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THE TKOT UBItALb. WEDNESDAY; SEPTEMBKK 11, 1878. TROY HEKALD. WEDN10DAY,- 8EPTIB Is 1678. this, m riSHKR, I M. W.T.TMVmKS)fia), J Iters. KnaCBATIO HTATM TICKKT. ni scraaqi funes, ELIJAH H. NORTON. fob BBOBrras or imtdh, JAS. E. McHENRY, FOB FTiBLIO SCHOOLS, RD. SHANNON, roa lUiutoAD oomnasioxxB, A. M. SEVIER COUNTY TICfcfcT. TOB W1WWTATIV, ALEXANDER MUDD. FOR PBOBATK JVD0S, BENJAMIN W. WHEELER. FOB PRKtDIXO JCflTtCB. CHARLES U. PORTER. associate Jtrmoe dir. oxs, GUIONO. WILSON. ASSOCIATE JCSTICS DOT. TWO, N. B. DUDLEY. FOR PROSECGTETO ATTORXST, JOSIAH CREECH FOR CO mm CURB, WILLIAM A. WOODSON. for ciRcrrr clerk, THOMAS R. BETD. FOB TRKAStTRXR, THOMAS J. NALLY. FOR COLLECTOR. WILLIAM B. THORNHHiL. FOR SHERIFF, JAMES 0. ELMORE. FOR ASSESSOR, DAVID 0. DOWNINO. JVOOE BUCKNER'8 POSITION. Judge Buckner occupies no equivocal hsition upon the Jefferson City plat lorni. Had lie been the author of the Jiuancial plank, he would probably have changed its terms and phraseology in Home respects, but his views are sub. titantially tho same, and the legislative reforms that he is seeking to bring about, load to the same end the monetary re lief of the people by constitutional meth ods. .SV. Lout Times. This seems to be rather gratuitous. Tudgo Buckner, according to his Ashley nneocb, delivered just five days beforo tho convention, should have no position upon the platform at all. We country folks know and can understand a few things. We are not quite so obscure, or unimportant, or impotent as to be over shadowed aud silenced by even a metro politan journal that assumes to be wise ubovowhat has been said and written. This paper gave a correct report of Judge lluckncr's speech. He declared with it oration that ho did not approve oitho Jefferson City platform ; that if it were ndopted ho would not accept a nomina tion upon it. He utterly repudiated the idea that the GovernmenVcould issue ad ditional legal-tender gsconbncks under! tho constitution. In. tins he was em phatic. If Judge Backner now unequiv ocally endorses tho platform, he has, be yond n doubt or preodventure, gone back in hia word and stultified himself, which Ho said in his Ashley speech ho would rather give his right arm than do. If Judge B. had stood by hia repeated dee larationa ho would have gracefully yielded to an adjournment of the con vention that tho people might have had a chanco to fully understand him and f?ivo voice to their will. Han explana tion or justification of tho Judge's posi tion is necessary, let it be made, but we are unwilling to bo put in tho attitndo of being unable to comprehend and cor rectly reprcsont plain statements. If thcro was no difficulty in regard to the Judge's viows, why did the convention only fail by two and a half vote to ad journ to October? We are not to rest under the imputation of having misrep resented Judge B. Wo aro not to be ac cused, by inference, of malice or preju dico. Within our sphere wo uro respon sible for an average degree of intelligence nml truthfulness. TMI ITfttCXIN Mm .UHH WMOOMCY. Tbe terrible ravages of the. yellow fe-1 The Kansas Desaoerete met in eoBvea- ver eoatisHe noabaied. The well of sor-lsloB on the' 4th and wntineted'a t aiate rowa-klctoridpsnttmiMfrcffiltidtet. Im afflicted people whose pitiable Condi-j The platform declares that the indao- Mon ssnet excite the deepest sympethyinf tlon of Hayes irrto oafee was a crime; the hearts of all philanthropists. The I that Hayes' dedwacion in favor of civil Southern twngtesaxoan hate issued anaervioereeWieBd-.hls Southern policy appeal to the nation for relief.' They I amount to a' confession of the failure of acknowledge the great charity that hMlRadicaUm; that large standing armies been extended, but ley the necessity is I are dangerous to free governments in yet greater, and the bub abeeribed are Itimeof peace; that the increase of the inadeqaate to the sarfcriag in New Or-1 federal army, or any attempt to employ leans, VkbbTirg. Memphis, Holly I it as a partisan aarent of federal authority. Springe, Grenada, Fort Gibson, Canton, I or' for interference with the sovereign Greenville, Brownsville, ' Baton Rouge rights of the elates will reodte the1 eon and Delhi. All business i1 suspended. I tinned earnest opposition of the Demoo- The employes of iffy steamboats and racy that amte ; that they are in favor iout great irnes ot reiiroaos are rate anu i 0f a tariff for revenue only. That upon destitute; they represent not less than the jealous preservation of the right of 1W.UU0 population. This condition I local self-government to the state and the must continue at least fifty days, as there municipality in all matters of local im- will be bo stay of the pestilence, no ro- port, froo from dictation or interference sumption oi Dullness, until frost, it ts by federal authority in any form political estimated that the subsistence of the dee- or judicial, depends the perpetuity of our titatealono will cost $1,080,000. It is I form of government as a democratio ro- snggceted that Now Orleans be made a I publio ; that ilia the-duty of the govern central depot from which supplies may I ment to provide for the protection of mo no distributed to other cities. They I chanical labor against the damaging com appeal to the charitable and good, the petition involved in tho present system ministers ox God and their congregations, for the employment of convict labor; The smallest donations of provisions, I that they are in favor of tho improve- money or medicines will bo acceptable. I ment of the Western rivers. The follow- They say the characters of the noble gen-1 inpr aro the financial clanks: tlemen who compose the Howard Assoc!-1 Fifth That the enforced idleness of ntion and Peabody Association and I hundreds of thousands of heretofore in- Youna Men's Christian Association are ausinous, noness anu patriotic mooring ., , , . , men. ana tne threatened spread oi a dan guarantees that all charities donated lecrous spirit of Communism in this ooun will be properly and honestly applied. I try is the legitimate outgrowth of the I vicious nnanciai legislation oi tne nepuo lican party and that the only effectual The principal exports of our country llAX. for a year ending Juno 80th were: "Cot- fold CvU. that am denreaainir labor, com. ton. 8190.000.000: breodstnffa. inelud- mcroo and aU leiritimate enterprise is in ing flour and grains of all kinds, 179,- complete reversal of the policies that r o - t 1 tne remedy is not in a resort to despotic uuiicr, cneeee, porK anu nsu, iai,uw,- rorms or Urantism, but in tlio eetabllsU 000 ; oils, chiefly illuminating oil, $19, 000,000; tobacco, $28,000,000; naval stores, $2,500,000; oil-cake, 85,000,000; leather, $7,000,000 ; iron and steel fab rics, $10,000,000?; live animals, 6,000,- 000; tallow $0,695,000; sugar $1,900, ment of Democratio forms, and equal in stead of class legislalation. Hixtn That as congress has tho sole power to coin money and recrulato the value thereof under tho constitution, it snould also exerciso the solo power to provido n paper currency to bo used ns money ; mat sucu money should bo 000 ; wood and wooden manufactures, sued in such sufficient volume as may be $13,000,000. The leading imports were: Sugar, $79,400,000; coffee. $51,914,000; tea, $15,660,000: wool and woollen goods, $32.000,000 ; cotton goods $27,- 000,000; iron and steel, $10,000,000; breadstuffs, $8,000,000; leather and leather goods, $7,500,000 ; silk and silk goods, $19,500,000; tin, $10,000,000; tobacco and cigars, $6,300,000; lumber, 3i,uuu,uuu. unr foreign trodo is in a necessary for tho convenient transaction of business at all times and to stimulate enterprise, secure a fair recomnensc to labor and its products, and nromote a . -. ... uuo development of the vast agricultural, mineral and mechanical resources of the country. Seventh That we favor the uncondi tional repeal of the resumption act of 1875, tho full remonetization of silver, tho removal of all restrictions on ite coin age, placing it on an equal footing with gold, the repeal of the national bank most uconniui conuition, and tne excess law, tho retirement of national bank of exports over imports which it cxlub- notes and tho substitution of treasury its is fast relieving our indebtedness to n.ot?8 commoirly called greenbacks, in foreign nations." Wo imported $2,800,- uuumore gold and silver than we ex ported. The figures in regard to im ports and exports show a balance of trade in our favor of $250,000,000. their place, said notes to be mado legal- tender tor ail purposes. A Washington special of the 2d to the Republican says : Tho publio debt statement to-day shows a decrease in the THE TRADE DOLjLAR! In a long article on the trade dollar the liepublican insists that it, is a legal ten der for its foes value. It alludes to the legislation oft. congress last February whioh provjded.for tho. coinage of silver dollars containg 412T grains of standard wlver, and. declared that theso coins to gether with all silver dollars heretofore ooinod by tho United States of like weight and fineness, shall bo. a legal ten at. their nominal value for all debts and dues, except when othcrwiao expressed and stipulated in , tho contract. This it olaims to be , conclusive in tho.iuntter,. Gov. Rice of Massachusetts refnses to PubUo debt of over $6,400,000, the larg- dcliver up Kimpton to tho South Core- reduction of auy singlo month since lina authorities on requisition. Kimpton May 1877' Lb8,; month tiie dotion is charced with having used tlm n.n M Te7 but July and Au- ofthe state of South Carolina to bribe ewttogether reduction exceodB h7 the legislature into passing certain bUls. 82.000.000 reduction for the corres- The nttomey.gcneml of Massachusetts ponding two months last year. This is says that the crime with whioh Kimpton Iar8e,y owiD8 to be inoreoso in receipts stands chareed was committed in Anril. f customs, and indicates a revival of i7 ,i . , busmess. importations of fancy articles 1872, and that no attempt was made to and other mercliandise of this character prosecute him or his associates until. An- havo been larger this summer than for gust, 1877, nor does it appear that there maa7 years, showing that merchants ex is any intention totryhiniupon the in- tocreiu trade in this line of w . , . goods the coming fall The receipts for dictment. He says Kimpton ..has,been customs in Jnly and August, '1877, offered immunity if lie would turn amounted to $23,884,000, while for July state's evidence. He advises the-gover- 5f ASSU8,i. 10'0' wef reacneajwo.ooo,- nornot .mrrender him. Massachusetts llo is up to her old tricks. She used to re- $31,000,000, the- largest increase in any fuse to return fugitive slaves and crim- singlo month for many years. inals from the South. This in defiance m,. a . ,- L . . r , . , , . ., The Secretary of the Interior has reaf- ot law andjustioft firmed his decision- relating to the lands An Appleton, Mo., special of the 3rd of the Kansas Pocifio railroad. The see- to the Republican says: "Atty.-Gen. retary adheres to the broad j: proposition Smith removed Sheriff W. M. Cox at the nothing short of o sale sp an actual opening of tho circuit court yesterday at purchaser can relievo the lands granted Osceola and swore in H. JC. Donohue as tiicte IoaB from the condition of the acting sheriff for this term of court The grant which prescribed that in three reason for the removal is on acoount of years from the completion of the roads the mob law. .which has been prevalent in tUer Irods, unless sold or otherwise dis certain greenback townships in this posedof, be open to pre-emption at 1.25 county. Some ot.the members of the acie- grand-jury; summoned by Cox will ap- . . JT. ', . , ' . .r . , . 7 A terrible disaster occurred on the pear before the new jury for being con- evenin the 3d on the Thames river, cerned in the tax-book raid, which oo- TSL u . !, .!.! ctujred some month, since, when the tax-JS InT.' books wero taken out of, tho hands of the , ,Z A . oSZSSbS'. TOt in two and nk,. ticket for county .clerk, and will also be six hundred of thpso on board' reported called before tho grand-jury." lost. Gov. Lew Wallace of Indiana has been The Democratio state tioket was elected appointed governor of New Mexico, Vice in Arkp.n83h on tho 2d, without' oppos Axtell, suspended. " tlon. ' UCWNITHINsr0C1UTie PUTrHNIM, ' tiJL'w'J-Lt t mi SjalMaia' SJaa aaJ aha. . iMBi S BaBBBBBBraejBnBBsrsr BbVIWsWII BBPSBn BBHBl BBVBBBM ; TFobi Ah itniitensisry Btsadsfil. i ,XTJpthkrfa Uo sioh.wss well ibvHiI here the Judge (Buokncr) came Mmtlct with the monetary idem, of, ifcbtmocraci of the Went and the Mutouri Democratio plalfonn. ThiaeoBfUet eensiated in the declaration thstKold and silver were the onlv money Mathetiaed by: the oonstirhtion of the United States ; , that eoBgress has power, undrt the ooostitsitieii, to issue treasury notes and make them i kavl-tender only is tha payment of 'the government dues a ui current expeasea ei tne govern ment, but not to make them a legal- lenacr oeiwecn man ana man. Wsti IKMbstm AeMBBfBjffif Blast la Osjaefaaa. I From tin Kills Countr Reeonl.l He ( Judffe BucknerVsafd he conld not endorse tne state AMmocrauo platform withbit stultifying himself and surren saahut hie honest oninions ami aonvio- tionsl which' he would not do for a seat in congress. , , . it i i . ' Atkttses Euutt LRenert ef Bucknefi rbttvh at Aihlev.1 The Judge said distinctly if the con gressional convention should adopt Wic Mtstoun ucmovraws platform, he would ask to be excused. He frankly said that if any of the1 delegates who hod oeen instructed to' vote for him uian t like his views, he would release them from any obligation to him. Fhwielal Ftatare of the Missouri Btswentlle Platform 8. We regard the national bankins system as Demg oppressive anu burden' some, and demand its abolition and re tirement from circulation of all national bank notes, and iaane of leiral.tnnilnr notes' in lieu thereof, and in quantities irom time to,umo sunicient to supply tho wholcsomo and necessary demands of the entire country, and that all greenbacks so issued shall be used in the nnrahlai and retirement of tho bonds of tho Uni ted States, so that the interest-bearing uooi oi tne country may ue lessened to the extent of the greenbacks thus put in circulation, and that lewd-tender notes. commonly called greenbacks, should be a w.yai-tenacr tn the patment of (til debts, nubile and nrtratc. exeent sueh obligations as aro in tho terms of the ungiuai contract expressly made payable in coin. 4. That tho ritrht to coin money and regulate the value thereof can he rarer. cised under tho constitution by congress mum-, aim uiat tne possession oi tho power imposes the duty of its Mercian to the extent of all the gold and silver L II. JV . a . . . . . uuuiun ouereu lor minium at tlin mint of tho United States, and we regard limi tations and restrictions imposed by con gress UDon the ooinasro of silver an im politic and unjust, and. should, at onoo be removed. 5, That n return to aneeio navment in impossible in tho present financial con dition of the country, and wo demand the immediate and unconditional reneol of the act of comrress of January. 1875. known as tho resumption act, holding tue same to do unwise and ruinous to tho interest of tho people. rt nrf. i r r . . . u. xuu puiicy inauguratcu anu main tained bv the Republican nsrtv. of rtin tracting tho active circulating medium of tho country, constituting as all admit ituoes, the standard of tno value of the property and products of tho country. and regulating as well the prices paid for all labor, stands pre-eminent in the long list of its oppressive measures as tho mont stupid, inoxcusablo and oppressive of them all Being opposed to all mo nopolies and au laws discriminating in favor of one class of neonle at tho ex pense and to the prejudice of all others, we declare our unqualified hostility to all protective tariffs, and demand that there shall be a tariff for revenue only. , Judge Bueknsr at ITsxIco. tDUpntch to St. LouU Republican. Mbtico, Mo., Sept. 8. The congres sional convention of the Thirteenth dis trict met hero to-day with full represen tation. It being ascertained that Hon. A. H. Buckner was in harmony -with the state Democratio platform, except as to the constitutionality of i'.hc legal-tendcr act, he was renominated by aceiamation and the state platform wns Indorsed. A fUpubllean Oiilnko. From tbe St. Louts Journal. Judge A. H. Buckner was renominated yesterday for congress in tho Thirteenth district. As his party p lls a majority of about 13,000, we suspnst he stands a pretty good chance of being elected. He h.a hard money man. bcinit one of the 'few Democrats in tha stale who have had the temerity to come oolalf out against the financial nlankt of the Jef ferson City platform. To tub Republican I .'lease publish for the benefit of many of your subscribers' what a five-twenty (5-20) liond is. and oblige Yonni, YVM. M. HORSB. A five-twenty (5-20) bond is one of a; urge number (some 81,700,000,000) bonds issued during tho war. It is pay able at the pleasure of the myarnment any time after five yes ri from itedate; VtBt is net due till twea ty years after its aase ; aence tno name oy wnien it is known. It bears six porceni interest It is these five-twenties that the secretary ot tue treasury is now caning in, in sums of $5,000,000, to bo paid with' the pro ceeds of the four per cent bonds. The holders of them must prsaent them for payment by a oertain umoor the inter est on them will ceaso.-r Jiigublkan, Ten Mi a, ef Ctte, ial M fritiitaektri. . IhHis uuubtfst.1 The Greenback poller in finanoa ar popularly reefC&ued. has never had a more able or assfaemtadyocate than Tom Ewing, ef Ohfce. Tkere are few more attractiva' speakers ia America than he is, and few more learned in the philoso phy of finance and ita political bearings. Hie discassions of this Question have keen so bold, so manly, se overpowering as to have made him the mortal foe of the bullionist. and the eride and beacon of the soft money men, rank and file. He furnishes courage and brain to half the Greenback stumpers in the West ; so that the Jack Fahrtaffa and menial pis tols in the beggarly armv of the Nation als and Labor-Green backers, filch his or mor. march in the shadow of his neat ness, appropriate his slain Pcrooys, and purloin his jewels. And yet his high spirit is as true to tho Democratio party as the aeedle to the Siles. In his great speech atMcArthur, hio, the other day, after declaring that "the great questions we must now meet aro purely financial." he at onee pro ceeded,' by KB overwhelming array of facts, to-show that on ono side of this question stood the Democratic party and on the other the Republican. He showed, sava tho report of hi. speech, that every Republican in congress voted for the national bank net, and nearly every Democrat against it ; that every Republican in oomrresa but ono voted for the resumption act, and every Democrat against it that not long ago 90 Democrats and 14 Renublleana in tho house voted to substitute greenbacks for national bank notes, and Do Republicans and 16 Democrats voted against the prop osition :. that in November last 103 Dem ocrats and 80 Republicans in tho houso voted for tho repeal of the resumption act. and 92 Republicans and 28 Demo crats against it ; and that 102 Democrat and 83 Republicans voted for unlimited coinage of silver, nod 77 Republicans and 25 Democrats against it. Mr. Ewingad mits that the Democratio leaders in tho "northwestern corner of 'the republic' have stood with the-Republicans on these questions," but sage that the Democratio masses even there have been on tho greenback side, and declares that tho leaders "will havo to yield to tho major ity or quit." And this man is now, under tho ban ner of Democracy, fighting the cohorts of tlib money power arrayed under the lead ership of n Republican president and cabinet, whilo hispseudo admirers and enlisted men in Pettis county, Missouri, liko the tatterdemalion crew enlisted un der Prince Hal, but demoralized by tho strMKliuK off. nickine linen from clothes lines, and napkins from hedges, and with no patriotism outside of tho belly, aro destroying the morale of tho grand army, by bringing the true green back cause under scandal and into contempt. BUTLER ON MONEY.' In a recent speech Ben Butler said: Now I will tell you what I want. I al ways had a faculty for doing that I want, in the first place, a dollar fixed by law, not made dependent upon anything redeemable; but a legal tender for debts, publio and private, with the stomp on it of the most powerful and wealthy nation on earth, tho United States of America, as a currency for tho people of the United States of America. I don't want this dollar mado to suit anybody in any other nation, and especially tho Chinese I don't wont a piece of gold stamped with dollar because that gold is a commod ity, for when it gets to. be moro valuablo . as a commodity, then somo one comes and just takes it off as a commodity. I stand hero for an inconvertible paper currency,' the greenback 'which carried on the war and aaved the country. I want to get rid of the bonds, not out of special enmity to the bondholder, but for the good of the people. The house of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal church at New York deposed Bishop MoCroskeyof Michigan on tho 8d, from the sacred, ministry and all of fices thereof. The Bishop was accused of the seduction of a young girl belong ing to the church. His resignation was refused. Missouri Fates. Ths Missouri fairs- will be held as follows : Columbia. Boone county, Sept 10, five days ; New ark, Knox county, Sept 10, four days ; Kirksville, Adair county, Sept 11, four days : Kansas City, Sept 16, six days ; Neosho, Newton county, Sept. 18, three days ; Mobexly, Sept 24, five days ; Lexington, Sept 24, five days: Mont gomery City, Oct 1, four days ; Keytes ville, Cot 1, five days ; St Louis, Oct. ', six days. The illustrated SMDSrs In En eland are scarcely behind tbe dailies iu the enterprise of their special correspon dents. The IlUutraUdloiulon News httd on board the tug 'thai brought homo Cleopatra's Needle, an artist who bad shipped ua ccMUrlissBer, there being no other means, of accompanying tho vessel As soon as the tug arrived off Gravesend. Mr. Wells! the coal.trlmmr got a boat and went ashore with hfo irecious sxetciies, and waj entered ia he ship's log as a deserter.