Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 23, 1876, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, NOVEMB SR 23, 1870, ¢ Tribawne, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, PAYADLE 1N 'ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID AT TIIS OFFICE. 11y Rditlon, portpatd, 1 $12.00 't & year, per month, 1,00 it e e Rel e a.m vee! 600 Parts of & yenr, per niol 50 Que copy. per year. # 1.80 Club of z‘ Lt 8.0 Clubof twent. oe 20,00 Fostago prepl(l a5 Specimen coples rent free, o prevent delay and mistakes, be sare nd give Fost- Office addrens in full, including Btata and County. Remittances may be made elther by draft, oxpros, Post-Office order, or In registered lettors, at onr Hak, 7ERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS, Dally, deltvered, Bunday excepted, 23 ceuts per week. Dally, deilvered, Sundsy Included, 3U eents per week Add NE COMPANT, ts.. Chiteago, 11l AMUSEMENTS. McVicker’s Theatres Madison _street, between Dearborn snd State. $*Tha Great Divorce Case,” Adelphi Tl-a::re. Monroe_street, corner Dearborn. Wnnfl n Bl’mutb-n. g Hoverlyts IThentre: o o treet, between Clark and La! ' e c&%‘:‘i’?}. 0 TEety o bman i Mo of dandy Dar, Woond’s Mnlen:ll.’ T between State and Dearborn, er- ivoree.” THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1876. **Around the Greonbocks ot the Now York Gold Ex- shange yesterday closed at 913, —— Upon the second and third pages of this issue will be found an extended and most in- terosting report of the proceedings yester- day of the Christinn Convention of the North- ‘west and the religious servicesin connection therowith. Reporta from Florida go to show that the ‘TrLoEX managers have opened the barl and exposod its treasures to the mombors of the Returning Board, but thus far the canvassers have resisted the tempting bait. The Re- fornors aro discournged, and at a loss what course to pursue, when this, their best card, fails to win, Silver continues to creop up in value, TYesterday's quotations were 54§ pence per ounce, which is a gain of one-fourth penvy since last week, making the old silver dollar it now coined worth just abont 92 cents in gold, or three-fourths of a cent on the dollar moroe than the greonback. The coinoge of tho product of the American mines into sub- sidiary emall money hns stopped the ex- portation of silver bullion to Londou, and, thereforo, the advance in the value of silver. Tho great TweED is slowly but majestically appronching onr const, and at last accounts was gozing intently, anxious for the first glimpse of the highlands of Noversink, The old mon iniguitous was receiving his last shuking-up at the bonds of Neptune, the Franklin being undor short sail, and the sea very rough. It may possibly bo that the ccmmander of the vessel has not been of- ficially informed of Gen. Newron's' foat of extracting the dangerous snags from the Jjaws of Holl-Gate, and may thorefore hosi- . tato to risk a passago through that channel A s S et i it e X i KA e i e ey A o s e - woa firm, at 65}@Goc. + 700 cash nud 70}@710 for December, with such u weight of wickeduess on board, Tweep will probably, on his arrival, imme- diately go into quarantine at Ludlow stroet. After reading tho lotter, printed in another columu, reecived by a gentleman in this city from o friend in Nuw Orleans, doscribing tho horrible ntrocities perpotrated by the bull- dozers in Ouachita Parivk just precoding the election, 1o one will be surprised that the vote of that parish wns almost solid for the Democratio Stato, and nationnl tickets, the only wonder being that any Ropublicnn votes atall wero polled there, This lotter gives an oullino of the evidence to bo laid befors the Roturning Board in support of the cherges of wholesale intimidation and violeuce, and if the half of what is hero re- cited is true, there is need of n Returning Board with plenary powers to roject the votes of uny and all districts where this flendish work was done, The Common Council Committea on Polico last evening submitled a report giving thoir rensons for the recommendation in n former roport that Superintendent IMrcker bo ro- moved—a recommendation which Muyor Hearn saw fit to disregurd, although it unmis- takably roflocted the viows of large wnjori. ty of the Council, The Committee now 6tato nt somo longth the premises upon which they based tho conclusion that Mr, Hioxey was not a proper person to remain at the hend of the Police Doprriment, and once moro insist that the proof iu support of the charges ngninst that officor were such as to Jjustify o demand for his removal, ‘The mat. ter is to come up for consideration next Monday, and thero seoms to be no resson to anticipato a change of front in the Council on the subject. A number of the roprosos ve Democrats of Ohio, including the members of the State Contral Coumitive, Geonor II. PexpietoN, ‘Tnomas Bwine, nid othiors, have been to the trouble of adopting a sot of unnocessary aud mischiovous resolutions on the subject of the Presidential muddle. 'Fhey. might have boon better omployed than in * feso- Tating " in one breath that partisan foeling in the discusiion of Iow and fnot is to bo deprocated, and in the next breath showing the mont unrensonnble and pig.hended parti- eanship in tho assumption that any count of the Louisinun votu that doos not, elect Trrvey must of necessity bo o fraudulent count 3 in the nsscrtion that the presence of troops in . Washington is caloulated to excite unneces. sary alarm, ** puperiling the peace at home and publio credit abrond ”; and in the prop. osition for a gencral confereuce of Demo. cratio Btato Committeen for the purpose of egreelog upon a concerted plan of notion, This is ** duprecating” portisan feeling with & vengoance, — The Chicago produce markets wero rathor quiet yosterdny, Mous pork closod 5o per Lrl lower, at’$15.80 cash and #16.72}@16.75 saller tho year., Lard closed %o per 100 lbe lower, at §U.05 cash and 8.77@ 8,80 for the year. Mests wero a shode easier, ot 6o for new shouldors, boxed, 8joc for do short-ribs, and 8jo for do short-cluars, Highwinea were steady, at 81,06} per gallon, Flour was in light dewand and firmn, Wheat closed §@1c higher, ot $1.114 for the month and $1,11} for Docember, Corn closed {@fo lower, ot 45c for November and 48jo for December. Oats closed j@jo lower, at 82 for November and 820 for December. Kye Darley closed dull, at logs wero sotive aud weak, closing 10@15c lower than Tuesday ; sales were mostly at $5.70@ *-8.85, Cattle wero in fair dumaud, st essy ’ prices, with salos at Bhaeep olectlon. It {s worthy of noto, en passan: that must bo decided by that Conference, wers unchanged. Ono hundred dollars in | how suddenly tho Btate-Sovorcignty Dem. | stripped of all outalde issnes. The work of gold would buy $109.50 in greenbacks nt the closa, —— Affalra in Bouth Onrolina hinve ssumed a critical and oxtrnordinary phase within the past twenty-fonr hours. The State Board of Canvassors yesterdny took advantage of the pendency of proceedings before the Supremo Court, and jssned certificates of election to #ll the members of the Legislature shown by tho roturns to have been dlected, oxcepting those in two counties whore frand and in- timidation were proven to tho satisfaction of the Board,—socuring in this way n Repub- lien mnjority upon joint ballot. Certificates woro also jseued to the Ilaves Eleotors and to all the candidates on thoe Republican State tickot, and then the Board adjonrned #ine die. According to the réport forwarded by tho Southern Press ngont, n part of this naction wna in direct disobedience of the man. dato of the Bupreme Court, which had taken in hand tho entire business of cauvassing the roturns, issuing ordors to the Board Loth as to what it should and shonld not do. Wheth- or the members of the Board havo inenrred the liability of punishmont for contempt in other particulars is not so clear; but it is manifest from the nddress fsmmed by Waoe Hawrerox that the Democrats regard the whole action of tho Board as an open and palpable deflanco of the authority of the Supreme Court, Hampron advises his frionds thot the proceedings of the Board Liava no legal force, and, after oxpressing his willingness to abido by the decision of the highest tribunal of tha State, counsels mod- eration and submission, In the present tom- per of the Buprome Court it may be ox- pected that the Btate Convessors will be afforded au early opportunity to purge thom- selves of contempt or take the consequences. INTIMIDATION CONSTITUTIONALLY COR- SIDERED, While the Domocrats have been contend- ing for tho count of the votes in Louisiana, Florida, and Bouth Carolina ns they were actually cast, without regard to the influences of intimidation aud violence, they have carefully ruppressed the fact that they are thus making the samo uso of the black vote, only to & larger oxtent, whereby thoy de- fented the North in ante-War times, and forced tho blacks to contribute to their own enslavement. The Constitution provious to the poat-bellum amendmonts gave the slave Btates a ropresentation in Congress and the Electoral Colloge based not morely on the number of tho free population bnt counting in three-fifths of the slaves. This was one of the concossions it had been nocessary to mnko to the slave-holding population to so- cure their allegianco to the Union. The blacks wore troated in law asnd in foct ns chattols, like so many horsos or mulos, but yet the Southern whites claimed an incrossed ropresentation in the Electoral and Legislative bodies in the proportion of three to every flve alaves. This was an unfair aggrandizement of Sonth. ern power, and wns used against tho intorests of tho North aud ngninst the interests of the very blacks whom they claimed to represent. Under this system, the Sonthern States had about twenty-thrco members of Congress and about twenty-threo Electoral votes more than thoy would have had if their slaves had been treated ns chaltels m elections ns well a3 other relatigns, This exnggorated power was resented by all pacties at the North, be- onuso it gavo the Southerners an undue rep- resontation in caucus and convention as well ag in tho Nationnl Logislature and the Elec- toral Collego. Oune of tha first things ac- complished by the War was the abolition of this falso ropresentation, and it was provided Ly the Fourteenth Amendment to tho Consti- tution that the blacks should bo represented as whole men and not a8 s0 many three-fifths of a mna, but also thot, when tlio right to voto for natlonal officers was denied to them, then the busisof ropresent- otion should be reduced accordingly, This wng befora the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment, providing for impartial suffrage. 'The point wo now make is that, by the policy of intimidation and violence, whereby the blncks havo been politically disfranchisod, ‘the Bouthern people ore again using tho blacks for tho aggrandizement of their own power, and for the defeat, and debascment, aud peraccution of tho blacks themselves, Thus tho sixteen Southorn States have thirly- Jour moro Roprosentatives in Congress and irty-four more Electoral votes than they would hiave if the nogroes wore not included in the basis of representation; but, if the negroea nro practically disfranchissd by in- timidation nud violence, then thess thirty- fonr extra votesaro fraudulont under the spirit and iutont of the Fourteeuth Constitutionul Amendment, Thus thoro are four States in which tho black voto is unquestionnbiy in the mafority, viz.: Mississippi, Bouth Caro- lina, Florida, and Louisians. These four Htaten havo 27 Electoral votes, which would undoubtedly have Leon cnst for Hayes if the blncks had been left freo to voto nccording to tholr own iuterests and inclinntions, and their 27 votos' ndded to the 166 votes Haves rocelved at the North would have givon Lim 193 votes, or n cloar majority of the Electoral Colloge. Bat Mississippi, which would have givou 20,000 mnjority for Haves, has beon stolen for TiLoex with its 8 votes, nnd tho blacks practically disfranchised. In South Onrolina the shot-gun polioy eamo very near earryiug the State, aud the Domoorats clatm that it has succoeded in Louisiaua and Florl. da, If so, then Mr. Tipex will have ro- colved the votes belonging to the blacks by means of o violent robbery of tholr consti- tutional rights. But it is not alone the epirit and obvious purpose of tho Constitution, denying ropre- sentation in Congress and the Electoral Col. loga whoro tho franchise Los been withheld, that justifies tho Loulsiana law making the Btate Returning Ioard a judicial tribunal for taking account of such diafranchisomont ; the practice iw still more direotly warranted by the United States statutes, earrying ont the spivit aud purpose of tho Fourteenth aud Fifteenth Amondmonts. The Revised Stat. utes of the Umted States (Sec. 5,620, p. 1,070) provides s follows; - 1f\wo or more perdons in any Btate or Territory consplre to prevent by force, intlwidation, or threat, uny citlzen who ls lawfully entitled to vote, from glving hia support or advoracy, in & legnl wanne, toward or {n favor of tho eloction of any Tawlully quulifed person as un Elsclor for Presie dent or Vice- President, or 8y 8 wmember of tho Congress of the United States; or to 1njure any cliizen in person or property on account of auch Fupport or adgocacy; each of such pervons shall be bunlehed by a tne of not lew than fve hundred nor more than fire thousand dollars, or by imprison- ment, with or without hard Iabor, 1ot less than six montly noF more tAan akz years, or by both such Ane and bnprisonment. It bus boou argued by the Chicago Tlimes and sone other Confederate organs in full sympathy with tho * bulldozing” policy that the Btate law, providing that the Returning Board sluall tuko coguizance of the forcibla disfranchisement of voters, should not bLe vermitted to influence the result of & national ocrals have Lecomo Nationaliota; but grant- ing them sincerity in thoir conversion, the scction we havo quoted from the United States atntutes shows that this Stata Inw of Loutsiona meroly carries out the purpose of the national lIaw, mndo in harmony with and to give effect to the Fonrtconth Amond. ment to tho Coustitution. While the Constitution of the United Btates eox- prossly provides that represontation shall be abridged in proportion to the denfal of franchiso to citizons, and while, m keoping with this, ihe United States statutes mako it a crime to intimidato a ofti- zen from voting at a national election (a crime punishnble with six years’ imprieon. ment), cortainly it is not merely within tho power but clearly the duty of o State in which the blacks ars likely to bo intimidated to protect tho validity of the vote in propor- tion to reprosentation. Any ronsonable ob- Jjection, thorefors, that can bo mads to the count of the voto of Mississippi, Louislana, Bouth Carolina, and Florida must come from the Republican and not from the Demoocratio sido; and, if Mr, TrLpEN gets tho vote of any one of those States, his clection will be due to the ropresontation given to the blacks in spita of their practical disfranchisement by the whites. HELLISH BARBARITY. ‘We print elsowhera a statement mada by a colored Ropublican of East Feliciana Parish, Louisiaug, to the correspondent of the Chi- eago Journal, setting forth the manner in which he was tortured by Democrats on ac- count of his political principles. ‘We com- mend this statoment to our readers s one instanca out of hundreds showing the man- ner in which the Tildenites havo sought to carry that Btate, This victim of Democratic brutality was born and raisod in Louisians, and rented a little pieco of land upon which he ran a saw-mill. On the Saturdsy night bofore tho election ha was called away from his house ostonsibly on business, but suddon- 1y found himeelf in the midst of amob of Domocrats armed with sticks and pistols. They hurried bim off into the timber, atripped him noked, and tied him to o bocch tree. Then they out beech limbs and five or six of them lashed him until he was insensible and they wera oxhaustod. Whon he was restored to con- seionsness, they informed him that if he over spoke of the bulldozing they would kill him, Tho correspondent says: * Groves, by re- quest, took of his shirt, His body, from his neck to his knees, presonted a mght that wos more eloquent than words. His baclk, and sidos, and thighs were cut and torn, and white scara on the black flush crossing cach other here and there proved with what zeal the advocates of Tipex and Reform in Louisinna sought to carry that State.” The offenso of this poor victim of Democratic barbarity is best told in his own words: ¢ T tole some of de men dat whipped mo a day or two bofo dat I wonldn't jine de Demo- cratic club or vote de Demoocratio ticket; dat I'd dio first. Dat's do why dey whipped me.” The flendishness with which this poor negré was treated shows, without ooy need of comment, the manner in which tho Democrats have attemptod to carry Louisiann, nod, with the knowlodge of such facts, and with the very victim in tho City of Now Orloans telling his pitiful story and showing his stripes, Jouyx M. Parmen and Lysan Truanury, old antl-slavery mon, are in Now Orloans to holp count Louisiaua for Trpex and give the State into tho handa of the men who lashed this negra! The vic- tim of this hellish brutality is ono of wit nesses who can be heard by thom, if they are 80 disposed, and inform them how the Dem- ocrats carried East Foliciann Parish. Let them rummon him and ask him to show them bis senrs, THE FORTHCOMING CONFERENCE. It is oharacteristic of the Russinn policy that whenever the Czar or his Premier hava Bpoken upon the relations botweon Turkey, Servia, oud tho Europoan Powors, thoy have spokon cloarly snd unmistakably and with romarknblo frankness. When, a fow days ngo, Lord Beacosskiewp, in a post-prandial spocch, bent about the bush to inform the world that Eogland, in certain omergoncies, might go to war, tho Czar courteously, but bluutly and emphatically, notificd tho En- glish Premior that Russin was rondy for war nnd bad taken the management of the Sick Man into its own bands. Thercupon all In- glapd was in an uproar, and the Tory Gov- emmont hastoued to let the world know it should take possession of Constantinople in the event of war. The Uzar onoe more has spoken. After having roised those appro- heunsions, he now procceds, with n directnosa which is slmost irouical, t remove them, by assuring England that she is not in auy dan- ger, aud thut sho need not be afraid. In his interviow with Lord Lorrus, the Euglish Ambassador ot 8t, Potersburg, the substance of which is confirmed by Gorracmaxorr's dispatches to Couut Bomzmvarory, the Russian Ambnssador at London, the COzar clears the whole question of every outsido complication with which the diplomats have been entangling it, and goos straight to the pith of the matter by notifying England and the world that the sole object of Ttussin is the amelio- ration of the Christiana in European Turkey ; that if ho cannot have the help of Englaud, ho will accomplish it without; and that if the Europoau Powers nronot prepared to act firmly nnd enorgoticnlly, then he will be obliged to ot alone, The emphatio and oven solemn manuer in which he disavows any in- tention of nequiring Constantineple, any afterthought of the poasession of India, or conquest iu general, and proclaims that his only purpose in the occnpation of Bulgaria would be provisional, aud in order to secure the peace and prosperity of the Olristinn population, is in the nature of s sovore ro- buke to tho solllsh policy of England upon tho Eastorn quostion, aud the insane jealousy which has always characterized England in Ler relations to Russin. The frankness of the Czar isin striking contrnst to tho con. cealments of England, Jle even goos out of his way to leavo no pomsible opportunity open to England and the other Powers of suspecting him of double-denling. Ho ex- plains that ho sont the ultimatum to the Porto because ho fearad the victory in the Morava Valley might be followed by atroci- ties,—a result ho had roason to fear, inas- much as the Turkish victories on the Drina and in Boutheastorn Sorvia wero followed by the Bulgarian satrocities; that he had per. mitted officers to go to Borvia, provided they left the Russian service, in the hopo of calm. iug the sgitation in Russin; and that therg was no intention of ercoting Servia and Rof. mania into indopendent kingdoms. The attitude of Russis, so clearly and frankly defined, lends odditional interest to the forthooming Conference of the Powers at Conatantinoplo, ‘The first spoech of the Ozar whowed that Russia was waster of the Conference. Thesecond wives the question that Conferonco is purely the work of Rus- .Bia. Bho lns presented her ultimatum in such a manner that ovon England must in- dorse it, 1t the Porto acoopls it, there will bo penca; if it rojects, thoro will bo war. The London T%¥mes of n lato date snyn: Up to this timo we hava been left in nncertainty #1 10 the naturo of the revolution or reform which, In the opinfon of Ruenls and Ruseia's two allies, will bo necossary for the Chrlatlan provinces, We only know that tlo requirements have tended to Increase In stringency. The Axpnassy noto went further than the proposala of the Consnlar mission, the Deriin memorandam went further thsn the note, andattho end of the memorandum there was the famous reference to *‘other mensures," which was n chicf eanza of ita rejection by En. gland. We have yet to learn whother Rusula's do- mands wili be modifed by recont evonts; and, if 0, in what sense. In short, we do not know at this moment what it preclecly Is which Russia wonld exact from the Sultan's Governmont, or what In the scheme for which she rccks (ha sanction of Europe In n Conference. By this time England ean have no diffionl- ty in understanding the naturo of the Rus- sinn demand, and in understanding also that it is going to be enforced. With regard to tho modus operandi of tho Conference, the Constantinople correspondent of the Times furnishes somo interesting information, Ho snys: To expedito matters, Russia has moved for a pre- liminary Conferenco at Constantinople, to draw up & programme fur & more formal meeting, llkewlse to be held at that Capital, The preliminary meot- Ing will be attended only by the Ambassadors of the Powers, while at the real Conforence thoe Pow- ers will be roprosented by thelr Ambassadors, sup- ported by speclal experts acquainted with the con. ditfon of the Rayah and Mussulman population. ‘The Porte is to take no vart In the first meoting, but will be Invited to the second or more formal Conference. Ponding the meating of theso Conferences, the interest in Esstern nffairs will halt, Whatever way tho question may bo solved, however, whother it result in peace or war, Russinhas commended horself to the world by her frank and dignified course fn denling with the Porte nnd guarding the interests of tho Sclavio Christians. CONNECTIOUT'S FRAUDULERT VOTE, There is now overy renson to bolieve that the State of Conneoticut, which gave Tr~- pEN 1 majority of about 1,700 voles, was car- riod by fraud, The vote, which nggregates nearly 122,000, is out of all proportion to the population of the Btete. Tho largest voto previously cast in the State was at the elaction for Governar, in Agril, 1876, when there were 100,083 votes in all, There has consequently been an increaso of about 21,- 000 votes in a year and & half; of this in- cronso only 7,000 have baen Republican, and 14,000, or twice ns many, Domooratic, The increaso in the Republican vote was large, but it was owing to the spocial offorts that had beon mede by the Republican Commit- too, which had polled the cntire State and brought out every Republican voto there was in it; but when theincrease of Democratio vota was found to bo ldice as large as that of the Republican vote, there was prima fucis evi- denco of fraud; this hns been confirmed by an examitiation of where this Democratic incrense came from. It was all in tho larger cities, and Inrgoly from tho three oities of Hartford, New Haven, and Bridgeport. Tak- ing the basis of voters to population shown by the census of 1870, tho increased vote in Hartford shows an increase of 24,000 in population ; that of New Inven an incrense of 22,900 in population; that of Bridgeport 14,000 in population; and that of Norwich 10,000 in population, It is definitely known that fu some of theso cities there has beon absolutely no incrense of population, and in tho others the increase, has been Yery small, "The explanation of the- astonishing incronso in tho voto is only to be found in tho fraudu. lent naturslization and the repeators voted on tho Democratio side. The way was made onsy for these frauds by the passage of an Election law just prior to the clection of 1876, whon tho Legislaturo was Democratid, A well-informed corrospondent, writing from Hartford on this subject, saya: Unier the lawa of the Stato thera is nothing to provent the taking out of certicates upon the names of dead nien, of thoss who have moved away, or in fact of lssulng forged cortlficatos, Theso mny be voted on anywhers In the State, and only noed to be presented on clection-day, There 18 no opportunity to examine & man's claim; chal- longing docs no goed, for In tho short (hme no proofugafuat the voter can bo brought forward. Roglatey liste are worthloss, os tho law pormits additions on olection-day, Naturalizatlons ure done in tho petty courts,und a0 far as the evldonces of the party's quallfcations aro concorned ure a farce, Now, while tho Demoorats havo beon free- 1y uttering their throats of rovolution in case Louisiuny and Florida shall bo found to have voted for HAves, wo have not noticed oven a hint from Republican sources that thero will be g0 much as an objection to the count of the vote of Connccticut, though thore is no question but that the State was stolen, ‘This is another inatanco of the difforence be- tween patriotism and partyisin characteristio of tho two partivs, which wo recontly point- edout. Bo farns Connecticut is concerned, tho Republicous have fortunntely sesured control of the Logislature, and will probably pass an Eloction Inw that shall protect thom from being similarly swindled in the future, protstionis daduttidiiing NEW ORLEANS “NIGRERS.! The lioutenant of tho editor of the Chiengo Z'imes, now at New Orleans, has writton to that paper a lotter giving Lis improssions of negro officials in that city. With the con. ventional hatred of the negro which obtaius in that office, he wont to Now Orlenns ox- pecting to find in the two colored membom of the Returning Board and othor city and State ofllcinls * long-heeled, bullet-headed, Lluck-skinned, sausage-lipped niggers,” Ar. riving in tho city, he sought out the club. houso where the negro politicians congre- goto, and talked, and drank, und fraternized with the two members of the Returning Board, Messrs, ICrNnxr aud CasaNove, with tho Captain of Polioy, the editor of the Baton Rouge Era, n Stato Heonator, the Assoasor of Orlenus Parish, and numerous others, under the fmpression that they wore white men. In point of fuct, by the time he had enjoyed thoir hospitality aud been introduced to a scora or more of nogroes whom he had mis- taken for Fronchmen, nnd whom be expected to find *bullet-hended, long-heelod nig- gers,” instead of gentlemen quits ai white, if not a little whitor than, Limself, and quite as genial and cultivatod, he began to bo a little doubtful about his own color and descent, aud to question whether his own ancestry wers not of the Ethioplan per- sunsion, It i3 a mattor for some congratulation that our Chicago Z'mes megrophobist has been converted from his prejudices to such an ox. tent that he can afilliate with negroes and publish a very glowing narrative of his privoely ontortainment at thoir hauds, and it suggesta tho excellont results that might obtain if the whole establishment would only go to New Orleans fora fow days for the benofit of its negrophobla, 'The lotter of this correspondent ‘coutaius an important adwission, Hundreds and oven thousands of wmun are pointed out I New Orleans pud the Btats ns colorod men who ara just os white ns tho natives, nnd to allintents and purposes aro whites. They have no moro resemblanco to the Afriean than the Span. inrds, Italinns, or nntives of the south of France have, It is impossible to distinguish them from tho native-born of Now Orleans, unless it be because they nre handsomer men, Mr, Krnner, of the Roturning Board, who has beon oxtensively ndvortised by tho Domocratio papars aa a * bullet-hoaded nogro,” said in hus interview with this corre. spondent: * Ihavotraveled nllover tho North, Thavo gone ovorywhoro, stopped at all the liotels, ridden on all the cars, and novor found anybody to suspect that I am a niggor.” And this correspondont himsolf confosion: I oxpootod to meot o gigantic negro of tho regular type. Instond, I found mysclf confronted by a mon welghing not moro than 110 pounds. He is small to effominacy, with delicato hands ond feet—n regular petit maitre in appearance. Hiscom- ploxion is a very light brown; his hair brown, nnd just the lenst frizzy at tho ends, s ono often sces it in men of Hebrow ox- traction, Iis hesd is small, with rogular foatures, light brown eyes, a shapely mouth filled with handsomo teoth; o small mus- tache; ond an offominnto chin—such is Lours Kenxem, o man of about 88.” Wa oro told by theso same Domocratic, negro- hoting nowspapers that the Ropublienn party in Lounisiana is mndo up of Africnn Inborors, * plantation flold-hands,” ns BMr, ‘WarTERsON contemptuously terma them, and yet if this same correspondent hnd pursued his resoarches furthor into tha Btate, aud partaken still moro froely of negro hospitality, he would have found thonsands of bright, smart, keen-witted mon, just na white as those whom he met in New Orlenns,—tho product of former Domocratic miscegenation, 'Thelr bLlood is mixed with the blood of the old Confodorates, but there is no strain of disloyalty running in it. They aro brothors, cousins, nephows, allies of tho white Confedorates by every tie of consanguinity, but by no tie of politieal prineiple. These aro the *‘chattels and fleld-liands" of whom n Demooratic paper speaks so glibly and sneeringly, ond with ‘whom it fratornizes in the South through its ropresontative ! These are the men whose votes they are now trying to steal! NO WAR HERE. It is complimentary to the average intelli- genco of the American peoplo thnt at the presont juncture in public affairs thoy mani. fost Bo much judicial coolness, so much political wolf-restraint, and that they nppear willing and dotermined, como what will, to prefer the penco of the copntry to sceing this man or that in the Prosidentinl chair, Thero are fow American ecitizens who have not a proferonce for ono Presidential candi. dato or tho other, If Haves shall be our next President, one-half of our people will probably say: “Counted in1” If f'mpry, the other will say: *Elected by fraud, ‘in- timidation, aud bulldozing!” One pnrty or the othor will consider itself cheated out of the highest prizo the peoplo can bestow upon a citizen. No solution of the question now pending befora the coun- try o3 to who shall be its chicf ruler for the next four years will ba found which can give universal sotisfaction. At loast such appears to bo the case. The peoplo of the United States ore as well awaro of that- faot now as thoy will bo aftor tho fourth of March next; yot we avo morally cortain that, como what will, no blood shall be shed. There is not another country in the world which, under tho same circiunstances, conld presont such o mpectacle, It would bo as impossible in Frauce a8 in Mexico; and it is very doubtful if it would not bo equally impossible in auy other European State, were tho duty to deo- volvo upon its citizons to clect n sovereign, and all the surrounding circamstances were tho some ‘o8 those mow hero. Thero aro many causes for this remarkable phenom- enon. In tho first placo, there iw the in- tolligenco of the people. That jutelligence is great onough to keep thom from remody- ing o lessor ovil by n greator. Whey know that, whoever is made President, he cannot of himaelt or by himself inflict nny great ovils on tho country or involve it in any grent calamity, 'The Democrats may natlike Mr, Haves, but we will credit thom with preferring him to war. And so tho Repub- lieans mny not havo any love for Mr, Trir. peN, but thoy would necept him rathor than 860 the country roduced to a stato of anarchy. A sccond roason s that so many of our poople are property-owners, or Liave some in. torest in the maintenance of peace, Desert. od shops, abandoned houses, dissevered familics, are not cheerful sights whore intel- ligenco reigns and wealth abounds, Then again the memory of the Civil War is too fresh smong us. The appotite of even tho most bloodthirsty for carnago is still somewhat blonted. And whon the good people of Now Orloans wore counseled to ‘‘clenn out the Keirouo crew,” thoy pertinently inguired who was to furnish the corpses. Auother reason is, that, whatever tho solution of tho Presidontinl quostion &hall be, sowe doubt must necessarily romain in the minds of the peoplo as to whother the defeatod candidato wns not rightly de- feated, If Haves is not doeclared Presidont, who can feol cortain that were it not for fraud snd intimidation he would have beon ? Fraud aud intimidation thoro doubtless have boén, but were tho fraud and intimidation gveat onough to change the result? On this quostion the cloud of doubt would rest. And 8o in the case of TiLpEN, It Lo worae dofonted, who would say tlat tho frauds perpotrated were not onough to war- Tant his defont? Thero might ba a judiclal answor to this quostion, but in the minds of the peoplo enough doubt would remain to unnerva the arm aud atay the blow. Lastly, the Amerioan pooplo aro too calou- lating and cool to go to war without asking cui bono ? Whon they rushed to arms in 1861 it was to save one nation, aud to provont the formation on its ruius of auother with o Con. stitution making alavery one of its principal institutions, There is no such gront issue bofore tho people now, ‘It matters com. paratively little whethor T1Loex is eloctod. Ihe Republicans have a msjority in the Benato, and tho HMouso is so equally divided botween the two parties that tho Democracy can oarry no moasure which the Ttopublicans set thelr face sgalnst. The country will bo practically ruled by tho 1te- publicans at least for two yoars moro, whothier 1{aves bocomes Premdent or rewains in Obio, and, such boing the case, wero the people to go to war, it would bo only to declde which set of gamblers who have betted on the clec- tion should makemonoy by doing that which the laws of the soveral Btates Lave prohibit- ed thom to do; sud in what proportion the spoils of official poaltion should be divided amnong hungry office-seckors. That i all that is to be lost or won by golug to war, and wo think that the only partics auxious for the fray will be the gam- blers aud the ofce-bioldurs nud office-seekers, \ Thoy alone, under the ciroumstancos, are muolt intorosted in tho result. We ara satis- flod, thereforo, that the American people will loavo it to the Eleotoral College or to Con- gresa to solve the diMoulty ns best thoy may, Wonro convincod that from their decision no nppeal shall bo prayed. A people doubt- loss would be warranted, under cortain cir- onmstances, to take up avms against a ruler foisted on them againat thelr will. But the present is not such a case, THE “SWORD OF DEMOSTHENES" OUTOKE. Commander-in-Chicf KrenaN, wearled with the gore and dend corpsts which hls armlea in America have caused, hns assumed control of the war In Europe, and In yesterday’s fssuo of his headquarters bulictin—the Z¥mes, published {n this city—Issues his first general orders, in whicl occurs tho followliig paragraph: Ona conqueror, greater than the Czar in war, the intropld CianLea X11. of Sweden, congnered the Continental natlons, Including Ruema, and naliy foll Ingloriotialy by the hand of thio 'Tati, near tho very centre of the present Uulgarian troubles, Rend by the book, this cplstle hns a curlous sound, and tho eraven minlons of Europe may suggest to KeoNaN Lt 1. That Crianres never conquered the Con- tinental nations. 2. That, so far from conquering Russia, hewns thoroughly and beautifully whipped by the | Czar in the battle of Poltava, July 8, 1709, ad was forced to flee to the Turks for snfoty. 8, That ho could hardly have fallen near the centroof the Bulgarian troubles unless thoso troubles linve moved thomselves up around the fortress of Frederickshold, in the south of Nor- way, where CHARLES was shot, Dee, 11, 1718, 4. That ho could hardly have fallen by the hand of the Turk, when the shot tunt killed kim was fired from the besfezed fortress. Tt {8 much to e feared that the despotic rulers of effete monarchiea will erack thelr roval ribs with kingly Jaughter when thoy recelve thelr copies of the warning pronunciamento of Gon. s KEENAN, ———— Tir Citcavo TmnuNe pretends to bo very anxious for a falr count fn Lonisinna, but it bascs iLs Ideas of o falr” count on the iden that enough Damocratic votes must be thrown out of the count in Loulsinna to glvo the State to HAvEs. 1te argu- ment 18 thatin one parish of Loulslana the vote 10 years ago stoo tepublican. eniocratio, TRepublican majorlty. ., . 701 Tho rama parish now glves a Democratic major- Ity of 1.740, and this {s what troubles Tie Trinvz and causes it o deslro an explanation, Thera len't much timenow to explaln the causcs of post events, but Tue Tisuse should frat try to explain why the State of INinols, which gave GuanT 57, 000 nia- Jority In 1872, arely gavo Havxa 10,000 inajority now.—Springfeld (Jil.) Reateter. The able cditor of our csteemed Capital con- temporary has fuadvertently, of course, mis- stated some things, suppressed others, and ver- verted still others, The Kegister neglected to state that the vote for HIAYES In that “onc par- I8h " was three, while for TiLDEx 1,748 were counted fn, and that, too, In a_ Republican par- Ish, where the reglstered voto for 1876 was,— white, 1,004; colored, 2,127. Wa do not dis- guise that this sort of voting * docstrouble Tug Trisunr.” It percolves clearly enough that o monstrous villainy was perpetrated by tho Dem- ocrats {n that parish, and it ¢s troubled thereat. It protests against counting in Som T1LDEN by such infanious incthods. Docs the candld, unpartisan Jteylater bellove that among all those 2,127 col- ored mon only thres of them were willlng to vote for JiavEs nnd the Republican ticket? Does it belleve that no fraud or bulldozing was prac- ticed fn that parlsh? Where such a monstrous sclf-cvident fraud was perpetrated thero Is nothe ing left for the Returning Board to do than to Kick out the returns of Enat Feliclana, When that Is done, the Republicons ars still the losers of the 1,000 or more majority they would have given if the parish had not been bulldozed by the Democrats, We cannot think the fale-mind- ed cditor of tho Zeglster wonld desire to have the bogus returns of that parish counted for TILDEN. The Reglater wants Tz Trinune to explain something, It Is very simple. The Damocrats of Tiliuols would not support GREELEY, Tena of thousands of them cither remaiued away from tho polls or voted for GuanNr. Three thousand of them voted for O'Coxon. Gnex- LEY'S minority was 17,000 greater than that for Governor. Instend of 10,000, TAYES' majority in Tilinols 15 18,013, If the Independent-Prren- Coorer nonscnse had been kept out of tho can- vass, HAYEs' mojority would bave been 10,000 larger than {t s, Notwithstanding thousands of Democrata who voted for GRANT in 72 and thio loss of 12,000 Republican votes fooled away on Cooren, Gov. HAYES recuived 85,119 more votes thon wers given to Gon. Grant, Ifo ob- talned 270,800 stralght Republican suffrages. No othier ;man ever before recelved so large a vote {n Iltinofs. e One of thio editora of the Chicago Times, now in New Orleans, telegraphs to the fire-cating conicern as follows: ‘Thore {8 the gravest of reasnns for fearing thatif Pacicann bo counted In in deflance of the popular will,and thicre bo an attompt to Insugurato him, tho effect will reanlt in hly huln;i killed. ~ On overy blde one hieurs the moat pusslonate denunclation of the Iufquitons dotermination to cheut the penple out of tholr victory fn the Btate election, and throaty that Paciano shall nover live to act ds Governor of Loulstana, Pacianp is the Republiean candidate for Governor who has probably received a majority of the legal votes Iswiully cast, What {s meant In tho dispateh of the Zimes cditor to his paper by counting in Packanu in deflance of popular will, stmply meaus that tho Confederates nre afrald that the bulldozed parlshus mayv bo re- Jeeted. For fnstance, in the strong Republican Puarish of East Feliciung, where the Republican majority exceeds 1,000 on o fair count fn u falr electlon, the bulldozers have made this mone atrous return: Nicholly, bulldozers' candidate. Puckurd, Kepublican.. Buildoze majority This scoundrolly rets rs0 bo thrown out, and all others llke it, and if that defeuts Nicnowrs, the caudidate of those who practiced such monstrons frauds, they will be taught the lesson that honesty 13 the best policy, Asto killing PAckanrp for the erime of being elected Governor of Loulsiana by a majorivy of the legal votes caat, we think it will be fudefinitely postponed, unless the Zimes sends its Editor KeeNaN down thero to do it. There I8 no oune else hankerlng after his blood. e would probably first knock PAckanp down, run lis thumb into the man's uye, and then, druwing his revolver, shoot him, fu self-defense. —————, The New York Nation of tho 16th Inst. thus sums up the financial status of the past week, 1t 1a gratifying to notice the further advance in the value of silver, It la now up to the level of the greenback: I the forelygn markets, which aro governed mure b‘y home considerations, confidence In th peacs of Lurope was bulleved to by #o well assured carly in the week that there was at Liverpool such un upe ward speculativn 1n cotton ns hios not beon wit- nessed slnce the beginning of our Civit War, The ifaneactions Were cnormouy, and tho prics was ad. vanced to U5d for middhng Orleans—s rlse of about half a penny, The hmportauce of this ad. vance to us, wo mnr suy parenthetically, wilt po spprecisted when it Is undorstood that it &mounts Lo ubout §5 per bule, and ona crop of 4,500,000 bales would make s dliferenca to uy of 822, 600, 600, Whilo cotton wus thus sdvauchig, Brilish consols advunced 1o DO or il confdeisca [ penco was rudely whocked ‘later 1n the week by an afters dinuer wpeech of Lord Buacoxsririy, and still Iator by o rejolnder to it on tho part of the Crar, Tho Liverpuul cotton murkot losf 1ts buoyancy and becaino heavy, and consols have fullen 14 per cent, Unlted States bonds in London bave also declined a fraction in the yenerul dopression In thut market, The vrice of gold hers s, howover, not reuponded to the chunges 1n tho London murket, but in the Y." fow dayd lus been steaidy at sbout 1003 to 00, Thy fum value of the United Statos logul- tender noto for oue dollur baa ranged during the wuok between $0.0050 aud 30,0103, 'The price of wilver in London bas sdvaiiced to 63 to 0, und ut the close the gold vaiu of the old allver ollur wus su.umu‘ywnh thu gola value of the * trado dollar ** 00204, It Is very funny to seo that the Chlcago Times editorially ridicules tho editor of it 8¢, Louls numesako as o “ formldable swashbuckler ** and % Bobudian bulldozer* for tho very threats of vlolence und futhuldation It priuted in fts own telegraph columus, This is 8 falr llustrution of the embarrassuients of acopbalons journallsin, But thu polut in the matier Is that the Bt. Louts Times man s a sort of milq. i and one of the nmmmmmd '.:'an"f.'fi:,““’“"' engo Timea hns taken this means for ‘tho Sk Knenax over the 8¢, Louls man's by Ik #nd Lo reficct that Kupxan was 8o nh‘: o L0 82 tho palnt, for, of courne, {r e 2o it, ke would have suppresaed tho aryy, lml Heh? flecting on him personally, it The Republicans are cauvassin, eln;-}.lun returns fn eccret, screag cratle papers In cliorus, The: ar them In the presence of the D’;xnuucr;lt:.-"(‘}““z mlttnuomvo“cmlnumun.uem"lrnmnm .‘:n?{‘l‘ . prominent Republicans aleo from n;.; £ the Lonfatan, n all (o Demor ———— Everybody Is wonderlng n the mll;l}:"mun was ung lonfi o stead of KeryAN, who was tho boy tohnye :l:;rl'; \vorlk 1::lllim Returniug qu);\l:,h;lzk\:::‘;fi vo tak ¢ dmm? 0 taken lim long to aettle the conun. qtiring why oW Orleang [y, PERSONAL, Beechor nnd Tilton rods from the enme palace car last week, "The Pope has beon singing requiems for the ronly :]rltlll onomles, Including the unloflnnllnxlpplwn Miss Kate Hilllard ta to ropeat York the courso of lectarcs r i teron ** Tho Modern Poota, THdon racetves large quantittes o shich nro suggentive: says tha smfl.fifii'.f,",;’“"’ Y Hican, of a tunotal or & wodding, b 3r, D. D. Nome, the medlum, out n case for himself through as 8 deoply-wronged man, but cesa thus far, Moncura D. Conway bolleves Queen V| #end ";I:Z’l;':’szl:lh lottor to fln? me:r:nln?:’f%:‘r‘-l many, ng him to aver v oy bigging t tho evlls of & genorat 'The father of Swinburne, the poo n .lln ‘z);?t n"',;?.? et .l?ld ) x:m:n'rl T i:“é".'{.‘i aughtor, LI rth an aeluf 192 radlcat fn theory. O iHOGTSt: tho poct Dore Is not fond of saclety, interferes with bis art. Ho water, for the same roason, opera nnd the theatro, James Russell Lowell has an ode for Decomber which was wrltton lnrltrl‘xzm;‘:;?:fl: July, but which he was **unable to finish to hly aatlsfactlon, then or slnce," ‘Thomas Ball's statue of Dantel Wobste: . tral Park will be uuvelled next En(::hy :nle‘:n(;:: Adrenacs by Robert C, Winthrop and Mr, Brasgs will characterlzo the oceasion, E. W, Bewell, 8 Canodisn ship.bai) o tempt thla winter to keep open nnchnnr:i:lrl'n“lgl & Lawrence below Quebee, with the ald of & Govern, ment subsldy ond an fron-ciad steam ram, Mr. J. W. Drexcl, of Now York, was the princl pal purchaser at the late Menzlo s » boving ox. pended about 812,000, Next to him wae Mr. B, g..h.li:uy, of Chicago, who purchiased (hronch Mr, e A crazy Domocrat has wrilten to the t. Panl Ploneer-Press Linting atnssassination ns & meand of dlsposingaf Gov. Hayes In case he bo fnuge urated as Presfdent. Another dssassination would bresk up the Democratla party forever, . Mr. Edward King, the most falthful of all the Cene tennlal correspondonts, having furnishied a dally Ietter to the Doston Journdl, elosed Nla term of service tast week, and salled for Europe, whers bt acts a8 correapondent of scveral American papers, A current item cooveys the Iutelllgence that Tenry Tucker, author of the popniar ballad, **When this Cruel War is Over," fa living quletly in Brooklyn, IHe ovidently understands the mrtgmh of llving best suited to bis poace u mind, Tho oldest man in Minnesota s William Shea, of Terlin, Bteelo Connty, who numbers 102 yenrs, e came to this country from Earope seventy yean 8go, firat settled in Massachusetts, then removed to Ilinois, nnd seventcen years ogo weot to Minnesota, . A paator In one of the churches near Roston, It reading tho Bible lesson at Friday night's prayer. meeting, rondered It as follows, much to the amusement of hl audienco and bis own contusions **For If ye lave them who love yon, what rewart have ye? Do not eyca the Republicans st Willlnm Fawclt, the great Sir Peter Teazleot tho English stago 100 years ago, did not knaw the moaning of the French word abandon. Hoeald: *'It means snything but what you are. Ioften glve way to abandonment—so does Mrs. Fawelt, Lut lelen Fawcit 9 tho most abandoned of the family,™ Lo meant to be complimentary, 1t 18 #ald that Mr. Maplcson has just had another Tucky **find" In Parls, having socured & yuung girl with a Leautitul voice and faco, and with halr that touches the ground whon she unloosens it. Tha correspondents fnsiat upon the halr with much force, and seem to think Its tendency to fall to the ground Ia & primo qualification for good opera. "Theru wero 120 vacant seats In the Lyceum Theas tre, Now York, Monday night, when Edwin Buoth opened thero, Those scats wero significant tokens of the victory Mr, McVicker had won over the ticket-apecnlators, for the entlre ousu had been #old, and the speculutors had loat thelr invest- ments, Tho police drove all speculotora sway fron tho theatro. The Natlon warns clergymen that nobody but & iologlet, a microscoplst, ur a chemist Is compotent tw criticiss Prof, Husloy, which leads & sharp criticto reply that if no ono cau proporly critlelss Huxloy unless ho himeclf bo & biologist, o micro- #copust, or & chumlst, for the same reason 1o ono can properly commend him but a blologist, a ml- croscoplat, or a chemlst, This {a rmtlier unpleasant for the Nation. A proceas of adulterating oysters has been dla- covered by a Philudolphla savan. 1t consista In ree moving tho animal from wea-water to denser con- centrated salt wator. After becoming Indurated to tho now conditions, tho ogstar {3 moved back sgain, when, s expurhment has shown, he distends rape 1dly, absorbing water In proportion to the ditferenco Dotween the denwity of the two sluds In whichbo hos boen Immersed, M, Phelps, manager of the Sadler's Wells The- atre, once an abscure theatrs In thy north part of London, eafd nt tho Inte Lord Mayor's banquet (o the drumatieprofeesion that he had kept hiy egmb- lshment going alxteen 'years with only Shak- spearu's plays as his stock in trade, 1o bas acted thirty-four of thew, and has made a competency In tho offort; o thoro fs such o thing a3 tho legitls mato drawa after all, Tho blograph of the artiat Turner by the late Walter Thornbury will bo fn some respocts a 1e; warkablo work, M, Conway writes: *When | lust visltod Walter Thorubury, fta suthor, Mls labors on it wore drawing to o close, and hoscenic to feol thut tho large and valuable addltions n: had buen ablo to mako to hla origiual work, which fa thio bauls of thix, would be recognized as sn Im- portant contrlbutlon to the ast-hlstury of bl ‘:“";. try, Ruekin, and other old friends and udm.'fih of Turner, fait that Thorabury was paitlog & whols heart as well os a refined scholarly intellect In noeded work, and wera cagor to suslet him In mzw way. Alas, now that the work is done, the W:dl man I no lungeron carth to recelvo his mr-. 4 but it will again remind s counteyuen of wbat A o wpirit and excolient writor thoy havo lust 8 Walter Thombury," 'Tho new blography theet much light on tha vexed subject of Tumel;; " ey vhowing that bo stinted nimsslf Lo cndo’w "'K = 8rt, and dled without suspocting thats ';“w"’:,, tion of his wealth would go to chancory Jawy and litigants, Boston 10 Maine gy inter in Ne ‘hu delivered last wlelz 18 trying to make the London papers ho has hiad no gye. for the reason that it drinks nothing Lyt But hie frequents thg HOTEL ARRIVALS. Palmer House—W, D, Woud, Eldnl??nnl.flrqz';f .M. Tloon, Grand Rapids; Hobert W ukinvu“ tonto; J, W, Bird, New York; R L Hopklsk Manlton, Col,; 1L C. Btowart, 8alt ukhm “Al- springer, Cincinnati; A, L. Yoa Denthuysen, ) Northe bany....Grand Pacife=D, L, Levnaths S04 ‘dinn. ;3. B, Sago, B Clark, J5a o %\"’L\(mox‘-’: ‘hitfalo; 1t 8. 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