Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 27, 1876, Page 4

4 ; . . The Tuibuwre, ‘E | B mm o g g e e e R R i i T ain AR S5y 2 3: 7 K P, aoTe, ,? TR 4 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PAYADLR IN ADVANCE—TOSTAGR TREFAID AT TAIS' OFFICE. ipectmen coples sent free, 5 To prevent delay and mistakea, e sureand givo Post- Ofce sildress In full, Including Etsto and County. Iemitiances may bemads elther by dratl, express, Poit-Ofco order, o tn regfatercd lotters, at our sk, JRRWS TO CITY BURSCRIBRNS. Daily, del!gered, Sunday excopted, 25 cents per week. Daily, delivered, Sunday included, 90 centa per week Adilress THE TIIHUNE COMPANY, Corner Madiron and Dearborn-sts., Chicaio, 1l TAMUSEMENTS, New Chleng Clarls street, between Lake Tooney, Noveity Troupe. tinverly’a Thentre, Tiandolph strect, between Clarkand LaSslte, Call- fornia Mlustrels. atre. nd Randotph. Tat MoVicker’s ’l‘l[;:ll:re- A mia dlson strect, hotween Dearborn and State, E!}?flum!nl’of the Kellogg Opera Troupe, ** Mignon.” Wond’s Dunrnmt,. Monrog street, between State and Dearborn. ** A« Case for Divoree.” MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1870, At the New York Gold Exchinnge on Satur- day greenbacks closed at 913 — e Tweep, being asked if ho hnd any dis- closures to mako respecting old matters with which TpEN was connccted, roplied in a ginglo word, *None.,” Tho Old Man is not going to squeal yet awhile. If he ever con- cludes to make n clean brenst of it, it will not be until ho knows whether it is a President or n private citizen that he “lays down on.” The members of the Bonl vnssing Board passed the Sabbath in jail, no steps having boen ns yet taken to socuro their rolense. It is expected, however, that they will be liberated npon n writ of habens cor- pus granted by Judgo Boxp, of tho United Btotes Court, it being clalmed Ly eminent lawyers and jurists that tho Supreme Court oxceeded its powers in assuming to control the actions of tho Borrd —s A lottor from New York, which we print tuis morning, tolls of tho business stagna- tion which prevails in the metropolis be- couso of the uncertainty and feverish un- easinoss folt in connection with thg Presi- dentinl question. The bad elemont of New York politics is & sourco of constant appre- Lionsion and disquietude on the part of the businesssmen, who have learned by experienco that the material composing TiLpEN'S 70,000 majority in New York and Brooklyn need but small provoca- tion to inaugurate an era of bloodshed and pillage. And Gov. Trupey refuses to spenk the word thnt will' rostore quict and confi- denco; rofuses to give tho assurance that Gov. Ilaves hns given: That he cannot af. ford to, and will not, accept the Presidenoy at tho price of nsingle Electoral vote fraud- ulently or unlawfully obtained, Pl St Onco moro Gov. Caaunenrary, of Soutn Charoling, hias cntled upon the President of tho United States for assistance in maintain. ing Lis nuthority as Governor, and the Presi- dent has complied with the request, as he ia * Dound by tho Constitution to do, The man. ner of this complinnce, howover, is such ns to give ample assuvance that the Government has no intention of interfering with the set- tlemont of the pending question, Who is to bo the next Governor of South Carolina? In the Inngunge of Prosident Guawr, Citasmen- 1IN s now tho Governor *‘boyond any controversy,” aud romaius so until his suc- cegsor “shliboduly andlegally inaugurated,” Gen. Ruaer is simply instructed to assist the present Chief Exccutive of the Stato in suppressing domostio violenco and in main- taining o republican form of government in South Cavolina, Tt is sniil that tho legal services of Gen, B, T. BurLen ore to be employed by TiLoex in tho forthcoming Congressional contest over) tho Electornl question, and that professional honor and courtesy alike will compel Limn to reeopt n rotainer and undortake tho case. Desperate conditions require desporate mens- ures; and Gen. Borien i8 gonornlly consid- crod a good Jawyer forn bad easo. Io is, moreover, understood to bo fully committed to the. theory that the Ilowse has the powor to defeat tho count of the Electoral vote of suy'State where fraud is shown; but when it comes to casting his vote ns n Ropublican Oongressman on the question of throwing out or counting the Electoral vote which shall either oloct or de- foat his cliont—where will Burrer bo then? Being o lawyer himself, TrLoEx had prob- ably auswered that question to his own satis- faction before ho decided to rotaln tho mem- ber-clect, from the Boventh Massachusotty District, There were two distinguished arrivals. at New Orleans yesterday—so distinguivhked, indeed, s to bo accompanied by nn escort of troops. Ong of them was Bex Jawmes, o Depuly TUnited Blates 3arshal in Quachita Parish, who, on tho morn. jug of clection, was shot aund left for dead while carrylug tho ballot-box to the Logtown voting.plnce ; and the other, ‘Fr1za Prxxston, o negro woman whoso hus- baud aud child wera horribly wurderad, and herself cut and ,shot in twonty places by a party of Tipoy bull dozers on the Baturday prececding the elec. tion. Bex Jaues and Euza Pixgarox have gono to New Orlenns to give their cvidenco on the subject of intimidation in Ouachita, oud from the occount of their narratives contained in our dispatches It s easy to imngine the homiblo omphasis and silent corroboration that their tostimony will re- ouive from o #core of gaping wounds,' Tho Chicago produco markeis wers mod- erately activo Saturday, and frrogular, Mess pork closed 12}@10¢ per brl lower, at $16.77}@16.80 for the year and $15.00@ 15.95 for Jonuary., Lard closed Ge per 100 1bs lower, at $9.72J@Y.756 scller tho year and $9.774@9.80 sellor Jonuary, Meats woro & shade easfer, at Ojo for now shoulders, boxod, 8jo for do short-ribs, sud 8o for do sbort-clears, Highwines wero steady, at 81,00} per gallon, Flour was in botter do- mondand firm, Wheat closed §o higher, at #1.18 for November and $1.15} for January. Corn closed §@)o lower, at 44o for Novem- ber and 48)cfor December. Oats closed easler, 8t 32}@82 o for November aud 830 forDecem- ber. Rye was stendy at C6@Ctic. Barloy closed 4o lower, at 630 for December and Gic for January. Hogs wero «uiect and easicr, Lot $5.60@5,85 per 100 lbs, Cuttle were 1 HI6 CHICAGO. TRIBUNE: MONDAY, NOvLMpBrR 27, 18/G. nteady, at $2.50@5.00; nnd sheep firm, at $2.75@4.60, One hundred dollars in gold wonld buy $109.00 in greenbacks at the close. Tt is enough to mnko evon o County Ifos- pital patient Inugh to sce the name of C. C. I’ Mouves conspienously blazoned in the Domocrstic newspapers as ‘‘n prominent Chicago Ropublican” who has been inventi- gnting the subjoct of bulldozing in the Par- ishes of East DBaton Rouge sud the Feli- cianos, Of course e found no truth in the roports of Domocratic intimidation; that is whnt bo wont down thote to find, But it is the height of absurdity to call C. O. B, Horpex a Republican, and a prom- inent ono nt that. e censod to bo aRopub- Hoan befors either Joms M, Pasxes or Lix- aaN Trusrnury wept over to the Domocracy, and ho nevor hnd any prominence whatevor in the party in Chicago, For sovernl yenrs past he has affilinted politically and officially with the very worst class of Democrats in Chicago, and it is currontly roported and generally belioved $hat ho is a * prominent” member of the corrnpt and rapacions Ring in tho Board of County Commissioners, thirough whose operations tho tax-payers of Cook Connty nre anuually bulldozed out of some hnndreds of thousands of dollara, Ioupen & Tlepublienn!l Why, he isn't in good standing evon among Demoorats, Somo individanls In' Now Orloaus inter. ested in tho result of theelection in DeSoto Parish, nnd who had negloeted to fllo pro. testain time, havo compiled a set of returns in which thoy inscried * one of the protests of tho Bupervisor, charging goneral intimidn- tion, dated Nov. 23, and sworn to in New Orleans beforo a Commissioner of the Circuit Court.” Tho pnckngoe purported to lnvo ‘Deen filed with tho Roturning Board Nov. 18, 'The clerk of tho Board would secm to liave been a party to the tricls, for, when it was dotocted by the Board npon opening tho documont, Le found the original retnrn which liad been received Nov. 18, and it con. tained no charges of intimidation, The clerk shonld be summarily bounced by tho Board who eaughthim conniving with outside pacties in trying to get in * protests.” Whilo all this is true, it is not true that the Bonrd conld have kmown anything nbout the falso paclkage, for none of them would bo fo stupid 28 to insert protests datod Nov. 24, taken be- foro a New Orleans Commissionor of the Circuit Court, and purporting to belong to a document sealed-up previous to Nov. 18, But theeditor of the Zimesthinks differently. He not only charges the Board with commit- ting the act, but he lnys it on tho President! Iore aro some of the charges of that fair- minded editor in tho impartinl and non- partisan (?) Chicago Zimes: 1. The gulit of Grant. 2,°1r 1t i donbted, theso dlsclosurcs may con- vince tho wavering. 4. by scoundrelly Returning Board In Loulslana canght In the act of fraud. % 4. And cxposed in thelr trno gulso of falsifiors, perjurere, and villains generally to their Northern supporters. &, Returna from porishes opencd by the Board, staffed, rescaled, and sworn to. It wasnot known beforo that tho Presi- dent appointed the Louisiana Returning Doard, or that he directed anybody to male outn protest alleging intimidation in De- Soto Parish, or that he ordered tho Board to do it; norhas any particle of evidenca been produced toshow that the Board had the slightest knowledge or suspicion that such & thing had beon dono by any one up to tho moment the fraud was detected. But lore wos o chonco for this non-partisan and Lonest sheet to yell murder! troason! rapo! nt the Bonrd, and spit its venom at tho Proesi- dent. 205, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE COTTON BTATES, Thao elections of 1872, 1874, and 1876 in the so-called Cotton Btates indicate beyond oll question the imposstbility of maintaining a successful Republican party in thoso Btates 5o long ns the organization consists of a handful of whito *‘cnrpet-baggors” in each county aund tho mass of Republican votors all black. It seems to bo immaterinl that the colored people aro in n mnjority in precinets, counties, diatricts, or States, the result np- pears to bo the samo, They aro over- shadowed, overruled, coerced, or intimidated by tho class which hos the wenlth, educn. tion, and the land, and which employs all the labor. It is' almost demonstrated be- yond question that the late slaves aroin. capable of self-dofouso ngainst tho whites, and it is at lonst doubtful if they over will Do able to nssort and maintain thoir political rights without white protection. 'I'his pro. toction must come from the military arm of the Nutional Govornment, or it must come from the resident white population of theso States. ‘The military protoction furnished by the United Btates is poor at best, nud is opposed by the general projudice of tho country, which has always boen gensitive ns to Execu- tive interforence in politicl matters, aud especinlly sonsitive as to omployment of military forcos in any way relating to State elections, It is truo, all thia prejudice origi- uated long Dbefore thero was auy causo for such interforcuce, Until tho country, 08 o matter of solf-dofonse, enfranchished tho froedmon and made thom voters thero was no nocessity to interposo armed Federal forco to protect any class of voters from violenco in the Statos. The use of such forco was a consequence of tho enfranchisoment of the negro, who, loft slone, has proved unable to deofend himself against the whites in the ox- erciso of his political lbertics. But this means of defertding tho negro has ity limit, "T'ho Prosidont of the United States has no nuthority to send troops into tho State for polico duty excopt ou the requisition of the Exccutive of tho Btato. Whenever the Gov- ernuent of any Bouthern Stats hay passed into the hands of the Demoeratic party, the requisitions upon tho President for military aid have ceased to be made, and the negro, being loft to his own defonse, hag ceasod to make sorious or orgouized offorta to exercisa any political privilego, Virginina, Georgia, Alabama, Toxas, and Ar- kansas, being now Democratio, tho negrohins practically sbapdoned politics, and either does not vote or votes with tho whites. In Mississippl, whero the colored voters out- number the whites 20,000 at lonat, the Dem. ocrats in 1674 obtained control of tho Stato Government by unfair means, aud, cutting off all sppeal for national protection from tho army, tho Btato has just given 45,000 Domo- cratio majority ! The colored vote has been snuffed out. In South Carolina, whore the negroes alone could give 25,000-Republican majority, such alarge body of them, despite the presenco of the military, have been ter. rorized, that the Itepublican candidates for Stato oficers have either been defeated or clectod only by & fow hundred votes. 1nd the Democratic Btato ticket been olected, thore would inve been an end to tho colored Topublican party in- that Btate, justasin Miusissippi, Georgla, and 'fexas, In Loujsi. ana and Florida, whero thore are cxisting Demacratic Republican State Governments, the colored votora have made a siruggle, and, though to somo oxtent protected by United States troopsand a fow whita people, the result in those Statesis still in uncertainty, when they shotld Lo overwhelmingly Ropubliean, and wonld bo it the ex-slaves were ablo to main. tain their politfeal righta in the communition where thoy are in the majority, 8o long as the Nationnl Governmont is un- dor the necossity of omploying an army to nttend tha olections in'the’ Souih to protect the numerical majorily in their right to vote, g0 long will the eonntry be annunlly excitod and disturbed by these extraordinayy pro- ocedings, Instead of being n strengthto tho Ltopublican party of the Union, this military mnintenanco of earpet-bnggers in offico s a wenkness and o ropronch. In all the Bouth there aro only three States whero tho Repub- licau Administration hins been able, with the nid of the military, to .provont them from falling into the kands of tho Confederates, notiwithstanding the colored preponderanco of populatfon ; and sll three of these Btates are now almoat, if not altogother, in their hands. and, once seoured to them, their con- trol will become ns absolute as it now is Georgin, Toxns, Alabama, and Mississippl. ‘Whnt the negro wants to inake him an active and efficiont ngont in polities s the aflilintion, assistance, nnd protection of the whito population in all the Boutliern States, In Maryland, Kentucky, and Enst 'Tennessco, though in a minority, the negro voters aro ns enfonnd as free in the exerciso of thoir political libertica 08 they avo in Indiana. In ench of theso States there is n largo white native population which is opposed to the party. Theso are mon of property, character, and ability; they are pnct owners of tho soil, andare free from the odinm pertaining to sdvonturers and a protection to tho colored people of the State, In North Carolina, the old@ Union ‘Whig sontimoent is still strong; it 1s as op- posed now to the Democratio party as it has over been. These nnti-Democrats are nu- merous enough and strong onough to com- mand the respect of their neighbors, and in turn furnish a great protection to tho negro voters, Inall theso Statestho Reputlican party will become stronger so soon as the color-line in politics sball be nbandoned. The hopo of a clear, progrossive, and efficient Republican party in all the Southern States is not by placing a few adventurors or carpot-baggers at the hesd of the negro poptlation, but in the abandonment of the race-issuo or color-line, and the urgnniz:flhm of partics on questions of genersl public policy. In Virginin, Georgin, Alabamn, ‘Tonnessce, and even in Toxns, there is a con- siderable portion of the white people acting with the Demoorata as an anti-African party, who would, in the absenco of any such race- issue, oppose the Democratic party, It is not in tho nature of things that there will bo but one party in afy of theso States, Tho present Democratic majorities are too great to continue. In the division which differenco of views on public quostions, the personal ambition of aspiring men, and old prejudices and dialikes must produco, there must of necossity be other parties organized. Then tho negro will bo courted by the rival whito parties and divisions, and then, as the naturalized citizens at the North, he will afiliate politically with either, ns he may consider {6 best for his in- torest, end find protoction and de- fense against nll asanilants. We look to the ultimate division of the white popu. Intion in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgin, 'Toxag, and othor Cotton States into distinot nnd strongly-opposed political parties; and, when this shdll tako place, the negroes will find ample protection, ample rocognition, and will exorciso n greater power than they can ever hopo for as nunited class under tho lead of questionable offico-secking adventirors from the North, Until thon thero “can Lo no strong Ropublican party in the Cotton States, THE COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL. The disclosuro of the brutal abuses in the manngement of tho Cook County Hospital which wes made in Tus Trinuse of yoster- day is so startling aud horrible that there is dnuger of its boing recoived as o fanciful skotel, ov nt Dest a gross exaggeration. Tt is proper, thercfore, that wo shonld assuro tho public that we have every renson to re- gard the statements as litorally trne. The writer of the article is tho samo whoso npme in glgned to it, Grorox O, Onnex. Hels n professionnl short-hand roporter, has been connectod with prominent newspapers in En- gland, Canada, and Chicago, and 8 an ex- perienced observer, o did not onter the Tlospital, ns the ¢ Amatenr Casual" of En- gland mado o tour of the London work- houses and lodging-houses, for the purpose of oxposing the abuses, but went theren sufferer from o chronic and inherited diseaso for troatment and relief. o is to-day a liv- ing, & barely living, oxamplo of tho starva- tlon system undor which the County Hospital is run, and tho two weoks ho passed there may yot cost him his life. 1lis statoments are strongly forti- fled by the facts of his own condition, by the previous exposures made by less ncuto observors and less skillful raconterrs, nnd by tho citation of patients, nurses, doctors, and officials by proper names. Tho narration can scarcely fail to dircet such public atten. tion and excite such publio indignation as will compel at least tho introduction of com. mon humanity and common decency into the wanagement of this Hospital, ‘Wa shiall not rocapitulate the incidents of tho horriblo story,4which was told so graph. jeally by one of the sufforers; but a fow of tho counspicuous abuses may Lo pointed out ngain. To bogin with, the Wardon is n man numed MoLaoauLry, who, only three or four yenrs ago, was a boss puddlor at the rolling. wills, o was taken up by the Democratio party and run for tho Leglslature ou account of his popularity in the ward in which ho lived, inhiabited by o set of people who are mostly of his own onlibre. Once in politics, of coursa he remaiued in politics, and, to the curse of the invalid poor of Chicago and Cook Couuty, it was found convenient to place him in chiargo of the County Mospital. A man who ought still to bo working at an jron furnace is thus transforred to a place which requires edueation, delicaoy, follow-fecling, somo medical knowledgo, and cortainly ox- perience in tho troatment of the slck. Tho nttor is madao worse by tho appointment to the rvesponsible place of housckeeper of McLavanrn's youpg daughter, o girl sald to boe sbout 17 yenrs of age, who, with the boat intentions in tho world, could not adequately discharge thoe duties of tho po- sition, ‘Tho medical attoudanco seoms®to be furnished for the most part by medical students, who flrst experimont on tho pa- tients and thon disscct them, and generally, it would appear, exporiment with a viow to subsequent opportunities for dissection. As Dr, Baxonano was accustorned to order bleed- ing av=\diot water- for all patients and all discoses, so tho standard wmedicine in thoe Cook Couuty Hospital stems to bo n con- coction of fodide of potassium and wine of colchienm, which is liberally pre- seribed for all the illa that flesh iy heir-to; mensles, searlet-fover, rheumn- tism, child-birth, Bright’s dirense, and con- sumption, are oll tronted alike. While tho doctors nro students, tho nurses arc mero tramps, Loafers who want to bridgs ovor & winter without work, and dead-beats who are inhuman enongh to bolt all the best food at the oxpense of tho sick and suffering, aro tho people who nre selected for attondants. Pationts are huddled into wards apparently without any systom, and contaglons and in- fectious disenses classified with nll others, ns if to insure the spread of disense rather than chock it; a common, filthy hospital garb Is onforced, and a common, filthy towel mads to do service for all alile. Thera aro othor details of the samo kind that nro too nauseating to ba repeated. There is no effort made to maintain any evon tompera- ture, gnd many & death has probably boon due dircetly to combined exposure aud starvation, The patlents who are able to walk aro mado to go froma ward atn temporature of 70° into n dlinifig-room which ia 20° cold- er, thero to sit down to food that wonld not warm the stomnch of a chicken, *The eovi- denco i to tho offect that everything fit to cat is cithor stolon outright (zide the milk ac- count) or appropriated by the attondants, leaving tho sick and feeble, whose life de- pends npon proper nourishment, with food that ought not to bo sat bofore kogs. Tho exposuro madae in yestorday's TrinuNe i8 uot tho first, Lut it ia tho most explicit, in- telligent, nud startling. Whoen these abuses wero brought beforo the public some months 2go, the-oxcuso was made that tho Hospital then occupied was an old, dilapidated con. corn, tho sowornge defective, tho von- tilation bad, and the surroundings of o charclor to ronder cleanliness, order, and good cave impossible, The charac- ter of the witnesses ngainst the bad mannge- ment was impenchad, and tho trnmps and dend-beats made to earn thoir protection by testimony in behnlt of the mnungement. ‘Tho ciroumsatances of the present oxposuro aro very differont. Tho IHospital Luilding now ocoupiod is entirely now, and was certi- flod to bo a model structure of its kind; it ‘has been erccted at a cost, first and last, of not less than half & million dollars; it has cont enongh to have all the improvements, convenionces, and comforts of the “best hos- pitals jn the world. If, in tho first six woeks of its existonce, it is open to censuro for filth, bad ventilation, sndden changoes of temporature, and carcless and bratal managoment, the case is ono ealling for immedinte snd summary roform. Tho whole affair is in the hands of the County Commissioners, who, if they follow their previous practices, will endeavor to white- wash their employes. But this will not do intho present imstance. Thero must boa reform, investigation or no investigation. Tho Citizens' Association, or somo other body that can commmand pablic confidence, should beintrusted with the investigation. Indocd, if no others tako hold of it, the Bocioty for tho Prevontion uf Cruolty to Animals should leave the dumb brutes to thoir fate for & while, and concern thom- welves with this horrible specimen of mau's inhumanity to mao. THE LOUISIANA FORGERY. There is littlo doubt that thero wns a deliborate effort to impose upon the Lonisiana TReturning Bonrd by forged roturns in the cnso of DeSoto Parish, which came up on Saturday. A package was opencd, purport- ing to bo the original returns from that coun- ty, sud which Mr. Werrs, the Presidont of tho Doard, said had been reccived on the 18th inst. When opened, it was discovored that there was n protest dated tho 25th inst, (tho same day it was opened), and sworn to Leforo a Commissioner of the Olrcuit Court in Now Orleans, The significance of tho protest is that thie returns cannot be quos- tioned undor tho law without it, The dis- cropancy of dates in this caso attested at onco the frand, It was immediately assumed that tho original package had been opened and the rotnrns tampered with, and the situntion certainly placed the Retnrning TBoard in an cinbarrassing and susplcious at- titudo for the timo Leing. But Mr, WeLrs still maintained that & pnckage of roturns had boon received on the 18th fust., and indeed the clerk then found and produced another packogoe, which was ovidoutly the original aud genuine retnrn, and which containcd no protest. The infor- ence ia that a bogus return was first iniro- duced fu the intorest of the Congrossional or Legislative eandidates, with the connivance, or at lenst the knowledgo, of the clork; that it was immediately discoyered by the vigi- lanco of tho inspection; that it was cast asido, and the gonuino return exacted, This ciroumstanco the Chicngo Z'imes has mado tho occasion for wholesalo abuso of the TRepublican party from Gaant down. It says that tho disclomiro shows *‘the guilt of Gnaxr,” though it is not apparent that Grant had anything to do with it; ho certainly did not appoint the Roturning Board, and much less thelr clerk, Tho Z%mes also snys that the Returning Board wero “‘eaught in the act of fraud, and oxposed in their true guiso ns [falsifiers, perjurors, and villains gonerally.” Thero i8 nothing to justify any such denuncintion, nor tho assertion that * tho roturns from tho parishes were opaned by the Board, stuffed, rescaled, and sworn to.” 'I'lis is shoer partisan misrepro- sentation. On tho contrary, it is evident that the roturns first opened wore bogns, and that tho original packsge, subsequoutly produced, had not been opened or tampered with, It is also ovident that Gov. Werrs is not o much of an ass as to opon n packsga recoived the 18tk inst,, ss he himself in. slated, insert thorein an aflidavit of the 25th inst,, and produce the packnge for inspoc- tion, 'I'bis olrcumstauce, along with the discovory of tho original package, saquita Gov, Werts and the Board of all knowledge of the attemptod fraud, 1t s clearly tho duty of the Board, how- over, o dischargo the clork and present him to the Grand Jury for complicity in the at- tompted forgery, It seems almost certain that Lo kuew tho packago which he first pre- sented wes not the orlginal package which had been rocoived on the 18th inst., and which ho was subsequently forced to pro. duco. It was not ovident what the purposo was of introducing the forged roturnas, with the protest, sinco the actual count of the voto in DeSoto Parish shows Truoex to bave received 1,006 votes and Ifaves 898, while tho vote of 1874 was 1,257 Democratio and only 218 Republican,—~showing on the ac- tunl poll & large incrosse of Ropublican votes, It is probablo that the clection of somo minor candidate might bo secured by tho rojection of the vote, and the clerk of tho Board was usod to bring itabout. The failure of {lis attempt ot fraud, the in. sisting of the Boanl upon tho production of tha original return, aud the prompt reproof of the Ropublican mpectators, should, with tho discharge of the clerk who seema to have actéd as the agent, rather increnso than diminish publio confidence in the hope that tho eanvass will bo made thoroughly and the resnlt nscortainod fair], THE ENGLISH POLAR EXPEDITION, Although the recent English oxpedition ‘which wont forth in quest of the Nosth Polo Tins roturned without finding it, and returned with tho decided Improssion that it nevor will ba found, the avent hns aroused great interest in England; and simply bocauso the officers of the Alert and Discovery represont the road to tho Pole as impassable, Already thoro {s ovident n dotormination to keop on trying. The Spectator of Nov. 4 lnd along and hopeful article upon the possibility yot of gotting to the Polo, although it is unable to nssign any good renson why any ono should want to go there, oxcopt that ** En- gland should not, aftor her magnificont of- forta and in the face of the whole world, ncknowledge herrclf defeated by the dangers and difienlties of a march, one-fifth of which ling alrendy been accomplished.” The Spectator argues thot it s alroady proved possible, evon by the ronto of Capt. Nanes, to got a ship within 450 miles of the Pole, and ‘¢ that from thenco a journey ns long as from Tondon to Edinburg must Lo mado in extreme cold—say, 50 below zero—over immovable fce packed into hum- rmaocks 5o high that sledges cannot move, and that a way must b ent with tho pickax at the rate of a mile and a quarter n day.” Al- though tho conditions aro terrible, tho Spec- tator does not deem the work impossible, Although there is no lohger any hope of an open polarsea and the region produces ab- solutely zothing to cat, it argnos that science ¢5ill furnish future expeditions with un- dreamt-of resonrces—pottabls light and heat, for instanco, from tho newly-discovered mines at Disco; scouro preventatives against seurvy 3 mothods of clearing a way more ex- peditions than tho pickax; and traction- ngonts for traversing tho way, when cleared, indefinitely more powerful than Arctic dogs. With clectric lights and sufficient supplics of dynamite, and o traction-ongine for the smoothed rond, tho traversing of tho droary ice-plnin, broad as it is, and hummooky na it may be, must be within the lumits of human conorgy and resource,” Tho programmo dovelopedby tho Spectator isworthy of English pluck, and what is the ond it has in view? Simply that some un- daunted and oxultant Anglo-Saxon may reach tho spot where, to look north, he must look directly nt the zenith; and, if helooksat tho world, must of mnocessity look south. Boyond this, nothing. Wo say Anglo-Saxan, ‘becnuse it is only the Anglo-Saxon family that has ongaged in these desperate, reckless Polar expeditions, Other nations are con- tont to 1ot the North Poleilone. No one has hoard of Frenchmen, Spaniards, Italians, Belgians, or Portugeso fighting icebergs, ‘hummocks, and flges, or exposing themsolves to the horrible exposures and sufferings of the long, dark winters of tho inhospitablo Arctio rogion, It is only tho foolbardy and ingnisitive Enoglishman and the other membors of his family who climb Mont Blang, penotrato tho Africon des- orts, hunt the tiger in his jungles, luxuri- ato in Patngonia, affiliate with the anthro- pophagi, and continuously, indefatigably, and bullheadedly hunt for the North Pole,— all tho more nssiduously and cheerfully be- cnuso there is 8o little possibility that they will ever get thero, willing to spend great gums of monay, to undergo all kinds of pri- vation and sufforing, and to squander human lifo ip the vain effort to solve the secret locked up in the icy eaverns of the Arotio Pole. Granted that nt some faturo time, after tho sncrifice of fortunes snd useloss waste of humau life, the Pole is found, what then? Cui dono ? THE LOUISIANA CANVASS, °° “‘We presont in this tablo tho rotarns of all tho parishes of Lonisiana that had beon opened nnd canvassed, with those that had been med only, up, to Baturday night, as comp: with the voto cast in 1874, which wos the laat previous election : Ascenslon, Aratimption. E, Daton Rougo. DoSota,... Quuchita’, Lincoln . .. Enst Foliclana, West Feliclana Richtand , Caddo..., Sablne.. ‘I'ho Democrats claimod to have cnrried tho Btato in 1874 by 2,089 majority. Tu the twenty pavishes alrondy onnvassed without contest, it will bo sco by comparing tho figures of 1870 with those of 1874 the Ropublicans have gnined quite handsomely in nenrly all of them, Thore was no bull dozing donoe in theso parishos to an extent to drive off tho colored Republicans or to com- pol them to vote for Troex, In tho nine contestod parishos given in the above table the Republicans gained largely in two, viz.; DoSoto and Oaddo. Two ycars ago the formor gave o Domooratio mojority of 1,041, and now of only 408, In Oaddo the Republiocnn gain is 1,018, They are both parishes in which the colored largely outnumber the whites,—in Caddo they aro threo to ono and in DeSoto two to one, ‘Whatever bulldozing was done in the latter, it was mild comparod, with that praoticed in 1874, when only 216 Republican votes wero voturned. From the inspaction we have mado of the twenty-nine parlshes rotnrned, it is protty evidest that Hayeshas carried the State, it the alleged frauds and intimi. dation are proven to have oconrred in More- lLouse, Ouachitn, East aud West Foliclans, and East Baton Rtouge, If these charges aro not made good, the voto of the State has boen oast for TizbeN, That is tho state of tho case as far a8 wo can soe futo it now, The recont peacoful sottlemont between the Bouthern and Northern Mothodlsts seoms likely to bo disturbed. While the Church Bouth is scroue, the Church North is agi- tatod. At the recent Couforonco of Central Now York, at Byracuso, & resolution was passed—112 to 1—that the Commissioners of the Church North exoseded their powers in conceding that the Church Bouth wasa logitimate branch of the Mothodist Eplscos pal Churoh; that it was organized by “the voluntary exerciso of tho righta of tho Bouthern Annual Conforences, minlsters, and mombers”; and ¢ appenls to the Genoral Conforence of 1878 to revise tho nction of tha Northern Cominiasioners. It seoms un. fortunate, to say tho lonst, that, whilo the politienl nffairs of tho two sections are so mized up, theso twe important Ohurches shonld got by the ears ngaln, THE B0V UARO! MUDDLE, In contemplating the dispnte botweon the Roturning Board aud the Suprome Court of South Oarolina, the people of tho North muat Ieop in mind that the fight simply concerns two factions in tho Btate, and in no wisé af- fects tho Electoral voto. As wo undoratand the eltnation, an actual count of all the re- turns, without throwing ont any county or precinot, showed the Haves Electors to have been choson by majorities ranging from 1,200 down to 200, This result was an- nounced bofore it was doterminoed to reject the votes of Lanrens and Edgofiold Countles; #o that, if tho order of the Buprome Court woro literally followed, whioh was that the Teturning Board should nggrogate the votes simply as they wero returned, it would still lenve the Electoral vote of the Stats for Haves and Waesten, The majority for ono of tho ITayes Electors boing so small,— only 280,—~tho Democrats hoped to sacuro & Truozy Elootor by setting up certain minor irregularitios, but the Returning Board re- fused to consider thom, The Haxes Eloctors aro chosen, therefore, whatevér may be tho result of tho issne botweon the SBuprema Court and the Returning Board; and the nationn! interest in the dispute is consldera- bly diminished by this cirenmstance, As to the merits of the controversy, the poirits seom to bo ns follows: The Return- ing Board of Bouth Carolinn, liko that of Lonisiana, is a constitutional tribnnal, whose functions aro defined by law. It is empow- ered under tho Inw, not merely to count the returns from tho counties, but to examing and correct them, The membors of this Board, thereforo, dony tho authority of the Supreme Court to onmjoin them from doing what the law plinly re- quires them to do. Moreover, the law limits the lifa of tho Roturning Bonrd to ten daya; the Bonrd was in session just ten days, and thon adjourned aine die. But the order of the Bupreme Court directing the man- ner in which the vote was fo be canvassed was not issued until after the Board hind adjourned and was lifeless under tho Iaw. It is claiined, consequontly, that tho Supromo Court (1) had no authority to order the Returning Board to proceed in violation of the law, and (2) that it cannot commit tho members of the Board for con- tempt, becauss this order was not issmed until after the membors had ceasod to have an officinl existonce. To an intelligent understanding of the situation, it should be known that Moses, the Chiof-Justico of the Supreme Court, is tho father of the Moses who was oleeted Governor of the State in 1872, and whom Cnavpenrasy antagonized. The Boses Ad- ninistration was andmittedly corrupt, and it was mainly through Cmampertam's efforts that the corrnption was exposed and stopped. Subsequently, Cnaxmenrant, ag Govornor, rofused to commission this snme Moses as Cirenit Judge, whicli increased the foud ba- twoon bim and tho Aloses family, Now, for the first timo, thiere seems to bo an oppor- tunity forthe Moses corruptioniats to got oven with Coaunenram for his hostility to them ; and it appears that the South Caroling Dom- oorats, thongh led by tho chivalric Wapp HauweroN, liave not been above availing thamselves of the well.known rascality of this modorn tribe of Moses to farther their purpose of getting control of the Btate. Tho presont plan of Moses and his sasoci- ate Wintanp, of tho Supreme Court, acting on belnlf of the Democrats, who havo, «do- nounced them for-years as acoundrels, is to raconvene the Returning Board, which is dond in the eyes of tho law, and compol it to go back; nggrogate tha votes os they were re- turned, declnro tho Domooratio ticket eleot. ed, and give the Domocrata the Logislaturo, Thia is drawing on the credulity of mankind even'mora than tho ancestors of the modern Moses ever attompted. We are told that Josmus commanded the sun to stand still while ha whipped the enemy, but he did not attempt the difffcult astronomical feat of ro- versing the natural revolution go as to gain a dny or two, Bo tho God of Battles is said to have been on the side of tho Jows as long 18 tho avms of the original Moszs could be held up in supplication. But tho South Carolina descendant of the patriarchal family proposes to stop time by merely turning the hour-hand back on the face of the clock; ho wanta to touch the dend corpse of tho Re- turning Board, bring it to life, proscribe a ratroactive polioy in violation of law, and proceod as if ho had commandod the reversal of that order of things by which we regulate timo, This, it will be admitted, is n tolora- bly dififcult undertaking; but we ure satisfled it can he accomplished in South Cardlina and by the modern Moses, it it is possible any« whore. Indced, tho annonncement this morning that the Supromo Court has fined ench member of the Board $1,500, and com- mitted all the members to joll until relessed by order of tho. Court, indicates that tho modorn Moses is determined to exceod the powers of his ancestors. THE EVILS OF OUR OIVIL SERVICE. The London T'imes, in an article upon our Presidential olection, says ; A now Prosident will be designatod for the as- sumption pf autbority atthe Whito Iouso in March next,and his alllos will at once beginto busy them- selyes with the pleasing and fantalizing occopation of Cabinet-making. The change is much greator and more abidingin ita consequonces than that which happens in thls country when a Ministry is dofeated and resigns and give place to an Adminis. tration taken from the Opposition, lere the revo- lation lu only in the higher pollticsl offices, and the permanent oficlaly, from the Under-Secrotarles of Stata down to the lettor-carricra of tho Post-Ofilce, wmay be indifferent to the shifting fortuncs of par- ties. Tut in tho United Btates tho dofeat of a party which has held possession of the Executlve threatons cviction to overy ofice-holdor, from the highest to tho loweat, The peragraph which we lave quoted above ot once suggests a comparison batween the Civil Borvico of our own country and that of England, As the Z%nes soys, tho dofeat of a party in this country threatens eviction to every ofMice-holder, from tho highest to the lowest, Had wo tho English system of Olvil Bervico, however, the result would bo en- tirely differont, There would be a change in tho Oabinet and in the hoads of Depart- ments alone. In Chicago, for instance, there might be a change of Postmaster, Internal Revenue aud Customs Colleotors, and Dis- triot-Attorney, and with thom the cbanges would stop, Perhaps, all told, thero would bo o change of from 800 to 500 out of the 60,000 porsons holding offices in the employ- ment of tho Federal Govornment, The rank ond file of the subordinates would remaln as they are, In England, haviug origiually beun pppointed, after oxamination, upon grounds of ability and charucter, thoy hold thefr ofilces through lite, the only eonditions being a faithful discha, t good belavior. They TISr: ;1:!:2;‘}:;‘: o parties, Thoy take no part g both Ehey do not engngo in ulucllonur(nwh tho violous systom of politial pput 1000 unknown there, They have ng q\m.m“ 4] sponding to our ward-bummeory and c.:dm‘ :nfl. No one mukes specolieg excep thb 0nds of parties who oxpact ta securg . thoy may lose thoir ofMces, i) 'nato shonld bo canght mu aay subordie nking Epeecheg against the party coming into Power, he ) would lose his office imm s non-politien! as tho nnlgllt:amtln{. i and tho party in power would ng 8000 fi" of disturbing their tonuro of offiee becans & their political cpl}nun. 03 it wonlg khln;:o' discharging soldidr becanss of theirs, H . tho vast mnss of officlals are indwe'n: :nu tho shifting fortunes of parties, Than o on with their work undistnrbeq by olnetyl do not have to contributo to the goneral 5:;:;1::! ltxhe 1'mr‘;y'..ll no; make epoechiea ::4 rchos, an Sy vorsha, o 0 interests of the coum. Tho ndoption of gome Ohlr]fl B:rfloo 88 this would and roform our whole syste would romovo ot onoo'ythnm Sl t harmful cratio doctrine that to tho vietors ::);?: tho spoils, The tromendons power of pnlrung 8go 10 longor oxeroising its bal the Titpens, and h;‘mn, n:amm“,(:m'; American politics wonld loso theix Bway mn the masses. Having nothing to pmm]: them, no plunder with which to allure, o hopes of ofleo that thoy could hold out 1 them, tho stealing, plundering, ‘ballot-bog stufling and goneral corruption whiey olinracterizo tho regimoes of theso unser. pulous leaders wonld consa, Tammany mu. that plaguo.epot of American politics, whigt, oven now threatens to ostablish itselr in ‘Washington with all its outrngeous villainieg sndeorruptions, would bo wiped out, Wity it would disappear tho entire class of une savory, corrupt, and absolutely rotten bum, mers and sonlawngs, This {s ono viow of the question. Thers is another which the Times hna not obsery, andit is the worst foaturs of the whole mat. ter. Even under the spoils system, thore ha boon a tondency upon the part of the Re. publican Administration to improve the per. sonnel of the Civil Sorvice. Tho bad men bave beon grodually woeded ont.” Thein. efficient, solfish, rockless, speculative, and incapable mon crop out from time to time and aro droppod by tho party. Tholawof self-preservation works them out, and their plices aro supplied by tho law of the fittest, ‘Tho country has pnased through this fermen. tation proccss since tho War, and thoe Ciril Bervico is vastly improved. Tho mass of the omployes of tho Government ara capable, honest, and experienced men. Tho patronsge featuro of the Government has slmost on. tively disappoared. Congrossmen put in thoir rascals long ago, and the rascals have put thomeolves out by their own ragoalities, The inefficiont mon have Leen dropped, 'The party paupers have sloughed off, 'Chis is tho tendoncy of every Adminis. tration] tho head of which is not utterly given over to corruption and knavery. The Prosident and his Secrotaries in tho first torm showed a disposition to reform the sorvico, and they have worked up toitas rapidly ns they could in the faca of the ob. structions thrown in their way, and the rosult now is that thero.is Iless cheating, mnuggling, swindling, and bribery than for yoars past, and that the public offices are filed mainly by active, vigorous young men, pound in mind aud morals, This being in- disputably the fact, if Mr, TmoEN comes 1mto power, it followa that overy advantage of the healthier condition of the Civil Borvice must be lost. In a fow weeks, or months at most, tho wholo servico must change hands, What class will come in? QOertainly not experienced men, for the Democratio party has not got them, It will be new men, As it wasat tho outset with ths Republicans,‘the offices must be filled with the bummers, scalawags, sod loud brawlers. The renogade Republicans, men who have beon disappointed in not get ting plunder in their own party, or who have been kicked outof it for dishonesty, must havo the first chance, as they must be kept in the Domoeratio fold. With such ravenous instinots as they have manifosted, they cau- not bo kept without being paid by office; and when thoy are in offico will prove to be just na inefficiont, careloss, and trencherous in the Democratic Adminstration s they wero in the Republican, ‘Theso renegades having been satisfied, thon tho whole unclean and clamorous mass of Democrats, with o hune ger aggravated by nearly twenty yoani of fasting, must come in, It will be n mob of office-liolders without experionce, with out qualifictions, without any disposk tion to discharge their dutlos, with no iden of any sort cxcopt to make monoey, turn their offices into ainccures, aud pocure what drippings, plokings, and steals ings they can without detootion. It will nob bo the hotter class of Democrats who will got tho offices, but the seun,—tho brawlen, brulsers, horn-blowers, cauens-packers, aud ballob-box stuffers. Unloss the Democratio party canlsy claim to s tenuro of ofiico for the next twelve or sixteen years, thoro ¢s ‘o no hope of improving thelr Qivil Bervice, for it will tako that length of timo to get 1id of the inenpables and knaves, just as it hes the Ropubliean party. If Mr Troex I8 oleated, wo must expect derangement in postal affairs, corruptions aud leaks in tho rovenue service, bribery and blackmail in the custom-houses, the organization of mew ‘whisky-rings, and & thousand-fold moro cm\-t ruption than characterized tho incoming o the Ropublican Administration, bacauso Democrats aro a thousand-fold more 0RgeT for tho perquisitea of office. In view of :";f': a gloomy outlook, s thero not nood of radici roform in the Civil Bervice? such syatom of grootly simplify Mr, ReppieLp telographs from ){cw O:;u:: to the Ciucinnati Commerclal a comfrfnt n had with our Gen. I‘AL‘MBhII,‘n; fl;'l:c:\; ;; aiah st he B e mipustanding a1 the var el clthier bany 1n the North will 1 o says i !:3 nl‘m Wad In that Tomo thero in agot! 'r;m. tion, which will wettle mattors, and 8veng over wrong 18 done Ju the prosent case. —————— We hiave boon erowing right alopg and bave not, begun to get hoarse.—st, Lowds Timse Jesso hero,—Doston Post. Aro you suro );m Love wind enough left for tho final cheer—or grand fingl howll Col, FornzY's paper is not 80 deep 10 poll- who tica that it can’t pause to say? WA man hss been fnarriod about twenty yeans forgets that his wite used to bo good-looklug- #Qur young men must not bo ml‘l:lued L this campnign,” ws tho watchword IF S g, sippl. Regult: 49,000 Demosratlc 1 which goesto awell tho ¢ falr couut: T the Euitor of The Tribuse Cnxu«m‘l gnvl. '-::.hl‘lu J'\.:: lel‘l:‘l: ."x}’; sy it spala B, Wi o Youry, ¢to., s “The United States Las 5o extradtiod