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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER H, 1878.
Greenbacks at the Now York Stock Ex
change yesterday could not bo bought for
'J'JI, 100 being demanded.
The Central Prison at Toronto was the
scene of a disastrous and exciting conflagra
tion yesterday. The flames were subdued
before it became necessary to remove tbo
convicts.
Tbo funeral of the late Norman B. .limn
occurred yesterday at the Fourth Presbyte
rian Church, aud the attendance of a largo
number of tbo loading men of Chicago whs
in itself an earnest tribute of sorrow and re
spcct.
The Convention of Railway Commissioners
closed a two.days’ session at Colambua yes
terdny. The Convention took a wido range
in its discussions, but just what interest it
had in assailing iho patent laws wos loft
somowhot obscure.
The Hod. James Macki*. Stale Treasurer
of /s T ew York, and Miss Salub, daughter of
c*x-Mnyor BnmoN, of 9t. Louis, wore mar
ried in tho latter city yostorday amid the
plaudits and congratulations of the society
world at tho other ond of the bridge.
Geo. J. D, Cox at Cincinnati yesterday
contradicted tho published statement that
Gen. Reno was killed by one of tlie men of
tho Twenty .third Ohio. He says Reno at
the time of bis death was In front of Gen.
Stubois* division, and that bo was killed by
a shot from tho enemy’s skirmishers.
Mrs, Lucr Stone Blackwell presided
over forty-four delegates, composing the
Woman’s National Suffrage Association, at
Indianapolis yesterday. Tho feature of the
Kossio.i was a letter from Lloyd Garrison
bidding tho Association to never cease agi
tating the question of impartial suffrage.
Voonnxcs appears in a Cincinnati paper.
He tolls tho public what he will do on the
reassembling of Congress, but omits hia pro
gramme for whipping in refractory Hoosier
legislators. Ho quoted and indorsed tho
reverent remark of William Allen, that
specie payments was “a d d barren
ideality."
Tho investigation of tho charges made
against Gov. Colquitt, of Georgia, was*con
tinued yesterday at Atlanta. Senator* Urn
Hill was examined, but ns the sessions of
the Committee ore private, his evidence is
not made public. The Atlanta papers de
nounce tho Committee and beUevo it is try
ing to whitewash tho Governor.
Again (he minor obtains circulation that
the Atlantic Great Western Rood is to pass
under control of tho Erie. A committee of
the English Trustees has lately-been inspect
ing the Atlantic A*. Great Western, and have
arrived at tho conclusion that it would bead
vantngcous to the bondholders to lot tho
Krio operate their lino as part of its own.
A railway war of considerable magnitude
is Just now stirring up (lie people at Cincin
nati. Tho cautioning parlies are the east
bound lines, and tickst-peddlcrs stand on (ho
streets hawking tickets to New York for
$3.50, to Philadelphia sl, to Cleveland $2,
and to Columbus si. Round trip tickets to
New York, good for thirty days, aro sold for
$».
An educated, acoompUsbedscoundral, pass
log under tho namo of tho Rev. John Will
jams, was arrested ut Charleston, Dl, yester
day and token to Terre Haute for coufidcuc
ing a widow and the MoffulPHlreot Method
ist congregation out of a good deal of money.
"When arrested he had about perfected his
plans for swindling a very worthy Coles
County widow.
Gen. SntßiUN submits his annual report
to the Secretary of War, in which ho argues
over again hie well-known theories on tho
Indian question. Age has softened tho old
wurriur, and be is now a humanitarian. His
rqtort allows there ore 7,629 enlisted men in
lUo cavalry, 2,090 in (he artillery, and
11,20.3 in the infantry. Adding engineers
and other arms of the service, there is a
grand total of 24,701 enlisted men. He be
lieves the army to be well sad economically
supplied, and its efficiency and discipline
good.
.i-.A ivtory Sheuujin has lost no time in dis
claiming any sympathy or identification with
the discrimination of tu© New York tanks
against tho legal-tender stiver dollar. He
does not believe that the amount of silver
coin now on hand o> the amount which will
bo added to Iho Block in the Treasury vaulta
for some time to come will in any degree ob
struct tho operations of Iho New York
Clearing-House, and anticipates that addi
tional demands for silver will bo created by
tho discontinnnnco after Jan. 1 of the Issue
of notes in smaller denominations than $3
by (ho National Banks, as well as by tho re*
qnirements of the smaller banks for silver to
aid In the redemption of their notes.
In New Orleans there are now as many
political refugees as after the treacherous
campaign of 167 G. From Tensas and Con
cordia Parishes particularly, many of these
poor } proscribed citizens come and tell of an
unfortunate condition of affairs. Fifty black
people were murdered in Concordia within
the three weeks immediately preceding tho
last election; even tho United States Com
missioner was driven out of the parish. In
Tensas there were not less than a hundred
killed. All these atrocities are certified to
by affidavits of refugees. It is full time tho
new departure wore taken.
Considering that tbe Subsidy Convention
just adjourned was carefully pocked in ths
interest of Toil Scott’s Texas Pacific
scheme, John RoAon’s Chester ship-yard,
nnd tho iron and slrol trade of Ponnsyl*
vania, tho adoption of the cut-and-dried
programme of subsidy-grabbing resolutions
was not much of a victory after all. Chicago
was selected as tho place of meeting pre
snmably because of the known hoKtility of
its business men to plunder of the National
Treasury in any form, tho expectation
being that local opposition would bo
silenced by tho preponderance of subsidy
sentiment. But no such result was accom
plished. A very vigorous minority made
itself beard and felt during the debate and on
the final vote, which, after all the core taken
to make it solid and unanimous, showed no
more than oighty-eight delegates willing to
swallow Iho whole dose, while fifty-eight re
jected it entire. Tom Scott’s attorneys and
lobbyists ought to be able to put up a better
job tbau this.
Tho Southern people never do anything
by halves. They seceded unanimously,
they (ought stubbornly, they hated bitterly,
they bulldozed colored and while Republic
ans in a spirit of entire accord, and they
have lately gone into the business of ballot
box stuffing* with an astonishing degree
of zeal aud industry. In the latter
accomplishment they are clearly entitled to
wear the bolt. Northern professors of the
science of multiplying votes are mere
bunglers by comparison. They have never
so much as approached the skill and effi
ciency displayed at the recent elections
in the Southern States. To stuff thirty
ballots into the small slit of a poll
iug-box at one operation is an achieve
ment which borders on the stupendous,
ond yet it was actually done in numerous in
stances. To bo sure they overdid it, really
embarrassing the Democratic election offi
cers with the wealth of their contributions,
but this was to bo expected in the first Hush
of a now discovery. They will sober down
in time, and do the business in a more mod
erate way, unless it should happen that
through a rigid enforcement of the United
States Election laws the oeriod of their use
fulness is suddenly cut short.
THE SUBSIDY CONVENTION,
The so-called Commercial Convention yes
terday adopted a series of resolutions urging
Congress to vote a subsidy to each of the
long list of schemes which have boon pressed
on Congress for a number of years. The
subsidies recommended ore ns follows t
1. A grant of money or tredifc to
Texas <sc Pacific Railroad.
2. Immediate “provision for ocean nail
service between tho chief ports of the United
States and all important commercial points
on tho coast of South America."
3. Subsidy for enlarging and deepening
and making permanently navigable the Dis
mal Swamp Canal, so as to connect Chesa
peake Day, near Norfolk, Vo., aufl Pamlico
Sound, N. 0.
4. Tho Convention appointed a committee
to visit Washington and unite with tho lobby
in urging favorable action on these measures
by Congress.
It will bo seen, therefore, that the Conven
tion m a whole hod no’ higher thought of
commercial freedom, tho extension of trade,
or tho revival of commerce, than that the
country he taxed to poy subsidies to impe
cunious men and bankrupt construction com
panies, The successful stealing of SG(,OOU,-
000 of ‘ bonds for tbo Union end Central Pa
cific Railway Companies, and (ho additional
$30,000,000 already paid for interest by the
United States, and the $40,000,000 interest
yet to bo paid on these same bonds, have so
whetted tho appetite of adventurers and of
professional lobbyists that, in their estima
tion, uo enterprise is worthy of notloe un
less it bo fostered by a national subsidy.
At tho moment this Convention was in
session, and was resolving that Congress
should go to tbo relief of Tom Scott's bank
rupt Construction Company, there were two
railroad companies actively and vigorously
pushing their roads .on towards the Pacific
coast. Tho Northern Pacific Road, already
completed to Dlsmarck, in Dakota, has just
Issued proposals for building 200 miles of
(rack westward during tbo coming year.
The Company is building tho rood out of the
money of Us stockholders, asking no subsidy
or national aid, ami can have all the private
capital it may require. On the south, there
is the Atchison, Topeka & Banta Fo Road,
extending from Atchison and City.
This road will be completed to Albuquerque
in the spring, while at tho west
ern end (he road from Sen Francisco
to Fort Yuma, now 700 miles long,
will be extended eastward 200 uules, leaving
but a comparatively short gap to bo com
pleted. Long before Congress can be
bribed, bulldozed, and coaxed into voting a
subsidy to Hcoir's road, a now road complete
from Kansas City to Son Francisco, with
eastern connections with Bt. Louis and Chi
cago, will be in actual operation. This mag
nificent enterprise, construeted exclusively
with private capital, asking and wanting uo
subsidy, was wholly Ignored by the Commer
cial Convention. Thare was nothing in this
grand work that offered any rewards to tho
lobby, and therefore it was disregarded and
denied all mention by iba Convention.
That body had stomach only for tho railroad
scheme which bound the United States to
pay au aggregate of $120,000,000 M interest
on the bonds of Tom Scott's Construction
Company. ' rT
, Tho demand made for subsidy for ocesn
steamships is unlimited. Every Atlantic
port wants, not a steamer, but a line. Port
land, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Nor
foil, Savannah, Mobile, Now Orleans, and
Galveston—all want a lino each. Theru is
no man iu the United States who wonts to
write a letter on business or otherwise who
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE; THURSDAY. KOVKAtBER 11, 1878,
cannot have (hat letter taken to any com
mercial city or town in Mexico or Sonlh
America and delivered for six cents, without
any other cost Co the Government. If
urgency bo required, ho can telegraph.
Now it is proposed to establish "linos "of
steamships between all these American and
South American ports, and pay tho cost of
operating them out of the National Troas
nry. Ton millions of dollars annually will
hardly cover the subsidies which this Con
vention has demanded of Congress for these
ocean steamers, ou tho pretense of earning
the mails, which are now carried at tho rate of
three cents per letter ocean postage, amount
ing probably, all told, to $2,000 a year. The
whole scheme is one of brazen plunder, rob
bery, and fraud. It is to feed and support a
gigantic lobby of paupers, who demand to bo
maintained at the public expense.
Tho groat defense urged by the advocates
of subsidies is that it employs labor and
gives work to honest industry. Tho Govern
ment has no revenue save what it derives
from taxation. Every dollar of tax collected
is taken from the means of tho people. Tho
average earning of n workman, out of which
ho has to support a family, may bo put down
at S3OO a year. Every thousand dollars taken
by the Government for taxes lakes away
from tho people the sum necessary to pay tho
wages of two workmen, and tho support of
two families. Each million of dollars lakon
by tho Govcrnra6nt from tho public in tho
way of taxes is taking away the wages of
2.000 workmen and tho support of ns many
families. A large part of this tax is expend
ed in collecting it: onc-lhird or moro of tho
money expended for subsidies is paid out for
the support of tbe lobby and for corruption
In procuring it; the remainder is applied
not for tho employment of labor, hut os
profits or dividends of plunder by burglars,
and divided between the chiefs and proprie
tors of tho scheme. How much of the $!15,-
000,000 olrcady got by tho Pacific Ronds
from tho Government for subsidy has
boon expended for labor? Roud tho
story of tho Crcdit-Uobilior for the
names of tho lusty laborers and
horny-handed workmen who pocketed
the proceeds of that enormous robbory. Of
what possible benefit to laborers and work
ingmen is it for the Government to scoop
away tho millions of dollars annually iu tho
way of taxes to pay subsidies, when by so
doing it takes from tho wages fund of the
people a sum equal to tho annual wages of
20.000 workmen, taming them out of em
ployment to starve or become vagrants, to
support a gang of professional lobbyists
whose business is to corrupt legislation, de
moralize tho public sentiment, to maintain a
class of impecunious and pauperized news
papers, gambling-houses, and all other forms
of criminal dissipation, and give honest em
ployment to one roan for each thirty dis
missed from honest work ? That is tho final
outcome of all subsidies. The people nro
taxed, and tho money is given—absolutely
given—to those whenever did an honest day's
labor, and who will never do one so long ns
weak and corrupt Congresses will by tholr
votes toko money from tho Treasury to bo
distributed in subsidies.
Of all forms of subsidy, that in tho shape
of compensation for carrying the mails on
the ocean is tho most barefaced. It has
hardly a rag to disguise its indecency. It
has been but a few years when one of thoso
steamship companies actually paid $750,000
to procure a subsidy of $1,000,000.
Tho Convention turned its back on all
measures looking to tho enlargement and
extension of our foreign trade, and to tho
opening up of now markets for tho sale of
American manufactures, and sank to tho
mere level of any other meeting of (ho lobby
to bolster up designs for tho plunder of tho
National Treasury.
THE PRESIDENT'S NEW DEPARTURE.
There is a legend to the effect that once
upon a time there was a mild-mannered and
good-tempered, unrosontful man, wbo wtih
shamefully abused by another. On one oc
cosiou bis persecutor went so for as to snap
bis fingers at him, to rudely jostle him, to
slap bis face, to tweak his nose, and to pluck
him by the beard. Tfao victim, who woe
slow to anger, bore bis torments with com
placency until after be had boon kicked be
hind, when the good-nntnrcd man, warming
np to a realization of the nature of tho in
dignities that tho fellow had inflicted, bid
him in solemn tones to beware how bo pro
ceeded further lest ho should rouse tho lion
in tho meek man's nature. Tho bully did
not toko the warning, but deliberately spat
In bis face. "Whereupon the lion was roused.
What became of the tormentor history docs
not state, but the reader can draw his own
inferences.
Tho President has been undergoing tho ex
periences of this much-abused roan of the
legend. He inaugurated his Administration
with a definite policy, fully and explicitly
declared in bis public statements, to efface
every remembrance of tho late War, to bring
about an ora of reconciliation and good feel
ing not only between the whites and blacks
In the South, but also between tho whole
people of tho North and South, and to leave
tho Southern people free to regulate their
own Institutions and to restore their system
of government under tho Constitution and
the lays. As au evidence of his sincerity he
withdrew tho Federal troops which had been
previously employed in protecting the rights
of a largo portion of tho Southern people,
and placed tho whole machinery of govern
ment in tho hands of the political loaders. In
their turn, these leaders and the press of tho
South promised thj}t they would restore order
lu that section, that they would crush out
every attempt at political persecution, and
guarantee every citizen of the South in tho
free enjoyment of his political opinion and
its equally free expression at tbo ballot-box.
The troops were withdrawn to the Texas
frontier and the Plains, to hunt' Greasers
and Indians, and the South was left to itself,
with the President’s policy and its own
pledges, for which Qov. Nicholas, of Lou
isiana, and Gov. Hampton, of South Caro
lina, stood oa special sponsors.
Tho viper won no sooner left to himself on
the hearth than be began to oocoil and hiss.
Freed from the presence of the troops, the
old spirit of sectionalism revived, and it took
shape in the dotoruiiuotiou to array a Solid
South against the North. To do this, it was
necessary to crush out every vestige
of Itepablieanisu. This hod been al
ready accomplished in' Alabama and
Mississippi, and the work was then
begun in Louisiana and South Caro,
lino, the very Slates which, through the
pledges of their Executives, had made them
selves responsible for the successful opera
tion of the Southern policy. No means
were left untried to bring about this end,
end for two years past the whole drift of
Democratic effort in those States, and in
other sections of the South, has been to de
stroy a Ucpublicau majority, and to place
every voter in tho situation where, unless ho
voted tho Democratic tick*. I, ic.acuitl not
rote at all. To effect this tho Southern
Bourbons linvo employed every possible
ngoucy,—threats, intimidation, ostracism,
banishment, incendiarism, whippings, ami
even death. They made (ho black man's lifo
a burden until they forced him to vote tho
Democratic ticket or not vole at nil. They
drove while Republicans away. They broko
up their meeting'’. They threw some into
prison. They compelled others to fly to
save their lives. They murdered United
States officers who were pursuing their legal
duty, and shielded tho murderers from nr*
rest or punishment. They hunted, hound
ed, persecuted, nnd tortured the negro until
ho well might question whether ho had any
right to live nt nil, much less (o vote.
The President boro it all patiently, lie
had faith that these disorders would soon
cease, and that tho leaders would administer
the justice thoy had promised, lie still up
held his policy, though many of his own
party friends fell off from him, and not a
gleam of hope appeared in the South. Ho
was confronted on the one hand by a bitterly
hostile faction in Congress, and on the
other by ecoff and (aunt in tho South. No
partisan influence could swerve him from
tho faithful execution of his policy, bnt
(hero were not wanting intimations that tho
time might come when the lion would bo
roused.
That lima has come. The recent election
has shown that there Is no longer such a
thing as free popular suffrage in tho South.
Tho most infamous frauds over known in tho
political history of this country have been
openly committed In South Carolina and
many parts of Louisiana, and are not only
palliotod but justified by (bo Rourbon lead
ers. Tammany in Us worst days never
witnessed such open, shamefaced desecra
tion of (he right of suffrage. Tbo ballot
boxes of a whole State were so manipulated
that tho legitimate Republican majorities
were utterly wiped out, and Democratic
majorities were counted larger than the
whole number of Democratic voters. The
Republican meetings wore not only broken
up during the canvass, but no Republican
judges wore allowed at any poll in tbo elec
tion, while the Supervisors, authorized and
appointed under the laws of tho United
States, wore driven from their stations.
The laws were openly sot at de
fiance. A Rourbou oligarchy usurped
every power of Government and trampled
upon every right of the citizen. It precipi
tated the issue to that point whore patience
ceased to be a virtue, ao<t now tho President
has abandoned his policy with tbo same vig
orous emphasis with which he assorted it.
In his own language, “ Tbo time for discus
filou has passed. It is now too lato for any
thing bat tho most determined and vigorous
action.” It may bo too lato oven for that;
but in anything ho may constitutionally do to
restore (he operation of tho law and tho
rights of citizens in the South, he may bo
assured of the warm tyinpalby and support
of tho majority of Iho Northern people,
lie need not bo. surprised to find
them in advance of him in this respect, bnt
in his now departure he may be surprised to
find that thoy do not .share his sympathy for
Hampton and Nicuoxxs, or his continued
effort to shrive them from any blame in tho
promises. They believe’ thot either one of
those Executives, had ho been so disposed,
coaid have organized'a party that would
have prevented these monstrous outrages
and frauds, and compelled obedience to tho
laws. Thoy believe ■ those two - men are
treacherous, and hove I ,violated their public
pledges. o
WALL STREET DISCRIMINATION AGAINST
THE SILVER DOLLAR.
It ncoms that tho New York bankers are
determined to inaugurate the discrimination
ogainst tlio legnl-tcndcrstandnrd silver dollar
recommended by their Committee, and' the/
protend to bare tho giytti approval of the
Secretary of tho Troosnry. Wo very much
donbt that Secretary Sherman has advised or
approved tho proposition to treat the silver
dollars as silver bullion f tho law makes theso
standard dollars a full legat-tonder along with
gold and greenback notes, and it wonid bo a
singular and disgraceful thing for the chief
finance officer of the Government to onconr
ago any sot of men in a deliberate effort to
nullify the law. Wo presume tho fact to ho
that Secretary Sherman has approved tho
action of tho New York bankers so far os it
tends to aid in the work of resumption, and
on account of timidity has not positively an
tagonized them in their hostility to silver
money, because bo was afraid to quarrel
with thorn. Mr. Sherman is too sn*
gaclous a politician to take sides against
tho people in this mattor, whatever his indi
vidual opinions may be; and, when the Kcw
York bankers shall be called to account for
their discrimination against silver, they will
foil to find an apologist In tho* Secretary of
tbo Treasury for this part of their pro
gramme.
Tho determination of the Now York bonks
not to discriminate,in favor of gold as
against greenbacks after tbo Ist of January
is wise oml commendable. There is no
doubt that their refusal to receive gold as
special deposits, their abolition of special
gold checks in the Clearing-House, and their
intention to pay out gold as well as green
backs In the ordinary nm of business, will
do much toward disabusing tho publio mind
of tho error of regarding gold as having a
special value; and the breaking of (bis
habit will be of material assistouco to tho
Government, because there will then ho Ices
disposition to run upon the Sub-Treasury
for gold in exchange for greenbacks. Rut
why complicate tho situation and embarrass
(ho Government, on the other hand, by re
fusing to accept tbo legal-tender standard
silver dollars except on special deposit ? In
what possible manner can this discrimination
against the silver dollars assist in tbo work
of resumption ? The foct is, that the crisis
of resumption is merely an opportunity, and
the desire to aid the Government in this work
a mere pretensefor another desperate effort to
ostoUish tho single gold standard. ■!( is this
fact that will call for (ho resentment of the
poople.—a resentment so lively and earnest
that it wjU find a tangible expression during
the first month of tho coming session of Con
gress. If tho expression of this resentment
shall prove embarrassing to the banks, (hey
will havo the poor satisfaction of knowing
that they brought it on themselves.
Suppose, however, tho New York banks
shall succeed in giving tho standard silver
dollars a secondary place by the proposed
discrimination against them, what then?
Wo will say that the inconvenience occa
sioned by tho refusal of the banks to receive
silver dollars except on special deposit will
have tho effect of placing them at a small
discount, perhaps one-fourth or one-half of
1 per cent, giving (hum about tho same rela
tive value as tho greenbacks nogr have.
They will still remain full legal-tender for
all debts, public and private, including duties
and taxes, and, the moment they shall be
come chcuoer thou the acid or orccubuck
dollar, they will bo Sought for the purpose
of paying debts and pitying taxes. Tho taxes
of thin country alone amount to six
hundred* of millions a year, including
tho General Government, tho
State and Municipal Governments. Tho
one-half of t per cent will
bo dMngh to induce people to seek the
silver dollars at (hat rate for the payment of
all those taxes. All men with debts maturing
of every description will endeavor to got tho
silver dollars nt tho ruling discount, with
which to discharge their obligations. Even
capitalists who make loans will seek to ex
change their gold or greenbacks into silver In
order to loan tho cheaper money. A univer
sal demand for silver dollars will spring up
all over tho country tho nioraonlthoso dollars
are quoted below par with gdtd and green
back dollars, and such a demand will quickly
restore the equilibrium. Does any Now York
banker imagine thot the combined efforts of
Wall street can combat great natural uni.
venal laws and tho selfish interest of com
mercial transactions? Can any combination
hope to exclude silver money from com
merce, when every shrewd man (n business
will sock it for one purpose or another?
Could all the bankers in tho country acting
together keep tho legal-tender silver dollars
at a discount, when there was a uni
versal demand for them tho moment
they are at a discount? The course
outlined by tho Now York bankers may bo
(ho moans of creating in a few mouths a
public demand for tho silver dollars to an
extent that would not have been readied
otherwise for several years. Nor will such a
demand drive gold ont of circulation until
there shall bo silver dollars enough to pay all
the taxes and debts and transact all the busi
ness of tho country.
Practically, then, tho scheme of tho Now
York banks Is manifestly absurd, and would
defeat its owu purpose, even if they should
bo allowed to pursue it in their own blind,
stupid, egotistical way, for, if they should
succeed in depreciating the silver dollars,
they would merely create a now demand
therefor of enormous proportions, ond thus
hasten tho arrival at a silver basis.
In tbo meantime, tbo announcement of
their purpose to discriminate against
will excite n universal hostility to the New
York banks. It will bo accepted by the peo
ple and by Congress as a disposition on tho
part of tbo Eastern bankers and (ho money
lenders to defeat the law of (ho
land and demonetize silver in spite
of tho popular will. In order to
'antagonize this effort, Congress will
probably bo prepared to take two important
steps, viz.: (I) To provide for tho free coin
age of silver dollars, and (2) to compel the
banks to redeem their notes in coin instead
of legal-tender as they do now. If tho peo
plo of this country shall be forced by tho
money interests to choose between tho con
tracted and constantly contracting gold
standard and the enlarged and growing silver
standard they will choose the latter; if there
is to bo a single monetary standard, then it
Is in tho Interest of tho masses to have the
cheaper and more abundant metal, and free
coinage of silver will bo provided as ths
quickest means for obtaining tho silver
standard, end the surest means for avoiding
tbo dear gold standard. A law requiring the
banks to redeem their circulating notes in
colu instead of greenbacks will find general
favor for several reasonst It will relievo the
Government of ono-half tho burden of re
sumption; it will admonish tho banks
for lending themselves to tho New
York gold clique; and it will provide
au opening for at least $100,000,000 of sil
ver dollars immediately, for tho banks will
need that sum for reserve purposes. Will
tho mouoy-lntorosts of New York be auy
hotter satisfied with such laws than they ore
now 7 Will thoy not regret that they inter
fered to prevent tbo free circulation of legal
tender silver alongside of gold and green,
backs? Tho circulation at par of the throe
kinds of money after resumption will bo tbo
natural result,of the law os it now stands, if
tho banks do not interfere to preyont it.
That condition of things will probably con
tmue till the bullion*.valuo of silver shall be
restored, (when all objection to (be silver
dollar would disappear), because tbo ailver
dollars will not drive off tho gold dollars be
fore $1100,000,000 or $100,000,000 of tho
former shall come into circulation, and long
before that time silver bullion will have
attained Us former relative value with gold.
In resisting this course of things, the New
York bankers will bring on a flood that will
carry them and their gold clique out of sight.
PARTISAN DICTATION.
At a meeting of tho Second Ward Repub
lican Club, bold on Monday evening last, a
resolution was passed with reference to
Sheriff Hoffman's appointments which, to
put it mildly, Is an impudent interference
with matters over which tills Club has no
Jurisdiction, and upon which .they have no
right to dictate. It is due, however, to the
Republicans of tho ward to preface tho com
ment which this resolution calls for with tho
declaration that it does not represent their
sentiments, but those of a little clique who
have no authority to declare the wishes of
tho voters of tho Second Ward. As tho roso
lutlon, however, stands as tho official action
of the Club, it calls for sharp rebuke.
Tho resolution, after wliureaning that it is
confidently expected that (ho SUcriff.cloet
will give that ward Us sharo of the appoint
ments, and that there are a great many per
sons out of business, declares “that (ho
President of (he Second Ward Club, together
with tho Executive Committee of said Club,
be requested to select tho'uamcs of ton mem
bers of the Club, and present thorn to MnJ.
Hoffman, with tho request (hat ho select
whatsoever appointments ho may make from
tho Second Ward from these names,” —and
that a committee of three wait upon him
with tho list of names.
If any such Oumuuitca with ony such
list of names waiU upon MaJ. How
man, it is to be hoped that ho will politely
bliow them tbe door, and send thorn
bach across tbo river. Thin resolution pro
poses to Introduce n bit of Tammany Into
our county politics which- will cot go down.
Having just smashed one machine, the peo
ple of Chicago are in no mood to havo anoth
er machine of the same kind set in ojterotfon,
even before the mine of tbo old puu is swept
out. Having taken tauo with Sheriff Keen
on this very subject, Is it not a little impa
dent fur a small ring of ward politicians to
como forward oud demand the appointment
of meu from it curtain locality? Whqudid
residence in a certain street, block, or ward
qualify a man to. servo as a deputy or clerk
lu the Sheriff's office? If residence in the
Second Ward is a qualification, is not rcsl
deuce in every other of the words and iu
every one of the country towns Jast as strong
a qualification? If being out of business
a qualification in the Second Ward, Idleness
or misfortune iu all the other wards' and
country towns is just os much a qualification,
and the Sacoud Ward riua iniobt as well
rolccl a hundred names as well as ton, ami
Insist nponlho appointment of tho wholo of
them.
It was n dictation exactly of this kind nml
his yielding to It that defeated Sheriff Kuny,
During his Administration, tho bummers of
(Ills and that ward complained they had no
representation. He yielded to their clamor
eo far as to make some changes In hb ap
pointments. As the lime for a notv election
drew nigh, tho clamor-increased, and Kean
yielded to it by promising these bummers la
tho various wards that they should name all
his appointments. Tho result was that lie
was overwhelmingly defeated, and the ma
chine which the bnmraors bad sot up was
smashed. It was tho same old story. Tho
hummers were to select competent and re
sponsible men for tbo offices, but the people,
deceived over and over again, put no faith in
them.
If MnJ. Hoffman has any serious inten
tion to accept tho dictation of any ward
club, or any political clique, in making Ids
appointments, ho had better resign his olßco
at once. If ho shall follow out Kean's poll
cy in this matter, his administration will be
a disastrous failure, tbo public Interests will
bo neglected, nml corruption and misman
agement will characterize his entire term of
office, lie will have a list of deputies, bail
iffs, and clerks, and will not bo actually re
sponsible for thorn, although the law makes
him so. His wholo administration will be
thrown into coufifslon and end in niter fail
ure. We drt not believe MaJ. Hoffman, how
ever, has any such iiitoutignn, or will follow
any such policy. His obligations under his
oath, his duty to tho people of tho county,
the promises which he has made, and the im
portant fact that ho is not n candi
date for ro-uomiuotion, aro sulßoienlty
strong inducements to prevent him
from yielding (o tho impudent dictation
of tho Second Ward or nny other ward
clique. Ho has given a public pledge that
fitness for tho office will bo tho only qualifi
cation for appointment, and wo bcliovo ho
will adhero to his pledge. "Ho is in a posi
tion to soy to tho Second Ward delegation
when they come to him with their list of
names t “ Gentleman, I propose to moke
my own appointments. There may bo ap
pointments from tho Bcdftml Ward, and
there may bo none. It will depend upon tbo
fitness of tho men I find there. Ido not in
tend to tnkoauy man because bo lives in any.
particular locality. I am ready to receive
suggestions aud to consider them, but all
my appointments will bo based upon the
industry, honesty, and ability of tho ap
plicants. For this purpose, Ido not need
nny absolute list of nominees to chooio
from. Good morning, gentle men.”
Tho open aud declared wnr on silver by
tho banks of tho City of Now Vork will find
hut Hltlo sympathy iu tho West nnd North*
west. Wo do not beliovo that thoro is one
bnnk iu Chicago or In any of tbo Northwest
ern cities which will approve or indorse tho
schema of tho Now York banks. That scheme
is to nullify tho law of tho land making tho
silver dollar a legal-tender by refusing to ac
cept it os bankable money, nnd by refusing
to transaot any business with n merchant
who receives silver in the conrso of his Imjii
ness. Tho attempt to nullify tho not of
Congress, and tho assumed co-operation of
Secretary Bukhman by locking tbo silver dol
lars in tho vaults of tbo Treasury, will
not receive the approval of tha banks or
of any class of persons at tho West.
On the contrary, it in more tjbpn probable,
should thero bo this alHnuce'bolwoon ‘tho
Now York banks and Secretary Sherman,
that Congress will anticipate tbo rosnmptiou
of specie payments by some very peremp
tory and deoisivo legislation. At present
the banks ore tho only class of tho American
people who will not bo compelled to mako
specie payments on tbo Ist of January. The
Government, as tho case now stands, is com
pelled to furnish tho banks with coin with
which to redeem their notes, and this coin
these banka insist shall bo gold and not
silver. They announce beforehand that they
will demaud gold of tho Government, and
will not tnko silver. In this emergency
the duty of Congress Is plain and nnmls
takablo. It Is to declare that, on tho
day that tho Government resumes specie
payments, greenbacks shall coaso to bo
legal-tender in redemption of bank-notes,
which notes shall bo redeemed on demand
in tho legal coin of tho United States.
Tho banks have os many notes outstanding
nearly as the Government; so long as the
Government is obliged to furnish them with
gold, they will refuse silver. But lot the
Government dissolve tho partnership, ami
lot those banks take oaro of (heir own cur
ronoy, and find' (heir own gold wherever
they can got It. Perhaps tho decision (hat
silver shall not bo treated ns bankable funds
may undergo a revision. At all events, wo
are assured that not ouo bank iu Chicago or
the Northwest proposes to tnko any part or
give any assistance whatever in this open
declaration of war by tho Now York banks
against the Government, extending to a bold
unllifioaliun of the law; and, if the' New
York banks cun carry ou tho wor of them
selves, then they will have a fair opportunity
to show their strength and ability.
, Tho full returns from the Third Wisconsin
Congressional District show that tho Hum
(luouau C. IJAi'PLTON, the llcpnblican candi
date, Is elected by a very small majority, only
175, over Kino, Flutist mul Democrat. Kino
made a desperate effort lu gel elected, and It Is
reported that he snent at hast 910,000 In the
campaign. Thu district is a large erne, siurcely
touched by a railroad line, and tho inhabitants
are engaged In agriculture und lead-mining.
Many of (hem ate foreigners, und are easily
duped by designing pulltlelaus. Tho (irceiduek
lunacy spread liUa a fearful epidemic, but
Jlaxclton foucht It Inch by huh. Ills majority
is small, but It is larger than Dupstuh's in the
Fourth (Milwaukee), tho famous Democratic
district.
The next Confederate Huns* will probably
adopt a Used number tu decide contested elec
tion*. Thu*, any Republican who docs not
claim a majority uf 1,W3 ur over will bo ousted
ut omt and bis scat given to a Democrat. Its
cases where there were three candidates, tho
Republican will be required tu have more votes
than both tho (inenbacker audtbo Democrat.
Otherwise he must step down and out.
It is said to be the fashion amouar clergymen
when they get a harreUul of senoons tu turn it
upside down cud preach them oyer again,
“dealing from the bottom." Now tbst Mr.
Dsns bus gone back on Tildkn, bo ran utilise
oil bis old editorials on tbo "Great Fraud" by
reproducing them and simply striking uut tbo
name of Ultjikuiouu U. Hires and inserting
tbaluf SisiußL J. Tildes.
The Buffalo Vuur.’er t evtfcnlly interested in
some eas company, says: "Thu public Is begin
ning tu lose faith iu Edison's Inventions. His
discoveries, however interesting, ore uut likely
to prove of practical value."
Miss Cstiibuinb Lloyd, a schoolmistress la
Nowharg, Bugged a refractory and rebellious
boy the other day, and tho imp’s father brought
suit Inr Si nun Jjiuiiriu. Ttu* IrirrcouMu’l •»«
It, lint acquitted Miss Li.otd, ami made g n .
purse for her of Si". The Court held t u
‘•parents have a rlirut to conltol thrir H.ihin
os lone ns the? ilu not overstep certain bound"
ami when they take them to Pi-bool n,,..’.
delegate to tho teacher that same power’,,!
restraint ami correction they possess Ut .,, r
the law." This Is much sounder doctrine u,™
that enunciated hy the Supreme Court of \\ i
cousin, which held that corporal oun!si.;m nt p
schools was In nil eases sufficient ground# Jur a
suit lor assault. a
It never rains but It pour*. For the next f >-,y
months the telegraph will be nightly burdcnui
with the reports of grave robberies In dig, ri ,,,
sections of the country, and there will | IC nn lltl
easy loellng In the minds of manv person* , V | ’
have been bereaved of their blends l»v death
Ills not Improbable that the plan of irmmu,./
Instead of burial, will find new advocate* turn
in order to circumvent these dc-spu a „ tß
creatures that stsnd ready to violate the tci u,. r
c«t Iccllmrsof the human heart. Fromsiriniv
a sanitary point of observation, It cetiahuy ha*s
much to rccommsud it.
Tho story runs that Mm Cmma Aimorr
colled at the White House the oilier eunin.-
nnd that .Mrs. H*tf.S brought out the
books and requested the great i y
sing some ot the good old revival hymn*. M| Sl
Annort song "Show IMtv, lord; 0 herd. | or .
give.” with such pathos that the President was
moved to tears. 'I lint Is very good; hut a tnore
appropriate place to sing that hvmn übnM |*>
Ornmercy Park. Ten to one, however, tint the
old sinner Inside would not weep unless acme
one would lend him an colon.
The Poston JUra’d says that M». lltrrr.Rn has
suggested more Hum a dozen epitaphs fur his
own tombstone during the past fifteen year*
tiont- of which sccnUo bu exac-lly appropriate!
On one occasion ho asked to Iwvc It but-dhrd
Ids tombstone that " he never commanded the
Army of Hie Poiomue." Now ho has help
chough In making epitaphs. Here Is a coud
one:
Pmesth this prone Ho# Hknst llm.rr.
Who served the houth ps wholesale »mk-r-
All hie life long he was a uruhher.
And naught but death could slop hl« jobber
In on« of (lie public schools of New Vorl;,
the next ilav after (lie election, one of tlk- r,>
male lonelier* vorlcil the mmiolouy of her
morning exercises by marching her pupil* up
ami acting tbcm how ibflr fathers voted the
day before for Mayor. An Inquisitive fattier
sent Uor a note flic next morning, asking her if
that was what Ids eblldrtMi wore hcul to M-hool
for. Ami yet soma people insist that political
economy should bo taught in the common
schools.
John N. Dakin, who was convicted nf killing
his brother-in-law, John K, Htopoh, at Mar
shalltown, In., was yesterday sentenced lo (a),
prisonment for life. The singular feature of
the trial was tho oppearnnro of Frank Ross,
who solclflnlyoworo ho himself killed M-romm.
While Judge Mitciibm. admitted tliut Ro it
gave every evidence til being of sound mind and
In earnest, yet ho nlso believed that Dakin
commuted the murder, and so sentenced him.
The New York Grajih'c suys that during tho
year 1877 there were erected 1,-IU3 cdliices fit
that city, at a cost of *U),RIP,4II. During this
year the number will exceed l.fiOO, at a total
cost of 610,1500,000,-nn average of over CIO,OOO
for every building. When the cheapness of
material and labor la considered, It will be seen
that these structures must be handsome and
durable for tho cost orlco.
several oromtnent Republicans In tho •present
House of Representatives will ho missed inter
tho present session. Among them are Hals,
Banks, Butler, Townsend, Foster, Brnat
aud, and Cox. On tho Democratic side those
who must “go” are Hbwjtt, Rotter, l*i»t.s,
Bati.br, Banning, Harrison, Tiiockmortun,
ami Glover. A nice lot of gcntlcmcu fur au
evening .parly.
When John Randolph, of Roanoke, made
use of that terrible sarcasm In tho House of
Representatives: “lie shines and Mink*, and
stinks ami shines, like n rotten mackerel hr
moonlight,” ho Intended no reference.to tho
diplomats who arc doing tho Newfoundland
business that has already become fishy ou their
hands.
if October fixed Euqcnb Hale, Chairman of
tho National Republican Committee, Novem
ber did tlio same for Senator Bahnum, Chair
man of tho Democratic Congressional Commit
tee. Honors aru easy, but tho chances fur
speedy resurrection seem to Ro # on tho side of
tho Maine man.
In accordaneu with tho suggestion of tho
Geneva Conference of the Young Men’s Chris
tian Association, all tho churches arc praying
this week for thu young mct\ Except In (he
City ol Chicago, there oro a largo number of
'wicked young men who need praying for.
Tho rate of “ Tna Iron Hand” Is threatened. I*
the Republic at nn emir— Cincinnati .
Tlie Republic seems to bo pretty much'it
an end In several of the ex-Rchel Stales. “Tho
Iron Hand” Is what Is imperatively needed
down thero in order to Insure a Government
republican in form.
A New Orleans correspondent has a mild war
of putting It. Ihi says that the champion liar,
Andbiison. Is “ laboring under a nutuiui ina
bility to toil tho truth.” And what makes it
bad U tho luct that no act of Congress can u
move Mr. Anderson’s dUablllUo>.
Miss Harriet Hosmkr, tho sculptor, has
patented a process for converting limestone
into marble not to he distinguished from the
must perfect and beautiful natural marble. Au
experiment with it Is to ho made ou the En
glish Embassy building In Romo.
The Her. Hr. IlmvotiTit, of New York, ad
vanced lbe opinion lu*t tjurtduy llmt if ucr
Kuril wcro to visit that city und begin lu ml
down salaries uml reform things generally in
tho public olllces, lie would he anything tut
popular.
Now lhat Georgia bhs become us thoroughly
bankrupt an she l.i Democratic, her newspapers ,
cry out fur ttie .Morcir Lcll-pumh. Hvr
principal commerce belli? in whisk*, the bill*
punch would noun Ull her Treasury.
Matt Caupuctuk tells a Washington re
porter that the contest for the scat In the ('idled
States Sonata in Wisconsin is between himself
and Mr. Kuvc-«. 1C It comes to that, Kurcs
will have u soft thing.
A ClcvelumKJerman paper has wisely coucluJ*
cd that It d'Kuti'c know whom the Republicans
will nominateiu 1&0. Itis tho only paper In the
United Slates whose editor cannot name the
lucky mao. _ *
Mrs. Felton made a successful ra c fur Con
press In Georgia. Don Toouos says it’s a i Ity
she can't bo sworn In instead of ber ImsUinJ,
wbo hid behind ber skirts during tho canvass.
Gcu. Job Johnston' describes Ben Buti-»» ®*
"a nun despised in tho North and execrated
the South." it Is wgll Ihot BuTtxn «««* out w
Congress before Job JounsTON comes lu.
In a good many localities all over the country
Democratic editors have kindly loaned the euu
of their roosters to tbo Republicans,— they “ aV *
lug uo use for 1 hem this year.
FWc years' imprisonment and #jW fine Is ‘
worst lhat van happen to the ghouls who«.
rlcd off Btbwsitx*s corpse—R they are caught.
The Ciiiilonatl inquirer seems 10 .
anxious to scud Gkakt booming lu lb>D a-s
b>. Louis Olobt-Diirwcrxit.
Maine was a little rough on Blaine iu
ber. but Conuuno was not win.