Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1880 — THE GERMAN REPUBLICAN ORGAN. [ARTICLE]

THE GERMAN REPUBLICAN ORGAN.

Der Herold, Milwaukee, the most influential German daily newspaper in Wisconsin, Conservative Republican in politios, denounces the action of the Harrisburg Convention in unmeasured terms. As Der Her old is the representative of the German Republicans of the State, its utterances are of importance. A portion of a leading article on the subject is as follows:

“ The victory of the day belongs to Don Cameron, the most unscrupulous of the ring politicians. As Cameron is well aware of the intentions of Grant, we are justified in assuming that he acted with the knowledge and consent of the ex-President. Thus Grant himself has come forward as a candidate. Mr. Conkling will do the same thing in New York that Cameron has done in Pennsylvania, and there is no doubt that Grant will be nominated. It need not be explained what his nomination would imply. The republic is iD danger of being delivered into the hands of a man who has been the worst President the country has ever had, and into the clutches of Senators who look upon the country as tbeir prey. A new era of corruption and unrestrained rascality is impending. The free people of this country are about to be degraded to a wretched herd of voting castle. In the face of the result of the Harrisburg Convention, it becomes the duty of all citizens who are not willing to bend the neck beneath the yoke of a Government unworthy the name of a republic to unite against and prevent the disgrace that lies in a third term.”

Going to New Orleans in Character. Shortly after the collapse of the Confederacy an ex-soldier who had spent all his pay in rioting and whisky drinking found himsalf in Shreveport strapped and busted, yet full cf expedients. Desirous of reaching his home he inquired the fare, and to his dismay found it to be sls. Now that amount was as big as a million in Billy’s sight. After casting about he bethought himself of a scheme. The steamer National was nearly ready to leave her berth when Billy made his appearance on the wharf and sang out: “I say, Captain, how much do you charge to carry a barrel of whisky to New Orleans?”

“Two dollarp,” replied the Captain. “All right,” replied Billy. “Send out a couple of your deck-hands and roll me aboard.”

Capt. Hamilton saw the joke and sent out the mud e’erk to take the marks, weight, etc., of the “freight.” Billy was invited to a seat at the cabin table by the Captain, and traveled to New Orleans iu style, as a “barrel of whisky,’' by which name he was afterward known.