Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 9, 1877, Page 4

# THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1877, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DY MAIL—IN ADVANCE~—~POSTAQE FREFAID AT TIIS OFFICE. Padty Fdition, postpolds 1 ye: "2."“‘ ¥ a yrar, per montii., 1t Al 4y Any addresa four wi 100 i Literary and Keligious Douhle 2.50 kly, postpatd, 1 KLY EDITION, POSTPAID. .25 2 A Tostage prepatd. Frecimen coples sent free. 7Toprevent delay and mistakes, he sure snd give Post- Ofcoaddress in Tull, Including Blate and Connty. Temitances may bemade etiher by draft, express, Toat-Utfice order, of In registered letters, at out risk. ‘ 7ERMS TO CITY SUDSCRINERS. 24 pafly;aelieered, Bunday excepted, 23 centaper weeks ST Lully, delvered, Sunday included, 30 cents per week Adiress TIE TRIBUNE COMPANT, Commer Madlson and Chleago, e TAMUSEM Nesw Chicngo Thentres Clark atrect, hetween Lake and Randotph, andenr Careneuve, the Prestidigitateur, Le Com- Adelphl Theatre. Monroe street, corner Dearborn. ‘»° lalament, . Vatiely enter- Hnverly's Thentre, dolph street, hetween Clark and Lasaite, Ene nr:::'!,né‘\l‘:n! i kit Eltster, ** Homeo and Juifet,” = McVicker's Theatres L7 Madtson street. hetween Desrborn and State, En gagaanent of Maggie Mitchell. ** Siguon. MeCormick Iall, North Clark stecet, corner Kinzle, Lecturs by Fred Donglags, Bubf ONr Nationsl Capital,” S(;Cl ETY MEETINGS. ORIENTAL LODGE, Ko 5%, A, F, and A, M.=Tall, No, 122 Lagallc-st, e Communiestion this (Fri- F evening at 7:i ok, for werkon tho b A I itted, bl & UK Bec) . F. and A, M. g at 7:50 ST, JOIIN'S CONCLAVE. No. 1, K. of Tt and Tegttar Asembiy this (¥tLiag) exening at 710 el 'y ¢ for business ot TORIer ) aniTat, Sovs 3 0ME LODGE, No. 508, A, F. and A. M.—Reamar # n.!‘mm.. ion nl 3 u-at, | Work o 3T weenty-secon ork of ce. Visiting bret mifally invited, e R b AL Rs Bec. ¢ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 0, 1877 Greenbncks at tho New York Gold Ex- hango yesterday closed at D1, 5 At miduight thero was no uoticeablochango * . n tho condition of Secrctary MonniLy, and ho medical bulleting gave no'encouragement or the bopo of a Iavorable turn. s Singular as mny appesr to {hoss who sourly apprehend the advent of a *cold wnap,” we are {0 havo oven warmer weather ‘o-lay, necording to the Washington report, Tebranry is really bent on distingnishing it- 1wl fa the matier of delightful days sud wn 2ights. Jttawn, Ont., yesterday, with a foir imita- Hon of the pomp ana ciremmstanco attend. ing the kindred ovent in the mother coun. ‘ry, nlso in progress. The Governor.General Iclivered the customary specoh, and among otimr things said ho was very worry that i Canadn bad been unsblo to secure from the * Umted States tho rights guurantoed to her 2y tho Washington 'I'renty. % Senator S1xox Caveroy, of Ponnsylvanin, hos buen made the defendant in n brench-of. -, prumise suit beguu by o young womaun em- vloyed in one of tha Departmonts at Wash. © ington, SruoN's friends claim that the pluintiff is either s lunntic or n blackmailer, and in support of that theory point to the favt that the defendant is 78, DButb thero's no fool like an old fool when it comes to waking up to a pretty Trensury gitl, There is a wide margin for choico in tha -7 cablo roports concerning Mipuar Pasia, the Turkish Premicr, who s understood to hiave leen canght in a trensonable conspiracy pgsinst the Sultan and forced to leavo tho .. country, Ono story is that Mipmar is still *" the power belind tho throne, having retired temporarily to mako room for certain con. i+ cessions; und awvother rumor-dealer has it 23 that the Iate Grand Vizier Lins been deod for woveral days past. It makes somo difference Lo Miouat which of (he two reports is true, < A deathly dampness has fallen upon the +, Congrensional investigation mills, and the . sound of their buzziny ia likely to bo heard : no more in the land. Even Dupiey Fjep, than whom no man from 4 vergo to ceutro of the legal arens bas more confidence in his own ¢ ability tomake n witness' virlues appoar + as hidleous vices, droops hig head bofore the T Tribunal's decivion, und b not sufficiont backhone left to badger a Republican, even 4+ it that unfortunate individual hinppens to ‘. bail from Louisiana, : Prominent citizens of New York, in view of the nstonishing temptations with which |+ the oftico af Coroner of that city is hedged | Blout, are trying o do awny with the | "position altogether, It fs sald that the legitimate fees of tha office have amount. «d to 250,000 in 8 single year, and 27 that, in addition, bribes of ns high as » 10,000 havo been importunately offered for ¢ tho suppression of the facts ju cases whero S:aperson of emincut family connection hins ’; committed suicide, or met his death from other causes usually considered disgraceful, ‘A uew wrinklo‘in tho Democratio pro. ;. (pamine s made necessary by the exclusion 1 of evidence going back of “the action of the ~ proper State suthoritics, ‘The plan rogard- .ing Louisiann is to contest tho legality i-of the Returning Board itself, on the i 44 1 ground that thoe law requires five ; mewbers, wherens but four acted. It ; will be claimed that in consequence there was 1o lawful canvass of the vote of | tho State, nud therefore no election of Eleot. ors. 'Theobject sought is throw into tho ;‘!lnuso the clection of President. It will be ;-remembered that tho vacant position in the *, Returning Iloard was tendered to several + Democrats, all of whow declined to aceept, ! aud the Nourd tinally proceeded with the cau. & vass with but four membens. The Chicago produce markets wero leas active yesterdny, vxcopt wheut, and rather _irregular. Muss pork clossd 1740 per brl % lower, at $16.15@16.20 cash snd $16,25@ ¢ 16,27} for March. Lard closed 12J0 per 100 ;' 3 lower, at ¥10,95@11.00 cash and $11.02) ¢ @11.05 for March, eats wore easier, at 4,6 for shoulders, boxed ; 830 for shortribs; Ahund 8} for short-clears, Highwines woro ir- regulur, at §1.05@1.07 per gallon. Flour j'wu quict and steady. Wheat closed 1jc ‘ higher, at §1.814 cash and $1.81] for March, Cornclosed {@Jo lower, at 420 cash and 45} {.for Moy, Oats closed dull, at 35}c for Febru- 1.ary and 360 for March. Ryo was firmer, ; w703 70)c. Dasley closed fina, ot Glo for Fobruary and Gle for March, Ifogs wero fairly active, at 5@ 10c¢ decline, closing easy at 95.85@6.60. Cattlo were active and strong, with sales at R2.75@6.00. Sheep were steady, nt £3.00@5. One hundred dollars in gold wounld buy $105.62} in green- backs at tho clos monthed old blackguard, to exclude every Republican vote and fill np the bozes with stuffings for Tiory, but it was nlt wrong to purge the roturns and reject the bogus ballots, Decent people think the Donrd did right. CHICAGO'S GKAIN TRADE. The volnme of grain receipts has decrensed #o notably within the prat fow weeks ns to oxcita especial attention on the Board of Trade, nnd the cirenmstance naturally lends np ton consideration of the degreo of respon- ribility which the owners of elevators must assume for it. Tho cossation of the railway war and conseqnient increaso of rates to the senboard has had fts Influenco in checking the movement of grain, tho nataral disposi. tion of farmers and Western dealors being to ‘hiold the grain for a declino in freights, Dnt this circumstance alone will not acconnt for all the decreasc in grain recoipts, Thoe fact is, that the termiual charges for handling grain in Chicago ave 6o unfairly regulated thnt they are constantly an nuxiliary to any other depressing influonco that presenta ite self, Whenever from any causoe the grain trade is dull, it is duller in Chicago propor- tionately than at other points on account of the effort of shippers to avold all excessive charges nud to handle the grain as econom- feally ns possible, 'Iho terminal chargos of clevators and railroads nre directly respon- sible for this, % Thero are cerinin char o8 which, it has long boon ngreed by overybody except tho clovator owners, shonld be nbolished alto- gethier, viz. : the switching and trimming charges, which togother amount to nbout one cent & bushel, Thia is n considernble tax at nny time, but it is especially oncrous when froight rates rule high, and it always opor- ntes ngainut Chicago, beeause it is not lovied by tho elevalors in cities like Peorin, Toledo, nnd others which are cothpeting for Chi- engo's trade, But it hna nlso been wisely suggested that the legitimate handling of grain in (his city can be increased by chang. ing the tarilf ot tho clovators in such'a wny as to favor rapid transfor without materially lowering tho nctual charges. 'ho present tarifl exacts s charge for storago of two cents o bushel for the first twenty days or loss, and one-half cent per bushel for overy ton dnys thereafler, Tho suggestion ja that the tariff shall be changed so ns to chargo one cont por busbel for the firat ten days or less, and one-holf cent per bushel for every sub. sequent ten days. Whilo this is not a ma- torial deoranso of ratos, the armngement sug- gested wonld encourago the shipping trado. Grain transferred in this city through an ole- vator caunot now pass witkont a tax of two conts a bushel, no mntlor how short a timo it may remain horo. Under the now arraugement legitimato trades and grain con- siged to Chieago for transshipment would Lo abloto passwith a chargo of ouly ono cent n bushel, for itis ravely that such grain is lield moro than tendays, ‘L'ho saving of ono cent in this way, and onocentin trimming and switching, would soon increaso tho trade so much ns to fully ropay the elovators for the concession, On grain held for specnlative rise, which is kopt in store, tho elevators would receive about tho same amount under thio now tariff that thoy do now, I'ho statement of the Joliet grain trade for the past yenr shows that the shipmonts to thoe East from that point aggregated 4,520, 004 bushels, of which 8,201,004 bushols were of corn, Probably tho shipmonts from all tho small grain contres thronghout the State will show an increnso, This Is Inrgoly at the exponso of Chieago. A pnrt of it muy bo ncconnted for by the fact that last year thero wns o largo proportion of damp corn which would not pass Ohicago inspection, and was shipped to the Enst dircct on thly account; but ns the Iastorn buyors found much of this corn worlhless afier jolting over & journoy of a thousand miles, it iy not likely that thoy will care to rencw thelr expericnce with the *‘cut-ol"” graln, At tho ramo timo, it i certoin that thero has beon a large amount of direct shipment from the smallor cities that would have como to Ohleago it 1t had not been for excessive terminal charges. : fhoro are sigus that the combination of clevator and railrond inloreats which hns boen able to retnin the unfair charges in spite of tho protest is no longer so strong ns it waa formerly, Tlero aro indications that tho membors of the combination have been cutting under ovo another and diseriminat- ing. Assoon ns this is fairly domonstrated, the combination will go to picces. Bome of tho interoated portics ara aiready known to Lo in favor of mnking tho concessions de. manded. Tho determination of tho Chicago & Alton Rond to abate its cxtra chargea for delivering grain on track will probably bring tho othor roads to the same terms, and a general adoption of this rule will dompoel tho elovators to abolish their excessive churges unless they wish to loso their bLusiness, It would ba shrowdor for them to foresco the result and mnke the necessary aLatement of their own nccord, rather than wait to be forced Into it by loss of trado. The regnlar annual flammery, without which the British Parlinment would not con- sider ftsclf prepared to transact business, was porformed Festerday in the nsual atyle. The Queen’s tpeech was read by the Lord High Chancellor, and, ns nsnal, it contained nothing that My Lords and Gontlemen wero not alrendy informed of. It was remarkablo rather for what wns omitted than what it contained. There was in that portion rolat- ing to the Turkish question not the remotest nliusion {o the threatening aspect of affairs between tho Czar and the Porte, and no ref. crence whatover to the subject of the Extra. dition Treaty with America—a fact which was commented upon unfavorably by tho Marquis of IanTiNaToN, the leader of the Opposition in the House. The session bids fair to o a stormy one, and Disrarrt's Enat. ern policy the subject of many a hot debate, ‘The proceedings ngainst Gen. Betxyar in the Criminal Court of the District of Co- lambin, npon an indictment charging him with Lribery, were yesterday dimmnissed, and tho dirgraced ox-Seoretary is freo to employ the remainder of his days in the endeavor to outlive the stigmn which attaclies to his name nnd fame, A nolle pros. wns entered by the District-Attorney with the approval of the President and the Attornoy-General, who, In view of the extreme improLnbility of a conviction being secured in the event of atrinl by jury, and in consideration of the expenso and delay to which Gen, Brr. xAr has beon subjected, Lelloved that the intercsts of jnstico would not suffer by n withdrawnl of tho criminal prosccution. Gen, Breryar's punishment has not been so light that any one will consider that he has been let off easy, or that unduo lonienoy has been exercised in his behall. The Democrats gatned n vielory in the Electoral Commission yesterday, At tho closo of tho ovidence nnd tho argument in tho caso of the Florida Elector the Repub- licaus felt that they had completely domol- ished the pretonse of ineligibility, and were anxious to Lring the matter to a voto befora adjournment in order to onable the Joint Convention to procoed to-day with the con- vass of the Elcctoral returns. The Demo- crats, on the other hand, wero solid for ad- Jourmnent, and Juslico Bnabtey enst the de- ciding vote on their gide,—for tho reason, it is undorstood, that hie considered it ossential that the Justicos should have time to look at tho authorities cited, so that the decision when rendered shall bo the result of duo de- liberution. ‘Chv Cominission will consider the easo this morning with closed doors, and thero in littlodoubt but that a decision will be aunounced before night that shall effectu- ally settla tho Florida questlon ju favor of Hayzs, "The course of the Democratic majority of the Honco of Ropresentatives yesterday, in refusing to remove Mesars. AnpEnsoN nnd Weees from their preacut unheolthy dun- geons to comfortablo quartery, is un insult to tho ordinary feolings of humanity onter. tained by the Amerlean people. The festi- mony was explicit to tho effect that theso dungeous are not oven a fit place for cattle, and thet Gov, Wrrisisalready onn sick bed as the rosult of confinement in thoso Qamp, filthy, and unwholesome places. It also appenrs from tho proceedings that, upon tho solicitation of 3Ir, Wizsion, of Towa, tho Speaker of the Houso had ordered the prisoners transforred to mora healthy quarters, but Joun Tuioamrsoy, tho Horgonnt-at-Arms, lod taken them back to’ tho dungeon ngain, and the Bponker of tho Houso waa powerless in the mntter, Notwithstanding this presontation of facts, to the everlasting disgrace of the Democrats in tho Houso be it aaid, they refused to make any change or intorfere with the petty tyranny of this man Tuoswson, In view of such facts na theso, thers con bo but ono in. foreuce, namely, that the fHouse of Rtepre- scntatives of the United States hay for its Bergeunt-nt-Ars n worthy successor to tho monster Wintz, that e s engoged ir the dostordly efort to bronk down tho health of s prisoners, and that thero Is not manliness enough on the Democratic side of the House (o interfero with s brutal oruclty. 8t. Louis has bad a cliarter cxperionce not uniike that which Chicago suffered two years ngo,—with tho difference that tio peoplo of Bt. Louis wanted their charter and the peo- plo of Chicago didn't. Chicago was forced to toke the charter against its will Ly means of ballot-box atufliug ; in Bt. Louis the peo- plu wore deprived of thair chartor Ly ballot. box atafing, InChicsgo tha courta stond by the ballot-box stutfers and the people wore compelled to keep the charter which had Lieen folstel upan thotm, but fu 8t, Louls the courts refused to stand by the ballot-box stuffors, and tho people got the charter thoy had honestly voted in, After all, thero s a good deal of difference between the coses, ‘The &t. Louls clection judges do not differ much, howover, from the Chleago clection Judges who have from timo to time aboyed tho behents of thobummers, Ono of themsub- sequontly told how tho fraud waa accom. plished. ‘The ballots were countod every hour, and at overy count the judges destroyed o number of geuuine ballots for the charter aud substituled a number of bogus ballots ogainst i, taking the precaution to writo upon the bogus ballots tho samo numbers that the genwtine ballots had writton on them. ‘I'ho extent of the fraud can be guessed from the coufession that ono of theso judges testl. fled that he alone had destroyed more ballots in favor of the charter than he had taken in of genuine voles ngainstit, Wo must envy 8t, Louls, howover, the posscasion of courts that take cognizance of cleotion frauds and ot asido the results produced thereby. THE DECISION IN THE FLORIDA CASE, 1t is o peenlinrity of tho law-nbiding and law.respectiug people of the United States to woive their own opinions and judginents and nceopt that of tho tribunal which the Iaw may havo constituted to mnke ananthor. itativo decision. Now matter how excited nnd intenso may be the interest in n contro- verny, and how willing the controversialists may be to maintaiu thoir opinions even by forco to the last oxtremity, o soon as the question nt Iusue I8 submitted to an ordina. rily falr tribunal, thers fs an jmmediate prep- aration to ncoept tho Judgmun'v, of the Court. This respect for the law, and for its suthoritative judgmont, follows the decision jteclt, and tho most dogmatio aud intemyper. ate champlons of tho losing side will idd in the veasoning of the Court, aud in the judg- mont itself, & conviuclug argument which, coming from any ofler sourco, would have been spurned. For three mounths the wholo country has been occnpled with the discussion of the DIresideutial count,— whether Iayrs aud Wueetsn or T peN and HeNpricks wero legally aud fairly elected fu November lust. There hos been the widest rango for partisan excitoment and for the advocacy of extreme weasured. o violent had become the controversy that it was pssumed that loyalty to party demanded that nothing less than the election of both TrpeN and Hayes, with a resulting elvil war and general anarchy, would satisfy the contending factions, Ou tho one hand it was fosisted that Mr, Fenny, the President of the Benate, should assumne and exercise the power of counting 184 votos for Harves and declaro him clected. Ou tho other hand it wos assuwmed that the louso of Ropre. sentatives should prohibit the counting of tho votos of a number of States roturned as voting for Havs, and then, procceding as in case of & non-clection, to elect Tuory Presidont by the votcs of States us repre- sented in tho House of Represeutativos, ‘The Chicago Dulldezer exhibits more or less prejudice against ex-Gov, Werrs, of Louisiany, The Governor and the three other members of the Loulsiaua Returning Board throw out the bulldozed vetura from Enst Fellciann Parish. 'Fhie real vote of the parish, according to the politics of the peo. ple, iv: Haves, 2,147 ; Tieoey, 1,018 ; but the Democratio bulldozers drove off tho colored Republicans and stuffed the ballot-boxes, and wade thisreturn: Hayes, 0; Tiipex, 1,736, The law of Loulsiana ssys that when corrupt influence, iutimidation, or frouds are practiced, the Roturning Board shall excludo such votes from. thelr returns, ‘The Board, of course,had to reject tho returns of the scoundrels made from that parish, and from a half a dozon othors that were bo- doviled in tho same way., For doing thls, the Chicago Hulldozer pours upon the membors of the Board a torrent of malevolent sour- rility. It was sll right, according to the foul. The * Ina" and the * Ouls,” who constitute the ““working" forces of political parties, wora fierco for war or whatever might be necessary to secure their sscendoncy, and the busincss of tho conntry was brought to n standstill pending tho controversy, on ono ride or tho other of which the whole body of American peoplo had strong convictions and opinions, In tho very heat of this angry nnd exocit. ing condition of affairs tho proposition to ereato a Conrt, having all the powers that might bo exeroised by the two Houses of Congross, with suthority to hear and dotor- mine all questions pertaining to the counting of the Electoral votes whero thore wns n contesting rotarn, was hailed with gratifiea- tion by the conntry, and found no opposi- tion save from those who shrank from the offico-brokers’ chiarge of disluyalty to party. The peoplo at large had no sympathy with party, and, true to the Ameriean instincts and Ameriean procedents, they regarded the decision of the controversy by n competont Court, no matter which way that Court might decide, as of far moto national valuo than the election of eithor candidate or the triumph of either party. The Court being organized, the exlromiats bogan thelr dogmntic nssertions that the Conrt * must " go behind 4ho roturns; that tho Court “must” repudinte all Btate au- thority over the appointment of Electors ; that the Slate lnws dirccting how and in what manner the appointment of Electors shall bo ascertained and certified * must” resolva itself into a tribunal to declde upon tho condnct of the judges of elections at all the precincts in the United States, thongh Congress and the Court, so far ns tho ap- pointment of these Electors is concerned, hiad no more jurisdiclion than it ind over the olections in Couada. But the Court hinas de- cided that question, and, now that it has beon decided, -thero will he but fow intelli. gont porsons in the country who will not rendily admit that the decision is correct. The judgment of tho Court will be read not s the opinion of & partisan advocato, but as the calm ndjudication of an indepondent tri- bunal. Even thoso who woro loudest for going Lehind the returns as to the appoint- ment of tho Electors will, now that tho question has been judicially determined, concede that they wero wrong, and that for tho Court to havo considered that ques- tion would have been to destroy totally the exclusive anthority of ench Btate over the appointment of tho Eleators, Democrats, to whom tho presorvation of Stato Rights is a cherished polcy, will, now tunt tho pointis declded, thank the Court for declaring that neither Congress nor tho Courts have anthority to deprive.a Stato of tho power to appoint Electors in such man- nor a8 the Legislatnre may direct. The Court has vindicated the rupromacy of the Constitution. The absolute and oxclusive nnthority of the State lo nppoint Electors in whatever way the Legislatiro may diroct, is 80 clenr and unquestionable n proposition that the wonder is that it wns over doubted. With the nppointment of tha Electors tho cxcluaive jurisdiction of tho State terminates, Tho duties of the Electors pertain to tho Fedoral Governmont, The Constitution preseribes their qualifications, It declares thiat no Sonntor or: Representativo, nor suy person holding an offico of trust or profit under the United States, shall bo ap- pointed an Elector, Tho Btate has full control of tho monner and form of ap- pointing, but it shall not appointa porson holding o Federal office. Was thero nny vote given in cither of the Slates contested by a person who, when ho was ap- pointed an Elector, was an officor of the United Btates? Tho Btates contested aro Florids, Louisiana, Orcgon, and possibly South Carolina, Except in tha caso of South Oaroling, tho cligibilityof ono or moru of the Electors s contested, and on that question tho Coutt will hear evidence and decide. Tho points made will bo: If an Elector was in- eligiblo by renson of holding a Foderal office at the time of his elcotion, conld he curo that defect by resigning his office as Elector and also his offics under the United States, and thereby cronte a vacanoy such as the Eloctors might fill by appolnting him? Was his orig- inal election a caso of non-clection? Did his Incligibility create n *¢ vacancy” that might be filled by the other Elcctors, or wasit o caso of such a failure to appoint as to leave no vacancy? In case the person having the lighent number of votes waa ineligible, woa tho person baving the next highest number of votcs clected? All these qucations ariso in the Louislana and Oregon cnses, and will have to be determined by the Court, TILDEN AND HAYES, Ono of tho most remarkablo features of the political complication which has existed sinco lnst November is the astonishing chango which has taken place in the person- ol rolations, so to spenk, between the Demo- cratlo party oud its Tresidential candidate during tho pnst two months, Thore is no longer auy enthusinsm for TiLney ; there is not evon o feeling of respect for him upon the part of Democrats, since the true in. wardnesa of this political intriguer became apparout. To such an extont ls this true that, if the clection weroto be held over ngaln to-morrow o8 botwoon TiLben and Hares, the formor would Lo overwhelmingly defented. Thousands of Ropublicans who voled for him under tho apprehension that ho wns on lionest, slucere man would cast thelr votes for Hares, and o multitude of Democrata would do the same thing, Before the eloction, Mr, ‘I'repeN was thought to be o Reformer, who would work for the ma. torial good of the country, 1eform existing ovils, Insugurate necessary chauges, sud introducy the old.fashionod vir- tues . of honmesty, economy, justico, and morality in all the departments of the uational Lonsoliold. Bince the cou- test over the Electornl vote commenced, liowover, there s not a siugle aot on his part, nor a single method of procedure, that glves promiso of reform or evon of ordinary hon- esty, Oun tho other hand, the indications are overwhelmingly convincing that his adinin. istration of the Government, if the decision o the Arbitration Uommission shall clovate him to the DPresidency, will give the dis. lionest, disroputable, and corrupt elements of his party o four years’ carnival of public plundor and profligacy. Tho experfonces of the last two mouthis have coufirmned the charges which were mado against hiia during thie Presidential campaigu, They have shown himtobea partisanintriguernotabove using the methods of the Tammany pot. house politiclany ; a man without conscience, sectitude of personal charncter, or moral houesty; reckless in all his wethods, des- perate in all Lis ambitions, cosrupt in all bis purposes; without dignity, integrity, oruven self-respect. e hiss boen guilty of corruption, bribery, and blacknuail, cither direetly or through Lis associstes. He and his clique bave not hesitated to purchase Electorsin oue State and attempt to purchase themin two others, Ho has sought to carry out a palicy no oceasion to tako It is much better, at frauds of the most unblushing description. ITe has surrounded himself with bullies, blackguards, and blackmailers. ITe bas in- trusted his interests to disroputable and cun- ning advocntes of tha Davip Dupter Fieto atamp. 1lo las omployed adventurers, pro- fessional linrs, and accomplished thieves and perjurers to traduce Republican oficinla, He s violated every Democratie precedent and principle of States-Rights, ond Ifis hench- men, in the most arbitrary and summary manner, have thrown citizens into the Capl- tol dungeons, have oponed atar-chambors of investigation, subjected their victims to tho fabricated charges of professional witnoesses withont allowing them an opportunity {o disprove them, and have promulgated the testimony of such witnesses with. ont the eross-examination or rebuitnls. Ho has mado tho most wicked and ocorrupt nuse of money ever known in the political nunala of this country. 'T'his infamous programme, which lins beon followed by him so persist- ently and industriously, has prodnced a reac- tion among moral and well-thinking people, and has cooled down the respect formerly mniutained for him by modernto Democrats; and, a8 we hnave said before, if the clection wero to bo held over ngain to-morrow, ho would bo overwhelmingly defeated. Ho could not carry a single Stato north of Mason and Dixon's line, not evan his own. He would be buried out of sight. In contrnst with Trnpex, the condnct of Gov, Haves stands out in sharp relief, In all the investigations that have been mado,— one-sided asthey havo been,—in thovolumes of testimony that Linvo beon taken, notywith- standing the desperate manner in whicl tho Democratic Committees have sought to tra- duce Repnblicans, not one brenth of dishonor haa ever sullied Gov. Haves' good name, not one taint of corruption las at- tachod to his character, Ilo has had to use cipher dispatches to cover up bribery nnd fraud. 1o has ot spont ona dollar out of his private funds for election purposes, 1o hns borno himself throughout with a dignity and loftiness of charactor hefitting an Amorionn gontleman nud statesman, modest and respectful silence, and, if ho has spoken at all, has only dono so to announce his determination of abiding by the decision of tha Inwful tribunals, content with the re- sult whatevor it might. be, Arbitration shonld declare that Mr, Tinoey {8 not entitled to the Presidency, thers would be n ganeral feeling of relief even among tho Domocrats, and n corresponding feoling of satisfaction that an honest, dignified, incor- ruptible man had won the prize. Heo has maintained o If the Board of THE OHARTER ELECTIONS. One of .the valid objestions to tho charter that was forcad npon Chicago by the ballot- box stufing of the bummers who thought it would temporarily servo their purposes was that it brings the municipal election in the spring, and ndds another elemont to the po- litieal turmoil of o largo oity. have been introduced into the Loglslature to correct this objection, Two billa One, introduced by Mr. Rippye, provides for changing the dayof the charter olcction to the samo dato a5 tho gonern! eleotion in tho fall j the ofher, intro- duced by Mr. Kenoe, provides for changing the charter election from the third Tucsday in April to the first Tuesday in April, whon the town clection is held. Either bill dis- ponses with one extra and needloss clection, but of the two Mr. Kzuoe's will be of much grenter servico to Chicago. If tho town olections of last spring lad ocourred on tho same dny as the oty election, woe would have boon spared the dis. graco and outrage of the batllot-box stuffing nnd thoe tedioos litigation that haa grown out of it. In cnso both eloctions were- held on the samoe day, the entire voting pop. ulation would voto for town officers, while, under tho presont system, only the offico- sockera and their clons of rotainers con be drummod and carted to the polls, Tho city olection, too, would aford the full number of voting-places, and would require actual residenco -in the precinet whers the ballot is cast, while in scparate town cloctions tho number of voting-places is small, not necos- garily more than ono in each Division of tho city, snd voting may boe done in any part of the town without refercuce to whore the rosidence mny be. The opportunitics for fraud in town clections under tho present syatem nro limitless, and the occnsion is of o kind that does not call out tho taxpayers cara of thoir own interosta. therefore, to save on extra olection day by combining the town and city oloctions in the spring than Dby restoring tha city clection to the fall. It would Do botter stil), perhaps, if all local olactions, viz. s+ for County Commissioners, clty officars, and town offfcers, should occur on the samo day as tho goneral State eloc- tion, when the people have thes protection ot the Registry law, and when the importance of such a conjunction would bring out the full forco of the iaxpaying volers. Tho only objection to urgo to such a plan is the greater Influenco it might give tho natlonal partics over the cholce of local officers, but this would bo offset to somo oxtent by the grenter responsibility both parties would feel, ond the consequent offort to nominato good men, At all events, it is highly desirable that tho town cloction and city eleotion should be held ou the same doy, and Mr, Kenor's bill ought to bo pausad. COMPULSORY _EDUCATION -- OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED, ED, We aro scarcoly surprised to find tho Obl. cago 7'imes dircoling its guns ngainat tho proposition to compe! parents sud guardians to send childrou to school for a certain time ench year during a briet term of years when the mind is forming, Tho success of politi- enl demngoguos and sensational newspapers depends wninly upon the ignorance of the masses, and it is scarcely to bo expected that people who thrive upon such jgrorance will favor any movoment to eradicato it. Wearo surprised, howover, thatso weak an argne ment a8 the following should be stated as the principal objection to compulsory educa- tion. The T'imes says- & A specialobjection jo compulsory schooling—one ‘which ought to bevo welght with fts advocates if not with Ite opponcute—is that it ls calculated to arouse opposition to the common-school system. 1t would not, indeed, Influence the minds of those who would avail thomsulves of tho Loneilts of the systom jn any event, but it would stir the combat- fvences of those who are unable or unwilling 10 #end tholr children to schiool, ~persons who are notnecesearily Lostile to the system, —andso weak- en the defeuses of tho school ‘True, 1% is not pro- yosed to force everybody to send his children to the public schools, Lut It 1s proposed to subject av ery family toseortof supervision and inepection uader Stats authonty, sud Ja connection with the school system, which would bo hardly less offen- alve then compuliory sttendance in the public schoola, ‘Whose opposition to the public schools will bo excited by the proposed compulsion to attend some school? Certainly uotthe opposition of those who now send their chil- dren voluntarily to the publio. schools, for they will have no objection {0 a law cowm- to do withont compnulsion. either pnblic or private schools, OFf conrse, they will be opposed to the law, bocause it will compel them to do what they neglect to This is trne of all do of their own freo will. c persons who nro inclined to evade any law, The real question, then, is whether nlaw compelling parents to send children {o rchiool . and provide thom with a rensonnble amount of preliminary instruction is unjust. In this regard, there are two points worthy of especinl consideration: 1. We have now laws which punish par. ents and guardians for squandering or mis. appropriating an inheritanco of ' property their childron may have. 1f n minor child has $5,000 left to it in trust of a guardian, which it ia to receive at majority, and that guardian appropriates the sum for his own s, wo call 1t anpecies of robbery. No ono complnaing that it.ia unjust to forbid by law stioh misapproprintion or to punish .the per- son guilty thereof, Now, in a civilized coun- try and an onlightoned age, & child has o natnral right to the inheritance of that com. mon information which the Stata hns made freo to nll, and without which the child grown to maturity caunot fairly combat in the struggles of lifo or protect hirsolf and his own family on equal ground. Doprived in youth, whon he is helpless, of this es- sential implement inindustry and indispensa. bla weapon of protection, he beoomes ns a man inforior to his fellows, and occuples much tho same pitiful situntion as o person whosa limbs have boon distorted in order to fit him for professional mendicaucy or show. Ho igat bost n com- mon laborer, an unskilled workman, a hewer of wood and n carrior of water, and can barely earn o subsistonce, without comfort to himself, withont the means of contribut- ing to the happiness of others, without the preparation for the most simple dutios of citizenship. 8uch o man has the right to cnll to a fenrfnl reckoning the nnnatural parent or guardian who deprived him of the odvantages the State offered him, but of which ho was powerless to avail himsolf under the, opposition of thoso upon whom 1o was dependent. Ilis enrnings, perhaps, smonnt to $250 a year, whon hie might have earned doublo as much with tho basis of knowledgo that should hove boen imported tohim in his early yoars, If hohnsa life of 60 years, then ho canjustly charge upon the paront who kept him out of his inhorit- ance n robbory of nat least $12,600, for his power of production would have beon increased by that amount at loast. Perhaps, had he started with the preliminary informa- tion thnt a few months’ schooling would have given him, his own tastos would havo inclined him to increaso, develop, and hoard his knowledgo in such o way that it wonld liavo onnbled him to earn $1,000 n year in- stead of 3250, Then ho bas been robbed of r.capital of §50,000 whilo ho was in & help- Ioss condition and unablo to protect himself. Bhall wo say thatit is unjust to provide by law for protocting holpless porsons against such robbory as this? Shall wosay that tho law shall not ba passed becauso 1t will excite tho opposition of thoso inclined to abuse aud oppress the Lolpless? Bhall we sny it is unfair to compel parents and guardians to provide their childron with what the Btate offers freo to all, when it is necessary to their future comfort, happiness, self-respoct, aud usefulness to tho Btato? 2, Thia phase of tho quostion only needs one other suggestion, ' Is it any mors unfair to compel parents to give their children tho ‘benefit of tho instruction the Siate provides than it is to compel all citizons, whether they aro parents or not, to pay taxes for the support of tho schools provided? We do not think, at this Into day, that any intelli- gent person can be found to ndvocate the abolition of tho free-school system and its support by general taxation, Yot it would bo more rensonnble in childless taxpayers to complain of p burdon which doos not beneflt them directly than for paronts to complain of injustico in oxnoting by law that their. chil- ron shsll enjoy tho bonefita thus provided for them, ‘Theso childless taxpayoers are en- titlod to such rocomponse a3 should ascruo to them from the supportof free schools, Ioving no children of their own to share the instruction, they mmst look for thelr roturn to the general improvement of soclety, to the more intelligont oxorcise of citizenship, to the inoreased productive power of the country, to tho abatement of erime and vice, and to such other gonoral Lienefits na onsuoe from the spread of fnfor. matiou, Have not these people a right to demond that the mouey thoy pay out for sohooling other people's childron shall bo re- quired by tho State to porform the sorvice for which this money is exacted from them? Tiave thoy uot tho right to complain if the ignoraut and dopraved classes of our large citien aro permitted to incrense in spite of their contributions to the Stato for enlarging the informed and nsefal classos? Compul- sory ecducation merely contemplates a law roquiring parents to do a duty which they mny otherwiso evade, and it ls demanded by justice to the Btate, to the taxpayors, and {8 tho youth who aro helpless to enforco their own clalms, The only opposition it will ex- cite is that which Is excited by all similsr laws for the general good of soclety. ———— Tho treatment to which Gov, WekLs s sub- jected by the bruto who has him in charge, act- jug under the partisan orders of the Confeder- ntes, reralls the Andersouville prison-pen, sod the inhuman monster Wikyz, and .his employer Jarr Davis. Our own specials have mado al- most dally mention of the barbarity with which Gov, WELLS is treated, Our reports are substantiated by thoso of all tho Chicago cor- respoddents in Washiogton, except the venom- ous Copperhead who telegraphs to the Chicago Dulldozer. Messrs. HaLs and WILSON brought the matter yestorday before the House, as thus stated dn the Journal's speclal; ‘The treatment of the members of the Louislana Teturpivg Board by Joux U, Tuoxrsox, the Cou- federato Sergeant-ut-Arms, was brought to tho a- tention of the llauve (u-(h{.. hfi Mr.” Harr, whu aubmitted ter, vigned by Messrs. ANprnsox nnd WesLs, asking thut thoy might bo traneferred to decent quarters, Mr. Wirsox, of lows, sald he Lad succeeded, sfter ropeated oiiempts, in getting passed 1o the dungeon where WiiLs and oth wure confiued, und be would say that it was nol At place to keup caltle of animals {n, and, 84 o re- will, WELLy wae ow Iylug on asick ved, ~ After luoking into the umistter closely, Mr. Witsox sald ihat the cunviction was forced upon him that ‘FioMrsod was in an inhuman manner studionsly attempting o injurs thelr health, At his sollcitu- tlou, the Speaker had ordered tha pisoners trauss ferred 10 a better roow, but Jons Tionrson had tuken them back to'the dungeon sgaio. Lo houored the Speaker for honest ellorts (o relieve thelr sufferlogs. It wos abliorseut to the feelluge of Amerlcan ruuuln that the louss sbould treat with wuch cruv! l'{ 4 man over 70 years old, becsuse he had stood up for wiat lie knew was right. (o, WeiLs bad been visited Lo-day by Benutor Howz, BeN My, and others who prouoiiuce hls treatment ceuel i the watreme. A resolution futroduced in the llouse ordering the Serguent-al-Arws 1o 1ve him conifortable quarters was defcated mid ulenso excitemcot, lcprescntatives Baxks, Lawuszxcs, Havrs, aud other Kepublicans sald the .". Tiiden, No. e e e e ———— e e of intimidation and violonce, o hns winked | pelling others to do whal their conscienco aud regard for their childron prompt them Nor will it ex- cito any additionnl opposition to the publie achools among those who now send thoir children to private schools, for thoy may continuo to do so without any interference on the part of tho State authorities. Thoro is only one clnss left, which consists of thoso who now refuss to send their children to treatment of Wera wana revival of the thomb. ferow and tortare of inqniaition. Sunant Cox, Woan, and Lyl 1t wan o enongly for 5 o) ) Dr,mm‘_mln? aolution was voted down !'Iha ‘There has probably never beena meaner ex. hibition of partisan malevolence than tuts iy Congreas, The Evening Post’s special says: Wasruxarox, D, C., Feb. B.—(ov. Wewr # dying conditlon. 116 was removed by the Do cratie ofilcers of the Houna last nl’,\hl from the com. aratively comfortabla _committec-room and ocked wpin the dark, damp, 6thy, grated dan. Reon in the lower hasoment under the Kflme of tha Capitol. I visited him about 11 o'clock this mor. Ing. The drnzeon wan too tlark to sec withont enslight. ¥ater percolates hrongh the walls anq dropa from the celting, Dampnees. gas, amo And fotal want of ventiiation mAke (he atmoanaccs of (o foom Intolrably offentive, and really tend. 1 2nd the brava old wan of 70 yora iien Iying e snya it he could get fresh atr fie conld got wo, bnt dooe not expect o tive long if confined In biy preeent quarters, In one respect he if treated Worea than the Andersonvills prisuncrs, They hag freshalr ab least, Gov. WrLta will e brought Lefore Chief-Justice CArTTER On the writ of Adbeas corpus to-morrow, This atrocious treatment s beeanss ho docs not produce befora the Committes the eriginal returns of the Louislana election, which arc de posited fu tho archives of the State, fn the ctise tody of the Secretary of SBtete, However wil). ing and nnxlous Gov. WeLLS might be, the doe. uments nre beyond bis reach and control; and tho House can procure a certiilell copy of them whenever they want {t. The fact s, the Can- federatos and Copperhieads In Congress arc pun- Ishing Gov. WrLLS for rejecting the fraudulent seturns of votes from the five bulldozed pars ishes, For acting strictly In conformity with thic law and the evidence, thoy nre trylog to kil ‘him, 1 e ——— Perhaps tho State in the Bouth where the Btate-Suvereignty heresy has the deopest root s Georgia, - Many people supposed that Gen, BnrimaN and his *bummers” bulldozed that nonsenso” out of the pates of the Georgians, but{t scems not. A movement s on fout to remodel the Btate Constitution, which {s an execllent one In most respecta, and was framed by the Republleans in 1868, when they wore [n power, It truthfully saya that every cltizen owes paramount allegiance to tho Unlted Btates of America. Many of tho members of the Georgla Legislature are demanding a new Con. stitution, which ehall rensscrt the ol Biate. Boverelznty dogme on which the fre-caters made the State secede and declare war upon the Union, and for which they got confound- cdly well whipped. Ono member safd: 1stood nimost alone in the Conatitutional Con- vention of 1808, battling far tha righta of the peo- e againet acailawaga and sconndrels. Ever ainc March, 1848, 1 have been n favorof a Conven. tlon. ‘This Is not a Constltution of the people of Georala. It was framed by foreigners, nliens, and ndventurers, 1t s & Radical Ifiu that we owe gflvnmunnz allegionce to the General Government, very Btate is somereign ond independent, \a owa allegiance lo the Stale first, and reapect fonly} 10 the Genoral Government afterward. ' Tha Gen- eral UGovernment is only o crealure of tha States. Geurgla owes no parnmount alleglance, Bevernl others spoke in tho same strafn. This fs Ucorgla's acquicscenco in tho results of the War. The State mave 81,000 bulidosed ma. Jurlty for TiLpEN, who belleves In the same pestiferous docering that this Is not a nation, ———— The Richmond Enqulrer, onoof the most rabld newspapers In the South, says: 4*An oxtensive and most diabollcal conaplea revivo the Willlameron County llllrlnll)uwll-cln‘: has been tscovered, ™ Sinco Tus Cricaco Trim- UNB thinks the Presldent's anawor Lo the resolntion of Inqulry relative to sending troops into Virginia ja ®o comprehenstve, it should call upon hiin to furnial o roziment of 80 1o s own Biate. If n atroet fight [s safliclont 1o juntify the Invaston of a Virgintu city nearly o year aftorwsrdn, the exist- ency [n Hlilnoln of & **systom of arsor and robbery, involving murder,™ would cortainly seum to do- mand that that locality be Jooked to, When the 8tato of Illinols reaches that des- perate condition that it cannot cordrol fts Ku- Kluz, or becomea so demoralized {at it allows thelr depredations to be carrled on with im- punity, we shall be thankful for Federal ns- sistance In clearing them out. The differenco hetween the people of Illinols and those of the South fs that the latter look upon Ku-Kluxism 08 the normal conditlon of soclety, ind condone its decds of violence and murder. They will not allow the Fedoral Governmont to suppress it If thoy can help themselves; o1 the other nand, they do all thoy can to proteciit, Wo do not In 1llinofs, and this {a tho cxac; d!fferenco between Illinols and Virginla elvllizedion. ——— Therels a good deal of partlallysuppressed profanity In Democratic partisan circls just now on account of the cholee of Benator In Iilinofs. It {8 alleged In those circles that If Julgo Davis lad not been elected Scnator ho wwuld have been certaiply choscn aa the fifth Justho of the Arbitration Court, as ho Is senior oves Justico Brapirr, Andthen it is assumed that ho would have becoma the partisan of TiLagN and voted to zo bebind the returns of tls 8tate functlonaries, tramplo them under fot, and convert tho Arbitratlon Commission fhto s usurping returning board, It is clalmedthat he would havo upheld tho frauds, violenceand fn- ° timidation practiced by the Louistana buljozers, and o ghort that he would have voted tccount In T1LDEN, regardless of the rights of th State under the Constitution to choose tho Eectors frce of dictation from Congress. Wodon't belleve ho would have done anything £ the kind, but, on tho contrary, would have taken” precisely the samc position that dstice BrApLEY has taken, But it s amusing o sec the distress tho Democratic partisans ardn at what they cali the blunder of clecting Dava, ———— Gov. Grovxn, of Oregon, scnt tho folloing Alspatch to Banmune J, TILDER fie days bixo he fasucd tho certificate to Cuoxiy, or hd heard auy legal argument in the caso: Pourr.axn, Ore., Doc. 1, 1470,—70 (he Zon. & 2. Tilden "Nor 3. Gramerey Park, Neio Tork Heed acuntiness cramp emerga peroration hot houss survivor browsc of ylnmcfer dotifat hot- house exuctness of puryivor highest cunning dot- tish afar gaivanio sfirvivor by accordingly octe ful werciless of Senator In consequent coales GounLx, The key having been found to this cipher dls- patch, upon unlocking its mystery it reads In plaln English as follows: Ponrrann, Ore., Dec, 1, 1870,—70 (Ae Jon, & 18 Uramercy Park, New York: all decide u"r{v I:ulmln the case of Post-Oftice Elector in favor of the highcst Democratic Elector and grant the certificate accordingly, Rule morn+ ing of the Uth. In cunsequence cunfidential. Laraveres . Grovan, Altas ** Gobble," “ We hiave walted several days for the justifica- tlon of this scoundrellsiu by tho Chicage Bull- dozer, but thus far it bas fgnored the subjuct, 1t ks now about time that it should rlsu sod ex- plaln. —— ‘There are strange rumors and reports floating about in New York City concerning the condi- tion of TILDEN'S mind, which may not be true. A private letter from New York to a citizen of Chleago, dated eb. B, contalns the followlng yemarkable statementa: « . . Look out for nows that TiLpxx s going the same way that poor UnkxLey did. The follow- 1og was ald ine to-day by s gentleman not jven to goesip or exageratlon, Ho rald that the lon. Joun i, McPuzssox, the deuator-elect from New Jerscy, accompanicd by & friend, called upon 3. TiLDEN shortly alter Mclnguson's ¢lection (a lew days ago), and wero recolved by the *' Claimant" in'a confused sort of o way, and, instead of reforring 1o Mr, McPHERsON'S election by the extraordinarily cloxo vote of one majority, orto party msttcrs in ew Jeraey, he sat with unadjusted tronsers—nis breeches hinj Inflhmmly about him—and, with » ook n haud, talked for an hour {na distracted. vehenient wanner about Florids, Loulsians, and Qregan,—~especlally Klorlda,—ropesting himsel overand ovcracain, My Inlormntlurlhnv d that when Senator McPuzusox got outside ho sald 1o his compunion, **TiLven’'s mind Is aflected: Lo won'tlive & year, whethor he gets fato the Waite Houss or not.” e — The Loulsville Courier~Journal cxplains the causeof the recent unparlismentary langusgo indulged {n by the Cinclonati editors towards each other, viz.: * Much of the rudcnessand lack of culture In the West may be traced to the frequent delays {n the mails from Boston.” e ——— Commlesloner lloLoEX wants other men (o pay thelr taxes, but claims the priviiege of belng & tax- fghiter himself. —~Journal. DId not kuow before that he had avy to fight. e —— e H. V. ReprixLp, writing from Georgla about the Seuatorial struggle there, which ended io the defeat o Norwoop and cloction of HiLt, says it was tho salary-grab busincas that laid tho former out. He says: Nouwoop's defeat was owing eplirely to the aslary-grab. But for that ho ‘would have becn . elected'vn tho first ballot, As 1§ wag, bo camo .