Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 11, 1876, Page 4

Ono hundred . dollara In gold would buy $108.87} in greonbncks at the closo, e Mr. Drame, in o tomperate nnd woll- direoted statement of the action of CiAnrss Traxos Apams on the slavery question in Congress In 1860.'61, orushes into dust the explanations affered by the Chicngo Z%mes. Mr. Apaus, whon shown Mr. Braiyg's origi- nalcharge, wisely declined to make any reply thoreto. 1Ilo thought silonco was tho shorter way out of a most direct and oirenmstantial armay of testimony, Dut the Zimes could not reaist the opportunity to indulge in ita aceustomed vulgarity, ing for Mr., Apaxs; bot {t could not resist the opportunity to ompty ita load of swill yatem of ** wiso financa” waa put in operation as long ago ‘as 1870, at {ho first session of Congress aftor tha clec- tion of Gnant. Thnt Congress gavo suthori- ty to the Sccrotary of the Treasury to scll naw bonds at not less than par in gold, bearing 5per cent interost, 4} por cent interest, and 4 per cent inlerest, and with them take up outstanding 6 por cent interest bonds. Not- withstanding tho determiued hostility of tho Domocratic party, the Republican Aduwinis- tration ‘succoeded in exohanging $500,000,- 000 of 5 per cont bonds for a liko amount of 6 per conts, Treasury, bns also negotiated liks exchangs at par of $300,000,000 of 43 per cent bonds for 6 per conts, and whon thig exchango sball havo been made thero vill be no difficulty, uuless thera bo o chango of the party in power, in negotinting the oxchange of o 4 por cont bond foe all the ontstanding G per conts. The *“wise financo” has alrendy been In operation since July, 1870; has alrendy reduced the interest 1 per cent on $i00,000,000 and 1} per cont on £300,000,000, and if loft alone will reduce it 2 per cont on all .the remninder of tho G por conts. This ** wiso Bunnco"” of the Re- publican party, two-thirds already oxecuted, will, when finished, show a reduction of. in- it by taxation from the wholo country? Gon, McCreLuaN has nover henrd, perhaps, of a bill bofore Congross to compensato the owners of tho land in Virginin occupied by his army, snd for tho fonces, and wood, nnd corn, and mulog, and lorses taken, and for the crops which might hinve beon raised had Lo not boon there committing trespass upon tho sacred soil of a sovercign State. advises that the South bao treatod ** justly.” In what respoot ava thoy troated unjustly? Havo thoy not overy right, political, social, ond commorcial, that the peoplo of any other part of the country can claim? Aro thoy not represented according to ielr num- TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPALD AT TH} rri-Weekiy, postpald, 1y Parts of & year, per sont Bpectmen caples se: It cared noth- “Toprevent delay an Office sddress in full, Including 8 Temittances may be wsde cithier by draft, sxpres, Post-Ofice order, or In regiatered lottors, at our sk, 7TEMMS TO GITY SUBSCRIDERS. deltgered, Sunday excepted, 23 centa per wosk. deitvered, unday Included, 0 cents per week TIE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-sta., Chicaxo, bl e p— . mistakes, be sare and give Post- any law or tax to which they are subjected not oqually applicable to all other people ? o suggests that thoy are not allowod to manngo their own internal affairs for them- selves, and that they be not interfered with 50 long ns thoy keep within the limita of the Inws, Tho misfortuno is that the ex-Rebels aro not content with the exclusive maunngo- ment of their own affairs, In Virginia, nnd Georgin, and Arkansas they are in s majority, snd rulo nbsolutely, In other States thoy aro in o minority, and seok by brutal vio- lonce to govern audwnanago the affairs of the mjority.” No part of the country is more exclusively matinged for thomsclves than thoso States whore the ex-Rebels aroin a niajority ; but in no civilized land on earth is there moro horrible and oruel interforonco with life, person, frecdom, aud property than in those States whero these ex-Robols, though in a minority, rule by the shot.gun Their notions of conform- ing to the lnws, and their intorest in pence and good order, are that they have absolute gupremacy whother in a majority or mi. Mr. Buawe gives the amendment Lo the Constitution originnlly roported by the Com. mittes of Thirty-threo, which amondment Mr. Conwry, & member of the Committas, moved to substitate there- for another amendment, which pnssed both Housos of Congress. We give both of these was not voted on. AMUSEMENTS. ‘Waod’a Munente * Monroostrect, between Dearborn sad State, **The SrgOimasi™’ Miereon end (yealoks Amendinent reported byl Amendment Commiltee of Thirty- Adelphi Theatre. Desrdorn street, corner AMonroe. trook.” Afternoon and eveRlog. Vo amendment shall be No amend.maile to the Conatitution ment of this Constitn.|which will authorize or ive to Congress the pow- ta ahallsh or Interfere within any Stato with the New Chicaxo Thentro, Clark atreet, between Handoloh and Lake, Iooley's Minatrels. Afternoon and evening. \y erence within'ee the Statcs with the rela-| tion botween thair clti- zens and thoso deacriby £ ticlo of the Constitut a8 *all ather porsons shall originate with an State that does not recor nize that relation within its oren limita, or shall be valid wcithout the assent] one of the States composing the Union. Mr. Bratse states aa o fact that the origi- nal samondinent was written sud proposed in the Committee of Thirty-three by Cuarres Francia Apaas, and was by him in an elabo- rato speech advocated in the House. But it was 5o rovolting that no vote was taken on it, and it wna Inid aside and tho other one adopted. ‘This exposnra settles this contro- versy boyand all question. Ar. Apass know tho facts when he doclined to reply to Mr. Braing, and will not thank the Zimes for its 1 per cent yearly on $500,000,000, or.$ 5,000,000 134 per cent yearly on &100, 000,000 .. 00, 2 per cont yearly un §600,000,000 ... 12,000,000 A yearly saving In Interest of.....$21,500,000 The nggregate roduction in ihe Annual in- Lerest pnid on tho public debt mnde by the Ropublican party is shown in tho fact that the payment for iuterest in 1867 was S143,+ 781,602, ond in 1870 98,000,000, and in this chiango of £08,000,000 is included nbout £10,000,000 intorest on bonds held by the MeVicker’s Thentres Madison strect, between Stats and Dearbors. Engagement of 0. F. Nowe. ‘‘Bram. s Ilaverly’s Theatre. Randolph strect, between Clark and Lasalle, Call- Aftergoon and evening. and the revolvor. . WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1870 Greonbacks at the Now York Gold Ex- * chango yestorday clased at 915, Gon. MoCuerray asks that there be n stop put to the meddling interforence of corrupt Govornment officials, and that then the nogroos will scon divide, But there is no interferonce of corrupt officinla, negroos hinve not divided, because under the rule of the ex-Confedorates their condition is hardly romoved from slavery. They nsk Governmental Interferonco in their bohalf, just as tho white people of ofhor States would do under like circumstances, aud for this, unarmed and dofenseless, they are pur- sucd ond lunted with brutal malignity. ‘When they shail have boen compelled to vote the Democratio ticket or nbstain from vot- ing ultogother, then, nccording to McCret- AN, o}l dangor of o conilict of races will dis- appear. Dead men make no naise, nnd a disarmed, helpless people, abandoned to their perseentors and doprived of overy political right, will not probably maintain o *‘con-’ flict" of rsces of any kind. They will be Of all theso proceodings Mr, 'T1LDEN seems tohave been profoundly ignorant when he wroto bis lottor of acceptance, and whon he denounced the Republicans for tho ** imbe- cility and immorality ® of their fnancial pol- Tho ** wise finance " which he proposes to introduce ns n reform hias boen in success- ful operation sinco 1870, And §800,000,000 of tho debt being put at n lower rate of inter- ost, ot o saving of $0,500,000 interest. Nothing but tho destruction or wenkening of tho publie eredit by the elee- sion of TiLpex and the Confederata clnim- aats can pravont the wholo debt from being refunded ot the reduced rato of interest. Pt TILDEN AND THE SOLDIERS, ThoDemocracy, as often as confronted with their record and that of their candidates, lustily protest that the cauvass is being made indecont, but still work by the old ralo of mooting statements of fact that can. not bo answored with tha vilest abuse. isupon this ancient Democratic principle thot tho press of that party so virulently pursues the Rev, E. W. Frowens, of Michi- gan. Ho is an Eplscopal clergyman, recent~ 1y of Detroit, now of Houghton, of whom the Detroit Post says : Tls Chrlstian character, steict honesty, and un- impeachable veracity are, and wilt bo ot any time, fuily attested by a largo number of our best citl- zens, Including somo of the most distinguished and honored mea In this State, Mr, Frowensis the samo who, somo two yenrs ngo, being threatenod with removal from a position e held in the Now York Custom- Houso, ealled upon Gov. Tiupex and asked him to sign a recommendation that he.(Frow- £ns) be rotained in his position. TiLDEN re- fusoed, because he wonld not promisd to vote, the Democratic ticket, and then asked sncer- ingly what Frowezs' claims were. * Tho lat- ter roplied be had lost & leg in tho Union army, whereon, in Frowens' Innguage— Mr. Tipes flow into a violent passion. tho most torrible profanity ho cursed me for having gone to the War, and raid it acrvod me right, and it was a pity I had not loat both lega, o Insnlted the memory of the hierole dead, who had fallon on our battle-flulds; be cursed tho lvlog witnesses and actars In that weriblo strugelo. Frowens' offenso wns that he published theso facts. - Thercupon M. Tupex's facto- tum in Michigan, Dox M. Dicrinsox, looked about for somebody to prove Frowens a liar and a horso-thief, and hit upon a Rev. W, R. Truuvonast to do it, and wrote inviting him to denounce FLowens s required by the exigencies of the party. joinder is as follow: Drrnoir, Oct. 4, 1875, —Don M. Dickinson, Bag., As o pricst] can have At tho presont wriling, 1 o'clock a. m., {hero is reason o boliove that thoe Repub- licans have gained at lenst two Congressinen in Oliio—tho returns mdicating the defeat of Gen, BAsNmG in Cincinoali by Judge Mar- rnews, and of Fnaxx Iunp, in the Toledo District, by Judge Cox. aunnatly in the spatch from Constantinoplo annonnces that at o session of the Extraordi- nary Council yestorday it was decided to agreo to the proposition for afl armistico of six months, continuing until March, 1877. Tt is also snd that Servin Qesires nn armistice, but whother she willaccept ono of this length is by no wenns certai A tho time theso lines arc written tho re- turns from Ohio nud Indiana ero too fow and too scattering to warraut any decisivo esti- mate of tho resnlt boyond that the voto is closo, with the indications in favor of the In Indiana the election was for Btato, county, and township officors, thero being no less than twénty.seven names on cach ticket. Tho polls closed late, and by law cach of thess tickets has to be counted name by name. L'he voto is unusually heavy, and whero the procinets ave large the count will not be completéd until this evening. The nbsence of definito roturna will also bo acconnted for to some extent by tho faot that the Republican managers have on former ocensions by tho earlyannonuncoment of their majorities informed tho opposition of tho numbers required to bo manufactured by Democrats in other counties, avoided to somo oxtent, 8o 8s to compel tho Democratic countios to mako their full re- " Another suit for damnges to proporty re- sulting from the construction of the La Salle _stroet ‘tunnel wns yesterday decidod in the In o former cason verdict for 10,000 damnges wns obtained ngninst the city, but in tha ease decided yesterday, whorein from 45,000 to 375,000 damages were claimed, Judgo McAzLisTen instructed tho jury that the owner of the properry held no feo in tho street, it being reserved by the Statoe in the original salo as a public highway, and the jury nccordingly rendered o verdick for tho defendaat, e s ies for the solid Sonth ara recorded in our New Orlenns dispatches. In Ounchita Parish, Republicans have been ** reformed ™ by the sustomary shot-gnn arguments of the Til- denites, and in Canton, Miss,, last Saturdny, & Republican meoting was violontly broken up by Democrats, nud the principal spoaker, Gen, McKee, Republican candidato Presidential Elector, was badly wounded and ‘with diffculty rescned from Lis nssailants. It {s expected that the returns from theso local Itiea will show ** heavy Democratio gains.” Cirenit Conrt. mmm——— THE S0LID 8OUTH FOE SOLID CASH, Tho very mention of Southern claims is oxnsperating in the highest degree to the Democratio mrnngers, in paltriost fashion, citing the constitutional amondmonts to show that payment of Rebel State debts i3 precluded, whilo at thoe same timo they pigeon-holed the enormous de. mands of **loyal” claimants,—every South- ern claimant is loyal, of conrsg,~pny- of which thero is the Constitution to provent. They have industriously suppressed the facts as lo the immenso aggrogate of these clnims by parado of the figuros showing the insignifi- cant approprintion made in viow of the ap- proaching Presidontial election, but conceal- ing what o vast amount of theso samo claims Laove beon passed over to tho next Congress The fact that, out of 22,000 clnima thus prosented, over 13,000 reminin undisposed of, is one of the facts the Demo- cratic managers assiduously suppress. The charactor of those claims’ is auother of the exnsperating facts which the Democratio manngors would hido, They have quibbled ‘This has Leen Even at tho worst, the Blate of Ohio is cortain for Haves and Wuerren in Novem- bar by a vote 25,000 greater for Haves than that given yesterday for tho Stato ticket, The hend of the Republican State ticket was espocially wenk, while in November tho issne will be clenr and direct botwoen ITaves and TroEy, and the majority for Hayes will ex. coed that given yesterday by 25,000, Tha State of Ohio will hever voto for TILDEN, Both partios in that Stato will take pains to The same may be said of Indiana, and ~while tho indieations aro that the State has cleoted Hannsox Governor, still the Repub- lican loss of tho Btato ticket by anything less than 6,000 majority will leave tho State pretty certain for IIayes and WresLen in While we believo at this writing that both States have clected the Republican tickots, tho actusl result will not bo known The returns up lo a Into liour this morning will bo found in Tuz Tho dissatisfled Republicans of McHenry, Kano, and Boone Countics, who withdrew Irom tho regular Repnblican Congrossional Couvention because of their inability to con- trol its nction, yesterday held a Conventlon of their own at Marengo, und nominated Gen, 8. A, HupLour as thoir candidate for Con- It is claimed by the Marengo bolters that tho Convention which nominated Ta- Tunor was a gross fraud upon the Kepub. ficons of tho Fourth District,—a claim Hero is o sample of Claim No. 3,107, the Commitice on War Claime, and vrdered to Lo printed, —Mansg P. Evans, of Orieans Parish, Total amount claimed in orlginal petition, $272,600; In amended petitlon, $495,- 3855, Tho claim {8 wholly dlssllowed by the Com- ‘misaloners of Claims. Tollowing is the potition of this clatmant, with her bill of particulars as prosented to the Commissioners of Claima: The petition of Mrs, Mame P. Evaxs respect- fully represcnta: 1. That sho {s a citlzen of (he United States, and resides at presont in New Orleans, La., with ber husband, WiLtiax Ripaway Evaxs, 2, That sho Inthe danghter of tho late Dr, Jenu Pruxina, of Rost Baton Rouge Parnish, Loulsiana, and waw In the year 1882 the wife of 8, Duncax LaNTox, and posseascd of the **Richland Planta- tion,* in said pansh of Eust Baton Rouge. 3. That she has s clatm against the United States tor atores and property talken by the United States , and used by them, off said plantation, in ihe year 1862, at and during the second occupa- tion in that yearof Baton Rouge by the United States teoops under tho command of Gen. TioxAs WiLL1ans, as follows, viz.: 429 hhés coutrifugal suy 1ot 100 Toa et por i, until this evening. o TILLINGHAST'S ro- At 2 o'clock n, m. tha returns indicato the snccess of the Republican ticket in Ohio by n majority not less than that given for Hayrs Inst year, 5,600, and unloss the Dem- ocrntic gains in the lorge citics and towns shall more thun counterbnlance the Repub- lican gains in tho rural districts the mnjority is likely to exocud that figuro. In Indinnn the result is still in doubt, both par- tics clalming the Siate by small majorities, An Indinnapolis dispatch forwarded ut o lnte hour states that tho Republicans claim willy confidence a gain of least two Congressmen, Detroit—My Dean St nothing to do with politics, and regret that any clergyman should lend himself to intenslfying the bitterncss of the Presidentlal canvass; but, in reading the letior you refer to, It strikes mo as Uoing ingular that, a Httlo tore than two years since, 1 stating tomo the circumatanceca con- nected with his removal from the New York Cus- tom-House and his ondeavors to regaln the posi- tion with great particulurity, no mention what- «evee was then mado of Mr, TiLoes, the Chaleman of the Democratic State Comumittee, or sny ono vutsida of tuo Custom-ifouse by Mr. F. W. R, TILLINGHAST. But beyond proving tho alacrity with which the ** Rev, * TrLriNanast rushes into polities to dofame o fellow-clorgyman, tho epistla proves nothing oxcept thut two years ago Frowens did not tell ‘TinLivaiast what liad taken place. Why should Frowens have I'1LpRN wasn't o candidate for the Presidency thon. Thoro was no occasion to talk about ‘I'tupeN's abuse of Union soldiers. ‘That was wholly irveloyant to the subject of conversation, which was Frowens' removal, 'bat Frowens didn't mention the cirenme stance when there was no occasion to allude to it, no moro disproves his statoment now *than it makes out the moon is wade of green ‘I'hat the Democratic managers can uke no better answer to Frownus' plain stutoment of fact as to TiLpeN's disgraceful nbuso of tho Union spldicrs is simply an ad. mission of tho truth of whut Frowens says, and will Lo so accaptod. T1LoeN e his record s fallen Uniou soldiers und ws breathing forth curses upon the living. Pt A S M'CLELLAN AND THE “S0UTH. Mr. Grouae I3, McOLELLAN, onte n Dajor- Goneral in the ermy, and ouce & caudidate for President of the United Status, rocently made o speech at Daylom, 0. Tho speech was characteristio of tho mau, gasertion of basoless untrutho, hesitatingly made, in the forn of suggestions, viow of tho facts. Unfuirness and fraud aro always alleged in justideation of o bolt by the defeated minority. The Hunupur faction in the Fourth District have chiosen nn unfortunate timo for thoir Lolt, as o division of the Republican vote of tho district in likoly toresult in a plurality for Fannswontit, . tho Democratio nowminee, whoso olection ns tho ropresentativo of a Republican coustitu~ ency would bo u far worse frand Lhan that complained of by the Marougo bulters, TILDEN'S “ WISE FINANCE. In Mr, ‘Uinpen's lotter of acceptance ho diseussed tho subject of tinnnco in groat do- tuil, and claimed that in the adwinisiration of nationn! affairs the Republican party had been guilty of gross imbecility and immoral- ity; snd among the roforms which he ex- pected to introduco in the Govornmont, if alected, i3 a systemn of ** wise fnance,” cxplained thut, at the time he wroto, the bouded debt was $1,700,000,000, of which, in round numhers, $700,000,000 bore 6 por cent and $1,000,000,000 boro & per cent in- ‘T'lus stato of things TiLnen propos- ed by “wise fiuance " to romedy, by reducing this rate of intorest 1 por cont por aunum, Having done this, ho stoted that the saving would bo $77,000,000, which saving, if put at interest in a sinking fund, would pay the entiro debt of the Government i twonty. ‘L'he averago rato of intorest on B3 per cont, Tho Domocratic County Convention reas. sombled yesterday, and comploted ils labors Ly nominating four mombers of the County They aro H. J, Lnzen for the North Sido, a German who is in partnership with Juxken in the whisky business; Mi. cuaet Frrzoenaro for the South Side, an Irishman who served as Alderinan from the old Third Ward for a couplo of years; nnd . Joux L. Hovraray and Jastes BrapLer for the West 8ide, the formar a Secavdinavian propristor aud the whoso nationalily is unkuown, the keep. Bab anksa (Iron) nt ‘leL ner of IMarrison aud Sholte stroots, Thore was 4 timmo when wen like Cunmistian Wauw, M. G Breamns, sud Cuanses IHrrestcoox were put in nomiunation for members of the most important and most uncontrolled ofti. cial Board in Cook County, but the Domoe- racy have changed all that. The ticket is so- locted in accordance with tho plan on which tho other county officers were nowinated, It vemuins to bo seen if tho voters of the coun- ty nro willing to intrust the building of the Uourt-House, the supervision of publio in. stitutions, cte., to Messrs. FrrzoxnaLp ot al t.holds Sanvrw J, ¢ roviler of tho wverags welght of the wholo debt. Mr. Tieorn proposed in his ** wise financo * to reduce the rato of 10- torest 1 per cent, and save 377,000,000 an- nually in the interest! Tho absurdity of this statement was evident on its faco, nud the figures hava been attributed to o typo. graphical orror; but seversl months havo clapsed and tho error has uever beon cor- Mr. Bourwery, in a recent spaceh, oxplains why such o gross orror hus boen pormitted to stand uncorrated. amination it appears that $77,000,000a year, invested in the form of & sinking fund, would poy the whole dsbt in twenty-efght years, precisely as Mr, Tioew sald. therefore stands of record that paying at the present an average of 5.68 per cout n- torest, aggregating on tho whole dobt §94,- 000,000 o year, Mr. Tiuory proposed that, when elected, ho would have this rate of in. terest reduced to 4.48 per cent, and &ave The statement of Mr, ‘Larpex 6 so glaringly falso as to bo obyious, and yet was put forith by bim ns a caro. fully-propared coloulation of the fnan. cial reform he would institute if olected, The error of Mr, TiLoex, while it destroys the most promisiug part of his scheme of finance, displays considerable wunt of in- formation on the part of a Presidential can- Y Ty v Veiver il Eiigieh iffoscis Total amovut of claim, Tespretfully wubnitic Wasiinato, b. U "I'hiis, like nearly all of the pondiug claim, was rojocted by the Claimws Conunissioners Before {ts presentation to the War Claims ‘The ovidence was clear that Mrs, Evays had warnaly espoused tho Cone foderate cnuso, aud had taken prominent parts fu_ontortainments for the Lenefit of Rebel soldiers, and that Joun Penming, the uncle from whom she claline to have inkerit- ed the proporty, was an outspoken Itobel; and her claim was registered thus by tho Com- missioners, who roported: * Wo think M, Tvaxs was nat loyal to the Union causo, but, on tha contrary, was in full sympathy with and gave matoriol aid to the Confoderaoy.” But, with full confidence n hor ability to make out her Joyalty by proof enough for the War Claine Committes, Mrs. Kvans puts in her rojocted claim. ‘The 600 Loga- lieads of sugar for which sho dumanded puys mentin her original clain have multiplied and increased until they now number 1,100, Tho prico bas nlso gone up from $200 per Liogshiead in the ' original claim {o $360 per Tho Chicage produce markets wers irreg- ular yestorday, brendstuffs being wmore act- ivo,© Mess pork closed a shade highor, ot _§106.60 for October sud $15.10@156,12) for Lard closed tame, ot £10.27}@ 10.30 cash and $9.37} seller 1kio year, Meats wero steady, at 7e for new shoulders, boxed, 8o for do short ribs, and 9@Y}e for Ao short clears, Iako freights were quict and firm, at 4o for corn to Buffalo. wero finn, at $1.10 per gallon. . dult and unchanged. Wheat closed 1@20 bigher, nt $1.06§ for October and $1.07} for Novemaber. Corn closed }@jo bigher, at 484c cash and 42jc for November. Oats - closed stendy, at 83j0 cash and 338 for No- vember, Ityo was stoady, at GOo. Barloy closed 1@%c lowor, at 840 for Soptemmber and 8430 for Octobar, Tho best grades of cattle wera stendy and the common dull, Hogs r’fh\’wan falrly active, closing easier. # " wero quiot and unchanged. Last Saturdsy * eveplog thero was in storo in this city 1,402« 938 bu wheat, 1,076,234 bu corn, 461,682 by Prom all the information 1 have been able to ob- taln, I beleva that tho South only dosires peuce and quictoess, Treat them Justly, let thom man- age thele own Internal alfalrs for themselves, do notfuterfere with them so long os they keep within {holimits of the laws and the Conetitution, and you will suon find that they kuow how to conform to the laws, and that they have the same futerest in péaco and good order that you have, Putastop to {he meddling Interfercnce of corrupt Government ofticials, and it will svon appear that the negrace will divide themaoives between the two parties, ond that the dapger of & comtllcs of races hag dlsap- o doclares that ho has never heard of the Soutl.(and by the *South™ he menns tho ex-Rtobels) desiring anything but peaco nnd quistness, ' Has ho never hoard that the South has a * clalm™ for nearly four thousand willions of dollars for damoges sustalned from tho War? Has Lo not heard that one of the objects of a ‘*Bolid Bouth™ is to compal the party clected by its votes to pay this imunonso sum of monoy, and to collect 77,000,000 » yenr! OCTOBER 11, 187 hogshend fn tho claim na prosented the Come- mittes, In liko manuér, as shown by the records of the Claims Connnission, tho 800 cords of wood for which she origl- pally olaimed paymént have inorensed to 3,000 cords; £,000 bushels of corn havo in liko mirncnlous fashion incrensed to 26,600; 5,600 pounds of pork to 50,000; and the entiro claims from $272,500, as pre- sonted to the Claims Commission, to $495,- 336, ns put in betore tho War Claima Com. mitteo. ) o Uniformly these rojected clalms expori- enco the like enormous growth in their transition from tio Commission to the War Olnims Committee, and to the caroful stu. dont tha figures will indicate precisely what margin is allowed for the necessary divides whon it comes to putting through Rebel clalms before the Committoe, What is aven mors industriously concenled is the oxtent to which these claims now upon tho Treasury was indorsed by the Confeder- gte Houso, The report of the Committeo on War Claims declares as to property taken from Southern owners by the Union armics that ** the United States Government atands in tho position of a trusteco for tho owner,"—nnd n trustes, as the verlest candidales of the mneros of the North, —th ction wonid s the very Lest pledgs they conld give of their loyalty to a restored Union. Such ction on thelr part would alimi; the War feeling from politics and birlng abou cryanization of vartics on new laaaes, . . o ¢ The sectional unity of the Southern people haa Leen the governing Idea and bane of their polities. 8o fnr from its being the romedy for anything, It hae been tho caunc of most of the cvils which they bave suffered, S0 loug ad it contluuea tho War will be & controlling element In politics. far any ctv in the Santh that unites the Confederatos te- echoes through the North, and rekindles the War fres hiere. Fot this roason every Presidentinl can vass becomes n Lattle Letweon the two sectians, and the South, being the weaker, must necosrarily be the losing party, To [nslst un keeping up this scctlonnl fight may be very heroic, but, In my "R"““"' Issnu a4 reckless and unwite as was the charge st Balaklava, ———— PERSONAL. Otto Grandmann, a noted Antwerp art-instractor, ‘has been Jnvited 1o take charge of thonew * e actiool In connection with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and has accepted the position by cable: dispateh, Mr. Dana justly proposcs to measure the value of Moody and Sankey's efforts by their effect **In tha bettering of the manner of 1ife of the materlal, money-sceking, and earti-engrossed fnhabltants of Chicago,*" A Boston correspondent thinke he met Dr. Von Holst, the German author of the lately-published Constitutlonal Iiatory, in this country elght years ngo, and that he becnme a Tlepublican speaker in tlie campalgn of that year. 3 Loulaviile; Sam g1t Lesington ...sherman' 1isupen s LAM Cla ifirans, Bolvidera: May oo o dIon. deu Taand; Gen. . F. Fatnawortt: St Cpar: Nock Foote, Belvidere: . L. Yaung, St Tion. ‘7, M. Southwarth: Woodstoey., o Ituse—Gen, i1, U, Withington, nckion, o [ cnwrordfiuew York:the lton, 8. ¢, Cedar Raplle: . ¢, Drown, Jackar, Mich, ) Ahbeming, Jhen s 0, o ! o, Beard, San {eanteey. C. Davisond W, 1. Dnvle, la nelaco; y, porlor; doseph Lurion, Quiney, o710 Lakesy’ ————T FIRES. THE CLEVELAND T Av1:g0 g Resland Leier L i ack this marning an a), cd from Box No. 13, on the cfirnnr Dr;r;;;[:.md. Bycamora streets, just across tho Mty |tl Lridge. The Fire Department Iupon:“ promptly, only to find the Immense five. " graln-elevator of Otis & York, nt Nos, 5, e ¥ River street, wrapped In a sheet of fl::'n;' o olready past all hopes of recoyery, ‘!'ln’zs.ml finmmable inntertal of which it was compoy o the open floors botween storles, the npuv,lu -running through the tower, and the dry, tln;n ke condition of the interlor, gave the I'Imn e cliance scarcely equaled, and placed al] th: .? forts of man at deflance. Almost befor, h flames had veached the upper stories tf!l H bullding they had catan \Emu Ay andd, by PII' means of n copnecting uhmf' Teaclie m‘ ofice and two-stors warcliouse of tyro knows, 1s linble nt any timo to be called Prof, Peters, of Hamllton College, fnaletterto | ™ sgpnipon — Centr Y of the New York Vorid, gives his reasons fornot steamers, whigy 1o nccount and compolled to. pny over 10 10 | betiaving in- tho cxistenca of the mythleat planct | FerC, HHHbeD (4t N e boneficiary. According to this, which s not tho declaration of a single Rebel member, but of a regulor standing committeo of tho Tlouse, al} that the Rebels have to do is to make out their bills and demand payment of the United States for all forage,aud supplics, ond cotton, and stores scized, property de- stroyed, aud damnge done in the War agniust tho Rebellion, The proof, of loyalty.is a smnll matter, No claumant hns yot been discovered who couldn't prove that. Aud to facilitate it, the same War Claims Committee, in the report on House Bill 3,827 for ths paymont of the claims of Picrnrrn and Brooxs, declnro : That ong of the claimants having received a svecial pardon from President Joiinsoy, and the other having ** como within tho provisions of the several proclamations and general pardon of 3m- nesties, the proof of such pardon is equivalent to aMrmative proof under the statuto of captured and abandoned property that the party never gave ald and comfort to the Rebellion, " 'Tha issue capnot be disguised. The Solid South wants solid cash, ‘That is the declora. tion of principles of the Solid Bouth con. tained in the records of the Olaims Commit- teo and of the House for the lnst gossion— which declaration is moro veracious than over was party platform. On the ove of the Presidontinl eloction the grab was deferred. But tho principles of the Solid South as de- clared of record romain thesame,to bocarried out in the event of the victory of the party, of tho Solid South, They demand: For re- turn of monoy realized from the sale of cap- tured property, $4,000,000; private ¢ ro- liaf " bills, 31,770,500 ; supplios seized and destroyed by the Union srinies, $1,205,163,- 000 ; property used and occupied by tho Union armies, $1,200,000,000,—which are procisely, ns shown by the records of tho laat sesaion, the *righta " that the Solid South, which refrained from emptying the Treasury just befors the eleotion, proposes to got at the expense of the loyal people. and soon wrapped the whole structu) Sireet, At the same Bla the ‘brands nn’«:l‘ nl;!ag‘:g na cross the street hiad ect fire to tho. Naqoh Hotel and a couple of boarding-hauses ““r;u A it, and doomed them to o certain duslrukllu“ Jolinsun's Mechante Block, to the left of 11y clevator, was soon aleo In great danger, u'; when thi reportes arrived ot the scency af 113 4. m,, tho whole block of bulldings situaie) atong the river front, a8 well as lfiuse on th appuslte side of River strect, were i the dirs Mne of the Names, and in imminent dangee of destritction, 'The lremen were worklug wigh all their might, but scemed utter] helpless i the presence of the high wind \vlflei‘( Wad W ee, > ings the shects of tlame to and fro, and cangly, thiem to reach almost clear across the street, % ‘The clevator, sven then, was n bnre skeleton, the tall tower threatening to fall at ang gg. ment, The threat was fulfllled at ten minngey of 2‘ nfifl :hu t:'m'cll‘ went u; the ‘?anom with crash that sent o shower of sporks a 4% s of the fre could sy e cause of the flrc could not b le: that moment, fllfllmlilh it was_well es?ififi‘fh.'& that the origin was In the elevator. Thomay Hays, who aleeps in the Michigan Central ofti sasa that ho was awnkened by hearing tho nolsg of the tire in ihe elevater, anil that, as faras s is able to judge, it broke outIn the northeastern corner, just east of the office. Other evileuce, but not of a very deflnite noture, points to the second story na'being the point at which tly e 8 the o b mad such y 3:. he fire had made such effectual that the elevator was a mass of rulns, o?:l;r ?1'.5 framework of thie Jower sturies belng left atand. ing. Tho Mlchigan Central warchouse and afllice were total wrecks, while the four ar flve bulldings on tho opposite slic of thy way, ruuniug from Nos. 2 to 22, were left elther in asheg,*burncd. tlose to the qumunu. or elso left stouding as mero shells, ' None of thess buildinga were of value, being of frame and very old. Kelsel's bonrding-touse, McGuire's Cailfarnln Hotel, ond H. Lube'ssaloon were the culy ones of which the ownership vould helo- * cated [n the confusfon and hurry. - Tho value of the wholu Jot cannot reach over 85,000 The loss in tho elovator will bo hard cudcumlnn. with the dats at hand at present, as neither of the proprictors could boe found. ~The bulld- ing could not be Worth uver 35,000 or 26,00, the greater part of the loss being in thic con. tents. It Is stated that there was considerable plaster nnd salt stored there but not muek praln, hie loss can be angwhere from $20,000 to $20, 000, all dopending on the amount of gralnin store, Some very valuable machinery wasalso destroyed, "The steamor Nortluvest bad just landed a load of valuable freight ot the Michlzan Centeal warchouse, sll of which was destroyed. Tha warchouse iteell could not have been worth over §2,000 or 83,000, and tho logs there also deuends on the value of the contents, The houks of the office were saved, but everything clse went with the bulhllnF. Johnson's Marine Block wae also dmrfifd' but not nearly 6o much as was at first fea) At 8:50 thie fire {8 under coutrol, aod no clmuEu has taken Y’lue in tho situation. A brand from the River atreet fire, sweeping over town, atruck the roof of the Sceond Fres byterian Church, on Buperior street, and burned through In two places—oneon tho wcet side and one on the soutl end. The liro worked ity way into tho ateeplo, aud ina few minute the whole steeplo was aflame, and tho rvof in the most immninent dnnficr. Two steamers were immediately on tho pround, tho slarm having been sent i from Box No. 2, in the Uity Hall, Streams of water weAs got on, but wero unable to prevent the headway of the aulm{lm{ clement on accouot of tho fmmense height of the steeple aud the impossibility of reaching it. In ten minntes’ time after the flame broka out of the mcgle, it was o foregone conclusion that the church would be destroyed, as the dry roof caught rp- faly, and nlmost before the cye could note the fact, the wholo roof Was a miss of llame, the angry tongues of fire reaching up over the eaves and licking the beame and rafters up a2 42 much stubble. 'The tall steeple was wrapped Is u circling sheet, making & scene of dread gmr daur, at which thousands looked and trembled. Steamer after steamer was sent to th seene but seemed to be of no use, ns the destroyiog element h-dfim. too sccitre a slort. At 8:45 exdutly, after lmmluf for about twen- ty minutes, tho .(esple fell, sinking duwn bod- (IFy into the church, making no disturbance and threatenlng no danger to surrounding vro| erty. T'he roof was soon doomed to lullnw\nnn ie's short time fulfilled its promiso by golng down. The engines atopped playing, and turned thelr attentiun to the surrounding property, ‘The church was gone, all excopt the binckened walle, between which a secthing mass of flames bissiog and rosred without mercy, As the Leder god to press, 1o other property has been placed I danger. ’l‘fiu ‘church was of stone, nd yery largo and substantial, belng elegantly furnished. 1t wid butlt , at & cost of $50,000, The orgsd cost $4,000, which, with the furniture, will bring lhallou near $70,000. Tuere fs an fnsurance on it Vulcan, e has been skeptical about it from the stact, and was only Induced to pay atteationtolt autof regacd for tho wishes of Leverrier Mea, Julin Ward llowe delivercd the frst lectaro in the Milwaukeo courso last Sunday., She Is to miect & number of promincnt ladics of that clty to- day at the residence of Mes, Alexander Mitchell. and constder with them the expediency of catabs lishing a Woman's Club, Onie of the fentures of ' Le Propliete,* aa repras eented at the Grand Opern-flouse In Parls, la s skaters' ballel. The wits complain that the horrld musle drowns the delightfnl sound of the rollers, Rinking ie fashionable in Parle just now, and mu- sic 18 not. Dr. Chadbonrae, the President of Willlams Col- lege. recently stated In an address called forth by a worenada that, so far as that Institution ls con- cerned, no evil eMfecta have Hlowed from the sccret socteties. **On the other hand,” heeald, **their influence has been rather for the good, " A newspaper publlshed In French ot Constanti- nople reprinted Baron do Bazancowit's description of the batile of Alma as o letter from its own cor- respondent at the battle of Alexinatz. The only change In the text was the substitution of the words S Turk* and+* Turklsh " for ** Rusaian* through- out, Mr. I, Irwin, & medica) student of Manchester, Eng., lately saved a weakly, scrofulous patlent in the Infrmary of that city by a transtasion of blaod tuken from his own ann. 'The experiment was watched with great intereat by many medical men, ;n;\ at last uccounts promised to be highly succoss- al. ) ‘The heirs of Willlam Penn etill recclve from the Britlsh Govermnent $20,000 & year in compensa~ ton for thelr proprivlary slehts ta Pennsylvania. It 18 In this munner that the Hritish Government Keeps its promisce, even when those promises have been obtained frandnlently. But It finds 1fs re- ward In the reputation for good faith which it has established In overy financial centre of the world, 1t s enid that Don Carlos will soon bogin the publication of a nowspaper in Spanlsh, Itallun,and Freneh, but his friends aro o hopos that they can tnduce hitm to contract hls nmbition, and be content with writing 8 Yook on Amerlca, 1t ho accepta the nlterative, hoshould by all means be persunded to omit from the volumo the panegyric of Cortes, which appesrod in his dlary, a8 published In the New York Sun. The Rev. 0. D. Frothinghom dclivered a sermon on **The New Faith” last Sunday. = He soys it **rests frankly, composedly on the dactrine of ov- olution, 1t discards mniraclea. Tt rojects evorything itke supernatural intorposition, 1t haano Inspired book separate from tho world's literature. It be- Iieven that from the verlest beginning things have ‘een working themacives graduaily out into Intelll- gent forms, Into,use, and Joveliness. and power. ' Victor 1fugo wrote to the Domocratic banquet ot Murseillea: **Onall sldes it ia tho Kings who do the mischicf, The quarrel of thronea Is flugrant, Everywhore there is the cyniclsm of victory. Everywhere there Is that kInd of terrible Intoxica. tlon called war, licro thoy matilate Franco—that Is tosay, civilizatlon. There thoy stab Servia— that is to say, humenity. At this moment thero 18 o bandit Government sltting on tho corpso of the people.” The address contalns about 500 moro short sentences to tho samo effect. Cardinal Manning, in reply to o letter addressed to liim by a Methodlst minister at Ilarrogate, says tuat the English Cathollcs have not, as ropusted, wmade representations to the Jovernment of Spain In reference to tho Protestants in that country, Stnce tho laws of Spain do not oxtend to the prl- vate consefenco or bellef of any ono, but restran only the public propagation of religlons tonets or worship at variance with tho religion of the Span- Ish people, the Cardlnal belloves that no represens tatlons wonld bo justified, Lord Beaconsfield's speech, stating his ressons for retiring from tho House of Commons. has ocen widely criticlsed on the score of il-taste. It might be well for Mr. Disracli to retire to the Tonue of Lords 8 to a rofuge from old age and de- clining powers, but it was not well for him ta state tho truth publicly. Tho Lords do notaccept the contemptuous view of the usofulness of their body taken by Mr. Disracll with tho samo complacency that they regard tho Gracedigger's Jost on Lame let’s madnesa not being noticed in England. Mr. R, H,. llatton, the literary critio of the Lon. don Spectator, says in tho preface toan American cdition of cortain of his essnys that ho has often Leen puzzled to understand why the style of the grealest Amorican authors 18 g0 slmplo aud lacld— +has xo little [n {t of the fuil-mouthed rhetorlo of democratic pride, or evenof the old vislonary re- publican ideallsm, ™ ils conclusion la, that com- plcte sincerity and simplicity of style may bs more atrictly natural (o the Intellectual cultnre of a re- public than ta the Intellectual cultura of aocloties an complex asthoss of Europe. The Springfield Repubdlican compares Gen, But- lor's passionate injunction to his followers nof lo kuife **the d—d literary fellers™ wilh the shriek ot the Lhumane geniléman who cried to the mob, “'Don't nall the paor fellow's ear tu the pamp. ™ Tt will be remcinbored that the mab, which bad not’ thought of the question 1n that lght before, Ime medately did what it was adyfsed not todo. The story may be applied in still another direction, by advising the respuctable people of Museachusetts on no acconnt to duck Gen, Butler in s horso- pond, and **not by av meand* €0 cub him at the polle. ‘The Derlin Post states that the Pope has deter. mined to volemnlze the anuiversary of the hamili- atiug punishment loficted centuries ugo upon the German Kmporor Henry 1V, ot Canossa., Itianot ensy to put much confidenca In this statement; Dbut, I it be trug, Blsmurck's famoun opigram wili have to be tnterpreted anow, 1le said be did not - propove to ** go toCanosva eithor will he. we \magtae, go ta the Pop cmmization of that Interesting eplavde. But If, while the Pupe Is omunizing, Biamarck shonld turn the scrows more Hightly upoa the German Cathollcs, the poetical vongeance of the Holy Pathee woold cuat dearly. The Rev. Joscph Cook, of Boston, in & recent Tecture gave wiat purported to be & aclentific ac- couut of **The Truw Htatus of the Primitive Horie.” We have examined bis learned treatise carofully, with @ view to ascertaining what posi- tion thy primitive horse occupled in the no iese priwitive game of polo, lstely revived by a philoso phery’ club in New York. The search has been In vam.. Mr, Coox uot only fails to throw any lght upon this subject, but he ignorea polu altogether, which showa that hlescience ta Incomplete, valgar, and poor, We shall not allow the presvnt oppore tunity to pass, bowever, without observing that Mr. Douglas, ote of the moss proiiclent polo- players In this country, was seriously injured But- nrday while cugaged lu the noble puatime, e was nearly killed at Newport & month ago, snd, return- ing t0 the field bofors be had fully yecovered, ho Jout hils gelp, fell from his horee, and aud wasal. moat trampled to death, Douglas Is about 35 years of age, and hus un mmcome of $150,000. 1is best encrgles are devoted to advanciog the tause of polo, and hix selt-sacrifice fu the cause canuot be' 100 highly comnended. Polo might better lave spared a better man, TOTEL AKHRIVALS. Pabner House—Georgs Naw, Ottumwa, Ta. ; A hur Coly, Hunbmden, Jreland; #. Boue 1laukow, Chioaf Br. A. 1. Thouipson, Prin ton, Il ; Jcbn Donnet and John Paton, Jv., Beotlaudy 8, B, Rowley, l‘hllldcl‘vhll‘. A A Weir, Boston; B, M. Cummnge, Pltteburg. . ran 5—Mayor C. 8. Cliase, Omabai J. T, 8uell, Cilnton, I . Egston, Docorah, Ia. Josoph Utley, Dixon; Co W, Scofleld, salb La TIIDEN'S LITEEARY BUREAU. One of tha most oxtraordinary jonrnalistic oxhibitions which has occurred for many a yoar hnppened at Waukesha, Wis., lnst week. It will bo remembered that Mr. TILDEN, carly In the campaign, organizeda Literary Bureau in New York Qity. The business of this Bureau was to write correspondence and editorinls and send them to tho Western Democratio papers, Tho Demoorntio press has been publishing theso letters and edito- rials during tho campaign, and many of tho most brillinut articles which hava appeared in tho Chicngo T%mes have been from the facilo pous of the writers of the Literary Bureau, The Waukesha Democrat, in duo conrso of mail, roceived a political lettor dat- ed at Washington, in which Tiupex and lus causo were handsomely advertised. Tho ed- itor oecopted this lotter as one from tho Lit- erary Burcan, and, as it was strietly true in all its statemonts, and highly complimentary to Tiupex, and thereforo bore all tho marks of the Bureau, he published it.in his paper, After the letter had nppearcd, some of tho modern Domocrats of the vicinity objected to tho letter a8 calculated to nlarm thvse who wero eupporting TILDEN 88 a Reformer and not ns.a Democrat. Ilera are some ex- tracts from the lotter which will indicate ita general chnracter: Mr. TiLoEN's opposition to the War hesbeen mude the moxt of by our antagonists. But itavalls them nothing, The War is over, And It is ro- memibered that somo of the best and pmrest men in the United States oppused the War, Preasldent TucHANAN, MiLLARD Fitaions, FRaNkLiN Pieuce, Stonewall JacksoN, Ronenr E. Lxg, JonunN C, Breckinmnae, Jlonatio Sevuouw, Geonex B, McCLELLAN, and hundreds of others, were averse to the War, and especlally to the employment of colored troops and o the emancipution of the sloves. A majority of the Joading stateamen of Qrent Hritain, and many on the Continent of Eu. rape, sided with tho Boath, Thers was o_clean- ent nnd honest differenca of upinion, all uver Christondotn, #a to the right o wrong of the lute Rebelilon, Mr. TiLuzy, with many otber dislin- guished men of ourown and other countries, leaned tawurd theSoutls during the contest, but was vone {he less an American. Andnow thatsectton natural- Jy giveshim ita nnlted support, 1goevwolid for i, Mr. TwnEN, with many other distinguished men of our own and other conntrica, leaned toward the South during the contest, but was nons the jess an Amerfean, snd now that section gives him 1ts united support, It goes solld for him. There has Leen 8 dlsposition amony timid friends of Al nxx 1o deny that he was opposed to the War, Mr. TILDEN himacl! has nover sanctioned sucha denlul. He stands where he stood from 1801 to 1805, —opposed (0 the War fur ciercing the dis- satisfied Statea of the Unlon 1o remain {n, 3Mr ALoun I still 8 good old-fashloned Htate-Tghta Demacrat of the JonN €, CaLiiovn strips, and the Presidency cannot tempt him to forswear his faitl, And this is why tho people like lim; that fa whiy they will vote for him, e refuscs all i portunities to mako him say that the invasion of he South wus justitubly, bocnuse he beheves It was not Justidable. Straugo to soy, the Domocraoy of Wauke- shn objoeted to this style of presouting the truth, This letter was ovidently intended and hnd boon writteu for o Miasonrl, Tennes- see, or Maryland paper, and was misdirected to the Waukesha Democrat. Tho consequence was that one-half the edition of the Demo. orat was suppressed, and the publishor had to get ot n new edition with this lottor left out. ‘Fhe Literory Burcan should ba more careful fu tho geographical distribution of its writings. Mistakes in war are crimes, m————————— A i e Spacial Dirputch o AprreTON, Wis,, Oct. 10.—The livery stablo of Willlam Zikmsn & Co., in this clty, ¥ totally destroyed by fire last night, togetbes with horaes, a large number of currl:lues. slolghs, harness, hay, grain, etc Three et were sleeping in_the building at the time, !\': of whom made their escape, but the uu.enw young man from Manitowot, was humh i death. Ono of thosa who escaped was Dicd buraed, but It 18 believed he wil FECOVLT: o loss on the bara and contents I8 h““‘l $5,000; fusurauce, $1,800, ~Thres B ‘;lm' logs near by, ownu\ by Mrs. wero dant to the amount of ll,w?.-l o A butldiog contaluing w ¢ oot abouty £100. No luagrance. Tl origl tho tire is unkuown. . — IN CHICAGO. The alarm trom Box 725 at 5:35 last cfl“\.:l was caused by the burning of 8 mo—uoryw basemeut frame house at No, 85 Ecle :‘ e owned by Mrs. Mortimer and occy pled by ‘nx Rogers as & saloon. Damage, . l«:n: unkn;wn patron of tue har th{agé:l el it L et s nuder, il ) e o T trylug to extingulsh the Uame ——— AT SAGINAA‘;:‘IVH(LB; ! ich Lo Triduas. Eaor EiGiivy . Blick, Oct. 10—AD nz: Lrewery bulldlug in Baginaw City, o5 Chleugo pnrmlt. was L%cmv\:s&? ;2 ‘!ni:‘ il ng. K e e hts Ia co1d, and souno suorw fell 1% e — BOARD OF EDUCATION. Tlic Board of Education '3:: m;tb leu: ;‘fl: Ay, W, K. Bullivan o the cusir. tions of Emily C. Turser asd :mo £. Quiny the Mosely School, were accepiet. Lus { the Bchool Agent ¥y rcf«ll'.“ 35":2‘»:':2&“‘:»°m=“¢'ommnm on B yer " e Cominittos on Publle Buldioge, JG; Qrounds reported fn favor of $he prol "% 3 bulld flarkc Wiotiers, mho BROPOYC schoo yurpatd ing on ‘Thirty-el stre 00! it 1t Yo the Hoard for five years 8 per‘fi‘unr. . L reported 8 “'he Committee on Normal schoo e o g the gruinating e of U5 tewmber to continye thelr studies us cxmnination. Adnn“d'unanl of Schools ,:.i 'hie Asslstant Buperin 6 schools; an tho Increase of tho population, h‘::a“ i e popors 24 1o butid sckosis orsy yoig Bwl; FHAT We hiave repeatedly'warned the x;enplu of the Soutls that the arraying of the “Bolid South " agalust the North is o futal ervor of poliey, and will result In arraying ugainst them the solid North, aud that thefr only hope for prosperity lies in o division of the white vote. Col. Mossy, the ox-Confederato oflicer, In a recent interview with a reporter of the Philadelphia Press, eoun- clutes the samo oplnlon. 1lu says: 1aw of opinton Lhat the solld front which tha Boutl now prescats will produce s decided reac~ tion In the North; In other words, the atlempl to solldify the Suuthern political forces la golng o wake sohid North lfixuhu‘ tho Eoulb, tiduk, tuo, that the good falth of the Bouthern reopl« will always be wnspected while thoy renualn in ahliance with the Nortaer Democraty, Now, on the othee Land, if thews peoply would come vnt and vate for Harza and \V’:um.m,——nat for the rcdson that by are Leoublicuns, but because they are the