This is & fact of ceapital importanco In carrency, People buy tlue costly metnl because it renders n valuable sorvice, It effects ex- change, and, in virina of its quality of in. trinsio and steady value, it ia sure not to de. preciate in the process. Whoever obtains it hias the assuranco that it will ba worth what ba paid for it in commoditics whenever ho desires to part with it. The valuo of money as matal is the guaranteo of its purchasing power. There can be no anch gngranteo in the casa of flat money. Until fials can mnka value, or, what is the same thing, prodnce things without labor, they can never creato out of worthless rags anything which shall possoss the essential properties of money. Paper currency possesses valno because it promises to pay money ; flat currency, with. out such a promise,—protonding not to be a substitute for tho thing, but the thing it self,~—will possess no value whatevor. GEN. MERRITT'S OPPORTUNITY. When, eight months ago, Tne Tainvxz undertook o aid in reforming the Now York Custom-House managemont, it fully comproe- hended the magnitude of tho task, and did not enter upon the work lightly. Much has been accomplished, but much more remains to be accomplishod. Lot this fact be kept inmind: Tho failare to colloct fnll legal duties at Now York operates as a prohibition of importations by tho merchants of iuterior cities. The foreign markets in somo im- portant linos of merchandise are still closed to Chicago merchants, simply because tho New York custons officlals fail to do their duty,— fail to collect the tariff rates imposed by law upon such meréhandise, Wa think we know the tempor of Western merchants too woil to beliove that they will much longer submit tamoly to so gross an outrage. Thoy de- mand that the tariff laws, in their excoution, shall bear oqually upon all. They are not so executed now, DBy resson either of {nefficiency or corruption, silks of all description are admitted to entry and passed at the New York Customitlonse at less than their forcign market value. The Bixanax sad Hixps Commission declare in their report, lately made public, that * silk hoportations nre put upon tho market at this port [New York], daty paid, at prices that are mot reconcilablo with any other theory than the pnyment of duty repre- sented by an undervaluation of at least ticenty.fice per cent.” 'The Cowmission also declaro that it is practieablo for the S8ilk Appraisor to determine by welght, testure, and quality the approximate cost of produc- tion and market valus of tho goods before him, Why, then, is this practice of under. valuation permitted to go uncheckod? Plainly because Assistant-Appraiser Kent s oither incompetout or corrupt, or does not choose o onforce the law ko is sworn to cxzcute, The roport of tho Cowunnission shows that Mr. Kint s lu tho habit of making what he calls *frlondly appraise- ments,"—that s to eny, placing a valuo upon a sample-package at thoe’cominencemant of the season, and then allowing that to govern the entiro importation by brands, marks, and numbers, thus (1) violating the law by fixing the market value i adeancs of impor. tation, and (2) openiny the way to fraud by changes in brands, maorks, and numbers. Tha'report also showa that, in opposition to tho views of merchants, manufacturers, and exports generally, who are of opinion that silke ave nndervalued about 24 per cent, Mr, Kexr obstinately adheres to the opinion that the undervaluation is only.10 per cont. In conclusion, the Commizsion say of Mr, Kext, aftor referring to his testimony contempt- uonsly s ¢ The want of discrotion on the part of an officer charged with such respon. sible daties would seem to be suflivient to unflt him for a position in which, as he has stated, he has to pass upon the value of 05 por cont of the entire silk importation of the Unitod Statos.” B The Becretary of the Treasury put the Government to great cxpenso in the condnot of the late investigation, and called promi- nent merchants from all parts of the country to aid fn its prosecution, On tke strength of one of the Commission's reports, lLe rcc. ommended, aud the Prosident ordered, the suspeusion of Collector Antnvs. The dis. cussion of Assistant-Appraiser Kxxt's case, in the report from which we lave quoted, s equivalent to a recommendation for that officor’s summary suspension. Tle passcs upon nearly the whole silk Importation of tho country, involving millious of dollars in value aunually, and it is notorions that ho {ails to colleot nt least a quarter of the reve- nua due therefrom. The Commission show this fact as plainly as words snd figures ean show any fact, and yot the report is pigeon. holed in the ‘Treasury Department for two mdnths, while the robbery of tho revenue goeson! Who is responsible? 'Tho Beore. tary of the Treasury ultimately, Dut itis bardly fair to require him to go pafiently through every document addressed to him, Ho wust trust soumcbody, Who docs he trust? IL B, Jaxes, Chlef Clerk, and M, ¥, Fnexcu, Assistant Hecrotary, Curious in. struments of reform these ) Frencu is the officer who decided the Antos caso agalnst law and fact in order to shield the New York Custom-Houss from reproach, sud I B. Jaues is the mau who for years has been the puted friond of the Ring of New York Cus. ‘:m-llom brokers, whose business is thoe robbery of the revenucs of the United Statew. Bo loug as thess men rowain in the Treasury Department, retaining the confidence of the Becretary, it need not bo expected that any decldod measurcs of reform in the New York Custom-House will be directed from Wash. fugton. Xow s it with the new Collsctor, Gen, Memgrrr? An interview with bim, which appeared in these columng ® few days ago, shows thut he is makiog reforms in the personal-baggage dopartment. Wo judge from the showing he makes that e will probably save §200,000 or $300,000 per aunum (o the Goverumeont in that brauch of the service. But we beg to stiggest to bim that be is savivg at the wpigot and losing at the buug-hole. While the Collector of the port is securing some buulreds of thousands of dollars of yevenus. on & fow travelers' wardrobes, laces, lace cartains, etc., Mr. Assistant-Appraiver Kenr 14 losing sowe millions of dollurs on hun. dreds of cases of piece silks, silk ribbons, ote. Tius is pot reform, it is driveling idiocy! It is vain to hope that Mr. Jamzs o Lis Man Fridoy, Frescy, will suspend Mr, Krnr becanse he chooses to lot millions of doliars’ worth of silka slip into the hands of Faropean manufncturers’ ngents at three- fourths of their valne, thas robling the rov. cune, If tho New York Custom-ilouso is to Lo reformed, it must be done by the Col- lector and Appraiser of that port; and it cannot be done in the passenger-lnggags do- partment. Gen. MenrnirT, you may let slip your opportumty. THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS. ‘Wo present elsewhero tha complota Con, grossional tickets which will be voted to. morrow in the Slates of Indiana, Towa, Ohio, and West Virginia, the same States eleoting also thoir Legislatures and minor State officers. So far as Congrossmen are con- corned, it would be hazardons to mnke any predictions as to the result, sinco the dark horse (Greenback) has entered upon the courso in every district of the four States, In whatever districts the Democrats hiave n mnjority they have entered into no nliiance with the Greonbnckers, but where they aro in a minority the Fiat Groonbnckers have swallowed them, In not oneof the four States, excopt’ West Virginia, whore the prosent Democratic dolegntion has been re- nominated, will the Democrats nppear as a straight-out party, The fusion is based fipon dishonesty, to carry out the pnrposes of political trickstors and crazy Fintlsts eagor to destroy the national oredit. What- eveor the resalt may be, it is the glory of the Republican party that it will oppose this mongrel allinnco with an unbrokon front, and unimpeded by any dislionest compaots, It is probable that the Fiatists will poll between 50,000 and 60,000 votes in Indiana, whero two years ago they had but about 14,000; between 75,000 and 100,000 in Ohio, whero last fall they had only £0,000; betweon 80,000 and 40,000 in Towa; and probably a light vote in Demooratic West Virginia, It is not unlikely that the Nepublicans will suffer the most henvily, and may lose some Congressional Districts, In Ohioand Indiana, tho raco between Domocrats and Greanback- era hias boen to see which could go tho deep. est in the wild delusions of the fint lunacy. Tho lendors of ench aide hava agreed to tho craziest and most visionary follies. Instead of running tho new {ssuea of fiat up into the hundrods of millions, thoy are willing and eager to run thom up Into hundreds of bill- fons, Instend of R50 for each man, woman, ond child, they now want the Government to hand out o thousand, Instend of water- iog the curroncy down to eighiy or soventy- five conts on the dollar, thoy now aro ready to reduce it o ten or five cents on tho dol- lar. It s simply a wild, headlong race be- tween demngogues, lnnatics, and sconndrels to seo which will promise the most Infla. tion, reduce tho currency of tho country the nearest to mnothing, and bring abont the most complote repudiation. Wherover tho Democrats aud Fiatists have not united and #¢ pooled their fssucs” in ono common pot of dishonesty, the formter, afraid of losing votes, have ont-Iloroded IHerod, and ent under the latter down into still deeper deptha of dishonast ymises. It is a car- nival of political proatitution and dishonor, as woll as of morals osjjcoially in Ohio aund Indinna. How far such'a crazo will go it is inpossiblo to say. It upsots all former bases of calculation. To sthfo tho results of an clection with such elemants entering into it would ba as difficult & to sy how far a fire will extond 1 & city affgr it has gainod head- way nnd tho water-supply.is cut off, or how wide a swoep the yuu‘m faver will take in the Bouth. It is n graze which, like all othor crazos, will havoiits run and spoedily dio out. Like the yello fover, it will keop on its coussa until tlgfe comes a killing frost, aund that will end it. It will hardly Jast until 1830, whatevdr'liavoe it may make now, il Monawhile, it is encotfaging that the Re- publicans will go into:4his fight for honest money moro unitedly than for years past, Thoy are stripped down'{b theirwork. They have thrown off the bundens that have ham- pored them so long. ',l!lmy have lopped off the excreacences, cut out tho weak spots, liealed up differencos, and will presont a solid front to the crazy mob) and will stand by their colors and gnna to tho Inst. If they are compalled to rotreat, they will rotreat in good order, and two years frgm now will fight tho national battle withoutsa division in thelr rauks, aud reinforced by many ot the delud. ed victims of the prosent craze, who by that time will come to tholrsober senses, and will appear clothed in their right minds. What. aver temporary successes tho mob of Fiat lnnaties and demogogues may achiove, tho Republican party mny congratulate itself that it has put ithelf squarely on the record in defonse of honest money, the country’s credit, aud ths national honor. MR, TILDEN'S MISFORTUNES, ! If Mr, TiLpEX iv not & dishonest man, he 1s certainly ona of the most unfortunato men of his timo and country. Never wos a man of good intentions besot by associntos and haunted by circumstances so much caleulated to Lring biw iuto disrepute, Bome yeors ago he started on his race for the White louse as & Reformer. It was a character likely to take with the people if honestly sustained, BIr, TiLoex’s onroer had not beon of a nature to warraut the utmost confidence in lis new proteuslons. Ile had boen known 8 o shrowd and schoming politiclan ; ha had been associated with Boss Twzep and identi. fled with Tammauy ; Honaoe Greevey had cbarged him with personal responsibility for the frauds committed in New York in the election of 1868; he had tho reputationof a railroad-wreckor, and ho bad boon gsnezally regarded as a cold-blooded, selfish, and nome- what unscrupulous fntriguer. Novertheless, he made a good Governor of New York, and foughtthe Onmllllug,-m;u was thouglit that, periaps, hisv wealth and awbition would thenceforth be guarantoos for the Reform policy, ou tho promue of which he souglit clection as President, A large part of the peoplu of this country, inoluding a great umuy Republicans who resented certain abuses ju thelr own party, were induced to put faith in TiLoey as & Reformer, §a spite of tho grave and starthing revelations that were made ss to his personal affpirs during the campaign. Fora long time after his defent Le continued to enjoy & cousidvrable canfi- dence awmong the people, which was based largely upon & sympathy crcated for him un. der the protense that ho had been cheated, But since the excitement over the count of the Electoral votes has died out, Mr. TiLoex, either through his own fault or by reason of having disrcputable sod unscrupulous re- tainers, has 80 much fallen in the estimation of the country that his name will probably uot even be montioned in the mnest Demo- cratic Convention, which, it was almoat cer- tain at oue time, would tender Lim the nom. ination for President in recogunition of his * wrongy,” which seemed to make Lim sacred to the Dunocrats. Mr. ‘Fipes’s lutest * misfortane” was the cwployment u3 counscl to defund him w hiy Government anit & lawyer who ia now nnder arreat in Dotroit for being an accessory to tha theft and supprossion of certain acoount- booka which wero of importance in the snit. The caso was an attempt to recovor-income- tax nlleged to bo due the Uovernment from Mr. TruozN on account of fraudulent con. coalment. Mr. Tioen bod a largo intercat in a Micligan mine, and evideuce was being tnken before a Commiasioner with the pur- poso of mliowing that his income from this businesa alono was more than the income actually returned during certain years, The books of the Company wers on hand, and Mr. Hanraxp, Mr. Tiuven's lawyor, referred to them one after auother, and thon placed them at the side of his chair. Durng the progress of the examination, n man came into the room, picked up theso books, rushed out and down stairs, and throw them into n carrisge, in which thoy wore hurriedly driven off. Afterwards thers was some pretonse of n replevin, but the books wers forcibly carried off beforo anything was snid abont it, HaARLAND was arreated in De. trolt, and the evidence at his exnmination on Baturday would indicate that he was awaraof tho couspirncy for meizing the books, and that ho had placed them where they couldbo convoniently grabbed. Now, ian't it unfortu. nate that Mr, Truoex, still in tho attitnde of a Reformer, should have solected an attorney who would get into such n scrape as this, and so sorionaly reflect npon his omployer? Tsn't it unfortunate that the books seized are thosoe which are expected to reveal tho fact that Mr, Tirpex falsified Lis income.returns with the purpose of defrauding the Govern- ment? Isn't it unfortuuate that thereshonld be cipher dispatches in this cnse that tend to cast suspicion upon Mr, Tizoes himsolf ns o party to the {ransaction? Isn't it unfor. tunate that oll this should como out just upon tho threatened exposura and verifien. tion of the ** Gobble” dispatches? Tsn't Mr. T1LDEN, in fact, ono of tho most unfortunate mon of the day,~—especially for a Reformer? THE BUGAR ROBBERY. We ptint this morning the sworn state- ments of Mr. WiLrian T, Boori, of the firm of Boorr & Encan, sugar refiners, of Now York, concerning the frands committed in the mugar trade, and especially the whole- snlo and nlmost universal frauds committed by tho refiuers in the adnlierntions of the sugar thoy sell to tho public. Not content with the oontrol of the tariff on sugar, which lias been framod in their interest for sixteen years, and under which they have enjoyed general and spacinl bountics at tho public cost; not content with the gains made by the fraudulent invoices and falio weights in the Cuatom-ITouse, wo now have the bold declaration by ono of the most eminent sugar refiners of the country that the rofinors all, withont excsplion, are gnilty of the dishonosty of robbing and poisoning tho public by the adulteration of the sugar they furnish for domestio use, It will bo noticed that a Mr. Havemeren, of tho great sugar fiem of that hame, challenged thia statomont, when Mr. Boorn repeated the statoment, Ilavexeyen then limited his denial to tho uso of adulteranta in sugar intonded for erport. He did not deny tho ndulteration of sugar gold for use in the United States. AMr. Boorn produced apecimens of tho agents used in the adultera. tions,—glucose and - tin,—nand declared that ho cvonld go Llindfolded into any of tho sugar refinories and place his hiand on the cocks through which these ingrediconts wera run into the sugar. ‘Wo invite attontion to thess stntoments. They ure mido by a fesponsible and respect- ablo refinor, who Is nnmeasured in his alle- gatious that all tho great sugar rofiners who furnish the people cf the United Btatos with sngar are gullty of this groat orime,—the robbery and the poisoning of the public, THD 00TOBER ELECTIONS, The Btate, Legislative, and Cougressional clections will oceur to-motrow o Indinna, Iowa, Ohlo, and West Virginia. lndiana will clect o 8ccretary of Htate, Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney-Ueneral, Bupermtendent of Publie Instructlon, thirteen Congressmen, and o Leg- {slature which will elect a Unlted States Sena- tar for tho full term, and uno for the shortterm, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Oviven P, Montox, now fiiled by D. W. Voon- nzes, The Cungressional nominations aro as follows, It stauding for Republican, D. for Democrat, Ur. for Greenback, Pro. for Prohibi- tlon, 8oz, for Sociallsts, stars indlcating re. nominations: D o, it ellman, 7. Uarvin, . 3 L ar. ML A, Wiike: Ur, e T PR . Tarur . Famipictan, 0. eruy 1. 10, wl,l‘ll.y“. Bl ] Julin B, stall, 11, U, », ‘Toasely, Ur. “The Congressional vote In 1870 was as fol- i A G N0 I 45 ot 10,18 uia 15,278 180 Btate Treasuler, Hoister of tho Btato Land Of- five, Justice of the Bupremu Court, Attorney- Qenernl, other winor 8taty ofllcers, und nlne uembers of Congress. The Congresslonal nome necs o us follows: st L, . A. McColi, It K 2 ) . Inkbe, o) lI tirs i Jucau U 6h' s Ovl, .. . 3hiomas Videgralt, bl ooty el iy npayter, 'Or, e 1 ‘The Congresstonal vote In 1870 was as fol- lows: ‘ D. Do, Firl 14,814 Sucon 4, Ut Talrd 2 100 Fourth 0,570 Fifth .. 1,14 Bixin, , TIv Bevent! 11,688 Elith, 13,280 th., 10,883 Omo elects the minor State officess ‘and twenty Congressmen. Tuo Congressivnal nom- nees ure as follows: Gripge 1 3. Eliaoue pepatie T . Eluanuel e ; Johah; Medlanout, D g et Pl uarld Blaiey, Pro, ! it ar. [u7.3ice st . |87, Juuice Stuutos w iy Miller, Luwls »‘“lll’l.‘ " €. chunhin, Tro. odesrall, ic. . °F, Lawsou D. Ucergy E. Swlth, Or, ity itolzaie, Gr, . Luckey, 1. & Ll b A. Qarfield,» 11, o € Hahbard, i3, W, Tutnie, Amot Townsend, ascph M. T'os, toni'r: Bhiove, + H. Doane, " ra.l. 20. answer tho purposes of comparison, 88 the dls- tricts have been subjected to an Infamous Democratie werrymandering. We therefors aopend the Presidential vote of tho State by the ol districte, as follows: '”'lflfi"fi Eleventh . Wavelfth Thirteent Fouarteenth, 49 15,660 0,847 Twentioth, 4,420 Total.... 23,142 Total vote m Majority 0,815 ure and three . Tho nominations are as follows: Dist, 9. F. 1. Taaster, fhy K Kennor, | B, Waiker, Gr, onal voto In 1670 wns as Iollowa: Rep, Dem, mJfil 17,102 14, 203 18160 Third .. .71 20,102 In all, forty-fivo Congresamen will be elected on Tuesday, which, added to tlie nino alrcady clected, will make fifty-four, or almost one-fifth of the entire House. There have been chosens to date six Republicaus, one Demoerat, and two Greenbackers, Oregon clected Jons Wt ARER, Democrat, in Juno last, Colorado hins elected Judge Betronp, Reonbllean. Mbine has elected TioMas B. Reko, WinLtas P, ¥rye, and 8rerucy V. Lixpsay, Republicans, and Ggoras W. Lavv and Troursoy I Mounc, (ireenbackers, Vermont has clected Cutanres . Jorcs and Jastes M. Triew, Re- publicans, there belng no cholce fin the Third District. On the 5th of November Congressional elec- tons will bo hold In the following Btatea: Alabama, Arkansas, Conncetirut, Delaware, Florida, Georgla, Ilinofs, Kansas, Keutucky, Loufstann, Maryland, Massachusotts, Michi- gan, Mionosota, . Mississippl, Missourt, No- braska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jer- sey, New York, North Carolina, Penusylvania, Rhode Teland, South Carollna, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont (Third District), Virginla, Wis- conalu, —— Nearly all tho political orators now on the stump on both sides in tho North confine themselves almost exclusively to a diecussion of the currency question, regarding that as para. maunt to all others, but down iIn Dixle they have anotlier fssua qulte snperlor to any finan- clal schemo that Involves hant or soft money. (en, Tooxus, of Georgin, has published a letter in which ho says that the “first and greatest work to be done by the Democracy s the de- structlon of the Républicon partr,” and the Aulanta Conatitution luduracs the dectaration of Tooxna, aud adds that *““It {s the only lssue now before the country” Possibly, as soon as these gentlomen get throuzh with this lttle fob, they will turn thelr attentlon next to a discussion of finance, the tarifl laws, Civil-8ervice reform the labor-capltal controversy, and other qu tions that serfously concern our materlal pros- perity, Thodestruction of the Republican party -In the South hos been already pretty well start- wl, it tmust be admitted, owing to bulldozing, rifle-clubs, Ku-Klux, and othor shintlar fnstrue mentalities, but its ghost, la the shape of an Independent movement, already stalks abrond 1 overyBouthern Stato. to fdghten.and worry the inhabitauts, Mr, Toouns nnd: his Bouthern Democratic sokefellows will find the Repub- lican purty In tho North a very lively corpse for some ycars to come, ek N As Mr. Ep1son proposes to uttlize the clectric lizht by one of his murvelous Inventlons, so that srtificial filumination for all purposcs will only cost one-teuth of the sum that it does now, it 18 interesting 10 get at some stotistics that will give us an Idea of the valuc of such a mag- nificent discovery. A London econvinlat hus been fguring up the cost Lo the people of that clty of uscless artificlal light, and the figures ho presents are cortalnly rather foriidable. Dur-' Ing at least six months In the year the resfdents of towns aod cities arise one, two, or threo Loursafter tho sun docs, and retire an equal length of time alter the sun sets, In London are 450,000 houses, in which the economist eatl- mates there are used an average of five gas- burncrs each, or thelr cquivalent in lamps or candles, Asrumniug that the average Londoner loses two hours of sunlight in the mornlng and mokes it up by taking up the same length of time after dark fn.the evenlog, it is shown that these five gus-burucrs in euch of tho 460,000 houses are lighted 730 hours each year, thus wasting ncedlessly 5,000,000,000 cuble feet of as cach year in London alone. If this Enclish investigator had included the amount of gas that is needlessly burned In cities by lighting 1t before dack aud atlowing It to burn for hours ofter daylight, he wmight bhave addud m prodig- lous amount to the laree suwn of nevdluss ex- penditure alreudy obtained, e — Some of the newspapers are inquiring what has becomne of the Grand Duke ALxx1s, second sonof the Czar ALEXANDIML, who cut a Ggure fu Now York fasbluuable soclety flvo or six years agro, - About the thuu the ‘Turco Russlan war began he eamu over here with several ves- tels, and at last nccounts hud salled from tho waters of 8an Franviscu' to the Rea Beo, to obscrve naval movemeuts {n the nelchborhoud, The New York Times, tryfug tu truce hiy subsee quent career, suys: ‘That 19 miure than twelvo monthas ago. and noth- ing has since been heard, directly ur indivectly, of ALEXIN 10 Whout & certaiy seatlmental interest atiachos on thio purt of 4 Bumber o1 youni women wha danead wnd Hizied with him mnfmy while by sujuurticd i thle city, Vhure used (o bo sund vlorlvs of hits romantic passiun fur u pretty Ko wirl s hunolo stution, whown ho wanted (0 —nho did merry her according to suine uccounts, and of hix Imberfal papa son servico for hiw otiollonal indi Tile that ho has sloped with hi Ata, or tout the Csar has thrown hiw into o mysterions dun. ceun, or bauished bim sceretly to Siboria. aftor (he idacn and enlguatical monner pecablar to Mus. Nis has paseed udow, thal the %, on the alert for every it uf news and gosip, have wot been able to Lring him back to the ligut. ————e—— The Columbus (Uhio) State Journa! pronounces a forgery the cireular bublished 1o the Demo~ cratics papers demanding money from the Na- tivnal Banka to carry on the political camnpalgn, Itsoys: ‘T'he Bepublican State Committce hasnot received one cent from _any Nutional Bauk, ‘The circular addressed Lo National Hanks, reuucating coutrls butions, and purvarting 10’ coiae from tha dtepnbe liean Lommitice, ~Waich was tecently published futhe Ciocinnatl £, r and other Democrutic paverd,—was & deiil y cowardly foreery, Jb was purely & falrlcalion, nullnnncheu femotely suuyesting such & circalar baving beon issued from Mepubitcun hesdyquarierv, Joux (1. PHosraux was persoually luforuied, on -numnl{lvrhlc Le canuot question, snd which ju bis heart o dues not quess tton, that the circulsr wos & forvery. Billi, aftee that ViioNrsox lasucd the furuery asa camnaivn ducument, sud has ulutributed 1t broadeast over the state, Mr. Tuoxiaox 1s tha mau whe is quick 1o sccuso Lis oppunieuts of bearing false witnuass, o ‘The two released Feulsn prisoncrs, Coxvox and MeLony, arrived in Now York the other day, and were made the reciplents of much tteatioh thelr Irlsh-Amicrican fellow-ciul zous. Thoy had been fu prison twelve ycars, und hsd suffered so much thut MxLODY'S hair 15 quite white, although he i3 only 85 vears of sge. Tbo two men were released torough tho excrtions of Minister WeLai, whotovk greatin- tercat fn thelr caso aud brought ft to successful termination. MBLODY said: They coold not relense vuo without the other, saU su We LB e OUL Logethvd, tBuugl LY Case wes o, .10 tha Congrese, . Tle Colane] 1y a truly desirabio ’“""’3 diferent, 1 was innocent of what they charged and pentenced me on. 1 waa [eritabie under prison rote, andaf conrse had no end of nersecitions. The fara was boor, and or txelvy years Lhave gone to bed hungry every tight along with 1,400 ather men, b Wiien the pardon was assured the Governop of the Prison was mora gracious, aml sent them off to Southampton In good style, A cording to the arrangement made by *Minister WeLan, they were to leave the country quictiy, without going to Liverpuol or Lonadon, and witl;- out passing through Ircland. They wore fitte) out, and snending money wes given them. Coy. DON has a motiier, wife, and sister living in Ciy. cinnatl, where, for many years, he wasa tu. . MzLODY has nover been in America before, ang he s virtually expatriated, unless it be 1) pleasure of the Queen to allow bim to retury to Ireland, —t—. Objection comes from the South, as well aq from Massachusstts, to taking Bex Buti.en uto full communion and fellowshipin the Deimo. cratle Church. The Atlanta Constitution entors a very erpphatle protest agalnat the proposition, and tho *' Beast ** [s notified that its objeetiony ‘are * various and vital,” and that “tliey yro- trude with a persistence that s not only pun. ful, but almoat agonizing.” Asanidle specta. tor, the Conat tution 1a perfectly wilhing 10 ap. plaud the pozaibility that wmay make Bereen Uovernor of the entire State of Massachnsctte, but ns to taking Lim into the Democratie party ~—that ls quite another thing.' But supposs Bexsasiy should gobble the next Democratte Natlonnl Conventlon, and become It candidate in that way. What then? s e — The Southern newspapers are inuch more oy grossed just mow with the * Independeny mavement than they are with the »Mun on Horseback.” A QGeorgfa Rourbon sheet hefore us says that It has “endeavored to imoress npon the minds ot tho honest voters of (lcorgin the fact that the success of Indcpendentisin means the ultimate success of Repubticanism.” The Sulld Bouth in 1850 for a Dgmocratic candidate is nlready unlshln; like the baacless favrie of & dream. et — Ttisanold trick of DootiTren to write thy answer to his own letter, so a8 to prevent mis- takes. e qid this i the celebrated Coxvarr ecorrespondence, and {4 now turns out that ho wrot: the answer also for the wonld be Fiattat Congresaman, PARKER, of the First Wisconsiy District. TPanger ‘‘excepted " Doortrric's work 08 his own, and signed his name, or made his mark, which {s just as good, et Confesdlerate scrip was a good speclmen of {r- redeemable flat money during the Rebellion, 1t wap {ssued on the faith of the people, and'to e redeemed after the Independence of the Con. federato Government Lad been acknowledged, Its only basis was s supposed continzency never lRely toarlse. It had many of the character- {stics ot *‘absolute " money, Including that of being badly printed. ———————— “The Dawnfall of the Democracy, Is the title ot anIndlanaeditor'sleading vditurlal, and * The Destruction ot the Republican Party, s tho way a Bpurbon Democrat begins bis dag’s work down In Georgla. The story of the man who saw only one side of the shiald, and knew noth. Iniz of tha inscription on the other side of it, might be told to both of these gentlemen with obvious propricty. B— Nothing showa the recuperation of the Souty any more clearly thun the rapld increase In the business of her railroads, and the conncquent . appreciation of railway stocka. ‘Thus the shares of the Central Rond in Georgia have fucreased twenty cents on the dollar fn two weeks, and the business of the Companv for Beptember s largely in oxcess aver the correspondiog monil of last year. —— . 8ays Gov, Paryeit In his State Nepiater: Our friend Col, DOWDALL, of Lo Pearin Demo- eraty has Jutned Mr, Uotuy and the Cnicazo 7 in thelr work of cxponnding the Constlt 4 the Colonel, In a recent heavy el Uhese powerd, lniibited to the Hiatos. b een rpecilically brohibited by the Consttintio: rectuit, Ponderous sentences liko this are beyond the comprebenelon of the ex-Governor,: ———— 1t {s pretty clear to the minds of the readers of ‘Tie TuinuNz that Judge DooLrrrLy did no writo one of tho auswers to his own letters ad- dressed to Coogressivnal candidates. ‘That was tho letter be got in reply frum Congress- man WiLLIAMS, of Wisconsin, ‘Yhe Judge will tia quite wiiling to admit nmt 1t was WiLLIaus whio wrote that crusher. Bex Boreenand Dax Voonruresare exchang- ing work. BuTtLEnr mado some speeches tn lndl- ana for Voonruxms, aud in rotutn the Tall Syeamore of the Wabash is to give Uld Cockeyo alift in Massachusctts, It would be riento near the culogles they will pronounce upun cach other, ——— Unless the Now York Z'ribune lcts up on ManToN ManuLaa little, that gentleman will have to get back Into the Worid. Those civher dlspatches that were sent hack and forth in the {ntercst of TILLEN by Manurn and his friends are as derogatory to the credit of ManusLe asto Lils chlef, } ‘The Massachusetta-South Carolina imbroghos Tlstols and coffee for two; ton puces; choics of ‘weapons belongs to the party who had the “it- dignant scorn® scatteral all over bls clean clothes; placs of meeting, a MICE swawp. Wabe lu, geutlemen, | Chicaro s plaving some big vards this week, —Rarus, BARRETT, and Draive. Wo could nome the lttle Joker, but wo won't, Tuibsu't *little " Just DootarTLe, though. | The Renublicans of New York ore clirculating Benator CoNgniNa's speech as a campalen docuwent. Aud, in the maln, 2 yery nw‘.\ o0y it s, f I the boys vote as Lhey shot turn‘mrrun'. the Demovrats fn Oblo, Indlana, and Iowa wlll beels o feol as I they wora llving in a section of e day of judgment. | KEARNET has got to be so unpopular in (e Euat that bu has quit passing around his hat for a collection, Ile ts nfrald the hat witl not come back. To-morrow will be o lvely day in Ohloy TIndiuno, and Towu,—~tha electlons tukivg place L that time. | i 1s ft Keny, Kerual, or Keanxevi | Kxnx oflsets Rzuos, PERSONALS, Don't farget that Sonator Blaine speal hero to-night, 3 Becretary Thompson will only make one wore speech in Judiana, ¢ Miss Kate Field is in Germany having ber portzalt painted in Greek costume, Mue. Anna Dishop Las decided to settle down 1u Bugjsud sud become 8 teacher of operatic music. The Tosas Republicans sdopted sound- moucy resolves, sud reufiraica tho Claclouath platform, The students of Cornell University wer wiven & boliday lu order to celebrato tho petura of President Audrew . White, ‘I'he wife of Chicf-Justica Waite bas b“‘} seriously i1l at liadlyme, Conn., but bas Fecovere sufticiently to returu to Wastlagton. 3 My, Jenks i in Washingtoo, So iu Mr Jeuke, Mr. Jeoks has ovtained temporary €@ ployment through tue infueace of his wifu. Young Harcison, the Loy revivaliat, st Washington recently, o one of his religlous € stasles, juwped from the pulplt into a pow bal:nn The picture of Geu. Kobert E. Lee, paint- ed by I, W. Kaugolph, which was at tha Cepice* nisl Exposition, bis beun purchascd by At Florence Franxlin, of Greewich, Eugland, 68 2,500, |