Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 22, 1876, Page 4

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DOW, BROWN. W.ROBBINS. | T & TY N R OAR LIF] BL. 3 34-15. JAME CENT! J. A. MIcELDOWNEY AU. . DOW. MeVicker’s Theatro- street, between Dearborn and nens o the Keilogs Opera Trouve, Fiy lug Dutchman, * State. *The Adelphi Theatre. Monroe ttreet, corner Dearbore. Varlety perform- ence. Haverly’s Theatre. Dandolph strect, between Clark and LaSaile. En- Sogement o1 Mixs Neson. **10meo and Julivt.” Wood’s Museum. oe street, between Dearborn and State. **Iieb SO_CI ETY MEETINGS. X LODG: DEARBO! pavinent of auex. e present as business of mpor- pioraction, : JONN STTTON, W, M. J. D. McKAT, Secretary. COSMOPOLITAY meeting at thelr C No. 6, K. of P.—! orner Xdatus and Laxull for work on bis.. Friday evenlu ond azd third raak: Iy Invited. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1876. Greenbacks at the New York Gold Ex- change yesterday closed at 93. The novel and curious precedent was yes- terday established by the House of recog- nizing & message by telegraph, in the hand- writing of a telegraph operator, as an official aud formal document for all the purposes of Congressional action or procedure. The crrors and imperfectious of telegraphy, un- avoidable under certain adverse electrical conditions, may some day carry this prec- edent to a ridicalous and possibly a danger- ous conclasion. Mr. WALKER, presumably the member from virginis, has come to the rescue of the bull- dozers and rifle clubs by the introduction of a bill making it a penal offense, subject to a fine of 25,000 and imprisonment for five years, for any officer of the army or navy to keep troops at or mear the place of holding a general or special election in any State for ten deys prior to such election. Mr. Warser does not say what shall be done with the unfortunate soldiers in case of 8 Presidential or other election, when, to avoid punishment for being ““at or near” sowme voting-place somewhere, they would have to go down in a coal-mine or up ina ‘balloon, . The Kingdom of Denmark is in a bad way politically. For three successive ses- sions the Rigsdag or Chamber of Deputies has refused to vote the sums necessary for the maintenance of the Government. The conflict has now reached a point where the Cabinet will bo forced to providle ways and 1esns by royzl ordinances, when the question of the constitutionality of such course will be Lronght before the Rigsrand or Supreme Court. The prediction is made that in such event the power of the Lower House of Parliament to originate revenue measures will be destroyed. The Senate Select Committee appointed by Vice-President Frray to confer with a similar Comumittee of the House ss to the best plan for harmonizing the differences be- tween the two bodies on the Electoral ques- tion consists of Senators Epauxps, MorTox, Frruxeaoysey, and Locas, Republicans, aud Senziors Tavnyay, Bivarp, and Rax- soM, Democrats. The House Committee is not yet appointed, but will naturally consist of four Democrats and three Republicans. Much depends upon the selection of these four Demoerats. If the greater number of those chosen by Speaker Raxpary, are of the moderate mold of Aessrs. Trrryay, and Bavarp, aud Baxsox, the outiook for a com- promise wiil be hopeful; but, on the other uand. if the House wwejority is represented xtrewists, there is little reason to antici- practical results from the confer- The Chieago prodnce markets were ir- regniar yesterday, but moderately active. pork closed 5@10c per brl lower, at for Jannary and $i6.75 for February. per 100 1bs lower, at @10.60 for January and $10.70@ for Februars. Ments were quiet and steady, at Gle for new shoulders, boxed, " 8lc for do short-ribs, and §%c for do short- cicars. Highwines wers unchanged, at £1.08 per gallon. Flour wes quiet 2nd firm. Wheat closed Ic lhigher, at $1.21 for December and $1.217 for Jaumary. Corn closed steady. at 44ic for December and 44jc for January. Oats closed steady, at 33jc cash and for January. Rye was i lower, at Gc. Barley was dull and steady. at Gic for January and GGe for February. Hogs were active during the forenoon, and strong, but the market closed dull and weak. Ssles were principally at $35.70@6.15. Cattle were in good demand at previous prices. Sheep were dull One huudred dollars in gold would buy $107.27} in greenbacks at the close. It is fortunate for the taxpeyers, that they | elected last year a County ‘Treasurer who ‘was not the favorite candidate of the Ring in the County Bourd, and who, so far asin his power lies, stands in the way of every corrupt or estravagant messure which re- quires for its consummation his official co- operation. Just now Mr. Huck is doing the people of the county valuable service in the firm position he bas teken ogainst the projected issue and sale by the County Doard of 1,000,000 of bonds to cary on the conmstruction of the Court-House and for other building en- terprises for which money is necessary. Be- lieving that before any action is taken in the mutter there should be a judicial decision of the question whether the Board can law- fully issue bonds without first submitting the question to 2 vote of the people, Treas- urer Hek has announced his purpose to withhold his signature from any and all bonds issued before such a decision hns been made. The Ring is brought to a stand- still by this obstacle in the path of unlimited debt-contraction, and Treasurer Huck is master of the situnation. ————— e The most remarkable meteor observed in recent years passed over Kansas, Mis- souri, Tllinois, and Indisns last night at §:30, going northeastward. At Bloomington the aerolite presented a disk three times the apparent size of the full moon. At all places reported from, the voar caused by the passage of this great mass of matter through the dense atmosphere of the earth was alarmingly audible, and the tremendous frie- tion to which the surface-parts were sut ed caused continuous superficial disinte- gration, with accompanying explosions, fill- ing the air with multefarious points of light tinged with every hue, and presenting & very beautiful phenomenon. At Mendota and Garrett, in Illinois, the inhabitants were mystified by a sudden iilumination of the atmosphere, accompanied, in the latter place, by & detonation louder and sharper than an ordinary cannon, In neither of these places was' the meteor visible, which would show (es their zenith was the most highly illumi- nated) that the stranger’s altitude was still above the prevailing clouds, and its mo- mentum suflicient to carry it perbaps across the continent, although, suffering a constant deterioration in size, it would attract far less attention from the denizens of the Eastern States. The Hlinois Dewmocratic State Central Com- mittee met at Springtield yesterday to con- sider means for the rescue of the country from its unpleasant predicament on the Presidential guestion. Contrary to all ex- pectation, there was no eort made looking to the deposition of Chairman McComryick on account of his moderate views and peace- ful proclivities. Indeed, the spirit of mod- eration seems ito have ruled the hour, the fiery Mererrr, of Marion, being the only war-orator of the occasion. The resolutions adopted were moderate—moderately stupid aud unnecessary. The Committee very easily decided the great question of Who shall count the Electoral vote? It afirmed the right of thz House to participate in the Electoral cauvass, and denied the constitu- tiona! power of the President of the Seunte to actas the Constitution directs. Confi- dence was expressed in the intelligence and pelriotism of Congress. and in its ultimate determination, fairly and impartially, of the result of the Presidential eclection. Be- lieving that Congress will do the right thing and satisfy everybody, the Committee kindly provided an arrangement for the proper instruction of Congress as to its'| rights and daties by calling mass-meetings in every county in the State for the elec- tion of delegates to a Convention to be held ot Springfield on the §th of January. No hint is given of the object of this State Con- vention, or of the methods it will adopt to insure the inguguration of TILDEN. COUNTING TRE VOTES--TECHNICAL OB- JECTIONS, The debates in the Senate on the question of ‘“counting the votes” continue, but there is a general avoidence of nny sngges- tion of how the actual difficulty is to be met. Both parties are extremely technical, and talk all around the renl question. It is con- ceded that the Coustitution expressly de- clares that on the second Wednesday in Feb- ruary Congress shall be in session; that on that day the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Represcutatives, ““ open all the certificates” of the Electoral votes; so far both sides ogree, but the agreement goes not a bair's breadth further. Technicalities then come in. On the one hand. it is claimed that, in the absence of rule or leyislation, the con- stitutional provision that *¢ the votes shall ther be counted” is to be constried as directing that the *‘votes shall then be counted” by the President of the Senate. This not being expressly dirceted by the Con- stitution, though it is 2 fair inference, and it Las been the practice since 1789, the Demo- cratie side deny the construction, and iosist that to *“ count ” the votes means something more than a sum in simple addition ; that it includes an authority to determine what shall be counted, and therefore an authority to pass upon judicially the character of the certificates and the anthority of the Electors making the certificates of votes. But thoss who deny the authority of the President of the Senate to do this, lamentably fail to poirt out ic whom this authority to count is lodged. 3. Senator EaTox, of Connecti- cut, a rabid Democrat, in the debate, as re- ported— . —argued that the President of tac Senate had no mere right to count the s for President than one of the pages. The President of the Scnate was not the President of the Joint Convention unlesé chosen by the Joint Convention 10 thai position. Ar. Eatoy is extremely technical, but he rans into the strange incunsisiency of speak- ing of & *joint convention” of the two Houses. Where is the mandate or authority for a joint convention? The Constitution does not recognize or provide for anything of the kind. It begins and ends by requiring that the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the two Houses, “open all the certificates,” and that, this being done, the “votes shall then be counte The two Houses, 50 faras the constitutional provision directs, ave present merely to witness the performance of the constitutional act of opening the certificates by the President of ibe Senate, and the subsequent counting of the votes. There is no such thing as a “joint convention.” We do not deny that Congress, by law, can provide for the two ! Houses meeting for a special purpose, in which case the rules for the government and for the proccedings of the joint meeting must also be established by law. But there is no such law in existence, and no such pro- ceeding as & joint convention is known to the law or Conustitution. The President of the Senate will, on the 14th of February, proceed, after notice to the House of Representatives, to open the certificates in the hall of the Senate. He will preside, not as the officer of any joint convention, but as President of the Senate. He will open the thirty-eight certificates (taking no notice of the extra and supple- mentary certificates from several States). These will be read, and laid befors: those present. In the absence of any law provid- ing otherwise, he will perform the work of addition and announce the votes for HAYes and the votes for TiLpex, and the business will be at an end. If it is found that Haves has received 185 of the votes, there isno power upon earth to prevent his inaugura- tion ; the citizens who voted against him will by the million not only acquiesce in bhis taking the Presidential chair, but help to clear the road to the White House, if any persons undertake to obstruct it. Should, however, the President of the Senate comply with the extreme technicali- ty of merely opening the certificates, what then? No motion can be made, except Dby a member of the Sen- ate, and the motion can only be acted upon by the Senate, which body has no more jurisdiction over the matter than the House. Under the technical construc- tion of the Constitation, that the President of the Senate’s authority ends with merely opening the certificates, there will be a complete dead-lock. There being, under such rule, no person authorized to count the votes, and no previous agreement between i the Houses in the form of alaw directing who shall count the votes, the votes must re- main uncounted. The two House cannot legislate in joint session; they can only meet in joint session pursuant to some law. The members, therefore, can do nothing but look st each other, adjourn for dinnergand thus continue day after day till noon of the 4th of hlarch, without having the vote counted. Then the present House of Representatives will cease to exist, and the new House cannot meet by law till the De- cember following. At no point of their abortive proceedings can the House get sepa- rate control of the question and proceed to elect a President pursuant to one of the pro- visions, beczuse, as the votes are not counted, it cannot be shown or inferred that no can- didate has reccived a majority of all the Electoral votes. 'The House can only aet in case neither of the candi- dates obtained a msjority of the Electors. The 4th of March having arrived, and the votes not having been counted by the Presi- dent of the Senate, on account of the Dem- ocratic technical objections and ¢ strict construction,” and the term of the House having ended and its members become mere private citizens, the two offices 6f President aud Vice-President will be vacant, in which casa the President of the Senate will become Acting President until 8 Prosident and Vice- President be elected in November, 1877, to take office the 4th of March following. This will be the outcome of the business, should the techuical construction that the President. of the Senate canuot count the votes be followed. No votes being counted, no one can be declared elected, and, until the votes shall be counted, the House of Representatives cannot assume that there s been a failure to elect. By general consent, such as has been.given at all times from 1789 to the present day, tellers have been appointed, who have taken the figures from the certificates of the Tlectors, opened by the President of the Senate, footed them up, and reported. If this rule should be adopted now, the tellers can only foot up the figures in the certifi- cates handed them by the President of the Senate, which figures will be Hayes 185, TiLpEN 184. Consequently there may be no such Democratic consent given, and no tellers from the House will be appointed by that body, and therefore the vote may not be counted. Those who debate thissubjeet at Washing- ton seem to ignore the fact that, unless the two Houses shall agree upon some law or rule governiug the proceedings on the day fixed for counting the vote, there can be but one course to adopt, and that is for the President of the Senate to open the certifi- cates, tabulate and count the votes, an- nounce the result, and thus close tl:e whole proceeding ; any other proceeding will be illegal and revolutionary. DEMOCRATIC VICTIMS OF BULLDOZING. The testimony which Mr. Mornrsoy and the other Democrats of the House Com- mittee have dug up to offset the horrors of the story of Eriza Pivsstoxy and other victims of the Dulldozers is now in before the jury of the country. It is the testimony upon which that jury is asked to return the verdict that the true bulldozers were Republican negroes, and that their victims wero other negroes, who, upon high patriotic grounds, voted the Dem- ocratic ticket, or would have doue so but that they were bulldozed. This testimony is a suggestive study. It is given by the negroes who, for their Democratic proclivi ties, were bulldozed. 'The first matter that occurs to whoever scrutinizes this testimony is the mildness with which the victims were bulldozed. The wituesses who appeared to testify as the victims of that brutality, none of them, had been shot, shot at, stabbed, or even received the regulation ‘“bulldoze” of one hundred lashes. In fnct, but one of these colored Democratic victims of colored Republican bulldozers testified he had been violently deelt with. That was Winirax MaxNeLL, whose testimony was as follows: Voted the Democratic ticket a the last election. Never told any one what ticket he wonld vote, but was suspected of heing & Democrat. Was fre- quently threatened by colored Republicans. ‘The day after the election was jknocked down by two calored men, who eaid they wonld kill me for vot- inzthe Democratic tickei. The pame’ of one is BN FraNuLIN. Since the election have not gone outalone, 88 threats wese being constantly made tomy wife. Granting the truth of all May~NeLL's state- ment, this certainly is the mildest case of bulldozing on record. It was no visitation by an organized armed band, like *Capt.” THEOBALD'S companyjof Ousachita bulldozers. He wasn't dragged from' his bed nt dead of night, tied to a horse’s tail, as was Marroxw ReopEs by THREOBALD’S men, dragged to some distance, and shot dead. But he got intoa political discassion that ended in blows and was knocked down, after which he was threatened with all that ferocity with which men are threatened when somebody’ who dare not do them serious harm wants to “seare " them. And, to further scare May- NELL, nobody threatened him or attempted to waylay him, but ‘ threats were constantly made tomy [his] wife.” Such is the worst case “of Republican negro bulldozing of Democratic bulldozers that Mr. DJonmsoN and his fellow- Democrats of the Committee could discover. ‘True, one negro Democrat, WiLriz Howaep, of Ouachita, was found who had been shot and wounded on his way home from a Demo- eratic meeting. But in his testimony, How- arp, who recovered, admitted that his “difii- culty ” with the man who shot him had been “about o woman.” Where the politics came into this shooting affray is apparent from his statenient, when sworn gs a witness, that after he was shot *‘he was furnished with wood and provisions by white men who came to seo him, and urged him to vote the Demo- cratic ticket, which he did.” For the rest the ‘““evidence” of the bull- dozing of Democratic negroes by Republican negroes is too trivial to be seriously consid- ered. The sympathies of the nation may go out toward the Democratic darkey who would have voted for TILDEN but that his Dinah would have given him “‘ the sack” if he had, or who didn’t vote for TiLDEN be- cause had he done so the brethren would have cast him out of the church, or because his wife-would have given him a piece of her mind. Butareading of the testimony of these victims by the light of surrounding circum- stances will disclose where the victimization comes in. The winter is upon them, these victims. There is no work for them until planting time. Meanwhile they must have credit for their corn and bacon supply; and whoever ha# taken the pains to investigate the condition of the negroes in the South knows how pressing that mecessity is, and how, as a matter of fact, the question of such supply-advances is a question of enough to eat or of starvation with hundreds and even thousands of negroes; and the story these witnesses now tell is o very good one upon which to get corn and bacon. Consideting, too, the characteristic cunning and cowardice Lred of slavery, the wonder is, not that there are colored witnesses to be found who will now say they wanted to vote for TiLpEN, but that more negroes do not come forward to “better their chances of obtaining credit sup- plies and generally of being well taken care of, a8 from the testimony of Howarp and the others of the Democratic ** niggers,” the Democratic negroes are, by the whites, But there is not one negro voter in a thousand in Louisiana who does not know what Saxues J. TrLory and the Democratic party have done and want to do for the negro. Even those of the negroes who may have forgotten that the Democratic party is the party of the ex-slave-driver have not been allowed by theWhite-Liners to remain in ignorance of how the Democratic party of Louisiana was intent upon shooting the nigger out of politics. The Regulators and bulldozers have kept the colored voter alive to a full sense of what the Democratic party of the State proposes to do for the negro. Not one negro in a thoussnd is there in Louisiana who does mnot know that Truoey was the candidate of the White- Liners ; that he was supported by every ex- slave-driver and Confederate, and by every bulldozing rufian, who, at intervals between his d—ning of the nigger, found time to shoot at one. Not one among a thousand of the Louisiana colored voters is there who does not, and with good reason too, regard tiie Democratic party with feelings skin to those with which a chased deer must regard the hounds ; and about as much do the ne- groes expect of that party as the deer might from the dogs. Aswell known to the negroes of Louisin.uu is it that the Republican party freed them, that it has stood between them and White-Line hate, and that without itthey will be kicked out and shot out of politics and out of freedom, prectically. They know, too, that HayEs was one of tife ¢ Fed- eral” Generals who fought on the side that freed them; and, with that lively feeling of gratitude that comes of a sense of favors past, to be augmented by protection io come, the negroes, to a man, ars naturally and inevita- bly Republicans. Where they were not bull- dozed, they voted the Republican ticket. Tho real victims of the Republican negro bulldozing of Democratic negroes are the in- nocents—if any so guileless there be—who swallow the story. But the verdict of the country upon thet story which is told by the Democratic members of the Committee must be in the expressive current slang that it is “too thin.” MR. GLADSTONE'S LAST PAMPHLET, Mr. GrapsToNE, who has issued so many pertinent pamrphlets of late upon political topics of general interest to the world, has recently prepared another, in which he ad- dresses himself to the task of manipulating public opinion in England so as to secure for Greece a proportionate share of the re- forms which the Constantinople Conference is about to ‘consider with reference to the Sclavic provinces of Turkey north of the Balkan Mountains. There was imminent danger that the Greek race, which has been oppressed by the Turk as savagely and per- sistently as the Sclavic race, would be en- tirely left out of consideration by the Con- ference, because they Lad taken no part in the revolt, and had made no protest even ageinst Tarkish tyranny, Tt was tacitly ac- cepted, therefore, that there wos no pressing cause of complamt against Turkish rule, while in reality the silence of the Greeks grew outvof their greater patience. The great public meetings at Athens, however, have shown that Greece has suffered under Turkish tyraony fully as much as the Sclavic provinces, and it was under the influence of these meetings that Mr. GLaDSTONE pre- pared his pamphlet. The culiinating point in his argument is contained in his'appeal to Englishmen who fear the preponderating in- fluences of Russia not to cast away the op- portunity of attaching the Greek race as an ally to England. And he writes to them: 1 esire to point out that if they think it urgently required for England, in the face of Russia, to establish an independent position and influence in the Levant, by some more enduring means than vannting menace or mere parade, or proclaiming schemes of the most unmitigated reliishnesy, they Auve now such an opportunity as never before was offered.” We have bhefore us the London Spectator and the London 7'imes of Deec. 2, which contain the first comments upon the pamphlet. The Spentator most enthusiastic. ally indorses Mr. (GLADSTONE'S recommenda- tions and advocates immedinte a@@on. It says: The Porte has repeatedly professed its desire to make its reforms general, and to draw no distinctions, Let Turkey be kept to her word. Let Hellenes have the same opportunities of progress asSclave. If no other Power be the champicn of Hellenic freedom, let England be that champion, ‘The Hellenic nation, the natural rival of Muscovite preponderance and Pansclavist propagandism, will repay that protection a thousand fold. If Encland rises to the height of her duties and her interests in the Hellenic question—even as Lord PALMERSTON desired fourteen years ago—we may be certain that the confidence of 1825, 50 honorable and fo advantageous to our natiou, will be renewed, and that 2 larger Hellas will again proclaim that ** the Greek nation places the sacred deposit of its hiber- ty, independence, and political existence under the absolute protection of Great Britain.™ The Z'imes takes 8 more conservative view of the question, and, while it favors Mr. GLADSTONE to a certain extent, it thinks that it rests with the Greeks themselves to decide whether they shall go into that campaign against Turkey towards which Mr. Grap- STONE is urging them. It says, rather cau- tiously : - » So far, then, as the article has any influence in the East, it will tend to make the Greeks cast in their lot with the Russian - Government, and enter upon another war of liberetion. They will kave at least the mogal sanction of an eminent Englishman, and the assurance that they will not be restrained by force, u8 they were twen- ty years since. All that then remains is the mili- tary question. Are they strong emough togoto war against the Turks with a far chance of suc- cess? Now, we think that, as regards Greece and the Greeks, it is better that Englishmen should l_'mt have the respousibility of prompting @ warlike course, or that they shofild even appesr to have prompted it. . . . . . Therefore, though we have no right to Interfere with any race or nation- ality of the Turkish Empire which may reck to win for itself liberty or a better administration, it s not our duty nor our interest to encourage an outbreak. A week or two will decide many things, and among them whether the time has come for a fulllment of the great design of «xtending the Greek Kingdom. That the pamphlet has had an effect in Greece is evident from the news telegraphed by cable on the 20th, of the action of the Greek Chamber of Deputies id the passage of a bill raising the strength of the military force to 20,000 men (instead of 200,000, as the dispatch states). There is evidently an error in the telegraphic statement, as the whole population of Greece is but little over one million, and her present army numbers but 14,000 men. That the Turks anticipate danger also south of the Balkaus is shown by their preparations for the defense of Epirus and Thessaly against invasion from Greece, In case of war, therefore, between Russiz and Turkey, Greece will probably enter as & new factor in the problem, and exactly how far thia may involve Eugland cannot yet be foreseen. THE SOUTHERN “ COPPERHEADS.” ‘We hiave taken poins on more than one ocecasion recently to point out evidences that, if civil war is to come of the proposed Democratic resistance to the inauguration of Gov. Haves as President, the Southern peo- ple will, for the most part, undertake to act the same 7ole as the Copperheads of the North during the last Civil War. Among the significant indications of this purpose are the utterances of newspapers like the Rich- mond Enguirer, which vacillates between the most emphatic renunciations of warlike in- tent on the part of the South and taunting appeals to Northern Democrats not to yield to the ‘“ despotism” of the Republican party, which it depicts in true Southernstyle. One day it rebukes the New York Herald for talk- ing glibly of civil war, and says if the North “imogines the South will catch the infection, it reckons without its host.” An- other day it charges that the troops have been concentrated at Washington to enforce the inauguration of Haves on a fraudulent count, and adds: ¢ Yet there is no sign of resistance in the North.” In,its pacific mood, it dismisses utterly all idea of civil war, says * the country cannot afford it,” and claims that the Southern people hava the nerve and patience to await a peaceful termination of their sufferings. But it soon resumes the Mephistophelean taunt that *¢ forty millions crouch and tremble before a handful of conspirators with a low-born, be- sotted, and ignorant soldier at their head.” The apparent contradiction of these expres- sions may be explained® partly in the light which the following sentence throws upon it : We think it & great pity that any Southern mem- ber of Congress should in this crisfs be unable to control himeelf, and should allow a temporary irri- tation to get the better of judgment. Undoubted- Iy the South will take no initiatory steps. Our duty to ourselves and our party is to preserve o passive policy, but our heart is with the Northern Democracy. If they have any men equal to the occasion, and we believe they have, we want to see and hewr them; but if they have none, and the masees are no better than the leaders, then we who have already paseed underthe yoke and have tasted, nay quatfed, the bitter cnp o the dregs, will throw our handful of dust upon the grave of the Republic and turn away sorrowfuliy to attend to our immediate concerns. All this simply means that a large class in the South will have no objection to another War, and will contemplate serenely the dis- ruption of the Union and the downfall of the Republic, but they have no ambition to act as lenders in the movement to bring this about, nor to take an active part in the civil strife incidental to if. This is about the same attitude assumed by the Northern Cop- perheads in the beginning of the War of the Rebellion, and maiutained by them as far as possible up to the surrender of Lee. They encouraged the Southern Demacrats to strike the blow, they supported the right of seces- sion, they held out the belief that the *“d—a Abolitionists wouldn’t fight,” they intimated that they (the Copperheads) would join in when'the proper time should come, and they did everything they could negatively and pas- sively to cripple the Government. This class of Southerners want to be the Copperheads of the next war. They are willing tobe sympa- thizing non-combatants, and will hiss and applaud while the scene of strife is confined to the Northern States. It is certainly not a very high-minded or honorable attitude to assume, but the Southern Democrats can scarcely be blamed for taking it after their former experience with the Northern Demo- crats. — THE ATTITUDE OF THE SOUTH. There is a freezing ivony in the response of the old-time fire-eaters of the South to the Democrats of the North who pant for the post-offices or gore, and want the South to furnish tho gore. The Montgomery Adcer- tiser and Mail, one of the original organs of the fire-eaters, gives utterance to that re- sponse in a leader upon * The Northern De- mocracy,” iuspired by the pronunciumento of Mr. Hexpricks' Indiana State Committee, composed of aspirants for post-offices, who “demand the insuguration of TiLpEN snd HexpRICES as o matter of right.” The key- note to the Northern Democratic sentiment which inspired that demand, the Advertiser and Muil observes, with an innocence that, no matter what is meant by it, is sardonic to the last degree, was expyessed by Grorce W. JuLiay, the apostate, when he said he ““hoped the people would have pluck enough to stand up for their rights and meet the crisis,” but that ** there would be no war.” This assurance that rights are going to be stood np forand the crisis met, but that there isu't going to be any gore, seems to please the Montgomery organ of the fire-eaters im- mensely, and, speaking up for the South, it says War and violence are deprecated: the Northern Democracy will not precipitate an appeal to arms, but they will resist a forciole attempt to depri them of their rights to the last extremity. The Southern Democracy will muintain their present peaceful and dignified attitude. Thelr Northern bretiren are charzed with the duty of reaping the regults of their late glorious victory at the polls. In short, nothing does the South more deprecate than an appea! to arms,—so mach 0, indeed, that, should it come, the South will take no part in it. The duty of resisting Haves' inauguration—if, dpen Congressional count of the Electoral vote, he should.be de- clared elected—devolves solely upon the Northern Democracy, of the school which now thirsts for blood; and the South will coolly, calmly, and dispassionately maintain its peaceful dignity unruffled, and look on while the blood flows. “Goin!” says the Sonth to the blood-tubs of the Northern Democracy; *fight. bleed, aud die your- selves for the post-offices. We look to you to do it.” That other organ of the Southern fire-eaters, the Richmond State, does not so delicately veil its irony, and spurs on the Northern Democ- racy with taunts of cowardice and trunche_ry. Says the State, referring to the Northern wing of the party: ¢ What would these people have, these brethren and friends who in the past cousented to our destruction ? \\{e might say to them, as Mercutio to his friend, ¢ Why came you between us? I was hurt under your arm.” Sappose the Radicals are emboldened by the passive condition of the South, how can we help that? That we are powerless is the fact, and whose fault is it but that of those dear friends at the North, ‘invincible in peace and invisible in war,’ who promised unutterable things in 1859 and forgot all about it in 1861 ?” * One thing,” says the State, ** we bid our Northern friends to take heart. If they wait for us to move, ever so little, before they move, they will never move at all. More- over, if they do not move, of themselves and for themselves,~—if they do not exhaust all possible means of securing the victory which we won for them in November,—then, let them count no more on a * solid Democratic South,” let them delude themselves with no vain hope that we shall forever hew the wood and draw the water for men whose words are bonds of which we always pay the penalty, for men who would not follow and now dare not lead.” : There is not only a taunt, but & warning as well, in that. The fire-caters have not for- given the Northern Democracy which in 1860 ““wonld not follow ” after spurring the South on to the secession folly and crime, and which now ‘““dare not lead.” The South, tricked by the Northern Democracy once, now realizes what its betrayal cost, and is not again going to be deluded into the fatal folly of another rebellion. The South waits for the Northern Democracy to inaugurate the next civil war; and the Stafe serves no- tice on the Northern Democrats that, if they do not do that, ‘- the Democratic party of the South will no longer exist in a national sense,”—that is, its alliance with the Northern Democracy will be finally sundered, and the *“ Solid South ” will no longer be en- rolled under the Democratic banner. These taunts and this warning ere full of signifi- cance. They indicate that the Solid South is awakening to a bitter sense of her folly in allowing herself to be mado the stock in trade of the political gamesters of the Dem- ocratic party North, who now again are ready to have the gore flow from Northern veins. THE LONDON SCHOOL BOARD. The second triennial election of the Lon- don School Board has just occurred under the Free-School law adopted for the King- dom something more than three years ago. "This law not merely provides for free schools for all children who do not enjoy pther school facilities, but requires that every child shall be kept in school up to the age of 14 and until a certain examination shall be pussed in the elementary studies; it is a compulsory system in so far as it requires that every child shall recetve s certain amount of instruction, but this instruction may be had at private schools, parochial schools, or the Government schools. In framing this law the greatest difficulty was encountered in regard to the religions exer- cises. This question is more perplexing in England, where Church and State are bound up together, than in this country, where they are completely separated. It would not do for Parlinment to shut out all religious exercises in the face of the recognized union between Church and State; nor could it safely preseribe what these exercises should De in view of the wide differences among Hb people and the growing liberalism of the very classes whom the free schools were es- pecially designed to bemefit. In this em- barrassment it was decided that the studies, exercises, and discipline of the schools should be left entirely at the discretion of the various Boards throughout the King- dom, and that the members of these Boards should be elected on the free-vote or minori- ty-representation plan, so that both the clerical and anti-clerical parties should be represented. The London School Board has fifty mem- bers, who are elected by; districts, each having & number of members propor- tionate to its size. Theso districts—the City of London, Westminster, Marylebone, Chelsea, te., corresponding to the West Dj on, South Division, Hyde Park, Lake View, etc., which make up Chicago—vote separately. If a district clects five mensbers, each voter has five votes which he may plump or distribute as he likes. Every rate-payer—that is, every per- son who hires a lodging or pays rent, as well as the house-holders—is a voter, even in- cluding women ; women are also eligible to | membership of the Board, and four of them were chosen at the late election. The Lon- don Board which has served three years has shown a decided aversion to all dogmatic in- struction in the schools, and its action has created two parties, known as the Denomina- tional or Church party, and the Board party. The canvass was very spirited and excited,— general meetings and neighborhood meetings having been heldin large numbers. Theresult bas been the most complete vindication of the Board, s decided increase in the number of liberal members, and what now amounts to positive instructions from a largeymajority of the people to keep dogmatism out of the schools. The result of this School-Board election is significant of the growth of liberalism among the people not ouly in England, but in all countries where popular education is calti- vated. The clergy made a united effort to break down the Bonrd, notwithstanding they have tkeir own parochial schools, which their own people may support to any extent they think proper aud desirable. That they were defeated is a meiter of congratulation, and a hopeful sign of the continued usefulness of the English free-school system. The London Times, commenting on the result, says : Now that the battle is won, perhaps the thing to be wondered at fs that its issue was ever doubt- ful. Itwasin the natare of the thing incredible that aSchool Board concentrating in itself so much power, ability, and experience, should be pushed uside or repressed in favor Bf denominational agencies, however excellent in themselves. The larger and more public authority must inevitably command the greater share of confidence, and only the most egregions blunders could have seriously sheken the position of the Board. No such blun- ders can be alleged against it; while, on the other side, the Janguage of some conspicnous representa- tives of the (‘hurch party has been reckless and even offensive. The lesson will be a xharp one. but it was zreatly needed; ang it only remaina that the new Board make a moderate use of their increased strength, Itis clear they will receive unstinted support in rendering the elementary education of the metropolis **sutlicient and eflicient:™ and they bgve only to guard against gratuitous extravagance. The Church, if she is wise, will coucentrate her efforts on rendering her own schools as eflicient as vostible. and will for the future abandon a posi- tion of direct antagonism which must be and may be disastrous. The Board hes now a new lease of years in official life, with an Expr:s:i:fi' :: popular approval to prompt it to farther progress, and there is reason to hope forsg thorough an estzblishment of the NORSeety. rian free-school system in England thy j¢ can never again be nssanlted. The Pleasans thing about it for us is that such o succzs; in Englend will render our own system iy stronger and more permanent. — The number of bogs cut in this city, 1, packers, during the four months of l&it';'in,’. ter, which coustitnte the regular packing season, was 1,312,065, The number oy in the same time by the five cities, Cineinnatj, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Louisville, and Indian. spolis, was 1,621,537, whick only slightly exceeds the record of Chicago, The ruls then established bids fair to be observed thig year also. From the 1st of November tolast Saturday, the five cities above named had eut between them only 835.504 hogs. against 819,986 killed in this city alone. The meqtg resulting from the tremendous onslaught now being made by Chicago packers is being carried away from uS in 8 stendy stream of 125 to 150 loaded rail-cars each day. Before Oregon was heard from, the CRoxIN of the one Electoral vote needed was contemplateq by the Démocratic managers in South Carolina, They discovered that HCRLEY, the Republican candidate on the Electoral ticket who, it vy telegraphed, was nine hundred votes behind tig rest of the ticket, had been defeated, and thyt the meagre mujority given him was securcd by bulldozing the returns. The Congressions Committee sent to South Carolina by the Dep. ocratic House to expose this bulldozing of the returns by the Returning Board straightway proceeded to {nvestigate thematter. Whatthey discoverca is reported by the New York Herald'y special from Columbia, of date the Itth inst., which says: The House Committee has been enzsged to-dey in routine work, compuring returns, and examin ing witneeses. 'The only important facts devel. oped were in the egse of the Summerville poi, where the correction of a clerical error gives lir. 15y, Republican Elector. 150 votes additionai 247 having been incorrectly written for 17 on 1hy returns, That is, on going over the figures it wag found that HURLET’S majority had been re- duced 180 votes by a mistake in addition. Fur. ther inquiry aleo develops that the Returning Board, which was 5o intent upon bulldozing the returns, actually rejected votes east for Heniey becanse of a misprint of his name upon a nym- berof the tickets. Further investization de- velops that the 1,300 Republican majority re. turned from Robbins Precinct, Barnwell Coun- ty, was rejected by the Returning Board be- canse of irrcgularity in the returns. Thy irregularity was due to the fact that, after the votes had been polled, the bulldozers fireda volley into the polling-room, wherecy the managers, without waiting to consider the regularity of their returns, hastened to get out of range. The vote, having been cast, ought in justice and fawrness to have been counted: and, by, not counting it, the Returning Board enabled the bulldozers to disfranchise one of tie strongest Republican precinets in the Sta, the'vote of which would fetch up the Repubii- an majority in the State to 2,500. Andy throwing away of a Republican majo a technical point of the Republican Returnmz Board is the chief case of bullduzing of the re- turns that the Congressional Cowmmittee has discovered. e ‘The Southern papers differ with each other in regard te what shall be done in case Gov. Haves is {naugurated President. Some of them, like the Richmond (Va.) Enquirer and the Augusta (Ga) Constitutionalist, breathe fire and brim- stone; but a large majority of our Soutbern ex- changes talk very rationally, and nota few of them take oceasion to sting the Northern Cop- verheads like the Chicago Zimies and Cincinnati FEngquirer, which are brawling for wah. The fol- lowing from the Holly Springs (Miss.) Reporter is a fair sample of the tone of many influentis) Soutliern papers: People talk of war. The Soath is naither dese ous nor prepared for such u_calami Her voice it for peuce, aud those of her sons who waut wat are her worst enemicy. Qur statesmen. without 3 single exception, are now and will continue to be for peace ut all hazards, They are ina position. too, where they can command pes if there should arise un veeasion for them to do so. Their recent action in Washington when Northern wen talked of war isa guarantee that they will be the last to favor 2 Such conservatism, patrictisi, and wisdom on the part of Southern statesmen ' has been already recorded to_their credit. Thesyren war song of Northern Demo- crats may sound very wweet in Washington. but When the tented 1414 appears to viéw ity straias are very low and #ad. The South has heard it in ‘Washington before, but when her sons listened for it on the battle-field they heard the whistle of the minnie-ball. The like will not ocenr again, for bitter experience has taught & lesson that w Dot #0 s00n De forgotten. ‘The South i3 ns solid for peace as it is for TiLDEN. Let her sons nub Drove recreant to her confiden ———— The Chicago Times, and other Copperhesa ‘“wah 7 papers, will not put thetselves toany “inconvenience to make the following cunspicu- ous fn their columus. It is taken from the re- port of the proceedings of the Sepate Comu:it- tee in South Carolina, sent down there to in- vestigate the regularity of the recent election. It is dated Columbia, the Capital, Dec. 2, aud reads: The Scnate Committee had before them to-day six colored we as witnesses, each of whou testified to having been a witness to the murder of one or more relatives by Democratic Ku-Klux ax- saesins during the campaign last fall. It issuid the enormity of the outrages committed ot or_their political the colored peuple of this State opinions will surpass either that of M ppi ue Louisiana. i Mr. TiLp: a8 been elected. When the propec time comes he must be inaugurated. or the rizte of the people of the United States are abanduned forever. 1le will be inaugurated pesceabls if pot- eible. and, if any bloud is shed, the responsibility will be upon those who resist the guiet consunizi- tion of the people's Wisheén.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. But Mr. TILDEN has not * been elected,” and hence no “proper time™ will ever come when hecan be legally inaugurated. He needs 1% Electoral votes to entitle him to the Presidencs; and 184 are the utmost his friends can couut 5 unless they include the bogus vote of the de- feated rascal CRONIN, and bis vote will peser be allowed to scat any man ju the Presidential chair. e ———— — One prominent Demacratic paper in Mr. Tile DEN'S own State—the Troy 2ress—gives it UP and admits that RUTHERFORD BIRCHARY HAYES” is the President-clect. And,ss if 0 clinch this sensible conclusion, it says that BT Haves will without doubt be inaugurated Prest dent of the United States on the ith 43y b March. The Press admits that > the countr¥ caunot afford another war,” and it proposes 1 wait patiently for Democratic success fouf years hence. This i3 an example of clearsizbt* edness and candor that we sabinit to the fre- cating concern in this city, run by WiLnts Ee KEENAY, for his admiration and imitation- Eitpahe il The latest public utterances of Haves s TILDEN in rezard to the Presidency i3 vers d& scriptive of the two men. We place them 13 contrast: Rem i AT (Remarks at a serenade | (Rem: s tendered by the people | - of visiting Democrte, of Dayton, O., Dec. | D und to 8 %! : | terviewing reporiers): ““Whatever may be| 1 bave secured D the result at which the | jority of . toa el the Elwmrz) lawfnl authonties ar- | votes, sud / propuse rive, you and [ will |be ingugurated ds 4 quietly submit.” next President. ——— - . T met and organ myselt and appointed J.m};. T, Mitien, of Jackson County. fu sct with & We together then selected JaNEs Pankit, o County, &5 the third man. — ¢ ‘alled to the office of Chief-M Tnited States by the voteof M. Elcctor of Uregon, I assume, o It is to uphold this programue that the pos office seekers are calling ou the Demucratic par tyto o to “wah.” B — - As the Springfield Aeputiican ubserves. 158 rate of the winonty Erie Railroad, the weak sister among l{le four east and west trunk lines, reports for the pre” ent year a total earning of 316,589,009+ runuing uitiess