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Display Advertising (on Fourth Page only) double above rates. All Advertising is computed as Non pareil, 10 lines to an inch. Beading Matter Notices, First, Second and Fourth Pages, 25 cents per line. "Special Locals," Second Page, IS cents per line. Blading Matter Notices, Third Page, 20 cents per line. The GLOBE offers no yearly space, but proposes to charge by the line for the space occupied, and the charge for the last day will be the same as for the first, no matter how many insertions are made. Bates are fixed exceedingly low, and no charge is made for changes, as it is preferable to have new matter every day if possible. ST. PAUL. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16, 1878. DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. STATE TICKET. 't.Ue AuditorMahlon Black. Cleik of the Supreme CourtDillon O'Brien. CONGRESSIONAL TICKET. First DistrictWm. Meighen. Second DistrictHenry Poehler. Third DistrictIgnatius Donnelly. COUNTY TICKET^ District JudgeWescott Wilkin. SheriffJames King. AuditorS. Lee Davis. Probate JudgeHenry O'Gorman. County Commissioners (city)John Wagner. J. F. Hoyt. County Commissioner (country)Edward O.Rene. Superintendent of SchoolsEugene Hen drickson. LEGISLATIVE TICKET. Senator, 23d DistrictJ. &.. Reaney. Senator, 24th DistrictC. D. O'Brien. Representative, 1st and 2d wardsJ.N.Rogers. 3d wardJacob Mainzer. 4th wardL. B. Hodges. 5th wardJames Smith, Jr. CountryLorenzo Hoyt. POLITICAL MEETINBS. HON. IGNATIUS DONNELLY Will address his fellow citizens as follows: Alexandria, Wednesday, Oct. 16. Sauk Center, Thursday, Oct. 17. Melrose, Friday, Oct. 18. St. Cloud, Saturday, Oct. 19. Elk River, Monday, Oct. 21. These meetings will be held in the evening peaking to commence about 7:30 o'clock. Friends of the cause are requested to give the necessary notice and arrange as to halls. DOWN vriiL Washburn and the little brass kettles. "WHEN you hear a man blowing for Wash burn ask him how much he is paid. No one works for Washburn save for cash. THE strumpet of corruption is on his travels. Don't work for Washburn without your cash in hand. He is paying liberally for support. THB Cleveland Herald thinks the result of the Ohio election will tone up the Republican organization in other States. Yes it will prove about as good a tonic as a dose of tartar emetic. IT is really appalling" says Horace Ru blee in the Milwaukee Wisconsin, to witness the full degradation to which that once con servative party has descende I." Pray when did Horace's sobcituds for the Democratic party begin? THE socialistic spirit seems to be rampant in St. Petersburg. Incendiary bills are post ed through the streets, pamphlets circulated and threateniug letters sent to members of the government. Things appear to be rife for a revolution there. BILL KING admits through his paper that the testers used at Minneapolis are not only not reliable but positively dishonest. We would like to have better authority for this statement than Bill, but we nevertheless be lieve he speaks the truth for this time. IN the November elections the Republi cans will have to overcome thirty-eight votes to create a tie in the next House of Repre sentatives. The thing can't be did, and they might as well send the money they are spend ing in corrupting voters to the yellow fever sufferers. It will do far more good there than where it is now being employed. LET it be borne in mind that the Repub lican party assumes the responsibility of the robberies of the wheat ring. The secretary of the Republican District committee has is sued a manifesto formally defending the ring and Mr. Wasnburn's connection there with. It may be useful to know who re sponsible one of these days. "THE victory in Ohio, more dazzling than the most sanguine had dared to count upon, is profound and far-reaohing in its result1*," exclaims the Cincinnati Times. Dazzling though the victory may be we do not see a great many Republicans viewing it through smoked glass. They rather appear to be searching for it with a powerful microscope. TILDEK, throughout his Presidential canvass was surrounded by a crowd of questionable characters, peculiarly qualified i political dirty work of any description.Chicago Times. "Tilden, throughout his Presidential can vass, was surrounded by" the Chicago Times, which showed its peculiar qualifica tions for "political dirty work of any de scription." WASHBUBN defended the wheat ring in his 'Anoka speeoh, claiming ^hat the prices paid were nearly as-high as Milwaukee.' Now why should Milwaukee regulate the price of wheat bought at Minneapolis for milling wheat which never goes near Milwaukee? Supposing that the ring paid a fair price, as graded, what excuse does Mr. Washburn of fer for stealing a grade? WASHBUBN and his organs are shouting in chorus that it is the elevator men who make the grade. This is a lie, and they know it. The Millers' Association imported a grader from Milwaukee, and he has rejected a large number of cars because they did not grade to suit him. They were returned, and the local inspector lost 15 cents to 20 cents per bushel. Does not this prove that the ling decide what grade the elevator men shall work by? THE yellow fever is now prevailing at near ly a hundred cities and villages in the South. Never before, we believe, has the disease spread over so wide a territory. The deaths as far as reported up to date exceed eleven thousand. The negroes who have nocked to the supply depots for free rations have car ried the disease, which had been confined to the river bottoms, some two hundred miles inland, and much destitution, suffering and death are anticipated in oonsequ ence. HON. L. B. HODGES returned yesterday from his trip to select the lands of the Brainerd branch. He was greatly surprised to find that he had been nominated for the Legisla lature, as he did not seek the position. He was selected as the Democratic candidate be cause it was eminently proper that he should carry the battle into the Legislature. St. Paul should be proud of an opportunity to endorse one of nature's noblemen at the polls. Two high-toned thieves got gtheir just deserts on Monday, Hathaway, of Fall River notoriety, being sentenced to ten years in the Massachusetts penitential y, and Oakley, the defaulting cashier of the Merchants' Ex change bank of New York getting five years at Albany. A little more of this treatment will have a salutory effect, and induce those confided with the money of others to a little more honesty. Chicago has a dozen or more such rascals in her borders, but as yet it does not appear that any effort will be made to punish them. THE people in this Congressional district should remember that if they desire the full benefit of representation at Washing ton they must send a man who is in sym pathy with the majority in the House of Representatives. A Democratic majority in thatabody is already assured. Washburn will therefore be practically powerless to ac complish that for the district which he ought to do. Donnelly in Congress was a power for good, and time has not diminishel his energy, and in a Domuoratio House he can do more for Minnesota than a score of Washburns. WASHBUBN, the dumb orator, has made a speech. It was a heavy affair, of course. He denies being a member of the Millers' Association, but says he has "a small interest in the running of a mill, in which I (he) put a small amount of capital, but in the man agement of which I (he) have had no connec- tion." Did Mr. Washburn ever hear the re mark that "the partaker is as bad as the thief." Mr. Washburn's partner is the one who holds a membership for the firm in the association, and Washburn receives his sharo of the plunder. He cannot shirk the re sponsibihty by subterfuge or falsehood. THE order recently issued by Mr. Hayes instructing attorney generals throughout the South to see that Republican meetings are not disturbed by Democratic mobs is thus far a dead letter, for the simple reason that there have been no Democratic mobs that havfcinterfered with Republican gatherings. Now if the order could be made to work both ways, the attorneys would have plenty to do in preventing Republican mobs from interrupting Democratic meetings. But we fear the Democrats will have to protect themselves, as the administration will hardly respect their rights as they do the rights of Republicans. THE Chicago Times, after a careful re view of the results of last week's elections comes to the conclusion that "the rag baby is not dead," or if it is that it is a pretty lively corpse. It admits that if, two years hence, the Democratic and Greenback parties unite in favor of the principles which they have advocated separately this year, they will be able to sweep everything before them. This is an exhibition of candor that we did not expect from the Times, which has been the most intense hater of the Ohio idea in the country, ever ready to abuse and vilify those who advocate it. It is another proof that "things is workin'." BILL KING, the notorious and despicable Bill King, thus comments upon Mr. Hodges, than whom a more honorable gentleman does not live: ''The nomination of that blue-ribbon blath erskite, Hodge3. for the legislature, by the De mociaey ot St. Paul, yesterday, affords a full and complete explanation of that noisy dema gogue attack upon the Minneapolis Millers' association, and would seem to render any fur ther notice of him or his slanders wholly un necessary. The farmers, in whose behalf he at first pretended to Bpeak, but whom he so quick ly abandoned, can now see what the unscrupu lous knave was working for when he opened his campaign of falsehood and slander against the Minneapolis millers." Men of St. Paul, how do you enjoy hav ing a "perjured scoundrel" thus abuse one of our citizens, because he is laboring to relieve the people from a thraldom which is para lyzing and ruining the business of the State? Make your answer at the polls, by giving Mr. Hodges arousing majority. THE STATS TICKET. In the interest which is felt in the Con gressional election, the Democratic State ticket should not be lost sight of. There are but three officers to be elected, and as the nominee for Judge of the Supreme Court has declined, there is at present but two name? to consider. For State Auditor the Democrats have presented Capt. Mahlon Black, of Hennepin. Capt. Black is one of the most popular and most competent men in the State. He is county auditor at present, and if he had wished could have been re-elected in definitely. Every one knows him as a plain, honorable gentleman, and his popularity is as extensive as his acquaintance. There are some half a dozen Republican papers which have repudiated their own nominee and are flying Mr. Black's name at their mast-head. He will poll a very large Republican vote, as well as that of every Democrat in the State. Dillon O'Brien, the candidate for Clerk of the Supreme Court, is a man without re proach. He deserves more than the empty honor of a nomination. In season and out of season he has labored to advance the party, and now that the party has the oppor tunity to reciprocate it should give him a bumper. For a year past he has given his time to increasing the population of this State, and has done more efficient work than any other immigration agent ever in f^inM^M2^&l* J&sffifiMto mmmltmm^m &&* the field. If ever a man deserved thanks of a community practical and substantial that man is Dillon O'Brien. I THE POSSE COMITATUS. Ifcc For a long time past the authorities at Washington have been in great tribulation ever the posse comitatus clause of the army bill passed at the last session of Congress. Illicit distillation of spirits has been carried on to a considerable extent in North Caro lina, Arkansas and Tennessee, and the rev enue officers have had considerable diffi culty in suppressing the trade. Indeed, they have not yet succeeded in their undertaking, and may yet experience great trouble in fer reting out and punishing the daring moon shiners. It has been the custom heretofore to detail a company of United States troops to capture the offenders against the law and destroy their stills. This course saved the revenue officers a great deal of trouble. They could claim the credit of stopping illicit dis tillation without even so much as raising a hand in the work, and claim and collect their fees without having earned them. Be sides, this plan relieved them from any risk of punishment. They neither suffered from resistance from the moonshiners, nor were they liable for damages for the destruction of property not contraband under the laws. It was, indeed, a very convenient arrange ment for the revenue officers, but not very convenient for the troops, who of right had other fish to fry. In conformity with usage, and with the customary disposition to shirk then duties, applications for troops to sup press illicit distillation in the three States above mentioned have been forward ed to Washington, and several cabinet con sultations have been held on the subject Finally a conclusion has been reached, the attorney general finding that while the power given to the civil authorities to deal with such questions should be first exhausted be fore any attempt is made to employ troops, in case the President decides that an emer gency has arisen which demands military aid for the support of United States officers, then he must proceed under section 5,300, whish provides that whenever, in the judgment of the President, it becomes nec essary to use the military forces under the section which precedes it, he shall forthwith by proclamation command the insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their homes within a specified time. He is further of the opinion that the power of the civil 'iu- thorities in the cases under consideration has not been exhausted, and that until that power fails there is no authority for employ ing the military for the purpose. Reluctant though he is to formulate this opinion, he is obliged to state that it is the law, and must not be violated. If the posse comitatus clause of the army bill does no other good, it will accomplish this: It will impress upon our officials the fact that if they are employed to perform a specitic sorvice they must perform it, and not look to somebody else to do it for them. If they are incapable of doing their duty they should resign and allow the appoint ment of some one not as cowardly or negli gent as they. It will furthermore have the effect of teaching the revenue officers and the people generally that civil law is su preme in this country. It has become too common an opinion in all parts of the republic that the mili itary power is the most important factor in our government and this opinion has done more to degrade civil authority than any other. The civil authority must begin to make itself felt. If those charged with its administration do their full duty, the civil law will be restored to its full honor, and it will be unnecessary to call upon the military forces to enforce the laws in any case. When an emergency arises in which such a resort shall be necessary, the constitution prescribes the methods of procedure iu a sufficiently clear manner. But until such an emergency arises let the civil authorities do their full duty, and the civil law will be duly respected in every nook and corner in the land. Never, except in cases of the direst extrem ity, must the military forces undertake to en force the civil law. THE CHEYENNE OUTBREAK. Evidence begins to accumulate that our first supposition as to the cause of the Cheyenne outbreak was correct, viz: That it was due to a lack of proper sustenance through the shameful diversion of supplies from their proper channels by Indian agents. An officer who has just died from wounds received in a fight with the Indians, wrote a letter previous to his death in which he states that his observation had convinced him that sheer starvation had driven the Cheyennes upon the raid. For months they had not had proper food, and what they did receive was of a very inferior quality. So great was the destitution among them that they had been driven to eating the flesh of horses which had died from disease or other causes. Gen. Pope confirms this testimony in the most emphatic manner, at the same time remarking that he has frequently called the attention of the authorities to the lack of proper rations for-the Indians. There can be no valid excuse for this state of things. The appropriations for the support of the Indians have been ample for all legitimate purposes. They have averaged about five millions of dollars annually, with out reckoning the million or more derived from interest on funds invested for their benefit. The salaries of the seventy-four agents amount to around hundred thousand dollars a year, which leaves a handsome sum to be distributed in clothing and food. There need be no deficiency and there is no deficiency in the funds for this purpose. The truth of the matter is that the affairs of thQ Indian bureau have been grossly mismanaged and the rations issued to the aborigines dishonestly misappropriated by the agents and others connected with the de partment. No other explanation is admis sible under the circumstances, for no other explanation will account for the fact that with an abundance of provisions appropriat ed for the maintenance of the Cheyennes, they have for months been in a starving con dition. We cannot expect that the Indians will remain on their reservations with starva tion staring them in the face The most docile of our domestic animals will not do as much. Under the circumstances they were justified in leaving their reservation in search of food. That they committed murders and rapine in their course is much to be regretted and deplored but not to be wondered at. It is clear that something must be done to remedy the grave defects that are every day coming to light in the management of our Indian affairs. Fraud appears to be the rule, not the exception. Even though a man may have borne a spotless reputation through F n*%0. .^y^-*"^ life, it seems that the moment he becomes an Indian agent he becomes tainted with corruption. Some earnest efforts have been made to correct the abuses by the interior department, but for one cause or another they have proved abortive, end corruption yet stalks openly at almost every supply post and agency in the land. Unless the interior de partment shall prove itself competent to deal with the plunderers subject to its control, Congress must try the experiment of entrust ing the management of the Indians the war department, which gives promise of ability to administer the trust honestly. ABOZISH$THE BRASS KETTLES. Washburn and his champions declare that it is impossible to test grain any other way save by use of the brass kettles. It appears, however, that the State did at one time abolish the fraud and the following section was placed upon the statute book: Sec. 3. That all wheat or other grain to be tested for the purpose of fixing its grade, price or value, shall be tested by measuring one half bushel of each lot so to be tested, the sealed half bushel authorized by law. and the half bushel of grain so measured shall then be weighed upon duly tested authorized scales or balances, and the weight so ascertained shall be taken as the true. weight thereof, and the grade shall* be fixed ac cordingly. That no other device shall be used in grading wheat or other grain than that above named, and any person who shall other wise grade grain not his own, shall for every such offense, on conviction thereof, be find in any sum not exceeding $100, at the discretion of the court. Approved March 6, 1869. Under this law the brass kettles were shut out of the State, and some parties violating the law were arrested and convicted. The wheat ring then came in and secured the re peal of the law. This proves that the matter of grading can be regulated by law, and it already has been. OUT ON TH E PRAIRIE. Washburn Repudiated by Republtcuns The Insult Put Upon Dr. StewartThe People Sustaining Donnelly. To the Editor of the Globe: PELICAN RAPIDS, Otter Tail Co., Oct. 16. Since the political situation is growing so rife in our midst, the Third Congressional district, one of the regions where the air is becoming dense, I deem it right that your widely circulated medium should expound the truth unadorned to its numereus readers. Your humble scribe has just returned from a trip through the most populous parts of the counties of Becker, Clay, Wilkin and Otter Tail, and finds that forjthe first time the Re publican party is rent with internal conten tions. There are several reasons for this state of affairs. Stewart men have bolted near!} all the regular county conventions. They can not digest the mode by which Washburn was foisted on the people over a man whom there was naught against and who labored so assiduously for the amendment of the tree culture act, whicb so many of us are interested in. But the ways Loren Fletcher are similar to Bret Harte's Mongolian. Billy Washburn can ac complish a great deal in a Democratic and Greenback Congress. It is doubtful if he could be heard during the first session. I am happy to see the Scandinavi ans falling into the Greenback ranks. They are working men and know how often they have been led to the block by such collared men'as Doren, Listoe and others who make a living out of their suffrages. It will be ascertained after November that they are competent to act for them selves, by casting their votes for Ignatius Donnelly, who has got the interest of the working man at heart and is thoroughly competent to represent their cause, with the help of the other champion? of our wants, on the floor of Congress. The people of this region understand that they have nothing to gain by voting for such a man as the present Republican nomi nee, a man who emerged from bankruptcy like a phoenix,without a feather scorched,but his creditors were warmed slightly. I would ask my fellow working brethren if they will permit themselves to be hood winked by such a man and his cohorts?a man who represents a party that is constant ly passing enactments in direct antagonism to the working class by bolstering up mo nopolies and allowing the bondholders to run the toiler into a state of peonage. If we drift much longer this direction we will find the mechanic and laborer forced into the same stall as in hard money England. It is a fact that in the cities of Manchester, Leeds and Liver pool the pawnbrokers make a big percent age in lending clothing to the laborer or factoryman to make an appearance on Sun day. What has this great party ever done for the workingmen? They have forced amendments to the constitution it is true, and tried to fabricate force bills, etc, all for the "culled man." mostly to secure their votes and to perpetuate their power. When has any or them originated or introduced anything in Congress to alleviate the general condition of the working class, white and black? "Why, Congressman Wright, of Penn sylvania, was scoffed at by the St. Paul jour nals of the Republican stripe because he introduced a bill to lend the home steader $500. They ridiculed the idea. I, as a soldier of the rebillion, know as well as my fellow comrades, that all bills to give us a clear title to 160 acres of land, that have been introduced, were checked by the Repub lican technicalities. Logan, of Illinois, tried to do a good deal toward bounty equalization, but who invaria bly ran counter to his plans on the eleventh hour. The leaders of the party are mostly aristocrats, and would be titled lords and centralize the government in a few, if they dare take the step. A government for the masses is what the worker wants. A word to the scurrilous Dispatch, (which sometimes a stranger brings out here:) Don't make your calculations on too solid a delegation from Minnesota this time. Take warning. They did that down in the banner State leave yourself room to retract some. During the campaign I intend to exhort my fellow workingmen to their sense of duty, and though not aspiring to fame as a scribe, will aim to inform you of facts in the northwestern part of the district during the contest. Truly yours, etc., S. O. Dakota County Democratic Nominations. [Special Telegram i the Globe.] FARMINGTON, Oct. 15.The Democratic County convention was held here to-day. The assemblage was large, harmonious and enthu siastic. The following are the nominations, several of tbem being made by acclamation, and all heartily indorsed: AuditorMichael Heinen, present incum bent. SenatorGen. C. P. Adams, Hastings. HouseTimothy O'Leary, Hastings Dennis .Ryan, Marshan William Grace, Inver Grove William Murphy, Rosemont Edward Hyland, Lakeville. CommissionersSecond district," Nicholas Riplinger, Hampton James Catlan, Eagan. Winona County Republican Nominations'. [Special Telegram to the Globe.J WINONA. Oct. 15.The Republican county convention met here to-day, Senator Windom presiding. Mr. Ufford, Democratic nominee, was endorsed for auditor. N. H. Swift, St. Charles, was nominated for register, O. G. Gould, county attorney, F. D. Sloan, county commissioner. The Eighth' district Senatorial convention nominated J. J. Randal, of Winona, for Sena tor and C. G. Maybury, H. W. Mowbry, and James P. Berry for representatives. ^SP ey? ko*j&iiSr^ SH0KT FINANCIAL ESSAY WHAT IS A GREENBACK AND WHY GREENBACKS WERE 16 WEB. The Repudiation Poller of the Republican PartyThe Greenback a? Good as Gold and Silver Until it was Repadlated "What the Bond Luxury Has CostSome Suggestive Figures. I took occasion a few days since to de clare that if the government of the United States had confined itself to the issuing of greenbacks as a full legal tender and issued no bonds, we should to-day be free from all indebtedness, and that, if we had funded the gold we have paid for interest, we should be able to redeem every dollar of our out standing indebtedness and have a surplus of coin in the treasury. I now propose to prove the assertion, and through the proof of the fact demonstrate what it has cost the people to propitiate the money power in other words, to show that slavery and sub serviency to old dogmas forced upon the government by bank magnates and foreign usurers have cost the people more than $4,000,000,000. One fact is indisputable. It is this, that so long as the greenback was a full legal tender it passed everywhere as an equivalent gold and silver. The correlative fact is for as undeniable, that from the moment the greenback was repudiated by the law which stamped upon the back of every bill the dec laration that the government would not re ceive its own currency for its own import duties, and that it would not pay interest on the public debt, it at once became a depre ciated currency, and was forced to endure the fate of all other repudiated currencies until, in the strength of its sovereignty, its power and its representative value, it could overcome the abuse of capital, wear out the stigma of depreciation and nullify the po tent insolence with which accumulated wealth has divided and cursed the green backs as "inflated paper balloons," "lepers of credit," and "winning false moneys from the crucible called debt," consigning them to the fate of continental currency and de claring that they would be as worthless as the cart loads of French assignats which a beggar would have disdained to accept. This cry did not come from the people it did not come from the farmer, the mechanic, the laborer, or from any of the producers of the land. It did not come from the soldier who fought our battles, nor from sonless mothers or widowed wives whose hust ands gave their lives for liberty and" the country, but it came from bankers, brokers and capitalists who were determined to force the government into issuing interest-bearin bonds, instead of bills, as sovereign money. Every possible appliance was used to re duce the value of the repudiated greenback on the one hand, and to cry up the necessity of bands on the other, and yet it will be borne in mind that up to Jau. 2, 1864, the whole indebtedness, except that existing prior to the war, was in treasury notes, used as currency, except the $500,000,000 of Feb. 25,1862, when the real bond debt commenced to pile itself into huge proportions. In 18G4 the gieenback was at its lowest point, vary ing value as forced down by the money power from 38J^ cents on the dollar to 42J^. The bonds then issued were all paid for in treasury certificates, or in greenbacks, at gold basis. The debt Jan. 1, 1863, was 783,804,252 00 Interest paid on this sum to Jan. 1, 3864, including pre mium on gold, was 82 309,446 88 The principal of the debt bear ing interest Jan. 1,1864, was 1,600,000,000 00 The interest paid on this, in cluding gold premium, to Jan. 1, 1865, waB 114,000,000 00 The debt Jan. 1, 1865, in inter est-bearing bonds and certifi cates, was about 2,000,000,000 00 The interest on this to Jan. 1, 1866, was 169,000,000 00 The interest-bearing debt, Jan. 1, 1866, was 2,200,000,000 00 The interest on this to Jan. 1, 1867, was 176,000,000 00 The debt bearing interest Jan. 1,1867, was 2,100,000,000 00 The interest on this to Jan. 1, 1868, was 168,000,000 00 Tke debt bearing interest Jan. 1, 1868, was 2,050,000,000 00 Interest on this to Jan. 1, 1869 153,750,000 00 The debt bearing interest to Jan. 1,1869, was 2,000,000,000 00 Interest on this to Jan. 1, 1870 150,000,000 00 The interest-bearing debt to Jan. 1. 1870, was 1,950,000,000 00 The interest on this Jan. 1, 1871, was 140,400,000 00 The interest-bearing debt Jan. 1, 1871, was 1,900,000,000 00 Interest on this Jan. 1,1872... 136,800,000 00 This debt bearing interest Jan. 1, 1872, was 1,850,000,000 00 Interest on this Jan. 1, 1873.. 129,500,000 00 The interest-bearing debt Jan. 1, 1873, was 1,825,000,000 00 Interest on this Jan. 1, 1874... 120,000,000 00 The interest-bearing debt Jan. 1, 1874, was 1,800,000,000 00 Interest on this Jan. 1, 1875.. 118,800,000 00 The debt bearing interest Jan. 1, 1875, was 1,750,000,000 00 Interest on this Jan. 1, 1876.. 105,000,000 00 The debt bearing interest Jan. 1, 1876, was 1,700,000,000 00 Interest on this Jan. 1, 1877.. 102,000,000 00 The debt bearing interest Jan. 1, 1877, was 1,650,000,000 00 Interest on this Jan. 1, 1878.. 99,000,000 00 The debt bearing interest Jan. 1, 1878, was 1,600,000,000 00 These figures are $218,000,000 less than the actual debt, but I have understated rathor than overstated the debt and interest throughout. Finding the amount paid for interest at 6 per cent, and not compounding the inter est, the following result is shown: Jan .wft*ur, fgiMfe s&sft?: Years. Int. 6 per cent. 1864..S 82,309,446 88....14 ...$151,450,481 41 1865 1866.. 1867.. 1868.. 1869.. 1870.. 1871.. 1872.. 1873 1874.. 1875.. 1876 1877.. 1878.. 114,000,000 00 169,000 000 00.. 176,000,000 00.. 168,000,000 00.. 153,000.000 00.. 150,000,000 00.. 140,400,000 00. 136,800,000 00 129,500,000 00 120,000,000 00.. 118,000,000 00.. 105,000,000 00. 102,000,000 00 .13... .12 ..11... ..10... 9 8.. 7... 6 5. 4.. 3. 2... 1. Deduct from the present bond ed de 180,320,000 00 290,680,000 00 292,160,000 00 268,800,000 00 244,800,000 00 204.000,000 00 195,368,000 00 186,048,000 00 168,350,000 00 148,800,000 00 139,240,000 00 117,600,! 00 00 112,000,000 00 99,000,000 00 99,000,000 00 $2,798,316 481 41 bt 1,600,000,000 00 ^#&x$8tvfe#!&, ^J$aa*'*,i $1,198,316,481 41 Deduct from this outstanding greenbacks 400,000,000 00 Shows there would be in treas ury $ 798,316,481 41 Thus it is demonstrated that the system forced upon the treasury by Congress through the immediate influence of the great capitalists of the money centres, was the most infamous outrage upon the taxable peo ple it was possible to devise. The capital of the country, after the first outburst of en thusiasm in which the banks of New York, Boston and Philadelphia agreed to loan $150,000,000 at once shut downin fact loaning but $81,000,000, and refused to loan any further sum unless the government would take State bank bills, or currency, with the certain knowledge that specie pay ment would at once be suspended. This Mr. Chase had the good sense to refuse to do. He said, with great force aad irresistable tenth, that "no paper could be as good as United States paper." He at once adopted the early expressed opinion of Mr. Jefferson and secured the issue of treasury notes bottomed on taxation and the property and resources of the nation. Tnus the first greenback was issued. The policy of the United States treasury notes were not only foreshadowed by Jefferson, by Frank lin, by the Adamses and by Chief Justice MtMd&MihM O Marshall, but urgently recommended by John C. Calhoun in his masterly speech in the Senate ef the United Siates Oct. 3,1837. The greenback was first isued a full legal tender and, as I have before stated, passed as equal to gold, until the bankers and cap italists had power enough against the urgent protests of Thaddeus Stevens, the Hon. G. Spaulding, Mr. Chase and others, to drive the Senate into repudiating them, so far as I have heretofore shown. The reason for the repudiation was this: The bankers insisted that unless the interest on the bonds to be issued by the United States was made payable in gold, they could nqt be negotiated, and that there was no gold resource for the government but its revenue duties. If duttes-could be paid in greenbacks there would he no gold to ray interest, and therefore the greenback must be marked repudiated for duties and for in terest. This having been accomplished, the next step was to provide that the purchasers of bonds could pay for them in any of the bills or treasury certificates which might at any time be or might have been issued by the government. These provisions having been incorporated into the law, the next move of the capital ists was to demand that the bonds to be issued should be made the basis for banking, so that any man, or set of men buying $100,000 in bonds, bearing interest payable in gold, should also get $90,000 in bills in ad dition to his bonds, guaranteed by the United States, with all the privileges of banks, to loan on compound interest, sell exchanges, receive deposits, etc. When this bill was passed the government was in its ex tremest hour of peril. Capital had held back, had fulminated suspicions, created doubts, and was everywhere questioning the ability of the United States to conquer its enemies or sustain its credit. The greenback was the target at which the whole horde of Shylocks centered their shafts of ridicule and discredit. They refused to lend, knowing that just in proportion as they did so the government would be forced to issue its greenbacks and its treasury certificates, and that they would be depreciated in value as a repudiated cur rency, just in proportion to the quantity issued. This game was played till gold went up to 285. Bonds down to 38, 40, 42, 45, 50. Then these gentlemen, who were so fearful the government would kill its credit by issu ing its paper, commenced buying its gold in terest-bearing paper, and paying for it in its non-interest-bearing greenbacks. The rag baby in the shape of mterest-beaimg bonds for shylocks was the pet creatuie of capital, but it enreed the non-interest rag babv as a vagabond only fit for the "swmeish herd." The result was that, while the government issued over $2,000,000,000 in its gold bear ing bonds and certificates, instead of issuing its full legal tender greenbacks, as it com menced doing, it realized less than $1,100,- 000,000 for all the bonds it issued from Jan uary 2, 1863, to January 1, 1876, having paid as usury, or as bounty, more than 50 per cent, for all the bonds so negotiated. In deed, if greenbacks had been kept a full legal tender, and we had kept and used what gold we paid for interest, the debt or out standing currency and tieasnry certificates would not have exceeded $1,300,000,000 at the end of 1868. Robert J. Walker, as agent of the govern ment, negotiated, in 1864, $400,000,000 of our bonds for which the treasury received just 413^ cents on the dollar, or $165,000,- 000, giving to the purchasers at one stroke of the pen $235,000,000, every dollar of which has to be paid out of the hard toil and pro ductive industry of the over taxed people. I state this single fact of the negotiation by Mr. Walker, one of the ablest merr of the time, to show that the government, having committed itself to ttie bond system, did the best it could, at that time, in getting 41 if cents on the dollar. Our -$1,000,000,000 of bonds were issued in the United States be tween the first of July, 1863, and the first of July, \%o$, at rates ranging from 39 to 60 cents, the averagejbeing less than 50 cents on the dollar. The Bank association leaders imposed the swindle of repudiation on the back of the greenback. They did it to depreciate its value as a currency. 1 hey depreciated the currency and then bought it up to pay for bonds. For every $100 of currency they had purchased at from 40 to 50 cents on the dol lar, they got back a United States bond for $100, and $90 in bills guaranteed by the United States. They got back four timss as much as they gave. They paid $42 in gold. They got for it a United States bond, with gold-bearing interest, for $100, and $90 in bills guaran teed by the government. The bank association have not only defied the government, but they are directly re sponsible for the contraction which has spread wide-cast ruin over the land. They demonetized silver. They passed the act to "strengthen our credit." They declared bonds to be payable in gold, which were is sued payable lawful money. They forced upon Congress the resumption act, and they have left no effort untried to place the labor, business, and finances of the country under their exclusive control. Yes, the bond luxury has cost us for in terest alone more than $2,798,316,481.41, and we still owe. according to official report, on the bonds $1,818,670,500, which makes the cost of interest-bearing bonds $4,616,- 986,981.41, for which the government never received to exceed 1,300,000,000. STEPHEN D. DILLAYE. TKENTON, N. J. AN UNHOLY CONSPIRACY. Designed to Defeat the Election of Voorhers to the Senate. [Washington Special (Oct. 13) to Cincinnati Enquirer. A movement has been begun, and the de tails arranged, to defeat Hon. D. W. Voor hees' return to the Senate. It had its origin with the executive committee of the National Banking association, and has enlisted in its efforts nearly every newspaper in the city of New York. The plan is to buy enough members of the Indiana legislature to defeat Yoorhees, and concentrate the wealth and influence of the National banks to secure his stead the banker, English, of Indianapo lis. The banks having failed, with their lav ish expenditure of money in Ohio and Indiana, to becure the Congressional delega tions, they propose heieafter noL to attempt to buy the people outright, but to endeavor to buy legislatures, or enough votes in them to defeat any and all candidates inimical to their interests. A very significant circumstance in connec tion with this onslaught on Vooihees is that leading editorials in one or two of the New York newspapers have already appeared de nouncing him and suggesting English as his successor, English being a Democrat of hard money convictions, it is thougat that by the use of his own and the money which will be at his disposal from the banks he can ob tain enough votes to secure his election. Prominent parties this city who are cog nizant of these facts say that all the details of this audacious scheme were arranged iu advance of the election in Indiana, and that not only the national banks, but prom inent Republicans also, are allied together to defeat the popular cham pion of the people. It is well, there fore, for the Democratic members of the In diana legislature to be thus forewarned of the influences which are to be set against them. English is to be pressed as a Demo crat, but behind the canvass, which will be made in his interest, will be the money changers and the administration. His elec tion, at the expense of Voorhees' defeat, will rob the people of Indiana of all the sub stantial results of last Tuesday's glorious victory. There are, too, those who say that, while Senator McDonald may not be in league with those working for English's election, his frequent visits to New York are, to say the least, suspicious, when viewed in the light of events now transpiring. f&^^f^.M?fc^ GiOBELETS The Irish of Chicago are sending colonies to North Kansas. Senator Gordon is on his plantaion in South ern Georgia. Why should the Gordon knot? It is 215 years since the first Bible was print ed for the Indians. They haven't read it yet. Lord Exeter is trying to naturalise American black bass in some of the waters of his estate. Longfellow has given a very elegant bible to the new Unitarian church at Brunswick, Maine. Young Yictor Emmanuel keeps a savings 4an account, lhat bank, we may be sure will not fail. Of the four Russian grand dukes Constan tinovitch is the handsomest, and his name is the homeliest. A Gothman restaurateaur advertises oysters four for a cent. Ho also gives several scents with each oyster. Miss Forrest Fieldin?, of Cuthbert, Ga., has been graduated at Andrew Female college in her fourteenth year. London has been gradually making all her bridges free. Last month Waterloo bridge was put on the free list. MacMahon is charged with being addicted to profanity. But as he swears in a foreign lan guage it doesn't count. Earl Beaconsfield is among the subscribers to a proposed statute of Earl Russell, and et he once denounced Russell. The cattle receipts of the Omaha Union stock yardR for the week ending September 30 amounted to 4,884 head. Strawberries, equal in size and Oavor to those gathered in June, are found in abundance in many parts of New Jersey. The Anglo-French tunnel schemes lags from lack of financial support. They ought to set a newspaper bore to woik upon it The freight shipments over the Central Pa cific railroad are heavier than for years past. The average is about 100 cars daily. A descendant of Mary Stuart is one of the belles of BryanjsTexasMiss Agnes McQueen, one of the famous Carolina family. OD the reservations west of Arkansas the In dians who own farms hire white men to work them while they g hunting for scalps. John Savage, the poet, is reported to be roaming around Pennsylvania mountains. The brooks make music to soothe his breast. Mrs. Dr. Ira Perry, of Boston, has been mov ing" for thirty years, and because she bis be come tired of it Dr. Perry wants a divorce. Ralph Waldo Emerson's nephew, William Ralph, is going to lecture on In a Hundred Years, What." Thero will be no Washburns in Congress. After repeated failures by one court after another to secure the condemnation of the So cialist, Hasselmann, in Germany, he has been bet at liberty. "The day the bady learned to creep" is a touching little poem iust out. The year the boy learned to swear has not jet been embalm ed in heroic verse. Emperor William his been summoned to appear before a petty tribunal because his steward refused to pay some charges which he thought exorbitant. Count Von Moltke, the German adjutant general, will be 78 years old on the 26th of No vember. He does not look much older than he did twenty years ago. Inviting President MacMahon to retire on the score that "every one has had enough of him," has cost the Pays $400, and the imprisonment of two of those connected with it. A Dublin confectioner has made for the wed ding breakfast of Miss Roe and Lord Granville Gordon a cake eight feet high, weighing 300 pounds, and most elaborately ornamented. Paul de Cassagnac. in a recent article in the Pay*, openly declared that he applauded and approved of the coup d'etat, which, BO far from being a crime, was "a blessed and Paving act." There are 200,000 Armenians in Constantino ple. They have more than forty schools, of which the "Nubarian," founded by Nubar Pasha, now once more premier of Eg} pt. a very able man, is chief. A Providence swindler coolly -old a house to which he had no claim, and received $2,700 for the forged title. The owner first learned of the sale when the supposed purchaser or dered him to move out. The English war office has had gratifying news from Cyprus. "Sickness is decreasing," there being only 400 soldiers in hospital as compared with 408 the week before, and "ague is replacing remittent fever." At Bayonne, France, the other day, a gentle man lost in a railroad carriage a considerable sum of money and some jewelry and other valuables. Three railroad porters were arrested on suspicion, when the money was returned bv a priest. Of 3 434 doctors whose deaths have been an nounced in the London Lancet during the last ten years the ages of 2,684 were given. Aver age age at death, 56.9 jears. The secret of their longevity was that they never took their own medicine. Fechter was recentlj arrested at his tjwm Richland, Pa., and held to bail on a rharge of "shooting insectivorous contrary to the act of Assembly.'' Whether the Pennsy lvauian insec tivorous is fish, flesh or fowl, the warrant and complaint did not say. For two years Napoleon 111. persisted in offering Eg} pt to England if the latter powei would not object to a Frerch occupation of Morocco, but Lord Palmerston declined. It is of record that some one made a similar offer to a Jewish teacher long ago. Three young girls were killed last week by men whom they had refused to marr}. It is urgently necessary that ever} pretty girl should be protected by at least one policeman and she should have a revolver for use in case the policeman loses his affections. New York Stat Spiritualism still phvys a prominent part in the Vanderbilt will case. Mrs. Clark testified that the Commodore used to get "points" on stocks from the late la mented James Fisk, Jr. A wgnal instance of the ruling passion stiong death. Silas Pomeroy, an Eneh^h justice of the peace, was attacked by a bull at his country place in Hampshire. He letreated into a hedge, and endeavored to defend himself with his stick, but was gored to death. It was Pome roy's birthday, and a large party had been in vited to dinner. The aldermen of Providence voted against permitting Mme. Rentz's female minstrels to perform that city, basing their action on the powers but the manager solemnly declired that the posters misrepresented the character of the show, whereupon the aldermen recon sidered their decision. Prince Bismarck's big dog struck up quite a friendship with the Papal Nuncio, Mgr. Masel la, whom he followed everywhere, fawning on him and licking his hands. "Yonr dog seems to have taken a fancy to me." said the Nuncio one day. "He is not the only member of the famil/ that has," said the prince, courteously. The Russian papers have lately contained re ports about a band of robbers which has ap peared in the district of Paulovsk, in southern Russia, aud has spread terror through all the neighboring region. It is said to he over 200 strong. The captain is reported to be a peas ant woman of singular beauty, who was pre viously connected with a gang of forgers of rouble-notes. The Russian government is so desirous of procuring the arrest of this female chief that it has set a pnoe of $11,250 upon her head.