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The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-22
Chicago & Northwest
ern Railway.

CHI railway.
Passengers for CHICAGO, Detroit, Toledo
Cleveland, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Pittsburg
Cincinnati, Rochester, Albany, Toronto,
Montreal, Quebec, Portland, Boston, New
York. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washineto
St. Louis, Cairo. San Francisco, Sacramento
Ogden, Salt Lake City, Denver, Council
Bl"fs, Sioux City, St. Paul, Marquette,
Escanaba. Menashs, Madison, Cheyenne,
0m.ha, Yaukton. Winona, Duluth, Green
Bay, Milwaukee, and all points North, West
South and East, should buy their tickets
via the
Chicago 4 Northwestern
Railway.
Close connections are made at Chicago
with tho Lake Shore 4 Michigan Southern
Michigan Central. Baltimore 4 Ohio, Pitts.
burg, Fort Wayne 4 Chicago, Ksnkakee
Line and Pan Handle Routes, for all points
EAST and SOUTHEAST, and with the
Chicago d Alton and Illinois Central for all
points SOUTH.
Close connections are also made with the
Union Pacific K. H. at Omaha for all far
west points.
Close connections are made at .junc-
ton points 'osth trains Of all cross roads
PULLMAN PALACE CARS,
These celebrated cars are run on all night
trains on the lines of this road
This is the ONLY. LINE running these
cars between Chicago ard St. Paul or Chi
osgo and Eilwaukee.
At Omaha our Sleepers connect with the
Overland Sleepers on the Union Pacific
Railroad, for oil points west Of the Missouri
River. Among the
Inducements Offered by this
Route
to the travelling public are all the modern
improvements: Rock and Gravel BalIasted
Track, Steel Rsil, Rock and Iron Bridges,
Parlor and Drawing Boom Day Coaches,
Smoking aad Lounging Cars, Westinghouse
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Running Through Five Great States,
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Company presents to the traveller facilities
that ARE NOT and CANNOT be offered
by any Competitor.
All ticket agents can sell you tickets via
this route.
fyou wish the best travelling accommo>
dations. you will buy your tickets by this
route, and will take no other.
W. H. SrENNETr,
Gen'l Passenger Agent.
MARVIN HuGH17T,
Gen. Sup't. 12y1
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Real Estate and L aW.
100000 ToLoan',

SAsbN l.
100000 ToLoan,
Loans made on good Real Estate seq l.
rity. Office at old place, over Hawleg
& Kel'ogg's Drug Store.
B. B. HERBERT.
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
and Dealer in Real Estate.
Offers for sale, lots in Institute and
South Side Additions to Red Wing, lots
in Cannon Falls, Farms in Goodhue
Counny, MIMI, and Pierce County.
Wis.,; among which are the following:
For SALE o: rent, my present resi-
decce on Pine Street near Fourth.
B. B. HERBERT.
For SALE.-A Farm of pa acres:
l5O under cultivation, four miles from
Red Wing, time given to suit purchaser.
A small farm will be taken in part
payment. III health of the present
proprietor is the reason for wishing to
sell. Inquire Of B. B. Herbert for furth-
er particulars.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-22

We ind the above going the
rounds Of the press, and copy it
for the purpose Of showing it to be
utterly untrue. The only paper
money now in circulation is green
backs, fractional currency, and ma
tional bank notes, and the aggre-
gate authorized issue Of these
amounts only to $746,35o,ooo, or
$23,49o, 119 less than the sum above
given. On this the loss by wear and
tear, etc., cannot be less than one
per cent. per annum, or about $685.
26S,ooo in the aggregate; then the
volume of the fractional currency,
originally $7o,ooo,ooo. seems to
have shrunk to $25,ooo,ooo accord.
ing to recent official statements,
making further reduction Of. $45,-
100000; and, again. there is the
bank reserve Of greenbacks amount
ing to fully $7o,o37,ooo which the
law compels the banks to keep lock-
ed up in their vaults, and which can
not, therefore, be in circulation.
All Of these sums must be deduct
ed from the total aggregate of au-
thorized currency above stated, and
this gives us the following result:
$746,35o,ooo minus the sum of $685.
100000, $45,ooo,ooo and $7o,o37,-
900, equals $563,o45,ooo which
seems to be the maximum amount of
currency which can be in circulation
at this time. And when we consid-
er that one lest one-twelfth Of this
amount is constantly employed in
payment of margins on gambling
transactions in gold, stocks, wheat,
etc., we may safely conclude that
the highest possible amount of cur
rency now in the country, for en-
ployment in actual trade, does not
exceed $5oo,ooo,ooo. So much for
the accuracy of the premise upon
which the above statement is based.
But, says this newspaper excerpt,
the amount now in circulation is
$141,ooo,ooo more than it was in
1865! This, taking the figures it
gives us, fixed the amount in circu-
lation in 1865 at $628,84o,117!
Now, in 1865, there were in circula-
ton 1884, $4,000 Of greenbacks and
fractional currency and $25o,ooo,-
900 of national bank notes, aggre-
eating $7o4,218,ooo, and there were,
also, in circulation at that time
$235,ooo,ooo of various descriptions
of war obligations Of the govern
ment, having a legal tender quality,
such as the Understanding Treas
ury notes and bonds of small denom-
nations, making the aggregate of
actual circulating medium then in
use, about $939,218,ooo, or about
$439,218,ooo in excess of the pres
ent volume! So much for the truth
of the conclusions above stated.
AS for what the author of the
above says about the amount of pa
per currency in circulation in 1861
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-22
The Currency System Again,

stand our explanation of the system
of currency we advocate, but CON-
plains that we do not tell it show
it is to be made to operate. 1t
reminds us of a boy from Illinois, on
seeing a locomotive for the first
time. Having carefully inspected
the machine inside and out, and
been somewhat startled once or
twice by the escape of steam, he
said sneeringly to his friend who
was showing him the sights: ayes,
it's a nice thing great thing, in
deed, for wagon-and powerfully
expensive, 1 should think; but how
are they going to make the darned
thing go? Horses can't pull it,"
The Republican don't object to our
currency system, but wants to know
show are they going to make the
darned thing go?" Banks cant
pull it," AS the locomotive carries
within itself the propaIling forces
which move it onward, depending
on the outside world only for wood
and water, SO this currency system
carries within itself the motor which
will put it into operation and keep
it going, asking for nothing else than
that the credit Of the government be
sustained by the maintenance of
peace and ordinary morality and in
dustry.
To put the locomotive in motion
it is only necessary to turn on steam;
slowly at first, but more fully as the
speed increases until the maximum
rate desired is attained. So with
this new currency system, all that
will be required is to turn on the
Sreenbacks; slowly at first, but
more rapidly as the demand increas-
Is, until the desired volume of cir
culating medium is attained. We
know that the question has often
been asked, and as often answered,
how will you get the greenbacks in
to circulation? And that the reply
that the government would buy up
existing bonds with them has been
ridiculed; but we remember that
when the first greenback scheme
was proposed, the self-same objec-
ton was made to it. 1t was declar-
ed that they could not be put into
circulation, but they we're; and they
were even made legal tender, and
the people were not only we'll salts.
fed with them but could not get
enough of them. More than this
so long as they remained convertible
into bonds, they appropriated close
ly to par value with gold, and only
deprecated when they became abb
solutely lnconvertible and irredeem-
able paper. currency! The assertion
that the greenback currency cannot
be placed and maintained in circula-
ton is utterly nonsensical, when we
reflect how easily the currency of
even the old-fashioned wildcat
banks was placed in the hands of
the public. We venture to say that
this proposed currency will be eager
7y asked for by many of those who
now denounce it, and that they will
willingly exchange bonds for it at
low premium for the bonds.
We know that the New York Sun
has recently found out that the Ma
tional Bank currency cannot be leg
islated out of existence, and that the
Supreme Court will decide any fur
Their issue of greenbacks illegal.
But, then, we remember that the
present publisher of the Sun knew,
just as confidently, a few years ago,
that Secretary Chase's greenback
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-22

NJ O. WERNER.
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
REAL ESTATE DEALER.
RED WING, H1NN.
~Swedish spoken.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-22
A Gross Misstatement,

There is now in circulation $3.50, $40, 119
in paper money which in round numbers is:
millions more than in 1874.
20 millions more than in 1873.
40 millions more than in 1872.
So millions more than in 1871.
Sc millions more than in 1870.
SO millions more than in 1869.
91 millions more than in 1868.
76 millions more than in 1867.
II millions more than in 1866.
al millions more than in 1855.
1877 millions more than in 1864.
1872 millions more than in 1863.
437 millions more than in 1862.
sol millions more than in 1861.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-02-09
No Money for Dock Property.

The Finance Committee of the Board OF
Aldermen has wisely voted against any
recommendation TO the Commissioners OF
the Sinking Fund favoring the Dock De-
partment's scheme for getting $50, 900
moro OF the peoples money. The frank
declaration by Alderman JOHN REILLY,
tho Chairman OF the committee. that as
member OF the Sinking Fund Commits
sioners he should cast his vote In opposi-
ton to the project to Issue quarter of a
million Of bonds TO buy Pier a. settles the
question. The Dock Department will thus
fail of success in this their last raid on the
treasury, since II Is we'll understood that
both Recorder HAcKErr and Comptroller
GREEN will vote with Mr.. REILLY.
The Dock Department should be forbid
den by law from acquiring any more dock
property. II they had succeeded in get
ting an exorbitant sum 70 buy Pier a, that
would have been only the beginning by
them of a series of similar real estate
operations, which might have swallowed
up millions. They have already spent i've
millions and TO no purpose. Their utter
failure to improve the river front Is 80
manifest TO every one acquainted with its
present condition and needs, that the assur-
ance they displayed in asking for more
money to waste is positively startling. As
one Of the speakers against the PROPOSE
tion showed on Monday. IL this profuse de-
partment should buy the rest of the dock
property at the same rate as that they pro-
pose to pay for Pier a, they would need
10 spend s24,0oo,OOo. Under the circum-
stances, the people do not wish to intrust
them with the spending Of any such sum
of money. There is, moreover, no need
for the city 10 buy dock property at all.
A department that spends ave millions
and can show next to nothing for the
money, should receive little attention when
II approaches the municipal treasury ask
ing for more. The prospective defeat OF
the Dock Departments last effort TO in
crease the city's debt is a happy outcome
OF the exposure of its ineficiency, blum
dering, and stupidity.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-02-09

Notwithstanding all the sermons of the
entire host OF olergymen who preach in
the hundreds of churches that are scat
tered all over the city. II Ia grievOus to a
| man OF sound morals and righteous life TO
behold the widespread prevalence Of prac-
teal unrighteousness and living immo-
| rality.
Now, We should like 10 sec Brother
MooDY conduct his Hippodrome opera
tioDs In such n way as TO diminish the
wrong doing 10 which we have alluded.
We should be pleased to see him attack it
directly ana fearlessly. We should like 10
see his work bring forth manifest fruits
advantageous TO the community. He will
address vast multitudes. The meetings he
has already held have been crowded, and
hosts OF people have been unable to gain
admittnnce to them. He must make some
sort Of impression on these great masses OF
people who go to him with open minds.
ready TO be instructed In the way Of life.
To bring them into the church is we'll, IL
they are turned from their evil ways. To
convert them Is desirable, II their CONVEX
sion be of the genuine, practical, sciptural
hluu. Dut IL Will DO u 1Itlt hCCOuub W
bring them merely to his way of thinking,
or lead them 10 look at things with his
eyes, or get them to subscribe TO the
dogmas OF his creed.
He need not fatter himself that the null
titudes before him belong TO n GLASS Of peo-
pie who are free from the living evils Of
which we have spoken. He must not sup
pose that all they need is a change OF opin-
ion or sentiment. He will have number
less hearers who are guilty Of every kind
OF wrong doing we could enumerate, and
who require to be shown the oulpability
OF their practices and the falsity OF their
daily life.
1t 10 TO be hoped that Brother MOODY
will not disappoint those who indulge in
great expectations from his labors In this
city. II he does, his visit will not be like
that OF Q prophet or an apostle, but the
results Of II will have TO be described in
the words Of SANKEY'S song, Nothing but
Leaves"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-02-09

Mr.. DAVID DUDLEY FIELD has twice
stated in court that when WILLIAM N. TWEED
was discharged from Blackwell's Island a few
months since, an editor of the Tribune made
haste TO call upon him. Who this editor was,
Mr.. FIELD has not said neither has he declared
upon what errand the visit was made, However,
az there are only three persons VINO are technl-
cally called editors OF that journal. namely, Mr..
REID. the chief editor, Mr.. SHANKs, the city edi-
tor, and MIR. CLEVELAND, the W all street editor
1t was probably one OF the three. But what was
the business which this editor had with TWEED 2
Did lie on his own account, or for the paper
What kind OF All arrangement did the Tribune
desire To conclude with the great peculator7
Was the visit successful, or was the editors
proposal or demand rejected or deniedf These
are points upon which, we hope, Mr. FIELD will
take early occasion to shed some light. A
good opportunity will probably be Afforded
when he opens for the defence In the pending
trial. Let the whole truth be made known.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-02-09

easy to predict that the production Of an
article which costs ninety dollars ton to
make, and which sells for only sixty dol
lars ton, must soon cease. And this, we
presume, was exactly the proposition
which the committee was appointed to as
certain.
That the World, which for months past
has been arguing that the state of our
trade with Cuba has so prospered and in
creased since the outbreak of the revolu-
ton. should now, at this eleventh hour, sug-
gest remedy for the bad condition of our
commerce with that colony-a commerce
which. according 10 the World, has de-
veloped so vastly during the last seven
years-is strange indeed. Why not let well
enough alone?
"The remedy" the World says, "is n
new treaty Of commerce between Spain
and the United States" But might II not
be as well for Spain 10 restore her do
minion" over Cuba before entering into
any fresh engagements relative to Cubas
affairs1 A new treaty with Spain, to-
day, would be like q stipulation that man
whose wife was suing him for divorce,
might enter into a contract with his
mother-in-law, for her future good be-
havior. Better settle the divorce first.
Another objection Is, that Spain never
yet respected a treaty which she signed
when she was on her knees, as she 10 now,
aud she never Will.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-02-09
BOWEN say.

We really cannot find time to study the
pamphlets or listen TO all the sermons OF the
two clerical belllgerents, the Rev. J. NJ. BUCK
LEY and the Rev. s. II. PLAT, respecting the
commences OF modern miracles, especially
those recently performed In this country.
PLATT reviewed BUCKLEY last Sunday on the
side OF modern miracles, and we presume that
BUCKLEY will review PLAT next Sunday, In
oppo' ition to them. Then, again, BUcKLBY's
pamphlet, on the one hand, aud PLArT's mar
wells, on Il Q other hand, are calculated to lead
TO Improbable disputation among the Meth cd list
brethren. In truth, these contentious clergy
men and their supporters may keep up their
battle over the subject Till doomsday, without
furnishing the kind OF evidence required by in
tslllgent people. The SUNS miracle test fur
nishes the only proper means Of settling the
matter IN way satisfactory to all concerned I;
and we do not see why the parties should still
be unwilling TO resort to IT, II they really de-
sirous OF getting at the bottom facts about
these alleged miracles.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-02-09
Moody's Prospects.

We may tell Preacher MOODY, ut the be-
ginning of his revival operations here In
mo Hippodrome, that 1t Is not necessary
Dor him 10 undertake the business Of con-
verting the people of this city to a belief
kn the tenets of Christian theology, or the
speculative principles OF religion. The
great maj ority OF the population are al
ready nominal believers in the existing
system OF Christianity. They do not dis
pute the authenticity OF the Scriptures,
but uphold 1t. They do not discredit the
teachings OF the clergy. but listen to them
respectfully. They do not deny the au-
nority of religion, but stand up for IL.
They 60 to the church, and support it 4;
they subscribe TO the creed; Join in the
prayers, enjoy the devotional music, rev.
sTence the symb OILS of the altar, and are
edined by the sermons.
The majority, we say, are nominal be-
bsvers in the religious doctrines PROFOUND
ID by the ordained ecclesiastics; and II Is
not worth while for Brother MOODY to
sako the trouble Of experimenting the
york OF the regular clergy in explaining
and enforcing them. There are doubtless
nndels of various kinds among the popu-
srful or aggressive In their opposition to
eas church. We ourselves lately made an
attempt 10 draw out the professed adher-
snts OF infldelity, to compel them to define
thsir position, and 70 lead them 10 display
bhoir strength. But we met with rather
poor success. We found two or three who
never got tired of sending US long and
rambling communications, but even they
Sould never come to any agreement among
themselves; and we feel quite sure that
Brother MOODY would waste his forces IN
arying to convert them to his creed.
But the city Is, II we may so speak, rich
m living wickedness and practical inf
aonty. THIS sort OF irreligion is porvasive
and palpable; 1t is obnoxious and ruinous
n menaoes the welfare OF the community.
We behold every possible variety of evil,
and wo behold these varieties In every
conceivable sort of combination. II is
sound in all the so-called GLASSES OF life,
snd we only wish we could say 1t did not
make Itself manifest among the masses OF
shuroh goers and professed religionists.
n h visible not only In the slums OF the
city, but also In its fashionable quarters.
II appears In business and In the workshop,
h politics and the press, In society and the
household. 1t takes on the forms OF false
hood. duplicity, dishonesty. swindhng, pol
bution, proflgacy, backbiting, SANDER,
drunkenness, wastefulnass, quarrslling,
AGhting, outrage, hypocrisy, uncleanness,
aoul-mouthedness.f oul-handedness,h hard
kSartodness, dsviltry, aud many other
hEmA These things exist and fourisb
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-02-09

The Legislature of Ontario. Canada,
have been following the example OF the Forty
second Congress by introducing and passing In
committee bin TO give themselves more pay (;
and II lie charged In the Toronto Leader that the
measure was favored by the Government for
seifsh reasons, and that the entire House is
thus TO be brought into the traces by the expen-
diture from the public funds OF 500 per he'd.
A oorresp ondent OF the same journal saws that
even in the United States fostering as that
country is with corruption, and Rroaning US II is
under the malignant influence Of Grantism," the
public press denounced the salary grab Of It's
Congressman with such effect that the Yankee
trading politicians were shamed into returning
their ill-gotten gains, and expresses In forcible
terms the Indignation which he Is sure every
honest Canadian must feel at seeing the evil
example Of American Congressman copied 10
the Legislature Of Ontario. Salary crabbers do
not seem to be any more popular iu Canada than
they are In the United States, though In the
former country they have not yet arrived to
such degree Of assurance as to vote themselves
two years extra back pay.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-02-09

Mr.. DAVID DUDLEY FIELD not long ego
asked the Tribune some exceedingly pertinent
questions concerning It's relations 10 lay GOULD.
The only answer ho got was a sputter OF abuse,
the basis OF which was the whitening charge that
MIR. FIELD did not move In suoh high society "a
that frequented by JAY GOULD and his stool
pigeon. Mr. FIELD therefore on Monday took
occasion 10 refer In court TO this substantial con-
fession by the Tribune, and 10 explain In reply TO
charge OF the stool pigeon that he had never
defended any thieves except three persons 80
called 10y the Tribune, namely, GOULD and FISK
and TWEED. The three were associated In the Erie
Hallway, and by his predatory operations against
that company GOULD laid the foundations of the
fortune which enabled him TO buy the control
ling interest In the Tribune after HoRAoE
GREELEYs death. FISK ia dead, and TWEED,
according TO Mr.. FIELD, received: lmysteri-
Gus visit FROM an editor Of the Tribune as soon
as he came from Blackwsll's Island. Is IL
not the height OF impudenoe for the stool pigeon
TO assail Mr. l'IRLD for defending, In tho duo
exercise OF his profession. the master OF the