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Waasiie ‘Sir ts are courteourls inv! order, $e JNO. D. AL CARL, Commander. 4.0. DICKERSON, Hecorder. GEORGE A. CUSTER POST. NO. 40, G. A. R—Spe- cial meeting Tuesday evening. May 25, atG. A. It. Hall, 6; Washington-st, to complete arrangements Yor Docuration Day. A full attendance ts desired. LEONARD 5. HUDSON, Commander. JOHN MORAS, Adjutant. SUNDAY, MAY 23, 1890. Sxrxtr colored emigrants took shipping at New York yesterday for Liberia, Others will probably follow, SzVERAY Philadelphia firms failed yester- day owing to the collapse of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad. ‘THE receipts of the May musical festival at Cincinnati are stated to be about $52,000, the expenses $38,000. Cincinnati is considerable of ® musical city after all. -Twe Canadians will celebrate the Queen’s birth day to-morrow at Quebec by a grand mili- tary display. The Marquis of Lorne and the Princess Louise will attend. ‘Tue coalition against the present Spanish - Ministry cannot’ muster enough votes to carry ‘ont their original purpose, to replace the Minis- tay by a combination from their own ranks, Tue striking cotton operatives of Black- ‘burn will resume work to-morrow at the old rates. They have been so advised by the Com- mittee which recommended them to'strike. ‘Mag. Hannorp was injured in a collision on the New York Elevated Railroad. He brought suit against the Company, claiming $50,000 dam- ages. The jury in the case awarded him $30,000. ‘THERE was a'considerable fall in American railroad stocks yesterday at London, in conse- quence of the fuilure of the Philadelphia & Reading Company. The coal-carrying lines suffered most. ‘Tue recent strikes in France seem to have Dean instigated by foreign emissaries, A Bel- gian and a Dutchman were arrested at Roubaix yesterday for urging the workingmen to con- tinve the strike. ‘Tue steamer Maine, owned by the North- ern Transit Company of Detroit, was burned at Port Huron yesterday morning. The crew and passengers were all rescued. The loss is esti- mated at $30,000. ‘Tre attempt of the Southern members to ‘pass appropriations for public buildings atevery Southern crossroads tailed yesterday owing toa persistent opposition, led by Congressman Bracg, of Wisconsin. Two morr attempts at Incendiarism were made at Milwaukee yesterday morning. One arrest has been made 6o far, and several sus- picious characters are being closely watched by ‘the police authorities. vens of Memphis, Mo., to satisfy M., L & N. Rail- road bond claims was resisted yesterday by the taxpayers and had to be abandoned. There is reat excitement in the town. . At Barcelona, Spain, a thousand cotton- spinners wrecked and set fire to a mill from which some of them had been discharged. The flames were extinguished by the soldiers and Police, and the ringleaders of the mob were ar rested. —-—_——— THE House Committee has agreed to rec- fmmend an appropriation of $175,000 for fur- aishing the Chicago Custom-House. Our Con- gressmen tried to get a larger sum, but could wot induce the Appropriation Committee to ‘Srant it, A panty named Gunn, who murdered his Zather at Bridgewater, Mass., that he might ob- Zain possession of property valued at $40,000, cut his throat with a razor at the Plymouth (Mass.) House of Correction yesterday morning. It is delieved he will dic. ‘Tx Omaha strike has assumed a serious aspect. The militia companies are quartered in the Smelting-Works, and the Governor of Ne- braska has taken up his headquarters in the city to watch proceedings and to be ready for any emergency. On the other hand, the strikers are ‘packed up by the employés of the Union Pacific Railroad Company Living in the town, Several Rat THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. TAY 23. 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES. bim conferences have been held between the map- agers of the Smelting-Works and the strikers, and a satistactory settlement may yet be effected: | Dox Cameron and several other third-term leaders are beginning to pack up in readiness for avisit to Chicago. Don is expected here Mon- day or Tuesday, and from that time until the Convention- meets the canvass promises to be lively in the extrem Perer ZnmMeR, a German, 80 years old, was arrested yesterday at Buffalo on the charge of having murdered his son at Port Washington, Wis. Zimmer was on his way to New York to meet his intended wife, whom he expected to arrive yesterday from Germany. Fuity seven-eighths of the immigrants lending at Baltimore—and some 8,000 have ar- rived there during the past four days—imme- diately leave for Chicago. Bost of the immi- grants at that point are Germans with small capital, which they intend investing in Western farms. —>_=—_—_—_—_—_ Te Finance Committee of the French Chambers reduced the estimates for the pay- ment of clergyme® yesterday 200,000 francs. ‘The entire reduction thus far is about 500,000 francs. The Radicals do not favor the clergy- men, and the clergymen return the compli- ment with interest. Brapiaveg has all the notoriety which his vanity can possibly crave nowadays. The ‘Tories want to make a martyr of him by exclud- ing him from Parliament, while the Liberals, not wishing to lose his vote, want to admit him at any cost, and all the English newspapers are discussing his right to a seat. .FREE TRADE is a popular political doctrine in France. The fact that théy manufacture and export lururies, and only import a few necessa- ries, has probably something to do with their opinion. -A proposition to impose a tariff on cotton thread wasdefeated in the Chambers yes- terday by a vote éf 339 to ‘TWENTY ocean steamers are waiting to be unloaded at Montreal, and will probably have to wait some time longer, owing to the strike of the dock laborers. The strikers remain firm in their demands, and are very peaceable and orderly. An advertisement for men to unload the vessels has met with no response. as Taree blind girls, eluding the vigilance of the authorities at the Blind Asylum, St. Louis, walked through the streets of that city yester- day morning, and coming to an excavation, which was being made to prepare forthe erection of anew building, fell a distance of twenty feet’ and were badly but not fatally injured, ~ GEN. Gaxcta has issued a proclamation to the Cubans calling on them to defend the Re- public which has been pr ovisionally established under his Presidency. The Triunfo, a pseudo- Republican journal, however, advises the Cubans to have nothing todo with\Garcia. "Twas ever thus in struggles for liberty. Disunion is the best weapon of the oppressor. u DETECTIVE Sues did a good and officer- like piece of work yesterday in ferreting out the whereabouts of a gang of burglars whe are sus- pected of having plied their vocation in the sub- urban towns for some time past. The discovery of a roll of bills in the necktie of one of the ar- rested parties gave the clew, which was careful- ly and successfully followed up. Ture Secretary of the Washington Blaine Club estimatesthe result of the first ballot at the Chicago Convention thus: Blaine, 23; Grant, 262; Sherman, 94; Edmunds, $2; Washburue. 11. Should the unit rule be enforced in the case of the Pennsylvania delegation, the Blaine men claim that their candidate will receive the 53 votes of that State, thus giving him 359 votes. ————— THosE who are opposed to the erection of a monument to the French Prince Imperial in ‘Westminster Abbey have decided to ask Glad- stone to use his influence to prevent it. Leon Say, the French Minister, it is ramored—but the rumor lacks probability—will also request Glad- stone to Interfere. It is not at all likely that the English Premier will meddle in the matter. Lorp BraconsFIELp denies that he made the remarks attributed to him at the Bridge- water House Conservative meeting. Ina letter to the London Times, in which be refers to his desire for the liberty of the press, he says: “An elaborate declaration of policy was placed in my mouth, not one single word of which was de- livered by me, and which conveys in every sense the reverse of what I expressed.” This is cer- tainly an explicit deni ‘Tue European Powers have issued a joint note calling on the Porte to settle the Monte- negrin, Greek, and Armenian difficulties imme- diately. In case this request, or rather instruc- tion, is not obeyed, and it is difficult to see how it can be, another conference will be held at Berlin in July, at which measures will be taken without consulting Turkey to insure the scttle- ment of the question fn reference to which the note has been issued. Should this course be adopted now it would end for sometime the agony of the Sultan and his Pashas. ConcGressMAN Donn, of Arkansas, Chair- man of the Sub-Committee on Appropriations, sent to examine tho Mississippi River, says he feels confident that the full Committee will reo- ommend an appropriation of $6,000,000, to be ex- pended by the Engineer Corps, under the direc- tion of the Secretary of War, in accordance with the plans and recommendation of the Commit- tee, for the improvement of the Mississippi River. The Committee may recommend, but it does not follow that Congress will pass or the President approve, such an extravagant appro- priation. A BEAvY rain, lasting from 9a. m. Friday tod o'clock yesterday morning, fell throughout Georgia, the riversin many cases rising at the rate of five feet per hour. The fall is estimated at 9.02 inches. All trains have been stopped, as the bridges over the rivers and crecks have in many instances been swept away by the flood. ‘The engineer, fireman, and two woud-cutters on a freight train going from Macon to Mont- gomery wore killed Saturday morning, the rail- rond bridge over one of the creeks having been swept away. The crops have been greatly dani- aged, and in some places the cotton crop will have to be replanted. THe Pall Mall Gazette says that the keep- ing of Sir Bartle Frere in his present position is one of the worst pieces of tergiversation in the history of English political parties, and warns Gladstone that he will be held responsible by his supporters {f he does not recede from his pres- ent position in regard to the case. It does seem a little queer, after the flerce denunciations of the South African Administration of the past two years by Chamberlain, Harcourt, and other members of the present Cabinet, including Gladstone bimeelf, that Sir Bartle Frere should be continued. The Prince of Wales wants him retained, however, and that is quite sufficient for Gladstone and the Whigs. REPuBLIcans of Cook County who desire to protest against the disfranchisement of the party of this county in the late Springfield Con- vention are invited to meet at Music-Hall, Wednesday night, to give expression to their views. It is intended that this shall not be an ordinary political gathering, but rather a public meeting in defense of the constitutional rights which Americans most dearly cherish. A call for signatures will be at once putin circulation and the necessary arrangements completed and announced in due time. <All the regular dele- gates to Springfield are expected to engage in the meeting. _ Business-men and others who usually take ljttle or no part in politics are re- ported as being specially auxtous to join in this movement. It will without doubt be one of the most important and earnest meetings ever held in this city. NorwrrnstTanb1ne the boasts of the third- termers that the result of the Springfield Con- vention has decided the contest for the Repub- lican nomination in favor of Grunt, relixble to- formation obtained from all points shows that, even conceding the solid yote of Minois, Pennsylvania, and New York, and one-half of the Southern delegates to the third- term candidate, he still wants seventy yotes to secure the nomination. Louisians, Colorado, and Idaho Territory, with twenty-four votes, have yet to elect delegates, and most, if not all, of these will be anti-Grant. That Grant will receive the solid votes of the Pennsylvania, New York, and iinots delegations is not only not certain, it is‘not even probable. The ma- jority of the National Republican Committee is enthusiastically in favor of Blaine. The temporary organization is in their bands, and it is evident that no bulldozing will be tolerated at the Chicago Convention, and the prospect is that the precedent established at Cincinnati by which the delegates are admitted. by districts will be adhered to, in which case Grant will not come within 100 votes of a nomination. + ‘THE THIRD-TERM THING BEATEN. It is now possible for the first time to make up an estimate of the division of the Chicago Convention that may be trusted as reasonably correct and reliable. There remain but twenty-four delegates to be appointed,—six- teen from Louisiana, who will probably be divided between Grant and the opposition, six from Colorado, and two from Idaho. This number, however it may be distributed, will not affect the first struggle in the Chica- go Convention, which will be between the partisans and opponents of -the third-term candidate. There is reason to believe that the following table, made up independently of the Grant figures and the Blaine figures, represents the relative strength of the anti- third-termers and the third-termers: x poked igi Grant Mississippi i Missouri... Nebraska. 6 Pennsylvania. Rhode Istand. Territories. Arizona. Dakota. SUMMARY, Full number of delegates. Necessury fora choice. Number already elected. For Grant. The above table requires but littleexplana- tion. 1t concedes to Gen. Grant’s supporters every delegate they can claim with anything like confidence, and it leaves them just 100 votes short of a majority. Their position is such, that they will never gain, but lose, after the first ballot, if they go ito the struggle atall. Itmay be safely assumed, therefore, that the third-term issue has been rejected by the Republican party, and that the single can- didate who represents it will not be nomi- nated. The third-termers, whistling vigorously to Keep up their courage, are in the habit of printing very ridiculous tables, in which they claim everything: They pretend, for in- stgnce, that the result of the Illinois Conven- tion has settled the struggle in their favor, and will assure them the solid votes of New York and Pennsylvania even though a di- vision in those delegations was imminent be- fore. The fact is,—and it will be apparent to every man who takes the trouble to feel pub- lic sentiment in an impartial way,—that the IHinois Convention has struck the third- term issue a harder blow than it ha$ ever be- fore received. The, methods employed by the Grant managers in that Convention will not only alienate from them every vote in New York and Pennsylvania that was before considered doubtful, but will also drive away other delegates who would have voted for Grant on the first ballot if they had not been choked off by the Hlinois garroters. It is just as certain now that the twenty anti-Grant delegates representing ten anti- Grant districts in this State will be admitted to the Chicago Convention as it is that the Cook County bolters were admitted to the Springfield Convention, First, the Chicago Convention will recognize the rights of the districts to appoint their own delegates, just as they elect their own Congressmen, and will refuge to permit them to be swindled out of this right, at Boss dictation, by a bogus majority of aState Convention. Thatreason involves the merits of the case, and might hot avail if the third-termers were able to override it. But the second reason isa clincher. The third-termers in the Chicago Convention will be in the minority in voting upon the Illinois contest. No unit rule will apply in this case, and if it did it would not give the third- termers a majority. The National Conven- tion will decide the Hlinois contest exclusive of the lllinois vote, just as the Illinois Con- vention decided the Cook County contest ex- clusive of the Cook County vote. Ifa major- ity could prevail to perpetrate a wrong in the Illinois Convention, it cannot reasonably be doubted that a majority in the National Convention will be able to right that wrong. The anti-Grant delegates will hold the same power in the National Convention which the Grant delegates held in the lli- nois Convention, and their case will be won the more easily because it will have justice and party usage, Republican principle, and the popular sentiment on its side, while justice, usage, Republicanism, and the popular sentiment were opposed to the bogus major- ity in the Illinois Convention. Demoralization will set.in among the third- termers from the moment the Illinois con- test begins. Every delegate’ from an in- structed State who feels that he represents an anti-third-term district will be impelled to vote against the Iinois bulldozers and the cause they represent. Every delegate from the Southern States (where the third-term candidate has found his chief strength) who desires to be on the winning side or feels the slightest interest in the success of the Re- publican party will hasten to join the ma- jority against the third-term fraud in Hlinois. Not asingle solid delegation for Grant can be saved from fracture on this question. The idea that the result in the Illinois Convention has aided the third-term cause elsewhere is so fallacious that one or two re- fiections will completely dispose of it. Would Mr. Blaine’s cause have been helped if hg ‘had been obliged to disfranchise the City of Portland and ride rough-shod over half the districts in order to obtain the “solid” delegation from Maine? Would Mr. Edmunds’ friends have claimed new strength throughout the country if they had been obliged to throw out regular delega- tions and admit bolters in order to carry Ver- mont for their favorit? Would there be a ghost of a chance for Sherman if his man- agers had been obliged to disfranchise Cin- cinnati and kick out the selected delegates to Chicago of ten Congressional districts and substitute others of the minority faction as a mgans to obtain the Ohio delegation? Would Mr. Windom’s name ever have been pre- sented by Minnesota if his friends had been obliged to admit bolters from St. Paul or Minneapolis in order to achieve such a re- sult? The questious furolsh: thelr own an- swer, and the Illinois vote for Grant subjected to a similar test in determining its influence upon other delegatiovs. ‘Fhe rec- ord of the Hinois Convention will eqfise the Northwestern States to come to Chicago solid agginst Grant, and: will rupture the New York and Pennsylvania delegations to an extent far beyond any estimate that has yet been made. 2 The ruling sentiment of the Republican’ party has always been opposed to the third- term issue. The Ulinvis fraud-has.doomed that issue to certain defeat. ‘ THINGS TO BE DONE There is a duty which the anti-third-term delegates to the late State Convention owe to themselves, to their constituents, and to the State, and which they must not neglect. That duty is, in every county in each of the ten Congressional districts which appointed anti-Grant delegates to the National Conven- tion, to hold public meetings and denounce the high-handed, scandalous . usurpation, and the infamous disfranchisement of the majority of the free Republicans in those districts. The delegates to the late Convention rep- resenting those disfranchised districts should report to their constituents the action of the State Convention bulldozers in attempting to rob the people of the several districts of this State of the right of representation in the National Convention. They should re- port to. their constituents the fact that these several districts, In strict accord- ance with the call of the National .Com- mittee, which requests the several States to send two delegates from each of their ‘‘Con- gressional districts,” and with the universal custom which by unbroken usage had be- come the established party law in this and in all other States, appointed the delegates to represent those districts in the National Convention, and assure their constituents of their purpose to present their credentials, and demand admission to the National Con- vention. At the same time, we suggest to the Wash- burne and Blaine Clubs in every county and city in the State to hold meetings, and give prompt and determined expression, denouncing the gross usurpation by the bulldozers of the State Convention, insisting on the priceless right of repre- sentation by districts, and sustaining the ac- tion of the representatives of the several Congressional districts in appointing dele- gates to the National Convention instructed to demand for the Republicans of Iiinois a right never heretofore denied to the people of any Congressional district in the Union. ‘The several delegates and alternates ap- pointed from the ten anti-third-term districts of this State to the National Convention, should also meet in this city next week, and, acting with the delegates from this city, adopt such measures as may be necessary to have their credentials presented to the Na- tional Convéntion, and their rights properly and vigprous!y vindicated before that body. Let the friends of Washburne and of Blaine, and all anti-third termers throughout the State, take immediate ‘action in all their clubs and at public meetings, denouncing the action of the Logan bulldozers, and declare that the free Republicans of Illinois will never submit to be enslaved by any task- master, no matter what his rank or preten- sions. From the days of the Revolution it has been a cardinal principle of the Republicans of America that there can be no taxation, and no allegiance, and no’ obedience, exacted from those who are denied representation, especially from those whose long possessed right of representation has been unlawfully taken away. The right of representation isa sacred’ one; it oannot:be taken away without doing violence to every principle of American Republicanism; and no Republican in Illinois will submit to such deprivation without resorting to every lawful mode of redressing the present wrong and prevent- ing a repetition-in the future. Let this de- termination be made known in every precinct in the State. CONTEST THE BULLDOZERS! It is the duty of the anti-Grant delegates chosen by the ten disfranchised Congressional districts in this State to take their appeal from the bulldozed Convention at Spring- field to the National Convention at Chicago. And it is the duty, as it will doubtless be the pleasure, of the disfranchised Repub- licans of those districts to give to their chosen representatives every possible aid in the prosecution of their appeal. The outrage is of the aggravated charac- ter. The assumption of the State Convention to speak for the delegates in their district ca- pacity, to override their expressed will, isan application to Republican party administra- tion of the Southern State-rights theory in -its most radical and most offensive form. It is an assertion of the ex- treme Staterights idea that the citizen: has no right to exert his individual influence directly upon National affairs; but that he shal speak, if at all, through the machinery of the State. To the flat denial of this theory the Republican party owes its origin and its continued existence. In support of its de- nial it offered battle to the Democratic party in the field, in the office of the Chief Mag- istracy, and in the halls of Congress, and in its long contest it has been uniformly sus- tained by the people. The action of the Con- vention at Springfield in disfranchising ten Congressional districts is a traitorous stab at the vital principle of Republican-party life. The Convention stultified itself in the very act; for in the Cook County contest, previously decided, it recognized the right to repre- sentation of a local minority. It again stulti- fied itself inthe establishment of a certain rule with regard to one set of districts, anda directly conflicting rule with regard to an- other set of districts—namely: It conceded the right of every Grant district to select its own delegates to the National Convention, while it denied the right to every anti-Grant district. The case needs no amplification. Merely to state it is to present it in its most repulsive aspect, to exhibit 1t in all its native deformity, as an act of unparalleled tyranny and usurpation. : It is sought to absolutely disfranchise ten districts of the State of Llinois in the Na- tional Convention, and eight of these are the strong Republican districts in the State. It is in these districts alone that the Republican party of the State and the Nation can be saved from defeat. The Republican Presi- dential candidate cannot possibly be elected without the vote of the State of Illinois, and the loss of these districts certainly involves the loss of the State. But the dominant faction of the Springfield Convention has saidj and said with the em- phasis of contempt and disdain, to the Re- publicans of these districts: “‘ We assume the responsibility of denying you any voice in the selection of the Presidential candidate. We assume the responsibility of violating yourexpressed will. {You have selected anti- Grant delegates to the National Convention. We assume the responsibility or refusing them credentials to that body. We go far- ther: wa assume to select delegates for you, and instruct them to oppose your wishes, vio- Jate your will as expressed at the primary meetings and reiterated by your chosen rep- resentatives.. We have allowed districts in favor of Grant to select their own delegates, but you are opposed toa third term of Grant, thereforé we not only disfranchise you, ‘but mincrity you defeated at the polls.” ‘The oitrage is unparalleled, monstrous! To submit to it is. to consent to .political slavery. Let the disfranchised Republicans of the several bulldozed districts take con- certed action in the premises. Let them by common consent call mass-meetings simul- taneously in all the districts and resolve to snstajn with all their moral force their chosén delegates in an appeal to the National Convention to right their wrongs. The Cre- dentials Committee of the Chicago Conven- tlon cannot be packed. The Grant man- agers at best can control only fifteen State delegations. Hence the Conimittee to pass upon the claims of the outraged districts of Illinois will consist of twenty-three anti- Grant to fifteen Grant members. ‘Tre Senatorial triumvirate which fs ran- ning the third-term candidate consists of Messrs, Conkling, Cameron, and Logan. Of these, Logan went far beyond his confréres in bossing the State Convention. Mark the difference: Inthe New York State Convention, the first business transacted was that the thirty- three Congressional districts met separately, and each appointed their two delegates to the National Convention. These delegates were subsequently approved by the Conven- tion, which elected the four delegates-at- the demand vf Boss Conkling, asking them to vote as a unit for Grant. But some twenty-four of the district. delegates had been appointed by anti-Grant constituents, and fourteen of'these have since declared that, as the State Convention admittedly had no right to appoint the district delegates, it had no right to instruct district delegates. Hence these delegates will vote as their con- stituents direct,;and not as the State Con- vention has instructed, and it is highly prob- able the remainder of the twenty-four will do likewise. In Pennsylvania, much the same course was pursued, with the difference that, in some cases, the District Central Committees appointed the district delegates, who were subsequently approved by the Convention. The best evidence that the Logan plan was not followed-in Pennsylvania is the fact that State have declared their purpose to vote in accordance with the sentiments of their con- stituencies, and not with the Convention in- structions. Had the Logan plan been pur- sued, all would have been uncompromising Grant men. af It appears, then, that Gen. Logan stands alone in the unprecedented effort to abso- ‘lutely disfranchise ten districts of a State by causing the appointment of Grant dele- gates for anti-Grant constituencies at the dictation of the Grant districts and a bogus majority. This may prove that Gen. Logan is more effectively “ Boss” in this State than Conkling and Cameron are in their respective States; but it also proyes that district repre- sentation has been denied in this State ina manner which is altogether unprecedented, and which will not be tolerated. Hence it may be concluded that “Boss” Logan has badly overreached himself,—an error which “Boss” Conkling and “Boss” Cameron wisely avoided. - Toe Detroit Post and Tribune repro- duces aletter written by Zack Chandler a few days before his death to a-personal friend in Arizona, expressing his views on. regard to Gen. Grant’s candidacy for a third term. In this letter it will be seen that Senator Chandler gave it as his belief that “unless Grant can be nominated without a contest he will be out of the field,” and the nomination will go to one of the other candi- dates. We copy the letter in full. It did notreach his correspondent until after the Senator was dead, and was then given to the public: REPUBLICAN State CentTRat ComMitres, De- TROIT, Mich., Sept. 23, 1879.—My DearnSir: Your om of the lith inst. is athand and contenis noted. ‘he prospects for the success of the Repub- lican party iu the National election next year look much more favorable now than they did the year precading the election in 1876. Repub- licans ure united, and earnestly preparing for success ns the only hope of saving the country from the shotgun rule of the Confederate De- mocracy. The Tammany bolt promises to give us New York both this year and the next. Ohio issure to go Republican, and there is hardly a doubt that overy Northern State having ageneral election this fall will score a victory in favor of a free baélot andan honest count. Each Territory is entitled to two delegutes in the National Republican Convention, under the rules heretofore adopted. I am under the im- pression that Grant's chances are better than those of any person; BUT UNLESS HE IS NOMINATED WITHOUT A CONTEST HE WILL BE OUT OF THE FIELD, and there will bea trial of strength be- tween the friends and supporters of a few stal- wart radicals. No unknown man of Iukewarn sentiments or obscure antecedents will be nominated. It is very possible that Michigan will preserft a name inthe Convention as well as Maine, New ¥ork, Obio, and pertiaps other States; but I know _nothi special in regard to the matter, only that, if Gen. Grant is a candidate, no one else will be. Very truly yours, : Z. CHANDLER, The same opinion—that a preliminary con- dition of Gen. Grant’s candidacy would be such a manifestation of Republican enthu- siasin in his behalf as would leave the nomi- nation substantially wncontested—found ex- pression in an article from the London Times. It said: Gen. Grant is not prone to garrulity, bi hag of Inte altowed it to be understood ‘that he will not refuse the Hepub teat nomination if it should be tendered to tim by a practically unan~ mous, or at least greni reponderating, vote of the party. It teowld ot be consistent with hes dignity, nor would it promise well for his success, (f te voting at Chicago were to prove that a very large minority of active Republican politicians were implacably hostile to the “third term. Tf be found that he bad no chance of defeating Mr. Blaine, or any other competitor, hy more than a few votes, he would probably withdraw, and his friends might then combine to secure the re- fura of Mr. Washburne, or some other * dark orse. Since then has been developed a most overwhelming dissent to a third term of Gen. Grant in all the Republican States. In sev- eral of them the opposition to @% third term is almost unanimous. —_—_—_— Ow the 9th of April last we printed in Tre TRIBUNE a letter seeking information con- cerning Gen. Grant, upon certain points in’ his public and personal history, In-thesame issue we referred editorially to this commu- nication in the following terms: ca We print this morning a communication from a Wavering Grant Man,” propounding a num- ber of questions. We neither indorse nor justify any of the implications. ‘The writer {s, however, an old Republicun of this State, wha has been oor evo ia its Bolte, and we print the let- er because it conveys the ju ent of - thor and perhaps of others. ae mean The communication itself read as follows: To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Cxroaco, April 8.—Will Tae TRIBUNE public as accurate information as possible « one two matters that greatly interest all Republic- ans who have not yet made up their minds re- epecring their duty at the coming State Conven- on? ‘The Republicans of Mlinois seem the present time into three. equal pare eat are the Grant men, the anti-Grant men, and the men who, like myself, will determine their course after procuring all possible information UpOrs ares two matters, ana. as they are so it ly ‘RIB! ¥ St oan pened pba aes UNE speak 6o far ie Grant men say it would be an unheard-of outrage to deprive a candidate o: tion from his own Stato. ksatdeleaa: e anti-Graut men say that the reélec: -Grant would be the indorsement and elastase ment of the Babcock dynasty, and consequént proscription of all Republleans who opposed the Tings who rioted upon .the Treasury after the death of Gen, Rawlins, ‘the Secretary of War It is universally admitted that, whilst Gen. Raw: -lins lived, ke had an influence over Gen. Grant superior to all other men, and that that influence Was ever on the side of economy, justice, liberty, and honesty. After the death of Gen. Rawlins, whether true or false, it hua never heen contra- Mioved that Gen. Babcock Tonk the place af Gen. ‘Rawlins in’ the affections of ene Grant and to" large. Then instructions were passed, upon twenty-six of the district delegates from that. the then political outlook, and especially in- are v's Administratio : own ‘THe TRibUNE ‘ell its readers when Gen. Grant became an Illinois citizen? What is the date of hig first deed to Illinols land, or of his first lease of any building in Ulinois? Some- where I bave read that it was in 1859. ‘He went to the War in 1801, muking a residence, a8 I am told, of about eixhteen months. It is assert that be never voted in . Illinois, and that he has not lived at Galena since the War. It is admitted that he voted in St. Louis for James Buchanan in 1856, and that he.was not a Repud- lican until the War of the Rebellion. Will THe Trivuxe review his Tlinois history, and thus show us the claims he has as a citizen of illinois upon people.who might otherwise prefer # non- resident? This point may be considered uoim-, tant; butit is often pressed, and has its in- uence. f Gen. Grant. Now’ So much for the friends of, ot Oru one ive bis opponents a chance! Ene give the personal and military history of Gen. Babcock? When and whore was he born? If a graduate of West Point, what Stae did be from and when did he graduate? What was fisrauk if in the urmy, when the Rebellion commenced? If not in the army, what was his business before the War? Is he related to Gen. Grant, Gen. Rawlins, Mr. Washburne, or to any. other prominent Galena family or to the Dents by marriage or otherwise? How long has the intimacy existed between Gen. Grant and him? Did he have any commund during the War? If not, how did he become Gencral?_ Has be been traveling around with Gen. Grant since his re- turn? Was he at Chicago with him? It ia con- ceded that the Whisky Hing had its headquarters at Washington, and that it could not have ex- isted unless there was some ono near the Ad- ministration to expose its secrets. Will THE ‘Trasonr inform us what is the theory of those who believe Gen. Babcock innocent respect! the origin of the exposure of nll the secrets of- the Administration in its efforts to break up the. Whisky Ring? Did Gen. Baboock over. promul- gate uny theory. or do the supporters of Gen. Grant now promulgate any theory of this kind? - Some advocates of the third term say it is due. to Gen. Grant in order that he may redcem bis Administration from the obloquy that the Ring men brought upon it. ‘They furthermore 52: that Gen. Grant regrots his association witl such men, and, if reelected, he will bnve poth- ing more to do with them. What is their author- ity for making such assertions? Jt ig not expected that THe Trreone will definitly answer ail these questions, but it is hoped that it will give the people such light as may enable them to better discuss Gen. Grant's’ claim to a third term on the ground of Hlinois citizenship, and of bis repudiation of Gen. Bab- cock and other men, who. it is claimed, brought his Administration into su much disrepute. x A WAVERING GRANT MAN. The interest in this communication at this time is, the proof it furnishes of the value of advertismg. The writer advertised on the 9th of April through THe TxrpuNe for in- formation; and on May 31 he was selected and appointed by John Logan, from thiscity, asa Grant delegate to the Chicago Convention. In the brief intervening time the “ Waver- ing Grant Man” became solid, having, in answer to his advertisement, been furnished with all the evidence he needed. Was it furnished by Logan, Shepard, Long Jones, or Babcock? Tre failure of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company and of the Philadelphia & Reading Iron and Coal Company, two vast corporations doing a consolidated business, on the inflated stock basis, is one of the most conspicuous evidences of the want of Gov- ernmental control of all these corporations. The debts and so-called capital stock of this consolidated concern aggregate near)y 5200,- 000,000. The liabilities of the two concerns were, on the 30th of November last, stated to be as follows? J Stock Railrond Compan; $ 34,278,175 “Funded debt.. T5934, 76) Other debts... Total. Stock Coal and Iron Company... Funded debt.. Other debts... cy 000 35,062,584 7,657,070 $70,719.05 173,853,215 $194,573,149 This indebtedness is practically reduced somewhat by the fact that the railroad corpo- ration holds some of the bonds of the Coal and Iron Company. It will be seen, how- ever, that the $42,000,000 of capital stock is a shameless fraud, the whole concern having becn bankrupt for many years. The Com- pany has not been able for many years to pay the interest on its debt, and -has'-bor- rowed the money for that purpose by the issue of more bonds. The entire property of the concern has not a value exceeding $35,- 000,000, while its indebtedness is five times that sum. The bonds are in the hands of the people,—many persons having all they pas- sess invested in them,—and now the bonds must fall to their actual value. This corpo- ration has been demanding and exacting-rates for transportation intended to pay interest and dividends on $175,000,000, when, in fact, the actual value of the whole property does not exceed $35,000,000. Even at the rates de- manded, it has fuiled. Total, etem . Add Railroad Company. THE quotations on No. 2 spring wheat yesterday were $1.20}¢ in New York, $1.16 in Chicago, and 31.0734 in Milwaukee; all tor spot or May delivery. It can be brought to this city from Milwaukee, ‘and placed in store, for about 3 cents per bushel; and can- not be taken out of store here and shipped to New York for sale there at a cost of less than 14 cents, per bushel. The inference may seem to be obvious. Ordinary people think that the market here is cornered, or buoyed up by the fear that it will be cornered at the close of the current month. There are, however, folks who claim that.it is not so; that our wheat is worth all that is paid for it, whether bought to eat or to fill shorts. Meanwhile, Milwau- kee is sending her wheat here as rapidly as storage room can be found for it, and our elevators are still full, containing more than twelve million bushels of all kinds of grain, ata time when they should be in proceés of depletion to make room for the new crop. ASTRONOMICAL, Chicago (TRIBUNE office), north latitude 41 deg. 62m, 578.; west longitude, 42m. 1&s. from Wash- ington, and 5h. 60m. 30s. from Greenwich. The subjoincd table shows the time of ris- ing of the moon's lower iimb, and the official time for lighting the first street-lamp in each cir- cuit in this city, during the coming week, unless ordered sooner on account of bad weather. Also ie following times for extinguishing the first amp: Day. Moon ris May ee T:14% pm Monday. 3 Tuesday. Wedne: es last moon risings above noted occ: ater the midnight following Saturday and sun lay. ‘The moon will be full at 0:48% o'clock Monday morning, and in perigee Monday noon. Hence this full moon fs an unusually brilliant one, the apparent diameter of the muon being one-nine-" teenth greater than the average. The last quarter will occur at 5:03 p. m. next Sunday. The sun’s upper limb rises Monday at 4:31%: a m.; souths at 11h. 56m. 40.25. a, m.; and sets at Th, 224m. p.m. ies sun's upper limb rises Friday at 4:29 a. 3; squths at lb. 67m. 3 ere Sim. 06.668, a. m.; and seta at Sidereal time Thursday mean noon, 4h, 22m. 87.878. Mercury now risesa few minutes befo: sun. He will be in‘ superior coufunntinn: Wednesday of next week (June 2). Venus is west of the sun, but barely visible in the morning twilight. Thursday she will rise at 3:65-a. m. Her apparent distance from the bie is ae Present decreasing very slowly, lars is an evening star; south! U1 3:34 p. m., and setting at 11:04 ae eet near the eastern boundary of the constellation Gemini, and next Friday night will be only nine minutes of arc north of the star known as Muy Canerf. Both objects may then be seen at the same time through a telescope, if a low magni- fying power be employed; but no one should mistake the star for a satellite of the planet. Jupiter is now a morning star, shining rather’ prominently in the east, Dretty well up about the beginning of twilight. Thuraday he will rise? at 208 a.m., or about 2h. 22m. before sunrise. . He is much more: brilliant than usual, for the Same elongation, being yery near the perihelion Dolnt in his orbit. “His satellites willbe un-~ May 30. reasol able to see two of them without the aid of a glass. Saturn is also a morning star, rising next day at'2:46 2. m.; or ubout 1b. im. before He is algo much nearer to thesin? than the ayerage, and will be very favorably” situated for telescopic examination ‘next, au. tumn. It is possible that x ninth satellite wilt then be discuvered, and our knowledge of his ring system may be increased by the aid of the greater telescopic power obtained since he wag lastio perihelion. ~ Bae a] “Uninus isan “evening star,” but now getting pretty well out of the way. -He will south ‘Thursday next at 6:05 p.m. He can still be seen through an ordinary opera-glass & little more than the breadth of the full moon to the north- east from Rho Leonis. -Neptune is near the sun, rising before hinus His conjunction occurred on May-Day. ey The period of. the rotation of the planet Ju- piter has attracted a creat deal of attention during the past ten months. It is now known that the sidereal period 13 9 hours 35 minutes 34 seconds; probably plus 2 small fraction of an- .other second. This involves the fact that, ing the greater size of the planet into“thé ace? count, & spot on ‘his surface {3 carried: round with about twenty times the lineal velocity of a spot situated at a corresponding latitude on the earth's surface. It {s easily demonstrated that if the enrth should tim round omher axis seventeen times more rapidly: than’ she now docs, the matter at her equator. i would lose its weight, the attractive force being exactly balanced ‘by ‘the centrifugal tendency. Hence, if the planet Jupiter contuined no more matter than the earth does, there would “be comparatively little weight” within a con- ‘siderable range of latitude on each side of his equator. It ig, “howéver, known :that Jopttes contains more than three bundred times as much matter ds the earth; and his attractive ‘force is proportionally greater,for equal distances from the centre. But the square of the distance from the centre of the planct to its surface is a hundred times greater than in the case of the fh; and the attractive force is proportio: weaker, for equal quantities of matter. . Com- paring these two sets of quantities, we obtain the reason why the equatorial diameter of the planet is about one sixteenth part greater than its polar diameter; while the ratio in the case of the earth is about 2s 283 to 292... ‘ Nrvz of the sixteen members of the Cre- dentials Committee reported in favor of admit. ting the nincty-two regular delegates of.Cook, County; six of the “Grant” members of the Committee united with tem fn reporting ‘in’ favor of admitting fifty-six of the regulars; and’ three reported in favor of throwing out all the’ regulars, which report was treated with thecon-' tempt it deserved on all sides. Now mark, thers’ were fifty-six unchallenged Cook County-dele~ gates. ‘The first vote taken was on the motion: to seat the ninety-two regulars. On this ques; tion the fifty-six whose seats were not contested: had as much right to voteas any other dele, gates, but Logan ordered the Washington Com, missioner of Internal Revenue to rule that they, should not, The vote was taken without them, as follows: es For admission of the ninety-two regulars’ Against ditto... Adverse majarity...... If the fifty-six uncontested regulars who were refused votes by the outrageous ruling of Baum’ had voted the result would have beet ae Aye, country delegates c.. J Aye, Cook County regulars. Total for admission Aguinst admissio1 Majority for admissio eee wy This, then, was the real sentiment of the Con- vention. The next vote w.s taken on the ad2 mission of thirty-six Logan bolters from Cook County. The Boss applied his lash to whip fn’ every servile tool he had in the Convention for the admission of bis bolters, and again exclud the fifty-six Cook County regulars whose 41 to seats the very resolution being vated on tn, qualifiedly conceded. The vote on this motiog: tw admit the thirty-six bolters was: t For the Logea bolters. Against their admission. Add the excluded Cook regulars.. Total ..\...2...20...ee esse sence se eeeteees Majority only ...............05 It was by these foul means and by thig narrow majority the Boss consummated his outrage on. Republi¢an usage and party rights. ea Tre last Alliance (Prof. Swing’s papelly issued just before the dictatorial action af,thq Illinois Boss became known, says: ag Delegates to the National Convention for the nomination of candidates far the leney. ought to be so chasen as most closely and. truth- fuliy 1 represent the actual preference of tha Peopie. For this reason, delegates ought ta represent the real voice of their immedials car atituencies. Delegates to the State Convention are chosen by the several districts in which they reside. They represent and should obey those who select ana send them. A majority in the State Convention has no authority or right coerce, by any unit rule, the action of the. sev4 eral delegates, It is equally clear that in St where the Conventions Mtve undertuken 10.4%. sert such authority, the delegates are under ng moral or other valid obligation to submit to such assumption of authority. All this follows from the simple fact that ours fs “the govern, ment of the people by the people.” meatal ‘These views are not only in accordance. with! common sense and Republican ideas, but they harmonize with the uniform usage of the party, in this and other States and correspond with the language of the call of the National Commifiee, which required “ the several States to send two, delegates from each of their Congressional dit tricts." The anti-Grant delegates appointed br. tenof the Congressional districts the Logam bulldozers have undertaken to throw outand, to replace with Grant men represenring’ tte minority faction in those ten districts. ° But this, unrepublican outrage wil! not succeed. ' The National Convention will sit down on its auth and teach them that the rule of the minority, may be party doctrine among Democrats south, of Mason and Dixon's line, but itis not Repub, iS lican doctrine north of that line. “ —SS— rt Tue Bedford (Pa.) Press talks thus plainly to John Cessna and David Over, delegates ta Chicago from the Seventeenth District: “ Bvery man has a right to hisown views and to make! up his mind for himself, but when oné wishes to” fill the position of a representative be must, bave respect to the views of his constituency. ‘Themen selected as delegates to Chicago from this district have a perfect rizht to their Own" views and be Grant men if they choose,: bub when they propose to fill the pusition of deled . gates to represent the Kepublicandof the di, trict'at Chicago it becomes their duty to repre~ sent the views of the majority of the Republic-’ ans of the district, which is well known to be, overwhelmingly in favor of Blaine, If they; cannot or will not do this, they should politely” and honorably step down and out, and Jet others be elected who will correctly represent the Be- publican sentiment of the district.” * - : Arrer Boss Tweed had been detected tw stealing several millions which he divided witht his.co-thieves, he turned on the indignant an& robbed taxpayers and sneeringly asked them what they proposed to do about it. apes After Boss Logan bad defrauded Cook County; of her rightful representation and bad throws; out the elected delegates to the National Com: vention of ten Congressional districts and re" placed them with Loganites, he turned on thé: People of the ten disfranchised districts and, with a cold sneer, asked them if they did not like it what they wero going to do about It. Tweed got his answer in the Criminal Courth and Boss Logan will get his in the Chicago Cone; | vention. ' ——— . Is classical language, the Ilinols Boss wil. discover that he bas bitten off more than he can chaw, and has hooked a bigger Sah than be can land, when he undertook to tura: twenty elected delegates of ten Congressional districts to the Chicago Convention out of thelF seats, and substitute twenty persons represent>, ing a minority faction tn their places. Jobty, you are not Samson enough to carry that out- rageous, unrepublican rascality through the National Convention. Thirty-seven other States. will have to pass Jjudgment‘on it. z ‘ “Mewepmis is urging forward her sanitary: moagures with greut energy. Twenty, miles. of: sewer-pipe have already been laid, and ten more \Will be laid by the Ist of June. This wil} nearly‘ complete the ‘sewer system. In addition, a, equal number of drain-tile pipes have been laid’ the Nicolson pavement has been taken up, and stone paving substituted in part, there has been; a general cleaning and filing of vaults, a reno; vation of stores and dwellings, and the demolt ton of hundreds of old buildings. Over ‘0; menare now at work carrying out the plana af; ‘the sanitary engineers, The Acalunche says tha