Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1876, Page 4

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By o) e reenty e 3.5 DGNLOF, Sec. EILWINXING LODGE, No. 311, A. F. and A. M.— Annusl Communication Thursday évenings Dec. 21, at Corinthian Hall. 187 tast Kinzie-st., for the election of otficers and puytient of duce. Evers member Is urgent- Iy requested to attend. The gavelsounds at7:300'clocs sbarp. JOHN P. MOHE, W. M. LUCISS. CHARLETTE, Sec 211, A.F. and A, M.— ication will be Leld on g next, Lec. 21, ag 7:30, for the elec- tlun of ufficers, payment of dacs, and other fmportant business. Per onier of GEORGE F. SINCLAJE, W. M. GEORGE K. TAZLITT. Sec. ¢ ¢ trausicao) eously invized. E, NO. 643. A. F. and A. M. ) on for puyment of dues. cice: tlon of ot and the Lsusaction of olber importany business, tal Dillivaukee-av., Wednesday eventag, De Evay' member is 2u, 8t T carpesily requested 10 be preseat. el PF75, B. NORRIS, Sec. APOLLO LODGE, X¢. g% A. F. and A. M.—By order of the W. . otice is hereby given to all mem- Ders that tke annuat commuaieativs of sxtd Jodge will tble chuelfl orn Ién: © zn&u:: of Tllllr:dfl:lj‘. Dec. 21, Tor the. un of offcer aud payin=nt of dues. E P oM AS S WELLS, Sec. NATIONAL LODGE. No. 50 A.F.and A. M- Stated communication will be held ot their hall, cor- ser Hglwod and andolna-sts,, Taeaday cvening, Dec. 19, Work an the Thira Ve3¢, Visiting breiliren are cordially invited. By orde of AL CNDBURG, See. RICHARD COLE LODGE, No. 667, A. F. and A. M. —liegular unural copununicrtion Thursday evening. it 7:30 o'cluck. Hall 770 Archer. Election dsnce of of ofticens and pyment of ducs. A full ‘members s requested. Ly order of the W. 3. JONX STOKT, Sec: VAN RENSSELAER GRAND LODGE OF PERFEC- TION, A.and A.Scotuish Rite Masons.—There will be a Regulkr ssembly on ‘[hursday evenlug next. \Work on'the Jith Degrve. Ty urdar of E. P HALL, ED. GOOBALE, Gr. T %R G A e, NDERY, X0. 19, K. T.—At- Anuaal Touclave 3fonday even-. for tie election of oficers rder JtuIN MCLAREY, Em. Com. CHARLES J. T:OWBELOGE, Recorder. TOX CHAPTER, Xo. 153, 0. E.S. fon, Taesiay evening, Dec.i8. Tor ~sning Nissonle, year. Full at erof the W. (. EVA MCHUGH, See. . 478, A. F. and 4. M.—An- ciectnr of Dr Farsday éventnr, Dec. 31, 37:30 oe; . tiun of oillcers, nayment of ducs, aad otnés i bus quested. Ter orus+ W. M. LAFATETTE_CHAPTER., NO. 2, R. A. M.—lall 72 Moaroe-st. Special Convocation Monday evenfog, Dec. 18, 2t 7:30 o'clock for Indtallation of oficers elect. Members and visitors fraternally favited to attend. Byorderof the LP. E. N. TUCKER, Secretary. HOME LODGE. No. 58 A. F. and A. M.—An- nual communication at 133 Twenty-second-st.. Dec. 22 (Friday) for paymentof dues and election of officers. Iy orderof W. R, 2. HERRICK, Sec. SUNDAY, DECEMEER 17, 1876. At the New York Gold Exchange on Sat- urdsy greenbecks ranged from 923 to 921 Our cable dispatches this morning indicate that the Spanish troubles over the Basque Provinces are about to culminate in serions complications. The provinces having stout- 1y refused to pay the indemnity demanded by Spain for the maintenance of the army of occupation, the provincial treasury was seized, only to be found empty, and now the Spanish are sending reinforcements to the army of occupation, e — The rascelly individual who, two months since, personated *the Rev. Dr. Deeums” for the nonce, the better to convince the public that old Commodore Vaxprasmr had gone to his last account, has been discovered and arrested in the person of one E. A. Coxprr, a curbstone broker in New York. Coxprr will be likely, in his cave of gloom, to wish that he himself were dead before the law has satisfied itself on his account. —— Tite nnusually large number of fire-alarms during the past two days, with the extreme cold and prevailing winds, should induce every shop-keeper, manufacturer, and house- holder to exercise extraordinary vigilance in regard to the common danger. The necessi- ties for increased fires in stoves and furnaces carry with them a mecessity for increased cantion. The excellent condition of our wa- ter system, the efficiency of the Fire Marchal, as amply demonstrated st the Friday night fire, and the admirable working drill of the Department, should allay all needless appre- hension when a fire actually breaks out, but should not tempt any one to abate individual cantion. ‘The police should be especially in- structed to be wary, quick, and energetic in the matter of fires at this season of the year. g What is involved in the question referred to the Judiciery Committee of the House upon the refusal of President OzToN, of the Western Union Telegraph Company, to de- liver to the Louisiana Election Committes the dispatches demanded, is simply the qguestion of -the right of the citizen to be protected sgainst unwarrantable seizure of his papers. If the dispatches of Mr. CHAN- puEe cou be seized, then those of any olher citizen sy also be seized, aud there is an end of the in- | t | which right is one of those that has been most stoutly maintained from the Colonial times until now. That Mr. CHANDLEB has been such an innocent as to send South over the wires to be read in every office through which they pussed messages that wouldn't bear publicity is perposterous. Somewhers along the line there wonld inevitably be a leak, as he doubtless knows too well to hazard the possibility of it, where the mes- sages wonld or could be resd in a number of Southern offices. The Chicago produce markets were irregu- lar on Saturday. Mess pork closed 15¢ per brl lower, at $16.45 for December and $16.55 @16.574for January. Lard closed 23@3c¢ per 100. tbs higher, at $10.25@10.274 cash and $10.523@10.35 for January. Ments were steady, at 6¢ for new shoulders, boxed, 8jc for do short-ribs, and 8}c for do short-clears. Highwines were unchanged, at $1.08 per gallon. Flour was quiet and steady. Wheat closed 4c higher, at $1.18} for December and $1.16} for January. Corn closed 3@jclower, at 45}c for Decemberand 44ic for January. Oats closed 4c lower, at 333c cash and 33jc for January: Rye closed 3¢ lower, at 704c. Barley closed 2¢ higher, at 66ic cash and 67¢ for January. Hogs were firmer on heavy, at $5.65@06.00 per 100 1bs. . Cattle were quiet and easy, at $2.50@5.00. Sheep were dull, at $3.00@4.50. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $107.75 in greenbacks at the close. Now that the Moopy meetingsare finished, there can be no harm in informing the mansagers of those meetings that they have done a grievous wrong in not taking steps to protect the public against robbery. It is safe to ssy that nearly a thousand pocket- books have been stolen from-the crowds who have attended upon Mr. Moopy's services, and these robberies have been committed not only in the open meetings at the Tabernacle and in Farwell Hall, but even in the inguiry- rooms, where female pickpockets have swarmed for purposes of theft while pro- fessing anxiety about their souls. Hats, caps, canes, umbrellas, watches, everything movable, have been carried off by these plunderers, and no steps have been taken .to protect the victims. The Devil, in theshape of thieves, has reaped a rich harvest from the saints-and inquirers. If the managers had placed upon the walls, pillars, and doors, and in every conspicuous place, the warning, “Beware of pickpockets,” much of this wholesale robbery might have been pre- vented. Should we ever have a recurrence of these meetings, it is to be hoped that the anxiety of the managers will not be confined to souls, but that they will also look after the welfare of the pockets of both sinmers and saints. The city was never before so full of rep- reseniziives of the criminal class as now. They have swarmed in here by hundreds and thousands to find a shelter for the winter, and to live upon charity or depredation, s it may be most convement for them. The Doldest of them *subsist by burglary and highway-robbery; others by shoplifting and petty stealing, and still others by picking pockets in theatres, concert-halls, charches, street-cars, and wherever there is a crowd. The city is also full of stout, able-bodied, end lozy tramps prowling uround houses ostensibly in quest of food and clothes, but in reality seeking opportuuities to plunder. Some steps should be taken to rid the city of them. One of the first daties of the Mayor and his police and the Sheriff and his idle Deputies should be the prompt arrest of all such characters under the Vagrant law. It is cheaper to keep them in the Bridewell, at 15 or 20 cents a day, than to leave them free to prey on the community. A vigorous cam- paign should be instituted immediately. The Bridewell can accommodate at least 500 of {kem and the County Jail 200 more, be- _sides what can be put in the Poor-House. The Vagrant laws should be severely applied ; and, 1if they are insufficient to prevent the operations of these pests, then let the City- Attorney preparo a bill strengthening them and send it to the Legislature, so that the city may be rid of these birds of prey, housekeepers feel secure, and citizens be able to travel the streets at night without pistols and clubs for their protedtion. The rumors that have been in circulation for some days lead us, though unwillingly, to credit the statement made in the dispatch- es this morning that VaxpeeBmwr has finally capitulnted, and has-entered into an agree- ment with Scorr and GARRETT for an advanco in freight and passenger rates. The advance in rates is in itself notso unexpected or: so much to be regretted, because a long term of cutthroat policy would have reacted un- favorably on business interests; but it is the likelihood that Vaxpersrir has acceded to the demands of his competitors, that there - shall be a uniform mileage rate, which is serious. - Such -a- cdncession will be dis- astrous to the New TYork Central, as it was during the existence of the pool & year ago, and will probably result in renewed discrimination against Chicago and New York. The late report of the New York Central shows that there wes no neces- sity for making this fatal concession. Though the gross earnings of the year show- ed a decrease of $950,000, the running ex- penses showed a decrease of $1,137,000, and the net earnings were actuelly larger during the year, notwithstanding the war, than thsy were the previous year when the pool was in existence. This proves that VaNpemsinr can better afford to continue the fight than to compromise on the Scorr and Ganrerr basis of o milesge rate, which will always give their roads (being shorter) an sdvan- tage to which they are not entitled on vari- ous accounts. The Central was in a con- dition to hold out for a recognition of a uni- form through rate to the seaboard, and it must come sooner or later. No greater mistake is made in the dis- pensation of charity then a diffusion of effort, which results generally in the enlargement of expenses without any compensatory en- largement of benefits. Given two instita- tions of o similar character in the same community, and it is safe to say that the money contributed for the support of the two, with separate buildings, management, and officers, would extend the same benefits to one-third more people if the efforts were united. An instance of this is to be found in the two hospitals for women and children in Chicago. The senior of these two insti- tutions, located on the corner of Panlina and Adams streets, has been open and doing an excellent and practical work for many years. ‘The last report shows that there were nt the time f.hirty.{'onr inmates; yet the same report shows an indebtedness of $700, and only 850 in the Treasury. This condition would not be, probably, if it had not been that another women's and children's hos- pital was estsblished 8 year or two ago, violability of private correspondence, so far i which appeals for its share of contributions, - as telexraphic correspondence is concerned, | but, so far os we can learn. covers s much | bers of the Legislature. If the members of ] more limited field of usefulness. It would be well if a consolidation could be bronght abont, which would lessen the expenses, and probably relieve just ss many suffering peo- ple. Meanwhile, the appeal of the West Side hospital should not be addressed to un- willing ears. Contributions sent to MMr. GmuperT Huspamp or Mr. JorN CRERAR, of Crerag, Apaxs & Co., will enable it to con- tinue its work of merey, the most beneficent part of which is giving excellent care and the best of medical attendance to women in con- £nement and young infants, who would suf- fer frightfully at this season of the year if abandoned to their own poverty. CHICAGO IN THE LEGISLATURE. The Citizens' Association have mvited the members-elect to the State Legislature from this couniy to meet at an early day next week to consider the several subjects of local interest calling for legislative action during this winter. This meeting is highly desira- ble, and we have no doubt that every mem- ber of the delegation is prepared to co-oper- ate with the Citizens’ Association heartily in any measure to promote the public interest. It is not to be expected that there will be uniformity of opinion as to the measures proposed, but such uniformity can be best promoted by a free interchange of opinions, not only as to the end sought, but as to the means appropriate to that end. Some of the subjects on which legislation is proposed may be thus stated : » 1. Modifications of the Revenue law. That law isin several particulars inapplicable to the collection of city taxes, but may readily be adapted to that end. Under past laws there has been a lamentable legal inability to collect taxes levied to cover appropriations amade, and which appropristions have been expended. While the law has required the -expenditure to be made, the law has failed to eusble the city to collect the revenue. The resultis a large deficiency between ex- penditures and revenue, which deficiency is represented by a character of debt.of doubt- ful validity, but which is sustained by public opinion. At the seme time, the law pro- hibits the city from borrowing any money with which to redeem that paper. It stands, therefore, in the shape of a mass of overdue, protested paper, bearing interest, payable only out of tha proceeds of back taxes, which toxes the city is powerless to collect. The whole deficiency of the city is more than covered by the texes which have not been paid. There is no question s to the maerits of these taxes; the objection to them was purely technical. The owners of the property know that the tax is equita- ble, and they know that it must forever re- main a cloud upon the-property ; but they stand behind tho acknowledged inability of the city to proceed under a defective law to collect” the same. Other cilies in the State are under the like embarrassment.. What Chicogo needs is suoh an amendment.or eddition to the law 2s will enable the city to bhave these old and unpaid taxes renms- sessed upon the property and collected the some as ocurrent taxes. Under this same general head of amending the Revenue laws, some provision must be made to protect the cities of the State againsta recurrence of these losses of annual revenue and paralysis of tho functions of local government. What the cities want is, not the power to borrow, bnt the power to collect, their Iawful rev- enue, leaving no legal excuse and no me- cessity for borrowing a dollar. Another amendment is, some provision of law that will enable cities—and for that matter the counties and the State—to obtain their reve- nue by the sale of the delinquent property, —these sales fo be made under such amend- ed regulations and terms as will afford alegal protection to those who at such sales may advance the amount of the taxes to the Municipel Government. Those who thas come to the rescue of the public should at least have a legal lien for their money until paid. It is probable, also, that in modify- ing the law it may be found convenient to simplify and reduce the vast system of book- Lkeeping which now overwhelms the tax sys- tem with such heavy cost, and without any practical benefit to the public or to the prop- exty-owner. The present system of giving ““‘notice " to the property-owner is absurd, {alldoions; and costly. Each property-owner pays adieavy tax for 8 notice which not one in ten thiousand ever receives, orfrom which, when heréceives it, he obtains any informa- tion which ho did not possess before. The present ““ notice ' system is a mere trap for litigation, when in fact and law there ought to be no more litigation concerning the col- lection of taxes than there is under a lease for the collection of rents. 2. The City of Chicago wants soms amend- ment to the laws for the better execution of that part of the Constitution providing for a County Government. This is no party movement; in o party sense each side will have equal advantage, and each side be bene-’ fited by being ‘compelled to select the best class of citizens for the office of County Commissioner. What is wanted is a’return to the original plan of electing all the Com- missioners’ by general ticket, the voters in the city having a voice in selecting the Cominissioners in the country towns, and those in the country towns voting for the | city Commissioners. In such an arrange- ment, the chances are that the best men on both tickets will always be elected. 3. A third measure of remedial legislation is required to protect the public in cases of condemnation of private property for public uses. At present the apportionment of damages and the apportionment of benefits are made by different proceedings, and it is possible that at any time the award for damages may so exceed that for benefits the city will be seriously involved in debt. It is true the Courts have decided that the city may at any time asbandon the pro- ceedings and begin over sgain; but thisis not sufficient. The benefits and the dam. sges should in every case offset each other, and this can only be done by having the two sides of the account stated by the same Court and jury at the same time. An act of this kind is a matter of necessity for the pro- tection of the public interests. " The City of Chicago'is now incorporated under the General Act of 1872, That act was not intended to apply in all respeets to acity of the magnitude and varied business inter- ests of Chicago. It isnot possible, even if it were desirable, to have a new incor- poration act; but the present gencral law needs revisionin certain particulars, which re- vision, while not impairing the general char- acter of the law, will promote its adaptability to the greater wants and requirements of a government for this city. It is possible that legislation to meet these defects in onr charter may b2 considered necessary, and, like all the other legislation designed for the relief of the city, siould be well considerad, well explained, and understood, and, if possi- ble, made accepteble and nnobjectionabls in « full conference between the citizens, the legal authorities of the city, and the mem.’ the General Assembly from this county shall | be agreed among themselves, and shall go o Springfield united in support of common measures for the relief of the city, they will have no difficulty in obtaining the substan- tial relief which the city needs. Hence, it is to be hoped they will attend the conferences, and, if possible, before January, agree on what is wanted and on the form of the 1aws required to accomplish the end sought. THE BEGINNING OF THE OUTCOME. The most significant feature of the situa- tion is the improved tome of the leading Southern Congressmen and newspapers in rogard to the Presidency. Hrwirr, TILDEN'S Chairman of the Democratic Committee, an- nounced the revolutionary programme con- cocted in New York with evidently full as- surance that;’as it was TiLpEN's programme, it would be adopted without dissent by the entirs Demoeracy of the country, more es- pecially by the entire Southern Democracy, which, as of course, was relied upon to stand all the hard knocks that ‘might be re- ceived in the attempt to bulldoze the Presi- dency. TUpon the like assumption, those ferocious blood-tub journals that want sone- body at o distance to go in end get killed, the St. Louis Times, Indianapolis Sentinel, Cincinnati Engutrer, and Fort Wayna Senti- nel, and others of that ilk, set about firing the Democratic heart, more especially the Southern Democratic heart. In like manner and for like purpose our own SeriNGER, of the Springfield District,—one of the meekest and mildest-mannered of men, by the way, with no stomach for gore,—talked in dread- fully-bloodthirsty fashion, leaving no alter- native but TizpeEN and the post-offices or fight. 3 But now the South is heard from; and the voice of the Sonth is notfor “ wah” ; and it is now clear that the sentiment of the South is opposed fo any revolutionary move- ment, and that the .Southern members of Congress do not propose to hazard anything that might lead to fight for the sake of seat- ing TrnoEN in the Presidential chair, though they did vote for him. It is not alone—as Bex Hiun sharply reminded the Northern Democratic conspirators—that Southern Democrats have already, once for all, learned to their cost what comes of listening to Northern Democratic - ““wah™talk. It is that, upon a’ close, careful scrutiny of the situation, the Southern leaders perceive they have ‘nothing to gain for the South—and they are not in humor to go to war about the post-offices—by seating Trroey. They fore- see that his Administration, were he seated, would, at every step in dealing with the Southern question, encounter the jealous ap- | prehension of the North, which, inevitably, would shortly unite against any measures such as the South would propose. | They are coming to the conclusion that Haves is the better man for the South to havein the ‘White House. They know that his position gives assurance of his power, as President, to carry out the liberal policyin dealing with the South to which his public utterances have committed him, They are aware that the three million votes cast for .him in’ the North represent & . su- premacy in the North very much greater than their numerical majority would indi- cate. The three million Haves votes at the North represent, not the riff-raff of the cities, | withont which TrzoeN conld not have se- | cured an Electoral vote of the North, bat the vested-interests, the commerce, agriculture, and manufactures end enterprise generally, the brain and’ the brawn of the Northern States. s | Sagacious Southern leaders like Bex Hrurn know, too, that that part of the TrLpEN vole of most consequence in the North—that part wlich represents most intelligence and most influence—was cast by dissatisfied Republic- ans under protest, and .that inevitably that influentinl element will shortly find its way agsin into the Republican party. This ele- ‘ment would certainly quickly desert Trpex were he inaugurated,—in fact, has already almost wholly deserted him,—and would cast its weight against his Administration. It ‘would, too, inevitably gravitate to the sup- port of Haves' Administration. To sum up, the Administration of Trupex could not es- cape the weakness that comes of lack of the support of the controlling elements, of lack of morale, of lack of coherent, practicable, | well-defined programme. Besides, it would i encounter popular distrust throughout the | entire North to a degres most embarrassing. | The Southern leaders—who are not the ir- | reconcilable lunatics of the State’s rights school, but live men of capacity—recognize the hopelessness of looking to such an Ad- ministration a8 would be Tmpex's for the change they ask. It is not a question of post-offices nnd custom-houses. They per- ceive their opportunity to establish a better understanding with the real North, not the bummers and ward politicians who clamor for gore and who must be rated lower than the “nigger,” since .their votes are ever for sale, but the intelligence, enterprise, and vested interests that direct public opinion. These the Southern leaders do not propose to league. agninst them for the sake of captur- ing the post-offices. They have settled that theyare not going to fight for the post-of- fices. Nor are they going to embark in any bulldozing on - account of the aforesaid post-offices. They are ready to admit that they were defeated, and from present indice- tions, unless some' extraordinary revolution oceurs, they will adopt the wise policy of sbendoning the TmpEN cause, leaving the revolutionary. conspirators who are breath- ing slaughter to offer themselves as live ma- terial to be transformed into corpses when the gore flows. M0ODY AND THE MAGDALENS, Brother Moopy's campaign sgainst the ‘world, the flesh, and the dewil, which is now at an end, so far as Chicago is concerned, has been characterized by peculiarly system- atic work. He commenced operations with a general assault all slong the line upon apathetic church members, slinking back- sliders, and pious do-nothings,—men and women who were in arrears or their pew- rents, sleepy in chureh, oblivious of sewing- societies, forgetful of prayer-meetings, and drifting easily along the edge of the channel that flows into sin. He stirred up this class with his sharpest arrows, aroused lethargic preachers, woke up sleepy churches, made it livelyfor the careless backsliders, and quickly brought back the fagitives to a realizatifh of their duties. Having thus strengthened the weak spots in his own lines, he commenced a series of assaults upon the hardened sinners, —upon sinners in general and sinners in par- ticular8-directing the main pssault £gainst metropolitan sinners in person, and sonding out’ skirmishing parties under hig trusty lieutenants to ‘attack the raral ones, He conquered first the hardened church- singers and depraved organists, and banished opera, and vocal flourishes, aad syllabobs from the choir-lofts, substituting therefor the good old Peanyroyal in all its savory sanctity, He then swooped down upon the Board of Trade, smashed the por] nx}d corn corners, warned the speculators, d;mom}xzed the scalpers, sud showed the impenitent gamblers in grain the wickedness of their ways. He collected the young men together saud snatched many a one from the tempta- tions that besot the foet of giddy youth. He collected the young women together, and, with most persuasive words, scat- tered their fineries, feathers, and fur- belows, their chignons, panniers, and trous- seaus, their airy vanities and delightful frivolities, to the winds, as he convinced them of the reslities of life and death, of things temporal and things to come, and 5o wound himself into their confidence and good graces that he became as much the burden of their talk as the Iast new sensational novel, the latest stylo of hat, or that dreadful secret in the FrrzeoopLs family. Then he commenced upon the drunkards, tipplers, and guzzlers, with such good results that many forsook their cups, and hardened old topers swore off on sour mash, gpd youngmen dwelling on the edge-of rosy or golden danger fled from it to the safety of that innocuous fluid over which the man at the Crib rules in solitary grandeuf. Thega successive attacks -required much time, since sinners do not yield willingly. The campaign was drawing to a close, and there was yot one class whom he had not reached, and whom, perhaps, with instinctive delicacy, or with a fecling of hopeless ina- bility, he did not intend to reach. It was the Magdslens. They reminded him, how- ever, of his neglect in frequent letters, some of them sorrowful, some of them sharp and pungent. The great evangelist devoted him- self to the work. He gave it his best thought and all his energies. His address mpon the oceasion was amodel. It <vas earnest, tender, and yet strong. It was perhaps the most effective appeal he made during his stay, and yet it is impossible to read it with- ont the feeling that the evangelist himself felt the hopelessness of the work he was do- ing and the difficulty of the problem he was striving to solve. Whatever may have been his success in other directions, here was a sin against which his sharpest lances were shivered. So far as restoring them to society is concerned, many beheve that it might just as well be preached to the sands of the desert or the ice-floes of the Arctics, admirable as it was in manner and texture. The unpardon- able sin of all the ages, the misfortune of universal humanity, the crowning sorrow of womanhood, is not to be wiped out by a ser- mon, and the fallen restored to her home and friends like prodigal sons. Had it been possible, it would have been done thousands of years ago. The utter despair of this problem is that, when once a flower drops out of the great bouquet of womanhood, soiled and withered, no hand can place it back there. Between the purity and impurity, the virtue and prostitution, of womanhood thers is an impassable barrier. The Magdalen is never to be taken back and forgiven of woman. She may get into Heaven, but not into *‘good society.” Against this unforgiveness of purity is arrayed the resentment of impurity, and between these two the conflict will be waged to the end of time that hns been waged since the beginning. The daughter of virtue will never cease to draw her robes abont her lest they come in contact with the daughter of shame, and fhe daughter of shame will never cease to hate the other with that intensity that grows out of recklessness and despair. It does not add to the proba- bilities of helping this unfortunate class that, upon the spur of Mr. Moopy's sermon, thers are plenty of visionaries, speculators, and philanthropists, with their heads full of proj- ects for new institutions wherein they may make a living as matrons, masters, agents, and collectors of subscriptions to be spent mainly upon themselves. There is no need of additional reformatories for sbandoned women. The city is already full of half.starved charities. The Prot- estants now have an Erring Woman's Refuge, and the Catholics have their House of the Good Shepherd, which are open at all times for the reception of prostitutes desir- ing to reform, where they can have good treatment and shelter, and find that home ‘which is shut out from them .in ** society.” Instead of multiplying institutions of this sort, and at the same time multiplying ex- penses, these philanthropists, if they are honest, would de well to find funds and fill up the two to which we have alluded. In theso institutions the unfortunate #ill find kind trestment, food, shelter, and work. Beyond this there is little hope of solving the problem of their restoration to society ; and in view of this the letters of the Magda- lens to Brother Moopy seem like a bitter irony and despairing protest against the in- justice of their sex. Virtuous women will help to support them when'they quit their lives of shame; but there is noearthly power or influence strong enough to induce the pure o receive back to their society and firesides the impure, and no good is accomplished by upbraiding them for their refusal. i THE PRIMA-FACIE CASE The sober judgment of the patriotic citi- zens of this country is to the effect that the Electoral vote must be counted as it has been returned, withoat any reference to allega- tions of fraudon either sids. In the ®b- sence of any compromise, this is the only constitutional method of proceeding. No other can be adopted which will not open up opportunities for further frauds, and set a precedent that will lead to an abandon- ment of all the safeguards of popular gov- ernment. We have been impressed particu- larly with the conviction that this opinion has taken hold of conservative people every- where, by the current issue of the Nation, which is devoted almost entirely to a con- sideration of thé Presidential question. No Democratic journal in the country has been more violent than the Nation in the denun- ciation of what may be called the Returning Board system. It has no confidence in the personal honesty of these Boards, condemns the theory on which they exist, and believes one wrong cannot be righted- by another; but it can find no authority for Congress going behind the returns, and concludes : Bat the time to pnnish whatever anderhand deal- ing there has been is 10 1880. It seems to us that the only sound course now is to stop quibbling and chopping logic, to accept the Southern figures, however bedeviled, and insugurate 1IsTEs in the intercst ofpeace and qulet, and for the better Ppreservation of constitutional forms. Any ofher course is Mexican, : Farther than this, the Nation recapitulates in another article the evidences that the clear intention of the Constitution is that the President of the Senate shall simply perform the ministerial duty of counting the Elect- oral vote, and that the two Houses are pres- cut, not in their legislative capacity, but simply as spectators or witnesses, There is notable absence both in the 'constitutional emendment and in the original article on the election of the Executive of any authority for Con- gress or either branch thereof to tnke any part in the count; and that this omission was .not accidental, but deliberate, is claimed by the fact that the * Committee of Detail” in the Constitutional Convention reported as'a part of the scheme that ¢ Congress may determine the time of choosing and assem- bling the Electors, and the manner of certify- ing and transmitting their zotes.,” This pro- vision was rejected by the Constitutional Corivention, and the action is the strongest argumentwe have seen that the framers of the Constigtion intended to exclude Con- gress from every possible interference with the election of the President, and to render it impossible for that body, having the fever- sionaryright to choose aPresident, to become the agent for defeating an election by the people. The case as it now stands is this: Mr.. Haves has 185 votes certified and directed to the President of the Seuate. That officer will open the returns, verify the certificates, end ‘declare the result. All constitutional procedure ends with this. Any- further action will be revolutionary, and can only be sustained by resort to violence. Are the Democrats of to-day prepared to undertake the responsibility for revolution? Do they understand what it means? It will not stop at, the withdrawal of the House of Representatives. It will not stop at the declaration of the Houss that it will not recognizo the Electoral votes of Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida. It will not stop at the declaration of the House that there has been: a failure to elect. It will not stop at a pretended election of Mr. ToEN by the House. It will not stop at 8 pretended inauguration of Mr. TILDEN under color of such fraudulent elec- tion. Every step taken will be an advance toward revolution, anarchy, and civil war. Every movement will hold out a new encoursgement to the desperate office- seekers, who will gather boldness from familiarity with seeing the law overridden. Every additional act outside of law will render the retreat to the forms of law the more difficult. Every advance in the revolu- tionary project will rally new adventurers and schemers who, with false ambition and the villeinous hope of personal gain, will push the party leaders nearer and nearer the precipice, till the plunge into the abyss of civil war will be sudden and inevitable. Revolutions do not go backward. The men who to-day talk of interference with the. count of the Electoral vote may not all ap- preciate or understand it, but they are sonnd- ing the alarms of civil war as surely end as loudly as if they marched through the streets of our cities with fifo and drum beating up recruits for TruoeN's army. It is time to call the halt on the Demo- eratic revolutionists, as the Nation has done. The people of this country want ro civil ‘war, and least of all a war that shall be, not like the last one,—section against section,— but neighbor against neighbor; not & war where one army marches into the territory of & united foe, but one in which the gun and the fire-brand will be employed in every State, and every city, and every town, and every quiet little hamlet, in the whole length and breadth of the land. That is the signal- light of danger which stands at the end of the road where the finger-post points to revolution. That is the logical result of any movement to determine the result of the Presidential election outside the forms of law. If these forms are wrong, if the constitutional provision is de- fective, if the Returning Board system is out of harmony with the spirit of our Gov- ernment, the people have it in their own- power to correct the evils in a lawful way. If it is a fact that Mr. TrpEN has been de- frauded out of his election by the Returning Boards of certain Southern States, that fact will become patent enough within the next four years, and react upon the Republican party, however little the party or its-deaders may have been to blame for it. Let the Democrats who have the peacs and welfarg of the country at heart refer their people the election of 1824, when JacksoN re- ceived one-third more popular votes than Apaxss received,—a much larger popular ma- jority relatively than Gan be claimed for TrpEN now,—but acquiesced in the election of Apaxs according to the forms of law. JacrsoN was rewarded subsequently by two consequence; even: the election of Presidont wonld be o misfortne to by focoentle out fear of serious esil If [t eame aboat e o2 sectionsl vote. This readjustment of panjas 1 take place under Gos. Hxves, - Hope of neagtll be defeated by the choice of Gov. T p iUl should have 3 cast-iton strait-jacket sy (¢ the South._There would not. be a chanch fo et Liberal party to show fteelf anywhere Soacy 2t keep that solid, and to rule the nation g andthe votes of the larger cities of e Holt with_their foreign Celtic_population, is fyorts statesmanlike, partisan, Democratic propas,ll” TWe re at thie porting of the ways, Fhoiile: ration of Havzs will open a new aud livers) paus’- The inauguration of TILUEN would perpetaase sl present sectional conditlon of affuirs, the > reigu of lawless men at the Sont resent grading, instead of educating (hoh}r::dafieiypa,: pare the way for disasters in'the fature, A good many of the progressive ladieg of this country who are in favor of the enlargement-op the facilities for divorce and Temarriage in gey. eral of the States will probably be Surprised to learn that there isn’t any sach thing asa gi. vorce recognized under the laws of Francs which permits of remarriage. This 13 one ‘ot the influences exerted by the Roman Catholje Church which the French radicals have not yer succeeded in removing. We do not kvow that there is any conncction between this clrenyy. stance and the immorality supposed to prevatl i France. Weare inclined to think not. Prop. ably the immoral clzsses of Paris would be Just as immoral if divorce were made easy; and, ag to the other provinces, there is reason to be- lieve that the French domestie life isas and happy there as elsewhere. The law provides for a separation for a variety of causes, much the same as warrant a divorce among us; an in 1874, there were nearly 3,000 such suits in the French courts, about, nine-tenths of whicy found 2 favorable hearing. But the French Iy, perhaps not unphilosophically, forbids a second [Ftrial of matrimony to those who have not been able to bear one. —————— The New York Sun never misses an opporta. nity to hit JAY GOULD a lick. especially if it can at the same time give the New York Tribunes punch under the fifth rib. This is one of ft3 last slaps at both: LA JAY GorLp's ownership of a conf of the Z@bune has been 1 um.gm?""‘."u nl::'fif Iy 83 it has morally. Since he secured the control of its atock, the paper his not paid one centin dividends to the stockholders. On the contrary. it has sgeadily accamulated debt, and such of the roperty as there iy left substantially belongs to m alone. The Zribune was onae worth perhaps a million of dollars. The stock not beld by Jur GouLp, and which was once worth toward baif & million, isn't now worth more than the prics of the certificates for old paper. That half 8 million ls all swept away. The big buliding is covered with liens which represent at least its valne, The busi- ness, 80 far from making money, has been losing it, and the prospects are as dark n8w as they wers when they were at the darkest. The Sun, we think, exageerates is someof - these details. ——— Ty the Editor of Thé Tribune. Crrcaan, Dec. 16.—If a candidate recaives s Frutcr number of votes for an ofice to which he s not eligible than his oppouent for the same office, can any subsequent act of his-remove the disability and enable him to.demand the office a3 agoinst his opponent who was eligible at the time of the election? AX INquiniNG READER, It would depend entirely upon the circum- stances of the particnlar case. The ineligibility mighg be of a kind whereby a subsequent act of his would remove the obstruction. The law of some State might make suitable provision for curing the ineligibility in a particalar class of cases. 1 an “Inquirer? has reference to the case of Warrs, the Oregon Elector, the answer is, that he resigned all claim to the office, and was then appointed by the eligible members of the Board to fill the vacancy. He was just as qualified to receive the office by appointment to fill a vacancy 2s any citizen of Oregon. ~ — e —— The Evening Journa! says that, “ Among the recent pardons granted to prisoners at Joliet by the Governor is one to CrarLes COoPEE, who was sentenced to seven years from this ity for burglary, in 1875; CoARLES RUPERT, confidence man and blackmailer, sentenced for five years,in July, 1875; and JayEs BCTLEE, sentenced for five years for larceny, in November, 1873 It is very discouraging business catching and try- ing burglars, thieves, confidence biackmailers, and other villains, to have thgm ned out of prison and let loose again £0 prey on the community. But'there is one consolation,— that the Acting Governor’s sands’of official life are nearly run out,—although he has still tite to make Christmss gifts of pardons to felons and murderers. — When 2 Democratic journal tellls the truth, such an infrequent occurrence should be chron- feled. Says the Dayton (0.) Demgerat: Andit is not ont of conrtesy, but simply ont of & regard to truth, that we here Say that we know of 10 Republican statesman in the Iand whom we think so worthy to be President—if he were elected —as Gov. HavEe, and no man, in any parly, o whose personal_integrity and patriotic- intentions the people woald rely with moro profound cont- erice. The idea is taking root that the wisest thing to be done is to quietly acquiesce in Gov. HAYES'. election, and have him inaugurated without resistance, threats, or quarrel. That he will make a better, safer, and more satisfactory terms of the Presidency and the dictation of his successor, and it was thirty years before the Democratic party,was displaced from the power *which its conservatism brought it. ‘The vindication of right and punishment of ‘wrong mey be safely intrusted to the Ameri- can people acting deliberately and lawfully ; but no party that goes outside of the law and thus sows the wind of revolution can ex- pect to resp anything but the whirlwind ; nor can that party which keeps within the pale of the law be expected to stand aside and slink away because revolution is threat- ened. The New York Herald very properly calls ABE Hewrrr's late “bob-tail address,” which Zack CHANDLER 50 promptly“tramped out, bombast and falsehood. It laughs at the impudence of the assumption that the two Houses of Con- gress have nothing to do on the 14th of Febru- ary next except to meet in joint convention and dedare TeLDEN and HENDRICKS elected. The Herald sarcastically adds: 2 Of course, President TiLpEN will be gratifed at this happy settlement of the Presidential diticalty,” and he cannot in fairness do less than confer Cabi- net oftices, Custom-Houses. znd other enviable honors upon the gentlemen who have broughtavont tms result. There may be some trifling obstacies in the way of their advancement. it is true; the two Houses of Congress, in giving **effect to the will of the people, " etc., etc., may find some other result, forinstance, than that reached by the Dem- ocratic Committee. There is a gentleman at Uticu, the inmate .of a public institution, who regards- himself as the Emveror of Chinu, and issucs edicts by the score; but we have never heard that he en- joys the revenues of the Celestial Kingdom. 5 i Gen. HAWLEY, of ‘Connecticat, looks approv- ingly at the new movement in the South. He thinks it should be encouraged and not repelled by Northern Republicans, and that the latter should meet the moderate and conservative men of the South half-way. Already “ They have extiuguished the foolish project of impeach- ment; they do not join in the hot-headed talk of the Tildenites, nor in TILDEX'S plan of keep- President than TILDEX s coming to be pretty widely recognized anfong fair-minded Demo- crats,—especially in the South. — —— Mr. SToREY reminds us in a roundabout way that his name was overlooked in connection with tne Senatorship in o recent TRIBONE edi- torial on the subject. We acknowledge the omission, and plead inadvertence; and, as An- TEMUS WARD would say, are williug to accept his apology for the injury deneshim. To make amends, then, let it be understood that the Homy ‘WiLsuR F. STOREY is a candidate for-the Il Tnois Senatorship, to succeed Gen.Logax;and if any one i favor of * wuh " is to be elected, next to Gen. KEENAN and Col. Caxzfloy, he has the best claims on the support of the Tl 10is fire-eaters. —————— There is no doubt that the recent independ- ent utterances of Ben Hmi, M. C.-from Georgia, have greatly disturbed the whole of- fice-seekimr fraternity who have been clamoring for Wah. The Cincinnati Gazetfe observes in regard,thereto: 3ir. Bexsawny Hrw s now a thorn in the Demo- cratic flesh. It is g serious problem to decide what 1o do with him. When the recognized leader of'a State that gives 85,000 Democratic majority talks about HATEs;being the man to insare the, Sotth peace and Lonest government, it in high time he Waa taken in hand: 1f this sort of talk is tobe tolerated (the Reformers anziously inquire), What is to becomne of the Post-Oficesy It 143 auell!en that strikes at the very foundauon of Constitution- al Government. % —————— It is a very pretty race between KeExAN and? STOREY as to which will get up the bloodlest “wah” [n the Times. For a few days past the “old mdn? was a leetle ahead. Biood will tell. bl A ) Gen. KzNax will have to let slip more of bis dogs of war on the Zimes' first page, or ‘0l man will beat him in the gore business on the fifth page. ——— " The weather forafew days past has chilled the TILDEN “ wah * fecling. _— ¢ ing the country in a broil for four years by a continued struggle for the scat of the President, —a sort of Mexican guerrilla war by motions, writs of ejectment, and chancery proceedings.” _Gen. HAWLEY says of Mr.- Bexn Hiti, of Georgia: He was an old-fashioned Whig, and itis an open recret that if circomstances had favored he would have been perfectly willing to join his old associ- ates in Congress rather tnan enter the ranks of the opposition to the Government. He represents a larze portion of the Southern peuplé who were pever Democrats before the War, and who act re- Ilnctantly with the Woobs, Coxes, TILDENS, and Monussseys. It s also well known' that it has al- ‘ways been the policy of Sciunz, Butsow, Gen. LarLax, Haves, and other Republican leaders, to e wide-the Republican door to this Southern element, and to attach to the progressive party in the North the progressive party in the Scuth. That tois would be tne first result of the election of Hayes we have never doubted. and we see in pres- ent indications a decided promise of it. Such men 28 STerEeNs, HuL, Lotar, and Jog Jousstox, exhibit signe of a willingness to enter upon_ a new line of policy. Gen. Jounstox has petitioned for the ‘removal of his political disabilities, He =zod men like him will speedily ‘come to the front in Southern attmra and- in the Federnl Administratios, and® we cannot doubt that 2 mew cryof confdence will bezin. We expect to sec u due ‘proportion of these men in the Cavinet, and; 13 a result, the political division of the Soutiern States on some other than s mce or 8 sectional line. Of course, also, changes will re- suit in the North; tue Democrats may carry States that they do nut nuw carry. out this {vm fi of no PERSONAL. F In the new index of the Atlantic Monthly herest tofore anonymous anthorehip s revesled. The New York ‘Herald highly praises Mr. Me- ‘Vicker's personation of Launcelot Godbo. Sidney Lanier, the poet of the Centennial, I8 suffering from 8 serious pulinonary trouble, and has gone to Florida to recrait. One of the questions that do mot sgitate the conntry is, **What will Henry C. Carey say about the Adam Smith banquet In New York?!" The bill just introduced in Congress, providing for tge abolition of alcohol after 1900, allows & generous time for the conntry to sober up. Mary Clemmer Ames and her husband explain that they have separated because they cannot Live comfortably together,—which is not such & s prising reason, after all. Mrs. Lander, the actress, resides in Washington She has o cottage on Capitol Hill, where she drawt aronnd her a choice circle of riends, most of whom are ladies. She has two promising sons. . A part of the pictnre-gallery of Charles W. Ses” bury, & wealthy pentleman of Boston, imow oftered for sale at New York. It contaibs many excellent #pecimens of the modern French school. - The Rev. John S. Glendenning s not. it seems, asstated 1n.a New York paper, living on Jerseg City Heizhts, nor has he retired from the astive’ i