Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 23, 1876, Page 4

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Afternoon aad evening. , Haverlyin Theatee, andol trect, between Clark s ASalle, o tomnon, Niles ertion i 5 welitlh NI EYening, ernou Puyson's English Opera-Conivaily ta 170 56w Uperns. Woois Monroe mrcet, botween T Roy,”_Afternoon an i e BATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1876. e Greenbacks at' the Now York Gold Ex- thango yestorday closed at 93}, The Acting-Pardoner of Illinois has set at fiberty four Penitentinry convicts this week, one of them being a murderer who hisd boon imprisoned less than three yeavs, and nn- other a dnngorous burglar who shonld have staid nt Joliet ten yenrs longer, Thero is gonuine satisfaction in the roflection that this offieinl jnil-delivery will not lnst much longer. naenm. rborn and Btate, **Tob An intercsting article on the nbuses of paublic and private nsylums for tho insane is furnished by n New York correspondent and nppears olsowhore in this izsue—a sub- joct to which public attontion can bo dirscted in our own State to ex- cellent advantage, as is shown Dby the recent developments in ths case of Col; Hurs ot tho Northern Illinois Asy- lum. In Now York the unfortunate immates of the asylums have found a powerful cham- pion in tho person of Mr. Joun D, Towx- sEND, 0 lawyer, who has undertalon tho work of reform in their behalf, and, as will bo seen, is meoting with gratifying succoss, Bouth Carolina is now witlout n Legisla- ture in ranning order, both the regularand the Tump organizations having adjourned sfne die. This Jeaven Hanrrox helpless so far ps the orgonization of o State Government is con- corned. All that remains for his supporters 10 do in his bohalf is to refuse to pay taxes on tho plen of illegality iu tho levy ; but thls plan bas its drawbacks, among which s tho fact that a continued refusal to wmpport the CrAMBERLAIN Government by withholding tho payment of tnxes wonld empty the State Treasury snd the Ponitentiary and Insane Asylumat tho same tinie, and turn loose np- on the community a thousaud or more con- yicts and lunatics who cannot be kept in sonflnement without mnoney to pay running expenses, The Rifle-Olub Government ap- peurs to be in a bad way gonerally, Tho Democratic Btate Coutral Committee of Pennsylvania, following close in tho wake of thoir Lllinols Lrethren, have been nt some pains to doviso o method for the solution of the Presidential conundrum. In an address isauod yesterday o plan is submitted that is at once simple aud comprebensive, Tho Benato and Houso gre to * adopt such lawful means ns mny lead to the officinl declaration of the fuct that TrLven aud Henonicks have beon elected.” Only this aud nothing more, —cspecinlly nothing more, sinco the Penn. sylvania Demoorncy will not hosr of pny compromiso ; no Supreme Court arbitration, no nothing,—just Tioexy and Henpnrioxs, 1t is a great pity this Committeo dolayed tho sottlement of this troublesome question so long, when by meeting earlier it could have saved a world of troubls and bother. be awarded his seat in the House, as he ought to have been on the opening day of the winter ges- slon, sinco there was no contest as to bis clection, The Cowmittee having the cise in charge is sgroed as to the main result, the only difference being in rogard to the course by which it sholl be reavhed. The Demo- craty, rofusing to recoguize the valldity of the action of the Convassing Board, give as o renson the fact that the Bouth Carolina Su- proma Conrt hns declared Burrz elected ; the TRopuoblicans, the fact that Lis certificate is regular and his clection unquestionable, Colorado, howoever, {4 still deprived of her coustitutional right of represeutation in the House, simply Lecauso the Dewmocrota have determined to hold in aboyance the queation of Colorado's admission as a State in order to “ gave the excoption,” as tho lawyers say, for the time when the Eloctoral case comes on for trial. The Chicago pro: yesterday, provisions being tame snd easier. Mess pork closed 10@124a per brl lower, at $10.40@16.42} for January and $16.024@ 10,63 for February. Lard closod 2§e per 100 1be lower, 0t $10.65@10.67} for January and $10.67) for Februnry, Meats were quiet and steady, at o for now shoulders, boxed, 8o for do short.ribs, and 8}c for do short. clears, Highwines wero unchanged, ut $1.08 pergallon, Flour was more nctiveand firmer, Whent closed ensier, at $1.21 for December and $1.21§ for Jannary. Corn closed g@}o higher, at 4tjo for Decomber and 44} for Jauuary. Onts closed }e high- ery at .'l:lie cnsh and 340 for Jouuary, Rye was firmer, at 69}c. Barley waa dull and stendy, at 6ic for January and GGo for February, Hogs were dull and 6@100 lower, closing wenk at #5.70@0,16, Cattle wero strong under an nactive shipping demand. There wns no important change in the shoep markat, prices romaining weak at $2.50@4.50. Qne huudred dollars in gold would buy $107.87§ in greenbacks at the close. Tho Florida Supreme Court has issued an order dircetiug n recount of the vote by tho State Canvassing Board, and a declaration of tho result aa shown upon the faco of the re- turns, There is ample room for doubt whether tho Supreme Court has any power to Buforco this nandnto so far aa it rolates to the rcopening of the vote for Presidential Electors. According to the Constitution of the United Btates the term of office of all the Eleotors expired on the first Wednesday in December, immedintely nfter they hnd ful- filled the sole function of their office—that is, mot and cnst their votes for President and Vioo-President, It is claimed that when this hins beon donoe they no longer have an official existence, Leing thon no more than private citizens, and hence it is not possible for a recount of the Florida voto to affect the ac- complished faot that the Electors have al- rendy discharged their duties und ceased to be Electors, Certainly if the Haves vole {from Florida were not counted by the Senate, none other could be counted from that State, The unusually brilliant meteor whicl passed ovor the States of Knnsas, Missouri, Tllinois, Indinna, Ohio, and Penusylvania appears to have followed a path that was very much curved with respect to a plane perpendicolar to the eartl's surface, Un- fortunately, none of the numerous notices of the stranger that have come to hnnd give its position with suflicient acouracy to permit a caleulation to Lo made of it courso. In order, however, to believe that all of them should be approximately cor- reet, it Js necessary to nssome that the path was governl scores of miles above the surface of tho earth, and nearly parallel thercto, during the flight over Illinols. Thia view is supported by the testimony of an observer at Valparniso, Ind., who heard the noise in from threo to four minutes ofter the flash, Taking 4.6 seconds por mile as the mate at which sound travels through the atmosphere, this would give tho distance of tho moteor from Valparnigo s forty to fifty miles, It appears to bave been subject to numerons minor explosions in its visible flight, and its surface became more rapidly heated than the Interior by friction in passing through our atmosphere. The Indiana observations indicate that it wos alnost entircly dissi- pated into fragments before it censed to be visible, Tho last portions probably fell to the enrth in Now York Stato; but none of them mny be large enough to constitute whnt wo may call n ** good find.” It appenrs probable that the meteor was less largely composed of fron than is tho caso with me: teorites that are found in Inrge masses ; ns an earthy consistenco is most favorable to such disintegration as is testified to by the majority of observers of the meteor under notice, COUNTIN Vi Tho Democratio State Committoo has beon holding aspocial session at Springfleld to copsider the Presidontial election, and to de- fine and declare what ought to bo done in tho premises. Here i3 the deliverance of tho nugust body : . = ZResolred, That the Committes do hoceby afrm the cunstitutional right of tho Senato and HHouse of Teprosentatlves, after the Presldent of the Benato shafl have opened all the certificates recelved by him, to count the Electoral voto far Presldent and Vice-Presldent of tho United States, and declarc the resnlt of wuch count. Resolred, 'That wo deny e exlstenco of any constitutional right or power in the Prestdent of the Scnate of the Unifed States, Iudependently of the nuthority from tho two Ilouscs, to count sald votes and declare the result thereof, and would re- gard such a proceeding ne rovolutlonary, ‘This view of tho case has boen ropeatedly diseussed in Tue Tnnung, and wo lave nagain to point out tho inconsistency of the declaration that tho vote shall be connted by the Senate and House of Hopresentativos in the absence of any suggestion as to how this shall be dono. A Democratic Senator n fow dnysngo insisted that this vote shall bocount- od by tho ‘“joint convention™ of the two Houses of Congress, but he made no sugges- tion of how a joint convention i8 to be had. Congress is a legislative Lody ; it con- sists of two Houses, each having a distinct aud separato organization, and is independ. ent of the other, The Speaker of the House hins no more authorily in the Benate, nor over tho notion or proceedings of that body, thon has any other citizen, Thé Presi- dent of the” Benate can exerclio no official control over the House, nar perform nuy ofiicial act on the part of that House. In the history of the United States there lhas never been a Joint meeting of the two Iouses of Congress. Such a proccediug was nover contemplated by tho Constitution, The nenrest approach to such a thing was under the twenty-socond joint rule, whick, bLeing adopted by the two Houses separately, hod tho force of law ; but oven under that rulo the two Iouses did not meet in joint sosaton; the Bonato aud the House met in tho smno hall, but each preserved its separato and dls- tinet organization,, and the two Houses separated to consult, nud each Houso voted Dy itself and not jointly, There was no joint deolsion of any question, and, when the two Touses differed, the question was determined in the mauner proviously provided by the rule. When, therefore, it 18 proposed, ss this Democratic Committeo has done, tuat the vote shall be counted by the two Houses, the proposition is an absurdity, until it is shown Aow the two.louses cau perform this function, Qongress by law, or by a joint rule having the force of Inw, can unquestionably proyide ond declave the manner and means by which the voto slinll bo counted and the rosult as. certmned ; but the Democratio Committee ig- nore tha fact that no such law or regulation isin existence, and thut, in the nbsence of such regulation, the individual members of Congress have 1o more control over the mat- ter than have the samo number of any olher citizens, Tho Benate, soting alone, can mnke no law or regulation ; the House ncting alono is equally powerless ; the two Houses cannot meet in joint scasion without a previous law to that effect, and there is no law nutborizing any such proceading. Here iy the practical difficulty on this sub. joct. Thoro s a total absenco of luw, and, exvept when (he twenty-second joint rule was in operation, there has nover been any rule or law on the subjeot, though the neces- ity for such law hos Leen always conceded, 2] and tho power to cnnct it has always been asgorted, yot thero hina beon no loglsiation. * Undor theso circnmstauces the Demacratio Committee wasted their time and money when thoy traveled sevoral hundred miles to declara that the vote shonld bo counted by the Senate and House of Reprosontatives, ond this seoms to have boen done in happy {gnoranco of tha faot that such a thing, in addition to being unprecedented, was n mat- tor of monsaibility. Thore can be no such thingny :oint meoting. How is such a meoting . Jo organized? A meetig of the Benators and Representatives in one hall can have no more authority than any other moeting of citizons in any ball or at a sircet- corner, Sonators are membera of tho Senate and not of the IHouso; Ropresentatives onn- not vote as Senntors, Each Houso must have its own Spesker and Olork. Each House must meot as n distinet body, and cannot be merged into n mass.meeting, Tho moment it censos to be the Senate or the House, it censes to have any official char- actor. Thers may bo a meeting of the two Houses in the snme chamber, but sach House must retain its identity and its distinet or- gonization, and must vote as n body always, Until the adoption of the twonty-second joint rule, in the ab- sence of nll legislation, tho President of the Scnate has always opened the cortifi- cates, tabulated tho votes, and snnounced the result, The Demooracy now draw the line of strict construction that the duty and power of the President of tho'Sonato ends with opening the certificates, and that the votes must be counted by some other person. By whom must they be counted? By the Senate and the House of Represcntatives, 8oy the Democrats, But how are tho Senate and the House to do this? If a Sonator de- sires to make u motion, to whom must he address himself, and who is to vote? If.the motion is to be submitted to onch Iouse separately, then, if one House agroe to and tho other reject the motion, the aitnation ro- maing unchauged. There, upon the table, ‘will bo tho broken envelopos of thirty-eight cortifieates, with no person to count the votes. 8o long as the two Houses ncting soparately fail to agree, tho votes must remain un- counted. The two Houses being equal, they must agree beforo there can be any nction, and, failing to agree, tho constitutional di- roction that ‘*‘tho votes shall then be connted" must romain unexecuted, Thus,day after dny, unnblo to agreo, the two Houses must meet and adjourn, nnd the votes remain unconnted, until the 4th of March shall arrivo, when tho House of Ropresentatives will coase to exist; and, the votos not having been counted, the ofices of Prosident and Vioe-President will both bo vacout. Did these men st Springflold know or suspect the effoct—the inovitablo consequonces—of carry- ing out the course proposed by their resoin- tions? ‘This whole business sums itself up into o very narrow compnss. Unless Congress, a8 0 legislativo body, shall come to some ngree- ment a8 to the maunner of counting the votes, then, on tho dny fixed by law, the President of the Benata will open the cortificates, tabu- lato the figures, and announce that Haves had recelved 185 votes snd Tizoew 184, And then, in the language of the Constitu- tios, ** The person having the greatest num. ber of votos shall bo the President, if such number bo & majority of the whole number of Electors appointed,” From that decision the American people will tolorate no appeal, —by arms or otherwise, MR, M'CORMICK'S VICTORY, Mr, Oxrus H. McConyrck: has come out shead—decidedly ahead—in the struggle among the firo-onters and the conservatives of the Illinois Democracy. There was a movemont to depose Mr, MoConmiox from the Clairmanship of the State Committeo, Ep Megarrr, of 8pringfleld, led it. e call- ed a meoting of tho Committos, and stated that the purpose was to got Mr. McConaniox out of tho way. Just why the change was to be made, now that the election is over and thero isn't sny legitimate work for the Com- mittoo to do, isn't cloar, It is thought by rome porsons that Mr. MoConurcr, in this position, would bo able to exert a mors con- siderable influence than otherwise in faver of n conservative aud law-abidiug policy, and .that it was on this acconnt the warriors of the parly wanted to got rid of him and have & freo show for blood- letting, By others it hos been prosumed that the movement for his displacement was prompted by o desire to weaken him as a candidato for the United States Senato, But, whatever the purpose, there is no doubt that the programme was to ‘¢ bounce " Mr, Mc- Conaticr, and that the Committeo was cone voued prinoipally to that end. Now geo the result. Br, McContiox was on kand and presided. He quietly surveyed | the arch-conspirators, sald to them that he wns ignorant of -the reason for calling the Committee togother, nnd asked somebody to riso and explain. Then the cournge of tho valiant warrlors, like that of their prototype, Bob Acres, oozed out at their fingers’ ends. Notone of them dared to sland up before Mr. McConanck and roveal the real intent. Ep Mennrrr was especlally and conspiouously silent. No ome suggested that Mr. Mo- Conniox might resign, None intimated that howas de frop. Not a porson wss found who thought o change was desirable. The proposed change of Ohairmnnwas not hinted at. Finally, some ond thought, aa the Com. mitteo had coma together, it wonld do no harm to sgitate, and so agitation began on general principles, Thus Mr. McComaiox triumphed. He went, ‘nnd saw, ond con- quered, His vory presence was sufficfent to “bulldoze the doughty warriors inta respectful sllonce, Mo is atill shead in tho Democratic raco for the United Btates Sennte, nud it will be some time before Ep Menurrr will under- stake nnother chango of dynasty, Ho has probably been taught the good old lesson that it is folly to Lill the gooso that loys the golden eggs, and that Mr. McCoraiox is uch too useful to the Democrutio party of Tllinols in time of financial ombarmsamonts to bo sacrificed at the personal whim of somo malcontont in Bouthern Illinois. Henceforth My, McConmior's position may be regarded as invulnerable, The Democracy s in a bad way over the Presidontial complication, 'Lhers iz the devil to puay aud no pitch hot, Every day produces some new yumor or batch of ru- mors that sets them wild with desperation, ‘I'ho Northern Domoorats are frenzied over the sigus of a gonoral break-up among the Southern Democrats who ure msking ad- vauces toward Ilayes, under the conviction that -they will obtaln more from him than from TipeN, The Hexpurcks wmen are on the ramnpage because thoy have discovered mlnt the Eastern Demovrats ars hatching up a| ot Lo throw the election of Prosidont into tih House and of Vice-President into tho Benate, which would securo the choice of ‘f1.oex and Waeeres and leave Hennuicks out iuto the cold, The inuvitable Bxy Buz- LeR hns thrown an apple of discord into their ranks by advocating another election noxt summor, the President pro tem. of tho Sennto to not ns Presidont. Tho latest invontion of the desperate Democracy is n Board of Arbitration to bo composed of impartinl Commissioners from other nations, with Sir Epwanp Tuonsron, tho British Ministor, as umpire, to decida the question, which in point of reasonabloncss and prac- ticability reminds ono of tho recont prop- osltion of somo of the New York Demo- crata to settlo nffairs by reannexation to Gront Britain, Tho livelinoas of tha Dewmoc- raoy under pressure is somowhat remark- able, They remind one very forcibly of the man who sought sholter from a thunder- atorm nnflfr a troe, nnd sought to escapo tha coming bolt by running furiously about the roota of the tree, oxolaiming **Bomething must be doue. BOUTHERN FUSTIAN. * Tho sentiment of the fire-cating Southern newspapers would be more intelligible if they would indulge in s little loss of fustian and blathorskite talk. The Richmond Wiig is one of thia class. It talks without knowl- edge and reasous without sonse, its ordinary faculty of nrgumeht belng beclouded by its frantio zeal and insane projudice. In its isane of the 26th it says: ** We muat not bo understood 08 saying that tho South has no interest in tho result, and that sho will not respond if the call comes' from her constitu- tionally-elected President Yor her nons to rally to the rescuo of the Union and the en- forcement of the laws.” When this fustian is sifted down, what does it mean? 8imply, that when the thirty-eight certificates are opened the man who is found to have 185 votes will be Presidont of the United States, and it is tho duty of all patriots to support that men, If Mr, Trpey shall be found to have 186 votes, every man who is obedient o tho Constitotion and the laws of course will recognize and support him. If Mr. Haves sholl bo found to have 183 votes, the sumo class of men will rocog- nize and support him also, and to this class the Richmond Whly commits itself, unless it is talking mere buncombe. In fact, it has been lately rallying round the flag which it tried to destroy a few years ago with such patriotic ogility and industry that wo shall expoct to seo It do most of the worlk in sup- porting Mr, Haves, Befora closing ite pyro- technics the Whiig gives us the following lurid display : ** But if peace can be main. tained alone by the sacrifico of the Republic, at the cost of liberty, by concessions to traitors and knaves, thon may the hearts of all patriots be fired and thelr arms be strengthened to strike successfully for their country and the maintenance of its lawas,” We do not like to disparsge the new-born zenl of this recent convert to loyalty, but we would ssk it very seriously whnt all this stuff means? How is tho Republio to be sncrificed in case cither Mr. TiLpEX or Mr. Haves is elected by the requisito majority in the Electoral Qollege? What necossity ia thero for firing patriotic hearts or strength- ening their arns at all? Tho Whig talks as it Mr, TrLpeN wore to bo clected by the ma- Jority of the popular vote, and the swinging popular majorities obtained in some of the Bouthern Blates by intimidating, bulldozing, and ostracizing Republicans wero to elevate him into the Presidency. The President must be elested by the majority of the Elec- toral vote, and whether Mr. Haves or Mr. Truoex receive that majority there will be no occasion for the editors of the Whig or any other firo-caters to display what appears to be now a very ridioulous gush and splurge of patriotism, THE COMPROMISE COMMITTEES OF CON- GEESS, However much people may wish it, there is not a very hopeful promise that the House and Scnate ean agres, in the face of all the facts, upon any plan for counting the Elec- tornl votes, but we cannot refrain from en- cournging an honest or cnmnnfl effort in this direction, Tho great obstacle in the way of A compromise now is, that concession on cither aldo is decisivo, and nocessnrily leads up to the success of tho other side, Thusa proposition to restore the twenty-second joint rule would searcely bo sagreed to in the Sonate, beeause it would undoubtedly rosult in clocting Mr, Truoen, The terms of that rulo enabled either House. to roject the Eleotoral vote of any Btate, and its applica- tion in the present onse would throw the oleetlon into the present Houso of Repre- gontatives, which, being clected in 1874, has o Demooratio majority of Btates, aud it would elect TiipgN, Semator Monton's proposition, that a rojection of o State voto must have the concur- ront * action of both Houses, ia much fairor on constitutional, equitable, and general principles, but the Democratic House would, we apprehend, not ngree to it, since it would leave the situation very much as it is at presont, and that would eleot Haves. Iuis not easy to conceive, therefore, of any compromise proposition relative to the agenoy of Congress in counting the vote which will moot with the spprobatior? of the two Committees aud afterwards be ratified by the two Houses, It would not have been an ensy matter even before elsction, but the difficulty has been enormonsly incroased by the unprocedented ocloseness of the vote, ‘whioh prompts both parties to cling pertina- ciously to such advantages ns they have. At thie samne time, n compromise is not im- possible if both Houses and both parties en- ter upon it In the proper spirit. 8o long ss each party will llsten to no compromise that will not insure the election of its candidate, thera remaius but the alternative of permit~ ting the Presidont of the Benate to count tho vote, as the more plausible inferenco of the constitytional provision, or of bringing on a dend-lock between the two Houses which shall continue till after the 4th of March, and result in the calling of a special elaction to be held next Novembor. But if Loth parties could unite in & dotermi- nation to avold at all hazards the national troubles, tommotion, and injury likely to grow out of vrolonging the complication, it would not be impossible, though diflcult, to agrec upon & plan that would be moat likely to result in a fair count. The personnel of the Senate Committes would indicate a dis- poeition on the part of that body to sgree o ony fair proposition, Thoir Committee con. slsts of four Republicans and three Demo- cats, Of the Republicans, Messrs, Fre- rixauuyseN and EpMuxna are universally recognized 88 candid, conservative men, rather given to justice than partyism. Mr, Loaax is not in a position to be very radical and uncomprowising while he is a candidate for re-election before a Legislature which s wholber it is in the majority or the minor- ity. As to Mr. MosTon, he has been striving earucstly for fwo years to got some fair plau adopted for tho count of the Eloctoral voto. 1t the Democrats on the Senato Committoe— Mesars. Baxanp, Tuvesan, and Raxsom— are ns fairly and cendidly disposed as the 80 avenly divided that neither porty knowa | Ropublicans, the Senato will meat the Houso in the propor spirit, and meet it fully lalf way. Tha rosult of this conforence, then, will depend Inrgely on tho charncter of the Com- mittec to be appointed by Mr. RaNDALL On the part of tho House, If he mnkos his so- leotions on tho Domocratic side nmong the personal ropresentatives of Mr. TiLbeN, or those members who espoolally look out for the interests of the Democratic offico-sack- ers, the conference will bo productive of no good results, Bntif his selections aro from among tho conservative Demoorats North and South, giving a proper considoration to that class of Bonthern people who want to avoid evory possibility of aivil war, it is not im- possible that n suggestion will be made to whick a mojority of both Houses will agree by common consent, The situation is so critical that certainly every honorable means for compromise onght to be improved, and the ultraism of tho offlca-holdoera on the one sido and of the office.seckers on the other ouglit to be discouraged. The foregoing was writton before wo had seen the composition of the Houss Commit- tee, A Washington dispatch says: Bpeaker RaxDALL to-day appointed the follow- ing as & Committes to act with the Senate Commit- tce to conslder the question of countlng the Electoral” votea: Paixe, Iluntos, Hewirr, Senrvoxu, McCrany, Ioan, snd WitLarp -of Michigon, ‘Iho last threa named are excellent selec- tions for tho delieate work before the Com- mittos, but We cannot speak favorably of the four first named. Raxpary might as well have appointed Basm TitpeN himsel? as his heonochman Ape Hewrrr, who is perlinps the most rabid Democratic partisan in the United States. Brrinaen, of Springfleld, ia the “ Jumping-Jack” of the House, who bel- lows for ‘¢ wah” it TiLoen is mot counted in, Pang, of Cleveland, is a tenncious par- tisan, but genocrally esteomed o tolorably foir-minded man. As to Huxtow, of Vir- ginin, wo know but little, and that lttle in- spires ng partioular confidenca that he will do auything useful to solve the muddle. THE PRES{DENTIAL VOTE. Dividing the voto cast for President into Northern and Southern on the old Free and Slave State lino of demareation, wo have the following instructive and significant figures : The twenty-two Freo States voted ns fol- lows: For ayes, Rop.. For Tilden, Dem, Majority for Hayesiceesivasenreas oor 246,007 Thore wore also cast 85,001 votes for CoorEnr and Barrir, moking TiLoxy's minority in the North 882,408 votes. Tho sixteon for- mer Slave States votod as follows: Mnjorlty for Tilder ‘e . 402,808 There were also cast 7,078 votes for Coopen and Batrra in the Bouth, It will thus boe seen that, in ronnd num- bers, Haves obtained a quarter of amillivn majority in the States which fought for tho Union and preserved it. And Tiroex obtained a kalf millton major- ity in the Btates that fought to dostroy and dissolve the Union, Whatever majority Trupen has secured on tho popular vote consists of tho bnllots of those who strove to dismember and nn- nihilate’ the American Republic. The larger this majority the less oreditablo it is to the candidate who recelved it,—especially when taken in connection with tho notorious fact that he, too, was openly opposecd to the salvation and restoration of tho Union. But Mr. Tipen's vote would have been cut to picces and almost ebliterated'in the Soutl if ol those opposed to his clection had been frecly and peacenbly allowed to cast their votes for the candidato of their ohofce. In the four States of Alabama, Georgia, Misais- sippl, aud Toxns, Truozn's majority fs 230,- 276, At o freo,and .fair election, thero is'|' a TRepublican majority in those four States, Leave out bulldozing, frauds, and disfranchisement, and hold such an olection as wo have in the North, and the Ropub- licans onn carry Miselssippi and Alabama by larger majorities than the Democrats can got in Georgia and Texns, With a fair and square elaction in South Caroling aud Louisi- ang, the Republicans can cnrry the firat by 80,000 nnd the second by 20,000 majority. In those six States Gov, Haxes hns not re- ceived within 800,000 ns many votes ns he wauld have got i the clection had been held a8 fairly and uprightly as it wnsin his own State of Ohio. No man will disputo this whoa has examined tho subject with candor! Now, while itis true that TruneN has ro- coived nn ex-Rebel mnjority in the South larger than that obtalued by Hayes in the North, it is also a faot that Hayes has carried o majority of the States, Ilaves hns carried tentyons States and TruoeN has carried only seventeen States, This fact mny be fairly set up 88 an offsot agsinst the claim that TiLpen's ox-Rebel mejority overcomes Hayes' maojority in the Union North, where ‘frrpeN is in o minority by a third of & miltion, ————— THE BLOOD-MONEY TAX AGAIN. The Know-Nothing folly was supposed to have run its course long ago, when it was ro- jected by the'sobor judgment of the Ameri- can publio a8 n paltry provinelalism of which full.grown men should be nshamed. Butin New York the Tammany Ring, which mo- nopolized speoulation in tho * foreign vote,” has maintained Kuow-Nothingism in ita most odious form, to-wit: in the blood-money im- post upon immigranta, Political economiats long sinco pointed out, na haa beon abun- dantly corroborated by the statistiolans, that upon computation each immigrant who lands i thia country, upon an_average,—oounting what money he brings with him and what he ndds to the oapital of the country in laboring capacity,—contributes dircotly about n thou- sand dollars to tho aggrogate national wealth. But it remajned for the Tammany Ring to impose a tax upon humonity,—s tariff upon human flesh ' and blood. And of oll the sbuses maintained by Tam- many none was wmore atroojous than the Immigrant Cominission. 'Through it was extorted the blood-money tax upon which o8 infamous agang of political doad-beats as ever infested this country fatteued. At lnst the steamehip companios rebelled against the in. Iquity, and the United States Buprome Court recently deoided the blood-mnohoy tax uncon- stitutiona), thus protecting the poor immi- grants ngainst that imposition, and depriving the Commlssion of the power to further plunder, which result was halledwith general rejolcing, But now the Oastle Garden Ring appears before Congreas, and, in a bill which Mr. 8. B. Cox haa been seclected to Introduce, asks to be re-established by national sutherity to again extort from overy imunigrant the blood- wmouey tax of $2 per capita lovied upon every may, woman, and child of foreign birthlanded inthe United Btates. ‘This bill {s entitled +A bill torogulate immigration,” and provides that tho tax sbiall be paid tothe Colleotor of Customs, At the samo time it carofully pro- vidos that tho money when collected shiall be turned over to tho Onstle Garden ring. The provision of the bill ia ns follows: **It shall bo tho dnty of the Searotary of the Troasury, quarter-yontly, commencing tho firat quarter aftor the npproval of this act, to request the Governor of onch Btate of the United Btates to transmit to him within thirty days a state- mont of the amount which’ his State or any local officor or board theraot may have inaur- red, paid out, or expended according to law for tho support and maintonanca of any of tho immigrantawithin five years from nrrival, for whom tho amount specified in the second saction of this nct shall have boen paid." The ploin meaning of this ia that, sinco the Bupreme Court of the United Btates have deoided the head.money slatute of Now York unconstitutional, Congress s asked to make it constitutional by a United States statute, under which the monoy collected shall be pald from the Trensury to the Im. migrant Commission of New York, And to make sure that the COastle Garden Commis- afon shall gt hold of the entiro amount by the United States collected, thoro Js this further oxtraordinary provision: ** It ghall be Jawful to include and charge in suchstato- ment, s o part of the amonnt inourred, lald ont, and exponded aa aforesnid, the whole or & fair proportionate part of the current ox- ponses of the inatitutions or establishmenta in which such immigrants may ba cared for, maintained, or supported, nccording to the fnot whether such institutiond or cstablish- mentd were, at the time of such maintonance snd support, exclusively and actually appro- priated to and used for such immigrants, or were at such timo appropriated and nsed for thom in common with other persons requiring and receiving publle aid or support." Thnt is, after the United Btates shall have squeczod out of tho immigrants this blood- money, it shall be turned over to the Castle Garden Ring as ¢ the wholo or a fair pro- portionnte part ” of the expenses of any *in- stitntion” the Commission may moke pre- tonso of setting up wherein immigrants in common with other persons may receive aid. ', The bill is & transparent devica for porpot- uating ono of the Tammany iniquitics to which the Buprome Court of tho United States has righteously dealt blow that must prove fatal, uuless Congress interfores in the maonnor indicated by Cox's bill, which itself can bo killed none too soon. Thursday's TrisuNe contained a brief dis- patch setting forth the details of an oxtraor- dinery quarrel at Mason City, Il Two brothers, Wirey Horxe and Winriaxt Honng, buth prominent furmers, were arguing poli- tics, whon WirL1Ax, becoming enraged, drew a knife upon the other. The Intter's wife, who wns prosent, attempted to sepnrato thom, and, in the meoles, had ber hand noarly severed from the arm. Her husband, infurinted by the nattack upon her, soized a shot-gun and fired at his brother, inflicting dangerous wound. The woman also isina critical condition, with little prgbnbflity that sho oan recover, Tho circumstances of this fraternal quar- rel and its deplorable results have o sig- nificanco reaching far boyond the local trag- edy. They teach o lesson which may be rend with profit by the people of this coun- try. What happenod in thatquarrel between two men, nelther of whom hold office, ex- pact office, or probably care who will have the offices, is what will happon among forty- four millions of people, if tho hot-heads of the two pariies ore allowed to hurl their five. brands indiscriminately and inaugurate their caudidato for Presidont rogardless of right or wrong. Itis the firat illustration of such a misernble, intornecine war in minfature, It clearly showa the manner in which such a war would be wnged. It would array broth- ers agninat brothers, rolatives ogafnst rela- tives, frionds ogainst frionds, There aro partners in business, membors of ohurches, sacret socioties, and benevolent as- sociations, on both sides of the political question, who would bo in arms against-ench - other, and this is what would happen in overy Btate, county, city, sohool-district, village, nnd noighborkood of this opation, The war would be fought in the streots of ocities, at the doora of the churches, in the very houscholds, and the only ones who would profit in this caxiival of conflagration, murder, aud rapine, would bo the hungry Commuuists and foroclous mobs from the slums, who, caring for neithor side, would plunder both alike. And then, after this bloody hearth-stone war Lins been waged un- til one side or the other is exhausted, what does It sottlo or how does it alter the situa. tion? Bupposo that A gets the post-office, how long would ho keep it? The very first doy that he commenced to distributo the mails ho would probably be shot. After such a forocious savagery, tho shooting of one, two, or a hundred officcholders would be nothing, ® In view of such circumstances as these, it would bo well for these incendiary and insnne partisans on both sides to remember thnb there is atill a third party in the fleld, or will be when they proceed to inaugurate an cra of fratricide nnd neighborhood murder in thia conntry, They will find that there is an overwhelmingparty of peacelul, consorvative, law-nbiding citizens, who are determined that this complication shall b settled under the Constitution and the laws, it it be possi- ble, and, if no remedy can be found in that way, that tho parties shall meet upon some bausis of compromise oud devise & peaceful solution, and then that the Conatitution and the laws shall bo so amended aa to prevent the ropetition of such a dangerous condition of affairs after future eleotions, They will furthermore find that the people who care nothing for offices or oficehiolders, and are dotermined that business, religion, politics, and good soclety shall not be plunged into anarchy, will take a handin when the in- cendiaries commence their causeless carnage, and will end it without unnecessary delay— at the lamp-post, if necessary, i . Concerning the charge of Hxwrrr, Tr~ peN’s henchman, that tha New York Post- Offico Department had plundered his letters of political secrets, the New York World BOyS Hijs position le a tnost unenvisble one, Iliestato- monts at tho presept thme calculatod to domuch wlschief, Before b such serlous sccusations lie should not only have been morally certaln of thelr trath, but should have boen prepared to prove it by unaseailable evidence, and to inalat on the do- toction and punishment of the offendor, 3¢ ha do- stroyed the envelopo and the comnmunications which gave him Information of the offonse beforv bring- fug tho matter before Congress, Lo had uo right to make the charge st all, It Mr, Hewirr's charges aro true, the Postmaster of New York should be removed from his position immedistely, If they are not true, Mr. HEwirr has been gullty ot a most outragoous, shameful, and mallcious libed and falsshood. Whether truo or not true, there should be an jmmediate investi- gntion of the charge, and this investigation the Postmaster of New York has nlready des manded. If tho Democratio mnjorily of the Houso refuses to make sucli an investigati, thon Mr, Hewrrr cannot blamo the people of this conntry it thoy look upon hint not op, a8 o malicious slanderer and fnlslfler, but also 04 6 man who liag no regard for tho tru, It rests upon him to make good Lis chnrge, orif he refuscs to da it, the Postmaster of New York should publicly brand him gy common elanderer, Bomo of the Now York nowspapera are be. giuning to have a feablo discernment of {4 discrimination against that city whighis protty sure to grow out of the new arrange. meht Vanpernirr haa made with Gannerp and Boorr, It outs the New York merchantg both ways,—flrst in the bandling of grain, breadstuffs, and moats of thg«Weatern mar. kots, and next in selling tho West Bugnrs, snlt, grocerles, ond dry-goods, for the dis. crimination i8 preservad in the Westerp. bound ns well as the Eastern-bound rates, As far as Ohloago i8 concerned, it ia now ap- purent that tho arrangoment will result in the acoumulation of grain at this point pending the closo of navigation, which wilj give smplo accommodations for tho move. ment of meats. Itisalso bellaved that tho rateg aro 80 low thatthe Baltimore and Philadelphia Romds cannot out uudor sufficiently at South. enatern points to carry any great amount of grain around Obicago. So wo can afford to leave Now York at tho meroy of Vaxpennir 83 long ns New York merchants are willing to submit to it. 1t fa stated that the Public, of Now York, anticipates 8 deaddoock in Congross which will prevont the count of the Electoral vots before March 4, next. This, in tho absence of a compromise, s most likely to ensue, though not exactly in the manner indicated by the Public. But the LPublis is all at uen in the belief that it will, in that event, de. volve upon the new House of Represento. tives to ohoose the Presidont. There s o Republican majority by Btates in tho now House, and, if such a cousso were possiblo, it would lead to Mr Haves' - olection, But it Gon. Gmaxr goes out of offico on tho {th of March with. out a successor having hoen chosen, thero will be a vacanoy in the officos of both President and Vice-Prosident, nnd a new election will havo to be called under the pro- visions of tho United States law requiring o specinl election whenaover there i3 a vacaney in both officos at any tune during the first threo years of the current Presidontial term. SERSYBLE WORDS FROM A DEMOORAT, The Calro Bulletin, n few days ago, contained an article from the pen of the Ion, J, . Open- LY, one of themust influentinl of Beyptian Dem- ocrats, In which he takes strong ground agafust the past-ofiice-secking desperndoes of hls party who are threatening to wage war i TiLDEN [3 not counted in, We quotae as follows: We know 1t hoe been eald, and is duly being as. rerted, that to submit to the inauguration of Gov, Hayes ju to abahdon all hope of ever again huving afalr election in this country; put this we do not believe, Wa have no doubt that, if Gov. Haves ncugu the Prosidency under the clreumstances, o witl be the Iast Republican Presldent, asd we alo firmly Leliove that if the Democrats should reslst his Inauguration, in the event of hisbeing declured olected {tuu Lresident of tha Senate In jolnt ses~ sion, thatthe Republic will not surcive thi shock: of the conftict of arma that will ensue. Ontof It the Unlon will elther not emerge, or clue will coma ns a conrolidated Empire, possibly bearing the form of & Ropublic, but hfilfi?, in fact, a despalem of the most pronounced kind, It fsvery wellto talk abont the duty uf freemen to realet oppressiing but lct ud not forget that the oppression of wnch we now complaln bears as heavily upon onr Upr)nnul! us upon us, The men who are eustaining tiu out. raqes which we denounce aro men who, whan the secessionlats struck at the Union, Uared thalr breasts in leaden hall In Its defenéo; vhils the men who would bo our chlef rellance in afight over this stolen Prusidential election would b the men of the Bouth who memy\nn tu destroy the Unlon—who, after the War, attempted, by vagrant laws, to eatablisk o kind of negro Ynamgc on the ruins of African slavery—who resiatvd every mases ment to recognizo ** accomplished facts®’ by incare orating tho three amendments Info the londtitation; who practiced Ku-Kluxluin; and who now clalm to have succeeded by the votes of the colored men of tha South! Thee facts should novor be permltted to got out of osr minds, and wo should bz careful to remember that however just may Dbe our cauge, the weakness o Jinman nature that makes too many men prejudieel faals wilting ta dan wrong tau feltaw-wman becanss the foolu haty bim, will array the grent majority of the ltepublicans of the War against the **Con: federate Democrats s will, in thda way, unite the ‘North against the South, and bring about a repeti “tion of the War of Secession, with this uadded hor ror, that the South will be weaker in batile than it aras because of the black enemy in ils rear, and in the North wars of nelghborhoods will prevall, and the sour nnh-lru 1cifl_be used as a scaffold upon which wilt Ve executed thousands of victlms of the ,[“l‘ulkl of. .Iml&a Lynch and the mercy n{ King Rtlot. 'ne peaco of Wardaw {s prefernble to this, whatever may besald by the hot-heads of the Dewmocratic party. o . o 0n Uov, TILLDEN resls a graré 1‘upnmlblll.’l1 and he may now make himself a name that will be s ilnatelous ns that of Wasia- 7oN. That he will act wisely and patrioticaily we slucerely hope. . T ———— Dr. Scnragsaxy, who last year so narrowly escaped finding T ecron, PAns, HELEN, and the other worthies of old Troy, has now Lit upon & perfect bonauza of reminlseonces of that inter- esting period. Thie correspondent of the Lon- don Times chronleles among his treasure-trave the finding of plate, Jewelry, secptres with head# of erystal, cbused objects {n silver and bronze, & head of a cow in silver with lmmense horus ol pure ggold, o large glrdle of gold, gold and silve? vases, golden buttons, numercus swords ol bronze, and & great quantity of women's Jwelry in gold. This displsy of anclont *bigotry and virtue" was found in tombs. He has also dis caverod the tombs of ATRRUS, AGAMEMNON, CABSANDRA, EURYMEDON, and others of thelr companions. If Dr. BcuLIEMANN will now per severe fu his diggings, he muy find that gifi horse which the Trojans distiked to Jook in the mouth, the falr HeLex, and perbups even o Mans himself. i e — Chicago also bears off the palm In map-pub- 1ishing, nothing in that lino having yet appeared 10 this country that will comparo in the mag tude of tho ecale on which {t Is drawn, or 8 nleety and accuracy of dotall, with the mammoth map of the United States and Canada juat I sued by Ranp, MoNawuy & Co. of this cliy By ncarly 50 per cent larger than suy other plece of mapwork fsatied from the Amerlau Dress, this inap admits of the fullncss of detall without crowding, i which It surpasscs ony- thing yet done {n that direction, cxcept In o fow maps of somo of the Btates separatelys ‘The boundarlea of cvery county aro motked, sd tho name of the county given, A feature of thy worlk {s the sccuracy with which the route of avery rallroad line in the country fa ndfeated. Tho whole work is clegantly mounted, sand for the Mbrary, ofice, or school-room must he classed ns the best map of the United Stales yet {ssued. ———————— A epeclal to tho Journal from Springfleld saya: . tions aro ssked to-day why the Sag flv‘:r"Llh’anw;u‘?:; oflica lv at hull-uflnl. ’n iy bo an accldent, or it may Buvo some sigulfcance 4 lfll the pmcn.:)‘n[l of the Dewocratic Htate Central Committee yeaterday, . Tha causo I8 clear onough. It s expressive of the profound sorryw of the firc-vater of tho concern at the falluro of the Domocratic 8tst¢ Committea to depose its Chalrman, Mr, Crats H. McConuiuE, hecause ho refuses to go oathe war-path. Unless a wah" I3 got up, eomee body will fall to secure the Bpringfield Poats Oftiée, and that {s what's tho matter, \ ‘The Boaton Journal, in regard ta the usa $he New York Workd makes of Gen, Bantow's let ter, remarks: "The most atroclous fnvtance of misrcpresentstion which_has lately come to our notice la that of the Now York 5\'wl{l arithnetie wun b bis teeatutnt of Gen, Bantow's ropurt on Flurlds, 1o take 56 face of the roturns us firet given, picks vut fur v ‘s corrections of Gen, BAULOW, sud un Lhls bl without saylng & word of the alx or vight cuusles in which the carrcetions of the Board were 3 raved by Gen. BapLow, he mukes uot s majly 0r TILDEX o s Wy have before shovs 3, Wayse wajocity of 133 1 Juttan Flovida, afiew 8% .