Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

rOBXIGN NEWS. The oelebration of the annual fete day—anniversary of the fall of the Bastlle —occurred at Paris on the 14th of July, and was one of the most Imposing demonstrations ever witnessed in the Frenoh capital. President Grevy opened the ceremonies in the hlppodromo at Longohamps, in the presence of a magnificent assemblage. His remarks, which were briof, were followed by a salvo of artillery, a review of the troops and tho presentation of new colors to all the regiments of the army. The enthusiasm afld the brilliancy of the spectacle were unparalleled even in Franoe. Notwithstanding the vast orowds, the best of order prevailed. Tom Taylor, the well-known English playwright, is dead. The London Times says the report that the export of grain from Russia is to be prohibited is probably entirely unfounded. Another terrible colliery disaster has occurred in Wales. By an explosion of firedamp in one of the Loudon and South Wales Cohiery Company’s mines, in Monmouthshire, the entire night shift of workmen, reported at 120, were in an instant buried 900 feet under ground, without the possibility of the survival of one of them. The scenes at the place of the accident were very affecting, owing to the lamentations of women and children whoso husbands and fathers perished. Ip 1860 an explosion in the same mino caused ttie death of 145 men. On account of the hostile attitude of Chili, Fern and Bolivia are about to enter into a close confederation, with one flag and one Government. Gen. Kauffmann, the Russian commander, will go to Eastern Siberia with 14,000 troops, to drivo out the brigands and Chinese. Russia demands that Roumania shall expel all the Nihilists within its borders. China lias abandoned all idea of a war with Russia. Rochefort, the Communist, is again publishing a newsdaper in Paris ; of the first issue 198,000 were sold. A resolution declaring that tho erection of a statue to the late Prince Louis Napoleon in Westminster would be inconsistent with the national character of the edifice has been adopted in tho British House of Commons by a vote of 161 to 147. Dispatches from Constantinople convey the intelligence that the Sultan is greatly perplexed over the serious palace intrigues, nnd that lie signifies a willingness to abdicate or commit some desperate act —probably suicide, A Paris correspondent says the veteran Marshal MaeMahon is in a deplorable condition. mentally nnd physically. Ho is harassed by creditors, reproached by old friends, and sees life in such gloomy colors that he not long since seriously contemplated suicide. Two Liberal members of the British Parliament have been unseated for bribery and corruption. Most of the expelled French Jesuits, are taking up their residence in Spain. Several members of the order have left for the Philippine islands.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Eut. Dr. Tanner completed the fourteenth day of liirt fast on the 12th of July. His weight wan 133 pounds, a loss of twenty-four and a half pounds in the fourteen days. His pulse and temperature showed him to be growing weaker, though outwardly he remained the same. At midnight, July 13-14, Dr. Tanner completed the fifteenth day of his long fast, lie appeared weaker, and waa evidently failing, though ho affected to be strong and in good spirits. Pulse, 98; temperature, 98 ; respiration, 18. New York infants are dying by the wholesale from the effects of the heat. A distressing accident occurred near East Itockaway, N. Y. As a gravel train with 800 laborers on board approached a large derrick which stood by the side of tho track, ono of the wire supports foil across the train, sweeping nearly every man from the oars. Twontysix were sovorely injured, six of them fatally. Dr. Tanner completed the eighteenth day of his fast as fresh as a daisy. The pulse, temperature and respiration indicated a healthful condition, and he showed a slight increase of strength. During tho day he drank seventy ounces of water, and an increase of one and throe-fourths pounds was noted in his weight. A dispatch from New York says that “ Scientists aro in despair. Tanner not only lives, but seems bettor than before. He sleeps quietly, reads the daily papers, naturally enjoys his daily rides, and appears in much better spirits than on preceding days.” Another destructive oil conflagration has occurred in tho Bradford (Pa.) district. In the inter-collegiate four-oared race at Lake George the Cornell crew were winners, defeating the Columbias and Pennsylvanias. Tho negro Chastine Cox, who murdered and robbed Mrs. Hull about if year ago, was executed at New York last week. Dr. Tanner entered upon the twentyilrst day of his f?st at New York in good condition. His pulse was recorded at 84, temperature 99, respiration 11, voice strong, eye clear and step firm and elastic. Wert.

The trial at Indianapolis of Mary Brown for the murder of her husband in February last terminated in a verdict of guilty, and fixing the death penalty. Tho jury were out forty-six hours. Wade, the paramour of Mrs. Brown, had previously bejen convicted and sentenced to death. A crazy tramp stabbed three railway employes at the depot in Byers, CoL, two of them fatally, and was then shot dead by a policeman. 8. 8. Rickley, President of a bank at Columbus, Ohio, was shot and fatally wounded by a German mechanio named Eichenberg, to whom he refused to pay an old debt The murderer then shot himself through the head and died almost instantly. Michigan has 1,828,191 acres under wheat this year, against 1,601,710 acres last year. The crop is an average one, and the yield is estimated at from 83,000,000 to 36,000,000 bushels. Dispatches to the Chicago Timex from various localities in the Northwest show that crops are generally in good condition Wheat is poor in some localities, but unusually fine in others, and the prospeot is that the yield will be fully an average one. Oats and corn promise well. The population of Chicago, according to the new census, is officially declared to be 503,501, an increase of move than 300,000 im ten years, A fight is reported to haye ocourred

THE Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME I

on the Little Missouri river, in Montana Territory, between two companies of the Seventh cavalry, Capt. Ilsley commanding, and a body of Sioux, in which the former sustained a heavy loss. Capt. Payne, the Indian Territory squatter, and twenty-two of his followers have been arrested by United States troops. Near Hillsboro, Mo., while Andrew Wilson, a farmer, was driving along the road, accompanied by a yonng lady named Schultz, they were fired npon by some unknown person concealed in the brush. A ball passed through the Upper part of Miss Schultz’s chest, killing her, then penetrated Wilson’s head, inflicting a mortal wound. No clew to the murderer. Rickley, the Columbus (Ohio) Bank President, who was shot at by an irate creditor, is recovering, though he will lose the use of both eyes. Judge Stephen T. Logan, a former law partner of Abraham Lincoln, has just died at Springfield, 111., aged 81. A man named Donnegan shot a police officer in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and was himself shot to death in the jail by a mob of masked men. A Mrs. Frye, of Keokuk, insane and locked up with her baby in the jail at Fort Madison, lowa, for safe keeping, killed the child by hanging it to the bed. The Marshal of Bucy rus, Ohio, knocked a man, whom he had arrested, on the head and placed him in a cell. Tbo next morning tho prisoner was dead. South. Col. Cash, who recently killed Col. Shannon in a duel, in South Carolina, is under arrest on a charge of murder. There has been a fatal case of yellow fever at New Orleans. Two murderers were recently lynched by masked men near Hernando, Miss. Thfir bodies were carvod and mutilated in a horrible manner. Population of Southern cities,.according to the new census returns: New Orleans, 215,230 ; Richmond, 63,243 ; Nashville, 43,453 ; Dallas, Tex., 33,466 ; Mobile, £9,000; little Rock, 15,000 ; Knoxville, Ten., 13,928 ; and Macon, Ga., 12,695. Mississippi has established land and water quarantines against New' Orleans. The health authorities of New Orleans say there is not a case of yellow fever in that city. While Miss Terry, of Sulphur Springs, Texas, was sleeping in bed, at night, she was attacked by a rabid polecat, winch fastened its fangs into her check, and could not be removed until its head was severed from its body. The lady will probably die from the effects of tlie poisonous bite. POLITICAL POINTS. The Democratic National Committee mot at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York, on iiio 13th inst. William 11. Barnum, of Connecticut, was unanimously elected Chairman, and Frederick O. Prince, of Massachusetts, Secretary. Tho memljers of the committee, in company with the committee appointed by the Cincinnati Convention, then proceeded to Governor’s Island to officially notify Hancock and English of their nomination. Gen. Stockton was the spokesman ol the party, tho candidates replying briefly. The Democratic Congressional Committee also mot in Now York on tho 13th and effected a reorganization. The committee, as it now stands, consists of Senators Wallace; McDonald, and Whyte and Congressmen Eppa Hunton, H. G. Davis and J. C. S. Blackburn, together with August Belmont and Gen. W. B. Franklin. The committee will have headquarters at Washington, and will co-operate with the National Committee.

WASHINGTON VOTES. The President has appointed Orange Judd, of New York, of the American Agriculturist, to be a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners, vice Barstow, resigned. For twenty-five consecutive days the temperature at Washington varied between 81 and degrees—a longer continuous season of extreme hot weather than was ever before experienced in that city. The Postmaster General has decided to break up the practice of sending through the mails advertising cards of various sizes with 1cent stamps attached. After Oct. 1 no cards except the regulation postal cards will be transmitted at a less rate than 3 cents for each hall ounce. The Hon. J. A. Campbell, at one time Governor of Wyoming, and later Third Assistant Secretary of State, died at Washington tho other day. Judge Lawrence, of Ohio, has accepted the position of First Comptroller of the Treasury, and entered upon tho duties of the office. New Brunswick has lately been visited by destructive forest fires. A forthcoming railway manual will show that the gross earnings of all railroads from which reports have been received, covering nearly 84,000 miles, reached in 1879, the enormous sum of $529,000,000, being the largest earnings ever reported.

HISOBLLANEOUB GLEANINGS. Tlic propeller City of St. Catherine collided with the steam barge J. H. Morse in Lake Erie and sunk. All hands, thirty in number, were saved. The commercial agency of Dun, Barlow A Co. have issued their circular showing failures in the United States and Canadas in the last three months and for the first half of 1880, as compared with the corresponding time in 1879. During the last three months 1,065 failures, with liabilities at $20,111,689, were reported in the United States, and during first half year of 1880, 2,497, with liabilities of $32,888,763. In the first six months of 1879 there were 4,058 failures, with $65,779,310 liabilities. Thomas Boofchroyd, a wealthy farmer of Howard township, Ont., was attacked by a boar, which threw him down, bit him in the side and throat, completely severing the jugular vein, and doing him other serious injury, from the effects of which he died in fifteen minutes. Sarah Bernhardt opens her American engagements in October. She will play 100 nights in the principal cities of the Unitod States. The War Department is in receipt of information that the sensational reports about the invasion of the Indian Territory are without foundation. Seven Cuban insurgents, captured b} the Spanish authorities, have been put to death at Havana. In a little difficulty between the soldiers stationed at Monterey, Mexico, and the polioe, one of the former and two of &e latter

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 23,1880.

Crop reports : In lowa the outlook for the farmers is very satisfactory. Corn will be. more abundant than ever before, and rye, oats, barley, and hay will be fully up to the average. Spring wheat alone will show a slight falling off. The acreage under flax has been doubled, and the crop is excellent —The last crop report sent out by the Agricultural Department at Washington shows an encouraging state - of things. The cotton crop is the best for many years; wheat will be mnch above the average, and the corn crop is unprecedentedly good. Texas farmers are nnusually lucky this year. Com in that State is rated at 116, and cotton at 114.—Foreign reports represent the harvest prospects in France as promising, except in the western and eastern provinces. Austrian farmers complain of the recent heavy rains; while the Hungarians rejoice over an abundant yield of rye, wheat and barley. In Italy the quality and quantity of the crops are reported to be excellent; but Russia, owing to the ravages of insects, will have a very poor harvest. Our neighboring republic of Mexico recently held on election to choose a President There were three or four candidates in the field, and, as neither received a majority of all the votes cast, there was no choice by the people. Under the Mexican constitution the choice of a ruler to succeed Diaz will, therefore, devolve upon Congress. The Mexican Government declines to allow Gen. Hatch to follow Victoria across the boundary, because the precedent will be dangerous.

Oily Garfield.

The true-blue Republican organs of this city and the country in general have been amusing themselves of late with the publication of stories having reference to Gen. Hancock’s Presidency of an oil company, which did not prove a success, after the close of the War. This has been magnified into something very big and proportionally odious by writers employed on the party journals referred to. It may, therefore, be interesting to those virtuous persons to learn tha(, their “standard-bearer”—to use the well-worn cant expression of the day—is hot entirely free from oleaginous contamination. On the contrary, while the “superb ” individual nominated by the Democrats for the Presidency only lent his name to an oil project, in which he lost some money by way of proving his sincerity, it will be seen, further on, that the canny Garfield was interested as an agent in a somewhat similar scheme, and did his utmost in this city, fifteen years ago, to rope some innocent people into the business. Mr. S. H. Kerfoot, of Chicago, recollects that, some time in 1865 Of 1866, Garfield arrived in the city, sent for him, told him a plausible story about a num-. her of newly-discovered and immensely profitable oil-wells in Ohio, and asked him to help organize a company to develop them. Keffoot had other matters to attend to, and could not devote his time to the brilliant scheme, but Garfield remained in Chicago some time, preaching to and roping in the Carnpbellites, and finally did organize the Venango Oil Company. A number o| people took stock in the enterprise, but, so far as can be learned, not one of them ever realized a cent, or recovered the sum invested. The Republican organgrinders have been crowding out news for several weeks to make room for a charge similar to this against the Democratic candidate for President. It remains to be seen whether they will lay the above charges before their renders with the same frequency and explicitness.—Chicago Times.

A Candid Verdict.

The Springfield Republican (Garfield supporter) passes judgment upon the smirched Republican nominee in these plain and cutting words. Well may Garfield cry out, “Save me from my friends We present an interesting letter this week calling importunately for a verdict from the Republican upon Gen. Garfield's case or cases, and exhorting Us to throw off our coat and pitch in lustily for the Republican candidates. The Republican recognizes the duty of a verdict only so far as we can interpret'the facts to justify one. Gen. Garfield is accused of a series of political misdemeanors—three at least, the Credit Mobilier, the De Golyer, the salary grab. If we were disposed to “litre an eminent lawyer,” after tho manner of the Nation (we do not know the grounds of the attribution), wo might produce verdicts to order upon all these points with the promptitudo and dispatch required by the ardent G. 8. M. We can procure eminent lawyers’ opinions to anything probably. We do not recognize any such imperative exigency, however. Garfield has not yet been nominated a month, his full defense has been in circulation only a week, his letter of acceptance is yet to appear. It is not judgment of him to say that he is “spotted,” “tainted,” “seriously compromised,” etc., for these are historic fact*. His reputation never can be as clean as it would have been but for these things, never can stand with that of Edmunds, for instance, or that of Hancock. This may be terrible, it may bo unjust, but it is the injustice of that nemesis which every public life must confront, and which, in obedience to the law of human nature), ranks the suspected and the accused below the unsuspected and the stainless.

Read This.

Those who laugh at the idea of Republicans voting for Hancock should read the resolutions printed below, which were adopted in St. Louis, by a Republican club of sixty-five members, The meeting took place at the corner of Fifth and Myrtle streets, with Edward Crowley in the chair : Whebeas, The Republican party has seen fit to nominate a man for the Presidency in whose integrity we have no confidence, and who we believe has no abiding interest in the welfare of the nation only so far as it can minister to his paltry personal ambition ; and, Whebeas, The Democratic party has placed in nomination for the same office a man of integrity, ability and courage ; therefore be it 1 Resolved, That we, a band of candid Republicans, who believe in adhering to ■ the true principles upon which our republican form of government was founded, have severed our connections with that party governed by rings and cliques, and cheerfully pledge ourselves to support the candidacy of Hancock and English dunng the ensuing campaign and promise to use all honorable means to insure their triumph at the national coming election. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to Gen. Hancock, the next President of the United States, to William H. English, the next Vice President.

Enthusiasm for Garfield.

There is no use in saying that Garfield has never developed any enthusiasm. Listen to this : When Chittenden had secured Garfield’s service for the Chicago paving ring, he wrote to McClellan and De Golyer as follows : “ To-day's and to-night's work has secured the assistance of Gen. Garfield. You cannot overrate this occasion. Re is Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, and holds the purse strings of the national treasury. Through him must com# ev&'ydoUar of appropriation, I need not say that I now feel oertatn of tvaoett." '■*

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

PREPARING FOR BATTLE.

Meeting of the National Democratic Committee. Hon. W. H. Barnum Unanimously Re-elected Chairman. The Members of the Committee Call Upon Gor. Tllden. The National Democratic Committee met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, on Tuesday, July 13, and organized by unanimously electing W. H. Barnum, of Connecticut, Chairman. Mr. Barnum briefly thanked the committee for this expression of confidence, saying it had been his wish that some other person should be selected for the position, but that, the committee having expressed its wish that he should preside over it, he would do all in his power to make the campaign successful. Mr. Brown, of Indiana, nominated F. O. Prince, of Boston, for Secretary, and he was unanimously elected. The committee was about to adjourn when Mr. Hewitt called attention to the fact that a sub-committee of the Congressional Committee "was in the hotel and desired to present a communication, The chair appointed Mr. Hewitt and Orestes Cleveland a committee to wait upon the sub-committee. Mr. Hewitt and Mr. Cleveland returned with the sub-committee, which consisted of Senator J. E. McDonald, of Indiana; Senator Wm. Pinckney Whyte, of Maryland; Gen. Eppa Hunton, of Virginia; and Duncan S. Walker, of Washington. Senator McDonald said that the Congressional Committee had been at work for some time in Washington, and desired to put itself into communication with and work in co-operation with the National Committee. He presented a resolution of the committee to that effect. The committee, he said, desired that, when the National Committee had appointed its Executive Committee and selected its headquarters, notice be given to the Congressional Committee. The communications and requests were referred to the Executive Committee, when appointed. The National Committee then took a recess until 8 p. m. Upon reassembling in the evening the committee spent two hours informally, representatives of the different States giving an outline of the political situation in their States and explaining What is lieCeSsarV to be done in each case. The general outlook was reported to be brighter than it has been at the opening of any previous campaign. The Democratic National Coramitteo reassembled ott the morning of the 14th, Senator Barnum presiding. The number of the Executive Committee was increased from thirteen to eighteen. The following were then appointed an Executive Committee: W. H. Barnum, of Connecticut; F. O. Prince, Massachusetts ; George T. Barnes, Georgia, Wra, 0, Cottcly, Illinois ; Aiistjn H. Brown, Indiana ; M. lit. Ham, lowa ; Henry D. McHenry, Kentucky ; B. F. JonaH, Louisiana ; Onterbridge Husey, Maryland ; P. H. Kelly, Minnesota : A. H. Sulloway, New Hampshire ; Orestes Cleveland, New Jersey ; Abram 8. Hewett, New York ; M. W. Ransom, North Carolina; Wm. W. Armstrong, Ohio; Wm. L. Scott, Pennsylvania ; Thomas O’Connor, Tennessee, and B. B. Sinailey, Vermont. After routine business the committee adjourned to the call of the chair. The members subsequently proceeded in a body to the residence of Ex-Gov. Tilden to pay i*espects to that gentleman. •’ The committee, on reaching Mr. Tilden’s residence in Gramercy park, wero received by Henry Tilden, the ex-Gov-ernor’s brother, Senator Kernan, Augustus Schell, and others, When Mr. Tilden appeared, looking unusually well, ex-Gov. Stevenson addressed him as fob lows :

Tne convention of the American Democracy upon the 22d of June last filet at Oittcitifiati and nominated Winfield Scott Hancock, of Pennsylvania, for President, and Wm. H. English, of Indiana, for Vice President. The committeo charged with the duty of informing those eminent statesmen of the high trust which has been committed to them performed that duty yesterday. Tho gentlemen who composed that coximittee now surround you. Having notifiod the nominee, whom the people intend to elect in ides of November, next President and Vice President of the United States, their duty would have been but half performed without ’ waiting in person upon you and tendering tile homage of the entire American people to him who, m 1876, was, by a large majority, erected President of the United Slates. The fact that you chose, in order to avoid civil strife and bloodshed, by noble self-denial, to forego the execution of the duties of Chief Magistracy of tho American republic, thus delegated to you, and from which you were deposed by a conspiracy founded in force and fraud, and by a crime against free representative self-gov-ernment, does not in any manner detract from the high honor and confidence of the American people in your wisdom, virtue and capacity to exercise the high trust and duties of that responsible position. In refusing to allow your name to go before the National Convention as a candidate for President in the approaching election, you have taken from the people the privilege of electing you a second time to the Presidency of the United States and of vindicating in your person the crime committed npon the constitution by a conspiracy founded upon force and fraud and refusing to give effect to the voice of the people in calling you in 1876 to execute the high trust of President of the United States. Those acts of self-denying patriotism on your part only have endeared you to the confidence and regard of lovers of American free government throughout the Union. For these acts of self-denial and patriotism, the Democracy of the United States pray to the Almighty Power that your life may be prolonged for many, very many years more ; particularly that you may live to see the country and its constitutional Government relieved from Jmany incumbrances heaped on them, as well as a rectification of the basest frauds perpetrated upon the people by the overwhelming defeat next November of the Republican party. I speak not by the voice of this committee, but by the voice of the Democratic party throughout this broad land, who unite m pay mg you homage simply because of your patriotism, virtue, and exalted statesmanship.' We know that the country and Constitution would have been as safely guarded by you as by Madison, Jeffereon, or Jackson, had you been installed as President. The speaker here read a resolution in reference to Mr. Tilden, passed by the Cincinnati Convention. Mr. Stevenson then concluded: This document but expresses the true sentiment of every single member of the Democratic party in the whole country. I now hand it to you, and permit me to say that I think you ought to reel proud of it. You have our best wishes for your continued health and prosperity. In reply Mr. Tilden spoke as follows: Mb. Stevenson, President of the Democratic National Convention: I tha * you for the kind terms in which you ** Cn expressed the communication you Me me. The solution which enables the Democratic party of the United States to vindicate the right of the people to choose their Chief Magistrate (a right violated in 1876), and at the same time relieves me of the burden of the canvass and four years of administration, is most agreeable to me. My sincere good wishes and cordial co-operation as a private citizen attend the illustrious soldier whom thePemocraoy have designated as their standard-bearer in the Presidential panvass, I congratulate you

on the favorable prospects with which that canvass has been commenced, and the promise it affords of complete and final success. Tile meiitiiers of the doitiinittee Were then introduced to Mr; Tildeii individually, and soon after took their leave* "Messrs. Hewitt, Smalley, and Barnum were appointed a committee to secure permanent headquarters, and Messrs. Hewitt, Cleveland, Scott, Smalley and Horsey an advisory committee. A sub-committee, consisting of Messrs. Banmm, Hewitt and Scott, was appointed to confer with a subcommittee from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Coininittoe in regard to carrying on the campaign. The latter subcommittee consists of Senators Whyte, of Maryland; McDonald, of Indiana; Wallace, of Pennsylvania ; Eppa Hunton, of Virginia; Augustus Schell, of New York, and Duncan S. Walker, of Washington. It was decided that the Executive Committee should meet the second Tuesday of each month, and the matter of establishing a branch in the West Was discussed but no action taken. The committee then adjourned Until Wednesday next. The matter of two Democratic electoral tickets in Virginia came up, and, after a brief discussion, was referxed to the Executive Committee. The committee selected to notify Hancock and English of their nomination met and resolved that they “do hereby return their sincere thanks to Gov. Stevenson, permanent President of the National Convention, for the dignified and feeling manner in which he presented, this day, members of this committee and their sentiments to Gov. Tilden, and they rejoice to record, not only for themselves, but for tlie Democracy of the republic, the patriotic devotion of Mr. Tilden to the cause and candidate of his party.” x THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE. The Democratic Congressional Committee met at tlie St. James Hotel, New York, on July 14, Senator Wallace presided, and Duncan S. Walker acted as Secretary. The two vacancies in the committee were filled by the appointment of Gen. Wm. Franklin and Aug. Belmont. Senator Whyte moved that the Executive Committee be increased for tlie present to not less than nine members, and that the committee have power to still further increase the members. On motion of Senator McDonald, the Chairman appointed the following gentlemen ns the ileW Executive Committee : Senators Wm. A. Wallace, W. Pinckney Whyte, J. E. McDonald, and H. G. Davis, Mr. Augustus Schell, Mr. August Belmont, Gen. W. B. Franklin, Congressman Joseph C, S. Blackburn, and ex Congressman John G. Thompson, Duncan S. Walker was elected Secretary, A resolution was adopted authorizing the Executive Committee to co-operate with the National Executive Committee upon the plan of the campaign, and defining the duties of both committees. The headquarters of the Congressional Committee will be at Washington.

THE SPOILS SYSTEM.

A Union Soldier Supplanted by an j Ex-Rebel. [Washington Cor. Chicago Times.] Mr. Hayes’ civil-service order is not j in tory active operation during this cam- i paign. Beside the forced assessment of clerks by the withholding a portion of their pay in the Treasury Department, a general inspection of the departments is being made for the purpose of weeding out all who are not professed loyal Republicans, without regard to their clerical capacity, One of the most flagrant cases of removals of this class is the dismissal from the War Department of Capt. Hamlin, of Springfield, Ill.' Hamlin was one of the best clerks in the War Department. He served during the war in Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Illinois. He was clerk in the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction in Illinois in 1877 and 1878. He was indorsed for an appointment at the War Department by Senators Logan and David Davis, and Gen. W. T. Sherman. During liis service as clerk he has discreetly avoided . politics. The clerk that sat next to him never-suspected that he was a Democrat. Complaint was made to Noah, the appointment clerk, that Hamlin had been a Democrat. Some one heard him say that he was going to Cincinnati. This was. enough, and Hamlin was abruptly dismissed. When he asked the reason he was bluntly told that it was because he Was a Democrat. Capt. Hamlin has since addressed the following letter to the Secretary of War. Washington, July 8, 1880. Hon. Alex. Ramsey, Secretary of War. Sib : Under the law approved March 16, 1880, ,to facilitate the settlement of pensions, by indorsement of Senators David Davis and John A. Logan and Gen. W. T. Sherman, I secured an appointment as one of the additional force. Upon inquiry I found that of all the additional force appointed I stood first in the performance of dutv. Of those appointed, as I now understand, only two are dismissed, of whom I am one. Among those retained the public record will show that the tail of the list in performing public service has had a great share in the dispensation of Government patronage, thus illustrating the beauties of “ civil-service reform” as now practiced. J. J. Noah, who supervises your appointments, submitted these inquiries : “ Are you not a Democrat? ” “ Did you not say you were going to Cincinnati ? ” and added : “ You have talked too much.” I replied that I had said I was going to Cincinnati ; that I was a Democrat; that he had no place in his gift for which I would surrender my political opinions; and also told him both by letter and in person that I had fought three years to maintain tho Union of the States, and was now a pensioner of the Government, and in addition to that I informed him that he had appointed in his new organization a person who carries the recommendation of Shelby M. Cu'.lom, Governor of the State of Illinois, being his cousin a Mr. McHenry, who during the wlicle war served as a Confederate soldier, was directing his bullets against the bosom of myself and comrades and against the integrity of the Union, of which you, sir, and your party profess to be the especial champions. Your secretary and appointment clerk informed me that some vacancy might occur in which he could place me, hut his remarks so clearly indicated that political proscription andjno “ civilservice reform” founded on merit would govern the bestowment of place that I deem it a public duty to address yon this open letter, to know whether or not you sustain this manner of administering the service of the people. I had declared that I would never give ono dollar to corrupt the people of this country to vote against the party of which I am a member, and especially against the great soldier who bared his bosom to the storm in behalf of the Union, and whom the Democrats have presented as their candidate for the Presidency. This may have been an additional reason why I faded to respond successfully to the peculiar civil-service reform that has signalized the history of your Secretary’s administration, and which he graphically described by stating that “you know, Hamlin, this is a political year.” I am, honored sir, your most obedient servant, D. M. Hamlin. When Senator Logan heard of the removal he addressed the following letter to the appointment clerk who had ordered Hamlin’s dismissal: July 18, 1880. Judge Noah: Dear Sib : lam truly sopy that you have discontinued Capt, Hamlin. He was appointed

especially for Judge Davis, With my joining him in the recommendation. I hope you may find it the proper thing to do to restore him. I understand that he has been supplanted by a Confederate soldier. This is rather tough, you beiiig a Union soldier yourself. He was a Democrat, but left them, and claims that he has done nothing to cause yon to think otherwise. Yours, truly, JoffN A Logan. Judge Davis also wrote from Bloomington as follows : Bloomington, 111., July 3, 1880. My Dkab Hamlin : lam chagrined and astonished at your discharge. I have recommended no one in your place. Indeed, I have no recollection of having recommended any one to the War Department for any place. Ido not believe Gen. Logan has recommended any one for your place. If Logan is in Washington you had better see him, and I have no doubt he will see you rectified. My recommendation is on file. I don’t see what more I can do unless I was there in person. lam sorry,

Truly yours,

HANCOCK IN 1878-7.

Nothing Dishonorable or Treasonable in His Attitude. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican, a conservative Republican journal of wide influence, and a supporter of Garfield, reviews the charge of treason brought against Gen. Hancock by the reckless organs of the spoils party, and reaches the conclusion that Gen H. ’s attitude pending the electoral count w r as in every way honorable and consistent with his duty as a soldier. The Republican candidly says—and its words arc commended to every reader of this journal, Republican as well as Democrat : Gen. Hancock’s conduct during the electoral struggle of 1876-7 is going to be the battleground of his record. Nothing else derogatory to his reputation as an officer and citizen stands examination, or discloses any substance of evil. The data regarding his Course then have been placed before the public about as fully as they are likely to be. Hiram Atkins has told his story, as we have already printed, and as derived from Gen. “Baldy” Smith; Gen. Smith doesn’t deny it, and is apparently a little nottled that the‘story is out. Gen. Sherman declines to sav anything about it. Atkins says that Hancock made known his position to Sherman before the Electoral Commission was fixed upon as a mode of settlement, and that he simply informed Sherman that, if Congress sustained Tilden’s claim, ho should feel obliged to obey the orders of President Tilden. It is clear that the Republican claim that, as the New York Tribune says, “Gen. Hancock took it upon himself to decide that Mr. Tilden had been elected,” is all bosh. The Presidency was disputed, every intelligent citizen viewed the situation with anxiety, and Gen. Hancock, the citizen before he was a soldier, said frankly, on being asked his opinion by his superior officer, that if the authorities who certify to the election of a President differ, and Congress sustains one and the Executive another, ho should go with Congress. Perhaps he said that if the House (not Congress) sustained Tilden, he should also ; it is not improbable, the House being the body constitutionally authorized to choose a President in case of failure to elect. The charge amounts, then, to this, that Hancock, being a soldier of the nation, yet dared to have opinion upon a civil question on being asked and to say, in case controversy arose, in which direction ho should conceive constitutional authority to lie. We find nothing dishonorable or treasonable in that attitude. On the other hand, it is one of the tew presumptive evidences of Hancock’s capacity for civil administration, The American theory of Government does not require the soldier to be a machine of unthinking militarism. The American soldier is raised and trained amid the atmosphere of citizenship. While this fact lost us many officers from the regular army to the rebellion, it added devotion and intelligence to those who remained, and will always be the pride of American arms over those of Europe. Had Congress, or had the House, sustained the claim of Tilden to the Presidency, and the administration of Gen. Grant sustained the claim of Hayes, the grounds for a divided allegiance would have been so strong on both sides that it is vain to speculate upon the degreo of moral error involved in a declaration for one or the other of the two authorities. We were fortunately saved from such a catastrophe, and there is nothing to prove that Gen. Hancock was ever disloyal to the Government which was based upon that settlement. Gen. Hancock, referring to this matter himself this week at an interview reported in the Brooklyn Eagle , said : Whether 1 wrote a letter to Gen. Sherman on the subject of the electoral contest I shall not say, but my position in regard to that matter was well understood at the time, and has not changed since. lam of the opinion that Gen. Grant’s term as President ended at midnight March 3. After that I should have paid no more attention to him officially than I would to the man in the moon. The houses of Congress alone had power to count the electoral vote, and declare the result, and they were the constitutional authority. My position on this question cannot be open to misconstruction. Anything I may have written to Gen. Sherman or any one else concerning it is at the disposal of the public. lam not ashamed of my views regarding the electoral contest and still adhere to them.

A Frank Opinion About Garfield’s Letter.

On the tariff, Gen. Garfield’s expressions are generalities, of no value in themselves, but, interpreted in the light of his recent course in Congress, giving little cause for expecting any aid from him in those rational reforms which are imperatively demanded by the interests of the country, and by none more than by the great body of unprotected and overtaxed manufactures. Neither in substance nor form is this part of his letter worthy of his position, or calculated to strengthen him where he most needs strength. The portions of Mr. Garfield’s letter relating to the reform of the civil service are below the level of the platform adopted at Chicago. He calls for legislation from Congress, which would certainly be desirable, if it were of the right kind, but he ventures no suggestion as to what such legislation should be, nor does he pledge his personal support to the principles of the system which has been, in places, applied ■with perfect success by Mr. Hayes, without any aid whatever from Congress. On the contrary, he distinctly takes a stand less elevated than that of the platform—which declares that “fitness, determined by practical tests, should admit to the service ” —by announcing the necessity of consulting members of Congress, whom he indicates plainly, though he describes them in a roundabout fashion, as to appointments. On the whole, the letter of Gen. Garfield is very uneven, and fails to place him in that commanding position which he might have easily assumed. —New York Times {Stalwart Republican).

An Earnest Politician.

1 once started out on a campaign, and went to a meeting and made a speech, and the audience began to depart. They went out one by one as I went on, until finally, beside the committee, who had to stay, there were only two men left, and they started to go. I went to one of them, and said, “My friend, are you going ?” He said he was. ‘ 4 Well, ” said I, “I won’t let you go until you promise me you will vote the Republican ticket. ” He said he would promise me anything if I would only let him go. [Laughter.] — Ex-Governor Bag ley, of Michigan. It has been estimated that about one hundred thousand miles of underground chambers exist in the lime-stone of J£entuolfy.

OUR CANDIDATES.

The Coming President and Vice President. They Are Formally Officially Notified of Their •MFominatione. Nrw York, July 13. The committee appointed by the Cineinnat 1 Convention to inform its candidates of their nomination, held a meeting in the New York Hotel at 9 o’clock this morning, ex-Senator John Stockton, of New Jersey, in the chair. A sub -committee, composed of Stockton, John W. Daniels, Virginia ; Uen. D. M. Debpse, Georgia; ex-Gov. • Saulsbury, Delaware) R. M- Speer, Pennsylvania; George Hoadley, dhio, and Augustus Schooenmacker, NewTbrk, reported the drafts of the letters to Gen. Hancock and Mr. English, which were adopted and signed by all the members of the Committee of Notification. The committee left the New York Hotel in a body for Governor’s, island. They were met be Gen. Hancock in the parlor of his house. Gen. Stockton spoke as follows: Gkn. Hancock i I have' the honor to introduce to you Gov. Stevenson, Chairman of the Democratic National Convention recently assembled at Cincinnati. I have also the honor of presenting to you the committee appointed by that body to wait upon and notify you of your unanimous nomination for the highest office in the Government of the people. It is a source Of great satisfaction to the committee, in making this announcement to you, to say that your nomination was not secured by the solicitations of personal or political friends, but was the spontaneous action of that convention, actuated by patriotic duty. One of the ablest and wisest bodies of your countrymen ever assembled have given you this nomination with perfect unanimity; and, General, since that convention has adjourned, we of that committee have been to our homes, wo have seen our constituents, we have seen the Democratic masses and the conservative people of this country, and, with one accord, they ratify the action of that convention. So we are bound to believe, as we do, that your election will be an accomplished fact. We cannot doubt it, and we believe that when the election is over the great principles of American liberty will still be the inheritance of this people, and shall bo forever. And now, in the name of the National Democratic party, by virtue of the power intrusted to this committee by the convention, as its Chairman, l have the honor to hand to its Secretary a communication in writing informing you officially of your nomination. Gen. Stockton handed the Secretary of the committee, Mr. Bell, the address signed by the committee, after which it was handed to Gen. Hancock. In reply, Gen. Hancock said : Ma. Chairman and Gentlemen of; the Committee : I appreciate the honor conferred upon me by the Democratic National Convention lately assembled In Cincinnati, and I thank you for your courtesy iu making that honor known to me. As soon as the importance of the matter permits, 1 will prepare and send to you a formal acceptance of my nomination for the office of President of the United States. Those present were then introduced to Gen. Hancock, who had a few words of welcome for each person. After about ten minutes spent in handshaking, order was restored, and Gen. Stockton, turning to William H. English, who occupied the same position in the room where Gen. Hancock had lately stood, said : The Cincinnati Convention, with unanimity unparalleled, appointed us a committee to wait upon you at such time and place as would bo most agreeable to you, and inform you in person and iu writing of your nomination. I have the honor to congratulate ourselves on the event, and to present to you on the part of the committee and in the name of the convention of the National Democratic party the official announcement of your nomination, which wili be read to you by the Secretary. Secretary Bell then read the address, and Mr. English spoke as follows : Mb. Chairman and Gentlemen or the Committee : As a practical business man, not much accustomed to indirection of action or circumlocution of speech, I will say plainly and in a few words that I accept the high trust which you have tendered me with feelings of profound gratitude, and that I will at an early date formally and in writing make the acceptance'which I am inf ormed is usual on Buch occasions. In rtoing this I fully realize the great responsibility of the situation, care, turmoil, anxiety, misrepresentations and abuse which are certain to follow. And I undersland thoroughly that all the resources and power of our political foes from all parts of the land will be concentrated against us in Indiana, my native State, where the first grand battle is to be fought, and probably the most important of all. But these are great occasions, when the discharge of high patriotic duties are to be considered above all personal considerations, and I shall hot disregard the unanimous voice of the representatives of the majority of the American people which you speak for here to-day. lam profoundly grateful for the high honor which has been conferred, and I have in abiding faith that, with the favor of God and of the people, we shall succeed in this contest The speaker was applauded at the close of his remarks, and then followed more handshaking. Shortly afterward, the committee, and their friends accompanying them,: left the island. Following is the letter to Gen. Hancock : Jult 13,1830.

DAVID DAVIS.

To Gen. Hancock: Sir : The National Convention of the Democratic party, which assembled in Cincinnati on the 22d of last month, unanimously nominated you as their candidate for President of the United States. We have been directed to inform you of your nomination for this exalted trust, and request your acceptance, in accordance with the uniform custom of the Democratic party. The convention havo announced their views upon the important issues which are before the country in a series of resolutions, to which we invite your attention. The resolutions embody the general principles upon which the Democratic party demand that the Government shall be conducted, and they also emphatically condemn mal-administration by the party in power, its crimes against the constitution, and epecinlly against the right of the people to choose and install their President, which have wrought so much injury and dishonor to our country. That which chiefly inspired your nomination was the fact that you had conspicuously recognized and exemplified the yearning of the American people for reconciliation and brotherhood under the shield of the constitution, with all its jealous care and guarantees for the rights of persons and of States. Your nomination was not made only because in the midst of arms you illustrate the highest qualities of the soldier, but because when war had ended, and when, in recognition of your courage and fidelity, you were placed in command of a part of the Union undergoing the process of restoration, and while you were thus clothed with absolute power, you used it, not to subvert, but to sustain, the civil laws and the rights they were established to protect. Your fidelity to those principles, manifested in in* portent trusts heretofore confided to your care, gives proof that they will control your administration of the National Government, and assures the country that one indissoluble Union of indestructible States and a constitution with its wise distribution of power, and a regard for the boundaries of State and Federal authority, will not suffer in your hands; that you will maintain subordination of the military to the civil power, and will accomplish purification of the public service, and especiallythat the Government which we love will be free from reproach and the stain of sfectional agitation or malice in any shape or form. Rejoicing in common with the masses of the American people upon the bright promise for the future of our country, we wish also to express to you personally the assurance of general esteem and confidence which have summoned you to this high duty, and will aid you in its performance. Your fellow citizens, John W. Stevenson. President of the Convention. Nicholas M. Bell, Secretary. The letter to Mr. English is as follows : July 13,1880. To Hon. William H. English: Dear Sir : By direction of the Democratic National Convention, assembled at Cincinnati, June 22 last, it becomes our pkaeant duty to notify you that you were unanimously nominated by that body lor the office of Vice President of the United States. Your large experience in the affairs of the Government, your able discharge of the many trusts committed to your hands, your steadfast devotion to Democratic principles and the uprightness of your private character give assurance to the Democracy that you are worthy and well qualified to perform the duties of that high position, and commend you to them for the nomination which they conferred. While your personal qualities and your public services well merited this honor, the actiod of the convention was no doubt designed not only to vindicate their appreciation of yourself, but as well to testify their profound respect for the Democracy of Indiana, ! your native State, with whose manly struggles you have been so long identified, and in whose glorious achievements you have shared. The convention set forth its views upon the leading political issues which are now before the people in a series of resolutions, a copy of which we have the honor to present to you, and to which your attention is respectfully requested. It is our earnest hope that those views may be met with your approbation, and that you will accept the nomination which is now tendered you. With sentiments of high esteem, we are respect-

; fully.

President. Nicholas M. Bell, Secretary of the Convention.

“You had better change that rug,” said a lady to her servant. “ Don’t you think it corroborates better with the carpet in this way?” was the response. It was the same girl who told her mistress that a gentleman with a predicament in h|s speech ha*} called to see her.

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INDIANA NEWS.

Elkhart has 6,997 people, an increase Of 112 per cent, in ten years. From census reports already at hand, it is estimated that the population of Indiana will foot up 2,220,009. The population of Mount Vernon, as found by the census-taker, is 3,706, a gain of about 30 per cent, since the hist census. The real-estate assessment of Fort Wavne amoiuits to §7,343,189, the personal assessments $18,564.35. The commission house of George H, Start & Co. burned recently at Evansville. Loss, $20,000 ; insured for $lO,000. The Board of Equalizat ion of Knox county have discovered about 700 acres of land that has never been listed for taxation. Mrs. Breinert, of Walkerton, was building a fire in her home, when her clothes ignited, and before help came she was roasted. In 1870 the population of Wabash was 2,881, while in 1880, including the same limits, it is 4,603, showing a net gain of 60 per cent, since the last census. Fifteen bounty claims, which have been in litigation for about two years, have just been allowed by the Commissioners of Morgan county. They average $lO4 each. Frank Gibson, who, with his w ifi' and children, were drowned on White Bear lake, near St. Paul, Minn., w'as until recently a citizen of Terre Haute, where his father still resides.

The saw and planing mill of A. G. Campfield, at Winchester, together with all of the machinery and tools, was burned not long ago. Loss estimated at from $5,000 to $6,000 ; insured for SI,OOO. Michael Hartmetz, a confectioner of Vincennes, w r as badly burned on the breast and limbs by the bursting of a bottle containing sulphuric acid, with which he was charging a soda-water fountain. There is a great gold excitement on Rush creek, iu Washington county. An old miner from the Rockies and Sierras declares that he has discovered gold particles in the bed of the creek, and also gold-boaring quartz. A Miss Wenden, residing on Walnut street, Madison, fell from the secondstory window of her dwelling, while walking in her sleep. She is a season too early. She took her fall in summer. Maj. Harrison’s hominy mill at Evansville burned a few days ago. The damage amounts to about $10,009, the insurance to but $3,500. There is no evidence as to the origin of the blaze. The mill lias been attacked by lire three times in two years. Two young men, named Bryant anil Hazelett, became involved in a quarrel at a basket picnic near Belle Union. Bryant shot at his antagonist and afterward stabbed him with a knife. The shot did not take effect, lmt the cut did, and may prove fatal. Mbs. William Mensor, of Monroeville, having been abandoned by her husband and left in a destitute condition, put arsenic in a pitcher of milk which she and her five children drank. They were accidentally discovered all in an unconscious state just in time to secure physicians and save their lives. In the bankruptcy case of S. H. Patterson, at New Albany, it was shown that the debts of the concern are $225,000 and the assets $135,000. Mr. Patterson was for many years considered one among the wealthiest men in Indiana. The great panic crushed him, and in his old age he is left penniless. Dr. McKown, of Washington county, is in luck. During the war lie doctored and cured a very sick Kentuckian iu Arkansas. The Kentuckian wanted to pay the doctor for his services, but the doctor refused pay. Recently the Kentuckian died, and in his will devised $5,000 to the children of Dr. McKown.

A hack-driver of South Bend was driving along one of the principal streets, when a bolt of lightning struck the pole of the carriage, ran along it and down the axle and wheel to the ground, knocking down one of the horses, and temporarily paralyzing the driver. The horse soon recovered, and the haekman charged the lightning $4 for the ride. The following are the correct census statistics of Sullivan county : Town of Sullivan, 2,106; Hamilton township, 2,175; Haddon township, 2,805; Cass township, 1,335 ; Gill township, 2,175 ; Jackson township, 1,979; Jefferson township, 1,797 ; Curry township, 2,240 ; Fairbanks township, 1,332; Thurman, 1,952; total for the entire county, 20,042. A man by the name of Bloudell, at Evansvilie accomplished the feat of swimming fifteen miles in three and one-half hours. He claims to he champion long-distance swimmer of the world. He swam against time, attempting to make the distance in two hours and a half. He is entered for the swim at Cincinnati which takes place during the Exposition. A woman named Schauss, living in Posey county, went away from home, leaving her 11-months-old babe sleeping in a cradle in charge of her 5-year old child. During her absence the babe awakened, and, in its struggles, fell out of the cradle through an opening in the side where one of the rounds was out. Its head was caught in some manner, and the little one hung there until found dead by its mother. Madison Star: A lady living in the western part of the city is the owner of a litter of young kittens and a pet hen. There is nothing remarkable in this fact, but the hen, which lately lost her brood, has taken the kittens in hand and cannot be kept away from them. She goes to the basket where they are and hovers them, and tries to teach them to scratch. She probably thinks that after a while they will lay in the basket. The explosion of a coal-oil lamp at Harmony burned Mrs. William McClain so badly that she died. She was carrying the lamp in her hand, when she stooped down, and, upon rising suddenly, the action of the air caused the flame to run into the bowl of the lamp, caus> ing the explosion. The woman’s clothing was saturated with the oil, and the flame enveloped her entire body in an instant. Her husband first at empted to tear her clothes from her body, but made no headway, after which he threw bed-clothing upon her and extinguished the fire, but not until she was fatally burned.