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Ea- ' pagement of MisLeitle Allen, * Crabbed Age.’ Adelphl Theatre. Monroe street, corner Dearbora. lainment, Varlety eater. IWood's Musenm, Monroe street, between Dearborn snd State. *A > CupofTes.” THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1877, Greenbacks at the New York Gold Ez- shange yesterday closed at 953}, ‘. The Rev. Hennr Wasp Brronen prayed - In the Lower Housa of tha Wirconsin Legis- " lature yesterdsy morning, whereupon the Senators, adopting an ingenuous device of fovely woman, set back the big Henatorial sNock twenty minutes, and wero thus en. .* abled to calm an insupportable curiosity to see aud hear tho oelebrated and notorions preacher without any frivolous infraction of ., henvy decency and decorum, ;. 'The Iegislaturo of Minnesota approves - a uniform system of text-books in the publio . ichools of that State, and proposcs to let the . monopoly for fiftcon yenrs to any publisher who shall give nssurance of furnishing books . toovery schiolar at half tho present trade. I”, prices. This important measurs, over which ' there hns boen animated controversy in that . Btato of Inte, only awaits the Governor’s ap- ;:. orovalto be & The bill yesterdsy introduced by Senator , AEnon for consolidating the clections for town and city officers mecets the objections - that bhave been urged sgainst the bill asat ‘7 first prepared. It requiros that tho clections " shall bo held at tho same places and on the same day, nand mmy bo con- * "ducted by the same judges and .+ clerks, and the Commen Council {s vested with the authority to desiguato ths polling- | Pluces and tho elcction officers for both the i" town and city eloctions. Soparate ballot- , boxes are to Lo provided, and separato poll- +* lista kept, and n votor must be a resident of +, the precinct in order to vote for town of- ticers, The Oregon case was yesterday taken up . "Dy the Electoral Commission and proceeded with in o manoer denoting the purpese of 1. thnt body to putin ils time to the best pos- ', sible ndvangage. A short half-hour was ull that was allowed the objectors to preparo their short speocloes, and the 4" uvening found the Tribunal in the Senate :+ Chamber rendy for basinesa. It was voted " to gllow the lawyers on each sido threo v .lours and o half to cover the enm- . tire ground, and Judge Hoaower, the orig- :, iual incubstor of the CroviN chicken, knd finished his wholly useless task beforo the . Commission adjourned for the night. He V. will be followed by Messrs, Evants and Martruews for the Republicony, and 3Mr. + ' Menmice for the Democrats, and the decls~ ion of the case is expected to-duy, Congress, or at least the upper branch . thereof, did o good day's work yesterday. Besido dancing attendance upon the House of Representatives in the performauce of it .* part in the Electoral count, the Benate went 1+ through two of the most important sppro- . .priation bills,—the Post-Oftico and Legislat- .. ivo bills)—disposing of both wensurcs before odjournment took place, The last-named Lill will undoubtedly have o pass tho ordeal + of o Conference Cornmittes, there being sav- ernl provisions therein upon which the two ‘" Houses havo disagreed, notably the section fixing the salary of the President, Thero is " ‘nlso n provision of the Post.Ofiice bill grant- *', Ing a subgldy to the Patific Mail Company, “ which obtained but s small mafority in a s+ thiuly-attended Senate, which will meet i with opposition in the House, and moy pos + gibly share a different fate if a full Senate. ,* shull have an opportunity to act upoun it. ——— Aunothe Pacifio Mail subuidy job was con. | summated yesterdsy so fur a4 the Sonato - could carry it forward. Through the kind ,+* odlices of Souator Hauwin, who by some in. 1 + scrutablo decree of fato ia permitted to oc- _*:, cupy the positionof Chairman of the Post- .\ Oftice Comnmitten for the cspecial Lenefit of «y corporations having annual axes to grind in :y tho mail service, a clouse was tacked on to * 1 the Post.Office Appropriation bill continuing . | the yearly prize-package of $500,000 to tha ~ 1. Pacitic Mail Steamship Gompany,which is said .} to ba 50 nearly insolvent that this donation |1 comes just in time to keep the concern out 1t of bankruptey, A rival concern, the Oriental *.i& Occidental, offers o carry the weekly *i» mails to China aud Japan for ocean postsge *\i_tutes only, amounting to a comparatively ‘eall suw, and the same bill that gives the .| Paociflo Mail & cool half-million for montkly 4 service appropriates but $240,000 for the almost daily service between the United Hitates and Europe. It is to be hoped that .+t this monstrous wubsidy job will receive its I quietus when the House comes to act upon *v Benator Hasun's amendment, and that the Wi+ Pucific Mail Company will not be bolstersd Wrup ot the expense of the United Btates .1 ‘Lressury, . ; Tho Chicago produce markets were acte 3 (+ ive yesterday, and irvegular, provisions beiog . 14 stronger and grain weak, Mess pork closed i+ 450 per brl higher, at $14.47§ for March avd ‘$14.774 for April. Yard closed 400 per 100 lbs bLigher, at §4.90 for March and §10.05 for April. Meats were jo per «: 1b bigher, at 3c for looss shoulders, 7ic for short-ribs, snd 8¢ for shori-clears, i Highwines were firmer, at §1.05. Flour wes quict snd weak. Wheat closed 1jo lower, ot §1.26) cash and $1.26] for March., .Corn yclosed }o lower, at 41c for March and 43}o yfor Mey, Oats closed {o lower, st 33jo cash aud 33}0 for March. Rye was 1o lower, lat 67c. Barley closed 5@tc lower, st 600 far March acd4Scfor Avril. Hogs wers in better demand, and cloged 10¢ higher, at 33, @6.00 for common toprime. Cattle were moro aclive and lower, with sales nt $2.50 @G6.00. Sheop wero firm, at $3.25@5.50 for poor to choice, One hundred dollars in gold would buy $103.00 in greenbacka at tho close. The geat on the Suprome Bench soon o bo made vacant by the resignation of Judgs Davm is the subject of absorbing interest among A number of ambitions politicians, all of whom ‘are intenscly desirons thiat the resignation shonld be tondered prior to the 4th of Mareh, so thal Prosident Gnanr might fill the vacancy. Becretary OrANDLER is espocially interested, as the appointment of Judge Cansrianor fo the Bench, if it conld ‘be bronght about, would leave the Michigan Senatorship open Lo hisandent aspirations, In ‘Wisconsin there is an equally earnest feoling wilh referonce to the claims of Senatos Howe, and mora particularly his seat in the Senate, Senator Faeumvomvrsey is not without siroug Dacking, and even Gen. Looax is mentioned ns & snitablo successor to bis own stccessor, But the trouble is that Judge Dass s in no hurry about re- pigning, and the timo {s rapidly approaching when all these intrigues will have been in vain. The Democrats a¢ Washington sre in o tarrible fright. Haxes' election means some- thing mors than the mere dofeat of Tiuoex and the loss of expected offices. Mr. Fos. rre's speech in the Ifonse on Tuerdny, in which ho declared that Haxes as Presidont swould carry out his lettar of acceplance, and give to the people of the Bouth honest Gov- ernments in the hands of thoso capablo of rling and preserving the confidence of the whole people of that section, and President Goant's firm declaration that be would not interfore in the Lonisiana case, bnut leave that question to President Hayes to ba sot- tled Ly him in acconlance with his weil. known views, have stricken the Democrats nt Washington with horror, Thoy see in the Hares policy' the dissolution of the 2 Solid South ¥; they sce the obliteration of tho colorline in polities ; thoy sce the whita populntion divided and organ- ized into two opposing portics,—par- tios formed on other Issues than white a8 opposed o negro rule; they see fn it the organization of o strong native white Ropub- ficon parly inthe Southern States, which will putan endto bulldozing and all othor violont measures against tho nogro; they will sco tho whites and the blacke acting to. gother in politicol harmony, aud thus re-es- tablishirg Governments founded on law and responsibility to the people. 1Tn all this the Democrats soc tho destruction of their su. promacy in the Bouthern States, tho defec- tion of their members In both Houses of Congress, sud gonerally they are in o panic, Their party is going to pieces, aud Lienco the frantic shrieks of their orators, and the raving denunciations of their news- paper organ THE OBEGON OASE. Yesterday the Oregon case wad reached in Congress, and was referred to the Electoral Commission. In the proceedings leading to tho sppointment of the Comuwission, the Oregon question had been recognized as being surrounded by ditfloulties moro formideble than any other point in the controversy, In the absenco of any agreement betweon tho two Ifonses as to the counting of the Eloctoral vote, the President of the Henate would have to perform the duty of opening the certilicatea. Under the law of Congress the certificato of the Gov- ernov of the State i mnde the prima fucie evidence of tho appointment of the Electors named thereiu, At notime has thero aver been & majority in eithor Houso of Congress who believed that the Présidont of the Sen. ata lind any power whatever bat the wminis- teriol ono of opening the certificatos and enunerating those which conformed with tha law, 1od things been pushed to the extrome, the Presidont of the Senate would have had to count the votes from Louisiana and Florida given by thoso who were certiied to Lim 8 .the legally-nppointod Electors by tho Governors of tlhoso Btates. Ha bad no judicial power to go behind any returns. The CGovernor's certificate must have been a finality with him, In the Ore- gon certificate CnoNiy wes mnamed ns an Elector duly appointed. ‘To veject that certificato, the Prealdent of the Senate would ave Liad to exorcise judicial powers, and to roccive and weigh evidonce, and meake a judiclal decision, - Agaiust the exerciss of any such power by that officer thera would havo been nrevolt, which would have given the fouse a plausible pretext for declaring that no election hiad takon place, aod to then procooed Lo the election of TiLoes, It was to creato a court, suthorized by law to investl. geto and vlotermino this very question, that the Electoval Commissdon became a neces- sity, Ilemewbering that the Presidont of the Senate Las no judicial powers, and must follow the letter of tlo law, ho would, in order to have roached a decision to clect Havss, have to decida the array of questions of low and of fact set forth in the following objectious and couater.objections filod yes- terday before the Commission : Senator Mircuris, presented objections to the certlficate of Uioxix, MiLLXR, and PAnKEn on the followlng grounds: First, because neltier of the said persons was ever appoinied an Elector by the Ktate of Oregon In any waoner whatever, Becond, because it appears froms the recards and papers contalned In and attached (o the certificates of W, IL, Quse, J, C, Canrwoient, sod Joux Watrs, that thoy wera duly appointed Electors, and caat thelr voles 83 such, Third, because It pear froms the face of Gov, GuovEw's ttached to the returns of tho votes of Lies, and Pauken, thay auch a certif- icate was tssued to the three persons havingz ihe highest oumber of votes for Electors. but was fssued 10 persous whom he deomed ehgible, though one of them (E. A, CrONIN) was not ap. pointed thereto according to the lawe of Oregon. Fourth, because It appears from the certificate of 8, P. Cnapwick, the Becrctary of Stato, that Onzti, Cantwiiuut, and Warrs received the highest number of votes, apd that the Becretary of State, o pursuanco of law, declated i, and ibat, therefore, the certll- fcate of the Governor, in 2o far a2 it omilted 1o certify the name of J. W. Warrs as one of the Electors appointed, and 1o 80 far os sush cortificate caonwined the nawe of E, A. Croxs 83 one of the Electors appointed, it falls to conform to the aci of Congress in such caso made aud providen, and 10 the law of Oregon; sud that such certiticate is, 38 tosald CmoNiy, without sathorily, sad of no effect, Pilth, becauee it appeazs frum both certid. cates that OpkLL snd Canvwmivut, 3 majority of b Electoral College, were duly appoiuted Elects ors by Oregon In the manner directed by the Legla- latute. That tbelrrecord was presented fo the Preaident of the benate, snd by him o 1he two Houses,showa that s vacancy In theotice of Elector exlated on the dsy fixed by law for the mueting of the Electors, snd that such vacsncy was Slled by the appoluimeot of Wavrs, Thus objection fe signed Uy Senators MiTCKELL Rad BABGENT, and by Representatives Lawusycr, Buncyaso (L), and MWcDiee, Senstor Ketiy presented objections lo the cer- tidcate of Caurwriout, Ovres, sud Warrs. The grouuds of the objection sre: Firel, the papers purporiing to be certificates of the Electoral votes of Oregon bave pot snuexed to them tho certid. cates of the Governor of Oregon. s required to bo made and angesed by Secs, 138 sud 138 of the Tuited States Meyised Statutes, Second, tuw pa- THE CHICAGO ‘'I'KIBUNE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1 pers have not annexed to them 4 llst of the names of Cartwniont, Opriy, and Warra a3 Klcctors, to which the seal of the State of Oregon was af- fBixed by the Secretary of State of Oregon, but was affized by the Secretary of Stato and signed by the Governor and Becretary, an required by See. 00 of Chap, ~—— of the general lawa of Oregon. Third, 1t was thoright and dnty of the Governor of Oregon, nnder the Inws of that State, toglve a ceriificrte of election, or the sppointment as Elect. ors, to Jonx C. Cantwrians, WinLtax 1. Ovxtr, and B. A, Croxix, they being the three persons capable of being sppolnted as Préaldcntial Elect- ors, wha received tho highest number of vates at the election, Fourth, Cantwnionr and OnRLL had no right or authority In law to appoint ‘WarTs lo be an Elector on Dee. 6, 1870, as there wan 1o yacancy on that day, - Filth, Canrwatanre and OprL had no right ot snthorlty {n law to ap- point Wares an Rlector on Dec. 6, 1838, {nasmuch &a they d1d not on that day compose or. form Any part of the Eléctoral College of Oregon, ne by law constitnted, Sixth, Cantwnionyand Ovxis hod no aathority to appolnt Warrs em Elector on Dee. 8,:1870, becaniso on that day WatTTs was etill the Postmasterat Lafayetie, Ore,, and was still on that day holdingsald offica of profit and trust. Seventh, WarTs. who claims to besn Elector, in Febraary, 1873, appointed Postmaster at La- fayette, Ore,, that being an officc of trustand proft nnder the lawa of the United Staten, and continned to be and act as such Postmaster from Febroary, 1873, until after Nov, 13, 1830, and was acting 8e such Postmaster on Nov. 7, 1870, when the Presidential -Electors were ap- pointed by the Stale of Oregon, and that he wea ineligible to be appointed, Eighth, when tho Governor of Oregan cansed lists of the names of Electors of the State 1o be made and certified, sneh 1ists dld not contaln the names of said Wares, but dld contain the names of CARTWRIONT, ODELL, and Unoxex, who were daly appointed Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States, In the State of Oregon, Nov, 7, 1870, For this President of the Sonata to havo constitnted himself o court to decide thesa queations of law and fact, and to so decido them as to overcome and set aside the Gov- emor's certificate, which .in the cases of Lonisitann and Florida was his only warrant for counting the votes of the Republican Electors in those States, would have been an asanmption of power revolutionary in itself and most dangerous as a precedent. Thoso who thought there was no legal diffculty in the way in the case of Oregon are reforred to theso objections for information, and they will find in them full defenso of the law creating theElectoral Commission. MR. WATTERSON'S BAD PHILOSOPHY, Mr. Hexnr WaTTERSON ccepts the situa- tion, So far,.s0 good. But ho labors so enormously to make n virtue of the necessity that ho renders it apparent that it is neces- sity and not virtue which impoels him, and thoso for whom ho speaks, toacquiesce, o speaks of * the scceptanco of the inevitablo with resolution aud dignity as tho highest, o8 it is the rarest, form of courage known among men."” Thio ia rather oratorical than philosophieal, a matter of fact, it is neither the highest northe rarcst form of courage known among men to accopt tho in- evitable. On the contrary, it is a commou. place, every-lay occurrence in publio and privato rolations. We sceept death, disoase, destruction by firo or flood, disappointed hopes, thwarted ambition, defeat, and dis- comfiture of all kinds when they can.no longer bo avolded or averted. It is neither virtue nor courage, but tho “‘incvitable” that mnkes us sucenmb when we can struggle no longer. We all become fatalists in practice if not in theory when confronted with a dead wall thnt can neither bo scaled, nor demolished, nor circumvented. 11, then, Mr, WaTTzRsoN bas correctly stated the cose ns the ** inevitable,” his pretense of courage is pucrile, To opposo the inovit~ nble, to dash one's brains out sgainst the dend wall, I8 the act of a madman or a fool, aud to.lle down and moou alifo away at samething that cannot be helped Is childish or womanish, Fortitudo is nowhero so easy or cheap, and magnanimity nowhero so pufly nand flatulent, a3 in any given casa where tho end has been reached and the defented cnn struggle no longer. And it may well be doubted whether Mr, WarTensox accepts the inevitable m this inutance with (Lo ** resoln- tion and dignity ™ which he lauds so highly. Ha may be resoluts, but ke i8 certainly not dignified In the manner of his ncceptance. It was not dignified to charge ‘*donble- dealing and ~ foul play" (for such were the words ho usad) wupod .a Commission composed of the most eminont men of both parties snd constituted with the hearty approval of Mr. Watrznson him- sell. We remember that in speaking of tha gchome for arbitration Mr, WaTTrrsoN ussd the striking figure that 1t would be a ladder which would enable the dofeated party to descond safely from a perilous situation. Then the advantage is on the aide of Mr, Warrznson's party, and he should avail him. solf of it without hard words or useless ropluing, ’ All the complaining Democrats of the day seom to be igonorant of the principles of arbitration. Perhiaps their civilization is not sufficiently sdvanced to underatand it, Nev. ortheless, it s tho well-established practice of the cool-lieaded and especlally the solf. governing nations of the world, Compul. sory arbitration is enforced by law in private disputes, Majoritiea arbitrate with minori- tles fn publio affairs, or elss thoy aro sot aslde by the people as arbitrary and unjust. Nations arbitrate with other nations rather than go to war. But arbl. tration necessarily jmplies & fual settlemont and ncceplanco by the parties in. terested. It is scarcely in the nature of things that a dispute should be so decided aa to Lo satisfactory to both contending par- tics. Bomelimes Loth, and always one, of the disputants is unreconciled to the result, But, having sgreed to abide by it, it lsna longer regarded ns a grest and exceptional virtuo to do &0, but ay a grest excep. tional villainy to resist it. This is the situs- tion in the Presidential controversy, and if BMr, WarTxnsoN dealres credit for ¢ resolu. tion and dignity," it must be on some other basis than invoking the day of wrath, He and his assoclates chierge bad faith and fou! play, because the Commission decided not to take evideucs in the disputed States: but this wag at the discretion of the Commlission and an agreed part of the arbitration, so that the party which suffers from the decision bas no more right io threaten resistance, and mo mor¢ claim for forbearsnce, than if the ' defeat had ocomes in some other shape. Besides, the consentof the Commission to hear evidonce would nec. easarily have defeated the very purposs for which the Tribunal was organized. It would simply have been impossible o hear all the evidenco, esamine and cross-examine wit. nessey, aud decido on the merits of such tes. timony before the 3d of March, The Com- mission will barely finish its work without opposition within the time necessary Lo give its Qecision any effect, Had the doors been thrown open to testimony on both sides, token and sualyzed with judicial precizion and falrness, it would have been the work of wonths, Meoauwhile the 4th of March would Lave intervened, Jeaving the offices of Presi. dent sod Vice-President vacant and re. quiring a new election, Thus the Commis. sion would itselt have been respounsible for failing to do what was expected of it, wiz.: | To docide the controvarsy so as to ineugu rate cither Mr. Havzs or Mr, TreoeN on tho 4th of March. THE S0UTH PARK SWINDLE. Somo of the gentlemen of the Tegislature at Springfield have allowed themselves to be- como somewhat exeited over the subject of the swamp-land job, which the Legislature is expected o force upon tho Bouth Town of Chicago at a cost of hnlf n million of dollars of ndditional taxntion. . An nrticle which ap. ponred in Tz Tanuxe on Monday, in which tho character of that job was explained and pointed ont, shetus to havo bLoen considered a4 a personnl reflection upon the members of the General Assembly. Why Messrs. Rowerr aud SmEmaan should feel themaelves re- flectod upon by thoe articlo in Tax Trinuxk wo cannot conceive, There is n saying that some persond fear an officer in every bush, and it is sald to be & common thing for Mr, Mooy to be told by strangers who hear him that they thought that in describing hard siunera he had reference to them personally, As Rlowetr and SacRMaN aro not supposed to bo of either of these classes, why thoy shonld think they were referred to fu com- monts on the swamp schemos must remain a mystery. - Ono of these nervous gentlemen wanted to know it tho editor of Tnr Tninvxe was nol the owner of lands ndjacent to tho South Park. The editor of Tur ‘Tninune owna no Iand that is, or is likely'to be, bene- fited by the South Yark. The fulctest, of thin paper is just tho samo as that of thou. sands of othor porsonswho are aud have beon taxed to pay for those parks, and who do not wish to have the Legislature enter up judg- ment for half a million of extra taxoy, when no court in Ohristendom would do so. This paper suggested "objections to having the trial of condemuntion cases taken ont of the hands of the conrts to bo tried before the Tegislature, especinlly when a half million of dollars 18 to ba tho reward of the dishoneaty, The facts in this case are very plain nnd notorions, Tho limits and bounds of tho Southeast Park sworo defined by law; that Southeast Park ought nover to have been in- cluded in tho park syatem; it was a schiemo 1o gell to tho public a large body of nearly worihless swamp land which could not be sold otherwise atany price. Acting under the law, the original Cominissioners bought the most of tha iand at prices ranging from &G00 to $1,000 an ncre. Tho partioular eighty ncres now in controversy was mostly, Inst summer, fifteen inches under the waters of the lake, and was only available for ponds or duck-shooting or aquntic sports, but of no use for terra firma park or any habitable purposs, The Commissioners bought neigh- boring high and dry land from mombers of the prescut combination at 800 an acre, and this was in 1870 and 1871, when speou- Intion wns wild and pricos ruled with great extravagance. The Commissioners have con- tracts for other and much botter lauds at $800 an acre, which are waiting porfection of title to bo exceuted, The combination undertook to compel the Commissioners to purchaso this cighty acres of overflowed swamp land at fancy prices, which the Commissioners refused to do. An appeal to tho conrts for condemnstion. first elicited evidence of the strength of the com- bination. 'The verdict was, that tho swamp was worth 3,740 an acre! or £160,000 for eighty acres of land for which no man in Tllinois would give $200 an acre for dny pri- vato purpose. ‘Tho Park law compels the land to be taken, and hence tho combination to extort an'‘enormous price. ‘I'his valuntion waa so evidently corrupt that the court set it asido. A second trial was had upon the value of forly ncres of the same territory, sud, after weeks of tho most extrnordinary testimony, the valustion was put at §3,200 an acre. From this judgment an appeal hag beon taken by both sides. Consclous thint no court of justico will ever sanction n robbery of the publio jn this fash. fon, the combination secks legislative aid that will oust the present Park Commission. erd who will not pay them 85,750 an acre, and have other Commissioners sppointed who may pay them what they demand. For this purpose the men who are managing the combination, and who represent the eighty- ncre lot and some other large tracts which are in suit rogarding tho title, are at Spring- fleld in person nnd by paid agents, and aro lobbying to have this bill passed. ~As Col, Sellers would say, * There’s millions in it,” and tho design is to compel the people to pay these millions through the menus of tnxes, Tho latest phaso of the caseis to prefer charges ogainst tho present' Commissioners, and have them tried st SBpringfield, nud to bava a Committoe roport that the Commis- sionors be romoved and another sot, to Le approved at Springfield, be appointed. Stripped of all disguises, tho schowe is to remove the Commissioners who refuse to poy $5,7600 an acro for land not worth one- twentieth of that sum, including possibly 320 acres more, and to have Commiasioners appointed who may not make so stubborn resistanco to the skinniug process, ‘l'ug TrapuNe protests in the name of every wan who owns a foot of land or o dollar’s worth of property [n the three towns affect- ed, and who will be tazed to pay the pro- cecds of this rald npon their pockets. —ee “8PARKS" OF UNVERACITY, 8ranks, of Illinols, whoss Stato did not vote for Trioex, is one of the frreconcil. ables, With Tiuozy in the Presidential chalr, ba would hinve some patronage; with. out him, none, Hence Spanxs feels almost as badly as those Democratic Congressmen who failed of re-clection and have been look. ing' to TiLpeN for an occupation. Sranxs Hew sbout after Mr, Fostxs's eloquent pre- diction of the patriotic course which he knows Mr, Hares will take as Prosident, and e delivered himselt of some ill-natured re- marks which bave not even the exouss of being true. He pictured TiroEn as calling on Mr, Havss and saying: * Bir, s quarter of & million of people voted for me more than voted for you, and a clearly-defined msjority of the Electoral vots of the country was for me, but through your rascally, scoundrelly, fraudulent Returning Boards you have stolen the office from me.” From what we have heard of **the little gentle- man from Grameroy Park,” we should not be surprised it he would, on occasion, make himself dlsagreesbla to President Harza, neverthelesa such a remark would be st once impertinent and untrue. As to the populsr majority, it is folly to talk of it, The Constitution does not con. template an olection by popular msfority, A majority of 10,000 for the Republicans in 0l linola gives Mr. Havzs 21 Electoral votes, while 80,000 Democratic majority in Georgia gives TiLoxx only 11 Electoral votes. Lix- coy failed of & popular majority by a mill- ion votes, yot he was elected and insugu. rated President. This would be snswer enough ; but the fact 1s that Mr. Tiroex did not honestly and lawfully get a majority of & quartes of & millien, or any otker nuwmber, The Democratic frauds in fonr Boutliern Btates nlone will rub ont the popular ma- Jority claimed for him. Alabamn, Republic- an by sovern] thonsand whon thera is nobull. dozing, gave him 84,400 majority ; Mississip- pl, Republican by 20,000 on a fair vota, gave him 57,000 majority; Toxad, which caunot Iawfally give more than 15,000 Domocratic mnjority, gave him 60,000; Georgio, whero tho majority on a fall and freo vota is not moro than 10,000, gave himn 81,000. In theso four Btates alone a gnartor of a million votes wora sacured for Tripex by tho rifle-clubs, the bulldozers, the regulators, and terrorists, which make up the whole of tho so-.called popnlar majority which Tiroex claims he re- ceived. As to the Electornl majority, Srarzs in- dulges in a sparkling delusion whon he claima It for Tirnry as * oloarly-defined.” Tostead of being ** clenrly-defined,” it was go much a matter of disputlo that it was re. forred Ly common ngreoment to a Commis- sion for arbilration, and that Commnission has virtually decided that not Tinpex but Havzs has a majority of the Electoral votes. Bo it i ovident that Mr, 8ranns, not to put too fino a point on it, thinks that Trroex will lio to Hayes about tho matter the firat timo thoy meet; still, quito as bad things Lavo beon said of Tizorn bofore. Tho fact is that tho wholo case turned on tho lawful vote of Louisiana. A meroglance at tho compnrative roturns of fivo parishes will convince any falr.minded person that tho majority elaimed by tho Democrals was obtained by fraud, for the change worked in these five parishes worked the change in the vote of the Btate. In theso five parishes the Tepublieans had about 10,000 voters register- od’ ond the Democrats abont 5,000. The rulois that tho party which registers tho Inrgest number of voters polls not ouly petually the largest number Lut the Inrgest number in proportion to' tho relative registeation, 'I'ho registry of theso fivo parishies ought, thon, to have given the Republicans o majority of over 5,000, But 806 tho actual result as compared with the vole of 1874: 1870, 1874, eturning cl |"m~mna Farishes, g § »g §‘ 2|5 Fde xS EE cah | e s il & {024 (9,078 e Stagortttes..o. i UG RIRNTT That is to say, in 1874, when tho Demo- crats aotually earried the. State, the Ropnb- licans still had a majority in thess five par- jshes of 4,081 votes, but the bulldozing of 1870 gave them to the Domocrats by o ma- Jority of 4,488, Tua single. parish (East Felici- ona) the Republicavs had 1,688 votes in 1874, aud had nearly 2,200 regiaterod for 1876, yet thoy were not permitted to caat ono soli- tary ballot. It isn't necossary to pm‘mu the matter beyond this simple showing, Now, Mr. 8eanns, your friend Mr, Tipex has sins enough of his own to answer for. 1t is entirely gratuitous on your part to put into his month untruths so palpable that even TruoeN would searcely bo guilty of ut- toring them. ''Wa would suggest that Troex is o good den! more export in making up o caso, and that Lio be permitted to state it Lis own way ; his vorsion may not ba’ any’ less unveracions, but it will have at least more verisimilitude, THAT NIGGER DALL, And now comes Joux M, Paraes and tells the story under oath of that nigger ball in Now Orleans at which Judge Kzrrey, Judge T'nounury, o himself, and othor gilded and festive youth disported themselves with so much abandon and freedom from conven- tionalities, whiling awny the happy hours in' blessed roliof from bulldozer's stories nnd ‘White-Liner's horrors. To stato the case nd mildly and delicately as possible, having in view the feolings of tho ladies who did the hospitalities and the distingnished gontle- men who assisted in the festivity aud gave unusual eclat to it, it wan o soiree dansante of the colored ladles of New Orleans, The fair young creatures who tripped the light fantaatio wers of the delicate hue of molusses and oream, the tints depeuding upon their respective romoteness from tho nigritude of their ancestral clime. Thero were no ebony, jot, or charcoal In the masemblage. Tho tints were neutral, like the politics. It was a recherche affair. No colored men were ad- mitted. Only the fair-laired Caucasians like Lvaax Tavmouzn sud Jouw ML Pararen were allowed to pariake of tho wild revelry. It was a Jardin Mabille, where quadroons and ootoroons and other froctions of the Ethioplan unit flung thoir hoels aud lifted the hats off the heada of bo- wildered spectators, nmong whom Judge TaumpuLy was chief, It was tho can-can in black and white, crossed with the double- shofile, and ornamented with a friuge of American statesmanship. 'We have Gov. Parurr's word that he danced; that Judge Keruiry danced aud was particularly effactivo in the double-shuflle, being much lighter thon pig-ron in his steps, and undoubtedly congratulating himself that he was encourng- {ug native Industry as he explained the bene- fits of the tarif to his panting partner rest- ing upon his protecting arm. We have Gov. Paruza's testimony aiso that Judge Trusnuwy did vot dance, but that ** he went thero as an sriist to study a pecullar phase of Southern soclety, and that his gravity was Lhe moat amusing thing he ever saw,” + Ho could not have bson more solemn if ho had been Bishop of the Diocese.” This is undoubtedly correct. We ocan imogme that when Judge Taux. nuLy arrayed bhimsel? in his white choker, swallow tail, and luds, and pinned his bouquet in bis button-hole, be took a phil- osophical view of the ball, He rogarded it a6 o part of bis duty as one of Mr. TiLpex's mansgers {o go to the Mabille with broad and unseotionsl views and study the Electoral question. He undoubtedly thought that he ight plek up valuable festimony which ‘would offsel the bulldozing storles. He pro- posed to study the Ethfopian nature on the fomale side, and perhaps ascertain how it was that all tho male negroes in Feliclans and Baton Rouge voted the Democratic ticket. When he got there, however, the mad revelry, the glitter and glare, the flash. ing eyes and twinkling hecls, the fragrant flowers and sensuous music of lntes and viols turned his brain, and drove all his philosoph- feal queriea sud metaphysical speculations outof bis hesd. He found himself in the very centre of & mad rout. , One cannot take broad, statesmsnlike views, forecast political results, or investigate electoral distractions, with gquadroon skists brushing his shins and octoroon toes kicking befors his eyes. The good Judgo stood there amazed snd dszed at the atravgo sights and sounds. Lovely female forms whirled by bim. Gov. Parwea floated past. Fran. t1¢ octoroons flashed by in the very iotozica. tion of the dance. Judge Keurxr glided past him like n whirling dervish. Strange odors pervaded his nostrils, and tho inapiring banjos tummed in his ears. He conld mot undoratand it. He saw no signs of a Re- turning Doard. Ha heard nothing of bull- dozers, Thoro were no witnesses to testify, no statutes to refor to, no bailiffs or clerks, no pnrish certificates, aud ovon Keurzy and Pavaren wero nuanimonsly agreed in accept- ing the situntion. ifa conld not understand it, and he stood thore as in n irance, s vision, or o dream, specchless, motionless, paralyzed, oud he does not understand it to this day. He probably nover will comprehond how he, Lyaax Tavsnusr, who went to New Orleans to lielp connt tho negroes out of their rights, cama to bo at that niggor ball, the dumb- founded accoptor of Ethiopinn hospitality, SBOUTHERN VIEWS OF THE SITUATION. Tho Southorn Democratic papers nre al. most unanimous in their support of the - de- cisions of tho Board of Atbitration.. A few extracts will show tho position they take. The Wilmiugton (N. C.) Star says: All who intended tn the beginning to snhmit In good faith to the finding of the Commitico will ponder well Uefore they are betrayed into petalant complaming or savage denanciation. A few here and thiere may ccho the sentiments of Congresaman Cann, nt the mass of thinking, pesco-loving, faltli-koeping patriols will stand by the agreement, aud by thoso who acted as they believed for the best, Let ueablde the result In the utmost good falth. Tho South cannot afford to break any terms ofagreement into which ft enters, It bas nlways maintalned Ita honor, and it il still maintatn it Tho Memphis Appeal, whioh lias beou considercd one of the most feroclons of the Bonthern firo-entors, says . The Domocrats will acqulesce In the result, be- canse they can aford to walt. The lHouwe of Ttepresentatives is Democratic, and so will be the Senate in two years more; and In 1880 the Demo- crata wiil have an easy victory In the Presidential election, Tho Southern States are now in the Tandn of our own people, and if they have endured Graxt forclght years, they can stand HAvEs for four years. I'he Memphis Avcalanche, one of the strongest and most influential nowspapers in the whola Sonth, says: Under the workings of thls act. no matter how nnfust men way rezard the declsion, thare Is con- solutfon in the reflection that ft will have heen teached hy o lawfal budy, scting under the law, and that the President will possess, eo far 28 the formna go, os Iepal a titie to Lls oflico ae it he had received every Electoral vote, It may he belleved by wvenrly every memberof 8 commually that s privoner is gullty of a crlmo for which he inar. talgned; Int the fnry declaro bim aniltiess. and no tnan dlisputen the legallty nf the vordict, The sama principle underlionall Jndicial praceedings, whether the Lauc o the possession of the White-House or the avoldanca of a falon's cell, Sumetimes, ucting uniter the forms of law, thn courts do wrong, bnt not often, Onr only safety in in cllnging to them, Al roads that lead from law lead to anarchy. ‘The Richmond (Va.) Stats, another in- tensely Domncratio nowspaper, says ¢ Astoany eflfotts 1o avald now the deciston, to withdraw from tho Trlbnnal,.or by revolutionary actlon fo izht againat tho elovatlon of IfAvEa to thio great placa In dispute, all such things ure most earneatly to be deprecated, and that for many rea- sons, First, waare in hionor and equity bonnd to ablde the award, Sccond, wa eannot holp oursclves, fur tha South nelther will nor can plunge into war, there fnno one to alil it if It wonld or could. We cannot liedp oursclves, We have escaped the great evilof war. We have a legal settlement, in formn, at Jeast, and in the vast and bewlldering une certaintles of tho Jaw, evon ne shown in private contracts and small affalrs. who lsho that can bo certain his opinion is tha right one and another's the wrang one ou & case Involving the Conatitutlon of the Umted Btates, the Constitation of a State, the ntatutes of Congress, the statutes of a Stato, thie practico of 8 hundred years, snd the common Taw ftnelr? % Wa bellove the elght-to-seven vota waa wrong, wrong as partisan, wrong aa legal view, but one- holf the prople of the United States bellove it right. Tet us loso with dignity at least, vnd turn like men—not children—to the future, knowing nothing ta be lost a0 long as wo are true to our- sclves and our duly, superior to our passlons, and equal to onr ronponsibilities, We place theso manly, lonest, temperate utternnces from that sectlon of the country which iz most intimntoly concerned in the election in contrast with the infamous daglarations of such Northern Demooratic papers as tho Chicago Z'imes, nud tho dis. honornblo, treacherous course they aro urg- ing Demooratic Congressmon to take. The attitude of these Sontbern Democratic pa. pers I8 o silont but powerfal and suggestive rebuke to Northarn demagogues, and special. ly suggestivo as coming fromn a quarter where the intorosta of the peoplo are at stake, and where it waa expected the decisions would produce angry and violent protest, if not activo opposition, nd A 8pringfleld dispatch describing the debate on the Corzuour, DuxLevy & Co. resolution of Investigation of the Bouth Park Commission- ers, introduced by RowerT, of Macoupln, says: “Howerr asked AMr. Syitn, of Cook, if he kuew if the editor of Tur TrinuNk owped ad- Jacent or nelghborlng property to the Bouth Park. Mr. SmiTit yeplied that bhe did mot know,” Inorder that Mr. S8siTit may be pre- pared the next time the question Is asked to answer accordlog to tho facts, the editor of Tun Ciica00 TRIDUNK assurcs him that he does not now and never hias owued auy adjacent or neighboring property to the Bouth Park or any other park, o possesses no real cstate within three miles of the submerged swamp which ConEnous, DuntLevy & Co. are striving 80 desperately to force on the Park Commise slouers at five to ten times its actunl value. The only futerest the editor of Tum Cuicaco TRin- UNE has In the matier is ono In common with 1hio taxpayers of the South Division, [yde Park, and Luke, Thoe higher condemnation® damages Conzuous, DunLevy & €Co, can secure, the miore taxes the peoplo aifected will have to pay for those distant swamp lands, The cditor of ‘Tne THIGUNR {8 futerested as o taxpayer, and feela sym) y with the other taxpayers who wmay be *stuck" by the verdict of an “in- fluenced” jury. Other and better land sdjacent to that in Ntigation has been purchased by tho Park Commissioners for $800 to $1,000 per acre, and that, too, in inflated and speculative timcs. Yet, two years ago, tho swamp-land Ring se- cured from & facile jury a verdict of §5,750 per acre! The editor of Tux TriBuxE protests sgatnat being taxed to belp pay any such scane dalous price. ‘1f tho object of the resolution presented by RowrtT, of Macoupin, is 1o inves- tigate the serpentine tracks of the Ring who aro seeking to akln tha taxpayers for thelr swamnp 1and, and to exumine how it was that $5,750-per- acre verdicts were procured, Tas TRIsUNE sod the taxpayers of tho thres towns will joyfully welcoma them here, and trust that they will reach the Lottom facts. 4 - The Democrats of Florida bave captured a carpet-bagger, one of the most scaly and dis- reputable of the breed. We refer to the indi- vidual W, J, Punsan, the renegade Representa. ive In Congress, who Iu order to retaln bis con- tested seat saild Iu a speech in the House the other day that the majority of the populer vote of Florids was for TiLDxN., The Florida Weekly Expreas (Dem.), published in Pensacols, ot the date of March 18, 1875, has two ltems io regard to this Jon, recrult to the Democracy. One of these items, under the head of * Mayor's Court, Masch 11, 1575, rcads as follows: * W. J. Punsa¥, Kepresentatlve fn Congress, dis- orderly, fined §10." The other item, uuder the head of * Distinguished Arrivals,” reads thus: The Hon. W. J. Punxay, preseatative ln Congress for Weat Florids, spd —— ——, ar- Tived in the l{ this week. Un Tnuudu{ Wolu- ing they were bolli flned $10 and coeta fu tho May- or's Court for Leing drunk sud diserderly on the streets. They visited, early on Wednesdsy even- 1, tie *Melodeon,h one of the varicty places 1o the city, atiending's ball given there, Tho besr Firls, by their stteotlon (o thele wante, 8iied them up, and visivns of beauty snd wine Soated before Imaginstions, asd they stary righte of the ity Tlelng & Hi boogs and jomewhat noley, Marahil Tocaat in: vited them to mppear atthe Mayor's Conrt: and an_our Mayor has a little Stato pride, e allowed them (o pload ruilty withont appearance, they payingthe above-mentioncd fine and costs, ' Com. ment fs nnnec : ——— Gov. Grovar, of Oregon, trics to wrlzgle out of the infamous Electoral business with the declaration to the Sen Franclsco agent of the Assoclated Press: I bavo never. sent to Goy, TILDRN any telegram pigned - ‘Gobble’ or ‘Governor.! T havs never used a ciphor In roy Htfe.”” The New York TvFibune calls attention 10 Lhe thinness of this declaration as followa: We have obtained from T. NrsoxX & Son} the **flonsehold Engliah Dietfonary* tald to have been used in the transiation oi the cipher dis. atches. on the *!Gob- ich word T0uz pages, And in ihe Correaponding Nhe Yom hacs ) n tho Word 10 be understood. The iraoafation al. ready given of (ho celebrated **Jlced acantinesy cramp " measage s thns verlded-beyond dispnte, It reads, **1shall docide every point, ' ete. "Nn. body but the Governor conl’ decide; and he did decfde exsctly a« the telegram sald that he wonld, The weak effort of Gov. Grovar and Benator Reoty to throw off the responsibility of this tufamous business upon the shoulders of Par. nick and PeLTOR, the nephsw of his uncle, wil not deceive any one, Parick did nothing in the ciphier busincss that was not inspircd by Grovar,and Psurox did nothiog. fn any busi. ness that was not {napired by his uncle, e — ‘The followlne s a Httl pof the testimony taken in the late real. pool Investigation {n Washington City: i ) Dr. PItnent, one of the' witnesses bafore that Committee, was handed 8 mamoranditm showing aymient of & chock for 81,000 to Capt, T, N dnmtr, of the Wantington Sunday Jferald, tora contract purcbased fromn him. Dr, FiLoEaT sup. 'mml that the contract was awarded Mr, Bunnire hrough faroritism, inssmach an Gov, A, H.Bine. MERY oined an infereal in.the Sunday llerald, A o At another time $747.40 was pald Me, BuamTe for procuring o contract, Tha Washington Jerald was' pushed to tho front ns 8 Uemocratic, newspaper, - Boss' Buep. nero paturally touk o great Interest.in It, and the rlass of Democrats who match S8nernerp 25 n Ropublican all took & great interest In It; but Doxx Prate's style of Journalism pleased them Letter, and they dropped the HMerald and went In for the Capilal, which has progressed from bulldozing to revolutlon, aud from that to assassination. et —— The tendency of the ofice-secking Democrat is to look upon tha couutry as utterly rulned it his candidato for President s not counted fn. ‘The clection of Joun QuiNCY ADANS in 1834 ‘was regarded as an awlul alfair, and it was con- fidently predicted that the country was golug to the demnition bowwows. . The Philadelphia Au- rora thus mourned nnd groaned over his elec- tion. It reads very much llke the Jeremisds in lieNDRICES' Indianapols Seatinel: Mourn, freamen, mourn, for thy citadel of L. erty haa been Invaded: yonur doarest rights have been trampled upon; yout expresscd will has been diaregarded by your servadts, and you have been suld liko sheep at the-shambles! HEsY CLax hay nindo JouN QuiNcy Avaxd President. As amatter of fact, thero has never been so pure, upright, and cronomical Administration sinco then, Civll-Scrvico Reform wus carrled out. And men were nut dischargod from minor ministerial office on account of thelr politics, and Iiberty did not perish In that Admiulstration, e — It was very generous [n Gen. TALMa to give the palm to W, D. Kervey, of Pennsylvaals, In golng 1t lyely, cutting tha double-shuille, and throwing other visitors {uto the shade at the quadroon canwan ball fw New Urleans, But Paryen Is not the man to let KeLinv, or THUMBULL, or any other man outshiue him in sultatory exercises or vlrouetto more fantastl- cally to tho pleasings of a lute, To the Edilor of, The Telbung, Bunn OAF, Bicii. Feb. 20, W ho did Bensaxtx F. Brruen, of Mi chusetts, support and vole for in the Charlenton Convention in 18391 Mr, BoTeer supported JEpFEisor Davisin thie Charleston Conveutlon, casting his vote for him Ofty-seven times. e e— e PERSONAL ‘The Grand Russlans went to the Eagle Theatre fu New York a socond time ta hoar Mile. Almee sing, and were dlamayed to hesr that the capriclous songstress hod lost her dog, and therefore begzed to be excused from appearing. Thore are for Almee many Grand-Dukes in the world, but only onedog. Mr. Dayard Taylor announces a courve of twelre Jectores on ‘‘Cerman Literaturo sud German Authors,” to be given durlug Lent. **Jenale June* views the prospoct of these discourses with delight, for she says Mr, Taylor has & thorough knowledgo of the aubject and a charming style, Withial be is the most unpretending of men, *and 20 1a his wifo," The New York Zintes awards high pralse to Mr, R. W, Btoughton for bis work as Ropublican coun- sel before the Electoral Commission, saying that he held the laborlag oar from first to last of the Loulstana controversy. e was the suthor of the terse and exact definltion of the dutles of the Elect. oral Commisslon: **It Is to count the Electoral vote, and not lo count the votes by which the Electors were elected,™ . Dr, Budincton's church In Brooklyn has agsln refused 1o hold fellowship with Plymouth Church, the guestion to be considered being so unimportant a une 24 the dissolution of the pastorsl relation of the Church of the Puritans, Dr, Dudlngton sald bia church could do s it pleased, but as for him. sclf he must refuse 1f seked to aitend the Councll, The church decided by a vote of 34 10 24 not to ac- copt the Invitation. 1n the trial of the Presidont of the Aldine Com- pany for perjury an Intercating showing was made In regard to tha aversge cost of chromos, Alr Richard Shugg, an export, testifiad that Le would willingly cantract to make 00,000 coples of elther 4 East " o ach copy requiring twete ty-seven different colors and as many different Im- pressions from separate platos, for $7,450, equal to a littla more than 10 cenpe aplece. These ple- turcs were glven away aa premiums for the Aldine abouat ten by fourtcen inchen jo size, and had cellent finteh. They ate represented by pude 19 88 worth from $1 to §3 oach. ‘The Mayorof Philadelphls, Willlam B. Stokley, was u candidate for re-election. 1l had determined opponeals, ospocially In the Philadelphia 7¥mes and ¢wo of the SBunday newspapers, Last Sundsy be accownplished a coup d'rtat on latter by en- gaging the police to buy up th tire oditions early o the morning. The Times warned him, however, that it used the Bollock perfecting press, kept Its forms on sll day,and would be able to for- nish him a1} the caples he wanted at the coerent warket rates, The purchase of ¢omplete editions of the Chicago Sonday nswspapera by any private Individual would be & pretiy big undertaking. ‘The new uprising in the Free Church of Scole and Indirectly owes {ts origin to a poor and Ig: norant woman. She was the mother of a learned Doctor of Divialty, who rocently eantertained hose tile fuelings towards the Westminater Confesslon, but woppressed thew during her lfetime, for fuaz of giving her paln, On her death, however, o tbrew off alt disgulsc, bado farcwoll to complle ment, and led in person the attack on the dafend ere of the Confession. ‘Tho splrit which made him sfraid to wound the hoart of bis wother did not wake bim shsink from & combat with the learning, e weallh, aod the power of the Eburch Tbe luteresting sgitation in the Engilsh pews papars ag to the propristy of employing decayed Iadies a8 ** holps " 18 now supplemented by 8 812" tlar exhibition of Ioterest on Lehalt of decssed geotlomen, Thees latter, it s thooght, mishh maka themselyes wscful &4 gardeners, gamekeep: ers, coachmen, and the Hke, and ought to.ve glad of the chagce, But the resl question at Lere I, nob what the feslings of the decayed pe: e, but what would ba the ezpenencoof thobe- wevolent souls who wighl ploy thew. Isftale togethez probable that one who bsd decayed 898 gentleman would put forth the tender buds of promisa a4 & gardenert A pew soclety of free-thinkers has been organ: f2ed $n New York. 14! composed of Jewa(of whom the 0ld falth bae become dry and antiquated and of independent thinkers who sympathize with the teachings of the Hev. O, B, Frothlugham. ‘The recent Sunday addresses of Prol. Felix Adler,of Cornell University, son of the lata rabbi of (b8 iMh Aveous Synagogue, bave concentrated atef st on the subject untl) & soclaty of 500 or 4! persons holding common sentiments bas beed formed. Prof. Adler, iu bis addrcss on the of gonization of the soclety, sald thst thelr object was to have weekly lectures, and altimatsly @@ found 8 school for tbe instraction of shelr culldred In the etbical principles of the organtzation. B was thelr deslgn o 40 have & dogmatic creeds