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The Trade Dollar.

For wears Congress has tried the plan OF
refusing 10 redeem the trade dollars. 1t
has also refused to make them legal
tender. And with what result? The an
swer is that these trade dollars are still
nuisance. They still obstruct the channels
OF commerce. They are still constantly
offered at the counters of our retail mer-
chants, whose refusal TO take them Oifends
their customers. Why continno this foolish
policy longer. when Congress can end all
trouble by making the trade dollar legal
tender? The opposite policy will prove to
be unsuccessful IL persisted in even for
twenty years.
But, above all other considerations, the
question as to what ! just and right should
appeal to Congress. That body made the
trade dollar legal tender when it first au-
thorized the minis to coin it. The bill
deriving it of its legal-tender quality was
years afterwards Struggled through the
House OF Representatives. 1t could never
have been passed IL the members OF that
body had known what they were doing
when the bill came mp for action. In pass
ing it Congress committed an unquestion-
able wrong upon the persons who then
held the trade dollars, and who had re-
ceiyed taem whilst law OF tue United
States was in force compelling them TO re-
ceive them at their face value.
This last.named fact is a complete an
swer TO all the objections that can be raised
10 the proposition to restore to the trade
dollar its legal-tender quality. II wa
Congress that impaired that quality to i
by its own aetion--by law solemnly en-
acted. The President of the United State
approved this action, and thus he, too, hat
hand in compelling everybody to receive
trade dollars at their face value in paymen
OF all debts. IL a State had done such al
act as Congress did in changing that law
that State would have been charged VIII
flat reputation, though the Constitution
OF the United States provides in effect tina
any State may or may not make silye
n legal tender. II would no doubt hay
been held by the Supreme Court c
the United States that for State
pass a law In 1880 making trade dollars
legal tender, and Their another law IN 1ss
making them worth only their bulioi
value, was to impair the obligation OF
contract. There can be no doubt that
morals the holders Of the trade dolla
have claim upon Congress which cam
be denied. Justice demands the restor
ton OF the legal-tender quality TO all tra'
dollars issued before the law was pass
taking that quality from them.
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Mr.. Watterson Compliments Virginia.
The Nashville american, staunch Dem
ocratic paper, having sand:
"yirginia's Legislature has adopted reso-
buttons strongly In favor OF wiping out the
internai-revenuc system. This was plank
of the platform under which the Democra-
ey Of that State buried Malone and piled
10000 majority on top OF him. The same
platform declared for Just and equitable
protection to American Industries. Is Vir-
ginla Democratic State now, Mr.. Waiter
SOM"
Dir. WATrERsoY responds as follows:
"a Democratic leadership which, for
lack OF energy, sagaci,y, and tact, lost Vir-
ginia, hardly eommends itself TO enthu-
siastic approval, and still less TO prudcnt
or enlightened emulation. But we waive
that. The redemption of Virginia from
Malone and his gang restores the old Moth
er OF States and Statesmen to the Demo-
cratic line, and We were Of those who re-
lolced and are OF those who hope. Still
the Democrats OF Virginia are too fresh
from the confusion and heat Of q terrible
internecine struggle 10 undertake TO for
mulate issues for great national party.
The proposed abolition OF iaternal reye-
nue., that Is the tax on spirits and tobacco,
Is scheme OF the pillaging protection.
lists 10 cheat the country OF cheap neces.
saries OF fife by dosing 1t with free
whiskey and tree tobacco. The object Of
the tariff robbers Is to dump the whole
load OF taxation upon the customs lists 50
as 10 keep their bounties, as they call the
protection system, as high as possible and
TO make them perpetual. The Virginians.
who are large tobacco. growers, take one
sided and short-sighted view OF the case.
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the National Convention.

The New York World gives as reason
WHY 81. Louis should be selected a. the
place for holding the next Democratic Ma
tional Convention that the hotels OF 81.
Louis can now accommodate $4,000 guests
very easily, and the citizens pledge them
selves 10 take care Of as many more.
And at least as many az thirty thousand
persous went to Sc. Louis In 1876, and to
Cincinnati In 1880. We suppose there were
probably twice or thrice as many. In New
York city in 1868. on the 4th OF July, there
were said to be one hundred thousand
strangers. The Democratic National Con-
ycntion was then in session. The hall IN
which the Convention met in st. Louis In
1876 holds six thousand persons. The hall
in which the Convention met in Cincinnati
in 1880 holds from eight 10 ten thousand
persons; the platform alone seated SIX
hundred persons. And by the way, there
are hundreds OF editors and reporters at
every National Conyention-so many that
most OF them have to be refused admission.
tickets being issued to none except the
Representatives Of daily papers, and to such
of these only as'come from the principal
city, or capital city, OF the State.
1t taxes city like st. Louis or Cincin-
natl to rs utmost accommodates capacity
TO provide for National Convention. The
delegates number over 500, and the alter
mates (who ,oiH go) several hundred. But
these are only small portion OF the crowd
that assemblies on such an occasion. In
Cincinnati in 1880, as large city as that Is,
the entire place was converted into BOARD
inc.houses and lodgirg-rooms. Two days
before the Convention met the Grand
Hotel was crowding a dozen persons
into single room. The other hotels were
crowded In like manner. Boarding-holises
were packed full. Whole houses were
filed with mattresses, and dodgers were
charged two or three dollars each per day
for occupying half mattress. Luxembourg
was not more crowded by the last virginia
State Convention than Cincinnati was by
the las, National Convention.
For these reasons we have never recon-
mended Richmond as the seat OF the next
Democratic National Convention. we
know well enough that nobody on the Ma
tional Committee will seriously recommend
so small a city, (onIy $4,000 white inhabit-
ants.) II selected, Richmond would do
her best to accommodate fifty thousand
delegates and visitors. Nobody would be
allowed to suffer for want OF food. But
the people Of Richmond know that she
could not receive and house either the Con-
yention or the tens Of thousands OF visit
ors as they expect TO be received and
housed. and 50 our people never ask Mr..
COGHuI TO bring the Convention hither.
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A Commemorative wish to correct
statement contained in communication
which appeared in the Dispatch Of SUM-
day. 1t was therein stated that the az
gregate circulation is now much below
that OF ante-bellum times. This is gross
mistake. In 1910 the paper circulation OF
the United States was 5000 per capita (;
in 1851, s6.47; in 1860, $3.50; but in 1877
it was Sl479. The aggregate paper-money
circulation of 1860 was S207, l02,4T7. In
1877 it was S6S9.6lS,57s, or more than
three times as much. There is certainly
no scarcity of paper currency.
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or sale by the publisher.
Personal.

Admiral Courbet, commanding the
French force in Tonquin, has been ga
zetted as Grand Officer OF the Legion OF
Honor.
Charles Eliot Norton, Of Cambridge, and
Mr.. Howells, Of Boston, notify the Amer
lean public that they will be glad to trans
nit money for the rebuilding OF the Arme-
MAN Monastery OF San LazZaro, partly
burned last summer.
NJ. Grevy does not escape calumny either.
&" The President" says lie Clarion, OF
Paris, gave louis to the attendant who
opened the door Of his box at the Italian
opera. Her establishment was such that
she fell into commissions"
Nine. KovaIeffski. the widow OF the Rus
sian naturalist. has become known in
| Europe as some Of the greatest mathema'
/ ticians of our time" She took the doctors
degree in 1874 at GottiIgen and is said &c
| be enthusiastically devoted 10 her profes
sion. Mime. Kovaleflski intends spending
the winter at Stockholm, where she viii
lecture.
General Milan fell In the combat tha
followed the rccapture OF San Antoni,
from the Mexicans. His remains were in
TERED in the centre of the Campo Santo.
public square, and plain slab marked th
grave. The theft OF the slab recently ha
caused indignation, and has given rise to
movement that may end in the erection o
fine monument 10 the hero.
Mrs. Sarah Duer Smith, the daughter o
Colonel William Duer, OF the Revolution
airy army, and the granddaughter OF Gene
ral Stirling, is still living In New Orleans
at the age OF one hundred and one years
Aaron Burr once wrote to his daughte
, Theodosia referring to the marriage 0
, the elegant and accomplished Sarah Due
to John Witherspoon Smith, young law
yer OF great promise"
"Judge Hoover, once Chiei-Justice O
Arizona, ia a waiter in q San Francisc
restaurant" is a current item. AS Mr
r Hoover is practicing law IN Tucson, an,
as he Is proud of lis reputation as law
: yer, the paragraph makes him vince when
ever he sees it.
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The Committees.

We print this morning list OF the
committees OF the House OF Representa-
tiyes appointed Yesterday by Mr. CAR
Isle. When we say that Mr.. RANDALL
heads the Committee OF Appropriations
and Mr.. TUCKER the Judiciary Commiuee'
we say enough TO show that Mr.. CAR
Isle has made wise selections.
Mr.. GEORGE ID. WISE is one OF the CON-
mittee on Foreign Affairs, and Is also on
the Committee on Manufactures. we may
have more to say Of these committees mere
after.
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There Is no difference of opinion be-
tween this paper and the Dispatch touch.
ing the right OF constituent to q full and
free expression Of his views. On this SUBJ
iect the Dispatch and Mail are both agreed.
The point upon which we insist Is that
Messrs. McDonand, McCarty, Button, and
Krise had no right TO assume and charge
that Mr.. Tucker was acting contrary TO the
wishes Of his constituents because he did
not conform as representative to the con-
yictions OF tie gentlemen who signed the
remcnstrance. In other words. We deny
the right OF four gentlemen to speak for
ten thousand other gentlemen unless duly
delegated.
We were not discussing the rights Of
constituents, but rather the extent TO
which representative Is morally bound
by suggestions" which emanate from
minority OF his constituents. Petersburg
Mat.
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THE NORFOLK CONVENTION. The Norfolk

THE NORFOLK CONVENTION. The Norfolk
Ledger says:
"Tbe statements made 10y Peter J. Carter
I, the Convention do not bear out the con-
illusions of the Petersburg Mat carter
asserted that he originated the idea OF hold
ing the Convention; that he paid out OF MS
own pocket for advertising II in the Wig,
and that II was really Carriers Convention.
Another delegate also said that he had been
urged by influential members of the Coail-
t,on party TO have nothing TO do with the
Convention, as its holding was ill-advised
and would not effect the purpose which its
friends hoped and expected from IL.
The language used IN the auuless
was certainly Mahoneish, and doubt
less originated with some OF the
Boss's negro Federal officials; but II Ma
hone had really been the mover IN the mat
ter the Convention would have been more
numerouSly attended from every section'
particularly from the cities, as the Dtspdtcn
suggests. Another significant fact was
stated i'm the Convention--that NUMBER
of intelligent and influential coloreu men
had refused to sign the call or participate
In the Convention proceedings. We there
fore conclude that the negro convention
was the assembling of unauthorized per-
sons who did not voice the real sentiments
OF the negroes at large, and that the real
originator and promoter OF the miserable
failure was Mahone's Northampton orator,
Peter j. Carter"
So we were right, after all; and we
would much rather know that the Conven-
ton originated as CARTER says it did than
learn that it was gotten up by white men.
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New ROOk.

4 Checkered Life. BY Colonel JoHN A.
JOYCE. Chicago: 5. p. ROUNDS. 1883.
A remarkable book, truly. 1t treats OF
all sorts of subjects, and concludes with
.'few short poems 1.-THE last thing one
would have expected from blr. JOYCE,
who is better known in connection with
certain famous whiskey trials than other
wise.
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The Boston Her0id says "KEiFER is
badly in need of new vindication, for
the sake of Harmony We should say
so. From the manner he was sat upon
in Congress a few days ago he must be
pretty flat.
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CoNKLlNG says he does not want the
presidency. C0NKLING need not be un-
easy. There is not an alarming disposi-
ton on the part of the American public
TO burden him with it.
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VI OLD LONDON DOCK JAMAICA
RUM, ST. CROIX Rum. SCOTCH WHlshEf,
APPLE and PEACH BRANDN-all Of very best
quality. For sale by .. CkANL'
FRENCH BRANDY-Direct importation Of
JAMES UENNESSEY and DUBOIS FRERES
BRANDY. ia wood and glass. For sale by
de o-3w OSCAR CRAM.
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ONE DAY ONLY
.................ss...
remains for US TO close out our FANCY GOODS.
We only carry such stocks through the Christmas
season. Nothing must be left over. Consequently
you can buy
DOLLS at your own prices
DRESSING-CASEs at importers prices;
SILK HANDKERCHIEFS at all prices;
WISP-H0LDERS ut cost prices;
HAND-SATCHELS at unmatchable prices;
GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHINGS much less
than furnishers' prices;
LACE NECKWEAR NJ special-sae prices
LACE HANDkERCIllEFSa at dozen prices,
WORh-BONES at no profits;
LOTS OF GOODS at lowest prices.
We ask our patrons to call IN The morning. so as
to avoid the immense rush Of the afternoon.
JULIUS MEYER & son,
de 20 COL and 603 Broad street.
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nEATr1s.

Died in Chesterfield county 2. shs q ,e sse r.
ner nnsspn.. , a 81. fgs3. Mrs. MARY TIKI
REsA sscHUTTE. IN the sevensy-hr't wear OF 0er
age. ,,.,,.., From, ST. Narv's Ro-
M cafholic church at haif-past O'Clock Ia
WwsFarxY MOREING. December 18Th. qsn az
and acquaintances are respectfully in'''c' T"
tend.
NJ, :, her r,s,dence. In Dinwiddie county, ss''
49,, ,,so Soth December. 1883. IT about lz:ov ~;
A.. Mrs. SARAH BARKsDALE ,s sn0i Java 's'"
ciphty-seven years ono month anu I'M member Of
shc was for more Than Sixty years "''s
the Methodist Episcopal church,
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LIME, CEMENT. &c.

DOCkLAND AND VIRGINIA LIME;
III R0sENDALE, JAMEs-RlvER. CUMBER-
LAND. and PORTLAND Imported CEMENT;
CALrlNEU PLASTER. NOVA SCOTIA LAND
PLASTER. FlRE-RRICK KS, LATHs. PLASTER
Frs HAIR, &C., &C. FOR sale low by
WARNER MOORE,
Lime, Cement, Lump and Ground Plaster.
foot OF seventeenth street. south sideof Dock.
dc 20
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ONE OF THE BEST PHYSICIANS
TESTIFIEs.

1 have been using Swift's Specific in my practice
for quite long time, and regard 1t the best CON-
binaton as a blood-puriher and tonic. 1t is en-
tirely vegetable, being composed Of the extracts
OF roots which grow in this section Of Georgia.
am familiar with lis history from the time the
formula was obtained from the Indians. II is a
certain and safe remedy for all kinds OF blood
poison and skin-humor, and there has never been
failure TO cure. have cured blood-taint In
the THIRD GENERATION
with It after had most signaliy failed by the most
approved methods Of treatment with mercury
and iodide OF potassium.
FRED. A. TooMER, NJ. d.,
Perry, Houston county, Ga.
Our treatise on Blood and skin-Diseases mailed
free 10 applicants.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY,
de 2o-lw Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga
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EDUCATIONAL.
BUSINESS CHANCES.

nor SALE, THE STOCK ANDE9
II FIXTURES OF THE HAT HOUSE OfSs3
KNOWLES a HOFF, No. OIL Main street. Most
OF the sock T. new, having been bought lately. A
fine opportunity for an energetic man with mode
rate capital. Address
JAMES CASKIE. Trustee.
de 23-1w Eleventh and Bank streets.
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A1fUSEMENTS.

THEATRE.
THREE NIGHTS AND MATINEE,
commencing -
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1883,
ENGAGEMENT OF Mrs. LANGTRY.
fnrior 10 her departure for Australia, supported
by her own company. ,,.o-
Mr.. c. NJ. MENDUM..........;...; Acting Manager
THURSDAY II III EVENING AND SATURDAY
MATINEE.
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.
FRIDAY EvFNING-rHE HUNCHBACK.
SATURDAY., EVENING. ....PERiL'
a new piece, by b. G. Stephenson and Clement
Scott.
GORGEOUS COSTUMES AND sTAGE-sET-
TINGS.
PRICES: s1.50 81. Sale begins THU RSDAN:
December 20h, at o'clock, at the box1oiiice OF
the Theatre. ae z2-2I-
DICHMOND THEATRE.
MONDAY AND TUESDAY. DECEMBER PATH
AND 2jIH.
CHRISTMAS MATINEE, ~ =. Nj.
Third Annual Tour The Monarchs of Minstrelsy!
NJ. B.LEAyITTs GIGANTEAN MINSTRELS,
enlarged aud improved for ,heir grand ulumphal
tour of 1924. verifable shower OF stars,
headed by the crowned King of Menus,
COOL. BURGESS.
An ARMY Of Artists in an Avalanche of Attrac-
lions The Gigantfan rIog5nmg S1nfngns
Burlesque, entitled
1.-THE BLACK SERGEANT"
introducing the entire company in the great cast.
I.ool, ont for the grand parade at II ~, led by
Frank BowIes's Champion Band.
Matinee prices % and soc. Reserved seats DC
Evening prices Is usual. uc 20 -
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OUR DOUBLE FORCE
s............ .ss.sssssssssss+ss
works well. and we are prepared for Monday ,rl-f
both In help, stock, aud prices.
We are having big run on
KID GLOVES.
and well we deserve It: for the items We have
quoted have named us the kID-GLOVE HOt~l
Or RICHMOND. our stock has been especially
prepared for the holidays. and we have
KID GLOVES at importers prices
KID GLOVES street wear:
KID GLOVES for rarity wear:
KID GLOVES for theatre wear:
KID GLOVES for gentlcmen's wear:
3-BUTTON OPERA-SHADE KID GLOVES
at 25c.:
s-BUTTON-LENGTH WHITE MOCSQUi-
TAIRES IT S3c. worth %:
16-BUTTON LENGTH WHITE BERN
HARDTS az Sips worth ~. and 80 on. and
soon,at JULIUS MEYER & SONS,
dc 23 Col and 603 Broad street.
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-------------~-7a0o- :
ALLEGED ARTHUR Room
a Movement to Capture New YOrt
for the Prekident.

for the President.
NEW YORK, October 4.-The SUMS
Albany correspondent says that the
election of Warren as Chairman of the
Republican New York State Commit
tee, is in the line of an Arthur boom
in 1884, The correspondent writes that
lit is distinctly an Arthur movement.
Mr.. Warren for years has been q
staunch friend Of the President. Even
in the days when Roscoe Conkling was
dominant in the Republican party,
and Chester A. Arthur was only atthe
head of the New York City machine,
Mr. Warren believed in the possibili-
ties of Arthur, and always co-operated
with him in party contests. During
the past year, when .Conkling and
Platt, Knapp and Payne and Smyth
have been growing lukewarm toward
Arthur, or dropping away from him
altogether, Warren's beacon light on
the shores of Lake Erie has grown
mere brilliant in its glow for the ad
ministration. The work of crushing
out Platt and Smyth. which was begun
by defeating them for places on the
State Committee at Richfield Springs,
was fifty rounded therefore, by War
ren's elevation to the head of the com
mittee last eck. The votes that put
him there are Rs significant as his can
didacy. They Were cast by. Bigiin,
McCord, Lydecker, Van Colt and
Brady, Republican machine men. for
off1ceholders in New York by Sharpe
the expectant; by Draper, the product
of Luby and Bentley the Albany office
holders by Smart, the Revenue Col
lector, ana few others of the same
stripe. 1t was all a move for Arthur
and 1884, so plain that wayfaring
Half-breed could not fail to see.n
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teachers association.

The Northeastern Ohio Teachers
Association will meet at the rooms of
the Board of Education in Cleveland
next Saturday. A paper on I" The
Teacher a. a Gentleman will be read
by Prof. J.Tuckerman, of Austinburg
one on :" Supplementary Reading in
Schools" by Superintendent f. A.
Jones, of Massillon, discussion to be
opened by ,Superintendent,W w. w. Ross
Fremont,) and the topic g Our Read
ing Clubs' will be discussed by Hon.
r. w. Harvey and others. A meeting
will be held on Friday evening ia the
Forest City House, to be conducted by
Professor S. Findiey. Subject :"What
is New in the New Educational n u
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.-The Director
of the Mint is preparing statement
to show the profits arising from the
coinage of the standard silver dollar.
The amount thus made is very large,
being in gross for the five years since
July |, 1878, the enormous sum of ST.
342, 1892. Nearly all this profit has
gone direct into the Treasury, for after
subtracting the wastage, cost of coinage
! transportation and other expenses
there is left net profit in standard
dollars and subsidiary coin over bullion
value at the respective dates of pur-
chase of over ST.. 100000. This is equal
to an average net profit for the five
| years of 50 $50, 200 annually. Large as
this seems it is pot so great in proper
| ton to the value of the issue as that
which results from the coinage of the
baser pieces. Last year the profits
| from the coinage of nickels and sope
cent pieces at the Philadelphia Mint
| alone was about million dollars. The
Director of the Mint is cooling q little
in his affection for the standard dollar
He says he thinks we have enough OF
them. He will probably recommend
the repeal ofthe compulsory coinage
clause in. THE law iii his message this
year. Treasurer Wyman reports 8
1 pretty fair demand for the dollars al
New Orleans. Last month there were
more dollars taken .tllahsswere Issued
by the local Mint, SS0,00O monthly
Owing to the fact that. the dollar is
repugnant to the Pacific Coast the
coinage has been almost stopped al
San Francisco.
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still They Come.

The Commissioners of Immigration
Of Philadelphia report to the Secretarv
os the Treasury that s16.6OO .inini-
Urant. .arrived there from November :
1850 to. June 80, 1883. Ten persons
ware returned to Europe for various
raasons not specifieds and the Com
missioners say of this feature of the
word that sit is attended with good re-
snlts, inasmuch as it eXerts deterring
;ufinence on those who under the law
should not come to this country"
During March, April and May 294
irish immigrants, who We're hevieteti
tenants, assisted to cOmefto this country
by the British Government, were
landed at Philadelphia, OF these the
( Commissioners say they were, without
exception, strong, able bodied people,
and compared favorably with other
aliens; = in fact, they Werer better pro-
vided for than many other passengers.
They belonged chiefly to agficultural
and departed for the
West to engage in farming. 1t is pre-
sumed they will become good citizens
and all the more SO bscause they seem.
ed honest and hard working people.