Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 11, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 July 1884 — Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Yarious Sources.

ranoKAb and rouneu. Ex-Minister Sargent arrived in Washington on the lath. editor ot the Rochester (N. T.) Union, lion. William Purcell, takes a leave ot absence until after the November election. Mrs. Almira Lincoln Phelps died in Bal timore, Md., on the 15th, it being her ninety-first birthday. She was the author of many works of a scientific nature, some of them being recognised as of great valine. I’resident Artiiur has recognised J. J. R. Dawson, Consul of Belgium for Oregon, to reside at Portland; Eugene J. Lodyard, Consul-General of Costa Rica jin Louisiana, to reside at New Orleans, ami IValter Tschudi Tyall, Consul of her Britanic Majesty lor Texas, to reside at Galveston. Comptk de Paris and family have donated £2,030 to the relief of the Toulon sufferers. IN* case of Tom Campbell for disbarment began at Cincinnati on the 10th. Judge Buchwaiter refused to sit on the ■ case, having been a law partner of Campbelles, The case went over till the Supreme Court assigned another Judge. Eno, the ex-New York bank President, is assiduously shadowed at Quebec by United * States detectives. I On the'15th James Ellis French, director of the detective department at Dublin, was arrested in connection with the Cornwall case. Itl the Fifth Indiana District the Republicans have nominated George W. Grubbs for Congress. Secretary Shivkly of the Anti-Monop-olist! Committee says that General B. F. Butlier will certainly be an independent candidate for President. On the 10 h J. M. Allen was nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Sixth Mississippi District; D. E. Robinson by the Republicans. The Independents indorsed Chalmers. ; In a recent letter Prince Krapotkine accuses Minister Ferry of preventing his release though Grevy favors it. The Prince claims he is dying of scurvy, Tbie German champion, Charles Moth, has challenged Andy Christo! to a wrestl*ng match. Christol has accepted. On the 10th the Expressmen’s Convention at' Boston, Mass., elected H. W. Dwight, of the United States and Canada Express Company, President; E.M. Morseman, Vice-President and Genaral Manager of the Pacific Express, Vice-Presi-dent; Sutherland Dewitt, Secretary and Treasurer. The lhetis, Bear and Alert, comprising the Greely relief expedition, have returned and were heard from ot St. Johns, N. F., on the Lth. Of the twenty-five comprising the Greely party, seven, including Lieutenant Greely, were rescued alive, but in a terribly exhausted condition. Their companions succumbed to starvation and exposure, and a day or two more would have Qnished the entire party. On1 the 17th Miss Phoebe Cousins was swoitn in as Deputy United States Marshal under her father at St. Lotus, Mo. The Mormon missionary, Paul Hammer, for whose arrest a warrant was recently Issued in Austria, has come to America. On the 17th a monument to Nathaniel Sylvester, the first settler of Shelter Island, was unveiled. Il is asserted that W. G. Swan, ot the Northern Pacific, can explain hiTaccounts when he recovers from the effects of the chloral, taken. On the 17th the funeral of the Prince of Orange look place at Tne Hague, representatives of all the royal houses of Europe being uresent.

PJ> W u. W. Johnson. of Greenpoint, I* I., has disappeared, leaving his wife hnd four children, and has taken 14,003 or $5,000 belonging to other people. Counsel, for Senator Sharon on the 17th announced their side of the celebrated Sbaron-HIll case closed. Miss Hill's counsel objected to a chemical analysts of the ink on the marriage contract. Tuts Republican^ of the Sixth Ohio District have nominated H. C. Glenu for Congress and James C. Holcomb for Presidential elector. , The Minnesota Democrats of the Fourth District have nominated O. C. Merriam, a wealthy lumberman of Minneapolis, for Congress. It is charged by Malcolm Hay, of Pennsylvania, that Henry Watterson misrepresented hisaction in the Committee on Resolution^^ Chicago. PosJi^ster-GenkralGresham has addressed a circular to Postmasters in free delivery cities instructing them to allow carrier's fifteen days’ leave of absence with pay each year, supplying their places with $630 substitutes. James G. Blaine’s letter of acceptance of the Republican nomination was given to the jpubiic on the 19th. F. Hchlutze has been confirmed prorector of the North American College at Rome. The State Council of Holland has declared for Queen Emma as regent during the minority of Princess Wilhelmina. The German African explorer and traveler, Dr. Schweinfurth, has called upon Eng laud to send relief to Gordon. . On the 18th Prof. F. Louis Soldan, of Bt. "Louis, Mo., was chosen President of the ({Rat ional Teachers’ Association. - The eldest daughter of Matthew Arnold is engaged to be married to Frederick Whiitledge, a young lawyer of New York. On the 18th Governor Cleveland and staff visited the State military encampment at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and gave a reception. Ox the 18th one of the sons iff United Staten Consul Pratt at Cork was drowned while boating at Queenstown. The other was rescued. Elaborate preparations have been matte by the Catholic societies of Philadelphia for the reception of Archbishop Ry«u». , It is asserted by Cashier Reiber of the Penn Bank, of Pittsburgh, Pa., that the bask was never legally organised, and he believes the directors drew over-drafts. , John Connors, supposed to have murder Jd Supervisor Casey at Trqy, N. Y., wai captured at Kansas City, Mo., on the lfioli, lifter evading arrest for years. President Arthur has appointed R. A. Finite, of California; John Trowbridge, of ’Maryland, and George F. Barker, of Pena•ylvauia, Commissioners to the National Cor fere nee of Electricians. ramu AHo cABCAium. . Tbi city of .San Jose, Cal., was almost by fire on the 14th. Water ig exhausted, claret was used to proof the old mission rcis. i K ibe 16th a fire in Patterson, N. J., ■el a lose of $99,009; fully insured; T Boston, on the 15th, Cbas. E- Brown arrested for pasting glided money for gold coin. Cn the 13th Miss Lfmie E tumeric, a wellknowa young lady of Franklin township, ■near .Pittsburgh, Pa., committed suicide. C* the 10th Captain W. B. Chew, one of on the Balti«TW*4 W a

When arrested at Glasgow on the 13th James Walker, a suspected dynamiter,

• uuwurni w snoot me omcsra. Lewis Brcmley, a prominent citizen of New Comerstown, 0., died on the 15th from a kick in the stomach by G. W. MeNealy, an equally prominent ci tizen. Os the night of the 15th the Post-office at Scranton, Pa., was burglarized, and 3800 S in cash and 31,000 in notes taken. The Anarchist prisoners at Vienna have confessed to a large number of murders and robberies. On the 10th a Manchester and Sheffield (Eng.) express train was wrecked, and twenty persons were killed and many injured. On the 10th Michael Muldowney was sentenced to death at Sligo tor the murder of Under Secretary Burke's gardener in 1882. Several, firemen were injured by a falling roof at tho burning of a stable in Toronto, Ont, on the 17th. Al Milwaukee, Wis., on the 17th, John Hoffman was fatqlly shot by Gustave Prior, who claims Hoffman slandered his sister. At Salisbury, Eng., on the 17th an at tempt was made to blow up the monument to Lord Herbert. Only the pedestal was injured. Mrs. Emleston, an American lady, was killed in the recent Manchester & Sheffield Railway accident near Periston, England. Cedar Springs, Mich., was again swept by fire on the 18;b. Three men and a boy were burned to death. A Baltimore & Ohio express messenger named Henry Bloom has been arrested at Pittsburgh, Pa., for the theft of $10,000. Two freight trains collided near Bainbridge, Pa., on the Pennsylvania Railroad, on the 18th, wrecking the trains but .injuring nobody. On the 18th a land cave buried seven men ip a well at Raleigh, N. C. Three were rescued and workmen were still digging for the others. MISCELLANEOUS. During the temporary absence of Secretary Lincoln General Sheridan is ip>thxg Secretary of War. f Two cases of cholera have -qpciyred at Poltava, Russia, one Of WhlctTresulted fatally. The Siberian plague is raging at Pskov. There had been twenty deaths up to the 14th. Precautionary measures seem inadequate to prevent the spread of the disease. On the 15th the corner-stone of the new capitol building at Lincoln, Neb., was laid with imposing Masonic ceremonies. A strike of the lasters in Dodge & Co.’s shoe factory at Newburyport, Mass., began on the 15th, They want higher wages. The brick manufacturers of New V ork and New Jersey decided to shut down until September 20. The board selected to represent the Govenrnment at the New Orleans Exposition will also take charge of the Government exhibits at the Louisville and Cincinnati Expositicns. Hereafter “assisted” emigrants from Ireland and Germany who arrive at New , York ore to be sent back. The banking house of Fletcher & Sarpe, the oldest institution of the kind in I n dianapolis, Ind., closed its doors on the 15th. Since the cholera epidemic appeared thirty thousand people have fled from Marseilles. THE Chief of Police was among the victims Of cholera at Toulon on the 15th. Cbas. Spurlock, another of the Hill gang of desperadoes in West Virginia, has , been sentenced to be hanged October IT. An appropriation has been made by the French Sjnate for the relief of cholera sufferers. Several members of the Canadian Lower House have had charges gf bribery made

agaiuav iuoui. Intense excitement prevailed on the 15th at Owensboro, Ky., among the negroes on account of the lynching of the negro May. The streets'were patrol ad by armed men. The beleagured citizens of Dongola telegraphed the Khedive of Egypt to send troops to theiriassistance at their ex* pense. The French representative at Berlin has been instructed to explain to the German Government how it was that Alsatian students tore'down the German Bag. The Pope has caused to be issued an ap* pendix to the Free Masonry encyclical, suspending for a year the obligation to Bishops to denounce the secret societies. The Hocking Valley coal miners of Ohio have called upon Governor Hoadly to remove the foreign armed police employed at the mines. Trouble is exi>ected. The rains during June in California caused loss to wheat amounting to seven and one-half per cent, of the gross yield of the State. Damage to other crops was also great. It is reported that cholera, has made its appearance in Alexandria, Egypt. The request of Spain for a revision of the protocol of a commercial treaty between England and Spain has been refused by Earl Granville, British Foreign Secretary, and negotiations will therefoce cease. Recently a woman at Marshalltown, la., was arrested for selling liquor. She gave bond and commenced selling again. When the Sheriff tried to rearrest her she defied him with a pistol. Finally she was taken, and a mob surrounded the jail. She was released and carried through the streets by a howling mob. There is great excitement. Thirty-five deaths were reported at Marseilles and twenty at Toulon from, cholera on the 15th. Many prominent members of the British House of- Lords are still- bitterly opposed to the passage of the franchise bill. THgjfexican (jtqvernment has amended tSe draft' of the postal Corivention between the United States and Mexico in several particulars and the consummation of the treaty will be delayed some time by the necessity for its consideration by the Poet-office Department. On the 16th the first car-load of California beer was shipped eastward. Chicago gets it. In the twenty-four hours ending the evening of the 16tb,‘ eleven deaths from chol-q era occurred at Toulon and fifty-three atMarseilles. The total of deaths from cholera in Marseilles had been 578. An investigation is in progress by the Mayor of Hew York, of chaiges that keepers of intelligence offices precure girls for ’ disreputable purposes. The French Academy of. Medicine is earnestly investigating the subject of measures to prevent the spread of cholera into Paris. In Cuba commercial affairs are desperate. The Spanish Bank has refused to discount notes, and liquidations are numerous iff all cities of the Northern and Southern coasts. .Recent advices from Cairo are to the effect that 3,001 rebels - were marching on Don gala. China iias refused to remove her troops from the French frontier and pay the indemnity. This means war. The American-Consnl-General at London has appointed a physician to examine as to the sanitary condition of vessels leaving that port for New York. Ok the 16th thee Treasury Department issued warrants for the payment of $9,090,000 on account of pension*.

THK steeplechaser Jim McGowan, has been seised -by the Sheriff of New York pending decision as to the ownership of the

The Austrian authorities are making war on Mormon missionaries. The police have been ordered to arrest all found making converts. A warrant has been issued for Paul Hammer,'fro nr Nevada. Insurgents in Cuba are ravaging the plantations; of parties favorable to the Government. The Captain-General has called a conference of officers to devise a plan to cope with the guerillas. On the 17th the executive Committees of the Postal, Bankers’ & Merchants’ and Baltimore & Otrio Telegraph Companies agreed upon a pirn for pooling for twenty-five years. i L In the retent Post-office Civil Service examinations in St. Louis, Mo., the required per oentage was made by seventytwo clerks and thirty-nine carriers. Tbk failure of Campbell & Sons, proprietors of the Sarah and Mount Vernon furnaces, Ironton, O., is announced; too much indorsement. The force of British military police in Egypt has been strengthened because of disaffection among the Native police. At its recent session the Grand Lodge Knights of Honor of Mississippi indorsed the action of the Supreme officers in making St. Louiisf the Supreme officers’ headquarters. Oni| of the Ashland murderers, William Neal, has been reprieved by the Governor of Kentuoky till the Court of Appeals can hear the case. Twelve fisherman were rescued at the point bf death off the Newfoundland coast on the 17th. The Postmaster General states posltively that the letter carriers will receive their leave of absence. Several ringleaders of the Turkish mutiny at Ass;iout have been sent to Cairo. The Mudir’s failure to suppress the mutiny is considered suspicious. At Warsaw a plot to blow up the Czar during his stay in that city has been discovered, and a Justice of the Peaee, suspected of complicity in the plot, has been arrested. i The French Academy of Medicine urges the establishment of cholera hospitals at all large railway stations and decWes disinfection Il lusory and ineffective. A joint d emand is to be made by Holland and England on the Rajah of Tenom for the surrender of the crew of the Nisero, shipwrecked on the Sumatra coast some time since. Fifty-six deaths from cholera were reported at Marseilles and tbirty-seven at Toulon duri ng the twenty-four hours ended the evening of the 17th. The governments of Russia and Germany have concluded an anti-anarchist treaty. On the :18th the Cabinet discussed the question of preventing the introduction of cholera from foreign ports. The American cricketers defeated the first eleven of Surrey, Eng., on the 18th. It is reported that yellow fever has broken out]at Panama. For the week ended the 18 h the failures iu the United States numbered 193. On the 18th Dan Parker and Robert Hunt were hanged at Greenville, Miss. A new counterfeit $10 Treasury note has been turned loose Upon tho country. At Houma, La., on the 18th Cummings Nelson was hanged for the murder of John Martin. Rumors were rife on the 18th of apprehended trouble between the cowboys of Colorado find the Utes. During; the twenty-four hoars ended the evening of the 18th, the deaths at Marseilles numbered fifty-eight; at Toulon sixteen. At Pittsburgh, Pa., a company has been formed for the purpose of building and operating a crematory. On the 18th Sam Williams, colored, was hanged at Waynesboro, Ga., for a murder committed! last October. oslem pilgrimages are to be n account of the plagu9 having ppearance at Kuhrs. In New!York on the 18It five alleged cases of cholera proved, upon investigation, to bo but children’s summer complaint. j The health officers of London are organizing a hospital service-in the event of the appearance of cholera. Italy and Switzerland will jtorabino on defensive measures against the scourge. On the ;iSth the A. and J. C. S. Harrison Bank at Indianapolis closed its doors, and one of the proprietors has called for the appointment of a receiver. All M stopped, c made its a

iiATE NEWS ITEMS. The cholera has appeared in Paris. ~ A kirk at Byers, Mich., on the 19th, destroyed 5,000,000 feet of lumber. Two men were burned to death in the scow Thatcher, near Toledo, O., on the 19th. | John Bright is preparing a measure for the reformation of the House of Lords. H. A. Hallett, an alleged Detroit embezzler , was arrested at Cincinnati, O., on the 19th. Judge Lamb has been appointed receiver of! the Harrison Bank at Indianapolis, Ind. Tralee moonlighters on the night of the 18th shot the care-taker on a farm from which th«i tenants had been evicted. PMmk Minister Ferry is confident that China will satisfy France as to the indemnity. The bark Vicksburg bound for Leith from Quebec, was wrecked near Pentland, in the Skerries, on the 19th. Nine lives were tost. At Grand Rapids, Mich., otf the 18th, Oliver Seaman’s lumber mill and 7,000,000 feet of lumber wero burned. Willum Pitt Kellogg is after John A. Walsh’s (the Star-route witness) scalp, and wants him indicted. Lieutenant Schukeldt, United States Navy, after visiting the Queen of Madagascar, has reached the eastern coast of the islan d. Surrogate Rollins of New York has declared void the will of the late Joseph Tilby, giving ft01,001 to his second wife. Fanny Bxhl, of Cincinnati, O., fell in love with a man, and discovering he was married, shot herself in the presence of her mother. John Mubrat, of Horetown, Vh, has been arrested on suspicion of killing his wife. The Beloit Paper Pail Company, at Beloit, Wis., horned out on the .21th. PW. E. E. Barnard, of Nashville, Tenn.,has discovered a new comet approaching the earth, and will receive the Warner prise. , A. A. McDonald has been appointed Lieatenant-Governor of Prince Edward’s Island. ’ I** fc Reported thSt a French comedy troupe in Algiers has been massacred near the frontier by the Arabs. Secretary Chandler is looking over the grpund for the proposed naval school at Newport, R. I. Mrs. B. G. Roots, of Tnmaroa, HL, was thrown from a road cart und instantly killed at Milwaukee, Wis., on the 90. h. At Shatters, Pa., Samuel Smith was Instantly killed and his daughter fatally injured by a railroad train on the 99th. A package of 17,000, forwarded from New Orleans to the United States ’Treasury, was found upon its arrival at Washington to be $4,000 short,.

GREELT FOUSD. Airh*l of the Greely Belief KxpedlUoa at St. i#oha's^Ne wf oundl and with limttHnt Greely and six of His Party Utlsg and the Bemains of Twelve of the Othen, Who Soteumbed to starvation and HardshipTwo Bays- More Would Have Finished the Knldre Partr.

Washington, d. C, July 17. The Nary Department has received a telegram from St. John, N. F-, to the effect that the Thetis succeeded in finding the Greely expedition, eight of whom were alive, including Lieutenant Trreely, and seventeen dead. The following is a copy of the telegram received at the Navy Department: “St. John’s, N. F., 9 a. m., July 17, 1884.—Hon. W. E. Chandler, Secretary of Die Navy, Washington: The Thetis, Bear and Lock Garry arrived here to-day from West Greenland. All well. They separated from the Alert ISO miles north during a gale at 9 p. m. June 22, five miles off Cape Sabine in Smith’s Sound. TUB RESCUED MEN. "The Thetis and Bear rescued, alive, Lieutenant A. W. Greely, Sergeants Bralnard, Fredericks and Long, Hospital Steward Belderback, Private Connell and Sergeant Ellison, the only survivors of the Lady Franklin Bay expedition.. Sergeant Elllsou had lost both hands and feet by frostbite, and died July 6 at Goa Haven, three days after amputation, which had become imperative. THE PEK1SI1KD. “Seventeen of the twenty-five persons composing the expedition perished by starvation at the point where found. One was drowned while sealing to procure food. . Twelve bodies of the dead were rescued, and are now on board the Thetis and Bear. One Esquimaux, Turnevik, was buried at Disco. WXSHED OUT TO SEA. “Five bodies were buried in the ice at a point near the camp, but were swept away to the sea by winds and currents before my arrival and could not be recovered. NAMES OF THE DEAD. “The names of the dead recovered, With the dates of death, are as follows: Sergeant Cross, January 1, 1884. Turnevik (Esquimaux) April 5. Sergeant Linn, April G. Lieutenant Lockwood, April 9. Sergeant Jewell, April 12. Private Ellis, May 19. Sergeant Ralston, May 23. Private Whistler, May 24. Sergeant Israel, May 27. Lieutenant Kingsbury, June 1. Private Henry, June G. Private Schneider, June 18. The names of the dead buried in the fee, with the date of death, where the bodies were not recovered, are: Sergeant Rice, April 9, 1884. Corporal Saleu, June 3. Private Bender, June 6. * Acting Assistant Surgeon Pavy, June 6. Sergeant Gardner, June 12, drowned by breaking through newly formed ice while sealing. Jeno Edwards (Esquimaux), April 4. CARING FOR THE DEAD. "I would urgently suggest that the bodies now on board be placed in metallic cases here for safer and better transportation in a sea way. This appears to me imperative. Greely abandoned Fort Conger August, 9, 1883, and reached Baird Inlet on September 29th following With the entire party. HOW THEY LIVED. “He abandoned all his boats and was adirlft thirty days on the ice floe in Smith Sound. His permanent camp was established October 21, 1883, at the point where he was found. During nine months the party lived upon a sca nt allowance of food brought from Fort Conger. That cached at Payer Harbor and Cape Isabella by Sir George Nares in 1876, was found but much damaged by the lapse of time. That cached by Beebe at Cape Sabine In 1882, and a small amount saved from the 'wreck of the Proteus in 1888, and landed by Lieutenants Garlington and Cowell on the beach where Greely’s party was found camped were also

louna. LIVING ON SEAL SKIN. "When these provisons were consumed the party was forced to live upon boiled sealskin strips from their sealskin clothing:. Lichens and shrimps were procured in good weather when they were strong enough to make the exertion, but as 1,300 shrimps were required to make a gallon measure, the labor was too exhausting to depend upon them to sustain life entirely. The channel between Ca pe Sabine and Littleton Island did not Close on account of violent gales all winter., so that 240 rations at the latter point; could not be reached. A PERILOUS VOYAGE. "All of Greeley’s records and all the instruments brought by him from Fort Conger are recovered and are on board. From Hare Island to Smith’s Sound I had a constant furious struggle with ice. Impassable floes and solid barriers of ice weire only overcome by watchfulness and patience. No opportuni ty to advance a mile escaped me, and forseveral hundred miles the ships were forced to ram their way from lead to lead thiough ice varying In thickness from three to six feet, and when rifted much greater. THE RESCUING PARTY. "The Thetis and Bear reached Cape York June 18th, after a passage of twen-ty-one days in Melville Bay, with two advance ships of the Dundee whaling fleet, and continued to Cape Sabine. Keturnlng seven days later they fell in with seven others of the fleet, cm Wostenholme Island, and announced Greeley’s rescue to them, that they might not be delayed from their Ashing grounds nor be tempted into the dangers of Smith’s Sound in view of a reward 019212,000 offered by Congress. LIEUTENANT EMERY’S CONDUCT. "Returning across Melville Bay they fell in with the Alert and Lock Garry, off Devil’s Thumb, struggling through heavy Ice. Commander Cofiin did admirably to get along so far with title transport so early in the season, before the opening had occurred. Lieutenant Emery, with the Bear, had supported me throughout with great skilUnlness and unflagging readiness in accomplishing the great dnty of relieving Greely. ALMOST TOO IJtTS. "I- would like to ask instructions about the Lock Garry, as the charter party held by her master differs in ceveral respects from mine.” Greely and party are much improved in health since rescued, but their condition was critical in the extreme when found, and for some days after. Fortyeight hours’ delay in reaching them would have been fatal to all now living. A CLOSE WINTER. '"This season North is late and the closest for years. Smith’s Sound was not open when I left Cape Sabine. The winter-about Melville lay was the most severe for twenty years. This great result it entirely doe to the prompt action and unwearied energy of yourself and the Secretary of War in fitt ing this expedition for the work it has had the honor to accomplish. [Signed] “W. S. Schley, Commander." Storv of the Rescued 8t. John, N. F., July 18. The story of the rescuing party, an told by Captain Ash, ice pilot of the Bear, it as follows: , "We sailed from St. Johns May 4, and fetched Upper Wavik on the 22th; Duck

Island June 6th: Cape York Jane 18th *nd Payer Harbor on the 22d. At 7 p. m. we had both ships fast-to a hear; floe in Payer Harbor and some of the officers and men lelt the ship lor the shore in dtferent directions. An officer Irom the fihetis lonad the record on Brevoot Isanti, stating that Greely and party were all well and that they left for Conger August 8 and landed at Baird Inlet on the 29th of September, after driving abont on the ice nearly three weeks in the vicinity of Cape Sabine. The record also' told where to And his winter camp. Our steam lannch being out and ready we were immediately sent away for the camp, which was about three miles northwest of Cape Sabine. In the meantime the Thetis blow her whistle to recall some of their men. As W<r

KEAKKD TX1K CAMP we saw one man make his appearance where he could look down the cape. He saw the boat and came down to where we were going to land. Seeing but one man, and the way he staggered over the snow we thought it a bad omcu. On jumping ashore the first question was how they all were. His answer was: "there are seven ot us left.” Sad news and a sudden reverse of our cheerful spirits of a quarter of an hour ago. But it was no time to reflect, we must try to save die living. I jumped into the launch aud at once passed some food that we were prepared with and we at.once started for the camp. It was blowing a gale, the tent was blown down, except a stout prop under one end. The poor fellows had not strength to put it up. SIX MKtt LAY STARVING and unable to help themselves. Pointing to one, they said he was dying, but he rallied and is doing well now. We cut a ■hole in the canvass to give us room and commenced to feed them, serving them all rouQd gradually, and not letting them have as much as they wanted. The launch was sent off to the Bear, which was coining. The Thetis was also close by. A Are was made, the sufferers were attended to by l)r. Ames and given plenty of warm milk. Some of them were soon able to stand and stagger about. Stretchers had been brought and the men were carried to the boat. Two men only were strong enough to be led down by meu on each side ot iEem to the boats. They were taken off, some on board each ship. It was near midnight, the sun shining and wind blowing a gale, fortuuately off shore, which kept the ice from coming on us. We proceeded with a good crew to unearth the dead bodies and wrap them in blankets, a part were taken to each ship. Ten were buried on a ridge side by side, 300 yards from the camp, with a very high mountain just back. Two others were lying a little distance below the camp, the suivtvors not having strength enough to bury them with the rest, making twelve bodies taken ou board tne ships. Pour others were buried on the ice from the winter house, but the ice had broken and taken them with it. Kd wards, an Esquimaux, was drowned while hunting. Total deaths since the party reached Cape Sabine last fall, eighteen. J. Ellison, who was trying to get the 250 rations left by the Beebe in 1882, got badly frostoitten. Haring the winter both his feet dropped off at the ankles and his fingers dried np bard. He also lost the top of his nose. For a few days he got along flaely, but in -a little while he took auotherchange, went wrong iu the head, and finally went to his loug home on the 8th of June. The researches of the expedition were every way successful. Latitude 83.24 was reached and a second party crossed the Western Ocean. The party which went north travelled East to the 24th degree of longitude. Lieutenant Grce’y assured the United Press, correspondent that he had clear proof that'an open Polar Sea existed, one of his party driftiug into it, but was blown back. He says he agrees im^this

witn jNoruenskjold. Ajalley running from near Lady Franklin Bay to the Western Ocean about sixty miles wide was discovered. It is bounded Horth and South by continuous glaciers and has no apparent breaks. In the valley vegetation was abundant and the climate much milder than usual. This he states is the Eden of the North. Greely says that if 500 pounds of meat had been left by Garlington, his party would have been saved. Littleton Island could not be reached in winter, the Sound, twenty-five miles wide, being open, and in spring the party were too weak to go. The survivors are very weak, but recovering rapidly. Greely Is extremely weak. His expedition, he says, would have been the most successful on record if food had beeu left on Cape Sabine, where it should have been. The ships had been roughly used, as superhuman exertions were made to effect a rescue. The parly left Fort Conger August Utb in a steam launch, three boats and a dingey. After their thirty days float on the ice floe they decided to abandon the launch and two boats as too heavy to carry. The winter quarters consisted of a hut of stone, covered by one boat and a sail. At Lady Franklin Bay plenty of food had been left, but as it was too heavy to carry and they expected to find plenty at Cape Sabine, it was left behind. They found only two barrels of bread left in the cache made by the Proteus’ crew after her loss, a damaged cache left by the British and a few rations left by the relief expedition of 1882. In the Autumn a forlorn hope started to reach some dried meat cached by Nares, but Ellison’s feet and hands were frozen, and they were forced to abandon the meat and mum. In the spring a tent was erected but the party were too weak to fasten it strongly. In April Klee and Fredericks volunteered to find the abandoned meat. Rice died on the way and Fredericks returned in a terribly exhausted condition. Two men, Lockwood and Jewell died in camp while Fredericks was away, and on the list of June Kingsbury died. After this, little of moment, except constantly recurring deaths, occurred until June 22, when the faint sound of a steam whistle was beard by Long. He and Brainerd got out of their sleeping bag and went to a point, but seeing nothing they started to return. Long was unable to do so, and sat down in despair beside some rocks. Soon he saw a steam launch to which he shouted, and in a little while the rescuers landed. THE EXPEDITION. Note.—The third rolief party for the rescue of Lieutenant Greely and his.men left St. John, New Foundland, -March 10, 1888, in two vessels built at Dundee, Scotland, the Bear and the Thetis, and a steamer, the Alert, presented by England. An immense gore of food of every variety was taken, making 175 tons in all. The Greeley expedition started from Brooklyn June, 1881, Lieutenant Greeley in command. With him were four sergeants, Winfield S. Jewell, Geo. W. Rice, David C. Ralston and Hampton S. Gardiner. The rest were privates and corporals from the army.—Ed. The News In Washington. Washington, D. Cm July 18. The news of the rescue of the survivors of the Greely party was received at the Navy Department yesterday morning and created a profound sensation, ft was the chief topic of conversation at the War and Navy Departments. The sentiment was one of universal gladness at the rescue of the seven men, mingled, of course, with sorrow for the remaining eighteen of the party. Many well informed officials had looked forward with dread to a report that all wogld be found

dead, and some had felt apprehensive even abont the safety ol Cap. tain Schley and the rescuing party. Both army and navy officials leei rejoiced at th^success of Captain Schley’s expedition. QARUKGTOX CRITICISED. Now that Lieuteuant Grcely has been found at Cape Sabine there is adlsposi tion shown by some to again criticise the efforts of Lieutenant Gariington, who sailed with the ill-fated Proteus from St. Johns last June to find and provision Lieutenant Greely»and his party. General Hazen and Commodore Walker are inclined to think that what has been charged as the greatest error of the Proteus’ expedition—the failure to leave provisions at Littleton Island,

WOULD HAVE MADE NO DIFFERENCE in the result, as Greely and his men wers nnabie to reach that point. Generai Hazen thinks Garllngton should have lelt more of the provisions saved from tht Proteus at Cape Sabine. Captain Davis, who was a member of the Proteus board, thinks that the great mistake of that expedition was in not landing stores at Cape Sabine instead of trying to take them further north. Had this been done the Greely party might all have been saved; bnt of course Gar.ington hid no orders to land stores there, and could not do it. MRS. SCULKY, wife of the now famous commander, received a telegram from her husband today announcing his safe arrival at St. Johus, and adding that he would start for New York as soon as possible. The lady expresses deep regret that the entire Greely party were not saved. Mrs. Schley will go to New York to meet her husband upon- his arrival in that port. A SCARED COMMUNITY. The Killing of n Negro Desperado by an Officer Creates a Reign of Terror in Athens, Georgia—Threats to Burn the Town. Athens, Ga„ July IS. The people of this city were up all last night in anticipation of an attempt by the negroes to burn the town, owing to their indignation at the proceedings of the day before, when the city was filled with an immense throng of negroes in attendance on the University commencement, and the police had orders to keep the sidewalks and store doors cleared. About 11:30 o’clock Lieutenant £. C. Arnold, of the police force, found eight or ten negroes blocking the- sidewalk in front of Dr. Lyndon’s drug store, and ordered them to disperse. All obeyed exeept one named Sam Taylor, a desperate character, who refused to move. After being ordered off three times, Lieutenant Arnold raised his clnb as if to strike, when Taylor strnck him on the side with his fist. Arnold then gave the fellow two blows on the head with his club, but at the second blow it broke, when Taylor remarked: “-yon, I have yon now,” and grasping the officer by the throat, began to push him back, at the same time delivering blows on his face. Taylor was a very stout negro and Lieutenant Arnold finding that he could not grapple with him, and that the negro was attempting to draw his knife, drew his pistol and placing its muzzle against Taylor’s breast,’fired two shots into him— one ranging near the heart. But this did not deter the negro, who continued to fight like a demon and had almost pushed the officer through the store. Lieutenant Arnold fired again, the ball entering the side of Taylor’s head and producing instant death. Taylor expired with a groan. Coroner Jennings held an inquest, and the jury returned a verdict of “justifiable homicide.” The blacks were very much excited over the killing, and several of them mounted dry goods boxes on the street and began incendiary harangues. .

Ghastly Evidences of a Cringe. Wsllstilus, O., July 17. Yesterday a large bunch ol auburn hair, matted and tangled, and clotted -with blood, was found hanging to a stake near where >Oie body ol Gertie Phillips was found. Fragments ol a letter written In a neat hand were also found near where the lovers were seen. Upon being put together it was discovered that it was a letter she had written to Hunter about a year ago, and finding it in his possession on the fatal Sunday she had torn it to pieces. Some distance below the spot where the body lay is a small stream. Upon the right bank of this a farmer’s boy found a silver quarter of a dollar stained with blood, tu this stream the murderers must have washed their hands alter completing their work. The most important developments was the fiuding of a revolver belonging to Huuter, which must have been in his possession at the time of the murder. Three of four days before the murder was committed, Hunter, in company of Farish, entered McGonigle’s hardware store, in Salineville, and asked to see some revolvers. He selected one and went away. The bullet found in the girl’s head fits the revolver. Greely’s Family Bear the Glad Tilings. Newbuhvport, Mass.. July 18. The first information relative to the safety of Greely received in this city was that telegraphed by the United Press to its correspondent, who lost no time in conveying the welcome intelligence to relatives of Lieutenant Greely. John A. Greely was first visited. He could scarcely credit the fact that nows from his brother had been receivedr so early in the season, but was only too happy to hear he was alive. Mrs. Fannie Greely, the Lieutenant’s mother, was next called upon. When the welcome news was given to her she was completely overcome with joy. She was expecting nothing for some weeks. Survivors Congratulated. Washington, D. C., July 18. General Hazep sent the following dispatch to Lieutenant Greely: “Our hearts are overflowing with gladness and thanks to God for your safety and with sadness for those who without fault of yours are dead. Your family are well and' in San Diego.” Admiral Nicholls also wired Commander Schley the heartiest congratulations to himself, officers and men, and directed him to use his discretion about the care and transportation ol the bodies. Sacrificed to Science. Kalamazoo, Mich., July 18. Edward Israel, the astronomer of the ill-fated Greely expedition, was born and reared in Kalamazoo. He surrendered an ample wealth and beautiful home and devoted himself to science. Although only twenty-two years ofeage, the faculty of the Michigan State University named him to the Goverment as eminently fitted for the work, to which he sacrificed his life. —When the late Lord Erskitie, then going the circuit, was asked by his landlord how he had slept, he replied: “Union is strength, a fact of which your inmates seem to be unaware; few, had the Hens- been unanimous last night, they might' havq pushed me out ol bed.” “Fleas?” exclaimed Boniface, affe: ting great astonishment, “I was not aware that I had a single one in the house.” “I don’t believe you have,” retorted hie lordship; “.hey are all married, and have uncommonly luge families?” •.

The Speech »f £x>)!mmr Hubbard. At the late Democratic National Con-* ven tion Ex-flovernor Hubbard, of Texas, was made Temporary Chairman, and spoke as follows op taking the chair: Mr. Chairman, Gentlemen of the Democratic Convention of the Union (cheer*)— I am profoundly prateful for the confidence which you have reposed in me in ratifying the nom- .—•-« —- —• " utive Committee. for for the last - „ -, —-Ay. I accept it. my felljw-Democrats, not as a tribute to the humble citizen nndyonrfellow-ttbmocratwho speaks to you to day, but rather as a compliment to the great State from whence I come— (anplause)-a State which more than any other American State is absolutely ‘cosmopolitan in every liber of its being. (Applause.) In its early days and struggles thither came to our react, as the winds sweep across the sea, men of Illinois and New York, men ot Maine and New England, men of Georgia and along the coast, and gave their lives at the Alamo and San Jacinto for the freedom of

I can only recall to you In the brief moments which I shall detain you the fact that our neighboring' sister State—her women, her glorious Spartan women—sent to us the twin cannon that belched intojrlorious victory at San Jacinto. But, fcllow-DemcraW, that Texas, with her over two millions of people, «, at each recurring election, places in tliot-box over one hundred thousand Democratic majority. (Applause.) FellowDemocrats, we have met upon an ooeasion of great and absorbing interest—to our party, us well as to our common country. The occasion would not justify me nor demand that Ishould attempt to speak to you of Its great history and its distinctive principles through two-thirds of the most glorious history of our country. I could not stop to discuss, if I would, its magnificent policy of progress, the part which it has taken in building qp our country, its prowess, its territory, aud its wealth. I can only say to you to-day, in brief, that the Democratic party, in ail the essential elements, is the same as it was when founded by the framers of the Constitution, nearly tnrce-quaitersof a eentury ago. (Applause.) Men die as the leaves of autumn, but principles underlying liberty and self-government, the right of representation and taxat on going hand in hand, economy in the administration are principles underlying the Democratic party, which can not be effaced-.-,from the earth, though their authors may be numbered with tho dead. [Cheers.] I thank God, fel-low-citizens, that though we have been out of power for a quarter of a century we are today, in all that makes adherence, and eontldenee, and zeal, as much a partv organized for aggressive war as when the oauners of victory were perched upon our heads. The Democratic party, fellow-citizens, since tho war-time, commencing with reconstruction, with our bunds manacled, with our ballotboxes surrounded by the gleaming bayonet, with carpet-bag ruiprs, with the voice stilted —the voice of freemen who pay their taxes to tho Goverimhmt—the Dcmocnuio party has lived, to see, through al! this misrule, the day coma when, in a great majority of our States, the Democratic party has resumed tts controlsnd its power. It has your House of Representatives, and but for treason stalking in the Senate chamber we would have that, loo. (Loud applause.) We have had the Presidency, too. (Renewed applause.) But with impious hands—the hand of the robber— our rights were stricken down at the ballot, and through perjury, and bribery, and cop ruption, men uttering falsehood through pale lips and chattering teeth, stole tho Presidency from this country. (Applause.) Some of the men who participated in it have passed beyond the river, and stand to give an account of their stewardship,. But history will not lie when it records, as it has, that the Electoral Commission announced in the Senate chamber and the House that it would consider the Question and the evidence of fraud returning the vote of Louisiana. When the las was passed—I remember it—it is t he blackest page of our country's history—(applause)—and ait good Republicans to-day are ashamed of it— (loud applause)—they turned their tact's as well as their consciences upon the promise of ihe past and refused toconsiderthe evidence, alt reeking with ignominy, and bribery, and shame, and counted in a man who had not received, under the Constitution and the luws, the sutirages of his countrymen. That is a wrong that wc have met here to right. (Applause.) Eight years have passed. Thatjis true. We are told that the iaw lias given the verdiet to them. That is true. When a jury is in its box. under tbc statutes of your State, and a Judge upon the bench who holds the scales of justice unevenly, holds with guilty hands a parchment from the Excentive.df your State, and allows the jury sitting in the box to condemn a man to death under the a'gis of law, ho does what all the law-writers of civilization for hundreds of years have cursed and damned as legal murder. (Applause.) Oh, the great sin of that Electoral Commission remains to-day unpunished, and ever will be unavenged so long as the Republican party Is in power in this country. (Applause.) I thank God that there is r.o statute oi limitations running in favor of that party. (Applause.) And in that connection, my Teilow-Democrats, be it said io the credit of the Democratic party that they exhibited none of that spirit of the Hotspur and of the pirate, none of that spirit which spught to ingulf this country, fresh as it was dfion the hceis of a great and fratricidal war. But our great leaders, Tiiden and Hendricks—(here the Speaker was interrupted by long-continued applause, the delegates rising to their feet and waving their huts)—outgo at leaders, Tiiden and Hendricks, with the dignity of heroic statesmen, with the courage of men who love their country better than its pelf and its power, accepted the wronged and injured verdict of perjury and of fraud, and they are-grander to-day in their defeat than the men who wear tlu-power at tho expense, of justice and right. Cheers.) Thus we have succeeded in the face of Federal: power. We would have succeeded in 18 0 but for Federal gold and Federal greenbacks, fresh aud uncut from Washington—(applause and laughter)—tin uey earned and held by Star-route contractors and the Inrurimr friends of vennl

Administration. (Applause.) Fellow-Domi crats, we want reform. God knows, not only in the personnel-in the men —but as well in the measures of the Government as it is. (Cheers.) YVe want men there whose very lives and whose very names would be a platform to this people. We want men there who in all the departments of the Government. in its departments of justice, in its postal affairs, in its interior department, everywhere, shall follow its servants with the eye of the minDtr-r of justice, and see that every cent that belongs to the Government | shall remain with the Government. (Cheers.) No tribute shall be demanded, except the tribute that is due the Government, that there be no assessments upon 100.000 officoboldcrs. paid *100,000.000 annually, *5,000,000 to go into a corrupt political fund. The e-these, we thank God, will be corrected when the Democratic partv shall get into power. (Applause.) YVe rend of the enunciations of principles by the ttcpublican party. They tell us they have civil sen ice reform, and yet they demand in the next breath from every federal officeholder of the 100.000 their tribute to the corrupt fund, that shall be paid out to the voters at the polls. They tell us they have a punitive government, and yet not a solitary felon has been condemned in the dock of those who have stolen millions from the public treasury. Your Springer committee only yesterday and the day before tell us of the perjury, of the corruption, of the subornations that run nil a.ong through the ministers of justice in the prosecution of the government. YVe waut real reform—a reform, my countrymen, that shall meirn what it says, and that shall say what it means, (Cheers.) Moreover—and I 6hal! briefly close—felioiveitizens. it is not my bnsities3 as your presiding officer to-day to enunciate anything that shall be embodied in your platform. Thank God, that would exist, burned deep in your hearts, if every one that had been adopted for fifty years were burned up. It is ter non Kcnpta the doetrines which we have inherited from the glorious ancestry that has become a part of the traditions of tile fathers. But I wish to say one thing, in this great assemblage of freemen, to your committee on platform, that you will endeavor to unite upon the basis of principles which we have advocated for the years that are gone, and that you will have no Delphic oracle speaking with double tongue in the platform which shall be named by you. (Loud applause.) Lot the Green Mountain boys, the men of New York, the men of Maine, of Texas, of Louisiana and Georgia, from the Carcdinas to the golden coast, demand that the Committee on Platform shall say in our noble vernacn'ar of purest English tongue what they mean, so that the way-faring man. though a fool, need not err in leading it. In doing this we will declare against the corruptions of the Government. That is, we will declare against the enormities of its system of civil service, its department of so-called justice, its postal service, the robery in high places by the men in Slower. It vrill say, moreover, that the burdens of the Government shall be placed alike equally and equitably upon all classes of our countrymen, having respect for the greatest good to the greatest number—(applause); that, the hundred millions of surplus revenue shall not be allowed to accumulate as a corrupt fund—(applause)—and that there shall be a radical reformation and reduction in the taxes as well as the methods of taxation in our country. (Applause.) Buf , leilow-citixons, in conclusion let me say that harmony and conciliation should rale your councils. There never was a time in the history of the Democratic party when the enemy invites tho victory as now. The great and unnumbered (hosts of dissatisfied men of the Kepablican party are heard in the distance—in New England, in New York, on the lakes, anti in the west, and everywhere, and, while the Democratic party should not deviate one tot* from the principles of its party, it should, with open arms. 6ay to these men—hundreds of thousands God grant there maybe: -Here, here is the party of the Constitution—the Union, that loves our common country. Come hither, and go wita us for honest rule and honest government, , The Democratic party, while ft may have its local differences, when the onset of the charge come* will be together, and whoever you

may nominate, or alt the moat amt good names before you, from tho East to the West, from the North to the South, he who stands back In the hour ot pent—forsooth hts own State or hiihsetf shall hot have received the choice, yea, the choice of his heart—is less than a good Democrat, and hardly a patriot, in this our country's hour of peril. The Democratic party is lovai to tho Union. Tho “■bloody shift," In the vulgar parlance of tho times, nas at each recurring election been Blftmted in theface of Southern Democrats, and in your owu faces... With Logan on the ticket 1 presumq it will be again. Blaine could hardly afford it-(laughter)—had bo indulged in that unpleasantness. (Laughter and applause.) They will endeavor to stir up the bad blood of the past. My countrymen, the war Is over for a quarter of a century, and they know it. Why. our hoys have married tho young maidens of the Nort h land, and children havo been born to them singe, those days. (Applause and laughter.) Theywill continue to go to the altar.and.slde by side) at dying beds, they will talk of that bournd whence no traveler returns, and will lie down and bo buried together. -Why, the boys In tho blue and the gray have slopt together for a quarter of a century upon a thousand fields of common glory, ,Lot their bones alone. They are representing the be3t blood of the land, though differing in IhoOays that should be forgotten, the good men of all parties in our country today, thank God. have united in the great common progress of our race to forget the war memories of the war times. I thank you, fellow-citizens, for your attention, trusting that your forbearance will bo extended to me. What mistakes I shall make doubtless you will treat lightly and kindly with corrective head. ' Hoping that success may crown your efforts—that you may send a ticket to our. country upon which all may unite—is ftp wish of him whom you have honored with’jTtur suffrages this day. (Loud and long-continued applause.)

Will He Take the Stamp t The more sanctimonious Republicans will quake with anxiety when they hoar that Brother Blaine may yet decide to take the stump. Such a violation of the proprieties which make up the traditional etiqqette to which candidates for the Presidency are for some mysterious reason supposed to stick, seems a terrible thins; to these proper and solemn old fogies. They wifl hold down Brother Blaine by his coat-tails if they can, and pin him fast to the sterotyped ways of politics, but perhaps Brother Blaine will get away, bound upon the stump, bid defianco to the old fogies, and wake everybody up. For, thank fortune, there is nothing of the solemn ass and not very much of the hypocrite about' this magnetic car-pet-bagger from Pennsylvania. The time has gone by when it was for his interest to be represented' as wholly given up to historical literature, and at present he is a candidate who is as auxious to be elected as ever candidate was. Why, then," shouldn't he take the stump just hs he would if he were running for Congressman, or Governor,or member Of the Maine Legislature? Dr. Greeley did it, and why should it be regarded as derogatory to the dignity of the great office to which Mr. Blaine has so long aspired to come before the people and recommend.himsolf and his party to them, just as candidates for loss important offices do? It seems to us that the assumption that a Candidate for the Presidency lowers himself or abates from the respect that should properly attach to that place by going about and addressing in his own behalf various paris of the great constituency, the people, to which he looks dor support, is an offensive and undemocratic as-umption. As well say that1 Mr. Gladstone lowered him-elf and the dignity of the Prime Minister by his wonderful stump speeches in 1880. Why should a candidate whp is eager to be elected, and whom everybody knows to be eager to be elected, be required to pretend that Ee has no interest in the matter? Why should he who has the greatest pei-sonal interest in the result of his canvass not take, in every honorable way which his time will admit, a direct personal charge of It ? There is no divinity that doth hedge the person of a candidate for the Presidency, and "the Presidency does not differ save in degree from” any other elective office. But, dignity or no dignity, Brother Blaine is not the man to sit like Bumppo on a log through a close campaign. If he wants to take the stump, he will, and the pravers of the old fogies won’t make him change his mind. Wo hope he will take the stump. He is a good speaker and can hot fail to draw a big crowd, and what he will say nobody kuows. Perhaps he will read in its proper sequence, and without omission, the interesting correspondence which he failed to return to Mulligan. Perhaps he will relate in burning words the history of that ingenious claim which he tried to saddle upon Chili’s settlement with Peru. Perhaps he will declare in favor of the annexation of Greenland or of the Peruvian guano beds. Perhaps ho will propose some new scheme for dividing up the surplus, provided the pension steals leave any surplus to divide. But his remarks will always be smart, and may be surprising. Ana if he will only take with him the exuberant Logan, what an oratorical team they will make! Let the eagle scream, and particularly the Black Eagle.—N. Y. Sun.

The Chairman of the Republican Coin* mittON The Blaine Campaign Committee, like ' everything else . connected with the Blaine canvass, has been organized on the humbug basis. A rich manufacturer of Pittsburgh has been selected by Mr. Blaine himself for Chairman, although he has never bad any experience in political management* and has no qualification for the place aside from a ' large bank account and a willingness to contribute to campaign funds. He was put up as a figure-head to show that the industrial interests of the country are rallying about Blaine to save the American protective system from the freetrade dudes who are trying to overthrow it. The active work of leadership will devolve upon an Executive Committee,of which Steve Elkins, Channeey I. Filley, Jerome B. Chaffee, John C. New, and other experienced politicians are expected to be the controlling spirits, with Elkins in command. He has already engaged a four-story house on Fifth avenue for a headquarters, and has begun work as the real leader under the personal instructions of Mr. Blaine himself. Of his qualifications for tbe place therercan bn no doubt Not only was the Chicago nomination due more to his efforts than to those of anybody else, but he has a “record” for success; ful work which almost overshadows that achievement Dorsey, the great “soap” distributor in the last Republican campaign, said of Elkins, ih a recent letter: “S. B. Elkins has probably a larger knowledge than any other person of all the Star-route matters and the money pafd.”—The Nation. 4^ -It is clear that Massachusetts is this year the doubtfuUest kind of a of a doubtful state. If, the figures of the, last state election are taken as indications of party strength, and the unattached are supposed to Tote as they did a year ago, the revolt of tegular Republicans alone makes the result doubtful. Regarded in any light, this State is not! in the dead sure list on either side, and on the whole it looks rather dubious for the Republicans iq particular-—Boston ylobe (Jto"».)