Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1877, Page 4

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NO. 1, RNIGIITS TEMP- I“H“" Conciave this (Tursday) evening, at Any- lllu&.hl EA.“C. 1 s an. ll."ll 6.\' Lor, llcm{hlev. TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1877 ‘Washington is wallowing in snow knco. deep. Not for thirty years bas a similarly disagreenbls condition of things prevailed at national headquartera, The new Mayor of New York recommends a civio effort to rolieve the unusual suffering which the present sovere -winter has im- posed upon the poor of that city, so far ne tle samemay bo safely done without com- nromising tho industrial integrity of the i, onoe sentenced to be hanged and aftorwards . “populace. Tho handsome sum of $10,000 has been roised in Obicago as a fund for the mainten- auce and oducation of the two sons of Mr. and Mre, P, P, Buiss, who perished in tho * Ashtabula horror. The fund will doubtless * be increased by voluntary contributions from friends who will focl amply repaid to see the orphan boys omulate the shining character of their lamented father, Tho heavy fall of snow on the plains of Western Nebraska, which are usually availa- ole for grazing purposes thronghout tho on- tire winter renson, scriously threatens to re- duco to starvation tho vast hcrds of cattle . that ronm that reglon, Ordinarily the snow drifts aa it folls, and leaves baro large arens * of the nntritious dried grass, but this time the ground was covered evenly, and a sudden towering of tho temperature caused a crust ' to form and provent the customary drifting, The cattle mon are therofore awalting with aoxiety. the period of mildor weather that whall thaw the snow aud avert the serious loss that now threatons them. At hisinsuguration ynstuEy. Gov. Vaxce, " of North Carolins, shiot off a hit-if-it-be-a- - deerspecch on the subject of T1LoeN or War, which entitles him to high rank in tho rhe. torical art of praterition. * As tho mouth. pleco of more than a million people " Lo nlso performed tho following feat in equi- librium : * On the one hand we do not wish toba understood that wo are ready or willing to embark in rovolution, nor on the other that wa are willing to quictly submit to any outrage that physical force, dircoted by - party zeal may sce fit to imposc—the one course tonding to provoke violence, and the other to invito opprossion.” Gov. Vaxce would do for & Usufruct Cabinot. The inauguration yesterday of tho succos- sor of Mr, Tioey as Goveruor of the Btata of New York was tho oocasion of nn inter- change of compliments botweon the incom- ing and the outgoing. Tho latter improved the opportunity lo once moro give Lim. welf a first-class pulf as a Reformer, * and Qov., RosmsoN, not to be out done in this mutual oxhibition of bad . taste, roferred to his predecessor as having been called *‘by an emphatio popular ma- jority to the highest place in the nation,’ ‘whereat there was great applause among the Democracy in attendance. What with T~ pex's self-adulation and Ropmvson's toady- ism, the affair was satisfactory to both, it sy be supposed. * It iy with surprise aud chagrin we notice that one of tho closing acts of Gov. Drves. 1pae's Administration is the pardon of Grea- otaz Pgay, the Italian who murdered two Irishmen on the day of the Great Fire in this city, The murder was the result of the Ytalian's viclous and uncontrolled passion, and 50 bad o case that Lo was consigned to the Penitentiary for life. The people of Chicago cannot be blamed for re- ; sontingan act of Executive clemency tlat turns such a wrotch loose upon the commu- nity after a confinement scarcely longer than that allotted to petty larceny. Whils Gov. Brvzamox's Administration has been reason- ably free from errors, he seowms to be par. tially insane on the subject of pardoning criminale, Jtis & weakuess which he ap. pears to have indulged without judgment or icretion, and hs seems to have treated the ¢ Zzecative prerogative s a personal privilege *. Jor the exercise of which he fs in no way nacconntable to the peopla; indeed, wo con imagine nothing that could be nlleged as a reasonable cxcusa in the latest case, The Domocrats throughout the North are considerably disgusted nt the tacit recogni- tion of Gov. I1axes as the President-elect of the United States conveyed in Wape Haxr. ToX's recent letter, which, it will be remem- Vered, was presented in person by Judge Macker ns n special messenger, while the copy referred to in the posteript was sent by mail to Gov, Titpex. Due significance ia attached tothe fact that Judge Maocxey supported I1aves for President and HasrTon for Governor, and his sclection by the Inttor as the bearer of the lotterin question i3 regarded ns an,evidence that the leading Democrats of Sonth Carolina cousider the election of Haves an accomplished fact, and have no sentiments in common with tho rev- olutionary wing of the party in the North, for'whom Gen. HamproN showed his con- tempt in slighting Tizoey and rendering Lonor unto Hayes, The Northern fire-enters don't like it, bnt they seem not to have -de. cided what they are going to do about it. DEMOCRATIC COUNTING THE VOTES, The Democratio meeting on Baturday even- ing, after hearing speeches from Mr. Tnust- puey and Mr. Swerr, adopted a series of resolutions which of themselves might pass unnoticed were it not for tho concentrated absurdity which they conspicuously display. The resolution nsserting it to be a small mat. ter what individual, legnlly chosen, mway ex- ercige the office of President, expresses the general view of the public, as dees tho dec- Iaration that it is of some consequence to the success of free government that the man honestly and legally elected should have tho office, ‘There will be a general approval of the farther declaration that tho *‘free and fair oxercise of the right to vote, nud to have the vote, when caat fairly, counted, is tho mnost aacred right of tho citizen,” Nor will nny one object to the declaration that the ** dep- rivation of this right upon the allegation of violonco or fraud in its exorciso is tho soverest penalty which can bo visited upon American freemen”; and that *‘such penalty ought, therefore, nover to be inflioted except upon clenr proof bofore a competent and impartial tribunal, acting under the plain sanction of law.” Al this kas boen ropeatedly expressed in the columns of Tuz Trinoxe, more especinlly during the last six months. Wo urged these truths upon the country all through the Presidential elec- tion, ineisting that every man entitled by Iaw to vate should have the fullest freedom in 8o doiug, unawed by threats, undisturbed by violence, and unprovented by force. We look upon this resolution as but repeating and empliasizing the editorials of U'ne Taisune denouncing the fraud and violeuco which hna disgraced the politics of Loulsinna, Mississippi, sud other States, making tho contents of the ballot-boxes in thoso States a reandal and a repronch to Ameriean civili- zation and liberty, It is to bo regretted that tho Democrats of Lonisiana had not been con- trolled in their policy before the election by the philosophieal wisdom and exalted senti- ments of their brethren in Chiengo. So far, the resolutious are unobjectionable; but the moment the Democratic party undertake to apply principles and laws to facts they be- come ridicnlous, a3 in tho following resolu. tion : i Resoleed, That, inlho obsence of any rtatute, tule, or order regulating the counting of the Elects oral vote, the two Jlouses of Congress have the right, nnder the Conetitution, to caunt the votcs of Electors, to decide ail questions arislug thereon, and declare tho resuit, And that no vote ought to be recelved nnd counted for President without the araent of the Mouse of Representatives, or for Vice-I'resident withont tho approval of the Sennte, upon the mettled principle of 1aw that, when an ofliclal duty Ia to ha performed upon the happen- ing of a certaln contlngency, and no mode haa been provided for declding when the event has oceurred, thote who are required Lo perform tho duty must acciilo when the contlogency hias happened. Tho Constitution does not exprassly de- claro by whom the voten shall bo: counted, but the Constitution confers upon Congress full power and suthority to provide whatever Iaw may bo necessnry to exectite the require- ments of the Constitution. In nearly ninety years Congress has been unable to agroe up- on o permancnt law directing iow, by whom, ond in what mauner tho Electoral votes shall Lo counted. Dut Congress lias never failed since 1789 to wake a rule, law, or regulation governing the subject at the connting of the votes at ench Presidentinl clection, No par. tisan feeling liny over prevonted an ngreo- ment botween the two Houses on this sub- ject. In the nbsence- of any law, rule, or rogulation, tho two Houses of Congress have no power which ean be exercised. Fach Houso is an independont Lody, with ils own ofticers and its own rules, Tho officers of one body cannot coutrol or govern the mem- bers of the other, nor cre the mombers of ona Houso subject ta the rules of the other, The two Houses nre incapable of being merged iuto one; under all circimstances thoy must remali separato and distinot, The two Ilouses can do nothing collectively; they can act only a4 soparate bodies. In tho sbsence of rule, law, or regulation, the two Houses aro incupable of action ; and to act at oll they must act under a rule, law, or regu- lation proviously adopted, by which the pro- ceedings relating to counting the votes shall be prescribed, and the duties aud the powers of the two Houses and of tho President of the Senate shall be defiued. Buch Las been the invariablo rulo at every counting of the votes, It isanecossity, Such a rule isas indispenssble for the proceudiogs of the two Houses as is any rule for the government of each House, 'I'his resolution of tho Chicago Demoerats, therefore, roverses tho order of facta. In tho absence of any rule orlaw, the two Iouses are powerless ; but with such rule or law they have full, complete, and absoluto jursdiction over the whole ntter to the ex- tent that such power and authority may be defined in their rule or law, It is gaid that tho two YHouses are of oppos- ing politics, und therefore will never agree. "I'his is a violent assutption upon the part of the extreme men who do not want the two Houses to agree, unless that agreement shall e in the intorest of the fuvored candidate. The two Houses of Congress have been of different politics very often, but thero have always been o sufileient uumber of rational men who have prefurred country to party, and sgreements havo been reached after both sides havo sworn never to sgree. The coun- try has survived tho countiug of the votes for President at tweuty-two elections, and to £ail to do so now will nrgue a demoralization of oficil and populur honesty and intelli- genco which is not warrauted Ly the fact. The Americau peoplo—outside the office- scekers aod oficeholdors—demund that Con- gress shall iu this indtance, a8 in all previous ounes, ndopt such law as tho Constitution, and justice, and right shall prescribe, and with that tho country will be satisfied, no matter.| who may be elected as the result. But this resolution makes an origiual dis- covery, that, in the absence of avy law, rule, THY CIICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1877, or rogulation to that effect, the Senato shall have the absolnte power of votoing any elee- tion of Vice-Prusident Ly the Blectors, and that the House of Representatives alall have the power of veloing any election of Presi- dent by the Electors, In other words, that whenever the Iouso of Representatives do not lika the resuit of a Presidential election, that body may refect votes suflicient to de- feat any election, nnd thersupon procaed to olect a President of their own liking; and that the Sonate, yiclding this exclnsive priv- ilege of making a President, shall have the same oxclusive privilege of rejecting any votes for Vice-President, and then clect one to suit the majority of Senators, Commont on this absurd proposition is hardly re- quire. It sinpidity is patent. Coming from tho Democratic party, it looks very muich like an attempt fo kill off Hexpnicks; tosell him and the Indinun Democracy out in the interest of Tammany Iall and the New York Ring. ‘The beteayal of Henonicks is a confession that the claim of TiLprw's clection is & fraud, INDIANA, The Democratic papors ure unanimous in tho expression of the opinion that the peo- ple feel so outraged at tha action of the Louisiana Roturning Board in purifying the returns of the buildozed votes, that if the clection were to be hold over again Tiroey nud Hxsprices would sweep overything be. fore them,—so hot is the popular wrath ngainst every interferonce with the work of tho Louisiann bulldozers, 1f this opinion be true, the Republican organization must be in great peril. I'he popular wrath is al- leged to be particularly hotin the neighbor. ing Stato of Indiana. We are told thnt it is all Hesxpricks can do to restrain the unterrific] from commencing the “wah” now, and killisg eovery man, woman, and chill who dares to doubt that TiLpEN and HENDRICES Wwero Iairly elected by **a Inrgo majority.” Shortly after the Presidentinl election, several mem- bers of tho Indiana Legislature died,—two Senators and one Ilepresentative, we be- lieve. These districts lind been held by Dem- ocrats,and Indopendents elacted on coalition tickets, The first of the vacancies was filled by a special election not a fortnight ago, and, strange to rolate, a Republican Iavns man was elocted by o triumphant majority, An clection was held Iast week in the Mudi- son and Delaware District, which was closely balanced, to fill the vacancy caused by tho death of Cree (Dem.), and resulted in the clection of Doxr (Rep.) by n band. some mnjority. In viow of the fact that tho politieal control of the Senato deponded upon the result, unusual cfforts were made by tho Democrats to clect their eandidate. T'hio clection of a Democratic candidato would have mado the Senato Democrntic by one, while the election of the Republican candi- dato makes it Republican by vne majority. Here wns & contest for tho control of the State Senate, and for the indorsement of I'eory and Hesoniexs and tho Loulsiaun bulldozers, which onded ost digastrously for the fire-caters. The Hepublican swept the district. But this olection is not au exceptional in. stance, A few days bofore, thero wad o vacaney to fill in the Honse in the Parke and Montgomery District, in whichthe Independ. ants held the balanco of powor. Scor, the TRepublican candidate, was electod by ahand. some majority, which secures that party eight instend of six majarity intho Hounse, The Republicans now control both brauches of the Legislature of Tndinua, which body convenes on Thursday of this week, Thoso straws show which way the popular wind is blow. ing, ot least in "Tost IHexnnicks' own State, It is fair to infer therefrom that the people of Indiana do not waut wuother civil war, and don't intend to spill their blood and cover thelr State with smoking ruins for the snke of puiting a greedy pavg of office. luters iuto place; and furthermore, tlat they are not opposed to a purification of the bulldozed votes cast in Louisiaua, All the raofing and ronring of the swaslbuckler tribe of demagognes on the 8th of January cannot rub out or c¢hange the siguiticauce of thoso recent specinl clections in the Hoo. ser State. DEMOCRATIC PARTISANSHIP, The Democrata lave Leon clulming tho sympnthy of moderate men ou the ground that they were ** counted out" of Louisinns, which they say cast a majority of votes for the TiLpEN Electors. 'Thoy mnde the samo claim in the case of South Carolina until n committeo of their own recounted the origle ual returns and found that 1Lixes had u clear majority without the sgeney of the Heturn. ing Board. Lhcy will be furced o admit as much in the erd in tho case of Florldn, Ay to Louisiann, it is o question of frawd against violouce. 1f the Democrats succeeded In getting & nmjority of votes in Lonisinna by organized intimidation, it was the privilege and duty of the Returning Board under the laws fo purgo the ballot-Loxes ; if not, then they were dofrauded by tho Returning Board, ‘I'ho facts gathered hy the two Com. mittees of Congress now i Louisiana will throw somo light on the resl merits of the case. But, in the meantime, the’ Democratie c¢ry of * fraud ™ that has been kopt up so industriously ever sinco the November clection would bo entitled to moro considerstion from that large class of peoplo who merely waut fair play if the Democrats had been careful to keep their own rocord clear of overy suspicion. As & matter of fuct, tho evidence of fraud and attempted fraud on tho part of the Demn. ocraty in this struggle to seal Mr, Treoes Iy much more conclusive thun any thoy can cite in support of their own chiarges. Tako the case of Colorado. 'I'he law and prece. dents are all favorablo to the prompt recog- nition of its status ay a State of the Union, ‘The procedure of its adwission hay been precisely the same as in several provions ad- issions of Territories, Congrexs passed an enabling act, aud aothorized the President to iusue a proclamation admitting the Terri- tory a4 soon as tho people of Color. ado had complied with the conditions. ‘This was done, and Colorado procecded to take part in the Presidential election. The Democrats recognized fully the right of Col. orado to participato in the clection, snd made a desperate efort to carry tho Btate. No- body ever dreamed that this right would bo callod into question. Tho Benate promptly adwitted the two United States Scuators who had been clected, a3 it would have doue had they been Democrats instead of Republicans, But the Democratio wmajority in the House, finding that Mr, TiLoex would be elected if the vote of Colorado could be ecxcluded, resolved to make an effort to deny the State rocoguition ag one among the many other fraudulent schemes to count in Mr. TrLoxn at all hazards, Judgoe Brryoun, the member of Congress-elect, was excluded from hiy seat, though the majority ho received waos not contested, and now it iy said that BMr, Fraxg Hugp, of Obio, is preparing su elab. orate report taking the ground that the ade mission of Colorado was not completed. This Mr. Fpaxx Hump is a member of Congress from 'Toledo, and is chiefly. dirtinguished by baving been defented for re-olection by 0 eminent an opponent as ox-Secretary Cox, The ground which ho takes is that Congress could not delegate to the President the right to pro- claim Colorado's admission after all the con- ditions of the enabling act had Leen com- plied with, though this has been tha pro- cedure in at least four former cases,—>Mis- souri, West Virginia, Nevada, and Nobraska, ~—the validity of which hns never been ques- tioned, But it mattors little what the ling of argument fa; it is very ovident that no question would over have been raisod about Colorado if that State lad voted for Tiroay instend of Iaves, and it loaves the purpose of the Democrats na franilulent as nuything they havo charged upon their opponents, ‘Tho Dumocrals have nlso saddled {hem. selves with the Gnoven-Crovix fraud in Oregon. Kuowing perfeetly well that a ma- jority of the peopls of that Btate hed voted for the Haves Electors, and knowing also that the ineligibilily of one of the number in no whe justiffied the issue of a certifionto to an Elector who had received a minorily of the voles, they bavo nevertheless neglecled to ropudiate fn Con- gress, bul on many occnsions have exensed and approved, the fraudulent action of Gov. Grover. 8o in the case of South Carolina, even though a committeo of their own num- bor have relnctsatly admitted that Havrs carried the State, tho Demucratic majority in the House have deprived of Lis seat o Repub- licnn member who was elected from that State to till a vacancy by a majority of 7,000, oud whose right to the seat was not even contested. 'The poiut we make is, that tho Democrats have deprived themselves of the sympathy ns well s the credit of moderate men for their alleged suffering from Repub- lican fraud ju Lovisiana by deliborate and undisguised fraud on their own side wherover there was nn opportunity for it. They should begin the New Year better, and en- deavor to come into court with clean bands, SOME FACIS ABOUT LOUISIANA. Thero is nothing the Democratic managors aro go intent upon as that all the votea deposited in tho ballot-box in Louisinua, no watterhow they got thero, bo counted, Civil war is threatoned if all those votes are not counted. 8till, it is interesting to learn, amidst all this breathing of gore, how some of those ballots that must be counted, elso Ilcod must flow, got into the ballut-Lox, One of the witnesses cxamined under onth before the Sonate Conimittee on Saturduy told it so concisely aud clearly that wo repraduce his statement ; Aunganax Wiekiaxs, aged 00, amid he had voted the Democratle ticket to save his life, ns ke had been taken out of hed and beaten. Capt. Nzwnown andona of the Loaaxs dld it, and Gronuk PuiL. 1ars waythere. ‘They ore all Demucrats, This casa fllustrates precisely what the Democratio managers desire when they want votew to Lo counted that were cast to save {heir lives. What those managers find fault with tho loturning Doard for is, that it re- jected such voten, ‘I'hio testimony taken beforo tho 3lonmison Tlouso Committeo, which was seut to Loulsi. nna for tho oxpress purpose of whitownsh. ing the bulldozers, nlso discloses pointedly what means were used to get votes for Trr ey into the Lallot-boxes, aa the following extracts from the testimony taken last Satur- day show T'he Rev, Ei A Mone and H. W, Duraners sald hud been forced to burn Republican tickets; cro taken to the polls, and, but for the luterces- slun of Mr. Lacky, both would have been killed. Epxvsn Ricians swore that Dr, Youxo, Biosy Pace, and uthers, had hung him, Hizxny Fosten, and LoxvoN HeeTon up to a tree and beaten them for refusing to vote the Domocratlc tleket. And in tho Associnted Press report, in which the matter is dismissed a3 briefly as possible, ns keems to bo tho fashion when the news might militate against the Democ- racy, the day’s testimouy is summed up thua: The llouse Committeo heard tho evidence of nine colored wen in reference to Ouachita, who sub- stuntlated the testimony already published in ref- erenca to tho relgn of terror thero, and the forcing of colored men to vote the Democratle tlcket, And the netion of the Returning Board in refusing to conunt such votes is what the *sah " {s to be made about und the * goah” shed for. Next, of course, It will bein order for Mc- Exeny oud his White-Liners to introduce counter-testimony, How they obtain it, how negroes who have been bufldozed aro bronght to sign aflidavits denying tho fact, is thus explained in the testimony taken by tho Senato Committoo on Baturdny & Uawxine Joxes, colored, sald bo lived on Capt. McLxan’ tatiost, anl that McLxon was Cop- talnof the tulldozers, Mad signed afdavits to save biafife. 1lai been furced to leava bis home and erop. ‘I'he Coroner who held tho inquest upon the remains of the bulldozed adds this signiticant testimony : WiLLraM 'I'itoxas, Coroner, testified to holding Inquests on DiNgonave, Prisuvs Jonxsox, and others, hut sald he was afrald to bold one on Rexny Pixkston, COUNTING THE VOTES, Wo have compiled from the publio records the history of all the proceedings attendant upon the official epening of the Blectoral certifientes and of the counting of {ho votes at each of tho Presidential elections from the organization of the Government to the pres. ent time. It will be seen that in every in- stance the order of proceeding was regulated ond governed by a proviously-adopted law or joint rule having the force of law, In uo instance was tho openiug of the returns sad the counting of the voles permitted to take placo without concurrent action and reguletion adopted by both Houses. In fre- quont iustances these regulations were made to upply to spocial cases where objections were kunown to exist to the counting of the votes of certain Btates, the regulations being adopted to suit tho circumstances. Wa aro sure that no person can read this history withont reaching the conclusions: 1. That the two Iouses of Congress, by law or joint rule, Lave the unguestionable power to provide for the counting of tho votus, after they have been daly opened by tho President of the Senate, and have power to establish Ly law how the legality of the certificates can be tested, and in what way the voles or parts of votes can be rojected or set nsido. U'his, however, cannot be done by one louse, nor by the two Houscs sitting s one body, but by the joint action of the two Houses, in some form of legislation. In 1869 the House of Representatives undertook o exclude the vote of Georgia, in the face of o joint resolution declaring that it should be coypted in a particular way, and the Presi- dent of the Bunate, obeying the law, disre~ garded the action of the House, and counted the vote of that State, despite the nolsy pro- tests of o largo majority of the House, 'l‘.’lnt in 4he light of this history, whick ia & wuc- cession of uniform precedents, the present Congress msy, by law or joint yule, pro- vide tbe mode and define the powers of each House, and of both Houses, in examin. ing and counting the votes, and of declaring the resnit, 2. That in the absence of any law or regu- 1ation on the subject, then tho whole power reats, under the Constitution, with the Presi- dent of the Senate. In the menntime, tho pornsal of the his- tory of theso twenty-two elections and of the official count of the votes will be of in- tereat o those who hava not the records at hand, and who have heretofors never read tho dotails of how Presidents ars officially made. BANE-TAXES, o tAe Kditor of Ths Tridune. Caicaan, Dec. 20.—1 have noticed for the last few daysan apparcntly preconcerted effort which, 1am porry to sec T TrinexE Indorees, to **bull- doze ™ yublic opinion Into the iden that onr Na- tional Bankn are sufering [rom excessive taxaticn, with the lies in view of shuping legialation this winter at Wavhington and the State Capitale so os 1o give the Y auflerers ™ on eary time. 1 have had my attentlon called to nunierous classes of onr clilzena who are underrolng hardehipa this winter, but It remainad for Tik THisUNK to call my atteu= tion 10 the mullering atockholders of our National Janke, and I went at noon to-day sthe 20th) to Lo Btock Exchange to sec whot reliel a ** flush real- cafate man ™ conld offer the **suffererr,” Not n sufferer was tliere, but on s blackhoard & mnotico stated that there bad_been offored to the puor suf- ferers the fullowing prices for thclr stocka Commercfal Natfona Central itlunal Corn Natl Nrihwest'n Natjun, Unlon National..... Average Drive qucied, 100K, Now, air, look at the facts during the 11st four years. Tako the average kinds of legitimate busi- nees, and the capital Invested has depreciated in value nearly if not quite [0 per cent, and |n the meantlino there hiava bieen none or very Hzh ro- turns, During thissame time of general depresaion the Natlonal ianks have made reymiar dividends to thelr stockhlders [nt ml of themn, by any meuns und to-dsy thefr stock will, 1 belleve (withon thne to know positively), average higherthan before obo panle [thie i¢ o great mistake], I venture to eay that the gaod Insldo roal entate is to-day tazed on & valuation of what [t will bring In cash 600 per cent more than Natlonal Bank stock at its cash value (1) and taking the different kinds of Lustices the conptry thruugh, conslderfugthe capital invest ed and the returns made, 1 believe the Nutional Banks are not paying half iho taxes othere arc.stil Tam willlog to **relleve’ a few of the sufercra, Wit U, JacasoN, Mr. JACR30N quotes the nominal value of the stacks of some of our local banks, and thinks they arenot entitled to any couslderation, He evidently does not understand the facts, nor docs he understand the nature of the request made by the banks. In the first place, the property of banks, unlike that of all other cor- poratlons or citizens, pays & heavy dircet tax to the Unfted States, Capltal invested in real es- tate, as In farms, houses, stores, miils, shops, lots, etc., and In merchandise, manufactures, or other property, pays no tax to tha United States. In the sccond place, the bauks do not ask to be released from Ioval taxatlon nl that they ask Is that their property shall be assessed, valued, and taxed by the same rules of relative value, and at the same rates, s the property of other corporations and individuals owning per- sonal or real property are asscssed and taxed, Mr. Jacksox refers to the quoted vatue of bank stocks, but forgets, or dues not know, that the bulk of the surpiusof the banks and con- siderable of the eapital of several of them s {o- vested fn elther non-productive collaterals or in mortgages and real estate, which property is already taxed, ‘The real estate which the buuks hold under mortgages in which portions of the surplus are Invested pays taxes as real cstate. Othier portions of surplus aro invested in paper which {s difficult or fmpossible to collect) and on which, &5 on some of the moftgages, futerest fs not paid, If Mr. JAckB0N waa toput the bank- Ing {nstitutions of the country In liguldation, he wonld have no difficulty, perhaps, in collecting procecds fromn the stock at the rates which he quotes, When Mr. JackeoN knowe that the banks ask no exemption from locsl taxation, except what {s conceded to all other prop- erty-holders, and nsk nothing but to havo thelr property valued and taxed asis the property of other corporations and Individuals, be will perhaps understund that the request I8 Just one, We do not suppose that heis of that class which desires to so push the business of taxation on the banks asto foree those Institutions to closes nor to so load them “with taxation us to oppress tho general publie, out of whom, at lvast, the taxes have to be ex- torted, erinan ey 5 INact Iiank of Mitn Wl for siock of twely eti— Qov. Ginover has written a long-winded vindication of his attempt to transfer Oregon to TiLpeN, He professes to Intrench himsclt behind some deelslone. It I8 very remarkable that the following, which was Iylug 1izht uuder his nose, escaped his observation. It I8 the case of DuNBAR va. Crawronp, decided by the Sue preme Court of the State as Iately as fhe 13t of November, 1870, The Court sald: An clection ls the deliberate cholce of a majorit; ar plurallty of the Electoral body. Thisis evi- denced by the vates of the Electors, But If & mo- ority of those vouing, by mlstake of law or fact, happen to cast thelr votes upon an inellgibly cun- didite 1t by o mexuy follows thut the Dext to biny on the'poll should reccive the otilce. 11 thlv be %0, a candidate might bo clected who received unly asmall portion of ‘tho votes, und who never could have been elected at all Lut for thia mistake, The votes aru not losy lexul votes because glven to s pervon in whose belinlf they cannot be counted; And the berson who 1s next o him ou_ tho list of ndidates does not recelve s plurality of yotos bo- o hls competitor was ineligible, ‘Yhe votes cast for the latter, It {0 true, cannol bu counted for hiim; but that {a uo Yeasun ‘why thoy should, in cllect, be counted for the former, wl cuuld ‘nover bave recelved then, It In {usty and more conulatent with tho th natftutions, tohold the vutes so cast us nierely fn- eflectusl for the purpose of an election, than to glve them the offect of dlsappointing the popular will, and electing to ofticy & wan whoee preten- #lons the people hiad designed to Feject ———— A Wushington letter, speaking of Mr. Ti- DEN'S bad advisers, obseryes: 1t {u eald that Mr. TiLoex clalm election bu- yond the peradventure of a doubt, aud thut e pro- pones o bu fuauxurated st otl hozards, ‘Chis **all- hazard " asscetion Ia becomlug more end more uo- ticeable auong the Democratic leaders, It I & sure slgn of thelr desperato condltion, ns well sy the evidence of bitter chugrin which they experi- ence In their declining furtunies, An aswertion uf thia kind from Mr, TiLpEN I8 exceedingly ujudl- clone, und showa what manner of counsel hio is listening to, ‘The wust nutorious of Democratic leader peen closeted with the Governor for tho past week, and thelradvice fa having ity do- wfred effect, The vital interests and welfsre of nation I8 nothing to them. What they want ls wremacy, and they are willing to destroy the pe of the country to secuze it, Alr, TILDEX hns ki continuuus sudjence to theso men, Ife Las sub- mitted to their scheme of bolding musi-meetings thruughout the Unlon on the Bth of Junuary, The object of thesw meetings fa to creato public” sentl ment and flood tho House with petitions, stranc ud memoriale urginy the clectivn of Al ToLur: tho Mouss at all hazurdv, It 1e & achemo of demsgogues and ificksters, and can Lave nothiog but & sinlster und mlachlevous ten- dency. _dJoun Moun and Davip DupLxy Fisrp, Twien's couns ind Duks Gwix ure the rmmulcrl of thls dangoro: . They have ipressed the faportauce of the underiaking on Mr, Tivea's miod aotll ho now heartily Indorses —— Tux TnisuNe 18 ouce more Indebied to its Wells etreet admirer for scveral squares of gratuitous editorlel advertising, It s pleasant to read thess spoutaneous acknowledgments of & remarkable journallstic success such as “The Home" departmuent fu our Batur- day’s fssue of each week has grown to be. The contributors and readers lke it; the news-dealers like it; odvertisers ke it} we like it; tho Times likes it—Iu short, cvery- body likes it What could bo more fellctous! To have done a thing so well as to win golden opinlons frum alf sorts of people, not excepting euvious rivals even—that s sometbing to con- grutulate one's self upon. Encouraged by these fatterivg recognitions of werit und success, we sball {mprove and increase, making “Tbe Home" department, I posalble, more prominent and interesting than beretofore. e Let us tally for the Jnler-Ocean a good &quare knock-down in its little affalr with the Times ou the subject of stolen dispatches. The parallel columus, showlng how tho latter cribbed this 1.-0.%s Ashtabuls speclal and printed it the next morning as Assoclated Press matter, would con- vince auy fair-mioded person that the Z.-0. did bave aspecial from Ashtabula, and that the Limes did print it entire the next day. Under these clrcumstances s stroug senss of justice impels us to put a lepicnt construction ou tho vomarkablo fact tbat Tum TRIBUNK'S uecro- logical compilation of Sunday last, entitled #The Dead of the Year,” appeared word for word witbout credit fu the Juler-Ocean of Mou- day. It was a colncidence of course; or, It not that, sn oversight or accldental omisston of the ftalle line which usually appears at the head of sclected matter, ————t— The most bloody-minded of the Bouthern sheets s the Chickasaw (Miss.) Southerner, with o cireulation of perhaps 30 coples; but what it lacks lu cfreutation it makes up In bluster. Under the headl Hand-Grenades,” It saya: e have elected Titnex, and by the Eternnl we will inaugurate him—peaceably If we can, lulc"flf If we must. Men »IJlullnll‘ml, be preparcd with your rifles to respond ta the call of Dreeident TrLoeN, 1le may need your servicen; the Nosth- ern Democracy niust have & reserve force in the outh. Uive ltndred thonsand Northern Demu- cri ro making ready to be on hand at the inau- guratlon of Presldent TiLvex. This is o concerted movement, and means businese, prepare to do your duty. The Washington hotel-keepers will be de- lzhted ot the number of Democrats going to Washington to see—I{ayns (naugurated. Missiasippians, e e .. The Cincinnatl Commercial gives what pur- portstobea list of tue sulcldes fn the United Btates for the year 1876, The following Is the summary: is Yoverty, finances, ctc. Family ‘or domestic Y ate— e When you hear o wman, saya ihe 8t Louls G.-D).y shouting *TiL.peN or Warl! ask him to slgn an agreement not to be a candidate for of- fice under TiLpes I he should be counted in. That will Lo taking the casus belll out of him. And the “belly out of his cause’ also, If it were not for the oftices nubody would be threat- ening war except the old Usufriet, e — e A shot at Hayes: 1ayza clnims his clection by bat one vote, ilis own State has tiventy-two Electoral votes, With. out the nesrovote bi: would not hase had ,one of thewm, ~Cinclanatl Enquirer, A reply-shot between wind and water: ‘Tis.DEN clalms hia election by one minority, Ills awn State s thirty-five Electoral votee, Without the Irish Catbolic vote of New York City, he would nut bave had voe of lI|elu.—-ImlImmpal{l Journal. ——e— PERSONAL. . Sir Titua Salt, whose death in England was an- nounced Saturday, was the founder of tho alpaca Induntzy in that country, He acquired vast wealth, and uscd It liverally In promoting the welfare of hie workpeople, Slgnor Ettore Carlandl, a yonng banker of Rome, has undertaken the task of translating into Itallan Afr. Donald @, Mitchell's **Reverles of a Bach- clor," Theauthor has given permission and ene couragement 1o the translator, Wo are paicd to see a dixponition In sume quar- ters to scoff at Mrs. Swisshclm's prescription of, elecamphine and milk oan cure for hyidrophobla. But it muat be that a0 tooth<omo a mixture os this 18 goed for eomething. Let It be triod on the dog. Mr. W, C. Bryantas lately written o letter com- mending the aquarium In New York, le thinks & visitor could fearn from It In two hours moro of the peculiar forms and bahits of the creatures In- habiting the wators than would be learned in as many weeka from books, « The Indiana State-1lousc kas been examined by o competent architect, and he reports that it in llablo to fall In rulns At nny moment. The timbers thronghout the bullding arc rotten, aud the process of decay hus slrendy advanced so far that even now the atmosphe.e of the logislative chumbers fa un- it to breathe, A young man named Charles Colvin \as arrested in 'Pravls County, Tex., onn charge of disturbing religious worship. 1o gct up In defense that he bad merely entered the church and discharged his revolver, which in Toxas ouzht notto becone sidered a disturbance, .The Justice sgreed with hlm, ond set bim frec. An evenlng newspaper in New York attempted 8 gracelul compliment to the good conduct of Mr, Olls D. Swan, £ccretary of the Bleckor Strest Sav- Ings Bank, unduchioved the followlng: ** 11ts po tlun gave him a0 opportunity to handle the fun: of that tustltution, und Al# connection with It was murked by atrict lntegrity Tuls morning will probiably be tho Uest time ta take the pledze of total abatineuce, for the New- Year hieadache will bo gone by aiternoon, snd with 1t will vanish the goad resolutlons that arise from a dlsturbed stomach, If there were no auch thing us Indivestion In the world, how much less would be tho total stock of repentance! Gen, Tehernayef® has made his peaco with the Tussisn authoritica, Tho reports, industriously clreulsted, thot b Urand Duke Nicholas on the occaslun of hls recent vislt are authoritatively denled. He was offered an haportant comuund In the Russtan aemy, which, in consequence of H1l-bealtl, be was obliged to de- cline. The Enzlish papers admire Mr. Dright for saying of Lord Besconstiehl that **bo may be a great actor, but womebow or other hie seewn a8 if ho al- wayw played rether 10 tho gatlerler, ' 16 Mr, Bright had never walid o mors brilfant thing than thle, he would not cujoy the repatation f6r ability that he 110w posvendes, und without lils reputation the say- ing would not huve been consldercd hellliant, A yonng man slightly Insaue has made his ope pearance in New York, clalming to be Jesus Chrlst, e 14 singular among pretenders of this desceiption in having a large sum of money about him, which hie dlzburacs lberstly b payment for ol bls wants, A declded proof of is tnasnity Is aforded by his wild ond fncoherent declaration® thay Chicago and San Franclsco stsud wpeclally in need of wisslonsry eforts. M. Dufaure, tue French Minlsterof Justice, who wan largely tho cuuse of the latu crisfe, Is hard upon BO years of uge, and yet ho fs a hule, hearty, and vigorous tnan both In body and mind. Ho s careless about nia drees, Jko 3. Thiers, seemiug 1o have a preference for greasy, threadbsro gar- ments. Durlng the early purt of tho Emplre and the Presidency of M. 'Ihiers he was famous for wearlog & hurso-blanket vest of nu cxtremely loud pattern, The Rtev. Matthew Ialo Smith, who has had con+ slderable experience o tho varlous religlous do- nominations, says that the sccular newspapers are taking subecribers oway from the religions week- les. With subscribers, of course, Ko sdvertisc. ments; und with them both go influence In the community, T Citicato Scxbay Tipune ls now the best rellglous weokly publivhod in this city, buth In respect to its moral teachings and its good vorks §n the hearts and mindu of 1ts roadera. Jareett & Palnier, tho showmen who have gone into tho theatrical bu fn New York, Lave adopted fngenfous methods of sdyertielng, but methodts s0 porniclo Lot they cannot full in the tung run to lujure the businesy of all ths theatres inthat city, ‘I'he play now running at Dooth's “Ybeatre, **Dan'l Druce,” baw falled on its merits to attract large uudlences. Meswrs. Jarrett & Palmer have therefore flled their houses various tlmea by extending lavitations to various classes, trades, and professions to be prosent. One day it was the phystclans, another the lawyers, another thy dentiats, and the reverond cleryy are voon fo be askedto como In a body. ‘Tuissystem of dead- heading will, of course, reflect Injuriously upon #11 tho vther theatres, and at no distant day upon Booth's Theatre as well, for thero is no vounder waxlu than that of Mr. McVicker, **Ouce & dead- tcad, slways a deadhead.™ g HOTEL ARKIVALS, Tremont House—Col. B. A. Plateuberg, San Franclecu; G. W. Murphy, New York; M. D. Strong snd D. 8. Iluatings, New York; A, L. Lewls, Cleveland; the Hon. Paul Thurlow, Phila- dulphia; the lon. Jumes Woodru®l, Quincy; E. G, Washburn and W, G. Davidson, Mewphls; J. G. Rowland, Quincy; tho Hon. W, H. Green, Cairo; Hon. 8. M, Rowe, Sheridan, H Pearsall, drand Rapids; a). I W, W urne, Texas Paclde Rallroad; obert Willla M Princeton... Shtrman® Hou Itublve, Wisconsln, United States Minister to Switzerland; D, 5. Murphy, €au Franclsco; 8. L Keunedy, New York; W, W. Ollver, Kslamazoo 8 Felley, Fond du Laci k. J.' sergosat, York; A. G. Last, Madison; 1. P! enter, Philadelphia. ... Grand Facifc—Charl Follest, M Van oo St Loutas W, 11 Lewia, U, . Maillat Itaphael, Cal. ; . E. Steve land ; P. Mason, New Xork; the Hon. L, F, Masou, New York;H. W. Gwluner, Audrtor Pennsylvanis Rallroad, Phila- delphia;E, Bergland, U.b:A. ; D.B. Tutblll, Conuec- ticut. ... Puliner Houte—E. ander, New York: £5 0. B, Farusworth, Austrig; 1. Hochell, o New York; Dr. M. R. Teegarden, ae; Gen. E; Flonds, Deadiood - T.; P. D. Armour, Nilwaukee Eddy, New York; U. 8. Bamp* son, Byrac be Hog. W, Melgs, Phila delphiay 1 Willians' Biiss, Bualo: ths, b, W. F. Cabot, Bostou; Gen. G. A, Davis, ?:ndvl’uncluo'. the Hon. Cbarles Gordon, Cleve- 1 v FOREIGN. Most of the Turkish Telegrams Now Very Ominous ih Portent. Proceedings in the Last Ses« sion of the Confer ence, Gortechakoff Sends Word that Ho Will Make No Further Con- cesgion, Almost a Certainty that Turkey Prefers War to Russia’s Terms. The Sultan’s Determination to Publish More Greenbacks Causes a Panic. The Business Men of Constanti= nople Close Their Trad= ing~Places. Gen. Tchernayefl' Charged with Knocking Down Relief~ & Money. The Condition of the Grand Duke Nicholas Very Precarious. - THE EAST, TOPEPUL. LoxpoN, Jan, 1.—A delayed dlispatch from Constantinople, dated Dec. 29, suys it was then helieved that ot Saturday's setting of the Con- ference the Buropean Plenipotentlaries would make further concesslons to the Porto and an agreement be reached, It was thought impos- sible thnt Gen. Ignatief would remain fn Con- stantinople as Russian Ambassador after the conference, It was asserted that the Turkish Government contemplated a fresh Issue of pa- per money to tho amount of 3,000,000 Turkish pounds, “* HOPELESS, Loxpox, Jan, 1.—A telegram from Constanti- nople reports that, at Saturday's sittiog of the conference, after the Turks announced that their counter-proposals were not reedy, Count Chandordy, the Freneh Plenlpotentlary, ad- dreseed the Conference, poluting out that the propositions of the European repre- scntatives contalned nothing contrary to the fotegrity of the Ottoman Empire. Gen. Ignatiefl declored that Russia hod made every concesslon i order to arrive at an understand- Ing. Tt was to Turkey’s Interest to aceept the wroposals of the Powers. Lord Sallsbury sud the Austrian and Itallan represcutatives ex- pressed approval of these stalements. Hopes of a peacelul golution vontinue. The Plenlio- tentfuriea appear tlsposed to make concessions In matteraof detail. TILE GREEK BNYOY at Constantinople has informed 8ir 11, G, Ellfote that Greeve witl subordinate her Eustern policy tothatof England. The Marqulsof Salisbury has promised the Cretan detegate thathe will con- #fder the clalms of Crete. It I etated that the Porte §s willing to concede that the Governors uf the Insurgent provinces shall be Christiany, It 1s reported at Bucharest that, in consequence of the prolongution of the armistice, the Roumn- ulan army witl be placed on a peace footing. THE JEWS IN HOUMANIA. Pestr, Jau. 1L.—A dispatch from Bucharest reporta that hundreds of Jewlsh familleswero vecently ordered by tho Mayor of Busiin, in Moldavla, to quit the place within three days. Many of the poor people driven from the town died of cold and hunger by the roadsides, The Bucharest authorities remain impassive. “18 17 nOOUS | LoNvos, Jan. 2.—The Daily News publishes a sensationnl dlspateh from Constantinople. representing that the proceediugs In the Conferencd Saturday were _stormy, ) und asserting tbat the European' Plenipotentiaries will refuse to discuss auy proj- ect but the proposals of the Conference, aud, If the Portercfuses to discuss these proposals, o Europenn ultlmatum will follow. NICHOLAY, The Times' Vienna correspondent says the condition of the Grand Duke Nicholas is soy\ critical that It is reported ke will return to 8t. Petersburg as soonas able to travel. Gen. Kauffmauy {s mentioned a8 his successor {n the command of the army in the South of Russia. QEN, TCHERNANEPF has sct out on his return to Servia. His recep- tlon at Kischeneft was not very cordlal, fle only saw the Grand Duke Nicholas privately, e has been asked for an account of the money forwarded by the Russian socleties to Bervia. | . ‘This hie has been unwilliog or umable %o give, ’ Meantime, all money fromn Hussia hereafter will ! Lo seut direct to the Bervian Treasury, 18 TIIS BOAUS, ALsol Lonboy, Jan. 2.—Tle Dally Telegraph's spo- cial from Pera, dated Bunday, says: “‘The. Turkish counter-propositions were seut to tho Plenlpatentluries late Haturday night. Tha Turks offer & system of administration very like that proposed by the Powers, but ignore the questions of a gendarmeric and Internationsl Commlasion, sud absolutely refuseto pardon the Bulgarian prisoners, or subject the sppolnte ment of Governors to the approval of the Pow- ers. They also reject the fuanclal proposris, aud suggest no guarantees, TUR ZUHOIEAN PLENIPOTENTIARIES held an juformal meeting Sunday to consider the counter-proposals, The Russlan, Qerman, Austrian, and French delegates declared that they could not act with the Porte, and ‘seemed {nctlued to cut short the discussion. After Lord Baltabury stated his vicws they became calmer. QGen. Iguaticl, however, read to the represen- tatives s telegram from Prince Gortschakoff directing him NUT TO LISTEN TO ANY COUNTEN-PROPOSALS: WHATEVER, It was finally arrauged that the Conference, should present thelr original propositions sguln Monday," ‘The correspondent adds: * Bhould the Turks perslst in their refusal, I understand that all the Ambassadors will quit Coostsnti- nople, and leave thelr legations in care of Charges d'Affalres.” 1N CONPIRMATION of the foregoing, a Reuter dispatch, dated Pers, Mouday, says: “To-day, at tho Conforence, the situation was very grave. The FPorte re- aists. There wlil be aunother sitting on Thurs- day ¥ \woruxn DIsPATCH FRON PENA to the Daily Teleyraph statcs that at Sgturday’s sitting of the Conference Gen, Ignatle nforwe ed the Turks that his ipstructions justified hls saying that Russia had sbsolutely reached the limit of concesslon. INELATION, ‘The anvouncetncnt of an Lssuo of additional Turkish paper moncy has caused slmoat a pavls In Constantinople. Many bokers and others Lavo closed thelr shops, aud thery s much ex- citement and distress. BERVIA QUIET. Brranapz, Jau. 1.—The Bervians aro jubllang at a prolougation of the armistice. All'wariike proparations have ceased, and the militia, which bad started for the front, has been recalled. ‘The Russlans who Lave formed s part of the garrison of Belgrade will be sent to Gladovs. Laraktuex or ‘A“c:xg ::'w:r-':gnmu YOR T 3 Nzw_Havay, Conn., Dec. 28.—The Britlih steamship Kiog Arthur, which depasted froms ,