Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 22, 1876, Page 2

'THE CHICAGO, TRIBUNE:_ MONDAY, MAY a9 oy 1876. 1y for itsclf, and has loved only ilaclf, :‘-’.‘J"go:?ufi.p';ntm only ftsclf, As whon lioar b nly fnwani upan its own sinfulness, and ko&‘]t: S'nlfm mnver‘snuon about sclf and the, Rreatncss or sorrows of self, §t hecomes elther, morbid to the degree of Insanity or elae hecomea only an egotiat, 6o when religlon looks only nt ‘fim it secmes to become finlf demented nnd rapldly -exchanges -the -sublima -for - tho- ridieulous. . When the (ierman- philoso) elt":z R system -thoy lost sight.of all realism, and did 1ts own i Jooked into tho <dopths of the transce fght of the fdeal, but beeame biind, Jeie Who tooka alvays at tho dun. T whonever ' Religlon has turne abor upon ftacl Taoeg Thiad quntics, “Carlglo says Lo divnly mo homo froin the seminary b Jena s m:\tl?'f‘ day “with. their minds I\ynll nigh dollrious” that ‘‘abjurgations,” ‘‘excessive Dittorness,” ".hcrcq ,1 ng, and unprofitabla 1040. wero uatversal.” Ono young clergyinan ot Weimne shiob himscl? because of thess ur- molls of tho soul. Goetho sald he should mpl{;vmlt for tho “schume to have itsday v Ll and dle. 111 read tho litstary of religion,—of Clfihm‘;u' 1‘1 mean,—you will find how rapldly i roformod tia Jdeas i lisbits the moment tho new fndustry of the last threo centuries Legan its marvelovis career. As soon s the ago of in- dustry began to dawn the n};\; of rul(% lous hal- lucination began to wane, fur o hallucination Is always an absorptlon of uiind Into one kiea, to the cxtont that Jb loses the sight of the world and Toses thus its cquilibrium,” When the hu- man mind began to sce new pursults—Ilaw, med- icine, democracy, Inventions, arts, sclences—it began suddenly to sce the ol pursuitina calmer, clearer light, A ncw love [spetled an old fnfatnation. 'Tho reform of Proteatantism and the final overthirow or reforra of Romanisin are coming nud to come greatly from acunl- versal industry that will break up the mnfilml 11 in which'minds haye been held for bun- reds of years, ns birds arc sald to be charmed to the death by the glittering eycs of a gerpent, Wo nced mnot hesltate, therefore, to say that fn the cconomy of God religion was to e the friond of nll the messurcless lubor that was ta cover tho wide carth, This allfance was to Lelp yeliglon, It was to kcoip lier 5o employed 1 tho nctual that she should be In little daiger of falling into the pit of tho visionary, IHerinter- est 40 cducation and charity and liberty and cternal life was to protect her against attempts 10 sound the unfathomable, aud to make Ma- donnas bllnk aucl holy bones cure dlscase. This pllisnce was to help hier to o shinple’ practical * yeliglon iike that of Christ, all the words of which make up now soul, nciv maunhood, just as fresh ralns mako new, sweth . A broad In- Hustry s the death of fanaticism. This alllance was reciprocally to bless the wholo domain of fndustry. A pérfoct mauhood being the earthly and l\m\’cmy achievement af rcllg?un, religion is bound to live and work for all those micans. that help work out the final end. A converted man .8 not all that religion seeks, for many a converted man cannot read or wrile, and the “grossest crimes have been done by ignorant couverts to plety. Heuce, the cYmn:\n must help in the publlc education os ar- dently o it throws Itsell into o ravival, for after conyerafon hna made o soul willing to do its duty it should bo educated to know what is tho highest right and the meancst wrong. A . rovivaf of plety fa worth little except when con- ‘ nected \vlt?l & rovival of thought, Kellgion must ‘bo the tmmediate friend of every art uscful and besutiful, because they are the incans of perfect manhood, and that which lovea thegreat termina- tiun of man's }ifo cannot e neglectiulof m{ of the steps by which the great helght is reached Teligion must bo the unweuried fricnd of high «ideal’ politics, for her sanctuary is built fn the middle of the state, and unless the state fs full of justico and freedom the templo of God will Do dragged down a8 in Rome, Spaly, Mexico, by the {gnorance and depravity of the Empire, In our land, where the peoplo mold tho “State, o minister watchipg the ballot-box all dsy and up to midnight Is” standing nearer God's” altar than ever was a robed J)rleat knecling to the solemn musfe of o cathiedral. In such a wotch- ful heart all the wishes and painful anxlety are proyors clothed with the decpeat dplety and full of sweetest acceptance before God, Thus havo we scen that religion is to take the wotli's Inbors in her arns. As God, the Author and Reason of rellgion, stood by the irstsix days of this great nctivity, passing”along from stars to oceuns, and vales and rivers, eo man, succeeding in the abor of creation, is to make his religlous ecntiinent become on atmosphere in which ench art nnd selence shall spring for- wurd with new life; Athelsm could not briny tonsukind motives of labor powerful enough 1o impel or besutiful enough to allure. Under Athefsm the theory of life would decline. The toll of the luman race demands the Christian theory of this life. That thenr{ can tell us where toll for fashion and vanity is too large and for thd soul too small; it can check the one and nspire-the otber; it can tell us the mean- inz of the state, that we shall becomo cilzous; It can 8o entarge the mora) faculilon that toil will llo here not black with vies bub white with virtue; it can assure man that all lis wotks will follow him, and then when fn the midst of ull his Industry and burdeus he {s fall- ing, sinking, dylng, it can clhicer him with the Nglx and deep psalm of jmmortality, UNITARIANISM. WIAT THE HECENT LOUISVILLE CORPERENCH DID, The Rev. Dr, Powell, pastor of the Third Unl- tarlan Church, occupled his pulpit yesterdny morning, having just returned from a Confer- enco of ministers of his fuith at Loulsville, Ilo miade the sentiment and work of the Conferenco tho subject of his discourse. The object of the Confercnce, he said, hnd been to promote u personul fraternity rather thun ' u doctrinul unfon, and as such it bad becu emlucntly successful. But ouo epirit lLad anlmated the hody, and thut wos characterlstic of the Western wortkers. There was there radlenl und conserv- ative, but no inhurmony, Toleration had been sought uud uchieved, wid the result wos that + hanuony prevudled throughout, however differ-, ent moy lave been the “current of thought. They all had felt, nevertheless, that beneatti all discussions and’ expressions thero wero vital underlying problems, which must soouner or later ‘come up, und problems stmilar to those to-dny buipg brought to HEM sim- ultancously " tn dliferent l s of the globe, They had felt and appreciated the enormity of tho great moral questions which had stirred pust generations, and were in no wise biind 1o ho struggle with sclouce at the present duy, *The grester problem there had beea the suthor- jty of the Blble, und thu yuestion whether it could be placed s infallible agafust the reason- fng of modern thinkers. Was it divine, super- mutural, or natural? Was ji obligdtory to press thelaw of the old Jews In bonduge uimn every sonll or was the Jaw of Moses w0 superlor to sl other ‘law that it must bo adhered to through all uges? wero the great questions. No one doubted the faithtul courpilution of the Btbleisu fur ad {t went, but the Jarger proportfon of the Couference had been Juclined to placo it on tho basis of other ‘books, and to look upon ita mirucles us they did upon {he workg of other nuthors, Ita storics of rsons lving fua furnace heated ‘seven timea iter thian our ordinary furnsces, and in the ‘bowels of fiah, they weretnclined to aceept with o great deal of alluwance, and the whole of ity autbority was regurded (Lulwu fallible us the Church af Rome,was fexidle, Blnce the autho) 1ty of tho Blble waa regarded as fur from sup: aatural, the erenvs yiewed the great col test go! E C dou, but between sclencs und Moses, betwet! 0 comuon sense and Junah, mnd between Dy Haxley aud Balham's ase. “Tho speuker then reverted at somo length to the effect of tha miracles of the Bible upon the TOWID %uncmuun, and ”lmdml.rv upon the abbuthi-sciool attondants. ~ While the Bl- bl¢ ranalped sa recogulzed authorlty Jts slorles fecould mot DLs _gotten rid. of. Itbud tobo taken us u whole or notut all, “There wus bug one way out of the difticulty, * and that was Ly teachibg chlldren good work, and keeptng thielr ininds away from'ereeds an church dogmas—teach them to love thy good aud beautiful, and to eschew the wicked und immorul. In no other way could the mnorale of ths Church bo retained In'the face of the teach- ingeof Laul und the men of bls time, sud who werena better or brighter dn the lght of reason thian the authors und thinkers of the present. Lather dunled the nfim of the Churcli, ques. tioned its councils and .mude his own Lible. @ climinated thres books from tho old Bikle, aud It was not loug before he 1ind Lls followers, ‘The more modera reforuiera had made further strides in tho same dinctlon, and they, too, had had their followers, uud the spealcer saw Do reason why still others should xot follow, untll the Bible was stripped of sll that was supernatural, and untll reason took the laco of tho grand superstitions of old, Theo iuulnfllo (Confercuce Lud doue u noble work in It had cut loves from the old {dneu of Unitariang in Now Esgland, stopped this directiou. alvance _of Cbanplng, clloving, ~ as it did, that Jesus was Not God. It Lud been 8 body of 1 und did uot bellove y linkers, to be exceeding] tobe excec ‘k"‘: ueful‘ :q‘;x l{.ummn was to be exceedingly i:lx inict as 8 sect, and that to do right, from the ighest to the lowest, ond toward the hum. eat 85 well aa the grentest; shiould be the nim braced, “tho speaker urged, it wafida.uf(?r.; ennulafing Lo sive the poor’ waslicrwoman hor duea thai $0 puy homagu to Jesus around tho b and purposo of life,” When this {d sacrymental puj oy oy \ - all tho day's t hind bocomé a fanaticlsm of oved that Unitarianlsuy was | The ufukcrmzdhu eloquent, radical, and cresting addreos, ‘l)?y c!xv'ln;; thaf tho volée -y of " tha le’ Conferencd ‘had been in ~ favor: of reproducing | and re- u‘blmllng Theodore Patket’'s Works ua the *best, literature for,tho timos, becauss it was fotinded on reason snd common sense. Its volce waa also [n favor of duing awny with that which was supcrnatural, which would leavo hu- manlty without oblgatfon about the herentter, or at least without obligation to work for the filling of God's Paradise ufter any of the super- natucal theories or plana. Tiic Confercnce wanted the Diblé Judged by reason, and every man guided by his own conselence in his walks of life, und tlio Church to labor for the promo- tlon of correct pflncl{lc! and on fmproved puablic virtue,—the contest being not between nlalcm:u and religlon, but between saints and sinners. - . ILLINOIS 8, 8. ASSOCIATION. TUD LIGNTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION PIO- GRAMME, Tha Efghtecnth Annunl Conventlon of the Illinols State Bunday-School Assuclation will bo of this month, Unusually large preparations have been innde to make this ono -of tho most fmportant gatheriugs of the kind ever held in this or any other State, ad among the great Jights, who o to be present are Moody. and Sankey, Blahop Chenay, Mr. Whittle,and obhers, So large an nssombly is ceted Wint it s !xmhuhlu arrangements will be made to hold tho scesfons in ttyo or three different bulliings ‘st the same thme. Mr, Moudy will speak each ovening in one pluca, and b‘nnkci'!\vlll ead the alnfi;ln n the same man- ner Blshop Cheney and Mr. Whittle will speak Tucsday evonlng, nud other gentiemen We dny ovening, Tho usual love-feast will bo held Thuraday evening, The regulnr programme for the eeasfons of the Conventlon has been published, and shows that the plan hos_been thoroughly conshdered and well arranged, It will e emplntleally o working Convontfon, The programuie lucludes for tlic first scsslon, May 93, the cll- ing together in the “morning with prayer and _ pralse, the ogunizatlon, and o _address of weleomo by the Rev. 8. M. Morton, At 2 o'clock “of the samg dny tho sccond scsslon will be held. 1t will commence with o thavkeglving scrvice for the Biblc: adidresses on ¢ The Bocks of tha Bi- ble,» b,y Mr. M. C. Hazard; * Tiow to Study the Bible,” lg N \qudf‘; and * The Bible and Madern Doubt,” by President 1i. I, Adams, "The third scszlon will be held In the evenlng, wnd will commence with n street meeting, to Lo followed by a meeting for prayer and pralac, an _address, “ How to Iflustrate Beripture,” by Do bheuoly\ ond addressca by Mossrs. Moody aud Whittie. The sccond day’s scaslons will conslst of simllar pralse meetings, and reports will bo re- cefved from the varlous counties, and addresses will bo made on the following subjects: The Bible fn the Pulplt and Pew;” The Bible in “feachers! Mcetings? Bible-rendlngs, by Mr, Moody; “How_to Teach Adult, Intermedlate, and, "rlmnry Classes;™ “The Bible aud Salval tion.” Amnnfi; the toples to be dlscussed the third dsy will be “8tate Work,” “The Bible at Family Worship,” *The Bible In Private,” “The” Biblo in Hong,” ow to Review a Les- 601! In order to enable delegates to reach the Con- ventlon at reasonnble rates, the followlng rafl- ronds have ngreed to carry for one aud ongHl{th fare: \Chlm!;o& Alton; Peordn, Pekin & Jackson- villo; Peorin & Rock Island; Rockford, Rock Island & St. Louls; Bt. Louls & Southeastems Chfeago, Danville' & Viucennes; Chiemgo & Northivestern; Gilman, Clinton & Springticld; Illinois Central; Chicago & Iown; Chleago, Pekin & Southwestern; Toledo, Peoria & War- BaW. The 8t, Louls & Calro Short Line, and tho Jacksonville, Southwestern & Northeastern, wWill retnrn delegnten frec. The Indianapolls, Bloomington & Western wiil crrry delegato for f cents per milo one way, the Ohlo & M xs(snlspl for 23{ cents per mile both sways, and the Toledo, Wahash & Western will sell round-trip tlckets at 25 per cent oft. ARCHBISHOP PURCELL. PIFTIETH ANNIVERSAUY OF 1118 OIDINATION. CixomnyaTy, 0., May 21.—The celebration of tho fiftieth nnniversary of the ordination of Archbishop Purcell commenced to-dny, Last cvenlng o large number of his friends cafled upon him or scnt valuable presents. Among the latter arc n gold drinking goblet from Cardlnal McCloskey, a solld gold crucifix from o religious order fu: New York, o heautifully bound and {ltuminated imirsal, from Hem Probasco, Esq., of this clL{ ond o magulficent gold chalice 10} inches high, welghlr:f;m(} I;cuny\\'e!ghu beautf- fully cograved, ond sparkling with dlsmonds and nmothysta, from ia. peorio in this dlocose, ‘Trains this morning on all raliroads Jeading into' tha city were loaded with visitors, who came to witness or take part fn the day's proccedings. Tho processlon in tho sfternoon was composed of the military and various so- deties of tho church, and” mado a handsome nuap::lvl; although somowhat intorferced with by the raln, which vominonced falling ust provious to its starting on fte linc of marck, The exer- oses will clode on Tuesday with n pontitical Diirh muss f tho morning at the Cathedrl, par- oAl lpnlul fnby Cuardinal” McCloskey and many visiting Blshops, and u mm\ concert in the eyenfug by a cliorus of trulned voices and s orcherira of suvonty-five musiclans at the Ex- position Hall, ; TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. QELRBRATION OP ITS QUARTER-CENTURY Y THE . PIUST CONUREGATIONAL CUUICH, Tho Flrst Congregational Churchof thiscity col- chrated its quartercentennial yesterday, haying teen eatoblishied Lwenty-fivoyenra ago, on May 2% 1851. Tho Rev. E. P. Goodwin, tho pastor, do- livered the commemorative address, 1 which ha sketched therisoand ;irowth of-the Chiureh from Itgsecesslon from the Third Presbyterfan Church, on tha slaye ueation, sud spokeiu #n Intereat- togmunner of Congregational issucaof this vicin- ity,and the z)m sressmado und work uecomplished by the First Church. The sermon was very do- tafled ln jta account and contalucd many juter- esting facts in rolation to its subject.” For o text, Dr. Goodwiu took Praims, xiviil, 9-i4. It I8 regrotted that circumstancea and the luck of space {n these columus prevent the reproduc- tionof the discourss in full, uud sn abstract would be but u poor, nl'nolug{. 1t 1s Lo b buped that the sermon will be_ printed in &huul phlot, as 1t would form o valusble uddition to the church history of Chicago, e ——— Eloped with ler ¥riend's Lover, An adopted daughter of a rich farmer at Eidred, Pennsylvadin, her ogo 16 and nume Bicesie’ Cookton, is & bellever in practienl ro- 1oance, Miss Blessle had alover und o school fricud, the lattcr unmed Miss Peters, who also lud n lover. Mias Petera catneto mako her a visit, and durlng her stuy Miss Blessfe planneda May' day party? their biaux, of course, being tirsh fnvited, Flnully the young hostees and the lover of Miss Peters wero miswed, snd, search belng made, 8 note was found which stated that thiy had gous off to be innrried, Miss Blessic's lover took the matter thuuuuplumll but Miss Tetera attempted suidde unauu:cautu{ly,llmugh sho injured “hersel! ?‘ulut seriously, Bleseio Cookton Lias a remarkable history.” Blio was found, fu the summer of 1800, an tho dourstep of Farmer Cookton’s honse, Inabuaket, Ac- companying the infant was this note: WThis child’s father {stho son ofa Benatorof the United States. Ita* mother 18 a gypsy girl, who s been’ couvertod to Christ, and cinnot bear 1{'.',’ thought of thisinnocent creaturs gmwln;;ur o ignorance and vice. Is thers ruom for it lwred Its little wings nre weary, and, like dear Jesug, ft has no place to lny fts head. Turn It not away, but keop It for ‘the love of Christ." The chlzi wus a bright little thiug, and, ns the farmer had no children, he and his wife conclud- «l to adopt it as thelr own. It came to bo such & sunshine in tho housu that thoy guve it thue namo of “Blessing,’ which was sabscquent- Iy turned Into *Bleasie,” Tho gypsy bluad 5. The Le?al News of Batarday publishes the opinion of the Buprems Courl (':l the United Gtates, by Btroug, J., bolding that the bouds aud eoupons {n sult Issued lxg the Bupervlsor and Clerk af tht Town ot Concord, Iroquols County, under the aet of March 7, 1867, sre unll and void. Constitution of 1570 upon ucts of the Leglslar ture authortzing towns aud cltles to subseribe to rullroud stock or inake dobatlons to rail roads, 'The act of 1607 was suthority for a do- nutlon ot ony thwe prior to July L, 1870, but wus no uthority st ell * sfterwards; that the new ° Constitution =~ aunniled he power of munldpalitics to make donations to rullroad compunies; that o clear distinctlon fs mudo n the Constfiution between subscrip- Hons to tho cupital stock of u rallroad company, or # private corporation, und douations or Jonis to such corporutions. 'The latter ura probibited under all dreumnatanes;. the former ay atill be mude, Il thoy huve been suthorized by a vote of tho poople pror to tho sdoptiou of the Censtls tutlun; that after July 2, 1570, the duy when the new Coustitution becaue offective, the puwer to sk donations no longer cxislud hn ho muulvlp-‘dlls'. ‘the pripciplo announced In teimeum.u‘}m‘\ h: 1 m"clwl'm'i;‘llm towus in the 1 tho paywent of thel ¢ it pay ol uds donated held at Jacksonville on the 234, 24th, and 25th ¢ seems to be judicated fn this In(c’s};l uscnyude.‘ ———— e Court atates tho offcet of tho o) 8o goverwaent, Hia” nomluation w ~ POLITICAL Gon, John M, Harlan’s Opinion .. of Bristow. and Roform. Bristow Cofihl Carry Ientucky ns tho Republican Cane dldato. Mortén's Strength as Esti- mated by a Morton Man, . DMaj, Wham on the Beveridge Family as Public Servants, The Governor and His Brother Shown Up in an Ugly Light. How Wisconsin Has Fared Under Granger Reform Rule. DRISTOW. NAMING THR NEXT PRRSIDENT, v tha Editor of The Tridune. I8 1t too much to sk of Illnols to name the next President now? For the last iftcen yoars, Iilinols bas mailed the winning banner on the outer wally early In tho canvass, to' stay, A unanimous delegation from this State for Ken- tucky Bristow will ecttlo differences; and the ‘noble old purty, which las accomplished so och (o the pust, Wil live agaip. l(xvoxm GEN. HARLAN'S OPINION OF BRISTOW, Carrespondence New York Merald. Lousvituy, May 16.—A rumor has gono abroad that in Kentucky, the home of Bristow, n great many Republicans fuvor Morton for tho Tresidency; but, ko all the yarns concerning {hic Becretary of the Treasury, there is no truth init. Of late I bave been busily enguged in sucking thio views of the prowminent Republicans of Louisville {n regard to thelr choleo for the Presidency. Ihave yot to find a Morton man of any prominence. Among those with whom I conversed I found all for Bristow, evon men whom I understood were for Morton. The most prominent Republican of Kentucky 13 Gen. Johm M. Harlan, He wus twice n candi- date for Governor, and each time recelved over 90,000 votes in this great stronghold of De- moeracy. Many Democerats forgot thelr party and voted for the man. Gen. Hurlan obtalned 8 vast smount of Information in his two can- vaases, and T think that no man to<lay I8 ns well osted nbout Kentucky and Kentuckians oy he s, The other dny your reporter called on Gen, Harlan and intcrviewed him in reference to olitleal matters in Kentucky, 50 far na they re- [ito to tho approching Tresidontinl cougest, Gen. Harlan was reluctant to be interviewed, but your reporter munaged to get biim talking) as can he séen from the following: Questlon—I seo It stated in goie of the rnrcrs tbat the Republicans of this county have held meoting and declured for Morton for President 1 A.—It {3 not true that nny such mecting has been held. I have heard of a little uqumfi not exceeding a dozen, meeting in the country and pussing resolutions for Senater Mortofl, and thut {3 the mecting telegraplied over the coun- try ns having been held at Bristow’s homne, Thy ]wf)uhllunna Lof this city and county will not hipid thelr primary mectigs until May 4. That 14 the time regularly uflu) nted, and {6 Is certaln that no Republican will besent to the Stiate Convention from_this clty or county who fs not enthuslastic for Bristow’s nomination at Cincin- natl, The State Convention will be held on the 16th of Moy, and it will bo found that the Re- publicans of Kentucky will preseut Bristow's bame with a8 much unanimity s the old Whigs of Kentucky presented that of Ifonry Clay, In 1844, 'The Republicans of Kclltuuk{ are proud of Bristow, and look withcontldenco fo his notn- fnation and clection to tho Presidency. !t Q.—1Is thero noy movowent in this Stato be- Iog made for Morton? —1In one or two localltles an effort is belng madg to rally the colored Republiean voto fn his favor, but {t'will result In nothing, The Ken- tueky delegation b Clncinnatt will bo o unit for Bristow. However much the Republicans of " Kentucky eateemn Gov. Morton for his servieeain tho Republican cause, they are for Bristow aboye ) others. 'They huve nob forgotten hls cloar record as o stunch Unionlst and consistent Re- publican. 1+ Q.—But they are urging In tho North that, be- fnga Southern waon, ho 13 not to be trusted. ow Is that1 A.—I (o not fear uny such polut against him, Tiristow shauld be trusted by the Republicans of the North as fmplidtly ns they would any public 1nun born und rulsed on the other alde of Mason nnd Dixon's line. The men who_ urge this ob- jeeton forget that Alraham Lincoln, Dlck Oglesby, wnd James G, Birney were born In Ken- !uukfi ‘and passedsume portions of thelr lives {u this State. Thenen o the North who say that o Southern Republican s not to be trusted, are lko ‘thoso in the Sonth who distrust Northern men * because they were rulsed under unti-slavery prineiples. Tristow was reared s Whig, promptly sided with the Unlon cause in 1861, fought gallantly in our ariny, never faltesed tn his opposition Lo'the Ro- bellfon, was for all the men und money necessa~ rr to put down the Rebelllon. Ad a itember of the Kentucky Senate, before the dosed, ho voted squarcly for tho ratlfication of the Thir- teenth Amendment sbolishing slavery; he de- fonded tho euployimont of colored ticopas ho upproved and dofinded the Civil Righta bUT; as District-Attorney prosecuted the “murderous guugs of outlaws Who gmmireatud tho colored inen; has auiformly defended the public school system, and walntalned the duty of the State to «fford equul facilities for cdutation to all fts children without regard to color; approved aud dofended hoth the necesslty and pulley of the Yourteenth nnd Fiftcenth "Amendineuts to the Federal Constitution; has maintalued the right af the colured mau to hold office—in birlef, ha hus stood by the Nepublican party ever since it had un orginized existenco In Kantucky, The Nortliern fnun who cannot trust Bristow with such o record, mafntatned as it has been upder clrcumstunces when it coat o prreat deal to bo o Republican, must be very hurd to please. Gen. Harlan sald he Lod beard of o Qlstlo- guished Northern Republican’s spylng that it would not be safe to trust o Bouthern Republl- can;_but when o came to think of that rentle- man's record, he recalled the fuact that, although he hfinsalf bud been eduented under anti-alavery Influences, ho stoad by auil defended tho polfe of the Democratic party when it made war wit] .\]l‘cxlw fur tho purposs of extending the arca of slavery, ’l‘nu’;‘: rter continued: What ts Dristow do- ing to bring ubout 4 nominationd A.—Nothing—absolutely nothiyg, Bofarasl know ho hus never uttered o word or written a Iine which suggested that any effort be made by his_friends fu that direction. On the contrary, e hus discouruged s fricnds from pressing ) nagie. If thoss who think faverably of his nom- luntion at Cluelunutd should succeed it will nat b by reasou of any ussistance or cncoursgement they have recetved from him, 3 1f Bristow ghould be nominated can hie carry K »m.uck{ni A3y delfberats judgmont, is that he can. ‘There are o very lurge muaber of 01a Lino Whigs who were Unlont men during the War, but dh— fered with the Republican party bout, the polley «af reconstruction, who will coins to us if Bristow should ba nomlnated at Clucinnatt, ‘They ure belng drawn Jargely to our u‘:my Ly the manner In which Bristow has administercd the affairs of tho Treasury Department. Butween that class of men aud the Ropublicans there 1s nothingleft to divide them. "L c{ vgree in the main ns to queations of constitutional construction, und ns to the relations which the States bear to {he Fed: eral Government. ‘Thorols an impression abroad that Kentucky sont more soldlers to the Con- federate armny than to tho Unjou army, But this {s n mistske. Not less than 70,000 white men went from Kentucky into tie Unlon nrm{. und at no perfod duriug the War did o majority af the white peopls fo It favor thie succcss of tho Rebellfon ond the dissolution of the Unfon. With Bristow as our cundidate, hosts will flock to our standurd_ who, since the War, have dritted fnto the Demoeratic orsaization. — Be cratd wWho say they will vote for him. s outsido votvs \vlll’nul come to Bristow because of sny agree- ment us to the slavery question, or with uny ex- pectation thut Brisfow will abate one jot or “tittly from his pr(nu:f:luns [ lwfluhllmn. triod intho tires but solely bueause they buve fuith thut {t will Juve un honest, puro adiniuistration of public affulrs, und glve” the country steady, arouse “entimafarm ‘fu 'this Btate a8 hns not Deen sean aines the dn(w o%lnnry Clay. Q.—Do you think tha Republicans will clect their candldato for Preatdent? A.~You can tell ‘that a5 weltns Lean, But T o not doubt our success. . 1f the Republican party, by Itaactton at Cincinnatl, will antisfy tho coutitry that It 1 In earnest In tho great worle of reform, ita nominees-will s “the conntry, The great mnesof the people desire gentiino, thorough reform in all departments of the rllhllu servico, Thoy have no desire Lo roators he Democratie orgabization to the control of the Natlonal, Government, and nothing but the folly of our rEu'ly can bring about such ade- plorable resu! Such aro the opinfana of (en. IMarlan, and there 14 no Republican in Kentucky better (l(!lllnl(fls:\l to answer the Interrogatorics pul to i - MORTON. WIIAT 1113 FRIBNDS CLAIM POR TIIM. 70 the Rlitor of The Trituna. IND1ANATOLIS, May 10.—A correspondent of Tue Trmuxe, signing Wimselt “0. . Q" writing under the date of May 13, from Wusl- ington,gives o table {n which he * eiphered out the strength of the prominent Republican candidates for the Prestdency, and made certain statemonts concerning the varlous candldates, which, so for as Benator Morton Is concerned, nre, to stata tho caso as mildly 0s poasiblo, totally unrellable. 1 now propose to,givo your readers tho strength of Scnator Morton In theStates whero Conventions lavoe been held, which is based upon gctual Informatida 1o possession of the Ifon. George N, Friedicy, Chalrinan of the In- diann Republican Btate Central Committee, who will take pgreat pleasure [n_ satisfying Ill{ en- tleman who may call ttpon him of its relfubllity ; Arkaneas + 12[Virznia,, 11 13 Tenneasco T 30:Misslerippl, 14 %r, Dletrict of Ce 2 ) ot + 10| 144 Theso nre from Conventlons actually held, not connting the’Alabama bolting Convention, one-halt of whote delegates favor Morton, Senator Morton will recelve accessfons from every Western nnd Southern State whose Con- ventlons are yet to be held, o tho sune pro- portion as nhove. « , Sotno.of the most experlenced pollticiana In the country, who have glven considerable at- tantion to this matter, are conident that Mor-, ton will lead all the eandidates on the fifst hal- lot, and that he will draw more votes from the otlier candldates on the sccond ballot than any of his competitors, * ‘The newapaper or politican who ignores or underestimates Senntor Morton in_any particu- lar, or attempts to wipe out his candidacy with a flippant parngraph or falso statcments, will find out bis mistake when the Conventlon ns- sumbles. . The insinnations in the concluding part of the samg letter, concerning Senator Morton, are {alse in crcr{ Furumlnr, ond I am nstonished that any ntell! $cnl, Republiean correspondent should Tepeat them, even _under the gulso of tving theinformatlonto Morton's(riends. Sena- or Morton’s record Is before tho country, Hols not unkuown, His acts are o part of tlic most lorlous history of this country, and are n mat- ferot permangntrecord. It I3 upon that record that tho friends of Senator Morton Emml his name to the Republicans of the United States, and ask thut he uay be nominated as the stand- ad-bearer in tho opproaching conteat. o is the an— of any person whose name hns been mentfoned fn connection with that high office. His abflity {8 umlllucaunncd, and no talnt or sus- pleion against hls integrity ever has or can be succesafully urged agnimst hiim. R8T WIAM ON BEVERIDGE, VARIOUB GUAVE CUANOLS. 0 tho Eultor of The Tribune. Bavey, L., May 10.—Please give the follow- Ing statement of fucts place in your fssuc of Monday, and oblige yours truly, 3. WL Wanast “Render unto Cresar tho things that aro Cresar's, nnd unto God the things that are Gow'a Republicaus, let us ohey the aboye command, nnd not bow the supple "hinges of the kneo to thot sneaking virtuo called polfoy, but trust to tho intewrity and intelllzence of tho people, and to tho Qod of Nations, for the victory. “An act, to smend on et Lo provide for the erection of o new Btate-Iouse, approved Feb. 23, 1807, made {t the duty of the State-House Cummissioners to procura material for the eree- tion of the new State-Ilouse-of the Penltentlary Commissioners. The coutract entered futo be-. tween tho two scts of Commlssioners gavo the l’enlmntlnryw?cr cent on tho entlrs amount (83,500,000), which {8 over #1,000,000, | Now, what will the hardworking tax-pnyers of Hlinols think when they find that this valunble contract, worth over a million of dollars to the Slfllcl tbropgh the Pinftentiary, was, in violation of all low, turncd over to R middleman (W. D. Richardson), the bullder of the Macoupin Coun- ty_Court:House,_the Distory of which s so well known, Let g Be daistinetly un- derstood; by this ‘transfer of © con- tract the “State was defranded of a large amount of money; and as elearly under- stoud fu unother matter: tiat James I Beyer- Idge wns the chief conspirator In this whole transactlon, and Gov. Deverldgo stood by and sustatned hm, With o fixediicss of purpose wuorthy of a better cause, T took charge. of affairs, as Warden of the Penitentiary, .A!ul'. 187, and_on the 25th fust. recelved a defter from Jumes IT. Beverld c, anlsdm, o st His roply wns, 41 con't, awd, by (i—q, I won't,”” and took the traln to Bpringfleld, and returried with the following let- ter from Gov. lluvulmfo himself, telling me to stop the prosccutlon of Richardson, nnd thus to Violnta a binin provision of Inw, which T refused to do, and ten days from that Limoe was removed : BruiNerisny, July 21, 1874, —Mas. Witan: Mr. Richarison fails to get anythingof tho State-Honve L‘nmm?\nlnnbrm and it wiil be luconvenient for him to meat his monthly paymentaat tho Penitentiary, I therefore auggest that [t ran till such time os ho mny recelvo funds from the Commissioners, Yonrs truly, Jonx L. BevErtous, . Itia relially stated the above £10,000 has fn- crensed Lo 30,000, and that the Btate will lose the entire amount, After nn extenelve examination, [ am unable to point to nsinglo frawtd on the Government, ol “any magniturde, which has not been pc.rlpm tmtad v;{ n system of blank youchers, The Tweed Ring ured them In atealing £00,000,000 frum New York City. Snnllldlnt:,u Paymaater I the navy, only Isst winter defrauded the Government of 81,200,000 by slgning blank vouchers, and allowing his clerk to fiil in the nmounts. n the bildliz of the Custom- House ot New Orleans, workmen were employed at #1.60 per day, but required to "%" tlo pay- rolls in Dlank, which were nfterwards filled In by the dishureing officer at 85 and §6 per day, Another case in polnt, and similar in many re- speets to my own, fa that of Col. McQulre, Col. Fort, of 8t. Louls,-who was Intcrnal '‘Revenue Collector, died, and Col, Con McGuira wns op- roln(c(\ to the position. The Whisky Ring had nnghumm heen formed and was running, Gen. McDonnld, Col, Joyee, nnd others explained to McGuire that Wfs predeeessor had algmed re- caipts nnd certifientes dn blank, nad that it “was customary, ete. Ho soon eaw that he must °_submit to the = re- quirements of the Ring or loso his roglum, soslgned the blanks, aud_now, though nover sharlng 10 the plander, must pay the penalty by rolng to_prison for two years, former Warden dled, and T was sppolnted. James I Beveridge, Btate-House Commissioner, and brother of the Governot, explaincd that my predecessor hind signed blank vouchers, that the gustom was fnangirated botoro my tlme, ete, Had I ytelded, and thus atded the plunderers of that same people we had nll sworn to protect {nstead of a stnple removal from oftice, Which got, Lwould have descrved the same punish- ment meted out o MeGulre. If JohnL. Boveridge rocelves the nomination far Governor on the 24th inst., that grand old army of Republican voters that eaved the natlon’s 1o witl bo compelled to excusc and npologize for a milllon of taxes stolen, millions moro disbursed on youchors signed n Llank,— contalning an Infamous proposition to sl blauk vouchiers for construction of new Stafe- House (to cost $3,500,000), snd assigned them, o slgued, over to him; whicl, It mule custom- ary, Wwould soon bunkeupt tho mx»,mynrn‘ make them eall, 08 Al the Israclites of old, for a Kin to rulo over them. Again, in letters date Bept. 25, Dec. 2, and Ded, 0, he rencws and urges 1ifs requent. I bave slx of these vouchers Avhich were [ucloged to mo for’slgnature. But his most Infomaus fntentlons did not ap- pear until It wos thoroughly understood that [ho blank vouchers would not be signed, when tho gentlemon sent ma tho followlng letter, showing the real object at which he hud Leen driving: First, to et tho vouchers slgned In blank: then to fll] thewn up with bullding mate- rinl, which he would clafin was delfvered from Chiago, Indiana, and Missourl,~thus having mo certlfy to deliveriog matertal from the prison, of whbich T kuew nothing, and which bad” never been at the Penltentlary, Dxc. 6, 187 L W, Whan—DrAn Sim: This method dolgs bubinca I us unplensant for 1o a8 It can posalbly ba for you, but 1 can see no alternative. We nru #0 tied by the law that wa ara obliged to take this course, or subject ouraelyes to cxtortlon, or Nabllity tlureto, by advertising for nuiterial on which thero can be no_competition, Our Board, and the former Boards of tha Penltens tisry, adopted this courre,—construing the law Nberally, thus to save tho Intercats of the Stato, 1 caunot sco how it affect you, The policy was Tmaugurated before your time, anda fallure now to carry it ont would subject us to great Incon- vonlence, . and tho Btato to loss. I trist yon will #ou the way clear to rotum the vouchers, firaperly indorsed, toyouns traly, Jas. 11, Beveniuz, Tven In this plausiblo explanation, he admita hols violating the law, and lusists on my co- ogcrntlon, And tho following fs tho letter in which 1 wua nsked to Ioan or_widvance tha public funds for the benetit of . D, Richardaon, the man {n whose intcrest the blank vouchers wera to bo slgned: Mason: Lot mo sugpest Jlicharfean haa patd Walker, "oy 816,000 on stone delivard, * for whifch wo will 1asuo our voachers, payable unt of taxes collected tho coming wintor, _llicharduon borrowdd thak money of tho bank, 5oy Jouglis chardson s check on tho bunk for 815,000; with that bo will take up hls note. The bank reduces your deponlt, ond you Lokl 5tato paper, guod bo- Jond a quention. ; Tho only quostion ta, Cun you do without tho monoy g lomg? It willnot 60 pald untll Barch, perhaps Aprill Uy this srrapgement you will bo rolloved of anxlety an to tha socrity of tho amoont so arrangeld. 1 0m not sure as Lo the amouut pald Walker® by Richiardson,—probably more {hon sxT(mo. {! such un srrangement will sult you, and wilt so_adylso, wa will make & vouchcr to cover tho exact anlonnt, or less I you desire, 1 menttoned 1t (o 1t,, and’ ha would 1lke ta do 1f, as it would alford rellef to the bank to that ;“""L . 1lero fs an extract from Jamea H. Beverldge's own cx{)lmmtlon, made ta the Investigaflng Commitics over his own signature, under dats of Juue 2, 1675 Tho Commissioncrs mever handlo any of the moneys” approprlated for the ucw Btate-Touse that, by law, It remalns In tho Treasury nntil paid out oh voucBora fsaued by the Board #n favor of the Trtioa dolny the work of furnlsbing tho inatarisly at no party hae suy Fght to bave any advaaces b moucy mady tv him; and, ) sdvanced, It would ba & fraud, in which'the Architect, the Commis- slonery, thu fecretary of Btate, tho Qovernar, and tho Auditor, must alf igure or less participato, and a fraud which would not only be wicked, but very foollah, becaune so many safcguards are thrown around a4 to rendor detection cortaln and easy, Tocsu't L3 letter above ask wy advance to Ichardson, and, hiy own subsequent explaug- tion admdt’ that, 10 mude, 1t would be a froud? And tho fucts diifer from the same explunation i thls, that he repeatedly urged: me, sa stated above, to sign Bank voudhers” and assign thein 50 sigghed over Lo A, instead of to tho parties doing the work ur furnlehlay the material " us 15 uhm;cnl 1n the above explanstion, and as The luw requires, l{lr. Richardson was fudcbted $10,000 to tho Peudtentiory, and, upder the Jaw, it had to be pald ar the contract anuuljed, 1'gpoke to bim ubout paymcnt, and his answer was, ‘“Wham, I can'ti" but I, argulng the watter, suld, ¥ Rich- ~ God and James IL Beveridge only knowing to whom or for what. I futend to ask the Republican voters of this district to give me their Bupport ezt November for tho Legislature, my only ubject bolng to got these fruuds uncarthed, and the Vur{mtrnlms brought to justice. Fa J. W, Wi, BaLEw, Moy 10, . ILLINOIS. CLAY COUNTT. Spectal Dispatch (o The Trituna. Frora, Ill, May 21.~The Clay County Re- publicans met in Convention at Loulsville Bat- urday. It was o largo and harmonlous gother- ing. The del¢gates chosen are enthusinatic for Ridgway, TIPTON POR CONORESS. Bpectal Dizpatch to The Tribuna. IAvanA, IIL, May 21—It {8 gegerally un- darstood by Mason County politigians that Jo- soph C, Bauer, of Masons City, will withdmw from the contest for a nomination for Cflnfin 8 virtually in favor of Mclean County, which, with the assistanco of any other r.l.\v.mal cou noiinate Tipton on tho flrst or sceond ballot. Soecial Disgatch to The Teivyne. pect atch &0 3 BrooaiNatox, 1ll, May 21,—Tho Deutche resse, & German Republican paper of this city, in ts lost Issuo pitelies uto McLeau County Ke- ublicans severcly for omitting to place any trmang on the Blato delegation from McLean County. Snaciat Disputeh o The Tribune. Sneciat Dispateh to_TT Orxey, 1ll, May 21l.—Information recclved hore makes [t certaln the Nineteeoth Congres- sfonal District will bo golld fn tho Republican Btato Convention for J. A. Powell for Auditor of Blate, ond ncarly all of the the Eighteonth District, as well ns a large portion of tho Sev- coteentl District, with o strong vote from Cen- tral and Northern Illinols, “A delegation of tirenty-five of our most influential citizeus will nceompany Dr. Powell to Springfeld to press his cladms for the nomination. WISCQNSIN. HOW TNI STATE FAIED UNDER GRANGEN RULE, Special Correspandence af The Tribune, MiLwAUKEE, Wis.,, May 18.—The Wisconsin RNeformers have just had a taste of the pleas- ures of an investigotion into the official con- duct of their Gravger ex-Governor. The last Leglataturo appointed a Committea' clothed with all necegsary sutborlty to look Into Gov. Tay- lor’s accounts, and they have been dolng that same toan extent which brings shame to the cheek of every citizen of Wisconsin who cares for the good namo of his State. Of all the in- capables that ever sot down fn the Exccutlve office—and thé Republlcans have furnlshed sev- erat—Taylor {s the most cousplcuous us o shum, a cheat, and a fraud. In the heat of tho Grange excitement of 1873, Taylor was brought out asn REFQRA CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR, and was eleeted over Washburn by a majorlty of over 15,000, and he was again nominated Inst fall with the restof the old officers that had been carried in by the tidnl wave of Reform, Taylor was the only candidate on the ticket that waa Deaten, and sinco the investigation into the affaire of his ofiice and the oxposuro of lls loose manner of disbursing the contingont funds, it Is strongly suspocted that some of the other Stute oflicers would be as much dumaged 03 the ex-Governor, If tho affairs of thelr offices could bo thoroughly overhauled. When Taylor wns runnlog for ro-clectlon last fall the Reform c¢ry on tho stump and in the press was, that Taylor had conducted tho aflairs of tho Gubernatorial office 80 cconomic- olly and go syatematically that he had saved the Stuto $500 per day for each aud overy day that Le had been fn office. Indeed, that lying delu- slon got crystalized loto a sort of party slilbbo~ lethy—a kind of battie-hymn of reform that was in every Democratic orator’s mouth, anddripped {frecly from every Democratic editor's steal pen,— until wo wers niude to belluyo that all there was to do i order to **savo $500 o dn"l" waa to voto for Farinar Tuylor, the Grangers' faverite, and the expouent, of ol that was lionest, economical, and just in public life. Washburn, ’l\\glnr‘a immedinte predecessor, was stirmatized by his opponcuta as u very extravant ofticer,—had spent. o ;\r%:lmn of money in an irou fence argund the Capital Park to gmully the pride of the Madtson people, and fiad got Into an expensive quarrel with ~ the Btate of Minncsota about a worthless harbor on Lake Buperfor, and other chorges wers trumphed up to convines tho frugsl” and’un- sophisticated Grangers that Tuyor wus tho best nuo tomanage thwufalrs of Btale. Buttleinyes- tigation futo Lhe aflalrs of the Exccutivooftice, us run by both Washburn snd Tuylor, reveals u state of forts which show the peaple of Wis- consin very clearly how much of o mijstake they mads In thio exchauge of Gen. G 0. Washburh for Williom R. Tayor as Governor of the State. Of course the decent Democrute that supported Tuylar with the honest but inlstaken hoj his_olcetion was In tho Intorcst of Keform, spellit with a caplial T ro greatty disgusted with the way their ' Farmer Govornment? haa amnnud out, It {8 to the credit of somo of Bein that thoy cull him by his right namo, and thut the reader may now get tho right splrlt of suno of the Democratic papers that used to make us deat with tho insane cry of ¥ Reform," I nuoto two articles v this subject, tho flrat from the Watcrtown Jkmocrat, one of the old- cqt and most reapectable Democratic popera In the Btate: o g THE LAST OF A BHAM. We favored Willlam R Taylor's first and second nomination for Goyernor, wo gave hia adminlst tion a conaistent .nwu;ta aud wo siraogly s prored of his oficlal conducy at tho o o4 ot orol Wo now pronaso to sposk « little of the man 4n his Jast pubdlic appenrance, Ho laqg turned out 8 in the wordw of his own private secre- tary, tins *proatrated bimself o thelovid of a com- mon thief.”" Thls way bosevere ; but it 14 100 true. A Legiulative Investigating Committes s now sitting at Madlson to examino tho charges agalis ox-Gov. Taylor In relation o hls management ol the contingent fund, and his transactions in Stato statlonery at tho close of his administzation. Tak- ing his owo etatement alope, which s con- fused and contradictory, there {8 no excus or spology for conduct so moan, dis- grgeoful, and dlshoncat. b evidence 'of bls private secrotary and mesqenger wado wattors atill worse forhim. * Wo nover regsrdod Goy &loru but wo did codsider bl a citizen of v inteliipence sud ordinary integrity. In both theso clalus, moderato s they are, 1t seems we aro mistaken. To sny ons who bas nmmzo.ufl- portedand dofended Gov. Taylor in good faith, the Fucent developumcats of his buseucss and cupldity nre mnrulylngl‘ capecially in the Exccative of a great Btato, Vo take 8 map from a public ofice, withh the Inteation of keeping It and, when it s Wi coret w 8 né‘m or $300 {wnho kinds of -huou; aryy belos uavlog o ‘:‘n‘f”“ wan, ell a 1o the 8 for the purposs of § Li i':«g: l\lp;bm wnhwmluu\ i cos .Innpvrnprlnu a Inrgo amouht of poetaga stamps bolonging ta the \mblh:.—ln other wordh, ractically sclzing a0 much money; to draw $300 rom tho cnmlmicnl fund, © and keep It threa monthe, untll an {nvestigntion resoln. tion frightencd him Into prylng (2 wver In an Hiegal manner, ani then baing unable to tell what he wonld have'dona with it {f he kad not an- ticipated exposnra—nrencts so mercenary and grov. eling In a retiring Covernor that théy oyxht to cover his namo with elintne and confempt, This Is aatrange examplo for a leading (ranger and re~ former taset, who hns been honored with the high- estaflice the people could confer, George W, Bivd, Nin privato recrelnry, and T. L. Hacker, his pri- Vate mesrengor, refisod to tako nway & pen, pen. cll, or aaheet of paper holenging to tho State, thongh tho ex-Governor toll thew that they might doa littlo pinndering in that line. Wit n contrast Detween a iittlo man Inn big place, and falr up- right men in Jower pesitions, Anlong s wo denounce fraud, bribery, corrnp- tlan, stealing, and robliery In Républicans, we nro not golng to defend such deeds in Democents when they are prove {nl"ly, nelther will any Demoeratic paper come ta {helr assistonce. Ex-Gov, Taylor can go about with what fmpuwlence and brnss he can command, after an exvusure that ronders his name infamous, The next quotation 1s from the Fond du Lac Journal:g WILLIAM R, TAYLOR. Forn weck past the person named In the head- Ing af thin_article Lna been before & Commitico in acsaion at Madison, appointed hy the fate Leglsla- ture to examine fnio certain lleged Irregularitica af his In the disburement of tho contlugent fund, subject to hin discretionary control s Chicf Kx- ecntlve of the Btato while "he occupled that posi- tion, The reault of tho- Inveatigntion i as damag- Ing fo tho Iate Gavernor as it fs” humiliating to hia Iato friends, who honored him far Leyond his deserts in making him ther standard-beater In two Siato eloctionn. It eatabilshos beyond tho posse bility of donbt the fact that, {n" the long lne of worthless and_mescernary Incapablos who have aat n the Gubernntorial chalr of this State, not one a8 mora niterly unworthy of the homor, eithcr mentally or morally, thaa the paltry hypocrito who ndroitly managed 1o patm himeelf off ‘upon the ro- formera of Wisconsin oxan_embodyment of prin- ciples with which he had no sympathy, and the sopresentatlve of & movement Wwhich was unfortu- nate In nothing g0 much as fn having been duped Into hils support, Mot only liax t been proved against lim, and out of liig own knaviali mouth, that he systcimatically #tole from the contingent find, endeavoring to cove ¢f il abameful conditct by blundening subterfugcs, palntally etraying ot once his willingness and his want of abllity to ho a rogue, but the festimony nl- #0 convicts hin of numerons paltey larcenies!\when leaving the Exccntive ofiice which we have not the heart fo cnumerate in detall, but that the ve'fest snenk-thlef would blush to'ackowlodga, = Verlly apparent disasters aru often ¢ blcasings in dis- gulee, " and now, for tho first time_aince the clec. tlon af last fall, do we feel grateful for what at tho timo we acutely regratted—thc partial defeat of our ticket which rélegated to privafe life this states. man of the Ilchlnx{ palm, and ended his carcer of petly pioculations 1a the ofico ha wo foully dishon- ored. 1t our Ianzuage In treating this matter 1s strong, It.18 becauny our disguet s Tntonse and onr dissp: Jointmentdeen. It 180 exd surpeiso to ua—rviio ave belloved implicitly in the personal Integrity of thin man Taylor, and supported him heartily Decaurd of that bellef in tho face of his notorlons lack of other qualitics esecntial to fit him for the chief maglatracy of the Btate—to tind that we have Ueen ro complelely decelvod an to in chatsctor. And with this surprise_comea the bitter, roficction that ot to the reforn party Int g its oncinies s dnu the preservation of the State from the further shame of his cominvanco at the heud of the Govs cmment. Wo aro inno‘mood to writo wérds of extentiatlon In behalf of mon whom we havo ns- sisted n honoringonlytobe repald with uomerit- od bumilation;” whose paltry ereed o neno of decency, honor, or partiean obligation conld eradi- cate or Testrain. In this sed and mournful requiem of bogus reform the Democrat’s article mny servo ns bass, and the Journals o8 tenor; and’ here comes in thealto voice of the Madison Patriot, In the minor key, and quite as plaintlve as tho rest: And, ufter all this, with tho ploug pRim!se of ro- trenchment and reform on bls’ clammy gps, Qov. Taylor makes n rald on the cantingent Bnd other fande, and stanis oath-conyicted tq-ilay, na a very amali peculationiat, bofors the peoyfie. 1t ix Iald down In the books that kleptomania is a disesse. Wa belleve It. Wa cannot beliove Goy. Taylor would take the Hitle, and comparatively vaineless, plckings he hos owned up {o as strictly o sane mam. Wo cati only sympathize with kim, and tho par that must sufler more thun he can, lle coulin’l help it. The pangs of kleptomanla wero on him; and he fell tholr victim, 4 A LITTLE DILL. But' I nced nob lumber up your valuable space with the yelp of these Inmne ‘curs that have Deen pricked with this Toylor's needle, and T close this shameful chapter of our political his- tory by quoting from the testimony of tho ex- Governor's clerle heforo the Committee. It was on tho 8lst day of December, 1876,—tlio day on which his terni of gervice cX'FIrm], and ho was to roturn to his farm,—that Taylor drew on tho Superintendent of Public Property for the fol- lowing list of goods: Four rubber erascrs, 10 cents; gold pen and holder, $5.50;slx balle of ribhon, §" 23 kulfe, $%.25; bottlo redink, 17 conla tivo Baxes penn, $1.08; two reams legn) cap, $0.72; two reams Jattor papor, 80,4 3 hoxcs envelopes, DO book, Gdc; ream ley $2.52; ream note, « ‘Journal, §'nl ug. $2.52; ream lottor, 2.82; box of envelopes, 00c} Tipif renm. mote, §8c; two hoxes of ponn, §1.85: inkstand, 47c; lettor clip, 30c bottle ink, 4dc: blotting pads, 20c; ruliug pen, 53c; ruler, 68c; portfolio, $2.503 scrap book, 815 peuholder, 16e} ‘ongreas ties, 25¢i rabber banda, #5¢; two pens in cases, §9.007 blolters, 25c; rubbor bands, 7dc; sonilng wox, a3 miclings, 0c; briishes, 10c; il holder, 813 two galil pend, fi?’d“ three Fubbor penholders, 81.32: threo packa Congress ties, 1. 43 hottle Ted inle, 4(lc; wrapping paper, £2.25 ten Congrens tiex, 30c; blotting paper, 4c; kuife, Of conrse this ends Taylor na a politiclan, and will open the cyes of sonie of the Grangers to the fact that 1t is not s man's vocatlon that makes him honest. **IHonor and ehame from no condition riro, Actwell your past; thero all tho honor Jics, ‘ MARY MERRIT. 1 don't kmow who the real and original Mary Merrit was, or whether sl waa respectably connected or not, but so far 0s tho bark Mary Merrlt is concerned, it {8 now generally tbought here that . the hright” young fellows Lhat sro striving ~ to “make a good newspaper of the Commaerclal Z¥mes were fmposed upon by witnesses in thut case say- ing oue thing hcre aud other under oath ot Wishington. ~Certadn it is that thu)nrv ol the rnhllch:mucqumed Mr. Bristow of all wrong ntent fn the natter, and ns 1t has civen the Timer coneiderablo cfat and ‘advertised ft, it cam very well afford to call ft even. Tho ex~ amlnation of the case, howeyer, developed two orthreo ugly facts In_regard to other persous. It scems " that Mr. Hazleton, then a member of Congress from tho 8ccond District of this State, got & feco of 8500 from Mr. Wicss, although by tho statutes of tho United 8tates e wus prohibited from sppeariug 8 counsel agalnst the Government, Tho law {s veey gevers agalust all who dlsabey it,—lnfitet- ingz o fino of 810,000, with roveral years! mpris- onment, and disfranchisement and Inability to hold oftfee, nto the bargain. But I understand that. r. Ffozleton clalios thot ho nppenrcd fn L the intereat of tho fluvenmmnti‘\vh lch was all right; but how docs it happen that Wiess, who wa3 opposing the Goverament, shiould gee the counsel on the other slded Thatfs_a speeimen of HNberulity that puzzlea the ordivary brain very wuch, " Perhinps {6 s all vight, T, S 3 3 CONCORD, N. II. M, CUANDLER CANNOT JUN TIAT PLACH. Special Dispatch to The Tribune, Coxnconn, N, i1, May 31,—Naver beforo In the history of Concord was so much Interest dis- played in caucuses of the Republican party as was mudfifested ou Buturday evening, when del- egutes wore chosen from several wards to the Btats Conventlon on $hie 28th tnst. Bingularly cnough, tho question of the Presidency did not cater nto tho contest, tho real Aght helng made on personal grounds, the question turniug upon tho candidacy of the Hon. W. E. Chandler us a deleguto to Cinclonatt Chandler {5 identitied with our city ouly enough to cxorciso’ the right ot votlog licre, hia vead resldence belg In the City of Washington, 1n his zeal to galn a place in our deftgution to the Natlonal Conventlon, Mr. Chundler came on froig Washingtun, called mectings of his fricnda In scveral city wawds, ond oy them for the contest. Tho opposition accepted the fssue, and were mar- m\ud unller the leadership of Col, Jumes K botween whiom and My, Chandler thero AN OLD ¥aUD concerning the Post-Offico here, in which mat- ter Col. Larkin is sustalned bfi % large malority of the Republicans. The ilght soon wared warm, and the result was that, after an exdlfifi contest, My, Chandler wus beaten {n avery w n tho clty except the Blxth, which ko carfied b of four votes. In the ¥ou tho cau- n kg own bohall, and Yy the Hon. Mosag Humphrey und Col. J. B Larkin in appasition, and Alr, Chandlor's defeat in that ward would sem to scttlo the matter of bis electlon to Clucinuatd, especlally as there secins tobe #TIONG OPPOBITION TO HIM . in all party of tho State. In the Fourth Ward, tho wti-Chandler tieket was sléetod by almost four to and in the Nioth Ward b five to one So fury s tho Presk dentisl Cuonvention 18 concerned, it s safo to asguine Lhat 8 msjority of the delogates favor Bowratury Bristow xa thelr trst cholc h tho uumxmum -fl:' Mr, mlmlluo woul accep Banal uestlon. fi:un.uhlto tho mnleot-—ahmmur , Tdabo, from Ia tho man wha saya Blains will bo nominated it New Eugland wupporta himd wi e No llfi pp d with practical sl s MISCELLANEOQUS, JOURNALISTIO, ; &pectal Dispatch to The Tridune, Naw Yonw, May 91.—Tho salo of tho IForlg mny bo looked upon na another roverse to Tyl den, Manton Marblo hos been strongly urgin, Tilden ns the only avallable Democratie candl +| @ate, to tho cxclusion ot all athers, such ns Dy, ard, Hendricke, and Pendlaton, 8. L. M. Bar. law, the former owner and chief stockholder, f5 n brother-n-law of Bayard, and it {s understood Barlow Jias hought Marblo's interest. It 3 un. true that negotlations for thoanle of the Tribung aro pending.. el g 10 #ha Western Astoctated Press, NEw Yoni, Muy 21.—The Sun having reportod ihat Mr. Manton Marble was nbout to retirg from the editorship of tho World, the latter papor will publish to-morrow the followlng: flor. the Now York Democratie State Conven. tlonat Utlca lisd siopted the _platform_ reaflrmin it Syracuse pintform of 1874 nod 1875, and hag prencnted the namo of Gov. Tildon for Prosldony v tho Nationsl Democratic Convention soon o ‘meet at 5L Louin, Mz, Marble accepted an ofter from the underaignod which had becn apen sov. B ot 11 Companys and 10 Lmemenot Atocl d Compnny, an r Cfected Jast month. 0" SR e WisLiax Hexny Hunuosny, ap e Tribuna, KEORUK, In,, Moy 20.—~The Leo County Re- gubllcnn Conyuntlon to solcet dolegates to.the tate Congressional and Judicfal %unvcntlnnn was held af Donnelison to-dny. Tho gathering was a large and harmonlous one. The follow- lu§ {5 n st of the delegates choson: tate Convention—S. M. Clarl, f1. W. Rothert, William Letghton, O, . Tiale, John N, Irwin, 4, R. Dunkin, J. C. Swan, 8. I, Cralg, John Van Vatkenburg, Thomas Sawyer, L. D, iu welle Ing, A. Anderson, and I, SBargent. Congresslonal - Conyenton—II, T. Cleaver, Willlatii, Timberman, C, P Dirge, Tarry Fulton, Sam " Sample, W. W, Whncbothata, J.. Cr 8wan, H. Clay 8tuart, Willlam Protehett, W, I ni‘:lflfmun’ A. Gordon, 4, B, Welr, Jaimes . nr. Judicial Conventlon—R. . Glilmore, J. A, - Anderson, C. W._Taylor, Radnscl, R. A. Terguson, Henry Smith, A, C. G 1L 8emple, 11 W. E. Kell E, Arthur rhi’ffifihu, '\ Stempel, A. Douncll, LINN COUSTY, IA. i cctat Disgateh tn T Tribune CEpnan RAPIDS, In., County Republlcan Conventlon, held ot Marfon to-day to elect the Btato and Congressional . Conventlons, \delegates worg choson, to support the Ion. J, B, Young, of Morion, for Congress, and James D. Giffen, of Marion, for Clrcult Judge, Tho delegates to the Btatg Conventlon go’ uninstructed, but it is thought that Blaine aid Bristow will be thelr ehofce. JOHNBON COUNTY, Special Ditpatoh to The Trituine. Towa Cirr, In., May 20.—Tlhe Republican Con- sentlon for this counly (Jalnson) was KA1Q hers this afternoon to selcct dcln’i'utca to the Statg Convention at DesMalnes on the 31at Inst., and nlso twelve dolegates to the Congresslonal Cone ventlon for this (nm? distri Cedar Raplds June 21, 3The delcgates to tho State Conventfon were the Lon, Rush Clark, R 8. Finkbine, Joln Dillatush, W. ¥. Buclk, N. 1L Brainerd,'A. J. Miller, '8, 1D, Pricg, Shaver, J. E. Grifllth, d, W. Wilson, Charles Pratt, and D. M, Dixon, ‘The. following gentlemen were sclected ng delegates to the Cangresstonal Convention, who are a unit for the Hom. Rush Clark, of this cit; for Cougress: Gov. Kirkwood, the Hou. C. W, McCune, Jncob Rivord, ‘Thomns Lovelace, Charlea Luw{u, Jo Shrader, A. D. Packard, Th Danbury, J. W, Jaynes, The Canvention was large and harmonious. ploiged Combs, C. F. M. Carr, Dr. I, C. omas Allen, T. M. Alfter tho delegates wero chiosen a Presidens - tinl vote was talcen. Out of tho 74 votes Blalng Lind 50, Bristow 11, the rest scatteriug, " ‘WATNB COUNTY, MICII, Dernorry Mich., May 20—Tilden men wera cleeted to the Democratic Conveytion by the Wayno County Convention to-day, 5 FARES TO 8T, LOUIS, New Yonrk, May 20.~Sumucl Carpenter, General Eastern Passenger Agent of the Penne n{lvnnln Central Raflroad, nunounces a reduo. tlon of 50 per cent In rates for delegates to Cin- cinnati and 8t. Louls, Excursion tlckets to Cine cfnuatl will bo $205 to Bt. Louls, $27. Excur. sfonists may stop over {n Philudelphia golng and returnlug, - Naw Yonx, May 20.—The Erlc Company ane nounce half-rates for delegutes to the leine witl sud 8t. Louls Conventlons, and excursion rates for otuer visitors. Yickets pood for ten days before nnd after the Conventfons, 8T Louts. S7. Louzs, May 20.—Tho Democratie primorics werg held to-day for tho election of delegates to the State Conventlon to ho held at Jeferson City on the 8lst fust. There does not seem to have boen any contest in Lovor of any partleular Trestdential candidato, g LOCAL POLITICS, TIE PRENCH REPUDLICANS of this clty icld a meeting yesterday afternoon! In the olflto of Mr. Gerardin, No. 183 South Clark atroct, with Mr, Gerardin in tho chalr, The Exccutiye Committeo wns fostructed to canvass among the French Republieans of the clty In order to get thelr views, so that they mny seedre 8 Droportlonnte recognition in the selectlon of candldates in the future, aml make arrungements for s general mass meeting, under the ausplees of the Cook County Central Come mittee, gome timo soon ufter tho sdjournment of the Springficld Convontlon, TILE BTATE CONVENTION. Delegntes to the Republican State Convon~ tlon, which mccls at Bpriogileld Wednesday, and intend fixlng over the Alton Road, are re- minded of the necessity of buying round-trip tickets, which they can get for” one and one- afth,of the regular ratés, The road declines to continue tho old system of full fare down and oue-fifth fare back on certlfeate of tho Beerctary of the Couventlon, ' ———— ELDER JOHN LELAND, v the Edlior af The Tridune. Evrarwoon, 11, May 16.—Not long sinco I nod ticod (o Tup TRIDUNE an article copled from on Eastorn paper, purporting to give some account of Elder John Leland, aud his trip to Washing- ton with the mammoth cheeso which was pro sented to Presidont Jefierson. The article rep- reseuts tho gift and trip as hnvlnfill religious (Baptist) gignlticanco, and ns boing tho busia or oceaslon. of a Frcnz Tuvival of ru)lfilgn. Fyrom tho way in whfeh thy wrlter of thd artjdlo in ?uustlnn draws on his fmngination for his'facts, should judize he must ho - a revivalist of the Tlummond sort. Elder Leluund was eccentrie, witty, and ablo, 8 shrewd and zealous politician, au _excellent man bat an indifferent scetarian. ,Me was an enthuslastic ndinirer of Jeffersou, and so great was his Influenco fn lis own town, Cheshire, Mass, (not. Cheshire, N. Y., a8 tho Enstern pa- per lin it), that, at the tinio the great cheeso wag made, there wns but o singfe Federallst voter in tho townsbip. 1 nover licard that the good Elder admlred Jefferson any the less on anccount of the well-known free-reflglous views of tho Intter, Indeed, the Elder himself was 8 thorn in tho flosh of his ceclesfastical brothren, eapeclally in the mattes of Subbatarlantam, und Iis refusul to oceepl any salary for bls pulplt work. Often, on _lis way to cliurch, ho™ took o grist to mil and had {t churchi-golog miller dur{xx;f had o horse-shoo sct by the blacksmith, who lighted Ws forgo-iro aftar meeting, He hated um)l‘:‘uulou, double-dea)ing; and equt, most lu- nsely. “’filu’preficn{nflun of the cheeso to Jefferson, an his aecession to the Presidoney, was purely o olltical uffalr, Tho chocse, which welliod 4450 pounds, wus pressed In the clder-mill of oug h‘llnbn Brown (of whoso $riba the present writer jsu _distant sprout), aud Elder Lelgnd took 1t~ to Washington, trnnupunln[f 1t agonl part of the wey h{ ox-teagl, On his way to Washington, the Eldersto) I;od fora night's rest ut s hotel In Battlmore, 1118 personal presence was ruuln;i-mm nll'lcs\l“, n{)nl, as ho sat numl:llgfi nshort ¢! pe i thg bar-roou, s0mo young redorullsts p?o‘puwl Lo quis . ‘COMF L 1and,"” sald “thelr spokeamun, “‘\Vah&vu heen {uspectiug your big checsg, and wo tind Jt msg- rotty 1 ¢ Indeed 1 roplfed Well, well, it's quite possible. You sce thero ;‘r“u m:‘ %ymnm'}n town, and we let him put i cul Jollerson was delighted with tho unlque press cmlaml returued o samplo to tho donors, asd scut a plecu to cach of the Governors of the sov- cral Btutes, Ouu plain fto shaft in thoold Cheshiro Cemetegy {a the following inscription, slmplo and true,as written by himsalf: Hero llcs tho body Ray. JouN LELAND, Who lnbz}rzd [} ”1"&1 % ‘0 prumote plety aud vindle T’Ih‘t‘: civil nn& religlous \\bcx!y 0f all wankind.” B und by tho non- grfi’lvlnu service, or Mo oo b SHIP NEWS. rmmfl;cxgfi'iilx%”n!‘-’mw steamer matian, from Liverpool, has arriveds TLYMOUTH, May m—swmtupscuhx. from Y Las arrlved. N%w"“fu fi’u wArrived, the steamer Liverpooks + Mny 20.—At" the Linn’ L K nu('u{v L. E. Wolllng, F, | bo held at, .. tho_witty Elder,