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VOL. IV. A BAD TIN -■.■ -«'." \>, '■»- ' .*« '-■ 1 --"V .<■ ■ President Has a Ctiill And Mauling Symptoms His Pulse Bib Up io 130 Better During tie Bight it Doctors 'fair Hopefiy. Tlie Day K*por". Washington, -July 23 --A: 7 o'clock this morning the President showed the usual morning symptom of recovery, but about B o'clock he was attacked with something like a c hill. He shook all over, arid his muscles all became rigid with what the surgeons call a rigor. This chilly, shaking sensation lasted until about 9 o'clock, when fever set in and rose rapidly. The pulse went up to 130, and temperature above 101 In an hour or so the fever declined some. The doc tors are not yet able to define the cause of the change. The flow of pus from the wound stopped this morning, and the surgeons say this may have caused a change in the President's condition. The large' draining tube was substi tuted and the doctors pressed on the stomach and bowels. But very little pus exuded. Whether this means that the wound is healing between where the ball is and the mouth of the wound, or that an abcess is forming, is aot yet known. Dr. Bliss said just now he could not tell the cause of the change. The surgeons i feel so mewhat uneasy. All four of the President's surgeons are novi- making an examination to see if they can determine the cause oi the change in the condition of the President, The cabinet ministers were a!! sent for, and have come to the White house. There is a great deal of unoasiness in the city, growing ouo of the fac". that noth ing definite can be ascertained from the physicians. At 12:30 o'clock the surgeons made a partial examination of the Presi dent, but he seemed inclined to rest and they did not want to disturb him much, the lesults of this examination, as given by the surgeons, is that the condition is not any more favorable than several hour? ago. In order not to disturb the President no other examination will bo made until 7 o'clock this evening. The doctors are very reticent, only saying that the change is probably caused by the stop page of the discharge from the wound. They will not give any positive opinions, bat say they hope for the best. The attending surgeons in consultation consider the President's condition such that the consulting surgeons, Hamilton, of New York, and Agnew. of Philadel phia, had better- be called for at once. Telegrams were ?ent at noon asking them to come immediately Bulletin. Ho. {. The following 'was sent thi'.< morn ing to cabinet officers by the President's private secretary: Executive Mansion, Washington, July 23, 8 a. >i.— The slight fever which made its appearance between S and 10 o'clock last evening but which subsided during the night, is not noticeable this morning. The febrilriz was due to local and temporary cause rather than any general unfavorable change in the Presi dent's condition. He ie as well now as at same hour yesterday. Pulse 110. tem perature 101, respiration 24. (Signed) D. W. Buss, J. K. Barnes. J. J. Woodward, Robt. Retburn. Bulletin No. 2. Executive Mansion, July 23, 10 a. m. — The President was mere restless last night, but this morning while prepara tions were being made to dress the wound his temperature was found to be normal. Pulse 92, temperature 98.4. respiration 19. At 7:30 he had a slight reaction, in consequence of which the dressing of the wound was postponed. Reaction fol lowed. The dressing has now been com pleted. At present the pulse i=s 110, temperature 101, respiration 24. (Signed) D. W. Bliss. -J. K. Baknb^, J. J. Woodward, Robt. Retburn. Bultstin No. i l . Execu^ve Mansion, 11:30 a. ra. — Dr. Boynton, who just came from the Presi dent's chamber, attributes the sudden rise in the president's pulse to some ob struction in the way of a free discharge of pus from the wound. Symptoms of granulation were noticed along the track of the ball yesterday, and it is possible that this healing process i^ going on at some point comparatively near to the ex treme surface of the body, which has dammed up a quantity cf pus in the deeper parts of the wound, and that the chill and increased fever are to be thus accounted for. The pulse ran up at one time to 130. At thi." hour the fever is Sunday said to be gradually disappearing, trad the President's condition is considered better than when the bulletin was issued. Bulletin No. 4. Executive Mansion, Washington, July 23/1:30 p. m— The President's symp tom's at this hour are a little more favor able than at the date of the last unofficial bulletin, but his condition has not mate rially changed. The attending surgeons have just telegraphed Drs. Hamilton and Agnew to come to Washington at once for consultation. Bulletin No. g. Executive Mansion, Washington, 2:20 p. m.— Secretaries James, Kirkwood and Hunt, who have this moment come from consultation with the attending Burgeons, request the statement to be made upon their authority that the Presi dent's pulse and temperature are falling, and that his general condition is improv ing. Dr. Bliss authorizes a denial of the truth of the reported interview with him to-day, in which he is said to have stated that an abscess has formed and that a second chill had occurred. He has made no such statements. Bulletin \o. 6. Executive Mansion, Washington,, 3:30 p. >i.— Dr. Bliss reports that the con dition of the President has much im proved since noon. His pulse is now be low 100, and his general symptoms show improvement. There is not the slightest indication of poemya, which is the dan ger now to be feared in his case, Bulletin No. 7- Washington, 4:50 p. m. — Secretary Blame has just sent the following to Mr. Lowe!!, the American minister at Lon don: "About noon to-day the President's condition became very suddenly worse. He had chills alternately with fever, and increased pulse with very high tempera me. His symptoms at half past 4 are better, and he is much easier in every re spect. The consulting surgeons, Dr. Hamilton and Dr. Agnew, have been summoned, and are now en rouU to Wash ington on a special train. Bulletin No. 8, Official. Executive Mansion, 7 p. m. — After the bulletin at 10 a. m. the President's fever continued. At 11:30 a. ra. he had again a slight rigor and his temperature subsequently rose until at 12:30 p. m. it was 104, pulse 123; respiration 26. Be tween this time and 1 a. m. perspira tion made its appearance, and the temperature began to fall gradually. It is now 101.7, pulse 113, respiration 25. There has been a free dL-^charge of pus from the wound during the day. (Signed) D. W. Bliss, J. K. Barnes, J. J. Woodward, Robt. Reyburn. Bulletin No !). unofficial. Executive Mansion, Washington, 8 p. m. — Drs. Agnew and Hamilton reached the Executive mansion at 7:55 p. m. and are now in cousultation with the attending surgeons in the latter's room- It has not yet been decided whether an other examination will be made this evening or not. He is resting quietly now and, in view of his improved con dition it may be thought best not to dis turb him by allowing Doctors Hamilton and Agenew to see him. Bulletin No. 10— Unofficial. Executive Mansion, Washington, July 23, 11 ?. m. — The President's pulse has f allon to 100, and he is now sleeping without any manifestations of restless ness, and without disquieting symptoms. Dr3. Agnew and Hamilton did not think it best to disturb him by making an ex amination to-night, and did not even see him, but had a consultation of an hour and three-quarters with the attending surgeons. They' express gratification at finding his symptoms are much more fa vorable than anticipated. All the sur geons have now left the mansion except Drs. Bliss and Woodward, who are on duty. Resting Quietly at Midnight . Washington, July 23.— At 11*30 to night the President's pulse had fallen to 100. At midnight he was resting quietly. No additional morphine has been admin istered. To-night the flow of pus from the wound became free again and better symptoms followed, which sustains the theory that the stoppage of drainage of the wound eausedthe trouble. The Latest— Condition Tliis Slorning . Executive Mansion, Washington, July 24, 1:30 A. m.— Nothing has occurred 6inee 11 p. m. to indicate any unfavorable change in the President's 'condition. At this hour he is resting comfortably, and the attending doc tors oa duty, as well as members of the house, are a3leep. The surgeons will not say that the return of unfavorable symptoms may not ap pear, but they are hopeful. To night at midnight all but two of the doctors left the White house, as they con sider the indicationds much more favorable Speculation a* to Cause of the Relapse. New York, July 23.— A special from Wash ington this afternoon says it is thought gran ulation has begun at a point where it has left a quantity of pus behind it, and that an ab scess is forming between that point and the bullet. Dr. Reyburn says the bullet is the present cause of danger. A member of the cabinet, who had made arrangements to leave to-morrow, has con sulted with the President's physicians, and they have advised him not to do so, but await a change in the patient's unexpected and very unfavorable condition. The Star, of Washington, in an extra, says: The President's fever last night was very sharp. He subsequently perspired very freely and it partly went off that way. but this morn ing it took the shape of a chill. The chill lasted for about fifteen minutes and the President shook with it very much. It was a severe chill. At one time his pulse reached 130, a most unsatisfactory sign. It dropped back right away, however. The chill set in at 8 and it was a little after 9 before the re action took place. After it the patient rested pretty comfortably. The doctors do not as SAINT PAUL SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 24, 1881. sign the exact reabon for the President's un ? satisfactory condition to-day. They say it is probably caused by the failure of the wound to discharge freely. When it was dressed this morning the wound did not give forth nearly as much matter as during the past few days. By pressing the body a little was forced out. It is possible, the doctors think, that a new formation is* be ing made near the bullet. The method of dressing the wound was dunged a little this morning. A dressing that will keep the wound more open was applied. The drainage tube was changed for one a little longer, The new tube was so adjusted that it penetra ted the wound about three inches and a half from the opening. In dressing the wound this morning, when it was found the dis charge was by no means free, the pressing upon the abdomen, which has heretofore caused flow of pus, was tried but it did not work satisfactorily. This would indicate an accuminulation of matter where the bullet is locate^. The Renewed Anxiety at W'ajdkington.- -\ Washington, July 23.— The news that the President was not doing so well spread rapid ly throughout the city, and before long many footsteps were turntd towards the White house. • The same expression of solicitude and anxiety which marked all faces just after the President was shot, were recognizable everywhere. Those . coming from - the di rection of the White house were stopped- fre quently by inquirers about the President, not much more than the fact that the .President felt uneasy, could be learned. The condition of the case seemed to be such that the attending surgeons did not care to venture opinions. Rumors of all kinds could be heard". What was generally regard ed as unfavorable signs was the telegraping for consulting surgeons. • The . public con ( eluding there was something critical in the case or else this would not have been done. Early in the afternoon the symptoms improved some. The • fever .declined and the doctors felt encouraged. Dr. Bliss said at a quarter past one o'clock this afternoon, "I have just left the President. He is . sleeping now and resting easier. There is no ; great complica tion in his case. The < ris ing in the President's temperature and respiration is about the : rise that would be produced by a chill. ; The cause : of cessation of the discharge is confinement of the pus in some cavity. If this were an 'ordinary case ■we would feel no anxiety about ft, ' but it is not an ordinary case; and of course there is some anxiety." At half past one this after noon Dr. Bliss told a reporter of the Washing ton asssociated press that there was nothing in the President! case to cause alarm. Said he, "If the President were „an ordinary patient I would have no anxiety at all. I have, how ever, telegraphed for Doctors Agnew and Hamilton because I believe that inconsequence of the change that lias taken place there should be a consultation." • : ' "What is the cause of the change?" . "Well, the wound did not discharge as freely this morning, and that may have caused the relapse.'" ,: :'. : ' -~ " ■ - "Is there any sign of malaria?" • : "No. I think not." : " ' At 2 o'clock this afternoon Dr. Bliss only said that the President was no b3tter, and he plainly did not care to express any opinion beyond.that. .: — .. . ■■ ■ , : ■ Soon after 2 o'clock the President's- pulse and temperature had gone down, and he was perspiring a little, which indicated an im provement over his condition this morning, and reports from the sick room were more encouraging. . * :'" ' The physicians were not able to tell exactly this afternoon the cause of the President's changed condition. Dr. Reyburn said that it was something unexpected, and had not been anticipated. >. •:'■■■',■ At 3 o'clock the fever had abated, and the doctors became more hopeful. '■:' The President took no food to-day. Re only drank some milk dashed with rum. . ' * It is learned to-night that there was a slight rise in the Presidents pulse and temperature about 8 o'clock, indicating a slight fever, which was regarded by the - physicians as ; a temporary fluctuation, due to a local cause. CABINET REPORTS. At the evening dressing of the wound the discharge of pus was quite copious, ao usual, and since that time the fever steadily abated, and at the present hour (10 p. m.) his pulse has fallen to 106, and he is sleeping quietly. Consulting Surgeons Agnew and Hamilton do not regard the situation as grave as they feared, and expressed renewed confidence. The following telegrams were sent, to-night by Secretaries James and Blame: "To the Union League club, New York: At this hour (10 o'clock) the President is sleep ing quietly.i Pulse 106. There is a manifest subsiding of disquieting symptoms of the day. (Signed,) Thos. L, James, Postmaster General." "To Lowell, Minister to London: At 10 to-night the President's symptoms are bet ter. Pulse, temperature and; espiration im proved. The distressing nausea has left and there is no appearance of chills. (Signed,) Blame, Secretary. Anxiety in New York and Saratoga. New York, July 21. — There was consider able excitement and great anxiety in Wall street and about down-town resorts yesterday forenoon when the first bulletin from the White house at Washington was received. The news flew like wild fire that the President's condition was alarming, and as it traveled the story was exaggerated, until at noon it was rumored from mouth to mouth that he was dead. Wherever bnlletins were dis played crowds gathered, and earnestly and with sorrow on their faces read the unwel come news. The anxiety evinced was so un disguised and intense that the scenes about the telegraph -office and newspaper offices and the quick, nervous inquiries of friends meeting in the streets recalled vividly the anxious days of three weeks ago when the attempt was made to kill him. For the past ten days the news from Washington lias been so continuously and uniformly hopeful that the announcement of yesterday's relapse was an unlooked for and painful surprise to everybody. On the stock, cotton and produce exchanges the bulletins were posted as fast as received and were read with suppressed inter est by crowds of brokers and merchants, even while the excitement of business was going on around them. When the announcement was made that the President had experienced another chiil and Doctors Agnow and Hamil ton had been telegraphed for, there was a great depression of feeling everywhere, for it was feared the crisis was very grave. On all sides it was expressed that the President's relapse is in all probabil ity caused by the artificial chilling of the White house by air blown over ice, in order to keep down the atmosphere and temperature. Vice President Arthur who had intended be ing out of town to-morrow, decided to remain at home when he heard of the change in the President's condition. He is in hourly com munication with members of the cabinet, and during the day and evening received numerous dispatches. Saratoga, July 23.— Rumors concerning the change for the worse in the President's condition reached the race track just as the first race was about to be started. It had a magical effect. Ihe racing was dispelled from the minds of the brilliant throng and the criti cal condition of the President was easily dis cussed instead. A report that the President was dead threw a pall over the entire con course. The news of the unfavorable coHdi tion of the President has excited great anxiety here. During the afternoon and up to a late hour to-night, crowds gathered around the bulletin boards to hear the latest news. The 8 o'clock bulletin gave some relief but did not abate the anxiety. Interview with Blame and James. Washington, July 23.--. At 10 o'clock to night an agent of the Western Associated Press saw Secretary Blame and Postmaster General James at the White house. Both of them felt more bopeful and so expressed themselves. Gen. James said, "I have just s*:nt ;c telegram to New York stating that the President's fever has declined and tliat he is sleeping, that his pulse and temperature are down and everything looks fa vorable." Secretary Blame said, he thought the threatening symptoms had passed. He had felt very uneasy, hut felt very hopeful then. He said the President was sleeping, and he believed all the trouble had grown out of a stoppage of the flow of pus from the wound. Secretary Blame said the surgeons agreed that a sudden cessation of discharge of pus from the wound would pro duce just such trouble as the President had. To-night Dr. Hamilton telegraphed his wife: "The symptoms of the President are not so grave as I supposed when I left home.'" Ur, Agnew telegraphed his family to-night as follows: "Things are favorable " These dispatches contain the only declaration that the surgeons would make. Up to 10 o'clock to-night the President has been sleeping all the evening under the in fluence of morphia, and the Doctors wouldn't disturb him to make an examination. They examined his pulse at 10 o'clock and found it to be 106, but* wouldn't make any further ex amination until to-morrow afternoon. THE IMMEDIATE DANGER PASSED. At half past ten to-night at the White house everybody felt more hopeful, the feeling was that the immediate danger had passed. An Old Itootor'a Talk. New York, July 23.-Dr. ; J. F. ,: May, for forty-five years established in practice of his profession, at Washington, said 1 ; to a Times reporter: If it is as stated in? the diSDatches, the reported relapse came with a chill, lasting an hour, I attribute the change to one of two causes. ■ It is either owing to the male rial influence of the low grounds of the Poto mac on the south of the White house, or else it is owing to the formation of an abscess or absorption of matter producing the. pyaemia the chill proceeds from. Then all the symp to ms have been so favorable and' so mild I hardly think it owing to absorption of pus. Rather it appears •" to :me J the V material influence may be <i:. there cause The President's house, as is probably known, is subject to such malarial influence, and the iptermittent fevers which it causes. The worst and most obstinate cases of intermittent chills which I ever attended was that", of President Pierce, ' when he ! \ occupied the White :.'■'. house. At that ■■'? time most if not all the servants on the south or river side of the building even attackd by that fever. If the President had been sleeping in a room on the south side and exposed to the breezes from the marshes by the river, with his windows open at night, he may have con tracted a fever which is always 'ushered in by chills. '■ la this case it will manifest itself in all probability. Monday 4by a'- second chill, j unless it assumes a quotidian or daily form or the paroxysm is averted by treatment. |If '. his relapse is produced by . the :- other cause, ab sorption of pus, or "pyaemia," the case ; is much more serious. But there is. a strong reason to hope that is not the case. ; .-. . y.:y < THE GLOBE HOROSCOPE. As It Caste its Light «a Che Chicago \ : '' ;..". Market-*. ■*-.■'.'; :'. :,•' "/::'.'/'-.' [Special Telegram to the Globe.] • ;;• Chicago, July 23.— Cables a steady and un changed. Wheat market ..weak, except for the August option, which was -sustained by the clique and bid up by them to $1.20^ at the close, while September and; the long * op tions were weak. I call the market a decliu-. ing one, and can see nothing but . clique ma nipulation to hold it . Corn^-aud oats steady and unchanged. Provisions/ unchanged. ; • .-I* . Curb prices: August wheat $1.20; Septem ber $1.16^; September, corn 48^' c; oats 29 y t c . pork $18.15; lard $11.65. y ; ;,:j ,. : v. .y.V. : .,..; • ; NEW ULM RELlEF : ' ' ' ■:';■_ •• ; The Milwaukee : "Herold" Fund — The Turners Moving— Appointment of Relief . Committees in Chicago.' s°^ '- ;; : , ' ;'■ •' : ' ■'.'■■'; [Special Telegram to the Globe.] , ; Milwaukee, Wis., July 23.— The Her old this afternoon telegraphed the further sum of $350 (total $1,000) to the mayor of New Ulm. Contributions are still being received. The various Turner organizations in the city are soliciting contributions, and will forward the proceeds shortly. LOCAL CONTRIBUTIONS. Governor Pillsbury yesterday received checks for the following amounts, for the benefit of the New Ulm relief fund: Alexan der Mitchell, president of the Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul railway, for himself, $100. From S S. Merrill, general manager, for the company, $500. From Leopold Bros. &Co., Chicago, $100. A total of $700, which was telegraphed Col. Pfaender, chairman of the executive relief committee of New Dim. Contributors for the New Ulm suffereijs should remember that to secure free transpor tation, without annoying delays, suqh con tributions should be addressed to Col. P/aen der, chairman of the executive relief com mittee. Contributions so addressed will be promptly forwarded free of charge. [Chicago Daily New?, Friday.] A committee, composed of several promi nent German citizens, with Rudolph Brand as. chairman, met at the Sherman house this morning for the purpose of .raising a fund for the relief of the New Ulm, Minn., sufferers. Committees were appointed to visit the differ ent dealers of the city and solicit subscrip tions. A committee consisting of Mr. 6. C. Friedmann, of Chicago, and S. Lowenthal, of New Ulm, reported that they had succeeded in raising $518 toward the fund. The meet ing adjourned subject to call of the chair man. Washington Department News. Washington, July 23.— 1n the matter of the commissions to disbursing agente, on ap propriations for the erection of public build ings, First Comptroller Lawrence has given a decision. The comptroller maintains that inasmuch as section 3,657 of the revised stat utes requires collectors of customs to act as disbursing agents of appropriations for the erection of custom houses, court houses, post offices and marine hospitals at the place of location of any such colletore, it is not lawful to appoint any other officer or person to make such disbursements. If such other officer be appointed and act, he is not entitled to compensation under section 3,675, revised statutes. Collectors of customs other than those at New York, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland and Falmouth are entitled to commission, and by the force of the act of March 3, 1875, not exceeding three-eighths of 1 per cent , for disbursing money appropriated j to erect custom houses, court house?, postof fices and marine hospitals, located at a place where the office of the collector may be. When a corporation or persons not in the ser vice of the Uuited States, with compensation fixed by law or regnlation, are lawfully ap pointed to disburse money appropriated for a public buildiug, Judge Lawrence decides they are respectively entitled to compensation not exceeding the amount fixed by the act of March S, 1875. Standard silver dollars distributed during the week 249,000 against 117,00) the corres ponding week in 1880, Commissioner Riutn says pnblic opinion in South Carolina concedes that the killing of Deputy Collector Brayton was a deliberate and desperate murder. Brayton's watch and money are missing. His pocket book was un disturbed. ___ j Weather To-Day. Washington, D. U., July 23, 1 a. m.—ln dications for upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys: Fair weather, followed in the latter district by local rains, westerly winds in the former and variable winds in the latter district, low barometer and stationary or high temperature. (Elobe. THE ALBANY ELECTIONS. Xv Address to the People From the Dem cratic Members of the New York Legis lature—The Wood-Pulp Senator — The Corruption. Disgrace and Lotts to the State far Which the Republican Party i» Responsible — Cheers for Laphum- Address of Democratic Leq-ialators. Albant, July 33.— The Democratic mem bers of the legislature through their joiut caucus committee have issued an address to the Democratic citizens of the State of New York aud to the citizens of the State without distinction of pany. The address says: "Dis cords and quarrel 3 in the Republican majority have separated us from our homes and busi ness for two hundred days. The chief cause of this uncalled for detention was a quarrel with the President of theU nlted States on one side and tne Vice|President and two Senators from this State on the other. The source of this discord was a question of official patron age, or tho spoils of office. .The collector of the port of New York was forced to resign ia the midst of his term from a place where he was serving with general acceptance to the public and appointed to a place abroad uacalled for by his friends or by the public, in which he has no experience. This change, against which the merchants of New York protested in large numbers, was made in total drsregard of every announced principle of civil service reform, acd was not called for by any principle of po litical duty or interest of the public service. The purpose of the act seemed to be reward for those who had been personally successful in securing the Presidential nomination and to punish those who had resisted, leading mem bers of the national Republican convention claiming the right of a third term of executive service for the President. The unseeming quarrel at Chicago in the summer of 1880 was transferred to Washington after the Presiden tial election and the same strife has been continued with more bitterness at Albany through the whole of the present session of the {legislature is commenced with great ve hemence of the Senatorial election in January when a third class candidate was nominated and elected over first class competitors for the first office in the gift of the legislature and hardly second to any gift of the people of the State. The office then filled, aftergreat strife, was vacated by voluntary resignation and when- it had only been held for less, than one fourth of the first year of the full six year's constitutional term of service. The man who inspiradthis resignation was a Senator of the State who had been three times elected to the United States Senate by one party of the State, whose longer service he now refused, and simply owing to the fact of a nomination to the Senate of one chief officer who had opposed his ambition and wishes at Chicago and elsewhere. The useless resignation of these two has cost the State not only a large amount of money, but what is more valuable, honor, dignity and self-respect. Two factions, known by the vulgar but expressive names of stalwarts and half-breeds, have go vernod the Senate, Assem bly, Republican party and State throughout the whole session. The Democratic members have many times asked and demanded an appeal to the people, but by force of num bers, in defiance of public opinion, and in denial of the opportunity of timely public judgment, the fact of leaving the State with out its constitutional representation in the higher branch of Congress, the Republican majority has refused to leave the choice of succession to the people of State. These de mands by the Democratic minority that an appeal be made to the people, were not by the insulting declaration that the possible choice of Democratic senators in Congress would be a public calamity to the State, and this after just electing Thos. C. Platt as successor of Francis Kern an. Afier followifig this succes sion with the chance of a man named Warner Miller, a member of the present and previous House of Representatives, where he was only conspicuous as a direct &nd personal benefi ciary of one of the worst monopolies in the country, and where he . has supported that monopoly by his voice and influence, and with threats that other public interests should suffer if his special interests in wood pulp and the manufacture of paper were not pro tected. The most distingnbhed men of the dominant party, not in public place, apart from Conkling," but including men like Fish, Wheeler, Carrs. Rogers and others, who have served the State with ability, have had to give place to two men elected to Congress, and their movement made an excuse for passing a law to fill the vacancies made by their election, and for no other reason. These special elections, thus provoked, will be untimely as they are unnecessary and ex pensive. The whole Senatorial discussion at Albany disolves itself into three most dis creditable conclusions: First — A mistrust on the part of the people of the State on the part of the Republican ma jority in the legislature.' Second — A quarrel over the spoils of office by two or three Republican factions with practical contempt for every principle belong ing to what is known and recognized as civil service reform. . Third — Abuse of power from its long use. and ensue, until two of the least capable per sons have been drawn from the popular branch of Congress to fill the highest places of the State in Congress. Another most disgraceful transaction be longing to .this Republican leg islature is the evidence of bribery and corruption on the part of the dominant party. A leading Republican Senator of one section is charged by a member of the Assemby of the same county and the same district, of the other faction, with offering and paying him $2,000 for a Senatorial vote, and the money wafl placed in possession of the speaker, and is now in the hands of the State comptroller. Beyond this fact is the circulation of large suras of money by prominent Republicans pending the Senatorial election and, as many believe, intended to control the result of the election, by which 5,000,000 people have been deeply wronged and disgraced, both by the Republican Senators' action in Washington and by the action of the Republican party m power at Albany. In one place the chief magis trate of # the nation, for daring to put in practice the principles of executive right and authority in choice of public officers nearly cost his life. This sad and terrible crime came not alone through the personal motives of a sin gle man, but from the personal fanaticism which was and is the fruit of greed for public office, and a false and dangerous political edu cation. Now if ever is the time to teach all men that public office is the property of the people, and that places of official trust can only be rightfully distributrd by men of noble purposes, of pure lives, of wise experience, and unqualified fitness for the work to be per formed. The Democratic party of the State desire to inculcate and enforce the doctrine on which the Democratic party came into existence, and which Jeffer »on declared that the only qualification for office rested on the wise, safe aud patriotic platform of personal capability, honesty, and fidelity to the constitution. The members of the Democratic party serving in the legisla ture, who in one branch have but seven Dem ocratic Senators of thirty-two, and In the Assembly but forty-seven of one hundred and twenty-eight, also feel called on to protest against the special, personal and partisan leg islation against public interests. The major ity in tke Assembly, by a combined vote, with the exception of a single member, refused even to permit the reference for discussion of one of three bills carefully prepared and sent to the judiciary committee, providing for abso lute reforms in the primary meetings of cities, towns and villages of the Stale, where candi paies are named and made for every officer elect ed by the people In the same malignant spirit where there were and are Democratic city and local governments, the wishes of the people were defeated by the combined forces of par tisan legislators. Important cases awaiting decision of the State courts were set aside to avoid the clamors of partisans at home and in the legislature, and nib order rulings on points of order and rules of parliamentary right of practice, wholly unprecedented in the history of the State or country. The chief source of the present danger is federal patronage and impure adminisrtratioa of the body of federal officers,- whose members are now in excess of 100,000 persons', and every year increasing in numbers. Against this enormous, aggre3 sivf: and personal power their must be eternal vigilance for the right, free education for th« children of the people, and diffusion of that knowledge, integrity and patriotism through out the State and country, which alone can maintain union among the States, and secure peace and prosperity all over the land. THE NEW SENATOR CHEERED. Auburn, N. V., July 23.— Senator Lapham, en route to his home in Cananadigua. was met at the station this morning, \nd in re sponse to calls of the people he said: "My friends, I thank you very sincerely for this compliment. In view of the intelligence we have this afcernoon met with somewhat dif ferent feelings. 1 have only time to say that my prajer to God is that the dastardly effort to add the name of President Garfield to the roll of martyrs may prove a failure, and that he may be restored to health and the duties of his high office." The Senator then re entered his car and resumed his journey, amid enthu siastic cheering. CONKLING AND ROBERTSON. New YORK,.JuIy 34.— The Times says : "Ex- Senator Roscoe Conkling packed his gripsack yesterday forenoon early and then perused a newspaper, devouring with special interest all references to liimsslf , which had been marked with a pencil by his private secretary. Mr. Conkling rose f.om his meal unrefreshed. As he descended the stairs he was moody and fretful. He said he was eoing away to one of his friends. He said he was about to go home to Utica. State Benator Robertson will enter upon his duties as col lector of the port of New York ou the first Monday in August. THE SOCIAL WOBLD. The Flittings of the Summer Tourists to the Summer Resorts. It is the time for those in 'search of health to be flitting, and the fact is seen on every hotel register in the city. Peo ple are coming from all parts of the con tinent, more especially from the South. Louisville, Memphis and St. Louis have contributed most largely to the access of population of this part of the country, and it may be remarked that the people who come from those cities are among the most refined and educated of their population. There are now something near 3,000 people from St. Louis tempor arily residing in St. Paul or at the lakes environing the city. An equal number from the two other cities mentioned might be found without the aid of a microscope. ' But, notwithstanding the fact that the city is full of strangers, there is but little news of interest to society people. The week has been barren of entertainments. The Opera house doors have been closed, and there have been no parties in society circles. A few lawn parties have been held, but these were not especially distinguished. They were pleasant social gatherings, but noticeable in any particular respect. The Great Western band will be at Union Park to-day. Dr. J. L. Gardner, a prominent physi cian of Milwaukee, is in quest of health in this vicinity. W. J. Dyer, of Dyer & Howard, left for the East last night, taking the Duluth and lake route to Buffalo. Mr. E. T. Mix, the distinguished Mil waukee architect, is in the city, and will pass a few weeks at our lake resorts. Judge Aleck Boreman, of Louisiana, and his wife, have taken quarters far the summer at the Metropolitan. Mr. John W. Reedy, of Chicago, who has been spending a few weeks in St. Paul and vicinity, left for home last evening. A popular bank official who is norf ab sent on his summer vacation will return this week, and report has it that he will not return alone. J. J. Durage, and Mr. Tower, of the United States engineer's department, will leave to-day for the Yellowstone, to be absent during the whole summer. They will be missed from social circles. Joseph McKey, of the Boston clothing house, and family left for Boston last evening by the St. P. & D: train, intend ing to follow the lake route through by the St. Lawrence and Lake Champlain. The Minneapolis papers report quite a liberal sale ot tickets for the Washburn benefit excursion to Lake Minnetonka on Tuesday. It is thought that he will re alize quite a handsome sum from the affair. Edward J. Schurmeier, Esq., returned home on Friday evening from Winnipeg. Mr. Schurmeier spent five weeks in her majesty's dominions and rather enjoyed his visit. He expresses no deaire, how ever, for another trip immediately. A party of twenty from St. Louis visi ted the Dalles of the St. Croix yesterday, going by rail to Taylors Fall and return ing by Capt. Reaney's boat to Stillwater and thence by rail to St. Paul, having had an easy and delightful round trip. Frank H. Carlton, the governor's sec retary; returned yesterday from his East ern tour, in company with his wife. Dur ing their absence they visited many of the seaboard resorts, aad made a trip to the Catskills and the White Mountains. Gov. W. E. Smith, of Wisconsin, who was interrupted in his projected summer tour by the murder of the Coleman brothers, has decided to come to St. Paul shortly, and will spend several weeks in this city and vicinity in company with his estimable wife. Capt. Wm. Turtle, the noted Chicago detective, who has been spending a few days in this city, was made happy this evening by the receipt of intelligence that he had become a grandfather. It is a girl, ten pounds in weight, and mother and child are doing splendidly. Rev. H. W. Thomas, D. D., of Chicago, the noted preacher who created a sensa tion in Chicago something like a year ago, is in the city. He intends to visit the lakes in this vicinity, and has engag ed rooms at Elmo lodge for two weeks. It is to be hoped that he will be induced to deliver an address in tiiis city oefore his departure. Horace G. Dunn, Esq., of this city is spending his summer vacation in compa ny with hizzoner at Philadelphia and Long Branch. He blew in his good dust at Chicago while en route, but is neverthe less able to work the racket in the East, much to the delight of the barbarians who infest that portion of the country. He is expected to return in couples. A private party of about a score of persons is to leave here to-morrow for NO 205. the round trip about Lake Superior, in tending to leave Duluth to-morrow morn ing for a north shore trip to the Sault, from whence they will return by a south shore steamer. The trip could only be excellent by having a private yacht on the same route, allowing of leisurely stops and visits to bays and nooks which are out of the lines of regular steamers. Carl Guthers, the well known artist, ac companied by his wife and sister, Miss Murphy, arrived Friday night by the Gem City direct from his home in St. Louis. Mr. Guthers is professor in the Washington university at St. Louis and ranks exceedingly high as an artist. The party will remain in this vicinity several weeks. Qertnania Society's Annual Elmo Fe/ttival. The Germania society of St. Paul, a union of several musical societies, will have its annual festival at Elmo Lodge lake and park to-day. The trains to run between St. Paul and Elmo station are chartered by the society and will run as follows: Leave St. Paul at 9:30 a. m. and 1.30 p. m» Leave Elmo station at 7:15 and 9:30 p. m. Another chartered train will be run from Stillwater to bring mem bers of the society resident there. In all not less than fifteen hundred persons will be present. The musical entertainment at the lake will be universally free and interesting. The Boat Club at White Bear. It is now more than a week since the boat crew went into active training at White Bear,preparing for the September races at Washington for the champion ship of the United States. They have had to encounter a good deal of discour agement from the sneers and doleful croakinga of^the usual number of people who know nothing of what they are talk ing about but yet threw cold water by the buckets full upon the men. Fortu nately this style of mounrers is drawn en tirely from the ranks of those who could not, to save their lives, tell on which side of the boat the stroke oar pulls, or what is the length of the championship race, or how fast it has ever been rowed. Such discouragements are a part of the experience of a crew, and happily they don't make any impression on Capt. But ler and his men. The boys have pegged away at their work during the last week, and have given good satisfaction to their trainer and the other knowing men who have watched them. They have a carefully surveyed course, and "in timing themselves know just what it takes to make every quarter of a mile. Thus far their time has been excellent, beating anything in the United States this year. They have got six weeks in which to practice, and it looks very much to those who are watching their work, as though they would astonish the nation at Washington. It is a curious fact that whenever a Western crew has gone East to row at the National, it has won. It don't look as if the rule would be broken this year. It is expected that the men will leave here on August 25. This will give them at least ten days in Washington. Here i? the greatest danger to be feared--the change of climate. For a Minnesota man, used to these bracing airs, to go South to the enervating climate of Wash ington is jjxtremely dangerous. Fortu nately the crew fully appreciate this, and will regulate their conduct accordingly It is not expected that during their ab sence Capt. Butler and his men will touch water: iced lea, and a little of Schlitz beer once a day, will be all the liquids coasumed. The crew will live in some secluded spot, where early bed hours and good meals can be had, and there is no reason to fear that anything but some unlooked for and unavoidable accident will place any of the men hors de combat. The New Tariff Agitation in England. London, July 23.— The aggregate attend ance at the international medical conere33 is expected to reach two thousand. Earl Gran vilie, foreign seeretajy, holds a reception of foreign members the 6th. The Economist this week elaborately dis putes the Quarterly Review article on English trade and foreign competition and declares the writer is ignorant of fiscal affairs, mistaken in his statistics and wrong in his conclusion. If the articles, says the Economist, represents the views of the Conservetive party it certainly will not commend itself to the common sense of the country, and proposals of this kind, and especially when put forward for party purposes are little bet ter than mocking of the distress they profess to aim at all evicting. The Spectator says: We have still some hope that we are to escape a revival of the worn out discussion on protection, for in spite of some sinister appearances we cannot believe the tory chiefs will lend themselves to so senseless a cry. Escape of the H-tvana Bank Robbers. Havana, July 23.— Captain General Blanco telegraphed the Spanish consul at Vert Cruz regarding the employes who carried off $200, -000 of the funds of the Spanish Bank of Cuba, and who were supposed to be on board the steamer Alecante. The consul replied yesterday thitt the steamer, before entering the port of Alvarado, was ordered, through the intervention of the consul, to proceed to Vera Cruz. Upon the arrival of the Alecante at Vera Cruz, the consul ordered her forthwith to Havana, making the captain of the steamer responsible for the delivery of the supposed culprits, in whose possession, however, no valuables were Tiund when they were searched at Vera Cruz. It is probable the men found on board the steamer were sent as a feint to mistify pursuit of the chief robbers, who have probably escaped to the United States. One of the latter is known to have bought a draft on New York for $30,000. Slandering a Cnmp Meeting. Lawrence, Kan., July 23. — Considerable indignation is expressed here over an asso ciated press dispatch sent out from Kansas City yesterday, in which it was stated that the recent wreckers of a train on the Santa Fe railroad were a working gang of gamblers, who had been making their headquarters at Bismarck Grove. This dispatch has a ten dency to create an entirely false^impression in regard to the people iv attendance at the Bis marck Grove religious assembly. San Francisco Mint Investigation. San Francisco, Jaly 23.— The commission to investigate charges preferred by Congress man Page against Henry L. Dodge, inspector of the mint, held a first meeting to-day at the Palace hotel. The commission is composed of Alex. Uimsey, ex-sac.etary of war, ex-Gov. Thos L. Young, of Ohio, and ex-Congress man Hough ton, of the Fourth district of this State. __^ Let every consumptive, or person troubled with weakness, try Dr. Halliday's Blood Pu rifior. It acts directly on the blood, liver, kidneys and the urinary organs* and on the whole nervous system, thus toning up every part. Call on the proprietor, S. Blackford, 146 West Third street, St Paul, and get a bottle, and if it does not benefit you, return the empty bottle and your money will be re funded. For sale by all Westerd Druggists. Noyes Bros. & Cutler, Druggists, Wholesale | Agents, St, Paul, Minn.