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

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Btates Distrie——-— L~ Also, by ¢ ~ub Marsbuals " Tiot, Campeur g8 AY, JANUARY 4, 1877 e Tt o0 backs_ st tho New York Gold Ex- l,’flf:;\e yesterday closed at : “The preamble and resolutions on the Pres- ‘dential question unnuimonsly adopted in i ‘aucus by tho Republican members of both JIouses in Springfield are carefully nnd vell worded, ‘I'he preamble statea the caso slearly, and thoe resolutions arrivont thoright sonclusions, according to the present light, Cho Republican oasses witl sustain and in- forse the Legislativo statement of the situn. ion. e All, ond more than nll, of the Electoral roteg of tho States of the Union have been wfely lodged in tho custody of Viee-Presi- et Fenny. In soveral instances two sots i retnrng live been presouted from the :amo State, aud tho action of Mr. Fenny in ‘efusing to give receipts to the rival messen- + ora is scanned in vain ng affording any clow 0 his course when the day arrivea for count- ng the votes and deciding between the con. -ested returns, ' " It iz n matter for general congratulation hiat the Hon, Tnomas W. Feanr has been animonaly chosen his own succesror as . Mlichigau's ropresentativo in the United * itates Senate for a term of aix yoars bogin- ing with the 4th of March, 1877, The sountry could not well rpare from its coun- iils at this time the ability and patriotism of Jice-President Fenny, oud the Itepublican nsjority of the Michigan Legislaturo did o ,rmdllnhle thing in nominating bim yestorday by scclamation and without n dissenting ; rolce. * Judge McRonents, of the Will County, 1., Circuit Court, Lias been moved to honest ndignation by tho numerous instances in vhich tha pardouing power in Illinois has oen exorclsed to tho defeat of justico and he perilof socigly. Ho adverted to the aub- ect yesterday in his charge to the Grand Tury of Lis Court, characterizing the pardon s murderers and other great criminals as Son insult to the intelligence of the jury ‘Lat convicted and the Judge that passed entence, and calculated to Lring the edwmin. stration of justice into contempt,” Unlinp. “ily, this has boen too true, but we hope for setter things hereafter. bkl ~ The temporary organization of the Illinois “sgislatura was eflzcted yesterday, the Demo- wats of the Senate electing a President pro * em, with the aid of the Independents, vhile in tho ITouse a Republican Spenk- w pro tem, was chosen. ‘Phis result #ill leaves in doubt the ultimate position . of the Tudependents i the Senatorisl race, Jur correspundent ot Springticld, putting his and that together, inclines to tho belief Lot the Independents are masters of the itustion, and that a conlition bas been ‘ormed whercby they ure to nominate a can- lidate for Benntor who shall reveive the inited support of the Denocrats, . The Chicago produce wmorkets were active . resterday, and provisions were irrcgular. Mess pork closed 15¢ por brl higher, at J17.273@17.50 cash and H17.55@1 ¥ for Tebruary, Lard closed 2jo per 100 lbg aigher, at $11.17}@11.20 cash and $11.32}@ ;183 for Fobruary. Meats closed tuwe, ut . 33 for new shoullers, boxed, Yc for do shiort. by, and 94o for do short-clears. ighwines were unchanged, at £1.07 per gallon. Flour ‘gas in moderate demandand firmer. Wheat losed 120 higler, at $1.26} for January and : 31,28f for February. Corn closed firmer, ot {4e for January ond 44jo for February, 1 Jots closed o bigler, et 81jo cash and diie “or February. Iye was. steudy, st Tilc. ! Busley closed weak, st 6o for January snd : 33)c for February, Hogs were quiet and weak, 2t 10@150 decling, closing at §0.10@ I\ T g Shita 1 8.60 for poor ta cholca. Cattle were sctive and firm, with sales at $2.73@5.80. Sheep were nctive, at $3.00@6.00 for poor to extra. Last Saturday evening thero was in store in this city 3,370,189 bu wheat, 930,958 bu corn, £83,244 bu oats, 169,499 burye, and 1,136,474 brbarley. Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy 106.87} in greenbacks at the close. —ey A genuino case of arson has been devel- oped by the investigntions set on foot by the Firo Deportment and the insurance sgencies in conncetion with the recent destruction by firo of n saloon on Desplaines street. In the preliminary exnmination yesterday, ‘beforo Police-Justice Scurry, of Jaxrs McCase, proprictor of tho saloon, testimony tending to establish nlmost besond question the guilt of tho nccused was given by bhis se. complice in tho crime, the lntter laving turned Stato's ovidence for tho renson, as Lo alleges, that he hns sinco learned that the lives of two peoplo were endangered by the incendinry ect in which he assisted. His recital of the preparations for firing the building correspond so closely with the dis- coveries subsequently made in the partilly- burned structure ns to Justify the expecta- tion that licre at Inst is o case of arson of tho most aggravated type which the State's Attorney will be able to successfully prose. cuto to conviction. There is the more en- courngement in this prospect from thesfact that in futuro tho pardon-mill at Springficld is likely to interfero less with justico and public safety than has been the rulo during the past four years, The Democracy of,Cook County are called upon to send fifty-seven delogatea to the 8th of Jannary Convention to take into consid- ecration thoe stato of the country generally, ond the state of the Presidentinl question particularly, ‘The Sub-Committeo to make selection of tho gentlemen to sect as dele- ghtes wero not content to select fifty-soven, but picked out nearly 300! TIn reading over the long list one is impressed, or oppressed, with the thought that nearly every Demoerat inthe county who can rend and writo Lins been * eatled " by the Sub-Committee, which consisted of Judge Fonnrsten, P, I1. ST, Dax Casenoy, Par Itarrenty, A, C, Stony, Hrnataxy Lien, and J. H. Masox. No ono will charge them with having wuderdono thoir duty. A fair proportion of the list, we should judge, from their reputations and characteristics of mind, would be opposed to settling tho Presidential muddle by carnage nnd conflagration, and will thore. fore oppose resolutions threalouing the employment of force; but there are others in the catalogne who are persons having nothing to loso and aevery- thing to gain, liko tlhieves at o fire, in case of civil war, who will probably advoeato what is ealled o bold nnd andacious policy ; Dut asit costs something for railrond fare and refreshments theso close times, it is not likely that all of those of tho blood-tub kind will attend, nuless the law-and-order clnss &A. | pay their expenses. A very decided change for tho better has been noticeablo in the political atinosphere during the post few days; indeed, the fm. proved tone of mentiment may be said to have begunat nbaut the time when it hecame known that the prominent Sounthern Demo- crats in Congress were not in harmony with the policy of violenco ond revolution in con- neetion with the Presidential question. In cheerful coufirmation of the belief that tho day of war-talk Lias passed comes an suthor- izod statement of the viows of Benator Bavaun, whoso expressions, as a membor of the Sonate Lranch of the Compromise Committee, nro of capecial significance. Scnator Boranp states in unmistakable terms his Qisapproval of the cxtremo wensures that havo been advooated Ly men of his pacty. * Thore should be no suggestion of violerce,” ho declares, *'if Haves is insugurated under tho sanction of Inw;" and he adds: *‘I do mnot Leliove ho will bo incugnrated in violation of tho forms of lnw,” This is the belicf of tho best ele- ments of both political parties, moderate and patriotio mon who cordially coincido with Seoator Baraup in the opinion that the Con- stitution contains clear aud ample wmeans for the solution of tho difficulty. What the country needs just npw is moro of this kind of talk, and less of the kind that has led to tho calling of the useless and mischisvons Democratic mass-weetings that are to be held ou the 8th inst. . Fhe trme inwnrdness of the Oregon frand begins to dovelop richly under the senrching inquiry instituted by tho Henate Committeo on Privileges snd Llections. Enough was clicited yesterdsy to indicato clearly the intention and nbility of tho Committeo to trace to its sourco in New York n corruption fund of 15,000 that was for- warded to Oregon to lubricate the machinery that should grind out the one Electoral vote neeessary to elect Tioex. Of this fund, £3,000 hos already been run to earth, It found ita way to Croxin's pocket, and wos paid Lim, sccording to bis own testimony, Ly the Chairman of the Oregon Btato Demnio- cratic Committes. ‘This money was CnoNin's share of the fund. It came tojhim fn the forin of ** expenses,” to defray the cost of Lis trip to Washington, which, at the outside, whould not exceed onethird of $35,000, ‘I'here remnins a balonce of £22,000 to be accounted for, and the smount required by the other parties to tho fraud for their * ux- penses” will throw somo light on the ques. tion. 'The refusal of tho wmanager of the telegraph oftico ot Jeeksouville, Ore., to av. swer questions touching drafts forwarded from New York by telegraph has thus far Lnlked tho Committee’s eforts to reach the facts about the remainder of the §23,000, but the keent is warm and the prospeet excollent that the gamo will bo bagged somewhero in the vicinity of that * bar'l” which we heard 0 suuch about during the campaign. It scems that thero is no repressing the ordinary politician even after Lo has placed ou record his batrayal of tho public interests for Liis awn persounl galn. = At a Democratic caucns hield at Springlield on the Eeustorial question, Messra. L TueasoLr, Jaans C. Romixwox, and Samven 8. Marsusrs mado speeches, these gentlemen being can- didates for the United Btates Senate, This public seeking of the ofiica by thess Demo- cratic politicians cau hardly bo considered ay less thun efirontery, Chey wero all mem- bera of Congress,—TrussuLs in the Senate, Noptssoy and Mansuarsin the House,—in Mareh, 1573, snd sdvocated ond took the celebrated sulary-grab of $5,000 each, oud 10 one of thew has ever roturned it to the National Trensury. ‘fhey have not the ex- cuse of jgnorance or inexpericnce that wmay be pleaded by others; thoy did tho uct knowingly, deliberately, and Lave kept the money four years in deflunca of the uni. yersal condemnation of the American people, aud especinily of the people of Iliunols. Look at tho rezord made by those three ns- pirants for the office of Senator. The Leglslative Appropristion bill being be- JANUARY 4, 1877. fors the Benmate in Jaonary, amendments increasing the pay of Senntors and Represent- atives to $8,000 and $7,000 wore made and 1aid on the table, and the bill passed without any action on that subject. On Feb. 7, Mr, Berexn, of Massachusetts, reported n bill increasing nll the salaries of the Tresident, Cabinet, and Judiciary, aud also increasing that of the Senatora and Representatives to $8,000 n year, the incrense to date back two yoars. He moved that the Committeo on Appropriations be instructed to embody this bill in ono of the Appropriation bills, which motion was refected. The Appropriation bill being under consideration, he moved to add thereto his bill, the salaries of Senators and Represcatntives being fixed at 7,300 each, which amendment was agreed to in Committeo of tha Whole. When thevoto was token by yess and nays, Burtrs's amend. | ment was rejected. The sum was then fixed at $6,500, and passed the House. In the Senate, tho question being on agreeing to the Ifouso amendment, Mr. Epuuvxps moved to strike out il that relates to Senators and Representatives, which was rejected, TAuMBULL voling no. The Senate then rejected the amendment. A Committeo of Conference was then appointed. In this Committee the salaries of mombers of Con- gress was fized at $7,500 each, The Housa adopted the nmendment. In thas Sounte the roport was also adopted, nud amoug the names recorded in favor of it is TnosbrLL. In 1874 the Domocracy repudiated Ronixsos, who was not even nominated; Mansuaty was defoatedin o district which this year gave six thonsand Democratic majority, Tnox. porL sank undor the weight of tho salary- grab; but now, with his accomplices in tho salary-grab business, asks a ro-clection to the Senate. We do not believe that the public have ohanged their disapproval of that shameful stenl; time las rather shown tho mognitudo of the great outrage,—the voting to cach of thoir two years' uncarned back- nd wo have no iden that the peopla of Illinois desire, oxpect, or want any of theso salary-grablers to be clected to tho Senate. A NEW ELECTION Some time sinco Tz ‘[rinusk called at- tention to tho existouce of nn old United States statuto which enables a State to holda new Presidential clection wherc thera las Leen a failare to appoint Presidentinl Elcct- ora according to law. The law is simply ns follows: Whenever any State has held an _clectlon for tho purpcse of choosing Electors, and lias fafled to make n cholce on the day prescribed by Inw, the Electors inay be appolnted on & subsequent day In such 8 manncr as the Leglalature of such State may direct. At the timo attention was called to this- provision the Democrats wera claiming South Carolina and Florida as vigorously es they now claim Louisiana, nnd the suggestion way thrown out that any application of this law should ombraco Minsizsippl, which the Republicans claim was corried by fraud, force, and violence, a8 well as Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana, where the result wna questioned by the Democrats, Sinco then the complication Lias been simplified by tho ndmission on the part of the Democrats that tho Maves Electors wero chosen in South Carolina, and by a recount of the votes in Florida, under the order and direction of the Supremo Court, which showed that Florida also voted for Iavrs. Wo suppose that the Republienns would concedo Missis- wippl to the Democrata In case uny plan could be agreed upon for dotormining tho rosult in Touislana, o This, then, would leave the wholo fssua dependent on tho voto of Louisiana. If Louisiana is conuted for Haves, Haves will be olected ; If for Trpex, Tipex will be elected. This being known beforchand, it is diffteult to conceive of auny compromise on the present vote that shall not predotermine tho zeault oxcept that of holling tho election over in that one contested State. Ou the one sido there fs the allegation that tho Domocrats obtained the apparent wajority of votes in Loulsiana by an organized system of fraud, intimidation, and viclenco ; on the othier side it is alleged that the Repullicans oblained the final count by the Returning loard's abuso of the powers conferred upon it by law, ‘Ikis conflict of opinion seems to De frrepressible and irreconcilable. Of the eminent citizens who went into Louisiana ta watch the count, all who belong tothe Democratie party report that the Returnfug Hoard ncted dishonestly and clieated in the count ; and all the Reopublicans report that the Bonrd woa fully ‘zarranted in ita nction by both the law and the facts, us violence aud murder wero used by the Detnocrats to carry tho election, Of the Senate aud House Congressional Commiittees now there it is probabls that the Benate Committee, being Ropublican, will sustain tho Returning Board in the oxerclso of its lawful function of purging the bulldozed ballot-boxes of the results of intimidation and force, und that the louse Committee, boing Democratic, will coutend that there waa littlo or no in. timidation, nud that the Board committed a fraud. Coming to Congress itself, wo find one House largely Democratio and the other decldedly Itepullican, with no law or regu- Intion to dircct their getion in regard to counting the voten. Up to this point there is & dead-lock, ‘and neither silo oxhibit the slightest symptom of yielding to the other. Under theso civeumstances, what wmore nat ural or impartinl scheme of compromise can Lo suggested than the holding of a new elec- tion for Presidental Electors in Louisiona this winter ? Of courao the law we have cited werely affords tho oppbrtunity for pur- suing this coursa Jegally. Its adoption must ba by wutual sgrecent of both partics ps represented in Congress, and tho sug- gestion to have proper force must come from the Conference Commit- tee of the two Homses which los the Prosidential question under diseus- gion, It is certainly worthy of serious con- sideration by this Committeo, An agree- ment upon this plan by Congress would bring such s pressure to bear upon both par- tics in Louisiuna that ucither conld refuss to scquiesce u it. Anow election would be Leld in the presence of thousunds of promis neut citizens from oll parts of tho country. Both pasties would put forths their best ef- forts, and both partics would be so numer- ously and intelligently represented by com- iittees in every parish that froud aud inthp- idation would bo alike impossible. The re- sult would undoubtedly commend itsclf to the coufidence of the entire couutry, what- cver it might Le. Tho situstion is of that kind which unavoidably makes the choico of the next President turn upon tho vote of Louisiana. 1f the two Honscs of Congress can come to any compromise agrecment in regard to counting the vote of Louisiona, of course that will bo suficient, and end the perilous dispute ; but our suggestion is based on the sssumption that no rule oragreement iy pes- sible, and that the danger of the inaugura- tion of two Presidents or civil war becomes imminent ; then, ns the only possible com- promise to avert a catastrophe, perbaps, let tha election in Louisiana be held over again in the way stated, and thus end the dispute forever. 3o believe the State {s Republican, and wonld be carried triumphantly by that party at a fair election, but the Democrats claim just the contrary. Now, what better way is there for sscer- taining the real majority in Lonisiana, and so satisfactorily sottling the whole question, than by voting over? e A BLACK FEMALE OUTRAGE. At Inst we know who did it. The bearer of the McEseny-Tipex Eloatoral vote of Lonisiana bng arrived in Washington, and ho says it ia tho colored women who Lulldozed tho black Democrats, It appears that the wenches of the Ouachita, of all ghades, from crenm-color to cbony, who had hitherto de- voted themselvos to gnmbo soup and the caro of tho pickanninies, suddenly became inspired with patriotic enthusinsm and determined to do something for their country, Then they rose en masse, a ferocions and sanguinary band, and made an Amazonian onslaught upon tho black Democrats, They invaded the meetings and hauled the' speakers off tho pintforms. The back-nlleys and by-ways resounded all night long with the din of the terriblo legion ns they marched from shanty to shanty, armed with brooms, rolling-pins, pokers, ond tongs, intimidating the black Democrats. Worse than this, they oven vio- Inted the sanctity of tho ballot-box, sccord- ing to this McExeny-TrpeN messenger, by putting on male toggery and voting at the polls. If tho story of this MoEsear-TiLpEY man be true, wo suggest that tho Democratic par- ty hos a duty to perform in the matter of these wenches thot it must not neglect. So binck an outrage upon the sauetity of the ballot-bozx, 8o foul an attack upon the purity of republican institutions and upon the rights of colored Democrats of the mnla per- suasion who aro powerless to defend them. selves agaivst the black Republicans of the femala persuasion, 50 unwarranted an fnter- forenco with tho rights of the suffering Detnocracy of Louisiana, must not be allow- ed to go unrobuked. If these wenches aro sufferod to commit such depredations with impnnity this time, who knows but that the next time they may commit outrages upon the ballot-boz ns openly and definntly even s Mixx Evaxg, nnd that, before many more elections bave occurred, thess black Ama- zona may bo found under tho very Ropublic itaclf tugging awny to loosen its founda- tions ? 'Tho Democracy must confront the now danger o its institution, foarless aliko of tho sex or savagory of tho dangor. Tet #o House majority sclect two compotont and fenrless men, like Lysax Trumsvrn and Joux M. Parucn, who Lave nothing to do but ought to enrn their political living in the Demoerntio party, and send them down thoro with full power to summon the victims of theso femnlo furies, and lear tholr piteons plaints of outrage, their thrilling tales of persecution, their mournful narrations of personal assault. If this Committeo nhall fiud thot thosa chaorges nre sustained, then lot the Democrats at once suminon their clans and coll for volunteers to morch aguinst theso fomale fiends of tho Felicians. Let that lomseom of the Democracy, Gen. Keexaw, hend tho army and nt onco proceed to Now Orleans, shouting for “ wah” and + gooh,” and et him not stop until these victims nre avenged. Let him not stay his red right arm until the last fomnle dulldozer bites the dust. ‘The Democracy canno longer bear tho strain and shock of thgse continued nosaults wpon ita integrity. War to the wenches! Kerwaxin the trenchos! Thero i3 no other safety. WHAT I8 CONGRESST The nstute person in the Times office who is trying to coun®in Mr. I1oEN a3 President without any regard to Conatitution, law, precedent, or common senso, appenrs to Le profoundly ignorant of what constitutes Congress. Tho Constitution says that the Flectornl votes shall be.opened by tho Presi- dent of tho Senata in tho presence of the Senate and the llonse of Represents. tives. Having opened thom, tho Z%mes man says that ho ¢ delivors their inclosuros to Congress” ; that he bas no right to open them *'at any other time or placo than that fixod by law for tho delivery of tho votes to Congress” ; oud that Congress must thon pioceed to count them. All of which in- ducos the belief that the ZYmnes man con- ceives tho joint assembly that witnesses the opening of votes to bo no less than Congross itself. Terhaps o 1ttle clomentary inatrnction mny help tho Times an to understand what Congress is, and to acknowledgo the egregl. ous folly of assuming a joint scasion of indi- vidun! Senators aud Representatives to con- stituto Congress, The Constitution begins Dy saying that *all legislative powers herein grantod shall e vested in u Congress of the United States, which shall consiat of @ Senate and Iouse of Representatives,” 1t then pro- coeds to prescribe how the membera of theso two separato and independent branches aro to Lo chosen. The Sennte iy composed of two Secnators from ench Siate, no matter how Iarge or small the population may be; the Houso consists of members representing an apportionment of tho population of eavh State, which wmay return one or forty Rep- yesentatives, ach ITouse la autborized by Congresa to bo the julge of the election of its own members, to wmoke its own rules, to keep its own journal, to dis. cipline its own people, and the concurrenca of tho two Houses—that is, au agrecment by separate action—is requived for all legisla. tion. Hepnrate and exclusive functions aro assigned to the Houscs. Thus the Benators lave the exclusive right to contirm or reject the appointmonts by tho President; the Representatives bave the exclusive right to originnte sl Lills for ralsing the revenue, The House alone can impeach, and tho Sen- ute hag the sole power lo try the fmpeach- inents of public oticers, The two together, but acting scparately, independently, and coneurreutly, coustitute Congress, sud Con- grress does not result from npromiscuous in- termingling of the individual members of the Houses in sowme comnon placo of meeting. fhere i8 no precedent, from the doption of the Constitution down to the present doy, where the Benators and Representatives coming together have assumed’ the functions of Congress, or done anything which had not proviously been enjoined or suthorized by Congress in the separate and concurrent action of the two ouses. A joint convention or wass-meet- ing of Senators and Representatives can only carry out a prograume which has been made up by Congress beforehand; if there 14 1o programtiie authorized by law or rogu- latidn, therv is notuing for this mass-meeting to do. 1f the Times man conceives that {ho mass- meeting of Benators, without any previous directions from the two Housea by concur- rence, is Oongress, we should like him to answer & fow questions: Who s tho presiding offlcer of tho new- fangled **Congress"? s ‘fo whom does n momber of the mass- meeting address himsell when he apenks? Who is authorized to call o memberto order or decida & point of order? Who nro the clerks, tellers, and officers of this ** Congress,” and who makes up the record of its proceedings? How do members vote,—rita toce, stand- ing, by ballot, or by tellers? How are votos counted,—by Blates or indi- viduals? In tho Iatter case does the vote of ono Senator'nerely equal that of one Repre- sontative, notwithstanding the fundamental difference of organization which gives the fittle State of Dolaware two Senators thongh It has only one Itepresontative, and New York only two Sonators though it has thirty- five Representatives? TTheso questions might be multiplied in- definitely without any hope of an intolligent answer from tho nstuto person who writes tho Times articles aud conceives the jumble of Senators and Representatives in n mass- meeting to be Congress, Wa can only rec- ommend him to study a littlo botter the fundamental law which crentes Congress, Of course the two Houses which constitute Con= gress can, by concurrent action, agreo upon gomo plan whoreby both can participate in joint sossion ina counting of tho Electoral votes, and wo hopo they will be able to do 80, But if they noglect to do this, and merely come together on the 14th of Febru- ary without statute, rule, or regulation to govern thelr session, there will simply ben mass-meeting whose proceedings, if any be taken, will be withont any authonty. It will not bo Congress, and the meeting cannot dis- cuss, or object, or vote, or nct as Congress, The persons assembled will either suck their thumbs and stare blankly at each othor, or else thoy may wrangle or dispute liko any other moss-meating in which two factions participate; but they can do nothing as Con- gress in this condition, 8s any child that can spell out the Constitution might Tlave told tho astato Z%mes man, e———— THE ELECTION IN LOUISIANA, Tho Democracy hos already concoded tho Eloctoral voto of South Onrolina and Florida to Mr. Haxes, and is not inclined to insist upon the farce that was played in Oregon. This leaves Louisiana as the only State whore thero is ony contest. In that State the Demoerata claim that the Returning Board has counted thom out by fraud, and tho Re- publicans clim that the Democrats carried the State for TrLpxy, on the face of the re- tnrns, by the use of violencs, terrorism, in. timidntion, and other illegal practices that are included in theterm * bulldozing.” Tho sotilement of the questions pending, as rep- resented in theso two claims, is very simple, It is the duty of the Roturning Board of Louisiana undor the election laws of the Stnto to throw out the votesof those parishos where it is cstablished by competent testi- mony that intimidation was practiced to such extent that voters were afraid to vote or woro prevented from exereising their rights by violence. In pursuance of their duty under the lnw, and upon the warrant of sufficient and compotent testimony, the Ite- turning Board has thrown out the voteg of Dbulldozed parishies, some 10,000 or 12,000 in number, and the Electoral vote of the State has been declared by the conatitutional au- thorities, under the laws of tho State, to be for Havzs and Wneezen, Tho wholo ques- tion may bo summed up in the declaration that, it thero was no violenco practiced, the Damocrata are ontitled to the State; if thero was violenco practiced, tho Republicans are ontitled to it, and tho Roturning Hoard was right beyond any sbadow of doubt in throw- jug ont the votes of thoso parishes whore the violence was practiced. Upon this point, Mr. REDFIELD, tho nce complished corvespondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, contributes sowe very valunble and convineing testimony. In estimating the importauce of his testimony, it shonld be remembered that JMr. Rep. picLp i ono of the most thoughtful and impartial correspondentsin this country. iy sywpatbies na well as his votes have chiefly been Democratic, At the outset, and until he went to Louisiana, hio belioved that TiupeN had been elected in Louisiana, or, as Lo soya himself, * that the Democrats had carried that State by so large a mojority that whatever intimidation there might hnve been would not account for it,—thot is, that the majority was larger than the nuraber of votes thoy hiad gained by bulldozing.” Ho went to T.ouisiana finn in this belicf, Lut cameo nway fust as firm in his belief thot, in o fair and freo election, Loulsiana js a Republican State by from ten to eighteen thousand majority, and soya: *I om convinced that Ilaves i the man who is elected. I beliove he would bave carried Louisiana as certainly s le carried Vermont, if the clection (and the conduct of the voters provious to tho clec- tion) had beon as fair in tho former Stato as in the latter.” What the conduet of tho voters was provious to the election may be seen hy the following extracts from his letter to the Commereiul : " The ive ** bulldozed" panishes wero carrled by murder, whipplogs, jutinidation, snd a relgn of terror. ‘Uhere were, auring th canpaign, u those parishes, fully forty Mtepublicans murdered. They wero killed to intimidato tho reet and carry the election, These parislics ars oiainly near the Mis atuslppl lne, and the Misslaippl plan was carrded into efeet, fark this, in every parish where thero were no murder wnd Inthuldation of blacke, the Hepubllcans made gatus,—gatus that would huve carried the State fu trlumph for Javes bad the same per cent held good T the five bulldozed par- fshes, Dut, behold, i theso Sve purlehes whero there waa & relgn of torror the Detnocrats made o et galu of about 0,000, That is, they turned the usual 4,500 Mepublican majority into s Democratic smajority of about the eane aniount. Thls i what gitve the State to TILDEN on the face of the relurns, Please keep that in mind when reflecting sbout the Loulslaus case, and it willbelp you to sve 1hrough the muddle st a glance, With regard to the absurd set-off of black Democrats bulldozed by Republicaus of their nwn color, which the Democracy is clalming, Mr, Repyiey literally stamps it out as fol- lows ; In that parish there wero £vo srmed rlite-clubs, who rudo about killlng, wounding, and whippivg Hepublicany, breaking up thelr weetings, sud in- stitutiog o refgn of terror for campaign purposes. The evidence 19 overwhelming. 1 doubied until 1 could doubt no longer. Uut did srmed bodles of organized black rific-clube go about killing black Democrats and breaking up thele meetings n Or- tenns Parish or elypwhere? No. The slmple ttuth fs there was not sufiiclent Jutimidativn of black Democrats to make any diference with the sesults for, wind you, right 1n Orlcany Parlak, waere tho House Comnittee 1s fnding that o mauy black Democrats were **threatened, " and which teati- 4o the country duily by the Awsoclated right n that parish the Democrats made dio- zalus! But in the five parishoa where the Itepublicaus were murdored, whipped, and terror- ized, the Republican vote fell ol tremendously. InEast Foliclans, where they usually poll near 2,000 votes, there were but fAres cast! Now it the Tlouse Committcs can show any such falling-of & this in the Democratic vote the black Demo- crate were abused sud **ihrestened™ by those of thelr own color, then will they make out & falz case of set-off. After such testimony as this from an im-. e T b e - e partial man, corroborated by numerous w! nesses in person and by hundreds of duvits, those who can deny or discredit the charges of bulldozing that have been mado only reflect upon their own want of intelli- gence, It sustains the Teturning Noard in its action, and it proves that the declnration by the Returning Board of the election of Iiaves and Wreeeen in Loulsiana s nhso. lutely correct under the laws of that State. Wape IasteroN has, by his lotter to Gov. Havea as the prospective Presidont of the United States, evoked a terrible storm of in- dignation smong the * TitpEN or war” faction of the Democratie party. The usually cool, ealm, and consersative Louis- ville Courier-Journal is oxtremely indignant. It rends him o sevare leetnre, and finds favlt not only with what was said in the letter, but with the timo chosen to send it, and with nuls writing any lottar at all to Mr. Hlares. In the letter, ITastrroy sald to Gov. Havs: 441t Is thelr firm and deliberate purpose to con: demn any solutlon of the existing political prob- lomathat Involves tho exhibition of armed force, o that moves through any other channel than the prescribed form of the Constitution or tha peace- fnl agencies of law,” And following this positive declaration he exprosses the hopo that ¢*a solation mny be had which, whilo maintaining the peace of the country, shall do no violence to the conatitu: tional safeguard of popular rights,” To this the Louisville organ objects. It eriticises the wisdom or the proprioty of such a dlsclaimor of the employment of force and roliance on Iaw, becnuse, says the Courier- Journal, force Is now used, and force is now preparing to compnl, the couniry to submit to Hares' installation as President, in de- fianco of law. The ordinary render will fail to discover in tho letter of Haxerox ony- thing to which n law-abiding citizen, not an office-sceker or office.holder, cnn object. What would theso men have him say? Sup. pose hio had written that the peoplo of South Carolina would never submit to the declara- tion that Gov. Hares was elected President, and would resist it, would ho not be pro- nounced & modman ora fool? The argu- mont of the Courier-Journal is, that it ho had written any letter, that is what he shonld bave said. The complaint is that Maseroy las told Iayes- that thoe Democrats of South Carolina do not proposo to take up arma to resist President Haves or to make Trpex President, nnd that this disclaimor of any intention to fight for Tipex is a direot oncourngomsnt to Haves to persist in boing doclared President, and an encouragomont to the Republicans to resort to every possible menns to have Harrs mado President. IlaxrToN's offenso ia really his discloimer of any purpose to resort to arms to make TitoeN Presidont. This is re- gordod ns wenkeniug beforo the enemy, and as disgeaceful in a Democrat whoss own claims to offica are disputed. If the Courier- Journal and tho Cincinnati Znguirer under- tako to read out of the Democratio party all the Democrats who do not intend to go to war to elect TiLoey, and wlho wlu\ submit to Haxes If declarcd elected, then there will be twenty Democrata out of the party to one that will be left in. —— THAT RAILROAD HORROR. To the Editor of The Tribuns. Cuteaao, Jau, 2. —In your Sunday's article on that horrible affair you ‘used these words: **As yet wo have received no dntelligence as to tho par- ticular cause of the disuster.™ 1n the absence as yotof any other known cause, do you not enter- {ain some Ken that the cold, sharp, ‘frosty weathier may have had sos ng to do with the calamity? Wo know by experience that cold will ‘make lron Drittle, while warmth makes it mure wiry and tonaciows, 1 would Mko to leam your opinion upun the subjcet for the beneft of the traveling community, Itespectfnlly, P, Kstawr, The text-books raguire s to believe that the coliesiye power of o materlal fucreases with o diminution of temperature: and men who are learned In those matters try to account for the tendency of fron to suapiin very cold weather in other ways than by udimitting that * warinth makes it more wiry ana tenacious.” They tell us that the reason why cast or rolled fron ralls break casily in heavy frosts i3, that the earth in which the sleepars rest {8 then bard, and hes uo %give " tolt., Taey also clafin that the Julting of a rolling car on the ralla {s materially Increased by the shortening of thoss ralls up- der low temperature, which leases u wide open- {nz between them at the ouds whers they theo- retically meet, Tue Tuinue hus no wish torun a it with authorities on this subject, vet feels constraln- ed to adinit that the suthoritics appear to be at fault In result, however beautifully consistent with sclence thelr theorles may scem to be. The great sourcs of danger in the use of fron is the fact that we can scarcely ever bo sure that un- equal cooling has not left an interual fracture fo the metal, which cannot bo detected th dts existence 1 reveated by the occurrence of some such deplorable * aecldent® os the Ashtabula eatastroplie, e S The Republicans fn Washinzton appear to have got on the track of about &2 000 cuntrib- uted by Tildenites In New York to secure the Cioxix outroge fn Oregon. Cromiy, it Is stated, now sdimits that ho charged the Tilden- ftew §3,000 I hand paid to bring the bogua re- turns to Washington, The Senate Committce on Eleetions are probing the matter. A part of the story Is this: Conntor Krtiy, of Orepon, being In San Fran- claco, huil decided to come Euat, the election belay overand the blicans under Senator MITCHELL, of Urezon, 2 had Bt Portland o jollidcatlon over the recognized success of the “Republican arty, I which Sepator Kewwy soclally Jolned, uth ‘Senators Jert *an Francwco for Wishlugton on the same train with Senator Mouzox, Waen not wany miles on thelr journey Senator KELLY recebved **u latful of telegram to use the guage of one of bis fellow passengere. ile” innnediately determined to go buck to San Francisco snd thence to Uregon, A ramor wue Immedlately clrculuted on® the train that among the dispaiches recelved by KEiLY from Democratic headguarters “In Now York, nat diveetly from Me. i pex hlmself, instructing D (o return to Uregou and ses that one Demo- cratic votu in 1ts_ Bfectoral College way secured. With thiv, it by now meserted, that ot were seut from New York to other pe that money would not be wantingto ald fn securhig this much-desired resnlt, Evidenca wil, 1t 14 furthermore said, be oifered, through Republicnn oficials In Oceyon and telograph operatary, tushow the uso of thi ney. ‘bhie Republicans do not ato to olgnify thelr Leliel that Gov, TILLEN's yianagers are mury of lesd indirectly ldeutiiled with 1. denutor MonTos vays he ls comident that hiv Commilitee wll} be able To trice up the matier even withaut the orlzinal telegraima asked for from the Weetern Cion ‘Felezraph Compunys but {f they conld have been obtalned he is quite gangulne thut thie whole cass would by proven. e —— z The New York Jerald correspoudent in Cin- clonat! has been Interviewing the prineipal edt- tors, aud among utliers that of the Euguirer, Mr. Jony H, CockERELL, who ylelded the fol- lowinz * poluts’: . At to the iIntentluns of the Dewocrats a3 foro- stadowed in the calls for public nectings on Jun. ¥, Mr, Covkkuei belleved that thess meetiugs ko mercly 10 Baunfucture public opinion aud fo yhow the men who may huve detesmlied o jusa. gurute aves, whether h-rvnlly elected or not, Iha fho mitesew are determined wot to be Lowd. winked, Theso mectingy should not be contined to Uemocraty, but all who duslre o fale count should be ullowed to nssemble and place theniselves un the recard, 1o believes thero was an sticmpt be- inz unedu by Individual messbers of the Democratic party to organize the Democratic oificers and wol- diers of the country (o be prepared for an emer- gency, but it w ot a genersl thing, and, fn his uulufun. there no treusonuble organizations in the West. . Cusiek, of Chicugo, be had une dertood, was orgaulzher the Demoeratic soldiers of the West for sinae_purpose. ‘That wasali. He Velleved the stories of the exiutence of Knizhts of the Goldeu Cisvle hu Jndlana wos a bugalboo of Sens ator MuBios, i ——— Itused to be a standiug principle of Tuz Cut- cavo TutstNE that the negroce’ *Hylevotion to the principles of & free govermuent' could never purchaned by anyLody.— Loulssille Courier-Jour- ual. TFhat was before bulldozing became » legal- tender n Southeru Democrutic clrcles. A bun- dred lashes of the rawbide on the naked back overcame the “negroes’ devotion to the princl- ples of a free government,” and bribed & good many luto voting fur “TiLDEX and Beforu.! ‘When that temptation was not. alimb of & tree with a pendant rope, ur the f: suasfon of a six-shooter, fetched em. ials retn R Messra, ArpLETON & Co., of New York, have just fssued o volume called the *Presidential Counts,” giving a complete ofeial record of all the procerdings in Congress at the counting of the Electoral votes fn all the clections of Presi- dent and Vice-Prestdent of the United States, together with all Congressional debates incident theretu or to proposed lcgislation upon that subject. ‘The book embraces tho hilstory” of the United Btates upon this subjcet, is prepared with great care, cdited with ability, and s not only of value ns a record, but interesting ns & recital of the experience of the country npon one of the most iuportant subjects of political law and povernment. At this timo the volume has n speefal interest, and embraces all there Is in the way of precedent, dobate, or official sug- gestion on the subject. et — e The Baptist paper published in Memphls, Tenn., cdited by the Revid. R. Graves, D, D, well known all over the South n3 an ardent friend of the *Lost Causc,” speaking of the Presidential Lroubles and the danger of the In- auguration of two Presidents and clvil war, mays: We have looked fato the horrid face of clvil war, and have deliberately declded there |¢ nocaust sufiicient to warrant. the plunzing of this whole continent into blood ahid carnnge, rapine, fire, wnd death, Better far that elther candidate be the President the next four or. forty years, [f ob- noxione to the peaple and the pablic " Interest, the House of Representatives cunld be no moditied s 1o operate as an effectual clieck upon nnconstitu- tional legfslation, We think that'it is time for nll Christians In America to unlto in fervent and ef- fectual prayer for the presorvation of peace, Itls. all that s left to us. — The New York Snun and the Herald have this time added Bratxe to the CoNkLiNo coterle whon they clalm nre going to count out Hargs. Says the Jferald: A noteworthy Washington dispatch In the Sun yesterday strangly corroborates the intelligence which we recelved six or cight days ngo from our own sonrces of intelllgence. ~ Our information wua confidential, and we were only perinitted to shadow forth its substance, withont liberty to state de- talls. _According 0 tho information of the Sun, Mr. ' BLuxp, w9 well as Mr. CoNKLISo, standa Teady -to abjure party in the Interest of Justice, and nelther of thei will be o particepe criminis in the counting tn of Mr, JaTzs If 1L shinll nppear, on. a candid review of the evidence, thut he was not falrly clected. Thix not only accords with oue own information, but with the Intriusic probabilities of the situstion. e — Yrof. Bumyen, of Yale College, lectures this evening at Farwell Ilall upon the subject of Tevenue Reform und Free Trade, and the cul- tivated people of Chleago searcely necd to be reminded that both the lecturer and his subject should recelvo the recognition of o large at- tendance. I'rof. Buunen s to be followed shortly by Davip A, WELLS and Ciantes FRANCIS ADANMS, Jr, T The editor of the Wells 8treet Bulldozer Is a delegate to the Springficld 8th of January Con- vention, Il i golng duwn as an ‘“Intlmi- dator" to dcmand the nauguration of TILDEN. It {s post-offices or b-l-0-0-d: e - Ilow Haves cleaves unto that Governorshipi~ Keeaan. 3 DId TiLpEN let go his Governorship before the lww choked Lt off 1 PERSONAL. The Ulteamontane organs in Ttaly were chagrined at the ubsence of any equest of money to the Fope in Cardinal Antonelll's will, 5 Mrs, Blackford, the Phenls, Is tack in Parls, looking old and haggard, Ier carcer hag been run very rapldly, and, Phanix thongh she be, she hos not tho capacity to arise afresh from the ashed of & misspent life. The recent pubtieation of Ernest Dandet’s book shows liow near the Connt de Chambon! cume to belng King of France., Everything had been made casy for hilm, but his adlerence to the old dress of Toyalty as well as to the white flag cost bim bis Kingdom. One of the most marvelous proofs of the dublous proposition that the wurld does move Is (o Le found in the anrouncement that the vencrable Journal of Commerce, of Now York, has reduced its rate from 815 to $10a year, and from seven to fivo cents & copy. One monstraus offense 16 taken off the ehoulders of Mark Tiain, and lodged where it properly be- longs, The author of the dramatization of **The Qllded Age* is not, it appears, the vulatile Mark limeelf, but Mr. Dinsmore, one of the ploncer Journalists of Californla. Cardinal McCloskey's health has grown steadily but alowly woreo slnce his accesslon to the fme portant station which ke now occuples. Ife sald mass at $t, Peter's Church'on Christmas-Day, and the long service, together with a fust precedivg it, told upon him severely. % Tho arrest of a gentloman breathing reform, bad d murderous Intentions sgalnst Gov, reated & temporary cxcltement In Colum- t week: butat lastsccounts the courage an holic frenzy of the would-be assassin had oozed nway, ond with them the last vestige of pub- 1ic intereat n his movements, Mr, Coles Mutrlv, 8 wealthy lawyer of New York, tnagines that i 18 o pauper. Ruwoss ufs fecting Wi futegrity have been in circulation, the statement having been made that he had absorbed large part of tic catates of hin familys but the truth appears tu be that hé 1s laborlog partly nnder su hallucination, and that bls tacand are smple W meet all his Habilitles, "Tho Earl of Dunraven and Mr. Albert Iierstadt are hunting muose [n Nova Scotla, while the Earl of Blerstadt and Mr. Albert Dunraven are sketching winter-scenery in Colorado, At least the New York Tribunecon find no other means of recun- clting tho contradictury statements in the newe- papers than by Inventing new pervonages tooceapy one of the remoto stations, Dr. Herman Adler, & licbrew preacherof lLoue don, has given o lecture there In carncet coms mendation of ** Danlcl Desonda,” Mo upeaks with admiration of the variety and accuracy of Ueorge Ellot's knowledge of Jewlsh Llstory and customs, The use of the nano Kivsmer in connece tlon with the musiclan §s in lself a strony proot of her deep and patlent study; forthe name s com- pounded of two Hebrow words, aud was applied to the mueicians who used formetly to play ot Jewlsh weddings, J. C. Doudt, the lunatic who has been attempte Ing to personate Jeond Chrivt in New York, leven mure unfortunate thun had been supposed. It xpe pears that, while out of his mind, be wandered away from hls wife and children ut Bethlchen, Pa., oud married o widow who had the traditional yearning of ladies so bereaved for o husbaud. Bot, e it wae manifestly ahsurd to try the man for Digamy, he was sent to a lunatlc sy lam, whenee, In some manner, he ceeted his cocape, and appeated uest lu public os the Eavlor, Tho srticle In the Purls Journal of Miduifery describing a wethod by which nen may be trans. formea into wet-nurees naturally excites atten. tlon, o vast an sddition to the facilltics of rear- 1ng children as would bo afforded by tbe general adoptian of the new method might wve some en- couragement to the people of France to hope for anincrease in the Lirth-rate. 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