Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 19, 1878, Page 4

FYSar simer aastin: i { : i J 1 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1 1878—TWELVil PAGES, ; b, ; Zhe Trilnure, NY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—TOSTAGE TREPATD. hifly Editton, one year. . "arts of 8 yeaT, per mof Ediron: Tri-Weekly, one year. Fartsur & year, per i WERKL EDT0N, POStEAID, One rony, LIk of ful Fpecimen c 1res 3 Gire Fost-Uice addresa la faft, including State sod County. Ttemfttances may ho mada efther by draft, express, Tost-Offico order, or in registered lctter, at our risk. TERMS TO CITY SURSCRIDERS, Dalty, €clivercd, Eunday excepted, 23 centa per week, Dally, defivered, Bunday inclided, 30 cents ver weok. Address THE THIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Mad!san and Dearborn-sta., Chiesgo, 11, Orders tor the delivery of Tog TRINUNE at Eranston, Englewood, and Jyde Pars feft fn the counting-room will receive prompt ateention. TRIBUNE BRANCIf OFFICES. Tn® CnicaGo TRIRCXE has established branch offtees for the recelpt of subscriptions wad advertisenients s TONR-Noom =3 Tribune Bulldiog. F.T.Me- Manager, PARIS, France—No. 16 Tiue da Is Grange-Tateliere. M Maursr Agent. —American Exchange, ¢40 Strand. TAMUSEMENTS, MeVicker's Theatre. Aadizan strect, between Dearbora and State. ** Tho Two Orphsns.” Afternoon and evealng. flaoles’s Theatre. Randoigh streef, between Clark and Lassiie, Ene Eagement of 1tobson and Crane. **Ouar Baglielors.” Af- teraoon and evening. Taverly’s Theatre, Tearborn strect, corner of Monme. Engagement of Tice's “*Surprisc P'arty.” **IHawatha.” Afternoon and evening. Hamlin's Thealre, Clark street,opposite the Court-Tlouse, Engagement of the Iiyers Siaters. **Urlina." Afternoun aud evening. Academy of Ausle. Tialsted sireet, between Madison and Monroe. tlety ontertatnment, Afternvon sad evealng. Va- Frposttion. Lake shore, foot of Ada BOCIETY MEBTINGS, ST, BERNATD COMMANDERT, X0, 8% K, T, Special canclava this Suturday evening, Oct, 10, A fe- ey [ tiop to recelye and Greenlincks at the New York Stock Ex. chiange yesterday closed at 993, P On Thursday night n heavy frost fell gen- ernlly throughout thg Minsiseippl River ro. giow, and the ramte condition of the atmos. phore existing yesterday, tho indicatious point to n cortain suppression of the yellow- fever scourge, Returns for October to the Department of iAgriculture at Washington figura up an fo. ereasa in wheat yield, or o total of 400,000,- 000 bushels. The corn crop promises 1,300,- 000,000 bushels. The oats yield will bo larger than Fven io Washington,,where men ara sup- posed to have no political consclences, the Democrats declare Mr. Tiroex's letter to bo unsatisfactory, while the Ilepublicana think the letter o practical adwnission of the genu- incnoss of tha cipher dispatches. As an item of general news, Tne Thisune prints this morniug a characteristic sormon of tht Rev, T. Dewitr Tawstaor. He de- clares that le' has taken a contract which will savo ten thousaud of his fellow-men, and in tha execution of which he defles ** all earth and bel Bceretary Buemian recelved information yeaterday that o heavy shipmeutof gold from Englond to the United States will sliortly bo made. The Secretary also hopes that the now plan of anticipating the pay. aont of gold bonds will put seventy-five or ¢ighty million dollars afloat, Digpatches from Bouth Carolina assert that that Btato is practically again in arms for the enforcemont of the Edgofield idea—anothor anmo for outrages upon white and black Re- publican voters. Ropublicans in that unfar. tunato Commonwealth regard the position of the Administration nud the recent lotter of tho Attorney-Gouoral as affording them little ,OF 1o oncourngement, A number of Memphis gontlemen compos. ing tho Chicknsaw Guards, who for some time hiave buen welf-exilos from their homes aud business on account of the yellow-fever sconrge, and who bava lately been the recip- Jents of the courtesies of 8t. Loula and Indi- anapolis, are now in Chieago, To.night they will give an oxhibition-drill nt Whito Btock- ing Park for the benefit of yellow.-fevor suf- ferers generally, — ‘The report of the Commission which has Just complatod an investigation of thie affairs of the Havk of the City of Glasgow isn &hocking tale for the unfortunate sharchold. -ers of that institution au wull as a sad com. anentary on tho dishonest pructices of its officers. It socinm that the old practice of doctoring its weokly roports to the Goves suent was brought into requisition on a very large scalo, and that the sharebolders and the public interested in the bank were Teg- ,ularly regaled with figures which gave nuo 4indication as to the condition of the ooncern, but served tho purposs of blinding ths eyes of overybody, 'Tho sotual loss which the shareholders will bo called upon fo make good 18 roported at over $25,000,000, e ——— \ ‘The contest on Congressmen in Ohlo was Mar mora intensoly nud vigorously fought ouk than on the Btate ticket, about which com- paratively lttlo interest was folt, The Con. grossional vote indicates tho popular sonti. uent on the exciting financinl question. The footings in the twenty districts are as fol- lows: The majorities on Congressmen ag- gregate 30,838 for the niue Ropublicans and 19,780 for the eloven Democrats clocted,—a et Republican majority fu tho State on Con. gressmen of 11,058, This rejwesents the real Republican majority in Obio at tha late tlection,—something over eleyin thousand wiufority against Fiat nonggfse or repgal of the fusumption act. Tha reason the Repub.! licaus ouly elocfod five Congressmen was Lecauso of the villainous gerrymandey pt the distri infor. S iey & ‘fhie tax-fighters et with another over- whehiniug defeat yesterday, in tho form of & unanimous decision of the Bupremes Court silatuivivg the validity of the lovying of the Clicugo school-tax by the Council, and the . Jegulity of those sections of the Echool sot under which the Board of Education of this cily is organized. The clain bad boen made in what 13 kuown a4 the Sratuut case that the levying of toxes for the support of schools by the City Council was not a corporate purpose, and that any oot of the Legislature creating o different school system in cities from that oxisting in other parts of the Btate was apecial legislation, and therefore prohibited by the Conatitution, This special pleading the Buprome Qourt peremptorily overrules, and deolines to give to the language ‘of the Constitation the absurd meaning which tax- fighting lawyers havo sought to put npon it. The effort to invalidate #500,000 of this yoar's tax.levy, and to have tho school affairs of this great city administered after the fashion of rural districts, has been for- ever disposed The violent course thus far pursned in the campaign by the Rifla Clubs and red-shirted Democracy of South Carolina in brosking up Republican meetinga aud intimidaling ne- groes has eniminated, i rumors are correct, in the munler of Probate Judge Lzz, who recently laid the grievances of the Republic- aus of that Stato before the President. The nature of the testimony Iald before the Cab- inet has mot yet transpired, but it must have been of more than vaunl importance, as the President has {aken steps to have the matter thoroughly investigated. If it is found that any such grave crime has been commitled, the pracoedings shonld not halt until the porpetrators ars arrested and pun- ished, 'The inquiry should also comprohend in its scopa the interferance with the rights of Ropublican citizens and tha alleged viola- tion of United States laws. The laws should bo enforced to,the fullest extont, and if, upon juvestigation, it is shown that they aro deliberately set nt defiance, the country will look to the Administration to restore them to full operation and to protect avery citizen of Houth Carolinn iu all his political rights. o The colored people in the Richmond (Va.) Cougrossional Diatrict are to be commended for their gaod 7ense. Am tho election of o Republicnn in that district 1 hopeless, thoy got togother and decided to make no nomi- nation. As botween the othier two candi. dates—QGon, JonnsTon (Consorvative) and Newaan (Groenback)—they unsnimously agroed to support the former, and profaced their resolution with the following preo- amble ; Wrenzas, Tt has been considered Impracticable ta place bufore the peuplo a Jicpublican candidato for Cungress in this (Thiyd) districts and Wurneas, There are two candldates now in the ficld saking the anfirages of the people, your Com. mittee, after serluns and mature canslderation of the premises, are of the opinlon that it is best for the calored peaple of this city and of thia district 10 bupport and etand by the solid and substantial men of the disirict. of whom we recelve vur uaily bread, and on whom we must necessarily depend for foture prosperily : and Wigngan, Itis woll known by us that thelend- etn of the Gireenback party In this disteict are bolt- era from the reguiar Conservalive party of Vir- zinia, and are steking only thelr own ael -n&vz dizement without any thought of onr good ae a oeople, and {o ohtain oflice, for which they have neither capacity nor merit, ara now calling upon us to ""T;m them in flooding the country with irredcemable, hence worthless paper money, but to adopt thair wild schemes of ‘the Kearneyites, Cowmmunism, and other doctrines, which to main. taln, would be rainous to us ss & people; there. fore, etc., etc, THE PRICE OF WHEAT, Though there was n slight improvement in the brendstufls market yesterday, the in. crenso in prices was too sunll to give any as- suranpo of any permanent recovery. Though tho price of wheat is rogulated and con- trolled by the prica offered for it from time to time by consumers, nevortholess the fact re. mains that tho gencral consumptlon of wheat is s0 far a necessity, and the quantity availa- Dlo to meot the demand fa within such ascer- taiued limits, that it is rensonable to assume ‘that the graiu can sod will command iy proper timo a batter prico at this point than 77 or 81 cents a bushel, at whick rates it has beou salling in this olty during the past weels, Wa.do not nnderiake to fix any sum 28 tho probabla price whifoh wheat will com- mand at any dato within the near or more remote part of tho wseason; but, knowing the estimated quantity needed to meet the Dritish deficloncy, knowing tho largo proportion of our own crop that falls far below the ordinary grade, we think it safe to assume that the quantity needed to meet the demand aud the qnantity available for that purpose must in due time warrant much higher pricos than ars now offering, It {s very clear, and ought to be couvine. ing to the farmers, whoso products ara now slaughtored nt about tho cost of production, that 8o long as they send thoir wheat to mar. kot whore the supply is far beyond the pres- ent demand for it, and when the foreign narket is so filled that the grain ia selling thero at pricea which do not pay for ship. went houco, that thera can be no matorial improvement in prices. Iu faot, purchasers will not buy whon thera are ten bushels for salo in storo to tho one needed for eonsump- tion unless thoy can purchaso at even lower rates than have been offering. Assuming that the prosent low price of wheat is duo to the imuwenso stocks in warchiouso in this country and in Europe waiting sale to con. sumer, there can bo no reasonablo expecta. tion of an advance fu prices so long as the producers contiuue to forward all they have tobosold for what can be got forit, A market that is depressod bocauso of a supply far exceoding any prosent or near domand can only expeot to be further depreased by coutinuing to pour more grain into the war- ket and keeping the warchouses filled to thelr utmost capacity. 1t ia truo thero has boen a large crop of whoat, and, measurad by bushols, the quan. tity is very largo; Lut, as wo showed the other day, at leait one-balf of the spring whoat recolved, tho bulk of which is ordi. uarily No. 4, fe thls year not sbove No, 3, while of tho corn aud oats received one- fourth is classed as rejected, ‘Tho crop, thercforo, memsured by quality as woll as quantity, is not so far in excuss of former years a4 to a®borizo such o large declioe in the market price. Under all thess circumstances the pro- ducors of wheat can probably understand that they have boen too fast in forwarding thelr products to market. The anuual crop of broadstuffs must cover the consumption of tho whole year, 'To place the whola crop of wheat on the market at one time must of necesaily force tha price to the lowest margin, and in the same proportion sny supply forced on the market in excess of the demand must have a like tendency to reducy the markes price. - The remedy, so far a8 the low price is due to an excess of supply of wheat on the market,is in the bauds of the producers, who can hold their wheat, and corn, aud oats, and hogs until, {a the natural process: of consumption, the supply in the market shall have been re- duced to something in proportion to the wants for consumption. The wisdom of this policy ought to be obvious to that class of producers whosa productions have been selling in this city duriug the last week at such prices a3 No. 2 wheat, 77 to 80 cents; No, 8 wheat, at U3 to 65 cents; corm, at 331 to 34} conts; oats, at 18 to 18} cents; and live hogs, at 83,30 per 100 lbs,— these prices including transportation, com- wision, and storagu. All Lrauclca of tsida are intercated in this matter. There is not a manufacturer, nor & workman, nor a merchant, who i not per. sonally interested in haviog the farm prod- uots sold at a fair prico. The men who cnlti- vato the Innd are the groat consumers of mannfaciares, The mare thoy get for their products, tho more they are sbls to par- chase, and tho greater addition made to the national wealth. A rest, atemporary sns. pengion of shipmenta to market, Ly eqnaliz- ing tho stocks in warchouss to the demand for consumption, may possibly have & health- ful effoct in the recovery of prices in a mar. kot where all are sellors and but few are pur- chasers. SBAMUEL J. TILDEN ON TRIAL, & Mr. Tipey, having ontered the plea ol *not guilty,” is now on trinl. ‘Thongh he wroto & letter & colamn long to say what could hiave been exprossod in two words, it is notablo that he has not met a aingle point in the evidence that has alrendy come out against him. Wo ahall recapitnlate somo of the points that tend to convict TILDEN of the final responsibility for thoe attempted bribery, and challenge any one to produco from his letter a phraso or word that is calenlatod to impeach the strong circumstantial ovidence against him. 1. The tranemission of the clpher tole- grams and the correctnoss of the Lranslations nro not disputed. They are in evidenco, and they prove that somebody was bargaining to purohase Eleotornl votes in Florida and Houth Carolina in behalf of 3Mr, TiLoey. 2. The anthorship of the most important of these dispatchos has beon traced to Peutox in Now York, Mawvtow Man. nLe in Florida, aud Surrn Wern in Bouth Carolina. These persond wero all singularly near to Tnbry, and stll romain {n his confidence. Manntw was his ** next friend " during tho campnign, and his chosen apologist in tho Hewrrr-Warren- %oN controvorsy as tho man most familinr with TiokN's secrsts, Surrn Wezp las been a political aud bnsinoss agent of Ti1- peN's for many years, and even this fall has been recognized as his aclive manager in Now York., PzuroN is TiLpex's nephew and beir, his private and confidential secrotary, and as noarly n son as a bacholor can have legitiraately. These werg tha chief opdrators in the business, and TtLPEN haa neither con- demned nor repudiated the ncts of any ono of them. < 8. Tho cipher dispatches that went to New York were nddressed to Hrxny Havexeren, an old porsonal and political friend of Tir- pex's, who bnd agreed to act as the agent for their recoption, DBuat Haveueves did not possess the koy to unlock the cipher, and sont the mesanges to No. 15 Gramorcy Park,—TiLoex's privato residence. Thero Priron was ensconced in TiLpsw's privato offico and hibrary, and daring a fow days recoived hundreds of these mysterious mos- anges in his capacity as scoretary, Isit con. ceivabla that Mr, TipeN should never hava nsked his own socretary, his own nephow, bis own heir, what any one of thoso hundreds of dispatohes contained, when he knew they must relate to the doarest ambi- tion of hin life? It would have given TiLorN anourismof the heart to restrain Lis curiosity under such circumstances. 4. The negotiations for the purchaso of Returning Boards and Electorsin South Car- olina and Florida involved the outlay of enormoud sums of monoy. The Florida gang started out by demanding $200,000, aud, when beaton down, still cxacted $50,000; the terma finally agreed npon in South Caro- lina were 980,000 cash. It is a notorlous fact that PrrroN, who undertook to supply all funds and pay all expensos, was a bank. rupt, and had nothing except what his uncle gave him, From whom beside TiLoey, a man of great wealth and the chief party in interest, could PzrToN expect to rocoive such vast suma? The $80,000 payment was actu- ally traced to Baltimore, so that much money at least mult have been forthcoming ; and, even if not one dollar was actually nsod out of the bribery fund on Land, still the trans- mission of these hundreds of dispatches and the oxpanses of the pumerons agents amounted to thousands of dollars which wora actually paid ont. To whom did Prrrown, sitting in the samo room with Tiuoex aud rocoiving nll theso mossages at an adjoinlng dosk, apply for the money in TiLoex's in- toresl unless to TiLpeN himsolf? G. Tho olphers used for the bribery dis. patches woro the same that had beeu previ- ously used by Bamves J, TiLpey, and in ono caso the namo as was only recently used by TiLpex in communieating with hia lawyer in rogard to the forcible seizuro and suppression of mccount books im Michigan, It is not every man who is an expertin cryptography ; TiLoex is, and has always had various com. plicated systoms of cipher at his comnand, Heo Lna buen engaged for many years in transactions which demanded tho socrecy of communications in cipher. Isu't it strange that Tieoex shonld have loaned his nephow PetoN, his intimate friend Marnre, an ] his political factotum Weep, all his ciphers and keys thoreto withoat so much ns asking what uss was to bo mado of them? Isit comprohensible that thess cipher.dispatches should como into Tizoex’s private door dur. ing sevoral days, and by the hundreds, while Lie had in his Leed the solation of which ho was the inventor, without bis over secking to know what thoy contalued, even though he was moro concorned In them than auy other man on earth? G, Butif sll thess seomingly impossible conditions be admitted, and it still bo main- tolned that TiLveN rewained in profound ignorauce of what waa going on, then it caunot bo denied that ho becamo fully fu. formed of his nopliow’s operations when trauslationa of tho dispatches woro firut printed. It was then the duty of Banvzs J, Twpex, assuming him to bo an honest man, to turn uwpon Pxrron aud way: *‘Sir, you are crodited with the authorulip of proposi- tions of an {nfamous charactor that have in- volved mo and my good name; unloss you can show satisfactorily that you had no con- nection with this bribory businoss, I can ouly vindicate myselt by kioking you ount of doorw.” It does not appesr that Titozs has @givon bis nephew thia alternative; in fact, there is not a word In TrLpzx's publio letter which reflects upon Pzrrox, Mansrx, Wren, or any one of the others who sant and re- ocoived the dispatches. Ho bas never yet in- timated any intention of visiting any of the guilty parties with his displonsure, and bas never cslled upon PxrzoN to explain whero the bribery money was to come.from, oy who paid the expenses of the nogotiations, though it is ouly iu this wey that TrLoen's akirts can be cleared. - 3 7. ‘Tiuoex sdmite in his open: letter thet ho did hear something about bribery, bu it ‘was pot ** till affer Doo. 6, 1870." That was pearly two years 8go, If he beard anything of it, he must have heard that' Priton was one of the partive. Why & it that be faled to domand from Pxrrox on elucidation of the whole project? Why is it that, it ho rocoived such au elucidativs, ke did not make it public? Why is it that, if Prerov showed his innocenco of all corrnption, TiLnEN does not now prodnee that evidence? ‘Why ia it that, if Perroy confessed to hav- ing condueted negotintions for purchasing Electors, Tinxx atill permitted him to act as his confidontal sccrotary and agont. 8. TiLoen's apasm of virlue, which seoms to have come npon him after two years of guilty knowledge to which ha confesses, has indnced him to denounce ns scoundrels the Lonisiana and Florida Republicans who, as mombers of the Returning Boards aud Elect. ors, cnat tho votes of thoso Btates against bim, Ho basos this denunciation on the the. ory that the Ropublicans were influnenced by hopes of reward. That iz not unlikely; most men in politics are influonced by such considerations; it is tho offices nud spoils which they aro after. The Ropublican mom- bera of the Returning Boards and the Io- publican Electors would naturally favor their own ocandidats, if they conld do so fairly, just as Democrats in similar positiona wonld favor the Democratio candidato, There is nothing of bribery or corruption in all this ; but it was corrupt in Mr, Tizpex and his ngonts to sook to induce these men to desert their pnrty agd sell ont their legitimate hopos of reward for so much cash down. 0, One more point may be made. Tho final failure of the negotiations in8outh Car. olina and Florida aftor the torms Lad been agreed npon has gencrally been attributed to TiLpEx's procrastinating habits. But ian't thoro a botter cxplanation of 1t? ‘I'ho Flor- ida dickor wonld have cost $50,000 and the South Carolina purchase £80,000. Had not TILDEN reason to guppose, just at the time these terms wera accopted, that ho hnd made nrrangemonts to sceure in Oregon Lhe ono Elector nocesaary, and at n cost of only 28,0002 Prrroy, it will bo remembered, was also tho financial agent in the Oregon caso, and the money was nctually sent forward. Wasn't it just like TiLpex to call the $50,000 oad the $80,000 trades off whon ho mado up his mind ho could get the article he wanted for §8,0002 The fact is that all tho tracks fu this dis reputable business lead divactly into the pri- vate library of 8amvrn J. Tu.ngy, at No, 15 Gramercy Park, nnd his lettor has not effaced a single ono of them. THE CAMPAIGN IN THE FOURTH DIS- TRICT The doaperate straits to which the Demo- erats of the Fourth District of this State are driven isshown by the nomination they havo munde. Ignoring the claims of the old vet- erans who have borne ‘the heat and burden of the dny in past campsigus, and thrusting to one sido those who wanted the barren honor of ranning because they woro ox- ponents of true Democracy, they have se- lected & man who Las no political principles of any sort, and no impelling motive except an intolerable itch for ofice that brings him to the surface every time a nominating con. vention meots. I'0 run for something seoms to bo his manin. Ta {5, like Dantrr Prarr, a perpetunl candidaté, Ho roprosents a com- DLination of the fool and tho fanatic in about oqual parts, conspicnous for ignorance and characterized by such small knavery aa loud. | mouthed blatherskites usually compass. Hitherto lo hos not' been recognized a3 8 fact in politics, but blis adop- tion by the Democrats makes him more con. apleuous, and will porhaps enable therespoct- uble voters of tho Fontth Diatriot to realiza moro clenrly the extentof the calamity which bis clection wounld itiflict npon thelr intor- estn. A correspondent says of him: “Itia no slander to gny that ke i as thorongh-built o demagogno a8 over howled, Ife hna worked for this nomination all ¥ummer, and canted and whined to church, temperance-lodgo, grug-shop, believer, and infldel with equal obsaquionsnens.” ‘The Democratic paper of this city adds to thisaketch tho following appreciativo notice: ** Sumnied up in a fow words, his character, pojitically, is that of a peddling demngoguo, whose unscrupnlous- nexs fa only equaled in, degree by his hope- less ignorance upon ovéry political subjoct. With respoct to the political qnostion now engrossing public sttantion, his proachments are thosa of a flat-money fool who might safely challenge rivalry.” It might have boon odded to this appreciative testimonial that his advooacy of any issuo s sololy for the purposo of seccnring votes, His whining for tomperauce secured bia tho Yrohibition nomination, His denunclation of Catholies, and his’ chamoterization of tholr Church as *‘the whore of Babylon," aro intended to catch the votes of a few Protestant fanntics. Ilo hias cut under tho rogular (roenback nomineo, Appaus, going into tho wildest and most insano fint follles, in order to obtain Greonback votes, Votes nro what this theological hnmbug wants, and thero i4 no course too orary or monstrous that ho would not follow to got them, Itis not going too far, to jadge from his past caroer and present position, that he would advocato the Devil and all his works if he thought it would elect him. . Againet this old worn-out political hack and pestiferons demagoge, J, U. HrouanTox, the Ropublicans are sapporting Jouw O, SugawiN, o rising young wan who is fresh in political life, who has not beon an oftice. socker, and whose record v clear. o has comuended himsolf to the people of hia dis- trict Ly his storling qualities of chamctor as o gentlemnn and his fino profossional ability, Ho will represont his district with crodit to Limsolf and hLis constituents. As botwesn sunh a man and the brawling, chronia oftico. seckor who 8 contesting the election with him, the votors of the Fourth District will not hesitate long in thelr choico, The cralty Samuy is hot likely to find comfort in sny quartor. The New York 'iniea and the New York World may bo said to represent the two opposite political sldes of Now York, and they agroo as to TiLoex's con- victlon, The Iorld says of his lotter that it iy too long for a denial and too short for on explanation *; that ‘*it denies only what uneeded no donial aud explaius ouly what needed no explanation™; ‘and that, as his card jmpllos bis boligt that bribery wag at- temptod by Démocrats known to bo Lis per- ounl folloyers, *“it iy impossible to reads that card without' astonishment at the ab. senco from it of anyihing like warmn and ont. spoken indiguation at the jusult thus offered to himsalt, to tho great party which he rep- resentod, and to the principles of ll!u Awmeri- ean Qovernment.” Tho 'inmes elaborates tha sama thought a Jittlv more plainly, and suws up the case in tho following words: Mr. Tasoms does wgt deny the genuinencas off iy R T A wia bin sccoud self sa regards the Knowledgu of 13 plens and tho pussvssion of uolimlited suthority i ;Lu exccution. lle dues not duay that Suiris VakD, Manvon Mapsex, the precions **Johuay oxt, and thy other persons o whom dilereut parts u the uegotiations were contded, wure trust- cd sod sctive Workers Jn bie Lebalf, " A4 nowe of theso parties can buast of wealth, and &4 not ouy of thews would be likely if be had the money to spend it for Az, TiLuEx's beacdt withoul eapecta- tion of Fepaywont, there cau be Lut one wpinon as to the wourceof by large sumouuts of cash whlcn are soken of in the divpdtches as availably. Alr, Wiibdd's wiouey Aept 1b Uaotion toy maclinery which Prrtow, Wexp, Mamniw, Corwr, and the other sworthies managed, and Mr. Titpax'a money wa relied apon s avaliable at the crltical moment, Mr. Titbes niay pratest hie {innacenco to the end of e days, but ho cannot blot ont there damning facts, BEAUTIFUL UNANIMITY. ‘The unanimity of the press of New York City in ncquitting Jonx R. Lrozuxren, late Chief Doputy Colloctor of Cnstoma of that port, of tho chirgoes preferred against him by the Bivamay and HMrxps Commission, i beautifal to contemplate. On the mero fact of Lrozoxen’s bald dental, all the chiof jour~ nals of the Eastorn Metropolis, except the Tribune,~Repnblican, Democratic, and In- depondent,—unite not only in nssuming his tnnocence, bntin concluding from that falso premise that tho cnstoms service in New York has beon and s froe from frauds and abuses. The IHerald, tho World, tue Times, and the Commercial Advertiser ac- cept Lrpzoxes as thoir prophet, and hold him up to publio view ns a shining example of tho virgin purity of the institution over which ho prosided so many years. These enlogies of Lypzcxen are befora us. They are unique in this, that they' do not undortake {o show how Lyoroxen dis- posed of. the charges affecting his integrity as a publio ofoial, Buch a courss wounld hnve exposed tho povorty of LYpRcxer's ane swoz, sinca it is as barron of sny attempt At defenso on the merits as the eulogies aro of particnlars, . ‘Wo do not, bowever, refor to the Lyprox- zn caso now for tho purporo of discussiug tho question of his gnilt or innoconce, but to show the audacity of the New York pross in vohomently saserting tho general purity of Ouatom-llonee management at that port. An a mattor of fact, the fournals of New York City canuot publish the nows of the day without flatly refutivg their own asgortions. It fs scarcoly ton days ngo that theso snme papers reported thao arrost of Tniacea nnd Deoneer, and their attornoy, Bravzy, under the charge of having conspirod to destroy certain doon. montary evidence of Custom.Iouse frauds porpoteatad at the Port of New York in 1875, These acaounts of the New York papers show that Triacca and Dxarrzrr hed robbed tho Government of thres or four Lundred thonsand dollare; that suits were instituted to recover; and that Beorrr stolo or bought the fnculpatory evidence from some- body in the ‘Irensury Dopnriment. They show also that, after the papers had disap- penred, tho Treasury Department fssned a peremptory order for the immadiate trial of the case. They show, further, that ex- District-Attornoy Briss * considered tho terminntion of tho case most disgraceful, and bad no doubt high officlals in Washing- ton wore guilty of gross corruptlon In acting ns thoy did” Bimultancously with the chronicling of these arrests, those same New York papors published the testunony of Wittnx ', Doors, a sugarrefiner of twenty-five years' expericnce in that city, ofthe subject of frauds upon the revenue in that line of imnportation, given beforo tha ‘Waopn Conmmittee. Following are some ex- tracts from hig testimony 1 I the allegations which have been made from time to time tn the nowsvapers In regard to fraudas in sugrara are corruct. thent, nea Government officer s8ld to me not long avo, **The Governmont of the United Btatea may as well vive np undemkmF to its revenae.” Now the difculty of fur. prouf in the matter of shis frava fu vary g 1t wus only to-day that a nian who has sat fa this room and bias heard the testimony that bas been given here, said to m: would ke to tosti+ 1y there, but 1 darv not, and §f T go In thore and tel what [ know and what 1 honastly think about thle sugar qucstion, my busimess 1a gone, and [ cunnot alord to testify, + o« Aud | wish to say here thit, in any re- marks [ may make in regard to these samplers, thieso poor man whose Urend and latter dependa upon their positlons, sud who nold thelr posislons only a8 lung as the influence of certaln men can ba retalned on their side, 1 do not meau {0 hald them np as the principal offcaders. [ hiave great sym- pathy for them, Their pusitlon has been a bard one. 'Ihey buve been expovad to Influences which 1 pray Giop [ may uever bo exposed {0, ‘Iheirs 1a & hard “cnse, and 1ish to speak of Lhem- tenderly and with pity, Lut for those wmou in this city who have connlved at fraud, ~whohave allowed their clerks and tholr employes to gu to theds poor wmen and briba thew,—when the charge of fraud |s bronght againat thom' etalm that it s & matier of coltusion botween the Custom-IHopso uflicers and tielr own clorks, worda fall me 10 express my coutempt!*? ‘Wo commend this picturs of the condition of tho customs sorvice at. the Port of New York, and this arralgument of the sugar.im- porters of New York by oue of their num- ber, printed in the New York papers, to the hnlf-score of editors who lately enlogizod Jomy R, LrpEcken, for ten years at lenst the chiof spirit of the Custom-Houso man- agoment thero. Mr. Bootut swears that thers is a ring of customs revonuo robbers in Mow York who oxerelse a rulv of gbrutal tyranny over men who wonld otherwise donl honestly with the Govornment ; that they compel humble ofii- ciala to becomo thioves on pain of diamissal, and enforce mlence npon honest merchants on pain of tho destruction of their business, And we charge that this ring of rascals con- trol the pross of Now York abiolutely and unqualiiedly, 00L, BELLERS WAS A PIATIST. Col. Sellers, of cyo-water fame, ovidently be- Hevod fu the fiat thegry, His soliloguy will ex- plain itsell: “I'm whipped; the Government was too many for me; I'nt cleaned out, dose for, excent niy plantation and private mansion. We played for a blg thing and lost it, and I don’t whine for one, 1 gofur putting the old fag foall the vacant lota, * [ sald to tho President, says I, ‘GranT, why don’t you take Santo Domingo,~annex the whole thing.—and settle the bill afterwards? ‘That’s wy way. I'd taka tho job to manage Cougress, ‘Ihe Houth, would como into it You've qot to concitiate the Bouath, cousolldate the two debts, pay ‘em off in greenbacks, snd go shead; that’s my uotion. HouTwxLn's got the rigut nution ubout the value of paper money, but ho lacks coursge. 1 should ke to run the Treusury Departmsut about six montha, I'd muke thiogs plenty, and busluess look up'? ‘I'he Fiatists ought to hunt up C'ol. Sellers, and securo his services on tho stuwp. *There's milhons fu (t." . e ————— 1¢ the flat idiots would ewigrats to Ruenos Ayres they could seu the practival workings of au overmuch futlated paper currency, Prices aro booming fu that country and sre high unough to make good thnes, {0 such a thivg were posslble under the clrcumstances, ‘The - Bucnos Ayres Heru'd, » pickly Hittle siz-column unewspaper, circula at & dollar » copy, or thirty dolars u month. Among its sds is one offering sults of clothes ot $700, with a cholce line of new. cruvats ab the sstonishingly low price of $100—esch. Evcry @old or silver dollar of our currency will buy $31.05 of the depreciate ©d paper of that country, * Brick** Pouznor's puper would be worth $73 per souun for cach uud gvery copy. ——————— ‘The great Vaunwsous will case, now oo trial in New York, secms to bo wholly enurossed with Bpiritualisn at present, and tuo convection of the old Comtaodors with that cluss of peaply Is well cstablisied, Oa-Tucsday lust scversl mediums aod irauce-speakers were put upon the staud, and all testitled to the Commodore's belief In the so-called wavifestations, One wit- tess was prescot with ths Cuwmodors at & seauce. and among the soirits called up was that of Jix Fisx. The confcrence between the two bordered on the humorous, snd dld not par- ‘ake at all of that solewnity with which Hum'd addresses thy ghost of bis father. The accouut of e colloady between Shese two great New York ralfroad muagnates—ons living and the other aupposed to be dead—procacds as follows: The Commodare and Jix Fiax Joked a litls with each other, and finally the formor atked tho lztter ** how ha lixed it on the vtbor aide, ** This bit of humor was greeted with lsughter by |hf'c“ rtapectators, a8 1t pleassat, and did be like 11" asked r. CLixtoN, "‘l()lhl hosay it was warm?" ssked Mr. Lonn, miekly. BT he aay e sould ke 1t better f it wero coolerY” asked Mr. Oiioare. ** I{e Lou the t'ommodore, " anawored Mre, Iixy- NETT, ' thist ho was very well contonted, and add. ed that hos the Commodore, woull roon soo for himeclf, as he wae near the end of the lino: the ‘li';:m?mlm seomed much elatod at tho answer of % Fink," If “J1a” and the Commodore conld * foke a llttlo with each other” acroes the River Styx, they tnuet be having & good time together now “on the other alde of Jordan,” whera they can meot face to face and know ns they are known. Another inquiry will naturally arise in the skep- tic's mind in thls connertion, and that fa this: 1t it 18 competent for Jim F1sg's splrit to come forward and give testimony, why do they not now summon the deoarted epirit of the old Commodore himseif (or ltsclf), and let bim tell sbout the contested will businesst e —— The *“COreenback-Labor Party™ of Oblo Jnat fall polled 20,801 votes. They were immenscly clated by this exhibic of streugth, and proveeded forthwith to organise and propare for a grand aweep nt the next election. For twelve months they havo itinerated the State, aud flooded it with “absolute-money’! documents. Repeal of the Rosumotion act has beon thelr bastla-cry, and they bave howled at overy cross-road for “more grechbacks and cheap money.” Sozreat was the nolsc thoy created, and so confident wero thoy of sweeping pretty much everything before them, that both Republican and Demo- cratle leaders conceded they would poll from 75,000 to 100,000 votes at the lowest. Tha Fiutlsts themsclves would not compromlise on less than 150,000 and six or® soven Congressional Districts, and expected more. They blew so many tin-horns and rattied so many cow-bells that they filled the whole 8tate with the din of their clatter, seminding oue of a country-wedding horsc-fiddle screnade or charivarl. Now look at the outcome of all the vofse and great expectations: Total voto cast, 550,003t FKiat vote, 83,332, or onc fn sizlenl They sceured a majorily in wo county, and a plurality in but one,—Lucas (Teledo),—andtheir vote In that county lnst Iall was 4,083, which excecds by 100 what they cast this foll; whils the Republicans increased over €00 and the Demgcerata 876, They clalmed they wonld swepep Cnyahoga (Cloveland), and did not poll within 215 s many votes as the Republicans, and fn- crenacd thelr Inst year's vote but stightly. in Cinclanatt, from 9,070 votes cast lust fall, thoy fizzled out to 503 this fall. Iereafter, both par- ties will hold them In such contempt in Oblo that 8ax Cany’s little crowd will crawl tnto thelr holes uud pull thewn In ulter them. ee— The amart little gama belag played is to have Col. Aangr Tarion ond Ggonam Wiire sub- mit. thelr claims to the State Central Commlit- tee, whercupon DAN SUEPARD 18 to fonocent- 1y advise said Commitiee to reinstate WiniTe an the ticket. We don't know whether or not DAN [s & party to this trick, but §t will never make a 8cnator of WinirE. Aunother achemo ls to reasscmble the District Couventlon, admit the WiiTe delegation from the Ninth Ward, and then have the somo chaps over- ride the Tenth Ward and renomi- nate thelr sweet Auck, Thoe trouble with all those covtrivances is that HiLonzm's friend cud backer In tho Council can’t be elocted Senator. A majority of the voters of the First Distrlct want o men of a very different grade of standing and abllity for that important and honorabla position. If the Hepublican men- agers of the First District really desiro to se- cure o Senator, they must sco to it that some name {s presented which respectable voters will support, There are not roughs, bummers, and seslawags enough smong the Republicans to moke s Senator out of Qxorer E, Wmrte. ‘That thiog was tried once: before and miserubly fuiled, aud it wiil fall ogaiu, Itis bost to be plain about it. - . —————— There scems to be somethifug in the climato of tho Bouthwestern States that makes men brutal and savage. A fellow was bune at Gld- dings, Tex., the other dar, who confessed to tho cliarge of killing thirty-two men. Another flend In human shape has just been sentenced at Fort 8mith, Ark., to be hanged on the 20th of Docomber next. His name - 13 Jonn Posto4K, and he is a hall-breed Creck Indlan, His victims were Joux INgLay, & white man, and his wife, In October,' 1877, PosToax bo- came {ncensed ot Inarey for his refusal to give him tobacce. He went off, borrowed a re- volver, and came back to INaLey's housc, called InaLEY out to the door, and shot him down. Ifo then plsced hla revolver to Mrs, INOLEY'S breast and shot Lor, killlng both lustantly. The InuLuYs lLad une child, only 20 months old, who was left alono with tha dead bodies of his parents, and, tho house belng soma distaace oft the rond, tho murder was not discovered until eleven days after it was perpetrated, The chitd was then on the very verge of the grave from starvation, and tho dogs hud ulinost completely devoured the woman, and had also euten the flesh from the faco of INarey, PosSTOAK re- celved his sentence with the utmost indiffer- s ol MANTON MansLE, after o weok’s hesitation, pronounces one of tho cipher teleirams imputed to him erroucous. “Ho selects onw, as it hap- pens, that (s of little or 1o necount fu the case, whother he sent it or not. with & tlourlah, a disclaimer of any reapounsibll- Ity for the plot to steal the Prosidency: “There bappeos to be no telegram finputed to iy, as thare can be no telegratn verily mine, that cone flicts with one fact, naisely: 1 never attempted, turthered, or executed, 1o any munner, divoct or Indirect, or ever assented to or coueurred fn, any proposition, purposs, scheifft, or offart to buy the 8tate Canvussera® cortificate of the vote ot Florids, or uven to hiro them to certify toat vote os [t was cast by her peoplo for the TiLDRN Electors,” But the fullowjug teleeram hus been imputed to MARDLY, and s certainly lu open conflict with the preceding statements TALLAUASSEE, Dec, 4, —~Cal, W, T, [alton, No, 15 Gramerey Park: Propesition ecelved elther giving voto of liepublican of Board, or his con- currenco in coart action prevonting Electural vote frum Lelng cast, fur LRI bundeed best United btates documents. [For §30,000 in United Biates natee. | Manurk. In tbis also o forgery, liko the fmwaterial telegram No. 781 Mr, MaxSLE wust couds- scend u little to dotails, ——— Tox Ewing, the King of the Ohla Fiab fools, hod & close call to stay vut of Cougress, The Yote was: Ewing (Flat) Holon (Rep, ) The sama counties went Democratic two years ago by B0 enajurity, and last full by over 2,500, ‘Fhe Fiatists ran no candldute, butb gave thelr votes to Kwino. They cast 531 votes fu the dis- trict, sud these saved him. Ewing was in the hablt of represonting Jn Washfogzton that his district was wild for *‘absolato paper mouey,” and that everybody was crylug out for morg frrvdeemable greenbacks: that his district was nearly solld szatnst resumptlon, snd crazy for cheap currency, ete. Tho result of the clection shows that be misroprescnted the sentiments of bia conatituents at overy point, The district 1s 50 closely balanced between hard mopey and {o- flatlon that Ewing only got lu by the skiu of bis teethy Y 3 el ——e— ‘The Great Fire, no doubt, did BaMuy TiLoxw aguod tury when It destroyed the books snd accounts of the Northwestern Raliroad Com- pauy, Otherwiso bis fraud upon the rovenues of the Government in falsifying the returns of bis fucome would bo exposed. It was & lucky uight for TrLoed wheu Motber O'Luaky’s cow Kkicked over the Jamp. 3 e eeg— A Oerce 8ght receutly took place betweco the Freshmen aud Bophs of Yale College, lasting two bours, for the possesslon of u stage 3o see tho sunual bosc-race. At the Srst vnsct about thirty lads were fung Lo the grouud by tbe At they e udds, Bophs, and & gread shout went up. Thep th Freahmen rallied, and, climblug an each otpepr shoulders, sprang futo Lo masn of Soppe ! tho stage. Many 8 fuco was seea to hieeg fror the effects of beink trampled tpon unwittingy, Then tho tablos wers turncd—thg l“l’(‘:‘h]g‘v): trlumphed. Innumerabie assnulte were nade, but thelr opponents failed to distaige the, Flve men wera borne blocdingani aluiost seppy less to a carrlage, while not a single gy af gy, Bundreil or motewho had been acticels oygrey escaped with whole garments. Two tey fqy their clothes almost stripped from them. 5 the way home men were acen without hats, ang with garments hanming in regs, 'nms.e'xfi witnessed the encounter soy it was e mm': savage fight and the best watched tlqy Loy taken place In yoars, . 2 e —— Tho reader will remember that quaing homely old addze about the Inabiiity of ayy, to spoll an addled eag. Gen. Ganrrgip 1y of the opinlon that the exposure of the Titdex cipher disptches and of hls gigantic conapirgn will not hurt the Democratic party nearly '.{ much as a sfmilar exposuro would the Repup. Nean party. Cause whyl Forthe reason thay the Republican party recognizes a higher moya| coda, and everybody has been taught to eXpect mare of it thau of tha clphier Demorracy, A party that can survive rebelllon tn the Bouth and Copperheadtan: In tho North, with a1y that 18 Involved by overt ncts of treason on e one hand and the shame of rendering ald ang com- fort to Rebols {n arms on the other, can Mand such a damaing exposure as tho Florila bust. ness without & wink. Afre. Macbeth sald tome. thing about what it would requiro to EWeeten her little hand after tho red staln of murde biad been fastened upon It, but no similar lameny will ever come from Gramercy Park over thy Qisgrace cast upon decaying Bourbonfsm by tug foul deed, taq hody ———— The very last murder for *“love" fhay hag come to the knowledge of the newapapers g vebed threo daya ago at Hillsboro, N, €. Aboyy three weeka sinca a young man by the name of N=p Lyon died very suddenly, and the syy. viclons of foul play wero 80 strong that sefen. tific analysis of the stomach s going on. 1lery 18 reason to beileve that LyoN waa poisonci by 8 young irl who was very much enamorcd of him, sud who mada every cffort to vet hin tomakelove to her, LyoN taok no notice of the girl’s advances, aod soon afterward tly Jealous girl, a few days boforo hls death, visiey the home of Lyox, and, it fs said, carricd him g ploce of cako, of which lio ate heartily, anadleg the following day. It fs belleved that the cake contafned a large amount of arsenle. The girl is now In jail, e —— ‘Thio New York papers that are moved by Jogs of trado as wollas by sympothy for suflering humanity are speaking quite forcilly to the ocople of the South In rogard to the mesnsty be used to prevent a rocurrence of the terrbly calamity now upon them, They tell the that It needs no aclontific fovestigation to tell why the fever has thriven In Memphls, Vicksburg, New Orleans, and other places. They wero reg. ular hot-beds of dlscase, bocatise their scwerags systems were defective, and their streete, alleys, and vacant lots filled with masses of decaylog matter in which the seeds of disoasc found root and fourlshed. They must cleau up. They must provide better sewerage systems. They must do all the Northorn cittes do to prevent the visit of the plague, and not leava the work of the scavenger to tha buzeard and tho crow, e —eO——— Tle London Gazetle formally announces tuat her Mojesty tho Queon has beeu pleased to ap- polnt the Right Hon. Bir Joun Dovaras Sutne BRLAKD Caurnstt, K. T, d. C. M. 4., com- monly called Marquls of Lonxe, to be Governor- General of the Dominton of Canada. Her Majesty's ship Black Prince haa beea dotafledto escort the Marquis of Lonxx® and Her Royal Highneas tho Princess Loutan to Canada aud 1t 1s ndded Ly tho Gasclte that *'It bus beeu de- termnined that tho new Governor-General and his djstingaished 1ndy.shall entor Canada 11 oo Yiceroy cver entered It bufure, aud the most ex- tensive preparations for tho voyaye have beeo made!” —— ‘The financfal troublo in Great Dritalu1s thus stated by the banker, TrioMas B. Musanave, to sn Americon Interviewer: **}Have vou any tight on the failuroof the Gl gow City Uank diteing the present weaky " *+1f was parily altritutable to the sudden snd vast changa in tio charactor of Amorican dealina with Great Brutatn, £ whil exprews 1t Lo you Inthe wonis 0f_tho President of tho Biank of Leads. s sald: *Qood graclous! M, Musunase: what are you Americans golng 1o do with uay 1t [« you that are giving us g0 much atagnation and distrowe, Wo have come to rely upon you for our breadstufls and ment, Yon used to deal it out on thiw side ond 1440 our gouds In roturn. You taka nuthing iy moure, and are drawing the mioney frum our bas veuitel ' e Tho great speceh 11 dofonse of 1lio Renublican party which Sccretary Evants is Iutending to make next week in Now York wiil cover a pliase of the political problem which sceins to be leaat appreciated by the general publie—that fs, the philosophy of tho political changes vow belng solved, The specen will sct forth the purposes of tha Administeation {n shuplug the destiny of the Republican party, which may bo summed up under threo hoads: Tu natlonalize the By publican, party; to resume specle payumeuis; aud to elevate the publlc service, e Becretary McCrany (s very well aatisfied with the resultof the Ohtoelection. In arecent Interview bo sald:s Il fu the very agonlesof resumption, as It were, Ohblo can be carrled alnst its postponement, it forcabadows that the party which advocates honest money is to Lo poputar with the great masesof the people” A Naw York Bourbun paver calls upon the Democtutie party to ' spew 8ax TiLDEN oub of its mouth.” ‘The party s o little palo abous e ciils Just now, sud shows signs of vomiting, but it is hardly sick enough for that yot. ITthas got wstomuch like @ tanuer's dog, Notbiog turus It ————— It Tiows hud employed ex-Senator Doourrry, the Complote Letter-Wsiter, 0 carry ou his correspondence, hie would bave bad s much neater job made of th Florida Lusioss thut at present appears. A journeyiman's work ugver cumpares with that of tha boes, e e After a long hesitation and at the urgent re: quest of Jit BeNxerT, o concluded to read tho tiles of the New York Tribune fora week or two past, and Alr, Mawton MagoLels sur- prised tu Aud much Lo dare not sdinlt sud csu't deny. - QGen. Bry Broosms, Chalrman of the Com- mittey on luvitatious to the, Heuolon of tbe Ariy of the Tenuvsses at Indlanapolis, Octe 80-3, bias [ssuod & thousand invitstions to mein- bers of other corps. e — Tho Washington correspondent of tho New Orleans Democrat declares thut the October clectlons secure the election of Speaker 10 tio outh, aud that Joe Brackpuny /s the comlog man. B Why don't the Bourbons.in the Third Districk take Pxruy BuiTu a8 & caodidate for Cougress and lct Judge 1aus alone! Pxany hagas much money s TkER, and soap ™ (s what fs wanted: L ——— Axarzx Cuacs, the Full River defaulter, bat besn put to straightening ous refuso cottou” noup krous by the Wardew of tho Peaiteutlasy Tue Wardea aavs hie s getting fat oa it s — Himax Baruzs shled bis castor futo the ring 1004 a0, but be uds nw Guo to Tespand to L chatlenge. Tinu s valied, sud yet b stauds there alune, 3 4 Beuator 30DONALD, of Todiang, declares 13t the Naglogal Oreenback party wil uot Luld 180 bulance ot power i tho nexs Huuse. Of tbe Beoatorial asplrants fn Wiscousin, Hows, Kxyes, and ALLES are oo thy st MaTT CampesTEx Is on the {ence. ———— - ; Wilbelmbohe Castle, where Navorrox It was coufined, 14 wow the retreat of Ewperve WiLLnaL,