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ning, at 6 o’clock, at tho Asylum, for the transaction
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cordUlly Invited. C. If. CRANE. Roc.
Mhc dnjictwjtf tribune.
Tuesday Morning, December 7, 1876.
The Signal Service report indicates con
tinued rain, with windsbockiug to the north
west, and colder weather.
Greenbacks, at the Now York Gold Ex
change yesterday, opened at 87}, rose to 87$,
fell to 87 I }, and closed a shade under the last
figures.
At a gathering of some 200 Methodist
clergymen in Boston yesterday, Bishop
Haven broached the proposition that Presi
dent Grant be nominated for a third term.
The Bishop’s answer was a unanimous
Ament The occurrence may bo set down as
significantly complimentary rather thou po
litically consequential.
In the election of Commissioner Johnson
as President, the now Board of County Com
missioners offer but little encouragement for
the expectation that the reorganization of
the Board will put an end to the domination
M the Ring. Taking ns an indication the
previous predilections of the now presiding
officer, there is no reason to anticipate a bet
ter state of things during the ensuing year
than that which prevailed during* the ex
istence of the preceding Board. It Is evi
dent that there will still remain a need for
the watchfulness of the Citizens' Association
in order to prevent frequent raids by the
reorganized Ring upon the County Treasury.
Tho annual report of the Secretary of War
contains many important recommendations,
notably those relating to tho value and effi
ciency of tho Signal Service, and the sugges
tion relative to its establishment as one of
the Bureaus of the War Department; tho
necessity for increasing tho battalion of en
gineers to COO men lor the purpose of plant
ing and operating tho torpedo defense sys
tem; the urgent need of larger appropria
tions for arming and equipping the militia,
os well as for increasing the reserve supply
of first-class arms for tho regular service;
tho importance of providing for tho arma
ment of our seacoosfc fortifications. Tho
recommendations of Secretory Belknap, in
relation to tho questions of armament and
defense, will command peculiar interest and
attention just at this time.
Tho first day’s session of tho Democratic
House of Representatives witnessed a sharp
and exciting contest on tho Louisiana ques
tion—a contest in which superior political
acumen and parliamentary skill carried tho
day as against tho advantage of numbers. It
was Fernando Wood’s first effort to seize tho
Democratic leodership, and in tho outcome
that gentleman’s pretensions were effectively
disposed of by tho promptness and energy
with which ox-Spealter Blaine, admirably
seconded by Mr, Wueklrb, of New York,
throw himself into tho breach and
defeated tho audacious attempt to onco
more tear open tho Louisiana question.
Mr, Blaine’s success was brilliant and com
plete, though it was not completed until
Lamab and Cox had committed tho serious
blunder of siding with Wood and sharing in
the humiliation of his failure. It was a
pretty fight, and handsomely won.
The Common Council made itself appear
extremely silly not long ago by ordering that
a demand be made upon tho Committee hav
ing in charge the fund created by the solo of
paintings donated by French artists for tho
relief of artists who suffered in tho great Chi
cago fire of 1871. Apart from tho fact that
tbo necessity for such a fund had long since
passed, if, indeed, such necessity existed,
the Common Council hod no conceivo
ble right to meddle with the matter.
Consequently, in making tho “demand ”
that delectable body laid itself liable
to bo elegantly snubbed, and tho opportunity
has been improved by the Chairman of tho
Now York Committee, Mr. E. D. Morgan,
who, iu a brief note to Mayor Colvin, neatly
convoys an intimation that of all persons on
earth to whom Ibo Committee would think
vf surrendering their trust, tho Mayor and
Common Council of Chicago are the last.
And tho people of this city will commend the
excellent Judgment of the New York Commit
ted os expressed by Mr, Morgan, *
The Chicago produce markets were very
Irregular yesterday. Mess pork was active
and 10@15o per brl lower, closing at $16.1)0
seller the month, aud $19.15 for February.
Lard was less active aud 5(S)l0o per 100 |i>s
lower, closing at $12.15 cash, and $12.02)
(&12.85 for February. Meats wore quiet and
ic lower, at 7o for shoulders, 9Jo for short
ribs, and lOJc for short clears, all boxed.
HigUwiues were In fair demand and steady,
at sl.ll per gallon. Flour was dull and
weak. 'Wheat was more active aud 2@2)c
low'er, closing at &7jfo cash, und 08$o for Jan
nary. Corn was dull and a shade firmer,
closing at i6jo for December, aud for
May, Oats worn qniot nnd easier, closing nt
fiOc cash, anil "o*c for January. Kyc wan
quiet at <s73Harley was in luitler de
mand and Sinner, closing at SMe for Decem
ber, and •'•'•'c for January. lings were dull
ami Iflo lower limn Saturday. with the bulk
of llin Haifa at n.S,”, Faille wero inact
ive and unchanged. Sheep were dull at
sß.oo(a.'4.an. One hundred dollars in gold
would buy $111,117} in greenbacks at the
close.
Tho resignation of tho Hon. Jasper D,
Ward ns United Staten Attorney for this dis
trict has not boon unexpected. It has been
known that, among flio recent indictments
by tho United Stales Grand Juries for fraud
on tho revenue, there have been persons with
whom Mr. Warp, as a resident and lawyer of
Chicago, ban had intimate social and profes
sional relations in Iho past. If ho had re
tallied his position as tho prosecuting nllor
ney for tho Government, his duty in some of
these cases would bavo been exceedingly em
barrassing on this account; ami oven if ho
had tho exceptional fortitude to press them
to trial with tho caro nnd vigor which hnvo
been shown in St. Louis, ho would hnvo boon
subjected to many suspicions tin account of
tho relations wo have described.
Mr. Louis C. Hitk, the new County Treas
urer, formally look possession of his ofilco
yesterday, having duly qualified by Inking
tho oath and giving tho requisite bonds. Mr.
Hock's first net was to count tho money left
by his predecessor, “ Buffalo'' Miller, which
was found to bo S2.VJ,t);H.iW, —a full and
complete settlement with tho county nnd
State. While wo congratulate Mr. Huck
upon taking possession, we congratulate Mr.
Miller upon going out with honor. Tun
TacntrN’R did not bcliovo nt tho time tho
stories that wero circulated against him for
“ campaign purposes,” and therefore refused
to give currency or countenance to them.
Tho warning afforded by D. A. Gaol was
heeded by Mr. Miller to such good purpose
that ho is able to Icavo his ofilco with clean
skirts, nnd to turn over every dollar belong
ing to Iho county promptly on demand.
MB. LAMAR’S SPEECH.
The Now York World sings an exulting
pam of triumph over the speech delivered
by Mr. Lamab, as Chairman of the Demo
cratic Congressional caucus, on Saturday last.
It is the first time it has had to sing for many
years, and, while wo have no objection to its
singing, it may bo instructive to find out
what it is singing about. By way of pref
ace, wo are willing to admit that Mr. Lamar
is one of the ablest, most polished, fairest
minded, and most influential men in the
Sonth. Ho stood high in the old Congress
before the War. He is a man of fine ability
and elegant address, and is eloquent of speech.
Ho went into the Rebellion with much reluc
tance, according to his own representation.
He is not a baler of the North, nor a man
who cherishes resentments, and is perhaps
os fair a type of a “reconstructed Rebel ” as
the South enu present among its most promi
nent men. As such ho was put forward as
the Chairman of the caucus without any op
position upon the part of either of the tbreo
candidates for the Speakership or their back
ers. He represented the majority sentiment
of the caucus, and, as far as ho was allowed
to, the Democratic plolform and policy of the
House of Representatives.
Wo are oxultingty told by the World that
“ Mr. Lamar’s speech will arouse a cordial
and responsive echo in every Democratic
heart from Maine to Texas, from New York
to California.” What ore the propositions
that are going to produce this remarkable cf
feet ? It is easy to sift out those to which
the Republican party will make no objection,
and which wo ore glad to be assured are go
ing to arouse the Democratic echoes. They
are the propositions to pay the national
debt in full in the world's money; to make
the paper currency “equal with that of any
nation on the earth to reduce the expenses
of the Government; to adopt such a system
of taxation os will bring In the required rev
onuo with the fewest restrictions upon com
merce and with the least burden to the
farmers and laborers ; and to ferret out and
punish corruptions. AU these propositions
cover Republican ground, and wo are glad to
ho assured that their enunciation is bound to
raise an echo in every Democratic heart.
Having sifted these out, there still remain
two propositions which ore open to discus
sion. Mr. Lamar says:
There baa been for tome time in llio public mind a
conviction profound and all-pervading that tbo
Cml Service of the country tina not been directed from
conaidcrationa of public good, but from those of parly
profit, amt for corrupt, aolflah, and unpatriotic do*
feign*- Tbo people demand at our bands a sweeping
and thorough reform, which ahall bo conducted la a
spirit lint will socuro tho appointment to pUeesof
tru»t and rospoualblllty tbo honest, tho experienced,
and the capable.
This conviction has been profound and all
pervading not only for “ some time,” but
for many years. It has existed over since tho
days of Andrew Jackson’s Presidency, when
the Democratic party destroyed tho Civil Bor
vio, and adopted oh a party motto ; ’‘To tho
victors belong tho spoils. ” When they adopt
ed this ruinous policy, they made office-hold
ing purely partisan in character, and they
carried out that policy from 1828 to 1801
with such completeness that, during all that
time, thcro was not an office-holder under tho
Federal Government who held his place be
cause of his ability to fill it, but because ho
was a Democratic partisan. During nil these
years they have carried but this policy, not
only in the offices under tho Federal Govern
ment, but in State, county, municipal, and
town offices, wherever they have boon
in power. Every office has been filled
with partisans for partisan purposes.
Mon of ability, and intelligence, and
honesty have been ruthlessly turned out to
make room for partisans. The very caucus
which Mr. Lamar was addressing is a notable
illustration of tbo truth of this assertion.
Every office which it had in its gift, down to
the Doorkeeper, was tendered to a partisan,
and even a partisan Chaplain was selected to
pray for them and look after their religious
interests who had made himself so obnoxious
in Connecticut during the War by his “ polit
ical principles” that ho was put out of tho
Stale, according to thodispalchcs,—tho “polit
ical principles,” of course, meaning sym
pathy with the attempt to break up the
Federal Government. In discussing ond ad
vocaliug reform in tho Civil Service, there
fore, Mr. Lamar is handling edged tools. If
there is any application to bo mudu to his re
marks upon this question, it can only be a
censure of tbo Democratic spoils policy and
practice over since tho party was organized,
forty-seven years ago.
But again says Mr. Lamar ;
Tho grtudut la»jilruU«u of the Democntlc patty
1«, md iu crowulug gl-ry will be, to mtoru lbs Ooo
tlltuUoa to It* primitive felrrogtb sod authority, uud
le make it tho protector of every section aud ol every
bUtu lu the Uoiou, aud of every human Leiug, of
every race, color, and coudlilou, In tho laud. . . .
UrutlcQittD, we ire btre u Democrat*, —member* of a
political part; wblcb but a long aud glorious oJjtory.
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY DECEMBER 7, 1875.
I*t n* !n oar ilntle* (hi* winter mall nn<t revive tho*«
principle*, the f.hhhii maintenance nf whh-li by t 1m»
father* of our parly secured U tot *« lonff a. pvrlu't (lie
eonfltiphi’o ami cuppcrt of (ho people.
This is another proposition which h going
to rouso the Democratic echoes, Wlint is
this “ inspiration of the Domocratic party " ?
'Wliat is this ‘‘primitivestrength ami authori
ty ” which Mr. Lamar winhes to bco revived
tins winter, and which ho puts forth in such n
plausible manner? Nothing more nor less
Uum the old Democratic doctrine of “Stale
Sovereignly," with all the dangers and abuses
that it implies,—the doctrine that the Federal
Union is but a partnership or league of
States, in which each is independent nnd
free to do as U pleases, oven to the right of
secession, whenever it is so disponed. It was
that Demooratio doctrine which led to the
terrible Civil War; which upheld slavery with
all its abuses and cruelties; which drove the
Supremo Court to make tho Dntn Scott de
cision ; which set up ideas inimical to tho
Union of tho Staton; which took charge of
fifteen State Oovemmontu nnd set them up
as independent of lUo Federal Government;
which filled hundreds of thousands of men in
tho North with the name ruinous principles;
which involved tho country in its tremendous
debt; which filled tho cemeteries with tho
very llowcr of Northern and Southern youth
and tho whole country with widows nnd
orphans. And this is wliat rouses an echo in
every Democratic heart! This is what Mr.
Lamar desires tho Democratic party to “rc*
call and revive " this winter! \Vo had hoped
this destructive doctrine was dead and buried,
and that this inglorious history of tho Demo*
crnlic party was not to bo revived; but it now
appcaw that tho party which commenced by
destroying tho Civil Service and almost tie*
stroyed tho Union is now bent upon destroy,
ing tho hopo that oil these bitter memories
hod passed away, and restoring onco moro
that woful dogma of State Sovereignty, in
stead of burying it forever nnd atoning for
its offenses of tho past by giving some guar
antee for the future.
SOUTHERN CLAIMS BEFORE CONGRESS.
Tub Tiuuune has anticipated, over since it
has been known that there is a largo Demo*
crntic majority in the popular branch of the
present Congress, that desperate efforts
would bo made to introduce and allow claims
against the Government growing out of the
War of Rebellion, heretofore excluded by the
bar of disloyalty on the part of the claimants.
Our later Washington advices indicate that
tins fear is well-grounded. The way has
boon parity opened in the past by the estnb
lisbment of the Southern Claims Commission,
whoso life has been extended from time to
time, and -whoso province has been to ex
amine into claims for damages suffered by
Southerners who were true to the Union.
But, oven under this restriction, it is evident
that a vehicle was furnished for disloyal
claimants to got a hearing, and many of
them on an uncontcstcd ex-partc state
ment. There have been 22,000 claims
presented to this Commission, aggregat
ing more than $00,000,000. While the
great bulk of these has been disallowed
on account of disloyalty, there is little
doubt that men in open rebellion against the
Government or in full sympathy with the
Rebels have been reimbursed for their losses
incident to the War. Oars is the only Gov
emmont in the world that undertakes to re
imburse losses that grow out of a war, ami it
was found necessary to reduce (he principle
of international law (that treason is a for
feiture of property-rights) to a statute; and
on March 2,18(17, the following joint resolu
tion was adopted by Congress:
Tbit, until olberwlio ordered, It Mull be unlawful
for toy officer of Ilia United SUlcn Government to pay
any account or demand against said Government
which accrued or etlaied prior to April 18,1801, lu
favor of any person who promoted, encouraged, or in
any manner anotalned the late Rebellion; or in favor
of any peruon who, during laid Rebellion, waa nut
known to bo opposed thereto, and distinctly la favor of
1U auppra'fciou; and no pardon heretofore granted, or
hereafter to be granted, ahull authorize tho payment of
bucU account, clilm, or demand, uutil thin resolution
is modified or repealed; ThatUUaresolu
tion ahall not be construed to prohibit the payment of
claim* founded upon contract* made by any of the
Departments, when such claims were assigned, or con
tracted to bo assigned, prior to April I,IBCI, to credit
ors of said contractors, loyal citizens of loyal States,
in payment of debts Incurred prior to ilarcb 1,1801.
Tho first stop toward tho admission of
Southern disloyal claims will ho tho repeal of
this resolution, and there will unquestion
ably bo an effort mndo to bring it about.
How much strength such a movement will
assume cannot perhaps bo determined till
tho latter end of the session ; but every evi
dence of it must bo vigorously denounced
and opposed from the earliest moment, Tito
repeal of tho above resolution will make
room for claims to which there will bo no
end in number and no limit in amount. Tho
abrogation of tho principle itself will lend not
merely to an allowance of tho claims of indi
vidual disloyalists, but of tho corporations,
public and private, and eventually perhaps
to the payment for tho emancipated slaves
and tho debt of tho Confederate States.
Onao introduce the wedge, and there is no
prophesying what may not bo squeezed In.
The only safeguard is tho strict enforcement
of tho oommon-sonse doctrine that disloyalty
is a universal bar against any ond all classes
of claims against tho Government.
The character of the claims which will bo
mode against tho Government under this pro
posed now departure is already defined. It
will admit all those individual claims for
property used or rent for quarters occupied
whore auy receipts wore given, and without
any reference to the loyalty or disloyalty of
tho claimants. The old claim of tho census
takers of 1800 iu the Southern States will
then bo recognized, the bar to the payment
of which has been that all claim was forfeited
by subsequent secession aud rebellion against
tho Government. The ante-bellum mail-con
tractors will also come in under tho now dis
pensation ; that is, those having contracts
for the carrying of the mails on Southern
routes which wore cot off by tho War will be
paid os if they had fulfilled their contracts.
In the same category belong tho Postmasters
of tho Southern States, who claim that thor
had losses inpostage-stnmpsonhand; wo pre
sume they will also set up a claim for pay
during tbo entire interregnum, when tho
United States Lad no Postmasters in tho
cities whore they were last located. All those
claimants will not, of oourso, bo satisfied
with the original face of their alleged losses
on account of the War, but will also demand
interest thereon for tho fifteen years during
which they have been out of the money. The
allowance of the principal will carry with it
an allowance of tho interest.
Of a kindred nature with these claims for
direct muaoy-allowauce as a reward for rebell
ion are the proposed raids on tho Treasury
fur the recovery of money paid Into it, or re
lease from obligations to the Government.
Thus there was a cottou-tox for two years— ii
cents per pound on tho crop of 18C0 and 2)
cents on that of 1807 —which tho Southern
ers want refunded, though there was certain
ly more justice in levying a tax on a product
which was bringing thorn higher priced thnn
ever before, nnd to help pay the expenses of
n war they had brought on by treason, than
it was to levy Kpcclal taxon upon I ho Northern
patriots who had put down the Bobollinn. If
them is any refunding of thn cotton-tax,
there wilt bo a much bettor chum on the part
of tho Northerners for tho war-loxes they
paid. Thcro will likewise bo a movement in
behalf of tho Southern railroads to escape
tho payment of tho Government claims
for the properly Hold to thorn on
credit after tho' War, xfhioh nlono
enabled them to resume business, which was
probably the greatest boon that could have
been conferred on the Southern people, and
which did moro than anything else to assist
their revival in commerce. Then those bo
called “claims,” either for reimbursement
for losses on account of disloyalty or for im
munily from debts justly duo, will bo fol
lowed by schemes for vast improvements at
Government expense, in favor of which tho
StanlhcrncrH arc disposed to waive their chcr
ished doctrine of Slates’ Rights.
If wo Ignore the principle involved in this
raid of tho disloyalists, tho practical ques
tion arises: Who is to pay nil theso claims?
This is a question which every intelligent
citizen who is not n claim-broker will ask his
Congressional Representative, whether ho
comes from tho South or tho North. Those
eloiniH can ouly ho paid by taxation. Tho
Government revenues aro not now in excess
of tho Government expenses, and aro not
likely to bo for Homo timo to come. There
is no way to meet any extraordinary demand
upon tho Government, then, except hy forc
ing the money from tho people hy increased
taxation, or increasing tho public debt,
which amounts to tho same thing. The
South and tho North aro ono country
again, and tho former must contribute its
share both now and in tho future to tho pay
ment of any Government moneys on any ac
count. Aro tho Southern people, os a whole,
any moro willing thnn tho Northern people to
throw open tho I’ubllo Treasury to a horde
of claim-agents ? This is tho question which
every Southern Congressman who desires to
keep faith with his constituents must ask
himself. Tor oven (he base consideration of
Southern loyalty to tho “ Lost Cause ” can
not change tho fact that Government moneys
paid out now or in tho future on account of
Southern claims will never roach tho suffer
cts, cither loyal or disloyal, but will bo di
vided among tho claim-agents, brokers, at
torneys, lobbyists,—perhaps also among tho
Congressmen who vote to allow them. Tho
burden is ono tho American people will not
endure with palieuco, and the Democratic
Congress had bettor spare itself the disgrace
of a course that will never bo permitted to
obtain, and can only result in their over
whelming defeat and discomfiture.
IA PYRAMID ON ITS APEX.
Tlio theoretical financiers arc putting their
predictions and opinions about tlio Loudon
money market on record freely. Baoeuot,
editor of the Loudon Economist, Bojumy
Price, Professor of Political Economy at Ox.
ford, Jiivons, author of the best book yet
published ou “ Money,” all agree that there
is something radically and dangerously wrong
about the present system. Bacieiiot devotes
some very earnest pages in his “ Lomb ;rd
.Street ” to the perils of the Ono-Roservo ar
rangement of the English hanks. In his
chapter on tho Bank of England and tbo
money market, Jkvons prophesies that if
something is not done to keep tho reserve of
cash in higher proportion to tho liabilities of
the bonks there will bo ponies in tho future
moro disastrous than those in the
past. Taking tho overage of tbo calculations
of Palo have und Hosok, it appears that tho
actual cash reserve is not more than 5 per
cent of tho liabilities of tho banks. Tho en
tire fabric of England's cbmmcrco and
linanco would bo overthrown if hor mer
chants and other depositors should, on an
emergency, ank for moro than one-twentieth
of tho snms owed them. Should- they do
this, tho banks would suspend payment, and
ruin would be universal. la a letter to tho
Financier, Prof. Bosamt Price attacks tho
IBank of England for its mistaken policy
about tho relation ol tho rate of discount to
tho export of gold. It is a maxim with tho
IBank Directors to raise tho rate of discount
whenever gold is going out of tho country to
such an extent hs to deplete the reserves.
They did this lately, raising tho rate from It
to 4 per cent, and brought upon themselves
tho exposure of thoir loss of their his
toric control over tho money-market.
Tho Bank raised its rate to 4 per
cent, but tho joint-stock banks refused, as
they had never done before, to follow tho
load. They resisted the attempt of the Bank
of England to make all merchants pay on ex
tra charge for their discounts because of tho
political .demand from Germany for gold.
Tho Professor discharges a groat deal of
rhetoric at tho hoods of tho Bank of England
Directors. He calls their theory "fortuitous
1 doctrine, built on no analysis, no knowledge,
but on arbitrary and unscientific assump
tion,” etc. This is not all thot is to bo said.
Thu theory that the export of gold needed to
bo watched and chocked any moro than any
other export would bo, of course, absurd in a
free money-market. But tho money-market is
not free. Tho Bonk charter, tho Bank act,
and other interfering causes, have altogether
changed its natural condition. For instance,
tho reserve, instead of boiug kept by
each bank against its own liabilities, ia by
successive centralizations accumulated In tho
Bonk of England. Tho reason for tho sen
sitiveness of tho Bank with regard to an ex
port of gold becomes apparent enough when
tho facts are known that tho cash reserve of
the English banks docs not amount to more
than ouu-twuntieth of their liabilities ; that
most of this is in the Bank of England, and
that instant min would overwhelm oil Eu
glond If that were not forthcoming whoa de
manded. Theory and practice can never
agree till practice is niado right. There is
no living English economist of rank who
does not roprobato tho organization of tho
Bank of England. Jt is idle for Prof. Price
to full foul of practices rendered natural if
not necessary by tho exceeding instability
of British finance. Tho terrible appro*
hension constantly before the Bonk of
England Directors is that referred to in tho
last number of tho London Economut, which
says that if the present system collapses,
"the special and peculiar credit of England
in tbo money-market will perish with it.” The
Economist, takes a hopeful view of the future,
but tho strongest phrase in which it can put
Us hopes is, that while "a peculiar, a frail, an
anomalous system it must always be, wo
think there is no vital essential defect in it,
and that therefore it may last.” It viay lost 1
There is something frightening about such a
fonp of speech. It carries tho mind for- 1
won! to a catastrophe greater than any
the monetary world has yot seen, —a
disaster which will involve nations in
ruin, and reduce an Empire to the rank of a
third-rate power. It is a sober fact that to
nothing loss than this do thn discussions of
English economists now point. “ Cassandra ”
Greci may find his country wrecked on tho
“ rocks ahead " sooner then oven he expected.
The greed of British bank-stockholders grows
by the dividends it feeds on. More of tho
reserves aro boldly ventured to increase tho
profits} nnd tho wealth of tho richest conn
try in tho world stands, ns hoa boon often
aptly said, a pyramid on its apex. Whoa
tho pyramid comes down .
WHAT A OREBNBAOKEB BATS.
Some days ago, Tits Tbtudnr established,
by incontrovertible argument, throo facts, —
first, flint we could buy necessaries nnd other
goods from foreign nations only if our cur
rency was exchangeable, by somo process or
other, for tho world’s currency, gold; second,
that tho amount of gold given for each dollar
of tho paper thus exchanged fixed tho value
or purchasing power of tho whole paper cur
rency in tho United States; and third, that
gold-brokers exchanged gold for greenbacks
mainly because there is a probability of ul
timate redemption of tho latter. Wo asked:
“How, then, if gold-rodompUon is openly
abandoned, even in theory, is our currency to
bo exchanged into that of tho world and tho
absolutely necessary international exchanges
©fleeted?” In reply to this question, wo
have received tho lengthy, rambling, dis
jointed, nnd Illogical letter from Mr.
S. D. OAnpENTr.n which wo publish else
where. If ho did not expressly say that ho
was trying to answer tho question, wo should
never have suspected the fact from anything
in his long letter. We should have painfully
toiled through it, noticed such gross errors in
simple mailers of fact ns the statement that
the import duties annually amount to “ near
$200,000,000,” instead of $1(50,000,000, ns is
tho fact, nud tho astounding declaration that
gold “ went down into the 70s” after the pas
sage of tho Sherman bill, or that tho note
holders had lost $8,085,000 on broken Na
tional Banks, whereas they never lost a cent
on theso notes; and should havo laid down
tho epistle, silently wondering what tho
writer was driving nt, ami whether his son
science would oxcuso his wasting so much
paper nud space on uuch worthless words.
But Mr. Carpenter essays, ns n member of
tho “Executive Committee” of tho •*National
Independent Party,” and a signer of its plat
form nnd call, to giro a satisfactory reply to
tho query wo put. Wo confine ourselves,
then, to this ono point, making no reference
to tho mass of irrelevant rubbish with which
ho overloads his pages and wearisomely
lengthens his letter.
On tho supposition that his promise is per
fectly correct, his conclusion is wholly wrong.
Ho nays that money is “valuable in propor
tion to tho valuable uses it may bo put to,”
nnd that tho Government’s allowing import
duties to ho paid in greenbacks instead of
gold would so increase tho uso of greenbacks
that they would become os valuable os gold.
Those few words, by tho way, express every
thing there is in the nature of reply to our
question in Mr, Carp enter’s manuscript.
Now lot us see. Clearing-house statements
and general trade statistics show that tho
property sold and transferred in this country
and tho wages paid amount to between
eight and ton billions of dollars ($8,000,000,-
000 and $10,000,000,000) ©very your.
Greenback* nnd bonk notes aro valuable
for effecting all theso exchanges. If
they wore also “ valuable ” for paying tho
additional $160,000,000 of import duties, how
much would this increase their uses and
therefore their vnluo ? Just 2 per cent, Rince
the $160,000,000 isbut one-fiftieth of $8,000,-
000,000, or whole volume of transactions. As
the greenback now vacillates at about 66
cents on the dollar, it would, on tho supposi
tion that Mr, Carpenteh’s premise and
method of reasoning aro correct, be worth 2
per oent more, or about 87$ cents. Tho
whole effect, therefore, of his flamboyant
scheme of greenbacks for duties would be,
according tofiis own logic, to raise tho green
back 1$ cents in valuo on tho dollar, or, in
other words, to make what might bo called
tho “ standard basis ” of tho greenback dol
lar, the figures below and obovo which its
worth constant!; Tuctuatcs, 87$ instead of 86
cents.
But tho brokers ora now willing to giro a
general average of 80 cents in gold for ibo
paper “dollar,” first, because it is a legal'
tender for existing debts, and second, be*
cause there is a good ohanco of its ultimate
redemption by tho Government (and every
note bears on its face a promise to redeem).
Mr. Cabpsktrr makes some passing reference
to redemption in tho future by the Govern
ment, but gives no explanation of bow it is
to bo done when tho greenbacks are doubled
in amount and tho bank notes retired; nor
what reason ho has for thus contradicting the
plain, irredeemable position of his redomp
tionloss Independent party, as shown by the
call ho signed a fowdays ago,—a call that flatly
negatives tho idea of redemption at any time.
His party’s plan would destroy all chance or
hope of redemption, while It would double tho
volume of greenbacks, and would so cut off
the groat reason for tho present willingness
of tho brokers to pay oven 8(1 cento for tho
greenback. The value of the latter, there
fore, Instead of rising to 87} cents, would
fall to 77, G 7, 67, and so down, and as soon
as tho existing debts were paid off in tho
stuff, —as soon, that is, as every creditor hod
been legally cheated out of a part of his does, —
our currency would become worth continual
ly less and less, and finally sink to nothing.
The Continental currency was a legal-tender,
tccoivablo for all du6s to tbo Government.
What did it become worth?
Tho payment of the import duties 'in gold
provides tho Government with tbs means of
paying the interest on tho national debt. If
these duties were paid in greenbacks, how
would tho Government got tho $104,000,000
in gold needed every yoor for this purpose ?
It could do so only by selling its greenbacks
to gold-brokers for coin with which to pro
cure the gold necessary to pay the interest on
its bonds. Could the Government buy gold
for its notes on any bettor terms than mer
chants can with which to pay duties f What
would be gained by receiving greenbacks
from the importers for duties and then hav
ing to sell those greenbacks Jor gold with
which to meet tbo interest on the bonds?
How wonld that process improve the value of
tho greenbacks, or reduce the gold premium ?
We trust tnat Mr. Oabpentzb's Independent
party do not propose to repudiate the gold
interest and compel the pnblio creditors to
accept depreciated, irredeemable notes for
interest on their bonds. If that is their pro.
gramme, they will find but few Americans
dishonest enough to indorse the villainy or
willing to support a war against Great Brit
ain, Holland, and Germany, whose Govern
ments would hardly stand by idly and see
their citizens swindled out of a thousand
millions of their money. *
In addition tc the greenbacks the Govern*
meat would have to oell to procure g6ld to
pay Interest on Its debt, the merchants would
Rlill bo obliged to sell thoir paper currouny to
pet gold to pay balances of trade, nnd tho
prjeo in goMwhichlliomerchantsnmlthoGov
ernmont could pet for tho nuteu Hold in com
petition with each oilier would determine the
value or purchasing power of tho greenbacks.
Tho discount would certainly not bo less than
it is now. As the Independents do not po
poso over to redeem tho greenbacks, who con
toll how much the gold-brokers would give
for them ? lie is a rash man who will affirm
that they would give AO cents on tho dollar.
It Js thus seen, without multiplying words,
that Mr. CaiU'ENtbr’s scheme to abolish coin
for duties would accomplish no good, nnd
might do vast harm, and that it would bring
tho country, not one inch nearer to a par cur
rency or to coin redemption of notes.
Tho rccont decision of Judge Jameson
with reference to tho burglary charged against
Frank 100 nnd Charles Flynn, although it
appears to bo within (ho law, nevertheless
sols a dangerous precedent. Those two meu
had broken into a building in tho night Unto
with tho intent to commit a felony. Ho far it
was clearly enough a case of burglary. Tho
statute reads: “ Whoever In tho night-time
willfully, and maliciously, and forcibly brooks
and enters, or willfully and moliciounly, with
out force (tho doors or windows being open),
enters into any dwelling-house, kitchen,
otllco, shop, storehouse, warehouse, malt
house, stilling-house, mill, pottery, factory,
water-craft, freight or passenger railroad-car,
church, meeting-house, or auy other building,
with the intent to commit murder, robbery,
rape, mayhem, larceny, or other felony, shall
bo deemed guilty of burglary,” etc. Tho
statutes also define felony os a crime punish
able by death or imprisonment in tho Peni
tentiary. In this case, ns tho thieves had
taken but $1 worth of goods, and as nothing
under sls can send a man to tho Peniten
tiary, their counsel raised tho point that, as
no felony had been committed, tho indict
ment for burglary could not hold, and tho
Court sustained tho point. If these men had
broken into tho building in tho night-timo
with tho intention of committing a felony,
nnd had stolon nothing at all, they would
have been convicted, nnd that they cannot bo
convicted of burglary for slcaliug a loss sum
than constitutes a felony only shows that tho
law ought to bo remodeled.
Tho fashion of colohralmg centonarUa boa
now being taboo up by tbo Italians, who, in addi
tion to tbo Michel Angelo Centenary observed
this year, will next year celebrate tbo contonary
of tbo piano. They claim that CumsTovoco bad
tho Unit conception of tho piano, that la of a sort
of harpaicbord in which tho airings should bo
etruok Instead of twanged, and male such an
Instrument in 1710. Tlio Vail Mall (J a telle says
of him and his Instrument:
If CuitliTOFono gave to what wan rosily a pianoforte
tbe expressive name which at unco character!«ea tost
inatiumcnt end rlnws la whet rouped It ditfirs Irjin
its prcdocenflor Uio harpsichord, the question as to
who invented tho pUno could not but l«J decided in
bis favor. There ruiwt bavo i>ceu something dofootlvc,
however. In his method of nuanfucture; for.it Is
certain that nearly half a century later tbe pianoforte
woBBilU regarded as a noveuy.
Tho Ituhans will not bo left undisturbed la
tboir piano claim. Tho Germans, headed by
liiszr, assign tbo harpsichord to Mozaut. Tbo
English divide tno honors bet vocu Dusdin and
Mason, and Saxony clainu that Siluiuuuhh ta
vemed it.
In a conversation with a Now York World
reporter, Sheriff Dc.vham, who permitted Boss
Tweed to escape, enoko as follows :
“ Tweed hoi complain'd of Lis head very much of
Isle. Hi bat frequently told me that he auircrud great
pain there, ami no 1 let him drive out,**
" By what authority did Tweed leave Ludlow Street
Jail Uwlay 7 "
•• Well, It was rn my authority. I’ve often taken
prisoners out In tint way. It is quite customary, you
know, when they ate In there on civil process.”
" Did you dl»« with him at tbe Claremont Hotel ono
day hut weak 7 *'
•* Yes; Deputy Sheriff Haocn. royrolf, and >tr.
Campjxll wero of tbo part]. Wo Rlopiwd at Lis
houss nn tbe way bark. Whenever wa went out to
drive it was lUntomary to ship Rt his house on the way
home, Mr. Tweed boa not received more vMrors
than ueiul within the past three or four days, I think
bis ron WinniAU Is tbo only person who bis been to
sos blm lately.
PEB3OHAL.
Even tho worm will turn when trod upon;
will not Maguire?
God. Logan was reported last night os much
better, and still Improving.
Let no fair woman tsmyt thy sliding mind
■With gmnenla gathered in a hoot behind.
—litre I, D. C, 8.0.
Whisky is generally considered a highly In*
flammable material, but it la sometimes useful as
a llabcook Extinguisher.
Minister Washburns and his brother, tho Gen
eral from Minnesota, aro about to make a tour
of Egypt aud Turkey for throe months.
Tickets to the funeral of Dojazot. the famous
French actress, wore issued without limit, and,
though the capacity of the church was 4,500,
thousands were mmblo to gain admittance.
Mias Wilholroina Townrond, aged 10, dropped
dead wUlo dancing nt a oocial party in Chelsea,
Mass., *flt Thursday night. This is an awful
warning against dropping dead, if you cm
help it.
There is a loud call for Maguire, the mao who
stooped to appropriate (ho namo of the Sunday
Lecture Society, to como .forward and confess
himself. Cannot Macuirff bo goaded m desper
ation to defend himself ?
Tbe Kow York herald publishes In fsc-similo
the dispatch altrlouted to Goo. Babcock, sent
from Washington as a warning to the St. Louts
Whisky Ring, aud signed " Sylph.” Persona
acquainted with Gen. Babcock's band writing can
judge by this means whether ho is gnllty or not.
TbeTlchborno Claimant, sloco bis oonflaomeat
In prisen, has been reduced from 232 to 120
pounds, and ho looks as if he ‘had not washed
Ids face for six weeks. Dr. Kenoaly publishes
theso pathetic statements with tho manifest
purpose of making sympathy for tho prisoner.
Tho St. Louis Times, noticing os-Senator Car
pontoi's throat of euoiog Tub TnuiUNß for libel,
sa.is: "It is always tho truth that hurt«." By
tbe way, Mr. Carpenter 'never sued any of tho.
newspapers which repeated the Long Branch
scandal, tboogb be several limes threatened to
do so.
Titlens has recovered from hor rocont serero
Illness, and Is adyortiaod to sing lu Baltimore
to-morrow night. A card from an eminent phy
sician, published in the New York Jltrald, test!-
flea to her physical incapacity to fulfill recent
engagements, and to her complete restoration to
health.
The Providence Joumtif thinks Mr. William
Winter's poem, read at the dedication of the Poo
monument, is “uoimpaßeed by any elegiac
poem In the language " for “ exquisite truth and
tenderness of feeling." The New York Tribune,
to which Mr. Winter is attached, reprints the
testimonial.
Mr. John Brougham, happening to be seated
by the eldo of Coroner Connery, of New York,
and feeling thirsty, said to that gentleman,
“Wftat will you drink?" “A little claiet," re
sponded bis friend. "Claret!" exclaimed Mr.
Brougham, "Claret for a Coroner] Why, there's
no body in that T*
A gentleman once called on the late Mr. Aator
to solicit a donation for a charitable purpose,
lie gate gO. " Why, Mr. Aator," said the solic
itor, "how la it you give so little? Your aon
John Jacob gave uagWO." ."Well," replied the
old man, "He could afford it. He has a rich
father aud I haven't."
The Oraphio retracts the statement to which
It once give currency, that the New York Nation
was to pass into the bands of Mr. Uarnnm and
be used as a programme in the Hippodrome.
The rumor, it appsars, effected the
ImMnesn unfavorably, and all of Mr.
effects have neon sold out under the himta.r.
Tho story of TVodore Wachtol's life | lajt
uiiViko tbit of "The Postilion of Lnujitmein*
which was written fur him, and in which bt
made bin Aral tbnMnct imore«sion Iwenty-ie,,,
years ago. Wactml was a coachman orgroou
oripit allv, and was educated by ngantleman
accidentally honnl ids voice. 110 left his
wife, who nan an illiterate woman, and manUi
a ladr of rank but no great fortune.
A remarkably clever review of Browning’s
poem, "Tbo Inn Album,” appears In dm
York Tribune. It Is done in verse, and s|g Q9 J
"T,” which may aland for Btvard Taylor. Thi
stylo In a pood imitation of Dviwuing. The
viewer thinks the title of the po im might &s « Q |j
Imvo been "The Hotel Register” as ** Tho | n!l
Album,' 1 and he soema to be a Utile dubious M
to whether Browning’s verse baa any isqm la
The gloomy play, "Rone Michel,” which U
having a great success at (he Union Squats Thu.
tre in Now Yoik. will not, Mrs. Burnham (blah
reduce the number of suicides in tbia soMimol
business depression and suffering. A report o|
a suicide headed “ A Man Kills Himself B acMM
JIo Couldn’t Support Ills Family” wasrecomt*
rend in tier hearing, and n email bov filioitoaiU
remarked: "What a fool I Why didn’t ha kill
bio family?" Much bolter do eo, perhaps, lUta
to leave them to sUrvo alone.
Mr. Kerr, tho now. Speaker, Is a tall, ataieit
mnn, more than C feet in height, hroad-akoul.
dcrod, with a head well poised, a full gruwtb o|
blown hair, aud eyes that seem to teal
through at a glance, His scholarship Is of th»
highest ordor; hooks aro bis dearest conptQ.
ions, and bin judgment of men is keen and <Ji*-
criminating. Tho mau Is wholly practical
These la uo element of humor or tomaucoatoni
him, and his manners aro dignified almost to
auatoclvy. Ho Is IT years old.
Charles Francis Adams would have bean
chosen Centennial Orator, Instead of Mr. Ev»rti
had it not been for tho virulent hostility of D:'
Loring. of whom tho Nov: York 2Wt«n« r*
marks: "All tho poison of his vapid naluti
s?ems to have boon drawn out bv (bo political
antagonisms of tho last two or tbm yeari | 0
Massachusetts, nnd under its workings ho bu
achieved the most cotiKpiouous act of bis llfo.
110 has prevented tho selection of Cbariti
Francis Adams as tho Orator of tbs ContaoniiL
and he deserves the credit of hU suoasts.”
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
Pit'mrr Uoune—J. 11. Holman, Indlinspolfi: T ff
Puoll, Milwaukee; El Coato*; Now York: A. 0 Cook
Lowell; J. A. lioyJ, 1). h O. It. It.; (j. u a'oxlin!
Columbus, O, J T. D. Douglass, Hartford; J, B. BicC
nvdion, Utica; L. A. Hull, TIIRII, 0.; E. H, Colntn.
Now York; IMI. Kotcbim, 8-iglnaw; P. a. oUddia
CloveUml; 0. PJerco, Grand Riplds; O. A. UHUid!
Louiftvlil«....G’rani /’a (d-—>ll. 8. Durant, Ridnit
•I. W. Little, New York; W. W. Moorland, Cmd*
M. E. Fuller, and John A. Johnson, Midlson; F. Mj
Hiii.ooil, Dei Moines ; W. 0. Van Horn. LaCrosis: w
11. Uoitrlll, Ml.wjukeo ; J. B, Millar. Dei Molnei; p
E. BmJ*bukcr, Bmilb Dead ; J. H, Parsons, lUrtfore!
Henry Ham. Ohio; 11. 1). Li Trobc, Louisville; E.P,
Kocd, Ciudmmll; N. Guilford, Baltimore; Jimes
Mix, Kankikoo. ...Tremout Haute—J, O. Duffer,C[n.
Hmiatl s T. J. Aiideriou, A. T. It 8. P. It. R. ; E. P.
Gallup, luditmipoila; L. H. Abbey, New York; D, E,
DAvenport, New York; T, D. Camming*, Bih
tltnoro; IT. C. BarnabeO and troupe: the
Hon. John W. Carey; Milwaukee; tht
Hon. H. U.irnes, Nevada; J, fl, Putnam, Boitoa:
D. M. Kendrick, Paris; F. F. Aden, 91. Louie; 6. M.
Rowe. Riicrld n, III.; W. Gilo, Sluron, tVie....SAir.
iwm lieu. J. T. Kingsbury, Mdwauku;
George 11. Harlow, bocrolery of State, DJIooli; J.
Hill, Superintendent Pun Handle Railroad; A. 0,
Courleu, New York; M. A. OlidJlne, Ne*
York; Hi* lion. U. D, Hopkins, Peoria; E,
H. Tood, Winona, Mlun.; R. Foleom, Cincinnati!
Oil. M. 11. Hu-b, Buffalo; the Hon. U. D, Dement,
Dixon, lit.; N, 0. Warner, Rockford; U. 0, Eerie*,
Colorado; tbo Hon. U. Hay, Pennsylvania; A. J.
T/iveJny, Jacksonville.... Vnrdner HeuK—E. Tt,
Davison. Kentucky; A. Hiller, Now York; Mr. ml
Mm. Jerome, Augueta; W. IT, Pope, Watertown, N,
Y.; W. F. looker, Milwaukee.
OUlt ttAVY,
Secretary Roboaon’a Report*
Washington, D. C., Dco. o.—Secretary BoW
son's report of tbn naval service for tbe year
shone that tho namhor of vessels of every clue
and doi*crtDt;ou now borno on tho navy reginUf
is 117, carrying 1,195 guns, and 15i, 492 tone mm
uremont. Of those, many oro sailing vessel* of
iittio or no volao as part of tbo efficient force for
either tbo ormviog or fighting purpose* of tbo
present day. Tbo stoam Teasels as distinguished
from Iron-dads and torpodo-ablps, number 95,
of which 25 aro tugs. Of tho remainder 33 tie
ready for use when required. Our Iroa*clad
licet conoiats of 20 veasels, 21 of tbe monitor
type, 2 toroodo-abips. and 3 never lauocbod. All
tho vosaels (8u) aro available, including 16 Itoa
claJe and 2 torpedo-boata. Details aro given of
tho opoifttiuus of tho fleet ou each of tbe six
stations.
Tho Secretary baa tho following to say open
THE CONDITIO* or TUI NAVY:
It la gratifying to be able to report that tb#
navy la now in aoi • • r and mom efficient coo*
dition than It liju > c been at any lima aloe*
the commencement of your Adm'-nlstiatloo. It
ia uot oulr very strong In number and in tba
tissues of its ships, but wbat there are of them
are io aa good condition aa it ia practicable to
keop such materials of war under the various
and trying condit.ona to which they are, lu tba
nature of tboir »ervice, constantly exposed. A
far larger proportion than usual ut out
wooden ships are ready for service. Our iron*
clad lleet ia offio.oat, our storehouses arefatrlf
stocked with ordnance equipments aud supplies,
am) wo have on hand a fair supply of the oeat
uutanal (or the building and repair of ahipa.
The service baa been placed iu th:a state of
elllciouoy, comnared with what exialtd a fee
years ago, by utilising, except in the caaeol
eight sloops built under special appropriation,
what could be spared from the current appro*
pnatious, and from appropriation* made during
the Cuban ometgoucy. und applying those meaoi
praoucaliy and steadily toward puitiog what wai
worth saving of the navy aa it existed In aa
VCBUANBNT GOOD CONDITION
aa tho state of tho ships aud means at corn*
mand permitted. The wiudom of tbe policy
ia, I think. Illustrated br the strength of oar
iionllon to day. It would also bo well. I think,
if Congress would Afford means to finish at ouos
all the repairs of tbe five do’iblo-tur.elod moni.
tors, B.noe, when they are finished aceordiug to
mcaont design, our • iron-clad fleet would
be much more powerful, aud they are,
while undergoing repairs. useless for
any present purpose, and the process
of repelling them out of what can be spared
from current appropriations not only cripples
the Department in all its otbor operations, bat
is of coiuse. verv slow. With these added to
it* our iron-clad service wonld, for purposes of
defense, present a very substantial barrier to
anything which would cross tbs teas aud at*
tempt to enter our potte.
rouTsiioora navt-taod.
Fobtsuodtu, N. 8., Duo. 6.—Orders bats
boon received at tho Navy-Yard to Immediately
fit for sea the Ticondoroga.
THE STEAMER URUGUAY.
Her Filibustering Trip to Cuba*
New Yoqk, Deo. 6.—C01. Bceida, who com
manded the laat expedition to Cube, in the
steamer Uruguay, made a report laat evening to
the association of the Independence de Cuba.
The vessel, he eald, was wholly unfit (or service,
and could attain little ow 5 milee an boar. Her
supply of coal wae Insufficient, and the provls
loan abort. When they reacuod Cuba, nms
men wore landed to rooooooiter, bat the place
was to dangerous to veasela that it wu impoe*
Bible to laud any part of her cargo or any sot'
diets. Meanwhile, the Sparilab auibfrUioa bad
been informed, and they had to make theuv*
moat speed to Jamaica. The armsTurulaoed
wore or an inferior qiallty. He blamed the
agouti In this city for negligence in fitting ou
the vessel.
GLAD TO NEAR IT.
Svtcvii Uitmuh to Tk* Cktcaat rrikutu.
Janesville, 111., Dec. fl.-Tbe JaneavlUs cot
ton mill, although only running for six s* oo *"*
is unsble to supply the dernsud for its goods,
and the proprietors will build ao addition W * b *
spring. They manufactured i6,7U0 yards law
week on 200 looms.
THE ARKANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Littl* Room, Ark., Du. d,-Both HooW* «
the G.oar.l Awoib], are now boldiq, two a™
three session* per day. Final adjournment
takes place on Friday.
At Ibo lDon.l election of offlear,
Orle.ua Colton Eiob.og, yaatordar, Ml■
ofilcera oeio ra-atactad axo.pt the Vicfrlb-U"
dout, Mr. Jobe D. Letltta, be hirinr daolloadl.
IS, 1.1. Air, wu alactad Vica-rtaai4a»L