Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 26, 1877, Page 4

- THE CHICAGO g RiBU MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2 , 1877, The Trtbawne, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 2.0 ekiy, oetrald, 1 ¥ art of & yrar, per mionth. WEEKLY EDIT) 250 16 EOPY, PEF Feal bttt ) Cluh of twent; E X Tostage prepaid. Sreetimen coples nent fres. Quprevent delay and mistakes, be mre and gire Poit ©frce eddres fn fult, nclnding State and County. Tlem{itances may bnmade cither by draft, express, Post-OMce order, or In reglstered lelters, a6 our riak. TXRMS TO CITY BUDSCRIDLRS, Tally, delirered, Sundsy excepted, 24 conte per week, Dafly, delivered, Sunday Inclured, SU cents ner week Address THE TRIDUNE COMPARY, Corner Madiron and T Chicago, Iit. TAMUSEMENTS. Adetphi Thentre, er Dearborn. Monron _etreet. corn “darked for Life.” Varlety entertainment. Tiaverls’s Theatre. o ndolon srvet, betweon Clark and Taalle, En: o pagement of the Soldene Troups. **Pouios and Tuus RN MeVieker's Thentres Madison strect, between Dearbom and State, .l{u- gagement of Genovieve Logers. ** Msud Mullee.” MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1877, = At the Now York Gold Exolinnge on Bntpt- dny grecabncks raled at 05}@95t. paislai ot 4 Intoresting letters from Florida nnd San Francisco are printed in our columns this morning—the formor describing the whole- somo effect produced npon the negroes in that State by tho news that Havesis to bo the next President, and tho latter giving a racy nccount of the ups and downs of stock- gambling in Onlifornin's capital, [, ijr Tho Moxico Presidential election has re. Y sulted in favorof Draz—which will ba cold comfort to the party of IoLraras’ support- «ors who passed through Chicago yestorday on their way to New York, and who kopa to find a penceful lodgment on thoir native soil Dby the time they have finished the long jour- noy made necessary on account of Diaz’ ac- cession to power. — President Gnast is getting near the end of lis Sundny talks, nnd doubtlesa is very glad of it. He will vacate with his family the Executive mansion next Saturday, and sc- copt tho clegant hoepitality of Secretary I\ Fisn until April, when thoy will visit their old homo in Galenn. Tho last of theso Sun- day Prosidentinl talks is one of tho most ih- teresting of tho serics. In it the policy of non.interforenco with the affairs of Louisiann and South Carolina is reaflirmed in the most positive manner. President Grawr will . recognizo neither of the rival Btate Govern- Li. ments, Ho has gauged public sentiment . acourately in his conclusion that the peoplo at large are tired of the employment of tho military to sustain Btate Governments that ought to givo way if they are unable to sus- tain themselvos, 5 - Tho Chicago Communists are getting up a ' memorial to Congress praying that the Gov- i+ ernmont ndd to the bonefita of tho Houe- stead law by supplying each# sottler with farming implements and o stock of provisions safficient o last a year, Impracticable and impossible of , realization as this project of Governmont nid mny be, one of tho spenkers who advo- cated it was not far wrong when ho main- tained that Congress would do better to lonn . money lo actual sottlers in the undeveloped . regions of tho Wost thon to vola Tox Scorr millions upon millions {o build the Bouthern Pacific Railroad. Thero is uo doubt about that. The Commumsts aro right foronco. It would ba a bottor uso of - tho money to hielp poor mochanics oponup tho 2} farms that will somo day build tho raflronds %' that are needed, than to enrich the subsidy- grabbors and Credit-Mobilier corruptionists " that are lobbying for the Southern Pacific job—but a poor uso of the money in either caso. —————— Already the practical scttloment of tho .. Presldentinl question is attended by indicn- tions of a sorious broak in tho hithorto solid ranks of the Democracy—solld no longer, now that tho cobeslon is lacking which the 'd . anticipation of offices aud spoils proverblally 1;" secures, Mr. Le Moxn, of Chicago, in his i spooch in the House last Saturdny, plainly 1iy! {foreshadowed the coming rovolt against the domination that New York has exercised ; and the Sunday Herald, n Washinglon paper that Lns herctofors been nn ardent sup- porter of DMr. Tiupey, comes out squarcly agaiust the proposition of S ¢ Tnpex for 1880, snd in an edi- torial -article, so pointed and so true that t might have boen printed in a Republican + journal, declaring that the TiLpex campaign 7 hod ita incoption and ita progress in the 37 ‘lavish expenditure of money—tho noming. ", tion belng purchased outright, and tho cum- paign conducted upon the promise and ex- »pectation of unstinted supplies from *‘tho arrel.” Now that thero is no longor any- thing to be gained by bolstering up the pre- { ».tonsions of the bogus Reformer, more of *'this sort of open confession will bo heard ;.2 from Dewmocratio speakors and editors, [ ? i) One mose filibustering expodient is loft to g"‘:.um Houso Obtructionists, and will probably “ibg attempted. It consistsin a phn to in- \_.corporate into the objections to the vote of South Carolina the voluminous report of the ©.* Tnvestigating Committeo and the onormous ' ¢ mass of tcatimony accompanying it, with the purpose of using 88 much time as posul- ble in tho reading and considerstion of the aseless moss of stull. It this device is tried + when the original objections are entered in '»; jolnt session, the President of the Sen- ‘Aate will nndoubtedly spoil the schema by deciding sgalust the ndmission of #the roport aoud testhmony &3 o part oI the objection ; but the attempt oau be *renewed after the report of the Commission *.: hos been received and the ¢wo Houses have .aseparated for debate. At this time, how. ** aver, it will require a majority vote to secure ?areading of the documents in the House, and it is not likely that 50 palpable a pretext <for delay and obétruction would bo per. “Tqmitled to succeed. Present appearances are ’\ain\'omblo tor a completion of the count be. }j,’uro the end of the week. ——e ' 4 ThoClicago produce markets wero generally + > Jull Baturdsy, and wost of them tended down. .{wards. Mess pork closed 25c per brl lower, ’t $14.25 for March and §14.47§@14.50 for s tpril. Lard closed 20 per 100 ius lower, at -119.67) for March aud £9.8069,82§ for April. fzuuu closed @} lower, st b for loose £ ‘ iioulders, 6c for short-ribs, snd 8o for short- :sidears. Highwines wero inactive, at 81.05} {|91.06. . Flour was quiet and weak, Wheat o BY MAIL—IN ADVANCE--POSTAGE PREPAID AT AHIB OPFICE. 3 Fdition, pottoaidy 1 year. 12.00 e e e Tt 3.00 810 on sddrem fonr ) $fon: Literary 2.50 o reason, sinco it isto bo prosumed that tho bulldozed the Postmaster into placing the funds in his keeping in that swindling re- quently unablo to replace, is stated to Tho defaleation is none the less a significant commontary upon the menner in which important positions of trust under tho distributed by manipulated theso McArroun hos been in the strictest sonse a 1ot of Democratic party bummiers of ancient cover with ehame and i1l with remorso the party gracing the natlon in the eycs of the woyld, and such actlon as will sccure & now cloction by the tions, closed fo Jower, at 31,26 cash and $1.26} for March, Corn closed fa lower, nt 41{c for Mnrch and 45jc for May. Ontas closed enry, at 3310 cdsh and N3]e for March. Rya was unchanged, ot 65@Cile. Barley closed steady, at 48§e for March and 46¢ for April. Togs were in fair demand and steady, at #6.5020.00 for common to choice. Cattlo were in fair request .and firm, with sales of poor to good grades at $3.00@6.00. Sheep were quict and unchanged. Ono hundred dollara in gold would buy $10£.87} in groen- backs at ths clos of nlaw, and the disturbances of business, and the racking and torturing of the whole country, becnuse their greed for potty party favors has been disappointed. It wonld be hari to conceive of a more unworthy purpose more unworthily em- bodied, and even the Democratio parly is microprescnted, wo believe, and the City of Chicngo disgraced, we know, by the adoption of these resolutions by such mon a8 wo have jndicated. Thero was somo sense of the im. propriety of the mattor in the mecting ex. | pressed by Matrocks, Lizs, Hise, and one ot two others, but the desperate ofice-seck- era wera in the majority, and carried the day, How do n lot of obscure and petty poli- ticians, searcely known outsida of their own wards, come to kunow that the *! Electoral Commission has disappointed the just ex- pectations of the country”? Was the Com- mission organized merely toservo the baso purposes of these petly office-seekers, and i it to Lo denonnced and its work dofeat:d bo- causo it lias not donoso? Mow do theso ward statesmen find out that the Commission “wos bonnd"” to receive evidence, when the Commission {tsolf decided that it wna not. hound to? 'This coursa could not have been taken without prevent. ing n completion of the count beforo March 4, and theroby the Commission wonld have refused to do just what it waa appointed to do. What inspieation has descendéd npon theso local managers that thoy may denounce the finding of the most eminont Iawyers in the conntry as *based npon mero hollow forms and technicalities "2 * By what author- ity do theso diminutive sspirants for Gauger- slips and placos’in the Post-Offico brand President Hayes' title to the offico as “tainted with fraud and befouled with crime,” when it fs awarded to him by a Commission crented by Iaw o decide. botween the two claimanta? What right have theso disap- pointed cormorants to call upor the Domo- crats ip Congress to violate a Iaw of the land, nullity the decisions of a tribunal by which they lhnd proviously bLound them- selves by Iaw to abide, and visit upon the whols conntry the ills sre to follow upon tho breach of faith which thoy recommend? Messre. Hanawox and Le Morwr, two of the Chicago Democratic mombers, Lavo re- fused thus far to act with the revolutionary Obstructionists, and thelr conrsa will proba. bly not be changed after hearing from the Chicago Desporadoes. As far as this goes, My, Ppany H, Swure might as well have spared himsolf tho expenss which he nssum- ed of tolographing the bulldozing document to Washingion. Mr. CavLrizLd may proba- bly be counted among the Desperadoes him- solf, 5o that hie needs no urging. DBut the other two will know very well that the erowd who ndopled these resolutions in no wiso rcpresent tho business commu- nity, nor capitnlists, nor property-owners, nor omployers of labor, nor manufacturors, nor merchants, ‘nor bankers, nor shippers, nor tho transportation companics, nor the mechanies, nor the labor.unions, mor any other clnss oxcept tho ‘office-seckers, profes. sional politicians, and ward-bummers. 'Tha people who have no vocation outside the dirty work of b politionl campnign aro the only ones who are now willing to ses the necessity for more, of this dirty work re- nowed by a sccond campaign, They have overything to gain and nothing to lose. Dat their importinence becomos an insult when they seck to ropresent public sontimont, or cven to spesk for tho party disgraced by their attachment to it. The New York Tridune sintes the case very plainly and squarely when it saya: **'The Domocratic members of Congress sald to tho Republicans, *Yon drew the cartridges from onr shot-gnas in the South, and you ine timidated our rifle-clubs by United States bayonets. By this partisan interforence with n freo and unanimons oxpression of Demo- cratic opinfon you elected yonr man, There- fora givo us one more chance or wo will sct ttp n President of our own,” This modest request was accoded to, and the Tribunal whas created. And now it Is nndonbtedly the proper thing for the Demacracy to say to the Tribnnal, ¢ Hand over the keys to the White Hounse or we'll pry tha doors opon with a fimmy.' " It might bave added that the whole tronble 18 that the election of Tz~ peN rested exclusively on the joint resnlts of tho bulldozing and of the barrel, Tho ‘bar- rol proved a failuro in Orogon, Wisconsin, and in other States, but successful in Indi- ann and Connectiont. The bulldozing was very successful in Alabama and Missirsippi, but failed in Florida, Louisinna, and South Carolinn. The bulldozing process has beon tried on the Electoral Commission, and the party now proposes to fall back on the rifie- clabs, Tho snnonncement is made this morning that Gen, MoAntnun, FPostmnster of Chi. eago, has gone into bankruptey, and that he ja in arrears in his accounts with the Gov- ernment lo the amonnt of 55,000, It la proper to oxplnin that this sum inclades the 21,000 of Government funds deposited in tho rotten Cook County National Bauk, and which Gen. DMoAntomun contends that he fs mot justly responsible for; ond not withont some show ot samo *‘political influence™ which socured tha solection of B. ¥, Aruxy's worthless in- stitution ns a United Staten depository also ceptacle for other pooplo's money. Tho amount of Gon. MoARTHUR'S arrearago, grow. ing out of the unlawful use in his private ‘business-oporations of Govern- ment funds which ke was subso. be nbont %384,000, which tho Goverment will probably recover eventunlly, as it is 1ade o preferred creditor, and if the bank- rupt's assots should be insuficionthis Londs- men aro belioved to be good for the deficit. United Btates Governmont lave been the partics who have oppointmonts in the interest of the ‘‘mochine.” Gen. mnchine oftccholder and politician, an notive and prominent niember of tho snti-reform fnction in the Republican party—tho faction that fought so desporatoly against Bristow, Wasupunwe, and Hayes at Cincinnati, nnd that fonght so desperntely for Looax nt Springfleld. Ilo is not o Haxza Republican, and the Haves Administration cannot be held responsible for this discreditablo dofal- cation, > THE REPUNLICANS IN LOUISIANA. The Columbus (0.) Journal woke up on Friday last to find-itsclf notorious, the editor and his journal having nchieved notorioty over night, unconscionsly,—that is to say, not knowing it until it was too Iate to stop it. -Aas thero have boen numerous dispatches and cditorfals in the papers and much com- motion among the politicians in Washington concerning it, thero Is naturally some curiosi- ty among the reading class to seo the orticlo, to gratify which wo transfer it to our columns claowhere. "Tho articlo ia long, and containa some in- structive informatibn for those not provious- 1y informed ; but if the last paragraph had Leen omitted it never would have created & xipple, and would alrendy bo forgotten by a wmnjority of those in the small Ohlo city who might have carelessly glanced over it. But the article closed with the question, *Is it not batter for the Presidont to qulat tho sit- untion [in Loulsiana] with tho forces at his command rathor than coll on Gov, PAcrARD to demounstrate his strength at such o fearful socrifice?” [meaning n war of races], The Democratic ofiico-seekors soized on this rocommendation ; pretended to beliove that it was inspired by Gov. Haxes; - that it was in the nature of o roquest from him to President Grant to begin immediately to uso the bayonet on the NionorLs party and crush them by military force. They telegraphed this sensational lie to Washington, and sent thero by express all tho copies of tho Journal thoy could find. Thers is nothing too mean or tricky for the partisan ofiice-secker to do, The little fraud, however, was short-lived, and expired almost 08 soon as it was invented and floated. The article itself scoms to have been written by an Ohjoan who had resided in Louisiana for somo time, nnd was tolerably famillar with tho stato of things down there. ‘While it contains much that is true and some thingethat are inacourato, it snppresscs a fow important facts. One of the inncouracies is estimating the white clement in the e~ publican party at 10 per cont of the whole Tepublican atrongth. It was probably that strong as late as 1809, but does not now ox. ceod B or 6 per cent, and they are mqatly to be found in New Orleans—in office. ~ If 10, or aven 5, per cout of the Ropublicans in the State had boen white men, thers would have been far less frand and violence, intimida. tions and murdors, committed on the colored people by the bulldozing ruffians who ter- rorized over Republican parishes in behalf of * Trpex and Reform,” ‘The reason given for tho sudden collapse of the Krrroga Administrationin 1874 before an assault of the White-Liners of New Or- leans is not corveet, It was notonaccount of belng in o minority of populetion in that city, nor bocause 00 per cent of tho Repub-. licans worked on plantations in the country ; nor will this reason account for tho weakness énd helplessness of the Packanp Administra- tion now, If the rank and flle of the Repub- licans of the country parishes were white wen, the New Orleans Confoderate banditti ‘would nqver dare to lift a fingor or five a gua againat & Republican Administration ; their numencal msjority in New Orleans would avail them- mothing for purposes of terrorism or intimidation. ‘There would bave been no ‘' bulldozed " parishes if the country Republicans kad been white men, or helf of them men of the white race. The Journal's article only skims the surface of the real difficalty practiced upon them by the bulldozing white ruffians, Hence the Kxt1000 Government In 1874 had no ele- v THE CHICAGO DESPERADOES, Tho most importinent dovelopment of the Presldentin] controversy is to bo found in the nssembling in this city on Saturday of & and flsh-like flavor, and theiradoption of the following resolntions s Wurzngas, The Electoral Commission has dla- appofnted the Just oxpectatlona of the country in having perslatently refused, by a majority of one, to recelve and examiue evidence In regurd tothe frauds perpetrated o Florldasnd Lonlsiana, in the returning aud certifying of the Electoral votea of those States, although the Commission had foll power nnder tho luw, and waa hound by tha prace tice and precedents establishod by Congress,to ro- colva eviience as to the truthfulncss, and valldity of the Electoral voteaj and . Wizneas, ' The Electorsl Commission, having authonity to hear the evidonce aud decide, bas presumed to decide without hoaring the vvidente; therefore, Lesolced, That the findings of the eafd Elcctoral Caommiaslon, based upon mere hollow forms and technicalities, and not upon the trath and the facte, aro not cntitled to the approval and the noral sup- port of the Awmerlcan peaple. Resolred, Thot the inauguration of sny man as Preeldent whose title to tho ofice ls_not clear and unquestioned, bat tainted with fraud and befouled with crime, would, after the first Nush of succesd, and tha men who had canteibuted to {tsconsumma- tlon; it wonld be ayreat mational calamity, dls- bring derfsion snd contempt upon onr eystem of free, populargovornment, Resoloed, That it 1a tho duty of Congresa to take people as an carly day, not later than November next, Jtesolved, That NEnxanp G. CavLYIZLD, CanTER . Hannisax, and Joux V, Lx Morxe, tho Ropra- acntatives In Congress from the City of Chicago, be requested to use all honorable and lawful means to secore the object contemplated by these resolu- Any expression of opinion on a great na- tioual question that comes from pot-houso politicians ond ward.bummers is impudent and disgusting, but it is particnlarly offen- sive in this instance, because of the vital im- portance of the mattor under consideration and the ridiculous insignificance of the per. sons who undertook to iutorfere with it ‘The preamble and resolutions wa give above ‘would bave been treacherous and vile if they had emnnated from any respectable body of men, but fathercd and indorsed by fellows who ropresont nobody but themselves and their ofice-hunting greed, they simply show bow small minds can belittle great matters, ‘Thongh these resolutions were adopted nt a meeting of the Oity Democratie Executive Comuniitteo, wo have no desire to hold the Democratic party of Chicago responsible for thew in such & way a8 to juclude tho busi. nesa and professional men and the property- ownlng classes who voted for TiLoex last fall. Such old-time and irresponsible po. litical hacks ss Ouarrzy Caenow, *Col.” DBatpwin, Jaox Rounraee, Mixs Baney, ¢ and sich,” can scarcely be treated ns speak- ing the sentiments of the better element of the Democratic party in acrisisof thiskind; but men who bave something nt stake and ore regarded as Democrats must feel some- what ashamed at a party which enables a lot of strikers and blowers to give a sort of official cxpression to such viclous viows. ‘Thess Desperadoes have no higher idea of patriotism (not even excluding the younger Doovrirrrs and Pxny H. Surym) than party posscasion of spoils, and they readily demand tho breaking of & oontract, and tho viclation ment of physical strongth to loan upon for rupport, and it went down before tho White. Lino banditts like n eard-houso bofore the breath of a child, and had to ho rebnilt and propped up by Fedornl bayonetd. The Pacxanp institution is in tho same predics. ment, and, naless it be proteoted and kept in power by the army and navy of the nation for the noxt four years, it will disappear as suddenly as a sonp-bubble. The trouble lies deeper than the Journal wriler states, and is found in the timidity and dbeility of the freedmen. The pug- nncious, eolf.asserting spirit of the black raco wan repressed by gonerntions of servie tude and edueation into servility and non. resistance to white men. A generation or two of freadom will cure a partof this timid- ity. DBut nat present tho recollection of tha old shackles and averscor’s whip, and the habit of implicit obedionce to white mon, aro still fresh in their minds, and unnerves them. They aro afraid to strike back in de- fonse of thoir sssailed rights, or to revenge the most atrocious wrongs and indignities, —_— THE SEWERAGE APPROPRIATIONS, Tn spite of the most vigorous protest, the Oonncil has ngreed in Committeo of the ‘Wholo to appropriate $203,000 for construc. tion of sowors during the présent vear, in. stead of limiting the expendituro to 2200,000, ns recommended by the Comptrollor. This was accomplished by dividing up the amonnt to bo expended among enough of tha varions wards to securo & majority of the Aldermen, In vigw of the faot that this conelusion ‘must bo formally confirmed by the Council in passing tho bill, which gives still an oppor. tunity to provont the extravagant ontlay, wo are impolled to repoat what wo said on the subject yesterday. The sewcrs nro the most throatening vehiclo of Aldermanio cxtravagance. A sewer, besides serving as a condnit for refnso stuff of all kinds, is an underground avenuo to local popnlarity in the wards which are particularly favored. It offers a constant temptntion, thereforo, to Aldermanio liberal- ity with the people’s money. The appropri- ation for sewers resombles closely the River and Harbor billin thenational approprintions, inasmuch ns it opens up opportunities for iltimitabls trading, Alderman A will agroe to vote an appropriation Jarge onough to cover tho sowerngo demands of Alderman B's ward, it Aldermou B will do as much for Alderman A's ward, and 50 on to the end of tho chapter. 'This is tho danger, and it is imminent whon. the Aldermen begin to hesitato, and not past till the appropriations aro definitoly made. Tho estimate of $200,000 to expend on sowors during the present yoar is fully na high as the financlal status of the municipal- ity nod the cnpacity of tho taxpayers war- ront, It is o moro pretense to maintaln that it wns not intonded to include the $70,262 for tho construction of sewors already under contract. Of course, it was intended to cover all sowers o be constricted during the yenr, whether now under contract or not, and the pretonso that it was not so I8 merely de. signed to onable cortain Aldermen to lobby for work to tho Amount of $200,000, instend of only #$200,000. 'The city is already well provided with sewers, and can get along comfortably theso hard times with only such odditions os tho public health demands ; the sum of 200,000 is ample to cover nll the necessitics of tho case. To oxpond any ad- ditlonal amount, whether to gratify the local demands of somo of tho wards in which Al- dermon aro looking for re-clection, or to far- nish contracts for tha frienda of some of the Aldermen, will bo properly resonted by tho peopla who have to pay tho bills. The fact must be constantly kept in mind that tho city lins only just enterod upon the duty of clear- ing up thae floating debt, and that in times like these the struggle of taxpayers to sup- port tholr familics and moet their private obligations is so groat that they cannot on- dure any extra or nocdless domands for public exponditure. Wo are convineed thnt this protest fairly reprosents the sentiments of ninoty. nino out of overy ono hundred taxpayors in Chiengo, nnd in the event of the Council's poralsting in passing tho excessivo appropri. ation the taxpayers will expect the Mayor to voto this item, as ho may under tho law withont interfering with the remaindor of the Appropriation bill. . DUD; T 'S BCHEME, Davio Duprer Fiew, attorney for Tweep, Fisx, Govwro, Traoey, and others, ia tho ace knowledged leader of the Desperadoes and Obatructionists in Congress, Iiis latest proposition is to nmend tha not of 1702, pro. viding for the occupation of the Presidency in case of o vacancy {n both offoes of Presi. dent and Vice-President, as followss e it enacted, Dy tho Benate nand Tlouse of Repre- sentatives fn Congress assembled, That Sec. 147 of tho Revised Btatntes of the Uniiel Slates be smended soas to read as follows: ** Whenover, by reason of a fallure to complote the counting ot the Elcctoral vutes for Presldent and Vice- Presldent of the United Btates in the prosence snd under tho direction of 1he two Ilonses of Con- gresu before the commencement of the term of office In respoct to which tho votes wero cast, or from any other cauee, the oflicos of Prosident and Vico-Fresidentshall both be vacant, the Secretary of Stata shall forthwith causo s notitcation thereof to be given to the Excculive of evory State, and shall also cause the same to be publishied in st least —— newspapers printed In esch State, aud the Prosle dent of tho Benate, in office whon the Yacancy oc. curs, or hils successor in ofMce, shall act os Preal- dent of the United States untll the ofiice of Prc dunt 1s flllgd by election ns herofnafter provided.” One purpose in suggesting thissmendment is to sccure a recognition of the possibility of a failure to completo the count s required by law, which would be a point gained by the Obatructionists, But a more sinister de. sign is forecast by tho suggestion. It fudi- catea an intention on the part of the Despo- rado:s to contost the right of the President of the Benato to succeed to the Presidency under tho statate as it now stands, in case the count be not completed. The Constitu. tion ovidently did not contemplate a failure to count the Electoral votes, because it says thoy shall be counted, 1t made provision for o vacancy in the offices of President and Vice-Prosidept in the following langnage: #The Congress may by law provide for the cnse of removal, death, resignation, or ina- bility both of the President and Vice- Tresident, declaring what officer sball then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly, until the disability bo removed, or & President shall be elected.” In compliance with this a law was passed, using the phraseology of the Constitution, and providing that ‘‘In caso of removal, doath, resignation, or insbility of both the President and Vice-President of 'the United States, tho President of tho Benate, or, it there ia none, then the Bpeaker of the House of Represontatives, for the timo being, shiall 2ct a8 President until the disability is re- moved or & Presldent elocted.” 'This law further provides for calling a special election in the following November, or, to quots the exact Jangusge, ‘‘within thbirty-four days preceding tho first Wednesdsy in December,” ¢ is ovident from theintroduction of FyeLo's bill that it will bo sot np thit nefthor tholan- gunge of the Constitution norof the statute —* removal, death, reslgnation, or inability " —covers tho present cage, and the claim of the President of the Benato to mcceod to the DPresidency of the United Sintes will be disputed, Dut if the President of tho Senate conld not take the office, neithor conld the Bpeaker of the Houss, Then thero wonld bo no President, and no proviston for any one to discharge his dutiss. If this ground is tonable, then it only sffords an- othior reason why Congress should proceod to count tho votes and permit nothing to in- torfore with the inanguration of the person who shall be found to lave roceived tho highoest number of votes. Cortainly Mr, Freip's proposod amend- mont shonld not recolvo any favorable cone sideration, for it wouldbe not only a tompta. tion to defent the connt of votesin tho present instance, bud in futurs elections, ‘The Honsa now hna its temptation to defoat tho choice of Prosident by tho Electoral Col- lego in its reversionary right to chooss the President jteclf in case mo ono of the candidates receive a majority of all the Electoral votes, Mr, Freeo's bill wonld give the Sonate s similar temptation to de. fent n count of the votes, under. certain cir- cumstancen, 83 in that caso- the very porson who has chargo of the certified votes wonld succeed to tho Presidency temporarily., The fact is that the proposition of Ar, Frewo, nnd the faction of Desperadoes ho leads, is rovolntionary. They proposs to fly in the face of the Conétitntion. The Constitntion orders that the votes shall bo connted. Con- gress has proscribed by law tho modo of counting in the present case, Those who nre responsible for defeating tho count, therefore, aro planly violating the Constitn. tion. Tho threat conveyed in Mr. Firun's bill e that this rovolutionary design will not stop ot defoating tho count, but will next proceed to dispute tho nccession of anybody to the office of Prosident, and do its utmost to make ccnfusion worse confounded, and plunge the whole countryinto a turmoil that may result in tho destruction of tho Government. The schome s moro vicious and far-renching than some’of tho Obstructionists themselves imagine, and the end cannot be foretold if they succoed in their plot and refuso to lot the voto be counted and tho result announced befora the cnd of this weok. REVOLUTION AND MADKESS, The conduct and the epeech of the Demo- cratic press and party hava become so revo- lutionary that they caunot fail to soriously jmpress the country. The denuncintions are now directod againet the Electoral Com. mission, and it is openly clatmed, urged, and demanded that the judgments and decisions of the Commission shall be repudiated, and that the House of Roprosentatives shall de. claro itsclf no longer bound by the law, but shall proceed as an independent Govorn. ment to count the votes nnd declare a Presi- dent by itself. What are tho facla and the law applicabla to tho cnso? The Coistitu- tion requires that the Elcctoral voto shall b countad, and by law, dating back as far ns 1702, the second Wednesdoy in February following the Presidential oloction wns sot apart for that duty, By long-cstablished usage and pracedent, Congress has oxorcised a joriadiction over counting tho votes, and hos by law or joint actlon prescribed how and what votes should be counted. At this time the two Honses wero 0 irreconcilably opposed that no agrecmont on this subject waa possible,. Inview of thoponding calamity of n disputed election, it was proposed that n Commission, cousisting of anoqual number of Senators and Reprosentatives, with five Jus- tices of the Bupreme Court, should be ap- pointed, and that the pointsin controversy o8 to the counting of the disputed votes should be referred by both Houses to this Commisslon; that this Commission was, as a Conrt, to hoar and determine the questions of law snd to certify their judgment ns to the truth and justice of each cass, this judg mont of the Commission to stand s the judgment of the two Houses unless tho'two Housos should sat the samo nside. The law croating this Commisslon was voted for by overy Democratic Senator oxcopt one, and by all tho Democrats of the Houso” who voted except elghtoen. The Commission has performed its duty snd bas certified its judgments to Congress, and now the Demd. cratio mob fa howling that the Democratio Houso shall repudiate the law and set itself up as asoparate and indepondent Govern. ment. Tho Commission is donounced as a fraud. Thore {s no languago too vile, and no epithet too scandulons, to be applied to the membors of the Commission, The Dem. ocratic press is fillod with denunciations of tho ‘“orimes” of tho Commission, and the' catalogue of opithets dircoted against the Commissioners embracea cverything from pasassiny, porjurers, oconspirators, thieves, fools, knnves, to madmen, while the crimes range from murdor, theft, robbery, perjury, rape, burglary, mayhom, fraud, and bribory! For what? The Commission hns, under its responsibility, decided the cases of Floridn, Lonisiana, and Oregon, and awarded the votes ‘to Hares. The damor, therefore, is against the decisions, and be. canse the docisions are adverse to TiLpEN. As well might each of the 100,000 suitors in the civil courta of the country denounce the decislons of the courts and appeal to arma, This law creating the Electoral Commission is not an old law, but it is one proposed, framed, supported, and enacted by tha very Domocratic members who aro urging that ita decisions shall bo defented by rovolution, and the eleotion of n President defoated. ‘These men did not put in the law that the Commission should decids in favor of Tit. prN; but they did put in the law that the decislon of the Commission should stand a3 the judgment of the two Houses of Con. gress until the two Iouses shonld agree in sotting it aside. ‘That is the law of the land, enacted by Demoocratio votes, to meet the circumstances of this special case, It is use. less now to talk of the Florida and Louisjana coses. The law croated a spocial Court to do- cide these coses, and its declsions are tho law of the land. Revolution, under such circumstances, has not the mightest pretext of justification. ‘It is o shameloss, dishon. orable, and disgraceful demand by men who bave lost the patronage and the spoils they hod already bartered and sold. The denun- ciation of the Court is but & fit accompani- ment of the hreat of revolution, Whena nowspaper, which advocated the appoint. ment of this Commisslon and extolled tho character of the men composing it, now de- nounces the Commissioners as ¢ perjured prostitutes,” the madness of the disappointed office-seekers can bo understood, but the in- dignation of the American poople, who are not office-seekers, cun only be intensified by this vulgarity and indecency ss well as the dishonesty' of the press and the mob, who denounce the Court and counsel and appeal 1o revolution and force. Never was & rovo- Jution threatencd under such & barren p‘ro- toxt; nover under such circumstances of bad faith and dishonor on the part of those sho propos rovolution, and nover under a greater certalnty of provoking the mniversal con- tompt and abhorrence of the wholo American peoplo. —————— LUNAR MATHEMATICS. Mr., D. P, BLACKsTONE, C. E., of Beloit, Wis., has been for some time past Investigating the relative forca of attraction exerted on adistant bodyby tho esrth, dependent on the angle which the line of force makes with the planc of the equator. Ho clalms that this Investization will probably resolve the diicuity which (s now agitating the sclentiflc world through such men as Prof. Bistox Nawcoun and Bir Witniax TaoMPa0N, in reganl to Irrerularitics in the lunar motlon. It {s well known that the dif- ferenen hetween the results of caleulstion and of observation of the moon's placo sometimes amounts to several seconds of arc, and sning Investigators are led to suspect that these differences ¢nn only be accounted for by sup- posing the eart’s rotation to be subject ton small varlation in time. Mr. BuAcksTons has demonstrated, by a process which Is partly original, that the force of attraction at the pole is as 203 to 203, and at the equator as 0S4 to 0585 comparcd with the nttractive fores due In cach case to distance from the earth’s. centrej and it follows, there- fore, thal, for equal distances hetween the cen- - tres of thio carth and moon, the sttracting force and the angular velocity In the lower orbit va- rles with the deelination. This Is outside of the effect on latitude and nodal motlon, which aro already allowed for in the equatfons of motion. Mr. I, Tioa not yot fintshed tho integration of the effect due to fevolution through varying llmits of declination; so that it would he premature to say that e has struck out a point which will eliminate all tha now hidden error in the lunar theory, but it promises well. 1f suc- cessful, Mr. Bracrstone will have achioved a noteworthy success in helping to perfect the mathematics of astronomy. e et ‘There i8 coolness in the fmpudence of the Demacratic fMlibusters that Ia perfectly refresh- ng. They have cxacted from the seven Demo- cratle members of the Arbitration Tribunal con- tinuous support of overy proposition presented by tho menagers of the case, and they have by some specles of coercion foreed the two Demo- cratte Judges to vote agalnst law, State's rights, and the Constitution from first to lsst. And then they oponed nll their batterles of scurrilous vituperation and blackguard colthicts to force tho Judges of Ropublican anteeedtnls into tho support of the same erroncous propositions. Having falled to effect their end by such villainous means, they have undertaken to prevent the completion ol tho count by obstructive fillbustering, thus showing themselves as destitute of honor ns of falrness. At Inst accounts thoy had actually onrolled clznty-soyon members of the Houso into their bulidozing acheme. ————— The Arbltration Tribunal had to decldo be- tween upholding the Loulsfana bulldozers or tho Louisfana Returning Boand, Beven of the members voted steadlly to uphold tho bull- dozers; cight of the members voted with equal steaddiness to support tho canvass of the Return- ing Bonrd, For so doing they aro savagely bo- rated and abused by tho rufilanly class of Demo- crats, who at the same time laud the course ot tha seven swho atood by tho hallot-box stuffers and bulldozers through thick and thin} et The last report s that Donx PrATT was drunk. when ho wrote his article advistng the Demo- crats to nssassinate President HAxes on tho publie highway when he roda from Lis hotel to the Whito Housc: but he was saber enough to kuow the meaning of his advice. and he knew there wero plenty of office-sceking desperadoes who would be happy to sco the new Presldent tourdered onthe atrects of Washington, if there- by they could secure an office. —— Banyzy CAULPIELD, of the South Chicago Dis- trict, who was rojected by hisown party last fal), helng refuscd oven a nomination, has en- rolled himself among the flitbusters, and {s doing his Qlrtlest to prevont the vompletion of the Preafdential count. Who docs this individual supposo lie Is represonting by such unlawful conduet? ) According to reports that come up from Bpringleld, nobody hsa any right to the officoof Collector of Customs for this port unless ho has pardoned out of the Ponltentlary a long atring ol burglars, garroters, and especially murderers. Somo sentimentalist of the Bovens kind Is what they want. —— PERSONAL. Mr, J. T, Flelda latoly lecturod st Andover throo times in one doy. Mme, 8} Lkanaws moro nbou *4 Dear Robert, " York erald, **bringme s new bustle, Gov. Colguit, of Georgla, 1aa zoalons Mothodtet, and preaches every Sunday to the nogrocs in his employ. James Gordon Bennett 1s having 8 gay time In Parls, whore fow persons know of hls escapade ‘with May, The New York 1World han adopted the practice of having reporta of theatrical entortalnments in othor cities sent to it by telegraph, Talma ys Morrissey Is & bad man, and Morrissey orts In kind, This controversy In which no sensible man can ha erious in- tereat. Garfleld eannot well be the Speaker of the next Touse when the majority ls agalnst tha Republice ans, as it [s at present; there is no use In talking on that polat. . Tho Princess Salm-Salm's new dbook, *‘Ton Yoars of My Life," s spoken of s & vlvacjous and entertalniug sutoblography, which is **historyand something snore than history.* William E. Dodgo, Wililam Walter Pheips, snd’ s number of other Now York gontlemon heavily concerned In Texas rallivays, have gone toTlouston {0 protect thelr intereats. iz, Dodga is sald to bo thelargest Jumbor-owner In the Unlted States, An Intoreating hermit has been nnearthe wooda near Boaton, & 60-yoar-0ld Gorma haslived In & cave for about a year, but is now forced to the soclety of mon in the Houso of In- dustry, for despoiling bis noighbors' funces for firewood. Justico Bradicy, it s suggeeted, strixingly re- sembles tho late Andrew Johnsun, especially in prodle; and he wears tlo same sharp-poluted standing collar aud Dblack silk stock, while hiv Iron-gray balr is brushed dowsn smoothly after the manner of Mr, Johnion, ‘Tho Methodist ministers in Now York have been talking about Iimeracy, which s the perpotual source of discomfort in that hody, Ono clergyinsn was decidedly in favor of having a miniater who has {uvelgled s congregation into onilding & costly chureh obliged to stay untl) it fapald for, » A young woman in New York, the helress of one of the largest cstates n ths city, snd thewils of & (lormsn nobleman, has become jnfstusted with Mr, Charles Cogllan, the actor, ller affectionata disposition, when sheis placed In & prosgenium box, 18 so conspicuous sa toattract pablic attene tion, Mr. Gladstone’s article In tho January number of the New Church Quarterly Magazing, on *‘The Lifo of the Prince Consort,” has altracted a large degree of public attention {n Eogland, - and will probably csuse a demsud for a second edition, Mr, Gladstone fs, Indeed, » useful man in o msgazino; ho seldom falls to bringout s public excitement. ‘Tho Bpringfeld Repudlican asys: *) The Cincin. nati Coinmarcial takes 8 hand in tho Cabinet- making business. 1t len't very enihusiatic over McCrsry, of Jowa, but still tbinks that he wonld do. Asto Logan for Becretary of War, it qulte sncers at bis clalms and capacities. Wa suspect Logan wlll bava to take bls consolation and vindl- catlon in sowething 8 good deal smaller." ‘The long-promised sujoblograpby ot Harriet Mortineau s to be published by Osgood esrly’in March. It will make twa large voluwes in octave, and will abound lu rewminiscences and poriraits of bez contemporaries. Miss Martinesu had some rich Fersonal pxperiences In Americs, the record of which we may ezpect to find tn these volumos. Another notable pablication will be the Life of Chbarles Bumner, which {s promised by Roberts Brathers aibly says that Milwaunkee A DEFICIT. Postmaster McArthur Behind in His Accounts. Ho Went into Bankruptoy Sat. urday Owing the Gov. ernment $55,000. Of Thls, $21,000 Is fo Bo Credit- ed to the Cook Connty Na- tional Troublo. But the Remainder Was Sunk in an Unprofitable Iron Business. What the Sohedule of Assets and Liabilities Shows-—The Court- House Contract, * The Postmaster-General Notifled ==-His Subordinates in the Dark About the Affail ‘What His Bondsmen .8ay on tho Subject---How the Trouble Began, 1t Is Likely that tho Government Will Lose Nothing---Other Creditors, A ramor began to steal around the eity Sate urday, and was repeated with greater forca yese terday morning, to the effcct*that Gen. John MeArthur, Postmaster, was behindband In his necounts with the Post-Office Department to such a degreo that he had been compelled to re- shizn lifs position nnd malic a general surrender of his effcets. The reporter to whom the mat- ter was handed for Inveatigation found thal the rumor was in no respect exageerated; that the General had resfgned his position, was heavily Indebted to the United Btates Government, and had Saturday afternoon filed a voluntary petl- tion in bankruptey, According to this document, which {s given more fally below, his Ilabilities are $125,000.—~0(tecn odd. thonsand belng to the Post-Oflice Department,—and the nssets, somo of them of a nominal character, smounting to about $80,000. The first AiMculty with Gen, Mc- Arthur's accounts began in January of 1875, with the FAILURE OF THB COOK COUNTY NATIONAL DBANEK. Prior to the establishment of the Sub-Treasury {o this city, tho Cook County Natlonal Bank had been recognized as a Government de- posltory, and it was the habit of the Postmaster 1o deposit o}l of his funds there. By the act of 1860, United States officers baving publicmoncys in their hands wersrequired to deposit thom ina Bub-Treasury whersone wasavallable. Therefore, under ordinary cireumatances, it would have he- come Gen. McArthur's duty, after the estab- Jishment of the Sub-Treasury here, to have kept Iis money out ot the Cook County Natlonal and In the Sub-Treasury. But, by s special or- der of the Post-Offics Department, procured by political influence, he was dirceted to deposited simply bis surplus in the Bub-Treasury, and to keep in tho Cook County Natlona! enough to meet the current expenses of the Post-Oftice, which are very heavy, sinco it is by draft on this office that the mnil-contractors for & large portlon of the Western territory aro pald. When tho Dbank faRed, in 1875, Gen, McArthur had on deposit thicre $40,000, The Treasury Deportment setalned from the margin on the bonds deposited to sccure the hank's circulation enough to reduce the amount to $20,000, at about which figure {t has since re« mained, norhas tho bank pafd any dividends except the small one of 5percent which was declared, For this Indubtedness Gen, MeArthur s hardly responsiblo, since tha deposit of the funds in the Cook County National was due to the orders of o superior, and Gen. McArthur claims fn his petition, and with somo fustice, that ho Is not responslble for the smount. But this {8 a trivial matter compared with * TUB OTHER ITEM OF INDEBTEDNESS to tho Post-office Departmont, which foots up about $35.000. For many years Gon, McArthur haa been running an extenaive fron foundry on Torie streot on tho North 8ide. It has been his misfortune since tha panic that the demand for iron has fallen off and the price has gone down. While be hins had sevoral large contracts, yet thoy have not been suficlent to mako the busle ness profitable, and although ho had a superin. tendent, Mr. D. M. Ford, an exporienced man, who formerly ran Ford's foundry, on Clinton wstreet, yot tho works have naturally and necese earily - suffered. from the absence of thelr responsible head. Tho time which he devoted to the dutles of tho Post-Office Depart- ment was so much taken from his legitimats busincss, and he has anflercd tho consequences, Efforts were made at various times yestorday to sea Gen. McArthar for the purposc of got- ting from him, who alono could give it, a detail ed statoment asto -~ - THB WAY IN WILICH, AND TIE TIMB AT WHICH, the borrowing of Government funds.began. Although @en. McArthur was at home during the day he denfed himsell to the veporter, as id also his son, the cashfer in the office, and it Is therefors impossible to give the most {mportant part of thestory, It is very well undoratood that Gen, MeArthur has been hard up for a long time. Just how long ts not definitely known, but probably over a year, When he began borrow- ing Government funds is uncertaln, but presumably prior to Jast summer. At that time he made an effort to borrow from some Scotch capltalists tho sum of 850,000 on his foundry property. There was then, as at present, & mortgage of $31,000 upon . Ha stated at the time that he wanted to borrow the 850,000 in order to lift tho prior mortgage aud to make certaln Improvements in the works. But the presumption is, since he has borrowed from the United Btates $30,000, that his object in making the loan was both to 11t the prior mortgageand also to make good the presumable deficlency {n his acconnts, The tronbies fu the fron bustuess have by no means mproved since last summer. ‘The contracts which he had have not beon aver- productive, new work has becn scarce, and he found it jmpossible to tide over the time until money might begin voming In from the fron work on the now Court-Houss, In which it ' sppears he' bhad succeeded in securipg sn - intorest. It hus been considered unlikely fn polltical cirvles that Gen. McArthur would remain os Yostmaster after the ncw Administration camo fo. There was no proapect of catchjug up in that lmited perlod, 8nd e _therelors preswnably did the wisest thivg fu his power, and went (nto baok- ruruy atonuce. It ie 8lso belleved that ho had it in s wind last fall to resign bis poaition 8 Postmaster for -unnunmllg 10¢ same feason which has now moved flm to do ft, but that varlous motives kept him from scad- g ou s document which he had al- seady written out. The mumey taken froni the Poat-Ofiico revenue s belloyed to Lsve been sunk in the works aud in nothing clie. ‘The Gieueral was not extruvageut and had no babits, 1o simply borrowud a listls to tide ‘him over & temporary omcrgency, found him- sell upable to replace it, and kept on borrowing wore, all tho time hopig to catch up. While tho sutn whichs hias becn diverted tem- porarily from the Poat-Otlice funds way seein & large une, yet it {8 swall fu comparisqn with the total revenucs of the ottlee, 'The sum derived last year from the sale of stamps, tumm:& en- vulu}m, ele., amounted to about 81,000 % lfi‘: b een hot td e oehndind” 455,000 | wlinout s beiog . noticed at . Washingtou. Besldea thls, his sou was bis cashier, snd helisdy