Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 25, 1876, Page 4

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Afternvon and evening, Flnlsted Street Opern llonuse, alsted atreet, corner Harrtaon, The Old Dominion @ive Troupe, Afternoon and evening. Woodn Dlugeum. Monroe sireet, between State and Deatborn, ** Naval FOReemets. and v+ Beauty and 1ho Bewst. Atter- noon eyening. This weather i vory excellontly calealated to chill the *“ wal * fover of tho fire-eaters. The fastest voynge aud quickest time be- tween England and America is recorded in favor of the stenmship Dritannic, Copt. T'romsoN, which arrived in Queenstown yes- terday morning at half-past 1 o'clock, having mado the passage in seven days and thirteon hours. —— A successful rovolution in San Domingo Las deposied Gonzarsz and restored Daxz to tha Presidoncy of that Ropublic. Goyzatzz bes quitted tho conntry, and Barz will re- #umeo tho reing of Government, It is said that the success of tho revolutionary move. ment wns largely owing to the defection of Gen. ViLraxeuva, who, from being the firm friend and awlent supporter of GoNzarez, suddenly turned over to his enemics and as- sisted in onsting hi An account of the growth and magnitudo of the live-stock interest in Colorndo nnd Wyoming i8 given in this issue by o cor- respondont at Denver, and will bo read with iuterest. It will be seen that the businesa of cattle-grazing on the Western plnins hag de- veloped into fine proportions, amounting in the aggregate, including cattle shipped on the hLoof and in the form of dressed beef, to one.nlf tho gold and silver product of the Rocky Mountains, The advantage and profit of improving tho breed by the importation-of fine stock from the blooded herds of tho Esst aro demonstrated in the fact that cnttle from the vast grazing.areas of Colorado and Wyoming are quoted in the Chicago market ot o figure considerably higher than that at which shipments from Texas aro rated. President Grant yestorday oxpressed him. self quite freely in roferonce to varlons sub- jects connected with the present oxcitement, stating his views and intentions so plainly a3 to loave no room for misconstruction, He has no fear of armed collisions over the Presidential imbroglio, ovidontly rating the Demoeratio mase-meotings at their trmo weaning and weight,—all talk and Dbluster, but no fight. He remarked to the intorviewer that ho should * welcome the approach of tho 4th of March with pleasure, as it would relieve him wholly from the cares of oflico, and onable him to carry into effect o projected tour to the West Indics before returning to his home at Galens, I, Ho will promptly recognize as bis successor the man who shall bo so de. olared, whoever he may be, and this without regard to his own politieal proforencos, In the course of & spocch nt & Democratia County Convention at Lafayotte, Ind,, last Hoturday, Jonx B, Wictiama mado n stato- meut to tho effect that in an interview with Munsr Harsreap, editor of the Oincinnati Commercial, just provious to the clection, tho Iutter stated it to be the intontion of the Liepublican leaders to count in Floridn, Sauth Carolinn, and Louisisna for Ifaves, whetberor no." Inndvauce of the prompt sud very emphatie doninl which mny be Yooked for ‘with certainty from Mr, Har- srEAD, it I3 Fafe to haznrd the opinjfon that lie never sgid suything that could without total perversion possibly be made to convey such s meauing. Alr, Harsteap {8 not in tho hubit of waking statements so absurdly innecurate and unwarranted s that fmputed to him by this Indiana Tildenito, [ —————_— The Chicsgo produco markets wore genor- erally quiet and steady Suturday, Meas pork closed So per brl higher, st $10.45@16.47} for Jouuary and §16.67)@16.70 for Fob. auary, Lard closed 5@7}o per 100 1bs higher, nt $10.60@10.62§ for January and $10.72} @10.75 for February. Meats wers quiot und steady, at 8}o for new shouldors, boxed, flo for do short-ribs, and 8jc for do short- clears, Ilighwines wore unchanged, ab ©1.08 pergallon, Flour was dull aud steady. Wheat closed Jo higher, at $1.213 cash and $1.22§ for Javuary, Corn closed easlor, at 44 cash or soller January and 44c for Februury, Oats closed steady, at 33}0 for No. 2 and 25}a for rojected. Rye waa firmer, nt 69§@70c. Barloy closed johigher, at 65)c for Janunry and G6}o for February. Hogs wero dull and weak, at $5.60@0.156 por 1001ba, Cattle wera steady, at $2.60@5.25, and sheop dull, at$2.50@4.50. Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy $107.25 in greon- baocks at tho close, = From n statement made by Gov. Inwry, of Californina, in the presonce of Gov. Grovzn, it appenrs that the latter, although pretonding to have becoms convincad that he was acting in accordance with law in issuing n cortificata of election to Onoxtx, was perfectly awaro thaot such action would not Dbear the test of cxamina. tion that it wan certain to call forth; in other words, Groven know ho wne isuing & bogus certificate to o bogus Eleotor. What ho intonded to sccomplish by tho oporation was to crente n casa compelling tho President of the Sonate to go hehind tho face of the roturns, snd in this way to opon tho door to n similar procceding in referonco to the threo disputed Bonthern Btaten. Groven slinply lont his official aid to a conspiracy which was concocted by TroeN and Hewitr na s00n As it bocame known that a necessity might arise for rejecting the vote of any Stato in order to throw tho election into the THonse. ) A siudied and combined effort is notice- able among the Washington correspondents of Demooratic papors to make it appenr that there is a marked manifestation of discour- agement and despondency amoug the Ite- publicans respecting the Presidential ques- tion, and that they aro rapidly approaching n condition of utter hopelessness of over soolng Haves innugnrated. The unanimity with whick this impression is sought to be conveyed suggests that Mr, TiLorn's Literary Burenn is still in existenco, and that the word hns been passed along tho lino to adopt this policy of bluff a5 an offset to the very generally-known coolnoss of tho Southern Democrnts in Con- gress. The Iattor continuo their frigid beliavior, and persist in refusing to warm ap to the point of even admitting the possi- bility of a resort to arms in behalf of TILDEN. The Repablicans, on the other hand, show no abntement of quiet confidence in tho result, or of detormination to abide by that result whenover it shall be announced law- fully audin due for: GOV, HAYES AND THE SOUTH. And npow itis the Boutborn whites who are to be bulldozed,—that class of them presumed to bo more favorablo to the peace- ful acquiesconco in Gov, Haves' inaugurn- tion than to & policy of forcible resistance ond resullant civil war. The Democratio journals have undertaken to whip these ade vocates of pence back into the ranks of the “wah” party, It is nssumed that a compact has been formed by and between Gov. Hayzs of the firet part and certain Southern lenders of the socond part, to the oifect that tho parties of tho second part shall assist in securing tho innuguration of Iaves for and in consideration of npledge by the party of the, first part to pnb a prominent Southorn man in tho Cabinet and distribute the Fed- oral offices in tho Southern Statos nmong certain mative whites, Tho Democratio nowspapers, which would have us believe that Gov. Ilayes has mado various important and confidentiol communications to thom unfolding this plan, have taken alarm at its possible consummation, and have variously denounced Hives as o traitor lo his porty, and certain conservative men at the South ns traitors to theirs. Tho Demo- cratic prints are 6o sccustomed o false and ridiculous statoments that they do not appear atallto understand how wanifestly absurdall this is at present, nnd how fully their promsa- ture apprehension roveals tho greed and des- peration of the offiec-scekors they reprosent. By on introspective mothod of rensoning, they have concluded that Gov, Haves iswill- ing to promiso anything to get the place of President, and that the Southern office-seck- ers aro willing to change their allegiance to gratify their ambition. Such a conolusion s natural to Northern Demoarnts, a8 a class, for it is just what thoy would do. Procoeding upon the nssumption of n per- feot understanding between Gov. Haves and certain Bouthern leaders, the Democratio papers hnve adopted different methods of {ireating the '*conspiracy” with the common purpose of breaking itdown. ‘theNew York Herald, for instance, unfolds the entire pro- gramme with such minutencss as to show that Gov. Havea must have givon all the de- tails himself, and says that since Bextus V. aroso from his simnlated decrepitude of mind and body to declare to the College of Candi- nals who had elected him that “Romo had found s master, not a slave,” wo have had nothing in history which will compare with Gov, Haves' dotermination. The JHerald expresses tho firmest faith in the compact, and approves it in unstinted terms,—know- ing that its approval {s o soverest censnre that could be given. The Cincinnati Kn- gquirer takes an opposite shoot, It has heard of the “conspiracy” also, but does not be- ligve in it,~oli! no; it is another cffort to swindla the poor, deluded South. It wonld bo Johnsonizing for Taves to undertako a lonient and conservativo treatmont of tho Southern States, and Lo would nover do it; ho is not that kind of man, IIe would lose the support of tho Radical wing, and ** the Democrats,”’ wo are told, * swouldn't touch bim, for thoy feel for him a loathing indo. ueribable.” That is what the Jnguirer thinks, though it mny bo remombered thnt, only a fow months ago, it woulda't have tonched Alr, TizpeN with a forty-foot pole. 8ome of the other Democratio newspapers are going straight for tho Bouthern leaders bolioved to be in favor of a couservative and peace- abiding policy,—mon like Hity, Srerues, Laann, and so on, DBen Hicn las been slashed right and left, but seems to take it complacently, Arxxanoes Srrzeuens, who was always opposed to the lnst War and has certalnly no desire to sco anothor, hns been bulldozed into o statement that o nover has advised, and never will ndvise, the SBouthern peaple * to give a friendly aoceptanca of finy Administration innugurated by the grossest {rauds and most palpable wsurpation™; but Le {5 caroful to ndd that he would not advise a forcible rosistanco, and that, * for the . ovortlirow of such a dynasty, I should yather oppeal to tho peaceful fustrumentalities of tho Constitution.” All this will give sowme idea of tho tempest that has been ralsed by the mero suggestion that the South will not immodistely nppeat to arms in case of Javes' lnnugumt(on, aud that Haves will probably pursue toward the Bouth & somewlat different policy from that which has governed Gon, Grant's Admiujs. tration. For this mero suggestion is all that has been made, ond it came nsturally from the position taken by certain Southorn men in the Domocratic caucus in Washington and from Gov. Havxa' lelter of acceptance. - THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1876. therewith indicates his intent {o caste it, in order to render his vole a nullity. Where a mnjority of the clectors, through fgnorance of tha lsw or the fact, voted for one inellgibla to the office, tho voted are not nallities, but while they fail to elect, the oflico cannot b glven ta the quallfed person having the noxt higheat number of voles, The election ls a follure, and a new clection must e had. But this English dootrine hns nover been recognized in the United Btates, The inva. iablo rulo in this country has boen that o minority of votes ean never olect, AsnorT, of North Onrolina, contosted tho mont of 'VaxcE, elected to the United States Sonato, on the ground that Vaxos was incligible, and that he, Anporr, roceived 'all the votes given for an oligiblo candidate. Tho Senate rojected the olaim, aud in the debate on the quostion Judge Trounxax, of Ohlo, sald: Now, Mr, President, I sfiirm with the utmost positivencss that thore §s not a judicfal dcclsion of tho highest Court in any State in this Ualon, ex- cept the Indlann decision, that glves the slightest countenance to this cisim of & minority man being elected, whils it has been decided agala and agaln, aa Ishall show, that tho minority man fs nof elected, nlthough the majority man may be under disqualideations. The only two decislons In Ameriea In favor of the minority man are tho In- dlana decision and the declslon of an inferlor Court, a Common Pleas Court of the City of Phila- delphis, and that pashes the doctrine to fts necos- snry logieal consequgnce. There it was held by that Court that a man who received but one vote, — mark {t,—wha elccted, although thera ware tweaty. four cast, I belleve, Mr, Canenxten—Eleven, Mr. Tuunwax~They declded that the man who recelved but one vote was elected, 1f the jury found that the man who voted for bim voted by ballot. 'Thot I8 what It comes to. In this argumont Senator THURMAR WS sustained by the Benate, including every Demooratic vote. Gov. Grover committed two mistakes: First, in assuming that ho * | bad the authority to decide that Warrs was ineligible ; second, in deciding that Crowy, the minority candidate, was olected, WarTs resigned ns Postmastor and resigned as Elector, 'Thero was then a vacancy, which the law authorized the othor Electors to 8l They filled the vacancy by electing WaTrs, who was then eligible, and his appointment as on Elector then is ‘unimpeschable. Tho Orogon fraud is the monnest and tho most contemptiblo that wns ever attempted, and to tha credit of the Democratio Sonators it shonld bo said that they gonerally repudiate it. There is no other nuthority or confirmation for it that woknow of. It is absurd to sup- poso that Gov. HAves is going sround com- munieating his intentions to Democrat- io nowapapers. It 8 not likely that he hins outlined any particular polioy to anybody under the cireumatances. We havo heard of no utternnco of his committing him to any policy excopt Lis letter of accoptance, in which the kindest sentiments wers ex- prossed for the Southern poople, and the most omphatic promise givon of an effort ab reforming the publio service, These two expraossions, taken togethor, wonld probably lead, in many Bouthern Btales, to trusting the Fedarn! officesin the hauds of certain congervative native whiles who have heroto- fore boen oxcluded on sccount of political differences,~but this is only an inference. As to the conservative leadera in tho South, tho Democrats are casily seared if they think that men liko My, Srepnevs, and LaMar can be persuaded to assist Mr. Haxes in any way in nttaining the position of President; nor is it likely that they would consent to idontify thomselves with the Adminis. tratlon under the' most favorabla cir- cumstances. But while they are political opponents of Mr, Haxes, it does not follow that thoy wilt regard his inauguration ss a provocation for forciblo resistance, nor ad- viso their peoplo to undertake a second civit war on behalf of the set of Northern dough- faces who deceived them so badly before. It in this which troubles the Northern Dem- ooratie office-seekers, and in their eyes tho congervatism of the Bontherners at this time is more heinous than treason sgainst the Governiment at any time. . THE OREGON CASE. It is pnblicly stated that Judge HoapLEy, of Cincinnati, wrote the legal argument upon which Gov. Gnoven, of Oregon, decided that the Eloctor Warrs wos not oligible, and therofore wua not elected. As Judge Hoap- LEY {8 recognized by tbo Bar of the country 88 o man of obility and learning, there is an endeavor to bolster the Oregon trick upon his authority, 'This argamont in defense of Cnoxm's right to sorve ns Elector rests apon two fatal nssumptions of fact. The first of these is that the ineligibility of WarTs was known to tho people of Oregon when they voted for him. Under tho En- glish Iaw, there are extremo cases where tho doctrine has been pushed to tho extent that the candidnto receiving the least number of votes may be clooted. In tho celebrated caso of Jomx WiLxrs, who was convicted of sov- oral offonses’ and was expolled the British Houso of Commons, he became a candidate, and was goveral times clected by the free. men of Middlesex. The British Houso of Commons rofused to admit him, and finally formally declared him to be ieligible to a seat in Parlinment, but his competitor was not then admitted, At the next election Wixes again received n majority of the- votes; but the House comsidered that thoso who voted for lim knew of his de- clared ineligibility, snd purposely wasted thoir votes for him, and therofore admitted his opponent, who was cligible. That hag been tho- English law from that day, It is not eunough to elect o minority can- didnte that the person receiving the majority whs ineligible ; it must appear that this in- eligibility was so notorious ns to ralso the presumption that the peoplo preferred to waato their votes for him than to vote for some othier porson who was cligible. In the modern cose of Jonn Miroaen, who was undor conviction of sedition, and who wns clected to tho British Parliament in Ireland, the Dritish House of Commons refused to ndmit him, because ho was legally ineligible, That ineligibility was known to every mon in the Kingdom ; novertheless the minority can- didate was not then admitted. The refusal to admit him was o formal notice of thoman's iveligibility, andat the second election Miron. £L again recoived, n majority of the votes, but the minority man was ‘declared elected, "This is the British law on the subject, and it will bo scen that positive notica *to tho voter of the ineligibility of the oandidate must precede nny recognition of the dactrine that the minority candidate can ba elected. On this point the London Zimes, referring to this CroNry.WATTs caso, says : It lins been dlscovered that some of those Elect- ora who have received the highest number of votes In certain Americun tates oro inoligible because they ore ofice-holders; and it has been rashly sald that those next below them must occapy thelr places na Electors, Thials not the Electoral law of Englund. TFoles are not thrown uway unless [thecuters are aware of the disqualification of o candidale; It they are not aware of the diiqualif. catlon of 4 nan who comes ont atthe top, the eloc- tlon becomed n vold electlon us far aa hle seat I concerned, Now, there was no notico to the voters that ‘Warzs was disqualified. Had such a thing been believod or even suspected, or had thero boon any doubt aa to his eligibility, he would bnve been withdrawn ; there wasnot o man in Oregon who would have wasted his vote for Warta. In fact, the voters had no porsonal knowledgo of Warrs at all ; thoy voted for him that he might voto for Hayes, To assume thot the people of Oregon wers 8o dovoted to Warms that rathor than voto for any other person thoy would throw away a vote for Iaves, I8 to nssume a self.ovident fulsehood, The offico for which he was a coudidato was not ono of emolument. * It wos a mere tochnicality ; it was an offico for the performanco of a for. mality, It was immatorial whothor Warrs or any other man held it; the voters voted for & man who wanld vote for 1Iaves, and they no mare dreamed of Warrs' fueligibility thnn they did of Maves'. Because in cer. toiu circumstances the minority candidate is declared cleoted, it is claithed that that Is tho rulo in England. Tho notico to the voter must be, not mere allegation, but must be in some clear, and deflnite, and autboritative form. In the absonco of such notice, the clection of nn Incligible person becomes vold, and the minority candidato is not elcoted, ‘Al tho suthorities show that this is the English law, OCusmiNa saya in his Law and Practicot HEc, 170, In reference to the electlons by hallot, [4n which secrecy Is the dixtinguishing feature, and & which consequently nolthor tho returning ofite fcu nor the electors themaelves uro aupposed to 'know for whow the votes aro glven until tho result 18 declared, it ucems not unreasonable to consider the votes for Inoligible candidates fobe thrown away In sll casos, and tho opposivg candidate electod where (Ae electors know, or must de pre- suned lo know, the disabllity, and in all casos where there ls no such actual or prosumod knowl. edyo to hold tho whole proceeding merely vold, Another authority, citod by Judge Hoan. LY, i8 the case of The People v, Orure, in which the Court sald; A minorlty of the whole bod? of qualified olectors may elect ta an afilcs where the majority declie to vote, or whero they inay vote for one who Is fuoll- giblo to the ofiice knowing of the dhagualification. Notics of tbe disqualltying fact, aud of its logal efect, may bo given 50 directly to tho voter us to charge himwith actual knowledge of the dlsqualit- cation, of the disqualifying fact may bo so patent ornotorlous as that 1s knowledye of tho Jneligi- bility miay be presumed as matter of law, bot pot only the fact which disqualities, but alvo the rule or enactmient of law which makes It thus efyctual wnusl be brought Rane 40 clearly to the knouledge or notice of the elector as that (o give Als xole COOLING DOWN, Thero aro, as usual, & great many patriota in the Democratie party over in Indiana who aro filled with longings for post-ofiices, and ronte-ngoncies, and pension.offics, and deo- portinout clorkships. There aro a'couple of roging editors over thera who, through the false and treachorous Sentinels of Indinnapo- lia ond Fort Wayne, daily spoil good white paper and waste printers' ink in frantio ap- peals to somebody to help fight for tho poat- offices and other offices,—of which also the editors aforesnid want n share, But thero are not enough offices to go nround in an army of any magnitude; and, dis- covering that faot, doubtless, the Fort Wayne Sentinel's 7,000 mon are dwindling as did ZFalstaf’s men in buckram. From 7,000 they dropped to 700, then to 70, and, at -the next report doubtless will have dwindled down to the original seven men who run tho Fort Wayno Sentinel. "Elso- where in_the State there i8 no rallying of Democrats to fight for the post-offices and other offices, In fact tho rank and file of the Indinna Demoeracy are sonsiblo men who know what thoy have at stake in the preservation of law and order, aud are not in temper to ombark in any revolution- ary undertaking, Thoy Ikmow that our QGovernment can only be a Governe ment of law, and that Government by a coup detat is impossible, so they dis- countonance anything looking in that direc tion, They remember, too, that the case is not 80 one-sided ns thoy at first supposed,— that oven from & Democratio standpoint it is impossible to make out that Tioey is elected with any show of argumont that can be claimed to bo.conclusive, They are quictly walting” for the facts, and when spring comes will put in their cropsand go about their business a8 quietly as other folks. Mennwhile the weather {a ndmirably calcu- lated to keop people cool. With the mercury down about zero, tho most sanguinary Demacrat who wants o post-office will sit by the fire and talk fight, perhaps, but he isn't golng out to geak gore. Even vetersus go into winter quarters whore they can sit by the camp-fires, Fowaver ferocious in pursuit of o post-offico an Indiaun Democrat may be, Lie isn't going out to fight with the icicles hanging to his nose, Ho will wait. While ho waits he will have time to think better of it; ond before the spring thaw comes tho whole Presidential muddle will have been sottled by law. 8o they are cooling down. THE NEW TURKISR CONSTITUTION. The "Turks have played their trump-ecard which they have been promising so long by “ golemuly proclaiming” their now Constita. tion,—a solomnity, by the way, which only minkes the new movemont altogether ridicn. lous. The new Instrument is one of the most remarkablo pronunciamentos of - the prosent or any other century, and realizes Sir ‘luomas Mone's visions of Utopia. If It is ever carried out, it will be time to look for the Millenuium, It sots forth overy roform that o hungry world has ever demanded. It guarnntees tho free oxerciso of public wor- whip by évory crecd; the abuoluto liberty of the presa; tho right of nssociation and poti- tion; compulsory education; absolute indl. vidna! equnlity and cligibility to ofilce; tho rights of property and inviolability of domi. cilos; equal distribution of taxes; the aboli. tion of confiscation, servile labor, torture, and fnquisition; responsibility of public ofil cials and of Minfaters; prohibition of Impe. riol mandate ; and a dewmocratic formof gov. arnment. In brief, it roduces the Sultan to a cipher, strips him of all power, aud gives tho subjects: of Turkey tho most liberal Coustitution oun the faco of tho enrth, and one which, if it conld bo carried out, would moake Turkey sncha paradiso that the whole world would flock thithor, It {s clear up to the Dritish model and superior to ours. It combines the Lib. orty, Equality, and Fraternity of the Fronch conumutlonn'mude in the Reign of Terror, 1t looks well, sounds well, ‘veuda well, but, cuibono? Bupposs they have written out on paper this Elysion and optimistic declara. tion, who i1 fo enforce it? How are the Turks, who are tho ruling class, who for centurics have ground down, tortured, and oppressed the Obristians, who ero proud, haughty, savage, faustical, and bigoted, to clhiange thelr natures 8o suddenly and become the freest, most tolerant, humane, and en. lightened peopla of the world by a mere pa- cr declaration? We also have an excellent onstitution, but how {s it enforced in the bulldozed Bouthern Btates? The reader wili observo by lookiug at tho draft of this Con- stitution, ss sent by cable dispatch, that there is no provision for its enforcement ex. cept by the Turka themselves ; but of what valug are Turkish promises ? They promised just a8 solemuly and sweepiogly at the Penco of Parla as thoy promise now, but what havo they done? What re- form have thoy made? Not the first ane of all tho reforms they promised. They have tortured, devastated, tyrannized over and op- preased the Selaves aver sinco that time, and the thousand million of dollars which they borrowed from England in order to earry out those reforma thoy have squandered and flung nway upon sensual pleasures and costly luxuries. Thoy have not ameliorated tho condition of a human being; on the other hand, they have dmawn the chaina tighter, and robbed thoir victims worso than ever. It is folly, stupldity, insanity, to expect Turke to onrry out roforms of themselves, Thelr promiscs are not worth the paper on which they are written, Thoy have been ox- soted by their foars and from the inevitable prospect that all Eorope is nt lnst united ngainst them, Jf the Powers should be bamboozled by this wholesale declaration of glittering genernlities, and again commend the Sclaves to the tondor mercies of the Turks, the old system of oppression and per- secution would bo immediately . revived. There {s nelther changs nor progress in the Ottoman race. There hns never been a demooratio form of government under Turk- ish auspices, and there never was onoin Asia whence they came. It is the most absolute folly, therofore, to expeot that the Turks, after a thousand years of uninter- rupted despotism, are going to change.ina day. Thoir *whole form of govornment is based upon frresponsible despotism, and it Is not reasonsblo to expact that any Power in Europe will ncoept this Constltution as the basis of a settlement of tho relations be- tween the Turks and the Christians; unless ita provisions are carriod out undor the supervision of Commissioners appointed by the Powers themsolves, g A PRESIDENTIAL QU0 WARRANTO." Of all the suggestions for tho settloment of tho controvorsy over the election of Tresi- dent, perbaps the most striking is that a claimant for the place may file a writ of quo warranto in tho Supreme Court, nnd thus ennblo that tribunal to pass upon the olee- tion. Thus if Mr. Havss hall bo declared elected ond inaugurated, Br. TILDEXN or his partisans may file o writ inquiring by what authority Afr. Haves secks to exorcise tho duties of the offico; and, if the Court nd- mits the enit, it may -then procoed to ex- amine into sll allegationsof frand and decide the caso on its merits, This is the mugges. tion made by o Mr. Awuenr Sricesey, to which the Nation gives a placa without cither indorsing or condemniag it as a law- proceoding, We shall leave it to the lawyers te doter- mine whatheror not such o proceeding could be takon against the actual President of the United Btates under tho laws and Oonstitu- tion of this country, It is possibla that thero are arguments both for and against it insuch number and force that the question conld not bo finally determined short of tho Bupreme Court itself, which would first have to pass upon its own jurisdiction, Mr. Briczvex's argument is that the guo warrantois a com- mon-law proceeding ns well s recognized by tho statutes of tho United Biates and of the {ndividual States, and that, in the absonce of sn express prohibition of its application to the Chief Magistracy, the right to. that offico may bo contestod by the same procedurs that is spplied to other officed for which theroare clalmants. He moats the obvious objection thnt the Excoutive and Judiclary are inde- pendent and co-ordinate branchesof Govern- ment by saying that the very question in such a procecding is, Who is the Executive? Ho eays thot tho Bupreme Court of the United States passes upon acta of the State Legielntures and of the Natlonal Legis- lature, of State Exoontives and National Exocutive, of State Courts and National Courts, and it can Linrdly be that just onc maon in all tho country is exempt from its jurisdiction. This theory is supported by he citation of a couple of declsions by the Bupreme Courts of Massachusotts and Wis. consin, involving the right of those tribu. uals to oxamine into the prerogative of tho Executive. In Massachusetts, the case con- cerned the appointment of a Probate Judge by the Govornor, when it was set up that tho appointing powor was vested in the Ex- ccutive and could not be questioned by the Court, Ohiof-Justico Pinrsons held differ. ently, and said: & Our Government 1s founded on principles not known to the 1sws of any other country, The sov- erclgnty of the Commonwealth remalng with the people. The several departinents of the Govern- mont—the Legislative, tho Kxecutive, the Judicial —aro the agents of the people in thelr respective e, When the Leglslature cnacts & law not [zed by the Cunstitation, itis tho part and the duty of the Judlefary to declare it vold. When the Executive, in any act or appointment, overe leaps tho bounds prescribed to it by the Constitu. tion and the laws, 1t s alike tho part and the duty of the Judiclary to pronounce such act or appoint- ment nail and vold, Where one a charged with usurping on officy In the Commonwesith, there must be authority In the Court to inqulre Into the trnth of the charge. In the Wisconsin case Jt was a questlon oa to who waa entitled to the offica of Exccutive, and the Court affirmed its juriediction as follows: < A contest prizes beteen two citizons of the State, who were candidates for the office, as to who had recoived the highor number of votes; for whouver It may ba who has recelved the highest number of voles, unless conatitutionally inoliglble, muat be Qovernor, Bo the Constitation declares, , . Now¥ In what forum I8 thisto bo settled? Where and hy-whotn 13 It te be determined as to who re: colved tho highost number of votes, —by tho Legis- lature, by thoe Exocutive, or by the Judiclal De- pattment of tho Government? , . . 'Thuquos. tlon again recurs, what power of the Government can givas specifio and adequate remedy? What power of the Government I8 (o scttle the contro- versy? Ithink tho cancluslonty lrresistiblo that it is the judiciat power. If tho contest cannol be scitled in the Court of this State, it cannut b set- tled atall; and i redress cannot cowmo from that source, It can only como in aviolent manner by revolution. Wo leave the law of the case here for further light and discusslon, but, in the meantime, it is very evident lhat: the Hu. prome Court would not listen to such o sult concerning the Presidency unless its juris- diction were free from all doubt, and equally ovident that uo such proceeding should ever be bogun even if technlcally permissible, 1 the Bupremo Courd should hold that it has authority to go back of the count of Electoral votes a3 required by the Constitution, then it would first heve to examine fnto tho pow- ers of tho Noturning Boards of Loulsiona aud Florida under the laws: of those Btates ; then, it it found that these Boards havo the discrotion they have exerclsed, it would hove to fake evidenco whether they have Prandu. loutly abused their discretion so as to swin. dla tho people, o go into this mattor with the thoroughness of a judicial inquiry, it would be uecessary to sunmon about half the voters from half the parighes in Louisi- ana. ‘The proceeding would be almost iuter minable; and, if undertakon, it would vest a political powerin the hands of the Suprema Court the wisdom of which Is very question. able, While the question will now be dis- oussed pro and con, Mr, SticxNey might have remembered that the situation s already sufllciontly complicated and ombarrassing, [ and ho might have withheld his suggeuti‘on to good advantagoe, The Southern organs botray lesa and loss of o disposition to get into an angry frame of mindnt the prospect of Haxzs' inauguration, and ave verging toward Lbe opinjon that it will Lo very far from tho worst thing that can happon to the South to have Havza in tho ‘White House for the next four years. Even tho Vicksburg Iferald, tho original White-Line organ and tho most ulira of Southern ex« tremist journals, s coming to that view of It ‘With respoct to what s to be expeoted at the Sonth from Haves, tho Herald says: It {n intimated that Havss, {f Inangurated, will make a radical chango In the pollcy of the National Adminiatration toward the South; that he wili dis- ponse with tho carpet-baggers and clistacterless vagabonds, and, a8 TiEe CiticAdo TRIDUNE puts it, will build up the Adminlstration or Republican party smong the reaident whitea snd make it re- spectabla by refusing it militory support, and foreing 1t to stand on ita own bottom. Thia prediction of Trx Trinunethe Herald finds there is solid ground for accepting as correct; and, in no grudging fashion cither, that journal oxprosses s satisfaction at tho outlook that will doubtless Lo re-cchoed throughout tho Sonth. While not wholly rid of its sorencss ot tho past, nnd inclined to put the now doparture it predicts in the “ Radical ” programme wholly upon purely political considerations, the IHerald has the sagncity to recognize that such considers tions precisely aro tho most powerful in political affairs, and says: But, say somo Southern men, If Mr, Haves gets In, he will bo advised by the old leaders of the Radical party, and they will keep him to the old bloody-shirt policy, In our opinlon there is no danger of this, The old leaders aro the very fel- lows who have cnough of the old polley. They attempted to prop np the fraudulent concern known as the Soathern Republican party to secure party oid and power, but, Inatead of sccuring asalstance from the rotten concern, they weakened themsolves In the North. There is, bohind this and kindred uttor- ances of other of tha Bouthern journals, n siguificant inkling of the desire of the Southern people nlso to got away from tho color-issue, which is ruinous to all their ma- terial interests. A divislon of partics on some other basis than that of color is what thoughtful men at the Bouth recognize as necessary., They perceive, as Tne Tninuxn has indicated, how, under the Administration of Haves, that would be bronght about. Thoy are beginning to porceive, in fact, that the Sonth hes far more to expect from Haves than from TrrpeN,—which explains why tho South does not fire-up at the Northern Dem- ocratio revolutionary programme. The offlcial returns of the late election bring to light a number of interosting facts which are well worth giving to the publie. The Demoorats aro in the habit of saying that tho Republicans have declined In strongth, but tho figures below exhibit o very different condition of things. We copy the New York Z'ribune's tables : 1n the following table the Presulential vota of the TRepublicuns in the twenty-two Northorn Statea ls contrasted with the largest voto over Lefore cast by tuat party in thoso Btates: Gatn, . 14,107 6,458 8,483 17,839 1 S 12,253 0 1!#,14':1 1,747 11,000 S4BT rogoD. 2,017 Tennsyl 30,701 Rbode Ielund, 18,747 1, Vermunt, 44,01 Wisconal 150,070 110 D047 2010422 , 531,00 In Maine and Vormont, tho deausive elections were held in September, and the Republican vote $n both Btutes was much larger than ever Lefore, though tho Presidential voto was not quite fall, Comparo those grost gains with the elec. tlon in certain Southern Btates where the White-Liners applied ** discouragementa” to Ropublican voters with the view of ‘‘caus. ing" them not to voto: Largest Tota £State. Tear. preriousrole. 1870, Loss, 187: 1,074 38,009 240 thousand votes, there ought to hava been an Incrense of nt least that many, and could have been but for the fllegnl obatruotions tho Tildenites placed in the way of Ropublicans going freely to the polls. Trunex, by force aud fraud, brs secured o mejority of tho pop- ular vote in the South, The New' York T'ribune, commenting thereon, soya: = o congratalato him upon a majority obtained by alligent use of knives and revolvers, whips and tiftes, Muny won would scorn to countenance such o terrible crimo by claiming an oftice as ita frult, Mr, TiLDKN, It scemn, raises no more ob. ection now than ho did in 1808, when tho State of New York waw ed. bt Tho * Brigadiera” fa tho Uousn are working away manfully on the Appropristion bills; and have passed the Pension bl the Poat-Onice bill, and the Fortiieation blll, aa well na o measure which, strange and Incrediblo as It. may seom, looks to an amendment to the Comtitution forbld- Qing the payment of War claima preferrcd by din- loyal persons, Tho volo was 160 to 63, and an sualysls of i shows that 1ta passage was secured Ly the unlon of the Republicans with the moder- ato Domocrats. Thie shows how unreasonable it was duriug the laat campalign .to fnelst that those who were **aupporting Havea* mustpretend to belleve that the real object of the Democrats was 10 ¢ wreck ! tho country by saddling it with a debt of $2,000,000,000, payable to s small batch of clalmsnts out of tha pocketa of the majarity of the people, and for tho lquidation of which no ro. sonrces are known to oxist. —New York Natlon, Tho Nation scoms to give the crodit of this anti-Rebel-claims vote to the * Briga- diers,"” wheveas they voted solid [n the nega- tive! Thoy votod against the proposed mensure to amend tho Constitution forbid- ding tho payment of Rebel claims, Theo % modorata Demoorats " mentioned Ly the Nation were Northern Democrats, without oxception, wo beliove, ‘Ihe vote, when su- alyzed, proves just oxactly what the Repub. Yicans charged during the Presidentinl cam-~ paigy, that the Southern Democrats would push for the paymont of War-damage olaims {or disloyal parsons whenever they cameinto power aud got the chance to make the grab at the pocketbooks of Northern taxpayers, iU WL The Loulsville (Ky.) Commercial s talklng some very hard senso to the horn-blowers and goug-beaters who are golng ubout teariug thelr halr and howllug for wab.'* It warns these fellows that, it they are In favor of ‘*‘wah,” they must go aud do the fighting, It suysto the Gen. Boums: P All those who are ablo-bodied will' certalply ox. pect ta turn soldicrs as voon sx the tocsin of war s saunded. 1t 4 nol to ba supposcd for a monient thut an able-bodied yuan, who has twoanng and 1wo lege, good e{uluhl, and tecth that will bite enrtridges, will ald in fomenting a war, and then setirg {0 hls worm Srosido and sond all bls wife's reiations ta do hia ighting for him; neither will he wander off to Canada,—(bnt would not be beralc, No: ho must enliut ciiher as un afiicer or o private. 11 he can't wear shoulder-siraps, he must shouldes the musket and go down to the front, sud stand by the ruddy, roaring guny, «nd lay his pertorated body I the trenches or fi the 01d tdelds, Tt also submits somo hard facts for the money- ed men, and tells them: 1f you are not ublo to lead 8 forlorn hope or hold the fort agalnst a murderous assault, you can cou- triute l\huull‘ Of your weans, You can pourous your iseaure ke water. You can aupply the ainews of war It you can't \ tet no man wha has !\nunennl':nl\: f:t':., E:’r{ufi d monoy fn bank, atiend fhescnor meetings and huerah Tor the coming uncig. ness unless ho nrn{pcm.-n to go dawn deepp ium i pocket, and bring forth hls tfossuro fo' salpesy 1" These are liomely facts the “wali V-surfeke o would do wel to contemplate, i e - — ie Georgla paper which cgged on ang Juatt. fied the Namburg (8. C.) m: ; utters :.wnddla l?lxm(mlu :) s seallodally Muscle by muscls tha lbertles of ths Nor S erhmeperuiine, Wit 10 e tho batiot have well-nigh inished. " Mowraf -t Sonth may beliold the Wreck of sich i e tutione: but eio will kave the consolation of now- ng that Ler rocord In histors, warting. for oy tlghta of the States, will'bo Lilghter than hay ot vfifi,l‘fi“fiy"fll"m.""" made nmm_meunu were dy. This Augusta (Ga) Constitutionaltst (v namo for such a paper!) s still gruunhggh:\“g: .the abolitfon of slavery. In f{ts eyes, . erty and everything dear, or vmn.hl pre. serving or laving, perished when the fet. tera were struck off the limbs of the col. ared race In the South. 1t will never dry up itq tears lor thia “Lost Cause.” Mournfully 1y be- holds the wreek of tho sum ot ol villalufes, which it Jovivgly calls the *glorious lustity! tiou”” “This Augusta firc-cater 18 frantle 1o havo TiLpex counted In, for some "reason not ;;]mlf vi'xulnlnml or avowed. Perhaps it thinks C:u?v.’.:’n bLelp to recover some of the “ Losg e —— The followiog * dreadful™ news is taken from tho Washington correspondence of the Phila~ delphia Zimes (Dem.): Mr, Hrwirry too. sees blood on the I8 in beceipt of hurdredn o letiets urging him 1o pushithe fight to the bitter end, and promlsing to ralse armics to defend Mr. Tilpex's right, If tho rascally Republicans refuse 1o recouize them, Somo ol the lettors are of o threatenlug chnracter, warning the Democratic. leader (hat It e finehes and falls to do his full duty by bis party his own 1lfe shall pay the penalty.” Mr, Hewtrr appears to bo fully convinced that he and a few other cool- hieaded Democrats are sittlng down hard upon volcano, and bave only o Jump oft the lid o xeo death and devaststion acattered far snd wide, The erurflon would have coms bofore now, o be. }:fi;ehl“ f ho bad mot borne down with'all tus the people ot ——— The New England papers don't lke Vaxpzs. BILT'S foolish bovl ngreement with the other trunk lines. One of them says: . Mr, VANDERMILr's local rates will in New England, He charges Mcu!fiz‘o:‘,‘:‘;l‘l‘:‘l’; Boston not for expart, while he allows the Penn. sylvanla Rtond to carry to Phladelphla far 27, hia own New York rate uIn’g 30, li‘n cliarges Now England five cents: more for an added distance of fitty milen, whilo the Southern ports got three and fouir cents off f i X for much greater differences in dis. ———— PERBONAL, ‘The anthor of “*Jielon's Bables™ hias published & new book, which an unfeeling critic describes as *‘a beautifal trace, ™ Mr, Osgood hndd Tonnyson's new drama, **Ifar- 014,” inbook-form twenty-four hours after ie hod recelved tho manaoseript, - Prof. Tyndall sent a coblegram anthorlzing his publishe¥'to place 8100 to tho credit of the Brook- Iyn rellef fnud on his account. Mr, Taylor Johuston not only got hls monoy back from the salo of his picture-galtery, but aso saved the interost on the valae of it. Leander P, Richarduon, the fmaginative young gentleman who had himself scalped by the In- diang, ja sald to be now on the editorial stafl of the Springtield Repudlican, Firmin-Gerard's “*Paris Flower Market," Ine tended for A, T, Stewart, but not finished befors hisdeath, has been on oxhibition at Goupll's In Now York, It has been sold for$20, 000 to o well- known connofesear. ‘Tho chances now are that Gormany wlll not par. ticipate 1n the International Expositionat Parls next year, and those who are conversant with the ntate of feeling In Franco say that this fs the wisest conrso that could be puraned, MMr. James T, Ficlds says he has alwaya consld- ered himsolf unfortumate In not having arrived In England beforo the death of Sidney Smith. But how fortunate was Sldney Smith'in’baving died before the arrival of James T, Fields! ‘The New York Z¥es has thoe followlng: *‘It fs underatood tbat Mesars, Mark Tiwaln and Bret Harto have just completed a five-act play. and that it 18 now belng submittted to_orthopedic treatment at the experienced hemda of Mr., Dion Boucteaolt,” Judgo David Davis,of the United States Supreme Court, ond the Hon. A, E. Stovoneon, Congresse ma, arrlved at their homes In Bloomington yes- :le‘:dny, snd will spend the holidays with their fam. es, : R, IL Stoddard hos four besutital laes fn Lis last Seridner poem: . & e knocked and catled, and callad me, And hits vole, 80 uicar and sweet, llIul(Id awny Lhe bid-clocnes, ud atwod yiier on iy featt A new paper called ‘the Evolution has made ite appearance in New York. It will opparently be dovoted to an exporition of.the views held by ‘*that wing of the Inatructed class which v thor- oughly omancipated in religion and politics.” Ths cditor 1aJ. D, Bell, a ol the publishing otlice No, 34 Dey niret. . The8t, Louls Glol«t-Democrat offers to send its weckly fasuu froe for one year to tha Governor of the Western State wlio writes the shortest messsyo on the nssombling of the Leglelatures in Janvary, Tt 18 feared that, wit ha view to avolding the con- templated infiletion, the messages thie year will be of Inordinato length. Theophile Gautlor obscrves thas no civilized raca can make threo thirigs—namely, a set of harness, anordinary wader-jug, and a mat—which could compete In point of taste with the productions of o barbaric race, Mr, Ruskin, too, has poticed that perfectlon {n certaln decoratlve arrangoments of color and texturo gocsalong with cavaiballem and polyandry. A The Muslc-Trads Beview romombors having seon in a emall Qermmn town the annouucemeantof “itho last “performunce * of a clrcus, which had been dofng a very bad business. -The people, somewhat unaccustomed to such -promldcs, were caught, and turnod ont In numbers. Encoursged by tho effact, the 1nonagers announced **s quito Inat performanco’s but thls time the balt was not taken, aod the house remalned empty, In dospair thoy put out still wther bills, headed, **7el Golt gum letsten mal ™ (By God,étho last perform- roce.” Jilstory hos not recarded whnt wus tho ef+ foct of this ast proclamation. Mr, Francls D, Moulton dlscontinued his sult for $60,000 dsmages for maliclous provecution galnat llenry Ward. Beocher, fesring that thy ex- pense and tronble oxtalled by the change of venuo to Delawaro County would bo more than the results would warrant, Thircupon My, Thomas G. Shear- man oaked that bus foo s counsel for Mr, Beecher be Included In tho costs of tho sult, which are of courss avarded to the plaintiff, 1o eutiuated ihe valuo of his wervices at §2,600. The Judgo re- fused tofall Inwith tzdebpinion, holding that, a8 tus case had not coma to trisl, Mr. Shearman could not have expended & grexz amount of Jabor ou ft. Tho bitl of $2,500 was reduced to $250. 1s It not rather late in the day.to attenspte re- verusl of the popular verdict In regard (o the mer- 11s and demerits of Miss Nellson's verianation o Jullet? Al the Journals of Eugland snd America epoke on this aubject somo years ago, and ome of the mtost enthnalastic of them was the Cldcago Times, which now says that she does pot under- ntand the character, and that her scting in some ncencs {4 **ntroclou ‘The fact that Miss Neil- #ou has made her famo and fortudo as Juliet, sad ihat sho has had opportunitles to play the purt more than 1,100 times, —or thrice as ofen as vy nctreas, living or dead, —confiicts with the new thee ory that sbo docs not. underatand anything sbout it No intelligent critic has claimed that 3fise Neil- son le s marvelous gonius, or that bor acting In the later scts of ** Romeo and Jullet™ 18 perfecty nor before hor present visit to Chicago had soy one heaped upon hier vulgar abuse, of attributed to those who pralsed her unworthy motlves. TouteoCen T 1 Hoiiogswaris, New ouge: en, ¥, R ol \3;'{:"5:'; ilon, W. H. Paddack, Ntbnfikl; 4. D, tau Clajro: H. J. Fairbanks, New Yorke (2-‘.‘3:"5" 5, ‘loodor, St. Louls; Eugensd Enu Clatre; Cal. H. L. dJenes, Detrol Thomas, New York, ... Shernuin Houte— bury Troubadours, on Tirenton, Fort Wayno; Guetay Prohiman, N M ] Denver, 0l. 3 o e haguant . Th. Asibur, St Logity 1), Hoyl, Now Yorks lirem Hitchcock, }luu‘lpihlr’u; John . Norsts, New William Caray, Balt Lake..... Palmier Houze— W, 1. Shatiel, Cinchinatd; the jion. W, Bullud, Butta] 18 der, Now York; the Hon, W. E.'Hioll, Wlkconig; Col’ H. M. Clarke, Detrolt; the Ylon. Charles P e, Massachutelts: Johin M. Paton, fil‘i‘:‘l‘nu. W, u}fun‘lll, Springtleld, Maw .(Ij. Hhfillelx. lflnd'l‘l;“;\!!in(il.ltk‘;'c‘mm‘n g, 1. F. Bradloy, & 5:0“!!“1: Robert Lowls, 5i. Le 8, Cumaton. Basion Bt. Louls; Gen.