New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-04-21

The order has since grown 10 gigantic proportions
There are said 20 I've nc less than loo oranges IN tue
efats with an aggregate adnls membership Oh nearly
Iooeoo Tho number of minor ORGANIZATIONS Is FAST
increasing and those IN existence are growing rSp'u,
Them ia scarcely township in the State without its
snhoranate grange In six months there viii be
scarcely 10000 In Iowa who do not belong TO
the Patrons OF Husbandry The spread Of the sen ment
mon which the order is preiicated has been gradual
hut steady irresistible The aggr egate vote OF Iowa
nc the last general election was something over 2O1O''
The Changers can already poll nearly hall That nnmoer
OF votes before many months they Will he aDle 20
po three-iour.As o. the entire vote u tho common
wealth"
Civil Service Reform may not amount to
much in tins part OF the country but steuben County
New-YOrk 10 seems 70 bc remarkably vigorous prnc-
pie. There has been furious quarrel over the post
nastershp Of the of BaJh where the present IN
cumbent, Mr. Ehenezer Ellis is accused Of various po-
htical inadees. such shouting for both Sides ana
especially opposing the nomination Of the Hon. H.
BOardman Smith candidate FOR Congress. Mr. smith,
having nevertheless elected proceeded 20
Mr. Ella on the ground that De lad used his position
buid up personal party, and appointed in his place
Mr. Jared II. Thompson. We do not mean, Of course,
shat the commission OF the postmaster signed
with the Hon. II. BOardman Smiths name; but Mr..
Smith CLAIMED the disposal OF the spOs OF his district
aud the President TO him. The did not end
here. Mr.. Ellis succeeded making it appear that he
had always been the Friend OF the Hon. Il. Boardman
smith, and in exactly DAYS Mr Smith made another
change in the Bath post-ofice Thompson removed.
ana Ellis was reappOutec-tOr the good OF the party
And yet Gen. Grant wants sine new Civil Service Com
mssioners 20 revise the rules that the President may
have wider latitude M rrwardng those who are " ID
close sympathy viii TIE Administration
Mr. Giles F. Fiiley, a stakeholder Of the
Kansas Pacific Railroad, recently maze statements
20 reporter OF TIE S. Louis Democrat which calcu
lated 20 damage the reputation Of ex-senator Harlan
Mr. Fuley declares that in 1861 when a section OF the
Kansas Pacific Road had been completed ana accepted
By the Government, he, IN company with other stock
holders, went 70 Washington ana made claim for the
bonds which % be issued fast the road was
built The bonds due amounting about sl50OO0 were
% paid from the Treasury the order Nj Harlan,
Secretary Of the Interior. For long time there seemed
20 De some unknown and insurmOuntable difficulty
tho way. Mr. Fey says be learned that it Mr. T.
C. Durant who az this time paid Mr. Harlan the two
$500 checks-which have become historical-to
enlist his behalf Of the Union Pacific II
animated that the Kansas Pacific people do
thing Of the kind order 70 yet their bonds Ao
cordingly, ten $1,000 Government bonds given
Mr. Harlan. "not bride, but enable him 10 do his
-duty anu o the mysterious obstacle disappeared NJ
MI F.ley tie bonds were not given directly
20 Mr. Harlan. but 90 Ls secretary, who them %
Mrs Harlan. All OF winch induced Mr.. Filey d" 70 put
Harlan down a- the greatest scuuutrc 10 Jhe world