Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 8, 1880, Page 4

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Hight aud Twelve Payo Paper. Bixtcon Pro Papers... . Fureign. Hieht and Twotve Pago Payer, Bixteen Hage Paper 4 TRIBUNE BRAD “THR CHICAGO THIMUSE has established bmnch offices for the recoipt of subspriptions and advortise- Rignte as follows: oF =e * NEW YORK—Itoom 29 Tribune Mullding. F."0, Mo- Fanpex, Manager, GLASGOW, Kcotland—Allan's American News Agones, 31 Henfold-at. i ON. Eng—Amorican Exchange, 449 Strand. a, Agont, C.—100 F street. zy C ir 5 | s MeVicker's Theatre. Madison strect, bolween Dearborn nnd tate. Kine sayoment of Ailss Ada Cavondish. “AS You Like It” Haverty's Thentre. ‘Denrborn street. corner of Monrnv. Engagement Of tho Kiralfy Brothors, “Enchantment.” ‘ Hootests Theatre. Tandoiph streot, botweon Clark nnd Tn Sali, Es gagomont of Robson and Crone. “Bharps und Fint Homlin'a Trentre. Cintk street. botweon Washington and Randolph. “Undor tho Gaslight.” Otympte Thentre Clark streot, between Lako.andttandotph, Engazo- ‘mont of the Oates Opora Company. “ Fanchotto, the Gipsy.” iMams College Gico Club, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1880. A‘¥Fisutxa Schooner manned by fifteen men fs reported to havo been lost off Gloucester, Vass. Fonagns are enusing considerable trouble around Montreal. hoy deal in forged notes on American banks. “ + Tris considered certain that the German Partiamont wifl pass the bil{ desired by Bis- marok,s0 that ho may be induced to withdraw ‘ls resignation. -Tire Liberal gain in the English elections ihus far is eighty-one. Among the members elected yesterday was Asheton Cross, tho Tory Home-Scoretary. es Gey. Grant visited the educational institu- tions of Now Orlenns yesterday, calicd on thu Mayor, and held.a_recoption ut ex-Gov, Plnch- back’s residence, * ‘Tire loyal inhabitants of Quebec aro In AVPKIL 8, 1880, inent the writer mects and disposes of the new dite choson by Mr, Shorinan In a manner that still leaves that gentleman very much tho worse Tor the disputo which ho so foolishly began. BEAcoNsriELD kins already commenced to attond.to tho sufferings of his wounded and dis adled followers. ‘Tho unsuccessful Tory chn+ itidate for Southwark was raised to tho distinc- tion of Queen's Counsel yoaterday. Othor J vietlns of the stragele will bo attended to In tholr turn, Raroncteles, ktlghtsh(ps, peoragos, and orders will bo bestowed with a lavish band, from now tilt the ist of May. Tnx Iowa Democratic Stato Convention meet at Burlington yesterday and selected an uninstructed delegation to tho National Con- vention to be held nt Cincinnat!, Those chosen nre sald to favor Tilden, but their support will epend on that gentleman's being able to carry New York in November. How thoy are tobe enlightened in regard to thia has not yet been detormincd: ‘The two-thirds Fule mieots the on- ure approval of tho fowa Bourbons, error ‘Tie Democratic Congressmen indulged In anothor row yesterday. Sparks of Mtinols called Clymer of Pennsylvania na iar (a Mine, enh{) during the discussion of tho Army Appro- priation bill, Mutual explanations were made afterwards, tho offensive expression wag with drawn, and a semblance of decency was affected ty the Domoernt{io happy family. Tho frequency of theso " flare-tps" causes one to almost regret that tho duys of chivalry—that is to ens, South ern ohivalry—have passod, —— At tho Rhode Isinnd State election yester- day the Republicans were victorlous ua usual, Owlng to the presence of three Gubernatorial tickets In tho field, the Republitan candidato for Governor fallen of securing a miunjority over all, but og tho Assembly fs three-fourths Re- publican the election of Gov. Littlefield is ns- sured, n8 fs wlso the redlection of Gen. Burnside 18 United States Senator. Tho remainder of the Republican State ticket {fs clected, including Henry H. Fay, Lieutenant-Governor; Joshun M. Addeman, Secretary of Stato; Willard Sayles, Attorney-General; and Samucl Clark, Trensurer, —— Tue Connecticut Republican Convention mot at New Haven yesterday and acteated deter gntes to Chicago, An attempt to instruct the delegation in favor of a conservative Republican like Washburne or Edmunds was not persisted in. OF the delegates selooted it Is thought that five favor Dlaine, four are for Edmunds, and three for Washburne, ‘The Convention wns char- acterized by earnestness, harmony, and n deter: mination on the part of every Republican pres- enttodo hia very best for the success of the ticket which the Chicago Convention sball placo beforo the counts ‘Tne first great drop in fron, which has been booming at an unnatural rate for nearly 0 year past, hus occurred in Phitudelphin, from swhonce comes the announcement that the Gion- don Company have ested n elreular making a, reduction of $10 per ton in thoir iron. All through the Iron-producing‘districtsfof Ponnsyl- vanin 8 condition of extreme dullnesats reported. among tho manufacturers, tho result of tho fle- titlous valucs sct upon tho product sinco the boom began, and a general reduction ts looked upon as necessary inorder to revive the demand and shut out forelgn competition. Tue Mason County (Ii.) Republican Con- vention choso four delegates to the Stute Con- vention, divided us follows; Grant,2; Binina, 1; Wrstburne, 1, Mason isu Democratic county; and the election of a delegation evenly diyhied on the third-torm question ist surprise, and a vlear gain for the opponents of tho third term. Tho estimates of countics furnished to the New York Trine by tho Hinoly Hlaino Club put Mason County down thus: “Decidedly for Grant.” Tho result shows that {t should be elnasificd “undecldedly for Grunt.” Tho tally in Illinois now fa: Biaino, 31; Grant, 18; Washburn, 1; Shormin, 1. Is Washington a great deal of amusement has beon excited by the absurd attempt of tho third-torin organ In Chienyo to mako ft appear that Jay Gould is mannging Blaino’s boom in eestusy over tho rumor that thoy will bo visited ‘on the Quoen's birthday by, In addition to Lorne and Louise, the sons of the Prince of Wales, and ‘by Prince Leopold. . A young minn In the sonthern.part of this city avenged on alleged Insult to bis father by stabbing the offending party with a butcher- kalfe. Tho wound Inilicted proved fatal. Tho murdoror has bear nrreste y ‘Tire Democrats throughout Indiana either refrained from voting on or voted nialnst tho constitutonal amondment which provides for tho placing of thy colored eftizon in a position Of polltleal equality with his-whita brother. The amendment ia probably adopted notwithatand- dog. Services in commemoration of the’ 100th anoivoreary of the birth of Wiliam Ellery Channing wore held jast oyening in tho Contrat Muste-Hall In this elty, and were attended by ao large concourse of people. Similar services sre place’ at Washington, Brooklyn, Nowport, + OG, Tris stated that many of tho Jesuits about to bo expelled from Franco will seok a home $n Canada, Bomo of thelr number will be employed ag missionaries in tho northwostern portion of that country, a region in which mombers of the Order were cnguged about 200 yeurs ugo in siml- Agr dutios. ‘tne Committee appointed by tho Ottawa Convention to urge the General Government to tid in tho construction of a ship-cunal between Lake Michigan and the Ulinols Hiver will moot at Peorla to-day. ‘The sosalon of the Committeo will in all probablitty develop tho course to bo pursued in the premises, ¥ | ‘Tiry recent election in Indiann indicates that tho National Greenbuok party fs steadily approaching dissolution and disappearance, In Tndlanapolis tt bag dwindled from 2,650 to 500, und Do La Matyr’s chances of reflection aro consequently of the fraflost cbnrnoter, Tho rug baby bas diod in itaawiddling clothes, -Hrarazu-Comsissionen De Wor reports ‘thint.cusas of smitl-pox are becoming quite nu- merous in tho city, and ho fa tuking great pro- enution to check tho sprend of tho disinse, It appears that in severnl of the adjacent towns tho contagion {8 rathor provalont, and persons Trom these places bring the rurms with thoi to tho city, Mn, Grapstonyz has decided to slt for ‘AM(d-Lothfau in tho House of Commons, and will resign his seat for Leeds in favor of hia son, Hor- ‘Dort Gladstone, who was defeated In Middlesex lnst Suturday, Aa tho fathor wasoulected by n majority of 10,000, thoro ia no rexgon te fenr ‘that tho gon will moct with a repetition of the Middlesex disaster, . ABPEAKER at the lowa Brewers’ Convert- tion yestorday referred to boer ay “a relning and olvilizing drink,” and invelghed uguinst temperance legislation, which, in hla opinion, ‘was calculated to chock industry, A dolegution of temperance ladies’ present wero informed that thelr prozenco was not picusing to the imembers of tho Convention. _—— Iris sald that thore {a 0 probability of a sorlous disgonsion in the ranks of tho Now Yurk Democracy over the candidacy of ‘Tilden, even outeide the Tammany ranks, and that thora is a prospect of a split at tho Byracusy Convention on the 20th Inst, If Now Yurk should send threo ufferent delegations to Cincinnati, sumo good mon might be sclected from their number, Jussi RAYMOND has returned to Washlng- ton from Georgia for the purpoge of pushing tho Progecution for seduction ayginst Scuator Ben UL Her attorney, dirs, Bolva Lockwood, states that ale has recuntly received information which _ f0us to show that tho Georgia Senator bus boon wullty Of several cases of the kind proviously, It will bo rathey ditloult for Mr. tif) to provo ‘thut he is a Joseph. " —— AnoTuER spicy Installment of the con- troversy which Sccrotary Shorman unwisely preeipitatgd by his allegationa regarding tho interview with Mr, Joseph Stedill is at band in the form of a letter addressed by the latter to tho Galveston News, and given In our dispatches this woraing. It would appear that on rouching + Gulveston Mr. Medi for the test time eaw the letter Of Scerctary Sherman to the Cincinnatl > Comunercial, which appeared in ‘Tay Triyune of tho $d Inst, und to hy comments on that docu- \ tho West. Tho fact is that in Kunsus, Nebraska, Missourl, aud all tho Western States in which Gould's ruflway lunes are located the wholo power of Gould's army of railroad olfivors, at- tornoys, and subordinates Is being exerted in bo~ half of securing the clcction of Grant dcleyntca to the Chicago Convention, It 1s no wondor tho third-term organ bas been unable to bring a particle of proof to tho support of its ridiculous negertion régurding Blaine and Gould. GrongEe C. Gontan, ox-Secretary of the Senate, who is supposed by some to possess the confidence of Gon, Grunt to a very great extent, has beon interviewed by a representative of o Washington nowspaper in referonco to’ tho polloy of the ex-President In cascof his election. ‘Tho policy, according to Gorham, will be ono of firmnoss and ut the samo time of reconefi{ation towards the South,—s polloy which will tend to produce better feoling between tho people of all scetions, and which will be fikely to obliterute rice distinctions as party ones In the South, Mr. Gorhant professes to think that thore {3 not a particle of doubt as to tho nomination of ae by tho Chicago Convention, Time will te Sevenar contests of differont kinds aro Mkely to grow outof tho Aldermanic elections of Tuesduy, Tho seat of Cullerton, from the Sixth Ward, will be contested by his Soclulist opponent, on the ground .of ftegnl voting, re- Peating,and other frauds and {irregularities ond after this and other contosts of tho kind have been settled thore will como up the ques- tion of the ollgibility of [idreth, who was burred out by the Common Counoll of 1877 by reason of his previous conviction und sentence In connco- tion with tho whisky-frauds prosecutions. Tho Courts at Unt time suatulnod the action of tho Council and refused to {nterfore in the mattor, and ildreth was kept out. The question of his admission fs Ikely to be raised quite carly In tho Ife of tho new Council, and as the reason for- morly rendoring him ineligible stilt oxtsts, It is likely a strong effort will bo made to secure his exclusion u second tiny ‘Ta House Committee on Pacific Rallronds has. brought in w bill amendatory of the Ruil- road Sinking-Fund act of 1878, and which 8 gon- erally known ng the Thurman act, Tho proposed uct would give authority to the Sucretury of tho ‘Lrensury to invest the Union Page and Contral Pavilie sinking-fund in United States bonds, other than & per cents, or in tho first mortgage bonds of tho rallrond companies, ns ho may think proper, ‘Tho bill would also extend the time necessary to ascertatn the amount duo the Gov ernment from one to three montis, would inako tho paymonts semi-annual, and would permit tho transfer of moneys in tho ."Croasury and duo the companies to the elnking-fund. One section. of the Dill proposes to oxtond its provisions, a3 well na thoso of the aut of which {tls amenda- tory, to the Kansna Pacitic, tho Central Hranch of the Union Pacitic, aud thoSloux City & Paciilo Hallroads, aud to all roads to be constructed on the sume plaa us the Union Paglia, * LESSONS OF OITY ELECTIONS. ‘Tho election of ‘Tuesday Inst was tho occa- sion for tho retirement from the City Council of several inembers who have served the elty long and falthfully, and whose absence will bo regretted, It was also the occasion for calling to the public service a number of other gentlemen upon whom the city can do- pendatall thnes for protection uguinat the many schemes and jobs having for tholr purpose -the plunder of tha‘lrensury, tho squandering of revenuy, and the increase of tuxation, Among tho new mombers aro Messrs, Wickersham, Shorey, Watkins, Schroeder, Bond, Hulbert, Brady, Young, Imbhoif, and Burley, who will bring to the office personal ability and an Integrity of purpose too often F wanting among the professional candi- dates for ~pluce in the Clty Council, Taken a3 a whole, ithe election resulted even more favorably for the public in- terests than the circumstances protuised, Not more than half the total vote of the city was polled, und still, in spite of the strong efforts of the spendthrift class, a majority of , competent and respectuble citizens were so eured for the City Counell. Including those holding over, the law-and-order class—those in favor of an honest and economical Goy- ernmuent—will for the coming yeur retain a majority which has beon continaed since tho general uprising of tha community tn 1876, Ifow inch the people of Chicagu owe to tho inen who have served tho city in the Council alnce 1876 is known to but comparatively few persons. It has required courage and ability to so manngo the affairs of tho city as to resetto Chicago trom the actual bankrupt- ey which was then tmintnent. At tho time, In 1876, when thera was, un- der the new charter, an entirely new Couns. ofl elected, the financial condition of the elly wns at the Jowest stage, only short of an actiunl suspension of the City Government. The city ower abonded debt so far In excess of the constitutional limit that it could not borrow a dollar by tho sale of bonds. It owed In addition nearly four mililons of floating debt, represented by interest-bearing paper, which was wholly Wega) and yold. ‘Chis paper had been Issued 80 voluminously that ib could no longer bo sold except at a discount, and at Inst tho'elty was unable to raise enough money on it to pay the semi-annual interest on the public debt. ‘The lezality of the scrip was questioned, ond nt Inst the Courts de- clared its issue to be illegal, The city was at Ratandsllll, and Hs paper was formally pro- tested, ‘The profligate legislation of tho Counell, ita excessive appropriations and rulnous tax-lovies, had created a spirit of re- volts taxes were not paid, and many openly defied the clty to enforce Its levies. It was at this time that the new charter, adopted sonia year or more before by the bummers as nincaus of perpetunting thelr own oftctal oxisience, went into operation, and fortun- ately provited for tho election of an cn- tirely new Counell, Popular interest was generally excited. ‘There was a cordial unton of the general publie against the dishonest crowd that had 80 tong abused public confitence, Political divisions were abandoned, and there was 1 Council elveted composed mainly of the best class of eltizens, und of 0 clas that lind too Jong neglected all participation in clty politics, Tho effect was Immediate. Public confidence was restored. The Council at once begin the work of retrenchment. So far as they had the power they repealed and suspended appropriations and Ifinited ex- penditures, During that and the succeeding year, by the abolition of useless offices and the reduction of salaries thoy reduced the ‘expenditure on that account 40 per cont, They suspended the renewal of the old scrip. ‘Thgjr appeal to the public was followed “by the payment of taxes, Ot the whole tax-levy for 187,00 per cent was collectel—n proceeding which was unprecedented In the history of the elty. ‘The levy for 1877 was two millions less than that for 1875 Such was the economy In ex- pendituro that thera was begun a surplus fund in the Treasury, ‘The same wise econ- ony and rigid aceountability was.followed in, 1877, °78, and 70, nt the entl of whieh time all the city expenses weruelther paid, orthocash for that purvoso was in the ‘Treasury. Inter est on scrip was stopped, ‘Tho law oflicers of the city obtained from the Legislature su- thority to relevy the taxes of previous years, which, being improperly levied, had never been collected, Substantinily, in less than four years the City-Treasury had been res- cued from bankruptey. ‘Tho four millions of floating debt had all been taken up and pald, the funded debt had been reduced $250,000, and there wns nearly a million of dollars sur- plus revenue accumulated in. the ‘Treasury, ‘The present Council made some desperate efforts, in framing the appropriations for tha present year, to swell tho tax-levy and to squander the surplus in the Treasury. To tha firnmess of the Mayor and the City Con- troller the public ‘Is indebted for the defent of inost of these schemes, Ono yenf more of honest and economical government will see the clty finances so far restored that the Clty Government will be able to doa cash business, without having to borrow a dollar, and yet have its affairs administered more efficiently than they had ever been In the days of the most profligate expenditure, In this view of tho cnso our readers will understand the {mportanco of cyery election for members of the Clty Council, Durlng all these yenrs the most strenuous ciforts have been madeto break down tho restraints which have been placed upon Aldermante oxtrava- gnnce, At evdry election candidates In the Interest of wild appropriations and of ah In- crease of offices and of salaries have struggled hard to get in the Council. So for, though that class have been strongly represented, It has failed to ‘get control of the City Legisla- ture, At the election on Tuesday a few of tho worst men who have ever been In the City Government were elected, but fortunate ly there will be In the new Council a majority sufliciently strong to protect tha city agalnst the schemes to return to tha extrava- ganees of the past, and especially to rob the Treasury of tho necumulated fuvings of previous years of economy and honest government, Citizens who are enjoying tho results of the Inst four years of honeat elty government are too apt to over- Took the fact or forget that all the benefits of our present financial condition ure due to the firmness and fntegrity of the majority Which has ruled the City Council alnce 1870, ‘Thirty thousand of these citizens, the most of whom have inportant interests dependent ‘on the continuance of good eily government, omitted to attend the polls on ‘Tuesday last, and if the City Goverment has not been handed over to the control of a majority of Hildreths and Lawlers, these thirty thousand voters ean claim no credit for the failure, It has only beon four yenrs since tho elty was Ju practical bankruptey, and yet one-half the voters stuy away from the polls, though they know that all the goo that has been accom plished may be destroyed In oue year by y corruptand profligate majority in the City Counell, WEEPING AND WAILING. The Grunt organ Jn th@elty is becoming sadly demoralized; its spine Is as wenk a3 that of an angleworm. For weeks It has dally assured the country that the country Is unantmous for Gen. Grant; that lis candl- dacy requires no “machine,” no" Bureau,” no management; ina word, that the spon- taneous will of the country is resistlesly pressing him forward towards tho Presiden- tll chair for a third term, But suddenly the tone of the organ changes with startling ab- Tuptness, From having been patrontzingly kind toall opposing candidates, andespecially Mr, Blaine, the orgun on Monday dipped its types In gall, and, without a jot of evidence, charged Senator Blaine with the grossest Improprieties, Following {ts malignant assiult of Blaine, on ‘Tuesday the organ calls frantically upon the Grant men to cease skulklng, to come to tho front, to organize the machine, to establish bureaus toenthuse the people, to maken scramble, to arm and equip themselves Into an army of bulldozers, so to speak, And then, having skirmished oll along the Ine, the orgun wants toa know, you know, “whether the peoplo distrust and fear Grant?" What o falling off was there, my countrymen, from an organ asserting till It was red In the face and apoplecite, as it were, that the country was ino state of indeacribable enthuslasns for Grant, to an organ begging prayerfully toknow “If the people do in fact distrust and fear Grant!" But the organ was not content with propounding one foollsh ques- tlon aday, ‘Sucsday seems to be the organ’s day for iuterrogutions; for, having blurted out the very pointed question, “Do the pea- plo distrust and fear Grant?" and quite HURSDAY, forgetting to answor it,. It comes down to home affalrs, and wants. to know, you know, “Do the people of his own State propose to turn thelr backs upon hin?” “In the evidently excited state of tho organ ‘on Tuesday its failure to anawer this question “on the spot” ts not surprising, but Its failure to do so on Wednesday must lead to tho most gloomy reflections on tho part of its renders, For tho following, If any answer at all, Is in the negative rather than the affirmative, and we are sure the organ does not wish to bo understood as conceding Lilnais to Blaine or Washburne, But it says: Finally, it would bo a Insting disgrace and re- provch pon tho Stato whieh claims him [Grant] as Hg expuuial otizen If it should: s0 far forgot whit is due te tho opinion of the world, to tts own reputation, aid to the oyents und hiatory of the Unies, na to refuse fits volou {1 awarding this bonhr tothe rst eltizon and foromost min of 10 NO. Wo need hardly remark to the organ that this falut-hearted appeal will not tend to stiffen the spinal columns of Ill{nols Grant men. Tho orgaws menaca of Tuesday— “Let every Grant man come to the front aud assert himself, Let thom give notice to local and State candidates that they must not seck alllance by misrepresenting them, nor form combinations on any basis that will allow thelr sentiments on the main question to be misunderstood "—had better never been ut- tered than followed on Wednesday by the half-confession that Grant's “ very ownest’” Stato is surely slipping away from hin, When {t becomes plain that tho organ pur eteelience of the Grant ecanyass in Inols has tost all {ts nerve, the candidates for State offlees—and thelr name fs lexlon— will fly from it a3 rats flee from a sinking ship! Wo advise the organ not to propound any more conundrums which it cannot an- swer promptly in accordance with fts own prayerful desire; thoy are damaging. The orgnn is clearly not fitto train in company with the Cameron and Conkling imanagers; itought to be bored for tho simples for giv- ing up the fight in Ilnols, and publishing the fact to the world In a series of frantic np- penls, pafpably showing the white feather. Let It rather confine itself to publishing slanderous reciisations against Blaine; thoy hurt nobody but the author, THE NEGRO EXODUS. 5 Senator Voorhees’ Investigation into the canses and progress of the negro exodus from the South drags its slow length along without affording {ts instigntor much com- fort. Nearly every day there !s some testl? mony or some cireumstance which makes the problem more than ever difiteult of solution from a Democratic point of view. Chariton H. Taudy, a colored man, and the President of the St. Lonis Refuge Rollet Board, presented the Commnittes with .a memorial, signed by white citizens of eminent position, which {t will puzzle the Democrats to answer. © It sets forth (1) that tho migration of the negroes from the South {no great multitudes fs an undisputed fuct; (8) that they change thelr homes in spite of the threatened hardships of aseverer ellmate, and without ony special hope as to the future; (3) that they aro. practically unantinous tn thelr determination not to re- turn; and (4) that it fs the fear engendered by past experienca rather than the hope of future amelioration which impels them to innke so radical and hazardous a change. ‘This view of tho enso throws upon the Dem- ocrats tho burden of explaining the exodus upon any other theory than that of extreme eruelty and injustice to the blucks at the South, Emigration agents, if thore wera any, would appent. Jn vain to © con- tented and prosperous people to under- go the hardships ineldent to changa of home and climate. without tangl- ble evidences of ' a betterinent in material conditions, ‘The negro would nat. urally prefer the insouctant associations of Southorn plantation-life, other things being equal, to the trials of ploneering In a new country. ‘fhen why docs he quit his old home? Why does he drag his wife and chil- dren away from thelr old friends, and sub- Ject them to exposure, fullgue, and: disensa? The statements and aflidayits which Taudy submitted to the Senate Committe toll the Teason, but It ts not the explanation the Dem- ocrats are secklng. These statements are unanimous In ascribing “bad treatment and the dental of thelr elyll, religious, and polit- {eal rights” ns the main eause of the exodus, ‘The négroes are robbed by the storekeepers and merchants, Tholr services aro mgrt- guged In ndyance®ndor such conditions as render, them slaves -in spite of-the War, In spito of the Emanclpatltai Proctamation, in spite of the constitutional amendments, “If 1 vote the Republican ticket, I wakes up noxt morning in a graveyard,” says one of the refugees. ‘The laws and the Juw-oflicers discriminate ngalnst the blacks Jn all Issues between them and tho whites. If tho negroes hold refigious meet- Ings they are accused of secretly organizing to massnere the whites, though, as a matter of fact, the massacreing has always been the other way, “Tho exodus will never cease,” 43 tho testimony of Mr, ‘Caudy, “until the Southern whites stop the cruelties they prac- tlea on the colored people.” That is tho ex- planation of the negro exodus in a nutshell, and ther Democrats: will seek in vain any other that will bu rensonnble or satisfy thd intelligent people of the country, MORE DEMOORATIO DULLDOZING.- ‘Thore seems to be no nd to the various de- vices employe by the desperate Democracy to steal the Presidency at tho next eleetlon. Disfranehisement. corruption, bribery, for- gery, perjury, bulldozing, and ballot-box stuff. ing have already been employed to defeat the will of the majority in pjrsuance of the advices sent out from Gramercy Park. ‘The aiine Infamous system of thoft which was at- tempted In South Carolina and Oregon has been also applied In Maine and Minnesota, but without effect, Tho must recent efforts In this direction appear tn Indiana and Delo ware, where bulldozing and disfranchise- ment are the most favorit methods, In the town elections in the {primer Btate on Mon- day tho Mississippl plan was adopted with gratifying success. In Shelby County a gon- ulno Yazoo wob surrounded tho polls and refused to let negroes vote, though they presented tho properly-attested nifidavits of eltizenship, If thoy insisted upon their rights, they were set upon and beaten, Ef white Republicaris Interfered to protect thom, they were awarded the same treatment, and, ag tho Democratic roughs and bullies out- numbered the respectable voters, of course there was no diiculty in driving away the negroes, and by preventing thom from voting a big Democratic majority was secured, It adds to the Infamy of thls outrage that the mob was headed by the Democratle county ofiiclals, ‘Thus the Ypzoo plan was success- fully inaugurated in a “Northern State, and we live the spectncle at our yery doors of mob-rule at the polls, and Democratic oMicials preventing eltlzens fron: voting by violence and bloodshed, In Delaware the plan by which the Demo- eruts proposcto keep control doves not Inyolve violence, but an ingenious plan ot disfran- chisement. Apparently there Is no motive for disfrauchisement, as Delaware hos always been atrongly Democratic and has been the political property of the Buyards and Suuls- burys, But during the last yeur things have taken o difercnt turn, ‘The disseusions In the Republican factions have been healed, so that the party Jy solld and in bottor shops than it hag been for ten or fifteen, years past, wile tho dissatisfaction with the Domocratle tligs has driven many business-men over to the Republicans,’ ‘Chat the Domocratte lend- ers fear they may lose the Stata ts evidenced ‘by thelr sehemo to distranchise Republican voters. ‘Tha Wilmington correspondent of the New York @ribite, in forecasting the political condition of the State, saya: 'To Justify furthor tholr hopofulners these gen- tlemon say that tha Co of Noweastlo, ine chiding tho City of Wilmington, hig a legithnate Hepubliann majority of 800; {hat tha County of k hich used to offset Nuwenatle, will not give & Domoarntio majority this year of over 600; and that Sussex, the remutning county, is close, the Democratic majority having been cut down In recent yenrs to 20, ‘Thus, if tho Republicans unt do ns well ns thoy havg alrondy dono In two of tho threo countics, And ns well’ ns they have texson for Oilaking they ean de jn tho tind, tho Stato will be thoirs noxt November with tts threo Elevtoral votes. Indeed, they Insist that if the Blection ftws wore of a kind to encourage ine Btend of hinder a full Republican vote, thelr mutjority world bo at lust 2,000. It 1s in tho application of those Inws that tho Democratic leaders are seoking to dis- franchise Republican voters and to keep coh- trol of tho Electoral votes noxt fall. ‘The Inw provides that before a man can vote he must bo assessed for a tax, and must bring his tnx-receipt to tho polls, and, of course, was originally’ intended to wipe out the negro yoluns far as p&sible. Under tho law, the list of taxpayers is printed towards the end of February, and three days aro allowed for correction, If a voter Is not put on the st by tits Assessor and fails to get on the amend- ed Hist, the only way he ean get his name there Is by application to the Levy Court in person to have himself assessed. If, there- fore, n person dees not got on the assessment by the Jstof April, either through the As seasor or the Court, he.{s dlsfranchised for 0 year, and equally if he fs assessed and falls to pay lis tax within a specified time, though ho may offer to pay tax and ponaltfes many umes over. Taking advantage of these pro- visions, the Assessors, under instructions from high official authority, omitted thou- gands of names of Republicans from the lists, for the most part names of colored men, but’ including also many whites who had paid thefr taxes regularly for years, They ovidently considered that the négrees were {oo ignorant to discover tho omission, or, If they should discover it, that they. were too poor to go to county-seats and apperr before the Levy Courts. ‘The Republican leaders, however, have discovered the swin- dle and are making every effort to thwart It by bringing tho voters before the Lovy Courts, though even in the courts, which aro Democratic and do the bidding of the lead- ers, their efforts nre impeded by delays and the consumption of the utmost posstble tine on ench ease. :But having obtained the ap- pointinent of Federal Supervisors of Rogla- tration, something * hitherto unknown in Delawnre, they hope to make stand against this outrage and obtain thelr rights, ‘Tho feellug of indignation is Intense among the business-men of Delaware, who are Re- publicans, ‘The party did not go into the election of 1878 at all, though ff had polled 10,753 votes for Hayes out of a total of 24,155, and under a fair. assessinent lst could poll 13,000 votes; but this year it is golng in, ‘Tho New York Times correspondent thug repre sents the feeling In Wilmington: By the ald of tho United States lawa thoy hope: to get someting like fale play. Whethoror not they ean ry tho Stato” is not tho «duestion. It{s not moroly a matter of contonding parties and struggling partlaang, but one vastly Aixher, —whother hulf or more than half tho effizenshlp: of the Stata ts to be stripped of {ts franchise, and whether, by a systemutic manfpalation of the State's finetions, 13,000 af Its voters ire to be reduced te political bondage by anothor 13,000, ‘There isa principle involved’ that ncn here aro contending for. They ura deeply in eurneat. Thoy feel ndigannt, 1s thoy hive i riqhtto foul. Thoy monn to test to tho bitter end the capacity of thelr partisin opponents to do them further wrong and outrage in tho cluctions of the present your. Now, let it be remembered that these Dem- ocratle outrages ure not in Southern States whieh haye never been properly reconstruct- ed, but in Northern States where it has been supposed Inws were obeyed and all elasses of people had the right to vote; and let ff be further remembered that in each ease these outrages have been ordered by high offleial authority, The frequent recurrence of theso outrages shows the desperation of the Demo- eratte leaders and their conviction that they ean only steceed next fall by theft or fraud, mid that if there Is an. honest election they will bo defented beyond all hope of redemp- tion. It behooves Republicans everywhere tobeon thenlert against the unscrupulous und desperate trickery that emanates from Gramercy Park, and Is practiced by its agents in the North, now that tho South Is consid- ered to bo solid. ——_—_— A CORRUPT CONTRACT BEFORE CONGRESS. A Washington dispatch states that Con- gressman Chalmers, of Missfssippi, lins, as Chairman of a sub-committes of the Tonso Committes on the Paelfie Ratlronds, written an elaborate report aMrining the legnilty of the corrupt contract between the Pacific Railronds and the Paeffie Mall Steamship Company. "This contract, It will be remem- bered, provides that tho Pacific Railronds shall pay the Steamship Company a subsidy: Of $1,820,000 a year for the privilege of dic- tatlng the ocean rates between Now York nnd San Francisco, and in order to enable the rattronds to maintain thelr policy of ex- tortion, - If it be true that Mr. Chahners hag-written. nnd Intends to present o report approving thls contract, it is proper that the public should understand the circumstances which have given him tha opportunity thus to be- tray the public Interests. When the subject was first brought to the attentlon of Con- gress, it was moved to refer the Investigation to the Judiciary Committee, where it prop erly belonged, For some unexplained cuson, Br. Conger, of Michigan, ob- Jected to such reference, and, with: the ald of Speaker. Randall, the Investigation was turned over to the Pacitic allroad Com- uifttee, ‘This action was suspicious from the outset, and it will be construed ag a deliber~ ate effort todisorlminate against the public in- torests In favor of the monopolists If tho I'a- elfic Ratlroad Committes shall adopt a white washing report. As the question Is a legal one, any Congressional examination thereof should have been intrusted priunrily to the Judiclary Comunittee, which would: have been disposed, by reason of Its personnel and the peculiar line of its duty, to decide the matter Ina splrit of tinpartial justice, But the Pacitte Ratlroud Committes, upon which Chalmers holds the second placoand of which ho fs the actual leader, was organized by Spenker Randall for tha protection of tho Paclilo Railrond {nterests rather than that of the public interests, and it will not bo atir- prising the conspiracy agalust the public shall besustalned, ‘Tho public will be curious, nevertheless, to seo how Congressman, Chalmers can make a contract for swindling the public comport with law and justice, It may be that no’ portion of the Pacitio Ratiroad charter ox- pilettly prohibits auch o contract, and that there is no statute whivh literally covers tho case, But both parties to tho contract are public corporations and common carriers, Both tho steamship and the rollroud com- panies: have been tho reclpiunts of vast Goy- ernment gratuities and special privileges, ‘The Pachic Mull enjoyed a huge subsidy for | & term of years, and created n‘disgraceful seandal by maintaluing o-pald Jobby and openly spending larger sums of money to secure the renewal thereof from Con- gress. ‘The Pacitlo-Rallroads were actually vonstructed from moneys’ atid lands ud- vanced by the Government, ‘Lhe cuormous amount of public money bestowed upon theso various corporations certainly Implied that the pufite shontd receive some benefit and protection In return. No other theory ean Jugtify the unparalleled Iberality with public grants. It would be preposterous to matntain, that the public domain and tho money rafsed by taxation hnd beon employed to enable these corporations to combing {nn scheme of extortion for which thera would be no remedy, Itisa novel theory of Goy- ernment that money should be wrung from the people by Its agency to set up In bustness certain corporations, and then endow thom with the apectal privilege of swindling the public, Thore can bo no dispute about tho Inten- tion and the effect of the contract between the rallronds and: the Steamship Company. ‘Tho $110,000 a month, or $1,820,000 a year, fy a gratuity, There Is no consideration In fact, ‘Tho Steamstip Company performs no logitinate service for this larga sum. ‘Tho money pald ovor to ft Is extracted by tho railroads from tho puckots of the people, in addition to excessive divi- dends on fictitious stock, Tho compact is made for the purpose of shitting off the nat- ural competition of transportation by water, and thus matntaining railroad rates which aro notoriously exorbitant, It is In the nat- ure of aconspiracy agalnst the public wel- fare, and in that character It 1s in violation of public morals, which form the real basis ofall Inw, If there fs no statute which prohibits acorrupt contract of this kind, it ts stlll in detiance of the common Inw. Ani {f tho principles of the common law do not impel Congress to sot nslde the contract, then tho power still remains In that body to regulate tho rates upon the Paciic Railroads, which would be the most direct and most effective remedy that can be provided. Ienev Con- gress will be nbsolutely without excuse If It be persuaded by Mr. Chaliners or tho Pacitic Ratlroad Conunittes to approve of the con- aplracy between the ratlroads and the Steam- ship Company, anid to deny to the public the protection which the public has the right to demand froin the Government, Gen. Jo Lawnry fsa momber of Congress, andcan run over to the Senate wing of tho Cup- itol any day and seu Sonntor Edmunds, Gen, Hawloy's paper, the Hurtford Convrant, booms Vdmunds for the Presidency. We do not, thore- foro, attach much wolght to the report that Ser ator Edmunds {s seriously annoyed by the mov mont In bis behalf, or contemplates withdrawing suddenly and leaving bis friends fn the furch, Dut the following dispatch to tho Boston Adver= tecr (third-term organ) would svom to sot all donbts on thls score at rost: ‘ ‘Thoro ura many who favor other candidatos ns thelr tirat choice who ure thinking more of tho moun of Rarnonlzing the purty nina bringlig out the fuli strength than of the claims of in- dividuals, These men are very desirous tht rs Edanunids show Vo such it support in the Convention ag will make hin avallible candl- date in cnse the contingency should aries that tno ts needed pun whom all Interests can nite without Jealousies pr heartburalngs. It is believed that Mr. Edmunds hag been influenced by these representations, and that, while be is personally opposed to belie a candidate, and will do nothing to advance his Interest, he will do nothing thut night prove an embarraasment. ta dha arty. In easy bls nomination at Chivayo Is desirable, ———a Joun L. Buvenibak made a little speech before the Minis Republican Convention that ad not nominate him for Governor fn 1878, In closing lo wuld; 1 wish to aay to tho mon who aro delegntos to Cincinnati, give us with this State tleket a Nae tlonul tieket that will command our respoct and confidence, | Give us for n standard-venror muin whose pubtic record 1s avidence of his loys alty to his purty, and of hfs fonlty to the enered mission of our itepublio, Give ws such om inin c[a delexate—" laine.” Applause.)—it TC nta} bo permitted to say the name—give tts James G, Isufne, of Staine, {Cheers White C mn not mutthorized, not being a member of thls Conven- tlon, to offer u resolution, yet, if L were @ met her of this Convention, [should offer a resolu- tlon something of this kind: Kesotved, Vhat tho delesntes to the Natlonsl Union Reputdiens Convention to be held nt Cincinnution the Lith any of Jung are oy juste to use nit honorable meuna to placo ‘nt the. head of our Hukat, ag the yremt National atubdard-tonter In th contuat of 1879, James G. Hinive, of Mate, [Chars] Gentiemen, Tam not authorized to put a resos luton of that kind, so L will ask every man in thls uysembly who approves such a resolution to rise to hls feet and give us three rousing cheers, Members of the Convention rogo with great: unantinity and gave threo cheors, after which the Convention udjoured sine die. a ‘Tue voto of Tlinols members of Congress on the dil to repeal tho taxes on salt, priuting- piper, type, ete. was ng follows: for the ht—Boyd, Cannon, Forsythe, fawk, Hays, Henderson, Mursh, Morrison, Singleton, Springer; Sparkes, Mlovonson, Thomas Is, Agalnd Ue Dit—Burber, Diwis—3 f went or not vatiny—Aldtich, Fort, Sherwin, ‘Townshend —t, eo Lia i Of those not voting, Fort, who wis homo on a ‘yislt, was paired in fuyor ot the bill, Zownshend ia known to boin ardent Free-Trader, and would have voted for It If he hud ben present, Shore win wag also home on a visit, and may be olnssed, as doubtful. Aldrich dodged, but is a relinblo Prohibitiontat when it comes to a tight squeeze, Otitside of Chicago, the State delegation is pruce tently solid agalnst the tux on knowledgo, << Disinteanatron ts the order of the day within’ the thirc-terut lines, ‘Twenty-two ts nithor under than over the number of delegates: from this Stato who will not obuy tho instruc. tlons of tho Ution Conyontion.—Idcheater (N. ¥.) Demucrat (Itep.). : Is It true, ng reported, that a partof the New York delegates, nbout tho number etnted to bo opposed to the third term, huve engaged quar- tora nt the Palmor House {n this city, while the loyal Conkling fuetion nag secured rooms at tho Grand Pactiia? Wo would like to have Senator Roborteon clear up this point. It is at least true that Shoridan Shook and a strong dolegution of ant-third-term Republicans sro to be at the Palmer, and that 2 considerable part of the Now ‘Eable dolegution, perhaps one-third, will be with ein. eel Tun Montgomery (Ala,) Advertiser and Maft hag made nv partial canvass of its reudors for preferonoes on tho Presidential question, with tho following result: ALG. Thurnnia, of Obes Jetforsan Duvis, of Mississippi W. 1. Murriaon, of Minos... W..5. MMincock, of Ponnaylyanio 8.4. Randall, of Ponnsylvani David Davis, of Mlinols. 8B. J. Tilden, of Now Yor! Horatio Symaur, of New ‘Thomas F, Bayard, of Delaware, ‘Thomas A, Hendrioks, of Indlana,, The Democratte noininee. Soybady to bent Grant, ULB. Grant... UJ. dewott, of BOUTHEASTEMN. H.LtNoIs will como into the Republican Convention with a strong and yory excoftent candidate for Sccrotury of Stute in the person of Mr. George W. Harpur. Ho 1s a gentioman of high churactor and a hard-work- Ing, intelligent, and earnest Republican, This lwahown by tho fact that sixteen yours ayo he establiahod the Hobingon (Crawford County) Argus, and ho bas successfully conductod it aver since, thys greatly advancing Nopublican priu- ciples and making thom honored and respected In ono of the donscat Democratlo districts in tho Btate. ‘Tho press of Southeustern Uinols urge his nomination with tho groatoat cordiulity, —<——— Surruate of quinine was quoted as high Ag from $3.80¢0 $4 por qunco a year ago,—that fa, in April, 1870, When tho law rémoving tho duty wont futo effect, July 1, it was quoted ut #40, Afterwards it daoltned to $2.60 In Decem= ber, A purchase of 15,000 ounces by tho Ruslan Governmont gave tho prico a start, and rutsed {t ta 83.45 vr $3W0. The. reduction from 81,80 or $t 10 $3.26 or $3.00 represunts the logitt- inate eifuct of tho removal of. tho duty, thougt Intho mountime wars in South Auiorica havo dona much te dlahileh the supply. ———————_—- Pnivate DAwzeLL says frankly thot he is ‘8 candidato tur Congress, and adds If Lam chosen for this oxalted and reapons!- bio citiog, f stall wuver te a candidate for 4 sec- ond tern, and I put that voluntary promise fn Writing, and upon full deliberation subscribe my: namo tit. a #B Minnesora la.anid to be a doubtful Statens ‘between Blalneand Grant, but tho tollowing rey- olution, adopted alurgstinauimously by the Ro publicun Convention of that Stato in May, 187d, miny serve to dow what the result fs likely to bas Resolved, That, recoguizing in the Hou. Janes G, Bluing, of Blulho, a wan of trlod integrity, of wncowprumialug loyally, of communding nd nt ability both as a lender anid at fearless, unfalloring mivovate nnd: difender Of the principles which hace presorvta the Union and given undying lustre to tho party oC i IS to-day Cid inoat admired represent tive, tyo take plossure fh recording the fuet that ho is Minnesota's proud profaronee for the offies of Prealdont of the United States; and, while We pledge oursolves tocurdinll yaupnort atiy pure aud: upright Republican whom the Clyelunatt Convention may nominate, wo noverthotvas ex- Press it nd aur conviction that no othor eqgdl:. dato will develop the onthualaam or call outgho number of votus that would bo pollvd by Tho Amoricun peopto for the noble champion of thoir rights, thoir Nborties, und thelr houor, — atosinal Tur Chiengo Inter-Ocean begs and prays tho Republican voters of HUlnola to support its third-terin candidato for the Presidency. The enuse must bo Ina pad way when such piteous appents for tt are thought to be necessary. Tha yotors of Ttinols, being Importuned to do a fool- {sh thing morely because Don Cameron and Roscoe Conkling bave dono tt, may bo trusted to act upon tholr own Judgntent for the goodof tho whole party, Tho election of tho Repubtican candidate is moro important than the wiehos of Don Cameron ahd Roscos Conkling. SS UEP UERDSLE SERIE At a Demoeratla Cofiveytion in“Austin, Tox. whero tho tate Republican Convention way hold, Col, Robertson, Chairman of tho Hxceutive Committee, mentioned and culogized Hancock, Soymour, Thurman, Hendricks, Morrison, ant Taynrd, but signifeantly kept stilt wbout Tilden, Ho furthor anid: “Texas can and she must give totha Deinnoritic nominee 100,00) majority." Yet this is tho State nbout whose preferences for n Republican candidate tho Republicans of tho North are Just now yoxing thomsolyes, ** as Ex-Sucneraty Rongson Is not, may pers Bons will be surprised to learn, an ndvocate of Gen. Grant's nomination, Tho Camden (N. Jy) Press, Robeson's home organ, suyst Wo desire to stato that the Hon, George Bt, Robeson is not, aud wil not be. candidate as delugnte-at-lirge to Chicago, Neither is ho an ndvounte of Gen. Grant's nominntion, Ttwill be perfectly sufo to put him ‘down for Blaine as Tong ‘ag thit omineutly worthy gontlomian haa plank to stand on, , sid i —————_—$— Tim Hancock County (Ky.), Republican Convention adopted the following resolution unininously: 3 Resolved, That in Ulysses 8, Grant we recoge nizo the tried‘ soldier, patrlot, and statesman, but hold ag Inviointe ‘thio precedent establishe by Washington und hia successors of declining the candidacy for a third term, a $a Tr fs tho usual thing in Towa: to have tickets hended with the Star-Spangled Banner and these words: "The James G. fslnine Delegn- tHon—Solld for the Pluined Knight." It fs usual, also, for these tickets to go through the prima: ries and county conyentions without opposition. a , Tue. Hateh-House gang inade a winning coalition with the silk-stocking Democrats on tho North Town ticket on the bnsls of nil tho sos to the former aid all the honors to the utter, ———— ‘ Four Republican Aldermen from the North Sido will go fur to batanco tho logs of th: town tickut. . 4 a PERSONALS. We hope Mr. ‘Titen is no sicker than he looks, * ‘ Mr, Christine Nitsson, nce Rozeaud, ts tl in Parts. Now sow your $20 bills and ratso ducks of Lonnets. * ‘Pho latest French definition of Sarah Berns hardt is, “A prolonged neck,” Sarah Bornhnrdt’s husband is about the darkest horse heard of recently. ; Miss Elite, Gen, Sherman's third daughter, isto be marricd in May to Lieut. Thackara, of tho navy. - Gen. Garfield has been elected President of ® Washington Ilterary society, but he curefully conceuls fron its members tho fact that 4 hore with a record of 2:21 1s nnmed aftor him. + A thoroughly reckless young man on the South Side, who has lived for yonrs amid the nrtifeinl life and bevfstenks of An fashlonnblo boarding-honsy, recently became enamored of tho bowutiful daughter of one of Chicngo's old- est cltizens, and, nfter the usunl campulgn of oysters and fec-crcam,: was nowinated on tho . first formal ballote ‘Lhe following evening be went to ueo tho responalble ‘ancestor of the girl, and, after stattug his intense admiration and love for her, nsked tho puteriinl consent to the nuptluls, ‘This waa given rather more readily than the youth had looked for, hut the old gon tlomun stated frankly that he wag not disposed tobetoo particular nbout the past, provided things went stralght in the future. “Of course, Churlvy," he suid, “everybody knows that you havo beon « Kittle wild, and imado soine sucker plays against horse races, but I believe [f 1 give you Mubel you will turn ovor a new loaf and ut. tend to busincss." Charloy sald ho would. “Hut you must gotup with the sun, my boy," hosaid. “ Wull,” sald the young lover, “1 don't kuow about gotting up with the son, old wav, ‘ut, when ft comes to sitting up with the dangh- ter, you can go broke that I will bo there,” This manly spucch so affected Mabel’s stra (who bnd been a ttle tough himself tn io hnleyon days of youth) that he told tho future mothor-In-* Jaw that night that ho was glud thelr daughter hadn't thrown hersolf away oa, any common man, but had socured 9 husbund who would be a _ credit to the family, rr POLITICAL POINTS. Tutt! now wo had thought Gen. Grant's chances were superior to all otbors; butif this reported defection [from the Now York deleya- tion] fs verified at Obtengo, it 18 not unlikely that othor reported Grant delugntions may fol- Jow tho example from ike cuuses, and give the Blaine boom an {impetus smposslblu to rebist.— Dubugue (14.) Times (Rop,). s ‘The Washington Star thinks that the claim that tho Nebraska dolegation to tho Cinoinnatl Convention fs for Tilden 3 not supported by alt tho facta, Ibromluds us that the Convey ton, by a very doclded puajorlt 7» Instructed against o ropual of tho two-thirds rule, certainly not o favorable indication for ‘Tilden, and saya that thoro is at oust one of the dolegates-ut-largo Hie We not for Tilden,—this: belng J. Storllng Thero {3 no use In Aghting for the nomina- don of this man, that mun, or any man aaye one who can unite the ontire strongth of tho purty, and bring out tho vory lust yoto to inguro & britiant triumph. Such a nian we bellovo to be Senator Edmunds, He ts patriotic statesman wasontnd Ropublicun, aud 9 wise politician, There enn Lv no BucceEsf i oY roxsonable Opposition to ihn “ile ‘would, Uy" his. purity.-of ‘oliaractony grunt leurning, and long exporicncs, bring honor Ho tha high position, to tho party who ‘eleoted ay ba ta to te cutiry Natlon.-New York Inde- Fr Editor Medill would scom to leaye little of Bceretury Shorimin’s account of- a stormy Inter view, in whloh tho Chicago editor demande & susponsion of resumption, by publishing a lettor sont by Medill from Washington to tho manng> Ing editor of ‘Tis ‘fuipune directing bin to “editortalize” sons to put a “iittio eimening” inte tho Republican Senate, and prevont the naire Of tho Lill repeating the Reaumption uct. tho latter ty writton ut about tho time the al- leged interview took plyce, and shows Medill as vigorously opposed to’ any interference with re- suinption. crolury Sberinin should now cx- pluin.—Springfeld (. faa.) Hepublican (Ind,), © 'Tho Herald notices with regret a growl disposition among ardent third-tormers to vo come whut tho nicces of bychelor uncles call “crusty.” Nottoputtoo fino point on it, too muny of the ex-Presidont's supportors are losing theirtomper. Wo beg thom to remain tranqull, and {f thoy catinot bo tranquil to bo us tranquil ug thoy cin. Rig have searvoly begun thelr cunvuss yous thoy have quantities of hurd work buforo them, and thoy ral huve cocaston for all the good towmper thoy in command betore thoy gel through, If they “yor nud os tho little oye gly, thoy wilt only be laughed at; and thoy beuln tu cal! namey two mouths betare the Chicago Chnvention, thoy mu, it Inuyhed out Of court aleogethor--New York Herald (dnd. Resolved, That in James G, Blaine wa recognize an {deal American statesman, who maatarly intellect, uobility of character, aad long gorvices in the front ranks of progressive and aggrossive Hopublicaniinn hava won for bit that proiatinence both In public and private ilo which is 8 safe yuurantoe to the pooplo that In his keeping the uchlovements of the Ropublicad purty ovur the disloyalty and barbarian of wrinorsoy will Sob he eriped out," god tbat all ie at thostuallog of States will bo de. fouted by his wkill in winntug the victorica of peutes and further, in the prysenco of wn unde pated Democratic solld Bouth, buoyed by the ope of Rdlvided North, wo believe that the Haine of dumes G. Blaine, as our candidate for Presidynt in tho approaching contest, will give surest promise of Victory {n thoga Stites where publican witouess ty possibto, aud Whivk must, ulono furnish the voters ay they once did the soldlera for the defeat of Dumucratla Brigadlers Keoki County (la) Repubdican Convgntioie a 1 mnapenicin