Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 20, 1876, Page 4

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W' Monroe sircet, cosner Dearborn, Varlsty performe gy waes:” attenuodnaulevenlus, R Haverly's Thewirs, TR Nondolph street, between Clack: and Lasalle, Eo« ‘l'};‘" Ragement of Miss Nellron. ** Twelith Night.” jed Monyoe street, between Deartorn and State, ** Rob Roy,™ Atierndot aod cvenin e em—. SOCIETY N CAGO CHATTER, No. 127, R. A, M.~Hall 13¢ et Wicsttlar Cnatstiom tiih, Wedhos /. day evening ul 7:30 0°¢leek, Tor the [nstaliation of om- e Vislting Companions cordlally tnlted, By order of et B i TS GARDEN CITY LODGE, 141, A. F. & A. M.—The Memburs are. Ntrl'hrflfllllllld 1o appesr at the regoelar e on oF Scots and pher e TorTaRs DURLsess 20, Electiun of ofticers ane her Jin| 2 101 HOLCOM, W L. L. WADswonTn, Sec. T, A=Al Lecrs aove tho rank of Kelght,now o tat loadyuariers this (Wedieiday) f;,nnr(c.d o meet & bigh viticer of Greonbacks at the New Vork Gold Ex. change yesterday close at 93, Litle Rock, Ark., i# onco moro the scens of a disastrous conflagration, the smoke of the first having hardly cleared nway before the breaking out of the secoud. Ata lato lour last night the flames were gaining headway, and tho ontlook was discoursging to the people of the nnfortuuate oity, The Democrats on the Louisiann Senate Cowmitteo yesterday objeoted -to the ad. misgion of u bullet-ridden negro's testimony because tho bulldozee in question was too near donth's door to como before the Com- mittee, aud becauso the country had already 4 been **unfortunately " disquicted over the ; testimony of Eniza Pivkstoy. These able j; arguments going to justify the flight of ren. son to brutish bensts wore unsuccessful, however, in smothering tho voice of the o] mangled victim of the Democtatic clob, and ¢ his recital is accordingly sprond before the wwith South Carolina in the luzury of s dopuble set of Stato oflicors. Nicuorrs the Democratic candidate for CGovernor at the recent election, announces his intention to assert his rights and prerogatives aa the law- fully-elocted Governor of the State, His ¢laitn is based upon tho assumption, which ! the Rtetnrning Board rejected, that at o fair, it honest, aud pencenble election hio recoived a ity majority of the votes cast, 1o is in the ";}., %¢ same bont with the Demoacratio Presidential Ji % Electors, and is no more entitled to bo 1‘;&‘-‘ yecognized ns the Governor of Louisiana "", 1 thnu they ave to cast the Electoral yvote of ifngl the State for TrrpeN. Gen" BN 0. Burcer, tho hero of the Hamburg massacro, has finally secured his J¢E reward. Mo was yesterdsy honorod by the {:T' sdmiring aud appreciative Democracy of Hoith Carolina to the utmost extent of thuir 44 nbility to confor dlstinction—was * elected " 37 Unitoa Btates Senator by the Hanrron wing of the Legislature, the Democratio members : of the Senate uviting with the rump House ju ndding this fresh blot upon American zatlon. Tho Hamburg butchery was ! condemned withiout stint ot the time of M8 occurrence by the more "% moderate and docent clement of Northern provocation or palliation, and in heaping : nonors upon ita lending spivit and chiof director tho Bouth Carolina White-Liners Lave onco moro demonstrated thelr com. pleto npproval of the policy of murdor and s ! torroriam which ko nearly resulted In elocting both Hixeron and Truoes, i The Chicago produce markets wero gener- slly firm yesterday, aod moderately notive, i]; Blews pork closed 12§0 higher, ot 816.05 for January and $16.774 for February, Lard ! closed 15 per 100 1bs Ligher, at $10.47} for iJnnunry and $10.60 for Fobruavy, Ments -{; wero steady, at Go for new shoulders, boxed, |} 8fe for do short-ribs, sud 8}e for do short. ‘ ¥ clears, Highwines were unchanged, at $1.08 w1 pergallon. Flour was quiet and tame, Wheat 4% closed Jo higher, at §1,19 for December and £ $1.10} for January, Corn closed firmer, ity at 44jo for December and 44jo for January, }4¢ Oata closed a shade firmer, ot 83j0 cash and "l 83§c for Junuary. Rye was steady, at 70c, i Liurley closed easier, at G4c cash and 640 for ‘3 January, Hogs were quiet and firm, with the Y bulk of sales at $5.50@06.00. Cattle were "§.{ firm; sLipping grades, 10@130 higher, Thero was 8 dull sheep market, at §3.00@4,25 for comwon to cholce. Last Batunlay evening ‘11there was in store in this city 8,102,877 bu “4lwheat, 838,016 bu corn, 516,283 bu oats, i05.069 bo rye, and 1,126,050 bu bazley. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $107.60 in greonbacks at the cloge, Crox1y, the humble instrumont selected to porpotrate the Oregon villainy, pnssed through Chicago yesterdny on his way to Washington. Being an individual of prom- inonce just now, he was pounced upon by the Intgrviewers, townrd whom be maintain. od a stilf upper lip and brazemed out his rageality to the end. CroNix npparently left Orogon undar the improssion that he is the great Amerlcan Wanwiox, the Presldoent. makor par excellnce of the age, A brief sojowrn in Washington will suf. fice to convince him of Lis mistake, will assist him in the discovery that he is a person of vory little comsequonce, The Democrats will hardly like to lionize him to any consplouous extent, for they have not quite made up their minds that the Oregon conspiracy was a creditable achlevement; and when the Prosident of the Sonats an- nounces Orogon’s throo votes for Hares, as ho nnquestionably will do, CronN will con. clude that is has made o melancholy fizzle 88 o Presidentinl Eleotor, and depart for tho Pacifie Slope a sadder and wiser man, —— The much-talked-of possible arrangemont for counting the Eloctoral vots has thus far progroessed no farthor than the realm of talk, I'ho Committeos authorized by both Houses of Congresa have not yet boon named, and tho scope of their nuthority, if they had beon appointed, might not promise a compromise such a8 the two IHouses wonld adopt or even consider. It is a noleworthy fact that the Democratio propositions have shown an en- tire lack of tho spirit of concession, Nota- ble in this regard is the bill of Proc- Tor Knorr, which proceeds upon the “*heads.I-win, tails-you.lose™ principle. It is prosumed that both parties are nwalting the return of the Investigating Committees now engaged in tnking testimony at the Bonth. These Committees, mors espacially thoso at Now Orleans, will not finish up their work for a fortnight or more. At the rato at which theso two latter Commit- tees are now ncoumulating testimony of all sorts, by the time they bave finished they will have col- lected more than enough to oceupy the time of Congress in the rending thoreof for the rowsinder of the session. The indica- tions are that the Houso Committoes in South Carolina and Florida aro gleaning in an un. profitable field, and that tho tares gathered in by them nre not of a naturo to cause much rejolcing among the friends of TiLDEN, Concerning tho proposed * bulidozing * of Mr. Onton, President of the Wostern Union Telegraph Compauy, to make him produce the telographic correspondance of the recent campaign, the Demoerats in Congress will do well to proceed cautiously ; for their deter. mination now will not be limited to this par- tionlar case, but will set a precedont govern- ing nll cases in tho future. Wo have no idea that the production of the dispatohes that passed batweon the Republican managors will revenl anything at all damnging or discredit. able, and probably a comparison between tho Ropublicon and Domocratic dispatches will show the latter to be the more disraputablo. Indeed, Mr. Orros has said that there is nothing which ho a8 o Republican desires to withibold, but for the pratection of telegeaph Interests whioh he represents he wants it definitely settled whether or not Congross bas the power to compel the production of the telegraph files for weoks or wmonths, It Is proper enough to summon Mr, Orrox as a witness, ond compel him to produce any specific tolegrams known to bo in his posses- sion, but the power of Congress ought not to bo exercised to the longth of exposing all telographic mattor to the publio view at any time. Such power ss this wonld be worse than the passage of o law requiring that all lettora pnssing through the mails should be sont unsealed. If such power is leld to be vested in Congress, the Telegraph Company will probably adopt'the polioy of burning all dispatches, meraly giving a cortified copy to tho sender at tho time of transmission if it is desived. Tho Telegraph Compnny must pro- tect its correspondence or lose a large part of its business. BOUTHERN CLAIMS, ‘When the Republican newspapers during tho Iato campaign cited the Southern war- claims s one of the dangers of the accession of the Confederates to the control of the Government, they were variously aunswered that the allowanco of theso claime s pro- hibited by tho coustitutionsl amendments, oud that the charge was a cumpaign roor- buch. The regent action in the Houso of Representatives shows that neithor answer was true, ‘'he House, by a vote of 150 to G4, hoa passed a resolution instruoting the Judiciary Committea to roport an amend. mont to tho Coustitution forbidding the pay- ment of war-claims to disloya! persons. This shows that the proseut constitutional pro- visions do not cover the cauo, a3 was claimod by tho Democrats during the campaign, Dut the character of the negative vote also sliows that the apprehensions of the Ropublicaus as to tho designs of the ox-Ooufoderates of the South were well- founded. Of tho 63 who voted agaiust the resolution, only two are Northern membors, ond all the others representatives of tho Confederate claimants, 'The negative voto includes such prominent Southerners s Warrruoune and Briont of 'l'enuesses, Wanner of Virginin, Vaxoe of North Caro- lina, TanooxyonroN, REaoav,and Soureiougn of Toxas, Tucken and HoNow pt Virginia, Sivareron and, Lrnon of Mississippl, vy, Brount, and Hanns of Goorgla, Kxorr and Drown, of Kentucky, cle. ; sud whon sixty- one of theso gentlomen‘place themselvos on record as opposed to any permanent and sweeplng prohibition of paying clalms for war losses to the men who were engaged in therebollion against the Government, it is protty ovidont that the Itopublicsn appree hension was well-gronnded, 1t is more than likely that this resolution was introducod {nto tho Houso at this timo for the purposo of allaying tha publio appro- housion and making capital for Alr, TiLoeN pending the dispute 08 to the olectlon of Prosidont. But the only proper wy 15 for Congress to mccopt it In good falth, and the Iepublicans urge forwsrd just such » monsore a3 tho resolution calls for. 'Cho matter must pot be pormitted to slcop in the Committes. The presant constitu. tional amendments are not broad enough to cover tho ground, 'The Yourteenth Amend. ment merely excludes the assumption of the Robel dobt and the payment for the emancle poted slavea; but there is mothing in the Coustitution which prevents allowing claims for property uscd oud destroyed, or ground occupled, when presonted by mon who wero .in open robellion. 'There s a United Btatos statute to this purport, but that may be re. poaled at suy time the Confederates secure sufficient power. ‘Thore is no dauger to be opprehended from the present Congress nor tho pext Copgress, for the Benate will con. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1876. tinne to be Republican ; but the only way to shut out all apprehionsion for the futnro is to provide n constitntional smondment that shall meot o dangor that canuot be success- fully denied when sixty-one Sonthern mem- bers of Congress openly acknowledge their willingness to pay former Rebels for losses incurred by their own troason, Nor will it be suflcfent for the Republican members to stir up the Judiciary Committes to reporting a constitutional emendment ; they must also ges to it that the amendment roported shall be in no wise nmbiguons, It {8 well known that thero is a Democratie theory to the offect that all mon who have enjoyed the nonrly universal amnesty granted by the Republican party, and who have bad thelr disabilities removed, aro now loyal, and that they havae the same right to put in their olaims aa othor loyal men or men who never rebelled against tho Governmont. This is not the construction which the country de- sires to put upon the case, It does not de. slrs to reimburse any man who was a Rebal, or in nctive sympathy with the Rebols, for any losses incident to the War. The Amerl- oan people cannot afford to reward tho Rebels or to offer & premium for treason, by a gonoral notice that any clasa who chooss to array thomselves against the Government and bring on a-civil war may oxpact, after tho thing is all settled up, to bo {ndemaified for auy damnges thoy may suffer during their term of robellion. So tho Re. publicans in Congress should now insist not only that the Judiciary Committes sball ro. port a constitotional amendment, but that thelr report shall be so clear and compro. hensive as to settle the question for all time. 1t is n good time to force tke Domocrats into this concession. THE MAXIMUM OF BRASS, 'The domand of Mixx Evans for the books of the Sonth.Town Collector i3 not only a prominent instauce of nnblushing cheek, but it aptly fllustrates how soon tho people at large forgot, and even sometimes forgive, a wrong which haa been imposed upon them., It was only in April last that the people of the South Town of Chicago held an clection, elected honest and trustivorthy officers, and thon haod the results changed right under their very eyes. 'Thoy saw the swindle per- potrated, saw how it was done, and who did it. Thore were witnessos who dotected some wof the scoundrels coming out of the vault where they had been robbing the ballot- boxes. There wore witnesses who saw thom take a dozen of ballot-boxes, in the face of protest and without law, dump their con. tents in n pile on tho table instead of count~ ing ench box soparately, which was done to pravent detection of {he raseally frauds that bad been practiced In severnl of the pre- cineta. The villaing who manipulated the contents of the boxes abstracted tickets by the handful, snd, in replacing others to fill the vacancies by guess, did not put back within 1,200 ballots the number thby stole out of the boxes, Men not known “to bo candidates at all wero found to be .elected, and mon who were regular eandi- dates wera found to have only a handful of votes, Ropublicaus known to boe elected by Lieavy moajorities were found to ba defeated. ‘Ihero nover was n bolder or more shameful fraud practiced st an clection, evon in the worst days of Tammany. Pnblic indigna- tion rose to a white heat, and the first senti- wment was to hang the scoundrels to the near- et lampeposts. Thae citizens met in com- mittees, aud mot en mnsse, and issued their indignant protests. For a time it looked na it the ticket-atenling and ballot-box-stufling conspiracies had been defeated. Some of the bogus-clect resigned, nnother was bafiled, 4 third failed to get his handa on the assess- ment books, a fourth, by tha ald of unscru- pulous attorneys, got his bogus olaim into court on technioal grounds and carried it up beforo the Bupreme Court, which rendored a decree or judgment which in ef. fect upheld the orignal election fraud, to the disgust and chngrin of the honest publie, The sams Court had previously upheld the vlidity of tho chartor election, which was carried by the most unblushing ballot-box- stufing, Appealing to the Supreme Court to purgo elections of frauds hns been s suc. cessful business, And now comes Mixel give employment to hundreds of men, nnd provide a building which is sadly needed. Mr. Brioner, in his stntement before tho Citizons' Aseoointion and the county Logislative dolegation, has very cloarly indieated how the reform enn be se- cured by rolevying the taxes uncollected in back years upon msscasmonts which have been legally made; that is, tho amount of tax levied ngainst each property-holder would bo ronssessed under county valuation, sunit entered, and judgment obtalned, which would be n licn against the delinquent prop- orty. The taxes oolloctod, the city would be froe to gonliead and build its half of the Conrt-Houge, aAnd, in addition, pay ita foating debt, stop intercat, and get on its feot again. THE AWFUL FACT, ‘Wa never should have known it but for the Committee sent there by the Democratic House to dig it np—the awful fact about the bulldozing in Louisians, Now, thanks to the Doemooratic majority of that Committce whichdug it up, the world knows ormay know it,—all of it. Thero is no longer any doubt nbont it ; there was bulldozing at the late eloction in tho Pelican State. Mr. Monnisox and his fellow Demoorats of the Committae hinvo brought out the proofs to establish that. It surpassed, too, did this bulldozing, in atrocity, all that has hitherto been exposed. Even the horrid tale told by Erntza PingstoN and corroborated by her gaping, ghastly wounds, when contrasted with the tale which Mr, Mornison and the rest unfold, sinks into iusignificance, even as a tallow dip pales before the orb of day. And to this day, so droadfully were thoy bulldozed, those Louisiana negroes, that they dare not have it known how they voted, and they trom- ble in their boots—that is, those of them do who have boots—at tho appalling thought that it may yet ba disclosed how they voted or how they would Lavo voted if they hadn't been bulldozed. But the awful fact sbout this bulldozing, discovored by the Democrats of the Commit- toe, ig, that Dinah did it. It was the faith- ful partnoerof hislife, who theseason through tolls like a pack-mule by his side in the cot- ton-field, or the dusky maiden he takes to tho circus and the camp-mesting, who bull- dozed poor Sambo, Louisiana wns filled with them,—as the Democratic membora of the Committes find testimony to prove,—ne- gro voters who with irrepressible ardor yearnod to vote for * Mass' Trpen.” Of course they had heard all about him and what he had done and was going to do for tho Sonth, and how, whon elected, he was going to make an end of the *nigger-ruls and restors dominion to those Iawful lords of the soil, the White-Liners, And of courso they heard, too, these * niggers,"how Hayes was ono of the Yankeo Generals who, during the late unpleasantness, *“fit” for * niggor~ equality.” Of course overy ‘‘nigger” in Louisiana must have lesrd all that, for it waa the siaplo of all the Democratic oratory in Louisiann. And what ‘*nigger” who heard that wouldn't yearn with irrepressiblo longing to voto for Mass® TruoEN? ‘Tho Committee—that is, the Democratic majority of it—discover that that is pre. cisely what S8ambo did yearn to do, But the awful fact remains that Dinah bulldozed him into voting for Haves. With tears streaming down their cheeks and rolling up the whites of their eyes in horror as thoy recall it, the bulldozed darkies have beon telling how Dinsh didit, No more hooccake of morn. ings was her awful threat to Sambo if he voted for Mass' Tipey. Nevermore for Sambo should there he banquet of roast 'possum, nor biled shirt of Sundays, nor seat on the mourners' bench at camp-meetin’, And never, no, never, would sho go to the circus with him—not . even if she nover went to the circus again—unless he voted for Hayes. And even yot would she bull. dozo him if she knew he had yearned with that longing irrepressiblo to vote for Mass’ TILDEN. * Buch iz tho awfal fact which Mr. Mon- 180N and his follow-Democratic members of the Committee have dug up and published to tho world. Tho recital of it is enough to move a ¢rocodile to weep like a Nione. And, if thore yet bo those who know how Evaxs, one of tho beneficiaries by the lato| decision, who well knows that he was nol elected, but beaten by a majority of thou.| sands, and that he ran considerable danger of]| Lelng * bulldozed” to a lamp-post by thej outragod votors, He haa tho impudence to) demand the Colleotor’s office, for which ki was defented, and that in the faco of th allogations publicly mnde sgainst hi that bhe is a defaulier to the amoun of $25000 on previous collections.) It ever man' displayed sn adamantine choek it is the ‘‘Reformer™ Evans, And yot the people have calmed down aud neatly forgotton all about it, and his impudent, brassy demand fails to creato a ripple of popular interest. Is it owing to the fact that honest and law-nbiding people are hope- less of ever gotting their clection rights in the Courts ? s it that, betweon ballot-box. stufiing on tho one hand and tho combina- tion of courts and officials against thom on the other, they ara in utter despair, and-are conviuced that thoy are at the meroy of cor- rupt bummern past all belp from so-called justice? The peoplo should not settle down in such hopeless conviction. They may not be able tu oject thoss who stolo the town offices at tho Inst clection, but they can provent n repotition of the fraud next spring by mnking the proper effort. At loast, they can givo the thing another trial. Meanwhilo something can be done this win- ter by the Legisiaturo to improve thoe wretched ¢ Town " Board systom in this city, S At the lnst meeling of the Comnon Coun. cil n communication was road from the Comptroller to the following effect : Tu revponse to a regolution passed by your hon- orable body on the 11¢h fnst., I have to report that there sppear upon the Tressurer's Looks the fol- lowing Items as transferred from the ** Canal e- demption Fuud," vie.: Public Buildings Pund, credit, $639,138,02; Clty-Hall Fund, credis, $21,- 4000; lotal, $609,530.02, Under the clasaifications passed by your honorable body Aug, 14, 1670, the abavo funda were copsidered 2a belonging to Class ++C," and the actual nmount proporilonately bue longing to these funda to-duy would bo unly §146, - 837,15, This balance of mouney transferred from the Canal Redomption Fund has been spent for genaral purposes, in defanlt of the col- leotion of back taxes, and now forms a part of the floating debt of the city, and has been spont In nddition to millions of other, money borrowed by tho city, ‘Ihio clty has collocted taxes as far o4 it oould, but only enough to place to the credit of this fund, as it ap- pears, $140,837, It s now inoumbent upon the Leglulature to come to the relio? of the aty and devise some system by which it can colleot the back taxes. By passing o law {o this efect, and getting tho machinery to work, the tax might bo collected, tho $600,000 could be replaced, and the oity mext summer oould go on and buld Nt bal? of the Court-Houso, poor tho fleld-hand negroes are at thia time of the year,—~how they are dopendent upon tho planters for corn and bacon advances for the winter,—how Demoocratio negroes are in overy way rewarded nnd petted, whils the lines of Ropublican *¢ niggers” are made the hardest,—~if those who know all this refuse to bo bulldozed by this astounding tale told by the Monnson Committeo, those persons should themselves be tumed over to the ten- der mercies of tho feroclous Dinab, the bull- dozer, A SHORT REPLY TO A LONG ONE. The Rov, Joun ATkiNsoN, pastor of Grace Methodist Church, hins replicd in a sermon to s TrinuNe critiolsm of hia original ser- mon on tho Brooklyn Theatre calamity, As ko now explaing his views, we cannot seo that his position differs from that assumed in his original discourao, except that he states it moro generally. The whole spiritof the sec- ond sermon makea the burning of the Brook. lyn Thantre, with its fearful loss of life, and tho burning of the Tariae Tabernacle, without the loas of 1ife, special providences, Wo will not now discuss the abstract dootrine of spocial providences. Wa would rothor come down to the hard faots, Mr. ATEINgON must assumo ono of two thinga— either that all theatros avo such vile and wicked places and conducted in such palpa. blo and open violation of divine Inw asto justify tho Almighty in burning them up with the poople who attend them, or that this particular theatre was such a bad ono ay to justify the fiery visitation. He probably wenld not hold to the first position, He knows very well that there are many thea- tros proporly and morally conduoted; that there are wmauy plays which aro entirely proper and moral, inuocent and instructive, which ave not bad In thelr tendencles, and which produce no worse results than the overyday laughing and orying growing ont of the play of natural emotions, outside of the theatro. We have no néed, however, to dofend the drama. It came iuto existence conturios before Christianity, It haa lasted over 2,400 yonrs, and yet mankind to.day are just as fond of the ropresentations of bumgn sotions, passions, folbles, and idio- syncracies npon the stage as they ever were, and the dramatic sentiment is almost as uul- vorsal as the religious, from tho earlieat childhood to oldest age. Of course there ara bad actors 0s there are bad ministers; bad theapros as thore are bad Christians; and bad playsas thore are bad astions in lifo; but it is as unfair to judge the one by the exception as the other. In this particular case, the play of **The Two Orphans™ was in performance. Itis a very pathetic play, and it teaches a good moral, aud yet, if we can gather anything from the general position of Mr, Arinsoy, it was owing to the dread. ful sud wicked character of thls play that the Almighty buwmed up 800 people who wero witnoasing tt. He must take one of the two positions. e cannot consistently take the former, for that wonld necossitate the burning up of all thentros and their an- diences, [If he takes the Inttor, nud belioves thnt theroare spesial providences and punish- ments for theatros, was the burning of the Brooklyn Thoatre one of them? 1f so, why 7 The burden is upon him to show that this thentre wasso bad and this play was eo im- moral as to justify the Almightyin do- stroying one-fourth of those who went to soe i, snd in addition to this, to show that the one.fourth who perished were worso than tho three. fourths who escaped. 'With our human knowledge we cantot soe that cither thentre or play was of such a Sodomite character, and we cannot beliove that the Almighty ‘would visit such a calamity upon Hiscreatures for doing what their innocont desires and tholr sonse of right justified. And if Mr, Azxinson renlly bolloves in this Qoctrine of wrathfal, special providences sund vengeful earthly punishments, and that f was illns. trated {n the cass of the horrible Brooklyn calamity, will ho explain o us its illustration in theonso of a calamity cited by Onntsr, and upon which Onnist commented as follows: *Or thoso eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell and slaw them, think ye that thoy wore sinnera nbove all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, nay." — THE EQUITABLE 8IDE OF THE QUESTION. The true inwardness of the Louisiana business Is disclosed in a lotter of ex-Con- gressman STEVENSON, of Ohio, to the Cincin. nath Commercial. Mr. Sravexsox is one of the gentlemen who, at the suggestion of Prosident Granr, visited Now Orleans to bo present ot the sessions of the Returning Board, He declined to foin in tho Srnatax- Marraews report because, as he expressed it, he ** did not defond that Board either as an institution or in ita personnsl,” and be- causo ho desired to consider tho Louisiona question a3 a matter of right and equity rather thau from tho legal and constitutional standpoint. In tho letter ha states the re. sult of his observations, which evidently wera carofully made, and which he gives with moderation and candor. In the outset Mr. Brevenson states he discoverod that there hod been exaggeration an both sides ns to the question of intimidation. The Re- publicans olleged a horrible condition of af- fairs, and the Democrats ms stoutly main- tained that the only intimidation anywhere in the Btate was that practiced by Repub. lioans npon negroes who intended to voto the Democratio tickot. But that thero was violenco and disorder that interfored with tho election he found was not seriously de- nied, and had it been, as he observes, bodies of the dend and wounds of thoso who es- caped death were convinelng witnesses. Upon that point ho sums up by saying: A nuperficis] reading of this ovidence, conflicting s It Is, might leave the mindin doubt, and a pat- tisan of either elde giving credence only to what plosses bim might find §n it .confirmation of his prejudices; bil an Jmpartial Judge, carefuliy weighing the testimony, would conclude that thero was such Intimidation as tho law of Loufslana do- nounces and renders penal, and that such intimida- tondld materfally affect tho result. , . . I doem it necessary to say only, that i appears to me (hat 8 falr-minded and finpartial Judgo wonld find ihat the disorders bad controlled parishes and polls more than enongh to change tho reault onthe Presidentisl Flectors, But not content to accept. the testimony presonted the Returning Bonrd as alone con. clusive, Mr, STEvenson made & farther inves. tigation on his own account, and his search ‘wag rewnrded by the discovery of interesting facta that are decisive of the Louisinna jm- ‘brogio. To begin with, ho discovered that by the nited Htates consus of 1870, the general ncourncy of which has never beon jm- peached, the colored population of Loulsiana outnumbered the whites. Sinca then, the ndministration of Louislans having remained in the hands of Republicans, and the adjoin- ing States of Mississippi and Arkansas having follen into the hands of the Whito-Liners, there has been a stendy migration of ne- groes from thoso Statea to Louisians, and the tide of colored immigration has also been nwelled by a considerable influx from Texas snd Alabama. The result of it was, that, ns shown by the regislry of voters taken last year, thoro was in Louisiann a majority of over twenty-two thousand colored voters. Ag tothe colored voters, Mr. STtEvENSON found it to bo admitted thoy were * inclined " to bo Ropublicans, Hoadds: Indeed, ono of the grievances of the white citizen {e. that, while the former slavo will do almostany- thing else for his old master, bo will not elect him 10 ofice,~—will not trust him with political power untess ho runs as a Republican, and even then the frecdmanis dublous, , . . . Thecolored votor 1s not only a Ropublican, but hie Is the most zeal- ous member of tho porty,~he ls a Radical, a fanatic,—and he looks npon overy colored man who falters as a traltor to hls race, Ikeard of fne stances where colored women nasatlod colored mon suspected of scratching tho ticket, The colored people carzy politica Into religion, I was told of cascs showing that, n their opinion, to desert the party i to abandon &Il hope of feaven. Tho which tends to show how tremon- dously powerful with the colored voter is the “inglination” to be aRepublican. Anditmay be remarked in passing that there is no lack of reason for it, as'the Ku-Klux, and White- Linors, and bulldozers have not spared the opportunity to impress those upon even tho thickeat-headed negro. A . further proof of the fact that the eolored voters are substan. tially unauimously Republican he found in the fact that in those parishes where there was a penceful eloction the Republican ma- Jority was greater than It was ever before. At th eame time, toa,~though that is u fact to which he does not advert, as the returns were bulldozed,—tho parishes in which tho TRopublican majorities bitherto have been mostoverwhelming,—in which the preponder- anoe of negro population was the greatest,— wore those from which wero returned the enormous Demooratic gains on which the 8tato was clalmed for Tiuoex. Bosides, thero ore, as Mr. SrevensoN fonnd, from 7,000 to 8,000 white Republicaus in tho State, Upon bhaviug ascortained this state of facts, showing incontestably that thero was a Re- publican majority of not less than twenty thoussud, Mr, Stevessox applied hhidzelf to finding what liad beocome of that Republican majority, He was not long in arriving at the facts, Ilo says: 1inquired of candld white men, Democrats and Conservatives, from tho disturbed panshes, and found thom not uuwilling to admit that the lessness which provailed more or less ln tholr {shes did affect the minds of tho colored peuple. And, tadeed, It i up as one of the truw causns of the lncreased ocratic vote that the colored ‘men found no protection from Kepublican oficlals, and were theroby Induced to seek safuty in the Tomocratio party, Whilo dleavowlng all responsi- billty for violonce, and eveh deploring Its exist- ence, Democratlc cltlzens sppear to regard the lawless condition of woclety aa a speclal providence operating for the good of thelr party, Extending his inquirles, he saya ; Among whits citlzens of the disturbed parishes, present in Now Orled some were intruduced as bultdozers, and, when put upon their mauhood, they did not Licaltate tosay that ** the only thing swhich will make & good sound Democrat of & negeo | ‘s converted minsteel, " whose 10 a doubls-barreled shot-gun, " How it did operate upon the negroes is ex- plalned by n colored witness, an old man, of whom Mr. StevENgoN Anys he was askod if he had Loen intimidated. ' No,” was the response, YT wns ‘sunded; £ would have voted the Radical ticket, but they ’suaded me tovote the Domocratic; they just put do pistol to my head and ’wunded me,” Tho upshot of his investigation was to satlafy Mr. Brevenson, as it muse eatlefy every - fair-minded man, that, whatover was the vote actually cast, thers wns no doubt whatever but that the vote which was not allowed to bo cnst would have left no doubt 88 to Havea' majority by a round figure ; and thint to count the vois of the bulldozed par- ishes, ns the Domoorats claimed shonld be done, would be tc count the results of fraud and violonce, and, without regard te tho technical niceties, ho concludes that **ihe reanlt attained” by the Returning Board ‘‘1 not only lawful but righteous,” s un- doubtedly it is, ‘We regarded the movement last summer fora reduction of the Prosident's salary 0s n very cheap pioce of domngogism from the very beginning of its agitation, The bill secured a majority at the last sossion of Con. gress ovidently as a sort of offsot to the salary-grab business which had stirred up so much popular indignation. Of conrse Prosi- dent Graxnr could do nothing but veto it. Having during his first torm signed a bill which doubled his salary during his second term, he could not reasonably or docently sign nnother bill during the second torm which would put his successor on half the allowance. Probobly n good many of the people who voted for the bill foresaw this, and gave it their votes for the express purposo of placing President Granz under the necessity of vetoing it. We are glad that the effort to pase the bill over the President's veto has failed in the Senate, The vote was very small,—only 25 to 190, which wns loss than two-thirds,—snd would indicate n discroditablo desire on the part of cortaln Senators who are not sbsent on duty to dodgo the rosponmsibility. The whole offair has beon a shabby effort to court popu- lar favor by n protense of economy whero it was not noeded, The fact is that the Amori- can people have not wished to see any re- duction in the President’s salary, which ia still small as compared to tho pay of Chief Magistrates in other countries, and not so largo at the present fignre as WasnmvaTon's salary when the difference in the purchasing power of the money in the two poriods on- tors into account. It is not Hkely that the mattor will ever be brought up again. The suggestion made by Russis, that if tho Porto should refuse to assent to the decision of the Powers, England should ocoupy tho Dardanelles and Roumelin, Russia oceupy Bulgaria, Austrin ococupy Bosnia and Herze- govina, aud Italy ocoupy Epirus and Thessa- ly, undoubtedly foreshndows the ultimato fate-of Turkey, Sich an arrangement would give Austrin two contiguous provinces, Italy two provinces within a fow hours’ sail of her shores, aud would place England and Russia face to face, with only thd Balkans between them. Tho ocoupation of Bulgaria by Rus. sia would bo tantamount to the speedy ab- sorption of Roumanis and Servia also, The Turk, meanwhile, would have no room in Europe, and would be compolled to retire to his Asiatic provinces, in the manner auggest- ed by Mr. Oanryre and Mr, GrADSTONE. Th the Editor. af ‘ribunte, Cuicaoo, Dec, 19.—Can you Inform me through Titn TranuNe I Mr, TiuneN had 8 majority over all othor eandidates (Gov. Haves, Coorkn, and all othera),—that 1a, o majority of the popular voto? If 80, you would much oblige OxE or Younr READERS, Not In the Northern Btates by nearly 400,000 votes. In many of the Bouthern Btates the Re- publicans lot the clection go by default, and made no effort to poll their strength. For this reason TILDEN obtalned, In scveral of them, majorities nearly equal to the entire Confed- erate strength. If thosemnjoritica fn the South are to be reckoned, thon TILDEN has a majority over the other candidates. *Coorzs and all othiers” did not recelve but o mere handful of votes In the United Btates,—not enough in any State to change the result except in Indlana, ‘where the Cooren vote exceeded the very small TILDBN majority, ————— 1o the Editor of The Tridune, Mirroox, 1lL., Dec. 18, —Pleanse atate through ‘Tt TiinuNe the political standing of the Return- ing Boards of Loulsiana, South Carolina, and Florlds, for the purpose of determining a cone travoruy between parties here, A Matroonira. The members of the Loufslana Returning Board, and alsv that of Bouth Carolina, are Republeans. In Florida one of the members is o Democrat and the other two are Republicaus, The Cineclonatl Enguirer has discovercd an- other mare's-nest, It says the Ropublicans 4 propoas to so *reconstruct’ the Btates of the Bouth as that they can never posaess power fn n Federal clection agalnst the Republican party. The leading Republicans {n tho Senats are al- ready committed to this policy,” cte. What kind of readors must tho Enquiier have that it venturea to feed them upon such awill# Bofore reopenlng its campalgn of personallties, would it not look better it the Poyf would cease purloining Tie TRmmuNe's Canadian spectals? Yesterday ft indulged both propensities rather freely—throwing mud with one hand and steal- Ing tive Canadion epectals with the other, The Timez having copied a wandering four- ne facetin Inquotation marks from the personal column of Tue Trivuxe, and recopled it,will the Times state who 18 tho authorof it, and, if it Lnows, tell why it did oot eredit the item to the proper sourgy —— The 8¢, Louls Republican (Dem.,) says that the action of Gov. GRrovEm, of Oregon, was a sylllatoy," —————. PERSONAL, Albert Qrant oxplalns that he does not futend to practiceas a barristor in London, but merely to qualify himself for ths position of Justico of the Peaco, Tha loynl subjects of Malts want Queon Victoria tonccord to the now member of the Duchess of Bdinburg's family the atyle and titloof Princess of Melita, ‘The slxth volumo of Mr, Terbert Spencer's syn- thetic philosophy is now In tho Launde of the brister, Tho author 18 eaid to be ina very pre- carlous condition of hoatth, The white marble statucof the lato Earl of Derby, at Preaton, bos boen decorated with a palated blue scaxf sud gaiters by some wicked wag, 1t s feared tho damage will prove irremediable, The autoblography of Charles Matthews, the celobrated Enghish actor, §a aunounced for poblls catlon. Ife has seonmuch fashionable soclety, and his command of the scandaldof several gevera- tlons 1s ory compreliensive, The question of balloonlng in the Arctic regions faagain belug agitated In the English press, Mr. Caswell writes t0 the Myws that the ordinary prac- ticowould be quite unsultable for the couditions found in the extreme North, Bome timo a0 u great hullabaloo was made over au aciress who wae sald to have *reformed*’ -?14 she become u Christlan. As might be Imagined, waa 0 bad actross, in the senso that hora) on tho stuge soldom caused much pleas: depraved spectators. The objections to watlon conulated ot in her abandonlog the stage. for pothing In her professional career becamo her #0 well as the leaving it, but In the implied s sumption tht all actreases are in nead of reforma- tivo. She hes now fouad a worthy cosdjuter in new de, more Justifiable and the annonncoment o‘;llf:u.'n‘nl'\ decorous. 1f he falrly reprasented his pm(e.m" ] .:ne:“ nw..eq‘n;lmln :he nl;ucmel of the arersge-t «‘end-man, " bitter tears of repen . flow from hls eyes. 5 p. m“.. il De. Behllemann, the axploror of g ¥ mareled a Greek pirl, and lived many ,I,m,.":', Athens, Ilis wife shares his enthnaissm and fig ::“:?x::n:lx. ;u“xfit “.x-llurll!y bred, and lence 3 e e diateusttul ‘ol the results of The statement was (nadvertantly mnde colnmn tome days ago that Bton'l’hupl n(‘:(g{: was taken from a sketch made by himaelr while: watching at the death.bed of the poet. 1t should have been sald thal the sketch wan made by the palnter Severe. Story I hatdly 0 enouwh to have watched Keata in his dying hours.” . The Rey. Issac M, Soe, pastat of the ¥ Btreet Presbyterlan Church, Newark, hae nf.'::"flf Taigned betore the Presbytery of Nowark on come Dplaint of tha Rev. Dr, Craven, for allowing women. to occupy his pulplt, The women who occnpled Mr, Sce's pulplt wore Mrs, Robingon, of Indisne, and Mre, C. 5. Whitney, of Ilarttord, : Helen Potter, the reader, has addod to | . ottory an imitation of the reading ot le(;::;-' ‘*Elegyin s Country Churchysrd™ by & class of boys and girls at school. Bhe representn the rapid boy, the stammering girl, aud all the varions' grades of callow offoresconce. ‘The effect (g ox.' tremely ludicrous, and [ndicates the possesslon of conalderable mimetic talent, How varlons ars tho accomplishments of san of Harvard! He who wn‘: the plu:he: :I‘{;: collego base-balt nine—~and s good one, too~aftor. wards became the successful anthor of a musical burlesque called ** Evangeline," and s now & Leave cling &ctor with Mr, Sothern, If he continues fn' this sterdy ratio of progress, e may yet become [ ‘property-man or an advertialng-agent. Miss Melen Taylor—John Stoart Mille* tep- daughter—signalized hér canvass for electlon to, the London School Boand by & violont specch’ sgalost the clorgy. She declared the contest to be one of Behool Boards againmt elerica] despotism, The clergymen she asid wore merely anxlous to fetthe schoolmaster to dothe clergyman‘s work, butin that case they should pive np the clegy- man's pay. George Willlam Cartis was by when 2 young, woman flounced Inta & raliway car, and, with & great din, oxclaimed, **Did you ever know sny. thing s0 hott I'm stifing, Whew! Open the window. lsn't It awfult™ ote, **Yea'm," ro. eponded a solomn volce from the end of tho car, ‘*ltisawfal, But t'aint nothing to the sufferln's of the early Cbristians,” Everything is compara. tive, you sce. The Joat Toxas Leglalature created ifty countics in a batch ont of the Territory of Young, which (n. - cludes the haunta of the Comanche and the Lipan Indians, There hasbeen a resulting great scram. ble for connty ofiices, the opportunitics of which in the way of tax-anles are inviting; but it ro- mains Lo bo scen how high respect Mr. Comanche Wil have for the forms of lawand the all-penetrate ing power of tho feisky Recorder, Bome of theextreme materlallsta at the fanerst of the actors, Murdoch and Burroughs, objectcd to the lavien- display of flowers: arguing that the monoey used for this purpose might have Yeen much ‘better devoted to the rellef, of the eurvivors, But Inasmnch as the flowers wore private contribu- tions, and as they ato o necessary a partof a fa- neral 38 the expousive easket or the line of car- risges, the objection did not scem to carry mauch weight with it. \ ‘The London Spectator eays that one of the most interesting Inforonces 10 be drawn from tho rece ords of the Arctlc expedition appears to bo that the total abatalners—nt least, thoso of the fotal abstainers who had been in the habit of total abatinence for somo time beforo the Arctfo expedition—were apparcntly much less lable to sturvy, and able to do much more work nnder ex- posure to grest cold, than those wha took tha ordinary proportion of slcohol, Mr. Foster, in his nddress 28 Lord Rectorof Aberdcen University, sald that he coald never forget the vividness of two Intellectunl sensa- tlons,—first, the delight of finding thst the plsg of humanlity ia & law of progress; and next, the dlsheartening deadly feeling of hopoless Insig- nlficance in the fact that thla but proved that ke must falfll the law—thst ks was as little able to act his own part 08 wos a cog In a wheel to disar- range the machinery in which it is placed. ‘The Cincinuat! divine, the Rev. Mr. Tuckley, ht specially restated his argument In regard to Providence of tne Brooklyn fire. Hia object was to suggeat the question whether or not the place In which death overtook the fatea 300 waa a proper place 1o be found in, and especinlly to be found deadin. It In barely possible that the erringhumsn Judgment, 1f 1t could be allowed to determine mat- tera of this kind for Jtaelf, would not agrea that, in Individaal cases, any placo ls a proper place to be fonnd dead In. ‘The woman wha {5 charged by 0, A. Dana with belng the mistress of Gov. Shepherd [s a handsome , widow, named Mra, R. ¥, Morscll, The libelous article allegea that Mrm. Morsesl maintatned & stylo which s woman in moderate circumatances could not afford, and that she was peromplorily restored 10 3 position In the Treasury Department after ahe had been furloughed. Bho Is rocogulzed, says the )ibeler, ‘as belng one of the best-dressed women Iz ‘Washington, and ehe livea {n ona of Gov. Shep- herd's bonses, These accusations, all and wever ally, are denled In tho indictment. ‘When Queen Victorln sat to the sculptor Gibson In 1849, sho at ficat preserved the ususl officlal decorum and spoke no word (o him, At the sec- ond sitting the silence became frightfol, snd Gibe son, who conld bear it no longer, turned to her and sald, **Does your Majesty like the tlara 1 have placed upon the headt" 40 yes, Mr, Glbaon," oxclaimed the Queen, *‘I think that It 18 very oice." Thess wards Uroke the bands that Lad restrained them, and thereafter the sculptor bad no reason to complatn of sllence. Another story of the sculptor 18 told by a correspondent of the London 7¥mes, who relatea that having called npon Gibson ono moming and mentloned tha clrcam- stance that he had Just purchased & largo portralt of the beantifal Grazia, all at once Gibeon disap- peared under a table, and, on rlilng, produced 8 bust covered with dust, and on placing it on the table before him exciaimed, *'Thoro s the fnest head of any women in the waorld," and the corre- spondent thinks ho added shie had a tromendous temper and died at tho early age of 22 HOTHL, ARRIVALS, = 8l on _JTouse~Col. Joseph Chapman, D bnq':x';?x. 8, Edgar, nnrum‘w‘:-: IL G, Olds, Fort . w. Cor Waynoj; the Hon. New York; Antn Hapten, New Orlesns; ¥. K. Orvls, Dixon; tho Hon, James Shaw, Mit. Carroll, ... Tremont Houte ~The Hon. U, 8, Colton, Gllulburfli‘ J"\'g&lu. Btockton, Cal.; ths Hon, Kotar W, ang I a otrol 5 J.'m!fi' nnnln‘ and _J. . Cannon, Hoont e s, & DR oeter, Trook: , 8, Sharp, Atken, 8, C,; Dr. H, 3 5 iyn{ the Hon, J. F. Joy, Detroit: the Hon. A, Ik Hoenoy, St. Paul; J. '8, Watorman, Bycamore R. Deardesleo, New Yorki D, Ketchum, York; E,W, Houty, New York. ... lalmer 2o Phillp Fox, Madlson; J, L. Bugll, Menomin Mich.; L. "E. Lyman, Hartford: ‘W, B, Hup Prairia du Chlen; ¥, W, Matthlesen, LaSal rl . Randall, Indfsnapolle; Danfel Hlatris, Wallace Prall Kaness Clty} an e iubbard, Franclico W. A, Stecl, Jollet; W. Chenosi ran i e § b "Dlm:,‘ New York; Chlune;{ '{gy‘la{f Ban Frane . R, Ce nburn, , R. Fuller L\ i, Ngtaont . Y. Naposep 3 The arnp, St. Paul; W. o, Gonova Lake': Drs W, Or Gamble, Mesd- villog fl. R, Lindermsn, Wal D, e —a——— THE GRAPHIC, Bpectal Dirpatch to The Triduns. MoxTnuAL, Dec. 19.—The investigntion into tho conduct of tho Graphlc Company has fafled to reveal anything savoring of a swindle as far as the promoters or Dircctors of the Montreat directorato aro concerned, but there has beon gross mismanagement and blunderlug from the begioning. The coat of tho mansgement, which yeaches an almost fabulous sum, has eaten the IUfo out of tho concern. Mr. Notman, In regard to tho selzure of his photographs by the Boston customs, suthoritics, .says melunnl courso of transmissian of photographis 1s, ‘under the United Btates postal rezulations with the Canadlsn ntnoml;l'. u\’u Il'l: open 8t the cnds they ma: ;’135"»‘531" {ppfzu not exceeding Iollyl undl: In 0 ?2‘}%'31 Everything he did was fa sccordsnce with lluthu!w t S'inucl.n:,'ud L ve :‘-‘::Lnfiédubyp "oth pooynl Wnd customs authurk tiea, —————— MATRIMONIAL, DaxviLes, I, Dec, 19.~3Ir. A, M. Brown- Iee, editor of the Virgints, IiL, Chronicle, was to-night married to Miss Mary J, Caultrell. The ceremony was performed st ¢ Methodlss Church, and was wituessed Ly a lar@s coucousse of futerestod spectators: 3