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wbt NUMBER 25SO. PHILADELPHIA, SUNDAY MOENTNG, OCTOBER 8. 1882. FOUR CENTS. TWO LAW RIDDEX ESTATES.

the only contract being the schedule of PHIPPS li SUSPENSE. and keen surgery cut the gangrene from the body politic? A cabal of men whose god is power and whose lever is money has controlled the State, enacted its laws and Dredetermined its DOlicv for fifteen vears. AN ELECTION CRIME How Major Phipps Baldly Altered Hie Ficfurns in the Almshouse Division. WALLACE AND RAHDALL They Make the Principal Speeches at the First Big Democratic Meeting. of obtaining money from government employes for political purposes.

Tbis power of the bosses is a prominent issue in the present campaign. Everyone of spirit and independence should assert his manhood by the most active opposition to it. I favor the prompt repeal of all internal revenue taxeH. As in the case the other war measures, the period of their usefulness has passed. The receipts from customs and the remaining resources of the government show thatample revenues for ail its legitimate requirements are produced by them.

By the repeal of these taxes the immediate relief from that great army of officials inci cidental to this service, with all their offensive inquisitorial powers, would of itself be no small boon. But the removal of that greater evil, the enormous surplus revenue, would be ot inestimable value. The country has witnessed with humiliation the degrading and corrupting influence of this great surplus. Its effect upon Congress is sadly shown in the reckless pension bills and iniquitous river and harbor appropriations. The people should not be misled by the effort to excuse the members of Congress who voted the public moneys to improve the creeks in Mr.

Robeson's district and yacht landings in Rhode Island on the grounds that thereby appropriations were secured for the improvement of great public highways like the Delaware river. Honest legislation does not require log rolling to obtain it. It is to be hoped that the commission now hearing the claims of the various interests of the country on the subject of tiie tariff may embody in their report the facts in a form in which they can be fairly considered. I am opposed to any hasty action on this subject, and simple honesty demands due caution in dealing with interests of our manufacturers and others who have been induced to embark in their enterprises under the protection of existing laws. 1 the bid and awards made by Councils, John H.

Parkes, the prisoner, he said. presented all the warrants for the firm and made affidavits to some of the bills. Counsel said the tallow account would alone be taken up. Mr. Wolf read four bills, amounting to under this head, which had been paid this year, there were other items on the bills, Clerk MeCauley, from theCity Treasurer's office, read off the totals of these bills, footing up over $6,000.

Controller Pattison testified that he knew the defendant, who had mado sworn affi davit of the accuracy of several of his bills. Overseer Snyder was called again. He said the tallow was used for mak ing soap. The fat from the meat was all consumed by the paupers in the soup and only the bones remained. the large orders and payments for tallow, he said there had not been an ounce of the saponaceous material received at the Almshouse this year.

It would have to go through his inspec tion od delivery. Tho Magistrate conseuted to allow the bail to remain at Aucker's case was next taken un. A small chest found in the defendant's room, containing Dianxeis, a roil ot absorbent cotton, adhesive plaster, half an ounce of morphia, tooth powder and pathological specimens, and rough wooden box, bearing Ancker's name, which was taken irom the storehouse. Were brought forward, anu anoiner pacKage oi drugs, which was also laid away, was produced. Superin tendent Scarborough said Ancker first ac cused Principal Druggist Bender of having given the articles to him, but admitted taking them.

He made no objection to the search of his trunk and chest. The witness said he did not think Ancker had a right to keonadruz store in his trunk, nor did he know that the things could have been taken out of the institution. Druggist W. F. Bender said he had been in charge for forty four years.

Ancker was his first assistant. He believed the total value of the drugs found was about six dollars. Ho knew nothing about the patholoiieal specimens. They were made by the students lor curiosity and taken out or given to friends. ine alcohol came irom the Almshouse sunnlv, F.

W. Hey, second assistaut druggist, was next examined, the blankets were issued to the clerks under order by the new management that they should sleep in the house in future and were used until the rooms were ready. The witness gave no material testimony. Aucker was put under $500 bail. The alleged frauds in straw were then veil tilated, H.

H. Myers, a flour and feed dealer at North Eleventh street, being tho de lendunr. Sir. Wolf said the city made aeon tract with Myers (or hay and rye straw in 1SS1, and under that bills for 454,500 pounds of straw, valued at were paid. Myers presented the warrants for two bills, but who brought the others the witness did not know I he stubs for the warrants arc supposed to have been burned.

The warrants themselves were read. William Airy, who was formerly warden of the hospital, said straw was used for beds iu the insane department, men and women's out wards, children's asylum and lying in depart ment. He had charge of the hospital in 1881 and Knew they suilered for the want of straw, none of which was delivered after 1831. There were probably fifteen loads, aud not over twenty five, delivered in the whole year, weighing, maybe, 1,500 to 1,600 pounds. Matron Mary Buckley, of the female department Jane Gray, nurse in the out wards Marv Welsh, of tne lying iu department, and Head Nurse iticnara Mitchell, ot the insane department, testineu that, as tar as their observation went, there was a very great demand, a great scarcity and a fierce competition to get the meagre amount ot straw that readied the Almshouse 18dl.

The old beds were nothing but chaff and thero was considerable suffering. Myers was put under $5,000 bail. All of "the prisoners ioumi security. FIVE PER CENT. LAND CLAIMS.

Revival of an Old Scheme to Get Money Out of the Treasury. Specfal Dispatch to The Times. Washington, October 7. For many years a number of Western States have had claims pending against the govern ment for various aniounts.beingfivo per centum of the proceeds from the salo of public lands in the respective States. They were entered aud purchased with military land warrants, to be used for educational purpose.

For several sessions legislation has been introduced in Congress for the adjustment of these claims, and a bill is now pending, known as the five per cent, bill, for this purpose. Some of these States have renewed the application to the In terior Department for a statement of their ac counts, to be filed as required by law with the First Controller of the Treasury. Among the States making application is Iowa. throngh its agent, Ex Governor R. P.

Lowe, and the reply made to day by the Commissioner of tho General Laud Olhce indicates the policy of the department with reference to all these claims. The claim of the State of Iowa is for $881,000.61, being five per centum of the proceeds of the sale of 14,096,905 acres at the nomi nal sum of per acre. Governor Lowe said in his letter of application It is proper to stale that I made this demand in 1858, as Chief Executive of the State of Iowa, under the direction of the Legislature of said State, of Jacob Thompson, then Secretary of the Interior, who re fused the same. I find upon examination that I then made a mistake and should have made the demand on the Commissioner of the General Land Oilice, who alone is charged with the duty of stating said account. If you refuse to comply with the request I expect to send out a writ of mandamus against you and shall ask that you send to the court my application and your answer thereto.

The Commissioner, in his reply, says: "I decline to comply with your request. In making this declination it does not appear to be neces sary for me to discuss tho merits of the case. The Secretary of the Interior, under date of September 1N8, declined a similar request irom yourseil as t.luet Executive ot the state of Iowa. The subject matter has been under discussion in Congress for several sessions and is now pending before that body. It would seem improper for me, therefore, to state such an account until tho question has been passed upon by legislative or judicial authority." This decision closes the door, fur the present at least, against all these claims, which, if allowed now and paid, would take from the Treasury in tho aggregate over lour minions oi dollars.

The tVilliamsport Paving; Muddle. Special Dispatch in The Timks. WlLiJAMsrortT, October 7. When the cases against the Mayor and City Councils were called for trial to day there was a motion made on the part of the defense to continue, on the ground that they were not ready for trial. Counsel for the Common wealth resisted and stated that if the defendants would agree that the streets complained of in the bills of indictment were in such condition as charged, namely, out of repair and unsafe, and agree to so Ruswer In case a petition for a mandamus was pre sented commanding them to put the streets fn re pair, that the cases might be continued by consent.

The defendants so agreed and the cases are now in the same legal position, so far as the liability of the city to repair is concerned, as though a verdict of guilty had been rendered against the city of Willianisport. Ihls is done by the Councils for the purpose 01 raising tne question wiietheror not there Is any legal right or power upon the part of the city authorities to pave the streets. The attorneys for the Councils agree further thut these questions' shall be mised by an immediate answer to the petitions for mandamus, petitions lor mandamus nave already been prepared by the counsel for the prosecution and answers thereto will be speedily filed. It is conceded by the Councils in the adjustment of this question that the streets are in such a condition that repairs would be useless and that repnving is absolutely necessary. The only questions left for consideration are as to the power of the city to pave at its own expense and to collect the whole or only part from the properiy uoiuers upon me streets.

Disaster to the Sacred Carpot. CAIRO, October 7. Whilo the annual cara van, which recently departed with imposing cere monies, was journeying to Suez on the way to Mecca. the canopy over the sacred carpet was cmaiht and overturned Dy a teiegrnpu wire and the sncred emblem was exposed to view. The dervishes in charire were greatly excited by the accident.

It is not cer tain but that the caravan will have to return and the ceremony be performed over again. Tho Sacred Carpet is a piece of rich silk, adorned with Arabic sentences and embroidered in gold, that the city of Cairo sends every year to line the Kaaba, or Temple of Mecca. It Is carried under a canopy ou the back of a richly decorated camel and is religiously concealed. view until hung up like a drapery fn tho temple." The old carpet, unlike the new one, is spread out and is sold lo the Mohammedan pilgrims at five francs a cubit. Shots at Irish Land Agents.

Dublin, October 7. Two land agents, named Skoot and Troome, have been fired at from behind a hedge at Ballycastle, but wero not hurt. Both men had previously been fired at, A fnrmer named Hawaii has beeu shot iu the Miiirh nt Hlinn One arrest lias been made. Vunderbilt nn Ilia Way Weat. St.

Thomas, October 7. A special train, composed of a sleeper, dining and palace cars, passed over the Canada Southern Kailrnad to day, having on board V. H. vunderbilt and his two sons, V. K.

Vn bill aud Cornelius Vunderbilt. Augustus Sehcll and other railroad magnates. Decisions on Issues Crowing Ont of the Whit aker Will Contest. Judge Hanna, of the Orphans' Court, yesterday dissolved the injunction, obtained December 31, 1880, by John (i. Lyle, restraining the distribution of the estate of Mrs.

Mary G. Whitaker until $50,000, which he claimed as first cousin and next of kin of the decedent, should be paid him. The estate, which is valued at nearly a million dollars, was in litigation for more than three years. Mrs. Whitaker's will was admitted to probate July 15,1879.

Silas Yerkes, Silas Frost and John Sherwood were named as ex ecutors. An appeal from the decision of the Register of Wills was immediately taken by Samuel Whit aker, who claimed to be a nephew of tho de ceased. The appeal was dismissed in short order. The executors had hardlv taken their breath before a new contest was begHu by Lyle as first cousin and nextof kinandou the ground of undue influence and want of testamentary capacity. That was on December 1SS1.

On the last day of the same month he obtained tho injunction restraining the executors, who had prepared an account, from making distribution. His appeal dragged along, gathering up a great mass of testimony, until June of this it was dismissed as without substance. No appeal from that decision was taken. Lyle agreed to enter $10,000 security upuu the injunction. The security, it is averred, was not given.

Among the opinions delivered by tho Supreme Court are two deciding questions arising out of the litigation over the estate of Bobert Whitaker. The expenses incurred by the executors of the genuine Whitaker will in proving the Diekerson will a forgery amounted to over $30,000, and were hejd by the Orphans' Court to be properly chargeable against the estate of the decedent in opinions by Judges Hanna and Penrose, Judge Ashman dissenting. The deci sion, lessened the distributive share to which Mrs. Mary G. hitaker, the widow of Robert, was entitled, and her executors appealed from this decision to the Supreme Court.

In deciding the question Judge Sterrett says It is evident that no claim for expenses incurred after the date of the compromise codicil can justly ho sustained, directly or indirectly, against the estate of Mrs. Whitaker. Nor do we think that the claim in controversy can be sustained on the alleged ground that the expenditures of which it is composed were mado in the interest of Mrs. Whitaker or for the benefit ot her estate." The decree was reversed and the record remitted to the Orphans' Court, with instructions to enter a decree in conformity with the rulins of the Supremo Court. The other ouestion considered was the right of the executors of the forged will to have the expenses and counsel lees incurred by them in tho attempt to estab lish its validity paid out of Robert Whitaker's estate.

This claim was rejected by the Orphans' Court and an appeal wits taken to tho Supremo Court, which has affirmed tho decision. GRAVE CHARGES AGAINST TIFFANY. Accused by a Grand Jury of Conspiracy to Let Guilty Indians Kscnpe. San Francisco, October 7. A dispatch from Tucson, Arizona, says the Star publishes a report of the grand jury charging that the Cibicu prisoners, now in jail here, are innocent of any crime, and that the guilty Indians were long ago permitted to escape through the connivance of Indian Agent Tiffany.

That officer, it ap pears from evidence given before the grand jury, not ouly arranged to have tho guilty In dians get away, but purposely arrested innocent Indians and had them in confinement for months to cover the flight of the murderers that it was no mistake, but conspiracy on the part of the agent, is shown by the evidence of Indians to day, to whom Tiffany revealed his plan, and told them that this was the only way to save the others from being hung or shot. The Indians also testified to a regular system of barter ot Indian goods by Tillany with merchants of Globe, Maxey and other points. Dr. A. I'atton Nominated fur Senator.

Special Dispatch to Tins Times. Uniontown, October 7 The Senatorial conferees appointed by the Democratic committees of Fayette ami Greene counties met at Brownsville to day. II. J. Gilmore, of Fayette, was chosen chairman and James J.

Pauley, ot Greene, secretary. James Ingram, of Greene, nominated Dr. Alex. Piitton, and W. J.

Stewart, of Fayette, nominated Ex Senator Thomas ficluiatterly for Senator. On the first three ballots each candidate received three voles. On the lourth ballot the Fayette conferees voted i'atton, who was thus unanimously nominated. Neither Messrs. I'atton nor Schnatlerlv Wtis iiresent nt the conference.

The Greciiback liibor committee met hefe tin's afternoon, when J. L. Byrns, W. L. Strickler and J.

C. Whaley were appointed a committee to consider what shall be done with reference to the Senatorial candidate ft is believed seme of Kx Senutor Schnntterly's friends are bidding for the support of the Greenbackers. Statistics on Steam Navigation. Washington, October 7. From statistics prepared by Inspector General of Steam Vessels Du mont for his annual report ft appears that there were 5,117 steam vessels in service during the fiscal year ending June 30, with a total tunnage of 1,278, 064 63 HiO ana1 with 2O71O7 licensed officers.

During that period A .8 vessels were placed service, against 'Hi for the previous fiscal year. Tiie increase of tonnage for the year ending June SO, ma' was 7. l.r6 ft8 HKI. against 5 1110 for the year ending June 30, 1R81, and the number of oflicers licensed was an increase of 1,532 over the previous year. Tho figures iiiuieuic coiisiueruoie increase in me nunitier 01 new vessels, but the decreased tonnage shows that they were mostly of small size.

The Sinall rox in Illinois. Springfield, October 7. Another death from small pox is reported by the attending physician near rrairie du Iiocher, Randolph county. Of the ten unvaecinatcd cases iu this group six have died, while of the vaccinated cases all have recovered. A case of small pox at Oglcshy, Lasalle county, is reported by the president of tiie local Hoard of Health.

The Mayor of Marshall, Clark county, reports two cases, one mile from town, contracted iu Cinciuuati. The Quarrel of a Marine and a Collector. Washington, October 7. Commander Pearson, of the Wachuset, has transmitted to the Navy Department charges preferred by Lieutenant Benson, of the Marine Corps, against United States Collector Morris, of Sitka, Alaska. Countercharges have been made against Lieutenant Benson by the Collector and the whole aflair is regarded at the Navy Department as nothing more than a personal wrangle.

Rehearsing for the Centcnnlal. Special Dispatch to The Timks. Wilkesbaere, October 7. The Wyoming Choral Society gave an entertainment at the Armory to night. There was a large attendance.

The songs to be sung at the Iii Ccntcnnial in Philadelphia were rehearsed in fine style. Tho proceeds, which were quite large, will go towards defraying the expenses of the choir to Philadelphia. Serious Collision in Delaware. Wilmington, October 7 A collision be tween a wood train and an extra engine occurred at Dale's crossing, near Hridgeville, Dclawure, about noon to day. Both engines were badly daminred and a number of cars were wrecked.

Two men were seriously injured one, named Webb, probably fatally. Kine others were slightly injured. Murdered in His Own Door. Sheeveport, October 7. J.

Chambers, a merchant, residing near Alexandria, was called to the door of his residence at an early hour this morning and shot dead. Kobert Farmer, a negro, has beeu arrested for the crime. A Desperate Fight Between Barbers. Rich wood, Ohio, October 7.George Thomas and William Howard, barbers, fought with pistols here this morning. Each fired several shots.

Thomas was killed. The duel was the result of au old feud. Butler's Letters of Acceptance. Boston, October 7. Two letters from fJea eral Butler will be printed in the morning containing his acceptances of the Democratic and National Greenback Labor nominations for Governor.

A Circus Train Wrecked. Dallas, Texas, October 7. A freight train collided with JBatehellor Doris' circus train at Mesquite lust niirht. The circus train was wrecked. Three men were injured.

On.e will die. Foot Ball nt Vale. New Haven, October 7. Yale defeated Wesleyan at foot ball to day, nine goals to nothing. The decisive game for the class championship in base ball was won to day by M.

The Land League Fund. Dublin, Oclober 7. Tiie closing of the Land League fund creates much sensation here, many persons demanding au explanation as to how the uiouey has beeu spent. Shot Dead While Heating Ills Wife. Gadsdln, October 7.

John Crouch was beating ills wife this morning, when Robert Blve interlered and hot him throuch tho heart Llye was arrested. Their will, their purses and the purposes aud aims of corporate weuitii, ineir any, nave oeen me soie tesis of the fitness of statutory laws to our wants as a people, of the measure of taxation to be imposed upon us and of the sources from which revenue was to be drawn. The existence of this power is no myth; it is a hideous reality, and only those who have watched its operations and' seen its slimy folds again and again coiled around those wlio.se constituents elected them as honest men, only those who have seen its manipulations of men and its almost universal success in its movements, can justly appreciate the vicious influence it exerts. Hearken to the words of the Patriarch Pearson, the just aud fearless Judge, in passing sentence on five men, in 1SS0: "Yon have each been severally indicted for 'corrupt soliciting' members of the General Assembly in the performance of the duties of their oilice, by inducing them, under the promise of money, to vote in lavor of a particular bill then pending bo fore the Legislature of Pennsylvania. Four of you have plead guilty and one was convicted on trial.

It is greatly to be feared that for many years it lias been the practice in this State to procure the passage of laws by corrupt und improper means, and to such an extent has this evil prevailed that instead of examining into the propriety or impropriety of measures presented to either house for enactment, the inquiry was much more likely to be made as to the amount of money which those requesting the legislation could afl'ord to pay for the passage of the law. It was charged throughout the whole country that bribery in the Pennsylvania Legislature was of daily occurrence and was always the order of the Y'ou went into this criminal practice in plain violation ol law, with your eyes open. Y'ou well knew that many members of the Legislature were utterly corrupt and were ready to sell their voles in the public market to the highest bidder. Y'ou were ready to suborn them to commit perjury by violating the oaths they took on their installation into office." The name of Pennsylvania Legislator has become a hissing and a Contempt and contumely, instead of respect and approval, pour upon us from our sister States. Are you proud of this? Would you perpetuate it? Corrupting and debasing influences pervade the atmosphere of the State Capital.

The closing hours of each session of the Legislature for years have been full of proofs of the wealth, the power and the corrupt purposes of those who have dominated and controlled the Republican organization. Such things could not be if we hud a firm aud pure F.xecutivc, whoowed fealty to no ringandowued himself. CRIMES COMMITTED FOR PARTY. At the door of the Republican party of Pennsylvania lie the charges, often publicly made, that high State officials bargained the extreme penalty of tiie law with organized murderers in exchange for aid to its ticket in State elections; that again and again it has bought and paid for petty political leaders in outside organizations to wield their influence in the same cause that in this city It has corrupted the ballot, organized repeating, purchased perjury and false counting and pardoned criminals convicted of grave offenses against the election laws; that the expenses of the State Government are larger now than ever before and are increasing; that this vast increase is ap filied to the maintenance of a horde of unnecessary lirelings about the legislative and executive departments; that more than a quarter of a million was lost to the State in its transmission from the general government and that the power of a mighty organization has been concentrated in an oligarchy aud is so wielded by it 'hat the highest ofiiciuls of the Commonwealth are compelled to yield it obedience when it demands executive clemency for criminals convicted of the most heinous crime that can sap the vitals of a tree State. General Heaver proclaims the fact that the Democratic organization is "tile open aud declared enemy of Republicanism." We are the foes of the policy and practices, the men and the measures of the publieatiiMii of 1SS2.

Senator Stewart, too, declares that "he indulges in no delusive hope of reform through Democratic and that with us he" has neither sympathy norconfidenee nor part nor lot." Judging from their published speeches, both gentlemen live in the past, for they ap istrophize with glowing words what they are pleased to style the glorious record of the Republican organization. Like the character in fiction, tliey strut "and fume and prate of their ancestors and their glory audio their dress parade forget the squalid poverty, the hideous make shifts, the vile practices of the present life. What of the present and the recent past What of increased expenses and extravagance in administration? What of corrupted Legislatures, of complicity with criminal, of a debauched ballot, of a coerced I'ardon Hoard and a manacled Executive, and above ullv what of the corrupt, continued and now present use of enormous sums of money to win the elections and degrade the people These be the grapes that have come from the thorns and these the figs the people have gathered from the thistles of latter day Republicanism. Give us rest from "glorious record and teil us how these ills are to, be redressed if you be granted renewed power. Until within one brief twelvemonth all went "merry as a marriage bell" within their parly organization.

Until then no Republican, in legislative hall or executive department, in the forum or on the hustings, took emphatic issue witii these infamous practices or raised his voice for reform within the party. It is an axiom in stateci alt that they who create abuses call never reform them; their correction can only come from a change in official rule. The purification of a State is and always must be, the wosk of tho people, and party organizations are to come and go but as the means to that eud. THE COST OF MISRUI.F.. From Democratic rule in 1S10 to Whig rule in 1800, while population increased 34 per expenses de creased per cent.

From IsjO to IsoO population increased 2 per cent, and expenses but 52 per cent. From 18u0 to 1.S70 population increased 21 per cent. and expenses more than doubled, while from 1870 to 1S80, with but 2V2 per cent, increase in population, expenses increased 68 per cent, from in 1870 to Sl. lSV OU in 10. These figures do not include in teresl, debt, charities or penitentiaries.

i in expenditure, rend official account ability and purity ill administration have been the characteristics ot the official life of Robert E. Pattison, our candidate for Governor, and wo hope to carry him and these into tho government of the State. No man owns him none can from him coerce a pardon or curb the veto in its just exercise. He and me pariy wnose caiunoate lie is believe me reduction of expenses to the lowest point at which good government can be secured and our charities and credit cared for, and they denounce the corrupt use of money in elections, liven now the note of preparation for a carnival of purchase may be heard throughout the State. Can public virtue return while monev flows like water to debauch the ballot? Can purity in administration or economy in expenditure ever" come while the channels to power are polluted with money from office holders or eivcn with lavish hand by rich men? Iioestheeivineoflartresiimsol monev to corrupt tne wean and tmy i tie corrupt enricn ni in who givelh.

or does it make him poor indeed?" And yet who does not know that the plain, bald truth is that in this fight in Pennsylvania the reserved forces, the ultimate hope of those whose political fortunes are tne breaeh, arc the enormous sums of money they gather now to buy voters and corrupt organizations. They think that they can again repeat their common practice and buy the State. We shall see. Let not him that girdeth on his armor boast himself as he that putteth it off." With such a power as the corrupt use of monev we will not seek lo cope: we could not it we would wo would not it we could. I he Democracy of Pennsylvania have their own faith and tenets, aims and purposes, in behalf of which they have shewn some staying qualities in the past aim incy are certain io stand by mem now.

It nutli its own leaders, to whom it looks with conti fidence; its simple yet compact organization; its harmonious, united and defiant columns. It strikes now with the ponderous blow of ISOKH) men for honest and cheap government. Its bugles ring out the advance against a divided enemy, against corrupted Legislatures, dictated nominations, purchased Pardon Hoards and the venal use of money. Its iiighest aims, its noblest purpose, is the purifieatiou of the State, the bounteous mother of us ail. CURTIN, MONAGHAN AND OTHERS.

In response to calls for Ex Governor Andrew G. Curtin that gentleman merely arose in his place and, without going to tho speakers' stand, laid that ho must be excused from speaking at he had addressed a meeting on Friday night in New York and had still more speeches to make and he did not want to overtax him self. I am not so young as I used to be," he said, "though I cannot conceal from myself the fact that I am somewhat wiser, and I know mv duty in this fight and will perforin it. Bo of good cheer. II you desire Mr.

Pattison for our Governor and will labor for him with real, sincere, patriotic purpose the hearts of the majority of the people of this State are with yon." The next speaker was Robert Emnictt Mona ghan, of West Chester, who said that although the Independent party was not with the Dem ocratic party yet they were both marching in parallel lines, and he who strikes a blow for good government was worthy of being called a brother in the cause. He was in favor of nut ting upon the statute books that assessment for corrupt political purposes was a crime and the assessors criminals in the eye of the law. Ho was glad that Robert E. Pattison was before the people, as ho was a pure, well trained statesman with a preacher father. The speaker was not in lavor of mingling politics with religion, hut he was iu favor of mingling the sanctifying in fluences of religion with politics.

S. Davis I age, candidate for City Treasurer. and William Wurts Dundas, Congressman O'Neill's opponcut in tho Second Congressional district, were tho last speakers, the latter challenging Mr. O'Neill publicly, as he declared he would do in writing, to meet him on the hustings to discuss his right to are election to the position which lie had "debased and corrupted." 1 lie meeting broke up with cheers for Kob ert E. Pattison, the uext Governor of Pennsylvania." AN UNEQUIVOCAL POSITION.

Candidate Cartwalader's Views on the Tariff, Political Assessments and Other Issues. John Cadwaladcr yesterday sent to the com mittee appointed by the Democratic Congressional Convention of the First district to notify im of his nomination for Congress his letter of acceptance. Among other things contained in the letter, which is lengthy, Mr, Cadwalader says The reform of the civil service In ft real nn.l tin! sentimental issue. A remedy Is loudly fiemanded for the evils existing at present in this branch of the public service. In my judgment the clerks and employes of the government should ho independent of politics and placed beyond party control.

The'r ten ure should continue during good behavior as long as Judge Sinclair to Give a Wtiflcn Opiuion on (lie Afleraon of October 16. THE ARGUMENTS OF THE" LAWYERS A Ujyely Fight in Court Over the Extradition of the Ex Superintendent. Special Dispatch to The Timks. Hamilton, October 7. Five and a half hours of a hearing rather wearied Major Fhipps this afternoon aud at its elose he looked more restless than at any time since his arrest.

Ho walked into the City Hall at noou to day with Detective Leslie Wright by his side. He smiled and shook hands with his counsel as ho took a seat beside John Sloan, of Philadelphia. Mrs. Philips was absent. The hearing was before Judge Sinclair, in the Council Chamber of the City Hall, the court room being occupied by the Assize Court.

District Attorney Graham was accompanied by F. A. Bregy, his assistant, and the counsel for Phipps had also been reinforced by John Sloan. Edward Slartin, for tho city of Philadelphia, called George S.Graham to tho witness stand. The District Attorney held in his hand the depositions in the case and the warraut issued by Judge Allison.

Osier, senior counsel for Phipps, looked curiously at the handful of documents and Mr. Graham laughingly said "i suppose you intend to object to these?" I'll object and keep objecting until you present your papers in tho proper form," replied Osier. "Well, I think we have them in the proper form this time," said the District Attorney. As soon as the papers were offered in evidence there came the expected I object" from the desks where tho prisoner's counsel sat. The lawyers on both sides had blue and red bags at their feet, and they were hidden behind enough legal volumes to fill a couple of law libraries.

Every few minutes there was some objection from one or the other side, and then the lawyers would dive into thebags and turn over the books and go through sections and sub sections aud codes and revised statutes until even the bland and gentlemanly Major looked wearied. THE PAPERS ACCEPTED. The papers wero finally accepted, subject to the objections raised, They were the depositions of Walter Murphy, A. J. Bellows, John Seeds, Coroner Jittiney, Charles F.

Myers, Charles R. MoAuley and Robert S. Williamson, and three warrants from the book of warrants, a book which Mr. Graham carried with him wherever he went, while in the city, even to his meals, and which was placed uuder his pillow last night. The depositions were all dated September 30, and tho warrant issued by udge Allison was dated October 4.

Most of the depositions were of the same character as those presented at the previous hearing, but there were a couple of new ones, those of MoAuley, warrant clerk in the Controller's office, and Williamson, ex clerk to the Board of Guardians. McAuley's was unimportant and was to the effect that three warrants, Nos. 968, 9 and 972, bad been delivered to somebody, but ho did not know to whom. The deposition of Robert S. Williamson, ex clerk to the Board of Guardians, explained where the warrants went to.

His deposition stated that the threo warrants mentioned were delivored by him to Major Ellis Fhipps, on the Superintendent's assurance that he had authority to sign for and receive tho warrants. Major Phipps signed the stubs in Williamson's presence, with the initials, "8. W. L. and J.

Si." "8. represented by the deposition of John A. Seeds, gave evidence that the Major had no authority to sign a receipt for them, aud that they not received the money. Andrew S. Bellows' testimony was similar in regard io himself.

Walter L. Mnrphy had not given Phipps authority to sign the receipt, which was dated in March, but had received the money in August, after threatening the Superintendent with a suit. All these depositions and the warrant were objected to on the ground that they were dated after Phiips' arrest here. Are you serious?" asked the Judge of Mr. Osier.

Certainly I am, your Lordship," was the answer of the legal luminary with the shriveled hands and face, injuries received iu an act of wonderful daring by which he rescued his wife and child from a burning house. GRAHAM UNDER FIRE. The papers wero received and the objection noted. Osier then cross examined District At torney Graham for half an hour, chiefly with a view to getting an admission that the proceedings by which the depositions and warrant of the Judge were obtained were not according to the ordinary legal procedure under Pennsylvania laws. Ho tried again and again to bring out that forgery was a statutory offense in Pennsylvania, but he got little Information of value to Ins client.

Tho cross examination could not break down any of the proceedings of mo prosecution, who tiiut learned to be afraid to rely on the depositions put in at tho first heal ing and had brought along a fresh batch, which complied with all the necessary forms. It seemed as if the counsel for the prisoner realized that their objections would not hold aud they took a new stand. Osier said 1 wish to oiler the testimony of the nrisoner himself, a proceeding admissible under the laws ot Pennsylvania, though illegal here, and I will put in expert testimony on these three points: First, that Phipps is not guilty of the crimo for which ne is indicted; second, that the crime is not forgery under the laws of Pennsylvania: urni: i. man iiijitmaoil, WllOSe UCpOSl tion is put in, is non compos mentis and totallv unfit to give evidence on any charge," 1 nis was rattier a startler lor the prosecution. but did not amount to much.

The Court at once overruled tho first and third points and said that evidence on them was not admissible in an extradition case. After a short areuruent the other point was also decided and testimony bearing on it excluded, but the objection was noted. The counsel for the defense offered to produce expert testimony that the writing on the threo receipts watf not that of Phipps, but were shut out. Osier then asked for Phipps' release on innumerable legal grounds and Martin asked for his extradition, basing his claim on tho proper and formal presentation of the depositions and indictments pu in at the two hearings. In the course of his address Osier made a fierce attack on the prosecution of Phipps as being the hounding of an innoceutman for a political purpose.

District Attorney Graham was not spared, and Mr. Graham said that the attack was cowardlv. as he was not privileged to reply. Iu reference to Osier's attack the Judge took quite another view and complimented the officersof the prosecution on the mauner in which they had done their duty. THE DECISION RESERVED.

Judge Sinclair reserved judgment until Mon day, October at three P. when he will render a written opinion. It is the general opinion here that the decision will be in favor of extradition. His rulings all day were considered to indicate that he was of the same opinion as Chief Justice Hagarty, who at Sand wich, in this province, yesterday commented npon the promptness with which tho United States authorities surrender without anv legal quibbling criminals who flee from Canada, and added that he hoped to live to see the day when Canadian authorities would act with the same promptness in returning criminals wanted in. tho United Mates and not, as at present, permit this country to be made a haven for crooks nnd thieves from over tho border.

But if the decision should be as expected, that, will bo but the fiist stage of tho game. A writ of habeas corpus may be taken out at any time within lourteen days and the case go through half a dozen courts to the Court of Appeal. MAKING PREY OF THE PAUPERS Two Almshouse Contractor and an Employe Bonnd Over fur Trial. John H. Parkes, charged with fraud in con nection with tallow contracts for the Almshouse; Henry H.

Myers, charged with ille gally collecting money on straw contracts, and Louis Ancker, an assistant druggist at the in stitution, with minor depredations, wero yesterday given a hearing at the Central Station by Magistrate South. Clerk Charles H. Wolf, from the Controller's office, who has charge of the accounts of the Board of Guar lans, proclBced the bills of tho firm of J. H. Parkes Col contractors.

Ho said thero was no written tract with them for 1882, WHAT THEY THINK OF PATTISOH Industrial Hall Not Large Enough to Hold the Crowd That Cathered. The presence of the two leaders Wallace and Sandall fired the spirit of the Democratic throng that filled Industrial Hall, Broad an Vine streets, last night. Apparently no ar rangements had been made for an overflow meeting, although outside the building ther were hundreds of men, who, unable to reach the main attraction, showed a desire to hear some open air speech making. Sorno of them might have found standing room inside, but they could have been little better satisfied there than where they remained, forthcacous tic properties of the big building are so bad that I person must be within a few yards of the plat lerm to hear distinctly all that is said, even Ifhon the audience is still. When the dissatis fied peoplo in the rear begin to move about im patiently, as they did last night, as well as at the Beaver meeting a week previously, tho orator can hardly hear his own voice.

When two gentlemen one with a face like a bishop and a white neck tie which contrib oted to his clerical appeaiance, and the other, equally striking in personal appearance, but whose blonde complexion and side whiskers wore in notable contrast with the dark, sniootl features of his companion worked their way through the crowd, escorted by John Cadwalader president of tho Young Men's Democratic Asso ciation, tho people began cheering for Randall and Wallace, and their outburst of enthusiasm did no' subside until the leaders had taken seats upon the platform. Aniout the other gentlemen who sat up there were Chairman Harrity, of the city committee; City Commissioner Kruinbhaar Senators James Gay Gordon and Joseph P. Ken nedv, Ex Assistant District Attorney John Read. George M. Dallas, Samuel Dickson, S.

Davis rage, Samuel P. Jaquott, L. P. Ashmead, J. Bellangce Cox, Samuel (iustine Thompson General William McCandless, Councilmeu Brady, Moran and Huffman and Philip Fitzpatnck.

Down in the hall were several prominent Independent Republicans, including Councilmeu Lselnia Ninth ami nomas Will tcr. Just as Mr. Oadwalader was abou to open tho proceedings, the music of the band was completely drowned by.aP' plause that welcomed Ex Governor Curtin to the platform. Mr. Cadwalader helped the crowd in their applauding mood by referring to the auspicious circumstances accompanying the nomination ot Fattisou.

1 ho Republican party was breaking up and tho Democrats were united. Its two great leaders were here to bear testimony to the union and common purpose of the Democracy. Mr. Cadwalader presented Mr, Randall as the first speaker. A minute or two of cheering and "tigers" ensued before the veteran Congressman could make himself heard.

Randall's reference to Wallace, "When I was invited to come here to night and address a meeting under tho auspices of the Young Men a Democratic Association, lie siiid, I accepted with alacrity. I have not been unobservant of the marked influence which this body of young find in telligent men have had upon the politics of the city, and I am more thau gratified to hear of their interest in this campaign, in which they have enlisted trie warm energy of youth, the in dependence of character, the devotion of prin ciple, which are in a marked degree exempli fied in their association. I was pleased to be invited to speak here, but I was still more gratiiied when I was inlormed that 1 was to speak here in company wim me nonorarjic gentleman irom ueariicicl. Uma and long continued applause I knew that there had been persons who supposed that true harnionv did not exist in the party. Our presence hereto night iiouiu give you me oestpossiuio assurance mat tne Democracy ol this Commonwealth is.

united and that he and 1 will help to carry it ou to victory in Novein Der. Lnecrs.j HIS OPINION OF PATTISOS. "Your candidate is a young man. His youth has been urged as an objection. I have great sympathy with him.

Twenty years ago. when I first ran for Congress, the same complaint was made against me. I replied that youth was an offense which would soon euro itself. It has in my case, for to day I am in years no longei a young man, although I believe In the old reach maxim that a man is always as old as he feels himself. Mr.

rattison, if he is elected, aim oi ins election mere is no longer any doubt )en thusiastic cheers and applause), will bring to the Kx ecutive chair of this Commonwealth the same Quali ties which Samuel J. Tilden brought to that of New York, and which Lucius Uobiuson carried with him when he reduced the expenditures of that great state oy over nuy per cent. Applause. "We do not take Mr. I'attison up as the rcm osenta tine ot a mere sentiment, but because we believe that no will Wing to the high olhce of Governor the same inflexible honesty, the same indomitable will, the Banic devotion to principle and the same determined purpose to do the riKht without fear or favor winch he carried into the Controller's oilice.

We wilt elect him because we believe that with his elevation there wiil coine to the Commonwealth the same results which his administration of his present office has uiuugui io mis euy. n.iieers.j RE PL VI NO TO Jl'IXiE KEI.LEV. "But I want to speak of national issues as well. The September debt statement shows that the government is paying upon its bonds an interest as low as is paid by that of any other nation. The Democratic party arove me Kepuiiiicans to assent to this.

True rather to the interests of handed capital than to those oftl: people they resisted and after a bill fixing the rate of interest upon me oonas nan passed a Democratic Congress Rutherford li. Hayes, committing a great puunc wrong 10 serve private ami personal ends, Vetoed it. The ultimate reduction in the rate would never have been brought about except by the Democrats in both branches of Comrress. "A few evenings ago a distinguished associate of mine from this city, Judge kelley, a man for whom I have the greatest personal respect, declared that lie was in favor ol the repeal of the internal tax laws and meant to work to briijg about such a result. That could have been accomplished long ago had he hud the couarge to stand by his own convictions.

Afler the ways and means committee had decided to relieve the country of an annual lax of seventy million dollars he yielded his own opinions anil sacrificed his own principles to a party caucus and permitted this enormous drain upon the pockets of the people, this heavy burden upon the prosperity of the country, to remain." Mr. Kandall then briefly reviewed the results of the financial policy of the Republican party, maintaining that it had worked out great injury to the country. A GOOD THING IN THE LINCOLN PLATFORM. "I took occasion to day," he continued, to rend a resolution adopted by the convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln in 1K60, and I think that if the members of the Young Men's Democratic Association to night desire to adopt any resolutions they could find none more appropriate than these. They declare that: 'We view with alarm the recklessness which pervades every deparlment of the Federal Government, whilo recent startling exposures of fraud and corruption show that a change of administration is imperatively I think that such change is imperatively needed now.

Applause. "And now a word to business men. They have no earthly reason to fear that the Democratic party when it has control of Congress and the Federal Government will In the least degree interfere with the business and commercial interests of the country. 1 think that I know of what 1 speak when I say that the Democratic party and the men who lead it desire to bring back the prosperity which God in His divine firivilege has showered upon the American people. Applause.

WHAT IS EXPECTED OP PATTISON. "They tell you that we are going to introduce free trade or make some disastrous change in the tariif. They know that that is not our intention. We would do away with the internal taxation, which was never submitted to except as a war necessity. Last year's receipts from customs were 517,000,000 and from miscellaneous sources thirty or forty millions more.

This revenue is amply sufficient to support the government and pay the national debt. That would be the result of Democratic rule. I tell the Republican party to day that Hod onlv knows how much they would have taken away at" the last session had not the rules of Congress stood in their way. As it was they took seventy seven millions. Laughter and applause.

Until you establish a system of civil service and break up the fraudulent assessment through the agency of increased salaries voted bv Congress that the office holders may be willing to yield up their cash for their party, you will deserve all of the injuries which befall you. There is no other nation on earth which would have submitted to the burdens which you have borne. These burdens the people of Pennsylvania mean to throw off, and nil that they will ask of Mr. Pattison is that when he becomes Governor he shall stop the reckless expenditures of the Commonwealth as he has those ol the city. That he will do, and I do not believe that at the end of his term of his service there will beasingle Independent Republican who will not say to him, Well done, good and faithful Cheers and applause WALLACE ON OFFICIAL CORRUPTION.

When Mr, Randall had taken hi3 scat the, crowd became clamorous for Mr. Wallace, who arose to acknowledge tho tribute that was paid him. His speech was often stopped by applause. He spoke, in substance, as follows: Pennsylvania, degraded! plundered I disgraced I Her law making power a reproach her chief city a ink of "official corruption." Sad the statement; adderstill the fact. Who hears mo will deny it? lome and mine Niohe of States, there she stands, v.

voiceless woe," "he wounds th scMnir "MR. ROWAN WANTS IT DONE Testimony of the Witnesses to tha Fraud. Three Election Officers Held For Trial. For three hours and a half a densely packed crowd endured the close, foul air of the Central Station hearing room yesterday afternoon, and yet evidently felt well repaid for their sacrifice of time and comfort in the recital of tho fraud by which tho vote in the Almshouse division of the Twenty seventh ward at the February election was boldly altered by the fugitive who is now fighting against his extradition from Canada on another serious charge. The proceedings were made specially interesting by the testimony of witnesses in whose presence the returns were doctored.

The hearing terminated in the commitment of Thomas Smith, the judge, and Henry Starr and Nicholas Barber, the inspectors of the Almshouse election division, on the chargo of conspiracy in permitting the alteration of the return sheet for School Directors and the substitution of ballots, and testimony pointing to W. Ellwood Rowan as the instigator of Phipps' act. Smith, the election j'udge, tall and red whiskered, and his two stout colleagues, Inspectors Barber and Starr, first stood forth from the group of culprits, and coun sel for tho committee of one hundred. Assistant District Attorney Warwick, counsel for the defendants, and members of the citizens' commit tee grouped themselves around Magistrate Lad ner. phipps' work fob the machine.

Thomas II. Owens, an Almshouse employe, who was one of the election officers, gave a graphic account of the scene in the little polling booth opposite the Almshouse on theuight of the Febrnary election. After the voting had been completed, the returns made out and boxed and scaled ready for delivery at the P10 thonotary's oilice, a man named Davis entered with a paper and asked for Major Phipps. John B. Snyder, the wiudow book man, who was overseer of tho manufacturing department of the Almshouse, went after Phipps in a carriage and in half an hour returned with him.

Phipps said: "These papers have got to be changed." Smith said: "This can't bo done," and all in the room coincided with him. Phipps remarked that the Independent vote must be beaten and alterations made. Still all were reluctant to perpetuate the fraud. Phipps, energetic and excited, said: "Then I'll do it myself." Ha threw off his overcoat, called for the ballot box, whipped out Ins penknife, cut the seals, threw oO the lid, pulled out the return sheet envelopes, removed the returns, and then scratched out some figures and names and wrote iu others. He commanded Owens to make out new figures, but Owens, with the fear of prison staring him in the face, refused to have any hand in the matter.

Phipps himself then changed tha figures. He then dumped tho ballots on tha table and changed them. The box was then resealed. Smith, Starr, Barber, Harris and Snyder were all witnesses of these acts. Owens, in reply to cross examination by the lawyer for the defense, said that he had not witnessed all of the proceedings, having gone away twenty minutes while Phipps was there.

He denied that he had any purpose in communicating information of the fraud to counsel for tho committee of one hundred and only answered when he was asked what he knew. ORDERS FEOM THE BOSS." When Starr was called as the next witness the attorney, somewhat dismayed, informed him that he need not testify unless he wished to. Starr said he misunderstood and desired to know if the hearing was going on. Counsel told him he was to swear to the wholetruth and nothing eke. Ho had the right to refuse to testify to anything criminating himself.

The opposiug lawyer remarked that he was surprised, as Starr had been in consultation with him, and he declined to represent any man who played double. Starr tinned to hiih and denied that he had consulted him and said ha would swear to the facts just as they occurred. Iu a bluff, off hand way, he said: "Everything was signed, sealed and ready. When Oram Young enme in Snyder knocked at the'door and said, 'Here is orders from the I said, 'Who i8 the Snyder said, Mr. I said, 'Wo are going by He said, 'This has got to be changed Phipps wants it Snyder said, 'John, you and I will get in the wagon Phipps says this thing has got to be Suydersaid, 'This is no Mieuner chor ball for They went away aud came back and opened the ballot boxes.

Ton ray soul, I can't tell what really was changed. Philips and Snyder got ill through Shaffer's back door. Tiie election oflicers all kicked against the work." He corroborated Owens' statement of the rilling of the box, the alteration of the returns aud the substitution of ballots. Ho supposed the wagon found Phipps at the West Philadelphia Club rooms, on Market street. Phipps said the reason for the change was: "We have been leaving a man off the ticket who ought to have been on.

The division will be thrown out." The witness found out afterwards that it was to beat tho Iieform ticket. AFRAID THE REFORMERS WOULD GET IN. Snyder, tall, collected and ready, was sworn. A short time after the polls closed Phipps sent for him and showed him a note. Counsel objected to any statement of its contents unless the note itself was shown or its absence accounted for.

The retort was that as the man who received it was in Canada it conld not be rend, but the witness know its purport. Sf.y' der answered that he could not positively say from whom it came. It was a request to have tho vote of tho Second division, otherwise the Reform clement would be represented in the School Board. The witness answered It is too late. The vote is sealed aud ready to go." At rhipps' request Snyder accompanied him to the West Philadelphia Club room, where they found Mr.

Iiowan alone in a back room. Phipps said Tell Mr. Eowan about the indications in the Second division." Rowan then said Unless the vote is changed the Reform element will have a representative in the School Board." Every neck was craned forward at this point and hands went up to ears to catch every word of Snyder's clear utterance. On the way hack in the carriage to the poll Phipps said: "If it can be done possibly it must he done, because Rowan wants it done." Phipps and Suyder then entered the polling room. Snyder reiterated Starr's and Owens' narratives of the subsequent rifling of the ballot box, the erasure of names and the substitution of ballots against the objections of the election oflicers.

The new ballots were brought from a hack room. Snyder said he did not stay to see the work completed. THE VOTE EXACTLY REVERSED. Snyder, under cross examination, said he had retained information of the fraud until threo weeks ago, and said ho did not know that Detective Charles Miller, when he visited the Almshouse, was looking it up. At the request of Major Phipps he had gone through the ward and found all of tho voters except about six, who were dead or removed.

He accouuted for his failure to make any protest against the election trickery because he was overpowered by numbers and influence. He had been in the Almshouse thirteen years and before Miyor Phipps went tiiere, and was there yet as overseer of the manufacturing department. Counsel handed Snyder the tally list of the division and the witness said the erasures and alterations looked like those mado with Phipps' pen kuifo. It was shown that the vote had been exactly reversed, seventy votes for one candidate and one for another being turned about. There, was no argument and the accused wero put under $1,000 each for trial.

An attorney asked if Mr. Snyder was not one of the defendants. The response to this was: "No, but there are some other people who are not on this warrant who may be." Tho audience caught tho significance of the words and applauded. Security was entered for the defendants. CITY NOTES.

The steamer Indiana, of the American Line, sailed for Liverpool yesterday wilh a cargo of wheat, provisions, valued at and nineteen cabin passengers, B. K. Jamison, treasurer of the trustees of the Korristown Insane Asylum, reports $2115,2111.82 receipts and 12.17 expenditures during the year, leaving ST.sT'.i.Gi in the treasury. The bill in equity of William A.Coitnsrniust the South Carolina Colli Amalgamating Company and Thomas Cram and Lloyd P. Smith was yesterday dismissed by the United Hales Circuit Court.

BKAVEIt IN DELAWARE COUNTY. He Goes Twice Around the Itaco Track at Elwyn and Makes Two Speeches. Special Dispatch to The Times. Media, October 7. General Beaver, with Senators Davies and Greer, arrived at the grounds of tho 'Delaware County Agricultural Society at Elwyn at about noon and were received by Chairman Trainor, of the association, Samuel Kiddle aud a committee of reception.

They dined upon the fair ground. Geueral Beaver walked twice around the race track, accompanied by tho committee, Senator Cooper and others. There was no for mal reception and no speech making. Late in the afternoon General Beaver and Senator Davies were driven to Chestar. Senator Greer went to Media.

General Heaver addressed large meeting in the new armorv at Chester. He drove from Chester to Stedia, where a large meeting was organized in the court house. The meetinwas called to order by Henry C. Howard, who named Ex Judge Biooniall for chairnitm and named a long list of vice presi dents and secretaries. Mr.

Broomall made a few introductory remarks and then introduced Isaiah C. Wears, who addressed tho meeting for an hour. Senator Greer then spoke until the arrival of General Beaver at half past nine. He charged that the Independent movement was being run by money contributed by tho free traders of New York. General Beaver arrived while Senator Greer was speaking and was warmly received.

He apologized for not discussing tho political questions involved in the campaign ou account of the con anion oi nis voice, owing to the use of it at Chester and the ride in the night air. lie said he would not degrade the political rostrum by personal abuse. He acknowledged that there was a family division in Pennsylva nia, but claimed that those who were responsible lor nwere not honest ana were wrong in prin cipie, ii tne people demanded a change ot our political methods next year would be time the questions had been thoroughly considered by the press and in our political assemblies. Ho spoke of the importance of tho tarifl'question and urged the election of Marriott Brosius as Congressnian at Large. Ho said that Mr.

Brosius was generally considered as the tail of the ticket, but he considered his election of the utmost importance aud would rather sacrifice his own chances than see him defeated. He paid a compliment to Mr. Blaine, to whose ef forts he attributed Republican success in Maine. General Beaver spoko until after ten o'clock and then held an informal reception. GOLDW1S SMITH AND TITE IRISH.

The Professor's Reasons for Advocating Strict Measures of Repression. London, October 7. Professor Goldwin Smith, replying to E. Godkin, who had written an article in the Spectator criticizing Professor biuith views of the Irish question from a professedly American point of view, writes that he has advocated measures of repression, not because of any hostility to the Irish, but because the Parncllites abused their privileges as members of Farliatuont for the purpose ot wrecking parliamentary government in the interest of disunion. There is no doubt says Professor Smith, that if a party of Southern members of Congress had similarly endeavored to wreck" the American Legislature they would have been put down with as little compunction as was shown iu repressing the Irish in the draft riots in New York.

It seems to be for gotten, he adds, that in the agrarian reign of terror the murdered as well as the murderers are Irish, while the chief authors of the system are New York Fenians, and their organ, the Irish World, is tho property of a Jew. Mr. Godkin, himself, he says, is not a native Ameri can, hut an Irish Hostilities IJetween Virginia Politicians, Richmond, October 7. Last night about midnight, during the progress of a Readjustee mass meeting in this city, a rencontre occurred between General Peyton Wise and John Ambler Smith, Ke ndjnster candidate for Congress from this district, in which tne latter struck Ueneral Wise one blow, when friends interfered. Subsequently Mr.

Smith addressed the meeting, bitterly denouncing George I). Wise, his Democratic opponent fur Congress. Today Captain lleorge P. Wise was heard to make violent threats against Mr. Smith, whereupon a warrant was sworn out for his arrest, lie was taken into custody and then bailed.

Xo warrant has as yet been issued for the arrest of Mr. Smith, aud it is not Know unit mere win oe. Steamboats Iu Collision, Richmond, October 7. The steamers Havana and Alliance, of the West Point and Baltimore line, came in collision this morning about four miles from West Point during a dense fog. The Alliance sustained some damage to her bow, and the Havana had about ten feet of her bulwarks forward of the starboard wiieel smashed and one or two state rooms stove.

No one wus injured on either vessel, but the passengers were greatly frightened, and many provided themselves with life preservers, preparatory to buffeting the waters. Everything was soon quieted, and both steamers proceeded on their course. A Fatal Accident to a Farmer, Special Dispatch to Tun Tjmks. Wiuiamspokt, October 7. On Thursday night Francis Snyder, a farmer, living iu Morelatid township, Lycoming county, started for home from the fair at Hughcsvillc with a wagon and two horse team.

Yesterday morning his team and wagon were found at the bottom of an embankment near his home, the wagon box being upside down. On removing the box Snyder was found underneath, dead, his neck having been broken by the fall Ho was fifty six years of age. The 2Gth District Democrats Hesitating. Special Dispatch to The Timf s. Mercer, October 7.

The Democratic Congressional Conference for this, the Twenty sixth district, met here at seven o'clock last evening and reconvened this morning, but adjourned without makings nomination. The candidates are B. Magoffin, of Mercer J. II. Caldwell, of Crawford, and Lew McOuistion.

of Butler enuntv. The conference ad journed to meet in Franklin October 18. No Nomination in the 24th Senatorial District, Special Dispatch to The Times. Willi amsport, October 7. The Democratic Senatorial Conference met this morning and after taking twenty ballots without choice, making two hundred and sixty iu all, adjourned until Monday evening.

Scnulor ilcllenry, who left the city hurriedly Friday evening had not returned. BRIEF NEWS NOTES. The Chicago Hoard ot Trade voted yesterday to raise membership fees to $10,000, William J. Thomas had Us arm torn off by agin at Mapleton, Georgia, ou Friday, and during the amputation died while uuder the influence of ether. The boiler in Smith's saw mill, at Mills.

rnlnripd voslflrriav billing Villa tho foreman, and Gray, his assistant. Several others were Dadiy injured. A. E. Buck, chairman of the Georgia RcDub lican State central committee, denies that he will have anything to do with the (iartrell audJStephens contested election case.

James Cramer, of Brooklvn. while nt. wnrlr yesterday at the uew docks of the New York, Ontario nnd Western Railroad Company, at W'eehawken, fell from a pile driver aud was instantly killed. The Greenbackers' State central committee of Indiana has named Nlblack, of the Democratic ticket, and Judges Miooely and Berkshire, of tha Kepublican ticket, for the Supreme Court Judges. The corner stone of the new Pilurim Con regational Church at Madison avenue and One iundredand Twenty first street.

New York, was laid yestnla) n' n. The building will cost, when.