Wells (j. Madison, Of The Louisiana

Returning Board,) is now a "peer," but Packard's friends are uow in doubt his status. The TITLK of the President has heretofore been (by common consent) "His Exoellency" : for the next four years it will be "HisFraudulency." The United States Sonate oonvened in speoial session on Monday, on cali of ex-President Grant, to confirni nominations sent in by the new incumbent of the White House. If " the partaker is as bad as the thief" how will Hayes and Wheeler cleanse their official robes? Perhaps this is the sweet niorsel of oonsolation they roll under their tongues : " Stolen fruits are the sweetest." Don Henderson is a " festivo ouss," and so he fires off his big gun : jnst because an Electoral Commissipn and a Louisiana Returning Board have elected a President who was rejected by the people. There is no accounting for the taste. The Senate Committee on State affairst reported against Senator Burleigh's "bill to prevent bribery at elections.1' lts provisions were a little too strict for the average political folio wer of Zach. Chandler. It takes one woinan to pen portrait another. This is what Mary Cleinmer (late Ames) says : " Dr. Mary Walker is the most unmitigated little flea that ever pranced iu a pair of pantaloons. In her public dress and actions she is a di8grace to womanhood." It is Mary's turn next. KJTOWINO that that the inaugural procession and ceremonies would be incomplete without the presence of the inembers of the Louisiana Returning Board, the House thoughtfully and judiciously ordered their discharge froui the dark, damp and gloomy dungeon, (a well lighted and furniehed room in the capitol) on Saturday. Beino a. believer in the dootrine " Take time by the foretop," Qov. Hayes took the oath of office as President of the United States in the " red parlor " of the White House (Mrs. Grant's private reception room), at 7:30 o'clock Saturday euening. Chief -Juetice Waite administered the oath, which was engrossed, signed, and " confided to the custody of the Secretary of State." His " counselors " deomed suca proceeding advisable, and also thought that " the proceeding should be temporarily kept secret." They feared, perhaps, that Mr. Tilden, relying upon the foolish rosolution passed by the House declaring him eleoted, might come to Washington, take the oath of office, and set himself up as President on Sunday - that being March 4. A guilty conscience is reported to make people afraid of shadows. deutial canvass, or "count," the New York üvening Post aays : "Several precedents have been established so flrmly that they are not likely to be overturned. One is that this is a government of law, and not of sentiment." In view of the fact that thd result has been reachod by a violation of law, by a confirmation, under tbe morest shadow orform of law, of the grossest frauds, one is at a loss to discover any great oause for special gratulation. We are equdlly at a loss to discover so clear an establishment of the fact "that this is a government of States as well as central federal power." It cannot be that the State has gained anything beoause the voice of Florida and Louiaiana have been stifled, the will of Florida and Louisiana thwarted, and a fraudulent President forced upon the other States, the electora of which repudiated him at the ballot box. That is the worst phase of centralizaron which imllifies the decisión of aeren teen States. Centralizaron of that type is a oure worse than thedisease. The Post makes a desperate effort to niake fraud palpable. Tuis is what President defacto Hayes says of the founders of the governmont, - those old fogies of the last century : "They neither expected nor desired from public officers any partisan service. They meant that public officers should owe their whole service to the government and the people." Which talk won't be verr gratifying toZach. Chandler, who neglected his "service ' in the Interior Department for months, and gave his entire time to "partisan service," - to running the political machine in the interest of the same moralizing, theorizing President, - the utterer of meaniugless words and phrases. And Zach. Chandler is by no moans the only official in high station who will laugh - perhaps sardonically - at the child-like simplicity of the man they - not the people - have elevated to place and power. Again : "They meaut that an officer should be secure in his tenure as long as his personal character remained untarnished, and the performance of his duty satisfactory." Which being honest words the removal of an officer, or a neglect to reappoint hira, will advertise to the world that his charaoter is not untarnished, and that he has been an incompetent officer. The lists of new appointraentg will be watched with interest. Theite words are also discouraging to the "outs," - and they are legión in every state and locality - who look for their reward for political or "partisan services." And then won't members of Congress and their heuchmen exclaim, "Thank God" for the following : "They held that appointments to office were not to be made or expected meroly as a reward for partisan services, or merely on the nomination of a meruber of Congress as being entitled in any respect to the control of such appointments." But then, time will test the hidden meaniug of these declarations, and ineauwhile Congress will recommend, and the i faithful will petition for post-offices, pension agencies, etc.