Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 1, 1877, Page 8

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Afternoon and evening. Haverly’s Thentre. Daodolph street, between viark and Lesaile, En. . gsgement of K. A.'Son) terngon aud avenlog. DeVicker’s Thentre, Madlson 1t between = Dearborn and State, *The Law of the Land.” Afternoon and eveulng. Wood's Musenms Monroe street, between Dearborn and State. **The ‘Biackamith.” " Afternoon aud cvenlng. Groonbacka ot the New York Gold Ex- chango on Satunday ruled at 933@93}, e It would appear that arrangements have Doen completed for the use of Woopwanrn ns » Btate's cvidence in the forthcoming suiis ogainst the Tammany thioves. Woopwanp has alrendy made restitution of $130,000, and has secured the surronder of 0,000 more, and is now free from custody mpon Lis own recognizance, the understanding be- ing that he is not to bo prosecuted further. We print thix morning the sermon on ‘*Providonce " pronched yosterdny by Prof. . Bwma, In respeet of brond humanity iuud enlightened Christinn sympathy, not < Jess thau o modest disinclination to assume * the arbitrary interprotation of the motives + oud purposes of the Almighty, this sermon is in refreshing contrast with various recent - pulpit utterances on the samo subject. "The passage through Chicago yesterday of Bonator Suazoy, of Nevada, now on his way to Waslington, was madoe tho occasion of un interview, which wo print in another column, 3r. Buanox scomed quito reluctant to give n frec expression of his views on tho Presidential complication, being ovi. dently unprepared to muke publio any plaa for tho sdjustmont of tho dificulty. Ho spoke, however, in good, round terms of the Oregon fraud, and said somothing about tho «silver question which will be read with in. * terest, i One good resnlt may with somo degreo of ) certainty be predicted of tho conference of +" tho Senate and Ilonso Committeos on the { question of counting the Llcctoral voto, ;\Vhflu the two Committees oy fail to ngreo . pon an adjustment that will bo satistactory , to both the Henate and tho House, they will "-at least agroe upon some. things that cannot * bo done, and thus put an end to much of the , wild speculation and ignorant miscouception v’,nl law and precedont that ouly obscure and (eonfuse and muddle matters worse than \ever. It is, moreover, thought possible that the Committees may unito in recommending ;. that Congress pass a joint resolution roquost. ing of thoe Bupremo Court au opinion na to the proper wmode nuder the Constitution of ! , counting the vote and declaring tho result. — A belated cable dispateh, dated Constanti- +,nople, Dec. 27, gives the purport of an in- »terviow said to havo been held bLetween tho Sultan and the British Plenipotentiary on *'Tuesday Jast, where the lutter gave the solomn warning that Jdn the event of the refusal Ly ,the Porte of the terms of adjustment Agreed {upon by the Conference, Turkoy could not expect the ald of England in efther men, iouey, or sympathy, but would be ‘sbandoned to her fate. ‘The Sultan is ‘xeported a5 saying in roply that he {wag jmpelled by a . prossure ho could :mot withstand to refuse the terma formulated 'by the Powers, intimating that to accept would cost him his tbrone and his head, ‘Thereupon, it is sald, the Marquis of Salis- ‘bury directed the immediate withdrawal ‘of the Dritish squadron from Turkish 1'A later dispatch from Constantinople, how- over, wears a more peaceful aspect, and Judicates that there is still a poasibility of reaching a satisfactory adjustment, ———— The Chicago produce markets were mod. erately active Baturday, and steadier. Mess 4 ' pork closed unchanged, at $17.00 for January £l a0d $17.80 for February, Lard closod shade | jensler, at $11.10@11.12§ for January and 1811.274@11.80 for Fobruary, Meats were steady, at 6jo for new shoulders, boxed, 8ic for do short-ribs, aud 9 for do short-clears. Highwines were jo lower, at $1.00) per i 'gallon. Flour was in good demand and finn, ;. Wheat closed jo lower, st $1.25} for January and §1.273 for February. Corn closed {@{o i1 Jower, at 44]c for January and 493c for May, 8 Oats closed §olower, at 3io for January and B {B4jo for Febguary. Rye was steady, at 7. {Barley closed quiet, at 68jo for January and Tfe ‘tor February, Hogs wero 20c per 100 highay, st $0.0094.75. Cattle were firm, -76@5.76. Bhoep were wuominal, at s s $3.00@4.75. One hundred dollars in gold wonld buy $107.00 in greoubacks at the close, The intenge intercst and deep feeling manifest at the varions services held yes- terday testify to the affection and esteom in which P, P. Briss and wife wore held in Chicago, and to the sorrow and grief of this community at their sad fate. At the moetings led by Mr, Moopy and Mr, Bax- REY, at the Chicago Avenuo Church and the Tabernaelo, tearful’ tributes wero paid by tho co-workers of tho gifted evangelist so suddenly removed from his choson sphero of usefulness, and at Racino, Wis., where Messra, WarrrLe and Briss had successfally carried forward the work of revival, memorial services were also held yesterday. It will be a comfort to many rorrowing hearts to learn, through the dispatch sont last evening to Tnx Trisune by Maj, Warr- TLE from Ashtabula, that the two sons of MMr. Briss, who wera reported as having shared tho fate of therr parents, aro safe at Romo, Pa,, not having been on the doomed train, Maj. Wiurrie adds that up to n late hour last ovening no success had attonded tho efforts to recover the remaina of Mr. and Ars, Buiss, ———— Tho most expensive as well as important of all branches of tha government of Illinois is the public schools. The amount of money spent in support of the schools was, for 1870, $8,208,5639, and for 1875, €8,066,059,— being an increaso of something over 3200~ 000; but the number of children increased 15,583 during the same time. The number of pupils enrolled wera 687,446, which was only 2,000 more than tho previous year., The numbor of youth of school age, between 6 nod 21 years, is 073,689, of whom 687,446 attended the public schools, leaving 286,143 children, or 30 per cent, who did not attend them. DBut there is roported 49,876 who attonded private schools, mostly childron of Catholic parents, presumably. The oxpense to the taxpayers for the main. tenance of the public schools was just about $12 per pupil enrolled on the school registors. Of {his sum $8.82 was pald to tenchers for their services, the number of whom was 9,295 males and 12,826 fetunles, smong whom was distributed o littlo lesa than $6,000,000 for teaching the young idens how to shoot. Gen, Baxnmva, of Cincinnati, wont into tha Army at the time of the Civil War ns a Republican, came out of it as such, rcontin. ued to be a Republican till in 1872, when he took the Greerey shoot, and was sent to Congress by a combination of Liberals and Democrats, At this time he is howling for gore, nnd thirsting for another civil war, He made an incondiary specch in the House the other day, upholding the bulldozing in Lou. isiana and denouncing the Returning Board for purifying tho returns., At the cliinnx of his barangue, when he had worked himself up to a grotesque pitch of fury, he raised his clenched fist on high and bawled at the top of his voice, *“The peoplo will not stand this; they will resist it.” The galleries broke out intoa loud langh, and the grave honorables on the floor found it dificult to refrain from joining them. To the crowd in tho galleries it soemod a ludicrous idea that the American people should proceed to mur. der each other because the bulldozers and Returning Board of Loulsinua had played sharp games and left matters in donbt which sido had wou. Some of the mederate Sonth- orn members denounce Baxxtxa's incendiary talk, nnd put it in this way ‘The South went Into one war because It did not like n President who had been elected, and Bax. N1SG went (o the war to compel the Routh to sub- mit. Now he shonts to the South thatshe ought to goto warngaln, If another Prealdent she don't like fadeclured clected. When Baxsixa gets us Into this war, how can wo tell which sfde he will fght on, —whether he will bo as le wasbofore, or as he secms to thiuk he is now!? CHICAGO TRADE 1876 ‘Wo prosent our readers this first morning of tho new year 1877 with o carefully.pre. pared and comprehensive statement of the wholesalo traflic in Chicago for the year 1876. Itis encouraging, In view of tho universal dopression which has stricken the trado and commerco of the world, it Is grat- ifying to loarn that here in Chicago, despito tho suffering around us, wo have maintained substaotially tho aggregate value of our trade, aud have ndded immousecly to the volume of merchandise recoived, produced, handled, and sold, Taking tho cash value of tho wholesale trade in 1876 and 1876 8 tho same, tho reader can estimate the great increaso in the amount of merchandise sold by computing the decline in prices of the several lines of goods, In somo lines tho decline Lina been large, 'Thus, in the article of corn, while the average price of that grain in 1876 was 44} cents por bushel, in 1874 tho avernge price was 63} cents,~a dif- ference In value on the whole receipts of tho year of nearly $8,000,000, Tho same is true in regand to dry-goods, where, however, there is an increase in the bulk with no decrense in tho aggrogate value of tho eales, Chicago presents to the world the as. stounding record of receiving in this city dur- ing the twelve ‘months tho oggregate of 97,077,190 bushels of grain,—an incrense of 14,600,000 buskels over the year 1875, and au incrense over any preceding (except 187:3) yonr, uven in the wonderful history of this great granary, Despite the efforts that havo been made by railronds and by rival eities, by all the discriminations made agnfnst this ¢ity in railroad freights, and by combinations of overy kind, Chicago has to record on ng- gregate of gruin recelpts utequaled by any other city in tho United States, except in 1874 by Now York, and by Chicago in 1873, Whilo from various causcs, all atated in de- tailin t)au‘ report, thero was & decline in the sggregate of wheat receipty, the receipts of coru have increased to 46,308,783 bushels, “I'ho storage capacity of the elevators now in this city for grain exclusively {s 15,500,000 busbels; flour being stored clsewhere. The increaso in the flour trade 14 large, und prom- isea to be pormanent, In no branch of our trede has thers been such activity as in the live stock and pro- vislon business. In this Chicago commands and controls the market. Yenrs ago this trade was controlled in Now York. Europe, and oven the Southern States, made their purchsaes in New York, and the Western producer aud manufacturer had to send his goods to New York, there to be sold. Al this is now changod. This trade is now largely with Chicago direct. * The purchasers come here in persun or by agent, and deal di- rectly with the manufactarers. The same Is truoc of the live stock. 8o Armly established Ia this provision trade that thero are several packing-houses in Chicago who pack exclu- sively to flll European orders ; and meats are cut, foshioned, and preparcd to meet the peculiar wants und tastes of various English and other foreign markets, Al this business is doue direct from this city to the English ports. This iy ulso true with respest to the grain market. The orders come heiw direct, e R~ CHICAGU ] the purchaser having his choica of four or five rontes to the senboard and as many ocean lines, through freight contrncts being made here. ‘Wo refer the reader for the goneral details to tho extended report in this morning's papor, but a fow of tho summarics may be appropriate here, The following will exhibit what is known as the produce trade,includ- ing breadstufia; ipned. dhdss 04, 4411 R!rtlr(;l. SA 7, 040 1,110,138 753, 008 o principal items of theso receipts may be thus stated : Tive stock w ... $114,018,000 Brendstufl . 51, 722, MK Highwines, et ., 1543, 500 Trovislonn, tallow, 14.K60, 500 Tatter, ides, wool 81,020,000 Scedw, nalt, potatol Mivcellancons... . Tatal... Total in Increasa in 1870, $ 2,000,000 The value of the pork, ments, lard, ete., aro not included in tho above, but are found under the head of manufactures, Grouping tite whole trade of the city un. der the threo goneral heads of brondstuffs, provisions, manafactures, and merchandise, wo have the following grand aggregate ¢ Provisions.. $210,800,000 Manufuctures 200,500, Wholesale merchandise.. 282, 000, 060 ‘Total, 187¢ $710, 300, 000 Deduct for ma; 07,300,000 sales by wholesals Nettotal.... thero waa an increaso in tho value of tho produce trnde of 1 per cent ; & docrease in the valuo of the whole- salo merchandise trade of 4 per cent; and on increase of 4 8-10 per cent in manufac- tures, or o total docreaso of 8-10 of 1 per cent on tho whole. 'Theso figures represent val- ues, which, owing to the largo decline of prices {n brendstuffs, morchandise, and many lines of manufacturod goods, represent a much greater number, weight, and mensure <f things sold than last year. The total val- ues of the annual trado under theso throo goneral hends compare with that of other years since 1872 ns follows : 010,000, 000 | 1875.... ..$657, 500, 000 « 039,000,000 | 1870.... .. 662,000,000 The good people of Chicago, whilo they may not find in theso results the wonderful expansion of trado which has always marked the progress of Chicago, will find under tho circumstances much cause for congratula- tion, Thero has beon substantially as much money expended here in trade s in any pre- ceding year, notwithstanding the extraur- dinary nttractious at tho Centenninl drawing to tho Enast ‘s large portion of our regular customers. Though the values represented by the trade do not exceed thoso of other years, tho fact remaina that Chicago has ro. ceived, handled, and sold in quantity per- haps 20 per cent mors goods of all kinds than ever bofore. Taking into consideration the condition of trade the world over, and enpecially in this country, such an oxhibit is highly gratifying. DOMESTICITY V8, BOHEMIANISH, ‘The botter part of tho Chicago ZVmes’ edi- torinl pago of yesterdny was devoted to Tun ‘I'nmune's household department, for which it sets asido several columns of its Baturday issue. Moro apace was dovoted in tha Z'mes to slurs upon this feature of Tme Triusrk than was occupied by the ndvertisoments of tho samo issue; stitl this was rather tho judgment of the advertisers than the fault of the Zimes. 'The slurs werovery much of the same character a3 those that libertines ave accustoed to visit upon virtuous women, The nunlogy is carried ont by the fact that the Liousehold department of Tue TasuNe is given over exclusively to tho ladies, and especiolly to that large class of domestic women whose tloughts are engrossed with the ambition to meko their homes cheerful, attractive, and happy for their husbunds and their familics. Thiu is an ambition for which the editor of tho Zimes has neither under- standing nor sympathy, < ‘I'he houschold departmont of Tnz Tnin- uNx scarcely needs justification at our hands, It spenks for itself, and it Lins found appreci- ation and response from Maino to Oregon, Its contributors Lavo enumerated residents of nearly every State in the Union, They aro almost exclusively women, oud the sub- jects discussed are those pertinent to the home which woman's presenco creates and blesses. But o small part of the fssuo of Tue TnnuNe ono day out of the soven is do- voted to thin departent, and yet it embraces the very subjects that form the staplo of tho thought, and discussion, and energy of ro- spectablo people during threc-fourths of their waking and working hours, ‘To man and ‘woman both, the Lome is sacred ground,— tho Mecea of all the journcyings nnd the goa! of all the struggles of life. Iow to adorn the house, how to cook the meals, how to combino comfort and convenlence, how to got the largest nmount of enjoy- ment out of tho means at, command, how to iustruct and amuse , chil- dren,—the whole problem of domestis economy, in fact, ia compreliended in this department, and every aturday it goes mto 40,000 familivs whero it finds eager readers, Probably any other regular feature of T'ne Tupuxe could be dispensed with at the risk of less displensure that this depository of domestlo wisdow, It may b that the voluminous and vulgar sneers of tho Z%mes were prompted m part by envy, both because it does not enjoy the Lenefit of a gimilar departaent, and becauso it cannot get auy considerablo number of respectablo women to write for it. But, in 8oy event, the Z'imes people would naturally resent anything domestic and decent that proved popular, Itisin the nature of the Times to scoff at virtuo, deride womanly tastes, ond turn swasy from bome.life, Bahemianism runs riot in its columns, It caters to the saloons, to the **b'hoys * aund the “g'hals,” to the loafers and social outcasts, to the scoffers at religlon and morality, and to that class of unfortuuate and dograded wankind which has censed to find pleasure in decent society and to eutertain respoct for pure, and virtuous, and domestic women. We simply 8tato & matter of fuct, We aro not endeavor- ing to convert the Zimes to respectability; that is a matter of taste for its editor and ! saders. The Tiaes has its o%n peculier | record on the subject of decency. Expori. ence has proved to Tox Tamuxz that n de- cont regard for honesty, virtue, and home. lifo is not only more creditable, but more popular and more profitable, than pandering to vicious and vulgar tastes, —— JUDGE TRUMBULL'S POWER BRHIND COR- GRESS, The state of affairs in Florida, disclosed by the testimony of Judge It. B, Arcumorn, given undor oath befors the Senate Commit. teo at Jacksonville on Baturday, might have fnrnished material for denunciation by Judge Taoapury, when he talked big sbont the power that is behind President and Con. gress. Even Mr. Lrowanp Bwerr, in the few minutes that woro left him by Tauvn- BULL, might have mdverted to tho slate of affairs in Florida; but Mr. Swerr began by admitting hia ignoranco of the facts, and, on Lis own confession, talked of what he didn’t kuow about. Ancmmotv, the witness, is Judgo of the Fourth Judicial Circult of Flor. ida, and, in his testimony ns to the nbsolute licensy White-Lino murderors onjoy in that Btate, cited the case of the murder of Btato Sonator Jounsow a short time since. The State Sennte stood oxactly balanced be- tweon the two parties,—twelve Republicans to twelve Domocrats, The White-Line, bull- doza manngers were bent upon obtaining control of tho Senate at any hazard, Thoro ‘was but ono way, ns the Senate was full and the Republicans stood firm, by which to do it. That was to creato a vacancy. A'canvass was made of tho Bonatorial Districts ropre. sented by Ropublicans, the rtesult of which waa thot Jomxsox's district, being a close ono, wns solectod ns that in which the vacancy sliould be croated. The vacancy 1eas thercon created by the murder of Jomxsow, Tho mon who then managed and now man. ago the Florida Democracy, and who at this time aro talking nbout a President boing connted in and o Presldent being counted out, did not do tho murder with their own hands, But they hastened to ratify the mur- der, to becomo open accessories aftor the fact, and to rescuo the marderer from the grasp of tholaw. The caso ia tersely snmmed up in Judge Aronmmorn's testimony ns follows : tood twelve Itepublicans to ind JonxsoX was selected be. cause his dlstrict was a closc one, and deliberately mardered for tiie purpose of giving the Democrats the ascendency in that branch of the Leglalatare, Tho avidenco against Ricianp, the assassin, was clear, connected, aud amounted ton certainty of matbematical demonstration, and yet tho jury ro- fuscd to convict him. The moment ho wan arrest- ed, the whole Democratic Bar of Jacksonsille, and nearly every Democratic lawyer In the State, vol- unteered thelr services in his defense, whilo every effort was made by the best cltizens to throw the officers of justice off the track and facllitate tho escape of the murderer, —and, of courso, tho murderer escaped. Tho murder was in fact regarded es n meritorions act. It was ona step toward ‘““reclaiming " the Everglade State from Radical, niggor rule,.and rostoring it to the rightful rulers of the soil—tho White-Lino, bulldozer instigators of murder in order to gain control of tho Upper Houso of tho Legislature, in which the voto was a tie, In recognition of the distinguished public servico of tho nasassin in doing this murder, the Democratic Bar of Jacksonvillo as ono man volunteored for his dofense. Iublic sympathy was cnlisted in his bebalf ns n heroic defendor of his Stato, and a jury of his poers promptly indorsed and approved his crimo. This crime was ono of which SrrrivoBoLy would havo been ashamed ; from which the Thugs of India would have shrunk; of which tho Bashi-Bazouks could scarce bo capable, Bat it was perpetrated upon considerations of Democratic party policy; and that party in Florida ratified and approved it. And that Domocratic party of Flérida it is which JMessrs. Trusury and the rest demand shall Dbe counted into power, to count in TiLoex, olse Measrs, TruxnuLL and the rest menace ua with the power behind Presidont and Con- gress, — THE DILEMMA OF THE COUNT, ‘We do not beliove thora is & nowspapor in this country that has presented moro fully, fairly, or enrnestly than Tie Cmicaao Trin- uye the difficulties that beset the attempt to ascortain tho result of tho Eloctoral vote for President. Wa do not beliovo that any othor journal hins dano more to Impress upon Con- greas tho welghty responaibility resting upon it to dovise somae method for counting the voto and to give it the forco of law beforo tho 14th of Vobruary next, whon tho count must be made. Wo do not belisve that any- body appreciates more acutely tho dangers that aweit an uncertaiu au indeterminato ex- ercise of an authority to count the vote, But the dilemma {8 upon us, and it {s at onco idle and foolhardy to ovade it, or to sock to dispose of it iu a summary and oxtra-consti- tutional manner. A fow days ago wo asked for Democratio opinfon ns to the course which should be pursued in the ovent that Congress fail to provilo o law or a joint rule prescribing the procedure, which it has alwaya adopted heretofore, ‘The question waa worthy of serfous consideration aud answer, but the organ of Mr. Tinen and the * wah " Democrats in this city has mado it tho occasion of its usual display of ignorance and vulgarity,—too ignorant to comprehend the situation and too vulgar to treny it with rospect and earnestness, The only sense we can extract from a column of wswasly which it printed in roply to Tuz Tain- UNE is, that tho vote musat be counted by the two Houscs of Congress or clse tho present Houso of Roprosentatives must elect. There is not a syllablo in the Coustitution, thero is not a law in tho statutes, there is not & pre- cedent in the anuals of the Govermment, there is not a grain of common sense which gives sanction to this ridiculous alternative, How, can the two Houses of Congress count the vote undor the present condition of things ? What authorlty is there for the two Houses coming together for any joint action ? It is a logiulative abusurdity, A joint nction necessarily contomplates an equality betwoen Benators and Represontatives, each having one vote aud a majority of the whole controlling. Where is thero @ precodent to ba found for such a procoeding? In the Benate, Delaware Las a4 many votes as New York; in the House, New York has thirty.five times as wany os Delaware, Laws require to bo passed by the separate and concurrent action of the Houses on this radically different basis of organization,—the Benators ropro- senting the States and the House the people, ‘Where is there any authority in the Consti- tution, the laws, or procedents, for ignoring this organio difference, and mergiug the two Houses into a wass-meeting for wrangle, de- bate, and flual ection? Unless somo law or preceddut can be cited for such a departure from the fundamental forms of our Gov- wrment, it must be disinissed as out of the question. But, we aro told, unless the vote is count. ed by the two Houses acting together (which is palpably’ sbsurd and impossible in the absenco of all sutherity), then the House MONDAY, JANUAKY: must elect. IHow in the world does this follow? Tha Constitution provides that the choice of President shall only devolve npon the House of Represcntatives when, among all the persons voted for, it is ascertained Ly connt that no one has s majority of the whole number of Eloctors ap- pointed. But how can it be known whether theroia such a condition of things or not, beforo there has been a count? The two Houses come togsther as spectators, in the absence of any Iaw governing the connt, and the Premdont of the Senate, in their pres- ence, opens all tho certificates as he is re- quired to do by the terms of the Conatitu- tion, If he may proceed mo further, thera lo the votes on the table; thero is no one authorized to count them, and no ‘one can suthoritatively say whether or not one of the perrons voted for a3 President has failed to recoive a majority of all tho votes, But, until this has been anthoritatively deter. mined, the House hns no warrant on earth to proceed with an election. y It is vory evident that the Chicago organ of the Tmpex Domocrats has cither ignorantly or maliciously misconceived the dilemma, It isthis: If Congress fails, by separato and concurrent action in the usual constitutional manner, to providle a law or joint rulo for connting the Eleetoral vote, then either (1) tho President of the Benato, by n natural implication of the Constitution, and under tho instruc- tions of the body of which he is an officer counta the vote, or (2) the vote cannot bLe counted, and tho 4th of March will come aroond to find vacancies in both the offices of Presidont and Vico-President,—a condition requiring o spocinl election to be called for the following November, o 1. Astotho **implication.” The langungo of tho Constitution is ns follows: * The President of the Benate shall, in the prosence of the Sonato and Housa of Representatives, opon all certificates, and the votos shall then bo counted.” The votes are confided ox- pressly to tho Prosident of thoSenate. Thoy aro sent to him directly by the Eleotors. They aro in his possession. No other porson or, officor {a named in the Constitation s having any right to touch or count them. It is within tho power of Congross, by sepa- rato agreemont of the two Houses, to dosig- nate a porson or porsons to count; but, if Congress fails to do this, the Consti- tution declaring the votes shall e counted, the porson who alone is constitutionally vested with the right to opon and handlo the votes is naturally and necessarily the firat and only porson to do the counting. This right rests with him by an exclusivo inference, no other person being named, if Congress noglects to exercise its right 83 n law-making body to direct some one clso to count tho votes. This was the conclusion of Chancellor Kent, admittedly ono of thoe first jurists and ablest lnw-writers, many yenrs ago, when there was no issue and when ho could not have been influonced by any partisan feeling. Hosays: ‘The Conatitution does not expressly declare by tehom the voteaaro to bo counted and the resnit declared, In the cass of quentionable votes and closely conteated clection this power may bo all- tmportane, and T presume, In tho absenca of all leglalative provision on the subject, tAat the Presi- dentof the Senate counts the voles and determines the result, and that tho two llonscs are presont only s spectatars, and to act It no cholce be mage by the Electors, 6 Of course the President of the Senato holds this power, not as} an individaal, but rs an oflicer of the Henato, nnd it is not like. 1y that ho will undertake its cxerciso In the presout excited condition of things withont tho express inatruction of the Senate and their indorsoment of this interprotation of his prerogative and duty, But if the Housa fails to agree with the Senate upon some rule of procedure, it will bo for the Senate to do- termine whother the mandate of the Consti~ tutlon, that the vote skall de counted, does not fimpose the responsibility upon their pro- siding officer in the absence of any law ro- lioving him of it. il 2, Tho alternative, as wo have said, is that tho 4th of BMarch will Intervene before tho votos shall have boen connted, and it will thon become tho duty of the Secrotary of Stato to call a specinl eloction under the law, tho President of tho Senate acting as Pres- ident of the United States ad fnterim. This,of course, is still under the supposition that the Senato and Ilouso shall not agree upon any procedure, Thore will be no other way, for the House certainly cannot take inde- pondent action, unsupported by the Senate, for counting the vote; nor can it proceed to chooso a President natil the voto shall havo boen counted, and it shall have been ascertnined that thero was a failure to elect. We sincerely hopo that tho dilemma may yot bo uvoided by nn ngreemont betweon the two Houses; but Congross will not be asslsted in wrriving ot snch a necessary ngroomont by partisan efforts to clothe the Democratic House with powers it does not possess under tho Constitution, laws, prece- dents, or common sense, ‘WIITEWASHING THE BULLDOZERS. ‘The Hullduzer coneern eallsJudge TRUMBULL'S long-winded speech of Baturday night last A startling statement of facts concerning the eleo- tion fu Loulstuna.”” The only people it * star- tled” wera the poor reporters who were re- quired to take It down for three hours. Tho specch wus slimply an elongation of the report which Judge THUMBULL wrots for the PALuER Committee, of which he was a member, and which all the morniug papers in the elty puls lsbied fu extenso. A repetition ot this report, consuming three hours to rolate, must have been considered rather dry fodder by the % non. purtisan” Tinex crowd who llstened to it People would feel @ good deal moro respect for the statements contalued fn the origival pamphlet report snd in the diluted verbal version of the same, if both did not ex- hibit quite so much partisan one-sldedness. Aduwit that the Returulng Board cheated more or less in making up the returns, have not the bullduzers been gullty of flngrunt and atrocious intimldations and terrorisin? What s the use n trying to deny the noturious, Innumerahle murderous assaults upon the colured Republic- ans by the Democratic Ritle-Clubs and armed Bungs of bulldozers who went around at night fram plantation to pluntation whipping the Ite- vublican negroes who would not jolu Democratic clubg, and killiug the leadiug colored men who supported Haves and Wueereut Republican meetings wers broken up nlghtly in the strong Republican counties by thoss armed gangs of prowling partlsaus, who ucted upon the advice recelved from beadquarters, of which this fs speclmen, taken from the Morchouse County Clarion, the Democratle orgun of that stroug Republicsu county: ‘The Radicals are making devperate efforts to ore gauizo {o the Parlsh of Morehouse. Democrals, now {e the tine tu make your desperato struggle. o to every mecting they nitempt to bhold; break thews wp, — Hunt ecery uight meating. Do let thew have s wingle one secretly, and you 0ol i \vl'“ounlltunglo the life out of ladicullem fn Morehouse. ‘The result of this wdvice was that the usual Republlcan majority of 430 was changed juto & Democratic mafority of 600 fa s county ouly polling 1,600 votes. This §s one of the countlcs whose returns wero purged by the Returning Board, uud for dofug which Judge TeUMBULL pours npon them his vlals of wrath. ‘The President seut a message to Cougress on tho 6th of December, containing the testimony obtained by the Suxmmax breuch of 'thaCam- s £ 1, "I87T7—TWELVE PAGER, mittee who visited Loulsiana with Judge TRuM- BOULL and Gon. PaLuar, The document has Just been printed. It makes a large book of nearly 600 poges, small type, end s filled with the sworn testimony of per- haps a thousand persons, all testifying to the violent Intimidationn and horrid atrocities practiced npon the colored Republie ans of Louistana to prevent them from voting for HArzs, or to force them to vote for TILDRX and the White-Line ticket. It fs a frightful narrative, and makes onc's blood run cold and hot by turns,—cold with horror and hot with indignation at tho politicnl brutalitics perpe- trated on the poor blacks to coerco them Into voting ngninst their principles and party. No candid man car®.urn over those damning pages, no matter what his politics may be, and after- warda have any patlence with Judge TRuUM- BULL'S whitewashing of the bulldozers, and but littlq room for Indignation at anything the Re- turning Board may have done to efect the bull- dozed ballots from the boxes. —a— Bince the Farwell Iall meeting Saturday night, Mr. LeoNAnD BwerT has known and felt the full foree of the expresston, * comlng out at the littls end of the horn,” all of which he saw, ond part of which he was. He was an- nounced to speak, und was prepared to flit the Uill. Nobody supposed, howerver, and Mr SwETT least of all, that Judge TRUMBULL Wwas going to talk for threc mortal houra in repeti- tion aud claboration of the long-winded pam- phlet on the Loulsiana caso which was quite geverally publishicd at the tims it was f{ssued, befng printed in full in Tne Trinuxe. It was expected that the Judge would be, as It were, the orchestrs, and play the people to thelr seats, and then leave tho stage clear for the maln performance, the delivery of Mr, BwrTT's carefully-prepared argument on the question of counting the Electoral vote~Instead of which, the over{uro proved to be the principal feature of the cnter- tainment, considercd as to duration, and when Mr. 8weTT's chance camo everybody was bored and the hall largely emptied, leaving plenty ot bare tenches and but a few minutes of time for Brother BweTT to get In his work. We are sorry for 8werr—more sorry, no doubt, than many are who had left tho hall before his turn came; and we share the indignation he fecls at the way TRUMDBULL played it on bim, —_— PERSONAL. Anne isrewater, writlng from Ttome, says that Tleer Wagner is very proud of his **Centennial March." Mrs, Wililam Astor gave a grand ball at her real- denco on Fifth avenne In New York, Thursday night, the occasion belng the debut In socloty of her daughter, Miss Augnata Astor, Graco Rovero, o great-granddavghterof that Paal made famous by Longfellow, was married at Boston Thureday to Dr. 8, W. Goss, son of the distin- guished Prof. Goss, and himself a surzeon of no mean reputation, Mme. Derghimanns, the fascinating and wealthy widow of Washington, who recently married the Clerk of tho Alabama-Clalms Commission, settied 812,000 a year on her husband. The gentleman fa sald to bo cheap at the price, A French physiclan advises the addition of a brief treatise on tho beat method of rearinginfantato all miseals and prayer-books. 1t might be possible in this manner to connect the religlon of humanity more closcly with the religlon of feellng. Thera died fn England recently Sir Henry do Hoghton, o wealthy Baronet, who has proved his confideuce {n the atabllity of the Southern Confod- eracy by investing £200,000 In {ts bonds, Tle lost by the transaction §1,000,000 In gold, bot had & sthi larger fortane remataing, Vanderbilt obtatnod hin atart In Mfe by pleasing 8 gentloman whose herse he held at a hotel-door, and Admiral Farragat In boyhood was adopted by Commodore Porter in rocognition of kindnesa shown by tho fatherof the formerto the latter when prostrated by a sunstroke. COcrome's Iatest work, called *'The Bword Dance," represents & young glirl dancing bofore the guests of an Oriental Inn. The chlef merit of the composition les In tho expression of the faco of the principal figure. The painting, which {s now on exhibition In Parls, ia valued at $15,000, Benator Bharon, Inan Interview with a reporter of the 8an Franclaco Chronicle, said he bad slightly modified his views on the sllver question. 1lels now prepared to advocato 8 messure making stlver 8 legal-tender in sums of from 850 to 8100, Thls, hie says, would be auflicient for all ordlnary trans actlons, One Boston clergyman, supposed to bs Phillp Brooks, received on Christwas Day twonty-six phlrs of slippers. Tha Hartford Courant thinky ha ia ono of whom It Insald that he hana two barrels in hiestudio, and when tho Jadics bring him thelr offeringe of slippers he say: **Lofts in that yar- rel, madam; rights in this, An attempt was made at Rochester, N, Y., re- cently, to burn the celobrated palnting of Lookont Mountaln. A hole about twico the size of a man's bhand waamade in the canvas jmmedistely adow the figuro of Gen. Tlooker, but, as the Incendiary had only matchies with which to start the famos, ho waa unable to burn the whole work, A colored man named Plckett, resflling at Akron, 0., has Jost his wife and pastor together, they hav- ingeloped In company. ‘Tho sad feature cf the affair 1a that the unfortunate Pickett sent them off himeelf, and farnished them with money to keep thewm Comfortably for several months, tho under- standing being that they wero to securo for him s valuable Inheritance In Oshkesh, Wia. The death {s recorded of Miss Amy Fawsitt, an Englla actress who came to this country in Sep. tember as & member of Mr, Daly's New York Com« pany. She waa soon diamluscd from that organiza. tion In consequence of {ntemperance and inoff- clency. Jierage was 40 years. She had acted in England with great success, and was known there for many smisblo qualities as an artlet and o wuman. The sophomores of Brown University have been ‘making themeelves appear ridiculous, or worse, by printing a pamphlet reflecting on the character of the vencrable Presldent of that institutlon, Dr. Robinvon. The burden of thelr complaint Is that he treated them unjustly in connection with some foollsh boy-pranks. It is not too much to esy that the authors of tuis pamphlet, If they can be dla- cavered, should be expellea from the Inatitution. ‘The statement froquently made that Turner's **Blave Bhip,* recently wold In New York for $10,000, cost Mr, Taylor Johnston $30,000, Is er- roneous, Ile paid but 2,000 guineas for the work. ‘The statement of the New York Yor{d Is therefore correct, that the largest sum of money ever pald for a paintin in this country was the $60,000 given Ly Stewart for Melswouier’s **1807," and the next largest the $25,000 paid In Philadelphla for Make art's ** Caterina Cornaro," A Mr, Gladstone's latest plece of letter-writing ln in answer to tho request of a young Liberal 1o be told what books he ouybt to read on English hls- tory sud polltics. Mr, Gladstone recommends *+ Qreen's Popular History of England, " ¢ 1all Constitutional llistory of England, Ranke's History of England, *Gulizot's llistory of the Great Rebelllun,” and **8ir E. May's Parllamen- tary Mistory of England." 3Mr. sualley notices that thero ara In this short lstat least two errore in the titles of buoks mentionad, Mr, Hawrls, the author of **Muslc and Morals,” tsaclergyman. 1l wes recently understood to announce as the subjcct of his evenluy discourse, **"The Banltary Awpects of lell.” When s Jarge audience gathered to drink in comfort from a dis- cussion of this timely toplc, the revercnd gentle- man was compelled 10 say that there had beens \nhundcnllulflnfl. He knew nothing of the sani- tary aspects of heil—indeed, was dlsposed to ques- ton whether holl nliary aspacta. Tho subject bo pi or was, **The Banl- tary Aspects of ) LOTEL ALRIVALS, Tremont Flouse—M, Btron and J. Mlller,.New ol. Willlam York; D. Bulton, New Yark; C. E. Hitchcock, 8t. Loula; tho lloa. A. W. Bawyer, Baginaw; tbe Hon.George Btewart, Cusbondale. ..’ herman' loure—il. W, Couvetse, di i. ¥. Dodge, Boston nd, W. R. (ireene, )5 C, A, ¢ 8 rand P Paul Bpny; Biaicor B 5, e wa Ciopng: Rapite: W, ' J. Heed, Hock L Toxus; 1L N 5 er, Mazatisn, M. liubbard, Cedar Ilhnd" A, 8 W. Cu ulocy; Gen. B, ngton, .%mn’u, Louls- A, J. Carblne, villo; tho Hion. Dakuta Térritory; Edwird sherni, iiwsukes! Gou. L. i1 Grugery U. 5. A.{ tue Lon, W. C. Grier, Cleveland; Tlurd, Todianapolis: the Moo, E. 1. Townsend, Connccticut; thegllon. John Bryson, Wasiugtol . Waylsnd, Cdlorsdo; Gen. J. Gumter, Tex iliam Craiaer, Qustici €. B.'Dag, Provideuce, SERMONS. Prof. Swing Speaks on the Sube Joct of Providence, With Special Reforence to the Re cent Raliroad Disaster. The Proper View to Be Taken of This and Similar Occurrencoes. The Rev. Dr. Anderson Takes an Uge favorablo View of Theatres and Dalls. PROVIDENCE. SHRMON NY PROF. S8WINC. : Prof. David Bwing preached the following timely sermon at the Central Church yesterday morning: ‘Thou cumpassest my path and my lying down, and artacquainted with il my ways sy, chcey 3, Let us taka up as & theme for the hour the Providence of God. Dy no means do we or can we comprehend It, but we may gather up some facts of the great case, As tho world grows older its famillarity with the partleulars of God’s will and works diminishes, Lactantlus, the Cleero of the carly Church, wrote a treatiso to show that all infidels and wicked men meet with violeot death. Ile found a few strikiug examples, and bastened to make a sweeping generallzation. An English writer ridiculed, some years ago, this method of hasty Inductlon, by grouping Iacts to show that men of two names were generally patriotle, men of three. names more wWont to he traltors or Torles. By a similar process of rensoning some conclude that God {s more willing that firs should burn a theatre than amill or & shop, and that He lngs plang by which the vice of tho drama shall be often rebuked. Thus, too, tha supcrstitious will hang chiarms about thelr neek to protect them from robbers or small-pox, and then aftera fow years bavo - passed bringing them no brigands and no pestiience, they con- fer magieal power upon thelr tallsman, and make arrangements to supply the world. Small, impatient observers aro all these, and under the influence of modern reason thelr number fa steadlly decreasing. Buch reasonlng comes {from sbutting out ell cvents except those of tho desired class. Those who point to tho theatres burncd must close thelr memory to the accldent in the Pember- ton Mills, where lhundreds of poor, hard-working, falthful girls wers busy support- iug self and perbaps aged parents or little brothers and slsters at home, must forget the loss of the Ville do Havre, the burning of a church In Chili, the fire-dsmp in the mince, the fall of & bridge covered by a railway train full of pco%Ie, the burning of holy convents and of chuntable orphan asylums. “In ornder to find God rebuking the theatro by firo ¢t {s necessary to shut up all thexgntes of {nquiry except out. By general confcssion tho whole mutter of “"Providence? s less clearly understood than it ‘was centuries ago, and henco to-day et us walk carefully and humbly along_the path fo which 8o many of our fellow-men have stumbled, Let us aftirm what we safely may, sod leave all elsa to tiod now, and to usin th far away futurity, (1.) Thero {8 no reason why we sbould bo able to Interpret events and find tho Divine mcnnlnfi any4nore than there is reason why wo ehoul kuow how God looks or of what quality He is, or whero may be His central home. If we may | not understand God to perfection, why should wa to perfection dlscover and trace out His ths! Iere, s in o thousand other places, our Pc.nmlnz resolves itsclf Into ignorance and leayes our feet in the path obscure.” Glorious In such & twilight is tho goneral anthem of the old psalm, “Thou compassest my path and my lylng down.” That' is, qut of thio active strect or upon his ymow man s attended by his God, How?1 to what degreel are detalls for God and eternity. The triumph of relizion must be fn seizing upon such a vast supervision and then not, to suflor any events of thu hour to shako the soul's peace. He who can throw himself most perfectly into Cowper's hymn and feel that Beyond a frowning providence Me'hides a smiilng face, 1 the one who will find the tnost good In re- ligion and the mosat of carth’s success, As our triots, and all patriots, have always stood rm byn great priuciplo and in dark hours fed upon fts inner 1ght, Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, g0 in religlon the mind must fix ftself upon some great prlnulglu and walt there for thu storms to eweep Ly, As Gud juvisibty come scth man in his Iying down, as In sleep mon Kuwhufl,v unconsclous of a helplue Gud, so while awake, out iu his puth, ke may be wholly unablo to sce tle part taken by the Almighty in those waklng hours. For waking s only onu degree removed frowm sleeping so fifr as o ineas- uriug of Deity Is concerned, God belng lucom- prehicnsible, His providenvo here will ‘X-o ba e nu\l{ unfathomable. Not knowlng God lflmnc , we cannot know all His ways, f.!.) It will ald us greatly to accept of the situ- atfon if we will only denl In general resuits and tendences, n what mlght be called moral aver- ages, and will cast oursclves upon them as belug the best Linages we can tind of tho wish of Gud. Nature {s full of theso averages. Mun's lifo runs & years, takiog in the infunts of the world, ond though some one’s loved fufant may die sn infant, yet upon the average days of man wo faaten our hope, and in the name of 1t do all our work. Having survived infancy and having come to maturity, the {ndividual fhids the aver- age of life wideniug out to 00, and slthough he may be destiued blmself to live but oue year more, yet he knows not this detall and glves heart und hand to the gencral law of 60 years, ‘That 800 who sat {u the Brouklyn theatrs wore drawing impulse, and joy, and composure from the 20 or 80 years aplece which lay belore them; they saw tho leuves ofs noxt spring, und, indeed, the bloom and frults of muny & summer; thoy saw thelr homes running on- ward and they” were about to rise from thelr scats aud go homeward Ju{ gr. to tell what beauty they had seen an 3 but Jo! the end was right there! ‘the curtuln of life wud in a moment to drup for them. Thus the av- erage was broken in upon. They knew a gene c::flnw but did not sco the exceptions, Tiose who assembled to bury the dead, came ju tho namo of the expectation of life, and felt that, though 800 had died,they would ut least live on. And o they will, ‘Thowill of God about the yearsof man on earth will underzo no change, he law moves on, not heeding such o catainity, As the law of existence thun lies before main, clear as ta long th and vast multitudes, ob- scurc aa to u purticular individual, so Iis provi- dence muat niove slong, readably’ in the great, but not slways fu tho little. Ile compasaeth man's path and hia lving down, but o tells us nat the particular wish or mport of the hour for thut one heart. Be the truth of a particular providence of God what it may, the -v.ud( of these great aver- ages is safo uud ‘useful. Man's pathand his ly- fng down 1a encompassed by then, As the providencs of nuture has seento it that mun’s ieart shall beat sod Dings riso and slnk i his uncouscious sleep, so the providence of morals or has seen to it that the soul shall live lu an stmosphers not of {ts own making or volun- ;Try breathing, but of God's own imake and mo- tion. (iod compasseth man's path by history, All the svents of the day, the burning of theatres and ships, tho death of beloved cml(lmn the crushing 1 of bridges, the fulling of bulldings I»Iy hurricune or earthquake, the tldal wave, tho inlzrating pestilence, the perpotusl chang- intz and surpriso of death, huve 8o chicompansed man that they hayve mocked and humllisted s pride and made him s belog of Lumdity, and sympathy, sud tears, It has required the long gricf of centuries to bring sbout his re- sult, " Why Lincoln was murdered, why the Brooklyn ‘audiencs dicd, why your loved oncs died tu'ehipwreck, why your son waa drowned, ouo sy not tell, for God's book les ouly part wuy open, wod foa Jdim Mght; but, mu ng all these welancholy cvents togetlicr, the humasu ruce cxtracts frow them some of the most charming truite of Its choracter, It i3 au unaltersble law of Nature that all must die. At lust we shull all come to the tomb. This betnz the fact, Providence Inter- feres only to reuder death wore fnpressive by changlug fts countensucs and vesture, Ho teaches the living a deeper humility and sense of dependence by making death unfurl its black bauner o most nucxpected places and times. Io the very midst of our holidey feativities, When the hewrt attewpts to be the light- cst, it hangs tho heaviest n our bosom. Befween tho duy of ghfts and the day of uuiversal calls and congratulations fu thu puwe of fricndshlp, death comes iu & tearful garb, comes fu night and storw, with fco aud frost, uklul{ for thoss vietims which the ruins had not ful {]l‘nuhud, and with quick fre aakiug for those whichthe dark strepm could not reach, und ull this awid the plteous cries of children whom 8 mother’s divise luve 'Was powerlcss L0 save. 3 Awoug the dyinglay our own fricnds. Among ‘these thut sweel singer sod composer of soug. Jowrasying alovg Lapplly withi the wile whe was