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THE DAlCi EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1868.
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
Editorial ormioirs or thi leading joubhai.8
tPON CURRENT TOFI08 COMPILED ETEUT
BAT FOB TBI IVKSINii TaLKGBAPH.
Uic Democratic TroloM, Hip PlatForm ot
the l'arty.
From the Charleston Courier.
The great iueRtion at tasne is thd j.lat.forra
of the Democrat io party iu the etisnfng Presi
dential election. That of the Republican
party is well ascertained. About this them ii
no doubt or cavil. This LoMly asserts the
overthrow of the aoon.-Uo'iued and constitu
tional Governments iu the Southern States,
and the erection in their pl.ioe of pretended
Government?, under the iulluetice of negro
rule, and which owe thtir origin aud extateuoe
to the bayonet and to force.
The question iuvolved ii the very existence
Of tbe Constitution itself, aud of chartered
liberty. ' Jv'or can this issue be disguised or
evaded! It is the only point of contest. If
the present false and spurious (iovernuienta
Of the Konth are accepted, then there ia no
essential point of dillerence between the two
parties. Doth will then have accepted the re
sults of radical usui'iatiou and misrule; and
OU thin point both will praotioaliy bare ac
cepted the same platform. The South will
then indeed have beeu turned over, in spito of
her remonstrance and appeal, to the mercy of
her subjugators and to the yoke now about
her neck.
It is therefore in thU crisis a?) an ansplue of
hope that we recur to the protest of the Demo
cratic mend ers of Coi.gre.-s, against the simi
lated bills under which these Southern Com
monwealths are sought to be bereft of, their
Stateship and deprived of their inherent rights
to representation in the common country aud
to the control of their internal all'airs.
The Democratic members of Congress are
the true and authorized exponents of Demo
cratic principles aud policy. And this for the
Bimple reason that they are the only represen
tatives before tbe country of a Demooratio
constituency. They alone, amid the storm of
passion and prejudice which Las swept over
the land, hold their seats by virtue of Demo
cratic vote3. They are, therefore, the real re
presentatives of the popular will of their re
spective dlstiictf", aud of the rank and file of
the Democratic sentiment of the laud.
In view both of the dangers which imperil,
and the Importance of a clear exposition of
the pjinciples which are now at stake, and
which demand a positive solution at the hands
Of the Americau people, this protest becomes
at once a matter of iuterest aud importance.
It represents the opiuions of the whole of the
Democratic party iu Congress, without excep
tion. It is therefore authoritative. The Na
tional Convention cannot disregard its utter
ances, without surrendering the vital aud dis
tinctive opinions of the organization.
The moment the so-called members from
Arkansas, the first presented from the illegal
Governments in the South appeared, the forty
four Democratic Representatives iu the House
with one voice protested upon the record against
their admission. They would not even by si
lence admit the validity of their election, or of
their commission. They spread their objections
upon the record.
Nor did they leave in doubt the grounds
Upon which these objections rested. It was,
among other things, that the Supreme Court
Of the United States, the judicial authority of
the country, had held that "Reconstruction
acts which had created the military govern
ments, of which these delegates were the off
spring, to be unconstitutional, the public de
claration of which fact was avoided only by
the extraordinary and strange device of this
Congress in snatching jurisdiction from the
court in the MuArdle case, when Suvou
a pnblio decision was to be made."
We need not go further. It is sufficient that
the supreme judiciary holds that the "bayonet
made and Congress imposed Constitutions are
of no weight, authority, or sanction." And
that upon this decision made, although as yet
withheld by the usurpations of the radical
party, the Democratic members of Congress
have planted their faith and organization.
They stand proudly, and with the courage
of a true cause and conviction, protesting iu
behalf of the free people of the North, West,
and South, against the right of a military
oligarchy, to impose upon the now enslaved
States of the South, other than the constitu
tional taxes, customs, and laws.
In their own eloquent words, "we prote3t
against going into the now proposed copart
nership of military dictators and negroes, in
the administration of the Government; we de
mand in the name of the fathers of the Con
stitution, and for the sake of posterity, not its
reconstruction, but the restoration of that
sacred instrument, which has been to us all a
pillar of lire from 17S7 to its present over
throw." The Democratic members of Congreas have
thus laid down the platform and principles of
the party in its ensuing contest. Can the Na
- tional Convention ignore these and live ?
The Oregon Election.
From the 2'orllanU Oregonian.
The opponents of (irant in this State as
sume that the result of our election Indicates
a certain defeat of the Union Republican party
throughout the country this fall. It is per
haps but natural that they should talk in this
Wise and endeavor to magnify the importance
of the little victory they have won in Oregon.
Bat all candid people will admit that the elec
tion in this State is no test of the result else
where. There are reasons for this which are
perfectly obvious, and whioh our friends in
other States, as well as here, ought to be fully
Acquainted with.
As the two parties were evenly balanced at
Our last election, aud our opponents had been
increasing in numbers for some time in more
rapid proportion than ourselves, (owing to
the situation and surroundings of the State,
and to the fact that large numbers of Rebel
refugees had for some time been drifting in
this direction), it would have been surprising
if the Union party had been able to fully
maintain its ground. For the last four years
a population has been steadily Hocking into
Oregon from the so called border States of
the West, and from the Territories adjacent
to ua on the east and north. This population
has been, in large part, composed of those
Whom the civil commotions forced to leave
their former places of residence. They were
Rebels or Rebel sympathizers, and of course
all of them thorough going "Democrats."
Those who were not active Rebels were of the
roving, unsettled class who find it irksome to
live in older communities, ami who naturally
vote the Democratic ticket. The tendency of
these classes of popula'ion has been for
Several years in this direction, and the in
creased Democratic vote shows that they
have come in large numbers during the last
two years. The returns show that the
Union vote throughout the State is as large
as it was in the last election. There is a
trilling reduction in some counties, but a
proportionate gain in others. No doubt a
few persona might be foaud here aud there
Who have changed from the Union to the l)a
mocratio side during the past twq. years; but
the number is very inconsiderable. They are
too sm.n a, faction, to account for the general
result. There have also been some changes
in our favor probably fully as many as there
have been against us. Rut the result has not
dei redid to any considerable extent on these
change. The returns show an increased vote
in the State, and prove conclusively that this
incieaee has been in favor of the Denvioratl')
parly. . This is th reason why that party has
obtained upwards of one thousand majority iu
this election.
We have before 'aken occasion to show that
the Union party never had anything like the
majority in Oregon which the "lections of lSii2
and IMil indicated. On these occasions tin
large Union majorities were due to the f.ict
that the Democrats did not come ont to vote.
Governor Jibbs, in 1('2, received less than
half tbe number of votes which had been
thrown iu the 1'refddeutial electiou of lSo'O;
yet he was elected by over liOoil majority.
Since the war, the Copperheads who were
"holed up" have been coming out. M-'ii vo'e I
this year who had not voted since lSi!0. At
any time since t!2 the Democratic party iu
this State would hare been able to press th)
Union party very hard, simply by settiuc; to
woik and coming out iu full force at the elec
tions. Rut we would have been able to lmm
tjiin our ground had it not been for the largo
accessions to the Democratic vote from the
classes before described.
This election, therefore, is no Indication of
the result elsewhere. Most of the other
States have liuie or none of this roving, un
Eettled population. The people who partici
pated in the great war are as firm aud deter
mined as ever to maintain their principles
and work out the results they have been stri
ving aud fighting for. No person of intelli
gence and candor will mistake the result of
our election for an indication tliat the Union
party will meet with a national defeat. We
have as large a vote in this State as we had
two years ago, and the Democratic triumph
j'b due to the increased vote which that party
lias received Horn the classes who have been
drifting in this direction for several years
past. They have Leen gaining on us iu this
way since 104, reducing our majority in
every election; aud this time they have out
voted us. Ret none of our friends be de
ceived by this result into a belief or fear that
a Democratic triumph in Oregon uudr these
circumstances portends the defeat of Graut
and Colfax.
A I'm nk ('oiiuion.
From the JST. Y. Uummtrcial AiXcrrluer.
"Ifveonn ctiiry the eleor.ini it Tn:)i-'.s !IMI.-,
lllert'uco on wIihL 1 liorm fr wil !i wli U c in
(tulHlts It is expo jient lo pUeti our
(UimbihIh In ha low u li' v n- i ir.lve 1! nii'i'lc i'is
titi excuse for tl (-ei-ilnn uit-ir puny. A p triy In
power cnu fciifcly On many i'uuus v. tiicU a p.irly
rut of povi r o;i mi')' uttt-mpt wlUioul nun.
It we can tml c u ry luis ch-clion, wusa.ill
tin render trnvi; swarm s of pro.n lyles, mid. sli ill
esptrlenoe n xlijli'-u.i y In -.-iiiiiliHiMiig any rc:i
ko liable policy. Kveu thi K! ;u licHU parly
will luolt at pnhllc jiie-tiomt inrouili wry dit'
lueiit ejes after a ytvU D.:iio:!r.Ue vi Moi y. It,
behooves iik lo have unutloii' en u'ih to
luke hold Of thluj'S bj Ilia l islit cad." A'. Y.
n ot iu.
In the above language, our cou'emporary re
veals the sole motive which actuates the Demo
cratic party. "If we ran ctrry the election, it
makes little diU'-rence ou what platform, or
with what caudilates." Principles are out of
the question. Success we aim at. aud to
achieve it let us resort to any means fair or
foul; so Fays the metropolitan organ of the
great unwaohed, and it but reiterates their
sentiments. Iu their grab fur spoils, the De
mocratic leaders are willing to jump tor
ward, or jump backward, to achieve suc
cess. They are gathering here from near aud
from far, not to protest against wrong and in
justice, not to assert and maintain principles,
not to rescue the Government from those they
style "revolutionary radicals," but they come
simply in order to elect a President who will
feed them at the public crib, and permit
them to run their arms into the public trea
sury. "If we can carry the election, it
makes little dillerence on what platform, or
with what candidates." These Democratic
leaders are willing to nominate Pendleton,
who opposed the war, believes that the negro
is a brute, and advocates the payment of the
publio debt in greenbacks, or they are willing
to nominate Chase, who supported the war,
believes that the negro is a man and a bro
ther, and who advocates the payment of the
publio debt in accordance with the terms
agret d upon ! And this is modern Demo
ciacy !
A Political llarLI.
From the N. T. Evening fosl.
The World says:
"If we can carry the election, it makes little
dillerence on what platform or with what can
didates." The World reminds us of the preacher who,
seeking an appointment in a pro-slavery
church, in the old slavery times, promised
that in his sermons he would carefully avoid
all allusions to either politics or religion.
The World is like Barkis, a very willing
creature. It will support anything or any
body. It assured the publio a few weeks ago
that there was not the least difference be
tween Pendleton and Chase, and it appears
to be ready now to follow any leader, on any
road, under any Hag, and against anybody, to
victory.
Perhaps victory does not lie in that direc
tion. The li'oiihas been a good deal scolded
at by rabid Democratic journals, lately, be
cause it gave Eome signs of sound statesman
ship and political principle. The Washington
Intelliye nctr called it a spy; the Dm Hook spoke
of it as a snake in the grass; the Georgia Con
stitutionalist denounced what it called the
World' "treachery and deceit;" and the Cin
cinnati hmjuirer assured its public "the views
of the World in regard to negro suffrage are
not shared by any other Democrat io paper, or
by any other Democrat, Kast or West, to our
knowledge."
Ret the wrath of these zealots cease. The
World, which has been ealiug humble-pie for
two or three weeks, bolts its last huge mouth
ful this morning, and has really earned for
giveness. i niversiii Mira
ifii i miiiiii:;c i lit
(ireat
IsMie oi' the l'aniiaii;n.
From Vie if. Y. lltraid.
Many muddle-healed newspapers argue
that the present quabi settlement of the South
ern States under military rule determines and
closes the great point ot nigger suffrage, and
that this is not an open issue of the present
campaign. We pronounoe this a fallajy, an
impudent pretense, a big lie aud a snare.
There is no other issue but this, and the whole
canvass turns purely and simply upon this
point of the political status of the nigger iu
the Southern States aud the right of the
States themselves to regulate that stitu3. Uni
versal nigger suffrage aud the correlative op
pression ot the white man aie the points that
divide the parties and the people. All Demo
cratsby which we meau all men who are in
"jmpathy with those Demooratio principles
that are the basis of our Government are
on the one side, and all who in their hearts
hate Democracy aud popular liberty, who
instinctively oppose the supremacy of the
people in the Government, are on the other;
aud these count upon exercising a control
againbt the people, keeptu, the people down
and themselves in olUo8 by the manufacture
of a bogus vote to be made from the brutal
masses of niggers that were slaves but a short
time since.
Jut-t at the close of the war the Congress of
the United Stales laid down a basis of settle
ment for this great issue a basis that reei vo l
the immediate assent of nearly the whole
loyal people. This was the fourteenth Con
stitutional ameudment, Which recognized that
Sta'es alone have the right to reguhu
suffrage, and conceded that right to Sia'es,
allixing the penalty that if any State ruled out
any class or race it should lo.-.e a proportionate
representation in Congress. This was a set
tlement of the point in accord nice wish the
history and law of the division of power be
tween the States and the general Government,
in accordance with the will of th-i Northern
people snd ea'.is'ac-.orv to the Smith. Rut
auo'ht r Coigre-s, unwilling to i-eo ourd'Hi
culties f-o easily put out of the way unwilling
to lose the pretext for rearranging the ele
ments of political power fo as to f;ive them
continued domination made a reconstruction
law utterly subverting that amen lmotit, vio
lating that sacred gnaiautee of the nation a
law baibarous and tyrauuiml iu its principle
and purpose, and not m rre iu conflict with the
Constitutional amendment thauit is in violation
of the whole spirit of our laws, of the laws of
society, aud the laws of God Almighty. Tuis
bruUl etntnte 1 now the cod! by which uni
formed desj otK govern the South. H is the
rod which General Grant, who consents to be
the piime tool of despotic power, holds over a
vast divi.-iou of the Americau people, at the
bidding of some wretches who aim at aristo
ciaiic power, and expect to securd it through
skilful manipulation of their half human ani
mals of Afriacn origin. G -neral Grant is now
canying ont this law, and with it driving from
the polls white men of the States to al'nit
niggeis: lie is enforcing that law in deroga
tion of the President's authority, aud in defi
ance of the amendment to the Constitution
that has been accepted by the wholo people as
the t) ue law. 'J he issue before the American
people in the present campaign is simply as to
who is light in this difference, aud which is
truly the law that amendment which is part
of the Constitution, aud leaves nigger suffrage
to the States, or that reconstruction statute
which subverts the amendment, and estab
lishes suffrage by military force iu delunce of
every law, human and divine.
That is the issue, aud if Mr. Chase becomes
the candidate of the Democratic party, he will
recognize it as the issue, aud sustain the
Constitution and the legitimate right of the
States as the true law. We cau announce
from the best authority that he will do this.
As a citizen, as a philosopher or a theorist,
Mr. Chase or any other gentleman may have
his views of th possibilities of government
mole or less visionary, and may hold that
every creatine should vote, just as ho might
believe in atouemert and election with Cal
vin, or in UfcUMibstantialion wuh the Church
of Rome; but as Preaideutof the Uuited States
he will act ou the laws, as the chief officer of
a government carried ou under a written con
stitution, he will strictly accept the declara
tions of that constitution as the ultimate
right, aud, giving way to no visionary notions
of any higher authority, will carry out posi
tively the principles ot the amendment aud
the principles that result from a recognition of
the vitality of all the States as sovereign
powers. This, then, is the issue, and this Hie
position of the candidate who will sustain the
rights ot the people; and the question for
voters is, Shall we bit governed ly law or
arms? fdiall we accept as au emblem of the
authority we will submit to the ermine or the
epaulet f
The Old Democratic Landmark.
From theN. Y. World.
A strong disposition being manifested by the
Democratic party to stami by its old land
marks, it may not be amiss to recall attention
to some of the usages and doctrines to which it
may safely adhere in the action ot the present
National Convention.
With regard to the manner of making the
nominations there is no difference of opinion,
that we are aware of, in respect to the time
honored rule which makes the votes of two
thirds of the delegates necessary to determine
who shall be the candidates. This rule is
founded in reason, and probably will never
be departed from so long as the De
mocratic organization exists. It rests upon
the principle that the minority has rights
which the majority is bound to respect.
It is a safeguard against rash innovations,
and against the premature adoption of reforms
to which the party has not been fully edu
cated. There are great cardinal principles on
which the party has always been agreed, and
a majority has no right to innovate on those
principles, if the dissenters are nearly as
numerous as the advocates. It is wiser to
apply this test to the candidates than to the
platform, for platforms are often ambiguous;
but there may be candidates whose nomina
tion would inevitably commit the party to a
novel policy. The nomination of Mr. Pendle
ton, for example, no matter npon what plat
foim, would cut the party loose from its old
moorings as a hard-money party, which is too
great an innovation to be made by a bare ma
jority of the delegates attending one National
Convention.
The nomination of Judge Chase, to take
another example, would commit the party to
an indorsement of negro suffrage, which again
would be too violent an innovation to be
accomplished by a bare majority. By a dex
terous choice of phraseology it is always easy
enough to draw up a platform to which no
body in the party will object, but the publio
record of a candidate is a thing which cannot
be obscured. The two thirds rule is an effec
tual bariier to fitful or ill-advised changes, and
even to wholesome changes whose premature
adoption would split the party.
As the average temper of the party is un
favorable to forsaking its settled traditions, we
suppose the National Convention will stand by
the hard money doctrines from which the party
never de iated in the days of its power, aud
on w hich it won some of its most splendid vic
toiies. A sound currency, resting on the basis
of the precious metals, is what the party
fought for in the days of Jackson and Van
Rureti, and the reform was carried so far that
the Government repudiated everything but
coin in its own transactions. It neither re
ceived nor paid out anything but the precious
metals, aud after a long trial the people were
so well satisfied with this sjstem that, had it
not been for the war, the pure hard-money
system in Government transactions wouid
never have bseu abandoned.
If we are ever to recover the lost grouud, it
must be under the guidance of the Democra
tic party. One of the most popular things
the National Convention can put into our
platform will be a denunciation of false money
and a safe and speedy method of getting back
to specie payments. The sham money which
is the curse of business, is the work of the
Republican party, aud a part of its work
which the Demooratio party can never in rea
son or consistency accept.
Another of the old Democratic landmarks
which it is the duty of the party to stand by,
as its doctrine of Slate rights aud State
equality. The particular rights which have
been most wantonly infringed by the Republi
can party are the right to representation in
Congress, and the right of each State to deter
mine for itself the qualifications of voters.
These, therefore, are the rights which
the Convention will probably reasert with
the most strenuous emphasis. Tbe Chicago
Convention proclaimed the strange dootrius
that a part of the States can determim th
iol's ol suffrage for themselves, aud that th-
other part cxnnot. The Constitution con
cedes to every State all the rights it couo-d-s
to any, aud we suppose the Democratic Na
tional Convention will set forth the
Constitutional doctrine on thi subject, an 1
reclaim for each State the right tonay wh
shall vote iu its elections, aud the right to
be represented in Congress by such persons as j
i. n !.. .: t". i I ; . I'.. , .. I
voiein irmij iu puanoasiuu vi mo uiruurg nu-
( hire may choose.
We trust there will be no such non -ense in
the platform as that this is exclusively a white
lpinn's government, for this was never at any
time a Demooratio do.jtiiue. The Dcuiocra'io
docdine is that this is a government of the
people, aud tl.at it is the right Of each State to
determine who are the people qualified for
political functions theiein. When a State has
Ireely decided this question, it is the duty of
the I Vderal Government, and all of the other
States, to respect its decisiou. It is all oue to
them whether any particular State allows its
negroes to vote or not. It is none of their
business; and our political woes have all come
from tbe States aud the Federal Government
not minding their own business. Here in New
Yoik we adow negroes to vote ou a property
qualification.
In our circumstances this Is a sound rule;
but whether sound or not, we should regard
it as a piece of impertineuos for the National
Convention to tell us that we ought to chauge
it. The same exemption from outside inter
meddling which we cliiim for ourselves we are
bound to concede to every other State. The
Southern Sta!es, at present, find themselves
in a new and anomalous condition, and negro
suffrage being a present fact, each must de
termine for itself what, all circumstanoes
considered, it is best to do about it. The
National Convention has no call to dictate, nor
even to advise, their course.
The Sutro Tituncl.
Frr.m the iV. Y. Tribune.
The application of Adolph Sutro and his as
sociates in the Sutro Tunnel Company to Con
gress for the loan of Government bonds to the
amount of UUU.Wl.', to aid in boring a tunnel
for draining ami removing the ore from the
celebiated Comstock Rode in Nevada, calls for
a grant of a novel charaoter. We are opposed
to aiding public or private enterprises of any
kind unless there are the most unequivocal
proofs ol the necessity, profit, and safety of
doing so, and we have therefore examine 1 this
project with every predisposition to oppose it.
If our prejudices have been reversed by in
vestigation, it is probable that the same facts
which have convinced us of the propriety of
fcuch a grant may convince others.
The Couistock Rode is, geologically, a fissure
vein (or thasnc created by a volcanic convul
sion, rending the earth's crust and filling the
rent by injection from below) filled with mine
ral quartz btariug both gold and silver in the
pioportiou of $2 iu silver to $1 of gold. It ap
pears upon ihe tur'uoj f ir several hundred feet
in width and several miles in length, running
north and south, and dipping, at an angle of
4.r degrees, to an indefinite depth. Upon this
ledge, Eome thirty or forty mining companies
have claims, forty-seven shafts have been
sunk, Eome of them to a depth of eight hun
dred or nine hundred feet, and within six
yeoro yast over if SO, 000,000 of gold and silver
buliiou have been extracted, while the present
annual yield exceeds $10,000,000. Rut the
best geologists certify that the Comstock is a
larger and more regular aud permanent
vein than either the great Potosl mine of
Rolivia, which yielded $ 1,200, 000, 000, the
Veta Madre of Guanajuato, $800,000,000, or
the Veta Grande of Zacatecas, $U50,000,000
the two last being the richest mines of Mexico.
It is fair to assume that the wealth of the
Comstock Lode has only been tapped at the
surface; aud yet the shares of the mining com
panies are declining in value, the mines are
upon the verge of suspending operations, and,
if unassisted by the Government, must shortly
reach the limit beyond which every dollar of
ore extracted will cost more than a dollar to
extract. This is because, first, as the shafts
descend, the cost of pumping up the water,
expelling the foul vapors, and raising the ore,
increases in almost geometrical ratio; and,
secondly, the companies working separately
are each compelled to pay for separate engines,
works, fires, and to sustain a separate set of
workmen and officers. The expense ot each
company draining its own mine exceeds any
coniolidated system which would drain all
the mines, as in a city the expense of each
householder building his own water
works, sewers, gas-works, etc, would ex
ceed the expense of having water, gas, and
sewerage, furnished by one source. These
expenses have so increased that the three
hundred tons of gold and silver extracted last
year, worth IG',000,000, were mined at a cost
of 15,500,000, leaving only $500,000 profit,
which would be a very moderate interest on
the capital invested. Indeed, careful
computations show that the shafts cannot be
sunk to a depth of one thousand nine hun
dred feet without increasing the cost of
pumping to five million dollars per annum,
and that, long before this stage should be
reached, the works will have to be wholly
abandoned.' Nor is the increase in expense
the only objection to pumping. The pumping
works introduce into the mines a vast quantity
of wood-work and machinery, which soon rots
and wears out, and requires replacing. Mean
while, the mines are always heated, damp, and
dangerous to the lives of the miners; while
any cessation in the exhaustiug and profitless
Labor of pumping fills up the mines aud de
stroys the results of the capital and labor pre
viously expended.
The Sutio Tunnel Company proposes to
drain the mines, both of water and ore, by a
nearty honzontal tuunel, seven miles long.
running from the base of the mountain and
sti iking the lode at a point 2000 feet below the
surface, with side galleries so constructed as to
seive all the companies operating on the lode.
The tunnel would be twelve feet in width and
ten in height, which would afford sufficient
grace for a i2!lroad lor ore each way. aua the
Etieaiu of water una'erueath, with a descent of
one inch per hundred feet. The moment the
tunnel is complete, it drains and ventilates all
the mines perfectly by the force of gravity.
Such enterprises are familiar to the miners
of Rurope. Little Saxony has constructed
more than a hundred miles of mining tunnel;
IIanoveiDearly as much. Some of their tun
nels are nine or ten miles in length. The
Sutro Tunnel will pierce three or four conside
rable lodes before striking the Comstock, aud
tne amount of mineral wealth which it will
make available is altuoat incalculable. It is
reasonable to suppose that it will increase the
production of the Comstock Lode alone to
$50,000,000 a year. Prom the great depth at
which it strikes the lode, it will draiu the
mines for a hundred years. The Tunuel Com
pany has obtained agreements from the pro
prietors of all the mines to be drained, for the
payment of a royalty of $2 per ton on all ore
ext racted after the tunnel strikes the lode;
which would insure the Company an Income,
it is believed, of $2,000,000 per year, the whole
of which is pledged to the payment of the
Government bonds loaned to -aid the-company.
It is expected that the tunnel would be com
pleted within lour years, and that the
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OFFER TO THE. TRADE, IN LOT3,
HNE li X E AM) IfiOUlillO.N WHISKIES, U fi)D
or i8us, lisoo, io?r.
mi WAX mil ME AKD IKlUii&S WHJSKiO,
Of GREAT AGE, raring from i to 1845.
LRmi al cor.trn tH win be entered into for lots, in fcond at Dt nm- ry.of this yaarn'miPuMnt.!
$5,000,000 loaned would bs repaid from the ;
piolits'of the tunnel within three yeirs thre- ,
after. Mr. Sutro has prosecuted his uud-r- ,'
taking w ith au energy worthy the grandeur
and importance which must attach to it should ;
it succeed. Reside the hearty oo-operation of
the Legislature and people of Nevada, aud of
the mining companies interested, and of the
Committee of the House on Mines and Miuing,
to w hom the, subject was referred, ami of the
piessof the Pacific States and the mining in
terests, bis project is indorsed by such dis
tinguished experts as Professor Boweu of liar- ;
vatd; liaron Von Reust, Chief of the Mining ;
Department of Saxony; Rernhard Von Cotta, i
Professor of Mining and Geology at Freiburg; 1
Julius Weissbach, Roval Saxonun Mmiog '.
Councilor aud Professor; Dr. Von Dechen, Chief
ot the llining Department and Privy Councilor
of Prussia; II. Koch, Royal Prussian Chief
Mining Councilor; Rruno Kerl, Professor at
the Royal Mining School of lS-rlin; Michel
Chevalier, the French Economist and Senator;
A. Daubree, Inspector-General of the Mines of
Fiance; and many others of like eminence aud
special familiarity with the subject. The con
struction of a single tunnel like that proposed
would demonstrate to practical miners aud
capitalists the utility of such enterprises
wherever operations have beeu prosecuted ou
tlssure veins to a depth that renders, the cost
equal to the income, aud would thus load to
the prosecution ot other similar enterprises
l3' niivate capital. The case is a uuique
and peculiar one. The consequences of with
holding the rid will be the speedy destruction
and loss of the private capital now invested
in mines to live times the value of thj aid
sought; while the consequences of granting the
aid will probably be to add very heavily to
our annual product of gold aud silver, upon
which we rely in some measure for the dis
charge of the national debt. The prospect that
the Government will be speedily repaid the
amount advanced seems to be more immediate
than in the case of any similar aid it has ever
given. The only question, therefore, seems to
be, not whether the aid should be extended,
but on what terms. With every allowance for
the energy with which M. Sutro has prose
cuted the work, in the hope of enlisting pri
vate capital in the enterprise, it would seem
reasonable that, if the Government furnish
the entire means of bringing it to a successful
com lusion, aud sustain, as it must, all the
risk of the operation, it should be paid not
merely the principal and interest of the
amount advanced, but a perpetual royalty on
the proceeds of the operation of the tunuel,
which might wisely be devoted to the endow
ment of schools of mining or other similar
purpose, or to the payment of the national
debt.
Twaddle by Telegraph.
Fi om the AT. Y. World.
The Duke of Argyll, traditionally known as
the MacCallum More, and politically famous
as the "bargee's wife," yesterday presided
over a grand dinner given in London to Mr.
Cyrus W. Field. ,lSurrounded," to use his
gracious and statistical phrase, 'by three hun
dred gentlemen and many ladies," the noMe
head of the Campbells, who are always coming,
sent a despatch to President Johnson which
breathes the most philanthropic sentiments
in the most convivial spirit. Translated from
the rather elaborate Sootch of the original into
the familar British tongue, the Duke's tele
gram may be said to signify, "President
Johnson, I looks towards ye."
To which, for President Johnson, Secretary
Seward genially responds, "I ha3 your eye."
Whereupon, music by the hand, and a con
sentaneous tossing off of full glasses of cham
pagne down the throats of "the three hundred
gentlemen and many ladies," in London, and
of the President aud the Seoretary in Wash
ington. Consentaneous, we say, and contem
poraneous. For, rising to the height of the
great occasion, Secretary Soward sent for the
head of the Washington Observatory, and in
sisted upon knowing just exactly how long
before it was sent he had received the Duke's
despatch. That astronomical authority having
consulted his tables, replied, "Two hours by
the watch, Mr. Secretary !" "Very goo l,
sir" with a wave of the official hand
such as Prince Kung could not have bettered
"What, he ! within there I cause the man
of wires to telegraph to His Grace the Duke
of Argyll that, like the man in the moon, he
has come down too soon. Inform him that in
precisely two hours (meridian of Washington)
troni this moment his Excellency the Presi
dent of the United States and the head of the
Department of Foreign Affairs will be clinking
glasses with him aoross the Atlantic. And
now leave me in peace with a thimble full of
bitters, and woe to him who winds his bngle
horn in bower or hall before the hour 1" Thus
the Secretary, polymetic, bathymetic, the
Joey B. of Columbia, the tough, the downy,
and the devilish sly.
Meanwhile to the Duke thus diuing and
wining with his "three hundred gentlemen
and many ladies," enter another messenger,
bearing greeting from Peter Cooper, who built
an institute, and from Tal. P. Shatfuer, who
did not lay a cable. "I love you," quoth
Peter Cooper, in kindly wise, "and I pray
that England may be to America as the gluti
nous friend in the Scriptures who sticketh
closer than a brother."
"For my part," quoth Tal. P. Shaffaer, "I
care but little for Dukes and such, having
consorted chiefly with Czars and Princes of
tbe earth, but Cyrus W. Field ! my foeinan
trusty and "true, I have met you aud I am
yours ! Take my hat, and live happy ever
after ! O, greater than Columbus ! I"
Of these things shall there never be au end f
There is no harm in them, do you say, O,
good-natured reader ? Rut there is harm iu
them. There is always harm in resultless
gabble; and it is such a sheer iusult ' to the
intelligence of this nineteenth oeutury to sup
pose that the real importance of the trausat
bntio cable can be advauoed, or its use
fulness as a "bond of union" between Europe
and America in any way inoreased by this
preposterous exchange of twaddle by tele
graph, that for very shame's sake we pray the
lational people of both sides of the sea to
cry out, as with one voioe, "Hold Kuough!"
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CARRIAGES.
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No. 518 tMl-rlHNUT Ulreei,
raannfactanra of Oa i-lnure. Lumps, etc., eta
would call iho aKvritlt-n of the public lo their l&rite aud
elegant asonuieit ol Uus DUandulmra, Pt-odanla,
Brackets, etc. They alno Introduce gui-plpes Into
dwelling's and public bniirtinii, and attend to exteuii.
log, altering, aud repairing gas-plpea.
All wort wan anted. mj
TRUSSES.
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Hyatt's Pat tut Lead Baud aud Omtut Hldewalk
Lights, Vault Llfbts, Floor and Roof Lights, mads
by .Brown & Lro., Chicago. Eor sale, tilted, aud laid
down by ROBERT WOOD A VO.t
No. 1136 RlDdK Avenue,
Iwrmam hole Agent for yhlladelphi.
WILLIAM B. GRANT,
tOMMlr-fsloXMKROHANT.
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