Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 11, 1878, Page 4

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MoVicker's Theatre. Madison street, between Derborn ant Stetn, Fre Kagement of the Strakosch ltallan Uyers seveitee ** Un Dallo in Maschers." Ioolcy’s Thentre. . Tandolph strect. between Clark and Lasalle, Eos gagewsent of the Lingard Troupe. **Our Boya” Iiaveriy’s Theatre. . Dearborn street, comet of Monroe. Engagoment of the Colrtile Folly Company, *‘Dabes in the Woods,” Academy of sfoste. Talsted atreet, between Madison and Monroe. Va- ricty, novelly, and speclaity performanecs., Tamlin's Theatr Clark street, oprosite the Court-llonse. Engagement of Wakner & Cotton's Minstrels, MecCormick Hall, Cisrk sireet, corner of Rinsle. Prof, Cromwell will lustrate ** Londoo, the Great City," Motropolitan Theztre, Clark street, oprosite Bherman House, Varlety ane tertatament. Folly Theatre, Desplainen sircet, botween Washington and Madison, ‘Eugakemunt of the Female Minstrels, Exposition Bullding. T.ake-Front. foot of Adams strect. Entertainment for the Beneft of tho NHouse of the Good shepherd. e “ BOCIETY TINGS. A special meeting 14 hereby 1 Il At 7530 o M.y to b Club, Urand Pazific, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1876, In New York on Saturday only one littlo eighth of 1 per cont scparated the greenback from the gold dollar, Beotland, The Benhar Coal Company of Edinburg, with a captial and stock debeu- tures of over $G,000,000 bas suspended payment. . A 8t. Potersbury dispatch positively con- tradiots tho reports of the Czar'’s ill-health. Ho is said to desire an understanding be- tween Russis and England with o viow to detevminiug tho limits of their respoctive sivfluence both in Europe aud Asia. Some interesting facts regarding tho min- ing wgiony of Arizonn Aro presented m o letter which wo print thts morning from Mr, A. C. Hexaso, of this eity, who, it will bo naticed, include$ among his other facultics that of writing n rendablo account of his travels and observations fn tho new country which his letter descriles, Prof. Bwixa preached yestorday ot the Central Church o sermon on tho subject of tween doubt and iufidelity, and that doubt, * instead of being an impioty or a form of Antichrist, Is ofteu only the cffort of & new era to find tho deoper and botter meaning of its popular religion.” We print also this moruing another lecturo of the interesting serics on “ Gonesis " by the Rev. J. Munno Ginsox, of the Second Presbytoriau Church; also tho farewell sormon of the Nov. Crancs L, ‘Trourson, of the Fifth Presby- teriun Church; and an account of tha ordination of the Rev, Davip Joxes, who ia shortly to depart for a new field of mission workin China. Dr. Lrxprnxan, Director of the Mint, hua just printed his annusl report, the publica. tion of which wns wisoly defurrod until after cloction ; but its manifest sympathy with the gold-standard mono-motallists might ex- cite the suspicion that the abolition of tho silver dollar, was & socret iasue of the Congressional cawopalgn. Lixpzrman can nlways bo depended npon to come to tho help of the goldites in his ¢‘ofticial reports.” IXe lu careful to make conspicuous the fact that silver bullion has decrensed in prico since the passago of the act remonctizing the standard silver dollar, and equally careful to omit the fact that the coinage of legal-ténder silver coin has boen purposely kept below. the volumo contem- plated fu the Silver bill.", ' T — » Keanner now declares thiat it was he who delented BuTren's election in Massachusctts, axd most people will he inclined. to agroo that ho had a groat dea} to do in bringing about the result. Ilo pretends, however, that he ouly made up bis mind that ¢ Bur. LER wust go" about three weeks before clection-day, and that he made incendiary spesches ostensibly in behalf of Burnes, but in reality to fujure him, This pretonse is prepostorous in the light of el the facts, and shows that Keamsey is trying to save Jus credit with the 'Frisco hoodlums by confessing himself a wnesk and & villain, The truth is, BuTeew's fate was senled the moment Krinsey opened his mouth on Massachusetta soul, and every speech he made thoreafter lost Burres hundreds of votes. Tho story giveu outto a sand-lot sudionce in Bau Francisco Saturday, that he labored to draw off votey from Lurixs Ly making inoendiary speeches, is much too thin for any but home consumption. He 1wade nothing but incendiary speeches during his entire Eastern tour, and never failed to dawage auy man or causa ho advocated. ST ——— Now"that the eloction is over, the yates’ counted, und the result as annoyssed bhows 8 Solid South, explanations begin o be furs’ nished of the reason ayd triis inwardness of the spparent remarkable unapimity with which the Democratic candidates were sup- ported, and of the spparent wweeping sway of party hoes in thoss States. ‘The letter of Judge Maicxey, the Rgpublican caudidate for Congvass in the -Ciarleston District of South’ Curoling, describes “how it wus dono” in that porticplar locality, and with @ change of wuames end places his account would doubtlsss apply to tho State st large, It had become wvident thut tho Tifle-Club and Red-Bhirt plan, carried out during the eampaign, had not had the de- sired offect of anppressing the Repnblicsn vote, and it was obviously necessary to ro- sort to more direct means of making sure of big majorities for the Demoeratio candi- dates. This was accomplished by the simple process of unrestricted ballot-box stuffing, which was rendered casy by the carefnl omission to appoint mny but Domocratio clection officers. Judge Macxxy givea several samples of the wny he was beaton. In one voting-placo in Charleston his Democratic opponent was ‘‘given” & majority of 3,608, whilo it can be conclu. sively domonstrated that it was physically impossible for moro than 1,200 votes to have boen recoived. In this way Judge Macxer was beaten by 6,527 votes in Charleston. Similar frands were prachiced at nearly overy voting place in the cily. A dispatch from Lonisiana shows (hat ballot-box stuffiog was .tho rule in that State, nund if the truth is over lenrned 8a {0 the conduct of the cleo- tious in the Bolid South, it will appear cqually clear that by a common nnderstand- ing this penceful plan of fraud was every- where substitated for violence and intimida- tion, Becretary Evanrs has written another let- {er to Minister WeLsm on the subject of tho alifax award, this timo attacking in the plninest and most unequivoeal terms tho fair- uess, justico, and binding force of that award upon the Government of the United Btates. He tnken direct issuo with the find- ing of the Halifax Commission, both as' to the amount of the award and the manner in which it was rendered, holding that the sum of §5,500,000 is an ontrageous and utterly indefensible prica to set upon the benefits of twelvo years of fish. ing in Canadian watoer, nnd that, if paid at all by the United States, it muat be regarded ns covering the vnluo of those benofits in porpetuity, and not for any term of years; and also imnking the objection that the adop- tion of this or suy otheraward by the Commis- sion by a bare mujority isnol in accordance with the terms of that clause of the Wash. jngton Treaty providing for such a Commis- sion, and that the award is thorefore mot binding upon this Government. The people of America will admire this kind of talk, and 8 n unit approve and applaud the firm stand taken by our Governmeni against the pay- mont of tha outrngeons extortion decided upon hy the British majority of the Halifax Commission. THE GOLD-FACTION AT WORK, Ar, Horace Wnitz publishes an article in tho current number of the Jaternational Re- tiew on the subject of silver coinage, from which we print the extracis to be found in Tue Trsuxe. Hardly bad the polls closed on Tuesday night when nearly all the organs of the gold-faction resumed the war for the demonetization of silver, and a semi-official aunouncement was made from Washingion that the President, in hia annual message, would reopen the controversy supposed to Lavo been sottled last winter, by advising tho abolition of the silver dollar. Mr. ‘Wnrre's paper is directed to the sama end. Wo linve alrendy stated why the Silver bill of last winter was modiCed by tho inser- tion of n ‘restriction on the amount of coinage; this was done to securo a suflicient vote in tho Senate io pass tho bill over the Excculive voto. ‘The lmitation contaived in that uct on the coinage of the silver dollar hos placed it intho pawer of an adverso Ad- ministration to measurably defeat tho cxecn- tion of tho mct. The Treasury has ropre- sented, and still represents, that it is not nblo to put the dollars into circulation; thnt tho moncy s not ealled for, bugremaing in the Treasury. Tho romedy for this is clear, plain, and" direct. If the Governmont for any causo can not or will not put the silver dollors in circulation, then give the conntry tho privilege it enjoyed from 1792 to 1873, of taking its silver to the minls and having it colned upon paying the cost of coining. Lot the mints be opened to the coinage of silver dollars on tho same termns that they are open to the coiuage of gold pioces, snd there will bo no diffoulty found in gotting silver dollars into goneral and extensive circulation, 11 tho machinery of the Government author- ized by law to poyall domands on it In silver dollars, whotlier for interest on the public dobt, for resumption and purchase of ‘bonds, or for any of the expenses of Gov- ornment, is unsble to put more than two millions and a half of silver dollars in cireu- lation in eight months, then let the Govern. ment givo the business over to the people,~ lot every man have all the dollars ho can find use for by having his silver coinod, just as he hns his gold coined, at the national mintp, Wa are willing to concede that it is among tho poassibilitics that a motallic coinage may bo in oxcess of the mecdsof the country, and that the time may come when it may be necessary to restriot the colnage tomporarily, either for o term or by reducing the amount annually coined. But that time {s not now. The country has had no metallic money for cightecn yeara ; tho country was practically froo of coin currency. Wo have, since the Silver sot of last February, coined sbout $16,000,000, two-thirds of which are in the Treasury, and this is n very long way from & sarfoit of the country. It will take sovoral yoars of the most liberal coinngoof silvor dollars to so gorge the American people with the money that they will demand its dis- continuance, Mr, Wurrs proposes that the bauks and moneyed institutions of ho United Btates unite and compel tho discontinuance of silver doltars, He proposes that thoy refuse to ac- copt silvor on deposit, and refuse to lvan mouey to any man who pays his notesin silver. The banks will hardly accept Mr. ‘Wirrz'a snggestions, and for several reasons, In the firut place, when'the bauks of Now York shall undertake to do busiuess outside of tho currency in general uso in the coun- try, then they may as well shut up shop. Other banks will be found fo take their place and do the business. In the second place, tho banks of the United Blates aro uot 0 a condition finaucially, nor in public con. fidenco, to undertake.aud carry out auy mensurea to coerce eithor the people or the Congress, In fifty days from now the Treasury Departmept will begin to pay oot coiu iu oxchauge for greenbacks, Mr. Wiurt, aid the bouk organs generslly, de. wand that the Treasury sball lock up all its silver, that no more bé coined, and that grepubacks bo redcomed in gold. It is pro- _posed that tho bauks whall upite, aud by refusing discounts, und by a geners! system of cussedness, shall coerca Congress Into theso measures, ‘The coutroversy on this silver question bas been renewud by the bauks aund by tho money-lenders, and, if it is to go on, then the banks oy rest assured tBat they will not be the victors, Once re. newed, lot the bauks prepare for the conse- quences. ‘They are regarded as a barden upon the country; they are claworing for “speciv resunption sud dojug nuthivg to aid with the American people, it may be that in party to that or any other contest. Tho will underinke to decido what funds n man shall pay his note in, or what kind of coin sliall be bankable, has no terror for the American publie. All that kind of argument whas disconnted a year ago. Nobody quailed ‘banks heve not nt this time half the popular support that they hind then. ceded Bunker Iill, the independenco of the silver, and from 1703 to this time (excopt for dollar. Since 1793 the Ameriean people have silver, and that privilege they will nover sur- render. surplus of Euarope. be shipped to this conn- now for sale in Europe, then silver in erdinary uets, in land, io machinery, in railroads, or ia to create a nso for it, and we can coin it to of American publicists who think it ovi- dence of high superiority to echio on all oc- casions the ruling opinions of English writ- erd. The want of bi-metalliam and the evil of mono-motallism are to<dsy crushing British industry and trade ns they have never been crushed befora, for the motallic wanta of the world, To domonetize silver Is to croate a demand for gold that wall give to it a vastly-incroused value a8 compared with all other forms of property. nll other forms of property immcnsely, It will sdd to tho principal and in- mont of debts an impossibility, and by its oxactions, amounting to confiseation, will elovate ropudiation to tho lovel of resistanco to tyranny. impoverish the people, rob thom of their earnings, sud tako away thelr substance, remomber that, when the issue Is narrowed down to gold exclusively or flat money, & greater crime, ‘botween the London 7'imes and the London News with reforence to Mr, Evanrs' lato dis- patohes on the fishery question, journal doclares that tho outrages committed Newfoundland are **antiquated subjocta”; involve *‘the loss of American self-regpect” THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1878 Talifax award in & corinin senas wonld be, Thongh the award was prior to the outrage, the time slipulnted for its payment has not yot expired. The treaty will not Lo violated on our side until paymont ia refused. The British Governmoent will therefora have set the precedent of violating the treaty, if 1t roluses cedrons for this Nowfoundland affair, It lota slip the whole strength of its position when, having first sanctioned a violation of tho treaty by the authorities of Newfound. land, it repronches ns for regarding tho troaty as void and of no effeot. Onr case, which was strong before, is impregnable now, The London T¥mes and that part of tho British nalion it represents are acrionsly in error if they suppose that the United States Governmeont will bo at all influenced in this matter by snoers; or the prospeot of * sur~ prising the Old-World nations.” Wo are 5o accustomed, indeod, lo surprising the Old- ‘World nations that wo should focl as if we had nissed n part of our voention it wo failed to continue to do so. Badiunge asido, the conduct of the American and the British Qovornments with reference to the Halifax award, when they come to be examined im- partially by the nations of the world, will reflcot no discredit upon the former Govern- ment. The most superficial - examination will show that we wers shamefully cheatod in the choice of place and umpire, that the vordiet was unjustly and corruptly rendered, and that tho treaty provisions were by tho Conrt of Arbitration itself overridden and annulled. To uso again the langungo of Mr. TLvants, go ofton qxfolml, “ The award did not comport with, but transconded, the terms of the submission,” and was therefore vold. As we havo over and over ngnin demonstrated in this connection, tho briefest stady of tho treaty will show that its provision witlt roforenca to robates for importations of Canadian fish-products into the United States wore violated. With this original ecnso to base the refudal of pnyment upon, wo shall havo no fear of **surprising the Old-World nations” if paymont is re- fisod. Much less will we apprehend such an undesirablo result, sinco the original case has been reinforced by the precedent of the violation of the treaty on the part of British subjeels. it Ara they prepared for an act of Congress requiring them on the 1st of January next to redeem their circulation over their own countera in comn ? Aro they prapared tohave the Government ent loose from them, and nnder no further obligation to farnish them a speclal currency in which to redeem thele notes? Are they prepared to havo their on- tiro cirenlation retived, and iis place filled with Treasury notes, redeemaplo in legal. tendor notas, or coin, twhich may bo silver or gold, at the option or convenience of the Government? Congress will be in secssion thirty days Leforo the date of resumption, and, if the banks want to try thelr strength that thirty days the banks may cease to hon threat that the banks may do this or do that, and that the New York Clearing-1Tonso thon, and nobody will quail now, and the Tho edinnge of silver dollars as a logal- tender is not & now policy in the United States. The American people were nceus- tomed to the uso of o silver dollar contnine ing 871} grains of pnre silver long bofore tho Union was formed. Such dollars pre. Colonies, nnd the adoption of the Constiju. tion. The Congress of 1753 but adopted and continued the silver dollar of 371} grains of tho brief time when it was secrotly demone- tiz8d) it has,been the standard American enjoyed the right and tho option to pay their dobts, public and private, i either gold or It is nominated in the bond, and they will neither be sednced nor driven to an sbandonment of it. If the banks want to force n Rtrugglo on that question, let them be prepared for tho conscquences. Tho buthon prica of sijver s governed by the law of demnnd and supply. Tho act of last winter remonctizing silvor has beon so oxacnted that it has created but a alight in- crensed demnnd for the metal. Suppose the IMPARSIAL SUFFRAGE, There is a growing sontiment in this coun. try in favor-of limiting the right of auffruge, or rather in favor of narrowing its present limit. Thero is o class, not inconsiderable in numbers, of persons who beliove that the Republio is destined to fml beeauso of the' fact that it s Dbnsed upon universal or im- partisl (malo) sulfrage. Home of theso per- sons propose to restore the property qualifi- cation of the carly Now England Constitu- tions. Othors nrge the establishment of tho intelligones qualification. All insist that grave danger imponds on account of the existing system of suffrage. Thoy point to tho bad manner in which large oitica are governed. They urge that this ill.govern- ment arises from the fact of the presenco in the aggregate of sufirago of a large eloment composad of viclons nnd ignorant persons. They point to tho lata Iabor troubles occur- ring throughont the land as evidenco of an alarming increaso in ‘tho ranks of tho desporate, daugerous ' classes, and Eay: “Theso aro all armed with tho right of suf. frage, nud thoy will oventunlly unito at the polls to strike down any effort to adopt meusures sufticiently vigorous and summary to restrain them from coutonplated assaults upon the rights of property, They point to the Cotnmunistic and Socislistic ordera ns the crystallization of dangerous idoas in solid, compaot form, and declare that theso orders are aggressive, that our Government of limited powers will at the pinch prove too weak to cope with them, that anarchy and revolution will supervene, aud Govornmental dissolution uitimately follow. [ These aro gloomy ‘viows, but, as thoy aro shared by wo insignificant number of good citizens, it is worth while to cousidor thom, and important to combat them if they are ill-founded. Wo think thom as shallow as they aro gloomy. It may be admitted that cities aro * plague-spota upon the body poli- tio,” and that thoy are, rolatively to tho en- tire population of tho country, increasing in sizo. But it should bo rememberod that tho worat political conditions oxiut only in cities of the first order, such ns New York, Philadelphia, aud Obicago, while the comparison which shows a steady in. crense of wurban over ruml pop- ulations places all citios, and even lurge towns, in the urban class. Nor should it be forgotten that great strides aro being made {n tho sproad of iutelligence, Tho raliwny, tho tolegraph, and tha press ove great cdn. cators, ‘They mako tho city and tha country one. Thoey uulfy all interests, and ronder homeogeneous the 46,000,000 of people scattorud from one end of the country to the other. As one orime, intelligeuce of which {a flashed hither and thither, shocks the whole country, provoking uuiversul pro- test, so one Urilliant Idea or heroie act, widoly difflused on the wings of tho light- ning, inspires millions of poople at the same momont of time with liko noblo seuti- menta. If the great city is s plague.spot, the vast country is n Lealing balm; and if the popalation of the city increases in groat. er ratio than formerly, tho increaso must come from tho pure, moral atmosphore of the country. Nor does tho countryman who now seoks tho city come 8o ill-prepared o8 formorly toresist itatomptations to vice ghd to cope witlr the difficultics thet besot the avenucs to social and other distinctions. Tho pross has portrayod to hiut, athousand times, not only the grand opportuuities but the al- turing dangers of ocity life; He becomes warned, and consequontly armed, to do battle in the broader old of enterpriss. Tho fall of the ancient Republics may be traced .in large part to the iwwmorality and corrup- tion of city life. Bat iu that early time, in the absonce of the facilities of tho railway, the telegrapb, and the press, thore was little communication batween the rural and urban populations. 'The country had no sharo in the intolligence of the ocity, and-the city gained nothing by contsct wiih the virlues of the country, 'The peopls of the country know little of their Government but to fight for it, and the people of the city regarded it chiefly as & gaudy display of barbarous mili. tary triumph, 1t is not strunge that such a Governmeut sbould soon gease to conmand both the affection and respect of its subjects. Comparisons institutod belween thq suclent try and coincd, then there being no longer o surplua in Europe, its bullion value must in. crense there; aud, when that value increasos there, then it will go back there. . If we can create a demand here for the silvor the form of bullion, needed for the supply of the world, must ndvanco in value, While here, it must be inveated in American products, It must bo put in agricultural or manufacturing prod- other improvements, 8o long as we bave the option to uso oither metal, wo will do as the Fronch do, uso the cheaper motal and dispenso with tho denrer. Thatis our right by law, natural usage, and by written con- tract with oll our creditors, The most dircet mode to improve the valuo of silver ballion the full capacity of our mints for soveral years to come, thereby creating ademand for it equal to the consumption of all tho de- monetized silver recently thrown upou the market. The policy of discontinuing the use of silver, and of makiug agreemontawith other nations to uso it no more, thus degrad. ing ona of our own richest products, is ex- tremely irrationnl; but pecutiar to that olass Tho supply of gold is wholly inadequate Tt will depreciate land and torest of all debts. It will render the pay- Let those who thus seck to Fistiem may be accepted as g escape from TRE FISHERY QUESTION, ‘There ia an importaut difference of opinfon ‘T'he former upon American flshermon by inhabitants of that they ought not to affect the payment of the Halifax award at tho timo stipulated; and that the refusal to pay the awanl will and *‘thesurprise of the Old-World nations,” 1t i interesting, after this positive statement, to road what the News has to say on the sub. joct. Itsays: % Therois no uso trying to dlsguise tho fact that Becretary Evarts' case has wome force in it. Tho right of fsh. ing acquired by the Unlted Btates ac- crued about two years Leforo the local law waa" passed,” under color of which the Amorican fifhermen in Newfound. land waters wore attacked. *‘Our Cowm- missioners forgot to reserve to the local Lugislatures the right of making regulations, ‘The question is onu of legal obligations, and cannot be too caliuly discussed on both aides, A reluctance to ivflict wrong should Lo at losst ns strong a3 the determination not to submit to ono.” We are not surprised at this difference of opinion. ‘The 7imes and the News bavo dif- fored scriously beforo in ‘the discussion of questions of Americad policy. What wo desire to call attention to is the fact that there is now a party in Eugland, and thet party the ropresentative of all that is liberal and enlightened in the uation, which beliaves the American claims for redress havo at least the color of justice in them, ‘This being so, it is comparatively unimportant to us what the London 7'¥wmes and othor orgaus of opin- ion liko it, which bave alwsys cordially dis- liked Amierican institutious, however warly thoy may have protended to adimire them, may have to ssy op the subject. ‘We have before now enforced claims in the face of preciscly sucly opposition as this, and we can do tho same agaiu. . . ‘The mistake the London Times is making lies in its denial of the obvious connection between the Halifax award aud the New- foundland outrage. Both pertain to the Troaty of Washington. 'The attack on our flshermey iu Newfoundland was 8 violation of that treaty, just as a fuilure to pay the times aro necessarily pointless. The condi- tiovs are widely dlusimilar, | s If we bave succeeded in showing that the modern city ought logically to gain in virtuo rathor than degoneratp into helpless vico and itic, wo bavo answered nearly all the objec tions to the cxwting system of suffrage in these United States; for it is not pretended that our form of government i unsuited to rural povuletivus. Ou the coutrury, 23 to strike it TRepublica*and the grest Republic of wodern to become a plague-spot on the body pol. zerland ia cited ns evidenco that a pastoral peoplo may liva and prospor under a simplo form of governmont; but it ia insisted that freat aggregations of people require for their government ropressive measurca too severe to be voluntarily solf-imposed. Fortunatoly, the conntry has just passed through a erisis which affords a powerful argnment in support of our position. Both intolligence and virtuo of a high order were united in the suffrages of the people at the polls on last Tuesday, Hard timos tempted thonsands of poor people, who have sulfered the extremes of privation these five yenrs, to liston with favor to the enticing arguments of Fiatists who promised prompt relief from all their woes. A great party, believed by many to be on the eve of advent to supreme power, added its indorsemont and volce to the nlluring promises of the Fiatists, It required intelligonca in the suffragist to discorn be- twoon tho truo and the falsefand virtue to resist the false, to overcome tha tempta. tion to dishonor. Buf these, the highest qualitics of good citizonship, wero found in amplo measure, ‘The Fiatists wero rebuked, tho Demoeratic party was repudiated, and the party that stood for tho Lonor of the people and the credit of tho nation was triumphantly sustained. ‘Nor was this re- sult achieved in the country alone. The city populations responded as nobly to the call of duty and honor as the populations of the rural distriots. Let it not be said, after the grand victory of the true sgainst thg falso, that free, impartial suffrago is & {ailure, liest passongor agont on the Intter's own gronnd; he conld straighten ont n contusion of trains by telograph with groater prompt. ness and skill than his most exporienced train-dispatcher; ho could dictate the torms of a pool by the rapidity of his calculations and the comprohensive information lways at lis command. He was the mannger of the longest railrond In the world,—having 4,700 miles of road under his jmmediate personal supervision. It was under his dircetion that the Pennsylvania trunk lina.grew into n groat tree, with roots and branches that reach out in every dircction. In his caso more waa exacted from his management than ffom that of Vannzrnivr, for VANDRREILT virlu- nlly owns his roads and can guickly silence » diseatisfied stockholder by Luying up his interest, Bcorr, howaver, never had tho ald of great wenlth, but mansged the vast interests under liis direction with such thoronghness and so much personnl mognotism that ha wasal- ways able to vanquish the cliques and over- rido the embarrassments that were constant- ly throntening him, It is said that during tho great strike and riots of 1877—which’ wero to the Pennsylvania Company what a war is to a nalion—8corT wont to the dopot in Philadelphin, nevor stopped ontside of it for two weeks, and assnmed the chief com- mand, with a telegraph instrument at his side. Ho has always been tho man for an emergency,—composed, intrepid, and nlert under all cironmatances. Scorr's personal oxperiences with tha Tex- ns Pacifio project have probably had more to do with his enrly phostration, if such his illness really §s, than all the other trials of his career. The completion of a new rond to the Pacific coast as a pnrt of the vast railroad system he managed has been his dearest mnbition. Tho project went on swim- mingly enough till tho pgnic came, , Then came & ornsh, and ruin stared SBcorr in tho face ns the guarantor of tho notes and bonds that hod been issned, His troubles wero incrensed by the organization of a faction against him in tho management of the Penne sylvania concern,—moved to tako &ides sgainst bim, probably, by the growing jeal- ousy of President Troxesox's friends, who saw that Bcorr was taking off the laurels. Buforo this faction had succeeded in crip- pling him, however, Mr. Trosrsox died, and Bcorr succeeded to the Presidency. The new powers and inflnances acquireddy his cleva- tion enabled him to straighten out his indi- vidual Yability on Texes Pacifle paper, sub- stitute tho construction-bonds, continue tho work, and bring to bear upon the American Congress an almost irresistiblo pressure fora snbsidy to carry the project through to com- pletion. But theso struggles loft their im. pross, and Scorr is payiog the ponalty of too much ambition and overwork. Wao hope it may prove that rest and comploto {solation from business for a fow months will restore 1him, for ho is too young a man and too able o man to be well spared. At the samo time, we havo roason to fear that his condition is distressing and perhape parilous, .llm Vige-Prasldent, chosen hy o Domocratie ‘Henato, would bocomo President, The obviona moral of all thin is, that the Repub. licana had better prevent the Prosidentlal Melaction going into Cougress and elnet thotr candidates by a decided majority of tha Eleetoral College. And from the Present outlook they atand a mighty gaod chiance of doIFg it The Tammany way of doing busine been copled by the Canadian politiclans, l’):m:‘:.’. with & auccass that fs hardly up tothe American atandard, After a trlal lasting three weeks, the Criminal Court of Montreal has foung Aperanp Forux®, AurioNnss Cunsmiy Avorrns Lastancns, and Isatz Prrox uml;.; of ballot-box stufling at the late Parliamentar, clection in the County of Jacques-Cartler, 1; the nterest of Mr, LAVLAMME, the Minlster of Justice In the Mackznzis Cabluet. The crim- [nals were all out on bail, and, on belng catleq futocourt after the verdict was rendered, mnde default. Tho punishment is very heavy,~three yeara in the Penitentiary,—and it {8 belleved thay they have all absconded. They are oll men holding goort positions i soclety,—two of them beinr atterneys, onc a phyalcian, and the other amerchant. Great bxeitement exists in Mon. treal over the event, nnd the authoritics of tie city aro determined to stop ballot-box stufling by making these offenders feel tha full force of the law. The ‘Government conducted the prosccution, and the expeuscs amounted to over 810,000, During the trial 15 witnesscy wero cxamined, X e —— The marriage relation scems to be in a rort of muddic in the Kingdom of Italy, and astrong effort will be made on the part of the Govern. ment to get n law passed which will remedy the evil complained of. Under tho law as It now stands only civil marriages are recognized as valid and bioding, but marrlages by a priest are not prohibjted where a civil marriage has al- ready been contracted, Deplorable results have followedl from this anomalous condition of affairs. In the provioces the pricsts have eu- couraged religious cercmonies wittiout prelimi- nary civil marriages, aod in very many cases the womon who have entered Into what they sup- poscd to have been o legitimate relation have been abandonnd by thefr partners, and left with children who, in the cycs of the law, were bastards, born in concubinaze. Much con- fusion and distress have also arisen on account of righte to property, as tho Courts do not re. gard o8 cffective a marriage by a priest, Itis, indeed, strange that in soold a country as Italy thera shonld bo such a serfous defect fn regard to a ceremony that underlfes the very structure of clvillzed soclety, and involves the rights and tappincss ot so many people. ——— OHI0'S CONSERVATISM AND OHIO'S FOLLY. ‘The cditor of the Tolede Commercial has been indnlging in some oxousabla cxuMation over Ohio’a inflnonce in bringing about the recent triumph for sonnd monoy. The occa- sion scomed appropriate to thia loyal Ohloan to vindicate hus Stato against the slurs that havo been put npon it Iatterly under the as. sumption that it has sought an unduo in. fluence in national affairs. He recalls tho fact that it was Ohio that gave Joun Broven 100,000 majority ata critical period of the War, and thus turned a tide which canght up other Statos aud opened the way for Lix- co's re-clection, Ho also reminds the un- grateful peoplo of this conntry that it was Oliio, in 1875, that atrangled tho ** rag-baby” for the tino baing, and called & halt “on o progress of the Democratio party, which did not got in full motion again in time to cap- ture the Prosidency in 1876. Finally, com- ing dewn to this yoar's elecflgn, he deseribes tho sitnation ns follows: 1‘nerinn was to make a special rally In the olec- tion of Congressmen, uud by hieary inroads on the Ltepubticans so menacu the policy of honest money down. Uence the coalition of Denocruts and Natlounlists scen on every hand In the rnpport of Conzressmen. No store was left unturned in this effort, with a prospect almost as dlvheartentni to ihe ltopublicany av it was assuring to thelr opponents. Nouw, ogain, did the resuit hang in even balance, with appcarnuces avainst the friends of houasty, Tueir only hope iny in aomo favorable resuit of the pending cleciions which shiould turn vaci the tide of sentimont, aud by ‘a ntrong popular expression siay the tendency of ovents, atup’ tue advance of Fiatism, and atrenytien the friends of resump- tlon. As in '6d and 75, it was Ohlo's privilego frst ta speak in thin criste, ~Aod most wrandly did eho improve it. In a voto ruversing the Democra ic majority of 22,500 of 1477, and glving u Jepublican majority of over 11,000 on Congressmen,-~the real teat vole,—she cz'led & hait” to Fiatlem which thrilled the nation with its clearncas, paralyzed the ndvocates of repudiation throughout the land, and thus opeaed the way to tho briillant Repuolican victories of Tuesuny last, The potency of Ublo's voice In this connection Ia conceded ot every hand, and it Isdue to her and ta truth that the’ facts be recovnized, Sho aeoks only this and the cllective co-operation of otner Stuies In the support of the principles and policy for whlch she has thus offcetively contributod her offorts: and when resuwmption 1s asedrod and ticipation {fi the rich fruits of auch ruu’lu. o 1t is propor to udmit thav the Toledo Com- mercial has set up no claims in babalf of Olio's usefulnoss which are not confirmed by the history of the three periods doscribed, But strict impartiality also requires tho state- meont that Ohio Las in every inatance been largely rosponsible for the troubles which her donsorvative oltizens afterwards helped to correct. Not to go back of tho late elec- tion, 1t must not bo forgotien that Ohio forced tho issue of flu¢ mouey to tho oxtent that it acquired tho familiar designation of tho *Ohio idea.” " Ewmo promulgnted it, ‘Tuunaay adopted it, aud tho lesse}” pol. itlcions soized upon it ns & now po. litical bonanza., It was renlly tho ont. growth of an enrlior ** Ohio ides,” incubated by Pexorzrox about 1867, and repudiated Ly tho poople at thd polls in the Presidontial eloction of 1868. Tho samo idea found new lifo under a more doceptive guise thls year, and it was chiefly Ohlo agitation which gave tenfliclont immpuleo to spread over the country. Wao have no disposition to divert any credit from Olijo that is due to the copservative and inteltigent people of that Btatd for their part in defoating Fintism ; but, at the same time, wo wish they could exerciso sufficient roproasing ioflucnces over tho idlots and demagoguen that disgrace their Common- wealth to keep them from forcing such des- peratd issaes upon the country. Ex-Gov, Cunrmir, of Pennaylvania, who left the bed and board of the Republican porty, like Judge TRuMnYLL, Jony M. PaLues, and Jons F, FARNSWORTII, without just causcor excuse, owes his defeat for Congress in sn overwhel. ngz Democratfe district to the mistrust of the old Bourbons, ‘Lhey wero afrald ho had nut sufllvienily forgotten his old Republican prinel- ples, and 50 they stayed away from the polls and lot him be defeated. The Democratie can- didate for Governor in that district receiveds mafority of 4,000, yet CURTIN i3 beaten by 26 votes, Mr, CurTIN must be convinced by this that he is by all odds too respactable n gentle- man cver to make' an occeptablo Democrut. Tho unwashed do not Jiko him and never wiil. e e e—— e ® The New York Times of the Oth nst. says that the Democratie papers fo that city are very slow in getting the maznitude of thelr defeat o New York through their wool: With the exceptlon of the Sun, otr Democratlc contemporaries appear to And the ntmoat dillicoty in telling tho trutn sbout the Repblican victory 1n the State, The IVorid, for oxamulo, ultes fnslet- ing on Wednesday that InapLry was clecied o tho Court of Anpenis, ostimated ycsterday tust Daxnronru's plural y from 6,000 10 10, + 000, Tho returns stated n the Zlmer, thiak {t was oarl , and_additional returas ) gave ground farth 7 ¥hort of 10,000, - In regard (o Aeseniblymen tie Democratic journals have beon wquully slow to recogmzo the truth, Nuno of them have been avio 1o aduis the election of more thau winety, whils tho octual number i ninety-cig! e —e— 1t {s undoubtediy true, as stated by on ex- change, that tho gerrymanderiug schemes fo Obto and Missonrt,and hulldozing in the South, were tho bulwarks which wlono eavel th Democracy Srom belng restored 1o o minority fn Congress. A fmr vote in the South and au hou- est arrangement of districts [n Oblo and Mis- sourd would have ziven tho Rapublicans a good working mojorlty. 1t will bo interesting to ob- servo what the Southern Democrats will do with thelr potver, TheNorthern Democrats cx- ist slmply as an attachinent to the Solid Svuth —na eat's-paws Lo pull out tho chestuuts. et — e We open to the public to-day the two leading chapters in the hitherto sealed and mysterious book of lifo-insurance. Tho veil of secrecy with which fnterested oflicers hava covered the subject is now lift. ed, and avory policy-holder may gee his trno situation ms. owner of certain distinet de- posits hold as **resorves.” From the carcfully-prepared tablog, xhich aro to bo found on -auolber page it will be scen ot a glance how much the deposit part of a policy-holder's premiums nmount to at tho differout periods in tho existence of the policy. Wo remark ngain, what has baen previous- 1y stated in Tim Tomusg, that in payieg a° uniform promium for any kind of lifo polioy tho holdor is doing two different things at one time: First, paying a certain sum for insurance and oxponses; and, second, mak- ing o savings doposit every year, which be- longs of right to him and to him only, and which steadily increases. Bo that, ss his de- posit’ incronses, tho insurance done by the company regularly diminishos, For illustrations In tho socond table, tho party who cutors a Company st the age of - 40, aad pays sixtcon promiums, has then to bLis credit on doposit account $713.24, while tho company has at risk only $286.76 on o £1,000 policy, A proper understanding of his rights will lead ovary futare polioy-bolder to have in- _sorted in his polioy & specified sum to be paid him upon surrender of hia policy and his de- posits, Tho protenso that lio has no right to “this fand, which some companics make, is ono that is most outrageons, and such a claim, by whomsoover mude, ison a par with the stand-and.doliver " of a road agent. Mr, Davip Kigk, the Greenback lunatle can- didate for Congress fn Pittsburg ol the late election, 18 accused of trylng to mnke tmus bet- ter by the distribution of about 815,000 amonk thic votera of his dlstrict, ‘The day before elee- tlon Lie drow out of one of the city banks $1,00 fu §5 DLllls, probably for campalifn purpoies. Ho declared that by would leave town i Lie was defeated, but he still lingera. The Republicay candidate, Mr, Enngrr, who s elocted, and Mr. Duer, the Domocratio candidate, each got more votes than Mr. Kins, —————— Persons In office, durluir tho next scsslou of Congress, wiil hieedthe followlng watnlne whea thoy pass the tile thot usually covers the halr- less cranium of Gen, uuru:ux] : Panter, *ware that hat ‘l".nurr::l;‘x“‘: a :nnh: klck— Too oft & tile liae toat Couceals a stone vr brick, 1f the election this year had been for President as well as for Congressmoen and State officors, the result would have been as followss e———— e Many bad cpltaphs have been wiitten for Bes BurLss sinco clection, but thls ous i fair: Poor Bexsaxin and bia blarooy ! ‘Yney buried him duep Whare the Urcenbackers woep— & And weots un bis lowb-slo KEAnyeY, THE WEATHER, Orrica or Tnm Ciiky HioNAL OreicEA Wasminaroy, D, €., Nuv. 11—1 a. m.—[ndicas tlons—For Tenuessee, tho Ohlo Vailey, apd ihe Lower Lake recion, cloudy weather, frequeat ruin, warm southorly winds, aliing baronien, followea in tho west portion Ly rislug baromes ter and northwest winds. For (tuis) the Upper Lako' region, cloudy weather, with rain or snow, wara southerly winds, falling barometer, followed by rhalog varometer aud colder northwest winds. For o Upper Misslssippl Valley, clondy weatber, with rain or snow, {ulluwed by clearing weather, cold norcnwest winds, higher pressure For tho Lower Missour! Valley, colder, clear juy weatlior, northwest winds, bighcr pressure. Tue tumlnemum will remuly abure frecag 1 ons. wi‘.’!:::‘:m?rw signals contiouc at Alpeos, Mack- ILLNESS OF COL. TROMAS A, BCOTT. Wao fear that the published reports about ColeBcorr's illncss ara only too true, Iu- formation haa reached this eity that he has had a stroke of paralysis, that tho brain sees to hiave beou touched, and that he bas been taken away to Europe with small hope of hin full recovery. Col. Bcorr had a slight shock of the same kind some years aggo, which will mako the present go the harder with him. I'ho wonder iv, not that this prostration hag coma uow, but that it has not come sooner, Limwatipn of overworked men, Col. Boorr was conspicuous for fucessunt application, and probably no man ever lived who bore up louger under & sovero wvntal and physical strain, Though ouly about 57 years of age, when ho might buve been iu the fullness of robust health if ho had lived a quict life, he is how broken, and perhaps Loyoud recov- ery. ‘The lemson of such a carcer hag becn preached too oftbn to uved any repolition now, Kentucky Teunessee, Miasourl Lepubii ects Dewocratic Llectors, " Republican maJority. v es®eroesvassassnorre 67 Bhould the fmprobable contingency occur of no Presidential candidate veociviog 8 clear | joaw City, Grsud ilayen, Bectlon 37 Chicsxo, 1t has been the duty of Tue Tusuxe dur- | majority, of the Electoral vote it 1880, the Mibwraukes, Sectlon 3; Escanuby, Marqueilty ing the past year or two to antagonize Col. | House of Roprescntatives will- chooso the | uud Dulut Soort in his effort to sccure a Government subsidy for his Texas Pacifio Railroad, but, in doing this, we bave never underestimated his great ability ; the fight Tuz Taisuxg has made upon the scheme has Laou the more iutense, perhaps, because We have always rocognized in its promoters groat personul power aud influcuce. Scorr ks been one of the. remarkable men of our tinle, Belf- relisnce and conscious power have carried Lim over many & gulf whero a weaker man would have been wrecked. His great ex- ccutive ability was fully demonstrated 1o the War Department, where, as Assistant Becre- tary during the sazly past of the War of the' Rebellion, bp was the fizst to introduce sys- temn, discipline, and efflciency. Of courve it has been az a rsilroad mapsger that he has earued Lis greatest fame. 1o was probably LOCAL OLIERYATIONS, Presidont from among the three highest can- # e didates on the Elcotoral vote, voliug by. Btates, cach counting ono vote, the sawe to be determined by o msjority of the Xouse s delegation, 0 0 bene States' bn wAlch Repudlicans aave o ualarllf of | 101 b 2600 43 (Re Representatices—Colorada, Couuccticut, 3. | * Mastmurs, T41 nals, lows, Kausas, Malue, Massachusouis, Slichl- T kX gan, Minnesota, Nobrusks, Nevads, Now Wuwue ahire, NowJervoy, New Yark, Puuusyivauls, lthode Ialand, Vermoni, and Wisconsiu—ia all 15, Atules kaving delegations wuk a Demacratic majority—Alatams. xn.uun. Delaware, Flurida, Georgls, K:umck{. Loulsiana, Marylaud, Aisside uippl, Noris Carollin, OI:X;;.“Unie.mn.u outi Caro- ‘cuncesce, I | Ve Vi Klots, Tolaly 17, T S e Califoruia Las yet to elect, and tho vote of Indisua is i the bands &} G. Dx La Matza (National supported by Democrats), the lo- diana delegation stauding Republicans, G; Democrats, 6; Nationals, 1, If the Repub. licans should oarry three of the four districts tho most practical ‘and thorough of | in California, 88 they probably will, it wonld | Gians the railroad 1aagnates of tho coun- | still bo inthe power of the Indisna Demo. | LiteHity; e try. Ue was @ master of all the | cratic Greeubacker to prevent an eloction by i details of his business. e could [ voting for bis own candidate or for the reconstruct 8 tariff mozo quickly than bis bout fivight sgent ; be could out-talk his live- L] Demnocratic (thus preventing a majority of Wk g PRy the States forany caudidete), Ju which event Ciciesdie EERELERLLYEL