Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 29, 1877, Page 4

< 5 S e—s ) THE CH.{CAGO 1RIBUNE: MONDAY, JA 29, 1877, - el Whest iclosed Jo higher, at $1.26] cash and $1.28] seller March, Corn closed {@jc low- er, at 420 cash and 42}c for February, Oats closed e lower, at 35o cash and 83}c for Fcbruary., Rye was 1c lower, at 70c. Bar. ley closed firm, at G0@G0Je for Fobruary. Hogs were dull and unchenged, at £56.00@ b A5 Bs TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. MATL—IN ADVANCR—TPOSTAGR TREFAID AT o TIS OPFICE. . 0. er 100ihs, Cattle were qnict and ensy, My Bditlon, it 1 gear. , Byl el ok §2.5065.90. Bheep were dall, nt $2.75 dalied to Any - fynday Keitfon: Literary and el @#.00. Ono hundred dollara in gold wounld slarday Kdition, tweive pai . 240 | bay $106.12) in greenbacks at the closo, ' . . . B0 WEEKLT EDITION, TOSTPAID, InthoSenate, twenty-one Repnblican Senn~ tors voted for the Plan of Arbitration and sixteon ngainst it. Nine wero eithor absent or dodged. In the Ilonso, thirly-two Repub- licans voted for the bill and sixty-eight nganst, while soven wera absont or dodged. Tha largeness of the negative Republican vote ia pointed to with triumph by cortaln “wahi" and *‘gonh ¥ papers, Rat this volo waos very far from being an lonest one. Thoso opposing knew beforehand that the bill was sore to pass by more than a two- thirds majority. 'Their policy was Lo vote to 32} Pdatage prepa a¥\Bpecimen coples nent free, o prevent delay and mistakes, be pure and give Poste fce sddrem I3 full, Including Etate and County. Hemlttances may bensda cither by draft, cxpress, t-Office order, or In registered letters, atour Hak. TENRMS TO CITY SURSURIBLRS. eliy, delt sered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week, ey, delivered, Bunday fncluded, 20 cents per week Addrem 'THE THUIUNE COMPANY, Corner Madlson and Dearborn-ata.. Chlcas e e— Teraliey Munste=Tlalle ik plenso the extremists of their party,— o g7 6s And e Fast Slooroo sireet. Concert MY | ojiosing thot tho rank ond flo 2 wonld mnot hold them to n severa Adelphi Thentre. o .h'\:fi:r'?u street, corner Dearborn. *'Uncle Tom's reckoning, as the bill passed any way ** by a largo majority,” It is an axiom smong politicians of the trimming sort always to voto in the negativo on a bill about which their own party is divided, in caso tho bill is certnin to pass without their help, In the prosent case more than half of the sixty-eight Republican nogatives acted on that policy. If it had been necessary for tho passago of the bill, four of the five negative Illinois votes wonld have been recorded for it, as they dared not have taken tho responsibility of defenting it. One of the Illinois membors wonld have voled against it, no matter what the consequences might be, beeause ho desired commotion, the inauguration of both Haves and TILDEN, and then civil war, He lios nothing more to gain from pence, but overything from nnarchy and bloodshed. Henco ho wns on principle and interest against any adjustmont that would prevent “ wah " and * gonb,” Tho other four Illinois M., O's. played policy. s anrly’- "l;‘hr;ur-i.' A 't m Clsrkand LaSslle, m’r""éi"“ Efi:m‘; P:n\'(rfy':n« £ol Bmith Russeil. NMcVicksr's Theatre. * Mndison street, between Dearborn and Etate, Ene frgement of Maggio Mitchell, "** Mignon. i N:‘w Chl{nlo 7:"1["“:9‘;“‘ L6 Cor : stroet, botween Lake and Randolpl o Com- ):fi.gu Caicneuve, the Prostidigitateur: = e Plrmowth Chaxch, idlans avenue and Tweaty-Gixth streel L1 1SS P IR Paer, "Blofeat Feeit-Culiare. . MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1877, — * At the Noew York Gold Exchsoge on Saturday greenbacks wera worth 043@94} . centa on the dollar. S . — . The Arbitration bill will bo presented to thy President this morning for his signature, which it will receivo without doubt, The ‘President will also accompany tho bill with a special messago embodying his reasons for | aigning the bill. APPELLATE COURTS. The inability of the Bupreme Court of tho State of Ilinois to deal with the vasl massof appeals which finds its way to the dockets of thot Courl hns becomo an intolerable evil and n matter of oncrous taxation to litigants, Tow to reliove the Supreme Court, and how to roliovo the Circuit and Superior Courts of at lenst this county, are acrious problems. The Bar Association have preparod two bills which aro to bo submitted to the Legisla- turo. The first of theso bills i to establish threo inferior Appellate Courts, ono for each of tho presont judicial grand divisions. Theso Courts aro ench to consist of five Judges, to be designated by the Judges of the Bupreme Court from tho Judges of tho Circuit Courta in tho grand division for which they are appointed, but no one of said Judges shall bo selected from the Cigenit or Superior Courts of Cook County. 'These Superior Courts nra to meet once or twice a year in onch of the three grand divisious as Appellnte Courts. 'Tho jurisdiction of these Courls is to bo oxclusive over appeals, writs of crror from final detorminations at law or in chancery of the saveral Circult and County Courts in their respective divisions in nll cases where thenmount in controversy or the judgmont or deerco appealed from is less than $1,000, exclusivo of costs, oxcept in thoso cnses whero under the Constitution such appellnte jurisdiction is given to tho Supremo Court. T'his exceptional business includes criminal casen, those involving a franchise, or frae- hold, or tho validity of a statutc. In all theso 1nst mentionod classes of. cases, and in all othens whora tho smount in controversy ox- ceods $1,000, appeals and writs of error aro to be taken, as now, directly to tho Supremo Court ; in all the other cases, the judgment of theso Appellata Courts is to bo final, ‘We do not quito understand the roason for fixing tho maximnum of the jurisdiction of this Court at §1,000. ‘The Constitution re- quirca appeals in all crimiual casos, and casos jnvolving titles to land, franchises and free- holds, or the validity of statutes, to Le taken directly to the Supremo Court. We do not undorstand that a judgment or decree for 22,000, or 5,000, or §10,000, requires any higher order of judicinl wisdom to determine its justico than does n judgment or decreo for 1,000, 'The distinction is an arbitrary one, It looks like establishing s principlo that thero is a highar class of legal rules and prin. clples to determine tho right and the wrong of nclaim for dobt or dumage whero the amount of such claim exceeds a certain sum, Any five Cireuit Judges, sclected beenuso of their judieial experienco and learning, who may be trusted to hear an appeal in o caso whero tho amount in controversy does not { *Messrs, Moopy and 8ankey oponed their l.‘:mvlul campnign in Boston yesterday with '-aveq indication of a sucoess equal to that iwhich hos attended their labors elsowbhere, ,;’l‘ha Tabernaclo waa donsely filled, and it is eaid that 10,000 poople wero unablo to gain ipdmlttanco. s————— P ’ WVe print this moming nn interesting arti- «cla from tho London Z'ines] on the subject of British commerce, comparing the importa nnd oxports of 1876 with thoso of 1876 and provious yenrs, and showing that while the mports remain vory nearly tho samo the ~ exports bave fallen off nenrly $600,000,000, * Tt ia found that in respect of decreased pate mago tho United Btates has been England's §~ worst customer, our country having bought ", less of almost everything than in formor i+ years, and sold more. —ey 3% Tho Republican case beforo the Arbitra- tion Commission will bo in ablo hands. It haa been determined to employ counsel on ibon: sides, and the Republicans have on- Ygnged Wiz M. Evants and SranLer *Marmiews, two lawyers who in political “ Yispradenco atand sccond to none in Amer- It is thought that the Democrats will reprosented by Lyyaw TavasuLy, who is cticularly conversant with tho Louisinna 0, Jeng Drack, Matr Oainrexren, and wanp Mennicg—cortainly & very solid Iicllou of lagal nbility. i As woon aa it bocome certain that tho Arbi "hmflon Plan would bo adopted by Congress, g ,‘,f‘cisrhln Ropublican papers began to shout, * Nover surrondor,” * Iight rather than arbi- trate,” * Opposed to all schomos of sottlo- ‘' ment.” Andyet almost every ono of thoso w bellicose shicota renlly wanted the Plan t. 4§ pass, and wore fearful it might not be f:;rtnd. They can now safely say thoy forrod another civil war to arbitration, ecause it 1s impossiblo to disprovo their ns. ** _.. Noverthcless, they kuow they are iug, as they fecl happy that tho danger of wving two Presidonts sworn inon the 4th ‘of March is escaped. pis The resignation of Gonrscitakore, Russisn ! Prime Minister, is among tho rumors by i ‘eahla, | The Iferald dispntch hos it that this ament {s the result of a disagreement the Czar on tho question of war with s the Chancellor having favored a vig- - policy, whilo the Czar hesitated to enorgotic measures withont a powerful ce, Another explanation is that Gonr- 57's honlth i3 such as to compel " tender of his resiguation. It ‘nppears ¢ that Prinoo Muvux bas got tired of wallg | oxouud 1,000, cortalnly might bo convderod | ot “l:" i °Eu "m war, id | n; gafo to hear and determino the smno cluss T et osed by M pon tho peaco nego- | o cnqq even if the sum claimed was §20,000, i ong prop! y Mipmar Pasua, In neither caso is tho law goVerned by the «3 . Tt is understood that neithor Mr, Hewrrr | fnount domanded; in both casen the demand ‘5 nar Mr, Payxe, both of whom wero members resta upon legnl principles which are tho same, we may hope, no matter what the nut. Ler of dollars pending may be, “I'ho proposed bill wisely provides that fn tho decislon of cases the Judges shall not ho required to deliver written opinions, ex- eopt when n decluion appealed from is re- versed ; and even in these cases the oplon. ion is to bo conflued to n brief statement of the facts and tho opinion of the Judges thercon. A similar provision in tho enso of tho Bupreme Court would bo equally hu. mane aud equally proper. That Court ought at least bo left to determino for itself whothier n written opinion i3 neceded or not. Now the Court hus to deliver written opinions in overy case, notwithstanding a majority of theso cases nro decided purely wpon thoe facts, or upon uestions of law scttled at least n dozen times at cach term of tho Court, The second bill framed by (he Bar Asso- ciation i8 one to divide the presont County Caurts into two Conrts, by erecting Probato Courts in all conuties when nuthorized Ly -« af the Jolnt Committee, are desirous of scrv- - fog on the Triparlite Commission. 'L'his < mmanld’loave of tho Committeo only Mr. ¥, who is an sblo lawyer, and Iht ; who {e not noted for ubility inany Davip Doprer Fiep has boen ‘ly mentioned as a probable »f the Commission, butit is said indoubt as to the propriety of ~-2=.0 of tho fact that his brother, Frerp, s o momber of tho judicinl b, The discovery of such delicate ‘.- !. quite unoxpected, if true. Fen- » Woop snd Baxy Cox aro candidates 10 bonor, and Procron Kxorr could " _be indueed to accept. — .. ~omd | t;nnnymons fricud of Judgo Davis ~&’,hu given out n statemont as by authority 4., that the latter has an omount of Bupremo ~*Qourt work on band that will occupy his o> onlire timo for tho next six weeks, aud proclude his resignation beforo the 4th Vo besmAforch. cbesides vendoring it impos- dm to determine whether | the Coustitution, "This wensure i3, wo be. w o will not accept tho lieve, only applicable for the present in this hip, Tho first part of the | county; but there is no question of its . reasounblo enough, but we | Propriety or of ils necessity here, ‘The fudgo Davis hay any intention | erection of the Court of Probate by “enatorial question in aboy- | reheving the County Court of mueh of Illinois in uncertainty | of its business might, it scems ch, Ho Las probobly 1y whother to accept woit six woeks be. to us, opon o way for the relief of tho Circuit and Bupierior Courts, by requiring all appeals from Justices of the Teuco to Lo tuken to >termination. that Court, where they might be heard _— - promptly, and by which means {ho business = were activo | of appealing cases for delay and to dufeat ~ier, Mess 6.45 for February rch, Lard closed .72} per 100 lus for 0.85 for March, . Go for shoulders, "t and 8o for were unchanged, at was quio and tir, justice, especially in city cases, would ba de- stroyed. 'Tho County Court could take up this appeal docket overy Mondsy worning, and make short work of tho buisness by dis- missing all such sppeals not taken in good faith and not prosecuted. If thero bo no con- stitutional obataclo in tho weg, the overcrowd- od dockets of the Circuit Coarts noed relict 63 much as docs the docket of the Supremo Ee ] N o NUARY rt. In noither of theso bills is thero any provision for the relicf of the Cirguit and Superior Coutts of this connty. It may bo that this will be dono by soms other legisla~ tion not yet prepared THE OREGON SCANDAL. 8o much light has now been shed upon the Oregon case that, if anylbody has here. toforo doubted that there wns a deliberate conspiracy to proouro a bogus Elactoral voto in that 8tate by bribery,’ with Samvsr J. TiLoex at the head of it, the donubt mmust now give way to conviction. It waa proved some days since that the 38,000 telegraphio check was sent to Orogon on tho order of W. T. Perroy, Gov. TipEX's nephew and Secrotary of the National Domocratic Com. mitice. Now it is proved that the money was sent for the oxpreas purposs of pur- chnsing an Elector's certiflente (though thero waa not much doubt of that at any time); and nlso that it was in keeping with a pro- grammo definitely outlined by tho Demo- cratic Commitlee. It is further proved ponditares by entling off every useless offico and reducing salarieais held up ns a most hon. orable example. The fact that by carcless- nees, improvidence, and misfortune tho finances of this eity woro so reduced that tho city was unablo to meet its oxpenses, is for- gotten, or is amply atoned for in the estima- tion of the country by the courage and 1n- tegrity of its people and of ita government, shown in the bold reduction of it cxpend- itures and bringing them within its reduced income, It will be meen from the figures that tho Aldermen of New York City havo been in the receipt of no less than £4,000 each annu. olly, besides an annual sppropriation of $20,000 for clerks, This salary of Aldormen begun some yoars ago at a nominal sum, but during tho last ten years the sum hoa been at its present rato. It insafe tosay that but fow members of that Board arecompetent, by habits, edneation, or qualifieations, for the dutics of any offico for which $1,000 would boe & liberal ealary, These offices aro general- 1y filled by the wanl politicians, If New parishes whero the ' bulldozing was procticed. Iero wers five strong Re- publican parishes picked out for bulldozing, and the swindling in thoso five parishesalono oxcceds tho entiro Democratic claim, In Enst Feliciann, whera thera wera 2,127 black voters vegistered, and where in 1874 thero wns n Repuablican vote of 1,688, the face of the roturns showed not a vote for Havea and 3,740 voics for Troex ! To ask any human being who ia not an absolute idiot to boliove that thore was a fair clection in that parish, is an insnlt to his intelligence, and yot the Teturning Bosrd of Lonisians, for throwing out snch a vote, a3 commanded to do by the Inw, now languishesin joil, sentthera by those Domoerata who wera recently bawling so loud abont tho rights of States! The Honso majority ing performed an net of usurpation and tyranny that may recoil upon them with terziblo force. TIHE MOVEMENT OF PRICES iN 1572, 1t is certainly an interesting fact that the decline in prices, on the average, in 1876 :Il:“ts 2" l;““: A °2 ?r”"?} ; "‘L; d{’:“z‘: York can nccomplish this reduction, and ean | was equal to tho decline in the premium on " rancisc o th e i N ld. 'The Ni Fork Public sh in Tivn. & Dok, U6 Ofegon Dankers, mako even this beginning in tho way of re- | gold ho Now York Public shows n trenchment in the cost of municipal expendi- tures, then tho examplo b Chieago, thus adopted by New York, will inspire-other cities to attack the ovils which nre common to all municipal governments. The penple of Chicago havo, however, ono weak place left in their local government, and that is tho County Commissioners, which Board, putting public opinfon at deflance, still croates useless ofiices at will, and expends publio money ot its own extravagant pleas- ure. claborate table, in its issuo of Jun. 18, that the prices of tho leading commadities con- snmed in this country fell duing last yoar aboul 7 per cent. In tho samo tima tho promium on gold shrank from 113 to 106, or abont 7 per cont. 'The coincidence of the 7 per cont in the two cases will go far to strengthen those who believe the finctuations of prices to be mainly tho effect of tho fluc. tuntions in tho valne of the cwrtency, This is by no means an invarinblo law of prices. As the Public lins olroady shown, prices have not at all followed the quotations in the Oold-Room, while, on the contrary, the gold premium ia itself influonced’ through tho exchanges by tho prices of somoe leading commoditics of export. Dut since, an prices have fallen 7 por cent, the gold velue of our greonback dollar ias risen from $0.885 to §0.045 in gold, about 7 per cent, it is ovi- dent that on a gold basis prices have boon about stationary. The apprecintion in the value of the monoy hns offsot the dimi. nation in tho amount received for any givon quantity of goods, The table in the Pudlic includes tho chief commodities quoted in market reports. It is formed by supposing that of ench nrticle namcd the ontire sup- ply during 1876, whether fromdomestia pro- duction or importation,wns bought at theNew York wholesale rates of Jan, 1, 1877, and Jan, 1, 1870, Itis Dbolioved that these figures, though not statistically exaot, approximate so nearly to tho actual supply as to show vory fairly thae relative effect of onch chnngo upon general prices ot the different dates. The list of articles, ranging from ashes to wool, includes dniry products, grain, cotton, conl, fron and lead, Leef sand pork, whisky, tobacco, and all the commercial staples in brief. 'The costof tha entire supply of these articles for 1876, at the prices ruling on Jan, 1 of that year, would have beon %3,228,700,- 000, Tho samo quantitics at tho prices of oua year Intor conld havo been bought for a total of $8,002,100,000. The decline, 226, 000,000, amouunts to 7 per ecent, and this no doubt ropresents, ns mnearly a4 it’ean bo ascertained, tho true average do- cline of prices of the articles named. Tho list doos not include fresh beof, snd two items of groat importance in a widoe view of the movemont of priccs—rents and the cost of clothing—aroe loft out because no satisfactory figures could be obtained. Thir- ty-six articles afe enumaratod. OF these, twenty-four have declined in price, The greatest advanco has been in tho caso of pe- troleum, which hag risen 107 per cont., Noxt como hops, with an increase of 87 per cont ; turpentine, 27 per cent; sugar, 15 per cent; which they immediately turned over to the Chairman of the Oregon Democratic Committee, *to bo used where it would do tho most good"; and that, besides the $8,000 check transmitted through the Now York bankers, Mantiv & Ruxnvoy, another check for 8,000 was sent to tho samo desti- nation through Raxz Brothers, another Now York bauking firm. This is an nggregate of 23,200 which was forwarded to scenre the Croxiy certifiente, and othor sums may bo discovered basfora tho caso is flually dis- missed. The parties to theso transactions leavo no doubt of the purposes for which this money was used, but the telegrams which have beon obtained confirm the strong suspicion that tho conspirncy was Llntched in New York. It began by Hewrrr's telographing that legal opinion had been obtained to the effect that votes cast for Federal officoliolders as Eleet. omare void, and the person recoiving tho next highest number of vates should receive the cortificate of appointment. This lognl opinion was probably Sawurn J, Tiw- pEN's, for thera is not a reputable lawyer of brains in the country who will subscribe to it. Indeed, Hewrrr confcssed the lio himself Ly ndding in the same telegram : *¢ This will force Congress to go behind the cortificatos, and open tho way to go into tha minutes in all cases.” In other words, Mr. Tewrrr, acting for Mr. Tiuory, admitted that thero was no justico in the course, but urged its adoption in order to arrive at an opportunity for disputing returns that wero regular. It was nota legal opinion, how- over, that tho Oregon politiciang wanted so much as money. 8o the transmission of funds began by express and telegraph; the politicians started out on their * still hunt," ns one of thom expressed it; Prrron tele- graphed, * Wo must havo Oregon nt any price”; and monoy was furnished at tho time, and in the quantity demanded. Mr. ‘F1LpEN cannot avoid the personal re- sponsibility for this cntiro transaction, Not only wero tho Now York agents who mon- aged it too near to him to proceed in so im- portant n matter withiont bis knowledgo and consent, bat it is o well-known fact that ho directed in person all the movements of the compaign, and that committecs and secro- taries merely executed his orders. This fea- turo of tho case will cut n largo figure be- fore tho Arbitration Commission,—not in tho way originally intended by tho Domocrats to sct a precodent for going behind the re. turns,—but in influencing their cstimato of tho relative fairness of the two parties in the DEMOCRATIC USURPATION. The Democratic House has committed ity crowning act of infamy and usurpation in tho imprironment of the mombers of the Louisiana Roturning Board for re- fosing to produce the records of the Doard, which are now in the pr. chives of Louisiana, which they have not the physionl ability to procure, ns they have passed out of their hands into the custody of tho Socrotary of the State, and which they bave no legal right to tonch, aven if they had the physical ability, The reply made by the members of tho Bonrd beforo thoy were dragged to joil in this high-handed monner was a sufliciont one, and, in view of it, the action of the Democratic mnjority was not only a personal outrage upon tho membera of the Bonrd, but it was also o gross and importinont interforence with the righta of the State of Loulslana to dotnand that its original records should be traus. forred to Washington, thoneco into com- mittee-rooms to be manipnlated by partisan inquisitors and thair clerks, and to be bandied abont in Star-Chembers for con- veniont alterations or uitimato nbstraction. The nction of the portisan imnjority was in violation of State rights, of ordinary comity, and of the Constitution,—Art, IV,, Sox 1. of which provides that *Fall faith and credit shall Lo givon in each Btate to the public acts, records, and judicinl proccedings of overy othior State,” It was within the vower of tho House to have sont its messongors to Louininnn a} small oxpense and procurcd certificd coples of all tho papers of the Re. tarning Bonrd, and 83 a mattor of comity thoy would have been furnisbed. That they did not do s0, I8 prima.facie ovidenco that they wanted the papers for improper pur. poscs. Failing in thia illegal demand, they taka their rovenge by imprisoning the mom- bora of tho Board, who should at onco bo hinbeas-corpused out and bring suit for falso imprisonment. What doea this partisan malignity menn? What is tho object of this high-handed out. struggle. It is natural and proper that the | rage upon tho liberty of citizens of tho [ g wheat, 13 per cent. Nono of the other arbitrators should be influenced by | Stato of Lonisinna, inflicted upon them be- advances havo beon important. "This such n consideration. Tho election is | cause they fail to prodnco records that are movement in the pricos of 187G has brought many ovticles to & spocio basis, if the prices in gold before the War nny bo taken to ropresont what specio prices would bo in 1877. Sclentifically, of courso, this could not bo affirmed ; but still tho fact that salt and wheat aro as low now in currency ns in gold in 1860, and that wheat, flour, corn, corn.meal, rye, onts, ralsing, pig-iron, conl, tallow, and wool are lower {n carroncy thau they wero in gold in Jrauary, 1860, mny bo confldently taken to iudicato that so much of tho wind eud water put futo prices by tho inflation of credit and currency during the ‘War hns been squeezed out,—that the com- plotion of the process, and the roturn to so- lidity in specio prices, would produce a very small disturbance of values, and probably no pressuro on businoss intereats, In fuet, the effect on business would bo ono of great re- lef ond healthy stimulus, claimed for Mr, Tipey on tho high ground that o Toturning Bonrd consti- tuted by the law of n Btate had no right to discharge the duty prescribed by that law; if it appears, then, that the man on whoso behalf this claim is made was him- self engnged in purchasing tho certificato of an Electoral vote in n manner not authorized by any law, it is not likely that tho claim will receive the attention the Democrats hopo for. Coming into court tainted with fraud, Mr, TitpEs's coso Is considersbly weaker than it would bo if thero wero a clear and honorablo record on his side, now tho property of tho State, and, oven if they wero Bo disposed, could not ba pro- cured cithor physically or legally ? Ostonsi- bly they say that the Roturning Board chonted Mr. TiupeN in tho count, This brings us to the question, What has the Re- turning Board really dono? In answering this question, lot us rafer first to tho Election law itself. 'The third section of tholaw pro- vides: 1, ‘bfter auch examinntion, the sald returning officors shall ho convinced that said riot, tumult, acts of violence, Intimidation, armed disturhance, vribery, or corrupt influcnce did materially intor- fere with the purity and frecdom of the election at auch poll or voting-place, or did provent a suficlent number of the qualifed electors thereat from reg- isterlng or votlng to matorlally change the result of tho electlon, then the sald returning oMcers ohall not canvasa or completo the statement of tho votes of such poll or votlng-place, but siall ex- clude it from thelr returs . ‘Chis {8 tho law under whicli the Roturning Board were required to set, and undor the provisions of which they threw out tho votes of certain localitics. In tho seoond placo, let us considor the testimony of two of the- most nccomplished, impartinl, and inde. pendent observers, Gen, Jastes I Van Avvey, o Bouthorn man snd an ex-Confeder. nto oftieer, after carcfully weighlug the evi- donco, says: In my opmiun, the Neturning Board of Loulsl- ana could not have permitted tho vote of their State to stund for the Demueratic Elcctore, bs np- patently 1t did on the faca of the returns, withoat violating the statuto by virtue of which they held oftice, und sauctloning n massof inthuldation snd fraud disgracetul to republican fnstitutions, Mr, Reoyenp, tho correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, who weut to Loulsi. ann with the impression that the Democrats had enrried the Stato, says: 1n the parlshes sclceted for hulldozingthere were fully forty Bepublicans murdered, and those parshes in whichh the result gave the Tiipex tiekel the face of the returny, for which Demcratle virtue has so lustily demanded an honest connt, were carded for the Demucrats by murder, whip- pings, Inthmidation, and o reign of terrog, In every parish whero thers was 5o duttldation the Republicaus guincd to that degroe that the sime. MUNICIPAL SALARIES, There is no greater abuse under the Amer- ican system of municipal governments than the constant increnso of oflices and the regu- lar enlarzement of salaries. Tho two ovils feed one another. Tho men in offico provide places for thelr followers aud dependents, and aro constantly adding to their own com. pensation. ‘The municipal appropriations of Now York City have to be' confirmed by the Legistature of that State, "Tho cousequenco is that the public have to poy for two lobbles, —one in Now York, and another at Albany. Tho corruptionists in the New York Logis- lature generally find their richest harvest in the New York City Approprintion bills, '[ficre was o time when it was n common thing for municipal officers in Chicago to go to Springtield, and, somo weoks after the Leghslaturo had adjourned, it would be found that now oftices had been created in Chicago, nnd salaries had beon not only increased, but areduction of them had been prohibited by law, A bravo member of tho Now York Legislature has proposed a bill to reduco the salaris of some of tha New York City ofiiclaly, and a statoment of the present sala- ried, 88 well ns thoso proposed, will be of in- terest s illuateating tho extent to which the abuses hiave bLeen carried in that city, The following comparisons will show what i con- sidered cconomy in that city : THE ENOLISH " ALADAXA' MONEY. A recent numbor of the London Zimes comments at length upon tho probablo dis- position of tho surplus in the hands of tho Government which has beon left out of tho Geneva Award aofter paying ol the divect claimy that wore allowed by the Commirsion. Its American correspondent telegraphed the Z'imies ua follows ; The Alabama Claima Commlssion, which 14 charged with the duty of distributing the Genova Award, will expire, by limitation, st the close of the year. Cougress, ulthuagh several bills are pending, has made no provision eltlier for the con tnuance of the Commission or the ndmisulon of uny other classesof clalmants, Theoriginal award of $16,500,000 was investedin Amerlcan 5 por conts, and the Interest had Increased it to about §18,500,000, The clalme already puld, together with all the awards sloce mado and the Interest npon them, amount o about $1, 500, 000, which i+ the sum of all the demands tnat can come upon tho fund, unless wome of the pending measurcd ad- witting wer premium and nsurance clafmants are passod, 'Thers v, therefore, an unexpended bal- ance of §0,000, 000 in the Treasury credited to the Gonova Award, and uvery strong fecling fv ap- parent throuzhout the country thut Cangrexy, havs ing provided for allthe direct claimants, basnoright Tresent Proposed | percentsze of gaine fu the bulldozed parishes | to go sbout hunting up other clsfmante for thls sulary. “ralury, | would ave cardlod (Lo Buato triumphaotly for | wmoney, but tat it ought to be paid back to En- 815,000 $10,000 | Jtayes. Butbn thoso dve parlehes wher mirdor | gland, and terror prevalled, and whero there fa nanally a Republican wajority of 4,500, the Democrats mado a net gaim of ubout 9,000, and this gave the faco of the returns to Ticves, Now, let us look at the returns from these five parishes in which the bulldozing wes practiced, contrasting the Republicau mejor- ities of 1874 with tho Democratic wajorities of 1876, They sre East Feliciana, Wost Feliciana, Ouachita, East Baton Rtouge, and Alorchouse, aud the majoritios are as follows: All the comment which the Zimes hns to make upon this *very strong feeling” among the Amerfcans is tho romark that it publisbes the statemnent **with impartial but oadmiring interest,” which probably means that it would be o very gruceful thing to re- turn tho money, but also a thing not at all likely to be doue. Now, not disputing the “very strong feeling” which the London TVmes' corvespondent has discovered, wo may remind bim and hiy English readers that we havo inberited sufileiont of tho phlegmatio characteristic of our British fore- fathers not to be carried sway by any burst of generosity, ‘This **very strong feoling” is pot likely to grow into a fever in this country, and if it does we can vouch for the prediction that it will nct become opidemic or contagious. It is not likely that vast mass. meetings will bo held throughout the laud to demond that Congress order the return of tho surplus Alsbama moneys. Tho Americans do not yet feol sufiiciently grate. ful to Groat Britzin for fitting out privatcers to prey upon American commerco duringtho ‘War to get up & popular demonsiration for alth Departae oy Council.. of Alders porstion ANOrney. ... inteeloner of Jucl Prealdent City College In addition, tho ofiices of threo Firo Com. wksioners, $12,600; two lHealth Commuis- sioners, $7,000; threo ''ux Commissioness, #11,600; ond three Dock Commissioncrs, £8,000, oro sbolished. Tho whols reduction proposed by this bill is $156,150 in salarics, annunlly, ‘The Lill makes no radical reduc- tions. It cbolishes a fow offices which aro notoriously superfiuous, and reduces the aal- aries of tho others from the extravagant fig. urcs which they have reachod by aunual ad. ditions. In support of this bill, and in support of liko reforms clsowhere, thes courage, the parishes, and in all but tho sbove five the vote resulted as was expected prior to the election. There were Democratic guins in some and Republican gains in others, and tho gaina bore as fair s rclation to tho ro. sults of previous elections as they did in Northern States, but in not one of them was potriotisu, and the vigor of the City of Chi. | thero such & complete, sudden, and $ho return of eny part of the swall amount cugo in making @ wholceale reduction of ex- | violoat revolaton s iu theso Svo | of dunages which the British Goverument wna forced to pny for its deliberate and vicions neglact to enforce the Iaws of noutral- ity. Bpecnlntion on this point may thoro- foro be dismissed ot once. 1t is not improbablo that Congresawill yet asa o Inw for tha admission of certain claims which will nbgorb the surplus that remains, and this without extending the privilege to the insuranco companies, which wero amply reimbmrsed by the exira war preminms they domanded and reccived. But there are two classon which even the Times admits may bo fairly entitled to recompenso for their lossea. Ono consists of the merchants who paid the igh war rates of insuranco without suffering any damage from tho privatocrs, aud conse- quently withont recovering any equivalont for tho oxcosive insuranco tax dircotly lovied uponthem. Theotherclassnra theshipowners who were forced, on account of tho danger of rniling American vessels, to sell out their whipa at forced sales to tho English, taking what they could get for thorn, Both these classes suffercd ss directly, we think, 4a those who took the risk and had their ves. sols or cargoes destroyed without any insur- ance j and if their claims shonld bo admit- ted, they wonld consumo protty much all that remains of tho Alnbamn funds. Tho insur anco companies have no claims whatover., As to tho proposition to cover the monoy into the United States Treasury, tho London Thines doubts whether it conld bo sustained # gither in o court of Inw or beforo n jury of honor.” Wo do not think it likely that anch n conrse would be serlously contested in n court of lnw by enybody having s right to contest it. As to thae honer ar dishoror of the transaction, it cannot be denied that tho British {nfraction of law cost the peoplo of this country as n whole moro nearly %100, 000,000 than tho £15,500,000 paid by Grant Britsin in full for sll damages. The Robel privatecrs wero built in English porls with speciol referenco to speed ; they wera manned mainly by Englishmen, and thoy had the protaction of the English harbors sl over the world, sio the cost to the American Gov- ernment of chasing them nnd doing what it conld to protect Americon commerco is al- most beyond estimate, Whils thls fact is patent, any claim for o reatoration of the sur- plus left from the distribation of the amall damages Groat Dritain has poid will not be considoted with any great enthusinam by the American people, and wae doubt whether any other people than the English, who nro so thoroughly absorbed by the commercisl in- stinct, would oxpect it for a moment. et s THE METRIO SYBTEM. # The American Metrie Bureau ™ fs the title ot an nssoclation receutly formed in Boston, Its object s to extend acquaintance with the dechmal system of welghts and measures, {n tho hope that it will be specdlly adopted by the people, 'The one nrticle In the creed of the or- unization fs the bellef that the metrie svatemn will be readily and pludly accepted as o vust mprovemnent upon the ald, It its character be understood. There is no resson to doubt that the bellef {s correct. The decimal system {8 already in nse in our monetary nomenclature. Wo no longer reekon in sixpences and shilllugs as fractions of the dollar, while there aro nono who do not con- cede that the reckoning by tens Is infinitely su- perior to the cumbrous pound, shiilings, and pence method still In use fn Great Britain. The counting of meunaures of length by refer- enco to the metre (about 89.4 Inches) and the kilometra (five-eighths of a tilc) Is equally preferable to the reckoning In inclies, feet, yards, cte, Which we stil employ. In like monuer the decimal division and multiplication of the Htre, which is nearly the nverage of the differcut kinds .of *quart,” and the kilo- gram (2.2 1s), with the tonneau of 1,000 kilo- grams, or 2,204 lbs, offer great lmprovement upon onr present systems of measurlng and weighing. It1s just as casy to thiok of quan- titles as mensured by the now uuits as the old; Just as easy to handle the onc as the other; and far casler to calculate, cven nfter only o fow moments’ scqualntance with tho subject, The use of the new system s only a question of time. It has alrcady bocn theorctlcally adopted by the United States for mare than ten years past, having been Jegalized by act of Con- gress in 1800, It has been similarly adopted o France, Germany, 8paln, Italy, Portugal, Ifol- land, Belglum, Mexlco, Bwitzerland, Austria, Denmark, Grecce, British Indla, Brazil, tho French Colonles, Duteh Colonics, Spantsh Col- oules, Roumania, Now Granada, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Chilf, and the Argentive Republie. In several of the countries above named it is used excluslvely, and {s gradually becoming a lome fuatitutlon fu therest. The outy difficulty experienced fn it fntroductiou s that of Lring- {ng the new measures beforo the peopls; and it is to overcome this dificulty fn the Unfted States that the American Metric Buresu lias been established. Tho wholo number of mem- Ders Is now about 150, and 1t s desirable that tho llst should bo targely fncreased. ‘To this end the Exeeutive Comlttee Invite all those to Joln who feel an {nterest In the movemnent, All wuch are invited to addresa the Sceretary, MeL- vi1, Duwey, Esq., Tremont place, Boston. A chart which exhiblts, at a glance, tho load- ing features of the metrle system, I8 on view in Room No. 81 Tuuxe Bullding. It may bu secn auy af*ernoon hy those desirous of obtaln- Ing tuformation on the subject. —— Doctors generally disagree about everything concernlng the curative vaiucol thelr respectlve nostrums and eMxirs, but they always agres to employ mysterious Ureck terms n which to conceal the nawncs of thelr medicines, of dis- cases, of remedles, nnd preventives, ‘Thus inn councll of small-plll doctors, Baturday night, we find flashes of Greek and Latiu hike the fol- Towlng: Dr. C. 11, VoN Tae ald in n statlstical report kept in l'llllm(lelthl! fur eix aud elght wouths, it aupearad that the loes under the anfleeptic treat Tent of sulpho-carbolaty of sodn was U or 7 percent, anid thu loss under belladonna uxed ae & Jrophulictic wan somewlery In the nelghborbood Gf 4y 10 % per cent, Dr, Voaten was of opinion tual there was no danger after desquawmation was couplvted. Iow many of Tus TuiuuNs readers compre- hend what thoss ssplent 1. 1).'s meant by the “antiseptlc treatment,” and tho use of bella- dunua as n proplylactic; or how ‘“danger was uverted when desquamation was completea "4 Who would recogulze ft, under that frightful Latin catophruct, os meanlng the stage of the searlet fever when the cutivle sealed off But that ls all desquamation means. Aud “anti- septic treatment' 15 simply s remedy that counteraets putrefaction, The dreadful ¢ pro- phylactic,” which sounds as portentous as jaroxysin or parslysls, when its Greek shell is stripped off incaus simply a “preventive,’'— that and nothing more, When Dr. VAN Taoen salil that belladonna, [ e, the pulson known es “pightshade,” used a8 o * prophylastic,” only resulted fnaloss of 234 per ceut, he lutended to vonceal the iden that it preserved or defended chlldren from taking scarlet fever,—in other words, that the essence of nightshade is u specitic preventive to the extont of 073 per cent of nll cases,—a statement which 0734 per cent of doctors will pronounce a mendacium.” e e g—— The Indlanapolls Jeurnal—denator MORTON'S home organ—is becoming reconclled to the ar- Litratfon very rapldly, ulthough it made a loud opposlition to its passage. Boys the Journal: ‘The bill has had & fair and candld hearing before Counress and the country, 'Those who opposed tho il Td the better of the argument under the Con- stitutlon, the laws, und the preccdents. o wiho favored It wero ucarest I buncouy with the duealre, The majority for the bill among be musscs of the people, without reference 10 Farty, s equal, ituot geealor propartianaliy, than Lie ‘majority for it iu G.ongrevs. Wo luve recog- nizged the divislon of sentinient among the Repul wnd that the chamvlon of cach sldv was eyl eutitied to tespestful bearing and con- sideration, Heasonable and reasoning Hepublic~ sus could not closu thelr eyes to the fuct that we wore lmolyed in very avrious comolls and that no nndisnnted road out of ‘them was pre. scribed by the Constitntion and laws, as thay have been universally construed by Congres; and that Ttopablican precedents could “be found to refute the claim for the inauguration of Gov. HATRs on the mere doclaration ny the Vice-President, and that 1o man filling tho place of Vico-President conld moke that declarstion In the faca of 8 mn- Jority of Uoth Houses of Congres, and command Feepoct elther for himaclf or for u President fnan- gurated by vittuo of iL, There was, theretore, a §ade for roforence, | Tiin fhct was concedod by {he opublicanis whan they voted fur (he appolntment of bl Joint Comalttcd. e To the Rditor of The Tridune. MatTaox, 1L, Jon, 2u,—Dlease atate in yonr Naisx Trinug, for the benedt of [ts readers, " liow the permanently-lacated rosidenta of the Disteict of Columbia are represented In our Natlonal Con- uress, and oblige A CoNstaxt READER. Answen—The people of the Distrlct of Co- Iumblahave no special representative fn Cone gress. Congress s thelr Leglalature, Thelr excrutive government is composed of a Boanl of Commissioners appointed by the President. —— - The artlcle on “Anfmal Nature,” n Sunday’s Tainuse, should have been ceedited to the Atlantie Monthly for February, to which it was contributed by BAvanp TarLon, ————— PERSONAL, Mr, Alezander McClura complacently publishos Anewspaper paragraph, comparing himself with the Rev, 3r. Talwage, and saying that "the two might o;th:nxc places without a perceptibla diference in offect, 3 Croizelte, tho famous Franch sctress, delights in tho bleth of a daughter; and her speedy retnrn to the stage, from which she has been too long ab- sent, ia announced, A distingutshed General of royal lineaze has asked permission to give Llsname ta the child, Tn hls fourth Jecture on preaching at Yale, Dr, Drooka amlil: **The prencher shonld let peo- plennderstand the difference between the nuthority of Wis mesenge and his manner of prasenting it ‘We need frankness to say thls ls God's truth; this 18 what I think God's truth, " The LSorifolio thinka that persons in thess times aro boginning to cetimate nn artist very much by bis style of llving. If Lis brush can give him a fine cstablistiment, he Is considered a great painter, Te begina by struggling for existenco he ondy, when successfal, by straggling for splendor, **To entortatn or amuse,* anys the Philadelphia Press In th sagaclons mannce of Dunshy, ** s the primal alm of dramat!c representation; ita misslon intoInstruct.” This oracnlar utterance calls up tho distinction proper to Le mado between an *‘aim" and o **miealon," which can only be ap. preciated by a markeman who has almod ot the ‘bull's-eye and **mlissloncd " the outer, A numnber of noble tramps at Logan, 0., were lately ordered to prepare for work on the rodds in order to pay for thelr food and lodging ot public cxpense, They meatly checked this scheme Ly putting thelr clothing in the stove and appenling tothe mercy of thelr keepers for protece tion from the wintry blast, Tbe Lord does not, It appenrs, temper the wind to the naked tramp, An attempt has boon made to havea commisalon of guardians appointed for the person and estates ot De, J. C. Ayer, the well-known mannfscturer of patent medicines, now Insane. 1t is alleged that property belonglng Lo him to tho value of £2,000,- 000 fs now In the custody of kis brother, and that the Jatter objects to baving any guardion but him- seif sppolnted, The doclsion of the Court to which the subjoct was referced has been reserved. *41t 14 by no menns necessrry, " remarks the Now York Trihune, **that all, or even many, novels should have a bappy denoucment; yet, whenovern moral or intellectual altustion is presented which requlres the oquation of known characters with unknown influcnces, the sum should be fairly worked out.” Tho criticjudgos that this conditfon Las not been fuldiled, for Instance. In Mr, Black's *¢Madeap Violot," or In Ueorge Ellot's ** Danlel Deronda. " James W. Berry, a life-long friend of Judge Breese, died ot Decatur on the 7th inst, Ho was the son of one of tha carly Auditors of thé State. In carly life Mr, Derry doveloped somo taste and sklll in painting, 1In 1835 he was ap- pointed by the Hon. Bldney Brecse, now of tha Buprome Conrt, then a Circuit Judge, Clerk of the Circult Court of Fayotte County, which ofiice ho contlnued to hold under mucceesivo clectiona until 1850, 1ifs father, Col. ENjah C, BDerry, moved to Tilinole from Kentucky In 1817, 3z, James Berry was born {n 1805, Tho Springfield Republican onght. not to permit its New York correspondent to eny that *‘the coursa of Mr, Hayes sinco the election has not quite antiafiod his bost supporters.™ On the con- trary, the dignifed and manly position of Gov. Hayos, from tho day of his nomination until the present time, has Leen most! gratifylng to candid men everywhere, 1lis various utterances, and va- had thio right to ask, have commended him to tho reapect of many who voted agalnst him; and his conduct has been, after the Compromise blil, the most cheering extubition of patriotism that tho campalgn hoa affordad. 5 8t. Jamoes' Church, Tatchom. swas the scens of, an extraordinary religious service on Jan, 7. ‘The Rtector had been inhibited from holding serv- ices on nccountof his Ritualistic practices, Ile procesdod In apitc of the law. A guard composed of members of tho congregation stood at the door and admitted only persons presenting tickets prop« erly certified. The extreme Ritualistic service was thon performed. Meanwhiloa mob of 5,000 had gathered without, and there was danger that the doors wauld bo beaten in. When tho parlvhioners lefi the church they were greeted with jeoring ox- clamations h as ** All tickets ready; change hera for Nome,' and '*Three cheers for thoe Fope," Mr, Tooth bimself was recelved with hisses, Notwithstanding the varlous rumora In regard to the now opera-housa in New York, nothing scema 10 be definltely acttled oxcopt that Mr. Willlam 1, Vanderbllt Lus taken no atock fn 11, The fawous story of the threo black crows Is scarcely moro sure prising toan tho revelation of the way {n which Mr. Vanderbiit's namo bocanto asvoclated with tho onterprise. [ic advised the Directors of the 1lar- Towu Hallroad not to aell a pluce of property destrud 240 sito for the opers-house fur less than §300, 000, Trom this basls the rumor krew to tho dinenwons that the property bud actually been sold for tho sum mengioned, Then {t was snid that Mr. Vaoe derbilt had taken out largs past of the selling price in stock, and finally that ho was deeply fn. terested fn tho matter. Ie dewies oll these statos ments, Tho work of Moody and Sankey {n Boston is Mkely to have more saslatanco from tho Eplscopas linns than it had Liere, the Rev, Phillp Brooks have fng gono Into It heart and Homo rogret hos been expresved thatsuch Unitariace asJamoe K'ree- wan Clarke and Kdward Everett Ualv cannot be asked to purticivate. There was o Jittlv unpleas- antnces, it sppea: tho first chiolr reheursal in the Tsbernacle, The Jlev. Q. ¥, Pentecost sald that everybody was expected to give 8 frocwill offerfug of at least §1 at the dedicatlon, Thureday night, A metnber of the cholr thought that kind of freo-will offering way aa imposition, whercupon Wr, Pentecost sald thoat any member of the cholr whowouldn't glve might leave as soon aslie plessed; aull the poor singer was here hisscd down by his fellow-vocallsts. M. Amaux, a Parlslan artiet of some eminence, who twice carried ol wedal the Halon, aud wau well known a8 8 palnteron porceelain, has been convicted of stealing ongravings from the National Library. 1o confessed tohaving stolen engravings at four different times to the value of $000. When asked what had led bim to commit such an action, he apswercd **Poverty,” Ilis two children had died reccutly, and the e wes attending thelr dcath and burlal dratned all resources, 1lfs necessitics drove him, skilled artist though hie was, to fan-valating, from which ho tealized ouly ™ Notwitstanding the piteoas sentenced o Imprisunmont for Lwo years, while the complalusntprint-vendor, ‘who bought the engzravings, knowlag them tobe stolen, was sentenced to cight months' fwprlson- ment. M. Charles Blenc's ‘*Les Artlstes de Mon Tempa™ Is & book now sitracting much stteution in England. The author, who is the foremost live Ing art-critle, asscrts that outside of Frauce, Hel- glum, and sume parts of Germany, wuch art oeex- iats la worth very Uttle, 1t fs of the present day only that this fs sald. ltaly, Spaln, sud Ureece bave had groat artlste, and may bave sgain, Not #0 England, Enpglaad, {f we are to believe her French cousor, Las never kad elther palnters or sculptors of really superior it, and_ since this romalns trus even slnce her acquisition of the marbles of Fhidias, ince her eutry upon & period of unexampled proeperity snd riches, the .acclimatization of Ligh a1t fu that country muat be decmed an {mpossible tuing, Thero bave been, snd there arc, English painters; some of them bappy enongh to eirn, with certaln Umitations, bigh pralso from M. Charles Dlanc; but he s doubtful whether it can properly be said that there ever was g Eayilsh sshook = i 8 rlons refusals to oxpresa opintona for which nobody , - o -