Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 17, 1876, Page 4

A T S B AT L i A T b e o Bl S s S e i s PPRTItE LR e THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE ¢ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, '1876.—~ The Tribaywe, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PATABLE IX ADVANCE—POSTAGE FREPAID AT TIS OFFICR. aily Edttion, pastpaid, 1 ’ATta O 0 year, ner Month Malled to any aildress four Editlon: Literar Bunday et Ot Clubof twenty. Tostage prepatd, Epeclmen coples sent free. Ta prevent delay and mistakes, he sure and give Fost- ©Oftce adilress in fol), Including State and County. Tiemittances may be made efther by draft, express, Paot-Oflice onder, or fn registered lotters, at our riak. 7ERMS TO CITY SUDSCRIRKRS. Dally, dell rered, Sunday excepted, 25 centa per week. Dally, dellvered, Bundny Inctuded, 3 eenta per week Addres TIE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corucr Madison and Dearbo; Chiesgo, Il AMUSEMENTS, Wooltn Muecmm. esrborn. Afters B e b o Eventis. - Tho Great Divores 1 Adelphl Thentres onroe strect, corner Dearborn. Engsgement of O, D, Byron. *‘Flenty of Moncy.™ MeVicker's TI,;vntbn. il st e i tcmenr T aa} ot Lo Tiaveriy’s Thentre, Randolph street, between Clark and Lasalle. Calle fornia Minstrels. Now Chicngo Theatre. Clark street, between Lakoand Randoloh. Tooley's Minstrels, SOCIETY MEETINGS. WASHINGTON CHAPTER, NO.43, 1. A, M.—Regular ‘convoeation th's (Friday) cvening, st v'clock, Tiustness of Importance and workun the M. I and M, K. Degrécs. A full attendance desired. 3 NN b CHATLES B. WRIGHT, Secretary. _ORIENTAL LODG! Aoy vening ne o123 1 thz%. C. Degree. . 33, A. . and A, M.—Hall wiar Communtcation this (Fel- g0 clock, tor Unsines and work oa orderof th 3 ¥ O N TUCKR Becretary. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1876. Greenbacks at the Now York Gold Ex- change yesterday closed at 91, i Tha official canvass of the vote in Ohio for President was concluded yestordny, asl it in found that Maves' plurality over Tizory in that Btate was 7,51, The returns from all the counties of Tllinois, except Pope, give Haves o majority 16,887, Pope will mneke this mnjority 17,800, Re- turns from ninety-two countiea for Governor give Currox 8,004 mjority. The total vote of the State, including about 16,000 for Coorzr and Oary, will exceed 550,000., —— Tho Louisinua Returning Board convened yesterday for the first time, and, after trans- acting some routine business, adjourned un- Lil Saturday. 'The very first document laid bofore the Bonrd for its consideration wns o communication signed by the * United Broth. erhood of Lonisinna,” full of the most terri- blo threats of assnssinntion and bloodshed to be visited upon the members of the Board in the event of their failure to count in the TiLpex Electors. Tha threc YouNaer brothers were brought Into court yesterdny at Faribault, Minn,, and the four indictmeuts recently fonnd against them read in opon session. Cowr, the oldest and deopost-dyed of the villains, is charged with one murder on his own account, and the rest of the hideous work of the Minnesota oxpedition is charged jointly. It is thought that the flerce spirit of outraged forbearnnce among Inw-respecting eitizens in that section bog so far subsided that such clemency ns fifo-hnprisonmoent for Core and shorter terms for Jist and Bon will be tacitly acqui. ssced iu all roun: Defects in Electornl tickets continua to be ferroted out sud telegraphied over the couu- try. The latest is in Connccticut, where the misspelling of tho nome of one of the Tiz- oEX Electors hns confased mintters to somo sxtent, 'There is, however, littlo ground for aneasiness on nccount of those technical Jaws, whick will not be permitted to deprive sither Havrs or TitpEx of tho Electoral rotes whizh the people havo decided shall be cast for them, 1t will be remembered, how- sver, that the Democrats wora the first to sise the question of ineligibility in connec- don with Electors in Wisconsin, Vermont, Oregon, ete, Tt is announced that Hoxiz intends conteat ing Auomen's cloction to Congress from the First District, relying upon a Democratic majority to give him the seat upon any show- mg he may make, and without regard to the merits of the case, That nclaim of fraud should be put forward by Hoxiz, who bonst- &d that he would buy his nominntion, and 9id it, and who confidently expected to buy his election, but failed to purchaso the requi- )it number of votes, is preposterous to the lnst degreo; but that Hoxze should soriously expect the Democratio Houso to award him tho seat—this is too sovere; the Democratic party never did anything to Hoxte to de. terve it, A most discreditablo stato of iguoranco and inefficiency among the clection judges sod clerks in Cook County {s disclosed in the comber. Hogs wero in nctive demand and a shado ensier ; sales were principally $5.60@ 6.76, Cattle wero fairly nctive and stendy. Sheep wera unchanged. Ono hundred dol- Jars in gold would buy $109.75 in graon- backs at the close. Three days ngo, when Apz Hewrrr's dole- gation of Northern Democrats nrrived in Now Orleans, they lost no time in address. ing to tho Republicans who had leen pub- licly mentioned as having been invited to proceed to that city a lettor inviting a con- ferenco as to tho best mode of seour- ing n fair count’ of the voles of Louisians. This letter was nt onco given to the press, and nino-tonths of the gentlemen to whom it wns addressed read it for tho firat time after it had appeared in print. The capital rought to bo made by this . premature publication is considerably impaired by the robuke conveyed in the reply of tho Republicans written yesterday and printed in our columns this morning. The Democratic meddlers in New Orleans are, moreover, very pointedly remindod by the Republican lookers-on that it will be well for both delegations to bear in mind that it is not their province to supervise or in any manner interfero with the labors of tho Re- turning Board, nnd that the assumption of intended fraud in tho Demiocratio address is wholly unjustifinble and in questionable tasto. Beeing no reason for joining in the proposed conference, the Republicans very recpeckfully and very properly declined, —_— According to all the accounts thus far re- ceived, a prodigious plece of rascality was perpetrated in East Feliciana Parish, Lauist. ang, by Confederntes; yet the Chicago Tmes undertakes to gloss it over, explain, or justi- {y it. It sets up the humbug hypothesis that the colored men of that parish wero so anxious for n *‘ change” that they went over en masse to Truoex and the Confederntes, The remainder of the 7imes’ argument con- sists of wild and vituperative blackguardism of Gov. KrLrooo, ns if that will cover up the fraudulent tracks of its partisans. Tere oro tho facta: In November, 1874, that par- ish voted as follow: In November, 1876, the Confederates send in the following return: For TiLvex and the Confederate ticket. For Ilaves and the Republican tlcket. ... Therc is not o man in tho United States but knows that some monstrous villainy or fraud must have boen practiced to prodnce such a result. The Stato Returning Board mecta to-day to cauvass the returns and take testimony in tho alleged casés of fraun. We shall soon get at the bottom fnots in regard to that parish, The reports that come to us are that no legal election wns held there at all; that the voting was not dono by the registration lists; ilat officers appointed to hold the election for some cause wero not present, but that tho Confederatos im- provised ballot-boxes and put in whatever number of tickets they pleased, and that the Republicans bod nothing to do with this bogus voting, The modesty of the * Re- formera” was exhibited in returning twice as much majority for their ticket as thero are Confederatos in the parish ! THE 5 IANA, The State of Louisiana has been a source of nationnl political disturbance ever since the reoccupation of the State by the Union forces. Tho Government organized by Gen. Baxzs had a short but turbulent life, during which all the clections were moro or less dis- honest. Later came the State Govornment elected under military control. An attempt in 1866 by the State Convention to meet to propose amendments to the State Constitu- tion resulted in tho wholesale mnssacre of the delegates by tho Nuw Orleans police, thon under the command of the ex-Rebols, In 1867 n now Constitution was adopted, and in 1808 the State voted for Beymoun, War- aora was Governor four years, nud his term wag & troublous one. In 1872 Wanmorn supported Gueerey and the Domocratic State ticket, leading to the exciting and nugry cowplications, including the interforence of tho United States troops and tho legal-mili- tary euforcement of the Keinooe Govern- ment. ‘Then followed otlier scandals, riots, frands, nud nbuses, ending in the PENN revo- lution in Jaunuary, 1875, whoreby tho State Goverumont was foreibly deposed and another established, requiring another armed intervention by the United States, Louis- fana has for twelve yeara been n greater dis- turbance to tho Union than it was when it was in open rebellion, The Democratie and Republiean visitors now at New Orleans have a fair opportunity of learniug the truo inwarduess of Louisiana politica. The Democrats will be brought face to face with n fair exbibit of tho fact of the wholesale intimidation of the negro popula. tion, ond of tho means by whick that in. timidation is accomplishied, ‘They will lenrn much from the history of tho election in Enst Feliciann, ‘Thero thera was n registored voto equivalent to 860 Republican’majority. The law requiros registration to authorize voting. Tho registrar of that parish on his way to the polls was besel by rufiians, fired at, and had by flight to save bis life. Under these cir- cumstances, the so-called clection in fhat parish wag somothing outside the law ; thore was an nbsonce of the registry books; an . ,.1,743 examination of tho returns by tho Canvass. Ing Board. Errors of which n schoolboy ought to Le ashamed are found in great num- bers, and instances cither of ignorance or elso of uegloct or disregard of the roquire. ments of tho law are disgracofully sbundant. In ono cate encountered yesterday the returns showed ninetoen more votes for Congressmen than had been actual- " ly costj in nnother, Messrs. Aupnion and Hoxig, candidates for Congross, had been voted for as candidates for members of tho Toglslature; in unother, no figures on Con- greasmen were given; while minor jmper- fections and frregularitios were detocted in overy form and varioty, ‘The fault-rests with tho Board of County Commissionors, by whom the election officers aro appointed, and who were successful this year in sur- possing all former efforts to select persons of distinguished incompotency to properly per- form their duties. i The Chicage produce markets were gen- erally active and stronger yesterday., DMess pork closed Lo per brl Ligher, at $16.00 cash " and $15.70 seller the yoar. Lard closed 17}0 per 100 1bs higher, nt $10.00 for November and §9,90 seller tho year. Ments were nearly go per 1b higher, 6}o for' new shoulders, boxed, 8o for do short-ribs, sud 8jc for do short-clears, Lake-freights were dull, at 8o for corn to Buffalo, Highwines were steady, 8t $1.07 per gallon. Flour was in good deo- mand and finn. Wheat closed 1jc higher, at . ; $1.114 for November and $1,18} for Docom- ber. Com closed }@to higher, at 45o for November and 44)o for December. Oats closed §@jo bigher, at 82jo for November *- aud 83jo for Decowber. Ryo was firmer, at 61@01jo. Barloy closed tame, at 700 for De- nbsence of tho legnl oficers of the election, ond the clection that wos held was an impromptu affair, unknown to tho law, at whicli no enc participated but those who manufactured tho 1,700 Dowmocratic ma- jority. If this statoment bo true, there was 10 legal election icld in that parish, and no votes lawfully polled, and no returns of such an clection can have any validity. These Nortliern Democrats should infori thom. nelves of the dotails of this whole business of intimidation aud *‘bulldoziug,” wheroby tho minority of & county or n precinot can linve things all their own way by so frighten. ing tho majority that tho latter do not dave to go near the polls, 'Tho Democrats down at the Bt, Louis Conveution declared thut the Fiftcenth Amendinont was a fundamental law of the Union to bo roligiously observed, sud theso Northern Democrats should ju. form themeelves of the woys in which that amendmeut i3 nvoided, viojated, and de- feated in Loulsinua nud clsowhera by their brethren, Wo suggest, also, to the Ropullicans aud Democrats at Now Orleans that thoy famil- iarizo thewselves with the frauds and prac- tices chnrged agoinst the other side, When the Wurerzn Commiltce went to Now Orleans, in 1874, they did not hesitate to uncover aud oxpose the wrongs committed by both sides, aud they demanded that both sldes should correct those wrongs, undo those frau s, and adopt un honest settlement, Houosty is above all things, and we fear that it is always too little opprecinted Ly the poli. tioians at New Orloaus, 1f these Northern persons now at New Orleans will themsclves lay aside all partisan feoliug, will denounce fraud and intimidation, and repudiste auy advantage from it; will follow the law, and unitedly ngree upon a solomn statoment of tho truth, tho country will accopt, their ro. port, and no counting of votes tainted with force, fraud, illegnlity, or corruption wili ovor meet tho favor of the American people. But if theso visitors at Now Orleans intond morely to bo partisans, intont only oa party auccens by whatever means it can be socured, thon thoy will bo no improvemont on the local Louisiann politicians, but will merely intensify the gonornl raseality which has nl. rendy made Louisiann a national disgrace and a national repronch. — A GOVERNMENTAL MONSTROSITY. The Leadless ndvocato in n headless nows- paper of a hendless form of Government, is certainly an astounding condition of things; but that ia the present trouble in the Zimes office. We presumo thore is no way of avold. ing n periodical infliction of ¢ eclectic” pol- itics and tho * ncophnlons” iden of Govern- meut fo long s the editorship of the T¥mes is in disputo between Keenan and his subor- dinates; nor would tho discussion be any- thing moro than tedious at any other time. But, just now, whon it is admitted ntall sidos that thero should be some anfer method devised for electing a Presidont, and when it is not impossible that the country will have to depend upon the Democratic party for its legtalative wisdom, it is dangerons to have a conspicuous organ of that party hammering awny at n schome, the supremo folly of which wmay not be readdy recognized, and which would be attended by much moro scrious dangers than any incident to the prosent syatem, The project in the hendless Ttmes offico is that responsible Governmont shall be ob- tained by ennbling the popular branch of Congress—tho Houss of Represontatives—to clect the President. The schemo is not out- lined any more fully than this, but it would follow as n matter of conrse that there would bo a Presidontial clection once in two yenrs at least, sinco n now Congresa is chosen every two yenrs, and as much oftener ns there might be an appenl tothe country. Tho first obvious effect of such n plan would be {o merge the executive in the logislative branch. Congress would not morely meke the laws, but it would administer thom. It would only remain to sbsorb the judiciary function in the same way to make Congress absolute, nnd this would not probably be long deferred. Tho President being n crea. ture of Congress, the power of appointment now vested in him would be practically ve- toed in the ring majority of Congress, which would proceed like any other ring to enlargo the patronage, increase the number. of its office-holders, and build up avast army of stipendinries, npon which it could depend for sustaining any and oll of its acts. The failare of this army of stipondiaries at nny time to control the country in behalf of tho Congressional cabal would simply set up an- othor cabal with a sweeping revulsion in the civil service, and still more thorough prepa- rations against dislodgment. The voto power would practically fall into disuso, even if nominally retained, because tho President would be the crenturey of Congress. Congress wonld necessarily bo tho judge of tho eloction of 1ts own mem- bers, and the cabal could thus perpetu- nte iteelf, meanwhile constantly enlarging its own powers, incrensing its own pay, ex- tending its patronnge, aud tightening the lines over people. 'Lhat Republics aze in s much danger from cabals ay from individual despotism has beon taught by the experionca of Venice nnd Greece, The plan of the T¥mes, instead of providing o responsibla Governmont, would sot up nn irresponsible oligarchy. Perhnps tho probablo result of the pro- posed hendless systom of Government may bo {llustrated by the present condition of the Timés office, whick, being headless while Krexax's editorship is in question, admits of every variely of opinion on the ssmo day in parallel columns, aflirms and donies, prays nod curses, blows hot and blows cold, and genorndly flops around like & mnewly decapitated barn-yard fowl. In n strictly governmentnl way, the character nud manngoment of the Cook Coun- ty Board of Commissioners will serva to give a faint iden of what might be expeoted from the suppression of an execntive branch of tho General Government. The County Board controls the affairs of this county, clects its own President, iasubject to no veto or chock, —and o more irrespousible, corrupt, and dis- graceful body it would be impossible to imngine. To lodge similar, or even grenter, powers in a National Board, with s whole coutinent and forty-four milliens of people to prey upon and an illimitable power of patronage, would bo nu exaggerated form of our present county system, and it would soon make an ond of the Republic, The ncephalous dreamer and amateur stutesman of tho Chicago T'imes onght to give tho pub. lic a little rest from this overdose of tom-. foolery, RUSSIA ON A WAR-FOOTING. That the warlike spoech of the Czar was not all talk, is shown Ly the prompt and en- ergetio manner in which tho Government is patting ita army upon tho war-bnais, and pre- pariug for the emergency which may follow the closo of tho Conforence, in caso its de- cision shall not ba acceptablo to Russia or the Porie shall not accopt the Ruesisn con. ditious. In point of fact, tho Government is proceoding ns if war woro nctually declared. The forco which will threaten ‘Turkey from the Beasarabian frontier isalready mobilized, oswmounting 10 195,202 infantry, armed with the Ameriean-Berdan rifle, 26,788 cavalry, audar- tillery armed with 624 breech-londing cannon, and one contingent of.this force Is already on ita way, having loft St, Potersburg yestorday for Kinohenoff, & fow miles northwest of Odessn and near the Pruth, the -scens of so many historical battles, Tho next year's contingent of recruits, nmounting to 200,000, has already been called wpon, instead of woiting till Apyil, the usual time, The ox. port of horses from Western and Bouthern Russin has been stopped. 'The Government has taken possession of all the railway lines, the freight tralio on tho Polish frontier lines southward has also been stopped and hospi. tals aro bolug ropidly cstablished, All this indieates war, nnd with such certainty that oven Lord Denny has becomo alarmed, and 18 on tho point of addressing a note to the Towers in protest, T'ho imaninenco of war makes the fighting strenglh of Iussin o wmatlerof interest. We Luve alroady given the military resources of Turkoy and the Belavio provinces in very completo detail. By s ukuse issued in 1874, aud still in forco, the' armed forces of the Empiro consist of a standing army and of a militia, nnd evory Russian subject who has venched the ngo of 20 is liable to scrvied, Last yoar, the strength of the army was offi- clally announced as follows: Regular army onthe peace footing, 447,872, on the war footing, BU8,670; army of first resorve on the pence’ footing, 180,740, on the war foot- ing, 227,923 ; army of second reserve on the peace footing, 207,812, on the war footing, 1. This would give as tho total of tho Rursian arny proper, on the war footing, 1,213,257 mon, Bat in nddition to these thero are in military service 120,000 Cos- sncks of the Don, 200,000 Cossacks of tho Orenburg and Siberinn lines, and n small contingont which Finland is required to fur- nish, making altogethor an army of 1,500,000 men, The nvavy consists of two groat divisions,—the flest of tho Baltic and thnt of tho Black Sens, besides the smallor flects of the Caspian, Aral, Siberinn, and White Bon fleets. 'The total comprises 108 mon-of- war, 1,477 officers, ond 7,217 seamen, Tho iron-clad fleat of wnr coniprise ono mastloss turrot-ship, tho powerfu! Poter the Great, 8 frigates, 3 corvoties, 14 turret monitors, and 3 flonting batteries, n total of 23 vesscls, car. rying 184 guna, This was the naval strength a8 officially given at tho endof 1873, but since that timo two ciroular-shaped monitors bava been Inunchod at Scvastopol, and im. portant nccessions have been mado to the Black Sen flect. Counting all the smaller vessels in the service, the entiro fleot consists of 225 slenm vessels, with 5621 guns, of a total tonnage of 172,601, and total horse- powerof #1,078. ‘The nduinistration of the upvy i3in the hands of tho Minister of Marine, assisted* by an Admiraity Council, Lut the supremo command of the fleotis vested in the Grand Admiral; now the Grand Duko CoNaTANTINE, Lrother of the Czar, Tho main strength of this vast military forco will be concentrated at two points, Tho first army is alrendy gathering about Kichinev, in the vicinity of the Pruth, which divides Bessarabia from Roumnnia. Across this river her forces will sweep down through Roumanin into Bulgarin, threatoning Con- stantinoplo on the left. 1o meet this force, the Turks are about concentrating 200,000 men in Bulgaria, They are also strengthen- ing Widdin and other Danubinn fortrosses, nud reinforcing the fleet on that river, The second army will have Tiflis as its base, on tho trans-Cancasian side, and operate in Ar- menia, which is friendly to Russin, Trobi- zond, and Siva, threnatening Constantinople on the right, A powerful army is alrendy concentrated at Tiflis, with no correspond- ing Turkish army to meet it, so that the principal fighting, if war should be declared, would be in Europenn Turkey, ‘Whether that war will take place depends upon the willingness of the Porta to grant the Russinn ultimatum, which is tantamount to complete Sclavie independence. There aro two very good grounds for supposing that the Porle may refuse to grant the con- ditions ; first, bocause the Turks are in the very flush of their victory ovor the Servians; and second, becauso tho recent ill-timed speach of Lord BrzacoNsriErp has given tho Porto fresh encouragoment to hope for help from that quarter, notwithstanding tho em- phatic declaration of the London Z%mes that * tho Porte must beconvinced that, if it stub- bornly refuses to give guarantecs, it will stand alone.” THE ELECTION OF 1800. The suspense iu which the issue of the recent Presidontial vote is held Las recalled the election of 1800, memorablo for the con- test between Bunn and Jevrensow, when the President was not elected till Feb, 17, 1801, and when there was serious danger that the 4th of March would come without an clec- tion, nnd lenve o vacnney in the Chief-Mag- istracy. ‘This contest took place before tho adoption of the Twellth Amendmont, and the Constitution thon provided that the per- son recoiving next to the highest number of votes for President shounld ba Vice-Prosiient, Jerrensoy was the Ropublican eandidato for President and Bunn the Republican candi- date for Vico-President; Apans and Pinck- ~NEY wero the Federalist candidates, I'here was not then, s now, o uniform system of appointing Electors. Some of the States chose their Electors by dis- trict, as Congressmen aro now chos. en, which gavo a divided Electoral voto; somo chosen by n popular majority as at present, and in South Carolina the Electors wera appointed by the Legislature. As the mnjority turned upon tho rction of South ' Carolina, the suspense lasted until early in | Decomber,—two weeks uftor Congress mot ; and oven then the issuo was not determined, ns the Electors appointed by the Sonth Car- olinn Legislature mndo tho vote in the Elee- toral College 78 for Jerrensox, 738 for Born, 65 for Apans, and 6t for PiNoxNey. This threw the election into the House of Repre- sentntives, Here ench Stato lied one vote, controlled by & majority of its delegation, and it required o majority of all the State votos to clect the Prosidont, A plot wns now hatchod by the Fedoralists to defent Jervrnson by choosing Bunn, It is maintained by some that Burn was privy to this plot, and by others that ho refused to give it his sanction or aid. The plot would perhaps have Leen carried out had it not Leen for tho strennous opposition of ALEZAN- nrr Hasurrox,—not that he disliked Jerren- sox less, but that he distrusted Bunn more. As it way, n dend-lock wns secured in the House, which had adopted a resolution not to adjourn till tho President had beon chosen.” Of tho sixtoen States, Jevrousoy had eight nud Boun six, and the votes of two—Vermont and Maryland—weroe divided. ‘Ihis dond-lock continued during soven days, The country was under intense excitement nud that there was freo talk of a dissolution of the Union, of bloodshed and civil war, iy evidont from the nowspapor correspondence of tho day, _ A letter in tho Balthmoro Amert. can saids Tho procecdings of Congress thore thres days have exhibited the mystorlous character of a Pon- tifieal conclave, rather thun thie upen and dignificd fuatures of the Legislature of an fntelligent, free, and fudependont people. Coutrary to ail former unuge, tho votes of the several Stated wero counted with closed dours, 1 mowt seriously belfeve it i mennt by the Federallsts to dlssolve the Govern- ment, and to exclie Itepublicans to violence, Let not our friends by any zct whatever countonance any turbulence, The resources uf the people will trfumph, and the anthors of thix agitation will he condlgued to an tufamy which will haunt thew to the grave, ‘Ihe correspondent of the Philadelphia Guzette wroto, ufter the balloting had pro. ceeded three days: Lalloting has been spain postponed one hour, When the hour explres, and the members nre culled 1o piroveed to I agaln, it 16 ludicrous to see wome of them ranning with anxtely from the committese rooma with thelr night-caps on. ‘Tho temper of the Republicans of that dny may bo inferred from the comment made by tho Philadelphin Aurora on the rumor that its purty hod crisen i arms, 1t snid: No! ltepublicans will ho the lust to have re- conrve to arms, bol should the day arrive whicl JoxaTnsN DavTon prophesicd, that the Constiin- tlon of the Unllod Statex woull be burat at the pointof the bayonet, we trust that every Repube Nean would be cinulous of dying In the last ditch, Atlast bettor councils prevailed, and a Foderulist caucus, under the - influence of Mr. Bavanp, of Delawars, and with o partial assuranco that there would be wvo radical change of policy in ouse JespensoN were chosen, abandouned tho offort to elect Bunm. On the thirty-soventh ballot, a Federalist membor from Vormont wes absent, which gnvo that State to JerrEnson; a Federalist | Hares would accopt the offico under auch from Maryland changed his vote, which also gavo him that Btate; nnd Delawars and South Carolina voted blank as States. Jzr- FensoN thon had ton Btates and Bunm four, which ecleated them respectively President aud Viee-Prosidont, Theresoems to bo no possibility of extend- ing the susponse of tho presont contest eo long, for a conlingency can scarcely ariso now which shall moke tho vote between Tizoex and Hayes—the only two candidates twenty.sccond joint reject ~n tio; and the rule conbling either House to tho voto of a Btate having been repesled, tha result of tho clection will bo known defi- nitely upon the official canvaass of the votes in tho various States, If tho official ¢anvass of the votos of Florida, Sonth Oarolina, and Lousinna shall give nny one of thoso States to TinneN, ho will have o clear majority in the Electoral Colloge, and thero is no dispo- sition on tho part of the Republicans to con- test it. Thoonly danger is that, if those Stntes shall be found to have voted for Haxes, the Downocrnts (as they have freoly threatonod) may endeavor to interrupt the ministerial duty of counting the Elecloral votes as definoed in the Constitution. If they liave eithor tha political good or the commer- cinl welfaro of the country at heart, they will abandon every such purpose which, since tho eloction cannot be thrown into the House of Reprosontatives in any evont, will make the sitantion much more perilous than it wna in 1800, —— e THE COTTON TRADE. The English review of the cotton trade of that country for the yenr 1875.0 givea the stato of the cotton industries all over the world. Despito the general disturbanco in trade in all countries, the cotton trade asa whole hias maintained itself gonorally, 'Thore weoro several periods during the year whon it ‘was disappointing and unsatisfactory, but in the figures of the yoar's business there is o showing nf a gonoral progressive increase to meet va' wants of mankind. The increased consumption of cotton by Groeat Britain dur- ing the year was over 100,000 bales, equal to 46,000,000 ponnds, while in tho United Biates the total consumption of cotton was 1,856, 198 bales, an incronse of 160,000 bales over the consumption of 1874-5. Considering the univorsal depression of trade, and the con- tinuanco of *‘hard times” evorywhere, this continued progressive incronse marks the pornianency of cotton among the wanis of mankind. There has boon, of course, a do- cling in prices, and tha inorensed consump- tion of cotton goods is perhaps one of the natural consequences of the reduction in prices, The British trade in nearly all of the othor lending UDranches has experi- enced o heavy shrinkege, causing seri- ous losses, ond tho balonce of no- tionn! industry has had to depend on tho cotton trade. Great Dritain expects to be sble to maintain its pracedence in cotton goods in all the markets of tho world, 'The trnde in cotton is a great auxiliary of other trado. Wherever sho can sell cotton goods, sho takes in oxchango the products of the purchnsers, nud soon manages to add to tho cotton n trade of somo or all of her vast va- riety of manufncturcs. Her supremncy as o manufacturer is largely duo to this facility of obtaining raw materials nt far less cost than they can bo had by American or other protected manufacturers. She buys material chenp, and can soll the manufactured goods cheap. Wo have more costly materials, and have nothing to sell except at greater prices than the British, Tho fact to which.we wished to draw par- ticular attention was the permanent charac- ter of the world's demand for cotton, and, as tho United States produce this great staple, the value of the cotton crop and the value of tho peculiar class of Inbor by which it is pro- duced must also bo perlancnt sources of woalth to the country. In timo it is possi- Lle that soms intelligont party will discaver . that the manufacture of cotton to meet the world’s domands should be made o national industry, instead of heing obstruoted and prevented by prohibitory logislation, COUNTING VOTES ROT POLLED, 1t is difficult to know what degreo of cred- ence to attach to the extrnordinary stato- ments contained in the specinl dispatches of H. V., Repriep, from New Orleans, to tho Cincinnnti Commercial. Tn three dispatches sont on Wednesday night he deelares his bolief that the Returning Board intond not only to throw out the votes that wero cast in the ‘*five intimidated pnrishes,” but to count for FIavrs all the blacks who make aflidavit that they failed to vote for various rensons. Ilo says that several hundrod ne- groes from tha * bulldozed " parishes arc at tho Custom-Tlouse making afiidavits that thoy wanted to vote tha Republican ticket, but wero intimidated, and thousands of oth- ers ave beon summoned to teatify. ¢ All their nfildavits,” ho says, * will bo counted for Hares, By this means, nnd throwing out the votes of the blacks who were com- pelled to vote tho Demoeratic tickot, the TRepublicans will lLave o imsjority in the State.” Wo liad heard vaguo intimations of sn in- tantion to pursue this course ; but no other correspondent of either party hns ventured to boldly state that he had information which would justify the assertion thatsuch alinoof action wng contemplated by the Returning Bonnul, It was on tho strength of the inti- mation wo had vecelved, that au attompt would be mads to add votes to thoso cast equnl to the 'number of porsons failing to voto on tho alleged ground of intimidation, that caused Tay I'nunz to ssy o fow days ago: a’1‘hum 16 no precedent known ta any eleetion law that wa ever heard of where the votes of persons not voting and not effering to voto can be counted, no inatter low strong way be the preaumption that 1t wuch votes hnd been polled thoy woald ave chiunged thy result Bubsuquent to tho nppenrance of that articlo we procured a copy of the eloction laws of Lonisiana, which sot forth the powers of tho Returning Bonrd ; but we have found no authority conferred on the Board to ro- ceive and connt votes that were not polled ou clection day. 1t upon proper proof, both sides having a right to appoar sud teatify, it shall appear to the Board that at any precinct or polling. place violence, intimidation, armed disturb- ance, bribery, or corrupt influcuce provonted o fair and peaceablo eloction to bo held, the Returning Bourd is avthorized to exolude such impure voto from the roturns; but thore is not o word that we cnn find allowing the Board to make up a new clection of those who failed to vote and return them. Wae ara thorefore of opinion that Reprizip has got hold of some {dle story or street ru. mor, swallowed it as a fact, and telegraphed it North as good seusational nows, Even it tho Louislaua law could be con- strued or strotched to cover such a proceed. ing aa reckoning in votes never cast, and by that means secura tho eight Eloctoral votes of tha State to the Republican candidate, and thereby elect him, wo do not belleve Gov, cirenmstances. . A Inter dispatch from Reorienp, dated Nov. 16, and printed in yosterdny's Com. mercial, states that thero i mo probability that the Returning Doard will count the votas not cast by reason of intimidation, ‘There nevor was any such probability, we believe, THE LATEST ENGINEERING TRIUMPH. T'ho greatest font in engincering since the construction of the Snez Canal was brought to a sucefisful termination a fow days sinco in the complotion of tho North Hea Canal. As early na 1819, whon the fury of wind and river was filling with sand-banks the channel connecting the Zayder Zeo with the North Sea, the merchants of Amstordam forosnw that, to save their city from the desolation that haa befallon the now dead cities of tho Zuyder, they must open an ontlot to tho sea. A cut of but fifteen miles duo enstward would have connectod them with tide-water. It is trus thero would have been diffenlty in establishing & secure harbor at tho sea-en. trance there, but, as compared with the mag- nifude of tho whole undertaking, that diffl. culty was inconsidorablo. But, with that astonishing stupidity thnt enn be born only of provincinl gelfishiness, the canal, which WiLntan 1., when the plans were submitted to him, declared should be cut on the route of that just opened, was run from Am- sterdam to thoHelder,—tho main entranca to the Zuyder Zee,~fifty miles, Fora time this North Caual sorved its purpose—it took Amsterdam to the sen. But it takes two daya for vessols by that route to reach the city from the Holder ; the harbor there, {8 much of the time exceedingly difficult to make, and the canal itself is too shallow for navigation “by tho ships of this era, It was theso considorations that led to the projoction of the present canal in 1863, to again avert tho poril thero was of Amster- dam's being cut off from the sea, Bincothen the work has boen steadily pushed through, considering the outlay at whnt in this country would bo considered a vory slow gait, sinco tho entire cost of tho canal has been but £2,000,000, or about 810,000,000 in our money. Tho first difienlty encounter- ed in tho worlt was that the level of tho country, excopt for a short distance, wns from twelvo to twenty-soven feet below sea- level, and, instead of digging n channel to admit the water from tho sea, banks had to be piled up to prevent the overflow of the country through which it pnssed. This ro- gion—that is, what of it was not covered by wator—had been reclaimed by dykes, and ono of the objeets to be attamed through tho North Sea Caunl was to drain entiroly this inland lake, thus reclaiming more land. This has been done, nnd by pumping ont of the ancient lakes Into the canal alrendy 12,4560 acres of land have been reclnimed, some of which has boen sold as high ss £120—or $600—per acre. Throo miles from the west const the route of tho canal lay through the sand-dures, desert-barrons coversd with shifting sands, like those nlong the Suez Canal. The diffi- culty to be overcomo here, s in the Suoz on- torprisy, wns to pravent thg filling of the cannl with sand-drifts, and also to guard ngainst the washing-in of the banks by the waves caused by the passago of vessels, To accomplish this, as wna dono on the Buez Cannl, the morgin of the canal was sown with various plants, the matted roots of which holds the soil together, and besides the banks were walled or lined with artificial stone, gravel, broken brick, and clay. As comploted, the canal is fourteon nnd three-quarter miles long, has a breadth of eighty-eight feot at the bottom and 217 at the surfnace, and will pass vessels of twenty- three feot draught. While considerably shorter and n trifle shallower than the Buez, the North Sca Canal has been far moro difii- cult of construction, and relatively bids fair to ba of greater importanco; for it will maintain the commereinl supremacy of Am. sterdnm even after the Zuyder Zee shall have been dyked in and wholly drained, as is now proposed to do. THE CAREER OF A RAILWAY KING. From tho Moscow tribunal which sen- tenced him, on charge of swindling, to perpetual banishment from Russis, Dr. Stnovanexa, Intely the greatest railway mag- nate the world has gver seen, appeals to tho genoral public. His appenl ho makes in a voluminous defense (Dr. Strousbery und sein Wirken von thm selbst geschildert), published at Berlin, in fact while his trinl was ponding, and designed manifestly for his vindication there, whoro his financial oporations centred, rather than to better his caso in tho Russian court, the judgment of which he doubtless foresaw and sought to hedge against, Tho accusation against him at Moscow relates to his connoction with the Commercial-Loan Bank (Commerz.Leihbank), which it was charged he had manipulated through third partics, vory much as did the management of thoe Cook County National, to have the deposits nppliod to discount his own papor. But his defouse goes much further and vov- ors his entire operations throughout his ca- roer as o financier, and besidos is o quite complote nutoblography. Therefrom it appears that, though a Prus. slan Jow, he began life at Loudon Ly re- nouncing the faith of his fathers, professing Christinnity, and embarking in the profession in which relatively more men have failed than in any other—journalism. He founded the Merchunts' Magazine, subsequently pur. chased Sharpe's London Mugazine, sud con- dueted that successfully, and his defenso shows that hio is a man of no menn liturary altainments, As oditor nnd writor on finan. clal topics lio seoms to have begun the elab. oration of the gigantic schemes which sub- soquently mado him famous, and twenty years ago, with tho modorate fortune he had noquired in Eugland, he returned to Ger- many and established himself at Borlin as propristor and financial mansger and con- tractor of raflways and .other groat enter- prises. 1le was endowed with large intolli- gence, commercial instinets, and prodigious solf-confidenco; the magnitude of his schemes was only surpassed by the energy aud address with which he pushed them agaiust the Wlow.going, nen-speculativo timid- ity of the Geruan eapitalists of that time, 1His failures were not disastrous enough to interrupt his carcer; many of his ventures Lie progecuted to succesaful completion, and ho had gone on enlarging his undertakings until the outbrosk of the Fronco-Pussiin War, and it i3 yet n matter of doubt whother atany time since his affairs kave been in roally solvent condition, e succoeded, however, in tiding over the crixis, and during tho speculative ern conswjuent upon tho pay- ment of tho Fronch judumnity snd the wondrous growth of Horlin he cxpanded his operations to colossal proportions. e was projector of more than & dozon reilway lines simultaueously, and uy well was con- tractor and financial oparator of them all, He was foromost in the recl-ostate kiting operations in Beslin consoquent upon the thom as luog as the Woknungsnoth—dwallin A about by the rapid lnurguutnm‘,llr‘xn;: t;m!gm Ho had bought up ono-thirdof the i[r’unmm' of Bohemin, and sot in aporation f, Aoitey and rolling-mills on the most oxlonsiy Ay s locomotive works nnd car-buildi Ll wero the largest in Europe " Rlope THo was buildingbis railronds on 1, Mobilier plan which Lo defends, floating his shares in all kingg of forty and tha speulative manin 1iaq soized "n o all Germany, when Horr Lisgen, the Llhpm londor in the Prussian Ilouse of Repruea:.“‘ tives, mado Lis Lrilliant, unanswerahlg nt::: '; upon the whole system of bubbls specy IE tions, which ho denominated alter the ], :]“‘ in thn{n, Btronsbergism, In the midn? o tho wildest spoculation the 8poech ‘mul piercing commnnd to haly, The offe H'l statod by Strousnena: eln Atn mnr?entlnl excitement, ‘was roused agalnst ine, few were Ing an Impartial Judgment, and, t;:'::}::::'v.mm' marks of Laskzn, 16 swhich ho ret ma topgh s 1 prime movor of wili apeeulation and. ag o' 1,10 to public morals, ana described my method el‘mhl tractingfor rallways as tho **Sraouaneng " thereby implylng that it was the essence or s swindling, operated in o slestructive ang o tively nnnihllating manner. Thongh e "l not bring forward a single fact nor o '.| "n',“ Droof for his unmeasured denunciations, (g He o gavo no_cxplanatlon of what he mear ot !*Srrousnzna system,® yot everybody, at luy-t o Parliament, took thene _denanclations for gapye: tho press followed [u the wild-beasthunt whigh s niready begun, and thus It became the fashion :d represcnt myself, my operations, and my rallw, oy without further to do, 8 proved to demonrayie, 0 be bad and worthlces; nud oven i 1y 0 done out of pure malice, yot no one took 1he "nu ble to nek what proof thers was 1 Toy Cradit. Ho wag when piblie Opinlon for | that timo Lamken—that I, Lasxen Bl pursued me like 8 ghost In tny ceedlt, §n my "'l‘_ deavorsafter fresh undertakings, § sitlon, crippling me nvemflmre‘ ;n; mw’n'w:lzlcrl..xl E:. ;]:il:mcuon. Tatrove agalnst it, but withont re. Then followed tho oxposure of {he corrup. tion of the Prussian bureauoeracy, not less acandalons than our Credit-Mobilier ndlair, nand Stnovsoena's arrest at Moscow and m)n: viction. Ha claims that he wag decoyed to Moscow on pretenso of business, but iy fact 1o bo squeezod by the creditors of the Cor. mercial-Loan Bank, and the facts tend to support bis claim. It was in vain that o argued to the Russian tribunal that Lfg en. terpriscs woro logitiniato, He made his own plon to the Judges, and said: The Public Prosccator has gono 8o faras o tep. resent the mere fact uf my requiring Jarge sums of monoy 88 proof that something was amiss, if 1 wanted much money It was becauso T had 1 large snd prosperons Lusiness for which my capital, grest an it was, did not snflice; aad If 1t s alleged that T ‘had no credit, a glance at my ledeers will show that many of the greatest irms [n tho iron and engine minafactutlng line were In regular and motually proiltably conncction with me. 1t In true, certatn Berlin baukers have always been agalnst ine, Yon aro probably aware that whea no rallways have beon constructed In Germany for years, because the pblic could not be Induoed to Invest nnder the arrangements and usages of thoxe dags, I lald down hundreds of mlles of rall and foated shares to the amount of hundreds of mitlfons, Idid this atmy personal risk, and withont any aesistance on the part of bankers, I incarred thereby the hatrea of those whose help I did not need at the time, and who were only too happy to make me smart for it ata later period, when the rapld growth of my {ron-works, tho establishment of locomotive and rallway carriago manufactories, and other con. cerns, consumed mora capital than I had immedis atelyatcommand, . . . . Aswas eventuslly proved by the ofiicinl administrators of my Aus- trian business, Ishould have recovered lost gronnd and founded the greatest fron-works and manufac. tories In existence had I been able to complete my Bohomian entarprise, instead of being snatched away from my business and detalned at Moscow, Well, in 1874 Iwanted money for the purposcs mentioned, and as iny books prove me to bave owned ten million roubles at the time, it cannot ‘with trath bo eaid that I had no stake In my busi- nees, Nor has it evor been doubted by any one that every penny borrowed, in addition tony own capital, went to tho work, to completo which T stralned every nerve, If IDborrowed much, It was not to make a private porse, but to form and per- fect o concern the profitable character of which Las beon recognized by persons in authority, Hisargument, inshort, wns the common one of tho promoters of publio enterpriscs that collapse. TInd ho succeeded, ho would have remained the great railrond king of Europe. Had he failed in this country, another would have taken his place, and that would have boon nll. But Lo failed in Russia, and no glowing oxbibit of the splendid promiso there was in his speculations condoned on fact that ha was bankrupt while borrowing millions to embark in thoso speculations. In plnin English, ho was a swindler, (herefa'w, since of course he concealed his condition when raising loans. He will, now that he )n.u failed, go down into history 63 the big swindler of this age, though the samo sortof swindles are perpotrated inall or nearly all iho commorcial contres often enough—so often in Now York and Chicago that they oxcite no comment, At last he appesrs, however, above tho common swindler, Elso he conld not have closed his appeal, whether it be taken ns sincoro or as disingenuous, &% ho does, thus : My calcalations may have been falee, but mi wera made with tho beat Intentlons and Jnall oo falth, Certainly I have never shrunk from toll and cndurance, and, though I am beaten at Jaat, lm' abla to porsuade myaelf that 1 am the victim o fortune, and that 1 have striven as fow could hase done, and that at tho moment of my falt 1 it perhaps, nearer the reatoration of my affalre than at any timo sluce 1870, The hopes that 1 z-nle;; tained of success must not be regarded in the “Eb- of presont appearances, nor of tho resultd .ul + disnatrous winding-up of wny afal WOF must 1 po judged according to ordiuary -m‘I ! ards, The comparlson must bo made with m!"‘h'l with the business T couducted, and with its ‘m“:l(o results, Judged by thisstandard, 1am l""l"":‘ W maintain that the rosources I had at cummllx“ o the moment of my bankruptey wero tho protuctabl my own offorts, and that T hadsccured in Ihlmm means of restorlng my aflaira to grester pvuw:'d"{ than thoy had ever enjoyed. Moteover c‘;“; the Ing my past eflorts, ] was cerlaiuly justided 1o U confidence I ad Inmyself, and_for thnt]rlk'lmm hold myself morally free from blame. 'l;’. o constderation alon welghy with me. The A my resources, Indecd of overy veutige of fll‘a""] v eryly, affecta mo but ittle. Tam not. m‘wnho‘\l the reilection that, in oy Gtk year, Jau WART, meana and ovon without shulter of suphofk S0 that I have to provide for 8 “"mm»mnuuuh' brought up in luzury and now wholly ““a ol ‘meanu of livellhood. 1 bulld my bopes o0 G0 on my uwna good 5 d ‘Alabama, Georala. s0d lava ‘wora colored than white A0te0, T'his everyboldy knows who knows nny.lm A everybody knows that colored votura are TS, o aus, And yot tho election Feturnd feofl Loy Blates repriacnt that they cost ulh 8 g i ‘mour vote for TiLDES, 18 thera un houeet ih iy the United States who doca not Know G, i nieanw it tho colored votent of thise BISTE e Leen either frightoned or defrauded ‘l‘m ! Fights of wuflrake aw guaranteed under 1670 Tiion snd lawsof the Ttepubilot—CAlearos P00, “Tho Journal Is somewhat In error In 7 Eu! i the white and colored population of u.;nm“ b States named. In 1570, the date o e yeneral censug, tho population of the Btates was divided os fullows: Misslaslppl, Arkansae, d. . walte, Colortdy stales, 44,20 Miuivsl ol S Arkauans. 473,510 Alnbaina ... 415118 . Towill o seen hat only i Miselslppiicy coloreil population In umsjority, WhEES ey outoumbered the whites by &‘M‘n 3 (o popU the colored have afued unuul‘]-m:;:) .f..umm M Jation {n Misuhalpph, s DROUEER e e by i by 75,000 ot this ti Sate oo 1000 o 15,000, With uirplas, st 150 would have east {ts vote for bl 'Eil“‘rmflluu publican ticket, but bulldozl d e by provented, The four other States catd o wojority of Demoerat thonan oo &t colorlive (s tbe riding