Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 31, 1876, Page 4

Elhe Tribware, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, TATADLE IN ADVANCE—POSTAGR PREPAID AT THIS OFFICE. X . postpatd, 1year, R rew four'weeks for, .o One capy, per year. Club of tive... Clubor twenty. Tontage prepatd * Fpecimen coples rent free, 2 To provent delny and mistakes, be sare and give Posts OMce address in full, Including State and County. Remittances may e made elther by draft, express, Post-Ullice order, or in registered letters, at our risk, 7ERMS TO OITY SUBSCRIBERS, Dally, deltvercd, Bunday excepted, 23 cents per week, Daliy, dellvered, Sunday nctuded, 30 conts per weok Adilress THE TRIBUNE COMPANTY, Corner Madison and Dearborn Chlcago, Ll AMUSEMENTS. DMcVicker's Theatres « _Madlion street, between Dearborn and State, Engagement of the strakosch Opers Troupe, **Tros vatare." Adelphl Theatre. Monroe street, corner Dearborn, Engagement of Dominlck Murray, **Lscaped from Sing Slog." 2 Waoad’s Museintm, Monroe strect, between State snd Dearborn, Afters noon, **Ten Nights {n a Bar-lloom," Evening, ** The Two Orphans.” New Chicngo Thentre. Clark strect, between Lake and Readoloh, mime sad Minstrelsy, Panto- Hnverly’s Theatre, Randolph street, between Clark and LaSalle, fornia Minstrels, Call+ ASHLAR LODGE, X0. %08, A, F. & meetfng this evening (Tuestay) in thel; rocest,, for I;\‘lllllfllmflllwallk ‘l;n ‘UII.'( el WH"‘I"III. Craity 6 vitod B ; The Trateralty cordlally I NS e Tetars TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1870. Greenbacks ot the Now York Gold Ex- change yesterdny closed at 91}, Wo have been requested by some of onr country suhseribers to republish Gov. Hayes' clear, candid, admirablo letter of ncceptance, as wnny peoplo have forgotten much that it contaius in the noise and confusion of nn cxciting campaign. Wo especinlly invite those who are ansious for reform in the Civil Service to read carefully what the Gov- ernor says on that point. —_— Uponmoremature considerationthe County Board hins decided not to require a mortgage of the quarry from vhich MoNgw, the stono contvactor, is to get tho materint for the new Court-House, but will be content with alease of the quarry. It will bo re- membered that the chief pretext for reject- ing the bid of FaxNINe, which was consider- ably lower than that of McNci, was his al- leged inability to given mortgage of tho quarry from whick he lind arranged to get his stone. The Catholic Bishop Lyxen, of Charleston, who certities that all is peaco and harmony botween the white Confederates and the col. ored Itepublicans of South Caroliua, is the sume Lishop Lyxen who, in 1861, when the Rebel eannon were londed and sighted for flr- ing on Fort Sumter, issued an nddress nssur. inyg the people of the North that South Caro- Yinn wus penceful and orderly, sud loyal to the National Govornmont. Bishop Lywcnt is about As nenr right now ns he was fifteen years 8o, — M. Hexpuicss was so preocenpied last night iu abusing the Republicans that he had 1o time to expluin what “reforn” ever ema. nated from ‘Famnany Hall. o forgot also to inform his nudience that 8, 1. Pruoey, the Demoerntic-Coufederate eandidato for Prosi- dent, hiad Leon one of tho chiefs of Tammany Iall for upwurds of n qunrter of century, nud for soversl years past has been thellend- Conlro thereof. Mr. IInxonioks neglected, furthermore, to explain i Trpey learned his politient tricks in ‘Commany Huli: and, if o bo clected President, Tammany Hall will bo removed to Washinglon, leaving o branch of tho concern in Mew York, When Tammany and the Confederntes moet at the Capitol, they will reform things with a ven. geance, T ———— Viewed merely as a matter of dollars and cents, it, is desivable that the Demoeratic purty should bo defeated. The Government would bo tho loser by many thousands of dollars in case Bast TiLory wero elected, for in that event therewould Lo no liopo of com= pelling bim to disgorge his unpaid income- tax, Tho same argument opplies to Lew Brewanp, whose clection ns tho Independ- ent-Democratic Governor of Iilinois would Do n bar to the collection by tho Stato of an account egainst him on tho books of tha In- sane Asylnm at Jacksouville, being nu un. settled balanco which e engaged to pay for tho keeping of lis sister in that institution. "The way to collect those old debtsis to eluct ‘L'1Loes aud Srewanp to romain private citi Zens, —— TFrom roports recoived by the National Re. publican Congressional Committee in Wash- ington from various Htate Central Commit- tees, great confldenco is folt in tho olection of llaves and Waerrer, "Whero s an axcels Ient prospoct that the Solid South will prove to bo nuything but solid for T1Lvex, and that in South Cnrolina, North Carolina, Tlorida, and Louisians the Republiean eloctoral ticket will Lo successful, From the Pa- cific Slope como confident nssurances with regard to Californin and Oregon; Indi- ang s counted upon by the Republicans of tho Stato to roverso the verdict in Octo- ber; Bin Wape puts down Ohio at 20,000 aunfority for Haves; things look very bright in New Jersoy und Connecticut, und in Now York tho coutidence of the Republicans in. creases dnily, Such is the outlook at Wash- ington, in tho light of the most accurato, re- liuble, and trustworthy iMormation possible to be obtained. — The Chicago produco markets were rathor quiet yesterdny and stendier. Mess pork closed steady nt S15.25@15,274 seller Oc. tober or scller the yeur. Lard closed 2l per 100 Ibs lower, ot %9.6589.70 for new cush and $9,80@ 9,32} seller the year. Mleats were steady, at 6ic for now shoulders, boxed ; 8lo for do short-ribs; und 8o for do khiort. cleurs, Lake freights were dull, at 4¢ for corn to Butfale, Highwines were stendy, at 31,10 per gullon. Flour wus dull and steady, Wheat closed o lower, at $110} for November and $L12} for Docember, Coru closed ge lower, ot 42%c cash or seller ¢ December, Oats closed go lower, at $23c for November and 823 for Deconber, Ryo was delower, at ti0de. Barley closed 1o lower, ot 6le. Hogs wers dull, at a shudo over Haturduy's prices, with sales ot $5.25@6.00 fur poor to extra. J'he cattle trade was in- active, at a decline from lust week of 10@15c. Blicep woro steudy, One huudved dollary TIIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, lI87G. in gold thoclose. in greenbacks at It will not fail of obsorvation, ns a signifi- cant circumstance jn connection with tho extrnordinary zeal manifosted by Southorn Congressmen in telegraphing their approval of Titpry's letter on Counfederats War. claims, that, with searcely an cxception, ench one of these Congressmen nt tho lnst sossion of Congress fntroduced from one to 8 dozen bills for the payment of War-claims, The proof is found in the pnges of tho Congressivnal Itccord ; but it will probably be urged in explanation that theso bills wero in support of elaimy for loss and damago “suflered,” not ** incurred,” by the various claimnnts during the War. That there is n perfect understanding among theso Southern Congressmen ns to the true meaning and intent of TiLoex's declarntion on the eubject of clains, no one can doubt. —n The canso of Titoex and Roform has suf- fered n serious catastropho in Philadelphin in tho arrest of two prominent Democratic politicians who wera followad by detectives and caught in the act of attempting to issue 50,000 bogus tax-receipts, 'Tho possession aud presentation of a receipt showing the payment of the personnl tax is required un- der tho laws of Pennsylvania as n condi. tion precedent {o the rogistration of avote, Herctofore, when the contest was close in porticular wards or precincts in Philadelphin, it lins been the practice of the Democratic manngers to pay this tox asan induecment to voters, but this year the num. ler of voles necessary to give the Stato to T1LDEN Was too great to admit of this plan, To save money, therefors, ns well as to grently facilitato the process of fraudulent registration, 50,000 tax-reccipts wera coun- terfeited and nll ready for distribution when tho guilty partics wero arrested. The Re- publicans are delighted at tho success of their vigilanco in thus frustrating n mon. strous fraud, tho result of which would have Leen to lose them the State, aud they aro certainly entitled to great credit. Gov. Hesonicrs missed a fine opporiu. nity last evening, In tho presence of tho lurgest Democratic gathering of tho cam. paign e might have offered some explann. tion of the misery and ruin that thoso poor SGerman miners in Californin suffered at his hands, but he wns silent on the subject; he -might have alluded to that Indinnnpolis water-works job, the bad odor of which otill clings to his skirts, Lut he said nothing about it. It wounll also have been interesting, in connection wilh his remarks shout the ndvantages of Mo change,” if hio hind stated how he expects cor- rupt old Tammony Ifall and the hungry Solid South to reform anything; how he looks for honest government and an im- proved condition of politicnl morals at the londs of the New York manipulators of fraudulent registration and naturalization and the Philadelphin forgers of bogus tax- receipts. Theso are malters which » Demo- cratic candidate for Vice-President would do well to devote some attention to in a speech to n Chicngo audioncs, to the exelusion of tho stale clap-trap which the Iudiaua dema- gogue rchashed last ovening, THE BUSINESS-MAN CAMPAIGH, Good nows from Now York! 'T'he husiness nuen,—the merchanty, baunkers, eapitalists,— all who nre Interested in maintaining ustendy standard of values ond dread & revulsion in the present growth of confidence nnd re- sumption of prosperous times, have beon fully aroused at last to tho dnnger threntened Ly the success of Tammany Hul and o “Solid Sowth" in their efforts to obtain possession of tho Government. 1t s been left for tho Democeratic merchunts and bank- org of Now York to strike the key-note of the campaign. The specinl signillcanco of the nddress whieh they have recently jssued commending IHaves and Wiernen to the support of the business men of the country is to be fourd in the fact thet most of them, liko Joux Jacon Astor, Mosrs Tavron, and Jazs Lexyos, hove Leen in high-standing in the Democratic party. They would not have receded from their partisan faith ot (Lis time if thero were not good rewson for it. That venson is, in Lrief, that, while the Demoeratic politicinus have bzen howling for n change with a view tothe 0,000 offees they went to oceupy, the swlid busincss men of the country want no change, Such a change s the Democratic party of- fers to the business men of (his country in- volves the impairment of the public eredit, the dopreciation of the United States bhonds, tho disturbaneo of values, and nvevival of all tho uncertaintics, the misgivings, and rest. lessuess which legitimate business men dread, ‘Thio Detnocratio party is cssontinlly n specu. Intive party from hend to foot. “Froix—the present head—hns always been n speculator, and bns speculated upon the misfortunes of others. 'Tho loss of tho stockbolders has Leen his personnl gain in all the corpora- tions whick he has monipulated. Ifin fol- lowers are nll spoculators, Tho conspicuons politicians aro speculnting on the possession of tho oftices ; tho kcurvy ones are spcculating on tho eampaign moneys hokas put out. Tho ‘Tammany crowd in Now York are speculating on bigger game than they had when they plundered that city, and the Solid Soyth i speculating on its opportunitics for relin. bursing itself, in ono way and another, for the losses of tho wicked war it brought about, Mr, Trroex's letter on the Southern clabms, lustead of allaying the apprehension, hus only served to arouse tho business men to n realizing seusoof tho danger. ‘Thoy do not be. llevo that ko, to paraphruso his own dictum, will be able to rise superior to Lix party,—a party of speculalors, The Sonth is longing for a grand system of improvements at the notional expenss, The Southern people want to ses things “booming™ with (hem a5 they ““boonied™ at the North for a few years ofter the War. ‘Lhey want railroads built for them, Thoy want canals Luilt for them. ‘They want thelr rivers and harbors improved, Their demands cannot ho satis. fied without an Inflation of the currency nnd the depreciution of the nationul eredit, “Phey dou't caro anything about this national credit, but the buviness men of the North do, It would have been difticult to comprebiend in tho samo brief spnca more good reasous for the declaration of thess prowiuent busi- ness Domocerats fu favor of Haves and WaueeLen than they have given in their brief address to the business men of the country, Look at them: In tho last ten years the nationnl debt hos been reduced HO56,902,246.44. In the last ten years the annual interesthag been reduced from $188,007,74.060 to $100,240,271.23,—n reduction of nearly §313,000,000 per auuum m 1. tevest alone, T the lost ten years the annual expendi. tures of the Government show a reduction of $202,349,610.60. Iu tho last ten ycars tho Federal tazation of the peaple Iy 000,000 per y Tu the Inst ton years the Government has not only lived within {ta income, but has mwade an avorage aununl savingof K56, 742,284, which it has npplied on the public debt, In tho Inst ten years tho public credit has heon nppreeiated from the salo of G per cont gold bonds for deprecinted grecubncks to the ready salo of 4) per cent bonds above par in gold, The business men of the country, whether wocratic or Hepubliean in their political affllintions, do not want any change in the policy which hias brought about theso results, They prefer to trust its continuance to the party that hna heretofore maintained it rather than experiment with n party beset by hun. gry politicians and greedy speculators, North and South, The business mon of New York City have subordinated all partisan consider- ations to this comwon and vilal interest in the commercinl prosperity which rests upon the politienl honesty, national integrity, and conservativo adiinistration of the Governt ment. They cannot faco the danger of re- newed speenlations on the Government eredit, nor run the risk of repudintion from nuy party, They havo too much at stake, and they hinvo found their senses nnd rallied their forces in timo to avert it, just as they did four yenrs ago. They do mot want to go through the ordenl of another panio to give the South tho benefit of n de- velopment at Government expense and Northern politicians the benefit of tho offices. The Now York business men will seco to it that the State goes for Haves and WneeLen. Their exmnplo should be imitated by the business men throughout the country, This in tho clnss that has most at stako in the pending campaigy, and it only requires the anwo interest aud enorgy that havo hercto- foro been exerted to rendor certain another overwhelming defent of the politicians and speculators,—of Tammany Hall and the **Solid South,” TILDEN'S GOVERNMENTS, Tho strongest appeal that has been made in favor of TwoeN is that he has alwuys Leon o practical reformer, and, whilo this clnim has been over and over exposed ns fallacious, nand while it Las been shown that ke never by word or deed, officinl or private, has reforined or attempted to reform any abuse or evil in any form, it §s persistently urged that he will reform many things. We wish now to eall the attention of those who think favorably of TiLpEN ns & reformer to the practical results of his polit- feal rule. B3r. TpEN las been ot the hend of Now York politics for thirty years. "Tho political supremncy of the Democrncy in New York City begun in 18{f, Since that time tho Domocratic party has bad ab- soluto and unbroken control of the City of New York. They Liave ruled the city with- ont restraint. Tnmmany Ilall, under the lead nud guidance of Mrrory, has had the control of the Government of Now York City and of Brooklyn continuously for a quarter of a contury. Theso two municipal- ities have now a population of a million and nlialf of people; the annual tax exceeds £35,000,00., nud the debt is equal to $200,- 009,000, Mr. Brawve in his speech thus presented the condition of ‘things in theso two cities at the beginning aud end of Democratie rale: They [the Demnocrats] taok that city from the old Whigs nearly thisty years ngo, It was then o city of going on towards 400,000, Tt had all ita pro- liminary improvements completed; 1t hud its plers, Its wharves, ta docks, its sirects, Its pavements, ita gaw, Its water, jts sew i It hud no dobt to epcak of. 1t had somo water-bonds, but the water- rents more than pald the Interest on the bonds and mads o winklng-fund for thele redemptlon, So, then, practieally, New York was withont debt, and It afforded, with ita magnlticent future, a hasts of taxation for ylelling o revenue ontstripping the Imaginations of Ormux aud Ind; and yet they have absorbed all that taxation aud all the income that been reduced $300,= has co from {ts Inst and greatest growth, and they b put on those two. cltfes, Now York and Brooklyn, adebt of more than $200,000,000, And the Democratic party in n quarter of n century have put a heavier debt on the tivo cltles of this country where they have hod undisputed sway than the t'nlted States Government pald when they settled the deoty of the Revolutionary War and when they fought Great Britafu in the War of 1812, The War of the levolutlon and the War of 1812—1 want to repeat thut—did not cost the Government of the United States o8 mach oy the Democratic party have cost tho Cities of Iirooklyn and New York in tho last twenty-fve yeurs, Now, it would be a londsoms thing to trans- fer that Government to Washington. ‘The peoplu of this countiy are bankering for Just a lit- tle experience of that wort, Why, there is no such clty fu the world in the way of appressive taxation nsextsts i the City of New York to-day, You people In Chivago can afford to put your hands your pockets and laugh at It. It Is a great grist ta yourmill.1f they are obliging enough to destroy New York you can stand by and laugh, And they are dolng It Phey havo made taxation so heavy and rolnous, ko high, and the cxpenses of dolng business #o enormous, that yon cannot cven ime- port from New York, You don't to-day In your direct linportations. You do not dare to bring a eargo from New York. Isu't that wo? You brlng them sround by Philadelphia, aud Loston, and Baltimore, and through the Canadas, Anything, auy way Lo avold New York, It would bo better to send them sronnd the Cape of Guod Hopo und come ny Sun Frauclkco and home over tho Pacitic Raflway, Thero ls no Instance in hlstory lke i, Evigy man, woman, and cbild in that city hus ot amorteage on them of $175, and, as Ihave often il before, since Ihave begun to spesk to thls cnormoud crowd, the little buby that hos come wewlimg and crying into New York, fato this slful world through that most sinful portal of 1, comes mewling and crying with a Demoeintic morlgage around Ita Hetle neck of §175. It will take niore money topay the mortimge on that baby for tho first five yeara of s lfe than it will to Luy the clothing. ‘T'his statenent of the mortgage which Mr., Tieoey aud bis party has hnposed upon Now York and Brooklyn is 176 per head of the entire population, or equal to $1,000 for each legal voterin the two cities. As- suming that thero is nn avernge of one fumily to ench legal voter, we lave o mort- gogo of 1,000 imposed by I'1Lvex and his associntes upon the labor and earnings and incomo of ench family in New York City and Brooklyn. 'This mortgage bears an annual intereat of 7 per cent, so that tho actunl burden imposed by the great Reformer is #70 8 year on each family to pay interest on the mortgage which hos been oxceuted by TiwoeN and bis friends, The most melan- ¢holy reflection upon this condition of affairs iy, that thers is nothing to show for this debt. Now York Lad her water, paved slreets, sowers, ond docks before this debt wag begun, Tho cost of Central Park Las been portly incurred sinee then, Lut might have been wholly paid for out of the enormous aunual taxation. But while the taxation has gone on incrensing sonually, the sale of bonds was kept up, und the two citics havo now n debt of $200,000,000, of which the grontor part has been stolen,—absolutely vobbed aud ap- propriated by the men in authority, who were the friends, ssoclates, partuers, and follow. ers of the great Tammuny organization of which Mr. ‘f1LpEN was tho chiuf, the guide, oud manager. Here wo have o practical illustration of tho political work accomplished in twenty-fivo years by tho great Iicformer who now asks to be transferred with Tam. wany Hall to Washington, there, in partner. with tho Solid Soutl, to put in opern. tion Mr, TiLpen's * wiso finance.” Having robhed and plundered these two large munio- ipalitics, nnd Imposed an nununl tox av- eraging $70 por family to pay the interest on tho debt, the Reformer asks to have Tam. ninny Hall, of which ho has boen so long the chief, put in chargo of tha National Govorn. ment., The ovil of Tiprx's mannor of Govern. mont hns uot been confined to tho Cities of Brooklyn and Now York, 'Tho cxamplo lins found imitators in nll parts of the country, Lvery gang of corruptionists in every other city, inspired by the success of Titpex's policy and mnnagement in Now York, has attempted, with mors or loss succass, tho samo business. It is to TinoEN and Tamma. ny Hall that the country is indebled for tho policy under which tho municipal debts of the United States havo been swollen to thelr present magnilude, Mo taught thom how to got monoy to spend by solling bonds. Under this ruinous Tammnny systom the runicipal bonds and indebtedness in Illinols is now about $50,000,000, nnd, had it not been for the now Constitution, would have been twico tha{ sum, 'That policy, 80 suc- cessfully practiced in New York and imitat. ed elsowhere, has placed a mortgnge on ov- ery mon's homestend, lot, farm, live stock, and implements of trade,—a mortgngo which is a presont enmormous tax for interest, and which it will take several gonerations to pay off and dischargo. Wo submit whether Tinpen's success ns o manager of political Govornmont during tho twenty-fivo years of his rule in Now York mud Brooklyn is of that claracter which commends him and his friends of Tammany Hall s the men who are to reform tho abuses of Government, reduca expenditures, reduco taxation, nud put tho administration of tho Government on o wise, economie, and reformed basis? THE LAST POLAR EXPEDITION, The British Arcticexpedition lins roturned, having failed, ns hna every other of the nu. merous expeditions that within tho past two centuries hias Leen sent out to make the long- sought Northwest Pnssage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Tho vessols that went out upon this expedition—the Alert and the Discovery —were by nll odds the stanchost and best equipped {hnt ever sniled for the Arctic sens on voyago of discovery. DBoth were stenmers of the most approved model, and equipped with powerful engines go as not to Do dependont upon contingencies of wind and tide. They wero fitted out with overy contrivauco that ingenuity nud exporionco conld suggest and money buy to provide for the comfort and snfety of thoso on board, Besides boing londed down with supplics, thoy were accompanied by o third ship with n fall cargo of supplics, which wns dischargod at Disco, whero a depot was establighed. The expedition was under command of Capt. Nanzs, ono of the best officers in tho British navy, and an exporionced Arctio navigator, T crews wore seleeted from among a largo number of men who had sailed the Arctio soad, and back of all was the British Govern- ment rendy to do sll that could bo dono to insure the success of tho oxpedition it sent out. The expedition. sailed from Portsmouth on tho 29th of May, 1875, with tho expectation thnt during tho summer of that yoar the Alort and her consort could steam to the pole. But with all the rosources at his command nnd concentrating these upon one vessel, the Alert, Capt. Nanes found it im- possiblo to penotrate further north than tho 82d parallel. From thero o dotachment was disptched northward over tho ice by sledges. But such wera the obstacles en- countered that in soventy days thoy succoed- ed in penetrating one degree and twenty minutes forthor northward, though traveling 200 miles to accomplish it, whon thoy rosch- ed 83 deg. 20 min, north, and wora within 400 1miles of tho pols. They found ice 159 feet thick ; tho temporature for a fortnight wes (Y below ; once it fell to 104 Liclow tho freczing point, Leing the most intense cold ever experionced by human beings,—at least by any wlo survived to report tho fact. Thero wore times when the sledgo party could not advanco one mile per day through the towering walls formed by tholapping of tho grent ice-ledges, Tho sufferings of this party woro intenso. Prrensoy, the interpret- er, died from frost-bite, Threo others died on the sledging oxpedition, and the survivors who renclied tho ship, aftor torrible suffering, raturned only to report tho impossibility of reaching tho polo or of workiug tho North- west Passago, Tho expedition settles that thero is no open Tolar Sea, that Presidont Land, Inid down upon the maps of Capt, Hawy, doos not exist, and that the Northwest Dassinge does not oxist. , 5 The expedition passed beyond the verge of onimal lifo. In thoso icy solitudes waa noi- ther Dbird nor beast, not even the polar bear, nor tho Arctio fox, uor the scal, wereto bo found, while thoy were far beyond any tribe of the Esquimaux. Yot there were discoy- ored conl flolds, showing indubitably that in tho vast cyelen of the past, so muny ages ago that the imsagination can scarce comprehend it, tho temperaturo thero was warm enough, from tho enrth's internal fires, for conturics upon centuries’ growth of the ferns, which in other groat oycles wero tranaformed into the conl. ‘Tho chiof result of tho cxpedition, bowevor, {1 to demonstrate thnt tho open Polar Hen, and the Polar Continent, and the Northwest P'assago are myths; and that the periling of lifo iu bootless Arctic explorations should ceaso, Judge McArustin threatens to commit for contempt any person who may present him a petition asking him to resign. Heforo procceding to put his threat futo foreo, let the Judgo pause for reflcetion, If ho docs, the following thoughts will probably occur to him: **'T'he office I hold does not Lolong to mo; ft helongs to the people of Cook County, Thoy pay my salary, I am their servant #o long 0s I remain in their employ- ment, It iy by thoir will T hold court and decido cnses, Those petitioners constitute n considerablo part of the people who employ wo; theyare thinking, reading, intelligent wen, whose ideas of right and juse tico sro 08 clear as mine. They were impartial observers of the recent murder-trial, and had no other intorest in the result thorcof thau that \injustico should not be don, nud the luw and tha rights of the people should ot be violated. These thousands of intolligent extizens nre doeply grioved and indignant at the course I pur. sued ou the trial. Uunless there was some good cause therefor, it fy hardly possible they would Yoel so keenly s to demand my resignation, ‘Choy ®ould ot alloge that I pro- judged tho caso for the defondant to such a degreo as to wnrrant the view that my in- structions were intended to induco tho jury to ronder a verdict of acquittal, whiero tho publio interests domonded an fmpartial trial, unless thoy sincerely belioved it; aud, os they vead the full gupart of the trinl in tho dally papors, thoy understand pretty clenrly what was eald nnd dono at the trial. 1 will, therefore, treat tho committeo of the memorinlists with ro- spect, aud, if I cannot convinca the petition. ora that thoy ave in orror, then I will oither resign the office back futo tho hands of tho people or preserve my siloneo, in the hope that public exasperation will oxhaust itsolf, and, in tho courso of time, my fanlt will bo forgotlen or overlooked. To nttempt to in. timidato tho memorinlists was an impulsivo pleco of foolishiness; and to undortake to commit for contompt would terminato dis. astrously to myself.” 1t Judge McAriasren is in his right mind, somo such thoughts ns the foregoing are passing through it Io must know that theiden that tho right of pelition does not obtain in regard to the Judiciary, is must nbsurd nonsense, DEMOCRATIC ILLITERAOY. Mr, Brang, in lis recent spoech in this city, presonted n vital point in American politica to his audionce in his disoussion upon tho effects of Domoecratic illiterncy. ‘Wo reproduco his statement, as followa: ‘There Is another thing why I do not like the Democratic party, It has too large an amount of the Ignorance of this country in it. Now, in a country depending for ita government on universal suffeage, it Is o very sad thonght that nearly once fourth of the voters cannot rend or write, But that lan fact, and I am talking from the census, There are abont 8,000,000 vuters In this country, and tliere arc 2,000,000 who cannot read or write; and 1,700,000 of thess 2,000,000 are In tha Southern Stater. Now, I fancy my Demoeratic friends nwny off u tho crowd say this: **That comes of negro suffrage.” Yes, it does, in part, beea there aro 000,000 negroes who eannot read; but the other 1,100,000 arc white Demo- crals, every one of them, ‘This estimate, based upon the census re- turns, shows that thore are 800,000 voters in, tho North who cannot rond or write, Of this largo number of illitorates, it is eafo to osti- 1moto thero are not 300 Republicans, leaving a solid mass of Democratio ignorance in tho shapo of over 209,000 voters, huddled into the largo citics. ‘T'ho number of white men in the Sonth voting the Democratic ticket, who comprige the Solid South, is, ns will be scon, twice ns largo as that of the blacks, and their ignoranco s all the more remarkablo when the circumstauces of tho caso are con- sidored. 'These whites wero born free nnd are children of froo parents, 'Their ances- tors, tho first settlers in the South, were not illiterate men. On tho other hand, thoy could not only read and write, but they prided thomsclves upon their culture. It was the policy, however, of the Democrata of the South during tho exwstence of slavery to keep education out of the hands of every ono but themsclves, Those too poor to own alaves were debarred from education by the absence of any paublic school system, the slave-owners arguing that overy person should educate his own children. The great mnss of the poor whites, there- fore, not only nover went to school, but they did mnot oven porceive the necesaity of going, sinco they were ne- customed to take their opinions from the dominant white class through the medium of bar-room talk and stump harangues. ‘Thoir minds were thus easily poisoned and filled with misconcoptions of and prejudices towards the North, mnking thom easy tools of the slaveholders during the War of the Rabollion, although they had no quarrel with tho North and no interest in slavery. The blacks of tho South have been froe only about twelve years, and their illitornoy, thoreforo, is not remarkable, Education of a race is not ottainable in this little handful of years; it is the work of generations. In this brief spaco of time, howover, the freed- men heve made earncst nnd commendable offorts to educnte their childron, which the whites have steadily opposed by burning the nchool-honses and ostracizing or driving off Northern school-teachers who lave gone South to Lielp clovate the blacks out of the'r ignornnce and make them good citizons, Thoy have done all they could to toach them. ‘Whora they have had. control of Stato Gov- ornments, thoy have adopted tho Northern school system and havo voted and paid taxes to support it, It is not ntall romarkable that tho generation of Llacks relensed from tho tyranny of slavery is illiterate, but tho young blacks are fast learning to rend and write, except in places where the whitos have goined control, which is more than can he said of tho young whites. In all such places tho first movo of tho whites has been either to close up or cripplo the schools. The old easto focling still operates, and is jonlous of any mensuro that will prejudico its control of power. It cannot bear that poor men should receive education for fear that it may lose its influouco over them, The same sentiment provails in the Nortl, only upon n much smaller seale, Tho Northern wing of the Democratio party is a faction of igno- rance. The sodden masa of Demoeratic voters in the North vote as they do bocause they have mnot tho sonse to vote any other way, They receive thoir opinions and their projudices from the demagogucs, and thoy do not act except as their actions aro directed and controlled by demngogues. ‘Thoy aro political serfs, owned, influenced, oud manipulated by n fow men who take ad- vantage of their ignorance to own their voters absolutely, and uso them as pliant tools for any of their vile purposea. No thoughtful person can consider these facts without arriving at the conclusion that universal education must bo one of the most powerful agencies in tho restoration of com- pleto harmony between tho North and the South, Mr, Waerres, the Republican can- didate for Vice-President, takes this view. Gov. Hayes states it broadly in his lottor of accoptance, Tho best thinkers in tho Re- publican party have already arrived at tho same conclusion, Eduention must bo ex- tendod and wade more universnl, sspecially in the South, Ouly when its illiterate classes lenrn to rood and think for them. selves will tho bitter projudices against thie North bo broken down, Is this result to bo accomplishod by placing U'ammany 1lall and the Democratio ' master-caste in power? What Lopo is thero for tho growth snd propress of cducation with a party in powor which has always put every possible obstaclo in its way, and which only controls its voters by virtus of their dense ignorance ? It will be recelved with o feeling of rclief that M. Du Sosseranp, the Chiof Commis. sioner of France at the Conteunial Exposi- tion, bas mado a public statement to the of- fect that the recent lotter purporting to have been written by him, setting forth that the Americans burned buildings contalning T'rench goods snd robbed the cases, and mak- ing charges equally falso, base, and un- liclous, is u pure fabrication. It is difoult to comprehond the motive of . the maliclous scoundrel who forge this lettor, unless it were somo encmy of Al Du Somaenaup, who sought to projudico him in the oyos of Amer- icans. Any other motive would Le supreme. ly stupid, sinco tho yelations botween the Trench and American people havo always beon too cordial to admit even of a suspicion of thisrort, Whataver mny have been tho motivo of tho anonymous scribbler, hin fab- ricntion has not answored his purpose. 1lis failuro, however, docs not changa tho false, lying, malicious olinractor of Lis charge, The prospects of earrying New York Stato for IIaves and Wnerren by a handsomo ma- Jority a week from to.day hiave wondorfully improved during the last ten days, Tho businoss men have como to the front, and will oxort a solid infinence to pravent tho ne- cosslon of tho * Bolid Bouth” o the possession of tho Govornment (hrough tho voto of New York. They aro fully nwake to tho dangers that may overtako thq business of tho country as a result of such an event, and they have bogun to asgert their claims to n honriug as against tho greedy politicians, ‘Thore aro evidences, too, that tho dsfoction in the Democratio ranka on nccount of the Lostility to Tiroen is all thot hns ever been represonted. Tho Liberal voto will bo almost solid for Haves ; of the 70,000 Liberals in tho State, not one in n hundred will voto for Tiopex. Bat botter than nll theso signa is the fact that arrangsments have been made to prevent tho consummntion of frauds ' contemplated by the Demoerats. Thousands of cases of illogal registration have alrendy beon run down in New York nnd Brooklyn, nud every voting precinct will ba serutinized with the aid of n full list of i the legal voters nud thoir reaidences, If the frauds can absolutely Do prevented in theso two cities, na thiero is ronson to beliove they may bo, this cireumstance, nlong with the row between the Tammany crowd and their Democratio opponents, will reduce the city ajority to such an extent as to render tho Stato certain for the Republieans. 'T'tLpes, losing Now York, will loso tho country, Er—— Wo print elsowhore an nbatract of o specch delivered by the notorious By II, Iy, the lendor of the Georgin Democracy. Itis the samo Hmu who dofended the brutalilies of Andersonville and liboled the peoplo of the North in regard to their troatment of Robel prisonors, for which ho was defonded by ono of the Representatives in Congreas from Chi- cago. In this recent speech ho again nssnils the peoplo of tho North, whom Le snys aro always on the offensive aud in the wrong, and eulogizes the Bouth ns always in the right under the Constitution, Hit's doc- trine, for which he is loudly applanded, is, that tho South defended tho Constitution in striving to destroy the Union, nud the North violatod it fighting to preserve the nation ! The Constitution as thoy construed it was the great thing to bo saved inviolnte, 'Fenr the Union to pleces! what matter, so you obeyed tho Constitution. Dismember the Republic, break up the Government, dissolve tho Union, but don't violate the Constitn- tion, Ben Iy is pronching this secession doctrina again, and tho Georgin Domocracy aro cheering him for it. 'Thoy all boliove with TiLpen, that every Northern soldier who marchod into the South was n trespassor lin- blo for the damages he committed; that the South had a right to secodo ; and the North violated tho Constitution in bringing back the wayward sisters, Ilmy urges tho Con. federates to make a Solid South, and to sccuro tho noxt ITouso of Representatives if possible, Citizons of Chicago ought not to need to bo rominded, in the light of tho experienco of tho last two yonrs, of the importancs of hav- ing n man in the office of Sheriff who has no afiinity with the bununor and criminal class. Tho ofico of Bheriff is of tho utmost fmpor- tanco to a decont and orderly execution of tho Inws, The character of the Sheriff i reflect. ed in the character of the men who serve on tho juries of tho nino civil courts of this county and who decide nll controversies be- tween litigants, 11¢'is also largely responsi- blo for tho charactor of tho grand and petit jurors who serva in the Criminal Court, Tho Jail during the last two yoars has been littlo more than & place of temporary imprison. mont, the prisoners going out whenover they ploased, singly or in platoons. 'Thero is room for lnrge roforms in the Sherifl’s oftico, and thero is no person in the county bettor adapted to accomplish those reforms thon Mr, Crovan, He has the ability and the conrage necessary for a faithful performance of tho dutics, and at tho snme timo elevate tho whole character of tho Sherifl’s ofllce. and of the way in which tho public business is done. Ono week from to-day tho Amoriean peo. plowill visit the polling-placos to elcet n President and Vice-Presidont and threo- fourths of tho members of the noxt 1onse of Rapresentatives, The politieal campnign is therefore drawing to n close, From months it bns been reduced to wecks, and from waoeks to days. "There romains ouly time for ‘*Inst appenls,” and the work of commitiecs to get tho voters to the polls, and tholr votes into the boxes, There woro cast in 1872 for Gravr and GreeLry, 6,481,149 votes, Thero will bo cast for Haves and TiwpeN over 7,600,000, Tho number would be considorably largor than it will bo it all the colored voters were nl- lowed to nppronch the polls; but in snch States as Georgin, Alabama, 'osas, aud Mis- sissippl comparatively fow of tho colored Ropublicans will bo permitted by the Con. fodorates to voto, With a fair election, held without intimidation, the Republicans would carry holf of tho Soathern States. As mat- ters aro being conducted down there, it is doubtful if thoy carry more than two or three, In o wook from to.day o Presidont will be clectod and on Administration chosen. The Government will ba contided to Gov. Haves snd the National Union party; orit will pass into the hands of 'F'rLpey, Tammany ilall, and the Solid South. Aro there any Republicans who really and sincerely believe that the Government of the American Re- public will bo botter administered by Tir~ peN, Tammany Hall, aud the Solid South, than by Gov. Haves and the Republican party 2 What * reforus " do they antici- pate will §ssue from "lammany lall, and what from the Confederate holders of two thousand millions of Bouthern claims ? S ——— Citizens who expect to vote next Tnesdny should rerember that this is the last day for registration, A failuro to register their namos to-day will subjuct them to either a loss of their votes on election-day, or to the inconveuicnco of having to hunt up their neighbors to mnke afiduvits oy to their resi- dence and citizonship, ‘The places of regis- try are the sawo as where the polls aro hld, It will not tuke fve winutes’ time to visit these places to-day and have tho name regis- tored. It will save pussibly two hows' time on election.dny. Do sure aud reglstor to- day. The Hon. AnsoN Worcor drawal frota the head of the Gy ¢ few duys before the election caused 50 b clterent in Indiauy, publishes o card addresed 10 tho editor of the Lerre Huuto Journel, inae- with- Kt Py to vinlent critlelama on s “ontluey |, 3 paper. He snys, that whitg )y yllu‘t L{ cplen of the Independents ng gy Vi fmportance, he conslders thosp WTY kreay Republiean party, ana nl:th?;’;l.l:‘lry:’?'\,h.;l b the Uov. HaYES, naof greator Impnru: etter f canvaas, whero there is no hope of n,M In the Stato for Coorni. In effect o nnyg.um"“ the for him s n vote for Titoey, 't a volg nectation that the Grcnnhnrkc: \]:l:ul)“;;::nu' ' aftlinted with the Democracy + nerly but got back within thelr s I,!;,d;“_;‘,“"“”"n many of them have nlready done, | N¢% a8 Mr. TIALSTEAD moro than @ the Xew York World ty his rcxfi;!l?fl? ’t’ i il’s criticlsan of his speeeh on g g, 0 clddms. Indeed, he thanked tlg ll’arll('lu;mmm onnarlunity to renew the sibject, |y, |ur e fally appreciated * the thmellness ‘ol (; Sl DEN'S letter ¥ (which was mady bublie x”l“’rI 2 day HALSTRAD made his speech), ng jt g, frais) show the {mportance of thg Isaue gy u"m““ 'pn!g'n, and proved what My, "ALS‘I‘E.\: o TioEN's “tacully of Apprehension, il course, Qov, TiLbEN Wil not approve n’( |m for paylng disloyal Dersons, as ig gy, ‘" :Illll‘ there aro no disloyat peaple now, Tllen:y n. il theories which cstabllsly thfs, Ong wrclw., vaneed by Mr, Canery, of Virginla, nfi bl port from the Committecon War Claiing d‘ ok the Inst Besslon of Congress, fn Which he x’mn cd that the loyalty that results from :n‘;lm' pardon [s retrouctive,” Ag bretty mueh ‘ncm Rebels lave been pardoned, (g, e vEN would only be barred xm' T proving clalms wade by Jprp l)u':: ; a very few otliers of the unregenerate n: vhy The other theory fs that liekd” by oy, T who belleves that we arc not, only all loyy| s but that tho Southern Rebels always {v Wl sluice they exerclsed thelr constiy Mg utional . withdrawlug from the “mmmul::m’"r Im!z they were princlpals, Mr, Rinor, see, covered this view of the case :} ‘;:;I:;V[W. Lill at the last scsslon of Congress, pymi:;[‘”v for the payment for the use and m-t'umuunm.( properly “to all citizens,” and h-n\-tm:mmvo0 distinction In regard to loyalty or el al during the War, Mr. larLstean alo ;t‘u‘:ln 1y the honest-movcy Democrats of New Yurk!ll:llf a8 the Southerners propose to take their cqn, pensation for losses in new 1ssuesof Breenbacks, they will find a vory general BUPPOrt from (1, Democrats of the West who want "munrw plenty again™; and that, as My, TILDEN by alrcady conceded to these Western inBatlontsts o postponement of resumption day, fie will scarcely hold out agalnst further concessfong when the Southern and Western Demoerats mak o solld attack, 1o will then e rmioq [ 0 futility of self-lmpos LE A .y Posed restralnts of ‘The following, which lets the cat ontof the bag on some poluts, was brought to the editor ot the Cleveland Jlerald by o highly-respectably businees tirm in that city. ~The 1lerald gays tho envelope, which fs postmarked “New York, Oct, 24," together with the original letter, 13 i it posscasfon: It will be seen by the post- seript that the writer hnd written to Cleveland ubout slifpments. ‘The supposition of the tirm recelving the letter is that communleation alwug shipments was placed fnn the Wrong envelupe and went to Wisconsln, whilst the letter lntend. ed for the Wisconsin correspondent came to the Cleveland firm. We moke no comtment on thy document, It speaks for Itself : NEw Your, Oct. 23, 1870, —Dean Lrwis: Ay promized, 1 atopped here on iy way lome fron. the Centenninl to seu onr friende,” T write yoq brletly, as this bs my tenth letter to-nisht, and it late, " "They promise usafd, but ssy it pust be through the State Committew. Hewirr [Tivrys chief mannger] I3 €0 occapiod that T had no Gppr: tunity to talk to him oy I wished, A few minutes with the Governor [FrwLo however, Who asp. e in the city, did v walt, 50 Tae Boetil: v but s suilcitons nbuat Wikconsin, aud_ thinks there Is u poasibility of 'Its voto determining (e clection, Amoug other things, which I whl zll you, hu foals tho necessity of « it Catholc wle und tishes itz importance cauflovely urged upon the pricats and oplcers of te Chnreh. et shoull bo remembered by them that the schoo] question ks been deagged In drae in s Htates, and that the Democratic party 18 thelt tris friend. He wants them reminded that he and th party are constantly aseailed for the Gray Nune act and such favors, and for the Church to be L gard now wonld be littte lean than treuchery, This matter bo wishes to have looked afier with the vt. ntost caution and outerde of committees, anid ty none not of our order. I'll stop at Milwnnkee as Tgo up and luok nfter the mutter there, Can you not go over to Madison nud do so there? Tiere fs no thue to be loat. 1 will alxo luok nfter the mine Ing reglons when 1 get home, which wiil he luter thun the 28th. [ utart to-morrow by i p. vin Albany, Business {3 looking up. VAN P, 8,—Pleaso answer mo at_homo, on back of thin lelter. Iluve written to Clevelund about our shipments, ———— An exchango remarks that, by order of the Rey. Gen. Wane Haveron, tho White-Liners of South Carulina lean thelr shot-guns up ngainst the trees and reverently engage in prag- erbefore they murder s colored Ttepublican by shooting at him through the windows of ks cabin, —e— The Livadia so frequently mentioned in the cable-reports In conneetion with Russian newsis the summer-residence of the Empress, inthe Crlinet, nud near Yalta, a small port on th Black Sea. PELSONAL. Trof. W, I Whitney has a strong article on S Mucller's Rlg-Veds and Commentary,” inthe last number of the New-Englander. The ley, Dr, Rankin, of Waslington, bears tees thmony that 1,200 new members have been sddal 1o tho churchies by that city us g result of the Jabrs of Evangellst Hswmond, That it is o eln to steal a pin v o fact penerally well rocognized In ethics, but who over heard be- fore that it was s #ln to steal an umbrella? Vei3 declslon to this offect hus setually been rendered Ly o Birmingham court. Tho Now York Sun notices with npparent ex ultation that the deaf-mutes uwre for Tikleo. lh;‘ whether it supposes that thedeaf-mutes kave mcl; ‘; far opportunitics of forming correct nylnlu‘m s political subjects, 4 & question that yet rematus be declded. - Toby Nosenthal, the favorite Californla st e has tost hls health from overwork, and will o obliged to como home, He had returned, slter 5 summer-vacatlon, to Municl, intending o xwu:u upon his great picture, but wia obliged to :l:al the clty In two days from the time of his are cru. s ml("- {8 undcrstood that M. John Lemainne h:l;u»"’ ered his connectlon with the Journal des i ‘.'( Decause ho whahed to advocats lll.u |mrl|'ui‘>(flh“c Turkey as opposcd to tho policy of Enclind, Wi the proprictors of that puper, lnnhnhm.lli L Say, thy Miulster of Hinance, 8re oppose position, & An anonymous writer conveys tho gratiiyt, ' formation y(o o Clnclunati paper that Lh;rmlll:; fs safo fn Indlana, und will bo mun&mr'“ proper time to his parents, We lope ML not Leen enguged fu swelltlng the Dcm«cn:m o] but there iy no telllng what tricks he s taught siuce he hus gotien futo bad mm;u’ .-“l‘lw The title of Joaquin Miller's new play ‘imu it Shndows of Nauvon, " and the )uad{n-,' lflf ‘ul o it are taken from **I'he Flrst l‘nmll,lulu“‘.“ lorrus,” 1t is nunounced that this I : l"-l ot second attempt at pl:\y-wrluu;,-.-m-_ i :\mm been the orlginal fors of **The Oue Fa! o which waa lost in ita transmission numh‘l e w Amerlca, Mr, Mcieo Itaukin hus ¢ “+7he Shadow of Nuuvoo." grafifging In- NOTEL ARRIVALS. 0!1.' Grana pasite T, 1 £ rton; the tion, G. B How! g IR i Or Wy b, M u Well, Austria; 1 Mooro, Murquett M, southworth, W Decoralt, [ o 1 dyemant House=L T: \ 1 John 1. Stewart, U John elitug, Mliyonliee M New Yorls; Gew. 5. 1 the Hon, 8. F, cary, Cluglumatly l.'imcr. L}nwumm, N I (Tezug Jdack) s and It Webb, Medendy, Cedur Wightuidn, = T Llalely und Fred, neapolis Pioneer Irect Boon, Master Mechunic ] Alitwunke o Nadetybia; O