Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 17, 1877, Page 4

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Every Reprosentative wns A shade firmer, closing at 60@C0ic [ and Senator admitted to Congress cash, 00jc meller February, and Glo relles | has thenceforth the right to retain March. Hogs weroin light mpyply and prices | the office until the body of which were firm, at 26.10@7.00, Cattlo and sheep were quiet and withont important change. | Chicago clevators on Saturday evening last contained 3,511,911 bu of wheat, 1,646,538 bn of corn, 641,080 bu of ants, 216,661 bu of rye; 1,103,608 bu of barley, 'Total, 7,160, he is 2 member shell afirmatively decide that he was nol efected, ‘Po assume that o motion that a prper whieh under the law was admisaiblo by right sball bo rejected or -not received, is not an afiirmative motion, 1, 0. L. BA! 2, ASSUCIATI 23, EDITOI-IN MA 1 CELDOWNEY {1 Offices (n the Bufldlng to reat by W. C. DOW. 00! Room &, AMUS New Chicngo Theatre, Clark etreet. between Lake aud Tiandolph, Stmmons =g Stocum's Minsirels, Alletnoon und evening. Baveriy'a Thentre, Randolph strect, between Ulark and Lasaile, Dalya FUtu Avcaue Compmny. . “Afternoon sod eveniog. Adelphl Theatre, Monroe strect. carner_Dearborn, Burlewqre Troupe, ** Venst Lynne,” aace. Aftersovn sod even Hollin Howard's Varlety perform- Mc¥icker's ’l‘;wnl‘re- & i Madison street. between Dearhom and State, Eogagement of John ScCullouzh, **The Gladiator.™ Academy of Music. Fialsted street, betwean Madisan snd i fonroe, ety entertainuient, Afternoun and cveniog. SRy H Va SOCIETY M ST. BERNARD COMMAND) Btated Conciave tils {Welir weluck.” Hudines uf import mNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1877, s Greounncks at the New York Sold Ex- change yesterday closed at Mesars, Frrny of Michigan, % ixnox of innesots, and Braise of Maine, were yes- terday elected United States Senators fora term of slx years beginuning with the 4th of March, 1877, Tho Nanroska Legislature has entered upon the tash of choosing the suc- cessor of Banator Hitencock, with every iu. dicatfon of a vigorous confest before the election i ancomplished, 3r. Moopy bado ndien last evening to his thonsands of frieuds in Chicago, saying 1aeny, plessant (hings of the cordinl en. couragement and assistance in his work re. ceived from tho presy snd tho people. ITe takes with hiin to his new fleld ofglabor in ‘Boston the prayers and good wislies of the ‘whole Northwest, and ho leaves behind him evidences of Iis wonderful zeal and useful. ness as an evangelist that will keep his men- ory fresh in tho hearts of thoe Cliristian com. manity, ———— i ‘Itis quito confidently predicted in the ‘Washington dispatches that the Joint Cowe mittee on the Electoral «question will suc- ceed in nrriving at & jointly eatisfuctory sgrecment, and it is intimated that the Lasis | of adjnstment will embody meothods nnd aneasurcs for tho counting of the vote and tho declaration of the result that have not hitherto been publicly discussed. ‘Flie two Committees are expected to finish their labors nnd present their reports to.duy or to-morrow, Mr, 8nrEyay, of Ohlo, yestendny gave no- tice of his intention to submit us n substitute for the Bilver bill passcd by the Houso n bill suthorizing the coinage of the silver dollar of tho weight of 412} grainy, this coin to be Tegal-tonder to the smine extent und for the same purposo wi greenbacks, and to be issnod for the redemption of greenbneks, which shall thereupon be canceled aud mude u part of thoe sinking.fund now provided Ly law. Yrow the brief outling of Mr. Surnwas's * bl given in tho Congressional report it ap- pears that the mensure s an improvement upon tho House bill in that it contenplates 1he rederuption of all greenbucky presented 3n full, honest silver dollers; but the limita. tion of the legul-tender quality of (he new coinage {4 not an improvement, but rather a d:triment to thio Lill, The House has got its blood up on the subject of contminacy aud contempt, snd is preparing for n genersl crusade ngainst all the persons who have falled to respond ina satisfactory manner to the arbitrery dewands of the partisan mojority. ‘I'he membary of the Louisiana Returning Bourd, who refused to swrender to Monumwoxs Committeo the oylginal election relurns, are next to be dealt with, Messrs, WELLs and Anpuesow, who are now on their way to Wushington, will ¥robably be arrested upon their mrival and placed in the custody of the lfouse. For once the doctrine of Btate Kovercignty is ignored by the Democraty, who set revenge before constency, and aro determined to punish theso oficers of the State of Loulsi. ana, whatever becomes of tho fuvorite dograa of Blate's rights * The Chicogo produce markets wero sgain ‘moderately active yesterdsy, and prices were ‘without important chauge except on wheat. Meas pork closed 6G103 lower, closing at $17.20@17.25 cash and $17.45 seller Feb- zuary, Lard closed at 6o decline, at $10,90@- 10,05 cash, aod #£11.05 seller February. Meats were quiet, &t 6]@65c for shoulders, boxed, 8jc for shortribs, Y¢ for short-clears. Highwines stoady, at $1.07 per gallon. Flour way ateady and finn, Wheut wasactive, and cloved wt 13c Jower, ot $1.20i@1L29} cash gud 31.£0}@ 1.30] for February, Corn was jo lower, closing at 43]@44e cash and 44}@44jo seller February. Oats were fozer, closing ‘at 35jo cash and 85j0 for 098 bu, against 4,217,322 buy £106.62) in greenbacks at the close. The wisdowmn and d»;;re!lon shown by Gen. Avoun in the discharge of his delicate and difSenlt duties as Commander of the United States troops at New Orleans cannot be too lighly commended, Ilis nim has been to prevent disorder and bicodshed, and at the same time to preserve as far as the circum. stances wonld admit o strict neutrality as be- tween tho contending parties, When called upon by Gov. Packanp for nssistance in the onforcemnent of tho Iatter's proclamation, Gen. Avaun declined to tako sides in the meoner desired, believing that such o conrse was not in accordanco with the President's instmctions. 1o received yesterdny from the President the ssnrance by telegraph that this nnderstanding of his instructions is cor. rect, and that the forces under his command wero not to bo used oxcopt to prevent a brench of the public pence by either of the opposing politieal parties On the nppointed day for beginning the work of choosing a United Stntes Seantor, the two THouses of the General Arsembly pro- cecded to business, Only one vote wastaken in each House, resuiting ns follows : NATE. Necearary to a cholee, Gen. John A, Lozan Wiillam Anderson E, 5. Was<hburne, Biank. . HOUSES Necerrary toa cholcn... Gen. John A, Loxan, Gen. John M, Palmel Judge David Davis, Wiillaw Lathrop. . Isent.,y e In the Tonse, Mr. LooN received the pre- ciso number neconsary toa cholee. Further ‘ballotingmust be transferred to the joiut ses- sions of the two 1louscs. If thero bano absen- tees, it will require 103 voles to clect n Senae tor. Loaay has developed n strongth of 97 votes, with ono Republicnn absentee, which will make hin: Y8, or five votes short of nn clection. Scnator Brenten voted for Wasn- ponsE, and LRlepresentative Eastox for La- TrREOr, who issound on Civil-Service Reform, Laryen fell below the vote wo supposed be would receive. Why such dyed-in-the-wool partisans as Fraxtz and Josis did not vots for hin, is & puzelo to Lo deciphered hero. nfter. When lo develops his whole streugtl, wo think Lo will reach 96 votcs, aud after thnt recedo into the background, Thie mun that Loasaxy has most to fearis Judge Daves, unleas tho Paraten vote shonld goover olid to Birn Avpensox, and the bogns Tlouse Independents should also voto for Axprusoy, which would make exactly 103 votes. It Mesers, Huses, Brruses, and Eastox support Looas, he would have 102, being just ono short of the prize, We strongly suspect t.at Judge Davis, however, wiay prove tho *dark horso” who will put Loaas Lo bis mettle on the home-stretch of the final dosh, We can't believe the Demo- crats will be transferred to JUDGE CATON ON THE COUNT. Judge J. D, Carox, of this State, Lias beon moved to coutribute his quotn to the hiter- ature of Presiduntinl eleetions {n a four-col- umn pavngraph, 'I'nivuxe of the argument of Judge Wesr, of Olio, furnished tho occasion for Judge €C'atoy to reply through the columna of the Clicago Zimer. In the paper of Judge Catoy occurs tho following assertion of the present Democratic argument, given more clearly and intelliyibly than is generally the cnso with those who have writlen on that sida: Culform practice haa declded that the two bodfes shall act aepurately In the decision of cvery quess tion which inay arlse. Nothing ean be done, then, no alirmative actlon can teke place, withont the conenrrent and afiirmntive petfon. clther cxpreseed or fmplied, of both Lodics, To aecertuln and de- termine that & voto s gennine, that it fs by a duly qualitied ond duly appointed Elector, and s for n duly qualiiled person, —in fine, that it In a vote ene titled to be counted, J¢ cn amemative act, and, from the very necevity of the easr, requires the conenrrent act of bot Houses, Weomay consider it a unlversal parlismentary law that whese no rule exlats declaring otherwlse, that where the vote s equul the atirnative 1< loer, This must be #0 11l pome oue can Invent a ruls by which one cqual half Iv greater than the other cqual half, Kee waetiber, the question eannot be whether u partlens Tar vote shall be refected il ¢ s fiest been nde mitted, When It ian once been deelared & proper and competent vote by the afifrmative actlon of the two Houses, then It haw nequired a lezal standing befors the canvassers, sud cannot ward be rejected without a hke airmative vote, When no quedtion i rrixed mhont 3 vote, s acceptance fs {mplied by the stleace of the two Moune, the vote When opened In hauded o the telle aut abjectlon, but, when abjectiou I ralwed, no sach assent In hnplivd, and it requires formal und afizmativa action of the two Houses Lefore the vote can v countea. Considering that Judge Catox is o Demo- crat and u lawyer, less ean Lo purdoned in him than in theso whoso couversion to “State Rights" Is of n reeent date, 'The dudge must kuow that the right of n State to uppoint Presidentinl Tlectors, aud the right of thoso Elcctors to vote on the day and in tho manner desiguated, are not rights resting on the will or cuprica of ane or nther braneli of Congress, but ure plainly sud clemdy weritten on the face of the Canstitu- 'That same Constitution provides that, having voted, the Electors shall seal up (he record of their action properly certified, trausmit it to the Tresident of the Henate, who sball keep tho same until the day fixed by law, when ho shall open the certificate, which *alall then be counted,” 'The right of the to vote, aud of tho State to huvo the votes of its Electors counted, "The question is not and cannot be, ** Shall the tion, the Htate to sppoint Electors lectors, of is fixed iu the Constitation. Electoral vote of the Htate of Tilinois be ud witted 7 becauso the right of the State to have its voto admitted is settled by the su. Tha question of ad. mitting the vote 13 aiready ofirmatively set- When the President of the preme law of tho land, tled by law, Senate opeus the certificato of the votw of tho Ttectors of the Htate of linois, properly attested, that cortiticate s of right adwit- ted. On its faco it beara the authority of the National Constitution, declaring thv ex- clusive suthority of the State of Iinois to appoint Elcctons, and of the authiority of the Electors to vote, and of the State sud of the The vote must be counted, 43 a matter of course, un. nation to have that vote connted. bu same period Inst year. One hundred dollars in gold wonld The publication in Tar will hardly be insisted upon by Jndge Catox. 1t Judge Catoy will overhaul the Ten Com- mandinents, ha will flud a number of very emphatic afirmative propositions put inn negative form. For instance, * Thou shalt not stenl,” is an afilrmative proposition, which can lhordly gain additionnl force by changing it to read ** Thon shalt be honest.” According to Judge Caroy, the Lnwgiver on Mount Sinai did not understand parliaments ary Iaw, nnd erroncously put the negative inslead of tho nffirmative side of every ques. tion, The right of the State to hinve its Electoral vote counted is ono of the rights not only reserved but guaranteed by the National Con. stitution to the States. For a Democrat of Judge Catox's nge and standing to interposo sud ineiat that a bare majority of the single Houso of Ropresentatives can veto or refuse to “admit” the Electoral voto of Iliinois to Ve counted for Hares and WneeLnn, and de. clars that the vote shall be given by n majority of the Representatives of the Siate for Tiwory, ia placing himself much lower in the rchool of Stato Rights than were Trumnorn, and Fanxswontn, and Jvnias when they wero leaders in Republieanism, ond supposed to favor centralization, 1f Judge Caton will look over his essny on allrmative action, he will diacover thata constitutional right necds no afirmation ; it exiats nud must continue in forca uutil set aside, rejected, or declared not ta exiat, by affirmintive action of the body authorized to pass on the question. THE EUROPEAN CONFERENCE. ‘The news which comes day by day from tho Conforenco at Conatantivople is not very encournging to tho futurs prospects of the Christians in Turkey. It appears now as if the Turk wero rapidly becoming the master of the situation instead of Russin, and had outgencraled the delegntes of the Powers in regard to the concessions it wns expected Turkey would have to fnake, The Confer- onco mot and presented o calalogno of re- forms of the most sweeping character, which would have guaranteed the Christinus their polit.cal and religious liberty, The cuuning Turk offsots this with a paper Constitution that promiscs even mora than the Confer. ence had asked, Then tho Powers com. menced to reduce and soften th ir proposi- tions. The gondarmerie, the division of Bulgaria into two provinces, north and south of the Balkans, the International Commission, the esion of territory to Servia and Monte- negro, the autonomy of the provinces, the concession of n Christian administration when the Christians ave in a majority,—nll thewe points were abandoned, ona after the other, until tho only elaim left is the Com- niission of Supervision and appointment of Governors, and oven this has Leon so altered and wcs‘kcllcd that the Towers now propose that the appointment of CGiovernors of proy. inces be subjected to their approval only dur- ing the next five yeurs, and that, instend of an International Comuission, a mixed body, composed of Eurapeans and Turks, be estab. lishied. This s the ultimatum of the Pow- ors to Turkey, to which tho Porte must give anawer to-morrow, Tho Primo Miulster of the Porte has alrendy intimated his belief tuat it cannot bo grauted, but, even if it is, it will not iunterially change the condition of the Selaves, It does not require the Turk to make any reparation for the paat, nordocs it exact any gnaranteo for the fu. ture, "Tho Sclavie Christinn 13 still oxposed to persecution and plunder from the fanntleal Moslem., It {s more than probable, low- ever, that tho Torte, elated by its success in causing the Powers to velinquish all the other demands, will refuse this onoe also and then secure itg relinquishment. This is all the more probable rinve the lutest newn does not give intimotion that Ttus:ia is anzions for war, On the other haud, it would ap. pear that her preparatfons for war wero mero bluster and threat to seare Turkey, and that the Turk Losnot scared. A dny or two, however, must sufics to show whether Rus- sin nud tho other Powers aro in earnest,’or whether, after o yeor of talking, negotiating, and discussing, they will remand the Kelave to the tender mergics of the Turk, THE COMPROMISE PLAN, ‘Wo regard it as pretty certain that, whethier or not u mafority of the Joiut Connnitteo of Congreas on Counting the Ylectoral Voto shnll agreo npon a compromise, there will bo nn agreenont between a number of Domo- crnts and Republicanw, and that these gen- tlemen will bo amony the ablest amd most patriotic mewbers who havo kad the subject under cousideration, In that event, it ia equally certain that tho views of those who do agreo in anything like equal numbers will comuend themselves to the moderate men of the country who constitute the great major- ity of both parties, and that o popular preasure will be brought to Lear upon Con. gross in favor of their adoption that caunot well Le resisted, It s conceded that the situation is one demanding n compromise, which means n mutuul concession by bath parties- o the dispute, aud an agreemont upon vomo plan that will temporerily supply the defeet in the Constitution and laws, The representatives of cither party who stubboruly aud vidlently insist upon partisan advantage in such a controversy ara not entitled to the same confdence und re- spect 43 those who ara willing to meet upon some cowmon ground and mutually forego advautages for the common good, It s no. torlous that party feeling was higher in the House than in the Bennte during the present crials, which Is partly to be accounted for by tho reverslonary right of the Houss to chicoso & President in case of non-cloction, and " partly by the fact that tho uembors of the House aro subjected to the more immedinte influence of the politicians who seek to re- tain or those who seck to grasp the ofices at oll hazards, At the timethe Joint Committee was made up, it was a matter of conucon comment that Speaker ItaNparLL’s appoint- ments were wuch moro partisan in chare ovter than thoso of the Senate, and it may be that the Detnocratic House members of the Committee will defeat an agreement between a majority of the whole; but we re. peat that if three men like FuruiNcauysey, Epuesps, and CoNsLiNG on the part of the Republicans, and three others like Bavanp, TuvEMaN, aud Raxsow, can agree upou tho less it bo rejected. No motion that the vote of the Btate of Iinvis Le counted is in ordor or needed; the Constitution declures that it dhall be counted. ‘The ouly motion that can be wade is that the voto be rejected or not counted, ‘That is an stinuative proposition, and thet is just where Judgo CaTox's ex- plavation of parliswentary law be. justice of any given plan, that plan will pre. vail with the wass of the peoplo as against an obstinate adherence to party advanteges ou eitherside. , The latest of the plan said to bave been agreed upon by thoss who wre willing to adopt any compromise follows maloly the plan reported at firig, with an improvement in the composition cf the Arbitration Bonrd. It requires the yiolding for the occasion, at lenst, of the position of tho Repnblicans that the President of the Senate may count the vates, and likowise the abandonment of the Democratic position that tho [fouse of I p- resentatives alone can refect the vote of any State without the nsseut or concuirenca of the Benato. In lien of these it i provided that the President of the Senato shnll open the votes nnd deliver them to tellers ap- pointed by both Houses to be counted. In all cases where there is but one return from a State, any objection made to the connt thercof must be sustained by the concurrent action of both Honses ; otherwise it shall be counted, In cases where there are two sets of returns, the two Houses shall agree which shall Le counted, or in the failure to agree the disputed roturns shall Le referredto s Commission consisting of fivo Scnators, five Reprosentatives, and five Judges of the Supreme Conrt ; in sclecting the Supreme Court Judges six are tobe taken, presumably threo supposed to lean to one party and three to the other, and one is tobe dropped Ly lot, Finally*the decision of this Board must bo accepted and ratified by Congress unless both Houses agreo to rejeot it. ‘We think it will be scarcely possible to in- vent any plan for the settleniont of the dis- pute by Congress that will bo fairer to both parties or mors likely to give satisfaction to the conntry, Thero conld be no ngreement, prooably, upon a requirement that the con- currenco of both Houses is necessary to the rejection of a vote, aud let tho matter rest there; nnd certainly there could bo no agreement upon the obviously unfair plan that one Houso alone may refect a vote. Then it is necessary to ngreement, in the present crisis, to call in some arbitration outsido of Congress. No other body of men can be found fo far rewmoved from partisan influences as the Bupreme Court Judges; they are used to reviewing nud weighing evi- dence, they aro familiar with the meaning of thae Constitution which they are constantly construing, they hold their places for life, and constitute the highest judicial tribnnal in the nation. But tho plan even contenmi- plates n check npon their decision, inag. much ns any conclusion so palpably unfair 88 Lo receive the disapproval of both Houscs may be rejected, Thero is one more remark to be mada about the compromise proposition, If the above or any similarly fair plan be agreed upon by a respoctable number of Congress- men from both parties, the party that shall become responaible for rejecting it, aud leav- ing tho nation exposcd to the horrors of civil strife, will never achieve even the tem. porary success that it Is striving for. If tho Ttepublicans nccept it, and the Democrats cling obstinately to the rovolutionary schemo of giving the House absolute coutrol under tho guardiauship of the 100,000 Democrats to be called to Washington, Mr. TiLoey's faction will lose the sympathy of the great mass of Democrats throughout the laund, and not only will bo never be President, but there will be no Democratic President for many years to come, DARNLY'S DANGER. In auy Congressionnl tournament for the possassion of the fool's eap, one of our Chi- cago mwembers may bo depended on to carry off tho prize. Thus, when Mr. Warrrrsox strove to accumulate viciousness and folly in n degree that he thought could not be equal- od, by summoning 100,000 Democratie plug- uglies to Washington to hulldoze Congress, he ignored the presence of Mr. Benxanp Caverietp, formerly of Mr. Warrenson's Btate, but more recently of Bridgeport. Banxer could not sit guietly in his sent and permit snybody—not even the youthful and ‘erratie. WarTzRsox—to carry off the palm a5 the chatnpion simplaton of Congress, and 50 he brought fn his little bill. Warrensoy, who was in the War, thongh on the wrong side, wants to tight, nud proposen to start in with 100,000 rctainers on his slde; lnt Bagxey, who was always n non.combatant, insists, if there be any fighting, it shall bo on only one side, and therefore desires that the President shall ho prohibited from kecp- ing more (han 500 {nfuniry, ono company of envalry, and one battery of artillery (not ex- ceeding six guns, be it well observed) in the Diatrict of Columbin while Congress is in session, and that no part thercof shall ever be brought within half a mile of the Capitol. We think BanNer omitted one or two fmpor- tant provisions in his proposed bill. e onght to have inserted a clouse against the use of long-rauge canuon aud the cmploy- ment of expert riflo.shots; however, as the bill tailed, the omissions are not vital. Though we concede to Hanney his well. earncd distinction ns the champion of his kind in Congress, it i just possible thnt there way i meh of wicked ntent as of folly in hiy proposilion. Perhops Bamses said to himself that Warreisox's armuy of 100,000 bulldozers cught to have a fair show, s that their purposo of intimidating Coun- gress might misearry if any of the Govern. ment hirelings—the Guant Hesslons, so to speal—were on haud to interfers with their littte game, Ife thought that if ouly nnv troops wera nllowed in the cutire District, wero propurly distributed in various parts, andd not permitted to como within a half-milo of Cangress, the Democratic army of 100,000 under WarreesoN's leadersbip might be ablo to cwrry the Capitol Ly storm. We should thinklikely, Why, 500 infanty, one company of cavalry, and six guus of artillery (short runge) would be kept very busy In ovorcom. ing the valiaut and bloodthivsty Warrznson alone, while Lis 100,000 warriors with 100,000 bowie-knives and 200,000 revolvers would be afforded ample timn to imitate the famous King of Fraucs with 14,000 men, and muarch up Copitol bill snd then march down again, Fyen HBanscy, on mature reflection, must concede that tho arrangement §4 too one- sided., W desira it to bo distinctly understood that we have no sympathy with the evident purpose of the United States army to bull. doze Banxey en masse, It s athing not to bo thought of without violent indig. uation and spasms of revolt, Bag. Nex must Lo protected. e was oue of a good wmany Democratic Congress. 1wen who wero elected last Novomber to stay at home, and there fs a hope that ho may re. tun permanently to o more useful and cred- itable mode of life. Ho must not be ent dowu at the very threshold of a uew caroer as an emninent privato citizen, At the samo time, Bausey must not fusist upon the Dem- ocratio programmo of electing Mr., ‘Iteoex in the House, whether the Senate consents or not, because tuis would cnable Bazyry and the other Democratio members elected to stay at Liome to cact the vote of Republican Illinois for the Dewocralio candidate. Ilo must not jusist thut Warrewsox and bhis troop of 100,000 Democratic warriors shall aid tho House in thiy revolutionary project without the smallest resistance on the part of the Governmnent, And hLe must concede that the American soldier shall bave some foothold for a parnde.veat: for, if wo arc not mistaken, thers is also a Democratia bill to Keep roldiers out of all the States pending an election aud ita results, and if they are like wiso to be excluded from the District of Co- lumbia, whero are they to go? We aro will- ing—noy, anxions—tbat DBARNEY shall be hield sacred in his person from an attack by the United Btates army, but we are not yet convinced that it is necessary to abolish the army in order to insure this, CHICAGO AS A BTORM-CENTRE. Chicago as a grain ceulre, pork centre, lamber centre, religion centro, music contro, railroad centre, firo centro, divorce centre, s general go.akend centre, occupies a place not likely to be disturbed, Inall theso de- partmonts of Lusiness, art, and mortls she is universally conceded to Lo the very bull's- cyo of the centre, and no ono disputes her radialing position, except tho slow-going nud wicked people of 8t. Louis, All fair-minded critica tacltly acknowledgo her contral su- promacy, and it lias been rocorded without challenge in all respectable publications, from Tux Tnmvse's Anoual Report to the Encyclopmlia Brittanica. Hor sdvantages | and achiovemonts 6s.o storm centre, how- ovar, have been strangely overlooked. As s winter resort she is excelled by fow, sur- pnssed by none, 'The weather.prophet of the O1d Farmer's Almanac used to put him. self on the safe sido ns n soothsayer by stretehing from the top of the calendar of the winter months to the bottom, ** About— this— time — expect —some —snow." This comprehensive and far.reaching prediction covers the caso of Chicago cxactly, With the exception of four or five days sinte the 27th of Novomber last to the present writing wo have hiad snow in the day-time, snow in the night-time ; suow from the east and suow from tho west; snow from the north and snow from tho south ; snow from every point of the compass between thede ; snow from the zenith' and soow from tha nadir; tho beautifal soow lazily floating down in fenthery flnkes, and the snow which I3 not beautiful velting the pedestrian 1ike o show- or of buckshot ; snow in drifts aud snow in blizzards; the raging snow from Pombina, the lazy snow from St, Louis, tho untiring snow from MMichigan ; avalanches of snow from honse-tops, and snow up to the waist ; men and women wearily dengging themsclyves through thie snow; howses floundering in snow ; steam.cars stuck in the snow ; clar. conl.barrels and dry-goods bixes on ruu- ners gayly carecning through snow; poems oun snow ; and ruow yeaterday, to- day, aud forever. 'The throe or four days of freedom from snow wera simply for the sake of gotting & better hold, and it gotit. On 3Monday tho blizzard came from the enst; that night it turned round, nud yesterdoy tho samo blizzard came from tho west. It will probably make regular trips oll tho rest of tho senson, laying up for the year shout pext Fourth of July, Meanwhile, the ther. moimeter hns not been idle. The mercury hns pranced up ond down its tube all the way from 20 degrees nbove to 20 degrees be- low, and never in tho same place two days at n time. Thero are arvens of low and high barometers all avound the aub. nrbs of Chicago snflicient to keep the whole Northwest supplied with weatlier for B year to come. DYartica desiring snow would do well to give Chicago acall. The stock on hand has heen acoummnlating for forty-nino days, nnd new goods are recelved dofly. Meanwhilo it becomes nn intoresting conundrum, Whero is the sun? Has it frozen up, or hes the conflagration which Procton predicted burnt it up? Ilavo new spota broken out on it? There aro children born in this city weeks ago upon whom the sun has not yct shone, Thero are alarming possibilities conunected with thia beautiful snow, What if the man who turns on the snow has lost his key? Wil it ever stop suowing? Will it keep on gently folling, falling, falling, until it Las monnted to the first, second, third, and fourth atories; keep on falling until the flog-staffs and church-spires alone indicate our locality ; keep on falling until these eventnally disoppear, and a level, trackless waste of enaw spreads over Chicsgo, beneath which wo must hibernate as best we can until the spring rains come, nnd such of us 23 gre not wnshed away may then resumo operations with somo degree of certaluty that there will bo no more snow—till the nest snow-storm? Meanwhile ft still snows, with indications that thero aro more bliz- zards on thelr way, and su area of low barometers in {he vielnity of Calumet sev- cxal miles in extent. TRE RAILROAD SUBSIDY. ‘Wa yestordny hud somo remarks upon the Vill now pendiug in Congress granting A subsidy in the way of n Government gunar- rutee to cuabls 'Tost BeorT to build his Texas Tacifle Roflway. The Nation furnishes us with some details of tho bill of which we were uot informed when we wrote. In the first place, it should be remembered that the Bouthern Pacific Railroad of Californis hay completed, or nenrly o, a railroad from Han Francisco to Fort Yuwmn, tha latter point Leing at the sontheastern corner of Culitor- nin sand at the boundary of Arizona, The Texas Pacitio Railroad Company s under taken to Luild a rallroad from Bhreveport, in Louisinng, to Sau Diego, Cal. This road is 1,675 miles long. of which 218 "miles, from Mambal to Tort Worth, in Northern Pesun, i iu operction. Fort Yumn s 270 milea east of Hau Diego. These two Compauies have now ngreod to uunito and di- vide the pluder they may obtain from Con- gress. 'The Lill before Congross proposos that the Texas DPacific Railroad Company shall complete the road from Fort Wortli to Fort Yuma, a distance of 1,200 miles, and ihat tho California Company shall complete the road thence to San Diego, a distance of 270 milos, In the eastern line thera aro several gapa which are to be filled. In ad. dition there are four meiu branches to bo built: 1. A branch from Doublo Mountain, leaviug the main rond and rusuning norih. easterly to Vinita, 426 milex. 2, A branch or extension from Shroveport to New Orleans, 420 miles, 3. A branch from Bhreveport to Vicksburg, 170 miles. 4. A brauch rond from Jefferson to Momphis, 305 miles. These roads, branches, and parts of roads to Lo built, may thus ba recaitulated ; Sarsbal to Shrevepor ‘Total main road.... 1. Branch—1ouble Mount 2 Brauch—Sheevepurt 1o Ny A Brauch ~Shrevepors o Vicksbury. 4. Branch—Jetlesson to Memphls., ‘Total roads and branchies, milee..vne o The bill provides that the Becretary of the Treasury shall indorso on tho bonda of theso g Compaules, to beissued at the rato of 235,000 per mile, a gusraatce that the United Btatea ‘will pay the interest on the bonds at the rote of & per centa year, in gold, the bonds to yun forty yeard. The spgrogate amount of bonds to be Ismed, the annual rato of inte l Aslong as the BState real has written acrosa it cat to be paid thereon, aud the total obliga- | the words * Nationat Unlon,* the other half of tion nssnmed by the United States. may be thus summed up : 2,877 miles al 315,000 per mils $ 08,805, 000 Annnal intsrest at 5 per cont. 4,110,250 “Total ntercsl forly years .\ 107,010, 00 ‘Fheve is tho modest bhounty which a com- mitteo of the Tonss of Reprosentatives lave recommended slnll be paid out to Tox Beorr's railrond jobs in Texas, New Mexieo, Arizona, and Californin. ‘The dishonesty of the whole job isillustrated in theprovision for 1,300 and more miles of ** branches.” Ttwill bo noticed that ono branch® goes to New Or- Ieans, another to Vicksburg, another to Mem- phis, and another across the desert to Vinita, There aro two ronds now mnking all the connections which this Lranch to Vinita can recre, and for want of business theso roads aro substantially bankrupt. It is now asked that Congreas shall vote 15,000,000 to build n third rond over the same routo to compete for tho samo trade. 'There are now nearly complete two railrond routes from Shreve- port to New Orleans; this bill proposes to give 211,000,000 to bulld snother. 'There is nlready ncarly compieto a direct cou- necetion between Shrevoport and Vicksburg, ond there is an nctusl rail communication with Momphis, All these branches are un. nacessary, becauso roads are alr:ndy in exist- ence over the routes. But two reasons operate to demand these branches: 1. The bill nllows the purchase of exiating railronds in placo of construction; aud all these roads enan be purchased clieap, whea the purchaser has gold interest-bearing bonds running for forty years nud indorsol by the United States. 2. Providing for branches, either by construction or purchase,to New Orleans, Vicksburg, Memphis, Arkansas, and Missouri, puts the Representatives nod Senators from thoso States under a coercion to vote for the wliole swindling rcheme. These four Lranches call for s Government subsidy of #13,000,000, while the roads now in exist- enco or under conetruction, covering the samo rontes proposed by theso branches, moy possibly be purchased for half that sum, A Inrge number of members of the presont Congress have not been re-alected, and the pasaagoe of this bill dependa upon the votes of these rotiring members, To vote for this bill will not deceive the poople ; tho scheme is too trausparently fraudulent to admit that any one can vota for it and not understand it. ‘Those who dovoto for it, therefore, mny understand that such volo will cluso their public service, and that they will accept the popular judgment of having betrayed the public at the instigation of the corruption- isty who seek this enormous subsidy. 'Tho last two or three Grand Juries have been made up of most wretchod materials. Some time ago the County Commissioners, in a spirit of bravado and to demonstrate their entire confidenca in thelr own fmmnculate integrity, sclected abody of citizens from whom two honest aund intelligent Grand Juries were drawn. The experiment resulted in on investigation into the misconduct of the rotten Ring which controls the Doard ; true bills were found against half a dozen of the members for fraudulent and corrupt practices. Thoso of the lot who wero afraid to stand trinl at home moved for a change of venne under the statute to n ‘foreign county nnd court, By this means they goin time, proerastinato the trial of the cases, make it diflicult for the prosecu- tion to muster its witnescos, and gain other advantages by the trick., Since then the Commissioners have been oxceedingly eareful in regard to the clags and charncter of men they allow to get on the Grand Jury. The new Grond Jury for the present term wero sworn in on Monday, and, with three or four exceptions, they will not inspiro hope or admiration in the Lrensts of honest citi- zens. The mnjority of them may safely bo set down ns unfit persons to protect tho rights and Interests of the houest taxpayers of this connty, We print tho list; lot our renders examine it and seo how many of those persons they conslder fit and worthy to be intrustcd with the duttes they have to discharge ¢ Jonx Kinry, No. 400 Sedgwick straet, E. Fi1xy, Sonth Jefferaon and Madfson strects. Taowas MEenay, Forty-soverth snd State strects, i Ep Connerr, West Fourtecnth street. Jonx Ganmry, No, 13 [inols sircet. Frrp DaxvLicke, Blue Istand avenue, D. W. Cragxk, No. 171 Fouth Green street, W, Mansuary, 7t Ward street. 1. W, Ntiso: 73 Fast Adama street, Josren Berna 0. T Bromer street. AraJouxson, No. 101 Ifunover steeet. Cuantrs Kiso, Kluzie street, WILLIAX J, Coennass, No. 40 Throop strest, ¥, Fituray, Palatine, A, Hewrerr, No, 099 La Rue street, Cuanres Reiety, No, 35 Whiting strect, P Letrenen, No. 378 North avenue, L. B, Lawn, Jdon Witttan F i Moin atreet. inberz. 10 Milwaukes avenue, South Paulina street. Commissioner Frrzoenarp, though rarely sustained by more than two or threo of his colleagnes in the County Doard, somotimes shames the Boardto sequicsce in n decent ac- tion. ‘This was tho case in his forelng them to drop thvee fellows from tho pay-roll who have continned to draw mouey respectively as Superiutendent of Stoue, Buperintendent of Tircetion of Hospital, aud Superintendent of Trection of Imsane Asylum, though thers was no longer auything for them to do. But the Irish Brigade—CoxLy, McOavrrry, Cane nott, Crrany, and Muvrroy—voted solidiy against the petition,—not that thero was nny use for these fellows, but Lecanse they were Irishmen and appointed by Irishmen, All that Mr. Firzarnsrn cun hopeto do Istokeep peyging away and expose the Itiug at every opportunity, even though defented. The next thing ho sboald turn his uttention to is tho alleged mismanagement of the County Agent's ollice, aud the wretched atull fur- nished under contract ot high rates, Aun ex. posure may, at lesst, help ou the effort to wipe out the presont Board by legislative en. wctment sud cuable the county to elect n new batch next fall, To (he Editor of The Trivune. « relig 1o an article on lavite, with reference wni, whom you lauded us an honet it wat, elc., yealonday (apart of polit- one), 1 wishi to put tho queation, W by winesg, e stalwart champion of nlann (1 felt Weo saying true apos- ablleantam ) haa uever urged our Legwatire in Springield Lo alice the_motto of the grand seal of the aldays Republican State o 1i- Nols, Wifch reads, 160 beak of the eagle, ¥ siute Sovereizuty 'Y 1 you call thiva **peatic Teut ductnine, * Why du you” 3ot make sy effurt st Jeast 1o chango {¢ 1o sowething that s not of eu pestilent u cliaracter? Goar. A. LUckpanur. Rerry: This individuul kas only read half ie motto of Pliuols, adopted fity-nine years 3 he omits the highly fmportant words, ational Unfomy also huld fu thy “beali of the eagle.” Toe motto of the State seal hasy always been “State Sovereigoty: Natfoval Unfon.” This seal was adopted i 1818, by the Democrats of that day, who controlled the power und politls of the State; aud they con- tinued to cuntrol it until 1955, & period of thisty- seven years,© Hlinois Las not always been s Ko- e, M. R publicau State, us our correspoudent asserts | Gew W. Y. Broughtun, Deadwo the motto will Le innncuous. The States are undoubtedly “soverelgn® for all local and lo- mestizpurpotes. ‘The Nattonal Constitution con- fera uvon them nil the powers of foverelunty net reserved to the Government of the Nat Unlon. But Gov. Paryzn and - bis peatiient elass of politiclans hold that the Btate Govery. menta are superior to and override the Natlonal Unfon. They go atill further, aned clain that whatever powers the Heneral Governmeut may excreise are conferred upon It by the sovereign and mighty *States.” They contend that tho former Is mercly an agency appolnted by those “*depositorics of supreme power' to do certaln thinge, and that the General Government s a mero bond or league, Monstrous as thls doc- trino s, the man who fs o champlon of 1t re. eelved yesterday 67 votes in the House and 23 - in the Senate—f r United States Senator! SeatxorieLy, L. Jan. 15.—Thin morninz, 1n the Senate, resolutions were intraduced by’ e, Rouixeox 10 provide elevators [n the Capitol, Adopted, It will occur to a good mang taxpnyers thess hard times that money 1a not plenty onough to be epent in bullding steam-clevators for the use of members sixty days In two ‘years, in order to #ave them walking up one or two broad, casy flights of stalrs to thelr halle. Some speculator s flshing for an expensive Job, fle wanta to eet his paws into the Mate Tredsury, under the pretext that a quantits of elesators are needed in the new Capitol. Cur advice: to the mem- burs I3, that the expence of building, repalring, and runnfug them, need not he inenrred, et p—— Tlie State Regirter was not always howling for Mr. Jony M. PaLMER for Senator,. In Ite lssue of Sept. 24, 1564, that remarkable organ of the spoils-secking party said: Mal.-Gen, Jony M, PArurn, who ogee comne manded in licnultkf‘. wasd Lefore (bat'an anti- coercionist and orizindl sccession aymyatbizer, and aftervarts o practicul LuowsNothing, o now the bundholders’ candidate for Governor, Like other creat men, he bas had his mischunces, and ups and downs, Lately he was proven 1o bave deait acnrvily with (he people of Kentucky, con- demning some paor fellow to death who lud neither money nor frlends, nnd purdoning the more guilty wretch for a valuable consideration oe the faw hath it), e ——— . PLREONAL. arshal Bazalne and his famlly are now residing In grent poverty at a little villago of the Asturlss, Mlle. Albant has cnjoyed 2 zreat triumph at the Ttalicns In Paris, where she recently began o wine ter engagement, N M. Tlesot's **Land of the Millinrd " In the latest succees of the Paris bookemarkets. More than 00,000 copies havo been eold, and tho demand fs unabated. All the principal publishurs refused to tonch §t. - Among tic relgning foverclzne of Europe of German deacent are Queen Victoriu, - the Cear of TRussla, the Ling of Denmark, and Kingof Porto- gal. Only two ate of French descent,—the King of Swoden and Alphonso of Spaln, i Toso Eytlnge hos quarreled with the managers of the Unfon Yquare Theatro in New York on acconnt of her determination to play thelr ** Mirs Multon " st Philadelphis, Sho clalma & right to tho play on the ground of having translated the original French version, Strausr, the muslclan, kas been Insnlted In Parly on account of his nationality, A French orchestra, rehearaing under his direction, willfully distorted his music, and, as If to emphasize the intentlon, recelved with acclamations the native leader wlo took his place. A plous woman of Newport was shocked hy the blasphiemy of n ruzged uwrchin under her window, She bought liw off, The nest morning the air about her house was bluo with carses, and the one wicked boy reappeared sgaln with a troop of allfes. Moral: Never compramise with the Devil, Antonla von Appeniz came to this country from QUermany, Sbe was persecnted by the attentlons of o fellow-parsenger, Who persaaded her reluctuntly to marey hlin, The next morning he was fonnd dead in bed, ond her body was picked up In the boy. Jt wassurmised that she bad killed him and commltted wulelde. N Cardinal Patrizl, of Tlome, recently deceased, was n wise, plone, and charltable man. He left 6,000 scudi, and all bis beautltul laces, rich vest- ments, and furnitare to tho poor of Noume. Thy remainder of hls iinmense fortune was given to his reiatives. ‘Twice the grand old Patrizi family has ended In one daughter who has given her name to her husband, Gen. McDowell had a maznificent public recep- tion at San Franciscan fow monilis ngu, and the originator, Mr, John McComb, recelved unbounded pralso for his liberality, Ar. McComb has now surprised everypody a second time by presenting s bitl of $100 to the city sod county ofi account of ‘i seevices in the old affair, now almost forgolten., The matriagoof Dr. Joseph G, Chinn and Mrs, Catharine Lawson &t Lexinton, Ky., was snun- usunl cvent, and attracted a large conconrse of people. The bride was D0 years of age, and tho bridegroom 80, The wedding was brought about Dby a dream which told her that the Lord wae spar- fng her for some good purpose, Woman-like, she {nterpreted this good parpots to her marrlage, Gen. Butlerand Judge Iloar met_as opposing counscl In an actlon for damagea for logs aof lfo brought before the Massachusetts Sopreme Conrt un exccptions last week, Batler cited from Job, **Yea, all thata wan hath will be glve for hte 1ife,* whea Judgo Hoar remarked that that was & plea of the devil lna motion fur a new trlal, and he didn't thing that the Court would be more im- preated by It becanse of Ite modern indarsoment, The scalor memberof the French Acndemy in age ba M. Mignet, now 50 yeara of syw, M, Thiers hos occupled his seat longer than any other meme ber, having been clected 101833, The younyest threo members are M, Emils Ollivier, 81 Alexandre Dumas, 523 and the Duc d'A The Academy {a full, and but for the persletent Mgr. Dupanloup, who etill refuses to 1ako his seat #0 fong us M, Littre shiail occupy his, tho forly chairs would all bo ured. Oue of the alds of Gov. Robineon, of New York) folls & good story ot the cxpenue of his own party, e says that, the day after the election, he met & former client who had just pasecd throngh bank- ruptey. After congratnlstionn Lad been exchanged ou the suppoacd success of Tllden, the clicat o 8 solemn manner sald: ** Docs ye know the lawt" 120l yoa," was the reply, **I'm suro s all right.” **No, I incon sbout myself," sald the unxious man, **there's notbing In rolng throogl baukruptey that hinders @ Dan from helog posts master, Is there 3 Mr, George 11, Calvert, In @ recent lecture, sume med up the achicvements of Goetbe by saying* ** Gioetlic’s writingw filled more than Afty volumes, and in manifotdness and cxtent almost form a Ht- craturc of (bemetlves. Totlesears to be addec thousands of letters, happlly preverved and giveu to the world In aix volumes, of ten years' corre- epondence between him and Schiller; slx of thote with Zefter durlng thiety. vears; three volumes, running through half a century of notes and letters to 1hd Frau von Steln; two volumes between him and his noble friend and soversign, Karl August; two with Knebe), covering the long space of afty- seven years, healdes o aéries of single volumes 1o Lavator, to Jacobl, 1o Merk, tu the Countess Hiob- bery, to Volght, aud otbers; and three lately pub- 1ivhed, of Jetiers written between hie 15th and 20th years to his youthful friends and companlons—the whole forminga collection of the most valusble Ietters from one man cver published ar penned; the 1nost latellectual, duent, lively, wise, boest —a varled currespondence discloslng the affection~ steness and dutlfulness of bis natuse, e breadth sad depth of his knowledge and culture." HOTEL ARRIVALS. 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