Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 25, 1878, Page 12

\ Y12 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, 1878—TWELVE TPAGES. the Democrata had been defranded of the Electoral vote of Flolda and Loultiana, Thera is, therefore, o reason Why the eonfesstons of tha Republiican nia ehonld tempt them to do what they refused to do when they know, nf well na they know now, that srong had beon done, althongh they did not know the precise tmanner in which the frand had been efferted. Thae Southern members can, twithont Inconsistency, vote for an investigation anywhere and every- where, 1f they think [t will do’ the party and the conntry any good. _They cannol take pars In any ‘movement Which, hased npon the facta before the country on March 4, 1877, looks to the removal of Me. Tidyes. OF conrae Mr. Hayes is liable to im- peachment as any other President was, but he fe not lisble to impeachment for anv act done befote he became Prerident, and it wonld not benefit the Demacratic narty to make the attempt to remorve the Presldent, and fail, as the Republicans did when they impeached Andrew Johnson, MEXICANIZATION. Trouble in the AirfromDem= ocratic Machinations on the Presidential Questiona Wade Hampton's Organ Calls the Potter Resolution “ 2 exe, we find, are the tiews ltkewise of Gov, . ible g Tampton, whose political wisdom is undoubted. B nor;er » Blun :nlfinl:ne;nflnn with reporter, on Satueday, ha : A the Morlnlnk of tha Prestdential que: y." The South needs {n-n and quie! the sgitation of the Preaidentlal question will cause unrest and disquiet: it will bo '*a gravo ‘mistake on the part ot the Sonthern people o take Dart in this matter.” The worst of 1t fs, that Vitne marses thronghout the whole country wiil look upon It ae a revolutionary proceeding, "' and a conviction of this *'will da more to make Grant the President In 1880 than overy other avency combined,” The Repnblicans waste no time, Their Committes atrikes while the fron I« hot, We fear that the action of the Democracy on Mr. ottor's resolutions will prove to be & horrible blander, althangh we hope that conrervative infin- ence will control the conduct of the Committeo, and tho diaposition made of snch reports a it may submit, The bistory of the Democratic party. in 1 olities, I8 & history of Iost opportanitie Never ban nrnu political organization so ayatem- atically frittered sway ita atrength, hud played 20 regalatly fnto (ke hands of its opponents. LET IIAYES ALONE, Augusin (Ga.) Chranicie (sten Ifitl's Organ), TWith regard to tho title .of Mr. Hayes, we feel confident that wo but volce the sentiment of nine- tenthe of the Eoathern people when we say that n0 attempt should he mado o reoven the ques- tlon that was rettlod by the last Congrens. The Bonthorn people accepted the selllement in good faith, and they do not wish it disturbed. The only body having power under the Constitation to docide the election has rendercd a decleion, snd that decislon will be lorally respected aud obeyed, ‘0 attempt to set It aside now Wwould be to threat- on the best Interests of tlon. Wa _do mot Ben Hill's Organ Wants to Hear No More of Putting Out . Hayes and Patting In Tilden, A Bourbon Newspaper Gives Dann Fits, and Intimates that He Is a Blather- skite. A Conspiracy--—-Senator Conk- ling, Ben Butler, and the Democratio Builldozers. If Prosident Hayes Is Ousted, Qen. Grant May Become His the country with destroc- belleve that wsuch o conrse conld not be right or wise from a pnrely Successor. patty point of view. Ve ‘believe that an sffore 1o onst Hayes ana Wheelerand inangurate Tilden ana would Injure instead of bencfiting the 'y, and canee them to lose the House of Representatives that {e to be chosen next Novem- ber. Dat whether such a step would injure or benefit ths Democratic mrt{ {s niot the fasue. Tho qnestion s, would It benefli or Injure the country? We do not hesitate to say that we are for tho conn- try rmat and for the Democratia party afterwarde. The prosperity of the peo- l)ln s more to be considered than he sggrandizement of politiclans, however great and aistingnished they may be. To reverse the Judgment that has been pronounced ‘and abided would be to deal almost & death-blow to all tho material Interesta of the conntry, —the Interests by Which tho masees of the puopla who are not. poll- ticians must_earn thelr dnily bre Lot the in- vertigation that very provorly has bean ordered be confined to its logitimato acove, and et the fraudn which will be rovealed be given to the peopie o ‘:l!ljndnmflll upon at the pallot-box; but let us ear nio more of **putting out ' Hayes and ** put. tiog In" Tilden. A BOURBON DBULLDOZER GIVES DANA FITS, Attanta (Ga.) Constitution (Dem. ), ‘We have conalderable respect for Mr. Charles A, Dana, of the New York Jun, but candor compels 1o soy that tho pacies of journallsm in which he 8t times sees fit to indulro 1s not the most elevating nor the most redned, Ile Is never quits at him- self. He apponrs ta be mentally dlscased, and every phase of the diseaso represents a phobla. Upon occaslon the symptoms of his malady are quite namoless and InsigniGcant, a5, for ln- stance, the Dencon-Smith-phobis, the Childe- phobla, and the Ell-Perkine-phobla, but s general thing the outcome of his montal fovar le the aom of nll Litternees. 1t has been suspected that many of the actec! ed to theaccount of Ed- win M, Stanton while be was Recretary of War,ang for which he died detested and hated by all Con- federates, originated in the fortile and bitter pur. sleanship of Bir, Dana, who was Stanton’s assiet- ant. . Whather thia be kruo or not, {t Ja Impossible 10 sy, but anchistho fmpression, and recent de. velooments go far to confrm it. Falling back upon the misshapen preludices he contracted while abetting the disgraceful tyranuy uf Stanton, Mr. Dana weites as follows In a'recent lssue of the Sun i Louisiana Sentiment Adverso to Potter- ism--Threats of the Moxi- canizers, TROUBLE IN THE AIR. Cincinnati Commarcial (Ind,), Hay 23, Theto ls trouble in the alr at Washington, the ‘beaviness of which does not acem to bo appre- hended by the country at large. It would ba a great mistake to assume that tho Potter resolntion fa & mere inquiry into the con- duct of ‘‘visiting statesmen In Florids and Lonisiana at the time of the connt of Electoral voles fn those States. Tho resolution Is tha first step in a well-consld- ercd policy, the result of protracted conferences and the last of many plang, and it {s the intention to push it with the whole force of the Democratic warty. All good Demoerata are of the opinfon, of coutso, that they were dofeated in the Presid entlsl election by fraud, and fraud;only, and thoy sre ex- Pected to act upon that oresamption., ‘A for the investigation, [t 1s unly necessary to héve enongh testimony of soma sort to serve an agreed purpose, The majority of tho House, ai lenst, are ready to act upon instinct and genorsl information. Ar. Tildon's mone, there 18 resson to bellere, has been freely_used In preparing matter to be de- veloped by investigation. The -work has been elaborately done, sad the documents arc ready. 1t I fatr to asenue that thero la nothing new in the paoro prepared by Mr. Tilden's agents, bat they have spared no patos In putting thelr case in compiete order. Tha first nation wan that the Btate of Lonlsiana shonft_complain {hat ber vote bad not been pro erly counted, and rako the question of tho Presis dental title in the Supreme Court, Tilden, Hen. dricks, and Conkilng Lnppened out of the country at the time the movement was to have taken place, “Fhen the Siats authonties of Loatsiana declined to tako action, and onr atatesmen came ltome to thelr peaceful humes. The Maryland movement followed: and after mnch deliberation the deter- mination was made to assert the omnipotent nower of Congress, —the bady that created tho Efectoral Commisaion, —and the Potter resolution is 1o pre- pare the way. ‘Thefe la n sizanco and slniater story about Wash- Ingtod thut the malorty of tho Sendto, us well an of the lioase, arn (n favor of unseating the Presis dent, and the names of Cawmeron sud Conkling are freely used as ltepublicans wao will co-oporato In auch u movemont., 1t has not been forgotten that Conkling was fully belfeved to ba hnstils to tho sccestion of Haycs, ana ready to make n speech epafnst his car - fore the declelon of the Electoral Commlavion, He has been constantly disappoluted In the Ad. minisration, and he has shown signs of great ex- peration, I'ne following special dlspatch from Washington shoivs thie atyle of 3ir. Diaine in the preseat state of the atmosphere: WarBIXGTON, May 31, —When Mr. Blalne was on the floor of tuo Houxe uf . Krpresentatives Inst Friday, just Defore the culmination uf th struggio over the otter pitolution, b remarked Lo ons uf the licpublican {epreastatives that it was certainly anost novel and cullar apectacle Lo dee, ou 1hio ona side, morv tnan & undred Beinocrats Nehitng solfdly togelher for s pur. pore whicls at leat’ half of ‘th 10 a {, i huiired vt 3 fuw conspirs “with heir, Northern doughtdse Dem- ocratic alites. (o biock the wayto an Invesilgation wiiich would tincover and asnose the great fraud, o men who confuct thenselves 1o this way suppuss that 1hie Tass of tho Narthera Democracy arc 8o Lnse-born, $0 absolutely warting In self-respect, a8 to continue 10 Sct. 10 co-overatn with them? '\What guarantee can these (rencherous men give that thoy Would hot again aell out the party on tie heeld of » second victory? Tha North~thia old tren {1] no lota aisht of the fact that thia Lemocr dldate’who, After b 1@ been lawfully elected. was wold out hy Kontliern Hebelt, was plodiced againit the payment of Henel War eistme. "It {8 evidcal 1At (his now constitutes the Freatest Larrier tuan Investigation which would bo il sule to put Hayes out and Tilden in, i very well to talk sentimentatly abaut buryiag t,2hiY e want the Lioballion Lrled aé ta8 the dead pas bottoui~thst'1s Allowing pity for the infirmity of the man who could pen atich a statoment to take tha place of in- dlgnation, It is sofiicient to say that Alr. Dana in not & fatr bistorlan of the Electoral trauds, llo allows his prejudice to run away with both his {udnmenx and his- memory, Hix rage leads him nto the extreme of siiliness, and, ta give force to hia_silliness, he descends 1o ths methodsof s blathernkite. Wea bex to call his nttention tn n lew facts that sre pertinent to the |ssuc ha Liag raleed, 1o the firat place, Mr. Iana himself wasun- usually quiet while 'the Blectoral fraud was in process of connummation, He auvised the Dem cruts and the country to accapt tho result and ap. eal to tho ballot-bax. He knaw then as well ns o knowa now (hat Mr. layes was not olected. flo knew then as well as he'knows now that the Electoral Commission waa unconstitutional, Ile knew then ua well as hie knows now that tho seat. ing of Mr. Mayes was o great crimes and yet, fn hin editorial printed in the Sua during the month of Novembuer, 1870, ho adslacd tho people ta sub. mit, tolllng them that thelr redress wasnt the Lullot-box. Ile was fortitled In tuls advice by the Jucld attitade of the peoplo of tho North,—his ellow-patriots and feliow-loyallsts, —wio behely the consummation of the outrage. smiled, and eart, and, ou thie other wide, more t| tepublicans ghting ax sofidiy against & (hing whichi at east Lalf of thew secretiy favored and hoped would succeed, The Democratic party certaln) orpanized sn the Republicat 1s compactly under relentless divcipline, while aredemoralized by theieSenn ud the noisy puliticiane of that pe claimivg that the President has des n what line (D&ulh tho campaign the ag- e agreed. Snppose mmanded for an hall the Pre ald upon the orgunization Lolloved fo Lave heena part of a progmmus thioroughly thought vat. 17 he conlil ave been olected Fresldent nro tompore of tha Henate, and Hiyes and Wheeler were out, the Excculive ofice would have fallen to him tempo- rarilv. As the caso ntands, it has been suggested | wore cuntent; ho was npplauded by the smail comn. that Randall might be gln ad to take precedence, | merclal politicians Jike Abe llewitt and (ina Hel. though the means by which thls could’ be accom- mont, who pleaded that any ottempt to upeet the decislon of the Electoral Commisdlon would de- preciate the price of Government bonds, In the secund place, Mr. Dava knows that thero Ile knowa that uftor plished seem to be ubecure. Hut what of the power of Congen’ The reply Wh 1) it that power? Uiesides,under the “fruud " ihe purpose Tevolutlon, and was no bargain with llayes, rovolutionary leaders ara neverat o los to clothe | the decleion of the unconsbitutional Electoral Com- thelr proceadings with the phrases if not the forma | misslon thero was a dispositian on the part of the of la; Southern Democrats to rt to flibustering os In Washington there s fre wil) happan when Cougress pas resolntion that is to follow investigation, and wilitla of Maryland, Virginia, New Jerscy, and New York aro laken Jute computation ss viements of the situstion. The offect of Communiam, labor dis and all the evil effects of 1| inching hard timi 0 calculated uu freely aa any problem In sl one of the methods of ting the conspuima. tion of the fraud, and he knows, morcover, un- Jess his mental malady has rendered bim Incapable of forming an intelligent oplulon, that such a methed woald simiply result in confuelon sad rove Infectual in the end. \ras ut thie period history of the fraud that tho Democrats proaclied by the friends of Mr, Haven with cow Eat 1f they won u thelr oppusis discusslon of whst save Lhe concurront the le arithmetic. tion, which would "he utter] Wwithe PIABG yet there (s a powerfal restraloimg inflaonce. | out® roauit f - por s "ot " 'the ‘This Ls the dread of pubilc sentiment. 7'l d 1) first acts of Mr. lluves wonld bo 1o re- sture home rule an'd eivil supremacy to the South, Thls I3 the bargain entared tnto by Southern Dem. ocrale—no more. no_less. They cessed thelr All- bustering, and Mr, flayes, amid a storm of abuse sud vilidcation, bad the nerve to carry out the pledges of his fricnds. For this lio dosorves the lymsn‘nlny and good will of the South; but no Boutlicrn man, uotwithatandlng the mauditng rav- Luirs of the Sun, 18 under unligations fu covor up the fraude which resulted in awindling the country out of ita rightlully-eluctod Prestdeut. In concluslon, we desire (o usk Mr. Dana o question. 110 was a Republican once, afil douht- leas understands the true fawordness'of that core fupt organization. W1k he explain to ue why it is (hat, whilv 1he Democrats are willing to Inau- gurato an lnvestigation, the Hepublicans in the Hous are stralulng svery nerve Lo prevent 1it? Wi will bo pleaved to bear from Mr. Dana on this point, ——— CONKLING, BUTLER, AND 7THE DEMOCRATIO BULLDOZERS, Currespondance New York Mercury \lem.). Wasuminutox, D, C., May 18,—The tolecraph has told your roaders shout the proceedings on the suttaca for the fnvestigation uf the alieged (rauds n Loulsians snd Forids, but the true jowarducas of these activne scews to remain hidden from the oluggish correspondents of the daily press, Tot tae Jercury enlighivn them. [nlooking back over tho Bles of your jouroal for the last elshtcen months they will find that you have always been farin advance In glving & correct view of matters in the National Capital, and that your predicilons bave seldom fulled 1o come truc. 1t looks just now as If tho Democrats of the House were chlefly at Tault for tha endeavor to revolutionize tho coun- try, snd that they are bent upon sach arbitrary acilou as will sujure the busincus luterests of tho country sud Jeopurdize our raviving prosperity. 'bat there §s a consplrac ust the qulet and wellate of tha country will be admittea. but it baw its origin amony those dlusatiafied Nadicals whu ar¢ vnragod bucause they wore not allowed to di- Vide thoapoile Of OIED: e uf Jore. 'he schem- s are not anxlous to have the fall eloctions speak girectly, atizmatively of othorwlee. It l¢ Impor- tant, {¢ may be essentlal to nationsl salvation, that toe poople should speak with the best ntelligence ad full forco in thuao electious. ‘A HORRIBLE BLUNDER, Charlaton (§. C) News (Wade Hamplon's Organ), The Republicans treat thu Potler resolutions as a doclaration of an Intention to unseat the Presl. dent, by hook or by crook, and such a proceeding Qley regard as revolutionary, If not rebelllous, Thelr viow of the resolutions, not the Democratlc view, will be taken by the lepublican voters: and we confess that, desplto the dlsclalmers shat have been made, thero {s some zeason to think that a purpuse ta reopen the Prosigential quostion Is ege tertained by other Democrats than Judge Blatrand Ar. Tilden, Upon the hypothests that there I8 no tntentlon to disturb Mr, 1fayes, the object of the Domocrats, In presenting the Potte resolations, is 10 obtain mae feral to work with £ the noxi canvass, or tu ascer- tunid the whole of the facts connected with the Liectoral frauds, In urder thot remodial aud pro- sculive legulation may bs framed. With thixview, there was cvery reason why the investigation should ue made broad aud general, embraciog thy charges apuinat Dewocrats a3 woll s the charges sainet Uepublic And if only campaiia thun. d ed, the coufessions of SleLiu aud Tepentant winners, would be more viceable Lsn & bustiel or two of teatlmony on by poliical commiltes, The Democratic wanazers declined Lo apy amzudments o bu offered. Thevy refy xiend the tivestlgation 1w Uregon, aud South ‘arobua. Even the vencrablo certatu Alezander {1, Stephens waa howled down, and denied ta privilege of ddressiug the louse, The ways of the Democracy afs so_incompr- heusibio that there may not we any hldden wig- ificauce fa tho maucuvres uf the munagers, bul @t the Orat blush, there 1s some ground for tho ap- prehension (bat what {s olined at Iy, the removal of Mr. Hayes. 1nsuch amovenient as that, the $3 Tho presvut Bouthern ~ Democrats | moveuienl Lus {0z ils primg conspirators \:J.ukuua Licipat without sud Butler, wio, having hLeld dicistorlal power fa i e of for eizht years, are ot satladed with the ludepend- «nt action of Mr. flayes, sud propose eithier to l.lll;l'fll;l ofi,fl!b‘l"?]— bllo‘tk h||.l W‘l’lflll l’l:fla»’ll him h?m ol cull" he will " b £ iBo 2iortt and West, thy Congre: Dok iauhyh to. the . ictatlun of the ol Hutlor ‘unkliug lting, tiun asked of & tan who sought ofice fur him. grotbere was: GY i does Senator Conkling y ' It waa o datterinz locenss w ‘' My Lord Hoscoe,” sud bo misscs it wadly. Tiad bo becn uominated at Cluciuvad all would have been well. But when he failed of that, tpuugh backed by the power of ull the Custom-Hogscs aud Post-Olices 1la Under tag Grant rule, th frst took the poat eatabliabment of the Commission, Bad had subm tod 104t tue clalms of thelr caudl and they must, herefore, sbide by s dec kot or weong. ‘They did ihls wiih full koowledge tuat and Blstno u favor of tho national conseriptin of cuiteage. apening of the ‘Presdentinl’ questiony which will I ta discipline the poiiticians, thoughu mild his bicod. who plunder buttle-flelde! The ronemioation of irant wonld have been impossble had tho tiovern- mischievous old Montgomery Blale, ouce the land, he grow sonred, And determinzd to | an the high road to p have his revenge, though it cost the party oF | days of 1870 pledges {hin conntry (ts existence, ile ruiked and wauld not rpeak for Jiayes, and wan realiy giad when, In the fight over the election, he fuund an opportuni- toto > get even * with_the Incky man fram Ohlo. From that moment hs meditated treachery to his paty. Sometimen he thoneht is, conld “be dane 1nrongh firant, ana sometimes by means of Tilden. There seems to be & mass of concurrent goxeip going to show that when the Lonjsiana voto svas before the Senato he meditated making & speech in tavor of Tilden'a claim ta tha Presidency, snd then and there gaingaver padily to the Democeaey. Fome of hin Democratlc admirers In the Senate predicted at the time that Rascoo Conkling wonid make such a apocch as conid not fall to_give him the Democratic nomination fn 1880, [is courage oozed ont at tho eritical moment, however, snd he contented himeelf with absenting himseif when the vote on Lonislana was taken. Fail- ing Tildon, his next fea was to make Grant Presdent of the Senato and acting President, by r throwlogout the entire Preaidential vote at'the | this present aciion, a Jast moment. Again his conrage gave ont, and ha permittea Iiayea to be Inangurated, taking his re. vengo by speaking of him as ¢t that man, " and declintng tocall at_the White House until Hayes had called on tum to conenlt him abont oficlal ap- intments in_your State. Since that time he has mrn mimbling 1o every one who woald listen to him that Hayes is & frand, that ho knows s thing or Lo abont Lonisiana, that he haa coples of cor- taln telegrame, that he cauld unset the Adminis- tratlon, and that the White-Houe dreads him nlone and the moment when he will speak. Two or threo times, I understand, he has made np his mind that he would speak, and then his conrsge svemed fo give out. AnT talearaphed yon In Jfanuary, at the time of tho reasscmbling of Congress after recess the al programme was Qen, Butier shonld open the hail fnthe Houre, —it being given ont that ne conld not do no carlier, on accoant of his in- terest in certain Federal appointments In Maasa- chnsetts, The attack on the Administration wan to be foliowed by Conkling In the Sen wan a donblo den fn it. Etherafelnt was to da mnde s succensfully that the Administration wonld submit tu ali the deinanda of tha radicsl leaders in the master of pails, and with this the chief con- spirators wonld be content, of, falling this, the eratic eacnn at Odd- tions Iandatory of M the Prostdent snd an Ans voting against th ray nothing, and, as a miniake, the fouth, 1f Tl non-politicians, and diferently, bat I b minorit Y. ‘Thero fa no tack of the Omaha Herald, Thete Wemoacentle leaders were ta bo_forced to Inventigs. | 1knore or disreyard, tiomof the alleged Suuthern frauds aiid tho Lresl- PAULER A dential case, In the Iatter event, 1t was expected, | wrongs of 1970, Ly jndicions prompting of the Democratx, llayea | sbout that sacred niight be persecated 1nto resigning, and the ftadi- | n crime and oroush cal Vice-President, Wheeler, wonld take hisplace, or that both might be cant out of oftice anda proper man could be made President of the Secnate. For ressons that remain unknown, (en. Intler falled to comse 10 the front, and Mr. Cookling re- funed—retused, ns yon know, even when the editor of his home organ demanded that ho ehould atep forward and redcem the promlscs of bold sction mnde to him, nnd throngh kis paper to the publlec, 1ut now the Nemocrats aro in” motion, ana Gen. Tiutler 18 with them, aud no ono daubts here that tite fnl] sympathy of Senator Conkiing s given to the agiintora, Iils known to all men hero that the Henator's hatred to Mr, Huyos Is carcled almost to the verge of Insanity. Noepithuts ato too strohg 10 be used by him in denouncing the President, and It (2 falr to presume. therefore, that he will 8Loop to any eforta ta get rid of_hls rival, In the ‘vinter of 1877 Eenator Conkling wns possessad by the delnslon that Grant on the 3d of March eusuing might legally ba elected President of the Scnate, and thus, in event of the failare (o weat llayes, he wonld becomo hls own successor ad interlm, e atontly malntaina still that thore is nothing in the Canstitution of the Unlted8tates to forbid the Sen- ate clecting ln{ outsider ae its President, SII[!- pose now that 1layes and Wheeler wero brustied to one sitle by the action of the Houso Investiguting Commiitee, throngh reslgnation or by impencl ment, snd ruppose the ‘louse of ltopresentativ to be unable to eloct a President because of resent Inability 1o securs o majority of the Htal n favor of any candldate, —the chiof dutics of the Chief Mogistrata would devolve on the Prosident of the Senute, 1t seems to be the iden of tome of the Radical leadors that it would bo wise, in that event, ta eleet Grant to the Presidency of that body in the piace of Ferry, who I8 a churchi-membor, and too amiable _and upright for the position. They think they can count on the votes of every Repub- llcan (including Biaron, Patterson, and Uonover) for that step us n measuro of self-defense, and that some af the Southern Democrats, wh g to anrel erime, nothing 19, o+ The cons llflrtl and his brived full vldemwnnlcd. ) 7 hegher the monuinon, tled 8 racl yot. tho slgnidcance of thu haa no right tolt, and 10t upon any muay be left to fake ca Tho llnrhhurq loading Democratic p here are its worda: 1f e shall bo sscerts Loulsiana, was in promising and more fmportant [ Sacti s anecriained 1ana and Fiorids be seay Tho Utica Obserrer ting This We ean undors! Din But their shrowd devic Iast winter in {he Legislatiro a preamble and Tution were sdopted expresaive of confidence in action was to be regretted, comes here [ think It will ind 1t dificnit 1o get any fmportant new testimony. he was first elecicd, will tarn them & In fact, it [a bolievea and nnivareally stated that the action of the Democratic party in Congecesa waa {1l adviscd., and wiil lose them many a vote in Tllden. ‘The Bourbos and hence tle wh always Intelligen| ton Herarid anys thot it 'l‘l be rigoraus, but that altho, The Brestdency ot oo o g wilt ‘50 tion which was obtatned b Iractes anud If by snbatantiating a chisrgo of fraud 1] pecpls of the United Htated aro hat an individuul occuples the executive then 1L w1ii bou arty gction, that their doep and lasting condemnation will rest. complielt he Comyntssion of (he frauds by which Yole of thiat niate W F. Noyes bargained with 3 and ‘To'tuat eni Jet the Investi, lauld be fooliah envugh to, rosperity. Dnring the anxiol wo';u mi(h- 10 Mr, [layes that If he would mithdraw the troops Loulelana would sustain him and not dispnte his title. The Demo- Fellowa' 1{all passed resoln. r, Hayea and his rmllr(. nnd teso- Agieement to his election, That was what they meant, and they wers paseed by almost & unanimonsa patty vote, the Republic- em. In the facn of Uiese Any 1t the Sub-Commiites Thoso who know swill the wroat mass of the people aro In favor of lotting ifsyes alone, the Commil- tee will find {teelf ont of sympathy with the peo- e, B 1f the wholo affair ie In the Intarest of Tiiden and his nomination and election in 1850, he has made The peopie of thia State, outaide of the oliticians anyhow, will snpport him no more, And Imost ax much e that when 1nst nim, len n 1870, when the South be- lieved him elected, had made a stand he wonid have met thelf hearty supporti hut not now. Mayes, sinco his actfon toward Loulsiana and Sonth Carolina, has made many friends smong he is mors liked than Mr. n Democrats, of course, any slieve they are in & esmaill THREATS OF THE MEXICANIZERS, evidence In the columns of the Democratic papers that the Pottier Investiva- tion ia & crafty attempt to set in vlace the thin cdge of n rovolmtihnary movament. For instance, which ls edited by the Nebraska member of the Democratic Natfonal Committce, an original Tilden man, snd acon- fidant of Pelton and other Tildon agents, saya: Investigation has bocome & mcrlll) ‘whoso detons proportlons no Lomoceat in Uong: tiy of che Democratic party dare pon- At ress who €here appears to bo & to" permmit lnvestigation to 1 %5 Tita. 19tea edmecauendy of ‘TRt the the_nolsy clangor (20! foh was concelvod t forth In fraul. The cautlous correspondent of the a +*rettled ™ that investigation Ugh the fact be proved, that Mr, 1, 1. Iiayes galned agencies’ of conapltacy and donu to diaturh biin n A po these menne, Sattiod, crimesalieged s agd amply-rewarded reiatners mocratlc gentlemei who liopo el for kloty from Lhie existence al thal pATLY may Leuin to acalnrourh the spectacien of such a derided man rs Mantgomery 1alr, or even I fensamin ¥, Butler ay to tal crime of tha nxe can ho ast- jn that manner, Thers isa God In the Democratic 'The Baston Post Is ranked as ono of the most comorvative of tho Demacratic organs, but mark s quotation frow lis colnumna: that the f the fact alr who n itavls, re conyineed < n tho try The consoqucnces re of themselves. Patriot has beon for yoars the aper of Central Ponnaylvania; ained that John Shetman, In with J. Madlson we.l;‘s. 1] tolen, and that Kd- Lin and others in Florid: fiicial rewards n behalf of Mr Ilayea 10 return for the theft of hlectoral votes, another e will arise. Dut, upon endurtng record, lon of the frauids in Louls: irching snd thorough. 1s sn_infuentlal Domocratle an Important part of Mr. 18 §t8 language: and the soxiety of llayes: apologiste to amend the method of cliouaing & I 3 ng the ayatem they hope {0 axcuipatu the ‘rratdont. ‘o will Jgnobly fal. grow bropose an amenduient aha b 11 1a nog l1kely 1o do), 1t Would not ho patiied b be friends of a **strong Giovernment, " wonld quis f.figf-fu-m'v':wnn'hn sfm-‘."za 8y Rothing of The e etly wink at the performance, if thoy did not aid | auariera wiiose consent fa necessary, Tho system ia ait and abet it. Of course this would be usurpatfon | rikh as {t stande, It has never falled till now, anid g Govomment. Dur the Tadicala argue | SYCR nom JCE RS RACAVNE AL MAY (EORACRE tamang tncmselves) that this is Just what the | {5 F10T50000 Chalr ine man who was elosted by 3 llfl.‘!flll; Aul?m:m'uon"n:mnlm:'t‘l In' :mlnnconc ‘majority of more than 330,000, can deny {t. As for the future, are con. ferald of C bus, 0., tent, so long ss Grant and Conkling once ,,.‘,‘,’;:,",’,,’;’:,,’{,,,:’m,,"“““ e O Dptee Aty gel thelr "hands in, and tho prospect Of the spoila ls very appetizing to hungry men. It will not do to desplse auch conspiracies, for the tmmediate past has shown us (lat the inen caps- hle of seating a President by fraud would have no hesjtation about unseating him by any means at their disparal, especially if ihey tan uee their po- 1ttica) opponeuts ae temoorsry allles. Conkling und Butler are only too glad to ace the Domocrats of the [fouse on the \Vlhgnlh, and will be aclight- od to nce them return with tho Prosidential scalp. Amonz ontsiders here tho belief is that we are on tho eve of stirring ovents, perhaps of revola- tton. There {s no *‘scare’ about Grant, but & frm belief that he knows all that js going on and would like to take the helm nyain, If ho can only hold it ad interim, ho can make himeelf Prestdunt I%flln. a0 the Jadicals say, and keep himealf in ontice. In thst gvenr, Conkling will bo I'remierin Waahingion and gencral yendor of offices. In case of fmlure of the presont conspiracy, and b sctlement of the battlo in favor of flnyes, Conk- 1R Wilh retire trom tho Ssnatorial arenn. and de- voto himeelf to tho adornment of the Melropolitan Dar. 'The present strugzio will relegate Ruthor- ford b, Hayes or Roscoo Conkllng to the oblivion of privata lifes GIIANT FOit PRESIDENT IN 1880. corressondence Cincinnast Enquirer (Dem.). WasutNurox, % O, Moy 23,—Tle Repubiican party ts drifting helplessly into UGrant's hands for 1880, 'The reason s that ho s their only bold, steadynan. Al tho rest are & parcel of cowards, Conkiing 18 a sneaking coward, whose temper 19 rometimes mistaken for tho llon quality; but he never went IntotheWar, oven with themllitia, When Conkling and Blatoe Indulged In a day of blilings. gato un the question of how many substitutes thele States had furnished, —Conkling champloning the people who expectod to bave to provide substitutes n ing Anall Commisslon Defore the court s=ttigment founded oo the very nature of fraud 0o right. Let us know Mark farther this plain language from the Press seitled. of Troy, Y. ve aud bri frontcd peraons installed. Chronicls and Senta The rock of danger prova too much and’ be and 30 niuch so that the ot Mr. Dans, of the sgaipat the Prosident rovolution, If it wers o 19 computd of party, was almost the drivel of octogen: beneath notice, has e ollicer,—they represented the camp-followiny e} ment, and saggeied & couple of cursing sntlers, Girant Is known to be 1o coward, and the on'y live Iu candidate for Prosident who hos ail three kinds fe has nothing elne. But ons bull could an ont of 8 field everybody who aspires 1o tho Prestdency, except Tiiden, Ofd Sammy might leava tho feld, but never the fence. In some way or other he would msanago ultimately to whlsper in Thie bull's ear. 0 haw foollsh, how willful, how aad, Is this ro- con try. atop that coats, sud tiary. Certainly, all scouragu for ity yesrs any respectable endeavars Hayes ls no_cowar, man; fof o was & soldlor and shed Yet 1bo whols tendency of our period 18 10 12k the juontal cuurage out of him, and leave hira & broken monument (o succoeding 'r not to olfend camp-followers, Poweriul aro they recent action of & Aniavestigation; an of what, by what m ‘machinery, ment drifted into the decorum and seif-r Hayen won introducing, Buf,as disorder Inc: Girant urises Kbovo the confunlon, bocause n mas- ter in then Jooked for. The renoiminasion of Grant is 3 portentoun thiug, Frank Blair, brother of 1his redicted thnt *+(irant wonld have tu be taken oul of 1he Whito Iloune feet forumoat, if they got hun aut at all.'*” Such & candidato, st the end of. & mill- tary campnizn which wanld agalu shake (hiv countey witls the namo of everv battle-lleld of the rebeliion, mizhi b defeated. ~ (St would ho accopt defeat any mors than Sumuel . ‘Mlden has accep! ed {t? 1o 12 the only man who mizht revolutionize this conntry, 1t was Iglesias in Mexico who ro- Tuned to uccept Letda for $resident, snd the mil- tary haugd of Pardrio Dlaz atruck 'both of them dowp, Now, 1t s Tiden who will not auomit to llayes, and belind ooth is the spectre of Grant, 181 my opinfon that Grant could be de- feated by votes, but who conld irust his naturo, backud by the war-spirit of the Norih, botn excit: «d by & campalgn whore every flag and'drain would doclalmy, **Tramp, tramp, the Loys sre march- fug"1 Tho Republicans Who now aay they would not vota for Graut votu |n 1860, ot or andtactosed, ' Men er the protection indlvidual responainl] the same which origh yeatigations, | individug) ssenrances low, an investigatl chief threatenod or a subleet of the prop frauda practiced in rel of A1 tion, _condncted tlany are whory {he deliberately premodi its wily and urscrupul desirod, do uot know huw they would vd, and Fear, alone, of Grant's resisting the election of his competitor and usurping the Htate would drive & wmililon anti-(irant men 1oto voting for nim, =0 0 Lo presorve tha lepublic. the neces that tho b ed with thoe alleffod 18 nonsenss 1o talk at i d tiat thore are at leas the 1iuten who contempiate tiiat poasibil ‘Theas revelatlons of the real Democratle purposa can bo safely loft to spenk for themacives, “IT I8 TUE FIRST STEP TIAT COSTS,” Boston adeertiser (Rep.)o A maro speck in the Maryland sky, which wasat fitst rcarcely dlacernlble, and which, Jzrespectivo Ilonse of RHeprosentatives and controiling motive of 1h1s proposed invea tionY There csu ba nv other answer than thut it 1s This §s tri cratic Representatives to thu conl Floriduand Loutsiana, withwhich it Ia Lope . direet- 1y or ln:hirectly to connect Mr. layes, in Central Ohio. says: hout this Prestdential title be- The iaw estnbliahing tha Electoral provided for testing (e hole quertios e, An t even i |t had not dona s0. ne grand conid bo final, for 1t thatit can confer no title and 1f thiero was fraud. 1£ 1t be proved that the palitics of the two contest b ore dousERed, Hat Caavassors woro HIbed 1o 8 returne, and b it &1 the reault of debauchery ibery K. B. layes and W. A. Wheeler were IALiely Gaciaroi elcctad: tho Congrees will then with s solemn dnd imborative duty, rie men who were not elocted must th 8 deposed, and the eloctad Add to these utterances tho notes of warning and incidental :unlaulnnl from the Auguata (Qs.) ol s to thn Democracy ls loat thoy come [ntoxicated with succers, ‘miRBE fall iatotiie cager claws un, And resort to edingy ‘which would be littie shurt of 0% actually Ilkg thing iteslf. P t 0ty licmocrais in i universally alluded to as onty arian sonllity, and thereforo nlarged Into the dimenslons of s biack, portentous cloud, Involving and en- veloping the entire Unlon. has moat assuredly *‘kindled a great fire," which endangers and may destroy the very cltadel of our resent form of government, as it cortalnly. must laturb tho peace and derange thoe nffaire of the ‘This **ilttle matter™ s an old but trno maxim that '*it1s the Arst 1t 1 not the )i w applicablo to the acts of ambitions political schemors aad agle tators, who *‘rales 2 wimd'' which may becomo ‘*n whirwind " beynnd their control or even tholr wildest imaginings, than to the first atep in wrong dolng, which leads'on by snccessive stops to of- fenacs Incrensing in enormity, unlil the offender finde hlmlfllllwllhhl tho four walls of the Peniten« lovers of peassaand the ata- bitily of our Govurnment may well look upon the emocratic majority in the with wall-grounded alarm, What docs this actlon contemplate and_pronoso? inv oan gatlon, forsgoth! lint instrumontalitica and nd to what endt Whenever an fne vestieation ia ret on fout, it1s but the Nrat xteo to. ward the nccomplishment of somoobject, disclosed collectirely as well as fn- dividualiy nct frons some molve,, and, what fa equally, “painfully, and dangerously true, un- actlon shirk Wiiat s the Impelling g, of collectlve Iity. nates and proscentes sil {n- ‘Whutevor iay he the and protestations of Demo- rary. ou nocesxanly implics & mis. wrong done, and tha ublect of the investixation fs to avert or_remiedy the mis- chlef, orto punish the wrong. Now, what in the used invesityulfon? Alleged lation fo Elecioral returns 1n Well, what Buppose, as the resuit of tile investisn- as all political {nveatiga. stakes ara great, with the tated purpose on tho part of Jous projactars to attain the to manufacture and supply all y means and teatimor. sident Is directly or fudirectly connect: to that eml, ds, —what then? Asthe late_notorions Mr. ‘Pweed would have wald, ‘The Demucratis party wae in provpect of an **What do you provose to do about 12" Why, of Providentiul victory. Why las it luvited the courde, reply the Democratle majorlty 1n the ruhou-lunl of all, Incuding Hayes Luus ’b nd | Ifouse of l(n(:ruenlnllvc! avail oarsclvus of the hreatoncd ud avatn with ihe Man o Morssbacky | frults of this luvestigation, a3 the rusuite uf faves. Tlecuuso Mr. Samuel J, Tilden, afrald he wiil not Lo renominated in 1850, Js kedping allve the dan- E‘mu‘ tupic of his defrandal, so-called, lle is eoplug e up by spenilug woney on incendiary nowspabers. These lucendlary nowspapers have scarad thy Democratic Congrees Into Investipating ayce' clain, That has Jut the devil fooss. Ther fs now no logic in the metiod of political events, and § should not wouder It tho noxt ticketof unu JEriy i thia country wauld bo tirant and Alcck tephicns, und be suppurted by all the War moa in the Nourth and al} the peacu men in tho South, "Thie night the Hading of the Electoral Teibunsi's turn or the Presiduncy was made, FHackburn, of Kentucky, made o speoch, and ssid the act wonld bo **zuniked lu blovil " “lie 14 of no consequence, Lut Sam Rtandall has put him on this dangerous Committes of disturbance, 'Chus our peace. our growiug concord, vur sruporly concerns, Dothaps #ur lives, arv all ibreatened Uscauss Congross can- oot abldelts awn marecmnent. Will the Democr nowiuate Mr, Tiiden in 1850 when Lis ambition s0 ladiferent to the Iifu of tho nation? s LOUISIANA NTIMENT. By Telegraph o New York Heratd (Ind.), New Oureans, day 20.—The Potter resolutions and thelr attendant openluy of tha Loulsians case has created suything but & pleasant feciing hero at thu revival of & question the people had thought scttled, What Loul wauts Is **to be let slone " to ralse het ccups and atlend to businecs. Of & Iarge number of geullvmen, merchants, sod promiyent citlzens interviewed’ on the subjec nearly ""5 wue_regreitod 1bat the subject b been opeticd at ull. and expressed an opinlou that Southern Congressmen could have been better em- ployed lu feying 10 geb sometiing for thelr con- stituencies fulative to theie harbors, fivers, snd levees, invtead of aquabbling over what can only disturb mattors generally. has been artian, it wiil us 7o o of tho Presidentia dentlal ofice, and and desptasd. course of conduct, ca| who were in hunor al ever bindlng and 1 treated s dlsmla tigation. I clusiy 10 any action tu take inevitable results of Waat tucn? Toose by votiuz 1n favor of wiifully broken and ana hap puryose, thoy woul antlcipatod wajority thay posseas, oF wifl clearly bave tbe will A geotleman prowiuent a8 & successfal makand. who e oaly interfercd in polith aumu’fi'fimfifl’ 10y goud of tho Btate, said he wore than reirettod Thas thay aboul the action of tbe Southern and evpuclally thy Loa- And it Vet wust paturall 1ai: [¥ wen, Louislans was to-day, e T g duct? Wby, of cours throuih layce, guveined by be¢ own Deonla sud tigntions are usually treuted and uso.l, o a ploa 1n bas of any turestigition at cd pledgea of confurmity (0 and gca cacence in the dual Judgment and report of the Electoral Comtlsslon. THaving set tuo Inveatigation on oot for a cerlaln 1d not if they could, —they conid Botif tavy wonid,—under the iuficnce of ine terested and ambitious partisan leadcrs, refuse to acecut, uue, and ablde by Its loglcal re 10g o Lumerical majority 1n thy 1lou uracticaily way for their sats Liing, refuse to scknowledye of recogulze bim or his Presidential otice or title. Mr. Hayes hown bY the report of the matonty ol tos Committeo of Investizatlon, unsceupulously mombervd, (o ba the frandu. nd, muuru(ul "Iin#"“l occupant ana holder chalr, fraudulent jutruder in the exercise of the Frosi. e is, therefore, & st bo ousted and expelled therefrom, or hia fradulent title iguored, rejectad, At this polnt 1t 13 ventured to plead the award of the Electoral Commission in bar of auy such pecially on the part of men ud 10 law comuitted to und precluded by 2f, and for tearly two years huve Dnh'llcnll{ acqulesced in and recognized it as for- n: veruibls. 15gt tnls piea s d under tho party lash when L was when otfercd at the threabold of t was us appropriate and con- all, a3 advautage of the lozical sud this partlan lavestization. Dumocratie Represeutativos have not changed In any respect, B8 1u tbelr want of character,” principle, #nd conscionce, stuce, tno luvestigation, they Luve disregarded atljtheir vxpre ite. iav- , aud with an 1n tho Senste, tocy think thag posess, the power, a4 thoy 0 oust Ar, urposes smount o the Forwhyt au. Vho'kave the pawer, 1ake, shey should keep wha can, ly follow tuls course of con. 1he dlsbaucing of the army, pro-* tn order to deprly Hayes of the power and mienna to enforce hin orders an Prostlent. o i Yreaident anly In name. say they, and shonld ba #horn of ail powor anid mcans Lo execnte any order which as anch Preatdent he may make, What then? Now comee into clear view the necessary. logical, nnd ineritable reault of the flrst atep which conta— tha necensity of tha rising of tho severelyn prople 1n their majesty and mignt, under the lead of thy 1llnstrions trio, Girant, Sherman, and herida suppresa a revolution agalnat 1aw and order, the same means a retictllon was ceashed, ‘The resalt of thin no ona can forctell, Anarena of contest in overy Slale, cily, town. and school district in tho country wonld be very diferent from the recent sectional warfare, Anarchy might ro. snit. Our Repablican form of government might feane stronger from the rontest, it what 1s to be feared [4 that the result of this wicked and Insana fiest sten of Investigation wonld be, by force of nncontrollable clrcunistances and ovents, the es- tablishment of n form of government regulatod and controlled by the will, potwer, and uraln of one man—-Grant. PROJECT OF UNSETTLEMENT. * Riehmona (Fa.) State (Dem.). Noone Imagines that Mr. Hayes' title will be slaken by tho i'otter resolntion, but the Demo- crats hopo to make a ery and the Republicana hope to makea counter-cry by extending the scope of the Inaniry and forcing the Demacrats to disagree {0 that extension. To say that the Constitution fa in danger i9 absard, for if Maryland (on whose action the resolation profensesto bo bised) claims, ne a sovereign Siate, to have been defranded by Florida, Florida can’ clalm, ss & roversign Stato, thas no one shall o behind the returns, frandalent or not, made np by her oMcers and accepted by the Comnmiasion 08 being in tncmselves antnoritatlve, Nothing, In short, is in the matter hllll?nrly move, and ane anre o hring sectional feeling from the torpid condition intowhich It happiiy sinks backs into a viclons vitality, 0 one suspects Mr. flayes of being inany way personally reaponsible for any frauds fn the No- vomber ¢lection of '76, or in any manner reaponsi. Dle for the appotntment of the Electoral Commia- slon, or its final action in dectaring him to bo the lawfally elected Preslilent of the United Biates: aud surely no power in the land conld have visited upon the evil designs avainst the conntry of that wreat fraud, under tho clrcumstances wiich aue rounded him, amore awlft and certain destraction than did Mr, llayes. View that whoie queation in all of ita combinations, and Mr. Hayes treatment of 1t secin® 10 be must wise in’ the interosta of nniversal peuce to tho country. Asan humsle reader of the Sfale, thexn, 1t has my thanks for its carnest, able. and patriotic protest ngainst the re- opentng uf that question by the Congress of the nited States. Our Domocratic friends in that body should boware how they take huld of that stufect. st they find that they are craspinga scorplon instcnd af performing the Aimpla andcasy task of crusatng out tho worni, Mr, llayes knows hissights, and haa the will and the power to maln. taln them, backed nehio Is Iin his quiet possassion by miilions of the wmanees of tho Amorican poople, who have so lony pined for just such a peace and good governmont an M. Hayes fa nfordlng thom, Cona han nothing to do with the question, and never had, except in 8 conatitutlonnl way, to count tho Electoral vote aa certiicd ta by tho rovereign States of this Unfow, And there 19 no part of the Federal scheme of government mora_deserring of the adiniration and support af the pcople than that of the electlon of "Prosldent anid " Vice-Presls dent, and of connting the vote. If any partof this aystem has been rendered imperative, the fault fanottoba found In the eystcin itself, but in the cancus plan of party nominatlons and 1n the cor- rlliyllnm of party teaders, Whan Congress noder- (ukes to rolve donbts about the suthenticity of the Electoral returns of 6 sovereign State, of in any manner attempts to £o behind Lier records Lo deter. wine whother sho fisa heen committing eluction frauds or nut In an election of Presiuent und Vico- President, thien that yory moment a revolution of onr Government beging, and Congress at aifte ho- comes the orleinal elcctivo power in suc ‘There will bo no want of pretext for the exercise of such a power, IIAYES STILL CALM AND CON- CILIATORY, Dufralo Exvress (Rep.). There i probably not & man In this world sc thoroughly patient, calm, and good, and so firm 1o behalf of the virtues, ne President R, B, Tlayes, Last Sunday ovening h was taking his usaal even- ing walk, looking comnlacent and hummlng a peacoful hymn, when he suddenly encountercdn Bourbon bulldozer with a mask on s fuce and 8 platol in his right hand, who eald in a low, firm volea: ** Your money or your 1ife " ** This fa very provoking,* responded the Preai- dent. **You have Interrupted me In my dovo- tione. I bey that you will allaw me to finish tho verse [ was singing, ° 'Ous sweetly nolomn '—e'? +* Now you husu upl" sald the man sevorely, ** What (o you taxe me for! I'm a Southerace, ur, "l‘lx‘l nlot given to nonsense, Your money or our lifa " p *+L am very sorry, sir," said the Presldent, ex- gmining his various pockets, *‘but I have stupidly lott my purse at home. 1I'm! will you not join me in his h‘mn' Coume, my fricnd] " let us be dg. votiou: Lo pauaod a8 he noticud tho sttanger's dreadful feown, and addod, *'0Ob, you won't eht Well, that's bad, It yau will sccumpany me to the Whito 1fouse, however, I will get tfie purno on dealre, and wo shall get alonzull right "aftor hut, 1dare sy, *Uno swaotly ‘—"" 116 stopped auddeniy, for tho stranger grabbed him by the collar and shook him rouguly, ot the me thue expressins his bellof that ho aad been ilty of gro **INow, 1assure you," sald the President, with extrenio earncstucds, **that you are niistaken, my have no money with ne, astino nal Tive. 1o not blame you for suspectinz me, how- ever, I'coplo in the'sltuation I'ind wyaelf in at tho present moment are vary apt to provaricato, 1t natdrally crontes n broad suspicion against hutnan nature, and gentlemen of yonr profcssion nro ex- cusable when Lthey suspect”the innocont, Fray do not plnch oy car’ in that unplessant manner, I lave you, and wonld do almost anything for you. Lot tis concillato, Let us join in alnglnyg the hymn 1 was enzarcd on when you Interrupted mo, mean- wihiiv walking to my residence to get the wioney of which yon ro doubtices i rzent nood,* The President would have sald minen more, be- coming warm and loyiny and exaliing .ole patience as Lo went on; but unhappily the strunger hit him a blow iu the chost” which staggered him and took away his preath, sccompany it with a turther request for hls moucy, with the usual altor- native. Now stop!" romarked the as he had recovere >+ 11 b do not mean to be ruds rtied nie, Uene tiemen—gentioment ™ to & party of dive tingwisbed Democratic fepresentatives wio wore passinz. ** (lentlomon, pleave come this way. Aly friend here doubts whether [am a man of truth, You can inform hun that | am, and 80 reliove e from & rather distren ung sltuation, 1 balf suspoct ‘making me o mark for tho o any thut 1 ani not iven Presidont, as soon our pardon. I e statement; ‘ho distinguished Represcntatives acted in a most romurdavlo manner, So fur from advancinz upon the Presidunt, thoy got to thy extronia outur edite of the walk un the otlier stds of thu atrcat, r. Clarkson Fotte= aven soiling bie boots by get- tUng partially into the ditcn, and passed on with elevated oyébrows and s Kenerul expression of ceael contemnpt, Liit Springer, and Johin (foode of Virgtnta, turned asumeranult to gutout of steht the more spoedily, and Mr, 5, J. RRandall and Mr. 1.8, Iirazg taened aronnd ond cowled 1o the most un- plyavant manner 1aginable, and then hurried on as If they had lost & second's timu vn & small ow I never In my life!" exclnimoi the Pres dent witn ereat wurpri **After ail | have done and sucrbileed fur thuso peraona! 1 would't have Dhehoved it, Human natura iwa strangs thinz Indecd, 1hut nover mind, Theyaronot to by blamed. Fhoy liave toriged wiony [deds a1 tomy veraclty, bute iispa—and who can by biamed. fof wrang idese if they aro honvstly cherlshed ¥ No, my acar friend, Jiet uspot besuvere, Let usbu patlent, Let us bu leotuerly onela anather. Wo wiil aing the hyma dezlubing *One pweetly ! ——t At this moment the Provident felt umself Nfted apand trown violenily o the grouud, ifa wi punched in_the head and in ovory av Uon of hie body, e was stampod on and sworn 8% and about, e felt the siranyer searching his and heard him curalng him becuuse he told the truth, 1le suifored a dual sud most vigor- ous Kick, and then ha scomed to be along, “UPhia-—tims 18 quite oxtraordinary,' b sising with much pnin and diticulty, wish 10 use harsh language, but Inut quite surprised, 1t was really unxind jn that gentlenan to suspect *| e of falvenood, aud In these Denocratic Kepro. sentatives Lo pass me by {n_my trouble, withoit so wuch s+ o rscognitton. Forlunately, huwever, [ knuw my auty just as well aa 1f all tha world were with me, 1s01l bo ent, 1 ahall by firm, 1 shall by guod. 1 spall not waver an joia with togard 1o ! volicy, *One swcetly-solemin it 1ls yolce was as swect and clear as it thero was no troudls 1n all tue world, though it was noted, a8 Lo slowly cropt out of siht, that bo ncoded sovs eral additiousl hands wherewith Lo feel gently of hia numerous cute and beul NOT IN TI1AT CROWD, PurtaneLruia, May 20, 1878—70 fhe Editor of the New York Thnes: 1 ud the following io an editorfal In yestorday's Temes ¢ Ono of Ihe very latestof thoso tardy peniténta one Andersan, of Edat Fellclans, Ls., takes uy 1he gencral refrala ot ** ) Biave nob be " Fhile porsun ) relites Liow he and snuther e Was promised 3 Zreat reward I by lochle wieked thing, cod thae e did 1 witi the atad Ling that 1o wah fo b pald. rat uifered tha e pays that pasition ol Coasul ar Fubshial, aitd bu wae next olurod & od the aitry oriby, and, Ioogli uf (v, Be Luld Eh 1 bave lnknnnr no zefraln; 1 did not falsity the Eaut Felicuua returas; 1 have held no communlca- Huu with te Democruta; have furoished thew do «vidence; have toid no etory, wade no cunfonsloa, nor 1 any to m and the sbove extract, aud wll similar statomunts made concerning wmo, are abeolutely and unqualigedly falw, JaxEs E. ANDEIION, Quoer Sult Aguinst 8 Oburchs Ann Mulley has sucd 8t. Peter’s Iowan Cath- olic Chureh, Brouklyn, of which the Rov. Futher Frausloll I8 pastor, for $10,000 dauiazes. ‘The complaiat allezes that the defendant 1s & corpo- ration, aud that the plalutitf 18 a member of the church and a regular attcudant. Bhe savs that sl tu required by the forius, rules, rfl;ulmlons, sud discipliue of the church to avtend mass, or Aivino ‘service, every Sunday, and thas, (€ she ueglected. faled, o owmiteed to attend, sbo would bo eounted guilty of mortal aln, and leavo bersclt linbte t thy penaltica usunlly flicted by the Church for stch negligence, fall- it iy the duty of the detendant to keep the church and 1ts approaches it a safe and passa- ble conditfon, a0 that attendants mav go and dopart It security. Ste alleges that onJan. 7, 1877, defendant permitted sunw and lee to cover tha payement and ateps of tho church within its Rrflnlm‘fl, and that she fell fn consequenca and roke her hip. She alleges that after heing flve months in hospital she was discharged foenra- ble; that sho {a perinanently lamed; that bere- tofore she was a domestic, carning $12 a month, and that now she I8 unable to stand ot walk, or do any badily Iabor, $10,000 damages and the costaof tho suit, ———e—— 0'CONNOR’S LEGISLATURE. Tho Threa.Fingered Jiack Logislatnrs of Ohlo=0'Connor the Fit Typleal Leader of thnt Disgraced 1lody=lils Shiame Thelr Disgraces To the Editor of The Tribune, CALDWELL, O., May 20,11 any ono in the Weat wants to know what kind of n Leglslature has just adjourned fn Ohlo T can tell him, for [ wns a mem- er af It, present In it, an indignant witness of all e dlegraceful procecdings. 1t 1 wers to po com- polled to characterize It 1n one word, T wonld say it vaa Democratie, which would describo it very faily 1o most Repubdlicans, for, that much being eald, it would requlro no great political knowlodge or ncumen to enable any Republican to go on witnont and nat hesitation and il out Its history, miss tho mark vory widely It 1 wers permitted just more, ons of them & rongh (that ls & pun1), I!shonld more satisfastorily and accarately deecribe that Domocratic Leglelatnre by adding these two descriptive apithata, **Theee- Fingered dJack' and **Disgrace.” IL was & nulsance from first to laat. No one {n Ohlo do- fends it, or attempts to mitigale the ‘sentence of Just condemnation uassed upon it by the whale people of Ohto, Led by a burglar, bounty-jumper, and Penitentiary convict (0'Connor), whoso in+ finence promoted Ita every procecding, and was of a pleco with it, whose infamy was bat part and parcel of its infamy, and In porfect harmony with it, that Lezisinture hat found a place in history far from enviable, It han done sume good. It has openerd the ayes of tae soldicrs to soe Low mortally tho Democrats hate them il It has scnt away all reconeiliating nonssnse glimmering ! 0'Connor boldly anid on the lnst day of the ses- slon that there sat men beslde il ** worse than himself"'! This bo sald In the rull Fouso. My tiod, think of men worse than a man who enllsted in tna army on the 18t of Feliruary, 1804, and de- sorted on the 2d of tne samo month; arrested in otizen's llu\hel‘ fined £30, snd sent Lo the front in 1rone, escapes, tlees to Canada, and je never heard of again until 1871, whon he turns up after serving a three-years’ term {n tho Penitentiary of Michigan on a charge of gramd larceny! 'Thinkof o * worse ™ man than this same O'Copnor, who by perjnry rocurcs naturalization papers fn 1874, who by ike perjury atole into tha National Soldicra Home ot Dayton, 0., and that too ua acrippled soldieri— Uoil savs the mark—iwhen hio had blown his dngors off robhing aafes In Bichigan! Ile had never scen a battle. le had been wonnded commitiing Imrglary! From that Home ho is elccted to the Legislature, and {8 mado Chairman of tae Com- inittow on Millitary Affairs, and thereby constituted the officlal gnardlan of tho G0U" orphions of our dead suldiors st Xents, 0. Yet he'stood up in that ilouse on tho last day of tho1M0 that he npent in that House ns leader of tho Damocracy of Olfo, and safd: **There sro mombors bers who nre no better than I am; men against whom I mliht make clurges—againat Democratic membora here—worss than aro made sgainst mo." 1f ho wpoke the truth it wasa fearful charze. At any ratu, not one of them questioned if. Tholr erime in keening puch o vian there nt &ny rate was bat 1ittlo leas than a robbery of the peapla’s eighta, Thers those Democeats kept him all that long session, —the longest ever held in Ohlo, He had introduced a bill to rcorganize tho Soldiers” Orphans' llome out _of the hunds of Ma). Shaw, a crippled Unton soldier of high charscter. The Doinocrata, without one charge nzainat Staw, —for nona could ba made, Jelapued on clic prévions question, and passed tho bl to vind|- cate O'Connor. This boldly al- leged ot e time. They called it pursocation to exposas this O'Connor, and the more infumuns O'Connor was proven to be tho closer they atuck to him. Inveatization away back in Ifebruary, soventy duys bofore adjonrnment, vroved O'Connor gullty of almost every criuis that can bs named, yet the Domaocrats roported him tn- nocent in the face of sworn ovidence and the rolly of war, and placed a whitowashing report oa the Journal by a strict party vote. ‘Thoy refused to permit our minurity report pronouncing 0'Connor gulity to even bo read at the Clork's deak or con- sidered by tho House. And whon I roso to Insist on onr right toappeal from this infamotia and arbl- trary declsion of the man wuo occupied the chale at the time, that man dirccted the Hergeant-at- Arms to violently throw mo into my chair, which he attumpted todo. Inced not \! that this, at lcast, falled. I could only have boen put thera when a corvse. 1t must not bo overlooked that thie whole 0'Con- nor busiucss was managed by the Catholle Church. Tha Catholie priests rallled "to O'Ccnnor's roscuc. They actually came into_the flousc, o1 Beadlo noted In the Cincinnati Gazetfe of May 15, and dared the Democrats to lay so much as o finger on U'Connor to expel him, * From urst to last {he ltoman-Uathiollc Domuceata stood by O'Connor. Evenat the last moment, In tho closing hours of tha last dn{. when U‘Connor's seat was declarod vacant by U1 'votes out of 100, such was the fear of the Influenco of tho Cathoile Church upon the unbroken Catholic vate of Ohfo, ovary Homan- Catholic moinber of tho llonse voted no. Nine- toen Democrats, knowing him gulity of every crimo almost but murder, sat there And voted no on tha motion to deciare his seat vacant, Hut for the @ Rernhllmn votes ho would be still a member thera{ 141t any wondor that ho should have been arlv}:n ll:"aulllm. **There are worso men than I am hero Tho Speaker of the Tonse, Mr. Nesl, and the Spunker pra tem., Narton, both refused to vota oa declaring his seat vacant, for no reason in the world but thut they feared the Catholic votal 0O'Connor fsa Cathallc. Yet this same Hpeaker and Speaker pro tem. both openly sald they knuw 0'Connor, wis 8 profossional burglar, robber, erjuzer, and convic for trltling oflens cither, But two words denagrter, bounty-jamper, P But thoy nover déasrtad hin 11ke th 0 long as O'Connor was retatued for his voto, in #pite of tho fuct that hls guilt was well knawn to all of us all winter. U'Connor had a vote an the reorganlzation of oue publlc asyluws snd on the bill to redlstrict Ohlo for Democratic pur- poses, O'Connor alwaysvotod strafght. 1o uover dodged & voto, 'Tho cancus cast his Such men as ho is never Dboit A cauca: e could bo depeuded on, llo waa alwa; preaont, His was tho fifty-ifth and indisponsable vota on most of the partisan lecislation whicn lias dlshonored Oblo, Think of that! But for 0'Cone HOF, 10.0uY 1a anthorlzed to -:( how far 130 Democracy could have procecded In their work of revolutloi and destruction. 1 have soon the roll call stupped, lone afiar committess had roported 0'Connor guilty uf crlmes tho most infamous, und § have seun o committes dipatched for O'Connor, and him broaght in to cast the fifty-ffth volo— notably on the Municipal Code, the "blil to reos- ganize the Deal and Dumb Asylum, and the bill to reotganize tho boldiers' and Ballors' Orphuua’ Homa, Thea he would be permitted to go out, tor theywere sshamod of hla presunce, und fe would bo went for wgaln and agein only as tho partlssn exi~ gencles (rom $imo to time demanded. ‘One emphatic deckaration let e make right here to sustain_ O'Connor's decluration that there wero worso wen thcre than howie, 3y statemient ls that the Democratic party knew all about 0'Con- 's bad recort before his nomination oe lectlon. it was kept & profound party socret then, 1 iuva lately seen ae lotter. will make my statement 40 oxplicit that ho may join fesus if he daro—1n the handa of [emocratie Jeprosenta- tive Van Cleaf, of Vickaway County, weltien and siznod by the members of the Demoeratic Central Committes st the Nationsl Boldier' Home, Diye ton, O, (whence 0'Counor was electud), Thia lot- tor I nddreased ta Mr, Van Cleat and the othor Domocrats in the llouse, and dated in April, 1878, and urgos the expulsion of U'Connor, Yet Lo was Rept thers many weeks aflor lta ve- ception. Hut that ¢ mot halt yet. “Fuat lettor maxes the startling spuouncement that O'Connoc’s rocord was woll kunown among the Democrats of Alontgomery County long before the eloctlon, but it was thought Lad policy to tako the villain off the ticket. Furthormors, it is there stalou that tho Democrata of Monizomery Cuunty were warned of the consoquancesof nominatini O'Connur long before the nominating tonvention was convenod. e was nominated, therefore, with a 1ul) knowledge that he was s burgise, dessrter, canyict. Tho was ulveiod with & liks full knowledgy of his o le_antecedents, Could peridy ko lower? Tl ret of this matter swill readily re- veal {taelf to any st who has visiled the Honlo at ton, BRd Wie knuwa that oat of tha 4,200 vot- w thero nearly two-tnirds arc Homan Catholice, and voted for O'Connor. When 1 speak of the conduct of the Democratic Legilature, remember [ apeak of thut with which 1am perfectly fmmillar, ‘Phicrels not an jata of ita work ot which I sm not oy tnees, With thus record bofura them to tnsult tho living und dead wolafors of the Unlon, thts scoundrel Waa placed over our comrades' orphans, and the Democruts took a savage delizbt, boru of hatred for the boys in plue, in keeping this bounty-jumuer over our sotdiors' orphans sl wintee lonu. ‘They gloated overit, Whon we protesied agalnet the ludecency and wickediesas of this act the Democraty usud L0 shika thelr fets in our facea and say, with s grin Of Qundish vatisfaction, **God dawa you, what aro Yon gomg todo seout{t’’ Soancs or later, —very soon, 1 think,—wmen ol over the Unlon will know nest’ after humiliating 8 Unlon soldier thore is hat gives more supfeme satlefaction to & Coppes than o fnsult the mewory of our dead woldiers. Remember this on orafon-Dsy. Bave dono s, wuch, gune &8 far as ouy man, inthe work of cBociliatlon, [ have belioved that byzones wers bygones, 1 have trlod to bring the Nurth aud South juto friendly encunniments. Faliure, flay fallure, has encoune tered il such generous oftere. Llere, us thu law- yersway, £ raal. Let the nest Ynn! T of peace aud concillation coate frum the lebelsand Cov- perbeads. They should come on beaded kuca and with bated ‘breath to bug pardou for thelr crimes. Have uo fear of that—they will not cowe ‘stall. They Aate uastail. We Aule {hem. 'They sueer at all proflers of recon:llation, once the, begin to fesl that theyare in tho majority! prowise them thiey will Lear 0o mote prodfers frém e, They would coww os the tiger cowes, i€ they bad the power. Thoy would comuo se tue assanis (3 & ure, or omisalon. 8he fays, furthermore, that Wherefore she demands compound comes; but a3 {ho gencraus comeadn comes, Inorer, never! This generation Abnll pas« away rooner taag the malice of the Copperhead fur the Unlon rofdler, ey have no shato in our glory. Our triumyh was their defeat. Ry fo much an we nrg honoted by the natlon they ore degraded and daspieed. They womld tear onr battle-fiags in ribbona and burn them In heapa; they would teay down cvery monument reared in commemoration of departed valor; they would razo to thelr fonn. sdation-stones tho aavinms for onr comrades’ or. [liane. Lienowie. 1 nase seen thelt”saengo do: ight when they had cruelly wronged the lising raldier, dlahonored the dead, and Insuited the or. hana of oite departed comrade. 1 hava heard ||l‘|r{€"flr trjumph in the Obio Leginlstare tuls Dright My, and It sonnded to me like the ecto of the Iebel' yell, sounding avove my comrades' graves. They would strow snakes instend of flowery abova on heroes' graves. 11 yun want to seo them luok black in tha face, mention the glory of thy michty dead who carcled our flag till thev foll dend {u 414 dofonse, Dut enoungh. Our &cnplea' cyes aro opencd now, And sl this sickly, slobvery mentiment abotit poace and concillation Is gong, limmering lke a dream of the night. Hencefortn t fa the old fight over. 1t fa a fight and no sham battle, and wo are ready for tho baitle lo-dlx. Wopgo into this campa'gn asking no favor. A party that has made relum Mke ths fo the generoun overtnzes sv6 have made thom, deserves no fucther consideration nt onp hands, except it mn‘ be such consideration s the mhdnight burglar should receive. ‘The cartel 19 broken. The war 15 reopened. Onr old nndisgnised, confronts us again. For one, 1 ba. lievo that o)} pretenss that the hatrads born of the War 14 dead ia more sham and hypocrisy. Men ma say 20, but it is a lia, Rebels” are Itebeln Union men are Unton men still, » Capperheads ary Copporheads still. Yon mmmnt It as yuu pleass, but there Lhave written n plain fact. Tobe rur 1f wo would apologiae to ltebels and copymhc-dn‘ they might kick ns, coff ns,and—forgive—ua| Lnt, as (len. Grant lately weote, **The time fae (iy soldicrs of the Unlon toapo nfiha for having fough tino battles of thelr country has not yet come,™ When it doca come, tho Republlc in dead, denerrcy to die, and be aamned. 1am, for ono, out of thy conclllation business) It {s a flat falinre! Puvats Dasgzite ——— DECORATION-DAY NORTH AND SQUTH Oar flora) of'ringa we bring Q'erall tho land (n'duy, And on our fallen heroes’ The tender tributes lay. ‘Wo strew theso flowers above onr doadh Oue tesen nolonger ow: ‘Wo wept them all away when sunk ‘Tho hoart in waves of wo; ‘When flercer grow the bloody strife As weoks and months woroon When wita and mother dared not loo} Iier bost-beloved upon, Dutheld them with a loozened grasp, ‘Ana turned nway hor oyes, Laost loys shonld mako thie trembling hears ‘Withhold the sacrifico; ‘When this falr land in her own blood Waos drenchied from shore to shore, Yot dared to call npon her last **Threo handred thonsand more,'* That honr Iis passed: the monstar, WE, Ias yieldod up its life, ; For bringing brothara faco to face In fierco ond doadly strife. Wha _clasp fratornal hands to-day Abava one fallen foo, And pledgo forgiveness, Jove, and traeh That nothlng shall o'erthror Ona glorious Coantry ahall bs onrs, \While Empires rise and all, ‘Where Justice holds her balance trne In equal rights for sll} ‘Where Vice, Intomperance, 1n shame shall hide nwny' ] ‘Whare geeod for Pnen. or polf, or pofren No longer win the doy. Then debanchees shall ne'er disgrace Our Nation's councll-balls; Nor hand of Doom como forih to write *+Afene "* upon hor walls. qravos But statesmen strong, and wis nd purs, all mold with gentle cars Qur Nation's charactor aud laws, And avery wrong repair. Drothors, in hope of that glad time, Qlve us tho loyal hand; Thank God, we aro onc pooplo still— A free, unitod band! Ugun the graves whera sleep our dosd Who wore te Blue or Gray, In mweet forgivencas, peace, aad love, Wo acatter flowers to-da 2 N o‘yn who bore no willing part [n that colosral wrong, Qo where oir brothers, nude and atarved, In prison languishod long, - TUntil tholr wasted, haggard forme Scarce human sembianco bord, Thon sunk into their nameless graves, Crushed 'neath the tyrant's powor; Qo on this sad memorlal-dar, And down through comin', years, Beatter upon thelr namoless @raves ¥lowers bodowed with tears, Remembar, those who dled with ns, Though wearing ** ltobel Gray,™ Rocelved tho gontle minlsiries Of lovo from doy to day, ‘Women whase hearte wera mreang with m Thefr throbling tomples fannod, Held ta thete lipa thy cooling draught, And soothied with tendor hand. Thelr graves ara with us, aad shall ba An cver-eacred trust; And, brothers, we bequeath to you ‘Our Joved ones' precious dust, Together lot us celcbrate ur Country's natal honr, Whon Go mifurled our starry flag, And guve us Freedom's duwer, Tt nearar, dearor, strongor atill, Shall ba this tlo to bind Our hearts in sympathy ana trast, Farevermara entwined. And let our Decoratlon-Day stand as 8 saymbol true— A Nation's sacramental rito, Love's plodges 10 renew, Bytva WiLpixo, Aespexy or Destax, Citicaco, May 24, 1878, ~+"(io1 hath numbored thy kingdo, and Autshad 1t e —— COMRADES. 1 and my Soul ate slone to-day, Al [’ tha shiniog weather} We were sick of the world, and wo put it aws Bo wo coutd rejoica together, Our hoat, the Bun, In the blae, blue sky 1a mixing s raro, swget Wi L winu, In tho buruished gold of his cup ep high, Far me, nud this Soul of mine. Woflnd it a safe and royal drink, nfi"i' : firx"l‘:»'l%’v:“u'u'uwnpu us to think, e "y 'And atrengthens body and brain. And sitting here with my Foul slone, \Whero thia yellaw sua-rays fall, Of nil the friends I havo ever known Innd It the dest of all, We rstely meat when the World 1a nes\; Yor the Warld bath a p) rumzun, And brings mo g0 much that is brignt and doa? That my Soul it keepeth spart. Dat, when I grot weary of mirth and gloe, 12' glittor, 'x'.':"fr J::h-nn aplandur, tried’n comes {0 mo, b s ool \hat Ta sud and tondor, d we talk togather as tsvo frionds ma, A"And?luxh. and drink tiod's wine, % O a royal comrade any da; 1 dud thia Soul of mlue{ Erra Wuzsizh et Msximilian's Diamond, Iudtianavails Journal, Whlle fn the City of Mexico recently, Gen) Jeff C. Davis becamo the fortunate purchiascr o = dismoud scast or shawl pin, which, fn additiua 3 its {ntrinsic beauty nud value, is of groat his- torical futercst, 1t was presented by tho Etwn- peror of Austria to Maximillan bofors the latter lelt Vicona for Mexico, and worn by Maxle millan untilafter bis eentence of death, when 16 was presented by bimn to a falthiul Mlexlcan adncront. The owncr found it necessary {0 srealize on hid valuabla present, whether by pawping or solling {s not known, and it wad offered for sale in one of tho jewelry catablishi ments of the City of Mexico, " Here' {t became an object of curlosity and Intereat, capecally to foreizn residents ond viators. Our Minister, Gen. Foster, called Gen, Davis’ atteotlon to the Py, whicth ts of gald, oval shaped, the uppee portion surmousted with a crown, tne wllmla resting ou the winge of the Mexivan cagle, while thu cagle holda in his claws, or ratber s staude ing on, o large dlumond, 'I'ba coutral portion i3 o dark'biue ground of cnamol, on which axe the comblued coats o arms of Austria snd Mexico. Beueath fs the monograw, * 3. L. SLU—t Max- tmiltan I, Mexico.” Thera are clghty-ive dianonds In ail on the face of the phi, ol ex quisite workmansnip, hen held belora @ Ras Jet fu becomes u blaze of brilliaut ligt. e —————— Mortgwging & Cathedral. Betore Judgo Colt u hearinz was bad efore e Colt » hearing was day, on nmz ctition of tho Re-Rev. Joliu Jo Witliams, Archbishop of tho Lioceso of Baston for wuthority to wortzaze the real estate, mfi sisting of tho Catbedral und the land yodcr a0 belunging to tho same, for $244,700, lu_order 10 pay off uxisting jucumbrances. Thu property 14 Vl{uu\ at about $1,600,000. It ts undcret that tho uoney is tu be furuished by & corpasa tion In New York City. vesters