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The Religious Press.

Professor Tyndalts proposition to test she
efficacy Of prayer by setting apart ward in
some first class hospital where patients shall
be the special subject of prayer BY all the
Church during o. succession of years, and
comparison Of the records of that ward with
others under equal circumstances, is receiving
consideration by several Of the weeklies The
Interior compares the proposed test to that
suggested TO the Master by the doubling sister
OF Lazarus that her brother should be rean-
mated. 1t doubts the propriety Of asking the
Almighty to stay the virus of smallpox or de-
work miracle to cure unbelief even in men
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eF--t.~-- - No. W .,
Mr. CHARLES O'CoN0R AND THE STRAIGHT
OUT FARcE.-It is reported on good authority
that Mr.. Charles O'Conor has addressed
letter to the Louisville Convention of
t'straight-outs, prohibiting the use of his
name by them for the Presidential or any
other Office. Mr.. O'Conor states that 'the
fee simple of the world would not induce
him to accept the nomination This certainly
is emphatic enough, and while it does credit to
Mr.. OConor's sense, it obliges the side show
to look elsewhere for fgurehead. Where
will they find one? We suspect every reputa-
'ble citizen will, like Mr. O. Conor, decline to
lend his name for so useless o purpose as that
proposed by the Duncanites. Under these cir
cumstances we do not see how the straight
outs can do better than to nominate Blanton
Duncan himself, unless indeed, they could in
duce George Francis Train to accept the head
of their ticket, with the gallant Kentucky Col
onel as his second.
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The AMERICAN FLEET IN BRITISH WAIVERS
A correspondent of the HERALD at Cowes,
Isle of Wight, furnishes bright cosby let
ter, which we print this morning, giving an
account of the houors shown our flag by our
English cousins The Prince and Princess of
Wales paid a visit to the fleet and Admiral
Alden and General Sherman were received on
board the royal yacht with due honors. The
stay of the feet in British waters will be long
remembered, as it will be associated with
memories of right hearty md royal welcomes,
brilliant scenes and warm friendships.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-25
Radicalism I'm South Carolina-l
Frightful state OF Things.

Frightful state OF Things.
Our dispatches from Columbia South Caro-
lima, show that the State is in as bad q condi-
ton politically as it is financially, if not in
worse. 1t has been plundered in the most
barefaced way by the carpet-bag rascals and
their negro allies, and debt has been piled
up that staggers the people by its weight.
There is nothing comparable in the history Of
this country to the fragrant robbery and abuse
of power by the radical authorities there
And now, when the time had come that the
respectable portion of the community hoped
TO find remedy for the evil through the regu-
lar Convention of the dominant party and o
change of rulers, The robbers have over
whemed the reformers. BY pistols, bribery
and vociferous clamor they nominated
most INSCRIPTIONS batch of plum.
derers for all tho highest offices
in the State SO outrageous was the conduct
of the Convention and such terrorism was ex
hibited that the best men of the radical repub
ican party were glad TO escape from the Statt
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The Western Indians-Tho Sioux ON thu
Warpath.

The Western Indians-The Sioux ON the
Warpath.
From q special despatch, dated at the cross
| ing of James River, in Dakotah, on the 22d,
it appears that actual Indian hostilities exist
along the proposed line of the Northern Pacific
railway. A military force, assigned to the
duty of escorting the surveying party engaged
in selecting and designating the route between
the Red River of the North and the Upper
Missouri, was on the 10Th, attacked by band
of Sioux, the tribe of our recent visitor Spotted
Tail, who on all sides menaced the expedition.
Of course discipline, science and good arms
were more than match for Indian ferocity
and savage courage. AS is the universal rule,
the red men paid the penalty of their temerity
by defeat, with considerable slaughter, while
our forces were not seriously harmed There
may be more of the bloody work. If so the
results will be the same in kind, with varying
details. Civilization is too strong for barbar-
ism; its westward march is irresistible, and
whatever opposes it will be ground to pow
der. Not only in Dakotah ore there
mutterings of Indian trouble; Utah and
New Mexico present similar scenes. The
Utes protest against white encroachment and
ask relief in the State of the Latter Day
Saints, while further south Lone Wolf bowls
for the enlargement of Santana, imprisoned
! for murder, and demands the restitution to
his unruly band of Kioways Of all the territory
between the Missouri and the Rio Grande del
Norte, tract six to eight hundred miles wide.
If these conditions are complied with the
prowling Chief of the Kioways will promise
peace with his white brothers.
! Our railroads and telegraphs are fast erasing
from the map the "Great American Desert"
which for centuries sustained herds of count
less buffaloes and furnished food for the Indian
hunters. White settlers and hunters with
plough and rifle every year circumscribe the
buffalo range and curtail their numbers; and
it is rapidly becoming to the Indians ques-
ton whether they will quit predatory life and
the chase, go to work like white men, or
starve. Their accustomed food disappears
Unwilling to work and ignorant of the
methods of industrious life, they ore naturally
perplexed and quarrelsome. In every encoun-
ter with our forces they are defeated. Govern
ment offers them reservations where they may
be protected from encroachment and where, If
they will work, they may live in peace and
plenty. But it is hard to teach the wild men
the why Of civilization.
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The SPANISH ELECTIONS. The elections for
members of the Spanish Cortes were held
yesterday. The citizen political contests
passed off quietly The returns had not been
received in Madrid when our news despatch
.r1n4f - ,.,,
was Forwarded in the evening. The indlca-
tions are that the opinion of the country has
been pronounced in favor Of the new royalisn,
and that the people have strengthened the
hands of His Majesty Amadeus, and of his
ministry, by a vote approving of the policy of
the government. The King, accompanied by
his wife. returned to Madrid from their tour
in the northern provinces just subsequent to
the close of the polls-a happy coincidence
nnder the circumstances; one which will be
accepted as o sort of formal recrownins OF the
JQoaarcaical ed.Gce ~ Spain.
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The FEATURE OF THE WEEK in Wall street
was the decline in gold, which went off to
1923, or three per cent lower than it was
q few weeks ago. The money market was
unsettled, and, after advancing to seven per
cent, declined to three per cent, closing pretty
active at four per cent.
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nee is not On old political hack, already
broken down in the service of ofice-seekng,
or one whose antecedents will be calculated to
revive the dead issues and the sleeping enmi-
ties of the past If the Greeley unionists are
prudent on these points they may make sue
cessful fight in the State, in defiance of any
opposing combinations in this city.
The municipal and Legislative nominations
will yet remain to be made by both parties,
and to these the attention of the people will
be specially directed We warn both repub-
licans and opposition that it will not do to
place single tainted or suspected name on on
Assembly ticket, and the wisest policy to be
pursued by oil parties will be to reject every
candidate who was at Albany last Winter.
The people are now more than ever convinced
of the necessity of electing honest men to the
State Legislature if they desire o thorough
reform in the municipal government and they
will not again suffer the character of the State
to be blackened by the foulness of the State
Capitol. Wherever citizen of established
integrity is opposed by candidate of ques-
tionable honesty the people will vote for the
former without regard to politics. If either
party would adopt the principle Of placing the
name of prominent business man of wealth
and position upon every Legislative ticket it
would sweep the State like whirlwind. The
democrats in this city and in Brooklyn.
trusting to their overpowering majorities
in some of the Assembly districts, have
been in the habit of running and
electing candidates whose names are familiar
in oil Legislative jobs. The experience of last
year will probably teach them that they can no
longer adopt such policy but even should
they be strong enough to elect such candidates
in particular DISTRICTS they must remember
that their nomination is serious damage to
the whole of the ticket all over the State In
the selection of candidate for Mayor similar
caution is necessary The people of New York
desire solid and lasting reform, joined with
enterprise, energy and liberality in the admin
istration Of their municipal affairs. They will
demand of the next Legislature plain, prac-
teal charter for the city, giving power to an
honest Mayor to make an efficient government
and leaving ample scope for the prosecution of
all desirable works of public improvement 1t is
proper that competent and upright Chief |
Magistrate should be entrusted with the work |
of recognizing the government under the new
law, and hence the Importance of the present
contest for the Mayoralty. We refer else
where to the candidates most prominently |
mentioned for this Office, and among them |
will DO found names that commend them
selves to the favor of the friends Of progress
and reform. 1t matters not on what tickets or
through what political combinations the candi-
dates may be placed before the people; the
silent vote of the city will be cast independ-
emily of the politicians as it was last Novem-
Der, and the best man will win.
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hearts nor in human experience. The List
might be extended almost indefinitely, but
need not be. There are q few of the most
prominent camp meetings Of the country yet
to be held, and their managers can make them
models of Christian decorum if they will, and
not permit repetition of scenes which have
disgraced other meetings, such as jumping
about like lunatics, and promiscuous hugging,
which is condemned by one of the leading
methodist papers of this city, in its last issue.
ouch scenes are blot not only on Methodism,
out on Christianity itself, and they give to the
pubic that false impression of camp meetings
winch 30 generally, even almost universally,
prevails.
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WOODS MUSEUM. Broadway, corner Thrtieth St
4 OcToRooN. Afternoon and Evening.
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ADJUSTMENTS TOMORROW EVENING.

BOwERY THEATRE Bowery-A Tnrp TO WILLIAMS.
BuRC-SHIN FAME.
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OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway between Houston and
Blocker sts-A LiYE's DREAM, &c.
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ing Legislature as a delegate, and should not
suffer the name of republican Senator
or Assemblyman to be mentioned for any
Office. The resolutions should speak out
plainly in denunciation of the Albany corrup-
tons, regardless Of persons, and should de-
clare against the denomination of any of the
present Assemblymen in a single district of
the State. The infamy of the State Capitol
attaches to democrats as well as to repub-
licans, although the latter had the power of
legislation entirely in their hands, and no
political considerations should be suffered to
silence the voice of the Convention on the
subject. No member of the Legislature whose
record is not unassailable should be sent as q
delegate to either body, or be admitted to a
seat if sent. Only by an entire reputation OF
the Albany corrupionists, in practice as well
as in words can the Greeley party in this
State benefit by the blunder Of the Republican
Convention in virtually endorsing the in
famous Legislature of last Winter.
1t will not do, however, for the Syracuse
double-headed Conventions to content them
selves with verbal condemnation of the
bogus reformers, although they have two
tongues to wag in dennnciatiOn. The people
ore suspicious of platforms unless backed ur
by men whose names are guarantee that they
will carry out faithfully the pledges upon
which they are elected. Several names are
now mentioned in connection with the Office
of Governor and we give elsewhere in the
HERALD to-day graphic account of the
gossip and schemes of the politicians in
regard to the nominations. Judge Church ha,
declined to run; but for the good of the cause
| it will be well If he can be induced to recon
slider that determination. His nomination
would be accepted as guarantee of homes
reform and would give character to the ticket
There are of course other good names men
toned in the list of candidates, but tn
Conventions should be careful that their nom
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coffee to the free list, but have so fixed
matters that the total average taxation is
only 40 per cent, while the list of arti-
cles above cited draw seventy per cent.
outof the pockets Of the people, = &
The Radical Congressional Ccnver.
tion which assembled at Marietta ca the
Sth ult, and reuominated Hon. William
z. Sprague endorsed his vote in favor of
the above exhorbitant duties upon the
articles enumerated. ---.
The laws of this Government, reader,
are made by Congress elected by the
People Whose fault is it that the pies
ent Congress has made or maintain ed
laws that rerpetuate such outrageous in
iquities as these2 Whose fault will ii
be, if the Congress to be chosen this
fall shall perpefuatc them? .fs
Let the People of this District con
slider their own interests and vote to
send Hon. r. r. Hudson, the Demo
cratic and Liberal Republican candidate
to Congress and their interests will b,
locked after, instead of those of the
Monopolists, carpet Baggers and Land
Grabbers. "
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CurlOsities OF the Dead Letter
ONCE.

1t is officially stated that three mill
ions of letters went to the Dead Letter
ONCE last year, and that they contained
sum exceeding three millions of dol
lars in money, drafts. checks, and so
forth. Ninety. two thousand dollars of
this was in cash. 1t is estimated that
on an average every letter that goes in
to that office loses dollar to some one.
Fifty eight thousand letters had no
county or State direction, four hundred
thousand lacked stamps, and three
thousand we're posted without any ad.
dress at all What a commentary is
this on the absent mindedness and va
garies of our population Part of the
mistake arise, no doubt, from ignorance
and weak minded persons, and a good
many from that mental absorption char.
acteristic of our intensely active people
OF the four hundred Thousand going to
the Dead Letter Office for the want ot
stamps portion, probably, were stamp
ed and Uncle Sans imperfect glue
would not stick. Curious romances
might be woven out of the lost letters
The extraordinary facts thus officially
reported ought to have the effect of ma
king our people more careful in stamp
ing, addressing and mailing their letters
N Y. Herald.
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More Bribery.-POmerOy, Cband.
Ter, Morton and Nye Bought Up.

IOs "VssVA !ohO wye DOuSh IA OPs
The SUMS Washington correspondent
unearths another case Of bribery in
Congress thus: "The Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company bought the
Pennsylvania Railroad, which really
controls the Baltimore and Potomac,
with all the ability and means it could
command 1t required some fine man
ipuiation ON the part of Tom Scott to
secure their charter, or the right of way
through the District of Columbia. AT
ter the bill had passed the House there
was some difficulty in securing the in
fuence Of certain Senators in orGer to
put it through The Senate. After many
fruitless attempts at argument and NOR
al suasion, the gentlemen who were in
terested with Colonel Scott in this en-
terprise determined to purchase FIVE
Senators. Simon Cameron, who was
interested in the Baltimore and Poto-
mac through the Northern Central Rail
road, undertook to name the meh whom
he declared it was absolutely necessary
to see A fund of $4,000 was raised
BY the officers of the Company, and it
was placed in the hands OF the Presi
dent, who was to pay it out under di-
rections from n Cameron. Cameron
named Senators Pomeroy, Chandler,
Morton, Nye, and third man who was
to he the Representative of the fifth
Senator, and the President of the Com
pany paid to each $4,000 in cash AT
ter this had been done there was nc
further trouble, and the desired bill
passed. There are three gentlemen who
can testify to the accuracy of the facts
here stated; one Of them is Oden Bowie
Ex Governor of Maryland, and Presi
dent of the Baltimore and Potomac
Railroad" ,y,s.,
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RemaiIlns Of Letters.

+. The New York Journal of Commerce
enlightens correspondent on the ques-
ton, "Can letters once delivered be re
mailed and forwarded to the same ad-
dress without additional postage -
The editor explains that such remailing
is not illegal still no postmaster can be
required to do it:
The reason viii be obvious, upon a
little reflection. 1t would open the door
at once to fraud, since letter might be
opened, read, and forwarded in place of
fresh letter, or the envelope be used
again, OF people might bring any stamp
ed envelopes and ask to have them for
warded if the address would serve
We have known postmasters to refuse
to RENAL letter as one to be forwarded
after it had been delivered, and we JUS
titled that refusal as based upon sound
princpleS.
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This, Germans,

l positively declared Immediately af-
ter the Cincinnati Convention, in favor
of Greeley against Grant.
AS German my honor does not per.
NIT me to vote for man who permitted
tn be sold to France ten millions worth
of rifles, cannons and cartridges, and
who thus has the lives and the health OF
perhaps hundreds of thousands OF Ger
mans upon his conscience. Other Ger.
mans may take this matter more easily
but at the time, when l did my best
through friends to stop this dishonor.
able traffic, made a vow that at the
proper time, there should be q reckon.
ing made for this infamy.
.... GUSTAV A. KoERNER.
Democratic and Liberal candidate TO,
Governor of Illinois.
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i Re. elnber, ..,. r..
That all Demo,
cratic voters at
home ON Tuesday,
the Sth day ofOc-
tober.count for the
Radicals.
The Position OF Judge chase,

The following letter was written to a
gentleman in Cleveland, Ohio: 80
NoRTHwooD, N. H., August %, 1872
DEAR SIR: Your letter, expressing the
wisi of yourself and many friends to
know my views Of public duty in the
approaching Presidential election, has
been received My answer must be
brief. ~ ID"
| make no secret of my conviction
that the highest interests of the coun
try require the election of Mr. Greeley,
or of my intention to vote for him
At the same time, 1 cheerfully acknowl-
edge our Indebtedness to General Grant
for his services in the war and for much
of his administration as President. My
thanks are due and gratefully given to
my countrymen who felt and feel to-
ward me the sentiments you express-
NV health was and is too precarious to
allow wish for the nomination. Ev
erything and more than could be hoped
from me may be expected from Mr..
Greeley. Yours truly,
. S. P. CHASE.
+. A. SCHELLENTRAGER.
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PUBLIC LANDS.

Mr.. Hawley, of Illinois, on April 10,
1871. in Congress, had the Clerk read
the following: ara a-s
"Be it Resolved, dc, That from and
after the passage of this act all the pub
lie lands of the United States shall be
withdrawn from the market, and there
after they shall be disposed Of only un-
der and by virtue of the homestead and
pre- emption laws, except so far as they
may be from time to time granted by
Congress for the purposes of education /;
Provided, That nothing herein contain
ed shall prevent the location of college
scrip and land warrants, nor the fulfill
ing upon the part of the United States
of any existing contract or agreement"
The question was upon suspending
the rules and passing the bill. ~
Mr. Sprague, the Radical candidate
forfConsress in this District,voted No.
and by his opposition aided in prevent
ing suspension Of the rules and the
passage of the bill
The passage of the bill would have
resulted in saving the public lands to
the people to settle npon. -
The defeat of the measure was favor
able to the schemes of the Radical Land
Grabbers and spectators, upon whose
side Mr.. Sprague voted, and the Conren-
ton that reno'ninated him Endorsed his
uote upon that measure, which was in
direct opposition to the interests Of his
constituents and the people generally.
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i The Election u
Takes place on
Tuesday, the Sth
day Of October
Let every Esemo-
crat and aiberal
attend.
The Credit MObtlier Bribery
Eharges-.Meeting OF Leading
Grant Managers. h-iig-j ! 90 -

Grant Managers. ~ h-iig-5 90 -
The New York Sun Of the 17th inst,
CONTAINED the following important edi-
torisl:
ga meeting Of certain prominent
Grant, managers, including, as we are
informed, Henry Wilson, candidate for
Vice President, took place in this city,
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Friday
evening last. Oakes Ames, member of
Congress for the Second District of
Massachusetts, and bribery agent of the
Credit Mobilier, was present by special
request. The purpose of this meeting
was to obtain from aAmes broad,
square, and comprehensive denial of all
the facts stated in his letters TO Colonel
HIS. MeComb, presented and, sworn to,
among the testimony in the case now
pending in the Supreme Court of Penn.
sylvania, and also of the list of mem
bers OF Congress brihed by Ames, with
Credit Mobiller stock. which Colonel
McComb copied on February %, 1868,
in Ames' presence, from a list which
Ames took out of his pocket and show
ed him. Such broad, square, com
prehensive, and complete denial was
prepared for .Ames' signature, and it was
intended to publish it in the morning
journals of Saturday last, and to tele-
graph it all over the Union. but when it
came to the point of signing and send.
ing out their enormous lie, Mr.. Ames
did not dare to do it. . The evidence in
the hands Of Colonel McColhb, and the
fother evidence, part Of which is within
our knowledge, and part. Of which has
never been produced in any public man.
ner, is so overwhelming that Ames felt
it to be impossible to sign and publish
such lie He refused the demand made
upon him by those whom he had bribed,
and by the MANAGERS of his party The
denial which was to have been published
with Ames' signsture was thus Of neces
sity abandoned, and the only denials
that are now to be made are evasive and
deceitful ones, like those Of Speaker
Blaine and Henry L. Dawes. These de-
mails, as our readers have ample means
OF convincing themselves. are nothing
but confessions of the svillainy. No
denial can now be worth anything that
is not signed and sworn to by Oakes
Ames, and by the men whom he has
accused of receiving the bribes, and
confirmed by other evidence Of the most
substantial nature. Mere personal de-
malls, such as might have satisfied the
public fortnight ago, will now answer
no purpose except to convince the peo-
pie that the party denying is really gull
tyn .-r