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Show THE ADVANCE IN SILVER. j It now seems clear that Congress can j with perfect s itety pass an act providing 1 lor tne Iree c iiiin ot silver. Cue chief I obfeciion tn the measure recently enact-Xea enact-Xea 'io wrrC'i-preywc-r.w-'inwonrnTir- jrCtiit; with le-rf lender ' if SuXuW I notes of 4.500,000 ounces ol bullion ,ws theieqnred purchase being in excess of the home supply, that in operation the new act w jtiid m ike the United States a djinping ground for foreign silver. Events are disproving this theory. Instead of importing, we are expotting silver. D.iriug last week 1,500 000 ounces were shipped Irom the port of New Yoik, and an equal amount has been exported this week. Meantime, as we learn from the New York Herald, the price of silver nas been advancing, and there is an active speculation in it. When the present movement began, the New York price was $r.o6j per ounce. Silver was quoted at io.io Tuesday last, and the prediction of Wall street dealers, who ought to .:now, is that it will reach r.i5 before it goes lower. A few weeks before the bill passed, Lon don speculators shipped to New York 1,500.000 ounces of silver bullion in the belief that the bill would become a law and that prices would go up because ol the demand for bullion that would follow; but the stream has now set the other way. The demand for silver in England is greater than here, and the British are buying back the silver they sold us, at a higher price tnan we gave for it. Had Congress provided (or free Coinage Coin-age iustead ol lor the purchase of bullior, silver would now be higher than it is. As is the case with gold, its commodity would he equal to its coin value, and in consequence England, which is now buying it for shipment to India in exchange lor the wheat and cotton of that country, would have to pay more for it. This, however inconvenient it might be to our British brethren, would be very advantageous to the farmers of the United States; for with India wheat and cotton made dearer, the English demand on the Ante r can States, Ui the American product would he greatly increased, especially as the latter are superior. The sharp advance in price following the passage of the bill, and the active British demand for American silver.may be accepted as indices that the world's supply of the white metal, notwithsiand-ihg notwithsiand-ihg the general demouitization by the nations of Europe, is not redundant, and that this government is amply able, by freely opening the mints to it, to elevate s lver to, and maintain it on a par with gold in tne ratio of sixteen to one, "Dr. Isaacson," who is well known in this city, and particularly so in American Ameri-can Fork, whore he left a wife and child, has now turned up in lb-lena, where he sailed under the name of Dr. Joseph Isaacs Wexler. The doctor has been exposed, however, and he is now beginning begin-ning to teal'ze the truth of the old adage, ttiat the way of the transgressor is hard. The visit of the Emperor of Germany to r.n'and will doubile.-s remove ail irritation wh ch may rema n fiom the discusJion of the African agreement. It is also possible that he may be able to induce Lord Salisbury to enter into a still closer relaMon with Germany in respect to European politics This vis.t, and the one the Emperor has made to King Leopold, of lklg urn, are both very timely, in view ot his approaching visit to Russia. The Czar is likely to conclude that England and Belgium have entered into arrangements with Germany hostile to Russia, . W " V- i . " '.' V |