Jerome B. Chaffee, First Senator

elect t'rom tlie now State ot' Colorado, was fonuerly a resident of Adrián m this State. Skxatok Blaine says that he don't want to ba President of the Senate. And as the people are of the sanio miud thore is no chanoe for a row about it. " Sexton isn't troubled any moro with applications for deputyships " : that is the way the Dotroit Tribune cougratulates him for bis defeat as Sherifi candidato. The Republicana are having " eonniptions " : just becauso JefF. Davis ia coming home from England. It is Bingular what vitality there is in the old fellow, or rather how chock full of scare bis wrinkled old skin is. What have the Republioans donu to be so afraid of his name even Y If TUOSE Republican canvassers down in Florida don't begin the " counting out " job until thirty-live days after the election, they will scarcely got it done in time to be of any service to Hayes, as the several electoral colleges must meet and cast their votes on the first Woduesday of December Jacob H. Martin, the Ypsilanti wrestler, witliin 41 votes of benig elected Keublican sheriff of Washtenaw county, which gave Tilden 550 majority. - Detroit Tribune Tally one " gudgeon " caughi by Pat (he of the Ypsilanti Commercial). Now be it known to the Tribune that Martin lacked 341 votes of being elected Sber iff. Case having a majority of 340 over him. Hokatio SEYMOUR takes position against a Constitntional amendment abolishing the present method of voting for Eleotors and substituting a direct vote for President aud Vice-Piesident. He holds that the framers of the Constitution had in view the protection of the minority as well as the protoction of the smaller States, and that a change to a direct vote wou ld be unwise and dangerou. The Detroit Pont says: " The Democratie game in Florida was too transparent." That is it, eb. ! Well the " Democratie game " is always transparent. Deinocrats do their work in the light, in Florida or elsewhere. They don't lock themselves in dark rooms, excluding candidatos, reporters, etc. " Transparont : " that's a good word, but " for ways that are dark aud tricks that are vain " coinniend us to Republicana, and especially to Republican " Return - ing Boards." Nothing open and transparant there. The Chicago Time puts itself on record in favor of a constitutional amendment or legislatiou separating the Presidential election from all other elections. The suggestion is a good one, though the election of members of Congress inight properly occur on the same day. Congress haa control over the time of eloeting or "appoiuting" the Electora of President and Vice President, and also of the time of electing members of Congress, and we should be glad to see that body, at the coming session, pass a regulatiug act embodying the proposition of the Times. This beio the rule : " Counsel will not be allowed to examine the returns when opened, but merely to witness the uiijealing of tho packages," both " counsel " and committees might as well be in hades as locked in a room with that Louisiana Returning Board. Returns that will not bear the exainination of counsel will carry no proof to the country that the seals broken in the pre ence of wituesses were the original ones, or that the returns had not been doctored. A return that will not bear examination by counsel and eundidates and reporters and the public at largu muy be brandod as a fraud, and it is in the intertuit of fraud that examination is refused. TüAT door-keeper who wrote home from Washington "lam a biger man thuu old Grant " is nowhero nowadnys. The members of that Louisiana Returuing Board can discount him liberally aud then beat him. They can make a President just as easy as falling off a log, and that is what neither Gnmt nor Fitzhugh can do. They have only to throw out three, four, or five Democratie parishes, more or less, and the thing is done. In tho absence of the necessary proof of intimidation, ex-Gov. Wells, chairman of said board, can in.'tke the affilavit him3elf. It matters not whether or no he was in the parish. He learned tho lesson of perjury in 1874, - or Messrs. Wheoler, Postor, and Phelps, all Republicana, and the former waiting the decisión of Wells to make him "Vice-Presldent, did him gross injustice in an official report. We ake TOLD that Gov. Hayos refiised to vote on the 7th inst., alloging as the reason for his refusal that he never yet voted for himself and that his political convictions and principies would not permit him to vote for his opponent. His friends not being satisfied with his decisión plead that the State promised to be very close aud that one vote might save it ; that he would not vote for himHolf, the eloctors boiug under no legal obligatiou to vote for him ; also that in the event of Puter Cooper carrying States enouh to prevent him (Hayos) from gotting a majority, the Republican Electors in the several States might, by concert of action, throw their unitod vote for Coopor and prevent the election going to tho House with the certain election of Tildon. And theso political nssooiates and guardians of Mr. H.iyos are the same Diim who have held üp their hands in lioly horror for foar that the electoral mant! e might drop from the shoulders of au inoligible postm.ister upon the forro of a Tilden elector, and thus defraud the people of their choice. A consistent as well as honest set, these Republican frieuds of Hayos. TliE Presidontial pot Htill boils. In defiauoe ot' tho decisión and ordor oi the South Carolina Suprcme Court tho Board of State Canvassers have disfranehised two countius, givon tho Republicans a majority in the Legislaturo, ana oertifiod to tho election of Republican State oflicors and Eleetors. Voters, elections, and courts are at a discount in that State. In Florida Uov. Stianis claims to be tho canvassing board and the court ia wrestling both with hini and the board of canvassers. Stearns will propably have nis way,- beeause there is a Deniocrat on the board. The Lou8iana Retuining Board is at work, and wheti it gets a good ready proposos to buck the Tilden' buil off the bridge. It is ouly a question of time Throwing out parishes and counting votos not cast will do it. Those of our citizens who advised studonts temporarily rettiding here that they had a right to register and voto at tho recent electiou, and aided and abetted thoin in registering and votiug, evon to the extent of urgiug them to swear in their votes when ohalleuged, are referred to the following extract from Judge Cooley's " Constitutional Liniitations," note 3 to sectious C00, page 0G2 (second edition) : " If a man takes up his permanent abodc at the place of au institution of learoing, tim i.ir! of lus i ■ : 1 1 1 ■ i i n 14 it as a student will iiot precliule his auquíring a legal rt-sidenet there ; out íf he is domicilod at the place tor the purpose of iu8truction only, it is deemed proper anti right that he ahould neither lose his former residence nor gaiu a uew oue in conaequence thereof." That man, single or married, who comes here for the purpose of entering the High School or Univeisity, and expecting or designing to continuo his residence here just so long and uo longer thau his counection with the school or University continúes, does not and cannot acqnire that residence which entitles him to vote, and it matters not that he carne ten days or more before formally registering himsolt' as pupil or student, or that he remaius during one or more vacutions. Several such illegally registored and illegally voted on the 7th iust. Cook, the confedérate numinee tor Senator in the lóth district lose the entire vote of hib own county by au error of the printer, his tickets beiug printed for the lotb district Some 3,OÜU votes wure cust erruueously.- Allegan Journal. As Cook didu't get enough votes to elect him. there is no practical question at issue. But we wish to say that printing " 16th district " ou his ballots may have been a blunder, though not a fata or even a serious one. The laws of this State do not rcquire the nuiuber of the district - Congressional, Senatorial, or Riipresentative, - to hu printed on the ballot, and the soouer committeos auc printers recoguize that tact and leave such descriptivo surplusage off the better. As well put the words " of Michigan," after the words " for Governor ' the candidate's weight and height, am the color of his hair and oyes after his name, as the nnmber of the district in whioh he runs. The law inakes the district and not the ballot, and the uuniber of the district is found in the law and not on the ballot. We have boen told that the " descriptivo words " can do no harm. Using them has raised a very thin cloud over a successful Congressional caudidate in Massachusetts In Lüuisiana five Republicau Klectora! caudidates are short about 2,000 votes because of tlie foolish distinction convent ions and newspapera uiake in electoral tickets, - some wise committeeman and blundoriug printer imagining that only the electora at large and the one district elector were to be votod for and omitting five names. Such blunders as the last may prove fatal, aud is a good reason for ignoring all uniiocessary descriptive words on ballots. People talk of intimidated electors, of fraudulent elections, of false cauvasses, of cauvassing and returning boards with arbitrary powers and composed of uuHCrupulous politicians and brauded crimináis, of a President declarod elected by partisan affidavits instead of by votes, aud representing neither a inajority of the people nor the States giving him his election, and THEN of REVOLUtiox. But, is not the revolution now 't When it becomos uecessary for a President to send his partisan friends to aid au abet an omnipotent returniug board in carrying a State against the vote of its people, RKVOLUTION is already here. When a leturning board is given power to throw out just so many parisbes or counties as is necessary to ' fix " the vote of a State, revoluïion is ingrained in the laws of that State, but it is none the less revoluïion_ Wheii it is seriously proposed that a returning board sliall eount over two thousiiiiil votes tor five electoral candidates wluis.' names did not appear on the ballot and did not go into the ballot box, on the pretenso that the electors meaut to voto for Hayes and Wheeler, wliat is that but REVOLUTlox 'r1 Riot and bloodshed is not necessary to revOLUTION. It muy bu psaceful, and that it may bo peaoeful makes vigilance more necessary. It therefore becomes statesman and politiciana and people to be watchful and vigilant. We are in the breakers, aud it will require prudence and wisdom and firmnuss to bring the craft safyly to shore. Bravado and throats and. loose talk will not do it. As Demócrata we want no President elected by foiating an elector into the caat-off robes of an ineligible postmas:er, and as Demócrata we havo a right to claim and demand that no President shall be deolarèd eleetod by nullifying lbo legitimately expressed will ot' a single State, and in dótense of that claim and demand we have a right to oxhaust every legal means. But in doing that et moderation and wisdom goveru both the proas and the peoplo. Good and safe men are watching tho progross of the counts at Columbia, at Tallahassee, and at New Urleans. If fraud is rosorted to fraud will be dettcted and oxposed, and then some nnaus will be 'ound to nullify that fraud and protect ;he rights of the whole people. Let us wait in patienco and with faith ; equaly doturminod to reap no advantage 'rom fraud and to submit to no fraud. S"either Mr. Tilden nor Mr. Huyes can afford to be iuaugurated President loas honestly elected, and wo cannot boliovo that tátbur would ontor apon the dutios of the office knowing that his claim to it was not beyoud dispute. ON THE 20th inst., Messrs. Barlow, Cuandler, Noyes, aud other Bepublioans telegraphod an apoiogctic aud oongratuliitory address from Xullahassee, Fla., to 1 dm. Zach. Ohandler, in whioh they account tor a failure to give the figures on which thoy claim the State in tbis wiso: " We have been frequently asked to give the figures of the electoral vote of the State Bfl claimed by the Kopuhlicuntt. We have deelineii to lo so for the following reasona solely: Ollioiul returns have been received fvom thirty-two counties out of thirty-nino, and until all uro in vu are unwilling, aml thiuk it unwie, to give our umlerxtanding of the figures, because of the possibility of thü fiiruros in the Deuiocratic counties still behind being suftioiently changed to altnr the resulta. VVe do nut nftoflflflnrfly impute to any one a design to commit frauilt but it is euough that such a thing is possible and not unknowu hefe or elsawliere. We teel entirely justifiud in refnsing to give any infonnation wbicb shall, even in tho rcmotest degroe, rendur auy such fruud possible or desirable.' In another column will be found n tolegraphiü letter from Alan ton Mar ble, late óf the New York World, to the New York llerald, branding this statement as a very foolish falsehood. The canvassing and returning boards of every county are in the hands of the Eepublicans, tho ofiicers one and all being the appointee8 of a Itepublican Öovernor. The distinguished geutlemcn i'roiu whom wo quote will have to try again. TllE Republican organs inuko much mirth over the great party viotory in this State, and there is no end of the sharp sticks they poke at Don M. Dickiuson, Chairman of tho Democratie State Committee, because his expectatious and predictions were not realized. Mr. Dickiuson can stand all their jokes, his record being satisfaotory to his associates uurl the party. That he didn't succeed in revolutionizing tho State was the fault of the voters, who obstinately rei'used to forsake their iduls, whose dreams wore of bloody-shirt, slavery, and popery [vide the Lansing Rvptiblican), aud who voted as they dreamed. Mr. Dickinson made an excellent fight with thü limitod meaus at his ilisposal, and has the thanks of the party for his uutiring efforts to win succeaa. It wA8 a very close shave for three Democratio candidatos in üaklaud county, the Judge of Probate having only 8 majority, the Sheriff but ö, and the Clerk just 1.