Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 16, 1875, Page 8

[ — THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. DATES ¥ STPACRIPTION (PATARLE TN ADVANCE), Tostnue Prepald at this IIl’l\(‘e.n Dally Fidithcmy ot haid, | ear...oven 812,00 Parts of yoar at ramo rate, Nattad ta arpsddeean SOUR WEERR tar. .00 Sunday Edidon erary and Religlo o0 Onacapy, l‘"»"nr. £ Toh ot Tive, pat o Ciab of twehiy, pe “The yostage s 1 ol Epeciiueit copies sent feee, ‘njrevent dalay Lod mistakes, be sure aod givo Poet-OMice address {n full, including Stateand Connty, Temittancesmay be made #lther by Post-Oflice ariler, o in regiatered Jettars, st ourrisk, TERLA TO CITY SCHSCRIGEDS Daily, delisercd, iunday excepled, Dialy, deliveped, £ anday facluded, Addrers THE TRIBUN Corper Yadison and Dearborn.sts,, Chicago, Ik e e EMENTS. MeVICKTR'S THEATH dison ntreet, hetween Dearborn stul »tate. Lngagment of Joun MeCullough, oThe dladiator.” Atternvon and cvening, WOOD'S I born and State, UM--onron sireet, botwoen Dears Led Astrsy.'! Afternoon and evening. OOLEY'S TITZATRE=Itwndolph ntrest, Letwrsn Ciarkend Tagal, Tugagemeal of the Calitornia rels, Alter:oon and evening. ADELPHT THEATRE—Desrhorn sirest, corper Mcuroe, Yariety perfcrmance. Afternoon tad evenlug. UNION PARK CHURCI{—Concert by the Thomas Orchestra, Alternoon aud avening. NCCORMICR IALI~—North Clark sireet, corner Rinzlo, Lecture by Vietwrin Woodholl, Sabject 4 Tho Myutery of Life and Davib.” "BOCIETY MEETINGS. D. A. CARHMAYN LODGE, No, 656, A, Fo & A, M.— Spcelal comannication thia (Satyrdiy) Bvruing at 1hoir Lall, corner Weat Madison and Lobwy-ste, Work an F, €, Degreo at 1530 wherp, The Chigagy Tribune. Baturday Llorming, October 18, 1875. WITH SUPPLEMENT. Greenbaeks, at the New York Stock Tx. change yesterday, opened at fell to 85}, sdvanced to 533, and clozed ab 35, Tisrey, lbe Snu Francisco Poymaster's clerk, i4 tumning out to be a megnificent scoundrel. For geveral years he bad boen force upon the unval P aymasters assigned 1o duty at that port, and, after n career of stock-gnmbling, specnlation, aud fast livinz, vendered possible by fraud und forgery reduced to a perfect system, tho exposure sinnlly came, and Prisex’s peenlation and defalention are now ascertained to have aggregated §1,000,000, PixNey appears to hiave been a prudent spendtbrift as well as an accomplshed villain, for it is said that, when he disappeared, he took with him money snd valuables to the amonnt of about J600,000, Lieut.-Gov. A~tomir, acting-Governor of Louisiaun, has taken prompt aud decisive mehgures for the suppression of the crime and disoder which have Droken out afrcsh in that State, IHe hos issued n proclamation ordering nll riotous or law- less bands to disperse, and is prepered to back this up with fores if neces. sary. The murderers of Gam, in the Parish of East Feliciann, who was killed while in the custody of s Deputy Sheriff upon a charga of complicity in a poisoning caso, are to bo proccoded” against withs grent rigor, and the roving bands of pillagers and incen. dinries are to be taught that thero is such a thing na law in Louisians, And all this with- out involdng tho aid of tho Fedoral Govern- went. Tho result in Ohio is not a half-way vie- tory, bus comiplets and swoeping, according tothe latest returns. Even tho ubility of Wood Counnty to furnish any majority that Arres might require, as one of his hench- nuen telographed in effect to the Democratic Centid Committee, does not save tho Demo- crats anything worth baving, Gov. Haves’ majority will ha about 4,000, and the Repub- licins Lave geined the Legislataro by two mnjority in the Senate nnd twelve in the House. This would indicato a decided and Dermnnent chango throughout the State, and the complete restoration of thio Repullican party in tho confidenco of the people. As the New York Z'»bduns very curtly ndmits, **The tidal wave is checked.” Wo aro not likely to hear any moro of it for some time to coma, The City Railway Compauy lave been de- feated in tho first roundof the bob-tail battle, They brought a charga of disorderly conduct sgaiust MIr, 1L T. Howx, who had refuscd to put his faro in tho box or to pay it except to s regular and nuthorized condnctor, and was thereupon forcibly cjocted from tho car by special policeincn ewployed for that purposo, ho ease wos tried before o jury in the Police Court, and n verdiot of not guilty was ron- dered, It was claimed Ly the prosecntion thot the act of refusing to pay fare in itsolf constituted disorderly conduct tending to a Lreach of the penco, Luithe jury thought otherwiso, mnd tho Citizems' Club were triumphant. Their turn comes nest, and it romains to be seen how tho Compuny will faro as defendants in tho counter-suits to bo brought againet them, e e r— The wranglo betweon Philadelphin and Brooklyn a8 to which of theso two eities shall Wave Measrs, Moopy and SANKEY first ling been setled in favor of Brooklyn, Thiiisin sccordance with the etornal morality of things, and the Thiladelphia people should xegard it from this standpoint., DBoth cities aro very bad. They are the ohlef sluners of the country; porbapsitis a question which of the two i the greatest rascal, but, at this distance, Brooklyn appeara to be tho greatest. Brooklyn is one of those places **where every prospoct pleases, snd only man is vilo," and where every light is darkness, Itis en- titled, therefore, to the first offorts of Mooy end Sawzey, Philadelphis, howover, ought not, on this account,to neglect putting on sackeloth snd ashes and keeping its hoad in 1ho dust, T —— The Okicago produce markets wera less nervous yesterday, Mees pork was more active and enslor, closiug at 22,15 sellor the wonth, and $19.12} sellerthe year, Lard was dull and steady, closing at £13.40 cash and 812,75 seller the year, Meats were quiet at 9G0}o for smumer shoulders (bozed), 1@ 18e for short xibs do, and 13@13}0 for slort clear do, Higbwines wero more active and steady st 81.18} per gallon, Lake freights wero quist and strongor, ¢ 3jo for wheat to Buffalo, Plour was in light dewand and stoady. Wheat was active snd 13@2}o higher, closing ot @1.124 cash and $1.00} for No. vermber, Cora was quist sud fo higher, clos. ing &t 56jo vaad, sna 840 for Novembar, Oats wero firm, cloging at je for Novemler. Rye was Hrmer Barley was aclive and firmer, elosing st 964e cash and 933 asked for No. vomber, Togs were netive andclosed strong. er. Sales at R7.0068, Cattle were active and firmer, Sheep were quict and stendy at 33.00@4.76, Ono hundred dollars in gold wonld buy 3116.87) Iu greenbacks nt the close, Mv, Tesine’s speech accepting the nomina. tion for Connty Treasurer by the Opposition contnins one temarknblo statement, In con- neetion with the chargs that he was trying togoet his hauds into the County Treasury for the purpose of paying his dobts, ho re. ferred to his fiuancial embarrassents some- whet at length, admitting that he was deeply in debt, bub jusisting that up to this time he had been able to poy dollar for dollar oud keep hia hend above water. Having thus asserted his integrity and good intentions, Mr. Hrsive added: *But, if I dou't get this office [the Treasurership), 1 will mave into the most humble cottage in tho city, and sell cverything [ possess in or- der to pay the Inst dollar T owel" This ) plain aud outspokens confession that tho office of County ‘Freninrer was necessary to prevent his complele financial ruin, and that ho souyht the oflce that he might not he obliged to mell his clegnut dwelling rud the Staals.Zatuag building, was greeted with **loud cheers, during which Ay, Trsya withdrew,” With this eandid nn- nouncement for their enlightenment, the tax- puyers of Cook County may reasonably ex- peet Mr. Hesive to be more explicit, and telt just how much money,will be needed from the Connty Trepsury to pay his debts. Itis now in order for Mr, Hrmva to publish an itemized statement of his affairs, to the end that due provision nny be mada for him in tho next tax-lovy, THE VALUE COF GOLD, The inflation people, from Wesprry Prr- rres and Bry Brrren down to the most dis- tressed and bankrupt newspaper organ, seck to meke their theory plausible by a bold deninl that gold is in any sense a standard or messuro of values; and they iusist that it vulue, instead of being steady aud stable, varies from day to day, and fiuctuntes as does that of all other commoditics. Tience they argue that groenbacks, being a legal-tender, have of necessity a permianont legal value, while gold tluctuates, rising and falling be- eauso of its abundance or seazeity, and the demand for it. Mr Henner and s as. saciates argue that, if the law nbolish the nse of gold for paymant of duties, the demand being reduced, the valug of gold in green- backs will fall. The ofice of money is well understood. products. During the War the price of cot- ton advanced from 10 centa to 75 cents per pound in gold, According to Mr. Puivrira and the shinplaster fraternity, the purchasing power of gold declined, whila that of cotton stood wtill ! At the same time the price of wheat and flour, and provisions, of wool, of lides, of glass, iron, copper, Woud, conl, and of possibly every other rommercial commod. ity, sold in Europe, for gold, nt the same avernga pricq n¢ when cotion foldat 10 conts per pound. 'That is, gohl would buy as much wheat amt of every other commnodity, except cotton, as it il before; As s mensure of tho vilus of the world's products its ngeney in tho exchangs of all other commodities romainod unchanged. Now did cotton dnring the years it sold at All commuereinl {ransactions are, substautially, cases of barter,—the vxehange of a given quantity of one commodity for aunother. Lvery man who has a surplus of one thing seeks to vxchange it for some other article which ho needs more than the one he pos- sesses 3 and whethor ho receive tho article lie needs, or money with which to purchase that article elsewhere, tho transaction is sub- stantially an exchange of commodities, the waluo of each in the other being mensured by the value of each in money, Money being the go-botween agent by which exchanges of articles are thus made, the world has by common cousent (dating back to the earlicst record of barter) adopted gold as that ogent. Thero is no past of the world where gold is not reecived in exchanga for com. wodities, It is the univorsal baster agent of «ommerce. A rcason for this is, that it has n greatexvalue in less bulk than othor metals; that it does not decny ; that it is enpsble of being employed in the construction of costly objects for wse and ornament. It ean be {ransporied nt insignificant cost when com- pared with jts value. It is the only com- modity for which all meu of all nations are ready to exchange their property. Its annunl praduction is not so great s to increase its volume to the cxtent of exceeding the uni. veorsal demend for it. The demand for gold in the volume of commodities offered in ex. chango for it. There have boen chianges in the compnrative value of gold, but theso have been at long intervals, When America was discovered, the smount of gold carried to Europo lessoued ita comparative value to all other property, Tho reduction was slight, gradual, snd general. . Thero was an. other reduction when the gold dis. coveries were made in Californin, sup- plomented ns they subsoquently wore by thoso of Australin. These changes, however, were general, and applicable to tho relative valua of gold with all other commodities, It is a romarkable fact that when, owing to any unfareseen, aceidental, or other cause, gold shndl bo worth more in any part of the civil- ized world than it is elsewhers, gold will at ones flow to that point, even if tho incrensed valuo 00 but o shade above the cost of {rans- portation. Tho value of gold, therefore, rel- etively to all other commodities, is the same all over the world, It will purchase native products at or near the cost of production, and will purchass theee eame produets in all othor ports of the world at the esmo price, with tho oddition of cost of transportation and tho incidence of trade. It will buy cof- feo at nny place of its growth, and will buy the samo coffes at the ssme price, ndding thereto the cost of moving it from whera it wea praduced to the place of sale, The val. ue of whoat in gold at Liverpgol fixes tho velue of wheat in gold nt the fann in Illinois where it is produced. 'Tho price of cotton in gold at Manchester fixes from day to day the Prico of cotton at Charleston, Nesr Orleans, Kow York, Cairo, and Culoutta, But it iy arguod that bocanse n bale of cote ton on one day §5 worth more in gold than it i3 on another day, that therefora tho value of £01d, compnred with that of cotton, rises and falls; and that beeausa wheat selly per bushel on one day for more in gold than it sells for on uuother day, that Kold hns no fxed vatue, hut(hnulnpuh:hmiugpm\'eriuunuounr\vhenl rises and fulls iud fuctuatea na docs that of othier comwoditics. ¢ wheat aud cotton werd the only commodities having o valuo to be moasured in gold, thia argument might Lave soms plausibilty. Tho prica of cotton, if moeasurad by the weight of whest to be hed in exchango for it, would exkibit a wido teale of flnctustion ; both are produced {n surplus, and the prico obtainable is just what the exigencies o! tho purchasers 1may happen to be. Cotton may be exchahge- able in wheat at & certaln proportionate weight in ono place, aud at & greater or less rute ot othor places. In wheat.growing countrics, it would require more graln per pound in oxchiapge for colton, and whero there was a doemand for grain the latter would purchose proportionately moro cot. tou, Tho rclative values of theso two articfes would depend on the quantity of each in market, or to be had; and | gold would represent the value of each in the relative valus of all viher exoliangeable from 40 lo 75 cents in pold per pound renlly romnin st its anteawar value of 10 cents par pound, whilo all the goll and other productions of the world o depreciated in value that they were unable to purchare it except ot an incresse of 400 to 700 por cent ? Goldt is not tho mero mensure of the salne of A singlo commodity. It s the grand correlntive of values. It represents tho valne of onp commodity not mercly in ex- change for another commadity, but relatively to tho values of all commodities. A thousand or more productions are in the market secking exchiauges, Bach of lheso has n valuo precisely that of the nmount of another commodity for which it can be exchianged ; and the vatue of each is equal to the quantity of any of the thousand or more articles offered in exchange for it. Gold does notfix thovalue of either; it does not rise or fall. When wheat is offered for leather, the relativo values of the two nrii- cles nre fixed by the traders at that amount of gold whick will purchase a given quantity of leather, or wool, or glass, orsilk, or other commodity for which tho whest may be ex. changed, Gold represents the value of each in their relative or exchangeabls valug to the whole: it is the yoard.stick or tho pound-weight. Commodities mny Do ex- changeable one day, ponnd for pound, and the next day two pounds of one for one pound of the other, but the weight of the pound remmning nuchanged. Wheat may be exchangenble to-day in the proportion of six tons of wheat for one ton of cotton, and next weock the six tons of wheat mny be exchanged for ono ton of cotton. Gold but measures tho relative valne of the two articles, and the relntive valuo of each to all ather commodis ties. Its own value remaing unchanged ; it i3 tho correlative, who, holding the same re- lation to all commodities, represents their values in one nnother, furnishing o common mensure by which those values may bo com- pared. ——— LOOK OUT FOR THE BALLOT-DOXES. Tha Opposition party hay laid its plans carefully, deliberntely, and publicly to stuff the ballot-boxes in the eloction, and, unless the Republicans are on the alert, they will be overwhelmingly defeated in overy part of the city and county, At the last meoting of the County Commissioners, the Republican Cen. tral Committeo presonted its list of election judges according to custom, the Election Committeo having agreed to appoint one Re. publican judge in each vating precinet, to be seloeted by the Republicans, This fuir and just proposition was not only ignored, but it wad contemptuously thrust aside by the Board, which located inspectorsas it pleased, placing a bandful of Tepablicans in wards which are strongly Repablican, whils in the strong Democratic wards and in thoso pre- gumed to be Opposition thers . are only Democratic inspectors, thus leav. ing tho wny open for tho mont unlimited ballot-box stufting, in which tho Opposition will be still further aided by the absence of a registry, It is not to Lo ex- pected that tho County Board will make any redress on its own notion, or that mero talk- ing will load it to relinyuish its grasp npon the ballot-boxesnnd have an honest election that will express the decision of the peoplo of this county. The Opposition party is deter- mined to use every cffort, honest or dishonest, which will ennble it to get the Connty Treas- ury into its corrupt clutchea, It becomen the duty of the Republicans, therefore, in their Convention next Tuesday to adopt a strong nnd unmistakablo resolution demanding the appointmentof at least one Republican judgo, to bo named by tho Central Committes, in ench voting precinet. The same resolution should instruct tho Contral Committes to prepare such a list and go beforo the County Board and demand its appoint. ment. If the Board shall refuse this simple and just request, then it will poblicly an- nounce its predetermined intention to stuff tho ballot-loxes and carry the clection by froud, snd it can be made an issuo in the election. If the Opposition party intends to go into scoundrelism of this sort boldly and openly, let it bo known as soon as possible, and the people of this county will make it warm for the scoundrels who go into it, Let the names of those Commissioners go on the record who refuse to give the Republicans theie right to one inspector in each district, Let theso men, Coxvy, JonvsoN, McCarrner, aud tho rest, who aro the tools of the Oppo- sition to open the way for fraudulent voting aud false returns, understand tbat they eannot do it with impunity, The Ite- publicans now owe it to the good name of tho county and to the cause of honest clec- tions not only to watch the polls with wigi- Innce, but to make a formal official demand for their rights of theCounty Commisaloners, nnd, in cose they are refused, to Jot the peo- plo know it ‘The * Opposition” Convention yesterday nowinated Judgoe Gany, of the Superior Court, for re-election ; Judgo MoALvuisTen, of the Supreme Court, for the vacaney in the lacal Cireuit Court ; and A, O, lizsiva for County Treasurer, Of course, the nomina. tion of Mr, Hxsina was a foregone conclu. slon; thet was the object and business of the Convention. The act of the Convention in nomiuating Judge Gany was unexpected, but was nono the less creditable, The Con- vention had no political or personal sympa- thy with Judge Ganv, and the not was thorefore more commendublo. It wes o tributo to his honesty aund ability, and o propoaition that he bo elected unanimously, Judge MoAvrisren is too well known to the poople of this county to requirs any come wents. Hiu learning, his ability, and his in. tegrity ave universally conceded. The only foeling will ba one of surprise that ha should bo willing to step down from the Bu. premo Court, whero he vauks among tho eblest, to sit in anin priuscourt, ‘That, however, is o question of taste, and tho pub. lic will not be tho less gratified at having L eturn to our local conrts, The Convention, baving dons this much, concluded o offset the respectability and chiaracter of ita judi. cia! nominations by seleoting men of quite « difforent character for County Commlission. o . The dwo mon seleched for Bouth Chls SATURDAY OCTOBER 16, 1875.—TWELVE PAGES. cago for those places are wholly unflt, in gvery rense, to exercise tho powers of the County Board, Of thesa men we shall have oeeasion Lo speak hereafter, and that plainly, The candidacy of these two men shonld alone Auflico Lo detor any respectable or honest citi- zen from vating o ticket. no matter how un- objectionable personally it tuay otherwiso be. ——— THE USE OF POLL-LISTS. The Suprenie Court has passed upon tho cross-orrors assigned by counsel for the peo- ple in the city charter case, but has not thought proper to change in the least tho do. cision it hay already rendered, Among the crosy-errora nssigned wns that tho Conrt be. Tow sustained the demurrver to tha following replication, that *“at the pretended election lield on the 23d day of April, 1873, no poll- books wero kept of the votos in the polling- places nt the First, Second, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Eleventh, Eighteenth, and I'wenticth Wards, . . . mor wero any poll-books or other records kept upon which werp entered the names of the voters so voting at such places, nor wero &ny numbers placed upon tho hallots 8o cnat at such polling-places,” The Court sustained the demurrer on the ground that it did not aver that {he mat- tors alleged affected the actual result. It maintained, in other words, that the failure to keep poll-lists at an clection, togother with all that this implies, will not vitiate an elec. tion, unless it be alirmatively shown that the reanlt was nffected by the irregularity. This is enrrying the doctrine of certain clection precedents o, an oxtent warranted, we Deliove, neither Ly sound policy nor sound sense. Let us sco what the principle Lere enunciated means. . Our statutes contain **an act for the registry of electors, and to prevent fraudu. lent voting,” providing for the vegistration of tho names of all the legal voters of the Stato, in and for the making of polllista. By the Election law of tho State it is made the duty of the County Clerk to provide poll-books for every precinet and district in his connty, to be delivered to tho judges of clection at lenst ten days lefore any election is held. 1t ix further provided that each clork of election shall keep n poll.ist, which shnll contain n colnmmn headed * Number,” and onother headed ““Names of voters”; and that ** the namo of each eloctor voting shall be entered upon each of the poll-books by the clerks, in regular succession, under {hie proper headings, and the number of such voter placed oppasite his name in thoe columnn headed ¢ Numblier,'” ‘The statates go so far oven a8 {o prescribe the maaner of receiving and depositing the ballots, I the judges of clection are satisfied (hat the person offering the vote is # legal voter, they are re- quired to enter the nawo of the voter and his number under the proper heading in tha poll- Looks, and to indorse on the back of the ticket offered the number corresponding with the number of the vater on the polt-books, When the polls are closed, the judges are re- wuired to count the whole number of ballots in the box, and if the number of ballots ex- coeds the number of names on the poll-ist to destroy a9 many ny mro in oxeess of the names. When the ballots and poll-lists ngree, the votes are to be connted. Before n namo of a person can go on the vegistry or poll-list ho must have resided in the State one year, ninety deys in the county, thirty days in his precinet, nnd must be amale citizen of the United Btates above the age of 21 years, From the nbove summary of the Nlinols statutes govorning eclectious it will be seen that tho Legislature has taken every precau- tion to instre the froo and honest expression of the popular will. Now, every ono of these provisions wae doflantly iguored at the elec- tion in April last, The Supreme Court holds thint to disregnrd them is a matter of no con- sequence unless it be posilively shown that such disregard has changed tho actual result of the clection, forgetful that whero thero ore no poll.lists it is morally jmpossible to obtain any ovidence whatever to fix who voted nnd who did not, or to nscertain syhether tho ballots cast were cast by those entitled to vote at nll, ond therefoto whethor the reswlt was affected ornot, The object of the poll- list i3 to insure the exclusion of illogal votes and to furnish ovidenco of the result. Thero was no polllist kept in tho Tirat, Sccond, Boventh, Eighth, Ninth, Elovonth, Tighteenth, or Twen- tieth Wards,—tho only wsavds, with one insignificant exception, in which thero was a majority of ballots cast for the charter, In none of theso wards wos therd so much a8 o challonge made, The judges of clection re- ceived the ballots from tho crowd, Having no register of the legal voters of tho wards, they accopted the Lallots of all who present- ed themselves. They hiad no menns of ascer- taining whother tho ballots were cast by nliens or citizons, by residents of the State, the county, or the precinet, by minors or by parties who had attained their majority. They lad no way of checking repeating, Thoy couldin the nature of things have no monng of discovoring whether ballat-box stufing hod been practiced or not. And, when the polls were closod in these wards, there was not o particlo of legal evidence to shaw that the printed pieces of paper in tho ballot-box wero placed there by residents of the City of Chicago, by citizens or by alicns, by minors or persons of lawful age and en. titled to exerciso tho right of sufirege. Tho contenta of tho ballot-Loxes in these wards wero 50 mauy pieces of paper, and nothing more. Not ono of them could be proven to have boon legally placod thera by n legal voter, unless it can bo said that an election {3n procedurs in which places of trust and emolument are to be filled, and the gravest political quostions to bo docided by the nambor of bits of printed paper found in a box for a person or & measure, when all is uncertainty a4 to how, when, and by whom thiey wero there deposited. Common &ense tells ug that tho entire poll of the First, Becond, Beventh, Eighth, Ninth, Eleventh, Eighteenth, and Twentieth Wards should have becn rojected for the onuses above asaigned. To reject tho entire polt of & precinot is to assumo great responsibility ; but it bas bLeen dono, and tho law is that it may bo dono whera tho returns of the judges oo untrustworthy, and where it is not possi. Lle to nscertain tho true voto with ressonsble certalnty, Tn Maxx vs, Casuiny, 1 Bazwares, G0, the Court gays “*that the whole conduct of election affairsa may . . . awmount to such gross and culpable negligence, such o Qisregard of their officlal duties, as to render their dolugs unintelligible or un- worthy of credenco, =mnd their action entirely unrellablo for any purpose.” Insuch cose the remedy is to disrogard the entire poll. Bat surely where the names of the voters of A procinet are mot recorded, no rellanco can bo placed. on the returns made by ihe judges of clection, Tt was decided in & Mivsouri case—EnawonTa ¢a, ALpix, 44Mo., B47—thst an election would be set aside on the ground that there was no reglstration, Wo cau 5en 10 teason why 184 law should be different fn 1Miuois. Only those whose nanes are on the registyy are eutitled to vote, and where thers are no names on it, or ho registry, thete can bo no legal voting. The statute provides that the nnmber of votes shall be eompared with the namber of names on (Lo poll-lists before they can be caunted, How can they be counted at all where there are no polldists? And if n number of Lallots cqual to tho number in excess over the number of names on the polllists must be destroyed, should not all the ballots ecast be destroyed when thero are no names on tho poll.lists? Not a singlo voto should have been received in any of the warda whera thero wero bo polldists. We have been unnble o find a casa toported in which the voto of n precinet in which no poll-list was kept hoy ever been hiell valid, "The negligenco and fraud of the conduct- org of {he April election wera 50 patent, no- torious, and gross, {bal we regret our Supreme Court, in sceking for prece- dents to guide it in the decision of thoe quo wmranto case, did fol- low tho opinion of the Conrt in TaosrsoN vs, Ewise, 1 Bpewsten, 67, that **where fraud has been shown and tho irrogularitics have been wo gross as to forbid a reliance upon anything done, prool will b required from those who insist upon the poll." The negligence and frand of the judges of clection Inst April were as gross as they conld possibly be, grors enough to raise & presum)- tion that they did change tho result of tha elecs tion and to shift the burden of proof to the other side to show that they did not, Every vote cast in the Tivst, Second, Sevonth, Lighth, Ninth, Eleventh, Eightventh, aud Twentieth Wards was cast under color of il- legality. It waos cast in violation of the ex- press provisions of the statute, and the pre- sumption should therefora be that it was ille- gl until proved atherwise, We rincerely regret the decision of the Sapreme Court. 1iencoforth it is possible in this State to disregard with impunity every provision regulating the conduct of elections. 1t is no longer necessary to the validity of sn election that poll-lists even shonid be kapt. Poll-lists are the only chicek wo have hitherto hiad on frandulent voting ; tha only evidence of the legal votes cast ; tho only, or at least the most efficient, menus of ferreting out rea peaters, ballot-box atufiers, and unauthorized votors ; the only rolinble ovidence to show by whom the ballots were cast ; the only efiicient instrumont to help uu to ascertain whether fraud or negligonco has chauged the actual result of the election. Tho Court hins taken from us the possibility of tracing fraud and illegnlity in the exercise of the right of sul- frage, and yet tells ms that every election shall gtaud, no watter what the irregularities in its conduet, unlesa the fraund and illegality are so fully traced and eatablishied as to show thot, but for them, the result would have been differont ! THE WOES OF HEBZEGOVINA. Tho full text of tho pronunciamento issued to the European envoys by tho Herzegovin. iau Chiefs contains an clogquent statement of the grievances which led them to revolt agninst their Turkish oppressora. It is brief and concive, bnt fall of dignity and enargy, nnd forms an indictinent against the cruclty,in. Justice, andoppressionof their Turkish tyrants which will command for them the sympathy of the whole civilized world, and the decision that they are right in taking up arms to free themselves from their miscries. The catn- loguoe of these miscrics is a fearful one. Under pain of being scourged and sont to prison, avery eultivator of the ground must give half his produce to the ga, or official who al- Jows him to cultivato, and four times a year ho must enterinin the Aga, bis follawers, and horses, The owner of o farm in Ilerzegoving has an agreement with the State officials by which hio oxacts ten times tho amount of rent filxed Ly tho Jaw., Tho Turkish ecen- rus enupierators let frea their own co-re- ligionists, but treblo the amount of imposts upon Christiang, thus making them pay not only their own but also tho Turkish share of taxes. Tu litigation, a Christian proceed- ing against o Turk must havo Lwo 'Turkish witnesses, nnd if he loses his cnse he Is thrown into prison. The wives snd daughters of Christinng aro carried off by Turks and cowpelled by force to adopt the creed of Islam, If o Christian bears witnoss ngainst o Turk, ho can eonly live threo dsys. The Clristin churches are publicly defiled by the Turks, The Christians pay an eduentional tributo to the Sultan, but aro not allowed to have any schools. Itepairs upon the ronds must be mada by Christians, but tho Turks arg freed from this duty. U Turkish troops need horses, they ara taken from tho Chris. tinna without recompense. If u Turk com- plains before a tribunal, ho ean got immedi. ata justice. It a Christian makes a complaint, ho cannot get & decision without bribing the Judgo ton times the amount of the claim, ‘Chere {8 no integrity or justico and no secu- rity under Turkish rule. Such is n brief sum- miary of their grounds of complaint, nnd the complainers closo their statement with the following burst of indignant determination: Grxriruen: Up to this dsy Turaps bas accom- plished many revolutions, Bbe bae precipltated from Ahelr thrones many Kings, Priuces, au Emperors, an- fmated by noble and Curistian seniiments, And yet upto the present time of clvilization you Lold this barbarian Turk in bigh eatocm, We nelthar cau noe will 11v0 Jonger under the Turkiah ash. We ura men, uot beasts, 1€ you cannot afford us Tellef, nolthor can you force us to coutigue fu slavery, Menceforih we Feluse to helave in ‘Turiish promiees, sud 88 (o thotue tervention which you affer in our behalt, wocan only reply that & Turkish promice s not worth & peas-cod, Whal we wavt s Woeriy—real, full, aud entire Uberty, We will nevor retury allve to Turkish tyranny, Ilopelesd as the caso of Herzogovina may sppear, fighting singlo-handed against hor powerful tyrants, and debarred from the active sympathy of European nations by their own prejudices and schemes for nations! aggvan- dizement, it {8 impossible not to admire the manly upirit of their statcment, They noy not win freedom, but they deserve it. Mr. Hesiva con scarcely bo very proud of the Convention which yesterday pub him in nomination to control tho moneys of Cook County, It is described as a howling wilder. nees of roughs, among whom the Mixe McDonarps and Conconans seemed to be the ruling spirits. The nolse and confusion of the Convention, however, wero its most hormloss characteristics. The serfous foature is that such a erowd can dictate candidates for the most responsiblo and mportant judi- cfal and exeentivo offices,—that such o gath- ering of roughs, dead-beats, aud political ‘bummers, professioual tax.eaters, and shame- 1ess ballot-box atuffers should nominate the men to administer the laws, make the con- tracts, and control the moneys of a great and populous community like ours, It must be peculiarly bumiliating to Mr. Hespio, who affects independence of character and a supo. rority of political influenco, to accept his political distiotion at the hands of a aet of men fur whom he has & profound contempt. 2fr, Hzsnuo's past political asecalations with & dilferont olcae 6f men, And bis position ay dietator fu the {utetregnum, can ouly heve incrensed big personsl humiliation in mnking connnon cause with gamblers, voughs, and bummers, and asking aud accopting favors from them, ———— THE OHIO ELEOTION IN THE 80UTH, Tha Soutltern Democracy nre abstractly in favor of hard woney, but they wanted shin. plnster Birn & Hay to win (he day in Ohfo, The grayhack taught the Bouth kome valn- ablo lessous,~—lessons that may havo been worth what thoy cost,—but tho men who loarned them mro o crazy for party success, 0 anxions to gat possession of tho Govern- ment, 80 maddened by tho first [ust for place aud pelf, that they ave ready to fling experi. enee, wisdom, nnd houesty (o the winds for tho rake of carrying Ohio,~rendy to sell their political souly to the devil, provided Satan would shara nmong them tha spoils of power. Andso it camo to pasa that during this grapple between honesty nand dishonesty on Buckeya soil, tha Houthern Demo- cratic press edulously refrained from giving any help to honesty or from doing anything to lessen tho chaucos of dishonest trimmph. The columns of many papers made no sign 3 their readera might not have Lknown that there was such s thiugnsa curreney-question beforo the country. And wheu honest Ohio trampled the repudiation platform under foot, theas friends of an hou. est Gnancial system in the abstract and advo- cates of dishouest candidates in tha conereto wera eut to tho guick by their disappoint- ment, The Southern Democratic press is bitter in its denunciation of the mon who framed the rag-baby platformn, and ro insured defeat, Lut it lavishes robukes on them, vot because they declared in favor of a grossly dishanest thing, but becauso, baving done so. they foiled to win. Their success would liave secured nbsolution for all their sins, Fake this bitter utterance of the Loufsville Courier~fournal, which pretends to oppose inflation : " Linough is known (o msrk the folly, if not the crime, ot thasa loud-tonthied chariaizng who turned fho cunvas on tho worst possiblo lawne, and e, igno- runtly or treachirously, sacriliced tholr pariy and s principtes, . . . Tho remit may prove tho deaths of futiation, but 1¢ will not destroy our prospect fura change of parties, It will slmply save us from valgar ohams In foture, It will bring Lrams sgalu to the front, 1t will take the party §u Oblo out of tho banuds of mesn fricketera and tho shatlow-hearted and shal- Tow-pated Jdlota who tempted Providenco ns recklossly and a3 brazeniy as didd the devil, If the Demociats hed won, the Eagquirer crowd would be vrowned with proise, instead of bespattered with bleme, Tho samo tone riugs through a significant dispateh from Augusta, Ga,, the home of A. H. StreEEys. This snys : Tle South fs much disappointed at tho defeat of Avtrn, ‘Tho fesling to-dny Is one of gloom for tho future, It {s hoped that the financlsl question will now ke subordinated to the malo leaue,~tliat Deino- erats will bo rennited upon o platform unen which all enn stand, having for a single purposo the averthrow of the Radical party ot arge next yesr, ‘Tho *“main jnsues” meontioned here are ex- plained in the Inst line. The policy of the future will be, if these hopes are vealized, anything-to-best-the-Republican party. If our memory serves us, however, the auy- thing-to-beat-Graxr party was nat go re- mnrknbly successful ns to encournga their imitation of it. But the imitation caunot he brought about. No platform can bo framed on which the shinplaster and specio-resump- tion Democrats ean stand together, What bond of unlan cau thero by between the Cin. cinnati Znquirer crowd and TrLoes, whom the Haquiver calla ‘“the servilo, sueaking, aclflsh tool of the bondholders”? If the Southern fire-enters expeet to win the next campaign by simply shrieling for the spoils, they ave mak- ing a grave mistake. Yoi the commonts of tho Southern press on the defeat of ALrLrN seamn o show that this foolish expectation ig seriously entertaiued. Tie now Constitution of Alabama will be sub- mitted to popular vota for adoption or rojection on the 16th of November. It provides that the sessicns of tho Legislature shall be bicunisl fu- stead of munual, a8 pow; reduces the pay of members from €6 to £ por diom, and their mileage from 40 to 10 cents par mils,~which of- tecte & saving of 60,000 a yoar ; prokivits tha bullding of railroads by tho Stato, or the grant- tnge of tho subsidles or credit of the State to such ontorprigos, which han already cost tue Btate about fourteon milliona ; and limits taxation for fitate purposes to thres-quartoss of one percont, and for city, conuty, ote., purposes ons-half of ono per cent, and for tha gayment of oxmting city, county, ate., debta one-quactor of ouo per cent additioual. This latter provision 6f the now Constitution is a practical repudistlon of the Btate debs, whichs is upwards of shirty mill- 10n8, since the total lavy would be inadequate to pay the interost upon it, while in fzct the total lovy will little wmore than bavely aufilcs to defray the wuecewsary oxpenses of the fitato Govornmont: and the wame is truo of the majority of the city and county debte nnder the proposed limitation. The new Con- stitution also aholisbes thie School Board, which, a8 st prosent conatituted, possoases free and oxs clusive legialative powors as to tho school gystom of the Htate, wcluding the power to make leviey, and which for the salaries of mem- bers, ete,, now costs the Btate about §50,000 snnually, The chlof disonssion as to the new instrument wiil bo over itsabolition of the school levy, which fa fixed at one-fourth ol othor levied, and it Is imposeiblo to make o lovy for avy pur- poso whatever without muking a proportionate incroass {n that for the echiool fund, The tax- limitation clausey of the new Constitution would 8180 1n offect placo it boyond the pawer of tho Logtslatuya to raiwo fuuds to wupport the publie schools, excopt in the citles, beyoud a few wocks ineach year, Theclaim of the advocates of tuo now Constitution s, tbat the Statoin so burdened with dobt that this, which practicslly almoat amounte to au abolition of tho frea sobooly, is pocessary, DBut aa the now Conatitution, as shown, in fact prohsbits payment of the dobt, (ho arguinent does not rige to the dignityal a decant protansa, Tho fact is, the Consorvatives of Alabamo ara not williug to bo tazed for the wupport of “ nlgger schoote.” But publio sonti- mont {n that Btata la not wufliciontly enlightenad to reader {¢ prabable this oblactlon to the now Couptitution will be desmod of much conse- quence. _——————— Tu the Publio Library there ia & copy of the ve 0f Yoyages and Commiarcial Eoter- " by Ricuann J. Crxveraxo. This book, published many years sgo, in stilone of the moat entertaining books of travol aud sdventure extant, and forms & part of the library fuyniabied 10 every veasel of tho British Navy. The follow- fog extraot exbibita somo of the romarkable por- sonal qualities of Capt, CLRVELAND, and far- nishos su example that might well bo followed by landsmen aud seamen ; At tho period when I begau my pautical caveer, it ‘wan ¢ univernally-received mazim that drinking grog aod chewing tol were two essontiul sud {ndis- pensable rogululies for making a good sesman. o omuipoteut {s custors and so powerful is satirs thss, although the absurdity of auch & mwaxim wust be ap- paront to every nna.i bave pevertheiess Ston many young wmen ropeatedly made sick before overcoming ibe disgust, and wome of them afterwards bLecame mireratle drunkards. As alcohol sud tobacco wera nn Jse offensive to me ban 1 had evidence cf ibelr being 10 1y Assacistes, 1t Appesred to me (st to submil 40 1be ridicule sathier tha thy sickness was selacting tho leaat ot thoavlls, sud Y acted sccordiug, Those whomay houdr me with » paruss! of my nurrative wi reaive 1bat 1 bave Blvlfl‘l\i‘:k\ o ol parts of tho woul ..‘i fl’n:: 3t ine siztisth degreo of south Lalliuda to tha degroo uosth ;™ and suwmetimes in Ve Cried - sxpoente Ml Vot ot ™5 e CAUse L] ‘wel o aarpesaing ‘what 18 wsvally expetisuced fn ships o8 or £ m( 3 m. 5l lauioe 2 tha Yuees ‘mshabiioy ple} 2 b whoas umber men tavin, whore I biave #etn whole crewe brust the Torer, and death making Lavoo among (ot Hxn flon, whel tho natives ean atay only tho year; ot the Harans, within whose wil & POttiog of 1 1 tiyyg s aidest five yescs conecuttvoly; that T have sngrs eaptivity, rublecy, bopzlaanment, ruin, and (e f 1o aulety connoquent therson, And yet, thrungy e whofe, anif fa thayressnt sgfy-rfithth year of T liaxd never takent a drop of aplritioms & quorr s 23 Xind; nevara of wine, of Porter, ale, nr ey} a1y hagsragd stronger than fes o colire} and myy o¥or T hava Hever uaed tobteco [0 auy way wh ot and thin not only withont Jujiiey, but on the et ta tho precorvation of wy Beat.h, ' Hewlache fy eert! 0 wo by unme only: aml, excenting hes T8 which ara producol by ‘grent 'nnziely sid cx fiocs, my lifs Lite bean feae from rickuers, et Tho vloctions heve praduced the ueal ~rap of raostors, and cannon, and flags. The rugs) Le. pablican press is fllled with chauticlosrs, p,,; bays tho moat clsborats display in thiat op e Waterloo (fowa) Conricr, which has n \rnmhu: of roosters, Iabrfod “Ohio rooster,” gpyy again, old fellow," oto., whilo its first colurgy.., or most ol 1t~} ocenpled by o ghzantie Shavg, Ll cock. above and below which biazp tho heg, lineg: '*Another Uhzzard! Just heg tin crow! ¢Carry thonowa'to the 330-pouny po, nlonor! Hip! hip! hurrai! *Bhak Falgs hood rebuked ] Truth triumphant ! Blacklary County erect!” This perpendiculir soctivg of Tows hins glvon ou fnorewsed mujority for gy, loeal nominaes of tha Nepublieans, tho two-storied rooster aud Uenco the mysterious allusion tg the corpulent pensioner. enco tha goneray Jor, Tho defoatod party Manage Lo extract gon lugubrigus fun from the result of tho olectin, “fho hard-mones-goft-ghiell Cleveland pigjy, dealer. doca beat tn tuls direction. Bemdey oy of ihe editor meditating on tho roturna gpg thy edifor trying to figure up Democratic gajns, j prints a sturdy rooster, crowinyg wiidiz, and adly bencathi it : **1lern, old follow, you must exny Iivlog somchow! The glorious littlo Riguth)s The Eizhth Ward of Cleveland gave a £ussie clously large Democratic majorily, it saem, vg {lia plucky publisher 1ots his p:t chicken ogt tun coop to crow oser that minuto fact, jady fault of auything better, ot lency tho bijzzapy, Tho Intcrnal Revewus Oflze at Washingte has jraned a circular containing lnstml.‘tiomlu the bonofit of persdus usiug, or fntending touy, proptietaty stampa. In the future the Deput. woent will require such porwous, firms, and e porationy su opder stamps printed from prisyy diea to fila Lunda sufliciont to covar an ardiny threo months’ supply of stamps. Tho object of this reguintion in to prot=t tho Government iy caso of tho faifuro or rotiroment from busingy of tho persoua for whom stamyd aro pinted, J; {8 furthor ordered that no transfer of dies ebyy Lo mado except whou the transferer succeslsiy tho business of tho trausferce, and to ths mag. factuta of tha particular article or asticles upny which atamps printed therefrom haso brenused; In such cades & formal asafgnment trom the asshe 10 thie axsuzueo of the entire interest in the die of sach agvignor Taust Lo execnied, duly ackuowledged, i ied iu thin oiico. 1f tho transfer is opproved, by avslgueo, ot bis own expente, whll then bo required iy liave (e nanie of bis predecenaor cut from the die wd bis own namo fnerted n liu thereof, 1o all e whoro stampu Leariug the Name of a proprietor dury hcratoforo teen fransterred 1o another perton, fim, o corporation,s s change, in accorlaace with the thiy reguistion, should Lu at ouce mude at the cxjenne 46 trunsfaree, e In the goneral rojoicing over tha grest Repab licon victories tn Ohlo, Iowa, and Nebrasks, thy littlo victory In Nowntk, N. J., ou tho same dyy, ought not to ba forgotten. It was o everywy a4 romarkable as tho greator ones. Tie Repub. fiean condiduto for Mayor bas n majority ot 8,00, tha higheat evor givon = Msyoralty exe dtdato o that city, and of the fifteen wards in the city, tho Icoublicavs captured thirteen, Tha total vote wag 4,040 groater thaa in the city clection two years ago. Tho effcet of tha un. oxpacted Ropublicau victory f8 n staggering bloy to the Democracy. Befors tho eleciion thers wae a flerco conteat fortho nomination of Shedf oo the Demooratic ticke:, bat sinca Iast Taosdsr nearly all tho prominent candidates have dropped out, end don’t cara ta ba mentisnad in conae tion witb the offlcs at all, 'I'se Domocrsticomty uil aver tho State look upon the Nowerk electia as a bad omen for them in ths State sloctin noxt mouth. aud the Republicans are coms- spondiagly clated, e e Tho Church Union thioks it has discoverd where the New York canvass of thoe schoolque tion comos in, and directs attoutionto the * G.ey Nons uct,” passod last Moy, a3 indicatiog it, By tluat it ia provided that, ou s diplons from tie nuns’ #cliool, toachor.' certificates shiall tesie Tho Union says: Now, It #a perfectly platn to auy one who appreiaia the dcmands of Catlioticiam, tiis the only 0be: ol thiy amendmont b t obtdu ' footlug, 10 o to odueate their 0w teackiers for tae conmn 8003:4 in defiance of tho previous Luww of thfs State, wiid requito that all applicanta for positious in the pa B #chiools ahall bave beeh educated theralu, Tho Witness leads off in th ngitation for the repoal of this act, which it chiarges was “smig gled through for flooding the Biate mithaud oducated in convonta as ascrolited aud quahd:d touchera of tha public sckool, e The political situstion in Detroit sooms tobe vory lilin hat in Cliucaga, Tuo Zribune of tnst eity nukey B s elty of 100,000 inhabitants aford to permi: ! ch‘i’e‘fn l:éx:\a,-u:n :fi?:rg:l‘;ivé otilees 40 be Siled by ke clarm of mon who can nectre nominatious ou k¢ utreugth of thefr populsrity with th3 saloguekseit sud tuelr followors T Ian't it sbout weason the liko fuestion witt cousidored by tho 500,000 inhabitusts ot thig oty ? ——— The Inter-Qcean's own victim of thoiel::v:‘» sippi White-Leazuers, A, I’ Mentiit, m{T was gimply frightened into sonding his Ma:)l' curdling dispatch to Gov. Ades sud the Ta'are Ocean by » visit of some nelghboring plavt:t who eamo to invite bim to joiu in s musualiy} x teotivo patrol agatust cotton-titoves wito lute 3 od tho nelghborbood. Saaiug them coming, b; cut acraed the tiolds for a telegrapit a.n]aa. inalex of stopping tv Joarn tho abjoat of their visit. ; plelod il g 5 s 2 When noticing the performsuce of a1 _lmli«‘:' dramatic club, with the mewbers o1 whiels l it eritio sas not tho pleasure of n persansl acvwl-"‘; ance, it 1a ustromely dappicrous to vonturo u;_\" particulart, no matter iow * geusal " may b"u’n intentsons of tho particularizer. At least lm 1 $ho presont opipion of oue critie, Who, 18 light o a recent oceurrance, VoiwH thuheuul: undor slmilar circumatavcos, bio will confiue b wolf stelotly 10 ** giistoring goueralitios. ———— et Tho Bt Paul Proneer-Press, having }m._fl thom alf, Bays of Monsrs, WitrTie and 1:1“;:; now conducting a revival lu that city, thsé i Is & flucr siugor shan Baniky, whilo WUITry 0 » much mots oftocsiva ud woll g vastly & 4 polisbod exhortor than Moops. Thd P‘m . Press prodicts for Wintree aod Dutss & i triumphe sa evavgolists thaa have beod tbo: Moopy and Banxzy. D o 2 Tue Broaklyn Eagle (Democratic) etpit asingle lfinln’ncn what the [nter-0can I‘)‘::: through colamns to esplain sway—the st eratio defeat in Oulor *Tho Ohia Dam wore led by blatherskites and absudon thelr own atatesmen.” irer 4 N ——e The effect on tho Cinclauati Enqu gt ward vaaled {n thia burst with which i u:;n peat-up foslings when the election £l et rocelved: *Our thoughta onmlwlnl wl toll—¢ damnation aod the desd. ———— Taxation of tha property of rollfll":'lnrm tional, and charitsble ipatiutions {8 5“ . tated in Massacnuselts, The ulnnh property now exempt from taxation, sloze, is oatimated as 930,000,000 e gt The Jnter-Oceun still coddles tbe nf&h:zh awd toan {utlstionlas wubscriber who 6XhOME U show Its true colors, sesponds by @ e prospectus ta provethat 1 is Ropublica! o' of the ouly Democratio orgea io Chicago. ad The little glirl who objested %0 wt‘;w‘ ;fiw callsd » man because she wetsore Ho : oties besn a geatlemaz, will doubtleas live v“ . W 1 diatination batuase isdies sud WOI