Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 6, 1878, Page 4

i CiaCAGO THIBUNE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1878, not cist 80 many voles as romo of kb other wards in the city from which no com- plnintismade, If he has Lhis ward crpecinlly in mind, however, a slip of it might ba taken off the Fonrteenth andnttached to the Tenth, which east the smallest voto at the Jale elec. tion. Wonld that auit Ald Rxaw? With this single exception, the Conncil should let the warils stand as they are for the present, rother than incur the confusion of a renr- rangement which would not hold beyond the noxt consus, The @rihmiz: TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Y MAIL—TN ADVARCE—TO! Ty Editlon, one year. & TeAT, POr mor o Literary and Riri(Kiol urin Syndny WEEKLY EDITION, POSTFAID. Cne copy, ver yea Cintof foar. Epecimen ¢ Glve Post-Otfice Cannty, Ttemittances may be made either by dratt, express, Tust-Office anler, or in rexistered letter, at 00t Hsk. TERMS TO CITY BUBSCRIBERA. aily, delivered, funday excepted, 23 cents Datiy, deisvered, Bunday ineluded, 30 conta Address THE THIBUNE COMPANT, Corner Madion and Dearborn-ats., Chicszo, Tl Qrders fur the delivery of TR TRIRUNR st Evanaton, Frglewood, and liyds Park feft. In the countlug-room w il recelve prompt attention. Ste——— TRIBUNE BRANCII OFFICES. (ablished branch officea ad sdveriisements ss dress {0 fofl, focluding Etate snd S—— The English havs won a great and almost decisive victory in Afghanistan, Tho col- umn under Gen. Rosenrs, which was the contral ons, haa defeated the Afghans with great loss, and captared all their eannon and material of war. This not only opens a clear road by thia route, but it opens the way to Cabul, and leaves Gen. Ropeats free to co- operate either with the northern or routh. ern column, and must end in the immediate rotreat of any forces that are opposing them in order to save themselves from being fanked and cut off. The way into Afghan. istan is now open, and the next stand, if an- other is made, must be at Cabul. TnE CRICAGO TRIBUXX ha celpt of subscriptiot A TORK~Toom 28 Tribuna Bulldiog. F£.T.Mo« anvxs, Manager, . PARIS, France—So. 16 ftue dols Grange-Batellere, . Manten, Agent. LONDON, Eng.—~American Exchange, 449 Strand. Rrsry F. G Agent. BAN Tho British Parliament convened yester- day for a short mossion. Mer Majesty’s speech was much briefer than usual, and is notable only for its omissfons, The princl. pal topio is, of course, the pending war in Afghanistan, and even this is pnssed over with the more formnl announcemont re- quired by Iaw. There willbe no organized opposition to the address in reply to this spoech, the Liberals announcing their pur- poso to content themselves with criticising tho action of tho Government in plunging tha country Inlo & uscless war, aud ono which will oventually result in weakening England snd benofiting Russla in tho East. —— AMUSEMENTS, MoVicker's Thenatre. ‘Mailison atreet, belween Dearborn and Stata. **Rose- ale." Tiaveriy's Theatre, Dearboru street, comner of Monroe. Engagement of the Unlon Bquare Combany, **3other and $on.™ Ilonley’s Thentres Randolph streel, between Clark and Lafalle, Ene gagement of Mrs, D. P. Dowers. **Mirsh." Academy of Musle, Halsted street, between Madison and Montoe, En- agement of bId C, France, *'Marked for Lite.” Jiamlin’s Theatre, Clark street, oppositathe Court-Tiouse. Eagagement of Uliser Doud Byron. **Hero." Afternoon and even- ing. 4 Metropolitan Thestre, hark strect, upposite Sherman House, tertalument, Exposition Bullding. Michigan avcnue, foot of Adams sreet, GrestFat Btock Show, It remains to be dotermined who shall foot the bills incurred in the war upon the Afghans,—England or India,~and the quos- tion in not likely to be sottled without sn auimated controversy in Parliament. The policy of the Government in the matter was yosterday revealed through a notice in the House of Commons by the Under-Secretary of State for Indin that ho should on Mondsy next submit a motion that the expenses of tho warbe defrayed from the Indian rovenue. Thin proceeding i likely to provoke spirited opposition on the part of the Liberals, who maintain that in this triumph of Jingolem the Jingocs should settle the score, instead of sajldling it npon poor tax.ridden, bank- rupt Indis. Hexny Fawcerr gave notico Variety ea- Art. No. 63 Wathington street. Loan Exhibition of the Cllcago Eoclety of Decorative Art, Day and evening. Rt L L, SOCIETY BMEETINGS, ST. DERNARD COMMANDERY, XO. 15, K, T.~ Atientlon, bir Knighta, You sre ordered ‘to” appear at oyl (o-day a6 2 olok b, m.. sharg, fully 3 10 excort the remains of thatate BiF of Jacksun Commandery, Michigan, to Stichi- eal ot af Tweaty second et Hir, Kniiis e aster Commanderfes are nvited to foin w brder. CASS F. MAUREIR, K. C. COVENANT LODGE. SO, 528, A, F. yeuterday that he shonld oppose the motion, 18 mmlml_r!lll.:g l'll‘ll.,: uvm} a e Tor busiueas A Lnportane WO Tibens ato THE WORE OF CONGRESS, k. e mel lilrdr‘lél:‘lw:!fl}“lg‘ l‘(ll'l.'ll(rl‘-m Vislting brethren sro sl Zardially fuv Sder il. W, WOLSELEY, W. M, WILLIAM ERRR, Socretary. * STAL LODGE, KO. 2, A, F. & A, M. ~Tiall e chig s Yl Gciock prombt for Fanes Lo Eatly mcinber Of Tho" Lodger nd works” Hiy 1 of the Master, orderof the Muler. - N, TUCKELL, Becretary, 1878, ‘Wo should infor from the prompt action in the Honse on two of the appropriation bills that there is a strong disposition in Congress to make the present session n praotical and usefal one In n business sonse, The session will be necessanily brief, na the life of the pregent Congross expires March 8 next, and probably a couple of weeks will bo lost on account of the Christmas holidays, It is well, therefore, to got tho busineas of appro- priations well under way befors entering upon political discussions and projects for new legislation, Noverthelets there is somo important work which the presont Congress might do to advantage, Among the subjects that deserve attention are the following: The election frauds and ontrages in the Bouthorn Btates, It is not likely that the Democratio House will consent to nny legis« Intion looking to tha beMer protection of the colored voters in tha exorcise of their polit. ieal rights, but the subject should be so thoroughly canvassed ns to expose tho pur. pose of tho Bonthorn whites to nullify the conatitutional amendments, and to place upon the Demacratic mnjority in the House tha reaponsibility of refusing the aid ssked by the Exocative for the enforcoment of the law, Tho discussion will be eminently proper in Congress, for the sbuses and out. ragea complained of occurred In the Con- gresaional elections, and it is made the duty of Congrous to pass such legislation as may bo necessary to carry out $e provisions of the Constitation, The Domocrats in the Houso will probably attempt to stifle all in. vestigation and discussion in this matter, but Mr. Brarxe's resolution in the Sonate will lead up to a thorough reviow of the question. It is not easy to see how the Honse, after appointing the PorTen Committee and sanc- tioning its pecnliar proceodings, can avold taking mome naction in regard to the TimozN cipber dispatches. The Republicaus appear to have come to the conclusion that they can afford to lot the matter stand whero it is, Probably they are right, for the case Las been mads out o cloasly in the absence'of ony explavation that no intelligent person can doubt that there was a Democratic cou. spiracy to sccure the Presidency for Tirpev by bribery and purchase. If thore is any virtuo in the cry of “{fraud,” which the Democrats havo used so frecly since the last Presidential cloction, they will feel tho neces. sity of clearing thelr own skirts, ‘There are alao somo Important matters for legislation that will come up. Tho Banking aud Currency Committee in tho House will probably not make another offort to fores tha roponl of the Resumption act upon the Sen. ate, bocauss they must recognize how futile such an effort would be. Dut thero {s one measure in ald of resumption, or ss a corol- layy to it, which ought to bo passed, viz, : to suthorize the Seorotsry of the Trecasury ta receive tho legal-tender notes for customs dutics, Becrotary SurMax believes that he has such nuthority and hes asnounced his intention to proceed upon this theory, but it will bo better to give him the warrant of a spacial Act. Indeod, greenbacks would have already boen receivable for duties by law if the Ewixo party, which professca so much lave for them, had not defeated & Benate bill to that end in the closing hours of the last seasion, As rogards silver, thero are two or threo propositions to bo cousidered. Firat, s to the logalization, or the redemption and re. tirement, of the tradae dollar, the anomalous character of which hss occssioned wuch scandal and considerable loss. Becondly, & wmeans for proveuting the Natlonal banks from discriminating agaiust the standard sil. ver dollar, and providing a pensity for such deflance of the law, Tbirdly, and most im- portant of all, tho question of free colnage snd siver certificates which shall place the silver dollar ou a plane with the gold dollar, Intelligent discussion of this subject will be of value, even it the present Cougress shall not ba able to agreo upon free coinage. It v not unlikely, too, in conusctlon with this aud the resuwption question, that considera. tion will be given to the proposition to com. pel the bauka to redeern thoir own notes fn coln, There are other matters in which Congress might do the country great service if it wonld, ‘The passage of a law for froe ubipping would be a long step in the direction of progress, ‘The disposition of the question of trausfer. ring tho wansgement of Indian Affairs to the FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, Groenbacks at the New York Btock Ex- shange yesterday closed at 993, Tho wife of the Czarowitch has increased the stock of Russlan royalty to the extent of ono small boy. It happened yosterday. The length of the soason of lake naviga- tion this year is without parallel, Charters ware made yesterday at Lake Michigan ports, tho Intest date over recorded at any of thom. “The peoplo of New Orleans yesterday gathorod in o mass-meeting numbering 2, souls, and deolared that the unspeakable grati- tudo which still lingers in their hearts for the charily and morcy of their fellow.country- men has consecrated their lives to maiu- tonance of indissoluble national unity and brotherhood. ‘The English troops have met the Afghans, nnd appenr to have won a signal victory. Ac- cording to tho nccount transmitted through English sources, tho native troops wore out- goneralled; sud several strong positions which they held wore turned by the maneuvres of tho invadors, snd flually capturod aftor what tho English officers scknowledge to be an ob- stinato dofens Taperor WitLiax of Gormany, after sev- eral months of release from the cares of Btate, necossitated by the wounds he receiv- ed in the attompted assassination Dy the Socialist NoperiNg, has resumod tho reins of Government. e arrived ot Borlin yester- dny, and was greoted with joyful enthusiasm by the people. Thero is plenty of strougth aud wisdom left yet in the fine old monarch. Both Housd of Congross adjourned yes. terday until Monday, baving transacted s . modorate volume of business. Mr, Drex. AN, in tho House, called for and obtamed un order for an investigation by the Commit- tee on Civil-Service Iteform of tho charge that ho was corruptly influenced In bis vote in favor of the bill making the Government responsible for tho intercst on the 8.65 Dis. trict of Columnbia bonds. ‘I'he Seoato Investigating Commiitee will rusumo operations noxt Monday, and it {w #nld 1t ANpensox will bo brought from Ne-. viula at public expense to recant some of the lics ho told before the MHouss Commitiee. Nono of Anpeisox's previous stories need denylug, and tho Asntison Committes would do better to alluw hiwm to remain in Nevada, whero thera is a fair chance for the exerciso ot lis peeuliar talents in the manutacture of bulleting for the benefit of the mining-stock gamblers, ‘I'hicro is tho best of reason for believing that the Governmont is thoroughly §n carnest in the prosccution of the Custom.House constrnetion conspirators, and that the in. dictments will be pushed to trisl with a view to convicting overy guilly wan, The em. ployment of Judge Lawazxce to conduct the casea for the Government and the people in. dicatcs that such will be the policy. His in. structions nre understood to bo simply that the prosecution shall be conducted carnestly wnd fairly, It is gratifying to know that in thesy trials tho Government will be on the right nide, which has not slwsys proved to bu tho case. K ‘The propositivp infroduced into the Coun. ol by Ald. Ryaw, of the Fourteonth Ward, to redistrict the political divisions of tha city st huve been suggested by some personat o factional motive ; it has no merit in itself, eud thers 8 no oceasion for sgitating the fjieation ut this time, There is no such dis- purity betwecu the voting population of the scvernd wards ni to work sny special infustice, sud perbisps no rearrsngement at the present tituu could equalize the voting streugth with suficicut accuracy to iusure any permavency. luayear from now wo shall have o nmew Uuited States censuy, which will furnish a trustworthy basis for zedistricting in an in tulligent way, Ald, HBrax's ward does War Department ought to bo expected, M 4 spocinl joint committee bas had the snbjeet in hand, Tho report of Mr. Hrwirr's Com- mittes on the condition of the Iaboring classes may bo nsofnl it it avoid domagog- There shonld bo an agreemeni on {sm, somo plan for popniar bonds or & postal aystem of savings.’ Tndeed, thero is an abundance of opportunities for tho present Congress to make itself nseful if it will abandon party acheming and go earneatly at work., WHAT THE BANKS WILL DO, The Milwaukee evoning paper called the Wironsin regards the proposition requiring the National banks to redcem thelr issuos in coin in tho nature of a diveful threat,, To ask them to redoem their notes in coin would, in the opinion of the Wisonain, be porse. cution {* not only that, but torturo, * Thoir onse,” says that papor, *‘is very much like that of thoso obstinate Jews in the Middle Agos, who objected to surrondering thelr honrded treasures to needy Earls and Barona. The custom then was to sacure a Jow who had money, and to pull his finger nnils out by the roots, or extract his teoth one by one, uptil he was porsnaded, by these gontla en- treatments, to give it up, This method al- most always succeeded. By the time the second or third eye-tooth was nprooted, or & holf-dozen finger nails were drawn, the Jow was ready to yield his ducats,” To require the National banks to redesm their notes In coin after Jan. 1, tho same 08 the Goveroment will have to do withits greenbacks, ia ns bad, according to this sym- pathetio cditor, as puiling ont finger naila or tearing out teoth one by one. The intimn. tion is that the banks will not yield thoir golden ducata to tha holder of thair promises unless torture equal to this is applied. We havo a belter opinion of tho National banks, ond don't beliove they are so nverse to re- deeming their notes in coin ss the Wisconsin intimates.* But in case Congress dooa roquire the National banks to redeem thoir notes in coin —(we said coin, not gold)—~the Wisonsin sots forth the kind of retalintion tho banks will resort to in punishment of the Government for moking them redeem their notes 1n coin at tho option of the holders. It says: 1{ the privileze of nulemr\\nn in_greenbacks fs withdzawn from them, it will be the Government anid not the banks that wiil auter In_consequence. ‘The Gavernment renumen specie payments on the 1st of January. Every bank now has 8 resorve fund in goenbacks for the redemption of its noten. 1f the (lovernment requires tne hunks to redeom fn coln, they wiil, of course, call on tho (lovernment for coln in exchange for ihelr gruanbacks. There would then be o lively time in the Tressury De- partment, Becrotary SUERXAN's Teserve of ond siiver, with wnich he expects to mafntalin ro- sumption, woull meluvuy itko snow in & spring snn. The Rreenbacks would ulic np in mountaln- ous masses in tho Tressury vaulte. _As 8 measure 1o exhuust the atock of coin In the Trea Tus Tmnusy's plan wonld be o grent success; ns o measnro for ntimidating the banke, 1t would be & algnal fallure. I'hbey would no doubt mect it with calm composure. Bupposs tho National bonks were short~ sightod and malicions enough to pursue just this course, and should make sn organized “ron” on the Governmont for coin, mnd should pour in a volume of greenbacks that would *oxhaust tho stock of coin in the Treasury,” what would bo the consequences? 1. The Treasury would suspend redemp- tion of its notes, and instantly they would depreciato several per cont. : 2. Tho moment the greonbacks declined oven § or } per cont below coln, every broker and speculator in theUnited Btates would send home tho notes of the banks nnd demand their redemption in coin, If they refused, their notes would bo protested and their security bonds in the custody of the Bank Controller in Washingion wounld be sold out for coin with which to redoom tholr notes, 8. 'The greenbacks wonld be pald out by the Govornment and go into general clrcnlation at o discount anywhero from 1 to 10 per cent; but, being the cheaper currency and not redeemable, tho whole rin for coin would be on the banks, and their notes, being worth more than the greenbacks, would not ciren- late any longer than tho gold speculators could pick thom up and send them lomo for redemption. Thus the banks would bo holst on their own petard most beautifully, They would bs * busted " banks mighty soon after ¢ gxhausting tho stock of coiu in the Trens- ury,” and there would be no sympathy felt for them after being guilty of such stupid matico, ‘When the banks are required to redeem their own notes in coin, thoy will not daro to make a *run" on the National Treasury for fear of the consequoncos to themselves. They will quietly provide their vaults with Rold and silver without disturbing thoe stock in the National Treasury. They will all be- come bi-metaliists and join the rest of tho community in demanding froe colnngo of silver. 'Thoy will inasist on this country pos- sonsing na large o stock of silver ns Franco enjoys ; they will, in short, become good sen- sible institutions, and sco things from the people's point of view, which to thom will be n new light. % THE CANADIAN NOSE OUT OF JOINT, Tlunkoyism to tho contrary notwithstand- ing, democratic Onnada is beginning to kick, It protests sgalust n Court, ngalust Conrt otiquette,against flunkoyism, and every form of toadylsm. The Toronto Mall, » Tory paper, sounds tho first blast agaiust an advertisement that appestod in the Montreal papers during the time the Royal palr wore In that city, containing an offtoial anvounco- ment thot “‘1adies desirous of being admitted to the reception held by hor Royal Highness, at :30 p, m, on Baturday, Nov. 80, at the Windsor Hotel, must weur ‘low dresses, ua. less they prosont a doator’s certificato of ill health, fn which onse they mny come with the front of the dress cut square; butin no caso are they to appear in high-necked dresses.” The JMufl pours altornate brondsides of ridicule and serlous ar- gument ioto this advertisement and riddles it from stem to stern, first, upon the ground that the climate does mot admit of that style of dress; second, that it is fw. modost, and that the Cauasdian women are not acoustomed to unbosomn themselves; and thind, that the attempt to establish Court etiquetto is & serious mistake, Oa this point it says : We loyal people, fayorable to monsrchieal tustitutions; bus wa removed from St Junes', sna s Court ca 1o root 1n ol where the echu of the ax sud logwing chain of the back- woods rings whth no uncertaln sound through the f our cummarcial or political nietropolle, e not the eluwents to coustitute a real A miock Court woald be & deplurabl bur. lesque, from which the good sense uf ull concerned will, we fect sure, happily deilver us. 'The indiguation of tho Muil over this per. emptory ukese is patural, and it i highly probable thut it struok the ladies of Montreal in the same manner. ‘Thoy may bave complained some at the obligation to unbosom theiwmnelves on a cold, frosty night, but the real objection should have buen mado at tbe order to appear jnpublioina style of undress which is usnally rcserved for the privacy of their retiring rooms, and to display those charms of person which hitherto wodesty has required thew to con- coal, as the sin¢ gua non of adinission to the presence of the Priucoss Lounsx aud the iuspection of the BMarquis of Lorue, Court nonsonse and flunkeyism that the first official order from the Chiamberlain ghould have lLeen a command to tho woman nadity, in len of n doctor's certificate, was tho cssential reqnisite. Modosty to the renr, vulgarity to the front, or tho degradntion of a dootor’s cerdificate, was tho first greeting of Royalty to the womsn of Monteoal. Un- doubtedly thero aro snobs and flunkeys of the fomale kind in Montreal who would risk oven that last strugglo of the belleof the period that would have bronght her freedom rather than not lhave gained accoss to her Royal Highness, but with the majority it must have cost & struggle, and doctors’ cor- tifeates muat have beon abundant, Dut why should this onder have been lov- eled at the women alona? The Margnis of Lorne is n Scotchman, Why did he not igsne an order that the men of Montreal shonld oft with thelr trousers and appear in kilts unless they could bring a cortificata from the due- tor that their legs were queer and crooked, or that they had the rhenmatism or some other complaint which wonld be ng- gravated by exposuro fo the weather? It certainly Ya not ns dangerous nor is it ns much of & hardship for & man to go round with bare lege as for s woman to go round with bare neck and shoulders, with not aven tha saving clause of o dress front, eutequara. And’yet one oan faintly coneeive of the howl of indignation that would go up from the men of Canada, and the stern rerolution that would Sre their hearts nover to sacrifica their trousers at the dictato of flunkeyism. Thero is good hope that flunkeyism will meot with a decidod sot-back when ite first blow comes from tho strongest Tory paper in Canadn, and wo may confidently expect that tho Liberal papers will follow it up with Llows equally ng telling, and that tho men who would not baro their.legs g} tho com- mand of Royalty will demand and obtain the right for modest women te appear in the presence of Royalty in the garb of modesty. Meanwhilo other discontented {ndividuals aro turning wp in varions quarters. The Scotehmon of Ottawa aro boiling mad bo- canse tho Mfarquis and Princess, hav- ing allowed. them to give out that the Bt. Andrew's coucert waa to be under their patronage and presence, stald away from it and sont no oxcuse, 'Then, again, the people having organized n proces- slon in which tho Marquis and Princess woro to take part, tho latter uncoromoniously abandoned it just after it hiad started, 2o that it had to go ovor the ronte withont the main fontures of tho show, Lastly, Royal rudeness has broken out in & vory dangerous quarter, a lunchoon having beon given to the roprd- sontatives of the English press with no invi- tations issued to the roprescntatives of the American or Caonadisn press. Bo far as American roporiers are concerned, it is of little consequence, ns it was none of their affair, and the nomadic American roporter is happily so constituted that ho ean get a bite most anywhere, and will mako o sumptuous meal whero the average person would starve, Buot with the Canadian reporters tlinis a homa thrust, They are not of the sort to stand idly by and see thoir English nsso- ciates biddon in to tho fenst while thoy nro left out on the sidewnlk. Thero will be a savago sharponing of pencils and note-books will bristle with opithets, which will be still furtber amplified from the voeabulary of tha city editor when Lo comon to revisa copy. Shall the London T'imes and Z'elegraph and Graphio bask in the sunshine of Royslty and feast sumptuously at Ridean Hall, while tho Toronto Muil and Glods and Moutreal Herald hang round the stops, beat. ing their brensta as they hear the loud bas- soon? The Canadian noso is out of joint at tho very first soiff of Royalty, and there is tronble brewing among the elabsand shingles of demooratio Ottawa, How ensily all thia might have been avolded if the Royal pair had sot up their little Court in Mnnitobn, where Brrrine Bunt would have mado no complaint at a bare.leggod order and his nu- merons squaws would bave folt it no indig- nity to have appenred before the Princess in the full Court costumo of a;flng betand a pair of bracelol THE COUNTY BONDS, Tho revision of the count of votes on the 1ssue of Court-House bonds has progressed far enough to make it almost certain that a mafority will be found in favor of the propo- sition. Itla easy to understand that errors should lLave been mnde in canvassing the voto on this matter, and wo have no doubt tho rovision will ba correct. Tho result is due partly to a dofect in the law as to the kind of majority required, and partly to tha naction of the Democratio Comumittes. The law is defeotive in not requiring for the, adoption of such a propesition a majority of nll the votes cast at tho election, instead of merely a majority of those voting on the proposition itself. As a rulo, all who desire to vota for: a schemo of this kind are careful to do so, while large numbers of those who would vote against it do not take tha pains to scratch or rewrito thelr tickets, Whe Democratic Commmittee, in this instance, became the confederato of the old County ing, and printed their tickots in such mauner as to enable the peddlers to tear off the vote * ngainst” and leave the Demo- cratio ballot a vole " for ™ lhu‘pmpoliUon. It waa this circumstanco mainly which en. ablod the promoters of fhe scheme to securo o small majority of the votes cast upon it, though in a large miuorily of all the voters at the election, It may be that the Roard will be restrained fromn fesulng these bouds, notwithstanding the popular voto, on tho ground that the resolution submitting the proposition was not passed thirty days befors the day of eloction, It will require a decision of Court to determino thls question, but it wonld seem to be suficient cause for au injunction against the jesue. Any question of an un. ususl character, and submitted scparately, certainly demands a public notice at least ns long =4 nsual and gonoral election; if this ‘worenot required,then it would bo possibleand ensy for a County Board to spriug the ques- tion of issujug bouds upon the people the day before election and carry it with o very fow voles, while tho great majority of voters would bo ignorunt of the fact that question of borrowlng mouey was o iusue. ‘We presunio this view of the matter will be properly tested. At the same time there iy not now so much reason for opposition to the lssuing of the bonds as there was pre vious to thd election. Then it was s watter of doubt whethor the old Ring would not be able to yotain tho control of the County Board, in which case (Lo suthority to borrow 750,000 would have been a public calamity, 'he Ring candidstes were defcated, Low- ever, aud there 1o ground for the hope that the nuow Board will adwinister tho affairs of the m;uu(y houestly and cconomically. In that cvent, it will perlups be botter to build the Ceurt-House ou borrvwed monsy thay Ly Tt in not a very cheerfnl comment npon this of Uanadn to nnveil their charms, and that if they wero desirons to gaze at Royalty, semi. ‘United Btates wna 5,461,028 tons, direct taxation ; but this will not hold if the i now Bonrd shall continne appropriations and expenditures on the old senlo, and exhauat the fall limit of taxation, besides borrowing tho money to go on with the Court-Honse work. If the present Board shall finally ao. qnire the right to issme thess bonds, tho pub- lic will expect & earefnl disbursement of the fnnds and a reduction in thotax-lovy for moxt year, BHALL WR HAVE AMERIOAN S8HIPAY The Houss of Represontatives Liad the subjoct of so amonding the navigation lawa aa to ndimit an incresse of American ocosn- going ships bronglit Leforo it on the motion of Mr, Canrzn Hanntsoy Imstrncting a com. mittee to report abill to that effect. The resolution wng adopted. The names of those voting for and agsinst it have not reached us, but the reporters say the Ropublicans generally voted against the resolution. Wefml tosee why thare should be any party division onsuch aquestion as this,—one which appeals direotly to the interests of overy citizon per. sonally, and also to the groat material inter. osta of the conntry. We invite the render to look at a fow facts. In 1860 the total foreign trade of the Uniled States was thus mnade up ¢ Domestic exports, Forelgn exporta, Importa. soeeess ‘Total forelgn teade, 000,872,288, ‘Whigh trade was carried s follows: - 0, 180,774 In American In fortlgn Teraels, Teasels, Domestic exports... $202,680,577 $110,002, 607 Forelen exports, 19), 41 0,430,617 1pOrts. .ous oo 04, 134, 001, 399 Total, oo cou see $307,247,757 §235, 040,703 From which it will bo seen that in 1800 two-thirds of nll the trade to and from this country was doge In Amorican sbipa, For the year ending Juno 30, 1877, twelvo yoars after tho close of the War, wo find that the valuo of our trade was Jmporta... i Domesticexpor Forelgn exports,, .$ 402,007,540 « 880,107,100 25, 05 Total... 1007, Which Arwerican Forai iy ersels, Tmports..... ........8161,834,007 $320), 505, 833 Lomestfeexpor Foreign exports. Total,eus oqe o00.3316,000,351 $830, 020, These were the proportions of the ocean trado onrried in American and foreign ves- sels, 'Tho proportions aro more than re. vorsed since 1860. Thon two-thirds of the business was dono In American vossels. Now, nearly three-fourths is done in foreign vos- sels, In 1860 tho aggrogota tonnage of the On tho, 30th of June, 1877, it was 4,242,000 tons; and in June, 1878, it was 4,212,764 tony,—a falling-off In the year of 20,835 tons, The country has now roached au nverage annanl trade equal to $1,200,000,000, and we Liavo to employ threo foreign vessels to one Amorican to carry our own producta to mar- kot. Foreign voascls nctually come to the United States empty, in order to carry Amor- fean cotton, petrolenm, tobacco, breadstufls, and provisions to other countries. If the coat of enrrying this merchandise ba equal to 20 per cont of its value, then $240,000,000 are paid out anuually for fraight, of which forcign morchants got three-fourths and our merchanta the remainder. The navigation laws of the United States prohibit tho purchase of a forelgn-built ship; prohibit the purchase of an American-built vossol which hns once beon owned in a for- oign nation. No foreign vessol can ongage in any way in the domestic trade or consting, trodo of the Umted, Statos, Phough Amerl- can vessols have an absoluts monopoly of this domestia trade, atill tho tonnagae Inst year showed a falling-off of nearly 30,000 tons, tho new vessels mnot oqualing those wrecked and otherwise dropped out of service. While this general wrack of our currylng trade is going on, nt a loss perhaps of §200,000,000 a year, Congress cannot be tortured into a considoration of amendiog the navigation. laws, and It is evon stated that nny voto on that question will in all probability bo a party one. Our exports are nunually increasing, both in bulk ond value. Wo aro just ontering upon a mow ora in trade, adding a loug list of manufactures to the bulk and value of our exports. Old settlors in the West can recall the time whan. thoy wonld have to wait nt a Janding on the river sovornl days, perhaps a week, for o boat to carry them fo their doatination. Theshippors of Amerioan cotton, breadstulls, provisions, and manufactures would now havo to wait at our swaporis dsys, weeks, and perhaps a month, for transportation woro It not for the forcign vessels, which comae hjther to do business .which ' our laws poromp. torily forbid our doing in our own vessols, Wa danot moan to say that it is writton in tho law that no American vessols shall ba built or bo employed in tho foroign trada; butitisa fact, woll known and recognized for the last sovonteen years, that no American- bullt veasel can be built except ‘at o cost which excludes it from competing with ves- sels built olsewhero. ' Tho result is that but fow ocoan-going vessels are built in this country uuless subsidized; and the whole carrylug trado is passing into the hands of forvign ship-owners, That {s called *pro- tection” to Amerfean industry ! It i closing overy ship-yard, driving our flag from the ocean, pouring buodruds of millions of dollars’ freight money into the hands of forelgn ship-owned, and making us de- pendent; upon forsign merchants for the mesns of gettiug what wa bave to sell to market, Tho profit of ship-owniug iu in the business of carrying, American Lonor, and Awcrican dignity, and Awerican labor, it is assumod, will be outragedif an .Amorican merchant shall purchase a foroign-built steamner, chauge lhor unme, and, ralsing the American flag over hor, shall carry American coru to a forelgn market, But it is not con- sidered inconsistont with American honor, aud dignity, and labor for the same merchant to expond a like sum in foreign-made goods, ‘bring then to this country in a forefgn-built vessel, pay $100,000 for frolght toa foreizn ship-owner, and selling hisforaign.made goods in ourmarket, heve the same vesael carry back afull cargo of Awmerican provisions, paying the troight mouey to tho same foreign ship. owner, To maintain our diguity we send abroad for vessels to carry our freight; and think we save the honor which would be sac. rificed if that vessol and the freight money was owned by an American morchant, Bo completely bas the American flag been ex- cluded from the forelgn trads of our own couatry, and so completely are the foreign lives in possesslon of the carrying business that, wheupver they choosa, they can ** pool their Barnings, advanca their rates, and plun- der the producers. Breadstuffs sell abroad at the world's pricea; every cent added to the cost of trangportation is taken from the price of gmin o the Lande of the producer. o are mnow paying ocean frvights largely in advanco cf what we woald Lave to pay if the oceny . 156,010,514 0, 5! . Wo are about | had its proper supply of Amorican vesmcls. i Abolish the prohibitory Iaw. Allow Ambri. can merchants to buy ships, sall or stoam, wherever they can be had, and make them Amorican vessels, and the flag will become ngain familiar in foreign ports. Our ocean trade will go back to what it was in 1860,— American ships engnaged in carrying Ameri- can goods. Every farmer, every mechauie, every mannfacturer, evory proddeer of cot- ton, wool, potrolenm, pork, lard, bee?, and breadstuffs in the land is directly and pecuniarily intorested in free shipa and choap navigation, and yet it s said thal Jouw Roacwt, o ship-builder who is waiting 6n Providence for a subsidy, can so control the whole Republican parly in Congress ns to mako that party the protector of our in. famous navigation laws. Sometimes one letter makes & great doal of difference, as everybody knows. For example, yesterday morninz Tne TRIDUNE printed the following pacagraph: Benator Hows has & terss way of putting thinge. ‘Writing to_a friend in this city, ho sayd in a pri- ¥ato leiters WTho Mliwaokeo Iriseansin boidly naccaees mo of sapporting demonoetization: #s if 1t were aiready conceded that the silver dollar fs & felon, and therefare it only remains to prove that I am an accomnlice. 1sdmit the compileity, bat deny the felony,"” . The trouble was in the use of ad instead of an rin the word * demonetization.”’ It ought fo have heen renwnetization, The Wisconsin Benator Invokes all the responsibility there fs golng in regard to remonetization of the dollar of the daddies, but don't want any of the demone- tization business lald at his door. — No man in the United 8tates has such a good opportunity to know what other people think of hifin as the Prestdent has jnag after tssulug av annusl message. Not only do all the great men In Congress take a rattia st him, but sev- eral thousand newspapers, from Dan to Ber. sheba, comment upon what he says and what he docs not say fn the fres nad essy wsy for which the American press has becomo famous. A scrap-book contalning nl) these strictures on his poliey would help the President ‘“to sce himselt ss others seo him." Bayeth tho 8sn Francisco Kvening Buletin: 4 The Chicago merchaat bas explored all tho great Northwest, Including tho Territories of Montana, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, and oven Alaska. Now hels going to Moxico, by way of Now Moxlco wo take jt—n delegation of thirty | or forty strong—to talk about trade with that country. Thero is cnterprise for you! Did evera delegation of Han Franclsco merchauts go to Mexio, talk about increasing trade, and the Improvement of facilitica for commercial intercourra? " GRirpin, (8., Nov. 20,~7o the Editor of the Cin- cimnutf tisetia? Vleaso Inform & readcr, through yonr ‘valusbie papsr, ‘what the population of ths Ulttcs of Clneinuati, Bt Louls, and Chicako, Tespectivelr, (s, ot thisitme, Inorder to u"‘lunuhmflm the question be- inK leftto you, Yours, etc., Iavxs. fCincinnati, with near_enburbs, 400,000, Chi- cago. abuut the same, Bt, Louis, 425,000.—ED. UazeTTE.) ‘Tho printer and proof-reader often make er- rors in gettiug Ggaces into type. What the cditor of the Cazels actunlly wrote was: Cin- cinnati, with near suburbs, 850,000; 8t. Louls, about the samo; Chicago, 425,000, — e ¢ Truthfully remarks the New York Graphle: #The Philadolpbians, while they would be glad coough to strike hands with thelr New York friends, sce the storm of Indignation thatls gatheriug and threatons to sweep tho National banks out of existenco if they presume to sot themselves up as superlor to tho laws of the land. The bauks must obey Congross. The money power Is not omnlpotent in this land of ours. No one class of corporations of citizens can declare themselves exempt from the law,” e Tho Mar, Jixx ANDERRSON,—" Red-Headed Jux,”'—lhas wandered out to Nevada, and, belng hard up, telegraphs to the Porren Committeq that ho will go to Washington and tcll more Mes i€ bis faro {a patd, Why don’t Jibs-sake Lbe |- lecture fleld and makesn honest living? Every- Lody lectures who lias a speclalty, and ANDER- #0N has ono—iying, When a fellow can do thing better than any ono eléo, why docsn't ha titrn it to s profitable accountl Jie {s simply {mmense in his line. e —t——— - — . The falsehoods and misrcpresentations of & certaln unreliable Chlcsgo newspaper Las led tho Bpringficld Jlepublican to concindo that “ Hounest Jons Horrans " is ineligiblo to the office of Slierlff, because he s & defaulter. If tho Jfepublican will consult the other and moro trustworthy sources of information that aro open tolt, it will lcarn that Mr. HoFFMANN is not a defaulter, and is aircady {nstalled in tho’ oftice, and that nobody proposes to question bis right thereto. ©“Jonn Brown's body lies a moldering in the grave,’ sang a small boy on Srate street last night, when be was Interrupted by o sad yolee, saying: “Not as you knows of, young man. Maybe Jorx Bnown’a body Is in the grave, and niayba it {# on some doctor's dissecting table. Nobody can tell. Look at A, T. BTRWART."” The dismal-volced figuro disappeared i the dorkness, and the silenced singer sang no more on that solemo subject. —— g It s reported that Mra, Ilaves will step over the color llav and iavite srs, Beonator Buvcs to lier receptions at the White-House this winte®. Mrs, BRucs is cducated, refined, accomplished, and all that, snd {8 nbout as light ** comolected " as some of the upper ten of Washington soclety. But then she bas negro blood in her velns, sud blood witl teill. Tho fatr sex {s 10 a terrible way about it. —— Tt takes & letter long enough to fill a culumn in @ newapaper for Bax BurLen to tell bow, and why, and when, aud where DENN1y KmARNEY biasted bis Gubcrnatorial prospects, Daxnis can now pull off his cont, take oft his necktie, roli up his sleeves, utter a dozen oaths, sod tell his side of tho story in a tduth part of the space. ————— Leath loves & shinlox wark. One Now York Congrossman-elect died on Tuesdny nlelt, the evening of the clection, }ast as his friends were preparfog to sercnade bim, and Congressman LouiNg, of Massachusctis, sak at the death-bed of his wile instead of belug in bis seat the day Congrees convencd, —— 1t the Lexlslatura of Bouth Carolloa elcets Wabs Haxreron to the United States Bcoate out of sympathy because that mule fell on him and washed bls jex, will the mule becoms em- blematical of zoed luck in the Patmetto Btated e — As for Jo BuickuunX for Spesker, the troublo with Jo Is that he'spenks too much, A presiding officer in & dehberative body must {mvo the ruro faculty of holding his vongue, Sowetlwes Jo's tougue can't be hold. e ——— 0 the Editor uf Ths Tribuna. Ciicauo, Dee, 5,—Pleasy inform un old sub- ocriber ll?hcln 18 any preparation that will prevent the accumulstion of frost on windows duriug the coid days of winter, Brnow, Wash the izlass on the fnstde with aloohol, e —— BoutweLL was provided with someibing to o a8 3000 a3 the people sst down on nhu, and now Baxgsis to be made United States Marsbal e s —— A Yaokeo glrl who met tho Marquis of Lorne in Halifax writes howe to ber frieuds that * he is real nice,” z et~ 4 Wanus Haurprox is rapldly recoveriog from tha effects of bis last mule ride. ** Whos, Bm- wa.” ———— Everybody who ltkea & llitle fun hopes. that Mra, Jungs—*the" Jaxss~will be recalled. i Al the Canadian girls will dsuce this wioter. Princess Louiss has sct the example. i e JouxNaruonrson i I» Washisgton telling Tuuraax wust to do next. - a— = Resumption mus$ be buptized io the name of the siiver dollar, WASHINGTON. Official Instructions Relative to tha Chicago Custom-House Cases. Judge Lawrence Will Have Iix. clusive Charge of the TProsccution. Alllson’s Investigating Commit. Llee Préparing for Active Work, They Aro Sald to Mave Possession of All the Orlglnal Cipher Dispatches, Text of the Bill to Provide for the Count. ing of the Presidontial Vote, TITE INDICTED, BPECIAL COUNSEL LAWHENCR'S INSTRUCTIONS Bpectal Diwatch 1o Ths Tribuns. Wiasnsnorow, D, C,y Dec. 5.—~The fostruc. tlons given by Attorney-General Devens to Judge Lawrence, as speclal couuacl fa the Chie cago Castom-1iouse cases, aro somewhat pecul. far. Judge Lawrence fs to havo absolute charga of the case, to the exclualon, {t {s under- stood, of both Judze Bangs and Assistant Piy. trict-Attorney Thuinson. Bo far as the prose. cution goes, Judgo Lawrence 1s clothed with all tho powers of the Department of Justico, Whatever courso e may decide upon, it s rep- resented, will be satisfactory both to the De. partoent of Justlee and tothe Troasury De. vartment. Judgo Lawrencels, fn fact, to te absolute arbitrator in the matter. A special injunction that he fa sald to have recelyed is to see o It that the trial is & falr one, John Frazler, at present in charge of the con- struction of the new building for the Bureau vt Engraviog and Printing, has boen sssizned to the tempogary dutles of Buposyising Arcbilect 1o placo of 11, upervlaing-Architect FHIl to-night retatned Charles Reed as his counsel. Bome Chicass llv‘r‘yeu must bo ln need of clients, a8 i1 bas had several applications from Chlvugo frow attorneys writing to be retained. BRENTANO, X DESIMED TO BE SET RIGIHT. Special Disoatch to The Triduns WasminatoN, D. C., Dec. G—~The followin, I8 tha resolution which Represcntative Brentany had vassed to-dsy: ‘The Wanhington Post ot July 24, ed an article headed, ** Thoso Speclul —\Wno Are_ the Principal Debtorst— How the 36ith Clal 4 Passed.'" whicl ticle, charging corroption Inat members of Congrors in roference 1o the bill providing o permanent foru of governwent for the District of Columtia, con- cluded as fullows: ‘*There nze Somo ugly rumote aftoatas to the manoer in which the corruption fund, to secore the passage of tho blll, "was dispused of, ani who owner recclved 1t An indlunsnt property nyers that a Vermont Hepresontative — gos IWIY with $25,000 and o Chicagu member and 8 Maryland membar with §12, 250 aplece, and that the bulance of the fund went o the Senate Committeo. ¥ Wuzueas, The facte alleted in wald article, and the averment of an Indignant property-owner, publishod 1n sald article, canatituto o chargs of tuo ctime of sccepting B bribe by Representatlves of Congress, the punishment for which s provided for in Sec. B, of the Ntovlsed Btatutes. Witgneas, The substsnce of eaid articlo and charges contained therein hasboon telegraphed by special cotrespondents and by the Associated i'zers all uver the country, and otherwiss copied sud apEcau out by wmany nowapapers; therofore, Lesolved, That the Comniittes on Reform 1n the Civil Service bo, and 1t 19 hereby, dirccted to In- quirs into ruch charges sgaiuat cortamn members of the House, and to report at any tinie to tho Hlouse whotlier any member, especially any mem- bor from Vermont, Chtcagu, or Naryiand, 18 guiliy of any act as charged In #aid articlo of the Wash- 1ng f'ost, and the Committoe is suthorized to scud fur persons and papers, ———— PRESIDENTIAL ELTRCTIONS, mLL 70 NEQUEATE THE COUNTING OY Tia L4 b N AR A D YIVOTES. Bpectal Dirpatch to The Tribuns. Wasminoton, D €., Dec. G.—Senator Ed- muuds will call up on Monday next his bill re- ported in May last from the Sclect Commitica to take into consideration tha stato of the law respecting tho ascertalning and declaration of the result of the clections of President and Vice-President of the United States, Tho most important features of thlabill aru tho following: Brc, 4. Each State may provids, by law cnacted prioe to the day in this act named for the appolnt- ment of theclections, for the trial nnd actermina. tion of anv controversy concerning the appoint- ment of tho Electora before the fima fxed for the meoting of the Elcclors, 1n any mauner it shall deem oxpedient, and quch decision whall gavern la tha counting of the Klectoral votus. foc, U, after somo prejlminaricd, goes on to cnact that no Electoral vote or voles from auy Stale from which bat one returu hias been received shall bo rejected by tho afiruative votes of both Houser. It'more than ono l‘ulll\‘nurg r purporting to be turn (rom a Stale snall havo heen recolved by sident of the Sunate, thase volos, nud thosa only, shall be counted which shall have boen regue larly given by the Electors whu a own to bave been appoiuted; but In case the hall arise the question which of two or more of suck State's tri- bunats, dotermining what Klectors have been up- pointed, {o the lawlfal tribanal of sucn Stute, the voted rogularly glyen of those Electom, and thosw ‘only, from such Htate shall be counted whose thiles as Hioclors the two Homius, scilng sopuritoly. suall _concurrontly decide fa wnpported Dby the docision of "the tribunal of such Siate so provided for by its Legistature. And in ruch €480 Of tnore LhaR LRG FAlUFN, OF PAPr PUTPLRING tolaa recurn from & Stato, ) there shall have been nd such deterinination el the questivn tn the Btate wsnforesaid, then thuse votes, and those only, shall be counted which the two llouses, nctin: atcly, shall concurrenily deeldo o be Jawful 1 \ho legally apuotuted Electors of suclh Another fmportant feature of the biil I the sectlon whilch takes it entirely out of the power of the President of tho Senate to oxcrviso any Sudiclal authority over 1be retnrms, ‘The tellers aro to count and report, It will be remombered that Beuator Edmunds agreed with Mr. Conk- g ln upposing the jdea - that the Vice-Prest dent could couut over the votes. INVESTIGATIONS. TUN ALLISON COMMITIEH, Apeciat Disvatch 10 Tha Tridune, Wasjuxaron, D, 0., Dec. 8.—~The Allison Counniites will meet Monday, 1t' has declded to summou Anderson from Nevads, as be will certatuly contradict all tho majo points of his vrevious sostimony, oo which.the Democrats baso their case. It fathought lmiportant to r.ave htin examinea, sloce, whicther his present story be truo or wot, It destroys all b has dove for thy Democrats, 1t {s also supposed that ha Las some documeantary evidence that will prove of vonsiderable vatue. TNE CIPIKRS, ‘The story now s that the Committeo is fn tho osseasion of thoe orlginal cipher dispatches, and that they bave some cipber telegrams sent by tho Republican visitiug statcamen in Loutslang. The Republicaus bave juslsted that the only cipher dispatchics thst were sent from New Orleans related to liring parlors at the Bi. Charles Iotel, the noted Paslor P, and that tho speclal purpose of tho ciohers was to Inquire whether Ropublicans North would buay the ex- peoses. THE HOT SPRINGS PEAUD, ‘The reports charging Bengtor Conover with complicity in abstractiug the sbects of the bUL containing the ‘ot Sprioge legislation wppear to have been altogether scnsational, The Chief of the Secret Bervice Diviston denies nearly sil the polnts of the rcpost, uot ouly in regard to Conaver, but others uumed as implicated with bim. Thercvort thas Juho T. Foster was u any way responsible for the theft of the flot Bprings scction of the Sundry Civil bill is cu- tirely unfounded, Foster's name le uot men- tloned fu the report of tho ofiicers of the sccret sorvice. Foster's friends bave demandid an linmediate juvestizatioy, snd wsscrt that ihs rson who started the &tory, whom they clalo !’3 klnuw‘ will fo wady L0 suller the penaley of the lgw. ™" wiNTs 70 KNOW, YOU Know. Carter larrisou to-day sceured the adoption of a resolution calling on the Treasury for Ju- formatiou ss 1o the ugmes, salury, and’ dutles of all cuployes of the Chleugo Custow-Housw since the appolutwment of Willlaw iL Sutb. Harrison explulvg taat ho bas wo persvus! wotive for lutcoduciog this resvlution, but thab be bas dune 50 ab the surgestion of a prowioeod Tilisols State Senator, restdeot in Chlcago, who dysires luforiation for purposcs of his owi. .