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New-York tribune., 1879-02-01
THE CUSTOM HOUSE CoLLECTORsHIP.

1t was generally supposed in the Street
ana in Custom House circles tna the Senate likely
voe on the confirmation or rejection Of Collector Mer
rt yesterday, and there anxiety to Learn the
result Of the vote.
when It became apparent sometime ago that Senator
Conklng would oppose the confirmation OF Mr. Merritt
on Inc ground that Mcsrs Arthur ami Cornell had been
removed without cause, 1t was suggested that good
Plan to settle the question would be Dy the withdra al
~ Mr. MrrrittS name bv the President and the nOmina
tion OF tie present Appraiser slas b. Butcher, to the
position Of Collector His personal and political friends
II Is sand have Dcen actively engaged IN the scheme
though hoT far il has the personal approval Of NJ
butcher how extensive and active movement it 49,
does no yet appear. II originally suggested az
comprOmisa movement and ta!E Of thus far only by
MT. DItcuer's immediate friends
New-York tribune., 1879-02-01
BRooKLYNs DEPARTMENT OF CHARITIES.

The Kings County Charities COMMISSIONERS
met yesterday In executive session at the ohice oi
Messrs shpman and Henry, in Fultonst, Brooklyn 70
examine into the charges made against Dr. hene'
member Of the asylum medical staf. by Johanna La"
renee q nurse, who was discharged on December ="
DIR Kene denied the truth OF Miss Lawrences alesa-
i,ons The Investigation was then adjourned.
Tne is.ioners met previously In the COurlionfe
presdrn shipman stated he could not vote for all
tbe names tie pay y-roll, as u cOnt'urI
Tho names of two clerks, owen HanaVan ana
Fraucls Mcclure, whose retention lie had protes'eu
against and who had rendered no service COmh,la
soner Henry sald that these two clerks had ftpeu t
dutv and he should vote for pay ing them, ana COh
soner storms explained that II had been customary ~
nav clerks until they were discharged Ihe pay IVI
was AT length approved, although Mr. sllpman NOted Va
fhe negative He aerward refused 10 sign the pay Io
were discharged January s. and will be pad Tor olJ
n naK
New-York tribune., 1879-02-01
RLISS AGAINST BIGLIN.
ARRESTS OF PARTIsANS OF BOTH FACTIONs-A LLI-
TER FROM MIR. BLISS.

TER FROM MIR. BLISS.
James r. CosgrOve, Chief Special Deputy
United states Nlrsna gave bail IN $1,000 before Com
missioner Lyman yesterday to answer on February /
the charge Of having certified to the work on election
lay Of deputy marshals Of the XVTIh Assembly DIS
trtct which they had not performed. His bondsmen
were J. c. BIglin and Robert Ellis. EN-Aldermah
Bernard Belin accompanied the seven other deputy
morshas under arrest the charges made by George
Bliss when they came before Commissioner Lyman
They were discharged on their own recOgnZahce LOT
examination on February IA. Bernard BlGln consulted
with them in the corridors OF the Post once building Tor
some time afterwar The results Of their deliberations
oDDearcd in the afternoon when Robert Utey, Clef
Deputy Marshal in the Xlh George Bss's) Assembly
District, was charged before Commissioner osborn
with the commission OF the same offence
which Mr.. Bliss had charged upon the political
freEds Of BIglin The complaint against Ctley was
made nv James H. Casson OF No 1853 West Thlrty-hrst-
ST. but he arrest was not made Yesterday.
New-York tribune., 1879-02-01
RUuORS OF JAY GOULD'S FAILURE.

1t was rumOrCd late yesterday afternoon, and
long after the close of business on the Stock Exchange
that Jay Gould hai failed. The report was not credited
among stock brokers and bankers who are familiar with
Mr. Gould operations II was claimed that the dcpres-
sion OF fayorlte stocks on Thursday was due to Mr
Goulds peculiar tactics and that he was not financially
embarrassed. There report OF Mr. GOulds fall-
urr during business hours Stock Exchange circles,
aud could not be traced to any trustworthy
New-York tribune., 1879-02-01
DIR. TIMOTHY KENRICK.

FRANKLIN, n. H., Jan. 30.-A telegram has
been received here Bsnop McQuade, OF New-York
now IN Italy, announcing the death of Dr. Timothy Ken
rick in that city to-day Of typhus fever. Dr. kenrck
was formerly assstant-surgeOn at BaTsow Asy lum for
the Insane at Flushing, v. Y, but for the past TWO
wears me was connected with the Asylum for the Insane
at Utica y. V, and at the time OF his death was tIaN
Cling with patient OF the latter institution.
New-York tribune., 1879-02-01

Not noticing some travellers, COLORADO
farmer went on oading ana dischargug double-Dni-
rciipd gnp always ning at some creVlce or opening IN
t6' ocks Sbich lay In great pTofutiOn around fImy
convinced that he unatie tne travellers LII Ill
to treat him as sucn, and that was, as II careIuy
axnIained " mighty darncd civil" GoOd-day, erhh
Sef they said The looked up. but said not9iDp
spintv - Shooting around here, l spose T. sun no
onswer' {" WHY what dye fnd 10 XIII therel was
ssSed as the an OF another shot hiI De dafhed
"a the man Im plantin wheat Don't YOU see that
ali he sile In this section Is between !ne eFAeA
- o. ,be rorks aud have 10 shoot IN the seeds W
New-York tribune., 1879-02-01
JESSE PAULMIER.

Jesse Paulmier, Of Jersey City, died at the
rc.dence Of his sister Mrs Charles Wall, No AZ PARK
ave- TINS city, yesterday, at a. m OF pneumonia. MI
paumier was born in Jersey City III lsjO. Ho was
educated ia the public schoOs OF the city
,-hor tv1ntv-six wears OF age he elected
Secretary Of the jersey city Fire Insurance Company
and in sGs became president. lie was wealthy ana
mad erected many Of the hnest DuIdlhgs III Jeise,
Wedup.dy ~ afternoon he came 10 New-lO 10 hllena
tbe funeral of Mr. Charles Wall ms broher-in- law anu
contracted a severe cold which developed into pHeu
mOuld.
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ECONOMY IN THE CUSTOM HOUSE.


Department for January, as compared Win tHe oolIo
spending perIod IN ISIS Is as follows;
Cost Of labor expenses and salaries, ISIS. S2l't2 ~
Cost OF labor expenses and salaries, ls79.. l3o-O i
Sorin,oror 1s-a ...... $G, 1886 OI
For the eleven months the Government mas peeh
making actual instead Of schedule tare' the!e Is ic
ported u gam OF $113.60G II.
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Az oUTcAsr FROM REspEcrABILIrY.

CISCINNATI, Jan. 31.--A dispatch says as
the tramps were discharged from the police station at
Trln ohio, yesterday. one, ragged, pale and enact
ated was met by gentleman, former resident OF Bal
uore and recognized as son OF Of the wealthiest
men of that city The gentleman took hun 10 his home
and seat for a phy stefan, who pronounced the young
man seriously H. He refused 10 dlvuge his reason for
enduring the hardships OF tramp life and seemed anx
ious 20 get away from friends
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New-York tribune., 1879-02-01

On Monday afternoon Sexton meets GALLAGHER ana IN
the evening the game will be between DAILY ana Gar
New-York tribune., 1879-02-01
DEPARTURES FOR EUROPE TO-DAY.


The steamship Britannia, of the White Star
Line; the Egypt Of the National Line the wescr Of
the North G, rman Lloy and the Ethiopia will sail 'or
Europe to-day. Following the complete cabin ists:
FOR LIVERPOOT-BV steamship Bu'qnHtc-Goorco p.
armstrong Lyman Brown Arthur =. Bcnn W. e. Barnes
T. q. EanCD. Mr.. Ellen Butjerworh. Miss IcGiSo Bu;
worth. Henry HGistnw, Madame Blanck, Mrs. W.. y.
DuTant the Hon Thomas ". HcNIrll Mrs. Clara
6c'dcn. J." MoTs lie Blanck. ". J. CoOsc, T. l.. *.
onant, Miss Clara l. COnant, Master Edward Conant
charlie, LAY. " b. Cioetc Mis-; : = Ch%mbGrain Miss
layacye Rafael Iayid Miss Josephine H. Egan Joseph
Finley, Peter Flores. ~ Guggtnheim W Griswoll, nlI
Goodwin, l. W Gdg Ms. Ga-gy, g. Graham, T. Ora, tm,
II. T. Gorng L. HARDER Achcson Harden, j.; Hall, Mrs
HodsSon W! Hnrii M O. T. Iowiahd MS : c.
Human. Philip Je--lsD Miss Emma Kelly, J. Lopez J. :.
Ln'la y nna a. % Iss MI cc% % h@TraE Francs MSSor
Moses Merrill, J. II. Mckenzie Plince Charles Jo.
san9 NS6c N3Shy ESe ESS TfE Tg%sE 9d dHt infant nGn mas
Oliver Ferdinand Prccncr Henry Preux, W IL RO.c, Ms
Rose. C. T. Richards g. II. Richards, T. c. Richards f. eall
mOu, Isaac smith G. j. ScabuIy John simpson f. Saz 4 T.
son Mrs Stevenson. r. stewart. r. schmidt : Schuey,
H. : Scintl, w W. Utt2 Mrs. Utt5 Commissafy l. VIII
Isdor We'll Philip westfeld W b. Whiting, Frederick We
busch G. T. Icatan ". r. Barber, Miss Martht whitehead
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FOR BIiEMEN-By Steqmshfp Uessr-Nathan Stern
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lead with sosson and Sexton second place, while
GARNER loses one place.
The position the contestants at this stage OF the
tournament, with nlne games 10 be played, Is as lO
New-York tribune., 1879-02-01

TIE TRIBUNE has received 81 from L. IL.
Hamilton, Niagara Falls. for the Rev. CalY Faroank'
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-08-29

with the acts of the Yazoo Democratic
mob. They propose to carry the Presi-
dental election by bulldozing and
fraud at the South and by wholesale
bribery and ballot-box stuffing at the
North. They have opened their pre-
liminary campaign in Ohio on this
plan. 1t is confidently stated that Til
den has engaged to purchase the cleo
tlon of General Ewing. 1t would seem
that 70 great political party, for the
second tilne in the history of the coun-
try, deliberately proposes to buy and
force its way to supreme power-to buy
and ballot-box-stuff its way at the
North, and force and Shoot its way at
the Southl We call the attention of the
people of the country to this startling
fact. What will free government be
worth when its control shall have been
secured by such meansP We ask the
question in all seriousness.
How long is the Fourteenth Amend
ment to the Constitution likely to stand
as bar against the payment of Rebel
pensions, Rebel claims and the Rebel
debt after the Demo-Confed alliance
shall have obtained power to reorganiZe
the Supreme Courtp Is it likely to be
less scrupulous about accomplishing its
purposes through the Supreme Court
than it is through the agency of mobs
at the Chicago Tribune
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-08-29


A few Democratic newspapers and
speakers, after much rumination, have
ventured to comment on the latest de-
velopmeat of the Mississippi plan"
But it is evident from the tone of their
observations that these tardy and re-
luctant critics do not comprehend the
enormity of the offense which they af-
feet to condemn. They are not so much
moved by the moral aspect of Missis-
sippi bulldozing, as by its unfortunate
political influence. Originally, "the
Mississippi plan" contemplated the sup
preston of the colored vote by violent
and, if necessary, even bloody means
When it was found that there were
white men voting with and leading the
free blacks, it became obligatory to in
clude these in the general prescription.
1t was thought a very unnatural thing
that white men should consort with ne
groes to the extent of voting the same
ticket which they did, and of instruct
ing them in the new duties of citizen
ship. 1t was only right that the ne
groes should be prevented from voting
in their ignorance-anignorance which
was evinced by their voting the Repub-
lican ticket; but it was necessary for the
safety OF society that their volunteer
leaders should be terrorized and sup
pressed. These latter were dangerous
agents engaged in sowing the seeds of
death and disease. They were treated
as the Abolitionists of ante-war times
were treated, and for the same reason.
Their presence threatened the safety of
the State.
While this process of elimination was
going on in the South; the Democratic
leaders of public opinion in the North
met the charge of bulldozing in vari-
Gus different ways. At first they de-
MED that there was any such violence
employed to coerce the black or white
Republicans as had been alleged. The
whole subject was treated with
ridicule. The slightest reference to
the outrages of Southern bulldozers
was met with sarcasms relating to 'the
bloody Shirt as an emblem of the al
legged imaginary terrors of the Demo-
cratic plan of campaign. When con-
fronted with facts which even the local
Democratic authorities could not keep
out of sight, North and South agreed
that there were brutal and dangerous
negroes, who had only suffered a just
punishment for their crimes. To be
sure, they had been irregularly executed,
but the popular feeling could not be re-
strained. 1t was we'll known that the
men who had been killed or driven out
of the country were the leaders of a SER
vile insurrection; they were organizing
a conspiracy which had for its object
the plunder and eXtirpation of the
whites, who had taken time by the fore
lock and had anticipated their would-be
destroyers. This pretext has been SO
commonly employed in the South,
where the Mississippi plan" is pop
ular, that disinterested people at dis
tance naturally look for negro mas
sacre Immediately after hearing of an
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-08-29
A National Question.

We have been reminded that the
priAciple of State rights has been in
voked for the protection of liberty more
than once, and that our statement of the
contrary was too sweeping, as it GER
tainly was. The fact, however, remains
that the distinctive State-rights party
was the party of slavery and disunion,
and that the cry is now raised again by
those who count upon fraud and vio-
lence TO carry elections, and upon so
great scale that it is a matter of Ma
tional Importance. The Springfield Re-
publican thinks that to call attention to
an immense electoral wrong, which in
wolves possible civil commissions, is to
show an anxious desire to help the stall
wart plan of sectional campaign. If
the statement of such wrong be un-
true, the Republican very properly dep
recates its repetition. But if it be true,
it ought to be emphasized, whether it
helps the stalwart plan or any other.
A sectional campaign resulting from
suppression of the cOlored vote would
be one for which "the North would
be in no sense responsible. Such a cam
paign arising from such cause would
be deplorable But it would be much
more deplorable if sensible men, seeing
such a situation, should play that it did
not exist, because to recognize it, and
to deal with it by an appeal to the coun-
try, might be called stalwart pro-
gramme. That such is the situation is
incontestable, and it is not to be dis
missed with the remark that there are
always irregularities at the polls. We
| Is,a a Il
to us by a Southern Union man, in
which he says that he gives money to
stuff the ballot boxes, and that he does
it in self-defense. Sir George Camp
bell, in his White G'sd Black in The
United States, says that he was in the
South during the elections of 1873. He
describes the cheating in detail as prac-
ticed in South Carolina. There
was no concealment. and no pre-
tense that anything but fraud
was intended; and he states that
there was matter enough within his
own knowledge to have vitiated such
elections in England hundred times
over. The result was, he adds, that
''South Carolina returns solid Demo-
cratic representation to the next Con-
gress." The question raised by such
elections Sir George frankly admits to
be whether the amendment of the
United States Constitution securing
equal electoral rights to the blacks is
really to be enforced, or whether it may
be set aside in practice by the action OF
individual States" is, in fact, the set
Element at the end of the war to be
maintained or surrenderedP'
Sir George is not a stalwart shaker Of
bloody shirts, but an exceedingly sensi'
BILE and shrewd observer, who sees the
situation without party spirit or sec
tional prejudice, and his testimony is OF
the highest value. 1t is precisely the
situation that he describes which keeps
alive the sectional aspect of politics
and which renews the discussion OF
State rights. The Louisville Courier
Journal, with the amusing truculenct
of the old fire-eating epoch, remarks in
effect that the condition-of-the-negrC
question is not National question
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-08-29
The Man with the shabby Umbrella.

STRANGE how ashamed a man will
be of shabby umbrella-one of those
slouchy, corpulent affairs, with the
bleached-out covering divorced from Il
third of the rib-tips, and a shoe-string
elasped around its waist in lieu of the
vanished elastic! How he will
hide it as far as possible under his arm,
run it up his coat sleeve, tuck it away
beneath the folds of his coat, keep it
between himself and the wall. and when
he gets in the car how careful he is to
dispose it in the darkest possible COR
ner! And if perchance anybody spies
it out, how quick is he to head off criti-
cism by explaining that it is the one he
keeps in the otfice-so convenient to
have one there, you know; one that you
know nobody will steal-ha! ha! Or
maybe he will go step farther-the
lying rascal--and say he borrowed it,
and if he didn't return it old Grimshaw
would never forgive him-hal ha! But
when the clouds lower and the rain
drops begin to patter, who so at ease,
so envied, so proud and happy, as the
man with the shabby umbrella, as he
stalks along between rows of unpro-
teeted men and women, with his de-
spised umbrella dripping its liquid har-
vest indiscriminately on the just and
unju%p Verify, there is nothing in this
life wholly good or wholly bad. -Bos-
ton 1rdRScTtpt.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-08-29

But even that journal will not deny that
party majority in Congress or party
President secured by an elaborate, open
and general system of fraud is a matter
III which even voting mud-sills may
rightfully Interest themselves. The
puerility of the effort ~ SET off against
the suppression of the colof5d vote the
influence of large proprietors in North
ern and Western States over their la
borers is merely contemplate. In
stances of sporadic cheating and unfair
influence at the polls are always possi-
BILE. But does any well-informed man
allege that in any other than certain
Southern States there is deliberate coer-
cion of the vote of an immense voting
classP In the election of 1874 that emf
nent Louisiana politician John Slidell,
by his Plaquemine frauds, secured
q Democratic ajority of 970 in a
parish in which the whole Demo-
cratic vote Of the previous year was
800; and this fraud gave the electoral
vote of the State TO the Democrats,
whose whole majority was only $40.
Would anybody pretend 10 put against
such systematic and wholesale electoral
swindling at one point, the cases of
farmers and proprietors in other States
who may have threatened to dismiss
their hands if they did not vote as they
were toldP
1t is both to facilitate and to conceal
this enormous wrong that the cry of
State rights and of soldiers at the polls
has been raised. What invasion of
State rights Is allegedP The super
vision of national elections in the States
by National agents. If that be q dan
ger to just local right, it is in pursu-
ance of a law whose constitutionality
has not been questioned by the courts.
The cry of military interference is raised
to confuse the real question, which is
usurpation by forcible and fraudulent
suppression of the colored vote 1t is
dismal prolongation of the politics Of
the war, which Is to be regretted on
every account, but which cannot be
avoided by shutting our eyes. This in
stant that any Southern white party in
sists that the legal colored vote shall be
protected, or that it shall be reduced by
any equable qualification, the National
question arising from it will vanish
But so long as the Southern whites
foreibly and fraudulently suppress the
colored vote, lest by an honorable and
legal reduction they should lose in the
basis of representation, it will be neces-
sarily a National question. HGrper'S
WeebEH.