Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 18, 1878, Page 4

N i R 4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 18, 1878 Tribme, - Thye TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. STAOE ml;nh. T MAIL—IN ADVANCE: oty Eiiclon. une gear Partx of g geaf, per moni Threr. .50 Faturday Edition, tweive paies. it WERKLY Oce capy, ver s 1.00 U orfoar e 800 Specimen coples sent free, Givo Post-Uflen address fn fall, Inclnding Stats and County, Remiitances may be made elther by draft. exprem, Fost-Office order, or in registered letter, at onr risk, TERMS {0 CITT RUBSCRIBERS, i Detir. detivered, funday excepicd, 23 ceats per aeek. Dally, delivered, Sunday Incleded, 50 cents ner wook. Addrers THE TRIBLNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearhorn-sta., Chieago, 111 Orders for the delivary of TRE TRinux® 6t Evauston, Englexcod. And flyde PArk teft {n the counting-room willrecelss prompal on, TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES. “Tw= CricAno TRINTXX has extablished branch efices or the receint of subseriptions sad advertisementans ollows: 2 NEW YORK~Room 20 Trisune Bollding. £.T.Ma- APDEY, Manager, * PAIIE, France—Xo. 16 Rue de 1a Grange-Batellere. . Mantzn; Agent, LUNDON, Eng.—American Eschange, 449 Sirand. HrNEY F. Girtio, Agent. BAN FRANCIECO. Cal T AMUSEMENTS, MeVicker's Theatre. 3Adtson street, between Desrborn and State, ** Dead Men's Shoes.” Afternoon and ovening. Haverly's Thontre, Tearborn street, corner of Monroe. Engagement of Buftalo Bill, ** Tue Knight of the Flalns.” Afternoon aod eventng. 11noiey’s Thentre. Randotph strcef, terween Clark and-LaBalle. En- gagement of Emcrion's Minstrcls Afternoon sad esening. Academy of Susle. . Talsted strect, between dadlson aad Moproe, ‘Va piety enterialoment. Afternoon sud evening. Hamlin's Thestre. Clark atreet, opposite the Court-House. Engagement Mo, Rents's Minstrals. Matropotitan Theatre. Clark street, opposite Bherman Howse. Varlety ene tertaloment, ** Mozepps.” Afterncon and evening. Art. No. 63 Washingtan etreet. Loan Exnfbltionlof the Chicsgo Socloty of liecorative Art. Day and evening. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1876, — The Sonote yesterdsy voted to mako the holidny rocess cover the interval between Dec. 20and Jan. 7. Gov. Haxrroy's condition continues to im- provo stendily, aud it is Delieved that the crisis has been safely passod. Itis reported in tho enblo dispatches that an Eoglish column has entcred Jellalabad, o littlo over 100 miles from Cabul. Gen. Avrnres O. Wizniaxs, of the First Michigan District, who was on Monday seized with an attack of vertige while in a com- mitteo-room nt Washington, grew rapldly worse yesterdsy, nnd is not expected to recovor. 4 Tho golden balloon s soared 80 high into the finoncial firnanent during tho Inst sixteon yeara yestorday toushod terra firma, and for the first- time since 1862 tho holder of o greenback dollar lsd the satis. fuction of kuowing it to be worth 100 conts in gold or silver. % ‘Tho indepondent mction of eitizens, un- nathorized and wregulor, in attempting to diseiplino thie Indians bolonging to tue band under Chicf Mosxs, in Washington Territory, hins given rise to an npprehcusion of serious trouble. 'Lho subject was considerad ycater- day in Cabinet eession, and steps taken to remove tho caugo of tho difficulty and with it the dileulty itself, A bill i to be introduced” in the Indinna Legislaturo desigaed to take the pardoning power out of the hauds of the Governor, and to crento a Dogrd of Pardons cohsisting of tho Governor, Becrctary of Btate, Auditor, and Attorvey-General, thros of whom must ngree in order to graut a pardon, Tlhe num. ber of criminals relessed by BlucJeans Wizriams during hls term as Governor has suggested the necessity of legislation to pre- vont such wholesnle abuse of the pardoning prorogative. Tho practionl operation of tho so-called 4 gconomy * of tho Democrats in Congress is perfoctly illustratod in the experionce of the Yost-Offfico Department with the Rallway Tostal Scrvice. Last year the Postmastor- General submitted an honest eslimate of £1,700,000 ns the cost of the mail service, but tho Domocratio Houae cat it down to £9,200,000, leaving a deficiency of $500,000, which has fallen on the postal service. The debate yesterday in the Ilouse on the bill for au sppropristion to meet this deficieny culled out some sharp pussages between Fosten aud Coxors on the Republican side, and Hewirr, Cryaten, and Dunitay, of the Democrats, Mr, Fostxn taking direot issuo with Mr. Hewitr as to accurncy of tho figures cited by the lntter in support of the pretended Demo- cratic economy ; whilo Mr, Coxaxzn, in his cnstowary caustic style, fmproved the occa- sion by some remarks about the cipher dis. putches, snd, when AMr, Dusgan undertook to put in bis oar, made soms comparisons Letween the state of civilization in Michigan und in Kentucky that were pointed and wilty coough to turu tho laugh on his adversary, Thuend of it all was that the Deflciency Lill passed. The BraiNe resolution, so amended as to include every form of violence, fraud, or un. fairness by which voters in any State of the Union may huve been restricted in the exer~ sise of their constitutionn! rights at the elec- iou of Nav. 5, was adopted in the Senate yesterday by the nearly unanimous vote of 56 for aud 6 against, Nouo of the amend. meuts have in any mannor abridged the scope of the original resolution, but havo rather en- lurgud thefield of the proposed mvestigation, Whenever the Dowocrats brought forward counter-ullegations of fraud or interference 1 Northern States, thoy wers promptly met by the Republicans with full assent to tho propriety of including all such uatters in the work of tho Benate Committeo, 50 that when the final vote cawe to be taken no res- rouuble pretext remained for opposing the resolution, The only Democrats who beld vut 1o the last ugainst the oxposure of the great frauds by which their party is enabled 10 maintsin control of the Lower House were EatoN of Conaecticut, Huw of Geor- gin, McCurzuy of Keotucky, AMomaan of Alabams, Warrice of Peunsylvania, snd Wurre of Maryland, Mr., Tuvemay, who was not present, authorized the state- wmieat by Judge Davis, of Tllinois, that Le would vote for the resolution if present. The result 'thas fur i 4 brillisnt victory for Mr. Braisg, who hay led the debate sud mavoged the conteit for tho Republican side with such consummata nbility as to secure [from sev- eral of his opponents the compliment of wishing that ho wero not in the Scnate to bother them with uncomfortable measures of this kind. e shiculd now consent to serve ms Chairman of tho Special Com. mittce, and dovote himsel{ to finishing the work ho has go sdmirnbly laid out. If we may jndge Mr. Brxerano from the Silver bill which he has introdueéd into Con- gress, ho {s mora anxions to thprésont In the Amorioan Congress the opinions of tho rul- ing class of the Empira of Germany than he is to represent the Amorican and German- American constitueticy which sent him to Congross. The purport of his bill is to lim-, it the coinage of silver to $3 per capits, ac- cording to the next United Slates censns,’ and limit the legaltender fanction of the silver doflar to §20. Tho praotical effact of such an act wonld be to give the United States nbout £300,000,000 of silvor snbsidiary oolnsge,—n combination of circuinstances pufficiently contradiotory to be absurd. If tho silver coingge of this country is to be entirely snbsidiary, we heed no such amount as Mr. Drextaxo domren to provide ; tho silver needed for small change pur- poses can be ganged by the amonnt of postal scrip which was used or tho amount of subsidiary coin now in circulation. Tho sam of 2300,000,000 would simply bo an embarrassment so long as it were not o legal-tander, and could not be used for gen- eral commeraial purposes or ag bank resorves. The fact secma to be that Mr, Brexraxo is 80 much under his native German inflnences that ho ia willing to follow the German Em- pire evon in its mistakes, and the result of his plan wonld be to precipitate on the pec- ple of this country all the commercial and financial troubles Germany has bronght on hersolf and her noighbors by her rash and inoonsidernte disuso of silver as ‘money. Fortunately for the American people, though the fact may not bo vory complimentary to Mr. Brextavo, bis littla bill will probably never be heard of again, THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SCHEME The published synopsis of tho report made Ly the United States Commissioners to the Interngtional 8ilver Conforenco onght to correct n good deal of misapprehension, and counteract a good deal of misrepresentation, about tha result of that Conferencg. While the Conference did not agree upon any inter- national ratio between silver and gold cofns, which waa the ullimate purposs of tho meot- ing, but searcely to be achieved by a single effort, tho procoedings and the conclusion wero steps in that direotion, for it was al- most unanimously conceded that a univer. sol abandonment of ‘the use of silver as monoy would be disastrous to all nations, This fact, either suppressed or dstorted in the Enstorn roviews of the Conforence, is clenrly and emphatically naserted in the offi- cial roport of the Commission. In the light of thig report it is impossible to contond with any fairncas that the International Conforenco was a fallure, or that it fa- vored the adoption of the sipgle gold standard anywhere. It left every nation freo for the present to adopt its own aland- avds and fix its own ratio of valuos, but, by foroshadowing tho danger suro to result from n general disuso of silver as money, it practically advised that all natious wlhich Lavo the doublo standard, and that those which enn ndopt it without scricus derange- meont of {ts monotary affairs, should prefer it over tho singlo standard, Tho advocates of tho donble standard in this country, where it bins always provailed except during the five years when the peoplo were ignorant of the fact that silver had been demonetizad, conld scorcely have expocted more from this first conferenco, and must find in the result a flattering approval of their judgmont, The opposition daveloped at the Paris Conference to an international agrecment on o double standard, as analyzed by tho Awer- fcan Commissioners, was of a character to strengthen the faith of those who believe in it. The partisanship of monometallism at: this year's Confersnco was dooldedly Jeas: emphatio than ot the Conference of 1807, which shows that the experience of the last fow years with a single standard in certaln countries where it is in vogne Las not been favorable to the theorics that led to ila adop. tlon, It was expected, for instance, that the English represontativea would insist upon a report spproving of the principles of the single gald standard which haa pravailed in that country since 1825; but the American Commissioners, who spoak of the delegation from Great Britain as **eminent for experienco and economia authority,” say that they de. clared that ** universal gold monometallism was not only Utopian, but would prove a false Utopia.” Thatlsto say, the Eeglish Commissioners were strong in the belfef, bosed upon research and experience, that tho single gold standard is not only impractica- ble but would be injurious if it were practi- cable, It does not break tho forcoof this conclusion that Evgland atill adheres 10 the single gold standard. The financial policy of Great Britain is controlled Ly the capi- tolists, whio have money loaned on public and private securilies all over the world; it {s for their advantago to exact as long as they can payment of tho dearer of ihe two motals in interest end principal; it ls not for their advantage, however, that there should bo o universal reliance upon gold alone for money uses, sinco sucha change would bring about universal bankruptcy, and result Iu their not being paid at all as to o great bulk of the obligetions they hold. Hence tho charactor- istically selflsh desire to maintain the single gold standard for themselves so long as other nations shall insure their own pros. perity and preserve their ability to psy debts by adbering to both gold and aflver. The experience of Germany is limited ; it 13 only a fow years sinco that nation unjoyed au embarras de richesses in the wpeoie poured into the country in the shape of a ¥French indemnity fuud, and the Germon Govern. ment has not. yel recovered from tho delu- sion that gold alome would be suffcient for the useé of the German paople, though next year’s budget (uow that tho French fndemnlty-fund s exhausted) may fwpress & now view of the wmatter upon Gor- man statesmen. The position taken by Belgium is intimated by the American Cowm- missiouers to have been the result of political intluences; Belgium uvaturally truckles to Eungland on one side becauso that Govern- mont furniiheshor with a sort of protectorate sgaivst Fronch absorption, and to Germsny on the other side through spprehension that Bissanck might otherwise take a motion to annex the Sveldt to his own Empire. Switz- ertand, too, is under the control of Germans, who numerically and by force of character overrulo the Fronch and Italian juhabitants of the little Republic; hence the readiness of the Swisy reprosentatives to follow the Germau notion. Bat it was only frow these two siwall Powers that any violent opposition to the double stundard cmanated. The fol- lowing parsgrapb from the American Cow- missioners’ report will eommendl itaclf tomen of intelligenca everywhere: We conceive that thero can hardly be dissent from the braposttion that It would be bath a po- litieal irrong ana an economical injury of the gravest eharacter to adopt 8 monetary policy which ¥hinnid incranse tho pressure of debts by Aiminish- ing the amount of the precions metals in whien they may be pald. With the enormans paubllc dehts of Eumpe and Amorica, amonnting to no , leen than $:20,000,000.000, contracted at a time yehen miver formed an important part of the mone- tary cireniation, the project to reduce that motal to t{\u rank al token mouey, allowing it to remaln in Europo and America only a8 the ainall chango of a nuuf trade, and banishing the residne of the accomnlated atock to India and the East, is ono which might well aronse tha ltvelient apprehensions of publie dinantcr, Bo far from accepting ltasa reproach that the States referred to gavo a cordinl support to the pronosition of the Unlied Stater, your Cammisstoners hold it 1o bea legilimate areu- ment it the retention of siiyer\would greatly Facilitate the resumption of speele phymenta by afl conntries having & Torced clrculation of paper, o resnit primatily of great importance to themselves, and to bo desired by the commonwealth of nations. To this may be added the vast interests of the property-owning and taxpaying clnsses and of nll privato dobtors, who would ba swindled and ruined by being compelled to pry in gold alone obligntions which were contracted on a basis including both gold and silver, The result of tha Parls Confersnce, as re- ported by the American Commissioners, fully whrrants tha United Biates CGovernmedt in making another effort in the direction of an international agreement npon o monelnry banis. It is not unlikely that another year will ind the economists of Great Britain and Germany moro disposed to liston to such n proposition. Both thoso countrics oro now suffering from commereial dapreasion which they cannot fail to associnte in soino degree with their monatary systems when they re- gard the prosperity and financial strongth of Frince under the doublo standard. Eun- gland moy discover that the single gold standard hos already been oxtended far onough to serlously cripple the capacity of peopleto pay dobts, and Gormany that its peopla will not have any too much money by rotuining all the silver still left in the coun. try along with tho gold that has been pro- cured ot o saerifico. Belgium nnd Switzer- 1and would Instantly reflect the change in theso ruling Governmenta. A largo ndvance has already beon made in the international agreement thnt a universal disuse of silver would ontail disaster, and somo special con- ferances with England and Germany might propare the way for an international agree- ment on o doublo monetary basls. PROHIBITION VS, MORAL SUASION, ‘Wa print clsowhere 8 communieation from 8 Prohibitionist in reply to a recont moral- suasion article in Tz Cnicaco Trinuwe, becauso it contains about all that can be said o that side of the question, though it says nothing new. Our correspondent goes over tho same old ground, and boats the samo old straw, but doos not bring forward a thought or iden that has not beon presentod timo and again by the Prohibitionists, Like ail tho rest of his school of temperance, he is not oven generous enough to state the position of Tne: Tripuse fairly or correctly, but nasumes, either ignorantly or purposcly, that it is opposed to tomperance bocauso it iu opposed to the methods advocated by the Prohibitionists, It may enso his mind to kuow that Tux Trinusz deplores the evils of intomperance just as keenly ns he, and that its only difference with the Prohibitionists is s to the way of curing the ovil. Our cor- respondent belicves in political force; Tue Cuicaao Triouxe belioves in moral agoncios, boeauso it has seen politica applied ond witnessed its ever-recurring disastrous ro. snlts, As to the necessities of acare, thoro ia no differonce betweon us ; as to the meth- ods by which a cura is to bo effectod, wo aro dlamotrically opposed to each other. ‘The value of any remedy Is tested by the rosults jt nccowplishes. If legislation ean provent drinking nnd cure intemperance, there must b prominent oxamples in wide sections of conntry, because it has hoen long and often triod. Bnt we look ovor the ficld in vain for couspicuous examplos of endur- ing success by menns of politicnl machinery. The case of Ohio affords a good test of the efficaoy of tho nou-lcensing system, A provision was inserted'in the presont Stato Constitution at the time of its adoption in 1830, probiblting the gronting of livenses to sell liquors, and it has never Loon ropealed. On tho other hand, it bss been reinforced both by general and local legislation, It is not possible for'any cno in that Btate to ob- tain a license. Every person who sold liqnor Lias been liable to severo ponaltics of flno and imprisoument. It has been the duty of the Grand Jurics to indict and of the Proso- cuting-Attorney in every county to instituto. procoedings against every one who violates the law. Bofar as the machinery of pro- bibition is concorned, it seems perfeot and covery every contingenoy. And after all tho quarier of o contury's experlonce, cul dono? Tha sale of liquor is as universal in Ohio as in Illinofs, With all the niachinery of the law, not one saloon-kecper who wishes to gell liquor is roally estopped thereby; ond it may be fairly questioned whether thero is auother city iu the United States, in propor- tion to size, that sells as much liquor, drinks as much liquor, or supports as many diguor- sellery, a4 Clocinnati, This remarkable failure of legislation to prohibit liquor-drink- jugis not peculiar to Ohio. Wherever it has ‘been tried, from Maine to Cahifornia, tho re. sult has beon tho samno, modified only by the smouut of moral suasion and temporance persunsios that bave been applled in the different States and munfeipalities, Tho statistics confirm this statument, "Tha cxceptious to bo poted to thls gen. orgl rule aro to bo found in those moral snd religioua rural communities where the over. whelming majority of public sentiment is opposed to liquor-selling aud whare nearly sverybody voluctarily refrains from driuk. jug. In small villages which have twoor threa saloous and a handful of drinkers, and whero four-fifths or nine-tonths of the people aro zealously dstermined that liquor shall not be sold or dragk, it ia possible to stop open liquor traflo almost without the operation of law and simply by the woral pressure of publio sentiment, On the othor hand, in communities like onr large citles sud towns, whera n mejority of the voters will not tolerate prohibitory legislation, and whore thero is a largo element of foreign population which looks upon all such laws ay invasions of thelr persounl rights, itis ot poasible to stop cither drinking or vendiug by legal penalties. In the County of Uook, for justance, fully 70 por cent of ita volers would oppose the cnforcement of probibitory logislation. If it ware possiblo in any way to enact it, there would at once be enrolled in opposition to it not only all the saloon-keopers but al} the patrons of saloons, reinforced by those who drink iu moderation and do not beliove that thelr riglte should bo disturbed by law. Against the 15,000 in favor of legislation there would be curelled 50,000 votors opposcd to it, and tho result can be casily forvecen. Much as we may doplore it, whero there is 8 demand for liquor thexe will be means found to fur- unish a supply, When the majority of the voters, or oven a strong minority, want liquor they will have it, even though the 1aws be in full operation to prevent 1t. Tho machinery to enforce such laws must alwnys Lo placed in the hands of Depnty-Sheriffs, constables, and policemen, who have little love for prohibitory Jaws, and whose * rigor always relnxes and {8 rarely sincero, Politi- cinng soeking influence, power, and offico, and controlling appointments, conspire to dofeat their operation, and back of them all is the groat stolid Democratio party, which always eponses tho canse of the drinkers. Even admit that the public saloons mny bo closed for time, the business is not stop- ped, for the appetite and demand remains the same, and this thirsty demand is always pressing. The locality and form of the saloon is changed, It reappoars in the drug- ntore, in the grocery, in olub.rooms, in all sorta of odd byways, and undor various in. genlonsly evasivo mothods. Those who do not drink in the club-rooms get their liquor by the jug-full and teke it home and drink it in their families, and thereby incur the addi- tional risk of toaching their wives and ohil- dron to drink. It our cowraspondent. in his engerness to serve the oauso of temperance by foree, vibnld stop to reflect a littlo ho would per- ceive that men cannot accomplish n great reform acting under two oxcitemonta nt onco, or oporating upon two controlling impulses that thwart cach other. When the groat Washingtonian and Father JArnew waves of temperance swept over Ireland and this conutry, and rescued the victims of liquor by tens of thousands, thero was no diversion of enorgy or work to political mnchinery., It wags a unanimouns moral and religious effort in ono direction, It is simply absurd to suppose that the frionds of temperance can organizo themsclves to mako s political crusade and fight the liquor-sellor and drink- cr with force, and at the samo time go on with the work. of efflectivo moral suasion. You caunot enll in tho youngmen and indace thom to nbsataln from drinking whon you are threatening them with the torrors of the law. and arrestiug and imprisoning thom. You cannot bring the sgoncies of loving personal appeal, the forco of good example, tho pray- er-meoting, and the love-feast to bear whon at the same time you are using tho baton of the policeman and bawling nt the hustings. Ono groat passion absorbs tho whols effective power of aman, and thisis exomplified all throngh the history of femperance. Moral suasion nnd prohibitory Iaws cnonot be oper- ated effeotunlly at tho same time. Just in proportion ns lemperance mon give their thought and effort to political work they subtract from their moral power and porsussive work, Thoy cannot oporate from both standpointy at the same time, and, as botween the two mothods, Tawx Cmicaco ‘Tnmuxs belioves that the moral agency is tho most powerfut for good, and that it will closo infinitely more saloons and stop immeasurably more drink- ing of liquor thau prohibitory laws and constables’ clubs, Wo call the nttontion of our correspondent to the faot that tho moral efforts of the Red and Blue Ribbon move- ments in this country diminfshed the con- snmption of whisky during the Inst year from tento twelve millions of gallons. Wa ndvise him to consult the wholo record of political prohibition from tho days of its invention Ly Nzan Dow to tho presont, and soo it it has accompliahed in twonty-five years by legis- Intion as much as the Ribbon movement bas in ono by moral suasion. Our contontion, then, is abont the best mothod of atopping liquor-drinking. Tuz Trinune belioves thnt the true ond only way to offect substantial reduction in tho consumption of whisky is by inducing the drinkers to conso imbibing it. ‘That is tho trno woy fo dry np tho sn- loons, and drug-stores, and corner-grocerios, and disporse the private drinking-clubs, and reform the bibnlous part of the commaunity. ARMY REORGAN1ZATION, At tho last session of Congross a Comtnis- sion was appointed by Congress, consisting of wmombersof tho Sonate and Mouse of TRepresantatives, to roport a plan for the re- organization of the army, The Commission agreed upon o report which Lns boen made to the two Houaes of Congress,—in the Sou. ate by Gon, Bunsysipe, Republican, and in tho House by Gen. Bannixa, Democrat, Ths unanimity of the Comuiission may give to the report a support in Congress mnot usually extended to any measurs of reform, especially If it proposes to aboliph abuscs and useless employments, % It wéunderstand the plan of reorganiza- tion proposed, 1t applies the prunlog-knifo extonsively, Itreducesall the army laws to a singlo nct or code, * It continues the minl- mum of tho eulisted men at 25,000 for the nrtillery, cavalry, and infantry. When the cxtout of tho country, its vast expanse of territory, and the Indian sorvice, covering the aren betwoen the Missonri River and the Rocky Mouutainy, and roaching from the Rritish to the Mexican bouudaries, 1t can- not be clalmed that thls number s too great or unueccssarily. large. ‘fhe nrmy is to consist of five regimentsof artillery, s now ; elght regiments of cavalry, iustendof ton, as at prosent, and eig"teen.regiments of iufantry, instoad of tweiity-five,—a total re- duction of nine in the number of regiments, ‘The Englvevr Corps and the Bignal Servica roain unchanged. Tho reduction of. the vumber of officors, caused by the reduction in the number of regiments, will bo in the nelghborhood of 160, Regimontal organization is to consist of four battalions. Oune battalion of cach in- fantry.and cavalry regiment is to boa skel. cton, while two of the battaliona of the ar- tillery regiments are likuwlse to remaln un. filled. When an occasion warrantd it, these Dbatlalions may be filled up aud officered, Tho great chungos, and those most likely to provoko opposition, are those in rospect to tho staff. 'Tho Departmonts of the Ad- jutaut-General and Inspector-General aro to be consolidated, avd to be designated as the * Goneral 8taff,” The force in the Depart- ments of, the Quartenmaster, Bubsistence, Medical, Psy, and Ordnance, and in the Bu. reau of Military Justico, is to be largely ro- duced, The reduction of the officers in tlicse Dopartments to ba mado by this bill in the stall are stated to bo as follows: | Reduction of sixty-fonr, Blonld this wholsome and nec- esanty sweeping avay of dead wood be accomplished, It will produce a weeping and whailing in fashionable socioty, in the servico of which these staff officers are brilliant and datling 1aborors. It will produce a panio in the boudoir and arrest the progress of the CGerman. Black coals are s plain when contrasted with the gay uniform of the stafl supernumerary Except iif the medical service the lowest rank of a stalf officer will be that of a Major. All appointiients to the staff (except the Sargeons) aro to be taken from the Captains nnd Firat Lieutenanta of the line. Bervicoin the line must thercfora hereafter precedo sorvico on the general stafl, At present promotion is by seniority inthe regiment, Heroeafter it {8 to be seniority in tho branch of the sorvice whera the vacancy happens. Artillery Captains are to be pro- moted according to seniority to vacancies in the artillery mervice, Thers will be promo- tions by seniority in only three lines, instand of by forty lines or regiments, as now. This bill is o confession that at present the army is officored over muuh. Thero is n woful preponderancoe of officers. Tho slaff has been used to make places for and to fur- nish a cloak to hido tho usslossness of 163 officers of various rank. The country has pntience with and high respect for officers serving in the line ; but the idlers and grass- hoppers who havo been crowded on to the ataf have, perbaps, createdanundue hostility to tho army generally. These lattor have be- como looked upon a8 mere place-huntors,—n nort of pensioned soclety men, useless to tho army, and who had better be put at some productive employment. Against the bill will be arrayed tho whole politieal, social, and porsonnl influence of tho dismombered snd disontogratedstoff. Novertheless, wiso men in the army, nnd 1ts best and warmest frionds out of it, will possibly unite in urging that theso reforms had botter bo made now than be made hereafter in the form of a gonernl disbandment and disorganization of the presont eatablishment. ‘When thoe moasura for the remonetiza tion of tho silver dolinr was pending in tho United Stntes, one of the most vigorous oppononts of such policy was Mr. B. F. Nounsr, o writer on monetary topics. This gentleman has just published in the Financial Chroni. cls of Now York s lotter on the condition of the flnancinl distross in Eugland and in Eu. ropo genorally, and reachos the following conclusions: (1) That sctual, roal money only includes metallic money; (2) that silver asmonoy bas been pmtlcnllydumo‘noliznd in Lurope, and now ranks only aa n reprosenta- tivo of money, a3 bank notes; (3) that from 1848 to 1873 tho real moncy of tho world was incressed 40 per cont, or from £5,000,000,000 to $7,000,000,000, cronting tho unexampled poriod of tho growth of tho world's productions and trado; (4) that since 1873, by the de- monetization of silver and the contraction of tho roal money of the world, money is now proportionately scarce, and as it has become dearor it bas reduced tho value or prico of all commodities and property, and forced a contraction of the business and trade of tho 1848 and 1873 had expanded them ; (6) that as tho contraction of trade, of produc- tion, of prices, and of prosperity is due to the contraction in the world's monoy, so the natural and dircet remedy s the restoration of the supply of money by tho remonetiza. tion of silver génerally in Europo. These viows, which wo print elsowhera in Tue ‘I'ninoxe, oro the views of one of tho strongest opponents of silver remoncti- zation in this country a year sgo. Tho logio of events is all.poworful. It i3 irresistiblo, nnd panic.stricken Germany snd Eogland are reaping tho results of tho grand conspiracy to make money scarce and dear, nnd to reduce tho values of all other proporty, The Publio Works ordinsnce proposed in the Common Council failed to obtainthe req- ulsito votes for its pnesage, though tho fact wne misstated in ono of tho city papors. This failure is a matter for congratulation, since tho Couneil declined to nmend tho pro. posed ordinance to put it in keoping with the exigoncles of the case and the interests of tha public, The ordinance provided a fized term of two years for the Commls. wloner, and divided' up the powers, patron- nge, ond rosponebility of the Public Works Dopartment batween the Commisslonor and the Mayor in 8o confused and frrational a manner that neithor would be directly ac- cotntable to the publie. ‘The Council also insisted upon giviog the present Mayor thy privilege of appointing the Commissioner to servo under his successor, which was die courtoous and ill-ndvised, On theso ac. counts it was botter to vote down the ordi. nance, A Tue Tunuxe hoa said before, it may bo advisable to have a Commissioner of Public Works, properly subordinated to the Mayor, ju order to relieve tho Iatier from an oxcens of duties, and we bave no doubt such ou ordinanve, freed from the objections which the defeated ordinance contained, could be passed, Our New York namesako tells s story fllus- tratlng the proverbial honesty of Chlcago peo- ple that is too vood to obbraviate: 8o lang sgo as 1 a leading’ business company in this cily gave credit to s gontleman In Cufeags with whow 1t had iransactions for $100 moro thau {tshouid have dune. For somo reasun nothing 8t the tie was dune o correct the ersor. ‘Che wou of thu gentlemnn was thon bis clurk, und ap- pesrs to have Leou oheasy about the mistter over sinco. 1o now, for bis own sattafaction mad in at right may be doune, reuits 830, and In time tosend the balance, . Heonly roquest, which will donbtiess be favor- y o tained. He says: **Like most clergy- niol, 1am something o 2gur, and aak you to Fewit the futerent,” Somie of vur readure will Le old-faanlancd euough to believe that s verupuivus comsclence is tha wiepst, and thata ful scuse zc'l jun.ln 1s not unbecominga preacuer of tho ospel, 0! course nobody but s Chicago man would think of vaylng a dobt upon which thy statute of limitation had slready suu, and especisily when it was » debt for which be was In no way responsible, But then the case gives an fnsivht {uto Culcago worals. e ———— Mr. Hzwitr, who used to be Titoxy's de fonder aud friend, 1s reportod to be iu favor of 8 full and searching investization into the cipber-dispatch bustoess. A New York paper commends HEwiTe's judgmont, and adds: “This will strike tba coparcencrs as a cold- Departments, oficers. | blaoded view of the question, but It is neverthe- Mdjasaatedenunal, } 8§ | Jcas the voly viow a shrowd Democrat can take. Qn&’“m;” " 48 | Thoparty's only bope is to And & scapouoat or Subsbstence, 16 | two syd start thews for the wilderncas under }{ e 11 | thg fmpetus of an imposing display of virtuous Ordnance. {udizaation. , ‘For it is profitable for thee that Military Justic oue of thy members should perish, and uot that thy whole body stiould be cast tuto bell.' A telegraphic Beud scuds s dispatch from Bt Louis fo which this sentcuca occurs: “Tuere was nothiog very novel {n the announcement of Miss Kxeroau’s suddou indisvosition, as Litra bad just succeoded in drawlug o larger Louss than abe.” ———— The Milwaukeo Daily Murphey looked over the Btate of Wiscousin the otner day to try sad tind some evideuce of tbe popularity of Mr. Keves, wkose candidaturg for the Benate tbu by useloss officers this bil] provides sizteen officers to do tho work in the Quartermaster’s Dopartmont now, performed by sixty-ix, and in the Bubsistence Departmont nine are to take the place of the prosent twenty-five. The Pay Departmeut has now fifty-five offi- cers; under this bill s it will have twenty- elght; and fifteen officers aro nssigned to thv Orduance Dopartment in place of the present world, just as tho increase of money botween AMurphey calls #a conrso joke.”” It only fonnd w0 newapapers supporting bim. The Madinon Journal, however, is better informed upon the rentiment of the Reoublicans of the Stafe,—for 1ha Journal 18 a Republican nowspapor,—snd it prints a liat of twenty papera thatare vigorously supporting tho * Boss,”" (tselt among the number, Itls an old saying thit “*there aro none #0 blind as those who won't sce.” e —— . In Tnm TRinuyz yesterday, in an article re- specting the children of Queen VICTORIA, the 1uke of Connaught, who {8 proposcd as Lord Licutenant ot Ireland, was reforrcd to asen- gaged and shortly to be married to the U'rincess Turna of Denmatk. The Prince who s shortly to marry that lndy {a the Duke of Cumberiand,’ great grandson of Geonax 111, of Evgland, and son of the late King of Ilanover, who was de- posed by Prussia in 1566. The Duke of Cum- berlanil clatms to be King of Hanover, and to that extent outranke the Duke of Cunnaught, the sou of Victouta. e —— + Inthe 8cnnte on Monday the Texas Paclfic Benatorial lobby agent, Mattaews, of Ohlo, “inoved that.all present or prior orders be lald nsfde. and that the Senate proceed to the con- sideration of the Toxas Pacifle Subsidy bill.”! Thoe yeas and nays on this impudent motion of tho Texas Pacific 8enatorial lobyist revealed the followini Northern Benators voting for it, viz.: Dox CAMERON, of Pennsylvania; WALLACE, of Peunsylvania; Ravporrn, of New Jersey; Mc- Puznson, of New Jersey; Marruawh, of Ohlo; Fxruy, of Michigan. '] ———— Gen. GARFIRLD squceezed a good deal of com- mon sense into a sentency the other day whon he sold; “The man who wants to serve his country must put blmself In the linc of its lcad- ing thought, and that {a the restoration of busi- ness, trade, commerce, industry, sound politieal cconomy, bionest money, and lhionest payment of oll obligations; and the man who can add sny- thing {n the direction of the accomplishment of any of these purposes {1 a public benefactor.' e ———— . A Washington politiclan proposes that the best way to test the strength of (jon. URANT as a Presidential candidate ju 1830 !sfor him to return this winter and run for Governor of Oblo at the October elcction. This would bea square test in tho State that is now considered the keystone of the political arch. It defeated, it would end the third-term talk; if elected, ho would bo fovinciblo fn 1380. ———— A caretul census of all the bogs In Ohlo oger 10 years of age reveals tho startling fact thas 00 per cent of them feel certain'that they will be clected President of the United States at the proper thne, and the rest expect to be Govern- ors, Cablnet ofllcers, Forelgn Mintstdrs, and so on. The ambitious boys all say that when they are President they wiil not make sach & flst of it as I{ayes has done. e It s doubtful wheéther the Republican party of New York went into tho lnst campaign with the vizor and enthusiasm that they displayed, gaining a consummate victory, merely for the vurpose of enabling Roscor CoNRLING to re- uew his personal fight with Mr. Haves and to vent his spite against the National Administra- tion, It has come to pass that people are as dla- honest fn the % Paris of America® as thoy are in Chleago, A Cinclnnatt contractor declared the other day that * It has got to bo that an honest man who wants to do a fair job cannot get work ab the infernal city buildinga; every- thing has to go through the hauds of somo of tho favorites.' & ——— ‘Tha girls are bound to come to the front. LixA Dengklit, a young Swiss lady, bas just taken the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Berno University, ofter o brililant cxamination, and two other ladies, American and Austrisn, have passed as Doctors of Medleine, ———m— The Janesville Qazelle 13 of tho opinfon that Alr. CoNKLING *‘ls capabla of makivg ss big a fool of bimself as any mao in tho nation’! Iv might have added that he bas the rare faculty ot tmproving hia opportunity. e rrea—— Gronas N, Hu; NOER, ex-President of the Philadetplta Coal Company, Is asked to rafund 882,000 of the Company’s money that ho is al- leged to have misappropriated. Geonom didn't skip tn time, and Las had to give ball. ————— P I the flerce tit-for-tatdebate between BraiNe and the Democrats of the Senate on Monday Mr. ConxLing had so much writing to do that tie couldn't take o hand fu. DBut then it was Braixg's quarrel, not hls, e —— It Coxxiing had a briet to correct, as he al- leges, duriog the dolivery of Braine's speech, why dldn't ho retire to some convenlent com- mittee-room and do It, ond nut thus couspleu- ously show bis industry TRURMAY may bo all the time in the fix of Bynon's woman who kept protestiog that she would ne’er conaont, but at fast cousented. Weo are talking about the Dermocratic nomiuation for Governor of Ohlo. g ———— Don't make ake and refer to the em- press that serves you bohind the counter in banged halraodlong wateh chaly as *a woman,” Bhe is a “1ady,” and foslsts upon ber right to b called such, . I The Cologue Guselte announces that a new edition ot Herr Buscit's ** Bissanck and Sefvg Leuto,” weeded of a great part of what proba- hly was read with most avidity, Is in course of publication, § Ta the Editor nt The Tribune. Cnicaao, Deo, 17.—~Wiil you be kind enoagh ta state the name of the man who nominsted Anka- uax Lixcorx st the Chicago Conventiont D Nonuan B, Junp. | Between tho eipher dispatches on the one Laud und tne Braing resolution and debste on the other, the Dewocratic party in Congress sro in uq mood to enjoy tho holiday recess. | Tho Vicksburg tlerald thinks the Southern people are not to blame for bewg jazy. It says the clfnate s to biama for vart of it, and the other part is duo to cheap whisky. - | But littlo wos done by the Porrzr Commit- tee nt Its first moctiug on Monday, for the rea- son, probably, tnat jts leader, chiof, and hesd, Brx BuTLER, Was not prosent. — ——— e ‘The dedth of Princoss ALICE Is the first death in the family of Queen VicTosia except ler Lusband, Sho died on the seventesuth aunl- versary of her fatber's death. o ——— A Southern newspsper suggests the name of Postmaster-Uencral KRy for Vice-President in 1830, It docsu't say on which ticket it proposes to yuo Lim, . » 4 Qath" qualifies one of his yarns with 4 Probably 1 bave the tigures wrong here” Ju that way the fcllow manages to make even the figures e, e ——— ‘[be Phitadelphia 7¥mes is of the opinlon that “BLaNE hias got his candidate for President plcked out sud is giving bim & vigorous sup- pore.” e e—— . As a cholco between tho yellow feverand a visit. from the Porrei Committe, the peodlo of New Orleans agres td compromiss on Mrs. JENKS. f Dy actusl count, thore are fn Chicago1,738 diferent pluces where *‘tho best five-cont clgar in the city " 1s kept for sule, The Kuxnx Docember air s sald to be guite cxbilarutivg in the reglon of the Chamber of Comtuerce about these days. | } 1t 13 a long look abead, wheu GRANT [ Pres- fdent sgain and young Bexy®1z of the Hereld Becretary o the Navy. | Why does the New York Z'mes contlbue to fold its paper Iu the must luconvenlsnt form kuuwo to the businass! -Atisutic Btstes, upon wi FOREIGN. An English Column Said to Have Captured Jel- lalabad. Another Column Preparing to Move upon Can- dahar, Three Thousand Natives Enlist Under the Banners of the British, Passage of the Afghan Supply Bill © in the Britlsh House of Commons, Turkoy and En}zland Negotiate Con-. cerning the Ocoupation of Cyprus, Tarklish Sovercignty to De Respeeted, but the English to Rule tho Roosts Weokly Beview of the English and Qonti. nental Breadstuffs Trade, AFGIIANISTAN. . LYTTOX TO THE NATIVES, Lanonx, Dee. 17.—Lord Lytton to-lay re- celved 8,000 auxiils furntshed by uative princes, He made a speech, in the course of which Lie declared that Great Britaln was never an ungenerous foc, but justice must precede generosity. He hoped that the Ameer, warned by Lis disusters, would render uunccessary fur- ther operations, The auxiliaries will go to Peshawur on Satur- day to guard the communications of the Khyber columan, The Cashmero contingent fs absent, Itls sald they are required for the anuncxation of Chitral, or Little Casbgs, ocnd portions of Uullanr aod Sevat, which 1s sanctioned by thu Brittsh, JELALABAD. ‘Loxnox, Dec. 17.—A dispatch from Peshawnr says it {s reported that Gen, MacPherion's brig- ¢ has occupicd Jelalabad, CANDARAR. J.oxpoN, Dee. 17.—A correspondent at Dadur says Gen, Stewart has seat pressing or- ders [or.all troops to advance as specdily ns possible, This probably tneans au advauce on Candabar, GREAT BRITAIN. TAR NUODOPR AID RESOLUTION. Loxnon, Dec. 17.—~The Times says: * The In- troductlon and withdrawal of tho motion for grauting ald to suflcrers in tho Rhodope districe becomes very simplo when the reasons are atated, It wasthought by tho Ministers that tho distross revenled by the report of the Rho- dope Cominlssion was s flttiog object for Parlla- mentary aid, but it would have been indecorous to make an act of charity the occasion of a heat- «ed debate, and tho purpose of the Government was 1o sooner kuown than it was clear jt wonld ba resisted on both sides of the Hlouse.” ROYAL MOURNRRS, LONDON, Dec. 17.—~The Prince of Wales, Prince Cristlan, and Princo Leopold, flave left for Darmstadt to attoud tho funerat of Priucess Allee, BLACK FRIDAT, Loxpox, Dec. 17.—Tha trial of tho City of Glasgow Bank Directors {8 fixed for Friday next. b WIIAT TIE DUKK OF NDINGURO DID NOT $AY. L.onpox, Dee, 17.—A communication from the Admiralty declares that thero 18 no truth whatever In tho report of au interviow with the Duke of Edloburg while at alifax, publishied recently in a New York journal, fn whicn Lis Royal Highuess was mudo to say that he looked upon the author of England's now * peacc-with- honor " pollcy with fucliogs of tho utmoat dis- gust; that the acquisition of Cyprus wns in no sense o galn; ond that thu One Hundred sod Kirst Regiment was nearly all sick sinco it went there, and had lost b great many men in tonscquence. . THR APONAN DRBATE Loxpox, Dec. 17.~In the House of Commons to-night the debate on Btauhops’s resolution that the Housa consent to the defrayal of the cxpendes of the Afghan war from tho Indian revenues was concluded, ‘The House divided on Fawcott's amendment declaring the proposition u) I;n. and tho amendment was rofected—i to 128, . Btanhiope’s resolutlon was then adopted with- out a divisiom, Parifament has adjourncd until Fob. 1, 1870, Duriog the final debate in the lloyse of Cow- mons to-night, Bir Btaffard Northcote sald bo considered that under ordinary circumistances Indin should bear the expensé of hostitics with her immediate nnlv“bon, but the case would be differcat {f a distant onemy was mov- ing on Indlg, because that wondd be hoatility tu the Empire. He trusted the war was nearly concladed. They would be better informed It 1 month as to {ts real extent and signiticauce. 11s folt sure that, if it becanie necessary to sus- tain tho linperial strenttb, the, veople of Eu- eland would willingly contribute, The Marquls of 1lartington roplicd, clostog tho debato. ELECTION RIOT, Loxvox, Dec, 17.—Lfcut.-Col. Charles J. Tottevhant, Couservative, has been clected to Tarllament from New Ross, Ircland, by five ma- Jority, deleativg Delany, Home-Ruler. — After the dcclaring of thy poll, s Home-Rule mob paraded the town, throwing floncs and other- wiso disturbing the peacs, The polico are now patroliing the placo. . | —— FOREIGN GRAIN-TRADE. WERKLY RRVIEW. Loxpoy, Dee, 17.~The Mark Lane Erpress says: * Very Httle was dono the past weck as farus the final sowing of wheat {s conperned fn this country or the vorth ot France, but the sp- pearanco of tho young viant does not oceaston much anxlety, Farmers have been ¢uabled to tlresh under more favorable conditions, and the quality and condition of home offerjugs vf hume- grown grsin have conscquently jmproved. Deaplte this fact trude {s unusually dull. il ers are wot disposed to incrcase thulr stocks; but independeutly of this, the commorcial at- mosphere of the ountry is clouded by the rufo- ous state of the trule in the manufacturing dis- trl nd the distrust occasioned by hoavy dis- abilities in finauctal circles. Bhipméntsfrom Bt Peteraburg belug practically ended,and Caltturoia supplies still lu the distaiice, tho ssteation of the trado will ceotre um the_action ot the e judiclous manage- meut of their large resources the future couriv of vrlees fu this country will chiefly depend. It must be gd.mlmd that, independently of posaaible poditical contingencics.any marked sd- vance fo the prico of wheat ts ditfeult to fore: see, eapeddally us there is o lttls unemployed capital o the country avallable for speculative urposes, but, on tbe otber biand, the probabili- y of ssevera wiuter 18 & strung oD the side ot holders which justifics their abstention from pressivg sales ut the moment, and may ralse valucs & few snillloge per quarter at 00 distant date. —— TURKEY, MURDERED. Loxvos, Dee. 17.—~The Willlam Anderson, Buperiutendeat ol tha Eastesu Telegrapn Cow- pany, who was murdered st Candia, Crete, Sst- urday, was she nephew of 8ir Jawmes Andersod. Managiog Dircctor, . orrRUs CoxstANTINOPLE, Doc, 17.—The Porle asd Great Britain aré negotlatiog concerulng Britsh Jurisdiction over foreigners tn Cyprua. Grest Britalu recogulzes the Sultan's soverelgoty over the islaud, but deoies that tho capitulstion von- firn\nx cousular jurisdiction fs stil] applicable et TUR AMERICAN PRISONER. Loxpoy, Dec, 17.—A correspondent st Peath savs Rower. the alleged Awcrican citizen lo-