Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 20, 1877, Page 4

& = o ' K THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: 'TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1877. % @ ,h’ wonld bny § 12} In greonbacks at the | may have for the falure and notensatily ¢ Criomne. PRI e e P oS R Y close, doubtful hencfit of the oxtreme Democrata TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. presses the views entertained by thousands | tics that, whon a party is divided on any given of men less edneated and more brutal than | question, it iaalways safest to vote in the himself, Ho represents that vicious senti- | negativs if the proposition is likely to prevail ment of false principlo which inapired | against such negative. The person inthispo- Bootn, and which has rendered his name | sition will not be blamed in case the measuro infanons all over the earth, That this man | results to tho benefit of Liis party, because his ntters the sentiment of tho mnss of the | vote did not defeat it; butif it results dis- judgment of & court of sort to arms Is fit occasion for national grati- tnde, and if that Conrt lind found that Tre- nexn had béen elocted, that declaration, as a substitute for war, would have been a proper occasion for national rejoicing. Ever Since Bamsrow laid viclent hands on tho LRAAL. . . TAe nest Preddent will be peas. Sutly inaumirated, and fh¢ dreadful pAanfom of eiril war which-haa for moanths haunted the minds of the people b4 dardehed forecer. at the North. If tho profossed interest of the Northern Democrata in the South fs sim- ply relfish, tho Sonthern people can scarcely bo blamed for proferring ready advantages to advantagos that are morely conditional Another Democratio cancus was held in Washinglon last evening, wud frantic efforts wera made by the revolutionista to secnrs n reconsideration of the sction of the eancus . : A Washington cotrespondent of sn Eastern Journal states that Dr. J. W, Hor?, of Madison, Wis., has been engaged to prepare & gencral re- 3 BY MAIL~T¥ ANVARCE—TOSTAGE FRETAID AT THIN OFFICE. ! 2 port of the status of edueational interest, 211y Eitfon, postpatd: 1 year. s12.m | Of Inat Satarday night, and adopt tho policy | yion the snccess of the Democratio party. | Democratio party is not to b belioved. As- | astronsly ho can say, as the old woman did | whisky.thioves and their dependents and | this country as fliustrated {,’; ,;:'ma .‘:; '“'."‘ fi'fi'fifi'u? e vony W EekR Tor 1.0 | of delay in order to dofeat tho Eloetoral | myq information and all the spprehension on | sassination for any canse has not yot found | whon she won informed the cow hiad eaten | blackmailers, the tribe of offlcoholding poli- | tistics derived from the late Centennial Exposy. Funday Fitton: Literary aad Rell o count, Violent speeches wera mado in_sup- | )iy cubject, howaver, come from the North- | any recognition among the Amoricun people. | tho grindstono, *‘Itold you so,” and gain | ticians and organs have had a disgust for tha | tlon. Dr. Horr{a eminently fitted for such an Eatoraer Ediifon, twetve 2o port of such mensures, and Banyzr CavL- | oy homoomtio nawspapers that are pulled | Its open ndvocacy will be trented as hardly | crodit for his superior judgment. We aro | Jaw and for conrts of justice, They aro not {mportant Work_-____ Tiwerkiy, poripald, I yes "% | FELn, who olways' contrives fo hava |y are myppen's string, lesa infamons than the sctusl crime, and tho | nclined to think that If tho Electoral bill | in favor of referring any questiontomconrts | g0\ y oo S 5ol 0 i WEEKLY RDITION, POSTPAID. a hand in sl sorts of foolishness, went P — o man who proposes it deserves to bo, asho | had deponded on Mr. Buatse's vole, he | they profor to have sll matters determined | myar never was 8.Judge on sny bench who - 9123 (so far ns to soriously proposs {that THE BABY SHOW. unqnestlonably will be, donounced as gen- { would havo voted for it rather than let tho | by s cancus—~which will, in any event, pro- | dered oninions on questions of State free from po. 200 | the House mnndertake to bring abont [ At noon yesterday 118 blessed babies, ac- ernlly as if ho had actually attompted the | country drift into civil strifo; at all events, crime he recommends. ‘I'his man Prarris | wo hopo so. an Ohionn, who is personally acquainted with S Gov. Havzs. Ho knows that, from the dats "THE FOOLS' FRENZY. of the nowmination to the present day, Gov. | _*The fools fronzy which manifest itself ares has not, by word or deed, in any man- in mrnlng tho Court their own idiocy cre- ner however remote, songht to inflnence tho | 8ted,” Is the chieerfnl and courteous saluta- olection or to contral the conntingof the tion of the Chicago Z'imes to tha Democrats voles, but bas maintained a most dignified of the Housoe of Representatives, without and honorable silence, His conduct has | seeming to recognize that it also is display- been 1n brilliant contrast with that of Mr, | Ing * tho fools’ frenzy which manifests itsolt 1itical biar, No one can com) th Tuouan JirrEnsan with the. ‘5.’«.;15..‘!?:“3?.&‘25 natice MARAIALL wiRONE Derceleing AL If dgoe renany had beon Chief Justice the intarpretaiion of our Constitution would have been very different In many particulars from that now given to It. e ‘Wo don't hear so much from FizLD and his fast And favorite witness for & few daya past, PicrEtr and his Southern widows, Mipboz, LittLerienp, KaNngr, and other perjured rascals, aro under a clond, and FiELD {s not standing in the sunshine, clther. teot the men in offics, and tako cars that the other side have no shars of the spoils. Had the Court of Arbitration found that Truoex was honestly and fairly elootod, and should turn out all tho Republican ofcers, it would have been betler for the whole country that such a rosult was reached in that way than to hava hind Harzs counted in, in defiance of such verdict, and the country plunged in ‘war, 3 a roconsideration of the nction of the Joiut | companied by 118 fond and proud mothers, Convention in connting the vote of Illinois ! | 118 bottles of soothing syrup, 118 rubber It is needicss fo stale that this eminontly | rings, and 118 rattles, and eight pairs of idiotie proposition was not adopted. Tho | twins, with an equal partnership in the ring prepondernnco of the conservative element | and rattle business, wers unloaded at tho was 0 manifest that nono of the mensures | Exposition Duilding and placed in cribs, of the extremista were presved to a vote, | cradles, and baby-jumpers, to ‘the astonish. and {he cancus adjourned withont having | ment of the Shanghals, Brahmas, Dorkings, taken nny action at variance with that of tho | and Bantims, who had previously had the previous meeting. building to themsclves, The feathered bi- fpecimen coples vent free. To prevent delay and mistakes, e emre and gira Post- O ce address 1n full, Inclading &tate and Cotnty. Temittances may bemade either hy draft, express, Fost-Oflice order, or fn reglstered letters, atour risk, 7ERMS TO CITY STDECRIBERS. Dafly, deltecred, Snnday excepted, 25 cents per week. Tintly, delivered, Sunday incinded, 0 centa per week Adfires THR TRIBUNK COMPANT, Corner Madtean aait Dearbor N’ Chilcago, Ol TAMuUS e e ————— e—— + i - The Indlavapolis Journal trnly remarks that Tnverie!s Theairn. peds greeted tho featherioss ones with a pot- | Tyrpzy, During Gov. Hares'long publicsery. | in cursing the Court its own idiocy " advo- There 18 o ring of newspapers soting in | 7 . _En. | We prblished yestorday aletter from Mr. . 5 Accordmg to the Democratle sule, everythl “’é::fi‘f;fifia Prtwees Lluk },”,‘,‘,,E",‘;L‘;,,.‘,f',fl Buzu?o{ Duug!’u Coni 17, in this Slate, pourri of cackle and ctow of & deafening | jce in Ohio not s word of personal discradit cated, Both editors, Gen. Kezxnax at Wnsh- | concert with n ring of domagognes who are ything dereription, objurgatory, angry, and deflant at this invasion of their privileges, which was answered by goos and chuckles, squalls and crows from 118 throats, which years henco may thunder from forums, warble on the concerl-boards, warn from pulpits, ory charconl, or holler * fee-yish.” The chick- ons, gecse, turkeys, ducks, steam hen, babica 18 partisen that is not Demoeratic. *3fy doxyis orthodoxy, and your doxy is heterodoxy.”"! e ——— PERSONAL. It (2 end that Dasid Dudley Pleld stept in the same bed with his brother the Judge, and then the noxt day made an srgnment and & plea befere his brather, ono of the Eiectoral Comminsloners, has ever beon breathed agaiust him, aven in | ington nnd Mr, Srorzrat home, continne tho most excited political coutests, and | their war-dance, which they commonced on that the suggeation that ko be assassinated, | Sunday morning, with unabated vigor, and and that by violence his election be de- | 8T¢ just aa forociously soarching for scalps, foated, should come from an Ohio man, | Gon. Keexaw, if ho cannot wade in Repub- only sorves to show tas depth of malice pro. | lican *' gonh,” is dotermined to eplit tho ducod by the defeat of the profeasional cor- | Democratioparty in twain and then com. ruptionists. It is proper that this threat of | mouce lifting the scalps of the Eastern and intent on breaking up the Arbitration Tri- bunsl, bulldozing the expiring Houss of Rep- resentatives into declaring Tiuoen elected, snd precipitating a civil war to seat him, Doxx Piatr's paper in Washington is the organ of the desperadoes there; the New York Sun is the organ for New York of this congpiracy ; the Cincinnatt Enquirer is the complaining that under the decision of the Bupreme Courl there is now no law in Tl nois whoreby there can he compulsory drain- age of low lands. e represents that a very large proportion of the Jand in the corn belt of thix State is unproductive becanse it is not. drained ; and, in the absenca of a law, thero is no power to compol owners of land lo con- Mevivher's Themres o o Mediron sireet, betwsen Nearborn and fitste, Eo- agemeat of Mis Lettie Allen. Y Crabbed Ago.” Adeipht Thenfre, Monroa street, corner Desrborn. Varely enmter- tainment. ' Danlel Drew expects to be released from the L . > . Southern Democrats seriatim. Alrosdy be | link in the chain thoro; the Chica T'imes | bankrugitey procectlings againat him this week, And R Tnatae th, 3.‘,"‘{'[ ',‘f"'.',: o eetony | 0 al, e now on xbibition, sad the own- | assassination should bo properly branded by : ; S - ora of tho ponltry and the babies will anx- the wholo conntry, lost it becomu familiar [ informs us that *the londers are struck fonsly await the awarding of the prizes. sreerts his intention to appear on the street agatn, and eventually hecome part of the stralegy dumb,” and that ** the jealousies and heari- . ' or- Slomtaeat, tor b is the link of sansaga here ; Hexpnioxa' or- | (i & boyn thlak I' piaged out, he satd & e to be ablo to point out how suen a law ought gan, the Sentinel, is the link in the infa. o days ago, **but 11 give ' 1 = ]“’ s:‘“‘t;l: ‘“l" the g:“"“l fl“‘“'fl:d‘;f hl' It will always be an apen quostion—tho | of American politica. Lnrnings bave cloven tho councils of the | mone conspiracy for Indianapolis; and tho | twistyet.” RISt tle H 3 3 7. andsj the glrcumstancos vary according lo | 4 vema————— arty into innumerable factions.” 'The East- | St. Lonis Z'imes is the bulldozer organ for | Mr, John Crossley, whose financi b TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1877, Jocation, aud what might be reasonable in dignity or good taste in setting up babies for party sley, whase financial em! ompetitive exhibition, It is also questiona- one locality might. bo oppressive in athors. ::Ie pv:lmlher it is well to und': male or It strikes us that this is a subject which the fomalo baby (up into msnhood or woman- Legislature might properly commit to the § N hood with tho reputation of having been a snthorities of the ravoral connties, tobe acted prize boby or of having failed to tako a upon bythe jmmediste representatives of the rizo in competition with other bables, county in which the drainage §s noeded, | b~ il Th : Prize babies raroly make prize men, justas eso ofiicers conld best provide and arrange + youthful prodigies tnm out adult pigmles, # system of benefits and injuries ns batween and university men make their last speoches individaals aud between the towns. Thers in thelr valedictories and wre never heard of ought to be 1o more troubls in providing for again. We can concelve that prize cattlo drainage than for opening ronds ; if drainage BA B i and pigs might be sought after for the ex- s needed, it is needed, as ronds are, not only cellenca of their beef and pork, butes a for private but for the public beneflt and rula bables are not availabla for this purpose, convenience. Dut when men will not volun. " h th b ’l'h’ tarily nnite In a needed improvement, the exeeph suiong the. snthiropopbagl, v ly nnite eaded improvement, there should b bwer. Todnsd h der | BOW novertheless, is & pretty one. Thers Trne ;“'::h Aol “f:"kx’:“:;' c‘;‘:‘","’;‘: are fat babies, bandsome babies, chubby sy eqnitablo contribution by all parties in pro. bables, dimpled” Bables, yory babies, sadl babiestoo pretty for anything. Oatside of portion {o their respoctive bonefits and share in the cost of tha general § ematt, the Exposition Building there are babies and pALLE Ll e then thero aro babies, but insida the bullding AN INTERESTING POLITICAL CONTRADIC | theroareno bablesof the other sort,—nonsof TION. the squalling, sprawling, flabby, damp, un- Tho Democratio nowspapers nowadays | plensant dumplings of flesl that abound in work togsther as it under the dictation of | vo many places. The Exposition collection gomo onae controlling spirit, They are very | is a thing of beauty and a joy for two whola much like a sories of jumping-jacks manip- | days. To one reflecting upon thess winking, ulated Ly one atring. The suggestion of & | blinking bits of humanity thers is but one topic, or lins of argument, or special politienl | damper, sud that js the fact that 118 information will be found contemporaneously | rothers are nocessary to theso 118 babies, in the New York Sun, Cincinnnti Enquirer, | aud that ench ome of theso 118 mothers 8t Louls Republican, Louisville Courier- | is convinced to n physical, moral, and re. Journal, Chicago Z'imes, ete., and tho | ligious certainty that the fraotional part of mnaller papers take their cuo and follow in | the show for which she is responsible is the line. ‘The latest theme of this co-operativo | handsomest, smartest, and beat-behaved newspaper plan dn a political basis is the de- | young ona that exista in the civilized world, termined effort to wake the country believe | nnd that the other 117 might be sswed np that Mr. Haves s pledged to a conservative | in n sack and dampoed off tho breskwater course toward the South, and that, to insure | without any loss to the worldin the mat. poace and homo.rule in the Southern States, | ter of prospectiva porsonal besuty or in. he Lias ogroed to divide the Fuderal offlces | tellectusl progress, This is tho saddest nmong wliat may be called the non-bulldozing | featurs of tho exhibition; novertheless, the Democrats, Just what the Democrats hops | show is instrnctive, fascinating, and con- to galn by oreating this improssion, wo do | soling. It is refreshing to look mpon 118 not know ; Lut that is their affalr. persons,—among them, porbaps, fatare Preaf. ‘Wa nre told by n formidable array of Dem- | dents, Senntors, proachers, nctors, and ocratic newspapors and all at onco that thero | singors, who ‘do not cars a. whit whether is o *“little game " to get coutrol of the noxt | 1{arcs or TieorN is President, or whether Congroess by the Ropublicans. ‘Chis Is tho | any one fills tho Executive Chalr, provided renson, tho Domocrats say, why prominent ( they can draw their lacteal rations; who are Republioans are urging Preaident Grawr not | not interested in real estats, and have no to recognizo Packanp in Louisiana, butleava | mortgngos coming ‘due or foreclosed; who President 1axes freo to recoguizo Nicnorea. | take no stock in the quarrels betwoen Turkey They intimato that thero {s & regular bargain { and Ttussis; who read neither Tne Tnisunz, and trade, wheraby a certain number of the | the 7'imes, nor oven the Journal; who are Bouthern Democratic members sre {o act | not yet addicted to the fashions; who lLave with the Republicane in roturn for the rec | no conventlonnlities; who don't carry night. oguition of Nicuorrs in Lonislana and WADE | keys, and neithor swear nor smoke; who Hauprox in Houth Caroliva. This Jooks a | nover flirt nor gossip. Happy beings, not little na i thera was nn intention (o “bull- | yet awara of chicken-pox, wmeasles, scorlet- doze” the Southern wombers from | fover, {axes, pew-rents, mothors-in.law, tho Democratic side, and that their | noxt-day headaches, State Prisons, and other tronchery to the party is nssnmod | unplensant necessities of this world. Go to propars ke wsy for applying the lash. | and seo them, nod find consolation for all Theso Democrats further inform us that | the flls of life Haxes will call cortain conservative Southe = 3 erners to his Cabinet, and that he will dis. | ASSABSINATION A8 A POLITICAL REMEDY, tributo the Federn! patronsge among thoe | 'Fhore is genmeral expression of horror native whites without rogard to party. Wa { and disgust by all partics at Waahington for aro also told that the ulterior and sinister | the scaudalous appeal by the Washington purpose of all this is to brook down tha | Paper for the sndassination of President color-ne in tho South, and divide the whita | JiAxes, That tho infamous character of the votors betweon the two parties. ‘The Demo. | Suggestion may ba scen, we reproduce the cratio managors aro_forowarned of all those | Paragraph, which was as follows : deop-laid plots, and cautioned to resort to i ';“l “““" {;“'::I'r} l;"“;[’:’fl"‘:""';l:".l;:":; Cl‘;" - Tido In safel o Execative Manslon lo the every posaiLlo dovico in tho way of orgavlz- | (1 14 be innngurated, we aro ftted for the ing tho next Congress that will anabls tha | ytayery that will foliow the inauguration. We do party to retain the three ar four Damoacratio | not belleve the peoplo of the United Hiates ure of mojority which it is supposd, but not yot | this servilo gurt. We do not belleva that thay are We should think from the way In which | yoryed'on the citizens of Louisiana and South the Damocratio newspapors put forth allthis | Carolina taxs they must earc for thewmselves, low slartling information that they rogard the | woon Jamp-poste will bear frult s for them to say. project which they nocredit to Mr, Haves as | 79 the peoplo of the North and Weat notice le : . given that bondholders and monopolies may fatten littlo less than a heinous crimo, Yet, over | ,ocurely, that a aliclnkaga of valucs fe now in sinco the War, tho strougest opposition the | order. “If there e law for fraud, thera ls resson Domocrats have mado to the Iepublican | for violence, and to that we make our last appeal. party has boon based upon the alleged un. This appenl for *violence,” coupled with fairness of the Government In its trentment | tho suggestion that the conntry wiil be fitted of the Southern people. If Mr. Haves is in. | for ulavery 1f Hares be not assassinated on clived to adopt & more lenient policy toward | his way to be inaugurated, botrays a malig- the Bouth, and give the nstive whites of the | nity that rorely finds expression, The men Bouth » fair opportunity. for mauag- | who think, dovise, and wish for thees things ing (heir own political affairs with. [ generally are silent, and seldom give public out the interferenco of the carpel- | expremiion fo their foclings, The Washing. bag politiclans, bow can the Democrats | ton Cupifal has been published af Washing. consistently condemn the procedura? As. | ton for some years. It Is & woekly paper, suming all that they say in this mattor to e | published on Hunday, and representing the true, how can they criticiso it ? Orare we | extremist Democratic opinfons. It has united to concludo that all the Democratio jeromi. | blackmailing with Jobbying. Its silence or ads over o stricken South which we have | its advocacy wero for sale. It was in the witnessed these many years were meroly | sorvice of any job that would pay. It was orocodile tears shod for the benefit of the | commended to the Democracy bocause of its Democratio party 7 Was thare uo real sym. | libels on all Ropublicans from the highest to pathy smong the Democrats of the North | the lowest; nothing was too vilo for its with tho alleged suffering of their Bouthern | columns, if directed against Repnblicans, or alliea? Would the Northern Democratapre. | their wives and families. TFolitically it was fer fo bave the flls of the outh coutinued | diroctly nssociated with the Cincionati gang, under o Republican Administration in erder | who were enlisted for TiLoxN [n the hope of that the Deocratio party moy gain possibly | plunder, 1a uo past of the country will the o partisan advantage either in the organiza- | defeat of TipeN be so mourned os in the tion of the next Houss or otherwise? Is a | ucighborhoods of Cincinnatl aud Indian. Solid South to Le used ierely ns & lever lo { apolis. In those localities TiLpEN before his 1ift Northern Democratic politicians into of- | nomination was denounced by tho Demo. flco at some future time? Do tho Demo- | cratio wanngers more flercely than he was at crats desire that the interests of Civile | any time during the campaign. Thero was Sarvice Reform, of peace andharpony in tha | no epithet too vilo to be appliod to him. In politics of theSouthernStates, and of restored | biy cloction, however, thera was a promise good-feeling throughout the country, sball bo | that these former enemies would be rewarded further ignored and defeated in onder to fur- | by spoils aud by opportunities for plunder. nish (he Democrals with a baltle-cry? It | Of course, Donx Pratt, of tho Washington this is their notlon, it' is not unlikely that { Capital, wos to share in the profits of the the represontative Conservatives of the Bouth | Democratio mine, 'The defest of TiLoex is will do precisely what ‘the Northern Demo- | thercfore to him a crushing blow, under the cratic newspapers charge {hew with intend- { effects of which ho makes this sppeal to ing to do. ‘They may better affiliate with | violence, and iusists that Hayzs be assas- the Conservatives of the North for actual ad. | sinated. vantages than obstinately bear what ills they Thezo can Lo Bo question that PuTT e3. ern Democrats come in for the major share of Senntor Bramnve was among thosa Repnb. { his righteous wrath over the Oregon busl. licans who voted against the proposition for | ness,” with the exception of Mr. Trz. an Eloctoral Commission to determine the | ey, who, ha coolly informs us, knew Presidentinl controversy. Now that the Ar- | nothing of *‘the scandalons dispatohes"! bitration has virtually resulted in favor of | In other words, Mr. Pirtoy, Mr. TrLpex's Hares, there is ovidently some disposi- | own nephew, residing at Mr, TiLoex's family tion among his nssociates who favored | mansion at Grameroy Park, and Mr. Trnoxx'a the scheme to remind Mr. Braiwe that | privale secretary, sont dispatches to Oregon e was woak of faith, and that the re- | and received dispatchos from there, and, sult bas beon just what they anticipated in | being impecunious himself, sent large supporting the Electoral bill. But Mr. | amounts of monoy from Gramercy Park to Brawe, with the natural disinclination of | Portland and Salem for the purchaso of the nverage man to acknowledge an error, | Electors, and Mr, Trrosx know nothing of maintains that ho was right nevertheless, | tho Oregon bLusiness!! Tho statement is and is reported as saying : unworthy the sagacity and senko of a gront wll flxl -dmn o By flnt ln;!:;;e';'lfllnw*mth:e: warrior and statesman like Gen, Kxmwax, « A\ muoh heller DIAn oF otijomen we The Chicago aditor of the Z'imes dovotos al e el o o e Sarpants s I o . | bimael atmost ozcluaively to b lato party preme Court, and requiring the Court to decide | friends, and, in view of tho resnlis of the the ’c&u: withln lhlnly d&ys. mwuh 5“:'1" Inlw we Commisafon, gives them a first-clasy cortifi. could have gone on in the old canstitutlonsl way to open and count the vote. The dectsion of the "',‘f“:" character, f’;’ ‘"“,‘:h'“:h“""’{f“ Court would have carried far greater welght with e it et st i the people than will that of the Commisaion, iog minstrelsof u fu iyt tog “‘:"‘ - ""':. & Tt is chantablo to assume that Mr. Branee | Sty "ort conce, and siyliag thémuaires & has given this opinion bastily and without | Democeatlc party, are politically the most con- proper consideration, for it will not stand | temptible humbuga that exiet on Gon's green earth, the tast of amalyia. To Legin with, who | {00 S0 S o e :‘:" r“’ ‘3“’“";}“ which one :}"’““‘JI’“ th0 | 1ves and managers of that syregationof bumbugs lefeated candidate” to appeal to tho Su- | since the November elaction. premo Court? This was the vital point in That is good for a general statement, but the controversy, Had there been s clearly | thera is mora richness when wo get down to lawful way for awarding ,tho Presidency to | details, for wo learn tho foliowing as regards either candidate, no such law as Mr. Bramxe | the Democratio majority in the House : speaks of could havo been passed, becauss | 'The controlling sectlon in the prosont llouse of the succeasful party would not hinva agreed | Representatives is a body ot spofla-necking pollti- toit. If the Constitntion had vested the clana atmost beacath contempt for thelr fedblencss = and political aimlcasness, 1t In the woakeat, most Preaident of the Benate with the authority | pusilianimons, and contemptible representative to count the vote, the Republicaus would | body ever assembled at Wasningtou. Itis an ag- Lave rosted there, and it would have beon gregation of partizan odds nnd ends; a thing of *alireds and patches'; a. combination of cross- difficult 13 - persuade thom fo pass & | o.qcoliicians, Confedorato Colonals, “*Granger law giving Mr. Tooew speclal facilitlen | giots, partiean mountobsnks, and political charla- for bringing the matter bofore the Bupremo | tansof the Jowest onder, There ara 8 fow, very Court in o quo warranto prosseding. O | &0 Con ot it Ko L Pt e tha other hand, if tho Constitution clearly | X SNt Vet RS e preat that suthorized tho Houss to throw out onough | ueirinfluence amounts to nothing in effect, votes to defeat an election, and then chooae Furtlior along, we are informed that Bay- Alr. TrLoex President, the Domoorats would | Anp, and Tuusxay, and Kenvax, and Hew- Lave refnsed bluntly to pnss o law for the | irr, and DBrn Spamvoxe are *rock-rooted bonefit of Mr. Ilaves in contesting tho ro- | demagogues,” and that Honp and Warrina, sult, But, in the ubsence of any uncquivocal | of Ohiv, aud Tuompsoy, of Massachusotts, lodgmont of tho powor to count the voto, | # deservo praise for the manliness of their tho passage of auch n Inw as 3r. BLAINE sug- | protest ngalnst tho perfoctly infamous dirt. gests would not have Lelped the situation in | cating of tho Dourboule Bayanp, Kenwax, tho least. Tho original award of tho oflico | Hgwirr, Ranporrns Tooxxs, ‘and the wholo would have still beon indoterminate, The | plhnlanx of *roconstructed' Soutbern hum. Sonato, we will sny, would have proceeded | bugs," through jts presiding officer to declare Havus All this apleon, domagogism, ond infa- elected ; then Haves would not bave been mously bad fnith come from a professedly tho dofeated candidate. But tho Tlouse | jndependent nowapaper, a paper which pro- would have asserted {ts ansumed right to ro- | fesscs to have emancipated itsclf from its Joct the votes of Florida acd Louislann, | olq putrid reminisconces, which has even would then havo declared a non-cleation, and | hegn suspected of haviug Ropublican loau. would Lave chosen TipeN by a voto of | jnag, Tt hos returned to its old and venom- the Btate delegations as provided by tho | gug work again, resumed ils old wallowing Constitution in caso of n falluro o { [y (ho mire. And nll this disguating dieplay elact; then ‘Tiorx would not have | of tompor and filthy sbuse because the Com- been the defeated candidate, Which one of | insion would not g0 behind the returns,—n the two candidatos, then, would liave bronght | ;,rop0sition absurd on ita face, impracticable, the guo tearranto wuit of which Mr, Brag | oo g Impossible; a proposition which would talks ? oth would bo claimants to tho | }aye modo Monron President of the Senate sotual pososslon of the oflice, and for ellher | yng of the United States, and involved to procoed with a writ of quowarranlo | y1,s country in another year of confusion and would be to ncknowledge that his contestant | gisiraction undor Monzon's peculiar aylo of bad actual pousession. ‘Thus it is spparent | yapugoment; a proposition which would that Mr. Braixe's suggestion in no wise met not, in the twenty or thirly days before tho the rea! difficulties of the situation, which | 443, of March, have given the Commirsion would then havo been na perplexing aud | time to havo finished up the one parish of dangorous ss beforo, East Feliciang, whero a Republioan majority Aside from this vital objectlon to M | of 1,000 was utterly destroyed and a Demo- Br.axn's suggeatlon, there wero other objec- | crayjo majority of 1,736 substituted for it. tions scarcely lesa sorious. A quo warraxto | A1) this frantlo raving is bocauso the Com. proceeding, limiled by law to thirly days, | miusion has not upheld tho open, palpable, would have manifestly dono ono of the can- | jnfamous bulldozing in five or six of the didates an injustics, if it had beon doolded | ygqisians parishes. That is all thera fsto it. that the Cowt had ooy anthority 10) ¢ g sheer partlinn -maduess, rock-rooted go back of the returns. Morely @ding | domagogiem, the reflex of the sentiments, back of the returns would not neces- | not of the honest and respectablo masses of earily ‘have vesulted in clécting Mr. | g4 Democraticparty, but of the desperadoes Twpzy, for then It wowld have | or yhot party, and of Congressmon who, beoome necesssry to snnlyze the populsr | foijing of ro.clection, expected other offices vota in the disputed Btates, and determineby | ynier TiLnen, evidence which of the two candidates hsd — roceived a majority of the honeat, lawful | e don't clatm that this natton; votes. o Liave dono this thoroughly and | fAlfAEE G ieEtid! PR impartlally would have required rather thirty | Tus Trisuxs is very fond of this sort of expres- weoks than thirty days, and not to Liave dono | slon. Notwithstanding the shamefu) exposures it thoroughly aud fairly wonld have been to ;:?::;‘-\lrfil.‘: Ui "l"‘:zl:h'a"'m:;;:' ::; ‘:!.I:: leavo tho poople more disaatisflod thn ever. | renytauleconduct of the canvass, the open offer to “Nor could thero have been a reforence of tha | purchass Electors in Loulsiana snd South Caro- controversy to tho Bupreme Court, even il it | lina. and the demontac splriy which everybody |- knowledgo ituclf as defeated, without bring- | myiyuye thinks nationst gratitude would be equale ing that tribuoal, ss such, into o political | jy due over his asover laas® election. —dpprals~ &quabble ; and theirdecision, no matter what | ers’ organ. it might have boon, would bive beon chiarac- | 'I'tx ‘'minUNE repeats * this sort of expres. terized by tho defeated party as partisan ov | sion™ that the people of the United Btates corrupt, Tho American people ocannot | have cause tobs grateful that an authori. aflord to have tho highest iudicial | tative election of President has been reached body jn the land demounced by nearly | without civil war. The officeholders’ organ one-half the population for giving a | wasbed its hands of any complicity in the decision from impure motives, It was | Arbitration law; and insisted that the te- o very different matter to take five | publicans bad & “sure thing" of Hayes' of the Justices, and sssociate them iu their | election by having tbe President of the iudividusl capacity with five Congressmen of § Benale connt Haxes in, and that it was bet- either party in 8 Bpecial Commlssion to de- | ter to kold on tothat certainty, oven if there termine this sivgle question. VFinally, this | was a civil war, than to afford the least Commission lawfully awards the Presidency | chance for #loss of the offices by having o ono or the other of the contestants, and | TiLven declared elected. What was a civil tho law authoriziug it expresaly reserves to | war compured with the loss of sn Appraiser- the defeated candidate auy rights he may | ship, or a Pension Agenocy, or a Gaugership? have at common law to test its decision by a | Civil war wnight be s calamity to those bear quo warranto against the 1man in possession. | ing srms and to the nation generally, but it Mr. Brae's esplanntion of the resson he | would be Lsiled as a Dlessing if it scoured voted against tho Eleotoral bill is feeble. A | the bread fusuished to the official paupers much more plausible explanation is that Mr. | from the Public Treasury. Tuz Trisuxe Bramx was confident his negative vote would | said, and now repeats it, that a peaceful set- notdefeatit. It isan axiom of party poli | tlement of the Presidential election by the ‘that cily. Wo have copled extracts from soveral of thoso incendiary sheets; here is o specimon from the last-named, intended to fira tho **border-rufflan™ heart : The Electorsl Commisslon, which Democrats helped to create In order that the ‘e of the na. tion might bo preserved. has flagrsntly asealled that peaco and stabbed it to the quick. And now what will s Democratic Houso .of Nepresentatives do! Alas! we cannot say. 'Thereare no lesdera there, The only man who has shown capacity for loadership in in the Speaker's chair, whera he fa needed xs badly as on the flaor, We csnnotsay ‘what the Democratic House will do, but wa have na dificulty In annonncing what it ought to do, It onght lo prevent the consummation of MonTox and CuaxpLER's conspiracy at the sacrifice of avery other interest committed to Ita charge. Thinit can do, snd thisit shoulddo, [MorToxand CiranpLER appored the Arbltration Plan with all thelr might. Tuunyax, of Ohlo, Door, of Missonr, KxnxaN, of New York, Bavanp, of Delaware, HEwiTr, of New York, and Democrats of that sort, helped to make it, and urged fta adoption,—Ep.] It hasihe power, and we want the membars to know that the people expect them to employ it to tho very last extremity. The Democrat who holds back fa both a traitor and an assazsin,—a traitor to his party and an assssaln of the liberties of hia fellow-men. The men who elected Saxuxed. Tisoex are ready, willing, and able to Inaugarate him. Let him but ments wero reported in thia column some daya ago, haa relired from the firm of John Crossley & Sons, carpet manufacturers, and from the Malifax Com. mercial Bsnking Company. Two of the oldest Pittsburg newspapers—tha Gazette and the Comnterclal—have beenlconsolidat. ed under tho name of the Gazefts-Commercial, The politica coutinue to be radieal Republicsn, and the paper {8 in all reapects, except in name, ;na eame In appearance as tho Commerclal formee. ly Tha pew French Minlster to the United States, 3, Max Ontrey, arrived in New York last week. M, Outray came to America nevern} yeorango as First Becretary of Legation under M. do Montho. lon, and he marrled an Ametican lady, Miss Helen Russell, a daughter of Mr. Charles II. Russell, of Rew York City, well known and greatly admired in 1ho best circles of New York and Newport. A Spiritusiist towspaper having gone to the ex- pensa of procuring reports by cable of tho Elade trial, the New York Sun Ingnires: **Why doeen't some obliging spirit bring ovor the mews freeof cost?" Possibly because the ocean lleain the way, and most of the wpirits interested on behalf of Stade are not allowed to roam where they may touch a drop of c61d water tothelr parched tongues, The Arademy, notlcing the Rev. R. Lalrd Col- lier's ** Mcditations on the Essence of Christianity, " says: *‘Dr. Colifer, on mature cone ation, thyprht that, though the formes of Ch beliet needed modifcation In vlew of racent dlacoverles, yet the essence of Christian falth remained In the . form -of a epiritaal Unltarfanlsm. Neither his atatemont of thia creed nor his argnments on be. half of It ara very remarkable; but occasionally we mect with & trne and almoat profound remark,™ The Philadelplila Z4mes {s 2n Independent news. paper with Democratic proclivities, but It vants no nonsense about the Oregon case, which it says ad. mits of no dispute, **If thero shall be," [t says, **soven votca against counting Oregon for the can. didate for whom the peopls admittedly voted, It 3 will prove that, even when the gravest probloma of Iaw and jnstice were to bo solved Lefors the firet indicinl trivunal of frec government, Hayes had o party and Tilden had & party, but tho Republic had nona,” Wasbingion has had s miracle, and theto has Deen no Incredulons and unsympathizing nveati- gator thers to dlsprove it, Tho story Is that Ruth arrls, a colored woman, eight years ago was atruck dumb while In the act of blaspheming, Last weok shie dreamed that her dead mother appesred to her and promised her she should speak agsin. Snre enough, when sho awoke she could speak. The Washington Nation is assured on good anthor- Ity that the story aa to the departuroand the retum of speech {s perfoctly true, ‘The New Tork Evening Post bes an exceedingly #tifl-backed articlo on tho subject of nawapapes literary criticlam, taking the ground that all the leading Now York critlcs aro men of character snd abllity, who would not submit to dictation er In. torference of any description from the conductors | of newspapors, Nat the able writer makes no mentlon of the fact that his own r, the Pout, refascs to notice any book that 08 praviously ‘been advertlsed in Its columne, thns demanding & subsldy for giviug Ita readera the iiterary nows of the day. The London correspondent of the New York Herald 18 responsible for misleading a largo portion of the American public In regurd to tho results of Mr, 1rving's impersonation of Ricrard 111, A cable dispatch printed inthat journal stated that the attempt was s [failure, nud the language uscd 0 positive that there secmed to be no room lalt for doult, London papers recently coms tn handdo not, however, bear out the assertlon. Tbo principal critlca agrec 1n saylng that Mr. Irviogls more successful {ntbls partthanin any otherhe bay undortaken, ‘The London Athenaum of the Ud inst. hi followingt **There will ba in resldence a! bridge, duriog the present Lent term, .moro than Afty students wha have come from a dlstance o 1ake advantage of the lecturea provided by the As- soclation for the Higher Education of Women. Of theae, thera will bo at Newnham Hall twenty- nine studeuls and two formeratudentsas lecturers, A new house will be onened, in whic) students wlil be recelved, under {hiichargs of & lady ap- polnted by 8 committes of the Association. The other studenta will reside elther with private fawl- lies or in lodgings choscn for them by the Conk mittee, " ‘The Chicago Times of yesterday says the aow ‘wouncement of & boak by Offenbach raived very lively expectations, becauss It was reasonable enough to suppose that the author of ** Madame Angot's Danghter ** possessed %0 vivaclons s men- tal ¢reanization as would make it impossible for him to perpeirate a dull book, and have the ines- plicably bad Judgment to suppose It Lright, Wo are grloved that the 7¥mes should have ** the ines- plicably bad judgment * to print an srticle on Offen- bach by one who does not know that ** Madsme Angot's Daughier "' was writtea by Lecocq, Offen: bach haa alwaya hated himself for not baviug wnit- ten ** Madame Angot's Daugbter,** and, wben be was In this country, he showed his feellng by ro- fusing to conduct a performance of that opers for the cogaging Almee. Mr. T. W, Higginson bas an article on *‘Tbe Femlnloe Element ln Literature * fn the last num- ber of the Woman's Jeyrnal.” W | have an mpression, ' he writes, **that there fs sn element of swift inspiration and gluwing enthusiasm which birthright of woman, snd which apartof every contribution of hers ro of the world, And what s of wrlting s tru pablic spesking also, Au ez~ ternsl trainiog | irable; but I always dislike to hear a woman speak who has trled to renounce her sex's gift of enthusiasm, snd to convert bersell Into that *cold, clear Jogic engine,® which Huzley thioks the highcet symbol of human ftellect. It 18 worth remembering what delight bas been giren by women of genfus who aimply exercised theif Inbesited power of enthustasm and expresalon,sad were quite without even tha pretensa of system: atic intellect and tralned thought. Enthusfsam 1 the privilege of womap, sod I trust sho will ceve? consent to renounce her winge." A new snecdoto of Verboeckhoven, the welsian antmal palnter, 1s related ln some oirs Jately publ 0z about (o be published, When Msr- tin, the tamer of wild beasts, was siaying st Gheot 1 1825, be noticed smong the constant at- tendsnia on his menagerle 8 young man who ea: goged Wimaclf In takioga portrait of tho noble Yon, Nero by mame. One day the artht com- plained that the bags of the cage were in bls way. Thereupon Mertin offered 1o fntroduco him in the cage of his kiogebip. The young man jumped 3¢ the offer, Adversements wers scaltered thsough 1he 10wa {hat al & certain hour Martin would take v stranger 4o the llon's den: the Veimar, the Governor of Gibenl, Greenbacks at the New York Oold Ex- change yesterdny closed at My, A Information is reccived nt a Iate hour this ‘morping that the St. Lonis bridge Is on firs and threatened with destruction. At 1:20 8. m. no details are at hand, bot our dis- patches received up to tho time of going to presa will contain nll the facls possible to obtain. i 'The Scnate yesterday debatod the ob. jactions {u tho Louisiana caso, and by a etrict ¥ party vote of 41 to 28 aflirmed the decision v+ of the Arbitration Tribunal. The Fonse is i still entitled to two hours for debate, and i, unless dilatory tactics are employed the -+ Jolnt Convention shaonld resume business this afternoon, and the Oregon cass be reached and referred before adjonrnment this evoning. Tho annual appropriation ordinance was " submitted to the Common Council yesterday i by the Finauce Committee, and mectings for " its consideration will be hold from day to day until the ordinance shall have been dis- posed of. The estimntes for the various de- ‘partments after passing the rigid and eco- nomieal scrutiny of tho Financo Committee aggregate the sum of 4,021,824, and it is probable that the fignres will not bs material- ly increased by the Council give tho signal,—lot the people’s branch of Con- gress fnitiata the conteat, and Washinglen wilt overflow with a host tat will uphold free govern- ment or fall In ita defense, T'his‘is pretty nearly up to Donx Prarr's plano of assnssinntion. 1In a few days, it it continues to progress at this rate, it will second the proposition to murder President Hares ; if it covets that distinotion, it must not procrastinate, or the Chicago T'imes will got in ahiend of it. And now the whisky manufacturers bhave o conceived the idea of organizing s mam- 1! moth pool, having for its object the regu- , Iation and control of the entiro product of the distilleries of tho United States, both as to quantity and market price. The schema "% is magaificont in its proportions, and for its snccess requires the co-operation and tha .-" practical consolidation of the epormous ' copital employed in the production of whisky, highwings, slcohol, etc. e Thay have a bulldozer {n 8t. Louls called tha Times, Whilo it has not yet scconded tha Washington Capital’s demand that President 1Aras shall be nssnssinated, it proposes *‘to soclally ostrauizo Wim.* It eays: “When o tecomes President, no man who loves houcsty and falr deallog ought to extend to him the amenltics of social life.”” It tho editor of the Bt. Louls Time should act upon this terrible advico himsolf, and “eactally ostracize” Preal- dent Haves, and refuse to “extend to bim the amenities of soclal lUfe" (by which {s meant re- fusal to ssk Mives to drink), it would bo dreadfal. He never could survive such cold- ness and neglect; he would pine away and fret bimsell to death. Thoe editor of tha Bt. Louls Times don't mean ft. It can't be possible that ho intends *to cut him dead," and deprive the new President of his soctety and sunshinet ————— Consumers of keroseno oil will bo interest. ed in hearing that the great petrolenm com. * . bination bas gone to pieces, so far as Canada " isconcerned. Forty refinorsof tho Domin. jon have beon thus sob at liborty to manu- facture for tho Cnomadian markat, and the + prica thero will immediately fall at loast 15 +¢. centy s gallon, It is not probable, therefore, that 40 cents can much longer bo oxtorted from our own peoplo for 20.cont oil, 88 this important change in the Oanadian trado will act Act as & tonio on themoribund monopoly, No paper tn the United Statests ranting and raving worse at tho declalon of tho Arbitration Tribunal than HenpRricks’ Indianapolls organ, tho Sentinel; and no Democratic paper in the Unlted Btates pgreeted the passage of tho Electoral bill mors warmly than it. This is a § avocimen of its rhapsody: The etreams made mereler music as they went #ippling to tho sea. The winds ceased their sigh- ing, and with invistble Ingora made ieaf and spray giva forth more joyous atraine; the sky looked down 1aore serenely, the atars shone with more dazzling brililance, the rugred featores of the mountaine ro- ipped for joy, and even le- reds and thousands, fell a cer- 1aini degree Of gladnows because the country had been smancipated from the grasp of cunsplrators, e ————— 1ho determinction reachod. by the Presl. dont and Cabinet to institute criminal pro. ceedings ngainst the responsible author of the nssassination article in the Waslington Cupitad of Sunday will be vory gonorally and heartily approved by the people of all partics. 8o grave an offense osgainst the public pesce sud so gross au infraction of the privileges of the press ought not to go unpunished., It iw belloved that the crime, of the Capital is indivtablo under the United States statutes and under the common law, and tho Attornoy-Geveral will immediately 3 ring the mattor before tho Disttict Grand L Jury. The Damorratic yarty, with romarkable unanim- Ity and with s patriotisas which history will dnlf sccord to iLs credit, supported tne Electoral bill snd the constitution of (he Electoral Commision wunder its provisions, It Is therefore inexurably bound (o accopt the declaions of that Commission nal, and, while theae declslons are s legitimate Ject of criticism s constructions of law, the character and motlves of thelr authors should be held by Democruts as above aepersion and assault, ~—diuffalo Courier, Democralic. ‘This language {s in remarkable contrast with that beld by the buMdozing class of Democratic papers,—the Wells strect concern fa this clty, for cxamole. 2 It in not casy to reconcilo tho action of the + Houso mejority in voling a rocess yeaterday & i for twenty-four liours with tho action of the ;- caucus on Baturday night in pledging tho party in Congress to resort . to no filibustor- ng or other meaus of delaying the comple- ...~ tion of tha Eloctoral count, An lonest .. fwifillment of the policy decided upon in . caucus, and an bouest observance of the pro- 4+ " visions of the Electoral law, wonld have re- «quired thiat the House proceed at once npon tho two-hours' debate of the objections to tha * Louisiana decision, and thon to unite forth- within joint session with tho Senato for the resumption of the count. Various reasons < are given for this deliberate waste of i time that is valuable both for the ~ :purposes of the count and for the -! lispossl of legislative business; but the truo 1. reason is not given,~that the Democrats are {oth to go forward,with the work that must bring Gov, ¥lavza into the Presidential office, cand are dragging along from day to day in ishe hope that ** something will turn up" * ,which will furnish a pretext for delaying sc- on beyond March 3. They are playinga ‘ !,maiting game, and evidently have uo inten. .don of proceeding with tho business of . President.-making any faster than they sro ; rompelled to. ———mt——— The members of the Chicago Literary Soclety to the number of somo Lwenty or thirty last cveulng avalled themscives of an opportunity to observe the practical workings of GRay's telephone. A sounding-board conmected with the electricorgan at the Weatern Union Tele- graph office was placeid [n the room of thé man- aging editor in Tua Taisons Bullding, and the gentlemen of the Literary Soclety were regaled with nzmerous «uslcal sclections quite credita- bly performed and perfogtly transmitied. e For all ages let us remember only to damn the elght sasassine of llbond. Evxuxbs, Monrox, Fusunsuesss, loaty Ginriseo, Stuons, it ey, snd Buanuey. 5S¢, Louls Limes, For the word *liberty " substitute ** spolls,” and you will bave tho exact idea in the Tima editor's pate. ‘The “liberty™ bo {s thinkiog about is & tree rosm among the spolls of office, Some allowance wust bo made for the bitternesa of feellug cxperienced by the hungry, disap- pointed office-hunter. @ —————— gratl due hae e iy 80 An exchange explalas that the oplafon fs erroneous that Judge BRADLRY, belng the Biteenth man, votes Jast on the roll-csll, “On 81l questions on which the sense of tha Com- misslon Is taken the members’ names are called in slphabetical order, beginuiog with ABporr (Dewm.), » member of the Houso, and ending with TuuRRaAN (Dem.), s member of the Senate. Judge BRADLEY'S name comes third on the roll, snd fs vhe frst of the five Buprems Justices 10 be called. e et—— The Philadelphia 7T¥mes, edited by ALzx, McCLURE, which ls altogether the most Infu- entisl Democratic paper in Pennsylvanis, is op- posed to bad faith Jn the Arbitration business. It saye: party that sttempts to Slibuster, or in any way embarkass the fl“‘é" and faithfol scceptance of the judgment of the Electors! Cummission, no matter what it aball be, will n the future. Whoever may not be accordud the et & The Springfleld (I1l.) Reglster, which is mak- {ng sl the muss it can sgaiost the declsion of the Electoral Commission, talked in & very dif- terent straln when the law was eoacted. Thus on Jan. 23, 1877 . . . The bl JB\enanl Commiasion bill] originated In tbe efforts of all parties to devisa s method of seitliog the questlobs excltiug the public mind, which should not oal! uce Juat, Yeqal, and eguitatle resulte, bus satiafy all thd peo- placy thecouniry (Aaé TRE BESULTE 435 IL0T 43D .+ The Chicsgo produce markets were gen- + ymally lower, grain Leing ratber quiet and I \orovislons nctive. Mess pork closed GOo per "l lower, at %14.55 cash and- $14.60 for \Jarch, Lard closed 40c per 100 lbw lJower, W about $10.00 for cash or Marck, Meats * +i ;losed easier, at 5o for loase shoulders, 8jo “or short-ribs, and BJo for shortclears. .+ lighwines wero jo lower, at $1,04)@1.05. * e iflour wes quiet snd unchanged. Wheat 1 | losed §@1c lower, at §1.80] cash and $1.81% ‘.tor March, Corn closed 4o lower, at 410 or March and 45jc for Msy, Oats closed o lower, at 84jo cashand 344c for March, tye was dull, at C8c. Barley closed easy, t 560 for March, llogs were dull, and wices of heavy grades were 10@200 lower. ‘ommon to prime light sold ot 85.70@5.80, nd heavy at 85.65@G.40. Cattle were falrly } ‘ctive and steady, with sales chicBly at$3.25 75 1i14.75, Sheop were unchanged,—quoted L7, '8.00@5.50. One bundred dollars in gold accordlog W _snnouucswent but the youpy wan, calmiy Lol e o s aad spencit. sud The lfon growle: ol bis koife & the king of Leasts, Overmholaied by sffrontery Iike this, alunk swiy lutos cesnce sud 3NOWG bimacld 1o bo drawu.