Nebraska Newspapers

    THE ADVERTISER,
THURSDAY, DEC. G, 1877.
Xhe pope la woree..
Sehat6rBlain"e has returned to the
Senate.
Rande,f.he-outlaw, when arraigned,
plfad "not guilty."
Recently 400 Turks in Sohrpka Pass
surrendered to the Russians.
Bishop Marvin, of the M.E. church,
died at St. Louis on the 28th InBt.
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Navigation on the Mississippi river
above .Keokuk closed for the season
last week.- '
32t.fJov. Hendricks recently lectur
ed In Indianapolis for a church bene
fit. Hisstibjeotwas "Revolution."
, The JJ. S. Senate elections commit
tee have reported iri favor of seating
Eustis.pf-Louisiaha In the Senate.
The London Telegraph says It has
In formation" that Kara fell through the
trca-cherj; of a'Pasha, who was paid
liberally for his treason.
The Cleveland Pldindcaler was re
cently purchased by Hon. R. C. Par
sonsjind Col. W. P.Fogg, the consid
eration being $100,000.
E. H. Buckingham, District Ator
ney. of the JhrrH judicial district, died
hi Omaha on the 28th ult. He was In
the 28th-year of his age and unmarried-.
In London, England, on the 1st
hist", at. 10:30, a. m., the fog was no
dense that midnightdarkness prevail
ed.. That must be a pleasant old town
in a fpg.
TJieNez Perces rhdians. captured
by" Col. Miles, Including Chief Joseph,
.have been taken to Fort Leaven worth
where they will be guarded and. fed
until a reservation is provided for
them in the Indian-Territory.
At the mint in Philadelphia during
the mouth oflNovember silver pieces
were coined In the following numbers!-
Trade dollars 400,000; half dol
lars, 834.000 quarter dollars, 722,400;
dimes, 140,000; total number of piec
es, 2,006,400; value, $1,011,600.
On last Friday night the U. S. Sen
ate was in session nearly all night,
considering the Louisiana and' South
Carolina Senatorial questions, aud at
2 o'clock Saturday" morning, William
1'itt Kellogg,' of Louisiana and M. C.
Butler of South Carolina, were sworn
Ytr as Senators. And so ends that
row.
A "patent outside" of last week
comes to the rescue as folio wes : "As
mosquitoos are just now in order it is
well for the housekeeper to know,"
etc.,, and- then we are told bow to kill
"the pests. These auxiliary editors are
eo: felicitously seasonable that they
ought to be awarded a leather medal
occasionally.
A correspondent of the Kearney
Press, referring to the State Universi
ty building, says: "The University
building has been repaired from base
ment to cupola. And there Is certain
ly no danger whatever now of the
building tumbling down, and doubt
ful It Is If there ever was any danger
at aU. The new white limestone
foundation, the window sills and
caps, and the tie Btones on the corners,
covered with & coat of cement, the
paintingand penciling of the outside,
and the proposed calciraining of the
inside, will make it one of the best
and most imposing buildings in the
state; while Lincoln has paid for
nearly all the repairing."
Ex-Gov. Joel Parker, one of the
ablest jurists aud purest men of New
Jersey, says, "The man who was
chosen by a majority-of 250,000!to pre
sideover the republic was cheated out
of his rightful claim by the infamous
four who constituted the Returning
Board of Louisiana. Neb. City Neivs.
That good man lies if he says Louis
iana was not Republican' by at least
twenty thousand majority had the
Democratic bulldozers permitted a
fate eleotion. So it is extremely
cheeky to talk about Republicans
Cheating.
-The National Grange, in session at
ChtchHiatl last week, declared on the
silver and resumption questions, as
follow-) :
"The National Grange, represent
ing as it does the agricultural senti
ment of every part of the Uuited
States, without intending to infringe
any feature of its organic law which
forbids the discussion of any question
of party politics, believes it to be not
only its privilege but its duty to give
expression to the universal voice of
its membership in condemnation of
alLsuob legislation either on the part
of the General or State Government
as tends to the injury of the great pro
ductive Industries. In this spirit and
with no purpose to take part in the
partisan politic of the country, we do
hereby declare our disapprobation of
the law demonetizing silver and com
mitting the Government arbitrarily
to any fixed day in the future for the
resumption of specie payment.and do,
therefore, hereby express our sympa
thy with the effort now being made
in Congress for the resumption of
these obnoxious measures."
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The ex-Republican officials of South
Carolina are now suffering terrible
political persecution. F.L. Cardoza
. .. m..onrDr has been tried and
found guilty of conspiracy to defraud
the State, and senteneed to two years
Imprisonment and to pay aflneof $4,.
000 Ex-Congressrasn Smalls, for ac
cepting a brib of five thousand del
ta while amemberof the legislature,
has been sentenced to three years ,m
baflbeen And T,. C. Carpenter,
nrlsonment. Ana xi. y -
.duor of .two p.p ;;m-;t i
a in two years Imprisonment,
tenced to two .J lbeseJ
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cases will be appealed to the Supreme
court, but will avail the victims noth
ing, if tried by the South Carolina
court.
Cardoza and Small9 are colored Re
publicans, and this, it Is believed is
the real cause of their punishment.
If they have committed penitentiary
offenses they should be punished, but
it would establish greater faith in
Southern courts and juries and in the
law abiding virtues of the people, if
there wbb no respect of persons, or fa
vorlteism shown In the punishment
of crime. Ballot boxes are tampered
with by election officers, people are
mobbed, whipped, intimidated, killed
for opinions sake and' for voting con
trary to the wishes of the ku-klux,
but we hear of no prosecutions for
any of these high crimes ; a Mr. But
ler can Instigate, lead and take a hand
in slaughtering a dozen black men,
his crime is accounted a virtue and re
warded by an eleotion to the U. S.
Senate; a Democratic politician In
New Orleans can offer a large bribe
for an electofal vote, but hlB crime
is winked at. All these politi
cal crimes and misdemeanors go un
punished because the offenders are
Democrats, and Southern purity is
"vindicated" by the hunting down
aud prosecution of negro Republicans.
Such vindication Is not vindication is
but perfidy added to perfidy, because
the instigation is malicious and not
for the love of right of law and or
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How wonderfully observing and
knowing the Boston press is becom
ing on the money question. The
Boston Herald speaking of silver as
money, saj-s:
The London Times in its financial
column says: "There is an entire
absence of auy disposition to pur
chase. No quotation can be given."
The Herald after taking a pinch of
this London-jTmics-Rothchilds'suuff,
sneezes, and turns up itsnose exclaim
ing:
Nice stuff for monej this. A pre
cious metal, perhaps, but a precious
poor metal, undoubtedly.
It don't suit the London Times, you
see! And the Times is the organ of
the great London Banking House,
which spent a half million dollars as
Iobyist at Washington to demonetize
silver in the United States !
The Boston Commercial Advertiser,
referring to the present agitation on
the silver question, claimB that Sen
ator Jones of Nevada, wlicr is recog
nized as the leader in the movement
to remonetize silver, does not repre
sent the silver iuterest of the country.
That paper says-:
He is not among the Mackeyesand
Fairs and Floods and O'Briens, of
Virginia City and San Francisco, nor
does he represent their real interest in
silver bullion or their sentiments on
debasiug the coin or inflating the cur
rency of the government. They are
content with the market which they
already enjoy, as producers of gold
and silver bullion and as exporters of
the trade dollar of 420 grains. Their
interest, aside from their profound re
ppect for the public faith is largely in
United States gold-bearing bonds,
principally 5s and 4Ja, and they have
but recently offered to enlarge their
investments to the extent of $20,000.
000 in the new 4 per cents. And
while this offer was declined by the
London Syudicateand the bonds have
since fallen below the par of gold,
they would doubtless be prepared to
renew it if such people as Mr. JoneB
and Mr. Bland are made to take a
back seat in Congrepp. Mr. Jones, we
conclude, is as great a fraud as the
nretended renresentativp of the real
bonanza intprept of the Pacific slope,
as his debased silver dollar would
prove.
It matters not If Senator Jones be
worth more or less than "the Floods
and the O'Briens," the difference be
tween them is taking the Commer
cial Advertiser' 8 word for It, Mr.
Jones is laboring to favor the industry
of the country and people, while the
other California millionaires named,
prefer to fill up their personal coffers
at the expense of prostrating the bus
iness of the country, aided by the in
fluence of such papers as we quote
from.
The Inter-Ocean thinks therepubl:
can party can cut its own nose off
more frequently, and make more clat
ter about gluing it on again, than
any other "instrumentality." "organ
ization" or "thing" on the face of the
earth.
Yes, for Instance when the Repub
lican party conferred the elective fran
chise upon all the colored people iu
the South, and then did not take time
to sleep until it removed all disabili
ties from rsbels restored them to all
the rights and privileges of the best
union men in the country turned
the "nigger" over to their tender mer
cies! That nose would not glue on
again t
The financial manipulations by the
Republican party is another nose that
will not glue on !
At New Albanyvlnd., Matt Wolfe
has been found not guilty of murder
ing his father several' months ago.
The ground of defense was insanity,
and the jury acquitted him on this
plea, as the murder was proved be
yond all possibility of doubt. The evi
dence was to the effect that Wolfe had
been drinking heavily, for several
days, and that his father had notified
several saloon keepers not to Bell him
liquor; that this exasperated young
Wolfe, and he threatened vengeance
on his father. On the Sunday of the
murder, while Wolfe was still suffer
ing from mania apotu, he walked to
an out-building, where he procured a
heavy hickory club. With this club
in his hand be returned to the house,
and thence walked out into the orch
ard near the residence where his fath
er was sitting in a chair. Approach
ing the gray haired old man be raised
the club and with all the power he
possessed brought it down on hla fa
ther's head. He repeated' the blows
until the father's head was beaten and
skull fractured in a terrible manner,
causing almost instant death.
Recentlv at Great Bend, Kansas, a
man named Mullen while intoxicated i
was placed in the calaboose. Soon
afterward the building was fired In
some way, and the uruncen man
perilled In the flames.
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
Felloio-CUizcTU of the Senate and Houseof Rep
resentatives: With great gratitude to the bounti
ful Giver of all good, I congratulate
you that at the beginningof your first
regularsesslon, you find your country
blessed wfth health and peaoe, and
abundant harvests.and with encourag
ing prospects of an early return of gen
eral prosperity. To complete and
make permanent the pacification of
the country continues to be, and until
it is full accomplished, must remain,
the most important of all our national
interests. The earnest purpose of
good citizens generally to unite their
efforts in those endeavors is evident.
THE SOUTHERN POLICV.
Suspicion, distrust and aversion,
that have been of frequent occurrence
and havo alarmed the public mind,
have almost entirely ceased, and a
spirit of mutual forbear?uce and hear
ty national interest has succeeded.
There has been a general re-establishment
of order and of the orderly ad
ministration of justice. Instances of
remaining lawlessness have become
of rare occurrence. It has found ex
pression in the resolutions announced
in 1S70 by the national convention of
the leading political parties of the
country. There waa a wide spread
apprehension that the momentous re
sults in our progress as a nation,
marked by the reoent amendments to
the constitution, were in imminent
jeopardy ; that the good understand
ing which prompted their adoption
in the iuterest of a loyal devotion to
general welfare, might prove a barren
truce, and that the sections of the
country once engaged in civil strife
might be again almost as widely sev
ered and disunited as they were when
arrayed iu arms agaiust each other.
Any course whatever which might
have been entered upon, would cer
tainly have eucountered distrust and
opposition. These--measures were, in
my judgment, such as were most in
harmony with the constitution and
with the genius of our people, aud best
adapted, under all circumstances, to
attain the end' iu view. The benefi
cial results already fappareut", prove
that these endeavors are not to be re
garded as a mere experiment; and
should sustain aud encourage us in
our efforts. Already In the brief pe
riod which has elapsed, the immedi
ate effectiveness, no leBS than the jus
tice of the course pursued, is demon
strated, and I have an abiding faith
that time will furnish its ample vin
dication in the minds of the great
majority of my fellow citizens. The
discontinuance of the UBe of the ar
my for the purpose of upholding local
government in 0wo- states was no less
a constitutional duty and requirement
under the circumstances existing,
than it was amuchneed measure for
the restoration of local self-government
and the promotion of national
harmony. The withdrawal of the
troops from suoh employment was ef
fected deliberately and with solicitous
care for the peace and good order of
society and the protection of property
and persons and every right of all
classes of citizens. Thelresults that
have followed are indeed significant
and encouraging. All apprehension
of danger from remitting those states
to local self-government; is-dispelled,
and a most salutary change in the
minds of the people has begun and is
in progress iu every part of that sec
tion of the country, once the theatre of
unhappy civil strife. Political turmoil
and turbulence have disappeared, use
ful industries have been resumed, pub
lic credit in the southern states has
been greatly strengthened, and the
encouraging benefits of a revival of
commerce between the sections of
country lately embroiled in civil war
are fully enjoyed. Such are some of
the results already attained, upon
which the country is to be congratu
lated. They are of suoh importance
that we maj' with confidence patient
ly await the desired consummation
that will surely come with the natur
al propiess of even'.g.
PROTECTION OF TFIE COLORED PEOPLE.
It may not be Improper for me here
to say that it should be our fixed and
unalterable determination to protect
by all available means under the con
stitution aud the law, the lately eman
cipated race in the exercise of their
rights and privileges, and I urge upon
those to whom heretofore the colored
people have sustained the relation of
bondmen, the justice and wisdom of
humane aud liberal local legislation ;
with respect to their education and
tbeir general welfare, a firm adher
ence to the laws, both national and
state, as to the civil and political
rights of the colored people, now ad
vanced to full and equal citizenship.
The immediate suppression aud sure
panishment by the national and lo
cal authorities within tbeir respective
jurisdiction of every instance of law
lessness and violence toward them is
required for the security alike of both
races, and is justly demanded by the
public opinion of the country and the
age. In this way the restoration of
harmony and good will and the com
plete protection of every citizen in
the full enjoyment of every constitu
tional right will surely be attained.
Whatever authority rests with me to
this end, I shall not hesitate to put
forth. Whatever belongs to the power
of congress and the jurisdiction of
the courts of the Union they may con
fidently be relied upon to provide aud
perform; and to the legislatures, the
courtsand the executive authorities of
the several states I earnestly appeal,
tosecureby adequate, appropriate and;
reasonable means within their borders,
thoso common and uniform rights of a
united people which loves liberty, ab
hors oppression and reveres justice.
These objeotB are very dear to my
heart. I shall continue most earnest
ly to strive for tbeir attainment, and
the cordial co-operation of all olasses
of all sections of the country and of
both races is required for this purpose ;
and with these blessings assured, and
not otherwise we may safely hope- to
hand down our free institutions of
government unimpaired to the gener
ations that will'succeecf us.
The course to be pursued which, In
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my judgment, seemed wisest in the
presence of any emergency, was plain
ly indicated in my inaugeral address.
It pointed to the time which all our
people desire to see when a genuine
love of our whore country and of all
that concerns its true welfare shall
supplant the destructive forces of mu
tual animosity of races and, 9f section
al hostility. Opinions have, differed
widely as to the measures best calcu
lated to secure this great end. This
was to be expeoted. Tho measures
adopted by the administration have
been subjected to severe and varied
criticisms.
THE PRESIDENT'S FINANCIAL VIEWS.
Among the other subjects of great
and general importance to the people
of this country, I cannot be mistaken,
I think, in regarding as pre-eminent
the policy and measures which are
designed to secure the restoration of
the currency to that normal and
healthy condition in which, by the
resumption of specie payments, our
internal trade and foreign commerce
may be brought into harmony with
the system of exchanges which is bas
ed upon the precious metals as the in
trinsic money of the world, in the pub
lic judgment. That thisendshould be
sought and compassed as speedily aud
securely as the resources of the people
and the wisdom of their government
can accomplish it, there is a much
greater degree of unanimity than is
found to concur in the specific meas
ures which will bring the country to
this desired end, or the rapidity of the
steps by which it can be safely reach
ed. Upon a most anxious and delib
erate examination which I have felt it
my duty to give to the subject, 1 am
but the more confirmed in the opin
ion which I expressed in accepting
the nomination for presidency, and
again upon my inauguration, that
the policy of resumption should be
pursued by every suitable moans, and
that no legislation would be wise that
should disparage the importance or
retard the attainment of that result. I
hare no disposition and certainly no
right to question the siuperity or in
tegrity of opposing oplnionsand would
never conceal nor under-value the
considerable difficulties and even oc
casional distresses which may attend
the progress-of the nation toward this
primary condition to its general and
permanent prosperity. I must, how
ever adhere-to my most earnest con
viction that auy wavering in purpose,
or unsteadiness iu methods, so far
from avoiding or reducing the incon
venience inseparable from the
transition from an irredeemable
to a redeemable paper currency,
would only tend to increased
arvi'prolonged disturbance in values,
-which unless relieved, mustend in ser
ious disorder, dishonor and disasterln
the financial affairs of thegovernment
and of the people. Tbe mischiefs
which I apprehend and- earnestly de
precate are confined to no class of peo
ple, but seem to me most cer
tainly to threaten the industrious
masses, whether their occupations are
of skilled or common labor. To them,
it seems to me, it is of prime impor
tance that their labor should be com
pensated in money which is in itself
fixed in exchangeable value by being
irrevocably measured by the labor
necessary to its production. Thisper
manentquality of all the money of the
people is sought for and can only be'
gained by the resumption of specie
payment. The rich the speculative,
the operating, the money dealing
classes may not always feel the mis
chief of, or may find casual profits in
a variable currency, but the misfor
tunes ofsuch a currency to those who-
are paid salaries or wages are inevita
ble and remediless.
READJUSTMENT OF THE COINAGE.
Closely connected with tills gener
al subject of the resumption of spocie
paj'ments is one of subordinate, but
still of grave importance. I mean the
readjustmen t of our coinage by renew
al of the silver dollar as an element in
our specie currency, endowed by leg
islation with the quality of legal ten
der to a greater or less extent. As
there is no doubt of the power of con
gress, under the constitution, to coin
money and regulate the value thereof,
and as this power covers the whole
range of authority applicable to the
metal, the rated value and the legal
tender quality which shall be adopted
for the coinage, the consideration
which should induce or discourage a
particular measure connected with the
coinage belongs clearly to the province
of legislative discretion and of public
expediency. Without intruding upon
this province of legislation in the
least, I have yet thought the subjeot
ofsuch critical importance in tbe ac
tual oondition of our affairs as to pre
sent an occasion for the exercise of
the duty imposed on tbe president
recommending to the consideration of
congress such measures as he Bhall
judge necessary and expedient. Hold
ing the opinion, as I do, that neither
the interest of the government nor of
the people of the United States would
be promoted by disparaging silver as
one of the two preoious metals which
furnish the coinage of the world, and
that legislation which looks to main
taining the volume of intrinsic mon
ey to as full a measure of both metals
as their relative commercial values
will permit, would be neither unjust
nor inexpedient, I must ask your in
dulgence to a brief and definite state
ment of certain essential features in
any such legislative measures which
I feel it my duty to recommend. I do
not propose to enter the debate repre
sented on both sides by such able dis
putants in congress and before tbe
people and in the press, as to the ex
tent to which the legislation of any
one nation can control this question,
even within its own borders, against
the laws of trade or the positive laws
of other governments. The wisdom
of congress In shaping any particular
law that may be presented for my
approval may wholly supersede the
necessity of my entering into these
considerations, and I willingly avoid
either vague or intricate inquiries. It
is only certain plain and' practical
traits of such legislation that I desire
to recommend to your attention in
any legislation providing for a silver J
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coinage regulating its value and im
parting to it a quality of legal tender.
It seems to me of great importance
that congress should not lose sight of
its action Rs operating in a two-fold
capacity and two distinct directions
It the United States government were
free from a public debt, Its legislative
dealing with the question of silver
coinage would be purely sovereign
and the government be under no re
straints but those of constitutional
power, and thepublio good as affected
by the proposed legislation, but in
the actual circumstances of the nation
with a vast public debt distributed
very widely among our own citizens
aud held in great amountsalso abroad,
the nature of the silver coinage as af
fecting this relation of the govern
ment to the holders of the pub
lio debt becomes in any pro
posed legislation of the highest
concern. The obligation of the public
faith trauscends all questions of profit
or public advantage; otherwise its
unquestionable maintenance is the
dictate as well as the highest expedi
ency, aB of the most necessary duty,
and will be carefully guarded by con
gress and the people alike. The pub
lic debt of the United States to the
amount of $729,000,000 bears interest
at the rate of 6 percent, and $703,000,
000 at the rate of 5 per cent,, and the
only way in which the country can
be relieved from the payment of the
high rate of interest is by advantage
ously refunding the Indebtedness.
Whether the debt is ultimately paid
in gold or silver coin is of but little
moment, compared with the possible
reduction of interest one-third by re
funding it at such reduced rates. If
the United States had the unquestion
able right to pay the bonds in silver
coin the little benefit from that process
would be greatly overbalanced by the
injurious effect of such payment.
If made or proposed against- the
honest convictions of the public
creditors, all the bonds that have
been issued since February 12, .1873,
when gold became the only unlimited
legal tender metallic currency of the
country, are justly payable In gold
coin, or in coin of equal value. Dur
ing the time of these issues the only
dollar that could be or was received by
thegovernment in exchange for bonds
was the gold dollar. To require the
public creditors to take in payment
any dollar of less commercial value
would bo regarded by them as a repu
diation of the full obligation assumed.
The bonds issued prior to 1877 were
issued at a time when the gold dollar
was .the only coin iu circulation or
contemplated by either the govern
ment or the holders of the bond as
the coin in which they were to be
paid. It is far better to pay these
bonds in that coin than to seem to
take advantage of the uuforseen fall
of silver bullion, and pay in a new
issue of silver coin. The power of
the United States to coin money and
to regulate the value thereof ought
never to be exercised for the purpose
of enabling the government to pay its
obligations in a coin of less value than
thatcontemplated by the parties when
the bonds were issued. Any attempt
to pa j' the national indebtedness in a
coinage of less commercial value than
the money of the world would involve
a violation of the public faith and
work irreparable injury to the public
credit. It was the great merit of the
act of March, 1869, in strengthening
the publio credit that it removed all
doubt as to the purpose of the United
States to pay their bonded debt in
coin. That act was accepted as a
pledge of public faith. The govern
ment has derived great benefit from
it in the progress thus far made in
refunding the publio debt at low rates
of interest. An adherence to the wise
and just policy of an exact observance
of the publio faith will enable the gov
ernment rapidly to reduce the burden
of interest on the national debt to an
amount exceeding $20,000,000 per an
num and effect an aggregate saving to
the United States of more than $300,
000,000, before the bonds can be fully
paid. In adapting the uew silver coin
age to the ordinary uses of currency
in Che every day transactions of life,
and preserving the quality of legal
tender to be assigned to it, a consider
ation of the first importance should be
so to adjust the ratio between the sil
ver and tho gold coinage which now
constitute our specie currency as to
accomplish the desired end of main
taining the circulation of the two me
tallic currencies and keeping up tbe
volume of the two precious metals as
out intrinsio money. It is a mixed
question for scientific reasoning and
historical experience to determine
how far and by what methods a prac
ticable equilibrium can be maintained
which will keep both metals in circu
lation in their appropriate spheres of
common use. An absolute equality
of commercial value from disturbing
fluctuations is hardly attainable, and
without it an untimed legal tender
for private transactions assigned to
both metals would tend to drive out
of circulation the dearest coinage and
disappoint thepriucipal object propos
ed by the legislation in view. I ap
prehend, therefore that the two con
ditions of a near approach to equality
of commercial value between the gold
and silver coinage of the same denom
ination and of a limitation of tbe
amounts for whioh the silver coinage
is to be a legal tender are" essential to
maintaining both in circulation. If
these conditions can be successfully
observed tbe issue from the mint of
silver dollars would afford material as
sistance to the community in the
transition to redeemable paper money
and would facilitate tbe resumptionof
specie payment and itB permanent es
tablishment. Without these condi
tions I fear that only mischief and
misfortune would follow from a coin
age of silver dollars with" the quality
of unlimited legal tender even in pri
vate transactions. Any expecta
tion of temporary ease from an- issue
of silver coinage to pass as a legal- ten
der at a rate materially above its com
mercial value, is, I am persuaded, a
delusion. Nor can I think that there
is any substantial distinction-between
an original issue of silver dollars at a
nominal value materially above their
commercial value and the restoration
oftbbsilverdollar.atarate which once
was, but has ceased to be, its commer
cial value. Certainly the Issue of our
gold coinage, reduced in weight ma
terially below its legal tender value,
would be any the less a present de
basement of the coinage, by reason of
its equalling or even exceeding in
weight a good coinage, which at some
past time had been commercially
equal to the legal tender value as
signed to the new issue, in recom
mending that the regular of any silver
coinage which may be authorized by
congress should observe these condi
tions of commercial value and limited
legal tender, I am governed by the
feeling that every possible Increase
should be given to tbe volume of me
talic money which can be kept in
circulation, and thereby cause all
possible aid afforded by the people
Id the process of resuming spe
cie payment. It Is because of my
conviction that a disregard of these
conditions would frustrate the good
results which are desired from the pro
posed coinage and embarrass with new
elements of confusion and uncertainty
the business of the country, that I urge
upon your attention those considera
tions. I respectfully recommend to
congress that in any legislation pro
viding for a silver coinage imparting
to it tbe quality of legal tender there
be impressed in the measure a firm
provision exempting the public debt
heretofore issued and now outstand
ing from payment, eithor of princi
pal or Interest, in any coinage of less
value than the present gold coinage of
the country.
The foregoing topics we select from
the message, presuming them to be of
the greatest interest to our readers.
The length of the message is such
that we could not publish the whole
of it without great inconvenience.
CRIMES AND CASDLTIES.
At Athens, Ohio, on the 27th ult.
Dr. J. W. McWhorler was malicious
ly shot dead by his brother.
Robert Lelse, of New York City,
President of the Security Life Insur
ance Company, convicted of swear
ing to false returns, has been senten
ced to five 3'ears in the penitentiary.
Frank Rande, the notorious outlaw,
has been lodged in jail at Galesburg,
111. The grand jury has found two
indictments for murder against him.
At Bridgeport, Conn., on the 3Qth
ult., David Stilman and wife, aged
invalids were found murdered in tbeir
own house.
Wm. H. Vanderbilt recently while
driving one of his fast horses ran over
an old man, injuring him, it is
thought, fatally.
On the 29th, ult., a son of Congress
man Kelley, of Pennsylvania, while
riding in a street car in Philadelphia,
was without known provocation, shot
by a drunken negro, though probab
ly not mortally.
At Northhampton, Mass., on the
29th ult., M. Davenport fatally stab
bed his wife and a man named Pratt,
of whom he was jealous.
Joseph Green, of St. Marys, Ohio.,
suspecting that his wife and George
Dire were too intimate, left home to
be gone some time, but returned sud
denly and unexpectedly one night,
finding Dire at his house, as he ex
pected. The latter ran away without
his clothing, Green after him, and
firing at him shot another man seri
ously. At Ada, Ohio, on the 23th ult., a
young man named Thos. Bastaber.
telegraph operator, put a bullet in his
brain while drunk. His lady love
had infarmed him that he must stop
drinking or cease his attentions to
her. He chose not to quit his drunk
enness, and being enraged at the
young lady sought to kill her, but fall
ing to find her concluded to kill him
self. This was much the better end
ing of the affair.
Jas. T. Aikens, while giving an ex
hibition with a stereopticau at Toledo
Ohio on the 28th inst., dropped dead
on the stage. Supposed cause, heart
disease.
At Topeka, Kas., on the 28th ult., a
little daughter of John Nevlns, while
playing with matches had her cloth
ing set afire and was burned to death.
Des Moines, Dec. 1. In August,
1874, a lewd woman named Ella Bar
ret, was murdered in her room in this
city and her effects plundered. The
oircumstancea were atrocious, the wo
man being found with her head hack
ed In a frightful manner. It was evi
dent that some important papers were
taken from ber trunk, as well as asum
of money and jewelry. Last spring
four negroes in this city were indicted I
for the murder. In tbe course of tbe
trial of tbe first prisoner, Andy
Smith, the fact was developed that
there was an unknown white man in
terested in the murder, but who, has
nntvAt heen learned. The jury in
the Smith case have just returned a
a verdict of murder in tbe firstdegree.
The trial of the other three will com
mence Monday.
Two years ago Lyraam Blackman,
a farmer living near Birmingham,
Michigan, deeded his farm to his son
Henry on condition that he should
support his parents and sister. He
failing to do this his father started for
Pontiac to get out tbe necessary pa
pers revoking the deed. In his ab
sence Henry quarreled with his moth
er and sister, whioh resulted in his
shooting and killing them both and
setting fire to the house and barn.
He is now in jail at Fontlac.
The Kearney Press says: "McLain,
the murderer taken from Kearney to
Lincoln on Tuesday, and around
whom the walls of the peni
tentiary have closed for the re
mainder of his natural life, makes the
one hundred and fourteenth criminal
nnw mnflned within that InstUu-'
tlon.
A good aotion performed In this
world receives its recompense in tbe
other, just as water poured at the root
of a tree appears agaiu above. In fruit
and flower.
MISLEADING THE PUBLIC.
The Truth Aboutthc Bank of England,
and a Comparison of its Workings
With onr Treasury System.
CniCAGO, Nov. 21, 1S771
To the Editor of tbe Inter Ocean.
The opponents of the repeal of tbe
resumption act are constantly making
statements whioh mislead public opin
ion, and, if understood, would defeat
the ends aimed at. I find the follow
ing In the New York Times, publish
ed in the self-styled, "Old Reliable."
It says :
"Conniderlng that the coin re
serve of the Bank of England Is at
present only $50.0'j0100a, and that on
this slender foundation of bullion
(gold and silver) rests some $3,000,000,
000 of banking liabilities in Great
Britian."
The above is very nearly a true
statement of the finances of England.
It then continues: "It seems tolera
bly obvious that if congress would on
ly keep its hands off the finances. there
is nothing to preveut the Treasury
make ample preparations to resume
in 1879." Suppose tbe author had giv
en the following facts:
1. The Bank of England is a pri
vate corporation, backed up by gov
ernment, while the United States
Treasury Is not. Consequently, no
parallel can bo drawn between the
two.
2. That the premium on gold In
England is as high as it is in this
country, for the interest rate of the
bank Is 3 per cent above that of other
chartered or private banks In that
country. The reason for such excess
is stated to be, by the directors of the
Bank of England, as well as by the
London limes and other papers, to
prevent the gold being drawn out of
England. So long as the Bank of
England can float its promises to pay,
printed on watered paper, at 1J or 2
per cent, it is entirely satisfactory ;
but the moment the holders of theBe
promises to pay present them and de
mand gold, particularly so if the gold
is for America. money becomes scarce,
and the rate of interest goes up to 5
or 10 per cent. This Is a power per
fectly despotioover the business Inter
ests Ensland. and sustained by the
English Government; a power that
would not be granted in our country
to the most honest administration we
ever had or ever will have.
3. The United States Treasury,
with $100,000,000 in gold In hand,
could not make a successful stand
against the manipulation of gold op
erators, unless the coin power of our
present legal renders was made a fact,
so that duties, taxes, or other dues to
government, could be paid In them
the same as coin. By "gold opera
tors" I do not refer to the Gold Board
of New York, whose members were
but parasites on such mammoths as
Drexel, Morgan & Co., Rothohilds,
and other money kings. Either of
those firms could at one fell swoop,
aud no doubt often would, take all
the gold and put it out of sight, that
our Treasury might bold for redeem
ing its legal tenders.
If John Sherman had the power to
day to put the rate of iuterest up or
down, as his private Interests might
dictate, do you think the people
would remain passive, as does "John
Bull." and veil, "Great is the Bank
of England ?" Still that power is the
power of the bank, nothing more or
less.
The issues of the Bank of England
are to all intents and purposes the le
gal tender of Great Britian. Gold Is
no more currency there than silver is
here. The business of the country is
done on credits, by checks, drafts.and
bills of issue, and so long as no cog
wheel in the machinery stops, it is
lovely ; but let one wheel work a lit
tle stiff from want of grease, and the
life blood, gold, becomes clotted, and
a tonic of 5 per cent, has to be taken
in order to work off the clogged
iTnnse. The issues of the Bank of
England are based nn the debentures
of England, which arp seldom above
95 per cent, bearing 2J per cent, in
terest. The issues of our banks are based
on this country's debentures, always
worth 100 per cent, bearing 5 per cent,
interest. In the former, none but
English invest; in the latter the whole
world invests. The ultimate of one
they doubt, of the other no doubt ex
ists. "Old Reliable' writes a labored
editorial on the extract from the
Times, and brines forth, "There's the
rub." The editor has not found out
yet, where the majority stands, and f
course is a Ieetle afraid to say, "J to:u
you so." But he has seen a man
whom he thinks has recently seen n
"double eagle," and the editor re
marks "this is a 'straw'of very great
importance."
Germany demonetized silver, is
bankrupt with gold. To keep what she
has she destroys all commercial inter
eets by exorbitant intertsts. While
France, with gold, silver, and green
backs as money, is becoming rich
yearly. German3' and England are
becoming poorer every day. Whose
example should we follow the one
successful to the many, or the impov
erisher of the many to the enriching
of the few France or England.
A. A. A.
T, -A-- BATH
is now proprietor of tho
litjIMMarM,
and is prepared to accomodate the
public with
GOOD, FRESH, SWEET
Gentlemanly and accomraodatinf? clerks
will at all times be in attendance. Your
palronaze solicited. Remember tho place
the old Fascoe snop, Jiain-st.,
BrownviUe - Nebraska.
NDEETAKE
Keeps a full ltns ot
BURIiL CASES & CASKETS
CONSTANT.? ON ItAXV,
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LEGAL ADVERTISEaTENTs.
PROPOSALS FOR FORAGE.
J. Heaaqtrarlers Department or tbe .natle.
Office of Chler Qunrter master, Omaha.-Neb.
Nov 2?,-1877. Senledproposrals, In triplicate
subject to" the itsaaf conditions, will bo re
ceived M this office tnitll 12 M., on Saturday,
December 29; 1S77, ht which time and placo
they will fte opened in the presence of bid
ders, for furnishing and delivering In quan
tities as required Up to Jane SO, ISJS, at Omit
ha Depot, Nebraska, or at stations on tho
Union Pacific Railroad, east from Kearney
Junctlon. two million (2.000,000; pounds Corn
and one milllorrCf.OOO.OOO) pounds Oats.
Proposals for quantities less than the whole
required, will be received. ?r. ferencc will
bo Riven to articles of domestic prodoctlon.
The contract will be let xfltti the proviso
that the quantities contracted for may bo
Quartermaster or the Department at any'
time within forty-Aye days nl er date of con
tract. Bids should state the rate per l'V) ponnds
not per bushel and shonld be endorsed on
envelope "Bids for Forage.' The right to
reject any or all bids Is reserved.
M. I. LUDrXGTON.
2lw4 Chief Quartermaster.
nOMMISSIONERS' SALE OF
J REAL FSTATE. Nutlce Is hereby given
that by vlrtno of an order of sale issned oiit
of the District Court of Nemaha Comity. In
the State of Nebraska, and to us directed as:
referees and commissioners, in the casd'
hereinafter named, upon an order and decree
rendered by the said Court. In a certain ac
tion pendlmr. wherein Mahlon Smith andr
James A. Smith, by Abner A. Warren, their
next friend and general guardian, and "V11
HamSmith.areplaintins.Rnd Charles Camp--bell.
William Campbell. Cynthia A. Pascoe,
Margaret E. Clark and James A. Campbell,
are defendants, we will offer for sale at pub
lic auction, at the door of the Court House in
Brownville. in said county, on
Monday, December 10, 187T,
at 1 o'clock p. in., of that day, the following
real estate In Nemaha County, Nebraska, to
wit: The north west quarter of section No.
thirty-five (35), In township number six (G),
north of range number fourteen (14), east,,
containing one hundred and sixty (1G0) acres.
Terms of sale. cash.
DAVIDSON PLASTERS.-) Referees
WILLIAM . uuuvEii, v ana com
E.M. McCOMAS, J missloners.
J. H. BROADY, Att'y for Plffs.
November 5. 1S77. 20w4
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OZL PAINTINGS,
Frames & Wall Pockets,
A T
AUCTION.
Wednesday, Thursday & Fridayf
DECEMBER
5th, 6th and 7th, 18T7.
I am pleased to announce to my
old friends and acquaintances of
Nemaha County, that I will be in
Brownville as above, with a epand
Exhibition of Genuine Oil Chro
mos, Oil Paintings, Fine Frames,
&c, being a part of a large bank
rupt stock shipped here direct from
the East, to be closed out at public
auction,
COMB JUAJRLY,
and have full stock to select from,
as the Entire Stock will posi
tively be sold to the highest bid
der, without reserve or limit.
Tbe citizens of Broviiiville
nnd vicinity vriil find this de
cidedly the best opportunity
ever presented to them to ob
tain choice works of art at
their own prices.
I-adics especially invited to
attend exhibition and sale.
J". W. BLISS,
alias the Live Yankee.
D. B. COLHAPF,
Manufacturer of
FINE CIGARS
59 Main Street,
Brownville, Nebraska,
Orders From Neighboring Towns
Solicited.
Meat Market.
BOI3T&; BBO.
BUTCHERS,
BROlVIf VIMMB, NEBRASKA.
Good, Sweet, Fresli Meat
Always on hand, and satisfaction guar
antied to all customers.
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