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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 22. 1880.
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THE SOUTHER!* CULTIVATOR.
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against each other than the city of At- j hands the chief port at which Bolivian
lanta. Situated as it is in the heart of trade found an outlet—in fact, the only
the aontb, and having suffered almost i one that waa accessible to the Bolivians,
total destruction daring the bloody con- ] as Cobija and the smaller towns on the
tests that were fought around it, the coast of the Bolivian province ofj -Ataca-
name of Atlanta will become still more | nut have been in the possession of the
prominent in history by witnessing what ■ Chilians several months. Arica is second
promises to be the grandest military par j on ] y u, Callao among the ports of Pern,
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ATLANTA, OA,. JUNE 22,1*80.
Euz* PIJMCSTOX Is for Garfield and Ar
thur.
Rnm of Citizen J. A. Garfield: “By
"George! this ie business!”
Ilea the Hon. Montgomery Blair no toes
sage of sympathy for the Cincinnati conven
tion!
Rmensna, please, that the boom of yonr
Unci. David Davis has by no means been
exhausted.
It ie not too late for Ur. Sherman to aid
the Louisians witness by denying that he
was a candidate.
1V« want to tee the organ that is humor
ous enough to discuss the southern question
during the pneent campaign.
It seems a happy omen that the demo
cratic convention should meet right iu the
midst of the blackberry season.
Takiuo Garfield’s record as a whole it is
life to say the republican party never had a
more thoroughly representative candidate
W« trust that no democratic paper will
so far forget Itself as to slander General
Garfield. The simple truth is sufficiently
crushing.
Tbe ghost of Oakes Ames is a bigger man
than Mulligan. It walks up and down the
earth in broad daylight and carries a mem-
orandum book.
Kicowura that Garfield is to be defeated.
General Grant is in a good humor. He
even goes so far as to say that Garfield is a
right nice man.
“Tnxan is no individualism in the green-
“back party,” says tbe Dalton Headlight
If we remember correctly there ie also a
lack of Indivlduala
SnzmwAK is very prompt in paying bis
business debts in the south. Before tbe
month is over bis belt will be elegantly
trimmed with scalps.
Tna republican party ought to be happy
now. It will be compelled todevote an en
tire campaign to defending tbe distinguish,
ed career of one of its Christian statesmen.
Tnz editor of tbe New York Tribune ie
now placed in a position where be is com
pelled to condone fraud. It is needli
remark that he stands up to tbe rack like
a little man.
Rosasow keenly feels the snubbing his
party has given him. And truly his
knavery is of a character to be appreciated
by a party which seek! to have Garfield 1
corrupt record indorsed by the people.
Akd now, since you come to thiDk it
over, what has become of all the republican
ratification meetings? Is the nomination
of the credit raobilier statesman to be al
lowed to fall flat and stale upon the conn,
try? <
Isa moment of exul tatlon over the defeat
of Grant and Blaine, the editor of the
Springfield Republican, Indorsed Garfield.
We will have repentance in thia quarter,
moat lifcely, but no retraction—penance,
but no confession.
has ever occurred iu thia country. To
erect in thia city a monument to com
memorate the “reunion of the states and
“the return of national sentiment” is an
idea that commends itself to all good cit
izens and is another evidence of the loy
alty of our people despite the bloody
shirt that will be resurrected for the pres
idential campaign. Our citizens are oat-
spoken and warm in their indorsement
of the undertaking, and the visitors will
meet with that earnest, hospitable re
ception that is peculiar to the ’southern
people and will pnt the brand of false
hood on those who seek to perpetuate
sectional striie by plausible tales of ruf
fianism and lawlessness prevailing in the
southern states. When the Seventh
regiment of New York, with other organ
izations, though clothed in the trappings
of war, can march through the south
to greet their ’southern countrymen
in the Londa of peace and national
brotherhood, and that, too, on the eve of
an important election, we need no other
evidence of the healthful sentiment that
pervades the masses when uninfluenced
by designing men.
The national importance of thia re
union cannot be overestimated. While
the occasion will be to lay the corner
stone of the “memorial hall” of the Gate
City Guard, yet the October camp-fires,
and the war incidents that will be told
over again on tbe very rifle-pits that
drank the blood of thousands of brave
men who fell in the battles around At
lanta, will nover be forgotten by those
who participate in this reunion. The
undertaking is important and significant,
and Atlanta will be found equal to the
task.
Arica, and from Ho began the difficult
march upaa Taena and Aries. The fall pend tbe rules to pass thebill. The vote
of these two places, which
announced a few days ago, makes the
Chilians not only masters of aouth
en n Peru, but it puts in their
inent, was taken up on a motion to sus-
CoxsiDiKimi the precarious state of Ur.
Tilden's health, it is remarkable how he
keeps on his feet. During tbe pest week he
has had the honor of receiving no leas than
seven thousand leading democrats from the
west—all of them visiting statesmen.
The position of Howard Carroll ia open
to misconstruction. This energetic young
man has not joined the democracy, bnt he
la preparing to tend in his petition. This
shows the nature of the missionary work of
whleh Tu* CoavmtmoK baa been gnilty.
It Is to be feared that Colonel Susan E.
Anthony and her convention of distin
guished man-eaters will rendezvous at Cin
cinnati. We move that Colonel John A.
Oockerill, of theSL Louis Tost-Dlspatch, be
appointed a committee of one to look after
this dangerous congregation. They should
be severely watched.
J. A aa G sariKLO and C. Ab. Arthur ia the
way tbe names appear on visiting cards.
Tschnically, they are “gents” of the first
water and repreaent what Colonel Roberts,
ot the Utica Herald, finaly calls “the
“nucleus of republican auecesa.” Wc need
not add that Colonel Roberta is himself
virulent reformer.
The eminent DeGolyer G. can’t ahake his
gory locks and say the democrats did it.
We are indebted to republican sources for
the tecta in regard to hia credit mobilier
steal. It is furthermore related by a repub
lican committee that be perjured himself
and attempted tbe subornation of perjury.
ReallT. Ur. Garfield seems to Da the finest
citizen in the republic.
Tna Utica Herald has thia whole aflair
down very fine. It says Garfield has
“strong moral individuality.” Men who
manage to escape the penitentiary under
cover et a technicality may now know
what their chief characteristic is. Under the
circumstances, “moral individuality” ia a
revelation ot tbe expressiveness Which ur
gency give* to the English language in
America.
Goaoasasjtaa Stasis, of New Ycrk, says
the negro delegates at Chicago carried their
consciences in the palms ot their hands.
This Ua Tery fine tribute for a republican
to pay to the colored delegates, and, as such,
is worthy ot serious consideration; but Ur.
Starin is mistaken. What he saw ia the
palms ot their bands was merely quids. No
colored man will make aspeechwith squid
in his mouth.
Tax New York Times ia of the opinion
that the attempt of the democrats to secure
pensions for the Mexican veterans was a
blunder. Possibly; but was it as serious a
blunder as tha credit mobilier steal, or the
fraedmen’s bank robbery ? Come—let the
Times go into particulars. Ia it patriotic to
entourage knavery and a blonder to desire
to provide for aged and infirm men who
followed the union flag in Mexioo? Is the
Timee preparing to si goalies its support of
a perjurer and a bribe-taker by cutting looae
from Us own moorings?
Ou> Unde Anthony, who represents the
factory site known as Rhode Island in the
United States was very much outraged yes
terday because tbe senate refused to ap
proach Ur. Hayes’s veto message with that
degree ot reverence and awe which ought to
characterise tha conduct of a deliberative
body. Unde Anthony's remarks are sup
posed to have been composed by the amia
ble Rogers, private secretary of the admin
istration. Tha amiable Rogers quaffs hia
cider in three motions and is otherwise a
great stickler for etiquette;
Tbe End or tbe newton.
The eecond session of the forty-sixth
congress was ingloriously ended at 12
o’clock Wednesday. A tamer congress
perhaps nevsr existed. Both sides, hav
ing in view the presidential conflict,
strove to do nothing, to say nothing, and
both succeeded wonderfully well.
Neither party desired to talk, much less
to act; and ao the six-months’ session
resulted in the passage of the reg
ular appropriation bills, and noth
ing of importance beyond. The
democrats wero crippled in some
respects by their small majority in
the house, and in all respects by the po
litical hostility of the de facto president
Tha republicans conld not do mnch, be
cause both houses were organized against
them. But, the troth is, neither ride
wanted to do anything of importance
both believed in letting well enough
alone. This is shown in the want of
action on the landing bill, upon
which party lines were not
drawn. It had few, if any,
opponents, and yet the session left it in
the house in which it originated. Of
the political bills, the joint electoral reso
lution was taken up ao late in the session
that the republicans were able to post
pone its consideration until the next ses
sion; the handful of Sam Randall protec
tionists were able, with the aid of there
publicans, to prevent the taking np of the
tariffbills, coming as they did from the
ways and means committee near the
heel of the session; the chief supervisor
bill remains on the house calendar, al
though an important general election is
coming on, and the depnty marshals bill
was passed just in time to catch a veto,
making it impossible to provide any
remedy to overcome it. The entire ses
sion was dilatory, non-committal, tame
and disappointing. The Mexican pen
sions hill and fifty other useful and
unobjectionable measures were left
on the calendar, mnch to the dis
comfiture of the people and very much
to the satisfaction of the monopolists.
The responsibility for these acts of omis
sion must be shared by the two parties
alike, because one controls the legislative
branch of the government, and the other
the veto-machine. The most that can be
said of the late session is, it did little or
no harm. As a do-nothing body, it was
an immense success.
The Bayard Family.
The death of the venerable James A
Bayard on Sunday morning last recalls
the history of one of the most remark
able families in a country given to great
changes. The family is of Huguenot de
scent. The first American Bayard came
over with I’etcr Stay vesant, his brother-
in-law. They landed together in 1647.
Tlie relations of Nicholas Bayard with
the old Dutch governor of New York did
not bring him into prominence, and it
was not until the doae of the last
centniy that one of the family
attained political distinction. James Bay
ard then took a seat in congress at Phila
delphia, supporting the federal adminis
tration. He declined the ministry to
France which was tendered him, but
continued in active political life at home,
and becamo the leader of the party which
placed Jefferson in the presidential chair
—the election being by the house—in
1S01. Three years later fonnd him in the
senate, the successor of bis father-in-law.
With the entrance into politics of Richard
Bassett Bayard, son of James, began th
influence of the family upon the politics
of Delaware, for the son was horn and al
ways lived in that state. Twice was hi
chosen senator, from 1S36 to 1S39, and
from 1841 to 1845. He died in 1S6S.
James Asheton Bayard, whose death
has recalled these facts, was a brother of
the last named, and for three fall terms
of six years each he sat in the senate.
In I860, on account of ill health, he re
signed, and Thomas Frauds, his son, the
present representative of the name, was
chosen to succeed him. No namo is more
highly honored in Delaware, and for that
matter in all the other states of the onion.
Through ail the changes of politics the
people of Delaware have never wavered
in their support of a family that has
never betrayed them—a family with
record that has not a hole in it—
one that knows no black sheep. The
Bayards represent the better politics of
the past, and yet the sitting senator has
no difficulty in preserving his own honor
or in bringing his capacity and experience
to bearin modern politics. He is a prac
tical earnest politician, and is doubtless
destined to rise to higher distinctions
than have fallen to previous members of
his family. He is skill on the sunny ride
of fifty, and if Cincinnati refuses for any
reason to accept him, he will remain an
eligible candidate for the presidential
office for several terms to come. The
vian president, having command of tbe
land forces, made his greatest and
probably last effort in this war.
Bolivia hag bnt little interest
now in a war that she did not
willingly enter upon, and it ia more than
likely that she will leave perfidious Peru
to fight it out.
But Peru is powerless. Her ports are
blockaded, her commerce ruined. Her
finances are in such a desperate condi
tion that one of her dollars is worth only
12 cents in gold. Callao itself is in con
stant danger of destruction from the guns
of the Chilian fleet, and even Lima is not
safe from the long-range Armstrong gnus.
Arica and the invading armies of Peru
are several hundred miles distant, but
distance alone prevents the occupation of
the balance of Pern bv the forces
of the plncky little republic. Pern
is, in short, compelled to make peace
upon the best terms she can get She
does not deserve very good treatment,
for she deliberately procured the violation
bf a treaty made with Chili relative to
rights and boundary lines in Atacama.
Her avarice led to this perfidy. The rich
mines and guano deposits of that pro
vince were chiefly owned by Chilians.
Peru had f imilar mines and deposits, and
to help her own finances she induced
weak Bolivia to levy, in the teeth of the
treaty, additional export duties upon the
Chilians who owned the mine3 and de
posits in Atacama, a province of Bolivia.
Chili remonstrated, but her remonstrance
was followed up with fresh outrages
upon her citizens. A secret treaty
between Pern and Bolivia was entered
into, and Chili bad no recourse but to
war. The declaration of war was made
April 5, 1879, and in a little over a year
Chili has destroyed the Peruvian navy,
conquered five hundred miles of sea
coast, destroyed several allied armies and
humbled her enemies.
It is not, therefore, strange that the
stannch little republic ia able to dictate
severe terms to the allies. She will re
quire, it is stated, Bolivia to retire from
the sea-coast altogether by giving up the
province of- Atacama as far
the loa to Chili, Peru taking the
balance. Peru is to pay Chili
$200,000,000 as a war indemnity, and as a
pledge oi the payment of thia almost im
possible sum Chili will retain the district
of Tarapaca. Tins would transfer to
Chili the richest nitrate mines and guano
depositsin the world,and would impover
ish both Peru and Bolivia. These terms
are harah.buttheyarenotlikely to become
softer after the destruction of Callao and
tbo occupation of Lima. They are harsh
but inevitable, and Pern will doubtless
accept them; and the rest of South
America will perhaps read in her fate the
moral that perfidy and double-dealing do
not pay.
Georgia la Coagrm.
In making up the last chapter of this
.record we go back to Monday, the seventh
instant' On that day Mr. Nicholis intro
duced a bill to confer jurisdiction on the
court of claims to hear and determine
the claima of David B. Dillon, for com
pensation for tbe steamer Amazon while
in the service of the United States. Mr.
Persons introduced a bill for the relief of
Hezekiah Miller, of Chattahoochee coun
ty, and Mr. Speer a bill granting a pen
sion to Mrs. Elizabeth Phillips, widow of
George D. Phillips, a soldier of the war
of 1812. The Ute agreement bill “was
passed—the vote being, yeas 174, nays 15.
Messrs. Blount, Cook, Hammond, Nich
olis, Persons, Smith and Speer voted for
it; Mr. Felton was paired, and Mr. Ste
phens did not vote.
The joint resolutions directing the gov
ernment to enforce the eight-honr law
by paying all employees a day’s full pay
for eight hoars’ work were brought be
fore the house, by Mr. Wright, bat he
consented to let them go over, after sev
eral motions to adjourn had been voted
upon.
While the sundry civil bill was nnder
consideration in the senate the following
amendment attracted attention:
was, yeas 130; says 51. Mr. Nicholis
voted in favor of the hill; Messrs. Cook,
Felton, Hammond, -Persons and Smith
voted against it; Messrs. Blount, Speer
and Stephens" did hot vote.
Mr. Smith’s plea for the improvement
of Flint river appears in last Wednesday’s
Record. In the senate the house hill
authorizing the secretary of the interior
to place the name of Della
Benner, widow of the late Lieu
tenant II. II. Benner, on the pension roll
was passed, and so was the joint resolu
tion authorizing the secretary of war to
lend to the Gate City Guard four hun
dred government tents. Both of these
were sent to the president
On tbe last day of the se88ion,Mr. Cook
presented the petition of citizens of Geor
gia, for a pOst-route from House creek to
Wolf creek, in Wilcox county. No other
Georgia business was presented in either
house, and when the hour of twelve
o’clock arrived, both houses were ad
journed without day.
tbe dtlrani oi tbe United Sutea resident la such I
state, and Also to obtain statistic! at tbe number
of forelgn-bom persons, being nudes over tsente
States over five Tears and are resident in any state
which oootainain Ha “—" '
ions which require h
different qualification for tbo right to vote than
that required from native-born citizens.
In the course of the long debate that
took place an this amendment, Senator
Brown explained the poll tax of Georgia,
and showed that the amendment would
be inoperative because most of the census
work would be completed before the
amendment could be carried into effect.
Mr. Hill also took part in the debate.
The senate adjourned without acting on
the amendment, but on the next day it
was laid on the table, the noes not being
counted. Upon the question whether
the house would yield to the senate in
the matter of more liberal salaries for the
employes of ihe latter, Messrs. Cook,
Hammond, Nicholis, Persons and Smith
voted “aye;” Mr. Blount voted “no,'
and Messrs. Felton, Speer and Stephens
did not vote. Mr. Felton was paired
with a Pennsylvania member. None of
tho Georgia members voted in favor of
adjourning on the 16th instant.
Both of the Georgia senators voted to
add salt to a bill admitting classical
antiquities free of duty; bnt
neither of them voted on the
proposition to print 2,000 additional
copies of the centennial map, costing ten
dollars a copy. Upon the final passage
of the depnty marshal’s bill, Messrs.
Cook, Hammond .Nichols, Persons, Speer
and Stephens voted “aye;” Mr. Smith
voted “no,” and Messrs. Blount and Fel
ton were paired. The bill authorizing
the treasurer of the United States to re
fund to W. B. Farrar, of Whitfield county,
taxes illegally collected from him in 1S77,
was sent to the president. The amount
to be refunded is only $133.07. Mr. Farrar
was the proprietor of a small distillery,
and the tax illegally collected grew out
of its operation.
The sharp debate over the Kellogg case,
in which Mr. Hill and the South Caro
lina senators participated, appears in the
Record of the 12th instant. Mr. Hill’
speech was, however, held for revision.
The bills for the relief of Catherine L
Gillis and of Robert Erwin were reached,
but by general .consent were not called
np for consideration. The bill for the
people will sooner or later pnt him in I of Robert Habersham, George Pat-
the white house. j jen and John S. Yifiaionga was indefi.-
Tbe Mails aiurMaa War. | nitely postponed.
The war that Chili is waging with Pern] Mr. HHl’s speech on the Kellogg case
and Bolivia is plainly nearing its end.! appears in the Record for last Sunday.
The Chilian armies and navy have ; Mr. Brown discussed at length the
scarcely met with a repulse. The con- : Mexican pension bill, bnt his
quest of Tarapaca involved almost the an- : remarks were withheld for revision,
nihilxtioa r-f the allied army. The second ; They appear in last Wednesday's Record.
landing on Peruvian soil waa made at In the h*tse the btll making eight hours —„ .—_
Ho, which ties about 100 miles south of i a day’s work in the government employ- * salary which had been offered. By sell-
The niMtew* UUr.
All who are acquainted with the citi
zens of Flipgizzard will join with The
Constitution in lamenting that anything
has occurred to interrupt the serenity of
that flourishing municipality. We need
not take the trouble to explain to our
readers that the people of Flipgizzard are
a quiet people. They have accustomed
themselves to looking after their own in
dividual aflairs, without inquiring into
the affairs of their neighbors, except so
far as these might suppose to affect the
common interests of the community.
They are quiet—the people of Flipgizzatd
—bnt at the same time they are thrifty
and energetic, and it has been the boast
of those who know them best that their
industry has brought them a reasonable
degree of prosperity. The difficulty into
which Flipgizzard has been plunged has
been a matter of notoriety for several
weeks, so that we violate no confidence
in alluding to it here in order that we
may emphasize our sympathies by giving
it publicity.
Flipgizzard, as most of our readers
know, is governed by an intendant, a
board of council and a board of commis
sioners. The present intendant, a very
worthy citizen, was chosen by the largest
majority ever given- to any citizen
of Flipgizzard—a fact which
was not only a tribute to his personal
popularity, but a token that the people
had the utmost confidence in his integri
ty and in his ability. There was great
rejoicing, we remember, over the Tesnlt,
and the people of Flipgizzard not only
congratulated themselves, but wero the
recipients of congratulations from the
well-pleased citizens of adjacent manic!
polities. The office of intendant of Flip
gizzard carries with it an appointing
power, and it is here that all the tronble
has originated. Among the citizens of
Flipgizzard there are many who have
been in the habit of depending upon of
fice for a livelihood, so that when
the worthy intendantossumed the duties
of his position, he was literally be-
seiged, day and night, by those who are
bold enough to lay claim to the emolu
ments of office. They even followed the
intendant to his home, and their efforts
were so persistent and so vigorous that
the hinges of his front door were kept
hot
As a matter of coarse, the most of
these seekers after place were disap
pointed. There were not offices enough
in twenty-seven municipalities the size
of Flipgizzard to satisfy these applicants,
and as each one presumed upon his
ability so far as to believe that he alone
should have been appointed, there was
good deal of soreness developed among
this ambitions class of citizens. There
was considerable grumbling on tho street
corners and in front of the groceries
where the better class of office-seekers
gathered to chew tobacco, to play
draughts and to wait for somebody to
oger to treat, bnt the first evidence that
the soreness was serions was found in
the sparkling columns of the Weekly
Blather. That able and influential re
pository of political information opened
the campaign in these words: “For Bey-
“eral days past there has been
“depressing rumor to tho effect
“ that our worthy intendant was seen at
“a prayer-meeting last Wednesday night.
“ In tbe interest of justice and fair-play
“ we have taken the trouble to investigate
“ this matter, and we regret to state that
“the rumor is true. Indeed, we are re-
“ liably informed that the said official was
“quite conspicuous, going so far as to
“ pray in public. We leave it for an im-
“ partial pnblic to judge whether the
“honest people of Flipgizzard elected
“this man to perform the responsible du-
“ ties of his high office or to officiate at
“ prayer-meetings.”
Under the title of “Whither are We
Drifting?” this remarkable piece of com
position was immediately copied into
the Gashing Galoot, an .evening pa
per of great ability and fine literary
standing, and thus the tronble in which
the politics of Flipgizzard are involved
was inaugurated. It has since developed
into a most furious onslaught, but it can
not be said that the intendant was not
warned. By ignoring this warning he
made a bitter enemy of the able editor
of tho Weekly Blather and inflamed the
influential conductor of the Gushing
Galot, so that now he cannot hope to
turn for sympathy to these organs of
free constituency. The intendant not
only ignored the warning, but in
very short time so far forgot his
duty to Ids country as to attend
Sunday-school celebration in
neighboring village. When this rep
rehensible conduct became generally
known the inflamed editor of the
Gushing Galoot endeavored to nproot the
English language in searching for terms
of condemnation, and in this he was
joined by the editor cf the Daily Bnm-
blebat. “Has it come to this?” wrote the
gifted editor of the Bumblebat, with
withering eloquence, “that our public
“ aflairs are to be left to take care of them-
“ selves while this man deserts the re
sponsibilities of his position to seek the
“ notoriety to be found at the head of
“procession of Sunday-school children?
“Has it come to this that the safety
“of onr institutions depends upon
“ the morbid religious enthusiasm of one
“ individual. In the name and in behalf
“of the people whom, in onr humble
“ capacity, we claim to represent, we pro-
“ test 'against this misappropriation of
“the precions moments that shonld be
“ devoted to looking after those interests
“ of vital pnblic concern that continually
“ demand attention.’
Strangely enough, the intendant con-
tinned to fly in the teeth of pnblic opin
ion that had fonnd snch prompt expres
sion in the columns of the Weekly
Blather, the Gushing Galoot and the
Daily Bumblebat, and the resnlt was that
these influential journals, cheered on by
the applause of the disappointed office-
seekers, tore the intendant limb fromlimb
(on paper) and scattered bis offending
remains to the four winds. But this was
not all. The unhappily j|pstitnted in
tendant of Flipgizzard not only attended
ci.orch regularly, but he did worse, as
the sequel will presently show. It so
happened that a member of the board of
aldermen discovered that be could better
promote his private interests by resign
ing his office and acceptingaremnnerative
Ids votes and prostituting his office
other directions too well known to the
office-seekers, he might have remained
an alderman and enjoyed a large income,
bnt he chose to resign, and the intendant
immediately appointed his successor—a
citizen of acknowledged capacity. Imme
diately the disappointed office-seekers
and their friends raised a great hue and
cry of corruption. The public and pri
vate records of these citizens were swept
away like cobwebs, and a most deter
mined assault was made upon their char
acter. The able and influential journals
alrealy alluded to had an exceedingly
rare time. Their methods can be better
illustrated by a few extracts from
interviews,” which we take
pleasure in making from
the Gushing Galoot and Daily Bumbte-
bat—journals of acknowledged power and
influence in Flipgizzard:
Hon. M. Van Burcn Botts—Bargain
and sale. Yes, sir. Most decidedly. I
am a candidate for intendant myself,
and I think I ought to know.”
“Colonel G. Washington Bnmbgardner
'gave onr reporter a friendly poke in the
ribs, and was otherwise exceedingly
courteous. He has no doubt that the
honest people of Flipgizzard have been
grossly outraged by a corrupt transac
tion, but further than this he has
nothing to say. It will be
membered that Colonel Bnmgardner
was one of the earliest and most promi
nent applicants for the position of Cus
todian cf the Public Corkscrew, but he
“bad nothing to offer the presejitadmin-
“ istration except his well-knowpRftitj^'
“Hon. N. Bonaparte Smut—I have fore-
“seen this from the first I withdrew
“ my application for the post of Bilker of
“the Revenue as soon as I discovered the
“ tendency of the present intendant.
Depend upon it, sir, he is a corrupt
“ man—yes, sir, essentially corrupt.”
“Colonel P. Henry Stnbbs was too
“busy to talk with his accustomed free-
‘dom and flnency, but he did not hesi-
'tate to denounce the whole transaction
“as one of the most sickening evidences
“of the utter demoralization of onr pub
lic men, and he left our reporter to infer
'that he might no longer be considered a
"candidate for any position within the
‘the gift of the present intendant. Our
“whole population is aronsed.”
We heartily sympathize with the mu
nicipality of Flipgizzard. To be in the
clutches of an intendant who has re
ligions tendencies and who is reckless
enough to appoint capable men to office
is surely very trying. It seems certain
that the people will avenge these out
rages, and then there will once more be
peace and tranquility in Flipgizzard. In
the meantime too high a tribute cannot
be paid to the persistent ferocity of those
who, in season and out of season, have
rebuked the morality of tho intendant,
and uncovered the corruption that exists
in the administration of affairs in Flip
gizzard.
Ite Ac
We reproduce the platform of the Il
linois democrats, because of its brevity,
point and general excellence. It is as
comprehensive as a platform a yard long,
and far more intelligible. Here it is in
fall:
1. No t.rifi lor protection.
4. Equal rights to all the states, and no federal
Interference with the consUtutlonal functions of
states.
5. A constitutional currency of gold and silver,
and of paper coutroTcrtible Into coin.
BILL ASP'S PHILOSOPHY.
majorities most rule under the cousUtutional
—Letbod. No more such frauds as that ot 1S7G; no
bora tight to seven.
Laws .hall he enaeted to protect laborers in the
more prompt and certain collectlq^of their tra-
Tiie president’s veto message goes over
to December along with a vast amount of
other unfinished business. The veto
simply puts the republican party on
record as opposed to a fair election; for
the vetoed bill looked to the selection of
deputy marshals for election purposes by
the courts from the two parties of the
country. The bill is fair and jnst in
every respect, and no man who wants
fair play could object to it- The presi
dent, however, speaks for his party when
he interposes to save to it the close dis
tricts and states.
•4 OK Axe—The lettraa—
•r Polities.
Written for The Constitution.
On tbe whole, the outlook at home and
abroad is very encouraging. Everything is
moving niong about right The crops look
healthy, and we farmers are catching np
with tbe grass. There’s been a power of
work done in the last ten dsys; thermom
eter close on to a hundred, but we never
stopped. I had to swap clothes every night,
and slept like a log—bat it's all right
There’s nobody hurt on our side. A white
man can stand tbe heat of summer just as
good as a black man—after he gets used to
it though there ia some tittle difficulty
about getting used to it My greatest trou-
chopping out cotton is in
the back. I.can bend over first rate, but
when I come to a perpendicular it hurts.
That’s a sign of old age. I hate to give it
up mighty bad, but its coming on shore.
I am losing the spring of life, the rebound.
I can still pnt my hands on a fence and
jump over tike I used to, but the fence
must be a low one. The other day I went to
. amp over aditch with my tittle boy on my
sack and I jumped in it. 1 don’t undet-
stand yet how it happened, bat I’m afraid
there's a general weakening goiug on iu my
muscles. Co be says that plowing is the
easiest work for an old man, though its
oarder on the stock, for the horse has to
pull the plow and the man too. I think I
will qnit work some of these days and take
office and rest—that is it I can get
one. I think I would tike to travel a
little and see something of the world, and
so when onr president is elected I’m going
to apply for a consulate. I did think of
taking a secretary’s place under Loohraue,
but as things are working I reckon 1,11 have
to give him one under me, and I’ll do it,tor
hes splendid company, aud I tike hint. I
want him to take me over to the green isle
where the shamrock and the shilaly blooms
and see hint on his natiyeheath. My ante-
cestors come from there and I'm
proud of it I think we are in a
lair way now to save the conntry.
We can beat Garfield with most
anybody. 1 had no ides he waa such a bad
utan until our newspapers began to venti
late him. Why, he is theworst man I ever
ueard of. Betrayed his friends—took bribes
for his vote and influence—swore to a tie
m the credit mobilier, and run like a tor-
key at thb battle of Chickamauga. And
yet his state elected him for senator, aud
Mr. Lincoln raised him to a major-genetal
right af-er the battle. It's curious, aint it
And General Grant is still floating around
—says he iB no politician—says he
is for Seymour, and his friends
say he would accept a nomination from thq
democrats and I hear of some democrats,so-
calledjWho are for him. Too late, too late.
We tried him twice against our will and if
he ain’t got no politics I don't know what
you call it He is now fifty-eight years old
aDd the doctors say a man never changes his
babits or his principles after he is forty-five.
He needn’t be hanging around our camp
fires. We can whip this fight.without him.
I don’t think Seymour will run and I don’t
care if he don’t, for niy opinion is he's
about as puny as Tilden. At least he says
he is. We want a sound mind in a sound
body—no invalid, no paralysis, no gruntin’
around. Mr. Tilden is pigeon-toed.
I don't tike that I don't aBk a
man to turn his toes out, bnt I don’t want
'em in. I want our president to be built up
from tbe grouitd all right. I would rather
he should be a largo man. I tike large men,
especially for large offices. I’ve got nothing
against small men for I’m one of em myself,
but I've noticed that most of ’em have some
small ways about ’em. Wish I could see
all of our great men standing up together in
a row, and have 'em step six paces to tbe
front. Then I could pick out the man for
the president in two - minutes. Frank
Jones used to say yotucouldent tell any-
thing about a woman until you had seen her
walk. Jesso, there’s something in
the size and movement of a man that shows
his character as much as his face aud fea
tures. There’s lots oi clever men, good
men, useful men who bavent got much size,
nor hardly any movement, and some of em
are pigeon-toed, or knock-need, or box-
anklcd or hump-shouldered, but that! no
reason they were bom to be a president.
Some horses are built for palling and some
for trotting and some for pacing, and some
are sway-backed for going to mill,and some
are ladies horses, and some are for speed at
short distances tike quarter nags, bnt
when yon want a four mile
racers the horse must be built tike
Goldsmith's Maid or Lexington. I've al
ways thought I was a lady’s horse myself,
and I'm not complaimn of my fate or occu
pation, for it was Done of my doings.
Now what we want in our party is har
mony—we want peace and good will both
iu our state and national politics. Every
body must be wilting to stand aside and
wait if it’s necessary for the good of tbe
party—I’m going to do it myself. I'm
standing aside and waiting right now. A
I what
FE0M CINCINNATI.
TILDEN WITHDRAWS HIS NAME
8*ymow it Aim Vtrj 8ty— Preparation for tk*
Work Ahead-Mr. Hill Before th* Geor-
•gla Delegation, Outline* Hia Idea* - —
. of Coming Pol’tical Events.
Cotton blooms are coming in, and
nearly every lowland paper has one. At
Memphis the first bloom opened on Sun
day, June Gtb, or about ten days ahead
of the average of later years. Last year
the first bloom arrived June 18th; in
1878, June 7th; m 1877, June 22d; in
1876, June 14th; in 1875, June 16th, and
in 1874, June 18th.
Tns hill to promote the construction o*
a military, commercial and postal railroad
from San Antonio to Laredo, on the Rio
Grande, has been favorably reported in
the senate. This hill is intended not only
to the benefit of the government, but to
meet a road that will soon, it ia said, be
built from Mexico City to the dividing
river.
. Tub death of the first discoverer of
Califorhia gold, General John A. Sutter,
recalls to mind the marvelous growth of
California. It has outgrown fortunately
the craze of mining excitement, and its
wheat fields now produce more than all
its pay-gravel and gold-bearing ro (is.
GEORGIA POLITICS*
Mr. Thomas P. Johnson, who has been
nominated for collector of the port of Savannah,
in place of Atkins, ia the youngest son of ex-Gov-
ernor Herschel V. Johnson, and the appointment
will no doubt give satisfaction to the merchants
and business men of Savannah. Mr. Johnson has
never taken any very great interest in politics,
but a few years ago he would occasionally place
Us heels on the front verandah ol the Florida
house and remark that the country ought to be
reformed, or words to that effect He Is full of
business, and when there is no business on band
he is full of humor. Sherman has probably put
the knife into Atkins because the latter was for
Grant, and if Johnson is confirmed there will
doubtless be a general cleaning out of a some
what unwholesome nest. At last accounts Mr.
Johnson was deputy postmaster at Savannah.
Mr Jonathan Norcross cannot make np
his mind to believe that The Constitution Is
earnestly seeking to promote the welfare of the
colored people. He seems Inclined to believe that
we are .endeavoring tu entrap the colored voter
into joining the democratic party or something of
that kind. As usual. Mr. Norcross is wrong. It
is a matter of supreme indifference to The Con
stitution whether colored men vote the demo
cratic ticket. We believe it would be to their in
terest to do so. but we are perfectly willing to
leave considerations of that sort altogether out of
the question. What we axe interested in is that
our colored fellow-citizens should their
dignity and self-respect, and this they can never
do while they allow themselves to be led around
fey the nose by a parcel of white politicians and
office-seekers. If they will vote the republican
ticket, let them do so upon their own judgment
and responsibility and in their own interest, so
that It will be thoroughly understood that they
are not subject to the manipulations of would-be
office holders. We are perfectly willing to leave
it to time and the educational development of the
race to make democrats of the colored voters.
Griffin News : The state convention,
which astembled In Atlanta last week, was com
posed of representative men from all parts of the
state—men who kuow something of the political
sentiments of the people their counties.
Knowing this to be true, we made in
quiries of gentlemen from -various por
tions of the state as to how the people stood
on the gubernatorial race, and miter getting
the information we conld ootain in this way. we
were forced into the following conclusions: That
Governor Colquitt was the strongest man in "*
race, and would Have a majority if not a
thirds vote, in the convention. The re
cent excitement created by his enemies* cry of
fraud is dying oot and the reaction has taken
place, and he is gainingjdrength every day. Next
toColqoiu,BnfnsE. Lester lithe strongest; be
will have a pretty strong following in the cooven
all parts of the state. We
tnan oughtent to fuss about wliat he can't
help. If tbe majority of our people want
Governor Colquitt renominated, then every
aspiring man ought to acquiesce and make
it unanimous, and give him the right hand
of friendship. Soreheads get no sympathy,
and slander is envy’s stench.
The other day a snake bit General Gordon
on the jaw—I mean my two-year-old colt—
and it swelled up powerful, and the sweat
K ured off of him in bis agony, and he had
:e to have died, but be didn't A snake
is jnst like a slanderer—slipping aronnd on
the sly and squirting poison. I hunted for
that snake diligently. I mowed down all
the dog-fennel, and Sleaned up things gen
erally. I wish I had have found him, for
Mrs. Arp's sake. She believes he is all
about here—under the honse, and in the
garden, and behind tbe bed, and last night
I had taken off ray cravat and it fell off the
bnreau on the floor and she looked at it
over her spectacles for a minute and then
says she solemnly: “William, what is that
„ Its an awful
thing to be .
I think I would rather die from anything
else except slander. I had a friend who
was bitten on the ankle by a cotton-month
down at 8tonewall iron-works, and before
they could get any whisky his leg began to
swell and he got crazy as a lunatic. They
poured a pint or two down him and he got
crazier and crazier and cavorted all over the
house crying and cussing and praying and
preaching and winding np every paragraph
with “Boys I went through the infernal
war all safe and have lived to be forty-nine
years old just to die by a darned snake. Oh
Lordy! Send for a preacher somebody.”
It'8 jnst awfal to think of—that sort of a
epitaph on a man's tombstone—died from a
snake bite. Bat be didn't die and 1 hope he
wont until be wants to, and that's a long
time off, I reckon. There’s other
vailiDgnowin these parts. The children
pick blackberries every day and scratch for
red-biigs all night long. They say this
scratching business is healthy for it keeps
the pores open and the blood circnlatin and
keeps off fever. It does look like every
bad thing had something good about it,
though it aint always in sight.
Yonre, Bill Arp,
Old Master’s Grave.
Air—“Little Ole Log Cabin.’*
BY SAM W. SMALL, “OLD 8L”
I*a bin down iu de ole grabe-yabd
Etirty nigh de live-long day,
Iu de little red chu’ch shadders
’Mongst de toom-atones olo an* gray;
I’se bln lookin’ at de sank place
Whar* ole master’s laid away,
What* de form I used ter lub so well
Hex vanish’d wid decay.
Chorus—Oh. I’se huntid fur an’ wide ter fln*
A home sense he’s bin gone.
An* my lot hez eber fell in greevloua lines,
So dar’a only one home lef'
In dis wide, wide worl’ fer me.
An* hit’s in dat little church-yard in de
pines!
Dar wuz wun time days ob plenty
In de ole homestead up dere,
An’ ter look ter my young master
Wuz dis nigger’s only care;
Now de place am all desartid
* An’ ole master lies below,
While de yung wun died In battle
On de bres’-works ob de foe!
Chorus—
My ole cabin on de hill-side
I* now level’d on de groun*
An’ my wife is In dat grabe-yahd
Bleepin’ ’neaf er lonesome moun*; ,
All my friendz ob days goue-by
Dey bez scatter’d fur away,
An* de echo ob my weepln*
Is my only fre’n* ter-day.
Chorus-
Bat, ole master, I is cornin’.
An’ my wife. I’ll be dar soon,
Fer I klnnot las’ throu’ many
Forder rhnn>Hn« ob de moon;
Fer my po’r ole heart am yearnin’
Ter g^b nb dis painful life,
An* I wants dese ole bones restin’
*Twixt ole master an* my wife!
Chorus—
Special Editorial correspondence Constitution.
Cincinnati, June 19—5 p.m.—It is now
settled definitely that Tilden’s name will
not go before the convention. A letter of
withdrawal, said to be the grandest ever
written, is now on its* way here, and I will
wire it to you to-night
.7 FORMING NEW ALLIANCES.
- Tilden’s friends here changed front rapid
ly fu^d^re pulling every wire for Payne, of
Ohio. They are hostile to Bayard, outraged
with Hendricks, disgusted with Thurman,
opposed to Hancock, indifferent to Field
and Jewett, and at work for Payne. '
This gives Payne a boom, but hia nomi
nation is improbable, as Tilden can only
transfer his trash and not the hnlk of his
honest supporters.
Mr. Jewett has a strong following in the
Ohio delegation and is reinforced by the
friends of Mr. Bishop, who are pushing the
ex-governor for vice-president and know
that Payne’s nomination will be fatal. It
is claimed that when Ohio quits Thurman,
Jewett and Bishop can keep it out of
Payne’s clutches. If this is so, Mr. Payne
canuot be nominated. There is
GREAT INDIGNATION
at the attempt ' to make this whole
sale transfer of Mr. Tilden, contemplated
simply because Bill Whitney, Payne’s son-
in-law, is Tilden's closest friend. Ex-Mayor
Wickham, of New York, claims that New
Jersey New York, New Hampshire and
Connecticut will present Payne solidly as
Tilden's legatee. But this I doubt.
A WEAK BOOM.
Tilden's withdrawal has suggested Eng
lish, of Connecticut, but this boomlet is
weak. He has no perceptible strength bnt
owns one of the largest barrels in America.
THE HENDRICKS* PEOPLE.
A little life is thrown into the Hendricks
boom by a decision of the supreme court
which brings the Indiana state election in
October, and makes that an October state.
This decision was made yesterday, and the
Hendricks men say it is asserted that the
democrats shall carry Indiana in October,
as to lose that state and Ohio wonld defeat
it in November, and they urge that it can
not be carried if Hendricks is again ruled
out.
MET BY FIELD.
This is met by Judge Field's friends, who
say that their man can carry New York,
New Jersey and the Pacific slope, and that
Indiana can he left out.
SEYMOUR WILL NOT RUN.
As I predicted, Seymour is out of the
race. He telegraphs the Enquirer that he
will not and cannot accept the
nomination if it is made
under any circumstances. He was the only
man that could have swept the convention.
This withdrawal makes it
A FREE FOB ALL FIGHT.
There is now not the slightest doubt that
the Pacific slope will present Field unani
mously. A caucus was hel£ of the delegates
this morning, and only one, a nephew of
Mr. Hendricks, opposed this plan. The
Field, Bayard and Payne headquarters are
the only ones that show activity. Judge
Thurman's friends are dispirited, and it was
rumored to-day lhat he would he with
drawn before the convention met. Senator
Wallace, who manages for. Hancock, is
known to be for Field, and the Hancock
boom is flatulent accordingly.
NOT IN EARNEST.
The trouble with Bayard’s supporters is
that they are not in earnest about nomi
nating their man. They want to compli
ment him, bat are afraid to nominate him.
One of them said to me to-day: “If I was
sure my. vote would nominate him I would
be afraid to cast it.*' In my belief the fight
narrowed down to
FIELD, JEWETT AND PAYNE,
with Randall as a possible dark horse, and
English not impossible.
I think Bayard may have tlie fullest vote
on the first ballot, and Field next, with
Payne next, and the balance toiling along.
Governor Brown reached here to-night,
and General Gordon is due Monday morn
ing. H. W. G.
accepted by the three states xihtch
he named, -would win. He believed
that this convention would nominate the
president He did not think the strong
support of Field from the south would in
jure his chances with the north. Bayard
he deemed out of the race. Mr- HilL said
the election depended upon the selection
of a candidate who can carry New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut.
The delegation heard Mr. Hill with in
terest and asked him many questions about
the details of the claims of the various can
didates. The delegation will vote about
evenly for Field and Bayard on the first
ballot, in order to show that they ore wed
ded to no one man, but are ready to accept
the strongest and most available man.
THE LOOMING NAMES.
The impression grows that Payne, Jewett
and Field are the men from whom choice
will come, Payne representing the Tilden
interest, Jewett seeking to hold with both
others, and Field on his own claims, with
English held in reserve,to take np the Payne
flag if tlie latter has to step out.
New York and other interested delega
tions meet to-night when further develop
ments are expected. The Tammany leaders
here say they will support any man nomi-
na ted, so it be not Tilden. S. W. S.
temporary chairman of the convention;
Governor Stevenson of Kentucky, proba
bly permanent chairman.
H. W. G.
Approaching a Snarl.
TILDEN'S LETTER—OBJECTIONS TO PAYNE—A
CONFERENCE POSTPONED.
Special Staff Correspondence Constitution,
Cincinnati, June 19,10:39 r. m.—Tilden's
letter is here hut its contents are not
known. A caucus of his friends to-morrow
will determine when and how it shall be
given publicity. It ia reported as lengthy
and bis friends claim that, excluding the
introduction and the conclusion, tho con
tents as they stand would be accepted aa
the platform for the coming campaign.
OBJECTIONS TO rAYNE.
There is trouble brewing among anti-
Tilden men over the proposition to make
Payne the legatee. They object to the idea
of being transferred by favor or force at
Tilden’s will. They say Grant could not
carry party imperialism so far, and why
should Tilden.
THE “BOSS” don’t LIKE IT.
John Kelly, in an interview to-night
says: “Payne, while otherwise acceptable,
would not be as a successor to Tilden's man
tle and unfinished fights.” While Tam
many’s action will not be determined till
the arrival of hb men to-morrow, he can
assert that it will fight Payne, if Payne b
only Tilden's tool.
AND WE DON’T LIKE IT OUR8ELVES.
The Georgia delegation b generally not
pleased with the Payne programme. They
want the man who can win the support of
all the factions of the party everywhere.
THE CONSULTATION POSTPONED.
The consultation between the New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut men has been
postponed because it b feared an agreement
thus early would enable possible com
binations before Tuesday that would defeat
their programme. The tendency now b to
have the southern delegates agree
to scatter their votes till the man who can
unite the northern delegations is found.
The Indiana delegation to day decided
not to accept the second place for any In
diana man. They want tint or nothing.
S. W. S.
Tbe Tiehborae Cl
Special dispatch to The Constitution.
London, Jane 19.—In the court of appeals
yesterday, on application being made for
farther delay in the hearing of the appeal
in the case of the Tichborne claimant, in
consequence of the continued illness of Ju
dah P. Beniamin, claimant’s counsel, Jus
tice Sir George Brom well said the case must
be argued next Thursday, or stand over
until autumn.
Fever*.'
Sections of territory where fevers are and
have been brought on by reason of a mala
rial infected atmosphere are using, and
with complete success. In keeping off sueh
afflictions, Warner’s 8afs Kidney and Liver
Cure, and Warner's Safe Pills. Parties
down*sick with diseases of such a character
are cured by the use of same.
666 fcbl-daimsQii wedfri&wlimMp
A Biff Pow-Wow .
IN THE GEORGIA DELEGATION—VIEWS OF SENA
TOR HILL.
Special Staff Correspondence Constitution.
Cincinnati. June 19,7 p.m.—TheGeoigia
delegation.organized at 1 p.m., by electing
General Lawton chairman and Mr. Bussell
as secretary. The headquarters selected is
in the large building on the comer of Vine
and Fourth streets, and the Georgia banner
was out thb evening. Delegates Wabh
and Wilkins have not yet arrived.
MB. niLL AS AN AMBASSADOR.
At the meeting of the delegation Senator
Hill, who arrived thb morning, was pres
ent, and was requested to give bb views of
the situation. Mr. Hill said he conld only
stale what he knew of the situation at pres
ent. What it would be to-morrow, or Mon
day, he conld not say. He had been actively
interested in the canvass for two months
past, and recently in consultation with dis
tinguished gentlemen in the interest of the
success of tbe democratic party. The
programme to-day, he said, was—
First. That Mr. Tilden had written a let
ter withdrawing from the race. Mr. Tilden
was satisfied that the republicans and fac
tions of democrats had succeeded, in a three
years* fight, to destroy hb availability as a
candidate. All efforts to heal the breach
between him and Tammany are abortive,
and he retires.
Second. Mr. Seymour positively declines
the use of hb name.
Third. The delegates from New York,
Connecticut and New Jersey are consulting
to find a man who can best unite the party
and win those states. Thb latter they
deem essential in order, in the event of the
election of a democratic president, that the
senate may also be preserved to make hb
adminbtration effective. To do the latter,
it b necessary to have senators elected from
New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana. To
accomplbh these designs, Payne. Englbh,
of Connecticut, and Jewett are most talked
of; Jewett and Field come next in order.
Payne b strong, and it b believed he can
win. Indiana wants Hendricks, bnt would
take the second, place for another son to
help democratic unity and success.
In reply to questions from the delegates.
Mr. Hill said that Mr. Tilden was making a
great sacrifice; that of all things southern
delegates should be generous and kind to
him, and that the delegations of the three
states named should be watched and con
sulted as the surest in their anited choice
to present ns an acceptable and victorious
leader. Mr. Hendricks was hb friend and
would make a good president, but could
hardly harmonize the difficulty, to heal
which Mr. Tilden withdraws. Of the
other names canvassed all are good men.
Mr. Field, in the event of a difficulty
over the electoral count* or
resistance by the republicans to
surrender after their defeat, would be,
after Eaton, pur surest leader, because of
hb union record and hb courage, equal to
Caesar's. Payne or Englbh are acceptable
to Mr. Tilden. The relations between the
latter and Mr.'Field at present are doubt
ful. Altogether, Mr. Hill thought either
Payne, Englbh, Field or Jewett, it
Tflden’a Letter.
ft DOES NOT SUGGEST PAYNE—GOVERNOR
BROWN OPPOSES PAYNE.
Special Editorial Correspondence Constitution.
Cincinnati, June 19,11:30 p.m.—I am un
able to wire you the text of Mr. Tilden’s
letter of withdrawal to-night It has just
been received and b now held by Mr. Whit
ney, son-in-law of Mr. Payne. Henry
Watterson has just told me that Tilden did
not determine to withdraw until Thursday
morning and wrote the letter without de
lay. It does not suggest a second choice,
but the entire Tilden force has
CHANGED FRONT FOB TAYNE.
If there is any change since my last dis
patch it b in favor of Payne, who is backed
by enormous delegations from New York
and elsewhere.
GOVERNOR BROWN OPPOSES HIM.
Gov. Brown has just arrived and b very
much opposed to Payne’s nomination. He
says we cannot carry Ohio in October, and
to have our presidential candidate lose hb
own state in the October election would de
press us in November. It is claimed that
Tammany has agreed to take Payne, and
that his nomination will heal all the sores.
If true, thb looks bad for the other candi
dates.
But I doubt if Tammany will agree to let
Tilden name a man. It b certain that the
Kelly-Belmont-Travers crowd is still at
work for Bayard.
THE RANDALL CLUB,
one hundred strong, reached here to-night
and if Marble-faced Sam takes a notion to
put in hb oar, he may break up the Tilden
transfer. H. W. G.
The Gathering Crowds.
SCENES AROUND THE DIFFERENT HEADQUAR
TERS.
Special Editorial Correspondence of Constitution.
Cincinnati, June 19,1:30 p.m.—The city
b filling up with the friends of the candi
dates and the various headquarters are
busy'anfl active.
Mr. Bayard’s interests are in charge of Mr.
August Belmont and W. K- Travers, Gov
ernor Hunter and Dorsheimer, who have
parlors at the St. Nicholas. They are bend
ing every nerve to secure tho success of
their favorite and are bitterly anti-Tilden.
They favor Jewett or Field as a second
choice, but of course do not talk of any
second. •
Sam Randall, Watterson and the Tilden
people also have rojms at the St. Nicholas;
ao that the warring factions will he face to
face.
Judge Field’s friends are quietly fixed up
at the Gibson, where elegant apartments
are presided over by Sam B. Smith, John E.
Ward and several California and Nevada
men.
Two car-loads of prominent New Yorkers
will arrive to-day. There b no doubt that
Field has the best organization of any of
the aspirants. Twelve million copies of his
life have been circulated.
Tbe Hendricks headquarters are at the
Grand, in charge of Austin Brown and M.
M. Hoar. There is a woeful lack of acrowd
at these rooms, bat Brown says 400 Indl-
anians will be down Sunday to whoop for
Hendrjcks and make things lively.
The Hancock men seem to be doing little
or nothing and the Hendricks boom lan-
gublies accordingly.
The Jewett boom b under fine control
aud b managed by Sidney Jones as advance
pickot. Jewett’s friends claim that he will
get Ohio after it leaves Thurman and New
York after it leaves Tilden. Thb would
look like a nomination and if it comes to
pass Jewett will be hard to turn. Thurman’s
friends are lbtlessand discouraged and they
will uot hold on long. The general im
pression here seems to be that unless Sey
mour consents to the use of his name there
will be a sharp and stubborn fight. “Sey-
monr can sweep the convention,” said a
democratic leader, “but no one ebe can.”
August Belmont babosive of Tilden,
who he denounces as an arch-traitor. He
takes no stock in Tilden’s alleged lack of
health. “He is like one of the candidates
for pope. Yon know the cardinab always
insisted on having a weak, sickly pope so
that they could manage him. The lncky
candidate walked about bent to tbe earth
until he saw the smoke from the cardinab
room, which announced that the election
was over fend the ballots were being burned.
He then rose and walked erect. Being
asked as to .the change he said. 1 have
been searching for the dropped key of St.
Peters. Having found it I can lift my
head.’ Give Tilden the nomination,’* said
Mr. Belmont,” “and you will see him in
health again.”
An objection urged to Field b that Kear
ney has said he wouldn't support him. Jk
delegate protests it b getting to be ridicu
lous. John Kelly with a gang of Irishmen
guards the Atlantic coast and says the de
mocracy shall not nominate one man—and
Dennb Kearney with a gang of Irishmen
guard the Pacific and rules out another fa
vorite. The American people appear to
have few preferences that Irishmen are
bound to respect.
Judge Hoadley or Frank |Hurd will be
Trouble On tbe Pacific.
THE CALIFORNIA DELEGATES GIVE A TURN TO
AFFAIRS.
3pecial Staff Correspondence Constitution.
Cincinnati,June 19—12 midnight. There
is reported trouble in the California delega
tion. A part of it bending to the working-
men’s vote aud the convention action,,
therefore favoring Thurman, met to-night,,
in the absence of other delegates, and suc
ceeded in'" electing an anti-Field chair
man. The regular Field men claim that
this action will be reversed by the full dele-
gation, but much damage is already
done to Mr. Field by this queer
action. It is considered that this action
shows a Tilden-Payne transfer in operation,
and tnat the “barrel” campaign is Opened.
Major Tom O'Conner, in charge o? the
Tennessee headquarters, speaks freely
democratic success. He says that Tennes
see will divive between Seymour, Bayard 1
and Field. Seymour’s declination does
not appear insurmountable to hb friends in
the Tennessee delegation.
It is freely stated to-night that he will be
the winning .dark horse after all. But
southern delegates don't take to him at all.
To-morrow, despite it b Sunday, trill pretty
nearly show tho situation in its proper pos
sibilities. S. tym S.
Seymour nays It
AND IT IS VOUCHED FOR BY AN EDITOR.
Cincinnati, June 19.—The Enquirer, thia
morning, says its editor received a pcrsonall
dispatch from Horatio Seymour, and it vio
lates no confidence in printing tho follow
ing extract: “I cannot accept a nomina
tion, if it is made, under any circumstances.
I am not able to do the duties of any office.
Ihopoiny name will not be presented at
Cincinnati in any way. I have never said
I would accept a nomination, nor have I
knowingly intimated that I would. I rely
upon you to set me right with the dele
gates.’ 1 ^
IIOBATIO AND HIS BROTHER JOHN.
Elmira, June 19.—Ex-Governor Sey
mour came here on the train which con
tained a number of Tammany delegates,,
and took a seat in the first car, intending to-
ride to Olean, N. Y. Tho news quickly
spread that that he was aboard, and the
Tammany delegates and a number of
friends marched through the cars and paid
their respects to him. Ho shook each
by the hand, and had a word for every ones.
Three cheers and a tiger for the “Next:
President of the United States, Horatio*
Seymour,” were lustily given by the dele-
B .tes. Mr. Seymour looked fresh and halo..
b brother John was also on the train and 1
took a seat with the delegates. Mr. Sey
mour’s appearance on the cars among the
delegates on tlie eve of the convention b re
garded as significant
‘IF IT TAKES THAT SHAPE I WILL RUN IF IT
KILL8 ME.”
Philadelphia, June 19;—The Times to
day contains tho following important dis
patch from Urica: The Times can say with- .
oqt fear of successful contradiction that
Seymour will not decline the nomi
nation for president. The stories in
the New York Herald are almost totally*
unwarranted. While Seymour has never
for a minute been a candidate, hb po
sition has finally settled down to this: On
Monday Mayor Carter H. Harrison, of Chi
cago, and Mr. Muraford, of the Kansas City
Times, met Governor Seymour at Bagg’s ho
tel in thb place, when the subject was
talked over in every way iu the presence of
the delegates of this dbtrict It was finally
put to Mr. Seymour in this manner by the
spokesman. Mayor Harrison:
“Mr.‘ Seymour, we come here for a posi
tive answer to a plain question. We do not
come here to urge yon to become a candi
date, and if wc can find another man who*
can carry enough electoral votes to win we?,
will do our best to nominate him; but if it.
should appear at Cincinnati that yon are?
the only sure man—in fact, the Moses to*
lead the party out of the wilderness to vic
tory and prosperity, have yon tho backbone
to decline?”
Mr. Seymour avoided Che question for
some time, bnt on a persistent repetition
replied: “if it takes that shape I will run
if it kills me,” adding that he hoped affairs
wonld not tase that turn, and that a young
er and heartier man would be found.
The story that Seymonr had written a
letter to a delegate of his dbtrict, to bo read
at Cincinnati,declining whether nominated
or not, is also denied. J. Thomas Spriggs,
a prominent lawyer hore, is that delegate*
and he assured your correspondeht that he»
has no snch letter. After being shown the;
letter in print, and Seymour having left,
home to begone ten days, he will see him no-
more till after the convention. The Herald
sent for a copy of that letter, and Spriggs
stated that it there was one it was in Cin
cinnati, but be had received none. Where
the letter waa hatched Spriggs does not
know.
THE REPORT IN WASHINGTON,
Washington, June 19.—“If it takes that
shape, I will run if it kilb me!” Thb ia
the latest reported statement here from
Governor Seymour as tohis intentions rela
tive to the Cincinnati nomination, and the
quoted word* are in answer to the question
whether, if his name should be presented
to the convention as the only possible
means of saving the democratic party, he
wonld accept.
As Viewed From the Capital. *
SEYMOUR WILL BB NOMINATED BY ACCLAMA-
* TION.
Washington, Jane 1$.—From information
from Cincinnati, from delegates who have-
passed through here on their way to that
city, and from other sources, indications
are that the national democratic conven
tion will, unless he positively declines,
nominate Seymour by acclamation. If
Seymour b not nut in nomination it seems
that Bayard will be the next strongest can
didate, not even excepting Tilden, as it is
stated many of the Seymour delegates
will vote for him. Field’s candidacy
appears to be damaged by the assertion by
Senator Farley and Representative Berry r -
of California, that the judge could uot car
ry that state. Hancock, also, appears to
havefegood following, while Thurman’s
friends claim that he is the strongest man
in the party, and conld carry Ohio. Hen
dricks’s ana McDonald’s friends are also
working hard for their respective candi
dates.
THE PAY OF ENUMERATORS.
They are Entitled to Pay for Extra
Honrs.
Washington, June 1&—'The secretary ot
the interior has rendered a decision
overruling the construction heretofore
given to the compensation clause of the
census act by the'superintendent of tho
census. The secretary’s decision is of|di-
rect pecuniary interest to all of the 30,000
enumerators now employed throughout
the country. He says, after quoting tho
clause in question, “In the view of thb de
partment, the framers of the provision
quoted intended thereby to fix a basis of
compensation which should not be exceed
ed, and to direct that the enumerators for.
districts east of the 100th meridian should
not he paid a rate exceeding $1 for ten
hours’ actual field work, or40 cents an hour,
and that enumerators for districts west of
the 100th meridian should not be paid a
rate in excels of $6 for ten hours’" work,
or60 cents an hour, without regard to the
number of days over which their services
should extend. The law evidently contem
plates that if an enumerator should be em
ployed in actual field work for twelve
hours a day during the whole terra required
to complete hb work, he should be paid for
twelve hours’ work each day, at a rate not
exceeding $1 for ten hours’ work, or 40
cents per hour, in districts east of the 100th
maxidtan, ana a rate not exceeding $6 for.
ten boars’ work, or 00 cents an hour, for dis
tricts west of the lOO.h meridian. On the
other hand, if the enumerator should aver-*
age but eight hoars per day of actual field
work for h'ts whole term of service, he
should be paid for eight hours* work a day
at a rate per hour not exceeding 40 or GO
cents, according to the dbtrict In which he
was employed.”
Prejudice Kills.
“Eleven years onr daughter suffered on a
bed of raisenr under the care of several of
. the best (and some of the worst) physicians,
who gave her disease various names, bnt no
relief, and now she b restored to os in good
health by as simple a remedy as Hop Bit
ters, that we had poohed at for two years,
before using it. We earnestly hope and
pray that no one else will let their sick suf
fer as we did, on acconnt of prejudice
against so good a medicine aa Hop Bitten.”
—The Parents.—-Telegram.
Tbe Campaign Agalast Disease.
New York, Jane 19.—A Pittsburg special
dispatch says: Four small swift propellers
are now being built here. They are rapidly
approaching completion, and will depirt
next week for the south, where they are
destined to play an important part in the
sanitary condition of the Mississippi valley
daring the coming and subsequent sum
mers in carrying on what must be an effect
ive campaign against tbe spread of yellow
fever. The boats were ordered bv the
United States medical service. They will
distribute proviti »r.s and medicines to the
infected cities, and can be turned into hos-
pitals.
Worry He
with your complaint* bh.ut your teeth,”
said an annoyed father io hb ‘Sweet six-
teener.” “I told you to buy th- SOZO-
DONT and use it, but you didn’t, and yon
deserve to suffer.” And so she did, and al l
other sweet-six teeners who act like her.
aprl5—d3t tues thursatJcwlt
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