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TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS.
ACADEMY OP MUSlC—llslstcd street, between
M»dia«« and Monroe. Uretmaii ti Ware's Combina
tion. Afternoon abd evening.
lIOOT.F.Y’fI THEATRE—Randolph »lmt, between
dirk and ijSalle. Engagement of the California
Minstrel*. Afternoon and evening.
ADELPin THEATER— Dearborn street, comer
Monroe. Engagement of Oliver Doud ByzOO. * Donald
McKay.” Afternoon and evening.
McVICKER’H THEATRE—Mid'icm street, between
Dfarlom and mate. Engngcraent of Edwin Adame.
•< Enoch Arden,*' Afternoon and evening.
CHICAGO THEATRE—CIark street, between Ran
dolph and Lake. •* Hearts and Diamond!.” After
noon and evening.
UDRLINOTON HALly—Corner Hlalo and Sixteenth
atreete. Charles MacEvoy'a “ lllhc^ulcou. ,, Afternoon
and evening,
Bilje CPjic’afi.tf QTribuiw.
Saturday Morning, September 4, 1876.
WITH SUPPLEMENT.
Greenbacks at tho Now York Gold Ex
change yesterday opened and closed at 87J,
with purchases at 87 J and 87,!.
Tlio verdict of llio Coroner's jury, impan
eled to inquire into the cause of death in the
case of W. C. Ralston, disputes tho theory
of suicide, and finds that apoplexy and
drowning produced tho fatal result. An au
topsy is said to havo revooled no traces of
poison in tho stomach, and so that
theory must needs ho abandoned. Tbero
still remains, however, tho plausible
supposition that tho drowning itself was tho
deliberate act of tho mined banker, whoso
(Croat force of character and iron will were
fully equal to tho accomplishment of self
destruction by this means. Tho actual cause
of death will always remain a mystery and a
mooted question, and tho belief in tho sui
cide, supported as it is by so many signillcant
probabilities and corroborative proofs, will
never bo wholly discarded.
Tho latest Commission of Chicago Custom-
House examftters, appointed l>y Secretary
Bristow, but designated in part by President
Grant, have arrived upon tho ground and
begun their labors. It is manifestly tho in
tention of tho Commission to proceed core
fully and with great thoroughness to make
their tests and examinations. Theirs will bo
tho duty of deciding as between tho two
conflicting reports on the subject of tho walls
and foundations and the fitness of tho stone
for tho purposes employed, and their finding
will probably bo fined with tho Government.
They enter on tho work wholly unprejudiced,
it is to bo presumed, and free from any incli
nation to tear down tho half-finished struc
ture for anybody’s ambition, pleasure, or
profit. Such being tho case, their verdict,
whatever it may bo, will command respect in
Chicago.
Our neighbors of the Dominion of Canada
reem to experience no end of disgrnutlenieut
on account of the Washington Treaty, and
the interpretations thereof rondo by the
United States. Some time ago it was tbo
tariff on the tin cans containing lobster and
salmon that troubled them, and then tho de
cision relative to seal lochs and tho transporta
tion of bonded goods was a source of vexa
tion. This time tho question of tho carrying
trade on tho lakes between ports in tho
United Stales has called forth a letter
from Secretary Bristow, tho effect of
.which is to cutoff a largo amount of (raffle
from tho Oraud Trunk steamboat and rail
way lines. Mr. Bristow construes tho
treaty to mean that this class of carrying
trade is restricted exclusively to American
vessels, and that Canadian competition is
“hut out.
Tho determined assault of Mike Evans
upon the pockets of Chicago tax-payers has
at last been rewarded with success. The re
sult was reached in a roundabout way, but
roue tho loss it was reached. After restrict
ing to a reasonable amount the allow
ance for tho Collector's salary mid neces
sary expenses, tho South Town Hoard have
unanimously voted to release tho claim of
the town upon Evans' percentage in collect
ing city taxes. It is presumed, and confi
dently expected, no doubt, by the tux-grnb-
Ling mob, that a largo portion of the city
tuxes for 1675 will ho collected by
Mike Evans, who is by law allowed a
commission of 2 per cent, such percentage to
bo covered into the Town Treasury unless re
leased and donated by tho Hoard. This is
tho way the steal is to bo consummated.
Tho city, which includes the Town of Booth
Chicago, with Us already elaborate system of
tax-collection, is to bo further bled to swell
the plunder of Mike Evans and his gang.
Damaging developments multiply fio rapid
ly iu connection with tho Interior Depart
ment that Hccretary Delano is iu a fair way
.soon to fully realize tho truth of tbo saying,
J<tcUii i deeemsu* avemi. Now that ho is well
stalled iu that direction, there is no end of
timely and helpful kicks. One of tho latest
iu the alleged discovery of a fraud in the pur
chase of furniture for tho Deportmant, where
by a division bos been made of tho differ
ence between $lO ami SBS as the
price paid for office-desks at Balti
more and Washington prices respectively.
Tho first-named figure left a fair profit to the*
dealer; the second was necessary In order
that parties in the Interior Department might
pocket a casual dollar or two. Standing by
itself, a potty fraud of this kind would attroct
but little attention ; bat when the item of
desks is added to the carriages, drivers,
geraniums, etc., and all these are tacked at
the bottom of the corruption list of the
Indian Uiug, the grand total becomes con*
epicuous and the incidental peculations
derive their due importance.
The Chicago produce markets were steadier
yesterday, but breadstuffe weakened in tho
latter port of the day. Mess pork was more
active and 20a per brl higher, closing at
#80.79 oath, and $20.60 for October. Lard
was dull Mid unchanged, clewing at $12.65
per 100 It>s cash, and $12.05 for October.
Meats were in good demand and firm, at B|o
for shoulders, 12c for abort ribs, and PJjlo
for short clears. were in mod
erate request and steady, at sl.lO per gallon.
Ijako freights wero fairly uctivo and steady,
at 2c for com to Buffalo. Flour was quiet
and easier. Wheat was active and firmer, but
closed weak at $1.15$ for September, and
$1.15 for October. Com was in good de
mand, and stronger, closing at fiSlo cash,
and fi.lo for October. Oats wore in fair de
mand and s@lo higher, closing dull at JIUJo
cash, and file for October. Byo was (pilot at
78}(R>7()c. Barley was in good demand, and
2(5'21c higher, closing at SI.OO for September.
Hogs were dull ami a shade lower, with the
bulk of the sales at $7.5()(®7.Ji5. Cattle
were active at 10<s?'25c decline’. Sheep ruled
steady. One hundred dollars in gold would
buy $114.12} in greenbacks at the close.
A spectacle of n thrilling but most satisfac
tory diameter was witnessed yesterday at
Fort Smith, Ark., where six murderers, sen
lencod on the same day and for different
crimes on the 25th of last June, in tho
United States District Court of Western
Arkansas, were hanged together. Tho like,
wo hcliovc, was never before seen in America
in one day and at ono piece, except, perhaps,
tho execution of thirty-eight Sioux Indians
at Mankato, Minn., in 1882. In tho sextuple
hanging nt Fort Smith, four of tho doomed
men were whites, ono a negro, and another a
Choctaw Indian. Tho crimes for which tlicso
murderers paid tho penalty of their lives nro
sketched in our dispatches, and it is worthy
of note that, while all tho murders were of
tho most brutal and fiendish type, in each
case tho evidence was absolutely conclusive
of guilt, ami tho punishment was richly
merited. Nothing less than this awful
jointure of retributive justice, so well or*
ranged with a view to securing tho end
sought, could have served to strike terror to
tho hearts of tho murderous hordes which
have infested Western Arkousas and the ad*
joining Indian Territory. Just such a com
bination of startling effects was needed in
that region, and tho result cannot but bo
salutary in demonstrating tho terrible majesty
of tho law. Something of tho kind in
Southern Illinois would bo tho right thing in
tho right placo and at tho right time.
QOV. HENDRICKS’ SPEECH.
Wo print tho material parts of tho speech
delivered at Zanesville, Ohio, yesterday, by
Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana. Of all tho
speeches delivered in Ohio on tho currency
question, that of Mr. Hendricks is tho weak
est in moral and intellectual vigor. It lacks
tho rude fearlessness of Sam Cast, tho ele
gance of Pendleton, tho thought of Thur
man, and the frankness and intelligent devo*
tiou to principle of McDonald. Considering
that ho i» a prominent candidate for the Pres
idency, tho whole speech ia & mere evasion,—
an apology for not having any decided opin
ion, a cowardly begging of a postponement
of any conviction until tho Democratic Nom
inating Convention in
The Ohio Democrats adopted their rag
money platform as long ago as tho 17th of
Juno. Gov. Hendricks soon after went off
prospecting for tho Presidency in Now York
and tho Eastern Slates, among people who
arc unanimously for specie payments. Ho
bos been laboriously engaged in conciliating
tho hard-money factions of tho Demoemtio
party; ho has been holding himself oat to
the East as a safe man, having no interest in
tho inflation and repudiation doctrines of tyo
Ohio Democracy. Hut the Ohio Democrats
had their cyo on the Indiana statesman, and
they compelled him to como into that State
and show his hand. What was tho hand that
]io displayed? Did ho declare, as Senator
McDonald did, that the Legal-Tender act was
unconstitutional in the beginning and at this
time? Nothing of the kind. Did ho declare
that the Democratic party was opposed to
paper money, as a fraad upon the coun
try? Certainly not. Did ho declare that
the country needed more currency, and that
legal-tenders should be issued to meet the
popular demand? Ho said nothing of the
kind. Was ho in favor of expansion ? No.
Was ho in favor of contraction? No. Was
ho in favor of specie payments, or woe ho
opposed to rpccio payments ? On the last
point ho said ho was in favor of a return to
specie payments at some timo in the future,
but ho was not in favor of It at this time,
nor could ho tell when it would bo advisable.
Ho was in favor of keeping tho country sup
plied with paper money, bat of what value
or how much paper money was necessary bo
did not venture to express an opinion. Ho
proposed to let things alone until after tho
next Democratic Presidential nomination,
when ho wonld agree with whatever that Con
vention should adopt, adding, all uncoacious
ly, as auexplanation of hla position, that “ no
sentiment attributed to Mr. Greeley in
1872 was inorg hurtful to his political for
tunes than the demand for immediate specie
payments." Mr. Hendricks was Dot disposed
to say anything hurtful to his prospects, one
way or the other. Ho therefore spoke for
an hour and a half and said nothing. Ho
seemed never to havo heard of tho Ohio plat
form ; ho appeared not to know that the
issues presented by tbo Ohio Democrats wero
engaging the attention of the whole country.
Ho went through the forms of making a
speech, but literally expressed no opinion on
any subject,—at least no opinion whioh be
was disposed to odhero to, especially if tbo
National Democratic Convention in 1876
should think otherwise. He traduced the
Republicans, but advocated nothing definite.
What did Mr. Hendbioks go to Ohio for,
unless it was to ndviso tho people on the vital
subject raised by his friends? Did he sup
pose that the inflationists of Ohio would
think any better of him if bo equivocated and
had no opinions, than If he had avowed him
self, as McDonald did, In favor of hard
money ? Did ho suppose that ho could retain
the respect and confidence of the hard-money
Democracy by pattering in a double sense
about a paper currency equal to tho demands
of business ? Does he not know that manli
ness, courage, and aggression are essentials to
success at this day ? It looks to us that if tho
Democratic party shall turn to Indiana in
1876 for a candidate, it will not be to select a
man like Hendbioks, who carries water on
both shoulders, but to some man like McDon
ald, who traveled over Ohio insisting upon
specie payments, and declaring the issue
of paper money as a legal-tender to be uncon*
Btitutionol.
It seems that tho reason why JosUoes
fiomiEiirimj) and Db Wo iy have not attended
the meetings of tbo Town Board, of which
they are ex-ojfteio members, is because they
were absent from the city. This circum
stance only makes their absence more bus
pidqus. Tho Town Board meets but once a
year to fix the compensation for town of
ficers. The law provides that, in the absence
of any two of ths Jutiocs, tho TV'i
THE CHICAGO TRIBUJNfi: SATOUDAV; SKI’TJUAfISISH *l, laTS.—TWIiLVU TAG:
Assessor and Town Collector may become
members of the Board, which gives (hem an
opportunity of voting their own compensa
tion. Justices StfHMKTulEi.n mul l)n Wow
knew this, and also knew that there would
bo, an effort to grab a largo amount of the
public moneys if tbo town lax-eaters could
got control of the meeting. Vet they selected
this particular week of the whole year to go
out of town. Their absence nt this time
could scarcely have been accidental. With
gill other days of the year during which they
could go away without damaging the public
interest, it is very strange they should have
selected the very time when the Town Board
was to meet, and when their absence gave
the town officers a chance to grab a lot of
money to which they ore not entitled.
ANOTHER BLACK HILLS SWINDLE.
The letter from our correspondent nt Chey
enne, printed in The Tribune of yesterday,
touching the arrival of the Sioux Indian Com
mission nt that place, ponding the negotia
tion for the purchase of tbo Black Kills, de
velops some singular facts concerning tbo
Indian King which should receive attention.
It appears that the Bing, on learning that tbo
Indians were disposed to ccdo their slight
claim to tho territory for o fair price, went
among them and in various ways succeeded
in inducing them to put an almost fabulous
price upon it. As tho result of these visita
tions, tiio Indians nro now talking millions,
and annuities for fifty years. Of course tho
more money that is handled by tho Indians,
and the more annuities and goods received by
them, the larger will bo the divison with tho
Indian Bing, and tho moro they will obtain
by fraud and theft. Tbo object of tho Bing
is so transparent as to allow of no excuse for
not trampling out its conspiracy nt once.
Tho amount which tho Bing has put tho
Indians up to demanding will roach in tho
aggregate, it is stated, $110,000,000, which
wonhlafford tbo Bingovcu richer stealings and
pickings than it has ever had before. The
impudence and absurdity of tho claim aro
shown by tho fact that it is only a question
of comity whether tho Government will pay
tho Indians a single cont for the Black Hills.
It has already given them subsistence and
kept them from starving since tho Sherman
Treaty of 1808, for which they have returned
no consideration whatever. Their subsistence
has been pnrely gratuitous. They do not oc
cupy tho black Hills country, and never will,
ns there ora no buffaloes there. They do not
mine tho country, and never will. It ifl of
no advantage to them agriculturally, ns they
never work. They only ramblo over this re
gion in a general manner, like tho wolves.
They have no foe-simple in it. Their in
terest in it 1b of a nomadic sort,
and about as valid and binding as
that of tho wolves and other small
game which live in and travel over it.
That they should como in now ond demand
over a hundred millions of dollars for prop
erty which they do not and never will occupy,
and in which they have no valid titlo except
through sufferance of tho Government, which
is supportiug them and keeping them from
starvation, is a proposition so monstrously
absurd that it should bo discarded at once.
The Commission should not condescend even
to listen to it. If, however, they are in
duced by any underhanded or upporhanded
influences to report favorably upon tho
proposition, then Congress and tho country
should reject it at once. The Indiana should
bo paid os they have been paid heretofore—
that ia, a reasonable sum for their Blight in
terest, and this amount not in monoy to bo
divided among Indian Agents, speculators, and
thieves, bub in food and clothing, until their
titlo is extinguished- It Is the manifest
destiny of the Black Hills to he opened
to civilization and to bo developed ia what
over way they will pay tho beet, whether it
bo mining or agriculture. Tho Indian Bing
has promptly recognized this fact, and is
seeking to make it the occasion of a system*
alic and impudent raid upon tho revenues
of the Government The Government,
therefore, should protect itself by squelching
it at ouco.
A HEW FLIHQ AT CHICAGO.
Tho Loaisvillo Courier-Journal prints a
second Chicago letter from its special corre
spondent in this city, who oppears to hovo
been sent bore to distort and exaggerate
tho business condition of this city. Ho first
assorted that there were 20,000 willing work
ers out of employment in Chicago and in a
starving condition. Ho still insists that there
nro 20,000 able-bodied people in Chicago out
of employment, and unable to find work or
any means of procaring breach This num
ber would ho about one-third of the able
bodied industrial population of tho city, and,
put in this way, tho statement shows its own
absurdity. If there ore 20,000 working peo
ple out of employment, there nro from 80,000
to 100,000 people who are either starving or
living upon charity. If there were any such
mass of humanity starving here or elsewhere,
there would bo a movement throughout the
whole world to send them relief. There
would bo popular subscriptions, such os there
were for tho benefit of sufferers from the
Chicago fire, for tho India famine, or
tho French floods. Tho neglect to toko those
steps, and the foot that we have only tho
word of on anonymous writer anxious to
make a $S bill by catering to o sectional
prejudice, is pretty conclusive that 41 Chica
go's starving hosts'* are my thlcah We know
absolutely that 80,000 or 100,000 people are
not living upon charity in this city. Who
would furnish tho means? There ore bat
two sources from which any large amount of
charity is extended to people who can or can
not work, but who can find nothing to do.
One is the Chicago Belief Society and tho
other the County Foor-llouse. The latter
institution has about its usual number of in
mates at this time of year, and the Belief
and Aid Society is called on to dispense
scarcely as much charity as of ordinary.
Even this correspondent alludes to tbs fact
that the Commonista recently held a big pie
uio at Ogden's Grove, at whioh 5,000 (?) peo
ple wore present j if this statement is cor
rect, it tdmply shows that they ore not so
badly off but thot they have means for neces
sary living and also for personal amusement
Tho Louisville Courier-Journal correspond
ent thinks he has made out hla case by in
serting two advertisements in Thb Chicago
Tribune, one for a male or female copyist,
and another for a carpenter. To the former
he sayt he received MO (?) applications and
the latter 804 (?) replies. This large num
ber, if bo tells the truth, is partly accounted
for by the exceptional excellence of Tax
Tuibunb as on advertising medium | the copy
of the paper in which he inserted the bogus
notices probably was road by every ponton in
search of the kind of employment for which
ho advertised. The advertisement for a male
or female copyist would probably reach a
very large proportion of the floating popula
tion, for everybody who son writs and has
both log to do Is willing to do spying, and
thinks himself or herself perfectly competent
to perform that kind of simple, cosy, genteel
work. As to tho carpenters, it is certain that
thrro has never been so much employment
for them in Chicago, except after tho tiro, as
there is this year. There is n larger
amount of building than in any year
previous to tho fire or since 1872, and
tbo sash, blinds, door, and stair-building
ostablishmontH have increased in number
and capacity. Tbo receipt of a largo number
of replies from carpenters seeking work sim
ply shows that, no matter how much work is
furnished, tho floating population pouring
into this city from all parts seeking work ex
ceeds any possible supply.
This is, in fact, tho whole explanation of
tho silly effort of this Bohonmu to foist an
exaggeration of Chicago's poor and unem
ployed upon too-willing oars. There is no
city in the United Statesoutsido of Now York
which always has so largo a floating popula*
tion os Chicago. The circumstance is to bo
accounted for by Chicago's prosperity,
growth, nud enterprise. There is n feeling
everywhere that Chicago is tho place to tnru
when a change is to be mado and people can
not find employment elsewhere. There is a
confidence throughout tho Union that there
is a better prospect for remunerative employ
ment in Chicago than in any other city. Tho
consequence is that tho people out of work
elsewhere flock hero and are always in excess
of tho opportunities. It was so when Chica
go was not half as largo as it is now;
it will bo so when Chicago shall grow to
be twice as largo ns it is now. When
Chicago shall reach a slopping-placo in its
growth, and soldo down into tho slow and
sleepy condition of Louisville, wo shall not
Imvo this large floating population of employ,
moot-seekers, which is renewed from week to
week os places are found; then people search
ing for situations will not come to Chi
cago, ns they do not now go to Louisville,
but they will go to some live city where tho
chance of employment is better. Tho time
for this, however, seems to bo far distant;
and, meanwhile, wo shall always have a largo
floating population seeking employment.
QEQHANISM IN OHIO.
Tho Democrat* of Cincinnati have renom
inated Geouan, tho author of tho bill which
has been notorious under his name for regu
lating religious worship in tho penal and re
formatory institutions of tho State. Tho bill
provided that no minister of tho Gospel
should bo excluded from any institution sup
ported by Btoto appropriations or publio
charity on account of his denominational
connections. Tho bill was not wrong in
itself. It simply embodied a principle which
is recognized by common consent in Illinois
and some other States, and which requires
no legislation to assure its enforcement.
There was no opposition to tho principle of
the bill. 13nt Mr. Oeohan excited on antag
onism both to his hill and to himself by pro
claiming in effect that it was demanded by
tho Catholic Chnrcb, and that, unless tho
Democratio majority in the Legislature passed
tho bill, tho Church would call upon Catholic
voters everywhere to desert tho Democratic
party, with whom they- have heretofore acted
almost* solid, and vote against it. The posl
tion which ho took indicated a formal alliance
between tho Homan Catholic Church and
tho Democratic party, and forecast that the
influence of tho Catholic Church, if success
ful in coercing this measure, would bo
exerted to use tho Democratic party to break
down tho public school system, and carry out
other sectarian and dogmatic attacks upon
tho constitutional provisions of tho State and
tho underlying principles of popular govern
ment.
It was this that created public alarm and
tho opposition to the Geohak bill and its
author. The more conservative and far*
seeing mombora of tho Democratic party in
Ohio sought to throw Mr. Qeoban overboard
after passing his bill. They saw that the
altitude which he assumed was calcu
lated to damage the interests of tho
party; and, while they were willing
to submit to the dictation of tho Catholio
Church in effect, they desired to efface tho
evidence of such submission. It was the pro
gramme, therefore, to defeat Mr. Geo ban for
renomination. This was the course which
tho Cincinnati Enquirer advised, lint tho re
sult bos shown that the ultra Catholioeloment
in tho Democratic party of Ohio is in the as
cendant, and does not care even to disguise
its aims and purposes. At tho local Cincin
nati Convention of Thursday tho Catholio
partisans of Geoban were victorious, and ho
was renominated in the face of a fierce op*
position to him, and after a noisy and dis
reputable squabble. The Cincinnati Enquirer,
the Democratic organ, now wants to repudiate
him, but this will not kelp the matter. Ills
ronommation shows than Gegbanism prevails
in the Ohio Democracy, and controls it, and
the party must go before the people with this
incubus upon it.
This circumstance almost renders certain
the defeat of tho Democrats in tho approach
ing election, which had already bocomo prob
able on account of the inflation doctrines to
which the Btate Convention bad committed
the party. The people of this country are not
yet prepared to accept Gegbanism. The
people of Ohio will scarcely submit to tho
imputation of Church oligarchy which the
success of tho Democratic parly, with Geo ban
at its head, would put upon them. The in
tegrity of their public school system, and tho
freedom of polities from tho shackles of dog
matism, ore as yet too dear to the American
people to encourage the union of the State
with the Church by electing a party which
tacitly agrees to It Sam Case and Geobak,
Bepudiation and UltromontanUm, will prob
ably go down together in Ohio.
Got. Hzvouicxs and other people who are
afraid to hove any conviction on any subject
think that in course of time the country will
grow up to specie payments; that Is, if there
bo uo expansion or contraction. Let us see
how the country has grown towards specie
payments. Five yean after the Civil War
terminated, when national taxes were greatly
reduced, and the floating debts of the Gov
ernment were either funded or paid, green
backs advanced in value to sllo}@ll2 of
legol-tendor woe equal in purchasing power
to SIOO in gold. The fluctuations of 1870
were from 110} to HOj. In 1671, the
lowest rate was 108|, the highest 116}. In
1872. there was an advance to 118}<$1180.
In the first seven months of 1873, there was
a further advance to 116<|>119 t but during the
panic, while large sums cf the legal-tenders
were locked up, the rate for gold fell to 106}
in November, putting legal-tenders at 011-3
cents in coin, the highest value they have
ever reached. In 1871, the lowest rate was
101), the highest 114|. The year closed with
th) rate ranging from no to 112, or green
backs worth 88} to 00. During 1873, there
his been no advance in the volts el Ihs cur
rency ) its grainl average has bun from 6T
to 80 cents, with gold quoted at 112 to 110.
It will bo seen, therefore, that in the flvo
years since 1870 the value of greenbacks lias
undergone no permanent improvement. In
March, 1870, they were worth 8'» to 00 fonts
on the dollar, and, except ns stated, during
the temporary scarcity of legal-tenders dur
ing the panic, their value has remained with
in those figures until the present time. Bul>-
Hlnntlnlly, during the five years the country
has not grown one cent nearer to specie pay
ments. How long it will take at this rate
the country to "grow up" to the desired
point is something these gentlemen do not
explain. Greenbacks, as wo have slated,
have none of the qualities of money, savo
(hat they may bo forced upon creditors iu
payment of debts, ns n substitute for gold.
That they are worth but 87 or 88 cents even
for tin's purpose shows that they ore iu excess
of the demand, and aro consequently cheap.
As there seems to bo no probability of tbo
demand growing up to the supply, the next
best thing is to reduce tbo supply to the do
maud. The man who wants greenbacks to
pay debts will pay GO cents for them if bo
cannot get them for less, and will quite read
ily pay 08 cents for them, if they are not to
bo bod otherwise, in preference to paying
100 cents In gold. *
HENDRICKS' LITTLE FLAN.
The lines of Democratic “ statesmen” now
adays aro cast in hard places. They have to
speak iu Ohio and dodge tho Ohio issue. This
w hard. Gov. Hendricks has evidently found
it so. Ho tried to ride two horses ot once iu
his speech at Zanesville last evening, but
this performance is oven moro difficult in tho
political than tbo public circus. Mr, Hen
dricks bashfully admits that ho beliovcs gold
and silver to be 44 tho roal standard of values,
universal and permanent." But bo at onco
smooths tho wrinkled front of tbo Ohio
brethren by saying that tho inflated volume
of depreciated paper must nnd shall not bo
reduced. This is much ns if a man shonhl
say “It is imperatively necessary that I
should go North," and should then take
tho first train East. Mr. Hendricks,
however, docs not see tho matter in that
light. Ho has n wondrous plan by which ho
is to get North by going East. And ho bos
propounded this plan to tho nation. It is
not new. It is nob intelligent. It is not
practicable. It corresponds, however, pretty
exactly to Mr. Hendricks’ statesmanship,
which has never been suspected of originality,
or intelligence, or practicablcncss. Tho In
diana Governor has found somewhere in his
memory tho phrase “ Grow up to specie pay
ments." This ho iterates and reiterates to
tho admiring rustics of Zanesville. Wo
might unkindly mention tbo fact that, in tho
fivo years during which this has been tried,
tho paper dollar has grown up from a value
: of 00 cents in 1870 to one of B 8 or 87
in 1875. Wo presume this roast bo
growth, because Hendricks implies this. If
wo dared to differ from sacb an eminent
statesman, wo should say it was decay, not
growth, and that wo have boon decaying
away from’ specie payment, instead of grow
ing up to it. But it is very bad for a fact to
interfere with Mr, Hendricks. The fact al
ways perishes, of coarso. His speeches have
a way of denying, and destroying, and loftily
ignoring foots that should warn everything
of the sort to keep out of tbo Governor's
way. Everything of tho sort seems to have
kept carefully out of his Zanesville speech.
Ho deigns, however, to go into tbo details of
his plan of resumption. Thcro aro three
divisions of it. First, production of export
able commodities must bo euconragod; sec
ond, Importation must bo checked j third,
(ho national debt must bo trans
ferred from abroad to homo. How
is production of exportable commodities to
bo encouraged ? Wo aro now producing os
much os wo have a foreign market for, and
wo not infrequently produce moro than wo
can sell abroad at a profit. Mr. Hendricks
docs not propose to raise an extra peck of
corn himself, or weave an additional yard of
cloth himself, or forge a bar of iron himself.
Ho wants sombody else to do it, oblivious of
tho fact that tho com and cloth and iron
produced aro already fully equal to tho do*
zuand. There is only ouo way in which
production can bo increased. That is by
catting down tho tariff, and so increasing
tho imports. This will increase tho European
demand for our exportable prodacts, open a
now market to them, and bo stimulate pro
duction. But the Indiana states*
man does not advocate this plan,
lie '' demands that imports should
not only not bo increased, bat shoald actual*
ly bo diminished. Tho first and second
branches of his plan ore Kilkenny cats, which
devour each other. Each absolutely nega
tives the other, for if imports aro reduced
exports will also bo diminished. They ore
simply exchanges of surpluses. Thcro re
mains, then, ono more resource. Tho na
tional debt is to be transferred from foreign
holders to our own citizens: the draiu of
gold to pay interest will thus bo averted ;
and we can accumulate a stock of specie that
will enable us to resume. How pretty this
is. And what a pity thot it is sheer non
sense, for who is going to buy back the
bonds f Gov. Hendricks says that the “ fa
tal policy" and “ strange and questionable
devices ”of the Republican party have put
oar bonds in foreign hands. Tho party has
actually been sinful enough to sell bonds at 0
per cent interest to foreigners instead of
placing them ot 8 or 1) per cent at
homo. It has sinfully saved the tax-payers
tbo necessity of paying nearly double rates of
interest every year. And now our Hen
dricks’ panacea for tho currency question is
to accumulate gold iu the Treasury by forcing
the Treasury to pay ont twice as much gold in
Interest every year as it does now 1 Such
wisdom Is beyond our ken. Perhaps the Ohio
Democracy can comprehend it. Tbo speech
was intended by its author to gain for him
tho sobriquet of 44 Oily Gammon,* but its
palpable absurdities hardly amount to the
dignity of gammon. Hendricks had better
have staid at home and kept his mouth shut,
■ He has not improved his prospects for tho
Presidency by his pilgrimage Into the land of
the Buckeyes.
The Catholic curate of St John llaptislo,
in the Province of Quebec, has declared on
unrelenting war against the present style of
female dress by announcing that he will not
administer the sacrament to those women
who hereafter wear low-nccked dresses or
41 pulled'baaked M skirts. This makes a good
square issue between the Church end
Fashion, and the fight will undoubtedly be a
very lively one. Heretofore the Church has
had fights of this kind on its hands, and has
sometimes come out successfully, bat it has
never hod such an opportunity for its tough
est blows and loudest folminations as now,
for if there ever was a fashion for which
lovely woman will fight, bleed, and die, it is
the “palUMak*” Having one# tasted the.
Install d inhibiting bar pretty lona, she
will do her level beat to prevent going book
into hoops. She will pull back harder than
ever against the prudish curate, and wo
bclicvo she will win. Wo don’t behove Iho
curate can euro it.
MATRIMONIAL ECONOMY AGAIN.
In n previous article upon tbo financial ns- (
peels of the matrimonial question, wo plead*
cd for tho oxcrciso of common sense an one
of the most important factors in solving the j
vexed question how to make tho matrimonial ]
hooks balance. Wo now propose to bo stilt ,
more specific, and troat of economy as tho
golden remedy which common senna sug* i
gets to enro tho ills of matrimony and niako 1
every household happy, contented, nnd pros* 1
porous. Economy is tho main pivot upon *
which Iho success of every household turns,
and its study nnd practice are not beneath
Iho attention of any lady. There is certainly
as much for woman to do in this useful di
rection as in tho ornamental. At present
(ha ambition of most women is to appear as
queens In society, to be leaders of fashion,
to shine in poetry and tho arts, nnd in
Homo instances in tho sciences. This
is very laudable if tbo more prac
tical facts of. economy aro not lost
sight of at tho samo time, Fashion never yet
mado a prosperous homo ; on tbo other hand,
it bos ruined many. Tho sway of society is
not conducive to a healthy condition of tho
family exchequer, unless the queen has a
lord of the treasury to maungo tho finances
with skill. There are few eminent women
5u poetry,, music, tho arts, or sciences, who
have been successful in tho management of
tho household economy. Kow it is an opon
question whether tho study of economy is not
us dignified, elevating, and ennobling os any
of tho studies involving sentiment, polito
literature, or tho esthetics. Tho latter may
givo a certain degree of graco nod culture to
tbo homo (sometimes they do not givo any),
but tho former adds thrift to graco. Culture
nlono never mado a home happy. Culture
and thrift together will produce happiness, if
anything can. Is it not worth while, there
fore, to sacrifice some of tho sentiment in
favor of tho practical, and thereby combine
tho useful and tho ornamental in that pro
portion which is sure to result in happiness
aud prosperity ?
Upon this question Dr. Lorenz Von Stein,
ono of tho most eminent of tho Austrian po*
litical economists, has recently mado some
admirable suggestions in a lecture to tho Ger
man students in that city upon 44 Woman in
the Sphere of National Economy " which aro
worthy of reproduction in discussing this
important question, although his statistical
theories ore somewhat at variance with
American practice and American management
of tbo household finances. Von Stein di
vides the entire family income into two dis
tinct parts. The first, which depends entire
ly upon business and capital, belongs to tho
husband. Tho second part, which pertains
to household economy, ho subdivides into
six parts. Four of these, including that part
of tho income to he devoted to tho dwelling,
tho standing wonts, suck as dress, light, fire,
nnd servants, tho expense of sickness,
death, insurance, and recreation, and
a certain sum sot apart ns tho
family savings-box for tho subsequent
benefit 'of tho children, are to bo under
the immediate jurisdiction of husband aud
wife together. Tho wife alone has tbo solo
charge of tho other two parts, which include
tho daily and weekly expenses of honsokcop*
iug. lie thereupon demands that tho wife,
who thus has charge of ono-third of tho life
economy and on equal jurisdiction in tho
other two-thirds, shall moke tho closest possi
ble estimates of all items of expense and of
tho prices and quantities of commodities.
Upon this point and its importance ho says :
44 It is more important that girls should know
how much a family with an income of twelve
hundred or twenty-four hundred florins
should spend on flour and moat, turnips and
sugar, than how much nitrogen and oxygon
enter into their composition—most important
for thorn to know bow much it costs to food
a lamp during a winter, and how much
clothing and woshlng tho household needs,
or how much fnol is required to cook for five
persons. With this supervision over tho
expenses under her charge, tho wife is to
havo tho care of the house and to see that all
things are in ardor and nothing is wasted or
lost."
There is a vast deal of wisdom and sound
philosophy in Dr. Von Stein's suggestions,
and they are not altogether without a senti
mental bearing. They havo h very evident
bearing upon connubial happiness, since
good and economical housekeeping can moke
a happy homo and bod housekeeping cannot.
It woald probably astound any person, oven
the most observant, to know how much
business tbo divorce courts havo done
which has grown out of dirty rooms,
Ul-cooked meals, unwise provision of
commodities, bod buying, waste of
money, etc. Carelessness and improvidence
havo been the first steps in tho ruin of many
a family, while prudence, economy, and
thrift are very sure to cement more closely
the bonds of mutual love in tho family. As
Von Stein says: 44 Tho frugal wile in her
neat dress at breakfast, who sends her hus
band to bis business with good spirits, has
more hold on him year ia and year out than
the spendthrift pleasure-seeker who trios to
charm him in the evening by her silks and
jewels."
Thera vu one© a sort of “ money ’’ known
ns assignats. It resembled the greenbacks in
many respects. Its material was paper. It
was a promise to pay. It circulated. It was
secured by a pledge of the “faith” and “re
sources,” etc., of Franco. But it wont
down, down, until its chief value was aswoll
paper in a peasant's hut. WUlßomeindatiou
-Ist explain the whys and wherefores of this
fact? “Why, gentle stupid, tell us why?”
Judge Ksixby has been carrying bia Infialloo
principles into the enumeration of bis audiences.
He stye to a reporter of the Philadelphia Timet:
At Chicago ray audience waanfcnoyujgljr mail. U
numbered but about a thouoond or twelve hundred
people.
I'bo audience upon the basis of decimal nota
tion was 600 people, by actual count. It must
have bean “ annoyingly small.” Tbo Judge pro
ceed# to account for this unexpected dream
atanoe. Be says i
The gentlemen who bod invited toe there hod token
McCormick's Hah, one of the largest la the city, nude
every itoeelble arrangement for ray comfort, but had
forgotten to advenlae the time and place of tha meet
ing. It la due to them that 1 should aay that Invita
tion# had coma to me from two parties of boalnaae
men, each allbout knowing that the other had invited
me; although in reply to the later invitation 1 had
taken mesne'to bring them into concert of action,
each had aunpoeed that tha olhera would taka charge
of the advertising.
The actual facts of the mailer are cot aa
Judge Km-Lgy represents them, Tbo meeting
was advertised every day iu the local columns of
the dally papers, and referred to in tbeir edi
torial columns also. The trouble was that the
people of Chicago did not want to bear Judge
Kaut’i speech. The long list of Yloe-frcai
deots of tbs meeting was mode up without the
knowledge of tbs gentlemen who wets placed
tipottit fduf-afUudiifcsMirtN&MM Inapt-
Ihy with the view* of the speaker. With refer*
coco to (bo questions put to him by The Trid
one, bo mado It convenient not to answer them,
except In a manner neither Intelligent nor out
spoken. It is trno that bis mission to (Jbicagt
was a failure, hut bo hau no right to complain
of tbo lack of attention of the proas. That be
failed to gain honor, glory, or converts was (lie
fault of himself and of tbo cause bo represented.
Mike Evan* aay« that Juatlce I'ot.LAR is playing
reformer nnd monoy-naver Just to get Ida name tj
tho (iniiem, nnd that that wan why lie kicked tip » IkjH.
I>ery Wednesday night at tbo meeting of (be Souife
Town H-mrrt ; (hat tbo Collector muni jny big
to get boncHt men to help him.— /’otl and Mail,
Mike Evans need not fool Jealous. Ho wifi
not havo to “ nlay reformer ” to koop his name
before the public, llts 4 ‘ money-aavlng 44 wifi
Dover do it for him. Tbo claim that bo cannot
collect half tho taxes of tbo South Town for
SIO,OOO, however, will do it. Perhaps Mr. Mire
Evans may not bo so anxious to no before the
public, then,
PERSONAL
Woodbull and Clafliu aro lecturing In Ver
mont.
I’lucbo W. Couzms, of St. Louis, Is a guest at
tbo Tremont House.
Bctgb says a woman who will keep a canary la
a case is not fit (o bo a mother.
Liout.-Cola. Jackson and La Montague, of
Quebec, aro at tbo Sherman House.
Alexander 1L Stephens Is reported to bo b
better health than bo has boon for a long time.
flncMahou novor was guilty of tbo Malakoq
pbraso Imputed tp him: 14 Hero 1 am; bo;e
I’ll stay."
It would bo considered too personal to Inquire
whether tbo Brooklyn sufferers from bay-furcr
ore rakes.
James Woods, of Philadelphia, enjoys the diu
llnction of not having been sobor one day h
eoven years.
Pius IX. la actually said to bo writing an au
tobiography, “ Life of a Popo." It it la accuraio
it roast bo terribly long.
John C. Wallis, the lawyer, returned from hii
Eastorn trib yesterday. Ho saya that Fennsyl.
Tania Is tbo garden of God.
Prof. Proctor is almost ready to publish the
consul) of Jupitor and Mars, ao folly does bo Lo
lloto in tbolr babitablenoso.
Dr. Glenn, of Colusa County, Cal., bag a tUj
little farm which fronts for IB miles on tbe Boo
ramonto Ilivor, and runs back 0 miles.
Tbo Hot. Sumnor Ellis, pastor of tbo Cburch
of the Redeemer, wilt occupy bis pnlpit to-mor
row, after an absence of several weeks.
“ Peter Cooper ate the first beans cooked in
Boston," says tbe Cincinnati Gazelle. Peter
must have bad mote faith tban bis namesake.
James Russell Lowell's friends aro very so: ry
bo published bis last poom. “Wo air a picat
people, and wo must be cracked op," yon know.
Lacy 0. Hooper announces tbo overwhelming
discovery that Dumas fils bad a mother. It
takes a live woman to forrot ont a family secret,
Tbo Brooklyn Argus is of opinion tint:
“Olivo Logan is tbo best dressed lady at Long
Branch—after tbo other ladies have gone to
bed."
A niooo of President Van Boren, 79 yean of
age. is a public character, like her undo. She U
an tomato of tbe Hudson County, K. J., alms*
bouse.
Tbo Pittsburg Commercial says that Bogarde*
is to write an autobiography in pigeon English.
Ho’ll probably find that as cblneasy a language
as any.
Gen. W. H. Franklin, James H. Willson, and
Henry Kennedy, of tbo Caatom-Houao Investi
gation Committee, ora stopping at tbo Palmer
House.
Gov. Gaston will not sign Jesse Pomeroy's
death-warrant, and tbo Connell refuse to com
mute him. He's therefore to -ha hanged and
not to bo.
At Rock Spring Primitive Baptist Church,
Morgan County, Tonn., throe Cooper sisters,
triplets by birth, were baptized Jndia, Julia, and
Judy, severally.
Tbe Intelligence and invention of Plymouth
Church Is now employed to prevent Mrs. TtUoa
from ever making it up with her husband, u
she is inclined to do.
Brooklyn, which baa been slumbering over tba
smouldering ombors of Ita strlfo. is about to re*
sumo its interocina warfare in a week, Hour/
haying decided to return.
Prince Startemberg, who so bravely smoked a
cigar and sketched the scene while the steamer
was ashore the other day, is now la New fork,
having returned from Newport.
Dr. Graham, of Louisville, is 91 years of age,
but ho goes about ou horseback, hunting up cu
riosities for tho museum, aa spry and blythe u
ho waa sixty or seventy yoara ago.
The proof-reader will never never condescend
to note the difference between tbo words affect
and effect. When told of his errors he nover
effects a change for tho better, only affects It.
A sentimental young lady * remarking that
Longfellow did not look like a poet, learned with
disgust from her uncle that "real poets never
do.” Which discovery Joaquin Hiller has re
cently made, ending £in the shortening of hia
hair.
Emile Olivier defines “ Republic” in tbo Na
tional Dictionary of tbo French Academy as >
'• A Hlato where tho Government is conferred by
election and of which the chief is not beredlta*
ry," which is as near sa the average Frenchman
comes.
A. B. Norton, editor of the Dallas (Tex.) /«•
Mligcnoer , vowed over thirty yoara ago never to
■have till Henry Clay should be elected Fred*
dent, and bis beard Is a yard long. It note:
occurred to him to trim it, though bo’s no
trimmer.
The Philadelphia Times says that Emir SWI
Juasef Zla Alkhalidi has vacated tho Arabic
Chair in Vienna and gone back to Jerusalem.
What's tho “Arabic Cbalr”? It couldn't bars
meant gum Arabic, for then he’d have stock to
It longer, you know. —Commercial Advertiser.
A. M. Thomson, of tbo Milwaukee SenhW*
offers for sale 918,700 of full-paid stock In that
Company. Nobody who knew anything supposed
Mr. Thomson belonged to Carpenter's Ring.
That he is willing to sell out bis share In tbe
Whisky-Blog organ shows that bo is not In that
one, either.
It is likely that the etory in the Brooklra
of the encounter between Barry Sullivan,
Charles Gaylor, and George Butler was mainly
true. The only Incredible part of it is that
Butler tbralhed anybody. Gayler kindly bald
Sullivan while Butler thrashed him. Any way,
it was a nice, creditable tbiug for the dramatis
profession, which scorns (o be obtaining a mo*
nopoly of this sort of thing.
DOTH!/ AKSIVALB.
'J'rtvumt //«um—John W. Madden, New Orleans 1
0.8. Johnson. Now York; C. W. Ooyar, Memphis I
Col. J. tl. flaks, Boatou; Thomas Hlmpsoo, Wlnoua:
f. li. Jaraoa, Boston; J. Page, Beaver; E. Ootls , »
Buffalo ; U J. Wmiuiua, Nsw York : Uenry I*.,
Boatou : U. P. Bangor, Oloveland : John N. Wllolt. »l»
Louie : f• Ueltae, Omaha; J. fubrnian, Central City t
Ouorge Crist, Oluduoatl J f. K. ferry, BoohiaUr,
George H. Hall, Now York ; U. A. Bmlth, haw Haven
. ~,6htnnan J/ouse—MaJ. O. T, Coffins, NawYorkl
Col. W. IL Uoatettir, flUUdvlpbU; B. N. Plckeris*
love; IL L. Marshall, Milwaukee; J.f.Oaaey, N**
Orleans; U, B. MarsbaU, UlnneapoUa; George W.
Andrews, Cleveland; W. O. Coup, New York: O. n.
Bandy, U.B.A-: /. W. Hinds. Maine;
New York; ILliucua, New York OroiU i’wWT
J. A. Boane, Uoaton: J. N. Bears, Mobile: Judge «•
11. Voas, l*rof, W. H. Black, Indianapolis {A. B, ««*»;
eubuiU. Terre Haute j William T. BeaUey. Kentucky»
hiuw UopUua. Philadelphia; Karaitel Bryan. H«iJ*
burg; W. B. Clukaon. Now York: O. IL UoblwfL
Lunbvtllo: T. U. Huberts. New York ; H. fs>ckwu<A
Toledo; Charles Duly, Kt. Louie; Beolamln Bertas
Washington; William Sevtoq, Uiigland; J. O. Nor
thrup. New York; M. Williams, England....
Pacific-- Ciov. J. L. Boveridgo, Bprlugueid ; Judge £
Walkley, Omaha: Judge Juadvu, Woodstock; U. J*
Me/rlmau, HoehaaUr I T. f. McCurdy. t^uuecUcul,
B, O. Bauedict. New York: T. A. Ollliwple, f
H. C, pnalon. Hartford; James 8. Brower, li.Gabursi
J. Uaed, Philadelphia; B. B. Packer, Looiavlllej w. J*»
lUcker, Bock Island, B. D. btlvemsra New YwkJ