New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-23

a. W Shaner, and eight mora LEADING poll
TEXANS. 1t IS believed that many more
warrants wlu be issued to-day for the arr
rest of alleged cOnspirators in the Gross
case.
sAvANNAH, July 22.-General RYAN. Of
day,
MONrGoMERY, Ala, July Ex-senator
Warner and Hon. S. f. Rice, late Chief
Justice OF the Supreme Court of Alabama
have declared for Greeley and Brown Im-
mense Greeley ratification meeting here ON
Saturday night, at which resolutions In
dorslng the Liberal Republican nomfna-
tons and the action of the Baltimore con-
VentiOn were unanimously adopted
A large number of colored men partici-
pated in the meeting.
Five Republican papers in this State have
lately come out for Greeley and Brown
This leaves but four straight Republican
Newspapers in Alabama, OF which two
| yet remain unCOmmitted.
/ JACKSON, Miss, July 22.--The Clarion Of
tomorrow will publish authentic accounts
from all parts of Mississippi showing that
| the cotton worm has already appeared
throughout thea State, and that very great
damage is being done the cotton crop. Be
sides the worm excessive rains are doing
| great damagefn some sections of the State
Politics are lively. Both political parties
are IN active training for the campaign.
/ But three Democratic papers in the State
| oppose the action at Baltimore
| The executive committees of the Demo
| Gratis are Liberal Republicans will meet in
| this city August IL, when a proper under
standing as to the conduct of the canvass
/ will be had.
Boston, July GA special dispatch
from Washington to the Traveller states
that Senator Sumner has written letter to
Gardner Brewer, of Boston, coming out In
favor of Greeley and Brown, and against
Grant strongly.
SCRANTON, Pa, July 22.-The- surface in
the rear of the shaft of the Wilkesbarre
mine caved in this morning, swallowing up
house occupied by two families. Only
two persons were buried-bOth little girls.
The mine was idle.
PHILADELPHIA, July 22.-PrOfessor H.
Beidseman, of this city, lately from Chicago,
aged fOrty-tive, while bathing this morning
at Cape May, was seized with fit in shall
low water and drowned. About the same
time that Professor Beidseman drowned
the lifeb boat rescued four young men who
hausted
ST. LOUIS, July 22.-The following cor
respOndence was read by Carl Schurz in
his speech tonight:
ST, LOUIS, June %, 1872.
To Hon Horace Greeley New York;
DEAR SIR-In your letter of acceptance
you promise thorough reform of civil ser
vice in general terms. The question how
the problem of civil service reform presents
itself to your mind is one OF great interest,
and would suggest, if it be consistent with
your views of prOpriety, that you give ms
such explanations as will put your iuteu-
tiOns in this respect in a clear light.
Yours truly, CARL SCHURZ.
The following is Mr.. Greeley's reply:
New YORK, July 5, 1879.
To Hon. Carl Schurz, St. Louis
MY DEAR SR-Yours of the twenty
sixth ultimO only reached me three days
ago. respond as promptly as l may. The
problem Of civil service reform is rendered
difficult by an alliance between the execu-
tive and legislative branches of our federal
government Those members of Congress
who favor the administration habitually
claim and are accorded virtual mOnOp-
oily OF federal offices in their respeC-
tive States or districts, debating
|. appointments and removals as interest or
caprice may suggest. The President ap-
points at their bidding and they legisate
in sub5ervience to his will, often in oppOsi-
ton to their own convictions.
Unless all history is unmeaning this con-
fusion of the executive and legislative
responsibilities and functions could not fail
to distemper and corrupt the body polite
| hold that the eligibility of our President
to reelection the main source of this cor
hope of future favor or fear Of alternating
powerful ambitious partisans. He should
be the official chief, not Of party but OF
the republic.
He should dread nothing but the accusing
voice of history and the ineXOrable judg-
ment of God. He should fully realize and
never forget that Congress in its own sphere
is paramount, and in no wise amenable to
his supervision, and that the heartiest good
will to his administration is perfectly com
patible with the most pointed dissent from
his inculcatiOns in the very gravest
questions in finance and political econ
Omy. 1t is the first step that costa.
Let it be settled that President is not to
be re-elecced while in office, and civil ser
vice reform is no longer difficult, lie will
need no organs and no subsidized defend
ers. He will naturally select his chief
cOunselOrs from among the best and Wisest
of his eminent fellOw-citizens, regardless
alike of the shrieks and the suggestions Of
a selfish policy.
He will have no interest to conciliate, no
chief of a powerful clan to attach to his
personal fortune. He will be impelled to
appoint, as none will deny that he should,
men of ripe experience in business and
eminent mercantile capacity to collect and
keep and dIsburse the revenue, instead Of
deXterOus manipulatOrs of primary meet
ings and tratickers in delegates to nomi-
mating conventions. He will thus trans-
form the civil service of the country
from a party machine into a business
establishment. No longer an aspirant to
place, the President will then naturally
aim to merit and secure the appreciation OF
the entire people, but especially Of the emi-
nently wise and good. As to the machinery
of boards of examiners, ETC., whereby tho
details of civil service reform are to be ma
tured and perfected in Difference TO the
Judgment of a Congress unperyerted by
the adulterOus commerce in legislation and
appointments which l have already exposed
and reprehended. Up to this time our ex-
perience of the dOings of boards in this di-
rectiOn has not been encouraging, and this
/ am confident is not the fault of the gentle
men who have tried to serve the public as
commissioners. In so far as they may
have failed; the causes Of their III
success must be intrinsic, Had they been
accorded q fair field, / am sure thcy would
have wrought to a better purpose, A
thinker has observed that the spirit In
which we work is the chief matter, and w9T
can never achieve civil service reform until
the interests which demand it shall be
more potent in our public cOunsels than
those which desist, even while seeming to
favor it. That this contamination is not
distant feryently trust Meantime, thank
ing you tor your earnest and effective Ia
bOrs to this end,
remain yours,
HORACE GREELEY.
Isecond Dispatch
ST. LOUIS, July pat Liberal Repub-
lican meeting at the Temple tonight, called
for the purpose of electing a county execu-