Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 18, 1877, Page 4

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Va+ sloty entertalnuiene, MeCormick Norih Clark atred e Prof, Fowier. bul iall, of Kinzte. o nnd Wous Legture by au, SOCIETY MEETINGS. nd), Thuraa: cunfer tnedrgere ut M. 31, dimly fuyited to mcet Wik Lodge £ro bereby nottied to at THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1877, Qreenbacks nt the New York Clold Ex- ghange yesterday closed at 937, Traven's chonces did nob brighten any yesterdny. 'On one of tho ballots o pretended Independent,—Sextox, of North Chicago,— deserted him and went over to Judge Dasis; and Senator Kruor, of Dridgeport, nnother bogus ** Independent," on womeo of the bal. lots neglected Paren aud voted for Jons 0. Huses, whils the Iatter voted for Pansn,—un Indepondent Scnetor from down in Egypt. 1o probably intends to make Lis vote count when somo caudidate gets 102 votes. Asnxnsoy aud Davis still hold their seven votes apieco, and will coutinue to hold them until the fuglemen can ngres on an anti-Republican candidate upon whom to unite, There are ddifferent ways of chungiug the political and pemsonul composition of legis- lative bodies fhLut obtain in different States, In Florids, for iustance, they do these things in chivalrle fashion. When it bo. comes necessarg 1o make o chango of a vote, thoy simply detail one or more persous to waylay and murder the mewber whose vote is desired to he chauged, tuking caro to so arrango the matter that tho courts shall not punish tho assnssin, In this way the elec- tion of Benator is wimplified and expedited without tho employment of the wora vulgar und wereenary yucthods that are relied on in Lllinols and other Northern States, whero theso macred watters nro tao often urranged upon the base basis of bargain and sale, ——— Among the impertant veforms promised by Blieriff Keny, ouc at Jeast hns not been aceomplished,—thut of wbolishing the prac- tice of fllling wp tho jury.pauely for the variows Courts with bununers nud langers. on. Judge Gany was yesterdny con- fronted with stich n punel, and, rather thau submit to the huposition, ho devoted a good deal of his valuable time to weeding out the dead-beatu who Lod contrived to smugglo in thelr nomes, Tho uolico of the publie is drawn to this occurreiico by u correspondent whose letter is published this morning, aud tho notico of Sheriff Krnn is hereby drawn to tho necessity of making such on exnmple of the offending Bailiff ny shall deter others in tuture from like offenscs ogainst justice and decency, —— Tho proposition of the Dircctor of tho Mint ot Brussels, Belgium, to coin silver for the United States Government, iv one that should receivo earnest consideration by our Government. Tho mints of Lurope being closed against silver, it is suggested that the proposed arrangoment waould give stability to the silver market and enable the United States to coin o sufficient yuantily of trade dollars to control the Fast In. disa and China exchunges, ond in this way the silver mining interests of Ameniea would be lurgely promoted. Ttis cerlain that the mint cupucity of the United States is not adequate to the needs of the country ko fur as the coinage of silver i4 concerned. With silver oucs mors In gener- wlusousa legal tender, nml medinu of cir- calation, Chicaga wlons could distribute the , entire mint-product of the United States for o long time to come. ‘fhero is A silver famine now, and it muy be found that the proposition of the Belgiuw Director cowes Just in time to ulford relief, The Clicsgo produce warkels were quite aptive yesterdoy, and in somo instunces a se- vero drop in prices occurred. Mess pork closed 70@72}0 per brl lower, ut $16.50@ ‘10.65 cash uud §16.75@16.77) seller Februa. ‘ry. Lard closed 27)@00c per 100 1by lower, st $10.05@10.60 cash and $10.75 bid for Fobruary. Meats were wmoderately active, B -snd do lower, at 6o for sboulders, boxed ; 8l forshortribs ; 83 for sliost-clearn, High- wines were firm, at 1,07 per gallon. Flour was firm and quiet. Wheat was ective, ex- cited, and 1}@1J¢ lower, closing at $1.28 cash and %1.20 seller February. Corn was I@}elower, cloring at 13}@{33c cash and 43j@43]e seller Febranry, Oatswere steady, at 33je cash and #5Jc for February, Rye steady, at 72c. Darley was less nctive but firmer, at 60}@G1c cash, Gle for Febrary, nnd 614e for March. Hogs were inactive and lower, closing weak at 26,006 for com- mon to extra. Cattle were in nctive demand and firm, with sales at #3,0070.00. 8heep were firm, selling nt 215,504 5,75. One hun. dred dollurs in gold would buy $106.62} in groenbacks nt the close. By a atrict party vote tho Democratie Houso lins decided to arrogate to itself power never Leforo assumed or exercised by Congress—~that of demnnding from s State Government the production of original State documents, It wae voted that the Louisi- aus Retnrning Noard shall be compelled to surrender {o tho House the returns of tho election in that State, and that, failing to comply with the demnnd, the members of the Board shall bLe deemed guilty of contempt and fmprisoned accordingly. The enrious spectucle was presented of a olid front of Democrats talk. ing and voting to violate and ignore one of the most sacred rights of a $tate, the right to be the enstodian of ils own arcliives and poapers; while the Republicons were ranged on the other side, in defense of the righta of the States, It is to be expected that the members of the Returning Bonrd will resist to tha utmost this attempt to got possession of the returns endrecords for the safe-keeping of which they nre responsible, aud that the courts will be appenled to for protection agninst this unscrnpulous and high-landed exercise of partisau power by the Demoerntic House, Mr. Henrisaroy, of Kane, raised (nite n breeza in the House yesterday by rising and explainiug that it had come to his knowledye that corrupt negotintions had Leen discov- ered between one of the unpurchasable Democratic members and & Chicago lobbyist, e olfered n resolution providing for the ap. pointment of o committes of five to investi- gate the matter, 'The rules were prowmptly suspended, the Republivans veting unani- mously for the nppointment of the Commit. tee. In private conversation Mr. Hennixa. 70y states that the meuber whoso political integrity has been subjected to temptation was SHERIDAY, of the Lemont stone quarries, The tempter, he snys, was ex-Kecorder Srewant, of Chiengo, Tn what shape the temptation cane is not stated, and can only bo guessed at, and who ko wanted Suzn- 1DAN to vote for is not stated, but it is rea. sonable to suppose that it was either Parsten, Davis, Wasnnunse, Pansy, or Haives, Did ho offer him an office,—sny & Gaugership, or o plaes in the Recorder’s oflice, or Custom- louse, or Post-Oflice ¥ Or wns the guid pro qito to assumo the form of snbsidiary coin or legal-tender paper ? Or was it ** lashings of usquebnugh,” or o ronring wake when he died? The parties both Lelong to the gov. erning class in Cook County ; one is under- stood to be of Celtic birth and breeding naund the other a native of Hibernia. Whatever may be the facts of the case, it is protty evi- dent that tho party of the first part made the blundet or bidding too low, and Tartrvrasp wo believe it was who sald that a blunder was worso than n crime, The gratifying intelligonce comes from ‘Washington thatan agreement been has reach- «d by the Committee appointed by the Ilonse and Senatotodeviso somo method for counting tho Electoral vote that should be acceptavle to both political partics, It is stated with positiveness in both the specinl and Asso- cinted Press dispatches that such an adjust- ment has been accomplished, and that the plon will be reported to Congress to.day in the form of a roport sigued Ly uil the mem- bors of the two Committces excapting Senator MontoN, The plau of adjust- ment, which if adopted will at once insuro a restoration of confldence aud na general re- vival of buxiness, confemplutes the refer- enco of ull disputed questions to a body of Arbitrators mede up of tive Justives of the Unil States Supremo Court, of whom Justices Crivronn, Brnoxe, Buanwey, and Fiesp, two Ropublienns and two Democrnts, shall choose the fifth; five members to bo sppointed by the Senate, threo Republicons and two Democrats; and five by the House, three Damocrats and twa Republicans, The deciniona of thin Board of Arbitration aru to he final to tho extent that they can only be revensed by the concurrent netion of both Howses. (ircat contidonce Is fult in Waushington that the report of the Joiut Committee will be adopted, ny it is not be. lieved that the Demovrutic extremists, who object to any plan that does not insure the election of Ty, will Lo able” to muster votes enough to defeat the report. Pending the presentution of the report and the pub. lication of its detoils no ubwolute certuinty exints that the beginuing of the end of the Previdentinl disturbance i close nt hand, but theru is reason to believe that it is wo, and that the country will soon receive the joytul ussurance that pesce und good order are seeured beyond question, Thera were six ballotw for Senator yes- tordny in joint session of the two Houwses. No member of cither House or party was ubsent. Looas began with 98 votes, but on the fourth ballot Represcutative Eastoyn camo to lus assistance, sud voted for bim three times succensively, 'This gave Loaan tho complete strength of all the members elected on Republican tickets. On the same ballot Senator Buentes (Ind.) voted for Looay, und continued voting for him un- til the udjournwent. Loosx, therefors, had 100 votes on the three last bal. lots, but ke wtill required threo more, und there were no outward indications that hu could get them. When vy, Euntoy, aud Brenren supported him on the fourth, tifth, and sixth hallots, it was with the expectation nud belief thut o coull obe tain three other votes from other sonr but, whils **he conlit eall spirits from the vasty deep,” they did not come, Messru, Wiwnee amd Laston Lave sullered a lurge wwount of bluckgaurd ubuse, and have beon thesubjects of livsund misreprosentations in. numersble, beeause they doclined tying their hands in the caucus, and held uloo? for the first fuw bullots; but thero Las never been o winute when cither of them intendad to vote for auy pemon who woull net with the Democrats, or do anything which would tend to clect u Dowmocrat; nor, 50 fur ws wo know, did vither of them intend to refuse their votes for Loaay if such would elect him. At the samo time, neither of thow ever declared befory their own elec. tious or sinco that bo was thelr first choice for Benator, or their beau-ideal of a states- wan, Noue of the seven Ropublican District Conventions of Cook County instructed their Representatives fur whow to vote for Beuator, 1f they had, it would probably have defented overy Repnblican enndidnte,~nt least in all the districts where the Republican majority {5 not very large, The question mow be- comes n serioun one,—where Loaas is to get tho other three votes, Titero are no more reserves in his own party to be brought np, a5 they have to the last mmnn been put into lino of battle. The Democrats and those of the Independents who will voto for uo Republican are cancusing, conferring, and gcheming night and day to uaito on soma anti-Repablican who can receive votes enough to clect him. They would come to- gether for Judge Davia quick as o flash if they felt quito sure that he would take his stal amony the Democrats in the Senato and wonld opposo aves' Administration if ho alinll be {nuugnrated President. But if Davis gives them assuranccs that he will act with or bucome A Democral, can they get 103 meinbers to vote for him? How can such members, representing Republican districts, ns IIarxes, Prmip, or Grassronp, vote for nny candidate who will act with the Demo- crnts? Tho ense is atill in darknoss. A QUESTION OF CONSISTENCY. A correspondent, whose letter is in another columm, calls attention to the fact that a resolntion voted for by the Democratic mn- Jority in tho House of Representatives a fow day# nago, aud which was criticlsed by Tue Triouxe, was copied from the Republican platform of 1800. The resolution wns as follows : Resolred, That the maintenance Inviolate of the rights of the State, and eapecially the right of uach State to order and control its own domesticinatita. tlons accordlng to 1t vwn Judzment exclusively, is eerential to the batunce of power on which the per- fection and endurance of our political fabric de- pend, and we denounce the Iawless Invaston by armed force of the woll of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, a8 among the gravest of crimes, ‘I'he answer to his eriticism is a very plain one, The resolution of 1860 was intended and wns well known to refer to Joux Bnows's invasion of Virgivis, aud very properly de- nounced that invasion as *‘lawless,” and of necessity n very grave erime. But the rame resolution is offered in 1877 not in refercuce to auy expedition of that charaeter, but in referenco to the ocenpation of any part of any State or Territory by the troops of the United States acting under the orders of the President, and charged with the enforce. ment of the laws, The Republican Conven- tion of 1860 denounced Jouy Drows's and all other *Iawless” invasions of States. It did not denounce, nor was itever undergood ns denonncing, s **lawless” tho use of tho national troops to enforce tho Inws, suppress insurrection or rebellion, or to repel *law- less" invasion. The Democratic House, how- ever, voted for this resolution with the under. standing that it denounced the employmentof national troops in a State to suppress disor- der and cuforce tho laws, aa ** lawless,” and therufore n * grave crime.” The difference hetween tho **fuvasion” of a State by an armed mob and the oceupation of a State hy o portionof the United States polics to preserve tho peaco s the dilference botween lawful and * Iawless,” and the attempt to apply the Republican denunciation of the one to the othier is exceedingly shallow ard wealk. Nor is there any inconsistency between tha Tepublican resolutions of 1860, insisting up- on the inviolate character of the right of each Btateto order and control its own do- mestic instilutions according to its judg- wment, ond the position of the Republican party to-day. Rebellion, wholesale mnssn- cte, and insurrectionnry turmoils are certainly not ** dowestio institutions” to which nny State can claim any right, In 186) the only domestic institution which it was alleged was menaced, nnd concerning which any disclaiiner was requir- ed or intended, wns the institution of slav- ery, In the meantime slavery Las boon nholished by the change of tho Constitution, and the * domestic institution ” which form- od the exclusive subject of politieal consider- ation in 1860 does not now exist, and there. fore the rosolution of 1860 bas lost its sig- niflcanee. We know of no **domestic insti. tution™ in any State which is now threaten. ed or menaced by the Kopublicans, unless it mny bo of murdering one part of the popula- tion beeuuse of their color and their polities; the overturning of Stato laws and Stato Goy- ernments by armed and lawless organizn. tions ; and the subatitution of forco for that of lnw. Agniust these, 80 far ay they exist, —nnd they are in spirit tho same ay Joux Brows's forny,—tho Republican party is opposed, and deuounces uy grave crimes, which it Is the duty of the National Govern- meut to suppress. A NEW NOT{ON OF “CALHOUNISM." The comblued recklessness and ignorance of tho Chicago Zimes botray it into many nbaurd statements, but of all the ridiculous, thin {t has uttered about countivg tho Presidentisd vote the following s the most eatruvagont 1L way hardly n year azw, nay, It was only o few monthy ago, that u typleal party orzan lu this clty CTue! sz) wanld have It that the real Hue of party division in this country was between the ol CaLHOUN theory of **State-Soverefgnlty * and the more popular and pervistent doctelas of natlonalle ty, If one bl predicted, half & year 820, that within six months that organ, and sli the vther ore gaus of the party clalmed to be par excellence the party upholding the doctrine of natlonality, and wpposing the peatilent CaLiovs theory, would bo advocating with the greatest veliemence and in the must vlolent temper teven to the threatening of ayonets and clvil war In fta support) o parthean zramme hased upon the CALHOCN hypothesls,— mme which contd fud no ‘thare conshatent Ivine ehamplon than Jeve Davis,—~the prediction waulkd bave excited u unile of derislon. Lut with- out the prediction the cality Las areived, Partis san prejudices oud paselons stronger than ony force of reason bave saddeuly transformed the vo- called Republican party from » hady possessing an undying basllity o the Catnovy bypothesls Inte abody uctnatly proposing to spply und establish tuat peatilent hypotheals fu the practics of Goveru. went, All this hos been called out by the fact that Tux Tuposy ivsists that Congress can only aswert its jurisdiction over the returns by the concurrent action of Loth Houses in the B nanter ad it performs other legislative duties. It is cither a stupid misapprehon. siou or malicious perversion of the Cariovs doctrino upon which the Zimes’ statement is bused, We understaud the Carsory doe- trino to mean that tho Natiousl Government exiits ouly by the suvercign conseut of the Btute Governmeuts, and each sovercign State for itself muy dissolva its relations with tho Nutional Government at ité own pleasure, The Nationalists Lold that the National Gov- eruent derives its being wnd permaneucy from tho people, sud that the Constitu. tion s the supreme luw of tho land. Thoe Nutionalists have held on the oue side that no State (ioverument can over. rido or disavow this supreme law, but they Lave never held that tho State cau be de- prived of the rights and priviloges guaran. teed them Dy the suprews law, except in tho shape of a coustitutional awendmont ratified by the Ktates or Ly the people. ‘I'he Consti- tution provides that'each Btate whull appoint Prosidential Electors in wuch mauner us the Logalature thoreof may direct; that the Electors so appointed shall meet in their respectivo States and voto by ballot ; that they shall make a list of their votos, certify and trausmit it to the Yresident of the Benato 3 that the Dresident of the Senate ahall open the certificates, and that the votes shall then bo counted. Unless Con- gress may at all times override and dis- regard any constitutional provigion, it can- not deprive the State Governments of the powers herein conferred upon them by the National Consiitution; and, ns the Con. stitntion fs silent only as to the manner in which the votes shall bo counted, the jnris. diction of Congress extends only to the fram- ing of a law or rule cnrrying out themandate of tho Constitution. It is certainly not ¢ Cal- honnism " to insist that one llouso of Con- gress eannot make such law. Indeed, despite the usunl amotunt of vitu- peration, this much is conceded by the Chi- cago Times; for Tur Tninuxe having pre- viously stated that * whatover the power over this subject of counting the votes that cxists fn the two Houses cxists in Congress, and not in any one Honso of Congress,” the Zmes admits, saying = This 19 tho stagement of an obvions fact, The power which reelides in thie two House in power tu oxcertain and determine thata so-calicd vote In & genuine vote, that it was given by a duly-qualified and daly-appointed Elcctor,and i for a duly-qual- ified persan, —in a word, that §t 1s a vote entitled to be counted, ThisInthe pawer which realdes ln Congress, and not In any one House of Congress, g admitted this much, the Z'imes brings out the sophistry it calla an ** afirnn. tive propesition,” and says that both Houses must nssent to tho count of the vote of cach State. But this fs going back of the Constitution nagain, which says that the votes of the Electors np- pointed in tho manner prescribed and re- turned neccording to the requirements shall be counted, How does it require tho nssent of Congress to do or enable what the Con- stitution commands? If objection be made to the count of nuy State's vote, it ean only be on the ground that it is et o vote, Lut merely a pretended and fraudulent voto. Itis, then, for Congress to decide whother such objection is well-founded, nnd one House nlone eannot determine it, The Con. stitution explicitly commands that thoe votes returned in the manner and form presenbed shall be counted, aud one House eaunot law- fally defy tho Constitution aud prohibit the count. If the vote presented to ba counted isnot a genuine vote, Congress mny so de- cide, but one House of Congress cannot, The question {snot, **Shall tho voto be counted 2 because the Constitution says it shall be, The question of counting or uot connting can only arise upon the objection that the vote is Logus, and it is then for Congress—not ono House nlone—to determine this objection. Ilad the Constitution intended that ecither House should be competent to cliallenge or reject any vote, it would undoubtedly have said s0; failing to may o, the voto of the Electors of any State appointed as the Log- islature of that State has preseribed, certi- tied, and trausmitted to the President of the Senate, nnd opened by lim, must Dbe counted, unless Congress decide that it b rejected becauso the constitutional provis. ions have not been complied with, It is o most preposterons proposition that the State of Illinois may be chented out of its constitutional right of appointing Electors, whose voles the Conatitution rays shall be counted, by the simple objection of a parti- san majority in ono House of Cougress. If a constitutional mandatc have no more force than this, then we may as well nbandon the Constitution altogether ; one House of Con- gress, 1 that event, is competent to nullify at its own pleasuro nuy aud every provision, of tho organic law of the nation. But it is equally preposterous to donounce as * Cal Lounism " the csuontial national purposo of adlering to tho orgauie law of tho nation, of refusing to admit that one Lranch of Con- gress may ovorride it any wmore than a State, and of holding that the people may not be swindled out of a privilege which the Consti- tution confers upen them by an assumption Dy one branch of Congress of the power to render tho Constitution null and inoperative, THE END OF BROTAZR MOUDY'S CAM PAIGN. Drother Moopy bas finished his cnmpaign in tho Western hurvest-fleld, and will speed- ily bo on his way to the sclf-righteous but very wicked City of oston, tainted with every ology and ismn known to scetarinnism, noraly, or science. His work in Chicago hns been wonderful, Tlo has drawn thou- saudy upon thousands of people, not only from the city and State, but from every part of the West. 'I'iese vast crowds have Leen zenlous and persistent in nttendauce. "Thousands have thronged about the doors of the Tubernaele walting for admission, even when the thermowmeter wns far below zero and the wind was Llowing bitterly, The grent Tabernncle has been unnble to hold the multitude, and it Las overflowed into Far. well Hall and other placew. The great evangelist has to show for his campuign 2,600 persons converted and allied with vavious churchen; betweon 6,000 uud §000 left keriously improssed ; hundreds of inebri. ates changed into sober men ; the churches warmed up, aroused from their lethargy, in- splred with more zeal; and church-members Leginuing to live up to their professions, Tnder such cheering auspices ay theso, we certainly havo o right to expect moro of the boekbone of Chritisnity, nately, honesty in the dealings of man with maun, for a revival of whith Tue Cmesvo Tirsuse hos so long contended,—an honesty which implics more than benevolence, chavity, humavity, and morality, which embraces actual, plain, old-fashioned integrity and uprightnoss, sich ns honesty Letween buyer und seller, honesty between employer and employe, honesty in manufacturing goeds, honesty in offering themn for sule, honesty in weights or measures of goods, groceries, aud merchan. diso, houesty in perionsl intercourse,—all to go hund in huud with truth, which in fact 1s another nawme for honesty, Ou reviewiug tho campalgn of the great evangelint, thero is one secret of his unprece. dented success which has not Leen sufi. cieutly recoguized. Whils Brother Moony bas preached aud sxliorted within the baili- wick of modora orthodaxy, e bas still been nou-sectarian. Thero are u dozen branclies of orthodoxy hero in Chicago with sharply- defined divisious of creels, and separated by partitions, however thiu yet jmpeunetrablo, ‘There has been but littlo real Christian fel- lowship betweon these, ws shown in littls exchauge of pulpit or pew, ‘There hus been about tho same degres of joalousy and rivalry botween thess deunominations as ex- ists betwoen doctors, lawyers, editors, or merchants engoged dn the same line of business. Brother Mooy msy have a preforence for ‘‘the shop over tho way,” Hu mny have a favorite catechism or o pet system of dogwas, but, it 50, he hLas not shown it. Mo bas avoided the rocks upon which sectarians split. He bashad nothing to say of pedo-baptisw, total immwersion, or wprinkling. Ho has not lugeed consulwtan. tion, transubstantistion, prodestination, eloo- tion, or any other *“tion,"intohisexhortation. o has not distracted his Learors with a dis- cussion of tho relativo position of the Holy Ghost in the procession. 1fa has not thrown out hinta that thers are infants, n span long, in tho bad piace. 1fo hns not kindled up a fagot firo about any ** Loretic.” ITo has hind no row with tho Methodist brethren on poinis of discipline, nor lias ho let dnylight throngh any of the thirty-nino articles or the Westminster Confession, 1o hns not nssaulted Lotien for hi liberal viows on the Sunday question; nor has he hurled flery and wrathfnl thunderbolts at the heads of the heterodox Christians known amoug the world's peoplens Universalists and Unitarians, nor has ho mauled the Popa for the Vatican deerces, nor tho Mothier Church for being **Anti-Christ.” A still broader distinction betwoen Brother Moopy and the soctarinuy lies in his exhortations to young peopls. When Lo has urged them to turn over a now leaf, bo has not insisted that they shall sur. render all their juvenilo amusoments, and be- come ascetics, gravo and smiloloss, 1o has not pointed out a thorny, flinty road to Heaven, over which thoy must travel with bleeding feet and aching hearts and hends, o has not forbidden them to go to thoopora, the lecture, the concert, or even the theatre, Hoe hns not condemned the soirce, the ** ns- sembly,” tho club, the social hop, or tho “ German," remombering that Daviv aud all the old saints used to dance. Ifo has not placed his ban upon a social game of cards, chess, chockers, billiands, or base-ball. e lins not vven told tho young convert that ho may not take his cuttor out on Michigan avenue, West Washington street, or North Dearborn stroet, and get to his business or back lLome in less time than the ““godless” traveling on tho same road. Ie Las left amnsomonts to tho individual quickened conscience, The theory upon which he bas proccoded in regard to amusemonts is that the sin lies in tho vicious or worldly condition of miud, not in tho mere smusemzent itself, Thero is no sin in tho concord of mweet sounds or fn bars of music set to a donce rhytlan, and there fsno sin in the motion of the feet in thno with that music, hence s Cliristian keoping step to musio may still bo o Christian if ho foels he i3 doing no wrong. ;Tliis seetns tobe Mr. Moopr's viows, 80 far 83 can bo gathered from his sermons. 8o, whilo he has kept himsolf within the broad and essentinl dactrines of ortho- doxy, faithfully, earnestly, persistontly, aud sledge-hinmracringly preaching them, he has avoided ten thousand projudices, spiked the guos of the onemy who were preparing to Lombard him with sneers, scoffs, quibbles, and technicalities, and removed n multitudo of stumbling-blocks from tho paths of halt- ing sinners who could not bring themselves to giving up, as thoy are generally required to do, all wocial plensuros and amusements, And thenho called tohin assistance all the sects of orthodoxy, nnd sot them to work under those parts of crceds which are common ground betwoen them. Look at Lis rownrd. Never did one wan reap such a harvest since the Reformation, REight thousand sheaves bas ho gathered into Lis Master's barns, Thero i o leyson for the churches in all this, It it woro only possible for all who agreo with Brother Moopx as far s he wont, to let tho othor things alone s non-cssentinls, they might have n continual harvest of con. verts, and wo might look with confldonce for the general rovival of homesty. If thoy would all pull togethor on Moopy's plat- form, in MoopY’s way, thers is no-reason in moral philosophy or logie why they should not have Moonx's success, OUR FINANCIAL BALANCE. Under tho deep cloud of doprossion under which the business of the country hns so loug suffered, there is a comforting assnrance that & great change hag boen in operation leading to a more healthy coundition of trade than has existed for some years. Wo have not declined in our productions. Though wo have bought less and ot less cost, wo have produced more, and have sold our in- crensed surplus, Excluding specio, wo havo, Auring eloven months of 1876, fmported only $395,301,484 worth of merchandise, against #171,888,161 fmportod in thoe same months of 1875. While wo have bought merchandise valued at 376,686,677 less than the merchan. dise bought in tho same months of last year, wo have sold—exported—merchandise val- ued &t ¥317,055,917 in 1876,% ogalnst £402,963,56,~an excess in the eoleven months of $64,392,352. In tho mean- time, our product of gold and =il ver during the year was: Silver, $41,- 50,6725 gold, B44,328,601 ; total of both metals, $85,835,178,—being a largo gain in both gold aud silver, Tlero are now in Now York over 40,000,000 of gold and no export demand for it. Wo nro paying our debis abroad with our surplus productions. Tho reduction in imports and tho increass in ex. ports nggregate about %140,000,000, which leaves us with that much less to pay than in 1876, 'Fhe demand for gold being now con. flned substantially to the payment of duties on imports, the prico of gold las fallen, and fluctuates botween 105§ and 106,—being lower than it bas been mince 1802, The graenback has ndvauced to 944, aud the old nilver dollar to 93}, Gradually the currency is gravitating to w comunon value, uud, unless madness sball prevail at ‘Washington, specie payments will es- tablish thewselves under the laws of trade. Next to the consideration of economy in ex. penditures, public and private,—the latter being compulsory to agroat extent,—this fm. provewent in our financial coudition ismajn. Iy the work of au increass of exports. Our manufucturers have abandoned the policy of working under the delusion of protection. ‘They have nbandoued the policy of making goods exclusively for a home market at prices that reduced cousumption. Thoy have re- solved to utlizo their great natural advan. tages, nnd hove concluded to make goods for the world's mnrkets oud sell thewm at the world's prices. Tnstead of workiug mills an oue-half or one-third tiwe, and then shutting the doors to let the over-stocked domestic market recover, they have concluded to work full time, snd sell their goods in competition with all other wouufscturers. The New York Z'ribune thus refers to the prosperity of thoso lines of manufacturers who make and sell their goods without reference to pro- tection: It 1% o noticeable fact that the Industrics baviog & pood export trade sre now the bulest. Awong wanufacturcrs of agricultural fmplewents, rites, and hordware there is & degree of uctlvity in warked contrust with the dullness which prevails swong blast-furnaces. The cotion exportation is extendlog to all parts of the world, fucludi dia,—an old market of American cotlon, South Amernican countrles, und it 1s growiug rapld- 1 From New York theeo were esported in 1870 [ ny 8374, 450 packages, agalnet 41,008 fo 1875, tho uverage of tho e preceding years belng 10,581 packages, Loston is aleo exporting frecly, The reult is that the cotton mills bave recelved 8 wous derful Jog, aod sonie fow of those in New England were obliged to run oo extra time, Exportation of leatlios Kouds 13 Lucsvaaling, 30d that of leathor. & new featare, 18 now marked. The busin mulated, and fdle factorles of boots sad ‘o starting np In_conseqnence of contracts forolzn trade. The paper manafacturers are also daing well, The manufacturera of tho United States have been, by the protective tariff, put back in their Lusiness many yonrs. In the vain hope of controlling the domostic market at prices fixed by themselves, they have snrron- dared all other markets to their less favored rivals. With all tho rnw material produced at their own doors ; with fnel in abundance, and of s good quality ; with more and better iron than exists elsewhcro ; with cotton, and hides, and copper; with transportation sud chieap food, they ought in many lincs of manufacture bo ablo to defy any competition in any marleet, and the most cortain and per- mnnent prosperity of the country can best bo established by building up the export of Americsn mannfactures which was ar- rested dn 1861 by the War and by the protectivo tarif. When the export of Amcrican manufactures shall rival in value the oxports of tho products of tho soil, the forest, and tho mines, then in- deed will the golden era of American pros. perity be established. 'T'o the promotion of that cnd our legislation should bo framed. Every obgtacle in the way of the exportation of manufactures should bo immediately re- moved. TILDEN AND CRONIN. The Now York Sun is tho only Tiorx newspaper we have noticed that has hiad the decency to appreciate and the independence to ncknowledgo the seandalous nature of the §8,000 Oregon bLribe, It spenks of it ns *‘the most absorbing question beforo the country to-day "; it admits that the forward- ing of this monoy hasbeen traced to Col. W. ‘I, PgrToN, nephew of 3Mr. TiLnen and Secre- tary of tho National Democratic Committee; and it calls upon said Pertox to explain #whosa waa the money and for what pur. poso it was sent to Oregon,” s something that everybody demands to know. While some of the Demoerntic organs are ignoring this matter, and others justifyiug it, here is & noto of worning that TiLpeN has carried the corruption campalgn a little too far for his own good. The significance of the Sun's demand that AMr. Perroy explain “ whosoe was the money,” as woll as the purpose for which it was sent to Oregon, is to ba found fn the alleged fin- pecuniosity of this Mr. Pertoy, who is said to bo a bankrupt, and to have already availed himself bountifully of Ticpex's resourcos on nceount of lis relationship, The Sun knows that Prrron didn't have tho money to ndvance himself, that Perrox's individual word or note wouldn't probably raise $8,000, and that it must have been furnished him or pledged for him by somcbody else. Now, who was this somebody else? PrutoN nc- knowledges that he sent the check, but will not revenl any more. If he insists upon maintaining silenco, the inferencs is inavita- ble that ba got it from his unclo,~not “uncle” in tho bLypothetical and slang meaning of the word, Lut of lis mother's Lrother, Sanwen J. Tipey, who wanted to bribe his way iuto the Clief Magistracy of tho nation. Now, suppose Gov. Haves had sent $8,000 into the Btato of Now Jersey, and had suc. cecded in bribing the unlawful substitution of a Republican Elcetor for tho Damocratic Elector who had been chosen by the people and who was incligiblo; and suppose Gov. Hayes bosed bis claim to tho Dresidency upon this single fraudulent voto,—wouldn't the Democrncy mako Rome howl? Wouldn't we liear from WarTensoN and the Chicngo Bulldozer? Wouldn't Sax Cox and Sax Raxpary breatho fire and brimstone from their nostrils? Would't Hewitr issue pro- nunciamentos a8 campnign wonnger, call- iug upon the peoplo to riso up ngainst eo infamous a spolintion of their Electornl rights? Wouldu't Ilaves bo de- nounced on all sides a3 a thief and secoun- drel? Wouldn't the Democratic nowspapers larp on the disgrace threatening tho nation by the effort to seat such a man in the Presi- dentinl Chair? Bot is Mr. TipeNy nny worthier, having done precisely this thing, than Mr. Hares would have been it he had done it? It would seom o, sinco tho Sun aloncof all tho TrupeNy newspapers insists upon probiug the Iniquity to the bottom and exposing the wholo scheme of bribery. ‘Thero is no virtue in n presont Democratio disavowal of pressing Cnoxin's vote, This protonse is very much like that of a burglar caught fu the act who says Lie will not steal the property he has in hLis pocket aftor hio is in tho hands of tho ofcers of tho law. It is A fact that it was the lntentlon to press tho Cnoxiy voto, aud that it was only the ex- posure that provented the offort, It is n fact that bribery was resorted to, and that the agency has Licen traced to 3Mr, Titpen's very door, Itisa fact that, failing in this Infamous schieme, there s still o desperato faction of TiLpeN's retainers who are ready to resort to equally infamous measurcs to en- sblo the Democratic Iouso to elect their patron President. It i a serious mistako to supposo that the villainy already cxpo‘;cd hins loft no impression upon the public mind ay to tho designsof the TinpeN men. ——— The Springfield Journal asserts thut If the caucus had nominated Judge LawngNce, J. RugszrL Jones, or E. B. Wasnusunse for Sena- tor, It would have supported either of tiem witbout hesitation! Amerlcan writers are ac- cused of a tendency to hyperbule and exaguer- ation of assertion. The Junrnal's statement fs qulte probable os to the first named, barely pos- siblo us to the second, but human credulity I8 tried beyond its power to belleve the *uo-hesl- tatlon ' gupport of tho third, When a cantne ailtieted with bydroptioblu lops agua, it may bo belleved, Wasusunse for some reason hus loug been the bete nofr of that coneeri, e ———— The fewer lying, scurrilous, and contemptiblo nsinuations the WhlskeyThives' Oryan tilngs ot Republican members, the better it will be for Loasn's prospects of electfon, e has taken the wrong ethod of making votes for himself, e ——— PERSONAL. Tha suggestive anb-title of Berthold Aucthach's story in the February number of Lippincoit's Mugazine is, **Tho Gawk from America." 1t fesald thata well-known uewspaper man of New York Iss00n to marry Miss Jeanuetto Ben- nett, aud becowe conductor of the New York Herald, The Government of Turkey b catled the Sublima Porte from the fact that Justice was formerly diy- pensed at tho gats of the Bultun's Palace, the gato Leing knowa as the Sablime Porte. Lewis Carroli's ** Allce's Adventures In Wonder- land* has reached & clrcolation of 52,000 coplea; bls +*Through the Lookiug-(ilass," 40,000; su **Tho Ilunting of the Snurk," 16,000 copive, The autor v 8 loarued theoluzical professor a one of the unlversitics. Measures have been taken in Toaton to buy the famous Dighton rock and remove it to that city as mounment 10 the Nurs divcoverces of America. ‘The wovement owes Its oriziu to Mr. Ols Bull,who suggested tat @ cowplimentary benedt extended t bios & mouth ago, Tho nuiober of actresscs who, like the late Lu- cillo Western, have died frum poeuwmonia, vr other educts of chills caused by exposure, ls very large; yet uot more than wight have been eapected from the nature of the case. The old praciice vi ———— leaving the stagen of the best theatres nnheataq even In tho coldest weather has not yet been abandoned, and the drafts arlsing from the un. qunt temperatures before anil behind the cartaiy often givo tise to aerlous ilinoss both among ke actura and in the audlence, 1t swan tho Now York Nation which had the frank. mess toapeak of Commodors Vanderhilt ne vy kinud of man whosa Ilke wo shonld bo motry to sc8 many of." The grammatiesl constrnction of the rentence s oven more romarkable And uncalled fop than the thought which It attempts to express, A keen London correspondent, who scems to by not too fand of the poct-laurente, represents hm as attribuling the failure of his **Queen Mary» on the staze to the Incompetenty of the actor, Theza latter were directed at & certain point to **becomo purple with indignation, " and did nut, The St, Louin Glote belleves the Chicago Papen will pitch Into Mr. Wiillam E. Dodge for corpar. ing the conmerce of New York with that of Clilcas Ko, on the basta of the relativo Imports of the txe clties, The Chicago papera might plteh into Mp, Dodge if he were a bigenough man to holid them, Tho Hartford Courant clears Mr. Bret latte of the charge of bad faith brought ngainat him In cone nection with the pronosed pablication of **Two Men of Sandy Dar," by J. It Usgood & To, 1t i stated that Mr. Itobsan at firat consented to have the book published, oud afterwards changed bly mind, Mies Lotta, the miachlcvons yonung actrees, touched her ehack of halr to o pas. ner ina New York theatre Saturday afternoon, and fn. stantly hud an aureole of ftame about her head, The fize was put out, but the hulr was burneltos crisp, and the young woman hercafter wlil Le oblized to une wigs for a number of munths, A paper of Aterdeen, Scotland, reconts the rune away match of a wealthy Indy of 70 years with ner coaclunan, As the lady was old cnongh to know her own mind, and had moncy enough to Indulze in her fancy, the reason of hur mysterious depar- ture 19 not perfectly clear to the Amerlean reader, but the Scottish paper acema to take it for granted thatan clopement, nnder the clreumstancos, way the only thinz to be looked for, The lady had been a successful specnlator in the money market, There hias recently been added to the 012 South Muneum in Boston the Thomas Blake Bible, The first owner wrote the history of it on a fly-leal 1y was bought In 1762, served an oxpericnceat wchool, and went with s young master through an ape prenticeship. Jtenlsted fn the American army, and kaw thy hardest kind of work, heing the only Dible In o large regimont. At Saratogm, In 1741, there were viony descrtions from the army under command of Col. II, Dearborn, and every privata and non-commissioned ofticer was required to take anoath on this Bible not to leave tho army until his term of servico had expired. Aftor the oath, few deserted, J. 1L Caxton fs nan American reelding fn Ttaly who esteems 8o highly the women of his native land that he defends them agalnst forelgn tra. ducers even in **the Court of Honor," An ltal Inn Iotely ventured to question In his prescnce the averaga virtiuo of American women, Caxton knocked the man down. e rone, and was knock. ed down ngain. He challenged Caxton, and wag shiot through the shoulder, since which time notl- ng mwre bas been heard of him. Coemmenting on the atfalr, the Springleid Republican Justiy sags: **The firet moral is plainly for the benefit uf Ttalians and vulgar foreigners generally; the sece ondary one Is for thougltless American wowen abroad.” The reception of M. Geston Bolssier asa mem. berof the French Acndemy recalls the fact that s wasoncon heroof the Academy of Inscriptions, ‘Tho Intter Institutlon had an experlence that almost proved fatal to it o number of years ago, A Car thagonien Inecription was given to threo scholars for separato work, und ot the end of n month they eubmitted thelr verslone, The first ». 1d the inecrips tlon meant, **'The Priostess of Isls dedicates thls monument to the Uraces und Loves that charm and fructify the world™; the second, that the proper translatlon was, **Iere lles Hamllcar, father of Hanoibal—itke Uilm dear to Lls country, and tha terrorof s cnemies™; the third veralon, after- wards accepted 08 correct, was: **Thls aitar ly dedicated to the god of wiude and storme lg order 1o uppease his unger. " Dr. Schllemann, in relating bis dlacoverles at Mycenw ways: **Among the thousands of gold ornaments there fs not even a single alyn rescm- bling writing, and it therefore appears cortaln that the nepulchres belong to an epoch which preceded the introduction of tho Pheniclan alphabet, Iiad thie latter been known, the Mycenean goldsmiths, whase continual efforts appear to havo been direct ed to the Inventlon of a new ornamentaton, wonld Biave Leen nmbitions to show the novelty of the alphabet, A second proof of the tmensa antiqmty of thesc tombs Is the cutlre abicnce of any vestige of fronor glass, or of any poticry made ona potter's wheel. Bt the hund-made pottery had reached a high degree of perfection, such as has never been attained here Ju later tiwea by the pottery made on tho wheel,” The Itev. William R. Aiger and the Tev, T, De Witt Talmage preachied eermons on the thoatre and the theatrical profession list Suuday. taking may e snpposed, widely ditergent views, first thought that the theatre was a bigh woral and civilizing sgency eenrcely second to the church, and the vecond that it was a ronrce of widesproad evil. The hope s expressed that if 8 committoo of actors bo chosen to thauk Mr. Alger for his elo- quent defenso of the profestlon, an wae done Ip the case of a clergyman who preached a simllay sermou some years oo, palns will be tlaken to scru- thuze the characters of tho commutteemen, Of the four who called on the former defender of the purity of thoe drama, three were living with women not thelr wives, and so falled to represent fair- 1y the honorable profeselon for which they pre- sumed to speak. 'The New York Qraphic was cqual to the occanlon of the Bennett duel, baving o full puge of tllustrae tious of the place at which the carnsge did not tuke Place and Ita aurroundings by o special artist pre- sumnbly on tho spot, A, pleture fu even drawn representing the two contestants In position, The best euterpriae the Graphic cun now show will b to makie u specin] correapondent of the speeinl artist, and state the facts, which nobody connected with any nowapaper hus yet learued, Tn this cone nection It'ls interesting to hiear from tho Couut Juannes that Mr. Lunnett tod a Ligh reputation for pereonal bravery when ha waw at the Purls Pulytechnic Schuol. 8till uther goslp was pube Washed in the Dramalle Netea o the effect that the cause of the querrel was an Jnsult offered by Ben- nets to Mre, Muy, He studiously lusulted the members of the family, it fe raid, with a view to Inducing them to break off the mateh, not wisbing to give them ground for u breach-uf-promise suit, The Ineuc of the New York Zlercld of Sunday last contained a pretended cable disputch from Lundon, whith, If true, conveys Information ol the most startling description. It wlates that the whiter hus been ono of unczampled severlty, s that all the papers are discursing the cxtraordinary manifestotlons of nature, and gravely dlputivg whetlier it hus not been caused by s defiection of the Gulf stream from tho coast of Eugland. It the dutlection has taken place, the change of eli- mnte will probably be so cxtreme, the alspatch sayy, that the English nation will be compelled to cmigrato en masse, posslbly to Anierica, possivly 10 wume other fuvored conntry, The publication of this news, it la almust unnecessary 1o say, is au exclusive eiterprise of the Jierald, The natlow will not embark for our shures uutil the dellcate negotiotions now pending on the aubject between the dtate Department at Washington and her Mujusty's Government are satisfactonty coacluded, Inducementa of wild lands will have (o bo offered 10 the Queen snd Lord Derby, 84 wus dune fo the case of the Menuonites receutly, HOTEL AR SAerman Inuse—'The Hon. kegan; Jubn B, Gough, W Beach, Dunker 11 W. Tripp, Clinton, 1 linols; L. . Marty, Akron, 0. Cal. J.” W Moutague, Muskegon; the 1 lowa: E.'T. Alléd, 5t Louls; ¢ 5. Weston, scranton, Py wiont Iouse o). Charles Brle- tow, Hlartf, covre B Kilbuurne, heokuks the Hou. W Varks, ” Marquette; the Hon. Dwhzht Durkee and W, J Kalamazoos L' the flon. ¢ W, Chlaple, Michizan; and E, b, Taylor, Port Huron; the 11 tirveue, Cedar ltaplde; J. 11, Scward tigo; . 1. Cary, New Clupp, Lostou} ckean, Torontu ifackUurn, Newtaud, Detrolt; Uroaby, St Loul nt, Hure Sewurd, New York; the Hon. Theodore Harve Kunsae; the ffon. Louls IJI!EIU Cinciuguti; § Armour, Mitwaukeo; J. Al Ml ew Yorl o il Uraud Rapics; Geo. Robinyon, Loaisvills, wW. ¢ ‘etimore, bi. Louls; the How. T, 1% Phll- Nps, West Viegluia: Willlan lendcrson, Phile delphia: W, 1 Stevens, Baltimoro. . .. Gra i 2 eid e Hup, W, §. Streator, Clo Juomen Girant, Daseaporty Georgs Ty erC B, & Q. K. I, Boato Meriden, Conn.; H.'A. Bodine, ilyaws, ¥an Fraclsco Jo' M, Tillubsou, Toledo; dol E. 1. Joned, 5L Louis;' J. K. Gy, 1s.; M. Poleaumer, Putladelpia; £, Boatoc Lauy; B B Hallit, Burlluguon i1, 8. "1iluce koper, udiasspoliv; (. M. Bird, Detsoit . B, Cowles, New Yorks L. Morse, Marguett Guuld, Cluclauati; . Dubuque, i l