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THE TIMES PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1879. MORE RAILWAY LITIGATION. THE WAR ON THE BUSHEL. about the pouting of organs away in the rear, when the independent journals clearly point the way to success by brave battle against ringsters and their pitiable apologists. There PUBLISHED EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR hone is a Southern Ben Butler, quite as able, more of a soldier, bnt no more demagogue than his Massachusetts prototype.

He bas done more than any other man to corrupt the politics of his State, and hia infinite capacity for mischief would make his appearance in Washington as a Senator a national calamity. nor then devolves upon the Legislature. All the other State officers, except Governor, are chosen by joint ballot of the two Houses, and the will, of course, be elected; but circumlocution has been exhausted to make the choice of a Governor arbitrary and defiant of the will of the people. The House is required to nominate, from the four highest candidates, two names to the Senate, and from those two names the Senate must elect a Governor. The opposition is divided between three or four candidates, as a vote cast for any outside man was as effective against Davis as a vote for his highest competitor.

Had the Republicans cast five hundred votes for a second candidate, as was attempted for ex Governor Chamberlain ostensibly under a bolting Greenback flag, Chamberlain might have gone to the House with Davis, Smith and Garcelon the Republican House would, of course, nominate Davis An Overwhelming Stack Of everything in DRY GOODS, FANCY GOODS, LADIKS' AND GENTS' WEAB, AT GRAND DEPOT. John Wannmaker invites notice to the new and splendid stock of goods already la and daily arriving. The season at hand is better prepared tor than any preceding one. The vast and handsome stock and the convenient arrangements make the Grand Depot one of the city sights. VISITORS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME.

Those who like real bargains should see some things we secured at a forced sale and thature extremely cheap. DRKfsS GOODS 3 CASES DHKSS GOODS MIXED FANJV SUITINGS DRESS GOODS AT 8c. DRESS GOODS 2 CASES I) HESS GOODS SOLID COLOR SUITINGS DRKSS GOODS AT 10c, DRESS GOODS 5 CASES DRESS GOODS HALF WOOL FABRICS DItESS GOODS AT 12Hj. DRESS GOODS These comprise DKKSS GOODS TWILLED BEIGES, DRESS GOODS EMPRESS MOHAIRS, DRESS GOODS FANCY MOHAlltS, DRESS GOODS And will ba found upon exauiina DREss GOODS tion very cliosp. DRESS GOODS 3 CASES DRESS GOODS ENGLISH MOHAIR DRESS GOODS BALERNO DRESS GOODS Never sold as low before.

DItESS GOODS 2 CASES DRKSS GOODS HEAVY TWILLED BEIGES, DItESS GOODS IS CENTS, DRIiss GOODS Usual price. 25c. DRESS GOODS 2 CASES DRESS GOODS ENGLISH HERRING BONIS DRESS GOODS MOHAIRS. 20 CENTS DRESS GOODS 5 CASES DRESS GOODS PLAIN AND FANCY SUITINGS, DRESS GOODS 25 CENTS. DRESS GOODS The above lots are all of excellent DRESS GOODS value at the prices.

JOHN WANAMAKER, GRAND DEPOT, 13th MARKET to CHESTNUT An Injunction Against the Continental Koad Granted by tlie Court. Another injunction was yesterday granted by udge Ludlow against the Continental Passenger Railway Company at the instance of Thomas Shipley, who in his bill of equity complains that he is the owner of a lot of ground at the northwest corner of Nineteenth and Filbert, and the dwelling house erected thereon that the Conti nental Line is now constructing a turnout and siding in front of his premises on Filbort street to join with the Nineteenth street track that tho Seventeenth and Nineteenth Street Line or the Continental Company Is coustructing auother siding on Nineteenth street, and that these tracks in course of construction not only connect the different tracks of the two companies, but they are intendod to boused as sidings or turnouts upon which tho cars may etahd until it is convenient to run tbem from the track of one of the companies to the track of the other. It is averred that the Seventeenth and Nineteenth and the Continental Line have entered into some agreement or arrangement, the particulars of which are unknown to Mr. Shipley, but which ho believes vests in the Continental Line the right to manage and control the Seventeenth Stroet Line aud practically consolidates the two companies. He avers that such an agreement is illegal, because it is contrary to the provisions of tho Constitution of Pennsylvania, and it is further set forth that the Continental Line has no right to manage, lease or operate the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Street Railway, which is a parallel and compstiug railway, or to run the cars of the latter on Filbert street; that the companies have no right to connect their tracks by curves, sidings or that the Continental Line has no right to obstruct Filbert street excepting by a single track; that tho construction will cause the running along complainant's premises of cars other than thoso belonging to the Continental Line, whose cars, used in its own legitimate business alono.

can thus be run. It is complained finally that tho premises of the complainant will bo injured in valne by the proposed construction, by rendering access thereto difficult aud troublesome aud by subjecting the occupants to the nuisance which will result from cars boing kept standing in front of the dwelling, and running more frequently than would be necessary in conducting the business the Continental Line is authorized to carry ou. The injunction covers both the Seventeenth and the Continental Lines. The matter will be argued in a few days. WAGES ADVANCING.

The Manufacturers at Heading; Acceding to the Demand for More Wages. Special Dispatch to Tub Times. Reading, September 9. The stove moulders of the large establishment of Orr, Painter Co. asked the firm by petition for au advance of ton per cent, ou their wages.

Yesterday the men quit work and an appointed committee waited upon Jesse Orr for the purpose of stating their grievances. Mr. Orr met them as he returned from the Select Council Chamber, City Hall, and, after hearing what they had to say, told them to go to work that the firm had no time to fool away in differences with their men or with strikes. This morning the entire establishment resumed as usual. Mr.

Orr has just returned from an extensive business trip West and South, and roports business vory fair. Their large establishment was started ou the co oporative plan. Mr. Orr says that the de maud for an increase of wages of stove moulders is general all over the State. This morning a petition from the moulders of Rick's Foundry, a large establishment, manufacturing household hardware, was handed to the firm, asking an advance of 10 per cent, on their wages.

James Rick, of the firm, says that ho supposes their establishment will have to fall in lino and grant the request to prevent trouble, although ho is of the opinion that they are paying now about the same wages as other establishments aro paying since the recent increase for the same lino of goods. This largo foundry is working steadily and it is highly probable that tho moulders' request will be granted to proveut a strike. The Messrs. Hoizmann, of the Penn Hardware Company, of this city, who also employ a largo number of people, have docided to advance the wages of their men ten per cent, on and after the first of next month. Mr.

C. Heizmaun says that this was agreed upon without the solicitation or the demand of tho men oniployed. It is safe to say that iu nearly every iron mill in Reading there has been an advance in the rate of wages. The Reading Iron Company's puddlers are receiving an advance of 25 cents on the ton, and the holpersan advance often per cent. At F.

J. Obert's Union Boiler Works some of the hands have received an increase. Thero is a disposition among operators to retain their men aud keep them at work, and ralhcr thau have trouble reasonable requests lor an advance in wages are granted. There is considerable gladness in many business circles that the above threateuud strikes were averted to day. This Election Not a Gift Enterprise.

From the North American, Rep. Tho election this full is not a gift enterprise gotten up to roward the workers of the past, but a contest which may decide the political future of this city for years to come. If the Democracy succeed next November tbey will not only have another years' lease of the places they now hold, but they will have the Treasury at their mercy as wll. They will have a twelvemonth iu which fo entrench themselves and make ready to carry the Keystone State for tho Democracy in 1SS0 whoever the candidatomay be. And whoever carKa Pennsylvania next fall will walk into the 7hito House in tho March following.

An Organ Tuning Up bly. From the Evening Bulletin, Rep. We are going to demonstrato in No.ombor that the time has past when a few men can tram any ticket that they choose to select down the throats of the Republicans of Philadelphia, if the primary olections will give us what we want, we will take it'; but if they are worked, in the good old way, to express something else than tho will ot the people, we shall act precisely as they bad never been held. Hard Times in Glasgow. London, September 9.

Tbo Manchester Guar dian says it is estimated that thirty thousand persons are still out of work in Glasgow. Tho ron trades only are doing well. The building trades are in tho worst condition, aud it will bo necessary again to make provision to assist the unemployed during the coming winter. Mr, Bull, architect and surveyor, of Manchester, has tailed. His liabilities are given at i.4J,oU0.

Itutlerism Dangerously Threatening From the Pprlnglield Republican, Ind. Inquiry among individual Republicans discov ers a strange lack of prcseut political interest. General Apathy is too literally in command of tho Republican foreos. General Butler, Colonel Usher and Major MacDavitt are the vory live olfieors leading the opposition "still hunt." Tho best trained observers admit that Butlorisui is dangerously threatening. Why Not From the North American, Hep.

Why, then, should there not be a reclamation ot tho Republican primaries to day from tbo low conditiou luto wbich they have fallen? STATE NEWS AND BUSINESS POINTS. Wilkesbarrc lias just scut ten of ber vouna men to Yale College, dozen coffee mills will be shipped from Beaver Falls this week. 1'ottsville puddlers and liolpcrs are linupy over an Increase in their wages. The Pennsylvania Kolliiijr Mill, at Lancaster. shortly will he put In operation.

A new rolling mill is beina built at Beaver Fulls, the first in tho State this year. 150 laborers for a Pittsburg iron firm aro out for nn advance from $1 to $1.33 a day. Puddlers ut Erie have struck for ten cents per ton advanoe and the mills are Idle. The large Keis Mill at New Castle, which has beon Idle for years, will soon sturt up. In the Lancaster Court yesterday Susan Wait was divorced from Augustus Waltz.

Digamy. Lancaster city pavs its teachers Si'J(i, a year, tins going to the tencherof the African school. All persons employed in tho Pottstown nail factory will get an advance of 10 per cent. In their wages after the 22d instant. The State Prohibitory Convention, which was to have convened nt Altooim yesterday, has been positioned until tho 23d instant.

There is no abatement in the ravages ot ptcui o.ineumonin In Colerain, Lancaster. One Jarmer has lost twenty bead ot cattle. Lawyers William 11. Waddell and A. P.

Iteid, of West Chester, nnd James Boyd, tf Norria town, were admitted to practice in the Laucasler Court yesterday. I'ickering Valley. Hail came down upon Lancaster county on unday night like a doien wolves or so on Iho fold. $30,000 worth ot growing tolmpco was destroyed In the vicinity of Marietta. Eliaabelhlown loss about ts.Ouo worth of the weed.

Houses of York and Lancaster are still at It. Paling the white rone In his pallid chuck, the 'ork Pupalrh man says that York county can beat anenster all hollow raisins tobacco, nnd blushing: with the hue of the rod, rod rose, the Lancaster AVw Ilia replies that York Is coou tor nothing but chin coplns anyhow. Considering the Question or Adopting the Cental System. The Commercial Exchange held a special meeting yesterday to consider the advisability of adopting the cental system. Three members of the committee to whom the subject had been referred, Edward DeC.

Loud, William Brockio and S. Jenks Smith, made a majority report, recommending that the Exchange "adopt the cental system as the basis for purchase and Bale of grain, flour and seeds, to take effect on and after January 1, 1880; and further, that, recognizing the great dosirability of this system being uni versally adopted, this Exchange appoint a com mittee to co operate with other exchanges in this mattor; and that this Exchange, through its legislative committee, be directed to memorialize Congress for such legislation as will lead to the adoption of tho cental system of 100 pounds weight as a standard of the United States." A minority report was presented bv William B. Thomas and William Brice, who deemed it inexpedient to adopt the system at this time and recommended that the Exchange adopt a resolution to co operate with other commercial organizations in procuring whatever Congressional or Legislative action might be considered expediont. As reasons for the stand thev took these two gentlemen said that the Exchange possessed no power ot legislation to make a con clnsion binding; that the present system was based upon Legislative enactment; that it was truly American in its character and identified with the people, and that the change would not be readily understood ana would require increased labor. Considerable discussion npon the reports followed and a motion to lay the wholo subject on the table was rejected, whereupon it was resolved to postpono the matter nntil next Tuesday, when a balloting will bo held upon the question.

The Death of William II. Howard. The funeral of William H. Howard, who died at his residence, in Media, Delaware county, on Sunday, in the eighty second year of his ago, will take place to morrow at noon. Tho interment will be in Woodland Cemetery.

Mr. Howard was boru in Ware, at the time when American manufactures were just expanding from the relief from British laws; under difficulties that were mot but overcome by Whitney, Fulton and Bigelow. Early iu life he displayed great inventive talent. Iu Worcester he was the inventor of the wire machinery, that, in the bauds of Mr. Washburne, his partner, developed into a highly important manufacturing interest.

His favorite saying was that machinery can be invented to perform whatever the hands can execute. Machinery, for him, regulated manifold motions in looms, drew wire and lead pipe, sorted typo and braided siraw. He also held high rank as a woolon manufacturer and an engineer. Iu later years he capably and justly performed tho duties of a Magistrate. The circle of friends, whose rospeot aud esteem he enjoyed, was very large.

The OMloe lIoy Organ Pouting Because It Is Smoked Out. From the Press, Ring Variety Organ. The Republicans of Philadelphia have no oc casion to take counsel of their enemies, least of all ot their apostate enemies. They will take counsel among themselves. They will choose convoutions to consider the political situation and to name candidates for the offices to be filled this fall.

Wo trnst that these conventions when they come to meet will treat with the contempt which they deserve all the pleadings of the enemy to be regarded in these selections, and that they will nominate tried, unexceptionable Republicans, upon their own morits, in reward for faithfnl service, and go manfully to the people. This is the course of wisdom. It is also tho course of self respect. The time for the Republicans of Philadelphia to seek favors and beg support from those who strained every nerve to elect Tilden iu 1370 aud Dill in 1873, and whoso every power has been lavishly given to the ser vice ot tne Coniederate Democracy, has not yet come. Warwick Heads the Riot Act to the Delegates.

from tho North American, Rep. Wo know in advance what is demanded of the delegates, for there has been no stint of expressed opinion. Whoever may be elected delegates will not be able to act iu opposition to this opinion and plead ignorance in bar of condemna tion. No person will take a seat in the con ventions whose course will not be closely scrutinized. If any man looks forward to a seat therein as a stepping stono to future preferment, lie will study his own interest in studying the indications of public opinion.

He will be re sponsible alone to the masses of the party. He cauuot take bis instructions at second baud. Pr. Clement A. Finley's Denth.

Dr. Clemont A. Fiuley, formerly Surgeon General in the army, aud, later, Brevet Brigadier General, died at his residence, No. 5 Woodland Terraco, ou Monday, in the eighty second year of his ago. Ho had been ill for a long time.

Dr. Fiuley was the son of Major Samuel Finley, who served in the Revolution aud was receiver of moneys from the sale of public lands during Washington's Presidential term. Dr. Finley's father in law, Samuel Moore, was Director of the United States Mint at the time of his daughter's marriage. News From the Arctic ltegious.

San Francisco, September 9. The Australian steamer reports that the schooner General Harney, from the Arctic, arrived at Honolulu ou August 31 with advices from the North to August 1. Nordenskjold's steamer passed southward through Behriugs Straits some time between July 20 and 24. The Jeannotte and United States revenue cutter were at anchor at Kotzebue Sound. All were well on board.

PENINSULA PITH AND POINT. Wilmingfou bas 18 school buildings, with 112 teachers. Senator Saulsbury will leave Dover for Wellington this week. There are 6,802 pupils enrolled in the public sciicols of Wilmington this year. Janit Phillips, of the Eighth ward, Wilmington, hu.1 been bold to answer i'or illegal voting.

Mayor Allmond, of Wilmington, has held Alfred Abbott in answer for selling beer to boys on Sunday. Concressmnn Marth' has appointed Seth 0. Ellcgood, the third son ot Dr. Hubert Q. Ellcgood, of Concord, to the vacant caUehip at West Point.

Political prophets are said to predict that John M. Poynler wili be Attorney General. Mr. Gray, the other candidate, refuses to make a personal canvass. While the Kev.

J. Owen Sypberd was preaching for the salvation of the wicked citizens of St Georges on Sunday, some of the wickedest ones in the villago broke into and robbed tho reverend gentleman's house of valuable articles. It made Dr. Shadinger. of Wilmington, just get up and spread him.

elf the other day to save the life of young Charles 2uigley, who had been eating toadstools in mistake tor mushrooms. Michael and Mrs. Glatts, who also ate of the toadstools, were poisoned, but not seriously. From away down: Rudolph Prosy, darkey, has boen sent to the Somerset jail for brute outrago upon Mary Turpin. At Westover, Somerset, the other day, a pair of oxen having rushed panting into ditch to get a drink, a heavy hogshead rolled to the front of the cart with such force as to drive the enrt tongue into theditch bank and to hold the bend of the oxen uuder until tbey were both drowned.

Coroner r.utz, of Wilmington, lias held an inquest on the body of Charles II. Parker. James Parker, a brother of the deceased, testified that Charles whs 81 yenrs old. a resident of Trenton and, having learned his trade In the True American ottice, a printer. The two got on the top of a freight train hound south on the W.

Ai H. ltoad to steal a ride on Monday night. Charles was struck by the hrhlgo just below Delaware Junction and instantly killed. Wilmington's manufacturing establishments are all running, Tho Jtrjmbfiran of yesterday says that in the ship yards work is unusually brisk, the II. II.

Company now employing men; there are 100 bands at the Jackson Sharp Car Works, IiT0 hands nt the Bower Dure orks, 3lX) hands at tho Diamond Stitte Iron Works, 3 0 hands at the Lobdell Car Wheel Works, lriOmcu'nt tho carriage lactory of Mcl.ear Kendall, 110 men at the Puscy At Scoit Moriwco Works, 150 mon at the W. A B. Cur Works, and so on, smaller establishments also working full hamlcd. ta Vvr tlnllon, "Pure Old Kje WIiIhUj." Htrlctly pure for Family and Medicinal use. "OUK ItOl'K C'ANIIV AND ItVB WjlIHKY." Wonderful In Colds, Throat and Lung Diseases.

l'miNiinmiKB 12ao struct Our I'igiii eiHi'tiiient largely extended nml nmile a leaiiiro III our business. Imported Havana, Key West aad Domestic Cigars In great vuriety and abundance. II. Vas 1310 Ciib.st.nut Rt. Thl lira! Is I lie ClirnMsl.

All agreo to tho above after using the best Lehluh and Wllkcsoarre Coals, sold by Hi.ack No. '2ii Bnnlh Til inn. Mow Is the lima to lay lit your winter supply at tho greaily reJuceil prices. A llt'iilly Pure ntid ttood Itye TVIilsky. Ourstumlurd Whisky.

Vneitualcd and uuexcelled. Ilngallon. $1 lor a Inruo hoiile. 11. Van Kill) Chestnut Street.

At the TntlrisH, 1010 Chrolisul will be found Hie largest assortment Cloeks. Hrnnstes, Htatunrr, Artistic IVittery, Cahlnets, Kasela, Pedvslalt nnd (elect articles lor bridal gifts. TruMm nnadngra, K.le. Largest and choicest assortment at "Snat.itv'a IIn ItmniKB Truss" Establishment, 1347 Chicmtsiut kit. Correct adjustment a specialty.

won't be a slate ticket nominated to morrow, solely because the independent newspapers of Philadelphia, aided by two manly organs, have told the plain truth to leaders and candidates, and honestly reflected the aroused public opinion that unmistakably proclaimed disastrous defeat to the slate and its makers. But organs will be organs, and so runs the world away. The Republican delegate elections held last evening prove nothing and settle nothing. The delegates elected give no expression to the wishes of the Republican people; but around the primary polls the very air voiced to the precinct and ward sub managers, as it has voiced to the leaders for weeks past and as it will give voice to the conventions to morrow, that no spawn of the machine can pass the ordeal of the people at the November election. The one thing that may be regarded as concluded is that Mr.

John L. Hill will not be the Republican candidate for Sheriff, and he respects himself by respecting the popular demand for a different nominee. It is due to Mr. Hill to say that be was not delcated at the primaries, for they neither defeated or nominated anybody; but those who must bear the brunt of the battle in case of revolt, including candidates and candidate makers, nt last appreciated the supreme necessity of bending rather than be broken. It is nearly or quite equally certain that neither Mr.

Speriiig nor Mr. Kemble will be on the ticket to be nominated to morrow. There are many rumors of combinations and counter combinations to control the conventions in favor of particular candidates, bnt we regard everything that was done, or attempted to be done, yesterday by any circle, as more than likely to be undone to day or to morrow. There is now an open field for the leaders to do a good day's work in promoting the selection of a first class ticket from top to bottom, and if they fail to do it, those who shall be responsible for the abuse of their power may count on a lively reckoning in the early here i after. Impressions of Judge Kelley's: talk with Bismarck about silver, which he related in The Times some weeks ago, begin to come back to us from Europe.

It is not to be supposed that the German Chancellor made up his mind suddenly on this matter, but the fact that it was to our correspondent that he first declared his conviction that the demonetiza tion of silver was a mistake, coupled with his expression of desire to meet the United Slates in a discussion of the subject, gave to Judge Kelley's interview an importance that is world wide. Our own silver acitators. however. who have so joyously hailed Prince Bismarck as a convert to their views, need to recollect that the course which he proposes is quite the oppositeof theirs, aud the error which he now repents is essentially the very same error into which they would lead this country. Prince Bismarck's gold policy failed because he undertook it without consultation with the governments of other countries and in avowed opposition to their policy, supposing that Germany was strong enough to disregard the rest of the world.

Now he has found his mistake, and he seeks an international conference to agree upon some general policy. This is what all intelligent bi metallists, like Mr. Cer nuschi, General Walker, and now Mr. Gibbs, insist upon as an essential condition of successful national finance, but our silver people would have the United States repeat, under far worse conditions, the disastrous experiment of Germany, aud establish a standard of their own without regard to any international agreement If they will only be content to follow Prince Bismarck's or M. Cernuschi's or General Walker's plan, aud refrain from tinkering with the currency and coinage until an international convention can be had, no one will object to their heaping up all the argu ments they can find in favor of the use of silver.

What sensible people object to is not bimetallism, but this wild idea of a single debased standard, that must cut the United Rtutea off from all equal dealings with the rest of the civilized world. As the Indian situation is developed its cheerfulness is not increased. The sudden de maud for a fighting force to move on Cabul has brought to light various facts which, ior the credit of English military administration in India, might better have remained undiscovered. Principal of these is the fact that no fighting force is in existence to be moved. There are a good many troops in India though not nearly so many as the exigencies of the future are likely to demand but there is nothing whatever that can be described as au army.

Disease has shattered the force organized last year for the invasion. Theegimcuts north of Teshawur close on the frontier are mere skeletons, aud even the men remaining on duty for tho most part are so weak as to be utterly unfit for service in tho field. All this is bad enough, but it is a sort of badness that nobody in particular can be held responsible for. But what is a great deal worse than the physical bad condition of the men, is the moral bad condition of the staff corps. The staff corps distinguished itself during the recent campaign by its magnificent inefficiency.

The waste was something frightful to contemplate, and this waste in the past is crippling operations now. Even if there was an army to advance, the means for its advancement are lacking. There are few wagons left, and if there were wagons mules or horses could not be found to draw them. For the same reason the batteries cannot be moved. Camels are even harder to obtain than mules or horses.

In short, the slight approach to effectiveness that obtained under tho sharp pressure of actual necessity lias disappeared. The war having come to an eud, as everybody supposed, no attempt was made to repair the waste that the war had wrought. 'Never vigorous, the staff corps ceased its exertions the moment that the pressure npon it was relaxed and what little there was left of orderly arrangement disappeared. Had the peace bocu genuine article, all this internal weakness iu India would have remained hidden. Unfortunately, circumstances have arisen to bring it all very clearly before the world.

THE MAINE CONTEST. The fact that Davis, the Republican candidate for Governor in Maiue, may fall a few votes short of a clear majority of the wholo vote cast, although twenty thousand ahead of his highest competitor, and that the Senate muy be controlled by the Democratic and Greenback fusionists, attracts attention to the peculiar, clumsy nnd arbitrary circumlocution that must attend the lawful election of a Gov ernor in that Stnto. If the same laws existed in Pennsylvania which exist in Maine, Governor Hoyt would have been defeated last fall by 59,103 majority, as ho lacked that number of receiving a majority of the wholo vote; but his plurality of over Colonel Dill was proclaimed, and justly procluiiued, a brilliant Republican victory, as the elec tion of a Republican Governor nnd four Con gressmen in Cnlilornin by little more than a third of the whole vote cast is heralded as a sweeping Republican triumph. Such should be the law of Maine, but there are yet linger ing traces of the old Puritan over plumb straightness which have cost the people of New England much vexation and often grievous defeat of tliorr 0 a wishes. Assuming that lias been no election by the people in Mu choice of a Govor In of up THE TIMES BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA.

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Mr. Pierce incurred the hostility of the partisans of his own faith by voting in Congress against counting the fraudulent vote of Louisiana in the Presidential election of 1876. Auother Massachusetts Prof. Seelye, oi Amherst College, stood with him on that occasion. Both declined to return to Congress, but both have lived to see that their party cannot do without them when it gels into a tight place.

Seelye's voice is always heard with attention and heed paid to his advice. Pierce was the instrument of the redemption of Boston from Democratic rule, and now it is pretty well agreed that he is the only available man to keep the Commonwealth out of Butler's clutches. Some of the Stalwarts make wry faces over the dose, but they will have to take it or run a great risk. It is well to note these changes wrought by time in public opinion. They should teach men in political life that the exercise of conscience in politics is not only the right thing, but iu the long run the paying thing.

The farmers got their lair well started yesterday, and the Permanent Exhibition will doubtless draw larger crowds for the next week or so than it has lately known. It is a long while since we had a State fair near Philadelphia, the Agricultural Society having usually sought more rural regions but there are many reasons why such a display can most advantageously be made at the metropolis of the State, and the attractions of the Centennial season may be revived on a small scale at the buildings and grounds near Lansdowne. We are accustomed to hear so much of the mining and manufacturing interests of our State that few Peunsylvauiausf realize the importance of our agriculture, and it is well that we city people should have this practical illustration oi the wealth of our farms and orchards and dailies. The opening yesterday gave Mr. Welsh an opportunity for some well timed remarks about the agriculture of this country and of Eugland.

We are happily exempt from the evil system of laud tenure that has brought such distress upon the mother country, and there is land here for everyone who is willing and able to till it. But nature's bounty will not last forever, and if our land is to be a permanent source of wealth, it must be because we husband it well and because our farmers are intelligent, enterprising and thrifty. It does seem about time to make an example of some of the senseless youths who blaze away with firearms and call it an accident when they happen to kill somebody. This reckless use of guns and pistols has become uncomfortably common. No amount of argument appears to make any impression, and we must appeal to the courts.

Some time ago two young men amused themselves by firing at one another across Race street. They were arrested, strangely enough, and held for trial, One ran away, aud the other, after remaining in jail for four months, was yesterday sen tenced to a term of imprisonment that just covers the period since his arrest, so that in a few days he also will be at large, The reason given for this light sentence is that the other man fired first and that nobody was hurt, a very remarkable fact under the circumstances. Perhaps the Court did well thus to temper justice with mercy, but the man would not have been any more culpable if he had killed a passer by, as did the unknown person who fired a Fourth of July salute iu New York and killed Mr. Seymour, or as the Montgomery county marksman did the other day who fired at a cupola and killed a man. People who fire guns at random must be prepared for the consequences, and il summary punishment were meted out occasionally it is probable that this sort of firing would become a little less common.

It's not the fault of the Press that it's an organ, for the stream must answer to the fountain. It's not tho fault of tho organ that few read it, fewer consult it and none fear or respect it, for such is the logical fale of organs of its class. It's not the fault of tho organ that it doesn't riso to a better class, for organs can't lilt thomselvcs up by their own bootstraps; and it's not the fault of the leaders that they nevor consult it, novcr consider whether it likes or dislikes candidates they may select, for it must follow the machine rack wherever it goes and it wouldn't make any difference to the party if it didn't. But the Press shouldn't war with fate. Wheu the sun cocs down there's darkness, and when candor and conviction depart from newspapers, they can't sco tho straight way nml couldn't follow it if it was in sight.

It should learn that political leaders don't bother about dependent and submissive organs, but that they do consider and oiten pause to obey what independent journals demand, not because any journal can arbitrarily make or unmake public sentiment, but because tho indo pendeut newspaper understands popular opinion, faithfully reflects nnd manfully defends it. It's profoundly mortifying to organs like the Press, which cither silently or bunglingly aid rings us long as they have a hope of success, that political leaders defer to the criticisms of the independent newspaper, but that is one of the rewards the organ ncccpts when it becomes ap organ and surrenders self respect to exacting masters. The leaders of Philadelphia know that the independent journnls of this city have helped to elect four fifths ot the important Republican local candidates who have been successful lately, and that they have fearlessly opposed every Republican candidate that has been defeated and the leaders don't Tex themselves a as A hopeful dispatch comes from Chillicothe to the effect that President Hayes spent yesterday morning in visiting relatives and avoiding public recognition." Bless his honest old heart, this President of ours does Bpend a tremendous amount of time in "avoiding public recognition," and that is a fact. The Democrats of Chester county are not likely to run any risk of electing a President Judge of their own party, but it is creditable to them that they have abandoned tho old practice of making nominations and thus maintaining a partisan fight over an office that ought to be exempt from political influence. We hold it not the loast among tho fruits of The Times' influence in Pennsylvania that the principle of retaining a worthy Judge in office has now been generally accepted by all parties in nearly every county of the State, and the Democrats of Chester honor themsolvos while they honor Judge Futhey in declining to make any nomination against that able and upright officer, who3e appointment to the bench will be confirmed by the unanimous vote of his fellow citizens.

fob so young a county a mere county in long clothes, as it were Lackawanna is rushing things, and no mistake: not a year old, yet, aud with a sufficiently liberal allowance of vices to fit oat an effete monarchy and have enough loft over to set up a good sized nominating convention. Theee has been some little curiosity to know exactly how George William Curtis would take the nomination of Cornell. There was no question as to his eating the crow, but whether he wouTd take it broiled, stewed or fried was open to doubt. Curtis is equal to the einergoucy. In the current number of Harper's Weekly he growls a little, indoed, over the dish, but says very plainly that, unpalatable as it is, he will take it raw, feathers and all, rather than make a fuss about it.

Thus again is Conkling's ex coriation of this carpet knight in politics ampl justified. Not to put too Sue a point upon it, Curtis is a fraud, despite his kid gloves and swallow tail. The St. Petebsbueo Gazette manifosts a very rational comprehension of the situation in sug gesting that England and Russia divide Afghan istan between them. This is almost as judicious a scheme as was the partition of Poland, and must commoud itself to the Afghans at sight, Southern' newspapers are disposed to give the devil his duo in articles laudatory of Jay Gould, the ownor of the New York Tribune, for his generous contribution of $5,000 for tho relief of the yellow fever sufferers in Memphis, and some of them go so far as to contrast this liborality with the backwardness of Jlr.

Tilden iu coming forward to the aid of the solid South in its distress. We would advise tho old gentle man to roll a barrel down that way. Mr. Vanderbtlt has succeeded in walking away "from several people in the course of his life, and if he really is determined to throw wot blankets on the Kowell Hazael walk, perhaps tho host thing for him to do would bo to go on tho track himself. It was all very well for the Democrats of Maine to take np the Greenback organization as the first stick that was handy to knock tho life, out of the Republicans, but the stick is growing so big that the party that is wiolding it will hardly bo able to make itself seen behind it when November, 1SS0, comes arouud.

Very soon there will be historic doubts as to the ox istonco of a Democratic party in Maine. The Blaine boom: which was to have boon started immediately after tho Maine election is a little slow in moving, because Solon Chase's steers are pulling too hard in the opposite direo tion. Duo notice will be given of the deforrod start. It is worthy of note that a member of the finest police force in the world arrested a pick pocket yosterday and carried him to the station house without clubbing him once. Even the New Yorkers themselves are lost in a state of dreamy surprise at this dual wonder outside of New York the matter is regarded with sheor, dumbfoundered flabbergastation.

Mb. Tildex is expected to attend the Demo cratic masked ball at Syracuse. He will go disguised as a Wicked Nephew. There are a few score of bloody noses, pummeled pates, Mansard roofed eyes, and bruised and blossomed ncscs as trophies of the delegate eloctions last evening but they came in tho regulation way, and the owners have the consolation that they earned their scars in tho "last ditch of the machine." PERSONAL. TnoMAS Bayley the English free trader, is now in Montreal.

Miss Florence Copleston, the pianiste, was among tho passengers on the steamer Montana, which arrived in New York on Tuesday morning. Judge Lynch is a reality. With the ancient and honorable Christian (as well as heathon) name of Darius he now presides over the Moulton (Ala.) Court. During the week ending August 23 there were 1,319 deaths registered in London. Statisticians will note with interest that this is precisely 113 less than tho year in which Columbus discovered America.

General Grant has written to a friend in Galena, that he shall go directly to his home in that place and reside permanently there. Ills bouse has been repaired inside and out and will bo in readiness to receive him. John Dunn, an old journalist, who for many years was connected with newspapers in New York, but for the past fifteen years has been connected with papers in Washington, died on Monday night atthe Washington Asylum. Gilbert C. Walker, Governor of Virginia for four vears and the representative of the Richmond district In the last two Congresses, has returned to bis old home in Binghamton, New York, and is a delegnto to the Democratic convention which meets at Syracuse to day.

That brisk little lady of seventy two summers, Mrs. Myra Clark Oaincs, has arrived in Washington. She tells the I'ud that she will endeavor to relorm Congress a startling suggestion, truly. Her plan Is to equiD a large hotel in Washington where the accommodation and prices will encourage the Congressmen to take their wives and children to the Capital with them. Should the Congressmen have their wives to watch them, thinks Mrs.

thuy wouldn't be ao wicked. Joe liLACKiuntN, of Kentucky, who has been visiting ex Oovernor Tilden at his country residence on the Hudson, Is rather hard on that much maligned old man. Mr. Itlackhurn says that Mr. Tilden plays the trick upon hisguests of running up several flights of stairs to the cupola of his mansion, ostensibly to show his guests a fine view of the eounlry, but In reality with the design of Impressing his visitors with tho idea that Tilden Is yet vigorous and strong enough for the next 1'rosideulial race.

Song of the ISIrds. Chirp, sing, chirp, sing, chatter a ronndolny, Sing, sing as ye westward wing, For evening, the gentlest queen of the hours, Ilalh tripped with hur train from the tolling towers And pacelh this way, nt the skirts of the day, One latest oarul of welooine etngl Sort, hush, soft, hush, under tho trees they llo, Low, low, they chant as they go, Shutting the lid of the uoslling's eye. Spilling cold dew from the streams of the sky oil me uriitie grass, as tney piously pass, Kvening's almoners treading sluw. Blow, soothe, blow, soolho, swinging our oradle bough; Hwoet, sweet, at every heart bent Thy hand's 'ncnth our nest, thy cheek bends nbovo. boll Hpirit of JCest, e'en fledglings canst love.

Who riiteuetli tho doors ol' the cells of the stars, Who holduth the sun but a stool for Thy fretr II. 8. M. "WllY be so fcnrful over disordered Kidneys? Kiinky Woht will euro you. Mlvcr.

Cnnw" Jackson's Best" SweetNavy Tobacco.4i and Chamberlain, the two Republicans, aud the fusion Senate would be compelled to elect a Republican Governor but the Republicans were hopeful of electing Davis by the people, and tbey could not afford to divert any votes to a second candidate, while the opposition covered the ground, as reported, by casting enough votes for Bion Bradbury, Democrat, to make him go into the Honse with Davis, Smith aud Garcelon. If Davis has failed of a popular election and the Senate is anti Republican, the Republi can House will be compelled to nomi nate two candidates from a list of one Repub lican, two Democrats and one Greenback man, which compels the House to send one Democrat or Greenback man to the Senate with Davis, where Davis will be defeated, notwith standing his large plurality, as was Governor Connor last year. Maine voted on an amendment to the con stitution on Monthly, proposing to simplify elections in that State, but it was lost sight of in the bitter contest for Governor, and we have no reliable returns of the vote. The latest returns leave no doubt that Davis has fallen considerably short of a ma jority on the popular vote, but make it certain that he will reach the Governor's chair cventu nlly through the Legislature. The Republi cans prove to have a majority not only in the lower branch, but also in the Senate, which will fiually decide the contest.

TOO MUCH HOUSE. If the Spragues will continue to rattle that pet family skeleton of theirs people will pause to listen to the jangle of its joints and to draw therefrom any moral lessons which are naturally sucgested. It is, as it were, a sort of domestic jumping jack. The head of the distracted household lays hold of the string, which he pulls with such vigorous jerks as to make the skeleton rear and plunge after the manner of a living creature, kicking the major part of the family out of the house and sending them straggling all over the country. Ten thousand causes, more or less, may be as signed for the infelicitous condition of the household affairs represented by this skele ton.

One of these is incidentally men1 tioned by Sprague himself. In a recent conversation he alluded to the family mansion as a nuisance, alleging that it contained nine ty two rooms aud required a regiment of servants to keep it in order. It is not strange that housekeeping in such an establishment proved to be a vexation and a plague. No family short of the variety raised by a Morman patriarch could accommodate itself to so great a prodigality of household room. A man might as well try to keep house in Noah's Ark for the guests whom such a house would naturally attract might reasonably be expected to be as heterogeneous and as difficult to manage as the varied live stock which the great ship master had on board.

Tho maintenance of this sort of a house is not merely a matter of expense, nor is it one of the engagement and the discharge of competent or incompetent servants. The trouble is that amid the coming and going of ereat numbers of incongruous and uncongenial guests the family element is lost in the crowd, the idea of home becomes a fiction, and tho most tender relatious of the individual members of the family are chilled and forgotten. Domestic felicity in such a gigantic abodo is almost an impossibility. In most instances it bas been a failure. Boys aud girls brought up in the style which is inseparable from this kind of a place may for a while shine in showy society, but they have no more practical knowledge of what constitutes a real home than if they had been raised in a House of Refuge or Home for the Friendless.

The family failures of the men who have built these mammoth residences are conspicuously before the public. Yet it is the ambition of many aud many a man to have a house bigger than the house of anybody else. These men hope for success where almost everybody else has failed. As fortune smiles upon them they try their luck at it, and hire an architect to design a monstrosity for them theu orect it, and at last when fortune frowns and ghosts come to occupy the guest chambers, and Sheriffs' deputies thunder at the door with writs and attachments, and the Sheriff's auctioneer knocks the structure down with his hammer, they lamentably mourn that they made a sorry aud shocking misfit of the whole business. Perhaps love in a cottage is a narrow and contracted way of getting along.

It has its objections aud inconveniences, especially as the roll of the family grows more and more numerous. But it has its compensations in the snug and cosy surroundings which make love aud happiness possible. A small boy is not more uncomfortable iu his feelings or ridiculous in his appearance when clad in his great grandfather's big Sunday suit than a family is when rattling around in a house many sizes too large for an easy fit. Some years ago a wealthy gentleman in this city astonished his friends by selling the large and costly mansion in which ho had lived, aud purchasing a much smaller house. They thought ho had met with sudden reverse of fortune.

But he explained that he had not. He gave as his reason the fact that he had several children, and although he expected to leave considerable property, it would not be enough to ena blo any of them to live in such an expensive house. He did well. The father in law who gave a thirty thousand dollar house to tho young gentleman at Fall River who recently turned defaulter, led the poor fellow into a fatal temptation. The youth was receiving a salary of twenty five hundred dollars, and could no more keep a thirty thousand dollar house on such an income than poor Spraguo could keep his niuety two room house on all tho wealth of the baiikrupt Sprague estate.

Even though this young man may not have sunn tho hymn which begins "I love to steal," he had to live by stealing in order to live at all. It wits bad business ior all coucorned. Give ns tho house which neatly, comfortably and joyfully fills ourcxact needs, with a spare room or two for choice aud chosen welcome guests, and we will be happy. Old Virginia is alive with disputation on the question of an honest disposition of the puhlio debt, and there is a blaze of popular enthusiasm favor of honesty that bids fair to burn tho very routs of tho repudiation party. The only thing that can give that party any chance of success ii a solid colored vote, which they are not likuly to got whilo such Republicans as liugbesantl Klvcsatid Ramsdell striko hands with Conservative DomocraU for the policy of honesty.

An Incidont of th canvass li the pledging can 1' for the Legislature to vote for or Iral William Mahons for tbo United i as the successor of Withers, Ma Linen doods. GRAND DEPOT 13TH ST. AT REDUCED PRICES. Ladies' Hemstitched and Embroidered Initial Handkerchiefs at 15c. each, warranted pure linen.

Gents' Initial Handkerchiefs, 15c. each, warranted pure litieu. Ladies' Colored Border Handkerchiefs at 10, V2 20 and 25c. each. A large assortment of Embroidered Handkerchiefs at reduced prices.

000 doz. Gents' Handkerchiefs, $1.60 per doz. 300 doz. Gents' Handkerchiefs, S1.80 pcrdoz. 200 doz.

Gents' Handkerchiefs, $2.10 Bur 100 doz. Oeuts' Handkerchiefs, $2.41) per doa. 350 doa. Gents' Handkerchiefs, $2.87 per doz. Warranted pure Linen and very cheap, LINEN DIAPER.

In all widths, at low Drices, COTTON DIAPEIt, From 18 to 27 Inches wide. ONE LOT LINEN LAWNS, Warranted pure Linen, ltfc. per yard, reduced from 25c. Fine Loom Damask Table Linens at 50, OS, 02, 65, 75 and BOc. per yard.

1 case Turkey Red Table Linen, extra wide, st 66c, per yard. 30 pieces All Linen Gloss Toweling at 10c per yard. 30 pieces All Linen Glass Toweling at 120. per yard. 10 bales Russia Crash, At6ic, and up.

100 5 8 Napkins, double selvedge, $1 per dozen. 150 5 8 Nnpkins, very fine, $1.50 per dozen. A large lot Extra Double Damask Tabic Cloths, Napkins to match, At very low prices. 150 Damask Towels, Best value we have ever offered, 25c. each.

Remnants of Linen Sheetings, Aeronauts of Pillow Linens. Itemnants of Shirting Linens. JOHN WANAMAKER, GRAND DEPOT, 13th Market to Chestnut Good. Grand Depot, 13th Street, Market to Chestnut. JOHN WANAMAKER.

We are giving better attention to this Department, and in preparing to move It to more spacious quarters now preparing for It, we And a number of good things that housekeepers use la littiug up their wiuter bouses which we have bought too largely of, aud, to sell off, will greatly reduce. JOHN WANAMAKER. GRAND DEPOT, GRAND DEPOT. IMnno and Table Covers. GRAND DEPOT 13TH ST.

Piano and Table Covers in nearly all qualities and colorimrs. 8 12 Piano size cloth Covers, with embroidered borders, $3.50. $1, $4.50. 85, S3.50, $0. Figured Cbimz Cretounes, as low as Oe.

per yard Striped Chintz Cretonnes, as low as 10c. per yard, Figured French Cretonnes, fast colors, 20c, per yard. Striped and Figured Serge Cretonnes, 20c, 25c Printed Momle or Crepe Cretonnes, at 33a 37., 40c. and per yard. Swiss Tamboured Lace Curtains.

iswiss Vestibule Lace. Nottingham Lace Drapery. Nottingham Vestibule Lace. Nottingham Lace Curtains. The above Laces are beautiful Goods, and are ottered at prices that will be appreciated.

Also, a great reduction in the prices of raw and Rpun silk Tapestry for Furniture Coverings and Curtains. JOHN WANAMAMER, GRAND DEPOT 13TH ST. Cliinn Department. Grand Depot, 13ih Street. Market to Chestnut.

JOHN WANAMAKER. A lot of 75 dozen Decorated Dinner rtates that we opened one day last week at five cents each (less than halt usual price) were sold iu an hour and a hair. People who do not look Into this department miss such bargains as are often opeued there. We keep the very finest as well as the common grades. Just now attention ts invited.

Decorated Dinner Sets, 125 pieces, $21.75. Parisian Porcelain Diuner and Tea Sets, 132 pieces. $13.75. Willie China Tea Sets, 44 pieces, $5. MAlolica Pitchers, 25c.

each. Miijulicu Fruit Plates, $1.20 per dozen. Fine Initial Goiilets, pop. a dozen. Richly Engraved Fruit Howls, 25c.

each. Also, an endless variety of new and beautiful designs in Gloss, Crockery, China, Silverware and Cutlery. JOHN WANAMAKER, GRAND DEPOT 13TH ST. A Few Excellent ltni gnlus I LACES. LACES The undermentioned articles are of fine LACES quality and are extraordinary bargains In LACKS deed.

LACES 1 lot of Real Bretonne Ties at 25 formerly L.l CES told at 50 cts. LAW'S 1 lot Collarettes at 15 formerly sold at LACES 20 cts. LACES Ctl Embroidered Ties at 0 formerly sold Laces at 12 cts. LACKS 1 lot Breimue Real Lace at II formerly LACES sold at 10 cts. LACKS 1 lot Buchinit at 25 formerly sold at LACES 82 cts.

LACKS 1 lot Footing Ruclii, at formerly sold LACES at 1 1 cts. JOHN' WANAMAKER, GRAND DEPOT ST. Doe Your Itiiiiif Payf Handsome profits from small and large Investments, of from $25 to Hi, In the new Mutual Colonization System, Is a matter of dally occurrence In Wall street. The success ol this Improved method is attracting universal attention. It enables any one to operate successfully and secures to each participant all the advantages of unlimited capital on large or small Investments, while profits are divined pro rata among shareholders every mouth.

Owr $4,080.32 was netted in ono capitalization lor each ol 27 business men who furnished $2,000 respect, vely. A cotton manufacturer of Lowell, made by Investing $100 in a capitalization lust month. New circular, "Rules for huceess," Willi Invaluable information to all Invostors, rpailed free. All kinds of Itonds and Stocks bought and sold by A dams, HltoWN it Bunkers and Brokers, 20 aud 2S Struct, New York. Tlinina ISIrrli Mon.

KAI.K AT NO. 121 S. F.1.KVKNTH ST. Stock of elegant furniture, manufactured by Mr, Paul In a Hupcrlur niaunor; lire proof safe, superior spring and hair mattresses, ON WKDNKSPAY MojtNINO, September 10, commencing nt 11 o'clock, will he sold parlor, library, chamber, dining room and hall furniture manufactured In a superior manner for private sales. Mr.

Paul Is retiring Irom business, and will sell bis entire stock, lire proof, etc. Furiilturu now on exhibition, with catalogues. I'nlnrrli, Consumption, Blood Poisoning and Nervous Debility cannot exl In the system with Professor Palne's Caiarrli Vapor. Oftlee. Peabody Hotel, 250 South Ninth street.

Consultations free. Dr. I. D. Thnnm.

Oil Wnlnnt Ntrrrf. Charitcs reduced lorexirnciluif teeth by Mtrous Oxide Gas. ioi.toN Dkntai. Rooms, opposite Irving House. I.ndhV l.lglil It libber Clonk, only $2.50, at B.C.

Tli.MNiiiiAKT'a Rubber htoies, 12 South hKcONO Street and ltWO Maiikkt Htreel, l.une J.tc 'lgnrelle "TiiK Bust." Lonk Jack Cioaiihttbh For Sale Everywhere." Mmoke "SKALor Vikoisia" smoking Tobacco. The l.rge llrlnil Dry Onmls lion. Juum DaroT, 13tu uiana ft. A.