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12 SUNDAY MOHNIXG. JULY 27. 1884. TO STJIflOS WAHDEHERS. IYrtont tearing the city during the summer tn a hate the Cocrier-JoCkxal foneardsd to their arl'irrim for any ttme, and to any locality dnirtd, at Vie rate of per monOt, jjvtttrfe prrpai-l by it.

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The Directors of the Exposition have laundered they have done with precipitation what should have been done deliberately and thoughtfully. They have aroused against their enterprise a feeling of hostility which is manifest not only hers in Louisville but in the State at large. Under the circumstances it seemed best to be" Cocbieu-Journal to give expression to the popular protests against the action the directors in time to the Ex- jiotition of the worst consequences of the blunder, trusting the directors would per- cciye their mistake and take steps to rectify If we are to judge from the tenor of the interviews with the Directors published yesterday afternoon, number of them, instead of taking steps to protect the Exposition from the results of their mistake, ail to see that they have made any mistake whatever; it is not they, but the indignant thousands, who are wrong. One of the Directors, Capt. Jous H.

Lkath- Lus, in the course of an interview says: "It was nerer iniended that either Bimxc or Cleveland should open the Exposition, and they are not initeil to do so. They are simply to be present as guests. There certainly can be no harm in that. I think the whole trouble cornea from a misunderstanding on the part of the peo pie, and I am surprised to find Mr. Wattkrmn laboring under the same mistake.

I think bis card is wholly uncalled for. It has been up-hill work to brins the Exposition to a point of sue- eras, and I think President Yocno and the managers deserve a great deal of credit for their many wise movement, instead of so much erasure for this on mistake." There is an attempt here to play on words, an unwillingness frankly and fairLj to confess what has been done. The assertion that equal honor has been done to both candidates is not sustained by the record. Mr. Blaine has been invited to 'participate, in the opening ceremonies.

Last year the President of the United States was here on a similar occasion, and this year it was proposed that Inaugural ceremonies should exceed in in interest and magnificence those of last, and until yesterday the managers expected Mr. Blaine to participate. To say he is not to open the Exposition, relieves nobody. Mr. Blaise had tacitly agreed to bo present, or his political managers had.

and it certainly was the expectation of the President of the Exposition that on that occasion Mr. Blaixe would make an address. To invite Gov. Knott to assist in the same ceremonies docs not relieve the case of any of its objectionable aspects; it only aggravates the Any tyro in politics have told the Directors of the Exposition that the relations between Mr. BLAtxE and Knott made it altogether improbable that the Governor would consent to play the part they had assigned him, and the mere suggestion shows a lack of tact that promises innumer- able complications before we arc done with the distinguished strangers.

It is vikl Mr. Blaine himself hinted to the Directors that his presence here at that Jhue might bo considered of some political siainY-ance; yet they persisted in their course. Any one at all familiar with political mat- tcrs niusf sec that great political significance would be attached to his visit that no later honors to the Democratic candidate, could remove. It would be hailed as the inauguration of Mr. Blaine's aggressive Snnhcrn campaign," and as, such it is resented.

The President the United States should have our guest on that occasion; failing in that, the honor should, out of due State pride, have been accorded to the Goycruor of Kentucky, and to him idone. To share it with Mr. Blaine is something more than a personal affront; it exhibits a remnrkable lack of knowledge of what is incumbent upon in wlien we ask Kentucky, in the -person of her Governor, to.joiu with us in our great celebration. It is a question which is not open for for it is one of taste and tact Thoso who see no difference between asking Mr. Blaise to take part in the inaugural ceremonies and asking.

Mr. Cleveland to come and see some competitive drills could not be made to ace it by any course of reasoning. ThU article is written not for the benefit of that class of betiiijhtud citizens, but. that the people of this community and of the State tnny not be misled as to the exact situation. The- dispatch of Mr.

Wattersos was written under no materia! luisappre-hensiou. The condition of affairs is to nil intents and purposes exactly as he has jriveu it. It i Capt. Lkathers, and not Mr. Wattkuson, who is laboring under a mistake, and under this mistake the Board of Trade and a number of citizens were induced to indorse the invitation sent to Mr.

Blaixe. Few, if any, of these would have seconded the invitation if they lad fully understood it. and it is said at the next meeting of the Board of Trade a motion will be made to rescind its previous action, because it was taken under an entire misconception of the character of the invitation. The Cocrier-Jocrxal will join with. Capt.

Leathers, in giving due credit to President Yocso and the managers for their "many wise movement," but our interest in the enterprise is much too real and sincere to lead us to indorse their plunders, especially when they are of such a serious character as the one under dis- cussion. In season and out we have labored zealously to forward this enter- priso and anything that tardt its progn-ss or darkens its prospects we. consider tonethisg mora lija a but we bare never known an error persisted in which did not result disastrously. Hence our attempts to bring the managers to a realizing sense of their shortcomings: TWO H0VL8. This is the season of novels of summer novels and in the multitude which it brings there are none of wider contrast than two, which, of no special consequence themselves, are probably not much below the average of their kind, and serve- typically to indicate certain diverging tendencies of current fiction.

The stones referred to are F. Mariox Crawtokd's A Roman Singer and Edgar Fawcktts Tinkling Cymbal. They are books by comparatively young men, who I have shown some aptitude for story-writing, who manifest ay disposition to pursue It, and who consequently may in some degree represent fairly the methods and purposes of our modern fiction. Regarded simply in themselves, neither of these novels is worth more than a passing notice, although Mr. Crawford's is much the more deserving of the two.

Iu A Soman Singer the author has done a rather audacious thing. He has told an old-fashioned story of romance and love, which is fully half a century behind the present style in fiction, and which, were it not somewhat adroitly managed in the telling, purporting to have been written by finical old Professor, would fall flat and ridiculous. His hero is a poor Italian youth of peasant origin, who, after the conventional model of musical geniuses, is discovered in his boyhood by a maestro and taught for the lyric stage. The heroine is a beautiful young countess, daughter of a haughty and wealthy old soldier. It is a case of love at first sight with the3oung singer, and he carries into effect the old, romantic expedient of disguising himself and securing access to his inamorata as a tutor.

Of course he wins her love; of course he makes a great triumph as a tenor; of course the stern sire swears his daughter shall never wedja plebeian opera singer; of course there is the rich and noble suitor, whom the uubappy maiden despises and whom the "cruel panent" is determined she shall wed. He absolutely imprisons her in the old orthodox way locks her up in a gloomy castle in the mountains a castle with mysterious dungeons and passages cut out of the living rock whence the daring' tenor singer chivalrously delivers her. It is at once evident that such a romance, set in these latter days of the ineteentu century, would be absurd unless dexterously told. This Mr. Crawford has in the main done.

There is too much of it, and the interest is not evenly sustained. But it is a story which entertains it is an objective story of pure love, as the old- timurs interpreted love, full of warmth and color, free from the fine spun subtleties, the infinitesimal analyses, the painful -realism at which our modern school of novel writers aim. It is chiefly because Crawford has turned back to real story-telling, to which he has broueht some happy gifts; that he has so quickly won a name This ought not to be with-' out significance to the young writer who is seeking the popular taste. Tinkling Cymbal is the antipodes of such a story. It belongs to the photographic school of fiction.

Its author follows, at a long distance in the rear, Howells and James, lie is ono of the "uian milliners." In incident or situation ho rarely goes beyond that resulting from the wearing of an improper necktie on a full-dress occasion. His material is always the aris- tocracy and would-be aristocracy of New York the Van Dams and the Dam-Shamms, whose differences of pedigree and fortune furnish 'thrilling inspiration for his pen. lie delights to portray these people, particularly their foibles and failings. No mule on one's face is too ugly or too minute to escape his eyeno detail of dress eludes him; no disgusting trait Of mind or body is too trivial for his depiction. He.

delights in portraying the hollow ness. the shallowness, the vulgarity of fashionable life. His characters at their best are hard and heartless. He is a stranger to pure sentiment, pure pure humanity. His attempts at them are conventional and false.

He is clever only in picking out the flaws of character; of its beauties he liutis but few. or finding them, is unable to portray them. He belongs to a school which is now at the front, particularly in America, whose works are well enough in Aheir way, but which soon become distasteful, as the con-tinuous glare and the cramping confines pf city streets become monotonous to him who can appreciate green fields and run- ning waters. WHAT "WILL WAOE3 BE1 Last Sunday we called tho attention of the workingmen to the depression existing in all branches of manufacture. This depression leads to the cloving of the mills and a loss of employment; Relief from this condition of affairs can only come when our producers have secured a foreign market.

To enter foreign markets our manufacturers must make a reduction in the cost of their goods. This can bo done in three ways: Firsts By a reduction in the cost of machinery, which would then require less capita), and therefore less interest or divi dend. Second It can be made by reducing the price of raw material. -r Third It can be made by reducing wages. If the tariff remains unchanged it will not be poesiblo to get machinery at low prices, except 'when nobody is willing io buy it; nor wUl it be possible to buy raw materials at the prices which! prevail in England.

The tariff enhances the price of machinery and the price of raw material; so as loug as it stands the only way the American manufacturer can get even with his foreign competitors is to reduce wages, and that is just what be is doing now. There is uo tax on labor; it comes in without any restriction. An Importer must pay a tax on on wool, on dye-stuffs, not on labor; so in a stress he will import labor, though he would greatly prefer cheap machinery, cheap materials, to cheap labor. In order to protect themselves, the workingmen ought to insist on the revision and the gradual abolition of the tariff. But, workingmen, you have been taught that your high wages depend on the tariff that a reduction of the tariff simnlv trains a reduction of wages.

If this is so, you will naturally enough oppose a reduction of the tariff. If high wages arc due to tbe tariff, then THE COURIER-JOURNAL: LOUISVILLE, SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1884. SIXTEEN PAGES. turer.andhewouldbe found opposing it. If on the contrary high wages did exist under a revenue tariff, if they are due to other causes, to natural conditions, the tariff exists for the purpose of allowing manufacturers to get even, to increase the cost of the products and thus deprive laboring men of the advantages of high wages.

This is the view all but a Jew enlightened manufacturers take, and they insist on a tariff to counteract the influence of high wnges. It is plain therefore that instead of high wages being due to the tariil, the tariff is due to high wages. If without a tariff wages would sink to the European level the manufacturers would, as a mere matter of selfishness, insist on a total repeal of the tariff. The manufacturer knows this would not be the case. i The earnings of the largest body of laborers in any country determine whether wages iu that country shall be higher or lower than elsewhere.

In America it is determined by the profits of agriculture. As long as we have thousands of unoccupied acres, as long as our fields yield abundantly, as long as there is a demand for labor in building cities and buUding roads (in all of these branches labor is unprotected), as long, in short, as this is a new country, labor in America will be better paid than it is elsewhere. The last census showed 17.3 millions of laborers and workingmen in this country. Of this cumber 7.3 millions are classed as agriculturists, 4 millions were engaged in professional and personal services, unprotected; 1.8 millions were occupied in trade and transportation, un protected, and 3. 8 millions were occupied in mining and mechanical pursuits, partially protected.

From this table it is a large estimate to say one-tenth of the laboring men of this country are engaged in protected industries. In this connection we wish to call the attention to two points which, very nearly concern this: FirstThe difference in wages between Europe and America is greatest in the un protected industries, and least in the pro tected industries. Take farm labor, for instance. In Eng land it is wretchedly paid, and it is worst paid in I Germany and France, in Russia and India, and yet our high-priced Ameri can farmers undersell the farmers of Ens- land in their own markets, and more than hold their own with Russia and India, wnere Iarm labor is only paid ten cents a day. So it is plain that unprotected American labor will not sink to the level of the pauper labor of Europe.

The second fact is, that distress lo-day only prevails in protected enterprises and in the railroads. Industries which do not receive subsidies are not forced to suspend because times are hard. It is the iron iurnaces which nrst suspended with a protective tax ot $6.72 per ton; then the woolen mills, though the ad valorem tax on manufactured woolen is 9 per cent. next the cotton mills, though manufac tured cottons were last year taxed at the rate of 40 per cent. These facts are of the utmost significance.

jThey ought to free the working- men of the country from the idea that pro tection protects, that protection advances wages, that free American labor can not compete with the pauper labor of Europe except on the same leveL These facts show that free American labor, labor em ployed on the farms, needs no protection. that, untrammeled, it can drive not only the labor of Europe, but the labor of India, from all com petitive markets. They show, moreover. that protected American labor can not compete with foreign labor anywhere; that it is confined to America, and that when 4 a ever nam times come it is labor aua capital employed in protected branches which sulTer first and most. High wages in America must ne due to some otner cause than the tariff.

We think we can show you the and, if you will follow us. in these articles, we think we can show that high wages are due to conditions alto gether independent of the tariff. JNext Sunday we will see bow -wages were affected in England by a repeal of the tariff, and we will also see how wages in protected France and protected Ger many compare with wages in free trade Englaud. The iEcening Chronicle, of St. Louis, publishes, under the caption of "A Money Corner," an article of a sensational char- ttcler, designed to show that a commercial crisis is impending in that city.

It adds a 6cries of interviews with merchants and bankers, the former generally taking the po sition that the banks are injuriously reduc ing theuvailability of commercial collateral and are crippling1 trade with unnecessary restrictions. The bankers say' in effect that money is plentiful with the banks but scarce with merchants, while the latter have greater requirements than usual on account of the curtailment in New York of the ordinary favors on single-name paper. The St. Louis bankers claim, how. ever, that they are suDpiying their owrf customers to the extent of their legitimate requirements.

The feeling appearsamong tho merchants of St. Louis, as in other cities, that the policy of the banks is need lessly rigid and cautious, and that it is creating obstructions to the revival of confidence and trade. It is a question of judgment and discretion. There has been a coolness recently be tween the Chicago pork-packers and the sellers of live-stock. The former claim for their association the distinction of be- lug the'; largest packing interest in the worid, but the latter answer that they are collectively the largest live-stock interest in the world.

When two of the biggest things of their class in the world come into collision WC-may confidently expect a thud." The contest is about an alleged conspiracy to defraud the sellers of bogs by an arbitrary system of shrinkages, tbe same to be de termined oy a "snrinKer. mere is a truce at present, but both sides are resolute, and the battlo between the shrinkcrs aud an ti-sh rinkers will soon be renewed with redoubled fury. The New York Trtbun is taking an interest in spelling reform. The Tribute is trying to bring our spelling into such system that Joint A. Logan may stand flat-footed on it and be supported without a blush by the paper "published for the best people." Flaxagax.

of Texas, is now certain ho knows what be was "there for." President Arthur has rewarded his rldolity by appointing him internal Ifcveuue, CoUecU tbAtixiS isia Injury to eYCiy. laanufai'lr of tlio Fourth. Texas district. THIS AND THAT. Come into the rutter, Hand, And bring your ho a ionic: Com where the muls has pawed And where the porkers throng.

Come into the gutter, Hand; The wallowing sow drive out; Com where th coat bas chaired; We'll put the germs to rout. Coma into the cutter. Maud; Come in with pick and hoe; Tht cholera Is abroad, And epidemics flow. Corns Isto the g-utUr. Mand.

Jane and Sal and Nanes; The gutter must be cleaned; The cholera's ia Franca. Editor Wiliom, of Evansville, appears to have no shotgun. I alwats found it an easy matter to head off my enemies. Robespierre. Is England a "pony" is a five-pound note.

It is a pony that goes very rapidly. Mr. Coxklino appears to be a deadhead in the enterprise of electing Mr. Blaine. In India there is said to be a temple de voted to the Goddess of Cholera.

It is sup posed to be nU of watermelons. Gladstone and the Queen are so hostile to each other that, foreisners occasionally mistake them for man and wife. An Indianapolis report of a storm says: "As usual during severe storms, the Exposi tion building was struck by lightning. Mr, Wellkr had geat confidsnco in the alibi. With what admiration the old gentleman would have looked upon our later legal blessing, the technicality 1 Ma.

Arthur may console himself with the fact that, though the nomination did not go to the fisher, it went to a man who used to correspond with a Fisher. As a great sanitary measure for the sum mer, it might be weU to import a few colo- of green flies. As scavengers the green flies are second only to the bogs. Prksidkict Arthur bas started off on his vacation, well supplied with cigars and ines. It is supposed that he takes the wines along to drink to the healihof Candi date St.

John. The absence of newspapers supporting Blaine puts a good deal of extra lying on the New York 7'rifcune, but Tribby is doing as well as could be expected under her additional burdens. Mr. Barge, of Pennsylvania, while in Ohio the other day. was held up sad robbed of his watch and money.

While there is plenty of protection in Pennsylvania there seems to be none in Ohio. When Mr. Logan is speaking about Re publican financial statesmanship, it rather confuses him to have a gentleman in the crowd sing out: "Have you ary trade dol lar about your clothes. Jack!" Ir Mr. Blaine ever calledJtMesssrs.

Hoar and Dawes "old women," be didn't mean it. The truth doubtless is that he spoke of those gentlemen rwspectf uUy, usiog the more elegant expression, "old ladies," King Humbert, of Italy, by a recent or der; has banished from his table all French wines, except champagne. It is the private belief of many Italians that Humbert is getting ready to go over to St. John. Taxpayers living on streets paved with rotten stone and comminuted earth are delighted to hear that the paving of Third street ith asphalt bas been Hun dreds ot them never see Third streef, but they like to bear about it.

OvEhfitT from the Omnitnt; "What think youi I have just a man seen, who the liveliest wi has, one-eyed to become 1' 'Xonsensel Who from thee that believes "Bet we "On in account, ten marks." "Done! It was a blind man!" A Michigan lawyer has published a vol ume of poems which he will not soil, preferring to gire bis verses away. By the side of tbwsordid Tennyson and the parsimonious Longfellow, our Michigan lawyer-poet shines out as the true interpreter of nature. It is reckless extravagance in the Gov ernment to send troops to expel tbe squatters on Cherokee lands. A few cholera germs dropped among the settlers would accomplish more in half an hour than the whole United States army could effect in a week. The Republicans want a campaign fund of SUOO.OOO.

If Mr. Logan opuid be in duced to write a pamphlet on 'The Negro in America Previous to the Great Rebellion, it would sell rapidly, aud tbe. proceeds, turned into the campaign fund; would do wonders. 'G rover Cleveland measures eight inches and three-quarters across the back of bis neck in a straight line," says a Repub lican journal. This is very incorrect.

Mr. Cleveland's neck is well known Xo be four feet across, and you just ought to see his backbone 1 AIa.ny fashionable persons are staying away from Europe this year on account of the cholera over there. This, however, is not what is keeping newspaper reporters at home. They say they are hanging back be cause there are so many brigands on tbe outskirts of Constantinople. George Wasuinutox never swore unless be was mad.

One of Jefferson's letters says; "When the President (Washington) went to Sew York, he resisted for three weeiur tbe efforts to introduce levees. At length he and left it to Humphreys and some others to settle tbe forms. Accordingly an ante-chamber and presence room were provided, and when those who were to pay tht ir court were assembled, the President set. put, preceded by Humphreys. After passing through the ante-chamber, the door of the inner room was thrown and Humphreys entered first, calling out with a loud voice, 'The President of the United The President was so much disconcerted with it that be did not recover the whole time of the levee, and when the company was gone be said to Humphreys: 'Well, you have taken me in once, but by God you shall never take me in a second POLITICAL POIXT3.

Philadelphia Times: Logan may be saddest wheu lie sings, but he certainly is funniest when he writes. Fort Worth Gazette: Tilden Isn't a cant didate, but Tilden's boots wiU stride into the White House next Starch. Philadelphia Chronicle: One acre of corn is worth a ton of campaign oratory and campaign oratory weighs almost notb- iug. Vtica Observer: President Arthur is having the White House renovated. Gov.

Cleveland is under great obligations to tbe President. Philadelphia Call: If readers of the 2Tew York un vote as tbe editorials shoot, their ballots wul be counted among tbe "scattering. Chicago Time: For the preservation of her literary reputation Miss an Hamilton will doubtless take an early opportunity to declare that sne did not write Blaine's letter of acceptance. Brooklyn Kagle: Ohio speech is both frank and free. A political doctor out there asserts that the Ohio Democracy is much disfigured by a pimple on its nose, and he calls tbe pimple "Johnnie" McLean.

Chicago Herald: Tbe Republican platform and Blaine's and Logan letters nave been framed and posted up uuder a sign: "If You Don't See What You Want, Ask for It." As yet nobody bas asked for anything more." York Tribune: "The organisation of the Prohibitionists may do some harm to (the temperance cause by aautming the very in WhlUI I.W 1 iMlIll- cratic politicians are trying to place it, and. nm 1-1illiT nothing can be gained, though much may hereafter be endangered, by giving their party the reptttatioa of 'being a sort of gratuitous Democratic side-show." St. Louis Ixt-Dixptc One sentence- soms up the letters of Blame and Logan; that is, that the true history of this country began about the time when Blaine went into politics and Logan joined the Republican party. Vhicaoo Tim: Instead of replying to Mr. Hendricks', letter.

Secretary Chandler has taken tbe United States steamer Tallapoosa and gone to sea for his health. It is feared that the Hendricks letter injured-'bim internally. jl New York Timet: "We have an abiding faith in the general soundness of the popular judgment, and tbe general honesty of tbe purposes of the people, and these constitute the surest reliance in party management. Mr. Blaine shoald be defeated, because he ia unworthy to hold the high place for which be has been nominated.

Mr. Cleveland should be elected as tbe representative of the cause of official integrity, and of puritv in high places. All mere party ends are subordinate to this one great issue." New York World: How onay it is to observe Whitelaw Hold's paper howling daily about the rights of tbe workingmen. Reid is Blaine's main dependence in New York. Yon jndge a man naturally by the company he keeps.

Reid is sou-in-law ot one of tbe great monopolists. He is the one newspaper owner whom the printers despise and hate, because be pays less to his compositors than any other newspaper owner. lie pays less also to his reporters and editors, and works the organ of "tbe best classes" on tbe principle of grinding the greatest amount of labor out of his men for the least money possible. Buffalo Kxprrmr That volatile and voluble fellow, George Alfred Townsend, says in his "Broadway Lounger" in the Zrtbwne that Gen. Jardine told him there were no cheers for Gov.

Cleveland on tbe 'streets nor at the banquet in this city on the Fourth of July. It would sot be fair to raise a question of veracity between Gen. Jardine and Townsend, for anybody who knows the latter can guess who the liar is; suffice it to say that the Governor was cheered along tbe whole line of march, and that at the banquet the enthusiasm was unbounded for five minutes. A'ew York, World; The campaign of slander against Gov. Cleveland has about spent itself.

At least one hundred lies have been put in circulation touching the bills that he has signed or refused to sign as Chief Executive of tbe State of New York. It has taken some time to produce the records, but the liars are on the retreat. Tbe assault upon tbe Governor's private character made by a few disreputable and sensational newspapers is based upon a scandal that was exploded two years ago. The reaction is now setting in, and GroVer Cleveland's strength wiU grow and increase from this day until tbe ourtb day of November. AVte Yorla Sun: The accusations against Mr.

Cleveland are nrst produced on tbe eve of a Presidential election, just after he has been nominated. Thev have never: been things ot public notoriety, but of private scandal. If they were true, it is fair to in fer that they would have been produced and established long ago. Moreover, there is now no time to inquire into them and to determine whether they are true or false. Accordingly hey must be dismissed as so much gossip.

They can not be taken into estimation in ascertaining Mr. Cleveland's fitness for tbe the office for which be is a candidate. No accusations produced without legal proof after the nomination of a candidate are worth a copper, and the publication ot such accusations is a scandal of itself. Boston Advertiser Tbe subject of Civil-service reform has been before Congress and the country for the past eighteen years. And if, during this period, Mr.

Blaine has said one earnest word ia its favor, or has, before the publication of his letter, intimated his rejection ot tbe heresy that the offices are the legitimate spoils of the victorious party, or has ever rebuked tbe outrage of political assessments, or condemned the activity in canvasses and elections ot onlce-holders of his own faction, tbe fact bas not been produced by his friends. In view of this, and of his long record as a beneficiary and promotor ot tbe spoils system, it is not strange that it suould be regarded as a piece of characteristic assurance for Mr. Blaine to now "set up as a reformer." St. Louis Republican: The Republican candidate for Vice-President tells us, in his letter of acceptance, that "if there be a nation oat he lace ot the earth which might build a wall upon its every boundary line, deny communion to the world, and proceed to live upon iu own resources and productions, that nation is the United States. There is hardly a necessity of civilized communities which can not be produced from the extraordinary resources of our several States and Territories, with their manufactories, mines, farms, timber lands and water-ways." And yet be presents this statement of our unequalled resources and capacities for manufacturing as a reason why we should forbid or discourage the importation of manufactures from other couutries.

One would suppose that if we possess such magnificent advantage over other countries for manufacturing we need not resort to tbe device of protecting our manufacturers against the competition of less favored countries. Chicago Herald: Scribes, Pharisees and hypocrites! The authors and circulators of this calumny know full well that it can not and will not be answered. True or false, it will stand as they have ottered it. No reputable person in Buffalo, tbe scene of the romance, can bo found to father it. Every one who has been questioned concerning it professes ignorance or disbelief.

It may be an invention or it "may not. As to that it matters little. It is a charge which it is easy to make, and ot which disproof is out ot tn'e question. To attempt an answer would in volve the subject of the report, though be was chaste as ice, in an eu diets maze of Fcaudal. The private character of Presidential aspirants must be judged by tbe esteem in which they are held at their homes.

It has been demonstrated, at the polls, and we have the concurrent testimony of all reputable Republican newspapers in Buffalo, that Grover Cleveland possesses in an extraordinary degree the confidence and respect- of the people of that city irrespective of party. The scandal finds no circulation there rave in a characterless rag devoted to sensation and calumny. Chicago Times: Tbe candidacy of Cleveland appean to be particularly annoying to two kinds of politicians namely, the idola-tors of tradition and tbe idols torn of 'the plumed Knight." Both kinds are filled with a yearning to "go back." The Bourbons, men from the other side of the deluge that have learned nothing on this side, and forgotten nothing that existed on the other, still cherish tbe delusion that all political truth was con ained in the primitive notions of tbe ancients, to which they insist tbe country ought to go back. Cleveland is not a representative of their yearning toward antiquity; wherefore, tbe land is not now cheered by the dismal voices from tbe Bourbon graveyard that in preceding Presidency squabbles have so positively announced the end of aU things unless history should return to its own infancy. In part, this may be owing to the fact that the Bourbon, like the noble red man, is fading away.

Death and tbe inexorable march of civilization hare made sad ha too in his tribe. There are not half so many of him now as there were wnen, in loiii, ne issued his last solemn pronundamiento of tbe doctrine of tbe Lost Cause. And even those who stUl linger in this vale of sinful centralization" go about in mournful silence, as if a great weight were resting upon them, closing their lips on tbe subject of tbe ancient faith, excepting when they feel tolerably sure of their audience. 1 he candidacy of Cleveland neither invites nor eqcourages them to "go back" to the old rut. but operates rather as an addition to tbe resistless, forces that are transferring them so rapidly from tbe thea- ter of political life to tbe inpenetrable shades of the Stygian shore, as it were.

OX OR ELY RELIEF SQUADRON. The fchlp Bearing the Utiec an Des4 of the Last Arctic Expediuea Leave fee Jebas. St. JOHSS, July SO, At 10 A. M.

the Greely relief squadron steamed into the bay. She flagship Thetis Jed, followed by tne Bear, Alert and all tbe harbor steam tugs and steam launches, with the flags of Great Britain and tbe United States at half-mast, and crowded with leading citizens. On oil public buUdings and mercantile premises flags were draped. The vessels in port displayed the Rational flag in mourning. Thousands of spectators from the shore waved adieus by banner or ha mi kerchief, which salutations were gracefully returned by tbe receding squadron.

Lieut. GeeJv and I owl survivors are enjoying voisrauie 1 WELL-KKOWN CITIZENS. Thorns ftiarrrt. Among tbe most widely-known and highly-regarded business men of Louis villa is Mr. Thomas L.

Barret, who for several years bas been th i President of the largest and soUdest financial concern in Kentucky the Bank of Kentucky. Mr. Barret is a most unostentatious man and not given to seeking popular favor, but he bas won great esteem by tbe conscientious performs nss of high duties with an ability proportionate to such duties. He was born 58 years ago near MnnfordviUe, Hart county, being tbe son of Dr. Lewis Barret, physician and farmer.

Mr. Barret received his early education in MnnfordviUe, and then graduated at Center College, Danville. He returned to his home and was made a Deputy Sheriff of the county, but his 1 energy outgrew the bounds of the community in which be lived, and be came to Louisville July 20, 1846; so yesterday was the thirty-eighth anniversary of his arrival here. Immediately on bis coming to this city he entered the wholesale dry goods bouse of Lsight Hite as a clerk. The firm was already an important one; it occupied a store on Main street, between Fourth and Fifth streets.

By his industry, probity and capacity, Mrl Barret soon won the confidence of his employers, and in 1850 be was admitted as a partner in tbe bouse, tbe firm name becoming Leight, Hite Si Co. At the end of five years Mr. Abraham Hits retired from business, and the firm continued ender the name of Leight Barret, rank ing as one of the leading business houses in the city. In 1S03 Mr. Barret sold out his interest to his partner and retired from mercantile pursuits.

As a. merchant be was conservative, popular and eminently successful, Almost immediately after his leaving tb firm he was selected to succeed Mr. 8. II. BuUen as Cashier of the Bank of Kentucky, Mr.

Bullen having died. In 1859 Mr. Barret had been elected a Director of this bank, and has continued in that capacity ever since. In 18C4 he assumed the duties of Cashier, and continued to bold tbe office until twelve years ago, when, upon the death of Mr. U.

A. Griswold. tbe President of tbe bank, be was elected to that office and has since filled it continuously. As Director, Cashier and President of this grand old institution he has displayed marked financial ability and great coolness and foresight, remarkable judgment in every crisis, and has wen for himself tbe deserved reputation among merchants and bankers of being the best and most influential banker in the city and IStete. He is accorded this position by the banking fraternity.

While Mr. Barret's whole life and energies seem consecrated to the success and exalted reputation of the Bank of Kentucky, he bas nevertheless found time to -devote to man of tbe leading corporations ot the city. Notable among these are the Louisville Gas Companv. tbe Southern Mutual Life Insurance any, and the Safety Vault and Fidelity Trust Company, which originaUy started as two concerns. Soura of tbete Mr.

Barret assisted in organizing, and in all of them he has been an active and moat influential Director. It is said of him among his business 'associates that success foUows every institution in which he is a director or a shareholder. He is a man of nervous temperament, and pot easy of approach by stranger; yet he is cool in every crisis, and has wonderful decision of characters He is quick to arrive at conclusions, and having reached one, be is not to be bhakrn. lie is a man of few words, but his "yes" mean the fulfillment of bis purpose or bis promise, and bis "no" is always tiual. He is essentially a practical man, and is remarkably accurate and painstaking.

lis is a man of strong oonvicuoos and strong friendships, though he is slow to make new friends. He has few intimates. Intellectually he is a man of considerable culture, having kept pace with the times, read much and traveled widely in this country and abroad. Mr. Barret has figured little in public life outaide of bis business pursuits.

In he was elected a member of tbe Hoard of Alder- i i i men, where ne at once toos. a leauing position. He continued a member of the board until 1873, aud in and 183 was President of that body. In 1850 Mr. Barret married tbe adopted daughter of Mr.

Abraham iiite, his bu iuess partner. Tbey have five living children, four sons aud one daughter. The oldest of the sons, Mr. Hite Barret, is the Engineer of the Gas Company. i feundav-trhool Convention.

Correspondence of the Courier-Journal. Greenville, July 23. The third day's session of the Cumberland Presbyterian Sunday-school Convention was called to order this morning, and the convention proceeded to elect ollicers for tbe ensuing year. The first topic, "Advantages of Bunday-scbool Conventions," by request of tbe Chairman was discussed by Rev. Mr.

Edwards, pastor of tbe M. Church South, of this city. The second topic, "Social and Moral Influences of the Sunday-school," was treated by Rev. Charles Hill, of the Presbyterian church. Or.

Martin was called upon to speak in the interest of the Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn. Dr. Martin is Professor of Law in this university, and was prepared to speak of it, especially when be saw so many of the Aluuini present. Dr. BeU, of- St.

Louis, summed np all these things, and applied them to tbe work of Missions in a short, stirring speech. Then came tbe areweU meeting. Thus closed tbe second annual meeting of the Kentucky Sunday-school Convention of this church. B. T.

W. Lexingtoa Local Points. Special to tbe Courier-Journal. Lexingtox, July 26. The remains of Jas.

Hester, killed yesterday by tbe falling of a wall at tbe warehouse of tbe Lexington Roller Mill, were shipped this morning to King's Mountain for burial. Samuel Grow, hurt at' tbe same time, is still in a critical condition, but Ukely to recover. Farmers are happy over thi continued soak ing rain yesterday evening and last night, and crops are now considered as safe. A Times man to-day interviewed a prominent Republican who bad just returned from an extensive tour through the East and North. He reluctantly stated that there was a wide-spread feeling for Cleveland in New York and other States, and said be was surprised to see it.

Another Sllaaeaeetis Pel lee ease Bite. Minneapolis, Jnly 26. At 3 o'clock this morning Officer McLaughlin arrested Toney Carteny, Mark German and James I'arker, for riotous proceeding. In an attempt to escape both the officer and men fired, and the officer ted with a fatal wound in tbe Tbe prisoners escaped, bnt at a later hour all were arrested, and are now in jail. TM is the second shoorinz of sua otUcvr in a week, aud violence is auttci- pated.

The prisoners belong to a local eanz avhich baa been texroriziiig the community for several years. AH but these have been scattered. The reported death of Officer Mcaugniin at the hands of thucs intensified the excite ment to such a degree that the police in force are protecting the station where the prisoners are now couHned. Lynching ia threatened if they are not taken from town before night. Over fifty ef the Alleges Oetragers ArrssUs- TM Wmsm la FrTTSBURGH, oly 26.

A wholesale arrest of the parties supposed to be implicated in tbe Lizzie Bradley outrage has been causal by Chief Eraua. Over fifty arrests have been made; one gang of 83 laborers employed on the Baltimore and Ohio road having been arrested before daylight this morning. This afternoon detectives arrested Geo. Helton, colored, of West Elizabeth, and Rot Grimes, white, of the same place, for participation, and recovered from Helton a pair of diamond era-drops. Other arrests will be made this afternoon and tbe diamond necklace recovered.

All the jewelry bas been found. The woman Is better to-day. All the parties were committed to jail and will be given a bearing next Friday. Atl A beet Lest Swsrt. Special to the Courkr-JournaL Lexixoton, Julv 26.

During the late war Sergt. B. H. Witcher, of this plaoe. captured a sword, upon the hilt of which was the inscription: Luke It.

Tidd, Wobura. Mass. Sergt. Witcher kept tbe sword in bis possession and about a year aao.wrota to Woburn inquiring of the existence of such a man as Luke R. Tidd and if a return of the sword would be acceptable.

A reply came stating that tbe owner was living at Wobura and that the return of the sword would be appreciated. Mr. Witcher returned it and last week received from Capt. L. It.

Tidd a beautiful picture neatly framed giving a graphic Ulustratkm of tbe positions of both Federal and Confederate forces at the time the sword was captured, and that scene at Capt. Tidd's house at tbe time tbe sword was restored to that gentleman, A Chtcege Wemaa's Terrible AOietlea. i Chicago, July 26. Surgeons at the County Hospital bave under treatment a- Mrs. Murphy, 27 years old, who is suffering from the horrible disease which afflicts cattle, aud is known as ''lumpy jaw." It isin the form of an abscess on her jaw, and it was at first supposed to be an ordinary abscess, bnt a microscopical examination proves tbe contrary.

The abscess was found to contain vegetable parasites identical with those found in tbe abscesses on It ia supposed to have been caused by eating meat from cattle having the disease. An, opera--j tion will be performed Tuesday. The case excites some interest, as it is the first one reported in the United tStates. though similar ca-e hare already been recorded in Germany. leeradUrlsia ia (Jeerxie.

Special to the Courier-Journal. 1 July 20. Henry county is in great excitement over repeated attempts at incendiarism a hich bave beeu committed there. Several nights ago Henry Gaston awoke and found his house on fire. Tbe neighbors gathered and bad about succeeded in extinguishing it when they discovered that a neighboring church was on fire.

Tbey extinguished that also. A couple of urs later, E. L. Manly, a prominent planter, found his gin-house in flames. Tbese repeated attempts are laid to the charge of Ben McWilliatus, a colored desperado, who bad a.

grudge against tbese parties, and who baa since disappeared from the scene. The BfbbMI Maeaay UtM, Chicago, July 26 O. L. Roberta, who is interested financially in the Bennett Mackay Atlantic Cable, says the cable will be ready for public service October first. One cable is already finished and tbe other will be completed on the above date.

The cost of the cable will reach S7.OOO.O00. The rate for cablegrams will be materially less than by tbe old cable, but how much less Mr. Roberta declined to say. A company has been organized to lay a cable from Brazil to New Orleans via St. Thomas, which is to cost (3,000,000, which will work in connection with the Bennett Mackay cable.

Beralsra at Lssuos Jaeetiea. Special to the Lebakos Jc.fCTio, Jnly 26. Last night thieves forced an entrance into Mr. M. J.

CockereU's" store at this place and took away about (05 worth of United States postage stamps, several valuable gold rings, clothing and underwear, cutlery, and a 5 counterfeit bill on the Planters' National Bank of Illinois. A reward is offered for their arrest. Dragged, Beaten see Habere. CrfcntSATi, July 26. Juan C.

Bacha, of Las Vegas, N. representing himself as a millionaire cattle dealer, bas been in tbe city a few days. Yesterday he was enticed into a back to visit the Latonia race track and Bee some fine stock. It was reported at a late hour last night that he had been dragged. beaten and robbed of money and checks to the value of $13,000.

A Prise Fight Flickers, Niw York, July 26 Five hundred sports assembled at Williams' woods, near Flnb-ing, L. at daybreak. While the ring was being pitched Referee Harding announced that Fulljames would not fight on account of so many friends ox uempeey naing present. Fulljames then drove to this city, followed by Dempsey, where it is understood the fight wul occur in a private bouse. fire by a Uarstiag Lama.

Millimtowr, uly SB. A fir broke out in the Schrieber House this morning front the, explosion of a lamp, and before the names were subdued the entire block, including tbe hotel, Herald office, Odd Fellows' Hall and two stores belonging to a man named Fredericks, was entirely destroyed. Loss partially Insured. I asides fee Marsee. Baltimore, July 28.

The grand Jury today found a presentment against G. W. Hazeltine for tne murder of Mamie Thorp, in this city, on the 19th Inst, at which time be also shot and wounded Mamie White, both of whom reached Baltimore with hint that day from Toronto, Canada. I Aa Ovetiea to Bala. Special to tbe Courier-JouraaLl 1 Grovk, N.

July 26. Seven thousand white handkerchiefs waved a wel- come to George W. Bain aa be spoke at tbe i Ocean Grove temperance camp-masting, New Jersey, yesterday. Fees oa tlhUkyfer Esport Ottaswa, Jnly 26. An order in Council has been published prescribing that upon the weighing, gauging or testing of spirits, or other liquors imported for the purpose of be- ing exported, a fee of fifty cents a package wiil be levied.

Home at Last. New ark. July 26. Baldwin's homing pigeon, released atMattoon, Illinois, last Saturday, arrived home yesterday and was found in iu cote this morning. The exact time of iU arrival is not known.

The bird is in good condition. Paying aIMvUeaa. Kkw York, July 28. Raoei-ver Johnston. of the Marine Bank, began the payment today of a 15 per cent, dividend.

Three hundred depositors were paid S40O.0OO. The total amount of the dividend will be 600,000. Train Wreckers Arrestee. Lynchbcrq, July 26. SUas Hudson, James Padgett and Arthur Page, young men, are under arrest for placing logs on the track ot tbe Richmond and Allegheny road.

Victory for the Scott Law. I CT5CIXXATI, July 28. The firs. case against liquor dealers under tne ScoU law was decided in a Justice's court in fafot of the County Treasurer..