Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 14, 1878, Page 4

A s, D S A { | THE CHICAGO TRIDUND: SATURDAY. DECEMBER 14, 1878—TW carrenco of the perilona‘scones attending the Noew Ioudon recontly voted to grant no liconsea for tho aale of lignor for tho ensuing The temperance men bave boon on the nlert, and have loat no opportnnity to put the law in operation, but thus far, after ten mouths’ stendy work and numerons pros- Tlye Tuibmre, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. RY MAIL~IN ADVANCE—1'0STACE Imu;xlm. ol it Specimen copies sent fres. wite Post-Olce address fa full, facluding Stats aad Codnty. Yemlttances may ba made efther by draft, expreas Fuat-Ofice order, or in reglatered letter, at vur risk. TELMA TO CITY SURACRIBERS. Dally, delivered, Eunday excepted, 33cents per week, Laliy, deilvercd, Sunday faciude), 50 centa per week, Address THE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-sta., Chieago, 1L Orders tor the dcilvery of Tie TRIRUNT, st EVAnStod, Foglewood, and Hyde Pdrx teft {n the counting-room ‘Wil yeceive promplattention. TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES, TR CriicAQ0 TRIRTXE has established branch offices or the recelpt of subscriptions and advertisements ss llows: *NEW TONK—Room 20 ribune Bulldlag. £.T.Mo- Manager. France—No. 18 ftue de Is Grange-Batellere. r, Agent £ ONDON, Eng.—American Exohange, 449 Strand. Hxxny F. GiLLin, Apent, 5AN FRA -Talace Hotel. AMUSEMENTS, McVicker’s Thentre, Madison street, between Desrborn and Double Lite." Afternoon snd evenlog. Hinverly's Theatre, Dearhorn street, comer ot Monroe. Esgagement of the Unlon Squars Combany. **3lother and Son.” Af- ternoun and evening. Hoolry's Thentres Tandolph strect een Ciark and LaSalle, Ene gagementof Efe Eliner. Afternoon, | The Daughter of the Itegiment * and ** Katherlne and Petruchio.” Eventng, ** The Orasiopper. . Acadlemy of niuste, Tialeted steret, between Madisou and Monroe, Vae Yets entertaloment. Afterncon aod evening. Hamlin's Theatre, Clark street, opponite the Court-Towse. Engagement of sam Devere. *‘Jasper.” Matropolitan Thentre, Clark street, oprosite Sherman Mou tertatament, Afternoon and evenl Arte No. @3 Washington street. Losa Exhibltion of the Chicagn Koclety of Decurative Art: Day and evening. ‘Varlety en- SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1878, T0 ADVERTISERS. In vlew ot the heavy demanda upon the columns of Tur TriAUNE In connection with the bollday trade, it tn deslrable that advertizers ehould bring 0 their matter for the Snnday paver at an early an lonr to-day ns possible, Ty so doing (hey will be abicto recelve the cholce of piaces, and the first contees vl be the beat served. Greenbacks at the Now York Slock Ex. chnnge yesterdny closed at 997, Judge Devexa will temain in the Cabinot, yielding to the entnest solicitation of tho Tresident, who ddsires to bo rellaved at this time of tho difficult responsibility of solect- ing his successor, Gov. Hasteroy, although nob yob covsid- cred out of danger, has improved steadily during the pas¢ two days, and hopes aro en- tertained of his complote rocovery, minus the leg which was amputated Information cabled concerning the con- dition of Princess Avick, the danghtor of Queen Vicronra, and wife of the Princo of Hesse-Darmatadt, leavea littlo room for doubt of the “occnrrenco of hor dosth by the time this reaches tho oyo of the reador, Reporls regarding tho wintor wheat ont- ook throughout ihe Northwest are generally of an cncournging character, In‘many lo- calitics tho aerengo has been reduced by res- son of tho unusual dronght which pravailed during tho fall months, whilo in others tho nercage lias boen lurgely increased, and pros- pects are good for an abuodant crop. Tho motion for a voto of censure on tho Afghnunistan polioy of the Governmont was yenterday defeated by s majority of 101, be- jng nine or ten less than had beon counted upon by BeacoxsrizLp's supportors. A feat. uro of the dobate was the dofection of two prominent Conscrvatives, ono of whom, Gen, Bir ArExaxpzn Goroox, made a speech reverely condemning the Minlstry for need- Jessly rushing into an expensivo war to guard sgnivst an imaginary dangor. ‘Tho country ronud about has received n mora libernl spow-supply than up to this writing hind beon deposited in Chicago, and at Iatest nccounts the storm was atill in operation, with o prospeot of a general dotontion ot railroad trains in consequence of tho snow Vlockade, In Western Missouri and Kaosas the depth was from two to four feet. At the hour of goiug to pross this morning the snow was folling steadily In Chicago, with cvery indication of an wncowfortable quan- tity to wado throngh by breakfast time. A curious illuatration of the state of civil- $zation existing until recently in the Indiau Yerritory is given in the statement of Judye Panxen, of the United States Distriot Court for Western Arkansas and tho home of the Choetaws, Cherokees, and Creeks, Judge Taugkn was called to preside over o most auurderous jurisdiction, but by a wise and euergetic system of trinls and oxecutions the ruflianly whites and negroes and thoe bad Iudiaus have beon taught that punishment {4 sury and ewift, and a marked chaugae for 1l better Lias takon plaoce. Tho promptness with whicl thoe fury at Indisuspoliv returned a verdict of guilty, with sentonce of death, in tho case of Mrn- nick, the awful fiend who murdered his wife vod left her body to be caten up by hogs, produced in tho o:urt-room a demonstration of applause which the admonition of tha Judge was powerless to wupprose, Women waved thelr handkerchiofs, aud suen clapped their Lands and ericd * Good!"” at tho rightoous verdict—a pro- oeding highly 1mproper from ,a judicial standpoint, but eminently nataral consider. iug tho satisfuctory termination of the trial, It would be difficult for the sterncst Judge to punish as coutompt of Court such a man. festation of the highest respoct and admira- tiou for the Court and its wo Henstor Baraup s ono of the few Demo- erats of prominence fn the Senato with Yresidontial possibilities in viow who is able to sivk partisanship and exhibit statesman- | bhip when questions vitally affpcting the country at large are under consideration. Ho wus ono of the few Democrats who sup- yorted the Electoral Commission bill snd sLided by its results in good faith, and i8't6 # geueral way too much of a sfstesman to stund well with his party.. Ho'yesterday took bigh ground in favor of the Eomunvs Vill for the regulatioyof the countof the Eisctordd vote by’the Senate ‘aud” Houso of Reproseatslives, o bill' non-partisan su churucter, and desigued to prevunt the re- contest of 1870, Tho bill was passed in the Benata by a vota of 35 yons to 26 nays, the afiirmative voto baing made up of tho entire Republioan side, togather with Baranp, Mzz. amMon, and Monaax, of the Democrats, and Judge Davis, Independent, Another attempt s to bo made In bohalf of tho creditors of tho broken savings banks of Chieago to secure the passage by the Fouso of the bill introduced by 'Henator Davip Davis and passed by the Benate, waiving the Government's claim upon the assots of such banks for back laxes. -The bill would prob- ably have passed the House in the closing honrs of the sossion Iast spring but for the opposition of Mr, Eoxx, of Ilinois, and other Democratio Congressmen, This timo itis to be hoped that tho justica of the mensurg will conmend it to goneral favor, snd thal it may becomo a law. Its effect will be to relinquish the preferred claims of the Government and leave the money to swell tho too-small dividends of the unfortu. nate depositora. If ono sot of reports is true, Afghnnistan is alrendy n conquered province. On the ono hand we ara told that the Afghans them. gelves aro in rovolt ; that the Ameor is with. out friends; that the Afghans, as fast as the English advance, tendor thelr submission ; that the regular troops of the Ameer show an indisposition to fight the English; that the native tribes along the passes are helping tho invaders, and In some cases furnishing them with supplies and contingents ; and that the goml-independont tribes in India are all zenlous in thei» support and loyalty to England. If this be true, the work of sub. Jugation‘will soon bo over, and we may look 10 seo the Evglish Government establish its naw frontier withont molestation. On the other hand, there are not wanling’ ominous rumors that Russin and Afghanistan are pre- paring n surprise, and in some quarters tho declaration of Sir Brarrorp Nontacorr, {hat the Governmont has found itsclf deceived by Russin, and will not allow her to interfero in favor of Afghanistan, is considered as tantamount to a declaration of war. Which. ovor of {lieso conflicting reporis may be trite, one thing is certain, viz,: England bns now progressed so far that she must go ahead, whatever obatacle she may find in her path, and it will requiro but a very short timo to ascortain tho real issuo of the cam. paign, “WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DU ABOUT ITT* Thera comes from the South in reply to the Northern protests ngainst tho practical disfranchisoment of the ecolored voters the snme answor which Dows Twzep made to the plundered and indiguaut taxpayers of Now York,—** What nre you going to do about it?" ‘This is the purport of all tho apologies, ex. planations, or justifieations made by tho Demoeratio politicians and nowspapors. Whether it be a bold and shameless confes. slon of tho truth of the charges, or an at. tempt to belittlo nud pettifog, or a plea that the superior intolligence and more 1mporlant property-intercats of tho whites are bound to provail over the greater number of the blacks wherovor the lattor are in 8 majority,—thore is, in a]i cases, n reliance upon the presump- tion that the control of the matter is inalien. ably vested in the local Govornmenta of the South, now dominated by the whites, and that there iy no power which can compel them to concede to the blncks the political rights guarantecd them by tho Constitution. In other words, the ex-Confederates of the South, restored to their citizenship by the magnanimity of the North, and in possession of all the machinery of Jocal government, doolara their purposo of stifiing tho right of the bincks to vota whila tho Whites shall con- tinuo fo enjoy a representation in Congress apportioned to them'on the basis of .the col. ored population; and thore isa goneral be- lef that the whita people of the Northern Btates have no constitational meaps for pro. tecting themeolvos from the manifest injus. tico of ono Bouthorn white man'a vole count- ing for as much as the votesot two Northern white mon, * How are you going to help yourselves? * and * What aro you going to do abont it 7" are the taunts that come back from tho South, We priut elsewhoro in this morning's issus 8 Washington lotter to the Now York 2'rib- une which suggesta a proper and lawful remody., Congress may take tho Congres- sional eloctions entirely out of the hands of the local Governments, and provide for their being condncted nnder the immediato supervision of mnational officers and agonts, While such a chango might be regarded as very radical in this.country, it would simply bo the adop- tion of a custom that prevails in all consti- tutional Goveruments, The Empiro of Ger- many hos twenty-five States, which bave their local Logislatares and police laws, but tho elactions {o the Tuperial Parliamont aro governod by nationfl law. Franco has its Departments, which correspond in many respects to our States, but the elections to tho Assombly are held under the auspices of tho Nepublic. The present Kingdom of Ttaly is modo up of sevoral countries that were long separate and distinct, which still rotain their local Govornments, but the Italian Chambers sro chosen under a com- mon pational system, Mombers of Parlia- ment ln Great Britain are electad under laws possed by Parliament, Already Con- wiess has exercised its prorogativo of con- trolling Cougressional eleotfons in many ways, It bas provided that Senators shall be choson by joint ballot of the 8tato Legls- Intures when tho two Louscs fail to make a cholce on separate ballota; it has required thatall olectionsto the National Houso of Rep- rosentatives shall occur on the same day, ex. ocopting only in Btates which would noed to adopt a special amontlent to their Consti- tutions in order to comply with that direc- tion ; it has always reserved the right to judge of the eloction of ity own mombers; it haw directed the appointment in certain casos of special United States Supervisors for Congrossioun) ‘elections, who are given tho right of challenging voters aud counting the votes, But it has still permitted tho goncral control and mansgement of the Con. yressional elections to rest with the oficlal wackinery of the States, and this is the ouly Governwont where the same or a similar practico prevails, ‘The Btate-Rights Democrats will dony, of course, that-any such power is vested in Congress, but an analysis of the Qonstjtution and tho judicial interpretations thercof war- rants 8 differont view of the matter. Itis probablp that Cougress: would be held to bava this nght Dy virtue of the Constitution w it was originally adopted, aud without other protext than its own volition. ‘The section bearing oo the case provides that ¢ the times, placcs, aud manuor of holding olections for Henatars and Repreentatives shall bo prescribed in oach Btate by the Legislature thereof,” but tho same scction further provides that *‘the Congress may at any time by luw make or alter suck regulations, hnuds, wa necd only remind them that a now . thus appeals to the ‘‘solomn pledge” ns a choosing excopt as o tho places. of Somatorn.” It is under tho warrant of this ;;rovisicn that Cougresa has alveady compellad the States to comply with certain national requirements; and the authority which enabled ~national interference to tho extent that it has been made will likewise enablo Congress to take the. enpervision of the Congrossional elactiod entirely out of the hands of the Btntes, and /provide that they shall bo regulated and condacted by the (Genoral Governmenf. , If the warrant of the Constitution for this Enme.wm not broad enough in jte ariginal shape, the amendments have made it so. The Fourteenth Amondmont provides that no Blate shall * deprive any porson of life, liberty, or proporty without due procesa of law, nor deny to any person seithin ita juris- diction the equal protection of the laws.” This language in the Magna Charta was always held to menn that the Government should insurethe anjoyment of the rights guarnnteed, and not merely refrain from denying these rights by tho passage of any law, If the Statos, or any of them, fail to do this, then Congraess has the power to make the guar. antee operative, for tho amendmont proviiles that * the Congress shall have powor to en- force, by appropriate legislation, tho provis- ions of this article,” Thisis equally true of tho Fifteenth Amendmont, which guarantoes that the right of citizens to vote *shall not bo denied or abridged by the United States, or by nny State, on account of race, color, or provions condition of servitude," If, then, any Stato fails to protect all its citizens in the exorcisa of this right, Congress has the constitutional warrant to adopt snch logislation as may onforce it, In tho case of Congrossional elections the most direct and effeclive meana for enforcing the rights of citizens is to onablo thems to cast their volos ‘without any restraint on the part of the laws or official machinery of the local Govern- ments. This is- a remedy which still remains in the {reatmont of the proctical dis- franchisoment of tho blacks at the Sonth, It the Democrats smcer at it bocauso the next Congress wiil ba in their coinngo of such dollars. 'The croditor had tho right to domand that he be paid ip gold or in gilver, and the Uniled &taton hutl tho right to pay bim in cither, nt tho Govern- mont option. When tho Resumptionact was passed, it was not A new contraot; it was n promise that in 1879 it would exeento the contract made in 1862 to pay its Treasur] notes in coin, It would have made no differt ence wnollier Congress bad in 1873 suspended tha coinage of both gold and silver, the eon- traot would have remained the snme. The not of 1875 did not chango tha original ’eontract, but deolared that in Jannary, 1879, the Government would executo that contract of 1862 to gedecm the logal-tondor notes “in coin" .7, : "That it was the lntention of Congress in 1875 {o provido for resumption In gold, and that such was the understanding, and that “tho pledge was necessarily undorstood when it was mndo, and is necessarily under- stood now aa a pledge to redeom fn gold,” is flatly contradicted by the fact that as late g March, 1876, so eminent a atatesman as Bountor CovkxrLiNg wns not aware that the silver dollar hind beon demonetized, nnd that even on that saxge doy Senator Jory Snen. 24N deliborately told the Sennto that he did not kuow whother that dollar had been de- monetized in 1858 or in 1878, but ho thought 1t Liad been done in 1833, —twenly years be- fors tho Rosumption act. Iow could Alr,. CongLrxo, on the ground that the silver dol- lar had beon demonotized, vote to resame in gold exclusively, when he did not know for n year later that the silver dollar had ceased to bo a standard legal-tender dollar? * ! This talk about a *‘solemn pledge” to redeem the greonback in gold s the cant of the thief that the world owes him n living which he intends to teko. That gold was in general uso in this country from 1834 down to 1873 is true, and true beoanse in that yoar Congrass reduced tho welght of pure gold in the gold coin somo 6 per cent, reducing it below tho valne of the silver coin. Boing the Inferior coin, that is, the chenper, it beeame of general uso, to tho exclusionof the mora valusble silver. Ths option to pay in cheap gold or dear silver continued from 1834 to 1873, and the cheaper coin alono was used. The pledge was to pny the public debt in coin, nt tho option of the Government, and the 8hylocks nnd money-thieves seck, by bypocriticnl protestations of honor, to per. vart that pledge into a contract to pay debts in coin whoso value is made 20 per cent greater than ordinary by tho combinations of tho monoy-lendors, weak Governments, and corrupt oxeontiva ngents, to advance the valno of gold and depreciate that of all other descriptions of property. Tho conn- try demands ns a.protection againat this dostructiva combinntion ‘the unrestrioted coinago of the silver dollar, Restorethe op- tion, nnd the nationnl honor will take oare of itaalf. yenr, contions, only {wo saloons have closed, while scores of itory legislation. Btrangers find it difienlt more out of pura spite, as 8 protest against {uterferonco with what they rogard as their personal rights, The methods for avoiding the law are unique and ingenions, as woll as perfoct in their operation. A correspondent of the New York Herald—whose amusing lotter iz olsewhere printed—writing from that place, gives some of them, One of tho most per- fect in its operation is a peripatetio saloon, with a huge ovorcoat, that goes to the oustomor. In one pocfdt thero is a largo flat bottls, and in the othor n small tumbler. When no one is ap- pronching, the saloon stops in front of the customar, Aud behind the screen of the over- cont Lo is served without dificulty, and do- posits his money in one of the pockets, whero it knows the next oustomer will be. It in economienl as weoll as handy, as thero can be no fights or broakages in the saloon, ond thoro ig a saving on ges, rent, fuel, and other expenses, which aro incidental to the sintionary shop. In Norwich, where the liguor traflio was abolished long sgo, there in even more business done in this manner than In New London. Liquor now does not appear in barrols, casks, or demijohns, but in the convenient flat ‘bottle which fits the pocket, and the demand for thoso hoa DLe- coma so great that tho glass.faotories are doing & good business. Tho droggists also are doing a flonrishing business In bit. tors, schnapps, and tonics, which aro com. pounded of . the poorost quality of whisky, Congresa will bo chosen two yolrs honce, when a new President is to be elacted, aud there is no doubt as to the result it the main isana bo whether or not the blacks of tho South shall be pormitted to send Representa- tives to Congress, 'This issno can be neither suppressed nor confusod while thirty-five memnbers of Congress aro apportioned to the South on account of the black population but not one member raturned by tho colored voters. As Mr, Branvz pointed ont o offect- ively, it is no longer n more question as to whether the nogroes be permitted to vote, but a question whethior the votp of onoe white man In tho South shall bo equal to tha votos of two white men in the Northin shaping tho affairs of the natfon. National control of national elections ia an ssme on which there would be o * Bolid North " against o ¢ Bolid South " under those conditions, men about town manage to circumvent tho oporation of tho law with the well-known club-room dodge, by which they can drink in privacy and only in tho socioty of their own nssociates, * **In all these ways,” says the Ierald correspondent, ** thero is so much the llconse system now rogrot thair notion, nnd there I8 a protty genoral impression thay nt tho noxt election tha majority will vote in favor of permitting licansos again.” The operation of tho law 1n oo city may bo taken os a falr sample of its operation in all. It has been tho universal experience that tho law can only bo ecarried out in romote country villages whore the sontimont of the people is almost unanimoua in its favor, and where the doings and goings of every porson are known to evory othor por- son, The rosult in Connectiont will bo the some as in other Btatos whore prohibitory Inws hiave boen enncted. They will remain on the statute.books as doad lottors except in rural and remoto localltien. In view of such barren reaults, how muck longer will the Prohibitionists seck to enforce their viows through the inoporativo machinory of politios and the conrts and neglect the great -moral ngencies by which othor vices are suc- ocesafully antagnaized ? THE “SECOND BATCH" AND THEIR + FRIENDS, Tt in to bo confossed that our Congressmon- eloct do not figure in n very exalted lght in tho revelations made ss to thelr - recent visit to Washington, Tho * socond batch™ of thoso convicted of being concerned in the whisky frauds upon tho revonue aro those who were given ovor to justico by the * first bateh,” While tha firat batoh have yenerally escaped both from criminal and civil responsibility, their less fortunate and porhaps less guilty associ- atos have beon most severoly punished, hounded, impoverished, and prohibited from engagling fu any business. In general estis mation the immunities, pardons, and ro- leases, ospacinlly of ‘the greater offonders, hiave beon so lavish and profuse that it looks somewhat like persecution to pursue the smaller gentry so pertinaciously and so vigorously. Almost every unprejudiced citlzon, therofore, is perhaps prepared to join in an appeal to the Government to lot all thosa atill under the harrgw go frco on tho same tormn o the othors, It scems that after the eloction these whisky men nppealed on various grounds to the Congrossmon-eloct from this oity to -join in a petition to drop the farther prosecution against tho *‘sccond “THE SOLEMN ‘PLEDGE OF THE UNITED BTATES." ‘The observing render onnnot have failed to notice that the ordinary money-londer al- ways prefacos his aunonncemont of his mensure of robbery by referring: to tho “*golomn pledga " of his vietim. Tho Shy- lock of the play ignored all other considera- tious, and demanded that what waa ¢ nomi. nated in tho bond” whould bo oxecuted, The New York Tribune, speaking for the goldites, pretext tor the infamous schome to give an extrnordinary value to gold. It rays: ‘The solemn pledge of the United States made in 1875 wan that tho legal-tender notes should be made redesmablo on demand, after a Dxcd date, In the coln of tho United States. At that time the United States nad no coln other than gold in which It was poarlble to redeen 1ts notes. [t has 1o coln now, other than gold, In which It would bo posnible to mcet for & ainylo week the demand for redemntion of notes. ‘T'he plelige was necessarily uncoratood, when 1t was ade, and Decenarlly understood now, as a L’"df“ to redeem In gol; coin, Conseaucntly the legal-tender nus ad- vanced, not unly far beyond lta market value, con. sidered au & promiso Lo’y ay 41244 grains of stand. ard silver, but bevoud the actual morket valua either of the standard mib dollar, or of tie ttado dollar contafning graine ‘of staydard A SQUEEZED ORANGE. ‘Tho familiar simile of the squeezed orango applies with peculiar pertinence to Egypt. 1If over a country was squcezed to the very last drop to minister to tho reckless ex- travagance and almost criminal exponditures of one man, it is that unfortunato Egypt, whose people have been systematically ground down into the dust, and stripped and plundored to satisfy the capricos and follios 3 purity. Redemption of nuics, a3 oayment of any e ¢ the alion 'Turk who rules them. Five ther coln {ndebtednoss of the United States, in | batch,” and to go to Washington personnlly, | © i " winndard sitver doliare. would bo A viglation of tha 1t th t it <4l hundred milllons of dollars borrowed from presont the petition, snd urge upon the Gov- oromont the appeal. Iow far this petition was signed {s questioned, as all was done in socrecy, Moasra. Bansgs and Davis went to ‘Washington, where Mr. ALpnicit wasalready. ‘The whisky mon were also thers, From all nccounts the Congressmon were willing to ablige the whisky men, provided it waa kept scerot. All at ouco it way announced by our Washington correspondent that the whisky mon were having thoir causa esponsed by the Qongressmensclect, and forthwith the Con- gressmen-eloct grabbed their baggage and fled homo to Chicago. Ever since therehave beon statomonts and denials, equivocations snd protestationg, and now the whisky men aro coming home to tell of the perfidy of the Congressmon, The whole thing {s not worth atithaof the tronble tho partics have given themselves. All that Messrs, Bannes, Davis, snd Avpston had to do was to favor tho appoal of the whisky men if thoy approved it, or to bave nothing to do with it. ‘Their whole trouble is 1n tho Jack of courago to do opeuly what thoy seem to kave been willing to do socrat. ly. Had thoy sigued the petition and stood by it, no onewonld have censured thetn in tho least for dolng what thoy thought was right; thoir folly has boon due to moral cowardice ; thoy wero afrald to avow publicly what thoy undertook to do privately and secretly, Caundor fa nlways tho best polioy, and the want of it in this case Las lod all engaged {uto a sorloustorrent of trouble,, inteny and meaning of s solemn pledge of the public faith, a4 uudcrstood by Congress wheb it waa made, and by the oxecutive departmonts and the whole poopie to this dl{ + Buch anact of bad fulth would not restore, but would uuderioing and break dowa tho public credit, This statement {8 both a supprossion of the truth and a suggostion of falsehood. "Tho time for making **soleinn pledges™ asto contracts botweon creditors anud debtors is when the debt ju incurred and tho contraot for paymont is made. The United Statcs havo throe forme of debt: Bouds fasued prior to July, 1870, bonds issucd under the Fundiug act of July, 1870, aud legal-tender Troasury votos issued undor the act of February, 1862, ‘Theso debta are payahble according to the contracts mades undor tho law authorizing the indeblednoss, Now), what wero the contracta? Wo will atate them briefly ¢ 2 1. As to the bonds and notes fssued under tho nct of 1802 and subsoquent sota, Tho second section provides for their payment a3 follows: ’ Brc, 5. That s)l duties on fnported goods shall bepaldincoln, . . . andthe cown souald shall be sct apart au 8 wpecial fupd, and shall bu uvplied a8 follows: (1) To tho psyment In coin of the in- tereat on the bunds and notes of the United Btatos, 2) Fo the prrchase of paytnent of 1 por contum of {he entire aedl of the United States, tv bo made each fiscal year sfter the 1st day of July, 182, which is to bo set apart as & slnking fund, and the intorest of which ahatl tn ke wanner be applied to tha purchase or payment of tns public debt as the Hecretary shall froin thine 10 me direet, 2, As deeluratory of the intention of Cone gress to adliere to the original contract for payment, in 1869 was d & joiut resolu. tion that it is hereby *declared that the faith of the United Btates fs solomnly pledged to the payment i{n coln; or its equivalent, of oll the obligations of the United States not bearing interoat, known as the United Statea notes."” 3. 'The act of 1870 authorized the funding af all the 6 per cent bonds outstanding in bonda of lower rato of interest, such now bonds to be * redecmable In cofn of the pres. ont standard value,” the bonds to have this stipulation expressed on thelr face. These werc the contracts made between debtor and creditor. The payments wero to bo made in the colu of the United States, gold and silvor beiug then the standard coins of the United States. The only stipulation wag that in the act of 1870, that the weight of the motal in tho. coinage should not be changed, but was to bs of the standard exlst- ing in 1870, There is no power to change these contracts. The ‘‘solemn pledge” of the United Btates was to pay the greonbacks and all the other debt in coin—gold or silver ~—of the Unitod States at the option of the debtor, just as all the other debls of the' United States had boen payable from 1703 down to the contracting of thesy debts The fact that in 1873 Congrmdh-onfi’md coinlng the silver dollar in 1o -wiso.altered tho contraot with the creditor; the fact that in 1875 the coinage of the si}ver dollar was temporarily discoutiduad did not tuke from the United Htptds,the, ¥izht to resuma the England snd France by the Khedive have boen flung to the winds in larger part; and four millions of people—squalid, physically debasod, without the methods or improve. ments of clvilization, tolling like slaves to wring a precarious living out of the gronud— have been squoezed to psy the intercat on this colossal debt for so small n auzerainty, Thero is & little to show for it in & hnlf-starved army and feeble mnavy, but by far tho larger part ' of it bhas beon squandered upon palaces, soroglios opera-houses, and riotous living, which aftor & tima became so notorious that every adven- turéus In Europo made her way to Egypt to got her sharo of the plunder, and it was the Light of a prima donna's ambition to got an "ongagement in Cairo or Alexandris, whero Lor perquisites were onormous, Thore comes a time, however, in tho history of overy spendtbritt when he must stop and consider or find himsclf going over the precipice, The Khodivo reachied that time in 1870, when the rapid incrense of his own debt and the utter insufficiency of the pablic revenues alarmed bim and his creditors to such au extent that ho was compelled to farm out his rovenues to the accredited mgents of England and France. When Egypt pasgod into bisbanda it 'was & country rich in resources that had never boen systematically developed, and betore Lis time it hadbeen governaed withoutdebt or oxtortion, though in a barbarous way, The Khedive, ns we bava sald, launched out into the wildest extravagancics and speculations, aud for thirteen yenrs las gone from bad to worse, until tho appearanco of baukruptoy at his door drove Lun of necessity into the bonds of his creditors, who proceeded to ad- minister tho estate, The Khiediva's rockless- noks oven then waa not fairly kept in obeck, and po prospeot of accommodating the cred. itors Jooked feasible uutil the Khedive and s family had turned over thelr soparato DOES PROHIBITION FROHIBIT} ‘Wo Lave bad frequent occasion of lato to investigato the question whethar prohibition prohibits,—in other words, whether it is pos- sible to wo restrain a man's appetites by the uso of force in tha shopa of a policeman's club, or by the terrors of imprisonment, that he will rofrain from drinking spirituous liquors. Tu the investigation of this prob- lem the most direct routo to a solution is not the advanciug of fine-spun theorics as {o the propriety or advisability of prolibitory legis- latiod, but the guthering of facts and statis- tios in Btates where prohibitory laws have been put in full operation. Itis not the quostion, Ought not legislation to probivit drinking? that is to be answered,but Does it prohibit, whero ji has bhad ' tho advautago of the wachivery of the courts to apply it in full forco? In. the course of these investi. gotions wo havé'had occasion to exdmine the workingy ‘0t ‘prohibitory laws in Maine, where | tho-"plen originated, in New Hampshire, Verwont, Massachusetts, and TRhode Lsland, and found in each casa that they were barron of permanent results.’ In fivo of the New Eugland States probibition does vot probibit, und the trafflo in liquor thrivesin the face of the law, We now Lave s fair opportunity to judge of ita re- sults in the romaining New Eggland State,— Conuecticut, * the land of steady babits.” Under the Locel Option aet, the Town of Just two yoars. During that timo they have controlled the rovenues sad limited expendl. tures and cxacted guarnuteos to protect them- selycs in the performance of their dutics, A .cofrospoudent of the London Z'inics states that tho whole sum paid by the Commission. ers of the Publio Debt during the two years ending Nov. 18, 1878, has been £12,820,001, and this sum docs not faclude the payments mede on account by the Daira debt or the Khedive's porsonal account, In other words, within two yoars ow millious of dollars have been sent o exhausted Egypt, wruug outof four millions of squalid, poor, and belpless tillars of the ground, to satisfy the mercilous English and Frouch creditors. The Gaschen Decree, under which they take the revonues of the country, is to all intenta sud purposes a decree of slavery. 'I'he Fgyptian Fellahs aroin os abject’ a condition of slavery as were the old Jows when thoy served their lgyntian laslioastors, aud without the othora continue and nre doing an’ incrossed business, which i nsnally one of the firsd resulis of prohib- to obtain lqnor; but the resident drinkers, by tho use of a little ingenuity, obtain all they want with perfect cnse and with im- munity from penalty either to tho buyer or seller. The traffio goes on just the same as before the majority of tho peopla said the minority should not drink, with this differ- ence, {hnt, in consonance with ** the cussed- ness” ot humnn nature, they drink all the wheroupon the saloon walks off to tha spot disguised with flavoring extracts, The young liquor consamed that many who votod against estates. ‘The trustees have been fn authority® | bave asscried Lhule policy to this effect In the re- PAGES. of the Khe¥ve. Their products nro taken who hins been systematically rubbing them taise by the ' mweat of their brows and the nncossing, grinding labor of their hands is token to satisfy debts which were incurred withont their consent, and which have never benefited 1f fustion ‘wore over motod ont fo royal offenders, the Khedive of Egypt wonld bo pnt at hard Inbor compolled to pay Lis pro rata of the. indebledness he so wickedly and nnjustly incurred. In viow of tha miserios of the Egyptian peopley it is not creditable to English justice or hnmanity that the creditors are still busily dovising wayn and means to Btueezo more out of thia them to the value of a farthing. for tho reat of hus life, and be exhausted country nnd worn-ont poople. The Shylocks ara not nil dond. 1t affords Tra Tawwuws no particular pleas- ure to sce other newspaper conductors acting the fool on the Illinols Beostorial guestion. ‘Those who want to throw Gen. OaLesnY out of tho Semate to make room for thelr favorlte can- didate gre not promoting that obiject by wastlog thelr precious time and mental resources fu telling thelr readers that *Tns TRIRUNE hos no influence and {s not of any account any way; that nobody reads It or rogards what 1t says on any subject, but capeclally on the Benatorship, and that whoever it favors {s sure to bo defeat- éd," otc., etc,, ete, This line of argument against OarEsnY's e-clection must be very ex- hausting on the mind, and Is not safa to indulge In too far, as then there is tha danger of resction, It miht oceur to thelr readers sud- denly some day, whon they were least ex- pecting it, that Tuw TaRIBUNE was not s candidate for Senotor, and then thew “fat would be all in tho fire! Lot us give them o word of sdvice free gratls gratuitously and without charging them n ponny: Messicurs, pltch into *Old Dick "—he s the man that desires a re-clection; he is the culpdt! “Go" for his rocord; show up hia salary-grabbing ond back and forward pay pro- clivities, Let light into hia retations with tho ‘Washington lobby and all kinds of schemes to extract money out of the pockets of the tax- pasers. Don't waste your valuable time, spoce, and brains trying to provo that Tna Citcaco TrRinuNEwas not thoe first paper in the United States to bring out LINcoLN for Prosi- dent twenty years ago, or that it supported this man, who was clected or that other man who was Qefested at somo past election when con- ducted by a former editor or by tho present ones all these ara dead and frrelevant lssucs, and have no bearlng on the question now in order, Turn your guns on Gen, Oorespy and sink him out of sight, By that mecans your favorite’s chances may be improved—perhapa, Tho New York World hos an 1dcn that if the Chieago Collcctor of Custuma could be deposed from his office, swindling the revenua in the New York Custom-Ifouse could bo rencwed without let or hindrance, Firat It trics sarcasm in prose, thusly: 1t 18 potting to bo a question with many onvions Tepubilicans whether the power hehind the throne —to-wit, WisLiax IixNny Ssiri, of Chicago—is not more polent than the throne tself. By the “throne ltself ' it probably means Benator CONKLING, whose principal pusincssis to keepin office fn the Port of Now York aa Customs Collector and Naval Officer such per+ sous as willwink at undervaluations, smuggiing, and fraudulent damage allowances, whereby New Yorl fnporters can bo enriched, importera In other ports cut under, and the Governmnent robbed. But cold proso not elfecting ite pur- poae, it called in tho ald of 1ta poet to sncerin rhyme: He Is the Collart-or and Architect, And New York Appraleot ho, Andl the Uresident and tho Press Agend And the Hec. of the Trensuree, The combined cffort of the World's proser and poet to demoalish what {t. calls ¥ the :zental Mr, WinLLIAM HENRY By OF Ohloagop hichines* us to the beliet that Pora must have had those writers in his mind's oyo when he wrote: Tlhere marchcd the bard and blockhead side by side, Who ltingmud for him and patronised for pnde. Let tho New York importers quit trylog to swindlo the customna revenue, and thoy can save the expense of hirlng the World, thie tleah, and the d—1 to caunteract the affort of the * genlal Wisttax Hexnr 8wt of Chicago,” fn stop- ping thelr fraudulent practices. ——— Thero i certainly a difference of opinfon in regard to tho lifo and public services of JRFPER-, 20N Davis, On the occaslon of his recent visit to New Orloans, where hu mado a couple of speechios before Tox Bcorr's Bubsidy Conven- tian, the Democrat of thzt city guve him the following hearty greeting; Tho people of Loutsiacn wolcome him {nto their midet, With their follow-citizens of the South, and tuo fovars of cumtitntionsl government ail over the world, they bono ove him. Tho resence of Jerprisox Davis hoto {4 au honor to Now Orleans, sud we foel suro that wu echo the heartfelt feviings of tho poonle of Louislans, and of the Kouth and West, whoaso delugates sre hore, when we bid him cordlsl, loving, and roverential wolcome. ‘This sort of slush may go down very well and bo rolished by the peoplo of the Bouth who stlll bemoan the “Lost Cawso’ but the Democrat ought to havo omitted tho West, as thera {a no participation in that saction fu tue fecllug of Jove and admiration for Mr. Davis which it cxpresses, They hate him and hate his principles, They despleo him =3 the ome bodiment and exponent of those Impracticabla and dangerous theories of government that led Lo seceasion, and they donlore the terrible con flict that cost tha nation millions of lives nud milllons of treasury, of which Juyy Davis was one of the priucipal lustigators, defenders, and culpable particips The Indianapolls Sentind : “Tne Cmt. CAGO 'IRIBUNE comes out, atrongly in favor of the re-election of Benator OarLxssy to the Uaulted Btates Beoate. There are several asplr- auts, but Tux Trisuxs folls to seo any reason why Bonator QaLzsny should not bo continued in the poaltion. At the close ot an (ntercating sketchof his character and carser, Tis TRIBUNE snyst At the coming election Qov. QaLEshy will bave no contractor, Iudian Agent, claim-broker, unbaldy-secker, of Treasury-pirato urging his «l Jiu wlll be vresented to the Rapubllcans 2ture 8¢ o 18 known to the "Nepub. It of State, a¢ Honest Dick OuLkntiv,— one of the Nepublicsns who or%lllllcd the partyy a man withuut docelt or fraud; wha lus been faithful iweya and ut all tunes; who has bevn o Senator without reproach, careful, attent d industrious, ever mindfui of the public | purs in hiv pessunal conduct and charucior; prous of the noble Blaty ho ropresenisi and, moraly, wntellectually, and tn ali thinge that entor into the churactor of ‘sn ablo and i reprosentstive, the peer, ) o th lor, of RuY Wan WHO as & candidate opposcs his ¢ octidn, ‘The Sentinet contluues: *“That ts about the way the Inglana Republicans feel avout it, snd they ore all boplog that the *old man® will by re-clected.” 2 r— e The Loalsville Courlsr-Journal makes tue ss- toulshing stalcmiont that the people of Tuzae are 14 favor of baviug & road bullt for them 1o the Pa- cifo Ocean, It Koes a0 far as to declare that they cent su-calle mmarclal Couveation 1nthy City of New Orlcans, stteuded by Mr, Juryzuson Davis and uther ¥en'lomen rouowned for public aplsit, —~ Clacinnal Comme And it goes a step farther aod right of the ** Bolid Bouth " to by for the Texans st the.gencrsl expense of the taxpayers of the natlop, under the pulus and peualties of political excommunication of all those who are not ln favor ol the propoaition, ‘Fuis would be rough on, thoso who love the fctlowsip of that charmiug sheet sndat the samo time bate the gizjutlc swindle un the country. Theyars placed fn & stralt betwixt the two. Tho Beotch verdles of t guilty, but he musta’t dy 4 agein, was suppleweoted the other day In adecislon givea by threc) Trustoes v schools lu @lincinnatl. triotism aud of one of the pu] Charges of improplr conduct were e agoluat J. B, DiBees, g Principal, by oys ke fy, Taraclites’ hopo of rolagro. 'They nro work- ing, not fot themaelves, but for the creditors to pay the interest on the bonds of & Turk for thirteen years. All that thoy can ! male puplls, and, efter tho oXsninstton u(.‘ Jarge number of witnesses, the trg) hng Just closeil. The three Trustees zive a thee.coryer. ed verdict: Ono finds DABACK not guley of e charges, but from the evidenco hu-nr not a proper person to have eharge of théachool: gy sccond finda the cnarzes not sustataed; sy third finds him * quilty of the charges pre. ferred, and that he fs mot worthy of the position of teachér or Principal,” One of the city papers: says thie verdict of the Trustees reminds it of the teial o the hur. lesqueof "Robingon Crusoc,” where the Judzo charges the jury somewhat aftor this fashion: ““Gentlemen of the Jury, if you find that the witnesscs have told the truth, you will bring fn a verdict agafnst the prisoncrs; £ you find that the witnesses have not told the truth, you will bring {n a vordict for the prisoncrs. Dat it may bo that the testimony I8 mized—part truth and part falschgod. In that caso you will bring in a mixed verdict, for and ogalnst the prisoner, afternately!! The jury in that colebirated caso dellvered ftaclf through fts foroman thys: “QOur verdict is bigamy—but by whom un- known. Damages, 13 cents, or twd for a quar- ter.” e — F. Jacon, an electriclan, writes to Nafure in regard to Mr, TRANT'S communleation on the durabllity of the electric Jight, printed by us a fcw daya sioce, as follows: Inali communications on this subject in Nafurs and olscwhere tho diviaton of Nght s considercd only with roference to parallel circnita, and this nnlumll{ canses great loss: of light by the law that ‘Teating 18 proporiional to tho aquarc of the car- rent. Hiutin electrie circuita thete reaistance hay always {0 bo considered: and if two lamps are takon pardliel, only half the resiatance of the one Inmp |a obtained, and such resistance ean be oo talned by taking two parailel circuits of two lamps in scrlen in cach: thalight obtained then fa one- quarter in cach lamp, a8 half the cuirent Ia flow. {ng through each circuit, and, as four quarrers mako n whole, noloss of Ilght 18 cansed by dlvision In such & mothod of one current toany number of amps, Thera are cartainiy practical difiicnities in the way of burning lnmr- n serles, though these are grently: diminiahed 1F Incandescent wire o jued as the llantemitting sonrce. Howver, rhere 12 no inerent rennon why the efecirie light should be warted in division, aa I8 descrided by . nANT, — “The Cincinnatl Commereial correctly describos Senator Evstie’ spocch champloning the levey syatem na a speech in favor of a proposition to eause {nundatfons {n tho8tate of Loulslana, and adds: Ile knows thoroughly th vasne an for five oods, Jowering the Miss! the month, ana that this crevasse, thus credited with & good wark of vast proportfons, has done abrolutely no harm. ilo knows alsa that by opeu- ingan additional ouflet—or rather by reopening the old outlet Into Lake Borgna—the additlonal re- llef rcanjred can be obtained, and that the cost would not excesd a_quartor of & miltlon dollars, Wy, ten, shonld, forty millions of”doliars ng svant {n botiding mud-walls to ralse tho river aod causa dlsastrous overdaw: hs Bonnet Carre jere- d New Orleans fram pi from Vickaburg to ———— ‘With chiarncteristic cowardice, the man Dick- EREOX In the Mack murder trial at Jancsvilio tries to blda boliind the woman. The innocent chicken never thought of any harm until Mrs, Maok came into the cheese-room, Whero he was straioing mitk, ond, putting her arma sround him, told bim tho story of her troubles. - Bhe fjt was, 100, according to his statoment, that ar- ranged the time and place for their future meet- inge. “The woman entlced him,” of course, and ho did eat. 1u cases of this klnd it would b 8 raro spectacio to see the man honestly andg boldly assume his part of the guilt, and nol attempt o skulk behind a woman, O —— e © It was BeNJAMIN FRANRLIN who argued agalnat s property qualification for vosing, by snylog that i a man’ssolo possessions consisted of a par of mules worth the amount apeclfiot by the statute, and tho right ot suilrago was predicated on their value, 1t might bo sald that the mules Qid tho voting inatead of the owner. And horecomes Waps Hauprox hobbling into the Unlted Siates Senate, baving had hiy leg broken by a vicfous mule, then amputated, and then bo elocted out of sympathy. The frst man in history who has been carried foto the Henate by o mule. —————m— The cost of dying and heing decently hurled in Cincinnat! does not dilfer matorially from the expenpo gf, going, through tho same motions fn ' Childago:™ Tho T/nies 0f that city finds that a man in woderate circumstauces can die and be burled In very good style for §577. Of this sumn 300 goca for tho cofiin and $100 maro for car- riages, exclusiva of nhearse. This allows only 840 for a shroud and $20 for flowers. I a man waata to be put away in real fiyst-class style he will find that it will cost his ustato from #1,600 to $2,000. A ———— A Washington correspondent tells this story: 4When Qen, Caur, the great-Ohlo Greenback leader, waa ‘here, ho. got oboard anm avenue charlot, Immediately In Iront of him was the ponderons Itlinols Scnator, Davis. *Senator Davis, [ bolleve,' aaid Canv, cxtendiug his hand, ‘I'am Qen. Cany, of Ohlo.' *You ore, aro you?® sald Davis; whercupon he jerked tho bell-rope, stopped the charlot, and got out. It 1s supposcd the pooderous Senator fearcd Gen. Cany would convert him ta tho Greenbuck doctrine, so ho put bimself boy temptation.”” SO Tho Detrolt Tyibune hns a ot of which or of whom auy Trlbune might well foel proud. Waps Haxrron's election and amputation o« spires his muso In this way: ¥he man who "scapes tho earthquake's glare Perhaps “'::I:filud by a haley The hero, rough war's red puol, Lo peace e crippled by a wate, Lut, sufely to tho Honato sont, “Though logs snd o hould al be ront, Tio may defy th' asanults of fate; "Thora chook alone rve hiy State, ———— Vicc-President WiEsLER tells a cood joke on himself,—bow he went to church on Buuday, and the mintster prayed for the President and all tho memb f the Cabinet, hut said not a word about the second offlcer in the Govern- ment, Mr. WuszLzr was probably Inciuded in thu phrase **all others in anthority,” which takes in Vice-Presidents, Justices of the Peace, and members of the Town Doards, i = Sitrixa Bury, Brorrp Taiz, Ren Croup, duasriie Baas, and all tho rest of them, pro- pose to get up mass-meetings to protest againsb belng transferred to the caro of tha army. Iu is thelr unprejudiced oplnlon that thoy ougls to have something to say sbout a matter that deoply concerns thom, Our srmy has never been spccfally popularwith the Indfans, They prefer the milder stylo of tho Quakers. —— Both Tuumaan and LaMAR, who cssayed to reply to BLAINE, scemed to be taken off thelr feet by the power and logic of the Maine 8ena- tor's attack, Nelther parricd Braing's blows well, nor was elther reply up to concest plich, The Dewmocrats bad better bave pulled Bax Hiu's halter off and turned bim loose. e ——— They don't hong for murder in Wiseansin,— mory's tho pity,—s0 that our allusions to the weaffold In the DioKEREON-MACK trisl at Janes- ville yeaterday must be takon o afigurative and not literul sense. It s only {mprisonment for Wfe, with a strong probability of pardon, s An Ohlo paper is candid enough to confess thay “Benator TUURMAN waa not verv strong In his reply to Benator BLawwm. Hae_should bave takeu high ground; that the white psople of the South have the right ta control the vote of the Black Republicans.” 3 . —————— 1t Jouy MoCyirougit could institute ane otber wet supper fu \Wasbington, and . get CoxkLiNG lo a Wilarious mood, so that ha would make up with his encwles, o la Buains and BLackuUHN, be would do the State sonie service, ——————— CoNkpiNg's disregard of the proorigties of the occaslon duriug the delivery of Braixz's apcech iy everywhere condomndd by all pasties. e — Why Is Resexyi called s * 8ddier ? and Wit~ uELMJ called & “violinlat ™1 Tt can't be all i oue’s 1. e — 1t Devays goes out, will some otber Ohlo may go Iy, —~STaNLEY MATTURWS, for examplel - —— The Detrolt Fres Press wanta to know whutber Kxess s not s sharper,