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New-York tribune., 1878-06-15
COAL TRADE REHIER.
From The Engineering aud Mintng Journal. June 10
ANTHRACITE,

The business at the present time is very
dur although most OF the companies speak quite conf
IDENTIFY OF their ability to all of their June alo-
ment Legh Goals are we'll sold ahead and prices for
this coal are very firm. The prices of free burning Goals
are not so regular, but rmer than s any time this
we learn of Scranton stove coal sold on basis OF
iom 35e per ton advance on the last auction sale,
and Vet there are those who say that from some cause
This size OF coal not permHed 10 bring al tine auction
sale as much as it would have done.
Nv some very active business Is expected during the
iousv expressed by us we quote from letter written
by representative OF the anthracite trade travelling IN
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EUROPEAN FINANCIAL Markets.

LONDON June i4l2;3O pm. bonds four snc half per
cents il Railway shares u Illinois central 81 "a
Pennsylyania Central 2yR Reading Rallfoad. IGr New
Jersey Ccntfa cOnsOls. 81.
LoSDON June IA p-Nes Jorsey Central consols SOL
Pennsyvani Central 50 NewJ Jersey Central 20 S2 Read
ing Railroad, l6A
LONDON. June 145 p. m.Eue Railway shares 10 New
Jersey Central, 3O2 C0ns0ls o) for money, va'G of TIE
account silver IL quoted at 53s per ounce.
LONDON. Juue lid:3D mparis adyiCce quote ave per
IL francs i2ig ccntiues fuT the account
PAR June li.-E1change on London, IS francs ~ cen
IIr-n InI i .I.LnI
New-York tribune., 1878-06-15

Futures moderately active, closing 70 points lower
sal.s l.t evening 200 bllas TODAY -frst tal-Aufutt
st Seuteuber 1i48: OCTOBER, ll2s November, j l4i
Maron llf5; total, $40 bale- Second August llto
Srpfturrr tG. October 1T total. Loo haic-. Iuud
Caii-JGne ll.5s July, ll6i octoter ll2t becemteE
lflO MAJ ODE tai 100 bales Also t0cay June llol
lGl Iulg ~ G3dll.6s; August llD7 l.f5 -epiems
u.43alls8. October ll2jall2si Nevemlcr ~ IA De-
1925 March l135 Apr, l44 May. ~ i3 total ~ 100
haes. grand tOa 3AsOO Deles .l9 pad 20 exchange 4vO
henfnlnh.r for Juno. Iuiufes cloaod qnIeL
New-York tribune., 1878-06-15

the Eastern States one who Is close observer, and
whose Judgment is well worthy Of attention. He saye
" The bituminOus companies are putting coal IN AL
around 9t an average price or 20 30. delivered
at Providence; Cumberland not over ~ large
company IN Rhode leland (which used anthracite
coal last yearl has bought about $4,000 tons Of Clear
hed coal for summer delivery at 80 50, delivered NJ
Providence four months time, fat At tlcse figures,
you see that anthracite has but little chance can
readily that the consumption j. much less than last
season. Where the Boar OF Control thinks thc demand
for coal Will come from during the summer mouths I
cannot imagine aud for the Fan trade. ihnk It VIII
only amount 60 o apuTt from the retail tfadc.D
The production OF anthracite coal last week was 44o-
93g TONS against 2O3 25j tons the preH Hols week,
and 463Ag2 tons the spending week O 1917 ne
total production from January 1 tO Juno vas o,elJ-
553 tons, compared with 5g42 tOns foe the Ike
period Of as year. showing a falling on this year OF
2,345,s70.
BITuMINOUs.
A contract with an Eastern railroad for supplying
about % 600 reported have been closed during
the past week. Shipments are fairly maiutaned al
though the producers complaining IT lack of orders
Hope, however ia entertained that better business Wi
be dOae later m The season
New-York tribune., 1878-06-15
tInne on falr scale, the annexed table showing the

To-day's market was quiet and devoid of interest,
though steady 10 firm in tone The following are
the highest and lowest prices for the week. and the
closing sales to-day and a week ago to-day
New-York tribune., 1878-06-15
THE MONEY MARKET.

0gfICLAL REPORT NJ y S7ocE EXCHANGE SAFES
FRLDAY JUNE a. 1873
GOVERNMENT STOCK DEPARTMENT.
New-York tribune., 1878-06-15

LINsEED-ouieti 81 90 god' 1000 rags eA store 'od "
plNSo pSY Ss Foreign steady in moderate demand
po,to eo 33a45c; Cuba 80 test, S5c Neworeans Quet
o5d4bc Common 70 Prime 80. =. -. 80,
currency Lead dn no safs' nnehangea sys,sr sssin
Ie American Pig Iron easy dull sales 300
~ ehSb sl7, Pig dull unchanged Rails firm
snet, am Gales 500 tons Old Iron, at PhiladelpsIA
w acrau Iron unchanged; sales, 200 No
$lSvr9Seht delivered at Providence, 500 Lead
common Domestic. 32Oc; Refined. 3hc, cnrrcney
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silnallous manreo-- Males.
aelp u1anleo

gents wanted for Bancroft's New History of
"A fhe 10 Instd with fine steel engraylngs Competein
eYos Of 600 pp each Ad Watson CHI Syracuse NJ IA
New-York tribune., 1878-06-15

The following are the imports of dry goods at the
port of New-YOrk for the week ending this date,
and since the beginning of the year, compared with
the corresponding periods Of previous years
New-York tribune., 1878-06-15

FIRsr CAIL-lOl4 o'cLoCK A. ".
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s1tnntlone puauIeo--females

AT MAURICE LINDQUIST'S Only Swedish
N and exclusive Servants ONCE GmOres Gar
den, 4thve. and 27hs swedish, French aud German e-
ma male helm.
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,D-lOiq o'cLocK A. "

90 40
Adams Express
5O...bC. lO3
Ontario silver M'C
300 .. be. 30 y
Del q Hud & co
100. be. 90 =
b...s3.. 5Gh
100 .....- 567s
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ercnND RnAnD.-l O'CLOCk 2. 81


FRIDAY, june III NJ
tn. commercial and mercantile situation during
New-York tribune., 1878-06-15

The following were the receipts and shipments at
and from Chicago and Milwaukee to-day, as re-
ported by telegraph: .
New-York tribune., 1878-06-15

Nght crop...-.-.,. ~ 2 ~
Middle ana over .. ZoGzo
Rough Leather
Rough HemlOcK....2ud2J
ROugh Oak.....,....Z4d<o
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-31

OF this amount the children of Victoria re-
ceive S970000, and from the first grant to her
sons and daughters up to the present time
the sum total drawn from the treasury
amounts TO more than ST, 100000. Sir Charles
Dixie will perform patriotic service by call
ing the attention of the people of England to
the cost of royalty, for it may bethe means
of rousing the indignation of the queens
subjects to a pitch that will arrest fu-
ture extravaganza. Evidently there is abroad
in the world a feeling of uncompromlsing
antagonism to that sort of rule which COM
pels the bread producers TO bear an unequal
share of the burdens of government, and the
day is not far remote when kings and mobiles
will not be permitted to enact the laws
without consulting the people; a time when
royalty and aristocracy will be compelled to
stand on level with the workers.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-31

THE wires flash the news that labor trou-
bles have commenced in Washington city,
where the government is engaged in erect
ing public buildings and employing men at
IS cents per day to do the rough work. The
dispatch says that the workingmen's organ
izations of Washington determined that the
men engaged in excavating for the founda-
ton of building for the bureau of engrav-
ing and printing must not work for IS cents
per day. The fact will occur to the people
generally that the price paid is too low, al
though the grinding policy of the admins
tration furnishes good reason for violence
on the part of those who are its victims,
or who disapprove of the policy.
Here in indianapolis such felons as occupy
the county Jail are boarded at sixty cents
per day, the fact having been ascertained.
we suppose that that amount is as low as a
man charged with violation of the laws
can be supported in accordance with civil
lied ideas. Sixty cents per day is S42O per
week, and seventy-fve cents per day, the
amount paid by the government of the
United States, amounts to $3.50 per week,
difference between felons and honest work
ing men of thirty cents per week in favor of
the latter. Now, if the Washington work
ingman has a wife and child or two 70
support, it is easy enough to see that sew
enty-fve cents per day will not support
them. We will suppose that the Washing
ton laborer has family of three-himself,
wife and one child. Three meals day
would be 90 meals a week of seven days, pro-
vided they had three meals each day. At
s450 per week they would have to get along
with a fraction above seven cents for each
meal. This would absorb the $3.50. leaving
nothing for house rent, fuel or clothing,
doctors bills, coffin, shroud and grave when
any one of them had starved to death. I'm
der such circumstances it is not surprising
that the working people of Washington feel
indignant and desire so much for their labor
as will give them coarse food, coarse cloth
ing, little fuel and shanty to protect them
from the storms. The United States of
America that pays . fraudulent president
$50, 900 year can afford to do better than 10
cents per day to workingm en- who dig foun-
dations for public buildings.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-31
FIGURES TELL THE STORY.

Now, as the campaign is fairly under way,
the people will be eager for all reliable in
formation bearing directly upon the cost Of
carrying on the government. The Wash
ington Post says that figures properly
treated will not lie" and then proceeds to
show that the democratic party has carried
out the pledges of economy. 1t says:
The expenditures for the maintenance of
the government, from its organization TO the
present day, prove that the republican party
is a recklessly eXtravagant party. In order to
make this clear we need only TO take the net
ordinary expenses of the government from
the first year of its existence to the end of the
fiscal year of 1876, to which date the record has
been made up. For that period the total eX-
penditure for ordinary purposes was s, got, 552,
S6O.66. This is Tor war, navy, indian. ana CIVIL
and misce llaneous expenses, and is exclusive of
the public debt-principal, interest and pre-
miums-and also exclusive of pensions. OF
the amount given there was expended during
the 'war period" embracing the fiscal years
ls62-6S-64-65 and t6 the sum of $3.50, S9 5Sl64.
From the beginning of the government TO
June 30, 1862 (the end of the fiscal year 1861, a
period of 81 years, there was expended for the
same purposes the sum of 81 SOC, 40, l4l.l5, or
less than one-half as much. Under the ten
years of radical rule, from the fiscal year end
ing June 80 1867, to the fiscal year ending June
80, 1876 both inclusive) the sum of 81 ,52S yl7,
l37.T was expended for the same purposes.
Thus il is seen that during the five years of
the war the radical party expended 8, OS4.20S.-
D
for the whole period of its existence prior to
that time, and that during the ten years sue
ceeding the war the same party expended
so l90, 1852 more than IL cost TO maintain the
government for a period of 81 years, during
which time the democratic party mainly had
control of the purse strings.
For tsn years of democratic rule. from 1852 TO
/ 1861 Qnclusive), there was expended for the
same purposes only the sum of S572, So, 260 %;
or, to state it differently, the cost of ten years
of radical rule was 1856 O43 ,S77.35 more than the
amount expended by democratic administra-
tions for the same length of time and for the
same purposes.
The average per annum for the ten years of
radical rule since the war was $l52, o9l 7l3.7S,
while the average of democratic rule befoSe
the war was only So .2S7, 226O5. This shows an
increase of l67 SO per cent. for the ten years of
radical rule over the ten years of democratic
rule.
Taking as a basis the census of 1860, the cost
per capita for the net ordinary expenses of the
government for the ten years of democratic
rule was SlS.2l; while on the basis of the GEN.
sus of 1870, the cost per capita under the ten
years of radical rule was SS9.65.
Nothing could be more explicit or conclu-
siye. These figures place the radical party
in position from which there is no escape
1t is not only prohigate party, but steal
ing party, and as such STANDS convicted be-
fore the American people.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-31
INITIATION, CONTRACTION AND
WAGES

Imitation means the reduction of wages.
The reduction comes from the decline in the
purchasing power of the dollar. Say we have
in the country of paper money" $4,000 900
face value, and we add to IL S2oO.OOO.0O0-the
81 ,0O0OO0,O00 will not buy barrel of flour,
bushel of potatoes, or salt, or a yard of cloth
more than the s7oO000 600. That is TO say, in
fiation is dilutIon, and so called dollar of the
81 ,0O0DOO,000 is worth twenty five cents less
than one of the S75J,O00OO. In other terms, a
man earning sl5 week of the $50 coo must
get $50 a week in order to exercise an equal
purdhasiog power out of his wages If the in
convertible circulating medium is raised to
81 ,UO00oO,000; and raising salaries is attended
with striking and other troubles. A refusal
now TO resume, and a policy that would put
up the premium on gold to %, would be equiv
alent TO a reduction of wages twenty-five per
cent Resumption means the stability OF the
dollar.-Cincinnati Commercial.
1t is not necessary to discuss what initiation
means, though the above from the Cinein-
natl Commercial is unadulterated sophistry;
indeed, 1t is morse than quibbling The
Shylock policy of the radical party, having
nearly ruined the country by contracting
the currency, having driven men from work
to idleness, from competency to poverty, and
from virtue to crime, seeks to obscure Its
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-31

There is no mistaking the fact that this
world and the obligations it imposes are rap
idly getting the better of the next" world
with all the beatitudes that the most imag
NATIVE rhapsodists picture as part of its
attractions While few, like Moses, mount
up TO sublime attitudes and talk with the
Creator, the great mass of mankind remain
at the base of the mountain and dig for the
auriforous metal. with which they fashion
golden calves and then worship them with
more than heather devotion. Here and
there we find an individual who protests
that he does not 1--we IN this world
at all, that his thoughts and affections,
his desires and aspirations, are all beyond the
invisible line that divides this world from
the next, and as a consequence such people
take no thoughts of the morrow, what they
shall eat or wherewithal they shall be
clothed. They are forever contemplating
the lilies, noting with special care the fact
that they neither toll nor spin but still look
very beautiful. Such people generally enjoy
good appetites and sleep sound, and are of
no value under heaven. Fortunately, there
I
number is gradually diminishing. A vast
majority of the people are utilitarians.
With them life is real and earnest.
They recognize its duties and its OBJ
legations, and are willing to work
out their salvation at any honorable calling.
They are not afraid to live. They have the
courage to be poor, if that is their lot, and
never think of abridging their lives by any of
the thousand methods that modern civiliza-
ton has devised. As for the next world,
while not unmindful that they are forever
marching to the ford where the dark river
is to be passed. they ton on to the very brink
and step in with their every day clothes on,
trusting, aye, trusting TO Providence for
safe landing on the other side. The central
idea of modern civilization is money, and 1t
is not a bad idea either. 1t is every
day taking stronger hold upon the
world. Gold. silver and ''fat''' meney
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-31

record by denouncing initiation, when the
people ask only for 50 much currency
as shall meet the legitimate demands of
business, or the demands OF legitimate busi-
ness. Admitting for the sake of argument
that initiation abrdges the purchasing power
of dollar, but gives employment to all the
people, we hold in that event that imitation
is better than contraction, which deprives
workingmen of employment and as a conse-
quence leaves them without any money at
all. Suppose that with currency inflated to
S1,OOOO00,000 -four is $40 per barrel
and the workingman has the $40
wherewith to purchase it. while on
the other hand with the currency con-
tracted to 750,Oos,oO0, -four Is only 50 per
barrel, and the workingman, being out of
employment, is without that amount OF
money, and therefore can not purchase the
-four. Under such circumstances we ask, is
it not better for the workingmen thas the
currency be inflated TO the 81 200, OO0. OOO2
1t matters precious little to the workingman
what may be the purchasing power of a
dollar if he is so situated that he
can not obtain the dollar. We have it
from gentleman Thoroughly posted upon
such subjects, that there are now in and
around indianapolis not less than 500 me
out OF employment who have been connect.\
ed with the railroad department of indus
tries, whose average wages before the radical
curse of contraction was forced upon the
country was not less than SIS per day.
These men are not so much interested ID the
purchasing power of the dollar as they are
in obtaining a dollar, and such supreme
nonsense as the Commercial publishes
does not In the least help their
case. 1t does not give them work at any
price, and though the purchasing power of
the dollar were ten times what it is, they
would starve, nevertheless, unless some one
stepped forward to help them in this hour
of affection. The man or men who, eight or
ten years since, invested their money In inn
proving cities, building workshops and fact
tories by which they were enabled to give
employment to workIngmen, have, in thou
sands of instances, had their prop
erty taken from them, owing 70
the fact that they borrowed money
to extend their enterprises and employ
greater number oil labOrers. Under the in
fiuence of contraction their property rapidly
declined in value, while the purchasing
power OF the dollar increased to such an ex-
tent that s., 900 was sufficiently potential to
take from them property that cost ten, fifteen
or twenty thousand dollars. 1t is this Shy
lock fnanciering that has driven more than
10000 men, FIRMS and corporations into bank
ruptcy at loss of more than 81 500, OO0, 900,
of which, during the past SIX years, Indianas
share has been about S26, 600, 600. To demand
/ sufficient currency to arrest this shrinkage of
values, this steady stream of failures and IN
crease of the army of idlers, is not imitation
| in the Objectionable sense that the CONNER
cial employs the term. On the contrary, it
is sound business financiering, and contem-
plates the well being of the country.
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ulation, showing not only the non-purchase
of necessities but of luxuries as well,
swelling the aggregate far into billions
The purpose of the democratic party is to
bring about readjustment of forces and set
them in operation, so that all the people
may have work and wages; so that consump-
ton may keep pace with production, and
the prosperity of the country be established
upon basis that recognizes the fact that the
employment of labor at remuneratlve prices
is one of the chief elements in the general
advancement of society and the permanent
prosperity of the country.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-31

GENERAL GRANTS travels in all the king
doms of Europe and his acquaintance with
their rulers and prominent statesmen will give
him fund of practical knowledge that will be
of great service TO him should he be again
elected TO the overwhelmingly Press.
A knowledge of how 10 govern people in this
country as they are governed in Europe is very
much needed, we presume. We are to under
stand that If Grant, while acting as president,
should strike a knotty problem IN govern
meEthe would receive a great deal of advice
and assistance from hls old chums, Bismarck.
MacMsbOn, DisTaeli and Observation-Disclosures
Gazette.
Should Grant again be president there will
be rejOicings in all the dens Of s~istocratic
thieves throughout the country. But there
would be no place down south for carpet
baggers. and there would be no army to
strike down constitutions aud bayonet legis.
latures. The best that Grants thieving Of
fcials could do would be TO rob the treasury,
bat this with a democratic congress would
be improbable. Arrests, trials and impris-
o1menis would follow detection, and under
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-31

THERE is disposition on the part of some to
fight the present political contest in Indiana
i'm the interest entirely of one man. "Voor-
hees and victory" they say is the watchword
of the democratic party in the fight that is
upon us. While we have no personal DISLIKE
toward Mr.. Voorhees,, but recognize him as an
earnest, able democrat, we see no good sense
in lettering the democratic strength and tying
1t down simply TO the popularity of one man.
Ledger Standard.
1t is gratifying to note that the sober sec
ond thought of the Ledger-Standard places
its democracy in a position in which it will
not be likely hereafter to receive the datl-
aging laudations of the organs of the national
thief party, of which the Indianapolis Jour
nal is at the tail of the heap.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-31

CANADA has a weather profit who exults in
the extremely warm weather of the season,
as it ver1fies to wonderful extent his own
predictions. He says: 1.-THE cold turn of the
9th of July predicted by me several weeks
ago will probably occur between the goth
and 18th. and l still look for frost. August
will be terribly hot and sultry up to about
the 18th or Goth, when singularly cold, fall
like weather will set In, with high winds
and heavy storms. The season in its general
behavior corresponds strikingIy to that of
1876" How now, Professor Tice?
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-31

THE labor troubles seem finally to be
reaching crisis in the east, and, strange as
it may seem at first glance, the eliminating
point is likely to be located in Washington,
the capital of this great and glorious coun-
try. There, IL anywhere on the face of the
green footstool, the right of free speech
should be held sacred. But after all there
Capitol hill, the great privilege of free speech
has been more shamfully abused during the
past thirty years in the aggregate than
throughout the entire United States
The exemplars of good morals have gone
there, and after single term returned hope
less blackguards. The godly have gone as
saints and revisited their constituents as I'M
considerable SINNERS. The pure in heart
came in sight of the unfinished monument of
the alleged owner of the Ratchet and forth
with began lying about their nearest rela-
tives The honest man no sooner caught
sight of the glistening come of the CAPT
toll than he felt an itching de-
sire either to steal from his
neighbor or stealthily abstract articles from
one of bis own pockets and place them in
another. ALI these things have been espe-
cially noticeable under republican rule, but
while lying, wholesale robbery and general
corruption have run riot, a howl has al
ways arisen lest there should be any abridg-
ment of the night of free speech. That was
the palladium of our liberties. If citizen,
especially a congressman, could not be al
lowed to ''yawp," then were our liberties
forever gone. But suddenly a change has
come over the face OF affairs Some poor
workingmen objected to toiliDg for the beg
carly pittance of seventy-five cents per day,
and after the style of congress, they, too,
proposed to meet and 'resoloot." This can
not be allowed. The authorities interfere,
and late dispatches inform US that a large
force will be on hand armed with revolvers
and Springfield rifles to prevent any demon
stration to-day.
The right OF petition is still inalienable
however, and the Sentinel would suggest
that the seyenty-fve cent men get up form
somewhat after this style and present it to
Hayes upon Bonded knees, your high
ness, we humbly pray" etc. After some
crawling OF that description the six shilling
laborers might possibly be allowed to hold q
meeting