Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 20, 1876, Page 4

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Hemittances may bomade cither by draft, express, Post-Ofiice order, or in reglatered letters, at our risk. 7ERMS TO CITY BUBSCRIBERS, Daly, dellvered, Bunday excepted, 25 cents per week, Lafty, dellvered, Bunday Included, 80 cents per week Address THE TRIBUNE CD!IX’A}H’.] N MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 18 At tho New York Gold Exchange on Baturday, greenbacks ruled steady at 914, A living definition of the new word *“‘ bull- dose” is now within ensy reach of the North- ern Democrats in Now Orleans, Among the negroes summoned thither to give testimony on the subject of intimidation is an old man from East Feliciana Parish, whose back is one mass of wolts and scars, the effects of Reform arguments brought to bear not long since to induce him to join a TrpEx and Huxonzexs Club, Ho was * bull-dosed.” Apropos of the result of the late cam- paign in Kousas, we print this morning o sermon on politics preached just previous to slection by the Rev. L. W. Brarvo, of Plymouth Church, Lawrence. We can hard- Iy bo surprised at the magnificent result of tho campnign in Kansas—a clean Republican victory, with 40,000 majority for Hayes and WarzrEn—if such utterances as those of tho sormon are to any considerable extént hoard and heeded. It is impossible to acconut for the great Risparity in the vote cast for the different eandidates on the Hayes Electoral ticket in Bouth Oarolina upon any theory consistent with fairness and honesty., In ono case the majority reached 1,500, and in another it was only 200—a difference of 1,270 votes. It is out of all renson to suppose that such M amount of ecratching was dono by the Republican voters on the Electoral ticket, for the roturns on the Democratic sido show no corresponding Zaing, the disparity there being in no case in »xcoss of sbout 100 votes. Obviously the olored Republicans were made the dupes of deception and fraud in tho ballots furnished them, nnd it is not unlikely thatin the course of the count by Democratic judges of clection a good deal of the serntching was done. ‘Where intimidation would not work raseality was reliod upon to givo the vote of Houth Carolina to TiLoEN, and the combina- tion narrowly failed of success. An appalling ontastrophe, resulting in the doath of soven persons and the wounding of sbout 100 more, occurred at SBacramento Saturday night at the opening performance ina new variety theatre, Tho auditorium ‘was situntod sbove o livery-stable, and had ‘boen converted into o theatre having o sont- ing eapacity of 1,000 without adopting ovon the simplost means for suppori- ing -the great weight of the crowd which was present on the opening night. Of course tho floor gave way un- der the heavy pressure it was never caloulated to withstand, and the entire audi- ence was precipitated forward and down- ward, the only wondor being that nuny ono escoped uninjured. From the cecount for- warded by telegraph it is clear that tho ve- sponsibility for this wholesalo manslaughter ahould be located upon the individuals whose parsimony and neglect invited the terrible calamity, and that the soverost penalty pro- seribed by law should be visited upon tho guilty parties. The Tammony Plan, whioh was so sue- cossfully operated under TrnpEw's auspices in New Yorlk City in 1868, is being attompted in Florida, whero the roturns from soveral districts are yet in the hands of the Domo- crats, who proposo holding them back until it is ascertainod just how much doctoring they necd iu order to mako up the deficioncy in the roturns now in the possession of tho Convassing Board aud thore. foro not avnilable for doctoring. If iboy could only fied out tho exact TRepublican majoritics given by the counties already in there would be no difiiculty in fix- ing the thing upon tho Tammany Plau, but the Canvassing Doard's firm rofusal to bogin the count uuntil all the roturns are received wmaltes it awlward for the Democrats to man- ngo tho requisite manipulation of the with- held returns, Stops are being takon fo au- certain the exnct voto in all theso distriets ot the time of closing tho polls on clection-day, the Republicans Leing determined to delay the official canvass until all possible precau. tion is taken to defeat tho attempted fraud. In n lotter to the Now York T'imes, which wo print this morning, Mr. Jaxes RepraTn makes o clear nud intoresting Ppresentment of tho situation in Mississippi, or moro partic. ularly in the Bixth Congressional Distriot of that State, which hns just elocted the ex-Confoderate Genernl Ouaryzns as its Rep- resentative in Congrons over Alr, Lyxow, the Republican candidato, one of the most pop- ular eolored wen in tho State, 'The Bixth District, in which the black population ex- cseds by about 70,000 the white population, and which in 1872 gave Gnant a majority of 17,631, is not only n Democratio district, but has ectunlly clected {o Congress Gen, Cimnvens, who wos assoclatod in command with Fomnesr at the horrl. ble massacre of Union soldlers at Fort Pillow in April, 1864, Troes gets cight Eloctoral votes in Mississippl, a State which 18 just as suroly Republican on afreo and fajr vote as the Bixth District is sure not to have eleoted the butcher Omaraens upon a freo and fair vole, Isn't it ubout time somothing were uaid about the Missisaippi Eloctoral voto ? Tho Chicago produce markets wers less sotive Baturdny, and not so stendy as the day previous. Mess pork closed 15e por bl higher, at $16,90@15,95 for Novembor and $16.90@16.92) scller the year. Yard closed steady, ot $10.00@10.05 for Novembor and §9.90@9.92§ seller tha year, Meats were Lield do per b higher, at 6jc fornew shoulders, boxod, 8o for do shori-ribs, and 8jo for do short-clears. Lake-frelghts wero dull, at 2o for wheat to Duffalo. Highwines were easier, at $1.00§ per gallon, Flour was in good demsud und firm. Wheat closed o lower, at $1.11} for November and $1.18} @118} for December. Coru closed casy, at ‘48jo for Novamber and 44j0 for De- cember. Oata closed -steady, ot 820 for ’ November and 83jo for Docember. Ryo was firmer, nt 62@02}¢. Barley closed dull, at 7T1jo for winter receipts. Hogs wors active and firmer, nt $5.60@5.80 per 100 1bs. Caltlo weve unchanged, at $2.50@5.00; and sheep quiet, st $3.00@4.50. Ono hundred dollars in gold wonld buy $100.75 in greonbacks nt the close, A Confederate dispatch from New Orleans statea that the Confoderates have filed a pro- test against the nct cronting tho Roturning Bonrd, claiming that it ia unconstitutional, and also *' objecting to tho organization of the Board ns not containing represontatives of all political parties.” To the first objoc- tion it is replied that the Board's powers have boen affirmed by the courts of Louisi. ana, 'The second objection is annibilated by tho fact that tho Republicans have offered the vacanoy to the Confederates, who refus- ed to fill it unless one of the membors shall resign so they may have two seats on the Board. But thereis a little'trick in this de- mand. The political status of Gen. ANDER- soN, who {s A membor of the Board, is not very pronounced, to say the least, and if tho Confederates secured two of their numberon the Board, with tho aid of AfNpemsox they could figure up the returns to suit them- solves. All the bull-dosed precinots would be counted. At present thero are two eolored men and two whito mon on the Board; ono of tho latter—Gon, AxpEnsoN—is moro than half a Democrat in sentiment. When the vacancy is filled by Kennepy, s Con- federate, who will probably nccopt, all shades of political opinion and complexion in Louisiann will be represented, and henco that Confederate objection falls to tho ground as baseless. BHALL COOK COUNTY BE OHEATED OUT OF ITS ELECTION? The County Canvassing Board, which de. tormines the officinl count of the voto, is to announce iis decision to-day relative to the proposed rejection of twenty-one Republican precinets in which the Democratic judges have possibly bean guilty of unimportant informalitios, The issuo turns upon tho tally-sheets, Tally is from a French word (taille) menning n stick, and it originally sig- nified tho notchjng of a stick to keep track of any number og things counted; now, be- cause tho Democratio judges in cortain Re- publican precincts have not returned notched sticks along with their sworn returns of the nnmber of votes cast, s Domocratic Board of Cnnvassers is reported to bo ready to throw out these precinets, and thereby induct into offico cortain Democrats who wero dofeated at tho polls, Thisis about tho fact of the matter; and, if thore is any such intention 08 that imputed to these canvassers, we do not hesitato to say thatits consummation will prove thom persons who ought to be visited with tho universal contempt and odium of the people who shall bo thus swindled out of their votes. Lisn's disposition to compare the Cook County Canvassing Board with the Louisiana Roturning Board is simply impertinent. The difforonces may be briefly summed up: 1. The Louisiana Returning Board is a Btate Court, ompowered by law to tako evi. denco ns to nlleged frauds and deterinine the ©aso on its merits. Tho Cook County Can- vassing Board arc morely three clerks to check off the sworn roturns of votes fur- nished them by the election judges. 2. There is no charge in Cook County that there was any fraud or intimidntion in any precinct, or that any illegal ballots wore polled, or that any lawful voters wero de- terred from voting by fear of violence, or thot tho ballot-boxes have boen tanpersd with, or that anything else has oceirred to interfere with tho free aud fair expression of tho publie will, 8. The Louisiana Btate Board will proceed fo exercise its lawful function of investigat- ing the alloged frauds and intimidation, and detormine nccordingly ; but the Cook County Bonnd (if it does what is feared it will do) will proceed to override the law, exceed its functions, and roverse the public will without right or provocation. It must be remembored that, in every one of the procinets which will be thrown out if nny such nction {8 taken, the Canvassing Board havo the sworn returns before them. Tho judgos have made oath that they have fulfilled tho requiromonts of the law, nud, in the absence of every allegation of fraud, the only pretoxt for throwing ont these precincts is that the judges have not handed in the tally-sheota upou which they checked off the count, Yot every vote counted was regis. tered or sworn in; watched vigilantly by the United States Suporvisors, as well" as judges aond challongers, and care. fully compared with the lista in tho count, There wera probably not n hundred illegal votes in the entiro city, and nat ono is alleged a8 nn objeotion to tho count, As to tho absonce of tho tally-liats, it is suficiont tosny that they have boen wanting in cer. tain instances in provious clections, but tho aworn roturns wero counted all tho same, A year ngo the judges of one precinet in the Tourth Ward absolutety refused to sign the roturns, 50 that there woro no votes officially roturned from that precinat; yot County. Clork Lien hositated n long time beforo clos- ing and certifying the canvass becauso a singlo precinet was missing. Yet now, it is snid, ho proposes to throw out twonty-one precinets from which Le has the swora re. turns, signed by all the judges. 'This samo Honrd sorved two years ngo, when Mr, Lr Moxyne objectod to the count of tho First Praciuct of tho Twentioth Ward and tho Buc. ond Preeinet of the Town of Evanston on the ground of fraud. 'The Board heard ar- gumenta ag to the facts and their duties, in whioh they snid: * From the afidavite produced, thore fa no doubt in vur mind that one of tho judges of elcction and threo of the clerks of the Pirt Precinct of the Twentloth Ward, ond one of the judevs of the Becond Precinet of the Town of Evanston, wore nut qualified to uct, but there fs a doubt In vur winds whether, with that proof, or much more proof of fraud and corruption at the election, inmaking up the retumns of those preciucts, we Llave the power to roject any or all of sald returny, And, in conclusion, they sald: * Under the present law, aud with the decisions of tho Supreme Court Lefore Mg, which, al. though not covoring tho pofnt in quostion, strictly dofino thoe duties of the OCanvassing Uoards, we cannot conaclontiously admit the oljections.” This decision was signed by Bossrs, Lies, Haives, aud Hasnrz, the very men who are now serving. T'wo yeors ago they rofused to throw out two precincta when they sald they were convinced there was fraud, be- causo they had no power to doso, Now it fa said thoy proposo to throw out twenty-ona precincty, though thoy 1must be ‘convinced thero is no fraud. We can searcely beliove they will dare to thus fly in tho faco of their own uttorances, the law, aud the publio will, It they do, thoy had better go drown them. selves, for they will find no peace or comfort in this commuuity, The first name on the Domocratio repli. cation to the Republican answer in regard THE CHICAGO to the Louisiana muddle is that of Lx-Gov. Jomw M. Parare, of Illinois; the next is Judgo Trumsury, and the third, Wirriaxt R, Monnmon, Tle replication closes thua: In conclusion, permit ua to say that, notwith- standing you refusc to co-operate, wo athil chorish the hope that the Retarning Doard, warned by the hletory of tho past, and consclous that {ts actlons arobeing observed by tha whole natlon, will dls- charge Its delfcate duty with snch circnmapection, faiencas, and {mpartislity os will glve satisfaction to the Amoriean people, ‘We aro greatly surprised nt one expression in this sentonco: '* Aotions observed by the whole * Vation.'” When did Gov. Paruen como to believe that this conntry isa * Na- tion™? It the Btnles nre sovercign, ns lio has long and stubbornly held, the Union is only a confederacy or lengue, deriving its existonee and powera from tho States, Mr. Pavaen left tho “ Nation" of Illinois in hot hasto to visit the **Nation” of Lonisinun, for the purpose of oversceing the Roturning Board of that soveraign power in tho inter- est of **Tilden and Reform.” Sinco rench- ing the sovoreiguty of Loulsiana, ho scems to have changed his wholo theory of the structuro of this Government, and now, in an addross to certain Ropublicans in Now Orlonus, ho spenks of the Umonas a Na- tion, and tells them that the ** whole Nation" s observing how the Return- ing Board will discharge its duty. If he bad written this address Lofore ho left Ilinois, ke would have sald the ** whole Confederacy of thirty-cight sov- ercign nations have thelr eyes upon the Lonisiana Returning Board,” ete, But since reaching Now Orleans Lo has consolidated them oll into ono Nation. Why did he con. striot such a *contralized despotism” rul- cdover by “Ozsan and an army " whon he Lad thirty-cight sovercignties on the map of Amerien? Possibly because he discovered that, if Louisiana was n sovereign and inde- pendont power nmong tho nations of the enrth, ho and his associnto Eminent Qitizons from otlior sovereign nations had no jurisdic. tion in the matter thoy wera there to ¢ boss,” and had travelod to the ** Pelicon Stato " ona foal's errand. It will be of some value at lenst to Jonn M. Pararen that ho Laa discov- ered that this Columbia of ours is after all o natfon, for all national purposes, and that States are small subdivisions of tho grand nation for local convenienca of the people in all matters of subsidinry and local concern, ——ne BALM FOR TILDEN, Tho trae philosopher and the moral hero is the man who can bear disappolntment with o cheorful spirit, and ovolve practical com- ponsntions from defeat. This gencral state- mont applies with ample point to Gov. Trx- DEN. If it shall eventuato thatthe Great Reformer Loz come so closo to the Whito Housoss to put his foot on the very threshold only to find Mr. Haves closing the door in his face, ho canetill baahappy man if he will consider not what he might havo en- joyed inside the house, but the tribulations in housckeoping ho has oscaped by ocoupy- ing his cosy establishment ot Gramercy Park, where ho can pick his own company, .instead of tho national establishment at Washington, where he would have hnd to ontertain the most motley, variegated, and importunate crow of gaunt and famished lnzzaroni this country hag ovor seon. Yot him remember, first, that the Demo- cratic party has boen out of power for nearly twenty yoars, and that, like Chineso #pirits, the principal poculiarity of a Democrat is bunger. Tho heaven-born mission of every Democrat, from Teopy O'Frauesry, of the Patch, to Prany Burrn, of the aristooratio North Bide, is to ill an office. Then lot him remomber the fow offices he has at his dis- posal o4 compared with the howling and hungry multitude which will come flocking to Washington from every part of the Uni- ted States, ne wild pigeons fly through the woods of Poscy County in the fall. Let him reflect that thore are not post-ofiices, custom-houses, and distilleries onough in the ‘whola country to supply even the Democrats in Chicago, much less the noblo army of Re- formers which bas swindled and bull-dosed oll the way from Maino to Oregon, oud from the wilds of Northern Michigan to the clligator-swamps of Florida. Lot him think of the distrnction that mustencompass him as he tries to put 4,000,000 Demoecratic Reformers into 60,000 places,—sixty-six Dem. ocrats and two-thirds of a Demoerat into a placo scareely ablo to hold the above fraction of o Democrat; in the presont starvation con- dition of the average Democraoy. Bolug o particular man and a fussy man, ns all old bach- olors are, and boing overfussy just now, having rocently received a mitten from one of Evo's fair daughters, lot him think of the obstingcy worse than mulish, of adherenco worso than court-plaster, of importunity ontdoing the horse-leech, that ke would havo to encounter, et him remembor that his work would consiat not so much of gotting ono mnu out of tho sixty-six and two-thirds into offfce, but to rid himself of the sixty- fivg and two-thirds clinging to the office with tho tonacity of death to the doad Afriean,—for that is about the grip of n Demoacratic patriot on an offics when ho once gots a clutch on it. Theso thoughts will bring him one compen- sation. Having given this calm reflection, then let him think of the heterogoneous character of the Reformers who have mnde speoches, written lettors, issued prounneinmentos, car- ried torches, borno transparencies, kindled bonfires, doctored roturns, stuffod Lallot boxes, disbursed the barrol, brokon up Re- publican 1neotings, brickbaticd their oppo- nents’ processions, ostracized whites, bull- dosed blacks, and have bravely hunted tho feroclous African from swamp to swamp with shot-gun and’ revolver, Lot him re- mombor that there will ba tho aristocrats of tho Apawa sort, the riff-raff and plug-uglies of Tammany, the wire-pullors of Albany, the bummers and scalawags of Chicago, the blue-jeans and butternuts of Indiana, tho bull-dosers of Loufsiann, tho tar-lecls of North Caroliua, the Rillo Clubs of Honth Carolina, the White-Lincrs of Georgia, the Ku-Klux of Missisaippi, and the hoodlume of Colifornis,—overy oue of them Io- formers, overy ono of them strving, and overy ome of them marchjug to Washington with determination ou his brow, a whisky.Doitle in his pookot, and an oflioo In his oyo, If the late Toxas Roformer, Frrznvag, who kept the doors of the Iouse of Representatives, who dined with Cox, aud got tobe @ *bigor man theu old Gurant,” was 80 besot with applicauts that he bad to fly, and even suffor Potipharian loss, what would bocome of Mr, Tirorx, who is tooold to run, when the many.millionod mob of lean and hungry wolves came howling roynd his door? ¢ -There is another philosophical way, of viowing this question, 1f Mr, Tuoex sfiall at last lose the Presidential office, ha can re- floct that he is not the only mau who hos been compelled to gaze at the Promisod Land, like Mosrs, without ever reaching it. ‘Wzssrss, Dovavnis, Cray, 8corr, Gaxruxy, Onanirs Fravos Aviws, Pxres Ooorxs, Gzozos Fuavow Tearv, Dauxy Paart, tho Iamented Mrrixw, Winraxt Winr, De2 Wirr Cuwros, the Path.Finder, Gerorar B. McOuxuraw, and Homas TI0 Srrvoum, who could 8o bitterly oxclaim, ** Your Governor even Icannot be,” have all come near enough to the White Tonse to sco ita proportions looming up in tho mists of unceriainty. Some of them have passed awny to a bettor land, whero politicians are not sold out. Tho rost atill romain with us, chastened by disappoint- ment and purified by their flory trial in the political cruclble, If Mr. Tizpex shall bs defeatad, lot himi think of thosa great souls who have trodden the thorny way befors him, and bo content, Let him think of poor Perzs Coores with his bandanna fall of voles by the side of his own cart-loads, and reflect how much worso he might havo farod, and possess his soul in patience. If he bo a wise man he will extract the philo-., sophical essence of the situation, remember- ing that Favsr, when an old bachelor, se- cured the pleasures and honors of life for a time, but went to the dovil at last. ‘WILL MISS0URI REBEL? Of all the vicious, implacable, unrepont- ant, and incogdiary secossion organs in this country, tho Chicago Timesis 8uly out-Her- oded by its 8t. Louis nnmesake. But the two train together ns much as possible, and make common eause in oxciting tho bad pas. slona of the same cloment that fifteon yoars ngo plunged this country into the horrors of civil war, Thus the 8t. Louls Zimes Las undertaken to get up a new robollion in Mis. sourd, and secures tho connivanco and assist- anco of its Mephistophelian twin in Chicago by sending tolegraphic nccounts of its prog- ress. The Ohicago Zimes printed the ont- lines of the new Missouri rebellion Satur. day, in which the dispatch said: Thero ia a growing feeling here of trouble nhead, and that feeling Ia manifesting Itaelf, Tho ncts which this sentiment prompts are littlo in thom- rclves, but they are the same kind of strawa which wore floating with tho eurrent of public | opinlon {n the winter of 1800 and 1801. It {s worthy of mentlon that the past week has wit- nosscd 8 singular revival of Interest among the State milltlamen, Mlssourl has now an enroll- ment of nbout twenty-five companics of Infontry and ono company of light artillery, An cxchange of tho old muakets for breech-loaders waa effiected with the General Government scveral niontha ngo, nnd with these the State troops aro belng armed. The force has been Increasing steadlly and guletly all through tho campaign, threo now companles liaving been snustered in very recontly,—~tho lost only a fow days sinco under the mamo of the Daxizt G, TAvion Guards, Mr. Tavton having been a former Mayor of the city and now a leading Democrat. On the strects, in the cars, and every- where, people ara talking of un irropressible con- filet with a party and Administration corrupt, un- scrupulous, and despotic beyond enduranco. Thero Is cipher communication between St, Louta ond the National Democratls Ifeadquarters In Now York constantly, and tho sentlment here is repeatedly asked after, The city which was di- vided ngainst itaclf not much more then o decade 8go Is to-day nearor to that condition than it has been sinco tho surzender of Lxx. Au if all this were not explicit enough, the bloody-minded 8t. Louis editor—ovidently a sort of Southwestorn Kxznax in top-boots— concluded : The drift of argument among Democrats ls, that, 1t violence must come to asscrt tho will of the people, wisdom and polley will dictate that the nftiativo steps bo taken outside of the Sontliern States, and in that view it Is folt that national re- form may have to commence in Missonrl, A Dem- ocratle Admiuistration oxlsts throughout the State departments and radiates through four-fifthe of the countlos. ‘Tilden's majority {a 60,000. These went to war with their next-door noighbors In Afis- sourl In 1861, and may do it in 1876 just as casily, ‘Tho Gonerals then on elther aldo aro the leadors now of thelr respectivo vartios, only that the Con. federate eloment and the Unfon Domocrate are now shouldor to shoulder, ollled and in perfoct harmony, but 8o bitterly opposed 1o the corrupt party In power as to feel that the fesue calls for desperato measuros, ‘Whilo all this is stuff and nonsense, it is not the loss ugly, violons, and traitorous on that nocount, and the journals that print it forfoit all claim to patriotism, doecency, and lumanity, The desive and purpose which nctuate thom are as villainous ns if it werein thelr power to excito the rebeilion thoy aro scoking to foment, There may bo a cortaia class in 8t. Louis who sympathize with this sort of talk, but as for Chicago, any success. ful arousing of tho public passions will re- sult in the same popular contempt and buf- foting of the treasonnble organ that it ex- pericneod during tho lata Qivil War, when loyal and respectable paople would not touch it with n pair of iron tongs. There is no dangor of a rebollion in Mis. sourl, Tho conduct of ‘the traitors of that State during the Inst War is s puflicient guar- antoo that thoy have not the courage to in. augurato n rebellion on their own naccount, ‘With all their sympathios on the side of the Confederacy, thoy either sulked at home, or at beat went into tho guerrilla and bush- whaoking businoss. ‘This experience trained ‘them into very successful mountain high- waymen, train-robbors, skulking bandits, sud cold-blooded assnasing, Tho Younoen and James brothers aro fair samples of the military genius of all that class of Missourl pooplo who are talking robellion, It will need no armies to conguor thom. Shor- i’ posses, courts, jails, nud Penitentiarios will suffico to snppress all danger they can offer to the peaco of the community. The stulf we have quoted from the Z'inies is a fair samplo of thoir blatant brag and bluster; they nro vicious withont belng brave, and they have all the depravity without the cournge for rebellion, Beaides, Missouri has been largely civilized ainco the War, and wa aro confident that the Siamese twins—tho 8t, Louls and Ohlcago Z%mes—ropresent a amall and insignificant part of the community thore, et —— THE D TIC DEMAND., The Albany Argus hos been a Demooratic organ from a time antedating even Mr, Trr- peN. It has boon an organ that novor wavered. Ever sinco his entrance into poli- tics, Mr, Tiroex and the Albany Argus have Lkept company, have always agreed, nud the oxpressed opinion of ouo has always boon tho opinion of tho other, That papor, re- cently, in a double-leadod article, points ¢‘the way out" of tho existing dilemma or compli- cation by assuing : (1) ““Ihat on the face of tho roturns, T1LoEN has earriod tho States of Louisiang, Florlda, and South Caroling, or at loast onv or two of thew;” (2) that the Boards of Ganvassers have no right to throw out the vote of any of tho countios in thoso States; ' (8) that, if the vote be counted na returned, the whole gucstion can then bo sottled in Congroas, 'Ihis would be vary woll if the facts were asstated. Tho actual voto of South Caro- lina ia now kuown, aud that vote is for Hayes, The voto ns returned in Louisiaua and Florida is not known; it may be for either Hayea or TrLDEN. In tho next place, tho Doards of COauvassers in Florida and Louisiana are, by the laws of their States, not only authorized and empowered, but re- quired, to reject the vota of every poll where the violence and intimidation wore such as to provent the holding of a fair or legal oleo- tion, or whore the return doos not homestly roport the vote of logal votes, legally polled ata logal eloction. If, among the returns made to the Canygssing Board, there shall be TRIBUNE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1876. tho roturns of an olection which upon ovi- denco shinll be provon to bo illegal and void because of the forcible provention of voters, tho oxpulsion of the oleotion officers, and the want of tho conditions showing the logality of the oloction itsclf and tho integ- rity of the voten roporied as polled, the law makes it the sworn duty of tho Board to ro- Joot tho returns, 2 1f tho Btates of Louisiana and Florida linve no power to confor upon tho eleotion officers of thosa States tho power to protect tho people of the States against fraud and forel- ble intimidation, and fraudulent and illogal elections, where doos Congrass got thepower to suporviso that clection ? In what part of tha Constitution is Congress given an au- thority to canvasa the voto of Louisiana, or Now York, or Ilinois, for Presidential Electors ? The Constitution oxpressly re- moved from Congross sny control over the manner or the choice of Prosidentinl Elcct- ors by providing that * Each Btato shall ap- point, in such manner as tho Logislature thereof may diroot,” the number of Electors to which such Btato may bo entitled. Whore does Congress got the authority to go bohind tho eanvass of the popular voto of tho State, sot nside tho certificats of the Exccutive, and sit as a court of appeals upon tho de- cision of tho Elcotion Bonrd appointed by the Btate to count the roturns and declare who hns beon appointed Presidential Eleot- ors by the peoplae of that State ? Tha proposition of the Argus hns n signifi- cnnce becauso of the intimato relations be- tweon that paper and Mr. Trupey, and be- eauso it adds to its statemonts the following paragraphs : In the nome of the majority of the Amerlcan people, we solemnly protost sgainst the throwing outof the vote of any connty or parish by the 8tate Canvassers or Returning Doarde. In the name of u majority of the American peo- ple, we demand that these votes bo returncd as cast, and that cortificatos of election bo iasucd ac- cordingly, And wo belleve wo speak the sentiments of that same majority whon wa say thot it will then submit to tho result of o careful inquiry into tho alteged griovances of all partios, Isthis o thrent? The Board of Canvass- ers in Loulsiana have their power and their duty defined by law., They cannot surron- der their funotions to any other tribunal, They must do thelr duty as a judicial as well a8 n ministerial body, and thero is no power anywhere, oxcept by force, to roverso or sot asido their judgniont, 'Tho Argus proposes to lot the investigation tako place in Congross; but Congress hasno jurisdiotion, original or appellate, in tho matter. The people have mode n cholce, and when oach State has ap- pointed its Eleotors under its own laws, that is o ond of the whole business. The Dom- ocratio Committoe at Now Orleans state the matter correotly when they ask that tho Board ghall not arbitrarily count all votes as roturned, but shall count only lawful votes, Iawfully cast. ‘'This is something different from tho imperative requirement to count all the roturns as made. Such s rule wounld dostroy oll elections. It would invite fraud, invite tho corruplion of all election roturns, and mako all eleotions depend, not upon the popular vote, but upon the successful mon- ufactura of refurns, Tho roturn of East Fulicianamay bo taken asan example of what might hereafter bo tho goneral rule. Two yoars ago, when tho yoto of that parish was full and foir, it stood : Topublican .. Democratic... + 1,038 . " 1,8!7 Ropublican mBJOrlY..seeeroosionensrnne HOL 1t is now sot down that there were 1,746 votos cast, of which 1,748 were Democratic and 8 Republican, and the Argus demands thiat this bo counted as final, 3 A Ccnfodm(}onfodemte concorn in Chicago says: 'NEw Onizaxs, Nov. 18.—The Returning Board bes been forcad Luto the concesslon of altowing five of each party to be present, but this doos not lead anyhody to hope that there will be a fair count. To-night the town is gloomler than it has been in a month. Tho unfavorable nows from Bouth Carolina has dampencd tho genoral expecta- tion aud precipitated overybody into n cave of gloom. 'The effect of this Is to intensify the, litterncss of tho people towards tho local ofilclals. ‘I'hore is more in this whine than ‘appoars in the words, Tho “people” referred to who are 80 *‘bitter * are the Confoderate fire- enting politicians congregated about tho St. Clisrles Hotel. Tho Republican half of the population of Louisiana are not esteemed people, but *‘field-hands " and ‘‘ndventur- ers.” Men who cultivate the soil are not considered poople in tho Confederate vernac- ular. But the dispatoh states that tho * town to-night is gloomier than for o month.” The lying Associnted Press agents at Charleston and Columbia,—ono of them the editor of tho Charleston Newa and Courier (fivc-enting orgon), and tho othor the Lieutonnunt of a bull-dosing rifle-club,—thesa persons had: poured o strenm of roports over the wires claiming that South Carolina hnad gone for Tizpexn and Hamrron by 8,000 mnjority, and then dropped a fow cats, but stuck to it that Tipex bad the Btate by n “lnrge majority.” On the strength of theso falso reports the Now Orleans fire- enters builded their hopes. At last, on Bat- urday, their eyes wora opened to the truth, The Board of Oanvassors had completed thoir count, and, without rojecting any of the bull-dosed precinats, or throwing ont any of tho polls whoro ballot-box stufiing lind been practiced, the roturns showed a clear mojority for Haves and Wueeren, It was this unexpected (to thom) result that precipitated thom into the * cavo of gloom,” If the Louislaua bull-losers were confident thoy had carried their own Btate by a major- ity of logal votos, lawfally polled, thoy would quickly crawl out of theiy gloomy cave; but thoy know very well that, unless ol the frauds thoy practicod are credited up ag logal votes to their candidntes, thoy nre boaten out of their boots; henco their gloom, ) —the plaint thut comes from Tammany Hall and s re-cchioed from every Democratic Ring headquuartera throughout the land, that the Presidency ia to Lo stolen from TiLpex, nnd that they can't helpit, It is as if a maob of plekpockets, deft from long practice fn all the cunnfug duvices by which they transfer tho property of others to thelr own possesslon, should lift up thelr voices and ¢ry aloud, “ Our pocksts ure going to be plcked, and we don't know onough to know how to hinder it. Wil no honest person help us hold our purses!” It there be anything the party of Tammany Hall knows all about, it 1s how to steal an election, That party has practiced steallyg cloctions lone enough to have become more expert at it than over did plekpocket at his thiovery, At the North, Tummany Holl has systeiuctically stolen the vote of Now York for a quarter ot a contu. ry, and In 1808 stole the Electoral vote of tlio 8tato from Gaant, The Southern wing of the Dowmocracy, that now celesout for protuction agolust thluves, stole the vote of Loulsiana In 1844 from Henny Cray by the Plaquemine frauds. They stole Alabama by repuating aud ballot-stufting that to this day i3 bousted of. They stole Mlssissippf, not llke plekpockets, but 1lke bighwaymen, st thamuzzles of shot-guns. Bo fur as the Btate ticket, or the greater part of {t, ia concerned, they appear to have done the lko foBouth Cargllua 4 the latq clgction, Wi bull-tosing practiced In Loulsians was bnt another attempt at highway robbery of an elec- tion by tho Bouthorn Demoerats, In viow of these facts, would It not be well for the Tam- many-Hall managers, and the cx-Confedernte managers, and those clsewhere who, so to speak, are clutching thelr pocket-books with asuch dreadful desperation, to cease crying out to bo saved from pickpockets and highwaymen? As Col. “Bon’' IxoEnsort 1 his dispatch to Krrrooa suggested, ft s the gamblors with {full hands of stolen cards who are luatlly yell- Iog, “Don't touch the carda,” ——ee—— 5 AFTER THE BIG BHOW. Priranerenia, Nov. 17,—The Centennial En- campment of the Patrons of Husbandry, a very large framo hotel at Eim Station, thren mfles from lhlncll{. yweas burned this evening, Tho fire orig- Inated in the southionat cornor of the buflding, and in an hour the structure waa in ashes, 1t was 500 feet loni by 450 foot deepy, with accommoadations for 4,000 gnests. 1t had'1,300 rooms, It was completely” farnished, ond cost, all told, 380, 000, Insured for 840,000, ' A hundred thousand Grang- ers wero accommodated in the buflding during the Exhibition. Nothing was saved from the buitding. ~=Press Dispatch. A great many peoplo prophested the happen- ing of this very calamity. Tho buildings were # collection of chicap bareacks, a fow miles west. of Philadelphia, on tho Pennsylvania Central Tallrond, and, as peoplo pussed along on the trains, and looked at the combustible sheds and rookerles, they were In the hablt of.prognosti- cating that the wholo collection would end fn smoke not long after the close-up of tho Ex- hibltton—providing the insuranco had not run out. Asit turns out, the owners have done well (nanclally, They have taken in 100,000 Grangers, and got back thelr original fovest- ment from the insurance companies. 3 ———— There is little doubt that HAYzs has a clear majority of the legal votes lawfully polled in Loulslana, and yet, by o stupld blunder of sonic person or committee, hio tny have lost five of the eight Electora, A New Orleans Con- federato dispateh says: The Republicans have Investigated the Preatden- tial Elector queation, and to-duy concluded that in thoso parishes whore, through nn omission on the tickets, tha Rapublicana voted for only throe Llectors {nstoad of orlmll. thoes three and no more could be connted, o total loss to iho Haves i‘lfifibnm tickot through this error s sald to bo 4800, 1t scems that fn ono parish the person having tho distribution of Electofal tickets in chargo ouly printed them with the namos of the two Elcctora for the Stato at large and the oue for his own Congresetonal District, and omitted tho Electors ot the otner five districts, It fsclaimed by the Uonfederates that 1,800 of such defective ticketa wero polled for HAves and WHERLER. It it shall happen that the Republican majority in the State s less than tho numberof those defective tickets, then flve Electoral votes would be lost to Hlaves. [t may turn out that the number of thosa ticketa may be less than s stated, In Bouth Carolina some of the Repub- liean Electors received 1,150 majority, and others only 230, from which {t would appear that somo of the Electors were willfuily or Ignorantly omitted on over 900 Republican ballots, —— At lnst from the Solid Bouth comes the defint- tlon of thosc mysterloua barbarisms of spcech, “buil-dosed” aud “bull-doser.” Therefrom it appears that the bull-dosers are law-abiding cltizens of tho first fumillcs of the Bouth—no less such n fact than were the mounted bose~ ball clubs that rode around Bouth Carolina prior to the electioy, under command of Gen. M. C. BurLER, of Hamburg-massacro notorlety. Tho bull-dosers, be it known, according to Bouthern suthority, are not politicians. They aro only guardians’of the public weal, They were organized to stop cotton-stealing from the flelds and glu-houses. This they did by ad- minfstering to the thioves, when caught, a hun- dred Inshes with tho cat on the naked bnck, the which was denominated o *bull-dose.” The reciplent of these attontions was, of course, bull-dosed. What {s neglected to be added is that we did not hear of bull-doesing before, bo- cause, from somo mystorlous reason, cotton- stealing didn’t abound until shortly prior to the Presidontial election, and then only in strongly Republican parishes, where the respectablo cltizens of the first familles found themselves reluctantly compolled to buli-dose pretty much the entirecolored population. Slngular, fan’t it, thero should be such a rumpus about it, under theso cireumstances? ——— Mr, Vmaw, W, Brancuann, of New York, has discoveredn cure for drunkenness, and ho explainsitinn card of some longth, printed in the New York Sun. Mr, BLANCHARD'S cure is nerve-food—or building materinl to supply the waste. Holays down the broad factthat the cruving for nlcohiolic stimulus grows out of the deslre to bulld up the starving nervous tissus in our overworked masses, aud that this must be overcome by nerve-fopd. What this food con sists of ho explains n tho following Vietor Hugolsh aoner; “In what does nerve-food conslst? Whatfsit? Is{t meat! No. White Lread? No, Potatoes?! No. If it is not found In these staples, in what {a it tobo found? 1 anawer, o tho exterlor of the wheat kernel, in the skin of the potato, and in_milk; partially, also, in cggsand fish.” We doubt very much whether Mr, BLANCHARD'S preseription of bran and potato-skins will curo Inteinperance, Most sober people wouldrather get drunk than live on Ity and drunkards would be us disgusted as was Eccues over tho teapot. The only sure cure is for & man who docsnot drink, not to begin; and for the man who docs drink, to follow Brotien Moony's advice—make good resolutions, say s prayers {ndustriously, and shut square off, —et— ‘Thero is one Congressional District in Texas where the Republicans made = gallant fight to clect o muember ngainst great odds—In tho Galveston Distriet. Two yenrs ngo it returned ‘Haxcock (Confederate) by 5,050 majority. The Galveston News of the 10th thus reports the dis- trict, as far as heard from: Followlng arethe majorities by countles, ap- tely, forthe Congressiona! candidates ?u he it Dlatelch, ax far a4 heard from: e Jones' total,.. Tlere are sixteen countice wuich give tho Domo- cratlc nomineo 1,658 mnjorlty, Soven counties ro- main to be hoord from, vie.: Burleeon, Durno Colemay, Conchio, McCulloch, Matagorda, an Teanuells, In the last eloction il thoso were heaye ily Dewocratle but Matagorida, which gave u Re- ublican mojority of 132on & tatal voie of 680, R‘he u'n'ure,:ntv Democratic mnjnm{ in the conntlea o to be heard from waa, in the lnst cloctton, 1,202, The effect of tho hard times Is markedly per- ceptible in the falliug off in Immigration during the past twnl'}p months, For tlie year ending Nov. 1, 1875, tho total number of {mmigrants landing at Now York was 84,560, whils for the corresponding pertod ending Nov. 1, 1876, the whole number of arrlvals was but 62,555,—a de- crease of about 15 percent. Tho provalence of hard times fn this country, it scems, s woll knowir in Europo, and tho effeet has been that the jmmigrants for the most part have been contined to thoso who could fotch,with them vnough to relfeva them from necessity of flud- ing funnedlate cuployment, As horetofore, 8 full third of the wholo number have remained inthe City of Now York, where thoy will have excollent opportunity of experioncing the hard- cst of hard times, The wmost notable falling oft in Ymmigration waa in that from Ircland, which from 19,024 In 1875, fcll to 0,724 in 1876, As for tha last few yeurs, the heavicst immigration s from Germany, which also shows’ a fulling off, sinklug from an wrgregute of 25,559 in 1875, to 18,801 fu 1870, — It Mr, Clerk Lien can dlicover that the ‘ir- regularities” in the tatly-sheets in Republican preciuets of this ity wero caused by Ropublicr eus bull-dosing Democrats, inducing them to stuy away from the polls by shot-gun argu- ments, or compelling thpm to voto for HAYR3 by holding u loaded revolver at their heady, It will then be in order for him to cousider whether ho has logal power to throw out such bull-dosed precincts, Jut ifho can find nothing worse thau stuplijities and blunders of form lc;zmn:’llllted by Domocratte cpublican prectnets by nis py, Board, wo would Tespectfully lr::::l.t“lco(l:w“ colleney that 1t wiil not look weil o . 18 Ex- franchise several thonsang w o bo dsc such mior informalties, |0 O 8ount of Judges, BDDoInteq for ———— 1t I8 worthy of remark that th of the Democratic’ peruumlonml;:? Journaty most threatoning In case a Wo have fo ming Dartleuls i nrl; Ezpress, Cincinnatt ZEnqutrer, yBL Louls 7y, and Chicago Times,—all of Wwhicl 5 war and dovastation 1 Tripey 1 gurated, but all of whien have repeatediy . nounced him asa mllroud~wrcnker, uomy i swindlor, and a sham reformer, Iowepe, s onty llustrates thefr abjeet, devotton g, 18 Which they set up as superfor to country, ptn This table will prove Interosty cara for the defleits of the Puu":-g()'!‘l;cte"nI!)c s ment. It gives tho receipts, expenses, ne ','f"” for six yenrs past: el ear, Recelpte. Erpenigy, 1870-11....820,097,045 S0 wer: ¢ LeAd 211005440 ‘5%‘.6%‘3:1%& # 20,084,040 82,120,415 3,011,300 33,203 488 It {8 gratiying to noto that the exhy 1875 and 1870 shows o reduction i the defiel column of nearly $3,000,000, causcd by (nmm; recelpts, It willboa good while yet before th, recelpts equal the expenses, They hay + done go in thirty years, 8 ——— ‘The Democratic newspapers ;.hel;' readers that Colorl:;‘; wcr’:@n vl: her lata election. As a part of the fry) Leglslnture has met, andelected her t\::(l}:xm Btates Benators, They are Jerosg B, Cuarp, of Deuver, and Huxey M, TLLes, of Ccm.:'] Clty. They must be very Kood men, for My, Sau Bowies iudorses them both ay g and prominent citizens and Republicans, b than the average of the Benate, ang, :... u:r whole, n:ll!m honester.” Prajge rmu'z 8ir nuf PLRT. Biess be brave wor 8aMUEL. Pl o g The Cincinnat! Engutrer showa s, m| badly disordered stomach \\‘hc’x’l D:: m:.n;: “We aro trembling upon tho vergy of anarchy or upon misery, to bo ouly de clded by an oppeal to the BWord.” The writer probably has clection bots vending which he ls very anxious to have decided fn his fayor, Tenco this appeal to tho sword," 1 b frey: sobadly at tho prospective loss of his money, ke ought not to lave staked it. Why dony' by hedge, and thus avert the warl ot yet tolg epublican g4 ——— Al 1it to b et AR Sl eI, oo e i of Srhich (Rore 1o hopenianth culnied Ly e O ranie asonable suspicion,— This declaration of Gov. Harzs expresscs the truo prinaple. Where has Tiuoex sald noything a8 fair, or auything of the Kkindt ‘Whien hias he snid that he declined to be counted in by fraud? —— Mr. Clerk L1rp, a privato word from a friend in your car: Go slow, aud sea that degperata partigana do not uso you to rake thelr chestnuts out of the ire, Bull-dosing may bs practiced by Confederates in Loualana upon negrocs with impunity; but don't let any scoundrels per- suade you to practice bull-desing on the voters of Cook County. —— A New Orleans dispatch states that “Tho delegations from the North spend most of their time {n company with thoso of thelr own poll- tles, Nelther delegation falooking squarcly and fairly upon both sides of the question. Each cultivates his own party," It Clerk Lien and Justices Harxes and Hax- MiLt, have any friends, they will advlse those gentlomen uot to undertako to disfranchlse eev- eral thousand citlzens of Chicago on the fimsy grouuds upon which it is threatened to be doue. ——— ‘There was no bull-dosing practiced by the voters of Cook County of cither party at the re- cent election,. Lot there bo no bull-doslag of the returns committed by Clerk Lizp or his asgocinte canvassers. ———— PERSONAL. U. 8. Grant, Jr., has Jolned & law-frm I New York City. 44 Hold tho Fort * is to he produced a1 bolldsy- boolk, with iiluatrations and music. “'Business 1s bad—there Are no Americans fn Parls, " i3 the cry of a thrifty Frenchman. The Lord Mayor of London's new book of poema is a palpabloimitation, In parte, of Milton's ** L'Al- legro* and **11 Parscroso." Dr, George M, Beard maintalns jn the Jadepend- ent that Incbriety ia not, as commonly supposed, Incurable, nor inebriate homes failures, Now York newspapors are making Important Mr. McVicker's fight with the ticket-gpeculators, and it has become the prevailing local sensatlon. Ivan Tonrguonlef, the Rusalan novellat who has somany ardent adimirers throughout the world, has comploted & now work, which will soon ap- ar p“’llnn:h! Qray, a Baltimoro actress, shot herself recently In the hip, inflicting a werious butnot dnngerous wound. Bhe {8 supposed to have been s victim of unrequited love, 3 The Edindurgh Revlew says that George Ellot's groat charactors arc Hotty 1 **Adam Dedo, " Mag- gle Taltivern ** The Mill on the Floss,” 'l‘lllvlv n “4Tomols,* and Rosamond ln **Middlemarch. Two thoussnd umbrollas have been lost and found during the great Kxhibition upon the grounds, to say nothing of 1,000 parasols. If s many have been found, it must be that millions Liave changed hands with no guid pro quo. The Boston Pilot oxults over the new Irlshpoem. +4 Delrdre, " and tries to vaunt thoauthor as aalrish pool. 1t isto bo hopod tho reault will not be the same s In the caso of Daery Sulllvan, ** tho lrish it ingh ttending & ng man nomed Cunningham, af 'l'eAn:::u'u academy, was crlticlvod for bis orlln:- cal display by a comrade, and seitled the mnnu-r' 1 shooting the amsteur critic twlco, killing him n. stantly, Tho question whether tho eritlclim w;‘ correct remains unssttted, Mcsnwhilothe nnu;‘ H career Is seriously luterfered with, and be has for parts unknown. e A very fashionable wedding took place at Ne port, lgv. 14, the bride belng Mixs n:;d ’fllfk:;'{ award of Mr, John N. A. rlewold, Pres ‘;n‘“hl tho Chicago, Burlington & Quincy llnllralv;md tho bridogroom Lieut. Richard C. Derby, I Statos Navy. Tho marriage took place :! "0;1 Griswold's summer residence, snd sbout L fuvitations wero ssued. The ceremonyw\;m?" formed by the Rev. Dr, Mercer, Llcnl‘.l Tlm‘a United States Navy, was tho **bestmau. w;‘r;ung::;m;lon::!d;mu prints sn lul;esfl:'f statement of the mannor in which Gov. ‘n:lv- engogement 1a denied. Whilo the l’d’n w‘r‘naul« ing hor friends on Monday at the Wint “:Iucnd it Mr. Tilden called, and, after bolng luuyl s jous ol i ;l:a':w:r;:::‘: lrvl«bmu. (This conmngd‘llnyl:l:{' slon tothe report of an engagement.) e replicd the young lady with auppresscd n:_:“l. i * 'lr‘ny friends havo sent me twelvo capl:ll el cited the curloalty of tho guests, an ;' Aiers thoalort for tho words which followed AECTS moment's pause Muas Morse :\‘t:f'd Tl .u]mynul}l:lol Tht;ut :c:‘lda ::::‘; Jalltics. 304 e od tho subject P ord ;:::r‘d of the noarcst lady if sho wero ® Democ! OTAL ALRIVALS. i0 Bherman, llnu:llod. M, Finlayson, lv(c)::f:':'" : 1L, Hacon, Boston; R. Hotchkiss, Galvelhs |/ G. T, Hupbard, Morlden, Coun.i r vanon Mantoba; Q. L, Carman, Davenportws (0, Jiouse~Gea, L, Yoo Blessing. 10 G W. Hiaris, vAKe Dresser, lnndonj the Hon. . watker, 3 . Jones, Cheyenne o, SHIO%S Srontomatuuiien Doto aud Huura 1 Gt w“hlll ‘unl‘k.u,' w" J. i W {(‘:::V/ B, lHoar, Lake B“W';I:r- =E, W, Rice, mkllé::;:x.u 3 I , Lonn. § T Welkor, New Yark: B.D . jirat, Wat Etates Euuineer Col . ¥o um’,‘.lbvdlhl N. Y. . T, Halne: Snfln'xflflld: »‘\‘,‘ .m e s il g g V- A ol oiony Qo Bt YR ki b Yo oty dacksonvile, 1