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THE CBIAHA DAILY BEE : 8A7UKDAY. OCTOBER 1C. 1880. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TF.RHS or si Dnlly < M < vnl.n ? Kdltlon ) Including Si HKR , Utiu Year . $1001 ForBlxMontlH . r > ) l-'orThrro Months . BM U'lio Omulm BKiidny Hut : , irmlloil to nny iiJJioOno Veur. , . 200 OMAHA omrn , No. flit AN 91 NTHVIIUK OWE. Uimn ( tt. Tnin1 tr. nrii.niMi. WASUIMJTO.V oinct , No.RM 1'uUKrir.xTiisiiitiKr. . . All comtr.unloations rclfitlnt ? to nn < vs nivl nil- torml nmltor Miould bo ndJioseOfl to tliu Kui- TOII or tin ; lle.e. All btt'lncM Ipliori nnd romlttnnoo diould lie nddrostud to Tin : HKK i'uiiUMiiNd COMCAVV , OMAHA. DrnflB , eliPi-M mid po-tolllcc order' to be londo jiii ) allo to the oidsrofttio company , IHEBEEPOSLISHIHTcflMPm.PeOPfilEIfleS . , K. HOSKWATKIS , Knrron. V nii : . Hworn Statement of Circulation. Slate of Xelir.iska , I. . County ofDoimlnq. i ' ' Will II. Koenlc. cashier or The 15co J'libllMiInt : cnnmaiiy , ilnos solemnly swear that the ncttial circulation of the Daily Beu lor tlm week ending Oct. bth , IbbO , wasni follows : Siitutdav.Oct.Sd l o" Sunday. ! 5d 1'LO.V ' ) Jttondnvllh 1'l. " > ' TucMiaVi r'tl ' ! l:5-Jin : : Wi'diii-sdny , uih I2sn Tlniixlny , 7lli 12KT.o Friday , bill I'-.MO Average I : t .OhO \Vll.I. II. ICOK.NKI. Sworn lo nnd subscribed in my inesenco this Dili day of October , A. U. , 1SSO. N. P. FRIT. , ftjE.M. ] tfotiiry Public , OPO. U. Tv.schuck , boiiiR first duly sworn , ilepoM-s and says tli.it he Is s-ec-retary of the Jico Piiiilishlnicompany , that the actual av erage dally circulation of Hie Jailv ) lice for the month of January , 18 r , was lO.SJ'S copies , for February , ItWJ , lo/i'.n copies ; for Maich , 183(1 ( , tlr > ; ! r copies ; for April , IHSO , 12,101 conies : tor JSlnv < issrt , l'J,4"y copies ; for June , 18H ) , I'-YJOS copies ; for July , issiji'jji4 : copies ; for Auanst , 18N1 , 12-KJl , coi > lc.sfor ; September. 1880 , iiKO : ( copies. GKO. U. T/snirrK. Subscribed and sworn to before nio this 'Jd day of October , A. D. , ISbfl. N. ] . Kuir , , ISKAU Notary Public. STATE TICKET. For Govcrnor-JOilN if. TilAYKlt. For Meut. Governor U. 11. SI1K W > . For Secretary of Stato-0. W. hAWS. ForTioasnier-0. II. WlhLAUU. For Auditor II. A. HAUCOUK" . For Attorney General WILUAit M5KSI5. For Com. Public Lands-JOSKPIl SCOTT. I'orSupt.l'ubllclnslructloii-GKO.aijANls. REPUBMOAN COUNTV TICKIiT. li'or Bonntors * ( JEO. W. LININGKll , JJUUNO T/SCIIUCIC. For RcpreHuntatlvot : \V. O. WH1T4IOIIK , F. J ) HinUAUI ) , GEO. J1KLMUO1) . It. S. I1AI.L , JOHN MATTHIESOW. JAMES II. TOUNO. T. W. BLACKnUllX , W. 0. RICKETTS. FOP Countj- Attorney : EDWARD W. SIMK11AL. For County Coninilsslouci' : ISAAC N. PIERCE TOVINO with prohibition in order to catch the cold water vote is a foolish business whoso folly has been proved in every stuto whore republicans have made the attempt. JMus. SAUAII HOWK is hard at work swindling the foolish women of Boston. We don't know whether Sarah is nny relation of Church , but both come from Massachusetts nnd use the same business methods. NKIIIIASKA already has county prohi bition or local option , the only kind of prohibition which is practicable , rational or right. No class of citizens have a right to force n law of local application upon other communities Avhcro its en forcement will bo impossible and whore public sentiment will be forced to uphold law breakers. UKTWKKJ * Church Howe and an honest democrat there is no reason why repub licans should hesitate to choose a demo crat. Howe has jumped back and forth from every political party in the state during the last twelve years and would remain n republican at Washington just ns long ns ho failed to see how ho could butter his bread by joining the demo crats. THK democratic legislative ticket is n huge blunder. It is overloaded with one * nationality. It is overloaded because a fair distribution of olliccs among the Tarious elements of the voting popula tion is necessary in order to call out n full vote nnd prevent dangerous jeal ousies. Who the individual members of the ticket are or are not makes little diillercnco in the face of this admitted fact , which every shrewd democratic politician in Omaha frankly admits , Ciiuucn UOWK'S "boodlors" are brag- King loudly that they have captured the Omaha labor vote. Omaha laboring men _ _ . - . , . . , . UUUIUKCO mtui unuron Howe gives thorn credit for. They know how that infamous mountebank has worked and voted against the interests of laboring men , sold them out by his treachery and pandered Jo their taskmas ters. The labor vote that Church Ilowo will receive in the First district can bo carried in his smallest sized hat. I'ublic Opinion , of Washington , D. C. , has Just completed its first volume , the last number being supplemented with a most exhaustive index. The publishers announced at the beginning that the pa per would contain each week thu opinions of all the loading papers of the country on every important current topic. They have fiiUllle'd their promises to the letter , nnd 1'ublifi Opinion has como to be almost n necessity to a person who wishes to catch the drift of current thought ns pre sented by the press of the world. Mti. Riorum ) S. HAU , , nominated for rourescntativu by the Douglas county re publicans , is one.of . thu brightest nnd ablest of the luoiubers of the Omulm bar , -Dick" Hull is. too well known to the oil- Jreus of lids community to need any in troduction. Ho has lived among us for nruiy yours and counts his warm friends 1 and admirers by tlia hundreds , No ono vtho Knows him will fail to work and vote for lun. : Mr. Hall will not htivo to make n defenilvv h' ht. His reputation and ohmneter wil ) butliostrongL'sturgumouts lor his candidacy. ' , Cluircli Howe nnd tlio Yotinc Men. The luo.st notorious corruptionist in Nebraska politics i n candidate for olllco at the hands of the most densely popu lated congressional district In the slate. It is the district which contiUnt moro of the wealth , intelligence nnd activity of nny section of the size In this common- wcnllh. It is the district in which the bulk of nil the commercial transactions ot a great area cilhcr originate or nrc consummated. Containing more banks , morcgreit ; railroad headquarters , more largo commercial establishments nnd more places of business employing cler ical labor than nny oilier district in Nebraska it fairly teems with young lifo. Gathered within the 1'irst district are several thousand young men wlioso connection with political parties is either just commencing or has not been long begun. Omaha and Lincoln nloiio con tain the large proportion of the young voters of whose support Church Howe is beaMing so loudly , and whose ballots ho licpos will curry him into the ollicc lie lira so long coveted. The young men of the 1'irsl district arc net n drove of calllo to be whipped Into the political shambles of the Neiuaha lobbyist. They may , and probably do , admire activity nnd shrewdness , but they will not transfer their admiration for these qualities to a man who possesses llicni only to corrupt honest men and to pavolhuway to n success achieved by the lowest acts of the traitor , charlatan and trick-iler. The young men of the First district , if republicansarc notlikoly to evidence their sterling republicanism by voting for a man who has been all things to nil parties a mountebank who vaulted from republicanism into the grange , who destroyed the grange to work with the democracy when Tildcn's election hung in the balance and who bounded once more into tlio repub lican ranks when the national adminis tration seemed secure in republican hands. Honest and upright young men of whatever party will hesitate , we bo- liovc , a long time before endorsing the candidacy of a politician in \ \ hose hon esty his best friends decline to believe and whom his most ardent admirers praise less for pluck than for low cun ning nnd brilliant talents for intrigue. We do not think that we overestimate the political integrity of the young men of the district when wo claim that they will refuse to vote for Church Howe when they discover him to bo n corrupt nnd unscrupulous " politician , a trickster whoso only interest in men is for what he can secure from their influence or votes , n citizen without character and n charlatan whose record both public and private is such thai no young man can aflbnl to emulate it with any hopes of retaining his own self respect. The BEU will endeavor during the remainder of the canvass to enlighten the voters of the First district both young and old with respect to Chnrnh Howe's candidacy. It will not attempt to make personal abuse stand in the stead of argument , drawn from facts which can be proved. If it fails to convince every voter open to conviction that Church Howe's election would be a disgrace to republicanism , a premium on pot house politics and an endorsement of crime and corruption it will fall short of what it believes it has the material to provo. "Why This BIystory ? The president has slid out of Washing ton again. After a day of secret ar rangements , with padlocks on the lips of every servant about the White house , Cleveland , Lament and the valet slip into a carriage in the dark of night and arc driven to the depot , where the carriage was concealed in a coal yard until the train arrived. Then Dan grabs tlio grip sack , and with the bend of thu nation dodges into a private car. The valet re turns ns mute ns a sphinx , and the hcnd of the nation goes whore 1 To a club bouse in Maryland to hunt and lish. Never before in the history of this country did a president make himself so offensively conspicuous in thosecrcsyof ids goings and comings as Mr. Cleve land. The crowned heads of Europe arc wont to travel incognito nt times , 'but that menus simply that king so and so , whose face is known to all , travels openly us count so and so , and this means that they nro to bo allowed to pass without ollicial notice or ceremony. If Cleveland must ape royally in the mystgry of his movementsand chooses to go out of town , as ho has a right to do , why not go as plain John Smith , by day light ? Two other kingly examples of myster ious night travels have been furnished by the crazy king of Bavaria , and the nihil ist-haunted czar of Russia , Is Cleveland orn.yor does ho think a band of Amer ican nihilists nro plotting to take his democratic lifo ? We know not. but cer tain it is that it docs not suit him to go nnd como ns nn American gentleman , ns Washington , Jofl'erson , the Adamses , Jackson and all other presidents did , but ho hides his intentions and conceals in darkness hs ( movements like tlio king with a clouded brain , or the c/.ar who is surrounded by conspirators. Does lie think the creative power of the Almighty was oxhnusted when lie Avns made , and thnt if anything happened to him the country would go to the domnitlon bow-wows ? If it is not fear that incites to this mystery , is it pride ? Docs he think himself too good to bo scon of common people , going unit coming as other people do ? Mr. Cleveland 1ms only just returned from weeks of hunting nud llshing. Must ho so soon return to it , or bus lib gone to n secluded rendezvous to meet some politicians whom ho did not care to re- cnivo nt homo and in public , and with thorn to lay plans for carrying the elec tions ? In any light it is u singular move and singularly made. Stincrnl nud Republicans nnd Independent , voters need not hesitate to cast their ballots for county attorney , for Edward S. Simorat , Mr , Slinor.il is a lawyer of ability and of experience. Ho began his study of law in this city , and worked his way steadily upward to a handsome practice , by hard study und untiring energy. No one who knows him doubts his integrity. Ills character is ubove reproach nnd his abil ity is unquestioned. Mr. Simcral is no chronic otllco-sookor , Ho has labored long and faithfully for the party'without claiming party reward. Ills nomination was a woll-deserved recognition of his sterling republicanismIds admitted legal ability nud his high standing among the younger members of the Douglas county bar. In Mr. Slmeral's hands the interests of the tax-paycrf and eili/.ens of this county would bo safe and secure. Mr , Ferguson bus been ouo ot tliu con- rcntcncics of democracy for several years past. When hard up for a candi date who would bo "harmless1 Mr. Fer guson has invariably been called upon. It is needless to say that ho has never declined. Mr. Ferguson is n good cit izen , a good lawyer am ! a good demo crat. Ho was elected to the ollice of district attorney once by n "scratch , " because his opponent wns weaker than ho was. Having been "honored" nt that time by the independent vote , he ought to remain satisfied. There is no reason why he should be chosen again. Jnt LAIRD opened the campaign al Lincoln to nn audience of ii..O Church Howe republicans , anti-Howe independ ents and straight-out deinocrats who wcrn curious to eel n sight of the "Laird of Stinking Water. " As u&ual , Jim de voted the greater part of his speech to denouncing Sparks for interfering with illegal land entries. Laird has n sere thumb nnd lie never fails to exhibit it. Mil. MI.Tm.'ty not know his own mind , but there is ono kind of "mind" with which ho will willingly acquaint the Herald. That is "mind your own busi ness. " When Mr. Fred Mela authorizes his friends to state that "under no cir cumstances" will he accept a nomination on the democratic legislative ticket , ho means just what ho says. As exploring party should be sent to bunt up the remains of the Mendota , car penter. .Since the Bii-'s : : exposure of thai mendacious fraud his promised stumping tour ngainst Van Wyck has been erased from the programme and Wilcox has skipped for regions unknown. MH. AHMOUU talks of packing up ills packing houses nnd removing them to Omaha. Good enough. With several millions of hulicls of corn to spare , Ne braska is prepared to compote with the world in "hog and hominy. " AN Iowa defaulter lias returned to DCS Moines , claiming that he prefers it to Canada. This is the worst blow that Canada lias yet received. AND now the Pennsylvania railroad is reported as about to build an "air lino" from some where to an equally undefined llomt- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Other IinmlH Tlinii Ours. The Bulgarian crisis continues. Gen eral Katilburs' mission has proved a com plete failure. The Russian emissary has turned out to be an unfortunate choice. At the very outset , he attained the dislike of the Bulgarians and his subsequent proceedings did not tend to lift him in popular favor. He alternately cajoled and bullied the directorate ; but wlulu ho was occasionally able to arouse a little pro-Russian enthusiasm , his own person ality has always prevented any success ful demonstration of tlio willingness of the representatives of the people to acknowledge the claims of his imperial master. * The sweeping anti-Russian majorities of the week have destroyed the last hope of the czar that he will be able to covet- bis schemes for nggiundizemcnt in Ihc direction ot Constantinople by obtaining from tlio Bulgarians a request for inter ference to keep the peace of t'io ' country. If he takes any steps now toward occupy ing Bulgaria , it will bo an aggressive violation of the Berlin treaty , for which no excuse can bo ofl'ercd. Bulgaria threatens to bo oven more aggressive. A larco number of the newly elected min isterialists Iniyc announced their decision to vote for Alexander's return , and it , is rumored thai ho has promised to respond to the invitation. Such an affront would be unbearable on the part of Russia , and if supported by Austria , the long-lookcd-for war in the East would doubtless begin. * f The opinion of our representative in Turkey , Mr. Cox , as to the probable issue of the Bulgarian complications has just been frankly expressed. Mr. Cox looks for the outbreak of war at any day. Ho believes that Russia has dntormincd to take Bulgaria and next Eastern Rouinoha , thus passing the Ualkuns and pressing close upon Constantinople. As he thinks , it is merely n question of weeks , or days , perhaps , when fcho will make this bold move. He expects , of course , that the attempt will result in war , which may extend to all the great powers of Europe. * * The merciless landlords of Ireland arc rushing madly to their own destruction. The failure of the homo rule party to ob tain government sanction to a reduction of rent was n signal for scores of crowbar and eviction brigades to start out on their cruel missions. "Authentic information roaches us , " says United Ireland of October 8 , "that writs and processes of ejectment are being prepared by the thousands and tens of thousands. If you were to mark with a red mark every spot in Ireland where evictions nro In pro gress or in preparation , there is not a county , there is hardly a parish , that would bo without n blood-stain on tlio mnp.1 ' Evidently the landlords nro do- tcrrtiincd to drive out nnd level nil oppo- .IfJ ; ; , . n . * I . 11. * 1. t. vv > /1 * r.lnr\ ! of DUIU11 , nllU VVJIU UIU Uliujr MIAU l/t/AAl/v MM their service , there is little ohanco of failure , The magnitude of thn wreck and ruin wrought the lirst half of the year is shown byofliclnl returns of nearly cloven thousand evictions. During the third quarter of the year , thirteen thou sand processes wore issued , and tlio esti mates for the last quarter exceed that number. This eclipses by sixteen thou sand the black record of 1881 , when 20,024 writs of ejectment were issued , These figures give a total of monstrous proportions. They tell a tale of stupendous deus woo inflicted by an idle , useless , and dissolute class upon a virtuous and indus trious people such as no other human records can match , "Were moral law and divine justice invoked , " says United Ireland , "to rule the affairs of nations instead of the cold dry maxims of legal quibbling , thn landlords of Ire land would Eland indicted and con demned before the tribunal of humanity as the greatest enemies of their kind that ever breathed. " . * In signing the decree for the manumis sion of all slaves in Cuba , the queen regent of Spain simply consummated n reform begun seventeen years ngo , though the act anticipates by four years , the time get in the law of 187U for general emanci pation , The h'r.4 move toward abolition was the law of 1800 , which provided for the conditional liberation of certain classes of slaves. The law of J870 freed at once a.11 slaves 55 years old and over , ami was gradual in Us action , all bonds * men between IB a MU4f ( to be freed this year , whilecoinplet'e emancipation should take place in IWO. jl'liq owners have re ceived from Ihe .Spanish treasury the lib eral recompense of ! ji59 : tor ench slave. * * * Lord do Freync , who holds vast es tates in county lo-foniiioii ! : , Ire. , has issued processes of eviction against AOO tenants. They will petition for a recon sideration on the pnrt of his lordship. When the time come * and ho nnd other extensive land owners { urn out the ten- nnts , the beauties of ( ho policy of energy and delay will conic oul ill n clearer light. Al Uuerrin the sheriff nnd police force at his back , wiio attempted an eviction on Thursday , were beaten back by n mob of 2oO men and women , and a largo military force \\ill bo required to enforce the Inw , * A bloody riot between Mohammedans nnd Hindoos is reported from Delhi , In dia , several natives being killed. Such outbreaks < > how how Great Britain is aided in governing 250,000,001) people in India with a mere handful of Europeans. The unlives nro divided into hostile par ties by race and religious feuds , and it is always possible to Use one faction against the other. * \ The reported Irish home rule project of the tory government is a Glndstono triumph , The lories have had to come around to the grand old man's principle , il they do not accept it in form. They propose lo give Ireland four parliaments , one in each of the provinces of Ulster , Minister , Leinstcr and Connnught , for local purposes , nnd keep up the connec tion with the imperial parliament as nt present. Whejher this meets the views of the Irish home rulers or not , , it is a big concession to their demands. IMtUMJNUNT I'EUSONS. Donn Platt has been appointed postmaster at Mac-n-Chcuk , Ohio. General Adam Baileau is n middle nscd man , ; short , heavy set , of < juck ! movement nnd cutting eye. Hamilton Fish , now within less than a year of fourscore , is stiirerlm ; n slight stroke of paralysis lately and Is otherwise feeble. Augustus Jessnp is Iho richest youn ? man In Philadelphia. He is twonty-fouryears old and has an .innunl Income of between 00,000 and 870,000. Dr. Galling , the Inventor ot the Galling Kim , lives in an unpretentious but comforta ble house ncai Hartford , and goes but little into society. General F. A. Walker has declined Sena tor Lclaiul Stanford's olVor of the presidency of the university boon to spring from n 810,000,000 egg. 11. A. Aldrlch , of"Wiiidom , Mass. , 1ms been postmaster of that toivn for over sixly years , and is said 'o ' be Ihe oldest federal of ficer in the service. / i Fay Templeton , thti condo opera .singer , who was last year divorced from William West In Chicago , has ! Kone to Europe with Howell Osborne , one of'the ' richest young men In Wall street. . ' . Dr. Mary Walker Is going to San Francisco and the Alia of Ihat city liforms | those who are not acquainted with the mislit doctor that "she is the only man in tlio United States that can put n p.xtch In his trousers. " Scnor Don Jose Mftnue'l Ilalcemcda , the new presidoht of Cldll/'was'born / in 1810 , and belongs to one of the highest nprt wealthiest families of the republic1. lie is , < h.o author of the laws of civil m\trlinniiy : \ and lay ceme teries In Chill , and ho now uroclnlms his pol icy for a complete separation of chinch and state. Count Tolsloi , Iho Russian novelist , wns found by a recent visitor clad In poas.int's irarbnnd sweeplnir his hearth. Ills while shirt was soiled wi'th mud nnd soot , thcio wns u strap about his waist , and his heavy boots were coated with clay. Alter breakfast the count nnd his son went to help repair n neighbor's bam , and worked alt day like common artisans. General Alf Pleasonton has recently boon spending some days In New York on purely literary business. Wo ouo ? would lake him for n warrior who had won great renown be fore Sheridan was much Known , Ills lines have not been laid In pleasant places since tlio war. ] lo Is a slender , medium-sized mnn , somewhat bowed. Gray hair nnd n white mustache revcp.l Iho years thnt have passed over his he-ad. Ho is extremely quiet , re served , but likes lo meet old comrades , or to ts5k over the days of the war with inlolllirent persons , lie never complains that the cov- crnment has shown Ingratitude , nnd mod estly denies that ho saved Hooker's army from idler riot and capture nt Chancollors- vllle. The cener.il lives , a solitary bachel or's Hfo in Washington. Must bo Enormous. JVciuami JVciM. Philadelphia has eight female physicians who make 520,000 a year each. How much eight Philadelphia undertakers rr.ake Is not stated , but their protits must be enormous. New Haven A"eu' . Secretary Laniar says the report oC his contemplated nmrrlago is "very much ex aggerated. " Somebody must have hinted that Iho sccrclary Intended going to Utah to settle. VCI-HO , Bono Dullcateil in Lontlnn to 11. I ! ' . / ' . TJm dnvll went out ono day , In search of tin Impious preacher , And he wasn't very lone on his sway Before ho collared old Ucccher. The Nation's Pet. Cc.1uml > ui Jlt ) > atcli. Treat him considerately- Poor , abused Lo. Harm not deliberately CnrnililllO. Hols our Nation's pet Isn't ho sweety Rarest of rations set For him lo eat..m General HolInnui'HjCompliments to Dr. Miller. EMEUSON , > ob. , Oct. 14. [ To the Edi tor of the BEE. ] It I linftilliating to me as well ns unpleasant pr your readers that I should again bijqojppolled to stoop to denounce an nrtielui written by thnt political fraud in thfl Oinnha Herald. I tun at a loss lo know how lo address him as it wns but reccntlyunnounced that his location was Wnllr street , No. 13 , nnd whether the "whited Sfepulchor" there boars the name of George L. Miller , or Miller L. George , I arn 'not advised , but from the odor of tins emanation 1 con- conclude his present location is Omnlm. I am informed thnt before this contin- ncntal btraddlcr and constitutional liar took his departure for New York ho be came so offensive to Iho sidewalks thai they lofiiscd longer to support his rotten carcass , nnd ho was obliged to take the middle of the streeis. along with the olhor animals. I wish to say lo Iho rcspeclablo portion of the democratic party of the stale , that 1 was not a candidate for sena torial honors , but went to the convention to support Mr. Fred White , and secure his nomination , and that there , wore but two names presented to the convention , both of whom were gentlemen , which is more than can bo said of him. I am in formed that the information was con cocted by two of his ycluers , ono the Dakota county bolter , nnd the other the candidate for county altornoy of Cedur both about as reliable as himself. Keep It HeforeTtrpuMlcnnR. The republicans of the First dlslrio should nsk themselves whether a man having such a record ns that of Church llowc has any rightful claim upon the support ol tiny decent republican. Leav ing out of question his corrupt methods and notorious venality we appeal to re publicans to pause nml reflect before they put a premium upon parly trea son nnd conspiracy ngainst its very exist ence. Ton years ago , when Ihe republican party was on Ihe verge of disaster , and every electoral vole cnst for Hayes and Wheeler wns needed lo retniu the parly In power , Church Howe entered into a conspiracy to deliver republican Nebraska into the bands of the enemy. This infamous plot is not a mere conjee- lure. The proof of it docs not rest on surmise or suspicion. It is not to bo pooh-poohed or brushed away by pro nouncing ; it one of Rosewater's malicious campaign slanders. Tlu records of the legislature of which Church Howe \vn ? n member in ' 70-77 , contnin Ihc indelible proofs of the treasonable enable conspiracy , and no denial c-nn stand against evidence furnished by his own pen. Briefly told , the history of this plan to hand over the country to Tildeu nnd democracy is ns follows : In 1871 ! Nebraska elected Silas A. Strickland , Anmsa Cobb and A. II. Connor presidential electors by n vole of 511OKI ns ngainst a vote of 10,1)51 , ) cast for lie Ti Iden and Hendrleks electors. After the election it was discovered thai Iho canvass of this vote could not take place under Iho then existing law before the legislature convened. The electoral vote had to bo canvassed in December nt the latest , and the regular ses sion of the legislature did not begin until January. In order to mnke a legal canvass of the electoral returns , Governor Gurber called n special session of the legislature to convene on thofithof December , ' 70 , at Lincoln , lor the pur pose of canvassing the electoral vole of the stale. The democratic effort to cap ture republican electoral votes is historic. Tildon's friends , notably Dr. Miller , had been plotting for the capture of one of the electors from Nebraska , nnd it is also historic that n largo bribe was offered to one of the electors , General , Strickland. The call of the legislature broke into the plan of the plotters , and they found a will ing and reckless tool in Church Ilowo. When the legislature convened at the capi- tal.Clmrch Howe tiled a protest which may be found on pages 0 , 7 nnd 8 of the Ne braska House Journal of 1S77. The fol- lowingextract makes interesting reading : " 1 , Church llowc , n member of tlio legisla ture of Nebraska , now convened by procla mation of his excellency , Governor Silas Garner , for Iho purpose of canvassing and declaring Ihe result of the vote cast in Ne braska for electors for president and vice president of the United States , hereby enter my solemn protest ngainst such act , denylns ; that the governor has power to call tins body in special session for nny such purpose , or that this body has any authority to canvasser or declare the result of such vote upon the folio wine grounds : First. This legislature now convened hav ing been elected under what Is known as the old constitution , has no power to act In the premises , Iho now constitution of the stnte having been in foicc since November , 1875. " The second and third clauses deal with technical objections and are somewhat lengthy. The concluding sentences of this precious document arc ns follows : "For the foregoing reasons 1 protest against nny canvass of the electoral vote of the state by ibis body , and demand that this , my protest , bo entered upon the journal. " ( Signed ) Church Howe , member of the legislature of Nebraska. Tie | democrats did not respond to the call of the governor and there was barely a quorum in the senate , while there wore several to spare in the house of which Howe was a member. The protest en tered by Ilowo was doubtless prepared by the Tilden lawyers in Omaha , and Ilowo had the glory of being the solo champion of Sam Tildon. The legisla ture ignored Church Howe , spread his protest on its record and canvassed the electoral vote in spite of it. When the logi&lattiro convened In Jan uary , 1877 , the presidential contest was at its height in Washington. Church Howe had changed places from the house to the senate. Early in the session , a resolution was introduced expressing thn conviction on the part of the senate that Hayes and Wheeler having received a majority of the electoral votes wore entitled - titled to their scats. This resolution gave rise to a very lively debate which lasted Iwo days. Church Howe asked to bo excused from voting when it lirst came up and wns so excused. On the linal passage of the resolution the record [ pngo 1170 , Senate Journal 1877 , ] shows the following result : Yeas Ambroao , Bnird , Blanchard , Bryant , Calkins , Cams , Chapman , Colby , Dnwos , Garfield - field , Gilham , Hayes , Kennard , Knapp , Popoon , Powers , Thuniniol , Van Wyck , Walton and Wilcox-80. Those voting in the negative wore : Aton , Brown , Co veil , Forgqson , Hinman , Holt , Church Howe and North 8. During the same session of ' " lure , Church How'o Joglsla- Stales son ' 'r . vote on United r " ' , jr tor the Hrst three ballots i . .worded as having boon cast for E. W. Thomas , n South Carolina democrat , [ pages 108 and 208 Senate Journal. ] All this time Church Ilowo professed to bo n republican Independent , republican on national Issues and a temperance granger on' local issues. Wo simply ask what right a man with such n record has to thu support of nny republican. The Second United l'rcwlyterinn Church. The Second United Presbyterian church wns'organi/od Teursday night at the cornr of Grant street and Park avenue , with a membership of twenty-one ladles nnd gentlemen. The elders elected wore Thomas B. McCullooh , William Larimer and II. W. Spalding. There wore live trustees also elected , nnd before long another meeting of tlio society will be hold for tlio purpose of selecting a pas tor. A sermon was prcnohcd by Roy , R. I ) , Inches , of North Bund. A Pastor Called. Rev. D. R. Kerr , of Mercer , Pa. , who recently delivered a short address nt thu Harvest Homo exercises of the South west Prcsbvterinn church , returned to this city yesterday morning from Crnig.in'this stale , where ho has been on a fchort visit. During his absence the church in ques tion decided to ask him to accept the pas toral charge of the same , and the request was formally made him to-day. He has not yet concluded lo accept thn position , and before deciding will go to his home in Mercer , Pa. , when ho will undoubtedly accept tl.e call. St. Jacobs Oil. without exception and comparison , is the best remedy for neu ralgia. RATALAN'S TOWERKC ROCK , The Old Colonial ( hullo ( \t Sitka Grandly Overlooking tlio Sea- A PLACE OF HISTORIC FAME. 1'nst Onyrts * nml Present Dosolntlon Holies ( if Hotter Days Tlio I'uri'hnso of AlnttUn. San Francisco Chronicle : Katalan's rock towers above the sun al tlio to | ) cor ner of Sitka. Below it on tlio ono lintid the nnele'.il colonial houses arc scattered down tin ; shore among given Inwns like lustnro lands nnd beside grass-grown si routs with n trail of dust in the middle of them. Chi the other hand tins Siwnsh Indian lodges nro clustered along the beach. This rancheria wu.s originally separated from HIP town by si high stock- mle , and tlio huge gat : s were closed at night for tlio greater security of the In habitants , bat since tlio Amnrienn oocu- imtioii the gates have been destroyed , and only a portion of the stockade- mains. Kalalan's ' rook is steep enough to command the to\\n nnd ample enough to allbrd all tlio space necessary for forti fications and liio accommodation of troops and stores. A natural Gibraltar , it was the silo of thu lirst .settlement and has ever remained the most con spicuous and distinguished cjuar- ler of the eolonv. Tlio lirst building creeled on this rock was r. block house , which was afterward burned. A second building erected , on tlio ruins of the first , was destroyed ny an cartluiake ; but a third , the colonial residence of the governors , stands to this day. It crowns the summit of the rock , is 140 feet in length , seventy feet in depth , two stories with basement and attic , and has n look out that commands one of tlio most ro mantic and picturesque combinations of hind and sea imaginable. It is not a handsome edilice , nor is it in the least like u castle , nor like what one supposes u castle should bo. W ere it nnywhero else it mijjht pass for the coimlrv resi dence of a gentleman of the old school , or lor an unfnshionnbly suburban hotel , or for a provincial seminary. It is built of solid cedar logs that look as if they were destined to weather the storms of ages. These logs are secured by inmnn crablo copper bolts , and the whole strtic lure is riveted to the rocks , so that neither wind nor wave nov earthquake shook is likely to prevail against it. IN COI.OMAl. 11AVS. Handsomely furnished within , it was in Hie colonial dayn richly furnished , and as Sitka was at that time a largo settle ment composed of wealthy and high-bred .Russians , governed by a prince or a baron whoso potty court was made up of the representatives of the rank and fashions of St. Petersburg and Moscow , the colonial nial castle was much of the tiiuc the scene of social splendor. The fame of the brilliant and beautiful Baroness \Vrnngull , iirst chatelaine of the castle , lives after her. She was suc ceeded by the wife of Governor Kuprca- iiqll' , a bravo lady , wlio , in 18555 , crossed Siberia on horseback to Behring sea on her wuy to Sitka. Hy and bye the Princess Mnksonlpll' became the .social queen and reigned' in the little castle on Katahm's rock as never qnccn reigned before. A flagship was anchored under the windows and the proud admiral spent much of his time on shore. The ollicers' clubhouse , yonder , clown the grassy street , wis the favorite lounging place'of the navy , but the teagardons have run to seed and the race-course is obliterated , whore , doubtless , fair ladies and brave men disported themselves in the interminable twiljghts of the Alaskan summer. In the reign of the P nee s Mnkonloll the ladies were shown Jirst to the sideboard. When they had regaled themselves with potent punch and cavairc , the gentlemen followed suit. But the big , brazed samovar was forever steaming in the-grand salon anil deli cious draughts of caravan tea wore in order at all hours. What days they were when the castle was thronged with guests and those of all ages and descriptions and from every rank in and out of society. The presi dential levee is not more democratic than were the fetes of the Princess MaksontolV. To the music of the admiral's band com bined with the orchestra of the castle , it was "all hands round. ' ! The prince danced with each and every lady in turn , nnd the princess was no less gracious , for all danced with her who chose , from lord high admiral to midshipmito and the crow of the captain's gig. iiEKOiiE THE SALE. You will read of these things in tlio pages of Lutka , Sir George Simpson , Sir Edward Belcher and other early voy agers. They vouch for the peculiar and unique charm of the colonial life at that day. Washington Irving , in his "Astoria , " has .something to say of Now Archangel ( Michael ) as "Shectko , " as ho spells it , but it is of the lime when the snips of John Jacob Aslor were touching in that vicinity , and the reports aic not FO pleasing. While social lifo in the little colony was still most en joyable , n change came that in a single hour reversed the order of affairs. For years Russia had bcpn willing , if not eager , to dispose of the great , lands that lay along the northwestern coast of America. She seemed never to have eared much for them , nor to have believed much in their present value or possible future develop ment. No enterprise was evidenced nmong the people ; Ihov yyero * - live exiles , vyho so-- " . .ou ' , .vugnt tc _ s' " . , 01 their ( sxistonco by ono con . . .me round of gnyety. Soirees nt the castle , tea-garden parties , picnics upon the thousand lovely isles that beautify the Sitknn sea ; strolls among the sylvan re treats in which the primeval forests , at Iho very edge of the town , abounds ; lish- ing and hunting expeditions , music , dancing , lively conversation , strong punch ( casinri and the steaming samovar var ) , those wore the chief diversions with which noble 'nnd ' serf alike sought lo lighten the burden of Iho day. While Knssin was willing to part with the lone land on the Paoillo , she wns determined thnt it should not pnss Into the hands of certain of the powers for whom she hits little or no love. Hence there was time for the United States to consider the question of a purchase nnd to huggle a Jlttlo over the price. For yonrs the bar gain hung in the balance. When it wns finally setllcd it was settled so suddenly that the witnesses had to be called out of their beds and they assembled secretly in the middle of the night us if they wcr't conspirators ; and before sunrise the wjiolo matter was fixed forever. AN IMl'OUTANT I'.VENT. On the 18th of October , 1807 , three United States ships of war Iny anchored oH'Kniulan'fi rock. These were the Ossi- pee , the Juincwtovvn anil Iho Hosacn , In Iho aflcrnoon , at 3UO : o'clock , the terrace before the c.islle was surrounded I by United States Iroops , Russian soldiers , officials , citi/.ons and Indians , The town was alive with Russian bunting and the ships nllutler with liturs and stripes nnd BtreamorH. There was something ominous - ous in the air nnd in the sunshine. Bang ! went the guns fronVlhe Ossipeo , nnd the Husslnn Hug slowly descended from the lofty staff'of the castle , but the wind caught it and twisted it round nnd round the staff' , nnd it , was long butoru n boat swain's olmir could bo rigged to the hal yards and some oue hauled up to disen tangle the rebellious banner. Meanwhile the rain began to fall nnd Iho Princess Makbontou was in tears , and it was alto gether n dismal hour for thu proud court of the doughty governor. . The llus- shin water battery was firiiij. \ salute from the dock ns the stur < ir , | jitrlj.i-s were climbing to the skies i .o great continent of icy peak nnd pine \ \ n passing from the hands of ono nation i < > the other. Jn the silence that succeed id Captain PestchourolV stepped forward and said : "Hy nuthofity of his majesty , the emperor of Russln , I transfer to liw United Slates the territory of Alaska. ' The prince governor surrendered Ms insignia of olllco , nnd the thing was doiiv. In n few months' time fifty ships nnd 4)1 people had deserted SitKa , and lodi-y but three families of pure Russian blond remain. Perhaps the fault llmllni * which followed this remarkable ixcnuni- lion of territory on the part of the Uml < d State * government both the ucqnislliMi nnd the fault finding were on the part ot our government -had best be left tin- mentioned. Now that the glorioio \\atersof that mngnilleeut archipelago have become the re ort of summer tour ists every man , woman nnd child can see for his , her or its self , nnd this is the only way to convince an American , 1'AST AMI IMU3KNT. Nineteen years ngo Sitku was what 1 have attempted to describe above. To day liow dillerent ! Passing Its barracks nt the foot of Katalan's rock one sens a handful of marines looking decidedlv bored if oil'duty. The steps that lend up the steep incline of the rock to the castle terrace are fust falling to decay. Weeds and rank grass trail over them and cover the whole to ] ) of the rocK , The castle has been dismantled. The walls will stand until they are blown up or torn down , but every vestige of the original ornamentation of the interior has disap peared. The carved balustrades , the cnriotH locks , knobs , hinges , chandeliers and fragments of the wainscoting have been borne away in triumph by enter prising curio hunters. There was posi tively nothing left for me to take. Ono may still see the chamber occupied by Secretary Seward , who closed the bar gain with the Russian government nt if7.000,000. cash down. Lady Finnkln | occupied that chamber when she was scouring these waters in the fearless nud indefatigable , but fruitlesssearch for the relics ot the lo.-l Sir .John. One handsome apartment has been partially restored nnd suitably furnished for the use ot the United States district attorney. Two rooms on the ground lloor are occupied by the signal ollicers , but the remainder of tlio building is in .a shameful condi tion , and nothing but its traditions re main to make it an object of interest to ovorj stranger guest. It is said that twice in the year at the dead hour of night the ghost of a br'.de wanders sorrowfully from room to room. She was the daughter of one of the old governors , n stern parent , who forced her into a marriage without love. On the bridal eve , while all the guests \yuro assembled nnd the bride in wedding garments was the center of attraction , she suddenly disap peared. After a long search her body was found in one of the apartments of the castle , but life was extinct. At Knstor- tide the shade of this sad body makes the round of the deserted halls , and in puss- ing leaves a faint odor of wild roses. nVIDKXCKS OP m-X'AV. The basement is half filled with rub bish. I found rooms where an amateur minstrel entertainment had been given. Rude lettering upon the walls recorded the fact in lampblack , and a monster hand pointed with index lingers to its temporary bar : burnt cork debris was scattered about and there were "old sol- diers" enough on the premises to have staggered n moralist. The Muscovite reign is over. The princess is in her grave on the hill yonder u grave that was forgotten for a time and lost in the jungle that has overgrown the old Rus sian cemetery. The Indians mutilated Hint town , but Lieutenant Oilman , in charge of the marines attached to the Adams , restored it , und he.with Ins men , did much towaul preserving Sitka , from going to the dogs. Gone are the good old nays , but tlio Americanized Sitka does not propose to be behind the limes. I dis covered : i theatre. It was in one of the orginul Russian houses , doomed to lust forever a long nnd narrow hall , with n stage at the upper end of it ; two or three scenes , evidently painted on the spot in dire distress ; a drop curtain depicting an utterly impracticable roseate ice- gorge in the ideal Alaska , uud four lool- lights constituted the sum total of the properties. The stage was six feet deep , about , ten feet broad nnd the "Hies" hung like bangs above the faroheads of the players. In the adjoining room , conven ient in case of a panic or anything of Hint sort , was the Silkn fire department , 0911- sisting of ono man power machinewhich a small boy might work without endang ering anybody or anything. THE SUUUU15S OK SITICA. Suburban Sitka is sweet and sad. Ono passes on tlio way to the wildwood.whoro everybody goes as often as convenient , iv " socalled""blarney stone. " Many a fellow has chipped away at that stone while he chatted with his girl I suppose that is whore the blarney conies in and lott his name or initials for n sacred memory. There nro dull old Russian hieroglyphs there likewise , hove is alike in all languages , you know. The truth about the stone is merely this : It is n big soft stone by the sea , and of just the right height to rest the weary pilgrim. There old Baranou" , the lirst governor , used to sit of u summer nftcrnoon and sip his Russian brandy until he was as sense less as the stone beneath himand then ho was carried in state up to the colonial castle tlo nnd suffered to sober oil' . Bojond the stone , and the curving beach with the grass-grown highway skirling it , is the forest ; and through this forest is the lovera' lane , mndo l < jpg t Q by the " " ' colonists and opt 5ll tfr . . jnter.ti n i- , vcl , trjm by the ( --.iS5 ! } uwr is crc&n-arclied over- norm nnd fern-walind on either sibc , . and soft-with the dust of dcnd pine boughs underfoot. There also nro streams and wnlnrfnlls and rustic bridges such ns oiio might'look for in some stately park in England , but hardly in Alaska. Surely there is no bit of wilderness finer than this All is sweet and grave and silent , save the ripple of waters and the sigh ing of winds. A rAHTINd OMMPSK , Returning into the town by a circuitous route one finds the Presbyterian minion , under the charge ot Bov , Sheldon Jack son , Numerous schools preceded the advent of the Rev. Mr. JnokFon. Miss Mcsser , Mr. Rogers , n son of Chaplain Van Horn , and many of the naval ollicers stationed nt Sitka linvo had chnrgi ! of week-day schools nnd Sunday schools , nnd compulsory education was estab lished n long time ago , AH for the SI wash village on the other side of Sitka , it is n Siwush village over again. JIow soon one wearies of them ! But ono ought never to weary of the glorious ucn isles nnd the overshadowing mountains that lie on every side of the quaint , half- barbarous capital ; nnd though it is dead to the core and beginning to show the signs of death , It is ono of tlio drcnmk'st spots on earth , nnd just this ono for long summer solitude ; at least so'we all thought , for on the morrow we wore horuawnrd bound. CjiAiti.KS WAJIHKN STOIJDAUD. Tlio Now Drug lU-niich. Representatives of the Richardson Drug cornpan3r , of St. Louis , nro nego tiating to buy out the Goo'dmnn Drug company. It is thought thnt the transfer , will be mnile. As mentioned In thn Br.i : yesterday , 'it' is almost certain that Urn Richardson Drug company will locate ti largo bratjch hero , The only trouble will bo to secure a large cnouch 'build ing. Dr. Mercer oilers to or.cct a Jnrge building with CO foot frontuge on Howard street , to bo five storlca lilgh. Mr. Crgi hton has also ollercd' to erect u somewhat larger building nlsa' oh How ard Ktrcct. .No definite UCCJBIOU in this regard hug been made. ,