Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 28, 1876, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER ' 28, 1876—TWELVFE. PAGES. The Tuibue, PAYADLE IN ADVANCE—P'OSTAGE PREPAID AT THIS OPPICE. affy Edftton, postpatd. 1y £12.00 Arih of & yeaz. put mOvth fxid Riktied taam it Bupday £ hee e per tonth. WREKLY EDITION, TOSTPAID. Tostage prepaid. Speciinen copies sent free, To prevent dolsy and mistakes, be suroand give Post- Oniee address In full, Including Btate and County, Remittances may be made elther by draft, cxpress, Post-Office order, of In registered letters, st vur risk. FERMS TO CITY BUDSCRINENS. Daly, deliered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week. * Lnlly, delivered, Sunday included, 30 cents per week Addres THE TRINUNE COMPANY, Cosner Madizon and Dearborn-sta., Chicago, il Adelpfil Theatre. Slontos street, corner Dearborn. “The Brigands of Chicago." Afternoon andevening.. ** Nemeala; or, AeVicker's Thentre. ' Madison street, between State and Dearborn. Engagement of Joseph Murphy, ternvon sad evening. “Kerry Gow. Afe Now Chicugo Thentee, Clark street, between ltandoinh and Lake, Hooley's Minstrels, Afternoon and evening, Haverly’s Thentre, Randolph street, between Clark nnd LaSalle, fimer son's Minatrels. Afternoon and eveniog. Wand!s Museum. Monroe strect, between State and Dearborn, ** Dlack Mand " and ** Ten Nighta in a Dor-Room," Afternoon and evening. SATURDAY, OCTOBER =28, 1876, Greenbacks ot the New York Gold Ex- ange yestorday closed at 1. —e According to Turkish accounts, tho sd- vancoe of the invading army in Servia is ter. ribly destructive to the imsurgents. The "T'urks claim to have captured the mountain stronglhold which commands Deligrad, and assert that tho battlo by which this advan. tngo was gainod resulted in immense slaughter in the Servian ranks, 1t wils to Inve been cxpected that Mumar HarsTeAp, cditor of the Cincinnati Commer cial, would have somcthing to say worth listening to in his speech in New York ‘Wednesday night, and he did. A liberal ex- tract from that portion of the speoch treat. ing of the subject of Southern claims, which we print elsewhero, will bo found of in- terost. Col. Frep Hecer spoke at Turner Hall last ovoning to n largo gothering of tho German-Americuns of Chicago, and in his usual vigorous and forcible atyle punctared the Lollow protensions of the Democracy as Reformers. ‘The famous old soldier-orator's characteristic German idiomns expressive of the contempt aud division which every hater of shamo must feel for tho apoils-hunters who are clamoring for ‘‘a change” were highly relished by his auditors, Cook County is the gainer in soms 230,000 or 40,000 by s decision renderod yesterday by Judge Fanwees in tho Circuit Court, By this decision the JoNatnan Bunn bequost in aid of tho establishment and maintonance in Northern Illinois of an esylum for the treat- ment of the insane is decreed to belong of right to Cook County, whose Insano Asylum ut Jefferson in connection with the Poor. THouso was cructed and in ruuning order prior to the erection and operniion of its unsuceessful rival for the bequest, the North. orn Asylum, There appears to be little harmony exist. ing between tho: Miuistry at Belgrade nnd Commander-iu-Chief Tcueuvaverr in the field, Complaints having been wnde by the War Minister to tho Iatter concerning certain excessos committed by Russian soldicrs, tho Genoral beeamo exnsper- ated oud retorted by demandieg tho dismissal of tho Minister, whose colleagues in the Cabinot resisted and threatened to fol- low him into retirement.” The War Minister lins resigned, snd tho Minister of the In. terior hay leen intrusted with tho delicate wission to tho irate General for tha purpose of bringing order out of this chaos, e Tr— Rend tho correspondence given in another column betweon District-Atiorucy Brss, of Now York, und the Commissioner of Internal Ravenue on the subject of Sax Tiipen's in- come-tax rasenlily, Unfortunntely the polit- ical friends of tho grent Meformer control tho evidenco that irrevoeably stamps him n revenue-swindler. The Government will oventually got possession of the Pittsburg & Fort Wayne books, which show n feo of §50,000 paid to I1LoEN in 1869, tho year that his income was roturned ar only 17,000, but T1Lvex's railroad frionds will keep Lack tho proof until after election. In the mean. time, Reform is uccessary, and TILDEN re- mpins tho Reform candidate for President., Judge MoArzasten mny bo a very bold or rash man ; he moy hold tho opinjons of the intelligent and respectablo part of this com- munity in profound contempt; but with all that he will think twico or oftener before lo procoeds to arrest and puaish for contempt thosu citizens who lave signed or will pro- sent the petitions asking him to rosign from the Bench for tho rcasons therein stated. No, ho will not undertake that job,' It would prove too heuvy to enrry into offect, even with tho ald of the eriminal classes at Lis back. Ho will hardly succeed in punish. ing 10,000 of our citizens for holding Lim in contempt for the remarksble manner in which Lo administered law and justico in the recent murder trial, It is too big a job. There is o consplcuous discrepancy beo- tween the account given by Gov, Cuaxpen. LA of tho horrible massacre of negroes at Ellenton, and tho address of the Bishops and bankers of Charleston denying that thero ig any foundation whatover for "the reports of lawlessuess and terrorisin in South Caraling, Bomebody is very wmuch mistaken in this matter, and whether it is the Chief Executivo of the State, who has thoroughly investi. gated the subject, and who frankly confesses his inability to restrain themurderons White. Liners, or tho signers of the Charleston ad- dress, who have derived thelr information ond impressions solely from White-Lino sources, i3 a question which, in the light of the probabilities in the case and of the collateral testimony at hand, it would be difticult to decido ngainst the Governor, The Chicago produco markets were gen- erally tame oud easier yostorday, Mess pork closed a shade lower, at $156.80 for old seller October or scller the year. Lard closed Go per 100 s lower, at §9.63@9.70 cash (new) and $9.80@49.35 seller tho year, Meats wore A@}o lower, at 6o for new shoulders, boxed, 8}o for do short ribs, aud 8jc for do short | clears. Lake freights were enaier, at 4c for corn to Buffalo, Highwines were stendy, at $1.10 per gallon, Flour was dnll and stendy. ‘Whent closed Je lower, at £1.09) eash and $1.10} for November. Corn closed un- changed, at 124e cash aud 42]c for scller No- vember, Onts closed firm, nt !12§e cash and 8280 for November. Ryo was ensior, at Gle, Barley closed firmor, at 85}c for October and 85c¢ for Novembor or Decomber, Ilogs wore dull, and closed woak at a decline from Thurs- day of d0c per 100 ths, Cattle were in fair domand and were stendy. Sheep wero un. changed. Ono hundred dollars in gold would bny $109.75 in greenbacks at the close. In n lotter from Gronae Bess, United Siates Attorney for the Southern District of Now York, to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, which is given this morning in onr Washington dispatches, inuch information of valuo and significanco is contained re. specting the question of Mr, Tirpex's in. como tax. District-Attorney Briss, ncting under ‘iostructions from Commissioncr Ravy, proceeded to mako inguiry into the mntter with a view ‘to bringing snit against 3r. TiLpey for the recovery of that portion of his income tax out of which e was belloved to have defrauded the Gov- ernment. It was dofinitely nscertained that in 1869 Mr. TLDEN was paid for legal services by the Pittsburg, Fort Waynoe & Ohieago Railrond Compnny the sum of 350,000, and that this sum was not included in Mr. Truoes's incomo-return for that or any subsequent year,—the return for 186 having shown $17,000 to be his total income for that yenr, In order to obtain the proof necessary to instituto logal procesdings tho District-Attorney ondeavored to get access to tho books of the railrond compnuy, which were kuown to contain entries showing the poayment of the £i0,000 fce. Permission to inspeet tho books ia refused point- blauk by the President pro fem. of tho Fort Wayno Railroad Company, and in this shapo tho matter now stands. Mr, TiLoey is one of the Directors of that corporation, and it is undoubtedly at bis request that the officers of the Governmont have beon denied permis- sion to examine tho books, If the payment of 50,000 to Mr, TiLpEN is not shown in the books, their inspection would at once es. tablish that fact and put an end to the con- troversy. The conclusion s thereforo in- evitable that the books are withheld from in- spection in order to provont nntil after clec- tion a complete cxposure of BMr. TipeN's income-tax frauds. The object is delny, and it will probably succeed, as the legal pro. ceedings necessary to compel the production of the books would consume considerable time. VOTING FOR “A CEANGE.! Tt hins been frequently urged upon Repub- licany that they should voto for the election of T1pEs in order to effect ‘s change” in the general administration of the Govern- ment, and that such change will be more effective when made by the Democratic party than if made by Gov, Ilaves The necessity for this change is put upon the dircet ground that thero has been so much robbery, fraud, dofaleation, and gon- eral misconduct during the Republican ad- ministration of the Government, that a gen- erl purifieation of the Governmental ser- vico, it i said, is demanded. Havo Repub- licans, who are urged on this ground to vote for TiLpey in preforence to Haves, nacor- tained tho truth on this subject? Lot us soe what tho facts are, In the first place, Gov, Haves has an. nounced that if clocted he will dovote his single term to tho elimination from the pub- lio of all the incompetehey, unfitness, and dishoneaty that can be discovored, and make integrity and competenoy tho standards of official employment, making no distinction politically botween thosa appointed, or ro. tained, or dismissed. Gov. T1Lpex, in his lotter, proposes a general dismissal of all those mow in the publie service, nssuming them ail to be Republicans; the appoint- ment of new men, all Democrats ; aud then tho purification of the unew forca in the course of time. These are tho two plans proposed by tho persons who are candidates for the Presidency, and we submit that no man who desires reform for reform sake nnd not merely o bestowal of party patronngo, can for o mowent reject that of CGiov, Haves for the wild, partisen spoils-system proposed Ly Mr. TiLpeN, But the frcta do not warrant the demand for any genernl chango such as 1mnde by the Democratio party. The Republican party, upon the very instant of its nccession to power, was cncountered by o civil war of long duration, involving an exponditure of mouey, an incronso of revenue, and an ex- pousion of dobt and the issue of paper-mouey to which tho untion lad been previously n stranger, Tho loaus, rovenuos, and expend- ituren during that period frequently excoed- ed during o yoar three thousand millions of dollars ; that is, that amount of money or credits was handled by the Governmont in n singlo year. 'Tho War was succceded by yoars of doprecinted currency, want of cred- it, with tho speculation, uxtravagance, and recklessness of expenditure in private life, which havo attended every war in avery no- tion of the world. Out of this social demor- nlization, the natural ontgrowtl of suddonly. acquired wealth and reckless privato oxpend. iture, thera camu n looseness of morals, an undermining of integrity, and a taste for cxtravagance fully - as romark- sble in commercial DLanks as among officinls, Embezzlemonts, misapproprintions, dofaleations, and all the crimes ngninst hon- esty wero genernl, and were found in privato commeorofal banking circles ay well as in offi- cial lifo, The revenues required by the Goy. ernment were enormous ag compared with those in all provious portions of tho national oxistence, and the natural inclination of mau. kind to evade taxation, to swindle and de- fraud the Governmont, had opportunitics such as nover oxisted before. OMeial dis. hongsty is necossarily confined to two Jines of operption : Plygder of the Government in tho caflection of 't revenuo and plunder of tho revenuo after its collection. During the term of JomssoN the whisky tax was so heavy that it juspired fraud, which was Leavily practiced. Frauds thus suggested and succesafully practiced survived the re- turn of tho Ropublicau party to power, aud it required timo and vigor to discover and break it up and bring the guilty to justico. This bag been accomplished, as well as tho complete breaking up of the wholesalo smug- gling carried on to the loss of tha rovenue, No ono has now the hardihood to nssert that thero is gny robbery or frand committed in the collection of the rovenuo which any Gov- ernmont could ordinarily prevent, Now, what arc tho facts in the case of the robbories, thefts, frauds, dofulcstions, and crimes committed on tho rovenuo oftor it hos been collected? Buch crimes exist under every Government in the world, and have existed under tho Governwent of the United Btates frowm the organization down to the present dny. These nro all a matter of ree- ord, and iu response to a requiroment by tho United States Senato this record has been mnda out, brought down to July 1, 1876, and has beon officially published. 'Tho losses suslained by the Governmnent through its ofticers, in all nanner of thofts, defalentions, ete.,, under ench Administration, fa givon, tho percontnge of loss being on each $1,000 colleeted. The following is the compnrison: T.oss on Adminiztration, Qeorge Washii dohn Adame, T'homna Jefle Janmen Madlson, dntiea Monro John Q. Adanme, Andrew Jacksol Martln Van Dore 1Harrteon and Tyle; J. K, Polk, .. Taylor and Fi Franklin Pierce. Jntnes Buchanan.... Abralim Lincoln.. Andrew Jahinson. 1. 8 Qrant, 00 1 U. 8. Grant ‘738 It will bo seon that the Republican party hns 80 reduced tho percontage of fraud thot now, under GRanT, it is only 26 centa on the 21,000, while nuder BucnaNax it wna $3.81, and even nnder WasninaToN was as high as $2.22, We submit this o8 the actual fact, taken from the record of the Treasury Do- partment, and wo ask Republicans, who find thomselves urged to vote for a general chango in order to get rid of dishonest of- ficibls, to cousider what that chango will probably result in, Mr, Tinpey, in Lis lot- ter, avows that he will reform the eivil servics by dismissing every msn in the public service and replacing him with o Domocrat, Considering that Mr, TiLoexN is chief of Tammany Hall, and will owe his clection to that organization, we submit that the honesty of the public service, whose losses are reduced to the infinitesmal quantity of 26 cents per $1,009 per aunum, enn hardly be reformed by such o * chiange” nswill bo accomplished by the removal of 60,000 officials, most of them men of ex- perience and undoubted integrity, and the substitution of an equal number of poli. ticians selected for their ¢ hard work for tho party.” Wo submit theso facts to the considerntion of Ropublicans who nre asked to voto for Tioex for the gake of “a change." HOW THE LAW WAS OBSCURED IN THE SULLIVAN CASE. TIn estimating the outrage on public justice that has resulted from the Svturvay trial, it is proper to remember that thero has been at no time any popalar clomor for this man’s blood as an atonement for his crime. Even 8t the time of the killing, though the eircum- stances were of a charncter to nggravate tho natoral horror in the minds of peaceful citi- zeus at the violent taking of human life, thero was no effort to hound Surrivay to the denth.. He had many friends who wero stead- fast to him even in his criminal misfortune, and his wife attractod a wide sympathy, of o large part of which ho received the benefit. The erime was committed several months ago, and any public excitement that existed at the timo Lad subsided beforo tho trial bo- gan. The court-room was filled, not with class of people howling for revengo nor even justice, but with n mob mndo up of partisans of SuLzavan. The publio prints refrained from all comment during the trinl, Thero wns, as o matter of fact, mno dapger of Sunuivan's being convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be hanged. Neither he nor his friends, nor his counsel, nor the Court, nor the public apprehonded such & result; prob. ably the counsel for tho Btate did not expect it for one moment. Tho ovidence wss not perhops sutlicient to justify s conviction for murder with malico preponse under our statute, nor warrant a sentonco of death. Tho only feeling in tho community, and this extonded to all classes of intelligont, respect. able, and Inw-abiding people, was that the safoty of tho community demsuded tho proper punishment of s man who had at- tacked and killed a fellow-creature, nfter mnking all proper allowancs for provocation und fmpulse. Tho attornoys of Surtivan, understanding fully tho situation and knowing that their client's lifo was not in danger, sst out from tho start to impress tho jury thatit wason caso of murder to bo punished with hanging, or that the prisoner was innocent and should bo sot free. As the prisoner’s counsel, they bad, of courso, a right to adopt this lino of defense. But Judgo McArrisren had no right to co.operate with them and nssist them in suppressing the jnst and lawful meaus provided for punishing Suvr- LIVAN to tho extont that ho waa guilty, The Judge koew, os overybody clse knew, that Borrrvax was in no danger of being hanged, and therefore Lis sontimental sympathies could not have been aroused for a man in im. winant poril of his lifo; but his rulings, his misconstruction of the statutes, his suppres. sious of evidencs, and his one-sided instruc- tious to the jury, all tend to show that it wes his desire and purposo that Surrivaxn should not bo punished at all, and that, to thisond, he thwarted na much a8 possible the duty of the jury to find Surrivax guilty of manslaughter, term of years or a8 low as one year, if the homicido was not done in absolnta self-do- fonse. But this is just what Svrrivan's counsel sought to keep from the jury, # Hang him oz acquit him,” was the refrain of O'Briex's spooch, because he kuow there ‘was no danger of hanging. And the Judge, knowing it too, refused to impress upon the jury that there was a middlo coarse which wmight and should be adopted in case Soi- LivAN was found not to have fired tho fatal shot in order tq protect his own life, ‘I'ho moat conspicuous evidonce that Judge MocArLuisten favored the line of defenso ndopted by Sururvan's coansel is found in his refusal to give to the jury that one of Prosecuting.Attorney Reep's instructions in which both the statute defining murdor and the statute deflning manslaughter were quo- ted, and tho jury informed that if they found Burrivan was not guilty of murder but waa guilty of manslaughter, then it was their dutyto bring in a verdict accordingly. Judge MoAvristes has twice sold that he withheld this Instruction becauso the wording of it was such ag would have caused the Bupreme Court to reverse any vordiet that might be found; but, if he was so caroful of State's- Attorney Reen's professional reputation as this, it is strango thst he did not make the wording conform to tho technical domands of the Suprome Court, and still bring the two statutes and their duly clearly before them. On the contrary, when the jury subsequently de- manded the statates of their own motion, in order to ascertain their discretion in thecase, Judgoe MoArLisTen rofused to lot them go to the jury, claiming that they must abide by his construction of tho statutes {—and this in tho faco of tho fact that the plain, undis. puted law of this Btate is, that the jury are the judgoes of the luw as well as the faots, ‘The conclusion from this cironmstance is in. evitable that Judgo MoArrserzs entersd and to punish him with imprisonment for a° fully into the purpose of the defouss, and obscured as much ns pogaiblo the plain duty of the jury to punish Surrivan for man. elanghter, if thoy did not find that he was guilty of murder, nor yet that ho had acted in sclf-defonse, Wo think it was Iargoly by menns of this ebscuration of this duty thnt there was a disagreement in & caso whero not ono honest man in a thousand—whether Judge, lawyer, or Iayman—but believes Bur. 1avAx ought to bo punished for his terriblo crimo. Judgo MoArrsrer isonly partially correct whon ho thinks that the publio indignation which now provails *will soon blow over.” It s true that n large, busy community like ours does not net on impulse for any length of time, nor cherish vivid and nctive resent. mont, The respect for the judiciary is so strong that all respectablo men are avorso to openly antagonizing a Judge, and “public wrongs are often swallowed up in the rush, and hurry, and selflshness of Lusy city life. And o it may bo that, in a fow woeks or months, Judge McArutsren will not bear the roar of public indignation about his ears; but he is mistaken if he thinks he will over bo restored to the confideuce of the right. thinking part of the peoplo which a Judgo ought to enjoy. Tho ovil consequences of Lis conduct in the Surztvay trial will outlive him, and tho just resentment of tho public will outlive the usunl effacement of timo and other excitoments, We are willing that Judge MoAvristen should take all the satisfaction ho may in his own profession of having done only his duty *‘io his client,” but be is in great crror if ho persuades him. self that the general respect for human life in go small, the general knowledgo of law so defective, and the genoral stock of common sense 50 limited, as ever to approve or even palliato the manifest partisanship which he has shown on the Bench at the deliborato sacrifice of justice and the public safety. THE NORTHEAST PASSAGE. A navigable Polar route between Europe and the heart of Asin is the latest and greatest achiovement of geographical ox- ploration. This worls, far surpassing in in- torest and practical value anything that Brantey has accomplished, the world owes to an intrepid Bwodish oxplorer, I'rof. Vorpgysgrorp, Prof. Vonpensziorp bad a theory that the Gulf Stream, after striking the cosst of Enrope, passed around to tho north of Scandinavias, and opened & way with itsa warm currenta through tho Polar 8en, north of Russia and Asin, The Pro- fessor sniled from Sweden in August, and has already, if his report does not exaggerate his success, proved his theory trus, and mado s goographical discovery that will change thio course of trade botween Europe ond Asia and powerfully affect tho dos- tinies of millions of human beings for all timo to coms. Iofound a clear passage through the Polar Sea, reacked the mouth of {he Yenisei, and throngh it penctrated into tho heart of Asia, almost to tho very fron. tiersof China. ‘Tho country bordering the Yenisel i3 vost, fortils, and uncultivated. The waters about its mouth aro warm. By this routo vessels of light draught can be taken within 150 miles of the head waters of the great Amoor River, and tho commercinl distance between Europo and Ching is short- ened thousands of miles. This discovory hes tho greatest interest to Arctio oxplorers. It looks now us if the scarzh for tho northwest passage was o mistake. A northeast passage we know now there is, but as that is oponed by the Gulf Stream, which does not flow to the north-of tho American Con- tinent, thero can be no scientific ground for believing that there is a northwest passage. The commercinl results of tho now routo are obvious. Excepting Indian trade, which must go through the Mediterrancan and the Suez Canal, commercial intercourse botween Europe and Asia will soon begin to uso the now northeast passage, 'The shortness of tha route will’ add correspondingly to the comforts of mankind. New communities, new cities, perhaps, will bo founded on the fertile banks of tha Yenisci, and Englend will have more chuse than ever to rejofco that tho almost-impassable Himalayas bar hor Oriental provinees from the growing Asiatic dominion of Rusaia, BOUTHEBN OUTRAGES. The Wilmington (N. Q.) Moruing Star, a TILDEN NEWSPBper, SAYS The readiness with whicha majority of the North- crn people credit tho reportsof outragea committed by the whitea in the Bouth is as Jamentableas pain- tul. Somo {ndiscreet youth, with hot blood and quick pausions, gots Into a ditlcalty with one or more negraes, and reaorts to the pletol, andat once a whole community Is beld up to the world as a law- lees aut of cutthroata. Or some poor, dranjen fool becomes involved in o fight, und & nogro Is- killed, anl immedintely 1t ia telegraphed over tho conutry, und stald and kindly people at once infer that the whole Sonth 18 In a state of chronic excltement and turbulence, tn which the worst passlons arc allowed to have thelr full awoy. Now, In all thls there s noither sense nor Justice. Theru are bad men, im- prudent men, hasty men, the world over, In the North there are really more bratalitics, more your- dors, moro arsons, In proportion to popalation, than in the Suuth, Thero are two pointain the sbove parn- graph to which wo mako reply, ‘I'loflrsl is tho nasertion that the people of the North look upon the dificulty of some indiscreot youth with o negro, in whick the latter gets shot, as an ontrage committed by a whole community. In making such an augertion as this the Slar is only quibbling and evad. ing tho main point. The peoplo of the North do not holdl Southern communities re- spongible for individual difficultios botween thefr “indiscreot youth"™ and the negros, except so far ng thoy refuse to punish them when guilty of murdor, which is too often the case. They do not condemn these Southern outrages, We ask the Star if the horrible massncra of colored prisonors in oold blood at Hamburg by Burnom, who is now electioncering in South Caroling for T'iLoeN, was the work of indiscreet youth? Were tho Coushatts, Ellenton, and Aiken massacres tho work of *‘indiscrect yonth ™7 Was tho killing of the two nogroes noar Monros,” La., the other day by a gang of disguised White-Liners, the work of indiscroot youth? Aro the Wkite- Liners, Ku-Klux Klans, and Rifle-Clubs merely *indiscreot youth“? Aro the mur- dery, assassinations, proscriptions, and in. timidations practiced upon Republicans by these armed gangs merely tho work of indis. creet youth with hot blood aud quick pas- sions? If so, then thers is an amount of murdorous indisoretion rampant in the South which needs checking by tho gallows and the Penitentlary, If this {s simply indiscretion, what, {n the nawe of common humnuity, do the Bouthern poople consider as crime ? ‘The socond point, and the most important ono, in the obove paragraph to which we reply i contained in the words, “There aro bod wen, jmprudent wen, basty men, the world over, In tho North there are really more brutalitics, uore murders, more arsons, in proportion to population, than in the Bouth. Here again tho 8tar is quibbling and seeking to cover the resl issuo, Tho crimes in the North are not political erimes. In this eam- paign wo have mado no comment upon crimes in the Bonth of a non-political char- ncter. Our eriticism has had reforenco to political murders and nsanssinations, political interforonces with lifo and proporty, polit- feal proseriptions, ostracimins, and iutimida- tions, Thoro oro no such crimes as theso known in the North. Tho Ster may tnko the lhiatory of tho North for the pnst fifty yenrs, or from tho timo since it has had o political record, nnd it cannot find such a murder na that perpotrated near Bonroe, Ln., or at Hamburg., Tho peoplo of the North do not go about in armed rifle-clubs, or in secret, disgnised midnight bands, kill- ing those who differ with them in political viows. It is nota part of Northorn civilizo. tion, Public sentiment would not tolerate it. Tho courts would punish it swiftly and gaverely, DPolitical outrages by the Demo- eratio party in the North thus far are con- fined to ballot-box stufling, false registration, and election frands of overy conceivablo deseription. Somotimes they mob a Re- publican procession by stoning it from round o corner, and sometimes they attempt to disturb n Republican meeting by howling, but thoy Liave not yot resorted to shot.gun asgnssination, torrorism, and soclal and Lusi- ness ostracism to accomplish their purposcs. They have not yet driven off the families of their opponents, refused them justico in the courts, nnd porseented them until lifo has becomo unendurable. Thisis the distinction to which we call tho attention of the Star. ‘When the South realizes that this country is one nation aud not an aggreyation of forty govereign States, and that all the citizens of this country have equal rights in every one of tho States, when men are treated in the Southas they ave in the North, when a Re- publican in South Carolinn has the same pro- tection in oxercising the elective franchiso that ho has in the North, then the Noril will cense to complain of Southern outrages, and not until then, S RO $i e Wleve TILDEN'S 0 OFE, To jndge from the registry in the Cities of New York and Drooklyn, we are drawing dangerously nigh that point when the people of this country may havo to ask themselves, What is the uso of voting, sinco even a national election is in peril of boing earried Ly organized, systomatic fraud? New York is tho pivotal State upon the resnlt in which, in all probability, depends tho result of the notional canvass; and, if the eloction in New York bo cnrried by fraud, the probable result will be that the national election will also bo carried by that fraud. This it is that gives national mignificance to the registry in the two cities in question. The revision by tho United States Supervisors is yet in progress in New York City. But slrendy has beon discovered abundant evidenco of tho most stupendous frauds. Ten thousand of the fraudulent noturalization papers issued in blank in 1808, bat the use of which wos defoated by exposure of tho ras- cality, aro yet outstauding, kave been registered upon, asnd will be voted upon unless the schemo be frustrated. The naturalization mill js being run ot an un- precodented rate, an averago of 200 brand- new voters having been ground out daily for the post aix weoks from the grist furnished tby the TrLvEN managers, Gangs of repeat- ars havo been calonized into two, three, or more precincts simultancously, by having rooms “taken” for them at choap lodgivg- lousos in each,—rogistry, of course, being made from nll. The oxchange and loan of naturalization papers, so that registry ismade nnumber of times on each, has gono on briskly. And now the only hopo of a toler- ably fair eloction is that, in the short time within which the rovision must be completed, the United Statee Supervisors may find proofs to warrant striking from the lists the balk of the names fraudulontly registered, ond which, bavieg beon gotten upon the lists through the Tmpen machinery of fraud, cannot now be stricken off until the Buper- visora discovor proofs of tho fraud. In Brooklyn thelike course les been pnr- sued by the Tildenites, and with what sue- cess 18 indicated by tho figures. Tho total registery is 98,806 voters, while tho total population naturalized and unnaturalized and including inmates of charitablo, punal, ‘| andreformatory institutions, is but 484,616,— making a registry of voters for overy -t 81-100 population, In the rural districts, where the entire population iy native-born and every man of full ageis a voter, tho pro- portion is nbout 1 to 6. But ovenin the rural districts an election at which overy voter registered was soldom if over known. There are always the sick and absentecs, and in the most oxoiting contests very rarely any- whero has the rato reached moro than 1 to 7. But in Brooklyn, which is substantially o part of Now York, the greut immigrant entrepot of the Continent, the proportion of wnnaturalized foreigners is groatest; and, as o matter of fact, Iirooklyn never had, all told, 16 votes to tho 100 of population, nor wos it ever possible to induce them all to take tho troublo to rogister, 'Tho reg- istry in that city was swollen by atrocious frauds two years ngo whon TiLpeN was clect- ed Governor, but then reached only 60,624, According to the rogistry as completod Mon- day night, the increaso in the voting populs- tion in the past two yenrs has been 28,252, ropresenting an incresso In population of 200,000, whilo it caunot ba pretended Brooklyn hos grown at a quarter that rate. 1t would Lo bootless to wasto words upon the stupondous frauds mude self-ovident by the figures. Thore is no community in the United States where con be found one voter for overy 4 81-100 population, Therogistry of 98,800 for that city stands simply for ballot. stufling and ropeating eunough for T1LpeN to count up at lenst 80,000 yotes for him, Upon that aod upon tho consummation of like frauds in Now York City now dopend Tiw- peN'd sole chance of eloction, If clocted, he will bo elocted by frand; and yot lo pos- tures and is parded as the ounly true aud genuine reformer, : There is somowhat that is remarkably eng- gostive about Gov, TiLbex's domand upoen tho Htata Department for the swrender of Tweep to tho New York officials, It wns with notable eagerucss that, days in advance of the time when it was possiblo for tho ves- sel fotching him to have arrived, tho demand was made, coupled with tho request that “no unofticial communication bo permitted with the vessel natil after Tween {8 surren- dered to 8horiff Conner.” That means sime ply that nobody shall be permitted to talk to 'f'wxep s0 long ag he remains in the custody of the United Stntes. Were communieation with tho ¢ Boss"” permitted, it would afford him an opportunity to tell all ho knows about that §5,000 paid Titpen; and ubout the stupendous New York election frauds in 1808, to pave the way for which TiLvz is- sued his colebrated circular asking that ad- vanco information of tho results in tho rural districts be telegruphed Twrep, bs was done in season to cnoble tho latter to do the requisite Dallot-stufting in Now York City ; also all nbout Tween's con- neetion with Tammnny, Wero the Boss in custody of New York oflicinls, thero might bo peril of his boing kidnapped again, when again, of course, tho mystery ns to his wherenbonts wonld bo no less impenctrable to the Now York polica than is the Cuannis Ttosa mystory itself. But Gov, TiLpEN noed not feel tho slightest solicitudo on that scoro #o long aa tho Boss is on Lonrd an Aerican man-of-war, ‘Tho jack.tars are not going to 1ot tho Boga bo kidnapped any more. But, if lot nlone, they wouldn't hnston to gog Tweep, if, astho result;of any unofficial communication, ho began to tell whkat ho knows sbout Tpen, Evidently no un- official commmnication will bo sibmitted with Twerp aflor ho gets into the hands of tho Domocratio offfcinls that would enable bim to toll anythingof tho sort, TiLpEN's reguest thnt unoffieinl cominunication with tho Boss bo prohibited simply menns that the Intter be gogged and dolivored gogged to TiLDEN'S ngents, to be kept gagged until after the clection. ¢Ilhere is no other con. ceivablo renson for the solicitudo lest Tween be allowed opportunity to talk BESISTANCE TO " Following in the wake of Georgin and South Carolinn, wo now find the Mobile Regiater, the most influentinl paper in Aln- ‘baws, counscling armed opposition to the United SBtates nuthorities at tho forth. coming election. The recont instructions of Judge Tarr to United States Marshals to preservo the pesce at political meottngs, to repress all attewpts to disturb them, to pro- vent terrorism and murder, and to srrest all parties guilty of any offense against the laws of the United Btates reguloting the elective franchise, are the immedinte objects of the seditious and vindictive appeals of the Regis- ter, one of which closes with the following unmistakable langunge: ** And now we say to thoge minions of Becrotary Tarr and the tools of Gronoe Tunwem, United States Marshal, that the peoplo of Alabama shall not submit.” Thoe menning of this defianco isthot tho people of Alabama will not oboy the lawns of the country and will not serve upon the United States Marshal's posse to holp enforce thom, although it is well estab. lished that every citizon of tho United Btates is part of that posse. The only purpose of Judge T'arr's order was to sccuro o fair elec. tion by proventing tho murder snd intimida- tion of voters, leaving overy man froe to vote as ho pleases, but this tho Mobile Register says shall not bo done, “The peoplo shall not gubmit.” This is the legitimate outcome of tho doctrine of State-Sovoreignty, which, it nppears, guarantees any State in violating the laws of tho country, rofusing to submit to thoem, or helping to exccute thom, This is the same papor that rocontly nssort- ed that the negro shall bo disfranchised and thrust out of politics. Such nsscrtions as thoso plainly show the animus of the Bouthern people, and their deter- mination that there shall not bo a fair elec- tion, Thoey show that the Democracy of the South is dotermined not only to prevent Re- publicans from voting but to openly resist tho law officers if thoy attempt to protect them in the exerciso of thoir constitutional rights. The unrcconstructed Rebols, -how- over, may go too far in their npplication of the doctrine of State-Sovareignty. The Bourbon organ in this city is evidently of this opinion, and styles tho editor of tho Mobila Repister a political fool and partisan bigot. It fenrs tho reaction that is suro to grow out of this rovolutionary spirit. It knows that its only result will bo to array a Solid North ngainst a Bolid South, the out- come of which lhas boen alrendy tested. Thero is but ono course for the United States Marshals in the Bouth to pursue. ‘Thoy must ‘enforco the laws of tho country. If thoy nro resisted, tho respousibility rests upon the Soutbern Demoera A MOB JURY, Tho story which Mr. Brrny has told of his experiences a3 a member of the jury which Buzaavay's nitorneys, asmsted by the Judge, selected to try their client, should not pnss unnoticed. It ig virtually admitted Ly tho hostilo oxpressions of other jurors towsrd Berry which they have made in in- terviows since their discharge. Some of SuL- rvan's partisans on the jury undertook to ncquit him on the * Mississippi plan.” They cutered immediately upon a policy of intimi- dation, and threatened personal violence. Thoy fivst bullied, then cursed, and blns. phbemed, and blackguarded, thon openty threatened, and finally enpped the climax by ono man making n desperate effort to assault and throw Besny ont of the window because tho latter was not ready to send SULLIVAN forth guiltless of all erimo or wrong, and an exemplarof docility and injured innocence. Wo presume if this porson had been por- mitled to assault Besny, hurl him out of the window, and kill him, it would have beon o clear caso of salf-defense, Now there isa lnw in this State covering just the outrage that was porpetrated on Mr. Brury, and we kopo it will bo employed to punish tho men who wero engaged in it. The statute rends: When ono or more persons shall threaten vio- lenco to the person or property of any grand or pellt juror, on uceaunt of any act done by i in obedienco to o duty required of bim by law, or fo prrecent the performance of any such aet, the per- son or pereons so offending shall be vevernlly fined not exceedlug 8100, or confined in the county joil not mory than three mouths, "'he juror or jurors who threntened Benny during two days und nightswith personal vio- lenve, and particularly that one who actunlly procecded toward” currying the threat into exccution, ought to be indicted and punished according to the law. 1f it has come to a pnss when a man can only serve on a jury on the sido of justice at the risk of his life, we think even Judge MoArtsten will admit that such protection as the law affords ought to Lo prompily spplicd. Had Mr, Benny Decn o man of less coursge and decision of charaetor, ho might have been overcomo by these threats, and yielded to the unlawful and brutal intimidation which somo of his assoclates sought to exerciso over him, Indoed, some of -the other jurymen were brought under tho lash, for thoy stood originally cight for scquitial and four op- posed to acquittal; three of theso four wore dragooned into an -abandonmont of their honest conviction that Surrivay ought to be punished, and Mr. Benny alone resisted ab tho peril of his life. ) This outrage in the jury-room is siguificant in nnother respect. ITtshows that, under the rules laid down by Judgo MoALLisTER, 8 jury was selocted which in mojor part was iguo- tant, brutal, viclois, and even crimipally in. clined. It is not surprisiug that their syms patbies followed the Len$ indicatod by tho Court. The juryman who wanted to throw Mr, Berev out of the window nud kill him was naturally averse to punishing BozLrvan for o similar indulgonce of passion in killing Huwvoun. Tho conduct of the jury also shows the extent of thd influence exerted uoon it by tho howling mob of claquers whom the Judge tolerated in T room. Tho jury was morely n “’I:I::dm"n' in mininture of the BULLIVAN 1o, ncqa.. waiting for the verdict, Outgidy e ———— ROUMANIA'S POLITIO, In tho progress of the A’lt"uif.';;l. i it s been o mntter of very geuen:;n chiL that the large and powarful Princij ,:-o"d" Roumanin has not exhibited open Np, ity of with tho Solaves, thrown off § uuilfm"“' loginnco to 'urkey, and stryck lmm;nu} a the Borvians in ofecting the Tarky :" Sk tho provinces north of the Balknng, mlm il been oven more remarkable to nm‘b“ nawaro of tho ransous that thoy have i ': i unmoved to the recitals of tho IXnI‘ o atrocitios, and hnve watehied (e i without emotion, Hiruggle The remson for this npparently . apathy may be found lnpl‘;m !:3 :1\.:?.1” Roumaninng are not Belaves. The 8, xul-o eloment of the population i a feobly mc'm’ ity, hardly targor than tho Jaws ud g, e Tho Ronmanians aro Lating, Thejr G);Ps vy was 8Q complately colonized by the Ronm? that the original population was drivanmm and it was almost completely llanmmon;' "Thero are about 5,000,000 peoplo 1n lhoiatw' provinees constituting Roumania (Molday . and Wallachin), of whom four-fifthg hy, e Belavio blood in thoir veing, v fifth is too focblo to have trol of or influecnco fn “:}:{, “:; ministration of the Government, The lm’ guage of the Roumsniang fs not &h,' but a speciesof Latin, resombling it g m:‘ ly a8 the Fronch does, its roots Deing h(i" The peoplo have the complexion, manney " nctious, and habits of lifo of tho Lafi::: Bucharest, the Capital, with its Vopulation ©of 225,000, is a miniature Paris, baving the volatilo lifo of that city, its activity, gn, ners, aud intrigues, Tho ouly paint‘u( con. tact botween the Roumaniang and Selavesiy in religious sympathy, Ninoty per eent of the peoplo belong to tha Greek Churel, To that extent also they sympathiza witl Res. sinand look upon hor ns their protectos, Inall other respocts, howvar, thero jg g moro sympathy between the two rmees thea thera is botweon the Celta and the English, This is the reason, and s very saflicient one, for tho nttitude of Roumauia, Thy only. impelling motive that could urgo her to taka up arms agalnst the Turks would be the o, fluenco of Russia urging her on, orthn hopa that tho principality might be mads o King. dom and roleaso itself from the payment of tha tribute which is now the last Temaining link of Turkish dopendence. The Turks have no other hold upon Roumania, They, bavoe no volco in tho Government, no influenca in the courts, collect' no revonus, and aro obliged topay duties, the same s other nations. If they lind been' Sclaves they would have made common causo with the Servinhs long ngo, and - doubtedly would havo contributed such s powerful contingont that Tonerxavere would to-day havo been in Constantinople instead of being compelled fo defnd himself and his shattered anny in the Valloy of the Morava, There is, howerer, Do possibility that Roumnnia will figum in tho present war unless she is driven into it by Russia. Bhould the present pesce pe- gotintions fail, Russin may resort to this course, more particularly becausa she de sirea to recovor tho strip of Bessambin taken from lor in 1868, and now a part of Hou manis, which would give Ler access to and control of the Danube from its mouths nearly to Belgrade. ATION3, "the Temninjyg THE ELECTION LAW. =Mr. Hexny G, Mmues hes nddressed 5 lotter to Jullge Duumwosnp protestivg ogainst tho constitutionality of the law of Congress providing for tho appointment of Supervisors to attond the polly, vxamine the registry lists, and challengo voters af all clections for mombers of Congress, Ho claims that Congress, has no power overor control of tho regulations governing the elce- tion of members of Congress. Tho Consti tution reads : * Tho times, places, and ran- ner of holding elections for Senatomsacd Represontatives sholl bo prescribed in cach Stata by tha Legislaturo thoreof ; but the Congress may at any timo, by law, mako or alter such rogulations, except a5 to the places of choosing Senators,” Mr. Miies argues tha$ tho States, having mado these regulations, Congress caunot do k0 ; thiet the power lodged in Cougress was desigued %o ennble Qongress to act where the Stotesre fused or nogleocted to do so. This argumest is wholly unsustained by bistorical prec- dent or common seuse, From tho earlicst days the soveral States had regulatious for the eloctions of Henators, Theso varied it many States. In 18G7, Congress, byn ¥ propared by Judge Tnusnuwy, seb aside o theso regulations, and provided n unifor3 rula for the election of Senators,—tho rule being uniform as to the * tiwe and wanzd of holding elections for Sonntors.” In the matter of the election of Repre sontatives, Congress has also at various tins by law altered the manuer of clecting Repre- sontatives, ‘Tho rules of tho Btates wen varions, In some States members ¥er olected by general ticket, in others by single distriots, ond i others by baving two of moro oleoted in o singlo district. Congre wnde a uniform rulo by which llep{ese}-w tives should bo chosen by single districts with occasionnl apecial provisions, whero & Stoto had been unable to arrango the di triots, to have one or more elected by ge eral voto of tho State, All covflicting State regulations on this point were get aside. The law of Congress applies nnl.y to the eloction of mnembers of Congress. Longr:%; does mot by this law intorpose to Pm“:’! 1 qualificgtions of voters. Tholaw Li intende to provide that the laws of tho bmudi;!; soribing the qualifications of voters sl oy lawfully and honestly excented, ul ol Representativea in Cougress shall bo el ch by the * clectors in cach Btats having it qualifications requisitefor alectorsof the W0 numorona branch of tho Stato Mglflfl‘“";” and by no others, Noman can volo '""c than once for 8 momber of the IA’L’HI‘:‘“'.' and consequently not moro than ouce u_ra i mober of Copgress. No person can u:m" for member of tho Blato Legislaturo Wi o & residenco in the State, aud in the cnu:ag or town, or precinct whero ho offers ‘m 5 for tho time proscribed by 18w, ’-‘:’lr o such porson lawfully vote for mew ‘\upd Congross, The Bupervisora conuob cOFL inspectors of eclection to ndmit oF r:;}»a ¢ votes ; but thoy can keop & }""““‘L ',‘ giee the facts, snd by the prflpfll'm"“““’ !v‘cr " fraud corrected. They bave tho PO o Presorvo tho peace, and for that P‘?P“:N oo olothed with suthority to ,mn-k% i liko ooy ordinary policeman. T ~°.}" b also arrest any pemnvouuglllcgflnfi- e grosa havo the power to lfllflt”‘ ’M 5 rogulation fizing tho “times, PECTh mauner of holding elections ’"‘;‘i"rwwr tives,” it is hardly a serious stro! . Dlhv I to assume that they can include i s suck machinory 89 moy bo deomed 19