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New-York tribune., 1876-08-25
GENERAL NOTES.

One hundred and twenty Chinese students
visiting the exhibition this week
The champion whittier is q son of toll in
Michigan. With his jackknife ne has whitfield whitfield,
whitfield for three months, end now he has chain six
feet long fashioned from pine stick.
A widOwers' club has been formed in Mil
ford Mass The platform declares W that tobacco SMOKE
kindred aiictons (2) that real comfort In this life
10 have thugs handy; 3) that washerwomen mans
greatest evil. Membership In the wldOwers' clIb -
limited to gentlemen OF average moral character Whose
wives are out Of town.
AS long funeral procession was vending
s way last saturday to the cemetery Davenport,
Iowa. the driver Of the fifth carriage gave haysacs
by the road cut with his whip and struck hornets
and attacked horses, drivers, and mourners horses
reared and broke into q welded fans ana
parasols and shrieked ntermlttenty men swung theI
handkerchiefs and consistently Indeed, tho
corpse the only party that kept his temper ana DOTo
in mind the solemnity OF the occasion.
Joseph Cook, horse-shOer and member OF the
st. Louis Democratic County Committee, seized large
carving fork Saturday and brandishng IL above MS
head chased priest named Father Harmon down the
street toward the poioo-station. Ave sfawat police
men wrested fork from him and conveyed him 10 an
BRAIN and went stark staring mad the issues o 'ne
day. There WAS something besides politics on TAP
Joseph Smith, .familiarly known among the
Latter Day Saints as Young Joe," delivered an address
IN San Francisco ten days in the course OF wue 40
denounced poly gamy. and pledged himself to DO VIVA. "
could to remove the blight which had fallen upo" A'
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POLITICAL NOTES.

If any Democratic orator has made a hard
money speech lately 1t has not got into print.
There is a story that Gov. Hayes lately re-
fused to receive call from exGov. Boss Shepherd How
dreadfuily the times out OF joint to be sure
The Democratic editors of Maine are an
swerng Col Ingersol by showing that he is an infde
The spectacle OF the saned Democracy rsyng TO the
support OF religion is noble The party always
noted for deep pety.
Congressman Bland, the father of the Silver
BILL says II 1t hadn't been for the corrupt influence OF
wa-st. that measure would have passed the House. He
1t will be adopted at the next session. That de-
pends entirely upon which party carries the election
The Irish protest against Mr.. Charles Francis
Adams In Massachusetts, is causing the Democrats to
doubt the expedency OF nominating him for Governor
At present appearances 1t won't make much difference
either way-they will DO beaten II they do aud they VIII
be beaten II they don't.
The author of the followingg paragraph in
The Ohio State Journal gives unmisakable evidence Of
bitter prejudice against the great reform" party
"whats the use OF showing that Hendricks was mixed
up with dsreputablo mule claim IL is waste Of
time. 1t won't lose him ayote II tho party bad pemt
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NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, AUGUST g. 1875.

has not yet expired. There is knot when
nothing can unite except judicial decision.
Whipper proposes to draw the sword and to cut
it, upon which Gov. Chamberlain also proposes
to draw the sword, and so restrain Whipper.
Judge Reed, meanwhile, calmly sits upon tho
bench, and proposes to send Whipper to jail
unless he behaves himself properly.
Such is the miserable situation. AT time
when South Carolina is in direst need OF an
honest and learned Judiciary. in comes the
scamp Moses and the ignoramus Whipper, and
each claims title to the ermine. 10 make
matters worse, just when the Reform Repub-
licans and the Reform Governor are also IN
need of all possible help, the Democrats OF
South Carolina propose to waste their energies
and throw away their votes in hopeless az
tempt to make Wade Hampton Governor. we
cannot pretend to predict the issue. We must
wait. If Whipper wins, he WINS not only for
himself but for Moses, man "crusted all
"over with charges of corruption, bribery, and
"the utter prostitution of his official powers
"to the worst possible uses" Gov. Chamber
lain, therefore, IN trying to save the state
from two calamities, and perhaps from two
hundred, will everywhere have the sympathy
of honest mon.
New-York tribune., 1876-08-25
THE STATE CJNVASS.

Wouldn't it be well for the Democrats who are
alarmed about the Republican machine to take look
II at No. 80 Liberty-st.!
The Democrats are so glad that ex-Gov.
Morgan was nominated because he is so easy man 70
beat you know At the time they think it will be-
safest TO put up strong against him. They are
right there.
There is a disposition on the part Of the
rural Democracy make John Kelly and John Morrisscy
shake hands and harmonic whether they wish TO
The Rochester URton supposes the usual double delega
ton will appear the state Convention next week and
1t suggests that they be made TO agree Ia one way or
another.
The Express seems to think the Republican
ticket strong enough TO demand from itself double
loaded warning the faithful It closes its appeal in
this way: "To make the State certain the Democratic
Convention must give the best men in the State for
State officers setting aside all personal ambitions and de-
votional friendships upon the side, and all disin
cnaons to serve the state upon the other 1t is for
lis or any to dictate TO the convention lut what is
right shoud direct what is duty. and the first duty is
honest capable tried and true men for our candid ites
No suitable has right 10 declpe public place II he
is asked 10 accept it," Docs that mean exGoY Sey-
mouri
Mr.. DOrsheimer's attitude toward the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor n simply case Of
"Barks is wn'" The Buffalo Courier puts it in this
way 1t should be stated that there is disposition
on the p Of Mr. DOrsheimer his friends TO force him
upon the convention tb choice OF Gov. Tilden or
otherwise. There is disposition to magnify his
vices TO the Democracy Of the State distinguished as
they have been, to compass his nomination by in
trigue. The may be summed up briefly II the
representatives o: the Democracy OF NewYork, with
which party he is fully identified, regard him tho
proper standardbea in the campaign for Tden and
Reform, he will accept II not still grateful for the con-
dence hitherto repOSed in him, he Will work Zeaously
for the grand result-yictory and administrative re
form"
The friends of the Hon. Clarkson n. Potter
pressing him earnestly for the Democratic nomina
on for Governor He is warmly favored by The ROndow
Freeman The Yonkers Gazette. The Roekland County Mes
senger, The Whitehall Times and other journals. The
last-mentoned paper says: There is but little doubs
that the Democracy will carry the state this Fall with
almost any good candidate at the head Of the State
ticket still the party should take the benefit Of doubt
by nominating ticket and one that will command
the entire party vote Such ticket may safely be
headed by Clarkson n. Potter and unless nomination
ia desired by and conceded TO Leut-Goy. Dorsheimer
for the second place the ticket OF smith NJ,
Weed of Clinton would counteract the Influence OF
William A. Wheeler on the Republican ticket in Northern
New-Iork"
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ner than the same class in an older nation. 1t
ia true. but one in which there was neither
the drunkenness nor the indecent chatting COM
mon elsewhere, but instead that decent grav-
ity and reticence which show how thoroughly
the laboring American has learned the respect
for himself and others which is the soul OF all
good breeding. No lady, however refined, need
have feared to trust herself to the protection
of the men making up the great crowd on
Saturday. 1t was noticeable, too, that the gal
leries of pictures and statues were thronged
more than any other parts of the Exhibition,
which proves the latent taste in the people for
art and their eagerness for its qualification. The
dramatic sense, too, is as strong IN an uncul-
tured man as in a child he may see nothing
worth q second glance in Japanese lacquer or
Castellani's antiques, while Rizpah keeping
guard over her dead sons, or the marriage OF
the Prince of Wales, gives him instant and
keen delight.
In a word, the attendance and conduct OF
the crowd last Saturday ought to satisfy every
intelligent member of the Commission of the
propriety of lowering the price upon certain
days of the week Ne such school ever was
opened to the people of the United States;
now that 1t is shown how eager the poorest
are to avail themselves of its teaching, IL
should, even at pecuniary loss, be placed
within their reach. We do not believe, now
ever, there would be pecuniary loss. The
most significant point of all was, however, the
large attendance of children. The most poorly
dressed man had brought his boys and girls
with him. and there were crowds besides OF
well-to-do parents with large families. 1t has
been argued that the high price of admission
did not exclude the children. Saturdays at
tendance settled that question. There should
be not only on Saturdays but every day
half price for them, as we have urged from
the first 1t is not only wrong that multltudes
of children should be excluded from chance
of improvement only to be offered once during
their lives, but it is impolitic in the Commits
sion to shut out of it's Golfers large and very
certain sum.
New-York tribune., 1876-08-25
HALF PRICE AT THE EXPOSITION.

The managers of the Exposition tried the
long debated experiment of half-price admis-
sion on last Saturday. Whether the plan will
prove ,as successful as was anticipated III n
pecuniary point of view is difficult to decide
from this first attempt, the day being rainy,
and other conditions unfayorable. In other
respects it was marked success. In spite of
the lowering sky and occasional drenching
rain, the crowd was enormous, the very class
whom the scheme of cheap admission was de-
signed to reach beginning to pour in at an
early hour, and continuing to arrive until noon.
1t was the first fair opportunity of Judging of
the Willingness and capacity of that great
majority to whom the expenditure of fifty
cents Is a serious matter, to be benefited by
the Exposition. Two or three noticeable points
concerning the attendance on Saturday are
suggestive of higher considerations than the
pccuniary results to the Commission. The
half-price day, which in England would have
brought out largely the ruiiany element, was
remarkable for its absence. The mass of new
corners consisted of the laboring classes in and
about adclphia-mechanics, day laborers
shop boys, and servant girls.
Very few men came without their families.
The mother, all the children, even to the baby
came, and usually q neighbor or two; instead
of a dainty lunch at a foreign restaurant al
most every group refreshed itself at noon by
hearty meal brought in market basket
and eaten in one of the shady ravines. There
was little of the joyous abandon of French
family party and none OF the horse-play Of
the English let loose on such an expedition /;
the Americans were sober and anxious but
there was at bottom quito as much hearty en-
joyment, and, to the full, as much considera-
ton for others. A giddy chambermaid here
and there may have rubbed the face Of a
statue to know Of what it was made, or gig
gled in IN unseemly fashion in the face
Of Rameses or courteous Japanese But the
crowd, taken as whole, was shrewd,
intelligent, comfortably clad. orderly crowd,
with less knowledge Of art or suayity of man-
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erals and independents, 416,O0O were given
to Mr.. Tildcn. The vote for Governor
and for President in 1868 was 80
VIGOROUSLY fraudulent that, in spite OF the aid
of Liberals, the Democrats have never been
able to give within $4,000 as many votes as
were then returned for Gov. Hoffman. thus
the maximum strength ever shown by tho
Democrats in New-York does not exceed
400, 900 votes. They will poll more this year.
the population having increased and the Re
pubicans also, reinforced by thousands VINO
have not voted with that party for years,
ought to poll for Hayes and Wheeler, Morgan
and Rogers, larger vote than they have ever
cast. Their full strength is never seen, as the
history of tho State for twenty years VIII
show, except in Presidential contest. lhe
comparison is interesting:
New-York tribune., 1876-08-25
CEN GRdyTS SERVICEs.

Gen. Grant has rendered "public and pa
"trotic services" worthy OF the kepuphcS
"respect and gratitude 1t was fit and pro-
per that these should be recognized by the
Republican State Convention. Tho Ninth
Resolution adopted by that body is piece OF
good breeding of which nobody will complain.
Even if it were simply bit of conventional
poitcness, and nothing more than form,
there would be in it nothing more than cour-
tesy. As his term of Office approaches It's con-
clusion. remembering how often words of CEN
sure have been demanded by n regard for
truth and the best interests OF the
Republic, we are glad to be reminded
of those military services, the value oi
which it would be difficult to over
rate After all these political differences, ana
they have been many and serious we are
obliged to the convention for reminding us oil
Forts Henry and Donelson, OF NichsburS and
Appomattox. We are taken back to those days
of peril, when the dangers which confronted
US were material rather than moral, when
military ability was what we needed, when
the soldier was doing the work Of the states
man. If Gen. Grant has lost something, amid
political differences, of that hold upon the
popular heart which he then won, it IL easy to
see that nothing can eilace his name from
several of the most important anu brilliant
pages of our history. There Is story oi
"Grantismn there, every word of which Is to
his honor and, by reflection, to ouIs.
Nor has the Republic been ungTateful TO
Gen. Grant. Twice 1t has elevated HIM to the
highest civil position, and the forbearance
with which his errors therein were tolerated
may well serve, when he finally retlres to pri-
yate life, TO remind him how continually he
has been supported by the public graft
tude for his undcniable success ut a period
of great public peril. In happier times the
mistakes of his administration may be forgot
ten, but he has reserved fund OF military
reputation quite large enough for the glory OF
any man. and this we believe will be TO him
in his retirement consolation should he need
one.
Unpopular rs the later years of his admins
traton have been, he will thus 30 out OF
Office amid general good will. 1t would be
| fortunate for the country if that good will and
the regret that he is so ill-provided for a dig
pifcd old age, could be dexterously used for
so reforming the Constitution rs to provide
for the retirement of all our subsequent Presi-
dents at the end of n single six years
term. on a moderate pension for life, with
life seat as U. S. Senator at large. The
advantages Of such reform are manifest !;
the objections are trivial, and the general
regret with which the country will see the
man who carried our flag from Fort Donelson
to Appomattox hopeiessly retired to private
life at the age of ifty-iive may serve good
purpose in spurring the country to make the
change.
New-York tribune., 1876-08-25
THE NEVS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGY.-After being repulSed three times on
"Wednesday at the defenses of AleXinatz the turks
were again driven back yesterday. 80 The Ser
yians are making a counter movement on Nlssa.
- More troops are to be sent from SPAN 10
Cuba. - The King of Dahomey threatens 10
kill the Europeans at Whydah.
DoMEsTC.-The four-oared race at Philadelphia
has been won by the Atalantas the Columbia crew
losing the race by of the oarsmen being attacked
with cramp - Yates won the single-scull race
= The paid admissions to the Exhibition yester-
day were So 600 the attraction was the New-Jersey
exercises - Exports exceed imports this last
fiscal year by about $12O,000,0OO - la the
Poughkeepsie races Goldsmith Maid distanced
Smuggler in 2:l6l4
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-A majority of the dele
gates to the Republican State Convention from this
city returned expressing great satisfaction with the
results of their labors. - There was panic In
coal stocks all-st., number of stocks falling
heavily. - A trade sale of prints took place,
GOOD prices being obtained 80 Gold 11O7s,
11O7s Ill Gold value of the egal-tender dollar at
the close colo cents. Stocks active and demoral-
lied, declining heavily and closing weak.
THE WfATHER.-THE TRIBUNE's local observa-
tions indicate cloudy weather, with chance OF
rain. - The weather in this city yesterday was
warm and sunny; thermometer. 750, So, e20
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The delegation of workingmen sent out by
the French Government to visit the Exhibition
in the interests of home industries is tarrying
in this city and inspecting our warehouses and
workshops. The deputatiOns, which arrived
previously, represented municipal governments
and trade organizations. France is bent upon
keeping abreast with the age, and realizes
that many Of the secrets of Yankee craft and
industrial progress are to be learned at the
Exhibition. The presence of these men is an
encouraging sign of the times. 1t shows that
the seeds of industrial development are sown
broadcast that the earnest workingmen OF
the Old World are not plodding in ruts with
their eyes closed and brains dulled; that they
are the masters and not the slaves of their
work.
New-York tribune., 1876-08-25

The musk melancholy days have come, the sweet
eat of the year We have entered upon that Drei,
perfect season which interyenes between the dog
days and tho first cool menaces of Autumn. lhe
long heated term has passed away without produc-
ing what Mr. Caleb Cushingcalls " a cataclysm ;"
il has nsensibly melted into the final ripeness and
mellowness of Summer, with days still long enough
for delight and nights OF recuperative freshness
Since the rain of last Saturday, the weather has
been as nearly perfect the probabilities ever allow
to u.s. and the general pulse of the human race has
suddenly become firm and regular. There Is soft
haze in the air, which denotes permanence OF fair
weather rather than heat; for 1t intercepts the
ercer beams of the at MONDAY, and covers with
dead-gold tho crescent of the new moon. In the
country, the air is full of the smell of stubhle
ripening corn and aromatic wayside weeds IN the
city, fuity odors struggle with and generally over
come the exhalations of the streets. 1t is warm
enough ~ bathe during the day, and cool enough for
a single blanket at night. Summer rests looks upon
her work. and pronounces it good Yet this too
leeting season is almost unconsciously enjoyed by
us. 1t has not yet found its poets-hardly Its
PAINTERS
New-York tribune., 1876-08-25
TIE SOUTH CAROLINA JUDGESHIPS

TIE SOUTH CAROLINA JUDGESHIPS.
A commonwealth is in pretty bad condition
when il is afflicted by scramble for the judi
cial Offices like that which at present agitates
South Carolina. One Whipper, person OF
color, and, we believe, of legal attainments
and personal character equally dubious, claims
TO have been legally elected to the office of
Judge of the First Circuit Of the Supreme Court.
Gov. Chamberlain has refused to commission
him. upon the ground that he was uncOnstitu-
tionaly chosen, and is, moreover, an extremely
unfit person for the position. OF Whipper's
bad character there Is no manner OF doubt
the consttutionality Of his election he refuses
to submit to the proper tribunal, but has ex-
pressed a determination to occupy the bench
yi ct arnis. Gov. Chamberlain has therefore
issued a proclamation declaring that he shall
treat such attempt on the part OF Whipper as
can unlawful and riotcus disturbance OF the
"public peace, and an outrage upon judicial
"authority not to be tolerated in "a civilized
"Staten
The proclamation Of Gov. Chamberlain is a
strong and determined document, and our
opinion is that Whipper will not take his seat
as Judge of the First Circuit. Nor is he likely
to attempt to do so. He would find Chamber
lain's cOnstabulary troublesome. Moreover,
there is already Judge of the First Circuit
not likely " to he shaken by the wind Of
Whipper, albeit his name is Reed. lie was
appointed, Dec. II, 1874, for the term Of
four years, according to the Constitution OF the
State, and he expresses determination to hold
on until the 11th of December, 1878. SO with
the Governor and the Judge against him, backed
up as they are by the approval of the best
citizens of Charleston. Whipper prima Jdcie
has not the ghost of chance or case. He
lacks the alpha and omega of q qualifications
commission. The Judge whose place he hun
gers for is duly commissioned for term which
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SEQ q 9G9 600 1o7' 600 100000 $4,000
IS6l-7 800 900 3O1 900 100000 $4,000
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There is a curious coincidence in the TACT
that for three successive terms the RepuDh-
cans have polled 3G6.0 votes in the second
election after a Presidential contest. But the
significant fact is that in each OF the hVe
terms named there has been a large reserve
of Republican votes which have not been cast
from one Presidential election to the next
This reserve is apparently small only IN the
term embracing the close of the war, when
many thousand soldiers returned to their homes
But %, 900 votes were cast for Fremont that
were not cast again until 1850, and $4,000 for
Lincoln that were not cast again until loo4.
In the latter year 3,O0O'more votes were cast
than appeared in the subsequent elections, even
though the soldiers had returned to Their
homes. In 1865 there were $4,000 votes
poIlcd that did not again appear until 1872,
and in 1872 the Republicans cast 6o,ooo
votes that have not since appeared. with the
aid of the liberal and independent voters, a
poll of 10000 for Hayes and Morgan is not
only possible but probable.
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