Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 18, 1877, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBU SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES. The Tribwae, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PRLPAID AT THIS OFFICE. Daily Edition, postpaid: 1 year. Tara of ayear, per mont.. 1.0 Msticd 1o any sddres four ek {0 EX Sunday Edition: Literary and Rell £aturdat Edition. iweive pages. Tri-Weekly, postpaid. 1 Joar. T'arts of a year, per month... WEEKLY EDITION, POSTPAID. On . per year.. ol et Specimen coples sent Tree. To prevent delay znd misiakes, be sure and cive Post- Oftce address in full, fncluding State and Coanty. Remittances may be made elther by draft, cxpress, Post-Offce order, or tn registered letters, at our risk. YERMS TO CITY SUBSCRISELS. - Dafly, éelteered, Sundsy cxcepted, 25 cents per week. Daily, deltvered, Sunday {ncluded, 20 cents per week Address THE THIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madfson and Dearborn-sis.. Chicazo, il — TO-MORROW’S AMUSEMENTS. Haverly’s Thentre. i 3 dolph street, between Clark and le. En- g ot the Cate'd Comic Opera. 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LAFAYETTE CHATTER, NO. 2, R. A. M.—Hall 76 Monroe-st. Stated Convocation Monday evening, Feb. 18, forwork. By order of the H. P. E. N. TUCKER. Secretary. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY. 18, 187w At the New York Gold Exchange on Sat- urdsy greenbacks were worth 94}@94} cents on the dollar in gold. For a few days Republicans should say nothing irritating to Democrats, as they are in an unamieble humor, and will not stand jokipg with fortitude. Let Republicans put themselves in their places, and they will then comprehend the feelings of their opponents. It is noticeable that, in the sharp contro- versy going on in the Senete on the Pacific Railroad Sinking-Fund bill, one of the Tilinois Senators—Locan—votes steadily with the railroads and against the rights and in- terests of the people. The corridors of the Senate are thronged with notorious lobbyists working to cheat the Government, and our Senator sesms to be on their side every time, A story is told in a Washington dispatch ihat Messrs. FrEwp and Hewrrr called a private meeting of the Democratic members of the Arbitration Board and the Democratic counsel,—except Marr CanpENTER,—&nd agreed to make ‘‘a strong fight on Oregon and something else.” The gquid-nuncs are greatly excited about that ‘‘something else,” which, it is mysteriously given out, is to blow up the Republican case and elect TiupEN. Bosh! Senator Booy, of Missouri, hass, in the most public manner, on the floor of the United States Senate, branded Gnovee’s sction in the Cnox¥In case as an unmitigated fraud. At the same time, the honorablo Sen- stor inferentially bewsils the fact thet the Democratic politicians in Oregon made such 8 botch of the job, or, rather, that they bad not essayed some other trick which would have been more likely to have succeeded in winning the game for Tmprx without the risk of exposing the fraud so openly. Cashier Jourpax, of the Third National Bank, New York City, has atlast appeared before the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections. He explains his failure to sppear promptly by asserting that he re- ceived a dispatch subsequent to the receipt of the subpaena, informing him that be need not come to Washington. 'The dispaich was not, it appears, sent direct to Jovepax from the telegraph office, but was delivered to the Cashier by a person whose name Jourpax refuses to disclose. Joux W. Eruis, the President of the Bank, seems, accerding o his testimony, to have loft all matters relating to clection drafts with the man Jourpax, and alleges that he bas no knowledge thereof. This is, to use the Iangusge of the great O'MavrEY, 8 very heavy case, involving not only the facts concerning the money used in the Oregon affair, bat one wlLich, could it be sifted to the botiom, would result in bringing tolight tho figures which would show the country about how much Mr. Ssyvzr J. Tre- DEN's private coffers suffered in his shrewd ‘management of the late campaign. Senator Krtvy, of Oregon, made a lame statement in the Senate yesterday of his connection with the cipher dispatches, the translation of which has exposed the con- spiracy between TroEN and the Oregon poli- ticians to corrupt the Electoral College of that State. EKriix's statement was to the eflect that PaTrick had told him the dis- patch was merely a request to Col. Pertos (T1LoEy's private secretary) to place $10,000 o his credit, to be used for general political ‘purposes in Oregon, and that he (Kerry) signed tho dispatch without knowing its true contents, 'which was a proposal to bribe one of the Republican Electors. The Washing- ton correspondents assert that Kriry was nervous and embarrassed in making this statement, and that even the Democratic Senstors moved sbout unessily in their chairs. It is also said that Partsics will resent this effort to saddlo the burden of the disreputable transaction on his shoulders, and will now voluntarily tell the true story of the negotintions. Afr. Keuur's statement certainly does not bear the sembiance of truth in view of all the circumstances; and, even if it be true, it will only partially exonerate him, and in no wise relieve TILDEN of the infamy that at- taches to him for the effort. to buy his way into the chief office of the nation. The Chicago produce markets were gen- erally quiet Saturday, breadstuffs being dull. Mess pork closed 10c per brl lower, at §15.15 @15.20 cashand $15.20 for March. ILard closed 50 per 100 lbs lower, at $10.37} @10.40 cash and $10.40@10.42} for March. Ments closed firmer, at 53c for loose shoul- ders, 8ic for short-ribs, and 8ic for short- clears. Highwines were steady, at 31.03@ 1.054 per gallon. Flour was in light demand and firm. Wheat closed e higher, at $1.313 cash and $1.324 for March. Corn closed i@ 1o higher, at 42}c for March and 4Gic for Moy. Oats closed 4o lower, at 34ic cash and 34jc for March. Eye was dull, at 68c. Barley closed easy, at 56@563c for March. Hogs were firmer, at $5.50@6.65 per 100 Ibs. Cattle were fairly active and steady, with sales at §2.50@6.00. Sheep were unchanged, at $3.00@6.00 for inferior to extra. Ouo hundred dollars in gold would buy $105.75 in greenbacks at the close. 1t is reported that Gov. Curroa will make a complete change 1n the Board of Peniten- tiary Commissioners. Without prejudice against any member of this Board individa- ally, we can only approve such a dotermina- tion in general if the Governor has actuslly made up his mind to it. Indeed, we do not well see how he can do otherwise, in the face of the unecxplained evidence that ihe Penitentiary has been so managed under his predecessor, who appointed the present Board, that not only was a profitable con- tract on the State-House for the convict labor turned over to & private contractor, and the convict labor leased to him at a mauch less rate than the State was paying, bat also that the Board permitted this con- tractor to get $40,000 in debt to the Stato on account of convict labor, while drawing money from the State for his contract work. Tne State moneys- paid to this contractor virtually passed through the hands of the Penitentiary Board, since the eriginal con- tract was theirs, and no money could be drawn upon it except through a warrant of the Warden, so thero seems to be no excuse for allowing the contractor to run 840,000 behind on his labor account. Under these circumstances, Gov. Corrox cannot well reappoint the present Penitentiary Board without indorsing aud assuming the mistakes of his predecessor. There is no doubt that an ugly and vicious spirit prevails among the Democrats in Con- gress at the disappointment which the de- cision of the Presidential Commission has created. 'The conduct of Speaker RaNDALL in the House and the speech of Senator Booy in the Senaie denouncing Justice Braprey, yesterday, are sufficient evidences of this. If the resentment be carried no forther, what bas slrcady happened is enough to fasten disgrace upon the extreme Democratic faction in Congress. The de- punciation of the Electoral Commission is not less unseemly than would be a similar denunciation of the Supreme Court for an adjudication of any matter that lawfully comes within ils jurisdiction. If the de- cision of the Commission had been the other way, the slightest intimation from the Republican side of impure motives or improper influences would have been received with universal condemnation by the Democrats. The case is not altered becanse the decision has been in favor of Mr. Haxes ; and what would be infamous in Re- publicans is equally infamous in Democrats. If this spirit of resentment is indicative of a disposition to resist the decision of the Tri- bunal, or to adopt any scheme with the pur- pose of rendering it inoperative, the wise and conservative men of the Democratic party will do well to put a prompt veto upon the plan ; for any well-defined effort to precipi- tate the nation into mew turmoil after the agreement to abide by the result will give the Democratic party n blow from which it can never recover. THE HAPPY OUTCOME. The American people have resson this morning for thanks that the Presidential election has been settled. * We make no dif- ference between Democrats and Republic- ans,—both have equal cause for rejoicing that the angry contest has been closed. We donot claim that this national gratitude is due because Haves is declared elected; it wonld have been equally duoc had Trpey received the award. This gratitude is due that a controversy of such universal interest —ore upon which the whole American peo- ple have been so earnestly and so equally divided ; which has engrossed the excited sattention of every city, town, hamlet, house- hold, and person in the land—hes been ter- minated by the peaceful judgment of a court of law. Never in the history of the coun- try, never in the history of any people in any age, has there been a braver, nobler vin- dication and example of unconquerable devotion to tho wise and peaceful decrees of the courts of law. Now, more than ever befare, have the American people shown their ability to conquer their own partisanship, and yield all their prejudices and couvictions ta the decision of the consti- tuted legal authorities. Over all this broad 1and there is to-day a peaceful acceptance and acquiescence in the judgment of the Court; violence is overcome, resistance withdrawn, the threat of civil war is silenced; and the spirit of insubordination and revenge finds expression only in the determination to re- verse this decision at the elaction in 1880. To fally appreciate the condition of the country to-day, as the result of this arbitra- tion, it is only necessary to recall the circum- stances under which the arbitration law was passed. At that time, and for woeks pre- viously, the extreme partisans of botl parties hed determined to have their men declared elected at all hazards. Trupes bad 184 votes, and Hayes had 184 votes, and the two were claimants for the odd vote in Oregon. This vote in Oregon was contested, as wero tho 4 votes in Florida and the 8 votes in Louisi- ana. Each candidate had, officially cer- tified, 184 votes, excluding one vote of Oregon. The President of the Senate was 8 Bepublican. The House of Repre- sentatives had a large Democratic majority. The House denied the power to count the vote of any State, without the concurrence of both Houses, and, under this claim, pro- posed to object to counting tho certified votes of Flonda and Louisisna, and, there- upon assuming that neither candidate had o msajority, proposed to proceed at once to an election of President. On the other hand, it was claimed that the Republican President of the Senate, having the custody and pos- session of the certificates of votes, should proceed to count the votes, deciding that the Republican votes from Louisiana, Florids, and Oregon, should alone be considered ‘Whereupon, he was to count Haves in, and officially declare him elected President. Be- tween these two antagonizing parties was a body of Republicans who did not believe, and who would not be coerced into approv- ing, that the President of the Senate had any judicinl powers, and therefore could not law- fully undertake to decide questions of law and of fact between opposing claims; that hispowers were merely ministerial, which any clerk could execate as well as he could. There were also Democrats who did not approve the doctrine that either Houss could veto the counting of the vote of a State, with- out the concurrence of the other House, and, thercfore, that the proposed action of the House in electing President by a call of the States would be revolutionary. Behind all theso was the vast army of office-seckers and officcholders, clamorous for whatever action would give them a hope or promise of being pensioned on the Government. Both parties were being precipitated into rash and revolutionary mensares. Both were wrong. Both claimed powers which were outside of the Constitution, and which were inde- fensible. Both were rushing to a formsl declaration of the election of President by unconstitutional action. Each party had “the game in its own hands,” from a party point of view, and each was preparing to mako sare of that game. The result was in- evitable. On the day fixed for counting the votes—the 14th of February—there would have been two Presidents declared elected ; and to-day, from Maine to Texas, from Flor- ida to far-off Oregon, men would be busy proparing for the arbitrament of power by force. The people of Louisiana wonld by this time be cutting throats, and the long- restrained passion for s war of races wonld be let loose. The State Governments of the other fifteen States of the South would be at the service of TILDEN to support his Presi- dency. Oregon, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Indiana, would all recog- nize and espouse, through their Executives, the cause of Trrpex. The House of Repre- sentatives—the immediate representatives of the people and one branch of Congress— wonld recognize TiLpEN 8s the lawfully- chosen President. - On the other hand, the majority in the Semate would recognize TLayes aud'oppose TiroeN. The other seven- teen Northern States, being in the control of Republican Governments, would all recog- nize Haves, and would support him. In each State thers would be a minority, nearly 2s numerous as the masjority, in violent op- position to the State Government and in support of the adverse President. Local clections all over the country would turn on the election of offi- cers supporting Tipes or Hayes. It would not be three months before the whole country would be in all the blaze and fury of bitter, malicions civil war. Law and au- thority would be paralyzed. OCrime would enlist under the banners of the opposing forces, and life and property would share the consequences of anarchy. Business would beatanend Riots and plunder would be general ; and all for the want of an author- ized tribunal to decide a question of law. Instead of this horrible condition of af- fairs, we have to-day, in the judgment of this Court of Arbitration, the peaceful, legal determination of the whole controversy. We bave escaped the revolutionary election of Tmpex by the House of Representatives, and 8 revolutionary election of Hayes by the President of the Senate. We- have es- caped the calomity of the election of two Presidents, and a divided Con- gress and a divided country on that subject. We have escapsd political dis- order and confusion, paralyzation of the Government, and the substitution of anarchy for law. We have secured peace. We have erected law, and to the decision of law the whole countrysubmits, and the nation moves on as safely and securely as if no danger had threatened its peaco and stability. Under the circumstances of a peaceful and unitd country, as the result of this arbitration, the indignant declarations of the Demoerats and Republicans who a few weeks ago were shonting, * We,wash our hands of all respon- sibility for this measure,” appearin all their criminal stupidity, and the American people who are not officeholders or office-seckers have cause to thank the wisdom and the patriotism of tho men who deviged this scheme of peace snd union, and the sa- premacy of law. Y _ THE NEW TRADE IN MEATS, ‘We made a brief reference the other day to the new opportunities opened up to the American market in the shipment to En- gland of freshly-killed hogs, shecp, and beef. It seems that not only has a large trade sprung up in this class of shipments in ico- boxes especiaily consiructed for that pur- pose, but that live-stock is likewiss sent in large quantities and at good profits. A recent number of the Mersey Post (English) contains the following importsnt informa- tion concerning this trade : As to the quality of thelive cattle, thelr excel- Jence may Le gathered from the fact that sixty headlanded from the steamer Dominion at Liver- pool, on the 19th nit., were declared by compe- tent anthoritics to be the finest animals ever im- ported into the country, and their average weight was over 2,100 pounds. These caitle were bred in Canada, and, in consequence of the St. Lawrence not being navigable, were forwarded by il to Portland, in Maine, and thence shipped by steam- er. A fortnight previously the Dakotah brought from New York to the Merscy 385 carcasses pre- served In the refrigerating chambers. On one day since the commencement of the present year 700 tons of the meat were landed from three Ameri- cansteamers at Liverpool. This has been dis- tribnted to some of the principal towns in the country, and has found a ready eale at remupera- tive prices, but considerably below the raling rates of English mest. Screral of our provincial con- temporaries have drawn attention to the excellent quality of the article, and to its comparianz not dis- advantageonsly with the ereater portion of our lome production. Ithas been sold at from 3%d 0 934d per pound. the latter being the highest amount chazged for the primest joints and cuts. The trade during the past season and up to now may be sald 1o have been tentative, but the anccess that it has met with will lead toa large and incress- ing business. The extent of this trade in meats is already| very, large, though only in its infancy. It isi not yet a year since it was demonstrated that, the newly-killed " animals could be delivered on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean in good, salable condition. Yet the receipts: of a single week at Liverpool during Japuary included 11,270 cases of fresh meats, equal to as many sheep; 500 tons of fresh beef, equal to 1,250 beasts; 719 quarters, equal to 180 beests, in addition to the live shesp and cattle, and the pressed meats, hams, etc., which have heretofore constitnted the trade. Of course, the limits of this trade cannot be determined. There is practically no limit to the resources of the United States and Canada, and the advan- tages and facilities for stock-raising are such that there is no resson why any increase of demand in Grest Britain, no matter how great, should increase the price at the point of delivery to such an extent as to enable the English growers to compete. The excel- lent quality of the meats has already been fu_!.!y recognized, the process of preservation will be so improved asto render the trans- portation entirely free from risk, and the Afnerican meats can always be sold for less than the English, including cost of trans. portation. The importance of this trade is manifold. A new staple is added to the American mar- Let, for the handling of which Chicago will the centre, ns for breadstuffs, snd lumber, and packed meats. The indastry of stock- raising will be increased toan extent that will virtually constitate a now industry, and afford occupation for an increasing popula- Rl T tion. Immigration will receive animportant stimulsnt. The advantages of the United States in its foreign dealings will be notably increased, and evestually fresh o eats will be| 85 prominent a featurs of our foreign trade! as breadstuffs. For the people of Greab Britain this supply of fresh ments at price: which will enable the laboring classes to use them almost as frecly as tho laboring classes of our own country will prove an inestima- ble blessing. Many of the poorer classes, especially of Scotland and Ireland, have not been accustomed to fresh ment from one year’s end to the other. Of course, the agri- cultural interests of Great Britain will suffer somo embarrassment for a time from the successful competition of the Ameri- can meats, but they will always be able to command their prices for the choice meats of their own raising, and, to the extent that they are shut out from the general market, they will turn their grazinglands into arablo lands. Thelaw of supply and demand will soon rectify any disturbance ihat may be occasioned in this respect, and the advan- tage of cheap meats to the poor of Great Britain, and of o new and profitable trade for the agricultural classes of America, Wil be permanent. Chicago may look forwar with especial interest to the development this new trade, for this city will be onl of the chief beneficiaries thereof ; indeed, in American commerce, all roads seem to lead to Chicago. ———e JAPANESE ARCHEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY. Scientific inquisitiveness is bringing to light many bidden treasures in unexpected quarters. The Harnis papyrus has given us recently o graphio picture of life in the pris- tine times of Raweszs, who swindled Isis at the gambling-table and supported Juprren Aangox in such hendsome style. The late Geosge Surrn, who unearthed the Assyrian tablets, read from them the story of the Creation and the Deluge. Dr. SCHLIEMANN'S indefatigable mining and digging have brought us Crrreayestea’s jewelry and AcAMEMNON'S shield, have resurrected the companions of these two old worthies from ibeir centuries’ sleep, hava uncovered the walls of old Troy, and may yet give us Mexzravs, HEnzy, Pans, Aix, and all the rest of thnt scandalous crowd who kept Greece and Troy in such trouble so many years, and perhaps old Hoaer himself, who kmew no better than to send the tiresome story down to posterity. One of the Iatest discoveries of the scientific ferrets concerns Japan, & country whose birth is hidden in the mists of antiquity, and records some of the earlystruggles of Rome to Christianize the medieval Japs, who were civilized before the Christisn era. Some curious foreigner rummaging about in some remote and un- pronounceable Japanese town recently hit upon a bonanza of antique treasures. He found a painting of one of the first Ambassa- dors from Japan to a Europcan Power, a painting of the Madonna and Child, and a great quantity of crucifixes, ‘medallions, and rosarics, which were part and parcel of the properties of the early Jesuits in their efforts to Christianize Japan. Among these curiosi- ties was a parchment scroll written by Paun V., Pope of Rome in 1615, and issned .to an embassy from Japan to the Holy City. The discovery of the parchment has corroborated history, which records the visits of the Jesuits to Jopan in the latter part of the sixteenth century. The King Buwco (no relation to the “ Brxco was his name ”) was one of the chief converts, and was a great favorite with the Jesuits, who rechristened him Frpax- o1s L, Fraxk Boxoo for short. It was a sad day for Buxco's family, however. The Jesuits, finding it impossible to convert Mrs. Buxeo, called her JEzeBEL, which so incensed her that she cleared out and left Bunco, lived a happy lifo with another man, while Bunoo was shortly after put to death by his fellow-citizens. Before that time, however, Buxco sent many embassies to the Pope, as also did DaTE MAsUNUNE, & Daimio of Oshin, who dispatched Sorzro to Pavr V. It isthe letter of this Daimio and tho Pope’s reply which have been found. The Daimio’s letter shows that ho had an eye to business as well as to religion, and considered that if hg agreed to be converted some consideration on earth as well as in Heaven should be guaranteed him. He speaks in his missive, as only a devout Daimio might speak, of “the excellent truths of the Divine faith and religion,” but at the same time would like to know if * the navigation of Japanese waters by Spenish trading ships, even to the Spanish Ses, is to be ex- pected.” The religio-commercial Daimio evi- dently was possessed of the idea that he could serve both Gop and Maxwox. In sny event, he was willing to try it. PauvnV. was an accommodating Pope, and was willing to accopt the Daimio both in a religious and commercial sense, so there was free trade between the two inthe exchange of commod- ities, aud the Daimio, in consideration of being a good Christian, took his pay in com- merce, and went back on the gods of his forefathers for filthy lucre. His embassy got to Rome safely, although they were two years getting there, as they went clear round Cape Horn in an old tub of a galleon. It is sad to relate thot when they got home they found there had been a change in things. BuNco was dead and gone. The Dai- mio had no wuse for his commerce, for his faithful Pagans had killed him off also. The Jesuits, too, had all been mas- sacred. When Sorero and his com panions stepped on shore there was nothing left wanting to make a clean job except to dis- patch them to “the happy lend also, which 'was done promptly and thoroughly. Mrs. Bunoco was avenged, and the Japanese gods, big and little, once more reigned supreme, As a matter of justice to SoTevo, it is pless- ant to notice now that the Vatican Council is proposing to canonize him. But if Sorrro is canonized, why not canonize the wretched Daimio who accepted the Christion religion and then got euchred out of his commercial consideration ? There is 8 measure before the Siate Legis- Iature providing that the assessment of real estate for taxation shall be made overy fourth year, and of personal property every second year, instcad of annually, as at pres- ent. Wehave no question that the quad- rennial - valuation of real estate would be a great benefit to the State and to the public. Such a law has bean in operation in Ohio for sixty years. The revenue laws of thal State are perhaps more perfect than thoss of any other State in the Union. Such pro- ceedings as tax-fighting are never known, and are hardly possible in that State. The system is also economical as compared with ours. The State makes the assessment by its own officers, and it is done thoroughly and efficiently. It is rarely objected to. In the off years the State assessment is amend- ed by the local assessments to the extent of additional improvements to tho real estate. The assessinent of personal property, however, is not that of permanent property, like real estate, and should, therefore, be made annually. Such property nadergoes rapid clanges, is easily moved away, and large values are created every year. Another, and & very wise, bill also pending is to have but one collection of taxes in each county, and thus get rid of the presont system of Town Collectors. In this connty, the whole revenuo could be collected by the County Tressurer far moro efficiently than now, and 4t much less cost. If this conld be done in this city and county, it certainly could be done in other and smaller counties. The machinery of Town Collectors is an obstruo- tion to tho collection of revenue in this county, besides being costly ; while after all the County Treasurer, at half the cost, could collect far more revenue,—in point of fact, does collect the lorger part of the revenus nOW. BEWARE OF THE BUMNERS, It is high time that the honest, orderly, law-nbiding, and tax-paying people of Chica- go should organize for the spring campaiga, or they will find when it is too late that they are once more in the hands of the bummers and at their mercy. There is a movement already on foot in this city, in- augurated and organized by the bummer clement and its leaders, to run Corviy into the Mayoralty again. They think, now that the city finances have been restored to a somewhat healthy condition, that things are beginning to move smoothly again, snd that the people, having had a long rest from stheir thievery and plunder, will have for- gotten their past miserable condition, that they (the bummers) can quietly slide into office again if they take time by the forelock and bave another good year of stealing. They are seeking to make headway by going to the police, the firemen, and other city employes whose wages have been re- duced owing to the former stealings of these very bummers, and saying to them: *Put Corviy iuto office and elect his old crowd, and we will pat up your salaries ggain. We will re-employ those who have been discharged. - We will re-establish the sinecures. We will make more offices. We will issue scrip, levy additional taxes, and we will all have a good time together." This is the substance of their argument. CoLvIN is to be the figure-head, and the old ring and regime are to be replaced in power and renew their high old times, It is diffi- calt for them now to raise money for the wine suppers and joamborees which they en- joved in Corvin’s time. They are hungry, dry, and anxious to get once mors at the pickings and stealings. When they were driven out of office by the indignant tax- payers and honest people of this city, they bad shipwrecked the city’s credit and left everything in confusion and almost in ruin. Now that the credit has been patched np by our business men, and the pressure upon the Treasury has been relieved somewhat by economy and honest management, and choking off the thieves who had been plun- deringit, Corviy and his crowd are making a desperate effort to get into power again. If the people of this city do not want a repeti- tion of Corvin’s disgraceful, dishonest, scan- dalous Administration ; if they do not want their taxes piled up on them to be squandered among these ravenous bummers, if they do not want the city credit damnged again and the City Treasury drained, they must be up and doing, for the old gang of thieves and scoundrels are already in the field. SECOND-ADVENTISTS. The supply of believers in the speedy sec- ond coming of Christ does not. seem to give out. It keeps up through the discouraging events of the centuries. Some new sect is continually springing up with this ideain the forefront of its creed. That the Chris- tian world should havo faith in the final coming of Christ as Judge, at the end of earthly history, is not indeed surprising, in view of His own words, and as a natoral complement to the doctrine of His first com- ing as a Redeemer. But, us He discouraged sll inquiries as to the date of His second advent, and declered that His kingdom was to be like the leaven which a woman hid in the meal till all was leavened, the Church has been content to expect the fact when the process of leavening should be more advenced. This conception, however, was very distasteful to a certain class, who liked to assume a prophet’s office at second hand, and, by dint of alarming interpreta- tions of select passages, to persuade others that a visible Christ was to be expected shortly. They skillfully applied texts which related to His then speedy providential coming to destroy the Jewish State and Church to His final personal advent, and called upon all who had faith in His words to act upon their interpretations. And so, in spite of the uniform failure of these pre- dictions in particular and in general, each generation brings a new supply of would-be prophets, just as zealous and just as con- fident as their predecessors, and who think that all religion depends upon the prevalence of their notions. Warned by the signal mistake of Wrnriast Mirrez, who fixed the date in 1843, the mors recent Second-Adventists have refused to as- sign a definite time, contenting themselves with affirming that it was the mext grest event to be expected, that it might occur any day, and was suro to take place before long, as the premonitory signa wero occurring. Mr. Moopy, it will be remembered, reserved this, prudently, as his last topic, but then osserted his faith in that view; and it is understood that his fellow lay-evangelists hold and preach the same doctrine. It is one of the curious illustrations of the power of a theory to shape the interpretation of facts which occur under our own cyes that these Second-Adventists rely for evidence upon the moral ' phenomena which to them indicate that the world is becoming worse ond worse, so that all hope of much more good in it is limited to the expectation that Cmmsr will speedily eppear in person to introduce a new dispensation. While philanthropists all over the earth are rejoicing in the grad- ual amelioration of the condition of the race, in the abolition of slavery and serfdom, from the extension of education among the people, the progress of science and of the useful arts, the decrease of intemperance, the elevation of woman, the growth of a spirit of justice and a disposition to prevent war by arbitra- tion, and the institution of many other re- forms, these modern pessimists are sure that the outlook is darkness itself! While their ““evangelical” fellow-Christians are rejoicing over the fact that there are moro spiritually converted church-members now in this conn- try alone than there were in all the world a century ago, snd that missionaries are now successfally at work in nearly every land, while heathenism and Mohammedanism are tottering to their overthrow, these deter mined weepers still hang tteir harps upon the willows, and insist that the Church is in o sad captivity ! We have been wont to think that these ex- pectations of a speedy personal return of CmrisT were confined to the Protestant churches; but it appears that we were mis- taken. When men get into the dumps they | always forebode avil, and become alarmists; | dent and Vi . esident vacan; < and it must bo confessed that things have | ed the country o the frigwmt'emxm e not gone well for some time with the Church | perhaps fatal strain of another enery o of Rome. To be sure, in England Ritualism | tion. The Democratic L & gained nothing, because Tm;f’:“ by out 23 well as Haves, apd have snffered banyd’..u ;::::“ ey wy B All the advantages of the solemn. then, which certain portion of e LB eratic party now propose to repug be;ln on the Democratic sids, The N will remember this in judg;; of restatance that comey fflfifizfl b It will only confirm and intensify . contempt and condemnation for that may be made to defeat thy . which the Commission was org, Ppogy which the Democrats in the firg; ] - gave their heartiest and most proval because the edvantages wero atl o 1 has made a convenient bridge over which many have passed from Protestantism to Romanism, while in the United States im- migration has brought up the numbers of 4 the Church” to nearly an eighth of the population. Then, again, the Popé had his own way in the Vatican Council, and wes solemnly declared to bs infallible in his offi- cial action. But, alas! for these foretokens of the Millennium, they wero immedistely followed by tremendous disasters. The Pope was thrust out of his temporal sover- eignty, and left to be o spiritual ruler only, to the great damage of his outward splendor and of his world- 1y prestige. France and Spain, the two cratches of the Papacy, were sadly splinter- | them. ed, if not permanently broken, as supporters |, —————— o of Papal political pretensions. The leading An extraordinary occarrence was notag Governments of Europe took umbrage at an the proceedings of the House of Reppage] tives yesterdsy. Speaker Ravpag, b to recognize the Secretary of the g when he appeared on the floor of \f 3 with a message announcing that the g was ready to proceed with the comt the Electoral votes in Joint Conveng; It is said that this " entirely without precedent, the stop all proccedings to rccaiv?[ -y from the Senate. The Speaker’s was drawn to the fact by Mr. Ky, Mr. Kassox was promptly snubbeg A Chair, and his point of order overrule] Democrats of the House, byastrict ™ then passed a resolntion to meet with 3 Senate on Monday to continue the comty 3 the votes. This was expected; but it vy by neither necessary nor decent thatan by nity should be offered the Senate. Tha . (8 tion has been commented on in Wi B 83 a preliminary sign of a revolutiingy g 3 position on the part of the Democnty j, & Congress. We hope it may only promy have been merely the outgrowth of a4y, & porary chagrin and disappointment. [ ; something more than this, apg N Democrats of the House actully o, B template & breach, they will - ey 8 from their party tho lsst vestips g P sympathy they have among the 5 people of this country. They entersd Ty the agreement for arbitration more guenly and enthusiastically than the % the country accepted it in good faith; mi will be rark treason now to adopt any tutiy that are. intended to nallify it. Weem scarcely think there is enough of E and infamy among the DemocratsinCy gress to enter upon a scheme of fiun&m‘ and until it shall become 50 apparent sz longer to be doubted we shall preferints. lieve that yesterday’s discourtesy was dmy the coarse and vulgar character of {hemy who occupies the Spenker's chair rather thay toa preconcerted plan of the Demommtiy enter upon the revolutionary designof brat. ing with the Senate and setting upaabd for the destruction of the Government. infellibility which might be exercised in the department of politics, under the plausible plea of regulating morals and religion, and Germany made it uncomfortable for un- patriotic ecclesisstics. And so the Pope shut himself up in the Vatican, called him- gelf ““a prisoner " (like a rebellious child in a tantram, who insists on getting under the bed and remaining there, in spite of all in- vitations to come out), and took to prophesy- ing evil against the nations. It is notto be " wondered at if he thinks now that the Mil- lennium was in the Middle Ages, and that we have fallen upon the apostasy which is to precede the Second Advent. If thatis the key-note which he is striking, it is not surprising that -his faithful followers are re- sponding in doleful strains, and look for help to the same Divine intervention. Hence we find the Zablet taking up the subject; but we fear that Mr. Moopy and Maj. WITTLE will hardly appreciate the value of the rein- forcement, and especially 8s contained in the following argument : But there is another sign of the near approach of that day on which the time of mercy expires and the eternity of judgment begins, which, to onr thinking, is more conclusive than even those signs forctold by the Incarmate Deity in language so oracalar and obscure. It is the extraordinary and still multiplying nnmber of apparitions of the Blessed Virgin ManT which have taken place with- intholast few years. 1t is as thongh her filial heart, throbbing with an unatterable and incon- celvable love for her Maker and her Gop, and her maternal heart for her Divine Son and her chil- dren in Him, forced her, as it were, ever and anon, ont of the excellent glory, to show herself to the bomblest of the carth, in rock-niches, on hill- slopes, and elsewhere, witha majestic attendance of miracles, epiritnal and bodily, caueing vast basilicas to arise in out-of-the-way places, and pro- voking holy pilgrimages without number, in order to convert sinners and confirm the faith of the elect in view of the terrible trial to which their faith is being expoeed on the very threshold of judgment. Alas! *“Who shall decide when doctors disagree?” The Protestant Second-Advent- ists are sure that CHRIST is to appear shortly to destroy *‘ with the brightness of His com- ing” the Romish * man of sin,” whose arro- gant opposition to the truth is becoming in- tolerable. On the other hand, the devout Roman Catholics are forced to the belief that the persecutions which ‘‘the Church” is now suffering (though these do not interfere with a good deal of jolly living) can only be expected to end by the personal appearance of its Divine Head to deliver His despised Vicegerent on earth. On this contradictory state of things it may be as well for us all to go quietly on in the spirit of love, doing all the good we can, and being thus in prepara- tion for whatever events may occur. ‘The Presidential-connt question has oeemped the attention of the general public & aa- pletely that the fight among the bears and by in Wall strect, whereby millions have bex lost, has not been noticed. The Nation of i 15th says: . It has been s great week for the bears in W street, and they have been assisted in theirst by the break-down of the Central Railroad (o panvof New Jersey, which bas had nat onlf e contend azainst the depreasion in the cosl ik, but to meet ditficulties caused by unwise mamy ‘ment in thepast. The saareholders were coma early in the weel, and the critical condition afds Company twas csplained to them: they weren- quested to advance &3, 000, 000. which Mr. Esr. the President, told them iwonld ensble the Ca r:my to cross the strcam taat_threatened 1o eond t. Forthe $3,000,000 20 advanced the Comp: would give as secarity $5,000,0000f the & Wilkesbarre bonds. At tne time the offer w4 made these bonds were sellingat 36, o thitde “‘collatcral ™ for the loan would have beenkn THE DEMOCRATIC ADVANTAGES. That unreasoning portion of the Demo- cratic party which howls for resistance at the prospect of an adverse decision by the Presidential Commission will not, of course, take into acconnt that, by agreeing to an ar- than the Joan. Subecriptions were made toue amount of about £1,250,000, on conditm e 5 i3l that these should mot be binding wis bitration, the Democratic party availed itself | the whole 33,000,000 were subecribed T . conditional = subscriptions mever exesel of the only chance thers was offered to se- cure the Presidency for Mr. Tmpex in a peacesble and lawful manner. These peo- ple are prepared to listen to nothing except the award of the offices to their party, but the great mass of thinking men in the country, outside of politics, will not fail to give this phase of the controversy the consideration it merits. The advantages of arbitration were all on the Democratic side. The prima facie case was with Mr. Haves. He had 185 Electoral votes properly certified The constitutional provision, as it stands, con- fers a color of autbority upon the President of the Senste to perform the ministerial count of the Electoral votes, in case Congress fail to provide by law for some other mode of counting. There was no way in which the Democrats could have inangu- rated Trupey, except by revolution, whether undertaken by the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives or with the aid of HexBy WATTERSONs 100,000 lambs. If the Democrats lose their case befora the Commission, they will be no worse off than they were before, though the country will have the satisfaction of knowing that the controversy was discussed by the ablest lawyers in the Ipnd on either side, and decided by a Tribunal embracing the highest and ablest jurists, including five Justices of the Supreme Court. Bat now that the Commission has virtually decided that it is not within its jurisdiction, nor that of Congress, to act as a Returning Board for the elections in the different States, the Democratic reactionists are en- deavoring to excite popular opposition to the verdict. Without stopping to comment on the contradiction of the State-Sov- ereignty party antagonizing the fandamental State right sssured by the Constitation, that each State shall appoint Presidential Electors as it may determine for itself, we would ask the disaffected Democrats how much better off they wonld have been if the Commission had decided to go behind the Returning Boards in the cases of Floridaand Louisiana. From the time the Commission organized, it had less than a month in which to deliberate and decide before the 4th of March. Had they decided fo go back of the Returning Board of Florida, it is just possible, but not probable, that they might have disposed of that case in time; and even Democrats will now admit that, if they had exercised the right of a Returning Board for Florida, the State would have been given to HavEs. Then they would have come to Louisiana. So far from being able to dispose of it in the two or three daysleft to the Commission, this case would have been the work of months. It would not do to rest upon the ex-parte tes- timony gathered by the Congressional Com- mittees, whether of the Republican Senate or the Democratic House. It would have been mnecessary to summon hundreds and perhaps thousands of witnesses, and to have entered upon an interminable process of ex- amination and cross-examination with the usual technieal delays and argnments of the opposing counsel. Without undertaking to estimate how long such a case might have lasted, it is certain that the 4th of March would have intervened befors a decision, which would have left the offices of Presi- $1,250.000, and the attempt fo tide over fallel meantimo the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre bonds 11 from 53 to 76, g0 that at the lstter price e $3.000,000 asked for wonld have been Iy only §1.800, 000 *‘collateral.” The attemptiof money liaving failed, the Lehizh & Wilkeshy Company was tarned over to the creditors, ¥ie were represented by three receivers. Thisea, ny's intimate connection with the Centl New Jerzey left the latter no choice bat todeys in charge of & receiver likewie. All these cirout stances contribated to the heary decline in (et curities of the Central of New Jeriey whi came the pretext for a general decline in oiber stocks. Central New Jersey stock fell from %0 13%: and the bonds of the company fell from2% 20 per cent. All other coal secnrities, whetherel soand or unsound companies, declined hesrily.te largest decline having been in Delaware & Hat- son stock, which fell from 59 to 45. Otberstacke, no way connected with the coal trade, fell fm ¥ to+ per cent. e — We heard a man say the other day thatbedid not sce how the people got along withoud thé word “bulldoze” so long,—that there w0 word in the English language which conld be sl stituted for it to express the idea it so grpte ally conveys. But the word is in danger. Thes are evil-minded persons of the jeonoclastictss who are trying to force a different e or signification -upon it. Thus the Fremax's Journal, of New York, tries'to undermive £ pervert it. Tt says that we should write “Dodle dose ” Instead of “bulldoze.” The Frmd speaking negroes of Louisiapa nsed the Ifl the Journal says, and it adds: ©‘Boule'B French, means aball or bullet; and sl B colloguial phrase, the human head, 50, s dose may either have meant ‘a bullet vut 80 one’—as, in the Mexican war, our sqltlur! to speak of such or such & one having take2s ¢Mexican pill'—or, even more probably. i3 Dhave meant the administration of a ‘whad® the sconce.’” 'The Journal's explanation lsnx® classic than the one with which we have bud® content ourselves hitherto, namely, a dos v for u bull; but it would spotl the usefaluess the term to pive it a pill, bullct, or boule &' nification. Let it be. The Cincinnati Commercial (ind. Rep) o before the decision of the Loulsiana case by Arbitration Board, remarked: ‘Among Republicans there is 3 giow of gwd% ing and a confidence n the ultimate triamph of 8 cause that will not down. They assame thsth kind Providence is upon their side. and :w.fl. though this fsa_**close call, ™ so close that the - erage Kepublican's hair stands on end, unless bald-headed. yet will they emerge from the % of conflict conquerine and to conquer. Ovsl them aid to-day. - The good Lord will not 0% He i3 only giving us 2 warning.” el bat [t is certainly an emphatic wartig The sinner upon a bed of sickness, with the DTl in waiting, does not promise more faithfallyto form If he is ziven one more chance than doL Republicans If they escape this close call, an given a new lease of the Government. The cratic party only gained strength becanse nm:‘; duct of the Kepublicans was such as o 4 gust about a million of icdependent voters ¥ care less for either party than for the welfare % farrname of the comntry. If Hares' Admipis! o tion fs eminently respectable, economicah 4% honest, there will be a_prooabilits, amouatyl almost to a certzinty. of carrving the cnwtr{ e the Republicans in 1880. Butshonld his Admitl tration be o _continnation of the bad poindt GrsxT's, marked by «alars-grubs and side-siedlh, the party can nover win sgain, —this *+Jast & will beits last. The next time it will B out of existence. OBITUARY- Among other deaths which have recently o curred are those of Rear Admiral Doxrsé® VaLIz-RIzsTRA, the senior officer of the Pert- vian navy; of FREDERIC SOLLIVAK, an eminest English bassa, and hrother of SGLLivAY composer; of M. Lzox DGXONT, one of them distinguished among the younger contem! philosophers in France; of Count Louts PAs¥® RINT, the learned Prefect of the National Libr ry in the Gffizl, Florence, who was one of ripest of Italian scholars; of Arszer F. Wi¥ STER, a rising young American aathor, who W. achieved considerable reputation by his sk in Appletons’ Journal; of Tmoxas Paas; t®