Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 5, 1877, Page 1

VOLUME XXXI. NEW PUDBLICATIONS. A NEW WORI ON FINANCE JUST PUBLISHED BY 8. C. GRIGGS & CO. CHICAGO. GOLD AND DEBT; ean T1and. Book of Floance, with over 80 ta- A akrams Rinkiratyie. af The following n - {ecta: The Litiar and nthor Unta; Faper Money In tie nited lates and, Europe; tiold s Eilvey in tho inited States and Kurupa; Huspensions of Kpecle-Tay+ meata; The Era of ol 4 of the Precious et ¥ The Fra i of Debt Digestof the Lawa of_the tinited VW oL FACRTT, 1imoselotly. Price, $1.75, O e A ATGRd Heararia briaink oRaCheT n 8 com . and ln‘l’fl"filh‘n form so miany fM!l:flf 1inte! S Tikva mirack the main ehuse of Haancial rowble. After them noone doubts but that Morton and Garfield will be anxious to reach a decision, and ol the four Juatices first chosen It s safe to say the same of Strong and Miller, thus making up ELEVEN OUT OF PIFTEEN who aro certain to insist that the result shall be ascertained and announced. As yet there havo not been the slightest ndications that the four rematning members of the Commission are not a8 earnest as any of their nssoclates in a desire to finish thelr worle In ample time for the Inauguration. As the Commission makes its own tules, and can change them at will by a majority vote, there scems to be no ground for the opinfon gaining circulation that the matter may bo allowed to go over the 4th of March. Certaln Democrats ore circulating the story that the most Ilkely solution is an election by the House, brought abont either Ly throwlng out Loulsfana altegetlier or recelving only two votes from Oregon. 1T 18 SIGNIFICANT that this opinion comes from Democrats who, up to the time the Commission met, have SAM'S FUNERAL. The_ Pall-Bearers Already Crooning a Requiem Over Tilden's Chances. David Dudley Field, the Erie Sharper, Now Running the Democratic Party, Goneral Belief that 1o Is Run- ning the Party to Ruln to the finanicial guestions of the -] the lion. David A, Weila, o & T e Wikiachi Edlior ofthe rutiiohin Ledg, at Erlo Speed. stoutly maintaincd that Tililen corried Lonlal- ana aid Florida, and that the Oregon casc was of no canscqucence, except to foree_Congress to go behind the retnrns, The Republicans, how- cver, are giving themselves no spoclal concern h ose engaged in the valution of AANCIal probiemms, And A1k Lk Taatters of thuch latercst 15 the bractical buste Sekemman, s+ 1tcontatns much thav 1t Is Impor. ant for every banker and large aperntar in money {0 b Bandio antin: Tammany ‘Taotics Intro- nows .4 o AT, Fawcelt daes not tlcedt pens hie’ not only theoretically, but praciis ) over the Oregon vote, and even Judge Jere 205, Knows ‘whereof he whte. duced by Tammany’'s Binck snys, B private” conversanion. thate s * e recommend el who deeive o master the sublect Tegal Adviser fortunately for !)hc Deinocrats, the law of Ore- 'A‘ahrur Fg'gflx':'szmfit. dthe m'f\f n'\'x:fil and very g 2 gon {sso plain in regard to tho Elcctors filling gompieta cullecuog of monetary stati s work has any vacaney which may occur from any causoe as Berer bee equaled o even approsclied. "—L'hiladelphla to Teavo Tilden cse, NO GROUND TO STAND ON. There are very few who believe that such o Commisslon ns has been chosen will carc to thraw out the vole of Loulsiana, and thus place themselves In the position of deciding that, where anodd number of Electoral votes were cast, they cannot say which candidate has re- A Characteristic Piece of Sharp Practice in the Lovisiana Cnse, - Robert’s Rules of Order. 10th 1,000, Pocket Size. Price, postpald, 75 cents. INVALUABLE TO SOCIETIES OF ANY EIND. uperfor to any other parilamentary manual, 1t t I celved a majority, Almost the universal opin- fryii oplet, o vl o arie'i 0h% | Tarfous Speculations Concern= | fon i that th pricricer sy, coieeraul opie; & e e arloug Spatuia T~ | (Fat, in some wn?', theirpatent Is made to work. d every rale fs comolets ' ithet ‘easily fouad ing the Course of the Inadaition to the above reasons, wnlch it Is + a8 & word In a dictionary, thought will deter o malbrity of the Congres- TERAE enati il A RS Commission. glonal part of the Commisslon from_ Heking n e ulltire thro a decislon to 'go beliind 8 re- et |'e'=.-fn' n-uo’r’:fm bogss ”;'efaenr:i Eu'c} o ng turns, lovcm lawyers hiere whe arc on {utlinate plication 1 regard it the best book extant, ’ GERMAN WITHOUTGRAMMAR OB DIOTIONARY; A gulde to Learning and Teachiog the German Lan: terms with varlous Justices of the Court’ have, upon comparing views, united in a helief that the Justices, or n majority of them, will not go behind the returns, STATE RIGILTS. TOE DIPFERENCE DETWEEN THE OREGON AND The Arbitrators Non-Com- mittal Even Among Themselves. ey sccoraleg to tho Fesslomsiay Mettiod of TRE SOUTHERN-STATE QUEATIONS. retcie, elot A t ¥ 5 R Special Dispatch to The Tribune. ,l‘::‘:{':;flzufll:'lmlflfi%fl:l‘!“uIrlofi'llgy!'l;llflt"iqci:'l‘: Dlfieorence Bet:’” :;n tshe ‘t:: ses of Wasnseroy, D. C., Feb, 4.—AtL tho outset o S L U R A R L regon an e Southern of the great national lawsult the Democrats States. make the disheartoning discovery that the point 2dA tho i u 3 RHT e |1 he DIk (ne Iaster s only in thelr adversaries' line of defense which they 6 Linglish,"—Northwestern Chrintion i thought fatally weak I8 tolerably well fortified, if not absolutely fmpregnable, They imagined that the, Republicans could et up no theory which would save them the voles of Fiorida and Loulsiana and which could be appiled to Oregon without the recognition of the Cronin Electoral College as a natural conecquence. Ever aince the Oregon fraud was consmninated the Dem- ocrats have constantly thrust at thelr opponents thisdilemmas *Gobehind thereturnsand we will take the two Southern States. Refuse to go behind the returns, and you must glve us ono vote from Oregon.”” Now the Republicans . REPUSE TO ACCEPT EITUER ORN . of the dllemma. They do not say that there Is no power {n the Commission to go back of thy returne, What they assert Is that there is no Advocate, Judge Davis Will Do No More Supreme Court Work---His Successor. ‘on recelpt of price, 8 G GRIGGS & €0y, Publishers, 35 Washington.st,, Chicago. TO SLENT. * FOR RENT. ‘Store 116 South Clark-st. For sale by all boeg;ellerl. or will be matled postpald The Democratic Scheme of Apportion- ment In Indiana. FISK’S LAWYER. TRANSFCR OF HIS TETTIFOGGENY PROM NEW YORK TO WASIINGTON. Spectal Dispalch fo The Tridune, ‘WasniNgTON, D, C., Feb. 4 —The Democrats of Field's Committec have resorted to another trick to get fts suborned and perjurcd testl- mony beforo tho Electoral Comimlesion, They Q ALSO, have printed, at o private offlce, & pamphlct of | nowerto go behind the authioritative and final o about 200 pager, with the followingtitle: “Tee- | geclarmtion of the result of an election by a 0re 0“ fil 'S s | Umony Relatiog to Florida, Taken Before tho | giate authority. The Governor's certilate fs Committee of the Houss of Represcntativeson | not gn cssential part of that declaru- ATELYL %0 ";‘lfc"""' ffll'ucg'i'" "C’“‘ Dntles&! "11'3 n""“l’ tion. It fa required, not by State law, but ildi of Represcntatives fn Counting ‘the Electoral | {jyiteq Btates statute. It moy be a fulse Room 43 Exchange Duilding, Vote, the Hon. J. Proctor Knott, Chalrnan” | cortificate, as {a that of Gov. Grover. Congress, PROPOSALS. To prevent Republicans from Inslsting that cor- | 4y therefors the Commission, Is not bound to PR e e oann | taln Witnesscs whose teatimouy §s printed should | geeapt, it ns conclusise.. Tho purpore of the bo cross-cxamiued, and that the testimony of the persons to whom it related ehonld first be heard {n order that all might go together, YIELD AND LIS ASE0CIATES CONVICT LABOR. ILLINOIS STATE PENITENTIARY, earefMIMIDNERY, OFIy Jnun;“.nnas% Y ropos o by ths - Commisloners of it itols Biate Sl iantary ‘fEm 3 50 count {s to uscertaln what was the declarcd will of the State as nnnounced by the authority created by it lawe to canvass and deterinine the vote for Elcctors, and the Commiesion can go Soine oncly oL t) 5, 1877, for tho Labor of had this compllation privately and sccrotly beyond the returns to ascertaln what was the Hn:g_r:d 'é',‘:” A'l?-':ndlu and adapted to most any | Printed, and laid it before tho Commission. | acifon of that authority, but indof labor and & portion of them have been working ‘This pamphlct also contains the examivation of NOT A STEI® FURTHER. poxes il e furatshed, F; |p yenm T | ono member (Keuner) of the Returnlng Board, | Tuere 13 the lie which divides tho General ntract un not longer atn o e ‘J"y,’f'."{, ol and but not alino of cross-cxamiuation. A similar from the State Govermmeut. In Oregon the collection of ono-#{ded and Incomplete testimony in regard to Loulsiana s in press, giving afl tho evidence taken, for the purpose of reflccting on the Returning Board, but nothing on their sido. . There Is very scrious question whether Flold has not been gullty of a grave violation of the privileges of the House In thus printing unfalr and partfal proccedings of nis Committes with- out the knowledge of the full Commlttee, and by means unsanctioned by any precedent, XO MORE DISGUSTING TOLITICAL BPLCTACLE Lias ever been witnessed at the Capital, and none has ever excited more fudignant comment from decent men of Loth parties, than Dudley Ficld's trotting back and forth hotweon his scat ’mong the Democratie councel bofore the Electornl Commisslon aud the seat ho has usurped from Proctor Knott in the IHouse Committeo on Elcctoral Prerogatiyes, The first day tho Com- mission heard argutnent, ot the closo of his epecch there, he rushed hastily through tho bullding to superintend the attempted badger- Ing of Gen. Anderson, of the Returning Board, g arrived breathlcss, but in time to browbeat the Committee and muke bis ottempt on tho witness, Yesterday ho LEFTTHE BUPREME COURT-ROOM PRECITITATELY to ace that the Committee did not grant thodc- maud of Gov. Wells, his counsel, and Republic- an members, that Welis should, in common Jus- tlee, be heard at once, so that his explanation of Maddox's evidence wnlght gowith the latter to the country. One of the Democratie membors of the Committee voted againat Ficld, but tho others atood with him for this act of I'ndcccncy and [gross injustice, These members all scern touuderstand that Flcld ia the representative of the Tilden managers, and that he s helping, in concert with those managers, to cxccuts the ;’c;:.exx‘r;e nx:; :»luk‘ct-‘: tllhn Louistana Returning 0, V! o onc e: they ave kindly nnd abediontly " "eds N FOLLOWED F1XLD’S DICTATION, For fvo days Wells has tricd in valn to securg a Liearing {u order to shotr that Littlefleld and Maddox” laye related a perjured atory, The sols reason for denyin, “’:!“l' requeat yesder- day was in ordor to évu the letter which Mad- dox produced a day’s atart hofore the Commis- slon and country without cxplanatfon, Not only did the Demiocrats on the Committee ro- fuse to hesr Wells, but, by a strict party vote, in secret scesium,” attempied to cover up the disgraceful and nu'nhonorusle act by voting that tho fact of the refusal should not be entered on. the journal of the Committec, and by a delib- fi?&e vote to this effect tho' journafl was falsi- FIELD AND I1I8 CO-CONBPIRATONS know that evcr{!unn of thesc loticrs Is cn of full and satlsfactory cxplanation, and now that the structure of falschood has bocn ralsed, their main objcct I8 to provent ita demolltion by repressing tho truth, There s conslderavle feel- {ug against Kepublican membors of this Com- mdttee for allowlug Ficld toride over them without mmfi to o qucstion of privilego on the floor and let the country know trom them of the serles of outroges perpetrated by the majorit; in thelr Ccmnmlm-a-rmmut but, {r spite of thelr timidity in tacing Twecd's and ’l‘llfden’n attor- uey, the course of the latter in Comuaittos and in coachlng sritucsses which have given perjurcd testimony, has becowe kKnown 10 such an extent astocreatoa uroy:f reaction against his meth- fi\?x u.“d really do good to the Republican . canvasaing authority was mnot the Governor but the Becretary of Btate; in Florlda, it was not the Governor but thic Canvassing Board. The Ropubllcan theory, therefore, {3 that the Commssion ay do everything neces- sary to learn where the” legal Btato authority rested to determine the result of the clectlon, and what the action of that authority was, but it cannot ‘zo step further without invading the rizlits of the Btate, TALIK, PREMONITIONS, PREDICTIONS, AND ADMISSIONS, Hpecial Dispatch to The Trivuna, ‘Wasnixarox, D. C., Feb. 4.—Oplulon Is very much divided as to the probable declsion of the Electoral Commisslon {n the Florida caze, The Ropublieans generally sre more confident than the Domocrats, and arc hopeful that the result will be in Huycs' favor, but, so far as any {nti- mation from any of tho Commisslon gocs, ft. s almost certain that this con- fidence 48 not founded upon any cxpression of opiulon on the part of tho Com- misslon. Oncof the Commission sald to-night that he had never been assoclated with o body of men engaged In u common occupation where there was so littls Interchange of thought or opinfon, Re had sat thus far besido a friend he had known for many years ou the Commiission, and the first word has not yct been {nterchang- cd betwecn thiem upon the subject of the argu- ments or the cuse. The Congresslonal members of the Commission scem fnclined to walt for the Judges to suggest opinfons, and the Judges, ‘with tho reserve to which tha Supreme Bench s nccustomed, have as yet given no sign. Tney aro walting for the concluding arguments to- morrow, when {t 1 understood that tho Com- mission will immedlately go Into CONSULTATION. No rulo hias been made which will limit the time for tho dellberations of tho Commnission when {n consultation, and it will be quito pussi- ble that fifteen differont oplnions or scts of apeeches will be made in privato confercnce be- fore the declsion will be ready, Bome of the Democrats cannot conceal their want of confl- denco fu tho rosult. Morrison, of Iilinols, who 1s a very free talker, cxpreescs the oplnion thut the Democrats have no chance beforo the Come wisslon, llo thioks the fustincts of the Com- mission are ogalnst his slde. Jlo very scverely critlcises the tampering of the New York Demo- crats with the concerus of tho party, e says that he was scut to Nw Orleans by the Housa a8 Chalrman of ti¥ Louisiana Iivestigating Committce; that ho came back with a strong caso; that, on arriving here, be found DAVID DULLEY PIELD IN CHANGE of the Interests of the Democratic party, and he had so couducted them aa to ruin'their chances, Llko cxpresslona of disaflection, al: though more guarded, aro heurd in man, g ters fll‘ublfi the Democrats, Jere Black does L conceal bis bellef that the verdict of tho ommisslon Will Lo agaiust Wis party, His speceh of yesterday 18 generally conceded s faiture. o scems “conscloug of " this bimself, and Intirates that his heart is not lu ft—that ho' had an ux,n;hlll task, aud that the Commission is agalust his side, SENATOR CONELING. i conditioned 4 conti I g W, MO AT anarcss, (e undentgned, or WObDRU 1 'n at tha Prison, DRURY M, X, JONN M, GOUTIWOLTH, ROBERT D. 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Boring sesston opens Feb., 7, with excellent facilities P T e e O R A Y " Missourl School of Midwiferys Anatomy, Physiology, Midwifery, Diseascs of W | . culng o " | e LU.\. 5ec., 3134 N?Jl;lchl'l‘:n{I:IL.rfll. r.nuu. Mo, D, A, VANHORNE & 00,, Importers of Prench Window Gla 23 Park-place and 23 Marra! The Acme Pipe Cutter. Cuta Wrought I Brasgs, and Co Pipcs, Toiler Tubes, Tiound Lrons ‘Shafting, e, Mokss Clean Cul, no Burring. Bolid Cast Bteel throughout. pable 2 Now York, Bend for Circularto - ‘Tho Critlo of last evenivg printed a statement v > ———— that Scnator Coukling had ed lfA]\COAS'l‘ & MAULLE, TIME { 1o onc of 1:-, reporters that "f‘fidmu: Sould| flnl&: 227 Pear- EINSANITY, PRIVATE ASYLUM EQR TIE INSANE, CINCINNATI BANITARIUM, Euperlor seconimodations for sll classes, Eoparsta damunum foreplleptice and nerrous lnvum?‘!’or toring of aamislon and circular adiress W. 8. CUIPLEY, M. ., Sup't, College HilL O. WINTER RESORTS. WINTER RESORT, . Phitadolphta. suzurated, that the actlon in the case of = {ll"u)‘l Wfll;lfil tlcdduu lh‘un;‘mcr ;In Lis fayor. any Republicans do not credit the paragraph. PR, el protest w. e inst countlog th vnlaln( Mlulnlflnl, uroulhu ground lhn{ fh: Election law s llcgal, ond that the Acting-Goy- eruor Is ooly a State Seustor thrust fnto. office by force. ‘The testimuny tukon before Boute well's Committes last ycar will accom the yroteu. There belng “but one sct o'“r:{uml from !flulnlr 1, uuder the provisions of the act, thelr conslderation will bo contined to both Touses or Congress. Tha vote cannot bo re- ccted except by su adirmative vote of the two ouscs. WILL THE CONMIBSION STULTIFY 1T8RLY) Spectal Dispatch ta The Tridune. Wasninaron, D, C., Feb. 4.~Prediction are quito common that the Elcctoral Commisslon will not complets ita work in time to announco a result beforo tho 4th of March, These, how- ever, arc regarded here by inost as altogether fdle, for the reason that o large wmajority of the Cotumisslon {s personally fnterested in reaching a definite conclusion. ‘Thoseven members upon it who are, 80 to spcak, the patentees of this method of electing a Prusident, will not cars to be overwhelmed by the universal ridlcule which RE ROYAL VICTO! N+ would be showered upon thém If thelr pate: SATURDAY'S NOTES. ‘&QE" ‘f"”“’n’f" l;;? %E’&E’k&m‘m s failed. Theso seven r:" Edmunds, m"'?llh“l)"t \Vunuotoqx‘, D.C. figflfii’?flfi,,m, of 738 Broadway, sen, Thurmas, Bayard,P'ayue, Hunton, and Hoar. | the work beford the Electoral Comnliston fs Chicage Dailp Teibun CHICAGO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1877. very eatisfactory to the Republicans, They are very hopeful, confldent, jubilant fo fnct, ns to the decinfon of the Commission in the Florida ‘case. Of the twenty Democratic members who have been Interviewed to-nlfm, every one was disnppointed, and shile each one had rome dif- ferent reason to give for an anticipated dezision ngainst his party, all expected certain defeat. On the Republican alde, on the -contrary, the eonfidence of the Repaiicans on the succoss of Demarcrats rely on Abell, Chlet Clerk of the Returnlng Board, and others, to sustain Little- fleld, Judge Campbell, of New Orleans, ar- rived here to-night on political business affect ing that State, LOUISIANA. * BARRETT, A CANDID DEMOCRAT. Bpecial Dispateh to The Tridune. Hayes increnscs with cach day's pro- | NEW ORLEANS, Feb.4—10:15 p. m.~Barrett, cecdings. One of (he most roml- | & member of the Nichiolls Leaistature, who, with nent Democratic members of the Ionse | . T, Kennedy, another member of that hady, 1a eald that he belfeved that the instincts of the Commiesion are nzainat the cure aa ft will be resented by the Tilden counsel, and that Iden’s chances are ¥ ANBOLUTELY NOT'ELESY, Another prominent Democrat, closely allfed tothe New York intercsts, was alrcady dls- covered fortifyIng himself with reasons why jthe tribunal should nut. favor Tilden, has” been E)mmrnlly remarked that {t s evident that the emocratic couneel came here poorly prepared to meet themost Important lesues, and ft Isscen from thelr apcechen that they are approaching a great question with o fallure to prepare argn- ments which shonld antlelpate the strength of the Hayes counscl, 3ERE NLACR'S SFRECH to-day was a notable failute. 1ifs friends to- night universally admit it, and on the inner clr- cle of the Demncracy they say that the reaxon in that Black’s heart [s not in"the case; that he eays privately that the count is nzalnat the emocrats, and that the Tilden canse is surcly to be defeated before that tribunal, There were arguments for ncnrlr hours upon the question of ndinitting ex- tensive evidence and of going behind the Florida returne, Merrek made an_able speech” fn Tilden's fnterest, Jero Black made an exceedingly poor one, fn which, when he did not play the clown, he rought to bully the Court. _Gen, Stoughton made a_ specch for the Hayes Electors which greatly disappolated Dis fricnds. TIIR ONEAT SPEECIH OF TIE DAY was that of Stanloy Matthicws, It was notlced that his apeech aitracted the ottention of the Court as no otlicr specch has done. There was 1ot a single sentence which the Judges fatled to note. Copfous notes were taken, and it was felt when Stanley Matthews ended that the inost powerful compact for civll, legal arpument in behalt of tha Hages Electors yet attemped had been made. Tho Court mcets at 11 o'clock on Monday, when Evarts will close for tho Lepublienns and O'Conor for the Democrats upon the questions, first, of the jurlsdictfon of the Commission: eccond, of the admisalbility of extrinelc evi- dence. asfde from the papers presented to the Court by the President of the Senate, designed to go behind the returns; and, third, if inquiry can be made behind the Governor's certificate, what evidence shall be adduced. ONE INPRESSION PREVAILS that the Court will decide agninst the ndmiselon of such evidenee, and will rule that, under the Elcctoral law, the only documents or cvidence which the Cotinlssion can consider will bo the varlous sets of purported returns opened by Vice-President Ferry, nud *‘the papers aceome any the same.” That Janguage was drafted by enator Edmunds in the law for a purpose, it i3 well known, and the Democrats do not yet ap- pear to have convineed the Court that the ex- parte ond unfalr testimony taken by the Demo- cratie Southern lnvestigating Commlittees can be corstrued to be a portion of the testimony nccomrnnyln{: the same. Upon the construce tlon of that Innguage it is cvident that the im- portant question will mainly torn, SATMAGUNDI. LIVELY APPRRIENRION. pecial Duspatch to The Tribune, ‘Wasnixgrox, . C., Feb, 4,—The Democrats will try to pass, under a suspension of the rulcs, before the ecssion ends, n bill proviling that the next Congress shall meet March 6. The ob- Ject of this is to secure a Democratic organiza- tlon of the ncxt Houso as early as possible. In the present Congress several Representatives died before the Congress met. As the Demo- cratie majority In the next House may not ex- ceed four, the Democrats wish to make certain that they ho not deprived of thelr very fecblo control by death. ’ e JUDGE DAVIS, Mr. Justice Davis lcaves Washington to-night for the West, and probably will not return to perform any more dutles as a Justlee of the Bu- prome Court. The opinjons in the cases re- alleged to have had o meeting with Gov, Wells relative to selling the vote of Loutslana to Tii- den, allcges the charge to bea Ne. It is true that there was a meeting, but he states that it had nothing whatever to do with Returning- Board matters. fle will, In a per- sonal explanation in tho 7¥mes, make this statement to-marrow, That hriles were oficred not only to Gov. Wells, Lt to every member of the Returning Bonrd during its sitting, to re- turn Loulsiana for Tilden, is 8 notorlous fact and was published in these dispatches at the time: that the fact of auch offers helng made should he nred an cvidence to prove the corrup. tion of the membera of the Board, notwithstand- ing the offers were indignantly rejected, Is CHARACTERISTIC DEMOCRATIC ARGUMENT. Witnesses have gone on from here who will tes- tify as to the cliaracter of Maddox and Little. fleld. Maddox ia an adventurer. When in New Orleans he lives with a quadroon named Claudine. When Gov, Palmer, Judge Trum- bull, and other Denocratic 'fl:nmr!eu were here, Claudine Maddox gave a party {n honor of the distingulshed statesmen, and {nvited her dusky female friends, GOV, FALMER was 8o carried away with the seductive nature of the entertalument that thercafter he could talk nelther of the Returning Board, Tilden, Hayes, or snytalig clse bt those charming re- suits of miscegenation. It appears, however, that Iils mind got down to huelness nmul&-,n the marvelous story of Maddox and Plekettis the result, four LITTLRFIELD'S LIES, B ol Ditpateh to Tia Tribune, Wasmisaron, D, C., Feb 3.—The exlstence of the conspiracy of Littlefleld, Maddox, and Bpearing, In the (nterests of Tilden, to discredit the Loylslana Retumning-Board, is' rapldly be- coming developed. Littlefield, under the se- yere examination of the Benate Committec, is lreaking down. He to-dny repeatedly contra- dicted himsclf on vital pofiite. “He endeavored, througl the five hours' cross-cxamination yes- tenday and the four hours to-day, to shape his testimony actording to two theories: Firet, his own complete Innocence In forging the re- turns of Vernon Parish; second, the clear com- plicity of Gav. Wells In that infamous transac- tion.” His testimony to-iay was consistent with ucither of these theories. In some very important particulars he entirely broke down. The part of the plan of the conaplira- tors in New Orleans was to discover whether Northern Representatives would countenanco the nnrlmz of liush-money or blackmall to se- curc the lumrcnlon of “what they might he induced to believe was a forged return. To accontplish that purpose two of the apparent accomplices of Littlefield,—Gifford and Colllns, ~—it appeared by the testimony to-day, smug- gled themeelves on hoard s steamer which took thie Scnatorlal party down the river to inspect the fettics, for the purpore of OYERILEARING CHANCE WOItDS spoken by the Republicana In the confldence of that teip. Littlefleld's political. eharacter Is un- doubtedly on tho same plane with his moral conduct,” He testified to-day unblushiugly, without_any trace of slame, to the following facta: ‘Thal he haslived in New Orjeans for five years with o woman not hia wife, fo whem ho gave his name; thot e Las had two children by her; that these facts were not known to his own parents in Boston; that heleft New Ore leananot intending to return, leaving for tho support of this woman and her children only an ondcr ta be collected for the Insignificant sum of £00. Littlefield is sald to have had DISCREDITADLE ARMY HECORD, and to have heen drummed from the lines un- der Gen. Hurlbut In disgrace during the War, The character of Maddox also s very rapldly being thown Ly Baltimoro papers.- -His carcor there has been suchas’ not to maka him.a cred- {table witness {n tho commanity where ha has longest lred, and in the Stato where he was ™. Maddox produced this morning before the Fleld Commlrtee tholettera about which he has mado so much mystery, Ore of them, aldressed N forred to i by the Chicf Justico have, 1t s | by retaioed for prcposer o b cronr understood, been comploted, and therewillbe | It was sealed, an the Committeo had the impudence to ask Senstor West, who was present In the room. to open ft, but had not the manliness to allow him to mcke an vx- lanation, There {s not one syllable fn the Tet- cr which Is not capablo of , ENTIRELY HONEAT EXPLANATION, ‘There is not a necessary hint of a corrupt pur- Imc. If a singie lnataice was wanting to show hat this wholo story {s the result of an infam- ous consplracy, the conduct of Uudley Fleldand his Commitiee towards _Republicans and towards Gov. Wells fully confinns this theory. Dircctly the letter had been read in Committee, Gor, Wells ~ sent to the Committce a letter reauesting to bo heard at once, and demanding as a miatter of llmv‘la right snd justico that his explanation mi F it go the country with the letters which are belng used as {nstrumnenst of RUINIXG I1IS REPUTATION, and of supporting the Dewmocrntic story of the robbery of o State. Yettho Commitiee, by a strict party vote, refused Gov, Wells this op- w{tunn y to Lo hearnl, as they have contrived to refuse Lfin for a week, and refused to allow the minutes to show that he had mado such applica- tion, The Republican minority arepowerleas, If Wells could liave heen heard, It {s positive that he would havo told a story which would have shown to every fair-minded man that the letters were honest, 1t will bo remembered that at the timo when the lotters wero written the White Leagne of Louisians werg quita turbulent. The lives of members of the Neturning Board were threst- ened, and boasts wero openly made inthe strects that I the Returning Board “returned the Elato for Hages or Packanl, no_matter what the facts beforo them were, New Orleans. WOULD NOT BE A BAPR PLACE for them. Indecd, Littlefeld teatified to<lay that his uncle, Spearing, tol] hir that {f he ac- cepted the position of clerk of the Returning Buard he (T"dn]?. would bo hung with the members of the Hoanl. Thesolotters of Wells to the Prestdent and Benator West simply in- formed those persons of tho tremendous efforts 1he Democrats were making by corritpt teans to accowplish thelr purposes, and sugzesting the Yru'u(nz necessity of -u{uwrunz the handful of tepublicans in that State and the Retumning Huard by the moral fuluence of Northern pub- lic apinion and by the presence of troops. That it Is evident Is what the Ictters wero meant to eay, There were abundant rcasons why these nomore Circult duty to perform before the commencement of his term as Scootor. It s probable that, at an early day, ha will commu- nicate to the Leglslaturo of 1llinofs his accept- ance of the office of Scnator. Thoso who aro intimate witt him say, however, that he will not resign his position on the Bupreme Beneh before March 4, unless he could have assurance from fresldent Grant that s life-long fricnd and assoclate, United Rtates Judge Drummond, of Chleago, could be ap- pointed to il the vacancy, It fssald that this assurance is not lkely to bo fortheoining, THE * TROOPS." A Dcmocratic newspaper ghiere, that could hardly find Janguage strongenough to denounce Grant for bringing troops here, now urgea that they bo retalned to take part in the fnaugura- tlon ccremoules. Tl {reason glven is 8that to scnd them away would be an admission that they were brought hicre for politieal purposcs. The real Washingion reason 18 that the presence of troops {s always desired, because It helps the flcml rctall trade, aud furnishes soclety with ancers. TIIE PRESIDENT. CALLS NADE AND RECEIVED. Special Dispatch to The Tridune. Wasuixaron, D.-C., Feb. .4.~The President yesterday called on the Hon. Alexander I, Stepnens in his sufferiogs. Ho was warmly re- celved $by tho fecble fovalld, and, during o half hour's viait, the Bounthern etatesman cx- pressed his appreclation of Gen. Grant's char- acter and kindness, Stephens has never jolned the Bouthern Democrats in their aesaults upon the Presldent, but has always mentioned him in public and private with great respect. A MORE SIGNIPICANT VBT was mado upon the President himself to-day. Charles O'Conor, tho venerable lawyer and counscl for Tilden, called upon the President to-dsy to pay hisZrespects and to apologize for the letter written . many years #go reflecting upon Qen, Grant, which was pub- lished for the first timo last summer, Mr. | Jefters should have been Intrusted to Maddox, O'Conor sald that he had arrived at an advanced | He wentto New Orleans |lur|nfi the count of agge; that he did not wish to dio lcaving behind | the vote, representing that he had been sent by the President, and also he tad credentials from tho Chalrman of the Natlonal Rtepublican Com- mittee, Maddox, fu his private conversations, repeatedly declared that there was great danger ta the lives of tho Returning Board from White Leaguets, and in conversation with Wells, an old m‘mln(anm of twenty-five years, warned ldm of these dangers. APPORTIONMENT LAWS. SCHEVKS OF THE INDIANA DENOCRATS TO DE- FEAT MORTON'S RE-ELECTION, Indianayolie Journal, Apportionmedt laws do not, asa rule, work equaland exact Justice between political partles, Unfortunately the party in power when. the time for reapportionment comes around endeay- orsto use the vocasion for its own advantsge and perpetuation. The artlcle fn tho Journal of Woednesday demonstrated that in Its results our law had worked o the ntcrests of the Democ- racy, for in the two Geueral Assemblles elected under it 9,550 Demoeratic voters had secured one Representative, while It had required 2,836 Republicans * for each Hepresentative, Ahe further advantage it has been to the Democracy is to be scen in'the Loglsiature of 1874-'5. In the Lower House, of whick Gov. Willlams now complain there wero aixty Dewmio- crats aud thirty-two Republicans, thero bim over bis own signature what he now belluved to be a libel upon a great namo; and ho begred tho President, in all siucerity, to forget the let- ter, and Lo constder this voluntary and friendly vialt as his beat npolog{. Mr. U'Conor was {n. troduced by Bocretary Fish, Ile was recolved by tho Presldent in the #plrit in which he came, o 0 THogeen asvoaied Pre eslern 38 Wasiinoton, Feb, 4.—Charles 0'Conor, fa comnpany with E'crcury Flsh, called upon Presi- dent Urant to<lay to tender inanifestations of hia personal respect, and was reccivea by him with cordislity, nud with expressions of congrat ulation on Mr. O'Conur’s extraordinary recovery from his recent dangerous ilness. THX NORTI| FOLE. s Tho Oblo Senators und Rupresentatives bave recelved coples of resolutious of the Ciuclanatl Chamber of Commerce heartily upurorlufi of the bil} appropriating $30,000 for an expedition to tho North Pols ou the plan sugkested by Capt. Howgate. TILH LOUISIANA COMMITTRES, ‘The Morrison Louisiana Juvestigating Com- mittee, baving finished thelr examination of witnesscs, will, it Ls cxpected, tnake thelr report to the House to-morrow. ; Gen. Hurlbut will present a tiuority report on the part of the Re- publican mombers of the Canmittee. Beoator Howe's Committee will also make their report to the Senate krinorrow relative o the Louislana clection. belog ~elgbt Independents. * In that year TUB PREROGATIVE COMMITTEE. the ~ Republicans ‘cast 104,90, and “the The Cumuittco ou the Powers, Privileges, | Democracy 189,154 votes; so that 8,033 Demo- and Duties of the House in countlng the Elcctoral vote will be ocvupled to-morrow with the: examingtion of Gov. Wells and Senator crats retdred o Kepresentative, whilo ft ro- t}ulred 5,153 Renubucgn: todo tl:‘n': samo thing. There is certainly no ereat injustice to the Woat, of Louisiana, Democratic partyin s law that makes 3,000 N YEOM LOUISIANA. Democrats t0 5,000 Republicans fu repre- A number of persons dm&mmd indirect), sentation. The presont law cunnot be sucvess- connected with the Loulslana Heturnio; Baus fully sttaked, and the sdvuntage to sccrue bave arrived hiere, amoug them Meaars. AcCor- | from the discussion now evoked will bo to re Lieve it from much of tho odium cast upon ft Lecdlessly sud without any study of its operas tion and results. It may uot be without intervst 10 shiow how other Etates wo affceted by thelr mack, Davls, and Eaton, who were summioned at the roquest of tho Republican members of this Committtee, und by whom they expect to break down tho testimony of Littleield, Tho e H I8 g 3 3,,0 ' g ‘8f PRICE FIVE CENTS. apportionment laws, and tosec whether the Todi- ana law suffers by the comparison, Let us take a few shiaing Deinoeratic cxamples: % Alabama casts 99,256 Demozratic votes and 55,522 Republican votes. Thereare 110 Demo- cratic memnbers of the Leelslature snd 23 Re- ublicans. Ratfoof representation, emocrate, 3 Republicans, 2,417, Atkangas casts 53,093 Democratie votes and 83,640 Republican votes, There are 87 Demo- cratlz members of the Legislature and 16 Re- w‘hnmm. Itatlo of representation, Democrats, 160 Republicans, 2,417, Connecticut vasts 61,54 Democratic votes and 59,034 Republican votes, There are1S1 Demo- cratic menbera of the Lezislaturo and 85 Ree publicads. Ratlo of representation, Democrats, 342 Republicane, 692, Georgla casts 129,787 Democratle votes and 49,554 flepublican votes, There are 208 Demo- eratie members of the Legdslature and 8 Repub- leane, Ratlo of m%rencnlntlon, Democrats, 6313 Republicane, 6,169, hcnlurkf cast In 187, when the Lezislature war elected, 120,976 Uemacratic votes and 90, 1% Lepublican vetes, Tlere are In the Legisla- ture 121 Democratic members and 17 Republ an. Ratloof representation, Democrats, 1,049 Republicans, 5,351, Maryland {n 1575 cast 85,451 Democratic votes and 72550 Republican votes. There are tn the Leglaature 78 Democratic inembers and 23 Re- publican membere. Ratio of m';nrescnfluon, Democrata 1,130, Repubiicans 3,453, hllsmsl{ml in 1575 cast 06,9 Democratic votes and 06,650 Republfcan votes, There are in the Leglslature 122 Democratle members and 81 Republlcans. Ratio of representation, Dem- ocrate, 713, Republicana 2,150, Missourl cast 163,580 Democratic votes and HaM4 Republican votes. There ore In the Legirlature 129 Denoeratic members and 48 Re- ublican members. Ratlo of ochrescnmlnn, emocrats 1,547, Renublicans 38,077, Tennessce caet 123,740 Deniocratic votes and TG Republican votes, ‘There are In the Leg- irlature 77 Detnocratic inembera and 21 Hepub- licans, - Ratlo of representation, Democrats 1,600, Republicans 8.50J, Virginia cast 140,641 Democratic votes and 06,738 Republican votes. There are In the Leg- felature 136 Democratic members and 80 Rcmx%- licane._Ratlo of represcotation, Democrats 1,u34, Republicans 8,225, West Virginia casts 55,565 Uemocratic votes and 42,001 Republican votes, There are fn the ure 83 Democratic membera and 21 Re- publicans. Ratlo of representation, Demoerats 852, Republicans 2,000, This large number of Democeatle States fs taken to avold the charge of selecting any spe- cal one or two, It will be seen at a glance that where the Democracy enjoyed power they have not been over-scrupulous fn maintaining the equilibrium between the partles. 8o far as this brauch of the question Is concerned, thercfore, the Detnocracy may very properly be Informed that ft would he well to'take the Leam out of thelr own cye before assuming to remove tho note from thelr brother's eye. But an cxamination of the States generaily, without reference to politics, will show that tiic Indiana law not only ‘merits what. was said of it on Wednesday, hut that It is rc:ul{y falrer in its results than the law of any State {u the Unioti. InIllinols the Republlcatis cast 270,878 votes, and the Democrats 2545005 yet with thetr majority uf nearly 18,00 the Itepublicans do wot control " the Lerislature, and the '8 have Just elected a United States Senator for the térm of elx years. {The Journal “falls into an error in this state- ment. It was the hold-over Senators, elected in the tidal-wave of '74, that beat the Hepublicans on Joint ballot. This fall the Republicans clected reventy-nine Housc members nzalust seventy-four Upposition, The Tildenites and Cooperites united n most cases, The Repub- liean majority In the State over the combination was only 6,704 votes.—Ep, Tnintsze. In Kaneas tho vofe stands: Republienn, 75, 822: Democratle, 37,0025 while the Legislature is Rc?ubl!mn 101 to 11. In Maine the vote wos: Republican, (4,800 Democratie, 40,0143 the Legislaturc stands l!erubllcnn by 148to 8. In Maxsachusctts the voto was: Republican, 187, €055 Democratic, 106,8503 the l.czfilnlum stands Republican by 217 to 6L In_Michizan the vote was: Republican, 165,6%: Democratie 141,0055 the Lewdalature stande @4 to 81, In Minnesota the vole was: Republican, 730125 Demucratie, 48,1903 4 New Hampshire tiw 52 Demucratic, 83,4405 the Legisiature stands 220 to 252 In New York the vote was: Kepub- Nican, 4&,0!}.;1 Democrnthe, 519,531 2 the Legisla- ture etands 80 to 50 fn favor of the Republicans, In Ohio the vote was: llc?ubllmn. ml\wgé Dewocratic, 812,000; the Les slature stands to &1, - In Vennaylvania the vote w turs stands 151 to 100. In Wisconsin the vote wus: Republican, 180,067; Democratie, 123,928; the Legislature stands 81 to &2, These figures are of yalue in_many respects, They show that apportionment lawa are not usue alty aml generally very nleely balanced In thelr equlpolee between the parties. and they also ftiow that there is no preasine neceasity to vio- late the State Conatitution n changling o Iaw that gives one representative to 2,550 Demo- crats und ane to 2,828 Republicans, as tested by four years' operation, merely to ullow (ov, Hendricks a chance to slip “into the United Btates Senate two yoars henve ns n relicf to o £nirit wounded by the defeut of his esvirations 10 tho Vice-Presl of the United States, Tho apportionment law ca 1 gk ool s SUICIDE. A Waman In St. Louls Folsons Herscl(—A Letter Recelved by Hor Previous to the Deed-~Other Infractions of the Canon Agalnst Self-Staughthoer, Spectal Dlpatch to The Tridune. 87, Lows, Feb. J.—Hattie Howard was found dead in ber room at 507 Chestuut street this moring, She had polsoned hersclf, and the motive for the deed #s unknown, except in so far os o tnotive s suggested In the following letter, written by herhusband, Willtam Howand, who is ot present fu Chicago, speculating fu wheat s LUtiteaco, Jan. 31, —1latTir: Your letter was ro- ceived last €aturday marning by speclal messenger, Now, ol 1, this s pro voss, and, if anybudy al, #ska 'you, tell them you didn't know, Dut what I'm trying to get at i this: You kuow you can't enme hers and o to honeckeeping. . ‘That kind of house would bo ® foot tuwn he way doing now, Take the old man's you are advice, Hat, and sta; your passage through this valo of tears with me wnmh'm, be ono uf torture and contempt. § did intend, while with you in 8t.. Louls, to come hero, and, as you teem 6, glve **another trial at the old thing. " but you gave mo tho d(rl( shake, I having inade arrangenients with Mr, 8mith to have the (hinge come heres but, the ncxt I knew, ou werg situated in or about a'4".!1 Sixth street, Did Mttle Lou Maub evor tell ybu of sveing me? Is Mrs M, and Ed with you yeit N where you ste, for otherwise ' 5 B 4 W ' that ya}u wpeak uf nie saying: ** Why, Ty dear, you wonld "I:" belleve u,’hul 1 have imi. o .ch there is a winall mulatto grl_poing tv call my hand for itoneof those days.™ No, iat, leaving all nou. scueo away, I cant save, for thoslmple reason [ have nothing to save from. About two weeksago 1100k a wheat option and ot un the wrong slide of it for. & not very delicale sumount, and sm now working the debt off, Eo you can scosbout bow I'm #ized Anancislly. Do take my sdvice, and stay fn Bt. Louls, and, while you ate well off, keep so, forTwlil be a ool to have on your hands. Youmkmolf L sieod anything. No, llat, and & thousand thanks for your usual kind remembrauce, but {avo everytling that 'u anyway i teed of Will tey and arrango It wous to bo able to gu and sco you il ina couple of weeks, or a wiouth at the ‘outside. If 1 hive good luck in the uext couple of mouths 1'ni woing to try and go home tu Cauada. My sistor, Mre, Marray, of Hamilton, was here for a couple of weeks, and sh are flourishing there, so 1 shoulun’t wonder bui that barg will catch e afterawhile. Good bye. From yoite, a3 ever, Wit ‘The doceastd was about 25 years uld and very prepossessing in appearance, Her malden name was Hattle Kingawell,und she bias a mother and sister reebding at Mexleg, Mo, LCOUNCIL fiwrn, In., Feb, 4.—John Timm, of Hamburg, la., committed sulelde by hanzing at that place yestenday, It la supposcd that ho \;u laboring under mental sberration at the thne, 5 —————— MUSICAL FESTIVAL. Special Digpalc (9 The Tridune. MoxTicsLLo, I, Fotn 4.—~A graud musical fostival of five days' duration will be held here, commencing te-morrow, and closing with two graud concerts ou Thursday uud Friday evene ings, tho Sth and Oth. 3Many inusical peoplo from sbroad are expected. The cxercises will bo conducted by ¥rof. 8, Weeley Martin, of Chlcsga. OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. Nsw Youx, Feb. 4.—Arrivea, the steamers Caoada from Londonand Dukots from Liver- 0l b WQUII'XSNWI. Feb. §.~The steamships City cf Berlin, from New York, and Oufo, from Phila- delplis, bave wrrjred. Democracy ture stands 101 to40. In yote was: Tiepuldiean, 41,- 3 Nepnb- Tiean, 834, 148: Democratic, 83,2045 the Legisla- RELIGIOUS. Woman as an Element in Morals---Sermon by Prof. Swing, An Old-Fashioned Love-Feast at the First Methodist Churel. The 0ld and New Covenant—Bible« Reading by the Rev, Mr Erdman, The Chicago Miracle-==How It Appears Through Qutside Spectacles. WOMAN IN MORALS. BERMON DY PROP. BWING. . Prof. 8wing preached yesterday mornfog at the Central Church, his text belug: . ‘The woman whom fhon gavest to be with me, ;1'1'0 gave me of the trecand 1 did eat.—Gen. , fii., ‘The influences which produce tmorals must ba many, and for the most part subtle. The anal- uEy of nature should lesd us to suepect this, for, almost without exceptlon, naturs prefers o group of causcs to any ane cause. Nature Joves to work In the midst of variety. Bhe will not produce a plant by sunshine alone, nor by the soll alone, nor by alr alone, nor by rain alone, but . sho asks all thesc and many other workmen to come together and tofl tu- Bether to rear that plant. Could the work- shops of nature be lald open to the human eye, we should find there engaged over the construiction of one ruse as many forms o, work and workmen as it required to bulld St. Peter's or the pyramids. Electricity would bo there. Oxrzen and hydrogen, and light, and heat, and a haif-dozen ozones would be stand- ing around each atom that was to be set into stem or leaf. What angel it fs that puts the fragrance into the rose is not known, but cer- tafuoly it is not the same messenger which car- rles perfume tq the sandal tree, or to the old- fashioned pink. Wise men are now fnquiring whether our plants and our mortal bodies do not demand other lights—that white light, and whether we have not for centurics been dolng oniy short work In Nature's Jaborntory. It {3 suspected that the murkat-place is full of {dlers in the shape of hluc class, ‘and red glass, and alrs, and ammonlas, which Lave not until this cleventh hour been fnvited into the big vineyard 0 work. While n malignant fover rages in our city, a modern Hered, killing off the children, from 10 years old and under, It Is fnquired by two con- ventlons of phivsickens, What causo fles hiddent But the Labits of natuge are such that many causes must be sought for instead of one, fur the samne providence that will not make n rose Uloom without calllng np a group of workmen +to Lring each some tool and fnrredient toward the result, will not bear away n el without compelling a score of {uvisible nctors to be pres- cut at the taking duwn of the encampment of the little soul. Could wo but wall througn the great shops of earth, wie should see suth nsecmn asolt Fueas saw wiien, himeell invisible, maved all through the uprising Carthince unc saw the wholo uity glow with a tremendous ane Infinite Industry, ] In such a world tho rauses of morals must be equally complex. ® Publle virtue docs oz vome frum the Blole or the Church alone, for there was lutegrity and goodness before the Bible came, and thero Is goodness whero {t 1y unknown. 3Many must be the workinen who are rearing {n the world this immense py wid, or many the apencles which nre making this flower “break through the grouml. ‘Tv discover themn all and mame them was a3 dificult as to find an soawer to any other great question of the universe, Doubtless the river of morals flows down from a thou- sand eprings, some of which have been markeil down fn the 5cnzmpl.tcn of muu, but the most of which are dripplig far fron man’ssight. Mor- als cotne from something within and something without; hut no man cun measure the outer o the Inner forve. The yreatest outward element {s Goa, but there are many shancs of this Ged, and conflicting arc the messengers that como from Him tous. The greatest {nner cause is consclence, but this eludes perfect analyels, Utility, soclety, fear, hope, tove uf God, all these are influcnees which Bave belped bulld up that rlxiualhy of human pature calied virtue or morality, )lnrk:{xzwhnt o varicty of ngents there are tolling to m-mm]lfllsh un{ assuined result, wo nnay well nsk: What part In the construction of public virtue lsplayed by Womant The passazo taken from one of the oldest records on carth, awd adopted as a text, shows that the tirst man of the ruce was influcnced by the woman whom Giod had glven to be with hi. It there be any here who doubt the litcral truth of this story about Adamn and his compayion, the story will at least teach this lesson, thut one of the carliest im- reasions which was submitted to writing was tho . impression that an Eve conld {utiuence un Adam i a Parndise, or inn common country lke old Arabia or Egypt. Heuvewhatever view ouumay take of the story, the lesson {8 the same—that woman has possessed a poswerlul mioral fnflu. ence over sinve she came into belne. ‘Therv arg no scales by which this pawer can be definitely determined, but notwithstanding this discourngement it scems our duty to say what we can upon the nub}wt‘ Moral power fu- volves Indeed n power forevil as well as for ®good. But one part of this potency will be more than theme cuough for the hour, and hence lev us all reflect over the power for goud Intrusted to woman by the God of nature. Iuflucnco follows the footsteps of love, Hencey Emerson savs, In Lis exquisite style, that dle Jittle child goverus the house, father, and mother, and ndfathet, all belng only aluves to do fis will, 1ls ewn words are better: “Welvoine to the parcnts the puny struggler, strong {n his weakness; his little arins more fr- resistible than tho soldier's, his lips tonched with a persuasion which Chatham and Periclcs in manhood had not. His unaffected lamenta- tious when hoe lifts up is volee on high . . . soften all bearts to pu;. and to mirthtul and clamoraus compassion.' " Now this humcnss emplre uf an infunt comes from the hold it has upon tho beart. If in morals there could bs any equatiuns capable of mathematical truth and statement, one of thoso cquativns would ba that puwer cquals love, or power 1s g the lovable quality in the ruler. An infant which alt love ascends o throno and issues laws llke o King. 1nthat story from Ucnesis, Adam scted naturally enough, vven If not wiscly enougii Ho obeyed the voice of the compuniod God had scnt to ba with him. There were not as yeb wnuny volces to be hcard n that lovely garden, and “above bird, vr slzhing wind, or the pourly- heard voleo of Giod, thers came tle volco ot ‘a comuanion eloquent becuuse of mutual affece tion. Shy was pearer than God. . When womun thus came futu tho world as u loveble or admnirable creature, she vauie currys fng the balance of power, Lecauso morals 1ol- fow senthnent more thau they fotlow philosoply. Whom we luve we obey, be'it ufant, or pareut, or schoolnaster, or fricud. Love sccures o dience at onve. The Frovidence, thercfore, which sent woman joto tho world to be cs- teemed and admired, mudo Ler to bo aereat bigh-priestess at the altar of goodness. Theru 1s Tittle doubt that had wuman not passed futo political and soclal boudags in savage timies aud places, when tho brutal bad du‘!ldnced the human, that, had woman beeu freo lhmu'fl: historic periods, sho would have dragged t world along after her to o moral height far abova the condition of the present. . All observation goes to show that the prepon- dcruuce of woman's chulve is for justice and all gouducss. It will uot be denled “tlat sho lus loved religion and ail forws of uprizhtocss more thau man has loved thew, It of courss cuuos be expedted that woman in boudage, in the narem of Bolomon or of the Sultuy, where for hundreds of years her mind bas been cotnpresicd and degraded, sball wicld a valuable wmorsl power: but awsy from such violutions uf ga- ture's laws it sccws Incontrovertible thatsho by surpassed her companlon fn the power to erccive und do the right as to God sud mau, jut, walving thbis inqulry, tho fact chat woman cawe into the wurld to bu uuk versally foved aud pespected declares wb R e s W Nk PNEIR L SR E LA L PR e e w R S T PR : ! b g