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HE NEW ORLEANS DAILY DEMOCRAT.
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA AND OF THE CITY CF WEW ORLEANS.
VOL. II---NO. 275. NEW ORLEANS, TrIUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1877. PRICE, FIVE CENTS.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
The New York Custom-lsuse.
WASmINOTON, Oct. 1.-- Assistant Secretary
McCormick says that there is no foundation
`An fact for the report that he is to succeed
Gen. Arthur as Collector for the port of New
York.
The Information here Is to the effect that
(jollector Arthur will send in his resignation.
thus enabling President Hayes to make a new
appointment without the necessity of pre
ceding it with a removal.
Railroad Accident.
DST11oJT Oct. 1.- Iy a collision which oc
iItrred to-day on the 1I. W. and W. Railroad,
two englnes were destroyed and fifteen cars
burned, with a loss of $159,000.
haggle Smith Emulates Charlie Ross.
AflULADELPTIA, Oct. 1.-- Maggie Smith, a
Whild eight years old, who resides with her
parents on bambridge street, in this city, was
called for at Sunday School yesterday, by a
woman who took her to the oilkceof the Amer
loan District Telegraph CotmapanV on Broad
street, where she cha nged the child's clothes,
and with the girl got, on the cars going North.
The child has not ls'm seen nor heard from
since. __ _ _
Edwin Adams.
NEW YORa Oct. ] -Edwin Adams, who is
now lying ifi at Chicago, has received a dis
patch from New York. saying: Your friends
have met and organized a benefit for you.
Signed, E. A. SOTHERN,
W. J. FLORENCE,
W. M. WINTER.
Negro Hilled.
WA5HrIOTON, Oct. 1.- -Cassius M. (lay
killed a negro on his farm to-day. The killing
is said to have been justillable.
The Apaches.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.--The Apaches will be
obliged to surrender before long, in fact, two
hesf have already consented to surrender.
All the available troops in New Mexico are
operating against them.
Archbishop Bayley.
NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 1.-The Archbishop is
growing weaker. Otherwise there is no
change in his condition, and he was sleeping
quietly at 1 o'clock this morning.
Ocean Freights.
NEw Yona, Oct. 1.-Ocean freights quiet
all around, but firm, except for provisions, of
which offerings are light for room offered.
Grain offered at 91 to Glasgow and Liver
pool by steamer, at which figure a fair busi
ness was done.
Grain vessels were bid 7s 3d, spot, for three
thousand quarters, and ofTered that for larger
lots. 6s and 7s, tearrive, is the current
quotation.
Morton's Condition.
RIcHMOND, Ind. Oct. 1. -The favorable re
ports of Senator Iorton's present condition
would be more assuring of his ultimate re
3overy but for the fact that paralysis is hered
4tary In his family. His grandfather and
r father died of that disease, and his sister is
now a hopeless invalid from the same mal
ady.
Ohio Politics.
COLUMBUs, Oct. 1.-Judge West, the R'pub
lican candidate for Governor, spoke at this
point last night. The Judge was well re
ceived, and his speech was listened to with
great attention. He favored the doctrine of
the "Greenbackers," and drew a bright pic
ture of the prospects of the country in the
immediate future. He prophesied that the
"depression now felt in the land would soon be
numbered among the things of the past.
---y* - -
WAR NOTES.
PLIVNA.
Turkish Lesseu-RumNIan Irresolution
Gen. Todtleben's Opinln.
LONDON, Oct 1.-The Standard's corre
spondent with the Turkish army telegraphs
from Plevna: Osman Pasha's losses from the
Russian cannonade are exceedingly light, but
on the day when he retook the redoubts on
the Loftscha road h2 lost 3010 men. There
are now (September I) only 1910 wounded at
Plina.
A correspondent says of the Russians before
Plevna: They seam completely at sea. They
have no plan, no idea, no head. They are
waiting for reinforcements, which are arriving
slowly, and which, when all here, will hardly
more than cover their losses by battle and
sickness during the last two months. I think
history offers no such example of a 5plendid
army in such an utterly hopeless condition.
Todtleben.
The Standards Bucharest special says:
(*en. Todtleben's opinion of the situation at
Plevna has been laid before the Grand Duke
Nicholas. It is understood le declares siege
operations on the most extended scale are
requisite for the capture of the place.
Supplies.
The first Turkish convoy which entered
Plevna consisted of two thousand wagons.
The number of wagons in the second convoy
are not reported. T'he second failed to reach
that point and returned to Orkonie, the
Roumanian cavalry having captured eight
wagons of grain.
Russlans Intrenchinw.
LoN N, Oct. 1.- The Russians are in
trench for the winter from Sistova, Biela
and th antra, to Soli, Lapala and Nikopolis.
NMdiation Impasslble.
LONDON, O(t. 1.-A dispatch from St.
Petersburg says that all rumors of mediation
are idle, as such a course is impossible, for
the reason that Russia will not listen to any
overtures in that direction.
LONDON. Oct. 1.--A dispatch from Buchar
est says that doubt fuIl rumors are in circula
tion to the effect that the Russians have again
suffered a defeat at the hands of Osman
Pasha.
The Czarowltch.
LONPoN, Oct. 1. The Czarowitch visited
Oorny-Studen Saturday to relinquish com
mand on the left flank and resume c(mimand
of the Imperial Guard.
Schhpka Pass.
Suleiman Pasha is fortifying at Schinka
Pass, apparently with the intention of win
tering there.
The pass itself is covered with snow, im
peding all military operations.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Naples.
NArLEs, Oct. 1.-Cardinal Sixte Riario
Wforza is dead. He was sixty-seven years old,
and was created Cardinal in 1841;. He will be
succeeded by the Archbishop of Naples.
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1 11 :15 a. m.-Coffee quiet,
sales 2000; Grey Aigie at Baltimore 17 :
Ciargol ordinary 16'40@17%; fair 19b19°' ;
9 prime 2u@21; lots 165'121 5,:
p2eRaw 2Ia@ dull; sates 1500
. part fyod sales ; a5 be 8190 boxe
%ý q .. S~cý9;eztra 90 9'
new $1 45q1 53. Corn 57058. Pork $14 15.
Lard 9.22'/ 9.27/.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 1.--Pork $14 asked, $14 75
bid. Bacon 84tt9if9'/. Hams $12'913. Cut
meats 73/fiO7/ and 8%18'/2. Lard 8149;y
(J'0. flogs $4 500@5 60. Receipts 1138.
Whisky $1 06.
.. CHICAGo, Oct. 1, 3:15 p. m.-Hogse--t
celpts 12,000; receipts Saturday 7661. Market
dull. Pork firm, $14 October, $12 90 year.
$13 January. Lard 8.70 October, H.30(@8.32¼
year, 8.37¼ January. Wheat steady; $1 15Y,
Oil 05; October, $1 02k4 November $1 01'4
year. Corn firm; 42 (-442,8 OctoIJer, 42!4
November.
ST. Louis, Oct. 1.-Wheat-No. 2 rod winter
$1 20 bid October; No. 3 do $1 1R, October;
$1 18', November; $1 18%, cash. Corn
41%c (ctober; 41%c cash. Oats 25% cash and
October. Pork, $13 75. Whisky, $1 08. Cut
Meats-Nothing doing. Bacon, 7i4'W4558 %09c.
Lard nominal.
FOREKW MARKETS.
LivIERPoorL, Oct. 1.- -Cotton easy; sales
12,0001 hales; for export and speculation 1000;
Middling Uplanls GSA Orleans 0'. Bacon-
long clear mniddles 31s; short clear middles
41s. Corn---27s 6da(27s 9d. Lard --47s. Oats
- -3s'8@3s 6. Pork -16.49. Tallow--American
41s. Rye ---42s Ol. Wheat--Spring los 3d'(J
11s 9d; winter 11s 7d4012s. Market bare of
old baton, new long clear middles 4Us; short
414.
PARTS, Oct. 1.- Rtentes 105f 3212%(.
THE CONKLINi-IIATE' WAR.
How the News of the Rochester Conven
tion waS Received at the Capital.
[N. Y. World.]
WASrNOTON, Sept. 27.-The meagre
reports of the Rochester Convention
published here this morning simply in
tensified the desire to see the proceed
ings in full in the New York papers,
which arrived soon after 1 o'clock.
Neither the supply of Worlds nor, in
deed, of any of the New York
papers met the demand. Since the
speeches of Senator Coulking and Mr.
Platt have been road and the platform
digested, the opinion seems to be al
most universal that the temper of the
convention, as doubly reflected in the
platform, is hopeless and melancholy.
The entire proceedings of the conven
tion are regarded as a confession of de
feat through the division in the party
over the policy of the National Admin
istration.
Republicans here are even more sur
prised at the demoralization which at
tended the convention in the declina
tion of candidates for office list
evening, and in the departure of dele
gates before the nomination to-day and
in the character of the ticket as finally
made up, than in the proceedings
themselves. They were hardly pre
pared to see an indillerence to an ex
tent that admitted defeat at the
polls. The members of the Al
ministration regard the result quite
philosophically. The President regrets
it, but doubts if the Republican masses
are as divided as are the Republican
politicians and office holders. He be
lieved the voters would be united in
the party in favor of the general course
of the Administration towards the
whole conntry and in its efforts to re
store the public service to a higher de
gree of efficiency. The tone of Mr.
Conkling's speech leaves no doubt of
his position in the Senate, and the pre
diction is freely made now that he and
Mr. Blaine will forgive anti forget their
old differences and bind up their
wounds for a united opposition.
Secretary Evarts' views on
the convention and its work were solici
ted, but he did not regard them as
necessary for publication. He had al
ways acted, he said, with the Republi
can party as a party since it had been
formed, and had never allied himself
with any particular stripe of the politics
of the party. It was unfortunate, he
thought, that there were differences in
New York Republican politics which
placed the State in an attitude quite at
variance with the harmony in other
States on questions of national interest.
He hoped that these differences would
not aff ct the people in the casting uj1
of the final result.
THE OHIO 4 AMPAIIN.
[New York Titnes.I
CINCINNATI, Oct. 25.-The qiuestion of
the Senatorship as I have before stated,
is the real motive power of the cam
paign. There are six or eight
leading candidates, and they are all at
work as they never worked in a cam
paign before. Nothing is said about the
Senatorial vacancy, but the zeal mani
fested by Stanley Matthews, Judge
Taft, and Gen. Garfield for
the election of Judge Wept to
the Governorship, or by Gen. Ewing,
George H. Pendleton and Gen. Morgan
for the election of Mr. Bishop, is re
markable. They are willing to speak
every night, to ride to remote places,
and expend their ablest oratorical ef
forts before sleepy rural gatherings.
Counties that are known to be
close are objects of special so
licitude to these gentlemen. The se
ries of joint debates just entered
upon between Garfield and Pendleton
and Matthews and Ewing is giving the
public an opportunity of inspecting
the leading candidates in pairs. The
difference between Mr. Matthews and
Gen. Ewing on most of the points under
discussion is hardly worth speaking of
and yet they are able to talk twelve
columns a day at each other. Gen. Gar
field and Mr. Pendleton will have the
advantage of differing with each other
on the question of silver coinage, and
their debates will derive additional in
terest from this fact. It does not require
very close observation to see that these
two gentlemen are leading the lists of
Senatorial candidates on their respec
tive sides.
NO MORE hE1 SICKNESS.
From Havre comes the tidings that
there need by no more sea sickness. A
number of persons, it is said, have re
peatedly been taken on board the
steamtug l'Avant-port, and have put
out to sea just where they were most
likely to meet with severe tests, and it
has been found that those who were
provided with a certain electro-mag
netic girdle were entirely exempted
from sea sickness, while those who be
came sea sick without this appliance
were almost instantaneously cured by
its application. The girdle, it is ex
plained tends to check the derange
ment of the diaphragm.
('ONKLING'S CONVENTION.
THE WAR FEvATOR CONKLING PRO
POSES TO MAKE ON THE ADXINIR
THATION IN THE UNITED STAIEM
MENA SE.
Mchurz as the Mephistopheles of the f'ab
Inet-His Pecullarities. and Those
of Ili. Chum, DII Grosvenor.
[Special Curreepondenco of the Democrat.]
RtoUHEHTER, N. Y., Sept. 26.
I trust I may be pernitted to call attention
to the tidelity with which
THE ATTITUDE OF HENATOI4 (ONKLINO
towards the Administration, as Indicated by
the proceedings in the Itepu lican State Con
vention here to-day, was prevised in a letter
to the DeMoCRAT oil the occasion of Roscoe's
return from Europe. You may remember I
said in that letter that Mr. Conkling's antag
onism to the Administration would not be
general, but would take the form of an attack
upon certain of the special humbugs of the
celebrated firm of Sherman, Evarts and
Schura inside the Administration. rho re
marks of ex-Congressman Platt In the con
vention here to-day foreshadow this policy
most authoritatively. Mr. Platt Is the near
est ffiend of Senator Conkling, and I have in
dubitable authority for the statement that he
acted to-day as the Senator's spokesman, by
careful instructions and within the most de
finite limitations. I will not consume your
space by reproducing the text of Mr. Platt's
remarks, which have reached you by tele
graph and are undoubtedly in type In your
composing room at the hour of my writing.
My office is rather to point out their signi
flcance and explain their hearing. No one
can read
PrATT'S sPEEcH.
without being Impressed with the care which
is taken to hit Schurz and Evarts directly and
Sherman indirectly without wounding Hayes.
The speaker could hardly have made his line
of demarcation more distinct by expressly
setting it forth in terms.
To begin with, Mr. Conkling had
THE CONVENTTON
all his own way. He could easily have se
cured the adoption of a resolution denouncing
Hayes personally and repudiating any or all
of his policies. Indeed, he resisted a pres
sure at the hands of some of the more violent
of his adherents exerted to secure a general,
war-to-the-knife policy against the Adminis
tration as a whole. But the grandiose Sena
tor vas too wise to be drawn into any quix
otic crusade against the empty sound
of the theoretical policy of this Administra
tion, and he was wily enough to pick
out its detached salients in practice for at
tack. Thus the platform is substantially si
lent as concerns Mr. Hayes and those por
tions of t he Administration programme for
which he is generally held directly respon
sible; likewise were the speakers quiet on this
point. But when the question turned on the
humbugs and farces of Schurz & Co., the
scope of denunciation was exhausted so far
as it could be done without directly assailing
Mr. Hayes for having taken such frauds into
his Cabinet. But I am not limited for my
authority to the public acts of Mr. Conkling's
friends in the convention. I will not
say that I have interviewed the Senator
himself, but I will say that I can speak for
him and of his designs as accurately as if I
had. He will go to Washington about the
last of next week and, upon theopening of the
session, will assume his duties as if nothing
had h appened. l1e will go on about his busi
ness until some office holder is sought to be
removed under
THE LATE "CTVIL SERVICE ORDER,"
about which so much has been said and by
which so little has been done. Then, when
the name of the offending official's successor
is sent to the Senate, Mr. Conkling will rise in
his majesty in executive session, of course,)
and ask whether the American citizen has
any rights which Carl Schurz and other pro
fessional reformers are bound to respect? And
if so, whether it is not about time some legal
definition of those rights were declared by
competent authority. This will form the
piece di resistance of Mr. Conkling's role.
I asked my informant plumply, "What will
Senator Conkling have to say on
THE SOUTHERN QUESTION ?
Will he antagonize what is called the Southern
policy of the Administration ?"
"As to that," was the reply, "I can say
this: Mr. Conkling will doubtless favor the
seating of Kellogg as Senator from Louisi
ana. In discussing that question it may
become necessary for him to define his views
as to the legality of the State government
from which Mr. Kellogg holds credentials,
and incidentally to review the methods by
which that government was subverted. Of
course I cannot say just how far he will go,
or to what extent he will inveigh against the
President personally, for failing to sustain
what he will hold to have been and to still
be the de jiere government of Louisiana. But
my impression is that he will simply argue
that Kellogg holds credentials from the de
jure government, declare that that govern
ment was overturned by violence and in de
flance of the constitution, and there rest his
case without animadverting upon the Presi
dent. You know," continued my informant.
"that there is such a thing known to lawyers
as over-arguing a case. Well, Senator Conk
ling is too astute a lawyer to over-argue his
case. That part of the programme he will
doubtless leave for Blaine or some other hot
head to carry out!"
"Then I am to infer that Mr. Conkling does
not intend to denounce the Southern policy
simply as a policy-or rather as a political
theory ? "
" Did you ever know Mr. Conkling-and
you have watched him during a good part of
his career in Washington-did you ever know
him to tilt against a windmill? Now what is
called 'ithe Southern policy' is all froth and
wind and gust excepting solely two definite
acts, one of which resulted in the election of
Mr. Spofford to contest the seat claimed by
Mr. Kellogg in the United States Senate. In
Mr. Conkling's estimation this single fact pre
sents the only phase of the effects of the Pres
ident's Southern policy which can possibly
pass under the jurisdiction of the Senate for
review. This fact, as I, said, will be taken
But with the domestic concerns of the people
of Louisiana he will not interfere. He will
not have anything to say on the subject of
the dest ruction of
THE PAC'KARD GOVERN3MENT,
except in regard to its legal existence prior to
its collapse for want of force to sustain it."
"lint you have still failed to make this
point quite clear to me. Will Mr. Conkling's
attitude be designed to reinvigorate the old
Radical hatred of the South and to renew the
bitterness of the last ten years ? That is what
I am particularly interested in finding out."
"Again, I say, Mr. Conkling will discuss
the question of Mr. Kellogg's claim to a seat
In the Senate on purely legal grounds and
will carefully abstain from all semblance of
political oratory. He believes Kellogg is en
titled to the seat and will so hold, Irrespect
ive of all political and with an eye single to
legal considerations. Beyond this I can as
sure you he will not 'antagonize the Southern
policy of the Administration,' for the reason
that this is all there is of the 'Southern pol
icy' practical enough for Mr. Conkling to
handle, If for no other. Yoh know Senator
Conkling never undertakes to handle or deal
with anything except practical facts."
Now it was a surprise to me to learn these
things, because I had always counted on Mr.
Conkling as one of those Republicans who
would vote against the seating of Brindle
Bill. I am not sure but there is a list. on tile
against me in the DEM(OMAT, telegraphed
from Washington last spring, in which
Conkling is set down as one of four or
five Republican Senators who could be de
pended on to vote "No" on the resolution
which Senator Bayard moved to amend by
Inserting the word "not," and it may be that
I put him down as likely to vote for Bayard's
amendment. If so, I still think that I cor
rectly represented his attitude at that time,
though, perhaps, he did not regard the pro
posed action then as final. But the election
of SpofTord makes the issue now final, and I
have no reason to doubt that my informant
has given me a most accurate definition of
Mr. Conkling's present views and future de
signs in the premises.
Now a word as to the convention. As I said
before, Mr. Conkling had it all his own way.
He is certainly supreme in the councils of the
Republican party in this State,and will secure
a large majority of the Republican State
Senators who are to be chosen this fall.
Whether the Republicans will have a mia
iority in
THE STATE SENATE
or not is quite another matter. I think it will I
be very close--probably not more than one or
two majority either way, with chances in
favor of the Democrats, unless the senseless
fight between Tilden, Tammany and John
Morrissey results in a sacrifice of some of
the city districts. As to
THE LOWER HOUSE OF THE LEOISLAT'IRE
there will be no fight, except, of course, Mr.
Conkling would like to have his friends in the
ascendancy there as well as in the Senate.
But the lower house, which assists in choos
ing a United States Senator, will not be chosen
this fall. The fight is solely on the State Sen
ate which holds over and takes part in the
choice of a Senator a year from this winter.
The weakness of
THE OI'POSTTION TO MR. ('ONKLING
has been, as his friend just said to me, of the
bulk of Hayes' "Southern policy ;" that it was
"all wind and froth," while the strength of
Conkling has been the devotion of himself
and his friends to such "practical
facts" as primary elections and
county conventions. So It always
will be as long as the President allows his
administration to be run by professional re
formers like Schurz, for whom nobody has
any respect except Hayes, and in whom no
body has any confidence except his own self.
Conkling is a wise, wily, far-sighted man,
keenly versed in the art of manipulating
human nature and controlling men; and thus
he will always get the start of managers like
Schurz, whose strength of character is con
fined to his egotism and whose strength of
purpose is bounded by his selfishness.
A, C. B.
Nonwon, N. Y., October 27.
As soon as I had ascertained the facts set
forth in the foregoing, the subsequent proceed
ings at. Rochester interested me no more and
I took the train for home at 3:10 a. m. I did
not care to remain and witness the scalping
of the "Anti-Conkling Republican party,"
which has been bulit up in New York by the
marvelous Civil Service Reform of the Ad
ministration. Having seen it tomahawked,
I was satisfied and had no desire to see the
indignities which I knew would be visited up
on the cold corpus in the proceedings of to
day. On arriving home, I went to the post
olYlce and found the DEMoCRAT of last Sun
day, containing
A DELTNEATTON OF JOHN SHERMAN
in his appropriate character of Mephisto
pheles. It is not my design to criticise that
article. But you will allow me to say that in
bestowing credit upon Sherman for all the
I pitiable shams and disgusting frauds which
have marked the first six months of this
Reform Administration, you do great injus
tice to two kindred spirits who, if less than
John in magnitude, are certainly his peers in
meanness, as far as they go. I mean Evarts
and Schurz.
For the present I propose to deal only with
Schurz, for the reason that I know him hest
and that he has been the busier of the two in
Iconcocting shams. There is probably no man
now in public life so little known, or rather,
so universally misunderstood, as
CARL SCHURZ.
He is looked upon by the great mass as a
man of singularly pure and lofty mind,
whose sole weakness is its tendency to tran
scendentalism, and whose only fault uis that
it is a little too pure and lofty to be effective
in our present political condition. This esti
mate is ludicrously false and fallacious. I
have known Schurz intimately for some
years, and, until he had betrayed and abused
my confidence in his characteristic manner, I
was his friend. But when I found out by ex
perience that he was
AN INSTINCTIVE POLITICAL SWINDLER,
an intuitive liar, and utterly destitute of even
the shadow of personal honor whenever he
deemed his -interest at stake, I became
> . it69r ,rgoe him1
friends, the Texas editors, accuse me of
"truckling to."
I sincerely hope the courtoous and punetili- "
ous gentleman who edits the I)EMrocRAT will
for once disuse the pencil which he 1s wont to
draw through my epithets, and print those I 'u
have applied to Mr. Schurz errbetim et liWera
liUn, for that I shall be in Washington before
this letter can get back there from New Or
leans, and it cannot be said that I have taken
advantage of distance. If I can le said to
have taken advantage of anything, it will be f
rather
'rTE cOWARIhIi'E OF 1m1. seiiTTiU.,
which is as well known to me as his menda- a
city or his lack of honor. t
I will relate an incident: Some years ago I
wrote a letter from Washington to the St.
Louis Republi'an defining the attitude which
Mr. Schurz would sustain in the State van- t
vase then pending, in which he was to take c
part as an avowed candidate for re-election to I
the United States Senate. This letter was r
written with the privity of Schur', and was f
actually revised and corrected by certain f
friends of his, so that I was warranted in de- c
Glaring it "authoritative." It was intended
as the key note of the campaign, and as such I
was proceeded upon by the Reputblicean, then
the English speaking organ of Schurz in
Missouri, and by the W tllieh' Post, of which,
as you are aware, Mr. Schurz was at that
time proprietor. But It happened that
BILT. (RiOAVENOR,
who has long been a sort of trainer for
Schurz's political trick-mule, was tempora
rily editing the moribund St. Louis Democrat,
and he had an "Independent" programme of
his own, which involved Schurz as a leading
performer. Bill was terribly set back when
he found that Schura had promulgated his
- proiamiiento through the Republican.
What Bill wanted was to so engineer the
State ticket as to gather the gubernatorial
patronage of the city of St. Louis Into his own
[ hands for his share, and he knew very well
that if the steady-going and highly respecta
h ble old W'publiean kept the movement in its
" leading-strings there would be no show for
him. So he immediately set about cut
I ting Schurz loose from the Republican
and all its influences. He knew just
what chord of Schurz's nature to strike. He
appealed to his cowardice; told him the atti
tude in which my letter hal placed him was
too defiant; that it would never do, and that
he must disavow the letter of the article but
retain so much of the spirit of it as would be
necessary to suit their purposes. Schurz did
I as Grosvenor bid him---went back on himself
r and upon as unselfish an act of kindness and
T good faith as ever one man (lid for another
s wriggled, twisted, lied and sneaked, and
1 finally went and did in the campaign just ex
factly what I said he would do- -except that he
ac'epted Bill Grosvenor's services as ring
master, which had not. been included in the
original scheme as set forth by me. His
r act therefore amounited to this: He induced
a correspondent to do him a favor in good
- faith and then, frightened by the representa
r tions of a scoundrel who had designs of his
- own in the premises, he tried to turn the
© favor back upon its doer in the shape of a
curse. And this he did at the instace of a
leper who was cashiered from the army for
an offense too vile to be named in these col
umns, and who had subsequently allowed his
wife to be saved from the Potter's field by the
charity of friends after she had died of his
own neglect and brutality. Such was and is
to this (lay Carl Schurz's most in
timate friend and most trusted adviser.
And such a man Schurz would have
I had next to himself in the Interior Depart
ment had he not known that I had the record
iof the court-martial in my pocket, and would
cause them to be laid before the Senate along
with Grosvenor's name, if he should be nomi
nated as assistant secretary.
I need not allude to
HTIS LATER AND MORE NOTORIOUS EXPTOIT
as a liar, and his superiority as a reform
humbug is so plain that even mention of it
would be supertiuous. I hope my friend, the
editor of the l)EMOURAT, will so far amend
his recent article upon John Sherman as to
accord to Carl Schurz the proper amount of
credit for his lesser, perhaps, but by no
means cleaner, share in the debauchery of
poor Mr. Hayes, and the destruction of his
administration. A. C. B.
Ir IT HONEWST?
Editor e-maocreal - The pol ice of the city, who
were engaged at the low rate of $50 per month
with the understanding that they would be
paid in cash, are to-day tr ying to dispose of
their scrip for last month's services, and are
offered sixty cents on the dollar. Out of this
they will have to pay, during the three
months coming, for their winter uniforms.
Although the taxes of 1876 are payable only
in cash, with interest and costs; and though
tens of thousands of dollars of 1876 taxes have
been paid in since the first of the year, the
salaries of employes of the city for 1876 re
mnin unpaid, and their scrip sells at about
thirty-three cents.
In the face of this the city government pays
out the people's money in the payment of
premiums and interest, on bonis not only
utterly invalid in themselves as against char
ter and contract obligations, but which (many
of themi have been pronounced as unconsti
tutional and illegal in the decision of the
Master in Chancery of the United States
Court.
If there is a single illegal or fraudulent
issue of city bonds made under the regime of
Warmtth or West, or under military appoin
tees, which is nut to-day, without question,
made a sharer in premitms, which is it? Why
but a few days smice it was made a matter of
special glorification and notice, because a
"gentleman just from Europe" had funded
$250,000 of bonds.
The bonds were mainly or all of them
drainage series, and not onl utterly illegal
as violating both the charter of 1852- 53 and also
that of 1869, but were issued under the cor
rupt drainage act of 1871, which was as un
mitigated a steal as was ever compassed by
corrupt legislation.
The money of the taxpayer goes to pay
premiums on injustice and fraud, while the
police and other faithful servants of the city
must accept scrip at the best they can get
for it.
Is this honest ?
Itespectfully, 8.
Offner's grand opening takes place Monday.
"Yes, ma'am, I broke the vase." said
Bridget, "but it wasn't worth any
thing." "What do vou mean, Bridget?"
"Why, yoea A ,yourself,
never to utit Ie4ree
THtE EAST.
LIFE IN JIODlERN ATHENS-THE EO*
TEL.S, 0H(JPs AND CAFES.
The Interent Felt by the Greeks is the
Turklqh War-The Government Afraid
to Go into the War.
ATrmNs, Greece, August 17, 1877.
IXlitor Democrat-It is an expectation
formed without reflection, but frequently IDf
dulged in, that one should find a plaO A,^
Athens, for instance, just as he has
accustomed to fancy it existing seven 1.
thousand years ago. The old city may slat
be intact from the assaults of time. But $I
never occurs to me that the surroundlng
of the nineteenth century will so jar upon
the sacredness of the past as to leave nothing
of its distinctive character. Alas! there ia
nothing stable under the stars. And there is
no association, however revered, that is not
subject to be mutilated by the obtrusion at
some common-place object or vulgar Incident
or suggestion.
I shall never forget the shock I received o0 ,
bright morning before sunrise. August, 1871i,
when, just entering the Joppa gate of Jert-,
salem, on being encountered by a runner fan
solicited to stop at the Mediterranean Hoted,
a capital house, it was urged, kept by Mtr
Brown, and with a good view from MoQIIt
Zion, on which it was placed. Last year, $to
.Japan, I was a guest of a hotel kept by Mr.
Smith.
Now, here in Athens, in sight of the Acropo
lIs, I am staying in
THE NEW YORK HOTEL.
There is no reason why this hotel should
named New York, for there is not the faint
possible suggestion of that city in anytbill
e about the establishment. On the contraryp'
,I the hotel is clean, -wel managed and-honostly
conducted.
The other hotels here are equally solic
toeis of a recognition of their familiarity wit
4 foreign countries. We have the Great BritlIl
r Hotel, France Hotel, and Strangers' Hotel, 1r
Sgeneral. The shops, too, of Athens as g4
g very modern in the display of English s .
t French goods in their windows; the dwe
houses are so neatly built of stone, with
- closures of flowers and shade trees; the
streets are so ingeniously paved with cobbl1
t stones, that rattle with rapid cabs and opt-i
Lt riages, and at night sparkle with gas; t1
e men and women are so elaborately clad fill
d cassimeres and lawns and capped. by su1k
if enormous silk hats and chip bonnets; thl
d children by the wayside are so earnestly .e
gaged iniconstructing mud pies or frightel.
d ing horses by unexpected kites; that it r-.
. quires a painful search to discover anything
e that smacks of antiquity, or even, indeed, ol
one's preconceived notion of
THE PRESNT OREEK.
The signs over the shop doors are la t`
Greek character. This is a great comfort =
a lonely traveler. Reading signs over doom
is an unfailing entertainment to the philobo.j
phic mind in all ages and countries. But
when the sign is in Greek, the inter-t.
and purity of the delight can hardly be est.
mated; and days may be spent in g
from one end of a street to another.
We will admit a propriety in the fruits A
vegetables and fish in the market
modern. It were to expect too much to
for the ancient among these, though it is fre
quently found in the last.
But
THE WINE
which is drunk asserts itself, and estab
its connection with the classic era. For
the wine in Greece has resin put in it, as..
had in the days of Homer. You cannot get
mouthful of wine in Athens without an
companying dose of tar, When you ask
this inhumihn custom is kept up you are t
it is done for medicinal purposes; that it pº-.
vents the rheumatism. You naturally y.
you have notthoerheumatism and do not
it, but would rather have it than drink
stuff. With a supercilious smile, that p1tes
your ignorance and want of cultivation, ysg
interlocutor turns off his wine and make b4
lieve he likes it. This nethisd of mak
liquor medicinal is cominendei to the
talers as a sure cure of intemperance.
ever, such as it is, everybody takes It
out coaxing, and if one is to jud f5.
number of the cafes there is a grad
taken.
THE CAFE
is ,the agora of the modern Greek. In
finds a scope for his mental activities.
every one comes to discuss the news of
(lay. Any time, mornlg or evening,
may see the Athenians, in groups of four
five, seated at a table on which there are
of beer or glasses of the resinous wine
country, haloes of tobacco smoke endr
their brows, settling the affairs of the
with equal ,violence and as little result
similar assemblages of other countries.
is not reminded of the ancient Greeks
in the strophe and anti-strophe of
conversation. Everybody talks at
which is very comfortable and satief
as it prevents occasions for dispute by
discoveries of differences of opi
Sometimes it happens that some one,
tious of distinction will emerge from
clouds of a cafe and soar to the height of
improvised rostrum in the street. As,
other day, in front of the King's palace
the intervals of the performance of a mil
hand, a swarthy orator seized the occasioatG
deliver himself of an oration on
THYE TURKISH WAR,
for this is the burden of every song. It is Im
possible to overestimate the interest take -
>y the Greeks in the present struggle
tween Turkey and Russia. Thoughfift
years have elapsed since Greece has "e '
emancipated from the Ottoman power, tlbon
animosities born of that revolution have besi
kept perfectly fresh and vigorous by the eos.
stant irritants of conflicting religious ant
rival border interests.
But it is not merely from sympathy with
Russia, professing the same religion with the
Greek, that makes the present war of so ab.
sorbing an interest to the people of Athena.
The idea has taken possession of the Gree
mind until it has ripened to a convictk*
nothing can ever disturb, that
THRMALY AND CRETE
properly belong to the Greek kingdom, and is
the fitness of things must be annexed to that
power. And there is no question the reiiiMt'
ity of the map does require the inco
of Thessaly with Greece. indeed, it is
cult to understand why the powers
Europe, in giving an autonomy
the land of Themistocles, in 1827, shore
have been content with such a division of tsr
ritory as that made by an arbitrary inS,
which threw Albania, Thessaly, MaeIdoiscs
and Thrace to the northof the country woe
independence they had just 3ecur w
every reason should be considered
favor of the freedom of the southern part
the peninsula of Turkih dominion,
ithnifoe in
th ebw se QeeyoIdnea tis ,