Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

fobbign vzwa. The village of Remus, in France, has been binned. Ninety-eight houses were destroyed. The Russian Government has given an order for the construction in England of four torpedo boats. The Basutos, a South African tribe, are in open rebellion against the British. It appears that the killing of tho mother of the Russian Gen. Skobeloff, in Turkey, was neither an act of war nor of private vengeance, but of mere brigandage. Tho murderers have boon arrested. Gen. Bazaine is reported hopelessly ill in Madrid. Tiie committee for the erection of a memorial to Prince Louis Napoleon, in deference to the wishes of many Englishmen, has withdrawn tho proposal to place it in Westminster Abbey, and tho Queen has offered a site in Bt. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, where the monument will be erected. Tho explosion of powder in the artillery works at Ivooisk, South Russia, killed eighteen and wounded twelve persons. A report is telegraphed from St. Petersburg that the Russian Gen. Skolxileff lias been captured and beheaded by tho Turcomans. The sequel to the marriage of the Marquis of Anglesey and Mrs. Wodehouse, of Georgia, is the suicide of Mrs. Wetmore, also a celebrate I beauty of tho American colony in Paris, who, it is reported, was jilted by the Marquis* Turkey lias practically rejected the recommendations of tho supplemental conference at Berlin, and asks that tho Greek frontier question be reopened. Earthquakes have ruined every public building in Manila, and the inhabitants are encamped outside the city, where there are no houses to full on thorn. The consummation of the victorious British campaign in Afghanistan begun with the formal recognition oT Abdurrahman Khan as Ameer, instead of Yukoob Khan. The event, which, it is announced, will bo shortly followed by the withdrawal of tho British forces, signalizes what is practically equivalent to tho reduction of Afghanistan to tho condition of an English dependency. Tho Dowager Countess Cowper, mother of the present Earl Cowper, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, is dead, aged 75. Tho betrothal of Prince Alexander of Bulgaria and Princess Zorka of Montenegro announced. Mr. Redputh repeats emphatically that there is no further need of American contributions in Ireland. Tho recent earthquake at Manila, on the Island of Luzon, proved to be a terribly destructive visitation' Throe hundred and twenty persons, including 200 Chinamen, were killed, and nearly every family on the island was rendered homeless.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Mrs. Nesmith, wife ol a iheu tenant in the navy, and two children were drowned while bathing at Atlantic City, N. J. Rich oil deposits have been discovered in the neighborhood of Wellsville, Allegany county, N. Y. Several test wells have been yielding largo quantities of the liquid. The large brewery of Herman Koehler, In New York, has been partially burned, involving a loss of $300,000. The census returns show a slight decrease in tho population of Vermont since 1870. Maine has also decreased considerably in population. Dr. Tanner entered upon his twentythird day without food weighing 135 pounds, twenty-two pounds less than at the beginning. He expressed himself as feeling no pangs of hunger. At 0 o’clock a. m, of that day he took a two-hours’ drive, had his demijohn filled with well-water, returned to tho hall, wrote half a dozen letters, read his voluminous correspondence, looked over the morning papers, and talked and acted not different from other men in tho apartments. His condition was entirely normal—pulse 78, and temperature 98. Tho physicians pronounce him a phenomenon. Now Hampshire has hod a sharp earthquake shock. Dishes and pioturos were shaken down in many placou Dr. Tanner entered upon the twentyfifth day of his long fast looking, and apparently feeling, as well as at tho end of the first w. ok. a measurement disclosed the curious fact that the faster had decreased in height two lichee since the beginning of his self-impo-ed task. His pulse was recorded s t 72 ; temperature, 99 ; respiration, 1G ;• weight, 131 The physicians expressed the opinion that he could not last many days longer. A wealthy farmer named Easterly, Using in Wayne county, N. Y., mnrdcrod his wife and mother-in-law, and then committed suicide. The official census returns give Boston a population of 363,565, an increase of 71,066 in ten years. Dr. Tanner’s condition was reported as good at the close of tho twenty-eighth day of his fast. His weight was 129 X, a loss of ono pound in the preceding twenty-four hours. Nine boys have died in Philadelphia from injuries received by the explosion of toy pistols on the Fourth of July.

Wtit Mrs. Calvin and her 17-year-old son were killed by lightning in Sao county, lowa. A census enumerator at Decatur, 111., found a woman who had given birth to five children in one year. Gen. Grant’s apartments at Manitou Springs, Col., were robbed of SSOO in money and jewelry. Hon. Joseph Brinkenlioff, for many years Judge of the Ohio Supreme Court, is dead. He was the author of the original draft of the Wilmot proviso. The Sioux Indians object to the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company laying hacks through their reservation. The savages have driven the engineers and surveyors of the road out of their country. A serious accident occurred on the Wabash railway, near Fort Wayne, Ind. A train of oxcurslonists from Indianapolis and other Indiana towns, returning from Pu -in Bay, was ditched by a broken rail. One pas. senger was killed outright, three or four received fatal injuries, about a dozen were serious ly and some two dozen slightly wounded The train, was completely wrecked, and the wonder is that more people were not killed. George W. Weber, publisher of the Springfield (Ill.) Register, and George Baber, late editor of the paper, indulged in a street fight, the other day, ia whioh Weber was sort*

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ously cut with a knife in the hands of Baber, while the latter was knocked down and badly battered about the head and face. Spotted Tail’s Indians are dissatisfied with him, and have asked the President to depose the old chief. A Detroit bank has been made the victim of an unusually bold robbery. The cashier was alone in the bank, when a stranger entered, knocked him down with a slung-shot, helped himself to $>5,000 in bills, and made good his escape. E. B. Chambers, editor and publisher of the Fargo (Dakota) Times, was recently thrown from a lumber wagon and fatally injured. At Kokomo, Col., a desperado named Norton shot and killed I oliceman O’Neil. A mob took Norton out of jail an hour afterward and hung him. He confessed having committed Other murders, and said he ought to have been hung long ago. Cicero Simms was liariged for murder at Fair Play, Col., on the 23d of July. An Industrial Exposition building, to cost $200,000, will bo erected in Milwaukee. Twenty car-loads of Mormon immigrants passed through Chicago last week on their way to Utah. The summer trotting meeting of the Chicago Jockey Club furnished tho most successful week for sport ever known in the annals of the trotting turf, terminating in the hitherto unparalleled performance, for a horse of that age, of a mile in 2:13)4 by William H. Vanderbilt’s 6-year-old filly Maud 8. South. Tho marriage of Miss Bertie Old, daughter of Gen. Ord, and Gen. Trevino, ol tho Mexican army, took place at San Antonio, Texas, last week. At Olinda, Ala., three negroes have been arrested for digging up and mutilating the bodies of buried white people. They did it for the purpose of getting the finger bones, which they believed would mako them lucky at cardrff At Wilmington, N. C., a negro named Richardson killed his mother-in-law, his father-in-law, and his wife.

POLITICAL POINTS. Gen. Neal Dow has written a letter accepting tho nomination for the Presidency by the National Prohibitory party. Gen. Huidekoper, who commanded the “Buck-tail” iegiment at Gettysburg, l as been appointed Postmaster at Philadelphia. The Ohio Democrats have placed in nomination the following candidates for State offices : Secretary of State, William Long ; Judge of the Supreme Court, Martin B. Follctto ; Clerk of the Supreme Court, Richard W. Fanning ; School Commissioner, William J. Jackson; member of the Board of Public Works, J. J. Burns. —The Vermont Democratic Convention nominated Edward J. Phelps for Governor, George W. Gates for Lieutenant Governor, and James K. Williams for Treasurer.—The Democracy of Missouri, in convention at Jefferson City, named Thomas T. Crittenden for Governor, It. A. Campbell for Lieutenant Governor, It. D. Ray for Judge of the Supreme Court, M. K. McGrath for Secretary of State, and Philip E. Cliappel for Treasurer. B. Gratz Brown announces himself as a Democratic candidate for United States Senator for Missouri.

WASHINGTON NOTEa Although the Spanish Government has denied that any vessel of tho Spanish navy fired on the two American schooners in Cuban waters a few weeks ago, the State Department at Washington has learned that it was the Canto, a small screw steamer of the Spanish navy, which committed the offense. A shark nine feet in length has been caught in the Potomac, near Washington. It will he stuffed and placed in the Smithsonian Institute.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. It is stated that Gen. Grant will go into business in New York upon his return from Colorado, The nature of the business is not diso'.osed. Princess Louise is going to England again for the benefit of her health. The steamer Dessonk, bearing the Egyptian obelisk presented to the United States by the ex-Khedive of Egypt, has arrived. Arrangements are nearly complete for the resumption of work on the Washington monument, suspended for twenty-one years. Census notes : There are 112,000 Mormons and 32,000 Gentiles in Utah. Tho census returns give New Jersey a population of 1,100,000, being an increase of 193,000. Pennsylvania has about 4,226,000 people, an increase of about 700,000. St. Louis statisticians claim for Missouri a population of about 2,400,000. Estimates based upon returns from about onethird of the counties of Illinois place the population of the State at 3,100,000. Ohio’s population is estimated at about the same figure. Tho population of tho cities of Ohio is as follows • Cincinnati, 256,000; Cleveland, 159,500 ; Columbus, 51,300 ; Dayton, 39,000 ; -Springfield, 20,500; Athens, 16,100; Sandusky, 15,000; Hamilton, 12,300 ; Chillicothe, 10,792 ; Newark, 9,750; Ironton, 9,000; Fremont, 8,435; Tiffin, 7,885; Urbana, 6,208 ; Massillon, 6,859 ; Wilmington, 2,671; Wooster, 5,900 ; Galion, 6,634 ; Bucyrus, 3,848 ; Van Wert, 4,200. The report that there had been no popular choice for President of Mexico at the recent election turns out to have been premature. Later accounts are to the effect that Gen. Gonzales was chosen Chief Magistrate of our neighboring republic by a large majority over all competitors. Simultaneoui with this announcement comes the news that revolutions had broken out in four or five States, and that an attempt had been made to assassinate the President-elect. “ I felt ns well this morning as at any time,” said Dr. Tanner, on the twenty-seventh day of his fast. Observations showed the pulse to be at 80 ; temperature, 98; respiration, 16 ; weight, Tho dynamometer showed a pressure of 80 kilogrammes with tho right hand and 79 kilogrammes with the left. Bennett, the murderer of Hon. George Brown, of the Toronto Globe, was executed at Toronto on the 23d of July. Chicago continues to lead all competitors in the race for the national base-ball championship. The record of the competing clubs is as follows: Clubs. Games won. Lost. Chicago 40 7 Cleveland 26 18 Providence 26 20 805t0n..... 22 25 Worcester 21 24 Troy 10 24 Buffalo 17 30 Cincinnati 11 33 The mining edmpany of which Gen. Grant has been elected President is called the San Pedro and Canon. De Lagna. The General's salary has been fixed $25,000, and he trill have offloea In New York and Boston.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 30,1880.

EVERYBODY SING.

A List of Prominent Bepnblica.it* Wbo Have Bade Farewell to the Bloody Shirt and Bullied Hound the Hancock Flag-Hurrah, Boys, Hurrah. [From the Rochester (N. Y.) Union and Advertiser.] The Pittsburgh Volksblatt, heretofore strongly Republican, has deserted Garfield and run up tho Hancock flag. Peter Wilson, a prominent Republican lawyer, heads the call for a Hancock club ut S treator, HI. Hon. Horatio King, ex-Postmaster General, supported Hayes in 1876, and will take the stump for Hancock in 1880. Hon. George R. Wendling, of St. Louis, once a leading Republican Congressman, has declared against Garfield and will take the stump for Hancock and English. He will be remembered as the gentleman who replied to Bob Ingersoll’s lecture. The Hon. S. W. Moulton, a former Republican and member of Congress from Hlinois, and Judge Mocser, Republican County Judge, astonished the Republicans of Shelbyville, 111., last week by openly declaring for Hancock and English. Lewis Lovelace, a prominent Republican of Pike county, Ind., and formerly a candidate of his party for Congress, has renounced his connection with the Republican organization, and is out for Hancock and English. Edward Butler, ex-stalwart editor of the New Haven (Ct.) Palladium , lias declared for Hancock. Col. John A. Wimpy, heretofore a prominent Republican in Georgia, has announced his intention to vote for Hancock. Mr. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger, is another Grant man who has all the symptoms of being for Hancock. Hinton Rowan Helper, author of the “ Impending Crisis,” has written a letter in which he announces himself in favor of Hancock and English. Don H. Powers, a prominent Republican of Eastern Maine, a well-known member of the Penobscot bar, and brother of ex-Congressman Lew Powers, has joined a Plaisted club at Newport, and will do all in his power to elect Gen. Plaisted and the Union ticket. Five other Republicans of Newport have joined the same club. Hon. N. C. Towle, for several years Recorder of the District of Columbia, by appointment of President Lincoln, and for nearly a dozen years officially connected with the Government service, has addressed the following open letter to the Democratic candidate for the Vice Presidency : Brookline, Mass., July 18. Hon. William 11. English. My Dear Sir : I congratulate you and the country upon the result of the meeting of the Democratic National Convention at Cincinnati. It has submitted to the American people a ticket characterized by great ability and sound constitutional principles, But this is not all—it is a clean ticket. The names borne upon the ticket are not only illustrious by their deeds of heroism and statesmanship, but they are unstained and undimmed by even the suspicion of acts of a questionable character. The supporters of this ticket have no use for lawyers or politicians ; they have no indictments to defend and no mysticisms to clear up. Here i 3 no taint of Credit Mobilier to be deodorized, and no spoils of the Tweed or Shepherd rings to be accounted for. The people want a clean, [mre, constitutional administration of tho General Government, firmly maintaining its dignity and authority, and respecting the rights “ reserved to the States and people,” and the people see in this ticket a reasonable guarantee for such an administration, and, if I am not mistaken, will elect it by such a majority as will render the counting of the vote no difficult task. I trust to what I hope is still remembered as a friendly acquaintance of thirty years ago, and my personal interest in observing your long and brilliant Congressional career, as my apology for the mode I have adopted in offering you my sincere congratulations. I have the honor to ho very truly yours, N. C. Towle. Capt. M. M. C. Griffin and Capt. A. J. For graves aro numbered among the converted Republican members of the Hancock and English Chib at Council Bluffs, lowa. They can hardly expect to carry lowa, but evidently they desire to record their preference on the right side.

A correspondent writing from Standifcli, Mich., says: “The President of our Hancock and English Club is Mr. M. McCormick, who lias voted the Republican ticket for twenty-seven years, but is through with that party now. Our Vice President, Mr. Oliver T. Rugg, is a veteran of 82 years, the oldest citizen in Standisli, and a man who has always he retofore opposed the Democratic party. We have on our list tho names of six other working members who have been Republicans up to this time. We are all enthusiastic for Hancock and English—in some respects the best ticket the party has presented since the days of Jackson.” Col. Williamson, of Shreveport, La., declines tho Republican nomination for Congress, and announces his determination to support Hancock. Hon. Patrick Jones, Postmaster of New York city under Grant, and a lifelong Republican, has declared for Hancock and English. One solitary case has been discovered of some solitary personage out in Wisconsin who claims to have been a Democrat, but intends to. vote for Garfield. We mention the fact for what little consolation it may afford the friends of the Credit Mobilicr candidate. A PROMINENT MICHIGAN REPUBLICAN FOR HANCOCK. v. [From the New York Sun.] Gen. Patrick H. Jones has received the following letter : Jackson, Mich., July 14, 1880. My Dear General : The following appeared in the Chicago Times of yesterday : “Among the accessions to Hancock the Democrats count Gen. Patrick H. Jones, at one time Postmaster of New York.” Shake! Yours truly, E. W. Barber. Gen. Barber succeeded Gen. W. H. Terrell as Third Assistant Postmaster General under Gen. Grant. He was the stanch friend of Zach Chandler. It was at Chandler’s request that he was appointed to the Postal Department. NEW YORK REPUBLICANS DESERTING GARFIELD. [New York Telegram to Chicago Times.] The State Committee met to-day at the St. James Hotel. There was a large gathering of prominent Democrats, who, of course, reported universal enthusiasm over the results of the convention. In all parts of the State Hancock and En-| glish clubs are organizing, and in some of the counties every town and ward has its club already. It was stated that many Republicans have enrolled themselves in these organizations. In one Hancock club in the interior of the State forty-five former Republicans, have signed the roll. In Western New York, the stronghold of Republicanism, young Republicans in great numbers have announced their intention of voting for Hancock, among

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them Col. E. G. Marshall, formerly of the regular army, and Gen. Quinby Grant.

GARFIELD AND PATTERSON.

[From the New York Bum] Senator Patterson catne otifc of the Credit Mobilier investigation of 1873 in about the same condition as Schuyler Colfax, and James A. Garfield. The people’s belief in his personal integrity was gone, the respect of honest citizens was lost, the Republican press unhesitatingly declared its opinion of his guilt and shame. . Convicted upon very nearly tho same testimony that convicted Mr, Garfield, Senator Patterson sank out of sight. So completely out of sight did he sink that it may be necessary now, in resurrecting his name for a moment, to distinguish him from the carpet-bag Senator of the same name who once boasted that there were “ two years more good stealing in South Carolina.” The Credit Mobilier Patterson was from New Hampshire. He had nothing in common with the South Carolina Patterson, except a willingness to profit by dishonest use of his position as legislator. of New Hampshire, was a well-educated man of easy manners. By many people in New England, especially by certain members of the faculties of New .England colleges, he was held to be* the finest type of the “ scholar in politics,” a being much prayed for about that time. He was a polished orator, and went from college town to college town instructing young men as to the higher possibilities of public life and the purer methods of effecting the objects of government. No prominent man of that day could deliver a noble sentiment in more elegant language than James W. Patterson, of New Hampshire. Oakes Ames’ memorandum book and the corroborative testimony ruined Patterson. He had been assigned trlPty shares of the corruption stock, which he “bought” at par when it was worth 300, 400, or 500 cents on the dollar. He received two large dividends on the same, one of SI,BOO and one of $2,223, on a cash investment of $3,000, and within a few months. When the investigation began, he went upon the stand and swore : “I never received, directly or indirectly, nor did any one ever hold for me in trust, one penny’s worth of stock in the Credit Mobilier.” Later, he declared: “I never did receive—and I say it under the most solemn oath—one share of Credit Mobilier stock in my life.” Then Oakes Ames produced the following receipt, signed by Patterson himself : Washington, June 22, 1868. Received of Oakes Ames SI,BOO on account of dividend received by him as trustee on stock held for my account. J. W. Patterson. And also this receipt: Boston, May 6, 1871. Received of Oakes Ames 200 shares of Union Pacific railroad stock, $757.24 in cask on account of Credit Mobilier stock, and there are still due on the transaction thirty shares of stock in the Credit Mobilier of America, and 2,000 in the income bonds of the Union Pacific railroad. J. W. Patterson.

More than this. The certificates of the very stock which Patterson swore he had never owned were found, indorsed to him by Oakes Ames, in the safe of a New York banker, where they had been deposited by Patterson. And the check for .11,800 on the Sergeant-at-Arms was produced, bearing Patterson’s indorsement. Patterson invested in Credit Mobilier a sum of cash besides his influence as a Senator; and he received large returns for liis dishonor. Garfield invested nothing but his smaller influence as Congressman, and got smaller pay for precisely the same degree of dishonor. But the parallel between tho cases of Patterson and Garfield extends beyond the bribe-taking and the perjury. Both of them, after the exposure, attempted to induce Oakes Ames to swear falsely in order to shield them. Garfield went to Ames and besought him to let the $329 dividend “go as a loan.” Patterson wrote a piteous letter to Ames, under liis own signature, saying: ‘ ‘ Don’t fail to correct your original statement before the committee. It must not he reported its it now stands.” This was after Oakes Ames had testified to Patterson’s ownership of the stock, but before tho documentary evidence had been produced. Less than two weeks ago, at a Garfield ratification meeting in Lebanon, New Hampshire, the forgotten James W. Patterson spoke for forty minutes in behalf of the Republican nominee. To Schuyler Colfax’s certificate of Garfield’s good character, Patterson added his equally valuable testimony. Unfortunately, there was no stenographer present to take down Patterson’s exact wordß. From the Kearsarge Sentinel of June 26 we derive this abstract of his remarks : He gave liis reasons for his choice of Gen. Garfield in preference to the other candidates. Being acquainted with the General, he spoke of him in high terms as a purqman and Christian statesman. Toward the close of tho Senator’s speech, he referred to the Credit Mobilier—how men iiad been injured by tho press, by correspondents at Washington, who would write a man up or down for $5 ; that notone in a hundred that talked of Credit Mobilier knew even the moaning of the word ; and before closing remarked that if anyone wanted to discuss Credit Mobilier he would be ready for them. Since the Republican party saw fit to invite another public verdict upon the Credit Mobilier business, by putting up a Credit Mobilier ticket, the full ticket should have been Garfield and Colfax, or Garfield and Patterson. As neither Colfax nor Patterson is the Republican candidate for Vice President, both of them are free to take the stump in order to “ discuss Credit Mobilier,” and to defend Garfield’s reputation.

PENNSYLVANIA FOR HANCOCK.

The Old Republican Ship Lurching and the Sea Black with Departing? Bats. [Letter from Philadelphia.] The Democracy of this State is in better heart than it has been since 1856. The Harrisburg Convention settled all divisions in the party, and the Cincinnati nominations have filled it with enthusiasm. Hunt where you wifi, you cannot find a sorehead or a croaker. There is not a Democrat in Pennsyl■Mua who does not believe that Hancock be elected, and scarcely one who does not believe he will carry his own State. They say: “The last Democratic President was a Pennsylvanian nominated at Cincinnati, and so wifi the next one be. ” There are in this State 80,000 soldiers who served under Gen. Hancock or with him. The people, without regard to party, are grateful to him, not only for his splendid services to the Union on distant fields, but for the irngiediate

preservation of their homes and firesides at Gettysburg. There is no name that would have stirred Pennsylvania feeling to a greater depth than Hancock’s, and it is exactly true that his nomination was fedeiVed in every city* town and Village with a general outburst of applause. He will poll the full party vote, a large independent and Republican vote, and pretty much the whole soldier vote. Under these circumstances the talk of carrying Pennsylvania is anything but wild. Hoyt is a minority Governor. The majority against him on the combined vote of the opposition was about 60,000. The Riot bill, the pardon of Kemble and the other bribers, and other measures of a most disgraceful administration have seriously disgusted and disheartened the Republicans. These scandals afford local issues which will materially aid the Democratic electoral ticket. On the other hand, the Republican party here is in the worst condition since it was born. In order to carry through the third*tettn scheme, Mr. Don Cameron and the machine managers committed a series of outrages upon the rank and file that cannot be forgotten. They failed, and in their failure the machine was smashed, -its power dissipated, and the old and experienced leaders buried in the rubbish. Mr. -Cameron has disappeared. He is heard of only through a dismal groan from the White Sulphur spriugs, or somewhere else far beyond the scene of conflict. His father, the old General, has covered his head and turned his face to the wall. None of the ancient set, who have held the State for years by their energy, their money, and their thoroughly-organized system, will turn a hand for the election of Garfield. Why should they ? They have had enough of Hayes and his kind, and they know that the high-handed means by which they undertook to force Grant on the party can never he forgiven. What can they expect from Blaine, and Sherman, and Garfield, or from the Republican people, who were compelled to imperil the very existence of the party —to fight them to the verge of disruption—in order to be rid of their audacious tyranny ? They will regard Garfield’s defeat as their vindication, and they look forward to that event in November a 3 confidently, if not as hopefully, as the Democrats. There have never been so many changes reported at this stage in any campaign. In many places we hear of Hancock and English clubs composed exclusively of Republicans. Some of the deserters are men of national reputation—among them E. Joy Morris and Col. John W. Forney, who have already thrown themselves unreservedly into the canvass. The old Republican ship is lurching and sinking in full view, and the sea is black with departing rats. The flight of some of these—old and sagacious fellows—is, in the eyes of Pennsylvanians, a sure sign of the coming victory.

THE OUTLOOK IN INDIANA.

Unbounded Enthusiasm for Ifancock —No I?oubt of a (Sousing Victory in October. [New York Cor. Chicago Times.] Tlie prominent Democrats from Indiana now in the city claim that the State will give a handsome majority for Landers in October. Mr. English himself speaks with the utmost confidence of the result. Senator McDonald is no less sanguine. Speaking of the Cincinnati nomination, Senator McDonald said this evening : ‘ ‘ The Democratic ticket is as acceptable to the Democracy of Indiana as any that could have been selected, except, of course, that the nomination of Mr. Hendricks for the first place on the ticket would have called out a larger vote in the State, in which he is personally and politically so popular ; but the ticket as named by the Cincinnati Convention will receive every Democratic vote in the State, and will have a majority of not less than 5,000, and perhaps 12,000. Since the adjournment of the Cincinnati Convention I have visited one-tliird of the counties in the State, and have not found a single dissatisfied Democrat, while in no county that I have visited have I failed to hear of Republicans who intend to vote for Hancock and English. No ticket within my knowledge has met with a more sincere and enthusiastic indorsement from the Democratic masses. There is entire harmony and union between the leaders of the Democratic party in Indiana in support of the ticket. Mr. English’s nomination will add greatly to the strength of the ticket in his State. In his business relations I have never hoax’d Mr. English accused of unjust dealing. On the other hand, I have pei’sonally known of instances that exhibited the greatest consideration. In his dealings shrewd, careful, and a thorough business man, he has made a handsome fortune, but he is by no means a hard or exacting creditor. He has warm friends, and many of them. As to the colonization of negroes last winter, the Republican party will lose more wliite votes by that scheme than they will gain colored votes by it. As to the reported intention of the Republican party to put a large sum of money into the State in October, I may say that Indiana is a State in which money cannot be illegitimately employed in a canvass with any great success, and the Republicans, in coxmting upon its use more than upon any one thing, in their hope of carrying the election next October, will be disappointed. The Democratic organization will be as perfect as it can be made. Mr. English is Chairman of the State Central Committee, having been selected before the meeting of the Cincinnati Convention, and Gov. Hendricks and Mr. Landers are members of the Executive Committee. Mr. Yoorhees gives the ticket his cordial and hearty support. Gen. Hancock has for years been a personal friend, and he took an active part in securing the nomination of Mr. English at Cincinnati. ”

Republican Harmony.

Tho statements persistently made that Secretary Sherman is not willing to give his whole strength to aid the Republican party in this campaign are not warranted. The Secretary is enjoying a brief vacation, but will do his utmost for the ticket nominated at Chicago. —Cincinnati Commercial (Moderate Republican). We incline to the opinion that if Secretary Sherman is really determined to “do his utmost ” for the ticket nominated at Chicago he should withdraw from the Cabinet. Reports of his mischief-doing come from all parts of the country. He has no policy but vengeance since the Chicago Convention took the conceit out of him.— Globe-Democrat (Stalwart Republican). There’s harmony for you ! It was the Cincinnati Commercial that scoffed at the idea of such a man as Garfield being nominated for the Presidency. But when Garfield was nominated the Commercial g wall owed him, record and all, Now it

wants the public to understand that John Sherman indorses the Garfield and Arthur ticket. Sherman may be compelled to indorse it, but it is poison for him. He is one of the great disaffected, and, as the Globe-Democrat points out, he knows no policy but Vengeance. The Republican leaders reported so far who will give Garfield a lukewarm support, or no support at all, are as follows : Roscoe Conkling (going to Europe). Don Cameron (sick and disgusted). John Sherman (will not vote). John W. Fomejr (will vote for Hancock). Leonard Jerome (will vote for Hancock). James G. Blaine (will not vote). John A. Logan (will gulp it down under protest). Matt Carpenter (probably won’t vote). Among the leading Republican newspapers in the country that are giving Garfield a barley-water support are : The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, a paper that has never bolted the Republican ticket, and one of the most extreme enemies of the Democratic party in the United States. The Chicago Inter Ocean, the leading stalwart Republican paper of the Northwest, and never known since it was founded to treat a ticket so shabbily. The New York Times, leading stalwart Republican paper of the East. Looks upon the nomination of Garfield as a calamity, but promises to make the best of a bad job. Very much afraid Hancock will be elected. The papers which are giving Mr. Garfield about all the support he is getting are : The Chicago Tribune bolted the Republican ticket in 1872, and threatened to bolt again if Grant were nominated. The New York Tribune bolted the Republican ticket in 1872, and threatened to bolt again if Grant were nominated. The Cincinnati Commercial bolted the Republican ticket frequently, and stood pledged to the Democracy if Grant were nominated. —Chicago News:

That $5,000 Brief.

Gen. Garfield admits the receipt of $5,000 from De Golyer & McClelland, through Dick Parsons, but he indignantly denies that it was a bribe. Why was he paid so much, for it was a large fee to the: best of lawyers for the hardest of work ? Chittenden was interested with De Golyer <fc McClelland in the paving contract obtained for them by Garfield, but was never able to make good that interest because, while admitting his service, the firm formally pleaded that, the contract having been obtained by a bribe, it was contrary to public morals. This Chittenden avows that the amount was paid, not for the services of Lawyer Garfield, neither for those of Congressman Garfield, except in so far as he was Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations. Garfield says it w T as for downright hard work, he having examined some forty different kinds of pavement and made a written brief showing the value of the “ironizing” process above' all others. The Nation, without seeing the brief, thinks the work upon it worth the fee. But where is the brief ? How long was it ? How lucid and convincing ? The document is not filed among the records of the District of Columbia. It does not seem to be in existence. It was never read to the boaid of the District, and never filed for reading. Unless there was some labor upon this brief the fee was obviously for the purchase of the Congressman’s influence, for a mere statement to Shepherd was not a professional service worth $5,000. Garfield claimed that he wrote the brief. But what became of it? Was it written merely for the purpose of formal labor for a fee ? Cross-questioned before the committee on the real-estate pool, by Mr. Nickerson, who owned the ironizing process, Gen. Garfield was asked : “Did you file with the Board of Public Works of this District a brief or opinion, written, printed, or other, upon the subject of the De Golyer pavement ?” Mr. Garfield’s answer was : “I could not say I did.” “ Did you at any time appear before the board and make any argument whatever ?” was another query, and the answer of Mr. Garfield was : ‘‘l do not remember that I did ; but I did speak to Gov. Shepherd on the subject, giving my opinion in its favor.” That was all, and, as events proved, it was worth to Garfield’s employers all they paid him. If that brief is in existence, why not print it now? It would be an interesting addition to the literature of the campaign. —Chicago Times.

Bright Prospects.

Col. Len A. Harris, one of the bestknown Democratic leaders in the country, returned this evening from New York and the East, and to-night fell into tlie hands of the interviewer. Col. Harris a few months ago lost one eye, but with the remaining one lie succeeded in getting a pretty fair view of Eastern politics. He went East to sound the political sea, and lie flatters himself that lie is well loaded with useful information. After spending a few days in New York, the Colonel went to Boston, where he wsis joined by Gen. Butler, and the two made a pilgrimage up into Maine. He says he found the Democrats and Greenbackers of that State united and in full accord, and the belief is firm among them all that Maine will cast her electoral vote this fall for Hancock and English. Gen. Butler told him that Massachusetts would also surely vote Democratic if the Abbottites and Butlerites would unite, and he thought it probable that they would. In Connecticut, New Jersey and New York there is not a doubt fostered by Democrats but that all three States will go decidedly Democratic. The party m these States is united, and working with great enthusiasm for Hancock. On his journey Col. Harris fell in with Col. Colter, of Pennsylvania, who declared that Hancock’s chances to get the Keystone State’s electoral vote were much better than people in the West supposed. There is no doubt that Col. Harris has been greatly encouraged by his Eastern trip. He is known as a very conservative Democrat, and more likely to croak about coming events than to boast.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

Jay Gould Predicts Hancock’s Election.

Mr. Jay Gould, last week, while here, spoke his mind freely on the subject, of politics, prophesying the certain election of Hancock and English. In conversation with Maj. Thomas Cornell, Mr. Gould unhesitatingly said that he anticipated the success of the Democratic Presidential ticket this fall. “ How is that?” queried Maj. Cornell. “Well,” gaid Mr. Gould, “ the fact is that Gen,

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Arthur loads down the Republican ticket, and aside from that the Democrats are thoroughly united on Hancock and English. 1 have no hope of carrying New York, and I believe that as goes New York so will also go New Jersey, at least, and Connecticut probably.” Mr. Gould also ventured the remark that the Republican “machine” had already practically abandoned the- Presidential fight, and would henceforth concentrate its efforts upon carrying the various State Legislatures, with the obvious purpose of controlling the United States Senate. Mr. Gould’s revelations are important only as exhibiting the fact that what is called the money power does not seem to be as much afraid of the Democracy as some people make out. —Kingston (N. Y.) telegram to the World.

Couldn’t Blame Him.

Senator Conkling, Gen. Daniel Butterfield, Gen. Chester A. Arthur and several other gentlemen stood out on the iron pier at Coney island on Wednesday of last week conversing on the Presidential canvass. Gen. Butterfield spoke in praise of Gen. Hancock, and said : “I shall not only vote for Hancock, but shall do all I can for his election.” Senator Conkling had been standing with folded arms looking out on the sea. He caught the last words of Gen. Butterfield, and, turning to him, said warmly, “1 don’t blame you, Dan. Hancock is a good fellow.” —New York telegram.

A Promising "Campaign Lie Nailed.

We clip the following from the New York World: The following message received by cable from Judge Black, in London, in reply to a message from this olliee, makes a peremptory end of one of the most interesting inventions of the campaign press, and disembowels, at one blow, we know not how many stalwart leading articles of great pith and moment: To the Editor of the World, New York: I am not the author of Gen. Hancock’s letters or orders concerning Louisiana. X knew nothing of them until they were printed. J. S. 11 lac a.

THE TEMPERANCE CANDIDATE.

Neal Dow’s better Accepting tlie Prohibition Nomination for President. Hon. James Black and Rev. A. A. Miner, D. D. G entlemen : Your note of the 18th June, notifying me officially of my nomination by the National Prohibition Convention at Cleveland as a candidate for the Presidency, is reccived. I am very sensible of the honor in plied in a spontaneous and unanimous selection by such an assembly to represent their opinions and purposes as to the relation of the liquor traffic to the interests of the nation and people. There is and can be no difference of opinion among intelligent men as to the tremendous evils flowing necessarily from that traffic to every public and private interest. Such men rsay and do differ ss to the best methods of providing a remedy for these evils, but each must judge for himself upon that point according to his light. In our country there can be no change in any public policy which depends upon law ? unless the people dosiring tho change shall indicate their pleasure through the ballot box. Parties and their policies come into power among us and go out of power only through the ballot box. There is no other way by which the people can express their will effectively. All important questions of public policy are decided in that manner only. The question of deliverance to the country and emancipation ofj from the infinite evils of the liquor traffic may well challenge the closest attention of patriots, philanthropists, and statesmen. This question touches the interests of nation, State, and people as no other does or can ; the solution of it can never come in any other way than through the ballot box. It is said by men whose opinions are entitled to the highest respect that the present is not a suitable time for pressing this issue. No man can be more sensible than I am of the magnitude and importance of other questions of public policy which are to be tried by the people at the next Presidential election, but I am confident that none of these, nor all of them, are so important as this to every national and social interest. Whatever mischiefs may arise from an unwise popular verdict upon other issues, they cannot be so great as those coming from the liquor traffic. The former can continue but for two years, the Congressional term, or, at most, for four years, the Presidential term, unless the people shall ro determine by their votes ; while the far-greater evils of the liquor traffic must continue indefinitely, unless the people shall express their will against it emphatically by tho ballot. Men who hold this question to be of minor importance can never find a suitable moment for making it a political issue. There will always be some other question in which they feel more interest that may be crowded out by bringing this question to the front. There is never a suitable time for a summer rain in the vision of everybody, however dry and parched the earth may be. There will always be somebody to whom the storm will be injurious or inconvenient. In the old anti-Rlavery time the authors and promoters of the anti-slavery agitation were always a thorn in the side of political parties. They were always a nuisance and an exasperation to those who were out of office and trying to get in and to those who were in office and striving to retain their places; tho two classes comprising almost tho entire body of politicians. But the anti-slavery men, bent on overthrowing the dreadful system of human bondage, having bo personal interests to promote, except such as might be involved in the general good, were true to their convictions and steadfast in tlio line of policy which they believed to be right and wise. They encountered and overcame all possible modes of opposition, bitter denunciation, great personal violence, humiliating and offensive ostracism ; but, against all and over all, in the love and fear of God, and in persistent devotion to the right, they won. There was never a time before the final victory when the auti-slavery movement had so large a following as Prohibition now has ; nor was it so influential, except in the great ability and singular devotedness of those who were engaged in it. Very few in numliers at first, and uninfluential, in many parts of the country they put their resolve in the form of votes into the ballot box, only to be laughed at by the politicians, and to be stigmatized as fanatics ; but they won at last. The Prohibition movement in this country is now so respectable for its magnitude, and so influential from the numbers and character of those engaged in it, that it cannot be laughed down. There is and must continue to be an “irrepressible conflict" betwee.* the liquor traffic and the prosperity of the nation and welfare of the people. As that traffic flourishes, every legitimate industry languishes and dies.

The result of the recent general election in England marks very distinctly what I consider to be the best mode of carrying on the agitation against the liquor traffic. Since 1853, the Prohibitionists of that country h ve been striving, with great ability and persistence, to procure such a change in the law as would enable the people of any locality to forbid the liquor traffic if they should choose so to do. But very little good came of the agitation, practically, until they adopted the policy of ignoring party ties and voting only for this one object. At the late election their adversaries were thoroughly defeated. I consider the object of the Prohibitionists of the country to be of supreme importance to the interests of the nation and people. Aside from its bearing upon tlie moral and religious welfare of the people, I consider the suppression of the liquor traffic to be an object of far greater political importance than any other now claiming the attention of tho country. My life has been largely devoted to the accomplishment of that purpose. Perhaps I may live to see my dearest hopes in relation to it'realizedpat least within my own State ; but, however that may be, in the future, as in the past, I shall keep that object steadily in view. While I sincerely wish that the choice of a candidate by the Cleveland Convention had fallen on some other than myself, I accept the nomination willingly, being sure that it will prove to be the humble beginning of a triumphant eud. lam most respectfully yours.

JOB PRINTINB OFFICE has tetter taciXitiea than any office In Northwester* Indiana for the execution of all branches of JOB BBINTINGr. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a Price-List, or from • fimplUet to a Poster, black or colored, plain or fancy. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

The cost of Hie Indianapolis schools last year was $244,036. Thus far 2,685 dog licenses have been issued in Indianapolis since June 1. The devil that was reported to possess a South Bend woman proves to be tapeworm. An excellent quality of iron ore has been discovered on a farm five miles north of Corydon. John S. Davis, Judge of the Floyd and Clark Circuit Courts, died at New Albauy, last week. The contract for a new Court House at Marion, Grant county, lias been let to Chicago parties for $133,000. The “Great Arabian Circus” collapsed in Salem last week, the employes attaching the property for their salaries. The number of cal's of freight handled at Indianapolis last week was 10,116, or 2,188 more than in the preceding seven days. Jasper Stevenson died at Noblesville, from lockjaw, caused by a stab in the arm received while in a fight with Sam Kiger. The Kansas grasshopper has put in an appearance in Northern Indiana, and his coming is looked upon witli considerable dread by the farmers. { Rachel Morris, of Spiceland, bedridden for several years, has begun to walk again. She claims that her recovery is a special answer to prayer. Milton Staff Yawter, of North Madison, lias in his possession a relic of old-time journalism—a copy of the Indiana Republican, published at Madison in 1828. A daughter of William Giles, residing in Tippecanoo township, Carroll county, while out in the woods playing, ate a number of May apples, and died of the poison. The oldest man in Marshall county is James Yan Valkenburgli, of Plymouth, who is in his «4<)oth year; the oldest woman is fekniggers, of West township, %ho is 97. People at Madison, who some years ago subscribed to $160,000 stock i:i a Chicago insurance company that has since failed, are now writhing under a liability for double the amount. Father Imhoff celebrated his 105th birthday, last week, at the residence of his son, in Richmond. He was much sprier than niauy of his friends twenty or twenty-five years his junior, and gives promise of living to be enumerated in the next census.

Mrs. Polly Davidson still live s, at the age of 91 years, on the place where she settled, in Hendricks county, in 1828. She is the mother of fifteen children, and her descendants, so far as known, number 490. The old lady is in fair health, and can see to thread her needle without “specks.” What is known to their sorrow among ruralists as the “Western Medical Association” is again rising in unfavorable mention. A Putnam county farmer was in Indianapolis, the other day, seeking relief from a $212 note given in the usual way, and now held by an “innocent purchaser.” The surviving members of the Box family, near New Albany, supposed to have been poisoned three months ago, are slowly recovering. Paralysis of the arms stili remains, though in a muchmitigated form. The case is still shrouded in profound mystery, and the real cause of the poisoning may never be developed. About ten days ago, a son of Galen Bray, of Worthington, Greene county, stepped on a piece of glass, cutting his lieei so severely it was feared he would bleed to death. Relief was obtained soon, but the wound commenced bleeding afresh, and amputation was thought necessary; hut before this was begun he bled to death. Indiana shows an extraordinary increase in her wheat acreage, occasioned by the two successive heavy crops previous to the harvest just closed, which induced many farmers to sow wheat upon fields that years ago failed. The grain is short of weight, but the increased acreage places the product far above that of any previous year. The crop was saved in fair condition. An Indianapolis reporter observed an unusually brilliant meteor pass along the southern sky at 10:15, the other night, and says: “It was as large as a score of stars of the first magnitude, and its light was sufficient to cast a distinct shadow against the waning light of the moon, which it outshone two to one. It left a trail of light smoke behind it that lingered about as long as a steam cloud of the same size would have done.” Johnnie Hogan, aged 9 years, and Bennie Aldrich, aged 9 years, left their homes in Jeffersonville, a few days ago, for the purpose of going in bathing in the old mill-race at the head of the falls. About 3 o’clock in the afternoon some other boys found their clothes on the bank of the river, and the supposition is that the little fellows went out too far and got over the “step-off,” as it is called, and, not being able to swim, both were drowned. Hon. Lucien Barbour, whose death is announced at Indianapolis, was a native of Connecticut, having been born in 1811. He early emigrated to this State, and has been prominently identified with the State and city for many years. He was originally a Democrat. He became a Republican in 1854, and was elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress from the Indianapolis district. Previously, as a Democrat, he served as United States Attorney. His death was the result of a general giving way of natural forces.

The UeiisuN. The population of Ohio township, Warrick county, has decreased 1,120 since 1870, which is over one-third its total number of inhabitants. Putnam county has 408 persons over 70 years of age in a population of 22,270. Fort Wayne has 20,048 inhabitants, an increase of 8,330 in ten years; the towns of the county have 28,510, an increase of 2,146, and the county of Allen therefore counts 54,554. Marion county has 102,000, including Indianapolis. It is estimated that the total population of the State is 2,400,000. The census returns give La porta county a population of 30,943, being a gain of 3,881 since 1870. Michigan City has 7,352, a gain of 3,457. The city of Laporte has 6,184, a loss of 397. Decatur county has a population of 19,800, a gain of 740 in ten years. Greeusburg has 3,129 of the number. The population of Union City is 2,489, with enough late arrivals to make it even 2,500 —a gain of 80 per cent, since last census. The population of Wayne township, outside of Union City, is 1,892, an increase of 111 since ten years ago. ;

NEAL DOW.

INDIANA NEWS.