Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 17, 1876, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1B76—TWELVE PAGES, ¢ Tribwe, TERMS OF BURSCRIPTION. PATABLE IR ADVANCR—TOSTAOR PREPAID AT “Datlly Edition, THIS OFPICR. ‘The postage 18 15 cents s year, whic Bpecimen coplea sent freo. . To prevent delay knd mistakes, be sure and give Post- ©ffice sddress In full, Includiog Btate and County, Temittances may bamate elther by draft, express, $ost-Oftice order, or In regiatered leticrs, at our risk. TERMS TO CITY BUNSCRINERS. Daily, delivered, Bunday excepted, 23 cents per Paily, deltvered, Sunday included, 30 cents per Address THR TRIDUNE COMPANY, Comner Madtson and Dearborn-sta., Chicago, Ll etk eak ntre. Montoe street, corner Dearborn. Varlety perfors manco. Aftcragon and evening, Now Chicnga Theatre, between Loko and ltandolph. [oo. s pinitres Afiornoon A2 ovoniag. MeVieker's ’l‘hcn:‘r]c. Sy P Ison strect, between State and Deacborn, ere no‘o’r‘:." Dreriand loute.™ Kvediug, * David Gare vick ™ and ** Rticlisrd 111, ; Tlooley's T’"’"l‘t’"'d iR Randolph strect, between Clark and Lasalle: Fne t of (ho Oates (pera Boufle _Troupe. ternoon, °r princess of Trubizende,” Evenlug, ¥ Girote-Glrofla.” Waad's Munenm. Monroe street, between State and Dearborn, **Lane cashire Lass.” Afternoon nnd evenlng, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1870, Greenbacks at the Now York Gold Ex- change yesterdny stood at 88}, Haxes has nlrcndyv ‘mot and defeated Tron- AN, PENDLETON, and Bty Anren, Next! Old Biry, ArLen hns discovered by this time that when running for Governor last year ho was not compating with “s d—d barren ideality.” Mr. Troas Horne bas notitied the Com- mon Council that he holds himself exempt from any linbility for the acts or transactions of Haves—menning tha ex-Comptroller of that name, and having no reference to the Ropublican nominoe for Presidont of the United Btates. ‘While the credit of the Cily of Chicago wag being impaired and its employes were sufforing on account of a Inck of money, the CorviN ndministration, by sheer neglect, per- mitted thousands of dollars to remain uncol- Tocted which could easily have been secured for the cmpty Treasury, An examinationby tho Committee on Licenses rovenls the fact that there nre, in round numbers, thirteen bundred unlicensed saloons, billinrd and pool- tables, and bowling-nlleys. The Common Couneil hassolved the finan- cinl dilemma by taking the mntter in its own hands and loaving the question of the Comptrollership wholly independent of the business of obtaining monoy to meet aceruing indobtedness ond to pay the city's employes. Innsmuch as ox-Comptroller TIaves would persist in playing the roleof dog-in-the-manger, the Conncil has perempt- orily relisved him of further connection with tho finances, which .. for the presont be suenaged by tho Finance Committee, in con. junction with the City Clerk and City Treas- urer, who are authorized to take such stops nnd to malke such arrangements ns in their discretion shall bs necessary to obtain money to moot the city's pressing obligations, Ex. Comptroller Havzs can now have loisure to attond to his private businoss, and the city's business will have the benofit of tho services of capablo and efficient ne: Tho relative position of Mr. Denrcxson and Mr. Haves nd rogards tho occupaney of tho Comptroller's office is highly creditable to the former and very discreditable to the lntter. Mr, DenicxsoN has no personal de- sire for the office, aud hns sought reloaso ot the hiands of the Council from what ho re- gards his duty to tho people. T'his failing, ho proposed to Mr, Haves that both should step nsido in order that the Mayor might ap- point Fanwerr, the chiof clerk, Acting Comptroller ad snterim, so that arrangoments might be mnde for paying off the city em. ployes o far sathe money will go. Dut BMr. Harzs nleo declines to accode to this proposition, and thereforo is now the sole cause why tho city employes aro suffering for ‘want of pay, with some $400,000 or £500, 000 in the City Troasury, MIr. ILives must have an insatiate desire for ofice when he can take such a position as this; buta full understanding on the part of the peopls of tho attitudo ho has asetmed will Lonceforth -doprivoe himof every other office that de- Pends upea the suffrages of the poople, Those who followed closely the procoed- dngs of the Cincinnati Convention from day to doy cannot fail to have boon impressed ‘with the conviction thnt the Ropublican par- ty etill containa the best part of the brains and power of the country. Notwithstanding the flerce contest over the nomination, the proceodings were slways dignified and gon. tlemanly., Nor do we remember any Con- vention whoso utterances, Loth oral and writton, were so uniformly able, The plat- form i singularly froo from mere partisan cant, aud s written with an olegance of dic. tion nnd force in style which arrest atten. don. Bo, oo, tho whole sories of speeches ' which the various candidates for the firat Jlaco were nominated was a succession of sloquent and brilliant eulogies, oqually do- void of eycophancy on the one side and bt animosity on the other, but each one in a different way expressing tho peouliar claims of the favorite candidate so clearly and per- sunsively that an unstable person, without any partioular prefercuce, would in turn have thought every ono mentioned to have boen better than all tho others. 'The con. duct of the Convention in all these respects is much to be admired, O P! sctive yesterday, but gonerally firmer. Meus pork was 10@250 por brl higher, closing at $19.00@19.02) for July and $19.25 for August. Lard was 10@20¢ per 100 tbs higher, cloging at $11.25 cash and $11.35 for August. oats were §@Jo por 1 higher, st 7jc for boxed sloulders, 10§e for do short ribs, and 10jc for do short clears. TLake fréights Wwere easlor, at 23c for wheat to Buffalo. Rail freights wero unchanged. Highwines wero 1o bigher, at §1.09 per gallon, Flour wes dull and steady, Wheat closed g’ bLighar, at $1.04} for Juno and $1.05) for July. Com closd o higher, at 45§ for June and 45J0 for July. Oats closed at 29]c for June and 29]c for July, Iye was easior, 8 70}@7l0 Barloy was unchanged, at b5c for No. 2 and 8to for No.3. Hogs wero notive, at $6.00@6.20 {for common o extra. Tho enttlo trade wns rather moro active and prices firmed up a little. Sales wero ro- ported at $2.60@5.00. Bheep wore quiet and ensy. Ono hundred dollars in gold wotld buy $112.62} in greonbacks at the close, THE NOMINATIONS. The Repnblican National Convention swon a donble victory for the gountry. It nomi- natod n tickot which will be heartily accept- od and indorsed by the Rtepublicans and Re- formers in all parts of tho country. It won its second victory in thogroat triniaph which tha intelligence and respectability of tho party gainod over the desperate politicians who had attempted to capture the Conven- tion. Intellect and charactor extorted vic- tory from those who claimed to have secured it in defianco of tho moral senso of the country. Tho Convention has earned tho thanks of the American people for the cour- argo and devotion which it brought to tho seloction of a tickot entitled to tha respect and confidonce of the nation, and for the firmness with which it rejected any other. The nomination {s the trinumph of Reform, the triumph of the popular demand for the purification of the publio service, and the restoration of rosponsibility and accounta- bility in the administration of the Govern- ment, Mr. Havea is, in all that pertains to the groat principles and policies of Reform, Re- tronchment, and integrity of administration, ug accoptable as Mr. Bustow. Less known to the® wholo people, perhaps, ho {8 widely known ns o man with clear head, sound judgment, patriotic record, and, sbove all, clean hands; o stronger to the lobby, and with no entangling business allinnces with subsidy-seckers or gamblers in national credit. For the nomination of a man so pure, publicly and privately, and at the same time soidentified with the groat reformatory poli- cies which the prevailing corruption lhas made so essentinl, the Convention will de- serve nnd receive the gratoful thanks of the country,—thanks for what the Convention did do, and thanks, oft-ropeatad thanks, for what it so bravely refusod to do. ‘Wo hiava no foars for the result of the elec- tion of 1876. The battle was won, pinctical- 1y, at Cincinnati. It ia immaterial who may bo nominated a¢ St. Louis, the Republican party bas been saved from the only defeat that threatened it. The campnign will be an nggrossive ona, War upon the whole Con- fodorate line, no mattor by whom it may ba commanded. There will bo no hesitation, no defection, no faltering. The whole Re- publican party, and the frionds of poace, of civil and personal liberty, of the maintenance of law and the protection of tho citizen, of whatever party, will recognizo in the nom- inntion of Hayes the certain guarantee of all this. The country will also have reason to rojoice that there is nothing left to doubt or obscurity on the matter of flnances. An honest President, an honest Government, and an honest Administration, of necessity domnnd that the nation shall have honest monoy. All theso aro the inevitable conse- «quences to follow the nomination and elec- tion of Hayes. THE CANDIDATES. Ronznrorp B. Hares, the candidate nom- inated yestorday at Cincinnati for Prosidont, is aman who in all his publio life has had Lionors thrust upon him and has never sotght them., He was born in Ohio, Oct. 4, 1822, and is now rising 63 years old. He was woll edncated, and, after reading law somo time at Columbus, ontered the Law School at Harvard, and gradunted with credit. At the bresking out of tho War, he was practicing law in Cincinnati, and at that timo and for some years befora was City So- licitor, Ho responded to the first call for volunteers in 1861, and was appointed Major of the Twonty-third Ohio Infantry. Ho went at once with his regiment to West Vir- ginin, serving under Gen, Rosecmans, In November ho was promoted to Lioutenaut- Colonol, and took command of the regi- ment and served under McCrrnran until he wae dissbled at the battle of Bouth Mountain. In 1802 ho was made Colonel of the Seventy-ninth Obio, but owing to his wounds was unablo to take command. In the meantimo ho was made Colonel of the Twenty-third Rogiment, and in Decomber, 1862, was put in command of the First Brig- ado of the Kanawha Division. e continued in this commnnd until Buznioan's groat bat- tle at Winchoster, in Soptember, 1864, whon he was put in command of the Kanawha Division, and led it during the compaigning of that year. In Octobor, 186+, he was mado Brigoedior-Geperal *“for gallant and mer- itorious services in tho battles of Winchostor, Fisher's Hill, and Cedur Creck.” In the spring of 1866 ho was put in command of an expedition against Lynchburg, and while that was, in preparation the War closed, Ile was brovetted Mnjor-Genoral for his gallant services in 1864 in Wost Virginia, o was in activa sorvice the groater part of the time, was wounded four times,—once sovercly. While serving in the , in 1864, be was elocted to Congress from one of the Cinoin- nati distriets. In 1866 he was re-clected, Before his socond term bad fairly begnn, he waos nominated in 1867 as the Republican cardidate for Governor of Ohlo. He rosignod his place in Cougress and cauwyassed the State, ho boing o pleasing and forcible speaker. His Demoocratic compstitor was the present Senator Avten G, Tuurman, He way clucted aftor m sovers contest. In 1869 Lie was again nominated, and his Domooratic compotitor was the well-known Gronax I, TPrvoreTon, aud. was again elocted. He de. clined a third election, intending to retire from public life. e is wealthy, and sought the pleasures and quietude of domestio life, But in 1875 a portion of the people of tho Western Reserve objooted to the nomination of Judge Tarr for Governor, bacause of his judicial opinion excluding the Bible from the publio schools. Judge Tarr thereupon with- drew, urging the nomination of Gov. Haves, who in this woy was again compelled, by popular request, to become a condidats, That campaign has become historical. ‘Wirrtant ALy, who had beon olacted Gov- ernor in 1878, was the Democratio candidate, No Btate was ever a0 thoroughly canvassed. A hundred men of each party from outside the Btats, in addition to tho homs forces, wero at work night and day. The discussion ot firsg ombracod e varioty of subjoots, but all narrowed down to the cifrrency, Tho canvasa continupd up to the night baforo the clection. The vote wns unprecedentedly Iarge. Tha count atood : Hayes, 207,814 ; Avuzy, 202,273, This victory, won by such indomitable energy, such brave adherence to truth and sound political doctrine, was wel- comod by the nation, aud the gallant soldier who boro himeclf so nobly throughout the fight was at onoe clovated to a conspicuous position among the mon with national and honorable reputations. Winriaw A, Wneeren, the nomineo for Vico-Prosident, is a gentloman of atrong por- sonm and political parts, and, with BMr. Hares leading the ticket from Ohfo and in- suring the united and onthusiastic support of the Northwest, he will incrense thestrength of the party in Now York, which {aone of the necdful States. Mr. Wneeren has also the good will, in 8 marked dogres, of the Con- grosalonal circlos, and ho will securs more bard work and energetic support from the Topublicon Congressmen than would have boen given any othor man except Mr, Bramvz by this particular and. influentia! class. In- deod, it is probable that the nomination of Mr. WHEELED Wns in some 8000 A concession to Mr. Brawg's friends, for it is known that bo had a reversionary claim upon the dolo- gates who furnishod Mr. Bramve's most active support in the Convention. This Congros- sional influence s an important factor in n Prosidential campnign, and thero is no doubt that Mr. WaseLen will hold it intact. Add to.this the noturally greater interost which Now York Republicans will tako In the strugglo by reason of having ono of their own men on the ticket, and there is no doubt that Mr, Wneeren brings positive strdngth to the party. WirLtax A. Wegeren is & native of New York State. He was born in Malons, Frank- lin County, in 1820, and is consoquently about 56 yonrs of age. Heis in full health, of robust atature, of excellent physical habit, and has all the hearty and popular qualities that usunlly appertain to that sort of build. Thera is not o more popular man in public life among thoso who know him personally. He is & lawyer by profossion, but bas also had an oxfensive business experience, He was for many years engaged in the banking busi- noss, and was atono timo President of the Ogdonsburg & Rousa’s Point Railroad Com- pany. Ho entered public lifo a full gonern- tion ngo. o was clected n member of the Now York Legislature in 1850; in 1857 he v.ent into the State Sonate; he was electod to Conprass in ‘IEGU,——the"I‘hirty-iovunflx Congross,—and has served his district in the National Legislature continuously, wo be- lieve, sinco that time, He was for many years Chairman of the Pacific Rail- wny Committee, at that time ono of the most important Committecs in Congross; and, though this will be urged against him during the campaign ow- ing to the present bostility of the people to gubsidized railrosd schemes, wo have yet to lonrn that Mr, WizzLes was over corruptly influenced or ever suspocted in his dealings with onterprises that formerly' roceived the most patriotic and cnthusiastic approval of tho entire country. Anothor important clemont of AMr. ‘Waezren's strength is his well-known con- sorvatism in relation to the Bouth, Ho was the author of what has become famous un- dor his name as the ‘ Wurzrrz Compro- mise,” wheroby the hostila factions in Louisi- ana wero concilinted, and n condition of pence and comparative good fecling was brought out from what threatened a new civit war. This concilistion wasbrought about by Mr. Witeer. er's pergonal activity and judgment, and his final adjustmont of affairs was conceded on all sides to have beon judicious, fair, and honorable. It will be remembored that the state of things was chaotic, that parties were implacable, and the whole country soriously disturbed. Mr. Wameenes's efforts resulted’ in tho pormanent eatablishment of the Ker. roaa State Goverament, and the roorgnniza- tion of the State Legislaturo on & basis repro- senting the honest popular vola a3 noarly as might be. All parties in Louisiana and the entire American people have roason to bel| grateful to Mr. Wrezren for his horculean 1abors and judicial fairness in that contro- versy. Havea and WaeeLen—New York and Ohio —the goldier and the civilian—the West and the East,—and both ra presonting tho cardi- nal principles of tho Ropublican party, North and Bouth, East and Wost,—these aro the loadors to Ropublicnn victory, sssuring peace, prosperity, good fecling, and honest Govornmont for another period of four years. THE VO FOR BRISTOW. At tho Convention at Cincinnati Mr, Bnis- Tow roceived as high as 126 votes. This vote is a magnificent tribute to tho man and to the canso of public virtue. He was opposed by the whole machinery of politics in the Unitod States. Thoro was not a machine politiclan, from Cabinot officer down to lotter-carrior, who wa¢ not personally op- posed to Brisrow, 1Io was regarded as the porsonnl onewny of every offico-holder and every offlce-sookor in all the broad land, 'There was not a dotected smuggler, a con- victed official, a civil pensionor upon the national bounty, or a hiroling of the corrup- tionists who war upon the Treasury, who hiad not treated BnisTow as a personal enemy to be hounded as sn outlaw. Look st the men who have managed the gotling-up of tho delegates! 1In Pennsylvania, Don Cam- xroN and Tox Scorr had packed the delega- tion, and, though thoy quarreled over the delivery of their chattels, both maintained an undivided vote ngainst Brmtow, In New York, the Natioval Custom.Tfouse, with its srmy of .affliated Fodoral officers in the BState, Jont to Cincinnati what was intended to be, and nearly was, sovonty solid votes against Bumstow, In Wisconsin, Jows, and Illinois the party managers in fike nanuor got up delogations to bo manipulated by the chiofs at the Con- vention, the sole test being an sntagoniem to Baistow., Anything to beat Brnistow has boon the universal cry of the political and -porsonal corruptioun of the United Statos. ' Look nt the men who have been active at Cincinnati to defeat Bowrow, Marr Oan- rexten and Boss Keves, of Wisconsin ; Dan Muny, Jous A. Loaaw, Bon Ingersory,ad ono Paraen, of Illinoiu;'the ontirq Whisky Ring of 8t. Louis, and the same class of politiclaus, party mauagers, couvicted and unconvictod revonuo officers in all parts of the country., ‘I'lioss mon went down to Cin. cinuati to boat Bnistow first, und noxt to got a caudidate with different notiona of official proprioty, and rocognizing a difforent codg of official morality, Under these circumstancos, we think that it must Lo gratlfying to the country that in a Convention selected so largaly by the worst agoucios known to American politics such a candidate should command the unsolicited and unbought suffrages of more than one. seveath of the whole body, including in that vumwber wany of the ablest and purest men and Republicans in the United States. All honor to the men of Vermont, of AMnssuchusotts, Rhode Lilaud, Conuecticut, just what it has been ever since tho close of progress Lo apecie payments. and New Hamprhire, who, rojocting the ap- peals of sectionalism, voted for the honest reformer from Kentucky in proforence to tholr near neighbor. In like manner all over the country, evon in Wisconsin, and espe- cially in Illinols, there were honorable mon, rospooting the moral sense and respectability of their constituents, and the honor and in- tegrity of the party, who rosolutely and bravelydefiod all denunciation, and cast their votes for honest Government and an upright, unsmirched candidate. Though in a minori- 1y, they wore none the less truo to thom. solves, thoir constituents, and thoir party. They showed by their votes a propor reapect for tha gront office of President and for the _country, and they gave an assurance that, however successful craftincss and machine politicians msy have been, public morals and public intelligence were not without repro- sentatives, champions, and friends. And this same eclomont in the end was triumphbant. The same men who voted for Bristow voted for Hares; thoy gathored with thom aroond the gallant soldier from Ohio the ablost and purest men of the Convention, and gave to the Republican party and to the country for the noxt Presidont the statesman aud re. former, RuTnERPORD THE FINANCIAL RESOLUTION. The Republican party is to be heartily congratulated upon the important fact that the financinl resolution adopted at Cincin- nati hns no uncertain sound, but the true ring of & gonuine metallic curronoy. The whale country way woll share the gratifica- tion of this, since it is from the Republican party alono that an honest offort can be ex- pected to restors specio payment to tho country, and keep the national faith plodged thereto until it shall become a fuit accompli, The Democratic party is for the most part given over to greonbackism and ropudiation ; the present nession of Congross has shown that the hard.money clement in that party cannot provail sgainst the repudiationists, and that there is noither tho desire nor abili- ty among the Democratie leaders to solvo the financial problem. The Ropublican position, 08 defined by the Cincinnati Convention, is tho War, and wrs expressed in the platform aa follows : . 4. Intho first nc: o Congresa signod by Presldent Gnant the Natioml Government assumed to ro- move any doubts of its dutles to dlscharge all just obligations to pablic eroditors, and solemnly pledged its falth to make provision at the earlieat practica- ble period for tke redemption of United Statos notes in coin. Commercial prospority, public morals, and the natlonal credit demand that this promise be fuldiled by a continuous and ateady 1t does not sppenr from the procoedings that thero was anything but the most cordial . acquiosconce in the principle horelaid down ; #0 that, if there was any grecnback senti- ment in the Convention, it found itaelf so much pt varianco with the will of the party that it was forcod to submit in silence. 'The only objection that wns mado to the resolu. tion as adoptod came from the more pro- nounced resumptionists, who offored thoe Iollowing as a substitato: Resolved, That it is the duty of Congresa to pro- vide measurea for carrylng out the provisions of what {s termed the Resumption act of Congross, to the end that resumption of specie payments at the time fixed by sald act cannot bo further de- layed. The objection to the ndoption of the pro- posod substitute was well aet forth by Gen. Hawrgr, Chsirman of the Committee on Resolutions, and himself a resumptionist of the most uncompromising echaracter. Ho objectod in a gencral way to a consideration in convention and an expression in a party plat- form of the dotails of logislation for whick it is proposed to eleot a Congress; and the objeation is valid, for a party convention has neither the time nor the material for the discussion of logislation. . Moroeover, thera is considerabla differonce of opinion among Ropablicans, Who agree perfectly as to the necessity and desirability of resuming a¢ the esrliest moment, as to whether tho Resumption act of 1874, in view of tho failore of the Democratic Congress to mct with reforence to it, may not be improved when a nsw Republican Congress shall be cleoted. Had the adoption of this act, which is a sort of goneralization, been followed at once with the nocassary preparations for carrying out its terms, its purpose might have boen fully realized. But the interven. tion of a Domocratio Congross, with its do- termination to hamper the Republican Ad- ministration in every possible way, and its leanings to inflation and repudia- tion, rondered this impossible. Since it is not possible to secure auy rolief or aid from tho present Congress in financial matters, it is cortainly better to await tho wisdom of o now Itepublican Congress than to commit the party to a law which may bo notably im- proved. ' But the most hopeful and gratifying foa- ture of the discussion of the financial ques- tion in the Convention, and of the conclu- sions flually reached, is that tha only diffor. ence of opinion waoa concerning dotails and the merita of a law, tho usefulness of which has been impaired by the imbecility of tho Democratio Congress. There was no va- riance, howavor, on the principlo that it is a high political and moral duty, as Gen. TIaw- rEY exprossed it, to resuma specio paymonts at tho earliest practicable moment, and that the appreciation of Government notes to per in gold **is necossary to commercial prosperity, pure morals, and good oredit.” There can no longer be any question as to the ruling.sentiment of the Republican party on this subject. IMPEACHMENT OF THE DEMOCRATS. The National Rapublican Conventlon cor- tainly achieved a victory in {ts platform, the intelligonee, honesty, and vigor of which will do more to assist the party to victory than mero pro forma utterancea usually do. It is & credit to the gentlomen who wrote it, a cradit to the Convention which adopted it, end o crodit to the party which indorses it. It is a doclaration of principles to which every patriotio citizon must sabacribe, and it may be roferred to with pride and advantage throughout the ontire national contest, If there i one plank in the platform mors strik. ing, pertinent, and convincing than another, it 14 the forcible impeachment of the Demo- cratio party, whioh reads : 16. We charge the Democratic party as being the same Incharacter and splirit aswhen It sympathized with treason ;- with making its control of the Huuse of Representatives th triumph and the oppartual- 1y of the nation's recent foos; with ssserting and spplauding In the National Capitol the sentiments of uarepentant rebelllon; with sunding Union soldiors to the rear and promoting Confglerste soldiers to the front; with deliberately proposing to repudiato the plighted falth of the Qovernme: with belug equally falso and imbeclle; with ove: shadowing the ends of justice by Lhe partisan mls. wmanagement and obstruction of inveatigation; - with proving ftaelf, through the period of itu aa- cendency fn the Lower House of Congreus, utterly Incompetent to adminluter the Goverument, Wo warnthe country sgalnst trusting s party thus allke unworthy, rucreunt, sud lucapable. No wonder this declaration was roceived with cheers. It ia diffcult to conceive that more truth on this subject could be con. deused in so short a space. It tells the whole story of the prowont session of the Democratio FTouso of Reprosentativos, It is » storooscopie view which, from a small aperture, revenls tho entiro Demooratio party of the country. It is a ploture in whioh the subjecta’ may rocognize themsclves as ins vast mirror. Tt is o graphio epitome of the low naims, the servile partisanship, the imbe- cile davoteolam, the treasonable sympathies, the vicious tendencios, and the unworthy mo- tives which have prompted the Domocrats to prostitute an entirp session of the National Congross to thoir gheed for office, ‘What else have thay done? Is not overy word in the above parngraph litorally and in- contestibly truo? Is theronot s good reason to charge upon them a sympnthy with tren- son,when the cx-Confederates boldly take tho floor and charncterize thoir side of the Houso a3 ‘*Wo of the Confederacy” and hurl de- flance at tho othor side ns *‘ You of the Fod- cral Union"? That’s what Hiwr, of Goorgia, did; and such men as Mornison, of Illinols, who fought on the Union side in the War, bnd to listen in silence, if not in chagrin, and disgrace themselves and their loyal con- stituency at home by accopting it all as gen- uine Democrnoy, ‘There is no doubt in the mind of every intolligent man that the Con- federatos hnve captured the Domocratic House and the Democratic party as complote- ly as Jonx Looan wanted the Republicans to capture the Republican Convention, The Domocratio party bases its hopo of success upon the almost solid vote of the Bouth con- trolled by the men whom the Confoderates have sent to Congress, aud aotuated by the snmo motives ns tho ex-Robels hava openly and defiantly expressed in the House of Rop- rosontatives, Have they not fully justified this impoachmont by action as well as words? Have thoy not displaced Union soldiers, com- potent for the disohargs of the duties to which they were assigned, and subatituted the very lowost class of Confodorate soldiers who have proved themsolves notoriously in- compotent, vulgar, and disgraceful? Where haa thero beon a singlo manly protest from Democratic Unionists at the North against the Robol sentimenta so freely hissed forth and put in practice sinca the Domocratic victories of 18747 It is equally truo that the Domocratic par- ty ia the party of repudiation. It is the an- tipode of the Republican party in every re. spact, and in this as .much as every othor, Tho battle-fleld whero this igsue was fought, and the Democrats defeatod, was Ohio, and their champion was that old and ‘*d—d borren ideality,” B Arten. Did Mr. Tnumiax repudiate repudiation in that cam- paign? Did the Democrats of the neighbor- ing Btates, Indiana and Pennsylvania, sond forth a protest against it? Was not the Ohio Brin Aurex financial creed accepted by tho party as a whole, with the exception of the Now York TrLoex Democrats, who were thoroupon read out of the organization ? Are not tho Democrats * falss and imbecils,"— falso to the traditions of their party in do- sorting hard monoy, and imbeoile in their abject failure to dovise any efficient means for relioving the prosent financial embarrass. monts, thongh in absolute control of the Na- tional Legislature ? Have they not * over- shadowed thoends of justice by partisan mis- management ”? Thoy have hounded down overy siocrot of suspicion startod by malignant persons pgoinst Republican public officofy of integrity, and have glossed over or passed by tho actual ovidence of vonality produced sgainst Democratio public men and politi. ‘tians, Thoy have refused to expel tho cor- rupt B Kmvoe from Congross simply to gave the equally corrupt Snoxmaxen because he is a Democrat. Thoy went so far as to tako the testimony of an escaped lunatic to blscken the private character of the Repub- lican President, but, they resorted to an un- fair uso of thcir powgr to pormit a Presi- dontial candidnte of their own (PxypLeToN) to escape tho offects of the most positive ovi- donce of personal disgrace. . 1t ia not practicablo to recount within th limits of o newspaper article all the circum. stances that justified the National Republic- an Convention in dénouncing the Demograt- ic party as ‘‘proving itself, through the period of its ascendonoy in the Lower House of Congress, utterly inoompetent to adminis- ter tho Government.” But the faots in sup. port of ‘this accusation are 8o patent, as re- cnlled by tho charge, that we do not s6e how it is possible for the Domocratio party, in the coming campaign, to avoid tho fatal re- solt of the impeachment by its own nots, so succinctly and favorably expressed in tho Re- publican platform. A PREACHER'S PLAGIARISNM. A Philadelphia clergyman has come to grief, having arrayed himself in borrowed plumos, Ho is tho Rev. Dr. Cavvert, pastor of the First Presbytorian Church, ono of tho largest, wenlthicat, and 1most influentisl churches in the denomination. Recently, charges of plagiarism, consiating in preaching other people's sermons in his own and othor pulpits, and a meeting of tho Presbytory hav- ing beon held, proof of the plagiarism was fur- nished. Mr, Carrert could only dofend him- self by saying, *‘ I havo not the loaat heaita- tion in scknowledging that vory close cor- respondenco has existed botween some por- tions, and in some instances very large por- tions, of my deliveries and' the disconrsés of others.” Tho Presbytery, novertheless, admonished him not to do it again. e nc- cepted tho admonition, covered himself with figurative dust and ashes, arrayed himeelt in ideal sackeloth, and promised hereafter to preach his own sermons, - Tho cxporience of this unfortunate clergy- man will give riso to some significant sug. gostions. Why should such a fuss be made over o preacher’s plagisrism, and why shoald the grave and venerable clders assemble thomselves and by public disoussion allow tho preacher's lapse from the paths of prejudice,—for his offenss is not a crime or evon a misdemeanor,—to get into the news- papers and bo bruited all over the land ? The poeta steal from each other. The tuneful brethiren and aisters, from old Dan Cuavorn down to Daisy Davropin in the corner of the country newspaper, steal from esch other, hook each others' lyres, sppropriate each others’ bays, mount oach others’ Pegasuses, and no onoadmonishes thum.\' ‘The musiclans steal each others’ quavers, semiquavers, and hemi-demi-semi-quavers, bat the enraptured listener finds no fault un- loss perohance the borrowor steals poor stuff, and thon he abuses him for the ohar. soter of the atuff ho has appropriated, not for the offenss itsslf. Lawyers steal from each other, Members of Congress often apenk pioces writton by some oue elss, aud oven Presidents and (Governors have pro- pounded grave Btate papers in the composi. tion of which they had no hand. Cur own Mayor has gravely road the products of Jo Fonnisr’s fertile brain as his own, but who thinks Joss of the Looux TexzNs for hia play- ful deception? It is a notorious faot that all over England preachers delivor Bermons written for them, and * skelatons” abound in the market,” Now why single out this poor — e e e Philadolphia proachor and ponnos upon him for an offonse that is condoned in nny other profesaion? Inviow of the genoral charsotor of sor- mons nowadays, it will strike the Rverage reador that the Presbytory not only sdmon- ishod the proachor but punished tho congro- gation. If Mr. Cavrenr had so littlo confidonoa in his own ability w preach his own sermons that he picked out good mormons from others, it showaed at least that he hind good taste. To doprive him now of the opportunity of exor- clsing that good taste and to impose upon hin congregation his own thin, watery ser. monsg, for that s tho chinractor of tho major- ity of sormons, is pretty rough, but ns his own poople furnished the proofs, they will have littlo sympathy. Most people will say, *'Borved thom right." Like many othors in this world, they did not know whon they wera woll off or how to let well cnough alona. Just how Mr. Oarrert was discovored in his plagiarism does not appear, but it prob- sbly was the work of somo other envions clergyman, bocausa pulpit plaginrism is not liablo to dotection by a congrogation. Con- grogations do not read the Fathers, rarcly have commentaries and never thoological libraries, and koow mothing of skole- tons, schedules, summaries, and the professional sermon-writers that help the tired ministor as he scoks for mnow toples and now ideas. In any event, how- ever much we may protest against tho par- tiality that has been shown in disciplining Mr. Oavrerr, his fato is full of warning to hin brothron, either that they should steal from the Bible, where stenling is safe, or that if they steal from other sonrces then thoy shall hedge in their MSH. with the con- voniont quotation maorks, and thus have the menns at hand to clear themselves triumph- antly with the oxplanation that they could not spoak the quotation-marks. ORITUARY. SAMUBIL WYLIE CRAWFORD. ‘The Philadelphta papers bring detafls of the death of the venerable 8amuzn WYLIE Craw- ¥orD, D. D., who dled at Fayetteville, Pa., on on the 12th Inat., in his 84th year. Ho was born in Charleston, 8. C., received hls education in Philadelplin, and after gradustiug st the Unt- versity of Pennsylvanin, in 1816, commenced the study of medlcine, which he subscquently aban- doned for that of theology. In 1818 he was lcensed by the authoritics of the Presbyterian Reformed Church and ordained at Duancsburg, N.Y.,in1823. In August, 182, he was Install- ed In Franklin County, t'a., and about this time assumed control of the Chambersburg Academy, whero he remalned until 1830, at which time he became Principal of the Academical Department of the Unlversity of Pennsylvania. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon bim in 1844, and for some years he fliled the chair of Church History and Pastoral Theology In the ‘Theological Scmivary. | The Philadelphia Times says of him: ** ITo was noted for deeds of char- ity and benevolence, while his defensc of truth and right was of = truly heroie nature. He was strong in his feelings and attachments, and no man will be mourned by & wider circle of attach ed and devoted friends and admirers.” OTIER DBATIIS. Among other denths recently reported are those of the Right Rev. AvausTin VEnor, Bishop of 8t. Augustine, Fln, who was conse- crated {n 1858, translated to the Sce of Bavan- nah fn 1861, and appointed Blahop of St. Augus- tine In 1870; of the Rev. Tiomas B. Fox, n Unitarian preacher, who was once editor of tho Christian Examiner, and for o long time asso- clute editor of the Boston Tyauseript; of Prof. W. E. Aunngont, one of the famous * Gottin- gen Seven, and from 1340 to 1868 Law Profes- sor at Lelpzig; of ANToN MiTTERWOURZER, 0 fumous German baritone, who was the creator of the part of the Flisgends Iollander In 'Wao- Nen's opera of that name, und for whom Wol- Sfram in “'Fannhouser® wos written; of the Baron Von S8enia, who was the patron and founder of the present Academy at Athens; and of Prof. Frizprico Dinz, the founder of the philology of the Rowmance languages, who wrote the * Etymological Dictlonary of the Romance Languages.” PERBONAL, "Rah for Hayes and victory, Detter than Blalne, a thousand times, John A. Logan accms to have been nowhere yesterday. Larkin @ 3fend, theartist, is spending a fort- night at Concord, N, 11 The Whisky Ring is in the valley of humiitation, Dann Munn {e there also. To tell the truth, Blaino would have beon a bit- ter pill; wonldn't he, now? Confess. Bristow can wait. Tle will not ba n dead cock In the pit during the Hayes Adwinistration, Oh, have you ‘*buckled on your armor"? If not, prepare to meet the wrath to come. ++Skirmish along the beat way possible,™ breth- ren, and Hayes will take care of the party. Aletter of Theophlius Goutior containing an un- published song sold in Paris recently for $150. Logan ** buckled on his armor* and got **ready for the fray *'; but ho was 'frald at last—poor fel- low! The Convention at Cincinnat! chose the next Becretary of tho Treasury as well as the next Pros- tdent. | M. flenry C. Dowen has mortgaged his manalon in Willaw strect, lirooklyn, to the Equitablo Life Jnsurance Company for $30, 000, Of course you remombar remarking to the wife of your bosom yestorday morning that Ilayes, after all, was the coming man snd & decldedly peart fel- low. “The one original Ilayes man of Chicago—Will- {am Tenry Smith, of the Assoclated Press—must have thrown up his hat protty high at Cincinnatt yeaterday. A Tom Scott Is In mourning, 8o also aro Jay @Gould and Juy Gould's young editor, and the threa Whisky-Riug orgaus at Chicago, St. Louls, and Des Moluaes, Dr. J, L, Withrow, of Indisnapolls, has definite- 1y accupted the call of the Park Htreet Congrega- tionsl Church in Boston, from which Parson Mur. 18y recently retired Michelet llea buried at Pore-lo-Chaise, on the samo lino with Ledru-Rollln, the revolotionist milllonalre, snd Emile Souvostre, that literary pattern of all tha domestic proprietica, llemember—~it was the cuemies of Bristow, not Bristow, who were defeated at Ciucinnat yestor- day, Bristow named the winning man, Now let tho Whisky Ring put its band on Bristow, if it dare, Hristow was rejected yeatorday becauss ho was an susassin, e wald to the Whisky-Ring Repubd. licans, **Ast thou in leslth, my brother? and emote them under the Afth rib,“ Bat we beat ‘em, Just the same, with Hayes. Non Cameron sald out Pennsyluania, and, as Tns Tumuxx predictsd, ha couldn't deliver the prop- erty. Bomebody elac delivesed the dologation to Blatne, snd, after all, it counted for mnothing, Pennsylvania wasn't the Koystone Stato this time. * Charles Hazeltine, of New Bedford, petitions the Superior Courd for the returnof hls usughty naked plaster cast of Narclssus, which was 1o+ moved from bis store In Octobor, 1873, by the au- thoritics because the modest folks couldn't stand it. Tose Eytinge, it appears, really did attempt sai- clde ot Milwaukec and was nearly successful. The physicians said the druge she took would have klilled any ordinary womanj hur wonderful constl- tutlon saved hor. Domestic troubles, it is sald, caused hor Lo make the attompt. “The man with the powerful mind remarke shat he docan't care for the Mission to Eugland, aot baving s private fortune with which to support the station; but he did say, saveral months sgo, that Hayea would certalnly be & fne President, and if Venozuels 1s open he doesn't mind, etc., ete. The articlo on **Celt" In Vol. V. of tho Ency- clopgdia Britsanica Is from tho pen of W, K. Sal- livan—presumably not the City Editor of the Chi- cago Krening Journal. Tholatler Sulllvan, though, {22 wemben of the Doard of Education and tie mensteaation, and to what extent!” scripts wero sent in anonymously, and the snccess. ful competitor turns out to bo Mra. Dr, Mary Pot. nam Jacobl of Now York Clty, who thus wins pro- fezsfonal laurcls not for tha firat time, gatlonof the One witneas, & Mr, Marsh, testifed that he (the witnesa) had formerly been confined in the asylnm as a dipsomaniac. noticeable. part of Counsd for Plaintiff so thorough- Irish Literary Arsociation; ha conld probably **write all Around ** the Sullivan who has heen en. gaged by the candactors of the Encyclopmdia, The bakers of Nismva, to which hionorable guilg in hle life tho poet Jean Meboni belonged. lalda magnificent crown of gilied leaves at the base of his atatue, which has just been rot np with great pomp In his native clty, over- againat thy Templo of Diann, one of the loveliest of the Romag roins which make old Provence so interesting. Charles Fisher, the popular actor, was marrled Wednesday afternoon to Mirs Josephine Ij, Suaw. Tlo 18 06 and she 18 20, 'The wedding taok plocaat the *‘Littla Church Around the Corner," whore, within the past six years, more than fifty actors have been married, and from which a acore have boen burled. 1t s a comforting reflaction, sny how, that overy fellow's candldata can't be successtul; 1t every fg]iuw's candidate conld, there would be more than amllllon candidates in the field, and we should hiave little tracts printed for goneral eirculation cn. titled, *‘Every Fellow His Own Candidate with. out 8 Master," Hayes will do. Bonator Logan will be at home to-morrow morn- ing, and, after porforming the necessary ablu. tlons, he will *‘buckle on hls armor™ and go out to work for Rutherford B. Iayes. As3r. Logan 8o powerfully remarked, the Convention was a Re. publican Conventlon, und it should anly be **cap. tured "' by Republicans, Ropublicans. It was ‘‘captared by The Boylaton Medical Committes of Iarvard University offored last year & prize of $200 toall comers for the beat dissertation on tho thesls: **Do women require mental and bodlly rest during ‘The many. ‘The following fa the preface with which Mrs, Mary Mapes Dodge introduces her new book, **Theophilus and Othars," to the public. It ex. plalns and npologlzes vory satistactorily for the volumo: bave appeared In varlous periodicals, are now, at the urgent solicitations of friends, etc., otc, Thelr preparation has onlivened the bours of, ete., efe., otc. Tf thialitle volume shall, cte., ctc. In conclosion the authior begs, ctc., etc.,. etc, *!These tales and talks, most of which M. M. D, Lord Shafteabnry's learned exposition of Prof, Tuxley's text In such & manner as to make it mean something different from what the author decinres heintended it should mean, Is gencrally condemned aa unsound by the English press, When Prof. Tuxley snys he docs not, and never did, advocate vivisection as a method of fustruction in the school. rmom his word ought to be accepted as final. Haxley's stateinent that elomentary physiology can Dbe best taught by *‘direct contact with fact," Ia innocent enough, and has no vivisection lorking in its vitals. Prot, Dan Voorhees caught a Tartar during the investi- Insanc-Asylum abuses at Washington, **Well," wald Mr. Voorhecs, ‘‘any man that pets drunk ouglt to go to the asylum," Mr. Marsh stralghtened up and sald, **1lold on, Mr, Voorhees, this Is hardly falr. 1f s man were o be sent to the insane asylum every time he got dronk you, would have been thero long ago. Ihave known you now for twenty years, and 1 have known the Tall Sycamore of the Wabash many a time when hie wasn't so tall but was lying fiat; why, I romember scelng you st a Democratic meeting when it took two men to hiold you up while you were trying to make a speech. I am happy to know that yon have not been drinking for four years, and I am atill happler to Inform yon I have boen In the same condition for seven years. " — ———— " AMUSEMENTS. HOOLEY'S TIIEATRE. ‘The Oates Company last night rendered Ar thur Sullivan’s burletta, “Trial by Jury," ond Offenbach’s comic opera in two acts, “Les Ba- varda” The burletts, or “dramatie cantata’ as it s stylod tn tho bills, 1s comparatively new here. It was glven for the first time by tho same company last winter, The performance is In overy respect more satisfactory now than then, Musieally, the improvement is very Drew = has learned the 1y that lie can now afford to pay some attention to expression; Howaon tells how he came to be aJudgo—* and & good Judge, too "—with gen: uing fervor and bonhomie, as before, and now ndds a liberal interpretation of the musfc al lottedtohim. Even Miss Templo occaslonally forgets herselfy opens her mouth, and lets hers solf sing. “Tho Chatterers™ o ouc of tho first comic operas that Mrs, Oates uuyed.h and it {s noturally one of thoso that' sho does best. Barring .her really painfal babit of velling, which s {)nfl.lcullrly rominent whonever she plays o male part, she eaves o favorable Impression as Jioland. Bhe has perfect commund of the musle, so far as she can command auy music, and her gay manner of clipping words rapldly suits the spoken lines admirably, Howson a8” Beatrice, the Chattering il?{r carrled L*vccrj&hlnz before him, and Drew and Jones rocolved an_oncoro fot thélr singing of the Wise-Aleade duct. ——— M'VICKER'S THEATRE. A company respectable fn polnt of numbers and more than respectable In enthusiasm and culture sssembled at McVickor's Theatre last night to assist at the benefit of Messra. O'Nell and Crane, “The Lady of Lyons" was glven with O'Nefl a3 Claude and Miss Hawthornc as Pauline, The cost was much better than that which participated in the recent debut of Mra. Foster, and the whole performance was smooth- er, Mr. O'Nell's Claude and Miss Hawthorne's Pafilive require no criticlsm in this place. Everybody can judge, a priorl, how they would assume these parts, and s ‘Inrge part of the theatre-golug Buhllc has sccn the parts played by them. The faults of elther of them are inconalderable fn comparison with thelr merits, After *'The Lady of Lyons” was fin- tshed, Pat Rooney. sang same of his character- istic songe, including ¥ Muldoon,” and Crane appeared In the * Jenny Lind " burletta, This ternoon * The Overland Route” will be re- peated, and this cvoning a special bill will be offer .cmbnu:lnt; “ David QGarrick,” the bal- cony scene from “Romeo and Juliet,” and burlesque of the fifth act of * Richard IIL," with Crane a8 the hero, CANADA. 'Xhe Bchism (n the Presbytorlan Churohe Lord Dufferin—~The Insurance Powor. &pecial Dispatch te The Tribune. Tonownto, Ont., May 16.—At midalght last night dlscussion on the McDounell cuse in tho General Aesenbly came to o cloge, The motion submitted by the Rev. Principal McVicar do- clining to recelve Mr. McDonucll’s lost atate- ment, and referring the matter to a committos with {nstructions to report at & futurc seaslon of the Assembly was carried by amajority of 243 sgainst 101, A request made by Mr, Mo Donnell that the matter bo vemitted to the Presbytery of Toronto in order that the body inight proceed regularly by Ubel waa ruled out of order. ‘The Rev. 4 l;:lndpn} fln:lodgr‘:l: he findlug of the %‘nfifl)"’e«:‘l ll:r:‘;;r‘ou:d that HE McDonnell hsd clearly stated his position to that body, and in his dissent ho was {&')lnul by nlncl{-cl.x members of the Asscmbly. By @ rule of the Preabyte- rian Church the Committee selected to confer with Mr. McDoonall must be taken entircly majority. frour iy ap'flm tch §0 Ths Triduna. ToroNTo, Ont., June 10.~Mesars, Bnell and Beuson's sale of short-horns to-day was less numerously attended than the sales of the two reccding days. The highest prive pald was §17800 for the 11th Ducheas of Bpr hcnood, rom Messrs. 8nell's herd, tho purchaser being N. O Pond, of Milford, Conn.” Mr, Snefl disposed of twenty cows at an averoge of $440 , &1 four bulls at an avernge of $223, ° Mr, Benson sold twenty-nine cows ab an average of $143 per head, and thres bulls atan average of $53 Buell's cattle were In splend!d condition, but Benson’s were o poor lot. Q. ¥, Franklund, of this city, bas %ugcd ane af the Allan stenn- sbipa to carry 800 cattle to England. 8pecial Dispalch to The Tridu MonTuEAL, June 16.—Insurance companics anxlous to test the constitutlonality of the nefl insurance act which requires stampa to be attize t {usurance policles huve opeul g violated ity and conveyed tho information thereof to tho Government, which bud previously promised thereupon to commence procecdings, but mu‘in thau a month has passed and no writ has wade its appesrance, the excuse being that able law- yers cunnot be found to carry on the prosecution Who #ro not fn sue way connected with fusur e wmpmww:i Dispateh to The Tribuns. ueneg, e 16 Exeallency. Lord Duts ferln and sulte arrived here this morning, - wera recelved with tho usual_ceremonfes, 1% authoritatively stated that Lord Duiferin will visit Brithl Columbla during the pressnd Ll ‘per heud,