Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 2, 1876, Page 4

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CHICAGO COUNCIL No, 4 It & £, M.— sy ihie oty cremins’ o5 §ipdfopnunt Cortnih 18 on. for the elecr LEE T 1. BATURDAY,” DECEMBER @2, 1876, Greenbacks ot the New. York Gold Ex. change yestorday closed at 91, oSttt The Departméent reports are beginning to come out. Tho Naval Constructor, Haws- com, reports the navy as comprising 208 vessels, of which only 108 are set down as “servicenble.” From this showing it would appear as vory sensible thing to do, to sell, give away, burn up, or do something else _with ninoty-fivo collections of old iron and lamber, A rumor was cuwrrent in Washington last evoning that Sccretary Fism had tendered bis resiguation ou account of his inability to agree withi the President and other members of the Cabineton the subject of sending troops to South Carolina. The rumor could 10t bo traced to an authoritative source, and is probably untrue so far as the tender of Mr, Fisn's resignotion is eoncerned, but it is well known that the Cabinet is far from uuanimous on the ques- tion of military interference, the Becre. tary of Btate being strongly opposed to the polioy which has obtained thus far; and it is slso slatod with some positivencss that Secretary MormiLy and Attorney-Gen. eral Tarr are not in complete accord with the President and Bocretaries Oamzron and Omypren, In the samo connaction thore is espocinl giguificance in the announcement tuat fresh instructions have boen ‘sent to Gen, Ruaen directing a course of non-inter- ference cxcept in cases of actual or throat- ened violence. ———— Tho leading produce markets were gen- crally stronger yesterday, under a better do- mand, Mess pork closed 12jc per brl higher, at $10.02)@16.05 cash and $16.20 @10.22§ for January, Lard closed 1740 per 100 lbs higher, at $9.05 for the year and $10,00@10.02} for Junuary, Ments were a sbhade firmer, at Gjo for new shoulders, boxed, 8jc for do short-ribs, and 8jc for do short-clears. Highwines were steady, at $1.00 per gallon, Flour was in falr do- mand aund firm. Wheat closed 1§o higher, at §1.15% for Decernber and $1.16§ for Janu. ary. Corn closcd Jo higher, st 44jo cash sud 44}o for Jauuary, Osts closed o higher, at 8840 for Docember and 83jc for January, Rye closed 2jo higher, at 08jc. Barley closed o lower, at G0jo oash and 670 for January. Hogs were active sud firm, at Thursday’s advance, packers paying $5.70@ 5,85, Oatile were in good demand and ruled etesdy, Bhoep were finn, at §3.50@ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1876—TWELVE PAGES, 4.50 for common to choice. One Lundred dollars in gold would buy $108.75 in green. backa at the close. e——— The Hon. Jonx A. Kasson, of Towa, a good obsorver and a fair-minded man, hns just returned from an extended sojourn in Louisiana and Florids, and his expression of views, as reported in our Washington dis.. patches, will be road with intorest, Mr, Kasson was at somo pains to inquiro into the character and antecedents of the gentlemen comprising the Florida Board of Onnvassers, with the result of ascertaining that they aro not the unscrupulous political adventurers and plinat partlsan tools that the Democratio papers would meko them out to bo, but are, on the contrary, gentlemen of character and standing, who enjoy the re- spect and confidenco of the people of Flori- da, and who are certain to perform their difficult dutiea fairly and conscientiously. It 13 to bo hoped that Mr, Kassox's estimate of the probabilities is the corract ono, aud that the final result reached by the Florida Doard will be such as can bo accepted by everybody as an honest canvass of the vote of the State, In aletter to the Becrotary of War Gen, Ruaen, the commander of tha troops at Co- lumbia, oxplains his action in connection with the first dny's proceedings attonding the organization of the Legislature, snd shows cloarly that he is not justly chargeable with having interfered with the progressof events in favor of the Republicans, Troops were located in the State-Ilouse by request of Gov, CuaMpERLAIN, and, as Gen, RuoEs be- lieved, a3 n measure of precantion against the occurrenco of aviolent collision. Through o mistaken understanding of orders the offi- cer in command . of the troops tinis located responded to an applieation for sa- sistance by the person having in charge tho examination of certificates of members of the Legislature, nnd who claimed that he wos being overborno in the dischargs of such functions and needed help. This mis. take was rectified as soon as it camo to tho knowledge of Gen. Ruokn, and thd soldiers withdrawn, in accordance with the policy, which has been ndhered to throughout, with this exception, of restrioting the use of the troops to the preservation of peace alone. An address to tho people of the Unitc‘d' States from the Northern Democrats who went to Now Orleans to superintend the canvass of the voles is farnished to tho country this morning by telegraph. Al though the Louisinua Returning Bonrd has not completed ita labors, and will not be able to announce the result for threeor four days to come, Measrs, Paraten, Tnussoryn, BioLen, Saora, and Wataox have completed their labors as auxilinry canvassers, and are already prepared Lo give assurance that Trz- EEN Las carried Louisiana by o 'majority not far from 12,000. They have also taken it for granted that the Louisiana Board will not coincide with the finding of tho North. ern Democratic Board, but wilt decido that the Tipey Electors have not been clect- ed, and they are thercfore particular to state that any result which fails to give Trory the Electoral vote must bo brought about by auabuse of law and a perversion of facts, Tuese ominently disinterested and wholly non-partisan speotators and co-work- ers have decided the whole question—have decided that tho Prvgsrox atrocity was an affair of ‘“mere lawlessness,” and* had *‘no conncotion with politics”; that there was eovidenco of intimidation snd violence *“ on both sides,” but * not of such & choracter o8 to affect the general resnlt.” All of which by no means settles tho ques- tion. There rcmain to he heurd from the Northern Republicans who are equally con- voraant with all tho facts and figures, and | finally the Returning Board, which is by law constituted the' sole judgo of the question whether the ,evidenco of intimmdation, vio. lence, and fraud i *‘of such a character as to affect the general result.” THE ATTEMET T0 STEAL THE VOTE OF S0UTH CAROLINA. Persons at the North, in making up opin- fons na to politienl matters at the South, make a serious mistake in forming judgments from o Northern view of the subject. Thus at the North wo have no such thing in pali- ticsas the intimidation of voters by force, violence, or murder, ‘The man at the North who would commit personal violence upon n voter to compel him nnd others to voten particular ticket, or not to vote, would be- come in popular estimation a criminal of the meanest dye, and would rceeive prompt jus- tico nnd hoavy punishment. Thero are no laws at the North npplicable to such a condi- tion of affairs; our laws do not admit that the people of auy State, county, town, or precinet will over be intimidated or coerced in their political action by force, by armed violonce, by murders, assassinations, whi pings, or by firing their homes, or cruelties and barbaritics on women and children, At the South, however, thess crimes aro common—thoy aro general; and wherever the negro voto is large, or in the majority, nnd an attempt is made to enforce it, this business is as much part of tho regular elec- tioncering compaign s aro mass-meetings and stump-speechies at the North, Conse- quently, at the South, the lnws take cogniz. nnce of those violations of the right of suf- frogo and of free clections, and the laws of the three Btates, whosa elections are in con- troversy, have created n tribunal in each State, armed with autherity, upon proof that suoh violenco or fraud has defeated a fair eleotion in any procinct, to defeat the frand by rejecting the rewurns from such precinot. ‘I'his power was an absolute necessity ; it is the only means by which eloctions can be protected, because it defanta the party practic. ing the violenco or frand from profiting Ly the crime, Henco the existence in Florida, Louisiang, and South Oarolina of Canvasslng Boards clothed with supremoe, cxolusive, and final authority to. decidoe absolutely and ar. Ditrarily on the questions before them. The erooction of these election courts is a necessity ariging out of the practice at overy elec. tion of carrying clections by tho nse of the shot-gun and the revolver, and by murder and assassination, ag n menns of intimidation, In Bouth Qarolina the State Board of Can. vassers have this power of counting the re- turns, passiog on thefr validity, of rejecting all votes decided by them to b illegal. While this Board was in session the Democrats, with a view of stealing tho vote of the State for Trroen, and of obtaining possossion of the Btato, appliod to the Bupreme Court of Bonth Caroling for an order directing the Board of Canvassers to nggregate the returns agvecelved by them, and doclare the result 84 found on the face of thoso roturus, A temporary order was jusued, but while the question of making this order peremptory was debating, and before it was fssued, the Btate Board aggregated the returns s re- coived and declared the result as to the President ond Btate ofiicers. Nut, on the face of tho returns, it was ovident to the Board that the vote in Edgefield and Lanrens Counties was scandalously fraudulent; they therefore decided ihat ns far na the clection of mombers of the Legislatura tho roturns from theso two counties should be rejected wholly, This decision excluded nine mem- bora of the Legislature from thoso connties, but did not give the seats {o any other per- sons, When this was done tho Bonrd ad- journed #inedie, Tho order of the Conrt, issued by two of the threo Judges, was gerved upon tho members of the Moard, which biad censed to exist officially, The Democratid members from Edgefield and Laurens Countics, having no certificates of clection from the Canvassing Bonrd, applied to the Court, and that body directed tho Clerk to jssue them certificates, Theso ninc members are included in the House of Representatives organized by the Democrats, while thosa Lwo counties ave not represented in the other House organized by tho Republicans, Tho Board of Canvassers deny the juris. dietion of the Supreme Court to control or direct them in the porformance of their du- ties. That tho Coart has played thoe part of partisans is evident on the face of the wholo proceedings, and they have shown a willing complicity in the attempt to steal the voto of the Republican Stato of South Carolina for TioeN. When the order directing the DBoard of Canvassars to aggrognte the re- turns as received and declaro tho result wos applied for, it was expected by the Demo- crats that tho returns would not only clect HaurroN, but also olect soveral of the Tir- pEN Electors; but the returns did not so count up. Including even Edgefleld and Laurens Counties, thero was n clear majority for Hayes nnd Cmamnrruaiy, and the con- spiracy between the two partisan Judges of tho Supreme Court and the Democratic leaders failed. The schome included the election of o Democratic Legislature, but this failed by reason of the Board taking ac- tion and ndjourning before the order of the Court reached thom, In 1872 Judge Dorrin, of New Orleans, issued certnin orders declaring who was eleoted in that State, and, under thoso orders, Kertosa and his Government was declared the Gov- ernment of Louisiana, Ever since that time the Democrats have boen denouncing Du- rellism,—the interferenco of the courts with the action of tho Btato Board of Canvassers, —and they so perseveringly threatened im. peachment that Dumen at lnst resigned. Now wo have tho same Democratic party in- sisting, and clamoring, and threatening civil war becauso the Board of COanvassers of South Carolina closed up its business and ad- jonrned without waiting for an order from the Court telling them who should be de- clared elected. Durellism in South Osro- lina was thus avoided. Tho Court, however, did not abandon its scheme. At the instign- tion of the Democratic leaders it mado fur. ther orders, one by which the returns from Edgefiold and Laurens Counties should be connted for members of the Legislature, and tho other that. the Board shonld send all the papers relating to the canvass to the Court. It was known that the life of the Board wea limited by law, and that, if tho term of ten days should expire without a result being de- clared, then, there being no legal body to declare the result, the Court would ns- sume jurisdiction and perform that duty. Thoso latter orders wore nover served on the Board, and the members of which, for not obeying them, wera nrtested and imprisoned for contempt. A motion for their discharge is now pending before the United States District Court. Northern readers must look at these ovents ond jndge of them not by comparison with tho laws, habits, and practices of Northern communities, but from the standpoint of things as thoy exist in South Carolina. On the one hand is all the woealth and the great bulk of the education; on the same sido are the owners of every foot of land in the State, which ia given up exclusively to agriculiure, and theso land-owners give all the employ- ment thot is to bo lisd for Inbor. On tho other hand is the great mass of the people, having n majority of 80,000 in the popular vote of the Stato, Thoy are mainly, and in many localitics exclusively, of the mnogro race, Thoy are landless, unarmed, property- less, and depondent for food and home npon the whites who omploy them. They are, novertheless, keenly alive to their political liberties, and all extremely devoted to the Republican party. Buch o conflict of race ond such a conflict between the dopendent and the employing populntion does wot exist ot the North. The business must thorefors Lo regarded as a struggle between the white minority and the colored mnjority, and then the desperate effort of the miuority to seizo the Governmont by all manner of means will readily Lo understood, nnd the relative merita of the demands by both parties will ba more justly judged. The two counties oxcluded (for members of the Legislature) by the Cauvassing Board have been sccus- tomed to give four to five thousand Repub- lican majority, but this yoar the roturns show a Democratic mnjority of mnearly the same number; these facts, undor the cir- cumstances, showing that no fair clection Dad taken place there, Wo print elsewhere a clear statemont of all tho facts portaining to the attempt of tho Court to control the Canvassing Board nnd to steal the Biato for TrLpeN, ———— ELIZA PINKSTON'S CRIME, When before the Louisiana Returning Bonrd Eriza Pinxstoy told the story of the bulldozing of her husband, herself, and her Labe, andoxhibited the ghastly wonnds which left her at death’s door, the thrill of horror ana indignation that swopt over the country was omiuous to the bulldozers. It roused the loyal people to a new senso of tho loath- somo barbarism that survives the barbarismn of slavery which bred it, and that, a8 White- Linelsmn nnd Rifle-Clublsm have cursed the fairest portion of the Bouth,—the barbarium that now threatens to imperil the country, and which justico and the publio security aliko require to be stamped out. Every in. stinet of clvilization, every consideration of enlightened policy united to inspire the de- mand that, at once and for all time, the su- premacy of the law over the bulldozors bo firuly established, Naturally the bulldozers of thd Bouth nud their allies of the North wha would cnrry n Presidentinl election by bulldozlug quickly tock the alarm, aud mado Laste to deny Eviza Pingston's testimony. ‘Thebulldozersof Louisiana did not seruple to place the responsibility where, according to them, belongs the responsibility for all evil-doing soutljof the Ohio River—upon the “d—d niggor.” It was the nigger, they re- ported, whose bloodthisty dispositfon has been signatized by the extraordinary tronble they took to get themselves slaughtered in Coushatta Parish and elsowhoro in Loulsiana, It wes niggers who bulldozed Eriza Pryz- 70N, aud, with overy refinement of cruclty, murdered her husband and out the throat of Ler little oue, All things considered, that was probably the very best face the bull- dozers of Louisinna could put upon the affair ; bat theirstoryis one that, in slang phrase, wouldn't wash, and wna altogether too thin ; and all the circumatantinl detnils as to the feud among the negroes which gave rise to the outrnge did but seem rander the talo more gauzy. In short, tho bulldozors'lic was o whopper ; but it waan't up to tho ro- quirements of the emergoucy, Not so, however, with that jllustriona organ of tho bulldozer sympathizers of the North, the Cincinonti Znquirer, That journal, which is even moro fully persnaded than are tho bLulldozers themselvos that all the deviltry done in the Bouth is dono by tho negroos themselves, who are somchow always the vietims, published as a Noew Orloans specinl tho statement that it has been ¢ proved conclusively that she (Eraza Ping- sTON) not only murdered one, but three, of hor own childron,—one by beating, another by smothering, and the third by drowning.” Thia dispateh (?), too, was published by the Enguirer the vory day after she had given her testimony, and whilo the rost of the bnlldozer sympathizors’ organs tweve, in bliud fashion, oxplaining that the bulldozing of Extza gnd hor husband nnd little one touldn't have affocted tho result of the vote iu Ounchitn Parish ! ) It only remamins now for the Chicago Times, which, with all the ferocity of its non-partisan zeal, like the Enquirer, ns vio- lently opposed TILpEN 08 subsequently it supported him, aud which has now landed in the_very * centre of indifforence,” to re- deem its reputation for enterprise in inde- pendent journalism by socing the Enguirer's story and going it one botter.” The story of this wretched woman PixrsToN, whose hus- band, after Leing barbarously tortured, was murdered beforo her eyes, who had then to endure the horror of witnessing the slaugh- tor of her babe, who wns herself then out- raged and shot and carved with bowie- knives, and who showed her wounds, yet fresh, before the Returning Board,—all her testimony aond the dumb tes- timony of her wounds must be pilenced somchow, else the bulldozing will all bave Been in vain and will not avail to send Tiuoen to the White House. The Chicago Times i the independent journal to utterly discredit her testimony. Let the Times, then, with characteristio foarleasness, with wonted blasphemy in the hend-lines, and with tho usual obscenily to bring it out in bolder rolief, publish the whole truth, and once for all lat the whols world know the awful facts, to-wit : that it was not one, nor yet three, but'five of her own children that this wrotched womnn PrngsToN murdored; that in truth she neither hurt, nor smother- od, nor drowned them, but instend stuffed and roasted them on the half-shell; and that when she had eaten thom all she wept be- causé she had beon compelled to make her dinner off of but five, instend of a full half= dozen of her own progony. That done, the ghastly story of this pesky woman PrxzstoN would be lnid, and would retarn to torment the TrLpew bulldozing managers no more, THE RACE ISSUE, We print this morniug a letter from Mr. C. D. Tnismre, Olerk of the S8upreme Court at Ottaws, in which ho takes excsption to tho views advanced by Tor TrinuNe as to the solution of the race problem in the poli- tics of tho Bouthern States. Wa have sug- gested an alternative of securing a native white party in the Southern 8tates that will protect the blncks, or waiting till a new gen- eration of blacks, unterrifitd by the recollsc- tion of tha lash and froe from the supersti- tious fear of tormer mnaters, shall develop the manhood and courage to strike back, and manfully defond their political rights. AMr, Tarunte protests against tho first plan aa impracticablo and agoinst the second as in. humnan, but he fails to suggest any other remedy. i First, lot us see iu what respect Mr, Tnnr. pLe egrees with Tue Trimuxx, Wo are agroed now that the negroces, thongh freo men and oqual citizens nuder tho law, cannot protect themselves even in States where titey aro in the majority. We aro agraed that the carpot-baggers, who went South after tho Warand got control of the State Govern- ments during tho term of recoustruction, hiave not beon ablo to furnish the blacks suf- ficient protection to cnablo them to vote ns they want to vote. Wo aro agreed that the *poor white trash" of the South, so- called, sre powerless against the dominant closs of formor slave-owners, Wo are agroed that of the sixteen Southern States thero are only threo in which the negroes a8 a race may look to tho local Governments for protection in the exercise of their political rights, and that even in these threo they have been intimidated, threatened, bulldozed, thrashed, murdered, and driven off to an extent which renders further protection exceedingly doubtful. ‘Chis is tho agroed case. Justico and human- ity demand thot the negro shall bo assured tho enjoymont of lifo, liberty, and the right of suffrage guarantced him by the Coustitu- tion. ‘The question i, How is this protec. tion to be secured ? Though Mr. Tanmre does not say so outright, the inforenco from tho views he predents and tho opinion of a groat many TRopublicans at the North i that the Federal Government shonld furnish the blacks the protection’ thoy need. But how is it to be done? By whnt authority and what process is the Federa! Governient to nssort itself in Georgia, Minaissippi, Alabama, Arkansus, or any other of the Southern States that have- passed entirely and nbsolutely uuder the coutrol of the Confederates ? ‘I'he Governor, the Btate Logislature, the Courts, the Bhoriffs, the local officials, are all Con. foderates. Tho Constitution provides only that & Federnl Government may inter- veno for polico duly when javited Ly the Legislature of tho State, or the Goveruor when tho Logislature is not in session, Dut how is the Confederate Legislature or the Confadernte Governor of oue of thoso States to bo compolled to call upon the Federal Government to furnish protection for tha nogroes ngainst the- Rifle-Clubs, White-Lin- ery, ltegulators, and *¢ Bulldozers " who have elected them? Nor would the assignment of troops about eloction time suffice, evon if it could ba done, since the successful intimi. dation of tho Llacks is & process extending through a considevable poriod of time prior to election, and any protection that wonld be adequate would not be limited toa day, a week, a month, or any one section, but would buve to extend throughout the entire Bouth aud from year to year, ‘The Federal Govern- mont could not futerfore with the Ku. Klux acts, for in many of tho Btates where the ucgroes are practically disfranchised no Kuo-Kluxism js alleged. 'I'ake the Btate of QGeorgis, for instance, The Democrats have been in supremo control for elght yeams. There is no uccessity for any more ‘“‘bulldozing” in that State; yet, in a popu- lation pretty nearly evenly balanced botweon Llacks and whites, the Confedertes Love a L) majority of 80,000 or 85,000, showing about that mauy nogroes to be virtually disfran- ohised; the Republicans have not a Btato officer, n logislntor, n mcmber of Congress, a Judge, n Sheriff, or n Conatable, though nenrly one-hialf tho population would vote the 1:«:- The local courts cannot be deponded upon to fur- nish tho neeessary protection, for jurioa can- not be found that will convict the perscontors publican ticket if the voting wero freo. of tho blacks. Then what is to bo done? Wo wish that Mr. Tamunre, in objecting to onr plan, had snggested some other. Wao return, then, to the original alterna- “tive of waiting till the now generation of no- groes shall have developed the cournga to protect thomselves, or the formation of n whife party at the Bouth upon somé mew issne, If tho formor be disimissed as cruel, then we must look to the latter as hopefully a8 posaiblo, and the firat step towards it is the extinction of the color-line in politics, The timo'{s not for distant in somo of the Sotthern States when thia will bo achieved. No party with 85,000 majority in asingle State, like tho white party in Georgln, can long hold togother on the simple question of color, while thoro are so mauy votes nnused which ean be mado available when tho color- line shall bo sponged out. Thero are already signs of disintegration, now that it is ovi- dent thnt tho Republican party is completely snuffed out 8o far as that Stato is concerned. Mr. Reprizwp, tho well-informed corro- spondent of the Clncinnati Commereial, fur- nished n striking instanco of how tho negro vote will be brought into serviee sooner or later. Inone of hisletters he wrots as fol- lows: Lookat Georgla. The Republican party thero has gone to the dogs, is ottorly stamped out, and the Democrats have about 80,000 majority, ai- though the white vote 1s not very much larger than the black, bat the blacks have nobody to back them, and they nro virtually distranchised. In counties where thore ara 6,000 black voters, they do not cast GOO votes. What is the result? Tho TDemocratic party there {s boginning to crack, Itls top-hehvy. It will split In two, It Is splittingnow. Tach slde will cultivate the negro vote, and the negro will have something hehind him bosldea two carpet-baggers to the county, Looknt tho Seventh QGeorgla District, situated In the Lllly section of the northwestern portion of the State, whera the colored.population is not large, but atlll considera. ble. An Independent Domocrat, Dr. FELTON, ran against the regular Democratic nominee, DanNEr. More than ono-thind of the Democrats in that dis. trict, being the old Whiz cloment, came to the sup- port of FErTON, ond both sldes went to cultivating the negro vote, and FuLTox was elected. Was there any intimidation? Not much! Any attempt upon the part of the whiten to ride around at night aud terriy the megrocs from voting for FrLTON wonld have awakened o moat disagreeable nest of hornots, The blacks had backing., It was not a carpet-bagger or two to the county, buta large clement of the white population, —an eloment hav- fng power to protect the righta of the class who fu- chined to vote srith them. The nbove incident of the recont campaign is significant of what will ensue s soon ns the native whites divide, no matter what tho issuo may be. 'The colored vote will then be protected and sought for, as it is now in XEast Tonnessee, North Carolina, Maryland, ‘West Virginis, Delaware, avd Konjucky in those regions where there are enongh white Republicans to give the whites n backing. When the domination. of the whites in the Southern States shall be supreme, they must split into parties on local and general issues, os they do at the North; and when this comes, that party which is inclined to bo ‘conservative, to be Union.loving, to be posce-nbiding, to favor tho ele- vation of the biacks, and to makoe thom the moro useful by making them better citi- zens, will receive the largor share of tho ne- gro vote. But, then, the negroes will not vote uolidly as o race any moro than the whites, They also will have diverse inter- ests and inclinations, whon the race issue will have censed to be paramount to all oth. ers, Their power will bo catered to by both parties like any other distinctive element in politics. Their votes will be valuable, and for that reason the voters will be protected, just ns they wero in the Georgia district to which Mr, Reprierp has referred. This is the only hopeful solution we can foresoe; if Mr. TriaorLe has avy other that can bo worked out lawfully and peaceably, ho will confer n great favor upon his country Ly giving it ehapo and expression. s 1 THE GAS CONTROVERSY. Thanksgiviog Day was not favorable, it seems, to the mottlemont of the differences between the city and the West Bide Gas Company, which bad been suggested by Judge Droxrvono, The city offices were all closed, the Aldermon were at” home enjoying their turkoys sud mince-pies, and the counsel on both sides sucenmbed to the combined in- clemenoy of the weathor and the restof a holiday. 8o the arguments were resumeod yeaterdasy morning. But Judge Druxuoxp was still averso to taking the matter in hand with a view to a summary disposition of the casio one way or the other, and still hopeful that some. dompromise could bo made be- tween the partics. It was, thorefore, agreed thot the caso should rost twenty days, during which time it’is to be hoped that the city and Gas Company may bos able to agrea upon a prico, without referenco to tho prosent ten-yoars' contract, which shall bo based on the cost of manufacture, inter. est on tho investmont of the Gns Com- pany, ind thoreasonable profit. If thoy fail, Judge Drusuonn will then have to settle tho law in the case, tho prineipal point in which is whethor a Council ean bind the city toa contract extending over a term of years. In his romarks yostordsy suggesting an- other effort at compromise, Judge Drum. wonp eaid that ho was not then propared to ¢ive an opinion on certain pointa in the case, but he intlmated pretty plainly that there wero ciroumatances in which a contract ex. tending over a term of ycars would uudoubt- edly bo valid and binding upon the city. Buoh contraots had been made in construct- ing tunnels and othier publio works requiring more than ono year for completion, 8o, in s ense whero it should' appesr that a cortain oxponditure necessary for supplying the city with gas could not reasonably be as- sumed without an expectation that the sup. ply would contivuo more than one year, it ‘wonld secin that o coutract for more than a yoar would be valid in the absence of any expreas prohibition in regard to gas con. tracts, It cannot be concluded from Judge Dauvnwoxp’s remarks that he would sustain the validity of the contract, and enforco the city to take the gas at tho price contracted for sevon years ago, but it is evideut that he would not bluntly set aside the contract on the ground that the Council had no au- thority to make a contract extending beyond the year’s appropriations. The expenditures and interesta of the Gas Company would probably reccive equal cousideration - with the rights and interests of tho oity., If this would bo the outcoms in a judicinl proced- ure, it is unquestionably better that the ity snd Gas Company should settle their differ- encos by arbitration on busiuess principles, Indeed, Judge Daumsonp said it i very doubtful whether the city nisy assume the part of dictator to tho Gas Company, which has been its position thus far, At tho samo L) . cept Buck DaREM. timo, tha Gas Company may be surs that it could not hold the city for a term of yenrs to an excessive and unreasonable prico,—so that it will be for the mutual interest of both parties to agreo upon o fair basis of seitlement, THE INTIMIDATIONS IN LOUISIANA, The wholo issue in YXouisiana turns upon the question whether the Democrats havo enrried the Blate, as they allegs, by the aid of the negro-vote, sooured by fair, legal, and This is the dispnted point honorable means, upon which the whole controversy hinges, In judging of the merits of this controversy it is to bo taken into acconnt that the blacks of tha Bouth are just ns firmly attached to the Republican party as tho Irish of the North nreeto the Demoeratic, and that if thero wero n fair, aud freo olection thoy would vote that ticket on maese, just as the Irish vote tho other ticket. Have the ne. groes in Louisiana, who aroe Republicans, been detached from the Republican party and earrled over lo the Democratio by fair menna? Louisiana is vory largely Republic- an. By the census taken last yoar the mn. jority of colored peoplo amounted to 60,000 or 70,000, so on the mere colored line there 18 n clear majority of 12,000 or 15,000, and, leaving out of tho estimate aliens and those who do not vote on the white side, this ma- Jjority would be ineronsed to 20,000. Now if the Democrats have carried the State thoy have cither stolen the mnjority or they have obtained it by foir meaus, Which ia it? In deciding this question it isto bo re. membored that the principal Democratic mnjorities were obtained in the five edunties where bulldozing was most successfully practiced, That there was an undoubted Republican mnjority in these parishes is shown by referenco to tho vote of 1874, whon tho Democrats put forth every pos. siblo effort and exhausted every resourco to carry the State. The vote in that year, which was conceded to be a fair and full one, was o8 follows : Vofein 1874, Dem. majori- JPartshes. Dem. siep. tes 1870, 7 1,688 1,753 1,360 405 2,240 600 1,017 648 1,074 1,071 8,185 4,417 At the clection in 1874 it will be observed that these parishes gave a Republican ma- Jority of 3,861, They now give a Demo- cratic majority of 4,417, which exceeds the total Democratic vote of 1874. Iow have tho Democrats made this gain of nearly 9,000 votes in two years? Was it by fair moans? BMr. RrorieLp, one of the most impartial correspondents 1 the South who hears and writes both sides, throws some light upon the processes of converting the Republican States in the South into Demo- cralio States. A Louisiana planter in one of theso parishes, with whom he conversed, told bim he bad had no trouble until the campaign commenced. Then the bulldozers tode through his plantation nightly nand fired into the cabins of his laborors, For two months before the olection his hands had to slesp in the woods, All law was overthrown. Four or five mnogroes were brutally murdered in vaorions parts of the parish to strike the rest with terror and frighten them into voting tho Democratio ticket. Ile snys: ‘¢ Right in tho busy sonson tho bnlldozers wounld ride through lhis plantation throwing down fences, and leaving thom down, looking for Fhom thay had driven from their negroes cabing, and who would hide between the col- ton rows for protection, Tho terrorism wns 80 complote ,that his hands finally slopt in the woods every night, coming out in the morning, working nll dny, and retarning to tho woods at night.”” Tho *lection at his polling-place was a farce, ** It was perfeotly quiet and pencoable, aud the blacks, all the manhood tervified out of them, mournfully voted the ticket they hated. Just one Re- publican vote was cast at his precinet, and that by himself.” This was ons form of the conversion, Let the following afidavit of horror and blood show another form : 8late of Louislana, Parish of Ouachita: Ter- sonally appeared before me, the undersigued, Evriza Pixgeroy, who, being duly sworn, rays that sho lived at Lideville's, in tho {sland, and that sho and her husband, Hexny PINksToN, were in bed at theie Louso above, in the above parist, Stato of Loulslana, on Saturday night, Nov. 4, 1876, and nbout Jor 4 o'clock in the morning some men came to my door and callod Hzxuy PiNgaToN; aald they wore ils Yankeo fricnds, and wanted to take bim to Monroe. I safd, **De. Younn, yo Yankee," Mr. Looax spoke next, and sal Youxu I8 not fu the parlel, " and I sald, * ) Mo 185 thero hiels Sumping back." When T sald thia Mr. Looax broke the door open, and they cama Into the room, Nr, Yousa, RiLLy Pangs, and Mr. LouaN—the reason I know him, I saw himat Mr, Lipevitsz's often—Me, TuznsorLp, Frasg Dun- nax, and snother Dunnaxt, PETER CLEVELAND, and thees was more, but I did not know them, ex- When they rushed In the houee, the first thing that took place thoy grabbed lnNny IiNgstoN. Dr. Youso and Copt. Tuennorp eald, **You vote no d—d TRadieal ticket hero, " Loady sald, ** Putad—d vell overhls face.” Buck Dakensald, **Bhe knows yous attend to her; and they commenced shooting and cutting me, Dr, Youxa, after shooting all the losds out of his piatol on IfENnY, struck mo on my head with the pistol. T was shot fn tho breast and in tho leg, my throat was cot, and my Jow, and I waa cut on the head with an nx In threo different places; my hecl-atrings wero cut Into by Fraxi Dumiax, Thoy tied & handkerchiet ovor Hzxny Pingaton's mouth. Thoy cut his — off, saying, “Weaken hlm, G—d d—u blm, s wo can get him," After that they took him ont In the moon- whine, and whot him until he wasdead. Ho begued them not to kill him, and eald he would vate tie Democratie ticket, .Hut they wald, *‘No, G-—d 1—n you, whon Bukwxtin spoke you took off your hat, and hurmhed. Wo are golng to make you hurrah something olse. You havobeen pretending to us long anough, aud we are going to kil you." He had joined the Democratic club to save his life. They cut my child's throat from ecar to ear, I asked them, **Pleaso don't; do not kill my baby, one yearald,” They took my baby snd cut ita throat,and then shot me,and threw my baby in the lake. her Eriza A Pinxston, nark, Bworn to and subacribed to before me this 21st day of November, 1870, Jonx 1L Dmixsonove, J. Py Mr, Z. L. Wiurre, the well-informed and Lionest correspondent of the New York I'rib- tine, in searching for the truth on both sides, finda not only tho same horrible record of cruelly, but also that the Democrats by intimidating the courts so that the negroes could not obtain justice, by refusing to give om employment, aud by taking advantage of their fears, induced them to come into the Democratio party for ‘“shelter,” as one negro expressed it. Tho instances which we have quoted are fairsamnples of the manuer in which TiLpex has carried the Btate, if he is counted in. 'They are supported by state- wents and affidavits which would be com- potent testimony jnany court of the clvilized world except a court in tho Bouthern Btates, aud they have not been disproved or even denled by the Democrats, It does not ssem very dificult to answer the question whether these are falr and honorable methods of carrying an election. Waiving all questions of tochnicalities aud legal points, the fact stands squarely out that Louislaua is o Re- publican Btate by 12,000 mafority, nt the very lowost estiwatc, aud that if the Dewo- crata have carrled tho'Stato, they have carried it by th‘ol‘::lchyoslnlm‘ seribod, !\ra theso mothods fajy and | el sblo?_Will some Demooratis paper " u“an?” ll: not, f’:l Wo claim, then thy Dn‘:r?: ave stolen whate i A may sot forth, SR mitory Hay Tho Columbin correapondont o i dolphin T'imes (Dnmu?:xuc)nm(u;‘: ]P bk that paper the torms of a mmprnmlnufl \‘v’; ‘h has boen offered by the Sonth Carolina chch ocrats 88 a sottloment of nll the qncnuum. that now separate the two Ppartiea in “‘nn Btate. The proposition in, that it n“ Republicans will giva the Domoerats lhe‘l° Governor, Lioutenant-Governor, Complrnllerr Goneral, Buperintondent of Education, nmi control of the Houso of noptesentndu'm i retitrn thoy ngroe to concedo to tho Re ;xhn licans tho Electors for Progident and \I'ch 4 President, to give them a United Bln(:; Sonntor ot the next eloction, contro] of tho Sounto, T'rensurer, Attorney-Genery Secratary * of Blato, ~ Adjutant.Genery) and an cqual ghare of o Comv mittces and Trial Justice nppuintmenn: or, in other words, to lot the matter -tnudg; it was deoided by the Board of State Can.. vassers in their return of the afzgrogntion of votes to the SBuprome Court, It is added that the Democrats feel that they have been trentod shabbily by the Northern Demoerats, and have no cnnse for gratityde towarg them ; morcover, thoy care little bont the rosult of tho Presidentinl question, their chief aim being to securo the eleation of Ilasteron, The Inter n{:rdfl{l ol“ "lvl\l-ky-mllu‘ven. 1 nlgned petltions or wrritten fott slaned pettons e e tert gl 11 ftorof Tk Trnuxe say as mnch? Come, now! Lots bo fair, and plain.and frank shoat this thing DId not the editor of that paper write letters urg. firee it e Dl e Ve nrdon of Ml y Lo did,—Tnter-Ocean. o 1V® Teported that The editor of Tie Trimune “ean say ay much.” Hehas signed no petition for tie par- don ot Hesrsa, MoKge, or Renyt, He has written no letters asking for anything in thelr behalf. But in the columns of Tue Trmoyg hie did say, more than once, that he thought the sentenco of {mprisonment inflicted upon both McKee and IinsiNg was too severe, capeehally as compared with that imposed upon others charged with stmlilar offenses, and he still thinks 80, and has never hesitated 1o say go, and ho wroto o letter to McKeR expressing the same opinfon In regard to his case, Furthermore, when the President slortened thelr terms of Incarceration, the editor of Tuz Trinuse thought he did tight and acted ge- gording to cquity. Butall this s as far from approving the crooked whisky bustness as the poles are nsunder. Titz TRINUNE wanted every- body punished who had a hand in robbing the Govornment,~those who ranof!, those who “lay down,” and those who *squealed, not ex- cepted,—and {t upheld and defended Seerctary Brisrow and Solictor W1LsoN in thelr efforts to break up the monstroua Ring and bring its members to grief, and it sincerely thanks them for the great and brave work they performed, ———— Mepiy §s protean. A llo never stlcks In his throst, aud yet, sometimes, he Is even teuthful, It faamusing to soe hils efforts to be both on th same page of the same 18sue, as, for fnstance: There {s one thing we ad=' It was ay mucl as Gen, * mirc fnthe coaduct of RCGRKK with s few compa: WaDE HAMITON at this nleanf natlunal policzmen time, and whict, Itke cliar- could do tu dreserve the ity, “overs anultitnds of lu:nrn and prevent rlof sud Jgtious sins, and that 18 hoodshed. The President s carnest advico to the had _telesraphed him to Confedernten, 83 well an to Keep the (w0 factlon from 1lie colored people, 10 sub- cutting eacl oticr sthivats mit to the law, prescrve and munleriug one as- thele tempers, commit no otlier. vlalencn, * Keep coul and Tet us Naro neace, is his comainnd to hia " partisans, Thls adviro (8 not oniy| shzht, but it {s Mika lions esty, tho*best policy, and| wiil'do mora ivo hi he atr o, than &l the force of tie **&olld Bouth ™ 1n battlo array. —Chicago Times. The * Irdependent " Journal which demands “gore,” and which promiscs *‘millions” of men feom the North to back up those who will compel the counting of tho vote of Louisiaua for TILDER, falls to underatond what (s clear to every intelligent mind. Tug Trinvse ap- plauded WapE HampToN for his advice to his followers to keep the peace. We belleved that to such advice from him {s due fn part the fact that therdhas been no violence and bloodshed in South Carolina. Inthe absence of such appeals from bim we do not believe the peacewouldhave been observed. At the same time we approved the location of troops at Columbla ns a wise pre- cautlon, becouse we belleve that, had there beea natroops there, even WaDs HaxrTON could not have' restrained the riflo clubs or malntalocd the peace a day. WaDE ITAMPTON and the preseuce of the troops have prevented Llood- shed. een aronnd asking thy Ita cditors llnvfi nu’i —_————— The ecxasperatiug feature connected with the bulldozers’ outraze upon ELizA PINKSTON ] that sho survived to tell all about it inler testimony befora the Loulsiana Returnlng Board. Not only that, but as well to tell of the murder of her husbaud and of her babe. After ber person had been violated, and she had been ghot. once, and stabbed, and cut repeatedly, she ought to have dled, The Injuries Inmmg upon her would have sufflced to kill a dog. Why did shie not dio like u dog! That manifestly is the conundrum which has sunken fnto the hestt and soul of tho editor of the Clnclonatl B quirer, and the more therewlth Lie wrestles the more exasperating dues 1L appear to hlmj until with & mighty effort of his powerful mln‘ hie sums it all up in an Enquirer editorial tlln:cl‘ The power of cndaranco of thfonv‘f‘renl‘;:‘m:m’ D fomamwie) reator fan ot of the average mule, After that, who will heed the testimony of this swoman who survived the horrars of bulldozing! And what credencs ean Do glven even to m; wouuds agatust the grim, sardonic humoro thils statement as to th attempt to murder lehy —that her powera of endurauce cxceed some what those of tity average mule? —e————— The Turk has found ono sympathizer at leash —tho Ultramontane faction of the Roww Catholle Church. In the Freuch m-g{-lnlu:: recently, the Minister of Forelgn Affalrs spol H: a fow words In fuvor of tho Greek Chrlslln-ul He was applauded by the Liberal Culmllu,’:_);lw was coldly recelved by the Ultramontanes. o next day, M. Lexoinne, the editor of lhom. v oral Catholic journal, the Debats, anuoun o his columus that the Roman Church -)flr 5 more sympathy for the Moslem than the t\:e o matle. In Italy, the King and the LlI ) Catholies arc In sympathy with the Chriat! :‘ nl: while the Pope and the whole Ul;’rnmnn o fellowing are in sympathy with the l'url;sl‘ 4 - Germany, the Ultramontane representat w“u Parllament liave sovercly attacked Blsnum for hils sympathy for Russia in her pmgrl:!'""w for the protection of the Christian! i . nately for the interests of humanity, ! IHW‘,‘L i which tho Porte cau derive from this symps will bo purcly sont!mental. ————— {tish Abltter dlscusslon has arlsen in the Bsl Royal Geographical Soclety in rclercnw::‘::; operations of STANLEY. At a recent i s Mr, 11, M, HYNDataN imoveda vote of “n;hml on bim, “emphatically condemuing his n:.eju.”. of dealing with the natives, not ouly a4 U o flable and cruel in itself, but as tuvulv}nfi“ o serious danger to travelers who may (:] ol his footsteps.” Bir HmNuy HAwuuau! i ©d him upon the ground that, 83 the cofl"m i al Boclety did not seud him out, it :umr"o sponsible for his actions, and had o u; e censure hin. Both gentlemen have umnm“' vushed into tho pewspapers, snd lhuie b fer resta fur the presouts Mumw'lxl 1? W fs much discontent with BTANLET'S ‘(Ihe er in Equatorial Afrles, why does not L Yurk Jevald socull its belligerent n-‘xlp pig'ee) seud bl to ind the North Folel 3¢