Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 16, 1876, Page 4

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Al State, Tt Mighty Adelplil Thentre. Monroe atreet, corner Deartiorn, Varioty entertaln. ment, Aftcrnoon atd ovenlng. Wood’s Mascmn, Monroe strect, hetween State and Dearborn, ** Tle Colteen Lawn,” Aft: L] (ng. SOCIETY M. CAICAGO COUNCIL NO. 4, . AND 8. M,—8pecinl asscmbly this Saturday oveniog. Dusiuvas of lmpar: 5 rder T. 1. 1 tunco. Byorder T L 4L, p1ckFRSON, Neconter. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1876. Greonbacks at the New York Ixchange yesterdny closed at 921, A dnughter of ex-Secretary Bristow was yestordny injured in o runnway accident at Touigville, Her injuries are internal, and posgibly fatal. "It is to hoped the young lady may recover, for blood of a thinner cousistency is plentior, and could better be spared, 1t is aunonnced from Springfleld that n callhas been jssued for o meeting of the Democratic State Central Committes in that city on the 2Ist inst. No such ecall having been jssued or authorized by 3ir. McComuick, Chairman of the Comuuittee, it i3 understood that the chief purpose of the ncotingis to deposa that gentleman naud cloct as his fuccessor somebody who ls less of prudence aid modoration, aud who nore satisfactorily represents tho oxcitable and sanguinary wing of the Llli;mln Demacracy, The first step toward the nmicable ndjust- ment of the Congressional dispute on the Electornl question hias at last been taken, the Seuate having ngreed upon the crention of a Seleot Committeo of Soven to confer with a + similor Committee of tho House, Buch a conference is eminently desiralle, ns it can- not result in widening the breacht, and may be productive of good. Much, howover, do- pends upon the course pursued by tho other Helect Committee appointed to report upon the rights, powers, and privileges of ths House, “A sort of petty dead-lock lins been brought about between the Beunte and House on the subject of approprintions to defray tho ex- penses of their respeetive Bouthern Investi- gating Committees, Tho House lendn off by refusing to concur in tho Bennte's figures, reducing them from $50,000 to 10,000, while increasing its own allowance Ly an addition of §9,000. Of courso the Senato rotalintes in Jand, and tho result will be the creating of deficiencies which will have to be mado good by agreemont Iater on, when tho hostilo majorities get in botter temper. The letter written by Joun M. Paraen, Lyuan Tnvsmorr, and othiers of the Democ- cratio visitors at New Orleans, roceivod a thorough ventilation in the House yesterdny at the hands of Mr. Hoaz, who proceeded to demonstrata the truth of one or tho other of two equglly awkward conclusions—viz,: elther the lottor was signed without a knowl. . edge of its contents, or clse it was n case of willful and deliberate misstatemont of faots, ‘Tho portion of the Paruen-Trombury letter to which Mr. oan paid his re- spects was owo which had just been guoted by Mr, Cox as showing that in the Toan-Witeerer roport the statement was mndo that Krtuoao was not lawfully elected Governor of Louislava, This was denounced by Mr. Hoan as un intentional perversion of tho truth, Movsrs, Paruzs, Tovunury, ote., having cited tho statement of Cranzson N. Porren ns the report of the Commiittas, wheu they must lave known otherwise, The Louisiana question is an excitable theme in the House, and the sparks will fly witen tho debate fairly begins, e —— The Chicogo produco imnarkets were mod- emtely netive yesterday, and firmer, Mess pork closed 150 1Rv bl higher, nt £10,624 cush sud $16.70@16,72) for January, ~Lard closod12§c per 100 Iby higher, at £10,20 cash #ud 1050 for Jaunary, Moats were stendy, ' ut Go for new shoulders, boxed, 8lo for do short.riby, sud B¢ for do short-cloary, Highwines woro jo bigher, at %1,08 per gollon, Flour was quiet and stesdy, Wheat closed steady, at $1.18 for December and %118} for Jauuary, Corn closed steady st 4G}o for December and 4fic for Jnunary, QOats closed firmy, ot 38]c cash and 8370 for «Juuuary, Itye wasfirm, at T1@71j0. Barley closed 10 higher, nt 84jo cash and 85¢ for Jan. uary, Hogsweredulland easy forcommon hea. vy and light weights, but good to choloe heavy were firm, Hales were principally at £5.40@ 430. Cattlo were dull aud weak. oxoenting choico grades. Bheep wero inactive and weak. One hondred dollars in gold would buy £107.75 in greenbacks at the close, The peaple of Chicage may draw a long Lreath of thankful relief nt their fortunate cacape from n destructivo conlagration, In the terriflc gale of last evening, nt that time blowing from tho sonthward, fire broke ont near the corner of Sevouteenth strect and Wentworth avenue, a locality in which woodon buildings abound almost cxclusively, and where, under all the conditions of the case, there was a good hoginning for an appalling conflageation, Iappily, how- over, the splendid work of tho Fire Depart- ment was aided by a sudden veering of the wind, and comparatively little damago was dono. Thero was good lnck in it, Lut there was also n demonstration of tho unsurpnssed means of protootion that Chicago now en- joys ngainst tho rocurrenco of cxtensive fires. % While Wapz Haurrox and his South Carolina partisans aro protesting their cou. servatism, their pretense is practically con. troverted by the fact that tho Demo- cratio Rump Legislnture are voting for “@en” M, O. Burrxn, the lender of the Hamburg massacre, for United States Senator, Burner'a opponent is a man named Gany, who, ns a matter of fact, is his connsel and ndviser. This, then, isn fair samplo of the conservatism of tho Wanz Haxeron party in SBouth Carolina, With tho purpose of furnishing a contostant for a seat in the United States Sonate—n repre- sontative wan of their faotion—they can do no botter than to solect botween the man who directed the butchery of n lot of un- armed negroes.and another man who acted 88 his attornoy. If the Wank Hamrron faction in South OCarolina think they are likely to gain sympathyat the North, or any- where ¢lso in the civilized world, by such an action, thoy are very much mistaken; and thero nre faw decent mon of any party who will not be glad to know that the Burwzn and Gary mon of South Carolina have not the power to carryout their inclinations. Alr, Monnisox'’s Lonisiann Committee has encountered another obstruction in the high- way of investigation. It scems that these Congressional detoctives at once jumped nt the conclusion that asearch of the files of the Now Orleans telegraph office would revenl startling proofs of tho connection of promi- nent Republican officials with a conspirncy o steal from TiupEx the Electoral vote of Iouiginua., Upon this assmmption a subpana was served upon the Western Union Telegraph Company directing the production before the Committce of the original files of all private telegrams sent North by Republicans so. journing in New Orlenns, To this command Mr, Winniax Onroy, President of the Com- pany, returns a firm refusal, declining to become a party to this fishing excursion into matters that aro private and confidential s between the Company and its patrons. M. Onrroy will requiro a formal expression by the House in support of the Commitlee's subpeona before complying with it, and, as the question of privatetclegramsmight prove to bo a ticklish one for Loth parties to open up without reserve, the Ifouse is not likely to order a general ransncking of the New Oy loans telegraph ofiice. THE WAR PARTY AT WASHINGTON. As tho days move on, that portion of the Democratic party in Congress that wants T1LpeN with “war are showing a detormina. tion to resist and reject overy proposition having in view any arrangement by which tho two Honses of Congress can roach nn amicablo arrangement regulating the connt ing tho voto for President, All propositions for conference or g agreement that docs not doclare T1Lpex President are denounced and voted down. 'This class of persons have = programme, and that programme may be briefly stated to be: That ot the meeting on tho 14th of Fobruary, when tho Electors’ certificates nre to boopened and counted, the Houso shell object to the counting of the votes of Louisinng, Floridn, and South Cavolina; that, these votes being rejected, there will not be n majority of the whole number of votes for eithar candidato; that the President of tho Senate, disregarding this objection and counting the wholae number of votes, shall declgro and so certify that Haves and Waerren, having each a majority, are Quly clected Trosident and Vice-Presi. dont of the United Stales: that therenpon the Houso of Represontatives, acting for it- solf as the exelusivo judge, shall decide that there wns no clection of President by tho poople, and shall forthwith proceed to clect # Presidont by the votes of the States, in which case TiLpeN will Be doclared clocted. 1t is oven suggosted that, whilo Hayes will be inaugurated at Washington, Tripex shall take tho onth of oftica at New York, and, ac- compnuiod by a vast army of his followers, shall march to Washington, and, Mexican fashion, make war for possession. This s the programmo of the worst cloments of the Domoeratio party,—tho men whocaro nothing for the Union, nothing for the natlonal honor or eredit, and who aro for n distribu- tion of spoils in the rogular way if possible; if not, then in the Mexican way by guerrillas and anned bauditti. Every tramp in the land would then becomo n * rovolutionary soldier,” and, instead of beggiug and steal. ing, ho will, 03 n member of some troop of Tupex's army, levy contributions, rob banks and warchouses, and make the Younoen and Jaues system goneral and uni- vemal, ‘Wedo not beliove thnt any considerable vortion of any purty of the Amorican people are in favor of any snch programme, Wodo not believo that any serlous number of Dem- ocratio Seuators will give the least counto. nanco or encouragoment to any such infamous schomo of violenco and civil war, One month of such domestio violence would work more disaster to the nation and to the peopls than a yoar of foreign war, 'The American people are peculiarly and instinctively alaw- loving and a law-abiding people, It is now kuown that the Civil Warof 1861 was not the voluntary act of the paople of the Bouthern Btates, Four slaveliolding States took no part in that War, and in all the others, except in Bonth Carolina, the msjority of tho peoplo —of tho whito votera—were opposed to the War, The wachinery of politics was in the hands of the few, and, despite the protests of tho people, ns in Vi ginia, ‘ennessco, North QOoroling, and Alsbaina, the ordinances of socession wors pushed through, in many cases by fraud, Moreover, thess Houthern people, up to the 1ast mowment, placed faith in the promises of the Northern Democracy, that, before war conld be waged agninst the South, it would have first to be fought at the North. Yeace. ful socession was n dclusion far more gener. ally uccopted ut the Bouth than has been supposed. Wu boliove the protest agalust war or violence to force TiLpex into the Yresidency will be weneral in all parts of the ‘far away from home; that as long as they country, and among the whole poople with- out differonco of pnrty. The Amorican peo. 1o are instinctively opposed to violence in politics, and especially to tha eleclion of officers Ly force. ™ Forty years ago n vom- bination of politieal leaders so manipuluted the Electoral Uollagos ns to defent the eloe- tion of AxpREw Jacmsoy, Even when the Ifouse of Representatives came to volo by Btates, combination and intrigne wera at work, and Avavs got the vote of the oxact number of Htalea necessary to elect him+by such a betraynl of their party by Democratic mombers of Congress a8 wonld Lo disgraceful at this day, Gen, Jacrsoy, then in the full glory of his military renvwn, aud bncked by the support of n majority of the Amorican people, did not tako up nvins, nor advise it, but, submitting to tho result as declored by the forms of law, nppealed to the people at the next election, That appeal was nnswered as & just appeal will alwnys bo answered by Ameriean peo- ple. No man over decemed worthy to be voted for, by any portion of the people as President oversuggested nresort to violencoto attain tho office in defiance of the resnlt pre. seribed by the forms of law. It is too Iate to try the experiment, and, despite the efforts of FEnsxANDO Woop, Sast RaNDALL, and other demagogues who aro ondenvoring to embroil the country in civil war, we lave strong hopes that oven tho Democratic Hounse will come to an honorable and entisfactory ad- justment of tho whole difficulty before the timo fized for counting tho votes. MILITARY TIONS. The President's message to the Senate in response to the Wrrnens resolution of in. quiry will probably satisfy the ex-Confed- erates aud Copperhends and the rest of mankind thet e has not forgotton how to meet and promptly repulse o bushwhack- ing attack, The resolution was, of course, prompted by Democratio undying hostility to military interfercnce with elections,—the only interferonce therowith that is tolerated by tho great Pemocratio party being that of the bulldozers. 'Tho intolligence somehow penctrated the Democratic understanding about tho Sonate Chamber that on the day of tho Presidentinl clection the armies of tho Unitod States—to-wit: one Captain, one Licutenant, and twenty-four privates—wero quartered in or about Potershurg, in the sovercign Btate of Virginin, That ns we hiavo no foreign war on hand at this june. ture, thereforo our troops wra mnot sent are kopt in tho country they must be in some Btate on election dny; nnd that Virginin is still one of the.States of the Union,—were circumstances which, in the cstimation of the Domocratic nnderstanding about the Sonate Chamber, did not in the lenst modify the awful fact that the armies of tho United Statos—that is, twenty-six men all told—had, on the day of the Presi- dentinl election, invaded the sneved soil of tho sovercign State of Virginia, instond of the soil—equally sacred, is it notP—of Illi- nois, Jowa, or some uther of the States equally sovereign, but whioh never rnised such nn uproar about the sacredness of their soil and their precious sovervignty. Accordingly in the resolution the demand was tartly nfado upon tho President to know by what nuthority the armies of the United States, in the persons of the nforesaid twen- ty-six men, wero stationed at Potorsburg, *in the Btate of Virginin," on election.day—as though, for that day only, the armny should liave been ordored out to sea, that it might not be * stationed” in any of iLe States, The report of Gen. Sueraax, with the ac- companying document sent tho Sonate with tho mnessnge, fully met the inquiry. Theso upon sworn testimouy set’ forth tho facts ng’ to the intimidation and mob violence and murder of colored Republicons at .Potors. burg; also that it was believed—to which belief tha factu testifiod irresistibly led—tho like outrages would occur on the day of the Presidential election unless troops were sent thero to preserve the peace. Having com. municated these facts,—ihan which thore cauld have been none more clearly justifying such disposition of this handful of men as that they conld be at haud wlen wanted to preservo the peace,—President GraNT pro- ceeds to summnarily and finally dispose of the gabble about military interforence with olections by this pithy obsorvation : ‘Tha presence of twenty-fonr United States sol- dlery, under command of a Captaly and Lleutenant, quurtered fn the Custom-Houso ut Petersbury, Vi, on the 7th of November, at o conslderabla dlatance from any polling-place, without any interferenco on thelr part whatever, and without going nearer the polls during the election, may have secured different result from what would have been obtain. cd Af thoy had not been there to mafntain peace fn caso of rlot. But'lt sach 1 tho case It iwonly proof that In this ano Congressional District [n tho State of Virginla the legal and constitutional vuters have been able to rcturn asolected the candidates of thelr cholce. And that syms up not only the total result of the military interferenco with the election at Petorsburg, but tho total and nole result of all tho so-called military interforonco with olections daring the entire cight yoara of Grayt's Administration, Nevor have the troops bulldozed n single voter, Not an ex- Confedernto ia there iu all the land who ean say that ot any time since the romoval of his disabilities the Federal boyonet over dictated how ho should vote, obstructed him in his right to vote us ho pleasod, or inthmidated bim to induce him to voto the Republican ticket, 'The interference of tho troops with tho alections has been precisely liko the inter- ferouco of tho police with the rights of property when thoy siutorfered with gar- roters, bunko-mon, and burglars, The only and whole result of the *stationing” of troops in tho ex-Confuderato Statos about olection time hag been to oxert sbout the samo sort of influence upon the rifie-clubs’ and bulldozers that n.policeman at his elbow exorts upon a garroter. When the troops havo bicen “stationod” in proximity to the polls no member of a rifle-club, no bulldozer or rough-rider has boen obstructed in the free oxerclae of his right to vote, Hut when the troops havoboenstatidned in proximity to the polls, tho rifle.clubs and bulldozers have not dared toobatruct the colored votersin thefree oxarcise of their right to vote as they ploased. And #o it is that the complaint about Guant's military interference comes only from the baflled bulldozers who were foiled in the effort to run the election, with their horse. whips, and revolvers, and masked rough- riders, And the more the Gmaxt military interference is investigated, tho wore will that fact be Lrought into prominence, —————— Tho Chicogo 2%mes, in its {ssuc of yester- day, said: ¢ Daily nccumn]'tlng evidence is furnisling overwhelming proof that a do. liberate treasonable conspimoy has been formed by thelending "Lories to carry through the form of inangurating the Protender Haves by armed force,” and, making this the basis of an editorial article, goes on to seri- ously charge tho Prosident with a plot *to drive tho ropresentatives of the people into tho Potowac or bnprison a majority of them T in Fortress Monroe,” Of course the Times is perfectly well awara that ‘' daily accumu- Iating evidenco is doing nothingof the sort, and that tho President lns about as much iden of imprisoning tho mnjority of the Houge in Fortreas Monroe as ho has of im- prisoning Brother Moopy in the Dry Tortu. ua8 3 but the course of the Zvines in this mat- tor clorly iudicates the mean and partison manner in which it is edited by Gen, Kezxay, and its ostensible editor whoso name appears at the head of its columns, The former edits the tele. graph page from Washington, filling it fall of menn, malicions, sensational les and roorbacks, upon which ** the old man” and’ atafl-comment with amplification on the in- side pages, Uen. Kzrnax, who was to fur. nish gore and bodies for New Orlenns, rends on the stuff and they work it up. And this is indepondont journalism! This ia the rep- resontative of independent thought! Since Gen, Krexaw obtained control of the Times it ling sunk to the lovel of & mean, mende- cious, nnd malicions partisan, without a competitor, North or South THE'SILVER BILL. The, Bilver bill which pnssed the Ifouse of TRepresentativen on Wednesday by tho ex- ceptionally largo mojorityof 167 for aud only 53 ngninst, is n very brief and simplo measure. It provides for the coinnge of the standard silver dollar of *412} ‘grains, and makes it a legal-tender for all debis and ducs save those specified to be paid in gold, In other words, it simply restores the silver dollar to the pleoe it always held in American money prior to the act of 1873, when it wns dropped from American coinnge quictly if not surreptitiously, and certainly without any provions offort to ascertain the sentiment of the people about such o measure, The bill makes it. receivable for duties, and pay- able for interest and principal of the Govern. ment bonds. The charge of bad faith which Liasbeen brought against the proposition is not sustained by the facts, There has been only ono fasuo of bonds since the passage of the nct of 1873, nnd they, like the previous issues, are made payable in coin, not gold, and the rights of the Government {o coin silver dollars waa certainly not forfeited by that act; when they- sre coined there is nothing in that act, nor any’other ncta that have been passed, which prohibits giving them their former value and usefulness, It wonld meem ns though the large ma- jority which the bill socured in the House withont reference to party divisions, shd which still falls short of ropreseuting the sentiment of the peopls, would carry it through the Sonate. Yet it is re- ported that it will encounltor earnest opposition in tho latter body on the gronnd that it is too ‘‘rndical.” It can scarcely be considered ** radical ” to make the silvor dol- lor what it was to the American money from tho very foundation of the Government np to three years ago, and that is all this bill does, If by *yndical " it in monnt that the restoration of the silver dollar shonld bo ac. companied Dby other legislntion in order to give the people tho full benefit thercof, that wmay be ndmitted without conceding the pro- priety of defeating this bill. Tt is trne that there should be additional legislation, but the adoption and approval of this bill iy tho first step in the right direction. When the silver dollar sball have been nbsolutely re- stored, the ndditional legislation which is desirnblo will be moro rendily secured than by withholding this incontive. The most practical men of the tima aro agreed that re- sumption of specie payments is not prac. tieabla without silver; with silver tho prepea rations for resumption will progress ‘while otherwito they will lag. Among the schomes of legislation that will be likely to follow the restoration of the silver dollar, and which certainly ought to follow it, are the follow- ing: 1. Provision for the fres coinage of silver as well as gold. Such a provision will asaist more than any other in making the silver dollar n port of the currency of tho country. Tho producers aud owners of silver bullion will ‘then becomo more direct and officient ngents for bringing silver into ciroulation than the Government with all ita facilities, Bullion will find its way futo coin aa rapidly 0s there is a demand for it, 2, Bilver being already worth nbout as much in gold ns tho greonback dollar, tho restoration of tho silver dollar:to an equal placo with tho gold dollar will not bring it into circulation unless stops boe taken ta equnlize the value of the greenback dollar, Just gs soon as silvor shall becoine worth more than the greenback, it will disappear from cirenlation; this wonld bo a great business calamity now that tho fractional cmrency has been rotived. ‘I'he simplo and dircct wmenns for improving the groenback is that suggest. od by tho Secretary of the Treasury, viz.: Provisions for funding thoe greenbacks, under propor limitations, into long bonds bearing 4 por cent intercst, and running from thirty to forty yeara, . The moment this shall be | done, the groonback dollar will bo worth gs much as the gold and silver dollar, il It should bo provided that all the debt redeemod for tho next throe or four years on #ccount of the sinking fund shall be that part of tho debt represented by the outatand. ing non.iutorest.bearing notes known as groonbacks, This provision would retire about’ 45,000,000 of greonbacks a year, and substitute silver wm lou thercof. It would be in no sense a contraction, ns, the other conditions bLeing maintained, the silver would oirculnte freoly aund to the ex. teut it might be demanded, It is thine the people should divest them. solves of tho drend with which they have been nccustomed to regard cbutraction, Tho fact that there has been an actual contraction of more than $48,000,000 without its being felt sinco it set in oighteon months ago should teach that contraction, under proper circumatances, is not ko dreadful & thing as it has beon dopleted. The volume of, cur- rency in tho present condition of. business conld ba reduced 100,000,000 more, prob. ably, without being noticed ; there is at least that much idle curronoy for which there is no domand and no use, 'Chore need be no apprehension, therefore, na to the Funding act with provision for the free coinage of silver, tho fissue of silver in exchauge for outstanding greenbacks in the amount re- quired by thesinking fund, aud the privilege which the bauks already onjoy of enlarging their currency according to the demands of the country. In all this, how. ever, (he restoration of the silver dollar is necossarily tho first step, for silver of recoguized and staple velus (which it will have when tho silver dollar is placed ou a plane with the gold dollar) will be in- dispensable in the demand for currency., The whole aclieme of resumption rests thereon; aud, witlf tho utilization of silver, it can be accomplished without dglay and without disaster, It was supposed that Tirory would close Lis *Literary Bureau" in Liberty street, Now York, whon tho clection was ovor, and | Grent Britain, but the possibility of adopt- | war, and that 1s t1o conse furnishing editorinls for the Bouthern country papers, but tho Dureau appears still to boin full blast, A gontleman in 'Yennessoe who has nceess to pn extonsiva conntry ex- chango list sonds ns & Jarga envelope filled with editorials writton by Titory and his Literary Burean. All of tho artioles from Pennesseo and Mississippl papora comnienco thus ¢ When the wisest of modern Maranchiusells states- men rald that this Prosidential contest was **ho- tween the people and the managers, ' he was wiser thanhe knew, No donbt ho expected, asall other good citizens expected, that when the great con- filct had been declded, the tesne would bo accepted in good falth by tho defented party, whichever ft might be. We donlt If any lnw-ablding eitizen waa in the leaat prepared for the spectacie that now presents Itsclf of a party heaten at the polls using the long arm.of the Federa]l Government to tarn the Elcctoral votes of Btates which undonbledly voted for Titogx (1) againat TiLneN, and march. ing troops Into States where thera I8 no poussible pretext for thelr presence, in order that frand may Le safely consummatedl, ete,, elc. It afforded considerablo amusement to tnke out of the big envelope ono after the other ninoteen * leaders,” all of them commencing ““When the wisest of modern Manssachusetts statesmon gnid,” ate. It exhibited, however, considerable poverty of montal resources on the part of the Franklin ('Tenn,) Review and Journal, the Milan (‘Conn,) Firehange, the Hernando (Miss.) Press and Timen, the Holly Bprings (Miss.) Reporter, tho Brownsvillo (Toun.) Democrat, tho MoMinville (Tenn.) Neto Eira, and the other dozen sheets, to find tho samo editorinl in the game weok ns the leading editorial of them all. Isit not about time for Sax TiLoEx to close his shop and not keep the country press of the South foraver dependent upon him for idens and editorinla? Thoy onght to be weanod, nud not alwnys remain sucking ealves. IMPERIAL DEMOCRACY, The despairing Tildenites of New York City, apparently convinced that theirleader’s Jigis up, are secking now and strange de- vices whereby to cacape four years of service under n Ropublican Administration, Their latest invention is n petition to Congress for rennnexation to Great Britmn, The propo- sition will striko the majerity of people as the broadest joke of the season, and about a8 sonsible a8 the action of the ostrich who hides its head in tho sand to escape its pur. suers, Thero are two all-sufligient reasons why reannoxation to Great Britain wonld be distasteful to the mass of the Democratic party. In the first place, under the English civil-service systom, .thera would only bo about 300 ofilces, instead of 60,000, to bo distributed, and the Democrats conld not oven hopo to have all of these, Tho des. pair of the average Demoorat nt the prospect of such short rations can faintly Le im- agined. It is tho heaveu.born mission of overy Democrat to run for nn office, or at lenst to expect one ; aud to place: before the thousands upon thonsands of Democratic office-peckers and office-grabbern’ a bill of fare which may include an hundred places to bo filled by thesa thousands of famishod patriots, is a consummation caleulated to in. spiro the avernge Democratic breast with liorror and disgust. Second, the vast ma- jority of the Democratic party is composed of Irishmen, in view of which we have grave suspicion (hat n canvasser ciroulating such o petition, in Bridgeport for inatance, would rotiro from the fleld with a broken head be- fore he got to the second house, T'o cven jmagino that the Celtio mnjority. of the Democratic party would array itsolf under 8t. Gronae's banner, althongh it might have a sunburst and harp and stars and siripes all over its foreground, is as violont o pos. sibility as conld well bo concoived. Thers is, howover, o scrions side to this proposition, and it is worth while, perhaps, to speculato upon the changes such a propo- sition would make if carried into effect, ‘The London Zimes, in n leeding Article upon tha Amorican Centonninl, printed some since, intimated that if England had treated her Amorican colonies differently an' hundred Yyenrs ngo, hind not taxed the people againat their will, and given them the priviloge of local self-government, without much doubt they would haveretained their connection with the mother country to this day. The Z%mes, however, consoled itself for the loss by tho suggestion that the retention of the colonics would have been disastrous to Grent Britain in somo respects, The attention of overy Government is taken up with its own affairs, nnd when the principal affairs of a,Govern- ment are at a great distance, the tendency is towards the removal of tho seat of Government to' such place. It would ho diffieult for Great Britain to look after us fromn London, Its greatest interest and ont- conto would bo over hero, Its greatest in- vestmonts would bo here. It would have 50,000,000 of peoplo hero against 80,000,000 there. Our wonderfnl deposits of conl, and tho enso of transportation by vur internal water courses, the superabundence of food, the groat staples of manufacture, such as cot- ton, iron, lead, nnd copper, and the abun. danco of gold and silver, would attract En. glish capital. and mechnnism, and lenve Great DBritain comparatively wenk and stripped of fluancial resonrces. England, Ircland, aud Scotland, instend of belng the sources of imperial power, would be mercly three outlying provinces. Now York, there- fore, would be the Capital instead of Lon- don, From this point of view the Z'%mes is unquestionably right iu jts assunption that Gront Britain had a narrower escapo from disaster than the United States. Btill, waivingtho absurdity of the petition of the despairiug Tildenites, it is astonishing tho slight chauges in our form of Govern. ment such an annexation would ake, if it wero seriously coutomplated. The principal change would be in the abolition of the clec- tion of nPresiddut. Wherever the Govarn. ment might be located, it would ap- point the President, selocting some promi. nent citizen of this country or some one in Grent Britin, like the Duke of Argyle, or the Marquis of Salisbury or one of the Queen's sons, if we were monarchical enough to stand it, and the appointea wonld serve ns Viceroy or Vice-Emperor, or almply, Presi dont, perhapa, 'The oaly other appoint. weuts dovolving upon the Goverment would be those of Governors of ‘the States. 'Ilicro would be no elections of Judges and Magis. trates. Every office of a legislative descrip. tion from Congress to Schiool Ioards would be elective. Everything having legislative functions would bo elected, aud everything haviog adwministrative, oxecutive, or judi. cial functions would bo appointed, The Presidont himselt would not hold office, for any specified term, or even for good be- havior, Whenever the House of WRapre. sentatives should come into collision with his policy, as manifested in the nstion of his _Cabinet, a vote of want of confidence would vesult in a change of the Oabinet or a recall of the President. 4 Those are substantially the changes which would bo effected. 8till pursuing the sub. ject weriously, the problem for the American poople to considor is uot an sllianco with ing somo of the English methods of Govern- ment that have worked well for centurics and pravented just such dangers ns we nro now oncountering, Our institntions of Glov- orument aro cast in an fron mold and run into forms so unchoanging and inelastio that thoy cannot ndapt themeslves to the varying phases of our syatom of politics, Thoy can never reapond to anew and suddon emer- gonoy, and thoroforo must give way or broak, Buch acondition of things did well onongh when the country was young, and small, nud seattored, but now that it hns Docome one of tho great powors of the world ‘wo must hinvo somo method of selecting our cxacutive offiders that will not subject the people to these constantly-recurring shooks and strains or endangor the pablic ponce, It is too heavy nn exaction in the way of popu- lar patienco and forbearauce, Wa have not yot pnased the Ides of Movch with safety. Ono side or tha other must give way or some middle ground must be found it the Ropublio is not to bo Mexicanized. Whon that is done, the recurrenco of -such n crisia four years from now must bo guarded against by the combined wisdom and gool senso of the men who frame and lead public opinion. It is maduness to drift along as wo are doing now. ‘Though Congress has been in session two weeks, tho Houso hins not yot admitted tho newly-slected membor from Colorado, nor the gentloman clected by 7,000 msjority to fill o vacauey in Bouth Caroliun, This is a gratuitous ontrage npdn theso, gontlemen aud the constituencies which they have boen olected to ropresont, Bore than this, it in- dicntes clearly the intention of the Demo. cratic minjorily in tho Honse to sncrifice every prinelple of justice to carrying out their unconstitutionnl schieme of objecting to the count of the Elcctoral voto ns it hns been ‘roturned, Both theso gentlemen are ontitled to their seats, which are not con- tested; but to admit one wonld be to rocog- niza the status of Colorado s n Stato of the Union, and to admit the other would be to recognize tho authority of the Sonth Carolina Roturning Board. Though both theso facts aro incontestible under the law, the: Dem- ocrats of tho House evince their desperation in this preliminary notico that they will contest them novortheloss. That they nre wronging cortain individuals secma to canso thom no more concern than the deliberato contemplation of n gigantic national crima, The four principal sheots which are determin- ed to plunge the country Into the horrors of in« ternecine war are the New York Vorld, Chleago Times, 8t. Louls Times, and Clncinnatl Enquirer, The first-named fnvented the story that the Preaident was about to transfer Gen, SHERIDAN to Now York to hulldoze fts TiLpeN ¢ bandit- t1," and that fron-clads have Leen ordered to harbor to shell the eity. The sccond one,—tho Chleago Times,—not to be outdone, aifirmed and reported telegraphically and editorally that ¥ GraxnT Is about driving the Demnocratic repre- sentatives of the people into the Potomac, or fmprisoning & majority of them In Fortress Monroe," for the purpose of foreing Haves in- to tho White ouse., The 8t. Louls concern asserts that all "the Republican offlecs holders gre busily at worlk raising and rifle<clubs to bulldozo the Demoerats, and are fretting cannon to convert the Post-Offlces, Cus- tomn-Ilouses, nnd Mints fnto “forta” which they propose to * hold * and never surrender them, But the Cineinnat! Enqguirer knocks down the persimmons with the longest pole for lics, by gravely asserting the followlng false and scanda- lous stutement: When Raxvairi and Hewitt were admitted, I am told byono Lliave no' reason to dpult, thioy fgnd tho Prosldent In tho presenco of Dox ' Cas N ond Mrs, Unaxe. -The Chief Maglatrate swas 80 under tne influence of attmulants that tho two gontlomen regretted they were present. There ‘war, however, noescape.. They svon discovered, liowever, that under that Influcnce this heretoforo reticent man talked not ouly with great volubtiity, but vlolence, This went #0 far that Mra. Giant, futerrupting, eald: *‘Gen. Guaxr, you must hiear these gentlemen; yoi must sustain what your promlml.; you must not disgrace yourself and your conntry.* " To which the President responded, and emphoslzed the responde with slapping his leg, by suying: ¢<Mra, Grast, this is not your businoss, but mine.” - ————— . Unele BAMUEL {s eald to be growing desperato s he seea the Presidency slowly but surely elip- ping out of hisflnzers, By no achemo or deviee can he make the public believe that 184 is more than 185, or is a majority of 309, He 18 sald to bo greatly alarmed at tho “growing fecling among Southern men that, after all, Mr. TILDEN {8 not entirely necessary to them in thélr desiro to sceure some wholesomn changes in the con- ditlon of Southern affalrs,”” A Washingtou dispatch says: i 1t Is known that Mr, TiLDEN has been aerjotisly disturbed durloy the past week ot the marked fndie cation of A chango In Southern feollng {n rogard to unhmmln;i to tho leudership of Northern Demo- crats, Mtis known that ho lins made diligent in- qulirica in reference to tho truth of reports repre- nenting thedo Southern nen s thoroughly oppuseld to tha extreme mensures xirupuml i caucus by Northern members, and it |8 whirewdly auggeste that, huving become convinced of this chunge In foeting here among Sauthern leaders, he Aag Alm- sely deemed it erpedient to side with them in the Lopeof chécking morement, tha ruinous efect of }l‘d’tfi wpon the Democracy he cannot full to appre- ale. . The cditor of the Fort Wayne Sentiuel is al- most Insane on the subjeet of “the Post-Ofilce there, Hu can't contaln himaclf until the 4th of Murch next, but he wants the profits and emolu- ments thereof right off. Ho just squats on his haunches and howla for * wab. Sayshe: I'he sentiment of Allen County s unmistakable, The Democracy in this county aro moro than twice thoe number of “thelr opponents. They do nn'.J:ro- poio Lo subinlt to the cansumntion of the Radical complracy, Wo know thg unanimous feellng of the Allew County Domorracy, ‘This county .will furnish 7,000 1icn to see that Mr. TiLpey I8 Inang- urated Prewident, the ofiice ta which ho has been falrly and legally elected. Wao presume he has his 7,000 men In buckram 11 enrolled, armed, and drilling nightly, And yet, If this incendinry chap should fire a shot to fnaugurate Iis civil war, it would not be thirty minutes before o vigilance committes of Fort Wayne Democrats would hang him to the nears, est hunp-post, ——————— Tho Brooklyn Fugle, which paper was among the ablest aud most Influentin!l of TrLDEN'S sup- porters, rejects tho doctrine that one branch of Congress has the constitutional authority to ob- Ject to the Electoral vote of any 8tate and throw ftout, The Kugle expresses itsell in thisway: If Congress 19 not moved and gulded by higher and lofticr patriotixm thun has as yet manifested 11aelf among the people, as & whols, Cungreas can du nothing but ouibruli the exfsting sltuation, . Tho so-culle enty-sucond Ituto—obout which poli- ticlans hiave of Glute vo earnestly wrangled—in our oplmon was dofived 10 make frand cusy, for it is a mgnatrons purveraion of the forms of our Govern- mentto claim that eithur House of Longress has the power to throw out the voto of a State of this Lulun under uny protext, after the constituted wus thorities of ‘that State have cortified to the resnlt, Wo helleve thix Is the Demoacratie theory, and wo ropost to stand by it, i1 dark and troubled times, rlm us we luve upnold it in the better dn‘l wheu theassumption of Judicial pawers by political legin- :‘ullm l&u les would bave been unlversally cone ened. —— The editor of tho Bpriugtield Keglster has put on his war-paint, dug up his hatchet, beat the ' ton-tom, and called for a war-lance, Two thoughts are uppermoest in his mighty mind: one the scalp of C. 1. McCouuick, Chalrman of tho Dewocratle Central Committee, for belng o good Injun, and refuslug to go on tho war- path; and the other the Springfeld Post-Oflice, salury $4,000, exclusive of plekings aund steal- ings, patronage and perquisites—or die 1n the attempt, ——— The warlike Washiogton editor of the Chicago Timea thinks {t was a sorry trick to play upon Tiosy,~that of flching Ape Hewirr's bob- tull uddress and furolsliing a copy to Zaou CuaNDLER, 80 that the lutter could publish Lls uwidress contemporancously, ‘The partisl Keesax should pemember that all fs fulr o conditfon t Ing. Asto the Hrwirp nnrlhflf.‘l:::lr:l;::“ h"" dreases, honora scem to ho ensy, Hnwm‘-‘ m-l. TILLEN is clected ang CHANDLER £ay8 he IM"“ that Ia al thero 18 ahout I, nud things ger it Dreciscly where they wero before, We ary ';" clined to think, however, that the Tlldu:llu arcalittle disuppoluted at Onding thel, # Nunclado fall g fntly, T e Gon. Reznax, the Woshington oo '« AERNAN, tho Washington coy of the Chicago Times, has hc%n 'cnu:lfl‘ pn?::l‘ :;‘ posed in another lle, o Tiave offleial nutlmrlt‘ for declaring that his reputed Intervlew wuz Prof, BerLrs, in which the latter was mag 8ay he wished ho wore st an ° Eleetor, an that some Massachusctts Electorwould lfi’ul;»args‘: dnonglt to vote for Tions, s o lle manufae- tured out of whole cluth, and 1 it s menta wero never made. "l'he whole :Iglr;l:;& sheor fabricatlon of the same aort as the ulhu: stuff gent by this man KERNAN to the Times, J and engerly eaught up and clre Democratle pand clrculated by other o ——— ‘The New York Z'vibune hns m made o numly TILDEN'S friends feel uncomfortable by :»‘;:: Ushiug the following s /Thore was one pretty badly wo: \‘nnhinflnu tho other xln-? llem\\e'xanfxflfi::lun llnmul. dleclaring that the louse wonii not alloy cat of the Scnate ]| oflco. An Tilinos Repnblica Gonies e romafken that tho Tlinols Lepmlataer ] Letiy feselon nt that time, ‘and If necessary will Ljels U. 8 Guaxr to succeed Senstor Loy, i form explren Mareh 3, in order that the Sewe milght make niin Prestdent pro tom. i s CHALe pl‘brlluy of such an event inude tho Detnocrat o unj: ——— v PERSONAL. Longfellow's poem In the new Atla **Tho Herons of Elmwaod, " f‘us".”;,;:;';m:“:} very muslcal 11ttlo effort of plie stanyn, 5 Mr. John Rose, the banker of Paley i eaptured by brigands, has been rnlnr:x;: (l:(i\'fyg amlly on the payment of 60,000 francs, They do say that Mr. Brownlng called eas thsof Tuclpides +*n strange, sad. nwn‘:’: f.,l,l:;' :;'r‘:“‘n‘;“‘ onco Pff!el‘vlng that it was o sargrlg The prospect of ;o compromiso betwee of New York and Measry, ,’;‘weednnll chc"nlyh;fl-':. thadNew Ygrk Times to say that probasly Goy, ‘Tilden has reasons to desire such o connummation of the long prosctution. Revelations unpleasant to him might bo made it matters wers pushed to extremitiva, 0, A story recently publlshed fn ono of the iveelty newspapers had the effect of fncreasing It circuta- tlon in one week by 30,000 coples, It fs now tohe fssued in book form, A correspondent fuestions whethor as substantial a compliment was pald to George Elfot's **Danle] Deronda™ on s first ap. pearance In Marper's Maaasine, Dr. Eugene Dupy, & physiclan of distingufelied accomplishinents roulding in Now York, i now In Chlcago for tho purpeso of dellvering threa lectures on Physlolozy, Hin lectures have been well re. celved both In Boston and New York, nnd It 1410 be hioped that they willrecelve here the careful at- tontfon whicl, 1t 18 eald, they so entirely merit, Tho Boston Saturday Guzette cxpresses the opm- fon that the perlod of the popalarity of such lu- morlstaas Max Adeler, the Detrolt Fres Press man, and the Danbury News mon has passed, Most of their hilarlons topies have been found In tho misfortuncs of humauity; and the recital of theso, with grotesque embol shinents, becomes, lu the courso of time, wearisoma nnd displeaning, Danlel Wobstor was always a good Clitiatian in Massachusctts, thouzh ft {s related that his hest speechea in Congress wers made when he was primed with several full fingors of brandy, He had difteront hobite for different condltions of sacicty, The old deacons used to say that if Daalol hal shown anything of intemperanco or evil ways ln Mussachusctts ho would havo beon ** disclplined, " Murla Rossottl, slater of Chirlstine Rossetti, the poctess, of Dante Rossettl, artist and poet, and of Willinm Roszott), the essaylst, has fust dled, he had beon for some years a member of a ritnalistic Protestant Sisterhood, and comparatively lost to theworld. The whole family s been connected with literature, thelr Itallan futher having been one of the carliest writpra on Dunte snd other Tialian authors in England. Edmund Yates, baving fallen ont'iwith high no- clety, has revenged himeelf, by beginning in his paper, the World, a serles of nttacks upon tho Princo of Walcs. The Prince scems to sufer little {from these neanults, but the former Anancial editor of the papcr has appointed himself the champlon of ltoyalty, aud proposes to atart a rlval concern, to bo called Zruth, in which conventional untruths may be told about his Royal Highnesy, The only portralt of Shelley over taken wasn profle in pencil by a yonng lady who had noknow!« edgoof drawing, but tho gift of catchlnga likeneas, From tlis and the recollection of friends a portrait was conatructed which is tho model of all subsc- quent plcturea. Mr. Story's bubt, it [s presumed. I8 not #0 much a Ilkences of Shelley s au ideal of the poet. Iila bust of Koats, on the other hand, Iately finished and sent home, ¢ from an authentic portrait, John Morriesey {s openly accused of swindling In his pool-room. Hiy arbltrary announcement that all bets wero *‘oft" has helped out a number of ardunt Democrats, including Mr. Morrissoy him- sclf, while it has not In a corresponding degree re« lieved the Repoblicans concerned. It §s olleged that $70,000 represented, but notdegosited, inthe pool-box ‘as belonging to **Mr, Jonos' were In reality the measure of Mr. Morrissey's conldencs Inthe eloction of Tilden, A Turkish diplomatist in Paris was frequently disappointed of the preasnce of his lady-loveat amall and sqlect companles Jmade up -specislly in ler honor; and she uscd to scnd her exenecs in protty plok notes done up with threo corners. Uo bitterly repronched her for hur incomtancy. ¢4\Vhat will yon?'" she sald, **I do as you do, and pay half inpaper.® Tho.parsble i act forth Ina French newspaper better endowed In imaglnative writors than In the principles of strict veracity. Senator Sharon, of Novada, {s now llving at 2r. TRalstun's old home, a few miles from San Fran: clico, On belng questioned recontly as tothe trath of tho report. that he was intonding to resign his soat In the United Btates Sonste, In orger 1o devote his attention excluslvely to his business, be sald that ho had at ona Lime entertained such & thought, but had slace dismissed it. 1le feels that hisduty tohla constituents particularly requires himto rotain his seat at tho presont juncture. He will go to Washington about the 22d inst, Delng furthor interrogated on genoral aubjects, bo said that Mre, Ralaton and her two daughters wera pro- paring to take up thelr resldonca In Europe for some years, IHe contradicta tho statement that hiy Palace-Hotel venturo has been fnanclally dlé- astrous, 2 After & soparation of one year, Alonzo Hay- ward, of Ban Franclsco, and hls divorced wife have been romarrled. They were first married thirty years ago, In 1851 they moved 10 the Pacific coast. Their domeatic troubles begsn fouf years ago, when Mr, II rd fell under the o~ fluonza of ' the Bpirituallets, And was perauaded putaway his wife, On the divislon of tho FN%’ exty, when tie divarco wasgranted, Mra. Hlaywsrdob talnod as hor share property estimatad to be worl at least 2,500,000, while hor husband retal about $4,000,000 worth, The statoment that the socond marriage has beon brought sbant In conte: aquence of the recent Ananclal misfortunes of H;& Tayward is contradicted. He retaina oll hlulwu. property, and has been very fortunate I -pu\; o tion of lato; moreaver, the titles of his wife catates atitl rest with her, and will not be altered. upTHL Anngns.n et emont Ilouss—Josoph Low, Detroit; Col. H B.zl‘:mlcr. 8t. Louls; the Hon, JL D. uwze.filt;fl,‘. City; Col, W. B. Hayden, Columbus, O.; Daly Fifth-Avenuo Troupe; the lon. George Etsie, Waakington; the Hon, J. M. Bailey, Freopo H David McWilliams, Dwight, Tl ; A, Pnunnn.ll“_' falo; John C. Doff, New York....SAerman b'fll“;" Capt, 0. E. Michaells, U, B, A.;J. D, Brows, “ dulls, Mo.; J, Waldo, Touston, Texse 'lf" James Watson, Pittaburg; P. H. Duke, Rlchman: homas Diakely, Philadelphia; 3, 1L it ille; H. W. Davis, oit; (J 4 duvkyi P, h stanlay, 1 we A, on, L. C. Stanloy, Chippe . -.°‘Luéf:n Youe Ly Sie Hon. L, T, Smith, Leavenworth: J. I, nqual‘l, J. Cave, Cluvnlundb 3. W, Mu falo; the Ion, D. L. Fller, §; 4. Hagorman, ‘Mitwaukee; N, O. 0. ¢ Sedatia, Mo} . ; B, D. Carpenter, D deanb, Hinnkakeo; ihe Hon: Yorice son, Bt, Paul; C, 8. Sawyer, Cafro, ... lHouse~Henry A. 1 y: ugury Al 1 enr %fi:‘;‘&?'i’."fi“ oos ME0E plcking, Pittsburg C. Mancock, Pbiladelphis; R. "u' 3 A Vrsme, Bt Josgphe Moo g B, Weods oclnunily, Oon By Bullens, Loy N’u:;l'ge‘lllr. o cocxtrony New Yoriy. 4, F: Tulls Jaumos Ut P lako, Wik.3 J 11, Poruey, Balthnors Yox Lake, Whed Jy H Foriey (Lol Besth datns, Mass, Al