New-York tribune., 1874-10-31
hard hits of which tho speakers were not
slow to take advantage.

We give to-day on our fifth page complete
list in tabular form of the candidates on Con-
gress and State tickets that are to be voted
upon next Tuesday. Fifteen States elect
officers, II Governors. The Senators of 13
States and the Representatives OF %. the
latter numbering 200, will bo determined in
the XLIVth Congress by the ballots of Nov 8.
We publish also very carefully compiled
summary of the condition and prospects In
each Congressional District of New-York.
A dispatch from Gen. Sheridan gives further
particulars of the success OF the lndian calh,
paign. The hostile bands, driven from poih'
to point by the different bodies OF troops ap-
preaching from various directions are kep'
constantly moving, and are unable TO procure
game for themselves or fodder for their STOCK.
Their sole alternatives are battle or surrender
and they will probably choose the latter. Inc
neace policy will then be enabled to exhibit
its admirable results.
Our correspondence from Louisiana tells OF
the condition of the freedmen in the interior
of the State. They are cheerful and con-
tented, and seem to be on the best of terms
with the white people. 1t is difficult in read
ing a description like this to realize that
horrible outrages are of nightly occurrence,
requiring United States troops and Marshals
to suppress them. There is strange con-
trast between the peaceful scene sketched IN
this letter and our telegraphic dispatches
describing numerous arrests.
The man Kullmann, who attempted to
assassinate Prince Bismarck, has been con-
vcted and sentenced to fourteen years i'm
prisonment From the beginning of his trial
it was clear that nothing else was possible or
proper. His confession was made with every
appearance of cool calculation, and it is not
difficult to imagine that he planned the muir
der with equal deliberatiOD. He shows a SIN
gular absence of moral restraint, while the
medical testimony is a startling proof OF the
perniciOus influence which religious impulses
may sometimes have upon a morbid char
acter.
A new phase of the Ritualsm dispute has
dawned on the Episcopal Convention. The
House of Bishops has sent in message to the
effect that they did not concur in the canon
adopted by the House of Deputies, and that
they wished the specifications of ritualistlc
acts struck out of the canon. A Committee OF
Conference between the Houses has been ap-
pointed, and their report may bring up the
whole matter again for discussion. The proba-
bility that the Convention will adopt measures
in regard to changes in the rubrics gives in
terest to an article on Rubrical Revision, on
our fourth page, in which are sketched the
history of the Prayer Book and the occasion
of the changes it has already undergone.
Speaker Blaine has named the two heavy
men of New-York, who "by their weight of
character and weight of influence" could settle
all the disturbances at the South They are
HOratiO Seymour and Samuel j. Tilden. They
have only to throw themselves into cO0pera-
tion-but really, we must refer our readers for
particulars to our telegraphic dispatch. They
will perceive by it that Mr. Blane's
whole argument proceeds upon the
untrue statement, that the Democratic party
has never accepted the Constitutional Amend
ments securing the rights of the enfranchised
slaves. Mr. Blaine seems to have short
memory and an INSCRIPTIONS tongue. If he
will refer to the action of the Democratic party
in Baltimore in 1872, he will find another basis
for his next eectioneering fetch.
Michael Hayes's trip to Canada makes the
bulk of the story in yesterdays evidence in
the Safe Burglary case. Money seems to have
been lavshly promised and rather freely used
in carrying out the scheme. Among the in
terestng points developed are the endeavOr of
Nettleship to obtain an affidavit from Hayes
that he induced Benton to 60 to Washington
and blow the safe open. on the strength OF
an arrangement with Columbus Alexander;
and Hayes's statement that he, under the
direction of Netteship, " fixed up" case so
that Whitley sent an innocent man to the
Trenton Pententiary, where he still remains.
Judge Humphreys admOnished the audience
against levity, remarking that this trial is
serious affair. 1t seems likely to become SO
for some of the parties
The doubtful things have been generally
held by philosophers to be tolerably uncertain,
and the people who are SO freely predicting
the results Of the election next Tuesday may
find it out 1t is undeniable, however, that,
in spite of the clipper tone of their news
papers, the Administration people, including
their conspicuous leaders, are freely admitting
the certainty of their defeat. The Albany Er-
press, however, openly does nearly the same
thing. 1t prints an estimate of the majorities
by counties, in which, giving Kings to Tilden
by 5000, and New-York by $4,000, it figures up
a majority for Dix in the State of barely
$500. When an organ, on the eve OF the
election, publishes such statement, its real
opinion of the prospect is not hard to guess.
On the other hand, the Democratic organs are
boisterously exultant, and it is not impossible
that they are really over confident as much as