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New-York tribune., 1878-10-16
THE PENNSfLVANIA CANVASS.

Senator Conkling will discuss the issues Oh
the canvass in Philadelphia next Friday evening.
The State platform demands that " fraud
should be exposed, truth vndicated and criminals pun
ishedI The fraud having been ciphered out and me
truth vindlcated, the Democracy can now punish tne
criminals g,
General Hoyt's prospects have been marked
up several notches during the past ten days.
Mr.. Speer, the chairman of the Democratic
State Committee was q salary-grabber when IN Con-
re.s Nevertheless he Is conducting the campaign on
Inc ground OF economy and reform.
The Democratic Committee of Wyoming
County which is included in che XVIII Congressionai
D,str,ct have asked Mr.. Dimmck TO withdraw. he
does not sec 1t that light however. and proposes
stick
The Greenback Convention In Lancaster
before making any nominations passed resoiu'lVn
pedgng the candidates to for oneihird less say
than that now paid. They doubtless reeognlLsai ~, y
TACT that their nominees would be dear al any pi0
the people.
The dissatisfaction in the Ath Congress
sonal District ON account OF the failure Of tue kepao
nca Convention TO nominate candidate Tor Cohsisss
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THE STORY or SOUTH CAROLINA.

The story of the travels of Mr.. Smith NJ.
Weed in South Carolina is IN some respects
more remarkable than the narrative OF
the wanderIngs of Moses, Max, and Fox
among the Everglades. When this ex-
perienced politician started for the South
he had apparently no idea of getting at the
"truth or preventing frauds; he simply
went on business. On the morning of his ar
r1val at Columbia he telegNDhed for per-
mission to "place few dollars in the
"Returning Board "; in the afternoon he in
ouired about "buying itabsolutely for $780, ,000
He never pretended for an instant to believe
that Tilden had been elected. He told that
gentleman frankly, from the first, that
the majority was against him and the
case was desperate. His negotiations with
certain members of the Board lasted
six days, and at the end of that time the
terms of purchase were fixed. The sum of
$s5, 900 was to be sent in fVe-hundred and
thousand-dollar bills, by the hands of tTusty
messenger, and paid to the canvasseTs on the
delivery of the vote.
There was little hesitation at Gramercy
Park about accepting these terms, and on
the goth of November Mr.. Weed was in Balh-
more, where it was arranged that he should
meet the man with the money. That he did
meet this unknown person is pretty clear
from the dispatches, but why the plot failed
after all is not obvious. We only know that
there was, as usual in Mr.. Tilden's transac-
tions. ga little delay" and that two days
afterward the Canvassing Board, pressed by
| an extraordinary mandamus from Chief
Justice Moses, suddenly counted the votes, de-
clared the result for Hayes, and then put an
end to its own existence. 1t may be that
the money was actually deposited accord
| ing to agreement, and was not paid
because the Board found itself unable to
| give the votes bargained for; and ii
may be that the "interceder mentioned
| in the kilograms was only a "striker," who,
having no authority to deal for the members
! of the Board, deceived even the astute
Smith M. Weed into a wholly illusOry
contract. These questions are not now i'm
portant. 1t is enough for the present that
the confidential agent from Gramercy Park
concluded this bargain, and that his princi-
pals ratified it.
After a brief interlude. during which Mr..
Weed in New-YOrk carried on lively cipher
correspondence with persons in Columbia about
the expenditure of comparatively small
sum Of money, bribery began afresh.
This time Colonel Pelton provided him
New-York tribune., 1878-10-16

cold should be paid for all called bonds on
prcsentation, with accrued interest to date'
The effect of this step is to unlock fifty mil
lions of gold now in the Treasury, ii the de-
mand in the market is real, or to enable
those who have actual needs for gold
to act Independently of any fictitious
quotations. 1t is not supposed that the
whole or the larger part of this amount VIII
be demanded. In fact, gold will be drawn
only when the rate of interest paid for gold
in the market is higher than 6 per cent, the
rate which the called bonds are paying to
holders, and then only if there is reason to
eIpect that the higher rate in the market Will
last for some time.
The object of the Secretary is q good one
namely TO prevent that discouragement with
respect to resumption and that disturbance OF the
export trade which steady advance III the pre-
MUM OH gold might occasion. In fact, serious
disturbance had already been created IN the ex-
port business, and there was q prospect that the
Shipment of American products would be
considerably reduced. With the new order
of the Secretary, and with large amounts
of gold already on the way hither to pay
for produce sent to Europe, the mar
ket Will pTODdDIy regain iOS NO"""N'~'
and steadiness The effect thus far has been
satisfactory to those who feel, with Mr.. Sher-
man, that the first and most sacred duty or
the Government is to prepare to meet It's OBJ
ligauons precisely when it has agreed to meet
them. There are difficulties in the resumption
Of specie payments and it is not wise either
TO bclittle or to exaggerate them. But the
work is half done when the country feels that
a vigorous and resOlute Administration, sus-
tanned by powerful party, is determined to
put forth all the powers conferred by legisla-
ton, in order to make good the Nations
promises.
Mr.. Sherman also determined to adopt
new plan in the purchase of silver bullion for
coinage. Hitherto he has been not little
embarrassed by partial dependence of the
market upon London quotations Of silver In
asmuch as they did not correspond with prices
at which SILVER was purchased here, and mas
much as the United States Government, now
the chief purchaser of silver, has no occasion
to depend upon foreign markets TO fix the
price it shall pay to producers of this country
the Treasury will hereafter receive proposals
To sell silver. whenever it has occasion to buy,
i'm the same manner as gold was formerly sold.
1t is possible that these sales may have an
important effect upon foreign markets.
New-York tribune., 1878-10-16

self with new agent and new
dictionary, and set about the purchase OF
"four State Senator'S ga couple new
negroes" and other properties necessary Tor
the performance of an entirely fresh pro-
eramme. The final plan was to seize
the State of South Carolina by means
of Judge Moses's Court, Hampton's
rife clubs, and a barrel of money, and when
all was in readiness to force the Hayes cleo
tors into committing contempt of court, and
to throw them into jail until the day for count
ing the Presidential votes had passed. ut would
"be humane" telegraphed Colonel Polton'
in ciphor-at least, it was presumably Pelton
-" to imprisOn them separately during
Wednesday ~ separately, for otherwise
they might organize college, Ill jail
This scheme failed, because the four
State Senators needed to complete it
could not be purchased. And with its failure
Mr.. TIlden passed from the arena of practical
politics, to become the great Victim OF Fraud
New-York tribune., 1878-10-16
UHlT TIE GREEYBACKLRS EANT

Whenever the people of this country under
stand that what is called GTcenbackism is,
in reality, nothing but a more mlschlcyOus
and cowardly form of rcbelism, we are sure
that they Will give il "a decisive an answer
"a they gave years ago to the more open at
tempts to destroy the Union. In the Hot
Drops issued as Greenback tracts by NJ. NJ.
Pomeroy, and circulated all over the land by
Greenback Committees and Clubs, this pur-
pose is hardly concealed. Brick Pomeroy +"
himself has never pretended to conceal his own
hostility to the Union, and has boasted since
the war that he was rs thorough a rebel as
he was during the war, and he furnishes, and
Greenback Committees and Clubs scatter
widely, such declarations as this:
Next order will be the declaration that the United
States Government having the TO create money.
a. It Ia needed develop tho industries Of the United
states shall never more borrow dollar or less OF
any person and that II snail never more issue United
States bonds Of any Kind or cla'a
Every man who supports the Greenback
movement has seen in Its Journals
and its platforms, and heard in its
speeches, similar declarations to this. But
what does it mean That the Government
shall not borrow needlessyf All good
citizens agree in that. No man is advocating
new loan. Nobody contcmplates the possi-
bhty of any further borrowing of money by
the United States, except IN case Of lCdr, for
the suppression of another rebellion, or the
defeat of a foreign invasion. But the Green
back doctrine is that the United States shall
"ncver more borrow u dollar of any person,
"or issue United States bond of any kind
L" or class" That is. the Union shall he made
utterly powerlcss and helpless, so that anybody
who pleases can get up rebellion with
impunity. Is that not the obvious and only
objecti Except in dire necessity, the people
have no wish 10 incur debt. They prefer TO
pay off debt, rs the Republican party has been
paving the debt created in putting down a
Democratic rebellion. And they sincerely hope
there may never be another rebellion TO rem
der necessary the borrowing of money. But,
in order that there may be no more rebellion,
the people mean to retain the power to put
down any that may arise. The surest way to
cause reSellion and civil war is to strip the
Union Of power, 80 that any discontentcd fac
ton can revolt with safety.
New-York tribune., 1878-10-16
STEPS TOWARD RESUMPTION.

Secretary Sherman has again taken an i'm
portant step at the right time. His presence
in this city on Monday was in itself an impor-
tant indication to those who had feared the
success of combinations to defeat resumption.
The premium on gold, which had been stead
lily pushed upward for several days, as if there
were serious and growing doubts whether the
Government would be able to resume specie
payments, dropped quickly more than half of
one per cent as soon as Mr.. Sherman's arrival
in the city was known. During Monday
be conferred with leading bankers and
announced his determination to meet the sup
posed scarcity of gold in the market by the
order which was published yesterday. that
New-York tribune., 1878-10-16
TRIPLE SHE E T
1HE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoRKIGH.-The Pore declares that it would op-
pose by force of arms the advance Of Austrian
troops on NOvi-Bazar. 80 Count Won Beust,
the Austro-HungaJian Ambassador. is to be
transferred from London to Paris. -
There panic in the Glasgow
iron trade zEz The German Relchstag has
rejected an important paragraph in the Socialist BILL
- The American exhibits at Paris have re-
ceived, in all, $50 awards
DoMEsTIC.-The Republicans of South Carolina
are being subjected to fresh outrage and intimda-
ton; the facts told in THE TRIBUNEs dispatches
from Washington to-day. - The agitation among
Democratic leaders at Washington regard to the
cipher dispatches continues; THE TRIBUNE prints to-
day n fresh instalment of the ciphers and their
translations Manton Marble is out with card.-
United States Senator Justin S. Morrill, was re-
elected by the Vermont Legislature. THE New
Hampshire ProhibitiOnists have nominated a
full State ticket. 80 Senator Conkling spoke at
Norwich, n. Y. yesterday. 80 f. L. Preston won
the University Championship, at the Cornell Re
gatta yesterday. == The Rev. II. II. Hayden has
been indicted for the murder of Mary Stan
nard 60 Blood, the obstinate juror has
had sn interview with Billings. who how
ever, failed TO convince him of his innO-
cence. 80 Franklyn who is on trial for murder at
Freehold, n. j.. testified yesterday in his own be-
half
CRY AND SUBURBAN.-The Republican, Tam
many Hall and two Anti-Tammany County Con-
ventOns met yesterday. but adjourned without nom
nations. There was an exciting scene IN the
Vanderbilt trial. and interesting testimony
about the CommodOre's spiritualistic views
was given. Haar & Co.. Wall-st.
brokers, failed, and J. II. Haar was ar
rested on charges of fraud. 80 Controller
Kelly presented affidayits against payments for
the Brooklyn Bridge. - There is a
lively dispute over the opera Carmen
60 Judge Freedman rendered an I'M
portant decision concerning naturalization
cases. 80 General Sigel and others testified in
the Porter case. 80 The Queens County
Democrats nominated Francis b. Baldwin fol
County Treasurer. Ambrose H. Purdy was renomi.
mated for the Assembly. - Officers of the
Peoples Savings Bank put on
trial at Newark. - Gold 100Ss, 1007ls
IOOe,s. Gold value Of the legal-tender dol
lar at the Close 1850 cents Stocks less active but
feverish and huctuating, closing weak.
The WKAIHER-TRIDUSE local observations ind
cate warmer and partly cloudy weather, with
slight chances of light rain. Thermometer yester
day, 61o, 77c, $40.
New-York tribune., 1878-10-16

Mr.. Smith N. Weed becomes to-day person
of such National importance that we feel our
selves to be gratifying a legitimate puohc
curiosity in shedding all possible light on his past
history. We therefore cheeTfully present else
where some letters written by Mr. Smith Weed
some wears since, but hitherto kept from the
light, by which it can be seen how actively he
was engaged just nine years ago III his iaVorlte
work of Reform. Then Mr.. Weeds coparcener
was the late lamented William NJ. Tweed, and the
particular job of Reform on which Mr. Weeds
honest soul was bent was to make Repub-
hcan district give Mr.. Tweed Senator. This
he did with the aid of Tweed's stolen money,
for which he begged with much pious adjura-
ton, and with such plaintiye appeals
as this-"Do. for Gods sake. send us
ten "-meaning thousands of dollars. 1t is
also curious to note here the genesis of MIR.
Weeds skill in ciphers. 1t may be that his
innocence first succumbed to such temptation
when he told Tweed to telegraph him
"Trade closed on five months time"
New-York tribune., 1878-10-16
F0R TIE CAMPAIGN.

THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE, large, sixteen
mage paper, which, besides containing ell the
news, is a complete agricultural and family
journal, will be sent from now until
christmas, to any address, postage paid,
for Twenty Cents; or IN bundles ot
not less than ten, to one address,
postage prepaid, from now until after
the election, at the rate of Ten Cents
per copy. Win campaign clubs and commit
tees send in their orders at once Y
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amusements ano aestlnas 90 Niebt.

ACADEMY OF MUSIC" La Trayiats."
EO1TH's THEATRE-" Henry Will"
BkOADWAY THEATRE" LOUIS NJ"
EIgTU AVESUE ATRE-MOdeska. .
PAEK IHEATRE-" Baby and Old Love Lettcrs
San FRAYCISCO MINsTRELs' OPEBA HOUSE
UhfoN soLARE THEATHE-" Mother aud son.
WAlIACKs IHRATRR-" Road 20 RUM
AMERICAS INSTITUTE Exhibition. ,,,,.
GHMOLE's GARDEN-Barnut0's snow Uay auu H'EH~
Nav YORK AOUARfCN-Day ana Evening
New-York tribune., 1878-10-16

No result was reached by any of the local
conventions yesterday. The Republicans APP
pointed committees to confer with other
organizations opposed to Tammany, and thelT
action was initiated by the various branches
of Anti -Tammany itself. The Tammany Con-
vention met and listened with great com
placency to Hattering speeches from such
statesmen as Frederick Smyth and William
r. Roberts. and also adjourned, evidently to
watch their assailants.
New-York tribune., 1878-10-16

Senator Wallace, in Pennsylvania is giving the
details of his plan to do away with the National
hanks and substitute direct issue of notes by the
Government for the bank circulation. 1t differs
somewhat from ThuTmans pan-aDd from VoOr-
hees's plan. But all these schemes are alike in
their essence. which is to make the Govern
mont directly tho author and controller of the
currency. Fortunately we are just getting down to
n currency which can control itself. The currency
of the world needs no help from Congress to regu-
late it's volume. IL Gibbs and flows through the
channels of commerce according to the needs of
trade and establishes its own equilibrium if il is
only let alone. IL Mr.. Wallace prints mere promises
and makes them pass for money they will always
need adjusting and never be adjusted. No
man and no set of men are wise enough
to regulate any patent fictitious substitute for
money so rs to make 1t do the work of genuine
money, and the Congress of the United States how
ever accurately it may represent the will of the
people, is the last body in the world TO intrust
with so delicate task. A currency manufactured
and adjusted TO the wants Of business by series Of
mass meetings Of citizens, and occasionally by a
popular uprising" would prove, in all likelihood
quite unsatisfactory in many particulars.
The long Billings trial at Ballston has had most
unsatisfactory conclusion. The jury, after sixty
nine hours OF dellberation and discussion, came so
near TO an agreement that only one member of it
favored conviction of the prisoner, the remaining
eleven having, after good deal of disagreement,
determined TO acquit. We do not intend here
to discuss the question of the guilt of Bill
ings. The evidence that he shot his wife
was very strong. and if he did not kill
her, it is impossible to conjecture who did.
This, however not sufficient to justify a
verdict Of Guilty" nor does the opinion of the
eleven jurors who believed Billings innocent appear
10 us at all whimsical result of the trial SO near
TO All acquittal has good deal of the moral effect of
verdict of "NOt guilty" At any rate the pris-
oner occupies the same position of presumptive in
nocence, since the prosecution has failed to prove
him otherwise Indeed. the position is measurably
strengthened by the trial that it is by no means
improbable that the government may decline to en-
ter upon a second trial. A good deal will be
said of the obstinacy of the twelfth juror But II
must not be forgotten that under the jury SYSTEM
New-York tribune., 1878-10-16

platform, and that fact ought to give him the
vote of every substantial citizen.
New-York tribune., 1878-10-16

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Terms cash in advance
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at o'clock, in wrappers for maihng. Price cents
New-York tribune., 1878-10-16

1t is evident, from the names which are
mentioned as likely TO be members of the
new Canadian Ministry, that Sir John Mac
donald will reassume power with strong
administration, In which each Province will be
fifty represented. The large majority which
he commands enables him to select able men,
and insures their support.
The $50 awards which the American exhi-
bits have received at Paris ought to inspire
greater pride in home industry, and give an
impulse to enterprise IN the export trade. 10
have now larger proportion of awards than
any other nation, despite the drawbacks under
which our display was made, shows that
American industries are making rapid strides
in excellence as well as in diversity.
Silver being an American product, it is not
desirable that it should continue to depreciate,
but SO long as the supply is greater than the
demand it must fall in price, like flour, iron,
and everything else. When the year began
silver was worth in London 537s pence per
ounce; now it can hardly be sold for 81.
These fluctuations will, of course, impair still
further It's value as q monetary standard.
The Republicans of the XIYth Congress
sional District have nominated the candidate
whom THE TRIBUNE recommended to them
not long agO--John w. Ferdon, of ROckland
County. Mr.. FerdOn has had an excellent
legislative experience, and would be of far
more credit to the Orange District in Con-
Rress than the wild-eyed and lOose-tOngued
Beebe. BE stands. too. on real hard-money
New-York tribune., 1878-10-16

The State Committee is infusng rare
zeal into the New York canvass. The list OF
sneakers at various points throughout the
State. which is printed elsewhere, shows how
well the Republican forces are organized and
how thoroughly the ground will be COW
cred until the day of election. Mr. Conk-
ling speaks at Corning tonight, beng then
drafted into Pennsylvania, and ex-senator
Boutwell, speaks four times within the next
six days. Among the other speakers are such
men as Congressman John II. Camp and j. W.
Dwight, District-Attorney Stewart L. Wood
ford Senator Theodore NJ. POmeroy, Sllas Is.
butcher, and many of equal influence. This
is an excellent beginning, and ought to mean
a good ending.
New-York tribune., 1878-10-16
suslness N0llres.

DYEING AND CLEANING.-Take your dyelng
and cleaning Dyeing and Printing Esfab
llshment 9S 752 Broadway and 6lO 6taye n y
aud 6 snd Brook Established 90 years
New-York tribune., 1878-10-16

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1879.
New-York tribune., 1878-10-16
Is IHLS L DENIALf

Mr. Manton Marble has at last been dis
covered. James Gordon Bennett is the
heroic explorer who adds this greerer
chaplet to the African laurcls he has
already won. At Mr.. Benefits request.
Mr. Marble has been induced to look over
"THE TRIBUNE"
Whit is the RESULT First, of course
the plea of every criminal when com
PEELED to stand up before the Court
"Not Guilty After that, absolutely
nothing save a pretence so fiimsy and utterly
inconsequent, that we may well believe the
mans brain has been upset by the shame
of his exposure He pronounces one teIe-
gram, as translated and ascribcd to him, a
forgery, and denies our assertion that after
its date, he sent nothing implying belief
that the Democrats were entitled to FLORIDA.
And then comes the amazing assertion
that on these two points hinges the
whole auaignment We have called .hls
fimsy. 1t is worse lit is childish. Now mark
how PLAIN tale shall put it down.
The following is the dispatch III question
precisely as we printed it:
ITs.I
New-York tribune., 1878-10-16

The demand for THE TRIBUNEs OF Mon
day and Of Tuesday, October and D.
exhausted the editions, but fresh sup
plies have been printed, and we are
now able to fill all orders. Readers Will re-
member that Mondays issue contained the
full account of our discovery of the keys or
the TIlden cipbers. with the arrangement of
the cipher vOcabularies, and all the machinery
necessary for translation; and that Tuesdays
contained our first complete and consecutive
instalment of the cipher dispatches them
selves