Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1884 — Page 6

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. E. MARSHALL, **- * Pumjsun.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. The Craighton House and Brickett Building, at Haverhill, Mass., were destroyed by fire. Several inmates of the hotel escaped by tying bed-clothing into a rope, and by this means sliding to the ground. Two girls jumped from a window, one being fatally hint and the other seriously, while a baby’s life was saved by throwing it, tied up in a sheet, to a fireman...Zin the United States Circuit Court, at New York, Judge Shipman directed the jury to return a verdict for Secretary McCulloch in the action brought by A. D. R. Lamar to recover SIIO,OOO for cotton confiscated during the war.. . .Students at Harvard have begun an effort to make attendance at morning chapel voluntary for men 21 years old, and optional with parents for students under that age. The co-operation of Harvard graduates throughout the country will be invoked.. .. Clergyjnen of various sects held a meeting at New Haven, Conn., and agreed to hold a congress of American churches in that city next May. Reports of heavy reductions in the number of operatives, and of fears that many of the manufacturing interests concerned will close down indefinitely, come from Boston, Fall River, Pittsburgh, and other centers. The outlook for the winter is not a specially attractive one to the skilled working classes in the East.... A street-car dashed down the incline in Butler street, at Pittsburg, and jumping the track, ran on the sidewalk for a block, when the horses fell and the car passed over them, inflicting injuries which necessitated their being killed. The twenty-three passengers on board were badly bruised, two of them seriously... .A meeting of Boston merchants urged Congress to suspend the silver dollar coinage, to pass a bankruptcy law, and to effect as speedily as possible reciprocity with Mexico and Canada.... While being warmed by workmen, at Worcester, Mass., Atlas powder cartridges exploded, one of the men being killed, two injured, and all the windows in the vicinity wrecked;.. .The United States dispatchboat Dolphin, built by John Roach, broke down on a trial trip off the coast of Connecticut. A SERIOUS drought prevails in New' Hampshire. In Nashua scarcely any water can be obtained for purposes. The sewerage of the city is affected in consequence of the scarcity of water, and scar - let fever has broken out The schools of the city have been ordered closed.... J. L. Cranberry, a clerk in a wholesale house in Baltimore, lost $1,500 of his employer’s money while on a spree. On fully recovering his equilibrium he was so con-science-stricken as to kill himself by severing an artery in his wrist—.r— New Hampshire experienced several further shocks of earthquake in various parts of the State on Nov. 22..... Charles A. Hill ate a crow in Boston, in payment of an election bet. He ate if all except the bones.

THE WEST.

Michael H. De Young, proprietor of the San Franc sco Chronicle, was shot in that city by Adolph Spreckels, a son of Clans Spreckels, the Hawaiian sugar king, on account of a recent article in the Chronicle respecting the affairs of the Hawaiian Commercial Sugar Company, The affair took place in the business office of the paper. Two shots were fired, the first lodging in De Young's left arm a little above the elbow and the second in his left shoulder. Both wounds were slight, the bullets were soon removed, and De Young walked to his carriage and was driven home. Spreckels was promptly arrested and locked up for safe keeping. The affray naturally calls to mind the tragic end of Charles De Young, a brother of M. H. De Young, four years ago, through the deadly aim and fatal execution of young Kalloch’s pistol.... Proposals are solicited for the grading of fifty miles on the extension of the Vanderbilt line in Northwestern Nebraska, which will bring the road-bed to a point ninety miles south of Deadwood by July 15.... Dakota’s new Capitol, at Bismarck, having been completed, Gov. Pierce has issued a proclamation, under the removal act, requiring all Territorial officers to be at Bismarck within thirty days. Judge Utt, in the Circuit Court at Dubuque, lowa, has rendered a decision sustaining the defendants’ demurrers to apetition by the Citizens’ League for an injunction to restrain certain saloon-keepers from selling liquor, on the ground that such sale was a nuisance and opposed to the State law. In his decision Judge Utt holds that under the prohibitory law there must be a conviction before an injunction can issue, and that to grant the petition would be to deprive the defendants of the right of trial by jury.... Maurice M. Despres, born at Tamblaine, France, Aug. 15, 1781, and consequently 103 years of age, has just died in Chicago. In his youth and early manhood he was an eye-witness of many of the stirring scenes during and subsequent to the French Revolution. .. .David Eastman, of Harlem, Winnebago County, Hl., lost a $5,000 farm by betting on Blaine, and long after election day refused an offer of S4OO to draw the wager. A young lady of Cairo is said to have won a lyisband by betting on Cleveland... .Between 1,500 and 1,800 men have been thrown out of employment by the closing down of the North Chicago Rolling Mill Company’s mills at South Chicago Workmen boring for natural gas at Findlay, Ohio, struck a vein of crude petroleum at a depth of 718 feet. Depression in the sugar trade has resulted in the serious embarrassment of the Belcher Sugar Refining Company of St. Louis, one of the oldest and best-known , firms connected with the sugar interest in this country. Its total indebtedness is reported at $650,000. The total vote of Dakota in 1882 was 45,185, indicating a population of 236,000. The vote this year indicates 205,000 in South and 170,000 in North Dakota,or 420,000 in the whole Territory, an increase of 45 per cent, in two years.... Gas from the well being drilled on the Pole farm near Cleveland, Ohio, ignited, destroying the rig and burning two men severely. The flame mounted upward forty feet, illuminating the surrounding country.... Three children of John Bonder perished by fire in his farm-house near Vassar, Mich., while the parents were at work in the fields. ... .A three-days’ convention of Christian workers, under direction of Mr. Moody, was held at Detroit... .The grain commission firm of Grier Brothers, of St. Louis, has failed. 1 A terrible disease is raging in the Kansas Penitentiary, where 800 prisoners are

confined. The disease is pronounced malignant typhoid fever by physicians who have investigated it. Six convicts are sick' and ten have already died. The penitentiary has been turned into a great hospital, many of the convicts being employed as nurses and in burying the dead.... The assignment of B. C. Winston & Co., hardwood dealers at St. Paul, with liabilities of SBO,OOO, was directly caused by the death of S. R. Stimson, the junior partner. .... The trial of Daniel Holcomb, at Jackson, Mich., for the murder of the Crouch family, has been indefinitely postponed on account of the death of Frank E. Hewlett, Prosecuting Attorney.... A factoiy at Youngstown, Ohio, is engaged in making nickel-plated shingles for the New Orleans Exposition... .The Grand Opera House, St. Louis, Mo., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $175,000. It was insured for $150,000... .The Superintendent of Public Instruction for Dakota reports 50,000 children enrolled in the schools last summer.

THE SOUTH.

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 its 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 election. Numerous corpses have been left unburied, and the stench from the decaying carcasses of animals pollutes the air. Flour, com, and meal are needed to succor the starving population, and, unless rain falls, annihilation may be anticipated. 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 a10ne.... San Antonio (Tex.) telegram: Lieut. 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 head, and his wife had been outraged and murdered. Three children were found butchered. The ‘lndians were trailed to where they crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico. Eggleston gave up the pursuit at the riVer, as. the reciprocal treaty for the crossing of troops has expired. Two hunters found the dead body of a young and pretty woman, neatly dressed, liTßaltimoro County, Md. In her arms was a baby, in an unconscious condition, but nothing was found to show the identity of the mother. A ring on her finger boie-the. inscription, “Mizpah, May 1, 1883,” on the back of her gold watch were the words: “Frank to Gertrude.” In a purse in the pocket of her gown was $32. An alligator ten feet in length, which for years has been the terror of Jefferson County, Arkafisas, was last week killed with a shot-gun, by Miss Dottie L. Steck, of Bellwood, Pa.

WASHINGTON.

The Garfield Statue Committee, consisting of Secretary Lincoln, Senator Sherman, and Gen. Barnett, of Cleveland, have decided upon a site for the statue to be erected by the Army of the Cumberland. The place fixed is the circle at the point where Maryland avenue reaches the Capitol grounds westward from the building. According to the annual report of the Third • Assistant Postmaster General, the total value of postage stamps, stemped envelopes, postal-cards, etc., issued during the year was $41,515,877—a decrease, of $1,394,442 as compared with the year previous.... Col. C. B. Corkhill, one of the attorneys in the Guiteau case, was assaulted by Maj. Gen. Sprigg Carroll in Washington. The former is counsel for the latter’s wife in a divorce suit.... . Some one has taken pains to ascertain from the army register that during President Cleveland’s term there will be retired Gens. Hancock, Pope, Augur, Sackett, Holabird, and Murray.

POLITICAL.

The official majority for Cleveland in West Virginia is 4,203 Complete returns from Michigan show a plurality for Blaine as 2,839. The St. John vote is 18,163.... Official vote of Minnesota: Blaine, 111,923; Cleveland, 70,144; St. John,. 4,691; Butler, 3.587.. . .It is stated that the alleged shortage of the Republican National Committee reached $68,000, instead of the much larger sum at first reported, and that Chairman Jones and Mr. Elkins paid it out of their own pockets and put the committee out of debt The total amount received by the Democratic National Committee during the campaign is said to $333,000... .The Presidentelect, in assuring an interviewer that the negroes of the South could be robbed of no rights acquired by the war, remarked that the efforts of the Democracy to benefit the whole people would be rendered easier if mischievous croaking should cease. Albany (N. Y.) special: The State Board of Canvassers has completed its labors and adjourned. The proceedings throughout the sessions were harmonious and without a ripple of excitement. No questions arose that were not easily, properly, and satisfactorily settled. Thestechnical errors in several of the counties Were rectified by general consent, and the best of feeling prevailed among the members of the board. The result as declared verifies the official figures heretofore published, and shows them to have been remarkably accurate. The footings of the tables are as follows: Highest Democratic elector. Priest 563,154 Highest Republican elector, Carson. 562,005 Plurality 1,149 Lowest Democratic elector, Ottendorf er... 563,048 Lowest Republican elector, Harris.. 561,971 Plurality.. " 1,077 Highest Prohibition elector. Miller 25,006 Lowest 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, 125,068; St. John, 448.. .Returns to the Secretary of State show the vote in Georgia, to be: Cleveland, 94.567 ; Blaine, 47,964; Butler, 125 ; St. John, 184 Forty-four Counties in Dakota give Gifford for Congress 40,000 majority, with thirty-five counties to hear from. His majority will reach GO.OOO. c Montgomery (Ala.) dispatch: The business men of Montgomery this evening passed resolutions protesting against the “unfair, untruthful and partisan statements” in several papers in the North in reference to the Southern people. Southern white people, the resolutions say, propose to protect the negro in all his "right#. “We lock not back to Appomattox, bnt forward to the great future that awaits our common union. ” M. H. Kidd, the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Eleventh Indiana Dm-

trict, has served a notice of contest upon Congressman Steele, his Republican competitor, and has already obtained a recount of the vote of Howard County Whitelaw Reidl deems it necesssaiy to write to a Rochester newspaper that he declines to be a candidate for the United States Senate. The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean telegraphs that journal as follows: :r ’ A gentleman who saw Gov. Cleveland several times last week, and talked with him at length on the subject of civil service, returned to Washington to-night, and sags the next President’s policy will work no harm to public interests, whatever it may do to individuals. Gov. Cleveland frankly said he should make no removals for political reasons, except so far as to secure an administration that would wdrk harmoniously. No man in any subordinate position need fear displacement if he does his work faithfully. But the whole question of removal and appointment will be subjected to the simple employment of the spy system to tell who shall stay and who shall go. There will be at least one Democrat in every branch and office of the Government- It will be the duty of this Democratic monitor to report as to the promptness,,industry, capability and faithfulness of Republican officials, and removals will follow in every case where an adverse report is made. A special correspondent of the Chicago Times telegraphs the following from New Orleans: "V The excitement reported among the negroes in Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and other Southern States, in consequence of a belief that the Democratic administration means a re-establishment of slavery, does not exist in Louisiana. In interviews held with them nearly all the negro leaders here express their belief that the election of Cleveland will break up race lines and be to the benefit and advantage of their race. Ex-Gov. Idnchback, now Surveyor of the Port, and /he most prominent colored man in the State, declared that while he voted for Blaine, and while he would have been personally benefited by his success, he thought the election of Cleveland would do more to destroy race prejudice than ten thousand civilrights bills, and that it would result in a political revolution that would completely destroy the color line and develop new parties composed equally of whites and blacks. A number of other prominent colored leaders are reported by the Times correspondent as having expressed similar views. The total vote of California was 193,738. Blaine received 100,810; Cleveland, 88,307; St. John, 2,640; Butler, 1,975. Blaine’s plurality is 12,500... .Official vote of Virginia: Cleveland, 146,189; Blaine, 138,474. Cleveland’s -majorityyVpfiS—... A Columbiji dispatch says the State Board of Canvassers have completed the tabulation of the vote in South Carolina for Presidential electors. The highest Democratic elector received 69,890 votes, and the lowest 69,764. 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.

GENERAL.

Ah Kee, a Chinaman, who shipped on a vessel at Calcutta and deserted at New York, has been ordered by a United States Commissioner to leave the country. A Boston ship—the Alert—bound from New York for Shanghai, and carrying 400,000 gallons of kerosene oil, was struck by lightning near Pernambuco and burned. The officers and crew were saved. At most of the leading business centers throughout the country, as reported iii special telegrams to Bradstreets (New York), lust 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 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.down ward, but there are some exceptions. In print cloths in New England the impression exists that bottom prices have been touched, and that low stocks warrant more firmness. Breadstuff's 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 smaller than last year, but ours are larger. Hog products have been cheaper, in sympathy with corn and owing to unexpectedly free receipts of of hogs. The relative cheapness of corn, as compared with the price at which hogs are selling, should encourage the farmers to ship fewer hogs until after fattening them at least to last year’s average of weight. There were 248 failures in the United States and twenty-nine in Canada during the week—a total increase of forty-one over the week previous. The increase is mostly in the Western and Southern States.... (Sliver Bateman, who murdered and outraged the little McLaughlin girls, was hanged at Savannah, Mo. John Bush (colored) was executed at Lexington, Ky., for murder committed six years ag0.... Congressman Tucker, of Lynchburg, Valias been appointed guardian of the minor children of the late President Garfield, and will have control of all the Garfield property in Virginia... .The Canadian Government has decided not to take part in the New Orleans Exposition, for lack of time to prepare exhibits. , ■ . .... Eleven hundred Italian laborers have sailed for Italy from New York. They have made money here and go back to enjoy it, where living is cheaper... .Two men started in a sloop front Victoria, British Columbia, with a cargo of nineteen Chinese, who were to be smuggled into Washington Territory, but all were drowned.

FOREIGN.

Bismarck has a new project for bettering the condition of the workingmen and counteracting the influence of the Socialists among them. He proposes the establishment of trade committees in all the German manufacturing centers, with a view to regulating the labor supply according to the demand, and ascertaining where labor can ba best employed... radlaugh has opened out en Gladstone in his most savage style, denouncing the Government and accusing it of having betrayed its trust by meekly surrendering to the Lords while pretending to have won a practical victory.... In the Congo Conference, in session at Berlin, John A. Kasson, the American Minister to Germany, announced'that Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, had been appointed technical delegate to the conference for America... .The German Reichstag was opened Nov. 20, with the usual formalities. The Emperor, in the course of his speech, spoke of the continued accord between Germany and France l . Peace negotiations between France and China.have been suspended, and a couple of Chinese ironclads will be sent to force the French blockade of Formosa. Admiral Courbet, of the French forces remains at Kelung, unable to advance. In tfee ’Celebrated Adams-Coleridge libel suit-st-London, the jury returned a verdict Jf £3, COO for the plaintiff, which the court overruled and gave a verdict for the defendant... .Small-pox is spreading rapidly among the English and Egyptians at Dofigola, and interferes with Gen. Wolseley's expedition

The panic in Paris over the prevalence of cholera is subsiding as the disease gradually disappears.... Henry George, the land reform agitator,, proposes to visit the Isle of Skye anjd address the crofters oh their land troubles.. , .The Radicals attack Gladstone for compromising with his political opponents on pending questions in Parliament It is said that Gladstone will accept a peerage after the passage of the franchise bi 11.... .The British Government proposes to borrow £25,000,000 for the restoration of the navy It is reported that Germany proposes to annex several islands in the Pacific Ocean, as well as a part of New Guinea.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A national banking institution has been established at Pekin, half the capital and half the Directors being foreigners. The democratic leaders at Washington propose for the Cleveland inaugural procession a batfidion of five hundred veterans of the civil war from every State in the Union, with General Hancock as chief marshal, his staff to be selected in equal numbers from the leaders in the great straggle. Just before the recent election, Gen. W. T. Sherman, in- a public speech at - St_. Louis, accused Jeff Davis of ulterior motives touching the rebellion, having seen a letter from Davis’ pen supporting his charge. To this Davis replies that no such paper was ever written by him, and invites Sherman to make it public, otherwise he must stand convicted of slander and a breach of truth. To reporters at St. Louis Gen. Sherman said that now the matter was a question between gentlemen, and would be settled without the intervention of the press... .Clearing-house exchangeslast week—sßoo,7(sß,soo-—were $42,906,204 greater than for the previous week: but, compared with the corresponding week in 1883. the falling off amounts to $159,959,463. A PROMINENT ex-Union officer in Baltimore has in his possession a remarkable letter in reference to the .assassination of President Lincoln by John Wilkes -Booth. The letter is from an intimate friend and companion of Booth. It goes on to say. that Booth did not assassinate the President for,any political reasons whatever. But, on the contrary, it was simply to wreak private vengeance. It appears that Booth went. to .Mr. Lincoln and begged him to pardon his friend, Capt. John Yates Beall, who was condemned to be shot .as’a Confederatejspy. Mr. Lincoln was inexorable, but after Booth had gone down on his knees and bathed Mr. Lin - coin’s hand with tears and kissed it, he finally relented and promised Booth to pardon Capt. Be'all. Booth left, well satisfied with the result of when he read, a day or two afterward, that his friend had been shot, he became wild with rage and concocted? his scheme of assassination, which he afterward carried .out.

Near Gambier, Chip, Mrs. Welka, a spiritualist, grew ill, refused to see a physician, .but . submitted to treatment by a "inedhiiii.” named Burro’.vs. ivlio alleged that the Womani whs afflicted by devils, to expel whom he beat her cruelly with a stick, resulting in her death. Burrows then said the demons had. entered his wife, whom he thrashed severely, but not fatally. Burrows’ sanity will be tested, aipl if found to be of sound mind, he will be tried for homicide. ... .At Llo.vdsvill 1 , Ohio, a Demoerattc jollification was held, at which an old anvil was used as a cinnon. While it was being loaded a boy lighted a roman candle, the sparks from which set fire to the powder, which was in a heavy box. trad an explosion resulted, by which Orville Bt.wley, William Barnes, and .Joseph Loper were fataby injured, and two boys named Daniels and Donner dtngertnisiv hurt... A large crowd of the ■anti-liquoT element at Bladenburg, Knox County, Ohio,madean attack on a saloon ir.au named Chapin. The proprietor was struck on the head by stones and his skull fractured. All the liquor was thrown into the streets, and when physicians arrived Chapin was dead.... The directors of the Northwestern Hoad declared the regular dividend of 2 per cent, quarterly on preferred stock end 34 per cent, semi-annual on common David L. Wells, of Milwaukee, Wis., oiieof the most prominent railroad builders of the Northwest, is dead.... .The store of the Chicago Paper Company, ou Monroe street, was destroyed by tire, The loss as estimated at $i00,00(). Official vote of Illinois: Blaine. 337,481 ; Cleveland, 312,355 ; Sh John, 12,074; Butler, 10,910. Blaine’s plurality, 25,126. ... .The vote of West Virginia, as officially canvassed, is as follows: Blaine electors, 63,096; Cleveland electors, 67,317; St. John electors, 939; Butler electors, 810. Cleveland’s plurality, 4,221. A young lady is said to be “of age’ only when she is married.

THE MARKETS.

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BLAINE TALKS.

In Response to a Serenade, He Makes a Speech to His Neighbors. He Regards the War’s Work Overthrown by the Election of a Democratic President J . Claiming that the South, Which Has an Illegitimate Strength, Will Run the Government [Augusta (Me.) 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 marshalehip of Col. Frank Nye. When they reached Mr. Blaine’s house their compliments and friendly regards 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 your call, which, if not one of joyous congratulations, is one, I am sure, of confidence and of sanguine hope for the future. I thank you for the public opportunity you give me to express my sense of obligation, not only to you 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 hqpors 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-1 have lived for thirty years, and to whom I am attached by all ties that ennoble human nature and give joy and dignity tq 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 my heart, and whichhas, if possible, increased nly affection for the grand old commonwealth, an affection which I inherited from my ancestry, and-which I shall trarfsmit 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 w'ho, stepping aside from their ordinary avocations, made my cause their cause, and to loyaltv 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.jhat 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 lii tTiewide acclaim of triumph. 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 fail 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 popular vote. The cities of New York and Brooklyn 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, I 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 G,000,000 American citizens, and has transferred it by violence to others. Forty-two Presidential electors are assigned to the 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 tree 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, 7.500,006 white population, and 5,300,000 colored population. The colored population, almost to a man, desire to support the Republican party, but bv 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 live States In the late Confederacy, and five loygil 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 3.000,000 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 (he colored men are exerting just double the political power of the white men in the northern States. I submit, my friend's, that such a condition of affairs is extraordinary, unjust. and derogatory to the ipanhood 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 Gulf States is entitled to double the political power of a Northern white man in the lake States. It is to affirm that a Confederate soldier shall wield twice the influence In the nation that a Union eoldier can, and that a perpetual and constantly increasing superiority shall be conceded to the Southern white man in the government of the Union. If that be quietly conceded in this generationit will harden into custom, until the badge of inferiority will attach to the Northern white man as odiously as ever Norman noble stamped it upon the Saxon churl. This subject is of deep interest to the laboring men of the 1 North. With the Southern Democracy triumphant in their States and in 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 of the slaves, to a bare subsistence, equal in cash, perhaps, to 35 cents per day, if averaged over the entire South. The white laborer in the North will soon feel the destructive effects of this upon his own wages. The Republicans have clearly seen from the earliest, days of reconstruction that wages in the South must be raised to a just recompense of the laborer, or 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 condition of 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 suffice to maintain an entirely different standard in wages of contiguous and adjacent States, and the voluntary will be compelled to yield to the involuntary Sb completely have the colored men in the South been already deprived . by the Democratic party of their constitutional and legal 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 they think all legal protection for them is gone. Few persons In the North realize how completely the chiefs of the rebellion wield the political power whichhas triumphed in the late election. It is aiportentous fact that the Democratic Senators, who come from the States of the late confederacy, all—and I mean all without a single exception—personally participated in the rebellin against the National Government. It is a still more significant fact that in those States no man who was loyal to the Union, no matter how strong a Democrat he may be to-day, has the slightest chance of political promotion. The one great avenue to honor in that section is the record 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, shonld be called now to rule over the Union. All this takes place during the lifetime of the generation that fonght the war, and elevates Into practical command of the American Government, the identical men who organized for its destruction and plunged us- into the bloodiest contest of modern times. I have spoken of the South as placed by the late election in possession of the Government, and I mean ( all that my words imply. The South furnished nearly three-fourths 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 political inequality among the citizens, of a free republic; there cannot be a minority of white men in the South ruling a majority of white men in the North. Patriotism, self-respect, pride, protection for person, and safety for country, all erv 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-loviug 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 overcome 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 were especially friendly and cordial.

DORSEY’S SARCASMS.

The Great Star-Router Utters Some Cutting Phrases on Men and Politics, [St. Louis special to Chicagolnter Ocean.] S. W. Dorsey, of star-route mid $2-bill fame, was found by your correspondent to-day among the delegates in attendance oh the groat cattle convention now in session. It is evident at a glance 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 members. 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 man whose tongue has been cut off, and that’there is no genius so great that it will lighten up the common 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’excuse s’accuse.’ The moment Mr. Blaine opened his mouth he made the mistake of defense. When he wrote the letter about his family he made the mistake of accusation; he made every woman in the country feel that there was a base tor 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 about 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 nnd narrowness. In New York City, where I had an office 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 deal 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 could 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 likelygnid active steers. We prefer an easy round up, but the difficulty is the beef is no good when you 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 you 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 sure. Boys in short dresses shouldn't try to be schoolmasters. Pretension defrauds none but the pretenders. Between pretension and iaiocy there is no lining." He was then asked if he thought Cleveland, would make a good President, and rcpjled: “Well, I don’t know. I’ve heard it said that •vines hold up trees, but my belief is the vines hold, up the leaves. Dan Manning and Joe Ihilitzer 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.

The Republican National Committee Said to Be in Debt. [New York special to Chicago Tribune.] There were rumors to-day that the Republican National Committee is heavily in debt, and has not a penny in the treasury to meet its obligations. It is said that this money, due to many persons, includes arrearages for rent, printing, music, uniforms, torches, banners, and other paraphernalia of the campaign, and also includes money advanced by Individuals for missionary work in the interior of this State. No members of the Republican National Committee could be found to-night in order to throw light on the story about their bankrupt condition. The rumors are freely circulated, however, and no Republicans eould ed who denied them. Dwight Lawrence jstated to-night that the committee was $190,000 in debt. ■

Political Notes.

Gen. Robert Toombs voted Nov. 4 for the first time Since the war. Daniel Manning is looked upon as Cleveland's probable Postmaster General. It 1? estimated that of the 11,000 Government employes in Washington at least 2,000 are Democrats. Some of these were appointed under the civil service law. Official vote of Boston: Blaine, 20,827; Cleveland. 32.673; Butler, 3,718; 8k Jehn, 1.551. Cleveland’s plurality. 11,746. For Gore nor, Robinson, 24,981; Endicott, 29,067; 3,733 ; Beelye, 977. Endicott's plurality, 4,076.