Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 19, 1876, Page 4

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Tandolph street, between Clark and LaSalle, En- gagenient of Misd Netlwon, *1omeo and Jultet,” Wooills Musoum. “‘fi}v_r;mu street, between Dearborn and State. **Rob RNIGHTS TEMPLAR. tated coneluve this (Tues: 70 Monrou- or tho TUEDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1876. ° Greenbacks at the New York Gold Ex- chauge yesterdny closed ut 9 b A commuuication on tho rubjoct of % Counting tho Eloctaxal Votes” appoars clsewhero in this insue, and is worthy of at- tentivo perusal, coming a3 it does from the pen of ono of the most eminent Inwyors and jurists in tho Northwest, 'Iho position is token that the Cunstitution cxpressly vests ++ in (he President of the Benate tho power to opon and count the Electoral votes, and that no joiut rule or law enncted by Congress can impaic or take nway that pow Tho Democrats of tho Houso are divided on the question of the usual holidsy nd- journmneut. On oue side, the extremists ad- voesto o continuous sessiqn 83 necessary to keep aiiva tho cxcitement, while tho mora wmoedorale members are anxious to rchurn homo and ascertnin by direct countact the condition of- the public pulse, In all probability it is a quostion that will regulato itself, ns thovo is littlo likeli- hood that the House could preserve a quo- rutu even if the policy of ndjournment were . ‘voted down, Senntor Monrox was in Indiana long onough to make up bhis mind that sll the violent talk and all the incitement to publiu mass meetings end secrot organizations in that Btato come from a class of men who sce in the inauguration the woril possible consiequeuces conceivable in their minds,— viz.: the deprivation of the oflices and spoils teat {hey had ealeulated upon in tho ovent of Tuory's election. These aro the disinter- csted patriots who nre cngaged in working up o war feeling in Indians, and the same is true in Ilinok fi appeors that tho Democrats have discov- red that Mr. Morrisox's dispateh from Now Orlcans was rather hasty aud unadvised. Thoy have also cume to a roalizing sonse of the grvity of the proposition to make n wholesalo seigtro of coples of private dis- ‘potelies in possession of the Western Union Lelograph Compauy, for which that Compa. nyisbound in bouor as a party to & con- tract to hold inviolable, Not that anything would be discovered by the proposed mode of procedurs, but n principlo is at stake all tho same. Perlaps the Democrats begin to appreciate this, or parbaps their hesitation is prompted by other weighty considerntions. A conference was held yesterday botween the moembers-clect to the Legislature from Cook County and the Citizens' Ausociation of Chicago for the interchango of views and supgestions relative to tho legiilation of which Chicogo and Cook Couuty stand so soruly in nead. "Tho subjects of taxation and revenue wero briefly discussed, and from the expreasions of interest callod, forth thero s renson to hopo that the movement to secure .o thorough understanding and united action upon theso important matters will result in accomplishing the noeded reforms, Com- mittees were appointed with a view to expe- diting the work in binnd, und another con- ference is to be held on Thursday pfternoon of this week, e Common Council and Mr. Biurivas, President of the West Sido Gas Compuuy, ave uot yet suc- ceeded in adjusting their differences. 'Fha former are evidontly getting out of patienco, whilo the Iatter manifests no particular hurry sbout coming to terms, In tho roport of the Qommitteo presented to the Couneil it s proposed to cut short tho negotiations by closing with the old proposition of 2 per 1,000 cubic foct, and, if this offer is not accopted, to let Judge Drunstond decido the low in theease, The Couneil will onee more grapple with tho subjuct at its next regular mesting, ond determine whethier it is best to tuko the risk of au adverse decision or per- sovere further fu the effort #o effcot a com- promise, Tho Chic:‘ngu‘ pmd;xca mnrka: ‘were yather less getive yustorday, nnd generally easicr, Mess pork clused 12§c per brl lower, at | vestigation. 10,87} cash and $16.45 for Jonuary. Lord whas unchanged, at $10.27§@10.30 cash and $10.95@10.87) for January. Monts wore utendy, nt Gc for now shonlders, boxed, Blo for o short.ribs, and 8}c for do short-clears. Highwines were unchanged, nt $1.08 por gollon, Flour was quiet and tame. Whent closed 4o higher, nt $1,183 for Deceraber and £1.104 for January. Corn closed $@]olower, At 440 for December and 44}o for January. Oats closed {e lower, at 834c cash and 83} for January., Rye wna je lower, at 70c. Barley closed 1jo lower, at Gic for cash or January and 66e for Febrnary, Hoge wore in good domand, and for light woights there was nn ndvance of 5@10a; sales wero prin- cipally at $5.60@6.00. Cattle wero dull and unchanged. Bhecp wero in Jight domand, ot 20.50@4.80, One hundred dollars in gold would buy 2107.73 in groonbacks at the close, b and employes by the Bonrd of Comunis- nioners yesterday sfternoon tho unbroken potency of the old Ring is clearly demon- strated. A fooble offort was mado in the diroction of economy and incrensed efficioncy in the caso of the County Attornay, but it cane to nothing, the present incumbent being continued in offico nt a salary double that for which his place could be botter filled. Tho Warden of the County Hospital was re.clected without opposition, though resting under charges of a character which onght to have called forth at least o protest ngainst lis retention until their falaity should bo established by a rigid in- A fow chianges have been made in the more important positions, but if these | are in the intorest of honesty and economy, appearances and common report are equally at foult. —— Senator MonToN left Washington last ‘Fhursday ovening for Indianapolis to attend somo pressing privato business of his own. Next day ho passed through Columbus, whera ho mot Gov, Haves at the railway depot dining-room, and spoke a fow sen- touces to him, Gov. Haves lhad just vo. turned homo from Cincinnati, MonroN want on to Indianapolis, submitted to several in- terviaws as to his business, transncted what ha came to do, and returned to Washington in time to be in his seat yesterdsy—DMlonday, nt moon. This basty run home and back has caused wholo volumns of the most alarming nnd sensational slush to be sent over tho wires to the Chicago Zimes aud other io- cendiary Copperhiead sheets who are secking by overy means in their power to foment civil conflagration. It was nsserted then that ho came West to concoct a schome whereby Gov. Haves would bo seated in the Presidential ehair by the force of bayonots and grapeshol, and it was nssertod that Haxes was o party to the plot! By such lies it is sought to fire the Northorn heart and rab the cars of the Democracy until they aro ready to spring ot the throsts of their Republican neighibors. COUNTING THE VOTES, We bave frequontly discussed tho point that, as the case now stands, there is no pro- vision of law regulating or governing the counting of the Presidentinl votes, save tho words of the Constitution which resd: 4 T'ho President of the Senate shall, in the presenco of the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives, opon all the cortificates, and the votes shall then bo counted; the persou baving the greatest nuwmber of votes for President shall bo the Presldent, if such number be n majority of the whole number of Elcctors nppointed.” Thatis all the law on the subject. In the nbsenco of any other logal provision, this plrase of the Constitn. tion is the boginning and the end. There is notking to be snaid or done but to litorally comply with the Constitution,—the Presi. dent to open the certificatos, which shnll be counted, and the person hinving the grentest number shallbe President. Wa have nlrendy referred to an articlo in the Nation, wherein iy given 60 much of the history of this sub- ject 83 ig to o found of record. From this 1t seems that the Convention which framed tho Constitution carefully refrained and deliborately refused to give Congross any control over the clection of President, except in the case of n failure by the people or Skates to cloet. In the Convention the ¥ Comtnittos of Detail” reported in fovor of the nppointment of the Lxeoutive by Con. gresa, Othor schomes hnd been proviously proposed for the appoiniment of the Presi- dont by Congress, by tho Btate Legislaturee, nnd by tho Executives of tho States. At one timo it was voted to elect kim by Congross, ‘I'his wns rocomsidered, The recommonda- tion of the Committeo, after a debato, was reforred to anothor Commiitteo. This Come mittee reported the plan of appointing Electorn who should voto for two porsons for President, the ono having the highest number to bo Prosidont and the next shonld bo Vico-President. But this plan provided that the roturna should bo sent to the Presi. dont of the Bonate, who *in that house™ should opon all the certiltoates, and the votes should then be counted; in cose of a failuro to clect, the Sonate was to elect the Presi. dent., This last provision was rojected, as was oléo oue for declaring that Congress may detormine tho time of choosing and as- sembling the Electors, and the *manner of certifying and transmitting their votes.” A motion that, in case of failure to clect, tho Legislaturo should chooso the Prosident, was rojectod, aud tho authority of the House, vot- ing by Btates, wss thoninserted. It was also provided tlat the certificates be opened in the presence of tho Sonate and Ilouse of Topresentatives, instead of in the Bonate alono. The Nation argues that these pro- ceedings aud especinlly the dobates show that the Couvention gave the choies of the Presidentinl Eloctors to tho Btates, and that all * quostions concerning tho regularity and sufficiency of such appointment was inton. tionally left with the individual Common- woalthy.” All this brings us back to the jpoint that there fano legal provision anywhere to con- sider any question of irregularity or sufli. vlenoy which is uot capable of being intelli. gently determined upon the face of the re. tums themselves. Undor the Constitution # the I'resldent of the Benate shall open all the cortificates sud the vote shall then be counted." ‘That is all thero is to bo done, Deapite tho argument of tho Nution, that the sole power over this subject is left with tho individual Btates, it should not be for- gotten that the clection of n President and Vice-President is an act required aud com. wmonded by the Conatitution, and that to Congress the Coustitution has ex. pressly given the power *to make all laws which shall Lo necessary snd propor for carvying into excoution the foregoing powers, and'all other powdrs vested by this Constitution in the Government of the Uuited Blates, or in any department or ofticer thereof.” ‘The President is invested with the authority to open all the certifi- cates, and thon the votes shall be conutud Cortainly here fa tho necessity for legisla. tion to provide how they shull bo connted and by whom, and, incase of conflicting cortificates, which votes sliall be counted ; and, when certificates roturn moro voltes given than the Btata wns entitled to, what fs to be dono with the certificato and the sur- plusage of votes; nnd where cortificntes are reeoived from States whose right to voto at all is quostioned, as in the case of Missourt in 1821 and of sovornl Bouthern States in 1865; and where, upon the face of the cor- tifieate, it nppoars the Electors voted on a differont day than was fixed by law, ns in Wisconsin iu 1857, All these mattors, per- tinont to the counting of tho votes, and cortninly not left to the individual States to dotermine, it is within tho power of Congress, in carrying out tha Constitutlon, to regulate and provide for by Iaw. Congross has neted on this as- sumption from ss early o dato as 1702, It lins by law proscribed the date on which Electors shall be appointed and when they shall moet nud vote ; it has by law prescribed tho mannor in which they shall vote, and the substantial featureh of thoir certificates, and the manner in which tlese certificntes shall bo duplioated, and how these duplicato cor- tificates shnll be sent to Washinglon aud deposited, and how to Lie obtalned in cnze thoy are required. Bevoral of theso pro- visions are in aid and exeontion of the Con- stitution. The necessity for some regula- tion to govern cases of contested and fraudu- lent elections 18 evident, and the necessity oceurring in a matter of carrying into offect one of the grentest of tho nation's acts aris- ing under tho Constitution, there can bo no question as the power of Congress to provide the proper legislation. Thero is no such legislation on tho statute-book, but Congross 18 in sossion, and with ample time to frame all negessary Jaws on tho subject. The diffi. culty is not one of power. It is ono of party nscendency, Except in the case of ordering new alcctions in the contosted States with the consent and co-operation of the Logislatures of those Biates, all othor legislation must necessarily elect either Hayes or Tiuozy, and to this the average politicluns on both sides will not consent. Each man must bave the Inw on Lis side or he will have no law at all. Ho prefors the Mexican plan to party defeat. Wo do not bolieve that any considerablo por- tion of the people desire the {ntroduction of Moxicanism into our politics, and hence we have strong hope that the conservative men of the North nnd of the Bouth of both partics in Congross will agree upon a just and legal modo of sottling the prosent and all future controversios like that now ponding, Failing any legislation by Congress on the subjeet, the situation will remnin as it is, which is thus described by Judga Kexr in his Com- mentaries : The Conatitution does not expreasly declars by thom thie votes are to e counted and the rosult declared. In the case of questionable vates and clorely contested clection this power may be all- important, ond I presunte, in the abaence ot all leglalative proviston on the sublect, tkat the Presi- dent of the Senate counts the rotes and determines fhe result,and that tho two HHouses are present only ns spectatory, and to act if no cholco be made by the Electors, It will bo noticed that this statement ns- sumes that the oxclusive authority of the President of tho Sennte is in tho absence of all legulation, THE SOUTHERN ALLIANCE. The Detroit Post aud tho Now York Even- ing Post, which in soutiment during the campaign stood at tho two extromes of -the Republican party, have met upon & common ground with referenco to the settloment of tho Presidential complication, and both of thom outline the same programme of policy which has beon urged over and over in Nue Curcaao ‘TrinoNe, Zack Cmanonen 8 a stockholder in the Detroit Post, and it s in some senso thoreforo to bo considored ay his organ. Ho has long borne the reputation of befng the most relentless and wnforgiving politician in the Ropublican party, a straight- out, machino partisan, aud tho last man in the world who would accept any compromise thot looked like reconcilintion with the South, From this standpoint it is gratify- ing to note the policy sot forth in tho Post, It poinis out that, while TiLpeN may con. solidate the Democratic party in the South, ho will also consolidate the Republionn par- ty in the North, and the old conflict between whites and blacks will bo continued four years longer, and 1t adds vory pertinontly: A statesmaniike recoguition of the Jeaders of tho South on the part vf 1layzs, areconcillation of the old antl-Democratic ecloments of the Sonth with tho Republican party, will break up that solid Ropublican vote. It will diswolve the rigid party calor lined, and put tha whole Southern situntion In a flufd state which will of itsolf be & solution of the whole trouble, Bo far as tho Post, thorefore, represonts Alr, CuanpLes, ib goes to show that he is not. hostile to the South. If it doos not ropre- sont him, then of courso it is independent of him, and its policy reprosents that of an ed- vaieed Republican papor, The Now York Kvening Post stands at the other oxtreme, During the campaign it oc- cupled a place just inside the Ropublican party, Sometimes it wna diffioult to locate it. Although it was inclined towards Hayes, it had a very sharp fanoy towards TiuoeN, But now it appears to ba in favor of the same policy as 1ts opposite neighbor in Do- troit. Referring to Gov. Hayes' sontimonts with regard to tho South, the Post says ; “Tho first agency which he names a8 & mcans for carrying out this polley s o civl) servico organfzed upon s system which will secure purity, ezpe- rienco, eficlency, and economy; & strict regard for thio pubitc welfaro wolely In appolntments, and the speedy, thorougn, and unvpering prosccution and punishment of all publlc oficers who betray ofticlal trusts, Ifthocre can be a strongor contrsst with Prestdent Grant's Sonthern yhlicy than thls, wo cannot concelve nd It olde out to the South o promise of o briglter futura than soy Demaceatle Presldent can ofor, Wo are not surprived, there- fore, that Bouthern Democrats regard Haves® In- suguration without apprehenalon. Wao hiave given the views of the two ex. tremes in the Republican party. Wo now oxtraot a sentence from the OCincinnatl Com- mercial, which astauds midway between the twos The finest atroke of statesmanship possible In hiv country would bo the division of Southorn white uen during the next Rtepublican Adminlstra. tion {nto Adminlstration and Opposition parties; and 1f the Southern people will give Haves o chance tu help them und the country in this way, wa are suro ho would be very glad to tmprove the opportunity, I'ho extracta wo Lave quoted show that, so far as the sontiment of the Republican party i3 concernod, it 18 willing to moot the moder. ate men of the Bouth halt way, and the moderate men of the South kuaw well enough that they have more to expeot from Mr, Haves thou from Mr, Tiwoex, They know that, with Mr. Tioex at the head of the Admninistration, thero must be a continuance of the old cast-iron, nuylelding system of partisan politica, They know that the two pasties will bo arrayed against each other on extreme lines; that the Democratio party will be reorganized as closely and soverely aa in the days of Vay Buken; that it will be hostile to the Republican porty, and never yiold to coucilintion or compromise; that T1LoexN's programme will resolve the Demo- cratio party into n close-communion church of Dbigoted politicians, ongaged in plck- ings and plunder inside the ranks. ‘Yhey kuow well onongh that Trpex's strongth will be devoted to Intensifying and solidify- ing the South, holding the four States which were grabbed in tho recent eampnign, and erooting n new Union to domineor over the othor States, moanwhilo bnlldozing snd crushing out what is left of Republicanism in tho South. What will be tho rosult of such an insano polioy ? It will load to a re- volt on tho part of tho inconsed North, It will orgnnize tho Republican party in all its ol strongth and setivity as it existed bofore the War, Thousands of Republicans who voted for TILDEN because thoy wantod a change will como back to tho ronks agnin, and in two years from now TiLpex will flnd his Copperhond and Confedorateorgnnization in a minority, and in four years from now shivered to ntoms. It cannot help but foment bad blood botween the two soctions. So far from boing reconciled to the Bouth, tho chasm will be widened, and the peoplo of both sections will be shnking bloody shirts in each othor's faces. If by- gones are to be bygones, if thero fa to bo roconciliation, it must be mnde with the Re- publican ‘party, and Gov. Haves, who s bampered by no pledges or promises, has alrendy made that tender iu nuwmorous ways. Tho South has every assurance that ke will use his influence to secure «pesce and pros- perity for that section, Iu his lotter of ac- coptanco ho says to the whols people of the country: * What the South most needs is peaco, and peace deponds upon the suprom- acyof law. . . . The moral and mate- rinl prosperity of tho Southorn States can bo most effectually advanced by a hearty and generous recognition of the rights of all by all,—a rocognition without reserve or excep- tion.” The moderate mon of the South sce this ond feol this, and in the wisdom of their action lics the hope of the future, almost puerile, and it was evidently ndopted as n mera ruse to beguile the unwary into the Doliof thot Vanpennrur hiad not surronderad. press or the merchants of New York wilt bo decolved by so poor a devico; if they are, the compnrntivo rocaipts of grain nt the various seabonrd cities will soon open thoir eyes. Tho ndhorence to this arrangement will ent Now York off from tho gront granaries of the ‘West, Northwest, aud Southwest; the in- cronsod local rates will not offset the loss of foreign busingss which the New York Oon- tral will suffor, and the Erlo will run bohind mora thon ever. The chict objection to bo urged ngainst tho now arrangoment by Chicago s that it givos the Philadelphin and Baltimoro ronds tha smno opportunities for discriminating in favor of the Southwestern points, and for carrying grain around Chlengo, that they en. joyed and improved during the pool. Tha oxporience of a yonr ago leaves little doubt that the Soorr and Gannert intorests will cator to the Bouthwestern business and cut below the Ohlengo rates, That is, they will carry grain chieaper to Philadelphin and Baltimore from .points a hundred miles and more furthor distant than Chicago than they will from Chiengo, The advantages which Chicago posseases for through foreign shipments will offset this discrimination to some extont, but it will bo notably felt in all grnin shipped for domestic consumption at the Bast, It will be well for tho Board of Trade, now that it is fully notified of a vir- tual renownl of the old pool arrangemant, to nppoint o committes at once to inguire into and dotermine to what oxtent this diserimi- nation will be practicod, and to suggest such methods of rosistance and protection ns are practicable, The incronse of rates will nat- uraily suggest holding the grain back und fll- ing the warchonses for spring shipment; but, in addition {0 this, sho schoms for completing the direct independ. ent connection with the Grapd Trunk aud making Chicago o termiuua of tho Coundn Rond should bo urged and assisted. Mennwhile, there should be somo union of action in throwing the Eistorn business to that rond which shows lenst disposition to discriminate against this eity, Now York will suffor much more than Chicngo, howevor, by the surrender of a policy which was and must always bo vital to its interests as n sonport city. Unless Now York by its rall and water connections can get the products of the West as cheaply ag tho compoting Citles of Philadelphia, Baltimore, sud Montreal, it will loso the busincss, There is no doubt about that. Tho Now York Central Road, with its four tracks and level grades, can earry the freight at ns low rates es the Pounsylvania and Baltimore Ronds with their stecp grades and incroased runming exponses. The shorter distonce is more than counterbalanced by the difforenco in cost of bauling per mile. Wo havo already noted tho faot that the recont roportof the New Yorl Central shows ita not earniugs during the last yonr to have boon largor, notwith- standing tho cutthvont policy, than thoy ‘wero tho previous year when the pool was in oxistoneo, This single' fact doprives the managamont of the Now York Central of all exouse for tho surrender of the principle for which it has beeu contending, and under this condition of things we should think New York would raise & howl that would bLring tho Oontral peoplo tothelr senses, If ftdoes not, then it must suffer the consequences. There is some consolation in the thought that the Now York Central will havo t boar npatt of these consequences, and that the folly of its managors will bo punished by the lossoes to the road, THE SOUTHERN CONGRESSONAL COX- MITTEES. The Chicago Z'%mes professes an anxiety to have tho following conundrum answered by Tne TRIBUNE: The questlon is put to you, Mr, Josern MroiLL, Wil you answer itt Will you tell the readers of your paper—tho eame readers whom you rocently told that Mr. ITAYEs was such a pure man that he would never consent to take the Presldency upon any basts talnted by even a susplelon of fraud-. whether thia virtuous Mr. 1Laves s o bo inaugu. rated a Presidont without any regard to the flnding of tha Congressional Committces that are now in- veatigating, nat morely susplclons, but positive and wall-grounded charges of fraud in tho pre- tended votes upon which all hia pretensions to the Presldoney, and all protenalons on his bohalf which any man can et up, wholly reat? 1t would bo more comfortable if the Times would propound its questions in clear torms, Instend of involved and complicated sen- tonces; but we presumo this is too much to oxpeot, Asneor ns wa can mnke out, the Times wonts to know whether Tnz TRIDUNE will approve of Gov. Haves’ inatguration, and also whetboer Gov. Haves will consent to become President if the Congressional Com- mittees nt tho Bouth ghall make out n clear case of frand ngainst his side in securing the Eloctoral votes of Bouth Carolina, Florids, and Lounisiana, If this is tho meaning of the Times' obfusented interrogatory, Tue Tnin- ung does ‘not hesitato to answor for itaclf and Gov. Haves in the negative, But the Times will plense keep well in mind thatit has said Congressional Committecs, and that this does not mean the Commitiecs appoint- ed by the Democratio Bpeaker of tlie Demo- cratic House, consisting for the most part of nlot of despernte partisans who .represent Loth tho groed nnd unscrupulousness of the liorde of place-hunters who want TiLpEN innugurated at all hazards. The word * Con- gressionnl" includes the Sonate Committees as well as the Houso Comnmittees. Now, if there shall be a virtual agreomont of the two sots of Committees on a well-defined and fairly-reported state of facts that Tmoey has beon defrauded out of tho Electoral votes eithor of Louisinna, South Caroline, or Florida, we are froe to say that Tae Tnin- ong will disapprove of Haves' taking tho Prosidonoy, and we do not beliove that Gov. Haves will secopt the placo under those cir- cumstances, If the Senate and House Com- mitteos agres that the Returning Boards of eithor of those throe Btates had no autherity to serutinize the returns and correct frauds, or if thoy agreo that these Roturning Boards gbused thelr powers in such manuer g8 to dofeat the expression of the popular will, Gov. Haves will un. questionably decline to nssume the offics, or he nnd Mr. Wneeres will only take their placos to resign immediatoly, and thus afford ou opportunity under the law for tho bold- ing of a now election. But the partisan, ono- wided reports of tho Demooratic Houso Com- mittes, made up by suppressing true ovi~ donco of the intimidation and violonce em- ployed in the bulldozod States, and by man- ufacturing false evidence to countoract the truo, will not exnct any concession from Gov, Haves, nor Tng ‘[oInung, nor any in- telligent and impartial person. Gov. Haves will searcely abandon his party and country on account of assumed fraud or partisan al. legation thereof, especially in the faco of the domoustrated fraud that was practicod on ———— Speclal Dipateh to the New York Herald. Ciicaao, Dec, 19.~1t 13 positively stutod liere to-day, by n gentleman of unqueetionably trust- wortliy character, that u Repubiican leader of great ummlnonca In the Westorn States, and who Jy mown to maintain atrictly conddéntial rolntions with Qov. IIAY%#, 18 now un_his wuy to Washing- ton, with the sanction of the Republican Presldou~ tial'candidate, to propose, nnd if found practica- ble, conclude an_ arrangement, {n the natnro of a compromise, between the moat influsntial mem- bers of the Republican flnfly and such brominent consorvutive Southern Domucrats as Congressman Laxai, of Mississlppl, and Bex e, of Georgla, on the basis of the nssent of the latter to the un+ challenged declaration of Haves' clection and tho inaupuration of [aves as President, with the us. surstice of o satlefuctory division of Cabinet ofl- cors und other positions ‘of loner and proft under the Federal Administration, 1t wonld bave wdded immensely to the value of this dispatch {f the person sendivg it had given thie name of tho ‘* Republican leader, en route to Washington, of great prominence, who I8 known to maintaln strictly confidential rela- tions with Gov, Hayes." It would also have aflorded considerable satisfaction to know the name of the *gentleman of unguestionable trustworthy choracter * wiio told tho story to the Xerald's correspondent. There aro two 1ittle errors In tho dispateli: First, no *“ gontle- man of trustworthy cheracter” gave the Herald’a man any such information; and, sccond, there lsno such * prominent Republican leader on bis way to Washington ™ on any infssion of the sort. The Meralds fellow evolved the en- tire dlspatch out of his Inner consclousness. The whola story I8 manufactured by some ane most Hkely in Stoney's office. 10 Mr JAMes GonpoN BenngTr will take the trouble to run the thing down, he will find ho hos been im- posed upon by u lor with a fertile imagination, e ——— When the fucts os to suit of Ienny I, Boopy nguinst SaMuEL J, TiLDEN, to recover $34,673.80 grabbed In Northwestern Rallroad stock-fub, were made publle, it was promptly dented us a enmpaign, Mo, and the publlc was ussured «Lhat at tho proper timie Mr, TiLDEN would fully explain the matter, completely vin- dieating himself, . The facts charged, it will be remembered, were thal TILDEN, who was a Director in tho Northwestern Company, entered inte = poollng srraugement with Hoopy and athiers whereby the stock of the Gulena Union Hallroad Company was (o be bought up aud un- joaded to the Northwestern at a hand- sowe profit, which Mr, TILDEN was to share, That s, na Divector und ‘Trustee for the stockhiolders of hls Company, Mr. Tin- BN proposed to prostitute his position to skin la atockholders Iu the trangaction for hls own profit. In the suit, Booby further alleges that when the transaction was complete TILDEN pro- ceeded to skin his assoclates of the poot out of £20,000 of the vrufits, Now, the proper thue for Mr, TILDEN to sct up his auswer suems to have come, for he has filed it. And that answer, which was to be his full vindication, so long promised, {s that the sult agalust him s barred by the statute of Mmitatlons,~not that the facts alleged in Boopy's bill are not untrue, hut that Booby's clalm I8 o old It can't be sued on. The plea Is, {n shiort, precisely "such vindlcation s wins Tweep's, " What aro you golugtodo about 11" 1t is a contesslon ol the fraud charged, The ofifcial retirns w that the Democratic Elcctors for tha Biate of 'lexas st large recelved 103,612 votes: Rtepublican Electors, 44,6323 Dem« ocratlc majority, 50,000. ‘l'otal vote, 148,104, SUAINSE A voto at (ha lAst Blats eluction o¢ 200,081 ZiWathington dispateh. The last statement (s not true, The last State election was in 1678, when the vote waa as fol- lows—for Governur; ¥ Coke (Democrat), . Davis (Republican), ToLak cee voe .o +04162,217 At the Jate election the Republicans made no effort, cxcept fu one Copgressional District and fuafew countles In other districts. Votlog the Republican ticket in Texas is not popular; the Btate fs undoubtedly Confederate, and there- fore tha Repubticans let the election almost go by default. If thoy were to vut forth thelr full K S8LAUGH- It 1a very claar that the youngor VANDER- DILT, now in control of the New York Cen. tral manngement, has been ontwitted by the wily Bcorrand the long-hesded GammeTr, The basis of the new arrangoment for East. ern froights differs somewhat in terms from the old pool, but its practical oporation will be matorially the same. ‘Chere is a conces- sion in favor of Philadelphia of © per cont, and 18 per cent in favor of Baltimore, on all freight from competing points in the ‘West except that intended for forelgn ship. ment. 'f'his §s a most ridioulous propoaition, Vanpxasiur hos evidently been betwyed iuto it by his groed togot high rates on grain and breadstuffs shipped for local consumption in New York and the Noew England States; aud, to bring this sbout, he has deliberately sac. rificed the inferests of the Now York merchants, aud sotually taken out of their hands the liandling of all gralu shipped from the West for foreign cousumption, Under the present nrrangement tho local consumption of Philadelphia and Baltimore will Incronse at » rate altogother unparallel. od, As a matter of course, all grain shipped from compoting points in the West will be for home cousumption in order to got the benefit of the difference in rates. There will be no shipments for foreign consumption ox. oept those which are mads direct to Europo, asll we shall be very much surprised i this class of shipments shall not seoure the same concosslons in the way of rebates. Tt willbe a novelty in railroad bills of lading to have tho proposed place of consumption dotailed theroin; probably the Penusylvanin and Baltimore bills will all have * For home consumption” printed in conspiouous type aud red juk on thelr face. ~Thiy makeshift Is It can scarcely bo posaiblo that either the. strength, and were not bulldozed or otherwise prevented from voling freels, they could cast about 100,000 votes agatnat 120,000 Confederates, Tho Confederates have an sctual majority In the Stato of about 20,000, instend of the 59,000 they have scored up by reason of Ttepubitean non-voting. The Colimbia (3. C.) speelal to the New York Ierald of the 10th nst., speaking of the Cou- gressional Investigation into the late cleetlon, snys: The Tlouse Committee has been cnm\find to-day 10 rontine work, comparing retutns, and examin- ing witiessed, The only Impurtant facta dove oped wero in the case at the Bummorville wherg tho corzection of a clerleal arror glves Huyn: 1.8v, Republican Elector, 180 votes additional, 247 Tving been incarroctly written for 437 on tho retaeus, 1t Is this Elector the Democrata aro trylng to bresk down. The same speclal gives this ad- ditional Item: Notwithstanding the precatitionary measures and wmavaments fntended to starve the” CIAMIENLAIN Govrrnment out, It 18 known that the niembers of the MscKEY Rtepublican Houge to-di yvecelvea$200 encli. ‘Tho memhom of tho Sennle vwero not pald, but the ** binck ** leglslators were made happy in the receipt of the abovoe liberal sum. Bpecuintion isrifoanto the sourco of this financlal Income; somo state that United States District-Attorney Conmx, the Hepublican United States Senator- dlect, who ls sald to bu vory wealthy, suppiled the funda in order to keep the Legialaturo togethor and iva 1t somo sembiance of n Jegal boily hy contitvse ng fts cxintence, Othera ulleze that fhe Repablic- an Teeanurer atole n march on the Democrats by drawing 210,000 out of the bunka before they werd enfolnet, Another report I that thn money was furnished by the plxmrmtu compnnies of Charles- ton, which are controlled by REvies ToMLINSON, a fust, pecacaal feiend of CitaunziLais, IHowever {t Iv, the negro membors of the Mackey House are Intalant ovo the possession of the tirat Installment 3'1“"1"""“" and they feel more hopeful aud con- fdent, e a— The Bourbon newepapers are fu a panfc. The Cineinnatd Enguirer has discovered that *the game of Mr. HAvES, as it has been communi- eated to the Southern lenders, is to form & new party to bo composed of thu best of the Re- publicans of the North and the Democrats of the South.” -There fan general ponfe and de- morslization all along the liny, from TiLDaN down. They find that the Bouth does not stenthuse ™ as profusely as they expected, and that their Incendliary propositions do not meet witha response. On the other hand, the mod- cration of Bex Hiut strikes them dumb with amazement. Hence it 1o that TiLpEN has vrdered a stoppage of Woop and RANDALL'S impeachment schemes, and requested n sus- pensfon of the swashbuckler business, and or- dered all honds on deck to grapple with and Tiold fast the Southern clement, which 1s drift- {ng away from them at an alarming rate. Itis not imposslble that the call s too late, aud that TiLoEN {8 Jeading a forlor hope. e dhan it o Tue Tntwune {s, porhaps, right in this. No ateiot will ald [n brioging on a war, o guaran. 0 that the Democracy will not take such a coarse, 1f Gov, Hayss sliall be countod in by the two fonses of Congross ns Preaident, I both Houses of Congreny shull ngree to the counting of the Biates of Uregon, Houth Carolinu, Florida, und Loulslana for HAYES, then we gnarunteo that the Denocrac, will offer no opposition 1o his Inauguration, an there will be no war, — Peorla Dsmocrat. Buppose the President of the Senate, acting in accordance with the plain letter of the Consti- tution, opens the cnvelopes contalning tho Electoral votes of the different State Colleges, nthe prescace of the two Houases, announces the contents of each as he opens it, and when he 18 through foots them up and finds that Haves hns recelved 185 and TILDEN 184 votes, and as 185 is o majority of all tho votes cast, be pro- claims R, B, Hares duly cleeted President of tie Unlted Btates, will the Democracy offer op- position to the Inauguration, and will there be warl —ee—— ¢ The most signlificant testimony to the rapld progress that has bLeen masde In bullding up Amerjean monufactures 18 found in the lecturs which M, Favne-Prrer, of the International Jury at the Centennial Exposition, has since hils roturn to 8witzerland delivered to the watch- makers there. Thercin he plainly tells the Swiss watchmakers that Amerlean watches ore turned out by machinery with a marvelous pre- clslon and ot g cost which he.says terrifies him, bueeause of the dsuger to which it exposes the 8wise {ndustry, M. FAVRE-PERRET I8 2 watch manufacturer and an expert in the business, which gives the more significance to his state- ment, which he clinches by saying that if the Phlladelphia Exhibition lind been deferred for five years, the watchmaking fodustry of the 8wlss would bave been annihilated before they knew who or how.” And us it Is, ho fears tho Amertean will supplaut the Bwlss watches in Europeau markets. e —m— The I)enrlmu! the Sonthern Eeuple in the great troubles that beset the country has extortod rejus. tant trlbutes from even the Radical press. Al- though the South precipiinted tho country Into swar, slio hun ever been more couservative than the North, —Memphia Appeal. There Ia considerable trath in this claim. The swashbucklers who are going about threatening war and desolation unless they are allowed to count fn Mr. TiLDBN are almost exclusively found in the North. The nolsy, frothy blow- hards whonra trylng to seare peoplo are tho Bay Ranpanis, Fennanpo Woobs, Biun Srainoeus, the New York World, Chicagro Times, Cinciunati Enguirer, and fellows and sheets of that kind, These follows are all invinctble In peaco and fnvisiblo in war, as Bex HiLusays, Let the Bouth contlnue a dignifled course, and the Northern disturberas of tho peace will fall fn offccting their end, e ———— e The man of gore who edits tho. fivat page of the Chicago Zimes from Washington says that * 11aLsTEAD, of the Cincinnat! Commercial, is in Washington. With him appear (n Washington MepILL of TuB Trisung, and Jones of the New York Zimes, and the rumored purpose of others to follow fills the air? The first and second named of those citizens will bo much oblfized to Gon, KrgNAN for thelr trausportue tlon to Washington in the spirit, while thelr corporeal impedimenta was left behfud In Ciu- ciunats and Chieago. But, serfously, {5 it not about time for the Old Man to suppress his champion Yari e ———— The Clnclnnatt Fugutrer {s slarmed ot the numcrous slens of Democratic dissension {n Washington, and says: Uylesr the Democruts in Congress prv‘paru o pro- ceed with determination und wnity, it s hardly worth while for the peoplo at large to got mnad. This taunt is Intended for tho ‘Southern Demoeruthe members who have refused to rend thelr nelthergurments i Lohalf of the Usufruct. Of vourss it 18 not worth while for the peopla to ket mad, aud they don't intend to, It s only tho fellows who sro chaelng after post-ofices and gaugerships that get mad, as they find the Jucsfous zrapes sl plums above thelr react, e = The cveulng-newspaper concern of thia city whosa theft of teleeraphle dispatehes from Ity more euterprislug coutemporary, thy News, the Iattor journul exposed, and which reprinted without credit Tug TRINUNE'S thirty-five-hun- dred ward deseription of the Brooklyn ‘Theatre fire, hus mow taken to the mauufacture of “apecinls ! from Washington, A careful com- parisun of & so-called Washingtou speclal fu yesterdoy's Post with a Chicago dispatel to the New York Zerald of the 16th wll) show exactly how telegraph tolls are saved sud o reputation for enterprise galued, Tho fact Is, the iutunse bitterness and Indigns tlon which now pervade the Doy ic P-my are pertectly natural. —Cloveland Platns Dealer, All Democrata are not NAspys, crazy after post-ofiices, ¢ s only tho class who are seck- inir spol) that Is pervaded by sensations of “in- tense bitterness aud fndignation ™ at the pros- pect of Gov. 1aYss’ inauguration, If the P.-D. will try and get ¥ post-ofilee® out of 118 baed it will be surprised how it bitterness snd ludig- nation will pass away aud be succeeded bya haly calm of fudifference, ixed with & lttle Btate pridethat the Buckeye Btate furnishes the Presidents e Taking the prima facls case as it atands, HAvEs bas got 195 Electoral votes and TiLDEN 184, The Cbicago Times calls the former “‘the Pretender.” Is it not TILDEN who s the Pre- tender? The man who has received but 184 votes and clafms to bo elected 18 o pretender most certataly, whila the man who has 185 votes is the President-clect beyond all question. Krxyiax will, of courve, deny 1t but we aubmit —_— to tho mathematical candor of tho 01 Magn whether Tipan with his 184 votes s noy g, Pretender, ¢ The Crmicago Tamsuxs It r strunuly as il can ba 4ano that Chicago wpp it ona Chileago man for tho Unlted States Sernil® without regand to polltich. 11 that in tn he the game, i Tista shoald remender Gy o can ylay at It and that the fost of (ho Statu e : clry;;l(l. ¥ Intier than Cook County . —Leorlu I'ry,. Wien it comes to equalizing the State t. ax the Board considers Cook County about (he ;:;: of the rost of tho State. As to the Senatoraly, Chleago Intends to unlje on at least ten Ch!cuq«.‘) men, and would like to know what you gro golng to do about it. e R - Ane Hewirr la greatly chegrined at th promptitude of Zacit CIANDLER'S answer t: hiis absurd allegation that TILDEN was elected, ABg hnd hardly lafd down his card when Zacn trumped it. 8peaking of Hgwirr, the Albuny Jonrnal obaerves: 53 Mr. HewitT has rapldly galned a v ¥ oua positian among tho Lfinxcx;xnflou‘;n:{“wlfli(v ‘&fii ast address [s tho richest of all. "VDaén youe }.’5‘.’,25' l|lh|l\ :.Z‘@'e“f’: ;1'“3, Dundreary of hiy 3 \ n't any by gt Bad brother, would he ko cheerotr > IF e ——— ‘The Quincy Wiy says that n private letterre. cetved {n that city yesterday from 8t. Loufscop. tains the following puesnge: They will sliow this man Cnoxix 40 b was Laiking with Col, Cnias, One of thy pheamicion: of the 7Wmes, last evening. e mays ** wonre may. }}.E‘!: ,.';hfi |111(':"|: n")“rllvhriy rl||n ‘l not {naugimie " 3 Jlasees bt il ian ny private oplulon that tie will ba It moy be proper to add, says the TWug, that the letter from which the foregoing passage was taken was written by a Democrat, At ‘Une of our country exchanges remarks: “Tho Post and the News don't hitch in Chivago. The News nceused the Fost of stealing dispatclies, and put upa bogus Servian hoax on them, We bavao not yet heard the Post's dofouso.” ———— PERSONAL. One of the algns of the tlmen fu the reunfon of gnlon ond Confedorate voluntecrs at Virginla, oV, Mr. Delane, chlef editor of the London Zime, fa very Ill, and rapldly falliog. It §s pelleved l.; cannot Jive many weeks, The suggestion hae been made that Prosldent Grant may be provided for, after his retircment from public life, by belng made Presidont of the Smithsonian Institate, * Elfinella,” a new pootic drama by Mr. Ross Nel), fa very highly praleed by the London Times, 1t has beon proiluced on tho stage only in Bdin- burg, whete it was much admired by the critics, The now Federal Theatro in Boston had an Iron drop-curtaln, and ita existence was referred to fu the v'p;anlng -ddx:n spokon Oct, 21), 1708: T et o vafety aote Won Suriam Durlng proccedinge in the Emma Mine sllver caso in tho United States District Court at New ‘York thefollowlng Mnes wore clrculated among the spectators: R T or o i e Capt. Nares s frashly charged with hoving dis- patched sledging partiea to the Pole without ade- quste supplios of lime-juice, the remedy forucurvy, The men had the seeds of scurvy in tholr aystems *| before sotting ont, and the dlseass moon bruke forth with unusual viralence, John Bright does not belleve that England has any intorest at stake In the East which would war- rant her in golng to war—not as much as would Justity hier in sending a single man to slaughter. Lord Beaconsfleld's speech on the subject he deacribes a8 rhodomontade and balderdash, Benator Cameron aold laughingly to Mr. Blalno 1 have just recommended for appolntment ng Poatmaster fna large city 1n my Btate an entbust- astic Blalue man.” **Why," replled the Senator from Maine, quick as flash, ‘*you could notdo otherwise in Penusylvania unleds you appointed & Democrat. " Sir Richard Stecle was burfed In Bt. Peler's Church, Carmarthen. A brass tablet las latoly been placed in position there with tho following inscription: **8ir Richurd Btcele, Knight, nuthor, essoylst, first chlef .promoter of tho perlodica) presa of England: born fn Dublin March 12, 1071; burled in this church and below this tablet.” The Frankfort Rothschild negotfated for a bit of 1snd adjolning hia city resldetice, The owner de- manded an exorbitant sum, which Rothachild ro- fused to give, Thereupon appeared on the prop- erty In a short time n low concert-hall, where becr and muetcdid nbundantly prevall all the night Tong. Itfasald the Jothschild has succumbed and tlie concert-hall disappeared forever, M. Charles Blane, the art critlc, on helng ad- mitted tu the French Academy recently, ‘pro- nounced o eulogy on his predecessor, M, de Came, according to custom. Thio mattetof bl addrers, howaver, was unuaua} in being rather critical than culogistic, and M. do Ronssot, who mado the speech in reply, indirectly rebukod the new mewber for departing from time-honored ussges, Mr. Dona, af the New York.Sn, has beon in- dicted for criminal l1bel, in charging In his paper, last Octobor, that Gov, Bhepherd kept a mistress In the Treasury Department, who was‘appointed by the Prosident at Shepherd's request, and who did no work. Doth the Presldent aud ex-Sccretary Bristow will teatify that they never mada such an appoiutment at Shopherd's requests, as charged. Tha dificulty of tho French publlc with the ploy of MM, Erckmann-Chatrinn was In declding when the hissing should begin. Sinco the anthors wery to b hissed and not the piay, thero must be sn ua- mistakable demonstration at some point. Dut tho hisuing contd novbe done boforo the play opened, sinco this wonld ba manifeatly unfair; nor Iu the midst of it, elnce it offered no falr protext; nor 8t the end, because pobady would roain to hear the nolse, So the hissing hns for the most part been confined to the nawspapers, = M. Joho Raeo, the banker of Palermo who wes capturca by brigands, hss boen restored to his frlonds, and the stories ho tolls of hls experienco during Lis onforced stay with the gentiemanty highwaymen 1y not of & nature to rebssure travel: aré. o was with them twenty days, The first day he had to ride sixteen hours continuously. ‘When the prrault became hot he was dragged about turough the woods from place o place, always travehng ot night, never undrussing, and living exclusivoly on bread, choesc, and wino. o was glad to glve $:20,000 88 a ranson. Jonquin Miller is now writlag 8 Fifth avenus pocin, the subject of which 1a to bo the rescue Ml‘ Uesutiful woman from o burning butiding bya Call- fornia horo, expressly fmported for the accatlon. 110 haa crammed & number of architectaral ltrml.. and, 1t fa sald, can describe tho Mintele In five I?n gungea, 31t huro Is beuught to tha scuno of Actioh on horssback. When o practical city edltor suge gestod (o the poct that no man on borseback, ‘h\!\‘: or otherwlse, conld gut inaide the palice In;‘1 arawn ground fires fn Now York, the aniiess .lml of ttio canons clapped bls hauds together an! ?m ecatatically, **Lravol brggul ke stuall pide e dowa, " Maurice Strakosch, ft s anld, proposcs 10 (2k0 Gilmore's Band to Parle in 1878 as s mpmmnn'\ o American nstitation, The Phitadelphin 7 l:" Jaugbu at the fdes, and says that the caum;! ¢ dope nothlug to deserva auch fearfol retribut! al'| l“ the hands of Mr, Strakoech, ** 1t fa not that :\l not & representative band, but becanse i m;‘m give the musical public of Burolio, ¥ false anlded of our wusical nudl'-ar:;.. \m lzwmr::;\lill‘y :.l:fl thom 'khr:p :mfl\.;u f:fixuvy vand in Lhfl clmmln;y. : u";r' ate undersioud iersi they oLl A0 LCeiciutig n“.!::‘n‘t!‘.‘.”&“:..' v uid cluvor yentieoian that e I e i 40 at togethyr a hand whlch ALUE: fea would cousent 10 cunsider ua fta yepres Mve" HOTEL ARRIVALS, se—dinies Awh, Baffalos Jo llusn:‘l:,";:a\,\’:‘y‘ho: L. 8. Wadloigh, Lyons; 1 Hall,’ Ssn Franclico) {:,ud . Bluve was | Cityg U B Sycamare), (o 1l stout, Adteorin; P Mison, (Wi Stelutart, 8.0, Alexander, ; 0. Cltys C. Aultiman, Castom Osi %:‘t;‘e't sxé::;“;lonm carvollsi.. Iy "?9"'&!.{".“0'.1, Lovy aud Al Il Koot orky Col. € B . ) N + tho Hon. Williaw i'-%‘.‘;fl:‘i.'! ’lJ\ml"“ , Bonte, Clnclpnatl l L:z.l o n'flill(;fit". fi“?fii W‘h.nlllfnb]llll;fli: :’I‘ H‘DCIIN - Hoywo . Weld, Boitoni Hleywood and W . Weld, et N rooces 6o 11, Parkor, slolti Hlen Jahueon, Mitwaul drand Pacifiet. €, Townsend, Cincluootls Lieut.C.Qsrvin, U, 8. A. ¢ol, 5. N, Welih, e H ar Ryt . cranalle Now York; the Hon, B H yleuester, N Voi B Yhm? “llowwei tiart, Rochestyl S0 00 B, By, silwsukvos WHNEE G 0Pyl ] A, ... Polmar dfguse—W. M. e Sl o Friiceds s A jiN - mum\p 3G A ' e o T Now Yorki C. Ll ., L, Juhnson, 1 Clawson, Balt Lakej B. M Hotclkisy, Nowsrky N I 3 Jawms, Bulslo;