Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 2, 1872, Page 4

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THIRD PAGE—Our Gerinan Citizons: Interesting Faots 204 Figuros Concerning the Teatons of Chicago— Miscellaneous Local News—Business Directors, FOURTH!PAGE—Editorial: Tho Causo of Mr. Greo- los's Death; Tho Greeley Electors; Unscemly Quarrclling; The Coming Sossion of Congrass— Current News Items—Tho Presidential Election— List of Members of Tho Forty-Socond Congross. FIFTH PAGE~Tho Farm and Garden—The Apiary—To. port of The Marine Hospital Servico for 18:2—fo- cent Explosions—Afisccllaneons News Items—Adver- ‘tisements. SIXTH PAGE-Monstary snd _Commercial-Marine Inteligence—Railrozd Timo Table. SEVENTH PAGE-New York Letter—Tho Stanley Furoro—General News Ttems—Personal—Small Ad- vertisements: Real Estate, For Salo, To Rent, ‘Wanted, Bosrding, Lodging, etc. EIGHTH PAGE—Miscellancous Telegrams—City in Brick. reeley: In Momoriam—Miscel~ TO-DAY’S AMUSEMENTS. ACADENY OF MUSIC—Halstod street, sonth of Mlzdison. Lingard Combination. ‘*A Life's Dream," with Lingesd sketches. ACVICKER'S THEATRE-Madison stocot, botwoen Statzand Dearborn. Eagzgemont of Miss Jaze Coombs. “*School for Scandal.” AIKEN'S THEATRE—Wabash avenue, corner of Con- grossstroet. Rubinstein concort. IIVERS' OPERA HOUSE—3cnroo streot, botwoon tote and Demtborn. Arlingion, Cotton & Kemblo's Ifiustrel and Burlesque Troup GLOBE THEATRE—Dasplaines street, btween Madi- sonand Washiugton. _The Lelia Ellis Ballad Opera Com- pany, and farce of ¢ Poor Pillicodds.™ STAR LECTURE COURSE—Michizan Avenue Bap- tist Church. Scott-Siddons readings. BUSINESS NOTICES. WEST'S BAZAR, 20 AKD 02 WABASH-AV., IS Dy faz the cheancat placo In_ Chicaro ta bus { <5 ¢bods for Christmas presents, A largo and attructive stock at iow prices. WESTs TO%, tmporiors: foF 11210, 6, 35, 13, B, 3. 3ress SMITH, SIMMONS & CO., Box &, ONSUMPTIVE, TO TEE CON —WILBOR’S Compound of Cod Liver Ol and Liie, withoat possossing 4ne. vers wausaatiug dovor of the article as herctafore used. is en- <mwed by the phosphato of lime with o healing property, which renders the oil doubls effcacious. Remark: h§e testlmoztals of it cRicacy can be cxhibited (o thoso who desire to soe t! . For salo by A. B. WILBOR, Chemist, 165 Coureost., Bosion: RURAL BEAUTIES AND CITY BELLES-COUN- try gislsaro not a whit behind thelr metropoiitan sistersin thenatural elements of loveliness, but it must bo concodcd ibat tho city bolles best understend tho art of Presorcing zad heighténing their personal beauts. The most por- fect foaturcs lose half their attraction unless the com- plexicn is properly cared for, and if the prelgnfkls of the Taral districts wish io compete with the *‘Falrstars” of he fachionable world in reiined attractions, they must yax duo attention 1o this importnt point. They ought Loknor, for tho fact is anturions, that HAGAN'S MAG- ROLLa BALM imparis (o the skia'a delicate, ecrly an- Framnce, unproducablo by aay othor propstatiua uder The swa. Nomatior how Ihe curicle ma¥ havo boen rath- eved by exposurs o discolored by tho sun, (no Baim wili erder it soft and plisble, and removes ¢very blom- The Chicago Tiibune, Monday Morning, December 2, i872. 3lr. Froude will payno further attention, he ea7g, to Father Burke’s attacks, but will adhero to his original course of lecture: Emperor William, by the creation of twenty- five new Peers, has faken the first step toward the destruction of the msjority in the Tpper Hoase of the Prussian Parliament, which in the last session defeated the Reform bill intr- duced by the Government. It is probsblo ibat the death of Mr. Greeley, snd the consequent uncertainty as to the vote of the minority of the Electoral College, will e~ vive the agitation of the direct vote for Pres- ident asa substitute for the present system, with greater prospects of a practical result than the issue hag ever had heretofore. Governor Palmer is asked, by the Committee appointed in this State by tho Centennial Com- missioners, to recommend the Legislature to establizh a Commission to take part, on behalf of Tlinois, in the preparations for the Centen- nial Celébration to be held in Philadelphin in 1876. The Liberal Presidential Electors of Maryland meet to-day to decide how their vote shall be cast, since Mr. Greeley’s death removes the can- didate for whom their ballois were to have been given. Efforts, it 18 aid, are being made to transfer the vote of Maryland to Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, Paris goined only brief yepose from the mea~ gre majority of 24 which pased the resolution of Minister Da Faure, for s Committee of 30 to araft a cheme for constitutionsl reforms, Al 1he escitement hes been rekindled, by a vote in which the Assembly, by a majority of 6, has censured the Adminietration for receiving the addresses of sympathy which have poured in upon it from the Municipal Councils, during its racent troubles. iforo money was spent for Government print- ing last year thanin any of the preceding ten vears, escept 1665, when an'mnusnal amount of work grew ont of the war. Of the $1,802,343 epest in 1872 by the Congressional Printing Office, $322,861. went for Tressury printing, more than for any other single branch of the Government. Documents for the Honse of Rep- _resentatives cost $205,009; for the Benate, $125,6¢1; and the orders given by Congress for public printing and binding amount to $893,190. Congressiongl Printer Clapp makes his annual request for greater appropriations. Although ths meseago will bo meda pablic to- day and read in the morning newspapers to-mor~ row all over the country, our impatient do- spatches foreshadow that it will not favor very riuch more reduction of taxation, as the neods of the Treasury for expenses, interest on our bonde, and payment of the debt equal tho ent rovenue. Liberal appropriations are F recommended to continue the improve- ments needed to fit Washington to be tire National Capital. Nothing is said of Com- ‘missioner Douglass’ plan for reducing the force of the Internal Revenus Department, and no spproval expressed of the Telegraph scheme of FPcetmaster General Creswell. Cuban troubles are deplored; thé attention of Congress directed to the condition of our Mesican border, and San Domingo seems to have been forgotten. } Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention the con- sideration of the change in her Btate election day from October to November, making it fall upon the some day a5 that of the Presidential election. It argues that, if Pennsylvania showld mako this cbange, Ohio, Indiana, and Maino would be likely to follow the example ; and, with changes in these four States, the local elections in the others would be of little significance. Pennsylvania has a pecaliarly favorable opportunity for in- sugurating the chango, a sufficient excuse for which could be found in the benefit that the people of that State alone would derive from the circumstance that one day, instead of two, would serve for voting purposes and their con- tingent loss of time The Chicsgo produce markets were rather slowon Saturday. Mess porkwasdull and & ghade easier, at $12.25 cash or seller December, and $12.25@12.37% seller March. Lard was in fair demand and steady at TX{@734c cash; T3¢ @7 ¢ seller January; and 7%@7%c seller March, Meats weresteady at 4c for part salied shoulders; 6@03¢e]for short ribs; and 6@ 64c for do short clear. Green hams active at 7@7%4c perlb for 16 and 15 1b averages. - Highwinos were dull and steady at 83¢ per gal- lor. Dressed hogs were quiet and firm at 43¢ perib. Flour was firm, but less active. Wheat was moderately sctive, and firmer, closing at $1.09% cash or soller December, and $1.113%§ seller January., Corn was dull and o lower, closing at §13fc seller Decernber, and31%@313{c geller January. Oats were quiet and weak, closing ab 24c seller Docember, and 2434 seller January. Ry was more active and firm, closing at 57c. Barley was less active, but 3¢c higher, closing at Gle for car lots, 60c seller the month, and 5le for No. 8. Thero was a quieter fecling in tho hog market, and prices wers weak and lower; closing at $3.90@415. Cattlo and shecp mot with & moderate inquiry at about former prices. A juror, in the recent trial of Andre, in New York, for killing his wife, which resulted in o coniction for manslaughter, publishes a card in which he ettributes the impunity of murder to the peculiaritics of jury-organization. In the Andre case, seven were for a verdict of murder at first, threo for insanity, snd two for man- elaughter. The case wag one in which thewife's infidelity had been cloarly proved, and tho juror statesthat all, at least one-third, of the jury held to the opinion that every men is justified in killing the adulterer or adulteress, when tho crime is brought home to his own domestic circle. Tho conclusions from ‘this state- ment are of the broadest character. There is mno rpason why the jury in the Andro case should not b regarded es an average jury. Therehas been mo cherge or intimation of corruption, end it was organized from no special elass. Tho same influences that led one- third of this jury t6 regard the killing of an adulterer or an adultercss as justifiable would lead a similar proportion of other juries to main- tain the same belief. Wkilo particular juries might be found occasionally that would unite in the opposite opinion, the average result would be the eame in ninefy-nine cases out of every one hundred. We msay conclude, therefore, that so long as " the verdict rests with the jury, without any special law in regard to cases of adultery, that there will be nomore convictions for murder in the first de- gree, with capital panishment, in cases of which adaltery may be regarded as the moving cause. A still greater danger, however, lics in the cir- cumstance that such aequittals must be based on the ground of emotional insanity,” whichopens 2 way of escape for murderers of all classes who aro defended by ingenious lawyers. THE CAUSE OF MR, GREELEY'S DEATH. Next to maligning & virtuous woman, the Chi- cago Times scems to b happiest in striking at a deadman. Ta an article under the above cap- tion, it mentions that Mr. Greeley had been in- sane from the day he received the Cincinnati nomination to the day of his death, that he was very insane when he made his October speeches, and that he became more so after the October elections. A more cruel and unjustifiable stigma could not possibly be put upon the fame of the honored citizen for whom the whole country is now mourning. Thero has never been a series of speeches betraying higher ability, clearer conceptions, more logical force, conciseness, and vigor delivered in this country than those made by Mr. Greeloy in his October tour. The letter which he wrote accepting the Cincinnati nom- ination, and the gubsequent one addressed to Benator Schurz, were models of superior thought finely expressed. Not only do they answer the charge of insanity fully, but there is no evidence that Mr. Greeley was insane at any period even of his illness. Delirium is frequently an accom- paniment of disease, and always of tho disesso of which Mr, Greeley died, viz. : inflammation of the brain. Tho principal cause of the diseaso which produced Mr. Greeley’s death we judge to have been not personal dieappointment st tho loss of the Presidency, but an overwhelming sense of responsibility for the defeat of those who had, contrary to Tule and precedent, staked their po- litical fortunes upon him. There is nothing in the mere defeat of a candidate for the Presi- deney to account for €0 sad & result. Some candidate must needs be defeated once every four years, and oftentimes there are two candi- dates defeated. Inthe clection of 1560 there wera three candidates defeated,—Douglas, Dell, and Breckinridge. The unusual, and to Mr. Greeley the harrowing, circumetance in the preeent caso was, that large number of Republicans, includ- ing such eminent men as Sumner, Trambull, Schurz, Banks, Blair, Julien, and others, had opposed the nominee of their own party in order to support bim, and that the Democralic partyhad broken all its traditions and prece- dents for the same end. The result of the elec- tion was well caleulaed to Lring upon a sensitive naturo tho most weighty sense of responsibility. Thosewhoknew Mr.Greeleybest willneverbelieve that his pergonal loss of the Presidency had any poignancy worth mentioning " alongside of the sorrow he felt for ihose friends who had nokly cast aside old-time prejudices in order to sup- port him, or had sundered their party tics for the same purpose, believing thal they cowld thereby best promote the well-being of tho coun- try. Mr. Greeley shonld have been mado of sterner stuff. Heshould either have shielded himself by the reflection thatin all this busi~ ness he bad acted from conscientious and pure motives (a8 wo firmly beliove ho did), and that time would vindicate both him- selt snd thoso who acted with him; or he should bavo wrapped himself up in the Recognizing the baneful influence which may pe exerted upon the Presidential election by the onyenrrence of Btate elections in the October pre- ceding, the New York JWorld urges upom the sclfichness of the genuine politician, and let each fellow look out for himself. He conld do neither, Large 28 his brain yas, Lis heart wag still larger. This wasone of the accusa- tions of his enemies during tbe cnmpaign. The unjust, but not annatural, chiding of some of his late Democratic supporters fell upon a defenceless head. They were the only blows that could not be perried, and, while we do not attach great importance to them as agencics in his tsking off, thoy were well caleulated to sggravate a pre-existing malady. The loss of bis wife was not an tnexpected event. It was known to him that she was suffering from an incurable diserse. The loss of sleep which he suffered at ‘Ther bedside undoubtedly came at an inopportune time, but, without that depressing event, the result to Mr. Greeley, wo epprehend, would bave been the same. A great and good man has gone from among us. We are accustomed to szy that he wes erratic, Mr. MGl in Lis metchloss essay on Liberty, points out that nearly all the persons who have conferred great benofits mpon the buman race, and who stand forth a8 the landmarks of humsn progress, have been celled ormatic by their contemporarics, and not a few of these erratic persons have beon martyrs to their idess. Mr. Greeley's place in history will probably be that of the person who contributed most to edu- cate his countrymen (after be had himself been educated) to abhor Slavery, and who also con- tributed most to bring the dissevered sections and factions which had their birth in Slavery to substantial accord in & newer and brighter era. To the latter idea he has, in some sonse, been o ‘martyr. THE GREELEY ELECTORS. On tho bth of November, Eloctors of President and Vice President supported by tho friends of Greeley and Brown were chosen in the States of Tennossoe, Georgis, Maryland, Toxas, Louisi- ana, Kontucky, and Missouri. Under tho Con- stitution, the Electors thus chosen have to moet at the Capitals of their Tespective States on the first Wednesdsy in Docombor, and cast their votes for President and Vice President. In the ‘meantime, Mr. Greeley has died, and the ques- tion naturally arises, For whom will the Electors in these States givo their votes for Presidont ? Tho case has not that importance which it would have if the Grecley Electors were o majority of tho Electoral College. Inthis caso they areina minority, and it cannot affect the result of the election one way or the other how they maycast their votes. Nevertheless, there is a principle involved in this matter which oughtnot tobe sacrificed. It bas been suggested that the Electors in these States should vote for General Grant, thus mak- ing the vote of the Electoral College unanimous. However desirable it might be to have thisunan- imity of action, and this display of good fecling, there is no moro reason why the Electors ap- pointed fo vote for Mr. Greeley should vote for the opposing candidate than there would be, had General Grant died, in having his Electors vote for Mr. Greeloy. The Eleotors chosen to vote for General Grant could mot more flagrantly violate the trust reposed in them than by voting, under any circumstances, for Mr. Greeloy. If thére be anything which they wera especially commended nof fo do, it was to votefor Mr. Greeley. The instruc- tions on the other side were equally imperative. The death of a candidate cannot transfer his votes to the opposing candidate. The Constitution bas, by its provision in an analogous case, suggested tho proper course.; In case of the death of Genersl Grant after the 4th of December and before the 4th of March, Mr. Honry Wileon, whowas voted on the same ticket for Tice President, would become the Presidont. The people voted for Grant for President, and for Henry Wilson to succeed Lim as President in case of his death happening ‘before his inanguration or during his term of office. Had General Grant deceased before the meeting of the Electoral College, every consideration of Tright, and justice, and of respect for the popular choice, would suggest that 3r. Wilson should be voted for by the Electors for President. When voted for by the people, it was tho intention that ho ghould succeed General Grart, in the event of any digability happening to the lstter, and the fact that such disability occurs before the 4th of December, instead of after it, does not change the moral responsibility of the Elcctors of the people. TheElectors appointed to vote for Greeley and Brown have the same responsibility upon them. Tho duty of the Elector is not changed merely because ho i8 in the minority. His responsibili- ty tohis constituents remains the. same. The people of his Stato instructed him not to vote for Grant, but to vote for Greeley for President apd Brown for Vice Presi- dent. The Electors of each State are to vote the will of their constituents, no matter - whether they voio 1n the minority or majority. Tho Electors in the States mentioned were ap- pointed to vote for B. Gratz Brown for Vice Pregident, that, in the event of the election of Mr. Greeley and any disability overteking him, Afr. Brown should encceed him. The Electors, therefore, in our judgment, have no discretion in this matter. They should vote for Mr. Brown for President. At all events, they should not vote for General Grant. A Presidential Elector is perhaps the only offcer Lnown to the low who i8 bound by mno law, oath, pledgo, or onything but his personal honor. Heis Qesignated as o candidate for an Elector by the friends of some candidate for the Prosidency. When elected, ha may voto for whoever he pleases without violating any law ; but in the history of the country, from the first election to the present time, there is no instance of o Presidential Elector, chosen by one party, voting, under any circumstances, for the candi- date of tho other party. Tor this hionorable fack wemay assume the country is indebted to the cireumstance that the Electors have been bound byno other obligation than personsl honor. Thore havo occurred all menner of betrayals, and breackes of failh in all branches of official life, even among sworn oflicers, but the Presi- dential Electors have never, under any circum- stances, failedin an honest obedience to the will of those who elected them. The objection to having thees Electors vote for General Grant reets upon the imperative neceesity of mointaining the responsibility of tho Electoral College, end of preserving with unbroken uniformity the faithful execution of the popular will by thoso appointed for that pur-~ pose. Onco csteblish the precedent fora de- parture from this rale; once odmit that on Eleetor, appointed by the people of the State to vote for A, and not to vote for B, may, under gome circamstances, voto for B, znd the long line of hororable precedents will ba broken, the discrotion of the Elector will bo eubstituted for the implicit obedience to the popular will, and, this dono. the election of President will cease to be determined by the popular vots, and msy in time become a matter perhaps of bargain and sale among the Electors. TUNSEEMLY QUARRELLING. The death of Mr. Greeloy, as affecting the in- tereats of the New York Tribune, has been made the occasion of one or two very unseemly exhibi- tions of personal rancor and business competi- tion upon the part of some of the other Now York journals.” The Sun, upon the very day of his death and in the body of the narrative con- taining the deteils, bas a personal fling against Mr. Whitelaw Reid, the managing editor of the ZTribune, accusing him of suppressing & mnote from Mr. Greeley, denying the suthorship of an editorial article entitled “Crumbs of Comfort, * which wes printed immedistely after the elec- tion, although Mr. Greeley had specially re- quested the pablication of the explanation. In the same article, the editor of the Bun takes occnsions to state that Mr. Greeley commended and indorsed the ““On to Richmond” editorial, which ema- nated from, or at least was inspired by, the editor of the Sun, who, st the time of its publication, Was managing editor of the Tribune. Neither of these facts—if they are facts—were at all perti- nent to the account of Mr. Greeley's last hours and death, and they sadly marred & narrative which, in all other respects, was & credit to jour- nelism. It would have been just as appropriato to have inserted in the narrative a political ap- peal to the people, or an invective agninst those who opposed Mr. Greeley in the recent canvass. The matter was wholly extraneous, and shonld have been eliminated from the article, as out of taste and not in keeping with the solemnity of the occasion. It only adds to the grav- ity of the offence that the writer allowed personal animosity to control him so far 28 to openly oxhibit to the public an old busi- ness quarrel, which hitherto had been known only in the profession, and in every line and word to betrey an enimus against every person who has filled the position which he once occu-~ pied. It matters not whother tho strictures had any foundation or not. They were alike un- seemly and out of place, and shocking to peo- ple of sonsibility. Such an exhibition only has its parallel in the frequent quarrels of relatives over tho division of property befors its owner is buried. Mr. Greeley had but just broath- ed his last when this srticle appoar- ed, and it was printed at = time when it was known that Mr, Greeley's as- sociate could not answor the accusations sgainst bim which wero embodied in it. It was, there- fore, both ill-timed and indecorous, and meets the sevorest censure, not only from the friends | of Mr. Greeley, but from &1l who cherish a feel- ing of respect for tho dead, and for the solemni- ties of euch an occasion. Hardly loss unbecom- ing is the conduct of tho New York Times, which, under the flippant pretext that tho frionds of Mr. Greeley, meaning his editorial associates, had concealed his real condition from the public, ims & direct blow st the business pros- perity of the Tribune, even while its editor was dying. If the editor of thee Sun was wnable to conceal his feclings in the shadow of death, the editor of the Zimes i8 scarcely less able to conceal his joy that, in the Qeath of Mr. Greeley, the ZTribune will dio also, a8 ““Mr. Greeley s the Zribune.” In the wholelistory of journalism, we can recall noth- ing more unbecoming than these two exhibi- tions of spleen. Ontside of New York City, tho newspaper press of the country, evon those partissn journals which most vio- lently opposed him, havo put on record the kind- liest expressions of sympathy, and haveuttered 0o word which could jer upon the mournfulness of the occasion, either directly or indirectly. The individual expressions of the public have been of the same character. It was reserved for two New York journals, which specially and boastingly appropriate to themaclves precedence in metropolitan journalism, and sssume to ba models for others to copy, to prove that, when the opportunity offers, they are unzble to rise superior to personal dislikés. We know not or care not whother tho stafements are true. They are unmanly and indecent. Mr. Greeley is dead, and eilence befits the dead, at least until ho is 1aid in his last resting-place. THE COMING SESSION OF CONGRESS. Congress convenes to-dsy, The first busi- nees, after the reception of the President’s message, will be to listen to the resolations with which members come fortified from their State Legislatures or their constituency. These will bo summarily disposed of by reference to tho proper committees. There are only eighteon Dbills on the Speaker's table in the House,—an unusually smell number, there being often 8s many as a hundred bills being left unacted upon at the close of & session, and thus remsnded to the second session. These bills, with one or two exceptions, arc of a comparatively unim- portant character. Tho first in tho speciel order of business is “ An act to secure the pub- “lic 1ands to actual settlers,” and the next s bill, reported last session by General Banks from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, to carry into effect the provisions of the Treaty of Washing- ton relating to the Canada fisheries. The ele- monts of this bl include the declaration that the products of the fisheries of Canada snd Princo Edward's Island shall bo admitted into the United Btates freo of duty, as also those of Newfoundland, when the latter shall have given evidence of having conformed to the provisions of the treaty; that foreign goods destined for Canads shall be permitted to pass through our territory freo of duty; snd, further, giving ef- feck to that portion of the treaty relating to the navigation of the St. Lawrence River and the lskes. A bill for revising and amending the Ilaws relative to the mints and coinage of the United States; a Civil Rights bill, very similar to Mr. Sumner’s in the Senste; and a bill for the retirement of worn and mutilated notes of the National Banks, con- stitute the main features of the public bills left over from the last session. The present session is short, expiring Maxch 4, and it is probable that tho time up to the holidsy adjournment sill be occupied by the special order of business elready provided. TThe gerions work of Congress will ‘begin after the holidsys, and it is amatter for, congratulation that the timo will be brief for lobby-work. * Tt is probable that the frsh measuro which will attract the uclive co-operation of the lobby will bo the consideration of postal telograpby. This messure is mow virtually in the bands of tho Appropriation Committee, which had oceasion, last seesion, to consider the differences existing between the Governmeni and the Western Union Telegraph Company reletive t0 the rates for Guv.amm:.anh messages Out of this grew the consideration have published the outlines of this bill, which will be reported at the coming Bession, not by _the Appropristion Committee itself, but by one of its members, and backed by its influence. The bill seems to bo a sort of compromise be- tween letting tho telegraph business of the coun- try alone and the sbsolute Governmental ab- gorpiion of it. It creates a joint-stock corpora- tion, to be known as the Postal Telegraph Com- pany, with & capital stock of §20,000,000, divided into 200,000 shares of $100 each. The Company 1may construct pew lines and buy the old ones, and must esteblish stations at all Post Offices where the groes annual receipts smonnt to $500. There is to be a uniform charge of one cent per word for each circuit,—250 miles to constitate s cireuit for distances less thin 500 miles, and 500 miles to be s circuit in messages sont fora grester distance than this, excopt at night, when tho circuit is to ba 1,000 miles. No message con be sent for less than 25 cents, all messages to be prepaid by stamps farnished by the Post Office Department. The monopoly of the telegraph business is secured indirectly by declaring that all telegraph messeges not received or de- livered throngh the Post Offices must havo a five-cent stamp affixed. The Post Office Department is to retain five cents on every mes- sagetaken by the Postal Telegraph Company, and pay over to the Company the remainder of the re- duced rates to the press, for priority of Govern- ment business, and for such regulations as will place the Company thoroughly under the con- trol of the Post Office Department, besides stip- utating that the Government may buy the lines and property of the Company at any time it may choose. Of course, sucha bill is open to all the objections that can be made to a direct assump- tion of the telegraph business of the country by the Government, and to still other objections. Tt contemplates s co-partnership between the Government and private individuals ; it creates 2 gigantic corporation and monopoly ; it 24ds to dangorous Government power still more danger- ous power in tho hands of the individuals who, in company with the Government, shall control the corporstion. The introduction of such a bill will be guffcient evidence of & powerful and ‘well-organized lobby behind it. Among tho other features of legislation which threaten the danger of lobby influence, if postal telegraphy shall not absorb the entire attention of Congress, are the following: The division of the moneys recerved from the British Govern- mont in settlement of the Alabama clainis; the application of steamship companies for subsidy, based upon the success of the Pacific Mail at the Inst session ; and, perhaps, an attompt to re- vive the movement for refunding the cotton tax. The Inttor involves the sum of 70,000,000, and any effort to take this amount out.of the Treas- ury will be too glaring a fraud to admit of suc- cess. The Alsbama moneys amount to $15,500, 000, and clzims will be entered by the Govern- ment for its expenses in settling the difficulty; and by private individuels and insurance com- panies for the gamo losses. All of these claims will be represented by their respective lobbies. With these various schemés shead, there is, per- haps, reason to rejoice that the coming session ‘must necessarily be a short one. Ruskin hes now got & new subject of personal grievance. Heis soroly troubled because the British workingman wants to go to the British Museum on Sundays. He says: “Yon wish to getinto the Museum to recreate your minds, but are you quite sure that you have got any minds tobe recreated ? Before you expect edi- fication from that long gellery full of long- logged, inconceivable spiders and coloseal, blotchy crabs, did you ever think of looking with any mind of mindfulness at the only tod ensy conceivable short-legged spider of yonmr own English scquaintance? or did you ever so much as consider why the crabs of Margate Sands were minded to go sideways instead of straight forward? And what is Greek sculpture or any ofher sculpture to you? Are your own legs and arms not hend- gome enough for you to look at but you must go and stare at chipped and smashed bits of stone in the likeness of legs and arms that ended their walks and works two thousand years ago?” All of this is very sour and very smart, but it never seems to oceur to Ruskin that perhaps the British workingman hasn’t timo to go hunting Britieh spiders and_crabs, but would prefer to Jook ot those already caught. With Teference to scalpture, after his not very fiattering remark touching tho minds of the workingmen, we fancy Lo will thoroughly appreciate the British work- ingmen’s legs and arms if he is ever unfortunate enongh to get near them. —_— Just at present, while all the graat powers are at peace, there aro two litile clouds of war float- ing about, which are as Indicrons as they sre ‘harmless. The first of these is & difficulty be- tween Servia and Turkey. The town of Zoorink, on the frontier, although belonging to Servia, is occupied by a Turkish garrison, the removal of which was promised as far back 281867. The promise has nover been fulfilled, and now the Servian Government has faken the matter up with grest energy, and refuses to paythe tribute anless the gurrison is removed, to which the Grand Vizier has replied: ‘I ehould bo sorry to have to fetch the tribute;” "and there the mat- ter rests. The second is a struggle be- tween the Princo of Lippe-Detmold and his people. Lippe-Detmold hes a Parlia- ment, to which somewhat important fanctions are assigned, but the people won't have anything todowithit In some districts no elections are held, and in others the representatives clected refuse to attend, and the Prince, therefore, when he summons his Parliament together, finds noth- ing but empty benches. In despair, he recently applied to his royal cousin of Prussia for assist~ ance, and, in respooso, tho Emperor sent him an. able administrator; whereupon the Prince bids defiance to his people, and now announces that he will govern them without any Parliament, and upon his own responsibility. Recent advices received st Washington state that our common echool system has been adopted in Sweden, Spain, Japan, and certain parts of South America. In Chili, primary schools have been organized, in which education is freo and secular, which are maintained by a Primary School Society. The Municipality of Santingo also mein- tains primary echoola which are _free but unsecular. All of these sohools 1o grow- ing in uscfulness end popularityand accomplsh- ing a good work. ‘hese results, it is cleimed, are due to the circulation of the ye- ports of our National Bureau of Education. Their circulation bas had & similar effect in de- termining the character of educational institu- tions in Sweden and Spain. In Japan, the Gov- ernment Lias appropriated $2,000,000 for the es- tablisbment there of primary schools. The an- nouncement of this important fect is in every way full of promise for the advancement of these countries. —_— 1t has long been a question as to who shall de- cide when doctors dieagree. A etill more embar- rassing condition of things is found in & case where two gentlemen of distinguished position make assertions that are directly opposed, as in the cagelof Cruikehank and Dickens. It will be remembered that the artist gave his authority, gome time since, for the assertion that many of the most vivid scenes in ‘‘Oliver Twist” were inspired by his drawings of Fagin and Sikes, ceipts. In addition, thero are provisions for re-"] S text. Now Mr. Forster prints in the second volume of his “Life of Dickens” the fac- simile of an autograph letter from Mr. Dickens, sotting forth that the baok was all written before he saw Mr. Cruikshank’s pictures which the latter claims to have inspired the most picturesque portions of it. It is an unfortunate disagreement, rendered the more complicated by the acknowledged genius of both suthor and artist. THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Vote of Twenty-Six States in Full. 1872, 1868, HEIEREE 3 £l 8/s/8l8 § 3 : 2|5 %] § a s8] i| 2 3¢ b2 Rhiode Liland] £, Carolln FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Third Session—Begins Dec, 2, 18723 Ends March 3, 1873, BENATE. President—Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana. Smeury—cenga G. Go::'nm, of Californis, ALABASA. an1550URL, Georga E. Spencer. Frank P. Blaw, Jr.. 1873 Geo, Galdthiail Carl Schurz., it ABEANSAS, NEDBASEA, Benjawmin F. Ric Thomas . Tipto Powall Clayton.. |Bh, W. Hitcheock. CALTFORNIAL NEVADA. |Fames W, Nse. Eugene Casserly. 5|Wan, M, Stewart, CORNECTIO AP Orris 8, Fe Wi, A, Buckingham. . perawine, Thomas F. Bayard.. Bl Saulsbury... FLORIDA, Thomas V. Osborn. Logan.. TXDIAN] Oliver P, Morton. Daniel D, Pratt.. John Scot. .. BUODE ISLAND, 1873 William Sprague 7{Henry B, Anthony EANSAG, Samuel C. Pomero; Alex. Caldwell, " EENTO Willis B. Machen.. Joha ¥, Stevensor LOISTANA, Wi, Pitt Kellogz.. J. tiodman West. AUTNE, Hannibal Hamlin, George ¥. Edmunds, FIRGINIA, John F, Lewis. . |John T, Johnaton, WEST VIRGINIA. |Arthur L Boreman, 1871|Henry G. Darie.. Wiscox Timothy O, Howe. ....1873 |Afatt. . Carpenter. .. 1875 Adelbert Ames.... Administration (in Roman). Opposition (in italics). . HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Jazs @, Braxse, of Augusta, Maine, Speaker. Epwanp MoPaEnSoN, of Gettysburg, Pa,, Clerk, [Members marked * are re-elected,] NEW JERSEY. 1, John . Hazelton,* 2. Samuel C. Forker, 3. John 7, Bird, 4. John Hill, 6. George A, Halsey, NEW YORK. 1. Duight Townsend. 2. Thomas Kinaella, 3. Henry W. Slocum, 4. Robert B. Rooserelt., William R. Roberl(s.* ALABAMA, 1, Benjamin 8. Turner, 2. Clrles W, Buckl 2, Oliver P. Snyder.® 8, John Eduwards, - CALIFORNTA. ! 1. Sberman O.Houghton.” 3. Asron A, Sargent, 5. John M. Coghlan, CONNEOTICUT, 1, Joseph R, Hawley. 2. Btephen . Kellogg, 5. H, H, Starkweather, &, William H. Barnum, DELAWARE, Benjamin 7. Biggs, FLORIDA. Josiah T. Walls, GEORGIA. 1. Archi T, Mclntyre* 2 Blohard 31 Whiteley.* o] 18, John 31, Carroll, 19, . Prindle. [20, Clinton L. Merriam.* , Bigby. . Ellis H, Roberts,* 4. E. W. Beck. 22, William E. Lansing.* 5. Dudley M. D Bose. |23, Tt. Holland Duell.* 8. William P, Price. 24. John E. Seeley. 7. Pierce L. B. Young.* {25. Wil H. Lamport.* TLLINO] 126. Afilo Goodrich, John L. Beveridge. 1. Charles B, Farwell.* 2. John F, Farnsworth, 3. Horatio C, Burcbard.” Hawley.* 5. g’adfflgd . Stecens. 6. Henry Snapp, 7. Jeaso H, Moore, 8. James C. Robinson.® 27, Horace B, Smith.* 28. Freeman Clarke,” 129, Seth Wakeman, [80. Witliam Williams. 31. Walter L, Sessions.* NORTH CAROLINA. 1. Clinton L. Cobb,” 2. Charles R, Thomas.* 8. Alfred M. Waddell.* 9, Thonip, 1. McNeel 4. Sion H, Rogers, 10. Edward ce. 5. James M, Leach.* 11, Samuel S, Marshall.® | 6. Franeis 3. Shaber. 12, Johu B. Hay. 7. James C. Harper, 13. John M. Crebs. INDIANA, 1. William E. Nidlack.* 2, Michael C, Kerr. 3, Willdam S, Holman.* 4. Jeremiah AL Wilson.® 5. John Coburn.* 6. Daniel . Voorhees, . lahlon D, Janson. oo, 1. OzroJ. Dodds. 2. Job E, Stevenson, 3. Letcis D, Campbeil. 4. John F. MeEinney. 5. Charles N, Lamison.® 6. John A. Smith, %, Samuel Shellabarger, 8. John Beatty. 8 dames ¥, Trhex. 2 Charles Foater.* . Joun P, C, ks, . Erasmus D. Peg 10, William Williams, 11, John T, Wilso ck' 11, Jasper Packard, 12. Philadelph VanTrump I0WA, 113. George . Morgan. 1. Geo. W, McCrary.” 2. Aylett R. Cotton.* 3. William G. Donnian.* 4, Dadison L Walden, 14, James J{onrce.* {15, William P, Sprague.® 16. John A. Bingham, 17. Jacob A, Ambler. 6, Frank W, Palmer, |18, William H, U 6, Jackson Orr.* 19, Tames A, Garbelds KANEAS, OREGON. David P. Lowe,* James H. Siater. KENTUCKY, 1. Edward Crossland.® 2. Henry D; McHenry. 3. Joscph H, Lewis, 4. William. B, Read.® 5. Boyd Winchester. 6. Wiltiam E. Arthur. . James B, Back.* 8. Georye 3f, Adama.” 9. John JF. Rice. LOUISIANA, 1. J. Hale Sypher, 2, Lionel A. Sueldon, 3, Chester B. Darrall’* 4. dlex, Boarmazn. 7. Washing'n Townsend.* 8. J. Lawrence Getz. 10. Jobn W. Killinger.* \11. John B, Storm.* [12. Lazarus D, Shoemaker* |13, Tlysses 3ercur, j14. John B, Packer.* 5. Frank Morey. \15. Richard J, Haideman. SAINE, 116" Benjamin ¥, Meyers. 1, Johm Lynch. 17 (R Mitton Speer.® o) Witliass T, Tryer (18, Henry Shericood, 57 James G, Blaine* |19 Glonnl W. Scofleld.® 4. John A. Peters, 20, Samuet Grifith, 5. Eugone Hale.* ; 21, Henry D. Foster. 22, James S. Negley.® 23! Enoaezer Mejankin.® MATYLAND, 1. Samuel Hambleton, " |24 William McClelland. 2, Stevenson Arch 3. Thomas Swann,’ BEODE ISLAND. 4, John Ritchte, 1. Benjamin T. Eames.* 6. Wm. M. Merrick, 2. James M., Pendleton,* MASSACHUSETTS, SOUTH OAROLINA. 1, James Buffinton.® 1. Joseph H. Rainey.* 2, Oakes Ames, 2, Robert C. DeLary 3 Robert B, Sliottse 4. Alexander 5.Wallace,” 8- Ginery Twichell, 4, Samuel Hooper,* 6. Deajamin F, Batler. TENNESSEE. 6. Nathanicl P. Banks, | 1. Roderick B. Batler." 7. Constanting C. Esty, | 2 Horace Maynard.* &, George F. Hoar.* 3 4 9, Alvah Urockor.® 10, Henry L. Dawes." 5. Edward I, Golladay, 6. Wash'n C. Whitthorrie. 7. Robert P, Calducell. 8. William . Vanghan. assoumr, \ | 4 W, H. . Stowell® 1 Erutrg r{:lll:' \ g. };f;lhn;i :;.::T e 2, @. A. Finkelnburg. | 6. John 7. 8. James . MeCormicy | 7. Eliott 3i. B: 4, Harrison E. Haveow | 8, il T 5. Samuel S, Burdett. \ 6. Abram Comiage 8. James G. Slc: 9. Andrewz Ki . Adesimior Sehells SEBRASEA, 2 John Taffe. 3. Gerry W, Hazleton. NETADA, | % Ao Bazer® | Charles W. Kenaall,® |\ Charles A. idge. NEW HAMPSHIRE, . Philetus Saw; Hiboard. | { Jeremiah M. Bell, 8. Hosea W. Parker. RECAPITTLTION. Administration (in Roman an Opposition (in italics).... DELEGATES ¥R Anrzoxa—Richard C, Mcvrmi Cororapo—Jerome B. CiiTee.* Daxora—Iloss K. Armérong.* Distaror or Corussm~Norton P, Chipman.? Toamo—Sumuel i derrt e (ONTAN A—Tilliam 5 Now Arsrco. o . Salges, Trau—illiam I, Hoper. WasEINGTON—Selncip Garflelle. ‘Wyourse—1illiam Tdoncs, POLITUAT. NOTES. In regard to tho ote of Louisians, it should be stated that Govenor ‘Warmoth, to whom the returns were legaly sent, was on the point of declaring the resuli when an order proceeded from the inferior ‘tate Court of Judge Dibble, declaring the Canussing Board to consist of Longstreet, Herro; and others; and an injune- tion eimultaneousl proceeded from the United States Court of Judge Durell, commanding ‘Warmoth to desit. Since thep. ¥ ~ngstreet et al. have been vinly trying tc - . sess them- selves of the retuns, without whiv.. . ey can do nothing. The sitemont telegraphed over tae country, some das 250, that the *official can- vass" [by the Logstract Board] gives a Repub- Yican msjority ¢ 12,761, has no bsis in fact, and may be takex only as indicating to what ex- tent, and with 7hat result, they would doctor the returns—rwien they get them. The figures prepared for the offirial canvass to bo announced by Varmoth, gave the Liberal ticket 7,446 majority. Warmothhas convened the Lib~ eral Legislaturs elect, Dec. § and will unques- tionsbly instal Governor McErery and the Lib- eral Governmert. On the Pruidential issue, tho effect of the muddle, and ils only effect, will probably be to deprive Louitiana of her vote altogether. —As regards tho Nowh Carolina Senatorship,. the Springfield Republcan says: 1¢ 1t had been merely guestion of getting the best ma, the North Carolip Liberals ought not to_have: long’ hesitated betwees Governor Vance and Judge. Merrtmon. Butthio prmcrin 2 veteran i the public i frors oot 16 Xhich (1o Siate bad sats him hes been warmlyurged s entitling him now to 5. preference over allother compefitora, But Judgs, Merrimon s the pler and more progressive man o the two, and wonlk undoubtedly cut tho mors im- portant figure in ths Senate, Perhaps it is worth men tioning that ho is 2 law partner of Mr. Phillips, the new Solicitor Gensal of the Administration. As the contes in the North Carclina Tegisla- ture becomes nore interesting, we give the bal~ lots Teported t+ date, premising that the vote on: Tuasday, the 5th, Wwas in the separate bodies, viz. : Benate—Vance, 25; Merriman, 7; Pool,. 18. House—Vance, 53 ; Merrimon, 11 Pool, 55. Merrimin, whoappears not to have pressed ‘’his contest br the Governorship, preferring ta take his chmce for Senalor, withdrew his few friends fron the caucus cf the Liberal majority, on the 25tk that they might not be bound by its nominatio: of Vance ; and, if he shall be elect- ed, it willdoubtless be by Republican votes, ta gethim ozt of the way of Governor Caldwell. ‘The ballets for Senator havebeen ag follows : Det:26. Dec. 2. Die, 9. Dez, 0. 2 22 31 —The vote of Georgis, Oct. 2, was, for Gowe ernor: Smith, Liseral-Democrat, 103,0765 Welker, Ropublican, £,452. Tho vote in No vember, for President aud Congress, was : Liberal Republican, —The vote of New Jersey wes : Grant, 91,6613 Gresley, 76,801; 0'Conor, 606 The votes fox Congressmen were : —The official vote of West Virginis, ‘Aug. 22, has just been snnomnced, viz: For Governor, John J. Jacob, 42,983; Johzson M. Camden, 40,305, It will be rememberel that Jacob was the incumbent Democratic Governor, running independent against Camden, the nomines o' the Democratic Convention; and that Jacob, be ing understood to oppose Greeley, had the sup- port of the Federal Aiministration. All the other candidates on tte Camden ticket were, however, elected by lacge majorities, viz. Aue ditor, Edward A. Beunstt; Treasurer, Joht E. Burdett; Attorney General, Henry M. Mathews; Superintendent of Free Schools, Benjamin W. Byre. ~—The vote of Massachusetts, officiel : Republican. ‘Wasnburn.. managers in New Jeracy are discussing (with some acerbity) who shall be next Governor, two years hence. —The Republicen leaders in Virginia are tall~ ing of Robort W. Hughes or James H. Plat, Jr., for next Governor. ~The Boston Advertiser (Administration) eaya: When thio Presidont wag ficat elected, and great ex- ‘pectations were indulged in of what his ind lependence #ad resolation would Scecmplisy, the politiciits opee iy threntoned that, if ho tried that ghme, they wold 00 teach him where ho belonged ; ~and it must ba confessed that thay kept their word. The Pennsylva~ nians who quitted his room the otber day with clenched ‘bands and sat teeth, formed but part of an army much more formidsblo than thst which was arrayed the President in the Wilderncss. The Isnx oyes which found in his private tastes and inclinations the means of shaking his prostige_during bis first term will be upon him with rencwed keenness. —The rejection, by the people of Michiga, ot the Constitutional Amendments submitied to a vote in the late election, gives point and force to the demand for another aitempt to revise the Constitution by a Convention. It is remember- ed that there was a Convention in 1867, and that its work was repudiatgd at a special electicn, April 6, 1863; but that Convention wes entirely partisan, and, if it be possible, the next shanld be constituted, a8 in Xllinoissand PenusyZvania, by nearly equal numbers from beth sho grent parties. A Legislaturp unsnimcaly Republi- can (except five votes) will hzive @ golve this problem of Reform. b —The Virginia papers are laughing over the absurd ignorance of the Bucheman County Judges, who returped the vote as though cast direct for Presideat and Vice President. —The Floridias thinks the Legislature, from the complexion of the returns, will be cloge. At present the Seaate stands 12 Conservatives o 10 Republicans—2 districts, the First and Thir- teenth, undetermined. In the Assembly the TENAS, L William S. Herndon.® 2. Jokn C, Conner, 3. D, C. Giddinga* 4, John Hancock.* VEBO 1. Oharles W, Willard.® 2. Luke P, Poland.* 3. Worthington C, Smith. VIRGINIAL 1. John Criteher. 4 5. Omar D, Conger.* 6. Jabez G. Sutherland. of the feasibility of connecting the ie?egraph Tines of the country with ihe Postal Service. We made by him before BIr, Dickens had written the 2. James H, Platt, Jr. 3, Oharles H, Pozter. | Conservatives and Liberals have certainly elect- ed 25 members out of the 53 composing that ‘body, with a good prospect of at least ona if nat two more. ~—Itisreported that Miss Alexander, s Cali~ fornin actress, who has been for ‘en years a ‘member of Brigham Young's family, will be the next to tell on the locture platfc *1 knows sbout Mormonism, y_ 95, YHAE LG i