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The New York herald., 1876-03-03
The Republican Party-streams OF Cor
ruptIon and Decentralization.

ruptIon and Decentralization.
The downfall of Secretary Belknap means
the ruin of the republican party. 1t is only
another of the many streams of corruption
and folly that have flowed from the present
administration and from the party now
in power How can we fail to draw
the inference that is seen in
nature, science and history, that when the
river is polluted the poison is most likely
in the source. What foul streams have
poured forth-the stream st. Domingo,
with the violations of law, jobbery and cor
ruption the stream French arms, with It's
infraction Of international obligations the
stream general order business, with its de-
basement of New York politics; the stream
Akerman, with imbecility and oppression in
the South tho stream Richardson, with The
Sanborn frauds the stream Delano, with
the infamies of the Indian Department the
stream Babcock, with the frauds in the
revenues. These are the currents OF the
present corrupt party. 1t is about time that
the responsibility for this endless and ever
increasing food should be placed where it
belongs-on the party now in power.
Let US see how this party has made itself
responsible for this Generalization. Rich
ardson, who approved the Sanborn fraud,
shameless and unblushing as it was, was
made a judge. Shepherd, driven from power
as one unfaithful to his trust, was made
commissioner, and is the leader of admins
tration society. Williams after his sins were
confessed, was intrusted with high duties.
Schenck, after he allowed his name and his
Office to be the means of swindling women
and children out of their income by bogus
mining shares, was protected. Babcock
came from the dock of st. Louis court, the
cell of the jailbird Mcdonald, to become the
private secretary to the President and Direc-
tor of the Public Works. And now we have
the Secretary of War, resigning his Office,
confessedly corrupt and dishonest man, and
protected from tho just indignation of the
House by the acceptance of his resignation.
The true leaders of the party, the men who
still possess the confidence of the people,
should now take ground. Mr. Conkling
has higher stake in the affections of the re-
publican party of New York than in any pos
sble devotion to the President. Is he in
favor of corruption and maladministration
Let him speak while there is time Mr..
Sherman is the leader of the republican
party in Ohio, State which is impor-
tant to republican success. Does he
approve of this stolid, depraved rule,
which deadens the public sense of
the nation? Let him speak while there is
time Mr.. Blaine is the choice of New
England for the Presidency-the representa-
tive of glorious Commonwealth. Does he
feel that the legends of Andersonville are of
more interest to tho country than these pain
full, ever increasing evidences of shame and
crime? Let him speak while there is time
For the time has come for every republi-
can who sees in his party something more
than dumb echoing of Cesarism and folly
to speak. 1t may be too late
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WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock mar
'ket was unexcited yet irregular. Prices
CLOSED trihe firmer. Money extremely easy
at IL 3 per cent Government bonds
active and higher. Investment securities
steady. Gold advanced to ia 5-S.
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Should the Cabinet Resign.

1t is question whether the whole Cabinet
should not resign. The administration is
rotten, and millions of people who did not
believe so yesterday are convinced of it to-
day. The confession of the guilty Secretary
of War is a revelation. He could not have
been guilty of the crimes he has confessed
and remained undiscovered in a Cabinet
that was pure. 1t is day of judgment
The political heavens are rolled together
like a scroll and are consumed with fire;
vainly the wicked call on the mountains to
wrath to come.
The terrible force of Secretary Belknap's
confession, the horrible meaning that is en-
bodied in his guilt is unbroken by the fact
that there are pure men in the Presidents
Cabinet. He was their associate, and they
were jointly with him the Presidents adj
visers. There is not entirely divided re-
sponsibility in the Cabinet. Mr.. Fish and
Mr.. Bristow and Mr.. Jewell are not merely
officers charged with the conduct of affairs
of State, of the Treasury and the Post Office
The Cabinet is in its highest capacity unit
government in his keeping, and that honor
cannot be lost by one without more or less
responsibility attaching to the Others Were
these men blind, that they could not see, till
democratic Congress compelled them, that
the head of the War Department was selling
the soul OF the government? They we're
blind-for we do not believe them corrupt
but their blindness has given the nation
eternal shame. Because of the indifference
of the President and the Cabinet to the
scandals which long ago darkened the War
Department the country is now humiliated
in dust and ashes.
The pure members of corrupt admins
tration are like living men chained to q
corpse. We presume that the first thought
of Mr.. Fish when he knew of this fearful fall
of his colleague was whether he could in self
respect remain a member of disgraced Cab
met This is not the first disgrace, but the
elimination of long series of infamies that
are part of the history of the administra-
ton. The corruptions of the government
are so numerous and notorious that it is
question whether the selfrespect of an
honest and honorable man will permit him
to be connected with it. We are more sorry
to write this Of the government of the United
States than any American citizen can be to
read it {; but we write simply what is the
truth.
1t is question, We say, whether the whole
Cabinet should not resign, and happily, we
arc not called upon to answer it. Mr.. Fish
and Mr. Bristow must Judge for themselves.
But one duty they have 90 perform is plain
If they remain in this rotten, disgraced ad-
ninistration, they must demand Of tho Presi-
dent the authority 90 reform it That is the
only condition apon which self-rsspcct and
Cabinet Office can now be rcconcilcd. If
the President refuses to conocdc this right
the sooner all honest men leave Linn the
better it will be for themselves and for the
country.
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WNsLow, the Boston exile, seems anxious
to put an agreeable face on the matter of his
extradition, and professed in the Bow Street
Police Court yesterday his entire willingness
to return to America. The amiable bearing
of the "Artful" in the same classic spot as
described in "Oliver Twist removes Mr..
Winslow's acquiescence from the plane of
originality.
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CHARLES O'CoNoB appeared in the Su-
preme Court yesterday on the side of the
sprosecution in the Tweed trial. This fact
will rejoice thousands and we hope to see
his presence there become so common that
municipal thieves of high and low degree
shall resume the quaking they left off when
the Nestor of the Bar lay in the hands of the
doctors
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It r IPLE HEE T.
NEW YORK, FRIDAY. MARCH 8. 1876.

From our reports this morning the probabilities
i1re that the ,oedther to-day ,oM be ,oar1ner and
ipdrtly cloudy.
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AN ENGLISH SwINDLE comes to relieve the
monotony of the American article. 1t is in
cotton.
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BELKNAP MUST Nor be thrown as q tub tc
the whale. If the whale has sense he will
not bestow much time on the tub.
The New York herald., 1876-03-03

DoN CARLOS will reach London to-day or
his run from the foot of the Pyrenees. 1t il
expected he will now halt.
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II THE PRESIDENT is not responsible for
the crimes of Belknap he is responsible for
his escape from the justice of the House of
Representatives
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The Coming Sioux War.

There can be little doubt that we are about
to enter on an Indian war which may extend
over the wide tract of territory lying between
the Missouri River and the Rocky Noun
tains. The endeavors to prevent it by
peaceable negotiations last fall failed be-
cause the Sioux chiefs could not agree
among themselves as to the indemnity to be
collectively asked by them of the govern
ment, and the individual demands were
either of q preposterous nature, such as no
government could afford, or personally avar-
icious and puerile. The council was broken
up without approaching a conclusion, and
the government Commissioners barely
escaped massacre at tho hands of tho wild
bands through the timely aid of one of the
chiefs, who not only informed the troops,
but made such disposition of his warriors
MS to foil the threatened repetition of the
scene at the murder of General Candy
There is something very tragic in the con-
dition to which the indian has fallen at
our hands. We are prone TO condemn the
greed and brutality with which the Span
iards treated the aborignes of Cuba, forcing
that the race entirely disappeared within a
few years but we have nothing in our treat
ment of the red man 10 congratulate our
selves upon. He has been sacrificed by us
as fast as sacrifice became necessary to our
aggrandizement. lie has been pushed be-
fore civilization or trodden down in its
march. He has been taught all the vices a
civilization, and has improved only in learn
ing the art of killing. lie cannot under
stand that ii is useless TO keep up The fight
with destiny The white man has found
gold in the Black Hills, and we arc now face
TO face with the fact that body of for
tune-hunters can force us into a war
which will COST more, perhaps than the
greatest sum asked b. the Indian chiefs
last fall. We are very likely to loo: sharply
after anything like allowing ourselves to
drift into a war with foreign State, but our
War Department has within its discretion
the power Of making wars that will REQUIRE
army supplies and bestow fat contracts on
quite an extensive scale. While. therefore.
it may be necessity 70 strike and punish
the marauding bands, wo commend the
entire question to the democratic majority Of
the House Of Representatives to SEQ that tho
acquisition of the Black Hills is not accom-
plshed at q huge cost to the nation to the
benefit only of thieving contractors and ac-
companicd by a further wholesale and un-
necessary destruction of those whom our
centennial orators call with unconscious
irony, "the wards of the nation"
PooE TWEED He has been called thief.
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UNCLE ANTHONY, atSP. NJ
- CHATEAU MABILLE VARIETIES.
VARIETY, ats Y. NJ
BRooKLYN THEATRE
Uncle TOMS CABIN. ats r NJ Mrs q c. Howard
TONY PASTORS NEW THEATRE.
VARIETY, 7. NJ. Matinee at r. h
UNION SQUARE THEATRE.
ROSE MICHEL, at J. NJ.
ACADEMY of MUSIC.
STAR or THE NORTH. AZ p. VI. Clara Louise Kellogg
NEW MASONIC TEMPLE
EUROPE ON CANVAS. at 3 7. VI. Matinee at 80 T. Nj
PARK THEATRE.
BRASS. atsP NJ George Fawcett Rowe.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE
PIQUE, Mt S p NJ Fanny Davenport
THIRTY. FOURTH STREET OPERA HOUSE
VARIETY, ats 4. ".
BOWERY THEATRE.
81 sLocUM, at sP NJ Frank r. Frayne
VARIETY nsP.M
BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELs, atsPM
GLOBE THEATRE.
BOOTIi's THEATRE
'CULluS CESAR, ut \ H. NJ. MIR. Lawrence Barrett
GERNANIA THEATRE.
DER NEILCHENFREssER, at r NJ
TIvoLI THEATRE
VARIETY atsP.M
GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
UNCLE TOMS CABIN. at =. VI.
TwENTYTH STREET THEATRE.
CALIFORNIA MlNSrRELS. at I. NJ.
wooD's MUSEUM
SCHAMfL, nj z. NJ Matinee at2 Z. NJ
THIRD AVENUE THEATRE
VARIETY, at s L. VI.
wAILACK's THEATRE
CASTE, atsP.M IL. j. Montague.
VARIETY, SPIN.
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Ii THE AcrIon of the President in accept
ing Belknaps resignation means anything at
all it is that he means to stand by his friends
whether They are right or wrong.
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VOLUME ..............~..Yo Cs
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JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PRoPRIETOR
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PooE TWEED He has been called thief,
plunderer, boss, conspirator, states
man, ballot stufer, a demoralizer and a
democrat, and now his own counsel call him
victim. Fancy the indignation of Big Six
when he learns that his costliest friends thus
abuse his intelligence and lower his good
name among the inmates Of the Peniten-
tiary. Victim, bah!
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NEW YORK HERALD

BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.
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ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

EAGLE THEATRE.
UNCLE ANTHONY, ats II. NJ.
CHATEAU MABILLE VARIETIES.
VARIETY
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BROOKLYN THEATRE
Uncle TOMS CABIN. ats r NJ Mrs q G. Howard
TONY PASTORS NEW THEATRE.
.JARIETY. Mt 4 Z. NJ. Matinee az 2 r. NJ.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-12
GLOUCESTER COUNTY.

ELECTION OF DELEGATES TO THE NOMINATING
CONVENTIONAL d d RES S FROM SENATOR
BI.AND-GOOD NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. DEATH
YOUNG MAN DROWNED.
I correspondence of the Richmond Dispatchl
GLOUCESTER CoGRTnoUs USE, August 5. 1876.
Yesterday (court-day) = Conservative
meeting was held at this place to elect dele
gates to the Congressional Convention to be
held at TappahaDuock on the 18th. The
following gentlemen were chosen: For Alb
ingdon district-Messrs. r. G. Baytop, T..
M. Page, r. b. Rowe, Marquis Jones, w.
w. Seawell, and w. r. Thurston; for Ware
district-Captain j. B. Browne, Major Will
liam X. Perrin, Major Thomas S. Taiiaferro,
and General William B. Taliaferro; for
Petsworth-Messrs. j. N. Stubs, w. H.
Soles, and DR.. Warner Chapman. The fol-
lowing gentlemen were elected the; County
Committee: . Messrs. NJ. B. Seaweli, w. e.
Watt, Charles Catlett, James w. Diggs,
S. Bland, and j. II. Ross. 4 -tsSs.
After the meeting Senator Is. L. Bland,
our elector, addressed the people. In the
course of his speech Senator Bland took oc-
casion briefly to review Judge Eritchel's
card announcing himself an Independent
candidate for Congress. II the learned
Judge had been present he would have felt
ashamed to see his production in its horrid
nakedness, ell the cobwebs of sophfstry,
having been sweptaway. believe 1t is the
universal sentiment and desire that Major
Douglas should be renominatcd. 7 have
heard OF only one Critcher man in the
county.
iMr. r. McCandlish delivered a very able
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MJLBORO' HOUSE.

4 SCENE OF BEAUTY AND PLEAsCRE-DANCERS
AND MUSIC-A VIRGINIA DARBY GOES TO
SLEEP IN FINE COMPANY. .
CORRESPONDENCE OF the Richmond Dspatch.l
....,. .,....t AUGUST !, 1876.
Last night .Millboro' House and hall was
a scene Of some gayety and festivity. The
hall was decorated with mountain cedar and
wild flowers for the benefit OF the Terpsicho-
reans, with seats arranged on either side
for those who, from some religious scruple,
or expect more from physical inability,
did not engage in the dance. The ladies
and gentlemen from the hotel assembled in
the hall and awaited the arrival OF the
music, which was expected from Wallawha-
toola. They waited long and anNiously.
That noble virtue patience had done its
perfect work All! there it comes-the
music. Every eye is turned to each new
conner as. the parties from WallawhatOola
and Millboro' Springs enter the hall. No.
music: Why, how strange! \ shade OF
melancholy passes over the countenances Of
the assembly rs they are seated along the
hall. 1t was sad to behold-all the dancers
there and no music. Just Us the scene was
at its bluest, 10! there fell upon our ears a
note, Just one, but SO welcome and SO sweet.
1t was that historical instrument /" the old
BANJO" by which so many sold Virginia
reels " were danced in happy days gone by.
1t was borne, by one Of Africa's sable sons,
who, with two assistants, marched up the
hall and seated themselves with an air OF
behind the altar 1t was
not long before sleep visited the eyelids OF
one OF these benefactors, and as he sat in bis
chair and slept from his labors, with an en-
preston OF meek humility, the figure OF
Valentines negro student came wildly be-
fore us. Then followed a thoroughly en-
ioyable scene, the dancers trying to keep up
with the music which was beyond the
power OF anything but machinery, But,
oh! how delightful the change! How re-
freshingl None OF the whirl and the mys-
Lie maze Of Strauss enchanting waltzes, no
sickcning glare, but sweet, healthiul,
country scence. At - O'Clock supper was
and 1.-THE dining-room doors
thrown open upon q, very pretty scene. :, In
The centre OF the room four tables in spotless
white were arranged' in the shape OF an q,
the centre being -ornamented with a tpyra-
mid OF cakes, and followed in graduation to
the end OF, each table with smaller orna-
mental cakes, creams, and goodies of !all
kinds, We noticed there was a cessation of
voices about the time this engrossing cere-,
mony begun. ave thought of our enemies
only to forgive them, and OF our friends
only to regret that they could not be there.
SO much for the influence of q good supper.
The dancers returned to the hail. but the 4
"wee sma" hours, Of the,morning found all
'nuSly asleep aaaf4f .naHf PHGNIx.t'f
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BoLDBAD BEN. BUTLER.-The Lowell cor

BOLD BAD BEN. BUTLER.-The Lowell cor
respondent OF the Herald says:
The political apathy which has existed in
Massachusetts, during the past two years
promises to be interrupted during the APP
preaching autumn. 1t has for some weeks
been rumored that General Butler had con-
sented to receive congressional honors
again, and to-day he has formally declared
that he will serve il his fellow-citizens so
will it Mt the election next November. He
has, however, forsaken the Cape Ann Tor
Gloucester) district, and will this time try
his fortune in the Lowell district.
In conversation with the General your
correspondent learned that the campaign
will be inauguratcd forthwith, and the can
didate will take the stump himself at an
early day. The lively work OF the canvass
will, of course, be commenced previous to
the holding Of the Nominating Convention,
and il General Butler succeeds i'll securing
the nomination he will be likely to keep up
Il vigorous crusade against the Democratic
candidate until the eve OF the election. II,
on the contrary, the General should be de-
feated in the effort for nomination, it is not
likely that he will undertake to bolt and be-
come an independent candidate. The Cen
eral and his friends are confident of success,
and whether he is yanquished or not, the
campaign will Inevitably be spirited and
The district includes both the cities Of
Lowell and Lawrence, and also several
other manufacturing towns OF size and i'm
portance. The blue-blooded literary town
Of Concord is also within the district, and
from the fact that Judge Hoar resides there
it is safe to anticipate that the delegate from
that borough will be anti-Butlcr. 49,, =,
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NANsEMoND COUNTY.
NIxG-PtRIoUs sT0RM-DEvOTION TO HON.
JOHN Go0DE-PERsoNAL.. zs1

DAMAGE TO LIFE AND PROPERTY BY LIGHT
NING-PJRIOUs sTORM-DEy0TI0N TO HON.
JOHN GooDE-PERsoNAL.
fCorrcsrondence Of the Richmond Dispatcli.l
SUFFOLK, VA, August 10, 1876.
Never within the memory OF the coolest
inhabitant'' has there been go much damage
done to life and property by. lightning IN
this part of the country as within lew
months past. Quite a number OF persons
have been killed by this mysterious and
powerful agent in these lower counties OF
late. And still the bolts continue to fall.
One day. last week, while there were Dut
few clouds in the sky, and no one was ami Y!
cipating shock, suddenly binding nasn
was seen in upper Main street, followed IN
stantlv by terrific report. Everybody
naturally thought everybody else was hurt.
But no one was harmed; only shade-tree
had been struck and the corner OF uWeli-
ine.house splintered. To-day furlous
storm swept over the town. The elements
we're ennaped in terrible battle a bolt
Of lightning struck the residence OF Mrs.
Rurclfeld, on Franklin street, knocking
the ton OF the chimney of, breaking furnl.
t,lre. tearing off weather boarding, and
killing calf on the outside. The family J,
were absent, and thus am happily relieved
Of writing an obituary. The house was
owned by Mr.. 3. +. P. Baker.
The news from the Congressional Con-
yention, which met in Portsmouth yester-
day, telling us of the, nomination OF John 5i1
Goode for Congress, to represent tins aus
trict, gives great satisfaction. The devotion
OF the people throughout this whole section
Of country to Mr.. Goode amounts almost .se ITO TO
hcro-worship. l need not add that the
longer he stays in Congress the more our
people love and admire him.
Rev. w. b. Wellons, D. D., the widely
known editor Of the Christian Sun, mas
been for several weeks confined to his bed
with an abscess OH his right lung. His con,
dition has been very perilors, as he had
previously worked himself down, ana ms
constitution was poorly prepared to resist
tbe attacks Of disease. But he is gradually
improving, and his physician expects to re-
install him before many weeks in the pulpit
and the editorial chair.
Rev. J. +. Hutson, the Baptist evangellst,
is conducting very successful revival
meeting at Westcrn-Branch Baptist church,
in this county. ., NleoDhMco'
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PINE RAINS-FARMERS' FACES FRIGHTENING
DAN RIVER BAPTIST ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
HAVOC AMONG CHICKENS--TILDEN'SL LETTER.
correspondence OF The Richmond Dispatch.l
SCoTTsBURG, August 10, 1876.
We have had frequent rains OF late, and
shall make corn enough and to spare. The
faces OF farmers are not so long as they
were 4 few weeks ago by several inches.
But still they C7oak. The most ungratefm
wretcheS Oh this earth, l often think, are
the old Virginia farmers. They remind me
Of an old preacher who was asked some
time since by his deaconS to pray for rain.
He replied that he would do SO. and added:
"But, brethren, it is no use to pray for rain
until the wind changes" Instead OF con-
slant complaints that they will not make
one fourth OF a tobacco crop, the farmers
should thank God for the refreshing show
ers which lie sends almost daily.
The Dan River Baptist Association is IN
session at NYinn's Creek, seven miles from
this place; and chickens are iii demand.
Judge Barksdalc is moderator, and Kew
Mr.. Faulkner clerk.
Yesterday DR.. j. L. NJ. Garry preached to
n great crowd in the morning, and Rev. j.
Z. l.. Holmes, of Danville, did the same
thing in the evening.
Mr.. r. G. Starke, of your city, made n
very good speech for Ministers Relief Fund.
Rev. A. Z. Dickinson, d. D., is also here
in the interest OF the Religious Herald. !
Buffalo Springs are doing quite we'll
Rev. DR.. L. NJ. Lee, and Rev. DR.. Gibson,
OF Petersburg, are there. l verify believe
the Buffalo Springs are what you claim Tor
them.
We are all delighted with Tilden'S letter.
and intend to elect him il we can.
Yours, &c., PORE.