Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 11, 1876, Page 4

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Letweey Lake and Ttandoloh. Hooley's nstrels, ~EATUBDAY. NOVEMBER 11. 1870. —_——————— Qrocnbacks at the New York Gold Ex- changa yestardey closed at 91}, O The attempt to revive a feeling of uncer- tanty rogarding tha Eleotoral vote of Oregon is a misorable fallure, Oregon has cast her voto for Haves by n mnjority that will not vary far either way from 1,200, Information is received of tho denth of Gen. J. O. Bracg, of Danvillo, Ill., the un- successful opponent of Mr. CanxoN in the Congressional contest in the Thirteenth Dis- triot. Gen. Brack had been in a very wenk state of health for some time past, though his indomitable energy and pluck Lad car- ried him throngh an arduous canvass, aud therefore tho sunouncoment of his desth will crente & far grentor degree of regret thon of surprise, Nows from North Carolina comes in very slowly, snd nothing is definitely known of the result in thut State. .Mr. Keoom, Chairman of the Republican State Commit. tec, who has beon raported ns conceding & victory to the Demoerats, denies having made any such concession. On the contrary, the Republicans are waiting to hear from the ‘back counties, aud pending the arrival of full roturns have not given up all expectation of carrying the State, North Carolina will be doubtful for saveral days yot. At the request of Gov. Krtroao, the Pres- ident hns designated five prominent Repub- licans to proceed to New Orieans and witness the eauvass of tho vote of Louisiaua, inorder that positive assurance may bo given of the fairness nud honesty of the count. The gontlemen selceted by the President are Judge Kernry, of Penusylvanin, who is n mnu of eminent foirness und freedom from partisan bins; Gen, GARFIELD, of Ohio; the Hon. Joux A, Kassoy. of Iowa; the Ion. Jonx Scuosnens, of Pennsylvanin ; nnd Sen- ator Loaaw, of Iilinois. These, in conjunc- tion with the goutlemen alrendy nomed by Mr, Hewrrr from among prominent Dem. ocrats, ought surely to be sable to seo that the Louisiaun count in squarely mnde. RSN ey After oll tho fuss that has beon mnde by Democratic nawspapers aud stump speakers sbout the presonce of troops in the Sonthern Statey, it 4 ¢ curions fict that in South Coros lina the only requests for troops on clection- day came from Democrats, At the Charleston riot, which was bronght on by the Demo. crats in attacking some colored men who clicered for Ilayes in the strects, tho former were in afair wny to et badly whipped, and were glad enough to necept the interpo- sition of the United States troops to quict the exasperated negraos and induge them to cearo firing. Thiu was effected by the timely sppearance on the sceuc of the troops, who camo up in the rear of tho whites, who opened ranks for them to pasy through, and tho negroes, finding themselves confronted Ly the blue-coated soldiers of the Union, at once suspended hiostilities and disporsed. ——— Inreply to n gross misstatement by the New Orlenns Picayune whick was caleulated to gtill further inflame tho publiv mind—that Govs, Kurroag and Cmastnertun bnd ex. changed telegramy, each pledging himself to carry bis State for TIAves * by any meang "— Gov. Kerroco yesterdoy wrote to the Plea- yune o diguifled deninl of the statement, saying that he hind held no communieation of ony kind with Gov, Cuaxpertam for six months past, nor with any one else on the subjoct of tho election, The Picayune's assertion was eutirely without foundation in fact, aud was probably uothing more then guess-work, It will be seen from 'Gov. Krrntoaa's letter that he hus no control over the canvass of tho veto by the Returning Bound, of which he is not u member, and not one of whoso membors was appointed by or is respousible to bim. 1is only intorest and wo belivve his only aim or intentiop 18 to Liave a fair, honest, aud lawful count'of the ‘Yote. ——— The Charleston News and Courier hus claimed South Carolina for ‘Ituvex and Hawrrox every day this weolt by majorities rangiug as high os 16,000, Ita ideay, how- over, havo beon gradually contracting, until now the Ogure iu placod at 1,700 for Haue. ox aud about the samo for Lreoen, It is impossiblo that this should bo anywhore near accurate, as the actunl figures returned by tho locol election officers will not be footed up before next Tuesday, the day whon the County Commissionors of Election assemble and count the ballots and canvass the returns, ‘When they bave finished, thoir work must bo reviewed by the State Board of Cuu. veasers, 80 that iu tho wvent of disputes af. fecting the legality of any considerable por- tion of the roturns it may bo two weecks yot before the result is officially declared, In the meantime, botl Gov, CuamperLary and Benator PaTTegsoN express absolute confi. dence that SBouth Carolina las gone Re. 3 publican, ; i i ! TueChlcago produce markets were generally , more active yestorday, aud tho leading ; cereals wero stronger. Mess pork closed 2§ i per brl lowor, at $16.00 cash and $13.85 seller y Jsnusry. Lard closed ateady, at $9.85@9.87} per 100 1bs cosh and $9,33@Y.47) seller the year, Meats wero a shiade easier, at Gio for | now shoulderw, boxed, 8)c for do short-ribs, E (8nd 8jo fordo short-clenrs, Loke frelzhts 3y 5 't HE CHIO, wera steady, at 8¢ for corn to Buffalo, High- wines e lower, at £1.07} per gallon. Flonr was dull and ensier. Wheat elosed 15 higher, at $1.07% for November aud $1.093 for De- cember. Corn closed 1¢ higher, at 4}e for November and 43ja for December. Onts closed o higher, at 32¢ cash and 3o for De- ber. Rye wns atendy, at e, Barloy closed ensier, at 78}@70c cash, and 80@80jo for December, Hogs were active and 100 lower, closing wenk at 35.50@5.85 for common to prime. Cattlo were in good demond, and were firm at $2.60@4.75, Sheep were stendy. One hundred dollars in gold would Tuy $109.50 in greenbacks at the closo, The Louisinna Republicans are confident in thcir claim of the Btato- in spite of the heavy Democratio majorities given in the Daristies of Ouichita, and Enst aud West Feliciana, whore, ns Gov. Kenroao shows, tho registration was 2,103 white and 5,380 colored votes, and whero large Republican majorities woro givon in 1872 and 1874, This yeur in onn or more of these parishes not a singlo Republican vote wna polled. No one hing clnimed or will claim that the nogrocs in this part of the State have all turned Domo- crats, for tho total number of votes cast is positive proof to the contrary, DBut one explanntion is possible of the Democratic mnjorities in tho so-ealled Ku-Klux districta of Louisiana—that tho Republlicans were kept awny from the polls by terrorism aud intimidation, and a fair vote was provented. 1f tho election of the Prosident of the United Btates should turn upon the vote cast in these porishes, it would be a terrible strain npon the patience and moderation of the Americnn people to stand quietly by and see the bull-dozers inaugurste fneir President. THE WAY 0UT, The grave complications threatening to ariso 08 to the canvass of the vote of Louisi- ann admit of solution in but one way,~that is by an honest count of®the honest vote. Nothing moro is wanted. Nothing less will suffice. Tho question of tho Presidency sinks into insignificance as compared with that of the maintenance of the integrity of government by tho ballot. If Tipey has an lionest majority of but ome Electoral vote, and that be secured by only one majorily, his tonure of office, legally and morally, is ns strong ns though he had received the vote of ovary qualificd voter in the United States, nnd of the Electoral College unanimously, Chere is no Republican worthy to be called such who will not assent to tlat. Therois none such who foran instant will tolerato the iden that Haves shall bo placed in the White Hause unlesait baby the vote of Elect- ors honestly chosen, On the other hand, if by s bara mnjority of one on the popular vote Haves bns received o majority of one in the Llactoral College, his titlo to the oftice is equally as indisputable, nnd the notion that he ean be counted out eannot be entortained, No Democrat should entertain such a notion, The rank and file, nt least, we are confident, will not. We want no Mexicanizing of the United States. Wo counot even afford to have our people familiarized with the notion that government of the people, by the people, for the peoplo, can be de- feated by fraud. When that idea becomes uppermost wo shall havo ronched the de- clino of tho Republic. In the forcible phrnse of Gen. GraxT, in his dispatch of yesterday to Gen. Suenay, “The country cannot afford to have the rosult tainted by suspicion of illagnl o false retnrns.” Not ouly must there be nn honest count of the honest vate, but it ought to bo ko made s to convineo the whola country thatitis an honest count of the honest vote. The suggestion that has been made by Hevny Warrerson, of the Louisville Courier- Journal, it is to bo trusted, will ho acted upon, It Is, that in behnlf of the Ropublican and Demoeratic parties and candidates, re- spoctively, Wizrtaxt M. Evanrs for the oue gnd Cuanres FravNcis Avass for the other, proceed to Now Orleans to seo that the Board of Canvassers mnke o fair count. Prosident GraxT, whoso tern is drawing to a closo, and who caunot afford to tarnish his splendid reputation and cloud tho pages he will flll in kistory by failing to sco to it that ho is succceded by the man fairly elected to succeed him, approves of the WarrensoN suggestion, and jo his dis- patclies yesterdny to SuenstaN oxpresses the Jiope “ that representative aud fnir men of Doth parties will go,” No Detter way out conld have boen sng- gested, Mr, Evants and Mr. Apaxs posscss the confidenco of the entire country, Lot ho Natioual Cowmmitteos of the two parties send them to Now Orleans to seo that theve is an honest count. Let the hot-heads, and political adventurers, and botting.men re- main away, and let tho gentlemen named proceed upon the discherge of their mission, backed by tho moral sentiment of the ontire country. There can then be no suspicion of Cwsarisi and no olection of n President by bulldozing or by frauds; public fears will Ve ollayed, nnd wo shall have peace, THE PRESIDEN 0STILE CON- A A GRESS, Tho present extraordiunry uncertainty ns to the result of the Presidontial election do- velopa & wenknens in one featuro of ourpoliti- cal system. If Mr. TiLnex Lo elected, it will Do by but a vote or two over Iaves, and his election will be rendered uscloss it he bo op. posed by & Republican mujority in both Houses of Congress, Iere, then, will bo a President choson by the people to carry ont adistinctive policy, arrested at tho threshold of his Adwinistration by an adverse majority in both Ifouses of Congress, Iu England the pepular will is expressed by tho majority of the Houso of Commons, aud to this majority all other departmeuts of the Government must submit, We have no such provision in our Constitution. No one Lranch of Con. gress, nor doos the Exeoutivo, s0 represent the popular will s to be ublo to exact com. plinuce of the others. The Executive is in- dependent of Congress, as Congress is inde- pendent of the other, Wo should regnrd it as an ovl, should Truoex be clected, if the wejority in the Houso of Represontatives should be Republican, It would destroy the responsibility, It would be a Government without unity, and the several brauches would b resisting uud opposiug each other. The House of Represoutstives having con- trol of the upproprintions conld ombarrass and cripplo the Administrafiqn, rejoct all its rocommendations, defeat all its weasures, and literally tie up the very policies which the Administration was elected to earry out. The same condition of affairs might oxist in the case of any Prosident elected by a close vote in tho Electoral College. It would bo better, if Trnex was olected, {hat thera was n Domocratic mojority fu the House of Represontatives, It would give the Administration an opportunity w jwe. seut and its fricnds to act upon such weas- ures ns it wight propose. In tho absence of such a majority, the President may properly declare to the country that he is obstructed iu carrving out the policies of his Adminis. nlBUNE GO SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1876—TWELVE ' PAGES, tration by a factions oppositlon in Congres ‘T'he party in the majority in Congress ean do nothing in opposition to the President, and thus both parties are paralyzed, Noither can do anything but wrangle, nnd the will of the people, ns expressed in tho choico of Dresident, must bo defeated. A caro- ful compilation of the Congressional elec- tions show that thero has been elected n Democratioc majority of not over six to the noxt Houso 'of Roprosontatives, with threo membera'to bo elected in Now Hampshiro in March, 1f Mr. Hayes be elected President, ho will go into offico with o small Domoeratic majority ngainst him, which will bo nnn. tional miafortune, IHis Administration will be nrrested in all its mensures, and he will Do powerless for any reform which will de- pondon legislation, Two years nud a linlt nt leastof his term will be wasted in a con- troversy between tha Honso and the Execu- tive, and by that timo tho country will then bo looking forward and prepariug for the choice of his successor. This, wo think, is ono of the wenknesses in our aystem of eloctions. It might be remedied to some oxtent if the Presidentinl Eleclors were choson ns Congressmen nre, in soparato distriets; but even this plan might bo so distorted by unfair and partiean ap- portionments of districts as to really deprive the peoplo of tho right to elect their Presi- dent. Tho President-elect ought to be the cholco of a mnjority of tho people, nnd tha Honse of Represontatives elected ut tho snme time ought to represent the same majority of the people. How this result can be at- tained with certalnty wo do not pretend to say, but that such a result should bo attained at overy election of President noono can deny. The evil principlo of State-Sovoreign- ty is largely responsible for many of the weaknesses in our machinery of Govern- mont, nnd especially in this machinery for the clection of President, If Haves bo clocted President, the grent value of his election will be measnrably lost boeauss of an adverse majority in the House of Representalives, against which he will bo powerless for any purpose of reform, or to carry ont any Governmental policy which ho mny adopt. The clection of a Prosident every four yonrs is ddesigned to enable the mnjority of the people to introduce changes and reforms in the policy and in the admin- istration of the Governmont, but this maoy be wholly defeated, as will now probably be tho case, when nn opposition majority is. elected to tho Housa of Representatives. The best of all teachors is experience, and it will ba well if the country, after wit. nessing the present state of affairs, shall fake such steps ns may lead to s chango in the political machinery, and secure to the people in substance as weil ag the theoretica} power to change their rulers and the policy of tho Government at ench Presidentinl election, THREATS AND INTIMIDATION, The Northern Democrats havesympathizod solong with the policy of threats and intimi. dation pursied by the Confederates of tho South that they have at last adopted it ns thoir own. Whilo the nctual vote of several States has been in doubt for soveral days, leaving the election undetermined but with the chinncos in favor of TiLpEw, a large number of Domocrats have proclaimed Tr- pEY elected nnd threatened dire vengennce if any of tho donbiful Southern States should roturn a majority for Haves sufiicient to give him the 185 Electoral votes nocossnry to his clection. The Chicago ZWmes is largely re- sponsible for stirring up bad blood in this community, and has done all it conld, by insiating upon Titpex's eleotion before the result was known and by prophesying fraud in Louisiana and Floridn, to preparo tho Democratic party to resist Haves' election aven by violenco and civil war, if those two Statos should bo found to be Republiean and determino the result. Following is a sample of tho incendlary Inngunge employed by tho Tlimes in this rogard: All caleulation based upon the Electoral vote of Lonfafana for Haven s an arsumption that tho Amerlean people will not submit to when it ta un- derstood thata repetition of the unapeakablo vil- 1ainy of the past 1a meditated to make the calcula- tlon o certaluty, Should the people of Loulslana submit to another invasion of thelr rights, such as tho whole North rose up to resent elghticen months 8go, the millions who voted for a change last Tues- day will ot follow thele example. While carpot- bagism kept ite viclouw methods confined to the South, the Narth took but languld interest in the outeages which the Southrons were forced to en- dure, but now that the detiborate verdict of mill- fons of voters representing tho greatest States in the Unlon §s threatened with reversal by a corrupt faction whoo unrighteonsnoss ins erlod to heaven for years, It Is juet asx well to remind all who are concerned that the villalny will bo gratultous; no Tetuening Uoard of Loulslana felons can count Saxurt J. TiLnex out of the oflce he hus been clected to administer, This language has been used, it must be remombered, while no man alive, not even in Louisiana or Florida, and much less in Iilinols or New York, kuows, absolutely, whetlier a majority of the people: in thoso two States havo voted for Haves or for Tir- DEN, turus at tho time these words were written on which a fair estimato could bo based. Tha indications were all that the majority in Louisiann was for JIaves without any resort to fraud. Thero wero 1o sigos of tampering with the roturns, which, indeed, had not yet boenmado, Thereworo false and silly rumors that Zacu Onaxoren had gone to Florida to * manipulato” the roturns, but no sano per- son crodited them, 'Thess threats, thorefore, were used for the purpose of organizing re- sistanco and influoncing the Domocratio greed for victory oven te violence if necossary, Indeed, the 7'imes wont so far as to indi. eato how Tinoew might be declared elected oven if Florida weat agniust him,—by dis- puting n Republican mssjority in Louisiaua, Tt advised the T1roeN uen to make up a bo- gus cortificate for the Domocratio Electors, and contest the couut of the State by Cun. gress, It pretended that Congress would have to decido tho question by a joint vote of the two Houses (for which there is no warrant in tho Constitution or out of it), and then concluded Which will Congress do? Every onc can under- atand that there fs not the rlightest probablilty that Congress will declde to include the Durellized vote of Loulsfana and shrow ont the vote of the lawtully chosen Electors, Nor la it prohablu that Congrees will declde to Include the vote of the lawfully chosen Elcctors, suelng that thele certlicates, 8% the programine of Durelligm Impiles, witl bo ir- regular in form, Congress will throw out both tho returny from Loufslans, which will reduce the whole number of Etectors appolnted to 361, of which 181 will be & mojority. And ow Mr, TrinoeN, even after belng thus swindled out of the votes of Loufsiana and Florlda, will still huve 184 votes, he will be the Presldent. I'he Chicago organ of the Confederates seums to have adopted this incendiary tone in concert with soma common movement to inangurate ‘L1LoeN whother ho be elected or not. 'Thus the OCincinuati Knguirer, nfter nssuming that there is no doubt but the pea? ple of the Unitod Btates have chosen TiLpen, says that tho Republican Returning Boards in Florida and Louisiaua are notoriously un- scrupulous, and * the people will not quietly submit to an unfair count.” So the Bt Louls Republican says significantly, *We Thero had boen no suthoritative re.’ olnim, and 1we believe the Democratic party 10411 uaite acith ug in claiming, tho clection of Tross then it adds:- A donial of the votes of Loulslana to Tiupen, 5o as to give Haxes o majority of ono in the Electoral College, will be a deliberately concocted JSraud," and continues, **if tho American people quiotly accept n result brought about in such a way, they have not far to go to rench despotism puro and simple.” 1t in not ensy to properly chnracterizo tho use of such Ianguage in public prints ot this time, The people have been sufliciontly ox- cited by tho suspenso and irritated by the con flioting rumons set aflont by the difforont purty mnnngers, Tho public mind haa been in a condition in which strong partisn fecl- ings might be ensily worked up into cxcesses senrcely short of clvil war, Every man to whom pence nud a united conntry are objecta of endearmont should sepk to allay rather than inflame the partisan passions. The employment of public prints to excite resiatanco’ to the. voice of the poople oven boforo it has beon declared in simply villninous. The Repablicans have moro ground to dispute the counting of Mis- sisaippl ond Alnbame for TiLpey, on the ground of violonco and intimidntion, than thie Democratadiave for nsserting boforchand that the rotarna of Florids and Louisinna will ‘o tampered with; bat we havo yet to soo n Republican newspgper thnt threatens resist- ance to Tiwora's inauguration on that ne- count. Tho uncortainty of the actual result, and the closeness of the vote in any caso, render the situation sufficiently precarious whon we consider the defect in tho Constitu- tion about counting the Electoral votes, and it is simply wicked to add to theso complica- tions the greater danger of partisan passion inflamed by a falso notion of injury. ILLINOIS CONGRESSIONAYL DISTRICTS. Tho Republicans of Illinois have accom- plished protty much everything that could have been ronsonably expected in the Con- gressionnl fight, except defenting Hannisox in the Second District (the Wost Division of Chicago), where the defection of the Repub- lican voto in favor of Tiupex carried him through. The roturns so far point to the conclusion that the Rapublicans have elected twelve out of tho nincteen members, which just oxnetly reverses tho result two yesrs ago, when the Iilinois delegation stood twelve Demoerats to seven Ropublicans beforo Fan- WELL was unseated in favor of Lz Movym The Congressmen.clect are in all probability the following : I Willlam Aldrich, R. 11. *Carter H. Harrison, D, 111, Lorenz Drentano, R. . Yilllam Lathrop, R. 1. C. Burchard, R. #Thomas J. Henderson, R. . Philip C. Mayes, R, *Greenbury L. Fort, R . Thomas A. Boyd, R B. F, Mareh, R. R, M, Knapp, D. ¢ . *Willlam M. Springer, D, , Thomaa F, Tipten, R, . *Jaseph G, Canuon, R. . *Jobn R, Eden, D. . %W, A. J, Sparks, D. XVIIL *Willlam R. Morrison, D, XVIIL Denjamin F. Wiley, R. XIX. . W. Townsend, D, P The stars indieato those who are members of the present Congress, of whom nine have beon re-electod,—four Ropublicnns and five Democrats. The most gratifying features of this result are the gain of the three Chicago distriots; tho saving of the Fonrth District, which Hurenur'a bolt threatened to lose, ond of the Ninth District, which was ren- dored doubtfal by the refusal of Wmting, the former incumbent, to support Born; and the dofeat of Oampprey, the rampant infla. tionist. The new dolegation inclndes some good material, which ought to enable Illinois to take a better position in Congress than it hins had for the past two years, The Ropub- lican members from whom creditable repre- sentation may be espocially expected. nre Arpnicst, BRENTANO,. Buncmanp, Haves, Borp, and Wirey, who are all known to bo earneatly enlisted in the work of improving tho public service. It should be the aim of all tho Illinois members to join their forces in this good work withont reforonce to poli- tics; but porhape thero is not so much to be expectod from the Democrats in this rogard it Trupex is elected and tho spoila are turned over to the Democrats. BAD MANAGEMENT IN NEW YORK, There aro many eloments that onter into an explanation of the probable Democratic victory in tho lato clection, or of tho signifi- cont folling.off in Ropublican strength in cnso it shall prove that Gov. Haxes has been Laraly choson, All tho causes are more or loss akin, nand may bo traced in one way or onother to the influenco of tho *“ machine * politiciana, Tho mesa of the people are still in full sympathy with the principles and afis of the Ropublican party, but they nay rensonably bo disgusted with that class of men who have attacked themselves to it to “rulo or rnin.” Tho Intter Liave made a shameless exhibition of their selfish purposes during the recent cnmpalign, and if there is nuy consolation in the probable dofeat of the Topublicans, it is to be found in the certain ratirement of all that class of Republicans into an obscurity from which they will not roon emerge. We confldently believe that this would bLave followed tha cloction of Hares aa woll as his dofeat, but many peoplo have evidently beon femrful that it would not. 8o tho Ropublican candidnte has been the victim of their mismnnogement, and Ite- publican principles have been sacrificed for the time being to their vanity aud selfishness, In New York Stata the maungement of tho Republican catpalgn haa been especinlly weak and ineflicient, and probably trenchorous. 'T'he nomination of T1Lprx by the Democrats wns onough in itsolf to have impressed upon the Republicans tho essential importance of unity, untiriug effort, and wise niungement in order to carry the State of New York, Wheun Indisnn went Democratie in October, New York becanio still more the batile. ground. But ‘the * machine” politicions wera in control of the orgauization, and their personal spites wers of more account to them than the welfare of the party or of the country, CoNkKwING ex. «hibited himself as n *sorchead.” Ile alinked and growled, He took no part in tho campaign, and his conduct was the key for his henchmon to act upon. ComNeLL was Chairman of the State Cowmittee, and lio had n double grievance, o had under: takon to sond tho Now York delegation to Cincinuati eolidly for ¢ favorite sonny " Couxuing, and falled; ho had undertaken to have himself unominated for Governor, and fallod utterly, Haves and Momaax wero uames that rather excited resentment than onthusissm in bis breast, and the Custom. House clique wera infected with a like fecl. iog. 8o, while the Democratic campaigh was carried on under the immediate super- vision of T'ioeN himself, whose sbrewdness and experienca wero effectively supplement- ed by Hewitr's energy, the Republican cam- paign waa something worse than lukewarm. Topex had a buresu of 165 wou—bright, active, ambitious, hard.working fellows— who made sn nbsolnte poll of the State, who sought ont the doubi. ful voters nnd won them over, who flooded every county with specions posters, and handbills, and pamphlets, who aided the Democratio nowspapors nnd Democratio sponkers, and who did not suspond thoir of- forts night or day. Daring all this the chief Republicnh managers wore supine, cold, ig- norant, and indifferont, They rojected tho allinnce with Antl.Tammany that might have notably reduced TiLorx's majority in New York City. They did not improve the Dom- ocratio dofection on nccount of a porsonal hostility to Tiroen, Indeod, it was not until within tho last oight or ten days of the cam- pnign, when the business mon took hold, thnt nny effective work was done, excopt by the {ndividunl efforts of the Now York Zimes nnd certain volunteer speakers. A Thero is littlo wonder that New York has been lost to tho Republicnns and probably the whole country, under auch management as this; and we can only reflect with satis- faction that, in pulling down the gates, the “machino ” men have buried thomsolves undor tha rujus. THE BPRINGFIELD OUTRAGE. Notwithstanding tho election excitemont, tha horrille act of vandalism attempted at Bpringfleld has consed a genornl thrill of lorror. If thero hnd been vo election pending, the deed would have roused tho wholo North to a desperate dotermination that the vondals should bo overtaken and punished. The facts have been already ro- Inted in datail i Tas Triavxg, but mey ba restated gonerally, Some time since Mr. Ronenr LrxcorN was informod by an nnony- mous note that an attompt would be made on election night to break into the chamber of the LixcoLy monument, containing the remains of his father, and carry them off. He concluded to put the matter into tho hands of Ersen Wisununy, who, with his customary vigilance ond promptness, was on the spot at the time nn- nounced, nud would havo mrested the van- dals or otherwise summorily disposed of them had not ono of his assistants promo. turely disclinrged his pistol, which had the effect to alarm them while thoy were at their work. Doforo the dotectives could rench them they had disnppeared in the woods near the monument and made good their esenpe. . What was tho exaot motive of this ont. rageous vandalism it is very dificult to nscer. tain, It may have been that these infamous riflers of the tomb selected oloction night as a time when they would be less likely to bo “observed, and when their opportunity for es- capo wonld be surest, to despoil tBe sarcoph- agus, corry off tho remalns to somo sccluded and mysterious spot, and then negotinte with the authoritios for their retarn, hoping for a lavge roward. In theso days of ingeniously-horrible crimes, such a theory is not nltogether improbable. If a gang of desporadaes could abduct the Loy Ross and Lide him away so skillfully and surely oven while negotinting for bis return, it cortainly would Le n much less difficult operation. to steal the nshes of Lincorn and defy dotec- tion, and perhaps evontunlly securo n largo roward without any danger of punishment. 1t is not impossiblo, nlso, that the motive was simply n morbid dosive on the part of the vandals to conmect their ngmes with & deed unparsllaled for infamy, and immortalizo themselves like tho fool who fired, the Ephesion dome, and that other fool who threw himsolf into the crater of tho voleano. Whatever may bove been tho motive, the deed was in- famons and dastardly, and betrayh a reckloss- ness of purpose and a basoness of hoart dif- ficult to understand. To riflo the humblest grave is unnatural ‘and only the work of & monster. ‘To disturb the slumbers of the great and good President in his sacred cham- ber, built by tho love and gratitudo of the whole nation, is doubly monstrous. It is to bo hoped the miscreants who attempted the infatnous work may yet be approhended, not only that they may be punished, but that thoy may bo held up to the execration of the world: The passing exciternents of clection should not be allowed to blunt the vigilanco of the authorities, If the perpetra. tors of this infamous crime aro to be cap- tured ntall, it con only bo efflected by immo- diaty effort. — THE LAST OF THE CENTENNIAL. Yesterdny was tho lnst regular dny of the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, and with it closes all formal celebration of the first ono hundred years .of our national ex- istonce, In spito of thoearly opposition to the project and tho discouraging nttendance during thefirt half of tho Exhibition, it must now bo conceded that thero conld have boen no more appropriate or ugeful Centenuinl celobration, and that it has been puccessful beyond the anticipations of those who based their caleulations upon the history of former world's fairs. Wo believo that the attend- nnce has exceeded eight millious of paid ad. missions, amounting to mearly $4,000,000; if so, this smount, along with the enormous royaltics received from privileges and the ro- turn on the sald of tho buildings, should enable the mansgers to refund to the United States Governmont the money advanced to #et the ontorprisc on its foet, This fs the fimst debt that ought to bs paid, for the Phil- adelphia people have hnd profits largely in excoss of all their subscriptions, ‘I'he cducationnl advantages of the Exhibi- tiou huve inured almost entircly to the Americans, for the forelgnuttendanco hinsheen rolatively very small. Fortuuately, too, the low rates adopted by the railronds aud the reasonnblo prices chavged for accommoda. tions duriug tho last three monthw of tho Exbibition have enabled thonsands and hun- dreds of thousauds of tho middlo classes to visit Philadelphia who would otherwise have lost the opportunity, ‘Iiese are the people wha conld never hopo to learn of the judus- trics, arts, and nationnl charactoristies of other conntries and peoples by travel, and this inspection of the world's products, and customs, and peouliarities, systematically ar- ranged, can scarcely have failed to leave an inpress that will brosden the knowledge and cxcite the emulation of our own people, 'Fhe dissensions during the early days of prep- arations prevented mavy of the Europenn nations oud some of our own Hiates froms moking as full C‘and v o showing of their industrios and arts s thoy might have made. (ermany especinlly, and Frauce and England to some extent, should have doue themselves more credit, while countries from which less was expected, like Itussia, Bweden, and the Em. pires of Obina and Japan, have improved the occasion to introduco thewselves on the most favorable terms. ‘The most defective part of the Exhibition was the display of paintings, Quantity rather than quality seemed to be tho guiding principle of the Art Committes, and two enormous buildings were crowdoed’ with piotures, so that visitors tired them- selves out jn searchibg among a wass of rub- bish for o comparatively small number of gems.. England mado the most creditablo oxhibition in this department, while France contributed only of ita obsoure artists, and many other conntrios showed a poverly in the fine arts that would not hava been sus- peoted. The greatest uscfulnoss of tho Ex- hibitlon was in the practical operation of all sorta of industries, tho display of new inven- tions, and the compnrison nfforded betweon tho industries of the dilfercnt nations of the world, -+ It wonld be ungenerous to dismiss thia gubject without bearing testimony to the oxcollent managoment which resulted in por- foct order, admirable system, good nccom- modations, intelligent cataloguing, nnd pop- ular satisfaction, Tho Philadelphia people are ontitled to most of the credit for tho comforta which most people of judgment wero ablo to enjoy, even when there wero hundreds of thousands of strangers in the city. The Philndelphians took a genuine prido in tho nffair, and we beliove thero was much less causo for complaint as to accom- modations than at any world's fair on the snme seale, Cortain it i that the show wns more extensive and tho attondance larger than at any provious International Exposi- tion, aud these fnots must bo grateful to the pride of all Americans, The speoulations as to tho possitle conse- quences of a vacanoy in the Electoral Col- lege, whether ocensioned by Xkidnapping, foul play, or casualty, have evidently, for the most part, been based upon a misapprehon- slon of the Inw, Scation 183 of the United Statea statutos provides that *each State may, by law, provide for the filling of nuy vaoancles which may occur in its Collega of Electors when such College meeta to give its Electoral voto.,” Under tho authority thus conferred, it is belleved provision has been made by all the States for filling any vacan- ciea that may ocour. There has been no in- stance, oxcopt in the case of Nevada in 1864, when ono of the Elcctors was absent, in which the full voto of the Eectoral College was not. cast, which goes to confirm that opinion. The Illinois statute, 88 alrendy stated in Tuz TRIBUNE, provides that “in case any person declared duly elect- edan Elector . . . shall fail to attend at the State.Houso . . . at or before tho hour of 12 o'clock, noon, of the day on which his vote is reguired to be given, it shall bo the duty of the Electors . . attending to appoint a person or persons to fill such vacanoy.” 'Tho statuto of Wiscon- sin is identical in offect; that of Ohio,in force since 1820, varies from ours only in phraseology, and it may reasonably be ns- sumed there is no rcason to apprehend dif- ficulty upon that point in any eyent, "I'he antl-Chinese mobs, and the howl of fel- Jows who never did and never will work, against. the Chinesa cheap labor that is rulning them, end the paltry attitude of the better classcs to- wards the demagogues and hoodlums who ferment the auti-Chincse agitation, are the shame and disgrace of Callfornla. 1t was not supposed, however, that they would add to these by Inftiating on the Pacific Const the South Carollna White-Line preference polley. But that Is precisely what they are doing, and have carried it so far thatcertain of theSanTran- clsco daflles have published 1ists of the names of owners of bulldinga rented to the Chinese, to exposo the property-owncra to that puelicodium and injury {n bustuess implied in the preference policy. Doubtless they would be inconsolable In Californis it deprived of their especial grievanco about which to keep up a disturbance, ond the Chinaman {s sgain thelr speclal griovance. But it Is to be regretted they cannot single out some other grievance to agltate over which wlll not vrovoke a barbarlsm that is not less barbarous than White-Ltucism ftsell. e —— Tuosas A. Borp had tough work escaping dofeat at the hands of the irate Peorlans, IHis own county reduced its Democratic majority one-half to give him n chance, but it ought to ‘have done better for him. In the four countles the majoritica aro reported as follows: Boyd. Wilson, Fulton 225 Enox. Peoria 2,150 Stark. These figures glve Bovp a majority of 237, The serlous charges against him were that asa Stato Senator he voted against removing the Capital from Springficld to Peoria, and that two yoars ago Le opposed the clection of WinTiNG, and voted for hils Damocratic opponent, In re- venge for these acts, Peorla * went for him," and had not Knox, who preserved her temper und kept cool, stepped in and given him on fm- mense majority, he would have been burled out of sight. Littlo Stark also helped hiu o heap, aarel Sabetiade The full officlal canvass in Colorado by coun- tles shows the tatal vote for Congressinen to have been 25,757, and the olection ot Bepronp, the Republean candidate, to the Forty-fourth Congreas by 040 majority, and to the Forty-ifth Congress by 1,085 majority, the difference fndl- eating the carclessness and coprice of. voters, slnce at one ond the same time and on the same ballot he was voted for oraguinst for cach term. The contest on the State Democratie ticket secing to haye been much more heated than tor Congress, the aggregate vote belng 23,403, or 2,736 fn excess of that for Congressman, Onthe Benatorfal vote the Republican majority in the State Iy 1,083, Tho Legisluture stands: Benate, Republicans, 19 members, Democrats, 17; Houae, Republicuns, 81, Democrats, 18; Republican,ma- Jority ou jolug ballot, 25, F e — ‘We are heartily slek and tired of the dribbling returns from Indlana, and want to forget that Btute for o scasgn. Every morning we are treated to a vepetition of u duse of which the following Is a samples ** Forty-nine more town- ships and precinets heard from, which show » Democratle net galn of 180. The countles to hear from guvea net Democratic majority of 5340, towhichadd 114, which TyLDEN s now aliead ; this gives hils probablenjority at 5,463," We stuod this sort of thing every dav for nearly o fortnight In October, with * Blue Jeans *? sub~ stituted for 8ast Tipen, Towards the last it ‘become drendfully monuvtonuus, and now to have it to endure all over again {s too wuch for fesh and blood to stand, Tt 1s * damuable iteration ** that kille. Avaunt there, with your Indlana BlueJeans and TiLDEN precinet returns; they lave made us blue cnough already ! e —e £ ml)nbllcan politiclana who agratched the ticketa ahould gooverto the Democraty, whiero they belong, ZErentug Journal, The Journal, un second sober thought, will hardly repeat thut advice. It {8 the moral duty of every man, whether Republican or Demacrat, to seratch off his ticket any name of an unfit candulate found upen i, By this weans only can ward bumers, who pack conventivns and folst bad men on party tickets, be punished or held {n vy kind of restraint. There Is nothing like seratching, und, if protessionsl delegates to conventious don't Jike it, let them nomivate populur and aweptable men. piicing et RN One of our city merchants yesterday, sfter a severe struggle, capiured & large caglo which hnd flown upon his premisca, As Our Caursn's eagle, which started last winter from Washing- ton to bathe lu the sprays of the Pucille, hus not been heard from stuce, there is a possibility that thts bird belongs to him, especlally as it is “ no cowman bird,” He should step forward, put in Ius clalm, prove property, sud, It it really be- longs to hiw, take it back with him to Washing- toan and give it & fresh start this winter. ‘Tho recent meeting of prominent Grocks held {0 Atheus seews to have hisd a practical effect. The Kiog bas beon summoned bowe fo auch haste that he bad to leave hls fawily behind bim, sud the Ministers bave asked permissiun to call out 60,000 well-armed men. The popular feeling has passed beyor o tral, and the flo\-emmzm ‘llifl:{‘s I';“tr it might endanger not oyt the M ut nlso tho throne itxelt, A 04 nn"m not figured at all in e nrguthl?:hmm i nttitude of thelr Government iy 11 the wmpllunl.(una of {he FEastorn Wl especlally If Encland should mue (eHton, Grecece, 08 appears probab), ¥ Rl — Splomatfe pgy, ot reasy gy tar ———— The clevtion 18 altogether 1o, or comfortablo consfderatlon ):!mllld that it had gone other.' Thls thing of wiy President by one vote fs too Allx':!:;;gu ‘::m‘::mg 3 ———— : PERSONAL. — Willlam Moreis, the R Englien En‘ulnnd o cat the acquatntance ur(m(el:l; :‘"' b —**thloves and marderers, " ul Tarky The troublo of John Lick fs gy e :1?;'«’:;, il on the rung " ::f-a:.‘x?;' g ? ng the act ant e ustroing he actlon recognlaing gy . Tels sald that the Ttey, ! nextliterary_effort sl b “;‘)::-rg':::d;cw hears Who DIdn't Know Much." can t e g g e of an autoblogmphy? Yoo amtnry Princo Metternich fa o stude N pere, and o wino one. e eagy ?.L"}f«,"°"‘" they do not sny, Thofr sllence s ofton o quent than thelr specch. G L An accommodating frien TRINUNE wants o have n somanyhonite” of Tay and o havo 100 cdltons " of the paper n' him as compensation. ent o stupendous, peisation;. The offer 1 Teally tog 4. Hammond Trnmball, o clear up tho myatery abont (e erars of Connectlcat. Jdust after clection | timo for bim to do it, when the interost n'( 1',‘,“ '{::L'Lz population In such subjects ts nnn!mny‘;: The Delhi pngeant In India will tnvolv, venditare of half millon stecling sy 1.5 eidered by thione convorsant with tho mecere <" the Qovernment a roat place of extammpmmey all elac, there Is a prospect of n famge 1. ‘Bombay. ulne {y ‘The Ladles' Collegent Cambrldge, Colloge,-—has J||ll.mcclvuducunfrei\)\fi:f;:;;fflmu towands fts oullding fund from n gentleman o " fordahire, tn memoty of his daugliter Eig o’ had ler lifo boen apared, was fo- bnve entorey s Inatitntion tho present term, Sl way ag s wetl-wisher of the Collego. s Tresidont Ellot says the employme wwomen fn the publlo scliools s {xn\vfi:l-cl:r:vlnn’ beeauso they do not undertake teaching va o 1, work, Wo believo many women part icipate In (n‘r. ** unwise economy " with the utmost reluctanc ' erpeclally In Clilcago, where thes gre pald et scmi-oceastonally. Thut they betlove it 4o be ap) unwiser ceonomy to starve, The Village of Princeton, In Canada, unusually sticred of Iate by the actlon of n:ll:e‘v::,:\ of tho antl-temperanco fnn who summarlly ejected an emissary of the temperanca soclety from hiy honre. Tho wife of the temperance fecturer way Inbed when tho seieas oecirred, and ber tinla usband, seelidng rafoty In flight, eenta ¢ after her with a writ, : Sonsplle MIZ& Vinnle Ream wan chosen to make the statge of Farragut by o committec consiating of Mre, Far. ragat, O¢n. Shorman, and Secretary Hobeson, 0f these. thefirst two favored Miss Renm while thelast opporel her, Tt Ia thoneht that there was o shrewd susplcion what the reeult wonld he when the com- miltea was chosen. « Mids Tteant [« uow making her statue, the award having been given some time ago, Protosts have been addressed to Lord Derby with referenco to Mr. Stanley's butcherien of natives in Africa. 1iis Lordehlp has replled that he has read the renorts with regret, but hopes that Mr. Stantey mny beable toaffer nome justidcation of them, In any event, the Britisl Governinent cannot interfere, s Mr, Stanley fs not a Britlah aublect, e las ot the right to employ the Dritish flae ns he hes done. ny;;ll w\;l ‘e 80 informed 28 noon Ashe communleates with the conat, Gor, Tilden voted for himself with ostentation, and stoad by the straight Democratic tieket, not scratching a rogne. Peter Cooper also voted for himeelt and the Greenback Electors, He sald bo Toped the eloction would be thrawn fnta tho Hovse of Ropresentutiver, in which event he counted on belng chosen. ‘Then ho would begin Immediately to Irsue greonbacke, and **induce the preatost vossihle circulation of them," hoping thereby to entlch overybody. There is o very amuslng sqnabblo in prozrees be- tween two Now England Profcssors of Latin,— TRollcy, of Rutgors, and Greenongh, of Harvard, 'The former altacked one J, . Allen, Princlpsl of & Cambrldge Iligh-Bchool, who had edited a Latin primer. Greonongh undertnok the defense of Al len, having previously vouched for his accuracy. Then Teltey **wenl for™ Greenough; and at last accounts It wan conceded that Rutgers had proved too much for Ilurvard, Victor Hugo has been canght napping. It retme he crammed his Bas-Breton dialect, nsed In *+ Ninety-three," from M. Motlver's dictlonary of the Guernsey dinlect, The consequencels that the work abounds In wordswhichare capltal Guernaey, but very bad Bas-Breton. The offene would have ‘been forgiven him, howover. lind he acknowlulzed hin Indebtedneas to the complier of the dictlonary. This would have been an awkward thing to do, cn- der the circumstances; and hodidn't do it. ‘The Toston corrcspondent of the New York Herald says, with some_troth, that Phillp Gitbert Tamerton 1s ' a man whom 1t s only Jeas nneafe to attack than if he were n popular clerzyman, for he hasalarge following, every soul of which be- lleves that he Is infullible.” Yet the corresnoni- ent docs venture to judge that llamerton's un\:_! Js **noteo mear perfection na his other Looks. 1fo shows too much'prejndice agninst bis bad peo- ple, and too much affection for his goud ones, King Coffea Calcalll, of. Ashantl, has mades brief reappearanice, but his light will soon be extin: gulshied forever, If the late reports can b trusted, 11a hias been fomenting freah disturbances, and ke been taken prisoner by blu succeasor, and a corre- spondent of the London Sfandard expresicithe hope that **mensurca will bo taken to prevent the Toyal prisoner from cveragain ralslng the etand: ard of rebeltion,* 1t King Coffec could reid En- gith he would understund toleravly what (0 Dicans Ciucinnat! papers of the 8th Inst. contain reporis of the death of Micajah Hlalley, 8 provieion proker of twenty-ive years' standing in that clty, lhmu»i: tho error of & drug clerk, who put np pruilcac for 8 harm! txture prescribed by the vh:"lf“"f-‘ Mr. Bafley was sutlering from o straln recch! whilo acting &s & pall-bearer at the funceal of nln acquaintance. He had taken to hiabed, l\\\‘ib; physlclan had prescribed an onuce of prusfate uf potash dlssolved fn four uld ounces of w“”“he tablespoonful to be taken every four hours. 1)" drugglst compounded the cyanide [natead Md‘k'd ferru-cyanide of potassfum, and the Pnllenl i ano hour after taking tho tlrst doso. The deuégy admita his fault, and says ko {s propared tostaid the consequen Ho {8 not a graduate "’l" an lege of pharmacy,—6 qualification now requ! reh- i al) preacription clerks in (,'luclnnull,—hmdnl 9 practicing three years beforo the law passed. Therara and curjons iibrary of w“““‘“ml"":;;n Eag,, of New York Cly, {8 to bo sald on the 00 of November. Thereare few comuon Im; ol the swhole collection of over 2,000, lll(n;u nmmr manuscripty, mivnle, und books of e e dating from before 1o fnvention of print nx‘ o snctuded In tha lot, asturo also -wl""g'_‘ o work of John Quttenberg, of Faustand Seb €0 and of Peter Scheilor alone, Tho early 'Tlrlnrepll' tho Britiuh Colunies of Amerlca aru muwl s sented. Thofrst booka printed respactivey o Now York, Philadelols, snd ""'“’"'mlnx b cluded, ‘Ybe set of Ditdlin fna m“;“e'umv‘!“ ™ salutely perfect In lettoreprese ‘:-"\\‘a sbinton b3 twonty-nine Jotu, lrving's Lire o kol of been extonded to ten volumes by the m:m The plates, sud many others in o Jess deg " o tuo fteclf s a luxurlous work, cOf catalogy Loccet style o 4T pages, royal Bvo., o the ¢l DROSAPY gy, AmVALS. i Paliner l{buu—p‘ M. Parr‘n_ll)l Hk.u“; Promises y, ** Ue-tamy 3 allcruss, n }:fl{fa‘? AL A, Hussoll, Battimore Princclon, 1i, § D, T, Choge, Clarenic Heth Bulloclk l)qudwaml, Hiack Hille i d B Entlpnds . 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