Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 8, 1876, Page 4

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FRIDAY, DEOCEMBER 8, 1870, Greonbacks at the New York Gold Ex- clinngo yosterday closed at 92§ There was an attempt to smooth over the fraudulent trick in Oregon by ropresenting «that the Democrat sppointed 83 Elector by the Governor bad scleoted two Republicans to act as his associates, DBut Senator Mrrcu- E1n explaing that these so-called Ropublic- nns wera both Democrats, and voted for Havres under orders, The ona vote was all that was needed, and no Republican in the State would have consented to be a party to the shameful trausaction. Little doubt romaing that the British Gov- i<rnment has experionced religion on the sub. +ject of the extradition of criminals, and that i the blunder perpetrated in the Winsrow case will be corrected with all convenient expedi- - jtion, It is expected that Bear, the Louis- » aville forger, will be extradited at the end of { fifteen days. Unfortunately Winszow and Grax are at presout beyond the reach of the + English authoritics, but detectives aro on their track, nud thero is hope of their eventual eapture nnd surrender to the United States, . The depth of infamy to which the Gov- ernor of Oregon descended in his attempt to defeat the will of tho majority in that State by stealing the vote thnt was oxpected to i elect Tioex inrovealed in our dispatches this moruing. By meaus of sharp practice = of the lowest and most contemptible order, iy ~—trickery that wonld scarcely be creditable v to o bunko-ileerer,—the Democratic Gov- ernor nud Secretary of State undertook to | eutrap the Iepublican Electora into the ¥ pchomoe of smuggling in a vote for Tiupexn, , Dat the conflience-gamo failed, ond the bo. ; guscheck was not cashed, It is no wonder » that the peoplo of Oregon shonld be wrought - up to the pitch of burning Gov. Groven in , eligy. 3 Messrs, CaMperraIN and GLEEVES yester- day twok the oath of offico and were formally " Suaugurated by thoLegislaturo in joint session ', a3 Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of South Carolina. The innugural speoch of Gov. Cramupenran, delivered in the Hall of 7 Hepresentatives, wns esrncst, dignified, and 3nanly in tone and charactor, and at the same tiwe tompered with moderation and a solemn sonso of the gravity of the situation. It was 1Lig spoech of o man who belioves that ho s right, and who is not to be tnrned from the diffioult and dangerous path he has chosen, “Tho Rifle Oluba of South Carolina have to deal with o man who is o stranger to fear; Gov, CuaxpenuamNy docsn’t ecare worth n cent, | i s Jonx Monnissey telegraphed from Now . York last evoning declaring all pools off in % hisbox on the Presidontinl election. Thus { the gumnblers throw up the sponge and claim a draw, Doth parties will get their anouoy back, loss the & per cent that Mon- ussey will reserve as lis commissions for keeping a million or more of other people’s cash for wsevoral months, It i3 the plainest possible admission that the Oregon rascality hns failed to elect TroeN, The restoration to ciroulation of the enormous sums locked up in clection. paols will Lave a Lealthy effect on the busi. xess of the country, besides ending the pain- ful suspense of thousands of men who could poorly afford to lose the money they had Toolishly wagored. Now that the gamblors Liavo wenkened ou TiLpeN, the rest: of the Dewocrats moy as well “*give up the pot,” ——— A plan is suggested in our Washington dispatches wheroby the difficulty in regard to the vole of Oregon may be overcome with. out setting on foot the undesirable practice of going beyond the faco of the returns, and giviny the Housa a precedent for like action in the case of the three disputed Bouthorn Btates, 'The plan contemplates that the Pres. Ident of tho Senate shall open both the false and the true returns from Oregon, and, per- ceiving from the former that the Governor’s certificate was insucd to twoof the legitimate Republican Elcctors, he will have con- % clusive evidenco of tho valldity of the action A of amajority of tho College in choosing on £} Elector to fill the vaconoy, In this way, z“ it is cluimed, the facts and the merits f, of the question will be appareut %) on tho face of the returns from 4% Oregon, snd the bogus will be mado to servo 1t} the purposa of proving the legitimaoy of the true, ‘I'be plan has the merit of justice and squity, but it does not follow that the House PDemocreoy will submit to it on that account. o do what is fair and right in ths Orogon o i3 precisely what the Democrats do not Jutend. "fhe Chicsgo produce markets were gener- ally sctive und stronger yesterday. Meas pork closed 47§@500 per brl higher, at $16.67§@10.00 for December and $10.72)@ 10.75 for Japuary. Lard olosed 16@17§0 per 100 by higher, at $10,10@10.12) for the .| market waa quiet and unchanged. Sheep THE CHICAGO TRIBUN year and $10.15@10.17} for January. Moata woro 4o per ® higher, at 6]o for new shoul- dors, boxed, 8o for do short-ribs, and 8{c for do short-clenrw. Highwines wero nomi- nal, at $1.06@1.00} por gallon. Flonr was in netive demond and stronger, Whenat closed 140 higher, st $1.10§ for December and $1.20} for Jamiary. Corn closed §o higher, at 46)0 for December and 45}c for January. Oats closed $@Jo higher, at 38}c for Docem- bor and 4o for January. Rye was stronger, ot 72@73c. Barley closed firm, at 0%e for January, Hogs wero mors activo and stronger, advancing 6@100 and closing nt $5.70@6.00 for packing hogs. The cattle votes wns notorionsly ligible, and wna voted for nfter notice W that fast, in such case the candidate receiving the highost number of voles given for en eligible per- san would Te legally clected. DBut this doetrine T been wholly rejected in the . United Staten,—by both Tousen of Congress, by the Stato ILegialntures, and by the Courts of all the States. Tho whole American law on this subject fs summed up in Crary on Ilections, p. 167, eta,, and thero is no room for donbt on that point. That the action of the Governor, in awarding tho certificate of cleotion to Croxx, a minority candidate, is illegel and without any authority, is indisputablo ; but tho Domocrats exultantly nnd tauntingly nak, *Whero is the power o reverso or set his action aside?” It will not do to say that ho could not declara Crowiy elected, when anothier person had recoived n major- ity of the votes cnst, becauso lie hns done so! Prima facle, tho voto of Oregon is certified, nccording to tho forms of law, na two for Haves ond Waeewsr and one for Tir.oex and Hexpnices, and on the tablo of votes the record will stand if nucorreeted, TiLoeN, 186 ; Haves, 184, There ia no re- spectable lawyer in the Uniled States who will contend that the Governor ncted legally in awarding the cortificate to Onoxi, but, nevortheless, it stands on the record, and were aotive and firm, One hundred dollars in gold wonld buy $107.74 in greenbacks at the close, The possibility of a compromise of the Presidontial controversy secoms to be enter- tained in Congrossional circles, though the probability of such an ountcome is very difii- cult to conceivo of. In the House yestordny Mr, MoCnaey, of Town, offered n resolution looking to the appointment of a spocial Confereanco Comlnittoe, consisting of flve mombers from each body of Congross, to prepare and report without delay such a measuro, either legislative or constitutional, ns may be deomed best caleulated to re- :‘"& ‘ln‘ndflfl;;zi:::in:' .:;Inl::, 5}: will stand so until that record s r:l‘;a’ fhat shall go{'om thar e chnanged in soma way by some compotent authority. Tho votogivenby the Republicnn Electora in Oregon who received the majority voto will not be nccompanied by the list of Electors certified by the Governor to have been appointed, but will be accompanied by o certificate from the Becretary of Stato of the official canvass of the popular voto of the Btate for Electors, which will show that they received a majority of tho votes cast. The nct of Congress requires that the, vote shall be accompanicd by a certificate from tho Governor rociting the names of the Tlectors appointed, and in this cnse the Governor has nacted fraudnlently, as the record shows, in giving n cortificato to one of the minority candidates, All this brings the question down to the point of who isto decido be- tween conflicting roturns of the Electoral votos? Ia there nny person who can legally go behind the certifieato of tho Governor as to who were appointed Electors, and who is that person? Ia it the President of the Sonate ? If thero bo uo offico known to the law authorized to go behind these certifieates, must the fraud stand nnchallenged? Must this rascally fraud in Oregon pass not only 08 & precedent, but must it be permitted to decide an election for Presidont ? ‘We havoe too much respect for the ordinary intelligence of the Democratic leaders to sup- poko that they bollove this outrageous fraud in Oregon will beor exnmination. But we think it has been planved and executed to compel tho Republicans in Congress to ac- copt the election of TrLoRN obtnined under such circumstances, or consent to a re-ennct- ment of the joint-rule No. 22, under which elthor House may object to and cause the re- jection of the vote of any State. To consent to such a rule is to give authority to tho re- jection of the votes of Loutsinna, Floridn, and othor Btates, fncluding thia voto of Ore- gon; in which case, no person laving re- ceived & majority of tho whole Electoral vote, the House of Representatives will elect tho President nnd the Henato will olect the Vice- President. Tho action in Oregon is n trick, o dishonorable trick, which, however opposed to law, hes novertheless been 5o far success- ful na to give to TiwoeN and Henbrrces n Zrima facls mnjority upon the returns by the Tlectors whose appointments aro certified to bystho Governors. ‘I'hero the matter stands at this time, and the question of power to rovise, ounul, reject, or corrcet tho re- turns g mado to the President of the Sen. nte has received new interest, and if possible new importance. vass of the vote for President and Vice. President. Upon the suggestion of the Democrats the resolution was referred to tho Judiciary Committee, of which Mr. McOnany is n member, and made a privileged subject to bo reported on at sny time. In view of tho Oregon complication there is small like- lihood that the Benate and Houso could agree upon any plan of compromise; in faot, Mr. ‘Hawirr, the suthorized spokesman of the House Democracy, yesterdsy stated spacific- ally that tho only compromise to be enter- tained by his sido was one that allowed the House to eloct a President and the Sonato a Vice-Prosidont. Congressman Hewirr has bad another in- terviow with the President, and one which ho will be in no hurry to report the particu- lars of. Noithor will he be in a position to givo o distorted version of the talk, since it washad in the presonce of witnesses this time. It appoars that Hewitr was rogaled with some very omphatic Ianguage boaring upon the Democratie conspiracy to capturo the Government, and he is said to have left the White House with a larga-sized flea in his onr. The plan was to wheedle the President into somo declaration of policy less inimical to the grand larcony which the Tildenites have in view—some nbandonment of the President’s storn resolve to see that equal justice is done, and that fraud and trickery shall not prevail. A telegrnm from Wapn Haxprox, agreeing to guarantee peaca if the troops were withdrawn from South Caroling, failed to pave the way to the President's good graces ; its only effect waa to elicit the reply that the presence in Columbia of heav- jly-armed Rifle Oluba was an indication of the Lkind of pence that would prevail if the troops wero now withdrawn, and that no order would be issued for their removal until as- surances had been received from the proper authorities that their presence was no longer nocessary. Altogether Hewirr made o Lad job of it, and will probably give the Preai. dent & wide borth hereafter., THE OREGON FRAUD. The action by the Governor of the State of Oregon in issuing a certificate to o person 05 Prosidential Eloctor which the record ghows was not elected by the people, and this person having voted for Tmpex and Hexpnioks, s new complication is added to the Presidential quostion. The factaare few and simple: At the election in Oregon thera was a clear and undisputed majority of about 1,200 for tho three Ropublican Electors. One of theso porsons, by the namo of Warrs, when cloctest was a Postmastor, and was therefore ijuehgible. When the time come for issuing certificates of election to the Electors, the QGovernor decided that Warrs, boing ineligi- ble, woa not ula&od,»but that the candidato receiving tho next highest number of votes, Cronry, & Democrat, was clected; and he THE BROOKLYN EHORROR. ‘The Brooklyn catastrophe, unliko neatly all other siwilar calamities, was not exag- gerated in the first reports, On the other hand it growa in horror oy Dby day, and even hour by hour, The number of bodies nlready taken out is largely over three hun- dred, and no one can yet say Low many more burned and blackenedbodies are buried tire to anvo his own life,” It hins been stated hefore that this plece of burning canvas foll npon the intlammable eeiling or roof of n I boxed-in sof, representing au ' interior, ‘Thoro i1 in the fimt placo no intima. tion that the gas jots in the bordor row of lights were shiclded at all. It fs a matter of fact that in nearly nli thoatres they are not ehislded, being meroly sot in tin guttera and in cloro proximity to the drops. Manngors will shield footlighta with chim- neyd nud wiro gnuze, although they only threaten the fndividual upon the stage, and not slield lights sot up in the fliea that threaten tho entive audienco every time a draft blows noross tha stage. In Europo they nre rapidly introducing cloth mado un- inftammablo by chemical agencies in all parts of tho stage that aro cxposed to firo, "Theso proparations aro well known in this conutry, and are comparatively incxpensive, nand thero should bo a law compelling their application to all infilammnble material upon tho stage that comes in proximity to the gas- lights which are now used g0 profuscly. Upon tho othor leasons of this calamity, growing out of fusnfticiont menns of exit from our theatres, concort halfk, and public buildings, nnd defective’ mothods of construction, we havo already commented. How meny more lives must be sacrificed to carelessness and recklessness, to the greed of money and the cupidity of manngers, beforo our legislators will compel tho uso of svery possiblo precau- tion and of every known method of securing publio safety? Is this Brooklyn horror to Lo but n week's wouder? How long will it bein that event beforo we shall have to chronicle another such calnmity in Ohicago, bringing horror to our own friends and death into our own homes? THE FACTS AS TO LOUISIANA. Precisely how it wns arranged, and by whom, that the Electoral vote of Lonisiana was to be determined by the counting-out procass and by worso, Is made clear by the report’of Bonator Bnenyan and others in bo- half of the Committee which wont to Now Orleans at the request of the President. This roport, which the Democratic managers of the Houso endeavored to dismiss cavaliorly, bnt which they had not the audacity to table withont reading, presents tho facts as to the cleotion in Louisiana in such fashion that these cannot bo misintorpreted. 'Che rogis- try mado in 1876 for the Parishes of East Iiaton Rougoe, Ouachits, East and Wost Feliciang, and Morchouse, was 13,244 col- ored and 5,184 whito voters., At evory elec. tion except the last, sinca the onfranchise- ment of the. blacks, the Ropublican ma. jority in these five parishes has been in abont the proportion indicated by the rogistry, But the result of the late election in these parishes, ns claimed and insisted upon before the Returning Board, wns o Democratic majority of 4,495, 'The report showa low thnat extraordinary result was brought about. If the Republican majority in theso parishes was gotten rid of, no mat- ter how, substantially the Republican major- ity of the Stato would be gotten rid of ; and the bare rejection of tho votes of those par- ishes, disfranchising tho Republican majority of abont 8,000, was a prime desideratum to tho Democratic managers. Accordingly, to begin with, the Demo- oratio State Committees issued a ** confi- dentinl” circulnr urging the formation of parish olubs, which wero carefully warned ** to do or say mothing that could bs con- strued as intimidation,” but recommending that they make a habit of * forming on horaeback ” in such wauneras to mako o dis- play that would *‘impress the timid nogrowith o sonse of thelr strongth,” The hint was not lost upon the bulldozersof the parishesnamed. They accepted the instructions of the Demo- cratic State Committoe to bewars of intimi- dation, but to make such a show of strength 88 would impress the negroes, just as in aute-War days they would Lave heeded the admonition not to hang o ** nigger-stealing" Abolitionist, but only to make such a show of their prowess as would prodnce an *“im. pression ” upon hitn, The show of strength that was to make the impression upon the nogroes, the proofs show, was sbsolutely confined to the bulldozed parishes, tho de- struetion of the Republican mnjority in which comnmissioned Cnoxmx and tho other two Re- publicansas Electors. Tho two Republican Tlectors, refusing fo recoguize Croxiy, de- clared n vacnnoy, which they filled, and these cast three votes for Haves and Woxeres; Croniy in like manner, holding the Gov- ernor’s cortificate of election, declared two vacancies, filled themn with alleged Republic- ans, ond the three cast two votes for Havra and Wnzzren and ono vote for TiLpex and Hexoniczs. The Jaw of tho United States governing these proceedings is ns follows : Ench State may, by Iaw, provide for the filling of any vacancics which may occurin its College of Electors when such College meeta to give its Klec. toral vote, ‘The Electors for each State shallmeet and give Hieir votes upon the first Wednceday in December 1n the yeor in which they nre appoluted, at such place In ench Stale sa the Legislature of such State shall direct, Itshall bo tho duty of the Executive of ench Blate to cause threo lista of the nnmes of the Electors of such Blate to ba mado snd certified, and o be dolivered to the Electors on or beforo the day on which they are roquired, by the preceding scction, to meet, The Electors shall make snd aign threo certificates of oll the votes given by them, each af which.certificates shall contain two distinct lists, ono of tho votos for Presldent and the other of the votes for Vice-President, and shall annex to cach of the cerlificates oneof the luls of the Electors which shall Aave been Jurnished to them by direction of the Executive of the Stute, It will be scen that the cortificate of the Govornor aa to who are the Electors is madoe port of tho record of tho action of the Flectors in voting for President and Vice- President. In this osse of Oregor, these lista of Eleotors, cortificd by the Governor, secompany the records of tho votea by Croxix and his associates. From each of tho thirty- eight States the cortificates of thoe action of the Electors will bo nccompauied by these lists of tho Electors, certified by tho Gov- ernor, a8 showing thelr suthority to act as Rlectors, Trom Bouth Carolina, Florida, Louisinna, and now from Oregon, will bo sent up tho cortificd votes of porsons claim- ing to be Electors, who will have no cortifi. cates of sppointment from the Exccutive, 88 the Democratic Electoral candidates in three of those Btates have gons throngh tho farco of casting their votes for Tiupex, The action of the Governor in Oregon is conspleuously scandalous. In the firat place, the Elector Warts had resigned his office ns Postmaster and was eligible; but, even if Lo ‘wore ineligible, he had roceived amajority of the votes, and it was no partof the Gov- emor’s duty, nor within his authority, to determine the question of Warrs' eligibility, But the Governor wont still further, and de- cided that Warts, who was elected, being ineligible fn his opinion, was not elected, sud thet Cronmy, who wasnot elected, being logally eligible (1) and having roccived o minority of votes, was elected! 'I'iero are cases in tho Eoglish parliswentary practice where it has been decided that when tho person receiving the greatest number of in that horrible pit. Tho more contempla- tion of the scouc in the golleries on that awful night is enough to freezo one's blood. The most graphic pen would fail to picture the nwful horror; the wild, despairing rush of men and womon to tho staireases; the shricks and cries of lorror ns the flames came nearer and nearer ; tho trampling of tho strong upon the weak ; the frenzied hor- ror of some and tho awfal paralysis of others ; the sudden bronking away of the stairs beneath the pushing, struggling mass of poor humanity, wildly fighting for life ; the multitude hurled ¢ the floor beneath ; the sudden crash of the auditorium floor and the precipitation of ail thesa poor, maimed, mangled, and suffocated creatures into the cellar boneath, writhing iu their agony among blazing beams and falling thinbers, until a wave of pitying flame swopt over the multitude, ending their agonies, and leaving behind it tho solemn silonce of death, Probably no calamity of this character has over ooourred before in this country so hor- rible, or so destructive, or has ever occaslon- ed such a universal feeling of terror ovor tho fate of the dead and of sympathy for the living who lost friends nnd relatives in the sad and sickening cremation, We have littlo oxpootation, however, that this oatastrophe, terrible ss it is, will produce such & lasting impression that it lessons will bo read with profit, or that thosa who cater for the publio ontertainment will be any more watchful of the public safety, As it is a more torrible calamity than usugl, it will be talked about more than usual, but in the great yush and pressuro of business and soclety matters, ln the strifo of politiclans, and the insatiate demand of the public to be amused, it will soon be forgotton, and the public will keep on going into fire-traps, oblivious of everything but the onjoyment of the hour., It is none tho less the duty of the press to sonnd a note of caution, whether it will be regarded or not. It ontsils duties and respounsibilities both upon theatrical managers aud the law- makers, The business maunngor of - the Brooklyn Theatre, speaking of the origin of the fire, says: ** A pleco of canvas, out of which trees, eto., are made, was broken from ita fastonings and hung from the flies, inme- diately over one of the.border-lights, near tho oentre of the stage, The canvas had begun to smolder, snd the paint on it to orsckle, and the carpenter was directed to ascend to one of the grooves and remove the dangerous object, ,He could barely reach it with his hand, and he drow it hastily up, ‘The rapid motion through the air of the half- ignited and highly-inflammable canvas causod it Lo burst juto a fiamo, which rapidly sprend to adjoining material equally suscep- tible. All efforts to extioguish the flawes were sbortive, and the carpenter had to ro- wonld be the destruction of that majori- ty in the Stats. The ‘““clubs” accordingly begou riding about after dark, the members nrmed and masked, to make the desired “jmprossion” on the negroes, In the lan. gunge of the report, * The proof discloses brief summaries of portions of which are heroto nuncxed, that, where violenco and inthnidation were insufficlont, murder, maiming, mutilation, and whipping wore resorted to, . . . Organized clubs of masked armed men, formed a4 recommended by the Central Democratio Committee, rode through the country at night, marking their course by the whipping, shooting, wound. ing, maiming, mutilation, and nwrdor of women and children aud dofenseless men, whose houses were foreibly entored while they slopt, and, as the inmates fled through fonr, the pistol and tho rifle, the knife and the rope were employed to do their horrid work, Itdid not stop even at that. Whon the day of election came, ‘*spotters” were sta. tioned at each polling-place. These care- fully avolded *‘intimidating” the mnegro voters, but instend notified each colored Re- publican voter who came to the polls that if ho voted for Haves and Warrnen he would be *“epotted ;" and the *‘apotter,” with pen ond papor, was there to writo down the names of men whoon that account were to be “spotted " (the color and siza of the papor on which the Democratio ticket was printed oxposod tho vote), sud the dreadful significanco of that term *‘apotted " roquired no explanation to the men who did not noed be told of the torture and murder by tho bulldozers, just prior to the election, of colored Republicans who had been ‘‘spot- ted.” Buch are the faots established by the testl. mony which Mesars. Suenuax, Brovantox, QGanrero, Kenney, Havs, Van Aiuex, and the other members of theCommitiee report, ~—facts establishing incontestibly the most atrocions outrage upon the ballob evor attompted in this country, And yet it is the dofent of this ountrage by the Heturning Board which is sot up as the justification for the atrocious swindle in Oregon, by which it is propoged to stesl the one Electoral vote roquired for TiLox, Wo haven somewhat strange but not al. tpgether mprobable rumor from Washington that Mr, Moxzisox, of tho House of Repre. sentatives, will be in Ohlcago within & few hours to mest Judge TavanuLy, and perhaps others, to preparo a seriea of aocousations on which to found articles of impeachmont sgainst President Guanr! In the present freuzied condition of the Democratic leaders and office-expectants no act of folly or mad- nees {5 improbable, * Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad,” and the Demo- mont or intelligenco, which asked the Logisalature to give inspection the authority of Iaw, but it was not expectod that all control of it would be FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1876. cratic party scoma detormined to prove the teuth of that proverb, That Judge Trus- nuLL favors the Impenchment of GianT, and any other mensuro however wild and extray- ngant to get possesalon of tho Government, can rendily bo understood by those who know the bitterness of his political dirap- pointments, and it Is possible that the whole iden of impeachment hns originated with him, He is expooted home honrly from Now Orleans, If there is any schemo of this rort on foot, it is a secrat that will out, CHIOAGO GRAIN INSPECTION. Another uvgent roason for the precon- corted nnd cumbined action of the Cook Connty dolegation to the Legislature which "'ne Trioune has suggested is found in the cvils of the political grain fnspection which provails in this city, There is no question ‘but tho grain trade of Ohicago has suffered nerfons damago from the Stnte inspection instituted for Ohicago alone and placed be- yond the control of the men who buy and sell. The effect of it is that property is arbitrarily divided into grades which regu- Inte tho difference in’ prica without the ap- praval or consent of the owners, without any uniformity in the inspection at different warchouses, and freqnently without judg- Au effort to apply the eamo rigid system to other commoditics and other trafle would excite a general revolt, and the grain.doalors are cntitled to relief, The grading of grain under honest and export inspeotion ia unquestionably proper and advantageous ; indoed, it was flrst put in practice in Chicago, aud by the same men who now reasonably protest against its mis- application, It was the Board of Trade nin- taken out of the hands of the Board. In- atead of nssinting the Board in establishing auniform and asuthoritative system, a law was passed which made Chicago Inapectors n part of the Gubernatorial patronnge, and placed one of tho most important interests of agroat city in tho hands of politicinns. ‘Wo do not mean by this that the Grain Inl spectors ave all politicians, and all totally unfit for their duties, but we do meau thnt they may be so at any time, and that, over sinee-tho law went into force, thero have beon constaut rensons for complaint. control of the inspection is vested in a Btate Board located at the State Capital, remote from the practical oporation of tho law, and, under onr system of polities, {8 always sub- ject to mora or less abuso for partisan or personal ends, The The peculiar injustico of the prosent lnw ia that it applies to Chicago exclusively, while the other cities in the State aro per- mitted to establish their own grades, change them a8 frequently as the conditions of the grain demand, and inspect them on a uni- form system, fixed arbitrarily by the State, are inelastic and nnchangenble except in a certain routine way involving time and expense, and are con- strued by the individual Inspoctors accord- ing to individual notions. In illustration of the Iatter abuse many instances may be cited whore the same grain has passed a cortain warchouse 08 No. 2 and been inepected at another warehouso ns No. 8, which mado & differance of soveral conts a Lushol. TRepeated oxporiences of this kind bave dis. gusted shippers, buyers, aud sellers alike, and have driven off alarge trado that would otherwise prefer to cowe to Chicago, course it is not only the other cities of this State, but all the competing grain markota of neighboring Btates, which are given advan- tages over Ohicago by meang of this incubus ymposed upon handling the grain in this mar- ket ; and, with no othor result than crippling the trade of the chief city in Illinois, tho State assumes to exerciso an arbitrary and cast-iron control over the price of the grain bought and sold here,—for that is what the inspection amounts to in the end. In Chicago the grades aro of Whnt is neodod ls such s modification of the law as will mnke it conform to the orig- inal purpose of giving {he Bonrd of Trade virtually the coutrol of the inspection and at tho same time making that juspection author- itative, There is no danger that the Board will nbusa this power, for the business of all thio men who compose it depends upon the fair and oqunl trontment of their customers. Wo have no doubt that the Committee on Grain Inspoction of the Board will furnish the Cook County members all the informa-~ tion they desire, and make practical sugges- tions s to the proper changes to be wade In the law. changea may be expected from some of tho country mombers of the Legislatura and Btronuous bpposition to thess those representing cities which benefit by Ohicngo’s misfortune in ‘the matter; but if the Cook County delegation goes to Spring. flold dotermined to nct as & unit with the purpose of exacting tho legislation necessary to the welfaro of Chicago in this and other matiers, we are confident they can assert suf- ficient strength to carry the day. THE FOLLY OF THEE DEMOCRATS, 'The Demoorats, as usual, have put their foot in it, Their conduct ever since olection bhas been caloulated to convinca the country that thers was no patriotisin fn their deeiro to securs control of the National Govern- ment, ‘The blusterand threata of reaistance, begun bofore the ballots had been fairly cast on the Tth of November, and vigorously kept up ever since, wero evidences of an ugly, viclous spirit, and an mfamous desiro to got possession of tho offices, oven it it shonld be neceasary to terrify tho country, prostrate businoss, and risk tho horrors and coat of another civil war. So long as this frothy bluster was conflned to tho mendacions partisan nowspapers, partisan st ump-spealk- eors, and ward-bnmmers, the full extent of tho contemplated iniquity was not mani- fost, Perhaps the Democrata wero oven galning some hold wupon the honest and jndependent sentiment of the coun- try by reiterating so violently and universally that they wero being cheated by the Returning Boards In three Southern States; butif any such delusion obtained, and to tho extent that It has been enter tained, it hasbeen dissipated fully and flual. Jy by the recent official acta of the Domo. cratio Jeadership, which have shown it to bo utterly indifforent to law, justico, and potriotism, | Just see what the Democrats have done ‘Imln two or three days, while crying out vociferously against the alleged frauds on the other slde: 1. Thoy refused to admit the new member from Colorado into tho Houso of Representa. tives, and mssumed tho right of treating that Stato as a Territory, though it had com- plied with all the conditions of the Enabling act, and has becomo a Btate in the Union in overy sense, and with all the form evor re- quired from any new State. Thls act would have been bad enough in itself, but it ulterior purpose makes it peculiarly out- rsgeous. The exclusion of the Colorado member {s merely incidental to setting up that Colorado, which voted strongly for Haresand Wnezren, had not the right to appoint Presidentinl Elactors. 2, Of n similar nature and with thoe sama intent was the refusal to admit tho new member elected from Bouth Carolina by 7,000 majority to fill n vacancy, Ilis soat in not contested, and there i no question ns to hishaviog been olocted, But the Domocratic majority in the Houso do not care n rush about his righta or tho righta of hia con. slituonta; they simply desiro to sot up tho unconstitutional privilege of objecting to the | authority of the Returning Bonrd of South Carolina, which certified the election of tho Haven Electors, It was this Roturning Board which also certified tho clection of the Congressman who demands admission, and tho Democrata rofusa to commit themselves to any recoguition of the Returning Boord, though it exists and actg by virtuo of the laws of Bonth Carolina, 2, But tho crowning raseality of ol is found in the act of the Democratic Governor of Orcgon, who it also United Btates Sen- ator.clect from that Stato. Thora has beon no queation in that Btate as to the result of the election ; thero lina boen nq allegation of fraud; the Becretary of State hos certified that all three of tho Hayes Electora roceived aclenr mnjority of the votes; but, in spito of all this, the Democratic Governor nssumes to pass upon the qualifientions of one of the FElectors, decides that ho is inetigible to the position, and thon gives the certificate of clection to the opposing Democratio candi- dato who hnd recelvad a minority of the votes, There was never a more flagrant nt- tompt to usurp tho power of the people in nuy form of Government pretonding to be republican. If the Ilaves Elector was ineligible, the ‘T1LpEN Elector cortainly wasit't chosen by recciving a minority of the votes, ond the Inw onables the two remaining Hares Electors to flll the vacancy occasioned by the incligibility of the third. 'This was the conrse actually taken and which will un- doubtedly be sustained ; but in the mean- timo the despamte villainy of the Democratic Govemnor is received with shouts of applause from Donoerata of high and low dogree all over the country, Wa submit that it is about time for the Domocrats to stop crying ** wolf.” They can no longer commnnd any respect from decent people. All confidenco in tho honesty of their intentions and the truth of thoir charges 08 to Lonisinna is gono forever. They have shown thomseclves willing to trample law, justico, and the popular will under their feet to nrrivo at tho coveted coutrol of tho offices, 'L'hoy Lnve exceeded the most exnggorated infamy thoy have ever charged upon the Returning Boards of Tlorida, Sonth Cavolina, and Louisiana, and they have forfeited all elnim to consideration for any charges of this kind thoy may have put forth pending the final count of tho Electoral vote, It s awell-known fact in insurance circles that the late Continental Lifo Insurance Com- vany, of New York, furushed the New Jeracy Mutunl Lite with a list of its policy-holders throughout the United Stoates, with a view of cndeavoring, through the sgentg of that de- funct concern, to transfer them {n a body to the last-named Company. This was to be accom- plished by the ugents ot the Continental ob- -tainfug from its policy-holders assignments In blank of their pulicles, The Continental was ploced in the hands of a Recolver, consequently the reserve, or vital power which Is supposcd to protect the poliey, 18 locked up m the assets, comprising securltles of varlous kinds, mauy of which areat present unavallable, Therefore, if the poticies are assigned to the New Jersey Mutual, and thot Company fssues its own {natead, where is the reservo to protect themi Iathe New Jersey Mutual to use the surplus, which it Qeclures In its sworn statemcent it possesses over and above all labllities, and which belongs to its own polfey-holders, to pay losses which must at onee acerue (and which are conetantly nceruing) on the policles of the Contlnentul! However, the policy-holders of the Continental Ldfe throughout the Northe west will doubtless look ecarefully after thelr own luteresta In this matter, and will not sub- mit to be handed over without thought or care to any Company which may be selected for them. And just hero [t may be as well to re- mark that if ho who deslres to fusure his lifp, for the benefit of himself or family, would take tho sume paius to Inquire into the management as well a8 the reported financial condition of the Company in which he dcposits an annual premium ashe would in the case of a real estate transaction, sco to it that the abstract of title wna perfeet, » much sufer aud better con- dition of affairs would result to ol concerned. e — . Mr. Penny 1L 8w, of Chicago, who has been a ‘closo observer of the canvass it this State, nays: *'1eny to you deliberately that the peoplo of ihe West Wil iiot stand the barotaced fraud that must Jbe practiced Lo beat us here. — 2hey will fight before tAey 1ill submit, 1o noalarmist, 1" am talkin: ol Uit wZallungrace, Wity Dec. 4, dlspateh 0 the New York Herald, TPenny says there was fraud among the alll- gators st the electlon, which Is very possible, as the people down there are said to have loose Ideas about the way of conducting Jnoral elee- tlons, and veform s neceasary, They ought to recelve Justructions from SAs-T1LDLN and Tam- many Hall, They might tnke u few lessons from Mike EvANs, by dang," and Ep Pmi- 1198, and DavEs TuorNTON,—~politieal brothren and townsmen of Mr, Bmitit. The yeople of the Weat aro & warlike race and ure hard fight- ors, a8 thelr misguided and crring Southern brethren will cheerfully testify; they are always willing to fight upon sufiicient provocation, But no matter how much any of thom may be spoil- ing for u fight, there was nothiug in the clection doyn among the alligators to excite thelr belll- cose propenslties, Nobody clearly knows which side chented the most, PERuy fails to tell us, nor does e explain whom the people of the Weat are going to fight. Is it the South! We liope not, Is it the Knickerbockers of the Hud- son, or the Boston Yuulees, or the Philadelphia Quakers! Guess not. One thiug ls very certaing they will not fight each other, no mutter who ls clected or beaten, e ——— ‘The latest plaint of the metropolltan press {s of the unconscionable cost to them of the tardy manner iu which Commodore VANDERUILT oes on with his dying, or, rather, goes on llving, when his obltuary notice has bgen in type for a year or more in every newspaper oftice in the clty, The expeusc consists In having to detall reporters to keep wateh on tho Commodore, thit his taking-oit may be announced 1u special cditious the fustant it occurs, The Commodore himsell, In the most accommodating spirit, In the outsct, gave orders that the roportors should be recelved in the parlor, and all facilities ex- tended thein for gotting off tho news of his de- mise at tho carliest possible moment after that occurrence, Later, when, perbiaps, o had mado up bis mind the newspapers were growing too anxious for his ehuitliung-off, he turned the re- porters out, but every night, st.10 o'clock, 13 o'clock, and 3 o'clock, hng his medical attendant went to the door to nnnounce to them the state of tho Commiodore's hcalth, And so it is that the big dallics have to malntaln regular stafls of Vaxperpiur reporters’ at & cost, the Graphis eays, of from $30 to 50 cach per weok; amd, saddest of all, now the drcadful suspiclon s afloat that, after this thing has been kept up by the year, so to speak, tho Comwodors has con- cluded to recover, ———————— A couple of days befors tho election Asn Hzwitr, the heuchmen of TiLpEM, fssucd a bulletin warning the public to bowarc of o pre- tended coufession of BiLy Twrp jmplleating ‘TiLpex in Ring frauds, The “cautlon? was hand-biiled a1l over New York and neighboring cities, Twegep did not get bome for three v weeks after tho election, Nasting) per's Weekly has a pleturo of the uhlu‘D‘c::,“:["‘ Ring Boss reading the handbill over the fns ?lllu tonof “News to Twegp. Oh, Bug, Tw;' 5 thou nrt iighty yet, It ueans .Wu.u“' mizht a folo unfold Which would make. oot Democratie halr stand on end, and make g u,’l finale to the “Iteformer's vaulting xmxblllu’:xn —e— Not only did thoRetur, gron Mn'x("i:ll'. ‘l::: ct‘n nl&g:fi“:“:l‘;nflre::;:m‘ o Higton cha et dort S0, ot lol what Is TUE TRIRUREgolnk 6 do about (1= 7ot It turns out to be telegraphic mistake that Brawsten fell behind as much as was printed in all tho Chicago papers. The Press dispatch sent here stated his vota several thousand tao low; he ran with the average of his ticket, ng shown by the actual returns, and as they w glc{;mphml to l.hg E’l‘“ Ln’rlu, Clnnllmnlrl, :1:3 astern papors. Bo Tos Trinuxs hy to say about ft. S48 00 thlng —————— The New York T¥mes of the 4th inst, thus dis- m:may of ltl;u p;:ducn trade of that city: 1h0 world—iho fecoints of fone (reioimagatte of flg‘mmfi:m'. (ngl ifl lcmp year cndiny Eu»l“.";‘.' deitéd ot of 107,270, 104 Duahers, T UTBrece ‘Wo havo read that statement o fow times be- forc. ‘Tho figurcs are Inrge, and 1t Is well to re. member them; but why not ivea little morg recent statistics to show what New York hay be come, not what she did become in 18741 —— PERSONAL, The Khian of Khiva ls a metry tellow of 28, M'"d‘;f':l‘n Turner has disowned her only broth. er, und he doex not secm to e proper), for tho kinduese, gl ‘Tho Bhah of Dersla is alrcady making his ar. rangementa to go to the Pary Exposition of 1378, strictly Incognito, ¥ Allert Garnler, the noted blillard-player, obtalned a divorce from hls wife on );hey:':;"h:: h‘e:-ldlnndcluy. He retalus tho custody of their child, The Emperor and Empress of Drazil are now traveling in tho Holy Land, Ho wun golden opin. fons from all rorts of people in Grecce, whery al) sorts of peoplo most abound. Cardinal Antonelll wos not a priest when be be. came 8 Cardinal, and never nftorwards took orders, He uscdoften tosorve tho massof his prlm.‘, chaplain, at which It was hle custom to atteny every morning. Mre, Julln Ward Howe conducted the Thaoks. Blving serylces at the Unitariun Churchin Newport, R. I, Hertext was taken from the stary of m; Pharlsco who thonked God that ho was notas otlior men were. A San Franclaco attorney who latoly committed aulclde, wroto a jocular note totho Coroner ex. plafuing that ho had taken laudanmm ‘owith auicidal intent,* and hoped the Common Council would not tnsiat on bullding hin & monument. Tha New York Art Students' League enters upon tho sccond year of its existence with encouraging prospects. Tho plan adopted In the schools of the Leaguola based upon that of the Parlsian stcllers, fo that the students huve the full ndvantage of drawing in all the higher branches of technique, Peraons of sympathetic tomperamonts may work themeelves into a fine frenzy by reading of the ro- mantic traln-wrecker who hanged himself §n jajl wwhen he heard that hla wife had appHed fors di- vorca, Ho would have divorced others by a some- what summary process; himeelf Lo would not di- vorce, The principsl nctors in **The Two Orphans” as Iast produced at the Brooklyn Theatro were: Mise Craxton, Mr. C. R, Thorne, Jr,, Mrs, Farren,Miss Faunnle Morant, Miss Moude Harrlson, Miss Ida Vernon, Miss Rate Girard, Mr, H. 8. Murdoch, Mr. Claude Burroughe, and Mr. J. B. Studley,- all of whom, with tho exception of Mr. Buroughs, liave Leen oftan secn In Chicago, Mre, Farren, years ago, was a favorite '*star," Tne Trisuns I8 glad to hear that tho Yonng Men's Chirlstian Assoclation had nothing to do with Mr, Talmage's loctures or with his offensive methe ods of advertising them. The orror in regard to tho subject aross from tho fact that the lectures were given nt Farwell Hall, but it appears that the Young Men's Assoclation were as much annoyed by the advertising tricks resoried to at tho Lall at were the manugers of the Apollo Club concerts, Constance Funlmoro Woulson, the succ weiter af magazine pootry, has now [n her posses ulun u more nmbitious work, which she [ntend: shortly to givo to the public, It is called ** Two Women, " aud {3 a poem of the War, written soon afterits close. She withheld it frown publication on the advice of friends, but having stace subject- ed 1t 1o the lest of years and @ more mature vx- perience, she thinks it 1s worthy, with lwportant alterationa, (o sco the light. B Tourguenofl, tha famous Russlan writerof fiction, although n noble of the bluest Muscovite blood, has always had stroug Democratic sympathics. Mo has of late years been in disgrace ad Court, ana has beon oat of the country; but hfa recent politicl poem has wo ovtablished nim in popular favar that he contemplates returning to Rusals fn February orMarch, Pan-Slaviam fsnow the watchword of the bour in Russla, and every advocate of Pan- Slavic sentiments, who jolne enthuslasm to sbility, i3 sure of a iearly wolcome, Dr. Melmbold, the monarch of Bach, bas been divorced from his wife on her application, Al- though he had expressed great regard for er, sud was nccustomed to say President Grant had apoken of heras *‘tho handsomest woman In the United States,* bo changed his tone when the decree wat granted, and professed to bo highly delighted. 1lo sald he must have 8 banquot to celebrate the occasfon, and thercupon dispatched dnoly-engraved fuvltations for an entortalnment at Delmonico's to prominent gentlemen 1n all parts of the country. At the monthly meeting of the Century Club in New York Saturday much Intorest was shownin two landscapea of Philip Gilbert Hamerton, loaned for the occasion by Dr, Powers, of Bridgevoct, Conn, The Zridune says that the lmpression which they created waa ono of sovere dlsappolot- ment, **It i almost incredible,” says the critic, ¢4 {hat o man of matura years, who has studledart 20 faithfully, and written about it so Intelligontly and delightfolly, shonld manifest such & Wlfl. mochanical, imperfect approhionsion of Nature,' ‘The disturbance In the Senlor Claes at Wesleyan College, Middletown, Coun., over tha eloction of awomanto the position of class-poct, seems to haye been much more discreditable to the younk men than was at firat supposcd, The opponents of co-education, by thrests of withdrawing from thy observance of the day, finally obliged the womas: poet to withdraw, wherenpon the vacancy w-ln fled by the election of & young man. The proml- nent leader of the opposition to the woman wasa son of Dishop Haven, The Blshop Los alwaysad- vacated co-cducation. One of the London.raviews undertakes to demc‘:~ fsh thoronghly a book on Bium, Burmab, and (be Malay Ponlusula; and, to accomplish Its purpoul;’ brings data to bear (o prove that the writer coul not lavo been fn those countries st the time he -'l; legea. The reviewer seoms ta bave written Ly Sinm for nfarmation, to have examined tho nllmh ters of vessels, to have compared tho almanac ¥ the dates In the book for discrepancles in states ments concerning the condition of the moon onhl certaln day; and geverally to Lave adapted ‘n: methods of a police-odicer in parault of & crl -+ {nal rather tban thoso of & patlent and diliges Judgo. i Tha Philadelphia Zimesls not in 8 mood to excited by the -pnnounumentumanu.dt Cunn::l‘: second coflection of Cypriote sntiquities hos bk securod by the Metropolitan Museum in New J“ Tho Philadelphla journal says. that the collec ' d many objects of contalns many duplic nd many O ome of meunlh’al{lltlh value to tho stude ted 10} Theo, It thinks, might well have been ypared 100 thie British Museum aud the Louvre, will el wuuing a portion of the expense. trouble had bevn taken to secary the c;mll-: d oruaments (st hss been 63 S pon ina. Cosnola. articles more. VaIBsble Teaults would have beeu obtalned, LT Haoye, Bloux Cityy B W, ooyt a7 oclaimgr Honae-, 4. Rookss Ginchaaly 1, 30 Naupdoll, Wasbinglous A, b IWREN Narks T A o ] houny V. 8. ity | Council Lidge; Pratt, Kansas Clt; atrick, Now Yorks bhupman, St, Louls} £. M, Abbott, Pautiacs R 0. A, Morton, tit. s I o Duncan C. Dowl o e fon, | Nuwton Edwat : Borion Trn Mo tha Hon. Jamies Hrdckot g Mich. e 5?3?;5&;...0“..! o w York; N Vi ‘ezas O. N Wuren: fan Autonlo, Tex. i 10 dy, Miliogton. Hon.