Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 4, 1878, Page 4

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BAN FRANCISCO, MoVicker's Theatre, o Madison rtreet, between Dearborn aud State. '*Rose: * Afterncon and evening. . Haverly’s Theatre, PearSorn street, comner of Monroe, Eogagement of the Unlon Square Combany, *‘Motherand Son.” AT ternoou snd evoning. Haoley’s Thentre. Tendolnh stsect, between Clarz and LaSails, Rne gagement of Mrs, D. . Howers. Aftornoon, **Ludy Audley’s Sccret.” Evening, **East Lynne." Acndemy of Mfusie, Halsted strect, between Madlson and Monroe. Eae gagement uf B{d C, France, **Marked for Life.” Af- ternvon and evening. Hamlla's Theatre, i Clark siveet, opposito the Court-Houve. Engagement of Oliver boud Lyron. **licre,” Metropolitan Theatee, Clark street, dprosite Shierman Touse, tertatument. Afterncan aud ovenfug. Variety en- Exposition Bullding, . Michigan avenue, footof Adams streot. Groat Fat Btuck Show. Y . Art. B 'No. 05 Washington street. Loan Exhibition of the “uleago Soclety of Decorative Art. Day aud evening. —— SOCTITY MEETINGS, RETSTONE LODOE N anmanieation of i held at thy equeate Master will vidt the Lodge afe cordiaily favlted, By order of W, M, 0. HARZ, Secretary, 127, 0t A M. 144 nitugl Consacatlon (013 (Wellnes: v i o0k, 1or the fluctlon of oMeers punarment of dues, Vidittng compantons cordlatly invited. By order of the M. k. 11, I KLLSMITIL, Secretary, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1878, e Grecnbacks ot the New York Btock Ex- chauge yesterdny closed at 993 Gen, Suenuan's covfident - prediction of another Indinn ontbresk in the Niobrara rogion of Nebraskn seams likely to be veri- fled within nshort time. Nows from that quartor indicates that the Indieus have started upon n general horse-stealing expedi- tion, and aro buroing such ranches and killing sucli seltlers s they encounter. ——————— *An unusunl degreo of progross in’ tho mattor of nocessary logislation is to be placed to tho credit of Congreas at its winter sossion. Before two days hava elapsed, two of the regular appropriation bills, tho Military Academy and the Fortifieation, Lave bean piassed by the House, At this rata public business will bo* fn good shape by the time of the holiday edjournment, Two Delgian financiers who oporated with other people’s money upon a magniticont gcale bave just been (ried, convicted, and _sentenced. M. T'Kmspr, minanger of tho Banyue de Belgique, was the chiof operator, his plan being the abstraction of sccuritics helonging to dopositors, who wero in this way robbed of 5,000,000, aud ba rocsived tho terriblo sontouco of fifteen years of solitary coufinemont, while Fonraues, the President, got off with one yoar's imprison. nont with $1,200 fino, The negotiationa so long in progross be. tween the Austrian and Tarkish Govern. ments aro said to Lavo terminnted - satisfac. torily on ouno point at lenst, viz: that "Novt-Dazar, the presont lunit of Aus. rian cecupnu‘an, shall be garrisoned Jointly by Austrian aud Turkish troops, Meanwhilo the perversity of the Anstrian delegation is giving no littlo trouble and em- barrassmont to AxpzatsY in porsistently op- yosing all appropriations for the support of the army of occupation. Among tho list of nominations sent by the President to the Senote yesterday, were the new Fedoral officers ot Now York City who wero appointed last spring in the places of Mr. Conmuna’s frienda. It is not known whother the New York Semator wll put on s war-paiut or uot on this occasion, but the general impression is that the old war will not Lo ronewed, and that discretion will be the hotter part of valor just st a time when Alr. CoNkuixe neods the support of all the Lepublicans of his State, . The visitto Washington of Assistant.-Dis- rict-Attornoy TuoxsoX appears tohave been productive of gratifying results. Uson infor- 1ation supplied by him concerning the evi- dence relied upou for the conviction of the pasties fudicted for frauds in the Ohicago Custom-House construction the President i uid to have detcrmined upon s most vigor. ous prosecution of the cases, and to that end special connsel will be employed by the Gav- ernuent o contend against the powerful array of legal talent which will pe presentod Ly the defonse, Judge Lawsrsce is named o4 the chict of counsel for the Goverament. —————s Latest advioes indicate that the Afghan legions are still falling back toward the iuterior of the country, and news from an English source 15 to tho effect that the bulk of . the Ameers army las ulready reached Oabul, where it will wuke its last staud, Reinforcements for tby invaders are arriving rapidly. It is not kuown whether the warch upon the Capital will be continned during the present season, or the sdvanteges alresdy gained be accepted us o suficient demonstration of England's Prowess to warraut a postponement of fur. ther operatious until the opening of spring. e—— ‘I'he aotion of the House on the bill offered by Mr. Haxzison, of lilino}s, for the sdmis- sion and registry of foreign-bwlt ships, is segerded as an evideuco of the strength of the messure, aud . g3 indicating the vrobability of fts ultimate auceess, Tho bill s fow in the hands of the Committee on Commerce, and & favorable report is anticipated. Its pasaage will go far to restore the American merchant marine to the position it occupied In rolation to the world’s commerce beforo our ships were banished from the sen and sold to forcign purchasers at the timo of the War of the Rebellion. - e ———— A cancus of all Demosrats’ ia ‘Oongress was held yesterday to deoide upon the policy to be pnrsued concerning the question of Southern election Jrauds and outragos. 1t la thought Improbabls that thoy will go. to the ,length of oppos- ing the investigation contemplated by Senator Brarvz's resolution, bnt that they will attempt to oqualize maitera by in- cluding in the inquity tho alleged illognl acta of United States Bnpervisors of Election in New York and Oincinnati,, snd tbe pressure cxerted by factory own- ers in Massaclnsotta wpon their operatives ngainst the candidature of Gen. Purzse. Tho Republicans can well afford; to allow thess mattors to be Jncluded in the investigntion, and Indeed they may bo’ properly ' considered as coming within the seope of Mr., Bramw's. resolution. There ought to be no opposition to the Democratio plsn of offsetting the exposure of frauds by the exposure of Iawful measures to provent frauds. | Dr. Josxrrr Tynowy, of Asbury University, nt Greencastle, Ind., publishes the announce- ment that he has mnade discoveries whichi disprova the correctness of ** the Newtonian' theory under certain conditions.” He pur- poses to keep the demonstration of "his proposition secret until he can obtain tho copyright of & work whioh shall embrace tho stupendons results of his redoarches. 1f this Professor moan, by the words quoted above, ' the theory of univorsal gravilation (and Lis language Is intended toso impress the roader), he is ranning unprecedented risk in the mat- ter of roputation as to honesty for the sake of soliing a book. It has been generally sup- posed that the triple solntion of the problem of threo bodies by Evren, D'Arxusent, avd Oratnavr had forever made certain the im- possibility of bresking the most porfect ohnin of proofs ever offered to the mind of incredulous mnn. Yeteach of theso great geometers first filled the disciples of Des Cantra with joy by simultaneously and with- out commnnication with ench othor find- ing ono and tho samo ** cortain condition ™ under which gravitation failed to exort its calcolated influence, This ** certain condi- tion" wns the very trail by which truth traced error to her hiding-place within the cnormona array of forms and figures, and Dr., Joszent Tyxour had best pluck ount his certaiu condition " ond cast it from him. Tt will be very hard for the world to throw awnay tho upper fabrio of astronomy and be- gin back with ‘I'ycno Branz, OUR MINISTER OF FINANCE. Now comos tho cry from Wall streot, and from tho parlors of every bank and shaving and money-londing shop at the East, that *‘tho West has roopened the silvor ques- tion,” Hardly had the returns .of the No- vember election been recoivod bafors tho whole press of the East broke out in dennn. ciation of the use of ailver in resumption; ond the associated bapks have announced their purpodo to domonetize silver by ro- fusing to vecognizo It a¢ baukable fuuds. ‘Chin action, taken so simultancously at the closo of the election, Ia furtlier intonsifisd by tho fact that it wans done by the co-op- eration and approval of Hecrotary Srenuan, wlo, abusing his office, has demonetized silver 50 far ns tho Government in concerned by refuslng to pay it out unless on special request! Here, then, we havo the disclosura of a conspiracy between the Becretary of the Trensury and tho ‘Eastern monoy-lenders to demonstize silver by nullitying the law and the practice of extortion and intimidation upon the coun. try. It was not until this scheme, which had been mecretly concooted, was disclosed after tho election that the’people of the West comprohended how they had been betrayed into the hands of the money-lenders by the Booretary of the Treasury, Thoy entered their protest against tho banks and the Sac- rotary of the 'I'reasury demonetizing silver, when tha American people less than a yoar ago had declard that this should not be done, Having entored into s combination with the Natfonal bauks and thoss fnterested in having all debts pald’ exclusively in gold coin, the Secretary of the Treasury in his menssgo to Congress recommends that body to praotically repeal the act remonetizing the silvor dollar; nnd, if this cannot be done, he asks Congross to domonetize the silver dollar iudiroctly by limiting its colnsge to §50,- 000,000, Tho Treasury Dopariment holds some 14,000,000 of ailver dollars, and the Baore. tary of tha Troasury proposes to keep thom In the Treasury, {n order to enable the banks to successtully maintain a gold currency, If $14,000,000 are suficlent in the mind of the Beorotary and of the banks to so demoralize business as to reudor the banks unable to insist on o guld currenoy, what will be the effect of oolufng $50,000,0007 If, however, he ooncludes that $50,000,000 in sllvor may bo maintained at par with gold, why should hLe bo so afraid of the effect of issuing the $14,000,000 already coin- ed, that ba declares he will not lssue o dol- lar of it except that it bo preferred to gold ? By what rule or eatimate, and by what in. spiration vouchsafed to him, is he enabled to Ax 50,000,000 na the sum of silver dollars which can circulate at par? Wby fifty in. stead of sixty? Why sixty instend of eighty or one hundred millions? In En. gland, cne hundred millions of dollars of cheap subaidiary silver coln circulates at par with gold. In Frauce, $6:00,000,000 of silver coin circulates alougside of and at par with gold, - Whst angel of light Las given the Boaretary tho power to say that $30,000,000 of silver coin, alogal-tender for every pur- posa that gold is a_logal-tender, is all that the American people will reccive at parf Was it the same angel that inspired him o fuw years ago to declare that both the gold and silver coin of the United Htates was too large and too valuable, and should'therefore be reduced by the abolition of the silver dol- lar und the clipping of 8} per ceat from tho gold colns ? Failing to havo the silver dollar demone. tizod directly, cr by limitation of .the ocoin- age, the Secretary proposes to have a flexible dallar, aud for a Minister of Fioance this is the most extraordinary proposition of ancient or modorn times. He proposes thst the Director of the Natloual Miut uhall put him- self in communication with the Board of Brokers in London, and receive two quo- tations per dsy as to the value of silver, and shall coin silver dollars of a sizs and weight to correspond with these quotatious, Ausuuiog that ut the present price of silver it will tuke 400 gruius of puru »ilver to bo worth a dollar in gold, ho will coin silver dollars of that weight from 10 to 12 o'clock; if at noon the price of silver ndvance, then he will coin dollars woighing 398 gralns from 1 to 8 o'clock; and thus daily there will be dollars of different sizes coined be- fore and after dinner. The dollara coined on Monday forencon may waigh 400 grains of silver ; in tho afterncon, 405 ; on Tuesday forenoon, 899 grains; in tho afternoon, 406 grains; Wednesday the size of the dollar mnay fall to 385 grains, And on Thurmday’ morning be back to 400 grains; while on Friday 871} grains may be all that is re-' quired, ond on Baturday 308 grains will purchaso a gold dollar, This is the schemo which Mr, Smeamax actually proposes,—n floxiblo dollar, whose woight is to be changod twico a day, or oftoner, according to the condition of the London gold market! If such a dollar be over nuthorized, the invent- or shonld havo bis head, from the tip of his chin to tho extremity of his anrs, graven on both sides of thoe coin. It should bo known foraver as the ** Snzrxan dollor,” lest by any accident mankind should fail to know that he invented it. Having mado tho dollar flexible, one to be onlarged or reduced from day to day, lot him at tho same time devise a flexible yard-stick and n flexiblo bushel, and let them and tho dollar be known fav and wido as the creations of JonN BmERMAN, invented by him to make all things equal at all limes and under all circumstances to everybody. Tho peril of the conatry, is not in the com.. bination of the banks,—thoy live by suffer- ance,—but the perilis inthe refasal of the Becretary of the Treasury to execuo tha Sil-' vor law, Bince February last he hns coined 18,000,000 only of silver dollars, and has hold 814,000,000 of tbat in tho Troasury vaults. His exctise that he cannot got it out ‘when his disbarsements for salaries alone aro perhapa threo times as great ns the wholo colnage will deceive no one. The law directs the coinaga of not less than two millions nor more than four millions a month. Tius gives the Secretary a discration which, con- sidering Lis avowed purpose {o domonotize the dollar and keep it from oireulation, is wholly misplaced. That discration must bo removed, and bafore Congress adjourns, if not before resumption, all restrictions upon the coinngo of silver shonld be abolishod. It is only by the free coinage of tha silver dol- 1ar that tho conntry ean be protectod ngainst tha comblinations of the mono-metallists and the Secretary of the Treasury to forco an ex- clustve gold curroney,—to force au ever- rising valne of gold and an ever-falling value of all kinds of property. BOME MISTARES OF CURTIS, Harper's Weelly discusses nome guestions well aud othors wenkly. It §s wise on Civile Servico mattars, but otherwize on the ailver «question, ns witness the following from its Issue af the 7th,—next Saturday ¢ Thera has boen a confuscd notlon In many minda that as guid and sliver ure the ** money of the Con- stitutlon, ' all that was uwecessary for flnancial re- lef waa to lesuo plenty of gold and ilver coins, This view han assumed that they woull elrenlato together, aud that it would make no difference tp tie workman whether he were pald in gold or siiver dollars, This ls vart of the flusion under whick many honest workingmen have labarod. They have boen shown very clearly In the discusslon of tho antumn, that when the Uovernment colna RS cants’ worln of silverand calls (8 dotlar, aud makes it s Jousle tender, ita power ends, for it canuot compol an; man I Lha countey {o sail dollar's worlh of trew and meal ar 10 give 2 dullar'a warth of lubor fur 854 cents. In other wors, the workingman ond every otherman guin nowhhie by calling K3 cents o dol- Iar. Aa the law stands, allver dollare are to bo colned at tho rate of 2,000,000 monthly, Tutir this conlinues, the enrroney of tuo world will be driven out of the conrtry, and we shatl be left tn tho uncertainty of a luctunting currency, with the cuusequonut parsiysls of industry and enter- prives ‘Fhers bas boen a fearfully * confused no- tion 1 the mind” of the writer of this ex- tract in regsrd to the monetary uso of silver, Tho **sitver question™ i3 cortainly not his ¢ gtrong Lolt.” With all due respect for Mr, Georaz WirLiam Cunris'statomont, he nover saw oo 85.cent logal-tender sflver dollar in his life, nor never saw tho man that did. There is no money in circulation in the United Btates that will buy a atandard ellver doller for 85 ccuts, or 05 conts, or U9 conta, My, ConTié tnay go into any market or storo in ol New York, and If ho purchnses 85 cents’ worth of articles and Inys down n staudard silver dollar the shopkeoper will return him 15 cents in change; and if he pats down n gold dollar he will get back no more. There {s no shop in Now York whoro Lo can purchase wmore of auy comunodity for n gold than for a silver dollar, We challenge bim to namo the place. Thore ia no workingman in that oity who will labor ome minute longer for a ‘gold than for a ellver dollar, Lot Jlr, Cunris try the experiment and con- vince himssl?, He las o sentimental iden that o gold dollar is worth 16 cents more than asilver one, but, when tested by tha cold sctualitics of busineas experlence, it s not 80, and there is not a particle of difference botwoen them In purchasing power snywhere In'the Unitod Btates, nnd, of couro, they aro exactly cqual in paying debts, Mr, Conr1s is the victim of an **{llusion when he supposes that the two colns do not ciron-~ late together on equal terms, and when he thinks that the gold coin {8 more valuable to tho ‘‘honecst workingman” than the silver coin. We can assure him tlat it mokes not the alightest difference to the workingman whether he is paid in gold or silver dollars, except that the former isso small a colu the rocelver ruus considerablo viak of loaing it, and for this ronson Le will be apt to prefer the silver dollar, Mr, Coaris expresses tho opinion that it silver dollars continua to be coined st the rate of 2,000,000 monthly, the * currency of the world will b grivon out of the country,” ute. We tuko it for granted that Lo means gold by the exprossion *‘curremoy of the world,” which shows bhow badly ho is posted oun the currency question. The fact 15, that helf the world use silver exclusively; more than onc-ynarier use gold and silver juterchaugeably; and less than a quarter use the gold staudurd with silver iu large quantitios for enbsidiary purposes. 1alf tho coin money in the world iu silver—strango as the fact msy appear to Mr, OvaTia, Atthe coluage rate of ouly $2,000.000 of silver por month, it will re. quire whole generations of time, perhaps conturies, for whito nioney to drive out the yellow, aud then fall in dolug it. Assilver wouey fucroases in quantity, tho dvm,ud for gold will decrease, aud its dearness will also decline. The more silver {5 thrown Into olrculation the cheaper gold will Lecomo by roason of the reduced demand and use for it France Soats In active circulation 300 willlon dollars of legul-tender silver, without ** driv- ing out the gold " monoy. The circulation of this vest quantily of silver has the offest of preveuting gold from Lbeo- coming dear in that ocouutry, Gold in Frauco contiuucs o bo as choap ag silver on the basis of 15} ounces of the latter to 1 of the former; and, with this double staud- ard and sbundance of gold and silver, France fourishes as doos po other nation iu Europe, sud bos really uot seen or felt hard times; while Eugtaud aud Germany-—-mono-maetal cinl stringency and industrinl distress among tho mnsses. Gold rises in valne, while prop- erty, Iabor, and prosperity declines and with- ors with them, 8o far, then, from the presance of silver monoy causing o “*finctuating currency with, consequent paralysia of industry and enter- prise,” it is just the reverso. The doublo atandard stoadies values, provouts paralyals of business, oures hard times, and keaps tho wheols of enterpriso in steady motion. ————e THE “NATIONALS" AT WASHINGTON, Tho snub which tho Sal-money luusties received at tha Iate olections has not pre- vontod the played-ont politiciaus and dema- goges who hopo to live upon that delusion from concentrating at Washington with the purposs 6f making o desperate eoffort to secure recognition. 'Their programmo is to coax some of the Democrats with o strong penchant for fint money to act indepeudently’ with the few membors who wers clocted as Nationals, and theroby secura a balance of power for the organization of the naw Honse. It they shiould succeod in this attempt, which {a not ot all probable, the only result would Ve to diotdte to the Domocratia oanens or de- feat ils nction in rogard to the officors of Congress. Thoir balance of power would not hold in matters of financisl legislation, in which more Democrats will vota with the TRopublicana than there will be Independents to vote with soft.moncy Domocrats, In tho monntimo the ropresentatives of the flat-money party at Washington are doing nll they ean to bring their parly and ita ideas into contempt, At a so-called ** conference” they adopted a resolntion which s simply ridicalous in the face of tho report of tho Secrotary of tho Troasury as to the resources of the Governmout and the proparation for rosumption. ‘This resolution ‘*denounces the resumption of specie payments 8s n fraud and delusion, fmpracticable in this or auy other civilized conntry,” The statoment ia proposterously falso ns well na presump. tuous. France and England maintain o specie basis on precisely tha same plan pro- posed for the United Btates, viz., by kepp- ing the coin and currency 1n circulation side by side through ready intorcomvertibility. Resamption is not, therofore, impraclicable “{n any other country.” As toits beinga “frand,” we cannot understand what that menns, It would certainly bo a frand not to resumo, bcodse tho currency which it is proposed to redcem consists of notes issued Ly the Gavarnment as promises to pay. ' 1 there is any fraud about the matter it congists in the long delay thore has beon in falfilling the Governmout promisa. T'ho Natlonals nre unroasonably rash in vanturiug s prediction that resumption will ‘e impdssible just on the ove of the attampt, and in apite of ull the conditions favorable to ita succoss, There are two circumstances uspocialiy that should havo daterrod them from placing themsclved on auch a record, Tho Goverament hins beon nccumulating gold in groat quantities for more than a yeor, and the availablo gold in the wmarket has dimin. ished {n propartion. Ilow {s it then, that, iu spite of thia withdrawal of gold from tho market, and in spita of the demaud for gold for cortain exclusive nses, the premium thereon haa constantly decronsed until thero is scarcoly n perceptible shade of dif. forence botween gold and groenbacks? No influonce has brought this abont exoept the more promise of resumption, add if p prom. iso can do so much it must enjoy tho confidence of tha peoplo, which ia the chief ensentinl to tho accbihplishment and 1nnin. tonanco of resumption. Another point which the Nationals have evidently overlooked is thiat the owners of gold have always trusted the Government with it; indeed, have sought tho ndvantoge of Goverumont safe. keeping on the evidence of certificates of doposit, This will coutinue to be the Gov. ernment’s experionco, with tho difference that, instead of issuing cortificatos of deposit, tha Treasury will' give groenbacks (paysble on demand in gold) in exchange for tha gold sont for dopowit and safe-keeping. It would havo been a much safor prediction §f the Nationals hod said that more gold will vol. untarily scek the Trensury vaults than will be demanded from tho Govornment, Fortunately, the Nationals ave in no po. sition to rotard or embarrass the work of ro. sumption, Buch balance of power ns thoy clatm, or ns they may bo ablo to scquire by tho defection of soft-money Damoorats trom thelr own party organization, will not bo manifest bafore the organization of tho noxt Congross, and before that timo rosumption will have boon so firmly established that the fusue will be forgotten, except when thoso who mado it shall bring thomsolves into contempt by recalling it. Before tho meet- ing of the nuxt Congress gold, silver, and Government curronoy will be in cironlation gide by side throughout this country ns fn Franco; the people and business of the United Btates will enjoy the same bonofits trom that condition of things as are now'en. joyed in Franco; and, at the snmo time, thero will bo mora gold In the Treasury vaults than there ia to-day. THE ROYAL PILGRIMS' PROGRESS, Tho advent of tho Blarquis of Loy and his Royal spouse, or, to put it more correctly, tho ndvent of tho Priucoss Louwme aud her husband, in Canads has produced an outburst of flunkeyisn which scoms to know no limit of servility, and a crowd of JuxxiNses, fol- lowing in the wake of t}w Ttoyal procession from Halifax to Oltnwa, bave served up tho tid-bits of tondyista in & manuer not only to tickle the fotish worshipers in the Do- minion, but onr own republican snobs as well, Thiu apirit of Bunkeyism i not con- fiued to the aristocrncy of Oanada, but scems to poryade nll ranks and conditions, Poli- ticians, cuurches, charliable sociatics, fire. men, militia, Scotchmen, Franchmen, Irish- men, Indians, school.children, and the in- mates of the orphan asylnms, have taken thelr tarn in doing homage to the Princess aud ackuowledging loyalty, oud tho pa. pers aro now filled with grumblings from small towns where tho worthy, worshipiug burghers were not presented to the Princess by the Mayors, who absorbed ull tho glory thoy could to the exclusion of the small fry. In reading over the long aud tedious narrative of adulation, ona canvot help be- | ing struck with the dovotion of the orphans who were routed out of the asylum in Mon- treal to throw flowers at tho Royal pair and, sing **God Bave tho Queen," whereupon, suys Jexxaxy, the Princess and Marquis woro visilly affected by the loyalty of the cbil- dren! 'I'here is something very touching and tender in this infantile, vealy patriot- isw, love of couniry, and adoration of tho Crown. But as it {s oltogether probable that they would have sung * Whoa, Emma,"” with the same gusto to a pausivg cirous, weo may fairly question the depth of loyalty which perysdes tho averoge Causdian or phau asylum. Thero is not wantivg very good evidence to show (hat tbis romarkable display of flunkeyivm was produced for m purpose, and WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1878, .gold countrice—ars soroly aflicted by finan-’ that it is part of the programms aa originally 1aid ont "by BeacoxsrizLp to bring the Do- minion nearer to tho Crown, and to check thd, griwing democratio tendencies which proximity to this country has superindnced. The priests in olden times paraded the offi- gics of thelr gods through the strests to arongo and rekindle thé popular devotion. Tho Princsss and Marquis scem to bave been put to vory much the same purpose by Draconsrrewp, who adcomplishes his enda throngh the medinm of pomp and pageant. They linve beon placed on show, have bean paraded from town to town with all possibla glitter, and the refleoted rays of the Crown' have boen concentrated upon the peopls like the shaft of light from a onlciam burner, Back of all the gush and nonsense incfdontal to this show therd is the well-de- fined plan of Bracoxsyistn and the arsto- oratic element of tho Government to bring Oannada {nto closer rolations to the Crown, and to incréase the loyally as well as the nristooratio sentimént of the Dominion Ly setting up a littlo Royal Court of the gonuine blue blood i tholr midst, There 19 in Can- rda @ palpablo growth of demooratio ten- dencics, and in some quarters n growing de- siro for closer jdentifioatiod with the United Btates, To check theso tepdenpies hng been tha main purposo of BeAcofiarteLn it scour-i ing the appointment of 'the ‘Marquis of Lowwe. A policy of protection againat the United States has alrendy been mado the koy-rote of the naw Administration, but itis: shrewdly hinted bya corraspondentof the Lon. don T¥mes that this tariff adjnstment is only o temporary makeshift to bring nbont reci- procity between thotwo countries by showing Americans the disastrous effects of losing markots, while thora are others who antlci- pate the nltimate result of a completa Zollve- rein treaty, Snch a treaty, and the resulty to which it may lead, socially and politienlly an well ns commercially, nre particularly. drended by Braconsriesn. To offset thls, lio hna delivored this master stroke, and has sought to interpose the Royal hlood betwoen the Canadisns nnd their democratio neigh- bors over the line, From present appear- ancos, it wonld have beon n greater stroke to have mado the Princess Queon of Caunda nand the Marqnis s *‘Prince Qonsort.” Even insuch n caso, the ontburst of flunkeyism could not bove been greater. It may be, howevar, that there will come s relapse, and that the Canadinn people wall tire of the puppets, Bhould the Marquis retain his offieo long enough, ho may seo this democratio sontimont, which is now burled out of sight under Roynl fuss and feathers, como to the surfaco agoin and precipitato a conflict-upon the importont question whether the Crown shall be allowed to ralso a barricr that shall effectunlly shut off thotwo English-speaking nations of the Westorn Continent, Against this cffort to arroy prejudices ngaipst the United Htatos nnd to disturb friendly rola- tious, thera must at somo dny arise some powerful influences. Moanwhilo our Canadlan neighbors will have their little day of glorifi- cation over the programms prepared for them by BracoNsviztp; but when the day is over and the wreaths are fadad and the finery grows tawdry, othor questions will como up, and what then? Will the loyalty Lold out ? FELNANDO WO0D'S IMPERTINENCE, It i evidently the purpose of the Northern Democrnts in Congress to rpprove and sns. tain tho disreputable methods whercby Re- publican majorities in Bouthern districts have boen defrauded of thelr rights. The spoech of envanno Woop, Democratie lead- er in the Honse, is o sulociont notice of such inteption. It {s discourteous and unparlia- menlary to oriticise the Prosident’s mossagoe at tha time 1t is read, but Mr. Woop did this vory thing in his haste to assure the Bouth- ern bulldozers that they wight oxpect ald and comfort from thoir Northern allies. Tho notivo for this ready indorsemant of frauds upon the bollot.box and the violent disfran- chisement of colorod voters is almost as baso as tho nct itself, The * Holid South” 1 o neoessary condition to Democratio control of the Gonoral Government, and tho ropresent. atives from the ** Bolid South " composo the majority and dictate tho action of the Demo. cratio caucus, Xonce the willingness of the Northern Demooratic doughfaces to approve of any amount of fraud, corruption, and in- timidation that mpy be necessary to control tho Houthern elections, and hence their engornoss to curry favor with their Southern mastors iu tho eaucus. Fravanpo Woon's speech on that portion of the President’s message roloting to the Southern elections was not marely an im- portinence, but a disgraceful exhibition of unacrupulous partisanship. Thore woro just two points in it,~—tho first to the effect that frauds wore charged in only two States, which he spoke of as **jsolated instances,” and the second to the cffect that some 4,000 Democrats bnd been illogally prevented from | voting in Now York City at tho Iato election, and many thougauds more fntim!dated by tho arrests that wera made. It would bo diffeult to conceive of a lamer apology for fraud, The President had dirocted the al- tontion of Congress to the abuses st tho Boutk in (ho mildest and most inoffensive ‘way, and to answer that theso abuses should not ba investigated because thoy werv con. splcuous fn ** only ™ two Btates, or to justify o roxistance to investigation by charging that thoro lind beon frauds ju » Northern clty, is akind of logio which nolbody but a con. firned and reckleas demagogue would ever think of usiug, A brief restatemont of the frauda in Bouth Carolina will help to give an idea of what the Dewmocratio mojority in Congress pro- poso to approve, Tho *tissne.paper” bal. lots, of a size and character well suited to voting by the handful at a time, were distributed gonerally throughout tho Stale, &0 that the ‘movéwment 'to carry the elections by {roud had tho concurrence of tho entire Democratio party in tho Btate, 8inoce the election, no pains are taken to concen! this systen of fraud, bul the white voters laugh about it and regerd it ns an exceedingly claver commoudablo plece of stratogy, Dur. Iug the campaigu Ropublican mestings were broken up by armed and uniformed bodics, and Republican candidates were driven out of the Htate, When clection day eawme there were mnone but Democratie judges al. lowsd st the polls, aud neither Repub. lican ocandidates nor Repnblican chal. lehgers wero permitted to participate in tho counting of tho votes, nor even to look on whilo tho count was procesding. United Slates Bupervisors aud Deputy United States Manihals wero driven from the polls, sud arrested nnd imprisoned for attempting to do their duty. There was vo remedy in sa appoal to tho Courts, for the local Justices and jurles were all in sympathy wlith the frauds and violeuce, This is the state of things which the Democrats in Cougress aro veady to approve to the estent that their leader resents » mild suggostion from the President that thero ought tu be an investi- gation, ¢ Even if there had been ooy fraud in tho Iate election in Now York Oily, v Frnvawno Woop charged, this would not Lie n renson for stifling an investigation into the frauds com- mitted In the Honthern States; but this chargs is false. The Inte elootion in New York City was a triumph over the party of fraud, in which honest Domocrats and Re- publioans co-operated to defoat Tam. many. The 4,000 men whom Mr Woop says wera ‘'lllogally provant.’ ed” from voting wera repenters who attempted to voto on the suthority of the frandulent naturalization.papers of 1808, Thore wore soma 24,000 of theso fasned in 1808 as one of the corrupt moans taken to carry the Btats for 8xzysoun. The foreiguors who received theso papers hava probably all beon fairly and legally naturalized sinoo then, but the frandulont papers are still nsed by Tammany for the voting of the emigrants newly arrived, and to enable hired roposatery to voto early and often, After somo 4,000 of thesa certificates hod boon rojecied at tho Inte claction, and tho villaina who attompted to vote thercon had been arrested snd im- prisoned, the remmindor of tha gang got frightened and did not attempt to vote, Was it beenusa of the exclusion of repeators that the regular Domocratio tickot in Now York ‘whs boaten, and Fraxanpo Woon's wmnjority whittled down..from 5,000 or 6,000 to a fow hundred ? The Democrata in Congroas cannot ovade tho responsibility for the deliberato nullifica. tion of tho constitutional amendments in the Southern Btates, If they resist an in. vestigation, their conduct will bo tantamount to n confession of all that has been charged ; if they consent to an Investigation, there will be such n showing as to render a white- washing report impotont. The resolution, fntroduced Into tho Senate by Mr, Bramg ia brond enongh to includa the frauda in any Btato in the Unlon, and if Mr. FerNavpo ‘Woop can prove any fraud in New York, or Bex Burnen show that thero wns any intimi- dation in Massachusotts, they will Lave an opporlunity to do so; but, in the meautimo, thelr statemonts to this effect will not wand off the proposed exposura of tho villninios that have been practiced by tho ex-Confeder. nten to disfranchise the negro voters of tho Bouth, THE 80UT) FRAUDS. The Democrats of Sonth Oarolina, not contont w'th having ‘practiced the most in fomous frouds ever known in the political history of this country, are now engnged in prosecnting Republicans who have dared to protosc agninst these outrages. There are now on trial at Orangeburg, 8, C., threo Re- publicans—Evazse A, WensTen, tho Duputy Postmaster; Mr. LivinasToy, the Shorifl of tho County; and Baxpy Kemrr, a colered man, who was n Deputy United States Mar- shal on eloction-day—upon the oharge of conspiracy to interfors with the comnting of the votes on the ovening of the clection, As under the laws of Bouth Carolina no wit- ness for tho defsnso can be heard in a pre. liminory caso, tho testimony was oz zarte. Even with the wholo machinery of the court In its hands, and unlimited opportunitios for mannfacturing and introducing all kinds of teatimony without challenge, the utmost that ' the prosccution could estab- lish showed that on the oven- ing of the election, after the polla wero closed, Mr. Wensten asked permission to go in and keep tha tally of the Repub- lican voles, Ho was refused, The eamo request wes mado by Lavixosrox and Ksrrr, and thoy wero refusod, For asking por. mission to witness tho counting of tho votos, these throa men were arrested, and tho Justice, after acknowledging to one of thems that the testimony would not warmat indiotment by a Grand Jury, and that he should digoharge them if it were not for the pressuro of the crowd, placed them under bonds to appear at tho next term of Court! A correspondent of tho New York T'ribune, writing from Orangoburg, gives some of tha details of tho manner in which the eloction was conductoed at that place. Notwithstand- ing the promiso of the Governor that one of tho three Commissionera of Election should be s Republican, no Republican was se- loctod. The mansgers at all the polls in the county were Domocrata. A groat number of Stato Conslables wero choson for esch poll, and these wero all Démocrats, and they wero instruoted to arrest any negro thoy pleased and not to interfers with white men putting moro than one ballot futo abox, The Btate law requiros that the vota sball bo counted in public, and in past yoars the Re- publicans have counted it in the open court. room. This time tha vota was counted in a small room, with the window-shutters closed and tho door barred. Wo bave already stated that the thrco deputiea who expressed a deo- sire to witnesa the count have becn arrested, nlthongh tho statutes give genoral doputies the right to be present at all polling pleces, with unrestricted access to the place whore tho voles aro beiug cast or counted, The result of tho cloction is thus stated by the Tribune's correspondent When tho hox was opeaed st the Orangeburg poll the numbor uf votcs wia fonnd to be 34l in anu- of the number of names on $he poilllat, showing that the box Lait becn stufled to that extent, Thu number of Republican votes In the boz was not oxcasaiv, but tho Domocratic vote cauld not be nccountod for excops by the *'kiss-joku' tickot fraud. In fagt, the Democrotic vole all over this coum{ was a very lkht une, aud yet a Republican majority of af Juist 2,000 was by fruud canverted 100 a Mewucratic majurity of 1,000, T thsgs- ke vor et el e iy tho Edisto Hiver, the Bemacrate have always had & mujority. At thow two polnta the electivn was hanest, and st oue of thew the lemucrits Were Lanlen for the firet time since I while at the other the Democes roduced oug.nulf, At overy *+hbaa-foke " lickels wero used by tho Democrats, and although tho white rcuulu snowed Joas inters «st than usual In the clection, vud the Dunocratic vote wad actually reduced, the Democratic gatns ‘Were enormous. > The scoues at the Orangeburg poll wora repoated in various sections of tho Htate, Other Nepublican deputies were uot only denjed the right guarantesd to them by the laws of Bouth Qarolins, but. have beecn ar rested for presuming to ask for that right, and in some cascs have been refused bail, and ase mow in juil awaiting trlal. Every dotail of the Demooratio method of carrying tho eloction was in deliburate defiauce uot only of the Unitad Btateslaws butof the laws of South Carolina. There was no at- tempt at concealment of the frauds, the laws were deliberately wet aside, the courts were balldozed into submission, and the infamnons work went on witbout challenge or chock. Not a single Republican was allowed accoss to the ballot-boxes or permitted to witness the count. And now come those . Bowrbon ballot-box stuffers, holding men' pnder arvvst who asked for their lawful rights, and ask, ‘What are you going to do aboutit? ‘The arrest of these men v in the naturo of a tount o8 iusulting a8 the frands commitied by their prosccutors was {nfamous. ‘The President has only done hils duty in prompily recognizing the gravity of the situation fn Soath Caroliua aud mek- lug it the burden of his message to Congress. It hias reachied & degree of nulawfulness that iz fraught with danger to the very existemco of yepublican lustitutious if no attempt iv wmude to remedy it. The President is not =0y acting from any partitan motive. 1o wouly ho untrne to his duty and unfit for hig Po. nition if ho did not go to the very oxtremi| of the law enforeing ita provisions, and C“, gress will e untrae o itA dnty it it docs poy furnish him with every lawfnl agency o ™y roquire in guardiog olections in that Sm,’ In rastoring the rights of citizenship o thogs who have been disfranchised, and in Reverals punishing the wrotches who have Cfllflmillc’d these nutrages. —— Louts Kossutr, the Iuncarian patriet, hay furnished a curious memorandsm toa Tun. zarian nevtspnper upon the historv of the Rus. mian question. From this memorandum it 4, peara that tho question of the Austrian occupy, tion of Hosnla firat arose fn 1851 at the nstaney of Princo BCHWARZZENNERA, who was anxlonaty consolidate Austrian nower byannexing Bosnts, Herzegoving, and a part 6t Macedonla, no gy (& mako Salonica an Austrian port. Before any decisfon was arrived at, the Prince died, ang nothing was heard of the proposition watht 155, when Narorrox ITL offered Austria the Pripgy. palitfes of Moldavia and Wallachia in exeliangy for & cesston of Gallcla to the Tolex, Austyiy asked for Bosnia and Herzegoving, but ay Ny, T01,20N was unwiliing to weaken ‘Turkes, it oy throngh. It was revived in 1870 when the Crony tender, Dr. RizosR, made substantially (l, same proposition upon the ground thay Austrly conld have 1o future cxcept oa o Biavonie State, ‘The proposition in this form was rejecied; tyy tho occupation of Hosnfa sgaln came up osa prominent question upon the outbreak of thg Uosnian fnsurrection In 1873, which way f5. mented by Austris. Tho remaluder of the by, tory is thus tolid by Kossttu: On the 8th of July, 1870, occurred the f. Interview of TRelchathill, at which the (aar asmes the Kmuoror Frianci= Josgpit that Boenda would rg ceded 10 Auntria-Hungary, Butschen the Treaty of Sun Stefono bacame known, Auatria porceiveq thut Kussin Jid not Antend 1o keen hor promies and Count AXniaswy began to negotinto wiil) k. ®land for an_soti-luerlan ollisnce. Fhe Car, alarmed, sent WuxaTILPF to Vienna to appease the Anstrian Government. and to promie that hicany would hio found nt the 84 for sccnring 1q Austria-flungor: on_of Iownla ang ilerzegovina. ‘I'ha negu 8 with England theg feil throngh, Count ANDRAMT bavine mae tg Lard Daray the nnaccentanle demand of a aubeidy, At the Congresy Austria dlil not opnose the ftug. slan dewande. especinlly that with roferenco to Bessarabla, In tiio hope thal Russla woull offer her Hosnta and Jierzegoving. ‘This, howeror, Tiansla refnscd to do, thonsh she nromised not ty oppose the proposal 1f nny otlier Poer wonlg make it. Count Axpnaeay then anplicd to Priney Biaxanci; snd. the Intter having aiso eiven a re. fusal, the Count thredtened Lo Jeave the Congress, Iisyanck ultimatoly suggested that Lord Sariy: puny should muke tho uronossl, ani the latter 4 pladly took the upuortunity of thereby fuci). tating the exccufion of tbe lreaty which hat already beon conctuded with regard to Cypras, Trom this it oppenra not only that tha occy. pation fs part of the progrumme adopted by tho Qreat Powers for the ultimate partitlon ot ‘Turkey, but that Austria has had her eyes on this province for nearly thirty years, Under such ircumstances It 1a not likely that Austsla, ance having galned possession, will ever avag- don {t. ——— ‘One of our exchanges complains that subsid. lary silver coins are at a discount beeayse thy lanks refuse to take them on deposit, and, a3 they are logal-tender for only 83, they haves toodeney Lo accumulate at centres of business, as in Nan Franclsco, New York, Chicago, cte. It remarks: ‘There 1s a vmall surolos over the wants of retal trade dw citculation. a9 stiown by tho uct of any Aisconnt at all oxisting: hut 13 1a probaole thats simple annonncement by the Tressury that it would redeom those eoine on demand would be sufclent 10 induce their inoro genernl nsa in larzer teans. actionw, and so, withoui inconvenicnce to the Treasary, brin their valuo up to par. The Cluclonal Commereal, commenting on | this, sayss The French treatment of snbsldiary coln 18 per. fectiun. The legal-tender quality of this coin s limited to fifty francs, but tho Uovernment al tnkes it withont limit. This placos In tho han tac (lovernment all that the peoplo do not requirz, and preserves tha balance, It 18 the obvion thing todo, and yet wo preeumo vothing can he dony hore, ‘Pue upbosltion eomes et from th FqUEOZOTY, WAL 0re alXIoN 1O make an liny 1lint aflvor Is uchased, seprecated, and ali et a migorablo metal, 'They have been shrieking 1 New York with venomous hypocrisy over the ex. ceraive fsmus of milver chunge, nnd yet they will teht tho vemedy foe tho evil they denounce be. caure thoy desire to causo o disgust with the lunuc{ wotal thoy wish to exclude from coinaze ond circulation, " Then the inflationlsts hate tie ulght of ailver bocause it mieana honeet resump: tion, sud thoy wunid prefer tie feculent fractivual currency, which siznifiey dirt and dilutlon. De- tween the two gangs of hostiles wo suppose that the eloar policy wu bave poloted out Will not have & silow of success, i S A fellow ont in Kansas by the name of Men. nrrr has the merdt of telling the public through the columus of the Troy Chlef just waat alls hm, Inacard he eays bt *Whersas, when I am intoxicated, 1 sm mot competent to make contracts; and whercas, 1 bavo been taken ad- vantage of on several recent occaslons hi such contracts, I bereby votify ail peraons that here- after Istall not fullll any contracts made by me when drunk.” That fs to the points butthe question might be ralsed aa to the exact stazo in the process of getting drtink when Mr. MEx- Rirt’s fucapscity to make valld contracts would commence, If the publication of this card Is sufficient notfce and bar to suits, would a Court hold that, when Mr, MERRITT Was half druuk, his contracts wero hall voia? It §s o caso tuat might puzzle the lawyers. \ ——— ‘The Bt. Louls people aro just now discussing the propricty of adouting a water-metcr, o onlder to prevent the. great waste of water on the part of carcleas housckeepers, Tho Com- mun Council seerus to bo in favor of it, but ft 1s vigorously opposed by the press of the chiy, orincipally on the ground, ss «ns of the papers asserts, that “St. Loyls is confcasediy a dirty city, to the svnsa that it {s bard to keep the per- son thoroughly clean on sccount -of tho all- pervading soo! 1t 1s a filter and Dot ameter tlat 15 wanted ‘In 8t. Louls. Tho water Is 0 filthy that the weter must be gauged for i uring mud in order tu bo of any service. e e ———n, The Now York Obserrer citos the case of 83 Intellivent Kentucky Presbyterlau ifulster who fu Wis prayer on Moudsy moruing yemiuded the Lord that “Thou hast sceu by the worning papers how the Nabhath was desccrated yester day,” Auvother evidence of the value of the daily papers. Tho story reminds a fricnd at our clbow of & gantleuian who was nlways refernng to his visis to Europe. Being nsked to pray on one ucrasion, he began with “O Lord, Thou yunwest thag when wo were n Europe,” aud 50 forth, e — There are dlfferent ways of Jooklug st the ssma thing. Here comcs s Counecticut paper that s anxious to oxculpate Tr.oew, and saysi Cun 8 inan’ steal hisown proverty? ‘TiLney was elected, and the oftice was his, flad hewtvlen it (a8 they term i8), It would have been nu critae, for ftwas his. . . Next the Toledo Alade takes a look at the same subjeet, ond saws up its observattons shus: Tint, when a man attempts to steal somcihiud "'"‘l' the Court to wiich he has appealed decldes 1 not his, 1a he Qut & thorough thief? S e — The largest issuss of dollars have, it npoeard, u made at New York aud San Franclsco, und bave immediately found thelr way bick to tue Treasury, as we hiave sooftcy polited out they loovitably must.—New York (Imes. An astertion to tho sate etlect we have gectt fntho Now York Times and other New Yurk papers bolween 100 and 223 tlues duslog this year, Wil the Z0mce auswer whcther gold dollars donot also fiod thetr way immedlately back to the Teeasury! Aud why is it, sayt L e ———— Ont of tha Wisconsin Congressmen told 8 friend on his way to Washington that he hoped to gus thero in seasou to “dissunde? MATT CARPENTER from becumning 8 candidate for the United States Bcnate. Mo ought to bave #dl- suaded " SATT befure be accebted tust * call,” origiuating 1o his owa otlice, sud slzoed by Tom, Dick, and Harry, torun for Howe's scab on the Europesu plau. However, Marz'scandi- datuse will uot hurt snybody but biwscll. i As to that alleged qusrrel or jeslousy be- tween Miss EEin00G aud Mile. Lirma, the Cleveland Leader saye: “Mlle. 1arra’s privatc Ictters, wo arc glad to say, do uog conflrm 1Le seusatjonal reoorts of Alisy KELLOGG'S Jvalousy ol ber triumpbs. Moreover, Miss KxiLoud W pecunfarily lutereated 1u the sucecss of 188