Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 14, 1878, Page 4

Teib L4 % ' e dribune, 'TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Y MAIL~IN Ann‘s_cx—rn AGE PREPAID, FootE o e e 31308 2,50 Fnday 200 W30 s L3 She £aturaay | oples sent fre. ‘ort-Uttice address {n full, Incinding State and v, ititances may be made either by draft, express, iffice order, or In rrgiateted letter, At our tiak. TERMS TO CITY SURSCRIBRRS. Tailr, delivercd, Fundsy exeepted, 25 conts per week. Daliy, delivered, Bunday fncluded, 0 cents per week, Adirens THR TRIBUNE COMPANT, Lorner Madicon and Dearborn-ste., Chicago, 11T, Ordera tor thie doltvery of Tnk Trinexe st Rvanson, Englewood, aud Hyde PArg left In the cotnting-room Wil recely, ntlon, E BRANCII OFFICES, TRID TX CnicAco TAIRt N2 hins established branch offices for the receipt of sulseriptions and sdvertiscinents s fullows: NEW YORR~-Room 20 Tridune Butlding. F.T.Mc- Pavnxx, Mansger, PATIS, France—No. 16 Itus dela Grango-Batelers. H. Manzer, Agent. LONDOUN, Eng.—Atnerican Exchange, 440 Strand, Hreany F. Gittio, Agent, BAN FRANCISC AMUSEME! MeVicker's Thentre. Madison strect, between Dearbory an' xogement of the trakosch ltalian Uypuiw ** Travista," Hlaoles's Theatre. Randolrh sirect, between Clark and Lasalls, Kagement of tbe Lingard Troope. **OQur Boys." En- ¥ Tlavrrly’s Theatre. Desrborn streer, correr of Mouroe. Engagement of thie Colvlite Folly Cuinpany. **Dabes In tho Wood." Academy of dfnsic. Halsted street, betwren Madieon and Monroe, Va- ricty, novelly, aad spectaity performances. Aftornoon aud evenlng. Hamlin's Theatre, Clark street,opposlte the Court-Houre. Engagement of Wagncr & Cotton's Minstrels, MecCormick Hall, Ciark street, comerof Riozle. Prof. Cromwoll wiil Mustrate ** Switzeriand,” Metrapolitan Theatre, Clark strect, oppouite Sherman louse, Varlety en- tertalument. Folly Theatrer, Desplalnca streat, between Washington and Madison, Eneagement of the Feinate Minstrels. _THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1f, 187, Greanbacka ot the Now York Stock Ex- chnugo yesterday could not bo hought for 991, 100 being demanded. Tho Contral Prison at Toronto was the Acenc of o disastrous and exciting conflagra- tion yesterday, Tho flames wera subdued before it Lecame mnccessary to remove tho convicts, v ——— The funoral of the late Nomyun B. Jupp occurred yesterdny at tho Fourth Proabyte- rinn Church, nnd the attendauco of a largo anmber of tho leading men of Chicago was in itralf an carnest tribute of sorrow and ro- spect. T ————— _The Convention of Railway Commissioners closed a two.dnys' session at Colambus yes. terday. Tha Conventlon took a wide range in its discussions, bat just what intcrest it hod in weniling tho patent laws was Toft somewhat obscuro, T Tho Hon, Jawes Mackix, State Traanarer of New York, and Miss Barrre, daughtor of ex-Mnyor Brrrroy, of St. Lonis, were mar. ried in tho latter elty yostordsy ninid the plandits nad congratulations of. the socicty world at the other ond of the bridge, Gen. J. D. Cox at Cluclnnati yesterday contradicted tho published statement that Gen. Rexo was killed by ono of the men of tho Twenty.third Ohio. He saya Revoat the timo of bis doath was in front of Gen. Stunats’ division, sad that he was killed by n sbot from the enemy's skirmishers, ——— Mrs, Lucr StoNg BLicEWELL presided over forty-four delegates, composing tho Womnu's National Buffrngo Associntion, ot Iudinnapolis yesterday. The fenture of the session was a letter from Lroyp Garnisox bidding the Association to never ceasq ol tating the question of impartial suffrage. ———— Voonners appears in & Cincinnat! paper. Hetells tho public what he will doon the reussembling of Congress, but omits his pro- gromuo for whipping in refractory Hoosler leyislutors, 1l quoted and indorsed the revorent remark of Winiaw Awes, that #pecio poyments was - s d——d barron ideatity.” The Investigation of chargos made agaiust Gov, Corquitt, of Georgin, ‘was; con- tinued yesterdny ot Athanta. Senator Bex it was examined, but ns the seasions of the Comuiitteo are private, Lis evideuco is not made public, The Atlanta papoers do. uounce the Commilteo aud believe it is Lry- ing to whitowash tho (iovernor, Again the rumor obtains circulation that the Atlantic & Great Westorn Road is to posa under control of the Erio. * A committeo of th English Trustoes has latoly beon inapect- ing the Atlautio & Great Western, and haveo arrived ut the couclusion that it would be ad. vantageous to the boudholders to lot tho Lriv oporato their lino as purt of its own, ——— A railway war of cousidorable maguitude in Just nuw stirring up the people at Cincin. nali. The coutesting partics aro the emsi- Lound lines, and ticket-poddicrs stand on the strects hawking tickety to New York for #1.50, to Philadelphia £1, to Clevoland $2, and to Colunbus ¥1. Round trip tickets to New York, good for thirty days, aro sold for &y, An educated, accomplishedscoundrel, pass- fog under the nawmo of the Rov. Jory WiLs- 1aud, was arrested ot Charleston, 1L, yester- duy aud taken to ‘ferre Iuulo for confidenc- ing o widow and the Moffutt-Street Method. ist congregation outof a good deal of wonuy, ‘When arrested he kad about perfocted his pluns for swindlivg & very worthy Coles Couuty widow, Gen. Snrssan subwits His annual report to the Sucretary of War, in which he argucs over again bis well-known theories on tho Indian question, Age has softencd tho old warrior, and he is now a humanitarian, His report showa thera are 7,829 enlisted men in tho cavalry, 2,630 in the artillery, and 11,205 iu the iufentry. Adding engineers sud other anus of the service, there s & erand total of 24,761 enlisted men, Ho he-' licves tho army {o be well and economically supplicd, and its eficiency and discipline gooud. — retary Suenstan has lost no time in dis- el 6Ly sytipathy or identification with tho discrimioution of tne New York banks wgninet tho legal-tender silver dollar. He does not belivvw that the muount of silver THE CIHICACO TRIDUNE: THURSDAY, NOVI MBER 14, 1878, coin now on hand or the amount which will bo added to tho stock in the Treasury vaults for some timo to coma will in any degrea ob- struct the operations of the New York Clearing-House, and anticipates that addi- tional demands for silver will bo ereated by the discontinnanca after Jan, 1 of the issne of noten in smaller denominations than $3 by the National Banks, as well as by the re- quirements of the smallor banks for silver to aid in the redomption of their notes, S————— In New Orleans thero are now a1 many fpolitical refugees as after the troacherons campaign of 1876, From Tensas and Uon- cordin Parishes particularly, many of these poor, proscribed citizons come and tell of an unfortunato condition of affairs. Fifty black people wero murdered in Concordin within the three weeks immediately preceding tho lnst election; even the United Btates Com. missioner was driven out of the parish. In Tonsra thers were not less than a hundred killed, All these atrocities are certified to Ly aflidavits of refugoss. It is full time the now deparlire wero taken, S —— Considering that the Bubsidy Convention just ndjourned was carefully packed in the intorest of Toxm Scorr’s Texns Pacific schome, JonN Roaon's Chestor ship-yard, and the iron and sirel {rade of Ponnsyl- vania, the ddoption of the cut-and-dried programme of subsidy-grabbing resolutions was not much of a victory after ail. Chicago was sclected as the placo of mesting pre- suniably because of the known Lostility of its business men to plunder of the National Troasury in any form, the expectation being that local opposition would be siloncad by the prepondersnco of subsidy sentimont. Dut no snch resnlt was accom- plished. A very vigorous minority made itsolf heard and felt during the dabnteand on tho final vote, which, after all the cara taken to tnke it solid and wnanimous, showed no moro than cighty-eight delegates willing to swallow the wholo dose, while fifty-cight re- jeeted ft 'ontire, Tom Beorr's nitornoys and lobbyists ought to be able to put up a better job than this. Tho Southern peoplo never do anything by Dhnlves. They soceded unanimously, they fought stubbornly, they hated bitterly, thoy bulldozed colored and white Republic. ans in o spirit of entira accord, and thay have lately gone into tho business of ballot- box ltnfl‘mé with an astonishing degree of zeal and industry. In the latter accomplishment they are clearly entitled to wear the bolt. Northern professors of the acisnco of multiplying votes aro more bunglers by comparison, They bava nover 80 much ns approached the skill and ofil- ciency displayed at the recent elections in the Southorn States. To stuff thirly | ballots into tha small slit of a poll. ing-box at one operation is an achieve- ment which borders on the stapondous, and yet it was actually done in numerous in- stances. To bo sure they overdid it, really ombarragsing the Democratic election offi- cers with the wonlth of their contributions, Lut this was to be expected in the first flush of anow disdovery. . They will sober down in time, and do the businoss in a more mod- erato way, unloss it should lnppen that through a rigid enforcement of the United Stntes Eloction lawa the period of their use. Iuluesa is suddenly cnt short, THE SUBSIDY CONVENTION, "The so-called Commercinl Convention yos- terday ndopted o series of resolutions urging Congress to vole a subsidy to each of the long list of schemes which have beon pressed on Coogress for n number of years, The subsidies recommended are ns follows ¢ 1. A grant of money or tredit to Boorr’s Pexas & Pacifio Railroad. 2, Immedinto *‘provision for ocesn mnil service between the chief ports of the United States and all important commercial points on the const of SBouth America.” 4, Bubsidy for enlarging and deepening and making pormanently navigable the Dis. 1al Swamp Canal, ko na to conneot Chesa- poake Bay, near Norfolk, Va., and Pamlico 8ound, N. 0, 4. "The Convention appointed a committee to visit Washington and unite with the lobby in urging favorable action on thess measures Ly Congress. It will be seen, therefore, that the Conven- tion sy o whole had no' ligher thought of comniercial freadom, tho extension of trade, or the revival of commerce, than that the country be taxed to pay subsidies to impe- cunious men and bankrupt conetruction com- pauies, . ‘I'he snccessful stealing of $61,000,- 100 of "Londs for the Union and Cengral Pa, cific Railway Companics, and the additional 30,000,000 alrendy paid for intorest by the United Btates, and the $40,000,000 intereat yet to bo paid on theso same bonds, have so whotted tho appetite of adventurers and of professionnl lobbyists that, in their estima. tion, no enterprise is worthy of notlce un. less it Lo fostered by a national subsidy, At tho momeont this Convention waa in sossion, and was resolving that Congress should go to tho relief of "Tox Boorr's Lank. rupt Construction Company, there were two rulroad companios actively and vigorously pushiug thair roads on towards the Pacifie const. The Northern Pacific Road, alrcady completed to Bismarck, in Dakota, has just issued pro[\msnln for building 200 miles of track woestward during the coming year. ‘The Company is Luilding the road out of the 1monoy of it atockholders, asking no subsidy or national aid, and can Lave all the private capital it ioay require. On the south, thers is the Atchison, Topeka & Banta Fo Rond, cxtonding from Atchison and Kansas City, ‘Fhis rond will be completed to Albuquarque in the spring, while at the west. ern end the road from 8an Francisco to Fort Yuma, uow 700 miles long, will be extendod eastward 200 niles, leaving bLut a comparatively short gap to be com. pleted. Tong bofore Oougress can be bribed, bulldozed, and coaxed into voting a subsidy to Scort's road, o new road completo from Ksnsas City to San Francisco, with eustern counections with Bt. Louis and Chi- cago, will bo in actual operation, This mag. nificent enterprise, construoted oxclusively with private capital, asking sud wanting no subsidy, was wholly ignored by tha Commer. clal Convontion. ‘I'here was nothing in this graod work that offered any rewards to tho lobby, and therefors it was disregardod and donied all mention by the Conventjon. ‘That body had stomach only for tho railroad scheme which bound the United States to pay au sggregate of $120,000,000 of interest on the bonds of Company. " . The demand made for sabuidy for ocean steamships is uolimited. Evory Atlantic port wants, uot a steamcr, Lut & line. Port. land, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Nor- fork, Savauuah, Mobile, New Orleans, aud Galveston—all want a line each. Thero iy 1o wan ju the United Stutes who wants to write o lutter ou business or otherwise who "ou Scorr's Construption. cannot have that letter taken to any com- mercial city or town In Mexico or Sonth America and delivered for six cents, without any other cost lo tho Goverment. If urgeney bo required, lio can telegraph. Now it is proposed to establish **lines™ of steamships botwoen all thess American and South American poris, and pay tho cost of operating them out of the Natiounl Treas. ury. Ten millions of dollars aunually will Liardly cover tho subsidies which this Con. vontion has demanded of Congress for these occan stenmcrs, on the pretense of carrving the mails, which are now carried at tho rate of three conts per letter ocean postage, nmonnt- ing probably, all told, to 82,000 a yenr. The wholo scheme is ons of brazen plunder, rob- bery, and fraud, 1t is to feed and support o gigantic lobly of panpers, who demand to be maintained at the publio expense. Tho groat defense urged by the advoeates of mubsidies is that {t employs Iabor and gives work to honest industry. The Govern- ment has no rovenuo save what it derives Irom taxation. Every dollar of tax collocted is takon from the means of the people. Tho nvernge earning of a workman, out of which he has to support & family, may be put down ot @500 a year. Every thousand dollnrs taken by the Government for (axcs (akes nway from the people thesum necessary to pay tho wngea of two workmen, and the support of two families, Each million of dollara taken by the Governmént from the public in the way of taxes is tnking away the wages of 2,000 workmen and the support of as many families. A large part of this tax is expend. ed in collecting it: onc-third or mora of the money expended for subsidies is pald out for the support of the lobby and for corruption in procuring it; the remainder 1s applied not for the employment of Iabor, Lnt ns profits or dividends of plunder by Lurglars, and divided between the chiefs aud proprie- tors of the schome, How muck of the $3,- 000,000 already got by the Pacific Ronds from tho Government for subsidy has beon expended for labor? Itoad the alory of the Credit-Mobilior for the names of tho lusty laborers and liorny-handed workmen who pocketed the procceds of that cuormous robbery. Of what possible beneflt to Inborers and work. ingmen ia it for the Government to scoop away tho millions of dollars nnunally in the way of {axes {o ppy subsidies, when by so doing it takes from the wnges fund of the people asum equal to the aunual wages of 20,000 workmen, {urning them out of em- ployment to starve or become vagrants, to support o gang of professional lobbyista whose business is to corrapt legislation, de- moralize the public sentiment, to mniutain a class of impecunions and pauperized news- papers, gambling-houses, and all othur forms of criminal dissipation, and give honest em. ployment to ono man for each thirty dis. missed from Lonest work? That is tho fiual outcome of ell snbsidies. The people are toxed, and the money s given—absolutely given—to those who never did an honest day’s labor, and who will never doone so long ns weak and corrupt Congresses will by their votes take money from the Treasury to bo distribnted in subsidies, Of all forms of subsidy, that in the shapo of componsation for carrying the mails on the oceaun is tho most barofaced, It has hardly avog to disguise its indecency, It | has been but 8 fow years when one of theso stoamship companies actually paid 8750,000 to procure o subsidy of $1,000,000, The Convention turned its back om all measures looking to the enlargemont and extension of our forelgn (rade, and to tho opening up of now markets for the sale of American manufactures, and sunk to the mero lovel of any other meoting of {ho lobby to bolster up designs for the plunder of the Natlonal Treasnry. e ——— THE PRESIDENT'S NEW DEPARTURE. Thore is a logend to the effoct that once upon & tiwe thera was a mild-mannered and good-tempered, uuresentful man, who wils shamefully abused by another. On one oc. casion his persccutor went fo far as lo snap his fingers ot Lim, to rudely jostlo him, to slap his face, to tweak his nose, and to pluck him by tho beard. The victim, who wna slow to anger, bore his torments with com. placency until after he had beon kicked bo. hind, when the good-natared man, warming up to a renlization of the nature of the in. digvitles that tho fellow had inflicted, bid bim in solemu tones to beware low ko pro- ceeded further lest ho should rouse tho lion in the meck mnn's mature. The bully, did not tako the warning, but deliberately spat in his face. Whereupon the lion was rousod, ‘What became of the tormentor history does not state, but the reader can draw his own inforencea, 1 ‘The President has beon undergoing the ex- periences of this much.abused man of the legend. He inaugurated his Administration with a definite policy, fully and ecxplicitly declared in his publio statements, to efface every rentembrance of tho late War, to bring about an cra of reconciliation and good feel- ing not only botwecen the whites aud blacks in the Bouth, but also botween the whole people of tho North and Bouth, and to leave tho Bouthern people freo to rogulato their own institutions and to restore their system of government under tho Constitution and the laws. As nuevideuco of his sincerity he withdrew tho Federal troops which Lad been previously employed In protecting the rights of alargo portion of the Bouthern peoplo, und placed the whole machinery of govern. ment in tho hands of the political loaderu, Tn thelr turn, theve leudory nud Lo press of the Houth promised tlpt they would restore order in that section, that thoy would crush out every attempt st political persecution, snd guarantee every citizen of the South in the {froe enjoyment of Lis political opinion aud ita equally frce exprossion at the ballot-box, The troops were withdrawn to the Texns frontier and the Plains, to hunt’ Greasors and Indisns, and the South was left to itsclf, with ‘the President’s polioy and its own pledges, for which Gov, Niomorts, of Loa. isiana, aud Gov. Hawpron, of South Caro- lizn, stood an special sponsors. Tho viper was no sooner left to himself on the hearth than he began to uncoil and hiss. Freed from the prosonce of the troops, the old spirit of sectionalism revived, and it took sbape ju the determinstion to ereay & Solid South against the North, 'f'o do this, it was nocossary (o crush out every veslige of Nepublicanism., This Lad been al- ready asccomplished in° Alubama and Mississippl, and the work was then begun in Loulsiana 'aud Bouth Caro- ling, the vory States which, through the pledges of thair Excculives, bad wado them- selves responsiblo for the succesaful opora. tlon of the Houthern policy. No mesns wero left uutried to Lring ubont thisend, aud for two years past the whole drift of Democratio effort in those Btates, and in other sections of the South, has been to de- stroy o Iepublican majority, and to place uvery voter in the situation where, unless ho voted thy Demoeretic tivkhet, be whould ot volo at all. To effcet this the Southern Bourbonts have employed every possiblo ageney,~—threats, intimidation, ostfacism, banishment, incendiarism, whippings, and even death, ‘They made the black man's lifo a burden until they forced him to voto the Demoerntie ticket or not votentall. They drova white Republicansaway, They broke up their moatings, They threw some into prison, Thoy compalled others to fly to aavo their lives, 'They murdered United States officers who wero pmrsuing their legal duly, and shiekled the murderera from ar- rest or punislinent. They hunted, hound- ed, porgeented, nad lortured the negro nntil ho well might question whether hie lind any right to live at nll, much less to vote. ‘The Presideut bore it all pationtly. He bind faith that theso disorders would soon cense, nud that the leaders wonld administer he justice thoy hnd promised. o atill ap- Lield his policy, though many of his own party friends fell off from him, and not o gleam of hope appeared in tho South. Ho was confronted on the one hiand by n bitterly hostile faction in Congress, and on the other by ecoff and taunt in tho South, No partisan juflyence could sworve him from the faithful execution of his policy, but thero wero not wanting intimations that the timo might come when the lion would bo roused, That tima has come, The recent election hos shown that there is no longor such a thing as freo popular suffzage in the Sonth. The most infamous frauds overknown in the political history of this conntry have been openly committed in South Carolina and mnny parts of Loulsinna, aud aro not only palliated but justified by the Bourbon lend- ers, Tanmany in its worst days nover witnessed such open, shamefaced desecra- tion of tho right of suffrage. Tho Lallot. boxes of A whole State were so manipulated thnt the legilimate Republican majorities wera uttorly wiped out, and Demoeratic majorities wero counted larger than the whole number of Domoacratio voters. The Republican meotings wore not only broken up during the cauvass, but no Republitan judges wore nllowed at any poll in the clee- tion, whilo the Suporvisors, authorized and appointed under the laws of tho United States, wore driven from their stations. The laws were openly sot at de- finnce. A Bourbon oligarchy usurped every power of ‘Government and trampled upon every right of the citizen, It precipi- tated the issuo to that point whore patience conacd {o be a virtuo, and now tho Presidont has nbandoned Lis poliey with the samo vig- orous emphasls with which he asserted it. In his own Innguage, * The time for discus. slon has passed. It is now too late for nuy- thing but the most determined and vigorous action.” It may be too late even for that; bat in anything lio may constitationally do to restoro the operation of the law and the rights of citizons iu thie South, he may be nssured of the warm syinpathy and support of tho majority of ihe Northorn people. Me mneod not Do, surprised to find thom in advance of himi 1n this respect, but in his now departura he may ba surprised to find that they do not share his sympathy for Hasreron and Nicuoirs, or his continned effort to shriva them from any blamo in tho premisos. ‘They belioys that either one of those Executives, had-he beon so disposed, could bave organizod’s, party that would have provontod these -moustrous outrages aud frauds, and compie}led obedience to the laws, Thoy believe those two:men are treacherous, and hnrq’,vlolntod thoir public pledges, WALL 8TREET DISCRIMINATION AGAINST * THE BILVER. DOLLAR, It scems tliat tho New York bankors are determined to inaugurats the discrimination sgainst the legal-tenderatandard sitver dollar recommended by their ’qnmmltlco, and thoy protend to hiave tho giasi approval of the Beerotary of the Troasury, We very much doubt that Becrotary Suensax has advised or approved tho proposition to treat the silver dollars as silver bulllon ¢ tho law makes these standard dollars a full legal-tender along with gold and greenback notaes, and it wonld be a singular nud disgracefal thing for the chief finance officer of the Governwent to encour- agoany set of men in a doliberato effort to uullify the law. Wae presuczo the fact to be that Becretary Baenuax. haa approved tho action of tho New York bankers so far as it tends to ald in the work of resumption, and on account of timidity lias not positivoly an. tagonized them in their hostllity to silver money, because Lo was afrald to quarrel with them, Mr. Buzmyax is too sne gacious a politician to take sides agaiust the people in this matter, whatover his indi. vidual opinions may be; ‘and, whon the New York bankers shall be called to ndeount for their discrimination againat milver, they will fail to find au apologist In thoy Becretary of tho Treasury for this part of ‘their pro. grammne, ‘I'ha determination of the Now York banks not to discrimivate,in faver of gold ns agalnst groenbacks after tho 1st of January is wise and commeundable, Thore 15 no doubt that their rofusal to receive gold as wpeclal doposits, their abelition of specinl gold cliecks in the Clearing-Louse, and their intention to pay out gold as well ns greon- Lacks in tho ordinary ruu of Lusiness, will do wuch toward disabusing the public mind of tho evror of regarding gold as haviug o special valuo; aud the breaking of this liabit will be of naterial assistanca to the Government, becanso thero will thon bo Jess disposition to run upon the Snb-Treasury for gold in_exchaugo for greenbacks. But why cowplicate the situation and embarraas tho Governueyt, on the other haud, by ro- fusing to accept the legal-teuder standard silver dollars oxcept ou special deposit? In what possible manner can this discrimination agaiust the milver dollure assist in tho work of resumption? ‘"Che fact iw, that the ceisis of resumption is merely an opporiunity, and the desire toniil tho Goverument in this work # mcro pretense for another desporateeffort to ostablish tho sivgle gold standurd, -1y is this fact that will call for tho rescutment of thg poople,~a resentment so lively and earnest that it wjll find a taugiblo expression during the first month of the coming session of Con- gress, If (hoexprossion of (his resentinent shall prove cumbarrassing to the banks, they will have the poor salisfaction of kuowing that they brought it ou themselves, Suppose, Lowever, the New York bauks shall succeed in giving the standard silver dollars a socondary place by the proposed discrimination against them, what - theu? We witl say that the incouveniunce occs. wloned by #ho refusal of the bauks to recvive silver dollars excopt on special deposit will have tho effect of placing thewm st & small discount, perhups oue-fourth or one-half of 1 per cont, giving thwn about tho same rela. tive value as the greenbacks noy have. ‘Thoy will still remain full legal-tender for all debts, public and private, includiog duties and taxes, snd, the moment they shall be. cowo cheuper than the wcld or wrcenluck “antagoniza dollar, they will bo donght for tho purpose of payingdeblsand paying taxes. Tho taxes of this country nlone amonnt to six huudreds of millions & yenr, including thosd:-ef the General Government, the Stata and Municipnl Goverumonts. The difte *of onc-half of 1 per cent will bo @8figh to induca people to seck the silvér dolinra at that rate for the paymont of all thoso taxes, All men with debts maturing of every desaription will endenvor Lo get the silver dollnrs at the rullng discount, with which to discliarge thofr obligations. Even eapitalists who minke loans will scek to cx- chihnge their gold or greenbncks into silver in onler to loan the cheapor money. A umiver. sal demand for silver dollars will spring up all ovor the country tha moment these dollars are quoted below par with gatd and groen. bnek dollars, and such a demand will quickly rostore the equilibrium., Doos any New York banker imagine that the combined efforts of Wall streat can combat great natural uni. vorsal Inws aud the sclish intorost of com. mereigl transaotions? Con any combination hope to excludo silver money from com. merce, whon every shrewd man in business will seek it for one purposo or anothor? Could all the bankers in the couniry ncling togethier keep the legal-tender silver dollary at a discount, when therc was a uni. vorsal demand for them the moment they are ot » discount? Tho course ontlined by tho Now York bankers may Ue the menns of erenting in n few months n public demand for the silver dollars to an extent that wonld not have been reached otherwiso for saveral yonrs. Nor will such a demand drive gold out of circulation until thera shall e silver dollars enough to pay all tho taxes nnd dobis and transact all the busi- ness of the country. Tractically, then, the schema of tho Now Yorle banks is monifestly abaurd, and would defent its own purpose, even if they should bo allowed to pursue it in their own blind, stupld, egolistical way, for, if thoy should succeed in depreciating tho silver dollars, they would merely create o new demand therefor of enormous proportions, and thus hasten tho arrival at o silver bosis, In tho meantime, tho announcement of their purpose to diseriminate against sliveg will exeite a univeraal hostility to the New York banks, It will bo accopted by the peo- pla and by Congress as n disposition on the part of the Eastorn bankera and the monoy- lendors to defoat the- law of the Iand nnd domonotize milver in spite of the popular will. In order to this effort, Congross will probably ba prepared fo taka two important atepy, viz.: (1) 'Lo provide for the free coin. ago of silvor dollars, and (2) to compel the ‘banks to redeom their notes in coin jnstond of legal-tonder ay they do now, If the peo- plo of this connlry shall be forced by tho money interests to chooso between the con. tracted nud couslantly contracting gold standard and the onlarged and growing silver standard they will choosa the lattor; if there is to Lo n single monotary standard, then it isin tho interost of tho masses to hiavo the cheaper and moro abundant metal, and free colungo of smilver will bo provided as the quickost menans for obiaining tho silver atandard, and the surest means for avolding tho doar gold standard, A law requiring the banks to redeem their circulating notes in coln instond of greoubacks will find general favor for sovoral reasous: It will relieve the QGovernmeut of ono-balf the burden of ro- sumption; it will admonish tho banks for londing themselves to tho Now Yorle gold cliqua; and it will provide an oponing for af least 3100,000,000 of sil- ver dollars immediately, for tho bauks will need that sum for resorve purposes. Will tho monoy-interests of New York be suy botter satisfied with such Iaws than thoy are now ? Will thoy not regret. that they inter- fored to provent the froo ciroulation of legal- tender silver alongside of gold and green. backs? Tho ciroulation at par of tho three kinds of money after mnumpdnn will bo the naturnl rosulkof the law aa it now stands, it the banks do not interforo Lo proyent it. ‘That condition of things will probably con. tinue till the bullionsyalue of silver shall be reatored (when all objection to the silver dollar would disappear), because the silver dollars will not drive off tho gold dollars be. foro §100,000,000 or #£400,000,000 of tho former shall come Into circulation, and long befora that time silver bullion will have attained ita formor relative value with gold. In resluling this course of things, the Now York Lankers will bring on a flood that will carry thom and thoir golid oliguo out of sight. PARTISAN DICTATION. At a meeting of thoSocond Ward Repub. lican Club, hold on Monday oveuing Inst, a resolution wns passed with referonce to Sherill Horryan's uppointmonts which, to put it mildly, is an impudent interforence with matters over which this Club has no ' jurisdiction, and upon which they have no right to dictate, It is due, howaever, to the Ropublicans of the ward t2 profaco the com. ment which this resolution enlla for with tho decluration that it does not reprosont their sontiments, but those of a Httl clique who have no authorily to declare the wishes of tho votors of the Second Ward. As the reso- lution, liowever, stands as the oftivial action of tha Club, it calls for sharp rebuko, ‘Thie resolution, after whercasing that it §s .confidently espucted that the Bherifi-clost will give that ward its shara of the appoint. ments, aud that there aro & great many per. wons out of business, declaros ‘‘that the Presidont of the Sccoud Ward Club, togetler wilh tho Executive Commiltteo of said Club, Le requested to seleet tho uames of ton wmomni- Lors of the Olub, and present thom to' 3Maj. Hovruan, with the request that ho seloct whatsoever appointincats ho may mako from tho Becond Ward from theso names,"—and that a committes of three walt upon him with tho list of uames, It any such Committes with any such list of namos waits upon Maj. Ilory- 4N, it s to be hovad that Le will politaly show then the door, and soud thom brek across the river, 'This resolution pro. _poscs to introduca a hit of Tamwany inta our county politics which. will ot go down, uviog just smashed oue maching, the peo- plo of Chicago are in no moodto have anoth- er mackino of the samo kindsot in operation, evon befora the raius of the old pno is swept out, Iaving taken fssuo with Sheriff Kenx on thiy very subject, 1a it not a littls impn. dent for a small ring of ward politicions to come forward and demand the appointment of wen from u cortaln locallty 7 Whon did residence in @ certain street, block, or ward qualify a man to serve o4 a deputy or clerk iu the Bherils ofiice? If residenco in tho Hecond Ward is o qualification, is not resi- dence in every other of the wards and in every oue of the country towns just a3 strong a qualification? It boiug out of Lusness iy a qualification in the Second Ward, idlenoss or misfortune in all the other wards and country towus is just a3 much o qualification, aud the Szeond Ward ring mivht o well rolect n hundred names ns woll as ton, aud instat npon the appointment of the wholo of them. % Tt waa n dictation exactly of thiz kind and lis yielding to it that defented Bueriff Kkay, During his administration, the bummers of this and that wavrd complained they had no reprosentation. He yiclded to their clamor 80 far ns to moke some changes in hisnp. pointments, As the timo for a naw election drew nigh, the clamor- increased, nnd Kenx ylelded to it by promising thess bummorain the varlous wards that they shonld name al} hia appointments, Tho result was that he was overwholmingly defeated, and the tnn. chine which the bummors had set up was rmashed. It was the samo old story, The bummers were to select compotent nnd re. sponsible men for the offices, but the people, deeeived over and aver again, put no faith in them, 1t Moj, Horratax has any serious inten. tion to mceept tho diclation of any ward club, or any politienl clique, in making his appointments, lie had better resign his offico nt once. If he shall follow out Kenx's poli- cy in this matter, hia administration will ba n disastrous faflure, the pablio interosts will bo neglected, and corrnption and misman. ngement will chnrnetorize his ontire term of ofico. o will hava n list of deputies, Lnil- iffs, and olerks, and will not bo actually re- sponsible for them, although the law makes hitnso. 1fis whole administration will b thrown into conffision and cnd in utter fail. ure. We do not believe Maj. Horruay, how- over, has any mich intoutignm, or will follow any such policy. IHis ufl:gnum under hia oath, his duty to the peoplo of the county, the promises which ha has made, and the fm. portont fact that he s mot n eandi- dnte for re-nomination, are suoiently strong nducements to provent . him from yielding to the Impudent dictition of the Sccond Ward or nny other ward clique. Ho haa given a publio pledge that fitness for tho office will Lo the only qualifi. cation for appointment, aud wo beliove he will ndliera fo bis plodge. “Ho s in n posi- tion to sy to tho Hecond Ward delegation when they come to him with their list of names: * Gontleman, I propesa to mnke my own appoiniments. Thero may bo ap. pointments from the Sesdnd Ward, and there may bo none. It will'depend upon the fitness of the men I find thore. I do not in- tond to tnke auy man because Lo lives in any. particular locality. I amn roady to receive suggestions nnd to consider them, but all my appointmonts will Lo based upon the industry, honosty, and ability of the ap- plicants, For this purpose, I do not need any sbsolute list of nomincea to choose from, Good morning, gentlomon,” Tho open and declared war on silver by the bauks of the City of Now York will find but little sympathy in the West nnd North- wost., W do not believo that thero is one bank in Ohicago or In any of tho Northwoest. ern cities which will approve or indorsg tho schiema of the New York banks, Thatscheme is to nullify the law of the land mnking the silver dollar o logal-teuder by refusing to sc. cept it as bankable monoy, and by rofusing to transact any businoss with s merchant whto recelves silver in the course of his bugi. ness. .The attempt to nullify tho not of Congress, and the assumed co-operation of Bocrotary Surnyan by locking tho silver dol. lars in the vnults of tho Troasury, will not recoive the mpproval of tha banks or of nuy class of persons at the West. On the contrary, it is more than probable, should thero bo this allinnce” Lialwaon ‘the’ |’ Now York banks aud Secrotary Surmaraw, thint Congresa will anticipate tho resutnption of specie paymonts Ly soimo very peromp- tory and deolsivo legisintion, At presont the banks arae the only clnss of the Amorlican peoplo who will not be compelled to make specie payments on the 1st of Janunry, The Government, as the case now stands, is com. pelled to furnfsh the banks with coin with which.to redeem thelr notes, aud this coin these bavka ingist shall bo gold aud not silver. They nnnounce boforeland that they . will demaud gold of the Governmont, and will not take silver, In this emergency the duty of Congross is plain and unmis. takable, It is to declare that, on the dsy that tho Governmeut resumes speolo payments, groenbacks shall coase to bo logal-tondor in redemption of bank-notes, which notes shall be rodoemed on demand in the legal coin of tho Unlted Statos, ‘Tho banks have as many notes outstanding nearly oy thé Government; so long as the Government is glliged to farnish thom with gold, they will rofuso silver, But lot the Government dissolve the partnership, nnd lot thoso bauks take care of their own cur- roncy, aud find' their own gold wherever they can got it. Perhaps tho deciston that silver shall not be troated an bankablo funds mny nndergo o vovision. At all events, wo ara aswurod that not ono bank in Chicago or tho Northwest proposos to take any part or give nny asslstance whatevor in this open declaration of war by tho New York banks against the Government, cxtending to n bold uullification of tho law; and, if the' New York banka can carry on tho war of them. sclves, then they will havea fair opportunity to show their strongth aud ability, ———— The full returiy from the Tuird Wisconsin Congresslonal Distelet show that the Hon. Guonan C, HazELTON, the llepublican candi- dulc, iy elected by a very small majority, ouly 175, over KiNo, Fiatist and Domocrat, Kixa made a desperate elfort to get elected, and §i 1y repareed thae he snent at least -$10,000 i tho campalen. Tho distries fs o lurge one, scarcely touched by a raliroad line, and the fubabitants ure engaged in agriculture ond lead-ntuing, Many of them we foreiguers, und are casily duped by deslenivg politiclans, The Greenback lunuey spread ko o fearful epldemic, but HazeLYON fought it fuch by ek, 1IN I3 small, but 1t is larger than DeesTeR Fourth (Mllwaukee), the fumous Democratic district, — e ——— The next- Confederato Jouss will probably adopt & Uxed pumber to deelds coutested elec- tionw, Thuy, uny Republican who dous not clalim a majority uf 1,500 or over will be ousted ut once and biaseat given tou Democrat. In cascs whero thero were three cundidates, the Republean will be required to havo more votes than botlh the Ureenbavker aud tho Dewmoerat, Otherwise be must step down aud out. 3 ——— e It is sald to be the fashlon amone clergymen when they get a barrellul of serinong to turn it upside down oud preach thew over sgain, ‘*dealiuz from the bottum.” Now thst Mr. Dasa bus gone back on TiLDEN, bu can utllixe all Lls old editorlals on tho * Gireat Fraud" Ly reproducing thewn aud slmply strikive out the name of KuTneurorn B. Hares and weertisg that of BanueL J. TiLDeN, 5 The Huffalo Courier, cvilfontly foterested in SOUIY 2As copany, suys: *“The public is Levln- ulug to losc fulth iy Eptson's inventions. is discoveries, buwever wterestivg, are not Hiely to prove of practical value.” —— Miss CaTneuiy® Lroyp, a schuolmistress in Newturg, torged a8 refractory und rebethous buy the other day, und the imp's tatber brouznt nit for 81 (0 dawaves. The dnre-contduw’s sea it, but acquitted Mies Liorp, and made upa purse for her of 225 The Court el that, “parcats have a rient o conttol theie cigror na long as they do nat overstep certaln boung,, and when they take them 10 echool ghop delegate to tho teacher that snme poyrer of restraint and correetlon they posseas nnder the law.” This 1s much soundacr docttine than that enunciated hy the Suprome Conrt of Wise consin, which held that corporal punisi,m, ntin schools was In all cases sufliclent gronads lur g suit lor nesanlt, & et Tt never rains but it pours, For the next fay nionths the telegraph will e nightly burdene) with tha reports of grave robberies tn difr, reny scctlons of tha country, and there il be ap yy. easy foeling In the minds of many persons who hsve boen bereaved of thelr fitends by deatls, Lt 13 not Improbable that the plan of crematye, fnstead of burial, wlll find new advacares noy fn erder to circumsent theso deepic anle crentures that stand ready to violate the fender. est feclings of the human hieart, From strictly & sanitary point of observatiun, It cetatnty gy much to recommend it e e — .. The tory runs that Miss Luwa Anporr called at the White House the other ey, and that Mrs. HAYES brought out the books and requested tht great ennwc sing some of the good ol revival lymy Misy Annort rang ¥ Blow Pity, Lord; O Lard, Fog. give,” with such pathoe that the President Wne moved to teart. ‘Fhat 18 very 2ood; but winore approprinte pince to sing that byinn wintd 1 Grmnerey Park, ‘Ten to one, however, that the old sinner fuside would not weep unless »og one would tend him an onion. L —tp—— The Boston Jlera'd says that MY, Betien oy suceeated more than a dozen epltaphs for his own tombatone durtng the past fitteen yeurs, none of which seem to e exactly appropriate, On one oceaston he asked to bave It fneccibed un s tombistane that ** hie never commaned the Arniy ot the Fotomae Now he has hely ehough in mnking epitaphs. Ilere fs o woug ofne? # Tieneath this stone liow BRNST BiTher, Wo served the South o whalesale vatler; Al hie Tife lung e was 8 crabler, And naught but death could stup hls jainer, ehiin, hyme. In oneof the publie sehools of New Yuork, the next day after the election, one of the fe. male feachers varled the movotony of ler moruing exerclses by marching ber puplls up ond asking them how thele fathers voted the day before foy Mayor. An Inquisitive fatner sent lier a holo the next murning, askiue her if that was what his ¢blldren were sent to rehool for. And yet some people Insist that pollgcal cconomy should be taught in the common schocis. i Joniy N, DARIN, who was eqpvicted of killing hiis brother-In-law, Joux K. Brovan, at Mar. ahalltown, Tn., was yesterday sentenced to - prizonment for life, ‘The singular feature of the trinl was the appearance of Frasi oss, who soletftnly swore e htmself Killed Szovin, Walle Judge Mircugnt, admitted thet losy gave every evidence of belng of sound mind and In enrnest, yet ho also belleved that Dakiy comwitted tho murder, and so senteuced him, The New York Graph yoar 1877 there were erccted 1,43 edilices in that city, at a cost of 818,319,414, Duringe this year the number will execed 1,600, at o tofat cost of $16,500,000,—un avernge of over §10,000 for every bullding. When the cheapness of materiul nod labor {s considered, 1t wiil be scen that theso structures must be handsome and durable for the cost vrice, uys that during the et — meveral prominent Republicans In tha'present House of Representatives will be missed niter tho present scsslon, Among them are Have, BaNks, Burtnenr, Townsexy, Foster, Brnen- Aup, and Cox. On the Democratic side those who must ‘‘go® are Hrwitr, PorTer, By, Sarnen, Baxsivg, Hanmsox, TitockMontuy, and Grovek. A nice lot of gentlemen for an evening | z e t— When Jony Raxpotru, of Roanoke, made ure of that terrible sarcasm n the ouse of Reprosentatives: *flo shines and stinke, ana stinks and shincs, Hke n rotten mackerel by moonlizht,” lic fntended no refesence to the diplomats who aro dolng the Newlunndiand husiuess that hus already become fishy on thele hands. —eetm—— 1t October fixed Evenys Hawr, Chalrman of the National Republican Comunittee, Novem- ber dul tho samo for Senator Banwus, Chalr- man of the Demoratie Qongresstonal Cotnmnit- tee. Honors aro easy, but the chanves for apcedy resurrection seemn to e on the side of the Maine wan, - e i In secordance with tho suggestion of the Geneva Conferenco of the Yount Men's Chris- tian Assoclation, all the church re praying this week for the youne men, Except n the City ol Chlcago, thera are n lerge number of ‘wicked young men wlho need vraying for. e —e— The rals of ** Tas Iron Hand " is threatencd, Ts the Ttepnblic ot an endr—Cinclunati bayiire: . The Republic seems to be pretty muchist an end In several of the ex-Rebel States, *+The Iron Ifand™ is what is fmperatively needed down there In order to Insurs o Government republicaw In forn, A New Orleans correspondent has o misld way of putthyz it 1l says that the chumpton 1l ANvBRFON, {8 *lobarlng under & natural s bility to tetl the truth,”” And what makes it bad #3 the fact that no act of Congress can 16 move Mr. Axpersos’s disabllltivs. o — e Miss Hanunter Hosven, the sculptor, has vatented a process for converting lmvstone into marble not to be distinguished from it most perfect and beautiful utural marble, An experiment with it #% to be wade on the Eue list Euassy building in Rome. B ———mm——— e The Rev. Mr. [lzpwontig, of New York, ad- vanced (he opinfon lust Sudday that i our Lord were to visit that eity uml berin jo cut down salavies ond reform things ve ally in the public offlves, [l wonld be unytling Lut puputar, e —t— " Nuie that Georzin by becone us thorouzh!y bankruvt as sl I3 Democratle, Lier newstaiers | cry out for the Morear Lell-punch, Hler principal commerce belng In whisky, the bl punch would suon 111 her Treasury. g Mary Canvestsa tells ‘a Washineton re- porter that the contest for thescat n the vited States Senato iy Whconstu fs between bimsell and Mr. Kaves, 10 It comes to that, Kuysd will have u s0ft thing, ’ § —————— A Cleselad German paper has wisely conclud- ed that it docan’s know whons the Republicaus will nominatein 1830, tis the only puper lnthe United States whoso cditor caunot namie 1o lucky mao, 3 - Mrs. FrrroN wadea successful race fur Cont gress In Geargla, Bou Tooxus waye iL's B ':,Y shu can’t bo ewarn in Iustead of ber husband, who Lid behind hier skirts durlng the cunvasse Geu, Jo JonseTox describes Bex BUTLES 8% g mwan desplsed iy the North and excerated 0 the South,” ¢ s wlt that BuTLER guvs out v Cungress before JoB JOUNsTON cowes . er the couotry 1n a good many Jocalities all over the coud Democrgtic editors have kindly lounsd the ;mv‘- of thefr Yoosters to tho Republicaus,~tbey b3 {ng uo use for them yuis year. : o ; the Five yoars’ fniprisoninent and 30V floe s 119 worst that van happen to the ghouls \vh'\'lhtL rled off Brswaut's corpse—il they ure vabs K e seems to be 84 The Cinclonatl Enquires e 038 the anxlous to szud (iRANT buomitg 8%, Louls Globe Desnocral, Malue was a Bttle roust en BLaiss o 04 Ler. but CONLLING Wad bob survs