Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 9, 1878, Page 4

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GiLLio, Agent, bAN FRANCISCO, Cal Madison street, between Dearborn sl State, hn- fazement of Mies Katle Maynew. ‘*3Ulisn™ Aftere ovou and evening. 1Tonley™s Theatre. Eandoich street, between Clark and Lasslle, Bus Kagemect of Salabury's Troubadours. **Patchwork ™ and *Tbe Kights of WWoman.™ Aliernoon aod avenlog. Haverly's Theatre. Deatborn strect, cormer of Monroe, Engagement of the Culvilie Folly Compauy, **Uxygen. Afterncon and aveutnd. Acaden Musles niated street, between Madison and Monroe. Va- tlcty, novelty, and specially perfurmsances. Afternoon =nd eveulug. Tiamlin's Thoatre, Clark strect,oprosftathe Court-louse, Rngagement of the Victorla Lofins Dritsh Blondes, **Fin-¥in.* Afteruoon aad evenlug, McCarmlek Hall, Clark street, cornerof Kinalo. Prof, Cromwell wiil fllustratetn the atternoon * A Tourof Kurope," and 1 tle crentng ** Wonderland.” Exposition Bulliliag, Lake.Front. fuot of Adame street. FEntertainment he flencnt of the [fousy uf the Good Bhephend. SATURDAY, NOVEMBEL 9, 1878, LIGHTING UP A DARK 8 ly We shall puvlishon Monday, Nov, 11, 1878, an extoneive and carefully-prepared table showing the reserves. or Legal values, of life-Insurance volicies 2eiurding to the laws of Tlinois and 3Mas- auchurctts. 1t will bo of the utmost luterest to past, preaent, oand prospective policy-holders, since It will enable cvery one to scout a glance low much monoy he hag, or will have, standing to Liw erealt on deposit uccount, over and above all diridends, losses, and cxpeneos pald, st the varlons yoars of his policy's exmtence, * Uy this talle thoas who propose to sutrender thelr paliclos may see, within aclose approxima- tlon, what Lhey ought to receive from tho Company. We hopo to assist in putting an ond to 1he whole- eale and ehaweless robbery which s now belng practiced Ly the ofcers of many of these mis- uamed mutual Hfe-insurance companics. — Greonbncks nt the New York Stock Ex. chango yoaterday closed at 997, ‘The Times, sinco slaughtermg its ticket in Cook County, has recommenced s old fight agninst tho silver dollar. When tho battlo on froe conngo is over, the Zimes will fad itsalf as badly loft as ot the late eloction. The Chicago Yollow Fever Committeo closed its books yesterdny. The total amount of"monoy recoived and expended was 301, 425 ot n cost for clerical hire, poatage, otc., o/ $405. A worthy charity economically handled and judicionsly distributed. Tho ll'enlgumucm of the Rev. Dr. W. W, Lvenzs, for many years pastor of tho First Daptist Church of Chicagy, was last evening accepted by tho Socioty, snd churehh and miniater part company with mytual expras- &ions of affection aund respoat. e ————e— *Whoro tho bee sucks, thore lurks” the politiclan, Gentleman Gronar Pexprrroy Lo Lad himeelf intorviewed. Tho cipher dispatches kitled Tiroey, the Oetaber elec- tiou killed Tnunssan, tho November clection Ialled Bex Bursen, and now Prypretoy scs tho f2male who adorns the Capitol beckoning bim toward the White Housa. e e ————— Tho report comes from New Orleans that the Nationnl Cengressional ticket ko badly defeated in Louisiann last Tneaday was tho work of Werts aud his friends, who had pledged tho Administration that they would redeom that Stato from carpet-baggers and Lulldozors, Howover croditable the plan 00y have boen, it miscarried, Weres him. self Leing Ladly defeated for Congress. Tho startling rumor comes from Pittsburg that anather, prominout and able wan has paid tho penalty that inevitably follows grasping ambition. Tnomas A. 8oorr, tho Ttallway King, is said to have been stricken with paralysis a fuw hours before Lis de. parture for Lurope, and that his mind s aulso shattered. It this rumor prove tyuo, it ‘will shake the railway warld to its centre, T ——— o Axprew G, Curtiy, who achioved renown a3 the Wur Governor of Peunsylvania, Las fivally reaped the roward of his political folly. Even aftor he had abandoned the Republican party, President Goant sont him 3 Minister to Nussia, bub on his veturn be ugnin drifted into the ronks of the Democ- zacy. On ‘Tucadsy he was defeated for Qougress in ouoe of tho strongest Demacratic districts in Peunsylvania, A fow doys ago 'Tux Twsuxe reminded Mr, Voounres of how uncertain Indiana legiulators nre, and recalled the fact that fn 1843 the canvass was made by Orives IL, Swre, Whig, and "Tiauuay A, Howasnp, Democrat, with dircet reference to the United States Bouatorship; (hat the Lugislature throw both mon overbosrd aud took yu Epwanp A, Hawnoan., It i3 now suthorita- tively stated thatthros Demooratio membery. eleet declarp they will ot go iuto cauous to i support YooueEeey, A number of uotable prossoutions for em. Lezglomont ara jyst now uuder way in Chi, cugo, 'The course of justice has beon unu- sually slow in soveral of thess casvs, It is uow cousiderably over year aluce the Mo- Axtuck defulcation bocame kuown, aud it Wwus not untl yesterday that he'was broughi into the United Btates Court and required to §ive bail in the sum of $8,00Q to answer to uu indictueut charging Lim with the embes slewent of 60,600 of Goverpment funds in bis kocping os Postwuster of Chicago, In this, 04 in the chyca of Unrda, Dissps, and Uowses, indicted for embézzlewent of the .{unds of the Monoy-Order Departmeént of the Chicago Pout-Office, it iy to be hoped the same proportion of delsy will not bo wmain. tuined in bringing the defendants to tris), THE: CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY., NOVEMBER- 9, I87E—~TWLLVE PAGE A moderate degrea of swiftness in essontial in order to render the law’s ponalties effect- ivo ns @ punishmont and a warning to avil- doers, We print this morning & collection of in- teresting matter rolating to the yellow-fover epilemic 'in Vicksbnrg and Memphis. At article contributed by Dr. Franx W. Renay gives ssmo valuable faots concerning the sit- nation of Vicksburg with .respect to drainagoe Taciltics and possibilities, accompanied with mapa dexcriptive of the eity's location and topography, and Mr, M. . Troxy, Tmx Trisoe's Yellow-Fover Commissioner, pro. sents an interesting array of plaguc-incidents and episodes in Memphis. in the Bixteontt District, and defeats Dectus for Congress 240 votes. Dxzcius lost his own County of Camborland by 400, and Jouy Enan's connty, Moultrie, bv 45. Ep HaRuax and Brsror, who contested the nomination of Decius, throw their Counties of Clark and Edgar ngainst higy by GA\da 43 respective- Iy, A Fomm:‘ 'a Tioptblidan-Groenback preacher, aud DrLi Matvi & Domoorntio- Greenback prenchior, these two gentlemen can do the praying for Congreas, and cheor- tully vote against each othor on all except questions pertaining to fnanco, . The complexion of the National House of Tepresontatives, as shown by the latest dis- patches, stands thus . Democrate,... .. . Doubtful. Of' the four ave of Demooratio proclivities and four of Republican leaningn. Of the fiva donbt- ful tho Repnblicans are confident of three. Cnlifornia has yot to elect, and of the four members to which she jg cntitled threo aro claimed by the Republicans, It will thus bo scon - that tho uext Ifouse will be n very evenly.divided body, and that the Democrs- oy, after all their bossting, will hardly have things their own way, ‘The Greenback ole- ment, pure and simple, will only play a part on questions of finnnce, and s likely to gravi- tnto toward old political sasociations in most of tha logislation of n genernl character. THE DEMOCRATIC DILEMMA. The Democratic party Lss hesu placed in n merious dilemma by the Iate clectiona. Whero it seemed to bo all smooth sniling only a fow munths ago the courve is now full of snags aud wand-bars, and the pilots cannot agree nato thoenrrent. Even Senator Tnun. 3raX is so confused aver tho situation that he will not hazard an expression of opinion ba- yond & virtual adnilssion that the Democrats have been struck ns bhard a blow this year ns the Republicaus experienced in 1874, This is apparont to n man of ‘Tnunyax’s long ex- porience and keon discernment, though it might not be obsorved by tha amateur in politics, who will merely remark that tho Democrata still control the Lower Ifouso of Congress. 1ut tlus control comes from the nceratlon at the South, wbich was natural and could not have heen prevented under exiuting conditions. ' ‘The significant point is, that the Democrats have lost at the North, where they needed to grow in ondor to zeach out for the Presidenoy in 1480 ; they Lave lost fifteon Congresamen, three important State Cov- ernmenty, , soveral of the principal cities, Sonators whom thoy conntéd upon electing, and, abovo nll, the prestigo of progress, A halt baa bean called all along the Democratic ling, nud the army in brought to a standstill, whilo tho loaders do not know which way to conduct it. The trouble with the Democratic party is that it has beon fooling nround too much with flat money. ‘The matter wouldn't be so worious ng it i if their miatake only affected tho past; if tho Demoorats could now ac- knowledga their error, break away from it, and regaln thelr formor fooling, their recent loss would not cripple th®m permanantly. But, as o matter of fact, thelr flirtation with the Jiat jado hns had serigqus cousequonces, and sho is bound to make them tronble in the future ; if thoy do not break with her, they aro lost, and, if they do, they are threatened, If they accept the alliance, sho 1a the sort of creatnro that will drog them down; if they rofuse to tie to her, thoy will have a bas. tardy anit on their hands, Lot us examine some of the circumstances of tha Democratio dilemma s they probably prosent thomselves to Mr, Tmumux's prac. ticed oyo: 1, The Democratio party may sook to ac- quire nowstrength by inducing the Nationals to coms over to that orgavization. But thero s cortainly small chance of their bomg nabla to bring nhout a coalition on this basis, Thoe leadors of the * Nationals” will bo dis. posed to take advantago of the Demoeratlo embarrassment. They ywill contend that, if thero is to be any alliance, it must be on the basis of the Domocrats coming to them. The new party movement bas beon a refugo for the played-out politicians of the old par. ties, aud these people understand that, if the new movement bo absorbed by the Dem. ocratic party, thoy will again relspsa into ob. sourity, elbowed out by the politicians who uow control the Democratio organization, Tho dowagoguos who have organized the new movowment will cling to it, and, sink or swiny, survive or perish, with it, for thoy kuow it s thelr only hope, 2, 'The Democratic party may abandon their organization sud name, and go over in abody to the Natlonals, Bat there is littla encourngoment in this outlook. 'They will racall thoir experlonce when they went over to the * Libarals * and accobted Gueziey; there was more merit in that movomont than thera s in tho flat scheme, and yot it proved disastroos to the Democrats, They will also rofloct that they surreadered thelr party or- ganization to the ** Nationals ” in Massaolu. setts at thoe recont election, and that the rosult has besn to wipa out the Demo. cratio party in that Btate without gain. ing anything from the new alliance, Thoy havo already dallied with Fiatism enough to know that ooy surrender of . fheir party orginization to thig éause will drive sound-wodey Democrats into the Repub- lead party by the thousands and tens of thousands. What happened in Massacha- setts will happen'in overy Statein the Union where the Democratio party shall be sold out ta tlo * Natiouals,” and pyeciscly the same, result awaite g winilar combination for. the Presidontin election, ' % 8. The Democrsts may goou with their own organization, advocating an irredesnia- blo currency, under the loadership of Tuusuay, Ewisa, Voonirzs, Qazy, snd the rest. Liut if thoy do thyy will be.at a con. stant disadvantsge on thoir own ground. They will continue to educate members of Aligir own-paaty fo voto wiih the Nationals. The Tatter will cut iuto the Duemocrats all tho tiwe, for thuy will present & syuarer flat issue, The members of the Democratic party who learp to twlieve, uader tho instructions of their party leadors, that an lrredeemabls ourroncy is the essential of commercial and politienl prosperity, will go over, sooner or later, to tho party which makes a speeialty of this doctrine, nnd devotes all its energies to the development sud promulgation thereof. A 4. The Democrats may break loose from Fiatirm and endeavor to rega.n o footing on round-money gronnd, Rat if they do this, they will be besot with numerous ombarrass- ments. Huch an effort wonld bring to tho front mon like Bavazp in Delaware and Jonx 3 Parug in this State, nud would probably assure the continued logalty of the old-school Democrats who believe in haed money and State Sovereiguty. But what will the party do them with men like Ewixo, Tavamay, Voonness, aml Canx? Theso gentlomen cannot go around within the next year or two among the smno people whom they have boen instructing for the last year or two, aud admit that they have been ndvoeating a dolnsion and a fraud. Ontspoken and wncompromising ad-. lierenco now to the hard.money traditions of tho Domogratie party will scarcely coneiliste the large mass of Damocratic voters who have beeu inocnlated with the flat poison, and this mnass of votars will desert tha old party rather than their now mania, Tho Demooratic party seoms to be com- polled to take some one of the directions which we have indicated, and all of them seem to load to confusion nnd defeat. 'This is the ombarrassment of tho situation. The Democratic party is committed to Fintism, and Fidtism {s a dismal failure. It 'cannot continna the foolish fellowahip without dis- grace, and cannot break 'off without loss, Dofent stares. tho party in the face which- evor rond it shall elect to tako, and it does not look as though two yeans will bo enough for tha lenders to map out and openupa uew esoapo, & e — THE SILVER COINAGE. After n careful consideration of all the cirenmstances, we have roactied tho eonclu- sion that good faith, wiso palicy, sud strict Jjustico demnnd that the restrictions imposed on free coiunga by the act reatoring the mouetization of the eflver dollar should be rewoved. From 1702 to 1873 the coinago of tha silver dollar was nnlimited in this coun- try. When tho fact that it had been demonetized wos discovered, and mensures takon to undo that act of trickery, it ape peared that the President and his Cabingh: wero opposed to the restoration of silvér. The popular. feeling bseamo intensiflod by this opposition, and by the strong efforts on the part of all tho Federnl officors in the Mint and -in the Tressury to defeat the bill. The Presidont's op- position was so strongly deflned that it beenme obvious to tha friends of silver that the bill would be votoed. 1Ilonce it was noe- essary to seoure a two-thirds vote in both branches of Congress, The Fouse passed bill restoring the silver dollarand freecoin- ngo by a sufficlent majority. In the Henato tho gold party was proportionately stronger, ‘There wns a majority for the bill, but not the two-thirds that would be neaded in caso of a veto, To secure the few votes who would not voto for the bill unless the coinago was restricted, the amount of silver dollars was limited to not loss than two nor moro than four milhons of ‘dollara.a month. In thaot form the bill was' passed, aud wubsequently was carried ovor thé'Egacutive veto, This legistation authorized the coinags of 48 millions of silver dollars a yoar; but the Iaw bas never been' fairly executed by the Tronsnry Department. Tho whole influonce nud power of the Exccutive Depnriments lins been porsistently opposed to the execution of tho law, aud so directed as to lend to its repoal. The law'has been in forco ten months, aud the total coinage of the mints Lianbeen below theminimnm, Tha Trassury Dopartmont has discouraged tho use of sil- ver, has placed obstaclos in the way of its general use, lns omitted to pay it ont when it might do so, and from timo to tino has pointed sigaificantly to the millions in the ‘Irensury ns evideoco that the people did not waant it and would never use it. When it is remembered that there is no expenditnro by tho Governmont which may not Jawfully be wmade in silver dollars, it will be diffoult to mako the country bolieve that the Trenanry hos been unable to pay out ten millions of dollars, ‘Wo havo already roforred to tho semi. ofllcial annouucement that the I'rosidont in- tonds to recommend to Congress ths on. largement of tho ailver dollar, to make it correspond with tha price of silver in gold, ‘We have discussed this matter, and it was discussed by the whola country a year ago, moro thoroughly perliaps than any other question was over discussed in the United States. 'This recommondation of thoe Presi- dent is foundod upon a deliberate denial of the fact that the American dollar has never had, and was -never lutended' to have, a legal or fixed valuo in gold, or silver, or whoat, or corn, or land. The Awerican silver dollar has alwoys consisted of 4714 yraing of pure silver. 'This weight of silver is tho dollar, and has slways been the dollar, no matter whother it was oqual to B1.50 in gold or 90 cents m gold. In like mannor, the gold dollar has mnever had any legal or fixed valuo in silver or in'any other commodity. A cortain number of grains of pure gold Is the Americon gold dollar. The “ dollar” {a roprosonted by certain established woiglts of silver or of gold, and the purchasing’ powor of these welglits of the two wetals in no sanse enters into the character of the dol. lar, All debta oro and have beon psyabls in dollars of these welgkts, and the attewpt to establish an equal purchasing value bLetween the gold and silver dollars is to attemptan impossibility, and is so absurd that it has nevor been attempted even by nations which lave yiulded to the wildest notions of Fiatism, The rocommendation of the President, under all circumstances, is to resent the sot. ting aside of his veto. It iy a reconmenda. tion that the country shall abaudon the sil- vor dollar, and scogpt Lis theory thot gald alone sliall be the exclusiyy legal colu of tho United Btates; that all the contracts, fn. cluding all the debts of the Governmeut now Jpayablo in silver or gold at the optian of the debtor, shall be abrogated mnd by force of law all made payable'{n gold exclusively, The enactmout of smoh alaw would depres ato'all private property 0 per cept, and bject the property-of the American people’’ to confiscation and ruin. Of course tho whole mnnuyad‘mlllul which oppascd the renionotization of silyer will spplaud and support any vecomamendation by the Presi. dept to destroy tho uso of silver as mouney, and to maka gold—scarce and dear~the ex- uyivg coin of the country. g o It is well, therefore, to weet this proposi- tion, and any and all others, kaviug the pur. poso to again demonetizo silver, by a firm end active opposition uow. Congress must rewember that, if therv be any question on which the Awerican people are united. it iv that the silver dollar shall not be dishonored, that it shall not bo degrnded, and shall not be demonetized. Tho poople rubmitted to the limitation on the coinage of ‘tho silver dollar because, ot that time, it was consider- ed casential to' do so in order to overcomo the Excentive voto, nnd becanso it was considored that the law would he fairly cxeeuted, and becauso {t was represonted that tho law mdmitted tho coinago of all tho silver which the mints conld tarn out each yoar.. Itin time, there- fore, that the conntry shall again make itself heard ou this subject, It must not only op- pose and protest against the racommenda. tions that silver bo again practieally demone. tized, but it must formulate its own de- mands. To protect the rights of the peoplo two things evidently are cesontial ; 1, That all restrictions upon the amount or number of silver dollars that may be coined ' shall bo reponled; and that the colnnge of silver dollars shall be as unlimited Raia tho coinage of gold picces. 2. That the Government shall cease t furnish the National Banks with a special ourrency with whioh to rodeem their notes ; and that the Nationnl Banks, if they ndhers to the isaue of notes circnlating as money, shall be compelied Lo redeem thoso notes on de- mand in the samo manner g8 the Govern- ment does,—in gold or silver. All Lauk. notes must be made redeemable, o the greanback will be, in coin, nnd if the banks will not uso silver for that purposo Jet themn use gold. The banks must ba made to bear their own shinre of tho bnnlen of resumption of specle-payments, and not compel the Government to protect and corry its own paper aud that of all the banks in addition. Let ns have specic-payment nt tho Trensury, bat lot us have it at the banks also, Every private debtor will have to pay his debts in coin ; let us, thereforo, have no oxemptions, and no special priviloges, but Lave the bauks —which nll advocate specie-payments—re. deom their notes on demand in coin, Lot the friends of silver colnage in Con. gress and out of it not content thomselves with mera opposition to any disturbance of the coinago of silver dollars, but let them, for the national security aud protection, take the aggressive, nnd domand that the coinnge of silver dollara be made unlimited, and that when tho Governmant begins to redeom groonbacks in coin the National Baoks shall boe compolled to redeem thelr notes fn coin “THE KID-GLOVE RING CRUSHED, Our Washiugton dispatches of yesterday throw na flood of light npon the kid-glove controversy. It is acarcely necessary to say that the facts brought out therein comprise tho testimony of Mr, Wittiax . Reap, a glove merchant of Thiladelphis, as given boforo the Board of Reappraisement in New York on the first kid-glove caso presontod, TUpon this evidenco the gloves were advanced {rom 42 to 52 francs per dozen, and it was in refercuce to this case that Colleator Antnuz, in sustaining the General Appraiser, 'sald: “*Upon a caroful review of the volu. minous ovidenco taken before the Apprais- ors, ho could not seo hdw the Goneral Ap- praiser could havo nrzlved at any other con- clusion,” .« ‘Thiu ovidence, 8o conclnsive to the minds of Genoral-Appraiser Krrcuux and Collaet- or AnTHUR, {8 now presented to tho public for tho tirst timo by itz Tnrnung, It cannot provo leas canclusive to thoso who peruse it carefully thau it proved to tho officila called to act upon it. It loaves no roow for doubt that the Lid.glove ring of New York City Liave heen robbiug tho Government of about one-quarter of its legitimato revenuo on thoir merohaudise for sovoral years. It leaves tho quostion of the guilt of tho house of A, T, Stewant & Co. equally froe from doubt. 1t wo scloct that honse from tho rest, there- by rondoring it more’conspicnons, it is only Locunse it has nlways rando itsolf ostenta. tiously conapicuous throngh & protonse of the strictest bonor in all jts iransactions with tho Governmont. We do uot proposo to re- view the tostimony of Mr. Rzap in dotail, It will be sufflolont to give illustrations of its conclusive charnoter, 1. The defondants in tho appraisemont, 8tewant & Co. and others, showed bad faith in not seeking for tha bust ovidenco attaina- blo to sustain thoir position. The rogula. tiona provide that, *To establish market valne, the goods must ho frecly offered for salo in the principal markets of tho country at that price, and, if not so offered to the gencral buyer, then the market prica of slm. ilar gooda so offored sholl fix it; and, 1 the sbseuco of this, then thae cost of production, with a ronsonable profit added, may be taken into cousideration.” 'This being the fact, Mr. Reap proceeds to show that * Lundon is full of largo Louses engaged in the kid- glovo tradoe,” and that * Paris abounds in makera”; that **the question (respuraise. aent) bad baen ponding for mouths, and that nothing was easior than, with the for. elgu conuoctions of the houses intorosted, to establish 42 francs if 43 francs was the real market value, But thy Now York people did nothing of the kind.* Had they done so they would bavo been precluded from making a defeuso by tho testlmony of their brother cansigueos of kid gloves, because the reguln. tions provido that the cost of production way only be introduced in' tho absence of testi. mony touching market value, Mr. Reap thon showsthat **‘Lhe Government produced such teatimony in the form of prios-lists, printed or written, with tho mauufacturors’ trade- murks on them; o letter from one of the most prominent of the mannfacturons, quot. ing B3 francs, with & rise of & francs por button; invoicos of the partics, eto,, etc.s and, to rebut this wase of ovidende, Srewant & Co. nnd assoclates presented nothiug ex. copt the cost of mauufacture, -porwissible under the regulations only ju the sbavace of other ovideuce." ¥ 2, 'T'ho ring put in, to'rebut this, tho testi- mony of eight consiguees of kid gloves, sgeuts of foreign nnutacturers, six of thew boarlug forvign names, - ‘Thoy were, of courso, intercstd witnesses, testifying in thelr own behalf, laboring, uuder oath, to establish the fnvoice value of first-cholce kid gloves—49 frguce—as the true foreign mur. kot valuo. Tlq letter reforyed ta as port of the Government ‘casdwas from Toryovssy & Co. to a first-class Pranch commission hoase. 8. Ay effort was made by the riug. to show that Messrs, Franoos Oanvaur & Co, offered, through ono GRINNELL, United States Oommercial Agent at St, Etienne, to uell to Mr. Reap 45,000 dozens frst-choice kid gloves at 42 frauca per dozem, but it waso diswal failure, the correspondsuce yol{mng strougly to an ‘effort ta manufacture evidenco in support of the ring position,. 4 ‘Lho Government submitled, through Mr, Reap, “A full copy of an fuvoico awounting to 60,000 fraucs, puschased from RurLion, of Grenoble, by one of the firut oud most responsible houscs in London, with a samplo of the glove, showivg a price of b3 francs, with'five fraucs rise, Aud Miears. I & I, Moxiry, whiss Lanes have heen mentionad, not only atated to Mr. Wrirrinaroy that they pald 52 francs for tho Trefousse glove, but also telegraphed, at the request of the American agents, to that effcet.” "lo rebut this, tho ring sought to show *‘that thie London glove was snperior to the grade marketed fn the United tates,” but the London buyers *uniformly asserted that the glove kold by them wns worth at feast aercral Jranca per docn lens.” . The Governmont ahowed throngh ac counts of actual sales i thix cotfniry of the gloves in guestion the enormous profits made by the conriguees thoreof,—n profit as high, in somo caser, as 44 per cent, and an nverago of 40 per cént, Tpon this presentation of facts, Mr. Reap well says: Taw longconld this proft between cost and price of two, three, and four-Lutton kid gloves be main- tained if they conld be bonght by the trade tn gen. eral an the forelyn or were freely offered #¢ the Jaw requires prices? The control of hese makes by m?' hoti=e would not have been searth mach for nny great length of time, or euch 4 marin As this would bave very soon Intro. duced othera equally ny good, No large retall house with fordign connections wonld pay over i l\er cent margin, and many of them not tl and 112 ansurd 0 suppore that for years any such dif. ference could be matntained among 4 class of mer- chanta ne fall of ménns ani capacity as the prouts nent retatiors of onr Inrge citiew, This lfibuln small part of the Government cnso, bub it is enough to show the public that it was conclusive—overwholming. | — THE STEWART GRAVE ROBBERY. The theft of the body of tho late A, T. Stewanr from tho vault where it was so recently buried with solomn coremony was not ouly a erime that was very adroit in conception and bold in cxecution, but it was of o charncter that will whock every person whois not hardened by lifelong immorality or insensiblo to the common feelings and sympathics of human nature, In every country and in"nll times, even nmong tho rudest races, the dead have beon regarded with reverencas, and their lnst resting-places hove been hold in sacred respect ns holy places of pilgrimnge for surviving friends, and a8 rominders’ of the marrow hiomes wo must all ocoupy sooner -or later. Dody. snatching hitherto for sclentific purposes has not beon uncommon, but even this form of theft has been regarded with abliorrence. It hos met with no eympnthy in any com- munity. .Its porpetrators have been looked apon fn the light of ghouls and vampires, Tho Inws have prescribed sovero pen. altios for it, and a strong universal public soutimont would ehield sny wman who should take the life of s grave-robber fonnd in the not, When this infamon and unuataral crime, howerver, in perpetrated for the purposo of gain, and the grave is robbed of its treasure {0 socure a reward from tho friends of the deceasod, it is difiicult to find words with whick to char. acterize the horrible orime or the wratches who perpotrate it. The eareful manher in_ which every detail of this robbery was plained, the nudacity with which it was cxecated in a publio cem- ctery, not remote from the haunts of mon, but within plain sight of publio streotsin a great city, and at thoands of n beat where patrolmen were obliged to meet soversl times in the night, and the complate success which crownod tho infamous work, do not reflect 80 much credit upon the grave.robbers as they retloct discredit upon tho public nu. thoritios of tho city,’ It hnas passed inton proverb that policemen aro overywhero ex- cept whers they should bo when they are waated, but, ovon accounting for their re- missncss on this general principle, their skill In being absent in this particalar case is almost 0 romarkablo ns the skill of the wretches thomselves whom they ought to liave arrasted, Tho keenest anxiety and apprchension of tho public now will be felt 03 to the course which Mrs, SBtewart, and Judge Hivrox, s her adviser, will pursue, It is n matter that Joos not coscern them alono, though they aro the partios immediately intorested, but tho wholo couniry. ' Tho robbery was not made for purposes of supplying medical hoapitals with a subject for dissoction, nor can wo boliove the absurd rumor that it was done by rolatives who oro anxious to ox. awine the romainag for traces of polson, It ia claor that the only motive of the robbera is to scoure n rownrd which thecy are coufi- dent will bo offered by eitbor Mrs, Brewant or Judge lizyox, In this direction they havo u grave and important duty to por. form, and that duty is to spare 10 means or ¢xpense to scenro tho arrest of the robbers. If they nru suxious to offer n roward, lot it ba offered for the apprehonsion of theso scoundrels, sud lat the roward be sufliciently large to stimulnte the sleopy ofticiuls of Now York to extra excrtion, aud arousa tho vigllance of tho police autlioritics of other places. It will bo almost criminal for them to condone the orime of these wrotches by offoring a reward for the recov- ery of tho body, aud sllowing them to escapo ftom their well-doserved punishment. Auny negotiation which shall acoomplish such a result will be on outrage upon the whole community, Once let it bo understood that those men have escapod all punishment, and huve secured a large reward, and it will en. courage the practice of the infamous busi. ness all over tho conntry, No cemetery will bo safe. Xotwoen the rabbing of graves for scloutifio purpoacs aud for rewards no graves will bo safe. ‘The tombs of the rich wili ’not alone bo violated, - Wherever there is s prospect of reward, great or small, the rob. bers will not Lesitate to practico their ghoul. inli trade, It will bocome & business, aund a profitable one. - Mrs, Brzwant and the ad. winiatrator of hor ostata can aford to secure the arrast of thess villains, and refuse to ucgotinte with them, becanse they have money enough with which to doit. A very small tithe of their fmmenss fortune will inspire tho police ofMcials and citizous gen. erally to & degreo of vigilanco aud exestion that will wako it imposaible for the rolbers to cscape, and tho propor severity.of the courts to the ¢rimiuals will strike terror o the henrts of any otliers who may bo simi. lasly disposed. The kuowledgo that they can obtain no roward, and that thoy will be punlshed when deteotod, will soon break up thio whald businass. ‘Thu circumstances of this grave robbery apply thelr own comment upon the in.. etfivienoy of the' New York police, The de. tails of tho robbery of the jewslry atoro on Eighth nvenue, on the samo oveulng, printed elsewhero in this issue, add to the portinence of the comment, That Lalf o' dozen wmen should toko possession of a storc on a crowded atreet early in the evemug, and carry off its contents, with the crowd looking on and kept back by two of the gang, and that they shou!d hold the crowd ot bay until thoy had sccomplished their purposs and made good theli escape, without a single policemnn. putting in appearance, goes to show that New York s the least-protected city iu the United Biates. Under the new regime which has now camae into power thore is some work to be dome. If it caunmot bo done by them, it ought to be done bya vigilunco commitiee. As matters now stand, it apvcurs that neither the deadintheir graves nor the property of those above ground are rafe, The principles of Communiam nre in full operation hefore the parts {s In power. ————ae The late politieal contesl in this Hals was greatly intensified by the fact that o seat in the Unitsd Btates Senate depended upon the comploxion of the General Assembly to be choson, Both parties strained every nerve for the control of that body. 'The Demoo- racy had an advantage in the 25 hold.aver Sonntors; 14 aro Democrats, and only 11 Ropublicans, The old Senate stood 21 Re- publican to 30 opposition; the House 70 Republican to 74 opposition. Of the 26 Senators-clect it appears ot this writing that the Ropublieans have secarsd 15, the Demo- crats 10, and the Bocinlists 1. The new Benato will therefore stand, 26 Repnbtican, 24 Democratie, and 1 Soclallatic,—n Repub- lean' mojority of 1 over all. The old Houso atood 70 Republiean to 74 opposition. The probable complexion of the new Hotise ia as follows: Republican, 70; Democratlc, G2} Greenback, 1; Socialistic, #—s, Ropnblican majority of & over all, or @ on joint ballot. Complote returns may chango these figures eligtly 5o far ns tho Iouse is concerned, but not as to the Senate, aud not over two as to the'louse. It in snfe, therefore, to as.: sumo that Gov, OoLesny will either be his own successor in the United Biates Benate or be aacesded by some other Republican, Mr. Goupr et al. may stand aside. We con- gratulate tho Iepublicans of Nlinoa on this niost satisfactory result, It waa a desperate baud-to-innd couflict, with the Kepublicans at tho disadvautage mentioned, nnd they Linve held their own {n the Ilouse and taken fiva from the Democratic column of Scnators and ndded them to the Ropublican column | In this purely political aspact of the case Tilinois may Le snid to have recoversd the gronnd lost in 1876 ; for In 1876 tho Repub- licans lost a United States Benator.. In other words, lllinois calls a halt to Domooratic growth in tho chiof logisla. fivo body of the nation. To this particular branch of the contest the Repnblican State Central Committes may reasonably bo pre. sumed to have givon most sttention, since, inn political point of viow, it was most important. Such a victory for the Gommit- Leo carrles with it its own award of satisfac- tlon, and {nsurce recognition at the ‘hands of oll whosupport the canse so ably con- duacted. But it is propor that the Chalrman, tho Hon, A. M. Josts, and the Sacrotyry, AMr, Dax Suzeano, should bo Lonorably mentioned in the Lulleting annouucing the viclory. They outgeneraled tho adversary, ‘With n presuwed leaning to tho honest cle- ment of the Greonback party, Mr, Jownes hiad the discernment to soo that tho contest it won at all must be won by appenls to the hard-money wing of tho Repnblican - party and to conscientious Dcmoerats hold- ing similar views, Is this viow, sccur- iug Beuntor Brame for two groat epceches in the Stato, was o master stroke of policy, for which Mr. Joxes is entitled to credit ; it marks him aa a superior strategiat, Mr. Braixn's speeches wero not excolled, ns clear and forciblo expositions of tho hard- wonoy doctrino upon which the Republican party finaly planted itself, by any delivered during the campaign. They were widely circulated in Tuz Tamone, and must have exerted a largo influonce, i Kerx made the mistake of his life when he perwitted the Thnes to persuade him to bua candidate for re-cléction, ., Mo was obfiged to spend i Immense suni Lo. forca his nomination against widespread und powerful opposition In his party, and mauy of theso oppouents he was unable to placate or reconcilo, notwithstanding the Lumillating concesslons he made to them. Ho was forced to squander many thousands of doilars to run his cam- palgn, for ho was litcrally bled at.every pore by the oummcrsand deadbeats of his varty, Ilo hns not oubllely made kinown bow 1atich the Zimes' advics to be a candidate for ro-clection has cost bim, but soveral of his fricads, who have mcans of forming pretty gceurate ostimates, stater that, first and last, ho is out of pocket at least $15,000. This must represcot a lnrge parc of bls profits on board- iug the prisoncrs, as it I8 not bee Heved ho recclved the full 85 ccnts a day allowed him by the Board of Commissionera, ‘rhe opinfon of the knowing onea s, that It cost CHARLEY n larze per cent to change the opinlon of certaln Commissioners that 25 centa o day was 10 cents a day too little, There 1 certalnly an fdes of this sort lingering aroand the County Butlding with great tenaci- ty. If Kenw bad folloywed the dictates of his own better judgment, instead of lstening to the dissstrous tomptations of his orgun, and grace- fully retired at the end of Lis term, he would .have been uble to keep thie scalawugs out of his oflice to whom he surrendered; he could have vreserved his acif-respect, and retired a popular Sherlfl, with tho large profits of his oftice. It he had como to ‘Tits THINUNE for advice, Instead of going to the Zimws, how vastly betiter ho woull be off to-day in every respect, To offsct all hiv losses and disappolutments, be has noth- ing to show exvept alarger and prolounder knowledge of ward-bummees and vagsbonds who robbed and betrayed bim, ——————— Tho Clevelaud Lawder {s of the opinfon that Gou. RarLvenr K. Pa1ng, who has just entered ou the duties of Commissioner of I'atents, {s one of the best appolntmeuts made by the Ad- miutstration. Ilo was horn in Chardon, Qeanga Conaty, [ 1326, graduated st Western Heserve Cullege 1 1513, and was admitted to the Cleye. Jand Bur in 18(8. 1n 185t hs removed to M. wauhee, where hie entered into partuership with Canw Benunz (or the practlee of Jaw, Upon the breaking out of the Rebellfon he went into the army lu 1801 as Colonel of the Fourth Wiscon- siu Intantrs, became o Brizndler-Gieucral, and lost u leg du the assault on Port Hudson, Jle represcuted the Milwaukee District In Coogress frum 1565 tu 1839, Il¢ belongs to & dla- tinguisbed family, and bas wiready doue it honor, When Dave Gaos l‘cl. nominated for Qoveruor, on necount of hus brilileat vervices 1n roboluy Chi- £aga of half a mihon dollare, ** Long Jous* ungd Jo Mot will b hiis most enthusiastic chanpious. —CAteano Tumg: When that couttugeney occurs, the chaupfon- 8hip of DAVIDL will remain i tho bands of hiy dear frieud WiLnok. When Uso® was a candi- date for City Troasurer in 1840, he owed his Bumination tothe Chicazo Yimes. The same sheot champloned hiin agaln fn 1871 with the fornicr xcal, sud foratbird time in 1878, Bropsy procsed his nomination and electipn when he was o defaulter, If any two Democrats fu Chicaizo were bosom fricods and coufldants, tuey were W. F, Stoitky aud 1), A, Gaaz, aud, if soy two wen koew the bottom facte' in regard o each other's private business affalrs, It was those social and political crunfes. i e T B . The Chicago Times contiuues disconsolate over the sizo of Maj, lioreyan's majority of 4000. " It thlnks it. should have been larger; nothing less than 8,000 or 10,000 would recauclle” it o the luevitable, aod s0 tno Times Roes on readiog 118 ggrinend sod grieving like one without, hope.' Horrxax's majarity s larga onough for all practical purposes. Thero is no danzer of his clalm to the oftice belng coutestyd. Ho wul bold 16 oow teru, aud thien retire to sete o up his affairs, snd will dothis voluntsrily, as Keny has todo wvoluntarily,” Thy ssfe sud proper rule to adopt fu this great county Is ono terw for Sheritf, The peovle of this county hove ueverelected o Sherid as bis uwn sue- cesdor, ‘They desire to bave that olficer settle up bis accounts at the expirution of hig term, Tuey wanl @ e biosia to vlezn wuey ,Chief of the Tammsuy Ring. the cotwoba ahd' abuses that abont the oflice. A lot of 'fi:&"{,‘f,‘.‘.fi and [mproper characters manage Iy onciuienng or anather to worm themaclres foto the E;mm'. office, and they become the confeduratea of Jury-packing shigaters and binckmaic' 3 of at. torneye and Jitigants, If a&her!f jg o candidate for re-election, thisclass of verioin increase very fast [n the last slx months of his term, when ke is Taring pipe and making comblnations to eccure 8 renomination, {They get places tn b1y office by Largalning to securo ward delegates, and, taking every advantage of his anxfety lu; re-clection, abuse his confidence, diszrace iy adwintsteation, and fill their packets at the ez, venre of juatice and morality, lence the way to keep the Sherifl’s oflice freo of such v} in- fluences s to_maintain the single-term prin. ¢lple, which alono preserves the ndependency of the Sherlff tud the purity of his ofilik, —— “ A forelgn letter brings us the plensing infor. matior: that there s t0 bo a new departire fn regard to weddings fu Parls. Those why fig those things ‘for us fn France have agrecd ta abolish bridesmaids and substitute two by, pages, who are chosen from the orettlest of thy boy relatives of tho bride or bridegroom, They are dressed fn velvet of the bride's favorife color. At a recent wedding the ting court<dreey wworn was of sapphire velvol, with whits ek stockings and velvet shoes with - diamanq huckles, A houquet composed of a rosebud, an orange blossom, and a branch of myrtic (s gt tached to the left afde. They perform the usnat roleof the bridcsmald, carry the bride's gioves nnd bonquet, aud asstst her to and from the cap. riage. & B — One Democratie puper 1m the West, at Teagt, reads tha verdict of Tuesday's work with a sen. sibie interpretation. The Detroit Free Presyis of the oplulon that whatever may be the differ. ences of opinfon among Deinocrats, * the vote of Tuesday shows that the vast majority of the party fa unwilling to Indorse 8 paper currency which {8 Irredecnable.”” It sdmits that tle Greenback craze was a dend fatlure, and hopes that fnasmugh as **the wave has passed, with. dat any of the cxpected results, and with the utterly unexpeeted result of stranding those who, like BurLxn, strove to ride into power upon *{t, the strength that the movement has borrowed from the Democracy will be ro- turned.” The'0ld Colony Rallraad is settling all clatms against it on account of the late accident with. out letting any case zo Into the cotrte {f posei- ble. 1t s thought the full cost of the alsaeter will be #325,000. The Company tmloultediy takes warnfog from the example of tho Fastern Railroad that six years ago had a much smaller accident at Revere which cost it over hiait.a il fon, - It went into litization extensively and alirays came out at the littie end of the lorn, e st Prom the prasent outlook it would scem (hat yosterday was & day for the Democracy throughout the corntry. No single State, as far as I known, has equaled Indlana toits devotlon And fiaclity to the good old,canse.~7/ndwanupolie Sentinel (Dem. ), The only causo to which Indlana Democracy cxcelsnll other States Is **devotion and fidelity to fiat lunacy, and that i3a *cause™ ocfther good nor old, but new and rottan. ——e—— The attentlon of the Milwaukeo Daily Hurphey Is respectfally tnvited to the fact that Wasi- BURN, “‘ona of the family,” s elected to Con- greas in the St. Paul Distefet over the blather. skito DONNELLY by over 8,000, Heo is the fourtn brother seut to Coneress from different States, to wit: Mafne, Iilinols, Wisconsin, and Minne tota. There is ove Joft in Callfornia. ——— 5 TILDXN 1 not without his crumb of comfort. While Boss KBLLY snubbed him at the Byracuze Conventlon, TiLDEN llves to sec swilt aud well- merited retribution overtake and demolish the 1t does noy obliterate the cipher dispatches, but {t dis- patches KeLLy., Misery loves company, e — 4 ,Tlxr whirljiziz of time did considerablo busie ness in the way of iaking thinga even Jast Tuese day. In Luzerne and Lackawanua Countles in Pennayivauia, that bad a hablt of casting 3,50 majority for tho Demacratic ticket, tovk a suds den flop, and pusbed in 7,000 majority for the Republican candidato for Governor. ——i— The Nushville dmerican, like many other Dumocrstie journals, expected great thloes from the Greenback-Flay lunatics, Tucsday's elections, howover, brompt it to exclatm: * One might forgive a real thing a substautlal injury doue, but it is hiard to forzive o shadow for su unnceessary {right.” . — e ——— Goopnus, the defaultiog ‘County Treasurer of Btephenson County, Ill,, mado a short Racs of ft: under that nume he was arrested at To- ledo nud returncd to the jail in Frecport. Goonira was the fonrth défautting Democrate {c¢ oftivial lu this State this year. e —— 5 " No matter what may have Lappened in New York and Pennsylvunia, the Democrats Rain steadily in overy State west of the Alle- ghenles,” was the boast of the Washiugten Post loat Wednesday, Tho Demoeratie »gain’ Iu IHinols, for instance, ——————— Nolody las reason to feel ony better over Tuesday’s work than Secrotary BurRxuaN. His conduct of the Treasury Departtaent has been approved by the country with an emphasis that will cheer Ihin on fu the good work of resutnp- tion, ———— Y Cant, Scuvnz did good service azsinst the Oljo “1dee,” and again o Massachuscits against Bax Burier, Bureen will bave s whole hatful of bricks ready to hurl at the ocvow- plished German at the next session, e et Among ottier prospective goud things s the defeat of Danunus, of Counecticut, He fss demagogue of the first water, and the Scuate snd the country will be well rud of kim, = ——t— Peaple are anxlously saking what has become of Sonator Gouny, The Sevator was struck spocchiless by the Ohlo lightning, aud hes never uttered an intelligible word sluce. e MATT CagrENTED Wil walt until Lo seos what Bry BurLes docs next before hewakes a piove. BEN being out of the way, MatT cau move fof the Presidency * on the Earopoan plan."” e e ———— The position of leglalator fu Loulsians s s0 disrcputabie that iu New Oricans tho vsudk dates’ names are printed ut sho tall end of tho ticket, after cunatables, o e — The Pittsburg Commercial thauks *the fool Nationals for unwittingly druwiug away from the Domocratic party men who whil never ro turn to it agaln,” The [ilinols Democracy will ba apt to lsten more attentively 10 the counsels of Jous 3. raLuun hereafter, and dess tu yhose of Benator Goupy. PaTiiox T. BARRY, elected by the Democrsts in the Becoud District, i3 nuw declared to be fu- qligidle to the House on acrount ul ueu-res dence, % i . Bavid Davis begius to reiterate the ‘1“““"';'" asked by Daxien Wessten in 1833 \mcu\l-” ald Whig party broke up,—~+*Where sball 1 20 Brs.Burigw's hirceuy of the Den{uflrffi party of Massachusetts did not pay any beste thau TILDEN" ciplicr dlsputeh busiuess. ent—— - | The people of Massachusetss showed 0o :‘l‘; POKLD to takd’ KEAMNEY'S ndvuw‘:unl tholr asuea 't KBAuNEY 1muss * go.' ST —— = There was not much progress mado faipeaching President Haves last Tuesday. bout was on the ather leg. towardd ‘Tue The Porran Cowmitics can ko back of 'l-:: returns in the Qld Day State und sce if BUT! wasu't elected. —— - The Woomlngton ddwanee s dead. It w33 & Frat puror, atd sdyduced Hie 8 cabs