The New York Herald Newspaper, October 27, 1873, Page 4

4 STATE POLITICS. A Bitter and Uncompromising War ' Between the Republicans in Ca- yuga and Wayne Counties. GENATOR WOODIN ON THE DEFENSIVE. Wharges of Corruption and What They Are. —_———. The Senator's Accusers Stumping the Dis- trict and Joint Discussions the Order of the Day. The Democrats Holding the Winning Cards, but Uncertain How to Play Them. THE PROBABLE RESULTS OF THE FIGHT. Ciypx, Wayne county, N. ¥., Oct. 23, 1873. Notwithstanding the efforts that have been made @uring the past week by some of the most promt- ment members of the republican party in this State to secure peace and harmony among the rank and Mle, the’breach between the anti-Woodin and the ‘Woodin republicans remains as wide in this dis- trict asever. Indeed, I may now say, without fear Of contradiction, that there is no longer the re- Motest prospect of a reconciliation, and that from wow until the close of the polis—a week from ‘Tuesday next—tuere will be, so far as Cayuga and Wayne counties are concerned, three distinct par- ties in the fleld on the Senatorial question. The fact is that Mr. De Witt C. Parschall, of Lyons, who Was a {ew days ago nominated by the solid vote of ‘the republican delegation from this county against Mr. Woodin, has determined toremain a candidate, come weal, come woe. He was called upon day ‘before yesterday by a select committee of repub- licans, appointed by the delegation which nomi- mated him, who urged upon him the necessity of Keeping in the field, in order, as they termed it, to crush “the Auburn Ring.’? There was, I learn from one of the committee, as the immediate result of this advice, a general discussion of the Eituation by the committee, in which Mr. Parschall took an active part, and, before the delegates had left him, the “reform” republican candidate had Bigned a jormal letter of acceptance. This accept- ‘auce of Mr. Parschall fairly cuts out THE WORK OF THE CAMPAIGN in the district. All doubts as to the probability of his withdrawal the day before election—which probability even his most earnest adherents up to yesterday were half inclined to expect—have now been swept away, and the ight among the faithiul must goon to the bitter end, I may as well say just here that, now that Mr, Parschall has decided torun at all hazards, there are those who have flready begun to conjecture as to Mr. Woodin's withdrawing trom the contest. These wiseacres base thelr speculations on the alleged fact that Mr. Woodin had declared, alter Mr. Parschall was nominated, that if there was a probability of a democrat’s winning the contest by reason of two republicans being tn the field he (Woodin) would withdraw, and 1 ap- prehend that no one who knows how Mr. Woodin feels about the way he has been treated so far in the canvass will give the thing a serious thought. It would be quite impoasibie for me to describe the feeling maniiested towards Mr. Woodin by the majority of the republicans in Wayne county if I tried ever so desperately to do full justice to it. They denounce him as bitterly as the poor ‘ Boss” Was denounced by his joes two years ago. It @ppears that Cayuga county has, in the matter of Population, a fraction over the number of persons required to entitle it to two Assemblymen. Wayne county has a fraction less, yet a requisite number to entitle ber to two also. Years ago, when a certain gentleman who was then a senator from this district was seeking for a renomination, a bargain was struck by which he finally obtained it—viz., by securing to Cayuga county an extra delegate to the Senatorial con- ventions, Each Assembly district was accustomed vo send three delegates, and, as each county had pnd still has two Assembly districts, as I saia be- fore, it will be seen the bit of concession made to Cayuga jor its small fraction of extra population gave her quite an advantage over her sister county. This advantage has, of late years, worked by no means to the satisiaction of Wayne, and, although the republicans in this latter county grinned and bore their misfortune quite a long time, they say they had at last to take a bold stand this year to break down the barrier. Tnis difficulty between the two counties once understood, it can be readily concetved that when it happened @ few weeks ago that Wayne county made up its mnind to have some other candidate than Woodin, and went into the Convention at Port Byron with that laudable determination and found Cayuga county’s seven votes solid for him (and, though her own delegation were solid for another man, yet were in a minority of one), the delegates, as the boys say, “got their backs up.” There was a rumpus, and one Ot its legitimate results wes an independent convention—the ‘Woodin men cali it by the harsher term of a “‘bolt.”” However, it must not be taken for granted that Mr. Parschall’s nomination by the so-called bolters ‘was prompted solely and exclusively by the disap- ointment of Wayne in not securing the candidate jor herself. Far from it; for the delegation’s action has been since unanimously endorsed by the County Convention which sent them to Port Byron and which was not elected on the question of Woodin or no-Woodin at all. This certainly was positive evidence of the feeling in the county in favor of a new candidate; and what places the Wayne couaty in a still better light is this—and every republican im the county! have spoken to about the matter states it as a fact—that the Wayne delegation were ready and willing to SUPPORT ANY GOOD REPUBLICAN for Senator, no matter what portion of the district he hailed from. Already the anti-Woodin orators bave taken the stump, the ball being opened last night by Mr. Vandeberg, of this place, who was a member of Assembly in 1866-67, James Cox, of Au- burn, has also entered the lists against him, and ee Post, of the same place, has challenged 0 A JOINT DISCUSSION Of his claims as a candidate, This challenge has been accepted by Woodin, and on Monday he and bis antagonist will meet face to face at Auburn. One of the most extraordinary phases of this re- publican wariare, in which more bitterness is manifested than | have ever witnessed in all my experience between the most rabid democrats and radicals in New York, is that bat one of the jour re- jublican papers in the district is in favor of ‘oodin, and this paper, the anti-Woodin men say, is only two years old, aud was founded in opposkt tion to anoiner republican paper in the same place because the editor of the latter was ap- pointed in view of all the crim- ation and recrimination concerning the case, it may be interesting for republicans outside the dis- trict to know what Cayuga county itself thinks of Woodin. { must coniess that after the most dili- gent inquiry and obsei vation I find but very few republicans there, comparatively speaking, who talk about him in the same strain as do the repub- Ucans opposed to himin Wayne. lt is true there are quite a number who are very bitter against him, and even in Auburn, where he resides, there are to be found many of his most inveterate enemies. This being the case, the question naturally arises, ‘How waa it that he received the solid vote of the Cayuga delegation? Mr. Woodin’s iriends answer that the reason was that the great mass of the republicans in the county are heartily in favor of him, the sore-headed, eg inted oifice-seekers being the exceptions. But the Wayne county peo- ple give quite apother reason. They assert that at the primaries Woodin put into practice CERTAIN LITTLE ELECTION DODGES ‘Which he must lave learned by nis long association with Bill Tweed. Money, they say, in the first place, was freely used to procure votes, and they leclare thas it was o men before the cimatien Weep he ia Uayuas county that John isp }, the treasurer of the State Central Committee, had gone to New t the funds “that would "knock the ite out oF LY anti-Woodin voters.” Among others whom + talked with on the subject was Mr. Thomas Robin- sen, a Fecmnene lawyer, in this village; his brother James, and Edward b, Wells the repub- lican representative last winter in the ey The. from the Twellth district ‘ayne ci told pretty much the same Kory . ar ‘ab Mr. iomas Robinson seems to be one of the lending spirits ist Woodin in the count; Raturaliy had his eyes. Open’ te aa Tees oo going at the primaries, I will giv: is lew Kon ke” ie Tg him the benefit of im that, had th “My candid \- ublicana im Oaruss NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1873.—TRIP county who were entitied to vote slone voted, Mr. Wooain would nothave secured & le dis- trict, But he knew the feeling against him, and provided against it ina way that does him it as a pupil of Mr. Tweed. Men who did not reside in certain towns were brought in by the rallroaas in gangs and made to vote, In fact, the wo trafns 1m some tances took up men who hi voted in one town and carried them on to another, where they again voted. In the town of Cato men voted who didn’t reside there. Be! Jim Bel- den, the head of the canal ring, sent an order to the joreman of the iron works in the town of Ster- ling (Belden is the President of the company) bid- ding him take the men to the primaries and make them vote, Forty of them vote, and yet many of them had nomore right to vote in that town than you orl have. Sydney Mead, the candidate for Canal Commissioner on our ticket, also had a lot of men who are working on 8ome wood job out- side the town to go and vote in Conquest. Many of them did not belong there.” Mr. Robinson said to me concerning the charges against Woodin—“The people believe him to have been dishonest, and there is no getting over that, They nave formed their opmion trom actions, his associations while at Albany and his votes, ‘Talk about a general denial aud his demanding proof of the correctness of the charges! Why, yea might as well try to produce proof that reed bought votes at Albany, You cannot do it, He swore winter before last that he never bought vote there; but did anybody believe him? Besia the law makes it ap offence ior a member of the Legistature to take a bribe, makes the giver equally liable, and this debars both the giver and tho teeer from testifying.’ Then, after a pause, Mr. Robin- son added:—“If Woodin was bot corrupt then he was a fool for voting the way he did on certain occasions, which led people to believe he was cor- rupt. Aman like that ought tobe kept at home and weil guarded.” From all that I have been able to learn up to the present time, from general observation in the two counties and judging from the general talk of the Woodin and anti-Woodin republicans, Iam con- vinced that the contest for the Senatorship is not by any means a sure thing as yet for any one of the candidates. It must be borne in mind that Mr. George W. Cuyler (I should not be preneinee. to bear on election day that his name had been put by the Woodin men on hundreds of ballots as George W, Schuyler, which is the name of the Sen- ater candidate in a near by district) is the standard bearer of the democrats against both Woodin and Parschall, He is a popular man, and will pol: strong vote. Should the democrats to ® man su} port him I have not the test douby of his election, for he will be able easily to slip in between his two competitors. he present indi- cations do pot point to a solia democratic vote in his favor. Indeed, I have met with several prominent democrats in the district who have come out and out for Parschall, and I am iniormed that the number of the unterrified in Wayne who will go for him is quite formidable, Mr. Parschall is a banker in Lyons and has often lent his influence to the advocates of certain town bonding interests in his district, and it is believed that t tact will injure his prospects some- what. However, those who profess to know best as to just what influence this particular weak spot in his candidacy will have on his vote, con- tend that it will affect him but very slightly, and only in the neighborhood of Clyde and ‘ons. Now as to the SPEOULATION AS TO THE PINAL RESULT, Cc and Wayne counties in 1871, in the election for a Senator, cast their vote as follows:— Cayuga . + 6,883 234 2,649 va . S00 be) 1a7L Now, g the above figures of 1871 as a basis, “let it be taken for granted that Woodin’s vote then In Cayoga of 6,883 will be reduced nearly 2,000, and that about 1,500 democrats will vote, as the Parschall men say they will, for the independent republican candidate, the following table will give & pretty good résumé of the general speculations o! the Parschall men and of many of the demo- weit Woodin, Parschal Cuyler. = 5,000 he 344 + 1,500 3 3,000 » 6500 7,810 6k Lam irresistibly driven to this concusion—that with Mr. Woodin and Mr. Parschall in the race and with the same feeling prevailing among the republicans that now prevails at the close of the polis on election day it will be found that the vic- tor will be George W. Cuyler, the democratic can- didate. Atall events, it is highly improbable that Mr. Woodin will be the man. Ifhe shoula win he will surprise many of his stanchest supporters as Well as his opponents, THE EIGHTEENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT. The Farmers Have a Say About Mr. Winslow’s Renomination and Put a Farmer Candidate in the Field—Mor- ris D. Winslow’s Dilemmas—Jefferson and Lewis Counties. WATERTOWN, Jefferson County, } Oct. 23, 1873, In this stronghold of republicanism, like in every other district north of New York county, the Sena- torial question is regarded as the most prominent issue of the campaign. The district is made up of Lewis and Jefferson counties, both strongly repub- lican, and both, as far as the general run of the majority of the voters are concerned, have been accustomed for years to look upon the democratic party asasort of monster which every good citi- zen who has any hope of salvation in the world to come should avoid contact with as he would the company of Mr. Beelzebub himself. However, the Tepugnance to the monster is not by any means a8 strong now as it was in 1859, when Jefferson county, becoming suddenly converted to the new faith, as preached by the woolly-horse apostles, abandoned the democracy and gave, as an evi- dence of their sincerity, 5,000 republican majority for General Fremont. Under tac circumstances the county has not been since that fatal day a very fertile field for ambitious democratic candi- dates to thrive in comfortably, although the demo- cratic voters in Lewis and Jefferson have never been known to flag in their annual work for the ticket of “the unterrified,” though always certain of defeat beforehand, They have always worked as steadily for the good of the party—as cheerfully and as determinedly—as though they were sure of carrying the district, There are two strong causes which apparently give the opposition greater hope of a final victory than they have ever presumed to dream of before. The first is, that the republican candidate is Morris D. Winslow, one of the so-called Tweed Senators; the second is that in no other district in the State, probably, has the amalgamation of the liberal re- publican and the democratic elements been more complete or more sincere than In the Eighteenth. As an illustration of this fact Ineed but to refer to & most extraordinary occurrence which took place in the district just vefore the Utica Democratic and Elmira Liberal Convention was held a few weeks ago. It was this—that the Convention which elected delegates to Utica was the same which selected delegates to the Elmira Convention. This happened because there is only ONE OPPOSITION PARTY in the county; the democrats and liberals being really one organization, made up of democrats and republicans. Two democrats were sent to Elmira and one liberal republican to the Democratic Convention. To this fact of the two opposition forces being so thoroughly in harmony, the one with the other isdue the compact front of the anti-Winslow party in the two counties at pres- sent, And now, before indicating how tne opposi- tion proposes to utilize its combined strength in the contest for Senator, I will refer briefy to the Con- vention which renominated Winslow. His letter accepting the nomination tendered him has al- ready been published; and a person reading it, without knowing the real facts, would very natu- Tally by its tenor be led to believe that he had been from the start offered and finally awarded a unauimous renomination. This was far from being the case. The Lewis county delegation were posl- tlvely instructed by the Convention which selected them to cast their vote for Judge Turner, of tnat county. In order to make their real feeling toward Winslow so plain that he who ran might read, be- fore sending the delegates to the nominating con- vention, this same Lewis County Convention passed a series of resolutions denouncing in th Severest terms the attempt by the last Lesisiature to repeal the Usury laws and the attempt made by it to pass the bill exempting bonds and mo es from taxation, two measures which the were rey, much exercised over, These two bills pil gO galiatint Ly m be Senate not only adyo- ed for; and, whi charged with having done sa elceahs teed SOME VERY SHREWD LOBBYING among the members of the Lower House when the bill to repeal the Usury laws was before it, in order to have it pass. In his letter accepting the nomi. nation of the Convention it ts true that he declares that the bill he sonperred only repealed the pen- alties attached to the violation of the Usury laws 63 they now stand; but this is the fimsiest Nina of bp as ag | one who knows an: os about ¢ parti ee which was 60 howly fought over last year sh houses, ie Aware that it was a “trick” bill, which only ostensibly repealed the ernie but in reality repealed the Usury laws hemselves. Now in the Convention the Jeiferson county delegation was numerically stronger than that of Lewis county, the former having two As- sembly districts to the latter's one. and when it threw its vote for Winslow, Lewis county, which did not really want to create any trouble in the magnanimously gave up its candi- jomed Jefferson in support of its This is how Mr. Winslow was renominated unanimously. As the nomination was known in the district the democrats to lay their plans for nomi- their plan of uel will show. It so happened rson County Fair was being held T. D. Pratt, @ stanch republican and one of the oldest and most respected citizens of the and who is or was the President of the Farmers’ Club of the county, determined that Mr. Winslow should be op; d stoutly by the republi- nate. “He at Once, ring the Fairs wrogeeas, . ju ‘a drew up a circular calling Tore Ms 4 OONVENTION OF FARMERS AND INDUSTRIAL MEN Fey, to nominate a candidate against Mr. ‘inslow who would more nearly represent them: selves, He obtained 110 signatures of farmers to it, two-thirds of whom are out-and-out repub- and the day fixed for the meeting of the penrention was the 20th inst, Mr. ir in his paper. tances the . a ie Call was handed to him he returned it, refusing, at the same time, to give it publicity in his journal. Mr. Pratt’s friends that the editor, after ob- taining the call, took it to the Republican County Committee, where the names of the signers were copied, and it is Relieved the chairman of the County Committee immediately wrote a letter to each one of the republican signers. What the letter stated or asked has not transpired, but it is Presumed by the anti-Winslow republicans that each signer was actually written to on the sub- ot from the fact that one of them wrote a letter addressed “to the chairman of the Count: Committee,” which was published ia the repupil- can local paper, in which he stated that he was not aware when he signed the paper presented to him that it was a call for aconvention. ‘This was the only protest against the call as not having been signed with a full knowledge on the part of the signers Of its real purport; for, say the anti-Wins- low republicans, had any of them other than the one who did enter his protest signed it without knowing its meaning the charges made by the local aper that it was a democratic “trick” would cer- inly have drawn forth additional protests. Thus matters stood on the 20th inst., when the Farmers’ Convention met. The proceedings were brief, and Andrew ©, Middleton, a republican of unquestioned Teputation and 4 man of considerable means, was nominated by acclamation. In the opinion of one gentleman the result will in reality depend more upon THE ACTION OF THE DEMOCRATS than upon Mr. Middleten’s out-and-out republican supporters; “for,’? said he, ‘we republicans are determined to vote against Loa and, although we are not very strong in numbers, when com- jared with the total republican vote in the dis- rict, we can do a good deal with the assistance of the liberals and the democrats, There may be trouble about getting democrats to vote for a re- publican, as in the last election, in some of the dis- tricts; but I think they have got over a good deal of their squeamishness on that score, and are now 48 alive as any of us to the importance of joining hands with any body of men whose aim itis to stem the tide o! corruption that is sweeping over us from all siaes.”’ It may, possibly, be an advan- to Mr. Middleton in the contest that several farmers’ granges in the district; but whether the republican members of it will vote for a farmer in preference to the regular nominee is a question open, in my opinion, to very grave doubt. It is claimed by the anti- Winslow republicans that he would not have obtained in 1871 anything like the majority he securea then, had it not been for the fact that the issue in every district was whether or not Conkling should fo back to she United States Senate again. This issue, they say, made the republicans in this dis- trict, as it made the dissatisfied republicans in every other district, set aside thelr differences of opinion on minor questions, and thus the entire republican vote almost was cast for candidates who might have otherwise run the risk ot defeat. They add that Scribner, who ran in 1871 at the head ofthe republican ticket, was very little Known in this section of the State, and yet Winslow ran behind the ticket. The vote in the district stood as fol- lows: Scribner, Winslow, Porter. 2 7,37 5,684 3,008 2,090 10,145 8,374 ARE BVERY WAY DOUBTFUL. It will be perceived that he ran behind 314 votes and bad a majority over his democratic opponent of1,771. The main question in the contest 1s, can this majority he cut down, and ifit can be cut down by the votes of anti-Winsiow republicans alone, will it be possible that a sufficient number of democrats will refuse to vote for a republican to more than counterbalance Winslow's Joss of re- publican support? The questian is certainly a puzzle; but, judging from present indications, I think Mr. Winslow will not be defeated, Still there are many republicans who stand non-com- mittal, and who appear to be half inclined to give heed ' to the ory of the prominent re- — papers in the State, which have een urging @ change of Senators from this district. It may be that by election day they will have their minds made up to follow the example set by so many of their political brothers in Ohio, and give their neighbors a surprise. And yet again they may fall into line as of old. I repeat, how- ever, that the present outlook looks favorable to Mr. Winslow. The Custom House here on the frontier has considerable strength, which will be used in his favor, as it was in electing his deic- gates; but Lis opponents contend that this will really injure him with the farmers and other repub- leans, Who have got heartily sick of federal infu- ence, more than it will help him. I forgot to state, by the LAS that after nominating Mr. Winslow, the Republican Convention passed a series of resolu- tions somewhat similar to those adopted by the convention which nominated Mr. Middleton, in which, among other things advocated, was cheap transportation. PUITING A CANDIDATE ON A NEW PLATFORM. Mr. Winsiow last winter or the winter before voted against Senator Johnson’s bill prohibiting railroads from charging a greater rate for carrying freight a short distance than for a long distance, as they now do. This bill, it will be remembered, got the misnomor and became popularly known as the Pro Rata Freight bill. Now, the resolution was & direct bit at their own candidate by the Conven- tion, Whether it was intended as such does not alter the fact. However, in his acceptance of the nomination, Mr. Winslow came up to the scratch Smiling and declared himself an ardent friend of cheap transportation. After all, there is nothing like making a politician go down on his marrow bones before election time and pledge himself to do as his friends want him to, even if the pledge is broken after the election is over. Mr. Winslow has drained to the dregs the bitter cup the Convention Beara: to his lips in the resolutions, and it may , after all, that this will satisfy ail claims among the “regulars” and be @ sure guarantee of bis success jor another term of oftice. POLITICAL NOTES AND COMMENTS. Senator Jarvis Lord positively declines a renomi- ation for the State Senate. George W. Schuyler and George W. Cuyler are candidates for the State Senate in the Twenty- fourth and Twenty-fifth districts. Hence voters had better be careful, else they may get the names mixed. Schuy-larking on the subject may prove dangerous. David N. Brown is the democratic candidate for State Senator from the Chautauqua and Cattarau- gus district. Governor Seymonr declining the democratic nom- ination for Assembly from the First Oneida district, Harvey D, Talcott has been nominated instead. Colonel Greene, of the Boston Post, declines the democratic nomination for Congress. He prefers to select his company—and the democratic party in Massachusetts is select enough in all conscience so far as numbers are concerned. Twenty-years have elapsed since Ohio had a democratic Governor, and yet it has been are- markably prosperous State! The Granger movement is no stranger in New York. Many years ago there was a great six or seven foot “Granger” moving in whig politics here, candidate for Governor, the Vice Presidency and 80 on—and his name was Frank, The following are a few of the familiar names by which the opponents of the Governor elect of Ohio designated him during the canvass:—BSillalien, Old Billy Allen, Antediluvian William, Old Fogy Allen, Old Fossil Allen, Old Allen of the Tertian Period, the Venerable Old Fog Worn, Old Blow Hard Allen, Old Alien the Contemporary of Adam, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, &c., &c, The Chicago Inter-Ocean giveg the following as the names of the differgnt parties in that city who propose to take care of the cash boxes of the dear people during the ensuing two years:— The Law and Order party. The Independent Citizens’ party. The ‘Leading Citizens’ ” party. The Hesing O'Hara party, The Grand Pacific Hotel party, ‘The Sherman House party, The White-Jussen-Ganmotts party. The Jussen-Gassette-Blakely party. The Sunday W! and Beer party, The Committee of Seventy party. Republican papers find consolation in their re- cent reverses by calling this the “of year” in poll tics, Perhaps @ good many honest republicans have been a little “of-ish” on account of the back Pay and other financial sins that have been placed upon the shoulders of the republican party. Hence the results. “Is democracy dead?” asks the St, Louis Times, No doubt there are @ good many democrats who think it was a pretty lively corpse in Ohio last week, According to the awe authority ib ws vacant Pugh in the democratic church in Ohio, but such 18 the fact, nevertheless, The Cincinnati Enquirer (democratic) turns out its victorious rooster on the election of Allen, and says, “If he hasn't been, the rooster is not amiss.’ It is to be hoped that it 1s not, Jesse Crary Dayton, of Watervliet, has been nominated by the democrats for State Senator from the Albany district. Mr. Dayton belongs to neither of the city factions. The following are “specimen bricks’ of an effort of a Western democratic machine poet over the result in Ohio:— {[Am—“Rise Up Wiliam Allen.” Ho! All ye “rooral roosters,” Now is the time to crow; For Allen’s elected Gov- Ernor, of O-h-i-o! The new concern has gone to wreck, They found it was no go; And there's nary a new depart Urist in O-b-1-0. W. B. Williams has been nominated by the re- publicans of the Michigan Fifth district for Con- gress, to succeed Wilder B. Foster. The Indianapolis Sentinel reports that the In- diana democracy will call a convention on the 8th of January, for the purpose of reorganization, and adds:—“A week ago we should have thought they could not muster much of a crowd, but the Ohio election staggers us. There ts no telling what may be done by a thorough beating of the bushes and stirring up the out townships.” The St, Loufs Repudlican avers that ‘the people of New York are sick and weary of the republican party, and would gladly get rid of it; but when they think of the Tammany frauds, they conclude to enduro it a little longer.” And the Repudlican is not much of a republican paper, either. Mayor Pierce is the third Mayor of Boston who has received the honor of being selected to repre- sent Boston in Congress, Mayors Eliot and Rice having been his predecessors, “We intend to have a new feature in our agricul- tural operations,” remarks the Jackson, Miss., Pilot. “Instead of the spring planting, our farm- ers will seed down All-corn next November, and they will plant him so deep jthat the crows will never be able to find him.” An ora of soctal ostracism is about to be intro- duced into Virginia if we may rely upon the follow- ing “small cap’ suggestion in the Richmond Enquirer:—The white women of Virginia, who are immediately concerned in the success of the conservative party, shouid recognize no man who fails to vote, and thus preserve their social status.” That the contest in Mississippi is growing lively may be judged from the following headings of an article in a late number of the Brandon Repub- Ucan:— Rich, rare and bee The radical pow-wow at Columbus. Old Bev. Mathews whips out the whole Ames crew. Brigadier General Adelbert Ames gets his coat tail raised by Bev’s boot. Gibbs’ countenance in mourning. Sheriff Lewis knocked out of time on first round. 0. 0. French, the de- faulter, and Yaller Pony Barry skeedaddile to the fourth story for safety. David A, Avery, of Cooperstown, has been nomi- nated for the State Senate by the democrats ofthe Herkimer Otsego district. ART MATTERS. Sales During the Present Week. There will be two important sales during the present week. Each will occupy two evenings. The first sale will be of art books and the second of art furniture, The books will be disposed of to- morrow and Wednesday evenings at Clinton Hall. The furniture, which, apart from its utilitarian value, has a beautiful artistic significance, is to be sold on Thursday and Friday evenings, the first evening’s sale to take place at Clinton Hall and the second evening’s at the gallery, No. 817 Broad- way. To the beauty and richness of this collection wehave already alluded, It was at first intended to hold the sales during the daytime, but the hour has been changed, by request, to the even- ing, and we think the change is judicious, because the articies are then seen under their best aspect—that under which they elicited most admiration while occupying their respective nooks in the late Mr. Le Grand Lockwood's Norwalk resi- dence, With respect to the book sale, which isa totally distinct atfair, and to which to-morrow and Wednesday evenings are to be applied, we specify only such volumes as have an art value. These include Knignt’s pictorial edition of ‘The Arabian Nights; Bossuet’s “Discours sur |’Histoire Uni- verselie,” with etchings by Fonlquier; a scarce household edition o1 Dickens, with exquisite front- ispieces by Darley; La Fontane’s “Contes et Nouvelles,” with aa elegant series of plates; com- ete works of Moliére, with illustrations by Horace ernet; ‘Portraits de Personnages Historiques et de Femmes Célebres du Siecle de Louis XIV.” in- cluding filty-two portraits from the celebrated enamels of Petitat, exquisitely engraved by Ceroni; Roby’s ‘Traditions of Lancashire,”’ with numerous fine engravings by Finden; a profusely illustrated edition of Thackeray, and Wilkinson’s “Ancient Beyptians,” with numerous engravings, some colored. A NEW MEXICO MURDER. sare SE A Young Englishman, F. F. Worsley Bennison, Murdered for His Money. {From the pameictrhsicnd 8 ee Times, October Yesterday afternoon there came in on the Kan- sas Pacific train two English gentlemen from New York, who have been out on the frontier looking up the particulars in relation to the murder, in New Mexico, of F. F. Worsley Bennison, a native of London, England. It seema the deceased was a young man of very respectable and wealthy con- nections, who had travelled over the world a great deal for pleasure, and on the present occasion visited New Mexico for the same purpose, It was his intention to go from there to southern Texas, and from thence to his home in England. After having tarried in Albuquerque about two months, at the residence of Mr. Edward Branford, awaiting some supplies from London, he left on foot for El Paso, on the 20th ult., taking with him some $300 in greeubacks, and some checks, which he had received from his home, also @ 81x-shooting rifle that was loaned to him by Mr, Branford, le arrived at Belen on the 23d, and the same night was brutally murdered in a house between that town and a village called Puebiito, The event became known through some herd boys. who, while taking their cattle to pasture, notice vultures fying around a spot close to biuffs that border the river valley. On approaching the spot they discovered the body of the deceased in a pad id condition, half buried in the sand, and with he skull open on the lest side, apparently done with an axe, Shortly after the sudden disappearance of the man,one of the murderers was seen with ie, and, when asked where he got it, replied evasively that he bought it from a stranger who passed that way. His reply excited suspicion, and an examination of his house was instituted, which resulted inthe discovery of blood marks. The owner of the house and his wife, also his brother- in-law and wife, who were supposed to be accom- ices, were arrested by the Sheriff, and while the latter was removing the women to a place of con- finement he left their husbands in charge of a con- stable, from whose custody they escaped the same night, and up to the present have not een beard of, ENTERPRISE OF THE HERALD, —_——_— {From the Portland (Oregon) Bulletin, Octobor 16] The New York HeRaLp of October 4 contains seven columns of telographed report of the execu- tion of the Modoc murderers at Fort Klamath on the 3d! Thus, in less than twenty-four hours from the time the wretches were swung off, the hun- dreds of thousands of Feaders of that unparalleled pews journal were furnished with the full details ofthe awiul scene. There is no other newspaper in the whole world that has ever shown such stu- pendous enterprise as the HERALD. It knocks or- dinary impossibilities out of the way as easily as an ironclad would swamp a fishing smack, and don’t seem to think an effort worth its while un- less it seems utterly beyond the might of its con- temporaries, Then it takes hold and does {t every time. Bulwer might have written that lino in Richelieu, “There is no such word as fall,” Just to meet tho Heraup’s gigantic and successful en- terprises. A MYSTERIOUS DEATH. At an early hour yesterday morning the dead body of James Quinn was found in the hallway of No, 264North Seventh street, Williamsburg. Mr. Quinn was forty years of age, and resided at No, 256 North Seventh street. With the exception ofa slight scratch upon his face there were no marks of violence upon hi ‘son, He had been in the rocery and liquor store of Christopher Meyer Goring Saturday night, and on that account Mr, Meyer was arrested and lockedup. A post-mortem examination Wii pe held this morning, LE SQDEET. melancholy to think that there should be a singie | MEMPHIS. Welcome Jack Frost Conquer- ing Yellow Jack. ABSENTEES SHOULD REMAIN AWAY. The City To Be Placed in a Proper Sanitary Condition. MATTIE STEPHENSON. A Monument To Be Erected to the Mlinois Heroine—Her Co-Laborer, Miss Luola Wil- kerson, Convalescing —A Heroic Jew Gives Her a Golden Cross— Noble Work of the Howards and Other Charitable Bodies, Mempuis, Tenn., Oct. 21, 1873. For the twenty-four hours ending at six o’clock P. M. October 20 the death roll amounted to twenty-three from the prevailing malady alone, and although thia is an increase of six over the previous day it has not depressed the hopes now entertained, and which had been inspired at the time my last letter was written. Indeed, it was expected that the lowering temperature ‘would enlarge the list of deaths, but it was also believed that it would decrease the number of new cases, These expectations have been realized in both particulars, and it is not unreasonable to sup- pose that the scourge has now undoubtedly com- menced a retrograde movement that will continue, more or less irregularly, until this suffering city shall once more be free from the terrible pestilence with which it has been s0 severely smitten, Great precaution is still neces- sary and much work remains yet to bedone, Ab- sent citizens are notified daily by the press not to return until an official statement announces the entire suppression of the death dealing disease. In the epidemic of 1855, which was not anything like this one in severity, Mr. J. C. Davenport died as late as the 2d day of December, and in 1867, when Memphis was also much morse lightly aMicted than now, Mr, C. 0. Maione died of fever on the 27th of November, although it had been officially an- nounced on the 8th of that month that the pestilence had departed. Commenting on these facts, the Appeal asks all absent citizens to note them and be governed accordingly in their pre, parations to return to the city. PREVENTIVE MBASURES TO BE TAKEN, Efforts will be made by the municipal authori- ties, under instructions from the Board of Health, to thoroughly eradicate all germs of the pestilence by burning or removing everything favorable to the birth and growth ofthe disease. It is not the time now to speculate as to the origin of the epl- demic; “doctors differ” on this as on many other topics; but, as it is well known that the pestilence broke out in the dirty hole known as Happy Hob low, and raged most fiercely there and elsewhere where filth abounded, it is very plain that the first attack must be made on uncleanliness. One of the first steps to be taken by the authorities as soon as the city regains its normal condition will be to consider and adopt the best method of drainage and sewerage. When tnis is done, and other sanitary precautions are taken, more will have been accomplished for the health of Memphis than anything else that can be suggested. Let the old saying, “Prevention is better than cure,’’ be heeded, and it will soon be demonstrated that cleanliness—in the presence of calamities of this nature at least—tis better, far better, than physic, One of the morning journals, urging promptitude in this matter, says:—‘‘Surely we must learn wis- dom of this bitter, this terrible experience. To hesitate now in taking decisive, beral, broad and scientific measures to meet the tssué joined be- tween death and the city of Memphis, would place our city govetnment somewhat in the predicament of the fool mentioned in Holy Writ, who, though brayed in a mortar with a pestle, yet would not his foolishness depart from him.” THE MATTIE STEPHENSON MONUMENT. In my first letter I wrote she name of this tender but brave young heroine, Mattie “Stevenson,” and it is still written thus, a3 well as “Stephenson,” in the papers here; but the following, from the How- ard Association, most probably gives the correct orthography of her glorious name, As an expres- sion of the feelings of the association to which the young lady gave her services this paper is worthy of belng recorded in full, and the HERALD, no doubt, will gladly assist in giving her memory the wide fame to which it is so eminently entitied :— Orrics or Howarn Association, Manrnis, Oct 13, 1073," Soon after the story of our suffering wont abroad, when so many hearts were paralyzed with terror at home, and yhen so. many of our people lay dying without help, Miss Martha Stephenson, a brave young girl of Towanda, til med to our midst and dedicated herself to our sick and dying. From that time till she herselt was seized with the dread pestilence she devoted her whole energies to the noble purpose for which come. With tenderness and alacrity she attended the suffering day and night till her own life was demanded. Already the Codtseiia ti her mission, the kindness of her offices and the heroism of her character, had excited the interest and admiration of all who had’ seen her; and when the destroyer, which spares neither the go beautiful nor the brave, laid his fatal hand upon her, rushed to her relief, and extraordinary offorts made tosave her, All that human skill,’ attention and sympathy could do for her was done; but all in vain. jis morning she passed away, and thus ended her mis- sion of love and mercy, She consecrated herself to the eer ot others, and perished a martyr to the cause of humanity, Her brief history while among us was grand, noble and beautiful. The circumstances under which she came, leaving her home and friends to die for those who knew her not, render her death pecanaey, mourntul, and we herein attest our sincere sorrow. Such examples of self-sacri- fice, Christian heroism and personal fortitude ought ever to be honored and remembered. Therefore be it Resolved, That the Howard Assoctation deeply lament the death of Miss Stephenson, the minister to the suifer- ing and the friend of the helpless, solved, That we sympathize with her family and friends in the loss of one who laid down her own life that others might live. Resolved, That in honor of her memory and in Justice to ourselves and as an example to her race a suitable monuinent be erected to mark the spot where she sleeps nd that her spitaph shall tell this sublime and beautiful story of her life. BB, B, ANDERSON, Committee. W. J. SMITH, W. J. GORDAN, Subscription lists have already been put in circu- lation for this object, and if the feelings of this people be any criterion by which to judge, there can be but little doubt that the hitherto unknown name of this shy little maiden, will soon be en- graven on a@ marble column, which, rearing its apex toward the sky, will tell all who pass up and down the “Father of Waters’ the beautiful story of her heroic devotion to the cause of the desutut and dying. Many pretty things bave been sal and written about her here; and, to show that it is not simply a gush of inexpensive sentiment, it has been a | phe that Memphis glone shall raise the means to erect her monument, and that no one outside of the city limits be asked to sub- scribe. Inside. the corporate limits any amount from one cent up will be taken. Although my letter has already been so largely made up of quo- tations, I wish to add 4 fow sentiments, taken rom the Bening Ledgers_~ aber) “Angel of Patience! + Our feverish brows With Sool — wader, ‘ithout knowing ft she has ta moral lesson,” Forfoct examples aro required to trading Bs highest types of character, en ‘th died she only bere 3 ive gn sarin and in heaven, @ Woak things ‘orld are often chosen to confound the mighty, and 4 weak girl, without prestige, intiuential triends or aceldental fame, has come into our midst trom a remote pa a e iy attributes of her sex. She has 18 hiv! thersick and dying. In. life she may have. been oer oo haye been ever so obscure, but 1h the posthumous gratitude of a pe whom sho laid down ter oxigtertee atte aa tatoo teat in verse, @ soft, rhymed poem ; in history, & heroine; in tradition, a martyr to ganue tinpulses; of sublime faith, &@ chosen exponent; in the hearts of the oople, of all that Is good, beautiful and unsolfigh in ft et at Elmwo shrine where worth and be: sroism, womanhood and d ans i ectiountg trou, silver-haired old age will MISS WILKERSON RECOVERING, Except that Miss Luola Wilkerson is & native of Memphis, and is recovering from the fever, her Horr 18 Very similar to that of Miss Stephenson's, Having been prostrated by overwork, she became & subject for the poison in the atmosphere, and was faken by the prevailing malady about the samo time as the latter. They wero together in the Walthall Infirmary, both being as remarkable for their patience under terrible suffering as they had been tn their assiduous attention to the dying oor, Itis with great pleasure that I am enabled 0 report that ner convalescence is favorably ad- vi ig. Among the many pretty presents that ) ecelving there is one particularly beauti- pa & golden cross, bearing the following in- scription:— 1 @ ene nere OOOO IE LE ROLE LAN ITED IE DOLE LUOLA WILKERSON, from A, E, FRANKLAND, 86 8 Memonto for her attention to the sick and poor during the yellow fever epidemic. Memphis, Tenn., 1873, Sere cere nee te te Tete TELE TEPELELOLE TELE TOITEE LON HE. This 18 the more appropriate because Jand himself has been @ “hero in the strife.’ haa been ane of the mast active members of the 2 Howards whe. 00 one can de blamed for inactive. Besta & Howi he has one of the foremor® i is attentions? to the amiicted Hebrews, a people wh Lave been greatly stricke: this fearful pag? deaths the proportion of deaths shom them umsually large, It was Mr. Frankiand who sol aed fay bale contributed to the Sisters of Charity, y his felicitous manner obtained for it the x sum of $1,500, making it the king of cottompand all for charity. He seems to be “GOING, GOING, M4 doing all of his l deeds with @ rush, but the poor! of Memphis hope that it will be a iong time fore he is **gone,’’ Major Walthall, of the Mobile “Can’t-Get-Aways,”” leit yesterday, aiter doing a good work. He was one of the first from a distance to offer his ser- vices, and having had much former erience and @ sound judgment his work was very effective, He carries with him tne thanks of Many come valescenta, Colonel W. W. he veteran Howard, from New Orleang—will remain a few days longer on the Meld, He brought with him a large number Of well-trained and careful nurses, some of whoms have been permitted to return to their homes. THE HOWARD ASSOCIATION, of this city, may be said to have grown to matarity almost in one season. Mr, A. D. Lanugetaff, ite efficient president, however, and emg of its mem- bers, are nearly worn out. Such work in any other calling than relieving better: perhaps, could not have been done without entirely pros- trating the laborers. ‘Taking into consideration the fact that there were but few elements of an organization in ex- istence when the fever broke out, one cannot den: that they now have a very thorough, compact an: Well drilled body. The city has been divided into fourteen districts, and two committeemen have been assigned to each, whose duty it is to visit their respective Uents every morning and evening, and, ascertai thetr wants, see that they are put im the proper way to be supplied. Two comm! y stores are in operation; one in North Memphis— which part of the city is known as “the iniected district’"—and the other in South Memphis. At these two stores nurses, with proper, papers, cam obtain champagne, port wine, shegty, brandies, whiskeys, ales, orange leaves, extract of beef, mus- tard, lemons, oars Medicines and articles of food, The headquarters of the Association is at No, 42 Madison street, where applications for nurses are received, and, as far a8 can be, filled. Fivo physicians are wholly employed by the As- sociation, but many others, th resident and from other cities, are acting in conjunction with the body. The following are the officers of the Association :— A. D, Langstaff, president; A. G. Reynaud and W. J. B. Lonsdale, vice procigantes J. B. Robert- son, secretary, and E. J, Mansiord, treasurer. Besides the above there are thirty-two active and two honorary members, Mayor John Johnson (now recovering froin the fever) and J. J. Busby. It is probable that hereafter the Association will be organized permanently, ready on all occasions to cope with disaster and ward oi! or ameliorate threatened and actual epidemics,. When trouble comes its members are expected to aid all who need aid, regardless of creed, color or nationality. OTHER, CHARITIES, Besides the above body, which is the most prominent in the present conflict with disease and ‘woe, there are numerous others which are doing hard work in the good cause, but as they confine themselves, more or less, to the particular classes: to which they have peaeed their aid it will not be possible now to do more than mention their Dames and say that they are all doing their duty. heen eae Fellows, the Shoulder-to-Shoulder Qluo (Scotchmen), Hibernians, German Relief, Italian Union, Citizens’ Relief and others are dd- ing all they can for the relief of their respective members. Then the seyeral churches are ioe tising now instead of preaching, and are doing good on all sides. SISTERS OF CHARITY. Picturing the Sister of Charity the Appeal closea an article in these words:—‘‘Does there yet linger within the narrow, pent-up and unhealthy bounds of sectarianism a spirit so mean as to sneer at OF ridicule the splendid heroism of this woman? It such there be, let them not dare assall the glorious record of a Christian saint, lest in doing so the; mock the Christ that made charity for fnankind, sealed with one’s life blood, the highest testi- mony and type of Christian perfection.”” Here, as elsewhere, where pain is to be eased and sorrow to be pitied, where the hungry need food and the sick nursing, are these quiet children of Christ to be found ready and anxious to do the thing tnat is fittest. riting Irom memory— records not being accessible now—I think five of the Sisters have died, and several others are still very low. Five priests have also given their lives. Nearly allthe ministers of other denominations nave been sick, and Rev. Dr. Bowman, of the Presbyterian church, was one of the first to die at the post of duty. Eight physicians, if not more, have suffered from the fever, and four have died—Minor, Hatch, Urone, and Kennon. Many of the druggists were down, and some stores were closed, on account of the scarcity of drug clerks, I have been told that one store offered twenty dollars a day for any one competent to fill prescriptions. THE DEATH ROLL. Instances of fright(ul mortality are numerous, There are many families who lost six and some who lost as high as seven members, In the Missia- sippi House, on Overton street, eighteen out of the twenty occupants were swept oi! oF the pridernig, carrying off the landlord’s wife and children, all of the boarders but one. There are now some blocks which have not a single erson living on them, and there are several instances where it is known that WHOLE FAMILIES WERE BLOTTED OUT OF EXISTENCE. To-day I passed an entire block, where ail of the stores on either side of the street were closed, ex- cept one drug store on the corner, and yet there is more activity and business in Memphis now than at any time for tne past month, If there are to be many more new cases it 18 probable that they will come from those who have been working almost unceasingly since the disease began. This is sug- gested by the ren of Major Haynes, the Commis- sary for North Memphis, publisued this morning, an extract from which is Sremned — “Lam trying to supply all demands. It is a fear- fal undertaking to do work in this part of the city. My men fall around me as though in battle. One poor clerk is dead, two more are in their last hour, and another, Robinson, just now fell with his har- ness on, filling orders as long as he could stand, ope me two or three good men if you can find em. CONTRIBUTIONS BY MAIL AND EXPRESS, Two or three columns of the daily papers are filled every morning with notes stating tha amounts subscribed, varying in sums from fifty cents up to hundreds of dollars, and coming from all parts of the country. A specimen or two are given to show that they are short and to the point :— -_ “CLEVBLAND, Ohio, Oct. 15, 1873. “Major J. J. Busby :—L enclose $50 for benefit of yellow fever sufferers, Yours, &c., . JOHNSON,'® eM. ’D. “GRENADA, Miss., Oct. 14, 1378, “J, J, MURPHY :—DRat SIR—Please find my check for $20 for the Howards, Yours, truly, he: BROWN.” Anote inachild’s handwriting encloses thirty cents and the words:—‘‘An orphan’s mite for the sick poor of Memphis.” A letter postmarked “Salem, Mass.” enclosed @ La bill and the words, “For some sufferer in your city. me of the articles contributed for the sick are not of the best gastity, and one lot was so bad that the Howards, in acknowledging its receipt, were compelled to administer a wlid rebuke, say- ing they “hoped the sender was not aware of the quality of the goods sent,” and meaning that they were too utterly worthless to be used for the pur- pose intended. Poor, afflicted city! it needs all the charity that can be visited upon it. As Iclose [hear that Miss Wilkerson, whom I mentionea as being a native of Memphis, is in reality also from the North, Greater praise, there- tore, is hers. I will find out more about her and teil it in my next. She is recovering, much to the oor of all who have seen her unflinching de~ votion. INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND DISINFEOTION. To THe Eprtor oF THB HERALD:— May I trust that as we have not as yet seen the end of the epidemic—yellow fever—that so sorely, afflicts Memphis and the other cities in that sec tion of the Rega Fou Wh goncode & smalt Giirteinil-© Verve tee snafé of space for a few words on the subject. My desire ts to call the attention of the public to the matter—in fact, to carry the matter of treatment outside of the medical profession, As a first step E give you an outline of my ideas on contagion, in- fection, prevention and cure of diseases. To contagion—viz., disease incurred either by contact or inoculation—belong all those fevers and local affections of purely animal origin, Those familiar to us are typhus, scarlatina, meast Whooping-cough, smallpox, dysentery, erysipelas itch, &c, The above class of disease never ori; ates from malaria or vegetable decomposition, and are preventable by fac) ding an immediate con= tact--say three or four feet distant—thorough ven- tilation, cleanliness, disiniectants—those which disengage oar and absorb carbonic acid—and prophylaxis (vaccination) and are best treated by aap nts, both medicinal aud dietary parasite- cides, ‘o infection—viz., diseases of a purely vegetable origin, either in active growth or decomposition, the poison being imperceptible in all cases of fever or Penne erent Hipeeee fever, cholera, ague, and yellow fever. In this class of disease cleanli- ness {8 necessary, but no amount of ventilation can prevent or cure; and in typhoid, cholera and yellow fever those disinfectants which disengage oxygen do absolute and evident injury. he matter to which J wish to call immediate at- tention is that in the prevention and treatment of yollow fever the use of carbonic (not carbollcy acid presents the best ee Carefully gener ved in the pedchamber or highway by pouring & small quantity of vitriol (sulphuric acid) om lime- stone, Marble, or oyster shells, will remove the poison from the atmosphere. Admtninistered fre~ quently, either in saline draughts or water, as the case may be, it will be found very beneficial in tha treatment of the disease. The tmineral (nitric or muriatic) acids are nearly specific i typhold fever. Ihave cured ague (when quinine failed) with an effervescing decoction of Peruvian bark; and in Asiatic cholera nothing haa been more successful tartaric acid and bigarbonates eee tl in offervesging draught = J. DONEGAL, My Dy