The New York Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1876, Page 6

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Krzr Coor.—No matter how it goes the country is safe, Hanp on tue Democracy if, after its one day spread out in the clonds, it should be obliged to crawl back into its bottle again. Sixty THovsanp Ovrrcr-HoLDERS trembled from morn to dewy eve of yesterday. Six hundred thousand possible office-seekers palpitated with joy during the same period. ‘Tne Heratp axp tHe Exection.—The in- tense interest felt in the election was mani- fested yesterday in the unprecedentedly large sale of the Heratp. Our circulation reached over*two hundred thousand, and would have been considerably moro but for our inability to supply the full demand in consequence of the late hour at which tho paper went to press. The newsdealers seemed to have recovered the enterprise and energy for which they are, with slight inter- ruptions, distinguished, and poured in upon ‘us more orders than we could fill. Riormxa mm THE Sovurn.—We regret the outbreak in Charleston yesterday. The white people of South Carolina have shown ® patience which, when their character is ponsidered, appears almost superhuman. They have submitted to outrages from the wepublican party which exceeded the tyranny of Great Britain, which a century ago aroused America to revolution. But their h ble submission has not entirely prese! . Last night the negroes of Charlest 0 doubt inflamed by partisan influences, began a riot which had fatal re- sults, Let the South maintain pence at any cost. Let it rather submit to wrong than geck right nt the expense of blood. Previovs Cross Counrs.—The electoral -vote for President will be closer this ycar than it has been for many years. In 1797 John Adams received 71 votes in the Elec- toral College and Thomas Jefferson 68. In 1801 Jefferson received 73 and Burg 73, ond the election was decided by the House. Bince then there has been no,close count in the Electoral College, though there have been several occasions when, there being moro than two candidates, no one had a lear majority of the electoral vote, and the election was completed by the House of Representatives, ns the constitution in such cases provides. It is time toabolish the }College and allow the people to for Presidant, The Presidential Election—A Doubtful Result Possibilities of Danger. « The returns received since the publication of our second edition yesterday have caused such a change to come o’er the spirit of the political dream that the country is utterly bewildered, and a deeper excitement reigns than has ever before been witnessed in con- nection with a Presidential election. The convulsive contest in’ 1801, when forg seven days and during thirty-six bal- lots the result hung in doubt between Jefferson and Burr in the House of Repre- sentatives, did not stir public feeling in the country at large to an equal degree, al- though the permanence of the government was then thought to depend on tne result. The non-existence of the telegraph and slowness of the mails confined the excite- ment to the seat of .government on that memorable occasion; but at present, when the whole country is instantly apprised of everything known in any part of it, every great ferment of popular feeling spreads at once through the whole length and breadth of the Republic. The exceeding doubtfulness of Tuesday's vote causes wild and tumultuous excite- ment in every city and town in the United States, accompanied with a vague appre- hension on both sides that they may be cheated out of a victory fairly won and a corresponding determination to resist. Publio feeling has never been in a more in- flammable state than it is in this exciting conjuncture, and nobody can foresee whether it may not blaze out in a conflagration when the electoral votes come to be counted in February. We barely escaped a civil war at the time of Jefferson's first election, and there is some reason to fear that we may now have to deal with moro combustible and dangerous materials. The state of the situa- tion may be set forth by exhibiting the figures, which show how very near Mr. Til- den has come to an election, and stating the obstacles which lie in the way of his com- plete success. The following table, printed yesterday in one of the evening papers, will furnish a basis for our comments :— Tilden. 3 Alabama. Arkansas. and Grave Votes. Votes. 20 Necessary to a choice, 185. 2 In this estimate the Tilden vote is cor- rectly stated on the basis of authentic re- turns. It proves that he is short by barely one electoral vote, but if he fails to get that additional vote he can no more be Presi- dent than if he had run as far behind as Sey- mour did in 1868 or Greeley in 1872. Ofthe States put down as doubtful in the fore- going list several have ‘been taken out of that category and are now counted with ap- parent reason for Hayes. According to the latest and most trustworthy returns Nevada, California, Oregon and Wisconsin have given their electoral votes for the republi- can candidate, and Mr. Tilden’s only chance of an election depends on the possibility of his having carried either Louisiana or South Carolina. The ante- cedent probability was that South Carolina would go republican, and there is as yet nothing in the authentic news to contradict that supposition. If South Carolina does not support Hayes its vote will be doubtful, and the repnblican canvass- ing officers will ensily find reasons or pretexts for counting Tilden out. His chinces, as things now look, are narrowed down to his getting the electoral votes of Louisiana, Both parties claim the State, and when the Presidential election is found to depend on the electoral votes of one State a temptation is presented which the ordi- nary frail virtue of political parties cannot be expected to resist. The Canvassing Board which will count the votes and de- clare the result in Louisiana is the same Canvassing Board which counted out the democrats in 1872 and 1874, and whose frauds were admitted by two republican committees of Congress sent to Louisiana to investigate the regularity of those elections. The returns received up to the hour when this is written indicate the election of Hayes by a slender majority of one in the Electoral Colleges. There is a strong probability, ac- cording to our estimate of the situation, that South Carolina and Louisiana, as well as Oregon, California, Nevada, Wisconsin and Florida, will be declared by the official authorities of those States to have elected tho Hayes electoral ticket, and, should this prove to be the ense, Governor Hayes has won the election and must be regarded as the probable successor of President Grant. Whether Mr. Hayes is fairly entitled to this position is a question (if the question should be raised) which must be decided at a later stage of the proceedings. If the regular authorities of the States just mentioned shall declare that Governor - Hayes has carried their Presidential electors he has a prima facie case which can be: shaken only by a_ positive evidence of fraud. Prima facie, the declara- tions of the State Canvassers must be re- spected. The presumption is always in favor of the official action of the constituted authorities of a State. Their determination is conclusive and binding until impugned on conclusive evidence. Provisionally, we must regard Mr. Hayes as fairly and legally elected if the Electoral Colleges shall give him ao majority. If the cor- rectness of the decision in any State is called in question it must not be on mere suspicion and vague charges of fraud, but on specific statements of fact, supported by sworn proofs. There is a presumption in all such cases that the vote of a State has been correctly counted and declared by its officers charged with that duty. It requires strong evidence to overcome and invalidate that presumption. The electoral votes of most of the States will be received without question on the mere certificates of the the Senate, who opens the returns, nor Con- gress, which is required to be present, ever think of questioning the regularity of the State returns in any ordinary case. What the State authorities declare as the result is always the accepted result uvless a strong array of facts is presented to impugn it. The country is bound to regard Mr. Hayes a8 constitutionally elected if the Elec- toral Colleges shall give him a majority. If, throngh this regular method of proceeding, Mr. Hayes is found to have a majority of the electoral votes, he will be declared elected, unless such conclusive evidence of gross fraud is presented that his party will not dare to face public opinion and maintain the fairness of the election. The question cannot come up ina practical shape until the two houses assemble to witness the opening and counting of the votes in Feb- teen from Germany and one thousand three hundred and forty-seven from England. England has not favored us in this way very greatly since we set up for ourselves and organized a flag with the same old colors disposed in a different way. Although the fast-anchored isle is a teeming hive it gen- erally runs over to the advantage of its own colonial establishments; and the cold and gloomy Canada -and Australia have felt the benefit. But the illiberal land laws of Aus- tralia are perhaps producing their natural effect in increasing the number of British comers to our country. People who give up home want an equivalent in larger freedom and a better chance in the struggle of life, and they all find out eventually that they can only get these in this country. The Agony of a Day. The sudden looming up of the democracy | in a gigantic overshadowing cloud, like the genius that the Arab fisherman loosed from the jar he found in hisnet, startled the mill- ions of republicans throughout the country in o manner that they had never been startled before. Like a cloud it assumed a hundred threatening shapes as the eyes of the gazers looked out from stronger or weaker souls. It rose ina night, and the frantic hope that it was but a thing of vapor which the morning winds would drift away was whispered from lip to lip. It was shadowy, but in parts took on strong | substance. At times it. seemed as though not a part was wanting in solidity and that presently it would rear itself erect, and, step- ping on the mountain tops, come down upon the land. It seemed to number as many million particles as those who watched and New Fledged Reform. Mrs, Irene House has suddenly become so ruary. If Mr. Tilden’s supporters have any | hated it and feared it, So the day passed | tremendonsly good that she has made up ease to make against the validity of the re- | on, The great shape betimes diminished her mind that nobody shall be permitted to turns they can have no opportunity |'and again spread out, At nightfall sin any more, No irregular inclinations shall to submit thoir proofs to any official | there camea fierce joy upon the watchers | be indulged; there shall be no passionate tribunal competent to pass. on them] on the solid earth, for as the sun | impulses; the courts shall not separate in- previous to that occasion, and the evidence | was going down the great shape | compatible spouses; and, finally, it is to be’ of fraud must be véry strong indeed to pre- vent the counting of the votes which they may regard as spurious. Assuming that the regularly constituted Electoral College in South Carolina and in Louisiana give their votes for Hayes, it is probable that he will be declared the next President, The physi- cal power of tho government, in- eluding the control of the army, will still be in the hands of the republicans, which will give thom great facilities for maintaining the official result, however strongly their opponents may think it tainted with fraud. The country must accept the official action of the State authorities until it is demonstrated to be wrong, and the only body entitled te pass on the sufliciency of the demonstration is a Congress of which one branch is controlled by the republicans and the other by the democrats, and which cannot be expected to agree on a question which+so profoundly affects party interests. It is to‘be deplored that thero is a possibility of dangerous differences arising between them. If, as a despatch received at avery late hour seems to indicate, Florida has gone democratic, this grave danger will be obviated. But the situation is so critical that it will cause anxiety in all minds which think the public tranquillity more important than the success of either candidate. A Few Words to Mayor Ely. The trouble with many of our Mayors has been that they were excellent citizens but not practical politicians. Mr. Havemeyer, Mr. Kingsland, Mr. Wickham and others were undoubtedly honest and proper citi- zens, but they knew nothing of politics, Mr. Fernando Wood was in some respects the most useful Mayor New York has had ; but everybody knows that he is a very practical politician. Now there isa curious trait of human nature which leads men to despise that which they can do well, and to profer to attempt that of which they know but little. Everybody has laughed at Rachel's notion that her forte lay in comic acting. Frederick the Great was an admirable gen- eral, but he prided himself especially on his literary abilities, and thought more of the trash which Voltaire justly despised him for than of his battles, We recommend the moral of these in- stances to Mr. Ely. Some of his predeces- sors, having no practical acquaintance with politics, vory naturally became ardent small politicians as soon as they got into the City Hall, and neglected the interests of the city, which their knowledge might have fur- thered, in their foolish desire to play a political part. Mr. Wood never made such a blunder. Being a pélitician he gave to the politics of the Mayor's office a small but sufficient part of his attention and found his real occupation in attention to the city’s affairs. Mr. Ely is also a practical politician. Of course, he will sttend to the patronage and politics of his office; but these affairs have not the charm of novelty to him; and, we doubt not, he will sigh for new fields in which to amuse himself and try his skill. We advise him to surrender himself unhesitatingly to this impulse. He isa cheerful man and needs amusement, and he has it ready to his hands. Let him amuse. himself with making our streets cleaner and contriving that some of them shall be decently paved. He will find a lasting diversion for his mind in hastening rapid transit, When the company of politicians has made him dull he will find unexpected recreation in reforming the management of our docks, If he is bored with patronage there is the Harlem River improvement, which will re- fresh him. In short, New York offers him a very varied stock of refreshment from the dull routine of his office. And if ho should really amuse himself to good purpose dur- ing his term—who knows; the people may aftera while amuse themselves by making him Governor of the State. Ovr Camparcxino Sorpiers.—The Yellow- stone expedition has been managed in a way to reflect very little credit on the military authorities, Up to the present there has been no evidence of that care and foresight which we naturally look for in the conduct of military expeditions. It would seem from the letter of our correspondent at Glendive that the troops appointed to garrison that inhospitable region are in danger of being exposed to the severities of the climate with- out any adequate provision. This must be the result of carelessness on the part of somebody in office, and the sooner it is remedied the better. The army authorities have no excuse for breaking down in the work of supplying one thousand men for six or eight months. It is not a herculean task. Wait Miout Have Bern.—By a close study of the vote of the benevolent and venerable Peter Cooper, the rag-money men who tried to run away with the democratic party at St. Louis can discover precisely which way their candidate would have been elected if they had been successful in com- pelling the canvass to.take the shape they desired to give it. Brack Man Mronty Onsanrary.—Atten- tion is fixed on the colored States by both vane with this sentiment the only thing ip, their minds, , supposed the domestic revolver will not be handy in the bureau drawer. Sin—the su- premacy of the personal will over all the tules—the right to set aside the ordinary discipline of life when it fretted sensitive souls—the higher law of passion—all this was good and beautiful as long as this im- pulsive personage loved a little sin on her own account; but now that she is sur- feited—now that she has gone up step by step in her indulgences to the capital point, and can desire no more—all the possibilities of indulgence shall be done away with. She is fed full; therefore cakes and ale shall be abolished. It is beau- tiful to note the way in which the virtue of this new-made reformer bubbles. First, she will ‘‘never rest” until divorce for any cause whatever is made impossible in every part of the United States. Why she should thus selfishly and narrowly restrict her grand de- votion to this country is what it seems diffi- cult to understand. Shall all the great countries of Europe still grovel in the miseries of divorce'for want of her crusading spirit? It is at least to be said that if she is making an onslaught against divorce—if that is her mission—she began well, for the shot by which she killed her husband was a very effective blow against divorce in general. No one can charge, however, that the lady takes a narrow view of the needs of the world. There are several other troubles besides divorce, several other fruitfal sources of unhappiness and widespread misery. It is pleasant to see that Mrs. House proposes to abolish them all, She is going to be very good, Amesica Lipetizp.—We publish in an- other column the now famous letter which produced L’ Affaire Sommerard and caused such a flutter in Europe and America, Though the French Commis- sioner, on the demand of his government, promptly denied the authorship of this document, and therefore must be held guilt- less of the atrocious slanders uttered against the good name and character of the Ameri- can people, we fear his name will continue to be associated with this scandal, Now that we have the full document it is easy to understand the indignation felt by Ameri- cans in Europe on its publication. It has an air of genuineness and is written ina careless, confidential style, well calculated to deceive the public. If the aim of its author was simply to createa sensation he has been completely successful ; but if he proposed to himself to lessen the esteem of intelligent men for our system of government or its results he has certainly failed. The only thing he has succeeded in doing is to render himself infamous, and though he may succeed in escaping the per- sonal punishment which public contempt brings he will continue to be none the less infamous because unknown. seemed breaking up with angry lightning flashing along its edges. ‘Shall we awake to see the sky clear and the hateful monster gone on the wind, or shall it still loom solid and immovable?” was the republican cry last night. Which is it to be? If the above be fanciful it has elements of resemblance to the situation over the United States through yesterday which will at once be recognized. The democracy ruled in the clonds foraday. Such excitement as agi- tated the people has not been known since tho day, sixteen years ago, that the democ- racy, split into fragments, seemed as a national party to have drifted into history forever. The thought that it had re- taken the seats of national power sent re- publicans crazy with bitterness and demo- crats wild with joy. Now that the electoral votes flit uncertain from one candidate to the other, like ghosts in the pale moonshine, and when it seems that the great democratic hope which has been raised may be dashed to the ground, the popular mind is moved to its depths from ocean to ocean. No such gigantic ghost has ever been raised to scare one national party; no such giant hope, hovering over the Land of Promise, has trembled with the thought that it would be sent to die in the desert of disappointment. Electing Presidents by Popular Vote. We take this occasion to urge once more upon the attention, of the people and the politicians the expediency of a constitu- tional amendment abolishing the useless and cumbrous machinery of an Electoral College, and providing for the election of President and Vice President by the direct vote of the people. We see to-day how troublesome and possibly dangerous is the present method. Had the people voted yesterday in their Congressional districts, not for a board of electors, but directly for President and Vice President, the certain result would have been known early this morning, and we should not be waiting anxiously for the count of the whole vote of several States, in one or two of which, as in Louisiana and South Carolina, partisan re- turning boards will manipulate the vote, and may, unless they act with conspicuous and unaccustémed fairness, cause grave sus- picions in the public mind of fraud in a matter so serious that it ought never to be exposed to the slightest suspicion. There is no reason whatever why the peo- ple should not vote directly for President, but there are many reasons in favor of such achange. Some of the ablest men of both parties in the Senate have urged the change, and we believe an amendment would be easily passed by both houses this winter, if the public demands it, and could be ratified by the State Legislatures at once. Under the present system a close count on the electoral vote will always create at lenst a feeling of uneasiness in the public mind; and besides this, the vote by Electoral College, or by States, has, on a number of occasions, vir- tually, though of course constitutionally, and therefore regularly, defeated the popular will by giving the Presidency to a candidate who did not receive’ majority of the pop- ular vote. Neither Mr. Buchanan nor Mr. Lincoln on his first election received a majority of the people's votes. Tas InivstnateD Parans.—We have on several occasions recently had occasion to praise our illustrated newspapers, which have, by their skill and the remark- able rapidity with which they follow up and illustrate tho notable events of the day, become a power in the land. An in- stance of the quickness with which the con- ductors of these journals seize upon and reproduce pictorially the striking scenes of the hour we find in the Graphic of yesterday afternoon, which presents on its first page an admirable picture of the scene about the Henaxp office on election night, when a vast crowd filled the street and eagerly read the election news on our bulletin boards. The scene was truly American in the good nature of the crowd, its patient endurance of the storm and its anxiety to hear of tho result of the elections. The Graphic's picture, drawn and engraved over night and presented to the public the next day at noon, is admirably done and a marvel of rapid and spirited execution. The Water Famine. In the midst of the election excitement peo- ple find time to send us complaints respecting the want of water in the soveral districts of the city. Tho misery entailed by this water famine is very widespread and threatens con- sequences more dangerous to public safety than almost any other cause could produce. The evil arises from combination of over consumption or waste, under supply at the sources, and an evident mismanagement of what little water is doled out to us. We have repeatedly suggested means of relief which, although they may not reach the scientific standard required by the Croton water officials, havo at least the merit of practicability, and are there- fore worth a trial. Our correspondents also suggest many ways by which the waste of water may be checked; but although prac- tical men they do not understand scientific inactivity or the art of doing nothing. True enough the engineers of the Croton Board are laboring hard to discover a means of in- creasing the supply from the present sources; but while engaged at this laudable task the city is growing daily less fit to bear # prolongation of the water famine. It is suggested by o correspondent to bring the water from New Jersey, and this gives an idea of how the public regard the present desperate condition of things. Let us use pumps, siphons, pails, anything, in fact, so that the supply is increased without further delay. It is absurd to talk economy to people who have nothing to economize on. It reminds one of the English philanthro- pist who, during a recent period of distress in London, undertook to teach the starving multitudes how to cook. Tae Wearnen.—The approach of another rain storm is indicated in the West, but from present appearances the depression is not a very great one. When it enters the Missis- sippi Valley, however, it will probably de- velop more decidedly. Rain has fallen over the territory of the lower lakes, New York and New England, but to a very light ex- tent. The total rainfall of the recent storm in this city only amounted to 1.83 inches— not enough to produce any great increase in our water supply in the Croton Valley. Westward of the Alleghanies, as far as the Mississippi, the weather is cloudy and cool, with rain areas; but still further west the temperature is slightly higher in the region where the depression referred to is now cen- tral. Cool weather prevails on the Gulf coast. The weather in New York to-day will be cooler and cloudy or partly cloudy. Strontiy Erroxxovs.—At St. Louis Mr. Jobn Kelly staked his credit as politician upon the assurance made to men from all other States that Mr. Tilden could not carry the State of New York. In view of the facts as now known it must be recognized there- fore that Mr. Kelly did not know 80 much about this Statens it was to be expected that a man in his position would know. His judgment was absolutely wrong on the most important point in the Presidential CADVASE Exotisu Immicrants.—The report of the arrival of immigrants in the month of Octo- ber is remarkable for the fact that England holds the second place in point of numbers, Only Germany sent more of her children to these shores in that month than came from the original fatherland of the American There were two thousand and Let Us Have Peace. The Tribune yesterday, conceding the election of Mr. Tilden, made a timely and graceful announcement of its aban- donment of partisan opposition to the new President and his administration, “With last night's counting of the votes,” says our contemporary, “Governor Tilden ceased to be the candidate of a party; to-day he is elected President of the whole country. As such, and until he has done something to forfeit his claim thereto, he is entitled to our respect, confidence and support. However we may have doubted him or his party or his policy heretofore, let us now accept the situation’and hope for the best.” These sentiments do honor to the Tribune, and should receive the indorse- ment of the party press to whichever side attached. Governor Tilden as President of the whole nation, chosen by a fair majority of the people, or Governor Hayes in the same position, loses his character as ® pare tisan and becomes the Chief Magistrate of the Republic. It is the duty of American citizens and of the American press to do all in their power to strengthen the new Presi- dent's hands and to encourage him in a wise, honest and patriotic policy, whether he be democratic or republican in his political faith. The campaign, now happily ended, has been marred by personal attacks and indiscriminate abuse. Let us hope that all this will now cease; that the fairness of the election will be conceded; that its result will bo accepted in good spirit, and that the next administration, whatever may be its political complexion, may do the best it can to make the whole Union prosperous, cor tented and happy. Let us have peace. The Ea: m Question. Russia and France, it is announced, have agreed upon the: terms of a conference on the Eastern question, but Germany refuses to have anything to do with it. It looks as if French vanity were about to drag France into a business which does not directly con- cern her people. England wants allies in the conference, and if France allows herself to be drawn into other people’s quarrels she is likely either to be made a tool of by one of the interested parties or to get snubbed by both. This idea of a conference is a pet one with the English government as affording England an excellent opportunity of making terms with Russia at the etpense of Turkey. England has the advantage of knowing exactly what she wants, and will no doubt try to turn the confer- ence to her advantage ; but it would be rash to conclude that because she may succeed in getting a conference together that she will be also able to manipulate it. The question of peace or war does not depend on conferences. It depends on the policy of the Russian government. This conference is, then, not so important after all. “Norsma sur Ficunes."—There are some good counters in both parties; but the his- tory of such institutions as the Returning Board in Louisiana would perhaps demon- strate that the audacity of superior genius in counting candidates into office is on the republican side. One of the distinguished republican manipulators says of the returns which give the election to Tilden that they are “nothing but figures,” which seems to assume that figures are no great obstacle if they alone stand in the way of the supremacy of a party. If only the figures are for Tilden and the returning boards and county canvassers and people of that sort in some States are resolutely for Hayes it is yet pos- sible in the close vote cast that dust enough may be raised to cover some great transac. tions. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Dr. Slade came from Michigan. Maryland ts the chestnat State. Senator Lamar ts still very weak. Does a grave digger enjoy life? Does an oyster? Four Sacramento Californians killed 1,300 ducks in one night. The Wasbiagton policemea will don the London helmot this week. Mr. O'Connor Power, M. P., of Ireland, is at the Fitth Avene Hotel. Foreign competition, strikes and shoddy have en- angered English trade, ‘What new thing can you say in philosophy that 1s either true or understandable? George Eliot has a great love tor the elderverry bus® because it grew at her childhood home, The Countess de Bassanville says that English man- ners have corrupted French politeness. Senators George F. Edmunds and Justin 8. Morrill, of Vermont, are at the Fitth Avenue Hotel. g Viscount Parker arrived from Liverpool tn the steamship Bothnia, and is at the Brovoort House, Assoctate Justice Stephen J, rield, of the United States Supreme Ceurt, ts at the Buckingham Hotel. Fitzbugh, who was ‘‘a bigger man than old Grant,”” has turned his giant mind to the real estate business in Washington, The President has recognized Lorentz Georce Skaucke as Vice Consul of Sweden and Norway at Salina, Kansas. Elmer Washburne, ex-Chief of the United States civil service, ia in Chicago, whore he is likely to be made Chiet of Police. Mr. John Walter, M. P., proprietor of the London Times, is at the Windsor Hotel. He will sail for Eng- land in the Bothnia on Wednesday next. Horatio Fowkes, who for the past eleven years hes been proprietor and editor of the Rondout Freeman, withdrew from that paper yesterday, having disposed ot bis interest in the establishment. t ‘“ [From an Exchange.] THE SONG OF A SBIRT. 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