Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 9, 1875, Page 6

[ excinsive, and no powar, not oven tho judicial, can intarfere with of question it It s & prerog- ativo of the Biato, becaurn without it no freo avernmont can exiat. Without any protext of omestio violonco, that right has been taken away from the popular branch of the Legislatufo of Loutmiana, and mombern recogmzed Ly that body have been driven fiom the hall by arnied eoldiors under the command of & United States military officer, aml othiers not recognized by tho Lody 88 membors iave bocn reatod as such, Tho caune of tho Houso of Hogresentativen of Loulst aomand of jts Constitution is your causc, and will be the eanso of tho peoplo you teprosont so loug as constitntional and_independont legisla- tion shall be cherielied by them as a right., Hhall the privilego of tho people to make their own Btato lawes by their chosou representatives reat upon right, or only usmn yermiemon? The voice of the peoplo shonld ho o expretscd as Lo rectore o Tight. I ask you to protest agninst aud denounce the usurpation as & crimo i Lo detested and not a precedont to bo respected, ety OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. ' DOES 1T MEAN AN Fyom the Northices’ern Christian Adrorate—Methodist, Aftor clearly narrating the history of thie Leglala- Lure, the .lavocate procecds to comment : “Thercis good ground for slarm fu tho bare sate- ment that Unitod Btates troups have used fores in o Slato's legisfativo ball,but the roivingelement in thin - stanco is the fact that the Iuterferenco of the troops was sequeatert by the Houre, The request was passed by tho Democrats, who wero unwiling to call upon tho clty police, and the Nopublicans prewent in the House wero 24 willing to hiave the troops as to havo the poli er lea rathor in what tuy come hereafter, in theevonts of Jan, 4. Fartsan fecling Tiun high, and now in Ais open inonth of 1833 all pac- tios livs, move, and bierally bave thelr lelug with ro- Bpoct 0 tho Tresddential clection of 1970, As conses quence parties in Tenneaeer, Now York, Tiinofs, Mis- sourl, and_ofher Stalus, ralse an oufers aboif the * guttage aganat liberty " 1n Low.aiana, nud the Gov- eruor o1 Oliio. bas aenit speckal 1ncanag to the Logl Iature concerung the affolc. The aim s to exvite pile lic opinion ngaiust the Administeation, and 1o ro il the jieople with prejudice aid alarm’ that 76 will 310 & Tosolution fo politics s OFFICENOLDLIN | Tho animtis, maln 1native, and chief inwpiration aro o'so inflamo the peoply that wome sort uf a change shall be made, and that the inflangers ahisll havo a hope of boing put into well-salaried posi Now, we_ehall not Lo_misunderstowl by a singlo carnest, candid reader, Woliold uo political oftic Do T doce a singlo Telative 0f OuFs; nor aro wo n ob: way pereonally fntorested in any Governuent oilices We heartily condemu rud despise uny Republican per~ son of cliquo tuat les, misreprexcnts, or conceals the truth forthio pake of Daltry personal interuat, sud wa tremblo for all -polity when o selfish ariny of Repub- licans or Democrats cnter an irsue lke this in New Oricans, whero the chief mint{ve respects tio coming Prealdentiuticampaign, Aud for good reason; the peoyle and the stability of the Republio aro pit in joorl by the least worthy af eltizens, Wo Leliove that Gov. hellogg 388 political tricketer, but b 18 thy de facto Goverior—ant 1o Bouth American pronuucia - fuento snd revolt sbonid bo affowed (o disturb him, Huch revolutions must be Instantly checked, by whom- vocver of wheresoover undertaken, The usd of United States troopa ia an_unfortunats element, hut threo things must be remombord: First, the forco bumbered only fitbeen; second, their pros cuce wan asked by the house ‘ou call of tho Democratic Bpeaker ; and #hird, it fa indisputablo that thers are in Now Orlcans an armed, drilled, and organe fzed force of 15,000 men known as ““The White TLeugue,” roady at & word to averihrow the Htate Gov- cruient, snud when they dare, to sguin inako war on the Cuited Stutes, Fromy ¢ measurca aro particuturiy Jro,er in that unbsppy clty, for, it will not Lo forgot- L, New Oricans has, within a very brief period, mitted a gaug of Southiern ontlawa to attack and e~ v u who.e body of citizeus ansembled ns fogilimately as that on Jan. 4, We heliove that Sheridan's prescuce, anl e respouse of the troops t0 ths House's requrst, proven‘ed similer bloodrhed on thia_occasion, Tho #tutus . suinue aro the eano 04 in 1560, und th old war spidlt s rifo yoadet now na then. 'Fho uatlon was providentinlly proteeted in 1560 throigh the rasiness that fired the wakening gun In Cuarleston arbor, Lut greater cunuing may thia time causo these revoit- cra fu wjarlt 1o keep nfliciently within the faw to pre- et (e #udden divorse of Northern sentiment as wheu they Were over-rash in autlswry st Chatleston, We de recuto the party zeal that calis public meetings to expre-s sympatiy with the # Conservative ” clement i New Orltans, becaike, o I other years, it will causs o St to utferly mlstead (b0 tius fesling n tho Norti, il stares us in tbo face, and the people of the Kurih, whew they understand the fasuo fally, will suwm tain Graut and Sberidan {n promjt, iron Mmeasures to stawp ont the first attempt ot revolt, To Kecuro ma- Jorit.es sn b desised direction, the knife, tho Tevolver, Bud ibie rops bave been. brundisbod and used against the colored cilizens in thousands of jstar Ana Dutier of coure, an indiguant, outraged, 1guorant 3r0j ortion of Llacks will retaifate,” 1f ali Topes, clulw, Bt guus ars laid aride, and, ko ‘worthy, law-ubiding citlzens, the Southerncrs will givo the colored man lis right of opinion, the whole dilienity whil vanieb, Their Toikia &8 cltizens muat be rospected, and, without npect to party, we want Northiceatern resdors 10 thuu- der **They shutl be:” ** MIITARY RULE INFINITELY DETTER." Fiom (ha St. Lowia lemoert—Repudican, [Addressing iteell to Congress, the Deniocrat says 1) Tt must be aparent to you thot fnaction iu regard tu tho Bouth will Lo fatal fo tho party which you' repres scnt, As long as you have ho policy, the country will have no patietice,” For teh years fuil power law been given Lo tho Republivan party, and & Lus conrtantly deferred other matters uf grave importauce iu order ts settle atfulra at the Houlh, The extremo difiieulty of the task is not overiooked, Dut tho country kees clearly tlat the policy uf the Tarts Las thua far fulod to give peucs und good Government in that quarter, If 18 representatsves havo o remedy to propose, and it 8 uremedy waich appears reasonably adapted to recognized caunes of disorder, tho conntry will wait, But 1f they have no wneh remedy to propose, tha country will conclude that ten years of Bepublizn ex- criments, euding fa manifesi fasluro and confessed inability to suggest any retedy, are quite enough, 1L Is not leas necessary thut {he remedy to which you miay recort should work out goud resulls. Another efort, followed by snother fallurre, would rendor Republican defeat {2 1876 certain and’ overwhelming, Murcover, it must be & remedy which comunends (tieit {0 the goad sense and patriotism of that great body of cundid citizens who realize that tho pacitication of tho “Bonth ia now the oue thing neelful to restore business and rovive industry at the North, and who havo bramns liroad enougli to” ees that neither the phindering oilicial nor tbe assassinating White Leagucr can give that reglou peace. Helf-government does not exist in Loulstans, We doubt whether it exiats in some other Bouthorn Staten, The colored peojle cuunot govern wisely ; the white Democrats can_govern only in deflance of the Constl. tution and the laws: snd tho ftful interference of military power for their restraint Is Loth dangerous aud scandalous, and Yel lusvitsblo under the present Lawa, “Ailitary'rule, ‘absolute and perinanent, would s infinitely bitter (han theao repeated intorporitions of tho army to uplold a shamefuily-bud civil Gov- arnment against revolulon by uesassination and tuas- moro. ., . Geicet an‘abie, upright, patriotic man, in whom the country Lam confidence, and emmpawer him by law fo act us itio Militury Governor of Louisans, Require tlat the Presidont shall austain Lim to any extent needful, Frovido (hat this Governor shall be removed ouly Ly Impeachient befoto the Genato of the United States, und shall repott to Congress, llequiro him to provide for u fres and fair election, at which neither fraud nor futimidation shall be permitted, of certain councillors, whoso enactwents, when spproved by bitm, whall o laws of tho territory. Thien make it hiy dluty L arrest overy one of the just oflicials who are accuned f fraud and pecnlution, sud evory Whita: Leaguer Who can Lo fdcutitied pn huviog participated In mustacres, $0 grive to men of buth clagses hupartial triaf, knd {0 nMict upou thusa who are found guilty ft i gevere puniuhment. Lot ua secif wo carie t Lave freo government in Louisiaua; whetber we cannot bive order, aud & Guvertment of luws iustead of revolvers, Moroover, let it be provided hat any person who ‘may claim that a republican fort of governmeut doek Bot evist n bi Ktate, or that the oxisting Goverument doea not pratoct rights of person or property, miay Lring the question directly beforo the Unfted Btates Bupreme Court, which shull at buce bear and speedily wdjudicato 3, If tho Court dociden that & republican fofw of government, giviog equal protection to (La Tghts of wll citizeus, dovs ot odlat, nake it the futy of tho Presideut fo appoint a terporary militar! ruler, to take charge ot awl govern that territory untl| Congreas can provide by lsw for i govermment, 1f we must baye milftary futerferenco to provent armed revolution, let it b6 upon adjudication of & Court, and lust until 'the Cougreas of the Uniled ftutes shall bo satizficd that republican governwment can b vatablished and peacefnlly maintained. TUEY CHOYE TO OVELTUIOW TR Law," Frum the Cincinnatl Guzette=Repubiican, “Thoro ia reasou 10 believe that, if 1ho Deraoerate bad sttained & legul orgunization of 'the House, they could Lave brougt the Tepublican afde to a couclatory and $couservative” orgauization, The events mhow that they did not desire thin, They choko to overthirow tlia law, snd to strike for that control which would enabla thetn 10 sct asfde tus returus, and illegally woat Dewno- cratd cnougls to enter upou that course of fupeach.. ment uf Stata oilicery, in urder 1o aelzo entira Losss- slus of tho State Government, whick -{t is nolorious thoy Lad pluuned, The fscility fur this extuted tu & stugulsr provision of the Louisluua State Couniltution thal the bringing of sxiclcs of ympeachmeut «hall otk the nuspeuslon of tho oificer untll tried und ac- qu Aud they chuse tlis with their eyes open to the al. teruative ‘that the Uniled Slatiw authority would uot permit this overthrow of Law, aud e they Would throw up their game, protest that they wera overpowared Ly milltury; yroclafin that B aoverclgn Btate © wus wibvericd by thoarmed minous of the uation, aud, if they coulll ot thereby Light the torch of civil war, tley Conld ut least ruivo & biio and czy fur i reaidential vainpuign: If wo were to Judiio by tha taw-beaded editortel urtie cle It te Now York Jeraid, I ribine, World, und sur, we salght coucludu uat thexs cliors boru chufoderats withs the Loutsiuns conspirators i a deaign to fire tho popular beart 10140 poitt of elvil war, Autin joure Duliem In this country much allowauice xiust L iuude for rawness of 110 Leac It ie a thing to Le remarked that notoug of theso Journals tuat ure workiug their wind-purp hazdios 1o PUp P a0 Gulrage out of thin wiTalr Mmukew uby prca Teuas thiat tue Willz organization of [y Tlouse was legal. Wiltz bhinsself, in giving biv uarrative fo s Lrre ala feporter, did ol pretoud it was legal’” Tio pre. tuded to Jusify It Ly a procedunt u 1564, Bt afnco that wu act, yaesed {4 1874, Lus prescoibed ths wmodo of organizti He dou nor prctend that ks ‘-‘v Lis voufuderates dia not wholly ovesihirow this v, Yt thse'counpirators, who did the overt act of ro- belilon 10 averilirowiog law sud seizdg, by forco of nuBILCs sud aruw; posscasion of the Hous of Hep. Fuachtalives of @ blaty, DIL Up (hecry that & Btats has boeu wzas gl by nupitary power, aud that Liverty Luw olricks | u.d ied. Thoy bad 186 efruntery 10 pit e ciargu by tha recurd which thoy selson by over: throwiug ull law, and 10 vead 1t §n proteat 0 tho Presie deut of the Uidted Biates, And Nortuera editors, ss dacltute uf Judgent sad seuse of rraponaibility’ e E .wise, sud experienced Congreas, areet Araba, who da not deny that {he Tonro wan wetzen Yy tho'oserthrow of Taw, throw il thelr_raw- Teaded energies \nto a hun and cry that the Unitd Btates military han muppressed liberty and n State, a8 1 they hiad entered futo o plot to eivil war, e HInE ko (N-¥TATE. TWADRDLE Too THIN," Fram the Cineinnatl Commeretal - Inteprndend, If the Democracy desire to put the military procoeds ngt in Loubsiana Deforo tho country wpon the grownd that something improper has heew dotie to n ¢ Sov- ereigu Blatn,” wo miay mny (o them in all rrionsn thongh in (Ba lsngunge of fevity, ' that da teo thin, The olil twadidle about rovervign Biates is shpiy ofs fensive, Any nacred Roverelgnty, superior to Ameri- ean Nuttonaiity, that Touisians possesred, wis ket out of ber when tho wa forced st tho point of the lugonet out of the Southern Confaderacy anil Into 1l American Union, If there {s an outrage vommitted in Louirlana, it 2 1ot becatiee o roverelgn State has heen trampledt in the duat, bt becanse the Kellogg feaud hoa been mutatned : and the Whito Leaauera wh tnads ‘war on the 14th of Sentember ure in our Judgment re- Ile for that. As the Whits Leaguera reeortod to thiey ought ot to comnlain, They who tako the et ehall peei<h by the mwonl, Tlio theory that (ke conqnered Confederate Staten Alould b flealt with a8 “xoversign Btates" wae o reat mirtaxe, Military necosudtion have hoen nriaing evirsinee the conquest, constralniug the wse of atronz arm of the Natiun, without delfeato referoncy to the ausceptibdiitics of Stat that wer+ bayeniete.d into the tnton, The conquerad Statea could no: trusted to the exelusivo Jurksiction of thuse wio had Tieen 11 rebellon, It was logic f the war and tha do- mand of common renee that the negroea shoulil have thie right of aufTrage, Jero wa have the overwhelned Ttehel wil the itizen of Afriean descont, astoundedd with hin sudden civit importanee, botddied together and cted to suppiy thy materlal for “ States,” 1 11y much Btates will nood laoking nfter, A mu simpler method of governing the conquored sect woulil have been i nilitary’ departments and uh martial law, As thin policy was 1ot taken, the whulo of tho Rebols should iave " been cufrauchised at tho moment the right ta yote was given the negroes, Tho old cry, * Universal amucaty, fmpartial sni‘rage,” had tho fullness of political wisdor in i, Bul wo have not tul n the eonguered States cither military rul or etv] wagacity, Unwelfih, carnest, capablo etates. manalip might have done mueh to réeancilo tho ele- anents that aro antaganivtic and_constanily intlawo 1, ‘Fhie probiem, tnder the best canditions, of rocouctls 1nq tho racen nind making pesea in tho Sauth, was ono of the grandent over presented to publie men, and there has been woful biundering fn mansgament, Mence the bioady soro upon tho budy politic that wa eall Louisiana, ED OF DEMOCRATIC LEADERS I NGRESS," From tha Cinelnnati Engnirer—Den: Fire-Eiler, The ineflicicncy of tho Democraty in Congress was most strikingy manife-ted fu tho proceedings of Tueaday, Insteadof a folut cavcus of the membera of the Senate and Louse beiug held with uIased doues. and an nudreas fhued to the poople of the United States ealling their oitention to tho Iate lawless inter- ference with and tho Lreaking yp of the Legislature Dy Federal trnops, which ought to havo been done, there was hardly an sllusion to the wubject, Judgo Thurman offered a tame resolution, and mado o feoblo peech, nud that was all, In the old Democratic days, when we had Jeaders in Congress like Benton aind Douglas, this could not havo bappeucd, Such on event would hnvo elicited a wcors of specches of tho most indignant and fiery eharacter. The transiction wouid - have becu marked by fhat moral turpitnde and detestation which it shoftld in- apite, itesolution of jmpeachment would have been otfered, aud, although they miight bave Leen voted down, fheypvould still havo subeerved a usoful pur- poso by teaching Grant that hls conduct was heitg watehed and condemued, 1t in nsclees to diaguise the fact that the Democrats aro reatly in need of leadera —leaders of nerve—in Cobgress. During tho lust nersion, a8 woll as the present, the absentecism among tho Democratic members ian been shameful, and to it W0 0WD the passage of soseral revolutiunary Repub- lican meanures, o are now threatened with {he re~ currence of the ramo cvil« in an aggravated form this winter. If the ew Conuress bas tiot better materinl it is Fafo to assume that we shall derive no Leneflt from our cautrol of vne branch of it. RICULY DESERVEY INMPEACTENT." Veio Yorkk Sun DenoeraticGrunt- ffatrr, amed {t' hecessary to cominent Tength upon every stage of the Loulsana conspira which reuched fiw Ingical conclusion u tho events of Monday snd Taesday of this prevent werk, . . . What do the peaple propose to du alout it 7 The pree- edent 45 full of penl, If tho primo author of this outrage fs allowed 1o g1 unpuniahed, will bo not re- peat 1t two yeirs heuce, in bis own fudividual case, on a acale aa road as tho Unfon? Suppose ho ecar- ries out bis mtention and for a third term 7 What matters it that he docs not get & majarity of tho electoral votea7 Can he not bo counted Iy by frand and inaugurated by tho edga of the sword 2 What do the people proposa to do alout 7 Thoy can now only discuss and protest, Iu the elections of next fall they can_tuunder throtgh the ballat-bozes, But Grant does not. miwd such tuunder, Tho peopls mote him with their fudignation in tha elections of tho past sutumn, and tho stoild oceupant of tho Whito Louso interpreted their condumnatun o an appeowal of Lis own career muice ho had flled tho Preshiential chafr, This, by the way, 3 tho only bit of humor whico ever foll from Graut's lips, Tho volce of the ballot-hoxcs, a8 has been proven {lsla fall, has no terrors for Grant, Nothing will bring Lim to'lus scusca until s duly dopmted otticer of the cuurt of fmpeachment fays bis hand upon his collar, The Democrats lave soveuty majority fn thu nest Jlouso of Represcntatives, If the party belleves hal¢ 12 8358 about Grant, be richly deserves impeachment and “expuleion tsom office. 1f when the llouso meets it Doceruber next the Detocrats hava not the courage tu bring Grant to the bar of thie Senate, then 1ha fude- peudent voters of the country muy fierhaps coine to tua conclusion that it fa their duty (0 afd in tho elec- tlon of somo houeat, able, conrazcous Republican to the next Presidency,’ Let the Deriocrats be warned in thmo, * THE FULL PERILS OF TIS SITCATION.” Frou ihe Deroit o—Republican, ‘Thero are evidently signs of troutils Lrowing in the Houth, The Democratic press of tho North promised that, after clection, we sliould hear 1o 1moro of South- eruoutrages. Tt prowmine wasa e, Wohave heard, nince the olection, of the Vicksburg niasscre; of fre quient political sssassinationa; of general anarchy ; of reparations for armed insurrection. Atthis moment, Bt for iho presoncs of United Btatcs troooy. tha strects of New Urleaus would, probably, bo drenched oncs more iu {nuocent blood, The Wnicaate out of Joint: and, in order to set tuom_ atrafght, it is noces- Bary that thie Prosident shall e backed Ly & firm, and Such inen a8 Sona~ tor Chandler will be needed in Congress until after the next Presidential eloction, at least, The achoma i repariug, and White Leugues are forming and ars ing sll over {hie Bouth 10 carry it out, lo carry all the Bouthern Htates by force and fraud 'in 1876. Unless thene schemen are iirmly and wisoly met, and thwarted, there will not be & falr election hold in tha Bouthern Btatea during tho next two years, Northern Itepublic ans ought to understand flie full perils of tho situa tion, Huppose that the Yotca of Bouthern States, mani- featly contrulled by force, or manifestly obtained by Juint force and fraud, appear to decids the Presi- tential contest,—~will the North poticutly submit to being cheated 7’ WLl {¢ patiently submit to have tho rights of.Northern cilizens traveling throngh or in the Houth trampled under foot, snd men murdered for tho crime of being Republicans 7 “TINE FON A DHOADER VIEW OF BOUTHERY MATTERS."” | Prom the Worrester (Musr.) Gazelle— Republican, An serimonious debata Look place in the United States Henate yesterday on the Loulslana yuestion. Mr, Thurman lutroduced a resolution asking of the President information whether 1ho army bad Inter- meddied in 1he organization of the Legislature of fhat Htato, sud {f 80, by what right it bad This ws construed as an aitack on the Administration, as i deoilt was, snd the fepublioans, uuder the leati of r, Coukling, ut Brat tried to add an smendment, leaving tho Presiliont tho power to withhoid & roply 1 L deemned it fucompatible with the publio iuterest, Tho debiste soon wandered from the amendment, which was ouly & prelext, to the condision of Louskuna irelf, but nothing uow was said, and i tho erd tho enbject wan dropped. Tho Senators who spoka di not at any time rise sbove the narrow partisan seutiment which weighy ovory question of stato by it4 supposed clfect on party politica, Nelther the Democrats nur tho Ro- wblicans are treating the question on fls merits, joue littlo wisdoin ought to be left amang the Repube lan leudors, an tiep ouglt to oo that the rascality of Louliana ollcclolders Las very sorlously complfs eated the Loulsiana question, und that oven the loyul Nortt does ot look with any_gratiieation upon ihu pectaclo of Htate Leglalatiire. organized vuder the patection of Fulersl buyotiets, 1€ thess gentiomen i Warkington cannut see for themselves that there in thiu dissativied and uneasy feeling among tucir contitueuts, wa refer them to the tarked chungo fn the tone of Journuls which bave in timen pust beon ‘wout to takoa very strict party view of ail putlic que tiona. Whets such pupers deprecate the recent int gerenice of the malltry In New Orlean, It 18 tiue for the Kopublicans {1 Cougress to tike a soumewhat broader view of Southern nutters. 0 AOLE LIKE DEMONS TIHAN HUMAN DEINGA, Frum the huginlo Ecprers—Itepublican, Thie troublo on Monday grew out of au sitempt on tho part of thie Dumocrats to ontatn control of the L inlature tu doflance of law sud of the action uf the Returnlug ourd, The muss may bave seemed tame 10 Bouthern-born Bourbons Lecauss 1o aus wus kille cd, but it wan suiticently alatnilug o c1udo Bheridan t0 semumo commisnd of the Deparimont of thu Guif, und to adopt energetio measures to prevent thu nobly Houtheruers from cuttiug ono another's throats, ‘Thy werous featurs of the trouble ia that tho spirit of Lw- Leasnicus fu 1ot contined o the Democrstic membern of the Legislturo and_otler Htato ollicers, Tho entire L2ty in Jouiska is waturatod with it untl i nieme cra act moro ko demons than human beiugs, ** WE UAVE DIIFTED LONG ENOUGH,” . Fram the New Yurk Fimes—lepublican, Thie ocourrencen i New Orleaus on Mouday were Buch a st 81 the publie mind with (ke most pro- found coucern, ‘1t was hoped by ol right-minded por- Bolis thit the troublesof the Luat two. years, with all their mirerably complications, would be endod by thy Fesult of the election beld last fall, Bearing in mind the proferssd auxity of Loth putties qutho Blaa to sectire from the pojle & peacoful und concluelvy s tlonient of 1he diapate, iich & Lope wea Lo Unreidun- uble, Weure surry to'xay that 4t Las_been completely dissppotnted. {iloro foilows s recital of o' cane T1s s wir fparctal, aud, n noarly as we cau mal wus tho facts, 8 conij lete statemet of the mal occur- Feuced fu conlivet on With this unfortuuate busiuess, 1y incluses & state of aftn.rs which no cltizen can regand without regrot aud auzsicly, Fur ourselves, we niust uay that the uss which wak made of tha United Btutes iroope weems fo Luvo Devh o Extretny vxcrcise of yower, and one for which the President, who ia piima- rly reuponcibly for it must tind it Yery ditealt 1o wlow wdequato wtlorlty, The Usnited' Htates guare suta ta edch dtate @ refisblices furin of Quvecatiaul, sud, on requirition, protection sgeiot domicetic vich loace, In this cats thers wam 10 Tecent requisition, and thers was 1o actual vivlenve, Tha Goveruor called fu thu " troups bu anticipation uf te own belplessuce, und engaged thelr commander in scts which Live ueseryei, been verfaruied by v United Biiten pruy ofticer, ‘The troops dit ot aid the State forces, They seplaced them, Wo do uut bellwva the country il re- gard wuch s procedure with approval, 3¢ 1t dovk, tho equences 10 our ayulem of Goverte ment caunot e emnily forescon, 14 will La osews from by dispalel - of Guu, Bleridau that tkat ofticer looks upou the sHustion sa very sertous. Ho Lias taken command of the Depari aneiit of the Gulf, wud declates that 1o luwy sre detied, sud that tho Stuto wutboritfes are Lupoteat 0 eufOrcs THE CIICAGO DATLY TRIBT them, Meanwhile, the Congreasional Commiikien ars on tho gronnl, They will Juve keen what 18 the res AUt of CongPoneorial inaction, snd of tus feihers teadod polley of Mr. Atiy.thn, Wilinms, Porhap wheu tites return {hey wil be repard o suggest FOUIE WHOT cortrae than has bither:n been pursued, 1t may atrike theas that we have deitted loug enongh, atud that, inless wo aro propared 10 deal fairly with Ahla quedtion now, the Wiillenlties in the way of dning o wiil beceme eonstantly greater, Certainly the situs- ton in 1875 14 not an Improvement on the stuation in 1830, Ttae worse, Amil If the canntry disap= proved the poliey that grew ot of the former—as we wll know 1t did—what will {t say to the polics tuat bag Ted to and folesaton the Liter? LTI SITUATION AN TOLY 0N Lrom the Nen Vork Marl - Ind-pe 1t § undentablo that o attuation in Lonisiang {8 & Sery ugly one, Tt I mads the e dangerous Ly rea- sor of Gew, Sherblan's wnne cxary cxpreation of hia opinion a8 1o the atalo of sentiment 1 (it infos tunate Commonwenlth, W miat say thiat we ire o appointed { tho course ho han taken, ms wo_ leiteyed 1hut ho would have heen mos prident and yetle -nt thon ho bax been, Bt wo_caniiot Iielp wecing that thera 14 1 zealoun effort maklng o tinderrato the da- gerwand provocations which have y pd aud ne- compnied tha intervention of the mititary, and to exs o the extent of that fntervention o1t From tha Aexe erhon, ark Exprec The ofitcial lelter of Lieut.-Gen, Sheridan, at New Oricans, would Tiavo done no'di to Qen, Tavlc- fom it Bouth Carouna, The one_ bel in hunting e * robelw 7 0 1 they wers boasts of preyy and the otlier wante the Irenidont of the United Stater, by Jroclomntinn, ta procluiny freo eitizans, of what anglit 1o kio s frce Hiate, a bandittl, And then ‘to hand ten over to (ho feder mereies of Kheriat, who seoms to Tave rather the instinets of the tger than the quall- tien of 3 soldier nnder a Tepubifean Government. e would Hke to nrrese and impriron, or Lang aud shoot, not from any knowledge of (ho 1icty i the case, ik ute ln personal prefudices and partis « IUwan fust racn chieftain that mada lier conntry 100 years ugo, aud if they are (o 1 ctinpowered Lo arroat andd pravich i the way anggeet by Shendan himself, the Washington Government wiit #ooy L o8 much deteat; oA 0K Ureat Britain was by the Tor HTHE K oo the o1 Onleans olietin— 1Y 1 Would b ceivo OF tyranng (0 cxecuied gEaver DIMEED ol tho countitutioal rights of a peuple called free !~ But with the outrage comer, o Wil come, fho rewofl of tho peaplo's verdict! With the ful development of the wefarioun melieme by which the tyranny of Grautiam rerka to perpetunte ftecif upon s unwiiling people, tho Aober seatimenta of Northern Conservatiam wiil { political corcection, and tho malignant apply the rod aud Urntal potiey of the epuitig Tibg now du powor at Washlugion Wil paes away Torever, A decout regird for the opihitons of the whole Aurican people; fdelity 10 the constitutional safeguarda of our theory of Gov= ernment ; trath o the herofe reeord of our vwi ma tyred State: honor to our fallen Lraves and prolection £0 the trasts impueed Ly the great futurg of our Stite and people—all require of uss patient bearing with tho prerout aud o momly strugilo to niafutain our cauze to tho last and forever, witha falth undimmed by disaster and a liope undimiuished by temjorary defeat, Undisnayed by torce and ubagitated by threats, ur peopls will yatiently and stesdily work on anid upward to thelr ful) political redemption. “INKETRIEVABLY COMMITIED TO CENTRALIZA- TION,” From the Nawe Orlenna TimesFiresFuter, The faree of Hiuta Government in Lonlsiana rocelved anotlier filuniration seslenlay. “Practically, o Lavo 10 Govermmeut, legal or illegal, and have ot liad for the past two sears, What {a tho umo of thia show of respeet for Siate righta? The rule is that of musket aud swora and central ‘autlority, and overybody kuows it. Proclumations by the Presdent aml ajp- peals for assistance by Gov. Kelloge ure formalities which do not cloak tha real natura of the businers, It isthe argument of Cromwell to Farliament, aud of tho First Consul of France to the Directory’ of the Coups Legislatif, here is no pretenso iu this caso o Tiot, or of un {nsurrection, It 138 seizuro of tho State- Jlousa by United States troops fn a time of peace, a dizsolution of the Astembly, anda foreiblo expulsion of members, Informality in {ho organization of Legis Istures in Loulsiana i not 80 sttunge or new a thing 38 1o he sot down as_ treason and rebellion, For the allegedd frreguiaritics theve aru the sunv remedies for Tiepublicana that Conservalives havy bitherto becn obiiged to content (hemselsca with, Republican can- didates who, if anked if they wero really elected, would #infl ut tho funocenco of such o query, have again aul again been seated over Demucrats, aud yet wo bavo never heard that assiyned na a catte of Federal interference on bebalf of Dewocrats, If we aro not much mistaken, thy country will declare thut in ilie proceulings of yesteruay the National Admiuistra~ tlon crossed to tho hither eldo of the Rubicon, und now stands fully sud irretriovably commibtud to cen- traiization, *'TUE ABSURD 1ONORANCE OF THIS RECKLESE CAV~ ALDYMAN" From the Lawdseills Courier-Journal—Demncvatic, Indigu.nt feelings are nut conducivo to Impartiality of Judgment; bu it will not be diflicult to cetablish tho fact by cold evidenre, snd 1t will be readily uc- cojted by thoso who bave Lad opportunities for per- soual oliservation, fhat Gen, Shertdan §s uttorly de- ficlent {n that knowledge that Sts o nan to administer civil affaira, 1iis projisition that Conyress shall do- clare tho Witite-Leaguers Lauditti {a cnough to estab= Liw bis fgnoranco of thio powers of Cougrers ; but bis inferenco that thoy might bs tried by a milliary court if ao declated, ehows 1ot only his fgnoranco of tho fundamontal theories of our Government, but thot he has not even famihiarized himself with 'tho popular sions of questicna that bavo sgitated tho public 1n fact, Ocn, Sheridan fs picobably tho ouly mau {n the country o does not know that the tri of civillans by militaty courts ix a matter that been very definitely fixed by the Federal judiclal tlority, It 4 not unltkely, however, that ‘ho von- siders & docielon of the Bupremo Court of thu United States of very little importance to him, sud no obstaclo whatever to' tha cxecution of Lis potley. If suy atrouger, proof wers meeded of to atmund igtorance of this reckless cavalrymun, it will ba found inhis atill more remarkublo suygetions thet, If tho President will jawo u proclamation declaring the Wiite Leagues Lauditti, *no further action veed Lo tuken, oxcept thot which would devolve upon mo (him)," " Thss wonld Lo Inwgliable if §t wera not aur- rounded by o many yosuiva evidonces of sbsoluta arbitrary rulo: yot 10 one but an iguorant, reckiess, and thougltiess fool wuuld suppoxa thot the Amerlcert people, even amid the tamo submisslon they ars sbow: ing, would toletats such an unparalleled courso of Faderal action us tho outlawry of thoussudu uf citizens by Presidential proclamation, and_thelr arrest Dy military authority, bud thelr triai for thelr liven by military courts, = No other man in the country would have dared to mako such & suggostion for fear of Lelng Tiooted at by ail iutelifyent men, 'That Sheri:n should publicly make it 14 only au evidence of his profound ignorance of coustitutional law. 1t sy be sately |redicted that Congress will not de- clare tho members of the Whito Lesguo bandittl, that Gen, Grant will ot 80 proclaim thew, and thot ‘Gen. Sheridan will not try them by miitary commissious, and executo them on the spot; but thers 18 enougl Ieft for Grant and Sheridsn, and they have the will to do it, to furnish food fur thouglt to all the people of this Country, and to rise the doubt whether we aro any longer 8 fréa people, aud have ropublican forms of government, From (he St. Pl Prev—Republican, “ LAWLESS AND REVOLUTIONARY ATTITUDE." f, during the recent organization of the Legluiature of this Btato, the Democratlo minority had Lucn rein- forced by & tlumber of Democrata without certiicaten of clection, aud by the aid of these interlopors bl unlawiully, aud by & yreconcerted tumult of Violence, seized control of the organizatiun and procoeded ot ouca to oust tho lawfully returned members trom their seatn, and to Al their places with men_declarcd by the ofoial returns uot 10 havo Luen cloctod, what would be thought of & procesding o lawless und vo rovolii- tlonary 7 Ovo wmiyht av well sak what would Ue thought if the Demacratic citizens thould arise en masso, with arms {u thelr hands, diivo Gov, Davis from tho Capl- toland install his’ competitor, Ara Barton, 1 his plico? Or what would be thought if (ho Repubiicaun of Ramucy Couuty should bave formed un urmed Ieagua to sxpel il Democeutio officebolders from the ¢, and, I3 caky of thelr refusal, §f the latter bad takeu! them vut, bound, to the woods of I1no Conaty, and there stot them down ke dogs, sluply for the erime of being Dentocrata 1 Aud just here s tho fundsmental difficulty of the Loulniina question, Thu lawless attempta Tew day g0 of the Democratic minurity of tho Loulsiaun As- acinbly 10 seize controlof tha organlzativn of that Lody, and to expel & number of hawfully returned meiibers to mako room for men whom tho ofticial to- turus declared not 1o Lave been elected, couid not have happenad in any community which was not, {o its sovially dominant clements, chironically luwleas, any 1a0re than tho Whito Lesyud bandith aud theld syéteratio crusado of violsies and assassination gaiust thote opposed to them fn political opinion cuuld by existed in any commuuity which waw not already largely coutrolied by . tuvroughly lLiwlcas, divorderly, and anarchio_epirit, This revolutionary outbreak could uot hava bappetiod, in other words, if tho Democratic party of Loulalaua wero not thor- ouglly snturated aud inttatied with thy luferusl upiest of tha Iiebelilon, aud detormined to substitute tho despotiain of force for tho refgn of law. 1t could ot biave Lappencd §f tho reatraints of law or the common moralities of civiiized soclety were enforced fn Lous isana by & public opinion siroug enough to make ftaelt Digard or reapocted, Tho American poopls have long been famillar with rit of lawleww violeuce which provats niobg tho Delociats, composod of the cx-slavehviders und thelr retuiners, 1n tho Somthern Btates, aud o loug catalogis of Btroclous uutrages and Tevolutionary reaks by the organized banditti of thoss Blatin propared thom to expect such scencs as thal wiie hss just tratapired fu tho Louislana Stato- House, HuE wo confeus we linrdly expected that thn Democratio purty of tho North would 4o oenly unle fout thulr syuupatby with, and diearty ajpcoval of, the Jawless und revolitionary attitido of thu Democtacy of Loulufaua, s thoy aro now dug I wi) their nows Parer ongsty I tho passdouats der Laralous of tie eadurs It Cougress, and in the resolutions of Deto- cratl Leglalatures tu tho North, M BOTIL PARTIES IN TUE WRONG.' Froun the Boston Adcertisar—ftevublican. Both partivs tu ihla unfortunate contest Lave suc. cevded $n puttiug thewselves fu tho wrong, nud in reudering tmpossible the cordisl sympiatuy ol fair- minded e, 1t would be dlo ut thls day o tuquire which party ‘was {ho origlual (rauxgressor, The wx- amplo sct by the oue was so quickly followod by tha Gther, eibnt we may fuirly usauas that ouly accident declded when the flrat sggressive movemcnt should take place, From that tiwe ouwards we have bad Ligh-banded outrages on both sides, The Dewocrats, baviug ouly their srma and their audacity 1o rly upon, used them, They buve made riot, they bave threatoncd and’ iutiiuldated voters, thoy have made war upos sud weized the Uovernmeat, Wue Republicous Lave wude quite an fus dustrlous wnd fuiproper use of thelr uwn Weapous, Whey bave Lad the Biate vrganieation, snd the car auu ihe amin of tho Netionul Uvverument, They have wade lecilon ruturus 1o malt themsclvos, sud troops Lave slwaye beou 8t Laud to sustain thew. Toe Dew- ocrats aro—the best evidence wo can ot seins to prove —a pujority of the peopfe; but (hey Lave wlways contrived, by usiug force 1o got whint wa Whicirs Ly right aud wiist would bo yramed them if thoy would aflow thue for & peaceful decislon, fo get tha Natloal Government agamst thein aud 16 prejudics thelr cageo, They bave boen told s thoyeand times that nothing could ba couceded 40 farce, sud yot they E: SATURDAY, J tinse peraluted i employing it . o . The ftepibii cm wern ol n & posdtion T SEATR e argulzation seithous & palpablo violatian of iy rights, Whate ever temporary trick might by plaged, tho gime was at tho laat faily fu the hads of the Democrats, But they puiraned thetr uenal policy, They ditree garded the forma of law, which, In Aolemu mockers, the iepullicans followed, They encournged one ot et mimber to Like the preshliing oificor's charr with- oat a legal elastiou, Thoy seated membors who were ot duly doclared slecled, and Gnaly they Invited sud compniled tha_nif dtary ' ntorferonce _againet. thom Acises, Whivls witih bettor tacticn they inight havo Invokéd In fhele favar, Oneo more tlisy have put (ke Government o the ridicaloun attitude of giving nape yurt (0 mett whoso causo is known {0 Do Vad, Lo-ausa thete apy anents Linve roren tho lawn, 1t the Dem: ocrats are disjored to flnd fanlt with (he situation, let them blame tholr own folly whi-h hue brought thom luto ity Tha situation n inteed serlous. ] THE VICKSBURG l)"\'HSTl(L\TlON. TMFORTANT TEATIMONY TAREN YESTERDAT, Vicksnuna, Misy,, Jan. 8.—Tho Committee to- doy examined n largo number of witnossos, and developed tho killing of four colored men not licratofore reported, i John Metherson, colored, lising in the city, testitlod : Tho next night after tho fight a party of men camo to bis bonso in search of arms, Thoy frightoued his wife, causlug a iniscar- riagn. rmma Wigging aworo thit ahothor party wore in puestit of her brothor. Voter 1arris, sxearing to kil lim aud lier ; that hor brother was com- pelled to ly trom the city. Nicey llillyer testiflod that just befors the fight outhe flafi's Forry road sha [efc homs with hier childron for safeiy, 1ler lusbaud was to follow [ua fow miuutes, Aftorwards found him near the honso shiot through the heart. llo witH not in tho fight. ke Mosely, living near Haines' Bluff, tostifind that, 8 fow mgnts after tus tight, Willism Vaugh- on was shot at & funeral near thers; that Jon Cook, tiovrgo Sheptierd, and Lmanue! Tuber, il colorod, and neiglibors Of his, wero takien from Lonso by a party of whites, among whom were Captd. Abe Hougan and Ieade, taken near to Mrs, Fox's, and kilied, Cuol uud ‘L'aber, in addition to bieingg shot, Lad their throats et and csrs cut offy nud the bodies luy in tho rond soveral days befors they wero buried, their friends beiug afratd to bury them; that ho owed his cscape to the fuct that ho bid In Vanghan'a grave. This witness described the reign of terror nmong the Llacka in that vicinity, and that ho bad lett there aud gono to Louisiana,leavig overything, and thiat Cupt. Joliu Hogou adviserl Lim o keep out of tho way. JANE ROLISSON AND FRANCES HOLAES, colored, testiied vo the killing of Mingo Creen, anold colored preacher, 2° milos out o the Jackson road tho day of the fight, He was shot, an{‘l bad his Lhead cut off, apparontly with a saber, Peggy Wella tesatified that her husband, Buck, way shot down at Mr. Ldwards', 8 miles out on tho Jackson road, on the day after the fght, Ly Alex Hebron nnd others, ax icpurted yester day; that Buck was uvarmed, sud bad been drivon out of Edwards' houso, - ARKANSAS, RIERIDAN'S STATEMEST INDONSED, Lirtie Rock, Ark., Jan. 8.—The Nev, T, I, TLeat, pastor of tha Methodist Episcopal Chureh in thie city, who signed the end forwarded Jast night douying tho statement of Gon. Sheridan as to the banditti of th ate, will publish card in the moruing statmy that ho signed tho card under a migapprehonsion, snd adds that upou reliablo evidouea sinco roceived ho it satis- fied that thoe statewonts of that paper aro not tiue, COLD WEATHER. A Great Storm Over the West nnd Northwest—Extraordinnry Depress s10n of the Thermometer, Svecial Disputeh to The Chicago Tribune. Sr. Paur, Minn., Jan, 8.—A driving snow- storm, much like the disastrous one of two years 8go yestorday, came up from the southwest early this motuing, about 6 1nches of enow falling and drifting befora tho galo, which during tho day bns changed to & north wind, Reports this afternoon from tho West nnd South- weat prairie country state that tho storm rages tiercely, and all travel is suspended, but the storm came during tho night so that probably no ouo was caughp in it to perish, a8 in tho storm of 1873, which came st midday. = No trains are in- terrugitad except on the Bioux City Itond west of Mendota, and the St. Laul Pacitic, west of Wil- mar. At Fort Garry at 1 o'clock tho wind was blow- ing a Lurricane, and the Lhermomater 40 dogroca below. At Wilmas the ramo hour it svas blowing a gale, with tho thermomoter at 35 below. Hinco noon it has been fast growing cold here. At ¢ . m. tho mercury maried 96 below, Special Disyateh to ' Chicaso Trivune, DUBUQUE, lu., Jan, 8,—Tlia great polar ways Tias ntenck us in earvoet, this being by all odds tho coldest and most blustering night of tho senson, At 11 o'clock this ovening the morcury Lad roached 1t below zero, and still falling. A high wiod provails from tho northwest, anid the cold, biting air is fillod with snow. The paesenger-train from tho East arrived on time, but nothiug Les beon heard from the Westorn train, and it is supposed that they are blockod up someswheroon the Wost- orn prairie. Tha cold is so savere that thaman. agers of tho various railronds have nuspendoy all freight-sraing, and will gend out nothing either way but tha regular passonger, It s oue of the coldost suaps aver kuown in this section, aud bids fair to interfero ecriously with business, 1t is 30 dogrees below at McGregor, and 17nt New Hartford, 100 miles wost of Lere. Special Disnateh to The Chictan Tribne, JACRS0NVILLE, 111, Jan. 8,—A furious snow- storm bas raged thia attornoon aund evouing. ‘Tho snow i8 drifting budly, - Mercury Lolow zoro, Spectal Disnatch to The Chicagn Tribune, JMAnzsoN, Jan. 8.—There is_a sovere change in tho weathor hiero to-night, Thero was & slight fall of suow this mornivg, Thia aftornoon it tprucd cold, witli a gale blowing, and, at 8 o'cleck, tho inercury was 16 below Zoro—a cliaugoe of 34 degrees since noon. {70 the Assoctated Pres,\r Dgs Moises, Ia, Jon, 8—Lo-day has been tho coldest and waret day known in Des Moines for twelve years. Changing suddenly thiy morning from 8 above zero, the mercury went down to 16 Lelos at noon, 23 belaw at supper, time, and 28 bolow at this timo—10 p, m.. The wind bag blown liard all day, with o finc beating snow, which is driven and beaten into the houses and Yilad in drifts in the streeta. It hias almost totally suspendod busiRess, and much suffering is expoctod to onxuo. Many fat liogy in the pons of tho packing-housos hiers to-dsy woro frozon to death, and groat loss is expected from this to- night. Ko loss of lifo sa far as beard from up to this time, Osana, Neb,, Jan, B.~About midnight Jast night a heavy northwest wind spranz up, so- companted by suow and lnoreasing cold. At 6 o'elock this morning the thermomoter was 10 degroos below zero. At 11 a. m., 17 below, Oa tho high portion of the city tho thermomoter regisiered 25 below. At Cheycune the thermometor was 26 below, At Fort Laramie 81 below. Tho beavy wind with light snow has provailed all day from Chay- onne castward 8s fur a8 Miasissippt, It s foared there will be much sufferiug aud great loss of lifo in the grasshopper districta. 'T'o-day’s traln from the Weat was four liours late, detained by the storm, WasiNatoN, D, 0., Jan, 8,—For Tennessoo, the Ohio Vulley, and the U‘zpor Lako region, naing barometor, decidedly low temperature, brisi and high north to” west winds, partly cloudy wouther, occasional hght euow, followed by cleariug weather, For tho Uppor Misslesippi and Lower Miesouri Vallovs, and the Northwest, high baromoter, do- cidedly low temperature, north to weas winds, and partly clondy westher, LOCAL ODYERVATIONS, Cuicaao, Jan. 8, 1875, Time, | Bar.| Thriliy, Wind, m, 021 | AT AW, fre Uildu, m 000 21 1 72 N, W, lgbt. 00 p, m,[20.98 B0 | 87 B/W,," froely 90 41 | 64 '8, W. 1 | +|Cloudy, |Ciouays " Mastmuni shermameter, 313 minlmu, i, QENKDAL OUBERVATIONS, Cittcauo, Jau, 8-10:18 p, m, Weallier, +|Lt, mnow, {etoudy, Cueyeuue, G —9TIWC, lighat,.. 0L Clear, Cuiéago,... 30.481— TN "W., Lridk. Glevcland Davenort.. Dauver +aerelLit, muow, TARY 9, 1875.--TWELVE PAGES, WASHINGTON. Schumalker and Parsons Put to the Test, The Awful Arcana of Additlon, Divi- slon, and Silence. Nobody but an Active Lob. byist Knows What They Are. Both Qentlemen Reticent About Their Professional Work, The “ Honor ™ of a Lobbyist Compels Them to Conceal the Truth. Sovero Critleisms of Maynarvd’s Conduet of the Financo Bill. i He Is Accused of Treachery by Asso- ciates of His Comnittee, PACIFIC MAIL, NUTLER COULD NOT AAVE IBWIN. Speciut Duspateli to The Chicaa Trionne, Wiasuixatoy, U, U,y Jan, 8.—Uichard I, Trwin has at last discovered that tho Ifouso of Itepre sontatives of the American Congress is in no moud ta tritle with bis groat crime, This morn- ing, anothor priviloged communication from him was prosentod to tho House, It waa the cortifl- cate of two worthy surgeons of this city, which stated that the jail and tho montal disturbance iucidont to confinomont thore might seriously affect the prisoner’s Lealth, The cortificato was refarred to tho Committea of Ways snd Moans, snd Gen, Butler rssumed bis championship of Irwin, and endeasored to bave tho Borgeant- at-Arms _ditected not to imprison Irwin in tho juil until the Committco was certain s to his health, The briof dobato was indiguant and pointed. Gen. Hawloy, of Conuecticut, declared Irwin's erimo to bo ns great as that of any mur- derer, and thero was no reason why be should murniur at n murdoror’s treatwont. ~ Tub House, by the largo vote of 36 yoas to 160 ul{u, defoateu Butlet’s rosolution. Mr. Irwin will, therefore, bo immediately lodged in fail, and tho Sergeu: at-Arms will eeatcely dere to neglect his daty. ‘Tho truth Is that, gs to lealthful- ness, tho guwtors provided for Irwin in tho jail are much moro desirable than the prisou-room fn the old erypt at tho Capitol, Tho quarters asviguod to him'at the jail aro suuny and wholesowo, sBs0NS aor £18, Tho testimony of Richard Dnrsous shows that he received $14000 from Stockwell and £1,500 frow Irwin, Of this e 510,000 was fora feo and £8,600 for expenres. 1lhis ntato- mout i8 vory explicit, that he had no persoual conncetion with the sabsidy, but Lo swah cow- policd to acknawledgo that Lie recelyed tuis fee vhile Marshal of the Supremoe Court of the Uuited States, HMUCK CHEEK, Jolin G. Schimalkor wan disposed to trifle with tho Comnutice, IIe had anonclinlaut air, and much Lravado, but it iy ovident thiat be js much dinturved. He_claima to have sccolved but 10,000 of tho £275,000, and that ho roturned tho rest to his cliont. Iis friouds to-night claim that Schumsker waa used a8 o tool by Stociwoll, who really did nppropriate all oxcept $10,000 of thus sum. Schuwmaker evidently will Lo contu- macious, and will in soms way plead his priviloge 4 o Rapresontative to oscape punishment, DECK DOWN ON BCHUAAKER, Spectal Lisyateh to The Cnicago Iridune, Wariixoroy, D, C., Jan. 8.—Beck does not Jka the manver in which John (, Schumnker, Dowocratic momber of Congress, condactod himuolt before the Pacitic Mail Committes, Ife did not satistactorily nxguin the disposition of tho corruption-fund, Upoa leaving the Com- mittes-room Beck, addressing Sehumnker i the lobby, gave vout to the mortiflcation of the un- dotijod Democracy iu tbo oxpression: * Sehu- makor, I muse say I think you mado profane a8 of ‘yoursel, s THE NEW FINANCE BILL. TOW MAYNARD CHECKMATED TIHE COMMITTEE, Suecial Dspateh ta The Chicagn Tribune, ‘Wasixatoy, D. C., Jan, 8.—~The 1louge Com- mittee on Baoking and Currency this morning decided to make known tho notion of that Com- mittee with rospoct to tho Senato Finsuce bill. Tho Commitieo did direct Horace Maynard, the Chairman, to permit two amendments to bo of- fored, which Maynard did not de. Mr, Randall, of Penusylvauta, explained that yosterday thero waa au {esue of fact in 1elation to the action of the Banking and Curreccy Committe on the Sen- ate Curroncy bill, by a vote of the Committee ho was now authorized tostate what the action of the Cummittes was, Ou moation of I. It Hawley, the Chairman, Mr. Maynard, was directed to recum- mend two smendments o bs offered; one to strike out the first and second scctivn, and the other to nsort th word ** cancl” in tho_third Bection, Maynard, on his part, sald the pill was not beforo tho Committeo oxcept informally, If it hnd been ho would have lLeau compelled to oboy the dircction of the Committeo, and Lo bed it to bo the duly of avory one baving clhurgo of & bill to bring the majority of the Houso to a direct consideration of the matter ponding. e feared amendments would defent the bill, and ho bad thoreforo taken the respone Bibility of aubmitting it directly to tim llouse, = NOTES AND NEWS, TIUE CHICAGO BUN-TREASURY, Svecral Diavatch to The Chicaao Triduna, ‘Wasutyaroy, D. 0., Jan. 8.~Gen. J. 0. Web- ater {s here endeavoring to get an incroass of clerical foreo at the Chicago Sub-Treasury. [70 the Aesociuted Press,) NOMINATIONS, ‘WasniNaroy, D. C., Jan. 8,.—Tho Prealdent sout the following nominations to the Bunato: Postmasters—J, 1L Bhuttloworth, Clarksburg, W. Va.; A, I, Hawmilton, Ottumv, 1a. ; E. P, Tipley, Ackloy, la.; J. W. Rhoudes, Jeffarson, In, ; Mrs. Frances 13, Lath- rop, Columbus, 3o, ; F, Clondoning, Morrison, ill,; lMenry Foulds, Lanark, Iil.: Arthur Fan. pin, Warren, Ill. ; Joseph Tuylor, Fort Bdwaid, Wis. g WAD CLAIMA DISALLOWED. The Committoe on War Cialma to-day mado an adverse report ou the Iouse biil for thoe relief of certain cltizens of Pennsylvania who suffered loga from the Union sod Confederste troops duriog _the invasion of that Kiate by Geu. Loo's army. Tho bill proposed tha appropriation of “$1,254,000, 1le Commit~ teo take ground in opposing tho bill that the Goverumont is undorno obligation or dutJ to componsate its cltizens for proverty soized, damagod, or destroyed by the pullic enemy, or in battle by the Govornment forces, pr wantonly ot unauthorizodly by its own troops, or by the actual aud nocossary Govorument military opora- tlons to "‘{"" a threatoned attack, or in‘sdvance ing to moet an cncmy. TIHE RAILROAD COMBINATION, Antervicws with 'rominent Raiiroad Officials Concornming the IRuport of 11y Disruption, Special Duapatch to The Chicago Tridune, New Youx, Jau, 8.—A dispatch having been recoived in tlne city from Chicaga anuouncing that the Michigon Central, tho Michigan Sonth~ ern, snd tho Toledo, Wabash & Westorn Raile road Companies had practically withdrawn from the comblination of railroads intonded to equals ize sud regulato froight-charges, for tho reason that tho Penusylvauia Ratlroad Company Lad broken througl the agreement, and, further, that an effort to seitle the trouble by & meeting of the Western Railroad Commissioners at Chi- eago had proved o fallure, Inquirles were mado to-day. A TuisuNz reportor called yosterday on the leading rallroad men in the city who are intoreated in the froight business, o ascertain the correctuesy of r.ga inforwation, aud what cowee the diiferent roads intouded to pursue. Judge Jewett, oue of tha Eastern Railroad Com- 1nissioners, said ke Jid not believe the informn. tion wad true, 1o had received telogramy from the West, not oue of which contained the alight. est reforonce to auy such disruntion, If such sowuly had happeued, be felt cextain that tho nowa wonld have veached Lim long hoforo it could bavo beon published - dn e newspapors, Io bolieved tho combiji- tion 1o be ot porfuct and frm toediy an it Dad over been. A reprnvontative of {ho Tllinois Contral Ruilvond, who {8 ab present in this citr, snid ho bolieved the wholo combina- tion hiad boew broken up, aud showed o letter which bo hind reemved from Chicago yontordny in proof. Georgo R, Dispchard, vno of tho Viee- Prexidents of the Tirio Nailwny Company, said ho did not think thero was any truth n the pub- lished dispateh. it wan ovident to him that tho diwpntel had been forwarded in tho fntoreat of the Granger movemont, and ho thought, by pan- doring to {hat fintorent, tho carrying trads hnd Leen complotoly ruined. Freights to tho East and West were tuch lower than thoy had ever been beforo, aud hio thought theao attacks on tho rallroads wers unjuat, ey CRIME, YOUTHFUL DEPRAVITY, Rpeeial Dispateh to The Chicagn Trinume, Prizancrenis, Jan, 8.—To-day s strangn enno camo to lipght which oxhibits thoioughly the great dopravity existing among thoso of tonder yoara In largo citics, Chis morning a rald was mado by a possn of polico upon No. 403 Iain- Lridge streot, o emall thoroughfara botween Markot and Chestnut. A lrs. Care ronts fur- nisned rooms it the house. Ior sevoral wocks thio third story front bas boon occupled by sov- eral young peopla of both Aexes, upon whom sus- rricion has restod for some time ne conducting a thieving business in n omall way. Tho jolico visited the houso and found therein four boys and two girls, ono of the Iattar colorel. Oneof the girls was 14 aud tho ather 15. 'Tho two girls, witli ono of the boys, wero 1n bed together, whilo tva other Loys wlept ab {lic foot. Tho othier chap, who opennd the door for tho police, had heen afoaping on tho fldor. Thoy wero a domotalizod sot, but took their arrest calmly. The oficera took possession of n lut of tools, which wera ovidontly used for thioving in o small way, and also o demijohn of whisky, & wall-robe, & lep-robo, and o lot of clothing, Tho vouthtul ctiminals were removed to the Central Station, aud lad o hearing before Committng-Magistrate Carpenter. It waa then brought out that two of tha hoys had robhed tho stable of John Welsh, President of tho Centen- nial Board of Finauce, lnut night, from whom thoy etolo the lap-robo and wolf-robe. Thin thay acknowladgad. The father of the colored girl teatifiod that this woa the second time lus cbild had run away, and ho war unablo to do anything with her, The mother vf the wints girl 8nid aio was niterly uumanagoablo, althougl thin wns the first Limo sho had loit home, Lo boys wero committed to answer tho ehargo of Iarcong, and tho tivo ;ilzln. at tho requost of thoir paronts, sent to the Houso of Rofuge until 21. Four othor youtla wera ulso arrestod to-day, for committing numerous larcenics among tho stores along North Second street, Thoy bolony $0 8 gang of voung wretches ealling themsclves +*Sepvivia streot hloods.” A lot of stolon goods han been recoverad at thoir homes sud at pawu- shopa whero thoy had been pledged. ATTEMPTED ABDUGTION, #ecial Dispateh to The Chicano Tribune, Purtaverns, Doy, Jao, 8,—Yesterday aftor- noon, two littlo girls, Ella and Belia Pattorson, 4and 9 yoars old, daughtors of & lettor-earrior rosiding at 1558 Bansom strect, visited tho resi- denco of Mr. Ionn Righter, their uncle, at No. 1625 Sansom street. On returning hote, about 9 o'ctock {n tho evening, thoy wers attackod by o woman, who rushed out of an atley and threw her cloak, which she wore, around the youngest, Ellen, and tried to et hor away. Both children ecroamod and a Mrs, Wood, who was loaking out of & window raised, an alarm. 'Tho policoman at Soventoenth and Sausor streots rushed to tho spot, but the woman mannged to cacapo capture before he arrived. Tho officer had seen tho woman proviously, and the Sergeant nlso, tho latter baving noticod dufliciently peculiar and suspicious conduct {n her dovorttaent to cauns him to wateh her and follow hier o tho ocarly part of tho evening. * TRIAL OF IMURDERERS, Speciat Dinvatel to T'he tiicuco Tribune, Cuaxratay, ill., Jan. 8,~—A motion for contin- unace was mado to-day in the trial of White and Cozens, the murderora of llarrison, Thess are tho birds who wora captured » montli sincs by Detective Bittenhouso. The motion was over- ruled, and the trial set for Monday, tho 18th. The trini will ba conducted 2t the apecial term of the Ciremt Court, boforo Jnudgoe Allon. The deep interest manifostod In thia caso is still in- croasing, Tho widespread report of tho death of Datectivo Bittenhouse is, Lappily, falso, an Lo ul:m fully recovered, wud {3 onco more hard at worls, KILLED HIS WIFE'S SEDUCER. CiNerwsatt, Jon, 8.—Hutelh McDanfols, a steambont Captaln, was killed at Point Ploasant, W, Va., lsst Wedoesdsy, by William Weitzal, The latter had beon absent, and on his return home learnod that a oriminal intimecy exiated between McDanlols and his wife, Solzing a shiot-gua, ho started to find McDanfols, who Lad just gone to to the river to water bLis horse. Overtaking him, Weitzel shot bim in tho leg, woundiog him badly and causing the horss.to throw bum, Weitzel thon walked to the wounded man, and, placing the gun-muzzlo to his bady, delivered suother barrol contaiulog oleven slot, Lilling Liw. Weitzel is iv jail, CONVICTED OF MURDER. Secial Dispatch to The Chicago Tridune. Wavsespune, O., Jan, 8.—The trial of Jesso Stowart, who murdered bis wifo laat Septomber, occupled this weok, croating intense intorost. The plea iu the defenso fs insanity, To-night the jury rendored s vordict of murder in the seoond degroo. UNFAIR: DISCRIMINATION. Moeting of Detroit Lumbermen Pro tosting Against the Action of Uns fricndiy Freight Lincs, Detnorr, Aich,, Jan. 8,—A meoting of the leading lumbormen of tbis city was held af tho Biddlo Ifouse this afternoon to dis- cuss tho action of the Empire and Star Union Freight Lines in raisiog the ratos of froight on lumber from $00 to 8103 por car,—an advauce of 70 por cent,—discriminating ngsiost lumbor 843 per ear, or about €5 per 1,000 feot, It was claimed that this was dono to favor the Pounsylyanis, and more ospecially tho Wulliamsport, Jambermon, thereby virtually excluding our producta from tho Yonnsylvania, Maryland, and Now Joreoy markets, eausing our lumbormen and other customers serious loss aud dawage. Aftor some discussion upon the aub‘]uct. in which mavy lumbermen oxpressed thelr ind:gr’tlnn at unjust rate charged by the lines above Toferred to, resolutions were saopted 10 withdraw al) patronago from the above-uamed lines until such time nd they will make thoir rates equal to the leadlug lines; to give freight to fllol o & North Shore, and Baltimore & Obio Loads; to ask all tho lambormen in the SBagiunw Valley, Graud Iaven, Fliut, and thie other points, to {oin in thiy action, and to bring the matter of the unjust_discrimnation by tho Empire & Star Union Lines boforo tho Legiulaturo for thoir action, They sdjourned for two wqoke. ——— COMMITTED SUICIDE AT HIS WIFE'S GRAVE, CrycinyaTi, O, Jau. 8.—Horoco B. Gibbe, an employe of tho Indianapolis, Cincinuati & Lay- fayetto allrond in this clty, commitied sulcido to-day under peculiar circumstances. Bomo two or three yoars ago his wife died, and waa burled at Bpring Grove, since which time he has boon very melanchoty. This morniug he eogaged a haok and drove to Bpring Grove, At the en- tranco he told the driver to oxerciss tha harses whilo he visited the grave, but, not returning after some time, the Lockman searched for bim aud found his bady lyiug across lns wite's grave, with two empty Dnl’fl\lfiem baside 1it, he Laving ehot himsolf through the hoad. Ho lefc & letter stating he wasd not [usane, but that the doed was promptod by affection for his Jead wife, whom he wisbod to ;qlu 1 the other world, and exprassing tho bolic? that his wife would not have waited » dsy bad e died tlrat, L s MASONIC, * &Spectal Dispatch to Tha Chicaao Tribuns, Prouis, 1ll., Jan, 8.—A grand complimentary ‘banquet and ball was given at the Peoris Houso to-night by tho Peorla Commandery, No. 3, Kalghts Tomptar, in bouor of Bir Kuight Charles M. Mooro, Graud Iuspoctor of this district. Tuere were uo juvitatious outside the Cow- mandery exeopt to members of tha press, Tho affair was 8 decidod Success in overy respaos, and was as elogaut aud rochorcho ® banquet ud Liss evur boen given ju Pooria. e — e Elluworth, McLoan Couhity, 18 to have s flour mill, having subsceibod £1,000 toward ita exection sud outtit. FOREIGN. ' Basis Azreed Upon for the Formation of a Now I'rench Ministrys King Alphonso Sails from Darseilles for Barcelona, The Popo Bestows Upon Him tho Apostolio Bonediotion, The German Government Will Compets with the United States in the Purchase of Gold. FRANCE. TIE CARINET CRIAIS, T.oxpoy, Jan, 8.—A Paris spocial says: ¢ Mac. Mabon Las docided to summon Dufaure, Labon. laye, Larey, nnd Castellano to form o Cabinet and agroe to a political programme, It is cer- tain that this attempt to constituto a Cabinet from Wedueaday's majority iu tho Ase sombly will be fraitless, but it is indispon- able to ronder MncMahon's positlon cloar in tho oves of the nation, aud prove tho impossibillly of any (tovernmont Eecuring the continued support af & majority. Mac- Mahou will then bo fron to chooss a Cabinot from thoso whoso programmo he can nccept, and 4hia Cabunob will bo charged with tho convuct of tho goneral clootion,” Danis, Jan, 8,—~Laron do Larcy has declared Lis {nability to form & new Cabmet, and Presi- deot MacMahou has applied to Dufaure to un- dertake tho task. Loxnox, Jan, 8.—A srectsl to the Patt Mall Gawle says M. Dufsure's intorview will the Procident way without result. No combination can bo effected beforo to-morrow or Monday, LATEL. Tanta, Jan, 8,~Tt ia stated that tha baals for n nos Maneiry has boon gottled. The Dukes da broglio and de Cavees and M. do Fouiton will Le tho chiof mombers. THE POPETO QUEEN IRARELLA, ‘The Pope, mpl{iug to the cunprainlations of ex-Queon Tsabella on tho Epiplinuy, souds the Apostolic beuediction for herwelf nul har kon Alfoneo. and sars ho prayn God Lo grant the fzt- ter all happiitcss in the dilticult tapc which ho 18 nbout to undertaka, . —— GERMAMY, A COMPERITION GOLD MARTET. Loxpos, Jan. 9—5 a. m.—A speeial to tho Stawdard from Dorlin gays the Bunk Commis wion pugaed o resolutlen that the Linperta] Lank buy gold in lobs ot 1,393 marks 50 plonnings per pound, i order (o comneto succossfully with the Ameriean Government, and attract gold to Osr:nm,\;.t'l“h:!l ion i tr.n\;eum viow of tho contempiated resimption of spovie-payments i tho United Staten. MR I SPAIN, ALPHONSO FALLA FROJ MATSTILLES, Lonpox, Jan. 8,—King Alphonao eailed from Marsoilles ou Friday moeniug for Darcelona. Tho Times' wpecial from Madrid announses that Goeu. Cabrern bas sent in s adbesion to the_Govornment of King Alphonso. Mariyiis do Malias, now Mmister of Marine, wif] bl po to Parin, Nives to Rome, aud Quasus 16 T.uiidon, us snbaseadors of Spau, CASUALTIES, POSTAL-:CAR_BURNED., Wasmrxoton, Jan. 8.—By the buming of a postal-car in a collision on the Baltimores & I'otos maa Hailway, Iast vight, tho entire Northern mail from Washington, including the accumu. lated day's mail from the South, oxcopting ony punch and & canvag-bag for Baitimoro, was de. stroyed. ,Tho body of the postal elork, Thomaa Fayman, hasnrrived horo. It is burned toa crisp, Tho only thing saved from the burnod car Is iho express-box, but tho monoy it con- tainod ‘was destroyed. Important pnckages and lotters from the Executive Departments, #nd more than 1,000 offieial circulars calling for reports from National Banks, swore burned; also 400,000 in now Natlonal Baok notos, but a largo portion of this amount may be identified at tgo Dopartment hero, 1t sppeara the amaunt of legal-tendora and fractional currency burned will approximate £300,000, oven §f it does not oxcoed that amount, SCHOONER LOST WITH ELEVEN LIVES, Bax Fraxcisco, Jan, 8.—Tha schooner Emily R. Farnham, it is fearcd, is lost, with all hands, comprising fivo psescngers and a crew of six, which left for Crescent City on, the 20th of November. POWDER-MILL EXPLOSION, Parenson, N, J., Jan. 8,—Is is roported that the Radd Rook Powder-Works, & fow miles from thiu city, exploded last night, causing tho loss of a number of lives. The sound of the explosion was distinctly heard bere, and, sttracting the attentlon of s flagman at the Tnilroad crossing, be was run over by a train, The noiss evidently moans something, but rumor there attributes the :hock io the explosion of the Rand Rock ‘works. Parensoy, N, J., Jan, 8,—It (s deflnitely aacon tained that the Rand Rock Powder-Works ox. ploded last night, houce tho shock which gavo ta tho Euoplo at 8 dlstancs the impreesion that an earthquako had takon place. FIRES. AT HONESDALE, PA. HonespAre, Pa.. Jan, 8.—A firs broks ou this morung in Besman's jewelry store, Front street, and gpread rapidly southward, destroy- ing thirteen buildings. Twenty-two business firma aro burned out. Coyne's Hotel and Bny- der's large dry-goods establishment aro destroy- g‘;k o%if“ eatlmated at over $100,000 ; insurance, 000 AT BALTIMORE, Barrivone, Jan, 8.—Tho totsl loss by the burning of the tobacco warobonsea Iast night is cstimatod at £350,000, £250,000 of which is on tho etock. Fnsurance on the buildings, €88,500; ou the stock, $160,000, ‘ AT INDIANAPOLIS, Inpraxarouts, Ind,, Jan, 8.—Galesler & Mor- ris' grain elevator, on South Penusyivaniastreot, was partiolly dostroyod by firo last night, Inolud- fug 6,000 bushels of corn. Tho lose is $12,000; Iuaurod for $4,000. 5 fub o S WISCONSIN STATE GRANGE. Special Dispatch to T'he Chicago T'riduna, Manzsox, Wis., Jan, 8.—Tho Stato Grangas of Patroos of Husbandry olosed its seeston, waloh has been harmouious and sutisfactory to the mombers, this aftornoon. Tue following in re- gard to ita action, not beforo reported, has transpirod. To the Exooutive Committes,—of which Manter John Cochrane and Becretary B luxler ara ex oflicio membors, snd H, D, Hitt, of Foud du Lac ia & member, holding over for another yoar,—J. H. Osborn, of Oshkosh, was ro-elacted for throe years, sud E. . Dwight, of Dane, chosen for two yoars, L. G. Kuiftin, of Monroe, was elocted Pure chaslng Agent; AMre, Elihu IHall, of Wine nobago County, Pomona, in place of Blre. J. Bralunrd, rosignod. Tho other officers wero elocted in 1874 for two vears, The Grange rofused to {ndorso the recom- mendation of Master Cochraue iu bis addreys, that tho Master of a Stato Grango should be renderod constitutionaily wellgible to s pulitical oftice while holding thet position. The Consuitution proparod by the Exeontive Cowmmittes hes boon revised and adopred, and Bcvion taken ou the cousticutional swendments #ubmitted by tho National (irange, some of which were nou-concurred ia. This aftornoon wus wainly devoted to the gum:l!nn Of tho busiuess arrangowmauts of the rdor in rogurd to purohasing, e OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. ParapeLeiis, Jan, B,—Steamer Kenilworth, ropoited overduo, arvived to-day, GLasanw, Jun, 8. Hmm'h'.f Btato of Qeor &is, from Now York, bea anived, huw Yous, Jan. 8, — Arrived, Hteamships Gaolio, from ' Liverpool; Mshoustauflon, frou Biewen ; Idabo, from Liverpool.