Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1877, Page 4

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Fnrkey’s deflont o jattitnde, Tt wes only n fow wecks ago that ¢ I the Czar in ik Moscow rpeech way talking '+ ubout what Rusuin would do if her demands * were nmot complied with, ‘Turkey nud . Tassia have changed places in the matter of ! blaf, The Loudon papers are muking the most of alittlo flurry oceastoned by the killing of " a German by somn ‘I'reuchmen in n druukon + salors’ brawl at Bmyrua, togother with the fnct that tho German and French represent- i atives wero ot cross-purposes in the Cone . siantinople Contercuce, Dispatelien from Berlin and Paris aro printed to show n feel- ing of Litterness that has found expression ! in the press of hoth countries, but it does not apponr that there Is any seviona gronud for apprehending that cither of the canses ! of animosity will dovelop into auything like - warlike dimensions, +. -President Gnavt cxprossos himself very . earnestly in favor of the Arbitration bill, re- garding it o patriotfe, statesmnnlike, nnd cquitable plon for the adjustment of the . difficulties, and one which, if pmsed by both 1 Houses, ho wonld approve most willingly . ond heartily. Ho believes that the people at lergo will welcome the proposed settlement , ssof vitnl fmportanco to the general good, - and that the pressure of public sentiment , will be too strong to bo resisted by the op- | ponents of tho measure, President Grant . would prefir to leave {o his’ succesior a + peaceful ndministration, and ho sees such prospect assured in (he sdoption of the plan ; of judicial arbitration. Doubtless he nees n . different snd far gloomier outlook in the i ovent of defeat. * Foranora thau a month the House Judicin- i vy Committee has beon wnder instruction to report an amendment to the Coustitutions ! probibitiug the payment of war-claims to : disloyal persons, On tho 20th of December ! @ resolution was adopted reqniring such o . yeport within twenty days, Lnt the Commit. i tee has paid no atteution cither to the sub. 1 Ject or to the fnstructions of the Mouse, An . attempt was ;made two weeks ago to repeat . the damnsnd, Lut the Democrats would not . Yote to expedits {he mintler, preferring to lgt it remain buried, They will not, howe ever, be suceessful in ovading n record much : longer. A similar rexolution is to bo offered ! to-day if au opportunity can be fonml, with i avlew to forcing the Northern wing of tho © party to comwit themsclves suarcly either ! Tor or againut the coustitutionnl prohibition, Our latest dispatches !rmr; tipl’ingfinhl fore " . shadow o coalftion of the Democratio and | Independent forces to.day upon ANbERsON, * the Independent candidate, "I'he Democrats ~ held & caucuy Inst evening und voted to drop © Parwea and travsfer thelr strength to Axpes. ¢ goN, though the latter did not receive n | formal nowination &s the Democratlo candi. *date, and it i doubtful whether he ; will receive the wolil support of the 1 party. Logaw profesics to have been wait. . ing for this move s the wignal for tho + break-up in the rauks of Lis opponents i which is to yield him the Demacrativ or In ; dopendent votes necessary fo elect bim, It * may turn out so, bt it is not likely that the i Democrata bave dropped Pivumn without i qnt assuring themselves that Looax will not i»bo the gainer bLyit. Thero lave certainly i boen no fndications hitherto of Dowocratic | fondness for the Repnblican cancus caudi. i date, and there Is far greater danger that the i coalition will result in Axprason's clection than likelihood that it will give Loaax the ‘wotes he needa. erally ersicr Saturday, with less doing. Meas pork closed #7§@400 per brl lower, ut §16,65 @10.70 for ¥cbruary and §17.024@17.05 for March. Lard closed 20c per 100 1bs lower, ut 910.80@10.62§ for February and $11.00@ 31.02) for March. Mesta closed fo per I ! The Chicsgo produce markets were geu- lower, at Ga for shonlders; boxed; 8fa for short-ribe; 8je for short.olears. Highwines wero dull and anchanged, at $1.07 per gallon. Flonr was quiet and firm, Wheat tlosed je lower, at $1.80} cash and $1,30; seller February. Corn closed 3o lower, at 43 cash and 44o seller Febrnary, Oats closed steady, at 3ijo eash and 8sjc for February. TRye was quiet, at 72¢. Barley closed 1o high. er, nt 63@63}0 oash nnd G3o for February, Hogm wera firmer, at $5,75@6.70 per 100 ids, Cattle wore quiet and wenk, at $3.00@5.0/ Bheep ware nominally steady, at $3.00@5.25 {for poor to choice. One hundred dollars in gold would bny $106.50 in groenbacks at the close, ‘Whenever it ia proponed to try some one clse than Looax, the question is immeliately asked, ** Who is there who can poll more votea than he hay received ?” If a name is given, it is at once met with derision, and denonnced s nnfit to be montioned in con- Junction with the offico, orit is donied that hacan get even all the Republican votes, Itis bolily alleged that Loass fs the only man in Illinois who can poll the full Repub- lican strength in the Legislature, ** Name some one who can get three outside votes,” they dewand; and, when n nane is given, it in instantly denied thut he has a ghost's chance of getting any. Ifow “¢an (his bo known antilitis tried? 'The cancus bull. dozery declaro that a trial shall never by given; that the name of no other person than Looax shall be submitted to the Legis- latore ; nnd at the samo time they deride the idea that any Republican can get ono out- wide vote, and deny thal any one elso can even poll the full Republican strength, An evidence of the fact that the people in gencral—the business-mmen and the working. men—favor the solntion of the Presidentinl question in the manner propored Ly the Congressional Joint Commmilteo was fur- nished in the Maseachusetts Senatorial con. test. The two lending candidates repre- rented the two extremes of sentiment on this particular question, Mr, Hoan, a member of the Hlonsa Cotamittee, being a co-author of the arbitration plan and distinctly commit. ted to it, while JMr, Bovrweey, in the Sen. alr, wan kuown to be smong the Itepub- lican opponents of the measure, The clection of Semator was yet pending on Tridny last, with the chances about equal, but when the telegraphic an- nouncement of tho details of the ropurt of the Joint Committes whs received in the Legis- Inture, BotTwew, stock rapidly depreeinted, md Gropor F. IMoan wus elected. The great mass of the people in Mausa. chusotts, us in Illinols, waut to sco the arbi- tration 1essuro adopted, believing that the country will bo the gafner, nnd that justice oud faarness will not suffev by it, Private dizpatches from Hpringfield last night stato that those who control the caucus are determined there shall bo no change of programume ; that Loaax shall be kept on the track to tho end of the contest, torminate as it may; that no other Republican than he stindl bo tried, and that it is Loaax or a Dein- ocrat, Tho reason given for this evil reso. Intion is the falso one that there aro certain Ropublican members who are personal fol. lowern of LooaN wha will vote for no other Republican eandidate': The threatis thrown out that if Leis wilhdrawn those mythical member will so dispose of their votes as to ‘wecuro the election of an anti-Republican Benator, Thu thing, thercfore, Lina worked down, it seems, to a sort of Honsox's clioico: they hinve got a corner on the market, so to speak, and intend to force watters ta tho bitter end, Tho thirty or forty Republicans whose first choice Looax is not, nnd who vastly prefer (e success of the party to defeat with Looaxw, voted and worked for him in good faith all Inst woelt ; who have supported him twenty- three times conkecutively in the vain hope nnd expectation that he could command three more votes,—these men want to try other names beforo it is too late; but the grip of the caucuy is upon their throats, and the command is shouted iuto their ears, ‘“‘Hudge not an inch; votess you araordered ; Louay or n Demoerat!” We suppose there in nothing to do but wnit patiently until the gawo i3 played out, as gamesters are playing it who are williug to take any risk for whatover chance there mny bo of winning, ‘Tho good of the party is now subordinated to the ambition of ono man, Dut it would not be in Mis power to s ime peril purty snccess wera it mnot for the wwarma’ of officeliolders who surround the members and “ Lol thom up to the rack, fodder or no fodder.” These gentlemen owe their places to Logaw, or fear that If somne other Republican fs clected there may bs chungen wado and successors provided to take their warm, comfortable places. Cer- tain cunning munipulators have filled their henrts with this apprebension. Hence they are working desperately to prevent uny other candidute Leing brought forward. They prefer, for thoss selish considerations, to take nll the risks of the election of a Demo- crat. Thero is n bare probability that a ma. Jority of the members who place ke inter- oty of the Republican party nbove the self- ishiness of any eandidate may rexolve in cau- cus to try other nawes before ail chauces are lost; but the prospoct is, nothing will Lo dono until tho malter ends in shameful de- fent, BHALL REPUBLICANS REJFCT THE COM. PROMISE? ‘Thera is a desperate eflort on the part of desperate politiciany and oficeholders to coerce tho flepublican parly to oppose and defent the measure now ponding before Con- gress providing on Arbitrution Board of five Justices of the Supreme Court to determine tho controverted questions coucerning the count of the Presidential vote, An appeal is mada to Republicans to opposo and dufeat this Litl on the ground that it lessens tho Re. publican chauces to have Maves declared clected, While admitling that, looked at as & mere question of chance, the objection is not o very dignifled oune, wo fnsist that, under this bill, the chances for Havea to be declured elected are greatly improved. It is pointed out, by thoss who insist that Iaves must bo counted in, thatthe Prest. dent of the Senato is & Itepublican, nnd ho wust be recoguized as posse-sivg the ex. clusive authority to count the votes aud de- clure the result; and, as a Republican, he must decide oll disputed questions in fuvor of Hayes; therefore, the wkolo bosiness must bo left to biwm, One great difficulty in tho way of this op- cration is that the Presidont of the Benate is within the control of & majority of that body, and a wajority of theSenste, it 1s belleved, deny tho power of the Presidcnt of that body to do what it is wished he should do. T'be President of the Benate, who wmay be displaced at any moment by a majority, may uot assuie an outhority which the Seuate 1oay decide he does not possess. But even assuming that the Republican majority of R e e T Ty the Benate, in the absence of all o her Tegu. lation, should decide that the President of tha Senate shall connt the vote, what is he todo? If he act ministerially, and declare that he cannet go behind the face of tha re- turns, aud must count the certiticates attest- ed by the Governors of tho Stales, then ho will count the vote from Lonisiana, certified ly Gov, Kriroao, and he must also connt the certificata from Oregon, certified by the Governor of that Btate, aud that ceriificate contains tho vote of Cnoxty, which will clect Tinney. It is no use o declare the fact that Cnoxis's vote is a notorions fraud; if the President of the Hernto is to nct ministerially, and not go behind the Governor's vertifteate, then he must connt the Crotiax vote and declare Tir- EN eleelrd, If, howerer, he is to act judi- ciaily, and go behind the ofticist returns ay certifiod to him by law, thon Le may connt in the Republican votes in all contested cases by claiming for himself tho oftice of a grand Roturning Hoard for the United States, with exciunive and final anthority to count or re- Jject any vote at his pleasuro. Is the Rtepub- lican party prepared, for the mero purpose of succesd at this election, lo recognizo #uch n power as this in any one men? Doesany tational man suppose ke American peo- ple will sanction or folerate sneh an exercise of powar by any one man? Do thay suppose that the Houee of Represontatives will ubmit to such a proceeding? Let that programma bo carried out, and the House of Representatives will at once declaro that no clection has taken place, and proceed to clect 8 President, and the country will be launched at once into the Mexican system of two Presidents, each sustained by one House of Congress, with two Cabincts and two Governments making war npon each other, and the whole country plundored and dis- tracted by tho struggles of compoting gangs of official plunderers, That may be the out- come of a rojection of thiy and nll oiher Achemes of peaceful sottlement. ‘That will bo the outcoma of insisting uwpon (he “chance” of n Republican President by the Henata taking all power, judicial as well as miniaterial, and counting in the Republican President bocauso he is & Republican. Tho chances of Yaves becotning the Pres- ident, backed by the consont and with the approvel of both branclies of Congress and of tho whole people, are infinitely bottor under this compromiso bill than without it. ‘Iio Republicans claim the legal election of Hayes ond Waereren, becauso the Re turning Board, acting under the autharity of tho law of Louisiana, declared tho Republican Electors lawfully appointed. They claim that the vote of Colorado shall be counted, though the louso of Representatives still rofuses to receg- pize the admission of tho State ; and they claim the full vote of Oregon, on the ground thnt tha vole of CeoxiN s a frand. ‘These aro the only cases which will have to be re- ferred tothe Court for arbitration. Ons of the queations which that Conrt will have to decido ir, whether the inquiry will extend in the Louisiana case boyond tho lnw of Lonistana. If tho Court sholl find that the Election law of Loulsiana was the law of that State, aud that under that law the Returning Board had the power to reviso the returns, and, eccording to their judgment, to cast out returns for the canses pet forth in tho law,’and that under the law tho action of that Board was fual and conclusive, then that will bethe endof the Louisinna busincss, and the present prima-ficie case for the Ie- publicans will become an adjndicated ono, If, inlike manner, the Court shall decide thnt under the law of Oregon CnoNts way never legally oleoted, that will end that frand ; and if the ndmission of Colorado be declared complete, then the election of Havzs and ‘Wueewrr will be the judgment of tho Court, biuding upon and accepted by both Housen of Congress and by the whols peoplo. Upon which of theso points has any Republican any doubt? Certainly not upon the cases of Oregon and Colorado, But it will be mssamed, and is nssumed, the Court may go behind the return of the Returning Board of Louisiana, aud declaro that its action was not final, but may ba re. viewed. In that case there will bo before the Court the reporisiof tho two Commlttees of Congress, with all the ovidence, The Senate Committee is composed of n ma- Jority of Republicans, and the Houss Cowm. mitteo includes woveral Republicnus. Both of thiese Committces have fu their vestiga- tions gone Lehind the action of the Return- ing Board; both Committces wero et to Louisiarca to take testimony behind the ac- tion of that Board; Senator Buenuany nnd Lis assocites took teatimony to fortify the action of that Hoard; and it iatoo late to deny that, it tho Court shall find that under the law of Louisiana the judgment of that Toard was mnot final, its cor. rectness may not be investigated. ‘Tho reporta of Henator Buemamax and of the Comnnittees of the Honate and of the Houso will be before the Court of Arbitration, and guide them in reaching & legal conclusion on the facts whother there was wuch intimida. tlon, violence, and monnces a4 to justify the Returning Board in rejecting votes and revis. ing the returns, Has any Republican any doubt that this part of the case will lack any foree in its presentation? Will the Repub- licans of the Senate Comittee who bellove that tho evidenve fully justifies all that the Returning Boarnd did do fail to make that plain to the Court? If we are to mssmne that the Judges of tho Bupreme Court in the trial of cases hefore them on law and evi- denco nre merely to ascertain the politics of tho plaintiff and defendant and decido ac- cordingly, then the courts do not desorve tho publio confideuce. Weo have no doubt that on all questions of law these five Justices will be a unit in their tindings, end that in such casa tho other members of the Commission will agreo with them, Under such cir- cumstances, no manwho helieves that all that i3 claimed for the Returning Honrd of Louisi- ana 4 amply sustained by law and by fact can consistently sny that the purty is put in peril by submittiog thal question of law and fact to flve Justices of the Bupreme Court, who are independent of party and Leyond tho reach of Presidents and Congress, ‘I'hero iy but one remote and bardly possi- Lle contingency in which a decision adverso to the Nupublican candidates can be antici. pated. It the evidencs collected by Senstor Bursuman and hix associates, sll Republicans, aud their report, and the report and evidenco of the Rupublican members of thy Scuato Committee, and the report and evidénce of tho Republican mewbers of the Houss Cow. mittee, and the letter and spirit of the Elec- tion law of Lowsiana, aud all the legal pre. sutptions in favor of the ofileial acts of of- ficers of the law,—If all thesoshall fuil to satisfy the Justices of the Supreme Court, or shall atill leave on the winds of these Jus- tices the couviction that the sciion of the Returning Board of Louislsug was fraudu. lent sud dishonest, and that the legal and Lionest majority was for TrLbeN,—then, and in such case only, will the declsion of the THE CHICAGO Court be adverse to tho Republican candi- dates; and in such case the decision will meet tho lenrty approval of the American people, and from no persons receive a more earnest approval than from Gov. Havzs and Mr, WnEELER, THE JURY LAW. That was a sensible and timely report which Mr, Witetam H. Kixo, of the Com. mittes on Jury Bervice, submitted to the Bar Association last Saturday, and wo aro glad to note that it received the approval of the lawyera generally, ‘Thero fs no queation but our jury sorvice is rank nnd vile ; but the romedy is not to bo found in n new law so much as {n the enforcemont of the present law, 1If tho County Board, the Courts, and the bailiffa deliberately ignore tho present law, there i3 no rearon to beliovo they will pay any moro attontion to any now statute, and it wonld bo nbsurd to abandon the pres-. ent statuto withont oven giving it a propoer trial, As a matter of fact, the law ns it stands is amplo and adequate, and there is no renson why it should not be enforged. It requires the County Board to se. lect jurors from A list consisting of one-tenth tho legal voters of Cook County, which would be about %,000 citizens; and it isthe duty of the Connty Board to select men who are intolligent, of fair character, well-informéd, and who understand the En- glish languoge. Instead of doing this, the prctics {8 to take the poll-list and draw out names by lot; the result isalist of jurors that comprises dead men, men who have left the county, men who can neither read nor write, men without character, men who do not understand the English language, and men who are in every respect unflt for the service. As the number of those not prop- erly qualitied for jury work Is immeasurably Iarger than those who are, the County Board's illegal system naturally saddles the scum of the community upon the conrts. When the County Board's jurors cannot be found, or prove too grossly incom- petent for service, then tho bailiffs aro intrusted with the sclection of others, and the lawyers agreo that the bailiffs have Iargely doponded on the professional fury- brokers, which is sometimes a corrupt and alwaya the ensiost way of geitinga jury to- gother, It is at this point that the Court onght to interpose its authority, and, in fail. ing to do so, it is not to bo denied that many of the Cook County Judges ara opon to eriti- clsm and censuro. The members of the Bar have it largely in their own power to correct the evils nuder tha prescut law, Lhey can briug a pressure to bear upon tho soveral Judges which will forco thew to assert their authority when- ever they find that the law had boen ig- nored, or that any of the subordinate officors of the Court, cither by collusion or neglect, haveassistedin bringing togethor men whoare unfit for jury service, It the County Com- missioners neglect theirduty in tho premises, the Bar may organizo their prosecution un. der the statute which provides for the fine and removal from office of every officinl guilty of an omission of duty, Tbe Barmay also bring the Sheriff and tho Clerka of the Courts to a proper sonse of their duty by prompt oxposure of every dereliction, Final. 1y, ovory attornoy may exerciso his right of a challengo as to the whale pnnel, and thus compel a full compliance with the law in every particnlar. United and energetic ac- tion on thte part of all the reputablo mem- bars of the legal profossion can undonbtedly sccure an enforcemont of the present law, and there is avery renson to believo that this would provide pure and compatent juries as well as any other. THE CONGRESSIONAYL COMFROMISE, The telegrain whick we subjoin wns re- ceived yesterday from Tuosas I, Brraw, who 18n fair ropresentative of o cless that may bo ealled non-professional politicinns,— that is, men who take a lively intcrest in the affnirs of the nation, but who are in no sense office.scckers nor mero partisany for the per- sonal advantages party adharenco may bring them, Mr, Brrax writes: 70 ihe Editor af The Tritune, Wamnixatox, D. €., Jan, 21.—The Constitution declaren the Electoral votes ‘‘uhall then bLe counted," but not how. Congress must proscribe tho method. By the Jolnt Committce's bill, Con- Kruss mppoints & commisslon, reservingto ftsell tho review and final decisiun. Thus Congress cauate. Notwlthstanding some objectiansble fea- tures, no better plan fs oatainable at this eleventhy honr. 1t §e sanctioned by tha ablest constitutlonal Inwycnd of toth partles. Let the peoplo speak, 1 have Just heara the follawing coarsely but forcls bly oxpressed sentiment: **Better that TILDEX and HAYE4 g0 10 the devil than tuat tho country should.” Yours respectfully, Tuouas B, Durax. "T'his {8 a romarkably clear snd torse state- ment of tho case, and it falrly reflects the sontiment of ninety-nine out of every one handred men of both parties who look for- ward to a penceful and constitutional seitle- ment of the Prosidential controversy with more anxlety than to tho success of cithor candidate. We have mecn in momao of the eztreme party newspapers on both yides a general disapproval of the plan as unconsti- tutional, but nowhere any clear or convines ing demonstration of the unconstitutiouality. Asido from the fact that the measuie has the support of stateswnen well versed in constitn. tional law who would be quick to detect a varignce with the Constitution, sud who woull withhold thelr support on that ac- count, wo can only conceive that it will be regorded a9 unconstitutional by thosa who contend that the Constitution expressly con. fers tho authority to count the vote upon the lresident of the Senato ulone. This position {3 not tenable from the langunge of the Conatitution, sinco it only conveys wuch authority upon tho President of tho Henato by implication if Cougross fails to provide any other means, The Constitution provides that the votes shall be counted, aud also that Congress shall pass all laws necessary to earrying out the provisions of the Constitution. Then Conppress has the right to determine, either by general law or iua particulor case where thero is no general law, who shall count the voles aud in what manper they aball ba counted. This is a special case, thero being no general law, and there is no danger of its becoming & precedent ; the luw is to decide an fsino of the past, not ene of the future, oud if we tide over the present trouble a coustitutional amendment will undoubtedly be adopled before the next Presidential elec- tion which will scttle the procedure for all future tiwe, The people who oppose the measure in- troduced juto Congress, and supported by the ablest statesmen of both parties, are mnot the mnon-profeasional but the professional politicians,—~not the men who take an active snd intclligent in. terest in national affairs with the patriotic sentiment of good citizeus, but those who look upon Government as a mere device for supporting o class of persons who canuot well earn a living any other way. The blowers and strikers of the two parties, the scheniers, tho men who juvented the caucus and cerrupt the puimaries, the fellows who TRIBUNE: MONDAY: JANUARY 22, 1877, . manipulate ward meetings and set up con. ventiona in the inferest of some particular caundidate or resolution, the lobbyists who haunt the Stato Capitols and the Notioual Legislature, the jobbors and go.betweens, are all opposed to nuy penceful settlemont that may possibly jeopardize their sclfish ambition for apoils, These fellows much pre- for commotion and even civil war. They throve upon thamisfortuncs and snflerings of others during the Rebollion. They were commissaries, quartermasters, and sutlers; thoy wers hangers-on at Washington, or fol- lowing in the track of an ndvancing army; they speenlated in contracts, permits, nnd commissions; thoy furnished the shaddy- supplies and bounty-jumpers ; they wero the Ueneficinrios of all the villainy growing out of aoivil war, and they naturally desire to hnve renewod opportnnities for thievery. But tho maas of tho Amenican people are not of their mind, Thoy incline to the counsel of such mon as Tmous B. Barax, and bail with joy a possiblo solution of the present complication that promises peaco aud the quieting of tho foverish apprehension that hins depressod business nnd destroyed con. fidence. They believe that * it is botter that Tsupex and Haves go to the davil than that the country should,” whilo tle partisan bum- mera all hold to the converso. ———. THE EAST INDIAN PROBLEM, The famine dispatches from the Indian Office, sent by Lord Oarxanvoy, Acting-In- dian Beoretary to Lord Lyrrox, Governor- General of Indin, presonts such an alarming condition of things in that country that the intelligont public men in England . are seriously disoussing the problem, What shall bedone with the enormous and rapidly- increasing populationof Indin? The famine this year appears to be on the western side, in the cotton region. Two yenrs ngo it was on tho southeastern side, in the Valley of the Ganges, in the opiam districts. Tho sum- mary of the information furnished the Gov- ernment shows that 840,000 persons are already employed on tho relief works in Madras and 260,000 in Bombay, and that the famine in Bombay will gradually increase, reachiug 8 maximum in April. In Madrag the districts affacted cover 80,000 square miles, and contain a population of 18,000,000, In Bombay, the famine-stricken torritory oove=1 1,000 square miles and has a popula. tion uf 8,000,000, In nearly every portion of this territory the crops have failed and the people are starving. The distressed condition of the people has onco moro brought up the old question, ‘What shall Lo done with the redundant peoplo of India? For centuries beforo the English occupation the population had Leon kept down by natural causes, Famine, de- struction of infant children, widow-burning, the torrible ravages of wild bonsts, destruc- tive wars botween the numerous (ribes, plagues and pestilonces swoeping over the country in the absonce of all medical knowl. edge, kept down the population and reduced the pressuro upon subsistence. When tho English, however, came in and occuplod Indis ns# w garrison, thoy were humane, and surrounded hnman lifo with all precautions of safety., Wara wero stopped. With tho excoption of the ontbreak twenty years ago, the country has boon at pence for balf a cen- tury. Widow-burning and the slaughter of childron have been made punishable by law. Tho ravages of beasts have been checkod by the English hunters, and medical science has done much to allay tho horrors of tho pestilence which had made Indin its home. Thoresult of all this has been nn enormous increase of population. In 1825 partial census was taken, which showed an estimated population ‘of 125,000,000, The next census was not taken until 1873, when, to the astonishment of Englaud, Indin was found to havo a population of 217,000,000, 'The Cnlentta Presidency, which was nover suppoacd to have over 40,000,000, was found tu hiave 60,000,000, aud this proportion held good all over the country. The Malthualan problem, therefore, which presants itsolf to Fogland {s, that the population will soon ‘becoma 8o donse that it can have no control over it Thero is no doubt that in o conple of decades from the prosent time India will have a population of over $00,000,000 trying to occupy an aren which connot now sup- POFL217,000000. - THE GERMAN ELECTIONS, Tho recent Parliwnentary elections in Ger- many have developed the somewliat remark- able fact that the abgolutism of Biswancx is fuiling to keep the country headed in the di- rection of what he s acoustomed to term ¢ political progress,” but what the outside world is acenstomed to rogard as imperialisim of the most rodical style. Mitherto thero have been but one or two Boclalists in the Tteichatag, and these have beon rondered in- capable of mischicf by the peculiar processes of stamping out obuoxious individuals, under the charge of liboling the Government, which Bisuanck has 8o constantly set in op- eration in all grades of political life, from Count Vox Auxrx down to the humblest newspapar writer In Terlin who lives upon the sanction of the Cusncellor, 'The recent elections, however, have returmed about twenty of these Socialiats to Parliament,and, although the (lovernment atill remains inn largo majority, the sudden Iucresse of tho Boclallat element shows a danger of the fu- ture looming up in very sorious dimonsions. The Bocialist {8 1o Germany what the Communist is to France, although » more intelligout and less passionato creature, His oim is not o much the destruction of socie- ty a8 now organizad, as it is the destruction of imperialinm a3 it exists in Germany, and duriog the Franco-German war tho leaders were in tull correspondence and sympathy with the International Boclety, 'Ihe doc- trines of Boocinlism originated with one of the most intelligent men Germany has ever produced—FenpiNanp Lassarie, Ho first put his doctrines into practical operation in 1863, when he scized upon the laborers' unions in Germany, which were secking to secure that * self-help” that had been taught by Beuvize-Devimscy, by an alliance with the Party of Progress, which was in favor of re. wtricting Government to police duty and reg- ulating commercial interesta, with universal fres trado and free competition. He cut them loose from the Party of Progress, and estab- lished thew upon a base substantially as fol. lows: That the whole profits of produc- tion should be distributed among the workmen, the latter taking the places of the capitalists, sud the Btate fur- nlshing them the capital. As this could unot be done until the existiug Govern. ment was overthrown, he urged that they sbould do this, and found a * People’s State," thus putting themselves in the posi- tion to control tho wholo wmeans of the na- tion at thewr own discretion, Upon this basis Lo established tho Socialist Farty, which bas since appeared in almost overy German village, especially among oporatives and artisans of wanufacturing sections, the agricultural laborers not taking kindly to the dootrines, After Yusdariz's deatb, in 1864, tae control of the movement was abtained by Ltengxront and Beaxt, who wore Inter- nationalists, and who gave the party a more Commnnistio charneter. Under their lender- ship, tho Kocisl Democratie Labor Tarly of (Ciennacy was organized, fu 186, and a platfore of principles was issued declaring for the *‘Free Pao- plo's State,” equal and nuiversal sufftage, legislation by the people, the full profits of Inbor for every laborer, *Btate credit for free-production associntions” under Demo- erntic guarnntecs, and making the demand that the *‘People’s State” should ba the owner of all arable land and rent it to agri- cultural unions, ‘ Thero i littlo danger thnt the Bocialists will ever gain control of the Govermment, but their success in the recent clections is a warning to the National Liberty party which governs the conntry that it may yleld once too often to the imperious demands of Bis- starck. Its readiness to sacrifico the reforms which it demands, its cervile spirit in the re- cent attompt to secure tho right of trinl by Jury in cases of press libels, and its frequent desortionsof eivil liberty under the ponalty of Bsstancr'adispleasare, have raised the spirit of discontent; n8 gliown in the inronds made upon the party by the Boclalists in the eloc- tion, for they have mnnde their gains from the Liberals. Their success is atill mors significant as pointing with unerring aim to the tremondons npheaval which will ocour in cnso of Bissanck’s dentl, when nol only Bocialists, but Ultrnmontanes, Aluatians, Polos, and otherdisconted elements, will como to the surface in an ogitation that ouly a maater-hand like that of Bissarck can con- trol. Where will that Land be found? All honorable pledges and obiigations to Gen. Loaay have been fultilled in supporting him twenty-three times consecutively. The inter- csta of the Republican party are now {n order, and haye the highest clalms on the Republican members, The loss of the Senatorshlp Is haog- ing in the balance, PERSONAL. It ia sald that Col, John O'Maloney, the famous Fenian and Irlsh rebel and exile of 1848, Is dylng in New Yorlk, A correspondent estimating tho valne of George Eliot'snovels,and ber pecuniary retuens from them, eays her Income has not averaged $0,000 n year since hier firat book appearcd. Mr. Conway reports a rematkablo migration of Jewe to Palestine, and eees in the movement the probable fonndation uf & new natlon, The propo- altion, he thinks, s likely to rpread like wilddre, The Nation, with a snobblshness that the Sun very propetly rebitkes, ancaks of Mr., ¥, May, who recently fought a duel with Mr, J, G, Bennett, na **a very handeome, but obscure, clerk iIn a dry- goods store, " Allen, the prize-Aghter, wan alarmed by the ap- pearance of a Deputy-Sherift from Covington, Ky., at London, Can., supposing that he was wanted for forfelting the bali-bond regulred of him after the fight in Kentucky, A denmatle critic In 8t Louls has hed rathoer n severs experlence with a compositor. Tho stato- ment of the critte that Miss Mitchell's new play, **Becky Mix," contained ** many pithy remarks," was transformied 1nto ** muny Althy remarks, " 'Two geanddauzhters of Eugene Soe, #sid to bo tho orizinals from which the herolnes of bhis **Wandering Jew ** were drawn, are suitors In a New York court agalnet » cousln, who, they clalm, is wrongfully keeplug thelr property from them. 31 Chaixd'Est-Ange, the famous I'rench advo- cate, whilo defending 8 murderer upon whom was found a ponfard, declared the Instrument was s Mazonic emblein, and showed thut be carried one Iimeelf, The Judge fned lim for carrying a cone ceated weapon. Alr. Alexander Darlow, the Cashler of tho Fish- 41} Nutfonal Bauk, liis been suspended from office ana defaulier, and it is satd his daiciency amounts to over $100,000, 1ifo wasa Warden of tho Epls- copal Church, and had vorue auuoblemished repu~ tatfon for many years, Anadmirer of Bret Harto protests through the New York Tridune agunat his having auy literary partnerehlp with Mark Twaln, asserting that asso. cation with the latter will ruinthe poet, Mr. Twain's friends—and their name fa legfon—ought to bo heard from in the matter, The Hon. Atvin Saunders, the uew Sengtor from Nebrasks, was ouce a resident of Sungamon Coan- ty, In this Etate, o wentto tho county [n 1828, and remained there for elzht years, after whichho removed to Towa, whero ho ‘was Jiviug when ap- pointed Governor of Nobraska by Mr, Lincoln, The Philadelphta Times, withont montiouing Clars Loulse Keltogg or her remarkable cavo of nore throat In thal city, dropa into a pertinent story of Frederick tho Grent and his wmethod of curing s cantatrice, e sent four dragoons with ordere to take her to the milltary hospital. No sooner did she hear thia order than she recovered Instantly, and sang 1n o manner to delight o Jarge audience which bLad been kept walting fo the meantime, Dr. Allibono declares that there have been no menof gentus since the time uf George IIL, Why, Dr. Alliboue, I8 not Keenan, then, a military Renlus? or Mr, Watterson, with his suggestion of u peaceful mab 100,000 atronk, a political geninar or Martin Farquhar Tuoper & poctical genlust? or Danlel Pratt, tho great Amerlcan traveler, on orutorical genjus? Are there mot 8 number of genluses employed on tho dafly prews of this country, and now engaged [nan nttempt o prove that thie compromise-proposition Isa call 1o aros —that [u, & call for other fellows than thewaselvesy There In sald to 4e a feoling af very natural pride in England user the proclamatlon of the Queen's new title In Indis, ant the corious reve clation it wmade of the extent of the na- tlonal resources, Mr. llnxley himzelf, who 1% not glven to enthusiasin, paused in the midet ot & lecture o ethnolopy, snd, pointing aut on the map before bini the continent of India and then tho British Iales, deciared the fact that the ltsle one le midtress of the. gigantic ons fa the fnsst contemporary fllustration of the power of mind over matter, The now medical Jonrnal, the Evolutlon, hasa very bloodtirsty, but at the sdme thne u rational, docttine In regurd to duellug, It wants to have everybody killed whenover a duel 14 fought, of the best duels we have had in this country, warks the cynle, ** was when Alesander Humilton waa klited ot Hohoken, 1t was sad 10 love s0 eml- neota stateaman, but L put a stop o this 1ot barvarous und retrograde custom, . . ., Ofthls brutal pasting erick the Ureat took the core rect view,- Oficers had bis perwleslon to Bght du- +l#, but the survivar wus shot, Young Mr. Raymond has s letter 1o the Boston Qlabe commentiug, perkaps witis deserved saverlty, upou thobarrepives of art-clrclen in Chicago, and in & kinder wpirit of the soclal upportunitics ulforded here, He hus alvo an anecdole of Mr. Mooy that scemi to benew, Jtrunsos follows: **When a young man ho was woat to do a geeat dealof talk in prager-wocting, and wax noted even then for i lack of grammatical knowledze und his gurder- ous attacks un the King's Engllst. Finally one of hls fricnds wentto bins and advised hiw In all kiudness to go work and do s lttle stadying, par- ticalarly of the grammar, *Can'tdo 1t," s3id Mr. Moody. *if Lave s mandrowning, =halll atop und pull out my grany ud tell him, *todrown’ fva verb, and *I* @ pereonal pronoun, and * will wave' fuplics half a dozen other thiogs, or shall I gotowork snd tell the man waal to do st once, ungrammatically perlaps, but 30 that bis iife is savedr'" Richard Grunt White declares that ** Trollus aud Cresslda™ f3 shakspearc's wiseat play fn the way of worldly wisdom. ‘‘For goud, downright ‘wass,' " says Mr. White in the same connection, **there 18 in ilteruture nothing cqual to the #peectes of TAersites.,” The Gulury article from ‘whicu the abuve commients Lave been lakenls the laatof tuo werles, und unususlly futeresting be- cause it glves the opluions of Mr. White, hlmscll s wistlogulsbed connnentator ou Bhakepeare, as 10 thio merita of tho various editlons. Many will be surprised to lewrn that bo sdvises strongly agatust Dyce, who, duriuié bis life-tme, was 8 warm frlend of Mr. White, and frequently refers In his cdition with admization to the laburs of 1bo latter lu the Geld of Shukspeureun criticlsw, Iu the judgment ©f Mz, White, the sbiest of ali tha living editure of Shakvpesro i3 Willlsm Aldiy Wright, who has been Isrzely concerned in the Cambridye edition, The QGerman critics, Mr. White thiuks, are the worst of all, Ulrici sod Gervious be particularly condemas. " THE INDIANS, A Review of Gen. Crook's Came peign. Four Important Battles Fought and Several Desultory Bkirmishes, Heavy Damage Inflicted upon the Save nges, with Smail Loss to the Troops. A Maroh of Over Thres Thoueand Thres Hundred Miles in Eight Months, Sneclal Correspandence af The Tribune. Cneyeyse, Wyo, Jan, 18.—~The wugon-traln and the remalning battalion of troops compos- {ng the Powder-Riser cxpedition arrived hers lnat night. Ficld-operations are now practically susnended for a few months, and § am reminded that a brief review of so much of tho work s has alregdy been nccomplished by Gen. Crook may be appropriately made at this perfoid. Bince the commencement proper of the Sloux war in March last, the troops under (ien. Crook have fouglit four important battles, besides engaging 1 twice as many desultory skirmishes. fhe first of these more fmiportant engagements oc. curred on the 17th of March, near the raouth of Powder River, and {s knowu in history as TIR CRAZT-IIOKSE PIONT. After nn almost unprecedented march through the storms of na terrible Montana winter, 300 men belonging to the Second and Third Cavalry Regiments sttacked the village of the chleftain named above, drove the savazes into the ad- Jacent wilderness, and destroyed. 100 large tepees, withtheir lmmense stores of food, robes, ammunition, ete. Returnige to the military posts, the expedi- tion waus reinforced and recuperated; and in Mag, with astreugth of %00 men, agaln took the fleld, Afterseveral preliminary.skirmishes, Sitting-Bull, witha forcethres timesgreaterthan that vt Craok, forced a fight on Juie 17, The affalr took place nmon;§ the Rosebud Moun- tains, just north of the Jontana line, and 1s known ns TIIE BATTLE OF ROSEBUD, ‘The aavape chieftaln had chosen his ground within sight of tho Custer tragedy of the week fullowing, and had evldently only walted for the nutural course of events, which would lead our littls army lo that direction. During the progress of & five houra' en?ugemcnl. thie In- dlans were routed at every point, and thelr run- nera afterwards, st Red-Cloud Age acknowl- edged & logs of eizhty-acven killed and over 100 woutded,—n loss presumably underestimated, asan Indian was never known to admit the ex- tentof hisown injury. iere Gen. Crook for the firet time fully realized the vast odds agalnst Iiim, and clearty snw the usclessness of uflcm‘n- ing to surrowid five Indisus with one whito mnan, It was oue thing to fight androuta Sloux; 1t was empnatically another to lall or cateh him, He, therefore, determined to awalt the arrival of more troups before making another nggres- sive movement, Then followed a month of AGORAVATING AND PATAL DELAT, Troops Intended for Geu, Cruok were detained en route beyond all calenlation. The Fhth Cavalry, detuiled to report to bim, were mak Ing nll'baste to the front, and only lacked a few duys’ march of reaching him, when orders from a lilghar authority than- he pusscseed sent that valusble regiment fiying bhack to Red-Cloud Agcory,—a distance of over 800 miles from the real stens of actlon, Meanwhile the savazes were mpldy recovering from the effects of the battles of Juue 17 and 25, Thelr wounded, thely aged aml Intirm, squaws and chlldren, wero smuggled dnto the Agencles; thelr pontes were being rested and fattenca; thelr uscless equi- pages cuched or destruyed; and vigzorous endesnys ors were made to replenish their supplics of ammunition and meat. Zo that when, on the Gth of Auguat, Gen, Crook was en- abled to again resume operatious, at tho hiead of a fusce yot only half ua larre ae that of the foe, Bitting-Bull wus fiylng through the rocky fastnesses of tho Wolf and Tongme River Monntains, fresher, niore vigorous, and better reparcd for battle ih ho wauted it), than ever Ec!ore. A month of unrelenting pursult, how- evor, upon the part of the expuditiun materfally clunged the aspect of aflalra. The large body of the foe weve 80 sorcly pressed towurd the 1ast that it was compelled to “ tly to pleces,” or divide up, in order to sustain itaell and w mis- fead the puraners. One of thoso detuchmonts was discovered by the advance-muard of the ex- pedition on Sept. B, near Slim Butters, i West eru Dakota, and TILE TIIRD DATTLE FOTONT, Tt resulted in thoe deatruction of a village o) forty tepees, and the capturs of enough sup plics to feed the half-starved soldiery “several days, to_say nothiug of the loss In killud, wounded, and prizoners auflered by the enemy, Tteturning agaiu to his base of sapplies, Gen. Crook lmniedlately reorganized s torcess and, Just before his lnst agpreseive move, Red Clond and Red Leal, with thelr followers, were inter- rupted on their %oy €0 joln Sittiog Bull and cap- tured. This proved ons of the clouda with u allver linfng, and really gave our determined commander his reatest encourazement. With the traitorous eavagea in his rear dismounted and disarmed, he made his last eally into the 1ndlan country, with the knowledge that he had only a foe in front to fight. The Powder-River expedition made & very short but brilliantly. auccessful campalgn, On_Nov. 25 {t fought what hos proven to be by all odds TIIE DECISIVE DATTLE OF TIUE SEASON, The Cheyenne village of Dull-Knife, consist- 1ng of nearly 200 tepees, and located in one of the wildeat canons of the Big-llorn Mountaing, was attacked and totally destroyed. Among thte more Important fraits ol this victory wus the capture of some 600 poniesand 2,000 bisflalo- robes. Insummiug up the damuge done to thess warlike tribes during the past elghit months by tho forces of this department, [ find that the actual gures aro astunishing even to our owa cltizens, Three hundred and nlucty-tive tepecs or lodges, representlug the homes of nearly 8,000 Indlans, have been captured and destroyed. With thess were 5,000 buffalo-roles and olner yoluable furs, tons of fresh and drled meats, hawmpers of fruit, elatmr;g. ammuultion, urws, ete, Indians captured, 8705 esthnated killed, 505 wounded, 4507 ponles captured, 1,65, Busides thls vaey apparcut damage dong the nostile, they bave been OTUERWISE CRIPPLED {n all the casentiul elements of warfave, They huve been pursued and harassed to such au ex- tent that, even with toelr stnple needs and wonderful powers of eudurance, they have at thues been compelled to slaughter thelr ponies tu keep starvation from the dior; their arms and ammunition supply has been wholly cut otf in this department; and to-duy, scvopding to the representations of Agency Indlans, o carts ridze is worth its weignt i siiver lo thedas minkon of Blitng-Bulli fantly and trinal .- ganizationa—iz. which no race Hving 1akes more pride thun the North-American {ndlan—have lu numeroud fustavees Lecu thoroughly and fre reparably broken up, But, of all futalltics vis- fted upon tie canse of these misguided natlves, that of helug MUNTED DOWN UY THEIR OWN FLESE AXKD uLOOD is the most bitter and deadly in its effects. Tt s cunslderanly leas than a yeur slnce I suw the very extreme of Indtan haugltiness and vie- dictivencas at Red-Cloud Al:l'm:)'. 1 accompa- wied en. Crook thither on his mission to enbist the Ageucy Sloux agalnet their warllke brethe e, Froitiersmen en route shook thelr heads, and sald Crook must be crazy, Sfoux would uever tight wgulnst Sloux, any uiore thuu a Ger- man would “theht agalust the * Vaterlanl" “And," added’ one of the more cxperleaced suouts, it un{ of the Red-Cloud Indiavs do go out (luto the leld] with you, the boys will ull wake uo some morning with thelr throats cutl? But the ticneral sald lie would take & tuoussud of theim slong ss wies, if they could be pure suaded to go, wud ho woull run ull the nsk. flo dida't gey u chance to tuke them then, fog, through the connivances of thelr Agent, they uot ouly flatly refused, but SNUDBED THE GENEUAL NOST WOPULLY. Next mornfug they considerately arranged an ambuscade fur hun in White River Canonj but th old warglor was too wily, and doubled his escort Jusk befure leaving Lho post. A defense- less mall-rider, who reached tho spot only a few moments after the Genural had passed, vore the onslaught aud was killed, because * Indian hlood was up,’ und must be furuished a sulta- ble wacrifice. " But the General has oever relloe quished bis determination, and ba has left no stone unturned Lo win over thoscrampant Agen- cy Indiaua. ‘Tho veault s, that, two mouths ugo, u strong division of Bioux Irom the sswe Apeuncy marched 1o bls assistance,—side by slde with their life-long encuics, the Pawnces,—led him direct to the hostile villuge of Dubl-Knife, and vigorously asslsted in galulng that gratify- Iug victory. Uen. Crook bas repeatedly sue- coeded on the same orinciple Wit~ other tribes, wud says that, ouce started dghting cach other, the savages of asy tribe never azain rlvo to Importaice as warsiors. With their own kin turned agualust them, tbeir syero loases lo the late eugagements, thelr perr feet koowledgo thay all” suwor from