Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 12, 1876, Page 2

tlemen to go to New Orleans to in- the votes in spect the counting of Louisisna: The Hon. Wililam M. Evarts, Judge E. W. Stoughton, Gen. John A. Dix, and James H. Vanalen, of New York; Senator man and the Hon. Stanley Malthews: of Onio; the Hon. Courtland Parker, of -New Jersey; Senator Edmunds, of Vermont; Gen. Ben Harrison, of Indiana; Sepator Logan, of 1ilinoie: the Hon. Willlam D. hc.l]c_\' and the Hon. John Schonburg, of Pennsylvania, and the Hon. John A. Kasson, of Iowa Thescanda few others have been fnvited. Nearly all of them Dave been heard from and have accepted. PROPOSED COMPROMISE. . 1t is suggested that one result of the dificul- tyin Louisiana will be that the Returning Board will declare the electoral vate of the State for Hayes and Wheeler, but that Nichols, Democratic candidate for Governor, is elected justead of Packard. This suggestion is in the line of several intimations as to a barzain which was made carly in the canvass. 1t is asserted to b a possibility to-night by persons who are on intimate relations with the Louisiana leaders in both partics. REPRESENTATIVE MISSOURI DEMOCEATS. Special Dispatcii to The Trio. . ST. Louis, Mo., Nov. 11.—At a largely-attend- ed meeting of the State Democratic Exccative Committee held this morning the condition of aflairs in Louisiana and the South was discussed. The rooms were crowded with leading Dcn_w— crats of the city, including such representative men as the Hon. James O. Broadhead, the Hon. L. V. Bogy, the Hon. Erastus Wells, and the Hon. Charles Gibson. The following letter, atter gome discussion, was drawn up and sub- mitted to the gentlemen to whom it is ad- dressed: & e £ CEXTRAL COMMITTEE O - snE]::og:‘E%e'fi‘,f‘.\'o\'. 11, 1876.—Zothe Hon. JLowis V, Boqy, James O. Broadhead, Erastus Wells, Charles Gibson—GESTLEMEN: In view of the pending crisis, which may be seriously affected by frnudulent canvaesing fo the State of Louisiana, and the possibllity of trouble to the whole country, tbe Executive Committee of this State deem it of great importance that representative men from Mis- Kourd, as well o8 other States, should zo to New Orleans, and do what can be done to secure a fair count, aud thus secare a satisfactory adjustment of the reported difliculties. Accordingly, the Com- mittee do urzently request cach of you to inmedi- ately proceed to New Urleans and do what you can o eecure the end indicated. Very respectfully, Hexey D. LavenLiy, Chairman. Attest: Wiiriax I Mavo, Secretary State Democratic Committee. Eachof the gentlemen named expressed his willinzness to obey the request, and they left in a body at half-past 6 this evening. THE LOGISVILLE DELEGATION. LotrsviLLe, Nov. 11.—The Hous. Henry D. McHenry and Henry Watterson, of Kentucky, left for New Orleaus last night. Senator Me- Donald and Gen. Love, of Indiana, Gov. Mc- Creary and Congressman Blackburn, of Ken- tucky, and ex-Gov. Palmer, of llinois, compose another party now here in answer to the call of the fron. A. 8. Hewitt, of New York. They leave to-night. LouisviLLe, Ky., Nov. 11.—Gov. McCreary and Congressman Blackburn do not accomnany the delegation to Louisiaua. Those ‘previvasly nained, v Seaavor Stevenson, of Kentas: A 8. dewitt aud party, of New York, ex- ator Trambull, of IHingis, Doolittle, of W cunsin, aua probably Thurman, of Ohio, leave a1 ot Suaday normiag for New Orleaas. ie serenaded the delega~ 101 vo-pight amid gee 1t onthusiasm. EN HOUTE. CiNcINNATI O., Nov. 1L—The Hons. Stanley Mattiews and J. C. Stevenson, and ex-Gov. E. oyes left for New Orleans to-night. PALMER ON GRANT. LouisviLLe, Ky., Nov. 11.—Ex-Gov. Palmer, man interview with a reporter, gave as his opinfon of ihe President’s directions the follow~ inr: If Grant were a statesman he ought to inpeacked 2ud deposed from his place for tuse onders, but as it is Grant nobody muich surprise. Grant has one lead- Gorernmert, and that he and the cunly power in the country, and vare an eatlic suflidency. He does not know or czre for constitutional limits. To e brict, he is not resy GOV, CARKOLL, OF MARTLAND. BALTIMORE, Not —Gov. Carroll left for 11.—Senator fax Frane1sco, X e will not o stuics Was nritiag thal nese question, in which he uere. He imdoises the wisdom of tion 10 ubtain the presence of prom- rustiad nica of boll partics to assist tuc prescal exeivd feelms in the Soutn, but expnesses a beidef that no serious complications cusue, although the sitnation clls jor pradent action. C.-F. ADANS. BozroN, Nov. 11.—The Euening Traveler says that Ciarles Francis Adams_started for tie South to-day. THE REMEDIES. RATID REREL VIEWS. Speciat Dispatch {o The Trivune. WASHINGTON, D. C.. Nov. 11.—Tke political 03 is unchanged. The Republicans claim da and Louisians with in- creasing coufidence. The Democrats produce no evideace to dispute the title to this claim. There are not wantiug those among the Demo- crats who loudly threaten revolution in the cvent that Louisiana shall cast her Electoral vote for Hayes. These threats are not confined 1v the adventurous classes of the floating popu- lution. It a gentleman who is just from New York is to be believed, so important a person- ¢ as Gen. McClellan, who found obstacles enough to Linder his fighting with the Army of the Potoma: finds many reasons why Le should fight to-day. But tlie best men of both parties here, and those who are the most likely to have & potent voice in the connsels of the nation, are for AN HONEST COUNT aud peaceful submission to the results of such count, whatever they may be. Some of the Democratic leaders are rash enongh to ‘sugeest that the House refuse to mect fu joint conven- tion if Luuisiana goes tor Huyes. Their argu- ment is this: To the non-existcnee of the twen- tv-second joint rule, the Republicans would un- doubtedly claim the rigit of the President of the Senate to count or reject any vote, and there would be no appeal from such determination: but as the law of 1792 pre- scribes that these votes must be counted on the eecound Wednesday in February in Joint Convention, they caunot be so counted if there is no Juint Conveution, and there can be no such Convention excent by THE VOLUNTARY ACTION OF BOTH HOUSES. The failure to hold such Convention, they think, would throw the election of President into the next House. In devising this revolu- tionary scheme, the fact has been over- looked that the Forty-fit:h Congress does nut meet in March, and cannot, under the Constitution, assemble before December, 1677, unless it be that the President of the United States shall deem that 2 constitutional emer- geucy exists which shall authorize him to con- veneat. There is also much specalation here upon this query: If Congress provides no lawful means ol adjusting the difficulty before the middic of February, and if the detcrmination of toe count of the Electoral vote should be postponed mntil after the 4th of March, 1877, WHO THEN WOULD BE PRESIDENT of the United Statest What would be the con- dition of the Government, and would chsos Lave come in? Two solutions are suggest- ed to this inquiry. Ope fs that the Scnate isa continuing body; that, in the ab- sence of the President or Vice-President, the President pro tem. of the Senate is the Consti- tutivnal President of the United States, by vir- tue of his ofiice. The heads of all the Execu- tive Departmeuts, and all the Federal offlcers of tue coantry, are continued by the languace of heir commissions until, upon the proclamation of the Secretary of State, Congress has been convened, and THE CHOICE OF PERSIDENT BEEN DETERMINED by the House. ™ _The other theory fs that the President of the United States, “as well as the, neads of the ' Executive Departments and the ocupants of other offices, would S 9 . . es meq A7TEVERBE oA "HY, CHICAGO TRIBUN SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1573—NpATEBN PAGES . ntin 6 i in thi i ifle | became _* cantenr ” or pr 4 . In fact, the canvess in this State las | cratic frauds cannot rob usof a single Pac ca precentor to The. ~their issions | He left Baltimore because it was impossible to | ereascd by full returns from the remaining | Mies. 3 i o frauds cannok pol us of, &l becamo < cantous ™ or procentor be continued in power under . their commis: transact any business on account of the excite- been but one State. The majori 1‘9:‘: Gcc:; e N g::é‘;‘”‘ until thefr successors have been qualified by taking the oath. For this theory there is so dis- tinguished authority as Caleb Cushing, United States Minister to Spain. He is at present here in the city on business relating to the Spaaish Mission. He has been willing to express his views upon the grave questions which now oc- cupy public attention. Upon them he, in sub- stance, says: The Constitution knows nothing of parties. Party conventions arc wholly out- gide of the Constitution. No act of theirs has any, legal effect. The Demo- cratic party, as such, can ouly act through the Constitution. The possible danger, if any, in the supposed state of things, is to be found in the possible action of the two Houscs of Con- gress, or rather that of the present House of Representatives with its dccisive Democratic majority. There may be a conflict of opinion. and action between the Scnate and House of Representatives that would constitute A VERY SKRIOUS DIFFICULTY. It is possible, though in my opinfon altogeth- er improbable, that the 4th of March next may arrive without a lawful declaration of the elec- tion of a new President in conformity with the prescription of the Constitution. For that contingency, no provision is made by the Constitution. Xcan imagine several rem- edies growingout of the nceessity of things, bot all of them extra constitutional. 1 don’t believe. however, that any such contingency will arise. The people of the United States are habituated to the practice of self-government. ‘We bave had civil war on alarge scale once, but that was entered upon deliberately and on full considerstion, through the action of the State Governments of separate States of the Union. THERE AND THERE ONLY lies the danger of civil war in the United States, or of any other effective action towards break- ing up the machinery of the Government of the United States. Once, at least, in the history of the United States, it occurred that twenty-four ‘hours elapsed after the death of one President and before the accession of another. During those twenty-four hours the Government went on smoothly cnough in the hands of the heads of the Departments. 1f it can do so twenty-four hours, it can do so twenty-four days or weeks. It is true the casenever has occurred of the President holding over, but that would be much less a departure from form than the non-cxistence of an exccutive head of the Government. Just as it is said that nature abhors a vacuut, so it may be said that political society abhors and repels the non-ex- istence of a Government. We are, in fact, con- sidering all the time what the Democratic ma- Jority in the House of Representatives will do. Now, if they pertinaciously differ with the Sen- ate on the point, the efect will be in the first place to leave the Government of the United States | IN THE WANDS OF THE VERY PERSONS BY WHOM IT I3 NOW ADMINISTERED. . The failure to clect or to declare clected the new President does not dissolve tne army and nasy, if it does the President of the United States. That is not a state of things which the Democratic House of Reprusentatives can be suppostd to desire. Now, although the Consti- tution does not expressly provide that in case of non-clection the existing President shall hold over until a new clection shall have been duly eliceted, yet it would not be rash to argue tiat such is the implicd meaning of the Constitution. It docs not arrest the action of Federal Courts; it does not stop the collection of revenue,—in- ternal or otherwise; it does mnot dis- place any of the heads of departments, Exccutive commissions, Forcign Ministers, or any other of the civil employes of the Gov- ernment. All these persons will continue in oftice, and would, in my opinion, be competent for the discharge of all their dutics even in the contingency of the temporary non-cxistence of any President. Doctrines of public law as illus- trated in the State Constitutions might well come in to raise such an implication. In that event Gea. Grant would continue to exercise the functions of President. If it be alleged that this is a violent construe- tion of the Constitution, I reply that it wauld bea % MUCH MORE. VIOLENT CONSTRUCTION OF TAE k CONSTITUTION 5§ to maintain that it intended in certain contin- Zences, easy to suppose, that the Government of the United States shall be left without any Dead, in what is called in some countries an acephalous condition. If any Democraticstates- man shrinks from such a supposition, he will shrink in Yike manuer from forcing such a con- tingeney. If the House of Representatives should, eithier by deliberate jateation or by un- deliberate inattention, leave the question open until the 45 of March, when it ceases to exist as a House, and a count, according to the forms of ‘the Coustitution, becomes impossible, there would be a remedy. I do not admit the probability, scarvely the possibility, of such a contingency. If it oceurs it is without any snecific provision in the Constitution. In that eveat it would, In my opinion, be the right and duty of President Grant to summon im- mediately the new Cougress, and it would be the duty of the new Congress to devise a reme- dy which, i not in htesal conformity with any provision of the Constitution, yet should observe its spirit and appromiximate as nearly as possi- ble toits letter. Thereisataw higher than all written Constitutions. It is the law of self cx- istence, and that would be” the law incumbent upon the two Housesin Congress. THE ALARMISTS. WASHINGTON. Spectal Dispatch to The Tridune. ‘WasmiNcros, D. Nov. 1L.—Tne Demo- crats are very excited here and in Baltimore. One paper goces so far as to intimate that Secre- tary Chandler, Seerctary Camcron, and the President may pay the forfeit of their lives for sending troops to Florida. Some alarmists pre- dict that the strife will continue until Congress meets, when the House will refuse to concur in the Senate’s count of the Electoral vote, and will elect President, and America will enjoy the spectacle of having two Presidents at once. Some cven insist that Grant intends to play tac part of Dictator. . Scveral demonstrations of a riotous nature have oecurred here between blacks and whites. The sensibilitics of partisans nre overwrought, and the police lave feared serfous difficultics. The Democrats abandon their prepostcrous claim toIllinois. They still have the assurance to claim Obio and Wisconsin. Dispatches from Florida to Democratic papers endeavor to COVER DEMOCRATIC DEFEAT by charges of fraud amainst the Republicans. The Dewmocrats, however, express confidence in the Returning Board. It shonld be noted that the Democrats now say that this Board is com- Pposed of honest men. James Redpath, who has just returned from North Caroling, gives a deplorable picture of the state of things in that cowed and unhappy State. Terrorism and proscription” have ef- fectually done their work in keeping the col- ing, says he, could make those people vote the Dewocratic ticket. Redpath severcly criticises the conduct of soldicrs of the United States army who passed through Salisbury, N. C., shouting for ‘““Tilden and Gov. Vaace,” un- checked” by their officers. Thcse troops were sent down Lo preserve order aud allny, by their Rresence, the excitement of evil passions, amd ot Lo stimulate it by diseracefa] shouting ot party cries. Army oflicers say that one-third of the enlisted men in the regul Coniederate soldiers. The Democrats have been trying to make capital out of the report that the Secretary of the Treasury telestuphed to the Rotbschilds { that Hayes is eiccted. The fact is this: Secre- on Wednesday, telegrapled tiic ondon Syndicate that Hayes was elocted. He did this, he says. in the belief that the three Southern States had gone to the Republicans, as they had done before. On Thursday he tele- graphed again that Huyes was probably clected, modifying his onginal dispatch to that extent. ‘The Belmont peopleare complalning about this. BALTIMORE. Special Disyatch so The Tridune. ar army are ex- WasmmgroN, D. C, Nov. 11.—A gentleman who arrived here from Baltimore this afternoon says that it is unsafe for any one to hurrah for Hayes and Wheeler on the streets In that city, ored population from the polls. No dragoon- |- ment created by the clection. LOUISIANA. THE DEMOCRATS AGAIN READY FOR REBELLION. Special Dispatch to Tae Tribune. NEW ORLEANS, La,, Nov. 11.—The outward manifestations of excitement have not been so marked here to-day. This is probably due to the prospect of soon having leading men from botn political parties in our midst. There isa very strong undercurrent of fecling, Lowever, and thereisnoattempt todisguise the determina- tion to make war in case the returns are not 50 counted as to give the State aud nation to the Democracy. The Picayune states that the situation is similar to that of -1861. Re- ports from some of the parishes whichi bave not yet made returns, show that the election was about as far from a free expression of opinion in them as in the five Ku-Kluxed parisnes. Exact figures on the result in the State cannot be given before the canvass of votes, but no news has been received which shales the confidence of Republicans in the belicf that they have carried the State by a good majority. Official and semi-official returns from fifteen Democratic parishes, including Or- leans, give Democratic majorities aggregating 18,071. Twenty-cizht Republican parishes give Republican majorities amounting to 24,717, This leaves Hayes 6,646 ahead. The fourteen parishes outstanding include the five Ku- Kluxed parishes, and, all together, in 1874 they gave 1,873 Republican majority. The five parishes referred to, in 1874 gave 4,169 Republican majority. This year the Democrats claim in them 4,160 majority, and they further claim that they have 1,000 majority in the State outside of these five parishes. They claim everything, and the people here believe all that they sce in the Democratic papers, and swear that if the official count does not show the same result, they wilt turn loose the dogs of war. The vote in VernonParish stands 723 for Tilden to 2 for Hayes. THE OTHER SIDE. To the Western Associated Press. NEw OnLeANs, La, Nov. 11.—Returns from all except seven parishes, which are estimated, show a majority for the Democratic national and State ticket of over §,000. Ex-Gov. Pinch- back, in au interview to-day, said if the returns So far roceived are correct the Democrats have certainly carried the State. Darrall is re-clected to_Congress in the Third District and J. E. Leonard, Republicap, is elect- cd in the Fifth, The otber districts have elect~ ed Democrats. . The indications arc that the Democrats will bave 3 or + majority in the Senate ana 15 in the House. The next Legislature elects two United States Senators. It was claimed by Col. Packard’s opponents that he would run behind his ticket, but the nures show only stight difference between the votes for Hayes and Packurd. NEW YoRrK, Nov. 1.—W. H. Roberts, assist-" ant editor ot the New Orleans Times, tele- graphs here under date_of the 10th, that fifty- one Ip:u‘ishcs ive the Democrats 2 majority of 3,4%. Some Democratic parishes remain yet to hear from. SURE AS DEATH. LouIsVILLE, Ky., Nov. 11.—The following was received u{ thie Courier~Journal to-day from J. W. Patton, President of the Louisiona Demo- cratic State Central Committee: “It is as cer- tain as death that we have honestly carried this State by from 7,000 to 9,000 in spite of fraud, which we will prove beyoud-question when op- portunity is offered. It 1s cqually certain tbat there i3 2 plot to count us out by throwing out parishes large- ly Democratic ~or by manipulating the returns deposited with the Supervisors of Registration and with the Scerctary of State. Tié Republican Commissioners and Supervisors refused to sign the triplicate return for deposit with this Committee. Thus we have no ofli- cial statements of poll-lists or tally-sheets. It has been done on previous oceasions, and will be done again unless public sentiment in the North deters them.” SOUTH CAROLINA. A VERY SMALL PEG FOR TILDEN. CrARLESTON, 8. C., Nov. 11.—By the latest corrected oflicial returns Hampton’s majority is 1484, Full returns indicate that Tilden has fallen much more bebind Hampton’s vote than Lus heen supposed. In ten out of thirty-two counties Tilden's majority is 453 less than Hampton's. An equal ratio of loss in the re- maining twenty-two counties would leave Til- den less than 100 majority in the State. GIVE IT TP CrmarresTox, §. C., Nov. 1L.—The official maforities compiled from returns of precinct managers are given in an extra News and Courier to-night, showing 1,460 majority for Hampton, In twelve counties out of thirty- two Tilden’s vote was GS7 Lehind Hampton’s. It is believed now that the vote for Electors will be very eclose. Indeed, the Board of State Canvagsers at Columbia to-day considered the question whether they had re- vising jurisdiction over the returns. Attorney- General Stoneand another member of the Board, not candidates for re-clection, opposed the claim, and contended that their duty was simply 1o aggregate and deciare the result reported them from the countics. The rest of the Board, however, votes otherwise, and their decision was agalnst this view. Gov. Chamberlain still claims the State for the Republicans by from 5,000 to 7,000. CHAMBERLAIN’S LATEST DISPATCH. ‘WasmixeToN, D. C., Nov. 11.—The following was recelved this morning: Tae JIoN. J. M. EpxuNps: We stand firm. Nel- | ther Hell nor Shot-gun Democracy can move us. D. H. CHAMBERLAIN. FLORIDA. THE .STATE SURELY REPUBLICAN. Special Dispateh to The Trivune, ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 11.—The Collector of the Internal Revenue at Jacksonville, Fla., telegraphs at 6 o’clock that the State is certain- 15 2,000 Republican, and that this majority can- not be defcated except by fraud. STILL AT VARIANCE.. LouisviLLE, Ky., Nov. 11.—The following was reccived here at 2:30 p. m, LaxE City, Fla., Nov. 11.—Corrected retarns from thirty-one counties and estimates of eight counties yet to hear from, based on the clection of 1874, give a Democratic majority of 700. The Chairman of the Democratic State Executive Committce at Monticello, Fla., says carefulest estimates on the figures from twenty-four countics not heard, and returns actually in,in- dicate that the Democratic majority is sure. "The counties not in are all Democratic, and will show Inrue @ains. The majority cannot fall short of 1,200. The Republican Chairman dlaims the State is Republican, Lut gives no figures. Walton County, just in, gives a Democratic majority of 609, a gain of 190. The people are quict, but determined on an honest election. S xgnum:s Brbconx'nzs. ¢ followine returns by e i Tished in Friday’s New Yok Tomer® 0 P itep. Dem. Rep. elb‘;:gé‘:fi );g)&". Gain. Tirmafory. 7 Columbia . Gadeden. Jeflerson #Alachua. Mudison.. Nassau... 825 2,723 1,678 *Seversl Republican precincts to hear from. 8t. Augustine is in_St. Johns County; Talla- hassee is in Leon County; Jacksonville is in Dural County; Fernandina is in Nassau County. A REMABKABLE CLAIM. i 8. Louis, Mo., Nov. 1L.—The Republican has thefollowing special from Jacksonville, Fla. : “Returns received to this hour, official and semi-official, from thirty counties, and partial returns from two others, compared with the vote of 1874 of the re- malning counties, give a Democratic majority of 7,933. Nine Republican eounties give an official majority of 4,858, leaving a net Democratic ma- jorityin tha Btate of 1,125, which Wil be ti-. countics, which are all white and Democratic.” ‘The Republican predicts that the next Lower House of Congress will have 16 Democratic ma- Jority, and thut the Senate will be a tie. FINANCIALLY. BRORETARY MORRILL BELIEVES HAYES IS ELECTED. New Yomg, Nov. 11.—A Washington dis- patch to the Graphic says that Secretary Mor- rill has sent an official dispatch to the Roths- childs, fiscal agents of the Government, to the efect that Gov. Hayes has been elected Presi- dent of the United States. Secretary Morrill bases his opinion upon the private dispatches lie has received from Florida and Louisiana, {from men whom he kuows to be reliable. ENGLISOMEN INTERESTED. LoxDoy, Nov. 11.—American sccuritics have been adversely affected by the political situation in the Umited States, which is attracting much attention. The Times to-day printed a special dispatch from Philadelphia over a column long, giving the latest phase of affairs. NEW YORK. THE EXCITEMENT DYING OUT. NEew Yorg, Nov. 11.—There was less excite- ment in the streets this morning concerning the Presidential election. There were, as usual, crowds around the different bulletin-boards, but they were less eager, noisy, and demonstrative than on the previous days, the Democrats and Republicans apparently having both made up their minds not to halloo until they were quite certain that they are “ out of the woods.” The old rooms of the Republican National Committec at the Fifth Avenue Hotel were abandoned last night, as the leasc of them had expired. The Committee are accupying another room inthe same building. Mr. Clancy, the Clerk of the Committee, said that no new dis- patches had been received. ‘The Post says tuat a conference of prominent Republicans at the Fifth Avenue Iotel last evening, held to discuss the advisability of uniting with the Democratic Committec in re- questing eminent citizens to goto Louisiana, was dissolved without a result, on account of the report of the mews of the President’s proclamation. In view of this, the proposed measure was declared unnecessary. At the Democratic Headquarters, in the Ev- crett House, affairs are quiet, though a ripple of excitement was occasioned by the report of Conover’s dispatch. Several visitors spoke favorably of Gen. Grant’s proclawation, saying they saw nothing wrong in it if he meant what he said. The report that Wm. M. Evarts had started for the South was denied. Dispatches bad been received, it was said, confirming the former reports favorable to the Democrats. GOOD ADVICE. This morning’s Herald advises the Democracy to submit with good grace, aud says the country will fiercely put down the threatened rebellion, if attempted. WHY THE STATE WENT DEMOCRATIC BY 30,000 * Special Correspondence of The Tridune. NEW YoRk, Nov. 8.—WhenI wrote you on the 5th inst. that the blundering incapacity of our State Committec was most vonspicuous, I had no idea that their blundering was going to give this State to Tilden by over 30,000 In- deed, on Monday night Mr. Cornell, the Chair- man of that Committee, who, if any one, should have known something asto the condition of the canvass at that hour, assured his fricnds that the State would give Hayes not less than 20,000 majority. The same ignorance that character- ized his conduct of Mr. Conkling’s candidacy at Cincinnati has marked his management of the canvassin this State. Disappointed in not re- cerving the nomination for Governor, he sat down on the State Committec, crushing out alt life and energy, and involviug the party in over- whelming defeat. But Mr. Corncll is not alone to blame for the mismanagement of the State canvass. Mr. Conkling himself has been a wet blanket, not so much by reason of what hehas done as what he has mot. Instead of taking an active part in the canvass, be has re- ‘mained at home, pleading iliness, and not rais- inga baud to ald the,cause. It has been his boast for years that he held the State in his band, aud because of such boasting he has been accorded the entire Federal- patronage of the State with which to reward his favored hench- men. These, taking theircue from their chicf, have been almost wholly uscless in the late fight; doing what they were forced to do for appear- ance sake with a half heartedncss that was worse than total zpathy. Mr. Conkling is jeal- ous of Gov. Morgan, lest he should be a candi- date for the Senate in his place, while Cornell was chagrined that Morgan beat him in the State Convontion. This mortification pervaded the entire Custom-House gang, who “run the machine,” for they tricd their best to force Cornell’s nomination. Asa consequence, they ‘have Jost no opportunity to speak slightingly of Morgan and incidentally of the party. GRANTISM RESPONSIBLE. All this had great effect upon the result in this State, but the true cause of the terriblo defeat we have experionced in this State was “ Graotism.” Republicans by the thousands voted for Tilden beeause they were sick and tired of the corruption and jobbery which havo fourd countenance in Washington under Grant’s Administration. TU.-8. Grant, Orville Grant, the Dgnts, * Boss” Shepherd, Gen. Babeock, Credit Mobilier, Pacific mail Jobbery, whis] ring thieves, etc., cte., have so filled with dis- gust the minds of the business men of this city that they were resolved to have a “change,” even though that ““change” should necessitate the restoration of the Denio- party to power. 1t wus impossible to ce them that a change from Grant to Hayes would accomplish just what they dusired. They saw that the principal men who were sup- rcrung Hayes were the very men who have icen prowminent in the Grant "Administration— Tom Murphy, athers, \\'I}usu Blaine, Morton, “Boss 7 Shcsmerd, reputations have been more or less eoled during the many jnvestiga- tions which haye been carried on at Washing- ton. But chicf among these men of unsavory {ame, who were prominent among Tlayes' su ?m‘ters, was Zach Chundler, Secretary of the nterior and Chairman of the National Repub- Iican Committee. flis appointment to this last most meflrmnt positicn was the greatest mis- take of the campaign. He has been a regular *0ld Mae of the Sea® about the. neck of Hayes, and jt was uscless to a) would be a change of Presidenti: and adyisers so lung as old Z: up aloft, virtually proclaiming to the world, **I am the coming” man.”” I write feelingly about this mismanagement, for I have been so situated for months that T have heard the complaints of thesedisafTected Republicans,and know that they voted for Tilden to get rid of these vampis who have suc the life’s blooed of the party so long. Our defeat, if defeat it is, will not have been in vain if it shall teach the party to slough off these ill-smelling excrescences, and put in the fore front of battle another time those men who represent the pug- ty and principles of Republicanism. fustead 8f those’ greedy office-seckers who look only for the “epoils.” / WEAK LOCAL TICKET. The disaster in this"Staie might possibly have been averted, in spiie of the causs T it which T have named, bad the Custom-Howse politivians secn fit to have coalesced with the anti- ny Democrats to secure a respectable City Gov- crmment:” The opportunity was offered” them, but they refused it. Ha made a cowbination ticket, have been defeated on its I would have carricd many es and Morgan votes Wit the combination ti . zud pussibly have saved the State. But the *machine ™ poli- ticians were determined upon a straight Repub- lican ticket, auti-Tummany had a ticket of its own, aud, of vourse, between these divided Logan, “and confidants wiugs of opposition, Tamman Hall ha‘&g clear suflin{g, "and clm:l{d ev- ery one of its candidates. But even the straight Republican ticket was not an acceptable vue. What encouragement, is_ there to young, active, ambitious Republicans if such ceiitenarians as_ *‘ shoot-"em-on-the-spot -Dix are to come up every year for a century or two for the promiuent oilices! New York is fall of young, live Republicans who are competent and ambitious to become leaders, and who could poll more votes than Dix any time. Yet these are fgmored to give place to this amisble old gentleman, whose life has bee largely passed in official places. Then there came the inevita- ble Tom Murphy as candidate for County Clerk, 2s though there wasnot a man of respectability and character in the Repablicen party worthy of the nomination. “Such nominations are nct cziated to arouse enthusissm, even among Repwlicans, much less win yotes from our ene- LONG SERITS OF BLUNDERS, and that defeat was the result is not a matter of surprise, but the fearful magnitude of the defeat certainly was an a-tonisher. In Brook- Iyn there was a little more Jife and_cnergy dis- played, but still prominent Republicans cowm- plained of the apathy of the County Commit- tee, and its utter neglect of the German vote. Of course, the Tildenites were on the lookout for weak places in our armor, and it was .in those places they struck their deadliest blows. Tilden has fnl]?! sustained his reputation for be- e ing a slecpless workbr, ‘a pgood panizer, and @ tricky manipulator. The indications, as I .write, are that he has won the victory, although the Zimes, Tritune, Mail, Commerzial Adverfiser, and Tele- gram dispute that assertion. Since noon to-day these papers have claimed that Hayes has oue majority of the Electoral vote, The town has gone crazy over the announcement ; croywds have armed about the bulletin boards, and, in their ltation over the prospect of a Republican victory, have uhccrc(’f themselves_hoarse, and reut the air singing in the streets “John Brown’s Soul is Marcking Gn,” and ¢ Marching Throngh Georgia.” They werc crazy crowds, whom & breath would sct to doing most ridiculous things, but good natured and orderly Withal. ILLINOIS. WILL COUNTT. Special Dispatch &0 The Tridune. Jorret, Ill., Nov.11.—The official canvass of the vote of this county is completed, and gives Hayes a majority of 772 over Tilden in a total vote of 9;425. Peter Cooper received 637 votes, and the Independent State ticket, 775 votes. Cullom’s majority is 118, Shuman’s 750, Har- low’s 763, Needles’ 14, Rutz's 775, and Edsall's 2L P. C. Hayes, for Conress, has 169 ma- jority, makinz his majority in_the district 1,524 Elwood, Demorrat, bas 1J8 majorit; for member of tha Stute Board of Equal ization from this district, but his opponent, - Amos Bayaze, is clected by @ majority nearly 3 large as Hayes received. 'The Republicans clect two Representatives, the Hon. L. H. Goodrich and Frederick Konka, and the Democrats one, D. H. Piuney, a Republican gain_of oue mem- ber. Robert Clow, for Circuit Clerk, has 315 majonty, and Wurren 8. Noble, for Sheriff, 176, James R. Flanders is_elected State’s Attorney by 1,810 majority, and T. H. McBride beats Dr. Curtiss, for Coroner, 1,05¢ votes. The two last are Democrats, and were elected by Repub- licans. 2 Cairo, Nov. 11.—Unofficial = returns from Pope County give a majority of only 450 for Wiley, Republican, slmwiu%)tfmt the vote in the Elzhteenth Congressional District is extremely close. The Democrats this evening claim the clection of Hartzell, Democrat, by 9 majority. The Republicans do not concede this. RKANDOLPIL COUNTY. Spectal Dispatch to The Trivune. CHESTER, 1., Nov. [L.—Tue official vote of Randolph County i3 as follows: Tilden, majori- ty, 232, & Democratic gain of 246 over the vote of 1572.* Peter Cooper received two votes in this county. The Democratic majoritics on the State ticket are as follows: Lew Steward, for Governor, 2i7; A. A. Gleun, Licutenant-Gov- ernor, 223; Stephen Y. Thornton, Sccreiary of State, 2275 John Iise, Auditor, 222; Georze Gundlach, Treasurer, 220; Edmund Lynch, At~ torney-General, 237, William _Hartzell, Democrat, for Congress frow the Ejghteenth District, has a majority in Randolpl County of 275. . . P, Hill. ber of the State Board of Equalization, 223; A. Hocner, State Senator, 833 B. J. Goddard, County Autorney, 333; G. I Tate, Republican, for Circuit Clerk, 1523 Daniel_Gerloch, Repubfican,. for Sheriff, 745+ D. S. Lybarges, Democrat, ‘for Coroner, 43; Martin Ireland, Republican, for County Com- missioner, 15, ~Total vote of the county, 4,972, an increase of 1,125 over the vote of 187 2 2. Late dispatches almost conflirm Hartsell’s clection. / SPRINGFIELD. Spectal Dispatch to The Tridune. SPRINGFIELD, ill., Nov. 1I.—The excitement over political matters coutinues here, but is not 80 fntensc as yesterday. Both parties seem con- fident, and profess & willingness to await the official canvass in the Southeru States clatmed by both partics. The returns coming in to-day are more favorable to Mr. Cullom than those of yesterday. Douglas County reports official~ 1y 100 majority for him, exceeding the esti- mate 90. A private dispatch received here to-day from Shertf Irwin, of Alexander, says acanvass of the votes in the Cairo District elects Hartzell, Demoumt} over Wiley for Congress by 9 votes. Cullom’s friends have returns official and other- wise from_ull counties but Pope, Johnson, Moultrie, Mercer, and H:udinl' which indicate his inajority will be between 7,500 and 8,000 and ‘possibly more. CHARACTERISTIC DEMONSTRATION. Spectal Dispatch o The Tribune. StREATOR, 1lIl., Nov. 1l.—Some misguided Democrats this afternoon_organized 2 proces- sion in honor of the hoped-for eloction of Til- den. A old rickety hicarse was drawn through the streets, ha a bloudy shirt fastened to cach side. ~This feature caused wmuch excite- mént and fndiguation, and nearly created a riot. Capt. Keller, « one-armed goldier, tore the thing {from the hearse, much to the gratification of a large number of soldiers of both partics. This diszracefu] affair is denounced by the - respecta- ble men of both parties. - MENDOTA. Spectat Dispatch 3o The Trivune. MENDOTA, [il., Nov. IL—Notwithstanding the conflicting reports that have chased each other in quick su.cession over the wires for the past three days, the Republicans feel confident and indorse the philosophic views of the Trid- une. Tic Democrats, on the other hand, accept with enthusiastic _excitement every telegram that brings a ray of hope to their ‘already tat- tered cause, but the next moment. mcg' are fear- ful that Hayes is the coming man. The money that backed Tilden is what™ they are afraid of oW, INDIANA. CONTINGED RXCITEMENT. Spectal Dispatch to The Tribune. IxpraNArouts, Ind., Nov. 11.—The excite- ment over the clection still continues, and at this hour (midnight) the streets are full of both Republicans and Democrats, wio are jubilant and filling the air with shouts and singing. Gommittee headquarters are closed, but the newspaper offices arc surrounded. 'the Journal has just received a special dispateh from inent Governwent oflicial in Wael that the doubtful Svuthern Stat Hayes, and that the Demoerats will use every vor to manipulate the count in Louisiana 50 that the vote will be given to Tilden. Typer enys that cverything that can be done will be, to get an bonest count there, and, with that, Hayes' clection is certain. A delezation of prominent Eastern Demo- crats, invited by Hewitt to go to New Orleans, passed througl here this evening, and were met by Gov. s at,the depot. He started on the Louisyille train with them, but it is believed that he will return here on the night train. Tilden's majority over Havus in this State is 5424 Much money that the Democrats won on the State clection has_been lost by them, they having bet largely on 7,500 mafority. TENNESSEE. UNDOURTEDLY DEMOCRATIC, NasaviLLE, Tenn., Nov.11.—Nearly complete returns from Tennessee give Tilden a majority of not less than 40,000, the majority of Porter for Governor being somcthing less, * over Thomas, Independent Democrat. The Demo- erats elect eight of the ten Congressmen, a loss ¢Farland, in the First District, Legistature, which elects two United States Senators, will have a Democratic major- ity of 60 on joint balfot, the Senate standing 21 Democrats and 4 Republicans, and the House 57 Democrats, 2 Independents, and 16 Repub- licans, The clection excitement is somewhat abated, under the zencral conviction that Flori da, South Carolina, and Louisiana have given Democratic majorities, and under the settled conclusion that all three of these States can hardly be counted out. PENNSYLVANIA. ALLEGIENY COUNTI. PrrrsBorG, Pa., Nov. 11.—The official vote of Aliegheny County, Pa., gives Hayes 9,451 ma- Jority. COUNTY MAJORITIES. il PriLADELPULA, Nov. 11.—The following is the official vote of the countics named : Luzerne County, 3475 Democratic majority; Democratic gain, 2,239. Adams County, 513 Democratic majority; Republican gain, 14. Cumberland County, 911 Democratic majori- ty; Democratic gain, 205, Cleartield County, 1,902 Democraticimajority ; Democratic grain, 443, i Ciinton County, 1,165 Democratiz Democratic gain, 2 Juniata ountfili&‘? Democratie majority; Republican gain, Mifflin County, 175 Democratic majority; 511 Republican majority; Democratic gain, Huntingdon County, Republican guin, 452, OREGON SURB POR HAYES AND WHEBLER. San Fraxcrsco, Cal, Nov. 10—Col. 7. &. Ticheras, Presidens of the Veteran Ctud: Demo- CALIFORNIA, CONGRESSMAN. Sax FrANC15co, Nov. 11.—In the Fourth Con- gressiopal District returns tbus fur obtained, which are semi-official and trustworthy, give Pacheco, Republican, 622 majority. ‘I'be small precincts to be heard from will not materlally modifly these figures. The vote on Congress- or- | man in the Fourth District is very close. AREKANSAS. THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Larrie Rock, Ark., Nov. 11.—Additional and latest returns from this district now indicate th()! ! ravens (Independent Democrat; fil;nggggrnefsf over Mc((l,'lurg (Republican) by & small majority. NORTII CAROLINA. THOE DAILY PRESS REPORT. ‘Wrnamerox, N. C., Nov. 11.—The Demo- cratic majority in this State will probably range Irom 11,000 to 13,000. No changes in the Con- gressional delegation. . AROUND TOWN THE EXCITEMENT ABATING. There was not o great a crowd present at the Grand Pacific Hotel yesterday as on previous days, but still there was great anxiety, and a hanging between hopes and fears. During the forcnoon there were not over 200 persons pres- ent in the grand rotunda at any one time, but the rooms of the Republican State Central Com- mittee were crowded with scekers after glad tidings. The' dispatches werc of a very conflicting nature. The Ieaders had aprivate room where they received a number of private dispatches from both South Carolina and Louisiana. They were carefully worded, but very cheering, and gave every indication that if Haycs was allowed a fair count in those States he would be the President tor the next | 0ttH) years, * “Dutfng the afternoon the crowd increased, but the dnxicty to hear news was not diminished. There were mo universal outbursts of en- thusinsm, and no cheering, but there was an abiding faith that all would come out right in the end, and that Hayes would be the next President. Scnator John A. Logan did not go to New Orleans, because he thought it was not the thing exactly for him to do. The official count would come before the Scnate, and he ¢id not want to be prejudiced. He wanted to sce afair count, and he believes if this is had Hayes will have a majurilfiof not less than 5,000, even allowing the Democracy — their “ bulldozed ”* parishes. As_to South Caro- ling, it has undoubtedly given Hayes a majority, and -a good round one, and “Ho amount of Rebel “bully-ragging ”* will change it. TIE PALMER HOUSE. At the Palmer House there was not a large crowd present at any time in the day. The rooms of the City Campaign Committee were thronged with the rabble, and_tainted with the scent of horrible whisky and cigurs. This mob only. sat around. The State Central Com- mittee received some dispatches, but their spirits were not in the least cheered by them. They only hoped,—that . was all they could dv,—and look fearfully dejected. In the rotunda was a_quict crowd, lovking solemn and anxious. All ‘the boy: could do ere was to tallk revolution. They said if: Louisiana was counted in for Tiden there would be bloodshed sure. They were very bel~ licose, vet it touk but little talking to take the war-spirit out of the majority of them. The fact is, the samblers have staked their all on Tilden’s election, and if he is defeated they will be brofe, which 15 something they dread.. TIHE OFFICIAL CANVASS S of the vote at the late clection was_commenced yesterday, Gen. Licb, the County Clerk, valling to his assistance Justices Hammil and Haines, The worl_was. devoid of auy excitement, and very few were present, from the fact that the tigures given by the press had satistied most of tuc candidates as to whether they had been elected or not. The Canvassing Board started with the First Ward and proceeded as far as the Efghth, The count did not change the result, unless it was to add a few votes tothe majorities of Harrisonand Mills. The canvass cannot possibly be coinpleted before Tuesday afteruoon. IN COMMISSIONER BUSSE’S district the contest is in doubt, Mr. Busse claims to have been victorious, andMr. Senne is of the same opinion. Busse comes to the Town of Hanover, which has not yet bcen hieard from, with 80 majority. Nothini but the ofticial vote will decide the result, and even then the possibilities are, if the vote is close, ibat a contest will follow, it being charged that there was something irregular in the couduct of some of the judyges. LAST EVENING there was no excitement at'the Grand Pacific Hotel, because a dinner-party was in_progress, and it was bulietined that no dispatches would be announced. Gen. Logan received a dispatch from Judge Edmunds, Chairman of the Con- fircfilomfl Comunittce, stating that there wasno loubt about the result in Florida and South Carolina—that they had both gone Republican. About 10:30 o'clock a mob left the Palmer House to come to tiic Grand Pacific to do some Looting. Officer Hill, on duty there, promptly ejected some balfaa-dozen of the roughs and that was the Jast of the trouble. At the Palmer House, during the evening, there was a queer ana motley ‘crowd. It was mainly of the hooting rabble, and boisterous to a degree. As Tus TRIBUNE reporter was talk- ing with a party of gentlemen, a fellow came up and very familfarly shook his hand. The re- porter failing to recognize him, the stranger said, “Don’t you know me? Well, . it makes npo difference; but by G— 1L am one of Stomewall Jackson's men, and I voted for Sam Tilden, by G—. At the counter of the Palmer House oflice stood an ex-Confederate, who openly boasted that ha had voted as he fought—for Siun Tilden, offer- ing to het three to one on his election. Of such stufl was the crowd composed. Yet for all that there were many respectable men in the party, buth Democrats and Republicans, but the Bridzeport mob was therealso, interminglea with old Rebel rire-eaters. The atehes received were, of course, cooked up to order, and ¢laimned Louisiana for Tilden by over 8,000 ma- . Jority. John Fnrsithe read a dispateh stating thut Steward had been elected Governor and John 1lise Auditor. The fact is the Democracy wants to swear itself into victory. At about 10:30 o’clock Jerry Crowley read- the last dis- pateh, and then the mob nuislly dispersed. OFF FOIt NEW ORLEANS. Ex-8enator Doolittle and Judge Trumbull, accompanied by the Hon. John A. Kasson and others, left. on the 10 o’cluck train yesterday morning for New Orleans. Mr. Caolbaugh did ot £o, 88, in hiz own lauguage, he “didu’'t sco any nccessity for it.”” © MEETINGS. TIIRD WARD REPUBLICANS, A meeting of the Third Ward Republican Club was held last nizht at No. 90 Wabash avenue. Mr. A. Crawford presided, and there was alarge attendance of members. The Finance Committee reported that they had sufficient funds to pay all claims against the Club. A vote of thanks wus accorded the Com- mittee for the eflicient mauner in which they badperformed thetr duty. Thaoks were also tcg’demlt the o}h‘clr og]ccrs. u motion of Mr. Carey, the Chairman, Mr. Eddy, and Col. Tridges were, appoiired o oo mittee to take charge of the property of the Club. . The advisability of sclling the campaign outfits was alluded fo, but no definite action was taken. The question of disbanding or continuing the organization wus next discosged. There scemed to be a unanimous disposition to keep the Club organized 50 25 to be ready for the sprinz clec- tion. The Committee appointed abové were :‘l::glns!'glimd to‘hn:pun. whether it was ad- e to keep the present move into uzhg' agrcml‘gcs.en Aehagertas ‘The meeting adjourncd for one week. FIETH WARD, The Fifth Ward Republican Club met last night at the corner of Butler and Tweaty-sixth strect, Mr. Fred Lelbrandt in the chair, The rank did not seem to have ‘been greatly de- pleted by the battle of last Tuesday, for there was @ good attendance. The oaly business was ihe settling up of old accounts, receiving re- 3?:’1? :fi?nt :h(f !;-‘i\p:(iwdmgc of moncy, ete. The o and wi ¢ of the President. A e s —— The Olda' Hundredth. Boston Transcrivt, ~This unique psalm tune figl'.n “Caivia’s * French Psalter,” pub ¥ain 1543, as the “proper tune Prs.glll: G';l‘mezlnmc Frate was of work. He was a master in m ¢ that will be found in ordinacy musten Beit regarding him is that he was an “ obscure mus. ¢dan of Strasbourg of the sixteenth century.”? The Church owes him nota few of her finest melodfes. A melody in Luther's great psalier, published from 1524 to 1500, seemns to bave sue. gested the ideas of this inimitable chorale, One of Luther's hymns of cight unequal lines,' whizh was set to a melody of the Moravian or Walden- i sian early Church, contains the elements of the peared in John ished at Gene- 7 to the 134th musical editor Old Hundredth.’ But these were t modeled by Franc, who left Slr::fihr.;d&;?l leaving as his imperishable monum music of the © French Paalter. Tho mase 128 aftarwards adapted to the Hundredth '-R;: grst .;‘ f.‘ néislh s h‘:r" ever 3 edited by John Calvin, and printed for Of the consrezation of En:l!sh-spcnkjn:,"h;‘fi: fees at Getievd in 1536, of Wwhich at that tiny John Knox was minister. The musical edityy of the psalter was Claude Goudimel, of Ron. who sulfered martyrdom at Lyons at the timg, of the massacre of St. Bartholomewy because hg” bad set the English psalms to music. The o nevan-English psalter was reprinted in 15630 by “John dy, over the pump g Aldgate,” and Andrey Hart, in Edinburg, apy laid’the foundation of the psalmodyof ‘the Protestant Churches of the world. The worgs of this psalter _contained first thirty. scven’ psalms “written by Sternhold ang Hopkins, the —remainder qeing i ten by ten of the refugees at Geneva. Williin ~ Keith, from Aberdeen, wrote ihe Hundredth Psalm. This psalter, words anq music, was for some_ time universally used py the Profestant Churches of England and Seqr. land. When Oliver Cromwell got the Westmin. ster General Assembly of Diviues to prepareg new version of the psalms in common met; for the usc of the churches, the Parliament sanctioned it, the Enelish Church at once adug;- ed it, but the Scottish people rebelled on the ground that they had alresdy 2 better psalterqf their own. Cromwell had to come to a compro- mis¢ with the hardy Scots. (The only other compromise he ever made in his life was w;ep Camcron, of Lochiel, when he and his army ot bewildered in the wilds of Lochaber,) ‘This compromise was that in Scotland 2 number of their fayorite psalms from the old | pealter mighs be published as gecound cditions. Thiswasdone, and the music_is thus called - old,"—the Ol First, O1d Forty-fourth, Old Hundred and Thir- ty-fourth, Ol Hundred and Thirty-seventb, ete [l — GERMS OF PESTILENCE. The Process of Fermentation—Virulent In. fectious Discases—Fearful Ravages Due to Atmospheric Dust. Edindurg Scotsman, Oct. 20. The first of a series of science lectures tobg given in Glasgow during the winter months wag delivered in the City Hall last_night by Prof, Tyndall, the subject bring * Fermentation.” Prof. Tyndall said it was his {ntention to spea about fermentation, not in a metaphorical, bot in the real sense, and he was perfectly certain that the only thing needed to make the subject interesting was suitabletreatment. Our knowl- edge of fermcotation and the gromil it cov- cred was augmented greatly of late, and every fresh- acquisition confirmed the hope that its final issues would be of incalculable advap- tage to mankind. One of the most remarkable characteristics of the age was its tendency to connect_itself organically with the preceding ages. Our forefathers may have been savages, but they must have been clever and observant ones [laughter], having fullyexplained the pro- cess of fermentation. In Pasteur’s researches the bactarium remained a bactarivm, the vibrio a vibrio, the pencillium a pencillium, and the torula a toruta. Sow uny of these fua state of purity in an appropriate liquid and you l;%t it, and it alone, in the subsequent crep. In like manner sow small-pox in the human body, your crop is small-pox; sow _scarlatina, and your crop is scarlatina; typhoid virus, your crop is trghu!d; chiolers, and your crop is cholera. The disease bears as” constant s relation to its contagium as the microscopic or- ganisms enumerated do to their germs, orasa thisule does to itsseed. No wonder, then, with aualogies o obvious and so_striking, that the conviction was spreading and_growing daily in streugtl, that reproductive and parasitic lile is at the root of epidemicdiscase. The living fer- ments finding lodgment in the body, increase there and multiply directly, ruining the tissue on_ which they subsist, or ‘destroying life indi- rectly by the generation of puisonous coms pounds within the body. his conclusion, which came to us with & presumption almost amounting to demonstration, was clinched by the fuct tuat virulent Infectious diseases had been discovered with which living orgunisms were asclosely and as indissolubly assaciated ot the growth of torula is with fermentation of beer; and here, if they would permit him, he '\rmuld utter a word of warning to well-meaning people. They had now reached a phase -of this ques- tion when it was of the very last importance that light should once for 2ll’ be thrown upon the manner in which cantagious and infections diseases took root and spread. To this end the action of various ferments upon the orzans and tissues of the living body must be studied; the habits of each special organism concerned fu the production of each specitic diseasc must be de- termined, and the mode by which its germs were gpread abroad as sources of further in- fection. It was only by such rigidly accurate inquiries that we could obtain final “and com- plete mastery over these destroyers. Hence, while abhorring cruclty of all kinds, while shrinking sympathetically from all animal suf- fering,—suifering which his own_ pursuits never call upon him to inflict,—an unbiased sursey of the field of research now opening out_before the physiologist, caused him to conclude that no greater calamity could befall the human race than the stoppaze of experimental inquiry in this direction. A lady, whose philanthropy bas rendered her fllustrious, said to him, some time ago, that science was becoming immoral ; that the researches of the past, unlike those of the present, were carricd on without. cruelty. He replied to hur that the selence of Kepler and Newtow, to which she_reterred, dealt with the law and phenomena of inorganic matter, but that one great ndvance made by modern science was in the direction of blology or the science of life, and that in this new direction sciensific in- «uiry, thoush at the outset pursued at s cost of soma temporary sufiering, would In the end ‘prove {t a thousand times more beneficent than it had ever hitherto been. Ile said this because he saw that the researches which the lady deprecated were leading us to such knowledge of epidemic ~ discases 8 would enable us finally to sweep these scourges of the human race from the. faco of the carth. The very first step toward the extirpation of these contagia was the knowledge of their na- ture. The guestion then, which he wishedto submit to their judement was this: Was the kuowledge which revealed the nature and which ussures the extirpation of a_disorder not well worth the price paid for [t It was exceedingly important that ussemblics like the present should clearly see the issucs at stalke in such questions as this, and that the properly inform- ed common sense of the commanity should tewnper, if not restrain, the rashuess of those who, meaning to be tender, would virtually en- act the most hideous crucliy by the imposition Of short-sighted restrictions uton phystological investigation, It was a modern instance of zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. The cxeesses which zeal committed, public opinion must correct. There were other reflections connected with this subject which, even were he to pass. them over without remark, would sooncr or later oceur to cvery thoughtful mind in that sssem- bly. He had spoken of the foating dust of the air, and the means of rendering it visible, and of the perfcct immunity from putrefaction which accompanied the contact of germless matter and moteless afr. Consider the Woes which these wafted particles durine historie and. prehistoric ages have inflicted on mankind; con- sidler the loss of life in hospitals from putrefy- ing wounds; consider the l%ss in places where there are plenty of wounds but no hospitals, and in the ages before hopitals were anywhere founded; consider the slaughter which has hitherto followed that of the battle-field, often producing a mortality far greater than that of the battle itsclf; add to this the other cou- ception that in times of epidemic disease the self-same floating matter has frequently, if not always, mingled with it special ‘germs which Pproduce theepidemic, being thus enabled to sow pestilence and death over nations and con- tinents—consider all this, and you will come to the couclusion that all the havoc of war, ten times multiplied, would be evanescent if som- pared with the ravages due to the atmospheric dust. This preveatuble destruction is going on to-day, and it has been permitted to go on for 2ges witkout a whisper of information regard- ing its canse to the sufferiug sentient world. € have been scourged by invisible thongs, at- tacked from impenetrable ambuscades, and it is only to-day that the lizht of science is being let 0 upon the marderous dominion of our foes. Men of Glasgow, facts like these excite in me the thought that the rule and governance of %:Is :n.rcrseh are different from what we our youth supposed them to be—that the inscrutable Power, at once terrible, and beneficent, in whom ' we live amd fmote and _have iour being and our cnd, is to be propitiated by meany diflerent from those usually resorted to. ~The first requisite toward such propusition is. koowledge; the sccond is action, shaped and luminsted by that knowi- edge. Of the gnowled? we already see thc duwn, which will open by and by to the perfect day, while the action which is to fullow hus its 3&‘3{;’3{5.“::{,2” :\n;l &l ¢+ ulus in the moral and re of man in lis, desire for per- sonal well-being. in his sense of duty, in phx: vilz‘)smnmlumm sympathy for the suffering of fellowrien. From ¢ e vantage ground al- ready won [ looked forward wit; confident hope to the tritiaph of medical art over scenes of uk;xser! like that here described. The cause of t 7ulmlt.- being- onee clearly revealed, not ouly to the physician, but to tie public, whose inteclilsent co-Operation is absolutely cssential 10 sucess, the faul vivtory of humanity is only & question of time.: We haye already a foretaste of that victory in .the _triwnph of surgery a: Dpracticed at Four dours. music w; Pealm 1 ublisheg, i i