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To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Str: l
ind the following paragraph In an editorial OF
The Sun OF the 10Th inst:

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Str: l
md the following paragraph In an editorial OF
The Sun OF the 10th inst:
Nh. yanderbi.t found that under the impact q
more aha ONO roads we're permitted 10 cary grain
fr m the West TO Phlaf,l pia I'D Baltimore al nve
~ New iork our leg innate tranlc largely
t,s i,ie business Nc vaaaercit %iSnares r ,
We npso' ani 1relarea INA, h, woyld MAKE such
larn that franc TO ,n's city. he has doae so.
MIR. Vanderbilt mas done well for his road and
well for the trade u Sew DIRK la adopting a
tariff on eastward bound freight to prevent the
diversion Of trade To Phil. delphia, Boston and
baltimore. aud II the same vigorous and a. gres-
sive policy mad been adopted on West ward bound
lreignt, thousands OF tons ofmerchandise would
We been sold from Ills ctty instead OF from
Baltimore. Pnllddelpnla, and Burton.
MI. Nanderullt and representatives OF other
TO Us OF New York ought to announce to tnS
merchants that they shall have the same rates
competing points already mentioned.
IL 10 true that the rates of freight have been
other points they are lower and take away our
trade. Up to June =, before the railroad war
commenced, ireighis on fourth class goods were
20 cents from New York ana 81 cents from Bat
tinOre. 10 meet tni> discrimination, freight
VS. reduced On June frlm New York 10 ~
cents yer nunCred, and until June IL .here was
no furtner reduction, notwithstanding u III
more ana Boston rates we're knOwn to be IL
cents. In the mean time the competing points
we're reduced, or rather forced, to 10
cents Der hundred. baltimore at once au-
nounced II cents anu Boston ID cents,
but the railr' al men here said they hau named
their lowest figure, anu 50 II has gone on. The
rate might Just 8 well he nifty Gems per hun
dred from New York, a. lar as ira 10 II con
cerned, 80 TO Do held at such difference in
FAVOR OF the competing points as secures to
them the business Low and rulnous rates are
not what we necessarily want, but to hOid the
business, We must have the same rates a. our
rivals. or. as MIR. Vanderbilt tersrly puts H.. mo
- ms Z - SIT
lignterage Of the Nv York Central to its snip
ping uolnts amounts To a out three-quartets Of
a million of doiiars per annum, aud thHt OF the
III 10 as much more, saying nOtnlag of carriage
INA extra handing In Consequence OF not hay
Ing T .cks contiguous TO warehouses. as IA Hos
TN, ihiladeiphi ana baltimore. Is II not aDuut
tn mat our merchants stopVcu taktug and
sTowlinH, aud, In cOuinncton with the Nanuer-
I'll =, pat their hands IN their pockets for tho
cnnstfuctipn ot IA railroad over The East liver
TO Brooklyn, Were the warehouses and ele-
yetofs "re alieadN puiit, nd where the imuur-
tdtuns into New York are chlen landed anI
81 red. One bali oi The lightcrage aud extri
handing expenses would 90 Tar to make the IN
Nrslmrnt lroht bic, entirely a-iue II ON hr vast
ln,re 'se ~ business 60 winch such road would
ceriaiuly lead. MERCHANT,
NEW YORK, June 81
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Twenty-third street, the dwellings be-
tween the Fifth avenue and broadway have
for the greater part been altered into
stores. restaurants, millinery shops and the
like Seventeenth street, however, with
one or two exceptions, makes bold stand
ngaiust this general trade invasion. From
present appearances 1t would seem that
the Fifth avenue, between Fourteenth aud
Twenty-third streets, will soon be entirely
given over to business. II Is already at
tackled on both ends of the line, from Four
teenth street up and from Twenty-third
a rpaf dntyu
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was no scnmping, but when the bill went
to the Senate the Ring agents found them
selves short OF an accustomed million and
they piled 1t on with amendments like the
following:
FOR eight of ten in.tamepts flor the crows) to be
used SECRETARY OF the Interior In the purchase "
such arlIccs frOm time to time their condition ~
1or each Iadidk rounding same article. ssoocc
This was so audacious that Mr. HAMILTON
of Texas tIsepublicau) spoke Of 1t as fol-
lows:
Itereye rs pretty wen understood over the conn.
ny ihnt hitherto iheY have not received sntuhhe Md
p,cissi he,Tip ~ ne money nai has been oppteprI
alec a. TIA, wav."
The majority rallied on the call OF Mr..
WINDoM, who succeeded Brother HARLAN
in more respects than one, and voted Tor
this item q Acknowledged stealing. Thus
encouraged he pressed another item of
more than third Of q million, for the
general incidental expenses Of the Indian
service" That is to say, after specifically
granting everything needed, this round
itep for sS5O, 900, without any definite foun-
dalton, was added rs an absolute gift to
the Ring. Even Mr.. INGALLS, OF Kansas
(Republcanl, protested against this spolia-
ton, but with as little effect as Mr.. HAM
1LroN did in the other case. He said:
81 cannot allow this bin to pass without entering nv
6ern m DC ~ the Committee Ot the St nate, on tue
ground IN the nrs place. that believe they enne
" superb Us ant uHu ceSvfrD that HeV uHcdNei
70, IN vedfy Or ~ any oCI pdfiOn de- 10 >se
Oes and In he second pace be ausc the ult 10 to
cOnnce to ne IHdi0n DeJiurfAenf me AsbHrstDeu "
hIfge NJ Ufth0ut anD cOhuOl WhaLrsr on
dte Dait VI ne legislature"
These protests were laughed at by the
main body of the Republicans. who voted
on the amendments, and advised the two
malcontents to hold their peace thereafter.
The President aud the Senate insist that
the forty millions OF this sort which the
House retrenched. shall be given back to
them; that the Rings shall flourish. and
that an election fund Of millions shall be
raised to prolong their corrupt ascend
ENJOY.
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The Rag BABY at Cincinnati.

When ALLEN WIS beaten for Governor
In Ohio last October, the Republicans all
over the country set up n joyful shout,
THE Rag Baby is dead"
When ono or two Democrats In the pres
ent House introduced bills to repeal so
much OF the deceptive Resumption act as
fixed precise dry for returning to specie
payment, the Republicans cried out in
chorus, Reputation Communism the
nation IL to be saddIed with the Confed-
crate debt and so forth.
When the Democratic state Convention
Of Ohio recently passed, by small major
ity, IL resolution in favor OF repeating the
cheating clause OF the Resumption act, the
Republicans, seemingly frightened half
out of their wits. declared that the Rag
Baby was alive again, and must be killed
stone dead at Cincinnati.
In view of these emphatic utterances,
everybody supposed that In whatever else
the Cincinnati platform might be defec-
tive, II would take the highest ground in
favor Of hard money and against the re-
peal OF that section Of the law which fixes
Jan. !, 1879, as the time for resuming specie
payment.
ibstt"u Vi tHls, tue cinCinnh'l touVen-
ton simply says, in substance, that where
as seven years ago Congress declared that
provision should be made at the earliest
practicable period for the redemption of
the United States notes in coin, therefore
we ought TO continue TO make progress
toward specie payment. Not word
against the repeal Of the Resumption act.
and no measures suggested for carrying
the act into effectl All there IL Ia the
platform is a declaration that we ought TO
60 on toward specie payment in the style
OF the past seven years.
To follow out the policy OF the Cincin-
natl resolution, the country might perhaps
reach resumption by the close OF the pres
ent century. There Is not an inhat ionist
in the land who may not consistently APP
prove of this plank Of the Republican
platform.
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serbs rain. II Is needless, outrageous, and
disgrace to the Administration which has
bought and sold post traderships, and from
the days Of PARKER, GRANTS stan officer,
to those Of DELANo and OowAN, pious pre-
tenders, has melted the Indians TO blood
shed ana atrocity by using them as the
means of private plumber.
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or the speeches made ut the Union
League Club Republican ratification meeting on
Wednesday evening, that Of Mr. WILLIAM OR
TON was the most mealy. Mr. ORION POLITELY
chaned the reform pretensions OF his respecta
BILE club audience, and minated that reform
had nothing whatever to do with the nomina-
tons Of HAYES ana WHEELER. According TO
the astute Mr.. ORION, they we're made In ac-
cord nee with prearranged machine plan.
The Union League Club may, and does indeed
contain many excellent men IA members, but
no shrewder politician than MIR. WILLIAM on
TON, the wise operator who unloaded the
Tribune on JAY GOULD.
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We have further particulars from Ha-
vana about the career OF that singular man,
Bishop sERRASo, who recently died there 10
poverty, because he had given all his possessions
to the poor, and who had actually to be buried
at the public expense. IL seems that he was the
friend Of the lowest order OF men, and that the
slaves are inconsoabe over his loss. IL appears
also, that while he surrendered all his worldly
gooos to the needy. he boldly preached right
eousness aud repentance In the style OF the an
Client prophets Even after he had been at
tack by the vomitO, watch carried him or he
went about his work, and kept it up Til HIS
strength failed hin. We cannot think Of any
man who has lived more elfsacrincing life
than Bishop SERRANo did, or one whose career
is more worthy OF the study of our fashionable
clergymen. appears that the women OF lIa-
vana are to raise monument to his memory,
and he certanl, deserved II.
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WAsnINGTON, June 2l.-lhe last oflcial act
Of Secretary Br tow the AWARDING under the act
Of Congress OF June 90 1874 OF three Lite Saving med
Of the nrst class to the three brothers named Hub.
bard, residing AT Marblchcad, ono. who, ON MAY l.
1870, III the great PERI Of their Hyes resued two men
from tnt nlAln lOpnast n-silg OF the schooner Con-.
turlu, Mhlcn In "a tcfrDle had suuk Ia
ors oi w icr n Marhehcad. in l. Ike ri The rcfion
81 the hulhardS l. ohc II the heroic ON record
49, As rs award VI medals unuer act referred 10.
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deaf mute political club was organ
lied In brooklyn the other evening. 1t Is said
that there are i've hundred deaf mutes there.
aud the feet Is not surprising, considering to
what an extent Beecherism has humbueeed and
shaIped that unfortunate city. Tine deaf mute
club are for HAYES and WHEELER, and this 10
not surprising either. We can't expect the deaf
10
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1t seemed almost too ludlcrous to be
credible wnen we said, after PETER CooPERs
nomination Tor President, that he would be be.
set by SIR keIs who would swear 30 their ability
to carry their wards, or their districts or their
States, or the whole country for him, II he would
shell out the money needed for the operations
of their commit tees. But, In fact, there was a
mass meeting of a handful Of PETER CooPERs
supporters in thu Cooper Institute the other
night, nj which the venerable philanthropist
listened TO language that bore a queer resem-
baOce TO that In The sun. He was told that
he might occupy the Presidential chair II he
desired that only organization and woIk were
needed Tor his election; that the workiDemen
OF New York, as well as the farmers OF the
West, would 20 for him; that his party would
carry the day in this State and in that and that
the thirty-nve electoral votes Of New York could
be delivered only when approved by tie
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Bob lngersoli'- Voice.
H.. "a. AL

Probably no school but that of American
poli les could have produced sucn a voice as
u ted Mr.. blaine at Cincinnati. After h-l,ning
10 the last reVefuctatiln OF the et hue-. II was
almost ualuiul To hear that the Government has
preferred or ~ aOuut 10 prefer cnargcs against
MT lngers1ll for certain trduduient uric rs
connected with the revenue, or, - IL Was pc
turtsqurIS put BY II leadlug liIistoM euttur, That
:" ! olr Site nrl. oms a AnMmImg Tor hlnI.n
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Not the Whole story.

Mrs. Tiltor sews for living now. She
seems to be the Ouly one Of the entire set that
If trodden down and stoned. Theodore earns a
respectable conn etency and Is somewhat liun-
tied bN his lectures. Henry W .rd Il. scoops in
cash hy the ten and hundred thousand dollars
at TINE. me poor woman Is turned out to live
The Oesl Mal She ran.
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Gov. MoRoASs speech, delivered ut the
opening Of the Cincinnati Convention, IL highly
praised bv the Republican Journals ~ Caifor-
MIA, Nevada. and Oregon. They like Its square,
hard money doctrine; but the Convention did
not like II, and nominated WILLIAM A. WHEEL
En- when Mr. MORGAN would have been a Tar
more advisable candidate.
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New York divorce in Colorado.
FrOm Ms 6Onldcr counfy Courier.

Ffom Ne hohldfr tOnnfv COURIER.
Daniel Il. Parks. II lawyer OF this place.
has applied for divorce from his wife, who ia
at present In New York state. Ii IL said ne IN
tends 10 mary Mrs. NincOnh, OF Iiyers-SancomD
fame. II is also said that she mas refusen him
several time, ana declares thAt she would r,ther
1--we ma she has been for the past four years than
10 marry fourth class lawyer.
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SUNSET Cox's speech in favor of adhering
to retreDchment, delivered In the House last
saturd ~, WIS a sound and wise utterancs. We
hope that It's doctrine will he carried out
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fr"'g ne 1hon Democrat.
Mr.. Moody, during his recent stay in
Augusta, Ga. was liVen a purse Of $500 by his
fri uds Ia that city
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me illustrated W,chiH just out, giye> for xix
c'htH surprising quaint ~ OF amuslns stories and
~ rtehe AID .rven ~, client pictures Ask Jul .tN
deAeT iVT h,-Ade.
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GRANT took another step toward civil


GRANT took another step toward civil
service reform and the strenlt ening of the Gin
oinnat vi torn Yesterday In the Domina ton Of
GEoRoB T. FISHER, Of snfe-burgIary notoriety,
to the Office of Federal District Attorney for
Delaware. FISHERS history has been such a
to make II proper that toe Senate should con-
firm his nomination without delay. lie began
his career In Washington M a lobbyist sixteen
years a0o. After GRANTS election he was ap-
pointed District Attorney, and he subsea iently
ed for b,e son, CHARLES q. Fisher, the
place OF Assistant District Attorney. Both
OF them PLAYED their parts In the safe
burglary performance. GEORGE p. 80
involved In HARRINoToN's operations, and
made such q shan VI the prosecution
Of the safe-hurRlary conspirators, that a spe-
oial attorney had to be put at the case on
account OF public clumor. CHARLES G., the
son, procured straw bail, which WIS clearly
proven to be fraudulent for two Of the safe
burelars-BENToN on wIsHARr's surety and
WILLIAMS on SoMERvrLLEs surety. This WIS
HART Is now awaiting sentence In Pennsyl-
vania for fraudulent insurance, and soMER-
VILE rs under indictment for participa-
ton In the safe burglary. The younger
FISHER himself was but recently on trial
foe bribery, corruption, and the abstrac-
ton OF indictments and other p peis from The
District Attorneys office; and escaped convic-
ton only through the disagreement mt OF the Jury.
After the exposure OF the straw bail transic-
tiOn, both OF the FISHERS were compelled
to resign their Offices, and It was sup
posed they hid passed into disgrace TIL
yesterday, whom Boss GRANT again took up
GEORGE p. FISHER, and nominated him for an
important oclce. During bis whole recr
10 Washington, FISHER has had hand In the
distribution OF tue Offices Ia Del ware, to the
disgust Of the residents Of that State aud when
he returned to his residence In Dover after his
downfall, he felt the weight Of public opinion
against him. As he Ia an iucom Detent, corrupt,
and discraced man, he Senate may be expected
TO comb III his nomination ut the hands OF Boss
GRANT.
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Mr.. BLAINE has received an offer TO lecture
curing the suu.mer months ~ o. 200 wees. CUic,-
hat GdseAs.
BLAINE ought 10 accept the Offer He Va so
anxious TO n AXE money that he has resorted to
dew, us ana dishoDorable practices In pursuit Of
II. He mas sold himself for money, pocketed
the proceeds, and then denied the transaction.
But here Ia a chance To get rich In an open
handed business. IL IL a tempting offer-one
thousand dollars week. The parties who
make him the offer must feel very sure OF has
power to Draw audiences, even though the
price OF the tickets be high. We do not sup
pose he could have got . hundred doll.rs a
week as u lecturer II be had taken up
the business half year ago; but he
has, within the half year, achieved an
extraordinary notoriety of a peculiar Kind,
and II Is doubtless this which has raised
his value on the platform. A thousand dollars
a week! WHY, n he begins lecturing In July,
ana keeps 1t up till Congress meets next Decem-
thousand dollars. The theme of his lecture
should, OF course. be taken from his own expe-
rience, and a GOOD title for IL would be, How
Made Money In Congress-" He would have an
opportunity 60 give some graphic pictures OF
men and things, railroad schemes, bond trans
actions, subsidy bills, rulings Of the Spe ker
cable kilograms. pass iges at arms, Presidential
plots, and so forth. by al means, let BLAINE
accept the offer to lecture, and let him take the
subject here proposed. by doing so. he would
be sure To draw.
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Tho Herald reports that Senator CoNK-
LIMO In much pleased with the Cincinnati nom
nations, because, as he said, "Gov. HAYEss
wife Is one Of tue bandsomest women in Ohio,
which In itself will sive him an advantage over
Gov. TuDEH. Many beautiful young girls drive
out with MIR. TILDEs," continued the Senator,
"but alas, they drive to no purpose" How does
Mr.. CoSxIISo know thIs2 And what right las
he TO Intimate that when Mr.. TIIDEs takes pos
session Of the White House he will not be ac-
comp MED by wife Of HE own But we deem It
proper To add that this wife should not be
young girl. Such discrepancy OF age NAV be
all hight for q senator such n MT. CHRIsTIANCY;
but II would not be- advisable foI the President.
houeh Mr.. TILDEN IL still exoeedi nply fresh
and vigorous for his years, he ought not to marry
a woman too much younger tn IN himself. But
at all events let bim get married. Why should
one with every quality OF nnnd, character, and
person to make q home biissful, resoiutely neg
lect to enter into the blessed estate of wedlock7
The Morning herald., 1876-06-09
EDITORIAL SELECTIONS.

NEXT Wednesday the Republican Con-
vention for the nomination of candidates for
the Presidency and Vice Presidency meets at
Cincinnati. Though the times are hard,
and money begs letting at three and four
per cent. interest, and the fare to Cincin-
natl 10 not tride, yet the friends Of the CONF
peting candidates for the nomination will
Aock thither in crowds, greater probably
than have appeared at any previous National
Convention Of the Republican party. Mr..
Conkling's supporters will 90 In full force,
and with the adjunct of q powerful brass
band. Blaine's cheerers will be loud, but
not se many. Morton will have the lustli-
ct voices of the Hoosier State to applaud
his name. Bristow will be represented by a
more reserved crowd, who will try to gain
by argument what the supporters of the
other candidates seek to win by noise. But
his adherents lack the intensity and simpli-
city Of purpose which will govern their OPP
ponents. They will take and are ready to
take substitute for their man. The 9th
ers know aothing except the orders Of their
.chisftains. Itwill be interesting to zee how
the fight comes out,
The Morning herald., 1876-06-09
THOMAS FRANCIS BAYARD.
THE MISSING DISPATCH.
FOR PRESIDENT /!

1t is very singular indeed, if Mr.. Blaine
is the much injured man that the Republi.
cans contend, that it is impossible to touch
any Of the railroads without he squsals a.
percetibly as the pig when he feels the
keen blade applied to his throat. The
uch coveted dispatch, which Mr.. Blaine
laimed that Mr.. Knott had suppressed
has at last been revealed to the public
gaze, and shows really nothing. The man,
Caldwell, merely states that he can cor
roborate Tom Scotfs testimony, and that
he never gave Mr.. Blaine any Fort Smith
railroad bonds, directly or otherwise. The
dispatch does not give the residence Of the
writer, but merely infers that he is living
inlLondon. Besides it was matter Of cour-
tesy upon the part Of the Committee to
submit the dispatch, and evinced decided
ly better spirit, than did Blaine,in refusing
to submit the letters, which he claimed as
private correspondence, to the Commit
tee. Mr.. Knott had as much privilege to
hold this dispatch as Blaine had to con-
ceal his correspondence. But discarding
all this from the case, and taking up the
dispatch in all of its Importance, what do
we find that importance to be-realy
nothing. 1t gives no idea of who this Jo-
siah Caldwell is, does not tell in wha,
locality of the great and populous CITY Of
London he may be fonnd, and to attempt
to search him out from among over three
millions Of population would be some
thing like the old simile of looking for
needle in a haystack. Who knows
that the Josiah Caldwell who was mixed
up in the intricate railroad bond business
with Blaine is the same that cabled the
dispatch from London. In this progress
sivs age to forge dispatch is one Of the
commonest arts in the strategy of dishon-
eat dealings, and as no one can vouch for
the authenticity Of this dispatch, and as it
bears no address definite enough to admit
OF an answer, it must be accepted as part
of Blaine's inventive efforts to clear his
skirts. But such is hardly possible unless
he produce more substantial proofs Of inno-
cence than those lie has already offered.
Dispatches will not do, especially when
they come from those who are as deeply
involved in the case under consideration
a. Blaine himself. The committee must
have the man before them in the flesh and
blsod, to stand the fire of questioning and
cross questioning. If he can then show
that what he says in his dispatch is true,
the Republican party will have some op-
portunity for outbursts of joy, but until
such is done'stheir joy and courage will be
something like that of the boy who whistles
when he is going through the graveyard.
The Morning herald., 1876-06-09

Col James z. Henry, President. Delaware
John r. Hudson, capltalis,; st. Georges,
d. K. Mcclure, Capitalist, Short Manitu. Pa
DR.. J. T. Hammond, NJ. d., Berlin, Md.
Rudolph Humphreys, Lumberman, Sails
John I. Long, Merchant, Prank ford, Del,
George A. Jones. Civil Engineer, George
town. Del.
D. W, Moore, Capitalist, Laurel, Del.
Col. j. B. Ford, Capitalist, COndord, Del,
VIM. F. Sharp, Merchant, Harrington, Del.
Ell Hollister, Insurance, Delaware City
H. Chas Ulman, Prest. U. s. Law Asso. N.
Capt. t'Ss1y besI stokley, Farmer seaford, Del,
Reynear Williams, Merchant, Milford. Del.
Hiram W. McColley, Capitalist, Milford,
John N. Dale, Capitalist, whaleyville. Md.
2; J. Minich. Insurance, Seaford, Del.
James M, Sellers, r. r. Contractor, Phila-
John NJ Pomsroy, Editor, Chambersburg,
R: W. Cannon, Merchant, Bridgeville. Del.
VIM: q. Murphy, Manufacturer, Farming.
Chss. II. Maull Merchant, Lewes. Del,
James II. Myers, insurance, Dele ware Cit
JAMES B. HENRY. Pres
JAMES II. MYERS, Sec'y and Treas.
decll-em