Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1878 — Democratic State TickEt. [ARTICLE]

Democratic State TickEt.

MUttzn'AßT 07 STAT*. JOHN G. SHAFKLIN, of Vanderburg. a«btr>* or ria**, KAHLON D. MANSON, of Montgomery. TUBASURBR or STATE, WILLIAM FLEMING, of Alien. ATTOUHMT OBWmUL, THOMAS W. WOOLEN, of Johnson. SUFBBIMTZNDKKT OF FUBUC IMSTRUCTJOX, JAMBS H. SMART, of Alton.

Monticello wants an Independent greenback paper.—Rochester Inde pendent. The Democrat is sufficiently greenback for them ; and the above is more a suggestion than an actual statement of facts. Judge Whittaker, before whom the Louisiana bandit, Anderson, was tried, convicted and sentenced to the peni•atiary, has commenced suit against Secretary Sherman for charging him with being a defaulter to the government to the amount of $600,000 while he was collector at New Orleans Judge Wbittake can’t be hooted down by the lies of Johnny Sherman and his claquers.

A lady who eight years ha* been a teacher in one of the public schools of St. Louis died a few days ago. She was the only child of a widowed mother, and►was dearly loved by the many pupils she had taught in her classes. In recounting her devoiion to her scholars, and her conscientious, blameless career the Post says: “Her life was undoubtedly sacrificed in her efforts to fulfill faithfully her duty as a teacher.”

The Valparaiso Messenger says: It has been suggested th At Valparaiso would be the most proper and suitable place at which to hold the next Democratic Congressional Convention. It is easy of access from all parts of the District by railroad, and its hotel accommodations are firstclass in every respect. We hope the committee will see proper to give Valpo the preference, and Valpo will endeavor to treat the Convention in right royal style. It is getting to be a little dangerous to discharge servants in St. Louis, unless the insurance companies are willing to take the risks. A gentleman had occasion to rid himself of a negro boy on Monday morning, and that night his residence was discovered to be on fire in four different places. The discharged servant had made his plans to mete out his revenge for the loss of his place, but the plot was discovered in time to save the family, who would have perished in the flamesPresident Lee in his remarks on the prospects of the 1., D. & C. R. R. before the City Council of Delphi on Tuesday of last week, made the following statement: It is a moral certainty that the building of this road will be followed by the construction if a narrow gauge on the line of the canal from Toledo to Attica and thence St. Louis. We will then be placed much in the position of Chicago nt present, fi-ora whence the freight tariff to the seaboard,owing to competition, is but seventeen cents per hundred, or less than one hi If the rates paid here. Mr. Lewis J. Jennings, for many years editor-iB-ehief of theNewYorw Times and now the london correspondent of the New York World, surmises that one of the objects of the Wall Street Shylocks in crying down silver is to shake out the bonds from European holders at a low price. He says the European holders are now selling them as fast as possible, and that no one is buying. He wants to know of the World, therefore, how is it they are “absorbed” so easily in New York? If they are deemed good enough for investment by American buyers, he asks, why should they be told that they are unsafe for European buyers? The hue and cry against silver is a sharp trick of the Wall Street Shylocks to “bull” the market, "nothing more, nothing less.” Gold has steadily run down until it is lower than at any time since the suspension of specie payments in 1862. The silver bill has not therefore me& hopes and predictions of the fthylocks in its influence upon the gold market. All sorts of dire calamities were prophesied. Gold was to go up, and a general collapse was to folIpw. There was to be consternation in all the money centers of Europe and America. Just the opposite of ail ihis, however, has happened. Gold has declined, only a few bonds have been returned, exports are in excess of imports and the balance of trade is our favor. All these facts trouble the Shylocks and their organs, and they endeavor to account for them by saying that it was not the Bland bill that became the law. But this subterfuge will not satisfy thinking peo« pie. The hue and cry raised by the Shylocks and their organs was in all regards dishonest- Their purpose was to keep business depressd and continue the shrinkage of values, that those who control money might increase their gains by multiplying the misfor* *.unes of the people. The senate amendments were in that direction* and Hays’ veto had the same purpose. But the people triumphed, though the Victory was shorn of some of its trophies by the senate, and John Sherman may, to some extent, make the great measure of relief less potential for good than was intended by those who demanded for silver all the privileges conferred upon gold. One good effect upon public sentiment will be secured by the false predictions of the Hhylock organs; they will not be believed in future when they antagonize the welfare of the country by their veuul mendacity.