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GOLD BEHIND THE FOOrLIeHrs.
The Money that IL harmed by some Of tho
Best-hnewn Of the Players.
Fto,n hs World

Miss Clara Morris, when at the Union
Square, gets tGO0 a week, and el000 when she
stais, furnishing her own dresses. Mise Fanny
$50 week when at the Fifth Avenue. and 81 600
week when starring, besides being provided.
as all the actresses at this house are, VITA two
got 1850 a week at the Union Square; Miss Aas
pys S i has $50 week Mas Kate Cla1ton' $40 /;
In New York. t76; Miss Sara Jewett, SIS Miss
Emily kRl, SIS; Miss Ione Burke, t15; Miss
Miss Rose Woo, ssS: Miss Rose Lise. SEQ Ms:
Marie Gordon,, t15; Miss Ida Jsrries. $50; Miss
Sydney Cowell, go; Miss Eaie Gerwon. $50;
Mary Wells, SIS; Nine. Ponisi, $ioo; Mrs. John
When George Clarke was In New York be
bad ais and si50 a week, John Gilbert gets
James Lewis, tiso Stuart Robson, siJo Harry
Brouaham, 500 Ii. J. Montague, s2s5 Charles
Fisher. $50; G. A. Stevenson. SIS J. W. Car
manager. All these salaries are paid Tor seasons
Of eight months. Leading men IKE 1horne,
broogham and Dsyidre have ANNUAL Ibenen!s
petteo SLIGO Dy his recent benefit At the Fifth
Avenue, lhorne made $1,000 by his benefit at
The Union Square, while the genial Tooker sur
be nettsd $500.
George klrnold, during his engagement hero,
on shares, ne-half the house after expenses
and Lawrence barrett gets the same terms AID
ESQ week when on salary. Edwin Booth IL
the only American actor who gets a cieai baif Of
the house, to Use theatre i phrase-ineanipg
half the gross receipts. Wnile playing under en-
gagement TO Mr.. Ford, recently, In tue South,
hr Booth got 500 week salary. George Faw-
cett Rove gets s.aU week. George Honey got
$50 gold, week. i. l.. Davenport gets $500 a
week. Fscnter used to get $1,000 a week, out
does not now. Joseph Jefferson was once I'D
as much as 1880 week aud MS managers were
. Id to have made money by his engagement
Miss Charlotte Cushman used 10 have nalf the
whole house. Miss Adelaide Nelson used to get
$lOO0 a week; she now gets half the whole
Louse. Mrs Rousby, when she was here, GOT
$1,000, gold, week. Lester Waii-ck. when OIL y.
iDS un salary, under engagement To his father,
US d TO get tl2o as actor anu s"5 as stIge man
ayr. Barney Williams used 10 play on shar 3
MIR. aud 1irs. Florence toge Their get $50 a week
when halarN.
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Others who have stated and sworn with n
purpose to save BLAINE, retreat behind
the same pretext with . full knowledge
that II was fabricated 10 deceive the publio.
BLAINE himself, however, has con yicted
.nem OF collision with him, for in one Of
tue letters to FISHER which he captured
from MuLLraAN, he urges us a reason for q
more liberal settlement with him, that he
had not the benefit of the $4,000 person.
ally, because the money passed out of his
hands in two days to repay the Maine men
to whom he had sold the Little Rock bonds.
BLAINE thus contradicts his statement
made deliberately TO the House, and his
sworn explanation before the committee.
lt Is not surprising, therefore. that he
should have resorted to the most desperate
means to get possession of evidence under
his own hand which would have made his
utter ruin inevitable mt the same time. He
knew what this correspondence contained
and he also knew that IL spread before the
country, his name would be hopelessly
blasted.
1t was easy to see, when BLAINE objected
so peremptorlly TO McCLURE's testimony,
I'm regard 10 CALDwELL's statements to
him about the bonds, and vehemently
protested against CURRy's more recent
testimony, interposlng technical pleas and
legal bubbles ut every turn, that he was
guilty Of all that had been charged and
did not dare to confront the bottom facts.
Conscious innocence does not act in that
way. 10 seeks instead OF shirking inquiry.
1t demands the most exhaustive search to
silence SANDER.
The witness ROBINSON, who delivered
the package of bonds TO BLAINE from
CALDWELL, was coached Mt the latter's
house before he appeared as witness, and
was made 10 forget his own recent declara-
tions before various persons, that the par
Gel In question did contain SO, 900 Of bonds.
When MuLLIGAN and FISHER reached
Washington last Tuesday, BLAINE was at
the hotel to meet them, and after NULL
GAN then refused to visit his house In order
to be untrammelled before the committee,
he sent for him three times that night with
out success, and went over the whole case
with FISHER, who had weakly accepted
his invitation.
One of the most daring outrages on a
witness under examination was the forci-
BILE carrying of Of the letters held by Null
LIGAN, and the failure to return them after
pledging his "honor as a gentleman 10
hand them back. He had read those let
tiers twice by MuLIIeANs consent, aud
then determined on this treachcrous plan
to obtain possession OF them in order TO
defeat the Investigation.
II there was nothing else to settle
BLAINEs guilt In the public estimation,
and to consign him to infamy, the circum-
stances connected with this theft would be
sufficient. II was the achievement Of
sneak thief, which entities him to recogui-
ton in that fraternity.
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Who Shall il BE 2

The Republican Reform Club is an asso-
ciation OF Republicans Of this city whose
primary object is to defeat the nomina-
ton OF Senator CoNKLISo Mt Cincinnati
aud to secure that of Mr.. BRIsrow.
So far. though they have held many meet
ings and conferred with due wisdom to
that end, they do not seem to have accom-
plished much against Mr.. CoNKLINo. His
chances of getting the nomination are,
indeed, better now than they were when
the club was started. though IL contains
some Of the richest and most respectable
Republicans in the city
Exactly whom they are for they have
not yet boldly announced; but that
it is BRIsTow is beyond a doubt.
They are to send fifty gentlemen 10 Gin
cinnati TO labor with tue delegates in his
behalf and perhaps they will accomplish
something and perhaps not. There will
be n great many influences at work at
Cincinnati, though the New York clubs
efforts will be reinforced by those Of a
chain OF BRIsrow organizations in the
leading cities OF the East and West.
II is now announced that tomorrow
evening this club will consider the ques-
ton of formally indicating preference
among the Republican candidates. This
accession of boldness is probably due to
the downfall OF BLAINE and his removal
from the field of Presidential candidates.
They feel that there Is a better show for
BRIsrow now, as there may be; and they
Will, II they screw their courage up TO the
sticking point, probably declare him to
be their favorite. But what they may do
Will have very slight effect If it does not
accord with the plans and meet the desires
of the politicians who actually run the
Republican party.
Just now il looks as if the candidate who
had the best chance of winning was either
WAsHBURNE or CoNKLISo. The latter this
club hates, but they may feel more kindly
disposed toward the former.
1t will be great triumph for WASH
BuRSE il he shall carry both the reform
and the machine Republican votes in the
Convention, as he may do after fruitless
balloting for the other candidates.
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SIMON SAYS, "TH UMBS DOWN.
The Latest Betting by the Members Of the
Union League Club.

N,o York Letter 10 the Louisville C0uJtSr-JoUrnGL
The Union League Club Is in uproar.
The cause, Geromes picture Of the Gladiator
One OF the members has bet hat with every
man that would het that the turned down
thumbs in that picture mean mercy to the van
are with this positive betting man. Nay. more
tnan that, Harvard College has como to the
re1cue and asserted that the man Of hats Is cor
reef. Now, encyclot edists are, as KING Jamie
blunder made 10y one is sure TO be copied by tie
others. Let us look at the beginning, and ind
out about "thumbs down" Andrews Latin
Dictionary says: ITO press down the thumb
(preniert was sign OF APPRECIATION; to extend
IL ucrtere, ,onrerere (poler hQeStus) sign Of
Misrepresentation"
Close the thumb. aud press the thumb down
upon the forefnger, or press the thumb or one
ma In the palm Of the other, aud you have tho
premiere" che sign OF appreciation. Extend
vertere, cOnvertere (polleI infestusl," tue sign
OF disapprobation, for though the lexicon uses
the word extend II Is not a good definition
OF the word ucrttit, or cOnrtrteIc-to turn about
II better, II 10 the more ordinary, and In TACT,
the primary deaultion Of these words. Geroue's
Iicture shows tie "pOllex iufcstus" (hustile
tuumb) The female faces, tho vestal virgins
particularly, translate Gerone's meaning better
tina any lexicon can do IL. That Gerome VS.
right Will show, IN the first place, by adyerting
10 the fact Ihat he studied up Ills subject Tor Two
years before painting his picture, and doubtless
saw the FREEZE In Naples, Dhilology and history
cut in stone, watch clearly dennes the meaning
of "thumbs dOwn," and from quotation from
PlipY IN "A noe 20 Horace, az follows " POtif6
mia6num com prtso0 tdpOr. Police iaUsTS0 cont
dsmiLitO nldtcSuDuur Olim,' winch Is quite suni-
Cient to settle the question, as Pilny had often
seen thumus turned down, wbile the man at IN Q
Union League h al never witnessed tue impress
siye SIGHT, except In the game ot wig-wug, wuere
simon says lhumbs down."
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Blaine,s DiAxrace.

SCHUYLER CoLFAx went out Of public
life on the Sd of March, 1873, with the
brand OF corruption and perjury stamped
upon his brow. His way was to affect
superior morality, to lecture before the
Young Mems Christian Associations, to in
gratiate himself with the Odd Fellows and
kindred societies, and in this way TO gain
the confidence OF the public the better to
prnctise his rascalites. For long time he
was II successful fraud but the Credit Mo
bllier investigation exposed his true char
acter, and finished a career which was
sham from its start.
JAMES G. BLAINE succeeded COLLAR as
Speaker, and Will soon follow him into
exile and disgrace. He did not pretend TO
be a Christian politician or TO put on the
robes of piety. On the contrary, he set
up to be man of the world, pandered to
social desires, cultivated the weaknesses
OF human nature, Knocked at every form
of rel gion, and sought 10 be recognized AS
a liberal aud even generous fellow. BY
these and other arts he won a certain pop
ularity and utilized it for his personal
profit.
Ii Is now certain, and will be established
by the most conclusive proofs, that ever
SINCE BLAINE entered Congress, and as
pecially during his Speakership, he has
been little else than u professional broker,
jobber IN leg Station, and beneficiary Of
the great lobby schemes. He had an in
terest in all the valuable railroad grants,
aud while prating patriotism was levYing
large toll on gun contracts, by which the
Government was blackmaled ia the hour
OF lts greatest distress. For that felony,
Us the law describes 1t, he may be sent To
the pcnitentary.
The Liltle Rock and Fort Smith job Is
now pr, t'y well una rsto0d by the eoun-
try, in spite OF mass of perverslon and
fabrication. stripped Of all disguise, the
real fact is hat the s84, 900 obtained from he
onion Pac Ac went to reimburse parties in
Maine To whom BLAINE had sold $1,000
worth of Little Rock bonds. Instead Of
going directly into his pocket To stay there,
this money was transferred to his t<ends,
VINO were pressing him TO refslnd the pur-
ehnses they had made on fraudulent rep
resentatlons.
Col TON SCOTT saves himself OH this thin
cover Gov deceptive transaction. and
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WILLIAM LAWRENCE Republican mem
Der from Ohio, Is one OF the sub committee Of
the Judiciary investigating BLArNE's bond
business. From first to last he has not asked a
single question promotive Of the inquiry with
which he Ia CHARGED. IL no were the retained
counsel OF BLAINE, with a round fec such as the
ex-Speaker Is well able to pay from his pre4isable
Congressional career, he could not have mani
tested more interest In his behalf or acted moro
obediently to hts orders. He has completely
identified himself with BLAINH's cause, and has
sought by every sort Of device to get technical
advantages for han before tho eommittee. II
the people of the EiVbth District OF Ohio sent
LAWRENCE to Washington In defend corruption
and jobhery Ia the person OF tho ex Speaker,
they are wed represented.
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MORE sRAYEYARD hBrTBmErry.
Rhsde Island not Big Enough TO be the
Whole WorId,s Cemetery.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Str: Mr.. 8.
N. Manning, Of Kankakee, ILL.,, will have to re-
wise his calculation showing the area which
would be covered by the graves Of all who have
died during about 5000 years. "Little Rhody "
would not be bia enough to hold them. He
makes the number Of deaths only equal to the
present population. yet he assumes that there
have been about 200 generations, and puts the
present population at Lac, 900, 600 which 10 near
enough to the general opinion. IL the popuia-
lation is renewed, as assumed, every 3)S years,
with q certain per cent. OF increase, the ntmber
13ee 100000. instead OF representing the whole
number Of deaths for 600 years, would only
show the number for 3i years. There would
be nearly loo times that number for the 900
years.
There Is a failscy even then; for the geometrl-
cal series shown by 2 adam and Eve) and LISP,
gives the number Of human beings VINO have
died. Millions have lived aud died who are not
included In such series; millions stilloorn,
millions more diving In Infancy, millions more In
battles, &c. The series upon which Mr.. Man
nina's calculation is based merely refers to
certain number OF survivors at the end Of given
periods. IL may be nearly enough correct as to
the present total living population; but III there
are 200 terms In the series. II "a obvious that the
deaths should equal not merely the number In
the last term, but the aggregate or sum OF all the
terms, beginning with and ending With lSss'-
What proportion this vast number may bear
to the actual number born during the 5000 years
no mhthematich fnrnula can ever SNOW but
certainly larger state than Rhode Island will
have to he selected to equal the area OF the en-
tire space which would TO covered by all the
dead Of these 5000 years. GRAVE.
To THE EDIroR OF The SUN--Sir: In my
letter IN 1HR Sun Of Sunday last 1 made, by
oversight. an arithmetical error. now wish to
make this correction. Allowing $3.50 years and
200 generations from Adam TIL now, and the
present population OF tho globe l,2p,OoOoOo
Nwelve hundred mlllions), the whole number OF
deaths must bavc been about III, 0O0,00O.00O, al
lowing each generation to be half rs numerou
as the present Zone hundred and twenty thou
sand miilions). Fourteen square feet are sum-
Client to bury an adult, three square feet To bury
an infant. seventeen feet on an average for two
persons, thtrty-two persons on square rod,
5,z'6,SO on square mile, aud all that nave died
since Abel on 8,621 square miles and % square
Iods-a tract less than two-thrds az large as the
State OF New York. 8. N. MANNING.
kANKAKEE, ILL.,, MAY 30, 1875.
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Who will be selected 10 present Senator
CoNKLrsG's name in the Cincinnati Convention
IL II highly important that the matter should DO
placed In proper hands. The duty OF nominal
ing him az the favorite Of the State whose vote
In November will decide the election, may de-
volve upon the Chairman Of the New York dele
cation, who Ia very likely to be Mr.. A. ID. Cor
NELL. Though Mr.. CORNELL may not be as
graceful an orator as MIR. GEORGE WILLIAM
CURTIS, he is a gentleman OF Hne presence-he
looks like GEORGE WASHINGTON - and solid
sense; and is a devoted friend Of our dstin-
guishsd Senator. But he NAV decline the honor,
and leave II TO some other delegate at large.
There is President WHITE OF Cornell. But he
would be temp pied TO talk too long and interlard
his address with Greek and Latin quotations,
which ore not reIished by a throne ofsweltering
delegates Mr.. MATHEWS Of Buffalo, another
Of the delegates at large, IL printer, and not an
orator, and he won't do while Mr.. PoMERoY,
the remaining delegate at large. though he can
make rattlinr, effective speech before aJustice
OF the Peace In Cayuga, yet his mode Of address
Is hardly up to the level OF presenting the name
OF ROSCOE CoHKLrso to a National Republican
Convention as a candidate for President.
There Ia an unusual amount Of oratorical tai
ent among the Congressional dele gates, and one
Of them may be appointed TO make the nomin-
atins speech. At any rate, Mr.. CoNKLIso should
see that the right man Is selected TO perform q
duty on which bis success may turn.
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FISHER AND MULLI0AN.
What IL Said In Boston About Biainc's Rail-
road Transactions.

from hc udfyCfd
Boston, June 1.-Mr. Warren Fisher,
who IL In Washing on tcstifying in the Blame
vestigation, Is one OF the best known OF Hos
ton men. His connection with Mr.. Blaines rail-
road transactions has been very generally talked
porluniies for knowing have shaken tueir
heads knowingly whenever the subject was al
luded TO. To speak niainly upon the matter,
don't think there has been DOUBT IN the mind
Of any man who lad the opportunity to know
tho inner facts OF these transactions, that Mr..
Fisher would prove dangerous witness Tor MI.
Blame. here is little DOUBT, either, that MI.
Fisher received teiegrams, or TELEGRAM, from
Washington after there was talk of summoninn
he had Intended 10 leave before lie could have
the subpoena served upon him.
MIR. Fisher has been very incautious, too, IN
what he has said upon the subject. IL car be
easily proved here, by moro than one witness,
that he deciarrd before he lett Boston that II he
went to Washington, and the committee should
know what questions to ask him, IL was all up
with Blaine, or words 10 that effect. We very
direct Information on this point, independent
what IL he rd on every hand on the street. MIR.
Balne's hurry Ia see him before he could testify
" not surprising, Tut the former must have been
very nervous to have made the fact 80 palpable.
Mr. Mul1gan, the other witness, may have talked
oss, but IL So ms that he an, wers more exuclt-
ly. He was Mr.. Fishers Dookkeeper, and knew
all about mis- business. lie (Mulligan) IS agen-
teuan Of excellent character, aud OF hlRh
Older OF ability and culture. Mr. FISHER has re-
peatedly vuuched for bis inte0Tity ana his hon
estv. Many millions have passed tnroush his
h. nds, and there Was never law IN his ac-
counts. Norman In Boston Is more trdstworthy y,
II uls general reputation Is Ia be credited.
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The regular circulation Of THE SUN for
me reek ending June 3. 1873. ,cds
Washburne TO the Front.

The practical exclusion of Mr.. BLAINE
from the list OF Republican candidates for
President has, we learn, turned the tide of
discussion in the Republican party in Ger
tain localities, and especially at Washing
ton, toward ELIHU b, WAsuBURNE Of ILL
nois.
an one essential respect Mr.. wAsHBURNE
Is the strongest candidate the Republicans
can nominate; he has the longest record
rs an opponent OF Jobs and SPECIAL leglsla-
tom He was against monopolies when IL
was fashionable 10 be for them and unpop-
ular 60 oppose them. As q Representative
In Congress many years ago, he made such
record as is at the present time calcu-
lated to give candidate immeasurable
strength, although, at the time, 1t sub
5ected him to odium. He was q reformer
when talk of reform was not so acceptable
Bs it ID now. Mr.. WAsHBURSE may not be
put in the field by the Cincinnati Conven-
lion. but If he were he would be very
formidable candidate.
There was one accusation against Mr..
WAsHBURSE, that ten thousand dollars
were paid improperly in Paris from the
Transcontinental Railway funds, and that
his action there was influenced thereby I;
but, IL true, it is at variance with the gen.
eral tenor Of his life, and it is to be hoped
he can deny it more squarely than he has
yet done. II he eau. he should do it im-
medately.
The growth of feeling Mt Washington in
favor OF Mr.. wAsuBURNE in the last few
days is said to have been unprecedentedly
rapid.
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To THE EDITOR oV rnE SuN-Str: ! would
very much Ike TO rouse tds lawyers eler6stoa eazt
Of the great injustice that Is done them during
summer months. Almost every lusln h0use closes
Saturdays atJP Al ard thereby ave tsIr ccs
time 10 rtcrcate litle ny quiet sro IN the pa X,
aud TO en the denghtiul muse when our Park Com.
msl rr- nave 30 grnri ousv deaf whiir he poor
lawyers erh-Nno. BY tue Way, aJOut The rst
NOrNei sod worst PAM ot any Ia onr greai eity-h 10
NJ his 0ehN FROM % lOtA IA Lhr morning. IN Is
O'Ci 60 IN the evening" ani cit,r drive il.,
wnLe Othe d, who better pad aud uut W. =
ulrd eau, by te generosity ol er enp Oyrrs
atn anu pieDare lhcnsc YES tor he n wee IS Dor.
ease fiYc this rnbiicitY tnat SON" NJ ard
wUrksi brothers NAV rally round NE ami ahh tney 20
lNll orgdn,Ae nlss nesth aud So. II ~ cannot
this matter light and OBTAIN our Just du',
a LAWYERS CLERK.
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It is interesting to learn OF the steps that

II is interesting to learn OF the steps that
were taken by tie hohammed0n Sottas Of Con
stantinopka, who brought about list week's
ch upe In the GOvernme mt. to secure the O. 0pe-
ration { { theix Chrstian fellow subjects. Their
l,adtrs Vent 30 far IN this direction that, at a
n, estln held by them in one of tho mosques.
they sent a friendly del utaton to the Patriarch
OF the Greek Church, and another TO the Patti
al Oh Of tho Armeui Ian Church. They asked these
ecciesias teal digntar.es to give notice To their
Ueople that tho Aohaumedans would ike tho
Christians to take part with them as b.ethren in
tue politicab "a dement's thss In prosress. This
would havs been rem ark BILE ineldsnt at any
tue In Turkey, nut under existing chcum-
ste noes It was very sirprisiDg. IL was fesred by
tho Christian world that tina Mehamuodans, I'M