Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 9, 1877, Page 1

VOLUME XXXI Coal Dealer, MAIN OFFICE ARD DOCK: Oor. Market and Raadotph-sts, OfMoo and Dook, No. 1 North Markst-st Offioo and Dook, No, 267 Archir-av, Offics and Yard, No, 711 West Lako-ste Heanoh Cfigs, No, 140 LaSslle-at. Tlard coal of all alzes, Tirlar B and Erle, deliv- eredl pramiptly and fu goud order to all parts of the ty, C. Kha dry Travcese Deech nnd Maple Wool, Osdern from city or country will receive prompt attention. Coal by iho ear-load ab market vates. s BAKERY, IENNA MODEL BAKER, 36 Washington-st., Opposite Field, Leiter & Co. L, STURCKOW & CO., REROPRIETORS, PRANOS. STEINWAYS' Grand, Square, and Upright Pianes o pwarded the HIGUEST 10! ENNTAL EXTUBITION, viz: T § DIPLOMAS OF IONOE for *¥ihe highet degre excellence In a)) thelr miyien of planos,” No of Pinno exhititor has recaived wore than one M Flewt Grawd Gold Medal : ¥leet Prizo Medal, London Exblbition, 1862, An unlhalted guaranty with each Piana, Tor dlustrated Catalogucs, with Price List, mailed free an application, ¢ LYON & UEALY, Htate and Motrocoate., Chicnga. - Z BLANIK BOOKS, &Ce To those In quest of Hrat-class work in ont line— Plank Dooks, Jiing, Magazincs, Jusic. Pamph. e, and Fino Job Dinding—uwo guaranten Gond Work, Promptly Executed, and at Motierate Prices, ADAMS, BLACKMER & LYON PUB, CO. 0, C. BLACKMER, Fres, 147 and 149 Fifth-av., Chicago, 11LY FINANCNARL: EDWARD L.BREWSTER 101 Washington-st., ““{u and selle Comtmerclal Paper, Local Stacke, and Bonde, Lows negotlated. 8 per cent Chicago City Cortifieates for eale, - 7 PER CENT #nd 8 per ecnt loans on nporoved elty real eatate tna lo by FURANCISIl, PEABODY & CO., E 174 Dearhorn-at. 7 PER OENT, 'i H EVEN? $10.000 &t 75 $5,000 e & MASOXN, 107100 Dearvorn-at. Very chotce o at ERTITE | oD NTOCKIIOLDEIRY M STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING, The tnmml(:flrr“nz nf ihestockhiohlers of the Virel. Qwiters' Fowltu Company swill he hield at fhn_ rooms of aIberI hauke, 29 South ¥, Uhie L., a1 1 4 Vo Uiy TUCKLAY, Jat, 0, 1477, for e purg o ofvlectiog s Board or Directs for the ene aulug yeur, and for tae n ot 8 other bust- fieaa 8 sy Coma Vefo "y 3 GERMAN NATIONAL BANK, The anual mectlug af the Atackholders of thia Tank for fhe_election of Directors will bo hefd at ts banking oftice on ‘Tuesday, Jan. ¥, between 2 und 4 o'clock p. m. [Illz‘l(!h\}" BCHAFFNER, Cashier, T okln rar OLD PAPERS 60 cts. per linmlred. Apoly ab Tribune Conuting Room, sENY, Ay e e TO RENT-.-IRON-FRONT' STORE, Noe, 68 and 00 Lake-st., 26 feet front by 140 deep, £ wtotlca, with good basement, n good “anlt, and ort first-cla<s location. ¥, TUTTLE, SITRIVL Kcep‘sfiéhtsvfionr’smtu, (, 0 for 0. Not the A umless pere Eart Maduau, fade fo pieanire, i '} by mutual consent, Nathanfel White retii, Tac Lustness of the late 0rm will be closed up by Will- sm G. White, uho will continue tho bustaess at tho 310 tocatlon, Nos. 130 sud 132 T'ifth-av. WILLLIAM 4. WINTE, NATHANIEL WHITE, L _1RTY. PARTLY JTADE AITUUES et LTS DN BRI Keep's Patent Partly-Mada tress-£hirte, The very bewt, 6 for i can bo finished Sesally as 2iwing u atiariht boom L4 FIVG e st Madison.st, Chlcayo, Ja e Bilver, Gold-Dust ant Bnllion, assayed and bought. SCAGO HEFINING CO., 1! v “Dress Sills, SUIF and Soft fluts, HOLIDAY STYLES, Just recetved, _,g_.j,gtnxns & (0., 70 Madisonsst. coLrans. er dozens fx for ULING Co. aidisdnoriie, %D SH N, SRS cans, AN s O ONLY WIND. Disappointed Reformers Dis- charge Their Popguns All Along the Line. Trumbull and Other Fledgling Democrats Orate Vocif- erously. Thelr Magnanimily Is Really of a Beautiful and Wonder- ful Character. The Presidential Question Settled Easily and Expeditiously. All Other Means Failing, They Are Willing the House Should Elect Tilden, The Indianapolis Meceting Demonstrates the Lead- ers’ Jealous IHate of Voorhees. Julian, the Apostate, Soroeches His Sereed, but the Groundlings Hoot Dismally, They Yearn for the Tall Syca- more, Who Has Been Cold- iy Crowded Out. Oliio Democrats Cry for ¢ Goah” If Their Man Is Unsuc- cessiul, Hewitt and Kelly Affect to Laugh at the Oregon Matter. But Wiscly Refrain from Talling of 3 Cronin's Captured Vote. The President’s Views as to His Datles in the Premiscs. BLUSTERING REFORMERS ILLINOIS. [ CATCINNG THE ARANORDS, Spectal Dispatch fo The Tribine. Srnrvarseen, L, Jon, $.—The Bulldozers’ Conventlon commenced at 10:30 this forencon. 't arlginal futentlon was ot to begtn thelr work of Intimidation until after the concluslon of the Inanguratlon coremonies of Gov. Cullom, but the manugers, forescelny that the rural vleltors would take tha first nfternoon tralus for thelr homes, ard thua rob tho Conventlon of whatover cateh it was ltkely o achicve through the Gubernatorial performance, determined ta run thelr side- show at an carllor honr, snd catch all the flonting eympathy possibie. They wero suce cessfal in a very moderate degree. All the Demo. cratle, Independent, Libeesl, sud apustats e publican candldates for Scnator were here, and all were trotied out for tho Inspection of the Dem. ocratic leaders who for theso many years have hungerad cutsldo tho doars of post-ofices and gongorships. Tho Cook County delegation wus composed of the bitmmers and the ailk stackingn, the former undor the management of Mike Evany and Mike Dalley, nnd were manipniating things so asto fuduce Cyrus 1, McCormick to go on the Londd of tho former, but TIE OLD MAN 18 CUNNING. 1l¢ thinks It wauld not be proper for him to da €0, aa o §n a candldate for United Htates Senator, and, shonld he be elected, 18 would not look well for his naine to appear as bondsnian for another ofticcholder, whoso nnsavory repntation exienda the length of the State. The bulk of the defepates outslde of Cook County are (he tack-bound Uour- bons, Tinlay, of Minnecsotn, who was un active Tiden miealonary previous 1o tho St. Louls Cone veatian, {4 here oxtensibly in the interests of 3e. Cormick, Inreality, he (s quictly urglng onthe game of binfl, All day yestorday,~(n fact until a very Iate hour last nlght,—Perey Smith, Richbers, Palmor, Trum- bull, Rablusou, Farnswaett, Sam Marshall, Qbere Iy, and obhicrs, were enzaged dn working up t) resolutions, Itds civen ont that Trumbull w, moro extremo [n his views than any of the others, PALMER WAS CONSERVATIVI. Ho wasIn Tavor of assuming a firm postion and stand(ng by te, but when asked what ho would do were tholr demands denled refuseid 1o siate, sny- ing that he never buflt & bridgs until he had ocea. slun to usc it, Marahsll, who Jooka with a grecdy eye towards he Senatorship, counseled noderation, Qberly, ‘wha lsanxious to bo the Demacratlc wewher of the Warchouns Board, favored protesting, sad when protesting becamu of no avath, 1o aufeily wubmis, Tha reealutions have been all cut and dzled. Like some counterfeite, thoy uro well calculated to deceive, There will be no thecats, uo bluater, ‘They will be couched In qulct, determined lane guage, and atop Just whort endugh ta give the fm- preesion that they mean busluess, aud tbat's the extent af the card, It ba A HUGE GAME OF BLUFP togive backbonu (o the Democratfc members of Cougress, and theow dunt fn thu eyes of the Tito Conventlon met In the Hepresentatly n the old State-Noase, aud @ Mile mare than halt filfed tho main fluor, A few spectatora pushed into the gallery and ubout 8fty more lounged around tho lobby, . 11, McCormick called tho delegates 10 order, ond prayer was defivercd by the Rev. P, M. Gregg. McCormick then drew o short epeech from his pocket and proceeded to read 1 fn A very halting mwnuer. l4 burden was the Democratic claim that Tilden and [fendricks were the chofce of the Amerlean people. Ho then espluned ble position relative to the recent fuss fu (i Central Commlittes, which was organ. f2ed by Ed Merritt. lie belicved that aw apd right would prevoll and Tilden aud Ien~ dricks bemaugurated, Ho was opposed 1o uuy mili- tary orwny war aziation, snd heartily favored & peace poliey and the supremacy of the faw, 0a motton of Henry i, Midler, of Cook, J0HN ¥, FARNSWORTU was appaiuted temporary Chalrman. On tsking his seat, e thanked the Lonvention for the honar con ferred. The Conventiou, be sald, was not one of vartisang, but patrlots, Qur duty 18 10aee that ull men elected by tho volco of the Atierican peopls shoald be ko declared elected snd insugurated. The country can stand the inanguration of either Mr. Mayes or Mr. Tilden, but 5t cannot stand that the cholce of tha peopls ahall Le overturacd and et astde. The General then rehearsed tho atory of the tlection 1n Joulslana, Florida,aud South Curolina, 84 bas Leen dally Lol by the Democratic press, Ueuest took upthe mauner ln which the Prest- dentia) vote was canvassed, aud endcavorcd to abow that b was tho jolnt duty of the Senate and Houss to canvass, sud not tha duty of a eingle maa, Hoquoted Isrgely from Appletou’s recent book on tho sublect. Ay advised Lis bearcrs to CHICAGO, 'TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1877. reenlse on what thele tighta Are, but withs threats. **Let tho fulure gnhie our action,' Farnmworlh maio a lonzer apeech than was ao- telpated, and many sald that hie TOOK THE WIND OUT OF THE SAULS of ‘Trambul and Palmer, The tisusl Credentfals Commiltee was appolnted sfter afittle wrangling, some insisting that there Wan Do otearion for one., A Comuwittee on Yermanent Orcanization was appolnted tocdrry out the prevlously acrsnged sctieme that Gov, Palmee sliould be Chalrman. Ex-Senator Trumball offered a resolution provid- Ing for the appolntment of & Commuttee on Hesoln- tonz, Mr. Atklneon, of Tike, from the rural distelcts, and objected to tha cut-and-dried manner of running things, e thonght it wasan jufamoun atlempt at bulldozlng, —worse than anything ever atiempted in Losislana. Mo was choked off at thisstage ln hin gpecch, and subsided. THE NESOLUTIONS COMMITTER wan then appointed, as follows: Lyman Teambnll, ¥, C. Hobinton, 8, 8 Marshall, Gen. Faruaworth, A. Q. Burr, Judge Edwards, Guatavne Koctner, Witllam Wrown, W. d, Alfen, L. I3, Oth, M. W, Fuiler, N. R. Geaham, W. J. Onalan, W. C. Gowly, Hermann Lich, 11, D, Brows, M. 8. Ma. lenny, K. W, Fltch, 8, Wilkineon, Jd 4 Drage, N M. Qrinned, P, A, Armstrong, 1n 11, Pinney, W, E.Cook, 0. Bush, W. T, Dotrall, T, W. Row, W. I, Necce, L. I Tewin, I, M. Ilush, W, G, Ewing, Gen, McCler- nand, W, I8, Uarnes, 35 X, Willinme, Benjamin Burrouehs, 0. B, Ficklan, € 1L Buckas, F, Gfl- mare, ILN. Dreus, L. I, Parsone, llan L. Deyan, ¥, A, Garshor, I, E. Balley, W, I, Grecn, G, W, Wall, J. Meltebbe, I W, Townsl.oad. THE CONMITTRE ON CREDENTIALS tnnde the custotnary report, amit recommended that Al present who believed in the presegsatlon of the constiintional forme of Nherty Le invited to partic. ipate In tho deliberatiuns of the Couvention, which was conenered in, This shows that the affendance was not near so Targe as exprcted, The Conventlvn then took a recess untl) 4 o'cluck, tany el he came REASSEMOLED. The Conventlnn reasxembled fn the Repreaentne tives' Hall In (he now State-Tlouse at 4 e'clock, Gen, Farnaworth In the chair, ¢ The Commlttcs on Peemanent Oreanization re- ported an g list of oMecrs John M. Patmer for Chatr- man, and Vice-Iresldents two from the State at large and one frony each Congressiona) District, end half a dozen Secretarles, TALMER'S SPEECTI Gen. Talmer was then cacoried 10 (he plntform amid prolonged chicers, After refurning thanks for the honor conferred, be reported the history of the Loulsiana clection as complied by himnelf and the other prominent Democrats who went to New Orlrans to witness the count of the voleof thatState. That history was printed bn Tue Tumuse reveeal weekn azo, The question was, Who wan elected President at the lnst elee- tion? It fs a question of Iaw and fact. How shalt L be solved? We had sugipored that the Constitu. Hon provided forthe pettiement af any political diepute, In some countrics people fought under the red and the white Tuses for s master, In thls country we fight forno mader. The Jaw Is our master, and the people are muverelyn, Tho only danger of wirife as the rewult of this dispnt fe, that the party in power moy use the army agalnst the people. “The Republicans say they will employ power to solve the question. 1f Jeft 1o the Constitution, IT CAN DE BETTLED, In Louslana no un can vote unless e is rogie~ tered, and the reglster cannot be amended. Of the 101,000 votes cast in Lonixlana every one was a awful yoter, No Demoe:at wis slowed to re- cejve up record & vote. wr 10 open ho polle, ur cunvass the votee, The Democrats had no_ cluce to act fraudulently, The Republican retarubn ollleers ot she polla” reported a THden majocity af about 9,000, In the New Orleany Custonis Sloure the returns were doctored, und then handed over ta the Retarmag [foard, What have we done ince the fanndation of the Goverumenty We havy done ovur duty an good eltizens, and expret ell otherd to do the rame, 'Phe Hepnblicans Lol § he Viee-Presdent 18 the ltcturning foard. T idea tenbanrd. Ttts malid that the Vieo-Urestdent baa enid that 1t any appesl s taken by the Houee, and he “ls snetained by the Sonate, that shull be the nw, s ubsued, T h Houses dlvs; and when no ¥ 4 W reaident lian heen elected iy louaa of Lteprescntatives mnst efect, Nepublican politicians will akject, but the Republican vuters will not. They Wil not act in compliance whh the mandates of Zach Chandler, 1t may o that Geant would 1ike to fight. I'hat's his trude, butwe are not bullocks to be kiifed. Grant can't gght unless ho ETS AONMEBODY TO HELE 111 Yo didn's wont 10 anpposs that Grant was anxlous totizht, The people of this conntry will not yht tu lem anyhody. Thereure reckloss, despersts pofiticiaug whe threaten and bluster, but e peo- ple laye ofder and peace, and the difculty will bo settied nccording 10 the Constitution, THE REAGLUTIONS, Judge Trumbull, Clinlrman of the Commitiee on Rewolutions, reported av follows: Liesalved, ll{ the cltizens of Dlinals in Con- vontlon arscibled on the $ih day of January, 1877, thut 8 count of the votes for President and Vice- Fresident by the Presldent of the Scnate, withaut concurrence amt direction of bt Houkes of Cope sresw, would bu consrary to ueage, revolutionary in tharycier, aurd danzotons to”the riite of e wople, e Ssotred, 'That tn the abrenco of any siatutr, ruie, or Order reguluting the counting o the Electoral vote, the 5o oukes of Cougress have the right, under the Constitutlon, to count the vatew of Klectors, to decide all questions nrlsing thereqn, and declare the_reanlt: and that no vote houki Ve recesved angd connten Sur Presjden ang Vico-Presfdent without tho concurrence of bath Mouses of Congrers; and {n the performance of this duty each Hausa 18 vested witl the authority 1o inquire inlo the goaliicathons wf Eleetors, und the manner of thelr appointment. ‘This has been the construction of iho provieons of tho Constitution respeetd the aubject rhiown by an unbroken tsage fram the first ton of President to the presey advption by both Houses of Congressmen mously of tho rule Enown ns the twenty: oint Tule In Febenary, 1505, nnder which the lectoral voles wore connted by Couggresn in 1803, 40 1809, and in 1873, which rale was acquiesced in and maintained so long as bovh Houwen of ton- gress were coptrolled by the same polltical party, Jteaotred, That st b the duty of the Seaaty and House of Beprerentutives to resort 1o all parlia- mentary mcans to vecure s falr and honest connt of thy Electoral vote, snd that the people wil) hold Kenators und Itepresentatives fosponsible for (ho consequences which may follow & falure of the two Houses to agreo tpon 8 wodo for muklng wuch count, Jeesolved, That while wo have wo donby that Samuel J. Tilden and Thomus A, Hendricks ary falriy entltled 10 n_majority of the Electoral yores for Frestdent and Vice-Président, wo at the rame tume believe 1L 1o bo,our duty, and are willing, to wubnit the (luctlluu a¥ to who have been falrly and constitutlonally elected to the declafon of the Benato and Houep of Hepresentatives, to whoin it constitutlonally belongs, und we demand of e, wawe helleve don vast majority of She people of all parties, that fhey come (0 80me sgrocment for sn honest and fulr count of tho Electoral vote, -‘mlglnb.' ourselves to abide by the result, whatever sy be, Jlesolved, That (i 1a 8 well-sottled principle of law tiat whon un oficlal duty Is 10 bo' perlbrined upon the bappenlug of a certaln contlngency, and N0 mode hias been provided for deetding whin the event has occurred, those who are required to do the duly re tha sole judves s lo whien the contin- gency arlses; and In gccordance with this prinejplo fio feclary inat It peanorly dovalies upun cach Houawo ot L‘unrnu v decldo for lteelf when the contingency shall arfsa thab requlres its soparate actiun under the Constitution'In the electiun of Presifent by (he House of Kepresentatives and Vicu-Presldent by the Benate. Hesolvad, That I case the two Houres, nfter ex- lausting all parllamcniary means, ure unable to 33760 UROD SUCH i count ol the vulos cast (OF Presye dent ond Vice-LPresident as will secura Lo any per- n & majority of the wliole number of the Eiectors l#)‘mluh‘d. it will then pecume the duty of the iouec af § prenrnulnululmedla(fl{_w ¢huose Presldent, and of the Eenate a Viee:Vresident, ay provided hfixh Canstitution, sad §f the Houso of ve {epresenty shall chouvse a Presldent, or the ben 8 Vice-President, according to such pro- i vlsiuns of the Coustitation, then ‘such coustiiu. tional action must bo wnstuined, and afl forciblo wpposition thereto be proceeded agulnet as treason azd revulutlon, HNesolued, That the couceried asacrtion by tho feading Itepublican newspapers on {he mornin; alter the eectlon that South Carollna, ¥lorlla, and Loufulans kud gone for ilayes beture' any dednite fnturmntion could possibly have benvrecelved trom tuosg States, followed by the ordurs to the army of the United States to see that **Doards of Cunvase- cre are unmalested in the porformunce of their du~ ties, " franed pefure tho Usuvassiug Boarde had as- weuibled, and without auy Fenson L0 suppoxe that such Hoards wauld be molested {uan hoocst dis- cherge of duty, fogether with the knowledge that” tho result of tho Presdential eloc~ tion s derlared by the prople st - the polls could bu chanued by falecly l:ouulillF the soles of South Carollug, Florida, and Loufsiona {07 1fayes, aud that the Keturulng Board of Louials Bua, cumpostd of thy sani LEreOns 38 VOW, had uhhun!{. wafairly, and {llerally changed the re~ sult of o former election, could onty have boen fu- teuded oa an sssuranco 10 We canvisaing oficers in those States In aleance that they woald be ana- talned in any canvass they might make, however inquitaus, and_especlally to the canvassing ofli- cernof Loninlana, that hey wouli be santained in reqealing the arbitraty and fleeal action by which they had continued themselves and their party in power Lwo yeare Le:fure; that the mulwegnent action of the cansassmg oflicern I twn of the Sat mentioned. {n open disregard of the hichest u‘t,l- o ¥ clal tribnnals in_thalr respertive States, an nction of the Louislana Returning Board which a mnmrltr of 4,000 voles for Sxmucl den was fenndulently and Dicgally changed fnto & majarity of nearly 4,000 foc futherfard B, Hayes, In “cannectlon with Judie Hood's aunepation 1n overeiding the State Courts: the action of the ar- my in redting up an (lezal Leeh lagnre in Sonth Carolina; he ‘concentfation of froops el and threats fu the jpartian _ bress members of the llouse Ttepro. sentatives will be arrested and of inprisoned i qhc Hanse exereisen fts constitutiond! prernzn. thves In rexard to the count of the Electoral votes, eatablieh the existence of n conspiracy by force and frand to proclalm snd Inanznrate a President aud Vice-Prexident of the Uniled Staten conteary to the constitutionally expressed wifl uf the Amer- Itan people. diesolred, That it 1a the duty of the Honse of nerrn-chmuvn, the grand inquest of the natfon, to Inquire into’mald consplracy, aml if the ofti- cers of the Government have been cnvaged In the consplracy, and have committed acta fn (nr- thernnce of the ot by the Niegn) use of the army or utherwise, to take hmmediate action to defeat the conspiricy, and to bring the conspirators ty trinl at the bar of thie Senate, Jtesoleed, That thie President af Wik Conventlon #end a copy of theee reealutions to tie Peesident of the Senate and the Speaker uf the Houee of Jtepre- sentative of the United States, with a request that cath lay the rame bhefore the budivs oier which they respectively preside, Tlhe resolutions were unanimously adonted. BENATOR IOMINRON, of Conk, offered a motlon viding for the ap- poinfment of & permanent tral Committee, 10 tonslet of two snembers from the State at latge and one from each Congreeaional Districy, Inofferfug the rerolation, he ominously hinted that there might be work to he done, and there waghl 1o be some power (o call’thin Conventlon o stether should the cmergency nrise. Thers are huwlreds of thousnnila of men In thia Klate who have Auglo-5axon blood In thelr velns, and : Iovers of freedom, lesider, ftis neceesary to pe fitfon the Seuate (o carry vt the requests contatn» ed In the renolutions a ed by the Convention, Tho Chair sald that, upder the role. the mation rhiould be redaged to writing, and submitted $0 the Commitice on ftesodutions. DISPATCHES, The following dispatcher were received: 21X ANATOLIE, dan. 8, ~The Demncrary In Cone Lon axseniblod, every one of the ninety-two countien heing represented by over 2,400 dele scaten, mend you greeting un this duy, The State thut dextroyed thic Renublican party s hopet in Ve toher now demands that the voire of 1,000,000 vatere shall be tnade efective {n this Inwl, o that Sanuel o Tilden and Thomae A, Hendijcks shall be Inanaurated President amil Vice-President of theee Unlted St “*Rurca McGeR, B Mywsox, Chalrman, ccretary, " Qlto, 4 Cotranes, O, Jan. 8, —The Chaftman of the Democratic Convention here sende greeting, Tems porary organization ellected, voimittees appoint- lmx: *tron feeline manifested In fuvor of fizm reso. utions. Many trains bringing delestates delayed. miance very farge, * A, d, Waitxes, Temporary Chalrian.» NEPLY, Farnsworth sent the following: mots Fetarns your gieetig, - The larcest htion ever mesembled i thoe State with one voiee demands an honest count and the Inaugura- tion of the penple's cholre, 't The Convention then took a recors, AT IT AGAIN, On the reassemblinz of the Convention, Mr. m;m;m\. of Clay, otfesed tho following, which s adopteds Lexolved, That the President of this Convention be directed to appolnt a comiittee 0f seven, tohe cafied the Hiinois Committes on Natlonal A@alrs, with power to take wuch actlon concerntus the sawe i shall be caleulated W promote the end of this Canventlon, HESRY G MILLER, OF CHICAGO, wan cafled wpon for n\\u\'uh, and responded st soue length, tep all the custamury e ceatic twaddle “sbout the Loulsfuna letsming Hoard, and fiwletfng that unler the Conetitation Conurews c:uh{wu!p tno dlilenity, Ie hoped that nuthng would. oceus 1o distury’ our Judginens of ce. SUDGE TRUMENLL wus the next speaker and waid a danzesous foe wise threatening our existence, niore dangerous ian a foreignarmy, for, umied, Ameriui in invine uble. Phere (s 8 Conepirney orzanized tu cay the libetrtien of The peop 1 1 s n\gmrlud, ralid that e wonld secure cetiun ¢* Mr Mayes, and there 1a no donbt bt what thie . chels was (ully orenotred before the election, 1lad Uregon aod Wirconsin vone for ‘Tilden ho would hiuve heen 1o more clecied than he s to-day. The bistory of Loumisna, the liee turning Boards, and the pretection attorted them by the urmy by ordee ot the Presldent during the fint four oF fiye years, way then rehashed for the fourth thme during the day, Pablic rentitment bas cliauged ua mch I Lovlyiana os it haw {n 1o The colored people are no loager all Republics as our Hfepubiican fricnds wonid have us b ; “The color Hine hss been brokvn tdown, and the cols ored wan, ke hls wihite beother, votes ud he deemw Dbest for ihe Intererts of tho country, Thero wero thousands of cofored men in Louixana who voted the Denocratic ticket ut tue fust elegtlon, [Cheers tur (he coloced wen who voted fue Cllden. § What I (o he done (f the nate aud Houss cannot agree on the connt of the E oral voter ‘The presnmption Js that cach Tloute 1n 0 do it daty, and grase u aw to carry ou ine Gosernent. ‘The pronle hiove the right tode. the nat{onsl yy I3 wand this of both Nouscs, and let uy denwand it In two Monses capuot wod 1t Tiouse an_cargest tone, 1 the wgree, then there 18 no election, duty of the lower dent” and the Sensteun \ That {s the way out of the difficuity, the ful and constitniional way, snd i he s D te 1o be sustained, and who by force e is a tral and shoukt be dealt with necoedinigty, 16 (s sald tuat ru courss will be productive of eivil war, man who usky uu Lonest election wang war. by any means. Cfhere are who have taken the Job t you will allow them,’ i 10 nan to enter your houeo as @ thiel except ot his peeil. The min who cflmbs up o the Frestidens tiad chalr except 1 the cunstitutional way s a thief und 4 robber, and walle 1do uot beltese there will Y= any civil war, yet Lam glad 1 belons to a race Who Lnow their Phaite and Wi muinium them, Wewill go peaceably turoush this crisis, but i bLutomen 1o vieet a Py dent, order (u du w0 Ghu Houde of ffeproenta- 1ives quust exerciao thelr projwer fune- thons, and o must the © Sepate. If wuy Gavernment vificluls are In the conspiracy to eedt fu the Peesidential chafe o “candfiute "not electedd, they shonld ba imoeached by the House hefora the var of ths Senate, ‘e louse of Kep- Teacntatives must do e auty, and bring totrial the men who ure conspiring sgulust the |ibertics of the country. While thoe speaker belfeved that Tilden aud Hentleleke were elected, he win nuveetheless will- me fo leave 1t tu tye decision of the constitational authorities, Uhe sucaker loukel for 8 peaceable tulutivn of the ditfcnity, I{o (eitsatieficd that the wajority of both Houses of Caugress would not give thelr sanction to the Inauguration of any Prealdent who had not neen legully elected theretv, ond (o accomplish this Ihere Wust be Srmuevs on e part of the peopiv, GUN, M'CLEUNAND lled upon snd uuburdened Limezell ofn h un which e bad been meditating ali Y. Illucharms of oratory were unavailing, as wany of the uudience bugutt’ tu teave when he be- gan. Don Morrison wss the nest speaker, and (oro PA#alon 10 fatiers as he deacrived how the country Wit standing un the beink of civil war. e hacped o the conatltutfonal remedles for removing Lo ditlcutty, and teitesated thatthe (wo lfouscs wery obliged 1o do s0 und so. Loud calls were imade for Gen. Farnaworth, who ninde & few renlirks on the general fsete and the seve, concluding with au appeal 1o tha urg 10 aak Congress Lo ke g honest aud fale count of 1he Electora] vote. He urged that body to (usttuct Seuator Logan not tu go back an hiw old recard, MEL PULLER, of Chicago, was next called upuu, and made a fow Tomnrks on the Infamy of the wasimus that tie end Justities the means, fhe geuerat queetlons which had been under discus during the dy, fhe unconstitutionallty of uslug the arisy i o hilcal affutrs, o Conyention then adjourned. The Lelaad dinfug-roois ihis cvening was the scens of AN EPISODE which basa legitimata conncetion with the Dulle docers' Convenlton. Joau Forsythie, of Uhicazo, dba Ilorripgion, of Kane, and’Dick Howett, of Rucksurd, whilo ot supper, god Jto o dispute orer the peoatorlal question. Une reoiark brousht o suother, untl fhie converylion bkcstu 50 trofune to di ats tn the {mmedisty Vicinity, ot was foliowed by 3 pavsaie- at-aciis, aula threc-corered 1032h and tuuble cuaned. Thd combatanie Were paricd s11Ct o cood deat ot trouvle, aud peace reatored. No gure wis clalmed oa ¢itber side. HEMORRITAGE. A NOSH MUNT, Specta) Dispasch o T 1% Srriscriciw, I, Jau. 8.~The ** Wah * Con. vention already haa Ied to **goah.” John Forsythy 18 the watrlor wlo shed 1, —Porssihe of Chicago. That 43, 1t was bis ** gouh ™ that wos shed. At sup. peras the Lelaud, after haviug letencd to toe ‘*wah -talk at the Domocratic Convention, Fur- #ythe talkod by about betiing sgalmet Loyan. Ueorge Fuak, of Mclean County, & prominent wealthy Republican and friend of Lugan, propesod €0 sccept tho bel. And here the awful difforence wgaa, ond, when tho stery 02 **goah ™ that tLis day flawwed In thin city {4 told to the Iatest ecnera- tion, will that diffc rence be the subject of wrangling. Funr enys Foreytho offered fo het w0 to one on Logan'n defeat, ~ Foraythe eays Funk wanted to het Atthe rate of fvetoope. Forsythe wanted to hot 510,600, x0 Funk says, Funk santed to het §5, 000 10 810,000 There was, on cither alde, talk of Dintinr, and Wizt sounded like crose words wero ripprd ot by Forsythe, and hoth men rove G tiele feut. Theteon fien. Towelt, Republican Repres sentatise fram Macoupdn, who was (3king supper ot the rame table, tamlug to Funk, eald: **Dont d here," For . rutorted to sthe, who overlead the sema Howetts **Youare Wlackzuard ! LYOU ARE A Lrse! responded Rowett, Thercon Rowetl, who @ldw't wait, but Forasthie, whe was siruck o the the “wkin alightlv, nd the Sep fowed lizhtly. Forsythe's blow fell short, and there ild” have heeu more *'goah™ Jsd pot the *ls Aprang from their seats at the taliles and Atedd the contestants, of wnomn \ With ttlactity, hstened (o put himself where a nember of able-hodied men wonld hold him by the cont- tatl, owl 1w it [« reealled liere how Forsrthe shed eeonh " Iy his tto et the Bible in the pahlie relinnled mle Tiis light at the Fourth-Wanl pojts Wiih Esq. Vauchan:and It {e conceded that he in the very man to furnied the **zoah’ out of his own vemns when the ** wah ' hegins, INDIANA. THE CONVENTION. Fpectal Dispatch t0 The Trivune, IspaNaroLts, Tnd,, Jan. ¥,—The Democratic Convention to-day was. from a Demozratic point of view, ruccessfal, hut, In fact, It wan u turbu- Jent iaans of eaged, excited men, with fow of the recoznized leadere, antmated by uo other purpose than to make a big row and nolne, knowing nothing of what waw to be dane or what they comd do. The ceremonlen of Inangnratlon were held In the Academy, and it required nntil half-past 1 o'clock toclearont the honee nnd redice fntn womething Ifke order the crowds which (hronged the fluom and gallerles of the balldine. Gen. Man. son, Chalrmon f the Fiate Central Commitice, called the aceembly farhueiness ta a brief speech, in which lie aid thiey had heen called at the reqnest of the Tilden Electors fo protest nzninwt the great erime abaitt 1o be peryetroted on the free balot, In the name of 213,000 Democrats, 10,000, dnde- pendents, and 25,000 honest Tepublfcann, they were tayrotest azainet the Heturniug Boards of Loufeinnar and South Carolina, and the naction of the twa men In Florlda who attempt toaverrlde the will of the people. David #, Gowding was elected Chasrman, aul Indniged in A LENOTIY SPREC, revlewing the history of the Htepubliean parts, culoziziuz Lincoln ond Johneon, and denouncing the conrpiracy on the part of the Republicana tu stenl the Presidency, Toward the concluxion he grew bold und wariixe, and, referring to the pray- wsitinn 10 bave 1he Preshlent of ihe Senate de- clare Hayes aud Wheeler vlected, said the mohact would be a usurpatlon, and the iy cottras for the House to purtuc wouli e to declare Thien and Uendricks elected, and the only coutse for the Duepic 10 purspe Would e 1o snbhurt ihem with helr fortunes and el ivee, Thic diceet fnvta- tion to war hrotzht down the house, nd when n, fie ailuder to the grobalility of war unless ‘Filden wae liauenrated, s number of volces ered out * Let it vome THE € ND-DRIED PROGIRAMME was neals upset an the eleciton of President, but the ekll} of the matinzers prevatied, and the policy was carrled out Just as agreed npon yesierday fn caucue, SULIAN'S SPEECH followed, Tt was very long, al occepled over an hour and a half, elicifing no epecial applaune, ex- cept taward the clane, After adininlstering to the thirsty Democratle car o wp out of the Loulslans maddie about six colmmny Ionz n folid ponparicl 1ype, the apottate renched for his paint fotvand wut e toliowiug war-freaco upon his heflicoss fraist: Who I to count tiese votest Lpon the anawer 10 thia question deperds the Isaue of the most fear. e for the ifrestdency that fins eves silrred 4 Amvncon people, I wae fe altozether unexapled in the ‘efiorts put forth by nowerful potitical vrzanlzations for vic- tory, where defeat meant politica) deaths ond when, ai the protracied and sngey confifet was hushed by the tollngs of the people, n Teeling of re. tief wisgutvennl throughvnt tic Unjon, Shall these ballers e smirclied nid dishonored by a conclsve uf polltical kcotdrela in Linimana? “The pre«d- gt ofileer af (he Semate, we ste told, ie todeefde this quentton, fc {n tolw the grand Retumning Jsuard'at the pation, from whose dectsion thero 1s nwoppeal, Mr, Canirutan, te has no more tpht 1o count ihe volea sl deckine the rerult thau you have. . ., Waile Geantlem, stretehed on”its Led of deatly, v rasping out {te prayer for dellver- ance fron the Judzment to come, Rie political mere censtle< who have served at its altar for the past clizht years haw assume the oflice of pliyxician, and are anxlons to save the JHe of their patient by no s trams ol deadly poiron to the Constitutivn. ~ Shall we allow this o oe! Are we fo it lmh-lll Ly while the Republic Is Mex!- ennlzed by * the Senatorlal jumta of mahig- wants who - have wxo fohr kept (heme relven in the fromt by mi\Lln‘: the late War the harlot of thelr ambition? Khall we p Iy Fubmit 1o ag act o open lawlexaness, and our reliel in te morat efiect tpon the people In sweejie 12 the Hepublican party vut of power four years hente? 31 we cravenly tolesate TILA RAPE OF AMERICAN LIDCRTY to-day, shall we have the munbood in 180 to cons frout tae Kindred outrages it woull certainly pro- voke? Why walt fonr years for & remedy, when we hold §1 in onr own hinds no grees of the Uruted States? Wh peal (o the ballot for the red iereafter, (f we allow It to become 3 cheat anda Yie to-dayy Shald the people's wiil, constitutionally e, be defeated aud detled by an organized ade armmet the very principle of republican povernmentr These questions can nefther be port- poned nor evaded, The crisia tompels ts 40 pone der then i seeking cu howorahle Way oot of the dreadful dilemma Ju which the coantry Is placed, Not [0 eubinfaxlon to fuzrant acts of (yranny, but N rerirtance, 0wl we expect our deliv BENATOR MORTON AND I3 FELLW-CUNSPIRA- Taus tel] wa that the Prestdent of the Senate whil count the Elcctoral vote nud deelare the resalt, and that, 10 need e, it will B enforced by the anay wnd mavy. Shieds nmply o threat of Revelution, Are Wwo Teady to avow ouf wilkinzness to acquicsce In £ for Ehe ralie ace, ol thina fivise the sery inl-chlef we deplire by’ uifering i impuntsys o Triend of Tiliten and Henidra ks dreans of phvsteal reslutunce o the 1nauguration of Gav. “Hagos, rhonld e be declared duty elected by the Senate ant Houre of Representstives. The Vita) question belore the couniry 1s not whith of the twy mwen »hnll be Presdent, but whethee the man who has Leen elected phall be deprived of hia otlice by frand or force. 1t 18 hocanse swe advoeate pesce, and re« coll from the thouphit of elvil atrife, that we de- mand oliedience to the Coostitution snd Amerlcan fair play In the setflement of the glomeniang hisne which now so fearfnlly divides the conuitry, We pread for peare, and the cafamities of war canonly overtake un through the wadness wiich ahall act the Constitution und laws at defance. 1t is forthe make of peace that WE WOULD WARX TIESE VLOTTEUS OV THES. BOY that thele enternrise wili be real take it, und thal the ruiemn duf maintain the rml\lllullulxa\xfl;l;t eV dIf they noder- f the prople to the tiovers pronos ¥ 3 hat powes In thy work ol enrbing the we fnvek evll Zentus of the men whose unbtafled smbition Las patsled their reason and devaured their love of cotntey. Ldo Bot beileve the seourge of war is 1 etute foF us, but it can ouly Lo cortalnly avericd by i el Weninelves prayoincing thels convle: tlony A neso a1 Electorul purpuses with such unisiahuble rarest haxta peiar 1o fhe day of counin au shall foreshadow certaln di utluanry movement, By srgum un, by pesslatent appeals to the jus wver wud patriutic men of whateves patty, and by popular assemblice throughvnl the country ot earuesl and determined e, such 34 we sce liere tasduy, { belivse a public comavicnce moy be created that will DUIVE THE KEPUSLICAN LEADERS from their jmrpose. In thiy work of populare agle tation every oitbee ehould shae, The serfodes tiees of Wiecriofs deman.is Lis on the side of iaw, and in the intereet peace. 1 1ike u clamor, ™ il i Durke, > where there {3 an abuse, Al ure-bell sttt distarts your sleep, bat it Kevpn 30 feom et hirned (i your bedy* Let the people speak, or ey, dwle u theie bands the ...--Ju of the Hepub e, uied 1heir soverelgnty can. Dot be fusaded withaut ticle L Acentury v our fat {enee of their overnient walch deglt waith crly, and (heirlies, Wo Lnow, Whed we ask that the dc"be reclatered 89 the supreie wever wny defy it by overtacts slall receive tl je treatoent which the nution uwarded to the len who uppealed from tho ballat tothe buyonetln 1801, ket them be warned [n semsan LY waeey lovee of regulated liberty that 1illions of men will be found rewdy fo ofer thelr iiven as Iostages 1o the sacreducs 0F the Lullol ze 1he paliadium of was Hberiy, TUE JEALUTS FEARL OF VOORNEES. Many uf the uld Dewccrats did nut 11ke to bave men ke Gulding and Juliau pushed forward to the extlusion of Dan Voocheed, for whom therg wers rtone criva all day, but e wancrondes bick uutil by bad uo thage to deliver the epeech Lo bad preparod upon the law poluts iuvolved in the controversy, When tha report of the Resolution Contiltiee was called for, Hayless llanga sicpped forwurd and tewd a dsgustiog harran; which be falied to apcak at biw own lowa of Terre Maute, dlacusslug recedents of the count, snd asperaiog War-Sena- Kzr Mortun with indecest Alth.” Tae resolutivns did not weed with vosslmous support, wud au amendment was offcred_aimply declaring in fava’ of the insugnration of Tilden and Hendricks, s snatticr was oficecd by State Senator Dykmaa, cal’ ing for ATR COUNT OR A FIEE PIGIT, [nS FICE FIVE CENTS, ) - for the week, Onlythtee wentdown. The -2 bremained st work titf afater hour than nsual Ahe two flonses, and even tho nsual compliment. Ar This atter was anly rojected by a emall majorif Sy “adfonenment for the day wan not proposed. The end then the ropart waa adanted. The rese 5 tions aty lenusthy snd meaninzfess, On motio Vnarhees, & Commitiee an Safety and Corrcspe ence was sppointed, consbeilng af Gen. Ma 4%, bitei Dacld Turple. Gen. dohn_ Love, ne 5, W, Hanna. Thiy Commitice la o confer with Itke cummilteca from other States as to the pro. pricty of a national indiznation nu eting, The Cone yentfon tus not accampiiehed augtiingamd bhasnot satleticd many of its own meinbers. why wonlid havo buen glad to have gone much farther In the direction of war. The friends of Dan Vootlicen nto especinily indlznant, venting carecs agatnat the Indianspalis-ilendricks.McDanald Ring, wha are now, and_have been for yearr, jealons Of his grent popularity with the party. The body of the Consentlon was st all times rendy to o’ further than the fenders deemed proper under (nuttuce tions fram the Tilden butenu, “T'he atreetn and 1he nelghbortiood of the depot to-night have beea full of drunken men and tucbulence. TR DECHLARSTION. The Convention mluxflu\ 8 declaration of princt. ples instead of resolutions. It began by sctliog uut the onjects nonght by the Demueratle party in the eamnaizn of 1876-~resturation of good gaveen. ment in_the South and turer civil Fervice and cconamy {n the admtaleteation of the Uovernment. Upon thess ‘wlnln It clalma that s Inrgo populns majorily voled favorsbly, and that majority wnr o cast in Florids and Louixsna, and §t protssta nacainet helng counted out thore nnder any pretext, Tt denunnces the uus sumption of power tu reject votes on the grotnd ot intlmkiation as arbitraey, uncepublican, and revo- Intionary, While the Government stould punish offendess who fntimidate Yoters, no just power re- elden Inafree povernment 1o depiive the whole community of their volus Lecauss soma IRWicas nten (fve (1L (¢, whoe tawlessne=s it in the duty of the Government fo_repress. §t deaoimres the an- sumntlon of this power by the Louislaun Return- ing Doard §i« unjust and Ayrannizal, The Bord in WANTING I8 NO HAU PEATURE OF HEGEDITARY DESPOTISM, and underthe Coorilistion of the Unlted States hax no clatm to recognition, It has chapged the Government of the State, and is Intendeato change the Federal Government By arbitisey rejccting thonrands of suteq Jegally cast by the citie zens of Louislana, Certificates from such a Toand are n mockery and nn oulraze on the rights of the peaple. A government set npon sach a techbicality would command and desceve no respect. The proceedings of said Hoard were fraudulent. Ita decisions and findingy are void. In [t expected that 4,000,000 of voters will uequis ence In being deprived of the frulta of the coni i:lul passed through by a8 political machine us nownin the previous lhistory of fhe country, whose organization is illecally and defectively ad- ministered, and whose actton i fraudulent, null, and vuid, Eutertalning theee views, THEY NESOLVE thatfi fa the impemilye duty of Congrers to pro- viilo by faw 3 plan fur countniz the Gléctural vates tha. according tothe plain meuning of the Constls tution, and, wccording (0 all past politleal usage, the power of conntiny the vote residesin the two Honsea of Congress, —that, i Congress shall pro- ¥lde by law a fuat plan for counting the Eiectoral vote.one which will be . NOLObly in the present emcrgency, bnt for ali future electionn as well, llxeylrletlue their ncquiescence in the result, what. ever {tmay ba: that. if the Senotn shall claim that {tu preefding ofilcer ond the Netuminz Tosrds of Florldaand Louislana have almolute power 10 dos- sunate the Prealdent and VieesPresident, they call apon the Houre of Jteprescntatives 10 exert uly §is constitutional powers o defeat the usuepatlon, and they pledze i annport with ail the resourcen Which a venple whose fundamental fibertles are threate cned can constitutionally command, APPOINTMENT, Martin fl. Brown, of thin city, h pointed a member of the Democratic Natlonal Com- mltu‘s. vice Thomas Dowling, of Terre Huute, de- ceased, OHIO. TIE DISAPPOINTED IN COUNCIL, Speciat Dispaich to The Tridune, Corrwnvs, 0., Jon, 8,—In sccordance with a call of the tate Democratic Commlttee, lssaed on the 18t ult., the unterritled of Ohio wet In con- vention hete to-day. The meetlng wan Leld in the City-liall, which will not accommodate aver 2,000 people, It wan called to oraer at 32:30 p, . by the veteran war-horre, Joln G. Thompeon, Chairman of ihe Democratic Ftate Executive Com- mitteo, and & temporary orzanizatlon effected, with Gen. A, J. Warner, of Marletta, 1n the chafr, Afteran hour devoted fo apyointing the neceas rary committces and attending to othier nccessary preliminury details, the Couvention sd)ourucd to imoct again at 2:30 o*clock. Gen, Durbln Wanl was made President of the pormanent organlzation, and on taking Wis chalr dellsered A TIHADE AGATNST TItZ BEPUDLICAN PARTY, which was recelved with entlualastic domonstra. tions. In the conrso of the afternoon otber prominent 1ghta of the Damacracy displayed thels briltiancy, the wost notuble of whom were Georgo 11, Pendles ton snd Thomas Bwing. The aplrit of the mect- Ing was of a belligerent tendency; In fact, wana eart of a political Vesuvins which is llable to In- crense In force and fntenalty, ond ultlmately do the Unlon great injury. TIHE RESOLUTIONS, The following reolutions were ndopted by the Convention, without a dissenting voice: Resolred, That the Government of the United States in repnbilesn in splr)s ax wed) a9 dn forms i3 in 8 govermnent of law, not of arbitrary forees it §a founded on universal sufirage, (:\w?fll y exce- clsed, and ite existence depends on the good faith and aipeere phedience 10 the Jaws. Licsvlved, Thai the yotea cart on the Tth of No- yember, and duly certifled at the close of the elece tion on that day by the ofiicers outhorized to re. cebyo und record them, alone delermiap the result of the clection held e any precinct, covnly, of State, snd that, wustever may be (e retwrns then duly und pmg'tly certifed, ghey caunot lawrafly be changed by any ofiicer authorized to canvass them anil announce the fesult Jteantred, 'That while Eamuet J. Tlden and receved notonly a larze majority of tne popular yotv, but a msjorlty of the Blectaral vote, und aru Abereforu lveted President sud Viees Presudent, we yet declure that any decislon juade by tho Kenate and House of Representatives will be clicers fully scquiesced s by the whuls people, and that any pilempt nauirate A& Prealdent simply upon the proclamatlon of the President of the Sensute whll bean act af usarpstion that will by Tertated by the propie ta the Gt extremily, even abould that extremity be ai Appeat W arm, slesvlved, That the lupudent aud unfounded charge thal thore who proteet nzalnst the exerclsa of ivgal andarbitmryipewer dusire to fomentstafs and fucito civil war lu wale by counpiratars (o withiraw tho publicmind from thelr own evil de- #lien 10 frustrate the soverciz will of thy yeople, us expresded tirough o ballot-bpx on the Tth of Novuinber sut. Hesalred, ‘That we dleyoance the action of P'res)- dent Grant fn following the example of the milita~ ry chieftaing of Mexivo, 0 interfering by srmed foree in the elections af the peoples fn peeventing the Iswful orzanization of sisty Lezistatures and in wwueaiug troops at Washingion with the anparent purpong of breventlig the free action of Cougress ing the Fresidential election, 1 evinces s pitpose to render the military In- dependent uf and wuperior to thy civil puwer. and calln for vutapuken condewsuution by every friend uf gepublican tovernuent. . Flesoteed, That the fusuguration as President of a exndidata relected by the rtouw and counted in hy fraud u revolution, and {f ac ced in will by fatul mre‘yubllcnn povern:nent, victlon that drichs have Jivsolead, That \be Nutlunal Democratle Com. wities be requested to call & Nationsl Demacratic ""1\7““"““ weet st Wasliingtou City Feb. 577, THE PACIFIC, CALIPORNIA, 8ax Fnaxeisro, dan. B.—In accordance with tha vlow of the County Commbtiea and the Jenders of the party, the Democrats of (hle clty beld no masa- meeting to-night, OREGON, A Salem (Ohre.) dispatch reporta s largo and en. thuslaatlc meeting there. Resvlutions were sdopted ta the effect that Tilden and Hendricks secelved a msjority of be popular vots, and rightly & ma. Jurity of the Electoral vote, and, while willing for the eske of peace 0 acquicsce in tho wrong peepetrated through the recozulzed forma of luw, yetservile submisslon to o falee declura- tlon of the result of the Presidential contest ate talned throagh wsurped suthority 1s 1o dess dun- perounfo the welfare of (ho country than the con. requencey of artned renrtanca aud elvil war; whila deprecating appcals to passion und eistion, they cqually favor Brintss in Tesatalicy o every apecles of and frand; solemnly thy dnauguratlon of Iayes deuounce tho threatened attempt to prevent Jouse of Representatives (0 putticipate in count- Inygibe Electoru} vole, a5 o inreal of 7evolution anda mendco agsinst civil Bitertys appeal to all citfzeus Of thu lepublic (o revist thia revolutlopary sttempt by all wmeans knovn to law-sbiding hb- ciy-loving peuple laatly, indores the action of Gov, Grover du the Watts-Cronin watter, WASHINGTON. & A TAMB AVPALH. +" Special Disgalch to The Tridune, Wasuixuto¥, D. €., Jan. 8.—Ganera) surpriso ‘waa csused here to-day st the courea of the Demo- crats of Congress towsrd the 8 of Jauuary dewopstration. ¥ull » dozen of the most promis usaruation g s'-ul was carly fllled with 8 mixtare of ronghs snd ». erinkling of roepectabla District Damocrats, and, ~N& icelng themaclves ropudinted by Congress, they ecnt meseengers up to ~BUINE UNo o toine down. sponded, the Houseand besought - Banning and Tarbox re- WATTERSON'S sTERCH. i The most striking thinz in Watterson's whole *peech was hls Geclaration that 100,000 unsrmed Awmerlcan eitizens will asacoible at the Capitsl on tie 14th of Febraary to exerclso in person the tight of petition to Congress cuaranteed to them by the Conatitntion. and 1o demand tuat the vote il be connted na it niways has b nouncemnent hias cansed & parl of the Ilemocratic programme 1o hold & Ay tmecting In Woahington on, thn 14th of Feb- ruary for the purposc of Intimidating tho Ecoste or Congress, JOSEPI PULITZER, the German orator fram tho Wost, who followed Watterson, wan extremely Incendiary and revolu- tionary In the tonc of his epcech, He considered the queations nnw rateed a4 of preater importanca tuan those Involved in 1801, whin, haa he told the nuilicnce, he went futo the 'Federsl srmy, and l«iut.’hl for the Unlon. This declamtion Is n fale speclmen of tho mostot his spcech, one calculated to arpnes tha passions of big audlcuce rather than to aliny excitement, . The remalning wpeeciies were mors moderats fn their tone, THE CONTENTION, . . T0the Western dusnciated Tress, Wasnixarax, 1. C., Jan. 8, ~Tie Demoeratic Mara-Convention 1ook place 8t Ford's Opera-Sionse in this city to-day, The bulldime was crowded. Richard Ii. Morrick presided. There was a long lisg of prominent cltizens made Vice.Preaidents ani Xecrelnriex. Specches were made by Merrick, the Tion, Jienry M. Waiterson, of Loulavilie; Mr. doswph Pulitizer, of X1 Lonis, ond otliers, The meeting fasted untll a late hour In the afternoon. Nr. Watlerson declared his bellef that the vote nld be counted as W ever had been counted, Civil fiberty cannot be wrested frum the peoplo under apy circamntancrs, All the mpplisnces of peace would be resorted to to nettle the qnestiona ul Issue, bul tho peaple wonld not aubmit to usurpa- Yun, and, shouid thoy necd a leador, another Jackson wonld stand rvady, OTHER POLITICAL M ATTERS. OREGON. REWITT AND RELLY AFTECT TO LAUGK. Spectal Dispaich 1o The Tridune. Wasmsaron, D, ., Jan, §.~If, s Hawitt and Senator Kelly asscrr, the matter of seading money from New York to Oregon un thie day the Electoral College met was a slmplo and Innocent affalr of provlding for fees for connscl in care logal dimtenl tica ahoiild arrisc, ft Is remarknble that everybody connected with the Lusiness should need to have the truth drawn out of him ns with a corkscrew, A slugular amount of mystery has enveloped the wholr trapsaction, aad sl the witnesses examined by the Privilezes and Llections Committce have given only sa much Information as they conld not escape giving TUR INVESTIOATION, To the WFestern Auociated Dreay. Wasnixotos, Jao. ¥,~The Senste Commitics on Privlleges and Elections continued this morning the Investigation of Oregon Electoral msttors by the examlnation of Charles Dimond, No, 115 Libesty strect, New York, Dimond testified that he 1w o banker, dolng bueiness fur A. E, & C, E. Titon, New York, Ladd & Bush, Oregon, and others. The wituess et the firm of Martla & Runyon on the 0tls of December fur the rst time, On that datu Rungon came to witness' ofica and leti word that hie wanted toreo witucss, Witnces went to Runyon's office, ard Runyon gave him a check for §5,000, payable to Ladd & Busd, Orezoa. Withews gave Runyon & telegraph dispateh, which wan read: **To Messes, Ladd & Bush, Salem, Ore.: Mertin & Tunyon hava deposited 83,000 to your acconnt,” ‘Thu alspatch was fu tho cipher awed by Lim and those he docs buelnees with, 1o was not request- ed 10 put the dinpaich in clpher nor to keep she transaction seeret. Ladd & Buah telographed wit- ness, Dec. 11, o return the 83,000 to Martin & Runyon, ledoea not knaw why the §5,000 waa returued onased. Withess ment to the ofiico of Murtin & Kunyon last Saturday, but held no con- .£ ancs inve heen formally annaunced as speak. . » ==y i versation with elther exceptan to the neceslty of his (witnees') coming to Waushington to testify, After furthee negative testimony, witness sald he wonld praduce, withoul subpana, the lotter-hook containing his Correapomtencs with Ladd & Dush uud Ladd & Tilton, uf Orepon. 1N THE SENATE. Mr. 3forton, from 1he Commlitee on Privileges und Electlonw, snbmiited 8 report showing tha questions propormted Sataruny (o Enos Hunyon, af the fray of Martin & lianyon, bankerd aml Vrokers, New York, in regard to Who ordored the chieck of €8,G00 drywen by Wi house 1n favor ol Ludt & Duel, of Sajewm, Ore., and bis refusal to wnswer, With o resolution directing the Presldent of the Senate to fonue Mo wartant for the arrest of Hunyon, and have him brourhs o the bat of the Senute and anow why be should not be poniabed tor contewpt. Ordered printed, MNr, Morton gave notice that he would eal ukA the matter for action, By avote yeca naya i, the resnlution passed whith was recently repurien by the Conmltics on leges aud Kleetions reqring Wi m M. [riazer of the Wewtern Unlon Telegraph ut dackennville, Ure,, 1o snswer the qnees in propoanded e 0 the mesnages which passed Ahreugn s oitice tn segand Lo the sppointment of tore yoling **No,"* were Barnam, Burnside, snd Haton, PRUSIDI GRANT. 1B WILL DELIVEL UP UIS OYPICE 7O 113 CON FTITUTIONAL SUCCESSOR, Special Dispateh to The 2ribune, Wasmisatos, D. ., Jan, U,~1The Presldent fo- day, Inthecourscof avery carncet conversstion, gave expresvion to Important oplnfans respecting the Presidentlal complications. 1o dened hls po- sitlon In these words, which he permitied to Le repurivds When all the political power and re. eponeldbllity vested In s by the wsullrages of the people rholl have espired by constitutional Imitasion, which will be on the 4th day of Match, 1whall ho realy to willingly encremier this respone ©ility s hut untit then ) rhall execote tho ofiice of Prenident, wund protect and defend the Congtitatlon. It # not my province fo detrrmine tho question of sn election, bat fo cxecute the laws. Whoever §8 declared to be wy constitatiunsl sucecesor, to him will ¥ sur- reuder the refgns of Guyernment, To me it Is not Gov, Ilaycs, nor Gov, Tilden, but who is Preafs dent, and whoever Is 20 declared whI be placed In possession of the Exccutive powera,™ The Prosident has examined the statutes respeet- Ing the District of Columbiawith 2 vlow to aeces- taiging hls dutles a8 Executlvo and trustee of the natlon’s property In the event of trunble. The P'resident deprerated the Sthof January weetinge, He thought thry would UNNECESSARILY INFLAME TUDLIC OVINION, were unpatriotic, and mischlevous, 1f intended a8 fnciplent revolntfon, be sald they would fall of thoir purposo and by discountensnced by men of bustness snd conservative sentiments. 3t des slzned 10 overawe Congress, they would be alike ftile, ‘The Preaifent contd see In them only an attempt ata mischicvous agitation of the public wind. He sharply refuted those who have suggested that Tilden would be {uangurated whetner be was seclared elected ur not, aud strougly Intimated thut 1hat could not be dous fn Washington, wheto atone be thought an lnauguration logsl. Hoeald there coula not be (wo legal Presidents. Ve discuescd at length the organic acts of the Distgict of Columbla, und malntatucd that tho President could not constitutlonally make the seay of Government elsewhere. He sald all bisown oficlal acts had been eaccuted sud dated at Weah. ioglon, notwithviandlng occasional absonce: ‘The Prealdent distinctly and positively said that e should consider an inauguration at any other place than Washington vold; thot apy sttempt to rxerclve autbor)ly vlsewhere, wpder such circams stauces, could net be recognized, and apy recogule ttou of such sasunied authority by suy olicer of the Guserument WOULD DE TIEASON. The President cuded Ju substance aefollows, sad Auw wtatewent fu of maneutovs Importance t fha countrys *~The President's authonity, eserclved ln accuscauce with law. (s ad supreme in the Districy, of Coluribls u if it wero a gorclsoned fortress, ung ony dempustrations or warllke couceutration of el thecalenlug e peacu of the city ur endan- genng the eecuntly of the public property or ireasute of Wie Governweut could bo aummarily 'i““w,‘fh‘ nl;onld:&fflunltcmzlydxmmk by s uciaration of war w. . o Preeldent sufd that be could not think that any political party would 3s8ume sUch ¥ Erave re~ sponsllility a8 would neccasitate auch su cxizsuie exercivs of Execative suthority, fo: he ved that tty would by condewoed ta. | e st aa it b b T Aasied 1hat o Prosideut s ! :d_ha e will ol thupeople would prqvall, and aad yet: aatlug oblivion by . b v eon. This ane y 10 ok to-day it it s {1 b Cranin us a Uresfdentlut K . oud the checkof v £, 00U alleged 10 have be wn in New York in favor of Ladd & Dush, of Balem, Ure. The Senas