New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-18

winch the 4 urkS are making COuiinoh '"uo'
with the latter. The Albanians may at the
last moment deem further resistance hopeless,
but in the present aspect OF affairs the Britlsi
Admiral, who is practically in command OF
the allied fleets. will need to ast with great
caution if he would avert what threatens to be
desperate conflict.
An extract from a Richmond paper, pub
hshcd in another column, shows that
highly interesting debate is IN progress among
the Virginia Democracy. Attorney General
Field, of that State, recently expressed the
wish in public speech that eve (the South)
had killed twice as many Yankees as we
"did." (This is reported by a Democrat in
| Democratic ncwspaper) Other Democrats
have objected to this on the ground that 1t Is
| just as well more were not killed, because the
votes of some of those who survived are
needed to elect Hancock. Both horns of this
argument will be highly edifying to the
| people Of the North.
| Mr.. Collyers life has been almost ro-
| nance, in the development OF the eloquent
| preacher from the Yorkshire blacksmith. Inc
story of its progress would be interesting told
by anyone and in any way, but when given
| by Mr.. Collyer himself, with all frankness.
and vet with entire m1destt, and IN his quaint
! familiar manner il becomes one Of those things
| which even the hurried newspaper reader
could not leave unread if he would Mr.. Coll
yer consented to spread before the students or
Eastman's College the history of his life, not, as
he says, I" to blow his own trumpet" but that
they might learn some lessons from it. Ii was
favor too valuable to be confined to few,
and TIE TRIBUNE therefore gives the talk IN
full to It's readers on another page.
| General Smith returned to the charge in
the matter Of the lotteries yesterday He
produced before the Board a list OF nearly
thirty lottery and policy shops which are
open, and from some OF which he had
obtained tickets The Board accordingly
passed resolution directing the closing OF
all lottery Offices, upon which superintendent
| Wallng made the despairing comment that
he could do no more than he was doing now
| if forty resolutions were passed. IL Is GER
tainly true that the police can accomplish
little If the lottery dealers they arrest are
discharged 10y the Judges or their trials are
indefinitely postponed. In either case they
return TO their trade, and a second arrest is
not likely TO be made where the first Is in
effectual.
| Acknowledgement Devens, the law officer of
the Government. dwet, in his speech before
the Massachusetts Republican Convention
the other day, upon the dangers that lie
in the Rebel claims pending before
Congress The platform adopted by that
| Convention expressed grave fears upon that
question. Senator Edmunds lately gave a
| reminder that the Fourteenth Amendment
will not be a barrier to thousands OF such
claims, which will have as good standing as
those of loyal claimants, just so soon as bills
now pending in Congress, to repeal the
provision requiring proof of loyalty on the
part OF the claimant, shall pass. The coun-
try sees now, if it never saw before, that
this is a practical question, and not
political bugaboo. THE TRIBUNE is able,
lust at this time, to supply full and
exact information upon this whole subject,
of which so few citizens have any but vague
and inaccurate notions. TRIBUNE EXTRA No.
GO, issued this morning. presents eight pages
of facts concerning the claims of the Solid
! South. which every voter should know. 1t
includes both the previous estimates made by
The TRIBUNE mp to year ago, and the third
prises all the claims pending in Congress at the
present date The appalling sum total is
81. 39O.97O,313, and this, incredible as it
may appear, Is below the truth and
not above it. There are many bills
pending whose exact financial results
if is impossible to predict. The voter who
doubts these figures need only read TO be con-
vinced. Price, 8 cents-two dollars hundred.
Mr.. Conkling had great audience last
! pieht-an audience which testified as elo-
ouently as the orator to New YOrk's
sense of the importance of the canvass
and New-York's hearty support Of the
Republican ticket. He held most of them till
| nearly midnight with elaborate and for
the most part unimpassiOned restatement
of the issues of the campaign-the atti-
| tude of the South, the work and
the Just claims of the Republican party. We
surrender page and half Of
space to the mere report of what he
said. The audience cheered Justify
| for Garfield at every chance, and
once or twice impatient persons called
| for something about, the candidates
Toward the close Mr.. COnkling spoke of
| Garfed's fitness for the Office, when the
audience at once became even more en-
thusiastic than the speaker. The most
stalwart utterances had the heartiest
reception throughout the evening, and Mr..
Conkling's sallies of sarcasm were con-
stantly greeted with watchful and adj
| miring applause. The chief effect, how
ever, of the speech will be upon the
vastly wider audience to which it is given
| this morning, and to whose attention We cor
| daily commend it.
One Democratic quarrel is too bitter to be
healed. even in the interest of Hancock. The
| negotiations of the rival factions in Virginia