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New-York tribune., 1872-10-10
A SID SIX.

There was to have been a Straight-Out
Blanton Dmcan-0'COn0r Adams State-COn-
vention Mt Jefferson City on the 4th inst. A
tall and revolutionary time was anticipated,
cataract of eloquence and deluge of dele
gates When the great and important hour
arrived, however. for calling to order the
Convention, there were present two men from
Buchanan County, one from Johnson, two
from Bollinger one from Usage. and one
from st. Louis-sevenh highly respectable gentle
men, doubtless but not enough, numerically
considered, to do anything iii massive way.
There was bill up announcing the names OF
five eloquent speakers, but only one of them
appeared to ravish the enthusiastic half
dozen. The Convention was considerably en-
couraged in the course of tho day by the arri-
val of one more delegate, and he was hailed,
we suppose, by such thunderous cheers as six
men suddenly called upon could gvej but
even this pleasing little event failed to dissi-
pate the general gloom.
While the noble and devoted Six 1--WE mean
Seven) were whispering together about what
they should do next letter arrived from the
Honorable John Quincy Adams, Junior, of
Quincy, Massachusetts. This epistle was read
to the assembled multitude; but alas we have
no report of what it contained. AS it was
probably letter calculated for q hundred or
a hundred and fifty delegates, the effect of
reading to only six may have been of de-
pressing and dampening kind. AT this moment
the absurdity of the situation struck one of
the six, who moved to adjourn the Convention
to meet in st. Louis some time, we believe,
next week. In that moro populous city we
should not be surprised to find the number of
delegates increase to twelve or even fourteen.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-10

about 100000. The legal voters included In
this latter aggregate cannot exceed 125,000 of
whom at least 10000 have failed to register.
The legal votes polled there on Tuesday
ranged from 10000 to 115,000; oil that were
polled above this mark were frauds. Those
who bounded them up to the inspectors were
mainly obscure, characterless persons; but
they were only hired instruments. The real
authors of this fraud sit in high places, and
are addressed as Honorable, General, and
Colonel, and Esquire. Some of them furnish
the needful funds; others use those funds so
as to secure the desired result The former
shut their eyes very fight, and insist that there
is no money In sight; the latter think those
who pay the money as sorry knaves as those
who receive and earn it; and they are right.
The Millions subscribed and paid by Office
holders, Government contractors, loan manipu-
latOrs, subsidy mongers, railway land-jObbers,
favored stock -.jobbers. &C., they can well afford
to pay. They can get them back again with
interest exceeded only by the dividends OF the
Credit Mobilier of America. Early advices OF
a single order from tho Treasury Department
to sell gold or buy stocks may reimburse a
score of the most liberal contributors in week.
But the country cannot afford to be governed
by fraudulent votes, no matter for whom cast
or counted. Whenever it shall be generally
understood that the vote returned from any
Ward shall be just what the Tweed or OBrlen
of the hour decides to make it, real voting Will
be abandoned. The ballot-bOx stuffer ana the
miscOunter of votes soon make an end OF real
elections Legal voters will not persist in giving
countenance and character to fraud whereof
they are foreordained victims. Behind the
ballot-box stufler marches the soldier with
loaded musket and fixed bayonet. lie at least
is no sham. He does not mock you with
pretenso of deferring to your Judgment when
he has predetermined to falsify it. very few
years of government by repeaters will reconcile
any community to naked military dcspotism.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-10
ment made In order to pave the way for ths
fraud were all made by Grant and Creswsl.
Are tbey Greeley men, Mr.. Dawesi
TIE PLYMOUTH JUBILEE.

The festival with which sundry good peopAs
In Brooklyn are now celebrating the twenty
ifth anniversary of tho union between the
Plymouth congregation and the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher is something uncommon in tho
history of American churches; yet its fitneas
must be apparent to everybody. Pastors who
have preached q quarter Of century from
one. pulpit are perhaps not very rare; but q
pastor who has identified himself 30 closely
with the religious and intellectual life of his
people as Mr.. Beecher is almost unknown.
He has not merely endeared himself 70 his
flock, but he has impressed them with great
deal of his own character, bis earnestness, bis
Independence, his acuteDess OF mind, his zeal
for humanitarian works. He has established
with his congregation an intimate personal
relation which goes far beyond the usual In
tercourse between the preacher and his hear
ers and partakes so much OF the family bs
that when he calls his flock about him TO
commemorate this happy event they meet as
members of one household.
The interest of such a gathering extends
far beyond the narrow circle of those who
directly take part in it. For the better part
of a generation, Plymouth Church, under tho
influence of Mr.. Beecher. has been con-
spicuOus light among the churches OF the
land. 1t has been the birthplace of countless
good works which have blessed the whole
community. It has been the nursery OF noble
impulses, of free thought, of patriotism, OF
generous and inspiriting actions. Its pupils
have gone out into all parts of the country,
carrying its fresh spirit with them, to infect
other communities. Its influence is felt from
Maine to the Pacific, and its memory ia to-
day affectionately cherished by thousands
who were never within its walls, and never
saw its preacher. And it must be one of tho
chief causes of coDgratulation among those
who,assemble at it's silver wedding this week
that the man who has made it what 1t Is 10
still, after the accomplishment OF such work,
young, and hearty, and unworn. and ready 10
carry on his labor to still more brilisns
achievement.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-10
IYDIANA And VICTORY.

Writing before the October elections, we
said: If our friends carry either one of the
" three States we shall have the better chance
"of success in November. The other side must
"carry all three to give them the better pros
"pect." ..
We havo carried one of them. and the one
most desperately contested. We have over
thrown the ablest of the cabal that led the
President to his ruin--we would say also the
most unscrupulous, if, in this hour of PENN
sylyania's shame, we could forget Simon Cam
eron. Thomas A. Hendricks is elected Gov
ernOr of Indiana.
We have no desire to underrate the gravity
of the situation. We have been counted out
of Pennsylvania, which we should have carried.
We could easily haye dispensed with its votes
i'm the Electoral College; but the moral effect
of the loss is depressing, to greater extent
than the number of electoral votes would
indicate. The work is made harder
for us in New York, harder for our brethren
triumph of CamerOn's money, in the success of
the Penitentiary candidate. From this day
till the first Tuesday of November, We shall
have upon us a steady, continuous strain
But we shall win Our Liberal Republicans
did well in Pennsylvania. In parts of Ohio they
won signal victory, while the Grant majority in
IL. - h. oolv In
the Liberal and Democratic victory has been
won in the face of such lavish efforts to kill
the free suffrages of State by importation
and by midnight ciphering as even Morton
never before attempted, and neither he nor
anybody can again achieve
And now we are in the open field 1t is no
longer possible to concentrate Cabinet, a
Treasury, all the patronage and all the
money of the National Administration on
two or three States. Thirty seven States
cannot be gagged in night, like
North Carolina and Pennsylvania, or over
powered by sheer weight like Maine. On the
broader field the contest assumes fairer as
pect and Indiana gives us the omen of VIC
tory. Under her inspiration the splendid Lib
eral Republican and Democratic organiza-
tions in Illinois declare they can win }
and, knowing their work and their power, we
believe them. Consider once more the list OF
States as it may fairly be placed to-day, in
the light of the elections within week in
Georgia, Connecticut, and Indiana:
New-York tribune., 1872-10-10
AMNESTY AND RECONCILIATION

The Grant newspapers and speakers are
constantly repeating the 0ft-exposed fiction
that nobody is now debarred from voting on
account of participation in the rebellion, and
only few arc excluded from holding Office
We have shown that in Arkansas alone as
many as 10000 of the best educated men OF
the State are disqualified from voting, most of
them, to be sure, by an illegal exercise of dis
cretion on the part of the carpet-bag officials,
but actually prevented from voting for all that
We have shown also that all Overt the
South disqualification from office and ex-
cluson from the polls have gone hand in
hand. and do so yet. The Reconstruction
Act of March g. 1867, provided that none
of the seeding States should be readmitted
to the Union until it had adopted, among
other provisions of its Constitution, one
confning the elective franchise to those
persons who were eligible to Office under
the XIVth Amendment. That amendment ex-
cludes from Office every man who, having
previously taken all oath as member OF
Congress, or as an officer OF the United
Estates, or as member of any State Legisla-
"ture, or as an executive or judicial officer of
"any State, to support the Constitution OF the
&" United States, shall have engaged in insur
Erection or rebellion against the same, or
given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof"
The Supplementary Reconstruction Act of July
10, of the same year, made the disfranchise-
ment still more sweeping, and declared 1T to
apply to all who had taken part in the
Rebellion or given aid comfort to the
enemy after holding any civil office what
ever, whether they were holding Office at the
beginning of the war or had held it before,
and even to those who had taken no oath to
support the Constitution of the United States.
This, it will be observed, was not merely dis
qualification for Office, but disfranchisement
as well And so the matter remained until
the Cincinnati Convention, as the first fruit
of the Liberal triumph, drove Congress into
the Amnesty Act of last May, by which the
South received a partial and tardy relief.
Even under that Act, however, Senators and
Representatives in the XXXVIth and
XXXVIIth Congresses, officers in the judicial,
military. and naval service of the United
States, heads of departments, and foreign
ministers of the United States who took part
in the Rebellion are disqualified both from hold
ing Office and voting.
We publish elsewhere to-day a list of the
more prominent persons excluded by this
Amnesty act. Whether they be few or many
makes little difference. whenever 1t is said"
remarked Mr.. Greeley in one of his Western
speeches, "that my captain shall be punished
"for what he and did, | am punished with
"him.' The Acknowledgement of few hund-
red leaders Is q punishment felt all over tho
South. Sometimes it amounts to disfran-
chisemcnt of "A whole State; as when North
Carolina was refused the Senator of her
choice, and majority of the Republican
Senator'S actually put themselves on record III
New-York tribune., 1872-10-10
1Gew'2lork Daily grhmate.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1872.

The remains Of the late King of Sweden were inferred
AZ Stockholm go The Congress Of Spain has refused
20 consider the proposition for the emancipation OF
slaves The coal masters of South Wales will close
their works shortly.
1t estimated that Pennsylvania gave Grant major
fly OF S3OOO Ohio Grant majority Of 10000 and Indiana
a Liberal and Democratic majority OF 25oo' - Yes
erday was celebrated in Chicago as the anniversary OF
the Great fire. - j. Milton Turner, u s. Minister TO
Liberia was dangerously stabbed bya political oppo-
nent.
Con Butler and Cen Robinson addressed Admins
tration mass meeting at Cooper Institute. == The
Isnmany Judiciary Convention held exciting session.
but adjourned without making nominations. - Gold,
lI1t iIg 1874. Thermometer, 52o, 800, 6t'
New-York tribune., 1872-10-10

The Herald urges President Grant TO adopt
the main plank in the Liberal patform-Uni-
versal Amnesty. That is good advice. But
why not adopt the whole platform Every
plank is as sound as that commended by The
Herald. Even the One-Term principle was re-
garded with favor by Gen. Grant when about
to be nominated in 1868. Why not give it a
good word in his Message next Decemberf
1t will then have ceased to affect him one
Way or the other.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-10

There Ia no reason under the sun why poor Mr..
Gilmore should be out Of pocket because OF the
pecunary failure Of the Boston Coliseum Jubise-
He worked with viii, and he was encouraged "
work by those who thought that the Jubilee would
rebound to the glory and profit of Boston. We are
glad therefore, that this unfortunate gentleman u
TO have the benefit of Ball. and we trust that the
Boston gentlemen and ladies will come forward
literally, and dance away all melancholy recolies-
tions, at least from the bosom Of Mr. Gilmore. And
we think the suggestion of The Transcript good
one In the opinion of that newspaper, 1t Is the
duty of each gentleman who is officially connected
with the dance to retail score Of tickets by bis
personal exertOn and solicitation. In this way M
the original raptures of the Jubilee may DO tempo
rarily revived by those who are never so much
pleased as when they are making themselves oon-
spicuous The special service, however, which hr.
Gilmore has rendered understand it, Is one fer
which the whole country should shell out generally
IL is through his exertons that now, for tho frst
time, our own "Star-Spangied Banner" echoes IN
the principal streets of Europe aud is whstled and
nd-organed moro or less in England. France, and
Germany. This is public service which, in the
better days of the Republic. might have gained Ter
Mr. Gilmore handsome pension. 1t is true that tho
s. S. b. is an ancient Irish tune, but then it may be
fairly considered as Yankee by naturalization We
trust that everybody who is asked will take one Of
Mr. Gilmore's tiokets and that all who are able viii
take two.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-10

eaying still seriously contested

That leaves us but six votes to win from
the doubtful States; it leaves Grant sixty
five. On that showing, who can doubt which
side the chances lief Illinois would elect
Mr.. Greeley,-or North Carolina,-or Cali
fornia.-or Minnesota Each is promising; ;
either one of the four would settle the fight.
Courage, Friends! the enemy have done their
worst; we have wrested Indiana from their
grasp, and the way to final victory is clear
New-York tribune., 1872-10-10

Dealers in obscene books are having rather haio
time Of il in England. One infamous fellow hehV
Judge has been sentenced to two years hard laoo'
and when these are he will have 70 ind Seeai,
ties for good behavior. Judges lawyer srsuos
In defense of his client that the classics are Soi
times obscene they too should bc suppressed oy -.
"A silly fallacy hardly requiring exposure
true that there Greek and Latin texts wnioh -.
occasionally indelicate; but these books are w
sought and read for the sake of such passages ns
can they have any bad effect upon the mind Oh
student Of average brains.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-10

favor of admitting instead the very man
whom North Carolina had honestly, fairly,
poremptorily rejected and defeated. We de-
mand that such penalties shall cease, and the
country be onco moro united and free. 1t Is
neither while we hold the Southern States rs
conauered provinces I. rrr M. .l l.. ....
New-York tribune., 1872-10-10
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little volume has just been issued, con'ai,ins
manual and directory Of the Department OF -
together with maps showing existing ana p'Or ~.
piers aud bullIheads, and the general outlines u -
harbor. The Dock Commission Is one Oh 'nv a
against whose management no serious gfv.n1s I'm
complaint have been urged. Its President ,s.s
Il. Agnow, is q merchant of high chaiae','' mo
identified with the commerce oil Ne"-ioiA' an
gives his time to this service and the gen'i'
isaton seems 10 DO at once elhclon' ana e0'A''''
New-York tribune., 1872-10-10
amussmmls, fif., Ghis Gpsums.

BooTH's THEATER.-" Arrah-na-Pogue" Mr.. and
nA Doh B0uceauk ~
FIFTH AVENUE THKATER. -" Diamonds" Miss
fsnnr Dtveapon and Misc LINDA Diets
GRAND OPERA HoUsE.-"Le Roi Carotto." Mrs.
John Wood, Mis- Rose Heree, and John Broashau1
UNION SQUARE THEATER.-"Agnes." Miss Agnes
BsAs asd D. Il. Bkrkins
WN1AcKIs THEATER.-" Pygmalion and Galates'
Mss Katharine RogerS -
AMERICAN INsTnUTE.-Forty first Annual Exhibi-
hOa Day sai Bveuing
ASSOCIATION HA1I.-Lecture. Rev. II. s. Brown.
BlnrY's CIRCUS AND MENAoERIE, at the foot Of
HOustoasA, X r Dsy and Bven'ns.
CALIFORNIA MINsTREIs. at No, no Broadway.
ST. JAMES TREATER.-San Francisco Minstrels
S,r. PETERS HALI--Leeture, Prof. Sedgwick. !.
Tony PAsToRs OPERA HOUSE," A DutobSi"h :"
Lsncon." and Varieties
New-York tribune., 1872-10-10

Chicago celebrated the first anniversary OF
its great fire most Enthusiastically. No
slackclOtb, no ashes, but procession, brass
bands, newspapers in rebuilt offices and with
sixteen-page supplements, old firms taking
possession of new trade palaces, and the Board
of Trade formally installed in q magnificent
building that outshines in splendor the one
which went down in the great fire of 1871.
This is the way Chicago commemorates an
event which would have wiped out almost
any other city in the world. The best OF it
is, too, that as Chicago had tho sympathies Of
the country in its desolation, there will be no
boundary to the satisfaction which its pros
porous rebuilding kindles.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-10

Tammany moves slowly in the matter of City
nominations. The Judiciary Convention is to
take another week for its work, and there
seems now disposition to try to rule Judge
Fitbian off. Daniel F. TiemaDn comes up
pretty prominently as candidate for Mayor,
and Mr.. Duncan and Mr.. Lawrence are the
other candidates most talked Of
New-York tribune., 1872-10-10

Some superserviceable said, not long ago,
that Grant ought TO be reelected to prove that
Republics are not ungrateful. But the 'rant
Republicans in Pennsylvania arc anxious 10
show their ingratitude to Col. Forney they
have sent word to their Chief at Washington
that they don't want Forney on the stump Tor
him. Forney, like Colfax, will have the bit-
ter satisfaction of finding out for himself how
light are party services when weighed against
party expediency, or the revenge of masters
like Cameron, at whose slightest word he hes
itates to make obeisance.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-10

One of the Grant Democratic (Straight-ou)
electors of this State has found his nomina-
ton reported in the newspapers. 1t was news
to him; and he showed his righteous indig-
nation by asking the Chairman to take his
name off the ticket. Mr.. Bellinger says he
cannot support Grant movement. This does
not seem to be good year for Blanton Dun
canisU.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-10

Georgia election showed that the colorod race
could not hereafter be counted as o unit
Ignorance and superstition, however, make
the negroes still the easy dupes of designing
politicians. How this is done is explained by
a TRIBUNE correspondent whose letter is else
where published. All patriotic mon will re-.
ioioe when there is no party vote of colored
men but that desired contamination will only
come with increased intelligence.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-10

Our correspondent who attended the scien-
tific convention at Dubuque, stopped while
returning to look into the scientific depart
ments of the University of Chicago, and also
took the opportunity to see something of the
great work of rebuilding that city. Recent
letters which we have published from Chicago
have been written by residents who naturally
notice less its actual condition than the
changes it undergOes; the brief sketch we
print this morning portrays the city as it now
appears to O visitor.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-10

We suppose that DIR. Grants brother er-in-law
never read the works of Dean Swift, otherwise
he might have chsnced upon the following pas
sage in "The Journal TO Stella" Zone OF Lord
Treasurer's servants gave me letter from =
with an offer Of ESQ, to bo paid me in what
manner pleased because he said, he desired 10 bs
well with me. was in q rage but my friend Lewis
cooled me, and said it was what the best men some
times meet with and have beennot seldom served
in the like manner, although not so grossly In
these cases never demur a moment, nor ever founa
the least inclination TO take anything" In TINS
Spartan idiosyncracy DR.. Grants brothor-inaw' tns
reader will at once observe, differs entirely from Df'
Swift See the affidavit of Mr. Fretz, published sons
days ago. and the interesting little moral OF the nun
dred dollar bill whereof no treats
New-York tribune., 1872-10-10

Here is something more astonishing than any
device heretofore recorded in the annals Of thevery
The Journal ds Debats relates that the Sd ut tho
great theater at Nijni-Novgorod, which contains
LOCO persons was FULL tho piece to be represented be-
ing, singularly enough, Crime and its Punishment'
During the first act a report was suddenly heard.
slight smoke filed the upper part of tho theater and
q ory OF Eirep was raised. There was rush for
the doors, but only was open; the terror became
general; many persons were thrown down and
trampled upon when the thieves who had combined
to raise this alarmi commenced operations; tore
ring from the ears of the women and watches and
studs from the men, the plundering going ON for
about ten minutes. Quiet and order being restored
it was found that property valued at moro than
100 900 roubles had been carried Off Several persons
were killed. an actress received serious wound, and
three men and women were carried TO hospital.
The light-fngered gentlemen sll contriyed !"
escape.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-10

That the negro is learning TO think for him
self in political matters is evident; the
New-York tribune., 1872-10-10

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will be published at
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