Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 15, 1876, Page 4

i H at RN 4 H ;’& gl tre e, Ree S W i TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, PATABLE IN ADVANCE~I'03TAGE TPREPAD AT THIS OFPICE. Daily Edltlan, postpald, 1 year, .lfl“t:} °ATtA Of B yenr, per monthi.. A faticd to any Address four weeks i A R Hunday Editton: Literry aud el e Bheet . I ) o Postaga prep Speetmen coples zent free. To present.delay and mistakes, be ure and give Post Oficcaddress in full, Including State and County, Remlitances may be made eitlier iy draft, oxpress, Post-Oflice orider, cr in reglstercd totters, ut our risk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCIIBERS, Dally, detf sered, Sunday excepteds 23 cents per weeks Lails, delivered, Sunday inchinded, 30 cents per week Adidress THE T COMPANY, Corner Madison nd I .o Chicagu, Ik Wond's Mascnm, Monroo strect, between Sinte and Dearborn, **The Qreat Divorco Case,” Afternvun aud uveniuge Adetphl Theatre. Monroe street, corner Dearborn. Engagement of 0. P. Dyron. **1lenty of Money." Afteruvon undevens ug. Sieiets MeVicker's Thentre, Madion street, between Dearborn and _State. Engagement of Mits Macy Anderson, ** Parthenia."” . Hinverly’s Theatre, Randolph strect, hetween Clark and aSalle, Calle fornla M. Li uvtrels.” Afternoon and evening. New Clark street, hetween Minstrels, _Afternoon i WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1876, Greenbacks at tho New York Gold Ex- change yesterday clored at 014, cidedly wnrlike complexion. Both Rnssin nnd Turkey ave reprosonted ns engnged in preparations for the commencement of mili- tary operations on a vast scalo 03 soon g the presont armistice terminnt, The roport that Wape Haxerox, of Sonth Carolina, I. Q. O. Laxan, of Mississippi, sud Frrzrarnic, of the ‘‘bigor man thon old Grayt,” aro now on their way to Wiscon- sin to superviso the counting of tho vote in that State, is belicved to be an egrogious misrepresentation. Ix-.Becretary Bristow and Gen, B, F, Bor= ver have both bLeen invited to join the im- portationof patriotism and legal lore now at. New Orloans, and hoth decline with thanks, oxpressing the opinion that Louisiana ought to bo permitted to manage her own affairs in the present juncture, "A liberal synopsis of an important lender in tho London Zmnes on the Enstern ques- tion is furnished by cable and appears in onr coluinns this morning, It is a step in ad- vance of the most pronounced expression by tho Times Lerctofore Jin favor of non-inter- vention by England in the quarrel between Tiussin and Turkey, amonnting practically to o warm defonse of Russin’a position with re- gard to tlie proposed eonference. Gen, Mantrvrz OaMpos, now command- ing the Spaish troops in Cubs, lias issued a proclamation intended to test the loyalty of persons who have deserted from that army ond joined tho insurgonts, Tho proclamn- tion gives such men until Dee. 81 to roturn sud tako their oll places in the Spanish army, fniling jn which they are threatened with death by the builet in cass thoy are captured therenfter. There is no ocension for further anxicty about the Wisconsin Elector who was sald to linve been left off the ticket by mistake, It is true thot tho Eleetoral ticket nas at first nowinnted contained the namo of n gentle- man who was disqualified by nson of hold- ing a Federnl office, hut the fact was discov- ored in timo to correct the error and substi. tute auother name, and this wos done, and the Wisconsin Electornl vote is solid for Taves and WageLen — cr having beou sot . 'The 30th of Nover apnrt by both the President of the United States and the Governor of 1llinols as ‘Thanksgiving Day, thera need be 1o nncer. tainty in the mind of any citizen, no question of State Sovoreiguty or Fedoral interference. Even Jony M, Parsten can ot turkey undor theso circumstauces, Aud if by tho 30th it should becoms known who in to Lo the next Facsident, thon indced would overybody have somothing to be thankful for, Tt is & pity to spoil so good astory ns that given to tho world by the Cologe Gazette, -oud meontioned in the cable dispatches printed yestorday. Details wero given with much particularity of the arrangowents on. tered into by the Italinn Governient to dig- cover the precise time of the death of Popo P1va IX., when that important event should oceur, with a view, it was inferred, to pre. vonting any secrevy cither as to the denth of the Pope or the election of his successor, 1t is now aunounced authoritatively that this clever atory of the Cologne Gazelts is u baso. less fabrication, Tho Now Orlenns Picayune of tho 10th Inst. publishes tho veturns as fur as heard {lu;ln. Among other dispatchos wo flnd iy ¢ . ¥ West Fellelna~Democratlc mafority, 405, To. tal vote, 2,041, Entire Democratle tickut elected. ‘This is one of the reported intimiduted parishos, of which It was stuted that not a Ttopublican was permitted to votu ; that they were all driven uway with forco and violenco by riflo-clubs from the State of Misslusippl, It this is vo, how Liappens it that, with 2,011 votes cast, the Dewmoeratic majority in but 4032 'Iho parish would bave givou n large TRepublican majority it all the colored men had voted that ticket, As the caso’ stands, about §UU of them must have voted I, it 4,041 votes weru polled aud the Democratio 1nnjority is 4 This proves that the wlleged intimidation did ot frighten nway all the negroes, us has beovn nsserte The Chicago producs murkets were moro nctive yesterday, ond’ generally fruor, Mess pork closed 150 per brl higher, ot $15.52) seller the yeor nud $135.65 for Jopuwary, Lard closed fio per 100 1ba pighier, nt $9.90 cash and §9,62} weller tho yeor. Moats wore firmor, at Gy for now shoulders, boxed, 8}c for do shortaribs, and 8jc for do short-clears, Lako freights wero dull, at 3o for corn to Butfulo. MMighwines wero steadier, at §1.07 per gallon, Flour was dull aud firm, Wheat closed 1jo high. <r, ot $1.114 for November and $1.18} for December. Corn closed {@§c higher, at 430 for Novewber and 43jo for December, :Oats closed 4@jc bigher, at 32jo cnsh -and 83jo for December, Ryoe was stoady, ot ‘s‘ 100@61e. arley closed 1@l}o lower, at 77¢ «cash sud 78Y0 for Docember. Ilogs wero sctive and fir, at 100 sdvanco on Baturday's W prices, closiug at §5.L0@6,60 for poor to ‘ choico, The cattlo mnrket firm, with sales at $2.60¢ extra. Bheep were quiot and firm, at $3.00 @4.26 per 100 Ths, Last Saturdny ovening thero was in storo in this city 2,812,742 bu whent, 746,741 bu corn, 430,062 bu oats, 173,474 b rye, and 974,566 bu barley. Oune hnndred dollarain gold would buy §109.75 in greenbacks at the clo: » ) A lo travels quickly. A day ot twongo the Chlengo T¥mes reprinted ns from tha editorial columns of this paper an extract from a New York letter in which the corro- spondent oxpressed his notion of tho canscs thnt led to Republican defeatin New York State. Tho Z'imes proceeded to comment upon tho extract as if it npplied to the gen. oral result of tho election, andasif it were the cditorial expression of Tar TrinuNe'’s viows. ‘Ihe 2'imes know perfectly well that it wns guilty of misrepresentation, nnd the transaction was of a kind that is called for- gery when it is commiited in commercint affairs, Of conrse tho thing did not stop liere, Tho Z'%mes having committed the forgery, the Inter-Ocean cireulntes it, and makes it tho ocension for printing o column of misrepresontntions, false rumors, and silly inventions,—nll based wupon the pro- tonse that Tax Tninune hod commented edi- torially on tho goneral rosult of the Presi- dontial election iu langunge which waa renlly written by an individunl correspondent ns his own views concerning tho Now York Btato clection, Thisis a fair sampla of the two oxtremes of Chiengo journalism,—the extromo Batanic and the extromo stupid, — The presenco in Now Orleans of na largo number of tho leading lawyers of Amerien Dbids fair to result in n thorough analysis of tho Lonisiana State laws relating to clections. The eminent jurists who wont down to see fair play have found that some exnmination is necessary in order to determine what fair play roally is under the statute governing the action'of tho Returning Board. They have discovered that this statute has alrendy been pronounced constitutional by the Louisiana Supreme Court, and that it isa law of the State which all the learning and profundity now assormbled ot New Orleans cannot rub out, It is found, morcover, that the Return- ing Board is fully posted as to its duties and powers, and that theso dutiea and powers will bo performed and exerclsed lawfully, fenr- lessly, and impartinlly, Not a few of the Democratic Inwyers of the North went down thera firmly believing that this Return- ing Bonrd wos n body of usurpers acting withont warrnnt.or authority of lnw,—a par- col of partisan scoundfels who stood ready to resort to nny and all villainies requisite to further their corrupt schemes; whereas, on the contrary, it is found that the present Board is made up of mon of character and respoetability, who know the law and pro- poso to enforce it. Asa consequenco, the fecling in New Orleans has undergonon marked change for the better, everything is quiet nud pencenble, nnd thero s no fear of disturbance, THE ELECTION LAW OF LOUISIANA. Tho law of Louisiana is clear nnd em- phatie, Tho returns from the parishes aro prima fucie ovidenco of the vote. 'The laiv, after crenting the Canvassing Board and for its ressious, cte,, thus provides : Skc. 3, That inauch ‘canvass and compilation the returning ofiicers shall abserve the following ‘orders They shall complle firstthe statements from all polls or voting-places at which thers shall have been o falr, free, and peaceable reglstration and election. Wheuever, from any poll or voting. place, there shall be recelved the etatement of any Supervikor of Ileglstration or Commissioner of Election, fn form as required by Sec. 28 of this net, anafidavit of three ormore citizens, of any rlot, tumult, acts of violence, Intimllation, armed disturbancy, britery, or corrupt influences, which prevented, or tended to prevent, o falr, free, and peaceable vote of all qualified electors entltled to vote atuch poll or voting-place, such retarning ofticerashall not canvusw, tount, or camplle the statements of votes from such poll or voting-place until the statements frow all other polls or voting. pluces shalt have leen canvassed and compited, ‘The retarning offeers #hall then proceed to Inves- tigate the tatements of riot, tumult, ncts of vio. lence, Intimidation, armed disturbance, bribery, or cormpt influence, 8t sny xuch poll or voting- place; and 1f, from the evidence of such statement, they shall be conviuced thal such riot, tumult, acts of violence, Int!midation, urmed disturbance, brl- Tery, or corrapt fatluences did not materlally futerfere with the purity and freedom of the election at such poll or votlng-place, or did not prevent 8 sufliclent number of qualltted voters thereat from registering or voting to materially change the result of the clection, then, and not otherwlse, #ald returning oficers wholl canvass and comptlo the vote of such poll or voting-placo with thove previourly canvassed and compiled s tut §f the @akd returning oficers shnll not be fully entls- Mlesl thereof, L shall be thetr duty to examine further testimony In regard thereto, and to this el thuy ehall hisve power o send for persony and pavers. If, nfterwuch examinution, the wald re- turning officers shall be convinced that sald rlot, tumult, ucts of vielence, Inthmdation, armed diy- turbunee, bribery, ur corrupt fotlience did ma. terlally Interfece with the purity ond freedum of tho clection at such polt or votlng-place, or did prevent o sufiiclent number of the qualified clect. ors thereat from replstering or voting to materially change the rewiit of the election, then the wald re- turning officers whall not canviss or complete tho nt of the volus of such poll or voting-place, L excludo It from thelr vetorne; mrovided, that any person interested fn wald clectlon whall be alloweda hearlng before said returning officers upon tukts application witbin the tino allowed rdlug of the reluras of wald election, L In any parlsh, preeinet, ward, city, or tuwn, In which during the thne of reglstration Istration, ur on ony day of clece tlon, thero shull be any rot, tumult, acts of V. lence, futtmidation and disturbane, bribery, or corrupt futluetces at wny plave within sald pavish, or ut or near auy poll or votlug-place, or place of reglatration, or revislon of regletration, which rlot, tumult, acts of vielence, Inthnldntion and distirh- ance, bribery, of corrupt Intluenced shall provent, or tond to prevent, o falr, free, pesceable, und )l voto of ull the quutlied eleetorn of suld pariah, pro- clnct, ward, city, or tow, It shall ho the duty of thy Cunuoisalonues of Electlon, if wich riot, tuinult, nets of vilence, Intimldation and distur hapee, bribery, or corrupt Inlluences occur on the day of olectlon, ur of the supervislon of replstentlon of tho parivh, f they oceur durlng the tine of regis- tratlon or revislon of reglstration, to muke in du plicate, and under oath, u clear und full statement of altthe factu relating thereto, nudof the offeet pro- dueedby such rlot, tumult, acts of violenee, intimida- tlou and disturbunce, bribsry or corrupt fulluencen 1u preventing a fule, free, and peacesble und ful) registration or oleetion, and of thy numher of qualiticd clectors deterred by such rlots, tummly, acts of violence, Inthmidation, aud disturbance, Urlbery or corenpt fnfnonces fram registering or votlug, which staternent shall ulsa be corroborated under oath Ly titee sespectablo, citizeny, qualitiet electors of the parlsh, When snch vtatoment §s made by a Commivsloner of Election or o Super- visor of Reglsteation of the parish (If in tho Clty of New Urleans to the Secretary of $tate), one copy of which, If made to tho Bupervhior of Neghtras tion, shull bo forwarded by hlm to thu returuing ofcers provided fue by Sec, 2 of thls act, whon he makes thu returns of clection in Us pacish, Iils copy of ealt slutcinent sbalk bo 8o sunexed to his returus of clections by paste, wax, or sume adho- wlvo wubstance, that the xamo can bekupt together, and tho otlier copy the Supervisor of Keglstration ebiall deliver to the Clork of ghe Cotrt of his parlly for the use of thu District-Attorney, It will ho seen that the question of in- timidation sud violenco is a Question of fact to Lo heard upon evidenco from both sldes, und to bo decided upon that ovidenco, The eanvassors are ot 10 ssume auything ; thoy must hear sworn testimony from both sldes, and upon this testimony wmust decide, I the proof bu couclusive that the clection in any county was a fraud, and therefors not an election nb all, they will so declde, and reject the voto returned, If thero be n failure of prool to cstablish the fact of fraud, they will count tho vote relurned, Sonntor Wesr, of Lonisidnn, spenking of this matter, oxplaing tho law to Lo as we hovo stated it Hosnys: 1 *“Now," mald Senator Wrst, referring to the sections quoted, ¢! the difficutty with the Republics ans will be fn getting thelr testimony of fraud, vio- fence, and Infimidation before the Returning Hoard 1t See, 20 sliould be construed to require the cor- roborntive statements of citixens s to ontrages lo accompany the reports of the Bupervisors of Reg- istration to the retuening oficers, That there hinvo been great frawds In many of the parlshcs, that violenes amd intimldation have given the Democrats thelr alleged majority, no fale. minded man who has any information on the sub- Ject can deny, . . . 'Lhe fact fs the colored voters have either been seared away from the polls, or forced to vote agalnst thele prodilections; but naturally great digiculty will attend the proof of this fuct, In many cases the Supervisors will be intimidated, and mada to sign their retarns with- out nnking any mention of tho outrages (hat have been perpetrated, and it is samuch as a cliizen's *1ife ia worth to makeany report of them, 8a pro- vided by Sec. 26, The Republicans will claim that itis not necessary, under that section, that the corrohorationof the Supervisors' reportsof violence and intimidatlon shoulu accompany tho roports of the returning officers, Lut that the citizens may make thelr statemants to tha Board any time beforo the final eanvassing of the election returne, That wag whnt wo clalined In the contest over the Logis- Iature in 1874, but the Witgrr.gR Compromise Com- mittee deetded against us, ond ruled that the testi- mony of cltizens should have accompanied the re- turns of the Supervisors, He adds n statement which we deom of gront importanco : i’ Thelleve the RReturning Board will act fafrly to- ward both parties. WsLLR, CAZENAVE, and KN« ~ew are honorablo and Intolligent men, and will be very careful in the appuintment of thelr associntes on the Boanl. 1 have no doubt but that they will appoint onoe Democrat, to ace thatthe count Is fair. 1y made. The presencoof the numerons distine, Rwished menof bath partics, who have gone to New Orleans to #co the thing out, will have n very good effect, and 1 ant watlsfied that oversthing wiil be dono hionestly and in the full light of day, The Republicans of Loulsiann cannot afford, and do not want to carry the State by any questionable means, ‘The Bonrd of Canvassers are clothed with amplo authority. Their decision is neces- sarily finnl, nand louco the importanca that that decision shall be justified by tho facts as welt as by the Inw, nnd that it shall by its fairness and impnrtinlity commend itself to the judgment of tho rationnl people of the country of both partiss. These mon aro not mere partisans ; they will sit as judges, and their decision should be in keeping with the sanctity of the trust, and the importance it will have in tho affairs of the country, An honest and fair decision by that Board of Couvasgers is of more importanco than the clection of any man, and the Republican party will sustain such o decision, no mattor who may ba clected. y — THE WAR FLURRY. The Pall Mall Gazette, commenting upon tho recont thuudorbolt which the Czar lnunched at England, says very frankly: * The speech of the Czar is not the most alarming incident of the time, but it is far from ploasaut reading.” The real signifi- canco of the commont les in this: that while Englaund proposed tho forthcoming Conferonce of the Powers, Russin, by one wmaster-stroke, has made horsolf the genius of it, tho opportunity having been offered hor by the vagaries of a statesman in his cups. 'Tho promptness of the Czar's speech shows tho carnestuesy of it, Lord Bracons- FIrLD's post-prandial speech had not been in Moscow two hours before the Czar Arcx- Avpen's definnt and belligerent roply wns in Tondon, The developments since the two s#peeches ennble us to clearly npprehend the real purport of tho Czar’s romarkablo uttor. ances. Tho tonor of Lord Beacoxsrrern's speech, which, coming upon the Leols of an internationnl conference, was ns ill-timed ns his lovity over the Bulgarian atrocitics, is to the offect that war with Russia is an evontunlity. This waa in tho naturo of a mennco, if mnot an nctual ohallongeto England, which the Czar prompt- 1y nccopted, thus putting England upon the defopsive, 'Tho Czir goes much forther thon this, Iaving been threatoned, he evi. dontly felt it was time to put nside the cus- tomary courtesies and reservations of diplo- macy, and stato the Russian programme in ,the feweat possiblo words, nnd thiy Le does in tho following signiticant utterance ; * Ay most ardent wish is that wo may arrivo at a genernl ngrocmnent. Bhould this, however, not be nehioved, aud should I seo that wa cannot obtain the gunrantces necossary for enrrylng out what wo intonded to demand from the Yorte, T am firly determined to act tndependently.” 'I'lis is tautamount to an an. nouncement to all Buropa that Itussin is to Do left free to accopt or roject the findings of thia Conferonce, and that she will bo the sola arbiter whotlier tho guaranteos are sullicient tocarry out the counditions which ¢ we" (that is, Russin,) * intended to domand from the Porte,” It shows that hor polley with rogard to the futuro rolations botween tho Torle and tho Belavie provinces has been flxed; that she will take the respousibility of decidiug whother tho mensures adopt8d by the Conferenco will bo likely to onforea that poliey; and that sho will hinve tho dietation of a compromiso, if such becomes necessary, and will confine that compromise within very uarrow Hmits, The promptuess aud emphasis with which tho Czar mwle this spoech nro proofs that Russin has pdopted this policy undor the ns- surance that it will bo indorsed by every Continental Power, and that, in cnse of war botwoen hersolf and Turkoy, Eungland, if shie intorfores nt all, must do co without allies, Germany's uoulrality has already been apnounced, and the English papers, which Lave just reached us, nre loud in their donuncintions of Bissinox and the Ewperor in consoquence, Italy’s policy, of necessity, is identical with that of Gormany, Austrin hou recontly suubbed England in a mauner which unmistakably indicatcs that sho will staud aloof 1y onso of war, Frauce, although she "lns no direct and searcely an Indivect intorest in the ques. tion ot jssue, s sided with Itussis, au“h watter of self-defenso against the possibitity of n Russo.Gorman wlliauce. Under such circutnstanees us theso, the forthcoming Confereuca io only an empty form which has u0 biuding authority upon Russin, If 'it adopts her polivy, well aud good ; if it doos uot, then Itussia will act independently in onforcing it. ‘Tho question of peace or war docs not dopend upon the findings of this Conference, but upon the noceptunco of ita findings Ly NRussin, ‘T'hat Bugland will not opposs Russin in case of war begins to be apparent,—uot aloue becauss sho has uo allics, but because, with Ler customary pru- dence and calenlation, sho is already propar. ing to offset uvy advautago which Risia wny obtain in the foundation of n Pan-Scla. vonlo Empire, 1ler first move is iy the Al rection of Groece, 'Fho London Spectator foreshadows hor policy inalong article, from which.wo make the following extracts: We fear it {¢ too lats to produce any alteration In the sentuncuts which Servion aud Bulgarian have learned to eutertaiy In pegurd to Englind, Yy and A wieer pollcy for tho fu e pected to remove geadually the disnatrous pressioneol the past bivelvemontl, For tho pre: ent, wo must reconcilo ourselves to see Ruesia reap the geatitude which might no casily have hieen tho (e of the Biritivh people from dintgarfan and Serb, There remaing, however, another Chrlstian stock, not fers oppressed than any Sciny community, not lesn deserving of anr mytpathy, not tess fitted to profit by the opportunitles of civilization, nud, fn addition, expecially calenlateil Lo nct as a counters polaa Lo the inevitable Increans of Sclav power and Rueslan fnflucnce in the East. We mean the Grecke, a8 well inthe provinees still subject tathe Turlkas [n fndependont Greece, and the former sec- tlon of the Mfellenic uation still more than the Iattor. » It 1san olement of tho Enstern queation which must Le attended to somehow or other; and what wo have particutariy to inslst on fs that tha mode n which the Qreck unrest aml misery nre treated by Kurope Is of the very first Importance, not only to the Ilellenes themsetves, but to thls world-wide Hritlsh Emplre, which de- pends upon so many contingencles for its proa. perity, andwhich cannot dispense witl any offcient olly agalnst Innumorable Jealousios and rivalrics, A still more remarkablo statoment appears in tho London Z'fmes, which goes to show that Enjinnd hng hor oyes fastened oven upon Chinn, and that the absorption of that vast Empiro may not be a very romoto con- tingency, With regard to the presont diplo- . matic rupturo petween England and China, the London Z%imes snys : ‘Wa can only eny beforchand that we o not reck more emplre, and that wo should regazd 1t as a misfortuno to bo burdened with the charge of any Chinese province, Dut wo must keop constantly In view the danger that, after n war with Btates liko China, clvillzed nations may allp Into such positions of responeibllity unawares, Ilapplly, the porll may lesson 3¢ Chlncso ofiiclnls see na cluarly s Li-lluNo-Citana appoara to do the folly of provoking o contest with o great European Yower, 3 ‘Whatever offsetd caleulating England moy ascek to make, or whatever position she may assmoe in case of war botweon Russin and Turkoy, will not nffect the fact that tho Czar has dofined his attitude with a great moral purposo behind it, and that in going behind the Treaty of Paris andall other troaties in tho cause of humnnity, ho will command the gratitude of the world, AN SEEML! 'ER. The Ion. L. Q. C. Lasar, of Mississippi, who has had somo reputation hitherto ns n foir-minded man, has gono to New Orlenns, aud oxpresses himself in n dispatch to Gen, Warrmtn st Gronads, Misa,, ns follows Krrrovs, Pacianp, Weite, ond ANpEnsoN etand condemned ns infamous, and nuthing but mistrust and discredlt attaches to what they say or do, and what they touch they contaminate, These men have been encournged and maintained In a coursoof conduct contrary to the Constitution and the laws, and dangerous to tho liberties of tho people. The order to tha anny to concenteate In Now Orleans ia o stago toward the overturn of con- stitutional llberty and the establishment of & mill- tary despotism. 1f thiu policy succeed, no Proel- dential clection hereafter will b mado excopt un- der the directlion of the army, It appears from the abovo that Mr. Layan has gono to Now Orloans, not in tho intercst of pence, but in favor of tha policy of the Chicago Z¥mes, namely, to * clean out” tho officinle in authority, Mr, Layan's language does not becomoe him, It was an unseemly act for him to go to Now Orleans at all, but, having gons, it was his duty above all things to havo assumed o modest and kumble tone, to have comported himself with quictness, nnd to have mode ns fow suggestions as possiblo, Mr, Layan has been elect- ed to tho United BStates Sonnte by a Legislaturo eloctod by tho most unblushing fraud ond the most outrageous forrorism upon the Alississippi Plan, tho proofs of which were furnished in overwhelming pro- fusion and comploteness before the Oxford Grand Jury. That damning cvidonce, al- though it wos suppressed, hos never been denied. Mo holds his position by a virtual fraud, and ropresents tho minority of tho people of Mississippl. Probably 23,000 voters have beon disfrauchised. Ile may urge, like Mr., WarTERS0Y, that 2 majority of these are plantation-hands and Ipborers, but thoy are nono tho loss citizens, hud just ng much citizens, and just as much entitled to vote, as Mr, Lasxan or Mr. Warterson, It was bad onough to apply the Mississippi Plan iu that Stato for the benefit of Mr, Lauan; to apply it now in Louisiana for the benefit of Mr. Truoex is still worse, Mr. Lasan's tomper is unworthy of a man who has hiad somo roputation hitherto for frankness and moderation. P ASSUMING INTIMIDATION. 1t is o common practice nmong malevolont partisans, whoso views of right and wrong .are governed by mero parly success, to mis. quote, misreprosent, or falsify tho statements of thoso who desiro the triumph of law and justice as groater than moro partisan vietory; and it i tho practice of this samo class of persons to baso thelr brainless accusations upon theso falsifications, and deduce thelr defamatory arguments therofrom, "The organ that objected to the indictwent, trial, nud prosccution of the whisky-rovemie thieves, becanso it would “hurt tho poarty,” complaing that Tue Cnicaco I'siouse is glving away tho clection of a Republican Prosident Ly insisting that the rosult in Lou. inians, to bo sustained by public opinlon, must Lo justified by lnw, truth, and fuirness, and that this rule will apply, no matter whother it olects Haves or ‘Iupev. Wo liave published the facts, so fur ns they hre known, concerning tho five prrishes where the vote na roported is contested. We ro- produco tho figures: = Teported ~Voteln 3874 — Dem. maj, D Lep, n 187 1,068 Tarizker, o, 87T 2 8,185 417 g at in theso parishes tho negroes woro so Intimidated tlat but fow, and in somo instances none of them, even offered to vote, and lenco the Democratio mafority in 1876 oxcoeding tho large Repub- lican mnajority in 1874, Tux Cnioaco Tnin. uNE denics that, in reaching a falr conclusion upon this matter to warront the ro. jeotion of theso votes, it ean bo assumed {hat theso persons not voting word provented from so dolug by such menus and to such an cxtont ns o destroy the whole validity of an election, The question of ju. timidution s o fact to bo established by proof, nud i3 never to be assumed, nor to bo takon upon mero assortion, ‘I'his, the organ insists, Is o botrayal of tho Ropublicau party and an espousal of Ku.Kiuxism, It ia indus. triously stated that T TRILUNK saya that 1,000 Democrats could hardly Inthmidate 2,000 Republicans, Phis 1s In the waso wplrlt of unfatrnoss in’ which the rest of the article ls couched, 1t knoww tuat the parishes named are on the Missladippt border, where it clubs ubound, snd whero at one day's warnlng 1,000 armed men conld be brought over the border to ubout down Republican voters, ‘L'lio sune statement is repeated thus Tt {v alleged that In fice parishes of Loulsiana on the Misslaatppl border the polling ot the late olec- tlon was Intorrupted, and o fale vlection defeated by vivlenco and intlmldation. ‘o allogation that theso five parishes ara on the Mississippi border, subject to Ku. Klux vuids from that State, is tho assgrtion of an iguorant asa. Alorchouss Parish ison tho west side of the river, with a large county lving betwecn it and the Mississippi River, THE CIHICAGO 'TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1876. ; and wholly reniote from that State. Ouachita is still furthor west of the river, and was probably as freo from an invasion on election- day from Missinsippi an it was from an in- vosion from Ohicago. Fast Felleinun, and ‘Went Felicinna, nnd East Iaton Rougoe nre, on tho river, the flt voting at Port Hudson,' tho second at Franciaville, and the third at Baton Rouge, oll on the river, ' The commu. nication with Mississippi s only by the river, and tho distanco in too great from auy populated districts of Mississippl to ndmit of any raids on eloction-dny from that Biate. It ft bo truo that thousauds of Republican votors pormitied tbomselves to bo seared away from tho polls by hnlf thoir number of Democrats, it was unnocessary for the Inttor to call in sid from Mississippl, Tho * Mis. alssippi border” story s lugged in to naggravate tho demand for ' war"” ond for - blood." The *f orgnng,” in tho absonce of any facts ns o the whola business, have beon domanding the exclusion of the vote of all theso counties, when in the very heat of the demand thoe roported voto of East Baton Rouge—ono of theso disputed parishos—has been received, and it lins givon 800 Republican mnjority instend of 600 Dem- ocratic] Ilero is nn illustration of the dan- ger of takingup armsand going to war about election returns beforo the voto is counted or . known. Will tho * organs " persist in de- manding that thae voto of this parish bo ex- cluded. now that it bas given n Ropublican mnjority ? ‘I'nr. TriouNe repeats the advice it hos given, that {t will be time cnough to talk nbout war and bloodshed and revolutionnry fathers when tho votes shall ba received and counted, and tho facts made public, and the result declared, Sinco the abovowas written comes the following : WasitiNarox, D, C., Nove 14.—Senator West Lira & telegram from a Conservative Republican In New Orleans, dated to-doy, eaying that returns from nll the parivhes hava been recelved, and that' tho Republicans linva carrled the natlonal, BState, and Legislative tickets, without throwing out the mo-called Intlondated patishes, If this be true, and we suppose it is, that will be an end of tho war, and the chivalrons gontry who aro preparing to march to Wash- ington to forcibly inaugurato their favorite Prosident may hang up their arms. RESPONBIBLE GOVERNMENT. The Chicngo Z%¥mes is ngain confusing the idenof n *responsible Exceutivo” with its own scheme for an ‘“‘acephalous Govern- ment,” This wouldn't bo so serious, as there is littlo hope of penctrating the obtuse understanding of that concern, but it is seek- ing to cronte tho same confusionin thominds of the publie. It sabsurdly affects to find an inconsistency in Tnz Tnmuse's sigting on ong dny that tho President and tho majority of the ITouso of Ropresontatives ought to be the choice of the same majority (which is not always the case under our present system), and on another day that the President might bettor be clected for six years and be ineli- gible for re-clection. Probably tho obinse undorstanding of tho Zimes will admit that a system can bo dovised whore- by the Presidont and Houso of Roprosenta- tives ehall bo olected on tho same day, and under which the majority for President shall also choose the majority of (he House, If its obtuse understanding goes this far, thon wa should think it might also admit that the principles of a responsible Execntive could Lo secured by n chango of Cabinet in defer- enco to tho popular expression in the clection of the noxt House of Representatives, in case that expression be different from what it wns when tho President was chosen, If tho nat- urally obtuso understanding were not further befogged by tho idea that there shouldn't be nuy Prosident at all, but that we should have o hondless Government, perhaps there might be somo liope of boring this simple proposi- tion oven iuto so thick a skull. . Thero aro just two systems of responsible Governmont provailing in Europe. Ono— tho English systom, which has been adopted, with modifications, by all the constitutional monarchies and applied to the Fronch Re- publio—is that of a permanont Exccutive with & change of Ministry in consonance with the popular voico as reprosonted by tho popular House. Tho othor—tho Swiss sys- tem, which provails iu that little Republic clone—is tho choico of a Parlinment by tho people, n sclection of a Cabinot by the Par- liamont, and the cloico of a President, or Chicf of Cabinot, by the Cabinet itsclf, The applieation of tho responsiblo principle in this system is only possible by the retire- ment of tho entire Cabinet, including the Prosident, which leaves an interrognmm. Suck a system may answer for n small com- munity of liomogencous character and pro- tectod by the map of Eprope, but it ‘would bo fraught with serious danger in o Govornment that extends over an en- tive countinent, ombracing forty-four millions of people with every variety of in- terents and constantly contending factions. It tho principlo of responsible, Government is to be adopted-in this conutry it should ba in the spirit of tho Anglo-Saxon aystom, aud approxinato the English usnge ns nourly s possible. The first object to bo attained, thon, is an cxeoutive head that shall bo as nearly permnuent as practieablo in a popular form of Government {u order that tho integ- 1ity of tho civil servico may thus Lo presorv- od, aud that tho head of the Governmont iy feel freo from the dictation of the party that elected hitn and ropresont the wholo poople. A long term and ineligibility to ro- election aro the flrst requlsites for such g condition, ‘I'ho objoction to our prasent system Is that it is possiblo nt all times that s President wmay be electod by one party and o majority of tho Houso by another. It is not unlikely that such may prove to be the result of tho recont election, The twelvo lurgest Btates conld givo their united Electoral votes for President and olect him, though at tho game timo electing n minority of Representatives. ‘The other twenty-tive smaller Btates could vote solidly against the Presidont-elect, and chioose tholr eutive delegations in Congress from the opposite party, The result would bo a Presidont of one party and o large mn- Jority of the popular branch of Cougross of the other, ‘I'lsis may be avolded by olecting & President by tho votea of Congressional districts, for one way; that is Scnator Mon- Tox's proposltion. Future Execativorespou- sibility during the Presidential torm may bo secured by tho English plan of selocting tho Cabiuct from the majority of tho House of Nepresentatives, Any chango of parties during tho lifo of o Congress can be mot by o vote of want of confidenco, to be followed sithier by the resiguation of tho Oabinet and solection of another, or by an exccu. tive dissolution of Congress and an appeal to the people. Under this plan, there would always bo o head of the anay, of the navy,.of tho civil service, and of the Gov- crumont. A chavge of policy aud Ministry would not be accompanied by a djsruption of the Government servics, the dismissal of ono set of officeholders and the appointmeut of an ontirely now set. , The President, having beon dosignated tho hond of the Govormment for n torm of yoars, nud not aubjocted to the tomptation of striving for re-cloction, wonld bo in one rensio in much the natno attitude ne the present head of tho English Govermnent or Marshal MacManox in Franco. As tho vopular Housoe wouldl be chosen onae every two yoars, nu ostra appoal to thy peoplo would bo n raro oceurrance, and the logisln. tivo and oxequtive brauchos would bo in inr- mony, not only botween themselves, but ns nenrly ns posaible with the popular majority nt all dimes. But wo ehould searcely sirivo for n responsible Liead by dispensing with n head nltogether, A B DOWN BRAKES, Tt is on extraordinary phenomenon, tha rusl of ox-Confedorate Genernls and Demo- cratic mannging politiciana to Now Orloans to tioo that thore bo o fair canvass of tha vote of Louisiana, Cnn nnybody recall when be- foro any of theso gentry wore 8o concerned nbout n falr count that thoy wero ready to carpet-bng from home and frionds and busi- ness to seo that it was had? Whon Alabnmn was carried by shamoless ropenting, ns is yot. opendy bonsted by the White-Liners of Mont- | gomory pnd Mobile, and the Iawful majority was 80 overriden, not n Confedarate nor Demo- ornt waa thera in the land who carpet-bagged to Alabama to seo that thoro be o fair can- vassof tho lawful vote. When, by the shot- gun policy, reiforced by the ‘ mornl ef- i focts™ of the Vicksburg and Y¥nzoo mas- encres, o majority of not less than 26,000, was overpowored in Mississippi, where it has still .been kopt in subjection by intimidation and torrorism, not ono of theso Demoerats who hnve now posted to Noew Orleans betrayed the slightest solicitude for tho maintenance of the intogrity of tho. bailot. And not n word wero they henrd to utter about fair elections when Arkansas and CGoorgia wera in like fashion revolutionized. Whonge thelr intense solicitude on that scoro now? How nro thoy going to sco to it that there is a fair count? Louisiana has a regularly-organized Btate Government, rccognized by the United Btates and by tho peopla of the State, and discharging all its constitutional functions, The implication is thot the Administration in that Btatois not to bo trusted. What do tho ox-Confed- erates nnd Domocrats who are descanding upon Now Orlenns propose to do about it? Iow are they going to <oorce the Stato Administration into making and declaring & fair convass? And if they nare to be met over tho Stata officers to keop thom from mnking false re- turns, who is to be sot to watch tho Demo- oratic carpet-bag guardinns of the purity of tho ballot and inspectors of cloction? They lhave no legal or moral right to meddle in the matter, and, if thoy do, it will be hardly an open question whether Gov. Kerroas would not bo warranted in causing their arrest ns conspirators and disturbers of the peace. They fume about the legality of the State Governmont of Louisiaun, But can these oarpot-bag Democrats show warrant for thom- sclves sotting up nny other Stato Administra- | tion, or for exorcising sny constraint or in- | {imidation, aven ‘““moral,” over the Loulsi- ana Administration, which both Houses of Congress, all dopnrtmonts of the National Government, and the poople of Louisiann ' themselves, recognize? Why, then, this gathering of a mob of Domocratic politicians ond Confederates at Now Orleans? But if the gontry composing that gather- ing aro so supersenitive as to the regularity of Stata Governmant in tho South, why s it that thoy have no qualmsas to the regularity of the present Btnte Administration of Mis- sinsippl, which is such by Virtuo of shot- guns solely ? E Tho only issue involved in the Louisiann cauvass i8 whethor there was a fair, legal election in cerain parishes, Itis tho busi- ness of the Board of Gauvassers to dotormine that upon tho law and the faots, and tho Democratic mob assembling at Now Orleans have no right to meddle with it. The coun- try wants u folr count, and a fir report of tho count, Theso people are :not thoso to take pnrt in either, Their prescmen at Now Orloans &5 simply mischievous, and cannot bo rogardled as other than a specics of covert Intimidation designed to overawe the. Oan. vassing Board, THE ENGLISH CONVICTION OF SLADE. BSrape, tho mediumistic slate-weitor, has beon convicted under the Vagronts' act of Englund, and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard Inbor in tho House of Correction. Tha offense underthis act,is *¢ professing or protending to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to decoive and imposa on any of hor Mnjesty% subjeots.” ‘The Mugistrate, in convicting 8rave, summed up the caso by showing it had been proved thnt Srave's protense that his slato-messages wero writtin by spirits was false, and con- cluded that the imposturo came under the law, that his practices were full of migehief, ond that he undoubtedly desvrved to be punishod as provided by law., Just what effect this punishment will 'have on Brape's earcer, or tho future of Spiritunlistic hum- bugs in geueral, cannot be foretold, ‘It may bo that kis oxposuro and pun- ishment will comsign him to the ssmo obscurity and ocontompt which tho ‘Trcmmony® claimait found whon his jimpos- ture had boen damonstrated ahd limself con- signed to jail, Or it may be that the fanat. fes and tho deluded people will strive to mako a martyr of him, and that he will seck ¢ fresh flolds and pastures new " with a now capital inhis protended porscoution, One thing is protty certain,~—that, with the Va- grant not in forco and his own oxporience of, {ts oporation, ho will not trouble the English peoplo any moro; in this view of tho matter thoy are to be congratulated npon the pos- session of o pormanent prestection agafnst humbugs, and cannot renson.ably be blamed forapplying it. Brave hos boon a remark ably-successful charlatan, ‘Though not achitwing so much notorlety as the spurious Karie Kiva who fascinnted good old Ropeur -Darz Owew, thero ard probably fow operators in his way who have found tho oceupation of profos sional medium so profitable, e first camo into notico somc years sgo in Chicago, where ho exhibited in o clweap second- story on Clark etreet, and at resson- sble rates, The elate-writing was theu his pieca de resistance, though it waa crude and unsatisfactory as compared wiith the sub- sequent proticiency he attained, o was also, in the habit of going lato a trauceo, upoh proper application and for an addi- tional fee, in which condition ho professed to be posscsaexd with tho spirf of a famous Spanish dootor, who mado his disgnosis in uncommonly ungramuatical but strikingly {idiomatic Buglish, ond preseribed chesp drugs aund simple concoctiors which Sraps sold at %L a bottle. Dut Xis success in humbugging people wasso great that ho soon oxtended his operationa to, New York Qity, whore he set himself Jup i = hrown- sthose lists of intorrogatories, vat, rate of $5 a hond, lm" :v'“kdlence- atthy posed, wo believe, nt onomulx::‘ lifl s York, but the lawe of our colmn--n o canble tho same vigilang prnm;~ :‘0 e thoxo of England, and he lnnlnl:[ o ground, 2ol b There i1 little opportunity Y for tha Bplrhunliafl‘g bellnvgl‘:xl‘n ?v:zt s sympathy on nccount -of DPorsocuti o thoso who look upon Spiritualigy, Mon. J¢ bl form of roligion are wise, thoy :mt ‘ways repudinto charlatang of ? ter. Ilo wnsn mere nhnwmi:fnlg:l;frw mnnager like any other Prestidigitat, el oxhibited him on an aqunl sharg orua o ceipts, The diferenca betweon by ':“. Lionest showman is, that ho prnlondendu( i Bln trlcks woro worked out through gy, ot ural assistanco, while the relmcinblnp(“mh ing magician admits that he decoives thmel. merely by sleight-of.hinng, Thero {g p iy son o doubt Prof. Laxxasrens ex] g Srapz, which conslsteq o simpl, i tho slato at a time before (hupnirl:ift.xfiug began, and whon Stapr pretended lh:m wis mothing on it Beside Raeren's ligh standing, Hw‘l’-‘;:;‘ g cludes all fdon of any offort his part to decoive the public, his exply, = tlon of the elate-writing is mucly man; = sonnble than that of Bpiritunl agency, m:; wns also shown by witnesses that hscl;io actions wera common in somo of the Su:l domonatrations, thus corrupling the mmll 08 woll na decelving the sonscs of tho ninnle: wlro poid o gulnon npiceo for the privilege of being humbugged, Ho merits his punish. mont, nnd the lnst, porsons to apologize for bim should be those who have ony sincery falth in the spiritual Visitations ; 10 ofhers aro likely to wasto sympnthy on him, THE SILVER QUESTION, The United States l\loua(nryo&mmlnjan nowsltting in New York hias adopted the ad. mirable plan of sonding ‘printed lists of questions to leading business men and bank- ora throughont the country, In this way the Commission obtnins oxpression of opin. ion'and statements of fact from many whose viows nnd obsorvations nro valuable, hut who eannot be summoned directly beforo tko Commiasion. Wo lave befors us ong of The of question is ns follown: Vit In your opinion, s the oxistingatock of gold In tho world, combined with the current and ontic. 1pated supplies of that metal from the mines of the world, sufiictent or likely to e suficlent to maln. taln existing prices and commerclal credits, and pormit of tho continued development of commerce and ndustry without retardation? This question s tobe regarded os mplylng tho entire abandon- ament of ellver os unlimited legal-tender money fn all the conntrles of Europo and America, Thomost prononnced gald-monomumlhu‘ such as Mroxet, CHEVALIER, have not advocat. ed any such oxtromo step as the demonetizs- tion of sllver in all the countries of Europs and America. Tho stock of silver in use in thoso countrids i, on nn nverago of tho esti. mates of Seyp, Worowskr, Newaancur, Cae- VALIER, and other suthoritics, about §1,000,- 000,000. 'Che supply of gold in the samecoun- tries is about $%,600,000,000. The effects of throwing moro than a quarter of tho cir- culating coin of the Occidontal countries out of use ns monoy would bo disastrous in the extrema upon thomsclves, dircctly aud indirectly, through its immediate dis. turbance of their relntions with all Orientsl countrles, Even aftor Englapd, following 3tho recommondations of Lord Livenroou's roport, adopted the gold standard in 181G, the Bank of England rotained a large pro- portion of silver in its rescrves. The mer- chiants of London could not without silver transact thoir vnst commercial operations with India and China. Sir Robeer Peet, in the dobato on the Bank Oharter act of 184, explained this apparent devintion from the gold standard, and defended it; and Parfi. ment, in the Oharter act, suthorized the continuance of the practice, with somo Nmit ations. Tho effcot upon countries that have not silver curroncy bf tho domonetizs- tion of silver has received a familiar illustra- tion in the losses brought upon England through the effects in Indin of the demonetiz- ation of silver in Germnuy. That country has not yet completed its experiment, It ina found the substitution of gold for 200 miltions of silver thalers a much nioro costly and @ifcult ploco of business than it utic- poted, and thero iz evidenco in the recont aunouncoment that tho Iteichstag would be asked to widen the limit of tho silver cur- rency that Gormany may recedo from the fall performanco of tho demonetization. The loss to the Indinu Exchequor from the German demonetization ia alrendy visiblo iu a deficit of many millions, and to irade of many millions more, What would happon if the oxawpla of demonetization wera followed by tha othor loading nations, it is much easier to monsuro in kind than in mmount It would produce revolution in Indis and ml;l in England. Frapce, Italy, Switzerland, Bel- gium, and Gregee, comprising the Latin union, wonld exgjeriouco flnaucial, comkuer: clol, aud soclal Jconvulsions beyond thoso produced by an, ponio tho world hioa aver gocn. ‘The United Btates, which, lmrm;g the fractional cwoncy, bas no O or sllver circulation, might bo pre sumed by the uninformed looker-on I(o be beyond the roach of any such fqm!gu in- torferonco in o monoy not used within u; borders, But tho rosults to Englun'd, thmupid Tudia, of the Germaon domonetization woul 3 Do fairly paralloled in this country i .;z an ovont. ‘Tho destruction of Auw‘ mons! u’y’) uses of $1,000,000,000 of tho w.oofl,‘md 3 of coin in uso in Europo and Amorlcaflwnm produce an_upheaval in trado and n‘l‘m that would flood our shoros with dovastat - Tho nlmost total loss of tho valuo of or:r ‘al ver product, and the embarrassmen b our growing and profitablo tm{lfl St Asia, would be nmong the et:m ol tho flls we should suffor. The uiw o demand for gold would make :nr!hfl blo the resumption of -poclu-vnrmfll‘:n k. payment of the intorest on our pul 1l it Our plighted faith and our mm“kmp“’] would go down togethor. ‘The M“; 24 of Europe would bankrupt this wl‘l:g‘; ; partinl sympathy that now connod ould times of Europe and of this w“nfiohuan. bocome thoe universal accord of de! i In fact, thoevils that vmu!dl “‘:‘R g Jescriboble snd immeasursb :,_;hsion (i tion put by the Monotary Commi o8 1y useful as calling to mind an extr:‘l:fl 7 possiblo application of the doctriase L T, monomotallists.® Thoe saswer il reductio ad absurdum of their hallu On J‘hnm!l:finm’ TopbleRy Bov: Tiroax depunis o4 (sdans, he will never be 51"""}‘"‘ g egraphed | Buppose Senator LooAX had also te that, 4 suylng In setura to Gov. L% 10, a2 1 He l? his unluh;ln n :Mw‘:m.d : 3 Gov. KsLroga thought ‘{n 43 o conrey sbs! \sjans, ho bad a perfect ik o T z‘:(:lo;n &::' Senator Looax fu any plrsd right to express