Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-09-24

people there" The claim that the !
resumption Of specie payments was
the work of the Republican party |
received considerable attention, and
Bayard said: "Not until Bristow
was placed at the head of the Treas
ury,was there any suggestion OF, or
attempt made, to resume specie
payments"
stun Abous Indiann-s Good Re.
pmbiicsn VIM I.skts Chinese
Labor.
CHICAGO, Sept. 23j.-The Times
says that both the old parties in
Indiana are seriously troubled over
the Greenback vote. 1t is sup
posed that 1t will not be less than
10000, but whether Porter or Lam
ders will suffer most by IL can only
be tolG when the columns are foot
ed up on the night of the 18th OF
October. The Democrats have just
discovered that there are thirty
thousand voting Campbellites in
the State and they are afraid Gar
fields connection with that sect
will prove beneficial to him in a
political sense. The rumor is in
circulation that the Democratic
managers have another scandal af-
fscting Judge Porter, which they
will make public in few days. If
1t is no more damaging than the
one unearthed by them a few
weeks ago, it will not hurt the
Daily NeVs.
The experiment OF running the
Sampson Manufacturing Compa.
ny's shoe shop at North Adams,
Mass, with Chinese labor, has
proved a failure, and the last Ce-
lestial has departed for q more con-
genial field of labor. A short time
since MIR. Sampson was In this city
and then expressed himself much
better satisfied with Chinese than
with Caucasian labor, as he said
ut was steadier and more depend
ence could Oe placed upon it,"
IndsAnn to Have nn October Eteo.
INDIANA POLLS, Sept. 23d.-The
Supreme Court to-day overruled
the petition for a rehearing In the
case involving the validity of the
Constitutional amendments, the
vote standidg tho the same as it
did in the original case. Judges
Niblack and Scott were in favor of
a rehearing and judges Biddle,
Warren and Hawk against.
The Cheyennes On shc syai Path.
DENIsoN, Texas, Sept. 23d.-The
Cheyenne Indians are manifesting
great discomfort and are becoming
dlsorderly. A few days ago about
300, with war paint on, and we'll
mounted, visited the Agency near
Fort Reno, aud were very demon.
strative and threatening. They
slapped the agent in the face. An
other party is reported to have
gone through the commissary
stores at the WICHITA Agency re-
Gently. The cause of the trouble is
said to he an insufIiciency of food.
Return of she schwnsska Expedi-
si0U.
NEwBURYPoRT, Mass., Sept. 23d.
The members of the expedition
headed by Lieutenant Fred
6chwattka, which sailed from New
York June 1st, 1878, for Baffin's
Bay and King Williams Land, for
the purpose of seeking further data
as to the fate of Sir John Frank.
lin, have arrived. Though the
special object of the search, the re-
covery of the records of the Frank.
lin expedition, which, according to
Esquimaux testimony, were known
to exist at specified points, has not
been attained, the explorers have
nevertheless obtained many relics
of the Franklin party, including
the remains of Lieutenant Irving.
They have, moreover, carried out
to the letter the instructions of the
promoter of the expedition, viz,
to make it geographically sue.
cessful. The longest sledge
ride on record, both in regard to
time and space. has been accom-
plished in the face of phenomenally
cold weather and a deprivation of
customary food. Important rivers
and coasts have bee n discovered
and serious errors on the former
charter have been corrected. The
adventures of the Schwattka expe-
dition add pages Of interest to the
romance of a relic exploration and
furnish all the world is ever likely
to know of the fate of Sir John
franklin. The conduct of Capt.
Barry, of the Eathen, in reference
to supplies of food intended to be
deposited for the expedition, is un-
accountable and needs explanation,
as the. absence Of these supplies
came near proving fatal to Lieu
tenant Schwattka's party. The
Schwattka expedition has shown
that it is feasible for white men to
adapt themselves to the climate