Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 25, 1878, Page 4

4 incarceration npon processes {saned by tho Btate Conrt of perxons giving testimony be- fore n United States Commissioner concern« ing the ontrageous villainies perpetrated Ly tho Demoeratie clection manngere, In one case, where one of these witnosses had fled to eacape this sort of judicial porsecution, & Democrst undor charges of election frands was nppointed a Bpeclal Constable to follow and bring back the fugitive witness againat him! Apparently thete s not a principle of law tht the State Courls Are not ready to violate and ignora in their determination to protect the guiity and punish the witnesses Ly whom their guilt can be established. ——ee e M. de ZaMacoxa, tho Mexican Minister at ‘Whshington, is evidently a sincers believer in the possibility of opening up and enlarg- ing the trade relations between thie United Btatos and AMexico. He takes an extromely hopeful view of the prospects of this move- ment, and has strong faith in its ultimato auccess. In this Senor Zasacova diffors with Minister Fostxn, who scems to have presented the dark side of the picture, and whose estimate of the political, social, and commercinl order of things in Mexico is claimed to have been based wvpon nn imperfeot observation snd knowledge of the matters whorcof he wrote in his recent letter to the Mannfacturers’ Associstion in Chicego. 'The Mexican diplo- mat qualifies his rosy portrayal of the pros- pecis and probabilities in the case with the eminently practioal and sousible advice to the merchants and manufaclurers of the United Btates to sce for themselves, either through trusted agents or their own person- nl observatious on the ground, and not to leap until they have first looked. ¢ Txibwne, TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. STAGE rnnlm. RY MAIL~IN ADVAKCI 11slly Edition, one yesr. Fatirof & geaf, per montii. Epecimen coptes sent tree. GIve Post-Odice addrese tn fum, {nclading State wnd County. Iemittances may be made either by draft, »xpress, Toat-Utiice onder, or o veglstered letter, st our sk, TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRID] Tielly, dellvered, funday excepted, 23 cents per week. Datly, delivered, Bunday Included, 20 cents ser weeks Addrexs THE THIRUNE CONPANY, Corner Madiron and Dearburn-sia., Chieago, fils Orders for the delfvery of Tz TRINUNE 8t Evanston, Englcwood, 1.4 Jiyde Parx seft fa the counting-room willreceive frompt atsentt TRIEUNE BRANCH OFFICES. Tnr CRicano Taintx® has established branch offices for the recelpt of subsctiptions and sdvertisements as sollows: MLW TORK—Tioom 20 7rfbune Bullding. F.T.Mo- FaDDK¥, Manager. TARIR, France—No. 16 Rua de Is Graage-Batellere. M, Mancxe, Agest, LUXDON, Eng.~American Exchange, 449 Strsad. Maary T. GILLIO, A| BAN FRANCISCO, -Palace Hotel, AMUSEMENTS, MoV fsdiron street, betw: dale.” Thestre, Dearborn sud 3tata, **liose: Tlaveriy’s Theaire. Dearborn eireet. coruer of Monsoe, Engagement of Alie Union bquare Combuny. **A Celebrated Case.™ Ilootey’s Theatre, Tiandolph strect, letween Clark nnd LaSalle. Kn- gigement of Ellza Westhersby's Froliques. **Hod bies.” Acndemy of afnsic, Talsted strect, Letween Madison and Monros, Va- Tiety, novelty, snd speclaity performances. Hamlin's Thestra, Clork street, opposite tha Court-House. **The Btroets of ¥ew York." HAS SHERMAN SURRENDERED T0 THE GOLD CLIQUE? The Iatest accounts of Secretary Smen. MaN's views on the silver question credit that gentloman with an entirely new and Tfantastical construction of tha donble metallio standard. The essence of the doublo stand. ard hos always been the dobtor's option to pay in the cheaper of tha two motals. Its vnlua consists in preventing currency cor. ners and in enabling tho purchaser to con. sult his own convenience and interest, tho debtor to tender the coin which he can most eosily securs, Rud the capitalist to lend the coin which he hins on hond or which he can obtain on the most favorablo terms. The option, thus construed, is advantageous to all; though it has been ealled the * debtor's option,” 1t operates, according to circum. stances, 08 favorably for the lender ny the borrower. But Becretary SnEn- uAN hes abandoned this traditioal con- struction of the double or optional standard, which was restored by the romonetization of tho silver dollar, and announces bis in- tention to inaugurate a *creditor’s option,” and make those who borrow cheap money repsy in dear money, and this in violation of Iaw and Constitution, which establish the double standard and per- mit tho debtor to pay in either silver or gold nt his option. Ho proposes to do what the New York Clearing-House alone would fail to accomplish, viz.: to nullify the nct of Congresa restoring the silver dollar, enfqrco settloments on an exclusive gold bsais, and prevent silver from being a monotary factor in tho transaction of businesa, It is impossiblo to put any other construc. tion than this upon the programme which has boen telegraphed all over the country from Wnshington, and which purports to outline Becrotary Smznartan's policy in carry- ing out the provisions of the Resumption act, It is annonnced that United States notes will bo redeemed at the Sub-Treasury in New York, without limitation as to amount, in gold or silver coin at s option of the holder of the notes. This is equivalent to dopriving tha Government of the option which it Metropolltan Theatre, Clark street, oprowite Sherman flouse, tertalnment. Varfety o MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1878, In New York on Saturday greoubacks ruled stendy at ‘The conduot of Maj. Rexo upon the occa- sion of the mussacre of Custzn and his command {a shartly to ba made the subject of an investigation by a Board of military officers whowill organize and take testimony in Chiaago. The statue of HosmpoLor, presented to the City of 8t. Louls by Hexny Smaw, wos yves. terdny unveiled with appropriate ceremonien, the Gorman population taking a leading part in the formal reception of the princely gift. St. Lonie1s to be congratulated npon this valuable addition to hor limited stock of objects of interest, 1t is announce at the President in his nonual message at the reassembling of Qoh- gress will Iay beforo that body a statoment of the occurrences in the South at the recont elections, and call nttention to the nocessity for some action that shall more effectuully conserve tho purity of the ballot-box and afford protection to citizens in the exercise of tisefr political righta The new Canndian Governor.General and his Royal botter-half were yesterday enabled 1o set foot on the soil of the Dominion, the rough weather having abated sufficiently to sdidit of their paying a visit to the Duke of ‘Epwsuno on board his ship, and later of n drive to the residenco of Gen. Sir Parmcx McDovoart. Al Halifax s in holiday attire for tha reception cercmonies of to-dsy. The King’n;x'rl duwn of Iufi; roturned to Rtome yesterday, their advent being wel. Ly law eojoys, In common with all comed by a vast concourse of loyal subjects. gtk : It was thought prudent, howaever, to dis- J"’:""’ &"m‘;‘:’"' ':’;Il d'l"b“m“' of tribato soldicra and gens d’armes at brief in. | P*YINE S0 TIOMT, is equiv. alont to a deolaration that nobody can obtain ailver dollars from the United States Government except by paying for them in gold dollsrs, because Secrotary Buzrmax proposes to pay them out only to thoss who prefer them over gold dollars. It is equiva. lont to & nullification of the law at theiu- stance and throngh the active sgency of the chiof finance officer of the Government! Wiil Congresa permit bim to thos trample on the laws and the rights of the Govern. mont? The only modification of this announce. mont that the Treasury will not pay out sil- ver dollars except in exchango for gold dol. lars, or In preferonce to gold dollars, is tho statement that the ailver dollars will bo sent to Bub-Treasuries outside of Naw York, in sums of 81,000 and multiples thereof, in oxchangs for United States notes doposited with that purposo in view, This part of the progrsmms ig thiuly deceptive, and intondod to be subversive of the intent of the law, The Resumption act provides for the redemption of yresubacks when pro. sonted in sums as low as $50, and Mr, RuensaN proposes to redeom them in gold on that Lasis. * Buat if you demand and must bave silver," says Mr, Baznaax, * you can bave it only by presouting et least 81,000 of uotes, and this is tho only kind of resumption you can have at tho West.” It is notorious that the actual circulation of silver mnat b in the small transactions, but Mr. Buxasay offens to open tho way for its egrous fromn the Treasury only through large transsotions, It ls evident that Le intends to co-operute with the New York bauksin the effort to exclude the silver.dallar from commerce, and to realize the intention of the gold olique, wiz.: that silVer shall con. tinuo be piled up in the Treasury vaults until thoe poople tire of this steady elimina. tion of saveral millions of dollars a mouth and demand a repeal of the law, Bocretary Bazauan seoms to Ignore that he is merely the financial agont of the Uaverninent, and that this is a Governmeut of the people and for the people. e is not & law-maker, but has been placed iu his present position to execute the law. The apirit and intent of the law restoring ho sitver dollar was to restore the option to the payer of paying in eithor metal.’ It was designed that the people su & whole, in the form of Govermment, should enjoy that option, as well asthe peoplein their individusl and commercial capacity. Hecretary Sutzuax, by adopting the programme that has been outlined, will deprive the Government of the option which the law gives it, and at the same time deprive the people of their option, individually and commercislly, by using his position to prevent ths silver from comiug iato circulation. 1f Bucrotary Buxs. man were the financisl agent of an individusl baving both silver and gold, and should give that individual's creditors the optios of de- manding the dearor motal, instead of resery- iug for his ewployer the option of paying in the cheaper wmotal, there is no doabt baut he would instantly be discheryed for discriminuting vgaiust Lis employur's tervals through tho orowd along the route of the Royal progress, lest somno other workman might improve the opportunity to presont pelition at the point of a degger. There have been 800 arrests at Naples of persons belisved to bo connected with an extensive conspiracy (o assassinate the King. Episox In a recont iuterview manifested ro diminution of coufidenco in his ultimate rureerd with the clectric Jight that is to supersede gas, A man must lave wome rcason conclusive to g own mind for the faitls that is 1 him who goea 50 far as to as. sert that he can Ly the usvas fuel of gas pur. chased at prosent prices produce au eloctric light better and cheaper than the same de- gree of illumination produced by the burn. ing of the gns iteelf. This is what Episox says can Lo doi ‘The sermons contnined in the collection which we print thin morning juclude o Thanksgiving discourse by Prof, Swivo at the Contral Church; another of the Rav, J, Muxno Groson's instructive reviews of Old Tostament history; a sermon by the Rev, W. F. Cnarys, of Trinity M. E. Church, on tha oblligatious of church.members in their daily walk and convaraation ; somo thonghts on the second coming of Cusisr, by thoRev, W. H. Ryoes, of St Panl's Universalint Churcli ; aud a locture by the Rav, Burooxg Henroup. Without a skiadow of right, justice, or de. cency to support the clalm, the defeated Democratio candidate for Congross in the Fifteenth Tllinois District puta fn au appear. ance before the State Noard of Canvassers and demsuds that the certificato of election be fssued to biw, merely becanse o final ¢ ” was in some iustancea appended to the name of Fousyrn, the successful caudidate, The intention of the votory being so plaln that cven a Demoerat would not Lave the hardi. Lood todispute t, the duty of the Canvasung Board is to give effect to that intention by awarding the certificate to the man who re. cetved tho largest number of votes, viz., A, P, Fonsyro. This should and doubtleas will be doue, and old Decius forced to fle hiw fraudulent claim befors the Democratia House. There is in law and in fact not the slightest ground for & contest, the case baing 0 clear that Gov. Parues is moved to ob. serve in the &late Register that there ought to be no dispute as to Forsxza's right to the seat. ecessary by the Bouth Carolina Detmocrats to completaly reverse Adieir previous theorics regarding tho ques- «on of jurisdiction as between the Federal und Btate Courts in order to put themselves in & shope t0 defend sgainst the measures being taken to punish election frauds. Here tofore it has Leen an established principle -that & person could not be tried in o Federal Court for perjury alleged to have been com- witted in a State Court, and vice versa. But this rulo stood in the way of the bullot-box- staffers, and they have promptly proceedsdto set it aside by causiog the amest and ‘ bl TReLe] WRIBUNY NOY MONDAY, interest, DTt in doing this very thing, as na offleer of tne Grovernment and servant of the peeple, isn't Seeretary Sornsies comally culpable, nud 2t the people teke pro- cisely tha same ccuirse na the individeal o ploger would taks under the smng, eirenm- stauces ? The Recretary of the 'Trensury ecannot avoid comiug in couflict with Congress, and cannot avert defeat and hnmiliation, if ha shall undertake to earry out the programme which has been credited to him. 'The law restoring the silver dollar, and the double atandard, and the debtor's option, was passed by Congress in difect obedience to the pop- ular will. It was not intended to be a dead lotter, but was designed to give tho Ameri- can people the advantaga of the donblo meotallic standard and the debtor's option, which ean only ba sccured by the actual presonce of silver in circulation nas a part of the monetary system. Becre- tary Bamenwaw, in his eapacity of Chief of the Treasnry, has refused to roserve the lawfal option for the Govern- ment {n the paymont of interest on the pubs lio debt, in payment of snlaries, and in other disbursements ; i, in nddition to this, he shall daprive the Government of its option in redeeming the greonbacks, sud at the same Lime deprive the people of their option of payment by thns hoarding and hiding ail. ver in the Government vaults which should be prit into circulation, it will be the duty of Congress tocall him to account for so fla- grant a violation of the spirit and purpose of the law. Congress, which Las already tested public opinion in this mattor, will not be slow to demand either an abandonment of Bagnuax's importinent deflancs of law nnd tho interests of the Government, or his retirement from the position which sloue would enable him to nullify the law ond defy the people. LORNE, LOUISE, AND THE FENIANS, At Inst, Deo Gratins, Lonxe sand Loviaz have arrived snfely at that decayed fish-town to which, nccording to the veracious legend of chbildhood, the rat who lived in the well went when he died. Itis painfnlto note that, notwithatanding tho arrangemants of the English Government, which is supposed to rule the waves, the Sarmatian was exposed to storms, gales, nud huge sens all the way over, nnd that the swinging mahogany bed- stead didn't work, nnd tiat the Princess was seaalck and couldn't leavo her room during the entire voynge, showing that thero was nothing particalarly royal abouther stomach ; and e presumo that, by the time the steamer liove in sight of Halifax, thera was nothing particularly English {n it or snything that sho bronght from home, for sho must havo throwa up all her English projudices and as. sociationa as tribute upon the altar of the tridented Noptuno. The loyal subjects of her Majesty will have amplo cause for rejoicing and appearing in low-necked dresses over the good fortune of the Marquis and Princess in escaping the perils of the sea, and in being saved from tha olutchos of the bloodthirsty Fenians, who, it appear, were cruising nfter them, Thero is an airof mystery hanging aboutthis Fenian operation that wo hope will be cleared ). Wore they Canadian or American Fonians? Did they belong to the Falstafflan army that routed the Queen’'s Own? Ilow many of them wera thore? Were thoy 1 a yawl, tishing smack, a yacht, or a steamor? Woro they armed with cutlasses, revolvors, yatn- ghans, and columbiads, and did they fly the skall and cross-bones and drink and swoar like pirates? Who footed tho bills and fur. nished the poteen ? These are questions which the public wonld liko to havo answered, but thore is another coysideration more curious than these, What did thoese bold Fonlans propose to do with the Princass, *‘ as they sailed, as they sailed”? It isnotat all likely they intended to tie horto tho mouth of acolumbind and blow her ont to sen, or to maken grand charge upon Ler with revolvers and cutlosses aud annihilate her, or to throw her overboard as food for sharks or company for mormaida. What did they pro- ,posa to do with her? Itis not atall likely they wanted the Marquis, for he i a full- blooded Colt from the West of Scotland, History tells us that the mother of the Mile- slan Kings was Scotta, and that succossive tides of emigration from Ireland settled Scot- land with Cults. The old wympathies romain to this day, 'Thera {s no such ill feeling between the Beotch and Irish Celts as be- tween the 1rish Celts and the English Sosss. nache. In point of fact, the main difference between the Scotch and Irish to-day is in the matter of plaids, bagpipes, and want of nether clothing, The conventional dissimilar- ity between nstions is in their drinks, but the mountain dow of Scotland and the bog dew of Ireland burn just alike, nud tend to lead to the same gratifying result, Tho objective point of the Fenion oxpedition was the bold Snssonach, Lovias. What did'they proposs to do with her? 2 Thers are two or three conjoctures that have an air of probavility about them, It will be romembered that the Biciliau briganda of the Fra Diuvolo type carry on a profitable business in sellivg Englishmen who wander into their * DLlarsted country.” 'They uoizo upon Lord Alleash and carry bim off into the mountaivs, aud, hiding him in some sscure fastness, which s inaccessible to anything but brigands, eagles, mountain-goats, snd other small deer, keop bl until tho Euglisl Government or his own frieuds offer o band. some sum by way of rausom. Now it is not at all unlikely that some of onr Feniaus have learned a lesson from theso brigands, Every true Feniau in this country bas been dis gruntled-over the way the Sausenachs of Halifax sud 8t. John stole our mackeral and then snulcted ue in the sum of five aud a haif millions bacause wo allowed them to destroy our flsbing business, What could be more likely, under the circumstances, than that they intended to steal Lovisz, carry her off to some Jonely islo of the ses, and hold her captive until the English Government was willing to coms down with five and & half millions for her relesse? Or may it not havo been poasible that those mysterious Fenians had a still more importaut purpose in view, namely, to steal Louwss, bring ber to this country, and sot her up in business as a Queen? ‘This would give Ler s much higher pdsition than she will occupy iu Ottaws as the mere lady of tho Governor-General, and it would be grati- fying to the Marquis, who would be pro- moted to s higher place and salary than he now receives for playing second fiddle in the Royal household. Bosides all this, it would, of courss, bring about the immediate suncxption of Canads, and thus give to Youws the government of the largest and most powerful kingdom on earth, More than all, it would gratify the Fenlan heart 1o set up an opposition establishment o that of Great Britain, and one that could dictate and talk back toit, and clean it out when- ever the occasion required. Or it may be, after all, that the Fenlans bod neither of these objaets in view, Irisiw united in a pooling arrangoment, and have souri River and in Towa who purchaso goods in Chicago have to psy o large advance for froights to all of thesa roads on wbat tho freight on the same goods would bo if moved from some It somo timo past the rate on wheat from Oma. hs to Chlcago has Loen 34 cents per 100 pounds, sud to-dsy (Nov. 25) it is to be nd- the same points to BMilwaukee, St. Lonis, Toledo, Peoria, and other points outside comparatively low. Tho Wabnsh Road Isan western, Rock Island, and Burlinglon & LRt 25, 1a74 e e men fvo naturaliy gallant, ard sometimes carry their gallaukey to exersn They may have conerrad it (o ba a shame, that the ncess’ fivst glimpss of the New World should bo 1w thay dilapidated ol rookery cailef! Halifax, and that shie shonld be trans. ported theneo to the slab-aud-sbingle town of Ottawa, and set down o vegetate throngh a Jong, cold, dreary winter. They iy thereforo have plannedetheir expedition to eaptitra her and take her to New York and {utroduca “her to the splendors of the metropolis, where, nccording to TaLMAoR, she conld hnve n much lower-necked recep- tion than in Halifax; then take her to Cin- cinnati to see Mr, Tonas’ now Collegs; and ta Chicngo, where sho conld have the rnn of all onr winter gayetics without freezing to denth; and then down to 8t. Louls, whose dullness and ennui and old-fogy slowness wonld be an excellent preparative for her Libernation in Ottawa; the Margnis menn- while taking & run up to Oslikosh to have rome fun with tho boys. 'There may have been nothing more in this mysterions ox- pedftion than some such innocent diversion 88 wo have intimated. Whatever mny have been the animns of the Fenians, qr their designs upon TLouse, kind Provilonce interposed in her bebalf nnd wrapped the Barmatian in s fog so thick that they could not flad hor. 'The fair Bassenach, tossing about in her swinging mahogauy® bedstend and linrrying up the Muarquis with the Bovres from the washstand, ‘was not molested by the Colt, who is proba- Lly still cruising about Jooking nftor his prey that hns slipped through his fingers. She will bave her reception, aud the damen and maidens of tlat anclent fish-town will have the coveted opportunity to display their charms and unbosom their Lospitality to the Celtic Lord and his Sassenach Lndy. RAILROAD-STRIRE AGAINST CHICAGO® It bas not beon 8o long that any persou connected with railroad managemaent has forgotton it that the outraged wnoral sense of the pooplo of the Wastern States undor the goneral nnme of Grangorism domanded the {nterposition of the 8tate Legislatures to pro. tect thomnelves against the defiaut and in. solent dictation nnd extortion of tho rail transportation companics. The subordina. tion of transportation companies to the legislative power of the States has now be. come the settled law of tho land, sud this fact may as well be borne in mind by milway companies at all times, When tho peoplodo movo to redress wrongs and opprossions, thoy movo in full forco and with s heavy hand. It was to be hoped thet the days of disorim- ination and combination had passed to ro- turn 10 more, but it wonld scem that cortain railronds have combined to destroy the business of Chicago by & discrimination of rates that is, perhaps, withont precedont, ‘I'he Ohicago & Northwestern, the Chicago; Rock Islnnd & Pacific, and the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy Railroad Companies have oatablished ratos to Chicago which aro pos- itively prohibitory of all traffio to nnd from this city ovar these lines. On all freights from the East to the Missouri River the rato 14 80 cents per hundred less on nll routes that ovoid Chicago. That is to sny, mer. chants in Omaba and clsewhere on the Mis- othor point than OChica- go. Nor is the discrimination agninat Chicago conflned to weatern.bound freighta, is oven moré astounding in the case’ of freights from JTowa and the Mlssourl River to Chicago, For vanced to 40 conts; tho =ato from Chicago East is 35 cents per 100 pounds, making 70 conts from tho Blissouri Rivoer to the Atlan- tie, Considering the present price of grain, this {s even more than confiscation, The grain itself will not bear tho cost of trans- portation. . At the same time, the rates from Chicago, are, while sufficiently romunerative, indepondent road, which fixes its' own rates, and to compate with - that rond the North- Quincy Roads have catablished rates which prohibit any grain belng sent to Chicago, and enables them to do alarge businees com= peling with the Wabash, In other words, tho pool prokibits trado to Chicago, leaving to shippors the alternative to send elsewhero than Chicago, or to hold their grain until spring, The rates from all points in the Northwest ara discrationary, except to Chicago. Through graln by way of Chicago is to pay 70 to 75 cants per hundred from the Missouri River to New York, and from Chicago to New York 35 conta; while from Owmala fo 8t Lonis or Peorin the rote ix nominal, and from Bt. Lonis to Now Orleans the rate in 8 cents per bushel, or 14 cents & huudred. A station in Iows can send grain by rail to Bt. Louis, and thence by barges to New Orlenns, for about half {he cost of sending it to Chi. cago, The 8t Louis & Omahn Ais-Lino Road 18 approaching cowplotion, aud the three groat truuk.lines, the Northwustorn, Tiock Island, and Barlinglon, have ontered into this combination to forca alt shipments to aud from all poluts in the West by some route other than to or from Chicago. ‘This combination of the pool lines isin full operation, and our wmerchants, who aro thus opeuly, avowedly, aud brazeuly do- prived of their businsss, submit quiotly and say nevor & word. When the rioters last July forbld the running of tralns, nud for the time arrosted all trafile, there was a gen. eral demand for the lulerposition of the armed foreo of the Government; but wherein was tho outrage greater then than that now practiced by thesa three great roads, which refuse to carry merchaudise to and from Chi. cago except rt rutes equal to (he value of the goods transported? Istho strike by theso railronds against Chicago any loss outrageous than the strike againut tho railroads Ly the workmen in July last? Ts not, in fust, the present refusal to do business with Chicago, Intended s it is to drive trade fromn this cily to other poiuts, the more scandalous and infamous than the other? The labor strike was tho result of o grivvance, greater or less, aud the workmen had no other means of redress ; but in this case there is no gricvance ; Clicago Las doue nothing to provoke these roads, and the prosent attempt to cut Chicago off from all rail facilitics is & high-hauded outrage, ad- mitting of no excuso or extenuation. ‘Wa suggest that the Boardof Trade, and the merchants generally, take soms united action concerning this matter, and that thoy do it prowmptly. While they submit to the wanton abuse of powor by these roads the wrong and iojury coutluub, working irvep- aiatle loss to the corumunity, sud to tue people of the Northwest thus deprived of communlenation with thir city. s LAWS OF TRADE V8. STATUTE LAWS, ‘Clio Washington correspondence of Tuns. day's New York Zines nssumesto forcshadow theresumption polioy of the Secrelary of the Treasury, ‘The writor spoaks as if by nuthor. ity, and an editorial arlicle in the sanie fesna treals the eorreapondence as it Inspired by the Secretary. Thua tho correspondent re. fers to threo legal obslructionsto resumption, namely : (1) Tio unlimited issno of silvce ddilara; (2) the act of May 31, 1878, forbid. ding the furthor retiroment of legnl.tonders; (%) the taw requining that * all duties on im. ports shall be paid in gold and silver coin only." Ot the second obatenction the corre- spondent says in rubstance: Jf to mainlain the equicalency of greenbacks with gold, it be- corues necessnry to hold them in the Trens. ury, that conrse will ba pursued regardiess of the amount that may accumnlato. Aud commenting upon this pnssage the TVmes snys editorially: **Wo re- for to the reissuec of legal-tenders. That the dircction of the Iaw on this point is mandatory is perfectly plain, but it is eqnally clear that it eaunot bo complotely cnrried out, and the Secretary has apparently concluded that it lies within his diseretion to regard {ho laws of trade rather than those of Congress, where the Intter are in conflict with the former,” This Is a novel proposition touching a govern- ment of laws, that an execulivo officer of it may flatly violate a statute, becauso in his opinion it ia in,_ conflict witlas law of trade! Tha Z'imes, however, assutncs that ho will puranes this courss, and commends it on the ground that he cannot do otherwiso ** with- out defenting the prime aim of the whole body of leglslation relating to resnmption,” The ZTimes even goas so far ns to formulate an argument, upon the strongth of which the Becrotary may, if ho desires, evade the law of May 81, 1878, It aaya: It{e open to him toargue that tho requirement of tho law that the lcgal-tenders shall ba kept in clr- culation demands not only the embloyment of alt ordinary means of disbuesing tnem, but of extraor- dinary “means, which Congress has falled 1o upecily or i divect Rim to emptoy. 1o mag, thore fore, “juetify himselt for fadlimg to resort to ox- freme measires not tmposed on him by ) y the inamlcet requirements of the best Inturcests of the country. But, as the Times well says, the law s mandatory. ‘Fhis is ita langnager “And wlenever any of sald notes mny bo redoemed or may bio received into the Treastiry, under any laws, fromn any source whatever, and shall belong to the United States, they shall not be retived, canceled, or destroyed, but they shall be reissned and pald out again, and kept in circnlation.” "Thore is only one way in which Mr. Bner. MAN can ercape the imporative obligation of this mandate, and that is by sssuming: that the laws of trndo are more binding upon him than tho Jaws of Congross, 'Tho protonse of the Times, that he may disregard it becauso it ia in conflict with * tho wholo of legislation rolating to resumption,” is propostorous. T'he statute requiring legal-tandors to be ro. isgued is of threa yonrs' Inter date thon tho Resumption law, and the rule of construction a3 to two statntes {s imperative that, when the Inter modifles {he former, tho later must gavern. But tho correspondent of tho imes, it less lngenlous than the editor, is more frank. Ho admits that * the authors of thia not made the.clanso directing tho re- issue of legal-tender uotes as mandatory ns it waas possible for langungo to make it, and they are convinced that it will forco the Bee. rotary of the Treasury to rolssuo and poy out legnl-tender notea as rapidly ns thoy may be roceived Into tha Treasury from nny sourco whatever.” But ho doclares that ‘““in this they nro deceived; that the Beerotary will not reissue and keop theso notes in cir. cnlation in tho scnso Intonded by the outhors of the nct, for tho simple rea- son that it would be impossiblo for him to do so.* Il says: **In short, the Secretary of the Treasury will disburso legal. toudors only whon he can do 50 on a par with gold, nnd njs best efforts will bo direct- ed, not to keoping them in circulation by re. issuing as rapldly ns received, 'under any Inw from any ource whatever,’ but to maln. taln them on an equality with gold.” Ioother words, the Washington correspond. ent of the Times, spoaking ns if by anthor. ity, declares that tho Becretary of tho Trens. wy will undortako to effect resumption sololy on the gold atandord, disregarding, to that end, the laws making silvor in tha coin- nge the absolute equal of gold. Ifns tho correspondent tho aathority of tho Beorotary for these nstounding ulterances? Aa show- ing 3Mr. Buznsax's strong bias in favor of an exclusivo gold standard, the programme out- lined comports perfeotly with his views as exprossed in an interview published in o Chicogo morping paper last Tuesday. But here wes nothing {n that jnter- view indicaling o purposo on the part of the Becrctary to override the plain "provisions of plain statutes, or to nullify thom by a forced and manifestly false con- struction. The outgivings of the 7imes cor- respondencs, howover, fuvolve all this. We sssume that tho Secrotary has been growsly wisreprogonted, but tho corrcspondonce has such an alr of authority and verity, and is nccorded such promiuence through its in. dorsement edltorially, sa to warrant the prompt attention of Mr, Suznayay, Its dam. ngiug statements should be repudiated, and that quiokly. ‘Ihe people are shocked st the audaclty of propositions which threaton the inauguration of policies wholly subversive of solomuly enacted laws. $+The Nurthern Paclde MHullroad Compavy," aye Tum Cuicaco THIRUN® 10 an arlicle oppoe g Governwont uld to a Southern haey **la build- ing 1ta road from Lake Superior (completed (o i marck, D, T, 1o the Pachic without -umu\y‘ aske and will priveta eapital,” We g no subshl submit that 1 18 & wrodely wnfalr sialement, e TRIMUN ould huve said tust the Nurtacin Pucific lallroad Company sre now *'ssking fur ng Mbeidy, el May 7, 1%, und May a1, 1471, the Norl Pacilic wua subsidized to the exteut of acres OF land, given outrieht Lv tho toveran Are wo Lo understand that Fui TmneNE 1 not in posscssion of tuls fact?— Heanphla Aca'anche, Tus Tuibuys is in possession uot ouly of that but of several other facts which the Avalunche oither has forgotien or never knew, one of which is that the Tom Hcorr Texas Pacito Company bas been sub. sidized Ly the Blato of Texas (o tho extont of eight or ton millions of acres *¢outright,” aud by Congress cigliteen millions of acros, also *‘outright,” waking wbout twenty-eight millions of nores for a line two-thirds of the langth of the Northern Pacific. Boeing thus ¢noriously subsidized, why is pot that Compauy satisfled? Why is it hounding Cougreas for iudorsed boudi? The Northeru Pacitlo is not asking Congross for indorsed bodds, money, or auy other aid than its original land-gvant. What does the Texas Pacitio wont with any more subsidy than it hes slready got? Thore is another **fact in our possessiong” which ‘weo must share with the Aralasiche, as it is important that it whould also possess it, wz. ; that the Bouthern Paciio Company are now busily at work extonding their road from Fort Ywuu, caab, iu Aricenz, to Maiecpa Wells, which is nearly half way across that | Ixarnsorr, ‘Territory, on the line of tho bankrupt Texas Pacific Company. Thoy are rushing it, and expect to have this link of about 150 niles completed to the Wells by next summer, ‘Tho steel rails have beon bought and are bie- ing transported down the rond from San Francisco to Fort Yuma. This Compauy is building withont any subsidy from Congross, cithar in land, money, or indorsed bonds, and asks nomno, This extonslon of the Youthern Pacifie will carry ita line into the edga of the ailver mives of Arizona, Another fnet in our possession, it may also bo useful for the Avalanche 4o know, is that the Company intend pushing on their line to tho western border of New Moxico, whero they will nnite with tho Atchison, Topekn & Snnta Fo Road, now being pushod rapidly southwest through Now Moxico, nud this withoat any subsidy of any kind, but ex. clusively by means of private capital. Bome time in 1880 the two Compnuies expect to meet aud join tracks—without any indorsed bonds. The Aralanche will nodoubtedly feel gratefal to Tne Tnisuxe for Jmparting to it the foregoiug important information, . Mr. Hestxo, in his lotter published yoster- day, on reaching Fort Yuma, the present sonthern limit of the 700 miles of the Bonthern Pacific Railway, found thelaborers at work constructing tho road-bed of tho eontern extension of that rond. Tho Com- pany have put out to be constructed thia winter 200 miles of rond from Yuma {o Mar. icopn Wells,—being nbout one.half the whole width of the Territory of Arizoun. This rond-bed will bo ironed in the spring. In the meantime tho Atchison, Topekn & Santn Fo Tond is practically completed on. the north from Konsas Oity to Albuquerque, in Now Mexico, o that by next July there will ba comparatively asLort gap to be completed, when the ears will runthrough from Chieago, over tha Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Ttond, and thenee by Topeka, Hanta Fe, and Yuma, to San Franclsco. , Unless Congresa interfora to pravent it, thoBoutharn Ntailrond to tha Pacifio will be completed in eighteon months. With active work at both ends, it will Le pushed with enorgy, This wholo road from Ban Francisco to Topeka, Kon., will ba built and completed with privata capitnl only ; not a dollar of subsidy is naked or wanted, and yot, with this road thus going on to completion, there are men in Congress and ount of it urging that Congress shall voto a national subaidy of $35,000 per mile for another road to Le built over nearly tho snmo ground. The English aro moving along victoriously in their Afghsn campaign, and the Russians bave intimated that they shall not place any obatacle in their way, but they have given England a Roland for their Oliver by an- nouncing that, when sho bhas conquered Afghanistan and tho time comes for making a peace, she (RRussin) must have a finger in tho pio and oxpress her wishes also, and that tho othor Powers will also como in and have a Pourparler. Russin has quite as much in- torest in Afghanluton ns England had in Turkoey, the differonce being that tho Russian intereats are not financial, but political, and, ng England sot tho precedent in the Turkish affair, she cannot objoot to Russian help in settling up tho Afghan, What course Russin will pursue is o thing of tho futare, but it {s ensy to sco already that it will prove an em. barrassmont, and may bring up vory confliot- ing intoresta for sottlomont, Collector Byrrit, 81 'NoW' York, 15 hote, resscs his opinion that A. T, Srewant and the New York fmporters generally who hava beon flehting tho Collectors in the West |n the matter of the kid-glove appraisoment will acqulesco in the Oual deelsion fixing the Involco rates at 40 francs, ‘The Collector, befuro isaving New York, was ad. vlsed tuat the parties intorested do not jutend to apueal the matter to the conrts, ‘The coniroyoray, therefore, {s prohably ended, This lea wnbatane tial triumph for the Chicago muvemeont.— ¥ ash- taglon diapaich. The kid-glove importers of New York lave taken the wiser and chespor mode of getting out of an unsavory trouble. After all the thunder and lightning in which they have indulged, they have not been able to coufront the chorges dud tho proofs heaped upon them by the Chicago Collector. The time when the New York Custom.House was abrolute in ils frauds and corruption has passed away, ad has also the timo whon New York importers could starve cut Western mportations Ly meaus that will not bear honest investigation, 1f the silvor dotlar bo chiosen 84 the cheaper ofthe trvo, our vold wili leava tne conntry, we Can- not suatain resumption. If the action of the banke aud the force of pablic opinion practically di tizea silvee in apite of tie law, aud reauce; falury coinage, then wo lose one uf the two legs on wiich resumption. tnust stand, The unly way to stand on botli loge 1sto make tiem the saina Jeugth, We snust muake our sliver dollar more val unbis or ong gold dotlar luss valuabie 3f we woula nutntain the double standard, O thevo two courves we greatly prefer tho formor aa tha wiser, safer, and mars honest. —Cleveland ferald. The Eastern banks and Secrctary Surnsan are confessedly at work trying to **demonctizo aflver fn spite of the law," while * public opin- fon in overwhelming preponderance fd on the side of the standard sflver dotlar. The Cleves tand Hera'd has no right to couple *publie opinlon? with Eanstern bunk cousplracy of silver demonetization, That paper very well knows that its owu Btate of Ohlo supports the silver dollar by & majority that can only ba computed by six figures, and the first one a four ur five, Frery county fu Oblo sustains the standard sltver dollar, Every tewnship, every viliage, every city, and every ward and precinct of every elty in Ohio, Includlqulcnlnml und Cuyshogs County, I npposed by u * large majority” to the New York Clearing-House schewe of pulll- fylng the Silyer law. If any change in the weight of the silver or pold dollar becomes necessary, more than nluc-tenths of the peoplo of the Buckeye Btate will vote to shorten the “gold leg,” as tho other 18 long enough, and measures more property, land, or labor now at fts mere bullion value than wold (il previous to the panle, ‘The Herald 1s mware of this fact we presume, but, IF it is not, (¢ can easlly verify tho truth of our stalemint by as- certainfog the selling value of things; computed 1n rold, 1 September, 1879, and the sawu clasy of products in November, 1973, 1t is the guld Teiz that has grown too long, and not the sllver feig that bas becoine too shord, Wo are spoak- iz of tho Lulliun purchiastng power of the two inetals, and pot of thelr leaal-tender value, for fu the lutter sbapu thoy are cxuctly the same throughout the United States,—standary silver dollars boiug worth precisely as much as szand- ard gold dollars for 2'1 purposes of debt-paylog and purchasing. 1 the Clevelaud #Herald wishes to bo whth ¥ public opluiou” in Ohlo on the sdollar * questlon, ita * wiser, safer, and more honest? course would ho toflop overto the siiver side thercof, or it will get Jeft or be run over, as it was fn the remouctization ight of last year, e ——t—— Col. RoverT INORRSOLL 18 Just now sthiacting couslderable attention on sccount of the bold- ness with which ko assails the Bible and tho Christian religion. Ju Ciuclovatl bis revilings ‘buve drawu out some sbarp retorts 1o tho news- papers from religlous poople, snd the Culonel’s lecture cotitled Some Mistakesof Mosga * hus elicited a reply ecutitled **Bomo Mistakes of Rovexr,” tuat wakee decidedly spley reading. Tuo Clovelund Zeder takes uo stock in Bow's fufidelity, but protests tnat *The beathenism thet Ixuxusort preaches fs the same shat Fruauce tried onco, when all respect for religion wasderided aud overrun, and the slaughter and milaery of tixe Melwn of Tertor fellowed. Mr, Is & orilllant speaker and an abla Attarney, but the less tha peonle of this conntry Ekava to do with his philosophy the batter,” e —— An ertdonce of the rocklees disrecar evinced by Lo adent of Ao Assormicd frecy Chicavo, in his insane desire to pof that pankry, t &itr, Is found in_tho ofiicial election ratarne ny Cuok Connty. The day aftor the electiun tho prers agent telegraphed that 65,000 votes had nor bolled in Chicago, Tha fall fetnras ahnw that hn he whole of Conk CouRLy 1633 than 67.001 vor swero polled. The vote of Chicago 1 nat move e twa-thinls of the toral vote fie county, nu-r: hence doed not excend U8, 00, oe a little more than alf the number atated by the' press zent, — Thip 18 & fair sample of the kind of ! whooping-up done for Chicago by the agent of the Asancivieg "’l";‘:l. Give us & rest.~3t. Louls Wiobe-Demy. Tho Globs-Democrat 18 never very accurate when it comes to flenres. Its matbemnatieal knawledge I8 weak, and its statistieal informy. tion eadly defective, 1n eatlmating the numbor of vole cast In this city ab the recent election, the Globe-Uemorrat omits the Sovialist. voe. numbering 0,620 The total eity vote was 45,047, Tt the (Hobe-Uemacrat sasy any press dis. patch stating that 65,000 had boen cast in this city, it was a misprint or a mistake of the ope erator, ns 45,000 was the cstimate of the ngent, which was rather under than over the fact, The vote cgat was a light one. Two years ago the Presidentinl contest brought out s pretty full vote in Chicago,—viz.: 03,254, B8t. Louls, at the same electlon, cast but 40,00 votes. At the next Presidontial election this * bankrupt clty will poll ovor 71,000 votes,~mark the nredie. tion,—and 8L, Louls will bave to serateh around pretty sharply If sho reaches three-fourths ag many, Ta the E Crticatio, Nov, 2.1 observe that yon {3r law compelling the National banka to :’.n'lu& &rfl: notes 1 cotng and | noderstand that you wish them to he required to do this simultaneonsty with fesumption by the Uovernment, or shortly there. sfier. A1 these are yoor views, 1 think you uay correct (he latter featueaof them upon’ furthor consideration. ‘Theee banks ought to redecm their noted In colng but to compel them to do it white the coln we have 18 principally gold wonld be s hindrance to reaumntion on the vagt of Giovern. mieut, For solf-prolection they waiild be forced to demand of the Government coin, and now malaly #old coln, for iegal-tenders, that they might te prepared 10 redeen their own notes when calied npon. As the law now stands, they conld be made 1o al@ in resumption by tho Government, while to compel early redemption on thetr art wonld place them tn n position wners hov minat demand gold coin from the Treasury of tuo Uavernmont. Bul §f alaw be enacted providing that ma-i banks redeem their notes on demend after the 1at dny of January, 3880 or 1881, then their intercata wonld lead theiy to favor the inorensed colnage of the etandard silver dollar, that thay, by the appointed time, might have what they now think a chc'n‘u-r mediun of redomption. Such a law, oo, would, without doubt, tond by this mcand to acatier our silver dollara widely In the hands of the people, Srzciz. 3t tho banks were required to redeem in cain they would urge the Government to produce the standard sflver dollar up Lo the full capacity of tha mints. But, while they are allowed to re- deem o greenbacks, they throw their influance ayninst any colnagre of silver, and act on the sdo of the mono-metal goldites,—that Is, all the Eastern banks to. —————— Beeretary Evants thinks that the Bouth gen- erally ought not to Lo held responsile for the outrages committed on the clective franchise by the Demacras in South Carclina and Loufsiana and other parts of the South. e puta it in this way: The uccasional emeutes confined to emall and clr« cumecribed localitios will not interfzre with our nationnl progress, You must remember that thia 1s n great conntey, ~ureat in ita territory, I mean, —and that tho const strip wherain these exciting troublea have uccurred comprides but a small por- tlon of it. A small distnrbance in a romota corner of a great ant-hill may arouec and excite the entire colony of ants, they may cush out of tholr holes and go crazy over & trifle, end they may destroy themeclves to a greater or less extent beforo praca and qulet aro ‘fuily restored; but the Ametican Deuplo Are 1ot plswmires. Tha disturbances ocenrred {n a tolorably large part of the ant-hill, and the wholo colony have good cause for fochug augry about ft. It was no trifie, by nny meaos, however small it may appear in the cyos ol o non-combataut like Mr. Evants, e — e Concernlng tho sttitude which Mr. Haves is reparted to have recently assumed toward ‘[ the Bouth, 156 "Néw "Orleans ZTimes does not mourn as one having no hopo to speak of. It says Hiayes has been whipped into the traces by the *bloody-shirt stalwarts,”” and that henceforth alt the South can expect s hostility, aud * snenking, timid, underhanded malice.!t It says of tho President: We ahall not farcet hin sniveling Jetter Lewall- fng tho fato of the unfortunate negroes when he first Licard the clection returns In Novembor, 18 We still shudder over bis nauscans affectatioun o pastoral simplicity {n habits and Mmpld pusity in oftice, To-day the tinsci which nover decelred anybody fs discardod, tho farce of ludependence in played aut, and Mr. Hares skulks into thoarms of CoNkrLixu, CiaxnLen & Go,, spread wide open to recolye hlin, Tuo Times asscrts that the sorest burden the Bouth haa-had to bear was to be patronized by Mr, Laves, and (¢ eaye that {f he has flopped fn earneat It Is glad of it. s The New York Jerald {s of the opinlon that tho [Ton. Jonx A. Binanay, United States Min- {ster to Japan, will come home and be the ob- vious Republican for next Governor of Ohlo. The Cleveland Leader doesn't ayreo with the lera'd, 1t says Mr. BiNasiast {s busy where be 13, and tho Republicans of Ohlo have thelr cycs ou anotlier man for Qoveruor, It doven't let the public know who fts man s, but It is probably Cuaniey Fosten, And yet it 1s currently ru- mored that there are several other good Repub- llcans {n Ohlo who would like to be Govertion, 10 view of what has happencd to Ruruzuyosd b. Uayes. —————— ‘The medical collezes and the students coh- neeted therew(th will not bo hikely to make any effurts to get the remaina of one Josern Hexry Louis, who was lately cremated fo Penusyl- vanis, All that rematued of the bodily frame of tha late Louis was four pounds of calciued residuun, and that has been cast Into the wea, with appropriste ceremonies. ““This lnst rite of respect,” suys s correspondent, *‘which was pald by the Theosophical Boclety, was never b fore performed in Europe or America, because, as Hiznoruant OLCOTT aays, the formula was lost I the sges during which the language of the Vedas lins been gradually forgotton.” e — MR, Evants' §5, 500. 000 for n&'ol fish v & batter tradu than Mr. Sewan ', 000, 000 for s Icebora with & scal on it — Clnelnnati Commarciol, Not 5o surc about that. Tha flsk hed uiready been paid for three or four times over. Tho $5,500,000 was a gentulty on dur pars aud a grab on the part of houest JostN Bri, by which b ot biack one-third of the Geteva award without gaving a cent’s worth of conslderation therfur. Ve profer the *lcehere with o seal on it” to the late gouge. In the Jatter you get sowo- thing, Iu the former nothlug. e e ———e Nearly two and (hrea«quarter millions of doliare e T talor Wl ke ont Lis Bupday Lat, tae one be s guiug to wear 8¢ Indlunavolis thie winter, aud paste this bliof fu- fortantion iu the crown, it may ho of some advin- cu ha comey o dlscuvs the appro- fortho now State-House, —Cincinnytl tauu to hin rlation bifte E’ammcrdal. But yours Is sound granite, as faras [t has gone, whila ours Is Cluclunatl mud-lime stone, and rotten at ibst, wrung Ju on us bysu lo- dicted Ciuclnuati coutractor. e e ——s The official vote of New York State for Judge ot the Court of Appeals is: Republican, 8J1,853; Democratic, 332,531 ; Greenback, 75,1123 Peolubltion, 4,140, Totul vote, 8T450, Re- publicau plurality, 83,502, 1o 1877 the Demo- cratic pluratity was 11,204, Republican yaluy 4,708, = An Agricultural Institute will ba Lold st the Illuofs Agricultural Unlversity, Champaldty Jun, 97, 9%, 29, 80, sud 31, 1870, A cleewlar giving dotalls relative to the Justitute will by fouud luaouther column of thislssue. ——e— The ofticial vote of 'eunsyivauta for Govern- or Is: Rupublican, 819,567; Democratic, 207,003 Mlasox, Natloval, 81,758; Lawx, Prohibitiou, 3,033, Total vote, 703,038, Republican plu- rulity, 22,507, ——— The people feel all fur Lok over In Casals. .