Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 27, 1877, Page 4

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Monroe street, corner Frankilo, Grand Sacred Con- eee aS ‘TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1877, Greenbneks at theo New York Gold Ex- bohange yesterday closed at 9: " ‘The United States Supreme Conrt will on 4 “thursday of this week resume its interrupt- tz. -ed functions as a purely legal tribunal, and iH deal out eqnal and exact justice alike to + Democratic and Republican litigants. Tho 11 determination of tho Court to go into rogu- lar session Thursday tenotes n prompt sot- tlemont of the South Carolina case, 4 of $8,000 to the Health Commissioner,—n sum none too high for acompetent physician who complies with the.requiremonts of the ordinance and devotes his entire time to the duties of the office, When the scarlot fever shall have been conquered there will still remain the Bridgeport stinks to be collared * and thrown beforo hot weather comes again, ———_—— A third time the Courts havo refased to aid Mixx Evans in his impudent attempt to 4 secur the profits of an offcu to which he x, was nover elected, Judge Fanwenn decides {3 that the injunction restraining the County , Clerk from turning over the books to tho ‘bogus Collector shall remain iu forco, but is willing to modify ita provisions so as to on- able Evans’ lawyer to try somo other form »', of court proceedings if ho thinks proper. The resignation of Senator THunman as 9 + member of the Electoral Commission was a necessitated by his illuess, which, it will be xemombered, was so severo ag to confine him to his house on Friday lost, and the remain. der of the Tribunul proceeded thence and “ took the vote on Oregon in tho alck Senator's bedchamber, ‘Che prompt appointment, ac- ceptance, and qualification’ of Seuator Ken- Nan to fill the vacancy showed that the policy of obstruction las no support among the Senate Democrats, Mr. Hewrrr, whilondvising his Democratic friends in tho House yesterday to make the best of a lost cause, was confronted by sov- eral rampant, blustering ilibusters, and taunted with cowardice. Chief among thesa valiant knighta was tho man Carr, who has been misrepresenting the Eighth Wisconsin District during the prosent Congress, and the manner of whoso election has been proporly characterized and: denonnced by a Democratic Judgo befora whom tho caso wos brought. ate has only 4 few mora daysin which he can disaploy his extraordinary prowess in Congress, tho yotera of his dix. trict having soon fit to give his Republican opponent such omajority in Noveinber as to deter even a person with Carn’s assurance from attempting to stoal the stat, —_—_—_—_—— All Nova Scotia is convulsed with ao scal excitement. It had its origin in n question of precedence between certain legal gentlo- 4, q meu who have boen honored with the title id ¢ of Queen's Counsel—some of them by tho Provincial Governmont and others by the Governor-General's appointment. The dis- covery is made that the local Governmont has been using the old seal of the Province, instond of the seal established by the Queen's + proclamation in 1868, and that conseqyently , all official performances under the wrong ‘ seal aro of no nccount,—such as Parllament . proceedings, marriages, commissions, etc, ,/y fhe matter has been brought beforo the +1 Bupremo Court, ond it ia the opinion of tho ior Chief Justice that logislation by the Lritiah 4 '| Parliament will bo ucceasary in order to “} undo the mischief, :, The Democratio objections to the Eloct- ‘oral vote of South Carolina answer the purpose of killing time, but when It comes toa serious effort to sustain befora the Com- ,» mission this bundle of absurditios and con- tradiations, it will trouble the most ingenious \!: and hardened lawyer to get up an argumont, Even Davin Dupuxzy Fietp would probably ysbrink from such an undortaking. ‘Tho Democratic counsel ara to be allowod six Bours, and of course they will manage some- :/5,,how touse up their time; but the Republic. an counsel, who are anxious to expadite matters, will confine themselves to the few. * est possible words in which their aide of the ease can be presented. It is. therefore {probable that the case of South Carolina swilt be decided by the Commission this ‘sevening, and reported to the Joint Conven- {tion to-morrow forenoon. ' ‘There is just one moro trick that the Ob- tructioulists will resort to, and, like all. that jjhave preceded it, it will fail. hey will ob- <'jJect to a Wisconsin Elector, and by filibus- }* | tering motions will seek to prevent the reas- sembling of the Joint Convention after the two Housos shall have separated for debate. Dat they forget oue important fact—that, + jsVence -the Wisconsin returns have been 7 Yopened, and the two Flouses havo not agreed. fA j sto the rejection of the voto objected to, the {1 ffeount is complete under the terms of the +!) Electoral law, and the Senate can and will ,,m0 announce, whother the House joins in tho ‘elosing proceedings or not. Tho rteult of sf @ count will have become a matter of yecord, and if the House should filibuster fantil doomsdsy it could not prevent the in- : ft ‘Pugaration of President Hares and Vice- bE ‘y President Wurerze on Mouday next. = \his Whe Chicago produce markets were moder fi prately active yesterday, and most of then pwereeasicr, Moss pork closed 7}@100 per 4 peer at $14.15 for March and $14.40 for THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1877. April. Lard. closed So per 100 ths lower, at $9.62} for March and $9.75 for April. Menta closed Jo lower, at 4Jc for loosé shoulders, 7c for short-ribs, and Jo for short-clears. Highwines were firmer at $1.06. Flour was quict and weak. Wheat closed 1}o lowor, nt $1.24§ for March and $1.26} for April, Corn closed J@fo lower, at 403¢ for March and 4Afo for May. Oats closed Jo lower, at 13fc for March and S40 for April. Tye was dull, at 63c, Barley closed tame, at 4c for April and 4fo for May. Togs wero in light de- mand and ruled weakat 10@1i0 decline, with sales principally at $5,20@5.70. | Cattle wore active andeasicr, Sales were at $2,755.05 for poor to choice. ‘The sheep market wan quict and stondy at $:.25@5,50 for poor to choice, One hundred dollars in gold would buy $105.12} in greonbacks at tho closo. — Little by little we are getting at the real character of Domocratio Congrossmon from the Chicago Timer, Yesterday morning that meck and mild-mannered organ assured. us that Hewrrr is ‘‘a etale oyster"; Baranvis “a rock-rooted domagoguo" aud * paleozoic dizanl"; Tuuasan is a“ wabbler upon a pro- Adamite political swivel"; Le Morxzis “na lamb”; Canren Hanntzon is “a bag of wind"; Ben Hion is ‘ta blatant Bourbon mountebank"; Jonx Youno Brown is ‘a bloviant humbug”; Laman is “a buckbone- less poltroon "; Kennan is ‘+a political in- vortebrate.” This is protty good for ono day. This morning we shall probably have equally courteons and camplimontary pictures of more of the Democratio statesmon, “in this olags of political hunbugs of which America has no further need,-and who are perfectly certain to be speedily sent to their own place in political oblivion.” This is independent journalism! ee ‘The Raleigh (N. C.) ews, which is the recognized organ of Gov, Vance and tho Democratio party of tho State, in comment- ing upon the Oregon decision aa virtually awarding the Presidency to Mr. Hares, says: “Tho South will not suffer under Hares’ aduministration ; thera is avery assurance that ho will be both liberal and just to our section.” Itisonly fair to tho people of North Carolina to note that this oxpression represents the average sentiment as oxpress- ed by the nowspaper press of that State, and presumably the average sentiment of the people, ‘Thero was always a strony Union feeling in the old “ North State,” which, during the War, suffered some of the pains of martyriom, and which is ready to assert itualf at any cign of treason or rovo- lution, Some of the Northern Democracy might learn lesson in patriotism from all this, byt perhaps the Northern Democracy does not want tho South treated well so much ns itdoes a united South to sustain the Democratic aspiration for spoils, In the way of rolieving the pressure on tho Inw courts, a bill was passed in the Ili. nois Houso last Saturday which should re- ceive the prompt concurrence of the Senate, ‘Lhq text of the bill, which merely proposcs an- amendment to the existing statute, is as follows : All canres shall ho tried, or other#ise dleposed of, in the order they are placed on the docket, and the Court may direct the elerk to make out two or more trial dockets, and to place all causce Upon,notes and uther mustrumenta of writing for the payment of moncy only, and upon open ace comnts, on one of euch dockets, all appeals from Justices of the Peace on anuther of such dovkets,: and may enuse the distribution of causes upon separate dockets, as, In ita discretion, it may doem necessary and proper, aud tho Court may try or otheriwine dispoec uf the caurca in tholr order, on any of auch dockets an It may deem: proper. ‘There is every reuson to believe that tho adoption of this practica will bring great re- Nef in the Courts. ‘Tho maunor of docket- ing trials now in vogue keeps attornoys and litigants dancing atteudanco at tho courts in constant uncertainty oto when cases will bo reached, aud important suita are sandwiched in between suits on notes that will scarcely be contested and appeals from the Justices’ Courts, If a separate docket wero allotted to these two classos, thoy could be taken up atany sot time and disponed of with great rapidity, thos clearing up the docket, gotting vid of a largo number of dragging casos, and saving a largo amount of time to attorneys, clients, and witnesses, The business of tho civil couria could bo so systemntized on this busts a8 to dispose of a much Iarger portion of at in « given timo than at prosont. TILDEN: AS HE WAS AND 18, Thore was a timo when Mr. Sanucn J. ‘ViupeNn was a very important public charac. ter. Now ho fx morely a private citizon with a good many ugly ‘lawanita on hand, but with plenty of timo to give them hia por- sonal attention, Not to speak disrespoct- fully, Mr, ‘Trpen for # fow months past haa beon a very livo lion; but all st onco he Jing become a very dead dog. ‘fho likoness is suggested by the conduct of his friends and political associates, When Mr, ‘Tinpen was using that barrel of money where it would do moxt good, and whilo there was ® pros- poct that ho might becoma the dispensor of somo 60,000 offices, hiv frienty clung to bin with on enthusiasm entirety commensurate with the prospective abiiity of Mr, ‘PrupEen toroward it, Irom present mdications it will be but a short tlme till none van bo found so poor as to do him roverence, His 1s not oxacily the plaintive tameut of old Rip Van Winkle who cried, ** Are wo 60 soon for- got when wo aro gone?", but the recollection that fs cherished of him by is party friends isaltogother unonviable, being full of ro- proach and resentment. Had it fallen to Mr. Mares’ lot to retire to private life, he would havo been followed there with tho best wishes of bis party friends and even the admiration of bis opponents, Lut the op- ponents of Mr. TizpeN Lave been too sincere all along in thelr conviction of '{'u.pen's con- splouous unfitness for the chief office in the nation to change their opinion in the hour of his defeat, ond now oven his party friends are beginuing to desert him with ill-natured flings, to blame him for the defeat that has come, and toacknowlodgo that much that has been sald to his disadvantage was true. ‘That this disposition bas cropped out even before Mr, Hares’ title to the otlice has been finally and fully confirmed fs indicative of a good deat more tocome when the political re- inaing of SamvenJ, Trupen shall be formally laid away for good and all, Mr, Hexpaicxe’ ordor for Tinpen has cooled off considerably ince he discovered the overtures made by the Titpex faction to arrange inatters go that the House shouldclect Tiuven President, leaving the Scuate to elect "Waextes Vice-President. 1¢ was solfish and mean, in view of the fact that Henpnicxs had lost the nomination for President in the first place through Tiupen's lavish use of money, and then had taken the second place under protest $o help carry Trrpey through, Mr, Henontcas’ faith in human nature was naturally sgood deal impaired at being de- serted the moment Titpey thought he could help himself by sacrificing Hexpaices, It is uot surprising, therefore, that Gov, Hexpnices should now say freely that, “the Electoral Commission having gone according to the result ia the clection of Hares and Wnezneu.” Hexpnicns ao- cepts the situation almost complncently, and is opposed to the tactica of the Dosperndocs, Of course, he thinks that the present defeat will inura to the benefit of the Democratic party in the noxt clection, but that is very likely becatse he expects to head the ticket in 1880, instend of playing tail to Me. Ti ven’s kite, : “The Washington Sunday. Iferald, which has bad nothing but good words for Tuyen during the campaign, now rebels at tho sug- gestion that he will again Lo candidate in 1880, and speaks right outin meoting. It rays plainly that Democrat{o defeat is mainly to bo attribnted to Titpen's dictation through the campaign, and the disreputable methods which he adopted to achiove suc- cess, His “cooking tho primarios,” ‘snlt- ing” the politicians at St. Louis, mak. ing monoy. the key-note of the cam- paign, establishing the Liborty Street Literary Bureau, receiving and sending ras- cally cipher dispatches at Gramercy Park, and rimilar incidents in Mr, Trnpen's carcer as ncaniidate, are openly donounced, and it concludes that it is proposterons, ‘aftor such an ignominions and disastrons expori- ence as this, wo are asked to train undor ‘Tirpen in 1880," Mr. Le Mornr, one of the Democratic Congressmen from Chicago, liko- wiso reflected the sentiments of a very large number of hie own party when he saidin Congress tho other day: ‘If Mr. Tiupex could only be mado President by getting the vote from Oregon in opposition to the vote of mamoajority of the people, ha had better re- main a private: citizen, If Trnpen sither directly or indirectly consented to the pur- chase of a Republican Elector, ho desorves double condemnation from every man who supported him.” Of conrse wo are only just. beginning to get at the “trie inwardness " of Domocratic sentimont as to Br, Trnpen in the attitude of an ex- candidate, Whon Mr. Hares shall have been inouguratod, sad the last hope for Democrat- ic possession of office shail have disappenred, we may reasonably oxpect that full confos- sion which is good for tho soul, and which is nover so natural as on a denth-bed, It is not unlikely that the Democrats will find TazpeNx to bo as black as his opponents painted him during the campaign, and oa good many of them not of the offlce-secking class will con- gratulate themselves and the country that ho did not succeed in solzing tho Prosidoncy in the disgraceful manner in which ho sought it. —_——e THE SHRINKAGES: 1873~1876. ‘Tho panic of 187% was tho sudden arrest of on overwrought and exhausted credit system. Tho period sinco then has been a time of arduous recovery, dow,-and in countless. casos vain, aud, genorally, the recuporation Protracted. Quo of the great interests which succumbed was that of railroad construction. ‘The old system of building railroads, with at least one-third or more of the capital in cash, . had been abandoned, and roads wore built, equipped, and put in operation oxclusively by the uze of.bonds, With bounds, sold at n discount, land was purchased, grading paid for, trou bought, labor hired, aud roads equipped; holders of bonds could borrow money on them, and bonds were ns plentiful in the market as the most needy of ‘borrow. ers could demand. But'tho collapse of this unlimited credit was reached. BMouds ond stocks, ropresenting thousands’ of miles of railway comploted, and na many moro milos partially completed, ceased to havo any value, The only substance behind thom was that of unproductive railways mortgaged for threo or four times the amonnts for which tho some could have been’ constructed with eash, That was throe yonrs and and tho moro #g0, process of re. ducing this. indebtedness to somo thing in proportion to tho valuo of the property has becomo a nocensity. Tha Railway Age recently. published o list showing tho names and the milengs of com. pleted and operated railroads which, during 1876 nlone, havo either been sold undor fore- closure, or, having proviously defaulted and having failed to resume, have been marked for foreclosure by tho appolutments of Te. celvers on tho action of bondholdors. These figures show that roads with a milenge of over 14,000 miles. snd reprdsenting &200,- 600,000 capital havo taken stops towards a reorganization, This mileago fs nearly oqual to ono-fifp of tho railway mileage of the country, A tly ono-Ufth of the cap- ital, Horo, then, ‘¥ 900,000,000 of the capi- tal of tho country locked np in tnproductivo investment, What will be the outcome of the reorgauization—thatis, how much of the original investinont will bo rosoued in any form—romains to be seen, but tho contrac. tion will reprosent tho sum extinguished, Tf to this bo added tho enormous shrink- ago in the value of rcal estate,—nas well that improved in cities as that in suburban lots anil uitos purchased at largo prices for spec- ulation, and in which large suma were in- youted in part payments; the shrinkage in the value of the iron-mills and furnaces, sud- denly deprived of all their largo’ business; the shrinkage in the values of all other kindrod establishmunts, factories, mills, mine ug ond lumbor proporty, shipping, and the transportation interests, with the fall in the income from rents; the losses on merchan- dise, stccks on hand of manufacturers and of many hundreds of thousands of dealors; the losses on lifo insurauce, and by dofalcations, ombezzlementa, aud by the wastoaud plunder of tax-eating governments, rings, and organ zations,—there can belittle wonderthat times have beon hard and remain so, Whon this annihilation of credit, destroying or burying so much capital, is considered, it is no mya: tery that business has been depressed, confi- dence weak, recuperation slow, labor idle, and poverty increased. It will not be natil the work now going on in railroad ‘securities ahall be completed genorally, until thu false shall bo oxpelled from the real, the shadowy from the substantial, ond all values rest on a real aud not a fictitious basia, that the rosto- ration can be permanent and general, ‘The inflation of credits began in 1861, and" progressed rapidly until . 1805, not pausiug even then when the War was over, ‘Tho era of rapidiy-gainel fortunes, sudden accumu: lations of wealth, and extraordinary extrava- gance in personal expenditure, was of noces- sity marked by the most frantio efforts to get rich by short procosges, and honce spec. ulation assumed its wildest forms, This speculative manis grasped ateverything, and the struggle'of craft and betting on good luck continued for elght years after peace ad beon restored, ‘This was the time when bonds, snd notes, and stocks grew so abundant, and took the place of actual capital, Men were educatedto believe that cpsh wos wholly uunvcessary as capital, that bonds were oqually yood, that it was unneces- sary to have cash for monoy, that notes, even irredeemable ones, wore oven better than the precious motaly; then mortgages and trast. deeds were exsouted with reckless’ facility, each man taking all tho credit he could, and no ono stopped to consider tho matter of payment. The immediate present. And not the future oceupiod men's thoughts. Bold and reckless speoulation was recognized as presclonce, and hundreds of millions wero borrowed on the mero repniation of daring. At ia not strango that thore wasa sudden aud. calamitous ond to all this, but it is strango that so fow had oxpectod or prepared for ft. Tho twolvo years of persistent gambling contd havo but the one end, and -yot man. kind was astonished. Multitudes to this day shut their eyas to tho causes lending up to the collapse of the credit system, and ascribe their inability to pay their debts, and tho shrinkage of valncs, to some imagin- ary contraction of the currency. Evon now, after threo years of dopression, the falling off in proruction and consumption, the vol- ume of currency has scarcely experienced any perceptible reduction. Thoro nro still 700,000,000 of irredeemable paper money in cironlation, or lying idle on deposit wait: ing inyostment. : ‘The contraction which has taken place has been that of credit,—a contraction of personal and corporate ‘credit; notes and bonds issued by the ream nro ng longer avail- ablo for loans, or marketable for cash. Tho first, second,’ and third mortgage bonds of impecnnious corporations owning unpro- ductive railroads, or other operative works, have all about tho same want of value, and are equally unavailable os assets. Tho facili- ties for gotting into debt no longer exist as they did in the speculative days of riotous credit, The business of getting rich mnd- denly by jssaing bonds and watering stocks haa closed; wealth is no longer mado by additions to the solling prices of town lota, or marking up the prices of goods, Mon can no longer enrich each other by swapping “cata and dogs,” and ‘at values written among the millions. All that fictitious busi- ness is at on end, and the same work which wo have mentioned ns going on in the matter of railroad valuations—the coming down from tho fancifal to the roal—mnst be car- ried throngh to tho ond in all lines of busi- ness, Credit and valuo must be brought to ® common standard, and thus, when tho $900,000,000 invested in those foreclosod railways shall be reduced in amount to cor- respoud with the productive value of tho property, and the speculative investments in all othor ines shall experience the same re- organizing process, thon confidenco, and credit will revive, and in that revival will bo ® ronewal of prosperity, production, and of national and individunl wealth, ————EEEEEEE PAKE LANDS, Toon what arounda doce the Journat think ti Doard contempiste to condemn addltivaal tat Ang une or two militons more ta uur taxes?” ws suspect, {8 purely tancifal. meni ney would not dary fo du It if they could, and could not sf they would. Tribune At the very last meeting the Board voted ‘'to condemn additional land," and it is well known that, under the old Jaw, they ara compelted to add one of two milllions more to our taxes, by con- demning more. If this statement fs ** fanciful," we beg Tux ‘I'n1DUNB to correct 1t,—Eeening Jour- nal, Upon inquiry, wo find that the “additional land" which the Con:missioners have takon steps to condemn consists of a number of small lots, not to be added to the parks, but which belong to what is known as the West- ern-nvenue boulevard, All tho. Jandin that boulevard was purchased years ago, except a few dotached lots which could not thon be purchased, and cannot now bo purchased ; they aro necessary to complete the roadway, are comparatively fow in number and small in size, and “ thousands,” instead of *mill- ions," would more properly describe their cost. The law makes the boulevards part of the system of the purks, and these odd lots fre necessary to fill gaps and angles in tho road which has long since bean Inid ont, ond with these exceptions reduced to possession, While on this question it may not bo out of.place to repoat what Tus Tninoxs has already sald, that tho purchase of aby land whutever for the Southeast Park was a gront misfortune. ‘That park was unnecessary, aud addod greatly to the cost of the whole business, . Insteady therefore, of buying any inore land for that or any other of tho parks, the Commissioner who should propose it ought tobo removed. Solongas the Com- missioners shall refuso to pay fancy prices or extravagant prices for land within the original legal limits of tho park, they will be sustained by goneral public opinion, uven if it leaves such land unpurchased for the semninder ef this century. Tho park debt and park taxation are fully as large as tho public wish ther to bo. COMMUNISTIC BUNCOMBE, Tho Chicago Communists aro again upon tho rampage.: Upon every cecasion of 50- cial, commercial, or political agitation, they come to the surface with thelr insatiate de- mands that they shall bo maintained at tho publio expense, and fed from tho publi crib, without giving any reasons why they should be supported while others labor uncomplain- ingly for their living, and are satisfied with a day's wages for aday's work, economizing, planning, and saving aa they best can to eet the demands of thelr families and lay up something against the rainy day. __Imme- diately aftor the great fire, when evorything waa in confusion, and the business-men of Chicago were iryiug desperately to get upon their feot again, aud were laying their plans to givo employment to thousands of work- ingmen, these public pests swarmed in the streets, discouraging those wyo wished to work, and domanding that they ahould be aupported in idlonoss, When the panio came, they roso again to thesurface, demand. ing that public rotief should be fur. uished them, threatening to mob public officials, fnelting strikes and riots among lumberyard-men, bricklayers, utone-cutters, and others, and otherwise secking toencourage and foment etrife ond geuoral confusion, pending which they inight secure some public plunder, Now,in the midst of public suspense and general uncer. tainty as to the political outlook, once more they are on the rampage, demanding such amendments to tho Homestead’ law os shall make them wards of the Government‘and compel it to furnlah them with money, im- proved farms, seeds, implements, provisions, machinery, live-stock, and all the appliances of a farm which other men have sccured from the fruits of their Iabor, ‘The propo- sition is tantamount to the demand that they shall by supported in idleness by the indus. trious, hard-working people of the United Btates—a demand as impudent as it is im. practicable, and as absurd as it ia audacious. It is not worth while to demonstrate the absurdity of their demand, or to point out the torrent of evil and corrup. tion that. would sweep over the country if such a dangerous precedent were once set, Itis not even necessary to indicate how unjust it would be to capital,” or how dis- heartening it would be to honest labor, to grant the wolfish, insstinte demands of these Chicago Communists, who seem to excel the worst element of their class in audacity and viclousness, and who, as parasites, belong to tho lowest order, not having the shame pf the French Communists or a spark of the intelligence of the German Socialists. There is no sorious argument to be made with theso social pests, but let us assume that the Government is weak enough to give each one of there brawling Communist freo- lanchors a farm, farming-tools, live.stock, and alonn of money. What then? Thera is notone of them who wofld not sell out his bounty to tho first bidder. There is not ono of them who would live on a farm, work on a farm, or perform the hard drudg- ery of a farmer's life, even if-he had the capacity and intelligence to do it. Thora is not one of theni who could be enticed away from a lifo of idleners in the city even if he wore offered a farm flowing with milk and honey, and that would raise’ crops as spontancously as weeds, Work is not their ambition. The problem of their parasitic lifo is to obtain a living without work, by drawing their eustenanco from the body politic, and any form of employment that would call thom from the cities where Com- muniats alone can live in this manner would be scouted by thom. There is no danger that the Jona fide Communist will ever be found where he cannot hang around beer sa- loons or whisky shops, “bum around” primaries and elections, and dead-beat upon industrious people, How much farming, for instance, would Kast. Kutnas do, or ony other of the Communiatio leaders; and if ho sent out the ignorant mob whom he leads and controls to work a farm, what would he do for a living? Thore is a reme- dy for the outrageoum raids of Communism upon society, and it Nes with the workingmen themselves, The advice of Tae Cnicaco Tninuxe to avery man who works for a living is to shan Communiam, to keop away from their meotings, to let Kann Kuros and his crowd alone, They only keep themselves bofore the publié by draw- ing workingmen into their lazy ranks and moking them discouraged with thelr condi- tion. THE FIGHT IN CONGRESS, The battle in tho Houge of Representatives over the counting of the votes reached protty decided point yesterday, The Dospe- radeos wero violent and insulting. When Hewirr made spoech counseling modera- tion and submission, he was hooted at and stigmatized as 8 “coward.” A Mr, Oate, of Wisconsin, who, two yoars ago, was fraudu- lently declared elected by two votes, when, as was subsequently decided by the Supreme Court of that State, he was really defcated, and’ who was defeated by his constituents last November, made himself conspicuous by his furious denunciations of all who would not unite in dofeating the count of the vote, After five hours of struggle, «the vote of Pennsylvania was counted, When the next State, Rhode Island, was called, objections wore made, and the two Houses separated. ‘The tilibusters at onca renewed tharr tactics, In the moantime, there seems to have been & revolutionamongthe Democrats, 'Thoscenes | of the morning scom to have brought to many 6 realizing senso of the disgraceful position which tho party was assuming, snd also to a senso of tho poril to the peace and intorosts of the country. As if by provious consultation, Fznvaxpo Woop made 5 motion haying tho effect of cutting of all farther filibustoring, and the motion was unexpectedly adopted by 183 yena to 67 nays, Tho last figures show, therefore, the real strength of the Desporado faction in the House. Over 100 Democrats voted for Woon'’s motion, including all the New York Democrats except Fier, who retains hie die- gracefnl position as chief of the Obstruction. ists, The dobate.on- Rhode Ialand then Progressed, and subsequently the voteof that State was recorded. South Carolina, having tho returns of two sets of Elootors, was re- forred to the Electoral Commission, and will probably be brought to decision on Wednes- day. After that State thera will remain®to be counted Tonnesaco, Texas, Virginin, Ver- mont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, which, allowing three hours each, will consume eighteen hours of continuous souion. It is declared by Democrats on the floor of the Honso that the voto shall bo completed on ‘Thursday, and if the apirit shown yestorday in the vote on Woon's motion be adhered to the vote will bo counted on that day, In the nicantimo, the Democratic party in the House is responsible for tho long delay. It has os n party oncouraged and tolerated these Obatractionists, nud led them on to the most rovolutionary and disgraceful threata and procoedings. It was time for the party to rodeom itself from the reproach, It was time that the party should disavow any further countenanca to the achemos of these wretched, disappointed, baffled office beg- gars and expectants. Tho names of theso sixty-sovon official crim{nals should be post- ed from ono end of the conntry to the other, and should be held up to the scory and con- tempt of.tho people whoso intcrcsta they have throatened and whose trusta they have betrayed, These mon have proved not only false to tho nationat honor by trying to de- feat tho law, but they have violated their own honor by refusing to abide the pledgo they themselves enacted. ‘The Detroit Tribune would favor the eleo- tion of Morrow as Presidunt pro tem, of the Senate in cane the Desperndoes succeod in filibustering and preventing the completion of the count until the 4th of March; but it suggeste a difficulty, which it thus states: ‘The fact that Senator Monron is a*tiember of the Electora} Commission fs, however, a serious ob- stacle to thie programme. The President pro tem. of the Senate must be in ble eee ¢ each meeting beence makes necessary the Ing officer. How could Sen- stor Monton attend the theetings of the Electoral Commission and at the same time preside over the sessions of the Senate? Ho don’t need to attend tho sessions of the Commission, as he would resign therefrom as soon as elected President protem, The Senate can fill Senator Montow’s place on the Commission at sny moment, It need not occupy more than five minutes, Tuun- Man, who resigned on account of sickness, had his place filled instantly by the choice of Keanax, of New York. Besides, the Commission has but little more todo; all the important queations have been deter- mined, —_—aee It is reported about the streets that Gov,’ Buveuivgs, alter dcad-beadiog down to Bpring- field, circulated a petition around among the machine pollticians asking Gen. Hargs to ap- polut him to the office of Collector of Customs for tho Port of Chicago, Next, asthe report oes, he dead-beaded himself, on Sunday night, Uowa to Columbus, carrying bis self-peddlod petition to lay before bis Excellency, tn the ex- pectation of extorting a promise of appolnt- ment out of the President-elect. If thls ls not takiug time by the forelock, whatla? Hedid not walt for the completion of the Electoral count, nor the announcement by Congress of any candidate’s electlon, but carpet-bagged post-haste with his importuned petition and letters of indorsement. It scems never to have occurred to him that it was a most undig- nifled act for an ez-Governor of the great State of IUlnols to bo guilty of, such was bis ravenous appetite for office! Me could not have been = fmpelled by hunger for ofke such as that’ felt by the Jong-expectant, hope-teferred, heart-sick Democrats, because he has rolled in office ever sinco 3861; has had acarnival of office, having rotated continually from one office into another. ‘White ho has served the machine,’? he has made the “machine” serve him. There 1s a alight suspicion vibrating through the public mind that this premature and unseemly raid, Sunday night, upon Gov. Hares will not square with the General's notions of civil service rc- form. ———— OBITUARY, 4ONN OxEXrOND. ‘The cable a day or two since brought tho In- telligence of the death of Jonn Oxsnronp, the well-known dramatic critic and author. He was born at Camberwell, near London, in 1812, and was educated for the law and admitted to the Bar tn 1833, As his preferences wera literary, howerer, he determined to devote himself to authorship, and lis first eQorts were transla- tions, among them EcksrManx's ‘ Converza- tions with Goethe," “Tho Autoblography of Gocthe,” Jacon's “Hellas,” and Fiscusn's “Bacon.” He subsequently becamo a dramatic author, and waa attached to the London Times for many years ss {ts dramatle critic. He pro- duced ‘several ponutar pleces for tho stage, among them ‘My Fellow Clerk, “A Day Well Spent," "Porter's Knot," “Twice Killed, and + £456 Is. Od.," and alsu made several adapta- tions from tho French. At one time his critl- clsme were full of vigor, and were carerly watched for, but after he became a membor, uf the clubs, and grew Intimate with actors, his criticisms lost thoir independence and came to be regarded with tcss respect. Ho visited this country about five yeara ogo, and wrote a serfes of Interesting letters on the American theatres to the Times. MAL-GRN. AMOS FR. EATON. — ‘ A dispatch frum New Haven announces the sudden death of Maj.-Gen. Anos b. Eaton, of the United States Army, while visiting his son, Prof. Eaton, of Yale College. Ile was born In New York, and at the tine of his death was 7I years of age. Ie entered West Point In 1823, ‘and graduated in 1826, and was iminediately promoted to .a Second-Licutonancy in the Second Infantry. In 1834 ho was mao Firet-Licutenant of the Second Infantry, and was cngaged {n the Florida war until 1811, During the Canada border dis- turbances, he was on duty on the Northern frontier. At the outbreak of the Mexican war he was appointed Chicf Commissary of Bub- sistenca of Gon. Taytor's’ army, and was prémoted to the rank: of Brevet-Major for bravery at the battle of Buena Vista. Ho con- tinuedon commissary duty at St. Louls, San Francisco, and New York until 1861. From the outbreak of the Rebellion until 1864 he was dopot and purchasing Commissary, and during these years was made Major, Lieutenant-Col- one), Colonel, and Brigadlcr-Gencral.- In 1805, for faithful service, he was appolnted Brevot Major-General. In 1874 ho was placed on the retired Hist. . ORITUARY NOTES, 5 Among other doatns. of prominent persons which have recently occurred aro, those of Dr. Jonn T. Tzspie, of St. Louls, the plonecr of homeopathy in that city and founder of the Homeopathic Medical College of Missouri; of Joaquin Cuapnas, one of tho most emiuent of tho Spanish artlets; and of Maj.-Gon. ‘ Fran- cisco Vicexts Acuitena, formerly Vice-Pres!- dent of tho Cuban Ineurrectionary Govern: ment. The New York World ts fond of making this kind of a rafd on {ts opponcnts: ‘Thies ie the rort of Reape who make President In the he of diegrace 1877: dg. Mapison Watts. Zact CHANDLER, Kenner, Rumsoller. W, BM, do. * B, Caxrnon & Son, jobbers. W. P. Kxttoad Manous Steanne. . FP. Montom, D. I, Cuanpentarm, Euiza Pixgetox. And this ts the aort a rrealdent thoy make: r. b. hayes, Tho [ndfanapolis Journal demonstrates that this sort of writing {s ex¢remely casy, and gives an impromptu {mltationof the SVorid’stuquoqua style: ‘This is the sortaf people who would like to make Prealdonts in the year of disgrace 1877; : Joun Monntssry, game **Col" W. T. Pruton er. (Secretary). Keuty ($8,000), Bors Stuur Patnicn. Brit Hottaxn, Groven, CaonIx's nose, D. Dovrer Freip (Bint Hewitt (**soven more ‘Trerep's Tombs " ‘ "8 Te lawe mules"). - yer). Ana thls Is tho sort of President they would makot 8. J. Tinpsx (Income-tax perjurer, railroad- Wrecker, pleader of ntalate of lin- itations tuevade just debts, and the {Investor of ono imillion dollars in the pool for the Pres{dency). a The London Zimes of Feb. 7, commentingon the successor of Mipnat Pasa, Prime Mints ter, who had fallen, says of him: Enngx Paans, who succeeds him, sat with Sar- ver Pasita ad one of the representatives of Turkey atthe Conference. Io waa principally distinguinh- ed by an altercation with the French ileniputenti- ary, the Conte ve Cuatnonpy, The two repre- sentatives of Turkey svom to have had it In chargo to asaume an indifferent, not to way dlareapectfu domcanor towards thoConferonce, Reference be- ing made to the massacrcs fn Bulgaria ax justifying the demand for guarantess, Roem Pasiza ros ant Tetorteion the French representative by acking whether what had heen done in Jiulgatia was worse” than the Sti of St. Bantiovomgw, and oth- leon out of the religious dissen- ML pe Vornaoixn,.the French ¢ Porte, did not allow this ally fo paws uunoticeds He fustly ubscrved that thoy ad not to do with the ‘crinics of past, ages, bi with those of the preaont timo; that the h: comiplained of in turkey wore recent and atill ¢ thued; that he had the honor ta belong ta a people which did not aswtesliaw Chnaula or witnesses. Ie will be seen by this anecdote that Kone Pasta ta quite ready to etand up for things Turktah, and the ifference between him and his predecessor will hot consist in tho readizess of the new Sinteter to abandon any advantage or privilege which his peo- ple possess. Epuxm Pasita might have retorted with some disagreeable allusion to the atrucitics of tho Commune Government, aud the bluody manner fo which it was suppressed, i The Louisville CourlerJournal eays, In reply to Tux Trinunz, that “The controlling spirit that antmates the Democracy is the spirit of. honesty and fatr play.” There are exceptions to ali rulos, Including the one laid down by the Ct It was neither honesty nor fair play that controlled the Democracy fa the Crontn bus{- uucss; there was ut honesty coough to boast bout in the payment tu him by TLpsy uf $3,000 for the fraudulent part he agrced to play. It was wut honest on the part of Gov, Guovea to steal an Electoral yote for TiLpan in w State which he ‘himself sdmitted Trpzx did not carry, ‘aud it was not very honest in TILDEN to send 817,000 to Oregon to buy an Elector in a State which be conceded had voted for Haxxs; and what shall be thought of the “honesty and fair play " of the seven Demo- cratle arbitrators voting that Hayzs was only eutitied totwo Electors in Oregon, when the Btate fa entitled to three, and the vacancy had been filled according to the Jaws of that State? ‘Tho brutal bulldozing that was practiced in the fivo strong Republican parishes in Loulsians, does the C.-J. claim that also as an example of Democratic honesty and falr play? The Louisville CourlerJournat says that “Some of the Republican journals are shifting about for excuses for the partisan majority of the Electoral Commission, and wlidly endeavor- Ing to say something that will boleter up WELLS and bis gang of ballut-snatchers.” Tuere would have been no charge of ballut-box snatch- fog 4€ the bulldozers had not frst stuffed them. Watts only took the stufing out of them. It were e pityto disappoint the bulldozers after they had gone to so much trouble fu’ beating and murdering colored Republicans snd fright ening them away from the polls, and then atuff- ing the ch; it would have gratified them so much if the Commission had rebuked old Watts for tnterferiig with the little gaine, and reatored to the polis the bogus votes he threw out. ——— Miss Exrwa Apsort, the cantatrice, seems to ave mot with a bard fate ia New York. When she first appeared in public a few weeks ago on the concert stage, she was advised by somo of the critics thatahe was hardly good concert singer, but perhaps she might excel iu opera, Now she has sung in opera (“The Daughter of the Regiment”), anit the New York Tinea sayy “Mt would bo aivisablo for Miss Annotr to once again challenge public opinion In a muri, more in accor! with tho taste of the day than ‘La Figtis.’ Tho World eays: It would have been asad day for GAETANO Dosnizetty if he had lived to near this performance, Perhaps {t was as well alter all that he dicd in that mait-house at Ivry, five snd thirty years ago.” All thisis pretty hard for Miss Ket. 1690's proteze, who has been written up and Dlographized so asaiituously. a Tho 'S. 2. observes that “ Public opinton in New York just now fs absorbed by the con. Gratulations on the arrest and threatenca speedy trial of Jox Conury, the pugiliat, why has been murdering peopte and keeping a saloon, with Impunity for somo years. Uls specialty, after lis wife (who soon expired), has been polleemen.’* —— Looan's {dea of civil-ssrvico reform: To fit his embezzler's vacated place with an imported salary-grabber. Grant, who hns four daya' more sands of official Ilfe, lends himectf tu the scandalous performance, i ee Is not the bankrupt morning daily dumping rather too many of its bankrupts into Federal offices In this city! — PERSONAL ‘The sale of prize-packagos will Ikely be pra. ' hiblted hy the Michigan LegisIature under a pen- alty of 9500 fine or a year's Imprieonment. Gen, Tchernayef, who has ina email way beens Mon in Parie for some time past, recently pald a visit to Victor Hogo to carry him the homage of tho Sclavonic people, ‘Tho person who has heen writing eo largely on the study of Greek in Harvard is Mr. Thotons Da. vidson, an Englishman or Scotehman, profelent in Greek, but knowing next to nothing aboat the col. lege or ita graduates, ‘The atadenta of Harvard College,” says the Woman's Journal, **do not w how to behare themeelvedin padlic places. At all the theatres of Boston the ‘Harvard mob" bas mado fteclf seen and heard in vulgar force, ‘One of the prettiest women in Romo Just now is & young American bride on hor wedding tour, the Countess Von Linden, daughter of Mrs. Loring Andrewe, of New York. Sho lately married the Chancellor of the King of Wartemburg. ‘The . '*{ndustrial-procosston-and-carnival-pa- geant " tomfuolery in actnally to take place on the Ath of April in New York, The affair will prob- ably degencrato Into a big advertising turnout, Masks will be prohibited, in accordance with the Jawa on tho subject. 5 : George Alfred Townsend attempts to speak ina frlondly way of the Donn Piatt arsausination edi- torial. ‘*It{!s not an assault upon hiecapacity,” writes Mr. Townsend ewoctly, **to say that ho ts by nature altogether a moral {dlot when he ay proachos public discuasion of public procasses,"* ‘Nicolini, the tenor who hae cloped with Pattt, knows what marital infellcities aro, Ho com- plained In tho divorce'Vuit against his wife thatahe was exccsslvely jealous of him, and used to walt forhim at the winge during his warm love-pas- sages on the stage, and bor hi soundly when hs cane off. In noticing the death of Mr, Vanderbilt the London Spectator says: ‘In America it ie not considered quite rivht to make a will without charitable bequests, but Jn England nobody ex- pects # great landlord to leave sixponce to any- ody but his own people, and, as arate, ho fulfila expectations.” Women are obtaining employment In England os tlcket-rellors at etations. On the Continent they are notouly ucen at railway stations, but almost invarlably fn the box-oMlces of theatres. Tha work {s congenial and light, and calls Into play thedezterous and nimble fingers that have made women wo unefnl in our own Treasury Department. * Mr. George Fawcett Rowe, tho netor and dra- matic author, wadmarried in Canada last week to Mies Kate Girard, an actress, aged 19. Misa Glrard will.be remembered for her fino sonation of Marlanna in ‘*The Two Orphans" with the Union Square company hero lost summer. She was, moreover, the Invalfd whom Loulea Maw. thorne was watching the night of the accldent which terminated tn the death of the Intter. William Pattorson, of Edinburg, fs about ta publieh anew library edition of the poctical ant prose worka of Robert Burns. The poems and songs will occupy threo volumes, arranged accord. Ing. to the date of composition, Each poem, ballad, song, and letter, accompanted by a concen editorial note, will comprise all that le known of the cirenmstances wnder which it was written, aod of the pereons and events to which {t refers, ‘The Rev. Charles T. Brooks tins addressed to the Boston Transcript a tottér anda poem in correc: tion of Whittlor's poom entitled ** Skipper Ireson's Ride." Mr. Edward King's letter from Marble- head, written in 1869, and widely quoted atthe timo, fully rehabltitated Irceon's good name, pare rating the treachery of his crow, who throw on him thelr erie of neglect of the shipwrecked seamen, and tho repentance of his townsmen for the mane ner in which they had treated hit. Prince Massint has set atl Rome to tatking by In troducing theroa fine London two-wheeled cab. ‘The Vatican people taughinuly call him half mad, bot he Js only a Iittls too practical and senalble for tho ald ccremonious notions of bis set. The cab Je very neeful In the harrow and crooked ‘streets of Rome, The prejudice against it, however, te very strong; the guards refused to admit it to the Pinecto, while ababby four-wheeled **traps," io all stages uf decrepitude, were passed without mo- Ieetation. : ‘The New York correspondent of the Springfeld Republican anys Mr, A. P. Durbank's lute sories of olucutionary entertaInments In that clty wore mont auccsssful, Hie closing’ performance at Chickering Mall was adriliiant affair, The placo waa crowd: ed, and the best people in the city were there. Ha slaughtered himself in ** Hamlet," but recovered his lost ground In the humorous aelectione, Mr. Burbank fsa native of Chicago aud a graduate of the Chicaxo University, Hu is under #0, and is not, Ike nioat Prophets, without honor in hie owo home, ‘Tho Washington correspondent of the Cincianatl Gatette senda tho following, which will be read with pleasure by all who have had opportanitics to observe the many admirable qualities of the lady of tho White Houea: ** We shall miss Mrs, Grant with her kindly, motherly waye, which time sod position, and the homage eure to be given under tha circnmstances, have not altered for the worse, Bhe goes frum the White-Hoare the same aimple- hearted woman, the same dovuted wife, the same analous, loving mother who, elght years ago, took upon herself the srduous duttca of a Prealdeut's wife.” - ‘Tha Comte de Noe, the dreughtaman who hu Just received the Legion of Honor for ‘exceptions! services, is the well-known ‘*Cham’ " of Charizarl, Mie peoudonym bad # peculiar slgnificance. Mis father hada repugnance to his adopting the pro- feaston of acaricaturist, The young man, there- fore, to avold dishonoring the family name, called himself **Cham," which is the French form for Ham, 83 Noe ts for Noah; #0 that the signatareim- piled his being disinberlted, or at least in disgrace. ‘The objection to decorating # comic-artist, which had loug excluded M, de Nos from the Legion of Honor, was at lest walyed on account of hile con- spicuous merits, ‘Dr. Fellx Adler's rationaliom, and eepectally bis attack upon tho rite of circumclaion, have disgust: edthe Jewish Messenger. Ut says: **The perse> cutlon Le coarte ts not hls, the attacks he expects bave no existence,—what he dreads most is indif> ference: and this te the strongest weapon that 33 be wielded against nim. Lot it be simply coder- sood that no man who bas any respect for hie Bible of bia religion should participate in these services, and we can well atford to leave the mastor spirit to bis admirers and apostles, who, having themselves broken the Jaws that thelr fathers obeyed, andthe creeds that they loved, are now eager to find ex- cuse and pardon at the Ips of thelr mellluous Tectucer."* 4 ‘The penal code of California provides, it will ‘be remembered, that courts may have discretion to sentence wife-beaters to ba publicly whipped. Although noone has yet been puntshed in this manner, the fear that the courts may exorcise the discretion givea them in the manner Indicated 1s sald to have bad s restraining and very healthy in- fluence upon the wife-beaturs, An appeal ia now being largely wade through circulars for the pass age of similar Jaws in the Eastern States, and cut unlikely this result will follow in many instances. Public opinion would probably justify the sound whipping, with or without leyal process, of every wite-bestor in ihe land; and ff tho lush could be well laid on by @ cummittca of women—who sre proverblally merciless tn mattors of this kind—tho ends of @ pogiic justice would be still more coms pletcly mot