Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 10, 1881, Page 1

r’-’—_— vVOLUME XEL. ) MILLINERY. Owing to the freight blockade on the railroads, we will be obliged to postponc our O How Had, Sale . A FEW DAYS LONGER, Due notice of which will be given in the Tribune. BOOK AND MILLINERY sale will continue until further notice, SEA, 122 and 124 State-st, NEW PUBLIC. Puck No. 205, WITLE SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT: Lincoln's Vice President. For Sale by all Newsdealers. LTIONS. SELECT TAILORING. MOTICE. 20 per cent Discount on all heavy Winter Garments, during Feb- ruary, 1881, and {0 per cent Discount on all other Garments during same time, EDWARD ELY & €0, Tailors, ‘Atcnts wanted In cve Comty. §%7~ Where w Tave no agent wil e . REED'S Templo of Musio, 136 State 8t., Chilcago, I *OSALS. Notice to Contractors. Proporala will ha recqlyad yntli Feb, 2, 181, relock ., for the wroukbt and cast kron work; or work, pingtering, pulnting s lazing for the SteLenn County Jull, at’ Bloomington, i1, Pluns uud specitications can bo'suon ut 11 As M1 ners architect aftice, Tho Bullding Comnittes e £orves the right o rejuct any und all bids, - BHOKAW, Chairman Building Committeo. e TN U COmIAtC 70_RENT, FOR IRENT? A g business row Tocated In the business contro OFtho City uf klkhurt, I, Wil be [0F reut for term Ofyears fram Feb. 20, 1w A eapltal location for nny Lusinesn, At fieosent there In ko oponthi far dry fouls. grocory, or hupdware stor For teema or un infoniition . L CUMMINS, kikhart, Tnd, Bit0 of room Uoon basomeit whols longth of balldig, A s whove for iftoen days, FOIR RITNWL. [ with floor abave, togothor or tuidolph ow'veeupled by ‘el 15, “Apply 10 ., Roou 5. ENT. FOR Xos. 1 and 17 Enat Randoiphi-st,, five-story and Basenient brick tore. . Ktonnn B orhtur, MISCELLANEOUS, R A it bl CAUTION. CHICAGO HOME FOR THE FINEXDLESS, HOTAN s 0r will b nuthor iy o or ml‘-“pi-muuuu All nuthority (o Ladles hurotofore el cuncoled Jromm A date, Subrequen, i 0 Kl T Prosld B oLar, o Lo ottt by tho Providont and Koo TAS, G HAMMOND, Preaidont, DISSOLUTION, wollelt fundu “'Tecnmmmnln heretofuro oxtsting botween the Srdemmigned, doiuk busihiess i Chieugo under the v Bumo uf D. Ward & Co., 8 this doy dissolved by @atual conmont, DENNIS WARD, b Fob. 4, 183 J 1 JCKIHOLDERS' MEETING, A \,WSJE)UKF’DI‘.DERS HEETINGS, Notiew i heraby ulvon that the A ‘"?L:I‘Irnm.\ ml'l‘r\l|||lt“llull?m|m(‘:‘nxv‘:xl|;!la{|?m\lvrl’ Iong A L G Maretnext, s d'oeloek p e CHAR ey, OF VRt turon, Mich, Fop, 5 1. ) M Trosauror Notteo s hoy ”n reby given that the Annual Meating of et et Rl Koty el $iesiato ot iinols, an \\'mluanlnn’&l‘x’& x"‘J'ncfim ot CHAR, PEIL next, ut 3 o'clock p. . 4 Hicro tary und ‘Frow Yurt Huron, e OPTICLAN, o0 Doectacies wutye, Rincibles, Ouers uinl 5 o1 2E00u8. N rumotors, orc. ANl sights on actentt Glinsbas Totontopen S0 To Lumbermen. A tetponatty h‘:‘-.mf"' l"“humm. forme Tht p connicet i1 by Murd’ tatneg H4rAw00d Lumber 1y 3 Addroey LA Cribune oflce. CELLVLOTI (WWaterprooy Eie o UL ( Water-proof Lin- \ I:z Culs, Collars ang Bosoms. Price t and Gogay sel nt by mall, Call Or addpegy BARNES l“aL Store, ‘80 ) Slbvonsty, Tribine Bultding, Ih I Al s reanirg, At T a recetya, LA, i TO LOA Wproved reat vatarg at MEAD &' Cop, O 0k Latutoat, * The Tribamwe, Population of Chieago, = « 503,304, T seeret correspondenco and other doc- umentary evidence of n Iusse-Afghan In- trigne diseovered In Cabul after the murder of Maj. Cavngnarl were lud on - tho table of the British House of Lords yesterday, In ne- cordanee with Lord Grauvllle's promise to Lord Lytton the previons, dny. The Teers must have been considerably exelfed over the pernsal of thoe documents, as they un- doubtedly prove the existence of a sceret al- lianco between Shere Al and Russin against England, The Russian Government pledged friendship and ald to the Ameer, the condition belng that the Ameer should communicate to Gen. Kanufman all important Information re- Iating to the atfalrs of British Indin, Stolie- tofl, the Russlan agent, In some of his cor- espondenco encournges Shere Al to stir up the Indian Mussulinaus agalnst Britlsh rule; -to muke peace ovenly with England, but at the same time to prepare for warg and much more gong to show that Russin is only de- sirous of o favorable opportunity to inter- fere In the adfuirs of British India In other than secret ways, The publieation of the corresporulence cannot but have a dnmaging effect on My, Gladstone’s politieal standing and on the standing of his pro-Russian col- leagues, Anrcipistior McCanr, of Dublin, hns written a letier in reply to a recent Papal communiention condemiing some phases of the Luand-Lengue ngitation, After deseribe ing the Land taws of Ireland ay barburous and brutal, and as having resulted In much misery, the Avrehbishop goes on to condenmn some of the speeches and utterances of the Lund-Leaguers, and ussures the Popethat the Irish Bishops have warned thelr flocks long ngo a8 {o the dangerous character of somo of the leaders, whom the Archbishop deseribes as ‘“the bltterest encmies of Ircland.” The Pope Is also ussured that tho secounts of the state of Irelnnd published in the English pa- pers are grossly exaggerated, The letter purports tobe the expression of all the Irish Bishops, though it 13 well known that more than half of them refused to attend the Maynooth neeting from which itis supposed 1o emanute. Tho Auwrora, the Pope's organ, In which the letter Is printed, deplores the fact that direct relutions between the Vatlean and England do not exlst; otherwise the Lope might have exerelsed great infiuence in that matter, SuensTAnry Scin hins written and pub- lished a reply to tho strictures of Senutor Daweson the management of the Interior Department In the treatment of theloncas. The letter fs In Mr. Schurz’afiercest style. Jlo denies polnt-blunk that Seuator Dawes over made any personal representas tion to him or to any officer of the Interlor Department about tho maltreatment of the Poncas, and sarcastically adds that the only favors Mr. Dawes ever nskod wero appoint- ments of his friends to oftice; and Intimates thathisangulshaboutthoredman isnew-born,’ - My Sehurz seema, to. have been particalaply hurt by Dawes’ atatement that thoe trestment of tho Indians durlng the present Administration has been un-Ameriean, and evidently belloves * tho statement I$ made Dbeeause of Yankee pre- Judice ngainst the Germans, Ile is bltterly sareastie on this polnt, and rhdlcules the notion that beeauso he Is anative of Ger- muny he could not treat the Indians fairly, — Time Clarke School In this city is unfortu- nato In fts Principals, One of them was “ullowed to reslign” somo time ago for whipping o little boy. "'he School Board would bo willing probably “to allow” the present incumbent to resign, Monday an asslstant tencher wanted to send home n ehild whose sister sho had learned was slek with the small-pox. The wiso Principal would not permit, Ilo held that as the boy hud heen in attendnance several days after his sister beecame {11 that all theinjury that could be done had been done. Wise Principall ‘L'oo wise for Chieago. Tne: Duko of Cambrldge, who In virtue of his retationship to Queen Vletorin occupies the position of Commander-In-Chief of the British army, has written a letter favoring the retention of Candahar by the Britlsh, ‘The letter will be printed, but it I3 not prob- able that much nttention will bo pakd to It, ‘T use n current phrase, tho Duke of Cam- brldge is “played out. — It fs'stated that Mr. Wilson G. Iunt, n Diveetor of tho Western Union 'L'elegraph Company, hus bought up quite a quantity of thestock of the Montreal Telegraph Com- pany, whoso wires extend throughout Can- ada and Northern New York. ‘I'he purchuso Isthought to foreshadow the consotidation of the Montreal Company with the Western Union, “ A nornmrz ermo s reported ns having been committed at Harrlson, Claro County, Allchigan, last Monday, A hulf-witted girl was Invelgled [nto s suloon at that polnt, and wis then outraged by soven lumbermen, The authoritles have taken no measures for the arrest of the brutes, and the Inkabitants are talking of lynch-law. A NEW banking Institution to o ealled the Uulted States Bank I8 expected to com- nienco business In Now York early in the spring. Among the Directors of the now bank re Gen, Urang Logan C, Murry, late President of tho Kentucky National Bank, W, R. Travers, and 11. Vietor Neweomb, — It hns boen Intimated to Preshdent Hayes by Iiltish agents that the Irish-American sympithizers with the Iarnellite movement contemplate an invaslon of Canada by way of roprisul for the Coerclon bill, “I'ho Presl- dent snys he will look after the matter, "I'ho story Is o little thin, A Fine broke out Inthe five-story bulldings In New York City occupled by the Westorn Electrle Munufacturlng Company yesterday morning. About 160 persons were cmployed In the'building at the thne, but all eseaped, ‘Ilre hulldingg and stock wero damuged to the extent of $:25,000, MARSHAL Anr N, of Collfersville, Tenn,, went to arrest an unknown rough In asaloon at that polut "Tucsday night, The rough resisted and fired two shots, wounding Abington amt u young man named Payne, The lutter then blow off the rough’s head with u shotgun, . ManwiN T, RusstLr, Auditor of the Soitth Park Comunission und a member of the Commisslon, submitted a report yesterday to titat body, in which he charges poing blunk that Chouncoy ‘L' Bowen, a former TIHURSDAY, FEBRUARY The Chicagy Dailp I8SI—TWELVE PAGES, member of the Conmission, *wns a thief," and *“ that the sum total of his stealings from the f unds of tho Commisston from 1872 to 1574 aggregated $100,000. There ean ha no donbting tho direetness of the charge, and it 13 Mr. Howen's turn to rise il explain, L1k fifteenth annunl sesston of the Northe western Dafrymen’s Association was openet at Jancsville, Wis,, yesterday, under the presideney of the Mon. W, D, Hoard, or Tort Atkinson, Wis, Paperson eheese-curing and “honest butter” were rewl nnd dis- cussed. e — A nrenke hus been issued by the Sultan, authorizing a Joan from the people of Turkey of aboul $13,000,000. ‘I'ho loan, whicl §y In the shapo of n foreed one, will be raised from. persons subjeet to o land-tax, and_ those sub- Jectto a poli-tax and cltlzens of Constanti- nople. —— Tui Ollo Senate passed @ resolutlon yesterduy ealling on Senators Thurman and Pendicton to vote for the eonfirmation of Stanley Muatthews, The Demoeratic State Senators strenuously objected {o the resolu- llo‘n, and will 1 a protest to Washington. T Amalzamated Assoclation of Iron and Steel Workers Is elreulating n petition call- Ing on Gen, Gariteld to apnoint & strong pra- tection tariff man oy Scevetary of the “I'reng- ury. ‘The Association Is opposed 1o the re- {ention of Assistunt-Secretary French, Tsix; stenmer Bristol City, which left Now York for Bristol un tho 25th of December, fs now twenty-six days overdue, and it Iy feared that she has been wreeked. 1ler crew, including ofileers and men, number twenty- seven. She hnd no passengers, ey Anour o month ago three children of Churlen Lee, iving at Newark, N, J., wore Dbitten by nnastif dog. One of the ehildren Is now crazy with hydrophobin, and it s feared that the other twe children mny be- come affected In the sume way. ‘Tur substantial men of the Doard of Trade are opposed to the proposed amend- nient to limit the membership of that body to 2,000, They thinlk that as the sdmission fee 1s now £2,500 it will have the effect of keep- ing out objeetionablo persons, ———————— CirArres M. Minnen, o Detrolt pluniber, had o narrow cscape yesterday., While eat- Ing his brenkfast, his wife nttempted to eut his throat with a rnzor, Miller escaped with two severe cuts, The would-be murderess Is belioved to be nsane. A. NuMBER of Wisconsin polltielans met in cancus ab Milwaukee yesterday to lake such nieasures as might lead to tho appointment of n Wisconsin man as Postmaster-General. ‘Their favorit Is said to Le Henry C. Payne, of Mllwaukee. ——————— T Oliver men of the Pennsylvanin Leglsiaturo will probably support Gen. Deaver for Senator, and the Grow men Con- gressman Bayne, of Pittsburg. ML S, Quay Is also mentioned a4 a candidate, | T SpantsirCurtes was dissolved by Royal decres yesterday, It s thougnt that the new Ministry will change all the Spanish repre- sentatives at forelgh Courts, Seflor Sagasta Dhecomces tho new 'remier. —e Tre disense which has provalled nmong the cattle of Taylor County, Iowa, lins been pronounced by the vetrinury surgeons of the Department of Agriculture not to pleuro-pneumontia, . A rme in the Vietorla Docks, London, Inst ovening destroyed elghteen raflway trucks and elghtecn grain-lnden barges and damaged twve, The total loss Is estimated ut §2,200,000, Pavr. D, A of TFlemingsburg, Ky., nud recently a student at the Dental College of Cinclnnatl, comumitted suieldo yesterday by shooting himself through the abdomen, Trr little village of I'ass Manchae, La., was litorally demolished yesterday morning by a terrific wind and raln storm. Every building in tho village was leveled with the ground, Tu ofilelal figures givoe Iennsylvania a vopulation of 4,262,780, ot which 85,630 are cotored, ‘The nntive populntion number 3,605,253, and the foreign-born population el ), 612,031,294 lotters, 161,045,013 postul-cards, 490,706,133 newspa- vers, making in all 1,605,502,592 pleces, were passed through the United Stutes malls, Tur steamer Josephine, plylng between Noew Orleans and Iavan, wus wrecked yes- terday, All hands wero saved, ‘Lho loss s placed nt §200,000, Tur\Natlonan! Stovemakers' Assoclation, whlch niet at Detroit yesterday, elected R, I3 MMyers, of Cloveland, Iresldent for the ens sulng year, g, I 13 8uid that Ualy snd Genmnany will cer- ninty send representatives to tho Interna- tional Monetary Conference to be held at’aris this year. M. SExTON, the Connty Court-House con- tractor, sald yesterday that the bullding would bo ready for occupaney by tho 1st of May next, — Isoni: Canrter and his daughter Cella were drowned near Fort Smith, Ark,, Tues. day while attempting to cross the Arkansas River, Hesny W. Onives, the Republican cauens nominee, has formully withdrawn from the contest for tho Pennsylvania & Illllor!llL[r. Mavon Hannmox hasslgued the ordinnnco allowing Aldernen 83 each per sesslon of the Common Council, “Twa Circaao retall dealers wera fined §10 each yesterday for selllng bogus butter, Bpeclal Dispateh ta ‘The Chicage Tridune, F¥rars, 1L, Fob, 0,—There 18 & wrowing feol- ing In this city tn fuvor of consolldating the olty caurts of Elgin und Aurora Intoa Superlor Court of Kuno County, with terms ut Eiglu, Aurors, und Ueneva, These courts have been In vxlstenco wearly thirty yours, but thelr linted wer and jurlsdictdon bas ime paired tholr usefulucss. Tho proposed now court will be puttorned after tho Buperlor Courtof Cook County, -und bave juridiotion conourrent with the Clrealt Cottrt, Bowo such provision i3 sbsolutely necessary tu rellove the ovorcrowded dochut of tho Clrouit Court, which began its Februury terin yostorday with thiety- ons erimiual, 1 cowraon law, an Hdcnuucu;fi cases, & total of 47 cased, nlucty-four of whl uronew. Bluco thp.aitabllshimant of the Appel. ll;ulcm;rt,ulll ?&Ju&l‘,{?t:\:nm duty fu l.hltll wholo circult, and tha dovkot bucomes wmoro au wore juoulubered cuch ticad, - A FAIR COUNT. The Do-Nothing Congress Tides Over Another Po- litical Crisis. Teaceful Declaration of the Elec- | tion of Garficld as President. Great Pressure of Ladies to | Gain Admission to the Chamber. The Doorkeepers Oonvinoed that | Each Congressman Passed In Three Wives, Formal Completion of the Dem- ocratic Caucus Makeshift Program. Scene During the Scrutiny of the Bal- lots and Proclamation of the Result. Remarkable Carelesness of Threo of the T'ellers of tho Joint Convention. Mr, Thomas J. Turner, of Kentucky, Protests with a Loud “Hol” Against the Consummation, The Event Gratifylng Only as & Freak of Fortune, Due to Nobody’s Wisiom. » Notwithstanding the Fearful Warning of 1876, the Vote of Georgin Might Have Preoipitated Chaos, THE SCENE. CROW DS, Spectat Dirpateh to The Chicago Tridune, « Wasmyaron, . C,, Feb, '0.—Gen, James A, Garfield has been declared by the two Houses in joint conventton as duly elected Presldent of the United States, The hall of the llouse of Ropresentatives presented a very neat and orderly appearance this morn- ing ufter the preparations for the joint con- ventlon had been made. Sents had been arranged for the Senate by the placing of additlonal ehairs botween tho regulur seats of the members, an arrangement which was a practical confirmation of the arguments of thesupportorsof the 819 A pportionment biil,—- that twenty-six ‘moto menlbise s readily be seated in the present | Chamber. certainly seventy-slx additional persons (he- sldes tho officers of the Senate and House) found LITTLE DIFFICULTY IN OUTAINING SEATS fo-day, while the floor was occupied by n hundred others. A few chalrs were pluced in the rear of the bar, but they wero used wafnly by members of the next Ilouse, by ex-members, or by persons entitled to tho floor only by courtesy. An additional chair was set behind the Speaker’s desk for the use of the Vice-President, nnd places were prepared for tho. tellers of the two llouses at the desk fmme- dintely below, Tho entire doorkeeper and nollee forea had been ordered to report for duty at 8 o’clock, and the order was needed. Lven nt that hour CROWDS OF CURIOSITY-SERERERS began to inovo toward the Capitol, ail by 9 o'clock the gallerles sotnpart for the gen- eral public were fHled, although the cere- mony of the counting of tho voto was not bogun for three howrs. Thu strangers’ gal- lery, to which alone udmmisslon was possible without a ticket, for once proved not to be tho trampg’ retreat. It was not filledl, us 1t generally Is, by tho ldle vaznbonds who oc- cupyltns o placo for sleeping. The ren- son was that the polico regulations wero ex- cellont, TEMPORARY GANGWAYS werd placed across the corridor leading from the Senate to the Ilouse, which were well guurded by oftlclals who knew thelr duty, and beyond these gates It was possible only for the ordorly nnd the decorous to go, Tho smnll gallery nsslgned to the frlends of mem- Lers was filled quite as early, and hundreds of persons who had tickets to It wero unublo to gain ndmission, There aro sents in it for elghty persons, but the doorkeoper estl- mated that 400 tickets had been issued for it. One doorkecpor In his desperation, when protesting to a Con- eressnian that there was very little room for his wife, added to the menbers, sotto voco: ‘It may bo all right,but L have already vassed threo Mrs, — this morning.” THE ZEAL OF FEMALY SIGUT-REERS had not hesitated to straln tho truth and the marriage tle, so far as the doorkeeper wos eoncerned, and the member, on the fnco of tho doorkeeper’s returns, at least, had been mude responsible for as iany wives as the Mormon Apostle: Cannon, The visit- ors sat there densely vacked, like sar- dlnes In @ box, Every ineh of standing-room was oceupled, and the steps furnished sents for many curious ladies. The members had taken eare by n speclal resolus tlon to provide what was supposed would bo amplo room for their own famllles, and hnd vatel themsolves and the Senators two tiek- ety each, but this gallery, too, was filled by 10 o'clock, and crowils of ludtles crowded anxlously nbout the doors of the House, in— nd the result proved—the reasonable hope that somo chivalrle member would move that they might be admitted to thoe fluor, which way subsequently done. A COMPARISON, . Tho scone was very (ifferont from that which was witnessed four years ago, when the country pussed through such a erists, and the Constitution wus subjected to such n steafn, ‘Phen a double line of pollcemen In uniform guarded tho long passage-way be- tween thoe Ileuso and Senate, and an une known number ot detectives out of uniform watched suspielons persons to provent the ussault upon the custodizns of the Electorat certificates on thelr pnssage to tho Repro- sentatives' Cinmbory which was threatened, and which It is now known was prepared, Senntor Ingalls, ons of the tellers fn that eritlenl thmo, stated recently that the tellers had suthentic information that o rald upon the certifleates wis contems plated, und speelnl police nrraugements were mnde to provent the suceess of such a con- splraey, which, In view of the agitutiou that then exlsted, might have proved disastrous Watterson's “ hundred thousand uniformed men”as would come were here, and the arsenal and barracks about the capltal were well filled with Federal soldiers, "The corre« spondence between Gen, Sherman and Gen, aneock, published for the first time during the campalgn of last summer, disclosed what the vresencs of the Lroops meant, THERE WAS RERIOUS FEAR that the consplrators against the public peace Intented to Inangurate chaos on that dey rather thau to withess the declaration of the result of the Electoral vote, mud o' 1'resident (Gen, Grant) who had sworn to preserve the Constitution and the lnws had seen to 1t that the tGovernment shoull be transmitted Intact to hils constitutlonal suecessor, and that the Itepublio should recelve no detrhnent, and it did not, TO-DAY THERE WAH N0 DOUBLE LINE of armed and uniformed policemen In the corridors of the Caplitol, The regular fores wag ample, and had little to do, and there were no soldiers slecping on thelr arms In the barracks. ‘There was but one single person in elther party in either Ilonse who did not acqutesce In the electlon of Gen, Garfield,—Mr. ‘Thomas "I'irner, of Kentueky, notahle for pecullarities on other occnstons, who onee Informed the Ilouse that he had not lind ndrink for three days,—when the coneurrent resolution deelaring the result of the work of the Joint Convention was pre- sented Lo bo spread apon the records of the Honse, mals it known 1o tho country, and wished to have it knowa_in history, that thero was one person (namely, Mr. Thomas ‘Turner, of Kentucky) who did not wish t¢ be recordedd ns giving his nssent, Yetitls A MATTEI OF G0OD FORTUNE ONLY that the count to-lay Is to proceed In peace and order. Aftersuch a terrible warning as the country received four years ago, the two 1louses met in Juint Convention to-ay, under a temporary rule, which was tho merest makeshift, Yet for nearly four years the Demacratic majority of the Iouse hns per- mitted the Edmunds bill (whieh had ulrendy pussed the Senate and which would at least have provided safe machinery for the eount- ing of contested votes) to sleep In one of its Cominittees, " 1F TIE CONTEST MAD LEEN CLOSE, and the result had depended wvon the count- ing or non-counting of the vote of Georgin (which 13 coneeded by the Georgin Senator was Hllegnlly cust), the country wonld agaln have been upon the brink of chnos. The American Congress deserves no credit for the orderly procedure of {o-day, "These pro- ceedings were the result of circumstances only, and were not the consequence of law. THE REGULAR ORDER of the legistative day of the Ilouse bepan at 11 o’clock, one hour prior to the timne fixed for the meeting of the joint conventlon, There wis unusual silence when the Speaker sharply called the louse to order with a ringing ellek of his govel, and the Chaplain rose to offer prayer, The vast audience which hind nssembled seemed impressed with the solemnity of the oceaslon, but the hu- portant event of the duy was realized by the audience, not by the Chaplain, "There was no word In the prayer to indicate that anything more than the customary routine of the duy was to to be transacted,— an omission which . was very unusual andt wag much noticed. It never huppened in Republlean days In_the House, That done, the House proceeded with the Legisiative Appropriation blll, and for an hour tho Clerk’s volee droned to Impatient gallerles: *For twolvotirat-class clerks, for nine fourth-, class clerks,” 5o many dollars, THE DIPLOMATIC GALLERY filled very stowly. The first to come was Toshida, tho Jupanese Minlster, and two Seeretnries of his Legation, Then came De Pressense, the new Sceretary of the French Legation,and onoof the Under Secretaries, By the hour fixed for the meeting of the joint convention, the gatlery was filled, among the additional persons present being members of the fumily of Sir Edward ‘Thornton, of the British Legation, and some Washlngton so- clety people, friends of the Diplomats, who had obtalned cards. In the louse there was a little cllque of the filibusters of the last count, who scemed to look upon the pro- ceedings with regrot that their turbulent oce cupatlon was gone. ‘Iiey were ko that ovil spirlt of Ovid whieh, In time of qulet aud plenty, looked down upon the stately temples and weathy homes of others, amd could not refraln from weeping beenuse thoy could find nothing at which to weep, AT PRECISELY TWELVE 0'CLOCK the Speaker’s gavel fell, and soon thereafter- the Senato in a body entored the hall of the House, Thers was nothing In the appoar- ance of the Senutors to indicate that there have been weeks of wrangling over the Eleetornl votes which have ended In the shnple form ot procedure of to-dny. There was nothing to aliow that the Seantors, fresh from the passions and prejudices of tho bit- tarest of polltizal campalgns, had assembled to witness the formnl declaration that wonld place the vietorious party In power for four years. The rancor of the eampaign had left Its marks on fow faces, ‘I'he nnbmositles of tho hustings, and the disappointinents which some of theso men were to see confirmed be- yond remedy seemed to huve been forgotten in the face of ono of the most solemn ovents in the Nntlow's life, Tho gallerles were so crowderl that, after conslderable resistance, tho Mouse passed a resolution to adimit TIE WIVES OF MEMBERS who counld notfind places In the gnllery to tho floor of the llouse. ‘The vote had not been taken before the floor-room was oceu- pled by britliant costumes, and the chivalric members had surrendered thelpseaty, At five minutes past 12 o'elock the doorkeeper of the House nvpenred ut the central door with tho Sccretury of the Senate, and, Iua loud volce, unnounced: “Ihe Vice-President ant tho Senate of the Unlted States.” 'The Senators then entered In a body, the mem- bers of the 1louse arlsing to recelvo them, The Senate wus preceded by Its Ser- gennt-nat-Arms without any budge of ofllee, and was followed by the venerabls Doorkeepor of the Sennte, Bassott, who car- ried Inelther hand n square muhogany box which contnined the Elcctoral certificates, ‘'he secretary of the Viee-Ureshilent, Mr. Dickinson, and tho Asslstant Sceretary I mediately followed as the speclal guardluus of their Importaut contents, Then camo the Viee-Prestdent, and Immedlately ‘behind lilm the Senators entered, two by two, and took seats which hud been asslgned them In the first two rows fronting tho nren un the right and left of tho centre alsle, ‘Tho Rep- resentatives, save Alexander IL Stephens, who was pormitted to remain In the uren in nils wheel-chair, had proviously been direeted to vucute theso seats, TILE CUSTODLANS OF THE NOXES placed them upon the Speaker’s desk, The Viee-Presidout then appronched the Speak- or's desk, the luter reslaning to him the gavel und the ehlef seat, The Viee-President then aunounced that, In accorduneo with tho provisions of the Constitution, the two Houses bl met in jolnt conventlon to wit- ness the opening and countlng of votes for President and Viee-Prasident of the Unlted States, 1o thon direeted tho tellcrs to tako thelr places, THE TELLERS wore, on the part of tho House, Crawlay, lic- publiean, and tlouse, Demoerat; on tho part of the Senate, flawmlin, Republiean, and Thurman, Democrat. The boxes wore then to the country, ‘Lhon suck portion of Henry | epened by Mr, Dickinson, the Vice-Presl- Ieibune, | e 5t S e PRICE TIVE cY S8, H tlent’s seeretary, and the certifleates of Aln- bawa were presented to the oldest teller, Senator Hamlin, to be read. ‘Checertilieates were then taken out and vead fn order, the tellers keeping the record of the vote, DURING TIIE OPENING OF THE VOTES, upon motlon of Mr. Reagan, of Texas, the tellers were directed to omit the merely formal parts of the certificates, announcing only the resuits. Senator Edmunds, always tho zenlous murdian of publle interes’s, had brought with him an ofiiclal tally-sheet, o, with thie ald of spectactes and penell, himself kept oo tally of tho votes, Conkling eamo alone a quarter of an hour after the Senate had heen seated, and after the vote of Ala- bama had been read. le was shown to o speelnl seat In the aven, near Alexe ander Stepliens, When the State of Georgla wis read, Mr. Springer of [inois demanded that the full certificate shonld be read, and, when the tellers had finlshed reading the | certlfientes, tho Viee-Preskdent sald that, it apvearing that the vote of that State had heen cast on a different day from that provided by law, the vote In nceordance with the joint [, resolution would not be eounted until it stiould be ascertained, at tho completion of | the count, whether the counting of it would change the result. ‘There was A MANIFEST MURMUR OF APIROVAL throushout the hallas the announcement was made, At 1:30 p. m. the forngl exmminae tion and reading of the Electoral certitieates i was finlshed, when Mr. Thurman, one of the { tellers, mado the following aunouncement: “"Fhe whole number of Elecforal votes cast, was 360, Of these amajority Is 185, If the vote of Georgla b counted, Jamey A. Gur- fleld will have 214 and W, 8, Haneock 155, If the vote of Georgla be not connted, Jantes A. Garfield will have 214 and Winfield 8. Hancuek 144, IN EITHER EVENT, James A, Gartield has recelved a majority of the vbtes of the whole nwber of Electors appolnted.” Whercupon, after a repetition, Viee-Uresldent Whecler decinred that James A, Garfield wnd Chester A, Afthue were respeetftely elected President »and Viee-Presldent of the United States for four years from Mareh 4, 1881, The announcement was followed hy loud apvlause on the Republlean shle, at the conclusfon of which the President declared: “The work of the feint convention huving concluded, the Senate will return to Ity chamber,’! and the Electoral count for 1S51 was completed, SENATOR FERRY who occupled the very trylng position | of Vice-President pro tem, In the eritieal pe- rlod of the Electoral count four years ngo, sald to-day, after Gartield had been declared elected, that there never was a time In 1877 when thie declaration of the election of Ilayes scemed to be ahsolntely certain, * And when atdo'clock on that eventful moruing 1 did announce the result,” sald dr, Ferry, “my heart felt & hundred pounds lighter, The straln was terrible—the dangers grent, The Vermont case was full of perll, and in Lou- istana, too, If the certlficates had been ul- lowed to go out of my hands, us was sug- gested and Insisted upon, the one vote might have been lost.” A MOST CURIOUS AND EXTRAOEDINARY CON: DITION OF AFFAIS connected with the lectoral count was shown by tho Inspectors of the varl ous tally-sheets’ after the announce- ment of the vote todny. These sheets were taken to tho office of the Sccretary of tho Senate, where tho elerks begati to compare” thens. . It was ! at onee diseoverad” that” tho tally-shdets” of Senators Ilmmlin and Thurman and one of the House Tellors were full of errors. In soveral instances Garfield States were given to Mancock and Hancock States to Gnrfleld, and while the footings were right as declared by the Viee-Prest- dent, they were by no means eorreet footings of the columus of fizures us entered, FOR INSTANCE, on ong tally-sheet Floridn, Nevada, and New Jersey were given to Garfield; on an- other Loulsiana was omitted entirely; on another Vermont was given to Ilancack, One showed a simple zero {nsteail of ten as the voto of North Carollnn for Engllsh for Vice-Presldent, One contuined no record of tho voto of Viee-Lresident of either party from Geor- gy and one State, name not ascertained, was recorded as giving its Electfiral vole for a Itepublican President and & Demoeratle Viee-President. Such o jumblo probably never hefore eame from any /set of tellers sinee the foundation of the Republle. It is even stated by some who exnmined Sena- tor Hamlin's tally-sheet that it would ha shown, after proper footing, a elear majority of 40 Electoral votes for Ilnncock. Con- sldering the fact that Senators Ilmmlin and ‘Thurman throughout the proceedings mave very careful and earnest attentlon, and Inspected the forms of tho certiticntes submitted to them by the Viee-Preshlent, ancd In view of the certainty that, In case any Informality had been discovored, these gens tlewen woulil have reported It to thu joint Conventlon us A MATTER OF BUPREME IMPORTANCE, the freedom with .which they made thelr entries of the voto of States In whichover cotumn - seemed to fall first under thelr hauds 1s, to S0y the least, n very curfous commentary upon the long debates In the Senate aver halv-splitting distlnetlons In vegard to all the questions pertalning to the ‘counting of the Electornl vote, and tho very practical methods which these strict construetionlsts adopted when they had ocenslon to perform u little prac- tieal work In tho way of counting tho Elect- oral votes, TIY COMPLICATIONS WIICIE MIGIT ARISE from such errors s those are rendily seen, After adjournment of the Joint Couvention 1o power exlsts to eull together, and no re- vislonary authority couldboexorelsed tocor- reet the tally-1ist, and while the declaration by the Viee-Prestdent might be necepted s tho constitutionul result, the fact that it wns In _opposition to the real counting of the tully-sheets mlght prove winder some cireums stunees o very embarrassing matter, ANSENTE#S, Senator Ninine was not present at tho count to-day, belng lald up by rhemmatism !in his right knee, David Davls and Don i Cameron wero tho only other Senators ul- sent, THE PROCEEDINGS, TREL WasutNaray, . C. . D—Alter read- mg yestendny's Jourmal, the morning hour was dispensed with, and the House went Into Committee of the Whoie un the Lekislative, Bxeeutlve, and Judiclal Appropriation blll, ‘Lhe Comnmittee, withont concluding the blll, rose, und Mr Singleton offered a resolution neeording the privileges of the tloor Lo the Iudles who had not been able to obtaln seuts in tho gulleries, ‘The resvlution helng adopted, n large nuni- her of lndics entered the chamber and ob- tulned soats, ¥ At fow minutes past 13 tho Doorkeeper announced the arrivit of the Vico Presldent and Senate of the United States, who then fited Into the chamber, Vieo Presldent Wheeler took hils seat on tho rlght hand ot Speaker Rundull, and the Senators were ne~ commodated with chalr i frant uf the Tows of desks, THE VICE-PRESIDENT aallal tha Aszambly to order. and weld: *'The two IHouses belng/ .‘,;nbled, In pure i suance of the Constity <chat tho votes: ! may bocounted and de' St for T'resident and Vice-President ofy A:;:1k day of Mareh, *Jf 181, it beeomes my - & Sider tho Constitu- tion, ng President of, £ &menate, to open the certificates of cleet! o @he several Statesof the Unlon in the pr @ of the twollouses, and L now proceed v, eharge that duty,” THI COUNT, . The tellers, Messrs, Thurman and Hamlin on the part of the Senate, and Messrs, Honso and Crowley on the et of the House, hay- ing taken their places at the Clerk’s desk, tho Viee-President snld: “ Lopen tho packagus purporting to contain tha certltivutes of tho election of the Stute of Alabama and hand the cerllficato to bo reported.” The certificate having been read very slow- Iy by Seuntor Tamlin, and having shown fhat the Electors of the State of Ala- buwa had cast 10 votes of that State for Winfleld S, Hancoek for I'resident, and 10 | voles for Willlmn 11, English for Viee-Presl- dent, the Vice-President said: **The vote of the State of Alabaia having been recorded | by the teliers, Lopen and hand to them tho 5 certificate of eclection of tho State of 7 Arkansus,” . * The 6 votes of the States of Arkansas hayv- Ing heen recorded for W.S. Hancock for I'resident and W. 11, English for Vice-I’resl-, deut, on motion of Mr. Ieagan tho reading of £} tha merely formnal portions of cach ecertificato * i wus dispensed with, THE CERTIFICATE FIOM CALIFORNTA shewed 5 of Uio 6 votes of that State hud been enst for ancoek and English, and 1 for Gar- field and Arthur, The 3 votgs of Colorado were recorded for Gartleld and Arthur, Tho 3 votes of Delaware were recorded for Hune +, cock and English, and the 4 votes of Florida & were recorded for Hancock amlt English, 4 ‘I'he next eertifiente handed the tellers was | ! from tho State of (feorgla, aud 1t was read " | by Mr, Crowley, the reading in full belng des mundail by Mr. Springer. ‘The certiticato shtows that on the Sth of December, 1820, 11 votes of Georgha were east for Ilancock and Engtish, 5 TIIE VICE-PRESIDENT THEN 8AID: 2 *It apearing, from the certifieato just read, ! that the vote of Georgin ‘was cast on o (day L other than that fixed for easting such votes by act of Congress, In pursuance of the Con- 2 stitution of the Unlted States, the result of this certiticate will not he recorded nutil, in, 3, the lnnguage of the concurrent resslntion under which this count proceeds, it will ap- pear whether the eounting or omittingto i count such votes will change the result of the eleetion.” i THE TWENTY-ONE VOTES OF ILLINOIS "' were then recorded for Garfleld nnd Arthur ; The 15 votes of Indiane were recorded for Garfield and Arthur, The 11 votes of Jown for Garfield and Arthur. Tho b votes of Kunnsns for Garfleld and Arthur, The 14 votes of Kentucky for Hancack and English. . ‘The 8 votes of Louisiana for 1luncock und Tnglish. 'The 7 vates of Malne for Garfield and Arthur. The 8 votes of Marylund for Hancock und English, The 13 votes of Mass- achusetts for Garfield and Arthar, The 1L. . voles of Michignn for Garfield nnd Arthar, i ‘The 5 votes of Minnesota for Gartield and Arthur, The 8 votes of Mississippl for Ilan- cock and Engllsh, ‘Fho 15 votes of Missouri for Hancoek and English. Tho 8 votes of . | Nebraska for Gurlleld and Arthur, The 3, votes of vada for lancock and English, The & votes of Nuw Ilampshire for | Garfleld and Arthur. The 9 votes of New Jersey for llancock nnd Lnglish, ‘The 85 ¢ votes'of New York fur Garfiold and Arthur. * | "I'he 10 votes of North Corallng for' Hancoek ! and English, ‘I'he 23 votes of Ohio for Gar- ¢ field and Arthur, ‘Tlie 3 vates of Oregon for Garlield and Arthur, — Fhe 20 votes of Penns sylvania for Garfleld and Arthur. The 4 votes ‘of Rhode Island for Garfield and ; Arthur, Tho 11 votes of South Carollni for Tlaneock nmd English, The 12 voetes of. = ‘Tennessce for Hancock and English, The 8 votesof Texns for Hancdck aud English. Tho 3 votes of Vermont for Garfield and Ar- .0 thur. The 1L votes of Virginla for lnneock ' and English, The s votes of West Virginie for Haneockand Englisl, The 10 votes of ' Wisconsin for Garfield and Arthar, s The Viee-President then nunounced that :, tho certlfleato of Wisconsin was the last of the cortificates, 1 TUE TELLERS . then proceeded to foot up the votes cast for ', PTresident and Viee-Uresldent. Sountor Thurman then said the tellers report tho whole number of lectors appoluted to vote for President of the United States was 869, of which o mujority Is 184, Wero the votes f of the Lleetors for tho Stato of Georgin ensg’ on the second Wednesday In December, 1850, Lelng tho Sth day of sald month, fo by - counted, the resuit would he: For James A, Gartield, of Ohio, for President of the United States, 214 votes; and for Winfield S, Han- - cock, of the Stato of ’ennsylvania, for 'res-, fudent of the Unlted States, 155 votes, I not counted, the result would boe: For James -, A, Garfield, for I'resldent of tho United '3, States, 214 votes, mud for Winfield 8. Han- | cock, for President of the United States, 144 1 votes, Iu elther evontJmnes A, Gurfiold hny *! recaived g majority of the votes of the whola | number of Electors nppointed. b HENATOR THURMAN 1 mado n stmilar statbinent relutive to thevote -, for Viee-Presldent. * Wierefore,” snid Viee 1 President Wheeler, * Ido declaro James A, riield, ot the Stato of Ohlo, having res cefvidd wamajority of- the votes of the whoto - ntmber of Electorsappointed, Is duly oleeted Preskient of the United States for four years o; commencing on tho 4th day of March, 1851, and bdo further decluro that Chester A, - Arthur, of theState of New York, having re« celved n mnjority of the votes of the wholo. ! number of Electors appolnted, duly olected Viee-Presldent of tho United States for four - years, commencing on the 4ttt day of Mareh, & 1®51,"” [Lowd appluuse.) o I'he Senato then retired tolts Chinmber. After the Senate luft the Chamber and or~ der had heen restored, Mr, House, of Tennes~ seo, presented Lo the 1louse the report of tha', tellers signed by Senators Inmlin and Thur- mun und Representutives louse and Crow-. - leye - i MR, CROWLEY i then offered & resolution reelting that tho Hlouss had met the Senate, thyt tho Eleetoral votes had been opened by the Presldent of the Senate In the presenco of the two Tlouses * of Congress, ad counted by the tellers on the part of the two Hlouses; that It appeared that James A, Gartield received a mafority of f tho votes eust for President und Chester A, - Arthur a majority of tho votes cust for Vieos - Prestdent, und that the smne had been duly red by the Preshdent ot the Senato:tn | presenco of the two Houses, and declaring: that the two louses nve of the opluton that tha Constitution and laws have been duly exs | ceuted, and that uo further declaration of thoso fnets I8 necessary, ‘L'ho resolution wus adopted., bl e eeet—— e i A VESSEL IN THE ICE, 2 ' Hoeclal Digvaleh to The Chicaga Lriduns, } MILWAUKKE, Wi, Fob, U.—=The propollep ' Truesdell attompted to clear from this clty tos ) day For Port Washington to asgortulu whut veds | I s0l It 4 thut I fust (1 tho leo off that pluce, bus ¢ sho was unuble (o meke her way through tha o snowballs fu the barbor, Tho veasel gt Pors ) Washiogton was Hrst sfehted yestorday morns o, uiduluco won marino waeits bt bicn intod to tud out whut vessel i is. Fp prob ubilitles ure thut it I3 ¢he City of Ludiugto whig bus been out over throw weoks wted hu('m wako Grund Havaw, i i | i I il §