Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 3, 1877, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE SATURDAY, MARCH 3, }877-TWELVE PAGES. The Tribwe, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, BY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE FREPAID AT 1 3 atty Eaition, postpald: 1 Parteaf A JTAL, per inont ddrees four L PR =B &5k B3k § Une copy, Per Yool Cinbof 1én... Clubof twents, Postage prepal Fpecimen eoples sent free. Toprevent Aclay anid mistakes, be sure and give Post- e addressin fal, nclnding State and Connty, Hemittanceamay te nade either hy dratt, express, Fort-Oftice order, or in reglatered letters, at our risk, 7RIS TO CITY SURSCRIDERS. Ir, dett ored, Sunday excepted, 23 cents per week. 11iy, delfversd, Sunday Incinded, 30 cents per week Address TUE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Curner Madiron and Dearborn Chicago, Il Tel 1 TAMUSEM. Adelphl Thentre. Monroe strect, corner Dearhorn. ‘‘Marked for Lite.” Varlety entertainment. Afternoon and evenlng. Hinverly’s Thentre. Bk v A mtan ottt agement of the Solder B, Eu Fiuictie. " Eycuing, - Cniiperic™ and * Trial by ury.” MeVicker’s Thentre, Madison street, between Dearborn ngement of Gencvieve llogers. 0an ALd cvening. —_ BATURDAY, MARCH 38, 1877, te. Ene Ru-“ uller." Greonbocks nt the New York Gold Ex- chaugo yesterdny closed at about 953, s St iodsub o Tha report of the Bilver Commission was presented to Congresa yesterday, and its con- clusions aro given in the dispatchos this morning. The subject which the Commis- sion was appointed to consider has been al- most lost sight of during tho exciting scenes in the closing hours of the Forty-fourth Con- gress, but will hereafter command the atten- tion which its great importance deserves. PSS ket Tho decision of the United Btates Bupreme Court aflirming the constitutionality of the THlinois law regulating warchouso and elova- tor charges will be promptly recognized and acted upon in Chicago. Notice was given on 'Changs that the grain warchousemon of this city will comply with the law forthwith, ond they have nlso decided to take out licenses a3 soon as they can bo procured, Tho last meeting of President Grant's Cabinet was held yesterday, and n largo nuwount of routine business wns transacted nceessary to put the premises in order for thoss who are to come into possession shortly, A bricf visit from the President- clect in company with Gen., BremsaN was nu agreenble interruption, and at the close of tho sessfon President Graxt took a formal leave of his constitutional advisers with a little speech-making, interchange ‘of cordisl sunliments of regard, and mutunl good wislies for the futuro. — The report of the Senate Louisiana Com. mittee wns yestordsy submitted, No at- tempt is mnde to predicate tho result of tho November election in that State provided there had beon no restraint imposed upon tho exerciso of tho frauchiso, but the ro- port coutains figures showing tho regis- twation of colored nnd whito voters in all the parishes, and, after stat- ing the Republican majority ou the face of the roturns in the forty parishes in which no bulldozing was proven, presents the fignres in the soventeen parislies whero terrorism and intimidation provailed, from “which the iuovitable inference is to bo drawn that upon a free and fair vote the Republicans would have carried Loulsiana by from 10,000 to 12,000 mnjority. And this {5 undoubtediy the truth about tho mntter, Sonator KeioR has snceeeded in possing the second "Town Eloction bill through the Sencte, after adding the Supervisor to tho Canvssing Board, as waa proper. This bill is supplemental to the first, and onablos tho somo set of judges to act for both city and town elections, and requires that thero be a Dballot-box for town officers at overy elty vot- ing-place. Our advices from Springficld yes- terday wera to the effect that tho IHouse was only awaiting the passaga of this second bill to toke them both up and posh them through the Iouse. In this case, there is no excuso for further delay, and there ought to not to bea singloobjection or negativonoto in the llgusa to the two bills, which will save to all the cities in the Btato the oxpense of ' one extrn clection, and which will provent the town bummers in cities from stufing the Dallot-boxes, It seemed to be a mattor of urprise among the Democrats in Washington that President Haxes, upon hia arrival in that city yester- day, moved about the streets and publio ploces just like any ordinary citizen agalnst ‘whom threatenings and slaughter had never - beon breathed. Thix quist gentleman just from Obio dropped in at the Capitol as” though nothing hnd happened, oa though no such aufual as a rubid and ferocious Democrat infestedthe wildsof Washington, Hereceived nuwerous calls from Bonators and Represen- tatives who have been his political adver- wnries, but who, after their brief aud plensant interviows with the Prosident-elect, could find pothing but complimentary thinga to suy of him. Invariably marks of respect und courteous treatment wero encouutered by the distinguished visitor who bas come to stoy, and nobody doubts that tho new Vresi- dent will continuo to win the estcem and good will of all parties, Under the Boythern polley {nsugu- rated by thoe jnstructions yeaterday forward. ed by President Grant to Gen. Avaunat New Orleans, directing that officer to rigidly ubstain from any intervention in the contest between the rival State Governments, except 80 far us may be necessary for the prevention of disorder, mob-violence, or bloodshed, the people of Louisiana will be aorded amplo .opportunity to demonstrate their ability to wanage their State affairé with such pru. dence sud moderation us to render Federal interference unuecessary, They cun uow prove to the world that political strife does not involve political murder, and that there is no ground for the apprehensiony that the withdrawgl of military protection from the Pacxaep Governwment will be fol- lowed by a massacre of Republicans. A juiet and peaceful solution of the Loulsiana somplications, such os is now invited by the . thange of policy at Washingtou, is what will most effectually confirm the new order of things throughout ths incoming Adminis trution. 'Tho Chicago produce norkets wers active yesterday, and provisions wera weak, while gruin was irregularly higher. Mess pork closed 82§¢ per brllower, ut $14.45 cash and §14.00@14.62) for April. Land closed 350 per 100 Ibs lower, at $9.57} cosh amd tho appropriations for the current fiscal year, and while there has been and is some differ- ence of opinion as to the allotment of the moneys, the general result is satisfactory. Tho sappropriations finally agreed upon are only a fow thousand dollars more than as originelly recommended by the Financo Com. mittee. the fund for consiructing sowers, but that amount was taken from the item appro- printed on account of floating indebtedness. If tho Legislaturas shall pass tho bill for col- lecting the bnck taxos, the appropriation to apply on the floating debt will not be needed. The @tolal appropriations but a little more than #4,000,000, which leaves but curront expenses nfter deducting the intorest mont over tho Corvin regime, which appro- printed at the last opportunity it had at the rate of $6,000,000 a year for current ex. penses, vailed sufficiently to indlice a reconsideration of the vote of n per diem compensation to the Aldermen. This was a dangerous inno- vation, and there is no telling to what abuses it might not have led. On the whole, tho public kas much roason to be gratefal for the consistent cconomy which ‘the presont Council bng exercised, nnd the experience ahould teach taxpayers that it pays to mnke an oxertion to olect the best men they can find as Aldermen, 1am A, Waerzos have boen respectively de- clared clected President and Vice-President, history of the untion, The Republicans had an advantage in that the better clements of the party kad tri- umphed at Cluciunati in the nowlination of Qov. Hayes, but they could not rid them. nrelves entirely of tho responsibility for cer- tain abuses suro to fasten upou auy party after a long tenuro of powor. ‘Tho Domo. crats mado thelr campaign, but the bhollowness of the §9.70@9.77) for April. Meats were lower, at fio for loose shoulders, 7ic for short-ribs, and 8e for short-cledrs. Highwines were steady, at $1.00. closed jo lower, nt 91,22} for March and 81,244 for April. at 40} for March and 44}e for May. Oats closed steady, at 33} for March and 36}e for May, firmner, at 48}c for March and 47} for April. Hogs wero active nnd closed easicr,—sales at 25.40@6.00 for common fo choico grades. Cattlo.were falrly active and unchanged, with sales at $2.05@5.10. Bheep were dull and lower. Flour was quiet and tamo. Wheat Corn closed jc lower, Ryewas firmer, at G3e. Barley closed One hundred dollars in gold would buy $104.75 in greenbacks at the close. R A———— The bill enabling the people of Cook County to elect an entirely new Board of County Commissloners, which was intro- dnced enrly in the session by Senator Ropiy- soy, has at last como to a reading in the Sennte. casioned by some misunderstanding, it hav. ing been referred to Sonator Kemor's Com- mittee, but Benator Ronrxson having with. drawn it, for some reason or other, however, that this misunderstanding is dis- posed of and the bill is fairly bofore the Iegislature, both theso gentlemen should unite their energies in pressing tho bill for ndoption. and energy in the mnatter of town elections, and e must not now woary of well-doing. Tho same enterprise in belalf of the Connty Board bill will be crowned with success, and the matter involved is of even as great im- portance to Cook County na the change of the town elections. 1t scerus that a delny has beon oc- Now, Sonator Krmor has shown pluck Tho Gom;n n 1 have agreed upon The sum of §100,000 was added to arg little over $3,000,000 for account, This is a very decided improve- Wo are glad that good sense pre- THE LONG AGONY--A REVIEW, Now that Rurnenvono B, Haves and Wirr- and threatened anarcby has been definitely nverted, it may not bo \inpmfllah\o to take a review of the principal incidonts of a strug- glo thot is without parallel in the politieal It is more than elight months since the Presidontial campaign began, which cannot bo sald to have ended till yesterdsy inoruing, whon the result of the connt waa declared in the Joint Conven. tionof the two Iouses of Congrest. The Cin- cinunti (Republican) Convention met Juno 14, 1876, nud the flerconess of tho approach. ing struggle was foreshndowed there in tho obstinaoy with which the friends of rival candidaten contended for the nomiuation. Gov. Hayes' chauces for tho nomination then hung in the balance very much as they did subsequently for tho Presidency, and it was only by meaus of o tacit com- promise and union among the opponents of JMr. Braive that the latter was defented in Conventlon, Loss than two wecks lnter the Democrats assembled ot Bt, Louls, and thero ensucd n strugglo equally dotermined, but characterized by more uuseemly mncthods, Toawmmany was on haud with its Chief for its candidate, aud it set out to purchase the prize it could not win by honorable means, ‘Fho friends of Mr, Hexpnicks wofo afterward concillated by offering liwn the second place on tho ticket, Now the campaign was falrly opened. “reform” the catchword of protenso beoamo . boldly apparent to intelligent peopls from the chirao. tor of tho intriguing politiciau who headed thoir ticket aud the disreputablo agencies omployed in urging his claims, Pennsyl. vania having abandoned its Octdber election, tho battle-ground seemed to be in Ohio and Tudinag, and it was hoped that the prelimi- nary elections in those Btates would so sure. Jy forecast the resnlt of the Prosidential cou- test that the country wonld be relieved from any sovere strain botween Ootobor and No- vember, DBut theso clections left the strifo ag uncertain as beforo, Oune went Republic. an by a small majority aud the other Demo- cratic by o amall mojority. 8o the fight had to be ronewed with euergy by both sides, The Democrats now started out on their “ utill-huut * under the personal divection of their Presidential candidate. 'The South was expected to retum tho entire Electoral vole for TiLoexs aud HeNonicam, by foul means i¢ it was not possibile by fair means, and thero was a caleulation aud arrangement to capture ‘Wiscousin to add to New York, Now Jersey, OCounecticut, and Indianu among tho Northern Btates, The ltepublicaus, perfores, abane doned some of the Houthern Btates which would have yoted for Haye) and Wuexren, i¢ o full and froe vote could have been we- cured, This was true of Misslssippi and Alabama, But in Florida, Loulsians, and Houth Carolina they struggled bravely against the Riflo Clubs, the Regulators, the ** bhull. dozers,” intimnidators, aud murdercrs, O the moruiug of the 8th of Novewber it was certaln that Tizoxy and Hevpnicxs would have 184 Electoral votes, and goveral States— notably Florida, Louisiaus, and Sounth Caro- lina—were still in doubt, At this point, where ordinarily a Presiden. tial campaigu iu ended, the struggle of 1576 Lad but just begun. Up to ibis time the chief interest Lad been confiued to the pro- fessional paliticians ou either side, and, if anything, there had been less popular ex- citoment than usual in a Presidential strug- -and honost title to the Presidenoy. gle. Bat now, when it became apparent that the resnlt would be disputed, tho entire people, under (he apprehonsion of civil strite, took alerm and becamo more concerned than in any preceding election involving the Presidenoy, The lenders of both parties to srome extent, but particularly of the Democratio parly, did what they could to excito partisan passion, and appealed in the strongest terms tq the ready rosentment of the American peoplo to nnything like cheating. Gradually all tho States dropped out of account except - Loui- siana. There it was admitted the Demo- orats had deposited soveral thousand more ballots than the Republicans, but the Re- turning Board of the Btate, under anthority of the law of the State, after purging tho roturns of tho frauds, found n majority of {he logal votes for the Republican Electors. It now became ovident that tke Democrata intended to resist the counting of Louisiana's vote, which gave Hayes his mujority, DBut how? The Constitution of the United Htates failed to stipulato in express terms who should count the vote, One 1fouse of Congress was Republican and the other Dom- ocratie, and they could not ngree upon any provions mode of counting. Ilero was dead-lock, which cithor threatoned nsurpa- tion on the part of one Houso in Congress oron onforced resort to a new election, with an interregnnm of several months. In the ona caso thers would have been open revo- lation ; in the other case anarchy, with the most threatening pussibilities. Tho country was appalled. Business was suspended. Thero was torror in the hearts of all men who Lopod for peaco. Itwas at this jmnct- wure that McCrany, of Towa, introduced his resolution for n joint committes of confer- enca to devise nmesns for counting tho Tlectoral vote, That Committes, with but a single dissenting vgjce, roported the schemo for the Electoral Commission, which was ndopted by a union of the two pacties, but ono Democrat voting against it in tho Sen- ato and only cighteon in the House. - ‘The details of the organization of the ZElectoral Commission are sufficiontly famil. jar, It wos au agreement for arbitration nc. cording to the lnw. and facts. Tho ablest mon represonting both parties were «choson {o serve on it, and tha ablest lawyers in tho country argued tho ease. Thero has virtual- 1y been but one decision: by this Gommission, yiz.: that Congress has not, and henco tho Commission had not, the nuthority to set nside or Interfore with the’ constitutional right of the Btates to,appoint thoir Electors in their own way., To take the casc of Lonisiana o on {llustration : That Btate has by law constituted s Returning Board and conferred upon it judicial powers to seruti- nize the roturns of the Btate and purge them of frand and irregularitics. The Presidential Electors of Lonisiana nare sppointed by o majority of the votes es found and certiffied by this Returning Doard. The Electornl Commis. sion decided that Congreas had not the powar of going behind that finding under tho Con. stitution; and, however the Detnocrats may resent this docision now whon it happens to bring them defont, the day will come when they will recognize its wisdom snd rejoico that no precedent has been established for the conirary, Wo have no disposition to hold the Demo- cratic party respousible for the dastardly effort that was made by n band of Congres- sionnl Qesperadoes to violate the compact and law o8 soon a3 it becamo ovident that Tioex would ‘not bo declared President by tho Commission to which they had assented, The conspiraoy has falled, and Rurnenronn s, Hayes will becomo the President.of tho United States, peacefully and honorably. The present cry of * Fraud! fraud!" sug- gested by rage, will not Iast long, for it has no basi, The Commiasion decided nccord- ing to law, as It was bound to do, and it was empowered by Congress to give a full, clear, Tho cose, on its merits, turned én Loulslann. Had the Comunission been authorized to scrntinize the popular voto of Loulsiana, it would Lnve been months before n decision could have been reacled, and tho Cominise slon. would have defoated the purpose for which it was created, since a new election would have beon necessary. As it is, the quostion of the preponderance of fraud in that State fs necessarily an open one, with the advantage on the Republican side that the Haves Electoral vote was awarded by tho Returning Board according to law after purging tho popular votes of the fraud that had beon committed; bat it cannot in any case Lo maintalnod that Haves' title to tho Presidonoy la deflclent in any cssentlal, THE GRANGER DEOCISIONS. The Bupremo Court of the United States bLas, by decisions in a series of cases, afirmed substantially tho right and autliority of the Loglslnturea of the States to establish wmaxi- mum rates to bo charged by railroads for the transportation of freight and passengers within the territorial jurisdiction of such States. Casea involving this principle wero taken to the Supremo Court on appeals from the StatePof Iowa, Wiscousin, and Minueso. ta, aud” from Iilinols, and in each case the constitutionality of the Btate legislation is afirmed ‘by the Buprome Court, all tho Judges concurring excopt Justico Frern, This is the end of along controversy which at one time promived to be an augry one, but which practically hos lost much of ita consequence becanse of flie financial changes which have ocourved./ This legislation had its origin in the unquestionable extortlons of the railways. For several yoars following the War tho majority of the ronds wore run on the principle that there must bo divi. dends amounting at loast snnually to 10 per cont, To do this, money was,borrowed to make repairs and cover operating expenses, and, between tho exactions mn the way of perquisites and salaries to the officers and large dividends to stockholders, . there came @ necossity for demanding enor- mous and excessivo rates for the transportation of freight, - and this was Taore especially on routes where thero was no competition and but one road to wmarket, The sim of the railways was to get tho greatest possible sum of money for the least possible service, They preferred to run one train of ten cars & given distance for $1,000 than to run ten traing tho same distauce at $600 each. The sccommodation of the public was left out of sight altogether, end the monopoly, standing on the high ground of irrepealable charters and vested privileges, was defiant and unylelding. 'Ihe outraged popular feeling at last took form in the way of public weetings, conventions, and organizations, which indue time resulted iu legislative enactments, These laws wero at first crude and jwperfectly digested, but eventually there grew out of t1%m a systom of laws. The Btates prescribed maximum xates foi « dch class of roads, and then classi- fled the roads, the rates varying dccording to the cds—dfication. Against thess enactments the ra! sads combinel, sowse going to the extont of refusing to receive freights at many points and in drawing off trains. Judicinl proccedings against tho companies carried tho whole question to the SBupreme Court, % In the meantime n change had taken place. Tho panic had altered tho complexion of the railroad monopoly. transportation business. It hind reduced raile way securities and rallway oredits, It had put one-half the ratlway mileagoof the coun- try into practical bankruptey. many hundred millions of railway stock out of oxistence, and snspended interest in s magny millions of other forms of indebted- ness. Railronds have become an article of merchandise sold regutarly at auction, not by capital atock, but nccording to value, includ. ing a preforred portion of debt, The oxpens. es of running railways have beon reducod; dividends are fewer and smaller, mont has become essentinl to life; business i sought; and railwaya now transport prope erty in such incrensed quantitios that, conld they collect therefor tho old rates, their earn- ingawonld disconnt those of the most prolifia bonanza. The rates have so fallen that the popular complaint which led to Btato logise lation no longer exists. Nevertheloss, tho decisions of the Conrt are no less important as determining the principle of constitutional power. For the present, each Stato may establish meximum rates, to be considered reasonable, beyond which the transportation companies shall not oxact, for the carriage of passengers and freight. Railrond compauies and tho people will now both recognize the principle as set- tled, and with snch unanimity by the courts 88 to precludo all probability of a chongo daring tho next half century. Railrond com- panies will now understand the obligations under which they hold their chartored privie leges; and, though the controversy lins prace tienlly censed, the establishment of the con~ stitutional question will servo ns a guide to all partiecs whenever an occasion arises heros after, AMERIO We have oral occasiona in Tnz Trinune to the rapdly- growing trado in American monts which has recontly sprung up in Great Britaln, and lave explained the method of transporting fresh meats by refrigerating procosses. These processes have been perfectly snccessful, and thero is now no longer any difficulty in take ing o oarcass, sloughtered {n this country, ond landing it in Liverpool in n sweot and frosh condition, the stenmer's refrigerator, however, into another temperatare, it must be utilized im- mediately or it spoils, For a timo this difi- culty stood in the way of on immedinte de- velopment of the trado, but this has been overcomo, or will be, by a plan proposed by Mr., Tatrenian, which a stock company iy to put into immediate operation. The plan, which is given in detail elsowhere, contom- plntes the excction of an immense rofrigera- tor building, covering an acre in extent, which will be one vast, cold, dry nir-cham- ber, and will continue oxaoctly the same conditions to which the meat was sub. jected on tho ocean voyage. 08 it arrives it will be placed in this building. Exactly how long it will' keep fresh by this process bas not been determined, but it is known that it will keep long enough for mar. kot purposes without having to be forced up- on it for immodiato snle. Thus far everything looks favorable for tho Amorican meat trado with Europo, but a now contingency hns arisen which may seri- ously disturb it. The English have not only been very quick to scize upon aud adopt the American plan of proserviug meaty, but they nreabont to avail themselves of the widest np- plication of it by extonding it nll over Europe. Ono of the heaviest trading firns in London is about to fit up its Meditorranean steamers with the American rofrigerating appavatus for bringing ment from Spain. 'The Austrl. nus havo also agrecd to deliver meat in Lon- don within three days by the samo process applied to railroad cars, aud the Loudon L’imes intinintes that the samo nrrangements can bo made with Rusxia, whero meat can be bought very cheap. ment would tap the groat Hungarian plains of the Danube, with their onormous herds of cattlo, and, in general, the English plan will utilize the meat-producing power of Europo, thus introducing & most formidable com. petitor with the Amorloan trade in meat, as thero I8 now in whent, and ona that msy run us ont, especially by the great advantage it has in distance and chieapuoss of freights, if not also in prices, wa have the advantage of cheap land nnd labor and illimitable productive powers, and it 14 an open question whetler the Continent, with its crowded population, can supply meat {n such large quantities as to drive us ont of the flold altogether. THE ANIMUS OF THE FILIBUSTERS. ‘Tho animus of the desperate and riotous filibustors in Congress and of the “howling mob out of Congresa, in opposing the find- ings of the Electoral Cominission, in seek. ing to delay tho count of the vote beyond the 4th of March, and, falling in that, to in. augurato revolution and socidl anarchy, Is now clearly apparent. been filled with a gang of bummers and desporadoes from overy part of the ocountry ever sinco the arbitration upon the Electoral vote commencod. partisan scum which is bred in overy com- munity, and which in times of soclal ngita- tion always floaty on the aurface, ravenous partisans have been waiting all winter in Washington, expocting to get of- fices, They Lad already parceled out the plunder in their own expectations, and were ready to seiza t'e officos aud enjoy them. ‘They quartered themselves upon the saloons and boarding-houses, and, when they were not engaged in threatening and bulldozing Republican and egging on Democratio mem. bers, they spent theiy time in card.playing, whisky-drinking, and hurrahing for TiLoy. They were loud in their asseverations of “ representing the porty,” as such creatures always aro, ‘They nbused the Commission, to which they were originally opposed. They were in favor of bulldozing the Elcctoral business through Congress, and urged upon the Democratio members that the House should count TipeN in, in the ‘Tammany way. and Tieven's chances faded out, ond Biste after State was counted for Haves, thoy be- came desperato. They rusbed $o tho Dem. ocratio papers and filled them with editorials, lotters, and dispatches of the most malig- uant description, nssalling Republicans, abusing the Supremo Court, flinging mud at the Flectoral Comuission, but principally singling out for thoir vengeanca those Dem- ocratic members of the House who bad the mauliness to abide by their eovenant, to keop their plightod faith, and to resist any effort of the filibusters to prolong and delay the count. recent articlo in the Chicago Z'imes, written by one of these hungry brutes or dictated to QGen. Kernay, its editor, and sent over the wires, gives a sample of their Billingsgate and vouoin Dint for this outrage of the suprema law, this dingrace of the Supreme Reneh, this shame of the Ameriean nation, the men at Washington, choren to represent the Amcerican peonte, who, like craven cosvards and traitors, sbandoned fhelr trust and abdicated their function in favor of o collection of politieal quacks and Judiclal harlots, aro and will be helit responeible. They know that Dnantey and Brnoxa, and the beel-witted lowa pligatlic wore partlsans of the most bigoted rorl. They knew that these two men were appolnted to the Supreme Dench to perpetrate a mean and mer- cenary outrage agalngt public justice in tho Inter- estof certaln swindling rallrosd speculators, and that they did tho dirty work of thelr nwners un- flinchingly. Yet to men of their character they surrendered the ofico thelr constitnenta rent them to perform. They have earned tho politieal dam- natlon which the people will certalnly award them at the earllest opportanity, They have covered themaelves with humiliation, disgrace, snd ob- loqny. Henceforth no man shall speak of the Forty-fourth Congress with respect. This howling mob of disappointed, des- perato partisans was nnder tho leadership of a frantic minority in the Lower House, whose infamous conrse wna inspired by the samo causes, or perhaps wo should have said that this minority was under the leadership of the hungry lobby outside, ahd the two com- Lined kept up the factious, riotous, aud viclous opposition until dnylight bogan to glimmor, and the President of the Senate had offlelnlly declared tho elcotion of Mr. Hares, when they slunk away to their holes. The Congressionnl mob, headed by such biather¥kites as Oavrererp and BpriNoER, was mainly composed of men whose time is out, and who, not beingre-elected, expected, liko tho outside elemonts of thie gang, a largo slico of the publio plundor to compensate them for their loss of seata in the Iouse. Thoy bad their oyes upon the foreigu mis. sions, tho post-offices, the route, pension, and Indian ngencies, the gaugerships, and tho numerons other opportunities for spoils, These they Lave lost also, ond must now roturn home to face tho indignation of their constituents and find themselves barred out of all futare candidacics. They have the ndvantage of a salary to get homo on, in which rospoct thoy diffor from their outside friends, who now fiud thomsalves stranded in boarding-houses -and whisky- shaps, in arvears for food and lquor, seedy, hungry, and on the vergo of individual bank- ruptoy, Tho wratched mob will probably fiud some menus of gotting home, A few may get some temporary ecmployment about tho House of Representatives, but tho grent majority of them must got Liome as they best cnn, nnd resume their old way of getting a living by dend-beating upon the community at large, ranning ward caucuses, and manip- ulating ballot-boxes. Thoir mission of offica- sdcking under tho National Administration fs at an end, and thero {8 reason for goneral congratulation that it has proved abortive. It revolutionized tho It swept Rotrench. AN GLAND. alroady called attentigm on sove ‘When it is removed from S——— OGERMAR DISURION. i The Pall Mall Budget of TFeb, 9, containg an article upon * Disunion in Germany," the tenor ‘of which s to show that thera is n prospoct of a dismombership of {he German Empire, Tho writer naserts that tho results of the recent eloctions are discouraging to the supporters of tho Empire, aud indicate that a large body of tho Germans wish for disunion, and that the cnthnsinsm with which tho Prussian King was doclared Em- perorafter tho Franco.GermanWarkas wanod. Ho claima that in the Protestant middle class slono there is a majority which dosires to maintain the fruits of that conflict; that the Roman Catholics are unanimons in their dotermination to deatroy tho Imperial Gov- ernmeont; and that the Couservatives and Socialists will join hands with thom at the firat opportunity. o attributes this fecling not to any preferonco of Germaus for politi- cal anarchy, but to the mistaken action of thoir rulors, especially of Bisyanck, who in tho firat place *“flushed by his triumph, first over Austrin and next over France, fancied limeelf capablo of overthrowing an older nnd wmors subtle Power than cither, and ¢n- tered upon his famous conflict with the Church”; and In the second placo so con- ducted himself towards Bocinlism, which' was o power in Germany beforo the Union was formed, that ** he has drlvon many towards that extreme by his violent opposition to avery form of political freedom,” The ef- feots of this disuniting power ho contem- plates ns follows: W ' In the firat place, it weakens tho handa of the party which has hitherto most perslstently fought for Hberty., The Progromsisty Lave not been so unintucntinl at any provious period of thelr history; aad thelr terror of Sociallam on the one hiand, and Ultranontantam on the othor, will conie pol thom, in aplte of themeolves, to act, bs & rule, with tho tim!d Natlonsl Liberals, The latter, al- ways the humblo servants of Prince Diwmanck, will now be more submisdive than ever, not vens turing to do more than raleo & fecblo proteat at any new manifestation of his despotic temper, What s apparently beforo Qermany, then, in the imme- dinto future fe o wtlll more repreivive aystom of government than that with which she fs already 100 familiar, accompunted by increased deslro on the part ol the cnemies of the Emplre to let no up- portunity ullp of injuring and undersuntng It. ‘The premises of this writer ava partially corroct, but his deductions nre nearly if not ontirely wrong. 'Thero is no doubt that the German Ultramontancs are dissatisfled with Buianor's course towards them, and bitterly detest tho man, Thero Is also a bitter feol- ing among the Boclallstsa who represent Gorman Communism, but are not destruct. ives. Thelr bitterness of feeling, however, is not directed agaivat the Empire, It haa grown out of soclal questions, the tenure of 1and, and tho hard times, which have been ag severe upon Qermauy 88 upon other countrles. The. people of Alsace-Lorruiue would undoubtedly favor this dismembor- meut, for, althoughthey were onco Gormaus, thoy became thoroughly denntionalized dur- ing thelr long allinnce with France. Thero are a few Danesin Schleswig-Iolsteln ‘and some Poles on tho ecast shore who do mot like the Empire aud would be glad to see it disrupted, but they are in o feeble minority. None of these difforences or dlslikes, however, go to the root of dismemberment. The vast majority of the German peoplo have not the slightest idea of splitting up tho Empire into its orig- inal, petty, frsgmeutary Btates, The ex- treme demands of the extremists would prob- ably contemplate uothing moro than a change in the Premlership, a repeal of some of the more odious Favck laws, and more favorable legislation as to the {enure of lands. The view which the Hudget takes is a superficial one, Howover much tho Ger- mans moy dislike Bissascx's personal gov- ernment and the principle of forco which he applies ta every mensurs, they do not dislike Qerman unity, The Hudget evidently takes its pecaliar view of the situation becauso it 14 a Tory, and only thinks there will be a di- vision of the Empiro becsuse it wishes it to be s0. Gov. Curroxn, in making his selections for the Board of Railroad aud Warchonse Com. missionery, has shownta wisor judgment of the fituess of things than was shown by some of his predeccssors. Oue great braunch es the service of these Commissionens is to As soon The Austrian arrange. As au offset, however, Washington has 1t is composed of the These As time went on, hiowever, The folowing extract from a regulnte and direct the inspection of grain in Chicago. The Inw does ot apply to the grain of nny other part of the Biate, Tho grain juspection of Chicago, a3 estab- lished by the late Hoard and inexorably in- sisted upon, as been the subject of con- tinned complaint and criticism. To the complaint from this eity therest of the State has been indifforent, beeause the trado in the rost of the State hna been exempt from the operations of tho Inw, and exompt from tho inspoction by the ofticers of the 8tate. Of tho 110,000,000 bnshels of grain coming to Chicngo annually, but a smnll proportion comparatively is recelved from Illinois. The whola Northwest sonds ita grain to this city. The 8tato inspection, thereforo, in Chicago applies to the grain purchased by the trade in this clty or sent hore by the owners in other States. The interest of tho State and of this city is to encourage this shipment of dlction that when ho calls on the new Prestdent to pay lifs respects he will bo treated with m cordlality that becomes the old frierdship that has long existed belween the great Empire and the great Republic, It 1s not vot forgotten that at the thme Great Britaln and France were serf- ously thinking of espousing the cauze of the Rebele, the Emperor ot Rusala Intervened {n our hehalf, and sent his tleet to Amerlenn waters 1o ofd the North In caso of necessity. The Chiengo Tinies has never claimed, ro for a8 heanl from, to be a reapectable journal; bt 1t has Insisted, In scason and out of seasun, on ita capacity as a newspaper. “The news, and al] of 1t,” has heon its incessant cry.. We are grieved, therefore, in view of the constant pro- testations of the vencrable cditor, that Lis pae per of yesterday morning should have failed to chronlcla one of the niost Important cvents of this century, namely, the official declaration of tho olection of HavYrs and WnzeLur by the Cm‘igreu‘ot the United States. Tits Trisvxn had t due mention of the fact In all grain to Chieago, and one of tho meansisto | fts editions. Only the Uhleago Time, offer higher prices in thiscity thanispnid | of all the important Journals o clsewhere. DBut the Btate inspection, so far as it cnn, discriminntes against this clty, by rendering it unprofitable to send grain liere. The persons appointed Commissioners are well known throughout the Btate. Mr, Bsurn, of Bloomington, is thoronghly con- versant with tho agricnltural interests of Illinois, 1o comes from tho centrs of the 8tate, in tho heart of tho corn.producing diatriot, and enjoys the uniyversal confidonco of the whole people. Mr. Openny, who | comes from Cniro,’is an able, intelligent, and practical mar, capable of reaching sound judgments on all questions arising within tho jurisdiction of the Board. Mr. Booue ie of Chicago, & thorough man of Dusiness details, aud exporienced in the Leg- islaturo of the State, who will make a rost efficiont officer. Ho will bo of service to thoe Bonrd, cspecially in tho warchousa aud grain inspection dopartment of ita business, and will bo ablo to present to that Bonrd, ns they liavp not baen presented Loforo, the imper- fections of the infloxible rules for inspection 8o long and peralstently adhered to by past Coimmissioners, Tho threo gentlomen will constitute n Board of Commissionors which will undoubtedly commend itself to the pop- ular judgment, and, while bLeing vigorous and energetic, will be just and fair in all ita proceedings, this country, folled to have the news, Great ns may be the pooular indignation ot thig exhibltion of deeay on the part of the Zimes, we hope tio blame will be attributed to the Wash. Ington editor of that paper, Corporal KEgNax, He was at his post as usual, and gave warning to his aenoclate that the declaration would bo made before morning. If the latter, overcoms by the weakness of his many years, chosc to re tire from his office to his bed, tn splte of the notlee ho had recelved, surely Corporal Krexay 1s not responsible. KerNaw, no doubt, fulint. nated by telegraph until loug after daylight; and his dispatehes will duly appear in the Times of this morning. ———. The Richmond (Vo) Whlg says that it was folly for thy Northern bulldozers to push mate ters to extremes, adding: - ‘Without the holp of tho Bonth, successful reslats anco wan not to be hoped fori nnd Me. Hewirr, wholabut onewman after all, did not declare hiy opposition to the offort wpou the par of the Dem. ocrnts to maintain thelr rights by & _rexort to arms until it hnd been proclalmed by Southern wmon tiat the South would” Jook quietly on In the evant of suchn coutest, and take no part in the atrugyle. Certalnly wo have nover been a speclal ndulrer of Northern Democrats, or of the principles nnd measures of the Dentoeratie party North or South, et — A ring of Democratic office-seekers, with MoNToOMERY BLAIR nt thoir head, started the Unlon, o new paper, In Washington, with u great flourlsh of {rumpets, about five weeks ago. The Union anmounces that it will suspend publica. tion ou Monday, the 5thof March, the inauzurs. tion-day of the new President, It was Intended to bo the mouthplece of a ring of ofllce-brokers at the Capital; but the defeat of TiLoey let it without occupation, and, as there will be no publiedemand for such an organ, it ceasesto exist, after sinking several thoueand dollars, Our articles on the injury done to the farmers of the West by tho taxation that pre- vonts them from golling thelr corn to .home maonufacturers have attracted wide atton- tion. We have received numerous inquiries for further information. We give this to- day, in a communication in another column, sigued ** Zea Mays,” nnd writlen by onoe of the londing chemists of Ohieago. In this lotter it is shown, on the anthority of an expert, that if the tax on alcohol wero re- mitted as to, spirits omployed in manufac. tures, tho farmers of Ilinols, Indicna, Kene sas, Jowa, and other corn-producing States, svould be able to gell their corn, in the shaps of granulated grape.sugar, to the manufac. turors of vinogar, packed ments, tobacco, wine, beor, confectionery, blacking, and other orticles. Grape-sugaris an indispen- sable materinl to tho manufacturors of theso articles, A bushel of corn will produca thirty pounda of grape-sngar, and by the uso of alco- hol these thirty pounds of grape-sugar can be converted into about twenty-seven pounds of granulated sugar., And tho graunulated sugar, on account of tho greater ease of handling it, and other proporties, is much moro desirnblo than the ungranulated grape- sugar. In tho manufacturs of patked monts, for instance, the grape-sugar in block pre. sents mechnuical difiicnitios that provent its use, practically. The mnnufacturo of grape- sugar from corn {8 nlroady on established success in this conntry, as our correspondent ghows. But the granulated product, which can only be proeured by the use of aleohol, would have o much wider application in the arts, But, taxed ns it is ot prosent, aleohol caunot bo used in tho mauufactare. Great Britain and other countries, as we have ox. plained, allow alcokol for use in the arts to go untaxed. The adoption of a similar pol. ioy by this Governmont would add millions of dollars nunually to tho profits of ‘the farmers of tho Great West, The granu. Iated grape-sugar s worth six conts o pound, and the present policy of our reve- nue system doprives tho farmer of nccess to a wmarket which could afford to pay him much moro than the presont market prico for eanfl sluco it could sell the corn in the shnpe of sugar for $1.02 por bushel. The tax on alcohol, which s itself a produot of corn, also pravents Americans from compebe ing with foreigners in the manufacture of perfumes and of quinine from cinchona. bark. Wo shall rovert to thesa industries at somo other time, Wo hinve thus shown low ‘weriously our Covernment discriminates ngainst tho farmer. It not only provents him from solling his corn to manufacturers of aloohol for use in the arts, but forbids the corn itself to be manufactured by the aid of aloohiol into o sugar that would Lo of the widest application in the industrial arts of this country. e 1t ia impossible at this distance and at this time to understand fully the condition of the appropriation bills beforo Cougresy, nor to say whether they will pass or not within the limited time left between now and the closo of tho sesslon. All the appropristions for the support of tho Government np to June 80, 1877, wero wado last yoar, Tho appro- priation bills beforo Congress. at this timo are for the support of the Government for the year beginning July 1, 1877, Even if Congress should adjourn without passing any or all of them, there would bae no immediate inconvenlenco until July next, and beforo that time there can be a wpecial sesalon of Qongreas convened. In case thero be a fail- ure to make tho appropriations, such a spe. clal session will be & necessity, During the last month the time of both Honses of Con- gresa has boen occupled with the question of the Electoral count, to tho cxclusion of al. most all other matters, and it is question- able, therofore, whether the nppropriation Dlils have or will rocelve the attention neces- sary to their enactment, In case & special session be mneeded, it can bo held in The New York .Sun says: *Thc Fremont people were nmused, but not surprised, when thoy heard that Rurizrronn B. ITAvEs, the nephew of his uncle Binouann, was to be Gov- ernor of the State,” The Cincinnati Commnercial replics; Yes, they must have becn In dh extreme state of astonishmnent, 1o had twice Ueen elected Uov. ernor of Ollo, and bad weeved through histwo terms before he becamo & cltizen of Framont. Wis it the thought of a third term that troubledhls neighbors? —————— HAYES by 185--just cnough to a dots Tiuozy 184—just one short. It makes all the diffes enco between a “*peer? and o * vassal.” e — e O1d Wetrs will bo released from the Bastll - on the Lord’s Day. He will theu be & pecrasl cease to he & vasenl. PERSORAL ‘The helr-apparent of tho Britlah Royal famlly ha hismild bluo eyo fixed upon Australla, and faeall 1o meditato a descent upon that hapless continent, The podlle functionaries moy as well Le ordering thelr presents, Ex-Senalor Ramsey, of Minnesota, has be vliiting his friends In Philadelphifa, of wlom b hae a large numbar, Ilo was born near Harlsburg, that 8tate, and lived there uatil he had attulued b Bdth year, ‘The Tev. Joseph Cook, the now minlsteriol besa of Hoston, made an Intereeling olluslion to himsell the other day, 1le sald he was o bachelor, bu moare thou hinted ju atiuslon to o besutiful firecha profila ho had scen that thera sas a Aoft apot under biuvest. If ho marries and Kecps his audiencesbe must have gonlua, * The Boston Globs publlahes the fullest and most accurate reports of the Moody meetiugs In that ¢lty, but mars thom by anedring at 1he evanzplits ond thelr work, Itoven had the had taste sud want of falth to introduce a reporter to tho ingulry- meotings and roprodnce the substanco of conver sations that poased there, Chlef-Justico Walta sat for a bust to Mlen Vinole Ream during tho progroas of a church falr in Wase Ington recently. BSome of the newapapers yeem1d think it was undignifled of the Clituf Justlce toex- hibit hlinself at o falr, and a church fair at that, saamadel; but the offense, if uny there were, con ted principally In allowing Miss Rteam, who nding among artists Is very low, to makealsd bust of him. * A petition haas been circulated in Now York pray ing for the appolntment of Thomas C. Platt. of Qawego, ne Postmaster-General in the Cabineto! President llayes. The New York Zimse saysths potition ls ** s pleco of unquailded impertinence.” nnd adde; ** Losving oul of sight the record of 4 mun, which Is s unsavory sy hin abllitics are cox temptible, it lsan fnsult to Gen. llayes ond 0 abusoe of partisan privilege to assume that the nest Presldent will need any such prompting to makes wiss solection of his inmedlute advisers,” Quetayo Doro—the hardost worked man in Parit= takes his rest chnracteristically overy Supdst night by entertaining Aty frlonds smid a petfect tumult of good-fellowaliip, 1lis family makesupd goodly proportion of the numbor, Inelading thre gencrations, all living In the patriarchal manslos Of the Invitod guests some aro actentists, some i+ orary men, and somoartlets, With tho lust clssi b0 18 not quite on the bost of terms, having, itl procecded on tho orroneous and monstrous princl ple of producing beautlful works with no theorid to explain thewm, Tho somawhat Intolerant English Hshop of Lis: coln has lately addressed to Sir Autonto Brsds & hale-splitting lotter, in wiflch ho objects, on 8% distinct gronnds, to the uso of bage for collectind maney at the offertary, e gays that the law of the Church proscribes **a decent basin " thatihe f tho anclent Church was otherwlee; 10t scnrrilous newspapar-scraps can be put ln B¢ bage; that Scripturo la ogalnat It; sud thst rled men shirk thelr duty by not belng compalled givo pablicly, This sme Disbop, Dr. Word worlh, some time ago made himself famous by 0% Jecting to the placing of a tombstone with e word **Rov." on it over the body of Weslersd minlster, Notwithetanding his genius for bl spliiting, it Is not underatood that his dlocese pu* ticularly abounds i the Christian graces. In an interesting articlo on Chsrlcs Lamb {‘I cently published in the Loudon TVmss, It ] mb talned that fojury has been done his memory %7 thascreeningof his wingle frallty—that of Intemper ance—from poblic dlscussion. The writer of * articlo matntaing that Lawb's artlcles frequens sufered In consequonce 0f his habits, sud (bt i unevonness In them. due to this:condition 1:1 e some cases platuly discernible. 1t 14 lfi““m. also, says the critic, whetber Lamb was not tanste in having fourisbed early in the «mz: when pewapaper-wrlting was compsratively 82 the last of May or Juue, aftor o ki t. Inthlerespect ho vomewbst ress@ie the present extraordinary excitemont | XRORUEE, RGNS i pesat.& shall have passod nway., An immediate | jinert—who scquired reputation masinly tbrV sesaion would possibly continue the bitter- ness engendsred daring the late struggle in Congress, and the country needs rest and peace. 'The President, therefore, if tho oo casfon for an extra scssion shall arise, will probably not conveus Coungress for a few mouths, nor untit Lo Las familiarized himselt . with the details of the situation, and has ar. ranged andsettled fu hisown mind the policy of his Aduiuistration in varions particulars, and be prepared to lay that policy befgro Congresa aud the country. —————— belug the first *'laterviower." Thld huutldl‘ ment will genseally be consldared projudic thiscountry at least. 8 Prealdent Grant's proposed tour in Bumv‘.hlm o 14 carried ut, will no doubt confer upod call 38 poteworthy diatinction. We do not now Fe Seied ex-Prealdent of the United States who bat mun\\- in Rurope sfter the explratioh of bls om:m' o Tho Fresident will, therefors, be treajed Wit per respect due the former head of a great uflv&m‘ wiil have besides tentlon which coues ] aovelt) curiosity, Mis mlitary fome 18 W0 will ever-eading cause of sdmirati o:.-‘d“_ respect Lo bis private fortands, which 8re et stood Lo be considerable, ha tan bave B0 “. i Any time that be chooses to ald §100,0000rF7F, 000 10 hls resources he can write, OF €344 T written, & volume of Memolrs, 8+ Gen. ;‘ ol basdons, the pecuntary returna from whic be much larger than wese reslized by Uva maa. ‘When Avexis was fn this country, #ix years 880, hu called on the President, aud was most outrageously snubbed, for a reason wholly with- out justification. Thiy thne ALEXG gives Uryeses s wide berik. We venture She pre-