Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1877, Page 4

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Afterauon, **Vir- " Evenlug, **The Uladistor,” 21 gtulus, Academy of Muaic. Atalsted street, between Madison and Montoe. Vas ety entertaiul 1 and eve: BATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1877, Greenbacks at the New York Gold Ex- chango yesterday closed at 933, If Loaax cannot be clected, ho may with- draw from the teack when it is too Iato to ‘bring forward unother candidate with any hope of success, as the Independents may have then mado their combination with the Democrats, The day of grace may be sinned away forever. Gen. Louay, it is said, is cheeving up the despondency of his supperters with the iden that when the Democrats leave Paruis and attempt to wheel into lino for AxpEnsoy, he will capture three or four wtragglers, and by their votes make hisown calling nnd elec- tlonsure, If ho Anows this will happen, all right; butif ho merely guesses or hopes it, then ho ia taking o risk which puts the Re- publicans in great peril of losing the Sena. torship, ‘Che Independents and Domocrats aresure to come together at last, if thero be no other Republican offered to the Inde. pendents than Lonsx, whom thoy lave steadily rojected cighteen times. It wes o sort of gala day for the femalo suffragists in Congress yesterday, By a pre- concerted armngement twenty-five patitions wero presonted by juembersfrom as many differont States in bebolf of o Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution guaranteo. ing that the frunchiss shall not be denied in any Btate on account of sex. I was a great source of satisfuction to the patient toilers for woman's political equulity to fgure so conspicuously in Congresy, and thoy were permitted another eause for rojoicing by the Houso Judiciary Committee in agrecing to teport o Lill to allow women to practice in tho different United States Courts upon an 2qual footing with men ns regurds conditions and qualifications, To o member of tho Louisinun Investigat- ing Committcs who wanted to know why the President had not promptly recognized tho Packann Governmeut, tho President yestordoy gave his rensons for the caution aud moderation which have marked his course in this regard, Hu referred ¢o his ex- perienco in the prowpt recognition of the Kenroas Governuient thres yeant ago, and ‘o the fact that he was not mustained by the Republican Seunte or the itepublican party at large, and said thot this experienca bad suggested to Lim the propriety of proceeding with yreater deliberation and caution in the present instance. No better reason could be asked than this, and te wight have ndded that ho preferred to await the result of thy Congressionnl investi. pations in Lonisiona Leforo deciding ns to the recognition of either Governuent in that Btate. ‘Thero are, in fuct, plenty of reasons, and all of them crditables to tho Presidont's fairness and discretion, for going sow o the Louisinua matte: The Generul Assombly bas now spent threa days in vain efforts to elect a Benator, Eighteen Lalots have Leen taken aud record. ed. Gon, Looan has recelved tho full Re. publican strength fourteen times, aud, at the end of the third day’s voiing, there was not the slightest visible symptom of uny further votes to be bud for him. It looks as if hu had exhousted his streogth and resources, aud could go no higher. Ihere are no iudi- cations that any Democrats or Independents will vote for him, and without sowe nasist. ™" ance from thoso quurters Lis election is i } i mathematical impossibility. now in order is, How long will this dead-lock be maintained? The thirteen or fourteen Indepondents of vurious sliades bave cou. solidated on the Dewocratic Independent, ‘W. B. Anpeusoy, lately in Springfield, but now back iu his scat in Congress. All the Davis men bave gone over to hiw, nnd the whole faction aru now laboring with the Democrats to iuduce then to ubandon Gen. Parues and support ANperso ‘The «uestion The Chicsgo produce markets were irreg- 1 'ular yesterdsy, but generclly firmer. Mess ! pork closed 1Uc per brl bigher, ut $17.074@ 37,10 for Februury and %17.42} for March. Lard closed 15¢ per 100 lbs higher, at $11,05 for February and $11,22} for March. Meats closed e per Ib higher, at Ge for shoulders, boxed ; 8o for short-ribs; e for short.clears, Highwines were dull and ensior, at 31,07 per gallon. Flour was quiet and firm, Wheat closed 2}c higher, at S1.31 cash and $1.81§ scller February, Corn closed 4o higher, at 44c cash and 44jc for February, Oats closed fo higher, at 334c cash and 3570 for Febrnary. Rye was nuiet, at 72c. Barloy closed 1¢ higher, at G2¢ cash and 62jo for February. Hogs were more active, and averaged 10c higher, with salen at £5.00@6.75. Caltle wore fairly act- ive and lower, selling principally at $3.25@ 4.50. Bheep wero steady, at £3,00@3.25 for poor to choice, Oune hundred dollars in gold wonld buy $106.50 in greenbacks at the close, Tho House Democrats have already had enough of jmprisoning the telegraph people for contempt in vefusing to produce dis- patches when called for, and the telegraph people appear to have had onough of im- prisoument. But the latter have seasoned their submission with a doso for the Com- mittea that wants the dispatchies. President Ontox, being dischnrged from custody by renson of the safficient snswer he gave, the Executive Committee now propose to sur- ronder the dispatches, several thousand of them, on all conceivable sub- jects that could possibly form the thems of private ' business com- munication by telegraph, and npon the House Committoe will devolve tLe pleasant task of wading through this enorinous mass of mes-. sages and sorting out what they are in senrch of, with tho likelihood of only making a water-baul when all is done. They have on hand a job they will get hoartily sick of be- fore they Liave finished it, and will wish they bad never undertaken to meddle with the pxiv.nta business of other people. Gen. Louax promised the Republican cau- cus that when it became manifest ho conld not bo elected ha would withdraw his name nnd lot tha caucus try other candidates. Hns not the timo about come for the re- demption of the promise? Twenty-five or thirty members, whoso first choice Loaax is not, hiave obeyed the maundatsof the caucus, and voted against their own convictions ns to the fittest and best condidate no less than cighteen times, ond others who wero not Lound by the caucus hiave lent him a helping hand fourteen times, but all without avail. How much longer are thoy to be keld to what now looks like the forlorn hope? It no member forget that the great party which he in part repre- senta wanta a Ropublican Senator clected to represent this Republican State. If Gen, Looax can be elected, well and goods: if he cannot be, then lot bim act a munly part and step aside, in order that other names mny bo brought forward for trial. The censure of the party will fall henvily on the hesds of those who blunder in this business. If the Banatorship is lost by reason of office-scck- ing, seliish greed, the man who eauses it, no mntter who be is, will find himself politically Llasted. ‘Wa print this morning a large and interest- ing collection of interviews with the leading merchants, bankers, lawyers, and business mien genernlly of Chicago, on the subject of thio plan of sattlement of the Presidential dif. ficulty ngreed upon by the Congressional Joint Committee. The gontlemen whoso views aro thus briefly stated ave identified with both palitical partios; they are non. paliticians, but not non.partisan, each having n very decided preferenco for one or the othier of the Presidential condidates. But they care far more for tho permanent good of the nation, and alinost without cxception they approve of the plau of a tripartite commission of arbi- trators to settle the present compliention and end the stagnation under which the business interests of the conutry are suffering in con- sequonce. What the busiuess men want is o spoedy sottlomont which shall at thie same timo Le a fair scttlement, and they beliove the method proposed by the Joint Committeo will accomplish this vitally nccessary con- wummation; and what the Lusiness men do not want is that the professional politicians and bungry office-seekers shall prolong the agitation and risk the horrors and calawities of revolution, The Legislature of Nebraska hns possibly done o wise thing in makiog s change in its Senatorial representation. Gov, Sauxnens, who has been elected, is a man of ability and & manof honorable standing and churac- ter. Seuntor HiTcucock failed to satisfy the people of Nebraska, 1Iis six years’ of serv- ico failed to commend him to the favor of any considerablo portion of his constituents, ‘The attempt to re-clect him divided the par- ty ln the Btate. An isstruction to the can- didates for the Tegisiature to vote for him cost the Republicans the whole delegntion from Douglas County (Ouha) to the Leg- inlature. In tho division of the party pro. duced by tho attempt to force his re-elec. tion, Mr. Hirencock way set aside and an- other Republican found and clected. Nebras- ka and the Henato will lose nothing by the change, In Massachusetts, the Ion. Gronar . Hoan hus been clected to succeed Mr. Bouvrwerr, and the change is a fortunate one, Mr, Bourwery, hios boen o failure, not becauso of any personal fault, but beeause of an in- abitity on hix purt to meet tho requiremonts of the situations ho has ocenpied, o has been probubly the weskest und shallowest person who hns represcuted Muassachusetts in the Benate siuco the organization of the Government in 1789, Massachusetts can well sparo him. Mr. Hoan is nota great man, but he is superior to Bovrwern, If he have deticiences, ko will not publicly adver. o them, as his predecessor nlways did. He fsaman of fuir ability, of high personal character, und will not be likely to pretend to be auything more thau he i4. 'T'ho Re- publicans Lave been fortuuate in their choice of Benators; have shown wisdomn and sound policy in re-electing those who are creditable tothe State and to the Senate, like Frusy snd Wixpos, and in makiug changes, asin Nebraska and Massachusctts. Tarty feeling wnd party preforences run bigh in all parts of the laud; but public considerations are cousidered by the mass of tho people ay intinitely higher than the mere clection of vither T1epex or Haves. Itis no disparagement of cither TiubeN or Haves to say that, outside of the circla of oftice- holders and officc-seckers, there is but a small sumber of persous who think the sul- vation of the country depends on the elec. tion of tho onu to the exclusion of the other. 'The country wauts rest and it wants peace. ‘I'rude and industry stand paralyzed becsuse of the uncertaiufy whether in the struggle for a President wo wuy not have two; in. stend of one Governmeut we will have two; with encouragement to vice, violence, and disorder which aro iuseporable from such a stato of affairs, Compared with tho restorw. “wpi§ UHICAGO™ TRIBUNE: "SATURDAY. JARUAR tion of confidence, and the consequent ro. sumption of business and of industry, the personal smccess of any man, or the success of any political party, sinks into insignifiennce. Thirteen of the ablest and most experienced men selecied from both parties have proposed an arbiter to de- cide batwoen the rival claims of heated par. tisans, to decido between the irreconcilable differences of the two liouses of Congress, and to lift from the low lovel of party ad. vantage to the higher plane of judicial in- vestigation the decision of the whole contro- versy by legal rules and principles. In favor of such a tribunal the business men of the United Btates appeal to Congress, In favor of the penceful determination of the question by such means there will be an oarnest demand from the enlire people in- terested in commerce and interested in manufactures ; and from the vast multitude of men nnd women of all labor and industrial occupations, Thess people ssk for peace, and protest against discord and disorder. They ask that business bo allowed to rovive, that confidence in the ability of tho nation to govern iteclf bo restored, and that labor and industry bo put at work, production re- newed, and the present ruinous stagnation bo terminated. 'These poople will not hesi- tate to hold that party and the men who re. joct this means of reconciliation and adjust. ment to a severe and just respousibility. THE PEACEFUL BETTLEMENT. The report of the Joint Committee of Con- gress on the subject of counting tho Presi- dential vote is now before the Senate aud Touse, and will be debated and considered during the next ten days. Itisan important mensure, the necessity for which so im. pressed itself upon the partisans who comn. posed the Committes that they ylelded their own convictions and their own wishes to tho higher considerations of the public good. ‘When soven Republicans and seven Demo- crats, selected because of their partisan pre. dilections, unite upen a plan of scttling the difficulty which threatens the peace of the country, it is safo 1o assume that the meas. ure is nbout as fair aud just to oll parties as can be expected from ordinary human nn- ture. The bill will bo opposed by two classes of persons holding widely different opiuions : 1. Those who beliove that the Constitu. tion has placed in tha President of the Sen- ato exclusively, and frco of all contrel by Congress, the power {o count the Electoral votes, including the power to determino which of two or more returns from s State shall be counted. 2, Those who beliove thnt the Iouse of Representatives have, by a mafjority vote, the power to object to and veto the counting of the vote of nny Btate, thercby defeating tho clection made by the Electors, and ob- taining jurisdiction to clect n President by their own body. Theso are tho two extremes which will oppoyo this plan, It iu directly pertinent to call nttention to the fact that those who claim the exclusive power for the President of the Senato aro all Republicaus, and who aro ko cortain that the President of the Senato, will count Havesin that it ho, in the exercise of his power aud judgment, should do otherwise, they would donounce him as a traitor, On the other band, those who hold to the exclusivo power of the House to reject a vote and then elect n I'residont, are all Democrats, and expect from tho exercise of such power by the Ilouse to eloct Tipey, Tho advocates of tho oxclusivo power of tho President of the Senato do so because they clahin thnt officer will elect Hayes, and those who insist on the exclusive power of tho Honse of Repro- sentatives do so becauso that House will clect "TrnveN, Theso extremes will oppose any counting of the votes that will not olect theirmnn; and they prefer to persiat in Lav- ing two Presidonts counted in—one by each House—rather than yield o letter of their cloim. To them the success of their aay tises above ull otlier considerations, and to secure that man they caro mothing of the consequences, It is proper ibat these extreme partisans should ba reminded that all Republicans do not agreo with thew, nor do all Dewocrats. Tho President of tho Senate i an ofiicer of that body ; he is appointed by and is a mem- ber of that body; be in its organ and repre. sentative, 1le is tho rapresentative of the will of a majority of tho Benate, and will not undertake to put that will at defiance, nor get himself up as en independent tribu. nal. It is altogether uncertain whether n mnjority of the Senate believes or will sanc- tion tho claim that the President of that body is above tho control and direction of the two llouses of Congross. In point of fact, wo do not believe that the Benate will consent to the exvrcise of any authority by tho President of the Senate to connt the vote except in the event of a failurs of Con. gress to malke any rulo or law on the subject. Tlio great mujority of the members of that body, including the ablest and mont experi- enced members of hoth partics, have, by their votes and their recorded opinions, decided overand over that the two Housesof Congress have the power by law to relieve the Presi- dent of the Henato of ull authority beyond tho mere opening of the cerlificates, The Prosident of the Henate, therefors, will not undertako the arbitr ry excrciso of the pow- cr claimed for him unless so directed by a Heunte, tho majority of which is opposed to such exercise of power by him, Nor is it altogether cortain that the Democrats in the Housu are ugreed us to the rovolutionary power claimed for that body ; but the refusnl Ly the othior side to ‘sdopt any mle on the subject would result unquestionably in the declaration of the election of Tirves by that body. T'he business of the country, which lad begun to revive, is now under a parnlysis caused by this complication in the Presiden. tinl election, "T'his political contest hes ar- rested all fimprovemont in busiuess, bocause it menaces the country with a civil disturb- nnce that, onco begun, will densoralize all things, will destroy ull hope for the stability of the Goverment, and s0 weaken contl- denes thnt credit und the revival of inaus- try will b indetiul.ely postponed. ‘Ihero is nothing in the wims of the arbi- tration to which the American peoplo will objoet. Each llouse will uppoint five of its own membens; four Judges of the Supreio Court, thres of whom were nppointed as Ttepublicuns, aro designated, aud given pow- er to select a fifth Justice, who must neces- sarily bo ouno sppointed us a Republican, These five Justices of the Suprewe Conrt, against whoso integrity ns Judges thero has never been auything breathed, will in fact bo the umpires to d:cide the questions of law, whatever thoy may be. We do not sup- posa that, on any question of law which way La presented to them, thero will bo auy dif- fereuce between theso Judges, It is possi- blo, but the probabilities are, that, acting as lawyers, under a full sense of the gravity of the questions and of the occasion, they will if he bo mnot inaugurated. ‘will satisfy him 1n no event. decide as lawyers and as Judges, di- vested of all personal and political fecling. The questions of law are but few. The ons is the Oregon question and the other fa the Louisiana case. Was CroNm “lawfully appointed an Elector? And had the Louisiana Returning Board power, under the law of Louisiana, to revise nnd purge tho originel returns of the election? The facta in both cases nre generally conceded, and practically the legal questions alone are to be narbitrated. For the decision of legal questions the American peopla ara accus. tomed to look to the courts. That, and not revolution, is the American tribunal to scitlo oll questions, aud the fact that no man can forotell what the decision of the Conrt will be, and that the Court is not o political ona to bo governed by a caucus, will commend the nelection of the arbitrators in this case to the American people, and preparo the public mind for & genoral scceptance of the judgment of the Court. ‘We submit that no party can afford to brave and defy publio opinion to the ecxtent of re- jecting this measure, It will ba insisted—is nlready fnsisted by the extremists—that to submit the “questions involved to any tri- bunal save to fhie President of the Senate, betrays n want of confidence in tho legality of the election of Tiaves and Wneerrr, whon the fact is that to refuse to submit the ques- tions of Inw to the dotermination of the five Justiceas of the Supremo Court betrays a want of confidence in the justice and legality of the election of 1faves. Thatwill be the universal verdict of the country should the Republican party refuse to consent to this arbitration, and, come what may from such a refusal, tho jndgment of the peoplo will be that the party that rofuses this arbitration confesscs the wenkness of ils causo, and re- sorts to civil war to bolster up a claim that cannot bear the test of judicial investigation. THE REVOLUTION THEORY, The aucient bulldozerof the Chicago Times is particularly unhappy over the prospective adoption of the plan for deciding the Presi- dentinl controversy by arbitration. This plau, if sdopted, will bave to pass both Housea of Congrosa and thercby nssuma the validity and force of law, and if carried into effect will probably nchieve a penceablo if not o satisfactory solution of tho threatening complication. But those two results are pre- cisely what tho Chicago ZBulldozer wanta to avoid. Ho does not want tha disputo settled by law, but wants the Democratic faction in the House of Ropresentatives to go outside of the law and organizo revolution by assert- ing tha authority in and by itself to declars a non-election and then proceed to choose a President. Ho wants Tiozy inaugurated so badly that he is willing to resort to ravolu- tion to compnass it, and demands rovolution Peaco and law An clection for President has been held and the votes cast. Congress itself, and much less one Houss of Congress, has no suthority to order that the Electoral votes sball not be counted, becauss the Constitu. tion orders that they shall bo counted. 'The only power that Congress hasis to prohibit tho counting of prefended Electoral votes, which are, as a matter of fact, uo votos at all, The Chicago Z'imes’ sophism, merely invent. ed to suit the occasion, is that all votes of Electors appointed as the State Legislaturcs have directed, cast, and certified, and trans. mitted to the President of tho Senate as pre- seribed in the Constitution, are bogus or pretended votes, and not votes at all, until both Houses of Congreas shiall havo admitted them to be genuine, That this iy tho fairest possiblo atatement of his case is proved by tho following comment on 'Tue Trsusg's converso of his position : e nranmen that the so-called Electors were cone #titational Electors, sppointed and qualifiedagree- sbiy to thopatloual luw, 1low and by what a- thority has fligt beon'determined? He assumes that the va-called votew were given ua the national supreme law suys they shall be. How and by what authority hus that been detepmined? lle assumes that the returny are Benuine, and made as the na. tlonal law says they siall ba made. How snd by what authority has that been determined? Tho Conatltution says that votes given inthe mannce preactlbed, by Electora appointed and qualified os it prescribes, for personn qualified aa it alvo pro- ncriber, **whall be counted.” How and by what authority lias It heen determined that any person has been conatitutionatly appointed and qualified; that any vole han been constitionally given or returned? All theee oo points arising upon the national suprenie law, They cannol be sesumed. This mnat he authoritatively determined beforo thero can arise under the Conatitution any obliga. tion to count; beforo thers can appear anything to Lo counted, This means that all votes are bogus till they are proved to bo genuine,—not morely that, but that all votes aro bogus till each Tlouss of Congreas shall kavo accepted them as genuine. As there 18 no power to com- pel tho Iouss of Represontatives to accept ns gennine what it prefers to reject, then, under this theory, the Houso of Represonta- tives can always declare a non-election and chooso the President. In other words, the hypothesin gives the Touse of Ilepresenta- tives the perpetual privilego of elocting the President of tho United States, If this had Leoun the intention of the Constitution, that high prerogative would probably have been conferred upon the House in plain and un. wistakable terms, 'Fhie notion that any clear mandato of the Coustitution requires for its execution a mo- tion and the aflirmative nssent of Congross iu too ridiculous for discussion, for thore would be no need of a Coustitution, and that in. stnument could be nullified ot any time by either Houso of Cougress. 'Thoe theory hay been put forward uow, not because thero is either law or reason in it, but bocauss it iy the only theory whercby the inauguration of TLpeN could be rondered absolutely cor- tain, The ugreement of the Damocratio members on the Conference Committee to the plan proposed seems to show that the theory is too ultra and outrageons for adop- tion oven in this partisan fght, and it will not be long hefore the Chicago Bullilozer will bo left all wloue in its sivocacy and lamentation at its abandonment. SCARLET FEVER AND DIPHTHERIA, AND THEIR TREATMENT. Wa desiro to direct special nttention to an important article printed in ‘Tug TuinuNe of this morning, written by Dr. G. D. DBreoe, of this city, uponscarlot fover aud diphtheria, with some thoughts on the eutire class of coutagious diseases, The paper was pre- pared originally for a medical roview, but ita insortion in Tux Tuisuxe was procured in order that it might the more quickly reach the genernl publiv and perhaps be them aus of saving many lives, 1t ia not so technical as to be beyond the comprehension of the non-professionul reader, uud it is not merely o geveral dissertation on the disonses con. sidercd, but suggests ot ouce 8 romedy and preventive that has boen successfully em- ployed by himself in hundreds of cases, and recounts the process by which the speciic was sought and found. Dr. Beesx stands in tho front runk in the wchool in which he practices, (bomsopathy), and his merits as s surgeon are recognized by those even who are op- posed to his school of medicine. He has nat sought any personal advantage from his experiments, but is actnated simply by a desire to contribule to the general good that e hins found to be efficient as a preventive and & romody in the treatment of two dis. enses that logothor have become almost a scourge this winter, not only in Chicago but geuerally throughout the country. Every househiold with children is threatened with scarlet fover and diphtheria, and the disenses have never been so malignant. 1f Dr. Berpe's discovery, which is simply sulpho- carbolate of soda (a chiemical combination of sulphite of soda and carbolio acid), will check tha contagion by genernl use, then it i8 tho duty of physicians of every schiool to employ it without reference to a difference in practice, personal or professional jeal ousies. ‘The rensoning by which Dr. Beeng was led up to the employment of this agency will also commend it to intelligent people. The microscope hine alrendy revealed the terrible ravages of tho parasitic animaleulm known variously as bacterium, vibrio, penicillium, lorula, eto., in fermentation and putrefac- tion. Somo of the most eminent scientific men of the day—Pasteur in France, Kocn in Gormany, T'rspany in England—have demonstrated that theso infinitesimal organ- isma have vitality and powers of generation and transmutation that are at once marvel- ong, insidions, and frightfal. Trvpary calls them generally ferments, They are carried throngh the air and they lie buried for months in unsuspected places only to renew their ravages under the proper conditions, It 18.not strango, then, that medical men shounld linve carried their speculations and experi. monts in the same direction beyond the vision of the microscope, ‘' The discase,” says TrxpaLy, “bears s conatant a relation to its coutaginm as the microscopic organisms just enumerated do to their gorms, or, in- deed, as a thistle does to its teed. No won- der, then, with analogies so obvious and so striking, that the conviction is spreading and growing daily in strength that reproductive parasitio life is at the root of epidermic dis- onse,—that living ferments finding lodgment in the body increase there and multiply, di- rectly ruining the tissne on which they sub- sist, or destroying lifa indirectly by the generation of poisonous compounds within the body. This concluston, which comes to us with n presumption almost amounting to demonstration, is clinched by tho fact that virulently-infective disenses have been dis- covered with which living organisms are ns closely and ns indissolubly associated as the growth of torula is with the fermentation of beer.” It wns upon this hypothesis that Dr, Brese began his roarch, as long as ten years ago in the case of diphtheria and mors re- cently in scarlot fover, for an agency that would attack and defeat the reproductive parasites which he belioves to be destroying the esacntials of the blood in those diseases, He first found that carbolic acid, adminis- tered internnlly, was effective as an anti- soptic, but the objootion to it was that it could not be diffused in sufficient quantities to insure success without risking its poison- ous effects. Bulphite of soda was found to be diffusive enough, but to lack on- ergy. It waos finally in a combination of the two—sulpho-carbolate of soda —that tho desired agency was discov- ered, and its use during the present epidemio this winter of searlet fever and diphtheria hns abundantly demonstrated its ofliciency. Dr. Bzene cites a largo numbor of cnacs whore in towns or neighborhoods visited with the scourgo the use of this an. tisentic has saved families from attack, whilo all those not using it were soized with dis- caso, He bas the remedy proparedin proper doses, which ko sells at a trifling sam and just sbout tho cost, and he freoly communi- cates to physicians all that his own expo- rience has taught him ns to the manuer of administering it and the quantity to be given, 'The discovery is certainly worthy of the con- fidonce of a trinl as n prophylactio in all familics where thero are children, TURKEY'S DEFIANCE. Tle entangled web of European complica- tions is at Inst unraveled, so far as the rela. tions of Turkey and Russia aro concerned. ‘The work of the Conferonco is over, and the Plenipotentlaries by this time nro on their war-vessels gaillng for home, without having accomplished any valuable result in righting the wrongs of tho Sclavie Christiana or guar- sateeing them immunity from Turkish tyr- suny in the future, ‘Tho result is o melan- choly one, to say the least. Great expecta- tions wera Lmsed upon this Conference. Every leading Power in Europe was repre- sented in it by somo of its ablest men, und Englaud sent undoubtedly the most brilliant diplomnt she possenses, They mot with a great flonrish of trumpets, and at the ontset impressed the world with tho hope, based upon the the firmuces with which they treated the question of armistice between Turkoy ond Bervia, that they would present such an ultiostum and in such & monner a&s would inevit- ably impress . the Porto with tho conviction that the Great Powers were in earnest, and that, unless Turkey conceded and guaranteed the reforms which Iussis had demanded, sho would incur the displeas- uro of all Jurope, As time went on, how- ever, the Conference dropped many of the wont material demandswhich had beon made with o much bluster, and so modified others that at last thero was scarcely one of the propositions that had boen made in the Ax- puassy noto, the Herlin memorandam, the Euglish note, or Ievarieyr's Rusalan ultl- matum, that had not Leen evaded or diy- carded altogoetlier by the audacity and sharp. ness of Turkish stotecraft, Tho Conference, howaever, could not yield everything without tho admission that the Great Powers had been overwhelmed by Turkey in tho diplo- matic game. ‘They must make a stand somowhere, and they made it upon the question of sn International Com- mission to supervise the roforms prom- ised by Turkey in her Utopiun papor Constitution, during a limited time, and it was laid before 'Purkey as an ultimatum that must be answered on Thursday of the pres- eut weuk, It might have been accopted by the Porte without at all weakening its hold upon its provinces, and would Lave cost the Turky nothing but o little humiliation ; but evon this simull price it appears they were not prepared to pay. Having checked the Conference at every step, they suddenly checkmated it with the prompt refusal not only to accept the last remaining proposition of the Powers, but with the defiant an. nouncement that they would wuot al. low any foreizu interference iu their affairs, saying which thoy politely but reso- lutely showed tho Plenipotontiarics to the door. ‘The decision has boin wado with as- tonishing unanimity. It is not the Bultan slone, nor the Sultan acting upon the advice of his Premier, which hns thus confroated all . Europe. It comes from a council of the magnates of the Empire,—Turks, Greeks, Ar- menians, and Ohristiang,~who unanimonaly informed the Conference not only that their proposnla were rejected, but that they (the "Turks) would disouss nothing further except thoir own counter-proposals ; that they pre- forred death to dishonor, and would rathor have war than any foreign interferance, Thoe prompt and vigorons action of the Turks has thus simplified motters. Bome ono must back sqnarely down or thero must ba a fight. Of courso the Turk cannot now rotreat. England, France, Italy, and Ger. many have promised neutrality, and Austria has no immediato interest in the quarrel so far as tha points at issuo between Russin and Turkey aro concorned. Wil Russin fight or yleld the points which it demanded at the ontset? If it decides upon war, it must be a Dbitter struggle, for the armies of tho two nations are about equally matched, whilo the Turks have the naval superiority, thanks to English money. The Russians are most un- doubtedly good roldiers, but so are the Turks, and the latter would go into the fight flushed with their anccessen over the Bervians, nud undoubtedly counting upon a rupture of tho relntions between Russia and Austria, sooner orlater. If Russia rotreats from hor posi- tion, it must be with & loss of national honor, and, in thoe light of such a rotreat, the Czar's Moscow speech, not a word of which las yot been rotracted, will go down to history 08 theo mere raving of a BounasTrs Funioso, ‘Whatever mny be the issue, Turkey has out- matched tho other European Powers, notably England, 8ho has cut loose from her heredi- tary guardian, and disowned lier after having stolen all the good old woman's property she could lay her hands on. . jor of The, Tribune. CrieAao, Jan. 10,—A New Yorker sends me the Netw York' 7riliune of tho i Insf., containing the pecches madeat the dinner Aven to ex-Mayor Vickia, and calla iy attentlon especlally to the nddress of WiLriax E. Dopug, inwhich that gen- tleman asserts that Chicago's imports for the flacal year ending June 1 amount to only $300,000, In thintho fact? If not, I hope you will correct his statistics, D. W, 8 The following were the figures given by Mr. Donos: The total imports of the country for the flscal year cnding June 1 Inst wero §563,000,~ 000, of which there was recelved at Now York. Philadelpl Ruitimore. Toston. York {n her importa, though no donbt o portion pay dutlea here.. . 500,000 The dutfes colleeted on the nbove were: New York.$107,000,000 Boston,.....$14,000,000 Phila’phia,” #,000,000 Chicago..... 17,000 Ualtlmore . 6,000, 000 We have not at hand the means of stating what were the figures for the flscal year, but wo have the followlng, which are ofticinl, as the du- tles collected at Chlcago on forelgn goods in ceereres . 1,545,091 And the official valuation of the forelzn goods imported Into Chicago durlng 1870 s 3,407,590, 'This s nearly seven times the amouut credited to us by My, Dopar fn his after<lluner speech. We would gladly throw the mantle of charity over his shortcomings by supposing hita to have tarrled *‘too long at the wine,”” but for the popular beliel that the man who is under its influence sees double. We are very much afrald that Mr. Dobor has lald himeclf open to tho charge of willfully perverting the facts in the case, and thus invited susplcion as to the ac- curacy of the other figures which he puts forth to the world as *statlstics.” ‘The Cincinnat! Enquirer, o rabld, unserupu- lous TiL.DEN organ, i3 not much impressed with the wisdom of WATTER30N'S achemo for bring- Ing to Washington 100,000 Detouratie buildoz- crs to superintend the count of the Electoral vote on the 15th of February next. It regards the proposition from this standpolint: This talk of holding a grand Democratie Conven- tlon in Waehington to Influence Congress in the Flectoral connt 18 simple madness, Does any one wuppoxe for s moment that the Repuhlleans would be behind the Detnocrots fu this sort of work? They would call o convention ut the wame tme, and would have tho extra advaniage of the urmy. There In no call for wich sn assemblage. It would do Infinitely mors hann thau good. We beliove In the right'of petition, hut the assemn- blage of a vast crowil of people In Washington on the day wet apart for countlng the_Electoral vots could mean but une (hing—a mob. Legirlative Dodies are 1ot 1o bu influeniced in this way, Meet. ings may e held and petitions nent n, bt the trcedoni of the leglwlator must not be interfered with, When Lord Gronae Gonvox marched his mobof howling Antl-Paplsts to the doora of West- winnter Palace to present a petitlon, he aroused Tarliument to a wenwe of danger, and a statilo was at once enacted prohibiting public arsemblages nearer than w mlle from the Purllament House to coneidor questions pending In thatbody, Congress 18 tolerably well fuformed us to Mic state of the publlc inind, and therais nodemand just at present {for a demunstration ut Washlngton, The ahove fromn the Euquirer is Inreply to o frothy article in the Chicago Bulldvzer, written by fta champlon jackass, who imaogiucs that when be brays o great lon {8 roariug. —— Among the deaths of prominent persons which have recently occurred are those of Daxier M. CuRIBTIE, ono of the most widely Xkuown lawyers n New umpshire, who was Presidentlal Elector on (he Lincotn ticket in 18615 of Fraxcors Bunoz, who founded the Revue des Deuz Mondes, forty-six years ago, and made it one of the most complete aummarics of uni- versal history ever published; of Vice-Admiral Jamzs A, PAYNTER, 0f the British Nuvy, one of the oldest and most gallunt officers of the scrv- feu; of Lord Nmaves, the last survivor of the sct who, under Prof, WiLsoxn's leadership, made Blackwood 8o fainous; of ClHARLES ENSLIN, who was widely known and respected in 8t. Louls as the Cashler of the Bank of Commerce fu that city; of WiLLiax E. Wanuex, of New York, the most’ fumous accountant in the Unled States; and of Judge ETuer SuerLey, of Port- tund, Me., of whom the Boston Advertiser suys: In 1820 be waa s member of the Constitutional Conventton; in 1821 he wae niade the first trict-Attorney of the Maine Dietrict, which posie tion he held twelve yenra: 1o 1833 he wus elected 10 the United Stutew Sennto; 1n 18U ho resigned his placu to recelye his sppolntme preme Hench, 1o b leltan iuhabis monu- went to bla judiclal learnlug in 1y-aeven vol- umesof the Ktate leports, For many years he has been 1 Impaired health, but his mind bas re- wained clear and strong. No more devoted Chriatian ever Jeft a richer legucy of counsel and exatple with the world than J MERLYY. s e et p— - - - Our Bpringtleld correspondent was in error In calllng OwexN Bruant an attache of the Chicugo Custom-Huuse, and thu night-cditor in follow- ing bl fell juto the same mistake. Mr, Owex BTUART {8 & whisky-izuuger in the Internal Rev- enue service, und owes bis place to Mr. J. D. Hanver, who is the appointee of Gen. LOGAN. It waa u lttle rough un the Hon. J, 8. Joxes, who “runs” the Custom-fouse branch of the revenue service, to leave the fuference that ho had detailed onc of his clerks to Bpringficld to buy votes for 8enator Louax. Ile llkes Loaay, but not that well, As to OWEN Bruant, who 1s u warm-hearted, excellent fetlow, we do not be- Yieve there [+ @ word of truth in the allegation that he tried to bribe BHERIDAN or &ny other mon, and we won't belfeve it uutil it s substun- thated. The New York Journal of Commerce, devoted to mercuntilo Interests and of Democratie poll- tics, sava concerning the Presidential muddle: do not szree, oud the two pars estieme courso indicated, the elect TiLves, and the Senate on of flaves uud WuceLku, Al wtrlfo aud confuslon, but 1 wa. Thu Repubs licuny e 11 posac: wachinery of Goverument, aud wo do not belleve 1hut suy con- siderable number of the Democrate will consent to an armed reslstance, even to assert what they be- Heve 6o be thelr rigl o e — s The firocating WATFERSON wants 10,000 Kentucky bulldozers to visit Washiugton ss Dbearers of the petition of thu Conlederutes of that State asking Cougress to count in TiLpus! s that all they uro expected to dot Why van’t the petition be sent by mail, messenger, or ox- press, warked C. 0. Dt The march of the it tiea each tako { House clauning to sunounelng th e 10,000 Into Persin was not what {mmortalizeq them, but the retreat out of it hack futo thelr own country. And {f WATTRRION leads by 10,000 metnorial-hearers to Washington, the only glory they wiil gain will be In the style ang auccess of their retreat home to the ¥ dark and bloody ground" with as much veloclty ang eafety as the case wiil permit. 5 Tn nothing except her cotton i St. 1. tereated than In the ki teader ~ iy o nore Kt akilifal management St. Louin niny become o reat graln market for tho Weat nnd Southient e nothing s more certain thon that not only alfferent polley will have to be ndupled by merchants, lut that changes of ‘somio conseqaers must e effected In her raliroad connections, gy Louis Republican. e The 8t. Louis paper says that to the country north of them Chicago monopolizes the Rraly trade; and that the fact s Chicago 18 also reach. Ing around behind Bt. Lonls and getting the luw’s share of the trade of Kansas, as well g5 of Northern Mlssourl. Tha remedy for thig state of things augzested f8 the huilding of an. other line of rallway to Kansas. It I8 not nore rallways to Kansas that 8t. Louls needs, but (e ability to pay Chicago prices for gralu, A little study of the statistics of the late elee tion should convinco the Democrats that they did oot schieve 08 wuch of o victory ns they have beeu clalming. Let them examlue these figures: Etect Elector vote for Haves,.. yote for TiLnN Nnmbherof States voting f Number of States vollng for Firnes Popular votc of twenty-one Hepubii BIALEB.. corovossuasesnsetenasone oo, 204, 1100 Tovular vote of seventeen Democratic Excens of votes east in ltepublican States,.. . 162,708 The action of prominent citizens in coming forward 8o handsomely to the rellef of Farwel) Hall from {ts dobt s comunendable and pratse. worthy, 1t Ia a pity, however, that the large amount of money ralsed could not havebeen de. voted to the bullding of n new Farwell Hal, which might have been well lighted, well ventl. luted, constructed upon such ocoustle pring. ples us toadapt It to music and speaking, nnd provided with such neans of exit as to make It sate,—not oncof which qualitics the present Liall posscases. ————— PERSONAL. Mr. Beecher's aoprano singer has been marrylog 8 brillunt lesther-merchant. Lake Thrasymene, In Northern Ialy, on the &, Vorder of which Hannlbal destroyed & Roman army, I8 quito a sheet of water, which tha en. ginceraare at work dralning and reclalming, The Important statement is made that Commo. dore Vanderbilt was sccustomed to take twelve Inmpa of sugar 1n Lls tes and slx lumps In hin glo, Howasa fricnd of **the free breakfast-table, " New York society Is now excltea by the divorce sult of Matllda Morrls, agea 70 years, agains Robvert C. Morrls, aged 74 years, The partiea were married forty-six years ago. They are fn high soctal standing, A henevolent pereon at Danbnry, Conn., sent t¢ the New York Zribune anonyniounly 8500 **to by put where it would do the most good.” The edit. or, although he might jastly have consumed the same in riotons living, zave it to the poor, Gentlemen who combine the practice of the legal profession with vccasional devotion to the gaming: table are 10 be found in ather cities than Chlcago, ‘The Cincinnati Gazette reports the arrcet of the Democrotic Attorney-General of Iudlana In u gam. Lling-houro ut Indlanapolls, A model city called Iiygela Ia to be bullt o the south const of England by Dr. Richurdson, ane will embody the best resnlts of medlcal knowl- edge. 1t will Lo poseible for every inhabltant of thils charming rexort to grow old and stupid accord. 1ng to the most approved principles. Mr, Frederlck Woodn, of Brooklyn, went ont tc Ty a cofin for his mother-in-law, but his delight in the wisslon overcame bis babitusl prudence and led bim to Indulge freely in stmulating drinke, He ot drunk and didn't buy the cofiin, The Judge 1et him off on the understanding that be would ful- 811 tho plous duty instantly, 4B, 1L W' wishes to kuow {f George MacDon. ald, author ofa ** Vicar's Daughter " and ** Annats of a Quiet Nelghborhvod," 1s dead, and, §f 4o, whenand where he died. 1o Ia not dead, but hae 8 story now running In one of the mawazines, The ' error doubtlces arose from the fact that he Josta . member of Lis family not long since. A lady of 35 years, residing fn a fashlonnble boarding-houne fn New York, amused herself Tuesday night by drinking freely and chasing her daughter, aged 10, down stalrs with a revolver, The precociuus young gltl, on beiug asked her opinton of the affalr, observed: **The only troable with mother §u that she lives too high, The famous Ilobert H, Derdell has sued his di- vorced wila for 810,000 worth of pereonal propetty which she took from hin hause after the shouting of Wisner Murray, Berdell admite that jnost of tho articles now clalmod were given by him to his wife 8a presents, but alleges that he dtd not at that thne contompluto the possibilllty of her leaving him. Tho actionn for Nbel of the Countess de Montijy, better kiown an the ex-Empresa Eugenle, agalust the provinclal proes of TFrance have not been as auccessful us those agalnst the newspapers of Parls, 1ut tho comprehienslvences of the proceed- fnge must thoroughly clear the falr name of tle piaintt? and vstablinh her legltimacy wherever it Lawbeen disputed. ‘Thore ta o certaln grim humor In tho following ftem from tho Brooklyn drgua, but it cuts ratler too neur every-day experience to bo pleasant: **A Chleago man encountered . draped figare In bis barement hall the other morning, and, mistaklug It for his wife's dressing mald, hugged It ardently for soveral necondn before he discovered that it was s Deputy Sherllt inan Ulater overcont," A sharp election’wan recently held i Liskeard, in Cornwsll, Eng., for member of Parllameut. Mr. Leonard Conrtney, ono of tho editors of the London JYines,—a man of culture and Americsa travel,—was slected over C‘ol. Sterling, the pro tege of the locul famlly of Trelawny, The wsie between the two Liberals was wharply on tho mp- port of Beaconsficld's Turkish pollcy, and resulted ina defeat of the candidute who sustalued It. * Mr. Hooker ueed to dispenso hospitallty to Americaus In Romo from the Honaparte palace, {n Finzza Venezin, one wing of which he oconpled. Cardinal Bonaparto bul apartinents In the other wing, and lived fn magnifeence. Tle made un fw- pression on s, Hooker, when the Jatter visited him, by haviug four funkics volemuly wipe off the dour-kiobs before the visltor wus permitted 19 tuueh thus, e Constitution waa proclalmed at Constanti- nople on the 3d of Deceuber amid the wildest euthueluem. The favorite prima douna, Mite Mae- ger, was obliged to sing threo times her fumors plece, tho Songof the Turcos, the fArst wlausa of which Fune thus® 16 Trarcon aont hons enfantay Muls 1! e fant pus qu'on Iow gear, Car alors 1o chues et eetultie: Tis devinument iechuntst Pilnt. the teapot medlum, who has amonz bis patrons so distingnished a person uv My, Edwurds Plerrepont, hos at last been released from Jaik whese hie wuy committed for contempt of Coust I refusing ta pey alimony und fees awarded to b wife, 1o Lias manfully held out wince August, & paying # Ligh prico for Loant and enjoylng the hospltalities of his Jallor in o bigh degece, The motion for hlu releaso way wado by biv wite's ab- torueyd. The American Minluter to Libcria hasbegan valt, under the Civil Righte bill, against the proprictois of the Astor louar, lu New York Clty, because thiey, 1ast October, refused to entertaln him, being » negro. Mo bad hls roow epgaged beforebad. but when he sppeared sud clulmed it the clerks told him they regretted to way the hotel was full he dufenae {8 that the Clvil Rights Lill 1a uncon- »itational, and (hat the hotel really was full, ve claimed. When Mr. Proctor lectured at Dayton, O., tbe mauager of the hall aud of the courso had & dis- puto us to the proper length of the lecture. The manager of the courss suld ho pald locturers give **a full-sized talk, " and thought anything lest than two bours would be & dellcicncy; the wavsye? of the hull, 0a thu otber hund, advised agulustes long a specch. Hut the manager of the course pri vately wafd that (ke mauager of tho hall was ouly wuxlous I the ntter 10 save gar. One thiug more rewasrksble than the persousl quurrel of the Clucinnall cditors was the yuddou Jewe with which 18 came tu s close. Eovious specs tators of the affray aay that cuch of the contestantt hud arrived at a polot whers bo feared to prechil: tate & ducl by sayinyg unothier offensive word, su tlat Lotl consequently drew off at the same tluie. Buta more Fessanable Bypotbeels 1o tbat intercst 1n tbe subject was gono when the printlag of ibs, Bhoerid's ofice had besn disposed ot ¥ 4