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ENGLAND AND CHINA, The Speck of War Not so Big as It Seemed, NO INSULT T0 THE BRITISH ENVOY. Exaggerated Reports of the British Press. (sPxcIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD BY CABLE.) Lonvon, August 27, 1875. The Henaxp office here has received from official sources information to the effect that the published reports concerning serious tomplications between the British Envoy, Hon. Thomas Francis Wade, C. B., and the Chinese government are greatly exaggerated, NOT INSULTED, AS REPORTED. It is not true that the British Minister was “insulted” by the Chinese Ministers, or that he asked for instructions to the purpose that troops were needed for his assistance in securing the object of his mission to Pekin. THE MINISTER'S ONLY COMPLAINT. He simply complained of the obstructions thrown in his way in the investigation ofthe Margary affair, AN AMICABLE SOLUTION OF THE DIFFICULTY. At the Foreign Office the difficulty is con- sidered as one of a merely diplomatic char- acter, and is already in course of amicable rangement. OTHER ACCOUNTS. THE BRITISH MINISTER, REPORTED AS HAVING BEEN INSULTED, CALLS FOR AID FROM HIS GOVERNMENT. Bonmary, August 26, 1875. The Gazette of this city publishes a state- ment that the British Minister at Pekin has been thwarted and insulted in his negotia- tions with the Chinese government, and he has telegraphed to London for instructions ind for reinforcements to the British troops in China, NEWSPAPER REPORTS PURPORTED TO BE RE- CEIVED FROM THE FOREIGN OFFICE. Loxpoy, August 27, 1875. The Manchester Guardian and Birming- ham Post publish, in their special despatches from London, information which corroborates the report of the Bombay Gazelle, and pur- | ports to be derived from the Foreign Office here, ' Not 60 BAD AS IT SEEMS—HIGHLY COLORED . REPORTS. Lonpoy, August 27—3 P. M. The Central News Agency states on author- ity that a communication has been received from the British Minister at Pekin complain- ing of the manner in which he has been treated by the Chinese government since the Burmah affair, and desiring to have his hands strengthened in case of need; but he has not been irisulted, and the reports as to the seriousness of the trouble are highly colored and exaggerated, SPAIN. BUBRENDER OF SEO DE URGEL—THE BISHOP OF THE PLACE MADE PRISONER. PERPIGNAN, August 27, 1875. Seo de Urgol has capitulated. The Alfonsist army oc- cupied the forts this morning. The garrison were made prisoners of war, and were taken to Puycerda. The Bishop of Seo de Urgel was also taken to Puycerda asa prisoner of war. FRANCE. 4 GERMAN CATHOLIC PILGRIMAGE TO FRANCE EXCITING CONSIDERABLE DISCUSSION IN THE coUNTRY. Panis, August 27, 1875, The pilgrimage from Germany is exciting considerable discussion in France. Le Moniteur says France is open to all foreigners, but that the government is entitled and bound to oppose all assemblages or displays of banners and insignia calculated to disturb public order, and it will not fail in its duty, The government and public opinion of France agree that it is their duty to abstan from interference with the discussions and conflicts in Germany between Church and Stato, and for the sake of peace, which is ing French territory the scene of their religious dis- cussions, ADMIRAL WORDEN'S BANQUET. THE HOSPITALITY OF THE MAYOR OF SOUTHAMP- TON RETURNED BY ADMIRAL WORDEN AND HIS OFFICERS ON BOARD THE FLAG SHIP FRANKLIN, Sovrnamprox, August 27, 1875, Admiral Worden and the officers of the three Ameri. can war-vessels in this harbor reciprocated the hospi- tality recently extended to them by a reception and banquet on board the flag ship Franklin this afternoon to their late entertainers. The ship was handsomely decorated, The banquet was enlivened by music from the bands of the fleet, and after the refreshments dancing followed. A BRILLIANT RNTRRTAINMENT, The entertainment was the most brilliant ever wit- nessed in the waters of Southampton, Eight hundred guests were present, among whom were Commodore Commerel; Right Hon. William Cowper Temple, mem- ber of the House of Commons for South Hampshire, the members for Stafford, the Mayor and principal offi- cers of the city government and a large number of the | prominent citizens of Southampton, SAILING OF THR SUNTATA, » The Juniata sails on Saturday for Lisbon, the Alaska for Havre, and the Franklin on Monday for Gibraltar, THE ROYAL YACHT COLLISION, mein cts THE INQUEST IN THE CASE ADJOURNED—JURY UNABLE TO AGREE, Piymourn, August 27, 1875, After ten hours’ deliberation to-day the jury holding an inquest into tho collision of the royal yacht with the yacht Mistlotoe, were unable to agree, The inquest has boon adjourned until the noxt Winchester Assizes, and the jurors and witnesses bound over to appear, THE INSURGENT NEGROES. “, Ga., August 2 A. N. Wilson, United States Commissioner at nah, arrived here today and consummated arrange- ments for the defence of the negro prisoners here charged with insurrection by Amos T. Akerman, who was the immediate predecessor of Williams im the United States Attorney Ganeralshiv, ane NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. } dear to us and desirable to the Germans, to avoid mak- | Camel are ns f | Louderdale, THE TRIPOLI TROUBLE. AMICABLE SETTLEMENT OF THE AFFAIR—AN AMERICAN CONSUL WITH ‘‘UNDIGNIFIED AND PALTRY" COMPLAINTS—HE 18 ALARMED AT TRIFLYS LIGHT AS ATR AND SHUNNED BY HIS COLLEAGUES. Maura, August 27, 1875. The United States steamer Hartford left Tripoli yesterday, arrived at Malta this even- ing and proceeded Memel on her way homeward, The difficulty between the American Consul and the Tripolitans was settled on Thursday, an apology having been made to the Consul in accordance with orders from the Porte. Nevertheless, the matter, which originated in some sea- men entering the Consul’s garden for is considered . undignified and paltry. The American Consul is isolated from his colleagues except the Dutch and Belgian. He is unnecessarily alarmed, and intended starting for Malta in the Congress on Friday evening. matches, THE NEWS OF THESETTLEMENT IN WASHINGTON. Wasurnaton, August 27, 1875. The Acting Secretary of the Navy to-day received a telegram from Captain David B. Harmony, commanding the United States steamer Hartford, to the effect that the trouble between the United States and Tripoli, growing out of the insult to the American Consul, had been amicably settled. APOLOGY OF THE PACHA, The Pacha apologizes to the United States, promises that the offending parties shall be punished and the Consul protected. DETAILS BY MAIL, The details Captain English, commanding the United States steamer Congress, will for- ward by mail. SIR EDWARD WATKIN AND PARTY. INSPECTING THE SHOPS OF THE ERIE ROAD AT SUSQUEHANNA, BINGHAMTON AND ELMIRA, Horwenisvinn, N, Y., August 27, 1875, Sir Edward Watkin and party, after carefully ex- amining the Susquehanna shops and taking account of | property there, where 500 men are employed, left at nine A. M, ona special train. A brief halt was made at Binghamton for a similar purpose as well as Elmira and Corning, At the former place there are about 450 men employed and at this point forty men. ‘The coal property was also examined along the route, and Solicitor Morris did some careful figuring, with a view to discover how the $60,000,000 invested by his clients in Europe 1s to be accounted for, Superintendent Bowen and the Erie employés took special care to allow no one to communicate with the Englishmen, but it is understood that Sir Edward Wat- kin is not satistied that all the company’s speculations in coal property are likely to prove successful, Dor- man B, Eaton is said to be associated with Solicitor Morris as a legal expert. At Elmira the party were ered an impromptu ovation, which included a colla- tion and a ride to the Driving Park, After the ovation the party proceeded to this point, where an examina- tion of the shops was made, Butlalo, where they will spend the night. de} whi of the distinguished party. Road, is also in the party. Los ‘Trams are ved, owing to two smashups at Corning and Canesteo, 1, however, were not got up for the entertainment Mr. McFarland, of the Erie T. THE COMET, AFTER A COLLISION, GOES DOWN IN LAKE SUPERIOR WITH TEN OF HER CREW AND FIFTY TONS OF SILVER ORE. Detroit, Mich., August 27, 1875, At half-past eight o’clock last night, while off Parisien | Island, Lake Superior, the propeller Comet was struck amidships on the port side by the British steamer Manitoba, and sank almost immediately. The Manitoba was uninjured. ‘The Comet was bound east, and had no passengers. Of her crew of twenty half were drowsed, The sur- vivors are Captain Dugot, the first and second officers, two white men, hands and one fireman, It is which was at fault. The commander of Manitoba says he saw only the light, while the Captain of the Comet claims that only the light of the Manitoba was in view. The Comet was of 622 tons burden and was eighteen years old. Her cargo consisted of fifty tons of silver Ore, a large quantity of copper and 600 tons of pig iron, Itis rumored here to-night that the steamer Persian, valued at $250,000, and with a full list of passengers and heavily laden with freight, was burned on Lake Erie this morning. DISASTROUS STEAMBOAT COLLISION. Derrorr, Mich., August 27, 1875. The Canadian steamer Manitoba came in collision with the propeller Comet above White Fish Point, Inke Superior, at half-past eight —_ o'clock the last evening, and sunk her almost instantly. Ton lives | were lost and ten persons were saved, including tho captain and first mate of the Comet, No one was in- jured on board the Manitoba, and she is now bound down with the survivors of the Comet, LATER DETAILS OF THE DISASTER. Saune Sre. Marte, Mich., August 27, 1875. Tho steamer Manitoba, of Beatty's lino, arrived here at nine o’clock this morning, having run back from White Fish Point with the survivors of the crew of the propeller Comet, whieh was sunk Jast night off Parisian Juiand. The “namos of the persons saved. from the Duyot NX. Y., tirst mate pnd mate John leveland, captain; John Gore, of William H. Weaver, of © mes Rafforty and Leopold Smith, ott, lookout; Charles Connor, por: Troy, land, se wheelmen an, name unknown, Among the drowned are Babey and Brown, first and second engineers, and some others whose names are un- known. mot was owned by Hart & Co., of leveland. $25, 000, known here. EXECUTION, WILLIAMS, THE NEGRO, EXPIATES HIS CRIME— A FULL CONFESSION FROM THE SCAFFOLD. Sranoarn, N. C., August 27, 1875, Cornelius Williams, a negro, was hanged at Jackson, | Northampton county, N. ©., at noon to-day for the murder of Arthur Presson, a bridgekeeper at Weldon, j in this State, ‘The crime was committed in June, 1874, but the, law's proverbial delays haye worked to the murderer's advantage, THK EXECUTION, * ‘The day opened dark, damp and dismal, At noon tho prisoner was brought out, He mounted the four stops: of the ladder leading to the scaffold with a firm but serious air, The gallows was crected in tho northeast corner of the enclosure, about the old wooden jail, Nearly one thousand persons were assembled, some of whom climbod — trees and perched thomecives, in the = Court House — windows overlooking the tragic scene, As public executions are now prohibited by statute only a small number were admitted to the jail yard, Williams was clad ins a brown linen suit, With a white handerehief about hs forchead. He spoke for sixteen minutes, making a full confession, and giving minute details of the crime. No clergyman was present, His feet and arms were s justed about the neck, par, the black cap was drawn face with open eyes, which me harangu» which suppor axe al twenty-eight minutes past twell M. The fall was three feet, He struggled for thrve minutes and in six minutes life was found extinet, though the neck urely Wed. ‘The noose was al. over his brief prayer, y prop with an he was not broken, ‘The body was immediately placed in a, pine coflin and buried. GRASSHOPPERS IN THE SOUTH. 7, 1875, tho blades of corn in Calbert and Alcorn counties, Alabaina, They have already devastated many fields and the farm. ers are spreading straw over the wheat stubble, thus driving them from those fields by burning them up, ean, Augns ‘They’ then proceeded to | the lookout, the porter, two deck | impossible to say | Comet’s green | Murphy and Peter Handlon, deck hands, | uation on the undefwriter register | The amount‘of the insurance is not | with the knot under the right | WRANGLING * RECHABITES. AN ACRIMONIOUS DEBATE ON THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION AT THE EVANGELICAL CONVENTION— THE SETTLEMENT OF THE QUESTION AD- JOURNED UNTIL TO-DAY. Care May, N. J., August 27, 1875. The topics for discussion at the Evangelical Con- vention to-day were the temperance question and the observation of the Sabbath, but the reading of yester- day's minutes revived the discussion of the unity of the churches, and a spirited and spicy debate was the re- sult, Drs, Nevin and Grammar being the leaders. The former urged a common communion, an exchange of pulpits and a close outward union of the Protestant denominations against Romanism. Dr. Grammer de- nounced this as impracticable and said he was opposed to organic union, and thought too close a drawing to- gether would be injurious, Too near proximity would cause repulsion, Every man must have room to do his work for Christ in his own way. Organic union was centralization, which was the foundation of the Roman Church. He was opposed to any outward union. The+ | essentials of Christianity were not outward. The venerable Dr. McKinney and others took part in | the discussion, and after they had. been heard the fol- Jowing resolutions wore offered by Dr. Pitzer and agreed to by the various denominations represented :— THE RESOLUTIONS, Resolved, That this Convention affirm its approbation of that precious doctrine held by all branches of the Chureh of Christ—viz., the communion of saints. » Resolved, That this communion is a participation by all believers in Christ in the benefits and blessings of the common salvation purchased by Him for all of every age, land and denomination who receive and rest upon Him by faith, The various branches of tho Church of Christ cannot create amity; their function is sinply to recognize and manifest it, to show forth in life and worship their union and com munion with Christ and with each other through Him, We hiail, with devout gratitude to God, the fact that the various’ evangelical churches are ‘more and more | realizing and manifesting thix precious doctrine of the | oneness of all believers, While we believe with all | nts in the one, holy, universal Church, and that this ess 18 living, organic, inward and spiritual, yot we also believe that this unity finds its proper and appro- priate manifestation, not only in common acts of wor- ship but in mutual recognition of official and ecclesias- tical acts and ordinances; and hence we pray the Great of the Church to speed the day when each evan- gelical Church shall recognize the validity and Christian. character of the ministry, ordinances, certificates and sacraments of every other sister Church. THE TEMPERANCE TOPIC, After the passage of these resolutions the order of the day was taken up. Rey. Dr. Fisher, editor of the German Reformed Messenger and other religious papers, delivered his arguments, which principally went over old ground. At the afternoon session Rey. H. ©. Gross- man, of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the State Commis- sion of the prohibition party, made an address to show that legislation and political means were more neces- | sary to bring about a temperance triumph than exhor- tations and mere religious measures, He denounced Governor Hartranft and the corrupt Pennsylvania Legis- lature for repealing the Local Option law, and thought that the time had come for union at the polls. Resolutions were adopted favoring prohibitory legis- Jation and urging ministers to preach frequently in its favor, Dr, Fisher opposed legislation, and said no prog- ress had been made in the temperance cause for } twenty years, and this was to be attributed to the | means employed. He believed in appeals from the | pulpit. y A resolution asserting that it is the duty of churches | | to discipline all members drinking intoxicating liquors or selling them precipitated: an excited contest. Dr, Nevin earnestly favored the square meeting of the issue, He hinted very strongly that ministers toadied to rich rumselling members of the Church for the sake of certain little presents. He refused to admit such to his church, | This insinuation was denied with much virtuous indig- nation by several country clergymen, Dr. Tunley was in favor of the resolution, He knew of a man dis- ciplined for getting drunk who had become so in a tavern kept by an elder of that very church, Dr, Pit- zer combated this extraordinary resolution, which, he said, would array many ministers against the policy of their churches. The question was finally adjourned until to-morrow for settlement, and a sharp fight is in prospect. An interesting lecture on ‘How to Read the Scrip- tures with Proper Effect’? was delivered by Professor | Reade, the elocutionist, and the Convention adjourned, THE SUMMERING SOLDIERS. GOVERNOR LIPPITT, OF RHODE ISLAND, REVIEWS THE SEVENTY-FIRST—SPEECH MAKING ALL AROUND—A RIFLE MATCH IN PROSPECT. Camp Livritt, OAKLAND Beacu, August 27, 1875, Governor Lippitt, of Rhode Island, accompanied by his staff, reviewed the Seventy-first regiment this after- noon ata quarter after four o'clock, His Excellency arrived from Providence shortly after twelve o’clock, | and was afterward conducted to the Oakland Beach | Hotel. At four o'clock, accompanied by Colonel Vose and officers of the Seventy-first, he proceeded to Camp Lippitt and was received in the headquarters tent by the Colonel commanding. After opening some champagne Colonel Vose made a few remarks welcoming Governor Lippitt. In conclusion he said that Mr. Wyman would express his views and those of the officers under him. Mr. Wyman made a neat speech, in which he referred to the friendly feeling existing between the people of Rhode Island and the Seventy-first’ regiment, and touched upon the necessity of States preparing in times of peace for war. The Governor replied on behalf of the State and people of Rhode Island, saying the regiment | | would be as welcome as at present if it chose to prolong | its stay for two weeks or éven a month. Governor | | Lippitt then presented his staff to the Colonel and | officers of the Seventy-first. After this exchange of | | courtesy the Governor and staff, accompanied by Colonel | Vose and officers of the Seventy-tirst, went to the parade ground, where the troops were formed. When the ceremonies of dress parade were gone through with His Excellency reviewed the regiment, Fight com. mands, of sixteen files each, were on the field, When the review was ended the Governor took Jeave of the | Seventy-tirst and went to Providence by steamer, A RIPLE MATCH, To-morrow a rifle match comes off between Com- pany K, Seventy-trst regiment, and Company ©, Provi- dence light infantry. General Banks is expected to be present. CAUGHT IN CANADA, CHURCH, THE EMBEZZLING CLERK OF FE. ® garrray & CO,, IMPRISONED IN MONTREAL, Montrean, August 27, 1875." John Phillips, of New York, arrived in Montreal to-day, and, having obtained the services of advocates, caused warrants to be isstied against Charles A. Church, a clerk, formerly of New York. Church was arrested last evening, and held to bail in $10,000, on a charge of | having defrauded Messrs, BE, 8. Jaffray & Co., of New | York, It appears Charch was chief of the ribbon de- partment of the firm mentionod, and had fraudulentiy | initialled a largo number of invoices in favor of one | | David Phillips, a Jew broker, of New York, The in- | Voices purported to be for goods sold and delivered to the firm by said Phillips, ‘The goods were never de- | livered, but the firm relying upon the faith of their em. | ployé and bis iniuals, gave checks to the amount of each invoice, and thereby Phillips obtained cash for said chee h, a8 he has since sworn, he handed to Chureh, Jess a small discount. In this ‘way the firm | was delranded toan amount as yet unknown, but it is expeoted that the accused may make further revola- | tions, It 18 understood warrants of extradition in this | matter have been issued. In one aflidavita sum of | $6,841 is stated to have been taken, The prisoner was | taken to jail in default of bail. | | HONORS TO A CENTENARIAN. Nasnvitie, Tenn, August 27, 1875, The one hundredth birthday of Mrs, Mary Vaughan was celebrated at her homo, in Williamson county, to, day. She was born in Nottoway county, Virginia, Au- gust 27,1775. She is the mother of seven sons and eight daughters, fourteen of whom arc married. The | family is not only large in numbers, but its members are giants in sizo, but few of the men coming under six feet in height, even down to the fourth generation. Five hundred ‘persons assembled around a stand gar- Janded with flowers to do honor to the hundredth birthday. Short addresses were made, songs sung | and prayers offered, After the religious serviecs the assemblage formed a procession, in which were 100 of her descendants, and, headed by her, it marched to a | grove and partook ‘of a sumptuous dinner, Her | faculties are all unimpaired; she hears well, uses | no spectacles, and frequently walks a mile. She at- | tributes her Jong lite to habits af uninterrupted indus- try and uniform obedience to her husband. — She wove the cloth which uniformed her grand and great grand- sons as soldiers of the Confeder She has now 450 living descendants, THE INDIAN COMMISSIONERS. | Omana, Neb., August 27, 1875, The Indian Commissioners will all be here, excepting General Terry, who is now at Bismarck, Dakota, but expects to join the Commission during next week, Sen- ator Howe, of Wisconsin, has been telegraphed to by jommission, to- Commissioner Smith to ‘act as one of the He is now at Denver. ‘The party will Ie morning for the Red Cloud Agency via Cheyenne, and for Fort Laramie. The exact location of the Council | has not yet been determined upon, but it will be in the | | neighborhood of the Red Cloud Agen | DIAMON D DISCOVERY. Bostox, August 27, 1875, A special to the Herald reports the finding at the Now- | buryoort mines of a rough diamond yaluod at $5,000, | jorrow | lowed more control than any other agency. | York city banks alone PAPER VS. GOIN. Letter from Wendell Phil- lips on Currency. LEGAL TENDER NOTES. “The People Stand Be- hind Them.” The following letter from Wendell Phillips has been addressed to Mr. Eugene Beebe, Secretary of the Legal Tender Club, It gives in forcible language that gentle- man’s views on the delicate question of a circulating medium, and will be read with interest by all who have money or want it:~- Avausr 23, 1875. Mr. Evens Brxnx, Secretary of the Legal Tender Club:— Dear Sin—I appreciate the great importance of your agitation to prevent further contraction of the cur- rency, and am sorry I shall not be able to attend your meeting in September, It seems to me there are but two questions to be considered touching the currency :— #irst—Upon what basis shall it rest ? Second—How much of it shall we have? A long time ago there might have been a third—of what shall it be made, gold and silver or paper? But the experience of business men long ago answered that inquiry and settled it beyond recall, that throughout Christendom the currency must be paper. It is idle to talk to-day of a specie basis, That gentle hallucination has been encouraged to quiet timid men and delude the masses, But the thing itself has not really existed for fifty or a hundred years. Great Britain, where, if any- where, such a basis could be maintained, has to-day fifty cents of coin to $100 of paper. (Patterson, Science of Finance, pp. 5, 6, 27, 28, 37, 38, Edinburgh, 1868,) \ Any individual may have that fifty cents, provided he does not need it, and provided there is no special rea- son why he should have it, Ifat any time his business absolutely requires that he should have that fifty cents of coin at, that time he cannot have it, A specie basis of fifty cents coin to support $100 paper! It reminds me of that Irish six-bottle toper who always sat down to drink with asmall bit of a strawberry at the bottom of his wine glass and kept it there through the evening— “It gave so fine a flavor to the wine!? Doubtless that fifty cents coin gives a strong specie flavor to the vast system of British paper and makes Bull feel warm and comfortable, Political economy settles very few points by theoriz- ing. Now and then experience decides a question, and it passes into accepted and undeniable truth. In this way business experience has decided that currency, in civilized and commercial nations, must rest on credit and consist of paper. Thus experience answers our first question; the currency does rest and must rest on credit. Whose shall that credit be? Shall it be the credit of banks and thoir customers or the credit of the nation? This question also experience has answered: Before the war we had banks resting each one on its own credit. We all remember the result. Tho bills of a bank ceased generally to be current a hundred miles from its own counter. You lost ten per cent in changing those of the South and West for Eastern bills; and Horace Greeley demurely told the committee who paid him a handful of Western bills, “If convenient I should much prefer a well executed counterfeit on some Eastern bank.’? What makes our national bank bills good, and equally good, everywhere to-day? The nation stands behind them. Such notes pass everywhere, and everywhero at’ the same value, because the nation guarantees them. All the note cur- rency we have rests on national credit, directly or indi- rectly. Noman can give a reason why they should not all rest directly on national credit; why all bank bills should not be withdrawn and legal tenders supply their place. In building a house you do not puta platform be- tween the house and its foundation. Certainly not. Your walls rest directly on your foumdation. To-day the nation pays the banks $20,000,000 or more to allow them to play the useless part of standing between it (tke nation) and its own currency, Dr. Franklin’s hero, who asked his victim to pay for heating the poker, was a most reasonable person and a Solomon compared with ourselves in this matter. I have heard of an incompetent man put under guardianship and obliged to pay trustees liberally for taking care of his property, but I never heard of one put under guardian- ship and paying his guardian liberally and then obliged to do all his own business besides, which is exactly our case. We furnish the credit that supports these bank bills and then we pay the banks for using that credit, Bagehot, the highest authority in England, says the public takes Bank of England bills without inquiry or hesitation, because it knows that in any emergency the government will sustain the bank. Here our bills pass because the government is distinctly pledged to do so. The two great commercial centres have drifted into a currency based, in fact, on government credit, and they deliberately accept the situation, Our first question (On what shall our currency rest?) is fully answered by facts. In commercial nations it rests, and must rest, on government credit, Second—How much currency shall we have? No single man, officer or institution can decide or ever did decide this question. Currency made up of bank bills, deposits, notes, bills of exchange, &e., is like any other article of manufacture—we make as much of it as we need, The business of a country, when not inter- fered with, always settles the amount of its currency. Business creates, everywhere and at all times, just such and just so much currency as it needs. Banks and sec- retaries of treasuries imagine they determine the amount of the currency. As well might Old Probability claim that he determined tho weather. He and they only record what mightier forces do, Hats, shoes, wagons, rails, cloths, cotton, wheat—one year we want more, the next year less—who decides? Tho dealers in the article and the users of i, Does anybody advise going back to other days and having some board of wiscacres decide how much wheat shall be planted and how much cotton, how many loaves or wagons made? No such dreamer obtrudes himself on the public. But thousands | clamor for allowing bank directors and them alone to settle the amount of the currency. And they are al- The New increased the currency $3,000,000 ($2,957,200) in one month, September, 1874, and decreased it $6,000,000 in one week of March, 1875, ‘This aristocracy in tne money manufacture is an odious monopoly, alien to our institutions and harmful to our prosperity. What should we say if 500 men and such friends as they chose were allowed to plant wheat and mine iron while every one else was forbidden? Yet this is but another name for our present bank system, Let us cease, then, to have any plan either to enlarge or contract the currency, Let the government stand ready to issue all the currency any business man wishes and can give good security for, at low interest and convertible into long bonds. If necessary, in order to conciliate existing prejudice, let the capital of these bonds, having long terms to run, be payable in gold, Make greenbacks logal tender for all purposes, customs and all government dues included. There is’ every reason why this should be done, History is repeating itself, England never knew more prosperous years than from 1800 to 1820, during which she neither had gold, nor wished to have it, nor promised to pay gold to any one whatever. All that while sho extended and contracted her currency without any regard whatever to gold. Her enormous trade and expenditures were all paper and only paper, resting on credit and nothing else, Wo had similar prosperity during tho war and after, on the same terms, In 1820 England, yiekting to theorists and dreamers, tried to put this new wine into old bottles, and dragged her business back to methods a century old—to specie, Bankruptcy, the very Listory of which makes the blood coli to-day, blighted the Em- pire. It took half @ generation to recover from the | Comique, the Metropolitan and Wood’s Museum, mistake. No man can today begin to show that such suffering was necessary; that it achieved any good or that it effected any changes which could not have been as well made without it. We entered that samo yalley of the shadow of death when, in 1865, McCulloch began contraction, | We are hurrying fast to England’s 1820; property sunk to aif its former value; the streets crowded with un- | employed men fast rotting into criminals; grass grow: | ing on the wharves, inachinory rusting, wealth alarmed, | poverty starving. Woe to tho political party which the | gation shall finally pronounce responsible for this fatal mistake! No previous moérits will avail for its pardon, | other person on the schooner, 7 ito senders will be buried in curser, as men whom |, neither history nor their own experience could make | wise, We lament, as well we may, the widespread corrup- | tion of business men and office-holders, But where such corruption in high places steals a dollar, contrac- tion—this well meaning ignorance of bullionists—robs: the people of thousands. If this generation is ever bankrupt, its bankruptcy will not be the work of knaves, but of honest men following a jack 0’ lantern and dragging us to ruin. Yours, WENDELL PHILLIPS, WASHINGTON. GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCHES. Wasuixeto, August 27, 1875, ANNAPOLIS CANDIDATES TO BE EXAMINED. A Board of Naval Surgeons, to consist of Modical Inspector A. L. Gihon, President; Medical Inspector A. ©. Gorgas and Acting Assistant Surgeon J. J. Sowerby has been ordered to meet at Annapolis for the ex- amination of candidates for appointment as Cadet En- gineers and Midshipmen at the Naval Academy. DECREASE IN BRITISH EXPORTS TO AMERICA, The following statement showing a decrease in the ex- ports of the principal articles of British and Irish pro- duce and manufacture from the United Kingdom to the United States, during the seven months ended July 31, 1875, as compared with the corresponding period of 1874 is furnished by the Chief of the Bureau of Statis- tics :— Commodities. 1874. 1875. Alkali... + £685,202 £563,617 Apparel . £127,729 £58,889 Beer and ale, barrels 27,376 25,922 | Copper, unwrought, ewt...... 124 20 Copper, manufactured, cwt. 10T 99 | Haberdashery and milliner: £433,604 £381,023 | Hardware and cutlery £864,304 £340,819 lron—Pig... :, £152,619 £129,579 | Iron—Bar, angle Rites Cas ehatesed 2,379 1,762 | Iron—Raliroad of ail kind tong...... 72,631 17,439 Tron—Cast or wrought, ton: 15,048 6,724 Iron—Old, for remanufacture, | HOU sh odnvn dy 5,259 4415 | Steel, unwrought, tons. 7,603 6,257 | Leat—Pig, rolled, sheet, piping | and tubing, tons, 1,455 102 | Linen piece goods £1,994,880 —-£1,879,928 | Machinery... £125,791 £108,024 | Paper—Writing | and envelops. £24,046 £12,263 | Other kinds. £17,882 £9,202 Salt. £98, 988 £98,361 | Silk manufactures—Breadstufts £07,771 £57,009 | Ribbons........ £19,807 £10,289 Other articles of silk. £92,053 £45,599 | Articles of silk and other ma- | Cha £42,208 £18,192 | Stationery other than paper. £63,065 ‘Tin—Unwrought 109 £51,534 | Worsted stuffs £1,790,591 — £1,392,311 Carpets..... £420, 198 £218,970 AMUSEMENTS. MATINEES TO-DAY. At Wallack’s Mir. Mathews’ English comic opera troupe will give their first matinée to-day at half past one o'clock P. M. Boulotte has made a good impres- sion on the public. Wallack’s is the only place where “Too Much Care’ can just now be enjoyed. At the Olympic Theatre Mile, Leona Dare, the grace- ful gymnast, whose bold feats in mid air were wont to make nervous people feel uneasy, makes her last ap- pearance at the matinée at this house to-day, The last matinée performance of “Big Bonanza” takes Place to-day at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, The Cotton ‘and Reed minstrels give their first matinée performance at two P. M, The usual performances take place at the Theatre MUSIC ON THE MALL. The following is. the programme of the music to be played in Central Park this afternoon :— 1. March, “Les cent Ver; 2% Overtire, “Fra Diavolo” 8. Serenade, “Farewell”. 4 Waltz, “Looi Nights”? Strauss Verdi IL 5. Grand Selection, ‘‘Jerusalemme”’ 6. Mazurka, ‘‘Die Libelle”’ 7. Polka Brilliant for the C B. C. Bent. 8. Overture Jubel, Moan tc . 9. March, “Lovo Laid His Sieepless Head” 10. Quadriile, “Caledonian”...........++ 11, Aria from “Stabat Mater, “inflammatus™ 12 Medley, “Melody on chords”.......++ Finale, ‘‘National Airs.’’ «++-Lindpainter -Kappey Jullien . Rossini Dodworth | in no one ease have the; | witht daily as | Liver, THE GOETHE ANNIVERSARY. Judging from the very extensive preparations going | on, the 126th anniversary of the birthday of the great German poet, Goethe, to be celebrated this evening at Gilmore’s Garden, will bea magnificent affair. A fine | bust of the author of “Faust,” received’ here per | steamer Klopfstock, and to be presented to the Central | Park Commission, will be unveiled. An oration will be | delivered by William Cullen Bryant, and an original poem by Bayard Tgylor will bo read. The New York Saengerbunde has volunteered its services and will be led by Carl Bergmann. A new cantata, the words written | by Mr. G. Leonard, Vice President of the Goethe Club, is to be performed. Dr. Anthony Ruppaner, President of the club, has labored very hard to make the aflair a rand success. The Honorary Committee, consisting of fe York's most honored citizens, will occupy boxes atthe garden, while the members of the club are to bo seated immediately in front of the music stand, There can be no doubt that the celebration will be enthusiastic, THE MISSING HIGHWAYMAN. Constable Abraham Hamer, of Jamaica, L. L, and Deputy Sheriff Bonnett, with a party of men, were yes- terday engaged in searching the woods in the vicinity of where the supposed highwayman was shot, for the body. Constable Hamer is positive that the man must have been shot dead; but no trace can now be found of his body, and it is supposed it must have been car- ried off by confederates. OBITUARY. CAPTAIN PHILIP DOHERTY. Captain Philip Doherty, an officer of the Union Army during the late war, died at bis residence in this city on Thursday at the age of thirty-two years, When scarcely more than a boy he was commissioned a captain in tho Thirty-seventh regiment, New York Volunteers, and | during the two years’ service pertormed by this organi- | zation Captain Doherty was conspicuous for his cool- ness and bravery. At the conclusion of his term of en- listment ho joined the Veteran Volunteer Corps, and under General Hancock, in the Shenandoah Valley and in other campaigns, he earned distinction. At the close of the war he became identified with the Irish revolutionary party in this city and was a member of the expedition which sailed from here in ‘the Jacmel, land- ing in Ireland, and after many escapes returned to America, For the last few years disease contracted in the Chickabominy swamps had been gradually under- mining his constitution, which had been very’ strong, until at last it gave way, Ho was a favorite with all who knew him, FALL FROM THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE. Shortly after nine o'clock yesterday morning a sad accident occurred at the New York abutment of the Brooklyn Bridge. John McCann, residing at No, 330, Pearl street, employed asa laborer and helper to tho masons working on the summit of the abutment, acci- dentally fell from his high elevation to the earth, a dis- tance of more than 200 feet, and was instantly killed. His body was picked up in a’ horribly matilated condi- | tion and taken to the Oak strect station house, where Coroner Kesslor empanelled a jury, who viewed the ro- mains, Whether the unfortunate’ tripped and fell, or Jost his balance otherwise, 1s not yet known, but an in- quest will be speedily held. DROWNED AT ROCKAWAY. Yesterday morning, about eleven o'clock, & man hired a bathing suit at tho hotel of Green & Robinson at Rockaway. After the lapse of an hour, as he did not return, the bathing house was visited and his clothes found.’ On the clothes was found a letter directed to H. G, Lambert, No. 230 Franklin street, Greenpoint, | Up to a lave hour last evening his body bad not been found. she a | MURDER ON A SCHOONER. About six o'clock last evening the schooner Josephine Potts, of Port Jefferson, was lying off City Island. Her | captain, Lawrence, had a quarrel with the mato on deck, They went into the cabin and there continued, the noise being hoard by the cook, a young boy, the only Not long after the cook saw Captain Lawrence lying dead on the floor, having been killed with a blow from a hatchet by the mate, who presented a pistol to the boy's head and compelled | him to set bim ashore at King’s Point ina boat. He then at once made his escape, before the boy could givo any alarm. The murderer is described as about tive feet nine inches high, with heavy red whiskers and hair. but his name could not be ascertained. | fal of thove who have tr THOSE TWO FOES OF BODILY COMFORT—RHED- matisin.and the gout—cease their twinges if the affected part is daily washed with Giexn’s SULPHUR Soar, which banishes pain and renders the joints and muscles supple and elastien spot, ORITTENTON'S, No, 7 Sixth avenue, AT FLUSH —LOTS $300, AT FLUSHING—Six miles from New York city. AT FLUSHING—Two lines of railroad. 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