Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 9, 1877, Page 4

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S——— The storm of tho past thirty-six hours, which in Chicogo lacked only Intense nc- companying cold to have entitled it the rank of blizzard, extended far west, and, surging with the dignity of a full blizzard in n tem. porature of 14 degrees below zero, howled & vongeful requicm.over that entomological climnx and nbstract of appotite, the Rocky Afountain locust or grasshopper. Tho good people of the favored region of Nebroskas, Kausns, and Town, who had not beon frozen to'deatl recently, were on tho verge of dos. pairat tho continued absonce of their dis. tinguished zephyr, aud the precoclous grass. hopper had waxed halo and hungrler in heed- less contempt of the Probabilities, Ho is now a corpse. It's an ill wind, ote, CoxgtaNg toward the Administeation of President Iaves weroset ot rest yesterdsy Ly his specch in the Benato in couneetion with tho admission of ex.Gov, Groven ns Beuator from OreBon, Mr. Conkting, while ndvocating the claim of Groven on tha ground that his was a_prima fucle case of election not dixputed or contested, took ocea~ alon to place himself squarcly on the side of Prosident Haves in reforonce to tho cases of Loujsians and South Carolina ; and, al- though not ko dircetly combating the posi- tion of Mr. Braixe as to provoke n reply from that gentletnn, Mr, ConxriNg's speech loft no room for doubt that ke will hence- forth take a prominent placo among the Bup. porters of the policy of pacification and self. government., T — The country will not be paralyzed with torror at the intelligonce that Svon Cax- 20N has doclared his unalterablo hostility to each and all of the Cabinet nowinations, No ligher compliment could bo paid to the ex- + cellence of President Iavxs’ selections than is implied in the fnct that they-do not meot with the approval of the man that controls the Ring aud operates tho mnchine fn Penne sylvanin—tho boss of all the ringsters, the chiefest among the machine politiclans, - 1¢ thero iy any one thing that the new Ad- winistration will bo fortunste in falling to secure, it {4 the support and co-operation of Hixox Usuenoy, He could take awny noth. iug with which Presidont Haves will so . cheerfully part withal, could Inflict no . calamity which disguised a grentor blessing, " And yet it might have beon vastly otherwiso . if the son of his father had been retained at - the head of the War Department, ——— Now York State is waking up to the neces- ty of sustaluing tho efforts of President Haves tojustitute the reforms set forth in L letter of acceptance and Lis inaugural ad- ‘ dress, Our dispatches give a report of tho notable meeting of the merchants in Wall strect yestorday, whereat tho business men with great zeal and unanimity declared their ‘sywpathy with the Prosident in Lis detor. wmination to organize an Adminfstration thoroughly in accord with his aims and pur. poses, The Union Leaguo also took decisivo action last eveulug in support of the Presi. dent s agaiust the hostile faction in the Benate, and a yieeting of business men Lag beeu culled in Albany to indorse the course of the Presidont. The voico of Chicago should not bo silent. Let the metropolis of the Northwest do its part in holding up the hauds of the courageous patriot aud states- man who {8 wakiug this gallant fight for the best futercsts of the wholo' country, ————— The swall vote by which Mr, Suznman's nowination ss Sccretary of the Trensury was confirmed probably furnishes no criterion by which topredict the fate of the remsining appointments. Bolely upon partisan grounds ths Domocrats voted solid sgainst A, Burnaax, whose prominence in the Loulsi- 8us investigation thoroughly and bittesly antegonized tho adheronts of TrLoxy against bim. It is believed, Lowever, that orgauized ‘opposition to the Cabinet confirmations " upon tho part of the Seusto Domocrats will ceaso with the cass of Mr. Baexatax, and that in the eveut that their votes shall bo neces- 'sary to confiniu the remaining sppointments iha votes will Lo forthcoming, It will be jhoticed that Mr. Warrezusoy, in a doublo- “leaded editorial in the Loufaville Courier- iJournal, earnestly urges the Democratic Sunaton to ** unhesitatingly give their moral ‘support to Prexident Haves so long za be maintaing biy present ground.” } ——— The Chicago produce markets were falrly active yesterdsy, sod most of them were firmer, Mess pork closed 20c par br) bigher, AL B14.42{@14.45 fog April and $14.05@ THE CHICAGO ''RIBUNE: FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1877. 14,67} for May. Lard closed 10¢ per 100 ths higher, at $9.50@9.66 for April nnd 29.62} @9.05for May, Ments wera stendier, closing at 47c for loosa shoulders, 7o for shortribs, end 73c for short-clears, Highwines were stendy, at 21.05 per gallon. Flour was quict ond unchanged. Wheat closed 230 higher, at 81253} for March and $1.26} for April, Corn closed {o higher, at 39e for March and 44}c for May. Oata closed dull, at 330 for March and 86c asked for May. Rye wns firmer, at 61)@6830, Barloy wns ensier,closing at 580 for March and 62@2i3}a for April, Hogs were active and a shade lower than ‘Wedneaday, closing steady, ot £5.15@5.75 for poor to choice grades, Caitla were act~ ivo and firm, with sales at $3.16 @562} for common to choice, 8hcep wers dull and nominal. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $105.12} in greonbncks at the close, . Senator J. G. Braixe's spoeches wonld carry more weight if ho would be more necurate in his statoments of fact, For cx- ample, in his speech of Wedneaday, speaking of PAcrARD's right to the Governorship of Loaisiann, he said : There may be some technicality, there may be some keen form of logle whichIhavo mot yet heard, and of which T do not think I shall ever be able to comprenend, by which a man who recalsed nearly a thousand more votes than the Elcctoral ticket recelved was not elected Governor when the Electoral ticket was chosen. The election retarns of Lonisiann do not bear out this assertion, By the Returning Board count the Repnblican Electors for the Stats ot large received 74,135 votes, and by the pamo connt Pacranp received 74,624 votes for Governor. Take tho Democratic count; it roturned 77,174 votes for tho Ro- publican Electors for thio Btate at large, and 76,477 votes for Pacxarp for Governor, Dy neither of thoso connts did Pacxanp receive as many votes as Havrs, It would promoto the credibility of Mr. Braine if he wonld mako his assertions conform more nearly to the facts, Judge Davip Davis doca not tarn out to Lo a first-class investment for the Demo- cratio party., Ia gave assurances to the Republican caucus at Washington that he was not @ Democrat ; that, while he slhiould wmnintain his independence, he shall vote with the Republicans, and will support tho Administration of President Ilaves, Ifis ex- plavation was so clenr that in making up tho Benato Committees ho wns selocted ns a Ropublican, and sppointed as such to the Judiciary aud another Commitiee. Tho Democratic caucus scems to have boon seri- ously disgruntled by this sotion of Judge Davis, but we do mnot understand why, Judge Davis was nover a Democrat, nor did Lo ever profess to be, His name was used at Cincinnoti nnd at Bt. Louls nsa candi. date for the Democratic nomination without any authority from him that ho was o Deme- erat. That he is nud will be on independent and foarlesn Sanator we have no doubt. 1o will volo on all questions as Lis Judgment may direct; but being an nnti-slavery man all his life, and never having acted with the Domocratio party, ho will naturally vote with tho Ropublicans, excopt on auch questions of minor consequence ns his judgment may in. cline him to voto otherwise, ¥ e ——— It ought to bo ovident to the Illinois Leg- islatare that the large citics of thiu Stata ro- quird n moro rigid Vagrant actin order to furnish adequate protection ngainet tho thieves, nud Lurglars, and confidonce opernt. org, and bunko men, and roughs who infest tho cities, and can now only be succossfully prosecuted when apprehended in some overt nct of theft or othor crime doflned by the statute, If any of our legislators aro yet in doubt abont this, we would divect their at. tention to an article printed in 'Tog Toinune of yesterday, which shows tne operation of tho present Vagrant law. 1t does not rench tho notorious thioves nt all, siuce thoy conunot be awested on mght, A wamrant is required, and uo at- ter low well kuown to the police o4 professional thieves, they mny run into the city nt any timo for a day or two to ope. rate without coming under the Vaogrant Inw, Tley also enjoy tho widest latitnie in regard to chango of venue, aud nlways tako their cases away from the regular Folice Justices, to whom they sy be well known, and go beforo a neighboring Justice whose practice i maluly civil, and whose chisf interest {s to got his fee. Thoy can alwhys find cor. rupt Constables, too, to jupantd a jury upon demand, aud professional bailov to go on an appeal-bond, pending which thoy are free from arrest for the offense of vagrancy, Both Buvmmenrierp and. Scvrry, tho two Justices who havo had most ex;pericnce with the criminal class in this city, 4gree that the Vagrant law should bo made much stricter in terms, and that ot presend At is not at all adequate, P —— ‘Tho Coroner's Jury which has for over two months been investigating the Ashtabula calamity has agreod upon its verdiot. Tho couclusions reached are the result of the most careful Inquiry inlo every minnto fact connceted with the science of bridge-build. ing, and particularly with reference to jron structures, - Practical engineers from all parts of tho country havo cxnmined the wreck and givon tostimony as to tha char. scter of the work, and it cannot bo charged that the jury either neglected anythingin the performance of ity duty or ovinoed the slightest partiality for the Rallfond Company or any person vonunected thevewifh, 'Fho veal fouts conuocctod with this deplorable disastor were what the Invostigators wanted, and with this objoct in viow they sought far aud wide for every sorap of evidenca which would throw light upon tho subject. Iav- ing thus propared tho way for an {utelligont oplalon upon the causes of tho disaster, they awert in tho most unoquivocal terms that the respousibility for {he grest losa of lifo at Ashtabula rests with the Railroad Company, declaring thot m careful fuspection of the Lridge at ooy thme mueo - its completion could not have failed to discover all its defects. Thesa de. fecty are given in detall, and ere in them. selves & strong indictment egainst the cor. poration which suffered such a death.trap to Jio in the path of thousands of unsuspecting travelers. 'I'be Company s also censured for its violatiou of thu Ohlo Sinte lawin neglecting to use the proper precautions aguinst five from stovey, and the Ohief En. gineer of tho Ashtabula Firo Dopartment is ceusured for his failure to mako oven the slightest effort to save the lives of pas- wengers in the burnivg wreck. ‘The verdict &mounts to a torrible moral indictment of the Mailroad Company. But it goes no further. Railroad cowpanios care nothing for moral indictwenta; it is eriminal indict- ments that aro troublesome, sud uuless the finding of the Aslitabuls jury sball be follow. edup by s vigorous prosecstion, under the laws of Olio, of the partiey responsible for the awful slaughter of Dew 29, 1870, the vordict of the Coroner's jnry is of noscoonnt, and the long snd patient investigation might as well have been omitted altogether. The proceedings of the Bonate in the casa of the Presidential appointmonts of Cabinet officors s unprecedented in the history of the Umited States. Evon when tha political majority of the Benato has been opposed to tho incoming President, it has been conceded that he wasso entilled to choose his own constitutional advisers that the nominations hinve beon confirmed without delay, withont question, and without reference or division, Tho Senate, in which the Ropublicans have majority, hns, upon the motion of Repub- licans, 1aid tho nominations on -the table, and reforred them to committees not then oppointed. Noristhis all. Soveral of the eminent partisans who were candidates nt Cincinnati, whero Mr. Haxes was nominated, have hastoned to mnke objoctions to tho composition of the Oabinet, and to formally challonge tho Southitrn policy which they assumo the Prosident has ndopted, Mr, Braixz has consplenonsly put himself for. ward to anlagonize the President,. Tha op. position he makes i to the Sonthern policy, which, he says, *it is rumored in the lob- biea ” tha President has ndopted, and, lest somo rival may got beforo him, lio hastens to denounce that policy. This oxhibition of temper is perhaps n Littlo precipitate. Tho President has not yet Lad the chance of advising with his Cabinet, and can, therofore, have had no opportunity of adopting a policy. His Administration ia unformed, becauso of the discourtesy of the Senntoring. Nor can tho country be de- calved by any loud noiso in the Senala or clsowhere concorning tho Southern policy. "Tha country is well aware that tho President, instend of asking eacl: of the faction lenders to designate one of bis frionds to takea Cab- inet office, hns selected his Onbinet withont reference to Lis own or tho prospects of any other person for the succession, Mr, Bramse, o year ngo, mado & bold strike for popular favor by denouncing Jeer. Davis for the cruelties at Andersonville. His glory on that oceasion was exalted by his Georgin rival in dobate, and the same wave of excitement carricd both Brarxe and Hiw into the Sonnate, Wo think Mr, Bramve will find it a somawhat mora éificult feat to gain popu- Inrity by making warupon tho President of tho United States, eleoted in preferenco to Limself by the Republican party, than 1t was to denounce Andersonville and Jerr Davia, The country, however, will placo the provocation for this unseemly attack upon tho President the sccond day aftor his inaugu. ration, nnd for this nnseemly attompt to do. {feat his choleo of a Cabinot, procisely whero 1t bolongs, The war upon the President, proclaimed by tho Bonate machine ring, is tho war of tho monstrous Congrossional com- Lination to control nbsolutely tho power of removal and appointment and of dictation to tho President. The Presidoent Lins an. nounced that this system shall domineer no longer, and tho country well understands that this is the troublo exciting these ring gentlemen to war, and mot any spocial in- tercst in the haudful of carpot-Laggers in two Southern States, Supposo this war bo carried to italogieal rosults, what will bo its courso? The Re- publican Sonators are unitedly tovoto against and rejoct tho Cabinot nominations of tho President. They are then to divide thom. selves {nto distinet bodies, each undor o chosen Captain. New England, Now York, Pennsylvanin, the Pacifio Btates, tho Central, tho Northweat, .and 'the South aro each to furnish a Chict ; thia Chief, after consultion with his followors, jato soloct n wan to reprosent him in the Cabinet, and to take oaro that Ads friends shall bave the fnll share of tho ofices, Having soleoted the porspus to compose tho Cabinet, the namos aro to bo uent to tho Presldont with {nstruc. tions that that is the only Cabinet to which tho Senate will give ita consont, If the war is to ba carrlod on, lot the real cause of the unpleasantness bo avowed, and let Mr, Brame and the other members of the ma- chino have the courage and tho frankness to tell the country that tho President has not nsked thom to select his Cabinot, ns they are dotermined ho must do, Let thom tell the country that ha should not be permitted to ro.ostablish the old constitutional systom, which doprives the machine of its spoils and its dictatorship, It thero is to bo o war within (he Repub- Lican party, which of theso belligorent Sena- toru will hove tho manliness and the coursga to fraukly stato the real griovance, and ap- penl to the country or to the party againat the President on such an issuc as that ? It js 0 natural but none the less unfortunato mis. tako of nspiring gontlomen to moguify their own importance. The country may have u very bigh and just estimato of tho ability and character of diatinguished politiclans, but that cstimato rarely equals that made by theso politicians of thowsclven. It was clolmed, for instauce, at Cincluuati, by tho friends of hal? a dozen gentlemen, tust the Auccess of the party and tha salvation of the country depended on the nomination of one of them. The Convention, however, was satisfied that tho country demnnded ro. form, and that the conutry would not accept a8 8 possiblo reformer suy mon who was himself o part of tha corfuptions and abowninations to be re~ formed. It thorofore sclected Gov, Haves, aud n the platform on which he was nomi- nated and in Lis letter of aceeptance it was written, in all the emphasis of a solemn Ppledge, that this business of Congressionsl control of tha Oivil Bervico nnd Congresgion. al dictation to the Presldent in the sclection of publiv ofticars should be tolerated no long- er, but should Lo extirpated s o great moral and political erime aud abuse. Those gon- tlemen should remember that, while thoy laugh at platforms and treat solewmn pledges 83 Plckwickian declarations, the new Prusi- dent §s & man of u different mold, with n con~ sclenco not dulled by the deuperate tsivings of ambition, and with a truth unaullied by any form of corruption, personal or political, aud that it was becauso of {his pledge, and becauso it was believed he would redoens it, that tho Republican party escaped the defoat which iad been invited by the cazruptions and ecandals of tho very men who now assail Lim, Wo suggest to these peoplo in Congress sud out of it who, now ihat they have secured a purty viclory, insist npon adhering ta the corrupt old methods of dojug business, ibat they go slowly, 'Lhe President iy en. titled to u Cabinet of his own choice, and o refusal to givo him this will be reseuted as o insult to tho wholo puople. When Lo has obtained a Cabinet, mul has formed on Ad- winistration, and has adopteda polioy, it will be full time enough for the old wachine bull- dozeni to opposa Lim, bt let the opposition bo an honest one. Let the point ba distiuctly avowed that the quarrel i due to the damand that the Administration shall be run in tho inferest of the clutching cdndi. dates for the next Prosidency, and of the candidates for the Sonste and Honse of Representatives at tho noxt election, Lotus have pence, but, peaco or war, let us hava trath, —— AR! (1) From the time it becamo definitsly known that Prosident Haves had determined to offer ex-Senator Osry Scnunza position in his Oabinet, & formidable effort was made by what wmny be called the old ring politicians to {ndaco him to reconsider his docision and refect the Gorman-American statesman, This effort signally failod,— fortunately both becauso tho pressnce of Mr. Scnunz in the Cabinet will give it addi- tional strength and dignity, and becausa the Presidont's firmness in this instance be. tokenstho strength of charactor whish will bogo necossary all through his Administra. tion in resisting tho pressure of the machine politicinns, But tho machine fellows did not give up -thele fight oven after Mr. Soronz was nominated and his name sent in, oud found oven United States Senators willing to lend thomselves to tho | schomo of embnrrassing the new Presidont at tho vory beginning of hia term in order to gratify personal splecn and protogt the mn- chine intorests. To fully approciato the out. Tago upon the President and the yeople in this matter, two things must bo kopt well in mind, viz.: (1) It {s tho highost privilego of tho President to make up Lis offioial family {from gentlemen of his own seloction, and.it is o palpnbla diacourtesy as well as infringe. inent of what uniform procedont has nccord. ' od to a new Prosident sinco tho foundation of the Governmont to refuso him tho choice of his most {ntimate advisers and nssistants; and (2) it is not denied by any one that Cane Benunz ia ono of the ablest stateamen snd leading publicists of the country, and that not another man in the United States is bet- ter fitted to partake of the adminiatration of tho Government and dircct the important affairs of tho Interior Department, All this being admitted and understood, it is incumbent on the Bonators who have prostituted their high positions to the use of the machine politicians to explain to the country why they have dono so. If jt is becauso Scwunz is on abler man than any ono of them, and they are fearful of tho recognition Liis services may obtain from the people, lot them say so. If it is because he has consistontly donounced corrupt politi- clans and their machinations, let thom 8ay 8o, It it 1s becauso bo sided with Senator Buar. NER in antagonizing somio of the most serious mistakos of tho lnst Administration, lot them aay so. If it is beoauso ho formerly, 83 a member of the United Statos Sonate, oncountered those opponents in falr, open dobato and worsted thew, lot them B8Ry B0, It it is booause ho contributed not- ably to tho success of tho Republic- on causo in tho late campaign Ly ropudioting tho nepotiam and favoritism of Gen. Gnaxt's Administration, and promised botter thinga from Mr. Haves, let them say 0. If it in bocouso ho is German by birth, lot them say so. If the opposition to Mr, Scuunz springs from any one or nll of these causos, it s proper that the poople shonld understand it, so that thoy way fairly decide betweon Mr, Scnunz and his antagoniats, Our own notion is, that, whilo spleon at the recolloction of formor defeat when cross- ing lances with Scnunz, and jenlousy of his strong Lold on the poople, bave somothing todo with this Bonatorial opposition, the chiof resson for the persistont fight made againat him is on account of his well-known devotion to the principles of Oivil-Servico Reoform. As Hooretary of tho Interior, Mr. Bcmunz will be tho chlef of o vast system of official patronnge, in. cluding the Indinu Agonclos, the Patent Oflic, and tho Pension Agenoles,—a systom not only extensive at the Capital but ramity. ing throughout the entire country. There is avery reason to believe that Mr, Somunz will catablish suoh rules and rogalations in the varlous branches of his Dopartment as are nocessary to purify them of tho past and ex~ {eting abuacs, nnd causa them to be adminis- terod in tho intercat of tho Government rather than In theintorest of the machino pal- iticlans, Itisnot at all nnlikely that the ma- chine Congressmen forosce that when they go to Mr, Beuunz to dictate appointoes who will pack conventions and asaist their ronomina- tion he will politely decline, To Bona- tors who shall try to impose upon him ap- pointwonta that aro ** on the maks,” he wil} undonbtedly reply that tho present Admints. tration {s fully committed to tho policy of reforming the Civil Bervice, and caunot lend itaclf to nid such business, This, wo faney, is tho main causa for the antagonism to Oans Sonune, nssisted to some extant by personal spito and {ealousy ; nud, if wo are right in this supposition, the opposltion ‘to him wilt only strengthon Presidont Haves and tho people in standing by him, ELECTION JUDGES AND CLERKS, Sonator Iunt hns introduced into tho Illi. nois Leglslaturo the draft of n law enabling thw peopla {o choose aunually the judges and clorks who shall have charge of the clections to occur during the course of the followiug year, If passed, as it should be, 3 both parties in tho Logislature desirs hon. eat elections, this act will go far toward pre- venting o rupelition of such scencs s dis- graced the charter eloction in this clty two years azo and the South Town election last year. 1t will tako the appointinent of elec. tlon judges and clerks out of the hands of partivan Roards, who are now ot Hberty to select two sooundrelly Democrats and a con- nlving Republican, or vice verss, aund it will onable tho pecploat a genernl election to so. lect the guardians of the ballot-boxes from both parties. Seuator Huxr'sbill is modaled after, though not on cxact imitatlon of, the Punnsylvania Iaw which was framed by Mr, Buckarew, the well-known Electoral reformer. It provides that threo olection judges and two olerks shall bo chosen in overy voling precinet on tho gencral eleoction day in November, who shall serve at all clections for State, county, and township oficers during the year follow. ing, and alsoact ay o Board of Rogistry in their respective districta, It js also provided that every citizen who votes shall be entitled 1o cast {bree votes for election judges, which ho moy cumulate or distributo a4 he sees fit, and two votes for clerks, which be sy dis- poso of in Jiko manner. ‘Tho three candi. datos baving tho bighest number of votss shall be declared elected judges, and the two condidates for clerks having the highest uumber of voles shall bo declared clocted clerks. 'This is the freo bal- lot. Thoe Pennsylvania system is whst is known,as the restrioted ballot; in elect- ing threo judges every voler has (wo votes, both of which be may givo ono candidate, orouo o eaclh of two candidates, sud in electing two clerks he has ons voto which ho may give to either of the two candidates. Mr, Hoxt's system is quite as desirable as the othar, we beliove, and both operate so that in every eloction precinct there will be iwo judges belonging to the party having | be the largost nnmbor of votes in that procinct, ] and one judga belonging to the minority | President is tantamount to saying that in a party, while the clorks will almost necessn- tily be of opponite parties, It nlso gives all people nnxlous for honest olections the op- portunity to vote for men whom they know to be capable, Intelligent, and conseientiouns. Thers is only one criticiam that occurs to us' in the matter of Senator Hoxr's bill, which wo print elsswhere in full. For some ronson or other, the enumeration of city elections is omitted from it, and the infor- ence ig that the judges and olerks selected wonld only set for mnnicipal oloctions when they acenr on tho same day as State, cbunty, or fown elections, Even tho passaga of Mr. Kenor's Town Eloctions act, which brings the city and town elections on tho same day, would not apparently help the matter, since that act provides that the judges and clorks appointed for tho city clection shall serve for the town election also. Mr, Hoxr's bill might be amended to advantagoe 80 as to pro- vide that wherever the voting procincts In city elections correspond with those of the Btato, county, or town clections, the judges nnd clorks chosen by tho peoplo shiall sorve 88 at all other eleotions. Itisto be hoped the bill will pnes, It seems to offor mors proteotion against ro- posting and ballot-box stufing than any other dovico that Lins beon suggested, and it certainly provents the manipulation of - the polls by the oficial Boards to whom tho se- lection of election judges and clerks is now intrustod. A Washington special, referring to Brainz's speech picking n quarrel with President Haves, sayss 5 - It hasbeen mubposed that Mr. Coxkrixa would lead the oppoaition, for ha has more to grieve over, but Jir. Braixe scems to have taken up the blud- geon, and, disregarding the castom which has kept new Bent in the background, has sprang to tho Ieadershipof the Senste, nsurping Mr. Mourox'’s functions, who, as Chalrman of the Committea on Privileges and Elections, is, according to usage, the person to take charge of the cases now under conslderation In the Senate. Mr, Braixa loft no room Lo doubt that he means to wago open warfare against the poilcy of pacify- ing the Bouth, 1f hie stood alone, ho said, bo wonld never consent to the abandonment of tho gallant men at the South who had cast thelt lot with the Republican party, . The key-uoto of tho sudden attack which has beon made npon President Hayes' South- orn conciliation polioy by tho Brarvz faction of malcontents s tho plon that the Rapub. lican party must not abandon the protection of the colored pooplo in the South, and they proposo to make war upon the Prosident if Lo taktos any stop which looks to thom like such au abandonmont.” Tha plea is a sophis- tical one, and its basis is a falsehood. In fourtecn of tho sixteon Southern States the opposition to the Ropublican Adminis. tration has absolute control, nnd theso States oro in such a condition that tho President is nover called upon for help, is not likely to be, and is not permitted to interfere, Now, what protaction is to be afforded to the col- ored people of these fourteen Statos, bogin- ning *with Delaware and ending with Toxns, by any policy proposed by thoso critica of tho President? Thoro aro two other States, Louisiana and Bouth Caroling, under different conditions, althongh each of them is in dispute and clainted by both partics, Whnt other pro- tection do theso hypercritics propose to guarantco the colored people of -Yonislann and South Carolinn botter or difforent from ‘what they have alrendy had during the past olght years? 'What has thig protection beon worth to thom? In whatmanner has it ben. ofited them? The colored peoplo of these two States havo hnd the active intervention of tho army and navy all this timein their behalf. As fuost aa carpet-bag Governmonts ‘wore pullod down by tho White-Liners, thoy were set up again by ex-Prosldent Graxr by the aid of the army and vavy,” Ilow hasit holped tho colored peoplo? In these eight years hundreds of negroes have boon killed for political ronsons, and thousands of others have beon assailed, abusod, stripped of their rights, and driven from thelr homes. - How many of the murderers havo beon hangod by the Ropublican Admin. istrations in theso two States? Not on, How many have boon sent to the Penlton~ tiary? Not'one. How many of the White. Liners havo been triod and punished for the intimidation and bulldozing in the Louisiana counties whiok aro under Ropublican con- trol? Not ono, In tho only two States whera Repnblican Administrations are in authority thero is no actual protection to tho colored people, The white officcholders in theso two Htates aro not only toa feoble in numbers to protect the blacks, but thoy are ostracized by thelr own race as soolal pests, ‘Tho President has studied this subjoct for years. o has arrived at no sudden con. clusions, . The oplaions which he has ex- pressed were not formed yesterday, nor aftor he recolved the nomination for the Prosi- dency. They nre the mature conclusions of long, thoughtful study and investigation, and they do credit to his judgment and his statesmanship. His conclusion 1y, that the most officient and best proteotion which con be furnished the colored peoplo of the South is to place them in friendly accord with the whites, and to abollsh the race-lina in politf:a ns it is abolished in the North, He would have tha whito men of tho South, now banded iuto one party, divided into two par- tles upon publio questions, as they arc in the North, and bave the blacks attach themselves to theso two partics, just ns in the North the foreignera arc idontified with tho Republican and Democratlo parties, thereby securing protection in their rights from Loth parties. Il belloves that the solution of the Boutheru question in all its aspects lics inthe removal of {hese ruco-antegonisms, and that under such a protection as this the colored peoplo of {he South will enjoy thoir political rights, will secure the DLemefits of education, will Le enabled to make better contracls and securc betler wages, and in every woy will bave abetter chance in tho tace of life. o believes that the formation of two whito parties will furnish them bet- ter protection than bayonels aud gunboats, sod this not only in South Carolivh and Loulsiaun but iu every Southera State. 1t President Havea' plan were adopted, tho result would bo not only an sdequate pro- tection, but In seven cr eight of the States the colored men would coo to the front vaitly wore than they csn nmow, 'lhey would then have their rights without any question, aud a powerful white party -to guard them. They would no longer be sold into virtual alavery, as they are to-dsyin Georgla and Texzas, upon trifling charges of larceny or yagranoy. They would have an equal opportanity iu lifv, liberty, and the pursult of bsppiness, Tho white people themselves would take an active interest ju guorauieeiug theso zights. 1f Deufocratio bulldozers, for instance, should shoot Cone sérvative negroes, thers would bu white men to retaliate in kind, and teach me- Kroes to shoot back, Murderems woald spprehended and punished, and Iawa enforced. Practically, tho policy of the given parish or county one thousand whito citizens, natives of the county, can protoot tho colored people of their party bettor than five or six carpot-baggors, and in this view of tho question tho Prosident in indorsod by the good judgmont: and intelligence of tho boest peopla of this country, In place of this beneficent and judicions polley, his op- ponenta offer a plan of protection which has beon abandoned in fourteon of tho Bouthern Btatos and falls to protect in the other two, and condomn hia policy beforo he has had an opportunity to mnke a trial of it. The at- tack upon him doss not oven have the morit of courtesy, justice, or ordinary decency. f et BBl oy It was thought that the Clleago Times had the monopoly of damning the Democracy and its lcaders among Bourbon orguns, but the 8t, Louls Times, another rock-rooted Bourbon, comes in for a share of the glory, In that paper of the 4th of March appears o review of the vampaign, in which it Is discovered how Mr.Ti1,- DEN lost the Presidency. The first cause Is that *‘BAMCEL J. TILDEN I8 responsible for the in- auguration of Returning Board Hayrs,” “From the day of the election untll pfter the declston of the Commission, Ls gave nelther to the pub- e nor the party onc syllable of manly leader- ship,” The second is that JMr. TiLprN having disappolnted the party, * there was nobody to tako the place of tho absent’ Captaln. The third fs that the Democratic party violated the law of gravitation, which {s thus explained: ‘The Democratic:zravitation is to thy Sonth, whers all the culture, and brains, and wealth, and mach tnlont with special political teaining belouy 10 1t, Al this was mureled and diafranchlsed or orderod to tho rear, A net of medfocrities aswmined the leadership almply becausa they came from the North, wnd all the braln of the great Lody uf the party In_the Soulh was told to hide and’ roman sllent for the nake of policy. Tho brainlcea tall wanted to wag the dog, and the miserable faflnre :xl:': :\"hholu that this can never be sccomplished; The concluslou to which the 8t. Louls ZTimes arrives s, that the Presidency was lost malnly by Democratie fmbecility and cowardice, but, after all,* BaxugL J. TILDEX could haye done but little sgainst n Republican Senato and a Tenure-of-Office act, and would have been absos Intely certaln to have disappolnted the Democ racy In many things,” and, In view of this sad condition of things, the conclusion to which Tir CuioaGo TrisuNE arrives is, that the Democracy 18 principally in need of compulsory education, —— A speclal from Baltimore to the New York Times says that the announcement that Presl- dent HAYES would take fnto his Cablnet onc or two ex-Confederates, such ns Benator Kar, of Tenneasec, created n buzz of excltenent In that city. Democratfe partlsans were filled with alarm at the consequences that might flow from the new. departure. An old Southern Whiz who scrved under Gen. Ky In the Confederate army sald: 1f President Mayes made him [Kzr] a Cabinct ofticar it would bo asignal triumph for tho canse of harniouy and reconcillation, A prominent Democeatic politiclan, who is known all over the South, read the ‘funugural this evonlng, and said that it and the appolutmont of an vx-Confedornts toa Cabinet ofice would break up the Democracy 81 a volld Nouth party forever, | Tho yroat majority of tha Canfederate Democrats in tats lucality aro Yoluble with applause of the address and the ' new Houthern policy, They say that Presldent llaves has undertaken to do mote: for the South than Tiv- DEX would ever have dared, and that they arc ciie tirely ready to cut loose from tho Nortticrn wing of the parly. Thoy anticivate the happlest results frum the new departare for the South, nud numor- ou dirpatches havo boen sent to friends fn Bouth- ern clties convoylng congratulations upon the naspect of affalrs. ——— Tho Clacinnatl Commercial 1s of the oplnfoh that tho gulf that separates the more liberal Southerners from the Northern Ropublicaus is uclther so wide nor so deep that it cannot be spannod. It remarks: They occupy an almost common gronnd on all the mportaut questions before the countey. The Cone nervatives of the South, who are not” 1ndebted to the Domocratic party of the North for anything but @ serles of unbroken disappointnents from 1861 to 1877, are committed Lo the Frlnclplu of equal po- Iitleal and eivll rights for all citixuns of the United States, and will find no difference between them and the Republicans on that scoro, \What clso ls there ta keep them asunder? Upon financial lssues thete are ae wide differcnces n the Democratic ns in the Republican &m{. snd the question of fres trade and tanfl is bardly a practical’ ono so long as & great public debt s to be' provided for, We are not awaro elther that in the matter of spproprin. tions for public en!vrrrllo. guograpbically and commerclally of spacial importance to the fonth, the reprosentatives of that section will find more avowed opposition smong Ropablicana than among Deniocrats, Looking xvu the whole ground, it thero s anything hoyudd traditlonal projudices to koeptha conservative elements of apakt, It doos Bt fresent 1ot very.foreibll b oo nflhl‘amnmunl. e P by ey Even tho Bt. Louls Kepublican, Iotensely Til- dentsh as it fs, 1s diagusted with the New York Sunforita vecent asinine feat Iu putting ite columas Into mourning over the Innuguration of Mr. Haves, and says: “It's right to feel bad over the result, of course, but printer's ink wasted in that way will never reform tha evll, 1t could ‘be apread between the columns much more effectively.” This {s good gencral advlce, but it would have been spter advice if the e publican had notified the Sum that while it had thoright to feel bad over the loss of its sharcof the plunder, it would have been in botter taste tohave inourned fn secret, and oven let * con- cealment lko a worm ¥ the bud prey on its damnask check” than to publicly advertiso its @rief. Measurcd by its advertisement and the sizoof itshowl, tho loss must have been heavy, but tho Sun makes tho miataky of supposing that any onc will sympathize with it in fis per- sonal lusses. ——— The Augusts (Ga.) Comatitutionalut, perhaps the most rabld firc-eating newspaper south of the Oblo River, talks quite flercely of what might have been doge. Thus; ‘The South, itis trite, was determined not to take tha initiative in reslating tho consplracy; but slie was o roudy and willingto fight us she was whcn aba sent forth hor sona ta battte as tho moun- tain wonda forth 1ts eagles and the summer cloud Its lightuings, The Coustitullon and tha futegrity of tho lepublic were at stake, und sho was ready, #t the drel tap of the drum, 10 fallow the Democ: racy of the East and L In any sort of move. nient to defend und preserve them, But the drum- 18p was uever heund; Inetend, tnere camo the tiny. squeak of poor Hiwirt's volce begyring for pesce, and then of courso tha retreat, and then the o ful, disgracetal, pitiable rout, Thore |s small fort [n trylng to Az responaibllity for prescut 14 probably the whole Lruth 10 say that TAde W mistakes. It may be that Mr. Hiti's utterances causad poor HxwiTr's squeak;and, then n, it may botbat Mr, IliLt, kiowing that the squeak was abous to iushe, sne ticipated 1t In what ho concelved (o be the inlercat of pesco and patriotlam, Ons thing t4 cortaln, and that e the ling was broken, and tho wen reaponai- ble for It biave litezally ** played the devil, " e ———— L me- A good many other papers In addition to the Cinclunat Conimercial are asking: Why shiould the Glode-Demacrat of Bt. Louls show alspleasuro at the call of CaxL Scuvuz to the dutles of tho great oifice of By terior? Thery s vo dout of the entire Integrity of Mr. Scuunz. ‘Thera I8 5o doubt that he tepresonts the Liberal Hopublicanlew of the country aa no other man reprosents §t, Ju ure der that the lepublicun party shall retaln the ghoat grachance to perpetuate ita power, iho party, os it rematned after tho disintegration to which {t was subjected by Unant, must batelnforced by thut 'nunllm. 1laves becomes Prealdent by o wajor- ty of oo vote—a diupated vole st lbat,” The Ru- publicans bave not tany votes 10 spare In the Nene ate, 2nd are In ke minorty in the Housv, In or. der 1o mako bis Adminletrative w success, he must wiu the contide carry tha House. ;A“lhn by scb- ng. £l They would suon run him ond his Admints- tration Into the ground. ————— In tho delato an the bill tocresto the Arhitrae tion Comuwlssion, Mr. Braiym, in bis speech agaiost the bill, ssld be was nu lawyer, That could castly be seen hy the puerile ressons b Rave for upposing the Comraisston and it could al2o be seuns by tho argument he madethat Kz 1046 for Senator and PACEARD for Governor stood ou the same ground as the Hayes Elect- ors of Loulslans, which is noturiously pot tba fact, e t——ee ‘Tho Albasy Evening Journal alnanac for 1577 bas cuine to baud. Itis recogolzed everywhero s ouo of the standard publications of tkis kind ; and we need Lok 83y wore of it thau that it bas been complied with its usual scvaracy, Tho Electoral returas aro full, the statlstics bave = a—————————— been convenlently arranged, and & wise chotes has been exercised In the cholco of matter to ba printed. The astronomical phenomena, the fn- ternal revenue receipts, tho summarles of the pereona constituting the Natlonal nand Btate Governments, the report of the proccedings of tho Electoral Commmlasion, the forelgn trade of thecountry, cte., make the almanaz invaluable to every one who desires to keep informed of cum rent polltical events, g e —— Ex-Postmaster-Geiieral CrrswaLt, who re- tired some years ago under tho Crorranxine swindle cloud, and has since then very conslat ently been a claim-agent, is trylng to bo the oflicc-broker for Maryland, The Baltimors Amerlcan says: ¥ B We {Uink It lnportant that the naw Administea- tlon should know that Mr, Caxawgrr: (who in nulx- posed 1o rrakde at Washingtun and fo ha engaged In ho busineds of peoscenting claims_hofore the Da- ]mrlmenu!) 14 not the uniy, Rc’pubnun in Mary. and, and that the method' of 'farming out the Maryland flpyolnlmenu that obtalned during Presi- dent GaxT's Inst tern ought not to be continuod, President Giaxy had s CitoRPRERING-CnEsweLL Iy every Etate who managed the Federsl ofiices, and the result was o vrotest from the people against ‘*Urantiom " tnat nearly destroyed the Republic- an party, President (Tavs ls not llkely to make the same mistake. ——————— # ‘The returns of the movements of population in Franco for 1870, recontly printed lntle French Journal Oficiel, vonfirm whaot has olten been etated in our columns about the decrense of vopulation in that country, The total number ot births was 050,075; or 2,600 less than in 1874, while the number of deaths was 845,003, or 68, 000 moro than in 1874, The totel rumber of fllcgitimate births was 00,000, ogalust 831,000 legilimate, or as 7.4 to 100, which la much larger than In other European countrics, With births falling off sud deaths Increnslug every year, It 13 no wonder that the leading French journals sre begluning very serfously to nvestizato the causes, - ———— ‘The Memphis Avalanche speaksthe scitiments ofall the moderate and ressonable Scutherm presa when It sayss - So far as tha South ¢ concerned, and reprdless of what 1 tlionght of - the meann by which 16 wad declared el but one feeling {s upperuont In mon's minds, J¢ (s thal the inconuny Preident deserves and shall vecelve o fair trial, on Aliown fmerits, ‘Ihere 14 na disposifion to condemu him In advance, or hold him responsiblo for the nce of uthers; albelt thero {an wm“‘nud four lest heinay rl!ld 10 the methods of the ulten elowents 8o ong n control of his }:lfly. i only utterances to- wards the South have bdeen patriotic and concléa- fory, Wo shall soon Jesmn fl his acts tho extentto which they has oken for fis heart, e t—— Tho Washington Republican, which was tho Grant Court organ, thinks the time has coma for the introduction of a modified policy tor wards the South. It says: “There is 1o bo a considerable reorginization of partics in the ndjudtment to follow the upheaya ala of the convulaion wo Linve oxperlenced, Elther thia [s 10 bo the caae or wo aro to. stand stili on the shores of time, loiting the world advance vhile we alok supinoly in its sands, If present fasurs are to survive duriig another four years, etill severing thy country Into soctional vartics as now, emtltiering tho anfmonltien of the pesple, and tnclting them to increased antagonlsm, thidh indeed do wo not only stand utill but rotrograde, promising nothing tut carly dissolution, . — We don't belleve that the American peoplo will permit a Senatorlal machiue ring elther to cripplo or break down the - Administration of Prosident Haves at its threshold upon any sucl apeclous pretext as that sct up by the cone spirators of the ring. —— If Mr. BLatsa thinks that {t will be ss popu- lar in tho North to sasall Prestdent Haves as it was topitch fnto Jrer DAvia for the Andersons ville crucitics, he will find himeel? hugely mis- en, —— PERBONAL, The New York 1orld, the morning after the Dond stroet fire, stratgoly omitted to say anything about tho neccasity of ralslug the rates for fire- Insuratico in Chicago, ‘The antoblograpliy of Willlam 11, Seward, edited by hla won, 1s0t last ready, and for aaloto sub- scribers ouly by the Appletons. It s s work of 822 pages, fally fllustrated, A Mlss Poe, a sister of the poot, - dled two o thres years ago, and luft & bundle of manascripts belouge Ing to her brother. ‘Theso sre now In competent hands, and will soon be Laaod from the press, Blaine will never lead In the Senate. Ho Is not & leader by nature or education, but n phenom- cnoa, 1lis flashes of silence arc almost as bright 8s hiie meteoric displays of eloguence. When he fe ellent, others do the leading. The Pall Mall Gatelte aud the London Tines are requested to notice that 1t was Tus Cincavo Timuxg, not, au stated by them, another journal published in this ¢lty, which gave to the warld Qen, Pleasonton's recent lotters in regard fa tha blue-glass cure, € ‘The funeral of the late Mra, Kittredge, of Chi- cago, ook place at Charlestown Monday, The services wers Impressive, belng conducted by the Rev, Mr.* Twombley, pastor of the Winitirop Charch, and by the lte L. Moody. The elders of the Chleago church who were present scted as pall-bearera. SN ‘There are hundrods of thousands of voters In thls country who sympathlzo with Presldent ifaye and deslre to givo him moral support, But thelr feols fngs are not expresecd; whils the volcact his opponents s heard {n Washington, Tho times call for patriota to epeak out throngh public meetings and the newspapers, 3 Mr, Story, the American sculptor, has made 8 ¢lay-model of Clytumnestrs at the moment whon, , after slaying her husband, sho advances and con- fronta tho people with fustideation of her deed, 1t fan standing tigure, thin and siight; tbe head slightly benty the armu foided; tho expreision fn- tense, concentrated, and reatrained. » Jennlo Juno says that 'Mile.'Alinee tan look more wickedneas than any ofher woman conld talk, and secms {o be tho very Incarnation of attractive aln, No oneconld evor think of ler ax having oaco beenn baby, and beld In a mother's lnp, or heard Iullabies from o mother's lps, It fa sald that Almoe {8 nuw teaching the Grand Duka Alexls how to conjugate her name, Neal Dow, who bolieyes In hanging persons who sell so much as one cup af cold cider, s not quite satisfied with the new Mbine law, It renders line ble to fninrisonment for two months, with s fine of $1,000, sny perwon who sells any futoxicating Nquor excopt cider, 1t will be Interesting to no- tice hencafuith the aleady Incroaes of the percent= ago uf alcohol In Malne clder, ‘Two new competitors for the cbalr of Poetry 800 to fall vacant ut Osfond aro My, Walter Pater and Mr, J, A, Synionds, bothof thein accompllahed eritics, but nelther, 0 foras heard from, a poet. But slnco the purpose of the Professorship La not to teach young men how to bo poets, but how o understand poatry, the cholco of elther of the per- wons mentloned would not be wrong. Prof, Max Muller, of Oxford, the emlvent phllologist, has written a letter to Mossrs. Jan- ven, MeClurg & Co., tho publishers of the translas slon of his '* Deutscho Liste," under tho title of ** Muinorics, " in which he gays; **I naturully take some Intarest lu the fataof the Look, and was pleased 0 obsorvo the caro bestuwea on ite jramaltation and the taste with which 14 had been brought out, " Tho CAristian Unlop some weeks ago printed the Jines, Pagde lieu Ltjude quo nous, and requested a franwlation of them, Habberton rashly wnade (beus out to be 0t 80 far from the lthoneas 1o, " nad was wmortided on hear- ing that they shonld read in Engliab, ** Paddle yourowncange.t - ¢ e Rhuods Carrett, who {s folnt-suthor whh ber cousld Agnes 'of **lume Decoration," just pub- lishod In Pojter & Coates’ Ast-at-Howme Berles, was at oue tima s pastoer of Willam Morrly, the vost, Io afrm of professional house docorators, &be now cartles on tho business with her cousla with great success. 'The Uarroit's have a large cilentage fu Eogland. They are practical women, sud As compatent 10 overlook draluage, carpenter's tepalring, etc., as paiuting, papering, furnisbing, 824 otber dycoration propor, Their business ls sefurniebing sud otber werk. desigoed 10 make onu's hoase piore comfortable or beautiful, * The Alessndrla obelisk, which' was given to Epglazd masy years sgo by the Egyptian Qovern- wept, but which hss ever slnce remained in its original poativn for waot of mesns 10 wove It, it nuw belng brought aver through the gensraalty of ® privato ciitsen, Mr. Erssmus Wilson. e gifs will perpetusts bis namo fu & wounment more en- curing tlan tablets uf brass, whlle it will by g Jast- ing socrce of gratidestion to bls country, The - genuity of Mr. Wilson i plsoniug thlas preseut aud «arryiog bis plau into execution excites tho sduu- vatlon of tho press. Ouw -of the winally ssasiint