New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-10-08

SCISSORS; white in RichmOnd, Va. the Republic
can party is split into two factions, each of
which has held convention and made o
separate nomination for the candidate for
Congress.
1t is rather remarkable that the Alabama
Claims Commission, after organizing and pre-
pairing for work, find that none of the claim
ants are yet ready with their cases Perhaps
their urgency has died out with tho lapse OF
time, but certainly their present humOr is very
| different from what dt was when we were
pressing these claims on Great Britain. The
Court has adjourned for lack of business.
Does nobody want the fifteen Millions
! There is somo surprise and much surmising
over the voluntary surrender of himself by
Reconnaissance Conan, one Of the fugltives
of the Ring in this city. He was one of those
indicted last December for auditing fraudu-
| lent bills for the furniture. plumbing. paint
| ing, &C., of the new Courthouse. Whether
! his surrender OF tho present time has anything
to do with election services in tho Fourth
Ward, is the mooted question.
| Reform is the sole idea of the bolt from
Chamberlain's nomination in South Carolina
| a. set forth in the resolutions of the INDIE
pendent Republican Convention. They pro-
claim themselves not hostile to Republican
principles; they only oppose leaders whom
they cannot trust. Their proceedings, as de-
scribed by our correspondent, seem to have
been marked by moderation, and they have
strong hopes of turning the scale in the gov
eminent of the State.
| Want of sufficient assets has brought the
Asbury Life Insurance Company into the
hands of q receiver Organized five years ago,
at the time when 80 many new life companies
started in business, it never attained great
strength, and did not rank among the large
concerns. Within the past year or two. un-
| favorable rumOrs have been rife about it, and
its difficulties have thus been increased. Inc
present action was not unexpected, and Will
not create ripple in insurance circles.
Arctic adventure always supplies entertain
ing reading, and in the month when most
people are thinking about stoves and furnaces
and the price of COAL the narrative of those who
wintered near the Pole. with the thermometer
SO below zero. and thirty feet of ice under
their ship, makes the worth of home comforts
more apparent. An interesting letter on our
first page, illustrated by a map showing the
route of discovery. gives many details as to
the appearance of the vOyagers and their
hearty reception. They recount the story OF
| their sufferngs and exploits, adding some par
ticulars to the facts already published.
| Among the interesting discOurses at the
Episcopal Congress and Convention, which we
report very fully on our first and second
pages, those of the Rev. E. G. Porter, the Rev.
DR.. Z. A. Washburn, and Bishop Selwyn, are
all remarkable for their liberality of spirit
and desire for Christian unity which
shall not be confined by sects. DR..
Washburn, however, regards the prospect OF
unity among PrOtestants as distant, and re-
grets the tendency to ecclesiasticism which
| has at present a hold upon tho Episcopal
| Church. A large attendance marks the meet
ings and spirit of harmony prevails.
The work of the Massachusetts, Republican
Convention in nominating Talbot for Gov
ernor will be regarded by the friends of Pro-
| hibition as in some sort a temperance triumph.
| 1t was supposed at the time When he vetoed
the License bill. some months ago, that he
had thereby ruined his chances for nomina-
ton, which before were exceedingly favorable.
But no other candidate before the COnven-
ton was considered so strong. In 1873,
| Talbot for Lieutenant-GovernOr had 77.792
votes, majority over Smith Dem) OF 2s,656,
while Mr.. Washburn, at the head of the
ticket, had only 1898 majority.