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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14
WEDDING I'M HIGH LEE.

PARIS, Aug.8.-The Constitutional,
Bonapartist organ. announces that
marriage had been arranged between
Prince Louis Napoleon, son of Em-
peror Napoleon III, and Princess
Thyra, third daughter of Chrtstian
TX, King of Denmark. The date of
the marriage is not yet fixed. The
Constitutionnel adds. it is stated that
this marriage will be made the occa-
sion of . beneficial revision of the
treaty of Prague. Princess Thyra is
q sister of the Princess of Wales.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14

STATE FAIR.-The State Register
says: "F'rom Col. Spofford, President
of the State Agricultural Society, we
learn the prospec cts for successful eX-
hibition this fall are fiattering in the
extreme. The applications for copies
of the premium lists have been unus-
ually numerous, which indicates that
exhibitors at a distance are interesting
themselves in the Fair and that there
will be a good representation. The
following shows the aggregate of pre-
miums offered in the various depart
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ILLICIT pIsTILLERs coNclLIATED.

CHARLESTON, s. c.. August SIN
the U. S. Court yesterday 1873 Illicit
distillers plead guilty with the under
standing that Judgment be suspended
and they will NO more violate the
law.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14

State Register: yesterday Ottum-
Wa had Beecher, Van Bennett, and
military convention al at once.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14

The Iowa Annual Conference, M.
E., meets ct Brooklyn, Sept. A, 1878.
Bishop Foster presiding.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14

Ex-Gov. G. G. Carpenter has been
nominated by the republicans Of the
Ninth district, as their candidate for
Congress. This is an excellent nomi-
nation; Gov. Carpenter is republican
who can Always be relied upon.
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North Carolina oreenbackers.

NORFOLK, Va, Aug. 9.-Hon. q. L.
Cobb 10 announced Is the greeuback
candidate for Congress In the first
North Carolina district.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14

FIU,oof
The Society has decided to offer the
following:
For the best and most complete re-
port written of the Fair and publish
ed in any newspaper of the State, di-
ploma and $1,000.
Personalities, names of exhibitors
and the awards to be excluded.
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takes the place of that much legal
tender reserve and we have now in
circulation, not including coin in the
u. s. Treasury
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14
. DODGE.

One of the dodges resorted to by The wiley
greenbacker, when driven to the wall. in the vain
attempt to defend his pet greenback is to ask re-
pubiicans why they have gone back on the green
back, which saved the nation and was good
fend fhsir greenbaek They have stood by it until
1t is almost rs good as gold and they propose to
make il fully and then it will take care OF ITSELF
Because republicans lampoon your unheard OF
nondescript fiat money, which you propose to
call greenback, Is no evidence OF their dislOyal-
ty to the present greenback which they haye car
RED almost to par through the fires Of the rebel
lion. through the eopperhead fire In the rear.
through the reputation scheme of lses, and which
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Nasty

And Weaver Develops New Finan-
cial Scheme In which They Show
How the Issues Demanded by the
Nationals Are to Be Cot into Cir
cuiation.
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l pretend to say that in no othe,
case in the world has q return ia
specie payment been so gradual and
so free from extreme fluctuation in
the value Of the currency. It must
now be plain that charges to the effect
that contraction has been 80 sudden
and great as to take people unawares
and ruin the business of the country
are outrageously false.
WILD SCHEMES.
1 shall not take up your time to
make an argument against the wild
schemes of those who favor paying off
the bonds in greenbacks without re-
gard to the contract, or of those who
would arbitrarily repudiate the inter-
est on the bonds without reference to
the wishes or rights Of the holder, or
OF those who are either so ignorant or
reckless as to favor the printing and
issuing of irredeemable money, or of
those who think they could issue a
volume of paper money equal to the
public debt without its certain depre-
citation, or of those who talk of max
ing paper money as good as gold
without making it exchangeable
for gold. The world has, for lhous.
ands of years, laughed at the folly
of the old alchemists who spent
their lives looking for stone
which would change whatever
it touched into gold. That however
was good sense compared with the
proposition to make paper as good as
gold, except by being exchangeable
for it. Up to this date no man ever
saw a paper dollar. We have all seen
promises to pay q dollar, but not
q paper dollar nor shall we ever see
one. If you will just reflect that pa
per money is promise to paw dol
lar instead of its being a dollar, that
the paper is comparatively worthless
unless the promise is good and that
paying this promise to pay is some-
thing more than trading one promise
for another, you will clear this subject
of an infinite amount of confusion and
will be able to study it intelligibly.
If you will reflect that there is no
evidence that the present bond dholders
were the purchasers of our bonds dur.
ing the war, that there is no Justice
in robbing the present bondholders
in order to get even with those who
bought bonds during the war at a big
shave and that most of the bonds now
out wern bought at par and paid for
in gold, you will see the essential dis
honesty of proposing to pay them in
paper money, not the equivalent of
coin.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14

Ueu' Vo1Vcr IrIBS 10 BC8Tt p1UpI6
by representing that the republican
party wishes to make the government
debt perpetual in order that national
banks may exist. What idle bosh !
This generation will not see the debt
reduced 90 low that there will not be
plenty left to secure all the national
bank circulation, and we may safely
leave to the next generation the task
OF making some other arrangement
for banking.
The facts that national banks are
taxed heavily by the government and
that the full amount Of this stock,
which stands in place Of their bonds,
10 taxed for local, county and state
purposes are generally overlooked OF
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No less absurd Ia Buffers proposition to have
for this country non-exportable money. As
well talk of raising nOn-exportable wheat, corn,
PORK or beef as well talk OF inventions exclusive
~ for Ame-. n use, as well talk of non-exporta-
BILE manufactures or of laborers whose skill should
be useless In the workshops of the world. The
more we have of skill, products, brains and mon
ey In this country that the world wants and must
have the more prosperous we shall be.
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with the whole debt can be readily
funded at 4 per cent. Under an OPP
posite policy, however, the interest
would not be less than 6 per cent,
and nobody knows how much more.
This would leave the annual interest
at tho old figure l20OOO,0OO at 4 per
cent. it would be but 80,000,OOO, or q
difference annually of 40, ,OO0, 900, W hich
in fifty years, the lowest average date
greenbackers would fix for paying
the debt would make the sum Of q
OOO, 100000 more interest to be paid on
the greenback plan than on the repub-
lican plan. II is dra " ing il very mild
to call the rate 6 per cent. on the tao
les which the greenbackers blame
the republican party for not pursuing
namely, indefinite suspension. Well
then leaving the legal tenders to run
ON unredeemed and irredeemable in
to the far future and hence bearing
no interest they would still have
been compelled to pay Cor repudiate)
per cent. on 1900, 200, O,OOO-$lO co.,
600 Of interest annually. Now sup.
pose on the republican plan that every
dollar of the legal tenders is added to
the interest bearing debt, and the
whole refunded into 4..per cents, even
then the interest on the whole AGO.
0OO, 600 is only $4,000, 900 or 20, OOO, ,OOO
annually in favor Of the republican
plan, which difference in Is wears
would amount to 500 millions aud in
% years to ONE BILLION. Did YOU
ever ponder any on these figures? II
you will, you will ascertain what an
inHnity lies between sense and nom
sense, between guesswork and calcu-
lation.
i Some admit that resumption is good
for the government, but has been ruin
to the people. Admitting that the
people must sdapt themselves to the
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the history of the world imitation has
proved disaster and not a blessing.
Our own experience in 1887, lS47,
1857, and 1865 to 1873, is the same,
first producing unhealthy activity,
causing people to be deluded with
the notion that capital was abundant
because money was plenty, thereby
inducing unwise extravaganza, pro-
ducing an unnatural spirit OF specu-
lation and finally resulting in panic,
loss of confidence, hard times and
widespread bankruptcy. Whoever
does not know this to be tho verdict
of history and experience in regard
to initiation is simply ignorant of the
facts in the case.
By imitation mean an expansion Of
the paper beyond the point of con-
vertibility into coin. twill be found
that the degree of disaster and dis
tress has been almost in exact ratio to
the extent Of the imitation and the re-
moteness of the redemption, the pa
per becoming practically worthless
whenever, from any cause the pros
pect of redemption became so small
as 10 have substantially disappeared.
Tho greenbackers make . feeble
stand against the overw whelming logic
of these facts by claiming that their
plan has never been tried aad that the
history Of paper money in France
during the Franco-Prussian war
forms an exception to the otherwise
uniform experience in regard to in
fiation.
Let us look at the first ground of
defense, namely that their plan is bet
ter than those which have failed. If
we can gather any one plan from
their many plane, they propose the
following measures. They propose
to at least double the greenbacks,
without making any extra provision
for their redemption in coin. This
plan has certainly been tried often
enough and has failed with such alb
solute uniformity as to satisfy any
man of information. Again they pro-
pose to make them legal tender for
everything. This plan has been tried
times without number and in the abb
sence of specie behind the paper has
always failed. But they propose to
base this currency upon the public
faith and all the property-public
and privste--in the country. This
'plan had two trials, in the case Of the
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-01-09
NEW YORK HORTICULTURIST

The New York Horticultural Society gave its annual
dinner at Republican Hail. in West Thirty third street.
iast evening, when largo number Of horticulturists
OF this city and suburbs united general celebration
Of the third anniversary OF tho socieys organization
The tables were beautifully decorated with beautiful
designs, contributed by several lorsts-an imitation
log. composed OF orchids, lilies japonicas and iuculia
ordtissima-bcng placed in front OF tho Presidents
seat. Mrs. Davidson's contribution, wishing, .Many
happy reunions" to tho New York hortlculturists.
graced tho Vico Presidents seat Among tho
principal nurserymcn, florists and amateurs
present were James Paterson, of Newark
n. j., who presided; Isaac buchanan, Peter
Northrup, james Fleming, Isaac II. Young B X
Bliss William q. Wilson aud James Anderson. About
eighty gentlemen sat down to dinner. In the
oil the evening the President congratulated the society
the annual mon, aud trusted that the day was
not tar distant when people generally would apprc-
Ike this, containing tho representative nursery men
from Long Island, Now Jersey New York idtlle
material and had thus far been extended TO them by
New York, which nevertheless liberal In its en-.
ization advanced horticulture could not DO Tor
gotten. Tho society was now established. now
over, on a solid basis, and all IL needed was tn
GOOD VIII OF thu thousands who loved the beautiful
The regular toasts Of tho cvenlngto rhe Gardeners
Of tho United States "The Horticultural
'The Florists OF Now York"-wore responded to BY
Mcssrs. Elliott John Henderson aud Peter Henderson
Tho lattor claimed That American gardeners day
were fully accomplished as those Ot Europe and he
reorred with pride TO Mr. Smith, the supe
OF tho botanical Gardens III Washington also to Mr..
Saunders as men whose capacity stood second none
In the profession Mr. Walter REID sponded in be-.
hall oil tho florists OF New York and Mr.. Wilson Mac
donad spoke fecngly OF the elect OF flowers upon
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THE CROPS.

REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRIcu1-
TURE.
WASHINGTON Jan. s, 1878.
Tho following Is extracted from the ann report
oil the Commissioner oil Agriculture. just pub
lishad:-
The wheat crop OF the present year has been prom.
s'ng IN hgn degree during the entire season. Fears
OIL srasshoppcr invasons wcro early dspcled
a lew counties IN Minnesota. Tho losses from inter-
killing, the Ny, chnch bug, grasshoppcrs, rust, Sun IT.
&C., nave TINS season been less tnan usual. Tue
heaviest production Is In the section Of the Ightest
yield last year THE Northwestern spring wheat
whose product Tell SO 600 900 bushels The
IN Wisconsin, Minnesota Iowa ana Nebraska Is double
that oil last year. ard nearly % 600 C0U bushels
than IN 1875. The entirc crop promises 70 exceed
that OF last year by 10000, 600 bushels. leaving
10000 900 bushels Tor expectation, with surplus
remaining above the actual requirement. OF consump-
ton.
Other crops have generally been good.
COTTON.
Among the 'industr'al crops cotton, the most
prominent, promised 450O, 900 bales IN October but
tho weather has since been unfavorabe and NAV lead
TO smaller percentage OF production. bad pick
season 10 the end Of December might pro-
duct 500 600 bales
The tobacco crop promises TO be large one md
may reach product Of 40, 000. 900 pounds, about
600 900 above the estimated product OF last year.
The season has been untavorabIe Tor fruit OF most
kinds. The main CROP That OF apples. 10 a compare
tive failure, nowhere found In abundance and greatly
reduced in yield and high IN price Other fruits are
also reduced IN yield. The grape crop suffered an
unusual degree from rot, and the product will DO
reduced IN the affected districts.
The products Of tho dairy are abundant and tho
Prices fairy remunerative. tendency TO the en-
iargement OF this industry in tho West Is in
marked degree
There has been prospect for IN increase in the
product OF sugar over that OF last year, but conse-
quence OF bad weather Tor harvesting and securing
the cano it is TOO early say whohcr tho yield will be
equal TO that Of last year.
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FAIRCHILD'S FATE.

WHAT THE Ex-ATTonNEY GENERAL SAYS TAM
MANY HALL IS DOING TO DEFEAT nIAL
II was rumorcd yesterday that rammany Hall was
busy engaged making up a purse OF $4,000 10 he
used at Albany to prevent the confirmation OF ex.
Attorney General Farchd as superintendent OF
Public Works When spoken TO about tho matter
yesterday those OF tho Taminauy leaders who were
met with strenuousy denied tho story, claiming that
II was only tho part Of Fairchlld's friends to
get up sympathy for him In quarters where
lie Is now without advocate OF his Tor.
tuDes. ''Wc don't want money to defeat FAR
chld," said one OF the sachems, when lie was
questioned concerning the story; or II Is PLAIN us
tnat he will DO rejected ecyond doubt, simply be.
cause the SENATE is opposed 10 him, decmng him,
most democrats as well rs republicans do, totally UNIT
Tor the position OF superintendent OF Public Works.
However, an exStatc Senator. friendly TO Fairchd,
late last evening asserted he had learned IRON
most reliable source That Taumany was getting up
what he called corruption iund, part OF which
be placed whore II would do tho good the op.
position 10 Fairchild In the Senate.
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HAYES REPUBLICANS.

The newly elected members OF the General Com.
mttee Of tho Hayes or unt-Cus,om House repub.
cans, for 1878, met last night Lyric Hail. Forty.
second street and Sixth avenue, Tor the purpose OF
organizing There was q large attendance OF dele.
gates. Mr. Henry {. Robinson, the chairman OF the
General Commute OF 1877, called the meeting to or.
der and named G. +. Pohemus for temporary chair.
mah Mr.. Polhemus took the chair aud thou the
members handed In their credentials The next busl.
ton OF permanent officers. ln a moment there
were dozen delegates on Their feot, all
eager TO namc candoates for the presidency
Alter the confusion subsidized the following gen tleme
wore put IN nomination for the position OF chair
man:--Hcnry O. Robinson, Andrew j. Cam pbell and
ny tie proposers on the merits OF their respective
candidates. Then tho roll was called, and as each
delegate was called he arose and named his for
Chairman. Disputes without number occurred during
the roll CALL aud II was only by tho most vigorous
action on the part Of the Chairman that any
was made. man named '.rees" voted when the
namo "keys" was called, but no was found out
ana elected rom tho room. Several delegates CON-
planned that their names were not called and that
they got no chance to vote. The Chair ruled that
listening. Much confusion ensucd, and halt a dozen
personal addresses we're made by members The
vote resulted as follOws:-Andrcw J. Campbell. 90
votes; Henry G. Robinson, 81, ana Christopher Pull
man, "a MIR. Campbell was declared elected and took
the chair amid great applause. The following other
officers were then elected First Vice President
Henry c. Bceney Second Vice President, Peter C.
hamburger Secretaries, Edward +. Bullock and
Abraham Quackenbush; Treasurer, Ut. Heath; Scr.
gcant-at-Arms, Mr.. Moore. IL was then decided that
The meeting then adjourned, subject to tho Call Of
the Chnir.
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manufacturers sent thor raw goods under light du-
ties into Austria, thence to be sent back to Germany
TO be flushed and then returned TO Austria duty Tree
Offering ruinous competition to Austrian fabrics.
Again. Austrian duties collected Ia silver
the standard OF the country-while those
oil Germany paid In gold. Being reduced
10 purchase gold abroadat heavy loss as com pared
with svcrin order TO pay the interest the foreign
goin debt, Austria gave notice Of her intention TO
collect duties 10 gold, which Germany opposed. on
the other hand, Germany was hampcred by tho pro-
Visions oil the treaty admitting Austrian wines at low
duties. nasmuch under the 'most Law ored nation"
clause with France IL became necessary to ADMIT
french wines az The same low rates. Both nations
seemed DESTROYS to recode from tho tree trade policy
oil The past decade aud Increase their tariffs with
reference solely TO domestic IN terests ana IN the
sense OF seli-prolection.
MINISTERIAL OPINION
IN Mr. kassons judgment Europe II now sufcrln.
Under the stimulus OF trade tcnae which
prevailed from 1860 TO 1875 the excess oi production
necessarily passed most ircely over the lowest Gus
toms barriers from the country OF cheapest produc-
ton. Hence the great injury inflicted upon Austrian
industry. In order 10 recover IRON these depressing
Influences anu TO rcadJusi domestic production and
supply, Austria ~ 10 revise her tarn in the
sense OF home protection. stipulation has been
troduccd aiming to secure the nost favored nation
treatment IN foreign countries Tor Austrian ships aud
merchandise the absence of specific treaty stipula-
mating DUTY OF ten per cent taxed goods or un
original duty OF live per cent goods the Tree list
coming from States which treat Austro- hungarian
goods or ships less tavoraby than those OF other
states. The taril Introduced TO 20 into ope
ration on the lst of January 1873
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nisrsprssens their constituents when an overwhem-

msrepresent their constituents when an overwhelm-
Ing majority OF the country Is for IT,
CoRREsPoSDENT-wiIl the debate be long?
Senator JoSEs-The length Of the debate will depend
upon the gold men. The silver men have SUBSTANTIALLY
facts and arguments by SO far have
generally met with general and loose jointed state
mems, or with epithets and vituperation They
quietly await the time when shall suit the pleasure
OF the advocates OF the gold standard address them
selves to the merits OF the case.
CoRREsPoSDgSr-What will DO the effect OF the
Presidents$eto?
Senator yoSEs-A veto will OF esurse kill tho bill
the present Congress- unless twothrds OF both
come 10 It's rescue. veto can simply postpone, but
cannot finally defeat the measure. The remonetiza-
ton OF silver Is be ordained by the next
Congress, over the Presidents head n necessary A
veto now Will not change the final result but will pro-
long inc present agitation and period Of uncertainty
ana aggravate all existing evils All the effects OF
attempt on the part OF the President TO oppose his
WI TO that OF the nation cannot be foreseen.
~ the present INDUSTRIAL commercial and financial de-
preston continues, ana there Is NO reason why 1t
snorid not, unless the financial policy shall be
postpone the collection debts and the foreclosure of
mortgages. There has been a general disposition to
acqu'esce IN the declsraory resolution oil March 20.
1863 commonly known as the scredit siren gthenng
resolution" which construed the law under which The
hvetweniy bonds was issued to that the prin-
c'pai Of those bonds was payable In COIN, and. in
iact. declared them TO be SO payable. majority OF
the people OF this country including the present
rotary oil the Treasury believed that they were legally
and equitably payable In greenbacks but giving the
pubic creditor the benefit OF The slightest doubt they
acquiesced in the policy OF paying them in CON- But
II IL not TO be forgotten that thore always has
been large party IN this country that
challenged the wisdom OF that resolution, criticised
tho motives for passing IL and denied its binding
iorce Al Indefinite continuance OF the acquioscenco
OF majority Of the people the binding that
resolution may DO doubtful II the coin promised IN
iwhich Included silver as we'll as gold coin, as was
declared at tho limo by nearly every Senator who
spoke In support OF the rosouton--ls to be uar-
rowed 10 gold ony one essential part OF that
luton IS TO be thus advocated, and plainly In the
teres OF the creditor, the OF the people may
conclude that 1t Will be just abrogate tho whole Of
H. and lot the nve-twenty bonus stand upon the
terms on which they were originally issued. Just
course now will prevent future complications