Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1878 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1878.

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THE DAILY NEWS. FRIDAY, SEWEMBEB «, 1878. The Indianapolis News has the largest circulation of any dally paper in Indiana. The dime relief fund increases. The suffering of the south must not bd allowed to outrun the bounty of the north. Should every one in the city, who is able, give a dime for the relief of the eouth, the total would make huudreda of dollars. The president made his first set speech since his inauguration yesterday, at 8t. Paul. It was an able and statesmanlike utterance. The fact of negroes refusing to nurse their own yellow-fever-stricken children without pay, as many in the infected districts do, does not say much for the moral status of the race. The yellow fever is spreading from the infected cities where it has hitherto been confined in all directions thereabouts. Towns, villages and plantations are suffering the plague. The horror increases and pleads for relief. What is done must be done quickly. England is gloomy over prospective business depression. America is hopeful at prospective relief. He quarrels with a happy fate who says this country is in misery. The general condition of our people is better than that of any people on the globe to-day, and our faces are set toward the light. Carey W. Miller, charged with embetrling $8,000 from the First national bank, is the latest patron of the combination pool deadfall at Chapin & Gore’s in trouble. Herbert Denton, -only twentytwo years old, also charged with embezzling, was a frequenter of the placeThe deadfall is rapidly adding to the’ criminal court docket—one murderer, Acheyjone thief, Van Camp; and two young men charged with embezzlement. One of its victims, George Leggett, is in the grave-yard. Nothing caa,touch him further. Every citizen should read the article in this issue of The News headed “Greenbackers." It is taken from a still longer article in the New York Tribune, which paper recites that it is part of many documents sent out from the national greenback headquarters in Chicago, and is made public in an address issued to the people of Maine, by the republican leaders in that state. This assurance of authority is needed % let all whom it may concern know that the communism and treason avowed in those documents arc real. Rear-, ney’s babblings are the merest froth compared with these utterances of a band of men formed for the accomplishment of the purposes therein set forth. CIKKKN^ COMMENT. A fat little pamphlet which bears a facsimile “Compliments of M&nton Marble,” is sent to the press of the country. It is entitled “A secret chapter of political history. The electoral commission The truth concerning Samuel J. Tilden, president dejure, disclosed and stated against some false representatives of his action, advice and conduct during the winter of 1876-7.” All of which, it is needless to say informs the reader that this is an electioneering document to enable Tilden to regain the place in democratic councils which he lost by his imbecility and cowardice. The Lafayette Dispatch reprints the Peters case, the details of which brought Mr. Orth into unenviable notoriety during his brief campaign fbr governor two years ago. It is now 'officially announced that the Paris exposition will lose money. The whole affair whs a money-making scheme on the part of the! French, and they have most Outrageously iouged everybody they could get their handk on since it started. Thev will find littl^ sympathy at having overreached themfeelves. The London Times, commenting on some of the suggestions offered the Hewitt labor committee to furnish each person in the land so much money, so many horses

and the like, says: “These projects, wild as they appear, were far outdone by the proposals for the issue of ‘government money,’ ‘absolute money,’and ether devices for reducing the value of currency, as well as by* plans for making protection complete, for ‘abolishing usury,’ and the like. The Reuben Davis whom the greenbackers of the first Mississippi district are running for congress proves to be a veteran who aas represented the state at Washington before and not a brother of Jeff's. “Bland and greenbacks,” is the cry of the democrats in the fifth Missourri district. The Washington correspondent *f the New York World, says one of the causes which aided the appointment of Lew Wallace as governor of New Mexico, was a desire to get him out of the way so as he would not ruin Orth’s chances of re-elec-tion. As The News promised «t the time, Ben Butler’s candidacy for governor is hustling the republicans of Massachusetts. “Call all hands” is the title of an editorial plentifully besprinkled with italics in the Boston Transcript (rep.) which sets oat by declaring that Butler is “formidable,” and reaches the on that “with the democratic nomination his chances of election are more than good, and without. it, unless vigorously opposed, he win roll up 60,000 to 75,000 votes.” The Transcript insists that the republicans must go to work, and work hard. The news of how Edwards Pierrepont, the noodle, whilom U. S. minister to England, coquetted with Dr. Flint, the tea kettle medium, in order to connect himself with nobility by a possible ancestress in “Dear Lady Mary” Wortley Montague, has just reached London, and the World of that city says : . It’s as well the Oxford boys didn’t hear about “dear Lsdyjlary” when the university gave the Axaerrcari^-ipinister that honorary degree, else me^e might have been some fun from the gallery\4t will teach the Oxford managers to inspoClYhe names and qualifications of candidates for the highest honors which they can confer upon strangers somewhat more closely than they seem to have done in the case of Mr. Pierrepont Nobody cares for Kearney, now. Even the yellow fever will not touch him. Blaine of Maine has been distributing himself overdho country in interviews. One he accorded a Utica, New York, paper gives his idea of Grant as follows: In most respects General Grant is the strongest person who could be named. If nominated, he would be sure to not only poll his party vote, but I know of very many influential democratic capitalists who would quietly use their influence for him. When he entered upon the presidency his great apparent defect was his total ignorance of statecraft. Extended travel abroad, however, has supplied the need, and I know of no earthly reason why GeneraljGrant would not make a first-rate president. Concerning the refusal of Governor Rice of Massachusetts, to deliver Kimpton on a requisition from Governor Hampton, of South Carolina, the Springfield Republican pointedly says if the transaction had been reversed, and Governor Hampton had declined to obey the injunction of the constitution to deliver the culprit on the ground that he didn’t believe those Yankees would treat him fairly, there would have been a howl about “Nullification” from all the republican papers in the country. Jim Tyner, the guardian of erring brother Key professes to have trustworthy information that the republicans will carry Indiana in October, and will elect a United States senator to succeed Yoorhees. Tyner’s information probably comes from some oLthe idiots who edit postoffices in this state.—[Ft. Wayne Sentinel. Reformers must not forget just now, in their not unnatural and discreditable zeal for what remains of the administration, that the battle will probably have to be fought over again in 1880 under some additional disadvantages, and that it will hardly do to come to the convention with the administration on their hands as a specimen of what they would like for another four years.—[New York Nation. A gentleman in private conversation with Mr. Stevens asked whom he favored for president and vice president. He replied that Hendricks and Hampton were his ticket; said that he would prefer Hancock to Hendricks, but that he was not as available; that the people were tired of military presidents. —[Hartwell (Ga.) Sun. A commercial traveler out west took a notion to look into the political status of the business men he met. Among 105 he found only eight greenbackers.—[Philadelphia Press. Kvarts on Politic*. \ Secretary Evarts in a long interview yesterday, among Lther things said as to the president’s southern policy that no calculation of any political compensation from the conduct of the south formed any part of the motives which induced the president's action. The manner, therefore, in which the south has met the action of the president does not affect the question of justice and rightfulness of that action. Mr. Evarts said that in his view the repub-' Mean speakers in Maine and Ohio have followed the wisest plan in giving prominence to the financial questions and saving little about southern topics. The southern question of the last campaign is no longer open. Unless the republican party has some new propositions for dealing with the imperfectly assimilated southern communities, the question will not become practical. If the party has any new propositions to put forth, the administration is as likely to hare the shaping of them as anybody else. Concerning Thurman, Mr. Evarts said he is as strong, whether by reason of or in spite of his recent utterance, as any of the other democratic candidates. In ability and public experience Mr. Thurman is conspicuous, and so is Mr. Hendricks, and either of them would pretty favorably represent the democratic party in the presidency. I have never thought that there was any probability of Tilden’s renomination. About the national movement Mr. Evarts said: It will have no lasting strength, because it has no basis of ideas. The moment the nationals begin to talk, they show that they don’t think. This movement will draw more heavily from the democrats than the republicans. Murdered bj Mexican Bandits. A djspatch from Tucson, Arizona, reports J. H. Adams and Cornelius Finley murdered at Davidson’s Canon, last Monday, by Mexican bandits. Adams was ex-sheriff of San ta Clara county, and became famous in his search after Vasquez. Finley was formerly county clerk of Santa Clara, and at the time of death superintendent of the Washington mine, Arizona. The Turco-Greek War. Loxdox, September 5.—It is said that France and Italy have jointly notified the port* that they will not permit the bombardment of the Greek coast in the event of a war between Greece and Turkey. Turkish troops are reported encroaching upon Greek territory.

“GRKEKBACKK8S.” The Party of Revolution—The Kind of Treaaoa it Teaches. The republican leaders of Maine have issued

the greenback movement. It takes their own declarations from some of their documents sent out from the “headquarters of the national greenback party’’ in Chicago. Herewith are given some extracts therefrom, which are earnestly commended to law-abiding citizens of whatever political faith, as follows: One object in the formation of the national greenback chit** throughout the United Staee* is • ® to elect delegate* to a national greenback convention. Such convention will be * » to all purpoaea and intents a congress, and there Is no reason why this assemblage of delegates should not declare itself to be the congress of the United States, should the wisdom of the convention point to this patriotic course, declaring that the seat ot government be iea.oved fronf Washington to some place in the vaUey of the Mississippi. Stranger and less patriotic thing* have happened. We do not say that thla will be doiw, but it is worth while to rememl>er that the people are supreme, and that they have the same rights to ignore the pressldent, cabinet, senate and com

has the right to ignore the people and their wants. • * • Then it is that this assemblage of wise and patriotic men, who are intelligent enough tp

whoae

islaturee

mmittee of safety,

isinets it will be to watch the work oHeg-

and whenever a president, a a senator, a congressman, a , a governor, or any ser-

jetray the inter

1m, to kill him on the sp

d othe

be independent, will declare a committee of

i business i

lers, and vrhem

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ure, a govei

rant of the people, shall betray the interests of those who elected him. to kill him on the spot, is about time this foolishness, cowardice and

at. It

heaped upon us by away with, and we do

iod, and thank him fervently, that in this country an element is coming to the front determined to protect the lives and Industries of those citizens who live by labor, no matter what becomes of that other class who live by plunder. In the organitation of greenback clubs, we coun-

manual of arms. In time of peace it is well prepare for war. In every greenback club there should lie a drill-master—that is, in every .club whose members arc brave enough to stand at ail times, under all circumstances, to defend their rights as citizens. • • We, the people, are in rebellion against the untaxed nobility of this country. We, the people, propose to have our rights peaceably, and by means of the ballot, if possible—by the bayonet if we must. l|We mean that the debt of the United States shall T>o paid in greenbacks, and right here we inform you from the western prairies, that so sure as Godlives, if this question is not settled by 1880. if the law then does not declare that the bonds shall be paid in greenbacks exactly as the soldiers of the United States were paid in greenback money, we shall never again ask for such an issue of money, but will from that hour, strike for the repudiation of every bonded obligation of the government, and thus wipe out from existence every United States bond, and their holders shall have nothing. Put this in your pipe and make the most of itl Ours is an absolute government! It is a government oi the [teople, and by the eternal it shall ft a government for the people, or it shall be smashed into so ny fragments that each separate state will, in uparison, be a complete world. • * • If the government will not do this thing, then we, the people, in defence of our lives, our liberties, our homes, our families, and all that the future holds out to us as a promise thorough the work of the founders of the republic, must overthrow the government, repudiate all of its unconstitutional contracts^ wipe out the indebtedness of the United

States, and commence anew.

[From the Greenback tract "Meat for Men,”

pages.]

Let this be the law: No more bonds. No more paying even one farthing of interest by our United btates government. Let men who use money pay Interest. No more demonetizing of silver, buying gold, burning greenbacks and Issuing bonds, but a complete restoration of the greenback dollar to its place as a factor in trade and commerce. Burn the

bonds. * «■

If this government of ours will not protect us, the tax-paying people, we owe it no allegiance. If it will not do this, it is a bad, infamous government, after all the people have done for it, and had better unite the west and south, secede froi

inai com

south, secede from a

union that benefits only eastern bondholders, and

in northeastern states go into

born-

itern

let their dupes in northeastern states gc slavery to the illegitimate brat of republican ing and democratic adoption. 8o It is, e masters and money borders, that we sight the gun directly at your black hearts. Too long have you, by aid of knaves and hirelings, held ns in the morass of poverty and the slough of despond. * * ° Now we warn you, you cowardly sneaking, dishonest, treacherous, false-hearted, mercenary hirelings of an eastern money-power, that we, the people of the western and southern states, including Pennsylvania and all of New 1’ork west from the mouth of the Hudson river, do intend to take possossiou of the government of the United states hurl you and your bond-holding clamcnt from power, and create for you enough ie-gal-tender greenback money to relieve the general government from Its embarrassments. * » o Young men of the west and of the south: We can clean all of those eastern pirates out of homes and the property they have stolen. We can unite and whip them to reason and to comprehension of

Wecaa open the Mississippi

billions of produce down its waters to market. We can send our surplus products to foreign countries of southern cities. With the proceeds we the west and south with new railroad!

by way o can line

oads, • wil-

and tov

ojwn new mines, and make the east a howling wil- . dern«ss in which will roam the ghosts of the witch butpers and of those Puritans who made fortunes

Jn supplying the south with slaves stolen from the

of Africa. We can do all this, and you

near future if

take this for your repast in the near future if you do not burn your ill-gotten bonds and let the people live. Organize greenback clubs—with bayonets

in reserve.

Tlie Cost of Government.

A statement of the receipts and ex] lures of the government prepared for tary Sherman’s report to congress next December shows that exclusive of $102,600,874.65 interest on the public debt, the expenditures during the fiscal year 1878 were $134,463,452.05. Those of 1877 exclusive of $97,124,511.58 interest on the public debt, were $141,535,497.35. These were the two years in

.which the democrats had control of the

house of representatives. In the last three years of republican control the expenditures were: In 1878 exclusive of $100,243,271.23, interest on the public debt, $158,216,526.10; in 1875 exclusive of $103,093,544.57. interest, $171,529,848.27, and in 1874 exclusive of $107,119,815.21, interest, $180,014,057.96. The net revenue last year amounts to $257,763,878.70. Of this. $130,170,680.20 was from customs, $110,581,624.74 from internal revenue, $1,079,743.37 from sales of public lands, $317,102.30 from premiums on loans and sales of gold coin, and $15,614,728.07 from other miscellaneous sources, and in comparison with 1873 (the year of the financial panic), the revenue from customs has fallen off nearly $58,000,000, while the revenue from internal sources has decreased only about

three and one quarter millions. Congressional Nomination*.

Thirteenth Illinois district, democrat, A. E.

Stevens.

Third Wisconsin, republican, George C.

Hazleton.

Eighth Wisconsin, republican,- Thad C.

Pound.

First New Hampshire, greenback,' Lafay-

ette Chesley.,

Thirteenth New York, greenback, N. G.

Brown.

Third New Jersey, greenback, W. L. Hope. Third lows, democrat, M. M. Ham.

Soldier*’ Reunion*.

Fifty thousand people attended the soldiers' reunion at DesMoines, Iowa, yester-

da

esMoines, Iowa, yester-

The reunions of the federal and confederate soldiers at Louisville yesterday, was very

successful.

Marriac* of a Catholic Priest. Herr Rinks, an Old Catholic priest at Heidelberg. has been married. The Bavarian Old Catholics do not accept the recent decision of the synod for the abolition of celibacy. Cotton Mill* Stopped. Three of the largest cotton mills in Blackburn, England, close in a fortnight. Three others will run on short time.

Restored to the Army. Ex-Consul General Badeau has been restored to the retired list of the army with the rank of captain. New York Convention. The New York republican convention will be held at Saratoga on the 29th.

The Battle of Life.

TH* PRESIDENT'S SPEECH.

The wssons come sad the aessoo* go. The past hts a far-off look away, Bo little success In what we do. When oar arms are week and oar hair is gray.

To-day we feel the chilling b’ast,

That we quaffed like wine In that long ago,

Oh! that the joy of spring would cast

ftama

It* charming

o’er our winter's snow.

In youth what dream* of fame and power We revel in—when the world is new Wh»t plans we make to improve e*ch hour, When every pulse of the heart beat* truei Life, in itself, is so glad a boon. As our heart* expand to it* wayard schemes, Bright as the rays of the sliver moon That gluten on mountains, rocks, and streams.

At noon we rested, not taking heed Of the fleeting moments’ rapid flight; In age, they pass with double speed, At we feel the shade of the coming night.

So little done—to redeem the past, W ith lifted hands we kneel and pray. As the shipwrecked mariner clings to the mast, Unheeded we pass from the earth way.

We bury the dead in the dull, cold earth— Silent and lonely their dreamless sleep— The wiuld, as usual, teems with mirth, Forgftting the mourners whs sadly weep.

:he loss is scarcely worth our tears, The grave is the goal where our journey ends. —[Mrs. Jemingham.

SCRAPS,

The “drunk room” is a feature in several watering place hotels. The rate of taxation in Newport is $3.70, being an increase of $1.90 on last year’s rate. Rarus and Hayes both visit Minneapolis this week. Rarus’s record is 2:13K 5 Hayes’s 8 to 7. “Keep your patients alive,” said an old doctor to a graduating class of student*; “dead men pay no bills. An indexy:ontainiDg 50,00Q names of persons who hare been advertised for in English papers has been published. “A blaspheming ruflian, full of ignorant egotism and priding himself as being unkempt,” is what Archbishop Purcell’s organ calls K. This is the mushroom season; and people can not be too cautious, not only in avoiding toadstools, but in taking care not to use the true mushroom when past its prime. The railway of Austria employs twentyfive women. The Austrian state railway employs fifty. They must be under twentyfive years of age, and have passed an examination of ability. . A little girl asked a minister, “Do von think my father will go to heaven?” “Why, yes, my child. Why do you ask?” “Well, because if he don’t hare his own way there he won’t stay long.” A howl is looked for from the churchmen of England. At Cyprus, when Sir Garnet Wolseley took possession, the British flag was solepinly censed, blessed and hoisted by' Greek priests, the guards presenting arms. The table at the Grand Union diotel, Saratoga, is probably the finest and best that is oifered at any hotel in town or country in America. It is said that the expenses of the steward’s department are never less than $300 per day. A base ball pitcher succeeded in killing a catcher with a swift ball at Boonville, New York, yesterday. It has taken a long time; but we know now that catchers are not immortal, and that pitchers have their uses in the world.—[Philadelphia Record. W. J. Vance, appointment clerk of the treasury, has gone into voluntary bankruptcy. When the western papers catch up with the item they will probably display it under the heading “Shermanized.”—[Washington Star. The increase of shortsightedness is complained of in Alsace. In a college at Mulhouse 50 out of 234 students were lately found shortrsighted, the higher classes showing 68 per cent. This is attributed to studying at night with insufficient light. Ladies in full evening dress now look as if they bad just been sitting for an ancient portrait. With brocaded materials the stomacher is being revived, and it is prophesied that before the winter closes waists will be as short as those worn by our great grandmothers. A little five-year old boy, Residing with his parents in the Cheney block, was asked by a lady a few days since for a kiss. He immediately complied, but the lady noticing that the little fellow drew his hand across his lips, remarked, “Ah, but you are rubbing it off. “No, I ain't,” was the quick rejoinder. “I’m nibbing it in 1” The pope is expending great care on the preparation of an encyclical, to be promulgated after a comine consistory. Its especial object is said to be the giving to the enurch instruction as to the line o conduct it beihooves her ministers to hold vith reference to the great social changes wb.\h have taken place in Italy. The holy fath> it is said, has not made much progress as \ i ■—:*U the composition of this address, but it. ^upies a very large portion of his time and a,’* ntion, and is expected to create, when it apjK%.'s, a great sensation. Alfonso XII, of Spain has decided on raising an immense basilica over the remains of Queen Mercedes. A sum of 1,000,000 reals will annually be deducted from the civil list for its construction till the building is complete. The Due de Montpensier and the princess of the Asturias have promised to furnish yearly $200,000 reals in aid of the work. Lastly, ftimen Isabella has consented to join in the project by handing over for the purpose the diamonds and jewel? deposited in the Cathedral of Atocua, which belong to her, and represent a sum of 15,000,000 reals. A Whitehall, New York, journal informs .its readers that a gentleman who has handsome grounds and a trout pond on his place has also a pretty little daughter, five years old, so attentive to the fish in feeding them that they have come to be very fond of her. The other day she fell into the pond and would have been drowned had not the trout formed jnto a solid body, and, swimming under her, kept her from sinking until her cries brought assistance. Trout, •specially those about Whitehall, have long been noted for their high moral nature and practical benevolence. The annual report of the board of trade of Portland, Oregon, states that one of the largest ship building firms in Maine has expressed the desire to transfer its yards to the banks of the Columbia or Willamette river, provided the state will grant the firm immunity from taxes for fifteen or twenty years. The report makes this statement: “It is unquestionably a fact that here at Portland we can build ships at least 25 to 30per cent, cheaper than elsewhere in the United States or Europe, and in addition the vessel, immediately after being built, can secure to its owners a profitable grain freight to the United Kingdom,” The woman’s rights congress in Paris, according to Edward King, was no slight affair. They took hold of the social evil as it exists in Paris especially, with admirable courage, and expressed themselves with refreshing plainness, and many prominent republican journals have come to their support, while on all hands the women have won the respect, even from those wont to sneer. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe was first vice president, and read during the session an excellent address in French. She was greatly applauded, especially in saying that the motto of France should be—for men, “Liberte, egalite, fraternite,” and for women, “Liberte, egalite, maternite.”

The Questions of the Day and how to Deal with Them. At the Minnesota state fair at St Paul yesterday, President Hayes delivered before an immense concourse of people a long address, of which the salient points, the public debt, taxation and the state of trade are here condensed: “The ascertained public debt reached its highest point-soon alter the close of the war, in August 1865, and amounted to $2,757,689,571.43. In addition to this it was estimated that there were enough unadjusted claims against the government of unquestioned validity to swell the total debt to $3,000,000,000. How to deal with this great burden was one of the gravest questions; which pressed for decision as a result of the war. The policy adopted was to reduce the debt, and thereby strengthen the public credit, so as to refund the debt at lower rates of interest. And now I give you the results. The debt has been reduced until now it is only $2,035,580,324.85. This is a reduction, as compared with the ascertained debt thirteen years ago, of $722,109,246.58. More than one-fourth of the debt has been paid off in thirteen years. If we compare the present debt with the actual debt thirteen years ago— placing the actual debt at $3,000,000,000— the reduction amounts to about $1,000,000,000, or one-third of the total debt. Thus it has been demonstrated that the United States can and will pay the national debt. The total amount of interest-bearing debt at the time it reached its highest point, the 31st of August, 1865, was as follows : Four percent, bonds, $618,127.98; five per cent, bonds, $269,175,727.65: six per cent, bonds, $1,063.71Z279.33 : 7 3-10 United States notes, $830,000,000.00; compound interest notes, 6 percent., $217,024,160.00; total interest bearing debt, $2,381,530,294.96; total annual interest charge amounted to $150,977,697.84. The policy of reducing the debt and thereby strengthening the public credit having been adopted, let us observe the result in the present condition of the public debt with respect to interest. The total interest-bearing debt, August 1, 1878, was $1,809,677,900, the interest on which amounts to the sum of $95,181,007.50 per annum. It thus appears that in thirteen years the interest-bearing debt has been reduced from $2,331,530,296.96 to $1,809,677,900, again in the amount of the the interest-bearing debt of $571,852,394.96. The reduction of the annual interest charge is $55,796,690.34, or more than 50 per cent, of what we now pay. If the reduction of annual interest were placed in a sinking fund at 4 per cent, interest it would pay off the whole debt in less than twenty-five years. A few years ago our bonds were largely owned in ’ foreign countries. It is estimated that in 1871 from $8(50,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 were held abroad. We then paid from $50,000,000 to $60,000,000 annually to Europe for interest alone. Now it is estimated that fivesixths of them are held in the United States, and only one-sixth of them abroad. Instead of paying to foreigners $50,000,000, we now pay only about $12,000,000 or $15,000,000 a year, and the interest on our debt is mainly paid to our own citizens. It appears from what has been shown that since the close of the war, since the panic of five years ago, there has been a great change in theconditi«n of the debt. 1. The debt has been greatly reduced. 2. The interest to bo paid has been greatly diminished. 3. And it is to be paid at home instead of abroad. The burden of taxation has been reduced since 1866, the first year after the war, as follows: The taxes in 1866 were $488,173,465.00; the taxes in 1878 were, $240,752,304 94; reduction of taxes since 1866, $247,521,160.06; reduction since the panic, $61,066,531.90. The expenditures have been reduced since the end of the war as follows: 1867—Expenditures, including pensions and interest, $357,542,675.16; 1878, $236,964,326.80; reduction of expenses, $120,578,348.36. Expenditures for the year of the panic—1873, $290,345,245.33; 1878, $236,964,326.80; reduction in five years, $53,380,918 53. The improvement in the currency since the close of tne war has been very great. In 1865 the paper currency of the country consisted of greenbacks, $432,757,604; national bank notes. $176,213,955; fractional currency, $26,344,742; old demand notes, $402,965; treasury notes, compound interest notes, and state bank notes, estimated, $100,000,000; total, $735,719,266. Its value was 69 32-100 on the dollar in coin, and its total value in coin was $509,999,595.19. In 1878 onr paper money consisted of greenbacks, $346,681,016.00; national bank notes, $324,514,284.00; fractional currency, $16,547,768.77; total, $687,743,168.77. Each dollar of the paper currency is now worth 99K cents in gold, and the total value in coin of our paper currency is more than $084,000,000. The value of the paper dollar is as stable as that of coin. Coin and paper are practically abreast of each other. The finctuation in the value of the paper dollar has not in the last five months exceeded the fraction of a cent. The total increase in the coin value of our paper currency since 1865 is about $175,000,000. Nothingconnected with the financial affairt of the government is more interesting and instructive than the state of trade with foreign countries. The exports from the United Slates during the year ending June 30, 1878; were larger than during any previous year in the history of the country. From the year 1863 to the year 1873, the net imports into the United States largely exceeded the exports from the United States—the excess of imports ranging from $39,000,000 to $182,000,000. During the years 187.4 and 1875, the exports and imperts were about equal. During the years, ending June 30,1876, ’77, ’78, however, the domestic exports from the United States greatly exceeded the imports. The total value of exports from the United States increased from $269,389,900 in 1868 to $680,683,798 in 1878, an increase of $411,293,898, or 153 per cent. The Custom Investigation. The custom house investigation in New York was continued yesterday by further inquiries into the mode* of doing business. The deputy collector having charge of the entries of all merchandise, etc., said the only way to prevent errors in his department would be to hire an extra set of entry clerks in busy times. An officer in the same division, to facilitate the collection of the revenue, suggested the repeal of the anti-moiety act, the duty on tea and coffee, and the abolition of compound rates. Being asked, “What is' your opinion as to the taking of oaths and giving bonds by importers,” the official answered, “Well, if I had my way, I would abolish the whole system and let the government take charge of all imports for a few days; make np the duties on them, and then say to the importer, ‘Here are your goods on your paying us so much money, and if you don't like it you need not take them.’ ” Accident to a State Official. Lieutenant Governor Latta, of Pennsylvania, stepping from a train at Greeftsborg, Pa., before the cars stopped, was thrown down and had his arm broken. He is also suffering from concussion of the brain. Death of a Congressman. Hon. Frank Welch, republican congressman at large for Nebraska, died yesterday. He was elected by a vote of 30,900 against 18,200 for Holman, democrat, and 3,580 for Warren, greenback. Killed in a Mine. John Ryan and Son Patrick, Morris Cronsen and Patrick Breslin were killed yesterday in the mines at Hibernia, N. J., by the fall of some rocks. * The Bosnian Insurgent*. Fifteen thousand insurgents have fortified themselves between Zienitzaand Nova Bazar, and compel the Christians to join them.

The Misery ot Memphis. [Memphis Avalanche.] Avalauckk Office, » Midnight, August »th, 187*. We are doomed! It is hard, as we write in this dark, dismal night of death, not to realize the full meaning of that brief sentence. It is hard for any man of the few left in this city of sorrows not to take the sentence to himself with a painfully personal application as the sentence of death. Scarcely any are left bat those who are crowding down personal care m the noble purpose of others* good. To them death, if it comes, will have the sweetening consolation that it is brought by as noble a service as the God in heaven, as the man on earth, ever looked upon. To die for man is to imitate the grandest event in the history of our globe—It is to imitate the death of the Savior of the world. The rain falls slowly, the storm of the afternoon having sunk into a dismal, solemnly sad drizzle, as though the heavens were touched to tears at the sight of so much human misery. The rattle of an occasional vehicle along the silent street tells that the member of some benevolent society is hastening to minister to the sick or dying. That is all. Else is silence, deathly and awfnl, with naught but the rattle of the water from the roof into the tin gutter, and that has the ominous gargle of a death-rattle in the human throat. The horrorsof the hour can not be told, even if the heart did not sicken at the task. They are horrors such as make a hell on earth; such as make life almost a burden. Elsewhere it will be seen that a noble band of physicians have come to our aid. We n«$d them all, and more, and*when we think into wbat a tornado of death they throw their frail bodies, we can not but be amazed that strangers should dare so much for strangers. Their reward is found in a higher sphere than that in which our full heart* beat in gratitude. The Howards need men to supply the places of their sick. Their inability to visit all the stricken yesterday caused much distress, if not deaths. The ranks of the clergy, as brave a company of Christian soldiers as every faced martyrdom without a fear, has been invaded. But why write more? Why try to add words when the dark list below speaks so plainly of our unprecedented calamity? Where it all will end, God only knows. The Prince** Alice Disaster. Losdov, September 5.—The following is the log of the steamer Bywell Castle which ran down the excursion steamer Princess Alice, ou the Thames on Tuesday evening. The master and pilot were on the upper bridge and the lookout on the top gallant forecastle. Light airs prevailed. The weather was a little hazy. At 7:45 in the evening, proceeded at half speed down Gallion’s reach. When about at the center of the reach we observed an excursion steamer coming up Barking reach, showing her red masthead light, when we ported our helm to keep over toward Tripcock point. As the vessels neared we observed that the other steamer had ported her helm. Immediately afterwards saw that she had starboarded her helm and was trying to cross our bows, showing her green light close under our port bows. Seeing that a collision was inevitable we Stopped our engines and reversed them at full speed. The two vessels came in collision the bow of the Bywell Castle cutting into the other steamer with a dreadful crash. We took immediate measures for saving life by hauling up over our bows several passengers, throwing overboard ropes ends, life buoys, a hold ladder and several planks, and getting out three boats, at the * same time keeping the whistle blowing loudly for assistance, which was rendered by several boats from the shore and a boat from another steamer. The steamer which turned out to be the Princess Alice, turned over and under our bows. We succeeded in rescuing a great many passengers, and anchored for the night. No log .of the Princess Alice has been made up, nor has the captain survived to give an account of her course. The collision will be the subject of a hoard of trade inquiry immediately. An accurate estimate of the number of persons drowned is impossible, but the general belief is that it will not fall below 500. The Bywell Castle received no damage whatever. Later estimates of the number of persons drowned by the collision on the Thames are higher than those given yesterday. It is now stated that between six and seven hundred were lost, the majority of the estimates favoring the latter number. A diver says he felt the corpses packed four or fire deep la the cabin of the Princess Alice.

Civil Service. [Geo. W. Julian In North American Review.] The thorough reform of our civil service is another urgent demand of the times. It has often been pronounced ‘t‘he best on the planet,” but it is in fact a perfectly shemcless system of official huckstering and political prostitution. It poisons the life blood of the body politic. It places the power and patronage of the government at the disposal of trained political pickppckets, who make the very atmospheric mephitic with.their Jamiliar vices. It frames iniquity into law, and makes law the servant of iniquity. It stains the good name of our country at home and abroad. It is the root and source of the most startling bribery and corruption breaking out in high places and inundating the whole land with their desolating effects. It robs the people annually to the tune of millions and tens of millions through its whisky rings, its Indian rings, its customhouse rings, its railroad rings, and other legalized machinery which it manipulates. It reduces rapacity to a science and elevate* roguery to the dignity of an art. It has *o polluted our politics and debauched the moral sense of our public servants that even so respectable man as Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, openly defends it, and actually refer* to the saturnalia of thieves who defied the country under the two administrations of General Grant as the proof of the honesty of bis party.

A Living Glacier. f Colorado Letter. ] We camped one night at a very pretty little lake in the Wind river range. A part of the members, who can never be still at anytime. day or night, not satisfied with their long day’s ride.clambered to the summit of the celecrated Wind river peak, just above us. They report that they saw there a real living glacier, just under the peak on the north side. The snow is considerably melted on the peak, and unmistakably from the white crust loomed the deep blue gorges of a glacier, banded by seams of dirt and gravel, following systematic curves, showing that the center moves faster than the sides. It was an unexpected sight and made quite an excitement in the crowd. Th* following morning at 8 o’clock the discovers, reinforced by the incred- . - * steps, and their own first, at glaciers ever lent.

The Metric System. Paris, September 5.—The international congress on weights, measures and coins yesterday unanimously adopted a resolution deploring the fact that England, Russia and the United States had not yet adopted the metric system. The American and English delegates afterward passed a resolution petitioning the English and American governments to appoint a mixed commission to consider the adoption of the metric system by both countries.

Heavy Failure. John Eastwood k Sons, worsted spinner* and manufacturers of Luddenden, near Halifax, Yorkshire, have failed. Liabilities $475,000.