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The daily gazette., 1877-04-05
Tweed.s story.

The narrative published of the ad-
ventures Of Mr.. Tweed after his escape
on Dec. 4, 1875, is very interesting.
1t will not tend to amiration of the
keenness Of the officers who had him in
charge, but 1T may restore confidence in
their honesty to know that Mr.. Tweed
was carried off by burglars. Various
schemes for his release hadlbe en- suggest
ed to him by criminal fellow inmates of
Ludlow street Jail, the one finally adopt
ed being a contract for a specified sum
to carry him off and deliver him safe on
the coast OF Florida. The day when all
arrangements were complete was indica-
ted to MIR. Tweed by peculiar mark on
the doorstep OF his house In Madison
avenue. which he visited frequently.
When the proper tiue had come, Mr..
Tweed first gave his keepers a banquet
with plenty of wine, and then at the ap
pointed moment slipped from the house
and into a covered wagon. which was
driven in circuitous route to "a point on
the north river, not far from the Wee
hawken ferry landing. There boat
was in waiting, and Tweed was taken
across the river TO the Palisades. In the
almost untrodden forests behind these
rocky cliffs he found shelter in house,
with protectors, and guards OF the same
kind as those who had safely removed
him from New York. Secluded in a
spot whencefha could almost look down
upon the busy city. he was p silent and
deeply Interested spectator Of the tumult
which followed his departure. Waiting
for events with the hope that something
favorable might turn up, hope sank
within him when Mr., o Connor, as one
risen from the grave, agsin appeared in
court for the prosecution. Then Tweed
hor &c a., III
hut on Staten Island, where still close
by the city, and whence once he made a
trip to Brooklyn, he finally arranged for
his departure from this nslghborhood.
He went aboard small schooner that
had been chartered for the trip, aad af-
ter an uneventful voyage landed in Flor
ida. Thence after a brief stay. he went
IN coasting vessel to Cuba, and there.
his trouble began again. These smooth
ed ever, he vent to Spain, accompanied
by the mysterious Hunt, whose indent-
ity is partially revealed in the narrative.
Mr.. Tweed's history since his arrival in
Spain is tolerably familiar to the public.
On Dec. 6, 1876, Mr.. Tweed wrote to
Mr.. OConnor, offering to make restitu-
tion SO far as he could, giving up all of
bis remaining property, Offering his ser
vices as they might be required for the
further elucldation Of the Ring myster-
les, and giving lup also all memoranda
and information in his possession,
touching the operations Of himself and
those connected with him when he was
in power asking only that this last speci-
fed documentary evidence should not
be made public, except when necessary
to the ends sought to be attained: I
am an old man." he said. greatly broken
in health, cast down in spirit, and can
no longer bear my burden" ...-...
Probably before many days Mr.. Tweed
will be again freeman.
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General News.

The failure of A. .!Friedlander, a pro-
minent grain operator in San francis
CO yesterday. Mr.. Friedlander states
that IN case he can collect amounts due
him his unsecured indebtedness will be
about 100000. As nearly as he can
Judge from the present condition of
affairs his Indebtedness is entirely To-
cal, and affects but few persons or
firms.
Christian K. Ross was at the police
headquarters in New Y ork yesterday
making inquiries. A boy answering
the description of his son was reported
to be in San Francisco, and correspon-
'dence has passed between the chiefs of
police in New York and the autheri-
ties there in regard to the matter. Mr..
Ress still believes the child lives, and
has not given up all hope of his reco-
very yet.
A fire occurred in the postoffice
building at Jacksonville, Fla, on Mon
day. II was confined to the third
floor, hut the entire building was
flooded with water. The building was
occupied also by the United States and
State courts, and United States offices.
All the records were saved. The loss
is about $4,000; insured for $4,000.
The courtroom is not much Injured,
and the postoffice will be reoccupied
Saturday.
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WAR IN EUROPE AND TRADE IN
AMERICA.

Europe still agitates the great doubt
whether the peace will be preserved
by the protocol just signed; and the
burden of opinion certainly is that it
will not. 1t will be rememembered
that even the speculation that the pro-
tocol would operate peacefully was
based upon the theory that Turkey
would be we'll inclined toward it's pur-
poses. If Turkey did not regard fav>
orably the assumption of the protocol
that she would disarm; if she did not
favor now the reforms she 30 fercely
opposed last January; if she did not
make peace with Montenegro-in any
of these contingencies Russia would
not demebilize her army; and if she
did not demobilize the protocol would
become mere waste paper. But now
comes the news of the view taken in
Turkey of the protocol. The Ottoman
statesmen regard its assumptions and
pretences as an Infringement upon the
dignity Of their government. They
intend to reply and protest; and this
does not encourage the prospect of
peace, which, indeed, was never brill
liant. In fact, the probability of war
deepens with the energy of the endea-
vors to make peace, because the ele-
ments of the situation are irreconcil-
able. With the early summer will be
seen drain toward Europe from this
country of all the supplies needed by
nations at wsrl Already the Turks
have drawn heavily on our shops fer
arms and ammunition, and the Rus
sian armies are in great part armed
with guns of American manufacture.
But the waste of war will give the tide
of regular supplies an enormous
force. The demand for breadstuffs,
preserved meat, whiskey, clothing, as
well as the regular supply of ammuni-
tion, will fill the,pockets of our farmers
with money and set our mills and
workshops in motion.-N Y. Herald.
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Fanatic'sm In Massachusett it's,

BOSTON, April 3.-The New England
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church opened this morning at Lynn.
Resolutions on the Southern question
were presented by Rev. W. F. NAL
lalieu, D. D., CT Boston, and upon be-
ing read were received with great ap-
plause, and by vote of the conference
were referred to a special committee
of i've to be appointed by the chair.
The preamble to the resolutions review
the blighting effect of slavery, and the
two final resolutions are in substance
as follows.
Resolued, That we are alsrmed and
filed with apprehensions for the future
when we Contemplate the practical
sale of one of the great political parties
of the republic by TIVE politicians Of
that party,who have held and hold now
very intimate relations to the Presi-
dent, thus sacrificing principle and
party, and righteousness for the sake
of temporary success.
ResolUed, That we protest most
earnestly against the action of the new
administration in making terms with
the chief of the kuklux, instigator of
the Hamburg massacre. NJ. @. Butler,
and stiil more earnestly Go we protest
against the official recognition by the
administration of that arch-enemy of
the republic, who long since ought to
have been hung for treason, Wade
Hampton, of South Carolina, and who
now, by threats and Intimidation under
the very roof of the White House, as
well as on railroad platforms. and in
all other public places, ,defies the power
of the government and bsllies the
President into compliance with his
traitorous and wicked usurpation.
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INDIAN TEAS.

The Indian teas, which were intro.
duced from China comparatively few
years ago, are fast becoming an i'm
portaEt element of National wealth,
28, ,0e0, 900 ponnds being imported into
England annually. They differ both
in flavor and strength from the Chinese
teas, but have some of the best quail
ties of the leaf, are often mixed with
inferisr Chinese teas to give them
flavor.
The daily gazette., 1877-04-05

4 There was no Cabinet meeting yes
terday. It was the first day without
Cabinet session since the Inauguration
Of Presiden Hayes.
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The French Elections.
800 quick

The recent elections in France show
that repubIieanism in that country is
advancing and not Teceding. The
rural voters have ceased to distrust
the republic, and have discovered
that it can exist without civil dis
turbance and the contistatiOn of prop
erty. Marshal Mac Mahon has him
selfdemonstrated that IA republic may
be stable in government and honest
in administration. The chance to
procure successive dissolutions of the
Chamber by the consent of the SEN
ate has been removed. The general
elections have reduced the republican
majority in the Chamber of Deputies;
the departmental elections will give
the opponents of reaction large ac-
cessiOn of power in the Senate. The
self-control and calmness which the
republicans of France have exhibited
in this mOmentous struggle prove
that they are capable of self govern
ment, and are of more favorable
augury TO the cause of republicanism
in France than the majority they
have obtained in the elections. Nor
is France only concerned in this
matter. If its republicans can dem
onstrate that liberty is compatible
with law and order their example
will become greater terror to exist
ing institutions on the continent, and
even in England, than the frantic
triumphs of the first French revolu-
ton. Th' republican ism was iden-
titled with RIGHTEOUSNESS and athe-
ism, and the whole civilized world
recoiled from its horrors. But when
free constitutional government can
be found even in France, without
any injury or menace to religion, law
and order, every throne in the old
world will be put in peril. Hence it
is that enlightened republicans in
America, as well as everywhere,
must feel that their own cause, and
that of free principles throughout the
world, is identifed with the triumph
of republicanism in France. and the
final overthrow of its obsolete Bour-
bons and Bonapartists.
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Home and Foreign Wheat Supply.

The wheat product and the demand
for expectation are matters of such
general interest as bearing upon the
trade and commerce of the country
that we extract from the report of
the bureau of agriculture the follow
ing statements The wheat crop of
the present year is estimated by the
bureau at not less than three hundred
and fifty millions of bushels. The
English wheat crop, which governs
the demand from the United States,
has now been harvested, and is rep
resented to be unusually short from
defective caring. The deficiency,
moreover, is the greater from the
larger area now devoted in the Uni
ted Kingdom to sheep and cattle
raising, a million acres formerly de-
voted to the production of cereals be-
ing now employed in raising grass
and root crops. Those who expected
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home crop Of wheat equal to seven
months consumption have now come
to the conclusion that it will not suf-
flee for more than six months, or
perhaps for only five and half.
Taking the home supply at ninety
two millions, it is calculated that not
more than eighty millions will be
available for conversion into bread.
The total requirement for consump-
ton being estimated at one hundred
and eighty-four millions of bushels,
it follows that the deficiency in Eng
land to be drawn from foreign sour
ces amounts to one hundred and four
millions of bushels. Ofthis the Uni
ted States has of late years supplied
forty-four per cent, and this proper
ton of the supply has been main
tanned from January to July of the
present year. OF the crops both at
home and abroad which have since
been harvested we have this sum-
mary western Europe has dimin-
ished wheat crops. Central and East
ern Europe fully medium produc-
ton the United States large sur
plus. Egypt and India will probably
increase their shipments. This coun-
try must be depended upon for an
increased proportion of the supply.
There will be good demand and
good but not necessarily very high
prices, unless the eXigencies Of wal
should obstruct distribution or great.
ly increase consumption and waste
We are disposed to. regard this re-
view OF the continental crops as rather
overstating than understanding
them but ofthe unusually large sur
plus of wheat harvested in the Uni
ted States the evidence from all quar-
tiers is clear and conclusive. 1t i:
possible that the English demand fol
our wheat will be increased dnnns
the current year from forty-four pc
cent. OF the total quantity requires
to make up the deficiency to fifty pc
cent. But while this may turn ON
to be true the larger supply of whea
seeking a market for home consump
ton or export, owing to the grea
harvest of this year, will necessaril.
keep down prices to a REASONABLE
standard.
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The Philadelphia North American
in an able article on the Republican
party, expresses our views. 1t says
"WhOever looks calmly back upon
the work performed by the Republic
can party, still takes gloomy view
of its future, must be of very de-
sparing temperament indeed. A
party which made freedom universal
when it was partial exceptional, and
party which in the ten first years
of its life did more to make the
United States Independent of the out
lying producing world than had been
done in all the eight yrars of the Re-
public going before, must have very
strong hold of life" We believe that
such a party can never die.
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The Rev. d. John Hall defends
the business of politics in the Leger.
He says: "Let us dismiss from our
minds the idea that there is anything
otherwise than honorable in the
choice of a political career. A law.
yer. a doctor, banker, clergyman
proposes to be a public servant, and
to live by the legitimate rewards OF
his service. Why should not man
choose political career, with the
some honorable objects ?" DIR. Hall
also believes in office-seeking. so
long as it is done by worthy men.
Nor is it," he says, "to be a re-
proach to man who has chosen a
political career that he seeks to be in
office. Why should men have to
affect reluctance, and to chatter com.
mon-places about yielding to a sense
of duty in taking Office? A good
man embarked on a political career
is as likely and as free to seek Office
rs lawyer to seek business, or
minister to seek congregation"
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okkepashen,P immejetly some Rad
ikle remarks tibet the troops is all
withdrawal, and Their amt blooF
kote in the South.
Then my sole sinks:
Wat good wood a reformer be in a,
world which hez no sin in it? Wat.
good is theirin being agitator, when
Their amt notF1ia' to heller again ? Eff
the yooserper he'd left hundred
soljers in the South--ef he had left
ten-ef he had left one or the ghost
NV one-ef he he'd pat up a bloo.kote
in a korn-feeld, it wood hev bin enuff'
but to send the entire eight hundred
off to fife Injins, wu1'crooelty to me
and SIGH ez me, for which Ishel never
forgive him.
The idee NV Dimeeyatic Conven-
shuns being obleeged to endorse the
acts Nv Republican President The
idee OF hevin nothin' to howl ab0ut!'
/ hev he'd nothin but trouble and
Disappointment sence this policy wuz
adopted. When l wuz in Moo York,
last week | tried to raise fund to-
organize the Dimocrisy for the next
campane in the South. Not a dollar
Good l git, for the merchants all re-
markt that they wuz too bizzy ship
pin goods to the South to attend to-
nashnel poIlytiX. They refoozed to-
contribbit cent, for they sed things
wuz doin quite well, thank you, and
they thought they Good git along
without my help.
In Centucky, ourside of the Corners,
the people hev quit pollitix, purity
much, and hev settled down to work.
in the plantashens, and the planters
are conciliatin the niggers and payin
Nv EN- wages. The niggers amt
votin together, and the whites amt
nuther. The mizbale lowsperited
beins are goin on quietly attendin to
their biznis, and their Amt no call
for men like me. They remark to
me that ez they aims got aBy rites
that are in jeperdy, they amt sugrin
for defender to any alarmin extent,
and they step up and take their
drinks, by themselves, and don't ask
me, and so | suffer from drouth.
When the pot biles, the sediment
comes to the top. The vooserper hez
poured lie onto the pot, and it don't
bile. The sediment stays quistly in
, soak at the bottom, and l am sedi-
ment, and wo is me.
am at the bottom, while fat is, at
the top.
Death can't come to my relief any
800 quick.
PETROLEUM V. Nasty.
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The forms of an election were gone
through with in this city yesterday,
although stranger would not have
suspected that there was polling
place open in the city. The Repub-
licans, disheartened by the frauds
perpetrated at previous elections, re-
Trained from voting, and a large
number of respectable Democrats re-
manned at home for the same reason.
The vote for the Democratic candi-
dates returned from East Baltimore
and South Baltimore is probably
twice as large as was actually cast.
During the greater portion of the
day nobody was at the polling win
dows, and the judges had abundant
leisure to "fix things" according to
their own fancy.-Balto. american,
IN.
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FROM the Toledo Blade.
Mr.. Nasty Details the Condition Of the
Southern Democracy.
Confederit X Roads,

COnfederit X Roads,
witch is in the State of Kentucky :
Oct. q, 1877.
Despite the Dimecratic triumph in
Ohio, and the prospective success in
Pennsylvania, my hart is sad.
The DemocriSy NV the South is
crushed, and there amt no life into
em. For the fust time sence the be-
ginnin NV the unconstitushnel war,
the corners amt got grievance with
witch it can inflame the public mind,
or fire the public hart.
The infamous eight to seven Presi-
dent, Hayes, hez taken away all our
capitle, and did it in sich cro0el
manner tibet | hewitt words to ex-
press my detestashen NV the man, or
my hatred NV his ak.
Fer fifteen years or therabout-I
can't git fax down to IA fine pint in
my present demoralized condishn -
we he'd soft thing on the Radikels.
L he'd it in my power at emmy tine to
intiame the corners to IA pitch of
frenzy, witch enabled me to do any,
thing under heaven with EN-. All
he'd to do was to leen on the bar at
BascOm's, and sigh, and demand NV
the people "Wat wuz the yoose NV
startin wooden factory, or develOpin
plantashen, or bildin cotton mill.
or anything NV the sort, so long ez
the South wuz overrun with bloc
coted minyuns, and all our energies
paralyed ?"
Then Issaker Gavett, after tryin in
vane to borrer a quarter NV Deekin
Pogrm wood jine in. ''Wat is the
yoose," he wood say, "uv capitalists
investin Their means in developin the
country, when they were groanin
under military despotism ? For one,
I'll never put my means into nothin
till we are relieved"
Then the entire crowd NV EN- ez
wuz leenin on the counter, waitin for
some stranger to come in and treet
EN-, wood swear tibet so long ez they
wuz a groanin under the oppression
NV military rool, that they'd be id
eff they advance anything fer any en-
terprises NV any kind. 1t wuz no
time to put out money, when capitle
wuz liable to be rolled by the iron
heel Nv military power.
And after this ebullishn, they'd
look YEARLY around to see witch Good
hold out the longest, and finely jine
agin Bascom, and so worry him that
he'd give 'em eech credit for bowel
warmer, rather than be annoyed
with EN-, after witch they'd go home
and brood over the oppression they
wuz sufferin under, while ther wives
wuz splittin wood with witch to fry
the bacon they he'd borrerred.
Now this is all over. We never
did hev eny militery at the Corners,
but Their wuz about 800 scatterd thro
the South. Them is all Withdrawal,
and our capitle is gone. We can't
enthuse any more. Thet withdrawal
NV the military seeled up the fountin
NV teers tibet we he'd bin in the habit
Nv sheddin over the oppreshn we he'd
bin sufferin under, and choked off our
lamentashe IF l say "militery
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SATURDAY, NOV. 10, 1877.
The Result in the County.

The Republicans of Garrett did
nobly on Tuesday. AS will be- seen
by the official vote, we have elected
our whole ticket with one exception,
commissioner, and have majority
of % for our State ticket. The ex-
ception is in favor of very popular
man, Mr.. Guard, who ran far ahead
of his ticket. Considerable "scratch-
ing" was done in Oakland and
Grantsviile districts, while the other
districts generally voted straight"
We would like to impress upon the
minds of Republicans the importance
of voting Tor the whole ticket, from
the fact that, as the Republicans have
clear majority, they have nothing
to gain and all to lose by any other
course. We could just as well have
elected the entire ticket. In the
future let us nominate the best men
in the party, and then elect every
one Of them, as we can easily do.
RESULT IN ALLEGANY.
The Republicans in Allegany elect
She State Senator, Combs one mem
Der of the House of Delegates, Brace
one Commissioner, Greene and the
Surveyor, Shaidt. DIR. Porter. Re.
publican candidate for Comptroller
has majority of SAT.
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The Result of the State Elections

The result of the election in Mary
land was clean sweep for the demo-
cratic ticket of about $4,000 majority.
The aggregate vote was comparative
ly light there being generally but
little active interests felt in the cleo
ton, the result being foregone con-
clusion. In Virginia there was no
opposition to the democratic State
ticket, and this in connection with
the requirement exacting the poll
tax from every voter caused a light
vote. Important issues, however,
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ton in Virginia, and the result indi-
Gates the choice of a majority of dele
gates opposing readjustment of the
State debt and in favor of maintain
ing the Moffett liquor tax register.
In Pennsylvania the democratic
gains as reported indicate that that
party has carried the State by about
$4,000 majority. The republicans
carried Massachusetts, by an increas-
ed majority. AS the republican plat
form in that State contained full in
dorsemept of the policy of President
Hayes, this result is significant, and
is decided Offset OF the action of the
New York indictments under the
lead of Senator C0akling. In Con-
necticUt the republicans continue in
power, thus securing a successor to
United States Senator Rarnum, dem
ocrat, in 1879. The returns from
Wisconsin indicate the continuance
of the republicans in power I'm that
State, as also in Minnesota, Kansas
and Nebraska. Peculiar, interest,
however, has been felt in the mixed
contest in New York, where no less
than seven State tickets were in the
field including the republican, demo-
cratic, German-American, indepen-
dent, prohibition. greenback, work
ingmens' and breadwiDners. The
contest for Secretary of State was
very energetic on the part of the two
latter. and the defeat of the demo-
cratic candidate was thought not i'm
probable. The election of Hess, re-
publican. IN New York city, for
register, oyer Loew, Tammany DEM
ocrat, is considered certain. But the
most interesting feature of the cleo
ton in New York city was the defeat
of the regular Tammany candidate
for the seventh senatorial district
Augustus Schell, by John Morrissey,
anti-Tammany. From Mississippi
to returns show that the State has
gone democratic with but slight
local exception or two.
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to Pennsylvania Republicans. it has
failed to accomplish its purpose ex-
cept to very limited extent, judg-
ing from indications here.
Under an exterior of careless in.
difference or confidence assumed for
the occasion, there is a counter cur
rent of Undesirable anxiety over
to-day's elections in political circles
and we seem justified in supposing
that it no where runs deeper than at
the White House.
UNDINE.