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

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S M atreet, butwween Deacborn and Stato. | After- oo SN ireR Tevemo. pveuiaR: ¥ Unele “Tom's Cabi." Adelpht Thentre. Monrve street, corner Destborn. *'The Lucky MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1876. At the New York Gold Exchauge on Sat- urday greenbacks ranged from Y13 to 92§, e s Tho projected lecture tour of Mrs, Inene Housk, the nffectionato and tender murder- ess of hor hnsbaud, hins been postponed for tho present. 'Thot interesting candidato for the honors of the rostram wns on Saturdny placed in the New Jersey Lunatic Asylum, That missing connty in Florida has been henrd fyom, and n decidedly one-horso insti- tation it proves to be in the matter of voting capacity. It gives 9 votes for Jlayes and & for ey, making a total Republican mpjority in the Stato of 47 as shown upon the face of the returns. A party of Sioux Indians from the Red Cloud and Bpotted Tail Agencies have just roturued from a tour of inspection to the Indian Territory, whore it 18 proposed ihat they shall locate permnnently if they can bo induced to rolinquish their claim upon the Black Hills country nnd vacate that region altogether, It is said they wore plensed with their {trip, and that upon tho strongth of their reports the projected removal will bo coneurred i A fresh complieation arises in conuection with the unfortunate Elcctoral muddle in Nebraska, It {3 said that, before tho Legis Iature can canvass the vote earlier than Jan unry, the existing Inw wnust bo changed, and that, under tho new Constitution, no new law can be passed until tho Legislnturo shall have beon iu session six days; so that the gpecinl session eafed by the Governor to meot the emergency will be powerless to chpnge the law in tinie Lo permit the canvass of the vote by the Gth of December, the dny when the Bleetorel vote of all the States must be easf. Such, ot least, is tho point made by Nobraska lawyers in Washington, Advices from Columbin foreshadow im portant events to-dny. It is undorstood that” the State Constabulary will attempt to eject tho Demoerativ Spesker and the persons claiming sents from Edgefield and Laurons Conaties, and that the United Stafes troops The eity is thronged with peoplo from all parts of the Btoto who have come to witness Haxer- 7ox's inouguration, and in tho ovent of the attempted cjection it is regarded ns cor- tain thot resistouco will bo offered to the Constabulary, though not to tho troops, sbould the latter tako part in the business. ‘That portion of -the dispatch which refers to the action of the foldiers is probably nothing but surmise, as it conld not be learned in + Washington last ovening thot orders to this effoct Liad boen sont to Gon, Ruaen. Cal. W. II, Roents, of the New Orleans Thmes, hus been somowhat annoyed ot the role ussigned him in o dispateh to the Cin- cinnatl Zaguirer from Columbus, stating that Lio had hold a conferenca with Gov. Hayes, in pursunoco of an understanding with Benator Lastan an@ Wine Haxreroy, with n view to orranging # compromise whereby Havms shall be Presidont, and the Governnionts of South Cnrolina and Laouisinua shall pess undor Dowmocratic con- trol. T'his interesting story is upsot by Col. Ropenrs, who states that solely in Ris Journalistic enpacity, and without anthority from or understanding with anybody, he called upon Gov. Haves whilo en routs for ‘Washington, aud that none of tha subjects mentioned iu the Knguirer’s dispatch were canvassed, An exceedingly interesting and instructive slatemontof thocondition of nffnirs that exist- ed in Quachita Parish, La., for several months prior to the cloction, is vmbodied in tho afil- davit of the Hon. Wittiax R, Hanpy, filed ny testimony before tho Neturning Board, and givon in our columns this morning, It will be romembered thnt in tho offleial report of Capt. Cravron Iarg, of {he Sixtoonth Infantry, of tho ecircumstauces attend. ing the murder of Privvs JonssoN and the wounding of Eaton Yoowaon, the uame of bfr, ilauny, who s the District-At. torney pro tem. of Quachita Parish, was won. tioned as slmost the ondy law officer of that region who liad the courage and backbone to oppoxd the murderous sway of tho Lull- dozers, Hin nflidavit discloses a stato of ter. rorism, organized rud law.defying, such as to excite wonderment that any nitempt was raudo {0 protect buman life, or that & single Tiepublican vote was polled in Ouachita, —— ‘The Chicagn produca markots, were gone erally cusier Saturday, und with loss doing, Meoy pork closed 150 per brl lower, ot 216.92§@16.05 for Decomber and %16.03 @16.07} for Jouuary, Lard closed 100 per 100 1bs lower, ot $9.85@9.87§ for Decom- her wnd £9.90@9.92§ for Junuary, Meats wore a shade ensier, at Gfo for new shoul- ders, Boxed, 8o for do short-ribs, and 8ie for do short-clears, Iighwines wero steady, ut $1.06 per gallon, Flour was in fair de- wnnd oud firm, Wheat closed 10 fower, ot 1,143 for Decerber and $1,15§ for Janu. ary. Comm cloged wcak, ot 44fc cash and 43} for January, Oats closed jo bigler, at 88do for Decewber nud 83fo for January, Hye closed 20 higher, at 70je.2fBurloy cluged @10 lower, at G5c for Decermber and 60c for Junuary. Hogs were fixm, &t §5.70@ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1876. 5,90 for packing gmdes. Cattla wero steady, ot $2.765@56.00. SBlieop wers firm, at $3.00@ 4.60. Ono hundred dollara in gold would buy $108.62} in greenbacks at the clage, A sensational rumor, current in Now York yesterday, wna to tho effect that Prof, Jasrs Hussery Lowseyn, one of tho FPresidential Electors chosen in Mnssnchusatts by tho Re- yublican party, was fntending to betray tho trust reposed in him and east his vote for Troxx, It is inconcofvablo that this can ba truo, and yot tho roport had reached the cars of cortafu prominent Republicans in New York in such a form na to give rise to serfous discussion of the probabilitfes. Thore is, of course, no legal restriction to prevent such an aoct of trenchery and dis- honor, and itia within the power of any Eleotor chosen by Hopublicans to subvert the choice of tho people of Lis State and cast his voto for the Domocratic candidate for the Presidenoy; but that Prof, Lowern has mado up his mind to die the politieal, moral, and social denth involved in such an net, is fmpossiblo to bobeve. [t might, as Gen. BicgLes observes, bo imagined as pos- sibla to ocour among tho colored Eloctors of some Sonthern Btate, but that Massachn. sefts should furnish the traitor in tho porson of one of hor most honored sons surpasses eredence, Tho people of Colorndo have been repre- sonted in Congress by n Tetritorial Delegate, ‘who sorved during the lost session. In the meantime Colorado hns beon admitted a5 a State, snd the Tegislaturo bas elected two peryons os Senators of the United States. The people have also elected n Ropresenta- tivo for the next Congress, and nlso one to ropresent the State for the unexpired term of the prosont Congresa, The Senators will undoubtedly bo ndwitted to their sents to- day by the Senate, but it is not supposed that the House will recogniza the Ropresent- ative from Colorado, but will continne the Delegnto in his soat. If Florida and Louisi- nna be declared for Havzs, it will bo part of the Democratic programme to ignore the ex- istonco of Colorado ns n State, Shonld tho Tiouse conclude to ndopt the Porren iden that there hag been no election of Presidont by the people, and thon proceed to elect the President in tho way directed in such case by tho Constitution, then Colorado will not liave any voico in the matter. THE POPULAR MAJORITY. Tho Democrats are disposed to lay great stress upon the popular majority with which Mr. TipEN is accredited on- the aggregato of tho roturns as they wore sctually cast, Some of them go so far as to eay that he has received o larger popnlar majority than nuy- body who over ran for President. This is sheer nonsense, 'To go no further back than tho Inst threo Presidential clections we find that Lrscory's popnlar majority over Mc- CrerraN was 407,342, Grast's over Sevyovn 805,458, and GnaxT's over GRERLEY 762,901, Itpen's popular majority as returned will nat reach 300,000, Of conrse the popular majority cuts no figure in tho election, which depends upon the majority in tho Electoral College, but wa protest against the asswmp- tion that tho apparent popular majority which 'I'1LoEN hins received should carry any weight with it, for the simplo renson that ho ‘would not havo hnd it if there had Leen full, free, sud fair election in the Southorn States where the bulk of this mejority was ob- tained, 1t la needless to deny that the Republicans havo lost o large part of the enormons ma- jority which they have commanded aver sinco tho War bogan.. Tho eloctions two yenrs ago showed this. At the recent elec- tion sowe of tho lost ground was regnined, Lut yot snany Republicans voted for Truoes, some in protest sgoiust certain corrupt olo- mentg in the Ropublican party, and some misled by the shirewd reputation for reform which had boen spread in bobalf of Tiipew. At tho samo tima the apparent majority of tho popular vote which TiLprN hos received does not in any honest sense ropresent tho popular sentimont of the country, because it inclades eoxnggernted majoritics in States whera citizens aro kept from expressing their own free will at the polls by menus of threats, actual violence, por- secution, business pressure, social ostracism, and intimidation and influences of various kinds, In the peaceful communities of the North, where every man votos as he plenses, we have no adeguate idea of the torrorism exercigod in the Sonthern States, though the ovidence of the inhuman conduct of the Louisiana Regulators which tho Returning Board of that State is taking is beginning to cnlighten tho poople. An analyzation of Trupex's Sowthorn vote will show Low little weight is to Lo attached to tho Dewmocratic claim of a large popular majority, In Georgin, where the blacks wero put dowu savaral years ago, the Demo- cratfo wnjority of 85,000 would bo ro. duced to 10,000 or 12,000 if the negroes conld vote a3 thoy desiro. In Misslesippi the Democratic majarity of 40,000 wonld be turded into a Republican majorily of 20,000, if tho Stato wore not uu. der;complete control of tha White.Linord, The Democratic majoriticsin Texay, Virginia, Tennessce, Kentucky, Arkansas, and North Caroliua would be reduced at least one-half if the Republicnns wore not cowed and cheated on nll sides. Alabama, which has been counteil for Tumex by moro than 10,000, would bo Ropublican on u fair vote. Tho Statos of Houth Carolina, Louisiann, aud Tlorida, which huve been barely earriod for Haves, would have given lurge Republican majoritiea had it not beon for the revolver aud shot-gun. No estimate of relative popu- lar strength ean bo mnde while ko0 large a part of tho country has heen overrau with Regulatora and rifle-clubs, and mou have auly voted tho Repubilean tioket gt the risk of their lives, Dat i there be sny dlsposition to deelda tha m of {ho contest on fhe Dasic of intelli peaceableness, industry, patriotivu, tuxation, aud substantislity, it may be suggented that Tpen has cavried only fomr Notiheru Hiates, nod thoso by small majoritius, 1aves hus received 106 Electoral vates wnd Frooey only 65 iu the Northers, Eastern, und West- eru States, whila iu the Confedarits buil- dozed Btates [Taves will have ouly 12 lec. toral votes aud Tromy 119, 1o is vasy to Judge from this showing ou which sidv the preponderanco of intelligent public sentl. went resta. Oue year ago thero was 4 general rejoicing all ovar the country, indulged in by Domo- crots and Ropublicans, at the ¢lection of Mi, Kunn as Speakor of the Democratio Houso of Representatives, and tho consequont defest of Mr, Sawmuvzw J, Raspans. o the fint place, Mr. Renu represented tho Lest and most oonservative elemouts of tho Domo- cratlo party ; aud was a wan of personal purity and, officially, falr and candid. In the uext place, RANDALL was considered the rep- resentative of the rougher Lranch of the party, and as the persounl choico of all the corruptionists and lobbyists. Mr. Krrn's hentth failed him, and Cox wns elected tem- porary Speaker, amd sarved until he wns snmmoned to St. Louis, nnd then Mr, 8av- sen, of Cincinnti, nlxo n fair and liboral man, was clected tempovary Speaker, Mr, Jznn died a fow daysafter the session closed, and henco o now Speaker lins to bo clected, Circnmstances have chapged. Tho next sossion is to bo one in which the Domocracy is to sleep on its arms, woar all its war-paint, and carry on a war if necessary, For such an omergency, Mr. Bavren wns deemed fonde. quate ; Monnisoy and Cox wore voted to bo wanting in physical strength ; and the Demo- cratio caucus, as n proparation for o turbn. lont and muscular session, nominated Mr. Rawpary, who will bo clectod Speaker to- day, 'Tho Domacratic majority wanted o man with physical energy, consclonceless partisanship, nafailing lungs, and the slave of the caucus, who a8 Speaker will do any- thing and everything the ausjority may de- cree. Mr. RaNpALL was solected as the man to fill this bil), nud he will probably do so. This election of RaNparL is n menaco to the country, as it is an absudonmont of the poli- ey which prevailed a yoar ago in the clestion of Mr. Kean, re——— EOUTH CAROLINA. Tho beginning of the eud of the complica~ tions in South Caroling hns evidently been reaclied, T'wo of tho colored Iepnblican mombers of the Touse whoso scats are not contestod—moved thereto, of course, by lofty patriotic purpose, and in blissful ignorance of tho very oxistence of that bar'l of monoy ~—have gono over to the Democratic House. Before the rival Legislatares, each claiming to be tho lawfal Houso of Ropresontatives, consisted, the Ropublican Honse of fifty-nine members and the Democratic Houso of fifty- soven membors whose credentinls were' not disputed, and whose right to their seats was uncontested. 'Tho contest was as to the seating of cight Democrats claiming to have been elected from Edgefield and Laurens Countics, and whomn tho Republican Ifouss excluded on the ground that the clection was vitiated by intimidation and fraud. A ma- jority of the House constitutes a quo- rum, Tho Repnblicon claim waa that o mojority of tho Ifouss meant n majority of the mombers whoso seats wore uncontested, and who ev necesitats must pass upon the admission or rejection of the clnimauts to the contested seats. Upon this theory the fifty-nino members or. gnnized the Republican House, and the Democratic Houso was loft with but fifty. goven members whoso scats were wucou. tested, The dofaection of the two negro Ro. publicans who have gono over to the Demo- cralic Houso oxactly roverses the situntion, transferring the mafority of tho members whoso seats aro uncontested to tho Demo- erats, the respective bodies now standing: Democratic Housa, 59 members; Republican House, 67; contested seats, 8, Aud now comes the intelligonce that the Republican Tiouss, thus rednced to what is unquestionably s minority of two less than inany event can ba claimed 78 a quornm, has procceded to unsent four mom. bers from Abbovitle County, or rather to nd- mit to the Republican Houso four members claiming to bo elocted from that county, Tho four members “nnsoated” aro mombers of the Democratio Honso holding certificates of election from the Roturming Bonrd, and whose right to their sonts was not ques. tioned until after the dofoction of the two calored members of the Republican House, The question that now nrises is, What right the fifty-sevan Republican members, noither o mofority of tho House nor n majority of the mombers to whom certificates of clection wera issued in duo form, hnve to pass upon tho adwnission or rejection of members ny agofust tho fifty-nine wewmbers of the Domo- eratic Houso? The moro statomont of tho question con- voys the answer. Questionable as wag the right of the bare majority of the mombers whose seats woro uncontested to organizo as tho House of Ropresontatives, thoro can be no question that, ns against the Demoaratic House with fifty.nine membors, tho fifty- soven members to which, by the dofection of the two colored members, the Republican Houso is roduced, can o nothing, The Republioan Mouse is left in a minority, and without pratonso of a quorum; and this attompt of the minority-~less than n quorum—to mnka of themsclves o majority and n quornm I8 indefensble, and one that cannot bo sustained, I¢ tho Republicans have follen into the minority, thoy caunot regain the nscendency in any such mounor, nor in any other maunor, excopt it be by win. ning back to their side tho deserters who have gono over to the Domocracy, To manufacture 8 Logialature, os tho uuseating of tho fonr members from Abberille and the admisaion of others in thoir stend, was to do, is a pro- ceeding the Republican party of the country will not tolerate in its name. Tho Electoral vota of the Btato ia not in contest. That, it is conceded, was oamied for Haves, The wholo muddle is ns to the csnvass of the vote for the Governorship; and the country will not sustain any such attempt to or- gaunize o Legislaturo to make that canvass, ——r——— {THE COURTY RING'S LATEST INFAMY, ‘Tho Tonrd of County Commissioners is no Tonger worthy to be diguified by that titlo, It hes come to bo slmply an organized ring for plunder, aud has grown so bold that it hesatintes at no outrags which iy regarded as auxiliary to its morcenary purposcs. ‘I'ho latest evidence of thigis to be found in the nudactous effart ta exiffplo tho prosccution of publiv eriminels by cutting off the salary horotofore paid for the State’s Attorney's as- sistant, thus leaving the newly-olectod oficer either to undertake slugle-houded a work to which no oneman is equal or to employ an nasistunt ous of Lis own sulary, One reason for this action is beeauno Mr. Minzs ia n Rto- publican, und was elected by a largo majority over the favorite candidato of ths Itng set 4p by Bity, O'Buey, the notorjous criminal Iawyer, Bat, while this feeling of spite had something to do with it, the sympathy of the Ring with the eriminal classes, mhd the desira {o see tho mnchinery of Jules so wmeh clogged that tho connty thieves may eseapo vigorous prosccation wlong with other criminaly, werg the chief {ncontives, It was n deliber. nte blow at the peace and sufoty of this com. munity, and su unblushing dellanco of the intorests of publie justice. 'The work put upou the tato's Attorney, who is tho pros. ceutor of gl the esiminua of Chioago and Cook County, is fully equol to the nggregato work which similar oMcers tu twenty of thpe lurgest countivs in the State ara called upon to do, Chicago, a8 tha largest und wealth. fest cily iuthe Woat, naturily atiracts the Lardoned and criminal classes of the West- ern States, nnd society and property receivo their surest protection in the vigilant prose. cution aud cua™etion of the thieves, burg. lard, highway roulers, roughs, sud scoun- drels who flock here. Mr. Rory, the late Btate’s Attorney, was only nblo to keep up with tho business of tho oflic with the nid of nsingle aswistant beeause of his own ox- tendad experience, rapid hnbita of work, and untiving energy. A duo consideration of the intereats of this community would have sng. gested giving tho now Stato's Attorney two easiatauts, instend of depriving him of the single ono heretoforo attached to tho office, 'The infamy of this procceding is incrensed, if possible, by tho simultaneous onlargement of the Connty Attornoy's salary from 86,000 to 27,000 per annum, thongh tho extra $2,000 might have been nsed for the benefit of tho county by providing » recond assisiant. in the State's Attornoy'soffico, The legit imnte duties of tho Connty Attorney are trifling by comparison with those of tho Btate's Attornoy, and could e well and ad- aquately discharged by any ona of a hundred fair lawyera who could bo secured for 33,000 o year, Thoe only arduous and imporiant labor that dovolves upon the County Attor. noy is durjug a fow days or weeks in shmmor when the payment of taxes izcontested in tho courts, and then exira counsol is usually employed. DBut the present incumbent of the County Attorney’s offlca iz o shrowd and desberato politician, who hns made hinssolf useful not merely rs n partisan advier, but as tho conusel and brains of the Ring; ho has stood by the Ring through thick and thin, has drawn their contracts and defended them in court and out, snd has renderad prompt and efficlent servico in the various scliomes of tho tax-dovourers, Henco his rownrd in an incroase by §2,000 of n sal- ary that was already larger than the duties of tho position and the merits of the fncumbent warranted, Thesa two acts taken together form a new provoeation for such n movement upon the Coolt County delegation to the Legislaturo ns will persugdo them to unite in demanding tho necessary legislation for elacting an en- tiro now set of County Commissioners next fall by the goneral vote of the county, thus ennbling the peoplo to cloan out the presont corrupt Ring, It is truo that tho fixing of galaries wns the Inst act of the Board as it hns boon organized for o yenr past, but only five of the old members go out, and their places will be supplied by the fivo mon elected fast month on the Demo- cratio tickot, four of whom at least offer no Lopo of improvement over tho presont or~ ganization, The probability fs that tho power of the Riug will be rather confirmed than broken by the chango in the Board; yet common shrewdness, i no better motivo nctuates them, should induce the now Board immedintely npon its organization to redtore the anlary of the Stato's Attorney's assistant, for n failure to do so will only incrense the public indignation. If there is any notion that the Ringsters, jnsido or outside the Board, will escape prosecution on account of the crippling of the Blate's Attorney, it may g well be dismissed, for the people of Cook County will froaly subscribe funds to secure oll needed nssistance to bring the villains to justice. But the only pormanont remedy that can bo looked for is the privilege of clecting an entiro batch of Commissioners by o genoral voto of the county, and the Cook County delegation to Springfleld ought to mako & solid demand for this conceasion from the Legislature, THE PUBLIC-SCHOOLS CONTROVERSY, The fssus rolative to the publicschools wes dropped out of tho recent Presidentinl cam- paign, partly beeanse it was ovorsbadowed by otber matters of moro immediate im- portance, aud partly becouso the pgitators were disposed to maintain silonco in the in- toreat of the Democratic party, But it will be o sorious mistako to assumo that no troublo {s fo bo apprehonded from the con- troversy. Thero has scarcely over boon a moro specific doclaration of the poaftion of tho Roman Oatholic Church in this' matter tban that mode tho other evoning in Now York City by Chsuocollor Pneston, Viear- General of that diocese, This gentloman, who ocenpies an office of dignity and influ- onca in his Church, dolivored a lecture under tha auspices of ¢ The Young Men's Catholia Local Union * on the gonoral subject of re. ligion and cducation, After dwelling at length on the desirability of Instructing youth in roligious ideas (a matter upon which most religious people of whatever sect will agreo), he dofined tho position of his Church ou the public schools as follows 1 will atato, briefly, the position In which we Cathollca stand in rogard to clomentary qud popu- lar Insteuctlon. Wa have beon mlsunderstood, and often intentlonally so, for our explanations havo not been recelved with candor or considered with justice, We only desire to practico our religlon, snd we defy any man to call us 1n question for our love for our country. [Loug-coutinued applause.] For it hus been shown moro than ouce In the array of battle and In the face of death, and {v will he shownugain, {Ayplanse.] Wo only ask to prac. tice our religlon, und our religion cannot and will not apprave of the divorce of educatlon from re. Mglon, [Applauee.] And In so doing arc we touching the rights of our nelghibors? Burely not, Theee 18 not & Cathollc in all this land who would 1ey one fngee on tho riglits of any man before the faw, Rather, hecauso he clafms his own rights, would ho dofend the tights of othors. We cannot approve tho diverce of,education and roliglon, und, 20 far o8 our children ara concerned, we must teach, them, with sccular knowledge, the truthe of ruvelstfon and the mysterics of our faith, [Great applanso.] Becsusu woe do thls, do wo'prevent our nelghbors trom dolng it Jikewlec, or from not dolng it ot all, an they pleass? No, We {nterfero not with thoir rights, and surely thoy, in justico and in roason, ought not to intorfers with ours. (Ap- pluud.] Hofaray the common schools aro con- corned, 1t In a calumny often repeated, and wo doubt to be repeated #till, that wo are opposed to vchouls for thove who wunt them, It Is not trae, ‘We are not opposed to the common schools for onr Protestant frlenda ¥ they want them, but thoy will not answer for uy, fur the schools we want hre thoso {n which our children aholl be taught the myatorlca of thelr faith. Now, in thls country thut boasts Lts freedoni,shall 8 1man rize and tell me **All this {8 very well, but you whafl support tho common schooly, 1o matter whether you lke them or not, aud If you don’t wish to send your children tothem, we aro in the majority, and you shall pay unyway "'t Tathle tu accordance with righteous. ness aud Justfcor Iu this & freo conntry, or I it nott Theresroonly two solutlons to this difiiculty, Eltner oxempt from tasation thoso who do not do- #ifo to send their children to common schools, or elao glys to uvery private denomlnational achool fta vroportion of 1he toxes gonorally rafsod. [Ap- plause.] Whers la tha dificulty in the way? Whero the objection to clthor snlution? There can Justly bo none, If you can exeinptus from taxa. Uan, then of conrse we shall have notbing to com. plain of, Let thoso who want echools have them, but If th State thinka Itbest and most expediont to Impose a tux for tho support of educstion, then Jut it divide the sums so ralved by taxatlon In a man. nérageecable to {teelf among all classos of fta eitl zous, 1t fuurged swan objection that it would be difiicult for us to eatablish 4 wystem on which taxa. tlon should be divided, ad thero are many poor Cathalfes who have children o bo cducated, but no taxable property, personul or real estate. Well, we only wak what (e just, We are not begging for adonailon, But 1 know of poor Cstholics whu have to holp ta wappart the comumon schoals for rich Frotestants' #ons and have to help build and wupport Cathollc schools bosides, § "The demand ot the Rowan CatholioChuroh, thon, {8 that their people shall be mluuecl from taxation for achool purposes, or that a portion of the school fund shall be get aside for the support of spocial schools where TRoman Catholis dogma shall be taught. Such an ultimatun merely resolves itself into the question whether there sball ba auy free Pubilio school aystem or not ; for complisnce with oithor of tho nlternntives suggested by Chancellor Paeatox wonld nnquestionably laad to the pormonont abandonment of tho system which noy prevails in most of the States, This will bo ndmittod upon consid- cration of tho following points: 1. Tho American publio school aystem is based npon the purposo of providing sccular primary eduention for thoso childron thatare not otherwise provided for, snd whoge parents eithor cannot aford or do not dosiro to sond them to private schools whero there is religious instruction, Thero isno law in any Biate in the Union compelling chillren to go to the freo seculnr schools, or denying them the privilege of attending private religivus schools. But the momeont any ono roligious soct shiall ba ex- empted from taxation for the support of the freo seculnr schools, or rocelves a share of the school fund for'the support of its own dogmatio scliools, then overy other sect will lave an equal right to demand thae samo con- siderntion. Exomption or division for tho Leonefit of the Romnan Ontholics necessarily implies oxemption or division for the beneflt of the Mothodiats, the Prosbytcrinns, the Congregationalists, the Episcopalians, the German Lutherans, the Unitarians, the Uni- versalists, tho Israclites, and all tho other roligions socts. Then who will boleft to support the freo schools for the mass of poor children who have no other moaus to nttain primary edacntion? The rystem would nec- essorily have to be abandoned. 2. Annquestion of public polity, if that bae ndmitted, it is neithor fair nor practicable to exempt any one sact or class from taxation for the support of any scheme nocessary to tho prosperity and weliure of tho entire people. 'Thus, if the Roman Catholie prop- erty-owners wore exompted from their share of taxes for the support of free publioschools for the benefit of children whoso edueation cannot otherwise bo provided for, how much botter elaim to exemption would those prop- erty-ownors bave who have no children at all, who cannot avail themselves of the school system even if thoy would, and whose taxes for this purpose are like compulsory charity. 'The old bachelors, the old malds, and the childless couples who own proporty and pay taxes, conld domand exemption with- much better graco than suy particular sect which can get the benefit of its money if it chooses. 8. To tho oxtent that the Boman Catho- lics provide private schooling for thoir cbil dron, to that oxtent will tho demand upon tho public schools bo lessoncd and their taxes diminished in proportion, for the school tax i8 wused for no other pur~ poso than to supply proper facilities for the primary eduncation of thoso children that aro not tanght clsewhere. Tho fact is that large numbers of Roman Catholics among tho poor classes avail themselves of the public schools not merely bocnuse thoy liave not tho means to gend their children to privata schiools, but becanss, knowing that, intheir condition, the childrencan get the benofit of schooling for only a few hours ench day, a fow days each year, and n very fow yoars ot best, they profer that all the time in school ehall bo dovoted to tha ac- quisition of seoular learning, Jeaving religious instruction to tho ohurch, Bundny-school, and family-circle in the abundanca of timo ot command in tho ovenings, on Bundays, and holidays. 4. Bohind all this lies the separation of Church nnd Btate, which 'is one of the cavdinal and essontial featyres of our systom of Government. No encroachment can bo pormitted upon this separation, and yeb,it would be a serious oncroachment to give nny part of any public fund to a religious soct for dogmatic and prosclyting purposes, ond equally 8o t0 exompt ony sect from taxn. tion for any purpose in order that it may havo more means for prosocuting ita sectarian ombition. No such departuro could bo rocognized without risk of the furihor oncronchment of scctarianism upon the Government in any Btate whore it should at ouy tima becomo powerful enough to secure the entering wedge. ‘Thus i{ Is ovident that every discussion of o division of the school fund or tho exemp- tion of the Roman Catholics is mevely a dis- cussion of the mnintenance or abandonment of tho free-school mystem,—a discussion which, in this blunt and honest shape, would searcely get o foothold in so enlightened and Prosperous o conntry s ours, THE BI-METALLIC OURRENCY, In the Banker's Magazine for November is a full and revised trouslation of the now cel- cbrated article on * Bi-Motallio Money,” by Hexny OesNuvscnor, the French writer on economical questions, This easay hns been roferred to in Tie Tniouxe herotofors, Lut tho importance of tho subject warrants o mora extended exposition of the author’s viowa, 3L Oenxusont claims that tho natural re- Iation of tho two motals, silver and gold, is in the proportion of 15} to 1,—thnt iy to fay, oo waight of gold is oqual to 15} weights of ailver,—and that onoof tho things noeded to keop theso two metals equivalonts us money in these proportions is to have tho coinage both of gold nud ailver issned In thero proportions, Thus, whether the coln Lo shilling, mark, frauo, or dollar, the silver ocoin should represont in weight 16} timos tho weight of tho gold coins bearing tho same nmno. The silver dollar should weigh 15} timey tho woight of the gold dollar ; and the silver shilling, mark, or franc should have 16 times the walght of tho gold slil- ling, mark, or franc. "Tho two metals, whon coined, should be legal-tender in the same proportious, and coinnge should be froe, Any citizon should bo freo to take his motal to tho wint and have it coined, end this free colmnge is procisely ono of the means of prosorving tho equilibrium of the relative valuee of tho two motals, The dis. turbance of the relationa between tho motaly s due to one of four enuseas 1. The in- ereased production of gold; 2. Tho dimin- ished production of gold; 4. Tho jucrensad production of sliver ; and 4, The diminished production of siiver. The abundaut metal is theleast in demand; its tendenoy is to de- prociation, while the searcor metal becomes deaver, If, hawevar, to increasod produc. tion be opposed incrensed domand, aund to di- minished production diminished demand, tho balance will bo maintainod aud things will vomain unchauged. If tho ruloof 15} to1 wera generally in forco, tho demand would be for the metal that is in abundance, and not for that which s scarco. Under the bi- motallic rule, permitting debts to be paid in either gald orsilvar, it is obvious that, in oase of & searcity of gold, the demana would be for tho chieaper wetal ; and there being o dimin. ished demand for tho dearer metal, its price would not increnss, If tho demand for the sbundout metal increase, it caunot fall in prico, and the vesult of the tow- yorary disturbouce would be & read- justment of the reciprocal values at the rsate of 168 to 1. Horvin'’ is the groat ndvantago of the bi-motallio cur- roncy; 5o long ns ono will suffico to pay dobts, tho rise in the other can causo ho serions disturbanee; and the incrensed de- mand for thy cheaper metal, and the dis- pensing with the use of the other, compolaa restorntion of their former rolative values. Another view of the advantage of the bi- motalliocurrenoy is, that, if it be genoral, the liolders of tho scarcer motal onnnot disposo of it elsowhoro, Wherovor they may take it, they wilt moet the same condition of affaira aa nt home. 'The two motals as money will stand in all placos in the proportion of 16} to1, It will be worth that ss monoy at home, and will be worth no more, wheraver thay may take it. This proportionate rate will follow the two motals from the mino to tho mint, apd from the saint thronghout all the oxchanges of trade. One ounce of gold nt the mino will bo worth 15} onnces of sil- ver, and it will make no diference whoro it is taken, the two metnls coinod into monoy will always benr tho same proportion. The German exporiment of demonetizing tho silver money of the Empiro has not yet beon accomplished ; its oxcontion has beon postponed nnd anspended. It hns not yet withdrawn the 200,000,000 of silver thalers. ‘Tho difficulty is in disposiyg of this bulk of siver. Tho Latin Union hns diminished ita coinage of silver, and ont off its freo coin- nge. ‘The Imperinl Government caunot ob- tain the gold. In tho menntime, the silver thalers romain & legal-tender in Gormany, and og guch are worth moro than bullion, All pnyments abroad by Germony, there- foro, aro now mnde in gold, and the thaler remning ot home, Tho Government buys back the gold, which is forthwith exported. Germany has fixed the rato of exchange at 15} of gilver to 1 gold. Tho new gold coin- ngo is established by law at that rato, Each thalor is of tho weight of throe marks in gold; o, in fact, Germany, with her silver thalers yot in use, has now a bi-metallio cur- roncy ‘of gold nud silver marks, the silver mark weighing 16§ times ns much as the gold mark. As o matter of fact, tho experi- ment of demonotizing silver in Germany, so for as it has beon carried out, has resnlted in catablishing & bi-metallio ourroncy whero it had never oxisted before, M. Cenyvsomr argues that tho German Government should make this bi-metallic syatem permanent, and in this be is sup- ported by soveral German writers and by a large forca in the Imperinl Legislature. All that Germany needs to complote the bi-me- tallic syrtem ia that coinoge bo made frec, and that tho denowinntions of the silver colnnge bo mado convenient multiples of tha mark, The adoplion of this systom by Ger- many would leave France, Belgium, Italy, and Bwitzerland at liborty to re-establish frea colvage of gilvar. This will avert tho mon- otary crisis which will Le inevitable when Germany detnands gold to replaco ler thaler silver coinngo; to supply that demand would take all tho gold ordinarily held in England. M. CenNusons thinks that ** nothing short of tho intoxicatidn of Sedan, followed by the intoxication of Fraukfort, could have hur. ried a nation into such an entorprise” as that which Germany hes attempted. Heo rogards ng the most * incredible blunder in the history of modern finance to be that which led forty millions of Horostrati to vote the demonctization, the depraciation, the degradation of their metallic eurrency withont in the lonst suspecting the great mischiof they were bringing on themsolves.” The arguinent of the paper is in favor of n goneral agreement botween natlons to have all metsllic money comned on the tariff of 16} of silver to1of gold. Ho urgesa bi- |- motallio convention botweon the countries of france, marks, pounds sterling, and dol- lors, to give stability to the ralative values of gold and silver, This convention should ngree upon tho ‘uniform coinage when the weight of the silver dollar or frano shonld be 15} times ns groat as that of the gold dollar and franc, snd that the coinage should overywhero bo freo. With auch n convention thoro could be no disturbance of tho relative valuos of these metals as money, ond the world in that way can have that supply of metalllo currency which is not possible with coinage exclusively in ome wmotal, 'The threatoned domonotization of silver by Gormany Is treated ns o great in- jury not only to Gormauy, but to all other nations, It hos deprociated silver, whichis ns necessary as monoy to the convenience of maukind as js gold. BISMAROK'S SPEECH, Prinoo Braxranck is the enigina of Euro- pean politics. Frank to the point of brutal. ity, sardonic, sharp, and coustie, saying pre- cisely what hté menns, aud yet menning to be misunderstood 88 ho contrives to be, his utternnces, 08 often as he spoaks, dumb- founder them aoll in the Cabinots, More than all will his speech on Baturdsy astonish and startlo thom ab overy Coyrt in Enrope, o, too, mado o dinver the occasion of his speach, and said his sy after the meats and betweon the wine and walnuts, So wna mado Dysnarrr’s speech, in which, undor the inspiration perhaps of too much sherry, ke, o to spenk, planted bis fist upon the Czar's nose,—which same specoh it was that olicited tho next day from the' mouarch of all the TRussing the sharp retort that England hadn't sottled the Eastern question, and that Tussin proposed to settle it in such fashion s to secure tho autonomy of the Chylstian provinces, and, it nood be, to do that would ocoupy the Turkish provinces. Dienaeur's spoech was made with view to affoet tho Conferonco to bo hold at Constantinople on the Gih inst,, of the roprosontatives of the six Powers, to nominally, at least, adjust the Eastern complications. Bo was the Czar's, Bo manifestly wos Bmuasor's. Al of them, too, nfter the American newspaper style, wero given to tho world through reprosent- atives of tho press, who woro invited for the especial purposo of reporting what was said. England having spoken, and Russia also, Bissanok, with the air of one who knows he {s strong onough to do what he ploases, and theroforo may cast asido all restraint, inn vein of unparallcled irony notifies England that ho hopes sho will not wage open war with Russia, With a dolicious sarcasm which will nowhore bo 8o keenly appreciated as at Lon. don, he advises the Englisk, instead of spoillng for o fight, to urge against Russia only “a sort of unofiicial war sim. ilar to Russia's proceedings in Bervia." Russin, which Power ho thus before tho whole world twits with filibustering in Borvia aguinst Turkey, he gracefully ox- plaing, for the boneBt of England and the other Powers of oourss, is not in temper to tako ndvico now, *‘I'o advise Russia now," ho sententiously obaerves, ¢ would anger the Nussian nation, which would be worse than pressing the disputo with ity Government.” TRussia, in short, as with Maohlavellian bhu. mor he suggests, is spoiling for a fight, in which sho must be indulged. ¢ Russin and Turkey "~ho adds—** will, after a time, tire of it. Then Germany will be oble to me- diato with better prospects of success than ! now."” The exquisita feon, many, whilo aching, ng il’w:‘re‘,tlf: ::.“ N peace, will not permit England 1o in:p o fo Wop o fght; lup g th the contestants e out of )m and wenkoned by the blows E'\wmwnd akon, Gormany will medingo, " Gormnny will then diotate the mcomlmmls’ of tha map of Europe, Whag sho wil M: lot anybody olse take, Brastanck Indicates n;» his contompiuons Teference to thy A\ml" 5% 0ld upright, as the welght in worlt upholda the jumlfing-]neltl.‘“r‘:'x::; Gormony will {ako for horsalf sho does ot indicato. Plainly, howevor, it will by what ever Germany ploascs. Ag for the rest of Earope, Bissaror's oudacions humor, th, contemptuous freedom which he ;mbllicl° dispoacs of tho affairs of {he other Powur{ for them, avd the sarcasm in which hd fn, dulges ot thelr expongo, ia all tantamonnt lo asking, * What aro Jou going i do ghoys it?” And what can they do about jt 2 - e — which Germany wily The difflcnlty In thio Ele uity in tho Eleotoral voto of Ne. Lraskn {8 peculiar. Thero i no qnos(:lranh :q to tho will of tho poople of that Btate, ang thero is no pretonse of froud on oithor ,nlde Tha voto of the Stats was, Hires, 81,950- TEDEY, 16,86 Tho Repblicun mujoriy oxcoeded the Domocratic voto, The Cousti. tution of Nebraska, Adopted within g foy yenrs, provides that tha vote for Presidontial Electora shall bo canvassed, like the votes for Govornor, by the Legislature, The Logiala. turo does nob ' meot until Jany and the Electors have to vote for Prosldon; on tho 6th of Decembor. The Governor for a timo considored that under the circum. stances hio and the State office!s wight can. vass the voto and declare the result on the Electors, A deeper investigation, Lowever, #uggested that he had botter convono the vhi Legislature, and & proclamation calling that body togetheron Doe, 6 has beon issued, Owing to the briof timo allowed, it is 5 ques- tion whothor tho mombers can get tho notico and bo at the State Oapitol in timo, A quo- rum of onch House will bo required, and this might bo seoured if it had not been avoweq €hat the Domocratio mombera would not af. tond, thereby if possible defeating a quorum, In the moantime, some Demaorats have np. plied to the Courts foran injunction re. straining the Republican Electors from quali~ {ying under any canvass by the Governor, ‘Tho object fa of course dalny to pravent tho isano of cortifieates of election to theso Elae. tors until aftor the time appointed by law for their meoting nnd giving their votes for President. The Conatitution providek: ‘Tho Congress may determine tho time of choos. ing tho Kicctors, and the day on which they shail givo thelr votes: ichich day ehatl be (he same throughout the United States. Congross bas fixed the day on' which the Electors shall give their votes on tho first ‘Wednesday of Decomber, which this year {alls on the Gth of the, month. In cmio o quorum of the Legislature of Nebraska con bo had before noon on the Gth to conyass the votes for Electors, then they will bo in time tovote. If no such quorum sssembles, and the Gavernor be unable to canvass .the voto aud issue cortificates of election, then tho caso of Nebraska will bo added to the compli. cationg which throaton to attend tho officisl and flnal canvasy in February next, Al this goes to sliow tho general carelessucss and indifference as to dotnils which have prevail. ed o)l over tho country in rolation to this subject, and the confasion which is possible and probable in consoquence of the omission of clearand definito legal rules and rogula- tions on the matter of Presidential elections. It now turns out that ths alleged military interference with tho Bouth Carolina Logislature was simply n blun dor, for which no one of any account can be hold responsible, They wore not thus employed by command of the President, nor of tho Cabinct, nor of the Bucratary of War, nor of the Ganeral of tha Army, nor evon of Gen. Ruces, who is in command of the troops at Columbin. Hero is Gen. Ruaze's ‘plain and satiafaotory statemont of the way tho thing came sbout ¢ -, Ttcame about that for the time saldlers wern placed on olther slde of the door of the entrance to tho Hali of Representativos under the following circumstancea: A person ut the door of iho House, nnd who clalmed the sutborlty to examlno tho certificates of thoss clatming to be mombers prior to thelradmission to tho hall, but who, I think, had no legal suthorfty for ao doing, sppiled 1o the oflicer in command of the troopu placed the corrldor for tho preservaiion of tbe pesce for asslstance, on tho ground that he was belng press- ed upon and couldn't porform his daty, The sof- dlers wero placed ns stated. As goon us I was fully {nformed of the clrcamutances Iordered the sol- ,diors withdrawn, 881 had provicusly informed Tov. CuaxpenLaly Ishonld confiue wy action to tho preservation of the peaco, and should do noth- {ng with raforenca to keeping the doors of the - rooms of meeting of the louses, or the rooms thomsclvos, untess it became nocessary becauss of tho breach of tho peace which tho clell otticera of the House shoutd bo unable to reatare. All the rage thathas grownout of this ‘blundor will have to bs expended, then, on the Corporal or, nt best, the Captain who mado it. We are glad that this isthe truth of the matter, Tho actlon was of & natur that could not have been approved, no mat tor how high an suthority had ordered it, and Toz Truuxe wos silont only because 6 bad faith thatdt had never beem onfered from Washington. Gon. Ruora seema fully to undoratand his duty in the promises His troops are there not to seat or unseat legis- Intors, nor in any way to interveue botween factions contending poacofully and gcwnh\!!{ to the forms of law, but at the {nvitation of the Govornor of the Biate, as -provided by the Constitution of the United States, toas- glst In the maintenanco of posce, ‘Ther s no danger of Gen. Ruorn's interfering excopt to keep the two factions from murdering ench other, or {0 enforco the law srhen the State authorities are unable to do so. e ——— NOT YET. Tb the Editor ar Ths Tribuns. it Musxzaor, Mich,, Dec. 1.—1 bave aken 10! oted for Marcs 8 by afiod that wa ato beaten, aud by E’é‘t‘.ni mx;.:mh a good grace and try ‘I,!‘ 'cux’lin. and not drive every good and bonulnxn“““u. purty? Noapeetfully yours, s R W aro beaten (¢ a majority of the u} i Coliego cast thefr votes for TiLpry and i Diioks. We have wou If a majority ?mt ot votes for HTAvEs and Wisgcrs. Why nv“mh until Wednesday, the 8th ust., and see i side has won befors pulling down our throwing up the spongel Qur lata foreign exchanges have Wflhflflpl'lz; about the enormoua fortune left bchh;m g Cardinal ANTONBLLY; Which I8 sald md o ths Papo considorable annoysuce, au m'm scandal eround tho Vatican. A:i?:mum: though perfectly unostentatious an ;.mu i {cat In his way of Jife, dfed the nmeflmwm 2 Rome. His estate Is valuodat ten w‘u:En- dollars, one-third of which s lnvul:d nxn“ gland, The Cardinbl, bestdes, pussess! e ihe finest sssartmeuts of prcdomd‘ i Europe, He could boast of alawon! Rofr shapes, Incowparable emeralds, vwll? g quofscs, sud the richest Jacese Bm“ Ty Towrkn writes to the Tondoun 1\“ v probably inherited it from on “uik gt Ioderate circumstauces, which o swile, s enemiva say that 1t was 8