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SpblAl NOTICE* 23 per rent. al*ve regular rat's.
Two of the important events of the
last week, in which no one acquired
great renown, occurred in the villages
of Harrisburg and Philadelphia. In
one place ex-Attorney General Lear
was lionized and in the other was a
hrutal prize fight. In the one case
the parties got their eyes bunged, and
in the other tjiey got —wined.
THE feeling seems to be strong in
Congress to let financial tinkering
alone for the present. This is sensi
ble. • The country can survive, even
if all the crazy theorists are not given
the opportunity at the extra session to
air themselves and promulgate their
insanities. A little patience ami the
improved business of the country un
der Democratic ascendency, will regu
late finaueial affairs, without the in
tervention of the " bloated bondhold
ers" or the stupid essays of expan
sionists.
EX-SECETAIIY GORHAM, in en
lightening Senator Wallace's commit
tee as to the amount of money he
forced out of the employes of the
government to carry the last congress
ional elections, credits Secretary Sher
man and other notables with liberal
contributions, hut makes no mention
of tho liberal contribution promised by
the White House Fraud. This is un
kiud. He promised it and certainly
•lid not fail to perform. If he could
not draw upon Tilden's barrel to show
his liberality, he could upon Tilden's
salary.
> BENATORSAMBU KYof Delaware hn
got himself into un inquisitive mood
and wants .Secretary John Sherman to
inforn. the Senate what moneys were
deposited hy him in certain hank* and
thus withh<4Fl from circulation. He
wants also to learn hy what process of
fiuanceering a favorite hank can inake
over a million of dollars in a few
mouths 011 a capital of six hundred
thousand. It would not be surprising
if the impertinent curiosity of this
old Senator would induce a desire to
know the amount of John's personal
gains in these operation*.
SENATOR WALLACE'* investigating
committee put in two full day* of ex
cellent work in Philadelphia last week.
The time spent there was not sufficient
to enable the committee to make a
complete exposure of nil the republi
can election debauchery of that city,
but enough evidence was taken to give
the public a slight insight into the
workings of that part of the machine
ry manipulated by Marshal Kerns.
This gentleman was at last compelled
to produce a list of the deputies who
served at the November election, and
a sorry set of scalawags they prove to
be. The list contains 773 names, and
is almost entirely made up of well
known rounders, repeaters, bummers,
thieves and convicts. The Marshal
seems to have gone over the city f#
the especial purpose of finding disrep
utable (rersomT to appoint. As they
were expected to do dirty work, it was
probably just as well that they should
be dirty characters. Yet, in endeavor
ing to secure the repeal of a law that
give a U. 8. Marshal the power to ap
point creatures like these to debauch
elections, the democrats are "revolu
tionists/' Not much.
"Tin: Republican senators," Hays
the Washington Pout "seem to dwell
with peculiar delight on the events of
1801, and never tire of depicting the
retirement of the Southern senators
i from the old State chamber. One
i would think, front the constant recur
rence to that mournful event, that they
indulge a hope vtf seeing it repeated,
lint this hope, if it exist, will prove a
delusion. The South has conic hack
to stay. The institution out of which
grew the war and all its sad results, is
among the things of the past. There
arc now no conflicting interests of
sufficient importance to create section
al disturbance. The fact that the
South is solidly Democratic is due, in
a great measure, to the policy of the
Republican party, which has compell
ed the white people of the South to
combine in order to tho more effectu
ally resist oppression, llut the at
tempt to impute disloyalty to the
Southern men in either branch of Con
gress, as was done in tho Senate Mon
day, is transparent folly. Not a word
has fallen from the lips of any South
ern Democrat, in the Senate or House,
since the war, not an act has been com
mitted or proposed by any one of them, j
inconsistent with most sincere devo
votlon to the I'nion. On the con-!
trary, they have invariably voted for
those acts of generosity and justice to
wards the men by whom tlu ir armies
were defeated, which they must have
opposed to the bitter end, had they
cherished the spirit of hatred that
animates the stalwart heart.
SENATOR WAI.I.ACK is doing some
good work and bringing to light the
enormous expenditure charged to the
government for the employment of
rounders and repeaters to rontrol and
carry the elections in Philadelphia.
Marshal Kern acknowledges to having
appointed T7d deputy marshals in
IK?*, and about the satno number of
supervisors, for which they received
SIU each. A large pro|Kirtion of these
appointments were made from a very
discreditable class of men. With these
men added to l,<HK>or 1 ,* r 00 political
policemen, all actively employed, is it
any wonder that the rogues maintain
their ascendency in the Quaker City ?
The Marshal was forced to admit that
the deputy marshals wen.' not necessary
to maintain order or obtain a fair
election.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL KERNS,
savs tho Philadelphia Record, did a
creditable thing before the Wallace
committee in frankly acknowledging
that no need exists in Philadelphia for
United .States Supervisors and Mar
shals as guardians of tho purity of tho
ballot box. Of course ho could hard
ly have said anything else, but it is
none the less gratifying to have tho
testimony of a well-known United
States Marshal on the side of n repeal
of the law permitting federal interfer
ence with the progress of elections.
♦
MR. GORHAM, late Secretary of the
Senate, and also Secretary of the Re
publican Congressional Committee, was
• alled to testify before the Wallace
Committee, and was closely examined
as to his a-tc*sments upon the officials
of the government. He admitted that
he succeeded in extracting from them
*03,000, to aid in the election of Re
publican congressmen at the last elec
tion. The a*K4-**mcnt.s ujon |MS|mas
ters was one percent. ujHin all snlnricx
of fcl.lHH) and less. Above that a
proportional increase.
GEN. HANCOC# is looming up as
the strong man to knock the fire out
of the Grant movement. If the Amer
ican people are disponed, after the
Grant experiment, to risk another
military commander, they could not
do letter than to take this honest pa
triot, who not only has the brains to
do right and conduct the government
as a statesman shouid, but the courage
to say and require, as in New Orleans,
that the military shall be subordinate
to the civil power.
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Tyn Kansas people, it seems, are
lxtonming quite excited at the influx
of Negro emigrants into that state. It
is difficult now for a colored man,
with money, to buy a projmrty, ao
bitter is the opposition to his settlement
there. The colored man's true friends
are in the South, and it will not be
very long before he will realise that
fact, but who would have expected
"bleeding Kansas" to be the first to go
back on "the man and the brother."
Election Marshals.
Krotn 111 1 ' IMillmMphl* TIIUM.
Tho partial development* made be
fore tho special committee of the Sen
ate, at tin- hcuritig had in thin city, in
regard to thi" cliitriu'trr and icrricoi of
the deputies appointed hy Marshal
Kerns for tho Into election, must make
uny Senator or (Vmgresßman of either
party blush when ho assumes to dofonil
tho oonlintmnce of such irresponsible
officer* to attend our nntioonl elections.
Whatever limy have been tho ronl or
apparent necessity for HUch officials in
tho Mouth while tho reconstructed
Stilton were tuibulent under tho rule of
thieving carpet-baggers, it will not ho
pretended that there in now, or that
there ever wan, the shadow of an excuse
lor tho appointment of six or eight
hundred Deputy Marshals in l'hilndel
iihia. Tho complaint In* uniformly
iicen that these Deputy Marshals have
been, a* a rule, the most rock loss parti
nans ; that they have heen the fruitful
source of disorder, crime and perjury in
the South during the last eight or ten
years; that they have wantonly op
pressed legitimate business to attain
fraudulent political ends; that they
have intimidated lawful voters, falsified
registrations and returns, and that they
have, in very many instances, been the
mere ercaUnus of tho side thai paid
them to promote fraud. That such has
been the general character of the Dep
uty Marshals ill the South, has been
abundantly proven by evety election
since 1872; I ut it has not heen known
how shamefully the authority to ap
point thetu has heen abused in the
North.
Marshal Kerns niu*t he credited with
a wholesome disgust for himself and his
own work in thu selection of his depu
ties for this city. lie has done about
all that lie could to mitigate his late
offense against law and decency, by
frankly confessing that the deputies
were needless; and the fact that he
was so heartily ashamed of his round
ers, repeaters and convicts that he con
cealed his list until it was forced before
tho public by a committee of the Senate,
is a plain admission tlust one of his most
important oflicial acts could open dis
grace only hy ■< aping public scrutiny.
And when the list is presented to the
people of peaceable Philadelphia, they
must bear the shame wantonly llung
upon them by Marshal Kerns. 1 f-r- i*
a Republican judiciary ; a Republican
Mayor; a Republican police of twelve
hundred men ; a host of Republican
officials wielding all the poor of the
municipality ; thousands of Republican
contractors, dependents and expectants
to tight the battles of the party ; a
large majority of Republican a*<-or
to register the votes; a Republican Tax
' tffice to facilitate the i|Ualification of
lb-publican electors, and four fifths of
the election boards Republican to ac
cept or reject doubtful voters and to
computeaind certify the returns, while
the minority party is powerless, save *
fraud can escape the vigilance of the
multitude of Republican safeguards in
a few localities. To summon Deputy
Marshals in this city for the protection
of the majority party, even if done with
the utmost integrity, would have heen
an unpardonable abuse of public trust ; :
but to prostitute the authority of the
Marshal hy the selection of nearly eight
hundred deputies, most of them mere
partisan dependents and very many of
tln-tn so disreputable that they would
not he allowed within sight of a shop
man's till, was a violation of the plain
letter and spirit of the law and a re
proach to Philadelphia, that should not
only demand the repe.d or modification
of the statute, hut that should dismiss
Kerns from bis office in the
disgrace he bis delil>erately invited
upon him-elf.
If Marshal Kerns had heen content
to abuse his power to the extent of se
lecting reasonably reputable p-artisans
to act as window men, distribute party
tickets and bring out party voters at
the cost of the government, it might
have been regarded as a waste of public
money that could he pardoned on the*
ground of political necessity ; hut when
lie called the thief from his den. the
rounder from his stums, the convict
from his haunts of shame and the bal
lot stuflVr from his low rum mill relrest
to wear the badge of the national gov
ernment and violate the law in the
name of the law, he committed a crime
against every decent ritiren of Philadel
phia, whether Republican or Democrat,
and made the law that is presumed to
protect honesty in elections the instru
ment of its own degradation. And
when it is considered that these hum
mers ami criminals are empowered to
interfere with the most eacred rights of
ritirens without process of law, or any
restraints beyond their own dishonest
or brutal instincts, tho outrage upon the
people of this city is one that can scarce
ly he portrayed in adequate terms. It
is violently reversing all rules of order
and public safety l-y making the thief
and the bully masters of the lil>ertiea of
reputable dUsens, and conferring UJIOII
them fhe power to pollute the hallot
box under the protection of the law
itself. We do not (Minns that this
ahuae is exceptional because Republi
cans happen to have the ptower to day.
11 aI the Marshal of Philadelphia been
a Democrat of the average partisan
stamp of the age. it is quite probable 1
that like wrongs would have heen com
mitted, so far as possible in the face of
Republican means to counter
act it; hut tho fact that these terrible
wrongs have heen comroitteed hy one
party and may hereafter lie committed
hy any party that happens to IHI in
power, should arouse the people of
every political faith to demand the re
peal of alt such authority and to agk
that only legitimate judicial restraints
shall be employed to guard the purity
of elections, The one redeeming feat
tire of the official conduct of Marshal
Kerns in the case is, that he has so out
raged honest public sentiment as to
make it impossible for any Marshal in
this city to appoint deputies for future
elections. As it is t.ie only shadow of
credit that he can gather from the offi
cial infamy he has brought upon him
self, let him not be denied an offset for
the good that must oome out of his
reckless prostitution of the authority of
the national government.
Frince Waldemar, third son of the
Crown Frtnoe of Germany, died Thurs
day morning of heart disease.
Election Fitiihl* Investigation.
THE IKTERKSTINti I)HW'I/>B('RK)I MADE EV
EX ItCRBTARV <.UHIIAM llEniltK THE
wai.i.ack committer.
From |||iolr|i id (tin Ttio !lworl.
Wasiiinuton, March 26.—Mr. florham
who was Secretary of the National Con
gressional Campaign committee, was on
the witness stand before the Wallace
committee (or over an hour to 'lay, and
let out aoruo interesting facta concern
ing the niangement of the hint cam
paign. For aome time he was subject
ed to cloe and nliarp examination try
Senator McDonald, in which lie admit
ted that the famous circular lent to all
the olllccrs holders in the land, inviting
contributions for the conduct of the
carnp ign, wan submitted to the Presi
dent by ti member of the Congressional
committee and was approved by him.
1 h<- history of the circular, according
to Mr. Durham, is as follows: Oorham
wrote it himself, and, being fearful that,
in view of the civil service order, many
officeholders would refuse to respond,
he added a final clause to the effect
that the system of voluntary contrilu
lions solicited met the approval of the
Executive. The circular was then sub
mitted to the President, who modified
it with the words that such "voluntary
contiibutioim met the approval of tin
executive officers of the Government."
It was developed that the Congressional
committee raised $106,000 through as
sessments ; that members of the Cabi
net, foreign Ministers, Senators and
iteprcsen tat ires contributed Senator*
£IOO each and li--j rtnllv<•• #.'iOcacli.
I lio largest stun sent to any one State
was $'30,000, to Ohio; tout, >i* (iorlmni
•aid, into the close district*. Si nator
McDonald thought he discriminated
against Indiana, but Mr.Oorham retort
ed facetiously that the Ohio people had
a better way of pulling him than the
other*.
W AMIINOTON, March 27. 1!* Score
Uiry of the Senate (iorhain produced
book* of subscription* in the depart
ment*, and the bet o) money sent by
the ddl'erent Stale* to the national com
mittee. He aided nineteen Southern
Congressional district* with an average
of soi','!, and fifty eight Northern di<
tricts, with an average of 1712. No aid
we* given to two hundred and twelve
districts. The contributions of Federal
otlicer* in Wisconsin went to the State
committee.* Subscriptions in look and
in the Treasury Department are headed
by the name Secretary Sherman ; the
I'ostofllco Department by the Second
Asistant i'ostinaster 'ieneral; the Ag
rieultural Department by Commissioner
1." Due; the Sixth Auditor's otlice by
tbe Sixth Auditor. Money sent to In
diana wa* put in the hands of Blair,
with witness' recommendation a* to it*
use. In regard to the general |*>licy
to devote money to close district*:
About nine district* in Ohio were thus
helped. The librarian of the Senate
helped (iorham to compile a sort of a
Republican campaign text book and
was paid s'2io. The work did not in
terfete with hit official duties. No de
duction was made in hi* salary as libra
rian on account of hi* working for the
committee. Witness thought the sub
scription* of the Treasury Department
might amount to #12,000 or $13,000. in
stead of $7,000 or ss,oOo a* M ite l yes
terday. Afxuit $2,000 were subscribed
in the I\*toflice Department.
.'awl M. Kern*. foiled State* Mar
•hal for the F-*torn Iitrict of Penn
sylvania, testified he thought • far as
Trilled State* Stipervi*or* and Marshal*
are concerned Philadeiidiia ran do with
out them very well. The ex|>ne* of
the foiled State* Supervisor* amount
to $27.4-10. Special attention wu paid
Itandall * district because it was in a
had part of the city where riot* fre
quently occurred.
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A tr Trlfifrajili ( ompnnj.
TIII nic# rtoviuM M u*K nr a* ougaxua*
TLOJF JFR M AUTII IS FTT* TOFCK.
Fr*tn lh# Yr% k*isir.f Ff
Within the last month a new tele
graph company ha* hnen organized in
tin* city under the title of the Ameri
can Rapid Telegraph Company. It*
otllrr* are Kdwm Reed, ex-Mayor of
Hath, Me., preaident; Thonia* Wallace,
of Connertirut, vicej.resident, and Ma
jor 1.. S. Hapgood, of Ito*ton, treasurer.
The company is *aid to have a capital of
$3.000,01.10, and it intend* immediaiely
to construct a line of double telegraph
wire* connecting Ho*ton, New York,
Philadelphia, ilaltiinore, Washington,
''hicagoand St, I Ami*. The wire* will
tie of ea#t *teel. plated with copper, and
are the invention of Profeaaor Mo*e* (J.
Farmer, of Newport. The company
control* a number of other novel in
vention*, in telegraphy, which will en
able it, a* claimed, to transmit 1,000
word* |>er minute over it* own patent
wire* and half that number over ordi
nary wire*. Among the feature* of the
proposed system *t the following :
Firt. Kxpre** Message*—To be dis
patched instantly at a uniform rate of 25
cent* f..r thirty word* to all station* east of
the Rocky Mountain*.
Bocond. Mail Message*—To be dispatch
ed within nno hour and delivered through
the nearest post office or by roetsanger,
within two hour* trom date of mVwage, at
2'J cents for fifty word*.
Third. Night Message*—To bo delivered
before 9. a. m. at 16 con (a for fifty word*.
Fourth. Fres* Iteporl*—For rultuire
publication in onn journal at 10 cent* for
ono hundred word*.
Fifth. Stamped Message*—lt U propos
ed, under an arrangement with the Port
'"" w i b> t*uo *tampa for moMago*. A
correspondent in thi* city can then place a
letter of fifty word* in an envelope, put on
a twenty live cent stamp and drop it into
any lamp-po*t bo*. The letter-carrier*
will make collection* every half hour, and
will at once deliver ucb letter* to the tele
graph company. The latter will bind it
self to deliver copie* in Chicago within two
hour* of the time of posting. In the latter
city the copy will be *ent to tba poet office
and will be delivered by the letter-carrier*
there. The company will pay to the post
office authorities 1} cent* per letter for
collecting and 1) cent# for delivering. It
promise* within three year* to telegraph
ordinary businae* letter* to and from all
point* of the country for 10 cent*.
The company also intends to estab
lish pre** bureaus in the principal cities.
In building the lines the poet road* and
highway* will be followed, aa a United
States law, paaesd in IB6fi, ia understood
to give fres right of way over those
routes. It ia designed to bare the lines
completed and in working order by
.lanuary I, 1880,
The New Fee Hill.
for the Information of our readers
we give herewith the reduction of fees
in the following named offices. The
new bill took effect with the advent of
the new officials, tut it out and past.,
it up where it will oe convenient for
consultation:
It Is iislMTinted that the reduction In the
I'rotlionoUry'• ollhe will b- f r „i„ :jo 86
per cent. S<rn of the it.-ms arc, writ of
summons, $ I 60 to $1.26; ahss summons
and capias, tJO to 60 cents, j every other
writ, jl 76 to $1.60; services during trial
of case, unhiding swearing jury, etc.,
sl.l*o to 76 cents ; entering appeal fr- m
Justice of the P.-a.e, $1.26 to 60 cents;
petition for divorce, $1 <*) to 76 cents •
other proceedings $2.60 to $2. The fee i,.r
service in a lunatic's estate r< mains at $2 -
00, and tin- )<-..• f..r entering jiidgm. Nt from
•tiisti- es of the Peace is iricrcuied troiu 60
to 76 c nii.
In office of tho Orphans' Court the re
duction is one-third. Confirmation of
executors, etc , |* reduced from $1 26 to
$1; proceedings of imposition of real . ..
I t ft t<-, $2 76 to $3.36: nil proceedings (or
' -ale of r.-al estate, s.'! 60 to }.;; copying
j record, etc t from one cent per . ight word
to on.) cent per ten words; tiling and <-ri
l.-riiig pa|s-rs ruo.iing to pr in
th.- tjuartcr Scsff..,. C,,urt, $1 60 to $1 ;
order to open road, $1.30 to $l; making
return to writ of error, $1 out., 76 cents ;
pr.Mei dings in tavern and peddler's lie i -
i <•, $1 t*'to 76 c-nls. Tin- warrant for
, seraure und.-r such proceedings r- main* at
, U<- pr< cent tigiir. sj.
In the Itegister's offlea the reduetlon I#
; .-stimat.-d at tw.-rity |-r cent. Probate of
1 sab* arid granting letters ts-slatiu-tiVary .*
reduced trom $1.26 to $1; recording the
same from one cent for eight words to one
cent for ten words; granting letters of ad
ministration, SI.OO to 76 r.-nts; ap|oint.,
I ing administrators, 76 cent# to $1 ; exam
ining, passing and tiling in i ount# of j.-.iar
dians, ; ! to $2 60; administering ej.a u
tors, etc., accounts, $2.60 to $2; every
copy of sui.l a. counts, from sl2-7 to si*.
No provision is mad* for holding 11.-gi--
t.-r's curl, arid the fee. in eutM of i--s
than $2 60 now limited to $2 60, will be
reduced to $2
The slierilf will probably sustain a re
<lu lion of about one-third.* The redu. tion
in this . (flee is something of a hardship,
as the Sheriff is often called up< ti by tin
court to p -rf.-rrii o-rsit.-. f..r which IH r. -
. eives nothing, the parte - whom the law
holds responsible Ix-ing teas po ,r to pa v.
In.aseol riot he is exja-ct.-d to maintain
the ja-a.-e, often at heavy expense to him
self and without compensation. Ttie f.-e
for serving capias is r<-du< <d lr<rn $1 26 to
$1: serving summons, <tc, $1 (a) to 76
■ nts ; delivering lands to c-r'slitors, etc ,
$2 to to $2 ; receiving and jaring tnoney
to plaintiffs from two j* r cent., on sum's
under S6<JO, to one jar <<nl. ; advertising
g.aids for sale, from $2 76 to $2 26; ad
vertising lands f. r sal.- $2 7" to $2 26;
summoning jury, from $ I Mi t-. $..",; d<-<-1
for sal.- of land, $ ■ •* to $2 60; indict
ment in < apital • as.-, $ ! lAI to $2 <V); ser
# it.g rule. etc.. of court, sl.Mi to 76 cents.
The SherifT still receives one-half jxr cent,
a# formerly, on paync-M* over S4IKI, hut
by a clause of the new- law his commission
is n<d in any case p> exceed ®K*i. Ihe
fee .if executing a death warrant remains
unchanged.
An fsrsjic Foiled.
Through the seductive wile* of a
woman, the weakness ol man and the
hope of a large reward, a bank burglar
who is serving a ten-year*' imprison
ment at the Eastern Penitentiary was in
a fair way of escaping from thai almost
impregnable jail bird cage.
The prisoner, a man named Holland,
was arrested in Oh am her* burg ab.nu one
year ago. for breaking into a bank in
that j.iacc, and after conviction and
sentence succeeded in cscijing from
the .it by cutting through the roof.
He tied to Chicago, and there, after a
prolonged search, an ofliccr attached to
i'lnkerton* detective agency picked
him up and returned biro to bis old
'luartera in Cbambersburg. The an
thorilie* of the prison were satisfied
that their institution was not the place
for such a man, and transferred him to
the big institution on Cherry Hill.
About Christmas time, an old watch
man at the jsenitentiary, who has en
joyed the confidence of the authorities
for years, was caught in the act of con
veying a bundle to Holland which was
found to contain a nicely roasted chirk
n. It was thought if be would violate
hi* trust to thi* extent he would go
further, and accordingly a strict watch
a* kept ii|.on hi* movement*. These
suspicions were shortly ascertained to
have been well founded. About a
month ago the prison authorities de
cided to search the prisoner's cell, and,
after a dilligent in vest iga (ion, discovered
a light, strong rope Wider, arranged
with hooks that would have provided
an easy escape over the frowning wall*
of the prison. A number of tools of ex
■ jiiisit.. make, such as files and saws,
were also found secreted in out-of-the
way places in the cell. That the pris
oner had fully studied out his plan of
escape was not only evidenecd by the
tool*, but by a plan carefully niajipcd
out on a piece of |>aper written in sym
pathetic ink. These articles had all
been expressed from Chicago to this
city by the wife or friend* of Holland,
and were conveyed to him by the watch
man at night. In their search the pria
on authorities destroyed a shaving brush
used by the prisoner, and were astound
ed by the discovery of forty diamonds
of different sites secreted in the handle,
which had been dug out and filled with
the rich treasures, and then reseated in
a most skillful manner. It is believed
that a portion of these gems were to he
the reward of the watchman's infidelity,
had the escape (seen effected. As it is
the watchman knows no more the
place that has suppoited him for so
many years, and the prisoner is confined
in a stronger cell, and is guarded with
more than ordinary care.
A letter from Bangkok, 81am, dated
on the 17th of March, aaye that the
King of Hiam ha* *ent an autograph let
ter to General Grant, inviting him to
viait Siam and become hi* guest. Gen
eral Grant was expected at .Singapore
about the first of April. The American
i'ounsel at Bangkok, accompanied by
tba King'a aid de camp and one of the
Frinoes. will proceed down the Gulf of
Hiam on a Government *tearner to meet
and welcome General Grant, and escort
him to Bangkok.
Wallace's Tradncer*.
Kcnator Wallace, of Pennsylvania,
come* in for a goodly share of criticism
j rind abuse from the npj.osition jire.
I ho We*tche*ler •/. 'ffertonutn says, thi*
| in an evidence of Mr, Wallace'* worth
ari'i enlrrj.riso a* a .Senator. lie in a
positive representative man, shrewd
and energetic. Such men cannot pan
through the ordeal of public life with
out attracting the attention of both
friend* and opponent*. If the latter
*<•<•111 vindictive in their attack* at pres.
ent it i* but a Mire evidence that they
fear him. ' oncervative men of all j.ar
t)'", however, will not fail to give con
sideration ami approval to hi* effort* a*
Senator. Marly in the late session a
resolution of inquiry wa* made by the
House upon Attorney-General Ihrven*,
f<ir detailed *tatement* of account* with'
the Iteputy I . S. Mar*hal* employe<| at
• lection poll*. 'J hi* was not furnished,
and the limine refused to appropriate a
'piarter million dollar* for a purpose of
which they were designedly kept in
ignorance, tin Wednesday Mr. Wallace
introduced a resolution in the Senate
•calling uoon the Secretary of the Trea
• tiry for detailed ataiementa of lleputy
I S Marshal* for service* during the
last election! in New York, Pennsylva
nia, Ohio, Massachusetts and Maryland.'
It wenf over under an objection by
• i),<tor i onkiing. i lie people buve a
light to know for what purpoae the
put.lie money is *|x-i]t, \ refusal to
fuirnsii the | ro| < r information leave*
I'asonah.i - ground ior nupicion lluti
the money was improperly used. In
'bearding the lion' Mr. Wallace must
expect to be snatched i.y every dissat
.sfie'i paw, but all good citizen* will up
hold him in the eflort to probe for cor
rect information hefoie ajipiopriating
the public treasure.— York o uzitlc.
'I In- lie-publicans ) Irm.
HE AIIV to ri'.IIT Till! rot.ITICAI, IXOJ'I.A
-TK'St ST EVERT l-OIVT.
Wssiiivotov, March 27.—A caucu* of
Republican members t,f the Mouse of
Kepi, m ntatives wa* held in the hall of
the House immediately after the ad
journment tod .v. Mr. Krye, of Maine,
pie>i<ling, f.r tin- purjK.se of discussing
til'- nation in regard to the J.oliticai
tlau-es w fiic h the nirity Las determ
ined to incorporate in the army ami
bg -b.tivc an i judicial aj proj.riation
Ribs, namely : |prohibit the |>ie.noo
t.f 11 ooj.s at the jM.ll* and to repeal those
section* of the revised statutes which
nulhoiize ti.e appointment of chief su
pervisors and ilepuly marshals for elec
tions. I lie sulye.-t Mas very generally
discussed by the member* present, and
the sentiment was unanimous in oj.jks
posit, .n to the progratotne arranged by
the democrats. Garfield and
Knfer Ohm., Will.mils (Wis.), lielfort
' o|. . i ,ng..r Mich.) arid other* made
lengthy sp.-echc* sustaining the view*
ahoVO lodioaU I. aiid it was finally
agreed that every endeavor should l*i
made I.y ti.e minority to jrevent the
passage of the bill, unless they shall be
relieved of the legislative provision* in
<|U< ation. ihe sense of the caucus waa
(hat if the I ><-tnncrat should insist uj<on
carrying out the programme already
adoj.ted I.y thein the effect would be
the stopj.age of the wheels of the gov
ernment, and the majority w-oubl Iks
tesjionsible for the result. A resolution
wa,. adopted without oppo*ition: That
it i* the aetise of the caucus that hc-re
aft< r and until the aj.propriation hill*
arc disposed of no j.airs by Republican*
shall, under any consideration, be
made. Tins resolution aj jears to indi
cate a determination on the j.art of the
Republican* to resort to filibustering
rather than rec< ie in any manner from
the stand they have taken.
——
/.acli, ( handler'* I'lan for 1 **•().
Vblnji-u I/Hl ti AufW*U Oirofikif.
A gentleman of (.nsition and reliabil
ity, who j a Republican, discloaea the
substance of a declaration recently
made in hi* company by Zaeh Chandler.
Ihe conversation turned upon the
Presidential campa gn. Mr. Chandler
• aked : '• Who will tx> the nomi
nee of the l>erooo.rat# and replied,
with particular emphasis, " Why 1 uden
and Hendrick*, of course! Some pco
plcthink we have caught him on the
cipher dispatches, but mark what I nay,
the sly old coon will come out of it all
smiling. And if he don't catch some of
our men I will lie d—d glad, I tell you.
I know him, for by , 1 had to fight
him in '7G I"
" Tildcn and Hendricks," aaid he.
" with a solid South behind them, have
only to carry New York and Indiana to
win. and who doubt* that they can do it T
I tell you gentlemen, (and a*-he aaid
t hi" he stnu k the table until the glasses
jingled). I tell you there is no use of
trying to get New York awsv from Til
den. If he is nominated all hell can't
beat him in that State. I verily be
lieve that if we were to nominate Conk
ling for President and another Republi
can from that State equally popular for
Vice President we would find that Tib
den would nevertheless carry the State.
We have but one chance to nest Tilden
and Hendricks, and that is to divide
the sold South. And the sooner we be
gin to think how this is to lie done, the
oetler it will l>e for ouTorganization.''
The Rhode Island Democratic state
contention met t the State House at
Providence Thursday. Nomination*
for state officer* were made a* follow*:
Governor, Thoma* W. Seaper. of West
erly; Lieutenant Governor, J. I). Bailey,
of Woonaocket; Secretary of State;
1 id 8. Baker. Jr., of North Kingston,
Attorney General. Charlea H. Pope, of
Scituate; General Treasure', Patrick
Farrell, of Pawtucket. Reaolutiona
were adopted hailing with joy the re
turn of the Democratic, party to the con
trol of enngreta and ferreting that
fraud, bribery and perjury kept the
Democrat* from the executitre depart
ment.
A letter received In I-on don from
Bangkok aaya: "The Knplish surveying
party which left Upper Hurraah several
month* ago, constating of fifty men.
with twenty elephant*. ha*ju*t reached
the Tochen river, and ia expected at
Bangkok in aliout a week. Tha arrivals
of American good* in Siatn arc increa*-
ing, and they are much sought after,
both by foreigner* and Siamese."