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THUBSDAY EVENING, FEB. 26, 1880.
A Ylcterj That Is a Defeat.
The Republican convention Jf Xew
Yerk has followed very closely in the
steps of its sister convention in Pennsyl
vania. Their work is as like as two
peas: both instructed for Grant and a
third term ; both did it at the dictation
of the Republican United States senator
from the state, and in each the result was
but barely secured, and the triumph of the
machine was in reality its defeat. We
have less faith than ever in the pos
sibility of Grant's nomination after
it is thus shown hew narrow
was the escape from defeat of the
master spirits of the party in a great state
in the effort te which they gathered all
their strength. The fight in Xew Yerk
was for Conkling as in Pennsylvania it
was for Cameren. Grant added little te
the strength of either, though he must
have materially weakened both. Their
victories would have been much mere
decisive, probably, if they had net had te
stem the strong current of opinion against
the third term. Upen the Tight they each
staked their political fortunes and
prestige, and they have just saved
themselves, with nothing te spare. The
delegations from the two states will go
te Chicago instructed for Grant and te
vote as a unit, but a large part of the
delegates are net for Grant and will net
vote for him if they can help it ; and the
precedent set in the Cincinnati conven
tion will make it impossible te held them
te the unit rule if they de net want te be
held.
It is Blaine who holds the minority of
these delegations. The attitude of
Conkling and Cameren in fathering the
Grant boom has thrown te Blaine's sup
port all the anti-third term sentiment
and made him probably invincible. It
may be that Conkling and Cameren have
been forced into the support of Grant as
their best way te defeat Blaine, whom
Conkling hates and Cameren does net
love. But it will net prove te have been
a geed way. Beth would have done better
work if they had drepied Grant and only
undertaken te held their delegations ; it
was the height of felly te help the man
they wanted te beat by making him the
leader of the strong popular sentiment in
the Republican party against the third
term. If Grant's nomination cannot be
forced, Blaine is made sure of his calling :
and that Grant cannot be forced upon
the party is clear enough from the fact
that in the states where he had the domi
nant inlluences for him he has secured but
a narrow majority of the delegation,
which will be bound te a strong minor
ity that will take away from Grant the
support of the states and nullify them in
the convention. Senater Conkling in his
speech indulged the hope that the miner.
ity would agree that the state should
vote as a unit for Grant rather than par
alyze the strength of the state. But the
minority is net likely te be any mere
willing te let the power of the state be
used te nominate Grant, than Conkling
will be te let it show its strength in the
selection of Blaine.
The personal triumph of Conkling lias
been great. Without his presence and
his speech it is said that the anti-third
term sentiment would have carried
the convention despite the machine
work done te held it. His courage
and eloquence saved the day and
persuaded the Republican convention of
a state that four years age had resolved
against a third term te declare in its fa
vor. The pretext upon which the change
e! front is made is that, as Grant has
been out of eilice one term, the
danger of election te a third term
does net exist. But it is apparent
that this is but a pretext ; since
no one who really believes that no citizen
of the country should be permitted te vi
olate the precedent set by Washington
will be moved from his position by the
fact that the third term is an interrupted
and net a successive one. Establish this
precedent, and when Grant asks a
fourth and a fifth term, it will be his te
command. He will already have been
honored above Washington and nothing
that he can ask mere can be refused
him.
The Harrisburg Patriot thinks that
the slate convention should he held early
se that the political machinery may be
started te get out the Democratic vote
in Xevember, and te -convert theRepub
lican vote in preparation for that day ;
and there might be something in the Pa
triot's suggestion ii it ever had been the
practice of state committees te start the
electioneering work before the national
convention had found its candidate and
platform. But this never is done and
never will be done. Yeu can't begin te fire
the Democratic heart and get the politi
cians down te work until they have
found out what they are working for.
Before the nomination they are busy
fighting among themselves ever the se
lection of the candidate, and only when
that important matter is settled have
they any thought te give te his election
It might be better otherwise, but we
must rake things as we find them. We are
glad that the Patriot is se calm ever the
question of a presidential candidate that
its soul is ready for the work of registra
tien, document distribution, etc. But it is
one among ten thousand in its lovely de
votien te the party's interest.
The eilice of hangman is one that has
net been very satisfactorily filled by the
average country sheriff of late years.
The unpleasant and demoralizing noter
iety attaching te executions has been
greatly aggravated by the tendency
of. the executioners te get ner
veus the liability of their machin
ery te become disarranged and the
frequency with which their ropes
break or stretch te an unexpected length
and thus increase the horrors of the job.
In Xew Hampshire a very sensible law
has been passed that as seen as a person
is sentenced te death he shall be removed
te the state prison and kept there until
the end of his case; and if he be hanged
it shall be done privately and by expe
rienced hands.- If a community must
suffer from these repulsive incidents it is
well that the influence of them should be
centred as much as possible, and that the
work should be entrusted te these entire
ly competent te de it.
Mr. Smith's position, in urging Mr.
Samson for census supervisor of this
district, would be stronger if his candi
date were art unexceptionable man. He
is net. He is only a persistent and ob
noxious office hunter. Mr. Smith first
strongly recommended Mr. Frank P.
Lefever for this office. Judges Living
ston and Patterson both gave him a
strong letter of commendation. He
would have been chosen but Mr. Smith
heard that away back in 1872 Lefever
had voted against Ilartranft and for the
Temperance candidate ; and though Le
fever had been a geed soldier and was
admirably qualified Mr. Smith made him
get off the track. There seems te have
been only political reasons for Samson's
recommendation .
m mi
TriE circumstantial narrative which
we reprint from the Pittsburgh Pest of
whatMackey said te Hayes and what
Haves said te Mackey, and of hew
Mackey closed the conversation con
cerning Den Cameren's appointment te
a cabinet office, is an interesting chapter
in Pennsylvania politics. It reads like
Mackey and like Hayes, tee. The ori
gin of the Grant movement is, no doubt,
properly attributed te the Cameren re
sentment at Hayes. His policy has been
represented as a slap at Grant ; and the
people who are for a third term want it
plainly understood that what they want
is something very different from Mr.
Hayes. Conkling boldly proclaimed yes
terday that the present administration is
against Grant, and that Grant's friends
are against it.
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Mr. Conkling did net step short of
tlm execution of all his ourneses in the
Xew Yerk convention yesterday. Te
emphasize his dictatorship he made Chas.
TC. Smith permanent chairman of that
body Smith being notoriously the one
leading Republican of the state who
has approved the nomination of Jehn F.
Smyth for insurance commissioner, an
appointment that is denounced and con
demned by all the respectable elements
in the party as that of a disgraceful job
ber. Mr. Conkling, like Cameren, gen
erally gees te the full length of his
string. Where he has te take held of a
nettle, he knows that it is prudent te
" take it like a man of mettle."
The Conkling machine has a device in
Xew Yerk that the Cameren folks should
copy in Pennsylvania. It would be of
use te them, especially in such districts
as Lancaster county, where they say
they "always have trouble.'' In Xew
Yerk city only these Republicans can
vote at primary elections, help te make
nominations or send delegates te state
conventions, who belong te the district
Republican " associations." They are a
sort of club, " close corporations,'- which
elect te membership whom they please
and de net aggregate one-seventh of the
entire Republican vote. They de net only
" run the machine," they are the ma
chine itself. Such a concern in Lancas.
ter county would be even mere easily
handled than a county committee.
PERSONAL.
Gauibaldi has married, at Magdalcna,
the mother of his children, deiug thus a
just though tardy duty te one who has
sacrificed many years of her life te him.
Parnell, the Irish agitator, has a
brother living at West Point, Ga., who is
a lameus lruit-grewcr, anu owns an
orchard containing fifty thousand peach
trees.
The father of J. Hay Brown, esq., and
Mrs. It. M. Agncw, the Rev. Dr. J. A.
Brown, of Gettysburg, who was se dan
gerously paralyzed some months age, is
new able te move about the house but has
net yet entirely recovered the power of
speech.
When Senater Bayard was in Richmond
last week, he was invited te pay a visit te
the Readjustci-s' Legislature, where no
doubt a formal reception would have leen
tendered him. lie declined with thanks
and said he did net care te visit people
who were opposed te paying their honest
debts.
Scnef Zamacena, Mexican minister te
the United States, is poetically described as
" tall and slender, wearing flowing locks
just touched by frost, and having a mobile,
spiritual face, delicate features, and a man
ner gentle and polished." His wife has
" a sweet, smiling, amiable countenance,
and a soft, quiet bearing."
Ernest Longfellow, son of the poet,
is exhibiting twenty-seven pictures at a
gallery in Bosten. The foreign scenes are
notes of travel in Spain, France and the
countries bordering the Xile. The con
spicuous picture of the exhibition is a
canvas large enough te fill the entire end
wall of the gallery. It is an allegorical
representation of the temptations of youth.
In view of Stephen S. Clair's pros
pective removal from Columbia te become
Pennsylvania railroad agent in Middle
town his friends have tendered him a din
ner at the Franklin house, te come oil" en
next Saturday evening. That the affair
will be a success may be inferred from the
fact that it is in the hands of Harry Schcll,
Andy Kauffman, Milt Wike, Jehn C.
Ferry and A. W. Rambo.
Rev. Dr. G. F. Kretei,, formerly pastor
of Trinity Lutheran church, new of Xew
Yerk city, has withdrawn from the gen
eral editorship of the LvJieran and Mission
ary. The persons new constituting the
executive committee of stockholders and
having en them the entire responsibility
for the present management of the paper,
are Rev. Prof. F. A. Muhlenberg, D. D.,
Rev. J. A. Seiss, D. D., Rev. G. D. Frede
rick, Rev. S. Laird, Hen. Daniel M. Fex,
Charles E. Blumner, esq., and Jehn R.
Baker, esq.
The Philadelphia- Timet, commenting
upon the recent articles in the North Amer
ican Itetiew, en the third term question
states : "In fact, setting Black en Howe
leeks very like seizing a sledge hammer te
brain a mesquite. Xet since peer Mr.
Stoughten, of clerical error notoriety, was
vivisected bv the same hand has such
bloody work been done en the pages of the
North American Jletieie as this slaughter of
the mild but raging Wisconsin third
termer, whom the ex-president was once
half inclined te make chief justice of the
United States."
Verbum Sap.
Willi&mspert Banner.
The Democrats carried the city of Lan
caster by ever eight hundred majority.
Cameren and Judge Patterson had better
arraign the whole city for contempt of
court.
MINOR TOPICS.
It is quite notable that the word " im
perial" flavored all the speeches of 'Conk
ling and his henchmen yesterday.
The Xew Yerk Tribune is delighted at'
the harmony that prevailed in the Xew
Yerk convention yesterday. This is very
much as if the lamb should rejoice at its
chance te lie down with the Hen, even
though all were en the inside.
WITH AUBCTUS.
Se much of jiutlence cold lrests and virgin
snows.
Se much of premise sun and wind and show
ers. Of brave increase ; und in these fleeting flow
ers Such end te sweetness of the springs will go
Out of Time's urn with measured, ceaseless
flew
Se much in little bring I thee ; the hours
Since Time was, yie hope of all-time bowers,
Theu wilt net say nay te these blooms I knew.
But taking, friend, will sec them fairaday,
Call them half sweet a little ere they die,
And, may haps, looking in thy glass will say
Thy honest blush. " Net half se fair as I."
And taking, dear, will lend a grace complete
Te unboeked hours ami idle, wanton feet.
The race before a civil service reform
examination is net always te the swift.
Lieut. Parker, of the 9th cavalry, the
nephew of Attorney General Devens, who
experienced some difficulty in passing ex
amination before an army beard, but was
commissioned nevertheless, passed West
ever the Union Pacific net long age with re
cruits. He certified en the transportation
order that " the Pullman palace car com
pany has furnished me with one birth,"
the " i " being dotted!
Fhed. IIassaukek, the editor and pro
prietor of the leading German Republican
daily paper of Cincinnati, announces his
intention te " belt " if Gen. Grant is run
for a third term, whereupon the Chicago
organ of Gen. Legan cracks its whip and
rnlilc lilt,, i,l- rCt ! ,e4-,r ee? e '(!Aifnliai
ibuuu uim vuu vi uiu jai uj uiui evi(ibvuiii
This summary process of ex-ceinraunica-f
tien touches the Cincinnati Commercial en
the raw, as it has also done some scratch
ing in its time, and its comments as fol fel
lows :
The thing te de, of course, is te purify
the Republican party. Let the scratchers
be driven forth. Let no man vote the Re
publican party ticket who is net prepared
te fall down and worship an old pair of
beets with rusty spurs en them if Conk
ling, Legan and Cameren say se. Put up
for the safe candidate the man whose ad
ministration cost the Republican party
fourteen states and 153 electoral votes !
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, Rep :
"It was an extreme stretch of courtesy in
General II. V. Boynton te offer te General
Sherman an opportunity te have the
charges preferred against him tried by a
military court of his own selection, and
the refusal of General Sherman te call for
a court, and of the president te order one
must convince him that courtesy is wasted
in the particular quarter. The offense of
which General Sherman is accused is a
very gross one, and its grossness is inten
sified by the high official position of the
offender, and it will be a great pity if
General Boynton docs net institute pro
ceedings against the general of the army
in one of the civil courts. General Sher
man presumes altogether tee much en his
official position and his military reputation
when he permits himself te iudulsrc in the
kind of language he used toward Boynton,
and when he docs indulge in that sort of
thing he should be brought te account. A
verdict against General Sherman, en cither
a criminal or a civil issue, would de him a
world of geed in the way of teaching him
some of the elementary principles of geed
manners."
The Philadelphia Eccning Telegraph
continues te find fault with the judges of
that city. Its present complaint is that
though three of them are sitting and arc
presumed te be acting as an election
beard
" tlirt,. ,fi,c, tn 4-filre nrvmi 'sminr rtP
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errors fraudulent or otherwise en the
face of the returns, and force candidates
who have been cheated at the polls or
through the failure of election officers te
perform their functions in proper fashion,
te resort te the vexations and expensive
remedy of contest." Such refusal en their
part, it concludes, is "in a pre-eminent
degrc satisfactory te the professional poli
ticians and their satellites, who de net by
any manner of means regard an election
from the same stand-point as that of hon
orable and law-abiding citizens who
neither held office nor want te held it,
but they arc te the last degree unsatisfac
tory te honest voters, who have been
under the impression all along that elec
tions arc net held exclusively for the
benefit of reeple who make a trade of
what they call politics, and that the chief
utility of an election beard composed of
the learned and presumably honest and
impartial gentlemen who preside ever our
courts is te secure such a determination of
the results of an election as cannot be
questioned."
What it Thinks and Why.
Harrisburg Patriot.
The Lancaster Intelligencer thinks
" it is of no great consequence when the
state convention is called, se that it
meets before June 22, and late enough
te give every county plenty time te
select its delegates." Certainly it is of
" no consequence " if no effort is te be
made te organize the party in this state.
The editors of the Intelligencer must
be aware that it is impossible for the
state committee te give proper attention
te the registration of voters if it does net
begin work before midsummer. Xer can
campaign literature be circulated effectively
until the state committee has in its hands
properly classfied lists of voters with their
postefficc addresses. Te obtain such lists is
the work of months. Campaign documents
circulated in the heat of the canvass pro
duce no effect. When the battle is en
such publications go unread te the re
ceptacle for waste paper. But suppose
that the Democratic state committee were
new organized; that by the middle of
April it would have a record of the post pest
office address and politics of every voter in
the state, and that a geed weekly news
paper (such as the Intelligencer, for
instance) were sent regularly by the state
committee te intelligent, reasonable,
thoughtful men of Republican proclivities,
from that date until the the election, is it
net fair te presume that the party would be
greatly benefited? Suppose, tee, that just
for once an effort were made by the state
committee te have the early registration in
the. large cities correctly made, could net
the opportunities for fraudulent voting be
considerably lessened? Besides the work
of organizing Democratic clubs should be
gin at once. Every township and ward
in the state ought te have its Democratic
club. Under the direction of the state
committee the organization of snch associ
ations' could be made general throughout
the commonwealth. Hence we believe
that the present state committee ought te
move or be moved.
Light Mere Light.
Fer the Inteixiemcer.
The paper read before the Star club by
Miss Martin is truly a masterly production
of scientific speculations. Much of the
subject has been a source of study with mc,
especially that branch where she touches
upon hew the sunlight strikes a green leaf,
its absorbing powers, about the deep vie
let waves from the pansy this relates te
botanical science as well. Then she says,
" We have the plant-stem retlecting one
kind of waves, the leaves auether,and each
petal still another." Sure enough ! "Who
can paint like Light ?" &c. Equally true,
"The mind is unable te grasp any idea of
the millions of millions just referred te,"
rays or waves of light, I infer. But de we
net realize after folio wins up these scien
tific speculations that wc are just as wise
as we were before. The colors arc appar
ent te our eves : true there arc these who
arc color blind ; te such a beautiful crim
son llewer may seem of a dull gray color
and nothing te admire. That there are
mental faculties or powers differing in dif
ferent individuals there is no question, be
the cause what it may. Se with color and
light ; a certain law governs, be that law
what it may.
The properties of light have been
elaborately shown by Sir J. Herschcl,
Airy, Brewster, Yeung, Biet, Peuillet,
Hunt, ct al. As te theories of light, that
of Xewten was long considered a satis
factory theory claiming that matter is
projected from the luminous body with a
velocity equal te about 1J13,000 miles a
second. The latter hypothesis supposes
light te be the vibrations or undulations
of an cthcrial Uuid of grat elasticity
which pervades all space and penetrates
all substances, and te which the luminous
body gives an impulse which is propagated
with inconceivable rapidity, by a sort of
tremor or undulation, hence called the
" undulatery theory," the one new gen
erally accepted, in place of Xewten's. Dr.
Yeung gives many striking and remark
able facts and phenomena which would go
te sustain this theory. " It is a theory,"
says Herschcl, " which, if net founded in
nature, is certainly one of the happiest
fictions that the genius of man has yet
invented te group together natural phe
nomena, which at their discovery seemed
in irreconcilable opposition te it. It is, in
fact, in all its applications and details, one
succession of felicities ; insomuch that we
may almost be induced te say, if it be net
true it deserves te be se.
There are certain facts and facts arc
stubborn things te get rid of by theories
however well established. The i'ul I accept,
ance of the theory may cause a closer
scrutiny te be suspended, and if facts are
asserted te exist, which de net accord with
the theory, se much the worse for the
facts and for them that declare faith in
them. Science has its bigots like politics
and religion. They adept a side or theory
which becomes se ingrained that it simply
constitutes a phase of opinion prejudicial
te all ether theories or facts that seem te
clash or lay outside of their notion. It is
one thing for a mind te seek diligently te
knew the truth, examining without par
tiality the evidence of thought, and the
anirle of reflection by which the light of
truth may strike ether minds and inquire
modestly, "Where and what constitutes
the difference?" "Is there a mental defect
in mc ?" " Am I color-blind ?" or " Can I,
by assuming the same stand-point, and
honestly sec for myself, whether the thing
se claimed is a fact or defect and mental
delusion in the ether or myself?" I have
no right, a priori, te say such a fact docs
net accord with my notion or theory, there
fore it can net be a fact. But facts still
remain, even if these believing them are
deemed ignorant of these notions and the
ories se much in vogue. In short, we arc
yet very superficial in knowledge mere
rooters and spcculativcs in many things.
J. S.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
James Pedgets, a musician, was fatally
shot by Jeseph J. Fields, a farmer, in a
quarrel near Winchester, 111., en Tuesday,
Fields is in jail.
The timber in a yard en Glasshouse
street, Vau shall, Londen, fell yesterday,
killing five persons and wounding six
teen. Jehn McDiarmid Campbell was fatally
poisoned en Tuesday by a dose of carbolic
acid, which his wifegave him in mistake
for quinine.
The stockholders of the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids and Xerthcrn railroad, at a
meeting en Tuesday, rejected the pro
posal te lease the read te the Chicago,
Reck Island and Pacific company.
In Peughkcepsic, X. Y., Alice Weaver,
a girl thirteen years of age, committed
suicide last night by taking arsenic. The
cause seemed te be an aversion te leaving
the city for employment in the country.
It is said that a deputation of Dominion
farmers will wait upon Sir Leenard Tilly
and ask for increased protection en agri
cultural products. They desire an addi
tional tax of two and a-half cents per
bushel en corn and two dollars a barrel en
perk.
In Xew Albany, Ind., Jehn F. Fillcy,
age seventy-nine years, was found dead
yesterday en the fleer of his house, hor
ribly gnawed by rats. He died of starva
tion, though he had money hid away, and
owned a geed farm of 100 acres. He
lived alone.
Rev. A. W. Paige, a minister of Hart Hart
eord county. Conn., pleaded guilty in the
U. S. district court at Xew Haven, yester
day, te the charge of sending ebscene let
ters through the mails. He was fined
8200 and costs, amounting te $170, and
committed te jail in default of payment.
The war department has recently re
ceived despatches from Colonel Hatch re
garding Indian affairs in Xew Mexico, in
which no mention is made of the alleged
defeat of Captain Raskin's cempany'by
Victeria's band of Indians. The report of
that fight is therefore regarded as un
founded. The Heuse of Assembly, at Frederick Frederick
ten, in which the Xew Brunswick Legis
lature was te meet te-day, was destroyed
by fire yesterday. Maas & Vahlcr's pic
ture frame and meulding works, in Pearl
street, Xew Yerk, were burned last
night. Less, $30,000. The mill of Heyt
& Sleyer, at Frontenac, Minn., was burned
en Tuesday night. Less, $20,000.
ueunt ee jcsscps anu the engineers
who come te Xew Yerk with him, spent
yesterday in visiting various points of in
terest in the city. They took a trip ever
the elevated railroads te which they paid
much attention. A short inspection of
the East river bridge was made and the
terminal facilities of the Erie line were ob
served. An exhibition of the promptness
with which the fire department answers
alarms was given for the entertainment of
the visitors. A short time was spent in
looking at a model Xew Yerk residence.
THE GRANT BOOM!
the source of its inspiration.
Seme of the Secret History of the Hayes
Administration and Its Offense te
Cameren.
The X. Y. Herald's Albany correspond
ent writing en the movements of the Grant
schemers of Albany says that it is well au
thenticated that Grant's whole European
tour was arranged with a view te the
effect en his third term aspirations.
The constant attentions te the ex-president
by crowned heads of all countries,
the carefully worded after-dinner speeches,
the suggestive, modestly written inter
views, the republican simplicity of man
ner, the adroit inuendees as te third term
ism all such movements, as alleged, were
part of the great transformation scenes in
tended te keep the cx-president alive in the
memory of his countrymen ana surround
his personality with the glittering idea that
he was the enlv " one strong man"
who could save the American nation from
anarchy and destruction.
The Pittsburgh Pest in commenting upon
this statement says that the "whole
boom" was systematically arranged im
mediately after Mr. Hayes's inauguration
and prier te the great Grant leave-taking
demonstration at Philadelphia, when Gen
eral Simen Cameren made a speech nomi
nating Grant for the succession before
Hayes was warm in his seat. The only
break in the pregramme has bceu the re
turn of General Grant several months be
fore the time fixed en. His triumphal
progress across the continent was te have
been in March and April. This break
made the West Indes and Mexican trip a
necessity, for the Urant managers did net
want "the old man" in the country, an
approving and close spectator te the un
scrupulous games of Cameren, Conkling,
Legan and ether third termers, in control
ling state conventions.
But the origin of theGraut boom remains
te be told, and singularly enough it was
the refusal of Mr. Hayes te continue Den
Cameren as secretary of war that started
it, originally as a means of breaking down
his administration and for purposes of
personal revenge.
There had been pledges given that Cam Cam
eeon would be retained, when things
looked squally for Hayes getting into the
White Heuse, and these pledges sent Mr.
Mackey te Flerida. What he did there
will probably never be known, except that
he expended a large sum of money con
tributed by the Camerons and their bench
men. There was a returning beaid te in
fluence, and the presidency was the stake.
Anyone who knows Mr. Mackcy's peculinr
methods, need te be in no doubt as te the
arguments he used. Flerida was made
"safe" by Mr. Mackey and the reward
was te be Den Cameren's retention in the
cabinet. He was the only one of Grant's
ministers who was te receive such a signal
mark of confidence, and it would unques
tionably have been a great triumph.
But en Mr. Hayes's arrival in Washing
ton, and when the decision of the electoral
commission was assured, rumors reached
the Cameren people that no one of Grant's
cabinet, net even Den Cameren, would be
retained. Immediately it will be remem
bered, the political machinery of the com
monwealth was put in operation te influ
ence Mr. Hayes. A delegation from our
Legislature, with Gov. nartranft and all
the state officers, and prominent Republi
cans from different parts of the state,
waitctl en lnni at Washington, in
sisting, 'pleading and demanding that
Cameren should remain as secretary
of war. A congressional delegation,
headed by Judge Kelley, who had been re
conciled for the purpose, although always
an anti-Cameren man, called en Air. Hayes
with the same prayer. He was inundated
with letters and petitions from all parts of
the state. Air. Mackey organized these
demonstrations, and it was the subject of
remark at the time that never before had
there been such a systematic and deter
mined ellbrt te influence a president in
the choice of a cabinet minister. Its bad
taste was apparent, but the Cameren peo
ple cared nothing for that. Den had nom
inated Hayes by defeating Blaine at Cin
cinnati. The control of the new adminis
tration was what was wanted, and with
the seu in the cabinet and the father in the
Senate, and both of them matchless peliti
cal intriguers, such control was probable.
The electoral commission having in
dicated what its outcemo would be, Mr.
Hayes get en one of his fits of "amia
ble ebstinancy." He wanted no Cam Cam
eeon taint en his administration. He or
his authorized friends, it is true, had
pledged Air. Den Cameren
but the presidency was then
It-was se no longer, and he
the pledge. Mr. Lincoln in
the place,
m doubt.
repudiated
18G0 did
the same. The price of the Pennsylva
nia delegation for Lincoln in the Chi
cago convention of that year was the
treasury department for Simen Came Came
eon. It was pledged te him by Mr.
Lincoln's representatives at Chicago,
but " honest old Abe " with trouble
brewing, would net put a Cameren at
the head of the finances of the nation,
and made him secretary of war, from
which place he was removed for ceunte
nancing gross corruption in the award of
contracts, after a unci service et nine
months. "Honest old Abe" hail had
enough of the Camerons ; and Hayes, his
purpose served in Flerida by Mackey,
would have none of them ; all interces
sion and appeals failed; and, while
acknowledging Cameren's services, and
offering him the choice of places
outside his official family, he declined
te retain him as secretary of war.
We have an account from two sources
of Mr. Mackcy's closing interview with
Mr. Hayes en this subject a day or two
before the inauguration. Defeat in it had
palpably become mere ignominious after
the piteous and public appeals that Den
should be retained. Mr. Mackey in his
quick, nervous and forcible way, recalled
te Mr. Hayes hew Cameren had assured
his nomination at Cincinnati and promoted
his election. This was conceded. Mr.
Mackey referred te his own services and
expenditures in Flerida, and hew he had
saved that state te Mr. Hayes by securing
and paying for " an honest count of the
votes. " Mr. Hayes again assented te the
services of Mr. Cameren and his friend,
Mr. Mackey, but regretted he could net
appoint him secretary of war he had de
termined te make a clear sweep of the
Grant cabinet and would retain none of
the old secretaries.
"But your pledge, sir," belted out
Mackey. " that Mr. Cameren should be
retained."
"My dear, sir, circumstances have
changed. I ir.u t consult the wishes of the
country, and the country evidently docs
net desire Mr. Cameren as a member of
the cabiuct of the new administration. I
appreciate," continued Mr. Hayes, "his
services and abilities very highly, and any
ether place is open te him. He can have
the English mission, the most honorable
diplomatic place in my gift."
"Damn the English mission!" said
Mackey, new thoroughly aroused and an
gered, and caring no mere for the in-going
president -than for a street-comer loafer
with whom he had been setting-up ward
politics. "Cameren don't want the Eng
lish mission ; he would net touch it and
his friends would net allow him. We will
accept no favors from you. Yeu have
repudiated your pledged word te the
men who made you president Geed
day sir, geed day. My opinion of you
is at your service. I think you a
lying, sceundrelly !" And
then Mr. Mackey and the two friends who
accompanied him left the room in high
dudgeon. It is doubtful if any president
of the United States befcra or since had
such a plain talking te. It was highly char
acteristic of "Beb" Mackey. He never
saw any wrong in an "honest count"
in Flerida, but he did sec a great wrong in
Hayes's repudiation of, his pledges te the
men who made his inauguration possible.
It was treason te the principle of standing
uy your memiB.
This quarrel with Hayes was the origin
of the third term boom, andef much of the
opposition and many of the embarrass
ments the de facto president has met with
in his own party. It was determined te
isolate his administration by making his
successor before Hayes had fairly entered
en his duties. The Camerons were aided
in this by Hayes's ridiculous preten
sions about the civil service re
form and his Southern xlicy, which
angered the carpet-bag thieves ami
the Xerthern stalwarts. The worst
elements of our politics, before the new
administration was a month old, were
hankering for the geed old days of the
Grant regime. The ex-prcsident was
sounded, and his willingness te be again
a candidate secured before he had been
out of office six weeks. The trip around
the world was determined en, te steer
Graut clear of possible American compli
cations. The reception abroad was foreseen
and provided for. Arrangements were
made it should be reported in glowing
terms, aud a skilled writer ap
pointed te prepare descriptions,
speeches and interviews expressly for
the American market. Through the
Hayes administration, the services of
diplomatic agents and the convenience and
prestige of American war vessels were se
cured. The money for necessary expenses
was obtained from two sources. The
Cameren politicians about Philadelphia
and elsewhere raised fifty thousand dol
lars, ten thousand of which was con
tributed by Rebert W. Mackey. The
Childses, Drexels and Bories were equally
liberal en personal grounds. A hundred
thousand dollars in cash was thus pro
vided for the expenses of General Grant's
three years' tour, and he carried a letter
of credit with him for fifty thousand mere.
This was the start of the thud term
boom. It has been the most deliberately
arranged and carefully planned political
movement in the history of the country,
and it is the most hollow, insincere aud
false bit of humbuggary ever devised by
cunning and self-seeking pelitieans.
NEW YORK.
ilktm;ei te a third tek.ii.
Hlalue Scornfully Rejected as Secuml
Choice.
In the Xew Yerk Republican convention
yesterday afternoon Charles E. Smith was
chosen permanent chairman.
After the committee en credentials had
reported the following resolutions were
submitted :
"The Republicans of the state of Xew
Yerk, assembled te appoint delegates te
represent them in the national convention,
reaffirm the principles and patriotic pur
poses of the Republican party heretofore
declared and faithfully acted upon ; and
equally impressed with the responsibility
new devolved upon them, declare that the
safety of the nation is again imperiled by
the virulent and unlawful efforts of the
Democratic party te overawe and subvert
state governments, as represented by the
conduct of its leaders in Maine and several
of the Southern states, thereby intending
te secure the control of the general gov
ernment by deeds of violence and fraud
and in defiance of the carefully constituted
judicial authorities.
"In the presence of these grave and threat
ening dangers it is the duty of the Repub
lican party of the Union in its unit strength
te meet and prevent them, and te this end
mindful of their great responsibility in the
coming presidential contest, and of the
fact that it must be determined by the elec
toral vote of this state, they hereby sol
emnly pledge te the Republicans of ether
states their ability te cast it for Ulysses S.
Grant. We declare that in him we repose
absolute trust for his honesty, his
fidelity te duty, his serene judgment and
solid intelligence, his varied expcrienee,and
for the uniform success that has ever at
tended his efforts iu securing the integrity,
perpetuity, grandeur and prosperity of
our common country. Fer these reasons
and because were are satisfied that in him
the nation, Xerth and Seuth, decidedly
greet a candidate deserving of its cenfi
dence, wc present him as entitled te the
suffrage of every patriotic citizen ; we also
declare that the objection te a third presi
dential term applies only te a third censec
utive term and is utterly inapplicable te
the re-election of Gen. Grant, who is, and
has been, a private citizen, absent from the
country, destitute of all presidential or offi
cial influence or patronage, and whose
election must be by a free choice of the
people unaided by these influences which
alone give force, if any there be, te the ob
jection ; therefore,
" Revolted, That the Republicans of Xew
Yerk believe that the re-election of Ulysses
S. Grant as presidential candidate is of
urgent importance, and the delegates this
d:iy assembled arc called upon and instruc
ted te use their most earnest and united
efforts te secure his nomination."
At the conclusion of the reading there
was long and continued applause and
hisses.
Mr. Ferstcr moved te amend that por
tion of the resolutions pledging the state
te Grant by substituting the name of
James G. Blaine. Applause, loud and
continued.
He also moved te strike out all the por
tion of the resolution referring te the third
term.
After considerable discussion AV. B.
Wcedin moved te strike out the name of
Grant and leave the delegation unpledged.
Mr. Ferstcr accepted the amendmentand
the question was then put en Ferster's
amendment, but Mr. Conkling took the
fleer and addressed the convention at
great length.
The vote en Ferster's amendment fol
lowed, and it was defeated by 217 te 180.
The resolutions were then adopted.
A delegate moved that in case General
Grant is net nominated at Chicago the
delegation be instructed te vote as a unit
for James G. Blaine. The motion was
tabled.
Presidential electors and members of the
state committee were named by congres
sional districts, after which the conven
tion adjourned sine die.
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Frightful Tragedy in Nebraska.
A horrible tragedy occurred five miles
south of Xebraska City yesterday after
noon. An insane son of A. Donahue, one
of the eldest and wealthiest fruit growers
and farmers iu Otee county, procured a pis
tol and shot a horse. His father attempted
te seize him and capture the pistol, when
the boy drew a knife and stabbed him
four times, killing him instantly. He then
attempted te kill his mother and brother,
but the latter felled him te the ground
with a club, and the mother lied te the
house. The mrmiac pursued her, batter
ing the doers and windows with a club,
but, being prevented from entering by the
brother, returned te the stable, where lie
stabbed another horse and two dogs. A
company.ef alarmed neighbors tried te cap
ture the maniac, who sought refuge in a
neighboring cornfield and kept them at
bay for several hours, standing knife in
hand, he was captured and ledged in
jail.
An Excellent Suggestion.
Pottsville Chronicle.
The name of Edward Ilerrick, the pres
eng efficient and accommodating chief
clerk of the auditor general's department,
is thus far the only one mentioned in con
nection with the nominntien for auditor
general by the Democracy of the state, aud
if his should remain the only one, it will
le entirely satisfactory te the large army
of friends which Mr. Ilerrick has gained
since his advent in public position. Mr.
Ilerrick is a Bradford county lawyer of
superior legal and administrative ability,
whose election te the auditor generalship
would secure te the commonwealth an offi
cial in every way qualified te perform the
important duties and at the same time
guarantee a continuance of the many and
wholesome reforms inaugurated by the
v resin t incumbent, Gen. Schell.
aTA-rta ITEMS.
The Evangelical conference commenced
at AVeisspert, yesterday. Over one hun
dred ministers are present. Yesterday's
session was secret.
The next fair of the Washington county
agricultural society will be held en the
5th, Cth-aud 7th of October ; $2,000 will be
offered in premiums.
The Pittsburgh Tilden club has appoint
ed a committee te arrange an excursion te
Cincinnati at the time of the national con
vention. The committee were instructed
te charter a steamboat, if there should be
water enough te float iivc hundred Democrats.
lhc ltcpublicans of Crawford county
had a meeting at Meadville en Saturday,
for the purpose of dcclareing their oppsi eppsi oppsi
tien te the unit rule and insisting that the
delegates te Chicago shall carry out the in
structions of the district. Jehn I. Gorden,
of Mercer, ami Themas Robinson, of But
lcr,are the delegates from the Twenty-sixth
district, and the three counties compris
ing it have all declared for Blaine with an
emphasis and unanimity which cannot be
mistaken.
At Dawsen's station, four miles below
Cenncllsville, Constable Gee. W. Foust.
was shot twice by Geerge Tobin, a colored
man. Tobin was drunk and disturbing the
community. Foust undertook te an est
him, when he shot the latter in the shoul
der, and again in the region of the heart.
The latter wound bled internally, whim
leads the attending physiean teenteitain
grave doubts of Foust's recovery. Tobin
lied out was lmaliy captured and commit
ted. In Shat en. Mercer county, a man named
Masen keeps a place railed the Castle. His
brother-in-law is one Daily. Screams were
heard in the place, and en rushing te the
spot the people found Daily lying iu a
peel of bleed, his head having been split
open with an axe. The screams came
from Mrs. Davis, who became wild in her
agony upon beholding her brother lying
dead before her and her husband standing
ever him holding an axe, from which the
bleed was still dripping.
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Curiosities of IMiynical (ieegranhy.
The Blue mountain range that runs
through Pennsylvania presents the singu
lar circumstance of being divided by a
river every twenty-seven miles. Frem
where the Susquehanna river passes
through te the Swatara river is twenty
seven miles. Thedistauce from the Swatara
te the Schuylkill is twenty-seven miles.
It is twenty-seven miles from the Schuyl
kill te the Lehigh, and the Delaware cuts
the hills in twain at the Water (Jap, twenty-seven
miles further en. A large lake
lies in a hollow in Xew Jersey, twenty
seven miles from the Delaware.
A person starting from Hencsi'ale,
Wayne county, te drive te IJushkill, 1'ike
county, will have a drive of sixty-two
miles. It is twenty miles te Blooming
Greve. Reaching Milferd, he will be
twenty miles from Blooming Greve. At
Dingnian's he will be feity-nine miles
from Blooming Greve. At Delaware he is
fifty-four miles from llenesdale, and
Blooming Greve is twenty miles distant.
At Bushkill, his destination, he is sixty
two miles from his starting point, and yet
the linger beard tells him that it is "Te
Blooming Greve twenty miles. "
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
eiri: census surKiivisui:.
Mr. Smith's Iteu.tenn for Urging Samson.
The committee having made an adveisu
report in the case of Jes. Samson as super
visor of the Second ccnsusdistrictofrcmi ccnsusdistrictefrcmi
sylvania, the following statement has been
prepared te be submitted for the coiiMdcr ceiiMdcr coiiMdcr
atien of senators by Mr. Smith in Sam
son's interest :
The three counties of Chester, Delawaie
and Lancaster constitute said district.
Three candidates were presented for the
position of supervisor. Senater AVallace
favored Hajes Grier, editor of the Coium Ceium
umbia Herald ; Representative Ward and
Senater Cameion Mr. Snowden, of Media,
Delaware county ; and Representative
Smith Jeseph Samson, of Lancaster city.
The president, as is well known, nomi
nated Mr. Samson. The preference ex
isting before the nomination still continues
and gives rise te" the difficulty in securing
Mr. Samson's confirmation. Xe objections
are filed te the worth or capacity of the
nominee. Mr. Smith had presented in be
half of Mr. Samson testimonials from the
bench, bar. college and church, and added
his own te this strong endorsement.
Having furnished an unexceptionable
man for supervisor, he next contended that
Lancaster was the proper place for the su
pervisor te reside. It was nearly central
in the district and easily reached by rail
roads end turnpikes. Its population, fac
tories, foundries, churches, revenue eilice,
college and schools made it the chief city iu
the census district. It must new contain
from 2.1,000 te JiO.OOO inhabitants. It is
the centre of a county deservedly distin
guished for its wealth, for its educational,
agricultural and manufacturing interests.
Te these it has recently added another,
the cultivation of tobacco. This has been
made a specialty and from it alone the
United States treasury receives annually a
revenue, en manufactured cigars, amount
ing te $3e0,000.
Lancaster is recognized by Senater
AVallacc as the proper place, and his can
didate agreed, if appointed, te keep
his office in that eity, but Mr. Smith
is opposed te his selection, holding that
the proper place for Democratic supervisors
if a necessity is in Democratic districts.
In further support of his position, .Air.
Smith shows from statistics that the per
sons and things te be enumerated are
mainly found in Lancaster county. These
statistics, with the exception of manufac
tures, are immeasurably in favor of that
county, and he fully believes, even iuiuan
ufacturcs, Lancaster county will, under
the new census, be largely in excess of
Chester and Delaware counties combined ;
for even by the last census Lancaster has
a much larger number of manufactories
than Chester anil Delaware, necessarily
imposing a large amount of work en the
enumerators in visiting the factories.
Te locate, therefore, the supervisor at
Media, where Mr. Snowden lives an ex
treme point in the district in Delaware
county would be manifestly wrong. Bet
ter locate his office in Philadelphia. That
city might be reached by the enumerators
at less inconvenience aud expense than
.Media, a town containing a population of
about 3.000 inhabitants. Mr. Smith, more
over, frankly asserts that if any real ob
jectien can be made against his nominee,
he will ask the president either te with
draw him or make another nomination.
a in Mount Jey.
Last evening, for the first time Mount
Jey was lit up with gas, supplied from
the works of the gas company recently
organized in that borough. The gas works
are en the site formerly used as Brady's
edge tool factory, and cast about $30,000.
They have a capacity of 30,000 cubic feet
of gas xcr day, which can easily be increased,
at small expense. The gas is manufac
tured by the same process used by the new
Lancaster company. The stock is nearly
all held by citizens of Mount Jey. The
gas furnished last night gave a brilliant
white light and the consumers appeared
te be much pleased with it.