Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 11, 1878, Page 4

THL CEICAGO TRIBUNE that any National bank which dirccts or per- mita its employes or officors to violate this 1aw shall forfoit the bonds deposited lo sa- cure circulation, and the bank be closed as in every otlicr caso when bonds are forfeited. Both bills are designed to compel the Na- tional banks to take the atandard silver dol. lars as rogular commercisl deposits, This tha Governmont haa the right to do, snd it will be proper to do so when it shall becomo neccssaty. Bubas yet there has beon no refusal on the part of the National banks to recognize the logal-tender character of the standard silver dollar. [Every bank will engorly sccopt them mnow becauso they are at a small premium over greenbacks, inasmuch 83 tho ilver dollars are recelvablo for duties and tho greenbacks ave not. It is true that the New ‘York Olearing-Houso, which incindes some National banks and somo private banks, has throatened to refuse, after Jau, 1 next, to raceiva the silver dollars excopt as special deposits, But it s still uncerlain that theso banks will bo able to carry out their purpose of placing this legal-tender coin in the cate- gory of uncurrent funds, Tho associnted bankers of New York may find that tho4,000 WLDNESDAY. DECEMBER. i1, 1878 i Deen that the Government has beon awindled | hronght to Treodsand Bradfond; Claveland annnally of from one-half of one cont ta one | iron taken to Belgim, and retnrned to na as cent per pound on all imported sugar; and | wronght iron, cheapor than we can make it an {his kind of trade has driven out of the | in England,” And now the bauks which business all honest importers and refiners, | havs beon carrying the manufacturers, un. the sugar trade has bocomo a sort of monop- | able to ondure the lond any longer, are suo- oly, which by ita gigantic profits under the | cumbing to the: inevitable and closing their ¢ Datch Standard " has boen able.lo control | doors. With this catastropho superadded, tho Government and nbeolutely crush nny [ losses muat increnso, and distress must be logislation looking fo reform, The fraud, | stiil further aggravated, end Lundreds moro however, has bocome too genoral nud too | of commercinl housos and matufacturing glaring, and the Becretary of the Treasury, | firma be wiped out, nnless they adopt the with the approval of tho President, hins not | only means to stop the rapid fall of the valuo only prosccuted the criminals, but has pre- | of property and the equnlly rapid riso in the aented to Congress a measuro whichwill pro- | purchasing power of gold, 8o long as En- tect tho Treasury agninst fraud, increaso the gland clings to lior infatuation for monomet- reveritio, and add nothing to the tax on the allism, ro long she must expect a rotrograde consumers of sugar, The Scerotary pro. | movement in her industry and constantly poses to tax all angars not above No, 18 one | recurring depression. When she monetizes uniform rate, two and four.tonths cants por | silvor, whonever Gormany changes her posi- pound, the sugar not to exceed 84 dogreen in tion and joina hands with E{:glnnd and the snocharine strongth; when sugar not above | Latin Union for the eatablishment of the 13 In color shall test above 04 in enccharina [ frco coinago of silvar, and tho consequont strength, then it is to pay the duty now ex- roioforccment of tho existing volume of noted on sugnr sbove 18 and not above 16, ballion in Europo, thore will bo a revival of To the ordinary citizen, who thinks that | trade, and it will ‘react upon this conatry the revenue laws ought to bo honestly ad. | With hoalthfnl efect, A volume of two hun- iministored? and that confessed and notori- | dred millions of silver poured into tho chan- —— cific Slope: At & public meeting of w: San Franclsco last wéek, Mrs. D:An n’-"l’&ea.fi there was n great scarclty of women for wiges in Idaho Territory, and she waa considering the oropriety of organizing a rellet expedition as soon ns the magnitudo of the requirement wny ascertamed, Mussachuscits, which has an e. ccas of tha fair sex, will do well to nvestigate the state of tho Idabo market. e fow in their wake, Your Turkish Prime Minister, benighted though ho be, has a way of fresing the body politic of inflammable political nebulme which might be practiced to advantags even in Tilinois had our Btate ontlying provinces whence certain persist- ent solicitors of the public bounty could ba transported. As for instance, Daman Pasha is no longer wanted at the Tarkish Capital, and ho is dispatched in an hour's notice to take & petly Governorship: in barbarous Barbary, while Hissix and Mypsra Pashas aro packed off with thair grip-sacks and pipes to fill equally irresponsible positions in other remoto parta of the Bultan's dominions. Distance may not lend onchantment to tha viewof thess saveral mushroom provincial ‘Governors, but it will, it is thought, sdd Jargely to the stability of the Central Gov- ernment, i Among the most preposterous of recent newspaper statements is one telegraphed to & Ohfeago jonrnal, to the ¢ffect that W. O Covpy, of this city, Is favorably considered na 8 candidate for the place. of Attorney- Gonoral of the United Btates, in case of Gen. Davexs' rotirement from the offico, Ar. just rovenne, They took steps to put an end to the robbery. At once they fonnd nenrly every journal of Naw York City, with- ouf regard to party afiiliation, in solid array against them. Thoey persevered, neverthe. less, and bronght the kid-glove ring to book, Bnt at every atop they were bitterly denounced, and the ringstors they wora proscouting wers lauded to the ekies ns models of porsonnl honesty and mercantile probity, by the grent press of a great city. 1t is claimed by studonts of history and political economists that a populnr govern. ment cannot in the nataro of things be main- tained nt a standand higher than the moral nud intollectunl nverago lovel of 1ts constitu. ent elaments—the poople, Thus the fall of the anciont Republics is accounted foron tha ground of the ignorance and conscquont barbarity of the masses of the people of the time, 'This ignorance and barbarity reacted upon the rulers, dobpsing mnd brutalizing them. 8o, Loo, it is insintod, that long con. tact of tho clergyman with his congregation rises or lowers hita to tho averagoe moral plane of the masa of his flack. As ho do- rives Lis support from the association or soclety, he necesaarily comes finally to ropro- Tlye Tribowe, 'ERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ' DY MATI—TN ADVANCE—TOSTAGR FREPATD, Jiatly Editien, ome year. 13 n T'arta of & Year, per mos ¥ Hntny Ko Litera P {5 fith 53 spectmen coptes aent free. i Farurdny EAliion, iWeIve DRRR. Ive Post-Utlice sddrem 16 fafl, facluding Btate and WEEKLY EDITION Ona copy. per yesr. i Guar. . “ Hangman® Foore, who {s now brought for. ward as a mint-julep for New Oricairs, ot the tiickname fastened on him by teling Josuy ¥, HALE In the United States Senate, In i'roSlay. ery days, that {f he would coma to Misatesippg ho would be hung higher than HasMan for hls Abolition sentiments, Hence * Mangman Foors. ttances may be made elther by draft, express, Tost-Office onler, or In remistered letter, af our risk, TERMA TO CITY SUNSCRIDERA. Dy, delivered, Funday excepted, 23 cents per weak. . Dally, dritvered, Sunday Inciuded, 30 cents ner weeks Aduress THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madlson and Dearborn-sta., Chieago, Tl Orders tor tho delivery of Tz X% ot Kyansion, Englewood, sud Hyde Park teft fn the counting-room wilireceive prompt a 23 —— A promfnent Soutbern Democrat sags thore 1y 10 use In putting IIENDRICKS on tho ticket |n 1880, because Indiana Is sure for the Democracy In any event. Besidas, If TiLoRN 1s bounced somo New York man must get tho second plnce on the ticket in order to save the Empire State, Dad reasoning as regards both Indiana and New York. — : Read this from the Clncinnat! Gazette: ive feel moved to say that WiLLiam Hesnr Sy, Collector of Customs at Chicago, 18 not poputar with the clasaof mon who think it right to “TmR CHICANO TRIGUNX hus estahlished branch offices or the recelnt of subscriptions and sdvertisements as ollaws: Room 29 7ribune Bullding. ¥.T.Mo avvex, M 3 TARIS, No. 10 Itue da1a Grange-Dateltere, 1. Manen, Agent. L0 Eng.—American Exehangs, 49 8trsad | Goppy's only olaim npon the consideration of 4 1a of trade in England would speedily ro- | sent its prodominant sontimont, It: this | BWindie the Govornment. ‘This Is the Lighest F, or 5,000 bankers throughont the country, | ous frauds ought to be broken up and pre- | nela of trade in England wonld sp ly v predominant aontiment. 1 A FRANCIACO: Sabe a Ropublican Administration must be sought | ;oviot - onq private, will nf;t aid them in this vonted, tl.\luml;zul will of oourse commend | vivo hor indusirics and roliovo tho distreas of | moral assimilation does not take place, the compliiment t be_recorded on tosaldaof’ My, 0 in the fact that, as a Demoorat, he was moat Buieite Who s an Ohlo man, offioient in defeating the Democratio party in this State, It la not at all likely that the Democrafs conld have carnod lllinois at the late election, with or without Gounx; but it fu certain that he folsted so outrageous a platform upon the party that it meado the Democratic dofeat more humiliating than it would have been otherwise, While he did the Ropublican party some sarvics in this way, wo can scarcely think it will be re- garded as of sufficient importance to be re- warded with n Oabinet position. Desides, Mr. Gounr is notoriously the **Fiat"” candi- date for Senator fn this Biate, snd wonld probably refuse to socept office at the hands of any othor political organization, attempt. They may not be able to run coun- tor to publio opinion, which will recognize and enforoe the commercial employmont of the silvor dollars; the banks wero not able to exclude the groenbacks when thay were dopreciated far below any rate to which the silver dollars oan be forced, They may dis- cover that their proposed discrimination will simply oparate to dopreciate the value of tho silver dollggs, and that they (the bavkers) will bo the chiof sufforers from such deprocia- tion, since in that event thoir dobtors would nlways tender them silvor dollars in payment of their notes and discounts. It will not be surprising, thon, if the New York bonkers shall voluntarily relinquish their purpose of discriminating against the standard silver dollars; and, 1n view of this contingency, it will bo as well for Congress to defer action until after tho holidays, when it will soon be- como apparent what the National banks in- tend to do about this matte: THE BUGAR BUBINESS. The taxation of sugar by Congress of Into yoars has boon one of Ihe most monstrous abuses perpetrated by our monstrous tariff. Every effort to reform it, every attempt to modify or purify it, has been defented by a majority in Congress too ignorant or too corrupt to disturb the notorious fraud per- petrated under the namo of patriotism, Atlast the frauds have become too glaring to permit the Government to ignore them any longer, 80 an attempt to roform the law has ronsed an excitement of the most intonas character. There has never been a time in the’ his. tory of this Government whon thers was not o duty on imported sugar. Though the Bouth was always opposed to protection, the interest of tho sugar-planters was nlways sufficient to insure a tax on sugar. For the better understanding of tho prosent extraor- dinary controversy on tho sugar question, a brief statement of the past history of the sugar tax mey ba interesting. In 1789 sugar was taxed, brown, raw, or clayed, 1 cont per pound, and loaf or candy, 8 cents per pound. These rates wore increased in 2701 to 1§ and 6 cents; in 1705, to 2} cents and 9 cents; and dnring the war with Great Brit- ain to 5 cents and 18 cents per pound. From 1816 to 1824 the olassification was en-' largad, and the ratos were as follows : Brown,: raw, or brown clayed, B conts per pound; loaf or candy, 12 cents; lump, 10 contsj white clayed, 4 conts, Theso rates continued substantially until the Whig tariff of 1842, when the rates wore itsolt highly, But the potoncy of a mo- her oparntives § but so long as slhie cherishey nopoly, in tho possession of tho moans of | her infatuation for the gold atandard, with fraud, Whoroby millions of dollars are made | gold constantly growing denrer, she must annuslly, 1s immoenso, and the monopoly will sffer fmx? heor folly as sho i llou}g novw, and never surrender without a struggle, It has | Witnoss still further shrinkages in the valuo already enternd the battle, and thasngarlobby, | of property, and still further deprossion in standing firmly by the **Datch Standard,” | the conditions of hor industrion. will in all probability defeat the bill or any THE NEW cmm“‘.'nonn bill having for its purpose an honest collec- The first regular meoting of d,, new tion of tho duties onsugar. It i8 a remark- County Board makes it pretly certain that able fact that sugar-denlers in Now York | yhq Ropublican majority will bo abla to act who insist so strongly on rotaining tho | \o00hor harmoniously, and that their power +Dutch Btandard " naver buy o sall 8SZAT | oi){ b uged in the intorest of roform snd ro- by that standard, ‘Thoy know that it | yonahmont, Their prompt discontinuance fa of no value, either as & tosti,rypg pxies allowancs to Bexron on tho of quulity or valuo of sugar. “They | ok gontract is probably the best evidénce sdopt in thelr businoss the polariscope | ot oonld Lo demanded that the old Ring to test the strongth of the sugar, just as the has baen smashed. After tho new membors Secrotary of the Tronsury Tow Proposes | y,05mg familiar with tho county servico and shall bo done in order to reach its taxablo | oir oy duties, it s probable that thoy value, It romains to bo seen whether | oy gigeovar mony opportunities for saving honesty and justico on the one hand or the monoy instend of creating opportunitics for sugar-rofiners on {ho other will bave the gponding it. In tho moantime, howover, greatorinfluenco with Congress, 'Therecom- | y),0u ¢hould not ollow thomselves to bo be- ‘ mondation of the Heoretary of the Treasury Dbotrayed into incousiderate sction by n pre- atrikes directly at the root of the orime, and, | yo;z6'in favor of retrenchment on the part of bacause it docs so, the whole sugar interest some of the old mombers who ware is in arms againstit; and it is quostionablo conspleuously identified with the Ring. The whether Congress will bave the cournge and allowanco to the Sherlff for the dioting of the intelligence to stand by the Treasury and prisonors {a n caso fn polnt. Tho allowarico an honeat collection of tho revenus, or take | 4\ o qp i Kooy was 85 conts; and whon the sids of the monopolists, who can well | 1y quostion came up it was decided by the offord to spend 820,000,000 to defont the | gounge Aptornoy that It conld mot bo bill. The people have bocomo restive under changod during his torm without his consont; these frauds and rovenuo swindles, and | s yine g the law o yeor ago, it ia tho law sorutinize closely the votes of Reprosonta- | ;o0 gugt befors tho late election the tives on all these billa, The passage of this fxod allowance 1 roduca the prico of sugars largely, withoub | yro wony had, This wesand is rogardod a8 lucransing tho tax, snd it should bo passod. | whout tho right figure, and it will enabla the r S present Sheriff to diet the prisonera decent~ The fl“;’fi EN| mamsml:fix& spont its 1y ; the margin of profit nt that figure will fury in this country and left €0 many wrocks ba gmall, if noy, aod at lanst 810,000 or in its path, has strck England with oven sl:&"m & year 11"“ t!n;m that “‘"j"’;‘;ld by lhhi groater forco, carrying down many grent | Predecessor. cn view o 9 ag institutions boforo it, and superinducing o | that the Shoril's salary is ::l‘“'“'“d in - wido-spread pania in capital nnd distress in | B8 legal and other p‘"fl‘; cxponsts Inbor, The crash of tho City of Glasgow | EO"ing out of the offcs, much an Bank, with o doficit of $85,000,000, has been allowance will not afford him mora than a lolla"nd by that of the Bouth Wales Bank roasousble compensation for the mervicos and its branches, involving 317,600,000more nnd renpol_:ulbmllol nttachod to tho position. and scores of lim’wy” ‘meroantile hiouses, T | T 20.000st to seduce it to 18 conts, which la toppling over of thzese largo concorns has vrged by two ot :hr]mxmembem of ":“ old induced a foeling of popular diatrust whiock Board who formerly insisted upon maintain. now threatens to end in & genoral yun upon ing the excoasive allowance of 85 cents, or all the banks. As an incident, or rathor ag nearly twice ss much, is either spite work or one of the indiract causcs of this financial unmado n the hope that thoso same mom- disordor, the falling off in exports s signifi- bors can bring tho new Bheriff to tarms, asit relation is eventuslly snndored, Theso fllustrations furnish a solutfon to the extrsordinary courso of the Naw York pross in the kid-glove frauds. New York is cssontinlly o morcantilo city. Its morchant princes make and give tone to its society. They sustain its highor educational institn- tions and its fnstitutions for the promotion of tho arts and sclecces. They support and give character to itschurchos. Thoy replon- ish the treasury of its charitable institntions. They aro the heart and soul of Now York, Withont them Now York City would be noth- ing; with them it is tho commerclal and finaneinl motropolis of the country. By virtue of this supremacy the merchants of Now York havo become hauglty and arro- gant; and it is no now thing for men puffed up by vanity to assume to defy and attempt to override both moru! and statuto laws. As Now York City owoes everything to this olnss of ils citizons, so tho pross owes ovorything to them, and s responsible to thom. It is not surprising that it seoks, eagerly, inspiration from them, If, thon, the merchants implicated in the lato kid-glove frauds are fairly ropresontative of tho gront merchanta of Now York, na a class, thefr appeal to tho press was bound to beo heeded. In there any doubt on this point? Boarcoly. Tho house of A, T. Srewant & Co. stood ot the head of the list of coutost- ants in the kid-glove controversy, snd we liave the word of the New York press that oll tho other houses implicated are highly respoctable. Judge Hivton took the lead in bitter denunciation of all the officials con- nected with the kid-glova seizuros, and the press followed suit with great alacrity. Wo find, thon, that the pross of New York doca not creato public opinion, but accopts it ready-made.at the hands of tho chiof class of tho community where thoy nre published. There is another ronson for tha dosire of Now York morchants to ovorride both moral and statute laws in this connection. Now York City has lost largo blocks of its jobbing trado; it has also lost s largo sbare of the export trado of the country, Theso losses nre sovercly folt, not only by the meroantile community, but by the ropresentatives of all the yast interesta centorlog there, ‘This focl- ing..of irogrel and .chngrin- naturallyicom<: municatos itself to the press. Ilence both press and peoplo unito to protect to the ut. most the importing intorest. -In this strong dasiro o rotain oxclusive control of the for- clgn Import trado may be found tho socret of the ardent, passionate defonse put forth in AMUSEMENTS, ————— The fellow who shot himsel! at Janesville the other day because bls lady love wouldn't name the wedding Jday took a new departuro from other Jove-stricken Iunatiea. Otherwise he would have shot the object of his mfections, The new rule is the better one. It cures cases that need herole treatment. ——— 1t Brx Burner takes charge of the Demo- cratic forces ns thelr loader, as has been sug. wested, it wiii be nice for those newspapers who have called him * The Beast,' and other choice epithets {amiliar to the Bourbon vocabulary, to eat their words angd extol their chief In respect- ful language. MoVicker's Theatre. i Madeon street, hetween Dearborn sad State. ‘A Double Life." Afternoon snd eveaing. Ilnverly’s Thentre, Denrborn street, comer of Monroe. Engagement of ihe Uniun Square Combsny, *‘Motber snd Son.™ Af- ‘ernoan aud eventng, etween Clark and LsSalle, En- gagement of Efle Kllsler, **A Heroine in Rags.” Af- ternvon a eventai. Academy of Susle. . Halsted street, between Msdison and Monros, Va tlety vntertalotuent. Afternoon snd eveniog. Iamlin's Theatre. Clark street, oppositate Court-House, Engagement of Sam Devere. **Juspor.” Metropolitan Theatre, Clark street, opposlte Bhermaa House, Varlsty en- fertstument. Afternoon and evening, Art. No. 05 Washington atreet. Loan Kxhibition of the Clleago Soclely of Decorstiva Art. pAeldaidiasli bl S oy and eveninx. SOCIETY MEETINGS, X | e, ., 371, Ao X .~ Regnl ra 4 oM "(’)‘EO.IEO‘ UAIIB}?BH. W. Mo ——— There has been an Increase fn tho arrival of emigrants iu Now York the present year as com. pared with tho two previous years. For cleven mouths the present year the number s 72,000 fn round numbers, sgalnst 52,000 for the ssme period Isat year, and 65,000 the yesr before, e —— ‘The passage in the Banate yesterday of a _bil to authorizo the appointment as Assist- ant-Surgeon in the United States Army of Dr, Juxtus PoweLy, who served in the Con- federato army when a minor, was secured by the aid of six Republican votes,—of which all bat three wera those of Bouthorn Sena- ators whose terms oxpire with the present nonsion,—togethier with the absence of Re- publicans who would have been likely to have voted sgoainst a measurs desigued to open the door to a removal of the disabilities imposed by law upon all persons who joined in the attompt to destroy the Union. 'There may have been wspecial reasons for making an exception of tho case of Dr. Powrzy; but that the precedent is an unsafe one is shown by the announcement of Ar. Brox, of Kentucky, 'in the. course of the debate, of bis intention to submit a bill for the ropeal of that section of the Revised Btatutes which prohibita the appointment to sy position in the srmy of tho United States of any person who served in tho Rebellion in apy oapacity, The people who survive the war for the proservation of the Union are not yet prepared to see tha army officered by the men who fonght on the other side. ‘The Washington correspondent of the 8pring- field Reepublican says that “If Brarxs could incet every voter fn tho United States, personal- ly, for two minutes e¢ven, ho would bo the next President, undoubtealy.” All very true, no doubt; but then you know ho can‘t. . sl Iy Invited. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1878. sl i es S iR e s A B Greenbacks at the Now York Stock Ex- chnngo yesterday closed ot 993, L e ——— ‘The Boston Herald’s Washington correspond. ent predicta that the Sonato will pass aud that tho Prestdent will sizn an obnoxious Texas Pacific Subsidy LIll, and that the House wiil not stand up ogainst the scheme. £t will tuke obous. $200,000,000 to do the business. e —— ‘The law’s delay s well (lustrated by a case in France, whero a sult about a pleco of woodland, clatmed by different mombers of the same fam. ily, was in court fifey-six years, at an expense of $13,000 costs. o —— Boms cute girl has found out how old the Princess Loutsn fs. Bhe first discovered that she was two years younger than LorNE, and then she swent for him; and found he was 33, —— t The complotion of tho recount of the votes on the Court-Housa bond proposition rhows that the moasuro was carried by a ajority of 1,351, about the samo that was at first returned as having been cast against it. Thero iu consolation in tho improved prospect that the monoy realized from the salo of bonds will be honestly expendod. An important changoe in Chicago's outside havbor is described olsewhere ip this paper, It contemplates a material addition to tho area originally designed to be inclosed by the Government breakwater, besides admit- ting of an entrance at tho south end of tho pier. It has been approved by the Board of Engineers, and the suthority to proceed at voce with the work is expeoted to arrive n‘haruy‘ 1t 1sn't often that A wman celebrates hls elec- tion to the United -Btates Senato by having hie leg awnputated. But many a fellow would give lils best leg for o scat In that body. - —— TWO SILVER BILLS IN CONGRESS. Two bills bearing upon the status of silver in this country have alresdy secured s ma- jority vote in the National House of Repre~ sontatives, though falling in the ncceasary two-thirds for the suspension of the rules re- quired for their passage at this timo. This is 8 protty sure fndication that they will be ndopted by the House at lonst when thay shall be regularly reported by the proper committees. DBoth bills are in the right di- raction, with the differenco that Mr. Doum- nax's—providing that the Government ro- Slver showed its strength fn the House un Mounday lu o way to warn the gold-bugs. Let thew read the signs of the times and beware. sdegplatstleichasianiy If the Ameer should stand ercct on his feet ke a yuag, aud pog Jle down on bis belly Itke s trioglug dog, he would be able to talk becter. e— s The late J. B, ManTiN, of Milwaukee, left property to the amount of $1X),000, and his will witl not be contested. A strong cavo for the uusenting of Burrxs us United States Sonator from South Caro- linn is mndo out in tho report of Senator Caurroy, of Wiscousmu, reprosonting the views of the majority of tho Senate Com. mitteo on Elcctions. It is shown that Con- e —— A motto for Judge Lawnsxce: *Let no culity man escape.” 3 . charged they did tho former Sheriff. il " olovti deem the trade dollars in standard silver dol- | changed to 2}, 0, 6, and U conta per pound, | cant o8 showing the mlarming rapidity with | o bohalt of the kid.glove ring by the com- — B e o e o e~ | are--should be assod at once, whilo Mr, | respeciivaly. ~Undsr tho taril of 184G, com | which the English trado s diminished in | o 208 of tho sow mombets s favor of | 1jog pross of New York Gity, It s o POLITICAL, hich asamed to dlect Duzten hod not u | Foar's, compelling tho National banks o re- | mouly called tho freo-trade tarif, the duty | tho four years following 1873, In 1674 the | o lha};ld Ting mmh“{ Yo gratify thir | ¥Totohod spectaclo of the domination of oo, coive the atandard dollars on deposit, may bo | was 80 per cent, andin 1857 was reduced to | falling off wns $78,032,410; in 1875, $158,- 2 Y . legal quortun and was not a legal body. In tho light of such facta it is expectod that the Republicans of the Senate will voto to sus- tuin the position taken by the Committeo und unseat Burnen, e —r— ‘I'he failuro of justico through its regular channels to adequately punish orime and protect socioty waa tho inciting cause of an application of Lynch-law in Nebraska City, Neb, Two men, unmistakably gnilty of murdor nod raps, were by a petit jury biougbt in guilty of murder in the second degres, and the Court had no altornative but to impose n sentenco in nccordanco with the verdiet, which was imprisonment for life. Pue verdict was rotwrned into court at 10 w'clock Monday night, aund at 2 o'clock yos- terdoy morning the prisoners wero takon from the jnil and hunged to a tree until dead. It was 8 case of violent interforence with the foring of law provoked, if not justified, by a failure of the law, and, while the means are 10 be deploted, tho result is eminontly sat- Isfuctory. avarico over the consciences of men. And it tonds to conflrm the thoory of tha political econaomists that the prous, liko the rulor and the clorgyman, too ofton reflacts rathor than toaches. Epeetal Dispaich 10 The Tribune. CrrereniTyy’ O,y Dee. 10.—John O'Connor, Inte ‘membes of the Oblo Lexislature, who was found gullcy tast woek In the United Btates Court of foruing an’ afldavit fa support of u claim for & peusion, was to-day sentenced to one year's imprisonment in the Montromery Couuty Jall at Dayton, the lightest peaulty the law could Infict. O'Counor was Chalrioan of the Miltary Committes in' the Ohlo House last win- ter, and was the author of the bill tocripple the Holdlers! Orphans’ Home at Xenla carly in the scssion, Conclusive proof was produced to sbow that be wasan ex-Penitentiary convict, a deserter, a bounty-jumper, and & per- urer, His case was taken tn hand )y » Democratic Committee, but, as his vote was necessury Lo sccurs the passago of tue Congressional gerrymander aud other parti- san (nessuires, hio was retafncd do his seat uutil tha close of the sesslon, whea be was fguominl- ously expelled. O'Convor thinks the Demnoc- rucy have not treated bilm fairly, and there are wany who egrec with him, ——— ILLINOIS, Special Dipatch 10 The Tribuns, SruwovweLp, Ik, Dec. 10.~There fs verv Jittle that 1s new fu tho Bonatorid! ight, Politi- clans figuro Logau's voto lu the caucus ws ranglog from U1 to 60 votes, John Baker, of the Seventeenth District, at prescat Minlster 10 Venezucls, looms up-ss & dark horse, aud s developing considerable local atrength, which malice ; nor should it prompt them to take any unronsonabls or unjust action. The watter is now before a speclal committeo, sud it should be decided oo its merita withont any consideration for o pretonse in favor of economy which comes from men whosa votes and fu- fluence in the paat have Leen on the side of extravagance ; tho sudden conversion ofsuch fellows is of itsolf & suspicious circumstance. A reduction of 83 per cent has alrendy boen made in the Bherifi’s allowance, and that is retrenchment enough to start- on, unless the formor allowance was downright robbery. THE NEW YORK PRESS AND THE XID« GLOVE RING. 24 per cent. In 1801, raw brown sugar was taxed 2, and thon 2} cents, aud while sugar 2} and 8 conts. Up to 1870 the old classifi- cation was continuned, tho respective rates being 8} and 4 cents per- pound. Then, in the acts of July and Decomber, 1870, was fully inaugurated the era of wholesalo fraud. Thon for the first time was placad on the statnte-book [n foll what is known as the “Dutch Standard,” and the sugar tarifl be- came the complicated thing it now iz, Here is the clasaification, with thewatoss regardod as promaturs, and will not suffer {rom delay, The proposition that the Covernment shall exobango the ataudard mlver dollars for the trade dollars, and recoin the latter, is so obviously fair and proper, that there slouald be no difforonce of opinlon sbout it. The trade dollar in jts present condition is a bastard coin, It way provided for in the Coinage st of 1873, when the coining of the standard dollar was dropped. By that act it was made, along with other sgilver coing, legal-tender to the amount of $5, but subse- quently even {ts imitod logal-tender function was taken from it. In the meantime nearly §30,000,000 of this coin had beon emitted ; o large portion of that smount found their way to Chins, but probably $6,000,000 or $7,000,000 had come into cirounlation in this country. As tho woight of the trade dollar is 420 grains, or 7} gralns more than that of the standard dollar, it was readily takon by tho people at par, in ignorsnoce of the fact that it was not & legal-tender coin ; but mub- sequent exposuro of this fact caused ite rojection by tho banks and others that had beon instrumental in its distribution, and it naturally depraciated to ita bullion value. 493,200; in 1870, 8272,626,095; in’ 1877, 882,167,650, or a total decline in four years Of §701,320,265. Without stop- ping to inquiro into the causes of thls tremendous deficit in| English indus- try, suoh na the tariff, forcign com- potition, abundant and cheap labor clsewhore, etc., the results are more important, for it is with these that England must deal. In the past two yoars there has been a general reduction of wages amounting to sbout 20 per cent, and this reduction is atil} going on in corresponding proportion to the continually retrograding movement of trade. In the ocotton trade bundreds of mills have been closed, and those in oporation are only running on two. thirds timo, Tho manufacturers are scll. ing their goods nt s loss, and, says the Jull. fonlst, **it the wholo world came to buy at prosont prices, it would only bankrups the "inasters the more speedily.” 'Fens of thou. annds of operatives are out of work, and in many large towus thoy are threatened with dostitution, The iron trade is undor the same dopression, and fu & great mauufscturing centro like Shefield workmen sre on the point of starvation, and public meetings are Some of the women iu Ban Franclsco of the fomale-suffrage order agrco with Dennis Keanyer that the Chfonmun must “go.” Ata meeting of this kind of persons the other day it was thought best * to link the question of fe- male suflrage with the popular azitations of the day," and the Chinese projudivo waa thought to present & good opening. A Mra. Sxow sid Henator BARGENT had been as efllcient in Cun- gress tn favor of woman's rights *‘as auy old woman,” Another ludy sald shie colncided with the views of the last spesker on the pollcy of violcnt agitation, [fit wore necessary, to en- force s proner appreciation, of the rights of women, to blow up Chinatown sud every China- man in it, thonlet 'ein be blowed. A Mrs, Diaks sald she favored the expulsion of the Chiucse in some Way, evon If It becatne neceasary to deslu- cate them and open a cauned-goods trade with tho Marquesus Istands, There was a timo when 1abor was considered respectable In this coun- ry, but thls tnvasion of Asfatic slaves bad ren- dered lsbor disrcputable, and pareots now edu- cated thelr cbildran how not to work, fustead of trofulng them for lives of honest (ndustry, Now that the womon have got after hiw, Loo Centa peridb. 1. Al augar not above No. 7, Dutch Standa; All suyar above and not above No, . ‘Allaugarabiove No. 10and natabovs 4. All surarabove No. £ and notabave T All sukarabovo No. 10 aod not abor 4. All sugar above Nu, 20,. This was a classification nccording “Dutch Standard,” and it may be pertinent to czplain fust what the * Dutch Standard"” ‘The following is an oficial explanation : When the new yagars from Java and Batavis arnive in 1folland, the Board’of sworn sugat- brokers i ltotterdam sssemble and take aa of the different y ‘Wo gave place a fow days since to a com. munication from Philadelphia signed ¢Mer- chant,” severcly arraigning the press of New York Oity for its attitude towards tha lato prosecution of kid-glove importers by cus- toma ofiiciale, The writer contrasts the praiscs Iavished nupon Secretary of the Treas- ury Bustow by Now York journala in 1875, for his proaecution and punishment of the whisky ringsters, with thelr lute assaults upon Troasury and other customs officials for their course in forcing the corrupt kid. It is only a quostion of time when the people of the Houths aball discovor that it docsn't pay to be quite so ** solid,” and that unbroken Democratic Is purchased dearly at the Board of Hrokers, and numbe: and 23, ‘'fhey are thea preserved inam bottlos and “carefully sealsd wilh the sworn f Cuoo way as well puck up and be oif. 1s very distasteful to tho Logan cruwd here- s ¥ " Again tho hope of & rocoguition or re- | Lroksre' sesl. When tho sen aretionsara | now beld to raise relief for them. Iu the | glove hnporting ringsters to the ‘"u~u Ho % —p_’—_ abouts, as thuy hiad expected thut Jobn would tho prico of poaco, socurily to private and demption by tho Government gave it an in- |I:..m at l‘l‘nxtu.du:. :‘:'I’.,“‘.,‘,‘J o fr"l"gx'-':-fi: coal districts tho condition of industry ia no | declaros traly that, in the former case, ** the Assingular as ft may seem, It {6 true, never- | CATTY the southera Dart of the Btats without political righty, and good government gen. A aree tha Sle Witk the croasod valuo over mere bullion, and so it Liss beon and still is a coin of undotermined valug, and consequently & disturbiug ele- went’ in the currency to tho extont that it oxista, ‘The proposition that the Covern. went shall exchange standard silvor dollars for the outatauding trade dollars is a simple mensure for recoinage, which i tho usual courss for retiring sny irregular coina that oro outstanding. Both the Government and tho people will bo the gainers by this pro- ceas, 'The Governmont will enjoy a seign- forage of a fow cents on overy dollar thus recoined, and st the samo time the peoplo will socure in exchbange a coin that will ciroulato at par. We caunot concoive of any valid reason for opposition to this meas- uro; publio justico and publio polity alike suggest it ‘Thoe only hestile oriticlsm that ought to be made oni Mr. Forv'd resolution {s that it may be premsture sud unnecossary, The principles of the bill areright and commend- ablo, but it is still & question whether their assertion in the form af legislation will be required. If not, then it will be useless to increass the dimensions of the statute-books to that extent. Mr. Fomt's r¢solution pro- vides uimply that the 412§ grain silver dol. lar be waiutained, that no bank shall be per- mitted to discriminate agsinst it, and that any National bank which sball be desermed {0 Liave deficd the United Btates law shall bave its chartor forfeitod. 'The resolution was suggested by the recent action of the Now York Clearing-Houss. Mr. Buzcmaap bas introduced a bill somewhat more elab- orate. His bill providus (1) that it shall be unlawful for the Nutional baocks to refuse lcgul-tender ooins st par is exchange for United Ktates notos or National bank notes, or to refuse taking such ocoins on deposit; (2) that a fing of from $100 to $1,000 msy be levicd upon any cashier, teller, clerk, or officer who violutes the formersection ; aud (3) Knglish language hardly furnished adjectives sufliciently stroug to merve the combined Now York press as donunclations of the wicked distillers,” whilo iu tho latter in- atance of o eimilar fraud committed by the kid-glove fmportors tho columns of these same journals ‘' aro open only to dofend the unserupulous, to decvive the publie, and to abnge aud vilify boneaty,” *‘Merchant ” con- cludes that it sakes n vast difforenco as to the ownerip of the ox that is gored. In the ono caso, GCovernment - of- ficlals pssaulted rovenue thivves in the Westorn States; In tho other, the awaults foll upon defraudors of the rev- enuo in tho City of Now York. ** Merchant's " arralgument is strictly jost. In the kid- glove controvonly which onded in the dis. comfiture of the rlng, the press of New York City, with the oxception of one or two journals, was found solid on the side of the rogues and against the prosecuting officials. ‘I'bo offielals, from the highest to the lowest, were denounced uusparingly, and the crooked kid-glova jmportors were sustained and can- ouized aa martyrs to tho' extortion of the Qovernment, ¢ Merchant " does not 80 much as suggest a vosson for.this extraordinary attitude of the New York press, Thers must, however, be some speclal reason for it, some cxtenuating circumstances. 1t is not to be presumed the New York press championd s bad cause from pure loyo of evil. It is not often that the press of a great city is found solidly opposed to an iwportsnt reformatory measure of ctvil administration. 'The preus sy be blinded by partisanship; but in the caso under discussion no partisan consideration could poasibly enter into the contest. The proposition was purely one of honest reveuuc-collection, T'he I'reasury and customs officials found, upoa indubitable evidenco, that tho Governwent had for yean) been systematically robbed’pf u portion of s N any uppusitivn, WISCONSIN, fpectal Diapaich o The Tribune, MiLwAuxEs, Doc 10.~-At the November elee- tlou a tio voto was cast oo Asssmblymsn in the Eleventh District of this county, cunsisting of the Towns of Lake, Qak Crevk, und Frauklin. ‘thils rendered a special election necessary,which took place to-duy, The same csudiuates con= tested. ‘Lho returns thus far recelved jndlcate that W, W. Johnson, Republican, bas & major- ity of the votes cast’ aver Lin Democratic ov- ponent, J. E. Kgun, fhsinpe NOTHING MEAN ABOUT IRWIN. Boeclal Disweich te The Tribune. Yankron, Dak, Doc, 10.—Aun ludisn To- spector bus taken charge of Red Cloud Agency, and 18 {ovestigaging Dr. Irwin, tue Agent, Irwio was the head-centro of the element coucernod Iu the removal of the Iodians fnto the {nterior, Hesides Irwin's opposition to the policy of tbe Ioterlor Department, he fs charged with tbe -muat reckless management Lo the sale of rations aud annulty guods, ‘The past year he peruitted tho lodiaus to cut open sacks of foar for the sacks, ond leaye the Sour on the ground. He {ssued 50 much corn that su’ eye-witness claline thero wers BU0 bushels strewn about on the prairie at. ovoe thme The cconomical Indiuus had four to scll for 50 ceuts S g T Sty (brew ik of wivter the s Bl threw ni cu uttatue 9 3 mha'xl:t‘ln the lm.efl{zf of IMnm He ::y_- able to cuinau su| o reseptations thut che h‘:d-l-ml were wfiw«l w be bpstile, PACIFIC_MAIL-MATTERS, 84x FRaxeisoo, Dec, 10.—The United Btates Graod Jury falled to indict 8. B. Andersop, late Postmaster of 8an Jose. The testimany showed that the Govermnent lost no moaey through Anderson’s operstions in routing the promises. Owing ta the cootrestors failing to perforw the service betweun Prescott aud Hardyville, Arizona, a ton of mall-matter has accwmulated at the Prescott offlce. Owliog to the fallure of contractors vu the route between Ebreoberg sud Slgusl and Sliu- cral Purk, over thrck tous bave aceumuluted ut Elreoberg, fucludivg mauy regtstesed lelters botter. Bays one correspondent: **Evory- thing is going to ruin, trude rarcly improves in winter, and it may be considered cortain that affairs will be much worse in January than vow, Everythingseoms to point to the Delicf that the coming winter will see worio trudo and greater distresa amoung tho unein. ployed than has been known before in the presont goueration,” The divpatchos which cowo from day to day confirm the gloomy forebodings of this correspoudont written savers! wecks ago, England is passing through the same ruinous process of uncovering from which we hovo just emergad, with more disastrous reaulis to her, however, since she is a manu. facturing country, aud the blow has fallon directly upon this brauch of industry, When tho shrinkago of values commenced in this country uftor 1873, and money spprecisted and property deprociated, hundreds of prominent business houses aud banks wero oxposed Lo the binst and went to ruin uatil Lundreds of millions of dqllars were in. volved in Lankruptey. England is passivg through the same ordeal, but has only half tho distance to traverse, though tho distress is koener. In this country we bave had to contend with the depreciation of paper money since the War, involving a wiping out of 80 por cout discount in greenbacks, snd with the apprecistion in gold since the pawje. Eugland is sufforing ouly from an ‘approciation in gold. It has lowered tho prices of evory nrticle of fudustry. It los forced the price of lubor down to the starvation point. It bas deslroyed the value of property, aud, while It has crowded the producer to the wall, bo hes still boon undersold in all directions, A contributor to tho London fincs says: *¢Wae sce Amorican and Belgian cotton goods sold in Mauchester' and Londou; foreign cutlery imported into Bheflield ; ironmongery to diaainghun ; worsted snd woolen goods crully, A few such inatances as that related in our Washingtou dispatches will teach the lesson thero ks wuch a thing as being ** too ununimous,” This was a caso where foreign cupital was debarred from making heavy in- vestuionts in the timbor regions of Alabama * o account of the well-authonticated Infor. mation which hias reachie:d tho moveyed men of Europe regarding the mauner in which tho Bouth has repudiated the moral obliga. tion to ruciprocate the policy of reconoilia- tion nud good-will ndopted by President Haves. thelews, that in a populsr play recently on the boards st one of. the theatres lu this cty, tho only woman {n the cast who was portrayed by the suthor as absolutely viclous and immoral was the only one of the company who was tho reciplent of foral gifts, A charitable fricud suggzested ut tho timo that the applause and the bouguets wers intended a8 compliments to hier superfor acting, aud not as sn.judorsement of the fuberent ‘‘cussednuees” of her part from sn ethical staundpolnt. g 40le Virglnny” ts exclted because Judge Rives, of the United Btates Court, bas declded” that a negro has the rigbt to have colosed men a8 a part of the jury that tries blm, it be shall 80 vlect, Buch & decision is naturally repuguant to the VAjzinian intollect, and they want Coo- Eress to psss & Juw inore fu barmooy with the lato ChlefJustice Tanxy's Daxp Scorr de- vislon, to-wit: that **a ucgro bus no sights which a white mau {3 bound to respect,” At a wet supper §n bouor of McCuiLovan, the tragedian, in Washlugtou the ather ulght, it 13 sald that Bramsm and Bracxsumy, juafit of bllarlous exeiteiuent, bugged each otber un- il th entire crowd of spectators wept tears of patriotlc joy. The twy B's bridzed tho blooay ¢hasw, and the Bioody Bbirt and the Red Bhist are lu untsou. Let us Bave peace. e — The Btate debt of Virgluls, now over $30,- 000,000, has bucome so burdeusome that tiera i3 serfous talk of sbolishing toe pubdlic schools and leaviog the matter of education to private enterprise or to the action of tho locul author- ities. Itisbad tobeindebtto sn extert be- yond the abllity to pay, sod it is bed to neg- leat the educsilon of the youuw, 3y of No. 1istle sample-bottls aiarked by the Board of Brokers the Dutch Government, which imposed o tax on gugars, ever adopted the above stand- ard as o mcssare to govern fu the regulation of duties. In fact, the “Dutch Standard” was nover in force in IHolland. Juot onr leghilators fished ftout in order to make the tariff sa dighonest as possible, aud to give a llberal margin for frauds upon tho revenue, ss well as for the plunder of the people. In 1874, or perbaps later, Congress suddenly {ncroased the duty on sugums 25 per cent, adding thereby, it was estimated, about $25,000,000 to the valua of the wugar iu the bands of the rofiucre. Thae importa. tions of sugar for the year ending Juns 80, 1877, woere aa follows Pounds. _ Dulles puld. g An fa'f'i"nfi'n'r 767,040,855 §10, 580,087 0210 AboveT: t 604,217,151 15,107,028 025 68,402,330 2,484,003 .0271 ‘Thero i3 wanifested among the Illinols Roprosentatives in Congress a dixinclination to touch or haudle the Brovarrr case, such is the pressure oxerted by frisnds of the latter sguinst any action by Congress in the watter, UOu the other hand, 8 number of Chicago luwyers of bigh standing conscientionsly belicve that it is due to the purity aud ju. tegrity of the Federal Bench that the churges should be thoroughly and impartially investigated, and can see nothing to be guiued by stitting the inquiry and leaving tLe current rumors aud allegations in their present condition of upcertain.' ty eud disagreement. It is to be vresusued that Mr, Hanrison, who has the watter iu charge, and who can se¢ no good reuson why tho friends of Judge Broporrr stould seck to prevent an investigation, will zouceive it to be his duty to move the refer- cuce of the charges and the evidence in support to 8 committos which shall examing wd report whether the case is ono justifyiog wpeschment proceedings. uader., ... ‘The amouut of sugar imported under No, 18 includes nearly all the importation; that above that grade does nob exceed 5,000,000 pounds, The rates of duty on sugar above No. 181s .0334 and .04 cents, respectively. ‘The * Dulch Standard” being oue of colvr exclusively, and it being easy to change the calor witnout damagiog the sugar, graduslly the whole importation of suger has fallvn be- low No. 13; indeed, 1,863,000,000 pounds bave been passod through the Cuatom- Houss as under No, 10. 'The average duty pald was about 2} cénta per pound, when, in point of fact, it is understood that the sugar ‘was all equal to No. 13, sud wmostof it even of a higher grade, The practice is to have it ar- tificially colored, and then, aftor passing it through the Custom-House, to have it wasliod st thie refinerica Whe rosult buas e —— . The United Btates will s0on be ableto bill prima dohnas inber tableol exports, With Cany, Kxtrodq, LitTa, ABK0TS, sod others, sholy fast excelling all othor coyutries in thy excellence of tbat vroduct. Teripy reasousble aud orders sollcited. ‘The new Turkish Ministry is acting prowptly in weediog .out the dangerous political elensent in Constantinople. Beveral troublesome Poashas have ulready been given leuve of obsvuce from their country for their country’s good, sud othens are o fole Not very long ago wowen were copsldered quite » rarity iu Californis. Now, however, tuere s & surplus of the comwodity on the Pu-