Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1884 — Page 2

(Hjc ilcmocrrtticScntind RENSSELAER. INDIANA. J. W. McEIYEN. - Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The School Superintendents of Massachusetts resolved at Boston in favor of opening all the schools in the State for night sessions, it being shown that 90,000 persons cannot read or write. It was decided at a Boston businessmen’s conference to ask Congress to suspend the act requiring the coinage of silver dollars, to enact the bankruptcy bill passed by the Senate at its last session, and to pass at an early date the bill to carry into effect the reciprocity treaty with Mexico. An iron foundry and flint-glass works at Pittsburgh and three cotton factories in New England announce that a reduction of 10 per cent, in wages will be made next month, unless a material change in the market become visible'. Most of the ingrain carpet mills at Philadelphia closed down, because the weavers refused to accept a reduction of wages. Clement, Hierdt & Co., New York liquor-dealers, have made an assignment. Liabilities, §163,000; actual assets, §17,000. A severe earthquake shock was felt iu various portions of New Hampshire Nov. 22. At a Boston hotel, as the result of a bet on Blaine, Charles A. Hill ate a fat crow, which bad been delicately roasted, while the winner and his friends dined on grouse. The schools at Nashua, N. H., have closed on account of the prevalence of scarlet fever.

WESTERN.

At Dubuque, lowa, Judge Utt, of the Circuit Court, rendered a decision, under the new prohibitory law, in favor of the liquor men. Nineteen saloon-keepers were 6ued by the Citizens’ League, headed by J. J. Farley. They asked the court for an Injunction to close thesaloon6as criminal nuisances under the new law. Judge L'tt sustains a demur'rer of the defendants on the grounds that his court, being one of equity, has no jurisdiction over a criminal case, and on the general grounds that it is unconstitutional to deprive a man of his property. The decision is received with great interest, being regarded as a prohibition defeat. An appeal will be made. Maurice Despres, a native of France, has just died in Chicago, at the ripe age of 103 years. In the business office of the San Franelsco Chronicle, Adolph Sperckels shot Michael H. De Young, the proprietor of the paper. A San Francisco dispatch gives the following particularsof the affair; De Young had been out purchasing some children’s books, came down Kearney street, and entered the business office of the paper and passed through to ins private office to put on his overcoat, with the intention of going home, and a moment later he came out with the books under his arm to say something to one of the clerks, and, while in the act of passing through the railing, heard some one behind him say in a loud voice: "Mr. De Young, I want to see you." De Young turned partly aronnd to see who spoke, and saw young Spreckels standing within three feet of him. Before De Young had time - to say a word, Spreckels, who had drawn a revolver, fired, and the ball struck him in the left arm. De Young, who was unarmed, sought shelter behind a higli office desk. Spreckels sprang toward the counter, and, leaning over, tired again. This shot struck DeYoung in the shoulder. DeYoung then turned with the intention of seeking shelter in his private office, but as he turned to do so he tripped and fell pr.ostrate on the floor. Spreckels then made another rush toward him, and, stooping slightlv down, tired a third shot. The bullet struck one of the children's books which De Young had under his arm, and glanced off without doing him injury. One of the advertising clerks picked up a revolver lying in a desk drawer near by and tired at Spreckels. The movements of the latter were so rapid that he missed his aim, which was intended for Spreckels' head, and hit him only In the arm, causing a trifling wound. All the employes then made a rush for the assassin. Cliesley, the cashier, happened to be nearest to him. He grabbed Spreckels’ revolver, and with a violent twist turned it upward. Spreckles ■ struggled, hut before he could do further harm was overpowered by the other clerks, who held him until the police, who had been called, rushed in and disarmed him. De Young’s wounds are not dangerous. Over 600 Scandinavians from Chicago, St. *Paul, and all parts of the Northwest, left Chicago, the other day, by the Grand Trunk Koad on an extended tour to their European fatherland. J ohn L. Bitter, of Des Moines, lowa, last week paid an election bet.he owed, which was to wheel a colored woman eight blocks. A wheelbarrow was arranged with Its passenger, and banners and band brought out. On one side of the banner was: “I bet and lost,” and on the other, “To win is well; to lose is h—l.” When everything was ready, Mr. Ritter, wearing the .Blaine hat, stepped to the front and .performed the task. It furnished amusement for a large crowd. After some weeks of hard work by the newspapers of Denver, the acting Mayor has ordered Hie police to close all gamblinghouses. A mortgage on the Lafayette (Ind.( Journal property was foreclosed last week, and the paper and.appurtenances will be sold Dec. 26 to the highest bidder. A fund of $1,200 tvas raised in a few moments at the National Cattlemen’s Convention, for the relief of the Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky drouth sufferers. Benjamin Hefner, a wife mnrderer, - killed' himself in jail at Lima, Ohio. He had devoured glass and consumed other deleterious substances, but the Coroner was surT>rised to find in the intestines of y the suicide stSipS of cotton and flannel cloth.’’ Repression in.,the sugar trfade has re-' ’jnjKed lh tke 'seridhs the Bejgher Sugar Refining Company of St, Loiiis, pr t|ie oldest and best-known firms connected with the sugar interest in 'this' country. Its total indebtetrtes# at $650,000. - -• ' aJJfW. DakotafapetjagPent school property is valued at SMfMSB. The trial of Daniel Holcomb, at Jackson, Mieh., for' the murder' of the Crouch family has ponedon account Of ’the deirth*of FtflfftkE. Hewlett, prosecuting attorned v -' ‘W*«# The Grand in Market street, St. Louie, valued at $175,000, was destroyed by Are. The Bock Island plow-works which have beep closed for some time, have resumed, giv n { employment to about 400 men.

B. C. Winston & Co., of St. Panl, hardwood dealers, have made an assignment, with liabilities placed at SBO,OOO. Articles of incorporation have been filed at Indianapolis, in behalf of the Eastern and Western Air-Line Railway, which is said to have a capital stock of $52,600 000, and which proposes to construct a continuous line through lowa, Illinois,* Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. An effigy of John P. St. John was the other morning found hanging in the public square at Marlon, Ind. The Prohibition candidate was also banged in effigy at Lake Geneva, W is.

SOUTHERN.

The strange disease reported as prevailing in Virginia also exists in Kentucky and West Virginia, where whole families have been swept away, and thirty or more new graves are seen in a small cemetery. The people call it cholera, for want of a better name, and the malady upholds the dreadful title, victims, upon being seized, seldom living longer than twenty-four hours. It is said the scourge affected majorities in some precincts at the recent cleclion. Numerous corpses have been left unburied, and the stench from the decaying carcasses of animals pollutes the air. Flour, corn, and meal are needed to succor the starving population, and, unless rain falls, annihilation may be anticipated. The Comptroller of Texas has just completed the assessment lists, showing the total tangible value of all kinds of propertyin the State to be $603,000,000, which i 3 an increase of $75,000,000 over last year. The assessed value of land is $106,000,000; houses, $1,154,000; head of cattle, f 6,517,(00; head of sheep, $4,001,000; head of hogs, 51,103,000. Total value of live stock, $03,900,000. The Increase of the taxable value of property in Texas for the year 1883 over the year 1882 was $100,000,000, showing that the increase for the present year falls $25,000,030 short of the previous year's increase. Acute typhoid-dysentery is the medical name given to the fatal scourge which has recently broken out in the western portions of Virginia. One hundred and fifty deaths have occurred in Wise County alone. San Antonio (Tex.) dispatch: Lient Eggleston, who was ordered in pursuit of the Apaches who raided Presidio County, telegraphed the result of his scouting to Gen. Stanley. Farmer Petty was shot three times in the bead, and hfs wife had been outraged and murdered. Three children were found butchered. The Indians were trailed to where they crossed the Rio Grande Into Mexico. Eggleston gave up the pursuit at tbo river, as the reciprocal treaty for the crossing of troops has expired. W. A. Pledger, Chairman, has issuod a call for a meeting of the Colored National Committee to convene at New Orleans Dee. 17 to consider the situation of the colored people under the Democratic party.

WASHINGTON.

Admiral Porter recommends that the unfinished monitors bo completed as rams, and that four heavy monitors of great speed, twenty torpedo boats, and one cruising ironclad be built. President Arthur announces that he will make no appointments before the close of his term except in cases of vacancies. In the opinion of Senator Allison, of lowa, the currenUsesslon of Congress is not likely to he an Important one from a political standpoint. Cleveland’s administration, he thinks, will be conservative rather than aggressive. Senator Edmunds is said to he preparing legislation relative to the Pacific railroads. The Senate Judiciary Committee has the funding act under consideration, and strong influences are at work to secure favorable action on tho House bill. Another effort is on foot in Washington looking to extending the whisky-bonded period for two j ears.

POLITICAL.

It is stated that the total amount of money received by the Democratic National Committee during the late campaign was $333,000, of which $52,000 was realized through the popular campaign fund in sums of less than SSOO. The Postoffice Department reports a quite general tendency among postmasters to keep back their receipts, as has heretofore been the case on changes of administration. The hint is sent out that they should not arouse prejudice on the part of a Democratic Postmaster Genera). Forty-four counties in Dakota give Gifford for Congress 40,000 majority, with thirty-five counties to hear from. His majority will reach 60,000. The official count for thirty-six electors in New York apparently shows a variation of only 106 votes as between the names borne on the Democratic ticket, and of but 34 votes as,between those on the Republican ticket. This is in a total of 1.125,000 votes for the two tickets. The Democratic plurality as between- the lowest on the Cleveland ticket for electors and the highest on the Blaine ticket Is 1,043. In the close vote of California, four years ago, it was found that one Republican elector had been chosen; and in New Jersey, in 1860, Lincoln obtained a fractional part of the electoral vote. That upon so large a ticket as one containing thirty-six names no serious break should occur is somewhat remarkable. Albany (N. Y.) special: Statq, Board of Canvassers has complet& its labors and adjourned. The proceedings throughout the cessions were harmonious and jrithont pt tixcitqpient. v so questjpns arose tbas Were not erly, and satisfactorily fettled. The technical errors In sever!) of ’tbo.'.counttea were geudval consent, and. the bpst of feeling prevailed among the members of the board.- fcThe.peg.ult~ as declared verifies the official figures*' heretofore published, and shows thorn |o have been remarkably ’ accurate!’ The footings of the tables are aslth. •lows: i, , ■ iM' LsSfiljt&emiodrfttic ttrttf offer.. M&O4S, Lowest Republican elgctoß( Harris. ........jjSfcWr A- plurality.l hptl lljgjiest.d’iQhibition elector, Miljer 25,006' Lowesft Prohibition elector, Ellsworth.... 24,948 Highest Butler elector, O’Donnell 17,004 Lowest Butler elector, Campbell 16,751 Official vote of North Carolina: Cleveland, 142,905; Blaine, 125,088; £t. John, 448. Beturns to the Secretary of State

show the vote in Georgia to be: Cleveland, 94,507; Blaine, 47,964; Butler, 125; Bt. John, 184. r The Albany correspondent of the Philadelphia Times reports Gov. Cleveland as using the lollowtng language touching the policy that will guide the administration after March 4: No harm shall come to any business interest as the result of administrative policy so long as I am President. 1 Intend to surround myself with the best and broadest minds In the party, and then bend all my energies toward making an administration that shall at least assure every element that a transfer of the Executive control frem one party to another does uot mean any serious disturbance of existing conditions. It is almost incredible that there should be any feeing of uncertainty whatever as to the future so iar as the result of the recent election is concerned. Those who are to succeed to power by the will of the people as recently expressed are as much interested in the future of the United States as those who yield it. The also have an equal stake in the prosperity and advancement of the country. They are as thoroughly committed to a maintenance of values and as earnestly anxious for a sterling business prosperity a 3 their opponents. Naturally they will be careful about pronouncing f -r a policy inimical to the interests of the very class which, more than any other, has thus honored them with its confidence. Coming Into power after so long an absence, the party ought, and will so far as the Executive is concerned, bring liberal views and good impulses into the control of the Government. It would be unnatural for the pjrty not to be actuated by a desire to continue in power by demonstrating that it deserved the highest confidence of the peonle. This it can not do if it would unsettle business and make lactlous war upon wcll-conceived plans of the Government. This is the view J take of the proper position for a party just assuming the control or the country in a crisis like this, and the s andard by which I shall be guided while in the Presidential office. If I follow it, 1 hope for and expect a fair and honest have relations as well as the hearty support of my response from the Republicans with whom I may ow i party. 1 feel that I have great responsibilities. and approach them with a fe.’ling of more or less anxiety. While I know that there is no reason whatever for this feeling of restlessness North or South, 1 cannot but realize that all min is do not see things in the same light. What may seem of no moment to one may be of great consequence to another. The Democratic party and its servants are as much committed to a careful policy upon economic questions as their opponents, and they will be as careful to act for the best interests of the country as the Republicans would had they been successful. I assume, therefore, that whatever of nervousness there is now apparent comes simply irom the disturbance of a long lease of power, and that, whenever the irritation growing out of defeat has passed off, there will be a better feeling all around and a willingness to give the new men a fair and honest chance. That is all that is desired, and less would not be fair to the incoming administration.

The total vote of California was 193,738. Blaine received 100,816; Cleveland, 88,£07: St. John, 2,640; Butler, 1,975. Blaine’s plurality is 12,500. Official vote of Virginia: Cleveland, 146,189; B'.aine, 138,474. Cleveland’s majority, 7,715. A Columbia dispatch says the State Board of Canvassers have completed the tabulation of the vote in South Carolina for Presidential electors. The h'ghest Democratic elector received 69,890 votes, and the lowest 09,764. The highest Republican elector received 21,733 votes, and the lowest 21,551. ♦Blaine’s plurality in lowa is 19,803. St. John received only 2,000 votes. H. D. Money, a Congressman from Mississippi, is named by Southern and California leaders for the Postmaster Generalship. He was offered $25,0C0 by the M-xican Government to muke a compilation of our postal laws. It Is said that Judge Gresham pronounced him the best informed as to the postal service of any man in the country.

MISCELLANEOUS. Two convicted murderers expiated their crimes on Friday. The first was John Bush, colored, who was hanged at Lexington, Ky.. for the murder of Annie Van Meter, nearly six years ago. The doomed man, who had ten trials, maintained his innocence to the last. The second victim was young Oliver Bateman, who was swung off at fc'uvftnnah. Mo., for the murder of the two young daughters of John McLaughlin, Aug. 31 last: The youthful murderer left a letter for publication, in which he admitted his crime and expressed bis penitence. At most of the leading business centers throughout the country, as reported In special telegrams to Braditrect'* (New York!, last week, there has been a slight gain in the demand for staple articles, more noticeably for dry goods. This improvement is chiefly noticeable, however, by comparison with the extreme dullness which immediately preceded and followed the Presidential election, for there are as yet no visible evidences of a real or widespread increase in the demand for or shipment of goods. The tendency of prices of most staples continues downward, hut there are some exceptions. In print cloths In New England the impression exists that bottom prices hnve been touched, and that low stocks warrant more firmness. Breadßtuffs have<. declined almost steadily. Full, immediate, and prospective supplies of wheat at home and abroad check export purchases. Phenomenally low prices prevent extensive short sales, and no advances can be secured on that basis. British stocks are emaller than last year, but ours are larger. Hog products have been cheaper, in sympathy with corn and owing to unexpectedly free receipts of hogs. The relative cheapness of corn, as compared with the price at which hogs tore selling, should encourage the farmers to ship fewer hogs until after fattening them at least to last year's average weight. Nineteen Chinamen who were put on board a sloop to be smuggled into the United States from Victoria, British Columbia, were drowned by the capsizing of the craft.

FOREIGN.

The Marqais of Salisbury has expressed himself as fairly well satisfied with the Gladstone reapportionment bill, which contains several modifications of the one lately published from a copy surreptitiouslyobtained from - the Queen’s printer.'.These. modiflcatkuuH»re mostly concessiflhTto tSB boned until sprang on account of tbebapidi. nillinf (Wife weflir* * ** 1 » ' |... Iqpfg «_ *• The resettlement of and China ha gfl|*L British arnpingvigt wady-Haifa, Spidly d<c boyOhd Qongola is irqposfjbfc lor a month. iyjfCjmtuJng lfl Kahdi s folljwju* jJPHmy WrtPPreilfflll ift). • •<*** A cablegram from Foo Chow chronicles the sudden death of Bishop J. W. Wiley, of Gindinnati. while on an official Visit to the Methodist missions in China. A special commission appointed to investigate the cause of the great increaseof drunkenness in Switzerland have reported.

They attribute tbe trouble entirely to tbe great cheapness of French brandleaa and wines, and to remedy the evil recommend tbe enactment of an unprecedented prohibitory law. Tbey ask that tbe duty on brandy and wlnea be made so high as to absolutely bar them from the country, and that the tax on domestic manufactures be raised V as to make it practically Impossible for any but the very rich to procure liquor In any form. It is stated by an English journal that after the passage of the franchise bill Gladstone will accept a peerage.

San Francisco Sunday Amusements.

Continuing in my wicked round of Sabbath-breaking, I recklessly crossed the floor toward tbe barroom. A quadrille was in progress, and at the end of each figure the couples would polka round in the most desperate fashion, like perpetual “tee-to-tuniß. ” At one end of the barroom was collected a multitude of hoodlums. They were solemnly engaged in chanting “■When the Robins Nest Again.” Pretty soon a pale young man entered. He was evidently a dry-goods clerk in some Third street store; and his clothes were quite fancy, and fitted his slight figure with remarable ability. His gait was not entirely free from the suspicion of beer, and his eyes sustained the allegation. He rashly approached the bacchanalian toughs. “Plow it away, somebody! don’t let it come too —near —me-e-e,” cried one of the hoodlums in mock fear. The young clerk blushed. “I should like to sing, too, ” he replied ingenuously. “Why, you dizzy little fright, who taught you?” minced the hoodlum, in a girl’s falsetto. “Spiel!” bawled an ugly young villain, with murderous scowl. The meek young clerk began in a thin, weak voice “I-i-i-leen Allaner,” and went right through with it, amid the guys and cat-calls of his tormentors. ■ “Now, you kin shout,” said a young hoodlum, when he finished. “Do you mean going it over louder ?” asked the mild clerk tremulously. “Hell, no!” said the other, “you kin shout” “I don’t quite understand,” remonstrated the clerk. “Why, you kin shout—you kin set ’em up—come down with the beer. ” “But I can’t,” leplied the clerk. “Who’s goin’ ter bluffy’ off ?” queried the hoodlum. “I haven’t any money,” faltered the clerk. “Yer ain’t got th’ skads, haven’t ye? Well, what d’yer mean by cornin’ out here an’ doin’ th’ dude act, then, in them clo’s?” “I spent all my money at the seaside, before I came,” stammered the clerk. “Well, that won’t stop th’ racket. We’ll use them clo’s to coller on to th’ beer, anyhow. Jus’ yer step out, an’ set em up fur th’ crowd. He’ll think yer got th’ wealth, and when yer tell th’ barkeeper yer kint ante, well giv’ him a rally ’at he’ll remember. ” The unfortunate clerk was pushed up to the bar by his wolfish backers. “For th’ crowd,” said the chief hoodlum to the barkeeper. “Who’s payin’?” demanded that personage, dubiously. “The stiff,” replied the hoodlum, pointing to the trembling clerk. The beer was poured out for all hands, the clerk included. It disappeared in the twinkling of an eye. Suddenly there was a rusn* for the door, and in another second not a hoodlum remained. The clerk stood dumbfounded at the bqr, liis untasted beer in his hand. “Yell?” demanded the barkeeper. “I—l—l ” “Shell out. Yot you vaitin’ for—a golt mine!” “I—l—l—haven’t g-g-got any m-m----m-oney.” “No, you don’t,” roared the barkeerer; “I’ve seen you Tellers bevore. You leedle scroop!” 'The terrified youth made a dash for liberty. But in vain. The hawk was on him with a swoop, and after having gone through the farce of turning out hja empty pockets, he was treated to that muscular process, known in barrooms as “bounce.”--Dogberry, in Mgleside.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $4.50 @ 6.50 Hoos 4.50 @5.00 Flour—Extra 4.50 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 79 @ .hi No. 2 Red 80 @ .82 Co n-No. 2..... 48 @ .50 Oath—White... 33 @ .33 I'ORIC—New Mesa 13.00 @13.50 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 6.50 @ 7.00 Good Shipping 5.50 @6.00 Common to Fair 4.00 @4.75 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex. 4.00 @ 4.50 Good to Choice Spring.. 3.25 @3.75 Wheat—No. 2 Sprint 73 @ .74 No. 2 Red Winter 72 @ .74 Corn—No. 2 38 @ .40 Gats—No. 2.... 25 @ .26 RVE—No. 2 50 @ .51 Barley—No. 2 69 @ .01 Butter—Choice Creamery 25 ® .27 Fine Dairy 18 @ .20 Cheese—Full Cream 12 @ .13)6 .Skimmed Flat 09 @ .10 Egos—Fresh 20 @ .21 Potatoes—New, per bn. 33 @ .35 Pork—Mess : ; ."11.60 @11.50 Bare .06J$® .07 ... TOIiEDO. C«0»—No. 2..t....f. .38 @ .40 {JATS—No. 2...,.,. .-. .27 @ .29 - ;-s ; MILWAJJKEE. .... •pRW—NO.2. .40 4.@ .41 2 @ .29 ***.. t . 'm & m JSSt-W 84 _*£ 11.00 @11.50 .Ui.r.K .::•?.:r 6.50 @ 7.00 ST. LOUIS. WHEATVyNo. 2 73 @ .74,^ jupt,... .46 @ .48 • CINCINNATI. jjjyii'i'if v. - 40 ® •« - .28 @ .29 ..WBA*# oC’.i@ .07 " DETROIT. Fptra. ...... A *. 5.00 @5.50 •Wheat—No. i White 76 @ .7614 Corn—Mixed .39 @ .40 OATS—NojI White. 27 @ .29 POEX—Fankly. . 13.00 @13.50 ' INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red/New. 72 @ .74 Corn—Mixed 30 @ .37 Oxts I—Mixed 1 —Mixed .26 @ .27 .• •1' EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 6.00 @ 6.60 Fair A 25 @ 6.75 Common 3.75 @ 4.25 Hogs 4.50 @4.75 sheep 4.50 @ 5.50

BLAINE TALKS.

In Response to a Serenade, He Makes a Speech to Hi« Neighbors. He Regards the War’s Work Overthrown by the Election of a Democratic President Claiming that the Sontb, Which Has an Illegitimate Strength, Will Ron the Government. [Augusta (He.) special] A large number of devoted personal and political friends of Mr. Blaine serenaded him this evening as an expression of personal good-will and admiration of his conduct in the national campaign. They marched through the streets under the marehalship of Col. Frank Nye. When they reached Mr. Blaine’s house their compliments and friendly regnrds were expressed in a speech by Herbert M. Heath, Esq., of the Kennebec bar. Mr. Blaine responded as follows, his speech being continually interrupted by applause: “Friends and Neighbors: The national contest Is over, and by the narrowest of margins we have lost. I thank you for vour call, which If not one of joyous congratulations. Is one, I am sure, of confidence and of sanguine hope for tbe future. I thank yon for the public opportnntty you give me to express my sense of obligation, not only to yon but to all the Republicans of Maine. They responded to my nomination with genuine enthusiasm, and ratified it by a superb vote. I count it as one of the honors and qualifications of my public career that the party in Maine, after struggling hard for the last six years, and twice within that period losing the Slate, has come back in this campaign to the old-fashiened 20,000 plurality. No other expression of popular confidence and esteem could equal that of the people among whom I have lived for thirty years, and to whom I am attached by all ties that ennoble hum&n nature and give joy and dignity to life. After Maine—indeed, along with Maine—my first thought is always of Pennsylvania. How can I fittingly express my thanks for that unparalleled majority of more than 80,000 votes—a popular Indorsement which has deeply touched mv heart, and which has, if possible, increased my affection for the grand old commonwealth, an affection which I inherited from my ancestry, and which 1 shall transmit to my children. But Ido not limit my thanks to the State of my residence and the State of my birth. I owe much to the true and zealous friends In New England .who worked so nobly for the Republican party and its candidates, and to the eminent scholars and divines who, stepping aside from their ordinary avocations, made my cause their cause, and to loyalU and principle added the special compliment of standing as my personal representatives In the national struggle. But the achievements for the Republican cause in the East are even surpassed by the splendid victories in the West. In that magnificent cordon of States that stretches from the foot-hills of the Alleghanies to the Golden Gate of the Pacific, beginning with Ohio and ending with California, the Republican banner was borne so loftily that but a single State failed to join In the wide acclaim of ti iumph. Nor should Ido justice to my own feelings if I failed to thank the Republicans of the Empire State, who encountered so many discouragements and obstacles; who fought foes from within and foes from without, and who waged so strong a battle that a change of one vote In every two thousand would have given us the victory in the nation. Indeed, a change of little more than five thousand votes would have transferred New York, Indiana, New Jersey and Connecticut to the Republican standard, and would have made the North as solid as the South. My thanks would still be incomplete if I should fQ.il to recognize with special gratitude that great body of workingmen, both native and foreign-born, who gave me their earnest support, breaking from old personal and party ties, and finding in the principles which I represented in the canvass the safeguard and protection of their own fireside interests. The result of the election, my friends, will be regarded in the future, I think, as extraordinary. The Northern States, leaving out the cities of New York and Brooklyn from the count, sustained the Republican cause by a majority of more than 400,000—almost half a million, indeed—of the SDpular vote. The cities of New York and rooklyn threw their great strength and influence with the solid South, and were the decisive element which gave to that section the control of the National Government Speaking now not as a defeated candidate, but simply as a loyal and devoted American, 1 think the transfer of the political power of the Government to the South Is a great national misfortune. It is a misfortune because it introduces an element which can not insure harmony and prosperity to the people, because It introduces into a republic the rule of a minority. The first instinct of an American is equality—equality of right, equality of privilege, equality of political power —that equality which says to every citizen, “Your vote is just as good, just as potential as the vote of any other citizen.” That can not be said to-day in the United States. The course of affairs in the South has crushed out the political power of more than 6,000,000 American citizens, and has transferred it by violence to others. Forty-two Presidential electors are assigned to tne South on account of the colored population, and yet the colored population, with more than 1,100,000 legal votes, have been unable to choose a single elector. Even In those States where they have a majority of more than a hundred thousand they are deprived of free suffrage, and their rights as citizens are scornfully trodden under foot. The eleven States that comprised the rebel Confederacy had by the census of 1880, 7,500,000 white population, and 5,300,000 colored population. The colored population, almost to a man, desire to support the Republican party, but by a system of cruel intimidation, and by violence, and murder—whenever violence and murder are thought necessary —they are absolutely deprived of all political power. If the outrage stopped there, it would be bad enough; but it does not stop there, for not only is the negro population disfranchised, but the power which rightfully and constitutionally belongs to them is transferred to the white population, enabling the white population of the South to exert an electoral influence far beyond that exerted by the same number of white people in the North. To illustrate just how it works to the destruction of all fair elections, let me present to you five States in the late Confederacy and five loyal States of the North, possessing in each section the same number of electoral votes. In the South, the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina have In the aggregate 48 electoral votes. They have 2,800.000 people, and over 8,000,000 colored people. In the North, the States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, lowa, Kansas, and California have likewise, in the aggregate, 48 electoral votes, and they have a white population of 5,600,000, or just double the five Southern States which I have named. These Northern States have practically no colored'population. It is therefore evident that the white men in those Southern States by usurping and absorbing the rights of the colored men are exerting jnst double the political power of the white men in the Northern States. I submit, my friends, that

such a condition of affairs is extraordinary, unjust, and derogatory to the manhood of the North. Even those who are vindictively opposed to negro suffrage will not deny that If Presidential electors are assigned to the South by reason of the negro population, that population ought to be permitted free suffrage in the election. To deny that clear proposition, is to affirm that a Southern white man in the Gnlf States is entitled to double the political r ower dfra'Northern Whiteman in the lake States..- It is; to affirm that a Confederate soldier wiall wield twice the Influence In thenation that a TT&ion soldier cam and that a perpetual add constantly increasing superiority shall be conceded to the Southern white man in government of the[Union. If -that be quietly conceded in this (Ssncfation it Tffill harden into custom, until the badge of inferiority will to -the Northern “white man as odioiisly as noble 1 stamped it upon the STxon chuff: 'Tffls subject pliant in their States and m the nation, the negro will be compelled to work for just such wages as the whites may'decree—/ wages which will amount, as did the supplies oM the slaves, to a bare subsistence, equal In cash ’ perhaps, to 35 cents per day, It averaged over the entire South. The white laborer lnthaNorth,, will soon feel the destructive effects of this* upon his own wages. The Republicans have clearly seen from the earliest days of struction that wages in the South -nkist bi raised to a just recompense of the laborer, oil wages in the North ruinously lowered, and the party have steadily worked for the former result. The reverse influence will now be set In motion, and that affairs produced which, years ago, Mr. Lincoln warned the free laboring men of the North will prove hostile to their independence, and will Inevitably lead to a ruinous reduction of wages. A mere dis-

ference of the color of the skin will not snffioe to maintain an entirely different standard in wages of contiguous and adjacent States! and the voluntary will be compelled to yield to the Involuntary 80 completely have the colored men in the Sonthi been already deprived by the Democratic party of their constitutional and UyM right as citizens of the United States that they regard the advent of that party to national power as the signal of their enslavement, and are affrighted because th y think all legal protection for them is gone Few person lin thoNorth realite how completely the chiefs of the rebellion wield the political power which has triumphed in the late election. It is & portentous fact that the Democratic Senators, who come from the States of the late confederacy, all—and I mean all without a single exoeption—personally participated in tbe re belli n against the National Government. It is a stall more significant fact that in those States no man who was loyal to the Union, no matter how strong a Democrat he w, ay . be to-day. has the slightest chance of political promotion, 'ihe one great avenueto honor in that section is the recor 1 of zealous service in the war against the Government. It is certainly an astounding fact that the section in which friendship for the Union in the day of Its trial and agony is still a political disqualification, should be called now to rule over the Union. All this takes place during the lifetime of the generation that fought the war, and elevates into practical command of the American Government the identical men who organized for Its destruction and plunged ns into thebloodiest contest of modern times. I have spoken of the South as placed by tbe late election in possession of the Government, and I mpun all that my words Imply. The South, furnished nearly three-fonrths of the electoral votes that defeated the Republican party, and they will step to the command of the Democrats as unchallenged and unrestrained as they held the same position for thirty years before the war. Gentlemen, there cannot be polli ical inequality among the citizens of a free republic: there cannot be a minority of white men in thebonth ruling a majority of white men in the North. Pat iotism, self-respect, pride, protection for person, and safety for country, all cry out against it The very thought of it stirs the blood of men who Inherit equality from the pilgrims who first stood on Plymouth Rock, and from liberty-loving patriots who came to the Delaware with William Penn. It becomess the primal question of American manhood. It demands a hearing and a settlement, and that settlement will vindicate the equality of American citizens in all personal and civil rights. It will, at least, establish the equality of white men under the National Government,and will give to the Northern man, who fought to preserve the Union, as large a voice in its government as may be exercised by the Southern man, who fought to destroy the Union. The contest just closed utterly dwarfs the fortunes and fate of the candidates, whether successful or unsuccessful. Purposely—l may say instinctively— l have discussed the issues and consequences of that contest without reference to my own defeat, without the remotest reference to the gentleman who Is elevated to the Presidency. Toward him personally I have no cause for the slightest Illwill, and it is with cordiality I express the wish, that his official career may prove gratifying to himself and beneficial to the country, and that his administration may overoome the embarrassments which the peculiar source of its power imposes upon it from the hour of its birth. At the conclusion of Mr. Blaine’s speech he invited the large crowd into his house, and for nearly an hour an informal reception was held, the hundreds of people passing through the rooms. Greetings wereespecially friendly and cordial.

DORSEY’S SARCASMS.

The Great Star-Router Utters Some Cutting Phrases on Men and Politics. [St. Lonis special to Chicago Inter Ocean.] S. W. Dorsey, of star-route and $2-bill fame, was found by your correspondent to-day among the delegates in attendance on the groat cattleconvention now in session. It is evident at a glan e that he is making a desperate effort to reform, and to make amends, to himself at least, for the past indulgences in politics and public life. A few words of conversation confirms this impression, and also proves that he has an Immense contempt for the Old Guard and its new meiqbers. He was asked: “What do you think of Mr. Blaine’s course in stumping the various States ?" “I believe that the ablest man alive is the mim whi se tongue has been cut off, and that there is no genius so great that it will lighten up thocommon good sense that controls our people. The chances are more than ever that when a candidate for a great office attempts to advocate his own claims he will make more mistakes than corrections. The French have a maxim, ‘s’exouse s’accuse.’ The moment Mr. Blaine opened hts mouth he made the mistake of defense. When he wrote the letter abont his family he made the mistake of accusation; he made every woman in the country teel that there was a base for a false charge. What he ought to have done was to have pointed to his children, his grandchildren, and his family and his life for forty years. It was the d—dest idiotic thing and cost 1,000,000 votes.” “How do you explain the result in Indiana?”' he was asked. “How do I explain It? How would you explain the difference between the burning of a cord of hickory and a cord of soft pine? . Indiana is a State of Intelligence, and is so evenly divided in its political views that the tip of a hair on either side will carry it,” “How about Burchard?” “ I don’t know him, but I will make a venture that he wears a 16 boot and a 4 hat. A Protestant clergyman with no more sense than to talk abont Romanism in an improper way hasn't the decency to bury his mother. I have a large sympathy for such men on the ground solely of their littleness and narrowness. In New York City, where I had an offic e for fifteen years, I think it safe to say, that every great enterprise, every public endowment, all the progress, came from the Catholics and Jews. Then to hear this fellow talk Is to my mind a good de»l like the hen that tried to lay a goose egg. She injured herself and broke the egg.” “Do you think it time that Mr. Blaine should retire from politics?” “All I know is, that he has been retired.” “Do you think Mr. Arthur conla have been elected?” “The best answer I can make to that is that we find it easier in our own country to ‘round up’ common and tame beef than likely and active steers. We prefer an easy round up, but the difficulty Is the beef is no good when yon get it.” In order to give Stephen the first an opportunity to express his contempt for Stephen the second, which seemed fairly boiling out of him, he was asked: “What do yon think of Mr. Elkins’ management of the canvass?” “I have always admired the great benefit that comes from baby-farming. The trouble in this case seems to be that the milk wasn’t good. I presume Elkins was furnishing all the wet nurses teats from his brain. Whether the teats or the brain ’ was short, I am not snre. Boys in short dresses shouldn’t try to be schoolmasters. Pretension defrauds none but the pretenders. Between pretension and idiocy there is no lining.” He was then asked if he thought Cleveland would make a good President, and replied: “Well, I don’t know. I've heard it said that vines hold np trees, but my belief is the vines hold np the leaves. Dan Manning and Joe Pulitzer and the other sisters of charity will have to yank that cradle pretty lively to keep the baby awake, but from my experience with them I know their power of yanking.”

ELECTION EXPENSES.

Tlie Republican.. National Committee Said to Be In Debt. ' ' rNew York special to Chicago Tribune.] There were rumors to-day that the Republican National Committee Is heavily in debt, and pMrajwip the-treasury to meet it» obligations. It Is said that this money, due to many persons, includes arrearages for rent, includes money advanced by individuals for missidnarjr iifiie-rtfterior of rails State, No members of the Republican National Committee could be found to-night in order to throw-tight on the story about their bankrupt howevjh/'and no c^bSMft ed wHV&ejaied them. Dwight Lawrence stated to-nighr'that the committee was SI9O,MOM" debt. ... _ _

Political Kotes.' Gen, Robert Toombs voted Nov. 4 for the DANnffjMANNrao Is looted upon as Cleveland sproßablePostmaster GeneraL appOTntfSi under the civil servloe law. OrrrcrAL vote of Bostdn: Blaine, 20,827; Cleveland, 32,573; Butler. 3,718; St. John, L 261. Cleveland's plurality, 11,746. For Gove nor, Robinson, 24,981; Endieott, 29,057; MoCafferty. 3,733; Seelye, 977. Endioott’a plurality, 4.075.