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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-03
TH1T MAY HAPPEN.

Those hard-money Democrats who labOred
during the war so to strain the COnstitu-
ton that it should be the left wing of Lees
army, NAV now see what mischief they did.
Their chicanery and disloyalty, like curses
and young chickens, are coming home to
roost These hard-mOney Democrats find
themselves spurned by their party, and
driven from seats of power in its councils
why7 Largely because they helped TO under
mine the respect OF the people for consttu-
tional obligations. Day after day, while the
very existence of the Nation was ut stake,
they so twisted the Constitution by their
bubbles and technicalites OF construction that
loyal Democrats were driven to say, Perish
the Constitution, rather than the Union
(which the Constitution was made to pre-
"serve ~ So il came to pass that contempt
for reasOnings based upon constitutional con-
struction took deep root in the public mind.
Democrats us well as Republicans in great num-
Der scofYed at arguments of that nature; and
scOrn for the men who had prOstituted the Con-
stitution developed, with the less intelligent,
into scorn for the Constitution itself and its
most necessary restraints.
OF that contempt the first born child is the
Greenbaek craze Had the Constitution of
the United States been reyerontly studied,
Mr.. Pcndleton's proposal TO "pay bonds by
new issue of greenbacks would never have
found encouragement in either party, and yet
il swept through the Western Democracy like
a tornado. Nor has the Democratic party
ever recovered from that overthrow of all its
constitutional hard money traditions. The
heresy has gained strength at the West; has
~, hasa OF 10
so powerful even In, the East that very few
Democratic leaders are found who have the
courage 70 combat it. Virtually, the whole
Democratic party stands committed to-day to
demands winch the Supreme Court of the
United States has pronounced clearly mcon
stituhonal. For it should not be forgotten
that, while the Court was almost equally
divided in regard to the cOnstitutionality of
the issue of legal-tenders in time of war, and
IA war measure only, 1t was practically
unanimous in the opinion, strongly expressed
by the minority, and incidentally avOwed also
by the majority, that such issues could be held
constitutional, if at all, only as an exercise of
the war power.
The war ended thirteen years ago. All the
financial necessities arising from the war have
ceased, because the United States can now
borrow any needed amount of money, in time
of peace, at lower rate than was ever obtained
before the war. A forced loan can never be
considered necessary, when all the funds re-
CURED can be obtained by voluntary Loaf at
low rate. Whatever the decision may be as
to the validity of IN issue originally made by
virtue of the war power, and still outstand-
ing. it does not seem possible for any law
yer to maintain that a new issue-A new
forced loan in time of profound peace
would be held constitutional OF valid by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-03
POLITICAL NOTES.

Mr. Mauton Marble seems TO be an uncommonly
deaf person.
Mr.. Hewitvs kick was quiet one, but he placed
il where it would do the most good.
The " still huntP machine is queer looking en-
glne of reform when the cover Is yanked on IL.
Butler shows signs Of adding to his other blun-
ders the fresh one of trying to be respectable lie
always fails when he becomes dull and decent.
IfMr Tflden does not feel like relieving himself
in q card, he might whisper few words into the
ear of the Veracious interviewer. 1t wouldn't 90
him any good. however to merely say -" VIII see
Won later"
The only Congressional District in Maine where
the Republicans are in any danger Of losing Con;
gresham is the IVth. The Democrats and Green
hackers are united, and the election will be very
close. The Republicans will win If there Is virtue III
hard work.
Congressman Jones. of Alabama. who voted
against seating a Democratic contestant from Mas
sachusetfs in tho chair to which Republican Con-
gresham had been legally elected. and them IN
obedience to the dIctum of the Democratic caucus
reversed his conscience and voted the Other way
has failed of a denomination. NO tears'
The Saratoga conference was a bitter disappoint-
ment to the Democratic editors of this State. They
had made preparations to announce a Republican
quarrel and announce one they did, though the re-
suit put all hope of quarrel out of the question,
They hadn't even the decency to append the OLD
time editorial postscript saying in effect: Since
the above was put in type we have received news
which shows it to be all lie" But the OMISSION
was unimportant, as tie reader readily Suppnod IL
for himself.
Senator Dawes makes the best comment yet on
Buffers letter Of acceptance. The document has
about four columns of solid promises of what But
Tor will do if he becomes Governor Mr. Dawes says
he is reminded of what Butler himself said when he
was promising everything to everybody In a former
campaign. He was asked if he was not giving more
promises than he could redeem aid answered WIN
true Buteran impotence Oh, can renew what
| can't redeem ~ That is Buffers financial creed as
well Issue promises to pay without limit, ana re-
deem them with fresh promises.
1t is pretty evident that the South Carolina
authorities do not mean to cause Senator Patterson
much annoyance The repeated rumoS that Cover
nor Hampton has sent ont acquisitions for his arrest
do not appear to have any foundation in fact. The
Governors organ in Charleston says 1t has no desire
for Pattersons punishment because he secured But
er. seat in the Senate and appropriation for the
Charleston ietties PattersOns vote for Buffers adj
mission was understood at the time TO have been
given in return for assurances that he would not DO
nolesfed for past political offences, and there are no
indications that this understanding was based on
error, while there are many which go to conhfm It's
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-03

the Supreme Court. Yet this new forced
loan without interest is precisely what the
Democratic and Greenback parties are united
in demanding. To the plainest and most con-
vincing proof that such an issue would be
violation of the Constitution, those parties
reply only with a sniff of inexpresslble con-
tempt for the Constitution and all arguments
based thereon. So-called Democratic leaders
taught these voters that constitutional argu-
ments were as contemplate as they were dis
loyal during the war, and the uDtorgettmg
Democrat now lavishes scOrn upon the hard
"money" leader who appeals to the COnstltu-
ton against the monetary treason into whlch
his party is dragging him.
Is it not about time, however, for bankers
and business men to consider what may hap
pen at no distant day At the session next
Winter Congress may enact that bank notes
shall be retired by a new issue of legal-tend-
ers 1t is possible that such a bill might he
passed over veto. The legal-tenders once
issued. and the bank notes retired, it is GER
tam that some persons would refuse to take
the new issue as legal-tender, and COM
mence suit to compel payment IN TINS or
some other form, the case might be
brought before the Supreme Court very
quickly, and that tribunal would be compelled
to decide, not with regard to public con-
venence, but with strict and sole regard to the
law, A decision that the new issue is III ylO-
latiOn of the Constitution, and therefore lnVahd
either as legal tender for discharge of debts
or ms an Obligation Of the United States, must
be expected But no intelligent man can con-
slider without alarm the complicated and wide
spread disorders which would be involved It
$500, 100000 of currency once in circulation
should suddenly be held invalid. The decis-
ion of the court would not only give power
to the Secretary of the Treasury, but would
legally compel him to refuse to treat the new
issue Of notes as legal tender III payment OF
obligations to the United States. Every bank
would have its valid claim against the Gov
eminent for its losses. Suits between IN
dividuals would convulse the whole country
A sudden contraction of nearly one-halt III
the volume of currency in use would cause
calamitics with which nothing yet wit
messed in the history of the country can he
compared. In view of this frightful posi-
bilty, the banks and business men might hnd
it best Mt the outset to refuse notes of the new
Issue until their constitutionality and validity
could be judicially ascertancd.
But the voters can avert this and other
possible disasters and revolutions by securing
the power to the Republican party. Hope OF
victory always kindles into iicrcest activity all
the worst elements of the Democratic party.
It's better men have some power, and the
party itself shows some signs of patriotism,
only when sitting in sackcloth and ashes
within the shadow of a great defeat.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-03
THE PROPOSITION.

MIR. Oswald OttendOrfcr denies that the quad
ruplex telegram to Governor TIlden, winch we
printed the other day, had any reference to the
proposal Of certain eminent Democrats, in the
early days Of November, 1876, that Hayes and
1ilden should both withdraw from the con-
test aud unto in urging Congress to order n
new election. He says that the proposition
"t0 Governor Hayes mentioned in that tele-
gram, was a request for the appointment OF
"somc Republican visitors to NewOreans,"
to cooperate with the Democratic visiting
statesmen in securing fair count; and he
adds that he and the other signcrs Of the tele
gram could not very well have recommended
Mr. Tildon 10 Withdraw, because they believed
that lac had been elected. Of course, it would
be absurd To argue with the writer OF n dis
patch about his purpose in sending it; but it
seems to us that Mr. Ottendorfer has left
some queer things about this message unex-
planned. At the date of the telegram the
delegations of leading politicians on both sides
who went to Louisiana to see fair play had
already been appointed. and most of them
were on the ground. The representatives OF
the Republican party had been named by Pres
ident Grant, and the Democrats by their Ma
tonal Committee. What was the urgent
need of asking Mr.. Hayes TO do what had been
done alreadyf
But whatever may be the meaning of this
particular telegram, Sthe fact remains that
the proposal we have spoken of was made,
and that ia the only thing it is important for
us to know. Mr.. Hewitt's testimony on this
point is conclusive. "The suggestion was
made" he says in his note TO THE TRB-
UNE yesterday. land often discussed" VIII
it be pretended that the chairman of the
Democratic National Committee did not know
what was going on in the councils of the party
at such a critical mOmentP And does Mr..
Ottendorfer infer that the Democrats who
regarded the plan favOrably" cannot have
believed that Mr.. Tlden was elected
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Jnoex to AopernssmeuEs


ADJUSTMENTS Pa0s-5th and 9th columns
BANKRUPT kOTICFs-2d Pdde-6th column.
BOARD AND ROOMs-3G PGQe-0th column.
BUSINESS NOTICEs--ALh PdGe-lst eolntnD'
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MAgRIAGEs AND DEATHs-5fh PGge-6th column -,
MIsCFIIANEOUs-3d Pd0s-2d column ga Fdge-oth
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REAL ESTATE For SALE-'ITY-2d tdQe-oth OOluihh >
COUNTRY-2d PdGc-6th column.
RAyINCs BANKs-7th IaOe-6th column.
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THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FORuGN,--COunt SchouvalOf is to be placed at
the head of a new Ministry of Police IN Rus
STA. 49, The Mexican Government has abolished
the Free Zone. except as to Matamoros and New
Laredo. = The Tyne Crew won at the Thames
international Regatta. 80 British Columbia
wants TO secede from the Canadian Union if 1t fails
to carry out the settlement of 1874 by May next.
DoMTsuC.-There were ffty-three deaths from
yellow fever at Memphis yesterday and about
ninety at New-Oreans the appeals for aid are
very urgent the Government will send rations to
New-Orleans; brief riot took place at Memphis
among the coloTed people, = Mr.. Rainey re-
ports that there is no Greenback party in
South Carolina, and that the colored Republicans
are well organized. -= New presses have been
set nj work to meet the demands for the per
cent bonds. -= reception was given TO Cardinal
McCloskey in Albany yesterday. 49, Ex-Governor
Haight, Of California is dead.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-The Custom House In
vestigating COMMITTEE organized yesterday for its
work. = Kearney addressed the wOrKingmen of
Newark. - Nearly $4,000 was subscribed
for the yellow foyer sufferers. = Eight
persons are reported to be missing. == The East
River Bridge Trustees decided yesterday to sue the
City of New-York. 80 The public schools
were opened. 60 The elevated roads
we're reported to be extending their
tracks slowly 80 Cold 1OO9lG 10O'16,
1902 Gold value of the legal-tender dollar at the
Close 99e,o Stocks irregularly weak, but closing
steady at partial recovery.
The WRATHER-TRmUNE local observations i'm
dictate partly cloudy weather, with chances of light
showers. Thermometer yesterday, 7Sc, So, 100.
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ment to George Washington was put up II Union
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give something for the purpose. He replied after the
fashion Of these times that he could for h. always
carried Washington In his hearf' wei ansv cred the
with the subscription payer, 'alI can say II that
have the FathrrOf his CUuutry 81 tight,
spot i am AFRAID that the people Of HerkimeI and
other counties have their fathers IN TIE snlro small way
am beginning TO think the General made nj take
when he died for {: en-"
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The shadows deepen in that valley Of the
shadow of death-the Mississippi Wash
ingtOn dispatch brings the anguish OF
Vicksburg into sharp relief. The popu-
lation is 10000, and of this number
only one-third can take care Of themselves
while the rest, owing to the plague
itself and to the absolute suspension
of business it has caused, must be
provided for. From Port Gibson comes
an agonzing cry for aid. Twelve hundred
residents have fed, and of the $50 who re-
main, 400 are sick and 50 are dead. In New
Orleans the distress is terrible, and owing to
the inadequacy of the contributions,
generous as they have been, the Sec
rotary of War is entreated to afford
immediate relief by issuing ratpns. In
Memphis the scramble for commissaTy stores
led to a nOtOus attack upon the miliun,
and a volley in the streets swelled
the horrors of the day, The death
lists in these plague centres are still alarm
ingly high, and help is needed all along
the line. Our citizens must bestir
themselves. Ten thousand a day is
handsome sum. but it is not the best
that can be done. Systematic organ
ization for united effort, such as
was perfected by the Grand Lodge
of Masons last night, will go far
in so pressing an emergency Concerning the
sporadic case of yellow fever in this city all
doubts are now dispeled. 1t is pronounced
to be genuine. The fate of this wIetched
refugee from Memphis ought not to create Il
panic but the sanitary precautions cannot be
too stringent. That there are dangerous
plague-spOts on each side of the city anyone
with an intelligent nose will not be long in
finding out. There must be DO laundering
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-03

unpopular, and likely TO be generally cut ana
scratched. The party will show its fun srength
only in its votes for candidates of tho Legislature.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-03

and anon casts a colOrless and cautious eye
upon his pedometer. That naughty young
man and nephew. Pelton, is away, and there are
no wicked cOparceners at his elbow, unless Mr.
James O'Brien and Mr. Francis NJ. Bixby
have done something unusually bad; and the
retired statesman on his beat is a lonesome
though majestic figure. OF politics he knows
little now and cares less. The only thing In
which he manifests any interest is his daily
walk, and the infallible little instrument
enables HIM to ascertain exactly how far he
goes every twenty-fOur hours. The record
is so plain that he does not need a little die
tiOnary in order to make it out Gobble ana
all the fancy cipbers have been laid aside,
and the scientific constitutional has been re-
duced to its simplest terms. Western stetes-
men ought to amuse themselves IN lazy aours
with some toy of this kind. For instance {: an
instrument for determining at any moment
the angle of a straddle would be rather NICE
Senator Johnston refers to the growth Of
Richmond in population since the war as a
sign of life in the Old Dominion; and he
might also have said good word for Nor
folk and LynchbuTg. But all the signs do not
point in the same direction. Alexandria is
sleepier since the war than it was before, and
Petersburg, which was once pOpulOus
and hourishing city. Is fast falling into
decay. That farmers who are not do
ing well where they now are can find
good homes for little money in the fertile
valleys of the State, we firmly believe. What
the Senator SAYS about improvements in the
mode of cultivation by the rotation of crops is
not especially new for General Washington
seldom wrote a familiar letter on agriculture
without laying stress upon the same point, as
well as on the necessity of breaking MP
the large tracts into small farms. we
trust, however, that the Senator and his
associate, General Fitzhugh Lee, will spare
no pains to acquaint the small farmers OF
neighboring States with the peculiar advan-
tages which VIRGINIA offers to industrious
settlers. All that the old Commonwealth
needs is new blood and new brain, and the
farmers of the Northern States have enough
and to spare of each.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-03
Kearney is simply puf-ban squeezed dry.

With genuine case of yellow fever in a
crowded corner of our city, a hot wave is more
acceptable in September than it was in July.
1t is the close, sOggy weather that Is fatal in
plague-stricken districts. A cry for an early
frost is going up from the Mississippi Valley.
That will be salvation to thousands of house
holds but dry heat Is also blessing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-03

A week of mysterious disappearances has
opened. No fewer than eight persons have
made either a temporary or permanent exit
under unaecountable circumstances. The re-
appearances are as strange as the disappear
ances. Here Is Owen Murphy turning up in
Canada after an attack of Panama fever and
railroad speculation in Brazil. And Mr.. Fer
nando Wood is again pegging away at the
Custom House.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-03

There is good TO believe that the assurances
of Republican success which come from Indiana
are well founded. The Republicans united and
active and what is better have excellent candidates
to support. The Democrats are disorganized by
chickering's and jeaouses and have on their tickets
about rs bad a collection of men as ever ran for
office. From Voorhees, down the nominees differ
only IN being denagogues of different sizes. Next
10 Voorhees, the worst in the lot is tho oandi-
date for Congress in tho With District. He is a
ranting parson who breaches combination OF poll
tics and religion, and spends most Of his time In
hunting for Office. He was nominated by the Green.
hackers and accepted by tue Democrats and the
hopeful prospect is that he will be handsomely
beaten. The Neo-Aibany Ledga'Standard which is
the most respectable Democratic newspaper in the
State, calls him 0" carpet-bagger and scalawag,J
a political preacher of the most abominable stripe
aud professional Ofice-seeker Of the most per-
sistent Sort" who " doesn't deserve the vote of
single honest Democrat" That gives comforting
glimpse of the Democratic happy family.
The National candidate for Secretary Of Internal
Affairs, in Pennsylvania, has Disguised even his own
party by approving the blasphemy and VlIlgarlty of
Kearney. 1t won't make much difference to his
vote. however as tho whole of the State ticket is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-03
'alork Daily Gribmore

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1873.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-03

There is an earnest seeker-after-truth at
Saratoga. Mr.. Tilden patrols the piazzas honr
aad hour with measured and deliberate tread,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-03

The partial abolition of the Free Zone is a
friendly act on the part of President Diaz
toward our Government, which has been con-
WINGED for some time that the existence of
that privileged section was a source of loss
to the revenue, and constant cause of
border troubles. or course, much Indignation
is displayed by the Mexican smugglers and
adventurers, whose cOntraband trade is
threatened with extinction by the new
regulations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-03

Beng no longer restrained by the exigen-
cies of war, the Gar is at liberty to transfer
bis ambassadors from one court to another,
without detriment TO the public interests.
The contemplated change of ambassadors at
the courts of London, Paris, Berlin and
Vienna, arises from the Cars intention
to place Count SchOuvalof at the head of a
Ministry of Police, which is to be Or
eaDized 10 keep Nihilsm and other trea-
sOnable schemes in check. As Governor of
the Baltic Provinces, confidential agent Of the
Gar, and finally Ambassador at London. the
Count must have acquired large degree of
the experience needed for his new duties. In
England be ought to have learned at least
that liberty and education arc better safe
guards Of the throne than the most efficient
police.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-03

A party Of scientific tramps of the best
sort, after rouShing it for six weeks, have
brought to an end walk of $50 miles among
the mountain ranges of the South. The re-
gion trayersed is perhaps. the most pictur-
esque east Of the Rocky Mountains rs North
erners are slowly finding out, and it can
certainly be seen to the best advan-
tage by pedestrians. This was a col
lege excursion, and several ladies had the
good sense and hard grit TO join the ranks.
English travellers are fond of saying that
American girls dance in the cradle, but never
learn to walk. Here are some American
women who can walk.