Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 22, 1876, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SleDAYTOCTOBER 99, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. contact with the minds and hearis of tn, The Treibune, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID AT THIS OFFICE. Dafly Editlon. postpatd. 1 year. 12.00 P v TR monti 1.00 Malled to any address four weeks for. 100 Sanday 2 d Relig 400 Epeclimen coples reot free. & To prevent delay and mistakes, be sure snd give Post- Oftce adéress in full, tncluding State and County. Bemittances may be made either by draft, express, Pust-Office order, or in registercd jetters, at our risk. YERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Dafiy, delivered, Sunday excepted. 25 cents per week. Dally. deltvered, Sunday fncluded, 30 cents per week Address THE TEIBUNE COMPAXY, Corner Madison a3d Dearhorn-sts.. Chicsgo, Il ——ee. XDERY_NO. 19, K. T.—ATTEN- r Kuights of Chicago Com- to e at the Asylim Syn- sharp. to_accom| K. T., inattending_ the c iate SIr K night Alvin Adams, of St. Bernard Commaudery. ~ A full attendaoce is par- deularly requested. 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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1876. At the New York Gold Exchange on Sat- urday greenbacks ranged between 90 and 91 ceats. Troy, New York, comes to the front with- the largest procession ever kmown within her borders. The various Republican organ- izations banded together for a grand forch- light procession, with cannon and rocket ac- companiments, and ‘the whole city turned out. At Detroit, too, there wusa blaze of glory. and the Hon. JiMEs BLAINE received an ovation beyond anything before attempted in thet city. E The evidence in the Strurvan trial was concluded Saturday, and to-morrow the clos ing arguments will be made. The time acta- olly spent in hearing the testimony of wit- nesses has been less than two days. From the rulicgs of Judge McArrsTER on the qgnalifications of jurors, and his liberality in cllowing all testimony bearing on the case to be introduced, the defendant’s counsel feel great confidence that they will obtain an sc- quittal for their client. B Wer advices from the East are contradic- tory and unsatisfactory so faras they pretend to define the position. Earlier dispatches indicate = prolongation of the negotiations, while later news point to 8 possible recourse to mms. An order bas been issued to con- centrate twelve Russian army corps and hold them in readiness for sudden move- anents, but beyond this no decided action ap- pears to have charsoterized either of the be- lgerents. Intelligence from Russian sources indicates that it is intended for effect on Constantinople, and the probable postpone- ment of active warfare is presumable from & bealthier feeling in the European Bourses. The Chicago produce markets were less active Saturday, and generally easier. Mess pork closed 5c per brl lower, at $16.00 seller October and $15.30 scller the year. Lard closed steady, at $9.80@9.85 for new, cash, acd $9.373@9.40 seller the year. Meats were easier, at 63c for new shoulders, boxed, Sic for short ribs do, and 8jc for do short clears. Lake freights were active and easier st 4}c for corn to Buffalo. Highwines were steody, at $1.10 per gallon. TFlour was dall endensier. Wheat closed 1c lower, at $1.10 cash and $1.11 for November. Corn closed gc higher, at 43%c cash and 43Jc for November. Osts closed jc lower, at 82c cash or seller November. Rye wns easier, at Gl@6lic. Barley closed 3@jclower, at 83c for October and 82@823c for November. Hogs were steady, at $5.75 @6.00. Cattle were dull and unchanged, at 50@4.75. Sheep were firm, at $2.75@ : One hundred dollars in gold would buy $110.00 in greenbacks at the close. ‘We have referred elsewhero to the frandu- lent voting that has been discovered in Cin- cinnati, whereby two members of Congress were cheated out of their election. The same sort of iricks will be played in this city and its suburbs unless effectual methods are taken in time to prevent them. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. As soon s8s the registration'lists are finished in the sus- picious wards, there should begin instantly o most searching scratiny of the names to ascertain if they are all legal voters, witha view to chnllenging and arresting those who are not lawful voters of the precnct. There will be gangs of repeaters voting all dsy in the Fifth and Sixth Wards and the Stock- Yard precincts for “Hoxré and Reform!” And they will not be thus spending their time ot their own expense. Ten of these wretches were detected the other day regis- tering themselves from what they called a ‘boarding-house in one of the west precincts of the Fourth Ward; but when the ¢ board- ing-house” was visited it was found to bo a cow-stable. The chaps who are managing Hoxir's cash and canvass expectto get in {heir work to the cxtent of a couple of thousand illagal tickets for the champion re- former. Srrrve Bury, the hero of the Little Big Horn annibilation, has grown aweary, and wants to go home, as he still has the assur- ence to call the Fort-Peck Agency. The brave warrior, finding that scalps are becom- -#ig scarce, 2nd other game in like condition, and foreseeing that his stock of blankets and ther luxuries is not sufficient to meet the rigors of the coming winter, concludes that e will be more comfortable with free board 2nd a warm- fire at the expense of the Gov- arnment than he would be by roughing it in the hills, and taking potluck with little broth, and very cold at that. This npoble savage hes made known his desires to the Agent =2t Fort Peck, and the latter has hastened to carry the news to the Indian Bureau. ThisBu- resu, with all its €aults, is not so neglectfal of {tsfunctions aa to forget the debt it owes to Srrrove Burz. The Agent will therefore inform the spplicant for winter quarters that he and his band can come in, but that, owing to the eccentricities of civilized usage, ho will be required to surrender a8 3 prisoner of war, to be deslt with as the Government shall think proper. It is hardly probable that the great warrior will be able to resist for any length of time the fragrance of bean-soup wafted over the plains from the Agency kettles. —— The public-school census of. Chicago has just been completed, under the ‘management of Mr. Wxncoop, who has had considerable experience in such work. The census-takers were instructed to make an ‘enumeration of the whole population, which they return as follows: Division. Colored. 3,252 1,041 kil Total, .... vevers 407,661 I the census hasbeen taken with reasonable care and accuracy, the aggregate population is not as large as our citizens had supposed. There is 8 much smaller transient population than there was before the financial panie, when a large smount of building was going on. Most persons had estimated the present number of inhabitants at 425,000 to 440,000, s i, THE MEETING LAST NIGHT. Last night the greatest crowd ever assem- bled in Chicago to listen to a political speech gathered st the Exposition building to hear Col. RomeeT G. INgEmsoLL. At an early hour the main floor and galleries of that im- mense structure were packed to their utmost capacity, while the approaches to the build- ing were thronged, and thousands turned away unsble to gain admittance. The vast audience that greeted Col INGERSOLL was not of the sort that ordinarily turns out at political demonstrations. It was made up of the more thoughtful voters of the substantial business class, men not liable to be carried off their feet by fervid rhetoric, and who were attracted by the splendid rep- utation of the orator rather than with & view to making what is called a grand demonstra- tion. His speech is reported in full in Tre TrrsuNe this morning. But no report could do full justics to his glowing eloguence,—the more eloguent because it was the eloguence of living truth, reinforced by imefragable logic of facts, and delivered with that rare power which no other orator of this day possesses. The mighty throng a8 they listen- ed forgot the orator in contemplation of the real issues of the canvass—those that cannot be written down nor talked down—which were by him so vividly presented The eoverwhelming enthusiasm with which the thousands there assembled responded to his appesl to them af this supremo moment to hazard no jot or title of the work of regeneration, final and complete, of the Union restored, demonstrates that the Republican party here, instead of being dead or o party of the past, was never inspired by more active purpose. The mceting may be justly characterized &s a grest awakening to the vital issues of the'campaign. It gunaran- tees that the work yet to be done will be well done, and that Haves and WaErLes will go out of Cook County with a tremen- dous majority. [ —— THE LEGISLATIVE BUMMERS, The Herculean labor of cleansing the Augean stables was mere child’s play as compared with the task of purifying the Democratic Legislative ticket, .which was undertaken to appease popular wrath at the collection of bummers who were presented as the exemplars of the Confederate iden of Reform. The immensity of the job was fully appreciated, and hence not less than 100 men were appointed to grapple with it. But even this strength in numbers did not screw Democratic courage to the sticking point, and there were only twenty-one in all who had the temerity to confront the bum- mers. The exceptional heroism of the twen- ty-one is accounted for mainly by the fact that they gathered rather to protect than to s bounce,” as the result showed. Those on hand were the usual lot of Penay Syrras, Mizes Kenors, Par BRarrerTys, GOODELLS, Camerons, *‘and sich,” so that it is not surprising that the process of puri- fication was of a mature to leave the ticket more foul and offensive, if possible, than it was before. The Con- federate organ in this city charged, a day or two ago, that the Committes on Legislative Smells had been made up in the interest of certain aspirants for the United States Sen- ate, and there was not much hope for im- provement. ‘Yhe result shows that the Con- federate organ was pretty well informed, and leaves even the pretense of purification ut- terly ridiculous and preposterous. 1t was admitted by decent men of all par- ties that the ticket, as presented, was an in- sult to the intelligence of this community and a disgrace to the politics of the day. Yet there were only two or three changes made, and these were adopted not for the purpose of getting rid of so many bummers, but for the purpose of adding some of the Greenback candidates, the further to carry out the compact between the Democrats and Greenbackers to get control of the Legislature, as they did two years ago. Thus Dar, who may fairly claim that he is no more.of a bummer than ENzeNpACHER, SEXTON, and half a dozen others who were retained, was crowded off in the First District to make room for one Brows, who had been nominated by the Greenbackers. So the withdrawal of Evans, the candidate for Senator in the Fourth Dis- trict, was simply used to foist another Green- back candidate—ScaNroN—on the ticket. ‘These were abont all the changes that were made except to add Tox MomaN as & second candidate for the House in the Second Dis- trict, counting upon the Democratic notion that Troaas will be extensively *“cut” be- cause he is a colored man. Thus terminates the farce of sifting the Democratic local ticket. It never was any- thing more than a pretense. Anybody who is familiar with the class of ‘“‘Reformers” hereabouts—the fellows who nominate a man like Hoxtefor Con gress—knows that theLeg- islative ticket is a fair representationof Dem- ocratic purposes and aspirations. It could not be improved or purified without endan- gering a large part of the Democratic vote. It certainly could not be changedifor the bet- ter without interfering with certain Demo- cratic convictions that the bummer has the first lien upon public office. The personnel of the Legislative ticket could not be materially altered without playing havoc with certain combinations which have in view not so much the exactions of law-making as the defeat of a Republican as the successor to Gen. Locax in the United States Senate. To this end, and to farther the ambition of certain gentlemen who regard personal pre- ferment as superior to municipal welfare, the Democrats are seeking to send a lot of fellows to the Illinois Legislature who have neither the capacity nor the desire to assist Chicago and the State by an improvement of the Revenue and other laws needful, but who expect to be important factors, possibly with reward for their services, in the selec- tion of a United States Senator. Probably the people will decline to bo a party to any such degrdaation of the State Legislature. —e HOXIE. The Republicans of the First Congression- 2l District will do well not to underestimate the potent combination of money and un- scrupulousness npon which Hoxme proposes to make his campaign. It will not do to conclude because Mr. Arpriom, the Republic- an candidate, is a gentleman of good stand- ing, o business-man of excellent reputation, and one who is in sympathy with the best’ principles of government, and because Hoxir is a vulgar boor, admittedly unfit for reputable associations, and grotesque in con- nection with any public position, that Mr. Arprica will be elected and Hoxie defeated without any difficulty. This does not follow a3 a matter of course. Hoxme expects to secare his election in the same way he com- passed his nomination. He went into Irish districts and got Irish delegates away from a popular Irishman who was his competitor for the nomination. As he used his money to accomplish this, he is using his money to carry the day. A little money goes along ~| way in times like these. Hoxre is working for himself. He is utterly indifferent whether the First District votes for Haves or TILDEN, CurnLox or STEWARD, the Republican County ticket or the Democratic County ticket, so long as he can secure a majority of votes for Hoxiz. When be puts outa $10 bill or a £50 bill, he does not exact a3 a consideration that the recipient shall desert the whole Re- publican ticket, but merely thathe shall vote for Hoxie. He wants to go to Congress, and is willing to pay roundly for it. But Hoxre has other elements of strength besides his own money. If he goes to Con- gress it will be, not as the represent- ative of the people of Chicago, but as the representative of & certain s8g- gressive railroad interest, which wants the people of the North to contribute in taxes sufficient money to build another Pacific Raflroad for the special benefit of the people of the South. He is backed by the influence of the railrond combination, which will not hesitate to give him all the voting material that can be commanded among the employes, and the use of cars for his coloniza- tion purposes. Get the confidence of any Democrat i town who knows the ropes, and he will tell you that the number of men em- ployed at the Stock-Yards about election time will exceed the average number of em- ployes by hundreds. He will also tell you that arrangements have been made even in the registration lists for voting these non- residents. The Republicans in the Fourth Ward discovered one case where some ten men had been registared as living in a barn, This is but one instance. It is also under- stood that certain packers whose nature is akin to Hoxre’s are preparing to.furnish temporary employment for any number of men who cannot be accommodated af the Stock-Yards, There is to be no means un- tried to pile up a sufficient vote for Hoxre, whatever may be the Republican majority for the National ticket in the First District. 1t is proper, therefore, that the friends of Mr. Auprich, the friends of good.govern- ment, and ihe friends of Chicago should be on the alert, should poll the largest vote they can, and should diligently watch the prep- arations for fraud in those sections where they are making, in order to check them on election-day. Of oourse, neither Mr. Ar- DRICH, nor his personal friends, nor his po- litical supporters, can use the same means for defeating Hoxre that he is employing to elect himself. Buttheycanstrengthentheirefforts, increase their vigilance, and use greater per- sonal activity to arouse opposition among the respectable voters against the disreputa- ‘ble means that are being used in Hoxrz's be- half; fhey can avert the proposed frauds in some instances, and can excite a revolt in the community that will override the purchased and imported vote that Hoxre counts upon. et —— GETTING INTO DEBT. There is no liberty or opportunity more perilous to the financial solvency of States or of individuals than the fatal facility of get- ting into debt. The ability to borrow is oftentimes more fatal than the want of credit. The man who cannot borrow at least is not getting into debt, and whatever he proiuces beyond what he consumes ought to be his credit. But the facility of borrowing money i especially fatal to small States and to Municipal Governments. It offers irresisti- ble temptations to ambitious or corrupt Gov- ernments, and the instances have been nu- merous where such Governments, once having the taste of borrowed money, fail thereafter to ever retrench their expenditures so long as the money to pay interest on the debt can be borrowed on any ferms. The British Colony of New Zealand is the Iatest instance of the rapidity of an increase of debt, and continued excess of expenditure over revenue, and of local extravagance—all made possible by the ability to borrow money. New Zenland is composed of two large islands and some small ones, having an aggregate area of 102,000 square miles. Until recently theso islands were divided politicelly into nine Provinces, each with a complete Gov- ernment. In addition there was a Colonial Government. 'These ten Governments were very costly, and, without exception, each ex-~ pended annually more than they received. The Colonial Government was forced repeat- edly to befriend these provincial affairs, and finally, some year or mora ago, the con- federated system broke down, and the nine Provinces were incorporated as one, bat, at the same time, this centralized State assumed all the debts. The population of New Zesland in 1874 was 299,000. Alore than half the country is mountainous, and the main product for ex- port is wool. Corn and wheat sufficient for domestic use are raised. In 1856 the country owed a debt of $540,000. The annual defi- ciency between receipts and expenditures has ‘been met by loans made in England, until, in 1674, the debt reached $90,000,000. The new Government at once authorized an addition- alloan of £2,000,000, so this little colony begins the year 1876 with a debt of $100,~ 000,000. The trade of the countryin 1874 was: Imports, $10,609,060; exports, $26,- 256,345, Of tha exports more than half was wool. Now, what have these people to show for their one hundred millions of dollars of debt? In June, 1875, there were 132 miles of railroed opex for traffic, and the rails were laid on 110 miles additional, making in all 262 miles of railway. The other 750 miles authorized are yet to be built. The Colony has 2,312 miles of telegraph lines. And this is what the Colony has to exhibit-as the product of $100,000,000 of money borrowed and expended within the last twenty years. Taking the number of population, and the amount of property, and the trade, this ex- penditure of money, with these results, is even worse than that in New York. Here are 300,000 population, with a public debt equal to $350 per head, struggling ‘hopelessly for esistence, and each year becoming more sud_more involved. Some of these lozos have been negotiated at a Leavy discount, and all farther ones must necessarily be. The policy of reducing expenditure is re- jected, and, so long as the Government can make new loans at any rate to raise money to pay the interest, the revenues of the coun- try and all other funds will be expended otherwise. Here is a mere handful of people upon anisland in the Pacific, with no natu- ol facilities beyond the mere support of the inhabitants, already burdened with a debt greater than was owed by the United States from 1791 to 1862, withthe exception of the three years, 18161818, following the war with Great Britain. Of course sucha debt, under such circumstances, must go on in- creasing 5o long as people in England will continue to invest in bonds, however desper- ate. The money-lenders of Great Britain have been very venturous, have taken large risks at large discounts, but have recently suffered heavily in their dealings with Tar- key, Egypt, and various South American States. This history of New Zealand and the enor- mous and rapid growth of herdebt is but the history on a larger scale of many of the cities, counties, and even rural towns, in all parts of this country. The fatal facility of borrowing money, of creating debts, of sell- ing bonds, and mortgaging other people’s property, has involved municipalities all over the country, which will remain 8 weight upon them for several generations. The title in fee simple to all New Zealand would hard- ly bring, at public sale, the amount of her debt, and there are municipalities in this and other States whose whole value will eventu- ally be consumed by taxation to pay interest and principal of their debts, represented by ‘bonds sold, and the proceeds expended, and nothing left as the result. 5 e RELIGION IR CHINA. In the last Sunday issue of Tee TrIBUNE appeared the first of a series of articles upon Religion in China, setting forth the pecul- jarities of the doctrines of CoNruUCIUS, as illustrated in the Chinese classics. To-day we continue the series with a reference to ‘Buddhism, prefacing it with some general remarks upon the religious systemsin China. The Chinese themselves speak of their re- ligious systems as three in number—J/u- Kian, Sit<Kian, and Tau-Kian. The is synonymous with Confucianism, and re- fers to the system of ethics, political econ- omy, and ancient religious rites taught by Conrucrus and his predecessors. The sec- ond is Buddhism, snd the third Tauism. Outside of these three systems, there re- mains Mohammedanism, of which sect a few adherents are found in every part of the Empire, and & certain proportion of Jews and Roman Catholics, of whom more here- after. . Buddhism, which is emphatically the relig- jon of China and Eastern Asia in general, was introduced into China about the year 61 of the Christian ers, by an embassy which went to India to seek for religious teaching, and returned with the god and the religion of the Hindoos. The Chinese Buddhism differs, however, from that of Indis, Ceylon, Burmgh, Siam, and Thibet, The eharacter- istics of the Buddhist system in China are a beliefin a benevolent deity, associated with inferior ones, who are to save men from the consequences of sin, and also the doctrine of the transmigration of souls and the efficacy of good works. The temples of BuppHA, or ¢ Fug,” as he is called in China, are found in all parts of the Empire, are costly and im- posing in appearance, and are rendered pe- culiarly picturesque by their pagodas. They sare composed of several buildings in a line directly back of tho front one, each portal being guarded by sppropriate idols. The last of the series, the ‘‘ Great, Glorious, Precious Temple,” contains three large im- ages of Fum, called the ‘“Three Precious Ones,” surrounded by the eighteen Lo-han, persons who are supposed to be absorbed into Fom, and twenty-eight Sing-sin, repre- senting different stars. Immediatelyin front of the threefold Fum is a standing veiled image of EKwaN-sa1-yiN-Poo-saH, & young virgin, with a child in her arms, and ‘bearing so strong a resemblance to the Virgin Many that the Roman Catholics have attrib- uted its existence to Satsnic agency. The Buddhist priests are exceedingly ignorant. Their monasteries are numerous, and each has its Superior and overseer, which positions are filled by the more intelligent. The in- comes of the monasteries are derived from the voluntary contributionsof the people and the proceeds of lands with which they have been endowed, and the duties of the priests are to chant, perform ceremonies in the temples, and beg. One class of priests live in rude huts or caves among the hills, spend- ing their time in the greatest retirement and susterity. There sre others who live in closed rooms or cells, and there are large numbers of nuns and nunneries. The wor- shipers in the temples are mainly women. In the matter of faith and devotion, the Chi- nese woman isno exception to her sisters the world over. There is snother reason, however, which accounts for the predomi- nance of female worshipers. Dr. Nevins says: ““In accordance with the doctrine of the transmigration of souls, so prominent in the Buddhist system, the great end in the worship of Buppma is to secure a favorable position in the futare state, in which it is supposed that indi- viduals will ascend or descend in the scale of existence according to the preponderance of their merits or demerits in this life. In consequence of the inferior station of women in China and their peculiar trials, being a woman is regarded asa great misfortune ; and in ‘thebitterness’ incident to their present lives they console themselves with the hope that their earnest devotions at the shrine of Buppra will gain for them the position of ‘s man in good circumstances’ in the future state.” It is unnecessary, and we have mot the space, to go into the details of this worship. The most interesting feature of the Buddhistic system is its close re- gemblance in its goverument to Roman Catholicism. Both systems have an infal- lible head. Their priests practice celibacy. Both have monasteries and nunneries. They deliver their prayers in an unknown tongue. They make prayers to Saints and inter- cessors and to the Virgin and Child They have prayers for the dead and the repetition of prayers with the rosary. They believe in works of merit and supererogation. They impose austerities and bodily inflictions. They have a formal daily service, made up of chants, burning of can- dles, holy water sprinkling, bowings, pros- trations, and processions, and barning of in- cense. Their fast-days, feasts, images, pict- ures, legends, relic-worship, pilgrimages to shrines, and miraoulons oures, are also al. most identical. The extent of these two great systems is shown by the fact that their worshipers include four-fifths of the human race. The essentinl difference between Buddhism and Confucianism is, that, while thie latter deals with the present, the former treats almost exclusively of a future world and preparation for it. Confucianism gives to the Chinese no religion, and Buddhism came in to supply the religions want. The one is moral, the other metaphysical. Inour next Sunday’s issue we shall examine Tauism, the materialistic system. ——— = 1S TILDEN TO MAKE MURDER FREE AT THE SOUTH? Gens. CaxzeoN and Cozsg, in addition to their ordinary duties as ‘‘soldiers and sail- ors " of the late War, in promoting TILDEN'S election have recently undertaken to coun- sel and comfort the soldiers and sailors who fought on the Rebel side, and who are also now engaged in fighting for Tmpey. When the President issued his proclamation direct- ing the disbandment and dispersion of the Rifle Clubs in South Carolina, Gens. CAMER- on snd Comse were greatly grieved, and forthwith they wrote a joint note in the name of the ‘*Soldiers and Sailors of the Union,” addressed to Gen. Wape HAMPTON, assuring that distinguished Confederate General that “The time has come when the ex-Union soldiers can grasp hands with the ox-soldiers of the Southern Confederacy “; and thess two Chicago Generals further wrote to HaMPTON these words : The noble course of your people in submitting quietly to the indignity thrust upon you has gained for you the admiration and respect of all true men. Let us respectfally ask that you bear your souls in patience, and the hour is at ‘hand for deliverance from the evila with which the American people have been so long afflicted. All of this, with due respect to the two Generals, is very disgusting .and very ridicu- lous. When was the indignity thrust upon the peopleof Sonth Carolina to which these peo- ple have submitted? An unlawful armed force of 20,000 men, organized in military style by companies, regimeats, and brigades, snd divided 1nto infantry, artillery, and cav- alry, have taken possession of the State, and, by wanton murder and assassination, by armed demonstration of strength, by dom- iciliary visitation, by personal chastiseiment, and by every form of terrorism and intimida- tion, have sought to prevent the unarmed majority of the population from holding po- litical meetings, from being candidates for office, and from voting for the Republican candidates. This armed organization is a violation of the laws of the State, and, at the request of the Governor, who is powerless, the President did, what he was constitution- ally required to do, interpose the authority of the United States to preserve the peace and protect the people from violence. This is the *“indignity” to which the people of South Carolina have, in the opinion of these two Generals, been subjected. It would be gratifying to the soldiers who fought for the Union to know what is the ¢ Jeliverance " near at hand for which these men in South Carolina are advised to bear their souls in patience. Is TmLpexN's election to be a notics to the Rifle Clubs to go shead and rulethe State by force, resorting to assas- sination, and murder, and menace, and intim- idation, and & ** deliverance” from any danger that the President of the United States will executs his sworn duty to protect the people of any State from invasion or domestic vio- lence? Do these men wish to assure the ex- soldiers of the Confederacy that Mr. TILDEN will not interpose the national suthority un- der like circumstances, and that his election will be a deliverance to the Rifle Clubs all over the South, and that he will never sub- ject the ex-Confederates to the indignity of suppressing a systematized oppression and barbarity, including every crime against bhu- manity, which is only equaled by that of the Tarks in Bulgaria? Is this what Gens. Cam- sroN and Consw, speaking in the name of the soldiers of the American Union, promise these murderous Rifle Clubs will be the official conduct of TILDEN if elected? ——eee BALLOT-BOX STUFFING IN CINCINNATL The Republicans of Cincinnati are finding out that they let themselves be most shame- fully and foully swindled at the recent elec- tion, whereby they lost two members of Congress and their whole county ticket. It seems that the Trupen Reformers organized gangs of repeaters from Kentucky, and voted them over and over again. Some of the vil- 1nins since returning home have boasted that they voted the Democratic Reform ticket twenty times! The total number of fraudulent votes polled are estimated at 2,500 to +,000. The Gazette first took hold of the matter. 1t detailed men to copy all the names of the voting registers of a precinct, and arrange them alphabetically. The next step was to check off all the names found in the City Directory. A list was then made of the re- maining names not found therein. These were given to sharp, vigilant canvassers, who visited every house in the precinct to ascer- tain where any of them could be found. The next thing was to publish a list of the names of those not found either in the Directory or in the precinct, and to call on the people to help hunt them up and find out what had ‘become of those Reformers without a local habitation, and of whom only a name re- mained. In the Sixteenth Precinct of the Second ‘Ward the Gazette found 153 names on the poll-books for whom no owners resided in the precinct. After duly publishing the list of names, and setting everybody to work searching for the absentees, four of them were found, but at last advices 149 were non. est inventus, and it had been reduced foa moral certainty that not one of them lived in the precinct, but that every villain of them had beenimported, and belonged torepeating- gangs of Tildenites. The Gazetls has made similar discoveries in two other precincts. In regard to one of the last precinets it has investigated, the Gazette remarks : In this matter we have no other ubject thanto 1id in an investigation of frauds that are generally admitted to have taken place. To facilitate mat- ters, every available means will be employed to weed ont from this list the mames of legal votera, and we call upon citizens of the ward to lend their 2id to the cause. It is 3 serfous imputation upon a respectable precinct in the heart of the city that over a hundred voters registered on the tally-books cannot be found, by the most rigorous search, within its Jimits. We shall give this record proper attention, and, when it is not open to further amendment, the next stage of the inquiry will be in order. The Commercial has salso taken the same work in hand. It began its labors in an- other part of the city, and, after looking up every voter in the Second Precinct of the Twentieth Ward, it finds 143 more names on the poll-books than reside in the precinct. The Commercial publishes thelist of bogusvot- ers who put in the 143 tickets for *‘reform,” and not a man of them can be found. The matter has assumed a pretty serious shape, and the professional Reformers begin to feel serions. Already 500 illegal votes have been discovered in BaNNING's district, who only claims to be elected by eighty-five votes. The Enguirer “‘smiles a sickly amole,” and to pass off the villainy as & good jok Butthe published long lists of names of per- sons who voted in certain precinets that do not live in them, and cannot be found, has already crused several of the defeated can- didates to take steps for contesting the elec- tion. The silly excuso for the rascalities given by the Enquirer will not be nct_:epbed. Tt mdst find something better than this: We say to our friends throughout the country that the Republican managers in Hamilton County were most beantifully and unexpectedly whipped. This outcry abont illegal voting is raised in order to explain matters to outsiders. It is a method gelected by the smart managers of leiting them- selves down easily. - It is true that *‘ the Republican managers were unexpectedly whipped.” With a clear majority of 3,000 in the county, they were astonished to find the minority counted in. The investigations already made by the Gazette and the Commercial show how it was done. Reports are coming in to the Repub- lican hesdquarters in Indiana that similar illegal practices were perpetrated by the Re- formers in many parts of that State. — TRANSPARENT SOPHISTRY. As the discussion proceeds, it is inereas- ingly evident that those who advocate the retaining of religious teaching and ‘worship in tax-supported public schools are com- pelled to rely on sectarian prejudice and personal infallibility, instead of calm and impartial reason. Their views of religion are demonstratively right, and the civil State should accept them as the basis of Govern- ment, and should teach them _in the public schools. Being satisfied of this fundamental position, they care not who objects or pro- tests, becanse no man, and surely not the State, is bound to be influenced by those who talk absurdly. This is & short argu- ment, and very conclusive to those who be- lieve in infallibility, Romish or Profestant ; butnot to others, who, unfortunately forthese logicians, ere likely to prove the majority. They are certainly such in this city, and that among the most enlightened classes. Indeed, the more enlightened men are, the less are they inclined to yield to this claim of infal- Libility. The latest presentation of it occurs in a 1abored eight-column communication to the Northwestern Christian Adrocate, of this city, in its issue of the 18th inst., by the Rev. Dr. J. B. Warxez, the author of the well-known book called ** The Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation.” He heads his essay with *“The Bible in School,” but the contents are devot- ed to setting forth what he styles ¢ Catego- ries of the Reason, showing that Revelation is a necessity in order to the moral culture of the human mind.” He presents, in fact, an epitome of his book to show the evidence of the necessity for the Scripturesand of their adaptation to the world's spiritual wants; and he says: ‘1t follows, as a neces- sary inference, that the efforts of the Rev. Dr. Wirnax W. Parroy and other able writers to exclude the Bible from the common school are unwise and hurt ful.” Having established, to his own satis- faction, nine positions which involve the supreme importance of Christianity, as set forth in the New Testament, he declares that it follows : * That to exclude the Bible from the common schools is a crime against fam- ilies and against the State, because it with- holds the only efficient means of cultivating the moral faculties of the children, upon which depend order, and law, and progress in society and in the State.” As the entire fallacy of this argument, so far gs the conclusion just quoted is con- cerned, does not at all occar to its author, who quietly dreams that he has made a dem- onstration of well-nigh mathematical neces- sity, it will probably escape the motice of many others who are less reflective. And et nothing can be more obvious to a logical mind. It has two points of fundamental weakness. The first is the assumption that we have a right, because a coaviction is clear, and even undubitable, in our own minds, to cempel others, who are not convinced, to act upon it. This is a fallacy, out of which it is exceedingly difficult for many honest people of decided opinions to deliver themselves. They know they are right, and others ought to submit. The case istoo plain for argument, and they are not bound to regard other men’s obtuseness or obstinacy. But they forget that each party is equally sure that it is right, and is amazed at the stupidity and lack of candor of the other. Each man is, indeed, sosure of the correctness of his own view, especially ina matter touching religion, that often he is ready to die rather than to relinquish it. There have been martyrs by the thousand to Judaism, to heathenism, to Mohammedan- 1sm, to Christianity, and occasionally to in- fidelity. Under Christianity ilself there have been these death-testimonies solemnly given, in turn, by Roman Catholics and by Protestants, by Prelatists and by Puritans, by Baptists and "by Quakers. When we converse with men in private, we find them perfectly as- sured that their religious position is impregnable. Here is a Roman Catholic that has no more doubt that his Church is infalli- bly correct in doctrine than he has of his ownexistence. He knows that Protestantism is false. But here comes Dr. Warxer with such an equally infallible assurance that Protestantisin is the true system that heis ready to base the action of the civil State upon it, snd to ignore Romanism! Hesays: “The Bible has always been the badge of Protestantism. The common school, with the vital principle of the God-sense involved, was the chief legacy of those Protestants who originated our freo institutions. They established, as part and preservative of our democratic institutions, *Free schools for all and the Bible in school‘ as the hope of national prosperity.” He does not remem- ber that precisely the same argument is used continually in support of the State.establish- ment of the Romish Church in Spain, of the Lutheran Church in Germany, and of the Protestant Episcopal Church in England. Each country has received from previous generations. a religious faith which’ it so surely believes to be true and indispensable to public morality and welfare that it establishes it by law, to the discredit and often to the persecution of }hose in the minority, who reject its pecul- iarities. strated, that we are right,” is the common ‘baais of all intolerance and bigotry, and that Dr: Warxer now adds another illustration, by proposing to enforce his “ categories™ ‘through the common schools, because he thinks them to be demonstrated, gives us no additional faith in the false principle. His s_ewnd weakness of reasoning is in supposing that, even if all his ** categories” be infallibly true, there is any right to en- force them under the constitutions, and laws, and general principles of civil policy en- acted in this country. The Bible may be all that he claims in its behalf, and yet it will not follow that, under our American system of government, it is any part of the fanctions of the civil State to bring the Bible into *“We know, and have demon- | people. The Bible should be cirenlyy, ed everywhere, lot it be admitteq, but for that purpose Bible Eocieh'g’ churches, and city missionaries shoulq be used, and not the public Treasury or the officers of law. If the Bible be what Ty, WaLEEs contends and thinks that he hu demonstrated it to be, then doubtless it should be explained, taught, preached; by by ministers, parents, Sunday-school teach. ers, and private persons, and not by the functionaries of the State. For, under our American system, the State consists of those who agree in seeking to secure certain secn. lar interests of society, but entirely disagres in religions views andaims. Therefors, it i arranged that the religious points, in which we disagree, shall not come up for action i the civil sphere, as to whick we agree. They shall be left to the indvidual conscience, t the arrangements of the family, and to the operations of the Church. This is a simple and satisfactory adjustment, and is thy only one possible in these days of religiony division. As it has been found to rule out s State-Charch, so it will be found to rule out religious State-schools. The State is ty know no distinction of religion in thy schools. It isto have no Romish schools, * and as little can it have any Protestans schools. Hence, when Dr. WALEzR, in hig argument for using the Bible in the publis schools, aays: “ The Bible always has been the badge tof Protestantism,” he spesks traly, but offers the very remson why it should not be compulsorily introduced inty public schools, which should not wear *thy badge of Protestantism,” or of any religiony sect or party. Nor is Dr. W.’s position any mora accord ant with Christianity than with the policy of the American State. He truly says: “To . believe the Christian Scriptures, andsnot favor all proper ways to disseminate knowl- edge of Christ and His precepts, as authority in matters of - duty, 18 contrary both to the principle and the practice of the Christian religion.” But why does Dr. W. esy ¢ proper ways” when his argument required him to say “all weys”? We contend that no way is a “proper” way to disseminate Christianity which does violence to the equal rights of those who reject it. Notevena Bible is to be forced into the hand of the un- believer, or into the hand of his child. The authorities may properly protect Alr. Moooy in his daily preaching of Christianity, but they would sadly wander from s ‘proper way” were they to send out the police o compel the sinful wayfarers on the street to go into the Tabernacle that they might re- ceive the great benefit of conversion, and thus become better citizens. The result of the Tammany and anti-Tam. many fight in New York is, that whether TrLoEx shall have a chance of being elected depends upon those eminent Reformers Jomx Keiiy, Jonx MorgissEY, and Jnney O’Brres. TILDEN has no chance of election unless he carries New York. He has no chance of carrying New York unless this trio of distinguished Reformers unite in his support. At present they are wrangliag over the question of the distribution of spoils. There is no question abont it that their wrangie is kept up simply that they may command their own terms of TILDEN; and as it stands they command the situation. To secure the majority in the city requisite to carry the State, TILDEN must accede to their terms; and so upon them aepends whether there shall be any prospect of the success of TILDEN and Reform. The situs- tion ought to be eminently. suggestive to those journals and orators that have reckoned up what irresistible claims some of the machine-men who hang on to the Republican party will have upon Gov. HaYEs in case of his election. If TILDEN be elected at all it will be solely be- canse he is indebted to Messrs. KBLLY, MORRIS- SET, and O’BRIEN in the City of New York The “ctaims?’ of that trio must inevitably out- rank those of anybody else; and Messis. KzLLY, MORRISSEY, and O'BRIEN are of the kmovwing sort who will do nothing until their claims are secured. Of course ail they will de- mand will be reform—of that kind practiced by Tammany. 4 The latest issuc of FRANK LESLIE'S Neow paper contains a cartoon entitled “The Effed of Father Tarr’s Order, in which the artist m- wittingly presents a signal illustration of the situation in South Carolina. The scene is laid inacotton fleld. In the forcground a negre and a United States soldier, the latter with his musket by his side, are squatted on the grass, engaged in a friendly game of *seven-up.” in the distance is a genuine White-Liner, the sale- tary cffect upon whom of the Attorney-Gener al’s circular is manifest from the fact that in hit hands he hoids not a shot-gun, but the plow- handles. Beneath fis the legend, * While the United States soldiers are protecting the South ern megroes, the white men are obliged to labot to support them both.”” The moral, however, is omitted. 1t is, that, if the White-Liner hod 1laid down his shot-gun and taken to the plow, the soldier wouldn’t have been there, and that exasperating game of cards wouldnjt have beea in progress. But nothing less than the com- pulslon of United States bayonets will send the White-Liner to the plow. He plows not. He shoots; and it is the negro who does the plow; ing that the White-Liner goes gunning after, all because the negro does not vote the Demo- cratic-White-Line ticket. e p— They are getting upa panic ir New York again on the yuestion of -the Croton water sup- ply. Itis not thistime as to the numberand varlety of deadly infusoria and poisonous ref~ use furnished the city in their Croton, bul a8 to the insufficiency of the supply and the thereis of a water famine. The waterin tha reservoir is now reduced to a depth of but sev- enteen fect, and, to guard against its exhaus- tion, the city is put upon short allowance, but sixty-five million gallous per diem being sersed- ‘This but littie more than suffices for the lower portions ot the city, where it is drawn ofl 80 raptdly that there is not *head” enough 10 supply the up-town wards during most hours ofthe duy. At the same time, the restrictions as to flushing the sewers and drains are neces sarily such as to imperil the health of thecity- The phase of the question most pondered® Dot as towhether the water supply sball b increased, nor how it shall be done, but 38 0 the cost of the new agueduct, which it is coo- ceded is required and cannot be built for 1es3 than $27,000,000, withont stealings, whils, 83 every taxpager in New York knows, no such sum s that can be expended by the dty with out a deal of stealing in connection with it e ———— The Jews of New York are pretty solidly against TILDRN. One of the reasons for this I8 given in the Hebrew Record, as follows: When Sawuze J. TiLpEN wasa member of the New York Senate, he introduced a bill in that body which deprived the Hebrew citizens of the State o certain rights and privileges. He claimed that Be- ‘brewn were not fit to be American citizens. this the Jews In New Yock City are fonaing 3 pov; erfal organization to oppose him. What & 2| it is that onr Hebrew fz?low-zmxena cannot a Jittle reform. Perhaps they dida't understsad that TiLDEX oniy intended to reform them. As evergbody knows, the Jews of the North were conspicuously loyal to the Unlon a8 3 -class during the War. This logalty TipsX never forgot nor forgave. If there is any elass he could curse more heartily than Union diers, it is the Jews. Andthe Jewsol New York, who know TILDE, will vote against him- e ——— How New York is to be carried, if at -all, f0f T1LDEN and Reform,” is indicated by the re€- istry in Brooklyn, which was closed last Tues day. The enormous registry excited attentioty and, on investization, it was discovered that 5ot less than five thousand names had been k> lently registered, which signifled simply thst five thousand are to be added to the Muful W4