The New York Herald Newspaper, June 29, 1871, Page 3

OW JUMPSUIRE POLIS "The Democracy Extricate Them- selves from a Bad SnarL -A Conscientious Legislater and a Filial Son.. ‘Effective Way to Secure a Ma- jority in ‘the Senate. ‘A STATE SENATOR TO BE IMPEACHED. Republican Tears and Tribulations. Threats of the Republicans to Break Up the Legislature. CoNncoRD, Jume 28, 1871. Never before in the history of New Hampshire politics has such an intense interest been mantested asin the deliberations and acts of the present ses- sion of the General Court, The excitement which attended the opening of the session, and which for a time subsided, has broxen out afresh and with re- newed vigor. The business of the session was at first delayed and obstructed by filibuster- ing, but the minority finally accepted the situation, apparently, and the coalition party, composed of democrats and labor reformers, began their labors with high hopes of carrying through alt their mea- ures, which embraced some SWEEPING REFORMS anc a general ousung of the present incumbents of office; but by some little :mistake or misplaced con- fidence they placed an obstacle tn their path which Promises to put an effectual check upon these proceedings, unless summarily disposed of. This obstacle it the Senaror elect from District No, 10, which district was made vacant by the deatn of Samuel P. ‘Thrasher, the labor reform Senator elect, who was also supported by the democratic party. The Senate upon convening stood five republicans and five democrats, with two vacancies to be filled, viz., No. 1 and No. 10, District No, 1 was filled by the election of Daniel Marcey, of Portsmouth, demo- erat, It was then deemed politic by the sachems of the democratic party to fil the vacancy in No. 10. This election involved a constitutional question, but it was finally decided to run Alvan Smith, of Lempster, the next highest candidate, It ‘was Well understvod that Smith hada given pledges to the party that he would support the measures that should come before them, and, in fact, decided to carry out Mr. Thrashe7’s views in every partacu- lar. Mr. Smith was accordingly elected; but imme- diately after electian 1t was whispered that he was not sound, and upon consulting him it was round ‘that his CONSCIENCE WAS TROUBLING HIM, and he talked largely ef nis “old free soil’ record. The radicals took charge of him immediately upon hus arrival here, and he was treated to the tenderest Bursing. Ason im Kansas was summoned in hot haste to come and assist in the work of redemp- tion, being promised, undoubtedly, fat rewards if he should be successful in the work, The son came at once and every day since bis arrival has had him under per- sonal supervision, sitting In tne galleries during the session, and at the close taking the consci- entious old man under his wing and conducting him to his boarding place, which, by the way, is with one of the faithful, who was formerly a democrat, Dut changed his politics under the greenback ex- eiiement, Smith’s vote ties the Senate, ‘and consequently renuers void all meas- ures passed in the House, if his conscience “should prove troubicsome or his hope of reward overcome his natural inclination to honesty, of which he makes great professions. Thus matters went on for several days, both parties claiming him. ull at lengti his vote on several test questions satisfied both parties and the public that he intenas to support the radicals. This apparent dectston of Senator Smith complicated matters greatly and gave the republicans encouragement and ex- asperated the democrats. The excitement cul- munated, tu fact, to-day by the report that the democrats were to make an EFFORT TO UNSEAT SMITH on the grounds of imbecility and undue outside in- fluence and restraint and political dishonesty. When tnis rumor became current the alarm was sounded among the republicans in both branches of the Legislature; and meetings were held in various places to devise some means for preventing a con- summation ofthe scheme. A protest was drawn up by ex-Congressman Tappan and others, to be presented im case an address for the removal of Senator Smith was offered m the Senate. It was also reported that the pro- gramme included the closing of the doors when the vote was taken, thus preventing the going out of the members and leaving the House without a quo- rum. This news created the utmost consternation among the republicans ana for a me war seemed imminent. Sergeans-at-Arms Ordway, of Washington, was seen travelling through the State Honse yard at a terrific pace, heading a band of spectal policemen and warlike republicans, Whose laces indicated a determination to shed tuetr blood, if necessary, 1 aeience of the sacred mghts of the consciencious ge His advent at the Senate lobby was & scene of the MOST THRILLING CHARACTER. In his rage he swore # loud oath that if it was attempted to lock the doors he would batter them down. The lobbies were filled with spectators anxiously awatting developments, but were doomed to disappolatment, a8 nothing transpired of 1 san- guinary nature, and the antteipated programme was not carried out. A bill for redistricting the city of Manchester, thus establishing new ward boundaries, was discussed in the Senate, and Mr. Fling, of Bristol, movea that Senator Holbrook, repudiican, from that place, be Setrpootined on this question, he veing an inter. ested party. This measure again produged the utmost agitation in the republican ranks, and the Manchester deiegation in the house were shocked beyond measure at what they considered another unwarrantabl AITEMT? TO OVERRIDE THE CONSTITUTION, ‘The repudiicans claim that there is abundant evi- dence to prove that the democrats are determined to get control of the Senate, eltner by fair or foui means, and that a prominent deimocrat was over- heard to-night to say that “they would haye control of the Senate and that they would expel Sinith for Political dishonesty and a breach of faith.” ‘The republicans held a caucus this evening, and, after mature and anxious deliberation, unanimously wecided that if the democrats persist im carrylig out their designs, which are nnwarranted by the constitution and uasnpported by precedent, as they evidently intend to do, they snail resign and thus LPAVE THE HOUSE WITHOUT A QUORUM. Such tn brief is the political situation here. The democrats have summoned to Concord their ablest men from all sections of the State, including John G. Sinclatr, Edward Burke, Congressmen Bell, Hibbard and Parker, Lewis W. Clark, Cline ton W. Stanly, George A. Ptugham and William C. Sturer, Telegrams for a similar purpose ave being sent in various directions by the repuplicans. Some of their best men are here, among them being Senator Patterson, W. KE. Chand- N. G. Ordway and ex-Congressman Ste- To-morrow — will probably bring Senator CI » General Head, ex-Governor Smith and other big hghts. Unaer these circumstances both parties in the Legisiature will have the benefit of the wisest counsels and the most dtscreet sug- yrestions. The result, of course, cannot be pre- Aicied, The democrats are generally reticent but determined. ‘They say that the corrupt and INIQUITOUS COURSE OF THE RV ANS im New Hampshire has come to an end, and they in- tend to thoroughly bury the rotien carcasses before adjourning. [f told that they are Psctidpen a high- handeu course, they refer to the long list of oa (ageous and vega) acts perpetrated by the repubil- cans during thet sixteen years’ rule—if not 10 jusit- fication of their course, at least as a reminder of past corropt republican administration, State oficers are to be elected to-morrow, The labor reforiners are to have Secretary of State and State Treasurer apd the democrats are to have Railroad Commissioner, State Printer and Commis- wary General. The misunderstanding last week which arose between the labor reformers and the democrats has been adjusted, and the two paruies are now in perfect harmony aud have A reliable working majority in the House of six. Three republicans have been unseated, and it 1s proposed to send home & dozen more, including those representing the wealthiest wards in Manchester and Portsmouth. The testimony before tae Com- mittee on Elections shows an ASTONISHING AMOUNT OP CORRUPTION in the spareely settled borougys. Where we fey | sey | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1871—TRIPLE SHEET, oMcers have repeat allowed to be chosen a larger number of representatives than their number of ratabie polls entitled them to, No democratic members ve yet been unseated, hut it would not be surprising if some should be removed im the thorough winnowing of the House which is now taking place. ‘The democrats exhibit great energy, abiiity and statesmanship, while the republicans are showing all the pluck that could be expected irom a defeated and disheartened party. They have some very able Men in the House, but have not as many legislators ofexperience as are on the democratic roils. ‘Phe session has already made itself a memorable one, and constitutes a curious and unexpected chapter in the history of New Hampsiire politics, New Hampshire Legisinture. CONCORD, June 28, 1871. Governor Weston bas mace over one hundred and sixty justices of the peace, by new commissions and renewals. He has also nominated Joseph F, Wix- gins, of Exeter, as Judge of Probate of Rocking- ham county, which will soon be vacant by the present incumbent, W. W. Stickey, of Exeter, reaching the iymitation of age. Willtam Barrett, of Nashua. has been nominated for Solicitor of Hillyboro county, on the expiration of the term Of the present incum- bent, Joseph B. Clark, of Manchester. The bill ex- empting 3500 homesveads from taxation, which passea the House yesterday, was reconsidered to- day. THE MAINE DEMOCRACY. Proceedings of the State ConventionAp- pointing the Committee on Resolutions—A Debate on the Platform—Antediluvian Ideas-The New Departure—A Row—Tri- umph of the Pregressive Democrats. Aveusra, Juné 27, 1871. After sending my letter of yesterday the Demo- cratic State Convention met. The morning session, at which, by the way, there were 755 delegates, resulted in notking more than the completion of an organization. Mr. A. 3. Rice, a comparatively’anknown lawyer, from Knox county, was elected President, and there were sixteen Vice Presidents and ene quarter as many Secretaries, for the most part representing the progressive ele- ment of the par}. THE COMMITTEES. The usual machinery committees were ap- pointed, and fifteen county delegates selected a Com- mittee on Resolutions—a most difficult task, on the successful accomplishment of which depended the harmony of the Convention. Finally this cominittee was constituted as follows:—Androscoggin county, Caivin Record; Cumberland, W. H, Clifford, Frank- lin, H. L, Whitcomb; Bancock, C. H. Foster, Knox, A. a. Leavensellar; Kennebec, H. K. Choate; Lin- coln, 8. H, Smith; Oxford, A. 8. Ktmbail; Piscata- quis, A. J. Case; Penobscot, Marcellus Emery; Saga- dohoe, A. D. Moody; Somerset, A. J. Perlin; Wash- ington, A. MeNickel; Waldo, W. H. Simpson, and York, M. E. B. McKenney. This gave both sides an equal representation in the framing of the platform, although if there was any advantage the young de- mocracy had it. A RECESS, The Convention then then took a recess of two hours in which to discass the situation and view a circus procession which was passing through tne streets. NOMINATIONS FOR GOVERNO.. Reassembling at two ovclock, they proceeded to nominate Charles P. Kimball, the well known car- riago manufacturer of Portland, for Governor, he receiving 455 out of the 4:3 bailot¢ that were cast. The nomination was afterwards made unanimons. Eben F. Pillsbury, of this city, accepted the nomi- nation in Mr. Kimbal’s behalf, urging that he shall be supported by the democracy of Maine for two reasons—first, because he pald more money than anybody else to secure his (Pillsbury’s) election as Governor for three successive years; and, second, thal once, when Mr. Kimball was compelied to com- promise with his creditors tor fifty cents on the dol- lar and receive a fall release, he afterwards paid the balance of his indebtedness with interest to the date of payment, CONSIDERING THE PLATFORM. In the meanwhile the Committee on Resolutions were mm session directly underneath the hall, and a stormy debate was taking place. Marcellus Emery and W. H. Simpson, from the eastern section of the State, representing the conservative element, were combatting the progressionists to the best of their ability, Among the resolutions which they offered for consideration, and which was defeated by a vote of 7 to 8, was the following, which will give a good idea of the antedi!uvian ideas which they ctterish:— Resolved, That we.ate unaitersbly opposed to the fpllow « ing recommendations of the State Superintendent, urged upon the Legislature in bis late annual report, to wit:— Granting to the State Superintendent inquimtorial powers over the colleges and academies withia the State, compulsory attendance on the public schools, State upiform- ity of text books, State aid in favor of the Maine £ducutional Jou natand Educational Atsociation, increase of salary of the State Superintendent, and State ald to free high schools ; and we call upon the people to apply the test of opposition to these measures to all candidates for Senators and Represen- lives to the Legislature at the polis in September next. Three long and weary hours passe’ away, dunng whieh the delegates were bothered to deatn in try- ing to understand a talk against time by Eben F. Pillsbury on the subject of the tari”, when finally it Was seml-officially announced on the plattorm that the jury had compromised and were ready to make a verdict, In a fie they waiked upon the platform, with Mr, t. H. Clifford, of Portland, pearing @ ponderous rou of manuseript,.at their ead. A ROW OVER THE NEW DEPARTURE, Their arrival was greeted with applause, for it put a sudden sop to Mr. Pilisbury’s interminable ad- dress, and when order was restored the Chairman proceeded to make his report. He commenced thus:—Resolved, That, burying out of sight all dead tssues, and deprecating the discussion of past questions that can have no application to the present atfairs and condition of our State aud country, We address ourselves to the vital issues and questions of the hour, bringing them to and de- termining them by the living principles of de- mocracy, a8 promulgated by the fathers of the re- public,” which suostantially presented the views of the Old Guara. But there was a great row when he completed the reading by the addition of the words, “That we recognize our binding obligations to the constitution of the Unived States as it now exists, without reference to the means by which the same became the supreme law of the land.” 1T8 ADOPTION, Mr, Emery moved to strike out the addition of Mr, Chord, and Mr. Bion Bradbury attempted to pour oi! upon the troubled waters by substituting the word “denouncing” for the words ‘without refer- ence to,” in the second clause. Mr. Rawson, @ sup- porter of Andrew Jackson, refused to be com- forted, saying that the resolution, as it read, en- dorsea the Ku Klux bill and bayonet rule. Finally, however, after a scene of mutual bacabiting aud mtense excitement generally, the resolution, as presented, was adopted—50 to 1. The remainder of the declaration of principles subjoined was passed by a vivd roce vote. AQNCLUSION. Mr. Cltford very nicely concluded the proceed- ings with a speech, asserting that as the democracy had alwarys stood by the constitutioh as tne supreme iaw of the land, even to the extent of sup- porting the slave law, because it was decided to be constitutional, was only consistent for the party, Dow that tie constitution Was changed, to sustain its provisions. UTAH AFFAIRS. Bold Assumption of Authority by the Mor- mon Militia—The Charch Determived to Force an Issue=The Governor's Powers Defied=Failare of the Ring to Oust the Federal Judiciary. SaLT LAKE, June 28, 1871. The News, oficial orgfn of the Church, cqptains to-night a special order dated Adjutant General's office, signed by i. B. Clawson, by order of General Wells, ordering out for the coming Fourth of July one company of artillery, one of cavalry and the infan- try. ‘This excites general remark, as last fall the late Governor, J. Wilson Shaffer, by proclamation, forbade not onlv the gathering of the militia, ex- cept by his order, but the assembling of any armed organization, On the same day he issued another order appointing General P, E. Conncr Major Gen- eral and Commander of the militia of the Territory, and Colonel Johns Assistant Adjutant General, thereby removing the so-called Lieutenant General Wells and Adjutant General Clawson. In direct vio- lation of this proclamation, which is still in force, the late Mormon officers attempt to act and also to set at defiance the proclamation forbidding the ussembly of militia without the Governor's order, It looks as if the Church desires to make an issue. The presence of armed forces on the streets on the Fourth of July, when a Gentile as well as a Mormon celebration and procession takes place, it is feared, may resuit in a disturbance. The proclamation of General Sbatfer be enforced. Senator Stewart lett for Nevada iast night. The California aud Nevada 18 disappotn' in the tne fajinre of itascheme to oust the lederal judges and put their own instruments in their place. the rest of the community are delighted. PHILADELPHIA DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS, FRMILADBLPATA, June 28, 1871. The Democratic Convention made the following nominations this morning for city oficers:—For Mayor, Colonel James 8. Biddell; District suage, William 8, Price; Treasurer, 8. G. Hy troller, E, G. Wosdwurd: Solicitor, ithomsy Bare wer; District Attorney, Furman Sheppard ae ‘Com- rT, G. We Hayes; Prowonotary. Rom- eteege | and Itsel: MASSACHUSETTS POLITICS AGAIN, A **New Departure” of the Repub- lican Party. General Butler Nominated for Governor of the “Chl Bay State’ by a Leading Republican Journal. Prospects of a Lively Scrimniage Between the General and Dr. Loring. BosTOon, June 28, 1871, The fact has been generally known for a long time that General Butler is about to seek the nomi- nation of the repubiican party for Governor, but none of the politicians or party press have until now brought tis name prominently before the peo- ple. The Newburyport Herald, published in Gen- eral Butler's district, has finally spoken tn a leader of vhree columns’ length, and boldly nominated the General on A NEW DEPARTURE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM, ‘The article referred to 1s as follows: — The doctrine which Pythagoras professed con- cerning the human soul sir Vallandigham has brought to bear in actual life upon politics; for if ever a party could be held to have undergone trans- migration the democratic party has done so in we past few weeks under the operation of that states- man’s counsels, It is no louger tue democratic party of the immediate past; but with a self-avne- gation unparalicted in political anpals, it has yielded up all the convictions it has entertainea for the last ten years, recanted 1 not repented, and at one step accepted the position and principle#of its terumphant opponents; all this in accepting, as it 1s now under- stood to do, the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution, which aré at once the angust resulis 2nd crowning glory of republican supremacy since 161, Whether a real or pretended change of conviction, or the sincere acceptance of & situation now seem to be irreversably and eternally fixed for the prerpore of making the best of it, or whether a piece of political cackoolsm, 60 Lo speak, stealing into the republican nest for the purpose of | keeping warm for the time betng and eventually | of hatching its pecuhar dogmas into a new life, as to this sudden metamerphosis of the democracy others can judge as well as we, but the future alone can determine. With Mr. Greeley, however, we are not disposed to ascribe a bad motive for a righteous act, and so dealing with the new departure ina spirit of good faith we are constraimed to admit that it 18 a fact oF no ordinary significance, and one upon which the repubiican party would do well carefully to refiect, It may waih truth be said of any party whatever that a long lease of power absolute and uninter- | rupted, as’ that of the dominant party has been | in the United states, especially under the circu | stances by which t party has been su | rounded—thore of a great war and the exige cles to which war gives rise, thus greatly en- jargig the scope of its activity and influence— ; hacurally tends to weaken from day to day its | claims to popular favor. That to & greater or | less extent this is true of the republican party, however much it may be regretted, is not, therefore, a mutter of surprise. Faults or mistakes of admin- istrauion, the corruptions unavoldably attendent upon the conduct of a war vast in its dimensions, continuing through a period of years and for an expenditure of millions daly; greed of office, the clutns of rival ambitions, the disappointments and heart-burnings resuit- ing from the collisions of faction and the scramble for offices aud contracts—all these things, coupied as they have been and could not but be hitherto with a generally disturbed condition of affairs caused by Muctuations in business, oner- ous taxation and derangements of the currency, lead us less to wonder tMat the republican party, now alter ten years of supremacy, has lost some- what of its original hold upon the country, than that it has been able 80 long and so continuously to intrench iself within the bulwarks of popular sup- port. ‘That such has been the fact, that this supremacy of the republican party has thus existed, is owing to‘no contrivance or completeness of party or orgau- wation, however perfect that organization may he, but Lo the earpest conviction of the American peopie upon the political questions ont of wich the war arose, and which have in turn arisen therefrom; their determination that these questions should be settled in accordance with those convicuons; and their un- willingness to trust any otuer than the republican party with the great interests at stake. We thus perceive that great aa the republican party has been and now &, under Mie poliuical jeadership of the Great Captain who conquered the rebellion 1p arms; wielding coucro! for years not only of the federal gov- ernment, bul, as a geueral fact, of the local State gov- ernments as well, and in States some of whitch are em- pires in themscives; admirabie as has been its devo- Uon to the ideas of its political creed; immortal as are the visible proots of that devotion, now at length realized im @ reunited couutry, the emancipation of three milion slaves, their education and eniran- chisement; the equality of all men before the law— great, powerful, trlumphant as 1n al) these respects the republican party is, it should remember that it became such not otherwise than as an iastrument to these great ends im the hands of the people themselves; that it can only continue to be such by so shaping its courses and aims 4s to respect their rights, convictions and sentuments still; aud that whenever it shail prove recreant in these Li peed the suffrages of the people will be transferred else- where, and a new party elevated to power by which their interests and rigits will be respected and their ‘Will obeyed, Now, it 18 mm the temper of such refections as these that it becomes the leaders o1 the republican party, and the party itself, to take coguizance of that great movement, which—called by Mr. Vallandigham a pew departure, as expressive of another course by which the democracy are hereafter to steer, may have for the republican party the very commonplace and distasteful meaning of a departure trom those high seats of authority in which they now sit supreme— and so doing to counsel together Whether there are not important things to be one or to be left undone ithey would assure to the future that success of which the past can boast. it has been our wont to speak complacent!ly of the democratic party, not with any language of post-obit eulogy, as dead; bat we begin now to perceive that this may have been an error. Broken, routed, scattcred though it has been, its tett Wing, that of the rebellious States engulied in a maelstrom of blood and fire. all the States of the Union, with one or two exceptions, snatched from its grasp, time has shown that in wnat seemed com- plete annihuvation its organization was still perfect, and it bat slept upon its arms. In trath, if repud- Mcans cannot admire the vitality of that party, it does at least excite wonder, Mlustrat- ing as it does to their minds the principle “which makes calamity of so long lite.’? We may de- clare the democratic party to be dead, but with what natural gusto mignt not one of its partisans reply, pointing to New York or New Hampshire, hat if so it ts the kina of death which 1s swallowed up in victory. Thasitis not dead the republicans wul have fuil reason to Know vefore the campaign of 1872 18 sought and won, Nay, were it as dead in fact as it 13 velieved by them to be 1D twespasses sins, it needed butsuch a movement as that of the statesman of Dayton to recreate it; as when Ezekiel prophesied in the valley, and the dry bones stood up and lived, and they were the whole of Israel once more, so has Vailandigham restored his party, so breathed into its nostrils 2 new lite, So reanimated it, that there Is to-day an emotion in its favor; men who denounced him as a traitor pow k of him as @ patriot, and the Chief Justice writes of the new democracy wih filtal sympathy as the free-sotl party of hls eariy faith. "Lo meet this party, thus reorg#nized ana re- inspired, to contest with it for victory, and to over- come itif possivie, that is the dnuiy of the republi- one which it owes both to the country 2 and how is this to be accomplished ts the guestion of the hour. Lo we apprehend danger to the republican cause in the commg contest, are we asked, that we dwell thus seriousiv on the attitude of the democratic party, and th ain ata of the campaign? We answer both yes aud no. Yes, if the republicans shall fail to perceive the true current of events and to giide their course m conformity with the needs of the country and the just demands of tne people. Qo, if, en thefcontrary, they shall fearlessly meet tie requirements of statesmanship and patriotism in this gs they have done in every preceding emer+ & Dey. ba the questions at issue those simply of the war, those to Which the three amendments to the constitution have given an organte settiement— were these all, there could be little doubt to which party, as parties are now marshalled, the people of the country would confide the control of the govern- ment. It 1s not to be supposed that a mere profes- sion of acquiescence on the part of the democracy 1m the accomplished results of ihe war—a negative goquresoenice, admitting the amendments to be a poftion of the constitation, but denouncing the means by which they became so—the reins of power would be entrusted to its hands in preference to theirs by whose sagaclty and fidelity the results have been attained, and are to-day the proudest trophies of American history. ‘The fact that the new départure of the democracy has met with such general acceptance is not to be construed wittun these narrow limits, Other con- siderations are to be taken into account. With the changed circumstances of the times there is a change in the relation of parties, both to the country and eaco er, The demociatic party is no 101 a Y of mere negations; it has dusaneuve principles and ideas of its own, re U taki h as command Piel pogd an While Moreover, it hag Do responsiollity, it has all the ad- vantages of @ party in opposition, On the other hand we find the republican cause encumbered and embarrassed by sysiems and tneasures tbat are ob- noxtous to the people, prejuaictal to their material interests, and in some respects, it 1s seriously be- lieved by many, inimical to the safety of the gov- ernment, Its pristine principles ure still diss cernible, it is true, to the eye of party taitn; that they have been compromised obscured ondary interests, there 18 no one 80 wo 4 ‘What is worst of ail, e to which we 5 & Way that the tor te Reise nha" them; evils which must be abolished and cured, or the days of the party are numbered, apd ought so to be, and of which we enumerate, as among the most intolerabie, @ Gnancial system under which capital is aggregated, aud industry repressed, and wich, levying tremendous taxe: discruminates agaist the many im favor of the fe @ tariit incomprehensible in ifs exactions; a prodi- gal waste of the pnbuc lands ta the mterest of rail- road jobbers and specuiators, whereby monopely has been developed Lo so great an extent that it 1s bie In some instances Which Is the stronger, itself oy its creatures, the e@ and other kindred evils, upon the party of the last ten years aud peraps unavoidable as such in the rank growth of atime of war, but for which po party can be held to answer save that which has had charge of the goverament during that period of time, We apprehend that republican leaders generally do not fully realize how proloundly the people are moved upon these subjects. In the greab We they. were the pivotial questions of the last election; and im the bast the emotion excited by them is scarcely less universal, agitating, a8 It 18 beginning to ds alike. We may be sure that the de » party are not unmind+ julof the sentiments of the people in this regard, and that it is because of that party's opmions upon the class of questions here referred to that their recent act of conversion on te issues of the war bas | commanded the measure of approval which tt has received, Whether it Is geucrally understood or not, these are the quesuons upon which the | campaigns of the immediate future are io be fought, till ney are as effectually set at rest as have been the questions of the war, We have faith to boiteve twat thus summon the republi- | can party wilt be equal to the occasion, The circumstances require of it no new departure, asm the case o! its opponents, but Ouly an imme.tate retur: to the jine of irs oviginal career, as that party proiesstng alone to represent the government of the people, by tue people aud for the people; the repn- diation of Uiose seifish sehemes which may ha obtained a hold upon its organtzation: In a wor the eradication, root and branch, of the “spous’? system, in whatsoever form it exists, whether of tart, bank or jand monopolies, of railroad subsidies or other grasping interests, Nor need we be perplexed as to where the great work of the regeneration of the republican party isto begin. It ought to begin here in our own State of Massachusetts first of all—the leading republican State of the Union, the Stare whose moral sentiments founded, as her intelligence has inspired, the republican party. What is the con- templation of that party as it now stands in tt State do we behold?” {tn the Jast election In Ma: sachusetts the republican majortiy was bat 8,24 and in 1569 but.9,848. . What a falling of from the figures of 1860 and 1864! in the former year the majority was 43,893, ang in the latter, 77, t This ‘year, 18¢4, was the high tide of the pai although ‘the falling off in’ 1$66 was not gr taking into consideration the lesser excitem in@ campaign whena President was not tobe chosen, the majority of tat year amounting to 65,351. | Looking beyond the statistics into the detatls of actual fact, tle spectacle there preseuted suiil explains the mathematical results. Tue republican | Party of wits State 1s no longer the accordant and enthusiastic party of Which its members were once | proud to boast—the party of 1861, or even of Is63. excrescencves Discord and confusion of thought and = prin- ciple how rule its = =connsels Which once answered to the contrel of deliberation and staiesmanship, Where were unity and enihusiasm in a majestic cause divisions iave taken | place; where Was an ¢y@ stigie to Ute public good | ambition and selfish lot their petty schemes, and the party Nas lost strength accordingly. But even these facts do ROL eEXDIaIn Uits Immense loss of 60,755 votes to the republican Cause, Influences still more potent have been ab Work. | Weare taught by this condition of things that itis | only by fidelity to the interests of the people that the | ascendancy of the republican party can ve : ly and that Massachusetis is no ¢: ption to the gen- eral rule. Were tue republican party what it should be, what in its earliest years it was, and what is re- quired of it by 11s professions, we should not New political combinations im Massachusetts, wi drawing from republican communion great numbers of voters; we should not see such questions as those of lavor and temperance and soctal reforms lett vo the support only of minorities and third parties, but we should see the republican party once more a compact and united organization, with its uncon- querable majority, grappling the great questions of popula right and human progress im a spirit of | Tue republicanism and with the fearl $8 In | which it opposed slavery and secession, The question now is, can the result thus prefgured | be again achieved, so that Massac: tts can once more take the lead? The destinies of | the republican party are in their own keeping, and the response to this inguiry rests with them. | selves, That which we have said of the political | prospect generally 18 not jess true in its application to our own local affairs. Here, as in the country at large, if the republican party woula command and | deserve victory, It must return to Its primitive faith; | quitting subsidiary and internal issues, it must gird | itselffor the great conficts of humanity yet un- ; Jought; #mast select aleader fitted by his ante- ; | <) cedents and abilities to take the iead and follow where he leads; it must hush its contentions and close up its ranks; begond ana above all it must be true to its record, to this age of progress and to the cause of republicanism throughout ihe world. OL course it 18 Not to ve questioned that a leader, such as suggested, can readily be found among the { number of emiment men by whom the party nas been illustrated and honored and to whom the eye naturally turns, fut the point now to be Impressed upon the; republican mind is the tn- dispensable nectssity of finding sech an one and marshalling the party under his banner in the campaign ciose atnand. Whoever that leader may be, if the republicans would do justice to them- | selves, It must be no mere partisan chief selected in conformity with some pretended principle of rota- tion or order of promotion, or out of any deference to any merely personal services or merit; but it must be, what the times and the condition of rhe party demand, a statesman of broad and compreiensive views, advanced opinions upon the questions of tae day, and one of seli-reiying and self-asserting in- dividuality. ‘That we have such a one in our mind as is thus | described, and whose preferment we hope to see, 1t | Would be disingentious to deny. We admit it the more readily, stuce the fact 13 to be attributed to no mo- mentary impulse, but to deliberate and cool reflec- | tion. We may be pardoned, we think, in view of our locality and the discussion taking place in ref- erence to that locality, if we have not awaited the immediate presence of the cam- | paign before forming our views and fixing upon the candidate of our choice and that of tae section which we in parc represent. If. as we be- eve she ought, Essex, for the first time in her his- tory, shall be honored in the selection of Chicf Magistrate, we hesitate not to Say that the man and the requirements of the occasion will meet; that he whom Essex will present as her candidate for the ofice of Governor, not without sacrifice in the loss of his services ag her special representative eisewhere, will be that /man tn whose per- son, when he shali be ‘elected, the ancient glories of the republican party will be revived, its mighty majority restored, and its fature of achievement and glory, so tar at least as te Commonwealth 1s concerned, assured. Witn General Butler—for it 1s of him we speak—ns the candidate tor Governor tn the next cam- paign, there will open 10 republicanism in Massa- chusetts & new Vista of usefulness end honor, tne days of ite declining strength will have been wold, the enthusinsm of its youth will be Tearouscd and its early triumphs renewed. Nor 1s this all; the nomination and election of General Butler will stand for more. Rather than any man in the State he is the representative of that new cra im oar country’s progress, Which however uudefined as yet, 1s nevertheless a thing we feel and know. Nay, that election itself will serve as a proot that such an era has begun. Whatever tne war has cost in sacrifices or accomplished in results; whatever reconstruction has estabiished and the people desire to preserve; the great principles of democratic liberty underlying the republican faith; the Wea of the country’s unity and indivisible nationality; its future of continental expansion and power; Ameri- can citizenship, the equality of ailmen before the Jaw, their education and enfranchisemeni; the mn- tereats of labor and the improvement of the con- dition of workingimen; the cause of cheap transit and intercommunication by railroad and telegraph; the overtarow of monopoly, however respectably or secureiy intrenched; a revision of the tari! and the internal excise corresponding to the demands of a wise revenue re- form; the question of temperance and of social science, including that of woiman’s advancement in industrial opportunity and civil right; as respects each and ail of these considerations, the only sure basis of popular progress or of republican success, with General Butier lor the nominee, there will be no clement wanting in the representative character of the candidate, and the party thus being satisfied in all its noblest convictions aud aspirations, 1t will consolidate ifs strength anew and once again become united and imvimerle, NEW YORK STATE DENTISTS’ CONVENTIO! ALBANY, June 28, 1871. The New York State Dental Society commenced its third annual session in the Assembly Chamber this morning. The attendance 1s somewhat larger than nsual; between fifty and sixty delegates beivg pres- ent at the opening. Drs, SB, Palmer, of Syracuse; Frank Abbott, of New York, and Leon Harvey, of Buffalo, were ap- pointed a Committee on Prize Essays. The Treasurer reported the receipts for the year to be $662 22 and the disbursements $544 07. Dr. 8. W. Rogers, of Utica, the President of tne society, delivered the inangaral address, in the course of Which he eaid the State Society was stead- The whole num- i ining stre! and Blanding, beret cotabare Beitaanng w the District Society is SENTENCED TO BE HANGED. Torkxa, Kansas, June 28, 1871. Judge Morton, in this District Court, to-cay, sen- tenced Lewis Ford and Mary Jane Scalles to he hanged on the 17th of August next for murdering the husband of the latter, near this city, last Novem. ver. Ford confessed that he killed Scalles, and that Mrs, Scailes was present, but did notassist. He also says that he has cohabitea with her since he was ten years old, and that she often had asked him to kill her husband. Ford Is about twenty-two ParK Od and Mra, Scaties ys forty, | mind, Commodore Vournis must | side Mr. Comstock accosted one of the judges, and | asked the fauformation requirea, when he was di- | soughe, mark | Columbia at home stakeboat } Uceable was the misfortune that befell the Qui Vive. YACHTING. The Brooklyn Yacht Club Regatta, What Yacht Won the “Club” and “Union” Prizes for Schooners?—Protest from the Co- lumbia’s Owner—A Claim that Ho Fairly Beat the Madeleine—Tho Judges to Review Their Decision, terday afternoon Mr. Franklin Osgood, owner e yacht Columbia, submitted a formal protest against the judges’ decision in the late Brooklyn Yacht Club regatta, which awarded the Clab” and “Union” prizes of the schooner class to the Made- lene, on time allow , Claiming that his yacht had fairly beaten her in the race. The document is as folows:— New York, June 28, 1871. To THR JUDGES AND RuGarra CoMMITTEE OF THE BROOKLYN YACHT CLUB:—- -i suppose that it is only necessary ‘aW your attention to the unaccountable | mistake in your decision in rega:d to the race of | yesterday to have you reetlfy the error, The time Which clapsed between the passing of the home | stakeboat by the Columbia and Madeleme ts incor- | rectly giveny The true time was three minutes and thirteen seconds, mistead of one ininute and | This Une was obtained from your appointed timekeeper. Unquestionably, to my. be fully aware of the actual difference in the time of arrivel of our | respective boa’ , Ob an occasion like this, every yacht owner knows the time of his yacnt passing the home stakepoat. I am prepared to furnish you fall proof to sub- atantiate my clatm 2s baviug fairly beaten the Mad- eleme, FRANKLIN OSGOOD, Owner Yacut Columbia. It will be remembered that the Columbia was the second boat home and the Madeleine third. So svou as the latter had passed the stakeboat Sailing Mas- ter Comstock, of the Columbia, proceeded to the | judges’ steamboat, the William Fletcher, for the purpose of obtatning the time of the arrival of both the Columbia and Mateleine. When along- for me - rected to board the stakeboat and there obtain what he desired. This order was complied with at once, and the figures requested of the timekeeper. Unhealaungly that oMcial imparted the information ing the time of the yachts home on a shp of paper, evidently torn irom a notebook, and which is now In possession of Mr. Osgood. ‘The e—Columbia, A. 27m, 108; Madeleme, US it will be noted the difference in favor of the Columbia 1s 3m. 138, Now the ume al- lowance due the Madeleine from the Columpia, i a race over five hours and not over tive and a quavter | hours, 18 2m. 0us., which Would leave the Columbia whe Winner by im, 10% The tollowing 13 a re capitulation:— FROM OFFICIAL TIMEKE Madeleine at home stakebuat Columbia in advance. se teerecees Allowance of time due Madeleine by In favor of Columbia........ tees ‘Tue figures, however, given to the publi Judges Tuesday evening, when they met to oficially | Teport to the Regatta Comuititee tie work of the da: differ materially in the matter of the Madeleine arrival home, betng 4h, 38m. 204., instead of 4h. 40m, 29s., a8 given by the cluo appomted timekeeper, on paper, to Sailing Master Courstock, and thus, with the allowance, awarding the race to the Madeleine, There is an error somewhere, and, assuming tb exists, it mftst certainly be a clerical one, as the Judges are Kuown yachtsmen and of pousivuley so that their attention 18 only nect ¥to bo ¢ rected to the unimtentional Wrong vo ellect its recu- lication, Jt was announced Jast evening tnat Mr. M. M. Van Dyke, chairman, would convene the judges so soon as practicable for the purpose of an exhaustive re+ view of thelr jabors bearing upon the matter in question. It 1 asserted, moreover, that the names of many gentlemen can be produced who were tn goud posi- tions avout the home stakebout to witness tne in- coming yachts, and their testimony as to the difler- | ence of time between the Columbia and Madeleine’: arrival is singularly corroborative 0: that receive by Sailing Master Comstock from the oficial time- keeper. Yachting Notes. The schooner Idler came off Dean’s railway on | ‘Tuesday, and that afternoon sailed down the bay to | meet the incoming yachts in the brooklyn Yacht | Club regatta, | The schooner Magic 18 on the dock in South | Brooklyn. Her steering gear has been changed. j ‘The sioop Kate Is lying at anchor 1n Gowanus Bay, | She will soon be taken to Gien Cove, where ner owner, Rear Commodore Dillon, passes much of his | lume during the sammer, The sloops Peerless and Gracie will visit Cape May to swell the list of entries in the great regatta there on the Fourth, Two or three of the smaller yach‘s in the regatta | of Tuesday suffered damage witch materially clouded their prospects of victory. Particularly no- Her topmast was carried away, which almost com- pletely disabled her. ‘The victory of the sloop Alert on the same occa- ston is worthy of mention. She was modelied, vuiit under the superintendence of and rigged by her owner, Mr. Join H. Dimon. It 1s rumored that Vice Commodore Douglas will soon have the Sappho‘s hull painted biack. The Harlem Yacht Club gentiemen, with their families, make the annual excursion to Meyers’ Grove and Long Branch to-day. TENNESSEE KU KLUX. Important Case Under the Enforcement Act—Twenty-eight Tennesseans on Trial for Ku Kluxing a Negro—Inteuse Laterest Excited in Memphis. MEMPHIS, June 28, 1871, The first important case under the Enforcement or Ku Klux bill is now on trial here in the United States Court. Twenty-eight names figure in the in- dictment, and ail are residents for many years of Monroe county, ‘The indictment charges the deiend- ants, while in disguise, with forcibly taking Alex. Page, @ negro, from nis house near Aberdeen at midnight of the 29th of March, and hanging him by | the neck until he was dead. The trial was opened on Friday last in @ petition fora writ of habeas corpus, Which was granted, and yesterday was sct down for tue hearipg, which day was occupied with the prelimtnaries, ‘to-day the case was commenced in earnest, aud a large number of witnesses were examined. The defence rely chiefly on the ability ol counsel and the previous good character of defendants, Who present arespectable appearance in Court. They are guarded to and from the Court, which 1s presided over by Judge R. A. Htll, by a de- ment of the Sixteenth United States Infantry, t from Nashville, who mount guard at the Court | House door ali day. The trial excites the greatest interest, and will probably last several days. The wife of one of the defendants was ad- mitted to-day to testify in behalf of her huspand, The following are counsel for the govern- ment:—Colonet GW, Wells, District Attorney, Northern disirict; E. P. Jacobson, Attorney, South- ern district; H. Blackman, H. W. Walter, Van Hf. Manning, of Holly Springs, and J. P. Turner, of Water Valley. sor defence:- W. F. Dowd, R. Houston, N. 0. Reynolds, General 8. G. Gholsar, D. McClusky and E, 0. Sykes, of Aberdeen. TENNESSEE MILITIA WARRANTS, Memruis, June 28, 1871. The decision of the Supreme Court, dectaring the warrants issued by the County Commissioners void on the ground of the nneconstitutionality of the issue, creates great excitement here, It 18 beileved that the amount issued Will reach $1,250,000, among which there are $300,000 of warrants issued fo ihe Mississipp! River Railroad and now held by McComb & Co, FIRE IN WILLIAMS BURG. Proyerty Vained at $23,000 Destroyed—A ; Fireman Lnjured. At about two o'clock yesterday morning the large four story brick buildimg corner of Nortn Third and First streets, Williamsburg, occupied for manufac- turing purposes, took fire and was damaged tothe amount of $23,000, divided as follows:—The bulid- ing, owned by Henry Richardson, damaged $10,000; insured in the Kings County and City Com. | panies for $15,000, . Kennedy & Co, Machinists, lose $3,000; insured in the Phenix, Excelsior and Franklin Companies for $12,500. Muller & Lalor, silk fabric manufacturers, lost $6,000; fully Insnred, Ashley & Harris, maoufac- turers of press feeders, sustained a loss of $4,000; fully insured. | Dui the progress of the fire Timothy Foley, foreman of Hook ond Ladder Com- pany No. 4, accidentally fell on a sharp instrument and so severely cut the wrist of his right hand that amputation Is believed to be necessary. VIEWS OF THE PAST. JUNE 20. 1862—Battla of Savage's Station, Va. 1861—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the poetess, died. 1952—Henry Clay die a Bere of Parma, italy; the French defeated the Austrians, f WASHINGTON Retura of the President—The Boutwell-Pleasonton Quarrel. Commissioner Capyron’s Jape anese Mission. Wasminoton, June 28, 1871, dont. The Presiient returned this morning, and we early at the Executive Mansion, where he is attend- ing to the correspoud uch accumulated during nis absence, He will remain at the residence of Secretary Robeson while in Washinate Senator Scott, of Pennsylvania, had an interview with the President during the forenoon. The Prest+ dent expects to leave this elty for Long Branch toe morrow night. Geueral Pleasonton an Early Visitor at th White House. ieneral Pieasonton, Commissioner of Internat Revenue, was among the first to visit the President this morning, and had a long interview with him in rejation to the differences between himself and Secretary Boutwell. ‘The latter has not yet seen the President, but els confident that his own course im tie matter 1s in accordance with ail established pres cedents, The subject wil! be formally considered . j by the President to-morrow, Cabinet Mectiny. The Cabinet will meet at eleven o'clock to-mor row morning, and it is understood that matters of unusual importauce will be under consideration, ainong thern the present differences between Com- missioner Pieayonton and Treasury, It is also believed here thatseveral appoint+ ments of prominence will be made, though there is no official authority for so stating. Tve Ut Judiciary Imbdroszlio. Governor Woods, of Utah Territory, arrived her@ yesterday, and to-day had an interview with the President, He states that there were no grounds for the charges against United States Judges MeKeon and Strickland, of Utah, now on file in the Attorney General’s ofice, but that they are made in the interests of the Mormons and certain parties engaged in tuiniug operatioas who cannot use these Judges as they desire, Comunissi: Caprows Japnuese Mission. Hon. Horace Capron, Coimissiouer of Agriculture, to-day tendered to the President bis resignation, which takes effect on the Istor August. This is in accordance with a co: red into two months ago with the Japanes rniment through & Com- Mission sent to this country for the purpose of introducing and developing In that kingdom the industrial ideas of the Umted States. He ts em- powered to procure modcis of agricultural and in- dustrial machinery, even to the appliancea of railroading, and will take with him & geologist, civil engineer and other meme- bers of a corps for jientific and industrial investigation. The mission ts pretiminary to possi- still more extensive and ls regarded he President and the Capinet as one of great im- both to Japan aad to tots country, A Son of Fred Douglass a Member of the Ter- ritorial Council. Governor Cook to-day sent to the President the name of Lewis A. Douglass to be a member of the this district, ip place of Frederick Doug. » new Counciitnan 13 a@ son of Frederic< nd resides in the county. nquent Collectors of Internal hevenne. The following has veen prepared at the Internat Revenue Office to-uay:—The cash balances due from ex-coliectors of the Internal Revenue Office to the government, as shown by the books of the Internal Revenue Bureau, reached the sum of 7. OF this amount there is due frem collectors appointed by President Lincoln $800,053, from collectors appointed by Prest- dent Johnson $1,515,757, froin collectors appointed by President Grant $t4,5S1. Collection of tie Dividend Tax. Mr. Frank C. Bariow, attorney for the New York and Philadelphia banking companies, yesterday had, a hearing before Commissioner Pleasonton in regard to the payment of the tax assessed on dividends de- ciared during the last ive months of 1870. None of the companies have paul the tax assessed under Sec- reiary Boutwell’s orders, and they ask that the col- lection may be suspended, The Commissioner stared that he no authority to suspend the col- lection, and the matter was reterred to Secretary Loutwell, who awaits the decision of Attorney Gen- eral Akerman as to his authority to comply with the request. British Vice Consul for New York. The President has recognized John Pierrepont Edwards as Vice Consul of Her Britannic Majesty a& and Jor the city of N ork. THE INDIANS. The Attack on Warren’s Wagon Train Deo signed for tho Capture of General Shere man. St. Louis, June 28, 1871. The Houston (Texas) Union says the Indian rata on Warren's wagon train, near Fort Richardson, some time since, m which seven men were killed and forty mules captured, was designed for the cap- ture of General Sherman, of whose coming the In- aians had knowledge. When the attack was mace one of the chiefs was heard to give the order w “lake Captain Suerman alive.” More Trouble with e Arizor Apaches— Friendly Indians on the War Path—-Exter- mination the Only RecoursemAnxiety Cor cerning Government Trains. WastineTon, June 28, 1871. The War Department has received despatches from Camp Apache, Arizona Territory, Gated May 16, giving an account of an attack by the Estittesoy- lah band of Indians on a party of herders, killing one herdsman and driving off ten horses and twelve mules, Major Green, commanding the post, imme- diately mounted ali the men he could ouster on the few mules and horses at his disposal, and sent Lieutenant Browie in pursuit, He also sent Captam Faller, with some imfantry, to support Lieutenant Brodie, if possibie, Brodie overtook the Indians im the mountains, avout twelve miles from the post, and a fight took place, mm which two Iadiaus were Killed; but the In- dians were too numerous for his smalt foree, es- pecially as some of his men were 80 poorly mounted that they were unable to Keep up with him, te was, therefore, compelled to 1ettre. A sergeant of the party had his horse shot under him. Major Green became very uneasy about a train on the route between Camp Goodwin and his post, aud also the wag sent to meet the trai, in order to bring in e supplies that were mach needed in the gar He theretore sent Lien- tenant Brodie, with fifteen nen, all he could moant on mutes, to meet the train aud guard it, As those Indians have been considered friendly they approach parties without neing suspected; hence the greater aanger. He knows of no course to pursue toward them but extermination, for after the Kind treat. ment they nave received he does not believe they can again be trustec A jl intercourse with them has* been suspended. Owing to the scarcity of horses only forty men of the two regiments can be mounted, The Case of the Kiowa Chiefs Held for Murder in Texas—Propesal to Ketain Them as Hostages. WASHINGTON, June 28, 1871. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs was to-day furnished by the War Department with copies of certain correspoadence in relation to the Kiowa Indians near Fort Sill and the Chiefs Satanta and Big Tree, lately sent to Texas for trial for the mur- der of seven white men in that state. Agent ‘Tatum, under date of May 29, writes to General Sherman, stating his belief that Satanta, Satank and Big Tree, then ander arres:, had been guilty ot murder in the first degree and should be sent to Texas and not allowed to regain their freedom. He continaes:— “Permit me to urge, independent of my conscien- tious views against capital punishment, as a matter of policy 1¢ would be vest for the inhabitants ‘Texas that they be not executed for some robably not at all, for the reason tnat if ept as prisoners the Indians iy be to them , and thus have a indu- ence on their actions; but, if they ure exeodted, te Ktowas will be very likely to seek revenge ry wholesaie murder of the witite people. Please con- vey mny Views and wishes as above expressed to the proper officers in Texas, in whose charge the Indisa prisoners are placed.” ‘This letter is endorsed by General Sherman, the e day, as follows fens Oy, “Fort Sint, May 2% “Respectfully furnished General Grierson, post commander, who will deliver the within named prisoners to any officer who may be sent from Texaa to receive them with & copy of this paver and en- dorsement, that due respect may pald to 1 wishes of the Indian Agenis ll the orders President are received 528