Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 8, 1877, Page 4

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Monroe street, corner Dearhorn. s'h:gem Stagley, *‘Crime; or, The Mme, Engaxement of Aok bz X (Mnverlyle Theatre, b Randt ween Clark Anc ASslle, FEn- wrcemeal ot renk sayc e iy oo [ MeVicker's Themre, . [l street. between earborn anc X RITSEantF s ohn MeGunouh: Corlolanus.” ¥ Academy of B ' Halsted street, between Madison, and Monree, Va- Wood’s Musenmr, fionfnn sireet, between Btate sad Dearborn. *'Rarl tela." B [ MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1877, = e ——— —————————— Greenbacks ot the Now York Gold Ex- change on Saturday wero worth from 94 to 94} cents on the dollar. The fanernl of Commodora Vaxpenpinr took place in Now York yesterday. A largo attendance and a studious avoidanco of the customary funercal display were the chief characteriatics of the solemnities. The able editor of the Chicago Z%¥mesis devoting g0 much of his timo and spnce s nre not engrossed in controversy with the ¢ Iome Dopartment™ of Tnx Trmuse in argning that o partisan majority of tho Honse of Ropresentativea constitutes a legal RRo- turning Board to go behind the roturns of Ilectors sent up to Washington from the Statea and chango the result to suit the politica of sald partisan majority. In effect ‘his position is, that tho House of Represonta- tives Lng tho right to elect the President, no matter whom tho Electors havo elected. ‘This is running the Returning Bogrd busi- neas into tho ground, The foroign dispatches thia moriing con- tain o batch of interesting nows cabled from London to the Now York FHerald, which is a3 Jikely to prove roliablo as much of the contradictory stufl that comes through reg- alar channols. Tho Herald man has it that Germany is about to carry out tho pro- gramme indicated a fow weoks ago,—that of helping Russia by keoping s oyo on Poland, —baving begnn proparations for mobilizing two army corps for duty on the Polish fron- tior. Tho same news-gathorer roports the colleotion by Austriaof war munitions at Bemlin, near Belgrade, so ns to be in readi- xexs to take possession of tho Servian Copital ‘whencver the Russian ocoupation of Rouma. nla occurs, A most interesting serics of letters from numerous corrospondents will be found in our columns this morning, grouped uuder the genoral head of *‘I'ho Far West.” ¥rom Colorado the writers give glowing accounts, plentitully interspersed with facts, figures, and usefal information generally, of the de- velopment and prospects of the new miuing districts racontly opened up in that Htate, ‘and another gossips of varlous matters aud affairs in and about Pueblo; whils from Cal- ifornia comes a doscription of midwinter de- 1ighta caleulated to tako the conceit out of anybody who thinks well of tho winter cli- mate iu our own latitude and longitude. The collection of letters will prove both en. tertainlog and instructive to tho roader, —— Althiough applications for the assistance of Fedoral troops nt Now Orleans have beon forwanded by Gov. Keuwooa and the Legls- lature, it was yosterday decidod at special Cabinet wceting that it fs nota caso call- ing for militury iutorferenco; that the fact that two rival Governors will by inau- gurated to-day is not sufiicient justification for' the requisition for troops. ‘Y'he Prosi. sant yesterdsy stated in an interview that, fn bis opinion, Federal interposition ju the Louwsisua dificulty would be oat of place pending the presenca in Now Orleaus of the two Congressional Investi- guting Committces, and also intimated that the Adwinistration was not disposed to tuke any part ju the Packasp-Nicuonts ime brogho, unless it became necessary to inter~ fere in order to prevent bloodshed, [ b ettty ‘The Chicsgo produce murkets were irrege ular Baturday, Provisions were buoyant, and grain steedy. Mess pork closed 23@ 2740 per brl bigher, at $16.00@18.05 for January sod $18.27J@IR50 for February, Lard closod a shade higher, st £11.55 cash snd $11.63 for Fobruary. Meuts closed vteady, at 63cfornew shouldery, boxed, Yic for do short. *ibs, and 8o for do short-clears. Highwines ‘were 4o higher, it 81,07} per gallon. Flour ‘was in moderuto dewand and firm. Wheat closed Jo lower, at §1.23) for Junuary and §1.20} for February, Coru closcd steady, at 4ifo for Janusry aud 4ide for February, Outs closed fc higher, st 3420 cosh and 33l - for Tvbroary, Lje was steady, at 72w Barley was nomil 05}@66c cnsh, and quiet at 670 for March, Hogs wers 10@150 per 100 Ibs higher, at $6.60@7.25 for heavy, Cnttle were stendy, nt %2,74 Sheep dnll. One hundred dolfars in gold would buy $106.374 in greenbacksat the close, It will Love been noticed that the Inde ) pendents at Springfield have declined to ac. eept Judgo TrusmuLy, aa their candidate for Bonator, and have placed their objection on the ground of his support of, vote for, ac- coptance of, and refusal to return, tho salary-grab of ©5,000 bLack-pay. For four years the men who took thnt money have ra- tained it, and have refused to return it to the Troasury from which it was so unjustly taken, The objcction applics equally to Mer, 8. 8, Mansnast and Mr. J, O, Ropixsoy, two Demoorats who are also secking the office, ‘Wo are advised that the Independents, in ad- dition to a declaration to vote for no salary. grabber for Benator, have detormined to in- sist on the olection of n Sonator who is in favor of Civil-Service Reform. The Demo- ernta, whilo perhapa wiiling to vote against salary-grabbors, hiave not yot edncated them. selves up to the point of admiration of Civil. Borvice Reform. The question, dusl or no duel, in the Bex- NETT-MAT unplossnntness continues to afford material for gossip and spoculation in New York and olsewhere, and is mpparently a8 far as over from o satisfactory solution. Tho fact that neither DBex. Xerr nor Mar could be found in New York during the past two or threo days, coupled with tho sndden nbsence from the city of intimate friends of the principals, bas confirmed tho belief that Beswerr has gome to some place just across the Qamadisn line, there to await the arrival of his adversary in the deadly combat arranged to take place, The situation, however, becomes compli. cated in consequence of s Washington dis- patch stating that Mr. Faeornior Max was seen o the Maryland Club in Baltimore Sat- urday night. If Bennerr has gone north, and Mar south, it is difficult to see just how the meoting is to take place. The affair is theroforo as mysterious na ever. RN ——— Tt will be remembered that the Houso Committes which went to South Carolina to investigate the recent olection in that Btato loft Washington with the full and confident expectation of the Democracy that it would find South Carolina had cast its vote for TiLpEN; that tho Republicans were beaten ; and that thoy had carded the Siate for Taves by cheating in the retums and frauds at the ballot-boxes, The Committee, which ‘was in charge of Mr, Saxrzn, has been thero, accomplished ita work, and roturned with the full conviction that tho Htate has given Mr. lavzsan honest majority. More than that, Mr. Sayren himself, whose Democracy 10 one will question, is not slow in expross- ing his disgust with the Sonth Carolina Dem- ocrats. The whole Committeo are in sympa- thy with Mr, Savirs, and speak freely of their disappointment at the attituda of their party in that State. It is intimated from ‘Washington that thisCommitteewill notonly roport the voto of the Hiate for Haves, but that the facts which it will present will not Le very favorable to South Carolina Demoo- racy. If tho Florids and Lonisinna House Committees aro rs Louest as the South Caro- lina Comnmiltee, thero will Lo no difficulty sbout ascertaining who i clected. Tho packngo coutaining nearly £12,000, which was stolen somewhero botween tho cashi-room of the Treasury Dopartment and its destination, the National Bauk of Illinois in Chicago, has at Isst come to light, the monoy having boen restored, loss abont $100, to 'Troasurcr Wrman yesterday. Ovwing to the extromo reticence of the Wash- ington officialsa on the subject, little in positively known of the facts and cir- *cumstances in councotion with the theft and restoration of the packasge, but suspicion haa attached to Mr. Fenn B, Winsrow, whose management of the Scandinavian Bank in this city is remembered with extrome vivid. ness by many sufferers in that affair, and who, though losded down with a most damn- aging record on account, of his Chicago career, was nble, through Congressional jufluence, to obtain a position in the I'ronsury of the United Htates in which vast sumns of money passed throngh bis hands, Whother it was WixsLow or somo other clerk that stolo tho money and escaped dotection for saveral ‘woeks, the thief sccins to have made restitu. tion at Inst in order to rid himself of the ter. riblo conaciousness that he was being watch. od doy and night by dotectives, and liable at auy mowent to find himself in their clutches, ——— A subpoona bing beou issued by the HSonato Committeo for W, T, Pecrox, Military Bece rotary and nephew of Uncle Samues J, T're- ey, and manager of tho Liberty.Strect Bu- reau during the campaign, Cousiderablo in. terext 8 wonifested in tho prospective ap- pearance on the witness-stand of Secretary PevLtox, whose counection with the draft of 8,000, forwarded by telograph to Oregon Just at the time when the Electoral vote was to be cast, fs & wmattor which Benator Mon. Ton's Committea and tho country at large very carnestly desire to know more sbout, It i stated, upon %uthority no less emi. nent thun that of the Yon. Annax 8, Hrewirr, Chairman of the National Demo- cratic Committeo, that application for money to cury ou the campaign camo from almost avery Btato in the Unipn excepting Oregon, whero the Domocracy never asked for a cent; and Mr, Hewitt further states that PruroN Lad nothing to do with the disburse- ment of the Nutional Committee's fuud. Grunting all this 10 be true, it only adds to tho importance of ascertaining whose moncy it was that Pestoy sent to Oregon in ko wuch of u hurry as to require the aid of the telegraph, for what purpose it was sent, and iuto what hands it ultimately passed. 'The Comnmitteo {3 fu a fuir way to obtain auswers ——— I'ho disgraceful jucideuts which oceurred {a the Couuty Bourd, consequent upon Com- missfoner Firzoguarw's dotermined oppoi- tiou to the lling, afford o very clenr explaus. tion of the whols system of thievery and dorruption by which it is plundering the tax- payers. 'Tho first qnoveof the Ring was to audit the accounts of nmun named Zaxpen, u protege of Cowmissioner Beuauwr, who hny been kept cmployed by the latter to superintend the fouudations of the Court. House two months alrcady beyond kiy time, at an expense of five dollam per day, and who proposcd fo retain Lim, ostensibly super. intending Farmer Hanuy' work, wiich was flnished up long ego, until spring, because sbout that timo a board feuco would be built around the square. ‘This is the Ring's view of houesty aud reforu,—to pay & mau £150 & month all wiuter for dolug nothing, because # board foncy is to be put up in the spring ! Commissioner Fi1zaxsaLp is to bo cougratu. lated iu Laving bounced this lecch, Itisto be regretted that he was notso successful with the second. The second bill to bo sudited was that of one Cunman, for in. specting stone at Lemont,—work which be- fongs to the architeat, and which tho archi- tect will have to perform all over again in the spring. ‘The Irish Brigade, hLowever, rallied to his rescue. Scmupr defended hiy accond protege, and Horvex, of course, voted for him, a3 he dooes for all the dead. beata that nre making a living out of the County ‘Treasury. 'These two incidents clearly enongh explain the policy of the Ring. They are determined to lond every- thing npon that pationt beast, the publie, aud discharge no oue who is furnishing them with additionnl facilities for plunder, They are pursning precisely the same course that bias been followed by tho Now York Ring, until that city is reduced to snbatantial bank- ruptey. There ia bnt one way to defent the rascalities of this Ring, and that is snggested by the bill already introduced in the Legis. Inture by Senator Romixsoy. It should be passed immediately, in onder that the afilict. ed taxpayers of Cook County may have the congolation of kuowing that every iay is bringing them nearer that blessed time when they can free themuelves from the clutches of thesa rascally officials. The Superintondent of Buildings in this city has miado a partial tour of inspection, and his report, g0 far as it pertains to the theatres, has been already printed in Tne TasuNe. According to his report, there is but ono theatre inthe city—McVicker's—that can be classed as safe; bul even {n this thentro he makes some suggestions ns to ad- ditional precautions, such ns opening ad. ditional exits from the galleries to the alleyas near the prosceninms, and widening of doors, which might bo followed with profit. The other thentrea are not safo, aecording to the conditions laid down by the Bnperintendent as necessary to safoty, All of them have insufficient exifs. Neither Haverly's, the Now Chicago, Wood's Musenm, nor the Acadenyy of Jlusio, have fire-plugs in them, and the New Chicago and Wood's Mu- seum havo not even fire.extinguishers. At least four of our theatres are simply fire. traps. The Superintendent further states that allof the thentres *can be made reason- ably secure, and soma of them very noar per- foct, by a judicious though not extravagant expenditare of money.” If this is so, then let the Superintendont's recommendations bo enforced. We have bad reports onough heretofore, aud recommendations Ly the ream, none of which have ever beon fol- lowed. Now let ns have the reforms en- forced, and if tho mauagers or owners of theso buildiugs refuse or neglect to doit, then lct them be lnbeled unsafe, ar, still bottor, be closed up. 'There is no particalar senso in & report from the Building Inspector it his suggestfons aro not fo be followed. COUNTING THE VOIE. The discussion of the guestion pa to who chall connt the votes for Prosident has beon rondered moro interesting by the publication during the last week of {wo papers,—one written by Judge W, 1L Wesr, of Bellefon. taine, 0., and tho other by Judge Sway, of the samo Bfate. Both of theso gentlemon— and thoy aro eminent in their profossion— tnko the ground that under tho express lettor of the Constitution 1t is tho exclusive duty of the President of the Benate to open the certificates, and by necessary implication it is his exclusive duty to count the votes, Tho argument of Jwdge Wrsr (published in Tne Tnivoye on Baturday last) is thus presented: (1) That tho Govornment, and its several departinents and oflicers, in tho ordinary, civil fanctions can only exercise such as aro conferred eithor by clearly oxpressed or necessarily implied delegation. (2) That no power to controf the counting or to an- uounce the result of the Electoral vota is vested in tho two Iouses of Congress, or in efther of them, or nuy oflicer thercof, by the Counstitution, except in tho single clause that ““ tho Tresident of the Senate shall, in tho presence of the Sennte and Ifouso of Represontatives, open the certificates and the vote shall then ho counted.” That itin clearthatthis clange does ot in express terms delegato such powor to cither Houss separately or to both jolutly ; nor ix it delogated by nny nocessary or even possible implication. ‘This conclusion, ho thinks, is strengthened by the considerntion that in no part of tho Constitution fs it directed or required that tho Efectoral ro- turna shall be surrendored or delivered to {he two Ilouses of Congress or cither of them. ‘This he auumes uegatives the iden that the duty was imposed on them of counting votes, the possession of which thoy are ueither authorized to sequire or compel. () "Tho Presidont of the Senate in the euly functionary named in the Coustitution to whon oy power is delegated, or upon whom any duty s enjoined by express terms, in re. gnrd o opening and countiug the Electoral vote, ‘T'o him nloue, and not to the two Honses or cither of them, are the cerbificates required to bo directed. On him nlona, and not upon the two Iouses oreither of them, is eujoined the duty of opening the certiticatos. It iy claimed to bo fmpossible that the Con- stitution Laving ihus expressly noamed the President of the Senate, aud delegated to him thix power, sud enjorned upon him this duty, shoull bave coutemplated or infended by mere implication to delegate thio powor aud oujoin the duty of counting the vote to suy officer or body otlier than the one already named. (4) 'I'he command to count {y fmperative,—tq count the whole vote and not a part of it,~—and the duty ix ministorinl, The prescuce of the two Houses is to bear witness to and insura the performauce of this duty, and rot to prevent it. There is no power givou or duty enjoined to couvass tho vote, by counting purt and rejecting part, 'Tie Constitution commands that the whole vote, not a part of it, shall be counted. Judge West voviews the abuses and the embarrussments resulting from coneeding to the {wo Ilouses tho power to control the counting of the votes, sud specially poiuts out the probability of o disegreement of the two Houses, Shall tho wnlo bs that both Houscs shall concur to authorize a vote to Le counted, or shall both Houses conenr in order to refect? TIn the oua case, ono Houso can compel the counting of all the votes and the cousequent election of u unfority candidate, in defiance of the protest of the other House, In the othereisy the non-concarrenco of either House insures the refection of tho vote of muy State, thus possibly defeating tho election of the mafority candidato. Both Houses might go ou rejecting votes until all were excluded, and defeat o count altogether. If the pres. ence of the Senate or House be essuntial to thio count of tho vote for President, then the refusal of cither Houso to be prosent would defeat the connt being had at all. Hereaches, therefore, this conclusic: **'The clear con. clusioh reached fro these cousideratious is, thot the power to open aad count the Elect. oral vote is vested where the Constitution plainly indicates,—with the President of the Benate; and that in the exorcise thereof his functions aro purely clerical and ministerial, restricted to the simpledaty of computing nnd aggregnting the votes reccived by each candidate, and declaring the resnlt.” Inanwer to the objection that this would leavo no power to exciude or roject false or spurions certificates, ho statos that ministerint functions require information to be intelli- gently porformed, and that tho President of the Bonato must have prima facle evidenco (1) that the Legislature had dirccted theman. ner of appointing Electors; (2) that the Electors had been appointed in this manner ; (3) that they have performed the duties; (4) thatthe cortificatos are the recordsof thoir proceedings, Judge WrsT, however, argnos that there is authority and juriadiction lodged in another tribunal to judicinlly in- quire concerning all antocedent facts npon which depends the validity of the vota to bo counted, and to iusiruet, control, and direet the ministerinl function of the President of the Sennto in regard to possible false, fraud- ulent, or rpurious votes that may have been obtruded upon him, and 1q10n which his mere ministerial power is incompetont to pass carrecting judgment. He thinks that such powor and jurisdiction is delegated to the judiciary. 1o claims that Presidentinl Flectors are Foderal officers, and he then proceeds : A When the returns of an Elcctoral College, al- leged to have been thua corruptly and tnconsti- tntlonally appolnted, ax the opposing returns of rival,Collcges are presented to the President of the Senate, he must receive or decline to receiva them. Assume that he declines them, or one sct of them, In it not {hen competent to ap- ply to the proper Federal Court for a mandstory order campelling him to recelve and connt such of them as are teac and gennine returns of legally- appolnted Electors; or if ho shall have received them, Is it not competent to aue out & restralning ordee compelling him to reject such as may be shown not to bo the gennine returna of legal Elect- ors? In elther case, would not the door of fngairy bo thrown open safliclently wide to reach back and seratinlze the antecedent facta and influences aflecting the validity and lezality of their appoint- ment, In like manner as the judlclal Inquiry by euach IToune of Congress touching tho elections, ro- tarns, and qualifications of its own meinbers gives it Jurindiction over such antecedent facts,—with this difforence, however, that the Inquiry would De subect not o Infinences of personal ambition, or the uncontrulled discretion of partisan resent- ments, but to the stelct and orderly rules of Judi- clal Investigation? . Judge Bwax takes the ground that the Constitution means that to * count” the vote i3 Lo ndcertain by enumeoration who has tho mnjority of the votea all ready to count; that the object of the connt is to macortain the majority, not to revise, contest, or rojoct votes, or {o convert tho person or persons whose duty it s to count into a tribuunl to contest the clection of an Elactor, and thus disfranchise a Stato. e denies the legality or tho justica of the two Honscs of Congress converting thomselves into o Roturning Board. ‘We give our readers the benefit of the rese soning of theso two logal gentlemen, and wish to express our hearty concurronce in all thoy have said in denouncing the impro. prioty of recognizing, under any eircum. stancey, the right or power of any one ouso of Congress exercising a voto upon the clection of a President of the United Btates, Tho great peril to the American Coustitution is now, and Las ever beon, the grasplog of now and dangerous powers. It is o most violont stretch of power, and only sanctioned by precodents adopted when no resulta wero at stake, for Cougress by law to regulate and govern the counling of tho Presidential votes. DBuit to s sume or admit that either House wny, by the objection of 8 mere mojority, roject tha vote of any State, and theroby de- feat the election of tho majority candidsto and sccure tho clection of the minority can- didate, or o dofoat tho clection as to oc- casion an clection by the House of Ropre- sentatives, i to nssume a powor which the Constitution exproasly aimsd to prohibit. Sliould an eclection bo accomplished in 1877 by such monns, then all future elections will bo detormined by Congress, und the popular election of Prosidential Electors will be a wisernble farce, Thenceforth Presidents will- bo clected overy fourth yoar by the mnjority of {he members of tho ITouso of Representatives chosen two yoars previously, ‘I'ho Electoral College will sink into n uscless, and nonseusical, and powerless pleco of political machinery, while the wombers of Congress, who linve nlready grasped the civil. service systom, will thon ruake the President, without the lenst reference to tho popular vote or tho popular will, TO0-DAY'S8 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTIONS, “I'his §4 the uventful day for the gathering of the Democratie clans 1n several States to Lowl for tho insuguration of TiLoexy at all hazards, and to sound the tocsing of the war they proposo to wago it this demand is not complied with, ‘I'is general order for theso conclaves came from tho samne Lilerty-Btreot Bureau that promulgated campaign.literature pending thy canvass, and we presume the moncy to pay the expenscs thercof can be tracpd to the kame * barrel” that bought up tho Bt, Tonis Couvention aul furnished the funds for bribing the Oregon conspirators, Wo supposo also that the resolutions have been duly prepared and forwarded to tho managend in the diflerent States, and that tho experienced hand of the Groat Chief himuself will bo recognfzed in the style. But the tone of theso redolutiona los presuma. bly been changed to wnit the new condition of things. It will probably not Le w6t up that the purchased Electoral vote in Oregon furnishes Tieoes with & prima fucle wnjority, since the disclosures mbout that transaction have mado it a little too disrep- utable even for Democratic use, It way bo, too, that there will not be so strenuous an effort to fire the Bouthern heart as thero ‘would have beeu bofore such Bouthern men ns Mg, Laaae, and Steeuess gave their Northern allies notice that thoy are not pre- pared to fight. Circumstauces have changed somewlat sinco these Conventions were or. dered, It is safo to say, howover, that there will be no words of peaco or compromiso in the resolutions of these Conventions, It is & bluff.game which the Democrats are play- ing, and it would Le very damaging, if not futal, to their plans to show any signs of wenkness. Tho integrity of the Union, the olessings of peace, the hopo of renewed busiuess prosperity, are as naught to the men who compose these Conventions, They are spoils-hunters, first and last. 1f thero were any patriotism smong them, it might be reasonably expected that there would be wrgent appeals to the statesmen of the day to abandon partyism on either sido and make an earuest effort to settle the dispute by fair and constitutional meaus. They wonld then scek to allay public excitement rather than seek to jnflame it. ‘Thoy would sdvise an acquiescence in the result, whatever it way be, rather than risk the Lorrors of clvil war surs to grow out of auy attempt at violent resist. ance. But it is not for this that they as- nemble, It is with the hope of making such a show of their strength and pur. pose as will frighten the conservativo men of the day into yielding to their de. mands without regard to law and justice rather than risk the conflict they threaten. To this end their utterances will e cither outspoken or but fnintly-concealed threats. They will call it the voice of Jacon, but it 18 mora likely to prove the hand of Esav, Flunder {s their object, and ** your offices or yonr life " ia what thoy say to the American Union, . REORGANIZIRG THE COUNTY BOARD, The bill which Sonator Ropixsox intro. duced in the Legislature for reorganizing tho Board of Comnmissionors of this county, ond providing for a now method of thefr eloction, is in consonance with the general ruggestions that bave already beon mnde in Tax Cmicaco TrinuNe. The main features of the bill aro that a Board of fifteen Com- missioners shall be elested upon a general ticket aunually,—five from the West Town of Chicago, three from the Houth Town, two from the North Town, and five from tho country districts,—and that it Lhedges abont the letting of eontracts with rateguards, tak- ing away from committees the - absolute power to act fn expending {he public money without reforence to the Board, The coun. try towns can hardly find any objection to this Lill, inasmuch as they will still be rep- resented by one Commissionor from each of their districts, while in the eity it will be an immenre improvement upon the present dis- jointed and perplexing method of elacting a part only of the Commissioners at a time. By eclocling the fifteen Commission. ors at one timo upon n genoral ticket, the sclection will bo mado in the most simplo and natural method, and it will nlso have this advantage, that, if n realawag shiould be nominated in any one of the conn- try districts or a cliqne of scalawags in any oue of the city districts, the rest of the coun. ty cau turn aud defeat the job. Senator Roniysox's bill hias been drawn very carefully and wisely, and will tend to barmonize all couflicting intorests except those ot the present Ring. Itadds to the force and emphasis of the bill that it, hos been futroduced by & prominent and influen- tial Domocrat, which will remove nuy suspi- clons of partisnn motives, It isin thorough accordance with tho sentfinent of the tax- payers of Cook County, nnd if the bill could be put to n popular vote it would be carried by nn enormous majority. Thero never was a timo when they were more disguated and angored with tho persistent, nudacious, aud shameloss rablories of the Ring, They would have kmashed this Ring long sgo had thoy bhod the power, but so long ns thoy can clect but ono-third of the Board at a timo it iz impossible, Enough mombers of the Ringhold over to initinto new mem- bera into it, thus securing a now leaso of power, so that their villainy can go on with. out Interruption. 'Tlie members of tho Cook County delegation will be recrennt to the in. terests of thoir constituents if they do not worle for the pnssage of this bill, promptiy and persistently, until it is carricd. Chen tho people of this county—tho taxpnyors whohave so Iong been robbed and plun. dered~—will atiend to the rest. Tho Ring will nover bo heard of again after the first Tuesday of next November, if the Logisla- turo will but give the people an opportunity | to get at them, PACIFIO RAILWAY STEAILS, Tha bid for & Government subsidy to build tho so-called Southern Pacific Railway has assumed o more threateulng aspect this win. ter than it had at tho lasc session of Con- gress. 'Tho political excitement consoquent upon the disputed result of the Presidentinl election {8 counted wupon to covor up tho movements of tho lobby, and permit the Congressmen who are drawn into tho job to escape with small punishment, A good deal of fuithis nlso placed in the fact that fully one-bnlf of (ke presont members of tho Houso retiro into private life at the end of tho present session, and also a largo number of Henators, On tho supposition that these men will be reckless about their future, as TrusporL was when ko took the salary-grab prior to his retirement, it is thought that many of thein may be bribed to vote a sub. sidy who would not yield undor other cir- cumstances, It {s for thess reasons mainly that a most deperato offort is to bo mada to push the scheme through Congresa before tho 4th of Mareh noxt. That thero is serious danger of the Pacific lobby meeting with success s indicated by tho fact that IfuxtiNaroy, of tho Centrnl Prcific, and ‘Toat Bcorr, of the V'exns Pacific, Lave jolued hands, though they wero at log- gerheads last yoar, While tho two lobbics wero fightfog ench other, there was n fair hopo that tho public might eseapo; but now that they are making n combined effort to securo a subsidy to bo shiared betwoen them, the real dangor I8 apparent. Just what the tors of the compromise are that hns brought Scorr and HuxtrNoron together caunot, of course, be definitely known. But itls obvious thot Bcorr hua concluded he cannot, single-handed, securo the spoils, aud that half a loaf iz bettor than no brend, A satisfootory arrangement hLas evidontly been reacled whereby Huxrinorox fs to. have the construction of the weatern branch of the road to Fort Yuma, or some poiut near the Colorado, and Scotr the construction of the tenstern part, with a falr division of the Goveruwment subsidy between them, In some such way ns this it is proposcd to plunder tho American people again for the the benefit of Credit-Mobilior companies, of which Houstinaroy and Scorr will be the chiefu, It is expected that the principal support for these raids will come from the Demo- cratio wajority in Congress, and especially from the Bouthern members. 'This support isbased upon tho false claim of the Southorn peoplo that the present Pacific ronds were built for tho benefit of the North, and that thoy are cqually entitled to an opportunity for plunder. We lave repeatedly demon- strated the faluity of this assumption. [t is obvious enough that the present road to the Pacifio Coast is & central route, whila the only sectional routes are the proposed Northern Pacific on the oue side aud the proposed Bouthern Pacific on the other. It is unnec. essary to go over all thiy again, for n glanco at tho mapis all that is necessary to establish it. But thero is one consideration whick the Bouthorn people ought to take into account, 1f the Government simply holds its hands off, the proprietors of this Bouthern Pacific Railroad will go ahead and complete the road without Goyerument sid. It mustnot be forgotion that, last winter, when Huxtina. TOoxX was opposing Tox Scorr, he made au offer to complete the road bimself, without any further Government ald, if he conld se- cure theprivileges, franchises, andland.grauts which Tox Scorr already enjoys. Infact, HuyxsTiNoToN is proceeding steadily with bis ond of the rond, snd there is little doubt of its completion by private entorprise. Will it not be betler for the SBouth to get ita rond in thia way than by increasing the public debt and their share of the burden? Will it not be better for them to get the rond ona solid basis, built ns cconomically as possille, than to inve another experienca with bribed Congrossmon and greedy Credit-Mobilier companies? It i3 this consideration which ought to influence such Bonthern members a8 aro honestly disposed, aud not already tainted with Bcorr's and HustinaTon's money. Of ono thing wo warn all members of Congress: Not all the political oxcitement and apprehension will protect from publio scorn and punishmont thoso who vote any more of tho people’s money awny to be absorbed by greedy railrond specnlators, no watter whether it is for the Northern or the Bouthera Pacific route. —— AN UNCONSCIOUS JOKE. It is very clear that, oven in the lofly renlms of ‘*independent journalismn,” it makes o great difforence *‘whose ox 18 gored.” That distingnished spocimen of “independent journalism™ known ny the Chicngo T¥mes hns given a good many jllns. trations of this philosophical axiom since it rallied to the support of Mr, Trwory. Its notion of effective campaigning has been toinvent the most outrageous libels on its opponeuts, and givo them spscinl promi- nence in display head-lines nnd leaded type, but either to suppress or belittle in fino type all tho scandala (hat affect ita candidate. ‘Lhia policy hns been consistently applied in the CroNiN conspiracy. Tho mwost diligent roader of the Zimes might bo excused for utter ignorance nbout any of the recent developmonts which show Mr. Tiupew to have engaged in the effort to purchasa tha office of President by bribery. With all the lavish display of hendlines, lorge type, and wide spacing which the 2%mes advertisers kindly permit that paper to indulge in, the news about the Croxiy conspirasy wus told in the following paragraph, printed in tho finest type in the office, and in as obscure a mnanner a8 poasible ¢ The examination of Ruxvax, Mantin's partner In the banking busineas, in ftsclf disclosed nothing fmportant, but taken in connectlon with tho evi. dence of Buntox N. ifannioy, Jrze Davis' pri- vatu recretary durlng the Kebelllon, and now Mayor WicKitas's recretary, It rovealed the fact that WanLiaxt T, Priros, TiLunx's nephiew, and Sccretary of the Natlonsl Democratic Committee, s In some munner mixed up fu the $8, 000 check transactlon, RuNvan posltively rofusod to dis- close the nama of the person to whom tho $8,000 check was given, and gave osn reason for hin re. fuen! that It would ke a viotation of bustuesa confl- dence. Subscquent to tufs refusal ho stated, in Answer to Montox, that his castorer, the princi- pal In the 84,000 cheek traneocticn, had advised Tim to conanit with Br. HanninoX fn referance to tostifying before the SenatoCommittes, Hanmtinoy,” on belng cross-ezamfued on this polnt, adwltted that soma ano had Inttmated to him, during tho afternoon of Wednesday Tint, that Rusvax would call on hifm for adsice In this matter, He ot first declined to Inform the Committee who it was that told Bim of RuNTAN'S proposed vilt, but when ho was assured that unless he didao he would be brought before the bar of*tho Senate, he ot once admitted that It was Wittt T, Pricox, The wholo cnse is substantinlly admitted here. This mau Prutox i5 a nophew of Tmnex's, and Secratary of the Demoeratic Coampaign Committee. 3Mr, TiLpex would scarcely have choson any one noarer to his own person to distribute the bribe-money, of which Croxiy confesses that he received £8,000, Yot the Chicngo Zinies hina no word of condemnation for the infamous proceed- ing, and secks to hido it ns much a3 possible by printing it so obscurely that its readors will bo likely to overlook it. But suppose Afr. Haves' counection with a similar trans. action had been so clenrly exposed, Thers was a Democratic Elector in New Jerscy who wns ineligible for the same reason that ‘Warzs, of Oregon, was incliible, but he was permittod to rosign, and was re-elected Ly tho other Electors alter becoming oligible in tho mauuer provided by law. Dut suppose the Governor of New Jersey bad assumed the same power ns Gov, Groven, of Oregon, nnd issued o cortificate to a Haves Eloctor; aud suppose subsequently it bad beon discovered that a nophow of Haxes and Becretary of the Compaign Committeo bad sent £8,000 down to Now Jersoy, and that tho bogus ITayes Elector lind roceived 24,000 for his share,—vwould not this outrage havo been blazoned forth on every pago of the Chicago 7imes? Would not the foeble brain of tho hend-line man have been tor- tured to set it forth in startling allitoration ? Would not the heavy man of the institution have labored throngh dreary columus about it? Would not the Washington editor have Tun un telegeaph bills recklessly to empha. sizoit? Would not the funny man linve taken outhis **Joo Miller" and jlnstrated it? Would not the whole atafl have been employed to make tho seandnl as conspicuous as ponsiblo? And yet beenuse it was Me. TiLpeN and'not Mr. Hayis who tried to steal an Electoral vote, the circumstauce in searcely noticed, aud the usnal arts of rensntional journnlism are nbandoned in order to keep it nu dark ay possible. As the Z%nes aspires to be funny, it will be gratified to know that thia is about the funniest thing of the season. — The fecling in Lehalf of Tirvew haa not improved durlng the lost threo days, in the light of the Oregon vevelations. Fimst, it cume out by the sworn confession of CnoNiy bimself that he refused to have anytlnng to do with the Electoral fraud until ho hiad boen offered a fat ofiee and pald 33,000 for ¢ ex- penses.” Becond, that the bribe.inoney to poy him eame fzom New York, aud from the vicinity of thut famous bar'l, Third, that by the testimony A. ¥, Mawmiv, of the Now York brokers' firm of Mawmin & Ruxyaw, drew a check on tho Bauk of North Americn in favor of Laon & Busi, of Salen, Oregon, for 8,000, on the Gth of December last. Out of this money CroNiN was paid his £13,000 bribe for the rascolly and fraudulent part ho played, Fourth, when the broker ManTiy was subpeenaed to Washington to tostify before the Senato Commitico, ** he was foined at Nowark by a mnon of rather imposing and agreeable presence, whio made Lis acquaintance, and finally undertook to coach him as to how Le should testify, tell- ing him to contine himself to what Le posl- tively knew, and not to mentionwhat he had heard or might think, He introduced him- #elf as Col. Bunr C. Harrisoy, forwely Pri- vate Becretary to Jeey Davis, and more recently to Mayor Wickuaw, of New York," Fifth, thls Col. Haraisoy followed the wit- ners to Washington, escorted Lim to the Capitol, and shadowed him wherever ho went, Bizil, the actions of HanxisoN excit- ed tho suspicion of the broker, and ke spoke of it to some friends, sud, the matter coming to the ears of the Benate Committee, they called on Jesv's Private Secretary fo *rive snd explain " what he was doing, and who employed him, . He refused at finst to tell, put, finding that he would e interned behiud irou bars it he did not, Le at last confessed that PrrtoN, nephew and Private Seeretary of Bau J. Tiipey, engsged bim to coach und shadow the broker Maxtin | Bev. entl, Bcuator Kenvan, of New York, way . extromely unessy and excited throughont the examinntion, not only of Jrrr's Sccreta. 1y but of MantrN, who drew the £8,000 check for nse in Oregon to secure nn election for Tioen. Wesubmit o respectablo Democrats that the great and monstrous fraud, bribery, snd corruption have been traced home dread- fully cloes to TrLoen's door, Tho end Ia not Fot. Bomcof our exchanges arc referring to an frregularity in the Elcctoral vote of Arkansas which finperils the six TiLDEN votes of that Btate. It Is alleged that * the requirements of the taw havo not been compied with fn the package delfvered to the ‘President of the Senate, The package was not certified to Ly the Klectors as containing the votes, which 18 required by law, nor had tho messenger any evidence of his anthority to bring the votes, ai- thouwh the law strictly preserihes that lic shall Lring written authority frem the majority of the College. The Arkaneas package,wns ree ceived, alter some hesitation, Mr. .Fenur de- oining to pass upon its regularity until the time comes for the opening of the certifieates in Fevruary, 1t fs possible the Republicans may be genorous enough not to take advantage of this technical defect, although they would he Justified tn doing 50 by the fact that the vote of Arkansas honestly belongs to the Repubilicans, and that the Democrats have shown n rendiness to take advantage of a posstble techalenl deitet, 3 [ Oregon, when its effect would be to defuit the clearly-expressed will of the people in a fres and falr election.! _ ———— In regand to the ** Moliie Magulres * of Penne sylvania, Gov. HARTRANPC recommends in his messnge that the Sherilfa of every county La empotwered, whenover auy dutbreak oceurs, to organize a constabulary force, to be pald by the county, nnd to remalu in scryvice so long s the disorder Jasts. The posse comilatus, sulth the Qovernor, Is a pleasing, delusive phrase, and the ealllug out of the Btate militialsa costly bore. This arming of the Sheriffs with speclal powers is designed to suppress the Inwlessness prevalent in the State, which Mr. ITARTRANPT contrives to discuss without usiog the term * Mollle Magulre."” e —— In nddition to the New Jersey and Missourd cases of ineligible Electors, there 1s another in Tenncssce, thus deseribed tna ‘Washington dise patch: Prominent Republicans here lave Information to tho effect that.Joun I, Moone, & Democratic Elccts or from the Seventh District bf Tennesee, i dis. nalificd because of tuo fact that he was a cadet at he Naval Aeademyat Anuagolle, and snbsequently performed service in the Cuntidernta army: and {hataaid dlaabilities bave ot been remoied by ongress, ——— A few yeats ngo the Btate debt of Pennesl- vania amounted to upwards of $43.000,00. The existing funded deut fs only $22,433,021, havlog been reduced more than onc-hal;, —et— . . PERSONAL, The Khedlve's poet is old, dlgnlfed, and conr- teous, and has a yoting and protty wife. 8o that poctry, even In Egypt, often lingers In a foollsh, fond old man An admirer of Wade Hamplon I reported as hav- ingeald tuat the latter **yalued his word (unlcen it happened to be appended to & promlse-to-pay) as he did Lils life," A Another brood of coustns are hovering about the estate of the late A, T. Stewart. The papers come from Ireland, and there Iy an Irish carnests ncas of purpase In all the allccations, Minnie Lonudale, a young acte, burned to death at Newark, caught fire frum a red-hot stove, azainat which xhe carclexsly brusbed her akirts, She was 10 years of ago,and had been but sfx months upon the atage, Drigham Young pelnted a clrcalar-letter of fe. Hlciiation to bis **family and friends of Salt Lake and elsewhers* inthe papers of thet clty the doy before Christmas. Not many men, happlly, have fanilies 50 numcrous that they are obliged to ade Qeeas them through the nowepapers, . ‘The managers of the Kellogy opera company were sued for §1,000 at Loulsvitle,on bofulf of thy proprictors of the Mempbis Thieatre, for breach of contract to falilll on engagement there, Sullletent money and property was attached to secure the plaintitts in the full amount of damages claimed, Marwood, the successor of Caleraft In the honor- able posltlon of ehlof cxecutlonar of England, has been winning golden opinlons from all korta of his poople—excent the murderors—tor the thoroughe ness of his methods, He launches the condemued into the next world with a sunvity of manner thal 12 almost ngrecablo to themselvey, Mr, J. I Planche, the aged deamstie aathor, hasrecently published n highly hnteresting ** Cyelos puiis of Costume, or Dictionary of Dress." It deacribes the dressos of Western Eutohe and En- gland from the tme of the Saxuns np ta the reiga of Gearge 111, and s & valuable supploment to & simtlar work complled by the same author forty years ago, Oxford and Cambrldgo refuse to row with Core nell Lecause they would bo unable o guther a rop- resentative crow durlng the long vacation, and bes caute by accepting they would lay themaelves apen to Innumernble clinllenzes which tney could by no meansaccept, There i Liot in thla last reason at the dunter of somo Impertinent assertlon uf equality by Cockney crews, than which no greater was recently Her drexs ‘The 1nst nowspaper that Cominodore Vauderbils read contulned report of the Dennett-May frucay, which he perused with great interest, nnd by ru- marked upon the masnolt, ** What n pity it was & young man vhould place Limself In such a post- tlon.” Ho added that when ho was youry and Uving over tn Staton Jslund, there wa Sghting golng on among the fellows ubout but he made & covenant with hlmselt never to p: vuke o qnarrel o enter on one unleas he was struck, and then ho would defend hlmself, Tloston newspopers fold up thelr Lands, ko to speak, in a kind of holy Lorror In view of the statement that & Isryard gradusts hiss been yuare tered upon a 8, Louls soup-Youse. But surely one who has speat four years at Jorvard ought to e suflicfently sccomplished even todeink 8t. Louls woup. There 18 nothlng peculiarly holy abont the Harvard or any other graduate that shondd place one abave the vulgar necesalty of eating und drjrk- Ing, or koep lilin from & soup-house, if he hue ub and cannot earn the wherewithul to pay fur voup Stephen Fiske proposes that what was de- mandcd of all the theutres after tho Broukiyn fire shall now be avked of all the vullrouds, In view of thy Ashtabula disaster. In the wi f recoms pense for the waferings fuflleted, he wuggests ironjeally that the recclpts of the rallraads for une doy bo devotgd to the relfef:fund. Jle hds, howe ever, overlouked the clrewnstance that the wayspunagers are amenable 1o Juw for damay. o thvatra-managers are not; and a4 the former never receive auy murcy In tha courte, they slow none beyond that which {¢ required of them bys strict constrnction of *he law, 1. W, Vanderroort, a romantlc young achiools marter In a countey rezlon of Long Ialand, marrded clandestinely Miss Addio Johnson, the daughter of Abram Johnson, of Woodsburg, When the cerve mony had buen flulshied, the young persons resuly- e to brave the matter out, and melt the parents by, thelr teare and supplications. Dut the parents were surprised,—and didn't melt, The mother beat the duughter and the fother kicked the yount man out of doors and off the premlses, not eved stoppiug (o open the gate. “LhLls experience seeind ta show that the old plan of getiing at s safe dls- tance and sskingthe perents to relent by wall i the best. » Indlgnlty cauld be offered to Univeralty men. p-e HOTRL ARMIVALY, BSherman louse—Jd. K. Summers, Mich.; A, F. Williaws, Springteld, Ha. Murphy, New York; Lieber, New York; Monroe, + Josepl ‘ol L. ‘A. Arthy Dofnan, Pinisdelpbla; J. the Hou, W. V. Porterand Col ‘ork: P, . Ewing, St Louls aing Thurber, New Vorks ‘alle: 'l Van Bell, Phlladelphia; 034, i Bt Teepor! Houton: A, rand Puclf law. Jrviue, Pulludelpbla; ¢ E. Dickinin, Spriok * Mortimor V. Austin, ' Auparde - . Winne, Kow York; "W, & Louls; Prof, A, . il aliver House—E, A, Clabps hornton, New York: the Hoa. 1t & ews Daniter, feld, . M. 8., Cochran, Cligto, 3 Jubn Qo A AR s ), r, Boston; Charles D, BaP lard, Now Yoske b