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?Amusements an? meetings (-Co-Night.
Boom's Theates.?" Kin* Leur."
FirTH AVENU?? TUAI hm ?" ?Hebool for Scandal. "
On?.*? Opkra Housk.-" CrnlilKxl Affe."
LvoBtM Thkatsr.?"Othello." iiiinth.
OLTMnc Novki.tv Thkati.k ?Variety.
Pake Theat?u.- -?? M use tu-."
8a> Eram-kicoMixstrkia.
Tont Pastou's Niw Thkatbii.?2 and H: Vuriftr
TwfcNTY-THIKD STKBKI tll-KIIA HoUBB.?KellT A LeOD'l
Minstrels
I-nut Bocakk TnBATRB.?" Miss Multon."
Wau.ack's Tiikatbk.?" The Sliati'jlir.iuu."
Acadkmt or Desiox.?Johnston Art Od?oetioit.
Acaukmt or-Mttsic?l>:ty and Uvenliitf : Ormid Fuir
Bkoukxtn Academy ?>r Music? d: Pbllbuiiuoulo Ke
hc_rsal.
C'mkkekino IIall?Lecture. JamesT. Fields.
(iii.ui.rb's Oarukm.- Ktim-strian Fi-atlvul.
IlKi.LKH'a WiiNbKU TiiLATtn.- Musical and Musical Pcr
foniiatire. ?
Kiktz (?ai.lehy.?Seabury Art Collortlon.
Lrmo Hall.? Trcnor's Ket-i'ptlon Daasaate.
Nkw-Yokk Ai^UAKliiai.?Day and Eveniuif.
Mnbtx to -lotiertiscmenie.
AMBBEMEirra? 3d Paoe? Mb and 6th columna.
Bambino Hockes ani> Hankeii??T?A i'aue?5th column
Billiards?tii/i Page?Itn colutnn.
Board aki? KooMst-ad Pane? ltd und 5th columus.
Business Moneas?1th Paae? 1st ?-??lumn.
Cow-oration Notk;es?Sth Page?itn column.
IlANClK'.l Ac v demies?<!f/t Page?'.id coltimu.
DRKTisTRV-3d f'ooe-4th oolunii..
Dividend Noticks?71A Page?-6th culuain&
Dbt Ooods?3<I Page?4th column. t
- 1Nan?:iai.?7M V'a?;e-5tn ?-oluiuti.
Fibs Art*? id Page?bits column.
Et itKiTtJBS-6<A Paoe? 4lb column.
Horses, Carriage. Ac?tith Page -itli column.
Hotels?3d Paae? 5th e-lnisu
Hot At? and Farms Wanted?3d Page?3d column.
UK Cream nth Page?lili column.
lwHTiiroTioB?(?'A Page?M oohann.
I.RCTURRS Am? MKETiNGS?3d Paoe-Gth column.
I.koai. Woticic-?7IA Page Otll i-oluuiii.
DlAhsuiiKS AND iiEAiiis?r?f/i Page? Olli ooiuiun.
Millinekt??3?A Puge?lib column.
Misoicllah-oi?_? Oth Page?IV.i coluniu ; Bth Page?T>lh
and ut h ?solunuis.
Musical irotTn.Miwrs?6!/? Page?4th column.
New Fuiiucatiok?*? fifi l'une? 1st. -M, .inil :td columns.
Real Estate Por Halb?cirv? 3d i'?7e?3d column;
Brooklyn?3d Page?3 column ; OOUVTBT? 3?/ Page?
3d ?x.luiiui ; To EXCBABQB?3- Page?4th columu.
Bales ut auction?7fA I'uoe-t.tli oolttasa.
Bi-CIai. NOIICES-5?A l'nue- ?ib eo?itun
Situations Wanteo? Mal**?3d Page? 5th column;
Kemalxs? 3d Page? 5th nuil Stil columns.
?Steamboats and iun kdads i.'A Pane?lib and 5th
columns.
BlEAMKits. Oceah?7fA Paar? ?5th eolutnn.
-BACHEES? O?A P??tV? 4th columu.
To Lbt? Brooklyn Paorniv?:id Po????4th column:
Country?3d Page? 4th column.
To Whom It May Concern?(W.'i Page?4th column.
Winter Resorts? 3d Paoe?5ib coiimm.
Business Xoturo.
Mrsir Bom
In endless variety.
Prom Si 75 upwind, most stitiablo for
HOLIDAY ?MUMMft,
M. J. PAILLARD A ?CO..
No. 680 Broadway, mar Uoni at.
Music -lunes Il?i?alreJ.
Daily Tiubene, Mail r?u.>s?*ntM*rs. tlOper anntitr..
8kmi-Wki.kly TniniNK. Mail Snlis?-ril>en?. %& p?i :m.
W'ekkly Ikiih NK.MiulSub?sjrilier.s, ?S-iHT-Jinuiii.
Terms, cash iu advance.
A?ldr?-._?. Tnr. TntnrxT.. New-York.
Persons unable to obtain Tur. Trimmt in any of the
trains, boats, or hotel* in tchiehit imixvally sold, will con?
fer a favor by ?n/oi*win. this once of the circumstances.
The Rb-i-Wkkxly Tsint-NK will In* ready this morning
at 8 o'clock, in wrapper? for n>.ii;.?;?.-. Price 5 cent?.
Uptown auvartiaern ean leave tnelrfaTor? for TiieTkiiuve
Btl.SS- Broadway, eor. 31 at -st.. or : 08 W. .3d-at.. sor. All. ave.
FOUNDED BY HORACE QREELEY.
FKIDAY, DECKMriER 15, 1876.
THE EEW8 THIS M0RS1SG.
FoRKlGN\?The President of tho Belgian Bauk ?In
Credithii8al>8con?letl. == Eight Dew regiments arc
toVeorganiwil in Kou mania. ~~? No agreement ha?
been como to among the Powert? reiranliiig Bulgaria ;
minor matters alone Lav?- occupi?.! the plcnii?oteii
tiaries at Constantinople.- Warlike prepara?
tions continue in KuAsia.
DoMRsnc?Gov. Chainhrrlain makes an emphatic
reply to-day to Senator Gordon ; Waile Haiiipt?ui via
sworn in as Governor of South Carolina, in tin
presence of the Wallace House. ?:-Gen. Barlow
has reported to the President on the Florida el?'?ti?iii.
- Masked men robbed a bank near Zanesviil?',
Ohio, of $10,000, and then ttttstte.
C0X0HK88.?The Senate dc*aU*d Louisiana affair*?,
and agreed to the printing of tho document? from
members of both parties who vi?itcd that State.
-== Tho House adopud a substituto for the
McCrary resolution. - Progress was made with
the PMt-Offlce bill, xsaa The President sent to
Congress a special message on tho subject of troop.-*
at Petersburg.
City and Suburban.?Mayor Wickham was ap?
pointed by Judge Brady receiver of the Security
Life Insurance Company, which has failed with
liabilities of $3,450,000 and assets of 01,943,000.
___== Tho Brooklyn V\te> Marshal reporU-d on tli<
?great fire, criticising the lack of proper precautions
In the theater, the action of the stage employes in
not giving the alarm, and tin- course of the players
in trying to keep the atidiem-o in their seats. ?? ? -
Resolutions for the consolidation of the city debt
were subiniUed by the Aldermen to the Controller.
The Aldermen ulso adopted resolutions against tln
?gas monopoly'. ~~~~ Kugcno Christ, an Alsatian,
fatally wounded Mary Kelly, because she refused to
marry him. sssss Gold. 10?l_. 107-^, 107i_. Gold
value of the legal-tender ?lollar at tho clo>c, '.);(
cents. Stocks active aud higher, closing steady at
a reaction.
Tua Weather.?Tne Tr.intT,"r.'s local ohserva
tions indicate a continuance of tlomlv and threat?
ening weather. Thermometer yesterday, l'_ ,4S?,
43P. _
The Board of Aldeimen calls the combina?
tion ot the gas companies ";i ?soMptf-M v." Tlie
board never put the Eujilish language to
better u?e. _
The President, is developing unsuspi-ctetl
powers of Karcaam. \Vh?n he italicizes his
__ea?age-, however, he g?x-s too far. Mr. Thm
man may tliink ?this looks too much like " h.iil
? dozing."
-a>
The Ijouisiana question ought to be per?
fectly clear to everybody this morning. Tin
United State? Senate spent the whole ?lay y?*s
terday in discussing it. And yet it isn't. If
this be treason, make the most of it.
One good thing, at least, Wade Hampton
?aid in his inaugural sp!i*eh yestenlay, that
" the true interests of both race? can lust hi
"soured by promoting * prosperity among all
M claaae? of citizens." If all the Southern
Governors had proceeded on this plan, two to
* State would hardly !><? too many.
It is unfortunate for Germany that the penal
code which was to secure uniformity in tins
criminal laws of the Kinjiire has been s?-t acude
by the conservatism of the Federal Council,
which insisted upon stringent press laws. It
is better, however, to postpone the measure
than to have the liberal policy of the Kiich
gtag completely thwarted.
Now it W?ns that there were twenty-four sol?
diers at Petersburg, instead of ten, an?l a cap?
tain besides a lieutenant. This puts a more
??erious aspect on the affair, and tin- House will
now do well to consider whether impeachment
would not bo a duty as well as a pleasure.
Perhaps the President might l?e induced to re?
sign to save time, expense, and trouble. Let
Mr. Hewitt tee to it at once.
Minister 8imou has begun well. He has
promptly declared his adherence to Republican
principles and thereby elicited the hearty ap?
proval of the Left iu both brunches of tho
Legislature. M. Gambette, who regarda him
with personal disfavor, was silent, but he will
have to fall into line in caso M. Simon pursues
honestly the policy he has defined. The
French Administration is now strong and
.iiiiici!. Political evolution has, in this in?
stance, insured the survival of the fittest.
In Germany, three years ago, a law was
passed aliolishing the duties on iron aud steel
at the end of this year. The depressed state
of the iron industry has since led many to
doubt the jmliciousncss of this measure.
Prince Hismarck was convinced that it would
be well to postpone the abolition until 1879.
The Reichstag has, however, decided by a vote
of 206 to 116 to let the law take effect.
Germany being a large exporter of iron and
steel wares, the majority doubtless conclude
that she may safely defy foreign competition.
A curiously vacillating brute this seems to
be who shot a young girl yesterday on the
street in broad daylight. For four years he
has besa refusing to marry her, in spite of
repented promises to do so, and now he shoot?
her down m cold blood because he fears that
then is danger of her marrying Rome one else,
and she ha? refused to rnaiTy him. The man?
ner of theHiiiuid?-!', for such it will doubtless
prove, was business-like to the last degree.
Three shots were fired with cool precision, but
they were hardly discharged before this lover
was on his knees, embracing her body. He
soon regained his composure, ami now adheres
to the opinion that the girl ?leserve?! to die as
she did. Altogether this seems likely to travel
through the country press as " a curiosity of
'* crime."
Fire Marshal Ready's report on the Brooklyn
calamity very properly lays stress on the iuad
?cqaate means for extinguishing tl_ in tlie
theater. Tlie manager? hail taken no aramias
?frota two previous tires there. Their ?*inploy?s
wen- not at all trained and practice?! fur their
duties in such an emergency. Then- was no
hose kept on hand ready to attach to the StSge
hydrant, tin the oilier points, ?-specially as to
tin- means of exit befog sullicieiit, there may
he room for two opinions; as t > tin- neglcet t<>
provide for extinguishing lire tliere can be M
question. The blame for this nc-lect must In?
laid whets it belongs. ?Seren? of our theatcn
liave tlieir employ?s well ?Irilleil, so tliat each
knows just what In* is to do when a lire break*,
out. The certainty that such a system had
been adopted by all the theaters in this city,
wouM tend largely to relieve the ppssenl
anxiety of play-goers. It is scarcely possihl
tlmt any of our theaters are so destitute of the
appliances for ?bringing a stream of wat? i to
bi-ar on the si-cnery, as lias been shown to have
been the c.-si- in Brooklyn.
It is the misfortune of the House of Repre?
sentatives that its blonden have been of so
peculiar a kind as almost to niono|>olize pub
lie attention. The good it has don?- has been
much less picturesque than the evil. Vi t
it has accomplished impi.rtant ?results worthy
of not, a little ?oiiiniciidatii.i). The House
which droSS Bclknap from ?office; which made
a handsome saving in the spprnpliations that
does not seem to have la-en followed by de?
li? tiendes of the number and size that were
predicted; ami which disi-h.ts?d, with
all its frantic ?Taking and flinging of
mud, much'corruption that Ssigbt otherwise
have gone uiiiliitcovi-red, can sim-ly lay some
?lain? to the public gratitud?-, whatever may
have besa its mistakes and its weaknesses.
This claim will be gnntly Increased if the
lions?- fulfills the promise now mail?- ot going
on in good faith with the work of making ap?
propriations, without knowing who is to sjs-iid
the money. It is perhaps a strange thint; to
be grateful for, that the House intends to do
its duty, and will make no attempt to bla.k
mail its opponents into yielding up the UOT
ernment ; but we have hail reason to be thank?
ful for soin?' qoeet things ?already, and more
of the same kind are likely to follow. And it
is only just to the House, on the other hand,
to -ay that there has never been any autlnui
tati.e declaration of a purpose on its part to
attempt to block the wheels of government in
this way. The people ?ibid?- by the law, and
their HWSSentstirss are not lik?-ly to venture
to nullify it. ______________________
CO US TINO THE VOTES.
Mr. Edmonds, no ?loiibt, has good strategic
tea. mis for desiring to put the ?Democrats con?
spicuously in the wrong. Logically their ?post?
tion will be bad enough to gratify any foe if
liny deliberately refus?-, opon overtures by a
K? publican Senate, to SgTSS that the ccrtifi
SSteS having official charact?-r shall be counted
unless both houses dedde Si? the contrary.
tVitaittly the eonntry will Derer sustain the
Democratic demand that the same lions?* which
is to elect a Presith-nt in ease o? failure to
sleet by the gSSfls shall have power at any
time to cause a failun* to elect by its sole ?ib
j< ction to the votes of certain States. What?
ever ?-lse may be conceded, that ?power, we may
by sine, will not b<* conceded by the Senate,
not will the unwarranted assumption of it bo
?sustained by any consitlerable portion of the
law-abiding and intelligent people. Appa?
rently the object of Mr. Kdiniinds in call?
ing up tho bill pressed by Mr. Morton at
Id?- last session is to drive the Democrats to
t.ik?! this extreme and utterly indefensible po
-ition. But there is not much room for mlroit
tactics in a grave emereency like this. Cun?
ning in fence is not the quality which will
win the public confidence. There, is a right
and a wrong in the ?matter. The Republican
majority in the Senate, discarding all tactical
ib \ lets, ought to plant its?'lf on the riirht
gronnd at the outset, and to stand there to
the end. Its position will be very much weak
em d if, having first proposed to submit the
main question at issue to the two houses act?
ing concurrently, it tinally is compi-lled to afi
sert the constitu?ional right of the Senat?-,
through its organ, the presiding oilicer, to de?
termine what are "the certilicates" to be
opened.
lteally, that is the only question to be dis
ensssdi and in the nature of the ?-as?- (hat can
only be decided by one body. Here are two
papen purporting to be certificates from
Louisiana; one is known to lie from the ?lec?
tors having certificates from tin* (?ovcnior, and
tin' other is known to be from the claimants hav?
ing!!?) evident-?' of election. One of these papers
is the legal certificate of the tegular and
lawful viite of the State of Louisiana. That
is "the certificate" which the President of the
Senate is bound t?) o'x-n. The other paper he
is bound uot to open as a certiorate of the
legal vote. No ?-onstruction if the Constitu?
tion is admissible which deprives the State
of its share in the election lH-cau-e
two bodies cannot agree about its
vote. Having cast one legal vote, the State
has a right, nnd all the people have a right,
to have that vote counted, ami it follows that
any other certificate, pretending to give the
vote of that State, iniwt bo rejected as
mere waste paper. Hence the question
must be decided by one body, and not
by two, and the decision of one body
or the other is final and binding. There
is no room for compromise here ; either
the Senate has absolute rig-ht, or tho House
has absolute right, to determine -which aro
" the certificates." For this difficulty no pro?
vision whatever is made in the hill proposed
by Mr. Morton and called up by Mr. Edmunds.
Moreover, this question, which involves all
others, should be decided before the opening
of a single certificate.
The Senate will tnke impregnable ground if
it assert? from the beginning to tho end that
no other body has any power to instruct it?
organ in the performance of his duties. The
Se?ale can direct its President, because he is
merely the creature and mouthpieco of that
botly. It has the power at any time to elect
a presidinfr officer, if any necessity arises ; no
other body can restrain or control him, or
without impertinence advise him in the dis?
charge of his duties. This being indisputable,
it is apparent that the Senate can instruct it?
President to open as ? the certificate'1 from
Louisiana the paper forwarded by the Repub?
lican electors, andmr.ke sure that ho will open
that and no other from that State. Is it not
plain that tho Constitution clearly intends that
the Senate should do, in any emergeney, that
which the Senate alone has power to do T
The supporters of Mr. Tilden aro making
another great mistake in encouraging I Ma?
ttel of power between the two houses. They
can appeal, with gr?*at force and perhaps with
success, to the more independent and fair
minded men of the Senate, who hold the bal?
ance of power, lint only if they recognize the
right of those Senator* to decide. It they as
Heit at the .outsit that the, Senate ha? no
power, that the House alone can determine,
that its decision is binding, and that, in case
of <liNiii??-ri'?'nn?nt, tlio lleiiiM? will i>roo?'?'d to
elect and inaugurate a President, they throw
away every chance of success. Nothing is
mon certain than this, that the President
who lias been declared ?Iect??l by the Senate,
has been inaiiprur.it? d with its approval, and
is recognized by that body in the appointment
inn! removal of officers and the making of
treaties, will be the I'resident of the United
States, and will have the army and the navv
?it his back to put down any n-sistanoe. If
Um Democrats dispute the right ol the Senat?
to decide a question which, by IIn* plain pro?
visions of the Constitution, must be deter?
mined by its presidiiipt olliccr and ?Dient, they
will not Im- the better prepared for that apjM'al
to the reaseiu and patriotism of Senators which
is now lin ir only chance of success.
OOP. HAYES AT DAYTON.
(?ov. Haves |UM BOB. certainly not obtruded
lnin*eli" personally upon the alleiilion of the
Am?trican people d*?fing the die? u**i"!is mid
tin* di*piites bUoviag the election. Kotl?Bg
could Im? in lietti-r taste than the modest pa?
tience with which In- has awaited an ?illii-ial
declara!??>n of the vot?? ; and if lie bnkt silem-??
at Dayton on W? ?In? .-.day last, it was under
circumstances which Would have made a |m r
*i-t"iice in it ixi-itively ill-bred. Rut we look
in \;iin for any ti.ue of iiriogance, ol self as?
sumption, or of partisan passion in this little
address. It is, Indeed, a trill? ?pute as MggW
live m what it dOM not, us in what it doOJ
emit.un. It would have been ? a*v for (iov.
Hay is to make a strong defeii*c ol his party,
and a strong attack upon the patty opposed
to him; and haidly ?me man in a bundled
would have resistid the biuplation to do
either. Hut I he whole tone of tin* r-|H*?-?-li is
kindly and catholic, patriotic and geiicrnii.-*.
lb? simply alluded to the indiscreet thing!
which have Imtii said mid done bv nun ol
ai.lent t iiipcr.iiiii-iit ; but lli?'-e have not shaken
his "faith in the r.ivinic common senOC of th??
" American people." The same iniisolatoty idea
ha* undoubtedly incurred to thousand?. ; but it
is cheering to lind it Bf. fmlh by a person in
the position of Got*. llaVes. It is, in fact, the
Kiini total of the whole mutter. If we have not
faith in this naine good s?-n?.??, tip?m what shall
we rely ? What is there left to su-tain the
fabric of the ('ovorninent, except the practical
wisdom of the whole both* of our citizens?
Without ipnalflai of ab*.ti.niions, and with? nt
ciiii*Ii|i ritipf th? oiii h, putting aside for the,
??i.seiit the poetry of the point, We may apply
to this public i'inciliency the rule which gov?
erns jniv.it?? affairs, and claim that we shall
1m? saved by the instinct of self-preservation,
gOYenied by prudence and directed by infolli
ueiici . This is the nonet of the wonderful
(unanimity ?it this lime of a people knowing
it* own heart and its own power.
No; as ('ov. Mayes says, Anniiians do not
"desire to ho?! in their own count ty a Mexi
"canizt'd ??ovi-inment.'' Apart from matciial
? .in*i(|eiatii,iis, they would be nun tally moili
tiod by it. They love decency, ?qtnfv, und
order ; th?y respect law ; they have ?i traditional
hatred ol license ami an inherited love of
peaceful political methods which was only in
teii*ilied by the Rebellion. They comprehend
the ahmudity of r??pudiatiii',' the action of
their own properly appointed and qualified
npreeentatsYCBJ mid pa may be Wtft that a
" .Mexicani/.ed govcniment " is ?i mad folly of
which they ?no in little danger?
l'o tho decision of lawful authorities (?ov.
Hayes de?-lares that be will "ipiielly submit."
This assurance, perhaps unneoes*aiy, and out
of its C4)iinection uncalled foi, (?ov. Hayes
seems to bare made thai he Bight add that
his respect for and confidence in the majority
led him to believe that it would submit also.
There is | quiet in this declaration us in the
whole speech, an absence of eagerness und of
defiance, which ghr? an idea of reseivcd fon??
greater than that for which possibly Qtrr,
Hayes lias roc? i ved cr?dit. He would, it in
probable, in a moment of tine.n<in danger,
develop, as 1'icsidoiit Lincoln did, raie ami
unsuspected qualities. At hast Ins bitterest
opponent will admit that thus far daring the
contest he has said and done nothing of which
his most seii.-titive. Ripportef Heed be ashamed.
the ?'.usins MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
The modest man, Mr. Prince, who has jutt
been elected Mayor of lioston, telegraphs to
Tin' 11(0/(1 that his success is " n rebuKe of ?ill
"attempts ?it a bayomt and fraud dynasty in
"this Republic."- The Little Peddlittgtoa elec?
tion (of course, eonipanitively spcakin-,') is
deoeribod by Hto Honor that is to be, as "a
"rally for the Constitution and the nover
'?oipTiity of the people." One Domoenilir
leader, who is cited in lite Ho?ton tHobc, doe.*,
not take quite such a magnificent view of the
matter as Mr. Prince does?he finds "the
"prime cause for this great revolution'' in
tho conduct of the K? publicans "in the
" Field-Dean contest in the Hid Con
" gressioiuil District." Oub-iders ought
to be careful of obtruding their opinion in the
presence of these sagacious insiders; otherwise
they might say that (here never was an elec?
tion which had less to do with national poli?
tics. For several years all the municipal tiiec
tiens In Massachusetts have been purely local
and to a ?great extent personal contests, in
which, over and over again, Democratic May?
ors have lieeu chosen in cities strongly Repub?
lican. This has happened frequently in Bos?
ton. This year it has happened again. That
is all. We do not fancy that the late Mayor
Shurtleff, who was a pretty stiff Democrat,
ever for a moment supposed that his election
had anything to do with national politics. It
is true that Mr. Prince was mo as a Democrat
pure and simple, but a great many Republi?
cans must for reasons satisfactory to them?
sclve? have voted for him. We doubt if he
thinks or would say that these Republicans
have for goo?l and all turned Democrats.
"Reform" is a very taking cry. All tho
cities of Massachusetts havo within the recol?
lection of everybody been "reformed" after
the manner of Boston this year. It is not
known that any special reduction of taxes or
of municipal inileblednr-ss has come of it. As
a ?general rule, neighborhood quarrels have
been found at tho bottom of these "revolti
" tioiis," and this Boston business is evidently
the result of a family dispute, or of a feel?
ing that in the selection of local public offi?
cers national differences should be disregarded,
as sensible men will agree tint they ought to
be, Mr. (iaston, a go?id Democrat, when he
was sleeted Mayor of Bostoi?, did not make
an ass of himself by telegraphing special flap?
doodle to the New-York newspapers. He
knew very well that the city which had
cbosen him would on tho first opportunity
show itself Republican in matters of State or
of National interest. So he did u?>t slop over
in " specials."
If the Democrats of Boston havo eh-cti-d a
good, honest, SSOnSSSissl city government,
which will not plunge the municipality any
de?'per into debt than it is at present, and
which will economically and wisely adminis?
ter aff,urs, they have set a good example
which we bops will lie followed throughout
the land; but there is no n?-i*d of a cock-a
?lonilli- over a "victory" which ?ould not
have lieen won without alliances which in the
nature of things must prove temporary.
Meanwhile, we are curious to s?-?i what th?*
Ilusi?n Democrats will do with the Prohibi?
tionists who helped to make Mr. Prince ths
next Mayor. This is an accession which might
pioiliice. rather a ?piecr mixture, if anything
like a mixtur?* were ?possible. At the ?nil ?if
the next municipal year these Prohibition
geiitb itn n p?shape will tell us how much th?-y
have made by their little sp? dilation.
ASOTIIER LIFE. 1SSURASCE COLLAPSE.
Whatever may have Ix-en the ?Mint to
winch the iininforiited public was surprised by
the failure of the Continental Life insurance
Company, the utter collapse of the Secniitv
Life Insurance Company comes with no such
sndilen shod- The broken ?onec?a of to-day
was never ac?-out)te?l v?*ry soiiud or Strong!
ami timing the last year or two
his bens meicl> striiKglinir to keep up
appearances, in a vain hope that a turn of the
tul? iniifht bung r? In f. The gnat mistake
hid Ix-en made in the eailier fSSfS of its
business of taking notes instead of cash for
half th?* premium. Many of the old. strong
companies had l>eguii busim-ss iu that Way.
Tiny had. however, Im'?ii ???induct?-?! with an
econossf of ?manageseenl snknows to the high
pressvs ossspames started in latee years. But
??v?-n with all their advautngi-s, the ohh-r c?nn
p.inics one by one ?lisi-over? ?I that the half
liote -Vsl.tii lias a mistake; that it did not
brine "? stillit^? nt funds iu the ?*nrly y?'iirs of
S p.il'iy to iin-el ths av? rage risk ; ami they all
abandoned that system. The S?ciirity Company
is ? nd to bsTS continue?! issuing half-no*?' poli
i i? | till four years ago. It was long sine?*
rt-?-?nfiii/?-?l t-M'ivwIitMS thai tin- "premium
"imtcs" of B lif?' insurance company wen
among the most woithlcss <>! Us SSBStSi The
informal setinMtCS of the Security's. ?sflbilS
show tlrnt thiec-loiirths of ils assets w? r?- pre?
mium SOtCS. No skill of managt ment could
ever have rescued it from Insolvency.
Ths public will inevitably ask of our State
Insurance Department an answer to the ??m s
tion whv this condition of the Becnrity Com?
pany was mil mad? known long .u-o, ami why
the ?Superintendent ?did not prevent the com?
pany from taking new policies. The de
fault is too gnat; the dJeproportioS of
liabilities to sound assets is too enormous.
It cannot be roppoocd that this ?condition was
tilt? il? uiistispi ?t??l at Albany. Il tin- ?Super*
nit'-itletil hat! hopes that a company could r?
COTBC itself alter sinking three-fourths of its
assets in premimn notes, he w.is too ssnenine
by half for his position. If he ?lid not know,
approximately, tin- condition of the company,
he has still less ?-xt-usc. It was his business
to know.
Then- is a very hard time ahead for weak
insurance companies. Wit Inn a few weeks it
is expe?ted that others will su?-ciuiib. For this
there is no help. Those that survive this
Winter's inspection will do so by virtue of
their litne-s -b?-cause they art? really strong.
When th?* wrecks are cleared nwa.\, liiere will
?oiiie a gratinai return of contitleiice on the
part of the public, which will greatly benefit
the companies that weatln-r the storm. And
since there is no way to avoid it, the sooner
the ?rash COSSSS to the weak concerns, the bet?
ter for all. W?* trust there will b?- no delay
in the annual examinations, ami that they will
be unexampled in thoroughness. Sound com?
panies have nothing to fear; a full showing
will add to their favor with the public. What
polk, -holders are now a-sking is whether th?y
aie insured at all.
? WORD 10 VAUESTS.
Not long ago a W-achcr iu one of our public
schools was convicted of having had in his
possession ?-?-Haiti vile pamphlets mid pictures,
which he used for the ?lemoralization of his
pupils. 'I lie man's s?-nt?-iic?' was a heavy one,
Inn there was probably no father or mother
in New-York who would not willingly have
doubled it, to be sine that tlieir children were
safe from the ?-?irrupting influenc?? ?>f such a
iiiotisler. We wish to warn them, as we have
warned flu in before, that there is just as cor?
rupting an inlliience ?laily s?t before children
who pass thnrngb ths streets on their way to
s? ho il, which PS?rontS Sppeni strangely to ?g
nuie. We mean the Hash newspapers and
cheap novels which are ollercd for sale to half
gi-own lsiys ami girls by their venders, or
thrust gratuitously into there hands m they
pass, with the certainty that they will buy the
suce?'?-dinii numbers. Very few girls ami fewer
boys, unless they have Ih*?-ii for?-warned, can
it sist the tempting tlrainati.- pictures of kneel?
ing women with st naming hair, bravos armed
to the teeth, etc., etc. Tho opening chapter?
?e.m hataih-ss enough, and tho boy or girl,
reared most probably in a refined and (lui -
tian home, plungi's unchecked into this ofl'ul
of kitchen literature.
These papers and magazines to which we
ndvert would not strictly fall tind?*r the pro?
hibition against obscene publications, und so
they manage to escape the law ; but the views of
life they present are those taken from the
grogshop and gambling hell ; their very at?
mosphere is crime. A boy who wouhl be sim?
ply disgusted by the open vice in publications
which the law prohibits accepts the concealed
poison in these without suspicion. When we
read (as in our exchanges of last week) of
murderers of fourteen years old, of burglars
of nine, of delicately reared girls in the
first bloom of innocent youth leaving their
homes and coming to this city in the mad desire
for adventure, to be rescued on the very verge of
ruin, we can trace the motive cause in every case
.to these publications, or their dramatization
on the boards of variety theaters. In even
the best class of juvenile literature belonging
to the present day thero is too much of fever
and unrest. Tho child's brain, crammed and
forced tit school, i? still further heated by tales
of wild ad venturo or fantastic improbability.
Robinson CrtiHoe and the Parents* Assistant
are voted dull by our boys ; even Scott's
magic wand moves too slowly to enchant
them. Dut if our best juvenile literature be
thus open to criticism, what is to be said of
this the worst antl lowest deepf
We sjieak this warning advisedly to parents.
It would be well if they would pay closer
attention not only to the books which are
liought for them to study nt school, but to
those which they buy themselves to study out?
side.
Tho Democracy of Indiana and New-Hampshire
nit? already liring up according to the programme.
The Unternlied, but terrible, aro to assemble ou s
given day in mass meeting*! all through the North
for the purpose of simultaneous vociferation. The
shout of certain disappointcel politicians who had
failed to elect their candidate by iutimidation once
"tore Hell's couenvc," according to report, and
a consolidated Democratic war-whoop might be
counted on to rip tilings universally, liut precau?
tions should be taken by the management agaiust
such a melancholy miscarriage as happened on a
similar occasion. When those restless Kentlomen,
the scientists, persuaded all the world to turn out
and yell in chorus in order to attract the notice of
the dwellers on the Moon.it will he remoiiibercil
that* justas the clocks delivered tho fatal tick, a
suiliioating silence fell upon the earth, only broken
over a very limited an-a of disturhanco somewhere
in Siliena, where a deaf old lady screamed her
shrillest. This good woman en aci-ouut of her in?
firmity was not ?;X|*os??d to the temptation which
?>v??niia.sti'!e'el the?olli'clivo virtue of hiimankinU,
? -in h one nf whom hail Btaelthfl* ailo-ttcd a pro
grimine of his own, viz., to keep abseilutcly quiet
.?nul lisien to the racket. Let every Democrat be
reminded that tin? perfor?t ?in; <\ve of Mr. Hewitt is
apofl him. and that Mr. Tilden stands expectant
with hi*- trumpet at his ear. .S?) altogether, breth?
ren ! We will do the listening.
It is unfortunate for tho Silver bill that tho argu?
ment? for it in Cougr?*ss are so largely repetitions of
the passionate talk with which the country was
?ads familiar when it was pngeeei to tax the
bonds and pay them off in greenback??. Kxocrations
of th?' M bloated bondholder" arc certainly anach?
ronisms. Hut Mr. Wand finds nothing better to
Bay than Hi at the ruh are " arrayed" against the
poor Bad the! widows are wailing for silver coin.
Mr. Hulm?n, tes?, is in a heat,.mil evidently considers
the holders of se-etirities as enemies of the human
race- w Im are " existing s_ tin? inelusirie-s of the peo?
ple " later th?* uianiiiT of old-fashioned pirates. Kv?*n
Mr. KehVy grows inilatuiuatoiy and talks about "op
pre?si?ui." If tliiM- gentlemen can make any co?
in put and satiifying replies to the objections urged
against the bill by Messrs. Kaxson, Hewitt, Qarfield,
and I'hittiTulei), the country would be plea?"l ; ?
hear tlie'tn; but WS have uln-aily had a surfeit of
wild haranguing about " class ?Imf inctions."
PERSONAL.
The health of (Jov. Hoveridg-e of Illinois is
alun.*! .atiiijili-ti I] re-?ti.reel.
Mr. .)o??'iih F.. Johnston has petitioned for
the remit, ill at US dlsabilitb's.
Sonielx'dy said t<? Robert Hall: "How many
ilipe-our.?e'N Un you think, Mr. Hall, may a niliuatt-r get up
cucli pfrk I" Answer.-?! Hall : "If he la a deep thinker
anil great ?iiiieli ?iner, ht* may ?ret up one; If he Is tin or?
dinary man, t wo ; hut If he la au ass, Sir, he will product;
half il th./in."
The lat? Duke of Beaufort, when Marquis of
V, .1:1 a *t.-r. u*iil frequently to amuse hlniselt by ?Iriving
the fumons fast BttgMSB roach, the Highflyer. One? elay
M Charta? Ki 111Ml win hastily eiepeisitiii-? his shilling
gratuity in his driver's oiil.-etretelie-el hand a shout of
laughter, und a " Thank ye. Charlea KemMe," ma?a him
aware of tlM gcntli-uiaii Jehu under whose can? he had
IM-rfoim.-il tin-journey.
A man o! years and goodness il the Rev.
1 I?B 1). 11.un it, who In probably tin? alisal I'ri-sliy
tt tl.m intiiiptiT In this e-eiuntry. He was horn in lTsJtl
mu? aas graduated it ffi_Ibbm nsitnpi in the watma Warn
with William Cullou llryaut. The fam? graytieanl 1*? still
i ngngcl In religious work at Assumptiein, II!. He has
sisa art tats etmaeta ta (ir?*??k sad La?b, writes a tirm
I.ami, can ninl without spectacles and in Ht ill coiiip.ti.t
tl.tl?. VIL-.'IOII?.
Mr. John Welsh's Willem M Ott"*i<leiit of tlie
Centennial I'.iinril of ITllati.-e are tB be. rert.gtii/.oil by the
endowment of a professtirship in the L'uiversity of IVnn
aylv.iulii, combined with tin? election of a suitable tablet
In the uai.i?r*ltv eoiiiiuiiiioratlve of .Mr. Welsh's work.
Th.* sun.nut reiiiiirn! for the work Is 180,00a, and
nlreaily ?jS-l?.OOO hau been obtaineel, with the assurance
that tho remainder will be- promptly aiibpcrllx??!. Mr.
W? Uli I* very well please?! thai the linliuioiiiul should
take tin? thap*
Mi. William Blaek'i new story is said to be
a K.'?|Uel to " 'I'll? Aelvtiitiire? et a l'hae-toi)." The Wuttt,
In the eouise of a sketch of Mr. Illaek, nays that he is
rarj nnxleret In speaking of hisown literary successes,und
diiriiipT his visit to this country he was often taoattkWttma
by the rather offensive expression? of eulogy to which
he wiiH fore-eel to listen from tin? lips of fair and enthiui
isitc .uluitrvrs. Mir. Illaek Is Wt years ohl iimi lias bata
liiairletl twice, tin' Hi si lime to a beautiful (?crinan
artist, the aecaad Hbm to a ye.uu*- Scotch lady.
Mr. T. 1?. Aldiich says in The Atlantic that
he* met a rellow-couutryiuaii in Paris who fell Into u *in
gular error eoueerning that wonl so constantly heanl,
" iK?urt.olre." lie thought It wn? the French for "poor
boy," ami on being tu\ ostcd one day by a very old beg?
gar woman, he was btiink by tho Incongruity. "Oh,"
h?> exclaimed, "you are a ' poor boy,' ton, uro yoiil
Coin?, now. Unit's ?t little too steep!" !?u.vs Mr. Aldrlch :
?? A man of ordinary aglnty might walk jver the? Rroatai
part of l.uropc on the oulstretouod p.iiins of tho lower
rla--.-?."
Douglas Jorrold worked at ? desk without
s]k?i k upon it, using an Inkstand in s marble shell clear
of all litter, his little ?log at his feet. If a comedy wua
In prop-Teas, he would now ami then walk rapidly up and
?0WB the room, talking wildly to himself. If It were
Punch copy, oue luar.l him laugh as he hit upon a droll
bit. And then out he would go to the garden, and pluck?
ing a lia-i thorn leaf, stroll thinking down the sidewalks;
then in ?igiiln and vehememly at work, unrolling the
i In.ugh! that hail como te. him atoan little blue Mips of
paper, m letter? smaller than the type In which tiny
Were presently to be- set.
Mrs. Mary (Jlemnier describes in The lude
?ic ml rid the fashion iu which th?? House received the
credentials of the new member from Colorado: " llluo
Je;in Willlains, the worst looking Hoosier that over
steioil up, waves the coat-tail of a BOW suit of bright
blue hoiuc-iiiadf Joan us if it were a baton of MstMSS ;
Holiuau beats the air with his long ?inns; Fernando
speaks a Tur.cvdop piece', ami Sauiiny i ox runs buck
und forth into the auna lllce a little barking doe*. The
Cotistituilon! The Constitution! mnta. and every man
would die that laoinetil at his ?lost of tintv rather than
that the Coiiatitiuion should lio lufrluye?! upon a eliigle
Inch."
Mr. W. W. Story has finished ?md ?out home
a bust of Keats, taken Iroui the sketeh made by the
pa in l er .Severn. He was the poet's faithful fri.-nd, and
watt hui by hi*bedside on the night of hi?death. As
the agony prolonged itself hour after hour, the watcher
gri w heavy with sleep, and to keep his eyelid? open, be?
gun to draw the dying man. He "BBS able to lln *h the
sketch. The melancholy, moribund face lie? upon the
pillow, with closed eyes, the heavy hair, eyebrows, and
strongl.?. iii.ul.itl ftaitir?? irtuiti all th?lr character; the
i ?iiia-cHiiiii of reposo seems a bileut echo of his words,
" 1 limit God, It ha? come !" Taking this as a guide, Mr.
sto: y has made u poetic work of masterly simplicity.
Mr. Mnlloit sits in the ar?-hiteet's office of
tho Treasury and calmly earns hu ?BIO a iluy doing nota
lng. M Intimated by The Boston Herald In cot-e? Q?a_,
Smith, who reporte?! unfavorably upon Mullctt'sChlrssj?
Post-Office operations, and na he passes through Um roosi
to call upon Mr. Hill be see? Mullett. "Why, how ?Is
you do, Mr. Mullcttt" cordially exclaims the Qenri-ai.
Mullett scowls sod fidgets, and Chief Clerk Jacobs says,
"Mr. Mullett. you reiuorabor Gen. Smith, don't your
'* Yes, Sir ; but I won't speak to httu." " Very * o|| ?
says the General, " honors are easy," ami on he goat,
'i lieu an.und Mullett the sir suddenly bssssaes of a
deeply ?cerulean hue, tor Mullett la not the tnmi to in
?IiiIki- In inorely sarcenet oath?, "protest* ot pepper
gingerbread."
These be the outward seeming? of the typt
cal Southerners In CotiKress: Bon. U111, tall, lient, tum.
bcr looking, Faulkner of Virginia, with the jaw of s
t hinocerog, and an Itumenae mouth clinched together a?
II he could bite the world In two; n lance mau, with rus
reddish hair, sklu, and eyes, so indigenous to the Virgia
litn. Itandolph Tucker, relative of John Randolph of
Roanoke, lull, strong, well-built, arrogant of lace and
mien, strutting up an?! down the middle ulule, straight
and proud aa a turkey-cock. Lucius y. C. I-nnar, who
does not look as If be held blood enough to give him ths
vertigo; yet it has threatened his life once or twice with
Iu a year. He is rather above medium bight aud sise,
bas a good bead, and a thoughtful, careworn couute
nance. His hair la black, Just tinned with gray, straight
and long, obliging to hia nock. Ills elan U auilow, lila
nose straight auif retlned. his eye? deep-set and melau
choly?Ms whole expression mefaucholr and lutellectual.
Piiii.adklpiiia, Dec. 14.?Col. H. B. San
funl, the llrtiliili Commissioner to the International E_.
hlbltion. in company with bla staff, consisting of Messrs.
E. ( ii.m i m,-!.m, F. J. Hodgklnson, and I. W. Brett, left
this morning on the steamship Ohio for Liverpool. la
testimony of the general feeling of friendship entertained
personally for Col. Sanford, and as a mark of respect for
the country which be so worthily represented at ths
Exhibition, a large asscmbtnge of prominent persons,
including Messrs. (?osboru und Ilawley, and the execu?
tive officers of the Exhibition, and several of the foreign
commissioners, assembled on board the steamship ?to bid
farewell to the commissioner. OoL Sanford was pre?
sented with a farewell address by the Presidents of tho
St. (?.'urge's, St. Andrew's, Albion, and Ililiernta Socto
ties, ,tinl s deliniitli.il of leading citizens, to which hs
responded In i? bint but. touching speech.
POLITICAL SOTES.
The Demoerncy is preparing for its final yell.
It will be loud, but not harmful.
Mr. Hewitt't proclamations are spirited, but
not effective. They failed to elect Mr. Tilden, aud they
will full to iiniiigui-at?: him.
The able Democratic editors who are spoil?
ing for a fight should be indulged. Tho greatest aervlco
th. v ?-an hopo to do the country will be to kill each other.
Nobody will object
It is horrible to imagine what might hap?
pen to this great and glorious country if the Northern
and Southern Democrats could decido which of them
should light aii.l which cry " st 'boy I"
The latest and by all odds tho most dread?
ful Democratic discovery made yet is that " cx-Gucrtlla
Mnsby Is to command a brigade at the inauguration ot
Huyes." This is undoubtedly true, but it will be a bri
trwl?' of one ni.ai.
Mr. Watterson should remonstrate with the
conductora of his paper. It doesn't took exactly con?
sistent to have him counseling poacc in Washington aud
his journal advising war and couuling up tho available
force for It in Louisville. The zealous aasisiauU be has
left behind him bavo already accumulated an army of
nearly a million men. They have blood in their eyes,
while he ia aa *' quiet as a nuraery.''
A source of .great grief to the patriotic
Deni<?craey is the stolidity of the people, espt-eially of
tin- K<-puhl!can (?copie. AU attempts to get up public
protests against the inauguration of Hayes are failures.
It is a hard aud well-nigh impossible lessou for tho " fyy
fi.rin.Ts " Is I'-aru that the public has a profound mistrust
of tlieui ami their luetiiods, which mistrust bus not I? t_
less? in ?t 1 y lu?- urc ,-ou performance.
The losa of the Liberty-at. crank is pain
fully apparent in the Democratic organs. Tiny ars
piping all sorts of tunea and producing frightful discords.
Some of ibem declare that Tilden ia eleclod aud wiU bs
inaugurate?!, war or no war. Others declare that Grant
.?ml the "Shermans" are in a conspiracy to force Hayes
into the Presidency by military power. Others still de?
clare that neither Haye? nor Tilden will be inaugurated,
but that tirant will make himself Eiuperor. The only
rcs|M'cf. In which they h.iriuonin-at all is m a general
manifestation o? luna? y.
The rigorous discipline of Mr. Hewitt has
tngiTi'il the Demo? rutic party. There aro atri.ng signs
of r.'hellion already. A eorresi>oudcnt of The Chicago
Tribune received this statement from a "Democrat of
pr.-mlneuc?-" the other duy : "There Is a great ?leal of
dtssatisfactlou among Democratic membera st Hewitt's
leadership. Tho opinion is that he has uot sufficient tut
t.? conduct tlie interests of a great party in the present
. unTgetiev. He is a good merchant and s pleasant gen?
tleman, but under his leadership the LVtuorrats fear that
he will In* likely to couduet uis party friiuds tu ruin."
1 In- trouble with Mr. He? itt is that be Is too good for his
party. He has attempted th?: it-possible task ot making
them Itehavc with patriotism and good sense.
This important piece of new? is published by
The \ at inn : " Vic hoped when the real result of the elec?
tion was first announced that the prospect would have a
sufficiently sobering effect on both the candidates or
their managers to induce them to take ateps iu concert
to reassure the public and bring about in some way s
satisfactory settlement. We hoped, for instance, that
Mr. Hayes and Mr. Tilden would agree upon half-a Con a
men of unimpeachable character and standing who
should go down aud look into the doings of the boards in
the disputed Stutos, and make a report by which they
would b.'tii ubldc, aud which the public would accept,
tint neither of them seems to have made the slightest
move iu that direction. We havo heard it was suggested
t.? Mr. Tibien by some of his own friends and rejectod.
If so. he has Incurred a heavy responsibility."
Interesting fai'ts continue to come to lij?ht
about that "soli?!" 81,000 Democratic majority is
(???orgia. A New-Etiglauiler, who owns a plantation Is
Suiith-Western Georgia, whom The Boston Journal
vouches for as favorably known in its city, writes to s
friend : " In this part of the country elections arc s
fane anyway. In this Congressional district there are
at lenst two Republicans to one Democrat, aud yet tho
Democratic candidate was elcct<-il by at least two to one.
Here in A-they had. side by aide, with two entrances,
what they called a ' white mau's box' aud a 'negrobox;'
but auy neirro who would vote the Democratic ticket was
allowed to vote at tho white man's box without any
unesttous being asked, while at the negro polllug place
nil s?irts of ?lelays were occasioned by the Deninvratlo
officials In looking up tux receipts aud going off to offices
to look up tux lists, etc., so that at night, what with ons
means of ih lay and another, there were moro than four
bundreil voters iu line who bad not voted when the polli
wen- closeil?besides a large nuuilxr who had beeonis
discouraged mid disgusted before night and gone home.
This is the way the tt.ing is doue hero in one or the molt
quiet and best portions of Georgia. A fe?v days since S
prominent Democrat said to me that the D?mocratie tus
Joi'ity hen- was too large. He did nut think it l.?<>kcd
Well. I replied that I thought not, aluce wo ail knew if
th?- vote was allowed to be cast this district would tie Ko
publican by more thau two to oue."
The Hon. Job E. Stevenson has (riven the
Democrats a gm>d deal of slender comfort by refusing ts
slgu tho Louisiana report made by the visiting Repub?
licans. He has written a Utter giving a detail???! ?tat??'
ment of lUa conclusions to The Cincinnati Haicile, which,
it is safe to say, will not be quoted extensively in Dein*
initie journals. Iu It be says : " It appears to me that s
fail -minded mid impartial Judge wimid und that the ?Us*
orders bad controlled parishes aud polls more tins
enough to change tho result on the. Presidential elect?.!*
On the 8tate, legislative, and parish tk-trets I did nul
form any opinion. Making liberal nil?.nanee fordlsafli*?
ti"n toward 'he State ticket, and for toss of colored voles
through I'lit.eenieiit-t, the: e must reman? a UcpubllcaS
inajoi ity in Uiulsiana on a fair and free election ef no*
less than 15,000. In this opinion I am sustained Of
statements o? candid men, both Ion,, t ?stirs aud Dents
crutic, who say uo well informed mau doubts that LouU
bum Is Republican by fiotn 10,000 to ls.uOO majority.
What, then, became of this Republican iu?Jority of Le?*
istaiial The foot of intimidation being proved in >***
local i i les where their voto was lost, It U bard to douM
that Intimidation cuused th-- loss. It may Oc note?! that
I do no! defend the Hemming Board, either ?is an 1???+
tutlou or In its personnel. It is far more Important !?*
in?* ti know that tlie conclii-Oon is right. The institutis*
of the lU'tiiriitug Hoard Is Si political necessity, ?ii-rUaS
to meet sud counteract vloleueu against which no owe
nary gnanl would anStoO, und pmvldi-4 by law to prob?."?
the most Inoffensive race ugaiust the most warlike. T??
law is founded on the principle that the ?it:!? ad-?l?-??
pniteitiou ugaiust violeuce Is to render violence iraie
The Oregon trick convinces Tlie Nation tliai
the Presidency should ho given to Hayes. It says th?
legal aspect of the aueatlon is of slight practical impof
tain-?- ; that whatever moral weight the Democratic pi?**
tiou now has will bo destroyed by any effort t? w* ?ua*
a performance as Cronia's us a ?letcrmlnlug agency :flwl
the Democrats would havo uo popular aupiwrt In tryi-f
to force the Senate to count a vote cust by s i*?**
plainly not elected, and that Mr. 'l?den cannot afford ?
take the Presidency on any quirk or quibble, or lu J ???
of any merely technical rule. It olfjeets to wUbU-buje
the practice of sotng ?behind tho returns, because ?
preoedeut would be the end of orderly and dwUtve eW|
tious, snd It sees uothtng but chaos as likely to ret?
from the asstmipUou of "judicial fuaetious" by w