Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 23, 1878, Page 4

Thye Tribune. Y MATL—IN ADVANCR—POSTAGE PREPAID. Lally Fdtlon, one year. LIE uria ol 8 yest, per month. tlon: Literary €ne corr, v Cinbat fon - Epectinen coples sent Ire Give Post-Uttice addross In full, focluding State and Coonty. Hemlttances may ba mads elther by draft, exprest Fost-Office order, of fn registerel letser, st our rick. TERMS TO CITT SUBSCRINRRA. Dasiy, delivered, Gunday excepted, 73 cents per week, * Dally, delivered, Sunday fncludel, w0 cents per weeds Address THE TRIRUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison st Deardorn-sts., Chicago, Il Ordera for the delivery of Tk THInUNE at Evansion, Fngiewood, and Jlyde Park lefd fo the counting-room wilirecelve promptatention. 2 Cxticano TRIRTNF has estabiished branch offices (om i eenintof sawcriptions snd Advertisenienta as toflows: NEW YORK-Room 20 7rituse Bullding. F.T.Ho- Favory, Manager, nce=Xo. 18 e d=1a Grange-Rateliere. Theatre, Msdison strect, between Diearborn aud State. Koo gagement of the Strakesch [tallan Opers Troupe. Aftorncen, *Lucts." Evenlog, ** Miguon.” Taverly’s Theatre. Engagement of n womiar of Monroe, Dearbora street. Lo apcment of Nick ltovert Pantomime Troupe. Pumpty.” Atternoon and evenlag, Klonley’s Theatro. Rerdalon strect, between Llars and LaSalle. Ko gagement of Eilzs Wenthershy's Frollques, ** Hobe slet” Afternocn and aves = Academy of pusies Halated strect, belween Madison snd Monroe. Ve- tlety, novelty, sud specisity perfovnsnces. Afteioon nd eveniog. Hamlin's Theatre. Clark steret, opposito Lie Court-Tlouse, Engagement of Wagner & Cotton's Minstrels. Aftarnoon snd even: ing. Metropolitan Thontro, Clark street, cprosito Sicrman Jlouse. tertaloment, Atteravou ood aveny Varlety en- SOCIESY MELTINGS. ', BED D COMMANDERY X0, 13, K, T.~S! };fifihu: TNaRe ticrety ontcred to mant et on with s, iy urder of e 1 4 i A re ndoy, at U o'c Al 07 our (a1e Hrothe Slalty 1RyiEe v attend b ¥ eopacially InViEed 1o atend, T tho Urder erpacialy Sk ! WhiLs, 0. y ure D. A, CASHMAN LODGE NO, 636, A, F. & A. 3. —An' ¢mvrgent, communicatioa’ will, ba lield at theif Uall, ‘corner West Madlson and_ lohey:sis., W murniog st 10 o'clock ahafp. 10 sttend une! ¢d brother, Frank F, Cuddeback, Aembors lodes lhx‘:mu."“cm W Hoehill. Dark W14 hata 1¢ possthie. G DOUGLASS, secrstary. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER Greenbacks ot tho Now York Stock Ex. change yesterday closed at 907, 3, 1878, 'The Common Council has passed an ordi- nance for the reorganization of the Board of Public Works, creating tho officos of Com. wissionor and Secretary, and relleving the Mayor of the porsounsl supervision of this important department of the City Govern. facnt. The llap-uhlmu njority over Goupr's party and pintform is 46,157. ‘The Green. “ backers polled 65,623 votes, ud tha Political Probibitionists 2,397, The Greenback- Granger ticket in 1874 polled .75,580, huing s declivo sinco then of over 10,000 votes. Tho Drainnga Amendment was carried by a majority of 69,224, Tho total vote cast in the State is 453,113; two vears ago for Prosident, 553,749 votes wers cnst. The embezzliug ox-Bacretary of the Pull. mau Company, who was nrrested at Lisbon, basg beon handed over to the American Con- eal, and will bo held subject to the action of the Unitod States authorities, Iliv surrender by the Portuguose Government was avolun- tary concession in tho interest of justice, aa no extradition treaty exists, Anorni's ro. turn and paoishment are regarded ns rea. sonably certain. Billlards s pronounced a worldly amuse. ment dotrimental to tho work of evangeliz- jug tho world, oud msy not bo indulged in by professing Christious, according to tho resolutions adopted by the Anti-Secret Bo. cloty Convention at Whoaton. Croquet is omitted from this index expurgatorius of recreation andpastime a8 in no way interfore ing with tho work of ovangelization, and tho brethron and sisters may bang wooden balls with a mallet on the green grass, but must not punch the ivories with a oueon tha groen cloth, It is not surprising to learn that GopLova 8. Ontn's weat in the now Congress will be contestad by McCaux, bis opponent, Thera is an allegation that somo noun-resident stu. donts at a colloge in the district voted for Outi, aud this allegation will serve as well us .ny other, The fact is, that Oatu’s wma- Jority was awall, and in all such cases whero tho Rapublican candidate hos been succoss- ful & coutest may bo expected, with an ubid- ing faith that & Dewocratic majority in the House will always adinit the Democratic con. testant. We sro surprised, however, that the tirat notice of contuutivg BMr, Oxtu's eluction should comy frow Henator McDoNaL, who hus been credited with higher notions than thoso of mere partisanship R — ) ‘I'ho British Indian troops continue to ad- vance into Afghanistan, and bave captured the Al Musjid fort after a briet struggle, in which the juvadors are reported to hove lost 800 men in killed and wounded. Tho bistory of former warw between these two belligerents wug- geots the possibility that the Afghaus vre imercly drawing the Indian forees into o position where thoy msy be able to swoop down upon thew with superior numbers and briug the present campaigu to & sudden termiualion, 'Tho Eunglish, however, sppear to have no doubt of eir abdity to conduct & succass. tul wor against the Ameer's forces, aud the lateat disputches from Euglish sources are in tha ruost confident and hopeful tone, — All nucertainty on the part of the public tn general and suspense on the part of the parties undor investigation has been ended by the yresentment in opan cours yes- terday of & bundle of indictments sgainst tha persous charged with having bad a hpud i the enormous frauds perpetrated ia con. uection with the construction of the Custum. Houso building in this city, aggregating £850,000, and also againsy Mr. EL N. Mis. vaep, Register in Bankruptey, for exact- ing excessive and jllogal feew, and W. K. Expicery, for defrauding the depositors aud cruditons of the Centrul Nationul Huuk Ly the wisupprops: a of ity funds wlale seting as President. Tho session of the Ghmnd Jary roturning these indictments has béan o tong and laborions one, bat the re- sults prodnced in the interest of justios and the punishment of orime are ample proof that the time spant has not been wasted, [ The new Congress will be called npon, ac- cording to all accounts, to purge itself of soma very longh cnstomers, who will proba- bly sccure certificates of membership through the combined votes of Democrata and Na- tionals, Thera is one Syrrn, of Smithville, N. J., who is charged with having two wives and does not hail from the only Territory where a plurality of spouses Is tolerated. Then oue Smore, in Olio, whoannounceshis intention of contesting Mr. 'Towxsxrp's admieston, is freoly denounced by the local papers as & tramp and dend-beat, whatever {lia real facts may be. A similar combine~ tion of Domocrats and othor lnnatics under tho nama of Nationals sncceedod in olecting an ignoraot Communist in Maino, aud the conlition throughout the country has achieved results that may be embarrassing lo the re- spectable portion of tho next Congresa. "The political situation in Loulsiana is rap- idly approaching tba chaotio character which it prosented four yoars ago, and thero will soon be o clash of judiois] authority, whercat two sets of mon will again proceed to do as they pleass under tle decoptive or perplex- ing guise of legal ‘suthority. The pevple of the North have been protty well informed regarding Lonisiaus politics in the laat four years, and the prospoct of a rocurronce to the deplorable complications once unraveled with concessions to injustios and Srregularity so lomentablo 1is sickening to every decent man, It is to be loped that tho I'rosdent may succeed in hurling from influenco and power every man in his party who has boon involved in suy of the bargains, counter- bargnins, and dissensions which have dis- graced that State and disturbed the untion, It fe also to be hoped that, during the next of the bloody scenes which usually accompany the re.sstablishment of political equilibriums in Loulsians, for the death of every decent Ropublican, whito or black, a turbulent Democrat mny alszo quit Lis favorite recrention. —— Tha Czar of all the Russtas hos prosonted asword lo tho Ameer of Cnbul. There is nothing very remarkablo abont this simplo act of intornational courtesy. Gen. Kavr. %axy, commander of the Russian forces in Central Asin, appears to havo beon deputed by the Russian Emporor to perform the vrincipal office at tho presentation, and the language nscd npon that ocoasion must tend to set the English people to thinking that if Gen. Kaumiany's words wero warrantod by nuthority from 8t. Patersburg, the Afghan campuign must Asswne an jmportunce whioh thelr Covornmont las mnot heretofore given it. The spaech, which is printed elsewhere, cannot but he considered as o formal declaration of sym- pothy, it not a determined purpose on the part of Russin to ospouse the cause of the Afghana. Suchlanguege, iinsed at any Euro. peauconrtundersimilar circumsatancos, would have but ono interpretation, and that would be that Rassla moant to fogm an alliance for offonsive and defensive purposes, Perhaps the Russian representative may lave over- stepped the bounds of prudence, or have been overcome by the *‘concomitants™ at the timo of the pressntation. We shall soon seo. Tha 8pringfield JSepublican thinks thore is nothing uufair in the proposition of the New York Clenriug-Tlouse to treat silvar dollara as bullion and aceept them only as special do- posits, because it simply meoua to pay out silver to thoso who deposit silver. Il un. fairucas of the proposition cousists in the intentional discrimination sgainst the silver dollar as compared with the gold and greon- bock dollar. ‘The New York banks say that after resumption they will make no distino- tion betweon gold and greenbacks; thoy will tako greenbacks on deposit aud ellow gold to be withdrawn, or vice cersa. Dut tho standard silver dollar occuples preoiscly the same position before the law sa that oc. cupied by tho gold dollar or the green- bock dollar, and the New York banks say they will not recognize the intent and forco of the law, Their anfairness reaches beyond any single doposit orany numbor of deposits, becauso they iutend and hope to exclude silvor from the commerco of the conntry in deflance of tho law. ‘They et thomselves up 4 a combination o defeat the will of the poople, 'They say in effect that thoy aro strongor than tho innss of tho peoplo, mnd that they will not permit tho silver dollar to bo a factor in busiucas, no matter what tho mass of tho peoplo nay demand. It may bo that the organs of the money-lenders in Now York und New Mugland mnay see nothing un. fair in this sort of proceeding, but the Amer. Ican poople will be quick to recoguize and resant it, ‘Tha New York Licening Post in evidently anibitious (o toke thelead of the Eastorn uewspapers iu the new effort to ouforce the damonetization of the silver dollar in de- flauce of tho popular will, **Let Congross stop the colnoge of silver,” domands this Journal, *or duprive It of tho logal-tender quality ; aud lot it ropeal the smondment of the Resumption act which requires the Becretary of the Treasury to relssue greon- backs after their rodemption,” It Is sald that when the bLraine are out the mau is dead; in the caso of nowspapors it would scem to be that when tho braiug are out tho concern goes crazy. The death of the veleran editor of the Koening 1ost appears to have bereft that justitution of every vestige of judgment ‘and common-senss, Nubody but a Iunatio would domand the ableolute retirement ond canocel lation of the greeubacks, the abandonment of mlver, and the sudden roduction of the country to gold alone as the circulating medium, | Without arguing the merits of tho proposition, it is utter madness to make sugha demand in the fuco of the national legislation of the past year and the temper of the Amorican people. But scarcoly any. thing elso could be expeoted from a journal which placidly reproves Tus Oulcaco ‘Tumuxs fos saying that the silver dollar of 871} grains, pure silver, (4 the true uait of value, and which then adds: * This dollar Lto-duy would be worthabout sceenty.five csnts,” A nuwspupur which doos not kuow that the prescut dollar of 412} gruins contalus just 871} grains of pure silver, cortainly has no clain to any considoeration for what it may eay on the subjuct. e ——————— The poayweut to Greut Britain of the 85,600,000 aw arded by the Hulifax Commis. sion is the fitting couclusion of a serics of bluudurs. ‘T'heso blunders bogan with the or- ganization of tho Comuiission, in which Bec. retary Fisit consented, sud it i3 suid oven urged, the eppointwent of Drirossk, tho Bieleien Misister. who yery naturally proved ‘THE 'CifICAGO TRIDUNE: 23, 1878-~TWELVE SBATURDAY NOVIEMBER - to be a subservient creatnra to British intor- cate, Tha blundera immedintely succeeding woro committed by tho Amerean Commis- sioner, who weskly consented to tho British dictation as to tho proceadings and the tak- 1ng of evidence. Then came the decision, which waa a palpable swindle, and Congress clnimed a hand in the blundering by appro- priatiug the money, though the award was nniversally denonneed as nn extortion and outrsgo, Sccrotary Evants gtill bod it In his power to counteract all the blundering that had gono before, for Congress left it to his discration to pay over the award, or withhold it under pre- test and a demand for vohearing. There was o long nnd unaccountable delay in open- ing the correspondence with the British Government, but Alr, Evarrts flually pro- ducod a convincing argument which left no doubt that the United States bad beon over- roached and the terms of the troaty violated. Io onder to complote the list of blunders, howaever, the Secretary of State began at tho same time to bny oxchange for the payment of the award, and tho monoy went forwand by the same stoamer (hat carried the protest againet the extortion. And now the money lins beon paid, that is the last of it. The Britishers will pooket it with a chuckle of satinfaction at getting even on tho Geneva award ; and anybody who supposes that a dollar of it will ‘ever bo paid back is in n condition of vordnucy that should seek shelter fromn the nipplug frosts of approach- ing winter. aator to the counlry a4 the other; hoth aro® rolfish and unrensonable, and Loth must be put down, DEOLINE OF THE TRADE OF NEW YORK, The New York Dry (loods Trade Review refors to the contemplated abandonment by A, T, Brewast & Co. of their Clambors atrect storo and the concontration of their Lusinosa in thelr retail store np-town ns sig- uifieant of the decline of the jobbing trade of Now York City and its transfaronce to the Wost, Tho snme nathority rocognizes Ohi- engo ns the now econtro of the jobbiug trndo of the conntry. Tho Jefeie understands the general decline of the jobbirg trado of Now York to be the real reason of the clos- ing of iho old Chambers atreet atora, It na. sumes that *'the firm flnds it unprofitable to maintain a separate establishment for its wholesale trade,” The [eview remarke fur- ther, that the lhcory that the removal Is made in connection with a general movement of {he trade, or thet any such move. mont will follow it, **is simply ridiculons,” It shows, on the contrary, that tho old stand is better for tho wholesale trade than the new, The Rericw admits that the falling off of the jobbing trade of tho Esstern metropolis is so strikingly apparont ns to ronder longer doninl of tha fact absurd, and contonts itself with the nssumption that it will retnain ** the grent first-hauds market of the country.™ But tho Rcvicto contonds that the decline in thoscalo of iinportanco, rolative. 1y to the other grent houses, of tho house of A.T. Srewinr & Co., is duo {o n loss of magacity 1 the mansgoment, It eays: ‘There most, of couras, always bo a larze Jobbing trade done in this market with the dealers near by New York, i tho Muidio and Eastern Binteay biit to makmiain o general foubing trado here, in tho face of the competition which at prerent exists for the plecc-goods trade of ho ronntry, reuires niore miercantile sacacity than haa thus far been manifes.ed hy the unceesenrs 0f the sazacionx mer- cnant who, If he ever eontemplated muving hin whiesale business np-town, did not anticipate any sucn reasons for |t ae, we belleve, teally actuate ia runioval at this thne, ‘These views of nu suthority so high as that of ke Review ove ontitled to great woight, not only as affecting the oharnoter of Mr, SrEwanT's successors in the monagement of tho house, but as bearing upon the sub- jeot of the -decline of New York City ns n jobbing-trade contre. They may boe nscopt- ed as conclusive since they are based upon rational deductions from facts of the nctual merenntilo situntion, Nor is it aoy more a gortaioty that tho mantle of mercantilo su- premacy has fallon from Lhe shouldars of the merchnuts of Now York than that it has de- scended upon the shoulders of tho morchants of Chicago. In this nge of iron, stenm, and clectricity the railway and the telegraph croate contres vf popnlation and trade, In a late lecturs tho Rev. Joserir Ooox illustrnt- ed the internnl commerce of the country by the simile of tho exteuded lhand, the paln representing a vast torritory, the flngors and thumb ench resting upon n large city, snd the wrist, with ita uctwork of muscles [rail- wnys] moving them all with ita giant powor, resting upon Chicago. Given, the grontest railway contre in the world, and, ultimately, there follows tho pgreatest trade sud popula- tion contre. And if it ba true, ns we Loltove, and a8 Jay Govep and other sbrowd observ- ers predict, Chicago i3 destined to become the largest city in tho country, and, if in the conntey, thon ultimately in the wotld, Now York must propare to surrondar jts suprem- acy a8 ‘‘the great firat-hands market of the conntry for foraign and domestio goodn.™ That class of trada is 08 suro Lo follow the jobbing trade as tha latter ia to follow the tide of population apd fo concentrata at the now centres of production and consumption. Now York clings closely, almost convulsively, to tho import trado, but she is destined to losa a largo shara of it na surely as sho has lost already tho lion's share of tha export trado of tho West, Westorn merchants aro bound at no distant day to import dircot and handle the great bulk of the foreign morchandise consumod in the West. trade, sition to dictata to tho mailroads. buger in tho world, monopoly by crushing ont allopposition which they conld not absorb at their own terms, necossary, The oil-producers hnve rolved to make another effort to brenk down tho monopoly which is ruining them, into the alleged nbuses, and Witexast Mo. THE EXTREMELS, GOLDITES AND FIATISTS, One of tho Eastern organs of the gold clique has revivod the statement that tho sil- ver ngitation led up to the slaz folly, It would have beon botter if this, na well as a good many other statements inspired by the gold clique, hnd been omitted. It recalls the Inct that it was tho determination ou the part of the money-lenders to forco sottle- 1monts upon an exclusivo gold basis that en- ccuraged and developed tho flerca opposition which took the other extrome of a flat basls. A disposition to overreach on ono side is protty auro to engondor o disposition to un- derreach on the other sfde. The creditor clnas combined to compal thelr debtors to repoy thom in money of gronter value than that which was in the mind of ocither party at the time the contract was made. It was natnral that tha debtor class, or a large proportion thercof, should resist this com- bination by combining on their part to discharge thoir debts with o currency worth less than was in tho mind of either party at tho timo of the contract. Dishonosty is apt to breed dishouesty, It was the ndvantago songht by the Eastern money-londers whiols suggested to the debtors to secure on advant- ago for themsolves. * Yon have tried to swindlo us by wsking us pay from 23 te 50 per cent more than we ever mgreed to pay, even on a specio-basis ; wo are justified now in tho effort to save 70 per cant on the orig- inal indcbtedness by debnsing the currency.” This mode of retoliation is neither good loglo nor good morals, but it is a very natural way of rosenting an injury or an attewmptod swindlo. Tt is not necessary now to discuss whother the original demionotization of the silver dollar in 1873 was procured fraudulently, surreptitiously, or accidentally, The subae- quent manner of repoaling the act sliowed that tho legisiation was passed without the consont or knowledge of tho people, But the gold cliquo revealed thoir animus in desporatoly resisting the repoal of the Demonctization nct. 'They fought the offort of restoring. tho silver dollar at evory step; they denounced the motives of all mon who demanded this restoration ; they msocured tho Presidont and the Cnbinat; they threatoned rotaliation by re- fusing to lend money in the West; they confessed in a varioty of ways that they had left no effort untried to cocro people by an unjust and hated law to liquidate their debts on an exclusivo gold basis, and thereby ro- pay, moro than they recelved and wmora-than they had over agreed to pny. ‘Lhis was hold by many people to be sufficient justification for an effort to postpone resumption fudeft. vitely, lssuo flal monoy in such quantl. tioa 88 would canso it to depreciate indefi- nitely, and thorewith dischargo their dobts, It waa thon that tho most eflicient workors for tho remonctization of silver stepped in betwaen tho two sets of dishonest extromists and called a majority of the people back to honesty and reason, It was the wilver mon who contended that the restora. tion of the duuble stondard would render re. sumption practicable without oppreasing the dobtors or defrauding the cred- itors. It was the eilver mon who carried the Western Htates ageinst the new crazo, aud saved the country from tho lasting dls. graco of repudiation, Tt is rouk ingratitude, though perhaps en. tirely characteristic, for the moncy-lending class to nssert now that the advocates of silvor and the advocatos of flué money go band in band, It ls foolhardy for these peo. plo to mako o new attempt at forcing au ex. clusive gold atandard, which Is sure to en. courago the flutlsts to now efforts. I thoro sn futelligont man in New York or Boston who hns watched the public ovents of (hu last two years but will admit that, if the issue of the lato election had Lean botween an exclusive gold basiy and an irredoemable currency, the resuinptionists would hiave been defeated? If mot, then why do tho goldites invite another outbreak by assailing the very people who saved thew? Why do thoy en- deavor to forcs the consorvativo silvor mon Into the ranksof the flatists? It ls @ crnzy proceoding. ‘U'he fact is that it thero had Loon no concossion to tho goldites in tho act of remonetization 3 if provision had beon mado for free coinage aud silver cortificatos ; if the addition by this mosus of §$100,000,000 or more of: sllver to the circulating medium of the country had arrosted the fall of values and started the country on 8 now era of pros- perity and progress, the flaé party would not have rocsived the formidable voto it ac. tually polled at the late clection, but would have beon lost to sight and of uusavory memory, 'Thegoldites nud tho flatlsts havo beon the two opposito poles In this flnanclal crists which have threatened tho comsorva. tive middle classea by coming together and crushing out the good seuse that hai thus far kept them apart. The new outbrosk on the part of the goldites is undoubtedly calculated to arouse a now resostment and to keop the breath of lifo in the rag-baby, 'DBut tho silver men 1may ogain save the gold class from disorder sud tho fat class frow fotly, ‘Pho aims of Loth classes aro about equally dishonest, and can never gain the approval of the wass of the American puople. To give silver its old sod true plase in the American wonetary systew by providiug free coinage and other- wiso placiug it on procisely the same footing with gold, will probably bo the strongest barrier that can by erected against both tho graspiug goldites and tho crazy flatlste I'lo ouo clase threateny abuut udauch dis. Pennsylvanin, wont porsonally at tho work. Ho roported that there was not sufficient basis for the charges made by tho producers. thoro came near which would outbreak, as much being an have boen peoted of belng concerned fun the monopoly 3 an application has beon mnde in the courts is belioved that railrond Las beén allowing tho Staudard Compavy; and it is said insowme quarters that this tronble was the immediate ocension of Col. Scorr's brockdown and his trip to Europe. An offort will also Lo made to nunul the charter of the *'United Pipo Line," and, as the oil-producors are fighting, for oxistanco, what nppears to bo a very mon. ster of monopoly, it may bLs expeoted that tho strugglo will be long aund flerce. A DOUBLE OR BINGLE STANDARD. The UChicago Stuats.Zeitung ls ouxious to of ranging itself on the side of the Eastern moncy-louders who aro wecking to enforeo aa oxclusive gold standard in violation of Tue Tuwuss bas admitted o8 much, Tho that, it ono motal or tho othor must be treoted 25 bullion, then silver should bo the standard and gold should Lo quoted, paid, value for the timo being. no longer attempta ** to make tho impossible of tho pgold standard of tho silvor standard,” Zvitung proceods to sny, is tho actual con- dition of things in Austris, whero tho silver guldon and the paper gulden are at par, bat tho gold gulden worth 17 por cout premium, 8o far, thore is ounly misroprosentation of Tue Tnnone, but the Staals-Z:itung follows tho lendership of tho Eastern gold-organa in ndding a falschood to misrepresentation whan it soys ** Tne Tninune ovorlooka that, shilo tho Austrian paper dollar was based on the gilver standard from the deginning, our Amerioan papor is throughout founded upon the "gold standard,” The edlitor of the Staats-Zeitung must know that this is not the fact; that the gold stan lard prevailed only during tho brief period interveuing botwoeen the surroptitious domonctization and the restgration of the silver dollar, aud that the voice of the people oxasted remonotiza- tion na soon ns thoy were informed that the silvor dollar hiad been dropped out of the American monetary system, But the Ytuats-Zeitung elthor misropre. sunts or misunderstauds Tug Trioune when it nsscrts that this journal has adnittod the doublo standard to be au impossible thing, All it Lina said Is that, if the alternative is forced of one metal or the other in n single standard, it will favor tha silver in prefer. onco to tho gold standard, as tho safer and wiser course for the counlry and all ita interests, oll thiugs considered, It {2 not nocossary now to rapeat tho manifold ronsons for that cholee, But, in the mean. timo, Tue Tawuxe still contends that tho double atandard is practicable and more de. sirablo than ooy single staudard; and by that double standard it undenstands the option of the people to pay in either metal, and liolds that such option aots aé a check and correctivo upon the artificial contraction of the curroncy. Bofore Tug Tunune can consent to discuss the practicability of this double etandard with the Swuals-Zeituag, it will require the latter to explaln two points whick gro peraistently avolded by thoso who contend that tho doublo staudard is not pos. sible: (1) How iu it, then, that Franco can maintain about ¥:00,000,000 of silver at par with gold at o railo of 13) to 1, und koep n¢ loast §300,000,000 of that amount ia active ciroulution sido by sido with gold? (2) As tho disuse of silver as money in Garmavy t tho amount of $300,000,000 wag the ohlc} reason for the dooline in tho valus of silvgr ballion ny compared with gold, s it not rea- sonablo to supposo that & now uss of sllver as money in this couutry to the same amount will substantially restoro the former proportion of values ? il T ——— Among other oxponsive luxuries enjoyed by the taxpayers of Now York City is a 3,000,000 polico force. The payment. of thls sum annually ought to sccuro what New York has long ¢laimed,—*‘the fincst polica forvo in the world” But the grave rabber- ios, bank burglaries, murderous usssults, and other crimea of violence which have occusted recontly and have gous unpuuished, have brought this plrase iuto contempt. —The pooplo Liave waked up to the fuct that thoy avo paylug a fancy price for a very indiffer- eut article; aund, as thoy are evideatly con. vinced that they can secure no lmprovewent in tho eficiency of the police, thoy have do- termined to roduce the cost. Bosides u long roll of bigh salares for Commissioners, olorky, etc., the salaries paid are $7,600 for Buperintendent, §2,250 each for Folico Surgeons, $2,000 each for the Captains, $1,000 each for tho Hergeauts, snd $1,200 cach for the patrolmeu. These sulerieg wero fixed by a law of 180G, a tiwe whun aud adoption A GIANT MONOPOLY. Potrolenm ranks third among the groat staples of this country; aftor grain and cot- ton, it {s exported in groator quantity than any other Amorican product. It i almost as Incoucoivable that any one corporation can control the petrolown trade of the world ay it is that any combination could be formed for tho control of the breadstufls or cotton product. Yot this s said to bo practically tho case. 'The *# Staudard Oil Compauy ” is the natne of the corporation which is charged with o monopoly of the oil business, and its oxtortions aud jmpositions Lave aronseda rosentmont among the oll-producors of Peun. sylvania that throatbus rovolution unless tho courts step in to broak down the conspiracy’ which s nlleged to enable that corporation to tyranniza over this enormous interest. ‘The New York Sun rccently dispatched a roporter into the ofl regions to write up the history of this corporation and th) papular revolt against tho mnonopoly it enjoys, and the following paragraph will give some ides of thie huge dimensiona of the concern ¢ The Standard 011 combination, with which these producers ure Juek boginming what promises to tie * thu movt despernta struggle between producers and e.nrua)l-u that thia country has wver scen, lo iy aplondid shape for o fght, and the producers knuw it. 1t represents forty willlons of wealth, and tho Bimnst sbauluty control of the otl-retinlng nte of 1he world, 1t pays toyally for brutue, and can call o ite wid the beat talont fu the conntey, It controls the great trunk lnee, sud it psys dividends 10 ite wtockholdurd, au nearly 8 can ba” ustitiuted, of & willlon dullare 8 monib, perbaps Jmure. 1t L contrelied legislation, und Congrosluna) com- saitiscs have bowed to it It diys 10,000 barrels of crude ol o day, and 1ts pipo lnes and tank lines take all the crude ofl produced 10 the Yarious re- finerics, G the refined ol) fo the sesboard, Dy s sluiple lwlcnvlrnfilhp‘lch 1t can throw thousands of micn vut of emnloyuient, snd |t can draw iy clieck for 31,750, WU 10 setilement of A sult with- out the "‘?"'“'"“' of ditster, 18 haw madu sl jla woney i fews than len years, and 113de it bu oll, This Titanlo corporation was organized ouly sbout tweivo yoars ago by a practical rofluer and a bookkeopor, both obsouro and poor ‘men, The reflner, ANDDEWS hy name, recently sold out hisinterost in the Company for $1,000,000, invested Lalf of it in United Btates ¢ por conts, aud went to Europe; the bookkeoper, RocxareLLen by name, fstill the Prosident of the Cumpany, aud Las o fortune of five millions. The Company began to enlarga ity operationa by buying in refinerios, and soon becawme poworful onough to ox. terminate those that refused to combine with them on terms dictated Ly the Btandard people. In 1573 it mado its first ot- tempt to control the entire ol prod- uct of tho country- by means of certaln raiiroad contracts sald to have been procared through the cfforts of Perxm H. Warsox, formerly President of the Erie Railrond. One morning the whiolo oil-producing region was shocked by the annouucement that the railroads had combiged and ralsed the ratcs on oil 100 per cent,—an incrense fhat threat- ened ruin to the producers. It soon sppour. ed that a combination under the namo of the Bouth Improvemont Company (of which the Btandard Oil Company was the controlling wpirit) bod bought the right to slip all the oi, and wus givon the advautago of 10 couts & barrel to Cleveland sud Pittaburg, and $1.06 a barrel to Now York, Philadelphis, and Boston. This Company enjoyed w re- bate to the same amount on all the oil shipped by cuy one elsa, Tha produgess were foreed "PAGES., into combined resistanee, formed what in known as the ** Producers' Union,” went into tho conrts, before the Pennsylvania Legis- Intnre, and oven hefora Congress, and at that time, after n dosperato struggle, suceceded in annulling the infamous contrncts and in restoring somothing like frecdom inthe ofl But the Btandard Oil Company, in spite of this firat fallira to monopolizo the trado, went on incransing ita resources and power, aevidently with tho purposs of making an. other effort in the same dircetion. Tho. cor- poration became possossed of the absolute contyol of the refining business aa well as of the * United Pipe Line," which is the only means the oil-producers have of gatling their produet to tho railropds; built and ronm all the tank.cars for carrying crude cil to tho ro- fineries, and soon placed themselves in & po- "This Com- pauy have becomo practically the only oil- Thoy havo secured this and they have accomplished the latter by undersolling to auy extent that might bo nally dotormined that this vast power conld only have Leen attained with the aid of robates from the railronds, and have rocently ro- A fow wocks ngo they secured from Cov. Han- TRANET on order for an offlelal invostigation Canpress, Secrotary of Internnl Aflairs for ‘When this news reachied the ofl regions, Mc- Caxpress wns burned in efligy in sovoral places, bribery wna freely charged, and of a disnster ns the ralroad rioting of 1877, The Pennsylvanin Rnilroad is sus- for nn injunotion against the robata which it getinto the silver discussion, and dosirous lnw. To this end it maintains that n siugle standard slone is possible, and thinks that Staats-Zeitung lsot opinion that I'nz TrnuNg has *“let the cat out of the Lag" by saying and recefved at n rate corresponding to its v ‘Theroupon tho Stants-Zeitung concludes that 'Tug I'nipune possible,—f. ¢, to enforco n permanent ratio of 16 to 1 in the valuo of gold and silver," but contonds for * tho abandonment This, tho Staats- -tions, but kept his uamo ovu the books uf the everyiling was it the higbest, at ‘ekenso then way justificd by the flation of prices, It hss Loen iAdg¥Ezdal howover, that this Inw of 1866 fuvther: pros vided that whenovor the currency of the United Btates shall attaiu a par value in gold, the forogoing snlarios a3 fixed by this nct shall bo redneed 20 pot dent, excopting that in no cnsa shall the yearly pay of Cap- taine be less than £1,800, nnd that of Ber. geants less than $1,400," ote. And it is said that no snbscquent legslation las vitinted this provision. This law is now cited and miny bo the means for securing n reduction of 20 por cent, or about 600,000 o year, in the maintenanco of the polica foree. Tho currency of the United States will be absolutely at n par value with gold fn Now York Ly tho 1st of January next, for thers is @ Btate law eatablishing tho specio. bosis at tho snme dato fixed by tho Resnmption act of tho Genernl Government. In tho present tompor of the New York people it will be advisable for tho municipal authorities to avail thomsolves of the provision cited. IS one and a haif fiAsidih. The mauner g, 'Ih theso It Jokers Wero sed wan gy g lows: From twenty to thirty of them ubl . fulded Into Ag‘!mflnr ballot and dropped m:" the box, And during the day one of the )lmn': would ocensfonally stle up the contents g th: : the tissuc ballots would get well shaken ou’lx Meanwhile bogus names wero written upon 1} 2 regiatera #0 as to have the number of names e.:: respond with the number of votos, Wheutvm: tlicre was a surplus In the box a blindluldeq Y dividua) would withdraw the extra numiyer, but was 1oL g0 blind as to take out any of the t;-,.,. tickets, which wero all Democratie. 1 ‘m. manner the most infamous fraud in th of American politics was perpeteated. ——e— 0 histary Concerning the gab of partisan orators about the *‘deadly influcnes of corruption which par- vades the Governmont,” the Yhiladelphia Timn says that thoro Is no evidence whaterer (o 8y, port this slander. Itsays “‘Che truth I, 1hq ticneral Government i more economienlly agg faithfully samintstered whan any Governmeny on earth; and the figures showlng the Dropor- tion of collectlon to expenso prove it, Besldes, there are a thousand defaleations in private m: to ono fo ofllclal life.”” But the Times must re. member that the numbor of personn o privatg Hte compared with those In official lifa is much greater, so its last comuarlson p nothing. Y Detroit has got an Episox, who proposc to scoop him of the many fuventions on the clectric Jight business. His vame is CizanLes J- Vax Darase. Ila was born In Belgium, but educated fn Lille, France, whera at the Cablnct Physlque he had full access to all the mechan!- val uppliances for experimenting with cloc- tricity. 110 18 a genfus In his way, and Is called Eb1sox by all his tamlilar friends. He follows ‘the business of asculptor, carver, and 4 man- ufacturer of church furniture, becauso b pays him; but he fs enthusiastically foud of electrical experiments, and studics and spends all his spare time and money in followlog Lhem up. A Detrolt man has backed him to the amount of 830,000, ancl ho clalths to be able to stow tho public in ashort time the best lght jn the world for about one-fifth the costof gas. The inventor sald tho otfier day to a réporter: 1am flod t'at 1 hinve overcoma all the diM- culiies have provented the gt from being e Although 1do not desiro at_present o exposs my whola plan 1 will say tnis:. 1 have pro. diiced a dynawo-electric machine, simple in ita construction, l:!mnl). and without complication, and with it I'can ligiit every street and restdonce tn Detrolt, ., . T think it will require fen ar twelve confra polnts 1o dluminate this whole city, but every lamp will be eo atranged that lv‘y the sinple turning of abutton a falnt glow ora brifilant blaze may be produced at will, ———t— very rovey i ————s A amall fraction of the editorial profession s under a very dark cloud, with s feather, {5, stoad of a sliver Iining, over at Owaguo, Mich, The wife of the leading merchant In tho place, Mrs. Boxp, Mra, Brows, the wife of the County. Clerk, and Mra, Wircox, the wifo of one of thy Bupervisors, arc, nll undor arrest for aldingn tarring and feathering one Inamnsovn:, the cditor of the villags paper. They all actupy bigh social positions, 1t was first thoupht that the Job was dono by men n_women's clothes, but ¢ tarne out otherwise. Thero I8 great ex. citement, and the Jiberty of the pressis just now under violent discuaston, —— The Democratic party managers in Columbug, 0., proposc to sco what virtua there Is In tns party lash. The following lotter explaing {taclt: John McCarty, Esq.—Dran 8in: At the mecting of the County Demucratic Central Com. mittce chrrgea were preferred agalnat you to tne effect that you opposed one of more of e candl. dntes un the Democratic ticket at the last election, and thal you voted ngainst oge or moro of such candidates, ‘I'he underaignod were by sald Con- mnitteo appolnted o Committee to inventigate aid chargon, which Committea wiil hold s mectiug for the parpose on Nov, 14. You will, therorore, at that thne appear befora ua as aaid Committes 10 ansiver sald charges. McCanry holds somo kind of an ofilce, hence this rod that has been put I tho pleklo for him, Thoe famlly quarrel ln the VANDEnsinr will case contlnues to drag Its slow aad slimy length aloug tn the Now York Couirt. A scene somewhat dramatie and exclting took, place during the progress of the trlal on Tucsday, which is thus describod by tha Zribuns's re- porter: Then Judga Jenn Duack, rising and speaking alowly and under cvident embarcasatmzdr, nafd: *MThin 19 not & (rifling matter. 1lere In o man 80 yoara old marrying 4 woman (7ty years uls Junlor, Wwho camo here a wtzanger, after sephratimy from A husband who te wth] Ntving. That thers should hinve been bittarneas felt toward this woman by the Commodore's daugntors, some of whom werd nie ready prandmothicrs, and that this feeling should have turnad the heart of the father ozainst thum, ure natural results, But thore was of ception in the fmmly, WiLtiax 11, Vasogusnronconraged the muarriage, and contlnned to whow- a9 much rounrd for ine woman as though she pad not done the Inyury of marrying the Commodore in his dotage, Dut the oggravation s immouse If, in addition 1o showlng the dintress and haired that this marriage caused, wo show that It was uninwiul, and that, tnerefore, whatevor intinence Mrs. Van- veuuiLT oserivl was undne, There sro words struezling for ntteranco liere,” continned .lu-l‘m BLack, much moved, ** that 1 am - camoelied to The Ifon. FitnaM BARnzR, Jr., who has just beon elected to Congress trom the Sccond District of thls State, was visiting some relatives {n 3il- waukee the other day, whereupon the Daly Murphey touk oceasion to deliver ftself of the followlug hit of political wisdowm : ** Alr. Banuga Is 8 young man of promise, if ke can only Jiit himsolf above the practices of the mere politts clan and become a statesman, inatead of merely keeplng up relations with tho mon at the cor- ners,”? Mr. Baugzn has no relations with the men at the corners; conscquently ho 1s out of the reach of the Seatine! manager's nssociates, — —t— ‘Thie Boclalists, like alinost all secret politleal socletics In this country, managoe to get credlt for belng much more numerous than they really are. In Cioclonatl and 8t. Louls, where they did a great amount of blowing, their vote waj quite insignificant, snd 1o New York City they cast 1,640 votes in tho election of Mayor, aud la the wholu Btate only 1,098, showiug o vropor- tlon of one to seventy and of ane to clghty-ight with refurenco to the nggregote vote of New York Clty and Btate. In Wiaconsin the oaly Soclalist tn the last Legislature, Satrtd, of Mi- waukee, was badly beaten at thao last election, el sttt Suithciie 'The Dally Oregonian says that Benator iir rLE-MircucLt, “has been romancing again” when he told a Washingtou corregpondent that “had be beew home two.wecks in advanceof the meeting of tho Leglslaturo he would baws , Leen re-clected ; aud, as It was, ho camo withls twelve voteaof an election in a Democratie Lege Islature,”” The papcr referred to says that it 1s a matter of record that MITCHELL Rol hw votea out of ninety," afier utterly falling to get & caucus judorscrment from the Republican ml norty, * Another good man gona astray." e P — restrain, wid 1 suppose 1 have imnde o bungle of it, tut your flcaor muoat mderstand whnt I mean, ‘s hat o strangor should scil hicrself to tuls old man for his toney, taking advantaze of that weakncss of s nntose, 18 not o roason why a will made un- der dml'ch clrcumatances whould by allowed to stand," ——— In & speech delivered o fow days ago, Tooxos, of Georia, sald: Seventcen years aco, when tha war between the States commenced, 118 Uovernment was carried on for less (han $70,000,000. . We had o sinall army of about 14,000 men. We had a little navy, and'we were an indastrious, happy peaple. Tha revenuo had baen bruaght down to the wants of tho peovle, T'ho tarifl was brought down 20 per cent. And still Bon Tovans was not happy. No man {n Congross worked hunler to destroy this condivon of things, or exhibited 2 moro dovilish spirit I favor of dlsunlon and rebellion, than this same Toosans, Ha labored night and day to fire the Southern heart, and was smoung tho first to secedo from Congress and return to Georgia to sprinkle petroloum and fling fire- brands fnto the combustible material lving around, In whatover degrco Bou flods things changed from what they “‘used to was,” he helped to change them, Hope he enjoys it. i — To the Edifor of The Tribune, OtTunwa, Is,, Nov, 10.—Wuil vou vleaso pade lsh tho nuinber of votes by which Mr Taisot Mr. Butten for Goscrnor, and thus cnsble suvaral partiod to decida the result of thelr specy. {utions in thy matter¥s By so doing yon will greatly oblige, yours truly, L K. WiLsox. 'The official vote wo have not scen, but 26,068 1s tho reported majority of TALBOT ovor BuzLes. It was thought on tho night of the election that 1t would reach 80,000, but it did not. The carry- Ing of Boston by 5,000 for BuTieR cut down ‘TaLnor's majority and disgraced Boston at the saute tme. 4 8ell the tunael for 84,0003 and havo no State tax Jovied fur thu uext & 1 Yoars, " (s the advico of ong uf the alirewdest Diancions b the Mepublican party, a cutienan thuroughly conversiat with the buslness of the Hta Braton Heeald, Sell the tnanvl for §5, 000,000, er 83, 000, 000, but have you a purchaser? Fiud o man willing to pa 5,000, for s tunnel, sud Cincipnaty will sell im the urticle, \Ws have an assortinent of them on the Une of tho Suuthors Ilailread,—Cinclnaatl Commercials GUentlemen, whenaver von mako up <your minds to disposcof your tunuele, you can bring themn to Chicago and wo will take all you have got to spare, We need them all to sitp. under the river and thus obviste the open-bridge uulsance, which continues to be mors aod mory a detrinens to our rapldly increasing ghusincss, Chilcago will pay cashon delivery forall the tunnela that ars for sale. et et The gald-bug papers of tho Easst speak con- tinually of tho standard silver dollar as an *85- cent doltar."” 'The New York Fost *'scea the others, and goes them 10 cents better, und calls 1t a % 75-cont dollar,”” Wo are cxlremoly suzious to hiave some of those varaclous Jouruals Inform tholr readers In what part of tho Awmerlcan Re- publie does tho standard silyee dollar pass for 85 cents In gold or any other curcency. Who lg selling those sliver dollars for 85 centa? Who for 90, or U3, or W9 centsl Who s solliug them for less thon 100 cents in gold or grecubacks ! 1o what part of ths United States tu thelr pur- chasing power, or their debt-payiug power, or thele castows-paying power, less than that of gzold? As we ard in pursult of Information, will the New York Post, or Zimes, or Tribune,’or World, or any other gold-bue orzan, furnish ¢4 - e —————— ——— Col, IxagnsoLy has been fguring & lttle, e enys it ‘only sovonty Isractites went dowalinto Eaypt, aud fu 215 years lncrensed to U00,00 inen gf war, the pooulation tnust have been at Jcast 8,000,000, Tuo census’ gave them 23,73 {lrut-born malcs, 80 there must have been only 22973 mothers, woich would make 150 children to cach mother, flo considers Mosas as indiffercnt o viphorer as $SAM TILDEN. et ——— The Clevcland Jerald says that Braixeaod CONKLING at0 both laylng wires already to geb State dolegntions to the nest Nom fnating Con: ventions. Another Obio paper sugzests thaty in case BLilxz, and COXKLING destroy oach other, theraaro plonty of Ohlo mon who stand ready to take the Preaitency with all that the oltleo implica. ‘The enieck of tho Obio politikia 1s Indeed snblime. It over an onterprising nowspaper pulled 4 strong oar awalust 4 otT current it hos becu the Cluciunat! Kuguirer afnvo election jo trylng W@ make fls readers bellova that the Oblo *ides” was not completoly *basted”? sud dong for 02 tho Oth fust, Ita zual fs worthy of & better camse, i ——— 1nwelcoming the Girand Lodge of OJd-Fellows tothe Capltal, (iov, CoLLos sald he supposed thoy wors called odd-fellows becausa they e voten good deal of thelr thne nod woney fof the beucht of others. T thls grosping, sclia 8gu it Is ruthor udd to louk vut.for otpors. Qronox CavaLiz, a Varlsian culebnty who bore o part in theinsurrection of the Commuue, has just dlcd, having returned two wecks bo- fore trom an exile of seven years. llo was a native of Parts, soout 40 years of age, cducated us aclvll engineer attho Eeolu Polytechnlque, andalso studled law, but was what the French calia “student of twenly years' stauding,”— (&, n man who could never pass his examiua- ——— In, Buffalo, -the other day, a bm.Jvul‘l ScunAtuLE recovered 810 uud costs againit G W. Bawn for kissing her agalust her will Jullst didn't play the balcony scemo worth d cout fu sbis fustance, and the defendaot w4 Larcad from wcting tho part of Koswos o e ——— The Pittsburg Gascileremarks that, * In view of the fact that the army rather du’m tho o~ sponsibllity of controllug the [ndlaps, strong statcments from that sourco can very propesty bo received with allowaucs thll thoy ure fuly aubstantiated.” . e —— Tho ticket war Is vver, and uow those OLG felluwa who Intended to go o Waablugion sod back for §2 0 sed 11AYES about an offiea will e sume business at home, Bud, indeed, 870 903% of the disappolatments of this mortal lifel e ——e Univeesity In onder to evfoy s certaln social status, e diod fu his mother's houss exclalm- ing, ** My Gon! what 8 fool 1 bave beew.” Tho nun's dying uxclamation wou'd bo an appropris ate epltaph to writs upon the tombstune of aud Soclallst in the world, - e The Mormou ladies of 8alt Lake City reccotly held a miass wedtlug to vrotest uzainst thy getion of tho Gentile women who, uot long stuce, mado 8 rald ou polrgumy. Tho Heru'd of thut ity saye that 2,000 wers prescut, sud that the wmectiug was n alt respects a success, Miss ELiza R, Bxow presided, and delivered the principal addreds. Atong uther sharp things fu ber 8, #he let this Ay at Congresss § belivve polygomy Is 84 sacred 82 any principle Qo ever rovealod and given to the husuwn famlly, If wo had a Congress composed uf polyg. amwue wen,: rue to toele wives, it would b a bigher Lusior tu the nJlion, aud tey would bettog purfonu thetr dutics, than i Conuress of wuboge amious sud frrchabe husbunds. Miss Hxow tulks liko a marrled woman, - ——— ‘The Cinclnnath Guaelle, having obtsined one of the tlssuc-paper ballots with which the ballot-boxes weru utulfed fn Bouth Carolina at the recent glection, b priuted & fac-shinile of it, including the puper used, sud fuclosed one u cach copy of a recent lssus ul the paper, so tliat its reuders could see & cony of this winute fustrumcnt of fraud Loat disfranchlsed the Re- putlicaus and clected live meubers of Cougress 1o stolen seats. ‘The ballot &s priuted ou blue o-paper of the quality thut Is uscd to pre- ¢ cugrayiuzs, aud fs tbres duches lovz Ly Our follen ANGELL, who bas turned upid Partugal, uccordiug to )l accounts, way be &l tiuguished from otler sogels by having 82 extea | (u his little patronymic. His easploferd Kave bl an fach and be took an cll. - g — Ta the Conaty of Allegan, Mick., where TiLe DEN got U160 voies in 1876, the Dv'njomm vote ab shu bt clection was aoly S5 T8 Urvenback Whalc bad swallowed tho Democd Joyau, ) TALNAGE ‘sars bo'd thaok tho LomR ) :l' weizhed 330 pounds. Moony weighs 440._ .1 | thynks the Loap for that, ‘TarMacs wo¥ . welth more It uo dida't work 4o hard Ppulplt, PSS St S Blnce electlion, ConktIzG bus considered bl 861 4 birker tiau thau oid Uiase'