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Octobor nnd $1,08} for November. closed §@}o higher, nt 4830 for October 'and Oata closed o lower, ot 82}0 cnsh, and 32ic for November, Ryo was Barley closed jo lower, at 83jo for Ootober and 8i@S4je for Hogr wero activo and steady, rolling at $3,65@46.10 for common {o prima, Onttle wero fu gaod demand at Wodnesdny's quotations, Bhoop wero unchonged. One- hundred dollars in gold would buy $108.87§ in graenbacks at the close. of Republican votes polled. Waoeeten will get almost every vota given for Dix four years ago, with an iinmense nd. dition ns the natural incrense of four years. Tho old Republican distkicts wiil turn out sucl n voto for them as has nat been equaled sinco the days of tho War, ‘The Republicaus of New York, who aro familiar with the condition of the publie mind in that Stato, have not the remotest doubt of a Republican majority in Now York. They kndw Truoen thoronghly. his strength and his weakness. They know all tho sehemes and plans by which ho ox. peets to swell his voto, and they lmow the implacablo hotrod and uncompromising op- position against him among many Demo- - orats, They know that Tinory is weaker in Now York thnn Sevmoun or Kenxax, and thay hiavo no sovions spprohonsions of his getting the vate of that State. ‘Thero nre tho sirongest rensons why Now York slionld have an especial intorest in de- feating Tiory, The peoploof that State are, mora than all othors, immediately con- cerned in all that pertains to the publio The wenllh of New York ia depend. ent on tha maintennnco of tho public eredit. The organization of a * Solid South " ns ngainat tho North, and to control the Gov- crnment which it eleets, {3 full of peril to It in mn especinl manner threatons the publio eredit. esistonco tho question of a new public debt, equal to the predent oue, Congress, 8 mnjority of whoso members will bo instructeto vole for ft, the nllowanuco of Southern claims for wnr damages amount. ing to two thousand millions of dollnts, Those claims ean only be paid by anin- crensed issuo of greonbacks; or by the issue of new untional bonds, uttorly destrictive to the publio credit, and destructiva of the values of all property. ‘Iho panic of 1873 would be trifling in its effects to the creation of anow public debt to pny these claims of the Solid Bouth, No clnss of persons in the laud aro so sensitive or 80 kaenly alivato tho preservation of the pub- lic credit and to its stability ns the commer- cial and tinancial peoplo of New York. It waa this alarm lest there would be ex- periments with the finances which led the commercial interests of the country, without distinetion of pnrty, to nbaudon Grerney oud take GrasT in 1872, and tho samo class will now abaudon Tiuory and his Solid South, arrayoed s sn ariny of claimants nud groenbackers, to tako tho clear-headed, do- termined, conservativo Haves for Presidont, who on all quostions of financo and lLonest governmont is infloxible. That the Tildenites will Now York is ULeyond all question, is ot stake * there. schomes . of the voterans in tho worst forms of election frands will bo adopted and practiced, but it will bo in'vain, 'The popu-, Iar judgmont of the State is largely agaiust TiLoeN, who will perish among tha peoplo, who know him as ho is, A misteko common among Republicans, a8 well as among Domocrats, is, that tho Rc- publicans in 1876 must have popular mojori- tios equal to thoso of 1872 or bo benten, Ver- mont-aud Mnine gave smaller majoritics 1m 1876 than thoy gave in 1872, but thoy aro 8o tho mnjority in Ohio in October, 1876, s o fow thousand less than in Octobor, 1872, but it is na conclusive. ‘Tho Topublican party may fail in 187¢] iu wany States, in getting tho cnormous majority it did in 1872, but tho mojorities, if less in numbers, will not be auy less decisive and 1t is not necessary to have 55,000 mn- jority in New York State, but the majority, even if it fall short of that number, will be oqually ns conelusivo in dofeating Sax. Trr- EN, who {a at this timo the most objection- eble and unpopular Democrat in that Stato, THE BOLID S0UTH. The TroeN Democracy, knowing that the solvation of their candidate deponds upon the vote of the Solid South, have set them- sclves at work to accomplish it by capturing the majority in five Stutes which aro unques- tionably Republican,—Mississippi, Cavoling, Louisians, Alabama, and Floridn, If tho Stato clection furnishes apy critevion, Georgin has nlrendy boon captured by the almost total exlinguishment of the Repub- liean mnnjorities in over fifty counties, No ono will disputo the fact thnt thero aro somo white Ropublicans in every Southern State, and that the negroos ave, ns & rulo, o unit in their Republicanism, lins a white population of $82,806, and n colored populution of 414,201, gave o Ropublican majority of 85,119; in 1873, n Ropublican majority of 19,880, 'Then the * Mississippl plan” was put in operation, and fn 18756 o Domooratic majority of 80,147 was secared. Sonth Oarolina has a whito population of 289,067, and a colored popula- tion of 415,814, Its Republican mnjority 4140 for Novomber, TRRME OF SUDSCRIPTION, 1@10 lower, at fide. PATABLE IN ADVANCI In another column will bo found the pro- ceedings of the paven Republican Logialative Conventions which wero Leld yesterday, Amnong tho nomineea will be found the names of soveral good, capable men, of A numbor of indifforently good ones, and of several who aro quite uniit for the. positions for which thoy have been selected. The legisln- tivo lickot, taken asa wholo, is Letter than that pat up by the Domoorats, but one wight enll it very much better, and then not sny much in its favor, since tho Opposition peeimen eoples sens free, o preverl delay and tiiutakes, ho snreand give Poste i fail, inctoding State and County, e nade clilier by dratt, express, 4 or fteisiered Tetters, atour rsk ITY SURICRILENS, exceptrd, 25 cents per wee! Wand*u Munannr. It bl Afternoon “TwoUrplians * and ** Uncle To k four exceptions. Dhad hoped that the Republican Conventions would havo mndg stronger nominations, but they do 1ot sgen to have realized tho needs of .tha public or tho imperative necessity of aending Lo Springfleld competout men with & tively apprecintion of the, requivements of this county. 'They have, however, fallen short of tho mark, nnd given us candidates who, whilo generally fair men, are not up to 1t is understood that the Domocratio leaders ara going to bounce n numbor of the scalawags off thoir ticket, 1f thoy do, it will set an irresistible example, and Indueco tho Republicans to strengthen their ticket by resorting to n similar process of purification, i Adclplil Thenives earhor stréct, coruer Monrus. Now Chicago Theatre. . etween Katdofoh and Lake, Hooles's MeViekerts Thentre ndiean street, . between gagument of G. F. It places before Tinveriv's Thentre. atrecs, between Clark and LaSalle. Calle PRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1870, Greonbacks at the Now York Gold Ex- Either course is /chango yesterdny closed at . s -.: Minister Wasupunyr yesterday recolved at L_ Poris from a doputation of Polish gentlemen + s rpecint nddress and medat for transinission " to'tho Prosident of tho United Slates, in - Lionor of our Centonnial eommemoration. ¢ R — NEW YORK THE BATTLE-FIELD. The Indiaua returns received Inte at night, or rather early in the morning, after onr yostorday's comments woro written, changod tho nspocts from Hannisoy to Witrrams, and the information now beforo us indicates that Wizsians io clected Governor, and that tho Domocratic Btate ticket has received tho most votes, while, on tho other hand, the Ropublicans hava gained two or three mem- bers of Congrass, and hiave carried the Legis- Inture, and atmost wipod out the hesvy Dem- ocratio mnjority of two years ago. mnjority for WiLLiaMs at best will bo very small, but it is enough to eunablo the Demo- crats to insist that thoy cau carry the State for T'ILDEX noxt month. 1y beliove that Laxes will carry Indiaus, the moral effect of tho election will be on the sido of the Domoorats. did in theso thinga, Tho battlo there will hiave to bo fought over again, but it will be by home forces nnd mwans on both sides. This resnlt ju Indiana serves merely to pro- long rather than decide the contest. the Stato gone Ropublican, tho vote of Indi- aua would havo been lost to Tiupex boyond all question, and as the fifteon votcs of Indi- awn are indispensable to his clection in avy cage, that wonkt have determined his defeat. Including Indinns, therefors, among the possible States for Tiuory, let us soo how Lbis chances nro clsowhero ¢ The, State of New York is, undor all cir- cumstances and conditions, essontial to tha olection of Mr. Trozv, and a. careful exnmi- netion of the history of partios in that Btato does not promise a Democratic majority thevo; on the contrary, there ave less proba- bilities of Twory pgotting tho voto of Now York than of Lis getting the voto of Olio or The claim hos been nade, and it was ntrongly wrged as o reason for his nomi- nation, that he had rescued Now York from tho Republioan party and lLad been olectod by 50,000 majority, and bind 1made Now York & Democratia State. Thero is no truthin Iora aro the facts: In 1872, the Democratio candidnte for Governor of Now York wns Francis Keunay, ono of {ho ablest and best kuown lawyers in the State, o man of unblomished persdunl cheracter, vespouted by nll partics, and ono 0f graat personnl popularity, e was a man who crented unthusinsm in his own porty, and wilencea eriticisin nmong opponents, ceived the wholo vote of tho Democratic party,—92,350 votes,—Dboing soveral thou. sond more than was given for Greenny. Keunay was at that election beaton by Gon, Dix, who recoived 447,801 votes, or o mn- ‘Iwo years later, in 1874, camo the * tidal wave,” when tho Republic. ans nbstained from voting aud allowed the Demoerats to capture Ohie by 17,000, In. diana by 17,000, 1llinois by 30,000, axd even clect n Domocrntio Governor in Masaachu- sotts, and gain Congressmen in Kansas, Towa, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Illinois, and At that election, in that year of Republican bolting and nbstinonce aud Dom- ocratio onthusinsi, Mr, Tinoey was earried in on the wave and eclected Govornor by Tho total vota.for Gov- ernor i 1674 wna 45,000 less tfion in 1872, Tho unpolled Republican vote was far great- or than ‘I1LpEx's majority, notwithstanding hehndreceived thonsands of Republicnuvotes s a tribute to his then supposed botraysl of his old and intimate friond Tweep, and for ‘WWaopwanp, the pal of Pweep, yestorday _completed the journey from Chinago to Now * “York in chargo of tho ofticers sont to escort ihim to the seeno of his former greatuess, o was raceived with marks of distinguighed 2 § being fixed at , consideration, .~ At last tho stroag arm of tho Fedoral Gov- ' “erumont hny interposed for tho protection of ¥ life, tho enforcomont of tho luw, and the > punishment of mmder, assossination, and ¢ riof'iu South Carolina. + tics wero powarless to bring to justico the organized bands of negro-butehers, and now ! comea the gratifying intelligenco that soveral . arrests wevs mado "yesterday by Fedoral rranty issued by the United < Btates Commissionar in Aiken nud Barnwell Countien, 8. C., cud tha! the prudout Tilden- .+ iteu submitted to arvest without resistance. e e are getting to bo extremely Prisonors em- 1.+ braca il opportunities to got awsy, aud the + " unincarceratod pnblic curses tho general bys- " tem of jull mancgemont for the romarkablo Although we firm- ‘The State cuthori- It ia bost to bo can- All the arts snd ourrre, tho nlleged nuthor of the terrible con- athe, changed his baso ng three other prison- Ohleago has lind un extonsive 1-loliveries, nad is propared i to wuggest to Caunda the remedy which sho z¢f L2 npply in Novambor s olect any Dumozratic Shoriffs ? lageation nt St. Ky + Wodized iy night, 1 oxperioneoia ja oncerning tho result in ‘Indiung is removed by the dispatches this Tho Democzatio’ Slato ticket hns "boen eleoled Ly n mejority which will not Jwary far cither way [rowm 8,000, Somuch But the bLright side of “tho silustion consists in tho fact, now dofi- * nitely avvertaiued, that the Kepublicans have - beyond uestion geined fonr Cougressmen, i. and probably five, asone district is yot in i donbt, henidan nworlting tmajority in tho Log- isloture, ‘Ihis fact, taken in connection with tho aotual Republican majority of 4,000, aud tho assuved muin of flve ltepuldican Con- .gressmen in Ohio, reduces tho renl occasion for Domoerstic jubilation down to n point too fite to bo perceived with tho nnked eyo, ‘It is n nubstantial aud gratifying Ropublican victory alt uround. - LAl ureortninty ‘for the Democrazy, jority of G461 The Tndustriul Age, of this city, ono of i tho Greonback orgnus, does not talie much . ptock in that oulrpgeous fruud and vulger ignoramus, Luw Srewanp, who is ranning for Governor on falso pretenses, of tho nssurtion that he wes present at the Oany meeting in Chicngo, it says: It I baroly povsthlo that Mr, STEWARD was pres- . enta fow minutes while 3tr. Cauy was spoaking, although thers were parties on the stand that overs Iooked the crowd that dld not sce hlin, TiroeN mass-meeting the other night, Mr, STEw- * anw was present, and the Age in ndvized ho accus ;" pled a conspicuvas placo on tho stand, and stiend- i ol an cxtonsive joilifcatlon and powwow held by Palmer House afwer . ‘the meeting ndjourned. Tho Age has yet to hiear ol Mr, Hrewaun's over having uttended n Ureen- i dack, a Fanmer's club, or u Grango mectiug in his ! owncounty. Indecd, wonre told such & clreume * stance hns never yet Lapponcd, Oluoy fricnd to revicw his cuncluglons and alvixe 88,619 majority. riflo -clubs ‘oud os- “HaarroN men,” TIn Louisiana tho white ponpulation numbers 862,065; tho Dlack, §G4,210, lican mejority in 1873 wns 14,605, hns awhita population of 621,384 5 colorla population, 475,610, In 1872 the Ropublican majority waa 10,97+ TFlorida has always beon a Ropublican Stato. Ithas a white pop- wlation of 04,057 and o colored population of 01,689, For years past it has given a Re- publican majority at ovory eloction. Ahero iy not ono of thuse five Blales which would not cast n large Republienn mojority if a {free and honest oleotipn conld Lo held. But tho ' Eloctoral voto of theso five Blutes iy obsolutely nocessary to the clection of I'iupeN, Consequently, they mnst bo solidi- now boing done use of tho shot-gun nnd res volver, by murder, Thero is but one offset to this, and that is, n Solid North, The North must unito agalust this plan of intimidation. The Bolid South must bo shown that it cannot succood ag o section by disfranchising Re- publicans, and tho Northern Copperheads must be shown that the Democratio party shall not bo trusted with power obtained by x;‘:y{:g upon the fraudulent vote of tho Bolld Carolina plan" of The Republicans in 1875 mado zn effort in thoso Stutes where eloctions were lold to rocovor the losscs iu 1674, ‘Wisconsin, Mussachusetts, New Hampshive, Thoy not only overcomo the Democratic majority of 17,000 in Ohlo, but had s majority of ovor 5,600 for ITaves, In New York tho Demoeratio ticket was mp- ported by the ¥ Liberals," and wore strongly nided by TiLpEN, then in offico as Governor, At that olectiou the Democratio Btato ticket had a majority over the Itepublicans of only 14,800, while 11,100 porsons wasted their votes on a Temporance ticket. Tho nctual Democratic majority of tho-whole vote cast wes but 8,707, aud the totnl popular vote was 02,488 loss than- was polled. in 1672, The *‘Reform" clarnotor of TumeN was belng oxposed, and the falsity thereol wado public, and kiad ho boon a caudidate for re- clection last yoar ho would surely have been bonten, ‘Che unpolled, hostile Ropublican vota would hiave * snowed him under,” be. yond any reasonnble doubt. that the Republican vola of Now York in 1872 reached 447,800, and vo party before or since has ever appronobied the magnitude of Nevor since tho Republican par- ty was organized, Lwenty-two years ayo, hasit been Lotter united, or move doterimined to carry tho Btate thon it s now. Tho Repub- licons will poll more than half-n-million of votes in the Empire 8tato on the 7th of No- vober next, and it is not jn the power of Sax Troey and his cohorts 'to beat it, nor ‘como within many thousands of it. 1t will be noticod that in 1874, when Tir. e was olected Governor, thero were over 75,000 Republicau votes not polled, while his mojority was only 88,000, In 1873 thero were 64,488 Ropublican votes not polled, and the TiupeN tickct had but 3,707 majority. Ta 1876 thero will be a full kall-willion s — "'ha conditions nro sanouncod on which * the Torto consents to nu armistlod of six Bervin 1s to Lo forbidden to odeupy . the positions now in possession of the ‘t'nrk- ah army ; tho introduction of arma and am- munition into Horvis and Montenogro and the passnge of foreign voluuteers into tho W'nrk. ish provinees are to be strictly prohibited ; _i,» ond Bervia and Montenogre ara to ba prohib- ited from giving nny assistunco to tho inaur: gentsinadjacentprovinces, Itisalmostamats - terof oo that Borvia will refuse to be bound by such ono-sidod conditions as thevo; and ‘44t Ja wtatod in o London dispateh that Russia -+ hing siguified hor refusal to accodo to the pro- , hilition in regard to the passage of volun- " teers into Servin—which is the most impor. ~ tank of the Turkish conditions, avowal has beon mnda by Russia, it fa in effect a pluin declwation of active sympathy “with Servie, a3 well s of dssatisfaction with ihe cutire peaco programme of tho Porto, -"‘Buch en attitude on the part of Rusain would Lring matters in the st to an immediate - ¢risis, and'tho situation Ia regivded as moro + aritical than st nuy timo sinco tho proposition for au armistice wis subinilted. ‘They rocoverod and Pennsylvanin, Boar ju mind < Besides ths assurance which the vietory in Obio gives of tho clection of Haves in No- vember, tho results of the eleclions in tho Congressional districts are most gratifying, Ex-Booretary-of-the-Interior Cox, who, in the Toledq Distriot, succeeds Hunp, Demoorat, 0 rauk as ouo of the leadors of the Houso, 'Iis record ‘as Governor of Obio aud a3 Oabinet officer guarantees that. jo will lend in the right direction. causo of OCivil-Bervico reform gains an earnest, cfiiclont supporter. TER, ¢ tho only Republican who could enrry the Sandusky District,” Las, as Ropublicans’ throughout the outire West and Northwest will rejoice toloarn, earriod his district aguin, Uou, Ganeizup is roturned from (he Western Reserve, with bis old wajority, aud probably , Tho Clicago produce mnrkets wera gon. erully more netive yesterdny, nnd easier, ex- " copt fn whent and corn, 3ess pork closed 25¢ per brl lowor, at $10.25 for October, year, ~ Lard closed dull 1 4 eash and $9.26@Y.274 for ‘the yoer. Moats wero casler, at Gjo for now shoulders, boxed, 83afor do short ribs, wnd 8o for do short clears. Lako. freights wero quiet pud steady, at 8§o for cora to Bulfalo, Highwines woro firm, at $1.10 per gallon. Flour was. guiet and unchanged, Whooat -cloged 1o Ligher,"at §1.05% for | Caancey Fos- will uccoed to tho lendership vacated by the | nt $16,000. With charactoristic crooked clection of Mr. Braine to tho Bonate. Not | smartness, in violation of the law, Lo refused Ieas to bo rejolced at is tho signal defeat, in | to malke return of his income, and lat it bons. tho Cleveland District, of PAvwx, tho Domo. | sessed at but §15,000, on which he paid his cratic member who entered Congross as an | 27 por cont peualty with alnerity, in order to honest-monoy man and played the partof a | oheat the Gevernment ont of the demagoguo in stooping to dandle thorag- | tax on tho residue .of his incowe, baby, Ile is succecded by Avos Towsstxp, | Thero is no question nbout tho facts o leading business man of Cloveland, o | as to this particular piece of cerooked man of ability, with sound views upon | smartness. 'Tho records of the Peninsnla tho cwronoy question, In tho defent | and of the Northwoestern Companies will dis- of Hunp, the Ohlo Domocracy lost | closo how he plucked tho Company for thelr best ropresentative in Congress, | which he was Trustes, counsel, and Di. But, to compensate for this, they ro. | reptor; and thorocords of tho Internal Rov~ turn from the Colambus Distriet Gen, | enue Buroan will show how he. chonted the Tos Ewmva, who, barring his financial | Governmont out of the tax.on tho 174,460 vagaries, {2 n pretly good Republioan, nnd is | he made by tho Peninsula oporation, Is the n man of decided ability and high charaeter. | *orooked smnrtucss” that has enablod Mr. The triumph of common senso and common | T1LoEN to amass a fortune of seven millions honesty. over politient . domagoguory and | insuch fashion tho kind of smartness thnt flagrant dishonesty in the election of Montoy | qualifies him for the Presidency P C. HuyTer in the Terro Haute, Indiana, S —— Distriot, 18 slso mattor of rojoicing. No- | THE * NORTH Au‘g%c;m- ON THE BITU- ;vlmm intha Unltéd Stated b the rag:linly No more coneplcuous illustration of *! the dlocy been developed to such degreo as in soholar § titics " hos b ished with. tlsnl district. Tho fnot that kio hnd tho cours | 20h0lar in politica " hns Laon fumishod with- 1o the last two or thres years than by the age aud manliness Lo squarely combat it wos blo North American Review, Th by tho managivg politicinis of tho Stato [ JoRereve Lrordh Lmer g P generally set down ns fotal to his chauces, “:":“;?; ::‘:; d:l;:in:ll;g“fill‘::l;fi:::!;:: and his clection is o chearing ovidenco that ;"‘ a1 h ¢ than that of the rag-baby dolusion is not proof dgainat th carod Jor nol, othier company tian: Yint 0 o o Muses, each of whom, in turn, wrote nn argument,—in fact, that, whora it is worst, all thnt s nccossary Is to fairly meot and nrticlo forits pages. One might search ita Wit porily numbers in vain for opinions and dis- e ————— cussions concorning the presont issues of BOLID GEORGIA. the country or the world; but tho past was Georgia is solid for tho Democracy, Ithns | under ondloss roviow. There was n censeless Leon carrled by 80,000 majority, and out of | succession of articles on CriAvcEn, SreNsER, 219 mombers of tlie Logialaturo tho Repub- | Minron, DrypeN, DaNTe, Tasso, and other licans lhave chosen seven! Thero is no | literary clossics, The heroes of anclent doubt,. thereforo, that it is solid for the | and modern history fared well, nlso, at that Domocrncy, but what does this . term | board, Ocecasionnlly Scolch snd Germnn tgolid " imply? Tt implies that in more | motaphysics furnished n thome, and suech a thon fifty connties tho Republicans hnva | question as thatof proteotion or froc-trade been disfranchived, . Not ono Ropublican in | edged in, under sanotion of a Harvard Pro. three dared to vote tho ticket ho wanted. In | fessor. But tho tide of thought and fecling ot than fifty counties the colored voters | fu this nge sweops away the old outnumber the whites, aiid no ono will claim | laudmarks, Ono by one they all that the colored voters are not Republicaus. go. Henco oven the XNorth American Loolk at the following table, giving the popu- | feols the spirit of the times. It has intro- lation and voto of some of these countes: duced tho scholar into politics, and lhas lad ",{f}:flflf“""}},},fi";ff_ ,,327‘1“;,,. notable serios of articles Ly leading think. 50 4 4,055 01. | ors on such topics s methods of tnxation, 5}-},;;} nationa! finances, the judicinry, the New &gl; York Ring, Civil Service-Reform, and mu- nicipal government. These contributions to current discussions hnve been high-toned and independent of party, sud have sot o good oxample of the right method of denling with political probloms, 4D The October number is still moro venturo- ‘Wheso figures show why Georgin is solid | gomo, It eutors the maclstrom of current for tho Domocracy. In 1867 there wero | polities The number is, indeed, slmost on- 05,778 Ropublicun votes cast in Georgit. | tirely politicnl—four of the five articlos hav- Tho colored populationof tho counties named ing that bearing, nnd two of them being abovo i 118,967, and the nnmber of Repub- enmnpaign productions, Thorcupon Lns en- licon votos cast by these counties in1874 a3 | gued an explosion. 'Tho publishors, when 5,031, and every ono of theso countios wns | tnay earned the contonts of tho forthcoming carried by the Democrota except one. What | number, resisted such o change in tho char- has become of thin voto? It will hardly Lo | geter of this venerablo and dignified poriod- denfed tbat the Couslitution gives theso | jenl, ond tho two editors, Cmannes Apaxs negroes the right of suffrnge. Somo otio hns | 4y Hrvne O, Looaw, resigned. But it was takon it awoy. And this is reform,—tho sup- | ¢oo late to substituto now matter, and so tho pression of the freo ballot. Is it not a doli- | nymber appoars with n ** Publishers’ Notico,” cato picco of irony that Congreas should givo disclpiming responsibility for the opinions tho ballot to o class of men who caunob pro- | expressed. Wo ave not surprised at tho dis- toct themselves and thon fail to protect them | glpimer, whon wo considor tho positions in crating it? Was it not a oruel mot of | foken in tho nrticles on * Tho Southern Ques- kinduess? » tion" and *'The ‘Indepondonts’ in the Can- ' TILDEN'S CROOKED SHARTNESS. vass"; which may woll illustrato tho blindncas. Said the New York J'rceman's Journal, the | that sometimes necompanics Liaving reform loading Catholio organ of tho country, and | ‘‘on the brain,” The writers actually ndvo- always Democratios *Wo urged that the | cato the sapport of TizoeN and tho Demo- wholo record of M. TrLoex showed him to | crals ou tho ground that tho Republicans, bo possessed of tho crooked kind of brain | having failed to keop thoir plodges of clvil- that connted it amart to botray evory,interest | sorvjco and financial reform, must bo rebuked intrustod to him—from n railrond company | by dofeat, even though a worse party should up, or down,” comoinl Thisis finding a cooler place by Tt was shortly beforo tho St. Touls Con- | jumpiug ont of tho frying-pan fnto the firo; vontion, whon Titpey was boosting hinsclf | ory a8 another popular proverb has it, moro aloft on his shom roputation 88 n reformer, | foroibly than olegautly, is “biting off your and tho Journal's statomont was thon re-.| nosoto kpite your face.” It is difficult to sco ceived with genoral incredulity, But the | tho moral principlo on which such action facts that have since buon dragged to light | oan bo bnsed by o conscontions reformer, strikingly domonstrate tho oxact truth of the | who is actunted by something higher than Journal's description of Saswen J, Tioes, | Apleon, and aims nt something nobler than All thero is of him is becanso of that crooked | revenge. It is woll known thot Tz Tnm- kind of brain of his that counted it smart to | UNE has not defonded somo of the criticised betray every intorest intrusted to him, poculinrities of President Gnaxt's Adminis. I'lint crooked smartness—ihot modo him | tration, which hiave displensed many Repub. This bar'] of monoy, which is tho chicf part | licans, aud that it has never covored up of him, mndo i nomineo at St. Louis, and | or cxcused the renl iniquities of ¢ carpot- is counted on to clect him—is illustrated by | bngism” at the Houth, Its influence has tho history of his oporntions in connection | boen thrown in favor of dotaching tha party with the Pommnsula Rnilrond Comnpany of | from corrupt moethods aud inen, and of try- Michignn. This was orgnnized ‘{o build o | ing fresh and unimpeachablo candidates fn- railway from Eacansba to Nogaunes, & dis- | stead of time-worn and mccused politiciana, tanco of somo soventy miles, The onterprise | We are, thereforo, not insensible to the ac- was projectod on the plan in whioh Mr, | cusations which tho North American bringa T1oEN hos proved so expert, of constructing | against certain prominent Ropublican politi- thio rond on its debts. ‘To beginwith, a mill. | cians, or oven to those with which it nasails 1on dollars worth ‘of bonds and sn oqunl | the party in general. Bat, just now, we aro amonnt of stock were issued. under n law | more concorned with the practical queation, iafted by TiLpex ns * full-paid ” stock and | What shall bo dono sbout it? bonds, and sold, tho bonds at 76 cents on Ordinarily, threo courses e open to dis- tho dollar, aud the steck at 25, An addi- | satisfied members of a party. Tho natural tional million of bonds was issued and sold | one, to be first and pationtly pursued, Where for tho equiptaont of the road. That done, | hopo of chnnge still oxiats, is to remain in tho mastor-stroko of “‘crooked smartness® | tho party, agitate with pen aud voico for re- was engincored by Mr. Tumpey, That was | form, endeavor to socuro tho best nomina- the unlonding of the rond, which proved a [ tions, and then support theso ot tha polls. losing venturo, upon the Chicago & North- | Another ig, to romoin passive and forlboar to western. Trnvex held the relation of | voto, on tho avowed ground of dissatisfac- Director, Trusteo, and counsel to tho | tion, waiting till, through force of circum- latter Compnny, which triplo ' posi. | stances, o favorsblo change sball occur, tion of trust and confidonco lio | This is in cnso reformatory efforts have 1ndo use of to defraud those who hadin- | proved vain, and yot no opporiunity offers trusted thoir intorests to him. ‘This was | for a decisive movement in any othor direo- electod by a * consolidation " of the Penin- | tion, In this mood of mind recourse sula Conpany with the Northwestorn, Dythis, | js somotimes had to * sorntching” and to 08 ongineered by Mr, T'rLpey, the Poninsula | split tickets ns a temporary measure, Then, Londs, 'issucd for 75 conta on tho dollar, wora | ‘thirdly, whon tho discontented hava become nssuted at poar by the Northwestern Compa- | nunerous, and all other menns are hopeless, ny; ond the Poninsuln stock, issued for 25 | a now and puror party may bo organized to conts on the dollar, was oxchanged at par for | proscouto the roquisite reform., This was Northiwestern stook, one-half of which was | tho course neoessitated whon the Whig end proferred. Tho transaction footed up thus: | the Domooratio parties both refused to breal 31,000, Pty Rl with the slavehioldors, and the auti-slavery Conts o the dollaT, cveanses ©...8 771,550 | mou, coming out from both, formed first the R ooyl pstiisndug, AL, 8 260,000 ¢ Liborty,” then the * Free-8oil,” and then $1,000,000" =P | the ¢ Ropnblican !’ porty, patiently waiting canta; 260,000 | for twonty yems fur the finnl success at the +ve0:81,271,750 | polls. ‘Chese threo coursos can bounderstood, NECKIVED FRON CHICAGU & NORTHWLSTERN, and can bo defonded, in appropriste ciroum- 4 Micas L ";x(,:}‘.':r‘."?,“‘gu‘,é’.‘.‘%;?,af fl::)lsl.l;‘:w:;:%'; stances. But who, before tho advent of theso 10 per cont, . ++81,020,000 | North Americanreformers, -ever heard of "™ 400,000 | tho policy of golng squaroly over to tho 475,000 | OPEWY and voting for the moro cosrupt aud ——_ | hopeless of tho two partics ?' Surcly tho iden e "l' $2,144,000 | of chango, merely for the sake of a chango, efghteen wontl $ 872,750 | or actunlly to make' things worse till thoy In pddition to which Fruozy and the Ring, | shall be unondurable, is too much hko a whon thoy nulonded the Poninsula Rond upon | childish spito or ablind fury, DBut few, wo the Northwestorn, thomselves gobbled the | aro sure, will take the irrational advice and land-gront inade by Congross in ald of the | givenidaudcomfort to thoonewmy ju tho vaguo Ponlusuly Rosd of 316,000 scres, ‘Tho wholo | liope that ho will not be nlle in four yoars profit in the operation was made at the ex- | to do irreparable mischief; cspecially as he pense of tho Northwostern Rtoad, the intor- | will bave o Republican Benato to hold him osts of which TizoeN was under triple nforal | in check, The ombarassments and perils nud legal obligation to-protect, Ile himsel? | ocoasioned tho Inst session of Congresd by a pockelod the sum of $174,460 of it, which | Houso of Ropresontatives controllod by ex. was tho rownrd of hig smart crookeducss in | Rebels moy tench us whot s to be feared betraying the iutorests intrusted to bim, should that body be seconded by a President, But his smart orookedness did not cud with | Cabinet, aud elghty thousand office-holders that, It wos early in tho year 1805 that ho | in full sympathy, 5 pocketod this $174,450. For that yoar, as f'he veasoning bf these writorsis of (ke shown by tho official figures in. tho Iuternal | oddest description. 'They sre impossible to Revenuo Bureay, his income-tax was returned | please. Thoy , adwlt “thut the nybnhchn , 000,000 Chicags preforred stack, nt 00 cen $1,000,000 Chicago & Northwestorn conuon stock, ut 42 centd,. P 4 Wy platform is right, and that tho party is com mitted to roform ; Imt then the Demoeratla party stands verbally fu the snma position, They criticlsa My, Tizpey fot his too elab. orata letter of accoptance, which hna the ap- penrance of boing the caveful production of annstute old politician. One would then suppose that thoy would be chormed nud won by the frank! outspoken utterance of Buch an uttornnce, they Lhink, shows that lio is well-menning, but doos not ses the diffienlties of tho as doos tho shrewd Mr., TILDEN| ahd so quite likely he will prove to Le ‘incompotont ? rensoningthe most inveterate fonlt-finder can alwnys make ont his caso, qualities aro thus ensily turned agninst him, and the vory traits of his adversary which should cronte suspicion are. converted into It is obvious, nlso, that the gravity of the present situntion at the South is not taken into’tho acconnt, dentinl enmpnign s thero in progress, of whichthe author of the nrticle on * The Southern Question " speaks, -ns * tho froo cxemisd‘ of its eloctiva franchise "—nu ox- pression which, in view of the glaring facts of the intimidation and coorclon of negro voters, reminds ono of the definition of tho freedom of tho will by some of tho old di- vines, nan power to do evil, but an’inability It must never bo forgotten that, as the ballot-box is tho embodiment of free institutions, so its protection is the first of civil dnties on the part of the rulors and Heneo, so long ns the Soutl is endeavoring to emrry the election of President by violence, and is pre- venting * the free exevciso of the electivo franchise " on the part of the negro voters, it must Lo met by the North with immovable firmuness. Al other questions must be post- poned till it bo settled whether the very foundations of a Republican Government aro to bo ovarturned by former Rebols who havo generously boon allowed to resnme their privileges ns citizens of the United States, Thero can bo no discussion of questions of reform with men who subatitute force for ronson, Omo might as well cali upon Con. gros to legislate under the coorcion of o regiment of troops os to ask the peoplo of thae North to nccept Mr. Tioex when urged upon thom by a solid Southern vote secured In 1800, theso same mon, when outvoted, rofused to accept the Prosident elected nccording to the Coustitu. tion and laws, and, Mexico.ike, started a rovolution in the interest of tho minority. As we put down that annrchical procedure, 50 we proposc to defent the prosont similur estimnte; bat, it the Democrats win aonls in patienco untfl the 8thor will read In thelr papers, ‘Vermont, 30,000." ettt THE BOUTHERN CHEDIT. MOBILIER, We print below, from the nierelal, the detnlls of achem tion of a Southern Credft My power tocolleet the ex-Rehe] the programmo to be ndopte: ing aBonthern poliey for the Northe faces and Copperhieads fn ca: riLoex. Wacommend it to our cellent reading, sinco it the futuro operatious o ehall get control of tho Govern operatlons may not assume the specls] an organized Credit Mobiller, bt one of 1ts objeets or plana that wiyy tempted. Here 18 the plan ot the g ns summarized intoa Credit Moy, Mafority for Hyper orm, vblllor,~wuh fnfi Duts in tanglile this mothod of [ the Bolid Suuty Se (¢ enncted by the Senate re of fited G ihe State af aliogtonet, qate of PPERSON DAvin, Tamrrox, Rorzer Tonxns, nm\n?e' !ll‘l oanry be and thoy are her I porate powers, - unier the SHanaxp SouTHERN WaiUna CostraNy" of tho **Solid Son herefnafter named. viILCT or COAPANT. poration hs and {hy owercd 1o cather « Second—That eald cory is hereby nithorized and fl:\urgl ll;u clllnlm‘n! nofiv I\ ea for refunding the direct taxc; nuonnting {0 82,402 110; aleo lield by Sonthern eitizens for rofe re pald Lo the United 184, wid all War clajing ns for supplics, Morse, aken by the Unfted Stat 0 ad accupation furnished to and cluding rent for thoe usi éstite, camping grounds, satd War claling ainount tos:, 400, oo, vold by tho luws of war, but ought iy’ equily to bo pakl out of'the United State u order to concillate tho Soath, nnd to o gouvs to Le forgulten. AUTHONZED CATITAL, Third—The nathorlzcd caplial of rad of tho people. a8 the exigencies moy require from thne Fourth—Tle followin, liecame m¥mbers of sak pointed out and for the purpose (1.) The Southern Siates Inte the direct taxes heretofo! vut of the Unitod Sintes Treasnry ab of the Northern $tates, npon nesigning their o} m(s”nlil Xfimp‘nny lmrug’!;lmg‘n";u 2, citizens of the South who military or naval eervite of {1 tatered fhe oracy, or who gave said Conf clasace of porsony may the Southern Conei nlerac; U ynpithiaed Wi G L ors poro upon the asslgnment of thelr claims to sald Co. All Democraticmembers of thet) ‘l’lr L'ungx;u:‘u“: all Dcmncmlllf niewbers of ‘louee of Congresss nuy Democratle Pr iha Unlted Siaies who Tony libyen 1o By ns well as all other Democrate wio may ay either of theso_ofllccs, o ot tho interesta of tho promisc to aid the South In return for Southery support glven to the Democracy fromtime 10 time, = PLAN OF OPRIATION. it FIfth~That said incorporated Company shall roceed [n the collection of enid clama from the nited States with diligence and perseverance, nntil atrare collected, and until il sald taxey which were Jevied and pald by the South ross Lier shall have been fully refunded, ollowing general plan of ‘operations ehall be f 50 much finjortance to by revolver and rifle, id_South," upon thely gn‘t‘hnm States shail bo mado s unit-s 2.) 'The Northern St to mako o ** Divided N THE BOUTH CAROLINA PLAN, Murder and nssassination are not the only moans of torrorism employed by tho Tilden- ites of Bonth Carolins to prevent tho negroes ‘Tho Charleston® News and Couricry of Oct. 4, n fanatical Democratic sheot, gives soma detsils of * tho Proferanco Policy,” which aro significant, offices have beon opencd whore persons *in record with tho party of honesty and reform who aro in sonrch of omploymont or deserve patronnge ” ean entoll their namos, and whero applications can bo made by those who can find work or places for anyof ‘‘Haxwron's men.” The preferenco is to bo given to ¢t Haurron’s men,” also, in the renting of Iand and hiring of lnbor. nt‘li:l u')‘mll bo divided g0 u Democratic majority shall be sccared fa sfority shall b jority shall bo secared | House of Conzresy. A omocratic Presldent ehall bo elected, A cancus of Bouthern Democrata shafl b Democratic Irestdent and Coue gross are olected, in tho City of Washinaton, Thiy caucuy shall then dictaie the Demacratic party, said party ot a full held nssoon as Democratle coucus of and Southern Democruts, to be liold snbseqny A vital polntfu wtcl puly 40 to bo aduple .) That tho Sulid South, aided by the Divided North, through the Domocratic members of Cone cas anid Senate, with the ald of the Demoeratic 'reslident, elected as herein provided, ond in prr- suance of the policy lald urty in caucus asscmbled, which sald cageus is to and’ wholly controlled by & emocrats, na herotofore pre- vided, shall presont nnd press safil claims for pey- ment out-of tho United Btates Trensu to factlitato favorable nction there sl 1y, but quletly, bo distributed the stock of aid Company among infuential members of Congress, in order o interest them fu the allowanco of the lajme. (8.) A Dill shall ho introduced into Cangress sad passed simifur to the Wilshire or the Riddie bill,by which a tethunal sholl bo created empowered wita authority to cxamine (uto and allow eaid claims. Sald tribunal ehull be oither the Secretary of War, who uniler sald Democratio President shiahl, under tha dictation of sald Southern caucur, hia Bouthern man, or a jury made up of Sonthern mes, in a Southern Court, in & Southern State, asmse seoni most favorable to tho allowance of maid out by tho Democratle Tho News and One'capitalist in the mlddle country, who has Jent $75,000 thls year to small farmers, chlofly colored men, on ngrlcnltural llens, hae given fale notice that hereafter all the money hio has to lend, 1o the lust dollar, will go totho followers of Haxr. roy, Mcrchants in differcnt places are taking tho samo stand. Thoy will glve credit to Hawrron's In Qreenville ono white plunter has notifled his hands that in tho event of Ilaurrox's election he can atford to pay them, and will pay them, 83 a ‘month more than ho now pays Thosa Jabororanre oy zealous Demacrats a8 any in the county. 'Tho real moaning of this is n notifieation to colored mon that, unless they vote the C1ogN ticket, thoy cannot ront land, cannot obtain worl:, aud cannot soll to Domocrats or purchage from them. It is ogtracism in its worst form. It says to tho negro, Vote tho Trpex ticket, starve, or leavo the Btate, there be any negro in South Carolina to whom this has not been enid, it is becauso that negro hins been shot by the riflo clubs, which aro oleotioncering for TiLpeN by breaking up Republicou mootings and killing negroes who will not agree to vote the Demo- men and nono other, 5 €nld tribunal for the allowanca of sald chims shall be ostablished, both to fucllitatoa quietsl lowanée and payment of them, and to reline Northern Democintic Congfesspion who may haw given pledges to voto agalust sald claimw In Coo: gress, ml).m the disngreeable duty of votlng foror om. N 70 00 INTO RFFECT. 1 act of incorporation shall @ into cffect 08 soon aa tho Demnocratic party s fe stored to power. ; et Wa don't see any more frantle aseertlonsia tho TipEN papers that Colorado had gone Cons federato, They have ceased denouucing tbe ngont of tho Associated Press for not figurizg out & Confederate vietory; they ate now wiling to ainit that the Republlcans carrled the Stsiey eleeting o majorlty of the Leglalature, therely securfuiz the thros Electoral votes for JLAYD nnd also clecting the Governor, Congressuih and State ticket, and In short everythiue worth having, ‘They bave no longer need of tnal taining deceptlon, and’ theve is nothing to b gained now by further lying or abuse of the Press agent. Indlana and Olio have voted, aud are not Lo bo . juliuenced by Colorado,® The truth way therolore bo made publie without detrlinent to Democratic inter denled or disputed tab In the face of this wholesale distranchising of Ropublicans, wa ora treated by Demooratic nowspapers to the followiug extracts from spacches sald ‘to have beon made by Wape Not one single right enjoyed by the colored peo- plo to-day elull bo taken from them, bo the equals, under the law, of suy wan in South Cuvollna.—Wade Humpton at Durlington. 1am In favor of freoupeech, freo thought. nnd froo men, and God forbld that this campnlyn should abridge onosingle right of une singlo citizen in Bouth Carolina,—¥ade Jamplon al Anderson. Asan offset to l.‘huao glitteriug genornlities from TlaxpTON, Wo quote from the Columbia (8. Q.) Reginter, n Democratic papor, tho fol. lowing resolutions pussed by the Hasrron Club of that city as part of thelr policy to starvo the lnboring population into voting 4hie Democratic tickot ;, Rlesolved, That, rumors being current in tho city tuat certain merchants In this ward arv golug fo shoyw thelr proference for the present Administri- tion on the 7th of Novomher next, the I'residont of this Club do appolnta conunlitce of threo or five, the duty of this Committee bheingto present the roll to avery man in the ward for signatures, thoros Dy glving to cach onc the opportunity of vindicat- Ing himsolf, ond ot tho wamo thne cnabliug the houest laborers for reform to discriminato hotween frionde aud foes, and thut they report atb the sar- Hout posstble moment, Resolved, 'That 1 resolntion sbnit apply equally | foreibly to porters about stores and oftices, carpen- ters, mechanics, baibers, butchers, hack-drivers, and In fact to overy one who roceives wages from tho Lionest citizeny of this warl, Vi In thelight of thoso resolutions and of the facts we have copled above from Iamr. ToN's organ in Charleston, what a Lollow mookery is the drivel of this ox-Rebel abont froa speoch, froo thought, and frov mon | ests. Itlsno longer Culorado bus been swept by the Republicans. R The Oincinnall Cc thy roturns of Colorado. dues worlows injustico to tho Fimss, of your regulation-machin takds Ita news, furnishod grotultots Tilden Bureau, ‘fucluding **yuc-slmiles letters, with submissivo thankfulncss.— nd Sinee tho publication of the following lette! the Democratic pross, | 2inies, hos dried up by refevence to the can Alilance " aud Gov, 1Ay, and hus (s printing fuc-similes of stolen lotters: AMERICAN ~ ALLIANCR, Coxsuirrks Nousg, Naw M ! Sarand o fauty with i, bul AT, s VOFY fh oful for the asalstancey ncluding the Chicogd Y neral refoleing in thede LANDERS, thopross ~rean from the I Thero Is cause for ge clsive defeat of FRANKLIN Denocratie member of Con, ddanapolis District, Jo hmi becom aud his constiluents havo ot presed and squelchied hlw, were curried so far that b whenee he camo an objeet of ridicule. bud enough for Indfan: meu a8 VOORNEES, but. ucar the boundaties of idiocy any longer, - 8o the voters of L trict Aually clapped au oxtinguishe candle, and quenched its. fMekering o mndo the 51 a to have tu lndorso i qu Lanpens haddnfted The Cinclunat! Enquirer, w dlsregard of truth, sald, a day or two before the * Tho returns in the clections of this full have boen wanipuluted : by tho Associated Pross agents, wha seom to be indtruments for tho trausmission of Nepublican nuws alang, . In M, they bollt up the majority tonearly 18,000, when tho actunl roturns cato In, shuwin majority to be a little more than 14, U publicans carefully avoided giving them to the Hura fs what the Associated Press did revort on the night after the clection: *The votul yoto of the Stats wil] probably reachi 134,000, and the Republican majority 13,000 This wus moro than 8,000 below the mark, The Republican majority {u Maine excecds 15,000, and the En- quirer knew ft.when (¢t eaid 14,000, It Is also nlteged that thoe Assoclated Press estimated the yote of Yermont, on the night of tho electlon, at 45,000 Ropublican aud 20,000 Democratic, and his ulso wos denounced ns a grogs partisan cstl- “wafu; bub e ofituial vote almost verlfed thot Cuyahoga County, Ohlo, gave lust ¥ was canshdered an immense vote, Tepublicau~hard mon Democratic—lntation , Totaleseresansres o ot Wik lnerum‘fld ratle voto Increasc flcrumn qeluctluuh The Republican v 1,000, but the Demaoc B M . Beverat of MriMiLrs' frignds have gssured 4 thnt ho §s entircly compots Btate's Attorney and dischia of with ability and eucceas. that hels altogether un able luwyer'than hls opponent, for bettor itted for the ofiice, ayd morally,’ They thlnk tho fers rgo the dutles mfi Tiepublican voto Dewocratic vote " Hepnblican majority Thily, of cuurs, fa liut quite

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