Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 13, 1878, Page 4

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PARIS, France—No, 16 Itue de Ia Grange-Batellere, H.MiuLzn, Agent LONDON, Eng.~American Exchange, 440 Strand. Hxxuy F. 011110, Agent, BAN FRANCISCO, Cal. AMUSEMENTS. McVicker's Theatre. Modison street, boiween Dearborn an! = ere gagement of the Birakosch Itallan Uyeiw " Alde" Hooley's Theatre. Tandoiph street, between Clark and LsSaile, En- Ragement of the Lingard Troupe. **Our Loys." Al 4r0oon and evening. Haverly's Theatre, Dearborn strect. corner of Monroe, Engagement of she Colville Fally Company, **Our Ciodereils.” Afternoon and evenlog. Academy of Maslc, Halsted street, between Madison and Monroe. Va- ricty, novelty, and apeciaity performauces. Afternoon ncd evenlog. Hamlin’s Theatre, Clark strect,opposite the Court-House, Engagement of Waguer & Cotion's Minsteels, MeCormick Mall, Clsrx street, corner of Kinzie. Prof. Cromwell wiil fliustrate ** [reland, tho Emersid lale,™ Metropolitan Theatre, Clark strect, opposite Sherman House. tertatument, Aiteroeon and oveniny, Folly Thenatre, Degplaines street, between Washington and Madlson, Engagernent of the Female Minatrels, Afternoon and ovening. Variety en+ Exposition Duilding, ‘Lake-Front, foot of Adsms strect. Kniarisjoment for thie Beuenit of the Houso of the Uood Shephend. 8, BLANET LODGE, N0, 271, As, Fu & A. M,—Stated 1l 76 Slonri :‘!'"{’E in breisen "ore . . vitca: GEQLOE GARDNEIL, W. M, \VEflNESD:\Y, NOVEMBER 13, 1878. mm‘lnmz.nuun s (¥ dialiy Greenbacks at the New York Stock Ex- changa yosterday closed at 093, e Tho National Woman's Suffrage Associa. tion begins its annual session at Indisuspo- lis to-day. The channel botween Montreal and Quebec las been deeponed to twenty-two feet, and tho Oavadian Govornment has naver had Copt. Baps or tho jstty syster. In the Convintion of Tiallway Commis- sioners which met at Columbus yesterday ton States woro represented. Commissioner Jonn Warzsr, of Missourl, was elocted Pr:widsnt. K ETTTE————— The sand-lot hoodlums are in a mutinys aud Keanney has been telegraphed to roturn to Ban Francisco nt once. Ho has the por. mission of oll the Cis-Nevada peoplo, even Bzn Burpes pr e — ] Savenory replies to Mr. Evarrs, and in- slsts upon the English ‘Intorpretation of the Treaty of Washington. Tho two Becrotaries ara wide apart, though the award will prob- ably Lo paid undor protes! Gov, Ropiveon, of New York, has issued his edict bonishing what of Tammany waea left nt the Novomber election, Evon Boss Krery muat vacate the Comptroller's office. Tivpex's friends cloim that he dewanded this reform at the hands of the Governor. e —— The Distriet of Columbia Commissioners - aro bankrupt, and the ‘fressurer of the Unitod Htates biag refusod to honor any more of thuir drofts, Taosas . Bayaw, of Chi- cigo, ia one of -the Commissioners, and the public can rest assurcd that every dollar which has passed through his hands will be honostly nccountad for, S —— ‘When rogues fall out, honest men get their dues. Bex Butier tel ls a Now York jour- natist that Keanvex's speeches did him moro Ligrm thao good ; that he nover asked Lhim to moke speeches for him, and that ho nover paid hitn any mouey. ‘The Intter is the most probable statoment in BurLer's interview, ——— Tho Workingmen of Boston held a Gdn- vention last night which is described: as tho most turbulent and disorderly over hald there. Dennis Kzauser presided, but soms, of the more decent delegates went up on the staud, sbook their flsts under his nose, and wanted to koow whut right he had to bo thero uud meddling with loca) politics. D. J. Kivg, a hatter, wos nominated for Mayor, e Judge LroNanp, United States District Attorney in Louisiana, reached Washington Yestorday, and laid before the Preaident full , details of tho outrages committed in Caddo Parish both before and on the day of the November ¢lection, He describes how even United States clection officers were intimi. dated and driven from the polls. The full text of hiy recital will be found in agother column, e ——— A day or two ago Taz Trwusg announced the copture of tho defaultivg Democratio ‘Treagurer of Btephenson, and his roturn to -tte jail of that county, and now the dis- patches state that Gronex O. Tuosreoy, who was Clerk of {Lat county, and who absconded, also a defaulter, in 1575, bas vl untarily returned’ and given limself inlo custody. .A kuowledge of orimes committed is 6 1008t romorseless dotestive, ’ ————— Hiczy Bracs, personal’ Searstary to tho Poreign Office, Ly command of the. Queen trausmits o Landyome testimonia) to Ford Dusreniv uuder date of Qpt, 16, * Her Mujesty’s Government have not failed tp no. tica the Ligh petimation and regand in which: your Lordship hes been held by all olagses of Caneda ™ uight very. justly have included wle..iy ot the United States, by whomi| the retiziug Governor-General s greatly ud- mired, . e —— Becrotary BuxuMay deniea tbat an order: Loy been issued by him withdrawing from geoernl circolation United States one and two dollar notos, nor Las their cicculation been limited. They bave been lssued to everybody who dewanded thew, but @ yeur sgo, the supply being in excess of tho de- maund, the Bureau of Fngraving stopped printing them. After tha Ist of January no National Bauk bills of aless denomination than 95 will b issmoed. The Sacretary does not admit that the chief end of lifein to force a circulation of silver, nor is he willing to deny the people the use of paper money it they want it. e e 8o soon a8 it became known in New York that the November elections had decided agninst the Fiat.Greenback craze, bankers and pereons secking investments became buoyant and hopeful. The First National Bank of that city alome hea sold over $9.000,000 of Government sccurities, while all the savings banks and insurance compa- nios have made large purchases, The defeat of the Greenback movemont {nsures on hon- est payment of all the Government's obliga- tions. vseTmne— The International Commercial Convention mot in Farwell Hall at noon yesterday, and wag temporarily organized with Gov. Bross in the chair. A large number of delegates were presont. Emzny A, Bronss welcomed the delegates to ChicAgo in & neat speech, and Col. Grorar H. Hanmow, on behalf of the Governor, extendeda similar welcame from the Btate, Tha Hon. Groraz W. Mon. u18, of Kontucky, was elooted President of the Convention. Tho scssions promise to be harmonious and interesting, — Ettu Brute! Even so itis. The anto- erat who presides aver tho destinies of the New York Sun has utlercd Lis anathoma, and the political orb of Saxven J, Truoex bes sunk into the cloud-bauk of obscnrity, never more to_nppear above the horizon, The fiat of condemnation has gona forth, and, hka the sickly candle, tha groat Wrecker goea out with an unsavory odar. The cipher dispatches aud the Snatanic conrlers who did the fetching nud earrying of those fraud. scented mossnges of the Electoral period bave become too much for even Daxa's sense of parlisan proprioty, and he gives the fatal signal which consigns the great Centenl Figure to the tomb from which avon the power of the * the bar'l " caunot resurrect him. The hand that directs the course of the Sun does not exactly writo Fraud upon the brow of the ancient Usnfruot, but mer- cilessly consigns him to the limbo of the Tm- possiblo g0 far as the Presidency is con. oyroed. — An infimation of the advent of the new order of things foreshadowed in the Presi- dontial intorview is conveyed in tho gratify- ing intelligence that the Federal Government in nsserting its anthority among the elaction. rasoals of Florida, Tha plan down thero, in all enses whore the bellot-boxes have not been ndeqnatoly stoffed, is for the county canvassing officers to ‘thrgw’out upon any sort of pretoxt onongh ' votes to sccure tha defeat of the Republic- sn candidates. Now & ‘. Congressional cloction is an affair “In which the Fedoral Government may look into, and it is doing that vory thing, . Severa! of theso extra-official manipulators of rsturns have been arrested by Deputy United States Mar- shals, and held In heavy bail to answer for thoir offcnses ngainst the United States laws, Thera ig o fine flold for this kind of mission. work {n Bouth Caroliva and Louisiana, and its incoption by the Marshala in those Btates will be awaited with interest, 1t hias baen 9 Novembor elections that they resulted not only in domonstrating tha real strongth of the Republican party in all States of tho Union where a fall and fair expression through the ballot-box was per. mitted, but also in the complete restoration of unity end harmony in the Ropublican rauks, The corroctness of this view is now confirmed by the romoval of the oaly sorions subject of disagreement within the party, which was, but is no more, the Presidont’s so-called Bouthern poliey. After nearly two yoars of faithful and courageouns adhesion to the plan of concilintion and tho cultivation of Lettor relatians between the ssctions to which tho President was committed in his lotter of ncceptance and fnaugural mesange, tha policy is now admitted by the President to be a failure, 8o far as regards the accom- plishment of the desired rosults. Ho has kept faith with the peopla of the South un- der most trying circumstances, and at the risk of disrupting the Ropublican party, only to find, on the very first occasion af- forded for test of the question, that tho Bouthern people have utterly falled to keep fnith with him, The conciliation has been all on ono sido. In tho canvass which pre. caded the clections of Nov. 7 freedom of political action wns a thing unkoown in the greater part of tho South, testimony whero. of heas beon brought to the notice of the President in' maoner amd form such as admitted of neither doubt nor de- njul; while the tremendons system of ballot- box-utufling resorted to for the purpose of uvercoming by fraud what violence hadfailed to wips out of the Republican party in the Bouth bas domonstrated the absunce of po. litical and moral integrity along with tolera. tion and fairness, It now remnins for tho Prosident to do bis duty under the Constitu- tionaud the laws to punish crimes and to protect citizens of whatever party in the .excroise of their politicul rights, In an evi. doutly nuthorized publication by the National Republican in Wnshington the President aunounces bis determination to deal enmt storn justice 8o far as fu his power lies, aud in futuro to haudle the Bouthern question without gloves. The Bourbol of tho Filteenth Dis- trict are laying up wralth ogeinst thom. selves in nttompling to steal awsy Fou. avTux's eloction, becouse in Shelby County hig namo was spelled upon some of the tickots without the final **4,” and in holding back returns in cortaln townships in Josper County, some distance away from tho rail- road, in order to doctor them and overcome his houest majority, Mr. Fomsyrus is the Presidant of tho Agricultural Htate Grange, and more 8 Granger than a Grecabacker, as \lia'huvnot yet subscribed to the schiomes of the crazy Piatista. Are not the Demoorats making a serious blunder in trying to putia Fonsrrax's place their man Dxcios; whom many of their own party bolted,~an illiter. ate, obicurs, narrow-winded, small, con. tiacted Bourbon? Are they not aware that an ambiguity fu the name on a ballot, the omimion of a letter, or even a more serious tulsspelling of tho name, doos not invalidste sn election, and that this has beon decided over and over “pgein by the Comuwitiea on Electious. The ayray of precedents is as long as the moral, law, and givea the Democrats no hope of. stealing Forsyrux's scat. Iy it not rather wean wnd contewptible, after all the Jove and affuction that Demoorats bave protosted for Greenbackers, that they should resort to the sourvy trick of trying to steal the soat of tho ouly Greenbacker elected in this Blute? Tho THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1578, Democraty have been guilty of many mean things, but this may carry off the palm for inefflable monnness, It now mppears proba- ble that the Qreenbackers may havo the balauce of power in the next House, Shounld such be the enso, and should the Bonrbon Drcivs, by any underhanded contrivanee, at- tempt to steal ForavTig's soal, we hopo they will hoist him out of it, and, whilo their hands nre in, they might as well keop on hoisting nutil several other thieves from Sonth Oarolina and Louisinua ate made to let go of their stolen proport; THE 8UBSIDY POLICY. Among tho qusstions which may bo forced upon tha Commercial Convention will bo that of recommending Congress to subsidize ocenn.steamehip lines by bounties from the National Treasury. The ingenuity of ihe man who makes Legging o profession is re. markable. The skillful pauper lifts imself from rags and vagabondage to become n pabe lia bancfactor, When he asks alma, it is for ahigh and noble purpose; it is to clevato mankind, to add new lustro to the public Lonor, and, fter feeding the poor, rewanl the faithful ngent. Some yenrs ago Jons Roach, the American shipbuilder, went be- fore » Cowmmitteo of Congress, and, in all the dignity of & man anxious to carn his own bLread by his own labor, bLravely told the Committee that, as n buildor of iron ships, he nmcorned to be n beg- gar; that bo neked no alms, gharity, or subsidy; bhe wanted nothing, asked nothing of Congress but the frecdam lo build American ships in Amerioan yards) that bo and his associstes were deniod this freedom by o law which excluded thew from the parchase of mnterial excopt at & cost whieh forbid competition on the part of any American ship with those built elsewhero, whero shipbuilding was not punished as a crime. Braveand honest words werothese; but they were nddressed to ears closed to reason aud justice, Years of continued oppression has brought Joun Roacn to the lobbies of Congrees, where ho now kncels asking chari. 4y instead of froedom, In the Chicago Cou. vention to-day, perhaps, will be Leard pit~ eous wails praying Congress to convert the National 7Treasury into a Governmental soup-house, that Jory Roaom and his nsso- clates, whom thoe Government has reduced to pauperism, may have that food they are not sllowed to carn, - An argament which may be used for plun- dering tho Public Treasury for tho personal gain of n few persons is that no sabaldy ia nsked ; that it fs proposed only to vote annually out of tho National Treasury a cer- tain sum to pay for the transportation of tho mall between say Now York and RloJanciro; that this payment is not a subsidy booause it is for a mervice performed. Boston, Now York, Philadelphia, Baltimors, Now Orlenus, Galvaston, Mobile, Savannak, Norfolk, and other Atlantic ports, sll ask that Congress ahall vote monoy out of the Tressury to ¢n. able persons to build and operate steamships under the protoxt of paying for the trans- portation of the ocoan mails. Horo are somo of the lines asking for national money : Lings. ter. Sun Franclsco (o Japa; Ban Fraocieco to Austealls Distance , Add for roturn . Miles In ona round trip on all the lin 500 Wo approximate the distances, but the above figures will not vary muoh from the actual fact, This schemo does not include the claims of Philadelphlia, nor of Boston, for steamships to secure Southern trade; it does not include tho linos botween Baltimore, Sa- vannah, Now Orleaus, Norfolk, Philadelphia, and Now York to Great Britain, France, and Gormony; nor does it include any lines to tho Paciflo Btates of Bouth America, There is not tho slightest difficulty in the receipt and forwarding of mails to any of the countries named, so tho pretext of paylng for the trausportation of mnila fa altogather too limsy to hido the renl schemo that the United States wmust pay from two to four millions of dollars nunually to enable certain private compauloa to run steamships on the ocean, Who is there to disoriminate between theso schomos? Wiho is there to msy that the Government shall support one or more of theso aud excludo tho others ? If oue, why not the others? If not all, why any ono in preference to the othera? But, stripped of the sophistry that this wnoney is asked to pay for tho transportation of mails, this whole subsidy scheme stands confessed in nll its nokeuness,—n brazen, deliberate, unmiti- gated robbery, without au apology or an extonuation, Plunder is the inspiring mo. tive; plunder the ond sought ; and plune der that legistation may be corrupted, is the means relicd on to carry tho scheme, Congress is authorizad by the Constitation to ostablish post-offices and post-roads, Congrass has ondeavored to extond the postal’ system (o uvery part of tho United States, ‘I'he rate of postage is three conts per lotter. Tho cost of transporting o letter from New York to Chicago iuny be lesg than threa mills; from Philadolpbia to 8un Fraucisco, somg- thing about ous cent; from Chicago to Ari- zona, 25 cents; from Cinciunati to Idaho, 10 cents, The nomber of letters and the meaus availuble for trausportation govern the uctual cost of ocarrying the mails, T'he whole United Btates are one postal district, the thickly-settied localities paying the cost of ourryiug the mails in cauoes, on horsebuck, or on fuot, to nuighborkoods where there arv fow peoplo, fower lettors, and the meaus of trunsportation diffoult aud scarce. The plea that Congress should vote 45,000 a wile for carrying the mail in en ocean steamship from New York to Rio Janeiro, because it pays, perhisps, equal to 60 cunts a Jetter for carry. ing the mail from 8t Lows to Tucson, i not warrautod, Iu the first place, the people of ull our Territories arv entitlod to the facill. ties of the poatal wystomn; they srs within our jurisdiotion, aud are part of our own social aud politica) systews. But the ocean Iy not & poat-roud of the United States, and we are not obliged to carry wails to Bra. zil any wore thau we are to carry them to Africa. Nor, if we werv, are wo undey any obligation to pay Jouw Suyru from 81 to 35 for carrying s letter, to Rio Juueiro when there is a lively competition to carry the samo lettor for threo couts. When the facil- itios shall offer for cwyrying the mail to Ari. zona and Idaho,sf one cent a lottar, it is not likely that the Government will pay 50 conts & lottor merely 10 give ebody the differ- enco, Under the: interastional poital sys. tem, a letter mailed in the United States way bo seat to auy town in Europe, or in Aslatic Rusais, or Turkoy, or tohe East Indies, or to Perals, for 'slx cents. Wby should the Unitod States, whon this servics is perform- od and soxiously sought at that price, vol- uatarily teader from $2 ta 35 for carryiug the lotter one-third or oue-fourth the dis. tance ? Iuan articlo on the subiect of rewovina {ho obstaclos to san enlargsd and libe the rilver dollars, like the gold dollars, per- 8 fniquity, aud sooner or later unite to | Btate for President If the elect! foroign trade hy the exchange of commodi- ties with forcign nations, we pointed ont that oll fawd must be repealed which prevent us from being Luyera as well as sellers, Are we propared, when we sond a enrgo of American maunfactures to South America or elsewhere, fo exchaugo them for articles which can be imported into tho United Btates free of duty? I¢ not, then wo must sell for casli; but a3 our new commercial aliy hins some- thing to sell, and we can't buy, he nejther buys nor sells with us, but makes his ex- chaunges where hie can both buy and scll at a profit, Aro we prepared to admit wool and copper frecof duly, aud thas in exchange for them disposo of our goods? If not, then (ho want of postal faellities and ocenn navigation witl such countries must bo altogethoer too smnll to justify the pay- ment of subsidics to scenrs such trade. Un. leas wo are prepared to open our doors to the frco reccipt of the products of ofher countries, then they will naturally continus to denl with those to whom they can sell what they produce. Lot us seo how the thing will work: We sond a steamer to Valpardiso with an assort- ment of Awmeriean goods worth $125,000, nnd the stonmor id to reccive $25,000 for tho transportation, But as the wool, copper, regoius, eto., of that country counot be bronght into this country, the steamor mnat come back empty. If it could bring back n full cargo of Chilinn products, it would earn 250,000 for the round {rip, of which one-holt would bu profit, As it is, tho gross carnings will ba §23,000, and the ex- penses tho same; and just here comes in the postal dodge. Tho sioamer is to be paid 215,000 for enrrying 400 lettors out, and $15,000 for bringing the samo number back, and thus out of tho Tromsury is to be paidl a profit of 830,000 to make good the loss of n trade which is made impossible by law. That s exactly what the subsidy means, Disguised under the swindlo of pay- ing postage, tho Treasury is to pay the ship- owners $30,000 proflt on the round trip. Instead of having the B0O letters enrried for 348, tho Governnent ia to poy $30,000 for onrrying them. And this, iutelligent mon will sny, is not a swindle, is not & sub« sldy, s not n public robbory! Trado and commerce nood no subsidy, Panperlsm—dependenoy on publio bounty, oharlty, ald—is an unknown factor in healthy trade nnd production. Privata oapital is for- ever aecking all the moans and opportunities for extending trade. All that Government lins to do is take its handaoff, and keop them off, and leave tha rest to take care of itsolf. Lot the Governmont ramovo all the toll-gates it hing evocted to keep tho world from coming here to buy and to sell ; let it emancipate Amarica shipping ahd allow every merchant to put his own -Quumnr or sail-ship on the ocoan. Take away the Governmental bar- riom to commerce aud trade, and American enterprise, aud capital, and energy will carry tho flag and . the products wherover thore is a man whe has anything of his own to give in exchange." ——— S —— T SILVER AND THB NEW YORK BANKS, A series of articles in the Now York Times and other Enstorh jourals, an claborato paper in tha curredt, numboer of the Jater national Review from the pen of Homack ‘Witte, o renowal of the silver controversy in thoe Cabluet, ahd scvoral other eirown- stances of recont! dato, have propared tho Amorican publio fg5 the memorinl or mani. festo which purporly to coms from the Now York bankors. Tig. Tawuxe printed tho text of this documapt yostordny.- It is pnt forth undor tho protense of encournging the banke of tho country to sgree upon some concerted nction ehlenlated to assist tho Government in tho'{fork of resumption; as s matter of fact, it1s tho preliminary stop in an effort to nm\f.lha banks agginst tho will of the people, the mandato of Congross, the law of the country, aud the traditions of tha nation in the mattor of the silver dollar, As such, it {s a specimen of ‘rash impertis nence not oqualed” " kind since the days of Nicg Bioprr. ‘The.impertinongo is obvious, inasmuch as a cotorlo of money-lenders proposo to defy. the law of the land for sclfiah purposes of their own; tho rashuess of tho proceeding will appear to Mogsra. Gxonar A. Cok and compnny bafors the end of the presont Con. gross. 'That any sot of men should ot this timo undertako to force an exclusive gold standard upon the country after the ovor. whelining defgat of that projeot last winter, and within thirly doys of the reassombling of the very Congress that repudiated them and their designs, id a folly that borders on insanity, N All shat Mr. Cox's mauifesto Las to say in gonernl teyms about tha duty of tho banks to co-oporate with the Governmont in making resumption succossful, gud somo of the do- tails, such as abolishing** special doposits " of gold, aud special exchanges of gold checkain tho Clearing.Houso, would have commauded more confidence if thoy had not led up to the ¥ain propnaltion that the banks shnll discriminate against the nilver doliar. That thoy shall decline to receive silver dollars on doposit, accept thew only when legally com. welled to do s, and thaereafter refuso to have auy dealings with those who fuvoko the law in their bohalf,~this i the schemo that lics at tho bottom of the whole pretense of awliting the Qovernmgnt to rosume. It is not unlikely that Cougress will Snd amore practical method of availlng iteelf of the aid of the banks in this mattor, It will probably oceyr to more than one member of Cougress that the Lauks can be wade to assist most effectively in the work of resumption by compelling thewm to rvedeons their own notes in coln instead of’ logal-tender as at prosont. ‘This change will rulieve the Gavernwent of nearly one-half of the burden of resumption ; and, as Alr, Coz's memorial reprosonts the banks to be anxious and eager to do their share in the good work, thers should be no resistanze ou thuir part to tho passage of such a law, Dismiseing the pretense and’coming to the subatauce of the baukers' ciroular, wo find it roplute with misstatemonts and misrepreson- tations, which we ara forced to beliove were willfully put forth with the intent to decsive, The status of the standard silver doliur is falsdfied in tbls docnment. Tho inference is sought to be ‘conveyod ‘throughout that six silver dollars are ouly oqual to -five gold dollara. That 8 *the lie in. fereutisl.” Five silvey dollary ' equal five gold dollars aud & hyudred ailver dollars equal a hundred gold dollars. This is true inlaw and in commerce. There is nob o traysaclion of the day that caunot be com. pleted on precisely the same terms whether ou & basli of silver dollays or & basis of gold dolisrs, If silver dollars sre.not in active circulation, it is for preoisety the sawe reason that gold dollars are uot in circalation, viz. : Bucause rosumption is not yet accomplishod ; becauss the paper dollar is still worth loss thay the coiu dollar and ‘pust bo o until it suull be cozvortidle iuto ceic, and Lecanse form a special funetion In the payment of duties, Messrs, Cor & Co. "want to banish tha silver dollar Laoause it in warth too little, while the fuct Ltarer them in the face thal Uio uilver does nol circulate becanse it is worth too mnuel, This s pettifogging of the cheapost deseription, This cirenlar, like some of the recant articles whici have been printed in the fn- terest of tho gold eligno, has & vagne inti- mation that thoee who receivo silver dallars at their nominal valne **are subjected to an framiedinta tax of 81 in ovory 26 of the busi. nass they thus (ransact.” This is a proposi. tion which needed somo oxplanation to make it eloar; perhaps the explanation was with- held becauso the writer didn't nnderstand it himself. Withont {rying to penetrnte this mystery, howevar, the statement fs an indi- cation of the set purposo to treat tho silver dollar ss o thing which did not exist instead of a thing that doea gxist. This will not do, The silver dollar not merely exists now, but it is one of the oldest Institutions of the conutry, It fs oontemporaneons with the foundation of the Government, which ac. copted it from tho Colonies. The'silver dol-. Inr of to-day is preoisely what it Tins always been in amount and charaetor, It s and always has been, with the exception of the bLrief " perfod of its frandulent’ do- monotization, the standard coin of tho na- tion, and it 18 n soleclsm (o say that It takes six slandard silver dollars to moke five dol- lars of anything, As the mfinrtion in nbsolntely falso that the standard silver dollar has to-day a less vnluo in this country than the gold dollar, so 1t in impossible faor Mr. Cok or any of his asso. cintos in this schiemo to say when and under what conditions ita value will fall off &0 as to erowd out gold nfter a specio basis shall havo been roached.. Irauce maintatna 800,000,000 five-frane picces (equnl of 500,000,000 silver dollars) in activo circulation alonguide of ita gold coin and its paper currency redeemable in afthor gold or silver at the option of the Bouk of France. Will Mr, Cox contend thnt tho United Btates eannot do tho eame? COan Lo give a single valid renson why the same proportion of silver cannot be maintained in Joint eirculation with gold and paper in this conntry? If Congress shall compel tho banks to redeem’ their notes in coin instend of legal-tander papor (as it onght to do in justice to tho Government), then tho banke alone can uso $100,000,000 of silver for pur. poses of reserve. If, in nddition to this, tho small notes be rotired, who shall sny that the cotintry ennuot employ $300,000,000 more of silyer dollars withput afecting the par reln. tions botween gold aud silver in tha present ratio of waight and staudard? Will Mr, Coa turn prophet in this matier 7 Auother deceptive intimation of the New Tark gold circular fs that silver cireulation will place the people of this country at a dis- advantago in their foroign trade, Tha jden is that the silver dollar will not purchnso as much obrond ns the gold dollar, And, ad- mitting that it will not, how can that fact place ua ot n disadvantage? Our foreign ex- chiouges will coutinue to be rogulated ns they nre now, on the basis of the bullion values of both gold and silver. It we take our pay in forelgn rilver, and if silver iy roled 10 per cent lower thau gold, then we will get 10 per cent miore of the silver for what we secll, aod there is'no loss in the transaction. English merchants el abroad and take cither gold orsilver at the ratod Jullion value; why shouldn't we do tha enma? - They pay out eithar gold or silver at the same bullionvaluo in malking foraign pur. chinsos j why shouldu't wa? - England's trado with India is on a silver basls, but it is not disturbed on that socount, If an American shipper sands a cargo of wheat to Eugland, which is worth thevs £100,000 in silver or $88,000 in gold, ho can cleot to take either in poymont. If ho takes his pay in sllvor, 8100,000 will buy'as much thero ns the §88,000 in gold wou!d buy if he should take it in gold, and vics versa. Whore {a the loss? ‘Plo Americon seller may tako Eoglish iron, or French kid gloves, or Irish lluen, or Brussels lnce, in exchango for his eargo if ho thinks ho ean make wuch & batter pay him bettor than to acoapt either coin; but the ex- ohango of values will romain tho same in sny case, and it is bare sophistry to contend to tho contrary. i The Now York Lankers, Jed by Mr. Cox and acting in the futerest of the money- lenders, have taken a rash step, and the sooner thoy roceds from it the Lotter 1t will be for them. The proposttion to move en masss against thoe circulation of the silver dollar is prompted by the desire to enhance tho value of their monoy-stack on a gold basia na compared with the value of all'other property, Thoy are much deceived in the intelligenee of the American people if they think they can conoeal this fact. They are equally deceived in the tempor of the Amer. ican people if they think they can procsed in such o schemo without exciling resont- ment, Their undertaking Is foolhardy, They will have enough ou thelr hands to protect thelr charters and tholr notos of issue, and thoy are courting disaster by their imperti- nent project of defying the -law sud the people. BALLOT-SIUFYING IN SOUTH OAROLINA. ‘The ravelations of Judge Macxey, Ttepub. lcan candidato for Congross in tha Chyrles- ton (8. 0.) District, dn regard to the stufing of ballot-boxos by Democrats st the. late olpotion, are of the most astounding charac. tor, The crimeof cramming Uallof-boxos with thoasands of fictitions ballots, we bebieve, s confined to this country, Voters in Eogland aro corrupted, bought and sold like oattle sometimes, but so far as we know anly the ballots nctually cast -by legal yoters fiud their way juto the boxos prepared to receive them., Thers may be scsnos of a very disgraceful nature trauspiring about the polls, but when the ballot Is onne deposited, it is m sacred thiug securad ogainst tho con- taminstion of contact with, and nullification by, ballots thrust in surrentitiously through the connivance of scoundrélly officars of the law, Tho wholessle bullot-box-stufling which no donbt ocenrted ab the'late slection) not only in Charleston, as detailed by Juige Macxry, but throughout the Stato of Bouth” Caraling, 1a not"only wnkaown to any other country in the world, but is unprecedsnted in tha United Statea, UWitherto the erlmo bas been of @ sporadio chamoter. Nowhers in the. rurxl districts has it ever: Loen com- mitted to an sppreciable estent. - Ouly fn cities,—large, badly goverucd - citics,—in "tincs of great passion and cxcitemont, has the crime of ballot-box atufing been found possible of successtul accomplishment, New York, Philadelpbia, Baltimmore, and Chi- gago bave faralihed examples of -the crime. But whonever it has besn atjempted snd carzied ous {u the citios pawed it bas roactod with destructive forcs upon its perpetrators. The men who participated diroctly ia the {rauds bave been crushed, snd the party benefiting by them has becn speedily driven to tks wull. Al Eonest men detest such . bo tho same, will not tho fact that one has o great- I ip the nexs Wisconsin Lewlslsjure, gx-Senator L on goes ¢ House, And ‘we remember alw tiygy ?q:':: Tarrvax took his last flop an tie My ucstion, WATTERSOK dectared thut o gy ‘Lnunsay agreed. Bt that was whop the m.i. “Hdce " was thonght o be booming, Fu crush il oni uttetly, The peopls of New York City, reganlicss of party affliations, have rcpealedly risen in thefr anight fo de- feat the Democratic or Tammany party which b been consplouously guilty of the was regarded as a probable candidat, (S offenne of ballot-boz.atufling. Itisthe erime | yony, and the cditor of the Cmnlr:n"-.r:.'.:):,..'f;"' of crimes; it breeds every abomination | looked upon as @ possible candid s ate for vy President. But thines have changed unru‘y". toder, and some men have changed wity e, e ——— 4 known to cormpt politics; it is a menace to tho very existence of free govornment, and the people focl, instinctively, tunt 1t tnust e pul down st every hazard. It gave the | , Senator FOWE'E personal and yotitica) frlendy had a private caucns Jast Eaturday nf, robber Twszp to New York City #s 8| itence of his nephew, Col, e the: ruler, and kept him fo the ent of almost | {n" Kenosha, Wir. 10t Mg‘:::::g(}g"::. supreme power until the pedple rose en | \wero present, nor asto the line °'C0lr\luv;|,(,,|:. maee and thrust him behind prison bars ! | adopted by the Senator sud his friends to mu,: Duat Twisp, at the head of the hydra-headed | his re-election to the Senate next winter, i management of the case seemato hare bee; turned.over ta Col. J. Hl. Howe, wha i)y con- duct the campaign In person, The Culone) scrved one term as Altornes-eueral of Wiseon. tlu, aud was for some years Gencral-Mansger of toe Chicago & Northwestern Raliroad, He well known totho peopleof tho State shrewd political manager. Mo Is probally gy, of the size of the job he has undertaken, monster Tammany, in his palmiest days never lost all eense of public decency, e went about his wretched business with the greatest cantion, He took care to make nse of the disereetest and most ingenions buman tools. It was only in cases of the greatest emergoncy’that hs enused thoussnds more allote than conld possibly be polled during tho election hours to be crammed into a ballot-box. * Bnt in Bouth Carolina there has, not been so much as n show of concealment. The stuflfed ballote were purposely made as unlike the true as black to white, in order, wherever it might bocome necessary to nmke tho number of ballots In the box correspond with the number of names on the poll-lists, that no falso but ouly true ballots shonld be thrown out, Nor was the satufiing confined to districts whero {hiere existod o lorge known Deomocratic vote, On the contrary, it wns practiced most extemsively in distriols where there was s known smali Democratic vote and & known large Lepib- lican vote. Thus the ballot-boxes were mnde to tell lles so monstrons as to be nttetly boyond bellef; nnd to fell them with a bold- ness unparalieled inthe nnuals of politieal criminal hislory. The siluglion in Bouth Carolina is mors disheartening than it wae undor the reign of the Ku.klux Klans aad the Red-Bhirt Olubs. Thore was renson to hope that the mass of the people of the South would finally sicken and revolt at the Lloody tragedies endeted by the Klans and the Clubs. Thereis less resson to hope tbat they will seriously reprobate the iu- famous . practios of ballot-box-stufling. But it must bo stopped, whether the people of the South discountenance it or not, It is a menaca to tho existonce of the National Gov. ernment, It 1a more insldions, but not lesa dangerous, than open armed rebellion, Every Congressman sent to Washiugton by an lonest, falr voto of bis comstitnency e ——— 1t sevms to be stlll an open question iy New York whetlier the Republicans will have amajor. ity of 34 or 73 on joint ballok Iu clther cage the majority ks unprecedented, especially fian “off year®like the preseul, Afg. L'oi'm.xm fecls good, and Secretary EVARTS 1a ot atall cast down, CoxxLing will be re-etected 1o the Senate. and EvArTs will turn an ©occasiona) Riance towards the White House, musing iness, time upon the historical fact that several Secre. tarles of State bave been nominated for Irey. dect. e — . Mauy people regard it a8 a Jittle rough apg isrespectful “to the Greenback polfticfans to call their complaint & * croze ™ or o “lunaey ™, but the appropristepess of the detinltion flnd: speclal corroboration §n the case of the Rev, Preasant W. Bisior, a well known fiat-mone advocate and orator of Bloomington who wis adjudged fnsane on Monday sud sent to Juck. sonville to the Asylum. e dispateh sa1y that “ The cause of his naanity was the great thonght he had given the Greenback qQuestiop, o e — The Springfleld Journal denfes that Dx La MATYR 18 8 DemacraticGreenbacker, Tng | TRIROSE so classilied bl on the nuthorfty of Qor. [IRNDRICKS, who, I 118 Carboniale speech sald, “De LA MATYR Ix now u Democratic- Greenbacker.” 'Gov. HENDRICRS ought to Know what Kind of & man he and his Demogratie triends helped ‘elect. Dg LA MATTR (s anp- bitfous, but he will hardly asplre to be the Wig- WICK of the period. et — Curicaao, 7_'\9 l\"" E’"Dl,‘la, et m“‘"f’ throligh the medtum of THE THDCYE: " (1) ALy new allver dollar & I ender for all doy ) 16 there a limit beyond which 1t 18 nott if e, stato gmount. (3} SHopose & man hae 3 note of 5 §100due ot irst Nattonal Dank, is humilinted 'b’ forced contact - with |} LS e sliver doliars 1a n:\cy‘::}eix'xl";llt‘exfl‘; Judgo ickex's opponont, sent’ thero | Ruspecefully, Bunscainea, by & false and fraudulont preteyd- Auswer to the first question, yes. (9) Thero s no limit, (8) The bLank could pot refnse tbe silver dojlar tender. © e ————— * One of our Eastern exchanges, speaking of the Benatortal cleztion In ilinois, sass tiat Loaas, Cut.Lod, and 001.ESDY aro tha leading candidates, with & goad chance for g dark horse, Anothicr papgr places WASHRURNE a8 the leading caudidate. Another *view" of the case Isto elect LooAN Scustor and FARWELL Governor, ‘The dougerof counting your chlckens befors they are hatched is au old and respectable prov- erb. . ed snffrage; ond so of overy South- ern Congrossman holding a seat in the Houso of Represontatives Ly virlue' of such ont. roges upon tho ballot-boxes, It is not mufB- cient that & Solid Bonth, minde solid by such crimed as that lately committod in Bouth Caroling, may bo overcome by o Solid North, wade solid by alarm and disgust. Maans must be devised for proteoting thoe purity of tho ballot-box n8 completely in South Qara- 1ina o8 {n Muine. Until this is sccomplished thore {s danger, & constantly-menacing dan- gor, of the violeut disruption of tho Govern- mont, et ——— 1t tseald that ex-Gov. CumTIN, of Pentetl vanin, was beaten for Congress by the old Cop- perhead Democrats who could nat furgive bis loynity to the flag during ‘the Rebellion. Aoy man who stood for the Unlan of the States i those days is s stench in tha nostrils of those Rebel sympathizers, But then wo dou't shed er, B o Vi er abiist i comet commstint LA AOIEAR. | any teara. byer, Coprin's dofeat. i fa. coud, bukion? Thia 14 my {mpreavion, though'feundy '1s ' eoough for bl L ::}‘lfi:?ntu:‘unllrnln ol o8 hAt tima? . (o1 And The *retired phyalclan whoso sands of Nfe" in regard to anothor matter; though the le had nearly run out died in Jdersoy City hut dor values of gold and sliver aftor mmnmfon week. His rea) nsme was O, PuzLes rows; Was & tramp printer who hit upon this clever advertislug dodoe, aud emassed a . fortuno by seiling Eost Indla hemp ay 833 pound which ouly cost him 40 conts. The moral of bis life was that Lo pafd bla debts, as it pald to udver tise. To tae Editor o7 The Tribune, Cntcaco, Nov, 10.—In your issuc of the fih Inst., in_&n article antitiod *'Silver Coinage," I fnd tho following: **The American. silver dollar Lus slways consisted of 3714 grains of pure sil- iy er purchasing value than the other, that one te cheaper than tbe other, bu sotiicient 10 cpuse the dearer Lo be lockod np or exported, Josving for tho necesaitles of “trade the cheaber one alone, and even that with n restricted coinage? (#) Areenbacks, T suppose, wiil Le relrsucd, bet they will be on & gold ind eqnally dear, 4)" According to my u nding of ", in Francs, Italv, and eiher Kuropean Btatus of bi- metallic wiandards, gold fe used ouly o8 & Isst pa- sort,—ouly when ,nc necessities of trade domand that it be brought Into circulation, aud when those uecesaltios aru pasund 1t ppain retiros, (G) Thougn this niode of rrucwuru may uudgf over any dif- Bculty, woald it not be betterto devise vouie 1neans by which each may have #n cqual purchasing valne and an equal free circnlstiony loiormationon thcss questions will be shankfatly recolved. . & W. 0, (1) Our correspondent probably refers to the dollar or unit adopted fu 1750 by the Congress of the Confederation, which' was to contain 875,04 graing purc sllver, but no such dotlars ware ever cofued, as the mct was reconsidered and the atandard fized at 87134 grains, the same s the Spanish milled dollar, The first silver dollars ever colned by the American Gavernment was after the passage of the Miut act of 1793, Toeweight of that dallarin Lurcsilver hus nevsr since been changed. Tha relation between gold and sliver was fixed at the samo time—1702—at one of gold to fifken of sliver, which corre- sponded subatantially with the market. relge em— the" JzNksof Porrer Come mittea fame—is likely to Injure her reputativn 83 a successful tritnoss by bice fallure as @ ewa- paper letterswriter. - Becauss sho turned the ta- bleson Bew BuTLen and Bl SrmiNest, shy funples she appears well In print. But she docan't; She fsn't the type of & woman to Jouk | well in typo, e — The Democrats who bold the Lalance of pawsr in the Colorado Legjslatura threaten to fitbus- ter on the clection of United States Bevator. . Wheroupon $he Denver Tribune warns them tbat ‘‘they will have about as little to say iu the se- lection of Bepator as they will fu the arrauge- tment of reserved scats in Heaven," ——t— - McRex Duxy, Judgs Advacate Geuetal, waots ths War Departinent to probibit eambling lo “the army. Uen. Doxy bios never experivuced thy terrible ennni of a frontfer past, where the ouly employment ap oflicer kas §s to bold his scalp tion of tho two metals at that flme.. | o0 his head with onc hond and tury Jack from 8)Therc wil) be no difference In the purchasing | the bottoin with the other. pawer of silver and gold dollars, end une. will ’ e = Now that the election s pver, the bulidoiog: cditor of the Streveport Tirmss says: “* Wedv not belfove the colored people desire to comuilt any depredatlons oy the whitee,” The harme. less Loulsisne whites, particularly of the, 8hrevoport and Cousbsita districts, are to be cougratulated, e DiLL BPRINOER saysihat the Dcmocrnq{ must nominates u wan for Presldvut fu 1880 who ca carry Ohlo, llinois, sud Indiena. As there b no Demncrat on the feco of tha earth that e carry either Oblo or Lilinols, the outluok from BuL's staudpoint §s ngs all encouragiog to Ly pasty. . e —— Tha Seienceef Heal peaksing of sstrologies al criology, says: “We are approaching one of the most pestilentia) periods in the eusih's bis- tory." laviug bad the yellow-forer scouriw snd the fat craze this year, what more pestilcntial misfortunes could befall this pesplei - e— . — 11, 4 Horatio BEyyouR afyma, *ibe time will come’ wheu sl lmmlgrants will be merged 5 a comsmou uationality,” will the Chiucse cross be Plgeon-Englishi BRYAN BHAXNESY, the original settler of Calro, whom DIcKENs s0 falthfully portrayed in bis “ American Notes,” diod st his howe 18 that city last week. - — e— When an Enehish lady wokes s scratch b ‘ billiards she cails it **s besstly fuke.” l} .'“ that kind of play that ald out Seastor Goudt -lgat Tuesday. . s S | 'Northiern Democrats are not without thelr fears that the “'Solid South ** may gouhle nvcg; thiog that is worth Laviug, aod lesvo shetn Busks, = " " Mr. Tuoois, Attoraey for the Dhirict of Columbia, charges Judge Huxpnusty of ‘n- District Suprome Court, * with gross sod 0! tisual iptoxication.” 3 . e = e — & TuuRLOW. Wexn reminds she piplje ths Apinauan Liwicowy mado Ropublican spescliss 1o Massachuscsts io 1848, L ek B e al TIa¥Es carried the Efghscenth Congrésslon " Tlatrics by 837 votes, bt Capt, Tuvsss bests Josm Aprxey 500, not ba cheapor thun the other after resumption foralong time—certaluly not uutil teotimos. as wauy sliver dollars shall be coioed as will be on the duy resumption takes etfeet. I the. vurchasing power of zold shall rite above that olsilver, of courge it will ot circulate {o ordi- nary transactions, uniess Congress mskesita legal-tendor for its commercial vajue in sfiver, But if gold dissppears from current cireulation soing time I tnu futirs by yessou of its dear- ness, wa doo't svo what particuler harm that will do to . iho . taxpayers and industrial luterests of the Uuited Btates, (3) Greenbacks will be redeewned In epln; tho Goverument will redesm them u both sflver and gold indiscrimivately so loug as both met~ als circulate. When cold exalts iteelf too high for use as money (0 thiscouniry, the greenbacks will therealter bo redecmed o siiver doliars, ‘Tho Government has tho option aud jexsl vight, like any other debtor, to pay jts notes in the cheaper metal, It has always had and exerciged that right. - (4) Ju Praoce und other bi-metahiic uations old aud silver arc pald vut with equal freedoin. Gold coln i3 at no preminm over the silver coln of France; Lience there fa no * last resart ' In the case o the matter of its clrcula. tlon in tbat natlon, As legal-tender standard silver dollars have the same purchasing power as zold dollsrs, we can scs 10 use for a *“bridge over™ any “difficulty ¥ that doesn't exist except {n the fmagination of Eastern goldites, ' e ———— r Timinediately uoon Uls arrival fu Washington the pther day, BiLL BPiixaxs got himeelt fnter- viewed by s newspaper reporter, und. les off & good deal ‘of politicq), wisdom for & corn ted Congresaman, - BiLi: Is. atil] worried about the slisged BugsMaN letier, .Jut pretends that he took Httly stock in ANDEUSON. " {10 doesn’ | €von belloye ANppusoN when ba makes wolgmn ailidavit that he had previously . perjured himself, WiLLian attributes tho result of.the 1ste clection t Lho wans'of unity op the past of Oreenbackers and ‘Demoerats. Other people sra of tho opiulon thak it wes, for $he lack of Democratic voies, i s . v — —————— i - As tho Hepublicans have abeut forty majority et Jauxs R. Doovurrres bjs decided uot 10 bo s sandidate for the Uulted Biate Senates iu place ot Howa. SRR - r————— 2 " Mr. Warrknsoy is a lttle rough when he de- clares that ** the soouer we get ¢id of the Areca- back {diots the, better.” Tho *Greenback Wiota™ have kept 8 cuwberof Mr. Watrax- #05's frieuds In Cougress, sud ooe of them Taifanu will be abla to decide the vuta of thet | atg———— Thie Fiat party was so_soon done for that 20 ‘one kugws what It was beguu for. ———— - : Massochusctts to Bswaawiy F. BUTLER “Bhoo, 4y, don't bodder we."