Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 12, 1877, Page 4

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Dy orer eftho MLRILCK, See. {1, BT, JONN'S CONCLAVE. No. 1, K. of 1t. and C.— ¥ Pewdlar Avsoniy inis (Friday) vvehini t 7:50 o clock. . allavion of Omicera, Ly urder s A. R. ATRINS, foy, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1877 Greenbacks at the Now York Gold Ex- change yesterday closod at 943, + ' Farmers of the groat Btato of Minnesota ¥ havo taken hold of the tree-planting business In earnest. Over ten willions of cuttings were set out during the past year, most of Which are doing wall. ‘The young trees con- st largely of cottonwoods and white wil. lows, but there is alvo a liberal sprinkling of asple, tarch, white onk, cto. Another portion of the Oregon conspiracy- ‘und is acconnted for. It fa stated in a Han Francisco dispatch that one Tnoxwsoy, a Republican lawyer who mado the argument . before Gnovcx, sitting as o high conrt all by himselt in favor of grauting tho eertificate of clection to Cnoxiw, recoived $3,000 for his trouble in convincing Groven o5 i »*, &pon a quostion he had alrendy decided, and ‘b that the §2,000 remaining after CnoxiN was kY "n‘ provided for was roturned to New York. 'L 'The funeral of the late Mark Brrntan {j1'+ . ok place yestorday, and, although the day was the stormiest of the winter, the number of public ofiicinls and citizens taking part in . lhe obsequies has rerely heen exceeded in Chicago, Aany followed tho remnins to the . grave who had been with and agaiust Manx Hazrmax in political and municipal mattors, . but who, with one common impulse of re- spoct for his sterling qualities and of sorrow for his death, joined in this final tribute to + his memory. 3 The Now York Sun prints a cock-nnd- s+ bull story to the effect that Mr, Brawe is ¢ about to spring o sensation upon the country by abandoning his party and coming out in opposition to Mr, Haxrs, ju rovenge for his personal defeatin the Cincinnati Convention, 'Tho story, of course, isn roorbach, and will mot dective any one, especinlly coming from such an irresponsible source 2s the Now S York Sun, which is only secord to the Chi. 1 oagn Times as a seusational nowspaper, {* which in n grave emergency like tho presont cnala {a not to be trusted in auy of its state- menta, ——— Bome important testimony besring upon the question of the causo of and the respon. aibllity for the breaking of the Ashtabuls ; - bridge was given ot the Coroner’s inquest yos. the bridge, and provided for extra strength in the main braces upon which the grentest strain muet come. 'Thesa braces wero not constructed in accordance with tho drawings, but were made considerably lighter, and the o l terday, Mr. Josrer Toawinsoy, now of }' 1+ Ottawa, Con,, formerly in tho employ of the Lako Shore & Michigan Rall- j zosd Company, testified that ha ) drafted the original working plans of 1 | /' ocost thereby materially lessoned nt the . expenas of the strength aud safcty of the }‘ bridge, as was subsequently wmade clenr with i awful distinctoess. Mr, ToxrinsoN testifics i that he protosted enrnestly sgainst (hig {" serious efect, but was overruled by Mr. : Broxx, who at that time had the manage- : zoentef the road. ‘TomwiNon ageln advised i the strengthening of the main braces, and bis persistency in the matter led to the saverance of his connection with the road. —— e The Chicsgo producy markets were gen- 4 arally easior yesterday, Mess pork closed 't the same as Wednesday, at $17.70 cash and { $17.90 for February. Lard closed 6@74o per 100 1bs lower, ot $11.124 cash and $11.25 for Pebruary, Meats were easicr, g at €je for new shoulders, boxed, 8jc for do shortribs, sud 8jo for do sbortclears. Highwines were quiet, at $1.07 per gallon. Flour was in mod. erate demand and firm, Whest ciosed 1o lowsr, at $1.26) cash and §1.26 for Febru. o rercg et sry, Corn closed Jo lower, at 4336 cash and 44 for February, Oats closed je lower, at 34Jo cash and 85e for Febrnary. Rye was steady, at 72¢c. Barley wns quiet, at 65]e for February., Hogs wero dull, and prices of commeon and medinm heavy grades wera 100 lower, Sales at $6.20@7.10 for common to extra. The cattle-market was nactive and ensier, with rales at $2.60@35.00, Sheep were in demand at $3.00@75.70 for poor {o extrn, Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy $105.87} in greenbacks at the close, The next President and Vies-President of the Unitod States met for the first time yos- terday at Colambns, O., whers Gov. Harea received a brief visit from Mr. Wnerien, who, naturally enough, thonght it abeu: time to form the personal acquaintance of his distingnished associale on the Na- tional Repnblican ticket. Mr, WnerL- x= wns formnlly presented to both Houses of the Ohio Legislature, and left for ‘Washington in the afternoon. The dispatch statos that Measrs, Hares and WaesLxr aro in complete accord on all matiers pertaining to the Presidentinl question,—n fact that need hardly Dbe stated, since melther would consent to enter upon their duties as President and Vice.President unless the certainty of their fair and honest eloction were nssured beyond rensonable question. It will be dificult for oven the most sensational and mendacions Demo- cratic journals to imagine that Mr. Waest- zn's visit to Gov, Iaxes was other than it purports to have been,—a friendly and emi- nontly proper interchange of personal civil- ities, Trpex's “‘barrel” waa taken yesterday in the Senate Committee's investigation of the Oregon case, Ruxvox, the New York banker who had refused to answer certain guestions touching the bottom facts of the purchase of the $8,000 draft, having thought better of the matter, concluded to give the namo of the purchaser, who turns out to have been Mr, 0. N. Jorpax, the Cnshicr of the Third National Bank, of which Mr. TiLpex is un- derstood to be a Director and a heavy depositor. Certain roundabout and unusual mathods employed in tho purchase of the draft, among which is tha significant fact that the transaction was by a special arrangement enterod upon the books of Mantiy & RuxyoN aa the personal transaction of Runroy, strengthen the sus- picion that precautions were taken sgainst posaible disclosures of an un- desirable oharacter, Jorba, the Cashier, will now be afforded an opportunity to explain how ho happened to buy the 28,000 draft in that peculisr manner, and for whom the purchase wns made. Yresont appenrances indicato that tho dovelopments befors the Benate Comuittee will confirm Mr, Hewrrr's staterent that the Oregon corruption-fund wos not taken from {he moneys under tho control of the National Democratic Commit- teo. ‘While the Benate Compromise Committee s busily engnged in maturing o plan of agreement rogarding the count of the ZElectoral votes, aud the House Committee is donbtless employod in discussing the same subject, certsin TiLpex.or-War Democrats in Congress have undertaken the work on their own account, and, it 15 said, have per. focted an arrnugement whereby tbe wholo difliculty is {o be setiled in accordanco with the genoral tono of tho 8th of January resolutions, This arrangement, having nlready received the nmsnction of = number of the Democratio extremists, in intended for presontment in a spoech soon to be delivered in tho Seunte on the subject of the Electornl connt, The plan, as detailed in our Washington dispatches, contemplates that the Democrats shall tako the position that the Houso alone is to be the judge of the correctness and suliciency of the Elect. oral roturns, and also the solo judge as to whether the contiugency bias arisen—that is, o failuro by the Electoral Colleges to elect n President—which makes it the duty of the House ta clect, Thin i the gist of the argu. ment, and the plan further embraces tho clection of Tmoxx by the Iouse and his inauguration a8 President. No de- velopment hns yet been made indieating the number of Democrats who have sub. neribed to this method of bulldozing the Henato aud usurping absolute power in the Electoral count, but there is uo doubt that such a measuro hng been thoroughly consid- ered, or that it is indorsed by a number of Democratic extremists sufficiently largo to seriously embarrass tho attempts at com- promiso and harmonious adfustment now uking by the moderato wen of both par- ties. Whether the movement will defeat the compromise is yet to Le seen, but such o result is quite probable, ‘Wo aro very sure that Senator Loaax does not fairly represent his Illinois constituents in the Bilver bill which he has prepared. The toxt of tho bill {s as follows : e 1t enacled, etc. 'Fhat there sholl Lo colned at the Mints of the United ttates awilver dollar of tho welght of 4128.10 graww, troy, qf standard allver, the emblems, devices, and fnseriptions of which shall conform to thoso prescribed by luw for the gold and silver colns of the United States, with such modiicatinus thereof A may bo necessary to render the salil dollar readily distingulshable from the trailo dollar, and the sald dollar hereln authore f2ed whalt be 3 legal-tender at its nominel value for any amount, except for customu dutics and nter- est on the public debt, and shall be recsivable in paymentof all duvs to the United States, cxcopt duties ou importd, ‘This merely places silver on the lovel with the greenback, It really gives it less valuo thuw it has now, for subsidiary silver coin may bo tendered in payment of duties up to tho smount of five dollers, while Henator Loaan's bill excludes it from such use alto- gether, We hod almost #ald that th propo- sition was ridiculous, in that it provides only for coining silver dollars, while depriving them of the value and use they ought to have. 'Tho United States bonds are payablo in coin,~ bt is, silver ns well as gold,—and uaoless the silver product of this conatry can be used along with tho gold product, the tine for gpecio resumption will be loug post- poned, and one of the most valusble of all American products will be legislatively deprived of its natural use and normal value. Senator Looax bas evidently misapprehended the sentiment of the lllinows people and the people of the entire West jn this wotter, and the bill which he bas prepared is simply calculated to complicate the case and clog the progress toward the full restoration of the silvor dol- lar to the place it occupied in American money for nearly a century. We hope he will withdraw it from consideration. — For the purpose of settling tho dreadful Presidential muddle, Feznanpo Woob says Lo will favor a new election in South Caro- lina, Florida, and Louisiana, He gives up Onoxix a3 a bad egg, and thinks him dear at the %3,000 it cost the Usufruct to buy him to do the fraudulent job. He says Lo does not take any stock in the Oregon business, nnd would distike to sea Trnes made Presi- dent by the corrapt vote of Crowrv. Inre. gard to a new election, thers fs no use in in. cluding cither South Carolina or Florida, ns it is fully cutablished that Havss enrried Toth of them. The Democvatic 1Tonse Com- mittee, after full investigation, admit that he received the most votes in South Carolina, As to Florida, the Supreme Courtof that State ordered a reconnt of the votes Accord- ingto the faco of tho returns, Counting and inclnding averything that had any semblance of regularity, still Iaves came out 206 ahend ; and throwing out only the grossly and notoriously frandulent votes, Haxes' majority is 930; in cither case he has carried the State. This leaves only Louisi- ana in dispute, and n new clection there would quickly and ratisfactorily dispose of the whols tarmoil and excitement which aro injaring business in this country. A new election wonld be watched over, looked after, and proteoted by thousands of committee- men from the North. We have no doubt that the Ropublicans wonld carry the Stato *'by a Iarge majority,” as thoy constitute the morae numerous element of the State. The Inte spectacle of Republican blacks march. ing to the polls, escorted by Democratic bull- dozera with revolvers in their belts, and tak. ing *TiLpky or Doath " ticketa from their bands, would not be witnessed. THE SENATORIAL ELECTION, The people of Illinois of all parties are aware that ono of tho duties of the present Legislature will be the election of n Senator of the United States for the term beginning March 4, 1877, Gen. Loaax is the present incumbont. There has beon much said and ‘written on this subject, and there has been a0 attempt at menace and intimidation, and by a Qourish of party whip, to compel men toa choice which may be impossible, Tne Crroago Tnrouse has been eriticised because it hias not insisted on the re.clection of Gen. Loaax, and his support by all ,Republicana in the General Assembly, to the exclusion of all other Republicans, The fact is, Tuz Cntcaco Tainuxe, regarding the Stato of Tllinois ns a Republican State, and as having Ly a decided majority for President and for members of tho Legislature oxpressed an adberonce to the Ilepublican party, holds that tho Btate would be miarcpresented in tho Senate by auy other than a Republican. 1t has 8o happened, bowever, that, owing to unfortunata nominntions in a fow districts, and to the clectton of afew Senators two years ago by the combination of fusion par- ties, tho popular will is not representod in the Legislature by the controlling majority to which it s entitled. The result of tho lato election for members of the Goueral Assembly, including the Senators elected two years ago, ia that partics stand divided a8 follows: I.'e(!. Dem. Ind, Renate,.. o 81 £ h Houso T 4 o Total w0 [T Theso five Independent Senators asre Mesars. Haives of Cook, I'Lusn of LaSalle, Hannown of DeWitt, Fansu of Saline, and Grasurono of Johuson. To clect a Seuntor requires 103 voles; and any Repnblican who eangot all the votes of his own party and the votes of threo others is the man to be clected. Messrs. Haryes, Prusm, Hanrorn, and Grassvorp represent districts which in November elocted Republican Iepresonta. tives, and therefore reprosent constitucncics who have voted in favor of clecting a Re- publican ‘Senator. Soveral of these Indo- pendents, when elected in 1874, were known to Lo Republicans, and wore voted for by Republicans ay well as by Demacrats, Thore is o moral obligation upon theso gentlemen to so vote for Seuntor that the State shall be reprosented by a Republican in the United Btates Bennte. At the same time, it should Lo remembered that these five gontlemen were clected under n popular protest sgainst both the Republican and Democratic or. gonizations, and were elected to repre- sent a popular demand for tho re. form of abuses aud errors in tho pub. lic sorvico. Tho Republican members of the Legislature, with n knowledge that they were in a minority of the whole number, Leld a caucus, in which they nominated s candidate to be supported by all the Repub- licans, By this aotion the Republican mem- bers presented to the Independents a candi- date to bo olected hy them, whether the person nominated was accoptgblo to the Tu. dependents or not. It limited the eholco of Ttcpublicons to one man, It cxcluded overy other Republican in Illinofs. lowever much this policy may be open to critiolsm, it the Independente, or n sufficlent numwber of them, shall accept Gen, Loaax and eleet Lim, the great end—the clection of a Itepub. lican Scnator—will bae sceured. It i given out that threco Indopendents will vate for him; and, failing this, that a sufficiont num. beor of Democrats will absent thomsclves to permit bim to Le elected by the 100 Ropub- lican votes. Whers is the proof of this? ‘Who aro the Independents who will vote for the caucus nomineo of the Iepublican party? ‘Who are the Dumocrats who propose to sac- rifice themselves to clect Gen. Looax? It cither result be accomplished we shall cer- tafnly not find faalt, but we confess ton dis. Dbelief in the happening of cither ovont ! Tue Cuicaco Tminuse desires above all things tha clection of a Republican Henator; it has no candidate to proposa ; Lut {t s in favor of that Republican who can show hLis ability to obtaw 103 votes in the Legislature, ‘The candidacy of any person who cannot ob- talu votes enough to be elected is an obstruc. tion to the election of any Itepublican at all, and tends to compel or Induce an opposing alliance to clect sowe other person who will not bo o Nepublican when hie gets to Wash. inglon, Gen. Iooax fully recognized this difificulty, and, when nominated by the Ite. publican caucus, ho pledged Limeelf that ko would withdraw so soon as it was shown that any other Republican could get more votes than Limself. But in the meantime Lo is the coucus nominee, and it is not law- ful for the 100 Republicans in the Legislature to tako eny steps to got auy votes for any other person. Until LoaaN i3 withdrawn, the other 104 members are at liberty to fonn auy combiuations or sgreements, becauso with the Republicans it is Locax or nobody. Now wo do not mean to be understood as soying that in po event can Gen. Loaan obtain the votes necessary to elect him, but thera 15 a total absence of any evidenco that Lo con doso. Had he not been nominated by the caucus, then the Republicana would have boen free to use not only Lis name, but the uames of all other Republicans, and ‘would hava been froo to select some one of them for whom the Independents could vote. Hut at present, tied down with a caucus nomiuation, the Republicans are enlisted, not so much to secure a Republican Beuator, 08 to securs the election of a particular can- didate, If the ontcome pf all this be the election of u Senator who is not a Repub- Lican, then the responsibility will rest upon those who have ndopted the policy of pre- ferring nn individual to the goneral interost. CHICAGO'S COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE. The statement §s mnde in the article on Chieago in the fifth volume of the new * En. cyeclopredin Britaunica,” just published, that “* Chicago s probably the fonrth city in size and cortainly the recond in commercial im- portance in the United Btates of Americn.” In its review of this volume, tho Boston Adrertiser speaks snecringly of the assartion as *“ go characteristic that it will provoke a smilo everywhere in America outside of the city itself,” and says further that it *ought to be nccompanied by the writer's definition of whot constitntes commercial importance,” Bonton attention may e directed to a fow instances which will show the claim to be rather modest than preposterous. Chicago is the greatest grain-market in the world, no other city having evor liandled in any given timesolargo anamountof breadstuffs, Chicago is tho grentest beof and pork packing city in the world, it having of late years acquired the trade that formerly mnde Cincinnati con- spicuous; we believa that ona Chicago firm now packs ns many hogs s all Cincinnati. Chiengo is the greatest iumbor market in the world, and the natural ontlet for the chiof sources of the lnmber supply in the conntry. Chicaggo is second only to Pittsburg in its manufactures of iron and steel ; it is second only to Boston in the manufacture of Loots and shoos and leather goods; it surpnsses New York, and, so far ns known, every other city in the world, in the manufacture oY clothing. It hasthree dry-goods houses that are second only to a single hounse in New York. It is to Lo noticed that we havo selected particularly those branches of trade ond commerce upon which the life and well. being of mankind depends,~—the food that men live on, tho clothes they wear, the implementa and tools they employ. Chicngo to.lay haa a storage capacity for grain not nearly equaled by that of any other city on enrth, and stock-yards, abatfoirs, packing- houses, and appliances for handling and cur- ing meats boyond every other city, It ia the chief city of the Amorican lakes, and the contro of the carrying trado of the country; it {4 tho terminus of 10,000 miles of railway, and is more directly connccted with tho en- tire rollway system of America, embracing 70,000 miles, than any other point. 'Thereis no other city whers tho samo amount of power, whether physical or mechanieal, pro- duces so much result,—afact partly attributs. ble to the level plain on which the city is lo- cnted, and partly to the most advanced appli- ances of machinery, We know of no statis- tics of otlier cities made up with sufficient detail and care to enable comparison s to tho bulk of the business transacted, but the grand total of Chiecago's business for 1876 wes 652,000,000 for 1875, §658,500,000; and for 1874, $639,000,000; and we venturo the nasertion that the City of New York nlone cau be mado legitimately to show a largor commorca, ‘Wo fancy that the Boston Advertiser wos musled into its doubting sneer by the misap- prohension that ** commercinl importance” in derived solely from the moneys handled by Lanking institntions, insurance compa. nics, privato eapitalists, and fiduciary agents, It will only need n moment's thought, and certainly no argument, to convinca it of the contrary. The business donoe by the goldsmiths in formor times does not fairly gange tho * commercial importance " of any community; it it did, the little City of Hartford might dispute even with Boston its relative commercial importance, though Hartford Is scarcely known in far-off coun. trics where Doston hins often been heard of and where Chicngo i8 a8 familiar as a house- hold word, Chicngo derives ite commereial importanco from the fact that it is the rocog- nizod centro of. the great Northwest, as Bos- ton derives its {mportance from being tho centre of tho smnll coteria of New England Statea; and, whetlier 05 an ontrapot of the world's supplies or as a factor in the stock of public sentiment, we think it was suiciently modest to class Chicago as the second city in the United States, Itisonlyn question of time'whon it shall be the firet in theco respocts. BHODDY AND S8NOBBERY. ‘The BexseTr-Mar duel, and the circum- stances which preceded and gave riso to it, strips off tho gilt, gingerbroad.-work, and voncering from whut we liave been nccus- tomed to regard na high-socioty life in New York, and reveals one of its heroes ns a very ordinary if not a very vulgar person. When tho news was bruited abroad that Mr, Bex. NeTT wos cngaged {o o young lady and would shortly be marriod, tho world outside Mr. Besyerr's charmed circlo—tho world which does not roll in shekels, play polo, sond ropresentatives to Africa, eutertaln prime doune, drive clogaut equipages, and live on nmbrosin aud nectar—looked forward with some degres of pleasure to the union of beauty with manliness and chivalry, It im- sgined that the engagoment had been pre- ceded Ly a courtship of chivalrous homage and knightly courtesy, and that tho union of the happy pair would be characterized Ly a display of taste and elogance in which every- thing that glistoned would be real gold, No oue suspected that beneath: all this glitter and glenm it was very tawdry and commonplace, and that the conduct of Mr, Brexserr was what might bave beon expected 1u the servants’ hall or the ares, in placo of the homnge aud devotion, marked by refine- ment aud delicacy, that beauty is accustomed to receive in her boudoir, If wo may credit the reports that come from the Max family, young Mr. BesNerr's favorite style of paying Lis addresses to bis affanced was that of furious intoxication, nnd that while in this condition e doveloped such demonstrative yroofs of affection as kickiug the furniture over, upsetting vases, smashing mirrors, and otherwiso cowporting himsel? like a Texan Lullon the rampage in a chinashop. 1Mis chaste salutation of Liis affianced consisted in slapping her faco. When the prospective mother-in-law very naturally obfected to the breakage of her furniture and brica-brae, wven by u New York Herald proprictor, this gollant knight gave her o piece of his mihd in langusge more cumphatic than elegant. Upon such oc- casions it became the duty of the elder May to take this extraordinary Adonis, whoso ardor could only find vent in the destruc- tion of such material objects as lay in hia way, aud the threatencd demolition of a possible mother-in-law, and bounce him out of doors, with the injunction not to return, Upon such occasious it appeans it was the babit of this elegaut Tosm Dirran to find his #yay to the basoment window through which bis afflanced wos accustomed to admit him, very much in the style that Masra Jane, the cook, admits her peripatetic lover, Joux Tuoxas, who has to do his wooing on the sly, and who would prefer to cowe through a window as being more dramatio as well as convenient, than coming through the doar and srousing the family, who might object to his nocturnal visitations. After perform- ing such remarkable fents of affection as wo have described, it {s not wonderfal that he should be fonnd at times in the open mar. ket offering n hundred thonsand dollars to any ono who would * take the girl off his hands." In course of lime, Mr. BENNETT's eccen- tricities lend to hin castigation at tho handa of the indignant brother of his affianced up- on the public highway. In this affairas in all previous affairs the sham is stripped off again. Mr. Bexxserr, having given the world to understand on several occasions that he was an athlete and an indulger in various athletic sports, allows himselftobo punished, Inshed over the face and hurled inlo a snow- bank, without uttering even & word of pro- test. Thon comes tho duel, which appears to be as much of a sham as all the rest,—so0 much of & sham that no one yet can make affidavit where it was fought, who fought it, which one was hit, or whether any one wns Lit. Thero is only one certainty nbont the affair. If there was a ducl and neither one was hit, thore probably were never before two such delighted men as the combatants upon making the discovery. There is a pitiable sido to this farce, however, aud that is the nmotoriety which the young lady, who in every circumstanco of this affair has Loen a lady, has had o suller through the ill-advised action of Mr. Max and the outrageons conduct of Mr, Bexverr, It would ba a fitting punishment for the parties to this duel if their offense against the public peace wero followed by their con- finement in the Penitentiary. Such a pun- ishment would tend to vulgarizo ducling and ‘make cheap chivalry and mock honora laugh. ing-stock and byword, as they deserve to be, Aftor the conduct of Mr, BesNetr in the premises, there could bo no special hurt to his honor, and that he should assume there wos such i3 the biggest sham of all in this affair of shoddy and snobbery. Bines writing 'the above, a dispatch hns been received from Baltimore that Mar was wounded in the thigh, and that the injury ia no severo that a fatal result may ensue. Bhonld snch be the case, then Ar, Bexnerr iasimply guilty of murder, however {he code or the law may regard it, and in the estima- tion of all fair-minded people he will be re. garded as o murderer. It is sincercly to o hoped, however, that thare i3 no fonndation for this roport, a3 most people would rather rogard BenNET? ns o shom thun as a felon. WATTERSON ON THE WAR-PATH. Bince Mr. Henny WarTERsoN was sent to Congress to fill out a vory brief term in n sent vacated Dby death, ho has discovered n refharkable aptitude for making one sect of ideas do at least double duty. Ie imbues the dull Congressional understanding of his collengues with hia superior political wisdom ovor the usual beverage of “cold tea” sm served in the Congressional restaurant; he assists Diox Mernick in arousing Democratio enthusiasm at o mass-meeting nfter on in- spiriting dinner at Wercxen's; and he in- dites editorial correspondence over braady- ond-water lato in the night, which startles the Kentucky constituoncy in double-leadod typo when it reaches home. 3Mr, Warren. soy mokes just ono refrain go around smong &ll thers manifold wuses; tho double-loaded letter, the screeching stump. specch, and the insidious whisporings of Congressional confidences aro all to the effect that wo must have TupeN or war The alternative is certaluly not a pleasant one, but Mr, WarrersoN turns it over in so many different shopes, and harps upon it with such ‘*damnable iteration,” that it would be unreasonable in tho people whom Lo reaches, oither as Congressman, ha- ranguer, or oditor, to discrodit it. With Mr, Warrenson's koen editorinl scent for news, ha lhas *scooped™ his brother journalists of Louisvillo, to spenk in the technology of the craft, by exposing the conspiracy to defeat the,inauguration of Tiroex, and ovon publishes the names of the conspirators. ‘The Prosident, tho Becretary of the Interlor, tho Socrutary of War, Scune tors Montox and Smersay, and the Gene. eral of the Army, comprige the list, These areall; we have Warrenson's word for it, and he knows. Hares, he tells us, is o mero incident, and Loaax and Tarr simple tools, It would have been more satisfactory, per- haps, it Mr, Warreason had told us some of the detalls of this drendful conupivacy,— where aud whon it was hatched, how it pro- poses to proceed, which one of tha arch vil- Iains ia to be set up as Chief Bulldozer, and espacially whether the music was selected from ‘*La Grando Duchesso " or * La Fille do Mmo, Angot.” Dut herein Mr, WatTER. #oN’s nowspaper instinct agaln awterts itself, Knowing that he is possessed of exclusive ‘information sbout the matter, he shrewdly withholds n part of his possession, aud pro- posos to dolo it out after the fashion of a continued story in the Ledger, The infutu- ated readers of the Courier-Journal will look for the next inatallment with all the cager- ness characteristio of an absorbing interest in an uncompleted work of fiction, Mr. Warzensox s not conteut with the accumulated dutios nnd distinctions of Con- gressman, oditor, stump-speaker, bon vivant, and famous gossip which he has recently acquired; but he also desires tobuckle on hix armor and lead 10,000 sous of Kentucky to battlefor Tipry, After declaring tho position of the Democrats to be that the House of Representatives lLas authority to roject the vota of any State, ho adds: ** On it the Demooratic party plauts itself, and moaus to stand until it iy driven off at the point of the bayonet.” Wo can see the gal- lant figure of Warrersow already mounted on the ramparts, with a copy of the Courier~Journal fuvorite rosource in the other, refusing to budge under the shell and ball of the con. spirators, and bravely inslsting upon being taken on the poiut of s boyonet aud carried around & warning to all ambitious young editors who would rather go to Cougress than stay ot home and do their honest work, Of course, so prolific a person as Mr, War- Tewson has his remedy, but we are sorry to say that it strikes us as worso than the disesse. In onler to avert civil war, Alr., ‘WatTzrsoN wauts 100,000 Democrats to as- somble in Washington on the 14th of Febry. ary when the votes are to be counted. This seems to be on the theory that the proper way to extinguish a fire s to pile on the fuel. Mr. WarrezsoN does not say whether he wauts the 100,000 Democrats to come to Washington armed cap-a-pis, but he adds very signifi- cantly that, if they come, *‘ the conspirators will be thwarted.” Weshouald gay that some. body would be worse then thwarted if 100,. 000 Democrats were turned loose in almost apy comumunity, Mr, Warreaso¥ wants them to come as petitioners. We presume that would serve as well as any other pretext for gathering them together, and the infer. ence iy that Mr. WarTzasox will be on hand 10 take suprems command, fgr which Lisserv. ices in the Confederate srmy give him the necedsary experience and aplomd, We will in one hand and his’ not follow out the harrowing consequonces, but dismiss the sad sobject with a lament that so young, virluous, aud affable an editor should have been betrayed by 8o Lrief & Con- gressional experienco into so perilous an am- bition, A ONE-SIDED INVESTIGATION. Reports from all gources go to show that the investigation conducted by Biru Mor. mson's Committee in Louisiana has beon 80 culirely partisan in ita character as to muke it unworthy of credence by any fair- minded person, From the very manner in which it has been condueted the report must of necessity be an ez parls slatemont. The Committes has held its investigation in the presenco of a room full of bulldozers, whom the colored witnesses havo had to faco when delivering their testimony, Evidence hns been garbled or suppressed. Important wit. nesscd liave not been summoned, and othern have boen induced to stay away. The bull- dozers have beon whitewashed for the sake of the voten which the bulldozers atole. In tho Parislt of Monroe, where n Sub-Commit- tee was sitting, the hall, over a whisky-shop, was packed with bulldozers, not a Tepnb- lican bLeing present. Under these circum. stances, negroes were nfrald to testify, and Mr, Craro, of Massachusetls, moved that the Ropublican witnesses relative to nffairs in that parish be examined in New Orleans, where they would not be in- timidated, but the motion was voted down! Democratie testimony hns been magnified and Republican testimony distorted. The minority has not been furnished with n list of witnesses to be summoned Ly the min- Jority, and hins been suubbed upon every oc. cnsfon, and its witnesses crowded out 8o s toget a one-sided nccount, Undor such cir. cumstances ad these, it is manifestly absurd to expect auything from Mornisox's Com- mittea but a onesided, ex parte, and meanly partisan report, which, we may say, will not have the respect of any candid Democrat, and will be treated with contempt by every Rtepullican in the country, The Sen- ate Committee, on , the other hand, has heard its testimony with jndicial impartinlity. It hins notified avd snmmoned witnesses on both sides, and afforded the minority the most smple opportunities for bringing out its evidence, 'The hearing has been conducted fn o eaudill and falr manner, and the Democratic mombers of the Com. mittea have bind just as fair n show ns the Republican. Sonators might differ as to the valna of the testinony, but they have mot on'that account magnified, suppressed, and songstionalized testimony, nor cheated each other. They have comported themseclves with the diguity and impartiality of o bonch of Judges, aud their report will be looked for with interest by the people of tho whole conntry, while tho report of the House Committeo will not bs worlh the pa- per upon which it is written, In the dircction and manngement of this com- mittee-work Mr. Monnwsox’ has shown himself to be a moro partisan, working in the meancst mnnner for partisan ends, in- stoad of seeking to ascertain in an Lonest manner whother tho elaction 1 Louisiana ‘was fair'y conducted. is conduct is paral- lot with that which hoe oxhibited a yenr ago, when he suppressed his military record, in his sketch for the Congressional Directory, for foar of offending these very bulldozors and tho Brigadiers of tho Bouthern Confed- oracy. Weo onnnot oxpect to find his inter- ests or his sympathics enlisted upon the eide of the North, but it does not afford any rea- son why he should be supaerserviceable in the intercats of the South, and contemptlibly and mennly partisan in a matter of such im. portauce ay this juvestigation, upon which such vital interesta are hanging. ————— There {s a newspaper fu Washington called the Hepublican, which considers Itself the Court Gazette. 1ts wotto {8, **Crook the pregnant hinges of the kneea that thrift may follow fawn- ing.” For four years past it has been the lNek- spittle of the White House. It wasa third. termer upon caleulation that such avowal would flatter the vanity of the occupant. The editor las just lost his oftice,—Commnissioner of Vo~ Mee,~Congress having unanimously abolished tha ofllze on account of Its carruption and “lay- ing in" with the gumblers, who ** whacked up with Its members. This source of revenue be- Ing cut off, the Republicun gocs in again for a third term thusly: \\'cleeltlnulprln;flnr“{-Jllpnuudlu]nn’ktnwnn\u a new election to he hield in November of this year, Amung these are 1o be founda fow Republicas, whose proclivities aro eminently In the direction of peace at all hazards, let the purty and the coun- try go where they may. In order to accomplish nch an obleet it proposed 1o postpone the connt, npan the vretest of debatingin Congross such ques~ tioneau may arlee, and st noon on the 41 of March next ind o vicancy in the Presddency, and Nave it glled by the Prealident of the Senote in due courve, Phe prerent anemberd of the Cabinet can hold over, with the exception of the Postmnster- Ueneral, and all will go Jovely. The party forces of the countey can then be put in battlo array once inore, and pracced to clecta President for the un- explieed term. [lowever, shonld this be the cons dltion of affairs by somu singular mlschance, the question anli sour arlse, Wio shall bo the cidi- dato of the respective purtiea? Of course 3fr. TiLney and his ** bar'ls of inoney,* sud his prize- fighting Jonx, and his gentlemanly legal adviner ‘Coxon, wili by on hand, Wa may safely calcu. late, ulaw, that Ilexviicks and hils Indisns voters from Kentucky will be iu for it ogain. Hut what of §tif lepublicans, the fricnds of HAYEN and of all uther gentlemen prominently named. ehould canclude to have no fooling with " the Democrucy, and proced 10 nominute thy - wllent mun of ho ‘White Iouse? Afteran Intorreguum of a vearthy pevplo can ugain chonde ticn, Laxe, If they so desfre, merely (o fill s vacaucy of threc years,” In 1his course of proceedings the cry of Cwsaclan will be unavaillngly nttered. No vie need object to (hie uxcept the Democracy, Gen. GUANT I8 & exfo man, and we all knaw it~ Jle would be clected by an uverwhelming majority beyond peradventuru, e e — Ex-Gov, I1. 8. Footx, of Mlsslssippl, & very ablo constitutionnl Inwyer, has addressed au open letter to Representative Layan on the powers of Congress in counting the Electorul vote, We make an extract therefrom: ‘That,on the pretest of counting voles tho certin« cates of which are opened by the Presddent of the Senate, Congress can, in any mode, ¥o behind tho face of thero certificafcs, and procced to louk fnty all the facts connceted with tho Presidential elec- tion with a view to the detectlon of nlleged frauds in mald uppolntment of Electors by the States or lr- regularities of soma kind, and that, iu addition 10 thla. either the Senato and the Houso of Hepre- sentatives confulntly, or either of thein, can the at their divcrction, invalidate and sct anide a art of the votes thus certltied, and canve others to e substituted 1 thelr place, 7 empaatically deny; and moreaver contend that such action wonld not ouly bave no suthority under the Conatitution, but would be a kruss and palpublo vislation of that in- strument, a daring'und unpardopsble wsnrpation, whicl, it submitted to, would inevitably work 8 compiete revolution inour form of Governmegt, M elther House of Congress, by culling I question of decllning (o approve the Electoral votg of a iy deprive it of validity, and this_terriblo cews may be repeated as often av elther Houso deelre, thewan ctectlon of Preeident by the people of Ulése Stntes ¢ indeed become the lierest ) ockery that lias cver yet been enacted smong seuatble and elvilized people, He expresses the opivlon that *3ir, Haves will by reeognized us baving recelvod n ma- Jority of the Electoral votes,and be inaugurated 48 Prestdent,” and, after warmly commeuding what ho kuows of his character, says: T may be b errarabout this maiter, butl do verl- 1y believe: that at this woment o bright and golden ghrortumty s efiered to the poopl of our iauck- loved section by the election of Mr. HAYEs to the Presldeucy, of yestoring themselves to the cont- deue of thele tellow-clilzens elsewhere, of vindl- catinz ihelr own charicter for loyalty'and bigh- toued otfsm, und of posscesing themselyves of 8l the biessings Which waiton wise snd and Just administr i, the eradleation of all unrcusona- Ule prejudic d the practice of ail the dutles of ordeér-sespoets aud law-abiding clilzens. ————— An exchango saya: * Tao following from tho Inter-Uceun 1s more than usually jnteresting and fustructive,”8ud theu proceeds ¢o ¢ive & num- ber of figures sud statcments of fuct relating to the trade, commerce, and tnsnufactures of Chi- c830, !l of which appeared 1o Tus THIDUNS the day before they were pubiished In the £.-0. Al those which svere not obtained from the Board of Trade and the Unlon Stock-Yards were gath- ered by us, Al the statlstles of wholesale trade and maoufactures for tho year 1870 were the work of T Triounz exclusively, and the grand swnmary of the year’s buainess, which has been su coolly appropriated by the 1.0, the Chicngo Jouy nal, und many other pupers. is now credited to sume ono or other of them In- differently, beeause they had the cheek to use the figitres ns their own. One of the papers referred to had the effrontery to charge us with error, but falthfully copled all our errars (i any there were) witliout correetion. ————— The * wah " still continucs to rage fn Porkop- olls between the Enguirer and Commeredal, and it almost looks as If *“goah " would come soot. Each fires shout fifty shells s day, of which the following are averago specimens: : Feom the Engulrer. "Tiso heavy HarsTesb suflers no loas of abdomen, Tis braine have slowly eettted into his, stomach, and_fmparted a genial Diolizity to compaacd by the waistband. fut it Im works look haggard, It {e the sp: escence which abounds in the Engxirer ofice that produces paln and anguish In_the bosom of the theumy-eyed Hugienot of the Commercial, Frum (Ae Commercial, 1f any of the able editors in remote parts of the country pause over the columns of the Cincinnati Fnquirer in sstonishment at the exuberance of the mire and dirt cast up, we beg them not 1o wonder overmuch, The proprietor of tho delectable sheet 1s in favor of Economy and Reform, and Isbored with such enthnsiasn In the campaign that he ls atanding on slippery rocks while fery billows roll beneath, In cther ivords, has good reason to helieve that he will be [udicted before long for u penitentlary offe; —— Bpeaking of the publication of Goy. CuLLom's inaugural Lefore its dellvery, the Peorla Tran- acript saya: : To thelr hanor be it sald the country journale kept their word and did not Euhlhh tle message fn advance. Notrothe grent Chicuzo dallier. Though everyone of them contained the nnnouncement thiat Uie message would not b sent in until yestor- day, cvery one of tuem contalned the mesisge In full yesterday mornlug. ‘They practlc.lly stoly, :'ndscerllnlnly“cd. 10 obuain ‘it, ‘Two years ago ic § Louls Globe played thid tishonest trick, and there wera none su fierce $n dennncls fraud a8 theso virtuous Chicago joar: they will have nothing to say nbout it, The editor of the Transcript well knew he lied when he wrote tho above. The only paper in Chicago that broke falth with the Governor was the Times. Nelther Tnr ‘IRinuxg, Inter. Ocean, nor the Staats-Zeltung printed the message in advance of its delivery nor fo vlolativn of the vromise, and the Transcript was well aware of the fact when it perpetrated its falschood. —————— The New York ZHerald's Washington man percefves several things in the dim distance, which hic outlines by twillght or such other light as lie has,—dark-lautern Jight perbapa: The project to hold a new election Aecms to die asway. - Itnever had many friends, but found most favor among the Democrats, who lave no douht that they wonld carry the country In such a cave by an overwhelming majority, 1t fe not probable tist ofther alde would retain the preaen ndl- dates, ‘Tlhe Democruts would want snmo other man than Mr. TiLoX, and would probably take nome man like Gen. PaLszn, of Xfilnoll. whose nome hins been mentioned. The Hepublicans would undoubtedly drop Mr. TIAYEs, and there hay becn floating around for some days & curlous sug- gestion that, If no choice 18 made and A new elec- tion should be ordered, the Senate would clect Mr, BrAINK Presldent pro fem, and the Adminlsteation alling into his hands in such a casq, on_the 4th of March they weuld nominate him as the Republican candldate. 1t {a assorted by pereons often well ine formed that Ar. BLaixe, who was sald 1o be op. poued to the pians of Messrs, CiraNvLER, CAX~ xnoN, and Mouroy two wecks ago, has been won owr, and will be found on thelr sldo when Lo re- turns to Washington, * e c— ‘The Tuterior of the current week, commenting upon the relations of the dally presa of this city tothe MooDr movement, hias discovered that the sceret of Tie Tinune's liking for it *lics in the moral qualities which are hrought out so strongly In the lives and preaching of the evane gellsts. ‘The call fora ‘revival of honesty’ os agatust ‘a revival of dogma,’ for which that pa- per was calling so vigorously some tlnc ngo, has been fully met, and 1t s bappy. We ure rejolced that the Jnferior has discovered this 1nuch, but we are, on the other hand, pained to sce that the Juterfor thinks Mr. Moobr's preaching §s based upon dogma. There Is about as much dogma in Brother Mooy as there Is In the London Punch, sand if Brother Moopy had had to depend upon the dogmatic Interior for belp fnstead of the undogmatie dailv papers, hie would stifl iave been looking for sinners and wondering why they atald away from the Taber- nacle. T The Indianapolls Journal, speaking of the “TiLpex or Fight " 8th of January Conveu- tion, draws an unflattering countrast betwecu TILDEN and JACKSON, 1t says: Jacxsox was binff and hearty, open and above honrd in a1l his tragyactions; T1iLXN s sly, sneak. ing, singoun, and clrcultous. ‘JacgaoX pueued Tilw'ends by the most direct means; 'T1LDEX loves indirection above nil things, Jacksox scorned to take a mean advaniago an en m{ Or AD Op- ponent; TiLDEN lak cver shown & willlngness Lo descend to auy meanneas and to wvall hisitcif of nny technicality to carry his poluts, JacksoN was & 1ian of 1ofty hersonal honor; TILOEN it b profes- sfonal corruptioniat. ~Every fault that Jacksox had {« multiplied In Trnoex, and for every virtue thatthe former possessed the lattcr substltutes o vico, 'The Democrats have succeeded reasonably well in making a_salat out of Jack: but they wilincver succeed with TILDEX, 1o 16 100 tough & subject. ——— The Jilinols State Reglster, ot Springfeld, **goes for™ Cyxeall McConxick. It says that he b two ‘*bar'la®™; Is bourding two dozon lienchmen; hasa regiment of barplos; and s the candidate of no party, and no ‘znrly wants him {n the United States Senate, Thissort of talk will naturally ox- clte the Calvinistic ire of the great Crnvs, —Lrens ing Journal, It the assertion of the Reglater 1 half true, McConymicr will get the Dewmocratic caucus nomination beyond doubt, as it was by preclse- 1y the means stated by the Kegister that TILDEN sccured his nominatton at St. Louls. Like causes produce like cffects, Whenever did o Democratic Convention or caucus, from TiLDEN to Hoxte, resist thescductive contents of a bar't of sound cash, or sour mash, for that matteri e —— Cardinal Patnizi, who dled In December last, was the fifth Cardinal who died in 1876, The other four were Cardinal TAnNocz, Archbishop of Salzburg; Cardinal Laretaa ¥ Cusstia, Archbishop of Beville; Cardinal Bankio Y Fzi. NANDLEZ, Archbishop of Valencla; and Cardfual ANTONELLI, Pontifical Seccretary of State. In all, 114 Cardinals have died during the Pontif- cate of P1us IX, The Culleke now numbers fity. —— This from the Cinclnnatl Commerelal con- tains a deleate allusion to **goah! In a certain contingeney: Jonxxy fmesning tho editor of the Cinclunati KEnaguirer] |s troubled about sncestral trees. Il bas Lls cost of urias, of course. Thereforo he suiles with compassion upon the people who sre not gifted in blopd. Never mind, Jounny, we will not bother your blood, unicas it o at the Rose, Tho Loulsville Commerelal pertinently re- marks that *the RANDALL factfon,which refused to admit the Represcntative from Colorade to Nile seat fo tho Housce, and which wants to fguors the exbitence of that State, loudly cowplalng that the Republican party wants to destroy Btate Uovernment.” - e Baye the St. Louis ¢.-1. paper: **A mass- meeting ought to bie held very soon tu protest agalnst tho *ususpation' of President Grant in removiug the storves fromn Batou Rouge Arseval. They would have NicuoLrs' militla.” Gov, Robigson, of N courmously-incresded endangering the whol The New York Graphic of the Otn Inst. has s very accurato and well-exccuted plctare reprosent - Ing toe scens of the rallroad disaster mear Ashis- buls, 0. - A gossi asserta, apparently withont fear of con- tradiction, that Ueorge Ellot was s pupt) of Her- bert Spencer, who thirty yeors ago ssged beris marrluge. As 500u a3 his health will permit, Cardinal Me- Closkey will £o to Rome for the purpose of obtalu- ing 8 bull fur tho cousecration of a Coadjutur Blshop uf Now York. Mr, Samuel Bowles does not remember ever bavingeastigated Presidont ,Urant for sppolntivg bls sou 88 his private sccretary; snd he says If be Bpringduld Sepublican bas sver done auythingof tbe kind it oughtto be ashamed of itself. Thlals 8 goed, Lessty confesslon, but it dashes one's coar that the f our public schiools fe m. S PRI