Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 19, 1876, Page 4

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F. & A.M.— D o eatioh. Sucirtay: evento, Nov. 3 Vorkon the M. M. Degree. Visiing brethifen eordia) PATR - R % NEWELL, Sec. X CHAPTER, ¥O. 03, R. A. M.— P N attan Honday evealng, Nov. 20, Work e By order I1. P, on the M. P. and . E. Degtych, JUTEHSON, Sec. SONIC SOCIABLES—The first of 3 series of foslabior ba bo slven Bder the auspices of Corinthian Jlall Trustees will come off at thelr hall, 187 East Kin- de-st., Tuesday evening, Nov. 21, "to which the Fraternity and thelr friends are cordially fnvited. No pains have been spared o make these pariies pleassnt and enjoyable. SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 19. 1876. At the New York Gold Exchange on Saturday, greenbacks ruled steady at 913. The parties arrested in this city charged with the desecration of the tomb of Mr. Lrx- coLy were last night sent to Springfield un- der arrest for trial before an examining msgistrate. ‘The penslty imposed by the statute for the offense with which they are charged is infBrisonment in the Penitentiary for one yeer and fine not exceeding $500. The Louisiana Confederates are a very sin- gular kind of people. For a week they have been vociferously demanding that some of their number should be selected to fill a vacancy that existed on the Returning Board. Now comes a dispatch saying that ** The Board has tendered the vacant mem- bership to several - Democrats, who flatly re- fused to accept.” If they will not accept a scat on the Board, why have they been brawling for a seat? They are hard to plesse. By reference to the report which will be found in another column, it will be seen that the next big real-estate litigation that may Le expected will involve the title to the site of all South Chicago; or, to put it more sc- curately, o Sections 7 and 8, Town 37, Range 15. Suit will be instituted, it is understood, by Messrs. Sooex, of Ohio, ard Paraer, of Michigan, who claim, under purchase from ApE-KUM and AU-BE-NAU-BEE, the original Indien grantees, who, nfter the manner of the aborigines, always punctunt- ed most profusely with hyphens when they wrote their names. There will likely be a lively legal scritomage before either side re- linquishes the claim to such immensely val- nable propert; The Mfissouri militia and the Baltimore roughs, the Chicago Times, and the rest of 1hat ilk who threaten gore in case a majority of the Electorsl vote is not declared for Titpex, will doubtless raise a dreadful din when they learn, as stated in our Washington specials this morning, that President GraNT has ordered troops to Washington, and that the forts there are to be garrisoned, so that there can be no bull-dozing of Congress 2n it comes to counting the Electoral vote. President GRANT possesses a remarka- bly clear perception of the fact thst it is his duty to see that whoever is legally elected to succeed bim shall be duly inaugurated. And the President isn't scared either. He doesn’t scure worth a cent. But he means to Let us have Peacs.” ‘The editorof the proprietor of the Chi- cago Zimes, perceiving how badly Jomn M. Parxce had stoltified his Committes, and sspecially himself, in saying that the * whole aation” was observing the actions of the Louisiana Returning Board, struck out the word “‘nation” and substituted that of ““world,” so 15 to read the ‘“whole world,” ete. Not satisfied with committing this forgery on Paiaee, he next deposed him from the Chairmanship of eminent Demo- cratic Carpet-Baggers, and appointed Lzaax Troasrrn, of Ilinois, to the head of the Committee, and practiced this despotic act without notifying Paraer or consulting Tuvasvin. This piece of Cmsarism was committed by the editor who is brawling for the gore of Gov. Errroc, PAcEarp, and Casey because they are not Democrats, and live in Louisiana Silver has been gradually creeping up in value ever since our Congress passed the bill oxdering the substitution of silver change for fractionsl shinplasters. The coinage of this subsidiary silver since last summer has con- sumed pretty much the whole production of our mines, leaving little or no silver bars to be thrown on the glutted London market for sale. The result is that the Lon- don stock of surplus silver has been largely . worked off and shipped away to various countries in purchase of products. And just as the glut of silver bars has been re- lieved in London the price has advenced. The last quotation is 54} pence per ounce. " Last June the price was only 48 pence. This advance of more than six pence is equal to twelve centson the ounce, or about ten cents on the silver dollar. The value of the old silver dollar, if it were now coired, would be 911 cents, which is just about the value of the greenback at this time. As longas our mint continues to run the product of our silver mines into American coin, the value of silver will continue to appreciate until it returns to par with gold. The Chicago produce markets were less active Saturday, and not so steady as the day previous. Mess pork closed 15¢ per brl higher, at $15.90@15.95 for November and £15.90@15. seller the year. Lard closed steady, at £10.00@10.05 for November and §0.90@9.92} seller the year. Mesats were held e per 1 higher, at 6ic fornew shoulders, boxed, 83 for do short-ribs, and 8jc for do shortclears. Lake-freights were dull, at 2jc for wheat to Buffalo. Highwines were easier, at $1.06} per gallon. Flour was in good demand and firm. Wheat closed fc lower. at €L.113 for November and $1.15} @1.13} for December. Corn closed. easy, at THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY., NOVEMBER 19, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. being anxious to place the late deceased o | 45jc for November and 44jc for De- cember. Oats' closed steady, at 32jc for November and 33}c for December. Rye was firmer, at 62@62}c. Barley closed dull, at 71ic for winter receipts.’ Hogs were active and' firmer, at $5.60@5.80 per 100 ibs. Cattle were unchanged, at §2.50@5.00; and sheep quiet, at $3.00@4.50. One hundred dollars in. gold would buy $109.75 in greenbacks at the close, The rejoinder of Senator SHERMAN and other leading Republicans in New Orleans to the pronunciamento of the self-appointed Democratic Supervisors of Election and guardians of the purity of tho ballot, who carpet-bagged to Louisiana to superintend the count, takes the wind outof the sails of the latter. The Senatorand the gentlemen associated with him, in the rejoinder in sub- stance to Messts. PALyER, WATTERSON, and the rest, say: Since you agree with us thatit is the business of the Returning Board to count the returns, since you disavow any effort to organize pressure to influence that Board in the discharge of its sworn duties, and since you concede that we, who are neither citizens nor officials of Louisiana, have no right to meddle with the Board, thers is nothing for usto do exceptto let the whole business— which is in the hands of the proper authori- ties—severely along "Of course Lis's reference to the Louisi- ans Returning Board’s powers as an indica- tion of the powers of the Canvassing Board in Cook County, of - which he is a member, is utterly ridiculous. The Louisiana Board®| is a court, whose functions are defined by the law of Louisiana; the Cook County Can- vassing Board is merely a set of clerks, whose duties are limited by the law of Ili- nois. Two things so entirely different can- not be compared. At the same time, we commend to Lies’s attention the following extract from the last Democratic pronuncia- mento about the Louisiana Returning Board: There are certain rules of fairness and justice which underlie all constitations and all laws, and upon whose obeervance must depend the acquies- cence of allparties. .°. . Rulessuchas these: that no one ought to bea judge in his own case; that the decision of any contest onghit not to de- ‘pend upon the mere arbitrament of one of the par- ties thereto; that before such decision is made both parties ought to be fully and fairly heard; that all questions of law ought to be decided in conformity with established general principles, and all questions of fact upon the rules which are of universal recogmtion in all the States in the Union; that the trial of all cases involving public interests at least oucht to be public; and that all the pro- ceedings resorted to for the purpose of determining the issnes in the present Electoral contest ought, by their manifest impartiality, fo disarm the suspicion that the forms of law have been perverted into the instruments for violating its spirif. THE REAL CONSPIRACY IN LOUISIANA. The value of the concessions made by the Democratic Commissionera at New Orleans in their rejoinder to the Republicans who reminded them of the law and their unofficial character is considerably lessened by the individual opinions of one of them (Mr. ‘Warrerson), telegraphed to his paper to be retelegraphed throughout the country. Though Mr. Warressox signed the Demo- cratic rejoinder, virtually admitting the po- sition of the Republicans to be the only law- ful position, he telegraphed to his paper the same day that * The refusal of the Repub- Licans sent here ‘by the President to meet the advances made by the Democrats in the interest of fair play fully discloses n con- spiracy to cheat the people of the United States out of their free election.” In the entire controversy and amid all the outpour- ings of bad blcod under intense excitement, there has probably been no utterance so ut- terly unfair and malignantly partisan as this. Ho went on to charge that the President had sent troops to New Orleans to sustain this conspiracy, and that the Returning Board was proceeding to do the work laid out for them by this conspiracy. Mr. WaTTeesox tel- egraphed all this in the very face of an invi- tation by the Returning Board to Demucrats as well as Republicans, each represented by an equal number, to witness all their pro- ceedings. The fact is that there is a deliberate and, we should think, concerted design on the part of the leading Democrats of the coun- try to fix firmly in the minds of the people the notion that the vote of Louisiana has been cnst for TrLpeN, thongh that vote has not yet been counted, and no man can truth- fully say of his own knowledge whether it is for TroEN or Haves. In support of this assertion it is only necessary to quote Mr, ‘WarTERSON's peremptory sumnming-ap of the situation. He says: - 1. A fuir majority of the people of Louisiana have, at a peaceful election, voted for TiLnex and TENDRICKS. B 2. In that election all the machinery for intimi- dation and corruption was in the hands of the Re- pubhcans. . 3. A Returning Board, which was set aside two yeard ago as untrustworthy, is to change the ver- dict of the ballot-box, and the act is to be sup- ported by the Government 2nd the Republican P rvio ageut of tiis Gutrige 6t & Handfal of dichonored adventarers, who have organized an army of ignorant field-hands by the aid of govern- mental -enginery supplied from Washington to make war sgainst all the responsible elements of life, —religious, political, social, and industrial. How does Mr. WarrersoN know that s “ fair majority” in Louisiana voted for Trx- DEN? Has he himself counted all the votes ? Has he the word of anybody who has counted all the votes? - Has he taken testimony as to the fair ‘or fraudulent character of the election in all the parishes of Louisiana ? If he has done none of these things, by what right does he positively and solemnly assure the people of this country that TILpEN has a *“fair majority ” of all the votesin Touisi- ana? The fact is that Mr. Warrersow, though he happens to be in New Orleans, has had no access to the returns, and has no more positive knowledge before they have been counted as to where the majority is than the humblest citizen who has not stirred out of Chicago since the election was held. He has committed himself to a posi- tive assertion of athing which he does not Inow and hasas yet no means of knowing. He also asserts with equal positiveness that ¢ All the machinery for intimidation and cor- ruption was in the hands of the Repub- licans.” How does he know this? Has he visited all the parishes and taken evidence of competent witnesses throughout the State, or does lhe content himself with sitting quietly in a New Orleans hotel and inditing such dispatches under the reassuring influence . of brandy-and-soda? Does he think that all the ** machinery for intimidation and corruption” was in the hauds of the Republicans in East Feliciana parish, where the Republican vote atthe last election wes 1,688 and only three in the present. election? Even brandy-and-soda won’t wash this down. He likewise asserts with the faith of a clairvoyant that the Re- turning Board “‘is to change the verdict of the people,” though he does not and cannot Jmow what that verdict is, and can only de- termine the action of the Board by diving- tion or card-reading. Finally, he refersto ¢an army of ignorant field-hands ” as if they no doubt that Warrenson feels so, but it is not in keeping with the law of the land. The votes of this “army of ignorant field- hands " (by which he means the negroes who work the plantations) are entitled to the same consideration under the law and in fact as the votes of what might with equal pro- priety be called *an army of ignorant day- 1aborers,” who have given TILDEN a msajority in New York, Brooklyn, Chicago, and other large cities. 3 Mr. WATTERSON'S summary conviets him of prejudging the entire case. But it is some- thing worse than this. It is a part of a scheme in which Democratic newspapers generally have joined to accustom the people of the country to the firm belief that Louisi- ana has gone Democratic, in order that, if a canvass of the-returns shows it has not, they may set up the cry that the State has been stolen. This is the real conspiracy, and the only conspiracy, in the Louisiana contest. THE CHICAGO ELECTION. From present appearances the action of the Cook County Returning Board will be of more importance to the people of Chicago than the action of the Louisiana Returning Board. This Board consists of County-Clerk Lren and Justices Hamves snd Haapoun. Unlike the Returning Board of Louisiana, it is not vested with any judicial powers; its duty is simply that of counting the returns, ana they are so defined by the statute, and have been so construed by the Supreme Court.. Yet for several days there has been a8 strong indication that this Board would assume to throw out certain precincts— twenty-one in number and Republican in majority—on account of unimportant in- formalities, and by that -means declare elected some of the Democratic candidates who were defeated by large majorities, in- cluding probsbly Hoxm, the Democratic Congressional candidate in the First District, and the Democratic candidates for State’s Attorney, Recorder, and Clerk of the Cir- cuit Court. design, it must be remembered (1) that the Supreme Court of this State has decided the functions of this Returning Board to be merely ministerial;. (2) that the Supreme Court has also decided that the result of an election cannot be vitiated by the failure to appoint clerks, the absence of tally-lists, or any other informality due to the ignorance of the judges; (3) that these decisions have been fully explained to the Board by lawyers entitled to respect, like SIDNEY Sarra, Jaxes P. Roor, and H. B. Hurp; (4) that there Lias been’ no charge of fraud in any voting precinct in the city or county, and that none is now set up; (5) that two out of the three judges in every voting precinet were Democrats; (6) that these judges were all appointed by the Democratic County Board, whose servant Lies is; (7) that the informalities are all in Republican precincts, which would indicate that the Democratic judges in those precincts were especially chosen for their ignorance or will- ingness to be informal; and (8) that the voice of the people would be nullified by the appointment by a Democratic Board of Dem- ocratic election judges, and the refusal of a Democratic . Board to count Republican dis- tricts on account of the ignorance, or care- lessness, or wiltful design of the Democratic election judges. From what we can learn, the chief mover in this proposed fraud is County-Clerk Lren, As faras heis concerned, he is precluded from voting to throw out these precincts by his own dedmfiop/l{vou years ago, when he published a written opinion, '.f “we are mnot mistaken, entirely disclaiming any such powers as are now set up for his Board. 'This was when the three Congressional Districts of Cook County went Democratic. If he had no discretionary powers two years ago, of course he has none now. But, even if Lizs would stultify himself and render him- self still more obnoxious to this community by assuming powers which the law does not give him, we can scarcely think that his as- socintes in the Board—HANEs and Hasxnorn —will lend themselves to. so scaundalous a plot. Phey will not do so' if they hope to maintain any standing in the community. The plot is one to place inoffice certain Dem- ocrats who were defeated by 2,500 votes in an election where the Democratic Presiden- tial candidate carried the county by as many. That is to sey, the Democrats nominated so obnoxious a lot of fellows for the county of- fices (with the exception of Sheriff) that they could not squeeze in even when the county was Democratic, and now it is pro- posed to seat them by a most- unblushing fraud in the count. Of course the Repub- licaus elected will finally secure their offices through the intervention of the Courts; but the Returning Board may, by the proposed illegal assumption of powers they do mot possess under the law, keep them out for a time and occasion the county serious trouble. Lies's Canvassing Board is to give its decision to-morrow, and we seriously advise its mem- bers, one and all,” not to deliberately over- ride the law for partisan purposes. The peo- ple of -this county will never forget nor for- give them if they do. ‘WHAT MAKES THE UNCERTAINTY. At 4 o'clock a. m. of Wednesday, the Sth inst., the day after the election, on survey of the entire field, the prospect of Haves election did not scem equal to 1 per cent of the chances, and in the edition of Tre ‘TRIBUNE issued at that hour that opinion was editorially indicated. But within thirty minutes afterward dispatches were received altering wholly the situstion and converting defeat into promise. These later dispatches assumed that South Carolina and Louisiana had both been carried for Haves, and that little Florida, with her four Electoral votes, was to be the keystone State of the contest. At 4 o'clock that Wednesday morning it was known that T1Loex had carried States to in- sure him 181 votes in the Electoral Col- lege; " and, as the reports at that hour showed that Haves had carried Cali- fornia, Oregon, Nevada, and ‘Wisconsin, it was equally clear he was certain of 166 Elee- toral votes. South Carolina and Lonisiana, added to his column, as was ‘done on the strength of the reports received a half-hour later, gave him 181 Electoral votes. Nothing definite wes received from Florids, but all the returns as far as in, in comparison with the vote of former years, indicated a Repub- Iicen vietory. The election of Haxes, there- fore, seemed assured. This all was before intelligence was re- ceived of the bull-dozing of Louisiana par- ishes, and before exposure of the Confeder- ate tampering with the South Carolina re- turns, whereby in eight counties 10,600 votes were stolen for TrLDEN. Since then ten days have elapsed, and on the morning of the eleventh ‘the only prog- Tess we have made toward solution of the doubt has been in ascertaining that in point of fuct—bull-dozing, and ballot- stuffing, and falsification of the returns being To understand the full infamy of any such ought not to be countedin the issue. ‘We have ! Jeft out of the question—the three doubtful States undoubtedly were carried for Hayes. Yesterday afternoon came the announcement of the official canvass of the vote of South Carolina according to the order of the Su- preme Court, under which all the votes cast were counted, none being rejected on any score, and 8 majority of 1,260 was found for 'Haves., The Confederates, however, not content with the counting of their stolen vote in that State, now demand that Repub- lican votes enough to change the result be thrown out, But the result of the canvass made must be accepted as practically taking South Carolina out of the list of doubtful States, unless there is going to be bull-doz- ing of the ballots already counted. Loui- siana and Florida, however, yet remain in doubt, which leaves all in doubt; and now the question is, whether the Boards of Canvassers in these States shall be permitted to count the votes that were voted not by ballot, but by force and arms, and by fraud, or whether these shall be thrown out. If these are counted, TrL.oen may be elected, and his election will have been by force and fraud. If they are not counted, Haves will be elected. The gaunt and hungry office-seekers, and the desperadoes who have staked money on the result, and the fools and blood-tubs, such as those who ih Chicago stuff ballot-boxes and, weremuskets to be faced, would fight by proxy,—all these who are stirring up bad blood, and who would not hesitate to plunge the country into an internecine strife rather than forfeit their political or money stales,— these gentry all miss their reckoning when they talk gore, because it is the deliberate purpose of the American people that the Chief Magistrate of this nation shall be elected by the people, and not by bull-doz- ing, ballot-stufing, and falsification of re- tarns. The honest rank and file of the Democratic party share in that purpose, and itis to be hoped they will be able to put chunks of ice in the hats of the hot-heads. The men who did the fighting on either side are not the men to draw their swords and plunge the country into the horrors of another civil war to capture political booty for Mr. TmpEN's wolfish following of office- seekers gaunt and hungry, nor to save Jomy MorrissEY’s bets; and the incendiaries who propose to make fight on those issues will find themselves suddenly sat down upon on the instant. Thatthere be no suspicion of the election of a President by fraud, and that the candidate honestly elected by bal- lot—whether it be Haves or Tmwpe~N—be in- sugurated, is what the American people de- mand, and they still await an honest count of the honest vote that it may be done. MR. GLADSTONE'S HEDGING. It seems that when the American * Case ' was submitted in printed form to the Arbi- tration Commission sitting at Geneva, Mr. GrapsTONE, who had then become the leader of the Liberal party in England, and Chief Minister of the Government, was unpleas- antly reminded of the general hostility of the British Government towards the Umion during the War, and especially of his own share therein. So, in 1872, he addressed a personal and friendly note to Gen. Scmexck, then in England, in which he sought to ex- plain and apologize for, or extenuate, so much of the business a5 the American Case had made out against him. The distinct charge made in the case was unfriendly feeling of mem- bers of the British Cabinet and Parliament, embracing specifically within this allegation Yord ParuemstoN, Lord Russeun, Lord Caxrepern, Lord WESTBROOK, and Mr. Grap- sTONE. Mr. GLADsTONE leaves the others to take care of themselves, and in 1872, after the War had been “over seven years, the Union preserved, the national credit restored, slavery abolished, and negro suffragein oper- ation, he wrote this letter to explain his own speeches and acts, and to renew his declara- tion of the warmest feelings of friendship for the American people. The particular proofs of unfriendliness on the part of Mr. GLADSTONE, cited in the ¢ Case,” were two speeches by him, in which he said : That the leaders of the Sounth had made o nation; and that the separationof the Southern States was, in my belief, as certain as any event yet future and contingent could be. That the ceseation of the War was to be desired, inasmuch as to warrant its continuance 1t must have an object *“attainable,” as well a8 otherwise just and adequate, That, in my opinion, and, asIbelieved, in the general opinion, the reincorporation of the South- ern States was not on attainable object. That it was a fatal error, even for sincere and philanthropic men, to pursne the emancipation of the negro race through the bloodshed of the War. This letter to Mr. Scarnce explains that, so far as these statements were expressions of opinion, they were, however erroneous they may have been, founded not in any hostility to the American Union, but were shared in England in 1862 and 1863, when these speeches were made, by even the strongest friends of the North. He then answers the complaint that the language held by him, as well as by others, indicated a strong desire that the efforts of the Government of the United.States should not succeed; and that men governed by this desire could not but be adversely-biased ad- ministrators of British law for the perform- ance of international duty; and that the British Cabinet did allow sinister motives, whetherin the shape of abstract hostility or of selfish regard to British interests, to lead them into 5 guilty neglect of the public obli- gations of the country. He meets this by saying : What T seck to show is, that this charge against me is ot true and not just. I seck to show it by evidence to which no fair exception can be taken. I will cite nothing that hus been said by me since the triumph of the Tnlon, or after tie date at which it may be said that that trinmph was distinctly or generaily fore- scen to be approaching. 1 ehall show— 1. That my opinion always was that England had a special Interest in the quarrel raised by the insurrection of the Southern States. 2. That this interest was that the North and South, far from being severed, should remain united. 3. That at the outset and at varions perjods of the War I had spoken of the American people and of the trial they were called on to undergo in terms of strong sympathy. 4. That these declarations were not less public or less authenticated than the two declarations cited in the American Case as made by me in Octo- ber, 1862, and June, 1863. And, finally, 5. That on the same days and in the same speeches which are quoted toshow my desire as an Englishman that the Union should be broken up were delivered tnequivocal expressions of my be- lief that English interests wonld be best served by ita continuance. 1 shall also direct attention tothe time when I | delivered the speech at Newcastle, as that con- tained the passage to which, I belleve, attention has been principally directed. At that timo—there is nothing paradoxical in saying it—motives of sheer humanity and hatred of the effusion of blood might well lead a manto desire, upon the terms either of reunion or severance, the termination of the War. But whether this be paradoxical or not, Tshall also show that men who had most' vehe- mently supported in this country the cause of the North, and denounced the Sonthern Confederation a8 an inhumsan and anti-social conspiracy, were ad- mitting the éfforts and stenggles of the North, won- derful as they were, to be practically hopeless, and were recommending the cessation of the War by the acknowledgment, withina wide extent of terri- tory, of Southern independence. He then, by copious extracts from his speeches, labors to show that, 5o far ashe was concerned, this general charge was not true. The fact that such. a letter was written at all is a confession of how great is the change of public sentiment that has taken place in England during the last ten years, and even as far back as 1872. In reading the Ameri- can “Case” as presented at Geneva, the leader of the Liberal party in England and Chiof Minister of State was, in' the light of all that had taken place, struck with the force of such an indictment of the British Government and of the British nation in 1861-1864 that was not only true in 1tself, but was impressively humiliating. So strong- ly impressed was Mr. Grapstoxe with this national humiliation, that he hastened in an unofficial way to disclaim, so far as he was personally concerned, any complicity in the guilt. After the lapse of four years, in which this letter has been unknown, he, again in deference to the great change in public feel- ing and the great change in the standing of the American Union, has caused this letter to be made public ; the desire to be acquitted of any share, officially or personally, of un- just hostility to the United States during the ‘War has evidently so grown with the lapse of tume, that he now makes that a public dis- claimer which originally was intended as a private one. In the meantime, the general charge, as made at Geneva against -the British Govern- ment, stands uncontradicted. It was over- whelming. The very case at Geneva was of itself the outgrowth of British sympathy— popular and governmental—for the Rebel- lion, and of poorly-disguised hope for the destruction of the American Union. The hasty member of Pafliament who expressed his gratification at the bursting of the “ American bubble,” though reproved by the Ministers, nevertheless expressed the senti~ ment of the Government and of the people. The friends of the Union were mainly Jomy BricaT and the comparatively small number of Radicals who agreed with him. British aid, British sympathy, and British encourage- ment, prolonged the War. It fitted out cruisers upon American commerce ; it opened British ports for refuge and supplies to Con- federate vessels of war; it fitted out fleets of blockade runners; it bought Confederate cotton, and supplied the Confederates with money and materials; British so- ciety opened its arms to the Confederate cause and to its representatives. The Re- bellion was as popular in Canada as it was in ZLouisiana, and more popular in England than it was in North Carolina. And the great in- ducing cause for all this was the deeply-root- ed objection to Republicanism, which, in the rapid growth of the United States, was a standing reproach and mensace. ‘This feeling in Great Britain was prepared for the acceptance of NaporeoN's proposition of interference fo compel the independence of the Confederacy; and that that proposi- tion was never adopted we now know was due to the friendly interposition of Russia, which nation gave notice that in ease of such intervention the United States should not ba without an ally. In the darkest hours of this conspiracy against the Republic, the Russian fleets sppeared in our harbors, and cruised off our coast until Great Britain declined the French measure; and the Con- federacy weakened -from exhaustion. That the Union was preserved, and the Rebellion overcome, and the great Republicstrengthen- ed and unified by the abolition of slavery, was in no wise due to any want of nation- al hatred on the part of Great Britain, nor any want of & desire by the British peo- ple and Government to have the Union dis- membered, but was accomplished in defiance and to the great disappointment of the rul- ing classes in Great Britain, and to the fact that direct intervention against the Union would raise up at least one powerful and active ally in Europe. It isno wonder that Mr. GrADSTONE, in the light of history; feels the humilinting position held by the British Government and people in those days, and has sought the press to make public his dis- claimer of being personally responsible therefor. THE SITUATION IN LOUISIANA. The Democratic Commissioners at New Orleans selected by Mr. TrpEN and appoint- ed by Mr. Hrwrrr seem to have been brought to their senses to a degree by the clear and statesmanlike reply of the Republican gen- tlemen whom they invited to co-operate in displacing the officials and overriding the law of Louisiana. There was really no ocea- sion for a rejoinder from the Democratic side except in the conscionsness of Mr. Paryver and his associates that their inconsistency had been exposed. They naturally wanted to explain. But their explanation amounts simply to an’ admission. It is well known ‘that their proposition for a conference was based upon Mr. WaTTERSON'S suggestion that the canvass of the votes should be taken from the regular Returning Board of Lou- isiana and intrusted to a number of citizens from other States of both parties, and that it was to be insisted that the votes: should be counted as they were actually «cast, without reference to the Louisiana law protecting voters from intim.dation and violence, and authorizing the Returning Board to adjudicate on the basis of a fair and lawful vote. Now that the Republicans have declined to be a party to this extra-judicial interference with the law of Louisiana, Mr. PALuMER and his asso- ciates have been obliged to recede from their antenable position. Their reply admits first that the count must be of lawful votes only, for they claim that injustice has been done them *by the imputation of a desire to insist upen such a narrow vicious interpretation” as the count of votes actually cast without regard to their validity under the laws. Then the Democrats have come around to the rule upon which the Republicans have insisted all along, viz.: that the votes shall be fairly counted wunder the Ilaws of the State of Louisiana. If the Demo- crats are sincere in this concession, they may save themselves and the country a great deal of trouble. They also started ont with the pretension of taking away the count from the lawfully-constituted tribunal and assuming it themselves, without any regard to the violation- of local self-government, upon which they are accustomed to lay so much stress. But now they say that they are fully aware that “ it would be the height of arrogance and folly to attempt to alter the Iaws of a State of which we are not citizens, or to obtrude our interpretation of these laws before those whose duty it is to administer them.” But they did not seem to be fully aware of this political axiom until they were reminded of it by the Republicans whom they sought to draw into the proposed inva- sion of the laws and rights of Louisiana. Now, if the Democrats will abide by these two points, which their rejoinder concedes, they will keep within the pale of the law, and meet the sinple demand of all honest citizens,—that the lawful votes of Louisiana shall be counted in a lawful manner, no matter whom they may elect. There is one other point in this controver- sy. Mr. Paraen and his associntes intimate that the eyes of the nation are upon the sit- -uation in Louisiana (which is a significant in- timation ip view of the fact that Mr. PAraen and State-Sovereignty Democrats deny that there is a nation), and hint that there will be frandulent action in the Returning Board because the canvass will not be public. Bat while the Democratic Commissioners were preparing this insinuation for public effect, the Returning Board prepared a complete answer to it by inviting an _equal number of Republicans and Democrats—the most emi- nent and competent each party con}d se{ect —to be present at their session, fln.m insuring publicity and a fair report of their ?roct_aed- ings. There is nothing in the situation, therefore, to which Democrats can lawfully or reasonably object. If they have the good of the country at heart, they will now pro- ceed to allay the public excitement they have engendered, give assurances that all they have demanded has been conceded to them, and pledge themselves to abide by the re- sult, whatever it may be. S——— THE WAR SPIRIT OF THE EUROPEAN PRESS. A letter from Moscow which recently ap- peared in the Cologne Gazette throws some important light upon the war feeling in Russis. Hitherto the European press have very generally expressed the opinion that the Russians would be deterred from going to war by the condition of their finances. So far froin this being the trath, the Russians hold that their financial condition is excel- lent, as during the last few years their budget, althongh amounting to 500,000,000 roubles, has not shown any deficit. It also appears that nearly all of the reforms introduced by the Government have been of a military character, such as the reorganization of the army and the establishment of universal lisbility to military service. This corre- spondent in fact shows that for twenty years Russia has been preparing for & war upon & sufficient scale of magni- tude to make good her losses incurred in the Crimean campaign. The attitude of the Russian press is peculiarly significant as reflecting the temper of the people. The Golos says, if Russin makes war, “She will confer a benefit on all Europe, and especially on herself. Russia can only be regarded as doing a great service by putting an end with 8 single blow to the depression which has for more than a twelvemonth weighed on Euro- pean commerce.” The Russian World says : ¢ Russia has made the cause of the Slavs her own, and has sealed it with the blood and lives of her sons; to withdraw now would be an act of moral suicide.” The Ezchange Gazette asserts that, *“Even if Turkey should accept the six weeks’ armistice, this wounld only be the preludeto a European war.” And the Sovremennye Isvesche says: “‘Rus- sia will now demand the complete independ- ence of the Slavs of the Balkan; if this de- mand is rejected, she will, after the war, in. sist wpon the partition of Austria between Roumaniz, Italy, Russia, and Germany. . . . Asforthe Turkishdebt, the Slavs will magnanimously take up a part of it if they are given their independence at once; if not, those will have to take it up who have hither- to protected Turkey. England and France will do well to remember this.” The Cologne Gaztle, from which we have already quoted, in a recent article upon the situation lets out the following secret of Germany’s neutrality : *“ That current of feeling in Rus- sia which-is now being put forward as the arbiter of Europe, and which demands war against Turkey, ... . is scarcely less hostile to the Germans than to the Turks, and the Russian papers still boast that in the last war all their sympathies were on the side of France. Now, if we Were to take up an attitnde of decided opposi to Russia we should gain our immediate Object, but we should expose ourselves to plansof a ‘war of revenge of Russia and France against us.” With regard to the probable conse- quences to the Slavic Christians of & war between Russis and Turkey, the Algemeine Zeitung says : ! Let us suppose for a moment that Russia, finding that the successive reinforcements which she has sent to TCUERNAIEPF are insufficient for the so- called emancipation of Bosnia, Bulgaria, and Herze- govina. openly declares war ogainst Turkey. Let us further suppose—to. 'say nothing of the fact that Servia is already o Russian prayince and Ronmania virtually eo—that Russia breaks down any resist- ance on the part of the Porte, and becomes the possessor of Bosniz, Bulgaris, and Herzegovina, what would fn that case be the position of those provinces and of Russia herself? Will Russia then do what she now professeato ask Tarkey to do? Will shegive autonomous institutionsto the Bosniansand Bulgarians,and give Earope guarantees that her promises will be fulfilled? Even if Russia had the wish, she would not have the power, to do this, for the circamstances of the country will admit of only one kind of government—z military dictatorship; . . . besides which she cannot give Bosnia and Bulgaria free institutions which she denies to her own people. Nor would the Christians be any bet- ter off in o material point of view; the estates of the wealthier Turkish inhabitants, which are already nearly ruined, will be completely ex- hausted in providing for the wants of the army of occupation and the Russian Generals, and Ruasia will certainly not add to the cost of the war by sap- plying the starving Bosnians and Bulgarians with provisions and money. The above expressions of opinion are of peculiar interest as coming from papers wielding a great influence, and sources of authority not hitherto quoted in the dis- patches. CHINESE RELIGIONS. As we have observed on & previous occa- sion, pending the settlement of the Presi- dential' question with its attendant excite- ment, there is 1o better way for our readers to keep cool than to consider religious topics, and let this Sunday morning be a time of resbafter the strife of the week. Brother Mooy has done much to soothe the public mind in his presentation of the vital truths of Christianity, and Tme Cmicaco Trmune now joins hand with him by directing the attention of its readers to another phase of the Chinese religions, namely, Spiritnalism. The spirit occupies a very prominent place in the Chinese religious idea, and has an im- portant bearing upon every Chinaman’s do- mestic life. The leading order of spirits ig the Yan-Kicei, or genii, who are supposed to be beings that have escaped death by ex- changing their corporeal for ethereal natures. They exist in various grades of development, and, being ambitious, are-constantly striving torise higher. That class of these genii which trouble men acquire their power by stealing the vital principle from man in nightmares, dreams, and sud- den startings in sleep. The largest class of spirits is Kwei, or spirits of the deed, whose crimes lave mnot been sufficient to keep them in Hell, and whose time for appearance in Heeven hms not yet arrived. Almost every variety of .dsense is ettributed to these spirits. Tke Kwe: are always han- gry, and, as they aflict men only to obtain food, diviners are employed to tell tho kind of Huei and what its demands of food are,” The Lwei fare welluwt fumerals, the survivors on good terms with his new acquairtancy, In August and September the Kue are w materially reinforced, for at that time z gates of Hell are opened and _all the Spirity are let loose for a short vacation, which spend principally in eating. During thegs two months the people give Hell ‘stated o, ception dinners and provide food in great quantities. Infact, the voracity of the Kue is 50 colossal, and the food question seemy to be so intimately connected with as to suggest the origin of owr current phrase, * From Hell to breakfasi» It is even generally believed that therg 5 one place in the Province of Che-Kiang 5. habited almost exclusively by K, who gy known by their casting no shadow in the moonlight and by their constant uge of paper money (being Rag-Babyites) insteag o hard money. - In the City of Fung.to, alsg, there is a street ‘one side of which is inhg) ited by living men and one by spirits, ‘ast as in every village in this country there iz 5 haunted house. There is another class of ghosts called Kiang-shi, whose bodies do not decompasg at death, and who are permitted to Toam about at night with united body and sog, If they eat any material food they are imme, dintely transformed into living men, 5 only difference being that they are unabls to behold the light of day. If they allow the sun to shine upon them they melt away g surely as a jelly-fish. There is another class of spirits,—~the ZTu-sien,—who haye a. great influence upon the minds of the people, because through - they medium they can tell fortunes gng converse with the dend. They are thy spirits of those who have not been alloweg to reassume a body on account of unfulfilleg obligations incurred in a former stae. They _repay their-debts of money or gratitude by serving their benefactors, who have preced. ed them in coming sgain into the world; in enabling them to acquire wealth by fortane. telling. There is nothing new under the sun. The raps, supposed to have been dis covered by the Fox sisters, the tipping of tables, the workings of planchette, the writ- ten communications, the materializing of spirits, the unseen music, the abnormalze sults of trance—all the manifestations of our so-called Spiritualism which have sprung up within the past half-century—are older than the hills, and have been practiced from time immemorial in China,—the only differenca being that the Chinese have more numerons and more ingenious developments than we, Chinese Spiritualism is developed in n reg- ular science called Fung-shwny. It is of almost universal belief and, if possible, hasa stronger hold upon the educated than the uneducated class. It thss an extensive literature, embracing varions systems and theories, and a class of men called Fung-shwny-sin-sang, or “*luck-doc. tors,” whose duty it is to apply its principles. This superstition is even consulted in time of war between dynasties. In'the opening of cangls, the construction of bridges, the building of houses, the choice of professions, the settlement of law-suits, in divination, as- trology, palmistry, and fortune-telling, the science of Fung-shwny is in constant use. The Chinese are a nation of Spiritualista. — The Beethoven Society of this city has just issued its prospectus for the present season, and, as this Society occupies 50 prominent a place in the entertainment of the people during the coming winter, it deserves edi- torial prominence. From its pages we learn that there will be three grand concerts, the prominent features of which will be REErN- BERGER'S cycle of ballads, Eknown as the “Toggenburg”; GapE's dramatic poem, “Comala”; Verors Manzoni Requiem; Horrr's ‘““‘Song of the Spirits Over the Water”; RubensTEIN's ‘ Water Sprite”; and HorrMax’s ““Fable of the Fairest Melu- sine,”—a most tempting array of vocal novel- ties. There will also be eight monthly re- unions, one of which has already taken place, the programmes of which are devoted to choice chamber music. In addition to these, Mr. Worrsony, the conductor of the Society, will give eighteen historical piana recitals, in which he will illustrate piano- music through every epoch of its develop- ment, the first recital including works by such early composers as Rossr, Marrovi, Soartarri, Loerry, Hasse, and HazxpEr, and ‘the last works. by Gemnsmerv, Vo¥ Burrow, Samr SaExs, Grmg, and Tscaar ®owsky. The entire set of programmes in- cludes one of the most attractive and com- prehensive schemes of music ever set before the Chicago public, and certainly calls for & mostliberal patronage from our concert-goers. E—————— THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION. 10 the Editor. of The Tribune. Cricaco, Nov. 18.—As a stockholder, I write 10 ask if the tinancial result of the Centennial Expo- sition, as stated in your paper this morning, is ea- tirely correct. After we, a 2 nation, got commit- ted to an Exposition, and Congress seemed in- clined to throw the burden on ind{viduals, Ithought it my duty to become a subscriber to the stock; I gald my money and got a certificate to tnat effect, nt never have heard of a dividend. The inference to be drawn from your article Is that the stockholders have got their pay, or that the money is in hand to pay them in &.!I o8 well a8 the Government its million and a half; taat they the stockholders) are now tryinz to gobble ap that million and half to add fo their profts. s is o serlous charge, and shonld not be wan- tonly made ngi::inu 2 company of men who have taken 50 much riek and trouble on themsclves, and who have 80 successfully and creditsbly con- ducted the complicated affulrs of the Expowitio have reason to believe that your statement is not correct, and if on examination yon find It 80, you will be good enough, I hope, to correct what 18 untrue of the statement referred to, Ifyour version should prove true, Tshall be pleased to get my money back, but not one dollar that be- longs rightfully to the Government orany one Respectfully yours, 3 GEORGE ARMOUR. P. 5. —Jous B. Drixe, Esq., 18 one of the Fi- nance Committee, 2nd weuld likely know. ANswWER: The figures: in the articde were taken from a New York paper, 2od were accept- ed as correct; but they were deceptive as to the amount of dividend that conld be made to ths stockholders. Theexpenses attending the man- agement of the Exposition were very large, and must come out of the gross reccipts. The Nation of the 16th inst. says that * The receipts promise, If the Government loan of a million and a half does not take precedence, to refm- burse the stockholders to the extent of sizty per cent. Xt 15 hoped that this may lawfully cometo pass.” So faras wecan learn from what ap- pears in the Eastern newspapers nobody has any expectation that a cent of the Government loan will be paid back ‘We remember that when the bill reached the Senate, with the House amendment requiricg reimbursement, it was sald at the time that there was some defect in the phraseology of SPRINGER’S smendment, by taking advan- tage of which the stockholders had a right tobe repaid what they had advanced to the Exposition, with the other expenses incurred, before any part of the Government loan was re- funded. We understand this is the position held by Eastern stockholaers, and our faith i8 very faint that Uncle Sam will ever again see 2 dollar ofhis money; but the country can well afford to spend the million and a half without reimbursement to insure the grand success that was achieved, 2s it was by all odds the finest In- ternational Exposition yet held. - e t— Gen. CoxLy, the editor of the Ohio State Jour- nal, is provoked into saying this of the Counfed- erate Maj. WATCERSON, of the Cur.Jur., wko has gone to New Orleans in the character of fire- eater: A5, Hexm: WATTCRSOX I8 prancing sbout with bis® e S