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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 91, 1870, " December. TERMS OF SUNSCRIPTION. PATABLE IN ADVANCE—TOSTAGH PREFAID AT TINS OFFIC! Fditlon, postpatd, 1 2.1 fl"n’lr' a l’Pl’F{"fil’"fllt‘!“" 1. bl“lf“" iny address four 14 M Kheet 2.0 1 Wee! .00 'ATLs OF n year, B One copy. per yeal SR of vk Clubof twen Yortage prepatil. Bpecimen coples rent free. ‘To provent delay nnid mistakes, be sure and glve Posts Oftee address in full, inclading State and County, * Tiewittances may be mado elthior hy draft, express, Post-OMce order, or {ureghtered lettors, at our Hsk. 7ENMS TO CITY SUDSCRIDERS. Dally, deltecred, Sunday excepted, 23 ceat per week * - Dally, deilvered, Sundsy Included, 30 cents per week Address THE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Corner Madiron and Denrbarn-ats., Chilcago, Ll TAMUSEMENT MaeVicker's Thentre. Madison street, Letween Dearborn and Btate. +'ThaGreat Divoreo Case.” Adeipht Thentres Monroe strcet, corner Dearborn., °** Around the World In Eighty Days. Hnverly’s Thentre. Bt Randolph stret, Letween Clark and LasSaile. Fn: llxulnln‘l:u( Btuart Kobsun, **Twu Men of Saudy Bar," New Chleago Thentres Clerk ssrcet, between Randolph and Lake. Tooley's Justrels, ‘Waood’s Musenin. 4 Al e _stredt, hetween State and Drsrborn, Afters nu‘gao?'?' Twin Sisters,"* Evening, **A Cuse for Di- yoree." SOCIETY MEETINGS. OF KNTAHTR TEMPLAT, Ftns I, 78 Sons cus 1InildfIg, 78, on: lrrfiucuulul’l‘c‘l‘l. AllEIr Eminent Commander. NOVEMDER 21, 1876, TUESDAY, Groenbacks at the Now York Gold Ex- chnogo yesterday closed at 01, ——————— At the oponing of tho Italinn Parliament yestordny, King Vicror Eaanuesn, in his speech from the throne, nlluded to the pres- ont crigis in Eastern affairs, and expressed confidence that tho dangers of thp situation would bo averted by the counscls of modera- tion to which the Italian Governmont had given an cffoctunl support, Florida advices furnish ne definite clew to tho actual figures in thab State, but the Re- publicans abate nothing in confidence that Maves has an honest majority of the entiro vote. The situntion is satisfactory to those in possession of such facts as have come to hand, aud there scoms to ho no renson for doubting that the Presidoncy rests upon the vote of Louisiang. Murrine and ;Jmmu, the two men arrest- ed on tho charge of attompting to despoil the tomb of Annanay Lincony of its precious contents, were yostorday indicted by s spe- cisl Grand Jury of Sangomon County for two scparate crimes,—attempted larceny and conspiracy,~nnd cach wns conmitted tn de- fault of bail in the sum of $11,000. This looka like n *¢ job,” nud n very serious one, for tho two resurgeotionists. Wo print this forning o cord from 3z Doveras M. Tavror, of this city, in reply to an articlo in Tue Trnuse of Sunday last on the subject of Indian titles (o roal estato v and about Chiengo, No fecling of uncer- tainty or disquictudo should be excited by that which at most was n gossipy natrn. tive, brsed upon tho nssertions of interested parties, and Mr. Tavron’s version of the matter ought to renssure tho nervous people, if thero are any such, e The Louisinna Roturning Board did little "business yestorday. * The time wns mainly occupied by Democratio orators, who did their utmost to convinee the Board that, ns a | " body, it did not oxist. ‘Thero fcems, how- * sver, to bo considerablo #pirit left in the four . members who still represont the Board, as i . the Demnocratic cloquence appenrs to have +nitained tho result which its authors prob. ably anticipated, namely: nothing, Tho votes of o fow uncontested parishes were canvassed, but the results are not announced, The HBoard etill bas the quostion of filling tho vacancy under consideration, —ee ‘Ihe trinl of the Younarn Lrothers for tho murder of Irywoop, the heroie Cashior of tho Northfield, Miun.,, Bank, was bogun yestorday at Faribault, and terminated quite suddonly aud unoxpectedly by tho entoring of a ples of guilty Ly ench of Uho threo pris- onors. Thoy wero thercfore promptly son- . tenced to imprisonment for life in tho Poni. teatiary nt Stillwater, and thus is ended, it is to be hoped, tho oventful carcor of throe of the most desperatn villaing that evor went unbung, It would have boen gratifying to hove scon tho denth penalty inflicted in " punishmont of their crimes, but thoy have' been overtaken by a doomn scarcely loss tor. riblo und appalling to men of their years—a life-imprisonment which no Governor of Minnesota will ever dare to shorten by so uch g3 a day, The time of year hns now mrrived whon an eraption of bids and coutracta may be looked for in tho Board of County Commissioners, An elaction hos just been held, and soveral of the members have been spared any fur- tlier official rosponsibilities In connection With county affaira. It is thereforo cssontinl that as mauy as pogsiblo of the remaining Court-Tiouso contracta should bo disposed of before tho presont Ring is disbanded by limitation. But two or threo wecks are left in which to wrango the details, and it will be necessary to rush things rap~ 1dly in onder to make a clean job of the con- trnct business, ‘Tho prospeot for tho now % ! Board is rther discournging, Lut as thero ia enough of tho old materiol left to form the cpmwencement of another Ring, the Demo. cratic members.elect noed not long remaln in ignortnca of the scionco of tax-grabbing, T ————ve— Tho Chicago produce mnrkets were ir- regular yesterday, and grain was less active, Mosu pork closed F@74o por brl ligher, at 15.97§@16.00 for tha year and $16,10 for nnuary. Lard closed G por 100 lbs higher, al $9.97§@10.00 for the yopr and £10,00 asked for Jouuary. Moats wero firmer, at Gjo for now shoulders, boxed, 8o for do short-ribs, and 8]o for do short-clears, Loke freights were dull, ot 2]c for wheat to Buf- falo. Highwinos were nominal, at $1,00) por gallon. Flour was in light demand and steady. Wheat closed 1f0 lower, at $1.103 for November and sl.nfl’ for Deceme ber, Corn closed ensy, at 43¢ for Novew- ber and 44}o for December. Outs closed steady, at 82jo for November and 83}c for Ry wos firmor, at G2Je, DBarley -+ elosed frwer, at 70}c for November and 720 o .for Decombor. Mogs were active and strong, ‘_ with packing grades 100 higher than ou Bat- [ S 5 T W ruled steady and firmer. Snles wero at $2.25 | lieations wero propared for special effcct in | less apofl could bo obtatned, “Russis, tn fact, has @5.25 for inforior to extra. Sheep sold at Inst week's prices, or at £3,00@4.50 for poor to cloice. Ono lundred dollara in gold would buy $109.75 in groenbacks at tho close, It soems fhat tho procoss ealled **bull. dozing” in Louisiann Is somothing so novel, ingonious, and horrible ns to entiroly war. rant the adoption of & now nnd ugly-sound- ing combination of letters to oxpressit. The uso of this political engino has beon nently cooxtensive with the limits of the State. Tho naturally-crednlous negro was lured into n sccrot lodge of Denocrats under promiso of ample prolection, Onco entered, the dazed darkoy was surrounded and mystified, by what rude diabolism and bizarrerie conld be conjugad togethor, ton degreo suflicient to rendér him entirely pnssive, while an onth (in octosyllabic words) that he would support TipEN wne administored, and o throat (in exceedingly plain diction) of the most terrific torture was held out in case of his possible porfidy. 'Tho *applicant” for membership was then promised tho fullest immunity in attending Republican meetings, but at tho same time was enrefully mado to understand the nature of tho oath ho had taken, It will bo remembered that nearly overy Republiean meoting held in the * bull. dozed " regions was nttended by n cohort of drilled nnd disciplined wmen, who marched with appalling solemnity inte tho places whero the spenkers were to bo hoard, and ominonsly listened to everything which was said, very ravoly offoring any violence, yot ocensionally informing the orator, in a pona derous mannor, that ho lied. This was for the purpose of protecting the lavge numnbers of nogroes who bnd secrotly been initinted into their sacred rites, and tho conscientious performance of this peculiar duty, togethier with the brutal yet industrious flogging of every unfortunate colored * member" who foiled to nttond their midnight conclnves, throw such a ghastly light upon polities in that region that, where the blacks did mot {ollow tho ox-alavedrivers' prescription nnd vote for reform, they juncontinently took to ihe swamps, and tremblingly awnited the wreck of matter nnd the crush of worlds which was to follow their awful trenchery, HAYES AND TILDEN, It lins not yat been definitely determined whether Hayes or Trroey has socured o ma- jority of the Elactoral Colloge, and pending this decision it mny not bo out of place to contrast the clinrnsters of the two mon as illustrated by thoir conduct in the cnmpaign. Gov. Hares wns not personally n secker of the office. Whon ho loft tho office of Gov- ernor of Oldo in 1871, he retired, ns ho sup- posed, from politics forever. Ilo had not at any timo been o politician, o hnd been olected to Congress while in the army, and, bad not peace taken placo, would not have claimed tho oftice. In 1867 ho was olected Goveruor whilo in Congress, defeating Judge TaunyuaN, and in 1869 was ngain olected Governor, defeating Prsorzroy, In hoth cascs the nomination was forced mpon Lim. In 1878 the Domocrats clected Arnry over Noxes, and in 1875, when the Ropublican Convention had to solect n candidate to compete with Auiey, Gov. Ilaves, againgt his rofusal and agninst his rec. ommendation of another, was made tho condidate. His boaring in that contest —the most animated that had ever taken place in Olilo—won the applause aud respect of the country, 1lis irrcpronchablo charac- ter, and the rectitude of his politieal princi- ples, nado hi conspicuous among tho pub- lic men of the country. As the Stato of Ohio bnd n large Electoral vote, nnd was ono of the States voting iu October, it was cssen- tinl to the success of tho Republiean party that the Cincinnoti Convontion should namo o candidato who could cortainly securo the voto of Ohio. QGov. Haves being otherwiso whollyunobjectiouable and creditably known to tho gpuntry, wns selected at Cincinnati, his nomination being also a recognition and o declaration in favor of reform in the ad- ministration of tho Government. During all these ovents lending to his nomination Gov. Haves in no mauner eaid or did suything to promote his own intorests or to obtain tho nomination, Nover was such an lhonor con- ferred npon o man less selflsh or less nmibi- tious for tho designation, His letter of accoptance was s model of diguity and manliness, It lifted the cam- paign, 8o far o3 ho was concetned, ont of tho drival and scaudal of persons!l dotraction, and placed it upon the great political issnca hetwoen the two partics, aud especially upon tho question of corrccting tho wide-spread ovils of tho corrupted civil-servico system, His frank declaration that if clected he should, in order to be froo and independont in oftico, decline a re-eloction, gave to tho country the assuranco that ho was earnestly onlisted in tho reforn which ho commended, During the campsign, beginning in the wmountl of June and which is not yet decided, hobng borno himwolf with the samo cahin dignity, courtesy, independonce, nud manli- nesy for which ho has been distinguishod through life, ITolus taken no active part in the campaign. 1lo contributed no wmoney, Lought no opposition, propared no doou- monts, made uo speechos, made no personnl appenls for voles, interfored in no State nominations, nor in any other way sought to obtain support or votes that were not volun- tarily given lo him upon Lis persounl and political record. How haw it boon with Ay, ‘Prroex? A yoor and a Lnlf bofore the nominations for I'resi. dent Mr. 'iLoeN engoged persomlly in tho intrigue for his nomiuation. 1llo made his power na Governor of Now York an instru. maont for bis own ndvancoment. Ifis loudly- Lioralded connl reforms and cnnal prosccu. tlons wero meroe ngoncivs to silonce opposi- tion against him in his own State. 1o had his emissariea sontteridd all over tho land, telling tho story that no Democrat could bo cloctod without the vote of Nuw York, and no Democrnt coutd carry Now York oxcopt TiLoeN, His ngonts attended overy Demo- cratic State Convention to push delegates in Ius lutorest. 1lis followers and dopendunts carried the Now York delegation, and before tho lavish oxpendituro of his money nt St. Louls the Solid Bouth yiolded to his cm. braco. ‘Phrough his lioutenunts ho ma- nipulated that Convention, nud over- wheled all hig rivals, It was at his personal divection that IlxNouioks was nominuted as his associnle, and ot his per- sonal solicitation that Henpnioss accepted the nomiuntion. e at ouce took personal chargo of tho campuign, Iis sgonts can- vassed Noew York, and liad tho numos of all volers entered ina book by precincts, Ho ostablished o literary und printing bureau, with 103 persous employed in preparing doce umonts, pamphlets, statements, and appeals, and theso papers ho Lind placed in tho hends of theso votors, His literary bLureau worked Incessantly, ‘Ihe Domocratio press of tho country was furnished with editorials and wrday, Cattle were in good demnud, and | other watter foi pub)jcnfion, and theso pub. tho neighlorhoods where published. Iis money was omuiprosent,—~in Indiana, Ohio, and Ilinols, aswell ag in Conuocticut and Now Jorsey. Mer, Tirory porsonnlly super- fntended everything, 1lo wrote lis own platform, 1e diracted the Iousa of Repro- séntatives to pass tho bill roponling the Re. sumption lnw. Ile dictated nll tho lotters and addrosses issuod by Mr, Hgwrrr and the National Committeo. e intorfored and dic. tated tho mnomiuntions for Congress, and everywhore and at all hours ho notively managed and directed the enmpaign. It should bo remembored that, whether clected or defented, Mr. 'I'1uben is tho first candidate for tho DPresidency who has ever ndopted such menns to elect himaelf, To the honor of all his predecessors, candidntes nnd Presidonts, lot it ba said, they never re- sorted to any such monns either to bo nomi. nated or olected. No Whig, Democrat, or Ropublican asover demenned himself for tho purpose of bLeing olected Prosident of the United States. Not ono of them, no matter how ambitious, has ever betrayed the unsoemly and indccorous, and we mny sn indecent, anxiety to be elected that hiasmark. ed Mr., Tiroex's conduct both befora and sinco his nomination. 'Though Governor of Now York, he has spont ncarly his whole time in New York City, managing, with tho activity of a ward lender, the details of all the operations in his behalf, o las work- ed personnlly, night nnd day, at headquar- ters, now hiring torchlight processions and making speeches to thom at midoight ; now consulting and dircoting ns to who should bo Mayor, and Sheriff, and low tho ofiices should bo divided botween tho factions of tho Now York mob; oven on clection.day ostentatiously voting * the wholo ticket,” nud keeping opon houso near the polls of his precinet. If clectod, tho precedont of hia suceess will have done moro to lower the dignity aud character of the office, and the means by which eandidates mny sceuro it, than all that has been done in the history of the Union. THE COUNTY WILL BE COUNTED. Thero is but ona sontence of immediato in- terest to the citizens of Cook Conuty in tho long-winded opinion given by tho local Can. vassing Board with tho tiresomo verbosity of a Suprome Court Judge,—nud that is the conclusion that **the Board will proceed to eauynss tho romainder of tho returns ag they were roceived.” ‘Ihnt is to sny, Messrs, Lien, Hamnes, and Hasmurn have concluded not to nssume the responsibility of throwing out twenty-ono election precinets in this county on account of the negligenco of ig- norant Domocratic eleotion judges, or tho designof corrupt Demoorntio election judges, which would have inducted, iuto offico men who had boon defoated at the polls, 'The tomporary flurry, therofore, is over, and the voters of Caok County may enjoy tho salis- faction of knowing that thoy nro not to be awindled out of their choico s it was fairly aud dofinitely expressed at the polls, That there wns for a tinie a disposition on tho part of the local Canvassing Board to re- ject twenty-ono Republican districts is ovi. dent not merely from the hesitation of tho Bonrd and the long arguments thoy thonght proper to listen to, but also the drift of the opiunion they hinve given with all the preton. sion of n court of lnw. 'Tho entiro drift of this opinion is to the elfect that it was within their power, nnd probably their duty, to ro- ject the procincts in which the judges had foiled to roturn the tally-sheets. Thoy hold that the law requirea tho judges to mako out theso tally-lists and to roturn them to tho County Clerk, which is all true enongh, nnd that the decision of the Bupremo Court requiring - them to certify tho rotmn ““if the return s upon tho faco of it in tho form of {he Inw" really constitutes them the judges whother it ig in tho form of tho law or not, Their opinion is that the returns from twon- ty-one precinets wero not **in the form of tho law,” but thoy have decided to canvass all the same, becauss ** no official complaints of eloction-frauds have been made, and con- sequontly it must bo prosumed that n fair eloction was held." 'Tho conclusion is ox- coedingly sonsible, though we are not pro- pared to admit that tho Board has the ro- served discretionary power which it claims, and which might at any time be employed to defeat tho will of the peoplo. T'o provent tho recurrence of tho minor irrogularities in making up tho returns two reforms aro necossary. Ono of theso ia that there should bo provided a large number of olection or polling districts, no ono of which should include over 500 voters, and tho size of which might bo reduced still moro with advantugo, ‘The ofher is that the Demo- cratic Board of County Commissionors shall sielect more competeut men to nct as eloction judges, and oxact rather intelligonce and charnctor as qualifications than blind foalty to Democrntic intorests, If theso two reforms shall bo mado (and wo think it will bo evi- dunco of a dosiro to swindle the voters if they bo not mado), tho local Canvassing Boanl will not be called upon in the future {o pass upou its own powens as » diserotion. ary tribunal. RUBSIA'S FOSITION. The London &pectator, 1n o recent articla upon the Turko-Servian armistics, makey n very strong argumentb upon the position, which has alrendy boen takon in Tur Tuip. oxE, that o war botweon Ruesin and Turkoy is inovitable, 'Tho Spectator shawe that tho rocont battle of Djunis was not so much n defeat of Sorvin as it wns of Russia, and compelled the Russfan Court to demand an immedinte nrmistice. Tho slaughter of Rus. sian soldiers produced such intense excite- mont nmong the peoplo and in the army that they wore ready to demnnd immediate war, ond the Government could not withstand the pressure, Tho demand was made, An armistico must bo made within forty-cight hours or tho Russinn Emnbassy would quit Constantinople, 'The Porte yielded to the monaco and granted the armistice. That this armistico does not mean penco or anything liko peaco, the warliko rpcech.of tho Czar, delivered i tho very midst of pend. ing uegotiations in answor to BravoNsriELD'S Lombast, cloarly onongh shows, ‘Thore is nothing in the situation now different fromn what it won when the Tondon and Derlin propositions wero made to warrant any hopo of a peace, 'Tho sympathles of the Russian pooplo for tho Sclaves are just as strong now a3 thoy wero then—oven strongor, now that Russiaus bave follens victhns, The sympa- thy, howaver, has brought no protection to the Sclaves, and tho Bulgarian atrocitics re- walu unavenged. As tho Speetator says : fihe has not secured deceut treutment in fulare for the Dosnlans aud Merzegovinians, or the Are ‘munians, who aro her especial proleges ; but hasas yeb only provoked thelr wmasters futo regarding thom aa truitors, who ought in political expediency 10 bo savagely ground down, BShe lsu noteven succeeded fn protecting Bervia, Thoe Turks have defeated that State, fn @itc of the Russion volun. tecrs, and ure able, but for the srmistice, to march directly on Belgrade, sud give up the Servians wholly to the Pasbas, 8¢ victims from whom cad- been beaten, and beaten by Mohammedans, both in diplomacy and n tho tlold; hee representations have been trested with scorn, and hier troops have been slaughtered without elther victory or veh. geance, What ean diplomacy offeat beyond what it has already demanded and failed to socure? Ono of two things is certain—either Ilnssin minst ncknowledge liorself dofeated by the Turk, both in diplomacy and on the field, or sho must demand nutonomy for Bulgaria, Bosnin, Ilerzogovina, and Montonegro,—in fact, their absoluto indopendonce. That TRugsin will adopt tho first of thesa altornn- tives is nbsurd, For twenly years sho has been proparing to mnke good tho Crimnoan lossos and aveugo horsolf for the humiliation placed upon hor by England and France. It is not likely that she will sucoumb to the 8ick Man whon sho knows that thero i not o Powor in Continontal Europo that will in. terforo with her policy, 8ho has alrendy Iaid down her ultinintum to the forthcoming Conforance, and the Czar himsolf has publicly announced that ho shall go Lehind the Treaty of Paris and act independently if it is not accepted. ‘I'haroarogoodrensonsfor believing that tho Turks will not accept it. First, they are in the very flush of vietory, linving com- plotely overwholmod tho Serviaus aud vir- tunlly dofeated the Itussinns at Djunis, Second, thoy know that the English Ambas~ sador at Constantinople is their friond, and they count upon the English jealousy of Tussin and the friendship of the English Govornment, notwithstauding tho unfriendly criticiams of thoir polivy in tho Inglish pross. Thoy also know that Austria is equally jenlous of Russian influence, and that Germnavy's noutrality is not based so much upon friendship for Russia as upon fear of a Fronch allinuce with bor. Third, and strongest ronson of all, the granting of autonomy for tho Sclavio provinces would placo Christinne and Mohammedans upon tho same footing, the end bf which must bo the clovation of the Christians and the foun- dotion of & Pan-Sclavonic Empire, Com- menting upon the armistico, the Spectalor BAYA : Sho will, we heliove, epend the two months in arnting, and the armistice will oniy bo a proepara- tlon for o moro serlous and deadly struggle, to commenco with the New Year. Hor armie$ will then bo in position aud her squadrons in the Medi~ terrancan, while Greeco will be as ready ns sho can bo made to bear o part she bas hitherto avolded. 1 Tha Spectator's prophecy is nlready ful- fillod. Tiussia has comnmonced her war prop- arations upon a colossal scnle, An immonse army has boen mobilized. Hor fleet hns been put in order. Yl railronds have been soized by tho Government. ‘The export of herses has been stopped. Russian officers liavo been ordered homo, and that ultimate mensure of o Power intending to make war has been adopted,—the State Dank of 8t Potersburg having nunounced that it is nuthorized by au Imperial uknso to receive subgeriptions for an issuo of a war loau of 100,000,000 roubles, ‘Llint all these warlike steps should Have been taken meroly to in- fhuence diplomacy in her favor by n gigantic game of bluff seecms too improbable to be- liove. If Russin is not going to make war, her preparations nre unintelligible. THE DIFFERENGE BETWEEN THE TWO PARTIES, The pending uncortainty as to the issuo of the Presidontial voto has one, and wo think but one, compensation. It has exerted an unfortunate dopression on business, it has aroused parlisan passions, it has engondered forcbodings of future danger, it bas Lecome an intolerable nuisance to those who take no higher interest in the result, and the only mitigation of what would otherwise be an unalloyed misfortuno is tiat it hag domon- strated again that the gonuino patriotism of 1l country is mostly included in tho Repub- lican party, That this is trus is ovident from tho fact that all the brow.beating, all the threats, all tho bluster, all the prophe- cies of civil war, and all the dynuustrnfions of violenco lLinve been on the Democratio side, whilo nearly all the forbearnnco, all the maoderation, all the patienco, and all the wise counsels have beon on the Ropublican side. During the ontire controversy over States where tho voto has not yot been canvaased, tho Republican pross have been a unit, ns far as wo havo ,beon able to observe, in placing . country before party, and in declaring o willingness to nccopt tho re- sult as it may Lo determined nccording to tho forms of law. The Domocratic pross, on the other band, reprasented by such con- splouous organs a8 the Now York Kirpress, Cincinnall Knquirer, $t. Louls T'imes, and Chicngo Times, have shown a disposition to placo party higher than country, havo as- sumed TrupEX to bo elacted befors the result can bo known to anybody, aud have fracly threatened resistauco to the inanguration of Gov. Haves in cese thoe final couvass shall show him to havo & majority in tho Elzctoral College, Every careful obsorver of the ovonts of tho past two weeks will boar us out .in drawing this marked distinction be- twoon tho two parties, The immediato.issue involved, and that which has provoked tho bad passions of tho Domocratio partissns, is whother tho officos shall romain in the hands of the perty that now control them, or pass into tho hands of the Domocrats, who have beon hankering after’ them these sixtoon yenrs, We do not eay that the final determination of the victory will have no moro ?nparhmt Josult {han this, but wo do sny thaf this is tha bone of contention over which the politiclaus are struggling, ond which has brought out all the snarling, barking, and biting, If Br, TiLoeN shall become Y'resident, the Domo- cratio office-sockers (or a-small portion of thom) will get place, the Democratio gam. blers will win their money, and the Domo- cratio leglslators will nassume responsibilitios with which they have not been burdened for many years, If Alr, Ilaves shall bocome Presidont, the offices will remain Inrgely in tho hands of the presont trained officiuls, the men who have bet thoir mouey on Republic- an uccess will pocket their gaing, and the Tlopublican legislators will continue to make tholawsanddirect the policy of adininistering tho Government, bound by the pledges of im- provement that were so conspicuousa foaturo of the rocent campaign, Now, thero is nothing In this situation which hns suggested to the Iopublicans a posaible provocation for civil war and o renewn! of the carnage and devastation of the struggle the South brought upon the country, ‘There has been no intimation on tho part of nuy respeetablo Republican nowspaper, or any rosponsible spokesman for the Republican party, that thero will bo the slightest resistanco by word or deed in caso the Democrati ecandidate be declared elected according to tho forms of law, 'The Republicans do not think cnoungh of the offices to fight for thom, and as to the future of tho country thoy believe that law oud order aro & thousand times preferabls under the rulo of political opponents than civil war under any circumstancos, Not so the Domoorats, ‘Tho spolls—peacenbly if weo con aud forcibly if we uust—sesws to bo the motto thoy have adopted, nnd their mennces nra directed agninet all conditions of things except the inangurntion of their enndidate nml the porsession of the oftiens. "I'his is the Democratio notion of ' patriotism. This differenco bolwoen the twe parties is tho more notable beoguse all the provocation for o robellious spirit hins beén furnished by tho Domoerats and suffored by the Ropub. licans. It is notoriousthat Mississippi and Algbama would hove cast thelr voto for Iaves it it had not been for the policy of intimidation and violenco ingugurated by tho ox-Confedorates two yonrsago and main. tained to the end. South Carolina has boon barely rescued from o Iator application of tho samo policy, If Louisioun shall prove to have gono Democratic, it will bo'owingto the sameoutragooussystem of **bulldozing”which conld reduce a Republican volo of 1,748 in singlo county down to three. The ncquics- cenco of the Ropublicans in the election of Trr.oex will bo the submisston of the intelli- gent and pencenblo masses of tho North to the roughs of tho Iargo cities and tho thrents nnd violonco of tho ex-Rebols. If either porty had o right®o threnten resistance in caso of tha other's success (which neithor lias o right to do), it is the Republican party, and yet there hns not been a word to indi. cate auything clsa than a quict and ready acquiescence in cnso Trory shall havo s mnjority of the Electoral votes. All tho TRepublicans have demanded is that the votes shall bo counted ns the Iaw provides, and thoy will submit to tho frauds by whichn largo part of thosa votes have been nequire: The Ropublican President stands ren’y to protact tho Government for the in~u uration of him who shall thus be entit'~. to the suc- cesgorship, If ifgbo TILory, lugro will be no offer or show of resistanz., no disposition to resist, by tho Republicans, If it bo Hayes, the Democratic nowspnapers have moro than lhinted there will be resistance, aud have cer- tainly.done nll they could to create a rebell- jous spirit nmong the men of thoir party. ‘The recollection of this differenco botween tho two parties will nssist patriotio citizons in determining their political afiiliations in the future, for tho great 1nass of the poople liold tho peace and welfare of the country-ns immensarably superior to the success or life of any party. THE LATEST INPROVEMENT IN DEATH- DEALING MACHINERY. Tho two problems that now largely occupy tho attention of the Great Powers nro first to scoure an iron-clad that will be proof agninst nny artillery, and second, to secure tho artillory to siuk any vessol that ean bo put afloat, no matter what tho strength of hor armor. Theso bave been tho problems since the Monitor-Merrimno faot which de- volopod them, and set human ingenuity in every land at work with redoubled industry to invent more destructivo ngencios for destroylng human life, which at last but imply tho shortening nnd narrowing of the horrors of war to the least possible compass, 8o cach improvoment in ship's armor has beon followed by a corresponding incrosso in the calibro and rango of guns, and increnso in the weight of tho projectile, tho forca with which it is discharged, and its power of penotrating steel plates, until now thoe whole question of naval warfare scems to have been reduced to a mero problem in mechanica— to have bacome & mattor of machinery with which cournge, and endurnnce, and fighting diseipline have next to nothing to do, In the latest of tho great iron-clads, tho Duilio, built for tho Italian Govornment, the English engincers havo sought to mnater the firat problem, the construction of an invul. nernble armor. On the Duilio this is of steel, twenty-two inches in thickness, and set upon the strongest backing, making her the most formidablo craft over set afloat. For her armament the othor problem was counsidored, to-wit: tho construction of n gun that would, penotrato even such nrmor as hors, sinco the successfal lasunching of the Duilio establishes that tho construction of similar araft 18 possible, and that it is smch that provision must bo made for defense agatust and attack upon. Tho tests mnde at Bpezin a fow days sinco establish that the gunis equal to tho sorvico required of it I'he gun 18 the greatest ever cast and weld. ed, weighing one hundred tons, and has al- ready beon described in theso columns, It was charged with 840 pounds of powder, bolng the Inrgest charge over fired, and, londed with n one-ton lall, was discharged at a sootion of steel plating similar to that of the Duilio, being of steol, twenty-two inches in thick- noss, Tho effocts of tho shob wero tre- mendous, ‘The steel plato was, as dosoribed by the London Z'imes, **literally dashed to picces.” Tho augle irons, procisely similar to those of tho Duilio, wero torn away ; tho Dbolts wore driven in or started ; and, though tho shot was itsclf shattored in passing through the armor and did not wholly pene. trate tho wood and iron backing, the result was to demonstrate thot the Dailio could easily bo sent to the bottom by precisely such n gun as that manufsctured for her armament. ‘What makes this demonstintion the moras emphatio is, Lhat thero is little or no doubt but that the quality of projoctile itself can be so tompered that it wounld eat like a dio through the twenty-two-inch steel armor, aud, instond of boiug shattered, peuc. trate also the backing., Another cflect of tho shot was no loss significant, It was that tho force of tho conoussion, which is esti- matod ns cqual to thirty thousand tons wolght, started tho- rivets so that the Dbroken armor plates Lung in mere shreds to tho backing, Such shots would knock the armor off a craft such ag tho Dullio in vory short order, aud as yet no systom of riveting has been invented that would withstand tho tremondous robound following the stroke of such n shot. Of course furthor inventiousin the cop. struction of steel-plated vessels will now be attompted, and sagain the problem may be transformed into that of discovering the gun that can break the improved armor. But thus far overy addition to tho armor las been attho oxpensa of sen-going qualition, and even such floating fortresacs as tha Dui. lio, available ouly for harbor defonso, aro so overweighted with metal as to bo unwicldy and linble in & moment to go to the bottow, Tho problem, therefore, at last may recur to that of the construction of wooden ships floet onough to run past such craft ns tho Duilio, and which, if pierced even by such projectiles as the ono-ton shot, might yet be kept afloat by contrivauces suoh as would bo wholly unavailiug iu case of an iron or stecl clad, The ex-organ of the ox.-Whisky-Ring in Ohicago has discovered & mare's-nest in tho pursuit and apprehonsion of tho seoundrely who endeavored to dospoil the LiNcoLy mon- uwment of the remaing of the groat man who lios there. It comes to tho rescuo, of these scoundrels by holding that, even if thoy are guilty, they caunot be punished for a mcre ‘“attempt " to rob thb grave, and inthuates prelty strongly that tho wholo case fs a ** put up job” to bring Ermen Wasununy favora- Lly bofare the publis as n eandidate for the Supurintendoney of Polico in Chicago, 'Thin lanbout ns vilo o specimen of journalistic wpito ns any that' has evor coms under our notico. The animus i obvious enough, Foronothing, this slow-goingeffortat a nows. poper falled to got the nows of the nttempted spolintion when thoe other nowspapors got it, and the slow-going editors try to oxcnso thelr stupidity by discrediting the nowe. But the principal reason for the attack is that Mr. Ermen Wasunuay was one of tho most officient of the Govarnment agenta in break. ing up thoe Chiengo Whisky-Ring and Lring- ing the thieves to justice, "The Tnter-Occan ean nover forgivo him for (hat, 'Tho fact ig that Mr, Wasnnuon sought to suppress all newspnpor mention of the Springticld out- rage, instead of seelting to got the benefit of any notorioty that might come of it. THE EAST INDIAN RROR. Tho details of tho eyclone, with its accom- panying tidal-wave, which recontly ravaged tho conat of Indin, nro almost too horrible for belief. No such slaughter of human life by the clements has over beforo been record- od, Inonenight, and in the twinkling of an oye, 300,000 human beings wero swept out of existonco. Tl localitios which wero ravaged appenr to have been three Inrga islands,—IInttiah, Sundeep, and Dakhan Bhahabozhare, some smaller istands, and n portion of the main Innd in or near the estu- ary of tho River Megus, on tho southern shore of Indin, the submerged territory con- taining about 340,000 people, of whom 800,- 000 wora drowned, Tho const at this point is ontirely flat and low, bearing tho samo relation to tho oconn that our prairies do to tlm Inke. Tha land 18 cultivated for fico and ocotton like other bottom lauds, is penetrated by bayous aud rivors, and strotchea back upon a porfect leval to the mountain ranges, Tho monsoons sot in about the middio of October, and this year have blown with terrific violence. On the night of Oct. 31 no dangor was feared, although the storm was raging with great goverity, but ono bhour later s huge wave twenty foot in hoight and miles in longth, followed by smaller rollors, came tonring in from tha sea with the swiftness of n race-horse. Every human being wha could not esenpe to tho tops of tho trees was drowned. Tho houses, which are low one- story structures, wero smashed liko eggsholls and swept awnay. Oattlo and all othor animals wero drowned, Nothing was.loft that tho hugo tidal-wavo struck, oxcopt trees here oud there. Onomny form somno concaption of the awful seono by imagining some tor- rible whirlwind lifting up o wave on Lake Michigan twenty foet high, stretching from tho north to the south limit of the city, and in an instant of {ime engnifing Chicago ond drowning over two-thirds of its people, a calamity compared with which our flery vigitation would appear insignificant, It odds to tho terror of tho event that the stench from the putrefying bodies has de-~ developed cholera among the survivors, and that famino has also added its ravages to in- creaso the fearful and pitisble condition of theso people. In all the world's record of horror, in all the ravages of fire, enrthquake, or oven tho bloodicst wars, it is hardly possi- blo to recall anything surpassing this Indinn horror, THE SILVER QUESTION. Wo have given in a provious article, in nn- Bwer to one of a list of interrogatories sub- mitted by tho United States Monetary Com- mission, our ronsons for belloving that ¥orld- wido disaster would follow tha ontire sban- donment of silver o unlimited legal-tender in all tho countries of Europe and Amoerica, Another point mooted by tho Monetary Com- mission in its ciroular 14 tho following: 1t the United States shoald establish the double standard, do you think it would have tho effect of confirming France, Italy, Nelgium, and tho other natfons of the Latin Union, Austela, Russia, oliand, Moxico, Asin, and South Amenca, In thelr present policy of employlng sllver as an un- 1imited legal-tender? By tho cstablishment of the double stand- ard is meant, of course, the re-establishment of tho silver dollar in our monetary systom from which it was displaced by tho act of Teb, 12, 1873. Our currency, after the re- sumption of specle-paymonts, would then resemblo that of France. Gold and silver wonld circulate side by side, coined at thoir relative value of 16} to 1, Either might be tho standard. In France, the silver G-franc piced is tho standard, but the two motals circulaté together, In this country the silver dollar was the standard, but gold al- ways circulated freely. 'There can bono doubt as to the proper answer to the quos- tion quotedabove. 'T'he catablishmont of the doublo standard by tho United States would no doubt permanently confirm the Latin Union and the othor States named in the use of pilver. It would at lenst offset aud roctify tho disturbing influence of tho establishment of tho singlo stondard Ly Germany, The demonetization of silver by the latterhas Lind tho most marked effoct on the members of the Latin Union, The representintives of tha nations that compose {t—France, Bolgium, Bwitzerlaud, Italy, and Groeco—have even gono so far as to debate the advisability of following Gor- many in tho abandonment of silver legal- tendor, I Panmy, oneof the French dele- gatos, proposed this stop, and wns supported Dy two delegates from Switzor- laud, Ie wns outvoted, but succeoded in having tho amount of silver to Le coined by each Btato limited in amount, and in having the nggrograto coinngo for 1876 reduced to 110,000,000 francs, or 50,000,000 less than that of 1876, 'Uhis rotrenting policy of the Latin Union was inspired solely by the silver demonetization of Germnny. Silvor remono- tization by the United States would give now credit to silver monoy. It would introduce a force of the first magunituda into the allver maorket, 'Thero aro political economists of good standing who lold that the value of gold and silver is sustained by the Govern. mental domaud for theso motals, Cranus- ouy, the celebrated French advocate of the doubla standard, does not hesitato in his work on bimetallism to maintain that the present value of gold aud silver is the creation of law, and that all that is noedod to make their rolative value of 15} to 1 perpetual, is, that tho leading nations sholl unite in coining them on that basis, ITowever that may be, it is self-ovidount that tho silver market, already rapidly recovering from its recont extremo depression, would be greatly stimu- Inted by ndemand from tho United States for throo hundred millions or moro. Ahero 18, iudeed, danger that prices would riso so rapldly that our subsldiary silver coin would reach a premium and bo exported. In that case, wo should be left without change, and e compelled to use the disagroeable substi- tutes employed in thoearly years of the War, In re-cstablishing the silver dollar, the Goverument should make coluags froo. ‘This, for the smny reason that thp Govern. mont of India Las just declined to sestrict the coinage,~namel. {bat eannot fell how nz:ch ail:'l: (:l‘::"“m“ needs, and should, therefore, Ieavm ey amount of coin in cireulation t:z le ua e nearly ng posaiblo, by tho needs of nm]’ e munity, National-Bauk notes of ;“om. denominatiouns than %0 should by with“lm“er from ciraulation in order to enlargg thl $4, of employment ot silyor, and mnlc! ki hoarding or oxportation of it more d'nm L] than it would otherwiso bo, The I a: tu‘““ ars, of course, would ba m'(aemedxm;le“d. of cirenlation altogethor, o ndop!i; - theso mensures would render the clu'mm:‘ 5 the country utable, and would bring IL{":( monotnry harmony with far the lnrgest Y of the world with which we trado, Ty wpm pmt an ond to the fluctuntions of value ‘:;‘m Lave disturbed tho Latin Union and (he uum nations thnt use silver, nnd woulg lhmuwl: them reaet mout favorably upon our a\g Aystem. Nor would the re-establishment of tho silver dollar deprivous of gold mon, ) All _thu advantnges of convenlonce and lel{ liko “alaimed for gold would' slill be o ; France lias had tho silver standard ni:? 1804, Lut gold haa nlways cireulated !reel’ a8 wanled, and during the years wlien th’ silver standard prevailed in thin conntry gn]:.‘l was always in circnlntion, cxeepting thy periods of paper inflation, ; hlt is eatimated by those the menns of doing 8o that the Exposition lias boon the cause of g:: i;:‘:,? iture in Enstern States, during the Into nnm: mor, of at lenst thirty millions of which would lave beon oxpended 1 thg West hnd thero been no such Exposition, In this estimato are included ralirond fares Lo~ tel bills, persounl expenditures for c!o!’hing dress goods, jowelry, and various articlen u'l like character, and merchandiso, Iow mush of this ostimntod gross expenditura is nppc;r. tioned to each of theso clnsses is not stated, but, excopt in tho articlo of merchandise ]mr’. chased for salo in tho Wast, it should bo re. membored that muck of the expendituro for tho other purposes was extraordinary, and would not have been exponded at all were i, not for tho specinl circamstances. It fs nr. gued that as n rosult of this Exposition ther nnaboen a corresponding roduction in the wholesalo sales made by all Western eities and proportionately in Chiengo, and thero l; adisposition to arguo that the Contennin} was therefore n financiat injury to the ‘West, including this city. Wo do not 60 rogard tho case, oven if tho fncts be ns stated. Thatin the great mass of .persons visiting the Centennial thero should have boen merchants, who thus while a6 tho Enst should purchaso stocks of goods, is nothing more thau natural, But suck an ovont argues nothing against the stability of tho trade of Ohieago, Trado does mot de- pend npon the visitations of a circus, Moen who can deal at the Easton better terns than in Chicago will go thers, Exposition or no Ezposition ; and whilo many may have purchased stocks of goods whilo on their plonsure tour this season, tho question for them and for all others, afterall, comes back to whother they can purchase thers or here on botter torms. Tho fact of making par- clinses this season at the East will load to sn' clucidation of this point, nnd the trade will follow the docision: whichever way it may bo. It may ba that Ohicago lost tho sala of somo millions of dollara’ wdrth of goods in 1876 which would have come liere Liad thers beon no national holiday at Philndelphia; but if it shall turn out that all such sales might have taken placo hero to tho botter advantage of the purchasers, that fact will readily appoarto them in time, and in the end mako theso purchasers pormanent deal- ers here. ho teem to have dollarg ‘The greater part of the bonds sold by Jit Cooxs tobuild the Northern Pacific Read wers sold fu New England, and are still held thers iu tho expectution that some day thoy will boy worth something, Speaking of the last wheat! crop ralsed nlong the lHune of that rosd, thoy Springflcld Republican snys: ‘The Ited River wheat-ficld, on whose develop- ment the Northorn Pacldc deponds for the settle- ment of ita lands and the growth of its busincss, fs reported to have buon only moderately successfal | {his scason on, account of grasslioppers sod otber | drawbacks. A yicld of twenty-five bushels an acra | of the fineat apring wheat was hoped for, but only | fifteen bushelx has been secured, even this being ! considerably larger than the Iiincls yield, and making & profitablo_crop, _The Raifroad Uazells | B3y8 |Enl. the Bt, Paul & Pacifc Rullroad, which | runs up snd down the Red Itiver Valley, tho routh- | ern connection to 8t, Paul not yet being :ur?lulcd. romiscs to compete fur the Red River trade, un- s tho Northorn Pacific, which owna {ts stock, can aleo get coutrol of ita bonds, und uitimately of the road.” The Nortiern Pacific croscs the valley, and only commands ita trade for o timted range, except aa it maken use of the river or of anorth and south feeding road. The interest on the preferred stock of the Northern Pacitic amounts to 5,880 u mile, which 1t will requiro about ten thmes the preseat net earnings to meet, ——— The New York Evenlng Post wishes Havzy clected by the “skin of his tecth,* in order 0 punish the Republican party for its alleged sius, and explains its feelings in the matter by . saying that they ace very similar to those of the colored orator, viz.: A colored orator in Washington,a few nights oJ with moro truth than purity of thetorle, upon the political sicaation fn the following 2 **My frlen's, once I preach to a right slnfu Eflhxr‘ ation, Doy was stift-necked. Duy was lell»lu‘ cient. Doy wouldn't 1is'en to nutlin. 1 pra) rl 4 dem. "4 Lord ' T gay, *take 'em up in uo hallet 9b yor han' an’ hot' ;o ober do mont o ell, ol H acorch *ein ant . lf:;d.?!‘:m’ltl of 'em dm; in. ‘uu r&,‘!,““‘sé"‘ifi‘.‘fit‘: arty. Dey wouldn't lis'en to nulin, Er;fl!}rnn lny;ln Souf ba 'timidated, Dey done bust " dey o Freedin's liank, Doy kep' bad men- whete ntole morg'n ebor :oluryed people does, I\Q\wn :-d: Lard's got ‘em fu do holler ob hia an' M\L 5 holdin® of *om ober de mouf o' hell, Am, 0 EN. ucorch 'et an' scorcls ‘em—but dow't lef ‘vm 4ivp i e~ Tho Russians profess to be greatly fllsfl“"l‘“i with the conduct of the Serviaus on the bat‘ln'; fleld, Here fs un oxtract from o special o pateh, dated Belgrado, Nov. 2 to the Londd Limnes: Tho Ttusso-Bervian army ia durmc_rl In ;;gg:f directions, 'TenERNAVEPY I8 08 'urnl.ln.m e act position of LusvaTovizcn 1s niot kno o from of ‘lm ftussinn volunteerd who hnd,c.qul Ak i Deligrad are golng to Montencgro, They IIJ,, g strony terms of thie condnct of the Servl.u’fi I (e fusing 1o carry wounded Jtussian "mf‘uumu for futd, except o the payment of seyvera! fed er that service. ‘Ihis ?Aai boen nlready f""“’ Gsl“’l\‘- by surgeons, Lut I hesitated (0 ballave It POt U 1o afrald, bowever, that thers c:ll’l‘ St wwerd of it, aud’ that even .competitive bargels Lo drlven, the wounded persons wh could | getting the preference from thy carriers. e ————— 5 The Bureveport (Lu.) Zintes (tire-cater) makes this quotation: A M Knmear, editor of (he ChIESE 7‘,13':':&‘:':“ graobs as [ellowa to the New Orleans 2 l:' o Not the North, but the uation, demsuds thit e, sert”your wmaiiou. e expect You 19 i s St {06 whtola matioa Jooks hoperally, vreyertilly you. You bave the majorley; buid 5. Sronste KunNan {s o biger mau?’ than ('::fl'lllg Tolus 4 }¥% have millions to standby ’W‘k petule weé, T xay the whole universo lou! !uml" e ly to you'* ©Assert your mauh i tousa fihold the fort,”t Bound the ‘Mh::e-mm b the fearful lewgog, sud muke wins the Radicalp! Col. InaznsowL suld inone of that the country was full of lellulw tvineiblo fu peace and fuyisible u‘ b are now brawllog for blood 1 TILHM" ' clared clected, They have made oftices. ————— ki {from emacratic lawyerd Lead? e e Haci, aro- wasgk e s solemply uver the legal uspecia "uuuu ol 1;: aud dectining 1o glve, a1 opinion, exauple I e eors woutd ao well 1151 —Aaw York Tribune. ol oS Someofthe “astute’ Dcmum‘l '-du_'m oy Weat)" —and one of thew 1o (4 his speeches ¢ who weré war. The be notde- waub

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