Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 13, 1878, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIDUNE: IFRIDAY, DECEMBER I3, 1878. a patriotio concern in this matter. By the disfranchisement of tho colored voters the canfederatod whites of the Sonth control 104 Represontativos and thirty-two Henators;, they require but n small number of dough- faces sud Accomplicos at the North to bo abla to dictate the logisiation and the policy of the country. Tha groat financlal, com- coming mn mccesnsory ofter the fact by ase sisting In the concealment of the crime. The atory i & horrible vevelation, and even of the supposition that he hua told the truth, Dicx. xnsoN's confassion, having beon made at the eloventh hour, and manifestly in the hope of securing immunity for himself, no mattor what shall be the fate of his paramour and Thye Tetbwne, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. WY MAIL—=IN ADVANCE—~F'OSTAGE PREPAID, Daily Lditlon, one sear. 81 Tarta of @ year, per mot! #unday Kdition: Literar, Eatoriey Baiiion accomplice, onght not to save sither of them | meroial, Agricalinral, and industrial interests On~ coj ‘,WJ: fram the scaffold. . ~ of tha Now England, Eastern, Middle, and Clubiof four.. Weatern Btates may thus bo made snbject to the absolute dictation of a minority in one seolion of the country by the operation of a froud, Buch a resnlt will not ba patiently submitted to by the people north of Mnson nud Dixon's line. Mr, Tnunstay, in roplying to Mr, Blaine, intimated that & ** Solid Bouth " was the prelext for a *Solid North "; it would have been more accurntq to say that & **Solid North" will be the natural result of a * Solid Sonth,” 1If the Bouth, by n aystemn of frands and the pros- titation of local legialation and judiciary, has anoceedod in nvoiding tha constitutional amendments withont incurring the penalty of a loss in representation, and it there shall be no other peacofn! and Inwful way of either preventing or punishing this avoldance, then the remedy lies in n ** Holid North,” and tho Domoeratic leaders should not precipitato the issue. It is ovidently the purposs of tho Domo- crats to rosist nn exposure of tho frauds whareby the white peoplo of tha South dls- franchise the blacks. ‘Ilis was ountlined by Mr. Woop in the Houso when he mada an unseemly attack upon the President's mes- sago; it was followod up by Moasrs, Trunyax and Lasan in the Senate in their reply to Brame; it has been ordered by the Democratic eaucus., It is only the fear of the sonsequences that could prompt this opposition to the inquiry. If tha charges of general violonce and wholesalo frauds woro falso, the Domocrats would gain by such an Investigation as would demonstrate that fact. But, it thoy succoed in defoating the pro- posed inquiry, whother by voting down the resolution or by a whitewashing report, they will find the odium of this national scandal put upon the Democeatle party. MMr, Taus. AN mistakes the temper of the Ohio peoplo if be imagines thiat they will elact him to tho Qovernorship of their State as a stepping- stono to tho Presidency of the United Btates while he and the party Le ropresents approve of the nullification of the constitutional amendments and the fraudulont and sectional domination of the country which the dis. Fpeelmen coplranent free. Give Post-Otlice address In full, fncludiog Stata snd County. Temittances may he mdde efiher by draft, express, Tont-Utfice order, or {n reglstereit Ioticr. atour risk, TERMA TO CITY SUDSCRIDRRS. Taify, delivercd, Sunday excepied, 25 cents per week. Iraliy. delivered, Sunday Included, D0 cents per wocke Addres THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madlson and Dearhorn-sta., Chicago, Til, Onder tor the deltvery of Tire TRinu¥% at kvansion, E and Hyde Parg icfe In the counting-roem willzecelye promptattention. Mr, Taussan complained in his reply to Mr, Businx that the latler's resolntion was {ntended to aronse sectional hatred in ona portion ot the Unlon against ' no almost de. Jenseless” peopla fn anather portion of the Union. Tt will strike the average readerns s little absurd that the Solid South shauld be stigmatized s defenseless, and it will not bhd remarkablo if the sentimont is not resonted in that ** defonseless” section, A people wha havo beon able to squelch the whole Repub- fican party in their midat, to dlsfranchisoan entira tnco, to openly defy State and National Iaws, to delibérately stuff the ballot-boxes with thonsands of bogus votes in the face of tho whola nation, nnd impudently inquire what they propose to do abont it, can hardly ho called ‘¢ dofengoless.” Inasmuch ns the South has gained control of Congress, and is the dominant element of the Democratio party, in Senator Trunaax's Inment over the wenkness of his own party altogether gen. nine? The whino is totally unwortby of a man of TausMax's posiiion, THIBUNE BRANCIT OFFICES. Ta® Cuicaao TRINTKK hae established brant: ofices o the recelpt of aubneriptions and advertisementa g wa: ul\hr TORR—-Room 20 Trisune Bullding, £.T. Mo+ Mansger, rance~No, 10 Rue de |a Grange-Datellere, M. ManLxR Agent. LOND( American Eichange, 449 Strand. Agent, 2AN FRANCISCO, Cal.~Palace 7 AMUSEMENTS, MoVicker's Theatre. Madieon steeet, between Dearborn and State, MA Doubie Life,” Tlaveriy'a Theatre, Dearbarn street, corner of Montoc, Fngagement of e Areally enconraging sign of {mprovemont the Union Square Combany. _*dlother sud o, in public morala is afforded to the eye of the socinl philogophier in the fact that murderers ara beginning to come to trial before the shocking orimoa which they committed have ‘been totally forgotten, Thus we this morn- ing =ea that the wrotch who ontered the buil#fng in course of erection at 8t. Lonis last Jaly, and killed an old man, is now btfore tho bar of justice for the second and last time; the flond at Indianapolis, who slanghtered his wifoe douring the labors of child-birth, trembles before tho trea® of the jury ro.entering the conrt- toom, ond the young - woman.killer, Guerie, is preparing for the just doom alrendy pronounced tipon himj at Datroit, the young cigarmaker who lately threw a doadly missile ot a follow-workman awaits bin sontence; nnd nt Janesvillo the guilty partners in orimes. of unutterabla bndness nre inventing evidenca which will give both their necks to the hangman, The legal process so common in the formor era of Iloaley’s Theatre. Tandoloh sireel, beiween ClATk ond LaSatie. En- gogement of EMe Eilster. **The Daughter of the Rex- fmeny™ wnd ** Kathetine and Peteuctio.” Academy of Susic, alsted street, between Madlson and Monroe, Ve tlety entertalument, Tamlin's Thentre, Clark strect, opposite the Court-Mouse, Engsgement of Fam Devero, **Jasper,™ Metropolitan Theatre, * Clark street, oprosite Bherman House, Vatlety ¢a- tertatument, Arts No. 7 Waihington street, Losn E: Chicago Soctety of Decorative Art, htlon of the and evcolog. SOCIETY MEETINGS. COVENANT LODAF, 0, 520 A, F. & A. W, e Sammanieson Eriaay erenlog, 4t 7.8 o'c A Corinthinn Hall, No, N7 East Kingfe-st.. for 1 portant work. Visittng brethren atways welcome. . W, WOLSELEY, W, 8. WILLIAM RRIR, Secretar) GRIENT. M. ODOE. NO. 7L AL P & A Eontng w1 o T-'-‘.‘.L"W-E!‘.’.‘:‘.'fi“.’:},‘é‘.'.‘d.! mawkish immorallty is observed only af | franchisomont of tho blacka jmplics. 1y elo Deyree. Ty order of thie Marts Milwaukee, whers it may be possible that “ the form ¥ protects & gambler who killed anothor bird of prey In a manner strongly justified by the sentiment of self-preserve. tion, STUCKER, Secretary. THE HOUSE BILL REGULATING RAIL- ROAD RATES. The House of Represontatives on Weidnes- day passed n bill on the subject of regulating tho ratos of transportation by railroads whoro the servica is performod betweon or through two or more States. Fortunately, {n this case, the question of power has al- rendy beon detormined judicially, The laws known as the Grangoer laws, whereby the Logislaturea of sevoral States enactod a max- imum for rates on goods and passongoer transportation within State lmits, have oll beon held by the Supreme Court to bo clenrly within the powers of tho Legislature, The Conntitution of tho United Biatos confors upon Cougress tho direct authority *'to regulate commerco with forcign nations, and among the soveral Btates, and with tho In. dian tribes.,” No one, thercfore, disputes tho constitutionnlity of the bill paised by Congress on Wednosday. While the necessity of such a Dbill is con- ceded, and the principle of the bill is sonnd, there are objections to somo of its dotails which defeat the baneficent purposes of the Legislature. ‘Tho bill provides that railronds on continnous linos through Hiates must chargo the same rate of frolght and furnish the samo facilitios to all persons, The car- ringo muat be continuous, and all robntes and drawbacks are prohibited. Combina. tions, contracts, agreements, changes of schedules by breaking bulk to provent con. linuous carriage, are prohibited, Combius- tlona for poolipg of froights uf competing ronds aro forbiddon, 'Che same proportion- nto rates must bs chiarged for short roads an1 distonces a8 for long distaucos. Bchodules of rates and distances aro to be kept posted. 'T'o enforca tha law, heavy penalties nre pro- vided against bolh the companics and the offlcors, 4 1t will bo soen that the bill proposes to re- quiro that rates of transportation shall be proportioned by milesge. That fifty car- loads moved 1,000 miles shall pay per car (e same rato per milo as one car shall pay when moved fifty miles. The injustice and in. equality of this baals for a rate of transporta. tion are obvious, Tha cost of handling tho cars, switching, unloading, and the idle time of cars at stations walting for freight, are all items entoring into the cost of hauling mer. chandise, All these itema ave as great in tho case of one car having but 25 to 50 mniles Lo bo hauled as it is If tho car has to bo moved 200, 500, or 800 miles. 'The multiplicity, the many thousands of stations on oll tho rail. rond lines to which cars havae to ha sent, and many timos ompty, to bo loaded, creatos n demand for an immensc numbor of ears gesttorod at varlons points, aud numbering oneor two at each station. Theso havo to bo picked up,—the business of a dozon or more stations being nocessary to make up a train, All this is coally, and swells the actual cost of transportation in far greator proportion than tho handling of long trains havivg longer distances to go, Assuming that the actual cost of transportation of graln haviog 1,000 miles to bo hauled withoat breoking the traln {4 one-holt cent per ton por mile, the cost b moving (ncluding load. ing and unloading) a ton of grain forty miles musl be much groater per ton por mile, The entirv cost of hauling a carload—ten tons— the forty miles would be only $2,~—not equal to tho daily rent of the car, The billis prrong'in that it makes mileagd the standand of freight ratos, 'Iho cost of smakinis np & train - {s nédoasarlly tha sawo, whethar {t Lias to ba hauled 100 or 800 wmiles. As the sctual cost of trausportation ls largely incurred before the train I put in motion, ib can readily be understood that the longer the haul the smallor per mile i the cost of operating. Thus, if we put the cost to the railway, in. cluding all expenses, of placiny a loaded car in a train ready to be moved at §6, that coat must bo distributed over the distauce which the car is haulod, If the distance be sixty wiles, the expenss is ten times ay great per wila oa if the distanco was GO0 wiles. 'Tho bill which passed tho iHouse of Itepresents. tives prohibite the railwsy companies from carrying goods 600 wmiles at any rate per mile less than tho roads can afford to do so per mile for sixty milos only. This country is a largaone, The distances are great, Continuous railroad carriage is cowwon between San Francisco aud Chicago or New York. In ashort time thero will ba continuous rallroad carriage from Chicago by way of Fort Yuwa to S8an Fraucisco. Daily traing arrive at aud leavoe Chicago for New Orleans, and for various poiuts in Texas, WAUBANKIA LODGE, No. 164 A, F. and A, . Legitlar Communieat fon ihis (Friday) wonic [1all, No. 78 Monrne-st., foF huslness and werk, J.0. HOWELL, Sec. Visiting brethren cordislly Invitad, FRIDAY, DEOEMBER 13, 1878, The effective point urged by Mr. Braine in his address supporting his resolution of inquiry ss to whother the constitutional rights of American citizons wera violated in the lato election, may be thus stated: The South claims & representation in Congress apportioned to the total population, inclad. ing nogroes as woll as whites, but the practi- cal disfranchisomeont of the blacks permits the whito votors of the Houth to elect nearly twico as many Representatives as they wonld ba entitled to if the blacks were oxcluded in the apportionment aswall as in voling, "This proposition ealarges tho scope of the disous- sion, for it is not only a’question whothor the blacks ghall be protested In the rights guaranteod them by the constitntional amendmonts, but a question whother one Southern whita's voto shall-equal the votes of two Northern whites, Tho quostion s, whothor the negro popnlation of the South shall bo used for the politienl aggrandize- mont of the vory class that fraudulontly nnd violently deprive the blacks of their political rights, snd thus enable their opprossors to provall over the whites at the North who would otherwise protect them in their palit- ieal rights, Mr, Buarne's atatement of the case is nono too brond, as iz comparative statistics show, Tho threo Btatos of South Oarolina, Minsis. sispi, and Loulsiana have seventoen Repre- sentatives, apportioned on the baslyof 1,01%,- 000 white votes and 1,224,000 colored votos; nine of the Representatives given to theso throe Biates were apportioned by reason of the colored population, which was not per mittod to clect one of thom. The result is that 1,035,000 white voters have ss many’ Ropresentativea in Congross, and as largo a voica in the affaira of the nation, as the 2,247,000 white voters of Iowa and Wiscon. sin, which likewlso have soventeen Repro. sentatives. In other words, as Mr, Brarve puts it, ‘60,000 white people in thoso Southern BStates lave preoisely the same political power ss 132,000 white people have fu Towa ond Wisconsin.” Thisstate of things gives the South even mora advantago ovor the North than it enjoyed in tha days of Blavery, Then tho whites elected Repro- nontatives to Congreas for three.fifths of their slave population in addition to their own apportionment § now the Houthern ap- portionmont includen the entire colored pop- ulation, which, as a matter of fact, has no more volco in choosing the Rapresentative than it had while in A conditlon of slavery, This argument is based, of course, upon the asaumption that the. colored voters aro practically disfranchilsed, which is the sub. Joct of 1nquiry, But that the sssumption is strong enough to warraut the inquiry is evl- dont from tho fact that, while thirty-five of the Neprosentatives from the Houthern States wope assigned by resson of tho ocol- ored popnlation, not more than four of tho mombers of Congress from the South belong to the political party with which the bincks voto almoat solidly, Bloroover, the asaump- tion is not woakened, but rather strength. ened, by the facé that the Democrats who benefit by the disproportionate representa- tiou are briuging wnch men ax Tnum 4 Laxan to the front to opposs tho inquiry futo its scouracy. e vl ‘Tho fact, as ovidenced by the actus! events of the lato cleetion, is that one rule prevails throughout tho Bouth, viz.: Wherever the negroes aro in the minority, they are per. witted to vole as they please; wheraver tbey are in.u wmajority, thoy are not per mitted to vote as they please, A variety of wethods has been adopted to nullify the colorod majority wherever it exista. In #owe cases the ballot hag beon taken from the negroes by impouing un excessive poll- tax and. other ‘conditions with which the majority could not comply; in other cases their political assomblages were dispersed, their candidatos driven off, & few of their number killed, sud others threatened and terrified; fu wtill other cases, tho ** tissue- poper batlote " and the stuffing of the batiot- bozxes have accowpliahed the busivess. 'I'he uet vesult is the same, viz.: ‘That the mne- groes are countod (o give the South thirty tive mare Congresamen thau it would other- wiso bo entitled to, but they are pot per- witted to choose any of these Congrewsmen, “Lhiv North hus a sclflsh iutercat 23 well as Greenbacka at the Now York Stock Ex. cliauge yesterday closed at 09 e The complote collapse of tho Afghan de- fense against the British invaslon, and the confirmation of the report of Suene Aw's flight 1nto Russian Turkestan, is indicated in the cable dispatcts nnnouncing the arrival within the English lines of a deputation o invito the military commander to enter Cabul and organize 8 Governmont to take the placo of that of the fugitive Ameer, who is said to bo cordially disltked by the Afghans. A Washington dispnteh presents some ad- ditionnl particulars relative to the tronbles of tife Sceond and Third District Congressmen- elect iu connection with that unforiunale trip to the National Capital. Tt will bo sesn thnt there s atill remaining a large latitude for choice ns botweon the conflicting state- tuentg, the latest contribntion from the ranks of the “mecond-batch ™ men serving rather to confuse than to olucidate mattern. Bome- body is clearly mistaken, Migx MoDoxavp has thrown up his hands and surrendored ‘at discrotion, acknowledg- ing the power of tho municipal authorities fo muppress gambling, and promising to *lierenfter observe all the Inwa- aud ordi- nances of the City of Chicago, and ald the uuthorities in their endotvors to enforca the sume.” TIf the rest of the gambling.houss proprietors are wiso thoy will follow MoDox- arp's examplo and closo up thelr ostablish- ncnts until tho election of a Democratio clty administration. ‘The Democrota of the routheastern corner of Indiana, jost before the cloction of Jnst October, uttered the Macedonian ory, and Kentuckisng came over and helped them, For tho part taken by certain prominent Butter. nuts in this importation thay wero indicted in u United Statos Conrt last November. 'Thore. upon, the plan of Hypocrite ITAMPTON Was rdopted, McDonarp, tho caunsel of the unporters, having obtained o continuation of tho cuse on account of Henatorial duties, the defendants hnve utilized tho time thus ob. tained by wecuring an indictment in the Jockson County Court (a Btato tribuual) aguinst the leading witness for the proscou. tiou, charging him with perjury, The proe. 3 which in South Carolina paralyzed snd uullificd the powers of the Unitod Htates Courts is expectod, within the inner conn. cils of Golden Circularity, to prove equally ilivacious mneng the Hoosicrs, Senutor Covsrixa & in the sulks again, Consciuus that le has beon eclipied by Bruxg's brilliant stroke, Le is ovidently Lent upen un attempt to offset this disadvan- tuge by once mora breaking lances with the Adwinlstration ss the champion of the ma. chine. Ho Lins doterminud to outer tho lists inopposition to tho Prosident’s New York Custoqu-House nominations, and jt is thought probable that he can suceced both in secur. ing un advonio report from the Committee on Commerce, of which be is Chatrnan, aad in the rejection of the nowinations by the Benate. I still sticks to Antuun and Coz. sz, oud, (hrough the indifferonce of the * Southern Dewocrats who last year supported the President, but who bave been aliensted by libs attitude in referenco to the election frouds, expects to prevent the conlrmation of their successors, From present appear. un.ces be is lki Peuding the progress or the CLaRX murder trind in Clicago there is at Janesville, Wis,, 8 casv guite wimilar in ite goneral aspecty, the latter heing tho trial of Ars. Macx and Trasg Dickersox for the murdoer of the for- mer's husbund, Dickersox yesterday made afull confession in court of the facts and ircuinatances attending the tragedy, reveal. iug the foct of Lis having sustained criminul rulutions with Mrs, Mack for some time pre- viousto the discovery of the dead body of ber Jinvbuud fa the barn, whereit had Loen placed Ly the guilty palr iu a position to indicate that death had been caused by the kicking mnd trawpling of a borse. According to Dicxerson's statement, which is to sowe ex- teut sustalned by collateral fucts, the murder was cuwitted by M. Macs alone, be be- Continuous carriage from all poinis of tha Northwost and fonthwest to Portland ia common, Continnons freights from Boston to Kanses, Nebrasks, Dakota, Avkansas, and Now Orlcans are of frequent occurrence, Is a railroad to demand the samo rato per mile on theso long distances, varying from 500 ta 1,000 and oven io 8,000 miles, that it must cliarga botwoen the local stations on its lino? The pnasago’of the LMl in its presentshape, instend of bLeing a regulation of inter-Stata commerce, will be equivalent to a prohibition of anch commerce. It will prohibit trans. portation for long distances ; it will brenk np what is known as through travel, and reduco everything to local rates and local traflic. The producer in Kansns, Texas, Nehraskn, and Dakota is more futerested in cheap rates of traneportation for long distances than he is In tho rato to his Btate line. The man in Kanesa who lins something ta sell knows that all e can get for his erop is the prico pnid at Bt. Lounis, Ohiengo, Now York, or Baltimore, less the cost of {ransportation. The rale for transporlation within the limits of Kansas may bo such that, If applied proportiouately per milo all the way to market, will consume the wholo shipmeant by the tim® it reaches St. Louls, bring the shipper largely in debt at Chioago, and to be recoived at New York will require neash draft to bo gent with it for twice the valuo of the grain to pay the freight, Continuows carringe, nt raten proportioned to the cost of moving, {s one thing, bnt conlinuous car. riago at ratas proportioned per mile, at tho cost of moving ton miles or filty miles, is a very different thing. In the ono ense tho transportation of corn from the remotest point of tho interlor to the seaboard and loave n profit to the producer ia possible; ‘but, nuder the bill as {t passed the Houso of Toprosentatives, 200 milos from tho farm ‘will ba perhapa the utmoat limit which the valuo of tha porn can possibly pay the cost of its own carrisgo, 'The House of Reprosontatives {8 entitled to tha thanks of the country for tho passage of tho bill asgorting the principlo of logisln. tive control, and for tho conrage with whioh it mat tho question, ‘Tha dotails of the bill, howaver, aro defootive, but in a particular whoreln 1t oan enslly be amondod. If the Bonate will give this matter proper considor- tion, and nmoud tho bill 50 as to allow rail~ ronds to carry freight long distances nt any rato thoy are willing to accopt, leaving the prohibitions against combination and pool. - ingin force, tho connlry will giveto that body and to all those who vote for the bill an earncet and hearty indorsement, It is engy to amend and romedy this dofect in the Honse bill, and it is to be rean whethar tho Benate is as able as the Ifouse to resist tho soduotions and the threats of the transpor. tation monopolies. ] WORTH OF AMERICAR SILVER DOLLARS IN EUA The advocatos of thesiugle standard havo caused tho silver discussion to bo confused considerably by the charactorization of the standard dollar as an *‘85.cent dollar,” This sssumption is basod simply on the foot that the value in gold of 871} grains of German domonetized bullion, at the Lon- don quotation of silver bullion, is worth at prosont from 85 to 86 conts of the American gold dollar. In other words, the coin which fathe old standard dollar is treated in the discussion by the gold-bugs ns bullion of a certaln woight and not ns tho legal dollar itsell. 'Fho reply that is gonerally made to this unwarranled assumption is, to de. mand whother the person who onuncintes it Lins any silver dollars to sell for 85, or 03, or 09 conts, or whothor ko has anything to sell for which ho will not acoopt standard silvor dollars at the rate of 100 conts aploce. Thos cornered, the goldito rotorts by saying that the 100 cents’ vulue fis national and not international, or, more properly, that it {8 o home valus which is not rocognized abrond. **You inay excliange your standard ailvor dollar at the rate of 100 cents in golld within the torrilory and jurisdiction of tho United Btatos (Govern- ment,” may tho gold-bugs, ** but the moment yousond it abroad you will find that yon cannot got more than 83 cents forit,” And this statowent is generally permitted by the silver mou to pasa as truo, though, as a mat. ter of fact, tho standanl Amorican dollar is worth about 100 conts in Liverpool, or Lon. dou, or Paris, as well as in Chiengo, or Now York, or Boston, and Is so rated and can be exchanged at that value, Tho status of tho Amarican silver dollnr abrond can be determined by tho status of tho foroign silver colng in this country. It must be kept in mind that the Awmerican silver dollar contains 3 por cent more of the metal in the rolation it holds to the gold dollar than do the Inglish, Freuch, or Ger. man silvor coina, I It bo found, then, that Euglish, Fronch, and German silvor coins rotaln thelr face valuo ay colus in thia coun. try, and sre ‘not estimnted by tho mere amount of non-logal-tonder metal thoy contain, tho American silver coins of greatcr rolativo fntrinsie value wust be similarly rated in Europenn markets, ‘Thus the En. Rligh gold ponud storling ls worth in Am can mouey 34,80% ; Lut the latest coin quoe tations in Now York show that English silver, which s only a legal tonder for $10, {sroted nt %4.85, or as much as the English gold loas the extra coss of transportation, The value of tho l'ronch frano in Amerioan money 18 19.3 cents, 50 that the gold five-franc ploca is worth 96.5. Tho latest New York quotations show that tha silver fivedranc pleces in this country bring 94 cents in gold, oras much ss the gold five-frauo piece is worth willh an allownnos for charges on shipment, although its mere bullion valus would pot exceed 81 cents. Ho in London or Liverpoal, the broker will give as wuck for five Amerienu staudard silver dollars as he will foran American half-vagle gold piece within a fractional difforouce to allow for more freight charges on silvor than on gold. Practically, then, the American merchant oan buy ms much of any given commedity In London and Parls with Amori. can silver dollars as ho con with American gold. Tho Awericon travoler can exchauga his standard miver dollars for about as much English gold as he could aoquite for the same number of gold dollars, ‘The reason is plain enough. It is because the foreign baukers, by roturning the money to the United Btates, can get the same valua for tho American sllver dollar as for the Awmerican gold dollar, He only nocds to ollow, tbon, for auy small difference thore may beiu freight chargea of the coins. ‘I'be balauce of trade is enormously against Europe, snd merchauts and bankers over there are ouly too glad to get their bands upon American standard silver dollars, as they are as good to them as gold. A bundred millious of such Americou dollars would be roceived with avidity in Europe, aud cireu- lated or Leld there until needed for'zemit. tance to this country to poy for breadstuifs, cotton, meats, etc. obody over there would think of quoting vur stundard legal- tendar silver dollars at 85 conts or any other figuroe unider 99 conta in gold. I8 is false, therefore, to say that the stand- ard silver dollar inworth only 83 cents hero or anywhere, It ia worth just what the Amorionn gold dollar s everywhero, and it will oxchauge for just ss much with tho bonkers and merchants of any cottnfry which has commerolal dealings with the United Btnten. ' The London, Parls, or Berlin broker would nob exchange silver dollars for gold dollars ot tho rate of 85 conts for the former any more -than the Now York ULroker would do the ssmo ab- surd thing. If the old demonetized German thalers gent to London for snle bring only their bullion valne, it Is becausa they ave no longer legnl-tander, and R4l not he recog- nized as Iawful coin if returned to Germany, But while American silver dollara are weight- ed st the rate of 16 to 1 of gold, and whilo thesilver dollar reraning a full logal-tender as well a8 the gold dollar, thera ia na danger that the farmer will be recoived for less than 100 cents in any country whors the ratio of 15} of silver to 1 of gold prevails, There Is not tha smallest warrant for denominating tho siandard silver dollar as an ** 85.cont coin,” and there in no commereial couniry and no gnne man that will refuse to allow practioally gold valno in exchange for thom, ‘The * 8%-cent " phrase i a deliborate decep- tion, and the men who employ it know it to be such. Its use s deaigned to belittlo and to cnat o slur upon thoso who advoonte the old standard dollar, Tho Staats-Zeitung follows np its unac- countable hostility to Shoriff Horrataxx,which- - was manifost enough during the enmpaign, by encouraging o reduction below 206 cants of tho nllowanco for dioting prisonars, though this allownnce is 10 conts loss than was paid to ox-8heriff Keny, and will yleld the pros- ont Bheriff from $10,000 to $15,000 leer por annum thau his predecessor roveived. This conrso in itselfl i not particularly creditable, since it is auggested by porsonal animosity, but it ia positively discreditable to eharge to Tire Trinuxg tho assertion that the Shoriff onght to have a fair profit on fooding the prisonera *‘in order to indemnify kim for the honvy cost of his election,” Of coursa ‘Tne TrinuNe nover said anything of the kind, What it did say wns, thet 25 conts was fitad by the Board when it wns not known who would be Bheriff ; that this represents n roduction of 80 per cont aud a saving of $10,000 or 815,000 a’ year; and that, as tho Sherifl's salnry is oxhnusted by his legal and other personal expanses, the present allowance wonld not yicld him much after docently foeding tho prisouers, and hence onght not to bo roduced. It isnlso untruc that Tne TrinuNe stated during the campaign, edi- torlally or in any responsible way, that tho allowauce should be. reduced 0 156 contsn day; it is sotisfied with the saving which the presont roduction will make, as tho Staats-Zatung would bo nlso it it were not moved by some unfriendly feoling for Mr, HorraNy, Mr. Bramxg, in drawing up his resolution of Inquiry as to whother at the recont lec. tions the constitutional righita of Amerlcan citizens wore violated, wisoly made it broad enough to cover the whole conntry. This will afford Bey Butren an opportunity to provo his ngsertions that votors in Massachu. setta wors intimidated and buildozed to such on oxtont g to defoat him in his race for the Qovornorship of that Btate, It neods no gift of prophooy to prodiot that such an in- vestigation will show that thore was not a citizen 1 tho whole Btate who was dobarred from casting tho ballot of his cholce. The most satisfactory rosult of such an investi. gation will bo tho cstablishmont beyond quostion that this pestiferons demngoguo was burled oub of sight under tho over. whelming weight of popular sentiment in his own Htnte, and to foraver silence his cal- umnles ngainst his follow-citizons, 'To com- pass this end it is to be Loped that tho largost scopo will be allowed in the fuquiry. Ta the Bait Curcaan, Dec, ‘ribune, that the orlginal 540 bonds read 2" not gold, or, of :inunhnc bat money that Convress subscquently, fn what {8 known' as the Public Credit act, declared that ** money** meant **colu ''; or, in othier worde, tha bonds should bo payable fn +*coin, "—nat gold of sllver, bul ¢ coin, " S0 denles it, or esys they ware payable originslly In **coin," not ‘*money,' Which 4 right? Plcase anawer and ohllge i & n. “Cho firat {ssue of 6-20 bonds was suthorized by the net of Feb. 25,1802, The law fn reaard 10 their payment reads as foltows: Hre, 2, Tho Secrotary of the Treasury s horeby suthorized to faano on the credit of the United Hiatew cotpon or reglatered honds, Lo an amount not exceeding $500, 000,000, redcemnble st the vieasnre of the United States nfter five yeara and payable twenty years from date, and bearing lu- erest AL the rate of 6 per contum per anouin, baye avle semi-annually. X £ [ o+ o snd the coln id al special fund, aod sl b 1) “f'o the payment In of a s n the tnterest on the bouds and notes of the '..'lll(l!t[ States. () To the purchaso or pavment of 1 per cuntum of the entire debit of the l'nlll‘ll'll States, to bo made each fisenl yeae after the 1802, which I to bo set apart a; and the interent of which ahall in like wmauncr ba applied 10 thy burchuse o payment of the public duhllu the Scervtary shall from tima to tima die vect, ‘That 1s all that {s sald in the firss act author. Izing the f{ssue of the B0 bonds, of which $517,780,500 wero sold, and they were all re- deemed and paid off duriog (Rant's Admints. tration fn coin, w8 the law unquestionably con. templated. The act docs not say that those bonds wero payable in “moncy,” or *green. backs,” or * United States notes,” or “lawful money"; but it does set apart the coin recelv- able from duties to pay the Intorest and princi- pal of the bouds, and they were all called in and redeeined fn colo. It 13 uscless to multiply any more words on the subject. Rt . Officlal returns made to the Buresu of Btatls- tice shuw that during the month of November, 1578, thers areived st the port of Now York 5,852 Immigrauts, of whom 3,604 were males aud 2948 femalos. There also srrived during the month 8,053 passengers, of whom 2,614 were citizons of the United Biates returnlug from abroud, and 421 sojournery, Durivg the month’ of November, 1877, tho arrl at tha port were 4,745 Immigrants (3,797 males and 1,048 fo. males), 1,049 citizens of the Unlted States, ang 273 sojourners. Durlug the twelve montne euded Nav, 00, 1878, there arrived st the port 81,235 hminlgrants, agatnst 64,111 for the corre- spouding perfod of lsst year. Of the total wumber of jmmigrants arrived durlog the month of November, 1878, therq wére from Eu- gland, 1,050; 8cotland, 1,118, Wales, 25; Ire. laug, 620; Germany, 1,6007 Austria, Bwo- den, 333; Norwoy, 95; Denmark, 80; France, 222; Bwitzerland, 1105 Spatn, 14; laly, 801 Holland, 17; Belrium, 13; Russia, 377; Poland, 23; Huveary, 80; Cubs, 115 HBermuda, 12; Bar- badoes, 8; Nova Scotla, B; Quebec, 4; Now- foundland, 1; Venczucla, 25 Greece, 1; Triule dad, 1; snd Moroceo, 1. e —— Bome of the Conuoeticus Yaukes girls of the pruscot doy ar¢ siuart enough to maibialn the traditional cuteness of their aucostors. The Iatest casc fs the story told of how Miss Blany A, Mapees, of Norwich, tbe daughter of a crusty old aca Captaln, got shesd of the old Qoverpor. - MAkY was courted by Evwanp 8. Cuase, a shoe-dealer, but ber father protested oyalust Cudsw's visls aud cven went w0 faras to turn bl out of the houss several tiwes. It s xnown {n addition to this that Many's arather bed vveu threateoed to shout Cuase if he persisted [ vislting his sister, sa great was the family dislike for him. HBut MARY was in- corrigible and married CuAse. The father soon after dled, In the will, which bequeathied the large estate to the helrs, was a proviso that for- bade Many entering luto possession of or con- troiling In any way hor share while she lived with Ciass, and slso stating that Ctiass should never be benetited thegeby, Eversthing had heen dane to thwart the father's purposea in this re- mard by the Crases, but withont success. But woman's wit was at last mors than a match for the old gentleman's provisos. A netition was sent into the November term of the Buperior Court by MARY Cniasn praying for divorco from hor husband Epwanb on grounds of * Intoler- able cruelty,” Tho divorce was granted, and Manr MAPLES then presented her claim for the property, asecrting that sho was no longer tho wife of Criasg, which was corroborated by her presenting her divorce papers to tho trustecs, who Immediately gavo the control of the vrop- crty, Which cquaists of houses. bunk atock and hopds, worth thousands of dollars, folo her hands. Tuls accomplished, it did not take the two most interested jarties long to forget their past difiteultics, do a little cousting, sud to marry again In duo time. It was & put-up job on the Court that granted the divorce, neatly executed, but the friends of the parties scem to Justity the procecsling. A —— ! and political Iriend of Congrese- s, of the First Wisconsin District, writes nlong letter to ‘Tna Tuinuns setting Torth the qualificstiona and attalnments of that eentleman as a candldate for tho United States Benate, As the fitness of Mr, WirrLiams for the pasition namea Is unquestioned and has been sufciently cnlarged upon In Tns Tninons already, we do, not think it cxpedient at this time to print our esteemed correspondent's communication. I directa publiz attention, however, to one fact worthy of note, fo-wit: that whilo Me, Witniama is o younger man than is usunlly seut to the United States Senate, he has had more lexlalative exporlence already than any man who everrepresentod Wisconsin {n that august body,~having scrved four yeors in the State Senata and six years In Congress, Nelther Wargen, Dungrn, DooLirTie, Ifows, Canr- PENTER, or CAMERON ever served a day in Con- gress bofore entering tha Scnate. *~Boss KRrgs, who {s said to bo shead In tho present race, was never s wember of any deliberative body, —— Luyor 8roxn thinks the women of this coun- try bave maede considerablo progress in obtaln- ing sumo other righta and privileges it they hiave not sccured the right of suffrage. In four States thoy vote on all school matters, Seventy- one occupations are open to them. All plate forms aru frec to thein. The Iyceun offers to the woman lecturer the same opon Held that fu docs to a man. The pulplt and the bar are both occupled by women. A few years ago the woman phyaician did not exist, Now they have n successful practive In every Iarge cltyand many of the smaller towns, There was not & college in the world that admiited women. Now thero are not voly distinctive collcres for women, but o Jarge number that welcome wowmen to all thelr advantages. Tho laws, too, In wearly all the States have been modifled so os to more care- fully guard tho rights of married women, T ‘Tho Rov. TALMAGE has found a woman who hos done the work on men’s shirts ut U3 cents a dozen, as he asserted I bis pulplt. 1t (s no wonder that the fact excited his Indignation, nor that he denounced 1t with so much vigor, It s certninly o diszraceful condition of the market for women's Inbor, and it ought to ad- mit of o remedy. Tue Triounzg offers to help Mr, TALMaa8 1L ho can suzgest any romedy for auch n shamcful stato of things, It thinks the fault may be In an over-supply of labor, or in the rapacity ot manufacturers, of In tho nig- gardly cconomy of purchascrs, or all theso causes comblued. Tho burglary committed fn the Manhattan Bank a few weeks ago bas opened tho eyes of the New Yorkers to the necessity of guarding ogalnst similar thelts. Tho new specle-vault in the Sub-Treasury Bullding fn New York, corner of Nnssau and Wall strects, s sald to be tho Inrgest of ita kind In the world, It §s forty- elght feet long by twenty-cleht feet wide, and twelve feet high, and {s divided into scveral compartments by fron raflings. It cost about $25,000. 'The vuult (s surroundeil by a granite wall seven feet thick, withan inner wall, roof, amd floor of fron and stecl Letweon two and threo Inches t) e a— A ventilation flend In Indlanapolls writes in this-way: “There arc architects living to-day who ought to e Indicted for erccting public buildings withont proper means of ventitatlon, There are teaclicrs who ought to be tried as ac- ceasorles to murder for not alving- thele pupils alr enough to breathe.” No reference is hiere made Lo clther architccts or teachers living In Chicago. It Is only fn such out-of-the-way places a8 Tndianapolis that such noglect of the luwsof hicalth Is posalble, o - e e . The Ottaws (Canada) Free Press publishes s propheey made 1o 1871, und found In n cave, to the cifeet that o King will sit on the throne of Canada befors thie year 1880, 41 this be so, tho Cnnudians should slneerely pray for the rule of soma conlirmed old bachulor, In whose presance the exbibitton of fomalo charms -will not be a aine qua non, and not of the Marquis of Lorne, whose Quecn i such a case might be still more exacting In her low-neck demnauds than she 1s at preaent., ——— Nuar Dow, tha grent temperance reformer, is quated as tho authority for sayiug that tho famous London proacher, Brunaxox, drank at three ineals, In u friend’s house, **four quart. hottles of strone beer, a pint of brandy, and o pint of sherry,”" Dow also churees Srunaxon with praying **in a tone of familiarlty never huard before® Perbaps Brunogox is on better torms with the Bupreme Belug thau Dow fs, hence the * familiarity,” P The Caunadion ladies who rebel srainst'the low-ncckod dress order of the Princess Lovise tnust find some other excuse besido the Blmsy protoxt that it is unsulted tothe climate, Tho climote nor cominon senso has anything what. ever todowith the whims of fashion, sud the Princess will overrulo all such demurrors. Neitlier health, comfort, nor decency is allowed to luterfero tu cases of the kind, 3 ——————— ‘The Democratic party never was in such desperato ajsalt before. If i gives the colored race its political rights, without {nterference, it witl at onco siuk into the most hoveless mi- wority, If the disfranchised race fs not repro- seatud In Congress, its minority will be still more hopeless. Couscquently, i can only waintain the ascendeucy by deliborate sud open violation of the Conatitutivn, ‘The lato Joun MORRISSET I8 reported as say- fng that he wouldn't go across the street Lo make TiLpex President, and that *nobody wanted bim fn the White House.” Morrisser said b could have boupht au Electors! vote for $30,000, but he didu't think TiLbEx was to bo trusted, sud, if it ever bad leaked out, he (TiL- pEN) would bave thrown ajl the odium on others, ——— Senator Howe remfuded a gold-bug the olber day that the banks are debtors to thelr deposit- ors; that the statute authorizes them to pay sfl- ver to auy of thefr creditors; aud that the reso- lution to recclve allver udly as a special desoult vould have only been desigued, in bis judzment, to degrade tho dollar sud not to protect the baoks, Well The New York World nominates WiLLLAM HExaY Bx1TY, of this clty, as candidate for the Bulgarlau throne. Somehow, Mr. Bty bothers thoso New York gentleulon considera- bly. e —— (len, Gnaxe seems to have falled to plesse some ol the Bpanlards. UOne o thelr vapers assalls hiw because he ald ot pay his respects to the Kiug, alter his escupe from assasalnation, and upotbier alluges thiat he was gullty of excess atabavquet, Bo fur a3 the lutter cbarge ly concerned, It 18 clicering ta know that the gipy, latda are in favor of moderation at bananets,—y fact not iitherta known. As tothe formercharge it was no more Incumbent upon Gen. Gyaxe o congratulate the King than it was upon any other private American eitizop, * Hedho ryng 80, some other Spanish paper might bavy charged WMm with Impertinence (n Intringin upon rules of etiquette that only have a diplo- matic forge, It is somewhat remarkablo that tho General shoulil have bean thegnest ot every Court in Eurbpe ami have given offense tiowherg except in the least important of thewm aj), e p——— How abont the indications of & hard winter,—, heavy corn-husks, thick coats of hair on \\'.lld anlmals, rquirrels laying up & large supply of nuts, and ro forth1 These natural evidences haye not been supplemented by the action ot the thermometer in this latitude up to date, e — Isn't there a law fn Illinols agninss earrying concealed wenponsi If *yes," then Wwhyis gy not more rigidly enforced! The rocent bruta} munder on Cottaga Grove Avenus could naver have happened but for the criminal, dangeroys, and wicked nabit of carrying deadly weapons, | et Coxkrina's supercilious conduct in thy 8en. ate on Wedneaday while Senator Braiyg way delivering his speech wil) mect the condemng. tion and contempt of cvery well-bred gengle. man, Tt was an offense against Scnatorial dig- ity and courtesy that will not be forgiven, —eep—— The New York Metropolitan Elevated Raj. way has earriod 4,000,000 of passengers in foyr months. The number 18 large, and shows that the road Is attractive to those citizens wha can. not apend howrs of thne in traveling botween thelr homes and thelr places'of business, e ———— (AneIzLD I8 sald to be opposed to Bramg'y effort to expose fraudsfu the South, though for what ronson tho public Is still fu the dark, Ensunns was reported to agree with Gan. PIRLD, hut in Wadnosday's debate the Vermony Benator took 8 hand In with BLaing. e —— It is rather cool in Bax BUTLER to appear fn Congress again as n Nepubliean Roprerantative, altor being pointediy naked by his conetltuents to resirn, and efter running for Governoras the cholco of a majority of the Domocrail party of Massachuse! ———— Bomo enthuslastic frionds of Miss 8usan B, Antnoxy, the well-known lecturer, bave hon. ored her by naming & town for her in Kansas, It1s not to be Anthonyvilie, or anything of that gort, but slmply *Susan's Town." ——————— The Cincinnati Commerclal says: * Tix Cir €AGO TRIBUNE 18 out in strong torma for the re-lection of OoLesnY to the Benate, That iy right. OGLESBY Is an honest man and a falthfol Senator," ——— Thoe createst clerfcul scandal is to the effect that tho grear London 8cunaxon prayed of a friend’s housein the morning, and before he got oft his koces scratehied & match to light s cigar, — The Milwankee Sentine™-Aturphey Is trying to bulldoze Postmaster PAYNE, of that city, Into the support of its candidnto for Unlted States Beuator, It meets with fs usual success. In ono county in Florlla the canvassers say thut the precinet returns arc *so drrepulor, false, and fraudulent * that they are unable to determine what tho voto is, BnenMan soys the people ought tosee the #enso of maklug the silvor dollar thicker. They already sco the sense of making tho Sccretary of the Troasury thicker also, e — ; Congressmen are_avolding high-priced hotcls this winter, aud aro trying to lva cconomically, Iaitanign that good Jobs are scarce fn Wash- Ington this sceslon? ————— Dreetien and TitoN aro advertiscd to lecturs In Syracuse ou the same evening, Itis unneces- rary to say that they do not'speak from tne same platform. —————— ‘The New York &un has dropped the cry of “Fraud" and hod taken to WASHINGTON'S Fare: wetl Address. The change (s wholesome, —————— . . ‘Fhe Balt Lako Jerald likes the President's incssago this year better thau the last, because it Is shorter, o — “ The Mai on Hloracback * hias droppod com- pletely out of the Southern Damocratis news- vapers. % e e—— Porran thinke his Committeo was not organ fzed Lo fnvestigute the cloher-dispatch busiuess. Bol _CHARTER OAL Plenty of Evidonco that Connoctiout Ought tuo Change Elthor Iler Laws or Hetr Julges. Apecial Dlspateh to The Tridune. Uanryonn, Conn,, Dec. 12 —An intersmting feature to-dny Iu the Charter Oak conaplracy trisl wan tho ruling of Judee Ilovey on the objections 1o admittiug In avidonce tho advertisements pod- lished by the accused contalnluy the annuai state- Company for the years 1875 and 1870, the sllegation belng that the same were feaudulent and published for the purposs of de- ceivine the polley-huldors. The Court Jutimated that the Hiate had insde & mustake In slleging that thesa advertisements were part of the means of the cousplracy, for they ware published long after the thne nawed fa the indiciment as the datoof the formation of the cobspliracy, e Also sald thet the Atato might bettor havbe alleged this fn & gonoral way, bot hed chosen to allege uarticalasly that ° thess ware meaas to dofraud tho policysholders, The Court then procecded to consider the question whelher the advortlsements could or could not be Laken s 8 ! of thoallerations. #ad invitod attention to that nio asscrtion thorein that the Company waa aulvent or that the assets wors worth the value roported, dollar for dollar, and collectable for the fullamount, It bo the duty of the oficers M, acorporation to sea that bad are niarked off or reducod but, os o matier of fact, thi 08 the case or the pructice, ani officers cannot riyhtfully be charged 84consplrators becauss of negil) tnnlnthlore:r«cl. Jnconclusion, Jodge Hovey aald shat, as he ha - vlaualy held that the sttict tulea of ovidence m ba applied Ina criminal prosecation iike thie, st excludoe tho evidence now offered, ‘Tho prin: cinal boukkeeper of the Compauy was rocalted, anl festifod a8 to 1ho debits snd credits of Furber'd accouns ae financlsl manager. When everything balanced there was due Furbee $9,000, which waé earriod into tho settlement mado with Jewell when Furbor totminated his contiection with the instiiy- tlon, Further Lestiinony was taken that Farber re: celved 8 credit of $181,537.50 s comunis a'une onfpremium foceipts and lansed policies under Lis contract, by which he furnished ,000 nssets o makw the Company solvert, waitt commisaions bethi applied ander the contract to liquidste ini¢ obligation. Judge Seymuur, Uhalrinan of the Special #tate Insurance Commis: 1, who Diada the report on which the change of wanagement was demandod, tesnided to overvalu- tions of zoal catato in the statement of assotd, and, i connuctivn with his test! mun{. the nmm:ul(m:‘i alter suvera) praviously futile aiiswpls, succeede in gelting In evidence one of the aunual state: ments made by the accused. The prosecution tried tw introducd in evicence 8 Boaton t/abe Interview with ex.President Wiggins four monthé afler b8 L;:uml from the Cow| but the Coutd rale at declarations or adin. ns of one of the se- cused after the consplrucy ended could uok Lo ree ceived agsinat the rights of the uibers, e g—— e STEAM NAVIGATION, New Youx, Dcc.18.~Fhe Anuual Conventlon of the Nationsl Hoard of Stcam Navigators ciosed its sewsion. to-day, Tho next meeting will be beld st Clacinnat, Sept. 16, A redolution was adopte requesting Congress to take measures for remov- fogensie sud wrecks from il Westera rivers, sud auking the passsge of o law that a1l wrecke lylug ia tho paths of “vavicetion Do treated aa nbaudoned property after the expiration of thirty deys front I Sbetitl ‘commitice reported » resalation pro: testing sgoinut the aduiiesion of foreien vessels Atwerican enroliment und fwhlry. of apy chooye v tho navixation Iawe whicth perumlt puch adwmls- slun, sy Jeopardizing the futerests not ouly of the owners and builders of vessels, but also the ews plovinent uf hundreds of fbousaude of skilied and anskilivd w kivg ncuhlv. ailuid, wae elected Prosident, %l 1. 3 Wouifalk, of Looteville - tresi- dout e the Exucative Coms W . A Luw Liviugston. Jr., Detrolt V.3 Simpson Horaer, Pits £t Loms: Jobu N, Bolugel Bite, Loutesilie; Thowas Shiteck, § aid J. G W Liting, Dsirgite