Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 28, 1876, Page 4

e 2 e S et e S P e e e T TR e 2 D e f 3 i 4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TULSDA:, NOVEMBER 28, 18,0. ber and 48}cfor Decomber, Ontaclosed ensler, | by the need of work, by businesa necossitios, The | tho elective franchire. In one of the Nortl T — population gives tho South thirty-threo or | fit of all the taxpayers of Cook Count; Thye Tribmne, TERMS OF SUDSCRIPTION. PATABLE JX ADVANCR—TFOSTAGE TREPAID AT THIS OFVICE. postpald, 1y Parthof ny Matled to un: o] One copy, per yea Ob o Tivecre Clubof twent; Tostage prepals Bpecimen coples sent free, To prevent delay and mistaken, be rureand give Post- ©Offce address in full, including Stato and County. Temittances may be made efther by draft, expross, Post-Ofiice order, or In registered letters, atour risk. YXRMB TO CITY SUDSCRIDERS. Dafly, dellvered, Sonday excepted, 25 centa per week. Dally, delivered, Sunday included, 50 cents per week Address THE TRIBUNE COMP'ANT, Corner Madlson and Dearborn-ats., Chicaga, 3l U " F L] Now Chicago Theatre. Clark atroet, betmoen Lako snd Randolph. Pat . Roonsy, Novelty Troupe. T een Clsck sud Lagilla, Call 'l t) tween Clark an e 3 PN el McVicker's Theatreo Madison _street, between Dearborn and Btate. 44The Great Divorea Case," TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1876. —_———— Greenbacks at the New York Gold Ex- shange yestorday closed at 918, pobenc Atk % Tho Florida Returning Board mot yester- Hay, adopted rules for its government, nnd will commence tho workof canvassing tho voto to-dny. Six members of each party and »ix loeal politicians are allowed to bo present 2t tho session of the Lody except when, in the opinion of the Board, a private session for couforenco shall be deemed nccessary, The roturns from sll tho countics are now wupposedto boin, Tho Suprome Court of Minnesota yester- day afiirmed the constitutionality of that very excollont and wholesome Inw, passed in 1878, requiring ench liquor-dealor in the Btate to pay $10 annunlly for the establish- ment and maintennnce of a Stato Asylum for Inebriates. Grounds for the Asylum wore long since located at the charming City of Rochester, and thig decision of the Supremo Court removes the last remnining obstaclo to the early orection of the necessary build- ings. The reduction of the prica of admission yeatorday voted by the Bonrd of Dircctors of the Ohicago Industrial Exposition, from 60 cents, as herotofore charged, to 26 for adults sud 15 cents for children, is to be commend- cd 08 n wiso measure. The grent success of the Exposition herotofore, through which the magnificent building and its appliances have been paid for out of tho profits, has left the stockholdors froo from debt, nnd enabled the Dirootors to so reduce the price of ad- mission ns to insuro a large attendance and the annaal recurrenco of the industrial exhi- bitipn for yenrs to come. The day fixed by law for the meetings of tho Presidentinl Electors in their soveral Btates to vote for President and Vice-Presi- dont is Wednesday, Dee. 6. In the menn- . time, the declaration of the resultin South Carolina is complicated by judicial proceed- ings, nnd in Louisiana and Florida the con- vassing of the returns progresses so slowly that o complotion may not be had until the lasthour of the timo. Ordinarily these de- lays would be of trifling account, bat, as the votes of thoso States nre cssontial to deter- yuine the result of the election, the dalny yerves to koep up an oxcitement that is un- healthy, and possibly dangerous. All disputes concorning the majority of Haxes ovor TreN in Dlinols are ended by tho official canvass of the roturns, whick, taking tho highest vote on each Electornl ticket, places the mojority at 19,631. The official canvass of tho vote for members of the Legislaturo shows the Republicans tp | have 79 in the Houso, ngainst 74 for the Democrata and Independents, Of tho Sonn- tors-eloct,” 11 avo Ropublicans and 14 aro Domocrats ond Indopendents, making the Senate stand—Republicans, 22; Domocrats, 24; Indopendents, 5. Upon joint ballot the Ropublicans have 101, Democrats 98, and Independents 5. 1t is ealculated that twp of the lattor may be reliod upon to act with the Ropublicans, and thus provent the clection of a Democratic United Statos Sountor. ——— Certain South Carolina Democrats have been guilty of tho impertinence of sending to tho President a protost againat the placing of troops undor the command of Gov, OmaxmenrarN, The protest is jmportinont beenuso no ordor to that effcct has boen is. eued. Tho Presidont's order was that tho iroops “sustain Gov. Omampenuamy in his suthority ngainst domestic vielenco:” and tho instructions of tho Bocretary of War to Gon. Ruoen were to disporo his Iroops *in such a manner as may be deemed bost to carry out the epirit of the above order of the President.” Gen. Ruarzs, nnd not Gov, CoaMpesLAIN, 18 the commander of tho troops now in Columbia, and if by their ‘presence scencs of violonce and bloodshed are pravonted in connection with tho exait- Ing events of to-dny theso same protesting Domoorats ought to bo thankful for it. — In on artiole printed by the Now York un, and reproduced clsewhero in this issuo, aninteresting sketoh is given of tho warfora innugurated by Bocretary Bowrtow ngatust ‘the Whisky-Ring conspirators. The Sun, in its hatred of Prosident Grant, hag improved the opportunity to conncet hiy nome with the narrative in n manner caloulated to con. vey the impresaion that the Prosident was o party to the gigantio ‘couspiracy,—relylng chiefly upon an indorsement upon the back of o lotter sont by Avznr to the Whito. House, and alleged to contain, in the hand. writing of tho Prosident, the following ig. struction to tho then Chief Olerk of tho Treasury Department : Joves and McDoNALh are reliable and truste ‘worthy, Let them have the Informnation they ‘want, U, 8, Graxt, ‘The Preaidont has unhositatingly and em- phatically doclared that, it any document exists of which the above is & copy, it {4 an unblushing forgery, ‘Tlo Sun haa evidently Jeen imposed upon. The Cbicago produce markets were gen. erally steadior yestordny, Moas pork closed 12jo per brl lower, at $15,76 cash and §16.65 @15.074 for the year. Lard closed 7jo pes 100 1bs lower, ot $9.75@9.77} cash and $9.074@9.70 soller. the year. Moats wera §o per 1b lower, at 6}o for now shoulders, boxed, £io for do short-ribs, and 8o for do short-clears. Highwines wore steady, at $1.004 per gallon, ¥lour was in better de. aand aud firm. Wheat closed jo lower, at $1.184 for December aud $1.143 for Junuary, Carn closed ju lower, s 43jc for Novew- at 820 for November and 3250 for December, Ryo wns ensior, at Ghije, Batloy closed 2@ 2} higher, at Giio for Decomber and 66)o for January, Hogs were doll and wenk at 100 decline, with most of the sales at $5.50@ 5,65, Cattlo were in good domand and ruled firm, Shoep wero steady and unchanged. One hnndred dollars in gold would buy $100.12} in groenbacks at tha close. ——e By n vote of 22 to 8 the Common Couneil has oxplicitly pronounced ngninst tho roten- tion of Police Superintondont Hrorey in his presont position, and the vote in the Councit in doubtless an accurato roflex of tho desire thronghout the community for a chango in tho management of the Police Department. An ovidenco of this was bronght to the notice of Mayor Irarm yestorday by the visit of n number of prominent gontlo- men bearing numeronsly-signed potitions for Mr, Hicrex's removal, and it is to be re- grotted that tho Mayor did not think proper to nccord to his visitors tho courtesy of n civil answer to tholr request. As tho caso now atands, tho Mayor is at loggerhonds with the Roform Council and its constituency on asubjoct of such importanco and general intorest that it may bo expected to assert itself at the April election in n manner more emphatio and dacisive Somo of the Democratic newspapers, hard up for points, have mudo Tus TIbDUNE'S ro- buke of the loonl Canvassing Bonrd the toxt for n parallel. If the Canvassing Board of Cook County hnd mno right to ro- joct twonty-ono precincts, they say, how can Trr Tarmuse approve of the Louisiana Returning Board exercising jurisdiction over the returns in that State? This is point, no point. The Lonisiana Returning*Board is authorized by Inw to cxamine into the re~ turns and tako account of fraud wherever thbro is o protest against the count of any precinet; the Cook County Canvassing Board is not anthorized by Inw to do any- thing of tho kind, but, on tho contrary, is prohibited from so doing. Al tho Lonisiana Bonrd is doing is to oxnmine contested re. turns ; thers wersno contested roturns in Cook County, Thero was no *bulldozing" in this section of tho country, no terrorism, no killing of voters, no driving them away from tho polls, no ballot-Lox stufling, no re- penting, no frauds of any kird,—not even tho nllegation of any. If the poople of Louisiann had boen pormitted to vote as free- 1y and honestly as the people of Cook Coun- ty, thore would have beon no protests there |, and no ocension for using the lawful power of correcting frauds. In that casc, no re- vision would have beon attempted by the Re- turning Board of Louisiana na there was by tho Democratic Canvassing Board of Cook County. * THE RACE QUESTION, The testimony, printed in yestordsy's Tnwune, of tho victims of bulldozing in Louisiona, convicts the Tildenites in that Stato of nsavagery and flendish cruclty which would not do discredit to the Thugs of India or the Bashi-Bazonks of tho Turkish Prov- inces. A United States Marshal shot while carrying the ballot-box to a poll, and left for dendgith two bullet wounds in his hend, iwo in his broken right arm, and one in the Lip; anegro cut to pioces in his own house, his body dragged out and riddied with bullets in presence of his wifo; his baby suatched from tho mother's arms by a flend, who cuts its throat; the mother horself loft for dead with a gash from n knife in hor neck, o bul- 1ot wound in one leg, a cut with o knifo from tho hip to the kneco, her hend covered with wounds, and the cords of ono of her feot sovered ; another negro with o 'bullet in his breast and his hond shot to pieces,—such is the #ad andsickening story of only one day,— five of the victims taken from the long and bloody eataloguo of men and women maimed, mangled, and murdered, to help to clect Samuen J. Tipey President of the Unitod Btates and scizo the State Government of Louisiana, This fiendish, brutal, and bloody business is nothing now. The statistics gathored by Gen, Snenmay show that thero wore 2,141 persons killod and 2,116 wounded on account of their political opinion, in Louisinna from 1866 to Fdbruary, 18756, ‘Tho records of the dark ngos present no cruolties more torrible than those the Republicans of Lonisiana, both black and white, have suffered for the snko of their opinions, and, naa rule, these crimos have gono unpunished, and the 4,256 victims of Democratic cruelty romain un- wvonged. Tho bloody work atill goes on and is still unpunished, and it will continuo to go on until tho Democrats have accomplished their purpose of solzing overy State Govern- mont in the Bonth by murder, nssassination, torturo, terrorism, and the ghastly processes of tho White-Linor and bulldozer, It goes on in tho faco of Republican protests, in the faco of tho Govornmont troops, in the faco of every influence which the Administration hns the right to bring to bear under the Con- stitution, Of the sixteon origiual Confed- ernte Statos, but three remain in the posses- sion of the Republican party, and its touuro upon theso oven is unceriain, There are two prominent reasons why bulldozing—thie term includes the whole catogory of villainice—continucs. The first of theso is the immunity of the bulldozers from punishment by the law—n point to which wo have already alluded ; and the sec- ond i8 the impunity with which thoy onn commit their ontrages upon a raco which will not offor resistance, Had thoy boen perpetrated upon Indiaus or Germans, French, English, Irish, or Scotch, upon any other natiouality in Loulsiana, the result would havo boon different, beenuso they would have struck back. If it had been In. dinus, thera would have boen Democratic scalps takon, ' If it had been tho other races mentioned, there would have been Demo- crats hanged, burned, whipped, and shot, Theo killing would not have been all on ono sldo, and the world would have justified the rotalintion, Tho Domocratio butcliers of Louisiana, howover, know that the timid, spirit-brokon Africon ox-slaves havo not tho nervo to tako an cyo for an oyo or a tooth for a tooth, and give blow for blow, They know well enough that the negro race is nat- urally timid. It has boen tamed and broken by two centurios of servitude under the lash and pistol of thotpitiloss taskmaster. Xt hns no more resentment against tho old mastors than the sheep has against the wolf, Itis only tho young nogroes, just growing up to manhood, whoso backs have not been scarred by the scourge and seared by tho brand, who know thelr strength and possess nny epirit, The time moy come when thoy will both nasort aud defend thelr rights, but the race now is not far enough along yot to strike for its rights. ‘What is to be dono? Mr. Renrrvep, in his admirable and impartiol lotters from tho Bouth, makes the statement, which iy cor. roborated by outside testimony, that thou. sands of megrocs are squeezed into tho Demoatutio clubs by the pressuro of huuger, by the fenr that their wages may be reduced, Ly every possible form of preference aud ostracism, and have thus been induced to voto for TtnoeN and **Iteform " ngainst their sontiments and their conscience, How is this to bo provented so long as tho raco. conflict betweon the African and Onucasinn continues? The presonce of soldiors enu- not stop the oxercine of such influonces, and neither the Republican party nor the Ad- ministration can control it. There is but one avenuo of escape from this complication, nud it les in the direction of white pro- tection, The rights of the blacks who are unablo to take caro of them must boup- leld by whites, The Ropublieana must look toit. Whothor in powor or out of power, it they waut o party in the South thoy must nbolish race-conflicts by the orgnnization of a whito party in the Sonth. 8o long as the Republican party in the South is made up of blacks, it will be diefranchised and ovor- whelmed by fraud and forco, boeauso they cannot maintain their rights. Until thero is o full goneration born into froedom, with no recollection or taint of servitude, and with no knowledgo of a master, will they linve the courage to strike for their rights, Or. ganizo a white party, however, and their rights will Lo protocted, and thers will no longer bo n colorine, with ita inhuman atrocities and unparalleled injustice. “LET US HAVE PEACE Perhaps the most effeotive support given Mr, Trnoex during the recent campaign was that of the New York Sun, It made n bold, nggressive, and tireloss fight for him. It struck out from the shoulder all tho time. It did mora work for Lim than a thousand OrangsoN N. Porrers, It is just ns confi- dent. a8 Porren that Truoex has boon elect- cd, and that he ought to be inaugurated: Dut it refuses to ncquiesco in tho PorrEn scheme for Mexicanizing this country, In n recentearticle it gave the following advice, which wo commond to those gory-minded Domocrats who, like Antevus Warp, are willing thint oll their first wife's relations ohall go to war for TrLDEN: 'Thus, it it shnll be found on an Inspcetion of the certificates of the Elcctoral Colleges, whon they are opened in the presence of tho twao Houses, that Mr. Havzs has rocolved 185 votes, or more, that resuit must bo aceopted by the peoplo aa the legal result, whatever may have been the frauds commit- ted in Loutsiana or any other Stato intaking, or ro- turning, or counting the popular vote, It 1s per- feetly proper for Congress to ascertain the fact of such frands fn ananthoritative and conclusive man- ner for the information of the people, but the cer- talnty that there ore such frauds cannot affect the Jogully-certified clection, Mr. 11AYEs must be In- sugurated and acknowledged as President, even If the legal resultfs so talatod by frand that hon- st men rovoltattho very thought of what thoy muet eubmit to. Thero Is no alternative but civil war; and that forms an unnccessary and inadequate remedy, and Is not to be thought of. 1f Hlaves shall be declared Presidont, with grave reason to bellove that he has not been hon- estly and falrly entitled to hnve the Electoral votes of cerlain States, ho and his party must bear the consequences. ‘Those consequences, I hla oppo- nents aro wise, will be, not that his title to tho office {4 to Le resisted, but that the people aro to be appealed to to uso thelr constitutional and peaceful method of redrossing all wrongs and pun- ishing all putrages—namely, by tha ballot-box, No such appeal can be mada if tho country is to bo planged nto anarchy by denying ilavus' title to the office, OQur Qovernment must Lo prescrved and perpetniated, and that It may be, griovous as the wrong will bo that takes from TiLvEN States in which hie hns certainly-carrled & majorlty of the popular voto, wo must aubmlt to that wrong in the entiro certainty that the puety responsiblo for it will in due time be rewarded with political annl- hilatlon. T'his attitude is patriotic and commendable. If Mr, Hayes hos o majority of the Bloctoral votes, and tho people of tho country are antisfied that ho obtained tho voto of n single Stato by fraud, the Republican party will lavoe to suffor for it. There is no ocension to go to war abont it,—for this would punish tho whole country, the dofrauded ns well ns the dofrauders; punishment will be meted out and right vindicated much morp surely in n pencoful way. If Mr. Tiney is found to hinve o majority of thn Eloctors, it will bua bare majority ; and if the American people are satisfied that mnjority was obtained by overawing the Republican voters of Missis- sippi, Alnbams, Louisinun, Florida, and South Caroling, they will takotheir rovengo in alawful way when the lawful timo shall come aronnd, Mepnwhile, the balanco of power, whether Hayes or TrLpex bo inaugurated, will bo go even that no radieal mensures, insuf. ferably odious to eithor party, enn be carriod out. If Mr. Tizoex goes in, ho will have o small mojority in the Iouse and a political opposition in the Senate ; it Mr. ITaves goes in, ho will hiavo n small majority in the Sen- ato and a politieal opposition in the Houso. In eithier ovent, both partics must be on their good behavior or suffer tho consequences. The fight now is morely a fight for spoils, undor theso eircumstances, and wo do not Loliove tho American poople think enough of the 60,000 Republican oficcholdors, or the 60,000 Democrata who will succoed to their places in the ovont of TiLorN's success, to go to war about them, . # Lot us have penco” in any case, Wo enll upon thoe influential nowspapers and party lenders of tho Democrats to join with the Sun and admonish the hot-keadod parti- sans to conso their thronts of rosistance. ‘Thoy are terrifying the country, destroying confidence, and prostrating business, Every- thing is held innboyance nwaiting the result of the ELloctoral vote, The moderation of the Republicans hns convinced the country that there is nothing to approhond in case thoy nre conntod ont; no resistanco is con- templated to the innuguration of Tinpex if hio have a mnjority of Electoral votes, no matter how small nor jhow it was ob. tained. The copntry domands the sanio patriotism from tho Domocrats. Tho intogrity of tho Union, tho poaco of the country, and the prosperity of business are more dear to every patriotic citizen than auny one man, than any 60,000 ofilocs, than any political party. Wo do not comment on the bad spirit alrendy shown by the Demo- crats, but it onn searcely havo failed to loave Ita fmpress on that large class of indopend. ont votors who voted for Trrpen nt tho late clection. It Is wheer maduess, however, to carry tho war into Congross, which will bo extro-constitutional, and tho logioal result of which is rovolution and olvil war, If the Dawmocrats do this, thoy will atrike a blow at tho business of the country which a four yoars' administration of the most patriotic and intolligont charactor could not redeem. Tt tho Democrats suppross the gamblers, offico-seokers, nnd hot-headed partisans on their side, and the result will not be alarm. ing, whatever it moy b Pt S — The despairof the present politioal situ. ation in the South is inequality of repre- sentation, But fornogro suffrage, tho South- orn Statos would havoe ouly about 104 or 105 Electoral votes, instead of 188, In the days of slavery, in making up the basis of repre- sentation, three-fifths of the negroes wero counted, and even then, on the Northern basis of representation, tha Bouth had twenty votes more than ler fan ~oportion; now that all tho negroes axe counted, tho colored thirty-four votes in tho Eloctoral Collego and tho same number in the Houso of Ropre- gentativos, thus making the reprosentation still more unfair, The unfajrness amounts to absolute fraud when it is considored that tho cxcess of power over tho North hos Deen obtained by terroriam and political dis- franchisomont, and that Titpey, if ho bo elected Presidont, can only be clected by votes represonting a portion of the poople who aroe absolutely domied any politienl rights, By overy condition of fairnens and* Justice, oithor the blacks should be allowed to voto nccording to their amentiments, with- ont foar or rostraint, or tho whites of the Bonth should cease to claim a double ropre- sontation, to which thoy aro not ontitlod yolitically, legally, or morally, DOUBTFUL LOUISIANA, The Doemocrats claim and insist that they have 8,000 majority in Loulsiana. Their footings of the parishcs which thoy say Tir- pEN earriod amount to 29,632, and tho aggro- gato of Republican majorities by their count is 91,850, leaving Trupex a not majority of 7,773, Tho officinlreturns of twenty parishos which have got boon contested don littlo botter for tho Republicans than had been concaded by the Demoorntic unofficial reckon. ing. 'The gnin in thoso twonty parishes s romething ke 760 votes, which would re- duco the alleged Domocratié majority to 7,000inthe Btate, Now, suppose tho Retnrn- ing Bonrd shall rejoctall tho clection precincts of the five bulldozed parishes, if that can bo legnlly done, tho result would bo to deprive the Domocrats of 4,418 majority, which they claim to havo obtained in them, But after {hie roturna aro thus purged the Statois atill Democratic by 2,000, unless tho returns from the other parishes shall prove moro favorablo to the Republicans than the Democratio un.. ofileinl returns show. The New Orloans Re- publican perceives the difMoulty, nnd says : To, mercly throw ount the roputed Democeatic majorities in the above parlshes would not satlsfy Justice. 7o do that fully it will be necessary to trestore the Republican atrenqth which has been de- #troyed by the clvil war which has been waged in them for the very purpose of sotting up this clalm which tho Dlemocents now urge. But this is somothing that the Republican knows dannot be lawfully dono, It is wholly illegnl to count votes for Haves which wora nover east for him. Tho Returning Board hins no authority to reopen the polls and hold a supplemental election for Presidont and Governor ond other officers subsequont fo tho 7th of November. Tho most that can Lo done is to roject, not the parishes whore ‘bulldozing was practiced, Lut the particular polling-procincts of the parishes whero fraud ond intimidation are proven to have been practiced. Thus it may be that the testimo- ny will only show that intimidation was perpotrated in half the voting-places in Enst Folicinna, and that in the other half the Democrats got in 1,000 votes without bull- dozing; and so of all the ‘other parishes where bulldozing was done,— many of the polling-places may be found to have been freo of illegal obstruction or in. timidation, and thus when all tho bad pre- cinets aro thrown out the Domocratic majori- ty of 4,418 votes in theso five disputed par- ishes may not be reduced onc-half. In such cnso tho State vote would have to be certl- flod for TruveNend Nicitorxs, This inn view of tho chancos in Louisiana wo have not lost sight of for some time. As the cnso stands, it is very doubtfal, But the voto will have to be canvassed strictly according to Jaw. Tho Republican visiting committeo will never countenance or tolerate any swindling or rascally counting or other porformancog, ‘Tho thing must be dono fairly. The Repnblican party will ac- copt nothing clse than that, and Gov. Hares has openly deolared that ho will nover take the Presidency if it comes {o him tainted with fraud or corruption THE COUNTY BOARD, ‘Woe aro glad to have the co-operation of tho Staats-Zeitung in impressing upon the Cook County dolegation to the Genoral Assembly tho importance of a combined effort to secure certain legislation vital to the continued wel- faro of Ohicngo.- All minor differences ought to be sacrificed to this end, and the delega- tion should nct nsa unit in demanding an improvemen in thet Revenue law, an onabling net for the collection of the back taxes, and anothor which shall providefor the election of a full County Board every year ona general ticket and by tho entire vote of tho county. The tweunty-cight members of the Legisla tura from Cook County aro a power which con accomplish anything that is right and desirable, ncting as a unit and making all other ambitions subservient to Ohicago's in- terests. Thero is mo ronson why tho rep- resoulntives of tho outsido towns in tho county should lesitate about join- ing in o movement of this kind, 'The interests of Olifcago are the interosts of Cook County. Of the 14,000 votersin Cook County outsido of the city limits, probably 10,000 ara business-men or properly-owners in tho city, Tho rosidents of Iyde Park, Lake View, Evanston, Eunglowood, Washingion Helghts, Lnke Township (the Btook-Yards), and Winnetka, and the other suburban sattlo- monts, are anll Ohicngo peoplo. They do business in thoolty; Chicago furnishes thom with the moans of earning o living; thoy aro forced to share in full proportion the burdons that a corrupt County Board im- poses; thelr interests aro all identiesl. Of tho remaining 4,000 who may subsist on agricultural putsuits, nearly all aro engnged in gardoning or raising lny, poultry, oggs, milk, and othor city supplies furnished tho oity consumers, and tlie enhanced value of thoir property is owing to its proximity to this groat city. If tho Cook County ropro- sontatives from the country towns, then, dosiro to consult tho iutoresta of their con. stituents, thoy will join eagerly in a com. bined movement for such legislation as will afford Chicago roliof from tha tax-fighters and the tax.cators, Ono of the first things to achleve s a change in the law enabling Cook County to vote for all ifteon mombors of the Board of County Conunissionors, and to clectanjontire new batch next fnll. Therols nothing in the C%:mutlou prohibiting the enactmont of guch a law. In making Cook County an ox- coption and providiug for a Board of fifteon Comunissionors, it was morely required that ton of thom should be residents of tho City of Ohicago aud five of them residonts of tho suburban districts, But it was the original iutention that all should be cleoted by the general voto of the county, The samo {dontity of intorests which suggests concert of aotion among the mombora of the Logls- laturo from COcok County suggests the cholce of a full County Doard by gou. eral vote of the county. In that case tho country towna wonldhave just as many mem. bers of the Board as thoy now have; but, in oddition to this, they would have a voice in tho selection of the ten cily members, and the 14,000 votes outside tho city might serve a8 tho balance of power aud sacure an honest wajority in the Board for tho comumon bene- ownors of property in Cook County outslde of Chicago havo tho sanio intarest in honost contraots, and suffer in tho ramo way from dishonest contracts, as tho proporty-ownors in Chieago, and thoro is just as much renson why tho suburban residonts shonld demnnd an ontiro now deal noxt fall, and from yoar to yonr, ns that the city residents should do- siroit. Tho Into cloction, in which the ity olectod four Commissioners and the country towns only one, might have rosulted moro favorably to tho intoresta of the county if the practic had beon to eloct a full Board by the entire county vote, for thon both partics would havo beon constrained to put good men into tho fleld, and tho bost would probably hinve beon olacted from onch, The scandalons abusos in the County Hos- pital which TreTnarnuss has reoontly brought {o light ought to be onough, it thero wers nothing else, to securo from the Legislature alaw that will moet the domand for a radical chango in tho oharacter of this County Board, The taxpayers of this county have contribnted half n million of doliars for the eraction of n hospital, only that an iron-pud- dler mny bo tho Warden, hia danghter the Matron, a lot of worthlesa trampa the nurges and attondants, some medical students learn- ing their trade aa dootors, and the indigent sick treated mora'like brutos than unfortt- nate and suffering humnn beings. Whatover pretenso thoro may bo at investignting the outragos of tho County Hospital manogement, there is little hope for permnnont reform from tho presont sot of Commissioners, Their associntes, advisors, and intorests aro all opposed to o reform. They aro not to bo ronched throngh human sympathies; their hearta are only touched through thoir pock- ots, Bo long ns tho various county inatitn- tlons aro managed in tho intorost of the bummers and dend-beats who hang upon the skirts of County Commissionors no bottar than themselves, the poor will continue to bo swindled and tho sick misused, no matter how loudly humanity may cry out ngninst it. What all Cook County, nll taxpsyers and voters of Cook County, all people who support the county institutions, and all people who may somo day bo forced to de- pend upon thom for relief, really want, is that the presont County Board be wiped out of existonco, along with all its rotainers and dependents, and an entire new set of mon intruated with tho dutios thoreof. Tho Democratio papors are publishing the following letter as having a bearing upon the prosent oxciting controversy us to the powers of tho two Honscs of Congrass over tho re- turns of the Eloctoral votes: 70 the IHonorable Senate and Ifouse of Repre- sentatives: Tho joint resolution cntitled ** joint resolution declaring certain States not entitled to represcntation i the Electoral Colloge™ hag been signed by the Executive, In doference to the view of Congress, fimplled fn its pnsenge and presonta. tion to him. Inlisown view, however, the two Houscs of Congress convened under the twellth article of tho Constltution hace complets power to excluile from counting all Klectoral votes deemed by themlobe iliegal. And it I8 not competont for tho Exceativo to defeat or obstruct ‘that power by a veto, as would bo the case if hisaction wore at all cssontial in tho matter. 1o disclaims all right of the Exccutlvo to Interfere fn any way in the matter of canvassing ot counting Electoral votes, and ho also disclaling that by signing sald resolution ho hau expressed any opinion on tho recitals of the preamble, or any judement of his own upon the subject of tho resolution. Annanax LiNCOLN. Execurivi Mansiox, Feb. 8, 1805, The most that can be claimed for this lettor is that Mr, Lincory believed that tho two Houses of Congress could by law, noting s the Congress, declaro that cortain States engaged in robellion ngainst tho United States, and held by hostilo armics, wore not in o coudition to hold eloctions for Prosi- dent of the Umted States. Buch was the point covored by the joint rosolution. Mr, Lincory, howover, was careful to say that the ““two Houses” of Congress havo this power, oto. Ho does not pretond to say that ono Houso of Oongress may oxclude tho vote of n BState. TUndor the Constitution, tho votes ns returned are to bo countod. Each House hns whatover jurisdiotion the ‘other hng, whatover that may be. This is, howaover, quite difforont from tha jurisdie- tion of tho two Houses ncting jointly, As tho returns aro to bo recoived and counted, it would scem that, if there be any power to exclude, it must be a power vested in the two Houses, and not in cach House sepa- rately. It does not requiro the assent of both Houses to count the vote of any State; the counting is a matter of course, pre- scribed by law, It, however, may be that the two Houses, acting together, it they have any power over tho question, may by joint action excludo, Al aro to bo countod unless excluded ; it follows, thon, that thoro is no power to oxcludo unless by the joint action Tho surpri q with which tho recent Russian loan of 100,- 000,000 rables was taken by the two citles of Bt. Petersburg and Moscow alone only finds its porallel in tho eass with which the French ralsed the onormous German war in- demnities. Tho ukaso of the Ozar anthorized the Bonk of Russia to issuo notes for 100,- 000,000 rubles, racelving cash subscriptions at 02, the notes to have the character of bonds and bear 5 por cont futorest, Is- timating the ruble ot 78 conts, the amount would be equivalent to 78,000,000, which would yield to tho Government, nt 93, the sum in ecash of $71,760,000. No time is fixed for the lonn to run, and it will be at the option of the Governmont to redoom.tho notes whenever it seon fit, Look- ing ot the loan from an unfinancinl stind- point, the quickness with whick it hns been takon shows the uncompromising spirit of the Rusaian people upon the questions at is- sue batweon Turkey and tho Solaves, Itis an eloquent testimonial of tho determination of the peoplo that tho Sclaves shall bo freo. Tho majority Goorgla is reported to bo 85,185, This simply menus that the colored Repnblicans have rotired from politica in that Btato for somo reason, Tho Iast clection when both parties turned out to the polla was in 1808, Tha volo then cast for Governor was: Ropublican, 83,627; Democratic, 70,360, Four years later, in 1872, the vote for Governor was: Demooratio, 103,620 ; Republican, 40,048, By that tima the colored men wero got under such control that o part of them wera compelled to voto tho Democratic ticket, and only half the party strength was given for the Republican condidates. Two years later, in 1874, only 83,101 Republicans ventured to vote, while 98,347 Democrats voted, and now tha lattor have roturned a majorily of 83,185 for Tir- pexN.” The Republican vote cast is not report. yod—perhapa doed not amount to 20,000, iv. stead of 00,000 to 100,000, na it would be if the colored peoplo wero at lberty to vote their sentiments, The Republican party in Georgia 1s snuffod out, and has ccased to oxist as an active orgonization. It will re. maln in a state of suspended animation until o white native eloment can-bo enlisted against tho fire-cators, who will give the blacks the necesgary protection for tho safe exerclso of orn Congressional Districts the colored voters assistod In clecting an Indepondent Demo- crat to Congress undoer ciroumstances thus deseribod ¢ Yook at the Seventh Georgla Diatrict, altuated In tho Wiily soctlon of the northweatorn portion of tho State, where the colorad population s not large, but still conalderable, An Independent Democrat, Dr. FeuroN, ran agalnst the regular Democeatic nomineo, Danxkr. More than ono-third of the Democrata in that dlateict, belng the old Whig elomont, came to the sapport of Fruroy, and both slden went caltivating tho nogro vote. Tho whites thomsclves wero (ins divided; but Frirox's {ricnds got most of the negro vote, and FruTon was elected. - Wan thero any intimldation? Not mnchi Any attompt upon the pact of tho whites to ride around at night and terrify tho negroos from voting for FrrLrox would have awakened a most disagroo- able nest of hornets, The blacks had backing. 1t was not a carpet-bagger or two to the county, but o largo oloment of tho white population,—an ecle- mont having power to protect thorights of the class who Inclined to vote w! TILDEN T0 BE ONE OF TWO PRESIDENTS. Mr. Juraus Reis, President of the Cincin- nat! Board of Aldermen, has been to New York, and was granted an interview with Bamuey J, TiprN. Tho Clnclnnat! Commerclal pumped Tilin to find out what tho little old man sald to him, but Reis refused to “squeal.” Finally this'much has leaked ont: et DRl huvd oo eletiod Ferttdent by ry B, hnvi ecn elccte realdent the people, and 7 inlend to be President, 4 I aseumes tho very point In dispute, and Intends to be Prestdont anyhow. He s deter- mined that Monnissry and his tellows shall win their bets and get tho oftices, s henchinan, Congressman Porren, has explalned in a six- column paragraph, small type, In the Iferald, how SAMMY can bo made Presldent in one way it he cannot In another. It ho falls to get it through the Electoral Collego the man PotTeR proposcs that the present Confederato House of TRepresentatives, elected In 1874, sball declaro him Presfdent, and set him at work as such, TiLpEN’s home organ, the New York Torld, does not sce any partleular objection to having tiwo Presidents at once. It proceeds to consider the inatter as follow Nor do we halloye there Is to bo an unscemly row hetween the House aud Senato, If it aliall be found that the two hodics dieagroo over the right of tho votenof any State to bo counted, If, when they meet to examnlino the votes, a membor of ¢lther body ob- Jecta to uunntlnfi any State, we assunto that the Benato will with ',,’ul{ retlre, If the hall of the Hlonwe bo the place of meeting, and enable tho Houso to deliberate, and itself to deliberate there- on, with propricty and decorum, If, on roaescnt- bling, both Houses ngreo to roject tho State, does anylane euppote ot the Prosident of (ho Senate will perelut 1n connting (t? "It the two Houses dis- agree, will the President of one body any the more be disposed to count It? But if the House decldes to exclude, and the Senate to Include, the contest. ed Stafo; if tlio President of tho Senito neverthe- lesa caunts 1t and declarea Gov, TATEs Lo be Prosi- deut; and If the House, on the other hand, decider that no candidnte hind o majority of all the Electors *‘appolnted,” and then elects Gov, TiLnEN to be President. and po daclares and wo in- orms him? Then wo have the epectacle of fwo Presidents, both claiming to balegally elected, both taking the onth of oftice before & compatent magletrate, nud the Huure upholding Titvey and the Benato recognizing Havea, On neither theory can Grant bo fn ofiico after the 4th of March to comnand the army or anything clee. He can pos- sibly, before his term ox}:lrcn, convene the next Congresa {0 meet on the 5th of March, 1877, but the Lwo Houses of that Cougress would probably diffor {ust us the two Houscs of tho present Cori- wreas differ, Now thoro 8 not necesyarlly any riot, or tumuit, or revolntion in Weshington over this condition of two Presidents, All uxceutiveofticers, including army snd ‘navy ofilcers, would, to be auro, noed to decldo, each for Lilmsclf, whieh of the thco he would obey. ~ The Senate and Tousc, of course, woull not agree about leglelation, Nelther President wonld venluro to take, or order to be taken, any monoy out of the Treasury without an approprintion therefor by Cougress, Tho wxistin annual appropristions woull enduro till the 1st o next July, und then noither President would have H,“b"'i fiinds to pay any oflicial, civil or military, e people of the Unlted Statos ought to be able, and are uble, to look all theso contingencles calmly in the face, bocanse thoy ought to be, and aro, capable of se/f-government, Theoy are not chil- dren or liystorical porsons, from whum a statement of possible peril 1s to be withheld, e ——t— HOLDEN OF CHIOAGO. The Cincinnald Enquirer, St. Louls Repubdlican, New York World, and other TILDEN orguns who pool thelr moncy to get New Orleans spectals, are lereby notiled and informed that a fraud has been practiced upon them by their reporter, who sends thom the following dispatch: C. C. P, Hotngs, & prominent Chicago Repube Itcan, who hins heon making un {nvestigating tour in tho altezed bulldored pariaics, has just roturned aftor dpending aweok §n the parishes of East Baton Rouge und the two Jellcinnas, whero he Intor- viewed mora than 350 persons, il porsuns of moro or less prominence, chietly colored people, who Wery or hnd beon Hopublicana. 1o found ampla testimony of intimidation, but it was allon tho Republicon slde, Nota solltary Instanco of vio« lence on the part of tho Democrata could ho traced, and tho two instances of bulldozing allegod, of shooting DeGnav and Burien, of East Follciana, swero ontiroly nntene, and Mr. JoLnEN thinks mord thau 2,000 tegroes voted the Democratic tlekat fn Enst Follclna, They liad formed Demacratlc clubs pevarsl months ‘before the clection, and no sort of violence was used to induco them: to vote the Democratio ticket, ‘We have no particular objection to Mr, Hor~ DEN makiug any partisan report he pleases, and whitewashing the bLulldozers as much as he chooses, and lying about 1,000 negrocs volun- tarily voting the Democratic ticket in East Fell- clann, and pretending that he Interviowea 850 Republicans in three bulldozed counties in a week, and found that all the intimidation had been practiced by the Republieans agalnst the Democrats, ete, cte. But weo do most stren-. uously object to those newspapers palining him off on their renders as a Repubilean, This individual, C, C. P, HoLpEN, voted for TitoeN and HENDRICKS, and tho whole Demo- cratie ticket, It {8 not known that ho haa voted o Republican ticket since 1863, Ho ran for Atderman, as long ogo as 1800, on the Demo- cratie tickot, and was eclected. 1o was elocted soveral years ago to his present ofllee of County Comulssioner by the Democrats. Ilo s one of the most active and ,bitter Demo- cratfe ward partisans in the City of Chleago, He §8 n man who would bring in just such a re- port fu favor of tho Democrats from the bull- dozed parlohos as hie fs reported to have made, A more recklessly one-sided partisan could not bave been detalled by the Demoacrats of this ¢ty to do dirty work for the Confederates in Louizlana than tbs samo C. C. P\ H. The whole bulldozing - business would scemn proper and legitimate in his'eyes, It would be morally fmpossible for him to find anything wrong In it, The end wonld justify the means with him, Let those Democratic organs who pool their speclals from Now Orleans make the neceasary correction, and fnform thelr readers that the vosy report of the ‘murders and porsecutions committed by the Loufsiana Democrats was made by s ardent o partisan Democrat a8 tho ward bummerisin of Chicago can produce, ———— Tho voto cast by the nine largest cities in the United Btates at tho Jate clectlon was as fol- lows: navererne 12, aoal'rlmenl.mfl"“ + B8, 858|Hayos ... 170,800 Total A, cr + 01,047/ Thlden., © 70,474{Hnyes 97,621} Total ‘Tho T¥mes ts becomlug outrageously partisan in everything, It finds it fmpossible to sdinlt that 1axzs' mpjority over TiLpeN in, Illinols 1a 18,545, but wants to add the Prrsn Coorsi vote of 17,057 and the *scatteriug’ 237 auti- Masouie votes to TiLDAN'S minority; but still its man ls beat, The T¥mea very well knows that four-iftha of tho foolish men who threw away thelr votes on Coorkn wero Republicans, and” would support HAves o preferonce to Tupew, There Is no denying the fact, how- ever, that o good meny Ropublicans voted for ‘T1LDEN; still thero Were at least 80,000 majority In thio Stute who yers opposcd to bis election, sud preferred 1A1d8 to blw, and, if ko ls counted fnto the Preatdenc: &;‘w nyenr of his teryn’exbr’x‘lr:lsltll‘e‘:”dmm 90000 maJority fn Tlinols who i eg gy 18 he had been defeated, eartly wiah Now York atill. r g still malntay deranee of population ov:rlnli‘ilrm!r:lnll‘ Ly Atthe recent clection oyer & tallfon o lites were polled In the Emplrg State, i.‘:‘fl:rm":rlu cturng sliow: ol 1,015,587 the vote of the Emfirarisr::f{:' 15 what swellg owlng proportions, Th fuch overahay. Iyn) cast thls immense “v{,g.,(N,“ York and Brogk. For Titden For lago U4, 407 Total L PERSONAL, A 8t. Panl papersays a comodian, In ’}.!eu(in-nstoni:r droe Jolletson, the Attllory, United Statos Army, Company A, Fingn Tha next volume of Roberta b Serles will be a novel !nfl“t‘fl:fisi“;:.';"}l{l‘: 'If:: kl':ac;uol':mfiu llreln:!y published, + ‘Mercy Phij. brick 0" and **Delrdre," haye bad a largy By some curlous omiasl; the tragodian o mnch"l‘zr'xlfl: and fn the English provinces, tho lato Lord Mayor's banquet fosslon. It {8 enid that Dret Harte and writing o play togother. . As thoy Il;'llm ::;:Ir:lln ::;:c;g “l:“d‘flm":o lVI: plays on the Amerlc‘nlz shudder ey o, think what they may do g Mr. Riviero, the pro **Clree " at the Oul?wnmn::{“ A A Exposltion cf much attentlon, 1s an Engilshnin, m.pfl':,‘lh‘,: name, He married amater o the post, and began o very parr, *7o"07 Dobell The ¥man's Journal makes thi ":'Dr. Lnrln:hml abendoned hi uropo, at the desfro’of his condition of tho country," 'x'ii’&“."cl?.n‘!f g Lu)r‘l:z;ln:h:g :flw—fiumpu or Americat s « Halstead, noticing Da " ment that Gostha abhoreed d:.’é‘u,“é'b':’:,: pates considerablo entlafactlon that the peet v ot 8 poet **wng wil). ing to stimulate his syatem, at frequent intorva) with animating beveragos. o did not ey 1o milk and wator all hialife, - ek b Cardinal Antanelli—rest his sor g he did love tho gallantrics of mfi"::::.xd'::é o flesh was wealc—Teft behind him tangible mden.s of his loves. Dul to all charges of rre; m?&u there {a tho ready roply: “CnrdlnnlAnwv:uul b:‘ longs only to tho ordor of Deacons, " X Tho translation of the Bible by Ji of the famotts Smith siaters of oylu‘llzl:b?rny"r; :: . completed and ready for saloat $2,80 p.'.- o) a4 1t fa the frst tranalatlon of tho THblo over male oy awomnn, Julla 8mith acquired her knowleage oy( Habrow, Groek, and Latin mainly by her own ““;:"“ fl“;‘ ."':“; ‘::m » college admitted women, s cstimated that Col. Kai matour has cost him $782 above expenscs, or, mfl?;;hm innll, Mo hae recived in tho ‘shapo of fees to **tho gentlemanly coachman * $312, which he has rogularly turned qvor to charltable purposes, Wilkes* Splri¢ craily says that be hos defrayed In this manner *‘a portion of his legitimate expenacs In tho line of charity." The lettorof Mr, William Morris—‘‘poet and ‘paper-hanger "—-on 1hia Eautern question fs spoken of a8 o most refreshing specimen of pure and vigor- oua English, such as the modern newapaper does not often recelve from outslde wources, Morris writes with 8 wail—-and porhaps also with an Rast. lnke pen—on béhalf of **the quict men who ususls lygo about tholruwn business, but who are now stung into biftorness by thinking how helpless they 1ll'u ina public mattor that touches them so close- .t ' ‘Tho 1adles will be Intorcsted in hearing that the ex-Empress of the French, baving now loss per- nonal dignity to malntaln than when she was at the head of n great nation, no longer dyes her halr, which has consequently become of a respectabla ponper-nnd-salt hue, Nqually hoportant is the statoment made In Mra, Hooper's Parls correspond- ence, that the Prince Imperlal'a cars do notatlck ont ae thoy woro used to, They are stlll of larze size, howevor, like thosc of most young menof character and geniue, John Taylor Johnaton's coltoction of paintings is to bo disposcd of at public aalo Dec. 19, 20, and 22, 1t 15 ono of the Iargest and most valuable pri- wvate collections in this conntry, embracing works of Daubigny, Zsmacols, Frore, Holman Hunt, Escoaura, Delaroche, Vernet, Church, Douguerean, Turner, Enstman, Jolnson, Iart, Kensett, Ver- baeckhoven, Beard, Melssonior, and others not less prominent. Tho most Important plctare Is Turner's **Slave-8llp," for which Mr. Joonston pold Mr, Ruskin-$30,000. The gallery also in- clndes Story's marble ‘of Cleopatra, 2r, Gindstono's comprebiensive mind may not, like Goldeinith's, touch nothing that it does not adorn, but It certainly doea touch nearly all toplce of hnman Intorest. It has Jately touchod the sub- Ject of vaccination. Tho ex-Premler, in a pub- 1ished letter, has taken an oxtraordinsry positton in opposition to compnlsory vaccination, and at the same timo holds up the valna of vacclnation a3 nt leaat an open question, He has thusdonc much, ina quiot way, to encourago the poor and Ignorant in studied evnsfons of tho health-ofiicers, The death of tho Duchess d'Aosta, wife of ex- King Amadens, was caused by the fatigue attend- ing her hasty doparture from Madrid, She had then o child only elght days old, but waa so slarm- cd by threata of assassination dirccted to her hus- band that she fn on leaving Spaln B goon as ghe could bo moved, Tho consequence was & chironlc complalut from which shenever recovered. Her lifo In Spaln wad a conatant torture, Bho was subjected to inaults and Indignitics of the meancst doscription, The Spaniarda capecinlly delighted in writing on tha walls, whenever she went abroad, $*Down with Macearoni tho Fimt." The atate of affalra fn thls country seventy-four years ago resembled much tho season of unxlety and depresaton now existing. The editorof the New York Evenlng Post wrote on Fob, 22, 1802 ++ A stato of things has now succeeded most hortls ble to think on," In the samo lsaue appooredd lotter from & Washington gontloman, saylng that many proporty-ownera in that nelghborhood con: templated selling out and moving North, ¢0 that they might be on the right sldo of the line why:n dlaunton occurred. Bome of tho uitersuces of (b8 presont day will, the Post thinks, scem as grest curlositics o tho extracts lready quoted soventy years from now, Shakspeare's ** Antony and Cleopatza™ le soat to ba produced at Niblo's Gardon, [n New York, l.ll n atyle of great magnificonce. What with u:mlh ' performances at the Lyconm, the revival of * King Lear" ot Bootl's Theatre, and **As You Like s Tt" at the Fifth Avonue, it goed not appest uu‘; tho legitimato drama hos guite porished from of tho face of the carth. In Philadelplis, slso, Vo/Twelfth Night'* {s now belng represonted at nlxlu Chestout Strest Theatro, and Mlss Adclalde N; ; son proposcs to add to hor reportory, during het present tour in America, **Measure for )!ulur: A and *+ Cymbeline. " 'Bhu {0 now playlug ' TwOIY Kight" and **TRomeo snd Jullet™ at Clacinnatl. ‘An important art exhibltion will be opencd eatly next month fa St. Louls, It will hnmde;: ausplces of (he Morcantilo Library, and wil tho patronage and earneat efforta of soveral pro nent and wealthy gentlemen interedted in -rl‘I jects. A loan collectionwill be formed, fl: ,'m ing all the best palntings now owned 1n 8t nm.' and mapy importaut ones from the llmcelnn“ nial gallery and from tho New York exhibitios il the Acadomy of Dosign, Tho projectors of U7 entorpriso bave, porbsps, maded misteke 'h o0 tending ita scope {n such 8 mannor st n::u. bric-a-brac, bronzos, lacquer, and eotmel w0 porcolains and pottory, auy ono of which s mightin ftsc) furnieh suficient mater! exhibition, Darry Snllivag, In this country W88 not fnsited 1g to tho dramatlc pro« 8 annonncements s proposed trip to HOTEL nmv‘;v. ot B d Pacifio—W, Douglas, New k; Fo o moafi:'mflcxflnn a W ual\‘z. unu;l .\gbw ety Sgant mary Saniinon Q. Al 3 Milwaukes; If. Hlobetmt, B, Tty Now York; D. 8. Fools Geo :Lcl" Christle; Butal ert McKnlght, ¥ doj Clark, e to; J. Crawlor Mg, Barinis, Vot e Je Joy, Detrol Col, uo . i) I‘Qllfln‘:flbm‘u‘h &, Wiageld » R etroles H. 3. Fabe by bR o Fie og. J. B, Hildrap, i lamart, Buperintundent C.t AL 8 0 Curaw, Genra Freight Agsat 8 il C/ICT., Daveaport; Col, A De Grsy S S53a $1. ichardson, Davenport Demacrafite - Genural Manager **lied Ling, adiulo.