New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-08
party and to individuals in further conceal

party and to individuals in further conceal
ment.
Tho NET results of the MOdoc war are sum-
med I'M in the statement of Mr.. Dyer of the
Peace Commission, that in the whole wal
four Modocs were "exterminated," while two
soldiers were killed for each hostile Modoc.
"But twas famous victory
II seems to be settled that ex-Alderman
Cunningham of Brooklyn is to be the sue
cessor of City Treasurer Sprague. The hope
that the Mayor would go outside OF politics
and give the city confidence by the appoint
ment of man remote from political lniiu-
ence appears TO have been vain.
A deputy collector of taxes under the DIS
trict government at Washington having uSeu
$4,000 of the government money IN his DUST
ness. as the custom is, was unable to replace
| il. and was arrested and locked up on oatuI-
day. The Illinois defaulter, Collector Harper
who is spoken of as "the most valuable OF
" GAMER in the Republican party In that
"State,r has not been arrested yet.
The Brooklyn Trust Company has made
statement of its affairs which will satisfy no
nerson who examines it. 1t is thoroughly
analysed elsewhere and deficiency Is SHOWN
to exist which will be augmented when the
details of the demand loan account are fur
nisbed. The directors of the Company are
rich men who can make it good if they will,
but its present condition and past history do
not warrant its continuance as depository OF
nffx fU
for its early examination by competent author
ity.
Maine elects to-day Governor and Legls-
lature. The Republican candidate for Gov
ernor is Nelson Dingley, jr., of Lewiston; the
Democratic, Joseph TitcOmb of Kennebunk
Joseph H. Williams of Augusta Is an indie
pendent candidate, whose name has been pre-
sented in a circular addressed "to the honest
"voters of Maine" expressing dissatisfaction
with both the old parties, because there Is no
hone of any reform through them. The canvass
has been very tame, and the vote will probably
he very light, the Republicans carrying the
State by about their usual majority.
The latest estimate of the Butler canvass
puts Washbum decidedly and almost deci-
sively ahead, the score being Alb for wash
burn, 1913 for Butler, and 46 doubtful and
contested. This gives Washburn so much the
start that it is hardly possible Butler can
make it up. About 400 delegates are yet to
be chosen, and the chances with these are in
Washburn's favor. Butler himself is elected
| a delegate from Gloucester, so that he VIII be
on hand to conduct his own fight i'll the Con-
vention, as he did two years ago. 1t cannot
be denied that he will make an interesting
! feature.
The Texas Democratic Convention nominated
Richard Coke of Waco for Governor on the
fifth ballot, and Col. r. B. Hubbard for Lieu
tenant Governor. The resolutions relate chiefly
to State topics, and promise that when the
Democratic party come into power they Will
"administer the Government in such manner
chat every citizen, of whatever politics, re-
"ligion, nationality, or color, shall feel he is
"really protected in his life, liberty, and prop
"erty." They also favor a Constitutional Con-
ventiOn and encouragement to railroads. In
cidentally they deprecate the salary grab. The
canvass promises TO be almost purely local III
its character
Mr.. S. ". Smith, the Secretary of the Illinois
Farmers Association and leader Of the Farm
ers' movement in the West, has made an
elaborate address in explanation of his posi-
ton, and especially of his speech at Win
chester, which he claims was unsupported and
garbled. The Winchester speech, to which
reference has heretofore been made in The
TRIBUNE, was as reported, very violent in
tone and has been seized upon by the enemies
of the movement at the West and elsewhere
as an illustration of the unreasonableness of
the Farmers and the grOundessness of their
complaints. Secretary Smiths later and more
cautious utterances in the speech published
this morning will be read with interest.
The letter of Gen. Butler to the Gov
ernor of Mississippi making inquiries
concerning the amount of the debt of
that State, which, since it was accident
ally made public, has excited considerable
comment at the South is interpreted to
have reference to plan for pushing through
Congress bin providing for the assumption
by the Federal Government of all the State
debts of the reconstructed States. This is a
plan of which there have been occasional in
timatOns for a year past, and as there must
be money, and good deal of it, in the
scheme, it is not at all unlikely that Mr.
Butler is in it professionally" He has, it
will be remembered, very lucrative practice.