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' y HJcgicnriJ patudcaler J. VAN SLYKE. ttflter «H PaMfrhf. McHENRY, - - ILLINOIS THE EAST. •' . -*0 #« mv-:--' Xw .** { v'iii.'t*- Vj. f'«EM rer, at its coining rat#', $46,200,000. Ari- sonia produced $950,000 in gold and $5,- 200,000 in silveis California, $14,120,000 in gold, $1,460,000 in silver; Colorado. $4,- 100,000 in gold, $17,370,000 in silver; Dakota, $3,200,000 in gold, $150,000 in silver; Idaho, $1,400,000 in gold, $2,100,- 000 in silvtJr; Montana, $1,800,000 in gold, $0,000,000 in silver; Nevada, $2,520,000 in THE NEWS CONDENSED, jg*»> | Utah, $1-40,000 in gold, $5,620,000 in sil- j vor. The remainder was produced princi- * pally in Alaska, Oregon, Georgia, and North Carolina. This is a reduction of $2,500,000 in gold and $600,000 in silver from the yield of 1882. THE minority report of the Senate Com­ mittee on the Danville riots charges that the investigation was not conducted with fair­ ness, and that the results were not set forth with impartiality. Sarcastic allusions are made to the killing of negroes in Ohio in order that their carcasses could be sold to medical colleges.... President Arthur sent to the Senate a message recommending an appropriation of $588,000 for Government exhibits at the New Orleans Exposition. ON the recommendation of the Judge Advocate General of the Army, the Presi­ dent has decided to order a court-martial for the trial of Gen. Swnim for alleged irregular financial transactions ..,. The June crop reports received at the Agricultural Department show an increase of 4 per cent, in the area under cotton, and a general av­ erage of 87, as against 86 at this period last year. There is an increase of 9 per cent, in the area under spring wheat, and the condition is placed at 101. The winter wheat crop continues to show a high aver­ age, as well as oats and barley. -5 I . T*it 4 fiit, Vi$M« -j : iv?j» V'-.'*; ; HERRON «FC SPENCER, fruit merchants, Sew York, feted. The preferences amount to $160,000 The late managers of the Vewark Savings Institution have been ordered by Chancellor Runyan to show cause why they should not be punished for eohtempt in loaning the funds of the bank. GEN. JAKES WATSON WEBB, the aged American journalist, died at his home in New ToA The schooner Fanny Fern -was run down off Gloucester, Mass., by an outward-bound coal-carrying steamer, and four of the crew were drowned. .. .Over two hundred depositors of the Penn Bank, of Pittsburgh, have brought suit against the Directors of that defunct institution.... Courtney, the oarsman, failed to meet Ross tat the match at Oak Point. N. Y. HXNKT C. WORK, the noted song-writer, died last week in Hartford At Chappa- ota, N. Y.. Miss Gabrielle Greeley was tnrown from her carriage by a runaway, breaking her right shoulder. NOAH HATKES SWAYNB, ex-Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died in New York City last week, aged 80 years. THE Spragne mansion at Providence has been purchased for $34,400 by Fall River parties, who will reform it into a Catholic school or convent... .Tilden G. Abbott, who •wrecked a Watertown, Mass., bank, was sentenced to eight years in the Massachu­ setts State Prison. THE explosion of a barrel of beer in a brewery at Newburgh, X. Y., killed James Quinlan and made a maniac of his wife... Another bank defaulter has been convicted and sentenced. This time it is William S. Morgan, the defaulting agent of the banking firm of Putnam «fc Earle, of Hartford, who has been sent to the Connecticut State Prison fbr three years. EX-CONGKESSMAK HRESTER CliTHEB, of Pennsylvania, at one time a prominent Democratio leader in the Keystone St?.te, died at Reading, of paralysis, aged 57.... The employes of all the principal boot and shoe factories in Philadelphia are on a strike against a reduction of wages... .A fire in the building Nos. 152 to 158 Congress street, Boston, occupied by agents for two rubber companies, caused a less of $400,000. Sixteen firemen were injured by an explosion in the third story. THE WEST. £ i • \rtfc Tlorence, Wis., shots were exchanged "in' the street between Sheriff Readman and District Attorney Mcintosh, the former be­ ing twice wounded. ...A negro named Robeson and a white girl of the name of Chri6tman crossed the river at St. Louis and were married in Illinois Henry Strong, President of the now defunct Strong's bank at Green Bay, Wis., has written to some friends in that city from Montreal, saying that he lost the bank's money in speculations in wheat, pork, and stocks. He borrowed the money from the bank on various securities and on the notes of his brother. No other person, he says, ~wna conoemed with him in the steal. CAPITAIIIBTB on the Pacific coast are endeavoring to form a company to con­ struct a railway to the extremity of Alaska, where cars could be ferried forty.-five miles across Behring Strait to the Rus­ sian Railway A reward of $1,000 is offered by the people of Richland UnssAiy, Kansas* -for the conviction POLITICAL. . a to. vvp, . ffo-iux't" • t:,.> •; - •• '• tmm •<,. . f *** •** * it*** fM' of a miscreant who has killed two shep­ herd dogs and attempted to poison 125 cat­ tle belonging to James Caton, besides , throwing strychnine into his well The J>ody of Capt. Forrest, keeper of the Col­ chester Reef light, Lake Michigan, lost in the storm of Nov. 11 last, was found in the like a day or two since many miles off the Itef in a good state of preservation. THE Union Depot at St Paul, Minn., -was destroyed by fire the other night; loss $250,000. The fire originated in the kitch­ en of the part used as a restaurant. AN expressman named Frederick Ardell and an unknown companion were burned to death in a stable at Chicago... .Rev. Dr. Worthington, of Detroit, has sent a telegram declining to accept the position of Bishop of Nebraska. CAXIHOUX BENHAM, a prominent lawyer ,«f San Francisco, died a few days ago. In file famous duel between Judge David Ter- ?! and Senator Broderick, Benham acted as erry's second. Benham also acted as a volunteer aid-de-camp on the staff of Gen. Beauregard at the baftle of Shiloh. THE SOUTH. fv & • „.i i'« . U'ttV/ * • ;- . • 6S SditT i •• iftiX • '^4^1 > . f • j A! ' - / ' ̂1? j '* ./*«& • 1 - . 5 • - ' * • •• ' lutK 1 ' it**" THE Nevada Democratic Stale Conven­ tion, which met at Austin, passed resolu­ tions demanding the nomination of Tilden and Hendricks, the removal of all restric­ tions on silver coinage, the absolute exclu­ sion of the Chinese from the United States, and the enactment of laws preventing the acquisition of lands by aliens. In the California Democratio State Convention, a proposition by John H. Wise to send dele­ gates to Chicago for the old ticket was followed by deafening applause for several minuter. HON. SAVTEL J. TILDEN has addressed a letter to Daniel J. Manning, Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee of New York, formally declining a nomination for the Presidency. He writes: "I ought not to assume a task which I have not the physical strength to carry through. * * * In my condition of advancing years and declining strength I feel no as­ surance of my ability to accomplish these hopes [of reform]. I cannot now assume the labors of an administration or of a can­ vass. • • • I have but to submit to the will of God in deeming my public career forever closed." THE Democratic State Committee of Michigan met at Jackson and adopted reso­ lutions favoring Tilden and Hendricks. A resolution favoring tariff for revenue was lost .. Gen. Claiborne, in calling the Dem­ ocratic State Convention of Texas to order at Fort Worth, said: "Tariff for revenue only is the Democratic slogan; men are secondary issues." » This sentiment was greeted with vociferous applause and shouts of "Tilden." F. E. ALBBIGHT, of Murphysboro, has been nominated for Congress by the Demo­ crats of the Twentieth Illinois District.... The California delegates to the Democratic convention, on learning of Tilden's decli­ nation, have declared unanimously for Thurman. THE Texas Democratic State Convention selected as delegates at large to Chicago, Gov. Hubbard, D. C. Gidding, Thomas J. Brown, and John P. Smith. Before the declination of Mr. Tilden was made known the delegates were instructed for the old ticket; but subsequently a resolution was passed allowing the representatives of the State in the national convention to act on their judgment. 6E.1ERAL Supreme Court of Tennessee has declared constitutional the recent act of the Legislature making it a felony to keep a gambling house. Garvin, a Memphis sport, vas sent to the Penitentiary for one year. GEW. ABE BUFORD, of Kentucky, killed Mmself at the residence of his nephew, in Danville, Ind. He left statements that financial embarrassment, family troubles, and the condition of his brother Tom, who was returned to the Anchorage Asylum, led to the act.... .Lightning struck four men at Louisville, two of whom are not expected 1® live In Dinwiddie County, Virginia, one woman was killed by lightning, an­ other was stunned, a church was blown •down, and other injuries to property were ' reported. MRS. F.T.T.NT WITHERS intended to sail •from Baltimore for Liverpool with her six jonng children. In the dense crowd on the wharf two of the little ones got lost, and the mother and the others went on board the steamer. Mrs. Withers forgot to notify the officers of the vessel, but ran about the docks in search of the missing ones until *4hfe steamer sailed. ' IN Pendleton County, W. Va., Andy Adams, a youth who had become insane on ' the subject of religion, butchered his mother and 8-year-old sister. He stated to Jus captors that the Lord had told him to offer them up as a sacrifice, and He would toestore them to life again A violent storin passed over the country in the neighborhood ol Martinsville, Va., and one bovwas struck by lightning and fatally injured. Fruit , trees were badly damaged. "THE State Bank of West Virginia, at Charleston, W. Va., has suspended pay- aaehts. The liabilities are placed at $119,- 000 and the nominal assets are $115,000. The depositors are mostly poor people. The Suspension caused much excitement... .In , ^a difii' rrty at New All any, Miss., between jftayor Reeves and a desperado named Lloyd Ford, in which each fired five times, the ilatter WRS mortally wounded.. JL band of thieves has been organized in the Choctaw Nation, Indian Terntorv, and ' has been making depredations in the sur rounding country FAST time was made by a special train on the Baltimore and Ohio Road conveying a number of newspaper correspondents to Washington from Chicago upon the ad­ journment of the National Republican Con­ vention. The distance from Chicago to Chicago Junction, Ohio--271 miles--was covered in 5 hours and 33 minutes ... Twenty-four men and women of the Sal­ vation Army arrested at Cleveland, Ohio, for disturbing the peace by parading, sing­ ing. shouting, and praying aloud, were fined small sums. Twenty of the accused re-< fused to pay the fine and were released on bail Lightning destroyed Alexander Car­ roll's house, near Ottawa, Ont., and his four children perished in the flames. VENNOR, the Canadian weather prophet, died at Montreal in his 44th year... .The trotting horse Scotland beat John S. Prince, the champion bicyclist, in a ten-mile race at Philadelphia. Time 36:33....A Com­ mittee of the Cincinnati Bar Association presented to the District Court an inform­ ation designed to secure the disbarment of T. C. Campbell, whose trial for bribing a juror in a murder case was then in progress. FORTY-FIVE of the crew of the sailing brig Confederate, which is ice-locked in Notre Dame Bay, Northern Newfoundland, were rescued, but the ice-flow forced the rescuing steamer to retire, and twenty-nine men were left to starve on the wreck, on which there is neither fuel nor provisions. ... .At Belleville, Ontario, Joseph Tompsett and George Louder were executed for the murder of Peter Loner. AT Key West, Fla., Frederico Gil Mar- rero, a Cuban, was arrested from a steamer from New York as being a dynamiter, and fuse, detonating caps, ayd books of instruc­ tion for the manufacture of explosives were found among his effects. He was held in $2,000. It is thought the Cuban dyna­ miters have been bringing the compound parts of explosives to Key West, and then secretly manufacturing them. FOREICKY. an anarchist of Vienna, has been sentenced to the gallows for the murder of Detective Bloch.... One hundred persons havo been arrested at Kief on the chargo of Nihilism. Forty army officers are among the number. Two hundred arrests were made at Char- kow.... The sister of Gen. Gordon refuses to subscribe to the fund for his relief, on the ground that it is the duty of the Gov­ ernment to rescue him. DEGAIEFF, the notorious Russian Ni­ hilistic assassin, has been arrested in Bor- lin, and will be surrendered to the Russian authorities.... The Sultan refuses to ap­ point a delegate to the conference of the European powers ou the Egyptian question unless he is previously itifo med as to the position which England will take....The Kalominc-Hesse affair has been settled sat­ isfactorily, and the marriage annulled. JUSTIN H. MCCARTHY, son of the well- known Irish author and journalist, and him­ self a young man of considerable literary reputation, has been elected member of Parliament for Athlone, Ireland, in the Par- nellite interest. The late member, Sir John J. Ennis, was a Liberal... .The French Minister of the Interior has issued a decree forbidding bull fights... .News has reached London that a water-spout occurred in Akulrig, Russian Turkestan. The rivei was overflowed, seventy houses were de- ttroyed, and forty persons drowned. DYNAMITE explosions at London caused widespread alarm and indignation. The police, says a cablegram, are completely baffled, and, for the first time in the history of great crimes in the metropolis, have not even a theory to offer. In fact, they find themselves to be a laughing stock. The public are becoming hourly more restive and agitated over the apparent incompe­ tence of the police, and the wildest schemes of reprisals against Irish agitators are mooted. The appointment of local vigi­ lance committees on the American Western plan is seriously discussed in some hitherto very conservative quarters. A CABLEGRAM from Newry, Ireland, states that a conflict between the Orange­ men and Nationalists was precipitated by stone-throwing by the latter. Several shots were fired while the troops and police were endeavoring to suppress disorder The race for the grand prize of Paris, 100,000 v>„„„ "7". francs, was won by the Duke of Castriess' H •LR A k i , kaHditti brown coK, Little Duke. were attacked by the militia of the Terri- ^ " . . lory, and two of them were killed, and sev- ! Chinese Embassadorship to Franoe Oral, including five women, were captured. I "ms been abolished and the treaty of peace MSifteen have since surrendered. It is with France is condemned by the Celestials, .believed that the others will disband. WA8H»«T01f. n jiwvp '•i ;i. tsss • »• "The Director of the Mint, in his iliport on the production of precious metals, places the total production during the cal­ endar year of 1883: Gold, $30,000,000: sil- who are preparing to resist further Gallic encroachments British troops sur­ rounded the jail at Birmingham, England, where the Irish dynamiters--Daly, Egan, and McDonnell--are confined. REPORTS have reached Cairo that the Egyptian rebels massacred the garrison and European traders at Berber.... ADDITIONAL NEWi \ JUDGE EDGERTON, at Yankton, v. T., granted a motion quashing the indictment against Gov. Ordway, alleging the grand jury's want of jurisdiction.. THREE Deputy Sheriffs at Salt Lake, armed with Winchester rifles, executed Fred Hoyt, who had been three times tried for murder. He sat upon his coffin, blind­ folded, and the officers fired from a point ten paces distant; A MEETING of the Massachusetts Inde­ pendents, over which Charles W. Cadman presided, condemned at Boston the Repub­ lican Presidential nominations, and trusted the Democrats would name men suita­ ble to their views. They also in­ structed their Executive Committee to call a convention not later than An?. 1. President Eliot, of Hnrva; d, in a spec h, ho.>e l a new party would grow ont of this movement. A committee was appointed to hold a conference with the Independ­ ent Republicans of New York, and letters from gympathizers were read.... In order to ascertain the Presidential preferences of the Democratic masses in the central portion of the country, since the declination of Mr. Tilden, the Chicago Times secured interviews with several thousand influential gentlemen. The dispatches indicate that the Western States are largely in favor of Cleveland and Mc­ Donald as the strongest team. Ohio urges the claims of Thurman, and Indiana shows a full appreciation of McDonald. The Democracy of Massachusetts are united in support of Butler. In the Southern States Bayard pioves a prime favorite. DURING the past week the business fail­ ures in the United States and Canada num­ bered 228, an increase of thirteen over the Srevious week The Vulcan Powder [anufacturing Company of Clasqua, Pa., has accepted $75,000 from the Dupont Powder Company for suspending work for one vear. * « 0 v AMONG those in attendance at the annual banquet of the Pennsylvania Farmers' Club, at the residence of Col. Duffy, Lancaster, Pa., last week, were Senators Edmunds, Pendleton, Bayard, J. Donald Cameron, Angus Cameron, Samuel J. Randall, Gen. Simon Cameron, Charles A. Dana, George W. Cbilds, and the Judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. THERE are fresh electoral riots in Hun­ gary. Three persons were killed and many wounded... .The Tichborne pretender is to be released from an English prison on s ticket-of-leave... .Prince Hohenlohe, the German Embassador at Paris, declares that public feeling in Germany continues to be envenomed against France by constant pro­ vocation by the French press. THE Texas Democrats have adopted resolutions denouncing a protective tariff as unconstitutional, unjust., and in conflict with the genius and spirit of a free govern­ ment. The delegation is uniustructed In answer to a telegram from the St. Louis Evening Chronicle, Daniel Manning an­ swers for Mr. Tilden that his letter means that under no circumstances will he be a candidate for the Presidency. SOME of-.the sufferers by the collapse of Middleton & Co., bankers, are endeavoring to secure their indictment for obtaining money under false pretenses. It is stated that charity funds and speculators' margins were swept away with the ordinary funds, until nothing is left in the way of assets. ....George E. Spencer writes to Repre­ sentative Springer denying the statement of S. W. Dorsev that Spencer demanded $12,000 from Elkins to secure Dorsey im­ munity in the star-route trials. THE Senate, on Juno 13, rejected a treat)* for an international copyright and patent system which has already been ratified by twenty-four governments. The time of nearly the entire Session was spent on a bill to pay the State of Georgia $:<5,6i">5 for money expended for the common defense In 1777, and when a vote was reached no quorum was present. The House adopted by a vote of 115 to 52 the Senate amendment to the postofflce appropria­ tion bill increasing the it m for the true delivo y service from ,ooo to $1,000,(00, but re used to a<rree to th<; amendment tor an increase of the item for railway transportation. The consider­ ation of the bill was not conclnded. At the evening session seventy-six pension bills were passed. THEMABKET. NEW YORK. BEEVIS HOGS FIX>UR--Extra. WHEAT--No. a Chicago No. 2 I ted COBN--No. 2 OATH--White POKE--Mess CHICAGO. BEEVES --Choice to Prime Hteers. Fair to Good Butchers' Hoos FLOUR--Fancy W hite Winter Ex Good to Choice Spring... WHEAT--No. A Burin* No. 3 lied Winter CORN--X o. 2 OAI>~N"O. 2 l.ye--No. •» HABLEY--NO. 2. BO-TTEU--Choice Creamery...... Fine Pain- CHEESE-- Full Cream. Hkimmed Flat.... EGOS--Fresh POTATOES--PEACH blow < PORK--Mess LARD TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 C<)KN--No. 2 OATti--No. 2 PAULEY--No 2.... PORK--Mess LARD. ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORN--Mixed..... OATS--NA 3 RYE. Poux--Mess CINCINNATI. WHEAT--No. 2 Red ;. .. CORN OATH--Mixed. PORK--Mew LJLRD •••••••••••-• • • DETROIT. FLOUB WHEAT--No. I White. CORN--Mixed OATS--NO. 2 Mixed. PORK--Mess INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORN--Mixed OATS--Mixed EAST LIBERTY. CATTXB--Best Fair. Common.. ............ Hoos. SHEEP BLAINE AND LOGAN. The Unrivaled Statesman, the Unconquered Soldier. .T T.00 . 5.00 . 3.25 . .f>7 . 1.01 . .«2 .40 . 17.60 (>.50 6.75 5.00 5.C0 6.25 4.&» .At* .»2 .43 .S4 .( 1 .63 .19 .14 .OJ .OS .13 .37 18.50 .08 .96 .66 .35 .H8 .64 .31 .6!) 19.50 H.23 I.08 .62 ,o0 .66 16.60 .»:» .57 18/.-5 <9 8.00 1<P «.WJ (<« 3; 75 t<« .'-'9 (£5 1.034 ><n .*>4 at .44 (Siis.00 (<9 7. CO C.'ii <fi9 5.7 V <ft C.00 ((« 5.75 «# 5.2» <9 . J4 .4li .36 .65 .(>4 .20 .15 .u .00 ^ .14 <9 -40 <019.00 .Od* Both ef Onr Candidates Endowed with >T: Stiff Spinal ftlunhs. That Appeals to the Pride and Honor of the Country. "OUR MAN, Ol!R MAN." Qnr man, onr man, the man from Mainib The magic man of the name of Blainfl The man who dares and knows his ! This is the man the voters tind. He Is no coward; he leads the way; He is the man who's comoto stay; He Is the man who leads the n«ht; Then follow him with mind and might. Then, one and til', with mlxlit and mala. Will t heor onr leader irom old tiaine; And when November days shall fall. Will crown him Prtniilent of all. The man whose voice the people heard, WhoKe eioqnenoe tlm i eoplo slirred-- This is the man of lofty strain. The man we love and kuow from Maine. Then shout, and shout, ye voters free, For our leadi-r from the Pme State treol . And shout and shout for James (Jr. BlalMt Our leader bold from the State of Maine. . And when t&e sere and yellow loaf . . In fall shall mind us •>!<: i» bmf, . We'll vote, wh re o ch is res;d< nt. To make t his man our President. A Blaine and the British. If it was the jjurpose of the British ruinsellers' organ, the London Tele­ graph, and the British Jingo organs, the Standard and Pall Mall Gazette, to prejudice the American people ngainat Mr. Blaine, or to injure his candidature by their dispatches and editorials deploring his aggressive at­ titude when American rights and in­ terests are concerned, they have over­ shot the mark. The truth is, the American people admire Blaine because he is aggressive, bec ause he has back­ bone, because lie is jealous of their rights and interests, and when he had an opportunity was not slack in niam- tuini g them. This is one of the ele­ ments of his popularity. The Pall Mall Gazette says: Whenever Blaine can oust the British from the position they hold on the Ameri­ can Continent ho will endeavor to replace English influence and trade with American. Is not this the patriotic duty of an American statesman? It is a duty, however, which has been neglected in deference to what Senator Ben Harri­ son aptly characterized as a "grand­ motherly foreign policy." The Telegraph and Standard, as usual, mistake and misstate the senti­ ments of the Ame:ican people. Ameri­ cans are not Anglophob sts. They have no reason to love England, bat do not hate her. They a> e jealous of her encroachments on American trade in foreign lands. Otherwise they give the question of England very little thought. Of course, with the Irish- American people it is quite different. Every American statesman who thwarts England's designs, who enforces the rights of American citizens in Englund and Ireland, is popular with them. Mr. Blaine is, without doubt, the most popular American statesman with think­ ing Irish-Americans, and the Te e'jrai-h correspondent states one of the princi­ pal reasons so exactly that it is worth quoting: His [lilaine's] great strength nmong tho Irish votqjs is due mainly to his activity while a Sppnblican leader in Congress, during tlwPfears 1867, 1808, and 1809, in forcing England to recede from her claims of allegiance upon British-born subjects who had become naturalized as American citizens. This activity- was developed in th-J case of Augustine Costello, who, with a a large number of Irish-Americans, includ­ ing Gen. Denis Burke, was arrested in Ire­ land and tried for utterances made in the United States. Costello was arrested while in Ireland, in 1867, and placed on trial for a speech which he made in New York while an American citizen in 18(?o. The«speeeh was construed as treasonable, and, under the act of 1818, which especially declared England's right to punish upon British soil British-born subjects for treasonable utter­ ances or performances made upon foreign territory, Costello was sentenced to sixteen years' penal servitude. His claims of Amer­ ican citizenship were ignored, upou the ground that there was nothing existing be­ tween the United States and Great Britain debarring Great Britain from claiming as a British subject any person born on British soil. Costello was removed to Milbank Sri son, when Blaine took up his case. Elaine organized a Congressional agitation, which resulted in the liberation of Costello and his colleagues, who possessed full American naturalization, aud the treaty of 1870, in which Great Britain surrendered all claims of allegiance from British sub­ jects who became naturalized as American citizens. It has been claimed in some quarters that Blaine never manifested any inter­ est in Irish^A merican citizens until he became a Presidential candidate. The British correspondents bear testimony otherwise, and show quite conclusively that as far back uti 18U7 Mr. Blaine was the leading champion of the naturalized citizen. But this is not a matter in which Irish-Americans alone are concerned. It is one in which the German-Ameri­ can, the Scandinavian-American, all Americans have an interest in which they feel deeply. Owing to Anglo- Irish complications it is one in which Irish-Americans have a peculiar and far-reaching interest, ns they are likelv to manifest at the polls next November. We Ixlieve with the British corre­ spondents that Mr. Blaiwe will draw largely from the Irish 1 emocratlc vote. Else the protests against the imprison­ ment of American citizens in Ire]a d on tlie part of Iri-li-American orators and mass-meetings havo had no me n- ing and no significance, and. have b- en hollow shams. ( On the whole, we tak-i it that tho special dispatches of the Telegrai h and the Standard and the editorials of the Pall Mall Gazette will make tirst-cla s campaign document* for the Republi­ can party.--Chu-ago 'Iribune. ((* .9® ..V, m «« .CO tssr.i.7* <S> 8.50 <9 1.04 .31 & .58 3$1T.OO & .98 <& .5H <0 .34^ @18.75 ,07?£<5> .08 6.60 & 7.00 1.04 & 1.05 .5*5 & .57 .?<# «8 .37 19.50 @20.00 .05 (ffl .07 .SI & .53 jn & .33 s.75 » 6.25 6.29 (>a tt.UO 3.5" (A 4.00 5.25 & 5.75 4.00 & 1.50 nation of InteUigenoe, pnsh, vim and enter­ prise. The Republican lias hit upon the real secret of Blaine's popularity: his Americanism and his embodiment of the American idea. The Evening Jour­ nal of Detroit, an independent paper of Democratic tendencies, gives us the views of another political class in the following extract: James G. Blaine is the most truly repre­ sentative Republican in the nation, never weak and never faltering. It has been his good fortune to keep pace with the best thought of his party and give tone to its de­ mand for sound finances, industrial protec­ tion, and political as well as personal eman­ cipation, with a courageous and forceful championship which has centered the eyes and hopes of the party upon him. His can­ didacy means something more than the availability which is the prime consideration with spoilsmen. To the old guard it is a revival of the golden days of their party, a resurrection of its greatest achievements. To the young itia a promise that the honors of political life are not all reserved for tim­ idity and obscurity. Surely more unqualified praise could not have been expected even from a Republican party organ. We follow these up with the following extract from the Rocky Mount/ain News, which is the leading Democratic organ of Colorado: There can be no doubt that in Blaine and Login the Republicans have nominated a hip-hip-hurrifh ticket. The pendulum has swung forward f-om the namby-pamby cant and cowardice of the last eight years of Re­ publican rule, and the leap from such spine­ less leaders as Hayes aud Arthur to such fearless fighters as Blaine and Lcgm is a long one. The present administration, like that of Hayes, has gone on all fours to every foreign power that took the trouble to twirl its thumb at this country. The next adr ministration, if the fat- s decree that Blaine and Logan shall be elected, will stand on its hind legs and show its teeth to the whole rest of the world. The views of these three papers. Re­ publican, Independent, and Democratic, may be fairly taken to represent the views of the people of varying political tendencies and indicate the pride and enthusiasm with which the nomination has been received among all classes. All for Blaine. Hie popular sentiment toward Blaine is clearly shown in the comments of papers reflecting different shades of opinion. We select at random from tho vast bulk of opinion extracts from three papers representing three phases of political opinion. The Denver Ile^u')- lU'an, a Republican paper, aptly says: Blaine's nomination is tlie result of the growth of the American sentiment. There is extant a feeling,.that we have been retro­ grading as A nation in the, eyes of the people of the world, that our rulers through t'enr or policy have been making no efforts to securo redress for affronts to the American Has; and American people, and that James G. Blaine is the man to bring aboat a change. Then, too, the pre-eminent ability, wise and extensive statesmanship, and uinpiestio: able loyalty of Mr. Blaine have forced th 111- selves upon the people and mad-1 their im­ pression upon the age. Mr. lilaino stands to-day the embodiment of the American idea. He is the ideal statesman of the young Americun. He is without a peer in the land aad tfae idol of the proplef Hc is tho incar- Tirginia Republicans. The admission of the Mahone delega­ tion to the national convention was the most important incident of last week, and may come to be regarded his­ torically as an event. Presidential nominations follow each other in swift success on. It seems bnt yesterday since Garfield was nominated, and hardly more than that since everybody, except a tew Obioans, went home from Cincinnati supremely disgusted. The lost cause of one convention may triumph at the nevt, or still later. But had the Mahone delegation been turned out, this generat on would not have re­ covered Irom the baneful effect. It was not the late of a set of men which was at stake, but of a mighty move­ ment--one important to the whole South, and, indeed, the whole country. Gen. Mahone represents some 30,000 Confederate soldiers. Tliev are now Republicans, as truly so as if they had been charter members of the organiza­ tion. "Readjuster" is a term of the past. Like "Co; pe head," "Locofoco," "Hunker." "Barnburner," "Silver Gray," and all that ckiss of terms, it has no relevancy to live politics. It is true that Mahone did not get his choice for President, and that bis "straightout" oppone its did, but so far as concerns Virginia, that was all the better. Both factions v on what they were, really after. Dezendorf wa < working in the interest of Blaine, while Mabone out­ lined his chief object when he said, "I have been working four years to get into the Republican party and have got there nt last." Th- re is no good reason why the Itepubl cans of that State should not be entirely harmonious here­ after, at least until after election, and harmony will insure victory. That the i epublican party will hence­ forth i umber among its members tens of thousands of Confederates is a fact of almost ii:conceivable significance. This result was not Jwonght about by squabble for olllce. The Readjusters came out from the Democracy on a local issue which was w holly imperson­ al. Whether right or wrong on that issue is no longer of any consequence. Having separated from-the Bourbons on a question of public import and gono by a l.atural process of growth over to the Republican party, there is no danger of a relapse. Henceforth Virginia is to have two parties, divided substantial y as parties are divided in the North, and not on the color line. Danville will not be repeated. We expect Virginia to be a Repub­ lican State under this new political re­ adjustment, but however that may be, it.38 morally certaiu that it will be a Northern State. In other words, if it goes Democratic, it will do so for the same reason that New Jersey does, or any other Northern State is liable some times to do, namely, because a major­ ity of the pfople voting lean that way. and not, as in Missis ippi, South Caro­ lina, and other Southern States, be­ cause the shot gnn is mightier than the ballot. Mahone now has a following and support , large enough to prevent any furi her out reak, on any consider­ able scale, of political massacre. If an honest majority of the citizens of Vir­ ginia arc Den o rats, then let them have the ele tor »1 college and the of­ fices aud welcome. It is a measureless coinf rt to know that progress is being made in the redemption of the South from terrorism. The Old Dominion has set an example which cannot fail to have a great wo gbt throughout the South hi encouraging the progressive white element to make a stand against the policy of blood whi.;h began at Memphis nearly twenty years ago, and would seem from Copiah to have lost none of its popularity with the average Southern Democr t. With" a vast Re- publcan army recruited as volunteers from the ex-Confederate ranks in one Southern State it is reasonable to ex­ pect in >he course of the next four years a general movement in the same direction, and that the grand phalanx from V irg nia is only an earnest of what the fntu e has in store for tho Re­ publican party of the South.--Inter Ocean. SENATE AND HOUSE. FKOM the convention hall James O, Blaine will go to the ]ieople, and we look to se. ing no less enthusiasm among the masses than was exhibited in the dele­ gate assembly. H<s name and his in­ fluence, his magueti m, will sweep tha countr/ from tlie rock-bound Atlantic to the sunny and g dden-tinted sands ot the Paci ic. The campaiga will be one enthusiastic uprising of the peo-de--a second and great r edition of the log- cabin and liard-cider days of Harrison, i when "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too," swept the country like a whirlwind. Wit11 other men we co ild have won; I with no other could there have been ; sncii enthusiasm as wll distinguish the I present campaign.--Peoria Tran- i acrinL Proceedings of the Federal Con­ gress Boiled Down. MB. CCUIKBTSOH'S bill limRInjr the Juris­ diction of the United States Ctrcntt Courts and regalttlng the removal of cases to the Federal Courts passed the House on June 7. Thebil provides that the minimum jurisdiction of the Llrcmt Court shall be $2,000 Instead of $500, and makes members of eor- iwrations doing business in a State citizens of that State for all judicial purposes, lue right of removal of causes to the Federal Courts 1b limited to defendants. The House also passed a bill forfeiting the unearned land Krant of the Atlantic and Pacific Jjoau. Adverse reports were made on ™ne tt to repeal the civil-service act. TTie House discussed at considerable length res­ olutions offered by Mr. Nelson, of Minnesota, reserving the agricultural public lands for bona Qae settlers. Mr. Holman offered an amend­ ment extending the scope of Mr. Nelson's reso- luuons. Daring the debate on this measure the ract developed that there was not a quorum pres- snt, and an adjournment was carried. The Sen­ ate was not in session. H the Senate, June 9, Mr. Plumb reported favorably a bill to give California ft per cent, of the proceeds of public land sales in that State. Mr. Beck offered a resolution directing the Judi- ^ommlttee to make a report on the bill r^,^e general removal of political disabilities. The Mexican war pension bill was taken up, and several amendments were tabled, but final action on the measure was deferred. In the House, Mr. Goff introduced a bill to re- Internal revenue taxes on tobacco, and Mr. Dlngley presented a measure to amend the national banking law. Bills were passed to au- thorize the construction of bridges across the Willamette River, and to place Newport News ?n an equal footing with other customs porta as U> dutiable goods. In committee of the who'e, debate on tlie river and harbor bill was finished. IK the Senate, Juno 10, Mr. Logan prejent- 6d a memorial from a Cincinnati mass-meeting< demanding a quarter section of land for each soldier, sailor, or marine who served in the Union army. The consular approDriation was debated in secret session for some hour*. Tho House adopted a concurrent resolution for final adjournment ou June i'0. In <ommittee of the whole, on the river and harbor bi l, Mr. Ochiltree secured the cancellation of the clause appropri­ ating $250,C00 to ccntinue wo k on Galveston harbor, and Mr. Holman ha ' eni'em for the im­ provement of the Little Kanawha stricken from the bill. An evenlnor session was held for the consideration of Indian atfairs. MR. VOOKHEES ofTerod a resolution in the Senate, June 11, calling for Information as to the supply of beef to Indians. Mr. Butler pre­ sented a resolution for a special committee to examine into the condition "of the national banks in New York City. Two secret sessions were held to consider the item of $250,00) in the consular appropriation to cover the expense of executing the neutrality act. A vote on the passage of the bill revealed the fact that no qnornm was present. The House, in committee of the whole on the river and harbor bill, refused to strike out the clause lor the construction of the Hennepin Canal. Motions for an increase in the items for the improvement of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers wf-re lost,but $75,01/0 WHS appropriated for completing the surveys of the Mississippi THE Senate, on June 13, passed the con- Bular and diplomatic appropriation bilL Sen­ ator Vest offered an amendment to the bill providing that no money shall be paid out of the public treasury for printing speeches in the Congressional Record which are not spoken in the Senate or in the House. It is understood that the item of $230,000 was passed in secret session, with only three dis­ senting votes. The money Is to be used, it is said, to secure from the Nicarasruan Government for the United States the absolute Mid ex­ clusive right of waterway bstween the At­ lantic and Pacitic Oceans along the line of the projected Nicaragua Canal. The Mexican pensions bill w.is debated at considerable length, but no action was taken. The House passed the river and harbor bill, by 157 to 104, after striking ont the Hennepin Canal clause. By a vote of 8 to 5 tlie Committee on Elections refused to reopen the Virginia contested-elec­ tion case of Masser vs. Wise. I hree Democrats voted with the Republicans in the majority. Hints Abont Letter-Writing. As Mrs. Glass said of hare soup, "First catch your hare," in writing a letter first have something to say. Life is too busy, in these hurried days, for time to be wasted in the platitudes even of politeness. A letter should have a real cause--some social or friendly duty to discharge, some business ques­ tion to ask or answer, some opinions to interchange, or tidings to communicate. Then, having a good reason for writ­ ing, comes the secondary question of how to do it. Most of the transient fashions for colored or decorated paper are unsafe. Eccentricity is unwise. If a person could afford to give up life to the pur­ suit of fashion, she might succeed in following its caprices successfully; but, for people who have something else to do than to catch every whim of a mo­ ment, and pursue it just far enough, and not too far, the safest stationary is good, white paper, with envelopes to match--stationery thick enough not to reveal its secret^ to outside readers-- and of that good style which is insured by plainness. Simplicity is the one thing that cannot be ridiculous. Then, as to ink--to use good black ink almost amounts to a social duty. Who has not felt that he would have foregone a letter rather than weary over pale pages in some blind hand­ writing, no matter how eloquent those pages might be ? And speaking of eloquence--the temptation tc be eloquent is another foe to epistolary success. If people only would write simply, and say that they have pleasant memories of this or that, instead of telling us that "beau­ tiful pictures are inscribed on the tab­ lets of their memory," or that "their recollection surrounds the past with an aureole of glory," we should be grate- fuL Above all, why should a person who is not a Quaker, who has gone tranquilly through a letter speaking of "you" and "yours," suddenly, at the end, become "Thine Truly" ? We remember a letter once written in the veritable crisis of a life, which utterly failed to move the stony heart to which it was addressed, because, all through, it was an amusing mixture of you and thee--"You know how long and deeply I have loved thee," for in­ stance--and for this reason the hard­ hearted receiver was able to put it cru­ elly into the waste basket, coolly say­ ing, "No one who really felt could mi* ap things in that way." This brings us back to our text that simplicity in letter-writing is the secret of success, and that the slightest touch of affectation or sentimentality is as fatal to a letter *aj»»a person.--iimth'u Companion. IT is said that Schenectady, N. Y., although one of the oldest cities in America, has no sewers. Well, well; that taken a load off our mind. We al­ ways supposed that the New York Cen­ tral passenger station at that city was one. If it isn't a section of a condemned sewer, with doors and sewers set in it, then we have done Mr. Vanderbilt great injustice in times past, and we desire to ask that good man's forgive­ ness right here. But still, if the Sche­ nectady passenger station isn't a piece of an old sewer, we would like to know what it is. We know it never was originally built for human occupation. --Burlington Haw key e. AN old minister in Ohio seemed rath­ er opposed to an educated ministry. Said he: "Why, my brethering, every voung man who is going to preach thinks he must be off to some college and study a lot of -Greek and Latin. All nonsense! All wrong! What did Peter and Paul know ^bout Greek? Why, not a word, my brethering. No! Peter and preached in the plain old Enelish, and so'll L"--Christian at Work. DECISIVE AT LAST. ' Tilden Positively Declines to Stand as a Presidential Candidate, • And Gives as Reasons for Withdrawal His Advanced Age and Physical T~~ : V Infirmities. T~, T;- ^ The following communication from Sam­ uel J. Tilden has been given to the Asso­ ciated Press: NEW TOEK, June 10. To Daniel Mann in?. Chairman of the Demo­ cratic State Committee of New York: In my letter of June If., 18«0, addressed to the delegates irom the State of New York to the Democratic National Convention, I said: "Hav­ ing now borne faithfully my fnll share of the- labor and care in the oublic service, and wear­ ing the marks of its burdens, I desire nothing so much as an honorable discharge. I wish to- lay down the honors and toils of even quasi par­ ty leadership and to seek the repose of private- life. In renouncing the renomination for the Presidency, I do so with no doubt in my mind as t'> the vote of the State of New York, or of .the United States, bnt because I belfrve that it Is a nomination of re-election to the Presidency. To those who think my renoruination and re­ election indispensable to an effectual vindication of the right of the people to eject their rulers,, violated in my person, I have accorded as long a reserve of my decision as possible; but 1 can­ not overcome my repugnance to enter into a new engagement which involves four vears of ceaseless toil. The dignity of the Presidential office is above a merely j-ersonal ambition, but It creates in me no illusion. Its value is as; a great power for good to the country. I said four ye irs ago, in accepting the nomina­ tion, 'Knowing as I do, therefore, from fresh ex­ perience, how great the difference Is between gliding through an official routine and working: out a reform of systems and policies it is im­ possible for me to contemplate what- needs to be done in the Federal administration without an anxious Rente of the dtfflculties of the under­ taking. If summoned by the suffrages of my countrymen to attempt this work I shall en­ deavor, with God'B help, t > be the efficient in­ strument of their will.' Buch a work of reno­ vation. after many years of misrule, such a re­ form of systems and policies, to which I would cheerfully have sacrificed all that rema ned to me of h- alth and life, is nQjnr, I fear, beyond my strength." My purpose to withdraw from further public Service, and tlie grounds of it, were at that time well known to you and to others, and when, at Cincinnati, thou ch respecting my wishes your- jrelf. you communicatee! to me an appeal from m nv valued friends to relinquish that purpose,. I reiterated my determination unconditionally.. In the fonr years which have since elapsed, nothing lias ooenrred to weaken, but everything- to strengthen, the considerations which induced my withdrawal from public life. To nil who have addressed me on the subject my intention has been frankly communicated. Several of my most confidential friends, under the sanction of th^ir own names, have publicly stated my determination to be irreversible. That I have occasion now to consider' the question, is an event for which I have no responsibility. The appeal made to me by the Democratic masses, with apparent unanimity, to serve them once more is entitled to the most deferential: consideration, and would inspire a disposition to do anything desired of me. if it were consist­ ent with my judgment of duty. I believe that there is no instrumentality in hnman society so potential in its influences upon mankln'i for" good or evil as the governmental machinery for- administering justice and for making and exe­ cuting laws. Not all the elementary instdta-- tions of private benevolence to which philan­ thropists mav devote their lives are so fruit­ ful in benefits as the rescue and preservation- of this machinery from the perversions that make it the instrument of conspiracy, frauds and crime against the most sacred rights and interests of the people. For fifty years, as a private citizen, never contemplating an official career, I have devoted at l'-ast as much thought and effort to the dnty of influencing aright the , action of the governmental institutions of my country as to all other object®. I have never ac­ cepted official service exoept for a brief period,, for a special purpose, and only when the oc­ casion seemed to require from me that sacrifice of private preferences to the public welfare. I undertook the State administration tif New York because it was supposed that in that way only could the executive power be arrayed on the* side of the reforms to which, as a private cit­ izen, I had given three years of my life. I accepted the nomination for the Presidency in 1H7(5 because of the general conviction that my candidacy would best present the issue of reform whicn the Democratic majoiity of the people desired to have worked out, in the Fed­ eral Government, as it had l>een in the State of New York. I believed that I had strengths enough then to renovate the administration of the Government of the United States, and. at>- the close of my term, to hand over the great trust to a suooessor faithful to the same policy. Though anxious to seek the repose of private- life, I nevertheless acted upon tho Idea. tha*. every power is a trust and involves a duty. In reply to the committee communicating my nomination, I depicted the difficulties of the undertaking and likened my feelings in en­ caging in it to those of a soldier enter­ ing battle; but 1 did not withhold the entire consecration of my power to the pub­ lic service. Twenty years of continuous malad­ ministration, under the demoralizing influences- of intestine war and of liarl finance, have in­ fected the whole govermental system of the United States with the cancerous growths of false constructions and corrupt practices. Powerful clashes have acquired pecuniary in­ terests in official abuses, and the moial stand­ ards of the i>eoole have been impaired. To- redress these evils is a work of great difficulty and labor, and cannot be accomplished without the most energetic and efficient personal action on the part of the Chief Executive of the Republic. The canvass and adminis­ tration which it is desired that I should' undertake would embrace a period of nearly live years. Nor can I admit any illusion as to their- bnrdens. Three years' experience in the en­ deavor to reform the municiiwl government of the city of New York, and two years' experienoe in renovating the administration of the Stan of New York, have made me familiar with the re­ quirements of such a work. At the present- time the considerations which induced my ac­ tion in 1880 have become imperative. I ought not to assume a task which I have not the- Bhysical strength to carry through. To reform the administration of the Federal Govern­ ment; to realize my own ideal, and to ful­ fill the great expectations of the people*, would indeed warrant, as they could nlone com­ pensate, the sacrifices wli ch the undertaking: would involve; but, in my condition of advanc­ ing years and declining strength. I feel no as­ surance of my ability 10 accomplish these ob­ jects. I am, therefore, constrained to say defi­ nitely that I cannot now assume the labors of' an administration, or of a canvass. Undervaluing in no wise that best gift ot heaven--the occasion and the power sometimes- bestowed upon a mere individual to communi­ cate an impulse for good-grateful beyond all words to my fellow-countrymen who would assign such a beneficent function to me--I am consoled by the reflection t hat nei­ ther the Democratic party nor the republic, for- whose future that i)artv is' the best guarantee. Is now or ever can be dependent upon any one man for their successful progress in the path of a noble destiny. Having given to their welfare whatever of health and strength I possessed, or oonld bor­ row from the future, and havine reached the term of my capacity for such labors as their welfare now demands, I but submit to t he will of God in deeming my public career forever closed- SAMUEL J. TIU>KN. Important Railroad Election. The stockholders of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company have held their annual election of directors. This election has attracted mnch attention because of the contest between President Cable and Wm. H. Vanderbilt. The issue? was joined on the re-election of Henry HL Porter as a member of the Board of Direct­ ors. The whole number of votes cast waa- 397,123 shares. H. H. Porter received 334,786, and John Newell, Yanderbilt's can­ didate. 62,337, making Porter's majority 272,449. ^ Francis H. Tows and James R. Cowing were re-elected, and Marshall Field electeo in place of Jay Gould by unanimous vote. Gould was. left off not because of any dif­ ference with the management, but for the- reason that he could give little or no time- to the affairs of the company, while Field's residence in Chicago makes him accessible for consultation. R. R. Cable was re-elected President;. David Dows and A. Kimball Vice Presi­ dents, and F. H. ToWs Secretary And. Treasurer of the company. The Executive Committee consists of Hugh Riddle, David Dows, R. R. Cable, H. R. Bishop, and F. H. Tows, of which Mr. Riddle remain*- Chairman. Hon. Chauncy M. Depew, E. D. WorceB-, ter, Secretary of the New York Central, John Newell, President of the Lake Shore, and Asbury Pond, General Solicitor of tho Michigan Centml Railroad, attended the stockholders' meeting as the repesentativefr of Mr. Vanderbilt. A BOSTON woman warns train-boy* through the Globe that "if they throw any )f Col. Ingersoll's lectures in my lap I shall certainly throw them out of the window." MULBERRY, Ohio, has a colored citizen lamed AVilliam Long, who claims to be 14S .'enr-i old, aud isn't sure but that he saw Christopher Columbus. PETER MOCRAIL died in Cranston, R. L, jail, where he inw committed for debt.